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EVERYBODY ;' 16 PAGES ; READS IT. !; EVERYBODY 16 PAGES NEEDS IT. LAST EDITION. SATURDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 18, 1905. SATURDAY EVENING. THREE CENTS. DEATH IN THE AIR. St. Petersburg 13 Stunned by the Tragedy at Moscow. Jiione Can Guess "Whose Turn Will Come Next. PRECAUTIONS DOUBLE. The Police Are Kent Busy in Making Arrests. An Extraordinary Session of the Imperial Council. St. Petersburg, Feb. 18. 1:05 p. m. Oppression like the shadow of doom seems to be hanging over the Russian capital. Bells are tolling and the peo ple in the streets are awe struck at yesterday's bloody crime. Kvery one teems to shrink before the contempla tion of what may happen next. The tragedy struck deep into the heart of the perplexed and tried emperor and many who were unsparing In their criticism yesterday today have only expressions of sympathy for his un happy lot. . The bitter cup which dur ing the last year has been pressed again and again to his lips is once more filled to the brim and in almost pathetic words this morning he im plores his subjects to pray for the re pose of the soul of his murdered uncle. Death is in the air and no one knows where the next blow may fall although precautions have been doubled in every direction for the preservation of the lives of the mem bers of the imperial family and the ministers and the secret police are seeking out and arresting those known to be associated with the fighting or ganization. The authorities realize lmpotency to ward off the swift acts of terrorism, murder in the streets be ing possible at any instant. The only safety seems to lie in seeking refuge behind palace walls and the imperial family have been warned not to ven ture out. Although only the official papers and the Grashdanin appear with black borders, the editorials of all of them are strangely sober. Some papers which in the past have been ready to lay almost any charge at the door of Grand Duke Sergius are drawing Dack before the prospect of the inaugura tion of a reign of terror, fearing that it may destroy the bright prospect of reform and lead to an era of repres sion. But even in the midst of uni versal reprobation of the crime the majority express the hope that after ail the darkest hour comes just before dawn. Among the revolutionaries, however, there is a sentiment of ela tion. They openly glory in the deed, proclaiming that it removes the most reactionary influence at court and also proclaim the general theory that in the absence of armed resistance only by terror can concessions be wrung from the hands of the autocracy. Ac cording to their view any weapon is justifiable. As a matter of fact it is too early yet to say what the political effect will be. For the moment every thing is at a standstill. Expressions of condolence have reached the emperor direct from prac tically all governments, those of Presi dent Loubet, Emperor William and King Edward being especially warm and sympathetic in tone. It is probable that several governments will send rep resentatives to the funeral of Grand Duke Sergius. An extraordinary sitting of the coun cil of the empire has been summoned to consider the situation resulting from the assassination of Grand Duke Sergius. Prince Friedrich Leopold, of Prussia, who had been visiting the emperor, previous, according to advices from Berlin, to going to Manchuria as an observer, representing Emperor William with the Russian army, started for Ber lin at midnight. who was preceding the grand duke from the Nicholas palace, noticed a crowd in Red square and turned back to warn the grand duke to proceed through a side street, but it was already too late. The -explosion occurred as he reached the Kremlin gate. While the assassin was dressed as a peasant it is evident that he belongs to a higher class. His papers were all forged and there is no clew yet to his identity. Policeman Lonitieff who was near the Nlkolsky gate and who seized the as sassin, says that as soon as the grand duke's carriage drove into Senate square the murderer moved out and with unerring aim hurled the bomb di rectly into the carriage window. A blinding flash and a terrible explosion followed the force of which reduced the vehicle to splinters. The air -was abso lutely filled with a red haze, blood be ing spattered to a distance of 300 feet. The maddened, wounded horses dashed forward, dragging the coachman. An drew, a man of gigantic stature, but they soon fell in their tracks. An officer who witnessed the tragedy from the barracks directed, some sol diers to bring a stretcher. The officer covered the remains, of which only a leg and a portion of the body were in tact, with the overcoat of one of the Assassinations. Tiflis, Transcaucasia, Feb. 18 A district official named Gnoutoff has been assassinated at Igdyr by Arm enians. The motive .for the crime was political. At Vagarshapad. Transcaucasia the mayor has been shot and killed near his residence. The murderer has dis appeared. READY