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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-13
STANDS BY His GUNS.
BigeIow Takes Another Shot
at Taft and the Canal.

New York, Jan. 13.-Poultney Bige-
low, for whose presence before the
senate committee on interoceanle
canals a subpoena has been issued
has a signed letter on Panama" in
today's Times The communication in
part follows:
1.-TWO things are notable to him
who reads the signs Of the times:
mo German historian touches mod
ern HohenzOIlern history
mo American engineer of standing
cares to be identified with the Pana-
ma canal.
This is momentary only-we are
happy to believe.
My own purpose in going to Pana-
ma was to look at the conditions
under which the negro laborers We're
compelled to live.
MY charges against our administIa-
ton are those which any independent
observer would have made under ana
Joyous conditions and with analogous
appearance of the negro in tropical
countries.
These charges Mr.. Taft does not
Il have made several broad charges,
and authorize the trustees of the
Boston university to withhold my sal
airy for the coming year If these
charges are not substantially true.
TO determine this question, it IS
absurd to call in as witnesses men who
have political axes to grind. am will
ll1s ~ e1oid0 ny Liz " - g u ~ y.
anyone with respectable standing
among average men of clean business
record. It will cost no more to send
such a man to Panama than to print
pamphlets denouncing those who crit
else the canal commission.
Colon today is mainly a swamp, into
which is dumped all the human eXcre-
ment of the negro population and where
this population is compelled to sleep.
There is no water at Colon save the
swamp water and what can be collected
by the drippings from the roofs of the
on is a shame. The negroes are leaving
in large numbers by reason of legitimate
grievance which is a matter of common
knowledge.
Mr.. Taft can hire hundreds of politi-
clans to call me offensive names, but IN
til he prOcures a respectable engineer or
man. of business to indorse the present
state of administration on the canal zone
no amount Of government printing will
afford him any real comfort -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-13
CROWD HAS BEEN SMALL
Only $500 People Have Attended
State Poultry Show.

The great show of the Kansas State
Poultry association comes to wind up
this evening.
over 1000 birds and 900 pigeons have
been on display during the week Up
wards of $4,000 in prizes have been dis
tTibuteG.
The attendance has not been up on a
par with last year and the total attend
ance viii not exceed 1880. counting
passes and all About 1000 of these ad-
missions were paid.
Though the financial outcome of the
show has not been set forth yet there
is every belief that a surplus will be
left in the treasury to make the Begin
nings of a show for the year 1906.
In the sweepstakes Mcpherson county
received first prize, Nemaha county Sc
cured second prize while Jackson coun-
ty, Missouri, got third prize. Twenty
five dollars was first money, SIS second
and SO went to third place.
A. J. WaddeH, of Wichita, secured the
special prize. a silver and bronze cup
offered by the Buff Wyandotte club of
Topeka for the best entry of that class
Of birds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-13
COURT Is IGNORED.
Chinese Deported in the Face Of
Judicial order.

San Francisco, Jan. 13.-Charles
Mehans head Of the local Chinese bureau,
has received a telegram from Frank P.
Sargent, Commissioners of immigration,
asking for his version of the trouble
over the deportation of Lee Wah and
wife and Chin Yoke. three Chinese who
were sent away on the Coptic on We'd
nesday last despite an order of the
United States district court
Fifteen minutes before the sailing
time of the Coptie, Judge DeHaven of
the United States district court, made
an order that the Chinese be held here
until their case could be appealed.
Notice of this order was telephoned to
the passenger agent Of the Pacific Mail,
who agreed to hold the Chinese. He tel
ephoned to Mehan about the matter
and Mehan. it is said, in the face of the
court order, insisted that they be de-
ported.
The Chinese consul here and the Pa
cific Mail people have telegraphed to
Secretary Netcalf, asking that the three
Chinese be landed at Honolulu and re-
turned here by the next boat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-13
NO LONGER a ooI1EGE SPORT
View the Stanford University Commit
tee Takes ON Football.

Stanford University. Cala Jan. -
The faculty athletic committee yes
terday made public their annual re-
port to President David Starr Jordan
on the condition of university ath-
letics.
on the subject of football reform
the committee submitted as their
opinion the close formation in play
should be abolished; that the modern
game had deteriorated from a sport
to a business; that the game is ex-
elusive, since only men of heavy
weight can participate, and that the
game is no longer in any sense q. coll
lege sport, since students do not Or
ganize volunteer teams to play for the
love of the game.
Dealing with the game of baseball,
the committee declares chat base
ball is on a distinctiveIy lower level
than any other college sport, both as
regards the spirit of amateurism and
of courtesy and fairhes of play"
In conclusion the faculty investi-
gators commend tennis, track work
and rowing to be a more liberal par
ticipation by students as being helpful
and manly sports.
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MARKETS TODAY.
Wheat Takes an Upward Turn
at Chicago.
Due to UnfavOrable Weather in
Argentine and India.
CORN MARKET STEADY.
Cattle and Hog Market at
Kansas City.

