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1:1 n 10 CENTS A WEEK. NIGHT EDITION. TOPEKA, KANSAS. THURSDAY EVENING. AUGUST 9, 1894. TWENTY-SECOND YEAH. - jy W1THDRAWCHARGES Accusations Against Atchison Receivers to be ltetracted. Eeorjranizaticn Committee is in Session This Afternoon. MR.llEINliAIiTS REPLY lie Submitted It to the mittae Today. Com- rt Littln Insists the crepaney Does Exist. Dis- New York, Aug. 9. The Atchison protective committee is engaged in the preparation of a statement in which they will withdraw the charge made yester day in tboir letter to President King', of the L'uiou Trust company, regarding sug gested action against Receivers McCook aud Eeinhart. The letter referred to was sent by the Atchison protective committee to the Union Trust company as trustee of the Atchison consoLaa'.ed bonds cading for the taking of steps to secure the removal of the present receivers of the company, on the grouud of their connection with the management of the company which has brought about the receivership. President ReiuLiart's statement was submitte 1 to the meeting of the reorgan ization committee this afternoon. It covers live typewritten pages and will at the conclusion of the meeting be given to the press. -Mr. Little's report as presented to the reorganization committee charges that the me j;ue account of the Atchison road for tho four year ending June 1, 194, shows an overestin" ate of $ 7,281,620, and he gives figures for the ulli'erent yearj on the baii ot his calculations which foot up that amount. Keinhrt' Statement. President Re.uhart's letter to the Atchison reorganization committee, re ply. n to expert. Little's report, charges gro.-,s er.ors m Little's statement; asserts mat Little has totally ignored $1,100,000 earnings of the St. L-iuis fc ban Francisco road, which is a part of the Atcaiijn system, and all of the stock of which i.- owned by the Atciiison system; that Little refuses to include a balance of $L7,Ji9 ( U. S. currency) sub sidy du from the Mexican government to the huaora railway, an Atchison aux iliary. An item of $ loO, 000, covering earnings on freight in transit on through billiug for the last weult of each month is ig nored. A sum of f 2,0 S2,fi00 interest earned from January 1, 1S9-J to December 2b, lS'.Ki, on advances by Atchison and San Francisco company to the Atlantic & Pacific road is iirnored; also .'51,.'VJO,000 profit upon the Atchison's investment iu terminal property. Thorn the report then takes up the other points i:i Little's report and de clares that ths company's figures on their report to the reorganization committee is actually crrecr. - The Atchison reorganization commit tee H'lj mrned tfter a very brief session yesterday. Secretary Kobbo has given on: the lollowicg statement: 'After tiie n eeting of Tuesday, Mr. Little desired t further consult the books of the company, with reference to u ce rtain item, :a which the printed re port of the company differed from the books. He wa unable to do so until yete:day, and after doing so. without changing any of the results of his re port, tie amplified it in a way to make it in; re cletir with respect to this item. Tiie report has now been handed to President Rein tart, and the committee is in -session this afternoon." There was a veil of mystery surround ing tin. proceedings. So cne was al lowed near the room where the confer ence vnis held. When an adjournment was reached those present came out and left the buiitling hurriedly. Not one of them would utter a word as to what had taken place, nerely stating tiiat the statement of the secretary covered everything-, 'liny promised, however, to be more communicative tomorrow. The official statement that Mr. Little's report continued the previous statements that the accounts of the road had been overestimated wa the sensational feature of Tuesday's meeting. When the report deaiiug with tie overstatement of the in come account was lirst given out it met w ith a prompt ienial. It was claimed that the expert rnut have made some grave mistake. Mr. I ittio, however, adheres to his original declaration. It was not expected that President Reinhart or any other officer of the road would be pres ent at this meeting, the proceedings being of the nature of a criticism of the management. Mr. Keinhart, who was seen before the meeting, declined toMiscuss, the matters. He said he could not talk intelligently about the report because he had not seen it. HOTTEST DAY THIS YEAR The Hiormonninr 3Irkad 1(13 Aliovi at St. Jop. St. Joseph. Mo., August 9. Today is the hottest