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4 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THDKSDAT EVENING. JANUARY 2, 1902. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL BY FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. VOLUME XXIX No. 2 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Iaily edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kansas town where the paper has a car rier -system. By mail, onft year ...,...$3.60 By mail, three months 90 Weekly edition, one year . .50 Saturday edition of daily one year.... 1.00 PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal building, 800 and S02 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. NEW YORK OFFICES; 811 Vanderbilt Bid. Paul Block, Mgr. TELEPHONES. Business Office Bell 'phone 1C7 Reporters' Room Bell 'phone 677 FX7Z.X. LEASED "WTP-E REFOXIT OF THE ASSOCIATES PRESS. The State Journal Is a member of the Associated Press and receives the full day telestraph report of that great news or ganization for exclusive afternoon publi cation In Topeka, The news is received In the State Jour nal building; over wires for this sole pur pose, busv through the entire day. A complete copy ot the night report is also received. The story of damage to the peach crop found it necessary to get In early In or der to beat the one about the wheat, so It is here already. The election of a president and the beginning of the Neely trial all in the fame week indicate that there is some thing doing in Cuba. There was no fight to speak of when Topeka voted waterworks bonds. There was no cause for opposition. The bonds have not cost anybody anything, and don't seem likely to do so. The first year of the new century has given us wireless telegraphy and the "JJrigible balloon. Any prediction of what the new year has in store would be more liable to fall short than to over reach. It doesn't appear to seriously dam age a man in the public estimation to be rebuked by the war department. The president has been through it, and can form some Idea of how Miles felt when Root scolded him. In Leavenworth, where they have Just voted bonds for the purpose of acquir ing the waterworks, they may find, like Topeka has done, that it is one thing to yote bonds and another to get the water plant. Washington Post: The people of this country stick stubbornly to the old fashioned ideas of heroism. They insist upon admiring the men who do the fighting, much as they may deprecate the necessity for it. The American trust, like everything else American, has begun to reach out for new fields. The oil trust has invad ed Russia, the tobacco trust has gained a foothold in Germany, and the steel trust has just begun to plant its ten tacles in England. What ails these New "Yorkers? As soon as a man Is elected to the United States senate he appears to feel called upon to get married, regardless of age or previous conditions. Right on the heels of Depew's wedding comes the an nouncement that Piatt is engaged. In the political fight which is In prog ress in Ohio the Foraker forces may succeed in w hipping Hanna, but when it cornea to doing it so that he will stay whipped, why, that Is another matter. Tour Uncle Mark is a man of wonderful and varied resources, and It is not easy to tell when he is knocked out. There comes from the United States minister at The Hague a flat-footed statement that all the yarns that have been circulated about the domestic troubles of the Queen of Holland and her husband were pure falsehoods, with out -any foundation in' fact. Minister Sewell declared that he has evidence of the falsity of all the charges brought against the prince consort. He denies unqualifiedly the whole story of the duel between Prince Henry and Van Tets. He asserts, as one -having authority, that not a cloud has darkened the home life of the royal family of Holland. New Tork has a new law governing marriage, which went into effect yes terday. The requirements of the new law are as follows: The written con tract must be signed by both parties and at least two witnesses. It shall state the place of residence of the contracting parties and of the witnesses. It shall give the time and place of the marriage. It must be acknowledged by the par ties and witnesses in the manner re quired for the acknowledgment of a conveyance of real estate, to entitle It to be recorded. It shall be filed within six months after its execution in the office of the clerk of the city or town where the marriage took place. When the certificate is presented at the office of the town or city clerk, it must be filed and entered in a book kept by him in alphabetical order. The fee for filing the certificate is 25 cents, and for a certified copy of a cer tificate or contract, or entry, 10 cents. SOLD UNDER FORECLOSURE Luluth Transfer Railway Bought by Bondholders. Duluth, Minn., Jan. 2. The Duluth Transfer railway was sold today under foreclosure of bonds amounting to $1, 180.000, and was bought in by the bond holders. Special Master T. H. Pressnell made the sale under an order of the Vnited States court, and there were no bidders except John G. Williams, who represented the bondholders. The road consists of