FOR STRUGGLE. THEY USED IT UP. Tax Bill Has Stormy Passage in the Senate. Rip Saw Is Used on the First Section. SAVE THEIR FEELINGS. TaxDodgers Are ProtectedFrom the Public. Can Not Examine the Books of a Bank. Railroad Interests Would Keep Com. mereial Club Xeutral. It was announced from Berlin yester day that Prime Friedrich Leopold was to go to the far east by steamer from Genoa, owing to the difficulty in send ing the princely train quickly over the congested Siberian line and that he would fist pay a visit to Emperor Nich olas. A dispatch from St. Petersburg early this morning, however, throws a differ ent lis;ht on the prince's visit to St. Petersburg. It was intimated that the prince was the bearer of personal rep resentations from Emperor William on this subject and it was added that it was positively known that the question of peace was discussed between Em peror Nicholas and Prince Friedrich Leopold yesterday though it was im possible to ascertain what, if any, con clusions were reached. Mourning; at Moscow. Moscow, Feb. 18. The bells of Mos cow's 500 churches are tolling today, requiem masses are being celebrated and before many shiines priests are ceaselessly chanting prayers for the repose of the soul of the murdered Grand Duke Sergius. His remains still rest in the monastery where they were placed yesterday. The bier is covered with flowers and surrounded by burning tapers. Two monks re main constantly at the foot of the coffin reciting prayers for the dead. The widowed grand duchess Eliza beth is prostrated. She keeps to her apartments in the little palace and was not able even to attend the re fiuiem mass. Touching messages have been received by the grand duchess rom Emperor Nicholas and her sister, the empress. Troops are patrolling inside the Kremlin all the entrances of which continue to be closed to the public. The crime while actually not unanti cipated in view of the repeated threats, has neverthless created a profound im pression in the ancient capital. All the shops are closed and the newspapers appeared with mourning borders. Some students have been roughly handled in the streets. Assassin Still Unidentified. Moscow, Feb. 18. It appears to be confirmed that the Grand Duke Sergius when killed was on his way to the governor general's palace on Tvers kaia. where he resided while gov ernor general, for the purpose of taking a bath. The grand duke was a great lover of Russian baths, those he had arranged in the palace being most umptuous. Vice Governor Sabouroff. The railroad interests are making the appeal of their lives to the business men of Topeka to have them vote in favor of keeping the Commercial club neutral in the present fight in the legis lature, to empower the board of rail road commissioner to correct upon their own motion or complaint any existing discriminations or extortions xn the freight rate charges in Kansas. This is their trump card, and a sam ple of the talk which they are making to the business mon of this city: "You are enjoying jobbers' rates. You do not know what a board of politicians will do so far as giving you anything better. You will lose whatever advantage you have if any tampering is done. You had better be satisfied with what you have now.' Representatives of the Rock Island, Cnion Pacific, Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific, it is said, are out arguing in this manner. W. C. N. Garvey, local freight agent of the Santa Fe Railway company was at the Commercial club this morning. "Who will speak for the railroads at the meeting Monday night?" was asked rof him. "I think I shall have that duty," he replied. "What will you say?" was asked. "Anything to help Topeka," was his reply. "Do you think," was asked, "that if the Garver bill is passed, that the busi ness interests of this city and the state will be helped?" "What have you to prove that will be the-case," was his answer. "Topeka has some good jobbers' rates. Otto Kuehne, Charles Wolff, W. F. Jensen, and George W. Parkhurst have told me that they are satisfied with the present rates. They are not making a fight for a change. What promise have you of any betterment? You will have three politicians to make railroad rates. That is a business of its own. If they go to investigating and chang ing they will disturb the whole system, and will it be to the betterment and aid of the Kansas business men? Can you say that?" "Do any of the Topeka business men enjoy any special advantages or rates?" was asked. "No. they don't," was his reply. "I did not say that. There are no special rates. There are jobbers' rates in To peka which are open to all of Topeka's business men. There may be some men here who are not using them, and that is probably due to a lack of knowledge of their existence." The special meeting was called for Monday night, by President Holliday this morning. The petition for the gathering was signed by C. R. Mann sell, M. C. Holman, Topeka Milling company, Crosby Brothers, Mills Dry Goods company. Palace Clothing com