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TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1898. VOL.X. N0.12. ITS ALL JONSENSE. To Talk About The Peoples Buying Any Of The Gold Bonds.

L0BDELL1WAY odt. He Favors A Direct Proceeding In Mandamus To Detrains Wiietlier MR. BAKERS BILL. Extending The revisions of the Act Granting Pensions To rests solely on the Treasury statements that the gold in the country outside of the Treasury exceeds $525,000,000. All the ild in the bauk9 docs not exceed as we have shown, and it is known that outside of the gold in circulation on the Pacific coast, amounting to, perhaps, $50,000,000, there is no gold in circulation.

This leaves $300,000,000 of gold unaccounted for, and the conclusion is that this immense sum is boarded. The truth is, the gold in the United States is overestimated by probably $250,000,000. CASE AGAINST KEELEY CONTINUED. Johnson Had Not Given Security for Cost That Was the Technicality, The famous $100,000 damage suit of Johnson against Dr. Leblie Keeley, fer alleged personal iujuiies sustained by taking the Keeley cure, has been continued in the district court at Leavenwoith until March 9.

Attorneys for the defendant mri the complaint that the plaintiff was in CJJtempt of court, in that he had not complied with the order of the court directing that additional security for costs be given. Colonel Joe Waters, of Topeka urged Judge Myers to give his decision on his motion to strike out Dr. Keeleys answer, ou the ground that Keeley had refused to answer questions that had been submitted to him, but fie judge declined to pass on the question, saying his order for security tor cosl9 had been neglected and must be complied with. The continuance was then made. Later in the day Colonel Waters adjusted the secuiily for costs matter by filing an affidavit of poverty, as provided for in the statutes.

It is set forth in the affidavit that neither Johnson nor any of his near relations has means. Attorney Wateis wanted the court to hear testimony relative to Johnsons physical condition, saying the plaiutiff might not live until the March term of court, but the hearing was not granted. THE POPULIST LEAGUE, It Had an Interesting meeting at Liberty Hall Last Night. The Populist League had an intersting time at the meeting last night at Liberty Hail, the program being both instructive and entertaining, The duett by the Butler brothers took the house by storm. Mrs J.

R. Lytle read an original poem entitled, 'The Daily Co Operator. I was of a high order of literary excellence and was warmly appluuded. It will appear in tomoriows issue. Messrs Smith and son gave a dialogue, The Reformer and His Wife, in a pleasing manner.

In the debate on the questoin: It is the duty of the President to issue bonds at this time to maintain the gold the affirmative was ably sustained by H. C. Root who made a good old party argument, but it conld not withstand the at tacks made by Riberts, Rradford, Henry and others on the negative. The League meets every Tuesday event ing, The program for next Tuesday night promises a feast for those who attend. There will be music, recitations, select readings etc.

The question that The Use and occupancy should be the Only lltle to Land, will be discussed. Every body invited. ANDY FELTJS FURIOUS. Some Bold Bad Women Have Been Impostug On His Friends And He Calls A Halt. Since AndyFelt became the Champion of the Atchison Saloonatics, he seems to think that he must abuse every thing and every body obnoxious to the licentious and lawless element.

He rises to remark that the bold, bad and designing woman who imposes upon the blear eyed, besotted wretch, or the gaily bedecked gambler is worse than an infidel. This is not the exact language Andy Felt uses bu- it amounts to that. He makes out a od case for the Atchison raen who have been victimized, and waxes real eloquent in denunciation of the law, republicans are wholly responsibly for, be it good Or bad. This is the way he roars: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned is as true now as when The Bard of Avon put the words into the mouth of one of his characters. It might be said with equal force that Tophet has no fiend incarnate more dangerous to the peace of society than the lewd woman who, for purposes of blackmail, or as the supple tool of more skillful hands and cooler heads, takes advantage of a maudlin sentiment to wreck happy homes by attempts to blacken the character of Innocent people.

