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DAY EVENING.
TOPEKA, KANSAS, MARCH 23, 1901.
SATURDAY EVENING.
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FIRSTSTEP.
Beginning Jlade la Securing a
Monopoly In Cuba
Of the Entire Sugar Business
of the Island.
II A Y E 21 E Y E R IS IN IT
A Body of 66,000 Acres of Land
Has Been Bought.
Contracts Placed For Machinery
Amount to Over $2,000,000.
New York. March 23 The World says:
"What may be the first step in the con
eolidation of the various large sugar in
terests in. the island of Cuba, or the
purchase of these interests by Ameri
can capitalists has been taken.
The Chappara Sugar company of Cuba,
with offices in this city, has placed con
tracts in this country aggregating over
12.000.000 for the equipment of the
largest sugar plant ever built in Cuba.
The coiiiuanv. f which ex-Congress
man Haw '!' o Texas, is president and
in which II. H. Howell fcon te Co. and
Theodore Havemeyer are largely in
terested has acquired 66.IH0 acres of land
in the eastern portion of Cuba. Nearly
10.0i acres of this land are under cul
tivation, while on the rest the work of
planting sucar cane will be immediately
besun. This enormous planting is with
out prec-it-nt in the history of Cuba.
With the exception of H;) acres in the
immediate vicinity of the factory loca
tion, lo." acres under growth are be
ins' divided among colonists who culti
vate tro-ir fields and deliver the cane to
the mill for a return of 4 per cent.
A railroad r.O miles long will be con
structed on the estate and grinding op
erations are to begin next December, by
which time it is believed some 350. OuO
tons of cane wiil be ready to be handled.
The mills wiil have a daily capacity
for grinding 3.fH tons of cane. Power
w ill be derived from a steam plant of six
thousand horse power.
Augustus Dmitri, of this city, has ob
tained the order for the buildine. which
will mean the purchase of SsO.ooO worth
cf structural steei. The Babcock & Wil
cox company is to build the boilers of
'.!0 horse power each. Kleven piston pat-
tern
pumps and three rotary dry
vacuum
(jumping- equipments will be
furnished
by Henry .. Worthington,
v hiie another
New Tork concern, the
Morris Machine company, is to supply
three laitre pumps direct, connected to
Vertical fiiein-s.
Fox Brothers & Co. have undertaken
the contract for the equipment of the
machine shoos. The tools comprise pite
cutting machines, itiap lames, engine j
lativs. ram ai uiiil presses, boit cutters,
twist drill grinders, etc. The same firm
has tak.-n an order for 2W sugar cars.
The Whitney Iron Works of New Or
leans will build three immense roller
mills and crushers. They will also make
the necessary tiller presses. The clarify
ing apparatus is to be furnished by O.
W. LeminiT of New Orleans. The Chat
t uiMiga Car enmrany, of Chattanooga,
Tenn.. will buiid 150 cars. The Illinois
teel company is to execute the rail con
tract, which tails for 1,000 tons of forty
pound rails.
The Sugar Apparatus Manufacturing
company of Philadelphia, will build the
multiple effects and the vacuum pans
are to be got from James Oat & Boas, of
the same city.
either contracts Just determined on in
clude orders, for factory stacks and steel
tanks from the Kker-Conley Manufac
turing company, of Pittsburg, Pa.; mill
shafts from the Bethlehem Steel Works
of Bethlehem, Pa., and blowers from the
B. F. Sturtevant company of New York
City.
JOINT IS STILL THERE
Liquor Has Been PurchasedThis
Week in Hughes Building.
If A. K. McCuIlAn, who has an office
Et SIS Kansas avenue, has a half pint
fcott'e of w hisky which he says was pur
chased In "Col." Hughes' building on
1-asi Fourth stieet Monday.
"Some of the women who are anxious
to have Mrs. McCullom register and vote
for HtithoC s;M Dr. McCullom. -J
make the remark that I did not wish to
vote or have my wife, vote' for a man
who had a joint in his building. The
Huehes p, .-.pie retorted that there was
no j int there I raid: 'I'll not bet with
you but if I do not have a bottle .f
whisky i-urchas-d at the ioint in the
Hughes' builcing Defore 6 o'clock tonight
I iv.il give you ill." That was at nocn.
At 2 o'clock I showed the half pint bet
tie. I pave a man named Morgan the
money and stool on the outside of the
buil-.i'r.K hi!- Morgan went in and pot
ihe liQiior from the jointlsts In the
Hut-hes' building-. Morgan handed I'te
bottle to me when he came out of the
place."
MILLION DOLLAR DEAL
ehrassa Cattle Company Buys
Big Ranches in Texas.