pany, Robinson-Marshall Clothing com pany. Burg E. Zeis. W. M. Crosby & Co., Thomas Page, Mathews & Drech seV It will mean a royal battle Monday night. The city of Topeka has not been stirred up to the situation at any time in its history as it is right now "Here we have it practically in our grasp, said E. II. Crosby this morn ing, as he brought the petition for an other meeting. "We have been fight ing for a bettered condition of railroad rates for years and years. That is what has been the matter with Kan sas. There are today 112 men in the house who voted for the passage of the Garver bill with not one dissenting voice. Now is the time for us to get into the saddle. It is our chance, and the business men of Topeka should re alize it." TO WORK IN KANSAS. All or Garfield's Men in South and West Ordered Here. Washington, Feb. 18. All special agents of the department of commerce and labor now in the west and south, numbering at least six, have been or dered to proceed vo the Kansas oil fields at once and will arrive by Mon day. There they will work under the Campbell resolution as expeditiously as possible and report to Commissioner of Corporations Garfield. ALMOST WAIIM TOD AX. Temperature Reaches a Mark, of 33 Today. Tlie temperature reached a higher point today than it succeeded in getting yesterday. At 2 o'clock it had registered 33, as against a maximum of 32 registered Friday afternoon. The wind is veering around to the south again, which holds hopes of a continuance of the present equable temperature. The following are the hourly temperature readings recorded today by the government thermometer: 7 o'clock IS I 11 o'clock 29 8 o'clock 2rt I 12 o'clock ;2 9 o'clock 22 I 1 o'clock 33 10 o'cloc k 25 j 2 o'clock 33 The wind at 2 o'clock was from the southwest, blowing at a rate of 13 miles ner hour. When the senate committee of the whole got through with the tax bill Friday afternoon it was so mangled that it is doubtful if the author would now recognize it. The committee of the whole ran the rip saw through the first section and in the description of what shall con stitute property for taxation, mdebt- edntss "secured by mortgage or trust deed on real estate" was stricken out. Then the senate struck out the pro vision that "the term 'credit' when used in this act, shall mean and in clude every demand for money, labor, or other valuable thing, whether due or to become due, but not secured by lien on real estate." During the session is was voted to retain section 16 which provided that a recording tax should be charged. Then at the afternoon sesion the sen ate committee of the whole voted to knock out that section. The section of the bill which brought forth the greatest opposition was the section providing: "That be tween the 1st and lath of July of each year after this act shall take effect, the county clerk shall prepare for publication in the official county paper a list of personal property taxpayers of the county, as shown on the last assessment rolls, together with the valuation of each property owner. Said list shall be prepared by town ships and cities, and shall be pub lished between July 15 and September 15 of each year, and shall be paid for at the rate fixed by law for official county printing." Senator Dumont Smith opposed the motion of Senator Brewer that the section be stricken out. Senator Waggener opposed the striking out of the section and said: Publicity breeds honesty. Senator Dolley said that just such a provision is what is wanted but the senate chopped the section out for fear that some tax dodgers' feelings might be hurt. Senator Griffin wished to amend the section which provided that "All prop erty, ral or personal, shall be valued at its actual value in money, and from the gross valuation of the personal property there shall be deducted the two hundred dollars exemption, as pro vided by the constitution of the state of Kansas." Senator Griffin wished property assessed at one fourth value but the senate refused to accept this amendment. This section is intended to provide a uniformity of assessment over the state. Senator Waggener se cured the final adoption of his amend ment providing that among the classes of property to be exempt from taxa tion should be included "any note, bond or other evidence of indebted ness secured by trust deed or mort gage." The bill provided for two tax com missioners who with the state auditor shall constitute the state tax commis sion. The tax commission shall have supervision over all county assessors and over the county boards of equali zation and the state board of railroad assessors and telephone and telegraph assessors. The tax commission is made the state board of equalization. The bill throws some safe guards about the banks by providing that No tax commissioner, assessor or dep uty assessor shall have the power to compel the production of the books of banks or to examine the same; nor shall any officer of any nanx be com pelled to testify as to the contents of any of the records of such book or produce the same for the purpose of examination in any matter relating to assessment or taxation.