Atchison has a case of that kind with which to point a moral and adorn a tale, which will not soon be forgotten in this city. A woman has brought criminal action against no less than four reputable men under the age ef consent law. Whether she is a virtuous woman, fnol, a lunatic or a common bawd, it is not the purpose of this article to discuss. What wo do want to say Is this, that the statute it now stands is a menace to decent them at the period when they were the most, if not entirely helpless, became a necessity, and the general in chief than in command of this division authorized a winter campaign. The Nineteenth Kansas Cavalry was mustered into the Untied States service in the last days of October for the purpose of prosecuting the campaign at this season of the year.

On the 5th of November the regiment moved from Topeka, and crossing the Arkansas River at Wichita, moved in a southwest direction to join the Seventh United States Cavalry near the junction of Beaver Creek with the North Canadian, 112 miles south of Fort Dodge, at a cantonment called Camp Supply. On the march the command was caught in a severe snowstorm, and, becoming entangled in the canyons of the Cimarron, did not reach Camp Supply until the 30th of November. General Custer in his official report used this language concerning bis command: The horses and mules of this command have subsisted day after day upon nothing but green cottonwood bark. During all these privations the officers and men maintained a most cheerful spirit, and I know not which I admire most, their gallantry in battle or the patient, but unwavering, perseverance and energy with which they have withstood the many disagreeable ordtals of this campaign. "As the term of service of the Nineteenth Kansas cavalry is approaching its termination, and I may not again have the satisfaction of commanding them during active operations, I desire to commend them officers and men to the favoiable notice of the commanding-general.

Serving on foot, they have marched in a man ner and at a rate that would put some of the regular regiments of infantry to the blush. Instead of crying out for empty wagons to transport them, each morning every man marched with his troop, and what might be taken as an example by some of the line officers of the regular infantry-company officers marched regularly on foot at the head of their respective companies; and now, when approaching the termination of a march of over 300 miles, on greatly deficient rations, I have yet to see the first straggler. In obtaining the release of the captive white women, and that, too, without ransom or the loss of a single man, the men of my command, and particularly those of the Nineteenth Kansas, who were called into service owing to the murders and depredations of which the capture of these women formed a part, feel more fully repaid for the hardships they have endured than if they had survived an overwhelming victory over the Indians. Your committee is further advised by Hon H. L.

Moore, who was the major commanding the Eighteenth Kansas during the whole term of its service, that this battalion, as well as the Nineteenth Kansas, was composed largely of men whose homes had been devasted and families murdered by the Indians during their raids on the frontier settlements The Eighteenth suffered a loss of some 10 per cent from chc lera and the casualties of battle. Its service was conlant and arduous during the whole term of its en listment. The Nineteenth Kansas, of which Mr Moore was lieutenant-colonel, and which he commanded during the latter half of its term of service, prosecuted this cam paign during the most inclement weatner, and, as the official report shows, much of the time without adequte food or camp equipage. The result of the campaign was to clear the plains of the Indians of the southwest by forcing them onto their reservation, where they have remained ever since. Upon full and careful consideration of this bill your committee are unanimously agreed that it is one of exceptional merit, The service rendered by these two organizations, was of a very exceptional character, and the results of the same have been widespread and beneficent.

No dangerous precedent will be established by the enactment of this bill into law, as it will be remembered these are the only volunteer organizaiions which have been mustered into the United States service since the civil war. The bill is therefore returned with the recommendation that it do pass. They Have Not The Gold Which Alone Is Acceptable. GOLD COIN IN CIRCULATION. Outside the Treasury There Is Said to be the Sum oF $534,664,986, but the Truth of the Matter is Tnat the Gold in the United States Treasury is Overestimated, The belief expressed by some of our newspapers that if President Cleveland would instruct his Secretary of tne Treasury to put the $100,000,000 loan on sale at the post offices over the country, and offer the bonds directly to the people at a fixed price for gold, the loan would be subscribed for several limes over, rests on liltle foundation.

If any money issued by the United States was taken in payment, there would be no doubt that an issue of $100,000,000, or a much larger sum, could be directly sold to the people, but when the government, the government that under Mr. Cleveland has declared its first purpose to make and keep every dollar, declares'that the gold dollar is alone a good enough dollar for the government, and will be alone accepted by the Treasury in payment for the bonds, the people wiil not subscribe freely to the loan if put on sale at the post offices. They could not subscribe because they have not, declares the American, and would find it impossible to secure, the gold vhat the government declares to be alone acceptable in payment, save by buying it in the market at a premium. TLe Treasury- Department estimated the gold coin In circulation in the United States on January 1, 1896, at and the gold certificates at or at a total of $534,664,986 of gold outside of the Treasury. Of all this vast sum of over $534,000,000 not over is visible.

