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Artful Likely to Follow
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FOUR YE All OLDS BEST.
Oiseau Conies Third, Slightly
Below the Fast Artful.
Uoseheu Was One of the IJest of
1905 for Sprints.
Xew York, Jan. IT. Since the names
of the entries in the three big handi
caps for the turf season of 1906 were
made public, a little over a week ago,
the probable weights to be assigned the
horses have been the subject of discus
sion among the followers of the bang
tails. That James R. Keeue's great
Melton colt Sysonby will get the post of
honor as top weight seems to be agreed
upon in the main. But just who will
follow him will furnish food for dis
cussion until Handicapper Vosburg
makes his official announcement on
February l. Artful looks as the one
that should be next to Sysonby, with
the other good 4-year-old Oiseau next.
The older handicap horses, such as
Hermls, Stalwart. Ort Wells, The Picket
and Delhi, did not show much form last
year, and for that reason they will be
treated more leniently than last year.
Hermis with 129 pounds up, was top
weight last year, but he is hardly with
in eight or nine pounds of his 5-year-old
form, which brought him tne position
of honor last year, so it is quite likely
that the crack 4-year-olds will rank
ahead of him this year.
Sysonby, because he was unbeaten
will, no cloubt. receive a pretty stiff im
post somewhere around 128 pounds.
Artful whom many claim was as good
a colt as Sysonby last year, should car
ry about 12a pounds, with anout two
pounds difference between Artful and
Oiseau.
Old Proper got in pretty light last
year, and was always so dangerous
that he will, no doubt, have to take up
a bigger package of weight this year.
Kiameshia was easily the best 3-year-old
Ally of 19o,", but she was
hardly as great as Beldame was in her
3-year-old form. Beldam, after her
good performances, was asked to take
up 122 pounds as a 4-year-old, but Ki
amesha will not have that much to
carry about 113 or 112 seems right.
Roseben was one of the most con
sistent performers of last year, and no
impost was too heavy for him. But his
good races were all sprints and he will
hardly rank with the heavy-weights in
the big handicaps.
Flis is an imported 6-year-old, but,
as he was a winner in Russia, he will
hardly be slighted when the handicap
per makes up his list, and may not get
in with less than 109 pounds.
Burgomaster is placed at the top of
the three-year-olds. He is hardly a Sy
sonby. The latter carried 106 and 108
pounds last year, so can look for about
10". and 107 for Burgomaster. His
nearest rival should be Bohemian.
This colt showed tip almost -as well as
Burgomaster last summer: in f;Tct. he
scored one victory over the latter.
Whimsical, the best of the 3-year-old
fillies, may sneak in at 3 00 pounds.
THE PLAN'S OF N' EI. SOX.
Art or MeGoveni IJritt antl Tlien Kid
Herman.
Chicago. Jan. 17. Wearing a big,
broad smile, looking the picture of
perfect health and feeling better than
ever before. Battling Xelson, light
weight champion of the world, passed
through the city on his way to Minne
apolis, where he open a. short en
gagement on the stage.
"You want to know what 1 think
of the Corbett Herrera light, don't
you?" he said. "Well, it finished just
as I expected.
"Herrera, has the punch and if you
mix it with him you are sure to fall.
It only goes to prove that the man
with the wallop is the winner. I be
lieve 1 can beat Herrera every day in
the week.
"After my fight with Terry I will
take on Britt. Of course, this is with
the understanding that Britt settles
for the picture money in the mean
while. Britt says he will square up
before February IT). After meeting
Britt X will take on Kid Herman. Of
all the fighters in the business today
I believe the Kid is the best, and there
is no one in the world who would like
to see him get to the top quicker than
I. Herman wants to meet me. He
his been after me for a long time. He
will meet me, and the meeting may be
soon. There is but one thing I ask of
the Kid. He must defeat Herrera in
their next battle."
Kaufmann and Barry Next.
Los Angeles, Jan. 17. The next battle
of importance to take place at Los An
geles will be a twenty-round bout be
tween Al Kaufmann. who was touted as
a coming heavy weight champion until
Jack O'Brien put him out, and Dave
Barry, which is scheduled for January
20. Both men will open training quarters
here today, although each has been in
slow training for several weeks. "Kid"
Herman, who easily disposed of Kddie
Hanlon last month, will go twenty
rounds with Aurelio Herrera. who
knocked out Young Corbett last Friday
night, on February 9.