- Senator Getty amended the Robl- nette bill which had been before de feated providing for separate high schools in cities of over 50,000 popula tion to read "Kansas City, Kansas" and the senate at the close of the ses sion Friday afternoon passed the bill. The senate- Friday afternoon passed Representative Adams house bill which provides "When any instrument 'of writing shall have been on record in the office of the register of deeds in the proper county for the period of ten years and there is a defect in such instrument, because it has not been signed by- the proper officer of any corporation, or because the corporate seal of the corporation has not been impressed on such instrument, or be cause of any defect in the execution, acknowledgment, recording or certi ficate of recording the same, such in strument shall, from and after the ex piration of ten years from filing thereof for record, be valid as though such instrument had, in the first instance, been in all respects duly executed, ac knowledged, and certified." At the close of the session Friday af ternoon Senator Fitzpatrick called up the house bill by Representative Bran don, known as the "Brandon congres sional apportionment," and on motion it was placed on third reading for final action. Senator Fitzpatrick moved to amend by putting Cowley county in the Third district. In the original bill as passed by the house Cowley was in the Eighth district. The amendment was adopted. The bill as it stands makes the eight senatorial districts as follows: First. The counties of Nemaha, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Atchison. Jefferson. Leavenworth and Shawnee shall constitute the First district. Second. The counties of Wryandotte, Johnson, Douglas. Miami, Franklin. Anderson, Linn, Allen, Cowley and Bourbon shall constitute the second dis trict. Third. The counties of Crawford. Cherokee. Neosho. Labette, Wilson, Elk, Chautauqua and Montgomery shall con stitute the Third district. Fourth. The counties of Pottawat omie. Wabaunsee. Osage, Lyon, Coffey, Woodson, Greenwood, cnase, Marion and Morris shall constitute the Fourth district. Fifth. The counties of Marshall, Washington, Republic, Cloud. Clav. Riley. Ottawa, Salina. Dickinson and Geary shall constitute the Fifth dis trict. Sixth. The counties of Jewell, Mitch ell, Lincoln, Ellsworth, Russell, Osborne, Smith, Phillips, Rooks, ; Ellis, Trego, Graham, Norton, Decatur, Sheridan, Gove, Logan, Thomas, Rawlins, Chey enne, Sherman and Wallace shall con stitute the Sixth district. Seventh. The counties of Harper, Kingman, Reno, Rice, Barton, Stafford, Pratt, Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Pawnee, Rush,' Ness, Hodgeman, Ford, Lane, Scott, Finney, Seward, Wichita, Greeley, Hamilton, Clark, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Kiowa, Meade, Mor ton, Stanton and Stevens shall consti tute the Seventh district. Eighth. The counties of McPherson, Harvey, Sedgwick, Sumner and Butler shall constitute the Eighth district. The senate passed on half of Senator Waggener's bill providing for the peo ple to name their choice for United States senators by passing the first sec tion as follows: "That hereafter, at each general elec tion next preceding the date fixed by the constitution for the election of a United States senator, it shall be the duty of each political party to vote for one candidate for United States senator. who shall be nominated by the conven tions which shall nominate candidates for state officers, and the name of the nominee of each convention shall be placed on the official ballot to be used at the next ensuing election." The "half" the senate knocked out was section two as follows: "The candidate named for United States senator, nominated as aforesaid. wjio shall receive the largest number of votes at the next ensuing election shall be considered the choice of the people ot tne state or Kansas for United States senator to be elected at the next session of the legislature following such general election." BLAIR SAYS NO SIR He Won't Be Democratic Candi date for Mayor. "Better Come Off Their Perch" He Says. TURN TO PENWELL. He Also Refuses to Accept the Honor. Complete City Ticket Will Be Put Up Anyhow. COAL IS STILL SCARCE. Dealers Say That the Famine Is Still In l'orce.' Coal dealers say that the local coal situation has not been relieved. Con ditions have not been materially alter ed for the better ana it is still as diffi cult to secure a shipment of coal into the city as it was the early portion of the week. One of the local dealers was out of coal for five consecutive days and others over the city have been visited with empty bins for a day or two. The rule for the small retail dealer as well as the larger is to bor row from the next one. The repre sentatives of the operators here in the city and the operators having offices in the city have passed up the at tempt to take care of orders from the retail