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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
SEVEN ARE DEAD.
Lost Their Lives in Consequence Of
the Blizzard.

New York, Jan. 5.-The blizzard of
yesterday caused deaths in New
York and vicinity, while many per-
sons overcome by the cold, dropped
to the street, some of them receiving
fractured bones.
Five of the seven men who met
death from the storm died of ex-
posure, another slipped on the icy
platform of an elevated station fell
in front of an approaching train and
was ground to pieces. The seventh, l..
w. Eller, a conductor on the Penn
sylvania road, blinded by the driving
snow, stepped in front of the con-
gressiOnal limited train at South Am
boy, N J., and was instantly killed.
1t is estimated that the storm will
cost the New York City Railway COM
pany over 100000.
Incoming ocean liners report a
blizzard at sea. The Teutonic Ar
menia, from Liverpool. the Furnesia,
from Glasgow, and the Princess Vic
toria Louise, from Hamburg, are at
quarantine after tempestuOus pas
sages, but outside the bar are several
vessels from European and South
American ports.
Five thousand men were put to
work cleaning the streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
The GIvers Are Staying Away
From the Askers.
Legislators Are Not ThrOng-
ing Copeland County.
ONE WITH PURE HEART
Murdock Doesn't Care Whether
School Keeps or Not.
Gossip From the Elect and the
Aspirants.

Another session is upon US. 1t is on
US now-Iater, when it is all figured up
it viii be discovered that it is "on"
the state.
But that will be all right. The state
can stand it. for have we not been as
sured that Tom Kelly put 1t All Back? :?
Certainly. Therefore we needn't be
alarmed about the expense. We have
the cash to pay it.
But notwithstanding that the Session
is close at hand, those who Ask and
those who have to Give are not coming
in very rapidly Perhaps those who
Ask are not coming because they know
the Givers are not here, and the Givers
are hanging off because they know the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
MASONS ARE AROUSED.
Think Captain Churchill Was Neg
Iected at the Sanitarium.

Dodge City, Kan, Jan. 5.-The
death of Captain John H. Churchill
will doubtless be Investigated by the
Masonic order. of which he was a
prominent member There is a belief
that the sanitarium people are great
" to blame in the lack of care given
to Mr.. Churchill and to his case. The
body, accompanied by friends, reach
ed here last night.
The funeral will be held at Dodge
number of friends of the family will
be here from Topeka. leaving that
place on the Santa F'e at 1915 o'clock
tonight, arriving at Dodge City at 8
in the morning and returning leave at
in evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
HIS FORTUNE TIED UP.
Young Wilson'S Wife Sues for Half
the Money Left Him.

Kansas City, Jan. George L.
Wilson, the young man found at
Plainheld. ILL.,, by a Kansas City de-
tective in the employ of T. T. Ros-
brook, Wilson'S brother-in-law, who
desires to turn over to him his share
of his fathers estate, which is valued
at $125, ,0Oe, is already involved in liti-
cation. His newly acquired fortune is
tied up and Mrs. Lutte Wilson of 1921
MCGEE street. who says she is his wife,
is suing him for one-half of it.
Mrs. Wilson's petition was filed in
the circuit court yesterday by It. J.
Latshaw. jr., her attorney. She al
legeS that she and Wilson were mar
ried about one year ago and that he
deserted her in March last. She says
he is a spendthrift and has refused to
share his part of his fathers estate
with her.
judge Teasdale, to whom the petit
ton was assigned, has granted tenn
Rosbrook and p s. Wilson, the latter
two administrators of the elder Will
sons estate, from disposing of the
Sharge of the younger Wilson in the
estate. Arguments in support of an
application to make the injunction
stand until her marital rights have
adjudicated will be heard by the
is the attorney for Wilson and the ad-
ministrators.
Wilson's share of the estate is said
to be $4,000. When found by the de-
tective he was driving a gravel
wagon. Mrs. Wilson says he is Is
ploye of the Metropolitan Street Rail-
way company here His father, Alex
ander C. Wilson, died at Madison.
Kan, July %, 1908.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
PARSONS