valuable termin als in Duluth running from the heart of tHe city up to Fond du Lac, and reach ing all the manufacturing industries and includes practically all terminal fa cilities not now owned by the Northern Pacific, Great Northern or Om;;na ro5ds. It has repeatedly been reported that J. J. Hill had acquired the road, but if he doe it will have to be through the bond holders, who will own it when the court cor nm . the sale. Attorney Williams said that the road will probably bw reorgan- TIGHTMONEY. It Causes Embarrassment of Ererett-Moore Syndicate. Committee of Clereland Hankers Placed in Charge. Cleveland, Jan. 2. A . committee of Cleveland bankers has taken charge of the various properties controlled by the Everett-Moore syndicate. A statement issued by the committee this afternoon says in part: "It became apparent some time ago to some of the members of the Everett Moore syndicate so-called, that on ac count of the tight money situation in the different, centers where they were financing some of their enterprises, that although in their opinion they owned several dollars' worth of property over and above their liabilities, that they would be unable without temporary as sistance to meet their obligations. Many of these obligations arose1 from the fact that the syndicate were engaged in die construction of a number of enterprises which were not yet fully completed, re quiring large amounts of money to pay for labor and materia in. the construc tion." The syndicate was also recently dis appointed in being unable to complete the negotiations for the raising of a large sum of money upon certain bonds and stocks belonging to them which would have furnished them with ready funds and with negotiations they had reason to believe until ten days ago would result favorably. "Some of the members of the syndi cate when it became apparent to them that many of their liabilities which, were coming due about the first of Jan uary could not be met, called together some of their personal advisers to con sult with them as to what was best to be done. "These gentlemen examined very fully into all of the affairs of those compos ing the syndicate, and were furnished with very full and complete informa tion. "They found further from their in vestigations that in the telephone sit uation while among its different ele ments it had many companies that had fully completed their equipment and were on a paying basis, that there were others that need material assistance. "They also found that so far as the per sonal affairs of the members of the syn dicate were concerned that their equities were, in their opinion, largely In excess of their liabilities, and that in their judg ment all of the personal creditors could be paid without doubt from the assets and several hundred thousand dollars put into the completing of the properties. "They found that there were in Cleve land upwards of SO banks that were their creditors and that these banks held the choicest of the securities and the most equities." The Everett-Moore syndiqate own or control many trolley and telephone lines throughout Ohio and Michigan. Fol lowing are the more important street companies: The Cleveland Electric Railway company, the Detroit United Railroad company, the Cleveland, Palnesville & Eastern Railroad com pany, the Detroit & Toledo Short Line Railroad company and the Lake Shpre Electric Railway company and the Northern, Ohio Traction company. SUE FOR THEIR REBATE Former Officers of National Aid Sue the Banker's Union. Three suits were today filed In the Shawnee district court against the Bankers' Union by L. K. Lewis, W. T. Scott and W. T. Cooley, officers of the National Aid, for $333 each. The suits are for the recovery of the value of promissory notes held by the plaintiffs and due January L 1902. The three plaintiffs were officers of the National Aid association, and al lege that they were promised these notes as a rebate aa an inducement to enter the Bankers' Union. MORE FAILURES But the Honey Total is Much Below Last Tear's. New Tork, Jan. 2. Reports to R. G. Dun & Co.. show that the failures for the year 1901 were 11,002 in number and 1113,092.376 in amount of liabilities while in banking and other fiduciary institu tions there were 74 insolvencies involv ing $18,018,774, a total of 11.076 defaults, and $131,111,150 liabilities. These figures compare very favorably with the 10,833 failures in 1600 with liabilities of U4. 113,236, of which 59 were banks for $35, 617,668. Manufacturing disasters in 190.'