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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUABY 22, 1905. 4 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL. BI FRANK I'. 11AC LENXAS. tEnterwl July 1. isTS. as tecmid claa tnattsr at the postoffice at 'j'opeita. Kiu., under the act o! congress. .VOLUME XXXII No. 43 l'ERi.13 OF BVBSCRIPTiON. Dally tiitton, delivered by carrier. 10 cents wee to ny part of Topeka. or suburbs, or et the aame irice In any Ken- as towns wtter. the paver baa a carrier system. By mail, one year By mall, three months eeSUy edition, one year Saturday edition cf dally. one year. 1.CU TELEPHONES. Business Office ffi ..Bell 677 reporters Koota .. -; .Reporters Kuom TnnfcVn State Journal building, " and 903 K.az3f an avenue, corner of Klgbtit, SEW YORK OFFICE; SU Vanderbllt Bids;. Paul Block. Mgr. CHICAOO OFFICE: 15 t'nltv Bids. Paul Block. Mar. SEX!. V7Z2.3 P.SrCST C3F EH3 ASS COAXES PHSS3. The ytate Journal is a member of the Associated Press ,nd receives tne full day tle-raph report of that .rreat news or ganization for exclusive afternoon publi cation in Topeka. The news Is received In the State Jour nal building over vires for this sole pur pose. The Smoot investigation la still good for one more senatorial Junket, it seems. If this senatorial deadlock business continues to expand, it may in time render grand Juries largely unneces sary. The engagement between the people and the trusts has grown rapidly frcm a skirmish to a battle all along the line. A man was arrested for fraudulent voting In Philadelphia yesterday and the proceeding was so unusual and un expected that it caused him to drop dead. In furtherance of his often expressed desire to die poor will Mr. Carnegie re fuse his J1.30 a day witness fees when he goes to Cleveland to testify against Mrs. Chadwick? The supreme court decision in the Erniley case proves that it is possible lor even a state legislature to pass an anti-trust law that the lawyers can't poke full of holes. "Washington Post:- A monument has been ordered for the victims of the Slo tum disaster. The best monument would be the proper punishment of the parties responsible for the horror. The strongest argument that has yet appeared in favor of the railroad rate bill passed by the lower house of con gress is the fact that President Trues dale of the Lackawanna has denounced it. A man who saw the charge of the Light Brigade died in Wisconsin yester day. The inference drawn from this announcement is that all the actual participants in that famous action have departed. Illinois Is so anxious to get into the Standard Oil fight that it is proposed to loan Kansas a war fund of $100,000 for six years without interest. No neutrali ty law appears to be in operation In that quarter. The government is now about to show that there are otheruses for the injunc tion besides that of restraining strikers. It will try to fasten violations of Judge Grosscup's order upon the members of the beef trust and put them In Jail for contempt. Success in this effort would do more to curb the other trusts than all the additional legislation that could be enacted in 10 years. The familiar and often repeated con tention that any railroad anti-legislation will result In a lowering of wages of the railroad workers is again doing duty. It has been trotted out for years on every occasion when there has been any attempt to protect the people from the extortion of the transportation lin"B by legislation. The favorite method of procedure is to induce or coerce em ployes into signing petitions to the law tnakers to "bo slow.' The Diamond Match company had bought 80,000 acres of timber land in the Sierra Nevada, California, where It pro poses not only to cut wood for its own wee, but to replace trees that are de stroyed and have a new supply growing all the time. This is to be done In ac cordance with scientific principles, so that at the end of fifty years the sup ply of wood will be greater than it is now. The usual way of lumber cutters has been to sweep a forest clear of trees, a plan which is immediately profitable but which makes no provision for the future. This is one trust that Is figur ing on a long life. The British postmaster general an nounces that he has come to an agree ment with the National Telephone com pany, under which the government will purchase and assume control of the tel ephone business. The government al ready has 46,740 miles- of trunk tele phone lines, with 355 postoffices open for telephones, and in 1903 the number of connections made was 11,574,229. The National company has been operat ing under a