day of the season here, the thermc meter registering IGo degrees above zero. Xo rain has fallen for several weeks and the com crop is damaged so badly in many places that rain will not now save it. No deaths from prostration by health de partment reported. Bicycle KMera Ahead or Time. Jacksonville, 111., Aug. 9. Th W'ashington-Denver bicycle relay passed through this city this morning at 3:37, twenty hours and two minutes ahead of schedule time. Tiie Jacksonville riders will take it to Rushville. Krntark y'm Cliief Justtee Dead. Hofkinvi :.i.e, Aug. 9. Judge Cas well Beunett. chief justice of the court of appeals of Kentucky, died very sud denly this tncrnin, at tlie residence of Iaj. Crumbajgh, in this city, of inaUjUi. riieu- NO AGREEMENT YET. Tlie Latest I)TlipnicnU Canrer.nc. of ths Tariff Washington, Aug. 9. iXo one could be found about the Capitol today who as serted that an agreement had been reached on the tarirl nor that there w ould be any possibility of a report today. The house conferrees are now standing out for free coal and free iron ore or both. The tariff conferrees remained in ses sion until a few m.nutes after 2 o'clock, and when they adjourned the senate con ferrees proceeded to the president's room where they held a private consultation free from interference or interrupt! jn. A report, however, soon gained gen eral circulation that iron ore should be made free, coal dutiable at 4) cents per ton, and that the coinuromise sugar schedule should stand. The indications point to the verification of this latter report. A petition waa today circulated among members of the house urging the house tariff conferrees to stand by free tugar and a permanent income tax. Repre sentative Bland started the petition, and it was numerous' signed. It was as follows: "We, the undersigned Demo cratic members of the house request our committee on conference on the tariff bill to insist on the provisions of the house bill relating to free sugar and a permanent income tax, and secure the best compromise possible on other sched ules of the bill." Representative McMillin, one of the house conferrees, when seen stated that since the first meeting today he beiieved an agreement was in sight. Coal and iron ore had not yet been set tled, but the main features of the biil would be agreed upon, so that the Re publicans could be called ia tomorrow. WANT TO HELP COR E A N S . Government Akr,l to Transport 1,003 Burrcls if Flour Tlmrg. Washington, Aug. 9. Secretary Gres- ham has received from the Christian Herald, of New York, the application ' referred to in the morning dispatches ! for a government ship to transport. 1,000 ! barrels of fl jur to Corea. This is the i lirst notice the department has had that i any unusual measures of distress and de- j privation exist in that kiugdom. j Secretary Gresham has not yet dispos- j ed of the application. i PRAYED FOR RAIN A MONTH If They Iou't Itrln It I5y Sunday They Will yuir. Northfiei.d, Minn., Aug. 9. The re ligious bodies of this city and county, comprising Catholics, Methodists, Bap tists, and Congre gationaiists, have been in constant session of prayer since July 15 for rain, without success. Unless they bring rain by next Sunday they will abandon the effort. in a sec tion 100 miles square not a drop of rain has fallen since June 16. aal then only 1 inch. GOLD EXPORTS MAY CEASE Kxcha; IIu Unclined so Tiiere Is N o I'rofi: In It. Nkw York, Aug 9. Sterling exchange has declined and the raw; is now below the point at which shipments of gold to Europe can be made at a profit in the ordinary course of business. The indications are, tiierefore, that tiie gold export movement is at an end. PATH ROSA'S FUNERAL. Man; Follow the Iirm'!n to the Rose Hill Cemetery. Chicago, Aug. 9. The funeral services over the body of Mrs. John W. Dunne, or as she was known to the pub lie at larjre, Patti Rosa, were held at the Church of Ascension this afternoon. The church was crowded and after the ceremony a large number of carriages followed the hearse to Rose Hill, where the remains were temporarily placed in the vault. TIIE GOVERNOR IS SICK. Too Much Travel, Hot Weather and pAkiig for Ilim. Governor Lewell'ng is suffering phv- I sically on account of overwork in the campaign. lie lias ieen speaking twice every day since he started out and the long rides and excessive heat have been loo much for him. In a letter received at the state house today the governor asked to bo relieved from speaking at Ellinwood on Satur day. FIREJfANrrfANN" HURT. One of tlie Santa I Uo y Injured in an nlne Accident