The Daily Press from Topeka, Kansas • 1

THE DAILY CO-OPERATOR. NO. 132 VOL. I. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1896.

NEWS IN NUT SHELL pamphlets innumerable everywhere. An old woman was trying to sell an owl for a parrot. They said to her, "your parrot don't talk." She replied, no, but it A DUN COLORED CALF The President, His Cabinet And Other Officials Dance Aronnd It WAS A JTITNESS. A Peddler Passed by as DaYid Coulter Shot Edward Mston. DAVID DOES WELL.

The Lion Hearted Defender Of The Democracy Rushes To The Rescue. i keeps up an awful thinking. There is an awful thinking going on He Did Not Tell What he Saw and Heard Because He Was Not in Just As The Israelites Danced Around We Calf Which Aaron Made. The Assistant Redeemer Says Populist Leaders Were Former Republicans. now under urover administration.

While he is off at Buzzard bay, Hog island or Muddy inlet (birds of a feather will flock together), millions of men are thinking as they never did before. This mammon worship is going to seed. Its fruit don't set well on the voters' stomachs. Some millions of them were too sick to go to the polls last November. If they will take a few doses of our reform THAT KIND OF BUSINESS.

BUT DAVID STRIKES A SNAG IIS APPETITE VORACIOUS. a republican all his life until quite recently; and is even now an assistant republican, is to say the least refreshing. The facts are that all of the so-called democratic leaders of Kansas were until recent years; that is, prior to Grover Cleveland's first election, "republicans. In this list may be found such able democrats as Overmeyer, Rossington, Tomlinson, McGleverty, Acres and others. They have a right to be democrats cr assistant republicans, which ever they desire to be; but they have no right to slur other people who are just what they profess to be.

Now what are the facts? Who composed the make up of the People's party leadership in 1892-91 Among the standard bearers of the party in those campaigns were the following former well known democrats: Attorney General Little. Congressman-at-large Harris. Associate Justice AJlen. Congressman Jeff Hudson. 3tate Auditor an Prather.

Superintendent Gaines. Appellate Court Judge Clark. Not to mention hundreds of others of less well known local leaders. Mr. Over-me'er was not ignorant of these facts.

He i governed solely by a desire to wilfully misrepresent the People's party, He issues an address to the remnant of his party, for the purpose of prejudicing it against the party whose principles challenge the support of all voters who believe in good govern ment. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. His Statements Concerning The Peoples Party Are As False As His Defense Of Democracy Is Weak And Silly. However, He Has Nerye, His Story Corroborats That of Coulter to The Effect that There Was a Witness of The Killing. Evidence All in and The Arguments Being Made.

It Takes The Labor Of The Whole Country To Feed It. When It Gets Hungry The Priests Of Mammon Set Up A Howel. Its Name Is "Reserve." medicine, they will "spew out of their mouths," the poison of the old rotten parties. Then they will be ready to join our army of reform and help us take that little dun calf and dump it into the Potomac; or do as Moses did with the calf that Aaron made, grind it to powder and mix it in the water, and make the high priests of mammon drink it. What if these millions of voters, that were too sick or disgusted last Noyember to vote the dear old ticket, should conclude to try the People's party in '96.

Just put in their hands some of our literature, send them a dime's worth or more of the Ex press or some other reform paper, and they will be all right. Try it. The field is white. The harvest is at hand. Thrust in the sickle.

all the labor organizations unite and Hon. David Overmeyer, the Kansas member of the national committee of the Democratic Bi-metallic organization has for appointed the following committee this state: John T. Atwood, Leavenworth. Samuel A. Riggs, Lawrence, W.

S. Glass, Marysville. F. Burleigh Johnson, Topeka. Judge A.

D. Gilkerson, Hays City. James McKinstry, Hutchirson. W. F.

Petillon, Dodge City. It is the purpose of this committee, 'to put their shoulders to the wheel, and victory is sure. To remain divided now is criminal. A peaceable solution may be secured now, but'four years more of Shy-lock oppression may breed violent Happening Of a Day Boiled Dowo For Tbe Benefit Of Baif Readers. The Supreme court will convene tomorrow.

ExGrovernor Lyman U. Humphrey has received an increase of pension. It is not thought that the groundhog saw his shadow yesterday as there was no opportunity until near sundown. It cost the city only 794.48 to light the streets during January This is an average cost of $4.31 per light. The members of the Swedish Scandinavian club will give a ball at Metropolitan hall on the evening of February 32.