Omaha, March 23. William Humph
rey, vice president of the Riverside Here
ford Cattle company of Ashland, Neb.,
has just closed a cattle and ranch deal
In Texas Involving a million dollars. For
h:s cein-.pany he acquired from a gro..tr
or owners some 40 in number a ranch '
property covering approximately snO.-5
ac s-.-4 for which the sum of 1600. 000 was
pai I arid in pad It ion thereto a bunch of
cattle approximating in cost J-100,000.
The Jl,(i0.0'.-0 deal was consummated
witt almost absolute (secrecy, not with,
fttunding the magnitude of the operation.
The land is mainly in Chihuahua courty,
"T5 idles southeast from El Paso anu is
raid to be one of the best grazing dln
tric.s in Texas. The largest single pur
chase was from King and Zalles o El
Fasj
The company will stock the land with
thoroughbred-, f r )m its Nebraska rarcn
s, but the business of the company will
be transacted frm Ashland.
Lawyer Writes a Book. -
George Campbell, an Oswego lawyer,
has published a book entitled "A Revolu
tion in the Science of Cosmology." It Is
an ambitious work, giving a new theery
e the creation.
Copcfta State 3ournai.
INDEX OF TODAY'S PAPER.
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1901.
Weather predictions for tha next 24 hours:
For MKnsas: Threatening-, with rain
turning- to snow tonight and possibly in
extreme eastern portion Sunday; colder,
brisk to high northwest -winds.
IMPORTANT NEWS AND FEATURES.
Pages.
1. China Rejects Russian Treaty.
Havemeyer to Control Cuban Sugar.
Attorney General Griggs Resigns.
Bryan in Nebraska Senatorial Fight.
Joint Still, in Hughes Building.
Funston Goes After Aguinaldo. 1
Topeka Capital in New Hands.
City Registration Breaks Records.
Chicago Board of Trade War Ends.
Russian Official Escapes Assassin.
Mrs. Nation Wants New Printer.
Senator Burton Home Again.
Judge Magaw Sues H. T. Chase.
2. Kansas News.
Sporting News. '
R. G. Dun's Review of Trade.
3. Railway News.
Brief Telegrams.
4. Church Announcements.
News Summary of the Week.
Late Local and Telegraph News.
5. Social and Personal.
Mrs. Nation and the Reporter.
Japan Resent3 Russian Aggression.
6. North Topeka News.
Commission to Revise Tax Laws.
Robber is Fatally Shot.
West Indian Hurricane Does Damage
Markets.
7. Wants and Miscellaneous Ads,
Atjlhe Theatre.
National Bank Reports.
8. Suicides by Exploding Dynamite.
Snap Shots at Home News.
Engineers Suffer ia Alaska.
9. Topeka Society.
Kansas Alan in Sensational Case.
10. Married on Sick Bed. . ,
Mail Delivered in Autos. ' '
Secretary Gage's Financial Advice.
11. Theatrical News.
Marine Band at Auditorium.
Current Dramatic Gossip.
Mail for tha Antipodes.
li Editorial.
Book Notes.
Cleveland's Fighting-Point.
13. Woman's Page.
The Ready Made .Waist.
Eggs as a Tonic. (
Table and Kitchen Menus.
14. Chas. Schwab, Milllonare Steel King.
A Maple Sugar Camp.
15. A Page with the 'Humorists. 1
16. Story, "Maggie's Enlightenment-"
Humor of the Day.
TO LEAVE CUBH
18,000 Ex-SIares Desire to Re
turn to Congo.
New Tork, March 23. A dispatch to
the Herald from Brussels says Mr. Wm.
George Emmanuel, a negro, born In the
British Antilles of Congo parents, has
just a-ived at Antwerp en route for
Brussels, where he hopes to obtain an
audience w ith King Leopold. He is a
delegate from 18,000 negroes of Congo
origin who w?re taken to Cuba as slaves
and who have since been lib-rated. They
now desire to return to the Congo states
as independent citizens and establish
settlements of their own. They do not
want to become Cuban citizens, and
haVe delegated Mr. Emmanuel to ask
the king of th Belgians to have them
taken back to their native country. Im
mediately on landing in Europe Mr.
Emmanuel wrote a letter to the secre
tary of state for Congo, informing him
of the object of his voyage. If Mr.
Emmanuel obtains an authorisation of
the king, the 13.000 negroes whom he
represents wilt cultivate plantations of
tobacco, rubber, cocoa, etc, in their na
tive land.
SPAIN IS PAID.
Warrant Issued For $100,000
For Stray Islands.