On September 28 1895, the date of the last report of the national banks to the Comptroller of the Treasury, of which we have complete returns, the gold held by the national banks is given at $110,378,300 in coin, $21,525,930 in gold certificates, and in gold clearing house certificates, which represent deposits of gold coin by the banks with the clearing-house associations, or a total of $162,925,290. The total amount of gold held by 6,093 banks, other than national, is given in the latest returns at $10,144,262, which, added to the gold held by the national banks, gives a total gold holding of the banks of less than $175,000,000. This leaves a stock of gold in the hands of the people of $360,000,000. That any Buch stock of gold exists there is not the slightest ground to believe. On the Pacific coast, perhaps, $50,000,000 in gold, at the outside, is in circulation and iu daily use among the people.

East of the Rocky Mountains there is practically no circulation of gold among the people whatsoever, yet to bring the stock of gold to tho sum estimated by the Treasury Department to be in the country, of gold must jbe in the hands of the people East of the Rocky Mountains, The money in use in daily transactions consists of silver and silver certificates, bank notes and a limited amount of legal tender and Treasury notes of 1890, much the larger part of the greenbacks and Treasury notes outside of the Treasury being held by the banks. The gold in the banks and in circulation on the Pacific coast, all the gold In the United States outside of the Treasury that is visible, does not exceed and every reader can judge for himself of the probability of $300,000,000 of gold being in the pockets of the people. The total amount of silver certificates in circulation, or of national bank notes and silver outside of the banks does not exceed $300,000,000, or the Bum said to be in the pockets of the people. If any sum of gold existed gold would be as often seen as silver certificates, or as bank notes and silver coin, and gold would be found in the peoples pockets to an amount equal to the silver certificates, or to the sum of the bank notes and silver coin that the people now possess. The fact is, gold is rarely seen.

Yet it Is confidently asserted that the masses of the people who never see gold in the ordinary course of business, have boarded gold to an amount of $300,000, 000, and stand ready to exchange It for bonds. That gold is hoarded in any such quantity there is no reason to believe, and the belief in the existence of such hoards A Reapportionment Of The State This Year Is Constitutionally Necessary. HE AGREES WITH STREET. The Neglect Of A Constitutional Duty Will Bring About Serious Compli-plications And Litigations Without Number. Let The Supreme Court Decide.

Mr, Speaker Lobdell of the Kansas house of representatives, has faith in the supreme court. As a rulo, the redeemers have lost nothing in political matters, by referring them to the supreme court. It seems that when it comes to a question of office or party ascendency, the ma-; ority of the supreme court can, wlthous turning a hair, overrule its own opinion and decide the other way. Lobdell has observed this and is willing to take his chances. The speaker has written a letter in re ply to Representative Streets communication, in which he says: I heartily agree with you that a re-apportionment this year isjaplain constitutional requirement, and that serious complications and litigations without number may follow a neglect of this constitutional duty.

So deeply impressed am I with this conviction that if convinced that a legal meeting of the Legislature could be had without executive call I should not hesitate to invite my fellow members to convene at a fixed date. But as to this you will observe there are but two constitutional provisions for the assembling of the Legislature. I am strongly of the opinion that the people in so changing the constitution that there could1 be no regulat session this year, while leaving us a constitutional duty to perform, made it incumbent upon the only power that can legally convene us the executive to do so. This conclusion, as you suggest, was, after mature deliberation, reached and acted upon by Governor Mai tin ten years ago, and I might add that the fact there has been no demand from the people nor attempt by subsequent Legislatures, although fiye since have convened, to modify this feature of( the constitution, would seem to indie, le that Governor Martins construction of the constitution has been approved by the public. Personally I should prefer to see the session with its necessary expense avoided, if it legally can be.