license from the postoffice department, paying royalty for the privilege. The new arrangements will give the postoffice department entire control over the telephone business. This is to take effect in 1911. Pittsburg Post: The war on the Stan dard Oil company is spreading. Okla homa and Texas legislators are talking of Imitating those of Kansas. The mat ter is one which may get into both state and national politics. The govern ment is apparently In earnest about In vestigating the great oil trust, and has already made some interesting discov eries in Pennsylvania. The railroads are Involved very closely with the oil company, and will make common cause with it. The questions involved are of great Interest to the people, and unless congress should dispose of them satis factorily their aetUement may result in a new alignment of parties and the transfer of allegiance by many voters from their old organizations. JAYimVREK JOTS. Norton has a strike among the dray men. Many Sheridan county farmers are In suring' the wheat against the hail. The fad at Cimarron this spring will be light iron Ehoes. for the ladies. A new lawyer at Pleasanton if Eli Cann. Here's hoping it won't be Iennis , before the new year. Niekerson is going to " have an "old fiddlers' " contest. Might it not be good idea to pass this up to the legis lature. The editress of the Louisville Lyre hopes to see the day when she can say "Bill White" instead of "William Allen White." Funnv things happen even at Arkasi sas City. Tall Bear and Miss Kickapoo are to be married Easter. Will there be a bonnet In the case? An El Dorado woman is advertising in the east for a husband. Somewhere where the Jessie Morrison-OUn Castle tragedy has not been heard of. The carriers on rural route No. 4, out of Sterling, haven't missed a day. But gifts of sausage and spare ribs may have had much to do with the matter. The ladies' D. O. G. club at Troy has been whining around for a month or so because of the chilly weather. This week will see them in their kennels again. One of the coldest days of the recent blizzard a Stafford county boy toted a pig 16 miles on his back. Stealing may be easy but this seems like a case of hard work. The Louisville Lyre editress says spring is here because the red birds are singing. But, bless us. isn't the red bird a regulation winter bird the same as the lark a summer one. Here's a good argument for a man of easy habits:" Clarence Balmer raised 7,000 bushels of corn on one farm and 8,000 on another in Woodson county, mind you without cultivation. During the blizzard of 1SS6 a Junction City man had a hog under a snow drift 21 days while his neighbor had one 2S days. Both were able to eat and lived until the farmer decided they were fat enough to die. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. It takes a confiding disposition to feel confidence in a man who wears an overcoat trimmed with fur. The Keep Up society is a new one. The members claim that they are keeping up, though they should really be in bed. The rich who can afford hose, shoes and rubbers, are walking bare foot in the snow, taking the Kneipp cure. The people who are so poor their toes are out shouldn't envy the rich so much. No poor man ever had to try the Kneipp cure. It's a foolish man who can be spoilt by a compliment. Every book agent makes a specialty of compli ments: it is his strongest card to tell a victim that he is so prominent that his name will help him with others. If a man says we are eight feet tall we know better. An Atchison man finds that when he has helped his wife buy new car pets for the church, and his children to buy pianos for their school, that the fund he has Intended to devote to new furniture for his home is all used up. He figures that he has helped buy six pianos for the public schools. We have lately been immensely amused over a "joke" we intended playing on Edward Bok. of the Ladies' Home Journal. Mr. Bok has written Us a letter on the Globe's twenty seventh anniversary, and our "Joke" was to edit it; to cut it down before printing in the anniversary edition next Thursday. Mr. Bok has done so much of this "editing" that we thought it would amuse the boys to give him a dose of his own medicine. But on looking the letter over, we find it so sood that we intend to print It In full. Another joke spoilt. POTXTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Populnr opinion is the most fickle thing on earth. Some men get pood only when they get too old to be bad. The compliments women fish for are not worth catching. Fortunate Is the woman who has many complaints and few diseases. A man is sldom afflicted with the big head unless he has a little heart. A homely figure in petticoats may have a handsome figure in the bank. If some men didn't have money women would have no excuse for marrying them. The average married man can't under stand how Carnegie managed to save so much money. Posterity may see that justice is done a man, but he would rathor attend the trial in iierson. When a young man is convinced that there is nothing too good for a certain girl he offers himself to her. Women seem to think the way to show men how easy a time they have running their business is to tell them all the trou bles about running the house when they i come home. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York News. A girl's waist is very elastic to fit any length of arm so snugly. A woman is at peace with herself when uhe is at war with a neighbor. The more children a woman raised, the less her grandchildren think she knew about it. It's very easy for a boy to get up early to go to school when that is his day for playing hookey. j Having a cold is an awful nice thing for your wife to be able to experiment on you with a lot of new remedies she read about. She Hurt His Feelings. "Look here," said the housewife to the match peddler, "you were along here two weeks ago and said you had the best kind of parlor matches to sell." "You speak the truth, mum." "I bought a quarter's worth of you." "I'm saying you did that." "But there's not one that will light. They are positively worthless." The man stood for a moment gazing at her, and then a tear rolled down his cheek. "Well, what is it?" she asked. ' "It's me foelins". mum. You've hurt 'em to the quick!" , "How so?" "When I sold you them matches I took you for a real lady, but I see that you are not. Had you been you would have used them for toothpicks and said never a word to humble my pride." LOCAL MENTION. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Kemper will en tertain at 6 o'clock dinner this evening at "The Kemper," Judge and Mrs. Clark A. Smith, Cawker Citv Mr and Mis. W. B. Ham, Stockton; Doctor and Mrs. G. W. Allaman. and 'Mrs. Hattie V. Fiest, Atchison; Miss Ethel Hays, Kansas City, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs N B Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. P. J Cleven ger. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Nevill, Miss Gertrude Clev enger and Miss Louise Allison. BIG DEBATE IS ON. Garver Bill Before the Afternoon. Senate This At 2 o'clock when the senate met to consider the railroad bills under a special order, Senator Dumont Smith moved that the committee of the whole take up the minority report. The mo tion carried. This motion brought the house hill, known as the Garver Dill hpforp the senate. The two bills, the house bill known as the Garver bill and the senate bill known as the Smith bill, reported by the minority and majority of the sen ate committee on railroads respec tively, had been ordered printed in lots of 600 copies. Senator Stewart moved that the committee report the house bill with the recommendation that it De passed. This brought forth a storm of pro test. The motion was withdrawn. Senator Young- moved that the mi nority report be adopted. All motions were sidetracked and the Garver hnnsp hill wmr eiven the right of way, read by the reading clerk and consid ered by the senate committee of the whole. The order of the senate that no per sons ether than those connected with the senate be admitted to the floor was not enforced. The galleries were Crowded. Senator Porter, of Montgomery, of. fered an amendment to the house bill that the railroad eomrjanies be com pelled to furnish passes to members of the railroad commission, state omcers. members of senate and house and su preme court during their terms of of flee. Senator waearener asked: 'Would not furnishing transportation to members of the supreme court, in light of a recent decision, increase their sala ries?" Senator Porter said he offered the amendment in order to settle the present talk about passes. Senator Waggener offered as a substi tute "that' it shall be unlawful for rail roads to Issue passes to any but employes of a railroad company. And also "that it be unlawful for any. one to accent transportation. Senator Young said the bill should not be loaded down with amendments and that anything relating to passes and to prohibit them would not De contained in the title of the bill and would make a law unconstitutional. Senator Porter of Crawford wished to mend by inserting the section of the present railroad law on the subject of passes. TO BEGIN ON BRIDGE. Foreman