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TOPEKA STATE JOTTRATi, MONDAY EVENING, ATJGfTJST 3, 1900.
TOPEKA STATE J01MAL
BT FRANK P. MAC LENNAN.
VOLUME XXVII..
.No. 193
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LONDriN OFFICE.
12 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
Business Office."....,.-... "-BenPJone 107
Keporters" Boom..- oeu ruu
"Why not try the balloon route to
Pekin?
Mr. Aguinaldo's success hi losing him
self has rarely been equalled.
"When it is so easy, it seems remarka
ble that the anarchists make the time so
long between regicides.
The job of negotiating a peace -which
has been assigned to Li Hung Chantj,
appears to be growing more difficult ev
ery day.
Is' their failure to renominate a presi
dential ticket this year an indication
that the single taxers have gone out of
business.
It may be an advantage and it may
not, but Mr. Bryan gets the opportunity
of making more speeches of acceptance
than any of the other candidates.
President Harper's experiment of liv
ing on 15 cents a day, is evidently in
tended for the benefit of the public and
not of the Harper family.
Although United States capitalists
bought $28,000,000 of British bonds last
week only about 510,000,000 of gold was
Bhipped out and part of this went to
Paris.
If the elimination of the negro vote
from southern politics should finally re
sult in the breaking up of the solid, south
there are those who would consider the
disfranchisement of the colored voters as
not without its uses.
Albany Argus: The position of first
assistant postmaster general has been
offered to Frank A. Lowden, son-in-law
of the late George M. Pullman; some
think it was offered with intent to de
mand a big campaign contribution. But
that can hardly be. Mr. Lowden is of
moderate means, comparatively. He
is not a Pullman porter.
With a capitalization of 40,000,000,
mostly water, the glucose trust shows
r.et profits for the last year of $2,701,975.
83, after deducting also the cost of new
construction, which is so much added to
the trust's assets. Estimating the actual
Investment at $20,000,000 the net income
Is nearly 14 per cent of the whole.
The Philadelphia Press reports that
the legislative nominations already made
in Pennsylvania make the election of
Senator Quay hopeless. According to the
figures of the Press, In the districts
iwhich have thus far nominated, which
include about three-fourths of the total,
the Quay representation has been re
duced from 82 to 52 and the anti-Quay
strength from S3 to 62. But Quay keeps
fight on at his fishing.
By the dividend of S per cent on the
common stock of the Standard Oil
company, which has Just been declared,
It is calculated that John D. Rockefeller
will receive about $2,666,000, as he is
popularly credited with the ownership
of about one-third of the company's
Btock. When this dividend Is paid Sep
tember 15 the company will have paid
in the year ending with that date total
dividends of 48 per cent. Tha stock
is quoted at 535.
EARNING POWER OF MONET.
A compilation of interest on bonds, and
dividends on stocks for the year ending
July 1, 1900, shows that disbursements
have increased $11,245,836. Of this amount
bonds gained $5,642,189 and stocks $5,
603,674. The volume of bonds drawing
Interest was expanded $214,547,426, while
stocks -were increased by $150,032,321.
Large as the totals of interest and divi
dends are, they are small as compared to
the great aggregations of capital. They
are larger now than at any time in the
past, and in tabulated form, where they
can be best studied, impressive. The fol
lowing table prepared by the New York
"Stockholder" shows the vast amount of
money invested in business enterprises
in this country:
Bonds $3,092.50S.732 J3.S07.05rt 178
Interest 61,307.1o7 6ti,!M!l.3M
Interest, per cent... 1.8 2-0-J
Stocks I,591,45S.31 1,741. 4SS.6S2
Dividends S3.U17.57S 38,621.252
Dividends, per cent., 2.07 2.22
This table shows that while there was
a return made of 1.9S percent on 3,092"!
millions of funded debt In 1S99, the aver
age increased to 2.02 per cent on 3,307
millions for the current period.
Stocks, according to the table, have
made better returns than bonds, divi
dends indicating an average return of
2.07 on 1,591 millions of capital stock
In 1S99, and 2.22 per cent on 1.7414 mil
lions in 1900. In the total of bond3 there
was an increase equal to 7 per cent, and
in the interest paid an increase of .2 per
cent; while stocks show an expansion of
9.4 per cent, with dividends 16.9 per cent
larger.