dealers and are looking after their own trade among the body of the consumers. The consequence has been that when any one of the retail merchants was as lucky as to secure a car or two of coal he divided with his fellow dealers. Many of the coal dealers say that they have car loads of coal wait ing for them standing- on the side tracks near the mines but that they have been unable to. have the rail roads to move them. The railroads claim a lack of motive power as the reason for their inability to handle the shipments. The rule among the retailer is still to send out half tons lots and in this manner to serve as large a list of cus tomers as possible. It appears that hard coal has been in the list of other grades of coal difficult to secure. The supply of slack coal .used by the man ufacturing concerns in the city is somewhat larger but is still not enough to amply supply demands. One of the methods used by To peka merchants to secure rush ship ments is to offer premiums to the operators for an early filling of orders. The raise in Osage and Burlingame coals has taken place along with the southern Kansas and Leavenwortn coals. The former advance is 25 cents per ton. JOHN PALMER CAUGHT. Deputy Postmaster at Kskridge Charg ed With Forgery. John Palmer, deputy postmaster at Eskridge, was arrested last "night at LIndsborg for passing a forged check for $500 on the Bank of Topeka, drawn on the National Bank of Commerce of Kansas City. The check was pur ported to be endorsed by Senator J. N. Dolley. Cashier J. W. Thurston, cashier of the Bank of Topeka, swore out the complaint before the county attorney against Palmer, who was thought to be on his way to California. He is charged with forgery. The arrest was made by Detective John Lucas of the Topeka police force. TRAINS ARE STOPPED. Telegraph Operators on a Railroad Strike. Russian It looks very much as if the posi tion of mayor on the Democratic ticket will stand vacant. At the ward caucuses of the party held over the city last night an attempt was made to draft Robert W. Blair of the law firm of Loomis, Blair and Scandrett. Mr. Blair was endorsed last night for the office of mayor at the meetings held in the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth wards, the First and Second wards failed to endorse any one for the office. The name of Blair was used without his consent, however, and this morning he said, "That's news to me. They better come off their high perch. I am not a candidate for the position and don't want the nomination. I won't accept the office even if I'm drafted. The Democrats will elect their man but I am not in the mayor making business and won't consent to the use of my name in connection with the office. I haven't the time." Hope then settled upon the name ot L. M. Penwell who has tried it. Mr. Penwell who had just returned from a business trip said this morning when asked if he would not consent to take the nomination for the office, "Oh no, I can't take the nomination. I haven't the time, my business takes me out of the city so much that it would be entirely impossible to accept. I can't take it even if an attempt at drafting is resorted to." The words were said in so decided a manner that it placed no doubt of finality upon Mr. Penwell's decision. Michael Henry is probably now the only available man who could be pro moted in connection with the office. In each of the wards raiirnse wn held and delegates elected to the nom inating convention which takes place next Monday evening at the Demo cratic Flambeau club. In a number of the wards councilmen and mem bers of the board of education were nominated but in most instances the caucuses adjourned after electing their delegates until early Monday evening when they will complete their work of nominating councilmen and members of the board of education as well as ward committeemen. At the conven tion Monday evening the whole ticket win De nominated. In the First ward delegates were elected, twenty-three in number, and an adjournment taken until Monday evening. The meeting was held at the fire station in North Topeka. The names mentioned for councilman are those of George Sims and Dan Finch. In the Second ward meeting held at the Flambeau rooms a lengthy reso lution was passed endorsing Joseph Griley as councilman and drafting him for re-election. J. W. Neale was nomi nated for member of the board of education. The following were elected as committeemen from the ward: At large, H. C. Lindsay; first precinct, Henry Heise; second precinct, J. C. Ricketts; third precinct, George Etzel; fourth precinct, C. M. Brown; fifth precinct, P. H. Southers; sixth pre cinct, Joseph Weinkauf. In the Third ward, R. Dletrick was nominated for councilman and H. C. Fraser as member of the school board. The following are the committeemen elected: At large, A. F. Horner; first precinct, A. Steinberg; second pre cinct, J. C. Roser; third precinct, Geo. Hanley; fourth precinct, H. C. Fraser. In the Fourth ward an adjournment John A. Erickson, A. Weinke, C. S. Ben