Arrives and Will Commence Preparatory Work. W. A. Hey, a representative of the Marsh Bridge company, arrived In the city today, and will commence the preparatory work of construction upon the north approach to the Melan bridge by the fore part of next week. Hey is the foreman who will have direct charge of the work. The first piece of construction will be the erec tion of a pile bridge to take care of the traffic. The present wooden ap proach will have to be removed to make way for the false work on the permanent structure. The pile bridge which will be constructed will be built to the west of the Melan bridge and hen be joined to it Just south of the first arch. The railing along the side will have to be removed to permit ac cess from the Melan bridge to the pile bridge. The expense of taking care of the traffic falls of course pon the Marsh Bridge company. . Some of the machinery is expected., here Friday or Saturday from Chicago. But a small number of men will be brought along by the company from Des Moines, the rest of the labor being hired from here. When the concrete work commences the number of la borers employed will be in the neigh borhood of fifty. Until that time there will be but a nominal nuirier en gaged. Dend Lie In the Streets. Baku, Caucasia. Feb. 22. All the official and private offices are closed. Many dead bodies are lying in the streets. WINTER RASHES Instantly Relieved by Baths with And gentle applications of CUTI CUPvA Ointment, the great Skin Cure and purest and sweetest of, emollients. This is the most speedy, permanent, and economical treatment for torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning, bleeding scaly, crusted, and pimply skin and scalp humors, eczemas, rashes, and irri tations, and is sure to succeed when all other methods fail. Sold throughout the world. uTicurm Bop, 2Sc, Oinl mrut. 50e., HeioWftnt, fin form at ChotgLaie Cooted Pill, Joe. pr vial of 601. Depma, l.ondoB, 27 Chartcr hoM &. ; Paris, &u 4 la aix ; Bobiob. 137 ColumhM Ave. Potter Druf Chain. Corp., So Proprietora, aar Saad in " fiw la Can Htkj Bailor." ROOF FALLS IN. One Man Killed and Two Injured. Seriously Marysville, Cal., Feb. 22. The roof of a building which Is being reconstruct ed for a new theater collapsed today on account of a defective truss supporting it from above. A number of workmen and others were in the building at the time. The dead are: A. MERRY, proprietor of the theater. Injured: Guy Huttman, carpenter, hip broken, head and body larcerated. Charles Baggea, head, arms and legs lacerated. No floor had been laid In the build ing, and to this fact was due the escape of several other workmen, as they fell between the joists and were protected, being liberated by the firemen and po lice. Merry was standing In the center of the building talking to Ed Fox when the crash came and the joists of the room crushed his head and body to a pulp. Fox was standing directly under the skylight and escaped injury. Merry resides in Sacramento. He came here week ago and leased the building at Second and High streets for theater purpose. He brought a large number .of artisans from San Francisco and was hurrying the remodeling of the building for vaudeville shows. He was well known in many cities. BRENNAN ON WAY. Attorney for Foster Lessees Is Coming to Topeka. Chicago, Feb. 22. John H. Bren- nan, a director in the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil company, the lessee of the Osage oil lands, was in Chicago on his way to Topeka for the purpose or getting the Kansas legislature to rescind its recent action regarding the illuminating Oil company. Two-thirds of the stock of the com pany," said he, "is owned and control led In Wisconsin. The Standard Oil company is not directly or indirectly Interested in the stock. We sub-let and each sublessee controls his own oil and sells to whomsoever he pleases. The sublessees are corporations and over 2, 000 people are Interested in them. We get a royalty. The action of the Kan sas legislature was taken without a hearing. No investigation was made so far as our company is concerned. Steps will be taken to present our side of the case to the legislature with the view of the rescinding of their action." CLEARS THE LOBBIES. Senate Shuts Outsiders Off the Floor Today. The senate voted at noon today to ex clude all persons other than senators, sen ate employes and newspaper reporters from the floor of the senate chamber dur- ng the discussion of the railroad bills this afternoon. The motion was made by Senator Dolley and adopted with but three or four dissenting votes. l he senate then decided to