NOT A DEBTOR NATION.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
There have been periods when exports
of gold to Europe were a' cause for
alarm, but the present outflow of the
yellow metal constitutes one of many
evidences of the financial prosperity and
strength of the United States. Europe
is in need of gold and this country has
an ample supply of it. In a word, these
gold exports amount to a loan.
She United States is rapidly becom
ing a creditor nation. For the three
years ending- with June 30 last the bal
ance of foreign trade In our favor ag
gregates nearly $1,700,000,000, and in the
meantime the net imports of gold have
been only about $150,000,000. At the
same time Colorado, California, Mon
tana and other western states, together
with the Alaska region, continue to add
to the domestic gold supply, and just
at present Australia is sending us gold
in settlement of indebtedness. It is
hardly a matter for wondpr that the en
tire amount of the new British loan of
$50,000,000 has been subscribed for In
this country and that American capital
is seeking investment in every quarter
of the globe.
Instead of the United States being in
'financial servitude to London," the
tendency is just the reverse, with the
addition that the rest of the world is
becoming debtor to this country.
GLOBE SIGHTS.
fFrom the Atchison Globe.J
What under the shining sun do wo
men who board find to occupy their
time?
.When a church member wants to
compliment a man, he says he is "sin
cere." The frankness of some people is as
bad as tha foolishness of some other
people.
If there is a noise in your house at
night, who investigates it: a man or
a woman?
An Atchison man diet not have
enough money to take a vacation this
summer, so he took a tonic
Nearly every woman gives some doc
tor a prominent position at top of col
umn, next to reading matter.
If you knew what people say of you
behind your back, you would faint.
Don't imagine that you escape.
An Atchison girl writes her first
name "Ailiene." and father pronounces
at "Ailing." .Well, isn't she?
Why is it that after a girl has had a
steady four or five months, she begins
to look tough? Does she sit up with
him too much?
We would suggest that those daugh
ters engaged in love affairs this toot
weather, be given the ironing; they axe
apt to be acclimated.
"I have bought four umbrellas this
summer." Joe Allen ' said today, "and.
lost them alL Hereafter I intend to
steal umbrellas, as other people do."
An Atchison man looks so much like
a bat that some people believe he sleeps
by wrapping his legs around the raft
ers of his room, and that he never uses
a bed.
The first few months of a married
woman's life she neglects her prayers,
believing she has a husband to take
care of her, but after that she begins
again.
After a man gets along in life, he
begins to notice that he looks like the
men whose pictures appear in the pa
pers in connection with, "before taking"
announcements.
Here Is a rule you can always depend
on: When a woman takes great inter
est in "stories" on others, there is a
"story" on her, and she is trying to
coax people to forget it. f
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
fFrom the Chicago News.
A fool at 20 may be wise at 40.
One hour in the. future ia worth a
dozen in the past.
Envy produces hatred and pity bor
ders on contempt.
The husband is apt to be pensive if
the wife is expensive.
Quack doctors are probably so called
because of their bills.
A dollar In the pocket is better than
a hundred in expectation.
The whip may be used in the circus
ring, but not in the wedding ring.
A bachelor says that women laugh
when they can and weep when they
will.
One man may teach another to speak.
but no man can teach another to think.
Adversity is the sieve of friendship
used to separate the wheat from the
chaff.
He who Is in debt must endure insult
lest he incur the displeasure of his
creditor.
F.xneripnce In ft sort rt pomnass that
man seldom thinks of consulting until
after he has lost his way.
In conversation a wise man is some
times at a loss how to begin, but a
fooi never knows when to stop.
A spinster says that an old bachelor
Is a man who has neglected his oppor
tunity to make some woman miserable
for life.
Wise is the man who Is attentive to
what is going on in his own house, but
blind to what occurs in the house of his
neighbor.
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
fFrom the Philadelphia Record.
A skylight the sun.
The summer girl's cup of joy is the
mustache cup.
Clothes which are advertised "to wear
like iron" usually get rusty.
If "plumb" is straight, how Is It that
a plumber isn't straighter?
their drawbacks; ' take a porous plaster
for instance.
Willie "Ma, what's an 'albino?'"
Mrs. Malaprop "That's what prisoners
try to prove for themselves In court.
viuualiic i ii' minus nie uauy at
your house?" Pappers (whose young-
ctc. la 1 , . i tr inn I n ,r V , i- a i a 11
Of us!"
'It was easy enough to break that
expensive dish," mused the servant girl.
but l haven t the nerve to break the
news."
He "I thought it was a very pretty
opera, didn't you?" She "Yes: I
thought it was prettiest where they all
wore pink."