nett, C. C. Brown, Frank Brown. Sixth ward: D. H. Morgan, William E. McKee, IT. P. Miller, E. C. Fowler and H. C. Ridings. SFilITH EXPLAINS IT. Says His Railroad Bill Would Be Just to All Shippers. Senator Fred Dumont Smith, author of the senate railroad bill recommend ed by a majority of the senate com mittee on railroads for passage in stead of the Garver house bill, recom mended by the minority members of the senate committee, today made the following statement regarding his bill: "The statement in the Capital that the shippers had to wait two days in order to get a hearing is wholly false. They did not have to wait an hour after the house bill was reported to the senate committee and a meeting of that committee could be had. As a matter of fact, hearings were permit ted to the federation full and pro tracted, both in joint session of the two committees and in the separate session of the senate committee. "The senate sub-committee took the Garver bill and struck from it section 4, which gives the board the power to alter, revise, change or abolish any rates, tariff or schedule without com plaint and in the place of it provided that all rates, tariffs and schedules might be changed upon complaint. this complaint will be informal, a mere letter will suffice to set the ma chinery of the board in action, and provides an assistant attorney general to appear for the complainant, with out charge, take charge of the case started by the complainant and prose cute on behalf of the complainant as against the railroads. The Garver bill contains no provision for the assistant attorney general on behalf of the shipper. "Plainly stated, the Garver bill as it came from the house is prepared for, and by, the great combinations like the Jobbers, millers, lumber trusts and the grain elevators, powerful, compact organizations, with paid at torneys who are able to set the ma chinery of the board in motion, em ploy attorneys to attend the hearing and obtain redress of any grievance of which they may complain. The senate bill is made for the benefit of the small shipper who cannot afford to hire an attorney to prosecute his complaint and must depend upon the initiative of the board. It is incred ible, of course, that the board shall of its own motion take cognizance of the innumerable petty discriminations and grievances of which the small shipper like the retailer, the cattle men and the independent elevator complain of, failure to furnish cars, small discriminations in rates, slight overcharges, small changes in classi fications and the like mistakes and hardships that the small shippers con tinually suffer in silence because they cannot afford to employ attorneys to appear and prosecute such complaints. The senate bill comes to their aid. "Under the senate bill all that the shipper needs to do is to write an in formal complaint, stating his griev ance, address and mail it with a two cent stamp and the machinery of the board is put in operation. The assist ant attorney general at once takes charge of it and prosecutes it to an HOW TO RUN IT. House Adopts Regulations for Printing Plant. Provides for a Salary of $3,000 Per Annum. BOARD IS CHEATED. State Frinter a Member of the Body. Will Decide Upon What Is to Ba Printed. It was hard work to keep a quorum at the Friday evening session of tha house of representatives. There wera several calls of the house during tha evening, and two or threa bills were only saved from defeat by some of tha members changing their votes' from na to aye. To regulate and govern the printing department of the state under the man agement of State Printer T. A. McNeal and his successors, the printing com mittees of. the house and senate hava agreed upon and introduced a bill which will be considered in the houss as a special order on Monday at 2:30 p. m. The bill was introduced In the housa at the Friday night session by W. B. Ham of Rooks, and in the senfHe by Geo. E. Tucker of Greenwood Friday afternoon. A bond of $20,000 will be required of the state printer, and he will be paid a salary of $3,000. The board of printing supervisors ia provided for under the name of tha printing commission. It Is to consist of the secretary of state, attorney general and state printer. The various stata departments and institutions shall sub mit requisitions for work, but tha requisitions are not binding on the board. A majority of the commission shall decide what is to be printed. The state printer must do work promptly, or be liable to arrest for mis demeanor, and may forfeit his office. ' The bill carries the following appropriation. ' 19C5. Salary state printer $ 3.000 Labor in plant 3fi.00O Incidentals, repairs, ink 5,000 Printing and binding ma terial 20,000 Publications in newspapers, 650 The bill provides that the printer shall buy all material and supervise the work in the printing piant. Work Is Cut Out. The house has cut out its work for several days in advance. The follow ing are the special orders which ap pear on the calendar: " Monday. 