Insists on a Match With Britt.
Los Angeles. Cal.. Jan. 17. It appears
now that '"Kid" Herman of Chicago and
Aurelia Herrera. will not be pitted
against each other, but one or the other
will be matched to fight Jimmy Britt in
this city for the date following the Hart
Burns battle. At least this is the pres
ent plan of Tom MeCarey. manager of
the Paiific Athletic club. MeCarey
thinks Britt would be the dandy card of
all and is eager to put him on. Jimmy
is expected back from the east inside of
three days and his wishes will be made
known then.
Murphy Signs Catcher Xoonan.
Chicago. Jan. 17. Catcher Koonan, of
last season's St. Paul American associa
tion team, sont bis signed contract for
l'.HXl to President Charles YV. Murphy of
the Cubs yesterday. The new catcher
showed up well for the Saints and great
things are expeeted of him during the
coming, year. He is a graduate of Holy
Cross, and while on that team caught
Pitcher Coakley. who is now with the
Philadelphia Athletics. Jimmy Callahan
announced yesterday that he had his en
tire tfum. from catcher to batboy, signed
for next season.
Gans Is in Karncst X'mv,
San Francisco. Cal.. Jan. 17. "Put a
bet down on me for this fight. I am out
to win and think I can do so." This was
the advice given out this afternoon by
Joe Guns, light weight champion, after
ho had finished his routine work ia his
training quarters at Croll's. The colored
man is apparently in deadly earnest in
this contest, as he realizes his entire
future depends on what he does against
Mike Sullivan. The match is to be twen
ty rounds and will be decided in Wood
ward's pavilion.
IMPORTS'. A BULLDOG.
New York Man Buys Winner Over All
English Champions.
New York, Jan. 17. C. G. Hopton
has just imported the sensational bull
dog Master Merlin, which has beaten
every champion bulldog in Great
Britain. Although the sum paid for
Master Merlin has not been made
public, the price is said to be the larg
est ever given for a dog under forty
five pounds.
Master Merlin leaves a wonderful
record behind him in England. Be
fore he was ten months of age he was
placed over every champion by E. S.
Sheriey, a well known member of
parliament, who is a leading authori
ty in England. Among the famous
dogs he defeated were Champion
Hath Baronet, the dog for which
George Gold paid $.",000; Champion
Regal Stone, Champion Broadlea
Square, Champion Xuthurst Doctor,
Champion Felton Prince and Berners,
imported by W. C. Codman of Provi
dence. R. I., at a cost of $2,500, and
many others.
liiglitmire and the Buss.
V. V. Kightmire, formerly of The Cot
tonwood, who now lives in Clvjrryvale.
has published a. brochure on fishing. He
says: "Now is the winter of our discon
tent made manifest gone are the bronze
bark bass from the ripples and other
summer homes, to sleep, the sleep: the
sleep of quietness, in their dormant con
dition, in the deepest holes to be found
in the streams, while dreaming of the
resurrection that spring will bring. While
hiding somewhere, but not with the bass,
are the red-tin. the shiner, the chub, the
black sucker, the stone roller, the cray
fish and the heigramite. and somewhere
deep in the bowels of out mother eartn.
are the night crawlers, the barnyard
hackles, and the long (prairie and slough
yellow worms, and useles now as bait are
liver and kidney. While memory can
Taint pictures of the triumphs of the
past, those days of elysium in field and
stream, we need not weep for the de
privations of the present, while we have
the hope of a glorious resurrection.
Springtime will come again. my dear
brother, and bring with it the fighting
channel cat. the lowly bullhead, the rain
bow colored bream, nee suntish. all fol
lowed in due season by the erapnie and
the bass, and do not let us forget that
like the prior, we always have with us
in our streams the blessed (?) (or ac
cursed) German carp."
Backstop Sclilei signs 1'p.
Cincinnati. Jan. 17. Admiral Geo.
Schlei was the first of the local Red
brigade to affix his John Hancock to
a contract for 1906. Tim admiral,
looking fine and dandy and' in great
shape for the off season, walked into
President Herrmann's office yesterday.
After a moment's chat the Red chief
offered the clever backstop a docu
ment, and George signed it without
any hesitation. A moment more and
the catcher was on his way back to';
his home on Walnut Hills. Schlei's
contract cals for the same sum semi
monthly as he received last year, and
that figure was satisfactory to the
admiral.