"Big Dick" O'Rourke is in town visiting his family. He is working for the Rock Island, with headquarters at Trenton, Mo. The Tennessee Jubilee Singers will give an entertainment at the North Topeka Baptist church on the evening of February 21. Andrew Baird of Minneapolis. who was elected general state secretary of the Y.

M. C. has written that he will accept the position. He will take charge of the office February 20. The nephew of a prominent Topeka physician was found in a starving condition and all alone in a dingy room on the avenue.

He was sent to the poor farm. Craig's Comedians and a vaudeville show will be at the Crawford opera house all this week at cheap prices. A lady will be admitted free with each paid ticket. Clyde W. Miller.

W. Irving Hill and Harold Smith of the State University have been here in conference with the T. A. A. and Y.

M. C. A. gymnasium officials, discussing the most feasible plan for holding a state field day at Lawrence and requesting the Topeka athletes to take part. Judge Wood refused to reduce the bond of Oliver McCormick, the Jackson coua-ty man who is held for obtaining horses under false pretenses.

McCormick is held on $1,000 bond. J. W. Poorman and Miss Veva Gruel la went to Emporia and were married in that city yesterday. The Highland Park Sunday school gave a box social at the school house, at which $8 was cleared.

The W. C. T. U. met at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the Y.

M. C. A. rooms on East Eighth street. Madeline, one of the little girls at the Orphans' home, died of pneumonia and was buried at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, i Frank P.

Lindsey and daughter Frances have returned trom Indianapolis and Sharpsville. Ind. Mr. Lindsey was busy settling up his father's estate. Capitol lodge No.

3. A. O. has received a stereoptican apparatus for the purpose of giving the lodge work "up to date. Late Saturday afternoon the evidence in the lllston murder trial was concluded in a rather sensational manner.

David Coulter has all along contended that their was an eye witness of the killing, but had been unable to convince anyone of the truth of what he asserted. He insisted that a peddler had passed along at the time the shots were tired. This peddler turns out to be a hebrew named, Raffeloch. Up to the time of the trial the attorneys for the defense hunted for Raffeloch, but they were unable to even hear of his whereabouts. It so happened that County Attorney Safford was also searching for tie lock and was fortunate enough to had him a few days before the trial, ile was at the last moment called.

Kaffeloch's statements in many particulars, corroborated those made by Coulter earlier in the afternoon. He was questioned by Mr. Safford, who began by asking: "Do you make frequent trips past the place where this killing took place? "I do." "On this particular day did you meet a team and wagon?" "Yes. Sir." "Did you notice who was in the wagon?" CENTRAL KANSAS FARMERS The bankers and money-mongers own this government. They have converted it into a huge trap or mill to gather in the wealth of our country.

They have in the United States treasury a pet calf made of gold about hs high as a big pumpkin, and about the same color. The president, his cabinet, congress, and the whole army of government officials, dance around this dun calf, like a lot of dervishes, just as the Israelites danced around the calf which Aaron made. This calf is the most ravenous animal on the earth. Its appetite is so voracious that it is never satisfied. It takes the labor of the whole -jountry to feed and yet like the scriptural horse leech, says Rev.

D. Oglesby, in the Chicago Express, it cries continually, "give, give, give." People that own cows and calves, give them various names, such a Pide or Lilly, Jersey or Fillpale; but these high priests of mammon beiug remarkably modest and bashful, call this dun calf Reserve. When the calf gets hungry, the piiests of mammon set up a howling. It reminds one of a herd of cattle when they smell the blood of a fresh butchered animal. Just now the calf is hungry and the howling is hideous.

Laying aside all allegory, I want to say that this scramble for gold to fill up the if 100,000,000 reserve, is the most disgusting, the most contemptible, the most puerile, the most idiotic, the most senseless and wicked procedure that I can think of. It is amazing that sane men can be gulled into such work. The "reserve" is illegal and unnecessary. There is no more need of it than a fifth wheel is needed in my old wagon. The people who think the gold reserve is necessary are deceived.

The bankers Increase Last Month 5, 747, 975 Interest Bearing Debt 5 747,362,820. Washington, Feb. 3. The monthly statement of the public debt, issued by the secretary of the treasury, shows the public debt on January 31, 1896, less cash in the treasury, to have been $953,046,237, an increase over last month of 85,747,975, which is accounted for by a decrease during the month of in the cash in the treasury. The debt is classified as follows: Interest bearing debt, debt on which interest has ceased, debt bearing no interest, total debt, $1,124,638,055, which does not include certificates and treasury notes outstanding amounting to $562,542,773, which is offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury.

