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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING. MARCH 29, 1901.
SPQRTINGJIE17S.
Charles Head Smith Gives Rea
sons For Selling Colt.
Had No Jockey to Hide Garry
Hermann in the Derby.
TOO GREAT A LUXURY.
Couldn't Afford to Pay 10,000
For a Ilider For Season.
Fears Toor Boy Up Would Jeop
ardize Frieuds'Chances.
Chicago. HI., March 29. Charles Head
Fmith's Inability to get a. good Jockey to
ride Garry Hermann Is given aa the chief
reason for the snle of the great colt to
f-. 3. Brown, the llttsburg manufacturer.
Hermann was sold for a. sum a. little
above S." .. but the exact figures were
not given out. Charley Hughes, the
trainer at Churchill downs, .Louisville,
turned the colt over to Bob Tucker yes.
terriay and a. check for the full amount
was received by tannin, bo the deal is
closed and Smith Is without a single rep
resentative on the turf.
It was an no u rued yesterday that Don
aid limn, iirmanns sole remaining
nmte. had ln sold last week, ilia Ex
( eiit'in y am! Jjutenant Gibson, which
re the oiii.r two horses in Smith's sta
hie last year, tiled' last winter. They
broke dow n, and would have been of lit
tle value except in the stud. Whether
the board of trade man will invest in
.thnroiL:!ttred.i in the future is an unser
ved ina'ter. For the present he is not
Sivin'- tfie question any consideration
' i here were several reasoris for my
ledring t, sell Garry Hermann," said
ismuh vesterdav. "In the tirst ruace.
pood jockey would have cost me at least
a ear. and with but one nor
this wouM have been too great an ex-f-Jp.sr.
The oilier expenses of keeping
Jrm;inn would have been nearly as
frrejit lts though I would have had a half
cozen horses in my string, so on the
Cjuestion of expense it is bst that I dis
r- srd of him. Were I a Belmont or r
"Vhitney it would have been a different
matter, but 1 must atttnd to my busi-
ress aiiairs at ail tinier and have no
leisure to devote to horses.
"Last year I had the favorite In the
.American Lerby and lost. My friends
l.ere backed tile horse Hud were disap-
l-omteu ai'uic: wnn mvseit. t-tiouid uarrv
iiermann be fit f,-r tiie race, but have a
p.w.r b-y up. the chances of the colt
xnlcht be jeopardised, and I would be sub
jected to criticism. This would be the
j.atural result, ami the easiest way to
bvia;e such a matter wad to dispose of
tae I.siiir-MIH i.oivn colt.
"I bought Harry of J. J. Marklein last
Ar-rll. payins" for him. He was
F'imi'l as a ii"!inr, nnj is till the best
coil I ever owned. He wintered well and
t the present time is in tiie best of con
dition. He ha-s a eood pajt and is round-
o out Into a big, etroug xeilow with
plenty of speed.
"As for the fut'ire, I nm not decided.
The truth Is that I take such an interest
in my colts that I am prone to neglect
my business lor them, and that is not
ood policy. Should I see some sood colt
that was offered to me at a bargain I
miprht invest. I am not celling out be
cause T have lost interest in turf matters,
1 i.'t because it was not advisable to keeo
the colt, and that without a good Jockey
to rioe. My business demands my closest
pttention, so 1 am, now free to attend
eoit-ly to it-"
CHICAGO NATIONAL CLUB.
President Hart Makes Public List of
His Players For New Season.
Chicago, March 29. 'President James
'A. Hart, of the Chicago National league
team, today pave out the official list of
players who will make up the team for
the coming season. The ' list does not
contain the name of Pitcher James Cal
lahan, for whose services a. determined
ftrugid-? has been taking place between
Clark Uriilith, representing the Chica.eo
American h"ag-ae team, and President
Hart, but it is also stated that Callahan
has not yet signed an American League
contract. President Hart's list is as fol
lows: Catchers: Chance and John Kiir.g;
I'itoli-'i-s: Menefee. Jack Taylor, Cu i
t Ingham, Jlu?hs and Kason; infielders:
Ixiyie. Childs. James le! hanty, Ray
l.ier and McConnick; outlielders: Iex
ter. Green, Hartsel and Dolan. Accord
ing to President Hart, Callahan has
wired him that he is going- Into nrivale
bu.-ineps and that the question of salary
J.ai nothing to do with his refusal to
Fig-n a National League contract. The
team, captained by First Baseman
T'oyle. will leave for Champaign, IU.,
Bun Jay morning- to- begin training-.