"Kckie" Returns to Chicago.
Chicago, Jan. 17 Walter EckersaTt has
returned to the Midway from Detroit,
where he had been for ten days in busi
ness affairs. He decla:ed he would re
sume his scholastic work this morning,
and would pitch into his studies in an
effort to make up the two weeks of the
winter term that he has lost,, so that he
will be able to compete in the indoor
meets. Rumors that he had intended to
leave the university for the entire win
ter term and go into business until
spring, when he would return again to
school, were branded as "mere fakes" by
the maroon football captain.
Southern League Salary Limit.
Memphis. Tenn., Jan. 17. Accord
ing to President Kavanaugh. who has
returned from meetings of the Na
tional Association of Professional
Baseball leagues and the national
commission, the salary limit of $2,700,
with a maximum amount of fourteen
players each month will be allowed to
continue in vogue in the Southern
league according to special legislation
enacted for class A leagues.
Dummy Taylor's $300 Badge.
Dummy Taylor, who helped the New
York basehall team win the National
league pennant, is spending the winter
on his farm near Baldwin, and is show
ing his Kansas friends a medal whieh
each member of the team received from
the National baseball commission. It is
a gold vest pin set with twenty diamonds.
Over the pin two gold baseball bats are
crossed, and in the top is set a baseball.
In the renter of the pin are the words,
WHAT DO YOU CARE?
YOU'VE GOT YOUR HEALTH.
Oreat Natures To Not Despair at
Disappointment They Ijook tor
Something Klse to Do.
The broad-gauged man of today
does not get blue just because things
don't always come his way unless there
is something the matter with him. If
he "falls down" on one proposition he
immediately starts to look up another.
He always looks forward and keeps on
hustling. A man with his health and
faculties has plenty of opportunities
and the man who gives up or even
feels like it has either a small nature
or some physical weakness.
Dyspepsia certainly puts the best of
men out of condition for work of any
kind. You can not blame the dyspep
tic for getting blue. The very nature
of his disease is most depressing and
calculated to deprive him of ambition,
energy and hope. There is hope for
him, however, certain and sure.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are rec
ognized throughout the length and
breadth of the land as the one cure
that's safe and sure. Their unbounded
popularity resulting from the thous
ands and thousands of cures they have
effected, prove beyond the shadow of
a doubt their greatness as a cure.
Wherein lies their greatness? In the
very fact that they are Nature's own
simple remedy. They do the exact
work in exactly the same way that
the digestive fluids of the stomach do
because they are composed of exactly
the, same elements and possess the
same properties. They relieve the
weak and worn out stomach of its
burden of digestion and permit it
without let or hindrance to rest and
grow sound and well. The stomach
will get well quick enough in its own
natural way if it is let alone. That is
what Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets do.
They not only let it alone themselves
but make the food taken into the
stomach do the same.
You can satisfy yourself of the truth
of this statement by putting the food
you would eat into a glass jar with
sufficient water and one of Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets. The process of di
gestion will be taken up and carried
out just as the gastric juice and other
digestive fluids would do it. Their ac
tion is natural and they cause no dis
turbance in the digestive organs. In
fact you foget you have a stomach
when they begin to do their work, so
mild and natural Is the operation.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are for sale
by all drugsists at 50c a box.
"World's Champion, 1SK1S." The value of
the pin is estimated at W, and Mr.
Taylor, who is a deaf mute, is verv proud
of it. Taylor is one of the old Com Car
nival Colts. Atchison Globe.
FOR NELSON' AXD HERRERA.
Tom O'Rourke Would Place fp a
.$15,000 Purse.
New. York, Jan. 17. Tom O'Rourke
has telegraphed Aurelia Herrera, the
Mexican conqueror of Young Corbett.
offering $15,000 for a fight with Battling
Nelson before the New Tuxedo club in
Delaware county. Pa.
"I first wired Herrera asking him if
he would meet Unk Russell or Young
Erne," said O'Rourke, "but he answered
that he would fight no one now but Nel
son or Jimmy Britt. As I don't think
Britt would draw particularly well in
this part of the country with Herrera,
I limited my proposition to Nelson. I
think he will accept, and if he does there
should be no trouble about securing the
date."
The Tuxedo club is nearly completed
and the first entertainment will take
place January 31. The star bout that
night will be between Jimmy Wabsh and
Tommy O'Toole. The boys will go twen
ty rounds.
Corbett Hates to Quit.