., numbered 2,441, with an indebtedness of $44,960,983, compared with 2,409 in the previous year owing $51,702,142, while there were 7,965 suspensions of traders for $52,060,640, against 7,844 in 1900 with liabilities of $59,415,592. TJie defaulted liabilities were 96 cents to each $1,000 of bank exchanges. A ratio to the num ber of firms in business shows that the entire amount of defaulted indebtedness averaged $94.33 for each concern. This amount compares with $119.63 in 1900, while going back to 1893, the average was $290.65. In many ways the prosperous condi tions in the United States were shared across the northern border for commer cial failures in the dominion of Canada were fewer in number and smaller in amount of liabilities than in five of the preceding seven years. As to banking insolvencies the statement was even more favorable, no one of the earlier years making as good an exhibit. All commercial defaults numbered 1,341 with liabilities of $10,811,671, which com pares with 1,355 in 1900 owing $11,613,208. In manufacturing there were 2S9 fail ures for $5,595,095, against 308 in the pre vious year with liabilities for $3,021,665. Trading failures numbered 1.029. with a total indebtedness of $6,845,329, com pared with 1,010, in the previous year for $7,232,340. ORPHANS' HOME THANKFUL Ladies Acknowledge Gifts From To peka People. The ladies in charge of the Orphans' Home association have closed up the Christmas and New Tear's charities and announce the following list to whom credit is due for gifts for the helpless little ones in their charge: The Swedish Baptist church :the First Meth odist church; Miss Wehe's kindergar ten; public schools; Nickle Plate; T. J. Coughlin & Martin, hardware; J. V. Abrahams; Miss Josephine Shellabar ger; Col. J. W. Brier; Granteer & Ober ly; Mr. Frank Bonebrake; T. C. Thomp son; H. J. Guthrie; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks: Mrs. C. W. Jewell; Mrs. H. O. Garvey; Mrs. C. F. Spencer; Mrs. Harry Valentine; John Schmidt; Charles Wolff; T. O'Neal. Morgan's Magic Touch. London, Jan. 2. The Cotton Seed Oil company's shares hardened on the stock exchange today on the issuing of a cir cular setting forth that recent negotia tions had resulted in J. S. Morgan & Co. interesting themselves in the con cern, end that the Morgans had been allotted 100,000 shares of stock. I We Wilt BEARSFRUIT. Mexican Reciprocity Movement is Securing Encouragement. Secretary A. B. Hulit is Receiv ing Many Letters. HEARS FROM VETERAN. Ex-Governor Crittenden of Missouri Favors Plan. Says It Is the Doctrine of James G. Blaine. A. B. Hulit, who was selected as cor responding secretary to work up inter est in the coming reciprocity conven tion on January 21, is beginning to get letters concerning it. Mr. Hulit has written to a large number of manufac turing Interests in the west, especially in Kansas, besides governors and other prominent men in the western states which would naturally be interested in securing as much Mexican trade as possible. He has also written to vari ous departments in Washington to se cure data concerning Mexican trade and other matters which will doubtless be of interest to the convention. Ex-Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, has written Mr. Hulit a letter com mending the movement and especially the part Kansas is taking in it. Gover nor Crittenden is an old-line Democrat, but is a believer in the doctrine of re ciprocity as laid down by James G. Blaine. His letter is all the more in teresting in view of the fact that he was formerly consul general from the United States to Mexico. He says: "I have your letter and the State Journal containing an account of the meeting of which you write. I take much interest in the subject, 'Reciproc ity' discussed before the preliminary conference, but, my dear sir, age with its infirmities warns me to stay near the shore and the family fireside. Mr. Blaine had the wisdom to sea the value of reciprocity. "No on. who knew that great and brilliant man, even as I did, doubted his fidelity to the tariff question of other days, but he saw the time was rapidly approaching in this and other progres sive countries when the tariff for the few, should give way to a broader and freer trade under the captivating term of reciprocity. Had he lived in the vigor of his splendid manhood to this date that doctrine and his. seductive statesmanship would have been in full operation, and our immense volume of trade, as large as it is, would have been largely increased. "I deeply regret he could not have lived to reap the benefits of his ripened and ripening views, but like many of the pioneers of science, he died before the maturity of his plans, and of his discoveries. When he passed away, truly a great man had failed in Israel. Reciprocity is a long step in the right direction, and when once taken cannot be receded from but can be made more advantageous by another and greater step in the same direction. "I an as you will see as near a free trader as circumstances will permit. I state what I know to be a commercial fact when saying there is no cereal, agricultural or pastoral state in the. United States that would be more greatly benefited by reciprocity, (the more the better,) than Kansas. It should be in the forefront of the battle. Its name as such a leader at a time like this would b. worth ten thousand men, and there is no state in the great west that could send forth more able advo cates of Mr. Blaine's doctrine than Kansas. "The west should and will sooner or NEURALGIA We suggest curing a pain in the face by taking Scott's Emulsion into the stomach. Usual way of treating neural gia is to rub liniment on the outside. That's only a make shift Scott's Emulsion is nerve food. Scott's Emulsion feeds and strengthens nerves. For an obstinate neuralgia, for nervousness, for nerve weakness take Scott's