HTJSTING ASSIGNED TO BOSTON
Quin and Havenor Disposa of Their
Pitcher to Selee.
Milwaukee. "Wis., March 29. "Pete"
Slusting. the Milwaukee pitcher over
whom there has been a great deal of
wrangling of late, has. according to re
liable authority, been assigned by Quinn
and Havenor of the defunct American
association to tae Boston club of the
National league. The price is not given,
Vut the Boston peopl seemed anxious
to have a chance to secure tb.3 ex-uni-versity
pitcher. It is understood that
the deal was made a. few days ago, the
local rarti- s turning over their contract
with Husting to the Boston club. The
contract was not a league document, but
b personal contract with. Quinn and
Havenor.
"Pink" Hawley. the crack twirler -who
was in the National league for many
jears, lias accepted terms with the Mil
waukee club and he will most likely
don a Milwaukee uniform this season.
Hawley, who was dubbed by Anson
as the man with the $10,000 arm but a
poor head, has been in the National
league about eight years. He has
pitched for Cincinnati. Pittsburg and
New York, and has always been con
fi i red one of the leading twlrlers- In the
big It-ague. He has great sperd and fine
curves, and should prove a valuable ad
dition to the local pitching- corps. "With
Hawley, Reidy. Garvin, I'owling and
Kettger. Milwaukee undoubtedly has
the strongest pitching array in the
league.
WILL NOT PLAY QUAKERS.
Hawkeyea "Want Jumper L K. Baxter
for Coach of Track Team.
Philadelphia, March 2!. Pennsylva
nia will not play football this season
wi'h the University of Iowa. Pennsyl
vania's only open date is too early in
the season to permit of playing a game
as hard as the contest with Iowa would
be. Coach Woodruff, while giving this
s the reason for the refusal, said the
Quakers would be glad to play the west
erners under more favorable conditions.
Iowa is after I. K. Baxter, the famous
Pennsylvania hlch Jumper, fot coach of
her track team. Baxter has been
crfered. it Is sajd. a place in the law
faculty at Iowa as an extra inducement
to accept the athletic work. The of'er
was made by Iowa's athletic director.
Knipe. when the latter was, in thi3 city
recently. liaxter says that the matter
wl',1 not be definitely decided until he
visits the western university in the lat
ter part of April.
tlm Beutner, of this Gity, trainer of
the First Regiment Athletic association,
ha-s also been offered the position of
coach of the track team at the Iowa
institution. Coach ' Beutner's- service
with the soldier athletes has- given him
an unviable record. The matter is in
definite as yet, and no answer has been
given to the Iowans.
SLOAN PRACTICES AT TKAPS.
"Will Enter Grand American Handicap
Talks of Reinstatement
New York. March 29. Jockey Tod
Sloan, who arrived in New York from
the west Monday night began practice
for the Grand American Handicap live
bird shoot today.
Sloan showed he has improved greatly
at the traps by killing- 23 birds out of 25.
The diminutive knight of the pigskin
was greatly pleased with the score he
made and expert wing shots who saw
his performance say ha will ba a. factor
in the big event. "
Sloan has planned to remain In thi3
city several weeks, Bailing for Kurope
about April 14 or 15. He is quite con
fident that he will succeed In getting- a
license abroad when he gets a. chance
to plead his own case before the stew
ards of the English Jockey club.
"Such a sentence was certainly un
just," declared the dapper little rider.
"Put I think it will be reversed when
I put In a defense. At the present time
I feel like one who has been condemned
to hang before being- tried. When I left
England I had not the faintest idea such
action would be taken, and confess I
was shocked when I first heard it-
"lt is not true that I shall take any
horses over with me when. I sail. I am
going solely for the purpose of getting
a license and riding. Unless I can get
a good contract I shall not tie up with
anyone and may come back here to ride
before the season is over.'1
ERNE MAY HAVE A CHANCE.
Want to Meet McGovern at Light
Weight Limit
Pan Francisco. March 29. There Is now
a prospect that Terry McGovern will fight
here twice. It has been settled that he is
to meet Oscar Gardner in April, and there
is now- a very strong likelihood of a match
ldng arranged for him with Frank Erne
the following month.