Washington, March "3. Secretary Kay
today gave to the Spanish minister,
Duke D'Arcos, a treasury warrant for
$100,000 in payment for the island cf
Cagayan and other Islands near the
Philippine group. The payment was
made in accordance with the terms of a
treaty negotiated last November. Today
aiso protocols were signed exchanging
final ratifications which confirm the title
of the United States to these islands.
BURTON GETS HO LIE.
lie at Once Becomes Center of
Political Interest.
Senator J. R. Burton arrived from
Washington, via Galena and Kansas
City, last night. The politicians lined
up around the Copeland and put in the
evening in conferences. The same pro
gramme was on today, and other lieu
tenants have been sent for to come in
over Sunday, as the senator goes back to
Washington early next week.
It comes out very openly now that
George Findlay is to be run for rail
road commissioner. A "harmony"
movement is to in turn support Orie
Morse, of Hutchinson, for the other Re
publican place. Morse was a. Baker
manager.
GAME-ISipCKED
Treaty With Russia is Finally
Rejected by China.
Result is Brought About
Pressure of the Powers.
toy
METHOD IS A SECRET.
The Check is Regarded as Being
But Temporary.
The Bear is Still in Manchuria
and Likely to Stay.
New Tork, March 23. A Times special
from Washington says:
The Russo-Chinese treaty has been re
jected by China. The powers opposed to
the Russian acquisition of Manchuria
have won the first round and there is
every reason to believe that notes are
now passing between them with a view
to preventing any i further efforts on
Russia's part to. secure a convention
with China. The sudden face-about on
China's part is the result of work done
by other powers. The way in which it
was done was a secret that is being
closely guarded but it is certain that
pressure from European capitals -was
the cause of China's rejection of the
treaty.
This is, of course, only a temporary
check to Russia. She can now insist
that China accept the treaty making, if
necessary, some modifications in it which
will give ground for reopening the sub
ject. It is to prevent this that according
to reliable information negotiations are
now going on between the powers.
The proof which the rejection of the
treaty furnished that Russia's influence
at the Chinese court is not omnipotent
has eventually given encouragement to
the opposition powers who believe that
the game can be blocked as far as the
treaty is concerned. However, even if
they succeed in preventing Russia from
concluding any kind ot agreement with
China they will not have made any pro
gress toward getting her out of Man
churia. JAPAN WANTS TO BE SHOWN.
London, March 23. The foreign office
takes a pessimistic view of the immed
iate situation in the east in spite of the
settlement of the Tien Tsin question and
entertains grave fears that the relations
between Japan and Russia may shortly
reach the danger point.
Judging from information obtained in
various official quarters in London,
Japan has confided to at least some of
the powers a determination to oppose at
any cost any secret negotiations made
between Russia and China by which the
former could secure territorial or other
advantage continguous to Korea.
The British government has received
no official confirmation that the Jap
anese fleet is mobilizing, but it would
not be surprising to learn that such were
the facts, A highly placed British offi
cial said to a representative of the As
sociated Press today:
"All Japan wants is a free hand
against Russia. This she has got so far
as England and Germany are concern
ed, and, I presume, so far as the United
States government is concerned;although
I do not imagine for one moment that
any of the powers mentioned would be
drawn into a fight between Japan and
Russia. If Japan sees nothing for it but
to fight she would have the moral sup
port of objections committed to paper
by at least two other powers against
secret treaties with China. That is all;
but Japan seems to consider it suffi
cient to provide against interference."
Confirmation of the foregoing defini
tion of the situation was afforded by the
secretary of the Japanese legation, who
said, in the course of an interview:
"While rejoicing at the fact that Eng
land and Russia have reached a pacific
settlement over the minor issue, the
main question the integrity of the Chi
nese empire remains unsettled. In re
sponse to pressure brought by Japan
upon Russia it was announced that Rus
sia's secret treaties with China had been
modified; but the terms have been with
held. Until we see the treaties we will
not be satisfied that the modification
does not consist of words merely without
any alteration in the spirit. In this con
tention we believe other powers will sup
port us."
It appears that Great Britain would be
quite willing to refer the whole Man-
chunan matter to arbitration on tne
lines of The Hague conference. The Tien
Tsin affair is rot considered important
enough to be disposed of in this way.
and it will immediately become a matter
of diplomatic interchange between St.
Petersburg and London.
MINISTERS ARE TIRED OF IT.
Pekin, March 23. The British head
quarters here report the withdrawal of
both the Russian and British troops
from the disputed territory in Tien Tsin.
M. Degiers. the Russian minister to
China, believes that everything will be
amicably adjusted at London and St.
Petersburg and doubts the probability
of further trouble in the macter. General
Voyron, commander of the French
troops, has ordered a new regiment to
Tien Tsin to replace the one now there.