The cash in the treasury is recapitulated as follows: Gold, silver, paper, bonds, disbursing officers' balances, $16,159,324, making an aggregate of $774,553,725, against which there are demand notes amounting to $602,961,947, leaving a cash balance of $171,591,778. Will Hold Their Institute At Hutchinson Thursday and. Friday Of This Week. Hutchinson, Feb. 3.

The an. nual meeting of the Central Kansas Farmers' institute will be held in this city February 6 and 7. It is expected that this will be one of the most profitable meetings of the kind ever held in this part of the country. Instead of having papers on varoius subjects, the program will consist of reports ot committees appointed months ago to investigate topics of interest to farmers and fruit growers. The following are the snbjects and the names of the concmitteemen: Committee on Horses Elmer Everett, Partridge; E.

C. Marks, Nickerson Dr. F. W. Cook, Hutchinson.

Committee on Cattle Henry Hartford, Medora; Joseph Wilson, Belmont, Kingman county; John Marshall, Haven. Committee on Hogs L. C. Wei ton, Hutchinson; E. A.

Bass, Cleveland, King- arouse, unite and put in motion the democratic party masses, so that those who represent' them shall understand that the voice of the people must he heard and heeded." Every person in this state knows that David Overmeyer has plenty of nerye, but no one ever thought that he would, in the face of facts developed during the past ten years, have the temerity, to get off the following in his address accompanying the appointments: "Ever since the country realized the fact of the demonetization of silver, the Democratic party, as an organization, has striven to restore it to its constitutional function as money. In 1884, 1888 and in 1892, the national platforms of he Democratic party declared for silver as standard money. In three successive national campaigns. Grover Cleveland stood upon that platform and was twice elected upon it. Twice has a Democratic House of Representatives passed a free coinage law, only to see it defeated by a hostile Senate or executive.

It is not surprising, therefore, at least nine-tenths of the Democratic party being for the restoration of silver as standard money, that the conduct of the President and Secretary of the Treasury, they being the first to openly declare for the gold tandard, fills the masses of the Democratic party with amazement, consterna-I)n and indignation. "The Republican party is as completely, as definitely, and as permanently the champion of privilege in this country as is the Torey party in England. It is urbane, metropolitan, monetarv-. It represents the monopolies, the great combines, the consolidated forces of money, manufacture and transportation. Even if so inclined, A VAST SEA OF WATER.

themselves would not tbink so, if it was man county; J. A. Van Riper, Arlington. not to their interest to have it. It is the Committee on Alfalfa and Forag spring that unlocks the treasury, and I Plants A.

L. Forsha, Hutchinson J. S. throws their trap. CarPenter Sylvia; J.

D. Weiner, Hutch- i- it art nmnfc- i nn mi 1 inson. backs? Nobody but bankers and money mongers. Greenbacks never needed a redeemer, for they never sinned. They saved the republic in the war of the great rebellion.

Where was gold then? Where it always Committee on Wheat Zeno Thorp, i Partridge; D. H. Richards, Belmont; F. D. Hornbaker, Booth.

Committee on Corn Joe Bainum, W. Hays, Kingman; Isaac Crow, Hutchinson. Committee on Small Fruit A. D. is when any government is in danger.

It always too cowardly and traitorous to Tucker, Hutchinson; C. L. Brown. Hal MR. COOPER IS CONFIDENT stead; Chas.

Byers, Nickerson help save any government. That He Will Be Able Co f-urniah Ike People a Flue Butertaiument at Craw ford 8. Mr. R. H.

Cooper, formerly president Committee on Market Gardening J. N. McKen, I. Dearth and James Duke-low, Hutchinson. Committee on Orchards D.

E. Kin-sey, Kingman; E. Royal and Wm. Hod- Look again. Any fool government that will borrow what it can make, and what it alone can make, and borrow from individuals that can't make borrow from those that this same government would "There was a boy driving and a man lying on the sand." "How large was the person on the sand?" "Oh.

he seemed to be a good sized young man." "Did you pass the wagon and go on?" did" "What happened then?" "After I had turned the corner and gone some distance I saw the boy who was lying on the sand get up and jump off the wagon. He took the gun with him." "What happened next "Well I saw the other boy them jump off the wagon. They had stopped their horses." Did you hear any shots then?" "Yes, I first heard one shot and afterwards two others." "How far away were you at this time?" "About a qu irter of a mile. I guess." "Did you look back?" "I did." "Could you see "I saw the small boy stoop over as if to pick something up. I thought they had shot a qual or something and he was going to pick it up." "Why didn't you report the occurrence?" was next asked of the witness.