Krne is here now at the Ingleside road
house, where he is keeping to himself as
much as possible. Krne says that he is
in splendid condition, and hopes the ef
forts of the Twentieth Century club look
ing to a match for him with the "Brook
lyn Terror" will be successful. He wants
to fight Terry at 1S3 pounds. As Terry
fought Cans at 133 pounds. F.rne is of the
opinion that McGovern could give him a
chance at 133. Krne says that any poor
showing he might have made was owing
to the fact that in their previous meet
ing lie had to give away his strength to
come down to a lower weight than 133
pounds. The substitution of Gardner for
Sullivan in the April tight has been
topic much discussed in local sporting
circles. Many of the rlnggoers appear to
be dissatisfied with the selection of Gard
ner. They look upon him as a "has-been
whose hands have given out
It is true, they say. Oscar gave Terr
a hard fight and actually knocked down
the Zirooklyn whirl wdnd. but this is som
years ago. Since then Gardner has been
defeated several times.
BLACKBURN POSTS A FORFEIT.
Gloucester Skipper Anxious For
Race Across the Atlantic.
Boston. March 2!. Captain Howard
Blackburn of Gloucester, who last sum
mer sailed from Gloucester. Mass., to
Gloucester. Kngland, alone in a twenty-
five fcot boat in sixty-two days, is desir
ous of trving it again, ana tnis time In
race for charity against some equally
oaring mariner.
I'lacKburn lias deposited witn .Dr.
Charles G. Pereival of the Pan-American
exposition bureau a forfeit for a race
from Gloucester. Mass., to Lisbon. Spain,
for any sum from iliju to purse to
be donated to chantv.
The challenge is addressed to Captain
Webster of Chicago. Captain Nat Martin
or Boston and captain Andrews or At
lantic Citv. Captain Webster sometime
ago thought he would like to race Black
burn, but no match could then be ar
ranged. Blackburn will ailow Webster to
carry along- one companion.
ROONEY WILL WRESTLE HALIL
Chicagoan Will Tackle "The Terrible"
at Alton on April 4.
Alton. Til.. March 29. The articles for
the match between John J. llooney of
Chicago and Halil, the "Terrible Turk."
re signetl m this cltv today, i he wres.
tllng bout will take place Thursday, April
la trio Temple tneater.
Ilalll is now training in St. Louis, wres
tling with three men at a time. Manage
Charleson, who has arranged the match,
says that this time the Turk is going up
gainst the hardest proposition he has
let the past year.
The men wrestle for a purse of S200. all
of the gate receipts and a liberal side bet.
Kooney s mends m Chicago have nottneii
the backers of Halil that they will meet
any side beta offered.
BASEBALL AT WASHBURN.
Diamond
Surveyed and Men
Out
Playing Every Afternoon.
Manaeer Tetwiler of the Washburn
base ball team and Prof. Harshbarger
surveyed the Washburn base ball diamond
yesterday. Before the tirst game, which
comes on April 13 with the State Normal
university, additional bleachers adequate
to accommodate the fans who will at
tend the game will be erected.
Members of the Athletic association fa
vored the erection of a grand stand, but
the finances cf the association would not
permit it. A backstop is being erected
by the Jvellam Book and Stationery com
pany and the Robinson-Marshall Clothing
company.
Tiie lield has been scraped, harrowed
and rolled and is in fine condition. Pros
pective members of the team are playing
every afternoon.
BONNER AND CREEDON.
Carroll Gets Good Bout in Place of
f Root-Carter Contest
Memphis, Tenn., March 29. In place
of the Jack Root-Kid Carter contest,
which has been called off by the Phoenix
Athletic club, a twenty-round bout is
announced tonight between Jack Bon
ner, the Pennsylvaia middleweight, and
Dan Creedon, the Australian. The
tight will take place April 15. The ar
ticles call for catch weights. Bobby
lobbs and Bob Long have been matched
for a. twenty-round argument April 9.
Little Rock Races.
Little Rock. Ark., March 29. A Turf
Congress sweepstakes fv" $1,000 was run
off at Clinton park Thursday and Cap
tain R. R. Rice, a veteran turfman, won
the event with his brown 2 year old Ally,
by Larnpllghter-Mamie Fonao. It was
apparently the most popular win made
her" In the history of the track. Track
fast, weather perfect, betting heavy.
Four odds-on choices and two second
picks won the events.
Yost to Coach Ann Arbor.
Los Ant;!es, Cal., March 29. F. H.