Emul sion. It's nerve food and nerve strengths We'H lead yon . little I. try, if 70a 111c.. SCOTT & BOWNE, Pud stmt, N.W Y.xk to TOMORROW To the Mothers in TopeRa : If you miss our Bargain Children's Suit Sale Tomorrow at the selling out of the CONTINENTAL you will miss the biggest Bargain yet. They have been marked way down and must go. s5 g j Boys' 2-piece Suits. Boys9 3 -piece Suits. The Continental carried none but the best and we want to sell 873 of them tomorrow at 40, 50 and 60 Cents on the Dollar. Remember the Place, 617 Kansas Avenue. later get away from that old effete doc trine of a tariff for protection of our "infant industries," and enter upon that other and later idea of reciprocal rela tions for self defense. We must enter on broader fields with newer ideas. Out skilled artisans and modern machinery scoff those old time worn, shop worn theories. "We are now beginning to be the leaders of the .world, in war and peace, and the stronger we are on peace ideas and the preparation for the mainten ance of our trade, the stronger we will be upon that of war. I hope the day may never "come when it will ever be come necessary for our country to en gage in any war other than the great commercial wars now raging between the great leading nations of the world. 'Peace hath her victories no less re nowned than war.' Tours truly, "THOS. T. CRITTENDEN." FOR LOVE'S SAKE. New Tork Girl Has Risked Loss of Millions. New York, Jan. 2. Fannie Rayne 11c Comb has risked the loss of millions ior love's sake and has just married Lewis Herzog. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke at the brick Presbyterian church, this city, in the presence of a few of the young people's friends. The bride is a daugh ter of the millionaire James J.'McConib, who died on March 31 last at Doha's Ferry. , . : ; Mr. McComb objected to Mr. Herzog as a prospective son-in-law, and a few days before his death h. added a codicil to his will which has deferred the wed ding until the present. Mr. McComb's fortune was estimated at the time of his death at upward of (20,000,000. By th. provisions of hla will, .which has been in existence for years, his daugh ter Fannie would have received upward of $4,000,000. By the codicil it was pro vided that if she were married to Mr. Herzog she should be cut oft with an income of $15,000 a year during her tile, $300,000 to go on her death to each of her children absolutely. Soon after her father's death Miss McComb, through Attorney W. W. McFarlane, brought suit against the Title Guaranty and Trust company, executors of her fath er's will, seeking to have the courts de clare the new codicil void. The courts refused to consider the question prior to the marriage of Miss McComb. A DENVER HORROR. Boy Killed and Sister Assaulted by Unknown Man. Denver, Colo., Jan. 2. At 9 o'clock last night an unknown man attacked Harold Friedborn, aged 15 and Flor ence, his sister, aged 16, while they were skating on a small pond near their home in North Denver. The boy was struck on the head with an ax and in stantly killed. The girl was then as saulted. Some time later she recovered consciousness and reached her home. The police were notified and the entire force is now searching for the murderer. The little girl gave a fair description of the man. She says she bit his finger severely and the police hope 'this may aid them in his apprehension. A SECOND SUBWAY. Boston Will Present a BUI to the Legislature. Boston, Jan. 2. The great and general court of Massachusetts was convened to day for the session of 1902. Rufus A. Soule of New Bedford was re-elected by the senate as president and the house elected James J. Myers of Cambridge speaker for the third time. The senate includes 33 Republicans and 7 Democrats, a gain of two Republioana, compared with last year. The house has 167 Republican.. 72 Democrats and 2 So cial Democrats, a gain of 14 Democratic representatives over last year. There is a tie in one district. . It is expected that the session will last well into June. From the present outlook the most im portant measure that will come before the legislature is the bill for a second subway in Boston. A bill passed last year was vetoed by the governor, but it is ex pected that this year's measure will be framed so as to meet the governor's ap proval. Asphalt Company Defaults. Philadelphia, Jan. 2. The actual default of the National Asphalt company which was anticipated several days ago and for which receivers have been appointed, oc curred today when the payment of $500,000 due to the sinking fund and as interest on bonds was not made. Of the half million dollars. $300,000 was due to be paid to the Land Title company by the Asphalt com pany of America. This amount forms the sinking fund which is to be.pald annually to the trustees of the asphalt company. The National company's payment of $50, 000. which forms the sinking fund and which was to be turned over the Equita ble Trust company trustee today was not forthcoming. On National 6s interest for six months, amounting to $500,000,- was also due today, but this was not met. 7l AX THE CONTINENTAL! YOUNG BOY SUICIDES. for Slight Reprimand Smith Center Lad Shoots Himself. Smith