10 a. m.. Smith's bill pro moting discriminations 17. $ 3,CS 40.cl 6.0OO 25.000 lU.OJO stata Monday. 2:30 p. m. Relating to the issue without cost to the shipper. The J management of the state printing de- complaint may be so broad as to cover all rates throughout the state with re- SDect to a particular commodity such as grain, lumber, coal or cattle, and the board upon that complaint has full power to correct grain, lumDer, coal or cattle rates everywhere in the state. It is not necessary that the complainant shall be interested In or aggrieved by the particular rate; all that is required is that a hearing shall be had as to the matters complained of, and the board is given the fullest power to correct, revise or change any rate, tariff or schedule complained of. It is emphatically the bill for the small shipper, for the individual, while the house bill prepared and pushed by a combination of the jobbers, and the millers' trust, the coal combine, the lumber trust, the elevator combine and other great organizations, is em phatically the bill for the trusts and combines. That is the distinction that cannot be too strongly insisted upon. "The jobbers now have a rate la per cent below the ordinary shipper. The millers have their transit rates which give them a great advantage over the individual shipper of grain. The lum ber trust has a preferential rate. The coal combine has a cinch on railroad rates that are ruinous to the individual was taken without any action being operator. They desire power within the iaK.eii oil me .--uiiv-iiniaii ciuu mem Moscow. Feb. 18. The telegraph op erators of the Moscow-Riasan railroad have struck, demanding a minimum wage of $20 and an eight hour day in stead of J2. The telegraph operators of the Moscow-W indau roaa nave also walked out necessitating a suspension of the train service. At Voronezh the telecranh operators and other employes of the Southwestern railroad and 3,000 men employed in the railroad work shops have struck for an increase or wages and shorter nouis. DEWEY HAS GRIP. The Admiral Has Been Confined His Home Several Days. Washington Feb. 18. Admiral George Dewey is confined to his home here with an Btturlc of grip. He has been in bed for several days but probably will be able to leave it tomorrow. Temperatures in Large Cities. Chicago, Feb. IS- a- temper atures: New TorK. j.o, x-nnaaeipnia, 24; Chicago, 12; Cincinnati, i; Bos ton, 20; Washington, Minneapolis, 10; St. Louis, lb. Weather Indications. Chicago, Feb. IS. Forecast for Kansas: Probably showers tonight and Sunday; warmer (.oiiigni, iresn southeast winds. Senate Adjourns. The senate adjourned at noon today until 2 o'clock Aiouunr. bers of the school board. Andrew Burkhardt and W. R. Bradford are the names to come before the ad journed meeting on Monday as prob able nominees. In the Fifth ward Frank Effinger was nominated as councilman and W. E. Atchison as member of the school board. In the Sixth ward the caucus ad journed after electing delegates. The following are tne names oi tne delegates thus far elected to the nomi nating convention on Monday from the various wards as thus far handed into the secretary of the executive committee: First ward Mack Jenkins, Dave Ammel, A. E. Rugers, Thomas Ma lone, George Shane, J. H. Bardel, F. B. Sims, Fred Krause, Fred Niemeyer, J. P. Berry, M. B. Arnold. A. E. Allen, J. B. Billard, C. M. Hanley, J. S. Morse, M. L. Kelley, Charles Carson, J. P. Reedy, John SchencK, George Young, Andrew Scott, John Bauer, C B. Fink. Second ward: Hugh Lawlor, Owen Callihan. j. J. Lannon, Henry Heise, James Harrop, Chris Johnson, Joseph Bower. Thomas Ash, Charles Anderson, David Williams. J. C. Rickets, Albert Ferguson, E. R. Williams, Dan Coe, August Collier.George Real, John Lowe, Joe Klee, Jacob Ludwick. J. P. Kaemer, John Kamlowski, Mike Etzel, William Klinge, John Jacobs, L. C. Rahn. M. A. Smith, J. Lewis. Bert Gilbert. W. M. Rhodes. James Mc Andrews, D. R. Jones, Axtel Rosander. R. B. Cathers, William O'Brien, C. N. Brown. C. H. Roof. H. C. Lindsey. P. H. Souther, E. B. Snyder, T. F. Flynn, T. J. Snyder. E. B. Smith, J. W. Neale. Charles Smith, Pete Mc Kernan, Joseph Weinkauf, George War ren and Pat Sullivan. Third ward, delegates elected: Ira Detrick, George Hanley, John Dyle.Abe Steinberg. H. C. Fraser. A. F. Horner. George Waite. J. M. Padgett, George Overmyer, John Cleveland, George Neale, J. M. Frank. J. G. Mulvane. J. C. Rosen, Arthur Watts, Edwin Bar rett, John Griley and Burt Green. Fourth ward: George H. Benson, O. McGee, Charles Benner, W. R. Brad ford.M. W. Saxon, A. A. Vogle, L. Hoff man. George Wagner, F. R. Barker, W. O. Rigbv. John Gamlowski. John Payne, N. H. Wolff. James West. Phillip Mil ler, A. J. August, R. W. Blair. Ernest Rost, Gee, Charles Renner, W. R. Brad ford. Thomas Horsefleld. Charles Coe, partmant. Tuesday, 10 a. m. Getty's bill re lating to stopping trains In Kansas City. Kan. ' Tuesday. 