"You look sad," said Borrowlt. "Yes."
replied Lendit. meaningly; "I lost $10
aoout a year ago. Why should that
worry you now?" "It isn't the $10, but
I m worrying because you've lost your
memory."
First Traveler "gome people believe
first impressions generally prove to be
wrong. Second Ditto "Well, in my
business I've seen many errors in first
Impressions." "That so?" "Yes; I'm a
proof-reader."
lien are not -all like bicycles. When
they are tired they can't pump them
selves! up.
In baseball circles it isn't the pitcher
who goes cftenest to the well that gets
broke.
Blobbs "You sav he made his money
in a skin game?" Slobbs 1'es; selling a
complexion beautifier."
: The Manayunk Philosopher rises to re
mark that the man is an ass who gives
way to despair and cries: "Whoa is me!"
Wiggins "Wigwag says he has a dis
tant relative who is a millionaire." Bug
gins "Yes; but I believe he is very close."
Wigg "Do you believe he's as much In
love with his wife as he pretends to be?"
Wagg "Well, he- lets her buy. his neck
ties." Teller "It takes my wife longer to say
good-bye than any woman I know of."
Askin Oh, I don't know. Did you ever
hear of Patti?"
Nell "There was a bat in her room last
night, and she didn't mind It a bit."
Belle "Maybe she's a member of a fe
male, baseball club." ill
"Will you have some Saratoga chips?"
asked the waiter. "Yes," said the absent
minded man, going down in his pocket;
"gimme a stack o' blues."
Tommy "Pop, the suburbs are the out
skirts of the city, aren't they7". Tommy's
Pop "Yes, my son." Tommy "Then are
the cemeteries the underskirts?'
Gotrox "I told the architect who is
planning my new house that I wanted
granite steps, and what do you suppose
he did?" Sillicus "I dare say he gave
you a stony stare."
Hoax "Young Brown's folks never
could do anything with him." Joax
"Headstrong, eh?" Hoax "Kxactly; he's
got a job in a museum now, breaking
cobblestones on his cranium."
EXTRACTION DENIED.
Neely Will Not Return to Cuba
Until After the Election.
New York, Aug. 13. Judge Lacombe of
the United States circuit court today re
fused to sign the writ of extradition of
Charles W. F. Neely, on account of the
action of Judge Wallace in granting an
appeal to the supreme court in the habeas
corpus proceedings, but intimated that
he did not think Judge Wallace under
stood the real situation of the case and
he believed if it went to the supreme court
in Its present shape the application for a
writ ot habeas corpus would be denied.
A citation in the Neely case, signed by
Judge Wm. J. Wallace, was filed in the
clerk's office of the United States circuit
court wnay.
The citation calls upon Henry L. Bur-
nette. United States district attorney, and
vv ilnam A. Henkel, United States mar
shal, to appear before the supreme court
of the United States In Washington, on
September 7 next, pursuant to a citation
of appeal wherein Charles F. W. Neely Is
the appellant and Marshal Henkel the ap
pellee, to show cause why the final order
oz tne circuit court ana uie saia peti
tion of appeal should not be corrected and
speedy justice should not be done in that
Denaii.
WEB DAT1S ENIiOUTE EAST.
Will Speak in West Virginia Billy
Deford's Opinion of Ohio.
Chicago. Aug. 13. Webster Davis, on his
way to Wheeling. W. Va., was a caller
at Democratic headquarters today. He
speaks at v heeling tomorrow nlgnt,
Parkersburg Wednesday night. Charles
ton Thursday night, Sedalia, Mo., Au
gust 21, and Topeka, Kas., August 23.
Kx-Governor William J. Stone, of Mis
souri, vice chairman of the national com
mittee, was at headquarters today for the
nrst time In several weeks ana was in
consultation with Chairman Jones for an
hour or more.
W. A. Def ord. chief of the bureau ot
organization, has returned from Ohio,
and was of the opinion that Ohio will cast
its electoral vote for Bryan and Stevenson
in November.
POISONED FLOWERS.
Chinese Secretary at Paris Overcome
by Deadly Odor of Package
Sent Sim.
New York, Aug. 13. A special cable dis
patch from Paris to the Evening Tele
gram todays says:
An artful attempt at poisoning by the
use of perfume which recalls memories
from Lucretia Borgia, is exciting all the
gossips of Paris.
Thursday the Chinese minister, Yu Keng,
received a letter. It was signed "Julie
Czerwinska," and contained some dried
flowers, which the writer asked the min
ister to accept.