To put the situation perhaps more tersely, everybody wants a session if it constitutionally necessary, nobody if it isnt. As the final arbiter of legal controversies to whom all good citizens willingly yield is the supreme court, I would suggest that this matter be at once submitted to that test. While it is true that the executive might, by resort to technicality, avoid the real question, yet as he has announced his determination not to call a session for the sole reason that he is advised that Governor Martins construction was wrong and that a reap-portionment this year is not necessary, it would seem that a direct proceeding in mandamus to which the governor would no doubt willingly be a party, although I am in no sense speaking or authorized to speak for him, would bring the matter squarely to issue, and result in a decision which would set it at rest for all time. This would be a prompt and inexpensive way of settling the question, and no doubt if the court should take the view held by the executive and his law office, such an opinion would point out a way of avoiding the difficulties that have occurred to you. Should a different view be taken the Legislature would be at once convened.

THREE GARNISHMENTS AND OUT. General manager Irey Issue. An Or derTo Aid Creditors In Collecting Accounts. General Manager J. J.

Frey of the Santa Fe has issued a circular- to the employes of the road relating to garnishment cases. The general manager informs his men that garnishment to exceed three times within any twelve months, on debls accruing after January 1, 1896, will considered as sufficient cause for discharge, notwithstanding the ability or length of service of the employe. Ho believes that if employes attempt to make settlement with their creditors, even by small payments, garnishment proceedings may be avoided. Since the Santa Fe has passed out of court control garnishment will follow the ordin ary course of law and he asks employes to protect themselves and the road from such proceedings. Soldiers And Sailors Who Are Incapacitated So As To Include THE KANSAS VOLUNTEERS.

They Were Men Whose Homes Had Been Devastated And Whose Families Were Murdered By the Indians During Raids On the Frontier Settlements. Mi. Baker, of Kansas, introduced the following bill in the house of representatives, which on January 17, was committed to the committee of the whole house and ordered to be printed. A bill extending proyisions of an Act granting pensions to soldiers and sailors, approved June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth regiments of Kansas Cavalry volunteers. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States oi America in congress assembled, that the provisions of an act entitled An act granting pensions to soldiers and sailors who are incapacitated for the performance of manual labor, and providing for pensions to widows, minor children, and dependent parents, approved June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, are hereby extended so as to include all persons serving in a battalion of the Eighteenth Kansas Cavalry volunteers mustered into the military service of the United States from July thirteenth to fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, at Fort Harker, Kansas, and also all persons serving in the Nineteenth regiment Kansas Cavalry volunteers, mustered into the said service from October twentieth to twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and gixty-eight, at Topeka, Kansas.

In submitting his leport on this bill Representative Baker has the following to say concerning the soldiers who saved Kansas from the depredations of the red skins: A battalion of the Eighteenth Kansas Cavalry Volunteers organized under a circular of June 21, 1867, from headquarters military division of Missouri, was mustered into the military service of the United States from July 13 to 15, 1867, at Fort Harker, to serve for a period of four months, and that it was ustered out of service at the same place November 15, 1867. It also appears from the records that the Nineteenth Regiment Kansas Cavalry Volunteers organized under authority contained in a telegram from the secretary of war to Lieutenant-General Sherman dated October 6, 1863, was mustered into the United States services by companies from October 20 to 29, 1868, at Topeka, to serve for a period of six months, and that the regiment was mustered out of service April 18, 1869, at Fort Hays, Kane. The official report shows that these or ganizations were called out to aid in the suppression of Indian hostilities, and the records further show that the battalion of the Eighteenth Kansas Cavalry, above re-ferred to, and the Nineteenth Regiment of Kansas Cayalry are the only two volunteer organizations mustered into the mil itaiy service of the United States since the war of the At the time the Eighteenth Kansas was mustered in at Fort Harker a severe epidemic of cholera prevailed at that place, and it is shown by the records of the war depaitment that 20 deaths occurred in the battalion frrnn that disease. On the 21st and 22d of August, 1867, companies and of this battalion were in an engagement with the Cheyenne in-dians on Prairie Dog creek in Kansas with a loss of 14 officers and men killed and wounded, and Major Armes, of the Tenth United States Cavalry, commends in the highest terms the officers and men of the Eighteenth who took part iu this engagement in saving the State of Kansas from further depredations from the Indians. In General Sheridans report, dated Chicago, 111 November 1, 1869, speaking of the depredations of the Indians on the plains during the previous summer and winter, he says: So boldly had this System of murder and robbery been carried on, that not less than 800 people had been murdered since June, 1862 men, women and children.