Chicago, Jan. 3.-WHEAT-Excessi
rains in Argentina and a lack OF moisture
in india created bullish sentiment today
in the wheat market here. May opened
unchanged to 4sc higher, at SS14 q8Sssc. and
advanced to SSssc. Minneapolis, Duluth
and Chicago reported receipts of 4S9 cars,
against 596 cars a year ago.
There was a good demand throughout
the day and the market continued firm.
The close was firm with May up 4sQAc.
at SSssdSS1zc
CORN-The corn market was steady
and trading was of small volume. May
opened unchanged, at 451sc, sold at 45c.a and
then rallied again to 451sc.
The demand for corn became more ac-
point for May was reached at 453s@455hc
The close was firm, with May up Adssc,
at the best price of the day.
OATS-Prodt taking by local longs
caused some weakness in the oats mar
ket. May opened unchanged to 1sc lower,
at 32Q321sc, and sold off to 317sc
PRO V1S1ONS-ProVisiOns were strong,
hogs May pork was unchanged, at
Sl4.071z- Lard was off PIC, at s.. 625k. Ribs
we're unchanged, at $3.50.
W HEAT-CaSh: No. ? red, S7090Ac; No
red, s6dS77zc; No. hard, S41zQs6c; No. 3
hard, S20S4c; No. 1 northern, 87618S1zc; No.
S734c.
CORNING. 2, 4sc; No. 3, 4215@42s1c.
OATS-No. 2, Bic; No. 3 30sc.
RYE-Cash: Csc; May, 70d7lc.
F1AA-Cash- NV, $12Si S.-W., SLY;
May, S1.25
T1MOTHY-March. ss.45.
VER-Cash: S1235.
BARLEY-Cash: 38M55c
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GEN. CHARLES LEES GRANDSON
Applies at a Chicago Police Station fol-
a Bed.

Chicago, Jan. 1S.-Gray-haired and
bent with age. Samuel Lee, who claims
to be grandson of Major General Chas.
Lee of Revolutionary fame, was an ap-
plicant for lodging at the Harrison
street police station last night Justice
Caverly, to whom he told the story of
his plight, gave him the price of a bed
and he hobbled away to a Clark street
lodging house. 4 am n years Old the
old man said, ftand this is the first time
in M life that I have been compelled
to ask for a nights lodging in a police
station My grandfather, Charles Lee.
was a major general in the American
Revolutionary army. He was the first
of our faNaily to come from England
and before joining the American forces
he was a lieutenant in the British
army.
Lee was born in Philadelphia. He
was color bearer of Company z. Twen-
ty-sixth Pennsylvania volunteers. in the
war of the rebellion. At the battle Of
Lookout Mountain his right hand was
shot off. He received a pension from
the government of $50 a month. Com
ing 10 Chicago before the fire Of 1871
he has lived here since He has been
employed in the county recorders office,
he said, and also in the postofice under
Colonel Stuart.
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SCHOONER CAPSIZED.
Her Crew of Five Men Believed to
Have Been Lost.

Norfolk, Va, Jan. 13.-The schooner
Samuel L. Russell of Norfolk lies cap
sized in lower Chesapeake bay. Her
crew of five men is missing and is be-
ieved to have been lost.
The schooner, lumber laden, sailed
from Norfolk for Baltimore Monday
night in town of the tug Volunteer.
The master of the towing tug is said
here to have reported upon arriving
at Baltimore with the barge that the
schooner's crew cut her adrift from
the tug in the storm It is believed
that this was done because the schoOn-
er was leaking under the strain of
towing and her master believed she
would ride more easily under sail.
A large part of the schOoner's stern
is missing, apparently washed away or
lost in collision.
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AFTER THE NAVY.
Rear Admiral COghlAn Delivers
Spicy Address.
Scores the Naval Equipment
Without Stint.
THE ''SAINTED OREGON"
Now a Second Class BattIeship
Instead of First.
"We Need Better Ships and
More Of Them.,,'
THE ''SAINTED OREGON"