Center, Kan., Jan. 2. Ralph Best, a boy 12 years old, living south of town, shot and killed himself Monday. He was living with his uncle, J. J. Mun day, his parents both being dead. Early in the morning he and his cousin rose as usual and did the customary morning work around the place. At the barn they had a little disagreement over which should open the barn door. When they returned to the house Mr. Munday reprimanded the boys, sending one to help his wife, and the other, young Best, was told to go upstairs and remain until he was called down to breakfast. With in five minutes a shot was heard and the boy was found with a bullet hole through his body, it having entered near his left nipple. Death came in a few minutes. PENSIONS FOR EMPLOYES. Flans Proposed to Retire Old Men in Civil Service. Washington, Jan. 2. While the civil service commissioners are elaborating a set of regulations that have for their purpose the dropping of a number of employes in the different departments who, from age or other reasons, are not capable of performing the amount and character of work required by the pub lic service, a number of congressmen have been pressing a plan to place an age limit on service in the departments and to retire on pensions all who have reached the ages prescribed and to pro vide them with pensions. AH of the departments have not yet made their reports, but those that have been submitted may be taken as a fair sample of the conditions in other de partments. In the treasury department, for In stance, the reports show that there are 431 employes who are 70 years of age or over. There are 2,070 employes in the department who are more than 60 and less than 70 years of age. There are 19,605 employes in the department. In the agricultural department there are 2,729 employes, of whom 172 are more than 60 years of age, one being 83. In the state department there are three employes over 70 years of age and 10 over 60, of a total of 98 employes. In the department of Justice there are 326 employes, 20 of whom are over 60 years of age, 10 of them having served more than 20 years in the department. In the labor commissioner's office there are 101 employes, 12 of whom are over 60 years of age. In the interstate commerce commissioners' office are 125 employes, nine of whom are more than 60. There are 3,645 employes of the government pritning office. One is S3 years of age, one is 82, 33 are over 70 and 212 are over 60. Five men have been employed 40 years, 10 have served 30 years and 36 have been employed between 30 and 40 years. There are 86 employes of the in terior department who are more than 70 years of age. The plan of the civil service commission for securing more effective service in the department is to adopt regulation, which will provide for an examination, with a minimum grade. Another plan that has been proposed and embodied in the bills that have been introduced provides for a pension system and compulsory retirement when a fixed limit is reached. This provides that 2 per cent of each civil service employe's pay shall be deducted and placed in a pension fund. Any employe, after ten years of service, who may become phys ically or mentally disabled may retire and receive a pension amounting to 75 per cent of the amount that was Deing received at the time of the retirement. Every employe who reaches the age of 60 years, after having been in the service for 30 years, may retire and receive the 75 per cent pension. Every employe who reaches the age of 70 years and has been 35 years in the service, will be compulsorily retired and receive the pension. It is also pro vided that any .mploye leaving the ser vice without being qualified to share in the pension benefits shall be entitled to repayment of such sums as said employ, has paid into the pension fund. There are many supporters of this meas ure in congress and out of the agitation for the adoption of the bill, or out of the regulations that are being considered by the civil service commission, some action is looked for that will tend to settle the problem that is causing the department heads no little worryi TRIPLETS AT KILMER. Two Boys and a Girl Born tot Mrs. Pattenson, a Negro Woman. Mrs. Pattenson, a woman living at Kilmer, celebrated the new year by giving birth to triplets yesterday. Two of the trio were boys, the other a girl. All three of the children are alive and well. The combined weight of the three babies is 164 pounds. Mrs. Pattenson is a negro woman, and is "doing well." Golf Tournament at Lakewood. Lakewood, N. J., Jan. 2. A mixed foursome golf tournament was begun today on the links of the Lakewood Country club. The qualifying round was at 18 holes handicap medal play. ! the first and second eights to continue i tomorrow and Saturday at handicap j match play for cups presented by Mrs. j George J. Gould and Mrs. Clarence M. ! Roof. The entry list while not large ! was fairly representative. The weath I er was clear and cold. iron s b n Boys' Vestee Suits. Boys' Russian Blouse Suits. ADMIRAL SCHLEY'S PLANS. To Wait and See What is the Pleasure of Congress. New Tork, Jan. 2. Park Benjamin, who has been a personal friend of Rear Admiral Schley for ' many