The Kansas Semi-Weekly Capital from Topeka, Kansas • 6

THE ANS AS CAPITA! MARCH 30; 1897. of Shawiiee News atest aiM. opeka Coiaety. liL.if C. J.

Evans: "The city park is the lo-f SAID HE WAS CHRIST. WORK AT THE POLLS. M'NALL'S QUICK EYE. the machine ond travels at night testing; the speed and control of the movements of tho ship. cation.

An auditorium will not only be a good thing, but it will result in that park being improved." Major Tom Andersori and his band of IX) STRANGE LIGHT IH THE SKY. WILL '0 THE WISP. Modocs flocked into the meeting and when CaUSitt0' InSUrailCe Companies Sensation at the First M. E. Church Sunday.

caiteu upuu luujur Aiiuf isun aum. iter Auditorium Proposition Must Be Carried. No End of Trouble. -Was It the Headlight of An Airship? Pittsburg, Fire Association Refused tate of her husband, J. D.

Vawter, a wealthy farmer. Vawter died on October 11, 189,4 and five days later Mrs. Vawter qualified as administratrix. The plaintiffs allege that she! has been guilty of abuse of her trust in conspiring with WV J. and' Clarence D.

Vawter and E. E. Chesney to defraud tho plaintiffs of their share of the estate. Among other alleged irregularities Benjamin F. Vawter et al charge her with cancelling obligations owed by Zane Ak on, W.

J. Vawter and Clarence D. Vawter in the amounts of $1,000, $500 and respectively. Mrs. Louisa K.

Vawter denies the charges of the plaintiffs most emphatically and says her innocense will be shown in court. Zane Son also disclaim any obligation or connection with any irregularity. COMMITTEES APPOINTED An Old Man Advanced to tho Altar Bail Announced That He Was the Messiah. a Charter for Trivial Reasons Thanks From President HUNDREDS GAZED AT IT. Each Ward Will Be Organized for Votes.

In dealing with insurance companies. Insurance Superintendent Webb McNjJI ha, a quick perception of Irregularities. Yesterday a new organization met itae Perhaps That Wm What That Strange Special to the Capital. Lawrence, March 29. The "airship" t( ry was the subject of some comment by the scientific members of tlic-Kansas university faculty this morning, but none of thm placed a preat detil of credence In the tale told.

Prof. K. Miller, dean of the school of arts, and professor of mathematics, who has given much attention to the study of astronomy, said that lie considered the story a humbug. "I think," he said, "that the papers must have be-n short of copy, and found a Rood subject to write up and proceeded to make a readable article." lb; said it could not have boon Venus nor any other and that the only Way It could possibly h- explained, If the facts were as stated, was that it have been "Will o' tho wisp." He said ho could not tell whether the atmospheric conditions and the location made it possi Modoc club as one man is in favor of an auditorium or anything that will help Topeka." The list of committees for each ward was presented by R. S.

Brlgham. The committee appointed are to meet and appoint workers who will be at the polls on election day and work for the support of the city appropriation. Nearly all of the members of the Second ward committee were at the meeting and they selected the following workers for the different precincts in that ward: First precinct. Second ward Ed. Hawes, Hurz, Ernest Muler, Robert Cowdry, Joe Jones.

Second precinct. Second ward Geo. Cor-brick, Peter Cart, John Allen, Bert Whit-telsey. Otto Larson. Third precinct.

Second ward L. E. Pechner, H. S. Warner, Wm.

Parker, G. W. Adamson. Ij. ii.

Currier. Fourth precinct. Second ward T. S. Williams, John A.

Alexander, Jessie Shaw, James, Holt, W. H. Saxton. Some Thought It Moved; Others Were Uncertain. BIG MEETING LAST NIGHT.

scrutiny of his practiced eye and tn-s charter which this company desired to secure was refused by the Se-cretary of State on the advice of Mr. McNall. The latter had detected certain material de Filled Club Wlio IT WENT OUT SUDDENLY CURTIS IS AT HOME. Eooms of the Commercial liy a Crowd of Citizens IVIcan To Work. fects.

The National Mutual Insurance asso ciation (fire), of Pittsburgh Kansas, ap a Red Light About the Size of Human Hand. Eut He Remains at the Sido of His Grandmother. Another point was scored for the proposed Topeka auditorium last night. The An old man with gray beard and flowing hair appeared within the altar rail at the First M. K.

church near the close of Sunday morning's services and announced that he was the Messiah. Dr. A. S. Embree, the pastor, had just finished the delivery of an unusually fervent sermon and the ushers had advanced to the front to receive the plates for the taking of the usual collection when the old man walked up to the minister and taking him by the hand, said "I want to commend ycu for that sermon and now wish to make an announcement to the people." Kefore Dr.