It had been the custom of the Indians to raid frontier settlements during the summer, and then seek security by retiring into the mountains during the winter. General Sheridan continues: To disabuse the minds of the savages of their confident security, and to strike GY STANOSJjPHR KANSAS Aud Claims That Cap Johnson Does Not Because His Sou Attends a Missouri College. The Cy Leland gang claim first blood in the fight with the Johnson crowd. The followers pf Cyrus e'nim their man stands up for Kansas while Auctioneer Johnson does not. Cy.

Leland is sending a son to Washburn College, Topeka, while J. B. Johnson is sending his son to a Missouri college. SENSATIONAL RAILROAD RUMOR. Huntington Preparing To Interfere III The Allalra of The Sauta Fe.

The rumor comes from New York to the effect that President C. P. Huntington of the Southern Pacific railroad, is preparing to interfere with the Santa Fe in a manner which will by no means be relished by that company. It is believed that Huntington is planning to deprive the Santa Fe of the Atlantic Pacific, and after securing control of the Frisco will build across the present gap from Sapul-pa, I. to Albuquerque, thereby securing a through line to the coast, shutting the Santa Fe off from its coast connections west of Albuquerque.

It is well known that the appointment of C. W. Smith as receiver ot the Atlantic Pacific upon the resignations of Receivers Walker and McCook, placed a man who represents Mr. Huntington's interests in charge of the property of that company. Receiver Aldace F.

Walker will, with In a few days, it is believed, tender bis resignation as receiver of the Frisco, the business to be wound up by Receiver McCook. The tact that the Frisco is pulling away from the Santa Fe and securing the establishment of Its business upon a separate basis, coupled with the mysterious movements of President Huntington and his avowed purpose to secure a coast line if possible, causes the Santa Fe company to be not a little exercised. The executiue committee of the Kansas G. A. R.

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men becauso it puts in the hands of com mon prostitutes a club with which to destroy innocent people. No punishment prescribed by our law is too severe for the fiend who seduces an innocent girl. Upon that point there can be no difference of opinion. But the law which enables any woman, no matter how young she may be in years, after she admits by her own testimony that her conduct is that of a common cyprian, to convict, upon her word alone, any man against whom she or her backers, may have a personal grudge, is not only a weak law, but an extremely vicious and dangerous one. 1 Under the present law the defence has no right to show the bad cbajacter and continued vicious conduct of the cum plaining witness.

Under the terms of the existing statute, no young man with money at bis disposal is safe from the attacks of the most abandoned woman, provided she is or pretends to be under the age of eighteen years. We do not know anything of the previous character of the Atchison woman in question, but any woman who makes that charge gainst so many different individuals, is not so much in need of sympathy as of sense. If her unsupported word regard less of her wreiclied conduct and loose character can send four good men to the penitentiary, that law should be wisely amended and it cannot be changed any too soon. If the men against whom she has made these serious charges, are guilty, they should be properly punished, but they should not be deprived of the rights given even to wilful murderers, in seeking to make a defence. All decent men will up-hold any reasonable law in defence of the virtue of womanhood, but the good of society is not subserved by a statute which gives to lascivious beasts legal claws to rend the lives of men made help less, by a barbarous penal code.

Sheriff Kepley has moved into his official residence. meeting OI military Board. At the meeting of the stale military board yesterday afternoon, First Lieutenant Charles Shaffer, Co. F. Third regiment was ordered mustered out of service on account of alleged incompetency.

Company Second regiment at How ard, was ordered mustered out of the service, and company I of the same regiment at Eureka, was given until the next meeting of the board to produce a better showing of its condition. Company of the Second regiment, at Hutchinson, was given thirty days to recruit up to the minimum, forty members, before final action is taken with regard to it. I.