"Because I am not in that was the reply. Coulter in his testimony adhered to the statements heretofore made; and a rigid aud protracted cross examination by the county attorney did not cause him to lose his coolness and telf possession. Judge Uazen's instructions to the jury this morning were quite liberal covering tully all the law points in the case. Deputy County Attorney Arthur McCabe opened the argument for the slate, con tending that the killing was a deliberate aud cold blooded murder and made a fair showing for the state. Messrs.

Atchison and McCammon followed for the defease t.nd county attorney Safford will cl.se late this afternoon for the state. The case will then go to the jury. There are to be found a few people today who seem to think the jury will Hutchinson. i and boxing instructor of the Mechanics i Athletic club of St. Louis, and who is one Lowlands in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi Inundated.

Memphis, Feb. 3. The unprecedented rain in the lower Mississippi valley during the past ten days has caused the streams to overflow, and the low lands in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi are one vast sea of water. Bridges have been washed away on several of the railroads, and traffic is serious delayed. In Arkansas, the damage from the flood will reach high figures.

The Ouachita river rose 30 feet within 36 hours, and the torrent of waters swept everything before it. Many fine plantations and farms in that fertile valley have been submerged, and outhouses and fences swept away. Rain has been falling-almost steadily during the past 48 hours, and the water will sro still higher. Antarctica. Antarctica, whether a continent or an archipelago the islands of which are united by thick sheets of ice, is considered to have a superficial area of 4,000,000 square miles, being, therefore, larger than Australia.

The great chain of volcanoes in Victoria Land rise over 15,000 feet above the sea. On the South American side of Antarctica is the active volcano of Bridgman and the large and partly submerged volcano of Deception island, with a crater over five miles in diameter, the walls of which, built up of alternating layers of ice and volcanic scoriae, rise 1,800 feet above the sea. Sedimentary rocks of the Eocene age. with iossil trees, were discovered in 1S93 at Seymour island; and the French ship Talisman, off the Antarctic continent many years previously, dredged fragments of rock containing a fossil plant characteristic of the Triassic rocks of Europe. Near Laurie island, in the South Orkneys, limestone occurs.

These rocks are of special interest as confirming the theory that Antarctica is a continent rather than an archipelago, for the micro-cline granite, with garnet and tourmaline and the mica-schists, must havr1 had a continental origin, such rocks being almost unknown in oceanic islands. C. E. Borchgrevink. in Century.

send to prison if they did make a dollar, SOD the Democratic party could no more compete with it for the favor of these gigactic forces than a plebian could compete with a title! nobleman in a contest for royal favor. The Republican party must and will have an agrarian and proletaian opponent. There must be a party of the people, a party which represents man against mammon; the masses against the classes; the people as against the power; those who have their fortunes to make as against those who have their fortunes made. The doctrines and principles of the Democratic part7 alone, are suited to serve the people against their great monetary and commercial antagonists as well Committee on Sub-soiling C. W.

Sego; Dix, Peckham, Haven; A. W. Watson, W. T. Esmeger, Nickerson.

Committee on Irrigation J. W. Hutchinson Lerado; J. H. Lawson, of the best amateur welterweights in the country, is preparing a fine entertainment for Feb.

14 and 15 at the Crawford opera house. It will consist of mixed boxing and wrestling, trick bicycle riding and songs and dances by artists of merit Arrangements are being made by Mr. Cooper to bring here for this event some prominent athletes from St. Louis where James Keddy, Sylvia. Committee on Flowers Mrs.

Houk and Mrs. E. T. Johnson, Judge Hutch- inson; Mrs. R.

D. Kinsey, Kingman he is well known. There can be no doubt that if Mr. Cooper meets with proper encouragement he will give the people an entertainment of a high order and well worth attending: something new, novel and interesting. In addition to the above program Prof.

E. A. Popenoe, of the State Agricultural college, will deliver an address on "Recent Methods in Applied Entomology;" Prof. S. C.

Mason, also of the Agricultural college, will speak on "Plant Propagation and Prof. Snow, of the State University, on his favorite theme of "How to Get Rid of Chinch Bugs." The meeting promises to be one of the most interesting and profitable ever held. and pay these prohibited ones for the use of this money that they can't make aud the government can I say, any fool government that does that merits the com-tempt of every sane man. It is done because we worship this little dun calf Bah. It makes me tired, sick, and religiously mad, as I read day after daj' about this farce being played on the people.