Embree had time to reply the man turned to the congregation and said "We have just hoard a grand sermon about the Son of God. What has been is all Hue and 1 am lie. I am able to prove it." Dr. Kmhree whispered a few words to the strange man who paused while the pastor offered a short prayer. The closing services then proceeded as usual.

The man who claimed to be the Christ is named Taggart and has often been r.oeii on the streets of Topeka. He seems to be a little "off" on religious and has been known to give street corner talks on religion. IR appears to be perfectly harmless. rooms of the Commercial club on Kansas avenuo were packed with Topeka citizens Fifth precinct. Second ward C.

K. lfol- CAME WEST OF THE CITY liday. Frank Ellison. A. A.

Rodgeis, ble to have a "Will o' the wisp." but if they did that would be the only natural explanation of the oceurn. nc e. Chancellor Snow said ho had not read tho arti'dc through, because he thought Rufus Frazier. E. E.

Etrait. An.l Tl.l. I. N. I'iim" Ktorv F.ither, Hut the Plain, Viivartilitlied Trnili Which Many Will Testify.

BUNCOED, B'GOSH liow a Populist Representative Had His Kye-Teeth Cut in Topeka. Perhaps the Topeka police suppressed the. news that one of the- Populist repre plied to the Secretary of State for a charter. Remembering that Mr. McXall's relations with the companies are at this time slightly strained.

Mr. Bush, submitted the application to the Supeiintend-c-nt of Insurance for examination. After investigation. Mr. McNall pronounced the application defective in several particulars.

According to law. a tire insurance company, of the mutual variety, should make a showing of of property to be insured, before se-e-urir-s a charter: twenty-five is the minimum number of charte-r members permitted by law, and the organization is required te confine its object. to thice. viz: the insuring against fire. lightning, or tornado.

Mr. McNall claimed thut the first cf those requirements was not observed, no affirmation being made- of the amount of property; that instead of the requisite twenty-five charter mombers. there wei-s but eighteen: and that the objects stated, wore, various and indefinite. Mr. McNall advised the rejection of the application, and tho Secretary of State ac ted upon his advice.

This action, how and all were of one mind. The auditorium and tho quickest and best way to get it wero tho subjects discussed. Last night's meeting was representative. Not only was every ward in the city represented, but business ir.cn and laboring men were there and also representatives of every political party. Edward Wilder was chairman.

The meeting resulted in the appointment of a committee for each ward to organize the voters of the ward and secure workers who will go to tho polls anel solicit support for the proposition to appropriate, the city donation of Tho committee for each ward was as follows sentatives was buncoed in Topeka. The following account is from the Atchison Globe: Samuel Ernst, the Populist who repre sents the country district of Atchison. county in tho Legislature, anel who lives it was a hoax, and had piven it no thought wliu tevor. A I'opulist memb'r of tho faculty said that when ho read tho account ho thought it mlpht be the nemesis of the late Another member of tho facility thouprln it miuht bo tho fabled soa serpent which had taken unto itself a pair of wings, and had been properly illuminated to pro-dine the effect that had caused the mysterious light. Many airship fakes have boon published that have become famous.

Tho most successful of these, perhaps, according to the Kansas City Star, was one written by Kdgar Allen I'oe and publish in the New York Sun In 1Mb Tho story purported to describe the journey made by Kng-li: limeri across tho Atlantic ocean in a steering balloon christened "Victoria." The trip, it was said, occup'ed only three days and was ended by a successful landing on Sullivan's island near Charleston, afterward famous in the bombard ment, of Fort Sumter. The demand for the a few miles west of town, met the line-st man in Topeka yesterday he hail soon in MRS. WARD'S ESTATE. Congressman Charley Curtis arrived in Topeka Sunday afternoon. He will remain until the crisis in his grandmother's condition is past and then return to Washington.

As" this visit was necessitated by the ill health of a near relative, Mr. Curtis is not devoting any attention to politics. He has remained almost constantly at home and has not yet been south of the river. Yesterday the health of the elder Mrs. Curtis was slightly improved and as her condition is much less critical than when Mr.

Curtis started for heme a speedy return is probable. By the action of the late Legislature Mr. Curtis is left almost without a district but the Lyons Republican has suggested as a way out, his election as Con-gressman-at-large. The article reads: "There was one thing that, the last Legislature accomplished. It violated i all its political platform promises, but it did a typical piece of political partisanship when instead of re-districting the state, as it should have done it took Shawneo county with its immense Republican majority out of the Fourth district and put it into the First district where there is always a Republican majority.