San Francisco. Jan. 17. Young Corbett,
of Denver, knocked out by Aurelio Her
rera at l.joa Angeles Friday night, de
clines to be considered pugilistically dead.
He is now here trying to persuade Pro
moter Coffroth to give him a match with
Rritt. The little pugilist's mission is not
likely to be a successful one.
Baker 51, Chilocco Indians 15.
Baldwin, Kan., Jan. 17. The Baker
basketball team easily defeated the
Chilocco Indians here last night by
the score of 51 to 15.
Horse N'otes.
The horsemen of Louisville. Ky are
again talking of the possibility of a
trotting meeting at that city.
C. N. Payne will have two trotters,
without records, that can beat 2:15
next season. Look out for the gray
mare.
Frank Yoakum, a Chester, Pa.,
horse, made the fastest gelding pacing
record in 1905. Ho went in 2:05 at
Titusvil'.e.
Charles E. Mather of Bryn Mawr.
has purchased the Bartram farm of
146 acres as an addition to his
Brandywine Meadow farm.
There is a probability of C. W.
Merkle and Jacob Simmons opening
a partnership training stable at Point
Breeze in the spring.
Sam Blackburn is credited with this
wise statement: "Don't take a 2:10
pacer down the Grand circuit unless
your driver is in the clique."
It is said that Mai Quintin will train
a stable of eight at Point Breeze this
season. Among the lot are Shadeland
Harry, owned by Fred George, Allen
town, Pa.
Billy Biggs of Baltimore, had the
honor of driving Barnett B., by Alran
tana. dam I'na, by Jphn Goldsmith,
the fastest mile pacing for a stallion
in a race over a half mile track in
1905. Time. 2:06.
Robert Harper, owner of Nellie
Lynch, has wagered $100 and a case
of wine that he will drive Patrick Mc
Cabe's trotter Pero Belle two miles to
wagon this season .better than 4:45,
the world's record held by Ed Bryan.
Who knows the dams of Trilby Sim
mon?. 2.15; Patsy K., 2:08: Mil
lion, 2:09U: Garnetta. 2:10V'2: Hal
Fredda, 2:11; Wilkie Egbert,
2:11; Kodak, 2:12; Robinette.
2:12: Bedford Roy. 2:13; Out of
Sight. 2:13: Jimmy's Oirl. 2:15. and
Wonder, 2:15. All are Philadelphia
horses, ,
The Belmont members who own
Albert C 2.09. by Bellini; Thorn
boy, 2:10, by Strongboy; Czarina
Dawson, trial 2:09. by Czar; Ante
zella, 2:10'A, by Anteeo, and others,
should give the public another free-for-all
trot next season. A $500
sweepstakes would be a paying ven
ture. NEW CODERS FM VOTE
Kleetion Boundaries Are Changed to
Aceoniniodate Them.
The new additions which have been
taken into the city were responsible
for a change in thi boundaries of some
of the ward precincts last evening by
the board of election commlsioners.
The commissioner of elections un
der the law is required to publish the
metes and bounds of wards and pre
cincts by the 20th of January. The
Fifth and Second wards benefit by the
addition of new territory to the city.
The "Second ward now has six pre
cincts and contains about one-third of
the territory within the limits of the
city.
The Elliott Place addition, Jones"
addition. Norris subdivision, Woodruff
Place addition, the Taylor tract, the
Harsfeld tract, the Conrad tract, the
Brown tract and the Saylor tract, ail
south of Seward avenue and east of the
Santa Fe shops, were added to the
Sixth precinct of the Second ward.
Sections 17 and "3 inclusive, extend
ing from north of Eighth street and
east of the Santa Fe tracks, were added
to the fourth precinct of the Second
ward.
The first precinct of the Fifth ward
was given all of Steele's addition, and
all the portion of Quinton Heights ly
ing north of Twenty-second street.
Santa Fe addition, lying south of the
city, across Shunganunga creek was
added to the second precinct of the
Fifth ward. On the west, lots 1 to 35
inclusive and 73 to 107 inclusive on
Boswell avenue in College Hill addi
tion were added to the first precinct of
the Fifth ward.
These changes in a way are merely
temporary as a recast of all the boun
daries of the wards is something w hich
Is contemplated by the city council fol
lowing the spring election.
The change in the boundaries in the
Second ward is one of the assured
facts.
District Court Notes.