begin work on the railroad bills at 2 o'clock Instead of 2:30 o'clock, as previously arranged. Tills was the last day lor the Introduc tion of bills and before the close of the morning session some 25 or 30 bills were introduced. From now on only committee bills can be introduced except upon unani mous consent. SITES MOTHER-IN-LAW. H.W. Jones Charges Her With Alienat ing Wife's Affections. A suit was field in the district court on Tuesday afternoon by H. W. Jones against Hannah Whitsell and Ebba Oleson for $5,000 damages, on the charge that the defendants alienated his wife's affections. He complains that while living with his wife's mother. Hannah Whitsell, he and Mrs. Oleson told his wife scandalous untrue things about him, and tried in every way they could to poison her mind against hfm, and that finally on February 10 of this vear they made him leave the house and his wife, and locked him out so that he could not see her. The plaintiff is an employe of the Santa Fe, Thd Rays that he is fully able to care for his wife. He says that his trouble so unnerved him that he was Incapable of holding his posi tion. SINGLETON DOESN'T LIKE IT. Kingman County 5Ian Seeks Release From Penitentiary. A habeas corpus suit against the warden of the state penitentiary was filed in the supreme court today by the attorneys for B. C. Singleton, who is serving art inde terminate sentence for the killing of A. Rickard. The defendant pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fourth degree in the Kingman county district court and was sentenced to hard labor in the peniten tiarv. The warden will answer the sum mons, but will not have to bring the pris oner along. An appeal case from the sentence of the same Kingman county court was also filed today. Ed Shaw, charged with forging and uttering an instrument in writing, was found guilty of forgery in the fourth degree and aentenced to the penitenti:-y. WASHINGTON'S ADDRESS. Was Read at the Opening of the Sen. ate Session. Washington, Feb. 22. In accordance with long established custom in recog nition of the day "the senate began its proceedings today with the reading of Washington's farewell address. The ad dress was read by Mr. Perkins. At 2 o'clock the canal bill was dis placed by the impeachment trial of Judge Swayne.. In the House. Washington, Feb. 22. Another con test arose in the house over the amend ment affecting the pay of retired army officers. Its effect on General Miles was discussed and a motion to accept the senate amendment was defeated. The Editors Didn't Come. The Democratic State Editorial as sociation was scheduled to meet this morning, but only a few editors were present. Word was also received that B. L, Strother of Galena, president of the association, is sick with the grip. The meeting was therefore called off until 4:30 this afternoon. Fonndcr of Hill City Dead. East Lynne. Mo.. Feb. 22. W. Hill who founded Hill City, Kan., dead here. " R. is Men's and Ladies' $5, $4, 13.50 Ox fords, 1905 styles, for 1.98. at The Fitwell Shoe Co.'s Great Smoke, Water and Fire sale, 509 Kansas ave. No matter if yon Pay YOU tO trV aain. as haro-nina lilro ahvd nva nrmcnnl f bargains. Just think of it ! New, Clean, Stylish, Serviceable Shoes, and such srood Shoes as ours are? (we've proven this Ions: aoro). on saie 60c on the dollar. Everything goesShoes for Men, J ? Women, and Children--Rubber Boots, Felt Boots,? Overshoes, Rubbers, High-Cut Shoes, Felt Shoes, i Slippers, Oxfords, Overgaiters, Laces, Polishes, etc. ? onr AT nnrin 509 Tm(f7tJ n If 509 Kansas J ( ' ( J ( Kansas Ave- rr' TVb? 1 Ave. THEY WANT MR. GAGE. Chicago Financier Will Be Invited to Address Kansas Bankers. If the executive committee of the State Bankers' association can secure him, Lyman J. Gage, who was a mem ber of McKinley's cabinet as secretary of the treasury, will be the principal speaker at the annual meeting of the bankers of Kansas next June. If Mr. Gage cannot be secured an effort will be made to secure Senator Beveridge. The committee decided to hold the annual meeting in Topeka on June 6, and 8. It met here two years ago ust previous to the great flood. Wrhile the bankers hope that they will not bring another flood they were so well pleased with Topeka's treatment that they want to come again. Besides securing some speaker of na tional reputation from outside the state. Governor H-och and B. P. Waggener will be asked to make speeches, and if they will consent similar invitations will probably be given E. F. WTare' and Secretary Coburn. The details of the programme have not yet been comple ted. The "shop talk" by the bankers themselves has not yet been decided upon. "We expect to have big meeting,'" said J. B. Adams of El Dorado, presi dent of the association, today. "There are now between 600 and 700 banks in Kansas, and nearly all of them will have representation at the meeting." The officers of the association are J. B. Adams of El Dorado, president; C. L.. Brokaw of Kansas City, Kan., vice president, and W. W. Bowen of Con cordia, secretary. NEW HOUSE BILX.S. The following new bills were intro duced in the house today: 94 5, by Mr. Grass Relating to the salary of the deputy bank commis sioners and clerks. 