French officers here think it was a mis
take to leave a regiment recruited in a
city at Tien Tsin. This regiment was
composed of a tough Paris element. At
a meeting of the foreigt ministers, held
this morning, the only question consid
ered was that of policing the legation
quarters.
A committee of commissioners has
been appointed to discover China's re
sources and report on her ability to pay
the indemnity to be demanded to the
powers.
Many ministers are strongly opposed
to China having to pay to keep an army
of ten or twelve thousand men here
for the next two years, thinking this en
tirely unnecessary. Even those ministers
who were here during the siege are
tired of seeing Pekin a military camp.
They hope China will be put upon her
feet as soon as possible.
CHINESE THINK JAPAN WILL
FIGHT.
Shanghai. March 23. There is no con
firmation of the reported concentration of
Russian warships in Corean waters or of
the rumored mobilization of the Jap
anese fleet. While foreign circles here
generally doubt Jhat ar. outbreak of hos
tilities w ill occur, the Chinese are satis
fied that Japan is determined to resist
Russian designs on Manchuria.
General Gaselee who has been in com
mand of the British troops at Pekin has
arrived here.
Johnson Live Stock Inspector.
The state live sanitary board has ap
pointed John H. Johnson, of Holton, in
spector at Fort Worth, Texas. The
other appointments are about made.
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Weather Indications.
Chicago, March 23. Forecast for Kan
sas: Threatening with rain turning to
snow tonight and possibly in extreme
east portion Sunday; colder; brisk to
northwest, wind.
CONTRACTORS AGGRIEVED.
Congress Stopped Big Timber Steals
in the Philippines.
New York, March 23. A special to the
Herald from Washington says:
Sorious embarrassment has been caused
the administration and the development
of the Philippines has been retarded by
the legislation prohibiting the cutting- of
timber of the public lands of the archi
pelaeO. As the forests are on public lands
the jerovernment, under a strict interpre
tation of the law, would be unable to au
thorize the felling: of a tree to provide
the planks necessary for the construction
of a new house or the repairing- of an old
one. -If a gunboat were to lose a spa?
and her commander desired to replace It
he could not take it from the public
lands without violation of the law. Not
only is the stale or lease of timber prohib
ited, but the pale or lease or disposition
of public lands and granting of mining
rights are illegal.
This legislation was directly contrarv to
the wishes of the president and Secretary
Root, who are conviDced that in order to
promptly develop the islands the intro.
duction of American capital is necessary.
secretary joot ooes not oeneve mat con
gress intended to curtail the privileges of
the people of the islands and it is believed
he will hold that the president is author
ized to grant torestry concessions.
v apiHiu jr. r . auci 11, xwum lniancry.
who has had charee. of the forestry bu
reau of the Philippines, reports that thft
pumic rorest lanos comprise tram one
fourth to one-half of the area of thft
Philippines, or trom 2U to 40 million acres.
GRIGGS RESIGNS.
Will Leave Washington For
Home Next Saturday.
Washington, March 23. Attorney Gen
eral Griggs has handed to the presi
dent his resignation to take effect March
31. Mr. Griggs intends to leave Wash
ington on Saturday next for his home in
New Jersey where hereafter toe -will re
side. His intention is to resume lm
mediately the practice of his profession.
It is stated by his authority that he will
be associated as counsel with the firm
of Dill, Romeister & Baldwin of New
Tork city. Mr. Griggs also has formed
a partnership with" Mr. Dill of Jersey
City under the firm; name of Griggs &
Dill, for practice in New Jersey.
CAPITAL CHAIIGE MADE.
Transfer of the Paper to New
Syndicate Is Completed.
The formal transfer of the Topeka
Capital -was made today by the Bank of
Topeka.
The officers of the new company are:
Arthur Capper, president; H. T. Chasa,
vice president: R. )L. Thomas, treasurer;
W. B. Robey, secretary. The name of
the company is "The Capital Publishing
company." Mr. Chase will be editor and
Mr. Capper managing editor. Mr. Thomas-
will . be business manager and Mr.
Robey advertising manager.
Mr. C. L .Holman, who has been bus
iness manager of the paper during the
Popenoe regime retires today. The Pope
iioe interests were absorbed over a morih
ago by -the Bank of Topeka, which held
the mortgage. Mr. Popenoe ia now in
Costa Rica with his family and the time
of his return is indefinite.
BEACHES 15,000.
City
Registration Breaks
Previous Records.
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The registration is completed and the
books show that it has been the heaviest
in the history of the icty. , As near as
can be figured the number is about 15,
000. Commissioner of Klections Wil
liams says that they counted the stubs
last night and that the number was 15,
218 but that he thinks the number is too
high by about 200.