The secretary of the legation opened the
letter and was immediately overcome by
the deadly odor emanating from the
Mowers. He fell in a faint.
His recovery was accompanied by vio
lent sickness and vomiting. In fact, his
condition presented many characteristics
of poisoning, and only by prompt treat
ment was he relieved.
Mile. Czerwinska has been arrested. She
appears to be mentally deranged. Before
the examining magistrate she claimed to
be the victim of a Polish princess, who
vowed to take hideous vengeance for some
mysterious wrong done her, presumably
by the flower sending Julie, who is now
b-ing carefully watched by alienistus.
The flowers are being chemically an
al vzed.
The secretary is slowly recovering.
BECKLEY WORTH $550.
His Capture Means That Much to the
Captor.
Rewards amounting to $550 are now
offered for the arrest and conviction of
Charles Beckley, the smooth crook who
escaped from the sheriff of Osage county
a few weeks ago.
Governor Stanley today offered a re
ward of $100 for the capture. Private In
dividuals in Osage county have made up
a purse of $350 while the commissioners
of the county have offered $150.
KANSAS CITY BONDS.
Installment of $69,000 ia Registered
Today.
Kansas City, Kan., is spending much
money on internal improvements, having
issued large amounts of bonds to raise
the money. The last list of bonds of this
character, registered in the office of the
state auditor amounts to $69,000, bearing
6 per cent interest.
The bonds have been sold to eastern
purchasers. This Is the third installment
which has been registered, the total
amount being about $100,000.
Rains Stop Forest Fires.
Tawas City, Mich., Aug. 13. Thunder
storms have put out the forest fires
which have been burning throughout
the country for a week. At least twen
ty farm buildings were destroyed, be
sides fences and crops. Damage by fire
in the country last week is estimated at
$100,000.
Hot Wave in England.
London, Aug. 13 A heat wave is sweep
ins over London, the thermometer registering-
82 degrees. In some parts of
England close to 90 degrees of heat have
been registered.
For Bryan Reception.
Women interested in the election of the
fusion ticket in Kansas are invited to
meet at the National hotel parlors Tues
day, 4 p, m., to make arrangements for
entertainment of the guests at the Bryan
notification meeting, August 23.
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.
"Not long ago I was riding from
Newton to Mulvane on the Santa Fe in
a car that was filled with tourists from
Indiana," remarked a gentleman at the
Fifth Avenue, "and to say that I was
surprised at their ignorance of the con
ditions of the western country Is putting
it lightly. In traveling we frequently
meet Englishmen who show a remark
able lack of knowledge of this part of
the country and we consider their ig
norance amusing, but it is painful to
meet men. a whole car load oi , mem.
who have been brought ui in an en
lightened community and have read, or
at least snouid have read, tne oaiiy pa
pers, and yet display such a lamentable
ignorance as the crowd 1 met uia. &nori
lv after s-ettlnar in the car I began lis
tening to the conversation of four of
the Hoosiers who occupied the two seats
directly in iront of mine, xney were
all going to Oklahoma with the inten
tion of taking claims and were, ap
Darently. a cOmDarativelv well fixed lot
of farmers. One of them remarked that
he had heard the land close to Guthrie
and Oklahoma City was not considered
very good, but he thought that he would
take a claim on the edge of tne town
in order that his family might have
school advantages. Another wanted
better land and concluded that he
would spend several days riding over
the country looking for first class lana.
He did not care about living near town
and, as the roads were always good,
he thought it would make little differ
ence how far out he got as long as he
was within a day's drive of town. Some
of them had decided to take up claims
that had runnina: water and timber,
while others objected to timber on the
ground that they had cleaned all the
timber land they wanted to and they
thought that a prairie claim, within
driving distance of town and fenced
with barbed wire was just what they
wanted. 1 was greatly tempted to ten
them not to get out too far or tne in
dians would get them, but refrained be
cause I feared it would cause a stam
pede. I suppose some Oklahoma land
agent had been lying to them, dui now
it is possible for anyone who has read
the papers to believe that claims are
waiting to be picked up in Oklahoma
is too deep for me. Indiana produces
some people who can give Missouri paw
paw pickers cards and spades and still
win easily.