Yost, coach of the Stanford university
footoall eleven, is en route to Ann Arbor,
Mich., where he has accepted, a position
as coach for riext eeason. Mr. Yost
stale that he will endeavor to arran;??
a match between Stanford and Ann Ar
bor, to come off in Los Angeles next
Chiistmaa. and a game between Berke
ley and Ann Arbor at San Francisco Xox
New Year's day. ,
Aegon Star Brought $6,000.
Cedar Rapids ,1a., March 29. Geo. K.
Weal g- has sold Aegon Star. 2:11, to
W. M. Fisher, of West Liberty, for $,
000 c&sih Tiie hocse will b entered in
RAILROAD HEWS,
Kock Island Begins ImproTe
ments For the Year.
Fire Concrete Gangs at Work
on Bridge Foundations.
TIIE SEASON OPENED.
Santa Fe Will Spend Four Mil
lion Dollars This Year.
Sine
Hundred Miles of Wire
Will Be Strung.
With the opening of the spring season
conies renewed activity In railroad ex
tension and the repair of tracks, bridges
and buildings. In the touthwest, the
season for this kind of work opened sev
eral months ago when the Rock Isla-id
began the construction of a long exten
sion from Liberal, Kan., to White Oaks,
N. M. A short stretch of the track fur
thl.5 new line ha3 been laid, but lately
grading alone has been going on. The
nature of the country has been such as
to lender this slow and difficult. The
track laying which has been delayed so
long will probably be renewed next
week.
It is Interesting to note that this lirwj
wher completed is expected to be the
longest straight piece of track in the
country. On the divisions between Fair-
bury and Omaha, Neb., and in Coloraao
live concrete gangs of about 20 men
each have been started to repairing the
foundation work of bridges. Concrete is
to form the foundation and for putting
this in these gangs are at work. A
great many steel bridges no doubt will
rep ace the wooden ones, and the big
briise across the Platte river in Ne
braska is to receive some repairs. This
bridge has rested upon piling, the nature
of the river bed making it impossible
to build piers; and it is this part which
will be repaired.
Yv ith the Santa Fe four million dollars
is lhe sum that will go to improve
ment of lines. This is a million more
than was given to the purpose last year.
Reduction of grades and straightening
the line on the Emporia cutoff between.
Holi.'day Junction and Kmporia Junction
will be an important Item. The work
was begun the forepart of the winter,
but the freight traffic of the road grew,
tourist and colonist rates and other in
ducements swelled the volume of pas
senger travel until every piece of the mo
tive power on the system had to be
pressed into service for moving the bus
iness. This took away the engines which,
had been used on the construction trains
and the work was stopped indefinitely.
Aflrr this is completed other reduction
of grades and elimination of curves wii!
be undertaken . Besides the great sum
to be spent for new shops in Topeka
terminals at Kansas City will be
arranged and a new freight depot will bp
bunt there.
Guthrie and Oklahoma City will get
new passenger depots, and at Raton, N
M., will be built a new station and eat
ing house combined. Of course there yv'!
be other numerous small depots azid
buildings of different kinds.
Furing the year 900 miles of telegraph
wire will be strung over Santa Fe poles.
This will be principally from Albuquer
que N. M., west to San Francisco aj d
alopg branch lines, besides quite a dis
tance in Texas. Part of thi3 will be cop
per wire, the rest iron. The contract ;or
the wire calls for its delivery so th
the work of stringing it may be begun
at least by April 15. The Santa Fe wiii
be leady by that time to start seveial
gangs at different points and to rush the
work at the rate of about 40 miles p-
day. The increase cf telegraph busin-iss
on tnis part of the Santa Fe system has
rendered this necessary. Besides, a lot
of rrpairtng will be done along the San
ta Fe telegraph lines in Kansas before
the season closes.
These railroad improvements are of
much importance and mean a great deal
not only to the roads themselves but to
the people of the country generally. ,
DE BERNARDI IS APPOINTED,
Is Idade Superintendent of
Kansas
and Colorado Lines.
St. Louis, Mo., March 29. General
Superintendent Clark of thp Missouri
Pacihc has issued a circular announcing
the appointment of A. DeBernardi as
superintendent of the Central Kansas
and Colorado divisions of the Missouri
Pacific with headquarters at Osawat
omie, Kan. Mr. DeBernardi will sue
ceed J. M. Herbert, who becomes gen
eral superintendent of the Iron Mountain
system on April 1.