The stubs on the books show that 8,
894 men and 6,324 are registered. At least
6,000 have been registered since Monday.
The workers of both parties have been
out and have done a great deal of work,
and in addition to the political workers
the Commercial club has been working
to get the men to register so that they
can, vote for the Santa Fe bonds. All
day yesterday, rigs were rushing to the
registering places and they kept it up
unti' a late hour.
The registration last fall for the pres
idential election shows a total of 10,174
men. which shows that the women are
taking the greatest interest this spring.
Both sides claim that the large regis
tration is In their favor but It will be
impossible to tell what it means unil
the votes are counted after the election.
The Republicans are frightened and so
are the Democrats. There never "was a
time of greater uncertainty concerning
an election in the city.
LOilG WAR ENDS.
Board of Trade and Telegraph
Companies Agree.
Chicago, March 23. Official announce
ment was made here today that the con
troversy between the Chicago board of
trade and the telegraph companies over
the collection and dissemination of mar
ket quotations has been settled. Within
a week, if not sooner; it is expected quo
tations will be sent out from this mar
ket to all parts of the country as they
were before the trouble started ' many
months ago. The agreement was made
yesterday at a meeting at which were
present President Irwin of the board of
trade, Colonel Clowrey of the Western
Union Telegraph coVnpany, attorneys for
all the people's interests and several
members of the quotation committee.
The trouble started last July and since
that time the country has not had the
Chicago grain quotations except as they
were sent out over private wires from
brokers or in private messages, or in
newspapers after the market closed.
New York "Will Sail March 26.
' London, March 23. A dispatch to the
Exenange Telegraph company from Gi
braltar says the United States armored
cruiser New York will sail for Tangier,
March 2S to convey the mission to
Mazargan. Thence the mission will pro
ceed to Fez under a strong escort of the
BUiU.n's soldiers
It Is Felt In the Senatorial
Fight at Lincoln.
He Is Working to Maintain the
Existing Deadlock.
WANTED TO GO HOME.
Popnlists Wished to Spend Sun-
day With Their Families.
At His Urgent Bequest They
Promise to Remain.
Lincoln, Neb.; March 23. Editor
Rosewater made a third attempt last
night to secure the caucus nomination
for the North Platte senatorship, but
failed as completely as in, every other
caucus that has been held. He received
but 34 votes after 30 ballots had been
cast, and 45 are necessary to a choice.
Meiklejohn's 14 men stood by him, and
Currie received 8 votes. D. E. Thomp
son secured his nomination through the
assistance of Rosewater, who is still
waiting for the Burlington candidate to
reciprocate. Thompson promised to r.eip
the Omaha editor, but it is now charged
that Thompson has failed to make good.
Thompson will make another effort to
be elected when the fiftieth ballot in
joint session is taken at noon today,
but Rosewater said that he feared that
there will be no quorum. This means
that Rosewater is frightened at the fail
ure of Thompson to carry promises into
effect and the distrustful editor will en
deavor to keep Thompson from being
elected until a new caucus is called.
An effort is being made to call a new
caucus solely for the purpose of naming
a North Platte candidate. The ten in
surgents are willing to join in such a
caucus providing a South Platte nomina
tion is barred. Rosewater is ct the
opinion that he can be named in a
caucus called solely to name a North
Platte man.
There will be no more caucuses until
Monday and many legislators are pre
paring to go home to spend Sunday.
Thompson wants several Pops to go
home. If nine or ten do so, as Mr.
Thompson desires, there can be an elec
tion, unless the Rosewater men desert or
filibuster all day.
William J. Bryan took e. hand tn the
fight when he pleaded with twelve fu-
sicnist.s who want to go home. Mr.
Bryan begged them to remain, so that
the deadlock w ill continue. The thirteen
fusionists said tney would remain in
Lincoln in order to comply with Bryan's
request.
Chairman Hanna sent telegrams to IJ.
E. Thompson and to National Commit
teeman Schneider, but refused to an
swer the defi of the ten insurgents.
Although D. E. Thompson received. 59
votes in joint session yesterday, the
highest number that has yet been cast
for any candidate, there were six votes
needed to elect a United States senator.
The total number voting was 129 and 65
were necessary to elect. The additional
vote for Thompson came from Sena tor
Lorenzo Crounse, himself a candidate
for the North Platte nomination. The
sudden change of Crounse's vote was un
expected, and when it was cast the gal
leries applauded for the first time in
many days. In explaining ms vote,
Crounse said:
We are now taking the forty-ninth
ballot, as I understand it. We have
been laboring industriously for weeks to
arrive at a result. Yesterday's vote dis
closed the fact that there is one man at
least who is a possibility. The contest
has narrowed down now to a few men,
with a few days left in which to elect.
