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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-29
NEicIligan's Greaf Record

Ann Arbor. Mich. Dec 29.@Figures
show that in the last five years Michi-
gan has played ffty-fye games of foot
ball and made in these games a. total
of 2,746 points, while its opponents
have made but forty in that time. This
makes an average of 40.S points per
game for the Wolverines and an aver
age OF .O7 OF point for its oppo-
nents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-29

who claimed that at the time of the
Beloit-Afinnesota game in 1903 Coach
Williams had instructed the players to
keep the score under certain limit
and that IrsfieId and others players
taking advantage of this knowledge,
placed heavy bets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-29
SAFE AND SOUND.

Safe n its securities all first mort
cages on homes under careful aD-
praiseTnent. by men experienced in
real estate values Sound in its prin-
ciples which have stood the test OF
years. Surely safe place to invest
your money Cali or send for book
let.
The Capitol Building and Loan
Association. 5S4 kansas Avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-29
TrsfeId sues eolIsem

Minneapolis. Mimi, Dec. 29.-James
Irsfield, half back on the Minnesota
football team, has 61ed libel suit
against Golfers Weekly to recover 81 =
500 damages. The action is 4 result of
the recent articles by Purity Jordan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-29
A HARr-o,BRIEN BOUT.
The Reno, New, Club Offers S25, 900
for 2 Finish FIGHT.

Tor 2 Finish Fight.
Philadelphia, Dec .29.-Word comes
from ogden, Utah. that the Reno, New,
club has offered a $4,000 purse for a
finish fight between Marvin Hart and
Jack O'Brien to take place April Is. and
Incidentally to carry with it the cham
pjCnshfp title
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-29
Holiday Rates Via the Missouri Pa
cific Ry.

One and one-third fares for the
round trip; dates of sale Dec p, %
%, 80, and 81. 1905. and January I
1906. limited for return to and includ-
ing January 4.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-29
sleckard's Letter.


with which he Enclosed his 1906 contract
and said he would play with the Cubs
next season, was as follows:
Columbia, Pa, Mr.. Charles w
Murphy, president Chicago National
League Baseball club: Dear Sir-Hy
cago public is my signed contract to
play with the Cubs in 1906 which I in
close. That document should be suffi-
cient evidence that I am not only will
ing, but anxious, to play in Chicago. I
have many friends there and have al
ways liked the place. 7. like Johnny
Evers, began playing big league ball
when still in my teens, and it is amusing
to be referred to as a veteran. I am
age to break into the United States SEN
ate-35.
1T may interest you to know that I
was never in better condition than I am
now, and I will give the Chicago club
the best that is in me I feel just as
fast as the season when I was so for
tunate as to steal seVenty-six bases and
the year when I tied Frank Chance for
base-running honors with sixty-eight
pilfered sacks. Incidentally, the Chicago
club for next year looks exceedingly
strong to me and has as good a chance
to win the National league pennant as
any of them. In fact, it looks JUS a
little better on paper than any other
team, but, of course, baseball luck
must be considered when one is doping
out a struggle of this kind.
Anyhow, the old league race in 1906
will not be one of those cake walks that
have been mentioned in the past. I think
that the club that beats us-Chica 60
will win. Give my kindest regards to
Manager Chance and all the boys Re
spectfully,
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L. NJ. PENWELI.,

Undertaken and Embalmer.
b11 Quincy Street
GEO. n. 1SAx. Assistant Open nns
Res. $50 Monroe St. Ind. phone zs3
and Night Both phones 1ea.
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JAMES T. sHECKARD."

Frank G. Selee denies that he is to
manage the St. Louis Cardinals. a re-
port having been circulated to that eff
feet while the National league was in
session two weeks ago in New York.
Selee and his wife are now at Fay
wood Springs, n. NJ, and reports are
that he is improving in health as fast
as he expects. Selee also denies the re-
ports that have been sent out from the
Western league that he was trying to
secure a berth as owner or manager of
the Pueblo club in that league.
James A. Hart, former owner of the
Cubs, has received a letter from Artie
Holman from st. Louis, in which the
young utility ihfelder Of the Cubs says
that he buried his father last fail shortly
after returning home from Chicago. He
is employed in a bank at present, and is
in fine condition physically.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-29
Sheclard. the Star Player Who Finally
Signs With Chicago.