Brooks Lane has asked the district
court for a divorce from his wife, Dora
bane, and the custody of their two chil
dren. There is another man in the case,
who is mentioned as Ed Johnson.
If you notice the sheriff coming your
wav, it may be just as well to step be
hind something, as he has quite a budget
of warrants calling for unpaid personal
taxes.
The sheriff received $600 for collecting
unpaid personal taxes last year in fees, to
sav nothing of the mileage.
liv the sustaining of a demurrer by
Judge Dana yesterday Galen Nichols
loses his suit for S1.0"0 against the county
for extra salary during his term as coun
ty attornev. Mr. Nichols announces that
lie will appeal the case to the supreme
cocrt.
There were four suits for divorce filed
in the district clerk's office yesterday.
Caroline N. Peck was adjudged insane
in the probate court yesterday and was
ordered confined in the Topeka insane
hospital.
Ruth Ceursev was granted a divorce
from her husband, Claude W. Coursey,
yesterday by Judge Dana, on the grounds
of cruelty and nonsupport. Coursey. who
is a fugitive from justice at the present
time, failed to put in an appearance and
contest the case.
I,aura A. Cosley was granted a divorce
in the district court yesterday from An
drew Cosley, on the grounds of nonsup-Tort.
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Editor Howe Takes Passage on
the Steamer "Tean."
Tells of His Last Day and Night
in Hong Kong.
LIKE ARABIAN SIGHTS.
Down the Narrow Moonlight
Streets, Many Asleep.
Porches With Arches and Ar
cades (iave Oriental Effect.
Tuesday, Dec. 5. I have refered in
these letters to Chinese pirates. An
English paper of Hong Kong, of this
date, says:
"A startling affair was reported to
Inspector Collett as having occurred
in the vicinity of Mirs bay on Friday.
As a fishing junk was under way, a
second boat ran alongside, and before
the crew of the first realized what had
happened, the pirates had boarded
their craft and covered them with re
volvers and rifles. The crew of the
nsning Doat were then secured in their
cabin, and the robbers proceeded to
transfer the junk's cargo to their own
vessel. This consisted of 120 piculs
of salt fish and a large quantity of
clothing, the value of which has so far
not been ascertained. Having com
pleted the transhipment of the booty,
the pirates proceeded on their way,
leaving the helpless crew in the junk
to their fate. The fishermen, after
twenty-three hours' worK, succeeded
in forcing the cabin door, and at once
set sail for Hong Kong and reported
the occurrence. So sudden had been
the descent upon them, however, that
they could tell the police little which
would prove of assistance in their
search. A junk containing 50 or 60
piculs of salt fish has been seized, and
two of the crew are detained in cus
tody." The same paper contains a four
column sensation concerning the will
of the late Dr. Kdkins. a missionary.
It appears that Dr. Edkins left prop
erty valued at a large sum. He had
$50,000 in investments alone, and a
large amount of other property, all
accumulated as a misionary and
the paper hints very broadly that the
money and property belonged to the
church: that Dr. Edkins collected the
widow's mite, to be used in mission
ary work, and kept it himself. The
paper also says that Dr. Edkins did
not believe in the inspiration of the
scriptures, and makes other complaints
against the manner in which he con
ducted his "work." Everywhere here
you hear complaints against the mis
sionaries, and stories, and innuendoes.
In an editorial concerning the case, the
editor says: "It appears to us for sev
eral reasons that the case of the late
Dr. Edkins' will, about which an ab
stract appears on the opposite page, is
as important as it is interesting. Some
readers will indulge in speculative side
issues on the capacity of missionaries
for accumulating wordly wealth; the
unwordly principle which permits a
comparatively wealthy society to take
away what common human iiature re
gards as the widow's mite: and so on:
Into thesetfields we do not propose to
wander, etc.
You have heard, no. doubt, that
money is very abundant here. Still,
the banks advertise to pay two per
cent interest on open accounts, and
five per cent per annum on time de
posits. How tired you become of some peo
ple' I have been with certain passen
gers on the "Siberia" for a month, and
they are to embark with me on the
"Tean" today for Manila. I am
so tired of them that I almost scream
when I see them. Still, they are nice,
well-behaved people. But there is no
denying that some nice, well-behaved
people are tiresome.