No other political party would dare attempt such a piece of political eleviltry except a. reform party. Political gerrymanelers very seldom pay. People have conscience if reform parties do not, and a gerryman gooel while-. His name was Johnson, but From Sunday's Dully.

you see the "airship" last night? perhaps it will rea ppear iiKiiln tonight; look Tor It In the For xev.ral days th- Capital receiving special dispatches from near-by town about airship floating round at night. In each of these- dlspa tches the macblno carried a huge headlight. All thoso dispatches were of course thrown Into tin- waste-paper basket, and the correspondents' names placid In tlx? "doubtful" column. Several country papers took tho airship Mory up and used it for "nhofkiT." A ml now It lurns out that perhaps tho country people, an: not so far wnmn after all! About o'clock last night dispatch wax received In Topeka stating that tho ntr shin would reach lu re about anil First ward E. C.

Arnold, A. C. M. Hoiman, Wm. Green, Baird, O.

D. Skinner, he- was such a line man that it would have made- no differene-o if his name; had been Muel. Ernst elid not know Johnson W. C. Stewart.

Second warel A. Rodgers. G. until tin? latter introduced himself, but it Her Will Admitted to I'robate G. G.

Gnge Named as Kxccutor. The will of Mrs. Mary Jane Ward was admit teel to probate yesterday morning. She was the first white woman settler in this county who died last week, and was possessed of an estate said to be worth The will was made May 7, 1S9G, ever, is only temporary- and the desired charter may be secured as soon as tins defects are- rectified. The correspondence between Mr.

McNall and President ()f the Connecticut Mutual is not rmitto.j to grow col. I. really appeared on schedule time PlT- it Ih.hu II not all air ship, but something- something startling. It a In the heavens, west of the cily. Veale.

W. C. Stephenson, F. L. Stevens, F.

M. Newland, Rev. M. C. Long.

Third ward G. W. Crane. W. M.

Mac-faran, L. H. Greenwood, C. T. McCabe, Frank Merrill, F.

P. Edson, W. T. Me-Knight, O. K.

Swayze. Fourth ward H. M. Phillips. D.

C. Til-lotson, Arthur Capper, Fred Waters. C. P. Adams.

A. V. Lindoll, S. P. Hawkins.

Fifth ward C. 11. Titus, P. Griggs. T.

A. Beck, Clias. Swanson. S. T.

Howe, Eel. Keith, Dennis Hope, Chas. Smith. Captain C. II.

Titus of the Fifth ward opened the discussion at last night's meeting-. He said: "I favor the appointment of a committee for each precinct. Tho people are for the auditorium but they should understanel what they are voting for. They should understand that they will be voting no additional taxes." W. G.

Brooks, a colored resident of Toil ml tho It It Hcemed a'! If about one thousand peknrm saw It about the same time, they were all kind enough to notify Cnr.Ital otTico about It by telephone der re-acts and hurts those intended to was all right, for Johnson explained that he- was one of the representative's constituents, and his eloquence in tolling how In worked to secure Ernst's election was marvelous. Although Johnson had not known Ernst personally. In- had hoard a great deal about him. and always know ho was tho man to senel to the Legislature because he was strictly on tin- square, and could not be- worked. Johnson did not like trickery in any form, and ln-told his wife that his ambition had been realized when he saw that Ernst had been Put linally it occurred to Johnson that he had some freight in the feright house in Topeka which he -ould not takeout, being unable to get a cheek cashed.

Would Ernst l' him have the money, taking tin- check as security? Of course ho would. No constituent of his should seek a favor of him in vain. Johnson went away with the- money, but did not come back. Johnson was in Atchison this morning, but lie escaped before- the police; could him. Ernst returneel to Topeka this mcrniiio-.

The Superintendent of Insurance received another communication from his H-iit-feird correspondent yesterday. In his most recent tter to Presi.b it Green. Mr. McNall rotoimd for the -ond time a check for $Ul which tin other had sent in puynn.nt of annual f-es to the office. This Mr.

Gnen acknowledged and stated it would be again forwarded to McNall on demand. In closing Mr. Green thanked McNall for a slight correction. Tin- "omn-cticnt Mutual man had referred to the Hillmoa. case as having been in the courts for eighteen years.

Tin- Superintendent suggest-d that y. a rs was thi- actual time, and Mr. rather extended his thanks for the irifoi rnation. patient came mar driving tin; usually he helped. In this case Congressmen Curtis and Kroderick are thrown into tho same district.