Yoitertl-iy. Fireman John McMann narrowly es caped a terrible death yesterday after noon while on his engine between Read ing and Barclay. The engine was pulling a freight train and running at a high rate of epeed, when the driving rod broke on the left side and crashed up through the cab where McMann was sitting, striking him on the hip and back. He was brought to the Santa Fe dispensary in Topeka and then removed to his home on East Fourth street- T here were no visible injuries and it is prob able thai his case is not a very serious one. Mafor Piokf rinc's Krntatlon. The question laised as to the validity of tlie suffrage amendment by Major I. O. Pickering, and pullished in this pa per yesterday, causing imeasiness in suffrage circles, and Mrs. S. A. Thurston, of the suffrage campaign co umittee, is making a tliorough inve:-tia-ation of the subject. Attorney General Little is out of the city, and his opinion of the matter could not be learned. It is believed that the discrepancies will be found to be im material. Urxiro Will Slave Half a Corn Crop. Washington", Aug. 9. The following report dated August 1, to tlie state de partment from Consul General Critten den at Mexico is of interest: "In July heavy rains fell over the greater part of this republic, even where none had fallen for several years. It is now believed that more than halt a corn crop will be grown." Miss Ka'e Williams an artist of At lanta, Georgia, U ia Topeka tj aeil her ekatchtta. HAWAII BECOGHIIED. Cleveland Sends a Letter to Dole Acknowledging It. The President Has FinallySwal lowed His Crow. AX UNUSUAL THING. Before the House Decided the Question of Recognition, The Administration Sends the Letter to the Republic Washington, Aug. 9. A letter of con gratulation and greeting from President Cleveland iu the name of the United States is on tho way from Washington to President Dole of the Hawaiian republic The recognition of the new republic was finally decided upon this week and the message was framed and mailed on yes terday through the regular channels. Although the customary secrecy which attends diplomatic matters has surrounded the relations of the United States with the Hawaiian repubiic since that country assumed its new form of government, it is now learned on the best authority that there has never been any doubt of President Cleveland's course in the matter and of his recognition of the new government of Hawaii as a de facto government. A few days ago a letter was received from President Dole conveying the for mal announcement of the proclamation of the republic and the inauguration of the new government. This letter was laid before the cabinet and has been under consideration while the house committee on foreign ailairs was de bating whether it should report a resolu tion for recognition. With the letter of greeting to Presi dent Dole, which of course passes through the hands of Miuister Willis, was sent a letter to Miuister Willis ratifying his ac tion in provisionally extending tue usual recognition to the republic. Frank P. Hastings who in the absence of Minister Thurston is charge d'affaires at the Hawaiian legation, baa had an in terview with Secretary Gresham and was told that he had been formally recognized as the representative of the new govern ment. Chairman McCreary of the house com mittee onjforeign affairs says that it is not customary to give publicity to diplomatic correspondence until it has reach ed its destination. Consequently 'the letter to President Dole will not be made public until sufficient time has passed for its reception, when a copy will be forwarded to congress with a copy of the message received from him. This is the usual course of diplomatic proceedings, but the fact that tiie exist ence of the correspondence has been known, may induce tiie president to make it public. There is a parallel between Brazil and Hawaii on these latest developments. Soon after Brazil had changed to a Republican form of government, a resolution was intro duced in the house by Mr. McCreary, now chairman of the foreign affairs com mittee, for recognition, the Democrats thinking that President Harrison delayed action unreasonably. Before the committee could take action on the resolution, congress was notitied that the president had recognized the new government. BABIES IN POLICE COURT. Two of TIipiu With a Drunken Kntlier lip i tiu Taken Care of by tiie Matron. Two little yellow-haired, pink-toed babies, aged respectively 1 and 2 years, figured iu police court this morning. They are being taken care of by tho mat ron while their