Bonds! bonds! bonds! These great bonded debts foisted on the people without their consent, ought to be repudiated and the time is coming when they will be; because the people don't owe them they are frauds. How long, how lor will the people consent to be robbed? They endorse it now because they are deceived. But they are being undeceived. My mind runs back over twenty years ago to the time when there was not a reform paper printed in our whole country. I was educated to believe (everybody waO, and did believe, that nothing but gold and silver could be money.

A man need cot be ashamed to confess his ignorance, if nobody can teach him and we were taught that God made gold and silver for money; and we were taught that government debts were a blessing instead of a curse. POLICE COURT ITENS. Terrell les nmitlKl for Indemnity. Constantinople Feb. 3.

The United States minister. Terrell, has demanded an indemnity of S100.000 for the burning- and pillaging of the American missions at Marash and Kharput. He also asked for the immediate granting of firmans for rebuilding them. Z. L.

Erwin was fined $5 in police court this morning for disturbing the peace He and his brothers got into a row W. S. Childs has been turned over to the state charged with grand laroenry. On December 1. last he stole a horse and buggy from Lodge Colvin and was arrested in Kansas City.

He is said to be the same man who stole a horse and buggy from Liveryman Peterson in 1889 as the3r have been suited to resist military and official usurpation." After this heroic defensoof the decaying political organization of which Grover Cleveland is the leader, Mr. Overmyer does something silly. This is not the first time that Mr. Overmyer has done silly things, as is well known. For instance, it is silly for a man to call everybody who disagress with him, a crank, ana to denounce everything as false which conflicts with his ideas.

But it is when David attacks the Peo pie's party that he strikes a snag, loses his bearings and flounders. He says: "From its inception the so-called People's party has sought to divide and supplant the democratic party. Its principal leaders have been former republicans, and while recognizing the evils that afflict the county, and unquestionably in sympathy with the masses of the people, they seem totalh' blind to the fact that no popular party ran employ imperial methods and serve the people, and that no defense of the rights and aspirations of the common people can be made except upon the theory that power is the natural enemy of the people, and that a maximum of popular right and popular opportunity can only be realized by reducing public powers and their exercise to a minimum." This coming from a man who has been Last Month Washington. Feb. 3.

The monthly report of the director of the mint shows the total coinage during January to have been SI 3.033. 500. classified as follows: Gold, S12.9U.0OO; silver, 35.000; minor coin, S53.900. Higrti Water in Texas. Fort Worth, Feb.

3. Reports from over 50 points in different parts of the state show the heaviest rains known in Texas at this season for GOODWIN COAL 602 1-2 Kansas kn Such was the teaching on the money years. Streams are out of banks and testion of such papers as the New Yors stiU risin- MuC daraae result. questio The bill authorizing the issuance of bonds passed the house by a majority of 34; all the populists and all the democrats with one exception, voting- against it. It will thus be seen that the republicans alone are responsible for it After abusinc Cleveland for two years for increasing- the national debt in time of peace they are the first to fly to his rescue when he wants an indorsement of his policy.

Republicanism and Cleveiandism are one and the same thing. Clay Center Dispatch. Maj. Tom Anderson, of Topeka, has announced his candidacy for dele-gate-at-large to the republican national convention, in opposition to J. B.

Johnson At St. Joseph. Sturnpt, aged 51, a prominent citizen, was murdered bv W. J. Keller, aged 26, a labor Kaijene Ware for Governor.

Wichita. Feb. 3. The Eagle of this city has a strong editorial written by Col. Murdock suggesting the name of Eucene Ware, the Kansas poet, for governor of the state.

In St. Louis county, Mot four farmers fought a desperate hand to hand fight with knives. As a result William Gillhaus is dead and Charley is dangerously wounded. Divorcing; Ctiildreu. We learn from the Topeka Journal that "Mrs.

May Brooks wants the children belonging to her and W. J. Brooks, divorced." Divorcing children is a duty so many thoughtless parents overlook that it is refreshing to find an occasional instance of the kind. Mail and Breeze. Tribune, Missouri Democrat, Chicago Tribune, etc.

and unfortunately these papers have not learned anything to this day about money. A man ought to be ashamed now to be ignorant on this question, because teachers can be found everywhere. About two thousand reform papers, and books and er. The murder was over a trivial matter and without cause. Marion Asbell, a wealthy farmer near Chetopa, is under arrest charged with murdering his wife..