With sheckard's contract safely stow
ed away in his thickest vault President
Murphy has completed his outfield for
next season, with Sheckard, Schultz
Slagle and Sebring This combination
looks good to the new owner of the Cubs
who predicts that the west siders will
have one of the fastest and hardest hit
ting bunch of outfielders next summer
ever eratherad fooe4bar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-29

Wonderful people. these japanese,
They have trap for catching fees. 1t
is metal affair built something like a
toast rack This trap is placed in your
bed when you retire. The bows hold
the cover off the bottom of the trap
where is placed a sugary, sticky mix
ture, containing human blood. In TINS
sticky mixture the neas become en-
tangled and die.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-15
THE AslERIcANA.
A New Departure in Reference Work

A New Departure in Reference Works
The Encyclopedias Americana proceeds
on a plan of its own. which it follows
not only in the realm of religion and sci
ence, but in every field of human activ
ity. Every subject is intrusted to a wri-
ter who is prominently identified with
that subject. For example. Cardinal Glib
bons writes on the Roman Catholic
Church, and Samuel J. Niccolls, D. D..
discusses the Presbyterian Church.
Take lay and business topics: Herbert
L. Bridgman writes on Polar Research" ;"
ture.' Carroll D. Wright on American
Labor" General II. c. Corbin on Army
of the United States" Charles H. Cramp
on American shipbuilding." Professor
Simon Newcomb on various astronomical
topics, Levi P. Morton on Banks and
Banking" William j. Bryan on Bimeta1-
lism," L: c. Coolidge on Republican
Party" Charles Allen Mum on Laws of
patents and trademarks. Walter Camp
on Football in America" Andrew Car
negie on Steel Industry in the United
States" John Hays Hammond on Gold
Dewey on Naval Service" A. E. Orr on
Commercial Organization" Booth Tuck
er on salvation Army, Fred Pabst on
Brewing Industry in the United States
Charles F. Lummis on California Pro-
fessor Bernard Moses on San Francis
co.. Joseph Wheeler writes of "Seces-
sion," Edward Everett Hale traces the
Development of the American Idea ana
ambassador Choate writes on the "Su-
preme Court of the United States
In this monumental production the
final results in every field of human en-
ergy and endeavor are epitomized; the
vital requisites in every branch of learn
ing, past and present, are set down in or
derby and comprehensive array for
American men and women of affairs and
for the American worker in every profess
sion, occupation or employment. This re
suit, now for the first time accomplished.
has only been achieved by first securing
the earnest cooperation and finally by
enga ging the active services of more
than a thousand American scholars. edu-
Gators. experts and special writer's. This
matchless phalanx of intellectual work
ers has been animated by new spirit;
has struck out into new paths; has labor
ed along new lines with the steadfast
purpose of preparing a general reference
work from the American view point thus
exemplifying American directness OF
purpose and the American idea OF doing
things by the short cut, an idea which
has helped to place our country in the
very front rank of civilization and pro-
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-15
REFORMS FOR CAUCASUS.
New Governor General Announces
Proposed Programme.

TIFLIS, April IA proclamation
of Count Won vorintzoff-Dashkoff. the
new Governor General of the eau
casus, was gazetted to-day. announcing
that in accordance with the intentions
of Emperor Nicholas, the Governor
General will. when he assumes Office.
convoke conferences of representatives
OF all the towns, peasant communities,
and orthodox Armenian and Moham-
medan churches. with the view of
drafting measures for the establish
ment of public security, defining the
amendments necessary TO the judicial
procedure of the Caucasus and intro
ducing Zemstov administration.
The Governor General also proposes
TO hasten the surveys of the crown
lands available for cultivation, that.
they may be allotted to those in need
of land
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-15
BELASCO SUIT
GROWS LIVELY

NEW YORK, April 14-Ths suit OK
David Belasco. the playwright. against
Klaw & Erlanger, which has been on
trial for a week past In the Supreme
Court, and which has had many setBk-
tional features, assumed a new phase
to-day. 80
Samuel Untermeyer. counsel for Be-
lasco, to-day asked that the defend
ants produce their books TO show ak
actly what dealings the co-partnership
had had with Belasco and others who
had been mentioned during the progress
of the trial
IF the court will permit me. said
Lawyer Untermeyer In making the re-
quest, Il viii show that Klaw q Err
LANCER have the most remarkable set
of books which ever has been produced
here"
He claimed that changes have been
made in the books since the Belasco
litigation begun and said he wanted
to show that Klaw & Erlanger were
paid about $4,000 by BeIasco from the
profits of the Warfield venture during
the months OF March. May and June.
1902. He said he could show by the
books that the money was paid direct
to Klaw & Erlanger and not to
Brooks. The statements were ruled out
by the court upon objection and coun-
sci for plaintiff was given permission
to look at certain items in the books.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-15
Officers of the Naval Trans
port Want the Lieuten-
ant Commander Removed
From Executive Position
MAKE NO EFFORT TO
CONCEAL I'LL FEELING
Costello Incident of Last
Voyage Responsible for
Much Discord Among the
Messmates of Big Vessel