father serves a sentence for drunkenness. O Uicer Jones found Robert Condee wheeling the babies around in an aimless way at the Rock Island depot last oven ing waiting a train that had been gone two hours. Tho oilicer thought Condea was drunk and watched him. Finally he nearly upset tho perambulator and the ollicer took charge of the outfit. Condee was pretty drunk and the ollicer says tlie babies looked as though they had been drinking, too. At the trial in court this morning Condee swore that he had given tho babies nothing-. He was drunk, however, . and Judge Lnsmiuger fined him $10, which he is working out. Ld. Wilson is a one-armed white man and came in with a yarn that seemed to sav, "This police court ennui is stifling-." Ed. declared that he had not been drunk but admitted that he had been taking on a little cider. Jailer Woodruff testified that Wilson was drunk enough to be profanely impudent, and had no sooner been locked up than he engaged iu a fight. Wilson "even attempted to be funny with the judge, but was silenced with a ten-dollar line. Frank McCarthy, who had been ar rested as a suspicious character, was not tried. The police court mill was shut down for the day. l-'lristl at a Soldier from Ambnh. ew Castle, Colo., Aug. 9. The ex citement over the shooting of a United States soldier guarding the Midland bridge was intensified last night by the firing of a shot by some unknown person at First Sergeant McKaae. The bullet struck just in front of him and glanced off. The soldiers were in arms at once and a thorough search was ma le without finding the would be murderer. World's? Champion Runnpr lieaten. Golden, Col., Aug. 9. W. II. Copple, the world's champion 200 yard runner, was beaten in a 2U0 yard race here yes terday by an unknown who gave the name Adams, but is supposed to be Jack Gibson, ex-champion of England. Adams had six feet start and won by four feet iu spfiiiidl Several fhnn.an.t Hulljra changed hands on the result. LIKED WATERMELON. A. Black Mare With An Kxou.able Instinct w r anti ery j 1 1 1 1 e conscience. 'w A pile of watermelons stood out in front of a grocery store on the avenue last evening. About supper time an old lady and a little girl drove down the street in a crippled buggy attached to a diminutive and antiquated black mare. The mare liked watermelons and you could almost see her smile as the old lady stopped her before the tempting green pile and the little girl got out and tied her to the telephone polo against which the melons were stacked. A man who stood near swears the old mare wnked at. him. "The occupants of the buggy were gone now. The maie turned her heal from side to side. No one was looking. She poked out her nose. She could just touch a very line melon that was half way up the pile. A little poke and it toppled over, rolled bumpingly down the incline of the pyramid and broke with plump against the base of the pole. The old mare was happy. She sniffed at the melon to be sure that her eyes were not Receiving her and kicked one hind leg gently to be sure she was not dreaming. Then she waded in. She closed her eyes and then opened- them again. She breathed long drawn contented sighs. She tried lirst one piece of tho melon and then another as though she did not know which was the best. She burrowed her nose into the blushing sweetness and allowed the refreshing liquid that al ways goes with melons to trickle from her nostrils. She snorted in her happi ness, and whinnied with overwhelming joy. She had never found a snap so soft before. She would take advantage of this one. If she could have escaped her harness she would probably have lain down and rolled in the red and green and wet. She rubbed her ear in the juice and did not kick because she g-ot a seed in her eye. She wished that life was one long, uu ceasing round of shade and watermelons. She would be glad to live on forever, provided she could hold it alb O, how happy she was. She was getting ready to roll off an other melon when her mistress and the grocerymau appeared. The miatresa paid the groceryinan forty cents for the melon and drove the old mare home. The little girl wa3 the stronger and plied the wliip. JUST LIKE HER MOTHER. Mr. Laaie'i Little Olrl, I.oulse, Lecture Itforfa .School ISoy on AVotiiau isuir.