Would it not be the part of common sense and of good politics for the Republicans to resent this attempt to retire a worthy Congressman by making Charlie Curtis the Republican nominee for Congressman-at-large? His reputation is already state-wide as a worker he is not excelled." and appoints G. G. Gage executor and Albert W. Knowles trustee, and was witnessed by G. G.

Gage. Guilford Dudley and W. F. Parker. Mrs.

D. Ij. Lakin, Mrs. Emily J. Meade, Mrs.

Alice Ross and William U. Ward, her four children, are In-irs to the estate of Mrs. Ward. The substance of the instrument re-corded yesterday is as follows: "To my son, William D. Ward, for his lifetime and after his death to children, his heirs and assigns, the southeast quarter of section C.

township 12, range 1C, situate in Wabaunsee county, being the farm on which ho has heretofore resided, together will all stock and agricultural implements on said farm. "To my daughter, J.Irs. Mary Eakin, without light of inheritance in her husband, that part of my home place bounded on the north by Crane street, on the east by Fillmore street, on the south by First street and rjn the west by Clay street. "To my daughter, Mrs. Emily Jane Meade-, without right of inheritance to ln-r husband, all that part of my home place which lies north of the Rock Island tracks, mv present dwelling house and pa pel- containing the fake was unprecedented.

The airship fake which givi foundation to" the story started in Kansas last week, ll on the bright appearance of the planet Venus, was started by tho San Chronicle soon after tin- election last November. It told how several people of a suburb of San Francisco had seen a mysterious craft floating about in the air over the city and linally printed an interview with a. man described as a well known lawyer of the town, who admitted with scimlng groat unwillingness, that the airship was an actual invention of a client of his whose name he could not divulge, it developed, however, that tho lawyer was a man of no standing. Tin- exposure of tin-fake did not roach the prominence of the original publication of the story. Tho story last week in Kansas was the direct result of this story.

On" correspondent telegraphed that the airship was sup-pos to bo the same one that had journeyed among the clouds about the Golden Gate. It was the result of the observations tho irst ward. sanl. I loe-1 tins matt- shoulel come under the direct influence of this committee. The location is going to make trouble, it is going to be hard to teli.

phone girl to drink. SIX fleet-footed reporters Were pushed out Into th night with Instructions to run tho thing down or never come back. At 2 o'clock tills morning just on'" of the reporters had been heard from-ho telephoned In from Rossvlllc that In- thought ho could find work in Chicago. liut tin-re the monster was! Hundreds Of peoplo were watching it, to see if they could distinguish ativ wings or other things. Some said it was stationary; others wcru certain that it moved.

Tom Anderson said It was Venus; said he knew Venus sine" she was a. child in AN ERRONEOUS REPORT. decide where it oujrht to be ami nothing should said about location. I would i i rather have the auditorium in tin Fir-t A WOKU IN PASSING. I iillon-s Coat Oil Hid Not ISec-ouie HIS WIFE FAILED TO S1CJX.

waru, nut can i ger mere i wain it in the Second ward or the Third, Fourth or lutth or anv place lust so got an auditorium. 1 have been telling my friends that we ought to have thi. that it will give work to my people, tin-money is at hand and we ought to use it. On tliei morning of election day we ought April IS will be Easter Sunday. Mayor Fellows has recovered from an attack of tho grip.

The Santa Fe time card will be issued next month. A telephone has been placed in the Salvation Army hospital. The spring vacation at Washburn college begins tomorrow. Private Secretary E. C.

Little is in Abilene attending court. The annual election of officers of T. A. A. W.

will take place next Monday night. Miss Augusta Hayes, stenographer to to convert the voters, at o'clock we e-an baptize them and at 7 o'clock we can give them the D. C. Tillotson: "It is important that S--nafor Fulton's coal oil inspection bill is creating probably mole stir than any other defunct measure. It failed to be-oiiine a.

law, but refuses to submit to defeat. Tin Senate passed the bill l.m it failed to Secure the atteiiti on of the I louse, -piio report has notwithstanding gone out that tin measure became- a law, and as lurg interests are involved tin- error has cre.it--d considerable utn-asiiM-sj in certain, quarters. Near N-od--sha. the Standard Oil company is constructing a. iZsi.w refinery and making other improvements.

Under tin- action of such a law as this one, they claim it would be impossible to utilize ih Kansas product, and work was delayed until some certainty could be established. The direct of tin- bill, had it become a law would have been lo destroy the oil Industry in Kansas. something should be I fori that I am a sort of a stepfather to this coal holo money. I have always had a stron reefing lor it because 1 was interested in that coal hole. 1 think we certainly need an auditorium, a place where large moot of night telegraph operators along the railroads and for the last two weeks during the- period of the greatest brilliancy of Venus the operators along the lino have frequently discussed tho airship with operators in tin- railroad offices in this city.