J. F. Sims has been appointed divis
ion superintendent of the Central branch
railway. Rooks county railroad and Pa
cific railway in Nebraska with head
quarters at Concordia, Kan., to succeed
Mr. DeBernardi.
FT. SCOTT CONDUCTORS' DANCE.
Annual Dance Will Take Place Day
After Easter.
Fort Scott, March 29. The railroad
conductors of Fort Scott have already
begun making arrangements for their
anual dance, which will be an Easter
dance this year, and take place at Union
hall on the Monday following that day.
It is doubtful if this place will accom
modate the large crowd which is sure
to be in attendance, but it was the best
place that could be secured, convention
hall being already engaged for the next
three or four weeks. The conductors
are making more extensive plans than
usual for the event this year and it is
thought their hop will be one of the
most brilliant of the season.
Shop Man Inherits Fortune.
John Torry, a sweeper in the Santa
Fe boiler shop, has inherited a fortune.
Wednesday he received word of this
from Glasgpw, Scotland, and with this
news came a check for 500 pounds from
the Bank of England. This sum, which
of course amounts to $2,500 American
money, is only what has accrued from
the estate to which Mr. Torry becomes
heir. He left yesterday afternoon for
his old home In Scotland. Torry came
to the shops here about a year ago, and
has since worked as sweeper in' the
boiler shops. He possessed a good edu
cation and wrote frequently for the
"Santa Fe" magazine, published by the
railroad Y. M. C. A. He claimed to
have been at one time round-house fore
man on the Norfolk & Western railroad.
In early life he spent Feveral years on
the sea, and also said that he had been
clerk in a bajik at one time. Torry
seems to have spent most of his time
wandering about, though he never
tramped. He was well liked by those
who knew him here.
Rock Island Rushing Work.
Rock Island officials say that side
tracks and station improvements are
being made along their line from Minco
to Oscar in Oklahoma, to take care of
the rush business when the new country
is to be opened to settlement in Okla
homa. They are rushing the work from
Chickasha west and hope to have every
thing in business shape to the west: line
of the country to be opened to settle
ment. Every possible attention Is being
given the matter by way of taking care
of the new volume of business that will
fall to the Rock Island.
Newton Engineer's Fast Run.
Newton, March 29. Engineer H. Y.
Amos is said to have made the best run
with train No. SI yet recorded on the
Santa Fe. He left Newton three hours
and ten minutes late, and arrived at
Dodge City one hour and twenty-five
minutes late. His train was composed
of fifteen heavy loads, and he averaged
just thirty miles an hour between New
ton and Dodge City, which included all
the delays. No. 1's time was exceeded
just five minutes. I
. RAILROAD NOTES
W. E. Dauchy, chief engineer of the
Rock Island, was in Topeka today. He
Vft over the Santa Fe for Las Vegas, N.
M., accompanied by W. R. Cannon,
superintendent of bridges and buildings.
The two will drive over the proposed
line, from Las Vegas to Santa Roso and
north to Twist, Tex.
William Flannelly, traveling passenger
agent of the Southern railway at Kan
sas City, was in Topeka yesterday.
The Rock Island has issued a neat
pamphlet advertising the International
Kpworth League convention to be held
at San Francisco July 18-21. The round
trip rate for this occasion is $45.
J. J. Miller, an employe of the Penn
sylvania railroad, has invented a device
that is intended to solve the smoke and
cinder problem of railway trains. The
Invention consists of a pipe connection
with the smokestack of the locomotive
running back over the entire passenger
train, the sections being connected on
the same principle as the air brake. The
average diameter of an engine smoke
stack is fourteen inches, and the pipe
that will run from it over the train will
be of the same .diameter. The smoke
In this way is passed over the entire
train and has escapes on both sides of
the rear coacn at the bottom. There
will be an air vent in the smokestack.
The device is to serve as a spark arrest
er, smoke consumer and a distributor of
cinders along the roadbed.
E. P. White, of Lyndon, Is suing the
Santa Fe for $10,000 as a result of im
paired health which he claims was
caused by impure water furnished by
the company. -u .