Askers are laying for them. When a
Czfver comes into town no one meets
him at the front gate by brass band
and a. squad of b1ue-coats in the ding
dong wagon He rides in on the blind,
Jumps Off on the opposite side OF the
train before It stops, and hastily ad-
5usting a set of false whiskers, loads
himself in a hack and drives hurriedly
to the Copeland County door Rushing
in he looks around, registers, casts the
pen into the ambient tobacco smoke,
and rusheS out.
Jim Chappelle is getting mighty tired
of this merry -go-round performance
He would like to sell some of the first
class feed he has collected for the
Grand Occasion. OF course the man
ager of the Copeland County hosiery
is busy telling the paper hangers how
to do it, but he still has time to yell
Front and assign guests to their
rooms. The fair white pages of his
register are covered with ink, but the
checlz-off in the fourth column comes
too close after the date.
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if there are any corrections to be
made"
Captain seaton was asked whether
or not he was planning to locate part
OF his big foundry in Topeka, for the
purpose of turning out work for the
Santa Fe.
How did that story get started %
said Captain Seaton. "I thought at
first that it was some dull day story,
but you people seem to consider it
seriously
You won't be likely to move away
from Atchison now that you have
found coal there, will you ?" asked a
friend of Captain. Seaton's who was
standing nearby.
1.-The coal won't help me any," said
of it to make any difference in my
business
s'WeH, what it there in this re-
port2" persisted the newspaper man.
"Oh, there's nothing in it-nothing
at all" was the reply; but there was a
ed a bit suspicious. It is hinted that
Captain Seaton was here to confer
with the Santa Fe officials about GER
tain matters. Time will tell.
Representative Charles Curtis was
taken sick with neuralgia during the
session of the house at Washington
Wednesday. and had to go to his
home.
W. r. Stubbs has rented the F. o.
Popenoe house, southeast of town,
and will live there in style during the
coming winter He will bring his
horses up from Lawrence. His family
may stay at Topeka after the adjourn
ment of the legislature. Mr.. Stubbs
is still confined to his house at Law
renee, and will not come to Topeka
until Monday.
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FOR THE KAWs.
Secretary Hitchcock Transmits Report
of Commission.

Washington, Jan. 5.-Secretary
Hitchcock has transmitted to congress
the report of a. commission and estt-
mate of an appropriation for the set
lement claims for Kansas or Kaw
Indians. The commission was ap-
pointed under an act approved July
1, 1902. providing for the acceptance,
ratification and confirmation of an
greement submitted by these Indians,
who live in Oklahoma The commits
sion submitted its report June 30,
1904, in which it stated that after
careful examination of all the claims
submitted, the opinion is that the
Kansas tribe of Indians are entitled
to $155, 5,976.8S in satisfaction of their
claim.
Copies of the report of the commits
sion with the accompanying exhibits
were submitted to the Indians Sep
tember 3, 1904, and the secretary sub
adult members of the tribe dated No
vember 26, accepting the award and
hndlngs of the commission. and an
other resolution, signed by ten mem
Ders of the tribe, rejecting same.
Ihe secretary also submits an item
TO be inserted in the Indian appro-
prlauon bill appropriating the sum of
S155,S76.SS in payment of the award
made by the commission, which, he
says, constitutes a full and fair set
tlement between the United States and
the Indians. and recommends that the
amount so found to be due to the
Indians be appropriated during the
present session, so there may be no
cause for suit in the court of claims
as provided by the act, in the event
OF failure to pay within one year after
the report of the commission
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05

to a pure heart 1t was Bent Muir
dock of FL Dorado. He looked like
he didn't want anything. didn't have
anything to give out, and didn't care
a whoop whether school kept or not
Grant Hornaday OF the Fort Scott
Monitor didn't stay long Perhaps he
came up for the purpose of reserving
elbow space at the reporters desk.
It has been rumored that this legis-
lature will be run on new and scien-
tific lines That the Giving viii be
done during the early part of the
game, and that legislators and others
will not be permitted to carry away
furniture, electric light fixtures and
other state house trimmings as souv-
enirs. Perhaps this is the idea, but
no one will be seriously surprised, on
March 10, to see a cluster of moving
vans backed UP to the state house
door. We have heard that thou shalt
not" brand of conversation before,
but the custodian continued to pur
chase new filing for the house and
senate chamber. So long legislation
legislates, just so long will the carry
away system prevail
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UNIQUE SPECIAL TRAIN.
Forty Car Loads Of Implements for
Texas.