This is not tin- liist instance of Kansas being used for the si'' in- of a fake. Joe Mulhntton. an erratic newspaper man. wrote a story several years ago of an immense meteorite that fell in Kansas, that was generally credited by scientific men for a time. Many other fakes have become famous along with tho New York Herald's story of the escape of the animals of the Central park V.oo.

The Taco-ma. News published a story which, like the Herald story, was intended to bring about a reform. Jt described vividly the breaking out of a great tire in a remote part of the city and told that the firemen were unable to chock the conflagration owing to the inadequate water facili- petticoats. Hut your uncle was this time. Certainly It was not a star-the.

1 1 1 1 1 was too red and too large to he a stur. Somo thought it was a comet; others was sure it was a mirage. As a matter or fact It would disappear and re-nppeur. and them wen- many who could km It traveling through space. None of the local astronomers dared f- venture out of tin if houses they always want tlinii to think over these things before committing themselves.

there the thing was. and It made tho cold chills run Up and down many a man's bade. Could It be that some Ingehius Kansan had Hucceeded In perfect inn a machine that really worked? Ami was he tosting hi machine at night so some thief could not Hteal his Idea and patent it before ho could yet to Washington. And was Kunsus to have all this honor thrust Upon her! The light disappeared suddenly. No one could guess where it had none, but th'j fact that It had disappeared suddenly proved thnt It was not a star.

Tho best view of the str iate light could be obtained from tin; corner of Seventh street and the avenue. At one time there 1 nf ''(Hi people gazing at It. appurtenances, ami the ground pasture and orcharel used in connection therewith, the same being bounded on the north by said railroad, on the east by land of I. l.akin, on south by Crane street and on west by land hereinafter devised to Albert Knowles. Also my carriage, horses, agricultural implements, chickens, poultry and all furniture and articles about my saiii dwelling hereinafter devised.

"To my daughter, Mrs. Alice Ross, the parcel of my said home place bounded on north by First street, on east by Fillmore stroot, on west by Clay street and on the south by Second street. "To my granddaughter, Alice Meade, my house and grounds at the southeast corner of Clay and Second streets. "To A. W.

Knowles. as trustee, all the property, real and personal, not hereinbefore or hereinafter specifically devised, an all and mortgages owned by ings and conventions can be held, and 1 am ready to work lor one anrf lor anything to advance the interests of To peka." A. K. Rodgers: "We need an auditorium Consequently Judge Ila.en Knlen 'lli at I'. wiiey's-C'ont ract Was Sut The suit of Lawyer F.

C. Downey against the Santa Fe was yesterday morning decided to Mr. Dowin-y by District Judge Hazen. The claim was one which hal been assigned to the attorney by the late Charles Dunn and involved the lent of a. tract of land between Eighth and Ninth streets and between the tracks of tile railway.

The- case is one long litigated and lias been rule! upon by the Supit-me and e-ir-cuit courts. Tin- circuit court In-ld for the corporation, while the Supreme court held for Downey and remanded the cast; back for trial. It seems that the Santa Fe built their tracks on Dunn's land without knowing it. and, in fact, lie did not know that the-land belonged to him for a time afterwards. A question arose between the parties, however, and a.

survey reveale-d the fact that eleven feet on each siele the- tracks belonged to Dunn. He then demanded that the company nay rental for the use e.f the ground, but tin Santa, Fe refused and immediately begun negotiations for the purchase of the tract. In the contract it was stipulated that rent sheiuld be paid for tho time the company had already us-d the property. Th" two parties, nor their arbitrators, were iniabb- to atrr-e on the amount cf rent, ai this led the action in which Judge Hazen ye-st onlay handed down an opinion. He held that the contract was not valid because- it affected the- Dunn homcsteatl and was not signed by Dunn' wife.

opeiia. e- have misseet a great many things because have not had one. his prop Governor Leedy, is visiting in Kansas City. City Clerk McFadden and Chief Wil-marth are both preparing their annual reports. Next Saturday the police commissioners will hold the annual election of policemen.

The diagonal walks to be laid in the State house grounds will be paved with asphalt. It is said that several new buildings are "going up" at Tecumseh. It will soon be "Greater Tecumseh." The clerks in the office of the election commissioner are busy copying the names from tho registration books. Ex-Assistant State Treasurer George Seward is visiting in the city. Mr.