There is a great responsibility resting
UDon the shoulders of each of us. and I
am not inclined to shoulder any part of
it should we adjourn without doing our
full duty. When I leave these halls I
want to take with me the consciousness
of having done my duty to my constitu
ents. The man for whom I shall vote
s not mv candidate, as my votes from
dav to dav have shown, but he stands
with 58 members behind him. His Repub
licanism, standing and ability have the
ndorsement of that number. His fel
ow citizens here at home have given
him a handsome indorsement I, for one,
shall not set up my Judgment against
that of the majority and, therefore, vote
for D. E. Thompson arrd.K. M. Curri."
It was plain from the faces of the
Thompson men that they were not ex
pecting it. and by the same token it was
evident that the anti-Thompson men were
also upset. Several of them heard the
announcement with blanched face.' re
alizing that it was a boost for Thompson
much stronger than any he has yet had.
It was exjected that the chancre of
Crounse's vote would cause a stampede
for Thompson, but the "insurgents" and
the fusionists firmly held out and Thomp
son is practically as far away from the
coveted goal as ever.
Rosewater ffained one vote at the ex
pense of Meiklejohn. receiving 32 votes to
Meikleiohn's 23. One insurgent made up
for Meiklejohn's loss.
The fusionists have finally agreed to at
tend to their own knitting and are anx
ious to prevent the election of two sena
tors by getting everybody out. A whip
has been appointed to get everv member
in his seat. They dragged Renresentative
Beall out of his sick bed at the Sanitari
um so as to rnise the number necessary
to nominate. They also ordered the pai
between Hanks and Marshall broken and
substituted Watson, one of their sick men,
so that Mr. Hanks could vote.
There are three sick men. one Repub
lican and two fusionists. which leaves tha
number necessary to elect sixty-five.
Kditor Rosewater has authorized the
following caustic statement concerning
Meiklejohn. his rival for- the North Platte
nomination :
"It is plain that Meiklejohn's chance of
nomination in caucus is hopeless, and that
he is being kept in the lists only by the
representatives of certain railroad corpor
ations bent upon preventing the election
of any senator. The time for adjourn
ment being practically set. thse people
are working to prolong the deadlock till
the end of next week, for the purpose of
forcing the legislature to adjourn, leaving
both senatorships vacant. What is left
of Meiklejohn's following is being care
fully nursed to effect by indirection what
these political schemers dare not openlv
advocate. To keep him alive they are
resorting to desperate methods, taking a
certain number of members and tving
them up in flocks, in order to leave him
with only fifty-four to fifty-six in caucus
nnd forty-five necessary to a nomination.
Tyinta: up a dozen men in this way com
pletely blocks action. By making the
continued balloting in caucus fruitless,
the object is to disgust participants and
break up the new caucus as they did the
old one. It is certain no other caucus nor
any plan can be secured during the pres
ent session.
"Were it noi for the outside interfere
ence. together with the questionable char
acter of the campaign that has been car
ried on in the interest of Mr. Meiklejohn,
Nebraska would have had two Republi
can senators long ago. It is a notorious
fact that for twelve weeks a smooth
Washington lobbyist, styling himself as
Colonel Dean, from Arkansas, has been
occupying sumptuous quarters in on of
the Lincoln hotels, to which members
have been enticed ahd dazzled with prize
packages in the shape of impossible ap
pointments and promises of substantial
reward to materialize in case of Meikle
john's election."
STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY.
Lincoln, Neb., March 23. Representa
tive J. C. Sprecher of Colfax county,
fusionist, was stricken with apoplexy on
the floor of the house this morning and
carried to the speaker's room where" he
lie3 apparently in a dangerous condi
tion. ! THE BALLOT.
Lincoln, Neb., March 23. The ballot
on United States senator today: Allen
(fusion), 54; Hitchcock (fusion), 5; W.
H. Thompson (fusion), 15; Ransom (fu
sion), 35; D. E. Thompson, 56; Crounse,
8; Currie, 6; Hinshaw, 10: Rosewater, 30.
Necessary to elect, 63. Ten absent or not
voting.
STRIKE IS IFilMlflEfiT.
Anthracite Miners Ordered to
Be in Readiness.
Pittsburg, March 23. There Is immi
nent danger of a strike of the coal
miners of this district aa a result of the
stand of the operators against granting
the demands submitted by the men in
the wage scale proposed for the year be
ginning April 1. The final conference is
now in session, and if an agreement is
not reached today the whole matter will
be referred back to the men. Miners'
President Dolan says it looks like a dis
agreement now, and has issued a warn
ing to all miners in the district to hold
themselves in readiness for a sudden call
for a convention to be held before
April 1.