A Rock Island special train will az
rive in Topeka at 2.3O o'clock in ths
afternoon Friday which will be some
what out of the ordinary in the spe-
ciaI line It is called the Famous
Ohio Cultivator's Texas Special and
will consist of forty cars loaded with
harrows and cultivators.
The train viii remain in Topeka
at the Rock Island depot for ten min
utes, giving the implement men here
an opportunity to examine the farm
machinery.
The Texas Special" left Bellevue,
O.. several days ago and is the
largest train load of harrows and cuI-
tivators ever forwarded The train Is
destined to Fort Worth and Dallas
and the machinery is to be recon
signed to individual destinations there.
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Ascending Bankers Caught.

Victoria, B. c., Jan. 5.-United States
secret service agents, John D. Murphy
and George E. Burns, with Chief J. NJ.
Langley of Victoria, captured Lewis p
Ohlinger, president, and ]. r. thinner
man, managing director of the Wooster
National bank of Wooster, Ohio, charg-
cd with embezzlement of the funds
amounting to S250,O00. They have
agreed to return to Wooster for trial,
waving examination. Ohlinger was
formerly a United States congressman
from Ohio.
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Will TURN BACK.
Russia'a Baltic Fleet VIII Re-
turn TO Russia.
Decision Has Been Reached in
Case or Rojestvensky.
NORTHERN ARMY BUSY.
Oyama In Heavily Re-Onforcing
His Right Flank.
The BOmbardment of POutiIoff
Keeps Right On.

The most effect of the fall of Port
Arthur on the general military sItua-
ton in the far east became apparent
today in the decision of Russia to re-
call her second Pacific squadron A
dispatch from st. Petersburg an
nounces that the squadron will re-
turn to European waters.
The emperor of Russia has returned
to Tsarskoe-Selo from Minsk and 1t
is reported that an extraordinary
council is to be held at which the en-
pire's whole situation is to be review
ed both as relates to the war and
present internal affairs. The revolu-
tionary leaders are apparently taking
every advantage of the government s
position to compel the summoning of
a national assembly, while the press
is criticising bureaucracy with in
creasing savageness and boldness. In
fact today's dispatches indicate that
the internal situation is so grave that
the conclusion of peace with Japan
may be compelled in order to deal
with it. The decision of the general
staff that Stoessel must return and
ave court martial for surrendering
Port Arthur, even though it is a form
compelled by army regulations, is also
serving as a text for bitter criticism
by the Russian papers.
St Petersburg, Jan. 5.-Although
orders to that effect have not been
sent to Admiral Rojestvensky, the AS
sociated Press is able to announce
positively that the decision has been
reached that the Russian second Pa
cifc squadron viii return to European
waters.
StoesseI Said to Have Cancer.
St Petersburg, Jan. 5.-There is no
definite information here regarding
General StoesseIS condition, but it has
been current gossip for some time
that he is suffering from cancer.
Oyama Becomes Active.
Huanshan, Manchuria, via Mukden,
Jan. Japanese reinforcements are
now concentrating around Bensiu, 80
miles northeast of Lao Yang. This
fact taken in conjunction with the re-
ports of the completion OF the rail-
roads in Korea and the bridge across
the Yalu river indicates the Japanese
have again transferred their attention
to the right flank. In the meanwhile
they are continuing the erection of
fortif1cations north and west. A light
silroad was laid during the last few
days south of the village of Houhe-
now.
The Japanese continue to lombard
Poutiloff and the villages west of it.
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Harvard Needs Money.