Seward is now engaged in business in Chicago. osition to get one will not increase tin taxes. If I had my way 1 would sell tile old court house and buy that block over cn between toixtn ar.et seven streets, and build one there. If the-y will lli s. It said that lines of hose were coupled together and relays of engines employed to get water on the tiann but that at the do that will give my little property over there.

We ought tei hold meeting's in ah the wards of the city between now and election day and get the people thoroughly interested in the auditorium." time of going to press the fire was still gaining. The paper came oat at o'clock in the afternoon and tin- account caused gieat excitement. Crowds ran to the scone me. hat an moneys arising rrom tne handling of this property to be used in paying any etebts 1 may owe at the time of my death, my finw-ral expenses, expenses of administration, the expense of maintaining in good repair the farm in Wabaunsee county, to pay for one good suit of clothes each year for Wm. D.

Ward, and to pay in winte-r and $1S per month for the rest of the year as the wages for a hired man for said 'Wm. D. Ward, as long as he shall live. Or, if the not receipts from this property prove insufficient for this purnejse, the said trus The Festival Chorus will practice con Rev. M.

C. Long of the Third Presbyterian church was at the meeting. test music tonight. The committee has made a special call for a full rehearsal. of the supposed fire only to return indignant and abashed.

Tho publication of the story, however, resulted in the extension of the water service. Miss Edith Meridith has resigned her am in favor ot an auditorium and will work for it at the polls and will work for it all the time. I can not serve my Lord and TWO TRAMPS IN A BOX CAR. At First the Police Thought They Had Made an Important Arrest. Two tramps were arre-sted on suspicion, yesterday afternoon in a.

box car back of tin- Crosby mill. One of was suspected of being the tramp who committed tin outrage at Fort Scott recently in assaulting a. girl. Special Officer Wiley of the Santa found the men in the cur and held them on tin- charge of trespassing while tele. 1 honed to the- county jail.

Jailor Leech and George w. Jackson went down and ai rested the two men. At the jail, however, they showed absolutely no fear when told of what they wi re aee-used. They wanted to be searched and of'ered to go to Fort Scott with the officers. One of them was a fellow' 5 feet ll'i irche-s tall with throe lemg razor scars on his left cheek.

He gave his name- us John Cain. The- descriptions sent out by ShtriiT Wheeler of Fort Scott state the man had a circular scar high on the right cheek. He was also not more than 7, f.et inch. tall, so tin officers concluded Cain was not the man. Cain and his companion.

Ce-orge Turner, were turned over to the polie-t; on. the charge of trespass. Underground river fakes and stories of petition in the state labor bureau, and will return to her home at Hutchinson, in a few days. my people any better on next Sunday morning than by making an announce cutting through tho crust of the earth have also been started and been imitated A Wichita man is telling around that lie tee is empowered to sell such real estate ment that an election will be- he-Id on the following Tuesday anel that they shoulel far and wide. In Kansas City, tho lost $1,500 in a poker game in Topeka.

It is he may doom necessary. After the STRYKER WANTS -M'DONALD. all vote for the auditorium. When Dr. has been a long time since a Wichita man had that much money.

death of Wm. D. Ward, the net income of said property shall Tje used In main underground river story was sprung on two different occasions, once during tho digging of a. well in the olel Garno house, since razed, and again a year or two later. C.

M. Sheldon of Burlingame, ex-presi taining and educating his children until Alderson was here we talked of having the general assembly of the Presbyterian church here, but we had to drop the mattter because we learned that there wasn't a building in town large enough 21 vears of afjo. dent of the Republican State league, arrived in Topeka yesterday afternoon and will leave today for Kansas City. A fako that attracted widespread attention was printed in detailing how sev I don't think we will have a ball team to accommodate the assembly for its eral inhabitants of llosnia had applied to in 'xopeka this year, saiu Hurt yesterday. "Atchison is the only other town in the state that intends having a C.

J. Prescott: "I am in favor of an auditorium and will work to secure one." "To Mary Meade my set of hair cloth furniture. "To Alice Meade the oak finished folding bed, chiffonier antl table, and to Virginia Meade my black walnut set of bedstead, bureau and washstand. "Al the rest, residue and remainer of my property I devise in four eemal shares to Mrs. Mary Lakin.

Mrs. Emily J. Meade, Alice Ross and to the children of Wm. D. Ward." team." There were many learned people In tin-crowd who advanced all sorts of solutions.