years, was asked today regarding the admiral's plans for the future and the report that friends of Schley would ask congress to vindicate him by retiring hi3i on full pay and reimbursing him for the ex pense of his trial. "Congress," Mr. Benjamin said, "has gone back to its constituents. The rep resentatives have gone home and will get the opinion of the country on the whole matter. When they meet again in Washington they will have received instructions from the people who elect ed them. I think Admiral Schley is waiting for that. I do not think he has made any plans or will until after con gress has expressed its opinion or taken its choice of the various plans that have been suggested. "Twenty-five or thirty bills, looking to some recognition of Schley, have been introduced. I do not think Schley himself will do anything in connection with them. He does not want to press himself before the public, but will wait and see what is the pleasure of con gress. His friends have no doubt that the feeling throughout the country is in his favor. He has been through a terrible strain for three or four months, and at present wants rest. Everybody, so far as I know, is advising him to take it. Admiral Schley is not a vindic tive man, but is very good-natured. I think if congress wishes to vindicate him he would be very glad, but if not he will bow to the will of the people. It has been proposed to adopt Admiral Dewey's report as the Judgment of con gress; to restore Schley to the active list; to keep him on the retired list and give him full pay, as was done with Admiral Jewett, now living, or to make Schley, Sampson and Capt. Clark all vice admirals. None of these proposi tions would involve any investigation by congress. "I don't think, however, there is any desire on the part of Schley or any of his friends to press these mattens at the present time, but, rather, to wait and see what the people think about it, as expressed by their representatives at Washington. With Schley the great point was the cowardice charge. The rest did not interest him, as those things had been settled by the president, the secretary of the navy and the sen ate, and he did not ask for an investi gation of them. But he did wish to be exonerated from the charge of cow ardice, .and he was exonerated." WILL TAKE DEPOSITIONS Druggists Expect to Get at Bottom of Gray Case. Joseph Reed has given G. C. Clemens a written invitation to file a brief in tha habeas corpus action of A. L. Gray in the supreme court. Reed is attorney for Gray. This is the case in which Mr. Cle mens, together with Eugene Hagan and Harry Bone, has filed an intervening peti tion in behalf of a number of Topeka druggists, charging that the suit Is brought as a result of collusion between Gray and Chief Stahl in order to have the supreme court uphold the Hurrel law, and it is intimated that it will not be very hard fought. The Interveners have served notice on Mayor Hughes. Police Judge Lindsay and other city officials that they- will takts their depositions in the case. "It is charged in Gray's petition," said Mr. Clemen, today, "that the police court will proceed with violations under the Hurrel law regardless of Judge Hazen's decision anarchy. W. take the position that the city officials are not anarchists and we lukve summoned them so that we can take their depositions to prove that they are not anarchists. I am opposed to anarchy." The druggists who have been arretted by the city authorities for violations of the prohibitory ordinance are anxious to have Judge Haz?n's decision stand. If, aa they charge, the Gray case is brought in the supreme court as a result of col lusion with Chief Stahl and little argu ment was introduced in opposition to the Hurrel law, the supreme court could scarcely do otherwise than hand down a decision upholding the law, which 19 the thing that Is feared by the anti-prohl-bitionlsts. That is the reason they are anxious to get into the supreme court suit. Th. Martindale Case. An amended petition in the Martin dale case has been filed in the Shawnee district court against I. E. Lambert, R. T. Beatty and Calvin Hood, charging them with conspiracy to illegally dis pose of the property of William Martin dale, vice president of the First Na tional bank of Emporia, which failed some years ago. The amended petition makes E. F. Brown, of Chicago, who was appointed in 1900 to succeed Mor ton Albaugh as receiver, a defendant to the suit as well as all the creditors of the defunct First National bank of Em poria. Martindale asserts that his prop ertyvwas worth more than the amount obtained. Mr. Beatty, trustee, made a report to Judge Phillips under whom the case had its hearing, that she best offer he could secure for the property was a bid for $41,000 from Calvin Hoed, and it was so sold. A Deep Mystery. It is a mystery why women endure backache, headache, nervousness. Bleep lessnegs, melancholy, fainting and dizzy spells, when thousands have proved that Electric Bitters will quickly cure such troubles. "I suffered for years with kid ney trouble," writes Mrs. Phebe Charley of Peterson, la., "and a lame back pained me so I could not dress myself, but Klec tric Bitters wholly