-ae. If there is one person Mrs. Lease is prouder of than she is of herself it is her little eleven. year-old girl Louise. "Little girl' of course is simply a couvoutioual expression, for Louise has already shown strong signs of being of the same sex that her mother is. She is very original Rnd does her own thinking. Of her own free will and through conclusions arrived at by her jT.u investigation she has become a vegetarian. And no meanly disposed person can say that she believes that way because meat dirties up dishes so and the gravy bowl is the most disagreeable thing to wash, for according to the Lease household economy dish washing is no part of woman's work. Mrs. Lease brought Louise with her to Topeka this time and it was wiiile they were at the Reform school that the truth of the old adage "like father like sou" was demonstrated. Louise saw the scores of naughty boys sporting about on the play grounds and seized the oppor tunity to impress on their young and plastic minds the truths of a new era. So she gathered a hundred or so boys around ifj-r in the Bhade of one of the trees on the lawn and addressed them ou woman suffrage. After talking to them several minutes during which the big and little bad boys paid better attention than they ever did to their mammas' counsels she concluded: "Now bjys some of these times a good many years from now when I am a candidate for president or congressman I want you all to vote for me; will you do it''" The boys were all evidently under the spell for they all answered, "Yes ma'am, we will." MRS. JOE SWITZER IN JAIL. A Topelca Woman Nabbed for I'tclcing Pocket lit lvansas City. Kansas City, Aug. 9. The woman who was arrested yesterday charged with stealing pocketbooks from the of fices of various office buildings in this city, was today identified as Mrs. Joseph Switzerof Topeka, Kan. The young woman was arrested early yesterday attcrnoon and J. R. Switzer, of 709 Washington, who is believed to be either her husband or her confederate, was arrested a few hours later. She gave her name as Maggio Tuttlo. She was fully identified after her ar rest yesterday by E. I Martin as a woman who stole a pocketbook contain ing $2 ) from Mrs. Martin in Dr. Elliott's office in the Deardorff building during the first part of July. On the same day that Mrs. Martin was robbed the Tuttie woman asked to be al lowed to view tho Sells Bros.' circus parade from a window of Dr. Alice A. Graham's ofiice in the Ridge building. When she left the office Dr. Graham missed her pocketbook, tained $13. At the central police Tuttie, or Switzer, woman which con station the declared at first that she had just arrived iu the city from Springfield, Mo., and that she had come to that city from San Francisco. Subsequently she admitted committing some of the thefts, and revealed enough in the sweatbox at the police station to cause the arrest'of J. R. Switzer of 709 Washington street. LOCAL MENTION. Rev. J. B. Thomas starts tomorrow for Colorado and the west. The prayer meeting at - the Baptist church tonight will be held in the upper room and a Baptismal service will follow. Several candidates for baptism will present themselves. Th Ind.an baseballists from Ponca were defeated yesterday by a local base ball nine of colored boys by a score of 21 to 13. At Hamilton Hall next Monday even ing, the 14th, Hon. II. Kelly will address an audience and tell why he left the Re publican party. MARTI II ASTALW ART The Senator Will Not Support the Populists, So Says Chairman Richardson of the Stalwart Committee. HEAD OF FUSIONISTS Said to Have Given Assurances to Democrats That He'll Work For and Sup port Overmyer's Ticket. Senator John Martin will support Da vid Overmyer and the rest of, the Demo cratic state ticket. The chairman of the state central committea has received as surances from him that as soon as con gress adjourns he will enter the cam paign for the Democratic ticket. Thus another hope of the Populists has disappeared. When fusion was sat down upon, mauy of the leaders as well as others, expected that Martin would take a decided stand for the Populist ticket, and look for an endorsement in the form of a re-election by the next legislature, if it is controlled by the Pop ulists. They also hoped through Mar tin's aid to deflect many Democrats from the support of the state ticket. Chairman Richardson, of the state cen tral committee, made light of the talk that there was any doubt that Martin would support the Democratic state ticket. "It is no use to announce that he will support the ticket. It is foolish to say that a Democrat will support the ticket of his party, but when con gress adjourns you will hear from Mar tin iu the campaign." Eugene Hagau, a member of the ex ecutive committee, said that Martin had offered his services to the committee iu the campaign and will go to work just as soon as