The firemen at tin- headquarter station procured field glasses and different persons who pasted through the glasses would Rive information to tho crowd. Mike Waggoner had the best eyesight ami Imagination. coming this way," he shouted to the crowd, "Us petting higher and that In a mire nlgn It's coming our way. if It were going the other way It would come down lower." "Say," s.ild Nick Chiles, "that looks Ilk" one of tho Sun vapor it reel lights we used to have." "Oh, rats." exclaimed Major Tom Anderson. "If that Isn't Venus, never kuw her before.

Don't you ktiow Venus Is the evening Htar now?" "She'd Htruck the city limits," yelled rome one. "Telephone to Tim Donovan to K0 down and arrest her." "It's brighter than It was awhile ago." fald L. S. Woolvorton. "It looks just like an electric light." O.

L. Clarke; "I just read In tho paper yesterday that the airship was headed this way. That Is it, num. I don't believe thut Is a Htar. I have seen fctars before." The dispatch from Belleville read as follows: Belleville.

March 27. The air ship was seen at Belleville. again last night about 10 o'clock Reins south and also at o'clock this morning point? back north. It seems to be under perfect control and lowers and raises moving north and south at will of the operator. It has an electric head light which appears In the sky larger than the headlight of an engine and Its movements ure rapid and mysterious.

More than fifty people watched It last nieht until It disappeared In the south St. Marys Eagle: Topeka is to have an auditorium sure, and then conventions and other public meetings can go there and feel they will have room enough to turn around. Simon Greenspan: "During the day several grocers have come to me and said there was in the treasury resulting from the Pure Food show and that the grocers were in favor of appropriating it for an auditorium." James Mergan, of the Second ward: "I meet several hundred men every day at the Santa Fe shops and have a chance to talk with them, and there isn't one out of every two hundred or three hundred who is opposed to the auilitorium. I am in favor of one, but I think the VISITED THE ASYLUM. Not John MacOoiiald lint Prof.

McDonald of Osage City. Professor N. McDonald of the Osage City schools is the most recently announced possibility fcr tin eighth place on th" text-book commission. If Governor Le-edy cone-lude-s to tie the ribbon to a dark the choice may fall upon Professor Mc-Dfinald. There are eight places on the board and seven of these have been tilled.

It was supposed that the field for the other place had narrowed down to D. O. McCray Senator Lamb of Woodson county but such is apparently not the ease. It was generally eonceeled yesterday that Senator Lamb had ceased to be a factor. One state officer stated that neither of the most prominently mentioned men would receive the appointment, but a man would be named.

From the cutset, State Superintendent Stryker has lead the fight against Mr. McCray, and is still keeping it up. He is responsible for the bringing out of Mr. McDonald as a candidate and suggested him as one fully qualified to perform the duties, and In a manner strictly creditable. McCray" friends have not weakened.

They are insisting upon his retention and believe the Governor can be induced to let his first appointment stand. the authorities for permission to bo beheaded in the place of Karon Rothschild, since dead, it was stated that a rumor was circulated in the country that Koth-schilel was eomlomnod to death for some crime, and had offered a reward of 1 million florins for a substitute. The thrifty Kosnlans had formed a club and drawn lots to select a substitute and the survivors were to divide the reward. One of the most notable fakes of recent years was perpetrated by a Dallas, newspaper man, at the time of the proposed ritzsimmons-Corbett fight. He printed a story that tho Prince of Wales was ecming over to see the mill.

Only an official denial under the signature of Albert Kdward himself stopped the story not, however, until it had spread over the entire civilized world. About Twenty Couples, Including Governor Ieedy, Went Out Last Nigbt. A crowd of about twenty couples from the State house attended the weekly dance at the asylum last night. The party included Governor Leedy, and several other state officers and their families. A special car was secured for the transportation of the delegation to the asylum.

It received its cargo at the Jackson street er trance to the State house grounds and started for theinstitution at 7:30 o'clock. Older members of the party attended Judge Hazen will call the motion docket for the April term of the district court on Monday morning, April 5. The criminal docket will be taken up on the following morning. Quite a number of Topekans took advantage, of the fine weather Sunday to drive to the reform school and witness the dress parade, which takes place between 3 and 4 o'clock. Supreme Court Reporter G.

C. Clemens has moved his office to the rooms in the fourth story of the State house, occupied during the legislative session by the House ways and means committee. A Topeka woman recently took a good cry over the story of troubles told by her washwoman, and while she dried her tears the washwoman filled her pockets with articles she needed at home. Frank Flenniken of Emporia, ex-secre TIPPLERS IN THE CHURCH. Albert Griffin Says From Ten to Twenty.