cured me, and al though 73 years old, I am now able to do all my housework. It overcomes consti- Eation, improves'appetite, gives perfect ealth. Only 60c at A. J. Arnold & Son's drug .tore, 821 North Kansas avenue. THAT BIBLE PLAN. American Secular Union Attacks Board of Education. An atheistic society with headquar ters in Chicago has issued an 8-page pamphlet on the subject of the contro versy between the school board and J. B. Billard concerning Bible reading lu the public schools. The society men tioned is the American Secular union. The pamphlet is addressed to the board of education of Topeka, Kan., and is signed "The American Secular Union and Free Thought Federation." Copies of this circular were received today by the members of the board, by newspapers, officials, and a great many others in Topeka. And it is putting it mildly to say that the literature of tbo union is very interesting. The pamphlet which is directed es pecially against the board of education is supplemented with various other tracts on the general subject of athe ism, some of whirti are illustrated, and marked with red ink. One of the pamphlets has a picture of Justice Dav id Brewer, and the quotation, "This is a Christian nation." Then follows a rare collection of ridicule tand sarcasm directed against the Bible and its usa in the public schools. The address to the board of education is bold and arrogant. It refers to vari ous members of the board by name, and adds a few luminous adjectives to thoea who were in favor of the plan of th Ministerial Union. There is a good rea son to believe that the pamphlet was prepared in Topeka, and sent to Chi cago for publication and distribution. It bears the earmarks of, a Topeka product. . , In explaining the object of the union in sending out pamphlets, it is stated: ''It was stated in our yearly report that the day of lecturing - was nearly over, and at best was but ephemeral, but a propaganda with leaflets h.13 proved itself very efficient when con ducted on proper lines. Which is to keep a close watch of every movement, and always let the opposite party be the aggressor. They will make advances in their usual egotistical attitudes, as follows: 'We are holier than thou," and 'We are in the right because we have the majorityon our side, as also the law," when they are advocating or attempting to force or continue some unconstitu tional measure upon the people, as tax exemption, Bible reading and hymn singing in the publio schools, or the so called Sunday laws. Then is the time to circulate leaflets (and notify head quarters), because when they fall into the hands of those who are but slight ly advanced on the road to free thought, it starts them to thinking, and thought is certain to lead to freedom t and those bigots who are at the head of the move ment will retire from the arena, seeing that the injustice and hypocrisy of their actions will be thoroughly exposed if they keep up the battle. Besides they may make an attempt to prove us where we stand (as they think in the wrong), and by these means set some others thinking such thoughts as they dared not do before, and then the bonds of superstition will be loosened, and the-y will become freemen, instead of slaves and dupes of the Christian superstition." LOCAL MENTION. E. B. Jones of Hoi t on Is here today. R H. Bartlett is out after a severe ill ness of three weeks. . Wallace Lee, of Kansas City, who Is attending school at Golden, Colorado, is here today to visit his cousin, Wallace Thompson, of No. 607 West Tenth avenue. Dr. A. H. Thompson has returned from Chicago where he has been in at tendance at the midwinter meetings of the Associated Naturalists" society. Walter Watterskag, of the Santa Fe cabinet shop, cut his left hand badly Tuesday evening by getting it mixed up with a rip saw. He will not lose his hand, however. Chas. Ost, a Santa Fe man who runs a drill press at the Santa Fe shops, lost the first finger of his left hand this morning by getting it caught in the cogs of the machinery. Judge Phillips is here today. The hearing of the Kearney county bonds cases that was to have been begun in the federal court today was post poned by Judge Phillips. Mrs. Anna Wallace, colored, died New Year's day at her homs. 1420 King street, of apoplexy, at the age of 74. The funeral was held fro.-n the resi dence at 1:30 today. Quite a large number of Topeka peo ple are planning to attend the theater at Kansas City this week. The engage ment of Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry at the Auditorium beginning to night and lasting the remainder of the week is the attraction. One of the new Santa Fe engines ar rived in Topeka today one of the two which were ordered, and which will be the largest engines in the world. The one at the Santa Fe shops is No. 988, and is what is called a decapod. It will be at the shoos for several days. David Schurta and Wm. E. Black, machinist helpers at the Santa Fe shops, were riding on top of an engine cab in the Santa Fe yards this morning and were pushed off the cab by a wire which was strung across the tracks supporting a crane. Th.y fell on the boiler of the engine, and were considerably cut and bruised. If. A