946, by Mr. Young Concerning surface waters. 947, by Mr. Adams Relating to the operation of street cars irv'all cities of the first class having a population of over 25,000. and providing penalties for violation thereof. 948, by Mr. Adams In relation to the wages of persons performing manual labor and providing for a lien therefor. 949, by Mr. Guyer Prohibiting the selling and giving away of cigarettes and cigarette paper. 950, -by 'Mr. Turner Providing for a judge pro tern, in certain cases. 951 by Mr. Brady Fixing the sal aries of the county commissioners of Douglas county, Kansas, and repeal ing chapter 257 of the laws of Kansas, 1901, being an act entitled "An act regulating the salary of the county commissioners of Douglas county, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act," approved Feb ruary 26. 1903. 952 by Mr. Hamersly To incorpor ate the town of Ransom ,Ness county, Kansas, as a citv of the third class. 953 by Mr. Eddy To provide for the building of waterworks in the city of St. Marys for the protection of cer tain business property therein, and the issuance of script therefor upon a petition signed by a majority of the resident taxpayers in the territory herein described, and providing for the levy of taxes to maintain the same and pay the said script. 954 bv the ways and means com mittee, by direction of the house Making appropriations for the execu tive and judicial departments of the state for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1906. and June 30, 1907. and de ficiencies of 1905. 955. West. Clerk hire for treasurer and clerk, Edwards county. 936. Freser. Prohibiting quail shoot ing in certain counties. 957. Fisher. Relating to internal Im provements in cities of the second class. 958. Pomeroy. Providing methods of payments for county clerk hire. 959. Brown of Sherman. Authoriz ing crop experiments at county poor farms. 960. Hackney. To prevent waste of natural gas. 961. Adams. Issuing of stock by do mestic and foreign corporations. 96! Brierley. Making appropriation of $1,000 to St. Joseph hospital, Con cordia. 963. Berryman. Relating to salaries in bank commissioner's office. 964. Beeson. Relating to guardian of insane. Infants'. Children's, Boys' and Girls' shoes at 40, 50c and 60c on the dollar at The Fitwell Shoe Co.'s Great Smoke, Water and Fire Sale, 609 Kan. ave. If you have been unable to get waited upon during this Great Sale, then TRY AGAIN TOMORROW have tried three or iir in lit:, r- (l i h i hi p mm m m i .1 wn 1 Lit ayy nim dnuc Auditorium, Monday, Feb. 27 I Second Entertainment iamission: 91.UU an over tbe bouse Chart opens at Stansfield's, Friday, Feb. 24. THE FIVE MEN SQUADS. Today Will See the Finish In Milwau kee Tournament. Milwaukee, Wis., Feb.' 22. Today will see the finish of the five men squads in the bowling tournament of the Ameri can Bowling congress.' Two Chicago teams, the Gunthers No. 2, the Century No. 1, with scores of 2,795 and 2,778 re spectively, held first and second place In this division with the Farmers of Cleveland 2,775, a very close third. To day's program consists principally of events in the doubles. Ward and Mc Quire, also of Chicago, have a comfort able lead in this class with a score of 1,177. Young and Newberry of Detroit and Ahnet and Schuer of Milwaukee, are tied for second place with 1,101. William Ott of Lacrosse, with a score of 60S is high man so far in the individuals. Following are some of today's indi vidual scores: J. Henter, Kansas City, 437; F. Ras ter, Kansas City, 496; A. Anson, Chi cago, 542; J. Martin, Des Moines, 460; J. Hargraves, Des Moines, 514; J. Doer ing, Peoria, 577; E. Kneer, Peoria, 504. Five men team scores: St. Joseph, St. Joseph, Mo., 2,437; Democratic club. Denver, 2,536; Empires, Seattle, 2,696; Butte, Butte, 2,455; San Francisco. San Francisco, 2,645. SIMMERWELL "GETS LEAVE. Principal of Grant School Takes Vaca tion Because of Sickness. A special meeting of the board of ed ucation was held this morning to act upon the request of E. A. Simmerwell, principal of Grant