he gets back. The state central committee opened its headquarters iu the Otiice block today. The committee will occupy rooms 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 on the south side of the building. The chairman is here but the secretary, W. H. L. Pepperill of Con cordia will not be here for some time. The committee will carry on a vigorous campaign but it will not be opened vig orously before September 1. CO It NINO AM) BE.NNIKOtOS Charged With Ueing Employed by the Republican Stata Central Committee. Chairman Breidenthal of the Populist state central comtrunittee, said this morn ing that he has obtained absolute proof of the charges that Cyrus Corning anil W. II. Bennington are working uuder the direction of the Republican state central committee. Corning and Bennington, as officers of the Topeka Initiative aud Referendum club, issued a challenge to the managers of both the Republican and Populist parties for tho discussion of the initiative and referendum plank of the Populist platform. Chairman Breidenthal says he has ab solute proof that the scheme for the issuance of that challenge was con cocted by Chairman Lelimd of the Republican committee, it being understood that the Populist committee would not accept the challenge and Benington and Corning would then, as an excuse, start their talk about the in itiative and referendum and devote their time to abusing the state administration. Mr. Breidenthal says the Republicans in that kind of a joint discussion would have everything their own way. In pursuance of their plan to make just as much trouble for the Populist committee as possible, Messrs. Benning ton and Corning have originated a move ment to have an independent Populist 6tate ticket put in the field. W. II. Ben nintgon today received a letter from M. A. Pratt of Wichita, who is strongly in f avor of another ticket. He says that he can tret twenty-five or thirty signers for tiie call in Wichita. Mr. Pratt says that the ticket can not hope to win this year, but that the Populist state ticket will be defeated anyway and that a fight for principle wiil bear fruit in the future. Mr. Bennington says he has also re ceived word from C. W. Marsh and Judge lladley of Kansas City who were dele gates to the state convention favoring an other ticket. The call has not yet been made. larl in the Wabntth Itiver. Pekc, Ind., Aug. 9. For a number of years it has been known that pearls of a small variety existed in the Wabash river, but of such a diminutive size that they were generally accepted as worth less. Thomas Blair, of Washington, D. C, has demonstrated that they can be found in such good quality that they fire worth searching for. The pearls are found in mussel shells and generally in the mid dle of the river. Coxpy'n Army Arretted aa Vasrrantn. Baltimore, Aug. 9. Marshal Frev dispatched forty policemen by special t in to llyattsville at 3 o'clock this morning and arrested the remainder of Coxey's army, eighty-eight in number, on the charge of vagrancy, and they are now captives in the Maryland Louse of correction. Ii.olb lenders AtldrrKS tlif People. Birmingham. Ala., Aug. 9. The Kolb leaders were in conference until an early hour this morning, nt work on resolutions or an address to the people which they will make public later. Krnste Confirm Thayer. Washington-, Aug. 9. The senate in executive session today confirmed the nomination of Amos M. Thayer, of Mis souri, to be United States circuit judge for the eighth judicial district. Goorge Payne, the 12 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Payne, died yesterday afternoon at 1919 Kansas avenue of pneumonia. Tho body will be sent to Nortonvdle, where the funeral will be held. ELLERY 3IURRAY NOW ILL. lie lias the Yellow 1'ever, Hut Is I.iU-!y to Ltecover. John V. Abrahams received two let! r-i from his brother, Joseph W. Abr-ih-tnn, this morning, both written July. '11 fr.-m Tuxtepec, Mexico. In them he --!.'- i that John A. Murray, who died of yellow fever near Tuxtepec, Mexico, first com plained of feeling ill on Monday, Ji.Jy 23, but as he had taken a lontr horseback ride on that day he attributed his illuin to that cause; but on Tuesday, not J'erl ing any better, he would have gone to Tuxtepec to see a doctor, but a heavy rain prevented, and on We lie i iv he made the trip from the ranch to Tuxte pec, a distance of fifteen mile. Not until the following Saturd ny wru it found that ho was suffering from yellow fever, when he became it.ueh worse, and on Sunday he died and was buried the same day in the cemetery at Tuxtepec. Eilery Murray, Mr. Murray's brother, and the manager of the company, now sick with yellow fever, hut Jomspit Abrahams writes that it is thought im will recover, aud as no telegram L.n been received it is thought he has overcome tho disease. 