Washington, Jan 5.-A project has been
inaugurated by the members of the class
of 1880 of Harvard college, the class Of
which President Roosevelt is a member,
to raise a fund for the benefit of the in
stftution. 1t is hoped eventually to raise
a fund approximating $4,000. The col
lege is said to be in need of funds Pres
ident Roosevelt is expected to do his
share both in contributing and in using
his influence to raise money.
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LARGE GAINS SHOWN.
In Production of Gold and silver for
the Past Year.

washington, Jan. 5.-The preliminary
figures upon the production of gold and
silver in the United States in 1904. sub
rnitted to the director Of the mint, show
larger gains over the preceding year than
were expected. Nearly every state Of i'm
portance in yield has increased its out
nut. The Colorado yield is about SIS OOO,
900. as compared with about So, 100000 in
1903, and its best record $2S,S in 1900
California has made the best output for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
Found Dead i'm Her Boudoir.

Chicago, Jan. 5.-AGiss Muriel Byram.
a wealthy heiress, known as one of the
most beautiful women in Chicago so
cfety, was found dead in her boudoir
today with a bullet hole through her
neck. 1t is denied that she committed
suicide, the wound being attributed to
the accidental explosion Of a weapon
that she was cleaning preparatory to a
hunting trfD in California.
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Rriton sunnlanted by German.

Shanghai, Jan. 5-The North China
Daily News reports that Choufou, the new
yiceroy at Nanlxing, mas appointed a Ger
man named Basze as manager of the Chi
nese arsenal at Shanghai. This probably
means, the paper says, the ousting of
the rresent British manager of the ord
nance department and the bringing OF
the Chinese arsenals at Chinanfu, Han
n German hands.
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Total. Including minol

Among the notable increases in the sill
yer production over 1903 California
460 900 fine ounces and Idaho 4S3, 900 ounces
Colorado shows a loss of about 100000
ounces. Nevada, a loss of about $50, 900 and
Utah SAG 900 ounces.
In the production of gold Alaska shows
a gain of about 1886. 600: California, s. $685.
500: Colorado, s., 46o, 600; Idaho, 1880 900;
Montana, $549. 600; Nevada, 81. 752. 900; South
Dakota, S443, 900, and Utah, 81, 100000. The
total silver product in the United States
81 591. 700
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MONEY IN STREET.
Package All Bound Round With a
Wooden String Is Lost.

Chicago. Jan. 5.-Somewhere in the
streets OF the down town district, and
possibly unnoticed by thousands of pas
sers-by is s., 500 IN currency, wrapped in
ordinary brown paper and bound around
with a wooden string. J. Bardenheir, a
small dealer in jewelry. is the loser. He
did not trust banks
Mrs. Bardenheir. who is an invalid, is
in charge of the store, while her hus-
band has searched ainlessly the streets.
nearly frantic over his loss. He had taken
the money down town to pay bills.
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DIED AT THE HOSPITAL.
w. H. Randolph Lived But Short Time
After Reaching Topeka.

W. H. Randolph. a Santa Fe brakeman.
was brought to the Santa F'e hospital
from Abilene last night and died about
15 minutes after his arrival
Randolph attempted to board a switch
engine, but fell underneath the wheels.
His right leg was severed at the body.
His home was at Emporia, to which place
the body was sent this morning. He is
survived by a wife.
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POOR IS DEAD.
Noted Compiler of Railroad Statistics
Passes Away.

Boston, Jan. 5.=Henry v. Poor,
widely known for many years as a
railroad authority and an expert on
financial affairs. is dead at his home
in Brookline. Mr.. Poor fell on the
ice and broke his ankle three weeks
ago and the shock to his system
eventually affected his heart. He was
born in Maine in 1913. He was the
oldest graduate of Bowdoin college.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05

many years, due to a. good supply Of wa
ter and the work OF the dredgea. Nevada.
and Utah have made notable gains. South
Dakota and Alaska have beaten their
previous best records. The Appalachian
shows a loss of about 81, 900. 600
The preliminary figures by states and
far as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
DOUGLAS lNAUCURATED.
Fourth Democratic Governor in Past
Fifty Years.