Trainmaster's clerk, Joe Pearson, of
Wellington, will probably be transferred
to Arkansas City to work in the office
of E. A. Austin, and R. L. Cochran of
Woodward will become . trainmaster's
clerk in Wellington. -
J. D. M. Hamilton, claims attorney for
the Santa Fe and president of the Na
tional Association of Railway Claims
Attorneys and Claim Agents, has issued
his call for the next annual meeting. The
association represents all the leading
railroads of the United States and Can
ada and the meeting will be held May
2a at Cleveland, Ohio,
SANTA FE LOCALS
The roof of the sand house has lately
been repaired.
Charles Bentley and Fred Morgan,
night switchmen, are taking a layoff.
Harry Parish, a round-house wiper,
is sick at the hospital with typhoid
fever. , i
Isaac Slagle. foreman of the car wheel
shop, was sick at his home yesterday.
Peter Hagan, of the car repair shop,
failed to report for duty yesterday. He
is sick.
Machinist Helper Heck Is taking a
layoff, nursing a broken finger. While
moving an air pump it fell on his hand,
breaking he left second finger. He will
be out several days.
Charles Eakley, of the freight car
shed, is unable to work on account of
sickness.
Fireman L. Laws has reported for
work. ,
Ed Veils, car repairer,, did not re
port for work yesterday.
The "Santa Fe" was issued yesterday
and distributed among shop men. It
was devoted mostly to the bond ques
tion, and contained the opinions of a
great many railroad men on this sub
ject. Cuts of the plans for the new
shops were printed. A timely article
was also printed on the needs of a new
railroad Y. M. C. A. building.
Ed Sheets, who was hurt in the ex
plosion a few days ago, is still off duty.
He was cut in the forehead, but his in
iurles were not serious.
Engine 437, a large tandem compound,
is ready for service again after general
overhauling.
E. W. Middaugh, of the Grand Trunk
passed through last night on the second
section of No. 2.
Dan Fry, engineer at the depot, is un
able to be at work. A heavy trunk fell
from a baggage truck a few days ago,
wrenching his back so bodly that he
is confined to his home on West Gordon
street. :
G. D. McDill, international railroad
secretary of the Y. M. C. A,, was in To
peka yesterday.
FROM NEWTON.
The management of the Santa Fe has
decided to run two sections of train No
3 from Kansas City to Newton daily and
the two crews have been regularly as
signed to the work. They are Jackson
and Peters, Shefendecker and Gilmore.
They will make the trip to Newton every
morning and will dead head to Kansas
City on the return trip, providing there
is no second sections oi me mornins
passenger trains east.
Angus Shields' smiling countenance
was noted in the roundhouse Wednesday
for the first time in a couple of days.
Angus has ben among the indisposed.
Switchman Will Burdlck has been as
signed to the 8 o'clock engine, while
Grant Commons has taken the 7 o'clock
shift. Charlie Jones has gone to the
hill.
W. J. Miner has returned from Topeka
and Kansas City, where he has been for
a week or more, getting a rew pointers
in the electrical engineering line.
Gis Base mashed a hand quite baaiy
recently and as a consequence is off duty
today. A wrench slipped off the head of
a bolt which he was tightening with dis
astrous results to Gus, ana it may be
several days before he will be able to re
sume work.
It has been rumored In the city that
H. Banker's removal to Temple, Tex.,
was made necessary Dy maKing two en
visions of the G. C. & S. F., where there
was but one. He will have the South
ern division, while a man named Morgan,
formerly of Chicago, will move, to Cle
burne and mave charge of w hat will be
known as the Northern division.
Chris Haman, who has been among
the indisposed, has resumed his position
as baggage man, and was on duty when
the trains came in. :
Ranee Johnson has returned to work
and has assumed the foremanship of the
boilerwork in the roundhouse. He has
been off duty a couple of days, having
been quite ill. v
Engineer William igoe nas reported
for duty.
Joe Shuck is laying ore on account or
illness and Dick Peters is handling the
night engine.
Fritz Peters has accepted a position
as caller for the engine crews.
Conductor George Koacn is nome rrom
Kansas Citv and has had his name in
scribed on the bulletin board, indicating ,
that he is ready for duty.
KflSISASJIElVS.
A Wiufield Jointist Is Released
From Arrest.
Almost a Miracle, Only the Wine
Turned to .Water.
SURPRISE OF OFFICER.
Had Liquor Under Lock and
Key Yet Tampered With.
Found Casks Filled W ith Water
and Case Is Dismissed.