I met a mother and daughter to
day who live in Kansas City. They
moved there eleven years ago from
Ottawa. Kansas. The daughter, for
merly went to school at LaSalle with
Miss EfTie Symns. They sail with us
on the 16th for Ceylon, on the P. &
O. steamship "Simla." I asked them
if they knew Henry Alien. They said
they knew of him; they left Ottawa
before Mr. Allen arrived at Ottawa.
We already know of four acquaint
ances who will accompany us to Cey
lon on the "Simla."
The Chinese women seem to actually
learn English. I went into a dry goods
store today to make a purchase of
handkerchiefs, and the Chinese girl
who waited on me talked as good Eng
lish as the girl clerks at home. But the
Chinese men never learn the language:
there was an educated Chinaman on the
"Siberia," who had been in business in
New York twenty years, but I under
stood him with difficulty. He knew the
words, but could not pronounce them.
We attended another Chinese theater
last night in Hong Kong, and sat on
the stage, as we did in San Francisco.
The audience was very large, but. the
people paid little attention to us; they
paid strict attention to the play, which
seemed to be a tragedy. The guide was
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was declaiming his wrongs or his love:
I couldn't tell which, the guide took
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pensive'one. I stepped over to the front
of the stage to look at the actor's
clothes. The actor finished his speech
while the guide still had hold of his
clothes, and was ready -to retii'e, but
kindly waited while I looked him over,
and said he was all right, so far as
costuming went. It seemed as much out
of place as did our walking among the
worshippers in the Japanese temples.
The moon was out last night, and as
we passed through the dark, steep, nar
row streets, with columns, and porches,
and arches, and arcades, on either side,
the effect was very Oriental: it remind
ed me of "The Arabian Nights," and of
Bagdad, again. On many of the side
walks, people were sleeping, and we
stepped over them, rather than disturb
them.
I went on the streets of Hong Kong
this morning during a rain and w;alked
for an hour without getting wet. The
buildings extend out over the sidewalks,
and above the sidewalks are other gal
leries, extending many stories high.
This style of architecture is popular
here, because of the extreme heat: par
ticularly in summer, when it is warmer
at Hong Kong than at Manila. In an
idle way while walking this morning,
I noted the first hundred people I met.
Ninety-two were Chinese, and the other
eight were from India. One of the In
dians was a very fine looking man: ap
parently a gentleman of rank, or a
high official. I saw a man from India
engaged in an animated conversation
with a woman of his race: he was hum
bly explaining, but the woman would
not accept his explanations. Finally the
man sneaked away, like a whipped dog.
and the woman looked after him in the
scornful way which distinguishes wnue
women when they look at men who
have offended them.
As I came out of the hotel, I was ac
costed for the fourth time by a blind
Chinese beggar boy. The beggar is led
around by another boy, who seems to
be his manager. As I have regarded
this boy as a hoodoo, I sent him away
rather roughly, but I thought that
wouldn't do, so I spent a half an hour
looking him up. and diotped a dime in
his palm. As I did so. I lifted up my
right toe, and bent the thumb of my
left hand downward. I hope this will
break the hoodoo, for I am uneasy
about the trip to Manila, as the ship is
a light one, and my room is perilously
near the stern. If we encounter rough
weather, I will swing like the pendulum
of a clock all the way.
When I bought tickets for Manila, I
was compelled to make a lot of
declarations: age. occupation, married
or single, nationality, last place or resi
dence in the states, my purpose, in
visiting Manila, etc. In looking over
the chart. I noted -that there were
thlrtv-Kix nassengers. and that all of
them were Americans, with five ex
ceptions. I hear every hour here that
the Americans are making so many
rules for entrance to the Philippines
that the country is being greatly m
jured. Many houses formerly doing
business in Manila, have removed to
Hong Kong, owing to tiresome red
tape. Manila is losing shipping for
the same reason: the Pacific Mail
Steamship company is drawing out of
Manila, and so is the htanaara on
company. I expect to hear curious talk
whpn T "rearh Manila: our government
I on-a Hoe not sppm to fit auv better
than the missionaries in China.