school, who desired a leave of absence for the remainder of the year. The board granted the re quest and appointed S. F. Wright, the outgoing county superintendent, to fill the vacancy. Mr. Simmerwell asked for the leave of absence on account of the sickness of his mother. Two rooms in the new manual train ing high school are now occupied by classes in carpentry, wood carving and clay modeling. To attest the popularity of the new course between 125 and 150 students are now enrolled in those var ious branches. The schools over the city were given a holiday today in memory of the birth day of Washington. DEATHS AXD FUNERALS. Mrs. Martha Richardson, age 55 years died on Tuesday evening of dropsy at 422 Fillmore street. The funeral will take place from Shiloh Baptist church at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon and will be in charge of the Brothers of the Tabernacle. Inter ment in Topeka cemetery. Edward Owens, age 25 years died on Tuesday of tuberculosis at 131 Jef ferson street. The funeral will take place from the house on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment in Topeka cemetery. The funeral of Charles Ewing, who died as a result of being stabbed on Tuesdav evening, will take, place from Stonestreet & Hamilton's undertaking establishment on Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Interment In Topeka cemetery. Men's and Ladies' $5, $4, $3.50 Ox fords 1905 styles, for $1.98 at The Fitwell Shoe Co.'s Great Smoke, W ater and Fire sale, 509 Kansas ave. iLatfif four times, it will for 40c. 50c and ! 2EC (Pronounced E-zi-ee) The Greatest Living VIOLINIST on Pipe Organ Course WHEN YOU BUY STOCKS Why not buy good ones in the famous Tonopah and Goldfleld camps? Can put you next to good prospective or devel oped mines. Have a particularly good one for 15 cents. All stocks bought and sold on the San Francisco and Tono pah exchange. L.E. WE HE, 707 Kantat TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. FAIR, healthy satin skin bestowed by Satin Skin Cream and Satin Skin Pow der. 25c. NO MORE FLOOR PASSES People Must Keep Out of House After This. Owing to the fact that the sergeants-at-arms have been unable to preserve order in the hall of the house, the speaker this afternoon issued an order rescinding all floor passes. There was a large and emphatic protest on the part of pass holders, but the peace and quiet of the house was somewhat im proved. The house was this afternoon forced to adopt the omnibus plan to clear the calendar of local bills on third reading. About sixty local bills to which there was no objection were read by title,' placed in the hands of the members and read in concert. This is a system to which Speaker Stubbs objects. Stubbs was not able to be present on the floor of the house, however, as he has the rheumatism and is obliged to stay in his private rooms at the rear of Representative hall. THEY HEAR A NOISE. Friends of Railroads in Senate Get the Word. It was reported early this afternoon that several senators who have been intending to vote against the Oarver railroad bill have decided that they do not want to go on record In that way, and a iflan was therefore laid to defeat the bill in some other way. A strong protest against the Smith bill has been going up over the state and petitions for the Garver bill have been pouring In on the senators. It is snid that Senator Porter of Montgom ery this morning received over a hundred telegrams on the subject, while Senators Brewer, Chapman and a few others were remembered by some of their constitu ents in the same way. Consequently those who are oppoaimr railroad legislation that will do any good have become frightened and it is said that thfy have given up the hope of flatly beat ing the Garver bill on the floor of the senate. Instead the Garver bill will be allowed to go through with some amend ments tacked to it, one of which will be to strike out the clause authorizing the railroad commissioners to proceed In the adtustment of rates on their own motion. This will necessitate a conference com mittee and there the railroad Inttrests hope to sufficiently emasculate the bill as to make It comtaratitly harmless. Then if railroad legislation is a failure the senate would throw part of the odium for the failure on the house. At present the house stands unanimously for the Garver bill and its defeat would be laid wholly at the door of the senate If it is defeated and the senate wishes to escape anv such calamity as that. The friends of the Garver hill hope to have cnoueh votes In the senate to pass it, but they fear that It will ba very close. YSAYE