WILL ARREST CHASE
Judge Magaw Swears to Com
plaint For Criminal Libel.
Police Judge Magaw appeared before
the county attorney this morning and
swore to a complaint charging Harold
T. Chase, editor of the Topeka Capital,
with criminal libel on two counts.
The information in the charge of crim
inal libel against Mr. Chase cites two
counts. The first count is brought on
account of an article which appeared in
the Capital January 31 as an Interview
from Chief Stahl who was quoted as
having said that he could not close the
Joints as long as Judge Magaw was
on the bench. The second count Is based
upon the following editorial which ap
peared in the Capital on Thursday:'
AN OUTRAGE BY JUDGE MAGAW.
"An outrage on the whole city was
perpetrated by Judge Magaw in police
court Tuesday afternoon when he dis
missed a man named Bishop, arrested
for cruelty to animals, without a hear
ing, and from the bench turned upon
Officer King of the Humane society and
denounced him for arresting persons on
such complaints. 'This man,' said the
misfit judge, ' has a right to treat his
own horse as he pleases and the charge
against him is dismissed.'
"Bishop was arrested after having left
his horse hitched without a blanket or
covering in the storm on Kansas avenue
in North Topeka from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m.
and when Officers King and Hall took
the horse to a stable he was covered
with icicles and was shivering with cold.
Officer King was ready to summon a
score of reliable witnesses. Fifteen min
utes after the arrest of Bishop Judge
Magaw dismissed the case against him.
"The work of Officer King, in behalf of
the Humane society is done for love of
horses and other brute friends of man
and not for pay. He Is vigilant in the
protection of these dumb- animals from
abuse and exposure by persons who are
unfit to have their carei or ownership.
The ordinances are ample in these cases
and the courts owe it to the laws and
ordinances against crulety to animals
to back up the Humane society in its
work and the conduct of Police Judge
Magaw in the Bishop case simply shows
that he is unfit for the position he oc
cupies." ' The charge of criminal libel as drawn
In the complaint is in substance that
the two articles, and especially the one
of more recent date, are libelous and
that they have angered and injured the
plaintiff. County Attorney Nichols and
Assistant County Attorney Hungate
prepared the information and will, as
countv prosecutors, carry on the case in
the district court for Judge Magaw.
DISSOLVES WITH HICK,
Mrs.
Nation Has Done
Her Publisher.
With
Hereafter Mrs. Carrie Nation will en
deavor to edit and have printed her pa
per, "The Smasher's Mail," without the
aid of her erstwhile publisher and bonds
man. For today Mrs. Nation has severed her
business connections with her ambitious
colored publisher. Her troubles with
Nick Chiles first began when the first
issue of the paper appeared and he had
suppressed some of her copy.
Nick was called in and told that the
editor-in-chief was responsible for every
thing that appeared in the paper and
what she wanted published must be
printed. Nick promised to be good.
Mrs. Nation wrote an editorial about
Judge Hazen for her second issue, and
insisted on its being maintained a six
teen page paper, but when she received
the paper she found it reduced in size
and the editorial together with other
matter she was particular about had
been left out.
Mrs. Nation was duly vexed upon dis
covering that apparently she could not
print what she wanted to in her own pa
per. "Why I'm sure it was Hazen that
kept that editorial from going into the
paper, and do you suppose I am going
to have Hazen running my paper? No.
I tell you no."
So Mrs. Nation decided to get another
printer, one who will do as he is told
"Why I never have had any trouble," she
said "in having the darkies do what I
want. I was born in the south and I
lov them. But I must confess I can't
do anything with Nick. He is too many
for me."
Mrs. Nation .says she has turned over
to him the sum of $"47 in cash, besidf -.
what he has collected to maintain the
paper. "And," she said, "if I pay for
printing the paper I gness I will have it
as I want it."
Mrs. Nation says that she ia in no
sense Nick Chiles' partner as the second
issu-; of the paper states. "He has never
been, anything but my printer."
ion on
BAD TRIP.
The Kansas General Has Gona
to Catch Aguinaldo.
Took Ten Men and Company of
Native Scouts.
WEST TWO WEEKS AGO,
Since That Time No Word Ha)
Been Heard From. Him.
Had the Filipino Located Before
lie Started.
Plans to Reach His Pre'sence la
the Guise of a Prisoner.