The round trip fare from Hong
Kong to Manila is $62, Mexican.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon we went
aboard the "Tean" (pronounced T-
Ann) for Manila, and stoon arouna
two hours, watching the Chinese load
freight, before we started. Most of
the freight was American conaenseu
milk. American canned meats, fruits
and vegetables. A lot of Chinese
junks were lying alongside. one ot
these boats was managed by a mother
and her four daughters. As evening
approached, one of the daughters be
gan preparing supper, while the oth
ers managed the boat. which was
loaded with steamer chairs to sell to
the passengers on the "Tean." We
bought two of these chairs for $5. al
though the Chinaman at first asked
$9. The preparation for supper on
the little boat interested me as much
as any thing I have seen. The girl had
a little stove without a pipe, and a
curious mixture she was getting to
gether. All the Chinese boats hover
ing around were managed by women,
one of whom worked an oar with her
hands, the tiller with her foot, and
soothed the baby on her back by sway
ing it up and down. E. W. H.
The Suicide a AVicliita Man.
Wichita, Kan.. Jan. 17. The mys
tery surrounding the identity of "D.
B. Taft," who threw himself under a
train in Sherman. Tex., December 2 2,
was cleared last evening when it be
came known that he was R. T.
Leach of this city. The suicide had
carefullv written and posted several
letters, each signed D. B. Taft. a few
hours before his death. Leach disap
peared from this city December It.
Identification was made by a photo
graph. The body will be disinterred
and brought here. Leach came to
this county in 1871.
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Geo. N. Ray. Assistant.
DROP HOSPITAL PLANS.
City Physician IcciIes That There Is
. JNo Uauger or JLiiUeinlo.
The new detention hospital will not be
built after all. Plans had been drawn
by the cily engineer for alterations and
additions to the present city detention
hospital involving an outlay of about
$1,200. City Physician H. B. Hogeboom
believes that there is no longer any dan
ger of an epidemic of smallpox and ad
vises the eity council to cut down the
plans for the alterations.
"I think $200 will cover about all that
is needed out there," said he. "I think
the building should be plastered and
clapboarded and the stairway can be al
tered to provide for several more beds
and another ward. I don't elieve that
we will have any epidemic of smallpox
as I had feared this winter. Of evjursa,
you can never tell about smallpox; it Ij.
liable to break, out when you least sus
pect it. I think, hoever, under the cir-.
eumstanees that it is probably just as
well not to expend more than $200 on im
provements out there. If we should do
as I have suggested we could accommo
date about ten or twelve patients which
would be sufficient to cover emergencies.
"Diphtheria is practically extinct in
Topeka. The epidemic which prevailed
has died out and I have no further fear
from that direction. Pencils and pen
holders which are furnished by the pub
lic school authorities and which are used
in common by the pupils are a constant
source for the spread of diphtheria and
the person who wrote the letter to the
State Journal last evening is perfectly
correct in his statements, but I think it
is no longer necessary to take any active
steps towards abolishing this custom at
this time with diphtheria out of the way.
"The health of the city is generally
good and I don't anticipate any serious
trouble in the way of infection."
Some fJooil Bowling Records.
Kansas City, Jan. 17. Oscar Roe
der of the Brunswicks bowled tha
best thirty frames ever rolled in a
league match in Kansas City last
night. His total was 692 and he roll
ed the entire thirty frames with oniy
one "split." This was a had "split" in
the first game. The former record
fo rthe season was 675 pins, made by
Grimm ot the Delhis. Roeder's scores
were 203. 256 and 233.
The match was between the Bruns
wicks and Kagles on the Brunswicks
alleys. The Brunswicks took the
three and broke two team records
besides Roeder's sensational work. In
the second game the Brunswicks roil
ed 1.036. The Misssouris held the
ten-frame record with a score of
1.026. The Brunswicks also broke
the thirty-frame record by a large
margin. Their score was 2,92 7,
against 2.S73 by the Crescents, the
former holders of the record. Gra
ham was the only man on the win
ning team to fall below 500. Evcr
hardt got twelve pins above the 600
mark.
Rurnotl. by a tias Explosion.
Parsons, Kan., Jan. 17. Mrs. Kazia
Cherry, a widow, was severely burned
here Tuesday by a gas explosion. In
reaching for a match with which to
light the stove, her skirt in some way
turned the key, allowing the gas to
fill the room. When the match was
struck thore was an explosion, which
burned Mrs. Cherry's hand and
knocked her down, injuringjter back.
-She is 95 years of age. and "he oldest
woman in Labette county.
Sale of a 15 is Farm,
Lawrence. Kas., Jan. 17. Geo. E. Smith
of Cedar Point. Chase countv. yesterdav
purchased the F. I,. Varnum farm at Vin'
land for tll.ooo. Mr. Varnum. who has
lived on the farm for almost fifty years
will move to Lawrence to live. '
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