New York, Jan. 13.-In an address
before the Patria club in this city,
Rear Admiral Joseph B. COghlan,
commandment of the New York navy
yard, delivered an address on The
Navy in which he did not spare crit-
eisn.
He said that while on paper the
United States in 1908 would be in sec
ond place as a naval power, yet if there
were stricken from the lists such yes
sells as the f'Sainted Oregon" now a
second class battleship instead Of in
the first line, the United States would
not rank better than fifth or sixth
among the sea powers Of the world
s'There is but one kind of lighting
ship" said Admiral Coghlan, land that
is the speedy battieship of the line
All others We're doubtful quantities
Beautiful TO Look At.
The admiral referred to armored
cruisers as being beautiful to look at
and good for some things. such as
scouting in the CaTibheeE
He referred to the cruisers of Prince
Louis of Battenberg's squadron recent
ly here as in the same class as our own
cruisers. These ships, he asserted, al z
GOOD for such purposes as Sdnto
DOMINICAN difficulty and in other
southern countries where we heeu 70
send our navy.
Admiral Coghlan spoke in praise OF
government built battleshlps ana re
ferred especially to the CONNECTICUT
now nearing completion at the New
york navv yard He believed she
would outstrip her privately bullI SIS
ter ship and that in five or SIX years
the SAVING i'm the cost of repairs would
be specially noticeable AoInlIal OOsli
Don't think I am criticising the
q1avv am not. There IS no inner
bO5y IF men in the world, but they
need better ships and more OF them;
SDeaking about the need OF a great
err national reserve from which men
for the navy could be drawn IN tune
of war, he said:
eve have a naval reserve or naval
militia. but the last war taught us
that such men lack the stamina OF
fighting, TO say nothing or the long
experience necessary on the sea to be
useful in a conflict"
He advocated an enlargement OF the
merchant marine as the base on which
to rely for a naval reserve. Then ne
said.
Like a Woman Throwing a Stone
FOLLOWING the fads Of various per
sons, we find among our ~ fighting
ships some millions OF dollars wasted
on four monitors IA the harbOr OF
Manila I have seen one of them roll
ing twenty times a minute trying to
hit something with a 12-inch gun
much as I have seen a woman trying
to hit hen with a stone
Three submarine ships came to the
navy yard last spring for repairs
Heaven only knows when they viii gel
away. AS soon as you repair one end
Of a craft the other end needs re-
building The insides have been
wholly rebuilt and the only thing
can see to do with them is to build
new huIIs. I shall object to doing
that however, when the subject comes
UP for consideration. I prefer to lei
them sink where they are"
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CONGRESS DEFIED.
Secretary Netca9 says It Cannot
Make Him Yield Up a Scret.

New York. Jan. 13.-When the
case of Marcus Braun, special COM
missioner to Austria Hungary to inves-
tigate emigration conditions. against
Lajos Steiner of this city whose arrest
Mr. Braun had secured on a charge
of criminal libel on December 6, came
up in police court yesterday, it was
devoted chiefly to attempts on the
part of the attorneys for the defense
to force Braun to reveal the nature of
his work abroad as representative of
the immigration bureau and of the
secret report he has made to President
Roosevelt concerning his investiga-
lions in Austra-Hungary. These .ques-
tons Braun absolutely refused to an
swer. -.it n@n
He exhibited telegram in the
in which the latter assured him that
under no circumstances would the
contents of the secret report be made
public, not even at the demand of
congress, which had called upon Sec
rotary Metcalf's department for the
report.
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Wall ST.. New York, Jan. 13.-STOCKS-
Large buying orders carried opening
prices in the stock market today to a
higher level. the high priced railroad
stocks leading Great Northern preferred
rose ~ points and Northern Pacific, St.
Paul and New York Central point. There
were besides large fractional gains in
Missouri Pacific, Colorado and Southern
was shaded a small fraction and Sugar
and Metropolitan Street Railway were
also lower.
The breadth and volume of business Of
fered attractive opportunities for reaiiz-
ing and stocks were so freely offered as
to put prices back to last nights level or
below. Here and there stocks weakened
sharply and added to the reactionary ten
dency.
Prices were lifted again, but the favora-
bic bank statement induced new realizing
and prices sold off again. Union Pacifc
was lifted fraction to a new high level
at 1883
The closing was extremely active and
irregular.
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FUN AND CHARITY.
Combination Draws $4,000 From
People of Chicago.