'Ihe Mexir m, "Phil," who was Mr. Murray's attend ant, is attending Eilery. 2nouo of the other members of tho col ony are sick, but as soon as Lliery i able to leave tho party will go to tue City of Mexico to remain some lime and re cuperate. Those who went from Topeka to j i i the colony are Frank Mills and Will Curry, who are now in the City of Mex ico, Albert Rosen, Joseph W. Abraham- and Eilery Murray, who are still at Tux tepec. It is said tho colony will not bo nl.ari doned aud those who are interested in Topeka say they intend to push the pro ject. They say that the fever has never reached so far inland for ftdv car, and its presence now is attributed to t!i fact that the season has been unusually dry and hot. BIKERS AT LEAVEN Y 0 1 1 1 1 1 Hundreds of Cycle 1'eople Ciatlier nt tt -i tate Meet. Leavenworth, Aug. 9. -Hundreds -f bicyclists are in the city at tho nta'o meeting. .Many took part iu the civ.it lantern parade last evening. Early in the evening a female and male cycli-t bothered the people all around by tho clank of cowbells attached to their wheels. They were a unique outfit hi 1 deserving of one of the medal '1 i. -supposed male had a wheel dwurol" I with cornstalks and seemed to have jot trot in from the rural districts. Enino -line, the alleged female, wore a 1 ro-.s calico dress, poke bonnet and g!u '-m- j. The parade was long and 1 riiii.iti. There were seventy-livo wheels in liu -, nearly all decorated. There were vari ous kinds of floats that ranked far ah - i 1 of those seen iu the parade of two v.r ago. The prizes were awarded as full . a -: Best decorated wheel (prize, silk um brella), awarded to August l -ft., ach midt. Best decorated float Cprize, t-ilk u ,i brella), awarded to A. I. Sciiott. Most comical aud original d -i (prize, bike lantern, presented by .1. . Crancer & Co.), awarded to Jo!, n Kelley, Jr. Among those from Topeka entered f ,r the races which began at 2::i this after noon are E. J. Rawson. M. Stevenson, II. II. Hazlett and I). G. liartcll. GOOD NEW S 1 OI fT 0 PER A. S.tnta Fe Employes to (imt Tho Wa(r" Next Veik. .1 ti I y The Santa Fe employes will I-"'- i : : their July wages about the 10th or of August. The receivers are making an e ! get back to tho old plan of paying employes on the loth of the folio mouth. Receiver Wilson, who went to CL this afternoon, said to a Static Jeo reporter before lie went to the trai asked Mr. Wilder a few days ui-ro would be possible for him to pi men their July wages by tho IV August. He said possibly not, but he expected to pay them by the i 17th, and after this month, if bu.i continues and the receipts are Hi if at present, the men will be pai i t middle of the month." t i i W i ! ! , if v t: y t: TOPEKA IS ROILING Up to lOO In the fclinde and N i ! ft Itui n. From 11:13 to 1:30 today thrriotneb ' e-i on the street level indicated 100 de.-r'-.--. Observer Jennings' machines iseSira:,. I only 90 degrees but they are up ( i of tho Columbian building where tie v can't get the benefit of heat from ti. pavement. The rain which according prophecy was due tomorrow h.n ' . zled and postponed its appe,ira.-e ' indefinitely. A rain cam' over -i s Rocky Mountains yesterday, but l-.-t :: moisture before it got out of Colora ' The rheumatism in Mr. J;-,;r,g ,' ; ft leg is bothering him today, whim I considers a nure sign it won't rain f r t week at least. Is this the way Mr. .) . nings always foretells the weather? If so, a good many of us can te-t up . i weather sharps. COURT .MEETS TOUOIli.'OW. Judge IInz-u Will Sutlle Many ,1 . . a the ll..rlc t ( ourl. The district court wiil be in Fe-i-i.jii : morrow for the first tim this i.e Judge ilazen has a dozen or more e , i uuder advisement, one of which is t!. ; of John Brainier against F. W. GiJe-s. i-. volving the title of the 1 i! t ie- .- ei .. , feet wldd south of the Pacific t-tpre ., office. The injunction of Co!. Durluirii to j vent Scavenger M. E. Lowe, from d .. any scavenger worst in Topeka, will i settled. '1 he settlement of the c. in volves the legality Of the ord.l)!:nce ;. t it is to test this point that a a- e Lowe has engaged S. 15. Isruhart to : it. The Knights of CoiuiuLia tr.ee are also set for hearing. Failed on Aoronnt ot ." Omaha, Aug. 9. Schroder commission men, failed today bilities of $-8,000. The failure result of tb bul:e iu euro, P