Winfield, Kas., March 29. The case
of the state against Chance Rhodes, un
der arrest on the charge of violating the
prohibitory law, has been dismissed
and the prisoner discharged. The evi
dence was stolen, and no case could be
made and the laugh seems to be on the
officials, ;
When the raid was made on Rhodes'
place four bottles of "rock and rye"
and a keg of liquor which smelled Ike
whisky were found. Constable Scott
stored the contraband goods in the
room In the Hague block formerly oc
cupied by Justice Webb. He locked the
door and put the key in his pocket un
der the delusion that the evidence in
this case was sure and certain. He
then walked away contented.
Yesterday he thought he- would just
look in to see that everything was se
cure and was surprised to fjnd one of
the bottles broken. He reported the
matter to County Attorney Torrance,
who advised him for fear of burglars
and in the interest of good government
to take samples of the goods and lock
them in somebody's vault.
Acting on the suggestion and taking
along two good men as witnesses, Mr.
Scott entered the room where the
spirits used to be and proceeded to tap
the keg. It contained Walnut river
water.
With a look of blank dismay fast
settling on his countenance he quickly
grabbed up a bottle of rock and rye;
and opened it with the dexterity of an
expert. The bottle contained water. All
the others contained the same innocent
fluid.
A CONVICT SUICIDES.
Life Prisoner, Taylor Cock, Ends His
Life in Lansing Prison.
Leavenworth, Kas., March 29. Taylor
Cook, a life prisoner from Osborne
county, committed suicide in his cell in
the penitentiary at Lansing late Thurs
day afternoon. Taylor used the wire
employed to tie up his bed and a sheet
fastening them to a hook in the celling
and kicking a stool from under him.
Since his incarceration, in 1SS9, Cook
has importuned every governor to sign
his death warrant, but all refused. At
one time he was an inmate of the in
sane asylum.
Sue Father on Son's Bond.
Concordia, March 29. Suit was today
filed in the district court for Cloud coun
ty by the city of Clyde against J. A.
Patterson, father of A. J. Patterson, the
defaultingg treasurer of Clyde, for the
sum of $3,000, alleged to have been em
bezzled during the year 1898 and 1899.
when Patterson, sr., was surety on the
bond of his son in the sum of $f,000. J.
A. Patterson is quite wealthy and when
his son's deficit was first discovered he
agreed to make it good, but afterwards
changed his mind, transferring to his
wife all his property. He has been a
leading business man of Clyde for years,
engaged in the implement business, and
but a Ehort time since retired.
Pensions For Kansana.
Washington, D. C March 29 Pensions
have been issued to Kansans as follows:
Additional George M. Gotham. Em
poria, J10; John W. Hamilton, Marion,
$8. .
Increase Daniel Eruner, Concordia,
J12.
Reissue William H, Foster, Cunning
ham, $50.
Original widows, etc. Minor of James
A. Eckley, Latham, $10; special act,
March 15, Clara Sanvain, Lansing, $8;
Julia A. Gay, Winfield, $12; Anna Rusk,
New Albany, $12.
New Rural Route.
Washington, D. C, March 29. Rural
free delivery will be established April
15 as follows: Kansas Eudora, Doug
las county, additional, one carrier;
length of route, 25 miles; area covered,
33 square miles; number of houses on
route, 110; population served, 550: car
rier, Malon H. Cox. Beloit, Mitchell
county, additional services, two car
riers; length of routes, 53 miles; area
covered, 60 square miles; population
served, 1.100; number of houses on
routes, 211; carriers, H. H. Wilson and
Thomas Jones.
Charged With Stealing Lead.
Kansas City, Kas., March 29. A war
rant was sworn out yesterday for the
arrest of J. Isherwood, a merchant of
Argentine, charging him with stealing
white lead from Santa Fe cars. He was
brought before Justice Conoho of the
north side city court and released on
$500 bond. He will have a. preliminary
hearing next week.
New Kansas Postmasters.
Washington, X. C, March 29. The ap
pointment of the following Kansas post
masters is announced: At Farlinville,
Linn county, John McGrew, vice W.
Gott, resigned; at Lerado, Reno county.
D. Davis, vice C. Dutton. resigned; at
Logan, Phillips county, F. Richmond,
vice W. Drumhiller, dead; at Mastin.
Johnson county. M. Morgan, vice Ji
Morgan, resigned.
Charged With Liquor Selling.
Eureka, March 29. William Campbell
of Neal was arrested yesterday on a
charge of selling intoxicating liquors and
brought to Eureka, wnere ne gave bona
for his appearance at the April term of
the district court.