Chicago. Jan. 13.-In whirl Of gay
ETY. and brilliancy, the three-night run
of the Cribside society Kirmess came
to an end in Orchestra hall last night,
with a general dance in the rose-be-
decked foyer. 1t was fitting finale
of splendor to one of the most success
full charitable entertainments ever given
in Chicago.
The success of the Kirmess surpassed
even the best hopes Of the officials, and
it was estimated that S23, 900 had been
cleared for the building fund of the
babies pavilion which is to be added to
the chiIdren's memorial hospital.
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lOpehaT Kan, Jan. Il, lSUb.
WHEAT-Wheat has given US another
week of narrow fluctuations, with both
sides claiming good things to come. In
the fore part of the week the bulls had
their Observation-Disclosures by the heavy in
crease in the visible, being 2,3S2. 600 bush
els against decrease Of 1858, 600 bushels
last year, bringing total visible in the y.
S. and Canada up to IS, 1873 900 bushels, be-
ing million larger than last year, and
their Friend Armour throwing more than
~ million bushels on them to carry: The
receipts in the northwest also was large,
being fully One-third larger than one year
ago, and have increased up there last
week , million bushels They have went
through this remarkably well and closed
the market last night 9sd1sc higher than
their surprises, being the light worlds
shipments a decrease on passage the last
few weeks; also Bradstreets report on
Tuesday on the world s visible showing
decrease of 100000, where an increase
was looked for and the wet weather in
Argentina claiming 20 per cent damage
to the crop and the reduction of their
crop to 80 600 acres where they were ex-
pecting 100 million bushels, and the I'M
settled affairs in Europe, also the light
winter wheat receipts gives them a plenty
to think of. The clean clearance for the
week was 4, 16S,O00 and shows the foreign
ers are taking our wheat at last in good
shane.
CORN-Corn has showed good strength
all the week, the houses with eastern con-
nections are buying it and have been for
the last few weeks and had standing Of
fers to take all the corn offered near 441zc
in Chicago. and as the receipts don't come
forward, as most of the trade thinks it
should on the big crop, is causing a good
many people to think that perhaps corn
has saw its bottom for some time to come
at least.
OATs-The market has again been at a
standStil with fluctuations very narrow.
The tone of the market, however. is firm,
owing to the belief of the trade that ex-
port houses have been making large sales
of cash oats abroad, and in view that the
exports bids are only &c away from a
working basis on large lots.
PROVISIONS-There were further indi-
cations of the market broadening out. The
exports of lard and meats are very large,
while the run of hogs was little larger
this week than previous weeks. They are
still not burdensome and many of our
best stock men say that the hogs are not
in the country. These provisions are be-
ing bought by good people who generally
know what they are about and it would
not surprise me to see them sell a good
deal higher
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FORCE OF LIFE"
The Circular Which Brought Concern
to Grief.

New York. Jan. 13.-In the letter
from the Springfield woman to Pres
fdent Roosevelt there was enclosed
one of the stock letters from the
Force of Life concern. 1t started off
as follows.
''By his mysterious control over dis
ease and death, DR.. Wallace Hadley.
the eminent thaumaturgic panopath-
list of this city, has made the human
heart beat again in the body of a
woman rescued from the grave And
as result of his successful expert
ment ne makes the startling statement
that no disease should cause death
He claims to have discovered the vital
principle of life itself, the dynamic
force that creates and maintains ex-
1stenee- He seems to have absolute
control over human life and the dis
eases that attack it,
Evidence upon which the complaints
Were based was secured through CORES
pondence of fictitious patients. One Of
these, Lucille Holman wrote that
she was young girl of %. and followed
this up with some information Of an in
innate nature. Several letters that fol-
lowed We're printed circulars containing
staple advice received also, it is alleged,
by number of other fictitious patients
she had written, giving other ailments.
Complaining tnat she had not imprOV-
ed, Lucille Hoffman was asked to
send a sample of her blood for ANALYSIS.
The correspondent obtained some blood
from a horse which he put into a bottle
and forwarded. A couple of days later
ne got q letter which declared that the
analysis pointed to physical conditions
which the recipient said made him sorry
for the horse.
Among the most interesting docu-
Hnents that have fallen into the hands
of the investigators is an alleged per-
sonal letter from DR. Hadley to a
patient containing these sentences:
ffF n5TTn disease combat any and a
maaldles. I make hopeless invalids
wei. I unciasp the rsmorseIess fingers
of death I stop the rush with which
father time hurries you TO the grave
The following statement is made in q
circular headed: stDr. Wallace Hadley'
Personal Message:
iiDo not be skeptical. Have confidence
In me. BE sure, as am, that Z can cure
disease
. Come We who. are heavy laden and
win give you rest
@Reverently. I repeat the words. and
by the Great Healer. can say no more
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SLUSH FUND A HABIT.
1t Has Prevailed in Jacksonville Pub
lie Institution for Years.