2 p. m. Taxatfon and as sessment bills. The printing bill. Getty's bill and the taxation bills were fixed as special order at the Friday evening session. Gov. Stanley a Visitor. Ex-Governor W. E. Stanley visited the legislature "Friday. He occupied A. B. Jones' seat while in the house of representatives, next to Cyrus Le fand. Mr. Stanley said he came to Topeka on private business, and would return Friday. "There was not much interest or ex citement about the state refinery bill down In our country," said Mr. Stan ley. "I have not studied the bill much, but should Judge it was very drastic. Still, it may result in good to the state. "The present session seems to ba doing fast work. It appears ' to bo further along in Its work than the average legislature. It is a busy ses sion, and Mr. stubbs seems to bo pushing things." Common Carrier Hill Passed. The bill making pipe lines commo carriers was passed by the house Fri- ""CtX vi a iia nnitf tn a 11 kVi i rmera Vi May afternoon by a vote of 107 to 0. which is the Illinois and Iowa law, but they desire the Texas law which is embodied in the Garver bill and which will give to the board the power to change any rate, schedule, or classinca. tion without complaint and thus pre serve and perpetuate the preferential rate which they now enjoy. The pow erful organizations will secure in state conventions the nomination of three members of the board selected for their interests just as they sought at Wich ita; three such representatives select ed from the millers, the jobbers and the fat cattlemen. "The small shipper should not be de ceived by the clamor of the trusts. Stripped of disguises and subterfuges, the house bill in the Texas law. Attor neys for the Federation of Trusts, the Topeka Capital, and other organs of the trusts have careiuuy conceaieu una fact. They have represented it as the There was no effort to "sidetrack" tha bill, as it had been hinted there might be. The bill was set as a special order for 2 o'clock, but it was nearly 3 before the matter was called up. Several oth er matters were crowded in ahead of it. The good roads bill was passed and tha Leland anti-Jug bill also passed. Th?rt it was discovered that there were no printed copies of the common carrier bill. The senate had failed to hava enough printed. An effort was made to postpone the bill until the copies wera ready, but the house after a littla squabble, voted to go ahead with tha consideration of the bill. Mr. Barnes was called to the chair, and the bill quickly passed through tha committee of the whole, recommended to the house, and taken up on third reading for immediate passage. When the roll call was about half over.Brown of Sherman discovered an inaccuracy . ----- tt t the same 01 nnerinan urstuveicu an inaccuracy 5Il?M,? the list of rates for transportation 1 t O 1 CI vv - " " - - ' ' Dale endorsed by the Democratic plat form' and beaten at the polls by 65,000 majority. It is a clever subterfuge but the slightest comparison of section four with th? Illinois law will unmask the Garver bill and display its coun ith all the features of the dis- rroH iteri nnd beaten Texas law. The Illinois law gives the board power to make a maximum distance rate. It gives no power to make commodity rates jobbers" rates, for milling in transit, which are the things desired by the Federation of Commercial Trusts, hence the rejection of the Illi nois law, the substitution of the Texas law, which gives these powers, the re jection of the claims and rights of the small shipper, and the whole chain of misrepresentation made by the federa tion." THEY AGREE ON IT. Oil Rate Bill Is Fixed Up by the Semite. The senate this morning concurred in the house amendments to Senator Dumont Smith's bill fixing the rates for the transportation of oil by pipe lines. The amendments were not material to the general purpose of the bill. provided In the bill. It was merely a. typographical error, but the house de cided it would be better to back up and straighten out the kink. It amended tha report of the committee of the whole, and then passed the bill. This is the third of the series of anti Standard bills to pass both houses of the legislature. The anti-discrimination bill is still hung up in the house of representatives judicial committee but is fixed for Monday moring as a special order of business. Passed a Isnt of Bills. The house put in a busy day pasninff bills. The child labor law was passed by a vote of 81 to 3. the bill provid ing for a state board to Inspect bees passed by a vote of 73 to 14, the Le land anti-jug bill by a vote of 94 to 3. A bunch of ways and means com mittee appropriation bills were read, and all passed on one roll call. These bills carried appropriations for tha state architect, care of destitute in sane, mileage of presidential electors, state printing deficiency, for tha fourth decennial census, for convey ing prisoners to Lansing. At the meeting of the house Friday night, the following were the mora portant bills passed: Limiting the speed of automobiles to 20 miles an hour. Prohibiting the fraudulent usa of miners' check numbers. (Continued on Pate Six.) f