Jacob DeCou, claim agent on the San
ta Fe. who formerlv lived in El Dorado,
said, apropos of the reminiscence of
'Charley Lobdell concerning the defeat
of that town's footracer: "Long before
the memorable defeat of Billy Robinson
I think it was in 1S72, or about that
year, the favorite horse in El Dorado
was known as Burdette's colt. The colt
was a bald face sorrel, if I remember
correctly, about tHree years old and had
been brousrht out west from Illinois
which state was Mr. Burdette's former
home. The colt had defeated everything
in the country and every citizen stood
ready to back him against anything on
four feet for a 400 yard dash. No man
was considered loyal to the town who
would not bet on the colt. He was the
pride Of the town and, incidentally, a
source of revenue, for many horse
traders who passed through that town
with fast horses had been persuaded
to back their talk with a few bills and
had gone on wiser but poorer. One
morning a typical trader's rig crossed
the bridge coming into town and stop
ped at the Burdette mill which was lo
cated near the bridge. They had among
their stock a pny which looked like a
runner, although he needed a little care.
He was evidently from good stock and
his good appearance made the ElDorado
fellows all the more anxious to get
race. The travelers, after a great deal
of bantering, took up the dare to run
their horse for 400 yards and put up
a little money, probably ten or twenty
dollars. They refused to Del more,
A straight track was made and
the entire town turned out to see the
race which occurred the next day. The
Burdette colt refused to follow the track
and took a half circle running a full
Jiundred feet from the track and cross
ing the score about three feet behind the
pony which had stuck to the path or
track. This made the ElDorado fellows
mad and they wanted another race, but
the travelers refused. The town fellows
begged and threatened and dared until.
in order that they might have a fair
show for their money the travelers
agreed upon another trial for the next
day. Another bet was made not much
larger than the first, but I noticed the
next afternoon several strangers in town
mingling with the crowd and betting.
The strangers seemed to have unlimited
wealth and the town crowd was bet to a
standstill. They finally began to bet
their revolvers, in those days everybody
had revolvers and ponies; in fact, some
of the fellows bet their coats. Every
thing that could be put up was utilized,
the town fellows being so confident of
success that they would have bet their
lives if they could have been cashed in.
When the race came off the travelers'
pony won just about as easily as he had
the first day, and I never saw such a
dejected crowd as the ElDorado fellows
were. They never backed the colt after
that and it was years before they would
back a home horse in any kind of a race.
I believe it was a year before anything
was bought or sold in that town; the
travelers had taken almost every cent of
cash with them."
m
"I have been troubled with the rheum
atism off and on all my life," remarked
a traveling man at the National, "and I
believe I could publish a volume of 500
pages containing nothing but kindly
meant suggestions for a rheumatic man.
I find when I mention the fact that I
have occasional attacks of that painful
disease that the man I am talking with
has had it or he has a brother or sister
or aunt or some kin who has had it and
that he is ready and willing to tell how
it was permanently cured. I have a
thousand so-called remedies at my
tongue's end and if I get half a chance
1 can display a knowledge of positive
cures for rheumatism that would throw
a fake doctor into spasms. Whenever a
man mentions rheumatism to me how I
light right In. roll off a few suggestions
and leave before he has a chance to tell
his remedy. I do not believe there is a
known disease that has as many sure
cures as rheumatism. They extend from
fish-worm oil to the Hot Springs and in
clude every patent medicine and house
hold remedy that has ever been con
cocted, compounded or distilled. Skunk
oil is frequently recommended and it is
a good thing to use in case of Inflamma
tory rheumatism, because people will
stay away a great distance and you will
have no fear of being jarred. Electricity
in all the known modes of applying it;
baths, hot, cold, mud, shower, salt, va
por, foot, head, frequent, infrequent,
turklsh and many others are a few of the
well known and tried remedies. If a
man would undertake to give the reme
dies that are suggested to him in the
course of an evening a fair trial, he
would die of old age before he had suc
ceeded in getting half through."
CASTOR I A
For Infanta and Children.
Tha Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
MR. PROUT'S WORK.
Will Manage - Railroad Y. M. C. A.
Work in Topeka.
Mr. T. E. Prout of Argentine will as
sume charge of the affairs of the Rail
road Y. M. C. A. in this city on Thurs
day morning, Aug. 16. His appointment
to this place followed the resignation of
John Coldwell. Mr. Prout has had charge
of the Y. M. C. A. work in Argentine
since January, 1899. and has built up the
work there in remarkable manner.
Mr. "Prout was born in Birmingham,
England, in 1S65. He came to America
in 1SS0 and located In Troy, N. Y.
He became interested in the Y. M. C.