Naval circles are daily expecting
open hostilities aboard the transport
Solace, now getting ready at Mare
Island for a voyage to the Philippines.
Trouble is brewing among the officers
of the vessel as result of Lieutenant
Commander John j. Knapps action in
ostracizing Mrs. Costello during the
last voyage from Manila because of
social discrimination. An effort is be-
ing made, through influential persons
at Washington, to have the lieutenant
commander, who Is the executive Of
ficer, detached from the transport be-
fore she departs for Manila. Ldeuten-
ant Commander Knapp ostracized
Mrs. Costello, passenger, for no
other reason than that she is the wife
of a master mechanic I'm the employ
of the Government at Cavfte.
A number of the officers of the trans
port personally went to Knapp during
the voyage and protested against the
discriminating order issued In Mrs.
Costello'S case and this is said to have
been the cause of the ill-feeling which
has since developed among the officers.
a few Of whom have taken sides with
Knapp. The feeling against the execu-
tive officer has spread into the fore
castle, and the reports say that the
men are becoming very sullen when
orders are issued by the lieutenant
commander. who is now in command of
the vessel during a leave being enjoyed
by Commander Bull
Several days ago DR.. Cordeiro. sur
geQn of the transport, who is said to
have been one of the officers who pro-
tested against Knapps treatment of
Mrs. Costello, on the ground that iso-
lation was not only humiliating to the
woman, but dangerous in view of the
fact that the location assigned to her
aboard the vessel might at any time be
washed by seas, was made to feel the
authority of Knapp through an order
sending him to his cabin for ten DAYS.
This was followed by another order
prohibiting junior officers from enjoy
ing wine with their mess and other an
noying instructions were issued to the
officers that are seldom heard of aboard
we'll disciplined vessels like the Solace.
Mrs. Costello has already presented
the facts in her case to the Washing
ton authorities, but fearing that thew
might not be acted on before the
Solace leaves for Manila, a number of
the officers of the transport are en-
deavoring to impress on the officials
OF the Navy Department the fact that
Knapp's unpopularity has reached a
degree where it may provoke a scandal
should he remain in his present position
on the coming voyage.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-15

for the fact that he believes in a mans
innocence till he is found guilty. and
when Maestretti's trial comes on he
will be acquitted. Great injustice has
been done the York Company by the
various papers. though that concern
did the work Of the city well. but the
Supervisors turned the concern down
and gave the work to it's friends who
do not do half as good work
II admit I appeared as attorney for
the French restaurants, but only be-
cause they begged me to act for them.
as had been their counsel for years
and also because a certain paper came
out and said I would be afraid to do so
because corruption fund had been
raised"
When Ruef had concluded his ad-
dress, White took the floor for a few
minutes and stated that 1t was hardly
the place for a speaker to indulge IN
personalities like Ruef had done. He
added that the Mayor must stand by
his record and that the citizens should
be the Judges at the next election as
to whether Schnitz had performed his
duties faithfully or not.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-15
SLAV TROOPS RAID
RAIL WAYS AND CUT
TELEGRAPH LINES
Main Force of the Russian
Army Is Stationed
Near KaYa19.
AWAITING NEWS FROM RoJESTvENSKY