Manila, March 23. General Funstot
is now engaged in a daring project
which promises to be the greatest an 1
most romantic achievement of his event
ful career. In January from his hidiiu;
place in the province of Isabella. Aguin
aldo wrote letters anathematizing th-.
sub-chiefs who had taken the oath of
allegiance to the United States. Later
Aguinaldo ordered Insurgent forces ir
southern Luzon to Join him at a ren
dezvous in Isabella province. The relel
officer entrusted ' with these orders
secretly negotiated with the Americans.
On securing necessary information Gen
eral Funston planned Aeuinahio cap
ture, and with General MacArthur's au
thorization General Funston proceedel
two weeks ago to make the att-mpt.
General Funston, with burgeon M;ij r
Harris. Captain Newton of the Thirty
fourth Infantry, Lieut. Admire of tl-5
Twenty-second infantry, Lieut. Mitchell
of the Fortieth infantry, six veteran
scouts and a company of native scouts,
all picked men, all embarked on :1m
gunboat Vicksburg. and were landed tv
a remote beach above Baler. It waa
arranged that Aguinaldo's eniissarr
with the native scouts thould pas-
themselves off as insurgent tnps t i
having captured General Funston an-.t
others were taking th"m as- prisoners to
Agxiinaldo. At the ripht time, wheir
brought before Aguinaldo, General
Funston was to give a signal, when tha
tables were to be turned anci Aguinald
was to be seized. Six days' march in- j
the interior were contemplated. Treach ery
was considered possible, but evervl
precaution was taken. The- troops in
New Vizcaya and New Eclja and the
gunboats Vicksburg and Albany were t
co-operate with General Fu teuton's fore-.
The Vicksburg is -xpected here tomor
row. Colonel Rosario with 51 men ard r,5
rifles has surrendered to Colonel Bald
win, of the Fourth infantry, at Sar
Francisco De Malabon, Cavite province.
Lieut. Dean, of troop C, Sixth cav
alrv. has engaged a force of insurgents
at Tubig. Laguna province, killing sev
eral of them and capturing
ng seven men
and 24 rifles.
KANSAS WANTS f-'OHE
Sen. Barton Not Satisfied With
Apportionment of Places.
Kansas expects more consulships an I
aspirants are already on the hunt fcr
them. It is argued that during the days
of Populist United States senators this
state fell away in securing its propor
tionate share of foreign office plun-s.
Kansas now holds only a very small
handful of consulships compared to t :i
or a dozen parceled out to other stat-s-that
are on no higher plane then Kan
sas. -
The argument seems fair enough thit
upon a return to a political basis that
Is in accord with the national admin, s
't ration, more appointments should conn
this way. Besides Senator Bur ton mut
have places for his friends- Kansa s on.y
place of any great moment at preset a
is that of fourth assistant postmasur
general, held by Jo-i I ristow.
Serator Burton agrees with 1.1s fiiet:ds
that it is Kinsaa due to have mr"
consulships. The lists of vacancies at a
now being searched nnd the place hunt
ers who know of it are beginning to pi a
iorward.
W J. Puett and Robert Dougherty,
both of Newton, ware after the appoint
ment to Vera Cruz. Then, to au.-rnvait
the small allotment? of these places that
Karu-as gets it was) decided that i
place at Vera Cruz goes to In.ihiM
ThU incident has done much to stir up.
the movement for more cor.su Is an-1
Puelt and Dougherty are to be tak rj
care of. W. R. BlPham. representative
from Morris county w ould like to go irtor
the consular service also. He ppeaka f r
Glat'gow, Scotland.
FIRED FOUR SHOTS.
An Assassin Attempts to Kill a
Russian Priry Councillor.
St. Petersburg, March S?.. Privy
Councillor Pobiedonostzeff, chief procu
rator of the holy synod, narrowly
escaped assassination . early ri lay
morning. While writing In l is study,
shortly after midnight two bullets shut
tered a window and passed close to the
procurator and buried themselves in the
ceiling. Two other shots were fired but
did not enter the room.
The assassin was identified aa one
Lagowski, a provincial official. The pro
curator was unscathed.
Decorations For Americans.
Washington, March 23. Inf-jrmatlon
ha3 been received here that the decora
tion of the Merlte Attrirale bas been ct n
ferred by the French government upon
the following gentleman employes of thi
department of agriculture for services
In connection with the Paris exposition:
Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief chemist : Major
H. E. Alvord, chief of the dairy division;
Col. G. B. Braekett, pomolouist- W. A.
Taylor, assistant pomoloi;ist: M. A.
Carleton, cerealist; John I. Schulte, oua
of the associate editors of the experi
ment station Record. The decoration kliui
has been conferred upon James 1 Fir
mer, assistant director of agriculture tot
the Paris expositlaa.
FUilS