A. work and was one of the organizers
of the Young Men's Christian associa
tion, at South Troy, N. Y. He worked
with this association for seven years.
Because of his zeal and enthusiasm as
displayed by his work in the Young
T. E. PROUT.
Men's Christian association at South
Troy he was called by the state com
mittee of New York to the general sec
retaryship of the railroad department at
Whitehall, N. Y., in 1884. He remained
in the work at this place for five years
and left a building valued at $9,000 en
tirely free from debt.
Mr. Prout is an energetic worker anil
will start in the work at this place with
the intention of building up the associa
tion as much as possible.
Beginning -with the first of September
Mr. Coldwell will take charge of the
work of the Railroad Y. M. C. A. in
Texarkana, Texas.
Mr. Coldwell will have complete con
trol of the work. There is no board of
directors to dictate what shall and shall
not be done and Mr. Coldwell will be re
sponsible only to the international soci
ety.
Besides the position being better in a
nnancial way Mr. Coldwell will be sent
with all expenses paid, by the interna
tional association to all the conventions,
both state and national.
OPPOSES REFERENDUM.
President Donnelly of the I. T.
U. Is Against It.
Milwaukee, Aug. 13. The forty-sixth
annual convention of the International
Typographical Union opened at the
Masonic temple today and will hold
sessions throughout this week.
At the opening session, which was at
tended by 500 delegates, the annual re
ports of the officers were submitted in
printed form. President S. B. Donnel
ly in his report recommends) that an
nual conventions be abolished and offi
cers elected by specially called con
ventions instead of by referendum vote
as at present. The amount of money
spent in conventions he contends can
better be spent "in resisting the en
croachments of unfair men and In pro
tecting the union s scales of wages.
He also recommends . that amend
ments to the constitution be made by
conventions instead of by referendum
vote.
NO REST FOR STEVENS.
Will Be Released From Penitentiary
Tomorrow to Be Rearrested.
Sheriff W. L. Tubbs of Mills county,
Iowa, will wait at the state penitentiary
door tomorrow until Harry Stevens is
discharged by reason of the expiration
of his term of sentence, at which time
he will re-arrest Stevens and take him
to Iowa for trial for forgery.
The requisition for the arrest of Stev
ens was honored by Governor Stanley to
day.
Stevens Is an old offender, being an ex
perienced forger. He was sent up from
Sedgwick county soon after completing
a term in the Nebraska state peniten
tiary for the same offense.
A BANK FAILURE.
Kingfisher, Oklahoma, Institution
Closes Its Doors.
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 13. A special
to the Star from Kingfisher, O. T., says:
Notice posted on the door of the Bank
of Kingfisher this morning announced
that the bank was in the hands of the
territorial bank commissioner. Report
ed liabilities, $01,000; assets, $51,000. The
bank is owned chiefly by J. C. Post and
wife, and has a capital of $20,000. De
posits were received up to Saturday
night. The county treasurer has $13,000
on deposit.
PASSES TO THE TRUST.
Merchants Wire and Nail Company
is Absorbed.
St. Louis. Mo., Aug. 13. The office and
plant of the Merchants Wire and Nail
company changed owners today, pass
ing from the possession of Clement M.
Biddle of Philadelphia, who was its
president, into the possession of the Van
Camp Hardware and Iron company of
Indianapolis. Ind., and the Bindley
Hardware company of Pittsburg, Pa.
RAIN IN NORTH EAST.
One Section of Kansas Receives a
Good Rainfall.
The Rock Island offices report a heavy
rain from Omaha west to Falrbury,
Neb., and south to Holton last night.
There was a very light rain between
Holton and Topeka. Saturday night
there were light showers on the Rock
Island Denver line but no rain is report
ed on that line last night.
The Santa Fe had reports of good
rains at Atchison .Valley Falls and
Olathe. There were light showers over
the eastern division extending on the line
between Quenemo and Osage City. There
was no rain west of Osage City.
Tea Party!
v Every lady in Topeka is invited to
take tea at McCoy's, 935 Kansas ave
nue, Tuesday, August 14. Free.
A lazy liver makes a lazy man. Bur
dock Blood Bitters is the natural, never
failing remedy for a lazy liver.