Southern Kansas Congregationalists.
Independence, March 29 The Southern
Kansas Association of Congregational
Churches began its semiannual session
,pre yesterday. Most of the ministers
of this part of Kansas and many prom
inent church workers are present.
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Steve Brodie, the bridge jumper, who
died in San Antonio, Tex., January 31,
1901, was offered for probate today by
Sullivan, Goldsmith & Kngel, of ?16
Broadway, counsel for Senator Timothy
D. Sullivan, who has been appointed ad
ministrator of the Brodie estate. The
will is in the handwriting of Brodie,
and was signed by him in June, 1900.
Spelling and all, It reads as follows:
''Friday. June 8, 1900.
"I, Stephen Brodie, being In my right
mind and about to undergo an operation
which may ha ve serious results. I make
this my last will, and declare any other,
if such are in existence, I declare them
cancelled and valid. I now name my
oldest daughter sole heir and exeditor
to my real and personal estate, con
sisting of Nos. 163 and 165 Kast One
Hundred and Second street. New Tork
city, which are valued at $a0.000; five
lots in Hollywood, N. J., three lots in
Harrison, N. Y and $30,000 in cash,
which is, too the best of my ability, in
the different banks In New York city;
all my jewelry worn by me and other
persons which Miss Irine Brodie knows
of. Miss Irine Brodie to be sole exeditor
untlll her sister, Nellie Brodie, Incomes
of age of 21 years of age; then the
property to be equaly divided between
my three children, Irine Brodie. Nellie
Brodie and Stephen Brodie. Miss Irene
Brodie to pay any all the just debts I
owe. I declare this mv last will.
, "STEPHEN BRODIE."
Baseball Gossip.
Comlskey has admitted that he tried to
get Lowe and failed.
The Chicasro White Stockings will train
at Excelsior Springs, Mo.
Pitcher Phyle. the Chicago ex-twlrler,
may sign with New York.
Top spinning as exercise for pitchers'
arms is the latest wrinkle,
Edward Hanlon looks to see some of
the National leaeruers who flopped do
acrobatic stunts back again.
The training season of the National
league opens next Monday.
Pitcher Earl Moore has signed with
both St. Louis and Cleveland.
George Pavis Is in Chicago trying to se
cure pitching talent for New York.
Ralph Seyhold. the ex-Red. will prob
ably chase Hies for Connie Mock.
Charlie Becker received an offer yester
day to manage the Waco, Tex., team.
The Princeton college teum won the first
game of the season from Rutgers, 21 to 1.
Manager Hanlon mav play Joe Kelly at
third base if young Gatlns does not till up
the gap.
Dolan. who Is to take Lajoie'3 placo
at second, is now on his way to Philadel.
phia from Omaha.
They are still after the deaf and dumb
plavers. Mantling has Just eigned Paul
Curtis, a mute of Kansas.
Magnate Soden refused to hold a con
ference with "Angel" Soiners in the mat
ter of conflicting dates.
It's a 100 to 1 shot that Zimmer will
again don a Pittsburg uniform. Harry
Pulliam Is after him.
James O'Rourke, jr., the son of the vet
teran National league player, Is a candi
date for the Yale college nine.
Manager Wally Taylor of the Utlca, N.
Y.. team has asked for the terms of
"Lefty" Geyer and Phil Rantz.
Oliver Faulkner, the new pltchr of
thp Boston National leaeue team, la over
6 feet tall and weighs 175 pounds.
Elton Chamberlain may be pecured to
strengthen the pitching staff of th New
York (Slants. v
that's the matter witn
Will White?
RarTictpr T-TiiE-hev Jennlns-s will forsake
Blackstone and Kent on June 1 If Hanlon
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right. He wants McGinnity, too.
Ed Hanlon has picked up a pitcher
named Gene McCann. He probably pitch
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makes good. They always do for Han
lon. Nashville wants to cut Tom Parrotfs
salarv from $175 to $125 per month. The
celebrated virtuoso threatens to get even
with the manager by playing him a bunch
of solos.
The Cincinnati?, though they will be
without Barrett, the crack cetner fielder,
appear to have been strengthened a trif.e.
by the addition of Amos Rusie, providing,
of course, the big fellow can show his old
time speed.
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lock my watch and rings in the safe and
then would keep an eye on my hat aoid
umbrella."
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