ST. PETERSBURG. April 14.-Rus-
sian troops have successfully raided
the railroad in the direction Of Kai-
yuan, about twenty miles north of Tie
Pass. A dispatch from General Line
witch. dated April IS, to Emperor Mich
olas, says:
our cavalry April 9 destroyed the
railroad and wires near Yakutzu and
between Kaiyuan and Changtu and
April 10 the cavalry cut the telegraph
line near Kaiyuan."
TOXIC, April 14.-It is reported that
the main force OF the Russians. which
retired in the direction of Hsingking,
has reached Firin. The rear guard,
which is estimated at $4,000 men. con-
tinues in the vicinity Of Harlung
Cheng, closely in touch with the Jap
anese vanguard The main force which
retired from Kaiyuan. over the Kirin
road. is reported at Kirin with q rear
guard of S00G men at Itsuchew, HAIKU
su and at SulipaO, keeping in touch
with the japanese forces.
Changchen IS evidently the rallying
point for the Changtu and Fakumen
forces. Although a force, estimated at
1900 men, has been detailed to occupy
Fenchua and 5000 to hold Pamien-
cheng, the latter force seems assigned
10 check and retard the japanese ad-
vance.
The following official announcement
was made to-day:
our force advancing eastward via
the Fushun and Hailung road encoun-
tered and defeated the enemy on the
morning Of the 18th at Erhhoulu. seven
miles east of Yingpan. The enemy's
strength was one regiment of infantry,
SIX sQuadrOns Of cavalry and four
guns. Our force then occupied Tsang-
shih, about nineteen miles east Of
Hlngpan. The enemy is retreating to-
ward Hailung, fighting at every step.
The enemy on the Kirin road has
gradually retreated since the l1th, a
portion Of this force still remaining to
bar the passage of the Yushu River
No change has occurred in the
Changtu or Fahkmen districts. except
occasional cavalry skirmishes."
The imperial ordinance which de-
clares Make Harbor in the Pescadcre
islands in state of siege becomes oper-
atiye to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-15
BELIEVE
CRISIS IS
AT AN End
Departing
From Capital OF
Venezuela.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE diplo-
matte horizon in President Castros s
realm seems clearer. AS proof 1t is an
nounced from Caracas that the diplo-
mats at Venezuela's capital have taken
long leaves of absence.
O.. Bax-Ironside, the British Minister,
left yesterday for vacation Of six
months. Mr.. Peldram, the German
Minister, will leave next Thursday, and
Mr.. Wiener, the French Minister. is
only awaiting the arrival of Olivier
Iagny to leave at once. Baron Aliotti,
the Italian Charge d'Affaires, who has
been seriously i'll, will leave soon.
Before such an exodus Of high per-
sopalities 1t is quite rational to con-
slider the Venezuelan diplomatic crisis
at an end.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-15
NEW TREATMENT
FOR MENINGITIS
Special Cable to The Call and New York Her.
aid. Copyright, 1905, by the New York Her.
aid Publishing Company.

PARIS, April IA = In view Of the
epidemic of meningitis prevalent In
New York and which seems to threaten
Chicago. the attention of physicians
and the public Is called to the marvel
Gus new method of treatment employed
at the Hospital Beaujon, in Paris, by
DR.. Albert Robin. Up to the present
time this treatment appears to have
given more satisfactory results than
any other remedy for this terrible
scourge.
DR.. Robin uses injections of metallic
ferments, a solution of one in ten
thousand" Every day twenty cubic
centimeters are injected into the mus
cular tissue of the hip or abdomen. In
cases presenting very serious symp-
toms, DR.. Robin obtained good results
from intravenous injections of solu-
ton containing one milligramme If
metallic ferments, which seem to give
most successful results. This medica-
tion is free from disadvantages. After a
few injections the record of the pa
tents temperature shows a general
lowering. Each injection is followed by
a rise in temperature, more or less
marked, followed in it's turn by a de-
crease, which brings the temperature
below the initial figure.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-15

OOullIuo0 ETOI1 1-d2c L. 0O1un1n i.
with additional land, it should speedily
accomplish. something. Nevertheless, in
quarters familiar with the situation
among the peasants serious doubts are
expressed as to whether the rescript
will have an appreciable effect in al
laying the agrarian agitation.
Like all the acts of the autocracy, it
comes too late" said a prominent no
bleman, who has large estate near
Moghilef and who considers it unsafe
to live upon his property.
The active head of the new commits
sion will be N. Goremykn, former
Minister Of the Interior, who is ex-
tremely well equipped for the work as
signed to him. For a long time he was
the Senator in charge OF the Senate
section relating TO peasant affairs.
Goremykn was Minister of the Interior
for a short time before Sipiaguine, and
his administration generally was not
marked by any of the harshnesses
which drew down upon the heads of his
two successors the doom of the terror
lists.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-15
MAY BE OFF oUYos ISLANDS.
German Navy Thinks Rojestvensky L:
Near the Philippines.