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FOR- t
G. A. R. ENCAIMHT, !
Chicago, III., August 27th to Sept 1st
p'GieaiBoGllslaqililoQte
Will sell tickets at one fare ($14.00) for the round trip. Tickets
on sale August 24th to 27th, with return limit September 2d. Ex
tensions will be granted up to and including September 30th. by
uepuBiuug uujfcvM wiuj tfumi Agent aii inicago on or oexortf oep-
tember 2d. if
For full information and O. A. R. POCKET SOUVENIR, call on your
nearest ROCi ISLAND AGENT, or write to J
JOES SEBASTIAN, G. P. St T. A., CMcajo, X1L J
E. W. THOMPSON, A. a. P. & T. A., Topek, Es.
KANSAS FAIRS IS 1900.
Following is a list ot fairs to be held
In Kansas in 1900, their dates, locations
and secretaries, as reported to the state
board of agriculture and complied by Sec
retary F. D. Coburn:
Allen County Agricultural society C. H.
Wheaton. secretary, Iola: September 10-1S.
Brown County Fair association John H.
Meyer, secretary, Hiawatha: August 28-31.
Butler County Fair association Alvah
Shelden, secretary, Kl Dorado; September
Chautauqua county Hewins Park and
Fair association: N. G. Marsh, secretary.
Cedar Vale; August 8-11.
Clay County Fair association E. E.
Hoopes. secretary. Clay Center; Septem
ber 25-28.
Coffey County Fair association J. E.
Woodford, secretary, Burlington; Septem
ber 2&-28.
Cowley county Eastern Cowley Fair
association: J. M. Henderson, secretary.
Burden: September 19-21.
Douglas county Kaw Valley Fair as
sociation: A. C. Griesa, secretary, Law
rence. Finney County Agricultural society D.
A. Mims, secretary. Garden City.
Franklin County Agricultural society
B. C. McQoesten, secretary, Ottawa; Sep
tember 18-21.
Greeley County Fair association I. B.
Newman, secretary. Tribune: October 2-3.
Jackson County Agricultural and Fair
association S. B. McGrew, secretary,
Holton: SeptemDer 11-14.
Jefferson County Agricultural and Me
chanical association Edwii Snyder, sec
retary, Oskaloosa. Septemoer 4-7.
Jewell County Fair association Chas. F.
Home, secretary, Aankato; September
11-14.
Linn County Fair association Ed. R.
Smith, secretary. Mound City.
Marshall county. Frankfort Fair asso
ciation C. W Brandenburg, secretary,
Frankfort; Septemoer 25-28.
Miami county Agricultural, Mechanical
Fair association Jos. P. Trickett, secre
tary, Paola: September 25-2S.
Montgomery county, Coffeyville Fair
and Park association R. Y. Kennedy,
seeretftrv, Coffeyville: August 14-17.
Morris County Exposition company: 13.
J. Dill, secretary. Council Grave, Septem
ber 25-2S.
Neosho County Fair association H.
Lodge, secretary, Erie; August 28-31.
Neosho county, Chanute Agricultural,
Fair, Park and Driving association A. E.
Timpane, secretary, Chanute; September
4-7.
Osage County Fair association C. H.
Curtis, secretary, Burllngame; September
Riley County Agricultural society: R. T.
Worboya, secretary, Kiley; September
Sedgwick county, Wichita State Fair
association H. G. Toler, secretary, Wich
ita; September 4-7.
Wilson county, Fredonia Agricultural
association J. T. Cooper, secretary, Fre
donia; August 21-24.
Stafford County Fair association John
W. Lill. secretary, St. John: August 29-31.
Harvey County Agricultural society;
John C. Nicholson, secretary, Newton:
October 2-5.
CROWDS HEAR STANLEY.
Governor is Well Received on His
Speaking Tour.
Writing from Russell, ex-State Treas
urer Otis L. Atherton, who mane the trip
through western Kansas with the gov
ernor last week, says:
"At Sharon Springs thers waa an at'
tendance of 700, the estimate being that
90 per cent, of the voters In the county
were present. At Gove City. Oakley. Wa-
Keeney an other places visited by the
governor he was rewaraea by large au
dieneea.
"The Deonle seem much Interested in
the governor's SDeech. which is one of the
best campaign addresses 1 have ever
nearu.
BR if AN RECEPTION.
Commercial Club Will Look After Ar
rangements.
A special meeting of the Commercial
club was held at hte club rooms this
afternoon to make arrangements for
the reception to be given William Jen
ninga Bryan on Thursday. August 23.
The , president, Mr. Holman, was
given the power to appoint a committee
of nine to look after the matter. This
committee of nine will have power to
act for the Commercial club and in con
nection with the .Fopulist and Demo
cratic committees will make the ar
rangements for the day s proceedings.