Jacksonville. Ill, Jan. Batter several
hours deliberation the jury was still out
at a late hour last night in the case
brought against Alderman Matthew L.
Hudreth, charged by the state civil ser
vice commission with soliciting campaign
contributions in November from three at
taches Of the institution for the deaf.
HiIdreth on the stand confessed that he
had taken up the collection, naively ex-
cusing himself on the ground that he was
ignorant of the law
The confession followed testimony from
three victims, in which they recited brief
stories that disclosed the fact that
..slush' funds have become a deep-rooted
habit in the three Jacksonville institu-
tons through decades of practice.
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SUNDAY LAW UPHELD.
1t Applies to Both Jew and Gentle
Alike.

st. Paul, Mimi, Jan. 13.-An opin-
ion of the municipal court of Mime
apoIis, holding that the Sunday closing
law is equally applicable to Jew and
gentle was upheld by the Minnesota
supreme court today. M. A. Weiss was
convicted of selling groceries on Sun
day Weiss, who is a Hebrew, claimed
that this law is Unconstitutional, the
constitution providing that no prefer
ence shall be given by La to any relt-
zion. His Sabbath is Saturday. The
supreme court holds that the Sunday
law is justified as a sanitary measure
and as a legitimate exercise of police
mower
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SENT TO THE TOMB.
Man Accused of selling Forged Bonds
Held Without Bail.

New York. Jan. 13-C. Augustus Seton,
the promoter against whom indictments
stand for forgeries alleged to aggregate
$50. 900 and who is said to have been
concerned in negotiating the forged
Norfolk & Western Railway Securities,
was committed to the Tombs today
without bail.
District Attorney Garvan said Seton
was wealthy man and that in kS<gust
last he had a yacht in New York llar-
Dor and was about to set sail for South
America to escape jurisdiction.
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Kansas City Live stock Market.

Kansas City, Mo, Jan 15.-CATILE-
Receipts today, 8, 900 head Market steady
Native steers, $40Oq6.00; southern steers,
So .0OI4 IS; southern cows, $2.O0@3.5O; native
cows and heifers, $2.00d5. 09; stoekers and
feeders, $S.00Q4.50; bulls, $2.25QS.S0; caves,
So OOd7. 90; western fed steers, $3.50Q5.50;
western fed cows, .$2.5003.75.
S-Receipts today 5000 head. Mar
ket steady Bulk of sales, IS. 20d5. 81; ;
heavy, S.. 8od5. S71k; packers, s.. 25G5. 80;
pigs and lights, S5.10Q5-30.
SHEEP-Receipts today, 200 head.
Market steady. Muttons, $4.5O@610; lambs,
S5.5O075O; range wethers $5.50Q650; fed
ewes, 81 75G5. so.
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New York, Jan. 43.-NIONEY- Money on
call nominal. no loans; time money easy;
so and 80 days, 51s per cent; months, SO
81 per cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 1854
per cent; sterling exchange firm, with ac-
tuaI business in bankers bills at 81 $50
48660 for demand and at s. S31z a. 1885 for
SO day bills; posted rates. $4.S37AdA84 and
$4.87G4.8745; commercial bills, S4.825zG4.8 IS.
BONDS Government bonds steady.
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Chicago IIlve Stock.

Chicago, Jan 13-CATTLE-Recei to-
day 400 head Market steady. Beeves.
So 5066. IS; COWS, S125d4. 30; heifers, 81. 25@
4 75; calves IS. 1901. 70 good to prime steers,
$53506.25; y poor to medium, $3.60@5.305
stockers and feeders, $2.30d4.30.
HOGSEReceipts today, D, 600 head; esti-
mated Monday so, 900 head. Market 5010c
lower Mixed and butchers, S5.1505. 371a !;
good heavy, So. 30d5. 40; rough heavy, IS 10
as. 25; light, 5.2005 321a; pigs, $4.T5G5. Is;
bulk of sales. s.. 25G5.35.
SHEEP-Receipts today, 1000 head.
Market steady Sheep, s. 50@6:00; year
lings, S6.O007.0 90; lambs, s.. 75Q7S5.
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Tost an ounce of Brains.

lola. kan, Jan. 13.-Ora Lobaugh, who
was injured by a sprocket chain at the
I,anvon smelters lost over an ounce Of
brain matter and two square inches
of skull bone, yet the doctors say there
is now hope for his recovery. Strange
as it may seem, Lobaugh has not de-
veloped any fever to speak Of and he is
rational and very hopeful.