Near the Philippines.
BERLIN. April 14=AdmIral Ro-
3estvensky's squadron is believed by
the intelligence division of the Ger
man Navy Department TO be lying of
the Cuyos Islands, eighty miles south
Of Mindoro. Philippine Islands. re-
coaing and preparing for the last
stage Of its long voyage. Although
these islands belong to the United
States, they have fine anchorage out
SIDE the three-mile limit. with hard
bottom at twenty to twenty-five
1athoms. The German Navy Depart
nent received in a telegram to-day
from one Of the East Indian ports an
indication that the Russians, when off
the southern end of Cochin China
April II, changed their course and
headed on a course which would
bring them 10 the Cuyos Islands. in
the northern part Of the SuIu Sea, 500
miles distant, in four days at the rate
OF eight knots an hour. The Cuyos
Islands lie tactically in such a position
that the approaches can easily be
watched by the Russian scouts. Three
cruisers, il was added, had been de-
tached, presumably for a diversion on
the coast Of Japan, probably in the
hope Of calling off Admiral Togo in
pursuit.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-15
OUTBREAK FOR MAY DAY.
RevoIutionists in Russia SmuggIe in
Arms and Bombs.

1luSSld Sfllu22lc In
Arms and Bombs.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 14-De-
velopments all point to a crisis in the
present agitation among the workmen
of the cities and the peasants in the
country on Mayday. and appeals are
pouring in from all quarters of Russia
for military protection.
The st. Petersburg workmen are pre-
pairing a great demonstration. Arms
and bombs in large quantities have
been smuggled in and bloodshed on a.
large scale is feared. Wealthy per-
sons. who ordinarily go to villas on the
islands of the Neva or to neighboring
country places. this year are going
abroad. The Government has taken
few special measures to meet the situ-
alton, evidently relying on the troops
and police to guard the capital. The
latter are extremely active All the
prominent agitators are being arrested
or have already been sent back to the
villages from which they originally
came. The prisons are filed to over
flowing.
There have been fresh disputes be-
tween the workmen and the mana gers
of the Putiloff, Baltic and Neysky
works and between the employees and
the management OIL the Government
cartridge factory. At the latter place
the men refuse to continue to donate
any portion of their pay to assist in
the support of families of the soldiers
at the front, claiming that the money
is used to prosecute a war to which
they are opposed.
The news received from the interior
is alarming, especially from the Baltic
provinces, where the entire population
is in state of intense excitement.
The cities are being flooded with revo-
lutionary proclamations calling on the
people to rise on Mayday. The GRIM
inal classes are taking advantage Of
the situation to pillage and plunder.
while in the country the landlords are
powerless to cope with the peasants
and demand the placing of troops az
every station.
Vitebsk. come reports that the Jews
culation of proclamations similar to
those which preceded the outbreaks at
Kishineff and Gomel
At Ekaterinoslav three revolutionists
who were surrounded by police fought
their way to liberty, killing or wound
ing several of the officers. A dispatch
from Kars says that the employees of
the Trans-Caucasian Railroad are on
strike and that one hundred miles of
the track has been damaged.
Private advices from Reval Govern
ment of Esthonia. say the police are
following their old practice OF dividing
the population against itself. They are
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-15

trying to excite the natives against
Germans and the position of the latter
is becoming so alarming that many are
going abroad.
MOSCOW, April 14.-Chief of Police
Volkoff has forbidden all workmen's
meetings.
TAMBOFF, Central Russia. April a.
The pupils of the ecclesiastical semin-
ary here have struck. When the rec
tor and priests attempted to induce
them to return to their studies. the
pupils drove them out and later sacked
the institution. Troops were finally
sent to the scene of the disturbance
and many of the pupils were wounded
before order was restored.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-15
NO WOUNDED ABOARD.

Hospital Ship Orel Only Carried Sick
Sailors to Saigon.
SAIGON, Cochin China, April IA
The Russian hospital ship Orel has
sailed. She remained here thirty-six
hours and took aboard 900 tons Of coal
as well as supplies of provisions and
medicines.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 1.-THE
Admiraltys advices from Saigon do
not mention any wounded men being
on board the Russian hospital ship
Orel, which arrived there yesterday.
She has sick sailors on board.
The OreI will leave Saigon at once
and rejoin Admiral RoJestvensky's
squadron. which, it is said. may be
standing off somewhere UP the coast
awaiting the hospital ship.