In addition, the Commercial club com
mittee will make arrangements for the
accommodation and entertainment of
the crowds of out of town people who
will be in Topeka that day.
Besides the speech by Mr. Bryan, the
reunion of the Twenty-third Kansas vol
unteers and the middle of the road Pop
ulist candidate for president. Mr. Whar
ton Barker will be the other attractions
in this city on the 23d of August. The
three events, it Is calculated, will bring
together a large crowd.
LOCAL MENTION.
The grading by the street force in
Potwin has been completed.
J. E. Lambert, United States attorney.
returned today from Colorado.
The paving of King street, between
Western avenue and Fillmore street,was
finished today.
Geo. W. Moffit has purchased the big
Bartholomew & Co. safe the largest
one in Topeka.
The city engineer's department has
completed the sidewalk tax list and
turned It over to the city clerk.
The Democratic and Populist county
conventions will be held in Topeka Sep
tember 1. and not on fceptember 10 as
was reported.
Hueh Dowlinsr and Harry Clark were
arrested this afternoon for running a
Joint at 803 Kansas avenue. A keg of
beer was captured oy tne ponce.
Mrs. Annie M. Trapp. who took lec
tures on scoring Belgian hares under
Judge Crabtree of Denver, has been
elected official scorer by the Kansas
Belgian Hare Breeders' association.
.Tudee Hook has written to the clerk
of the United States circuit court that
he will hear a re-argument in tne case
of United States vs. the M., K. & T.
railroad on August 2a instead of August
30. as stated previously.
Notice has been given the contractor
ho carries the mails between the
depots -and the postofflce that he must
paint his wagons. The notice i3 sent
from Washington and is the result of
an inspection by an assistant superin
tendent who visited here several weeks
ago
A
FORTIETH EDITION.
tSS" Pat a copy la yotir grip yon Will
enjoy reading it on your vacation.
THE STORY OF A
COUNTRY TOWN
By a W. HOWE
CHAS. DUDLEY WABNES f
"The book is one of the small num
ber of genuine American books.
W. D. HO WELLS, in Century:
"A fiction which is of the kind most
characteristic of our time, and
which no student of our time here
after can safely ignore."
MASK TWAIN j
"When I read passages from It, Geo.
W. Cable shouted, 'Superb!' I lik
the 'Country Town' so much that I
am glad of an opportunity to say so."
SATtTEDAT KEVrXW:
"A remarkable book; in all respects
one of the most remarkable of Am
erican books."
EDINBUEQ BEVIEWi
"Western civilization In back coun
try districts has been well drawn by
Edward Bggleston, bttt with greater
intensity and reserved power by E.
W. Howe in 'The Story of a Country
Town.' "
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GOOD ROADS CONVENTION.
Automobile Exhibition Will Be One
of the Features.
The Good Hoads congress which is to
be held in Topeka from September 23 to
28 gives every promise of being a suc
cess. ,
A number of the larger manufactur
ing houses In the east are making
preparations to have on the ground for
use and exhibition from one to three
car loads of machinery.
Major Anderson has been In com
munication with several automobile
factories relative to an exhibition. Al
though the factories are all rushed and
are several months behind on their or
ders they all send the assurance that
they will do all in their power to helr
make the exhibition a success.
J. Sterling Morton was asked to ba
present and speak. He sent hia regrets
saying that he would be unable to at
tend because of previous arrangements.
He. hdwever, suggested a plan which
might be discussed with profit, and
which is being looked into In Nebraska.
He adx'ocates the Belling of part of
the land along each side of the road to
the land owners adjoining and using
the money secured by this means in
improving the road.
A prize of a road grading wagon has
been offered to the county sending the
largest delegation to the congress. The
Austin & Western company. Ltd.. of
Chicago, has offered the committee one
of their $250 machines to be used for
the prize for $100 f. o. b. Kansas City.
This is purely a contribution of 1150
on the part of the Austin & Western
company, as their machines are not
sold by anyone below the list price.
TURNS DOWN HARRISON.
Claim of Major Ruasell B. for Mora
Fay Decided Adversely.
Washington. Aug. 13. The comrjtrnlW
of the treasury has decided adversely the
claim or aiajor j-tusseu ts. ttarriBon for
the difference between his pay as major
and colonel under section 7 of the act of
April 26, 1898, while serving as provost
marshal from August 31. 1898, to April
7, 1899, amounting to $67 1, ...
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