Boston, Jan. 5.=William L. Doug
las of Brockton, was inaugurated gov
ernor of Massachusetts today. He is
the fourth Democrat to hold that Of
fee within the past fifty years. All
the other state officers are Republican
and the legislature is heavily Repub-
lican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
Round in the River

Battle Creek. Mich. Jan. 5.-Tho
body of Neal S. Phelps, the capitalist
of this city who mysteriously disap-
peared a number of weeks ago, and
who was later supposed to have been
located in British Columbia, was
found today badly decomposed in the
river snere.
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He IS UNSEATED.
Massachusetts Legislator Who Is in
JAN Is Bounced.

Boston, Jan. 5.-The Massachusetts
house has unseated Representative
Thomas F. Curley, Of the Seventeenth
Suffolk district. He is serving jail
sentence for fraud against the United
States government in connection with
civil service examination.
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Toxic, Jan 5.-A report from General
Nogi's headquarters which was received
surrendered garrison and fntimates that
the force handed oyer to the japanese
at Port Arthur will be 81 900. exclusive of
5000 or 1900 sick and wounded, making
a rough total Of 4SsOO0
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
SPEYER is DIRECTOR.
New York Banker Is Elected to Rock
Island Railway Directorate.

New York, Jan. Sit is announced
that James Speyer, of Speyer &. Co.,
has been elected a director of the
Rock Island of New Jersey and a
member Of the committee of that
company. Speyer & Co. recently
financed the Rock Island company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05

Chicago. Jan. 81 a. n. tempera-
lures: New York, IL: Boston, s.;
Philadelphia, 20; Washington, 16:
Chicago, "a: Minneapolis, lS: Cinoin-
natl. 26; st. Louis, %.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
Paper Hangers in Copeland County

It has been the custom for legislators
and others TO bunch up and mill
around" as Prairie-dog Cave aptly ex-
pressed It many days before the show
down. Here it is, a few days from the
election of speaker, and nothing doing.
Shameful
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Dog-town Cave will not be in our
midst this session Brick Mason as
sures the public that he has taken the
Kelley cure for the pie habit. He
blew in at the Copeland long enough
to register and blow out again. He
didn't have his eye on anything, but
was numbered among those who
simply walk in for a moment to see
what is going on, purchase cigar
and go back home to tell the ruralists
that it is a mighty tame legislature
They are after E. w. Hoch. 1t is
rumored that some Of the Askers
have Clipped in and hired Pinkerton
detective to keep tab on the Man
from Marion According to the code
of legislative and graftive etiquette he
should have headquarters in Topeka
"a place where one might corner him
and eXpectorate in his ear He has
violated the rule by rushing into town
on one train and back on the next
after secretly bribing a porter to
swear for him because the trains to
Marion did not run every twenty
minutes.
There are easier Jobs than being
governor-e elect. The position NAV have
Its advantages, but they not monetary
or moral
James Allen of K. c. is supposed to
be in town, but he is not visible to
the naked eye Perhaps this is be-
cause there are SO many trains going
toward Kansas City
John seaton of Atchison left his
mark and the city about the same
time. .. N Dolley Of Maple-HilI-on-
the-Creel, registered and then went
out to confer with some one.
There was one man around the
Copeland today who wore the calm
oignif1ed expression usually attributed
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Weatlher IndicatIons.

Chicago, Jan. 5.-Forecast for Kan
ssAs- Fair tonight and Friday; colder
in west portion; northwest winds
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MORE PLEASANT WEATHER.
Weatherman Promises Clear Skies But
Lower Temperature.

The weather today has been clear and
balmy, with the sun shining bright and
a wind blowing only at six miles an hour
from the west
The forecast for Kansas sent out today
is: Fair tonight and Friday; colder in
west portion tonight" The hourly tenn
peratures recorded by the government
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05

There are easier Jobs than being
governor-elect- The position NAV have
Its advantages, but they not mon ~
or moral
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James Allen of K. c. is supposed to
be in town, but ne is not visible TO
the naked eye Perhaps this is be-
toward Kansas City