Five ler Cent of Members I'se Liquor. If what Albert Griffin said Sunday evening during the course of his total abstinence talk at the Volunteers' hall is true, it will be readily admitted that there is soma need of temperance work. Said he, "From te-r. to twenty-five per cent of the church members of nearly all the churches are tipplers. They don't drink much, some of them only a little, and many use it only as but to use it at all except where absolutely necessary is to delay the temperance reform just that much, to help increase the demand for others to sell, and to cast a stumbling block in the way of these who might otherwise become total abstainers." Mr.

Griffin explained, however, that he did not mean to say anything against the church, "for." said he. "it Is the greatest reform institution of the age." He exhibited charts showing the condition of the stomach in various stages of the use of intoxicants. At the close of his lecture about twenty persons signed the pledge. All the Woodman lodges in the city will join Woodman camp No. 2S00 In a big merely as spectators, but some of the celebration on April 1.

One of the events of the evening will be a minstrel show younger ones took part in the dance. given under the direction of the Gutsch brothers. THE VAWTER PROPERTY. west, and many have seen It In this vicinity for tho past four nights. Its speed in estimated to be from sixty to seventy- JPLACE FOR MISS M'LALLIN.

amount proposeel will not be adequate to erect a suitable, substantial building. We ought to have more." City Attorney Bird: "An auditorium will benefit every man in Topeka and will hurt no person. It is the business men and the heavy taxpayers who are opposed' to it. But they will derive benefit from it in time. I think there are a thousand men in Topeka who will give $10 each the auditorium, and I don't think there will be any trouble about raising the money.

About the ordinance, it doesn't make it compulsory that the auditorium should be in the park. It can be placed anywhere the people want it, when the money is raised." Councilman Skinner: "There Is some opposition to the auditorium and there is wcrk to be done to secure the city's appropriation." A. M. Baird: "We will have nothing to fear as to the location. The people want an auditorium and nine-tenths of them are in favor of the city park." R.

Brlgham: "Sometime ago I was in favor of an uptown site, but now I Yesterday It Was Carried Into the Probate five miles an hour. It passed over Bene Court. tary of the' railroad commission, was in the city yesterday for a few hours. He departed yesterday evening for Clay Cen vllle the other night lighting up the hous- It Is suggested that Webb McNall and President Green of the Connecticut Mutual purchase phonographs and exchange cylinders Instead of letters. This would Inject considerable spice Into the already rather protracted debate.

and city like an Immense meteor ana ter where his father is seriously ill The fight over the Vawter property was carried Into the probate court yesterday when Keeler, Welch Hite filed a state The new text-book law will probably seemed to stop a little northeast of the city, remaining almost stationary for twentv or thirty minutes, then abrogate all contracts entered into be tween school boards and book companies. ment of the plaintiffs' side of the case. It is substantially the petition which was filed a year ago in the district court and ailed rapidly up and down going north The Topeka board has several contracts wiit. then south passing below then above Daughter of the Late Kditor Will Succeed Mrs. Reardsley.

Miss Lena. McLallin of Topeka has been appointed to succeed Mrs. Fannie Beards-ley as typewriter In the office of the Adjutant General. The change will take place April 1. Miss McLallin Is a daughter of the former president of the Topeka Advocate company.

The, position which she wifi hereafter fill has been occupied for the past eight years by Mrs. Beardsley. The latter survived several administrations. Including that of Governor Lewelling The special committee appointed by the Legislature to investigate the bribery charges will begin their labors one week from today. Lto which Judge Hazen recently sustained now with Crane Company.

aome scattering clouds and moving In a The state board of railroad assessors will a demurrer, holding that the, letigants manner, finally disappearing in commence to make its rounds Thursday, had adequate remedy in the lpwer court Dr. E. Xi. Green of Kansas City, has been appointed by Dr. J.

P. Kaster as superintendent of the hospital and dispensaries. Dr. Green was formerly engaged In railroad surgery In Texas. Dr.

FaV who has been in the medical department of the Santa Fe will retire on April 1 and Dr. Green will then take charge of the office. the distance; appearing again at 2 o'clock coin south and returned north about 6 That the members will go unaccompanied by their wives I now an established fact. The suit is brought by Benjamin F. Vawter, George E.

and Viola McColm for the Albert Griffin had better weigh hi words better. He can never make the wives of Topeka believe that 25 per cent of the men who attend church, ar o'tlock In the mornings it la auDPOsed to be the work of an In removal of Mrs. Louisa K. Vawter from The first trip will be over the Memphis I am In favor of the city park. We want an line.

auditorium." the position of administratrix' of the es- T.ntor who Is experimenting secretly with.