The Weekly Commonwealth from Topeka, Kansas • Page 3

THE WEEKLY COMMOsm EAIfK I UHSD AY APKLL 28, 1887. WHOLESALE SHOOTING. cussed and favorably received by that body. BIG BEND'S BOOM. NEW BIRDS.

ker's Second addition 1,300 00 Samuel Lee end wife to George Klein, lota 92 and of 94, Fillmore street, 2,500 00 William Knox to Jacob Wilder, lota 4u8 add 410, est street, King'Baddi' tion 2C0 00 W. K. Ewing to Mary Bowen, lot 8 and Ji o4 10, Sixth avenne. west 2,500 CO JohnR. Mnlvaneto fc'd F.

Greenwood, lots 44 56 nd i. First avenue, west 300 0 boarders. Her mother was willing, the father was not, and he apparently sought to effetrt a simple solution of the vexed problem by killing eix people, he and his wife included. He flourished the revolver some and the daughter ran into a room. Both women testified that he was not drunk ard The Modern Methods.

We do not sigh for a return of the "good old days" when boys went barefooted until they were 21, and walked ten miles to and from school. There are now new and improved methods of "toughening" boys. They are about as tough, generally speaking, as they can very well bo." But wo do sometimes lonR for a little the old-fashioned discipline and "trouncing" methods that made boys subservient to the will of their parents in some slight degree. Imagine a good old Puritan mother getting her son Wait-still or Godspeed up of a morning after this, the fashion of our modern mother. Fancy her saying "Waitstill, you getting up?" And fanev Waitstill surlily replying: "Yes'um, by'n by." "Well, I don't want any by and by about it.

Hump yourself out of thafc now. "Well, purty soon." "It had better be pretty soon, younsr man, if you know what's good for you. "Well, I reckon there ain't no hurry about it." "I'll let you know if there ain't, aboul the time I come up there with a pan of cold water." "Can't yo let a feller sleep half a minute?" "'Half a I'd say 'half a minute' if I was you, when you've been in bed thirteen hours. Now you crawl out of that instantly 1" MA11 right." Half an hour passes Wcitstill docs not appear. His mother's voice cuts the air in the hall.

"You Waitst-'U Prosperity Pcvrood Winthrop!" "Whacher want?" "I want you to h'ist yourself out of that bed too quick 1 You hear?" "I ain't deef." "Breakfast was over an hour ago, and not one single bito shall you Lava in this house before dinner." "I'll see about that." "Soil young manl You crawling out?" "Yes'm." Another half hour passes, and Mistress Temperance Prudence Piety Win-throp's voice poes ringing up stairs "You Wait 1" "Hey?" "Ill 'hey' you, you idle thing, you Til tell your father on you." "Tell away." "You'll see what you'll get, Wait Winthrop. Not a single bite of breakfast do you get." "Guess 111 stay in bed, then." "I guess you won't, if I como up there you out of bed yet "Almost." "Well, I'll help you the rest of tha way with the broomstick if you ain't out in live minutes." Half an hour later he gets up. Hi breakfast has been kept warm for him. It is set on the table and a fresh cup of coffee made. His mother dances attendance on him during the meal, unmindful of all past threats and promises.

Tid-Bits. Emmons Blaine, the son of the never had been that they knew of. It is further claimed that he has been shiftless for fifteen years, but there was no testimony of brutal treatment, of his family. The court put him under $1,000 bonds to await the action of the district court. Beard had been in jail during the previous night.

He was unable to obtain a bond yesterday even ing and was again committed. He cried and begged most vociferously and got his two arms about his wife and asked her to help him, but she broke holds and left him there. The daughter was perfectly com posed during the whole scene. Police Court. There were twelve vags discharged yesterday.

A recent dispatch from New York says: Here is some curious postmortem evidence for Beecher, though it is not of a nature to receive judicial ousideration, since it consists simply of the opinion of Tilton's chief lawyer in the great scandal trial that the defendant was innocent. That counsel wa3 William A. Beach, now dead. At the time of the Til ton suit he had lately removed to New York from Troy, where he had been for years a leader at the bar but in the metropolis he was unknown to the general public, and was desirous of greater fame than his quiet but lucrative business as an attorney for several great railroads gave to him. lie was gifted with singular eloquence, and he thought that he saw in this Beecher matter the opportunity of his life.

He knew Tilton personally, and believed in the truth of his grievance. So he took the case with very small prospect of pecuniary recompense, but willing to exert himself for glory. The Chicago Times correspondent is now able to tell that, before the six months of the trial were over, Beach was convinced that Beecher was guiltless of adultery with Mrs. Tilton. The authorities for this statement are ex-Congressman Martin I.

Townsend and Irving Browne. They say that Beach declared to them his firm belief in Beecher's goodness. Townsend is a Troy lawyer of eminence and the utmost probity. "Beach started in with a full faith that Tilton had a sound case," he says "but the trial was not half over before he changed his mind. I relate this without assuming what the truth was, but simply to tell how Beach regarded it." Irving Browne was formerly of Troy, but now lives at Albany.

He is a lawyer, a literary writer, and an old friend of the deceased Beach. He quotes Tilton's counsel as saying to him "We were a pack of hounds trying to run a lion down. Beecher's own testimony convinced me that he was innocent of the charge which Tilton had made. That is not saying that Tilton did not believe his own accusations; on the contrary, he did; but we were all mistaken." Train the Left Hand. If we take so much pains to see that the right hand is brought eo far under the complete control of the will as to execute most of its dictates with ease and precision, why not give the equally susceptible left hand the same degree of attention, so that if either be the recipient of injury the othfti- may carry op.

all the functions possible for one hand to do unaided? Such a course would often save us from spending months of valuable time in the tedion-task of jg Liriugu, them under subjugation to the vi after they have become hard and stub born by reason of age, training' that should have been and could easily have been accomplished in childhood. From the home the child goes to school, and here the same prejudice awaits him. Through the dictate Oi Ox uaprict L.Z hoW the pen or crayon in tbe forbidden left hand, and his knuckles are sharply rapped for it. Why not let him learn to write and draw with both hands He would be free at any moment to rest a hand exhausted by protracted use without any interruption of his work. We have often seen an artisan whose ability to handle tools with either hand a occasion demanded gave him constant advantage over his one-handed fellows, not only in tha avoidance of fatigue, but in the performance of nice work and the overcoming of difficulties hard to come at by those restricted to the use of a singlA hand.

The right-hTidd K.i.u who can use a hammer or a knife readily with the left hand, or can tie or untie a knot when his right hand is otherwise engaged, will find frequent use for his skill. Indeed the advantages we miss through the non cultivation of the neglected member are infinite in number and incessant recurrence. Why mut' pay such heavy tribute to a ridicuious custom? Custom is undoubtedly the only reason for our habitual and unreasonable suppression of a member whose cultivation would immensely increase our executive power and prevent our being utterly disabled by certain accidents to which all are liable. National Stockman, xms was 10 nave me noasa 01 xrase appoint a committee to confer with the managers of the Rock Island road with reference to running an excursion train from Chicago to Topeka to bring the merchants of the Lake City out here to see Topeka and learn for themselves of her prosperity. The Santa Fe, said Captain Titus, i3 reaching out for Chicago, and the Rock Island has forged the connecting link between the two cities so that the business men of the respective points should feel a mutual interest in each other.

Such an excursion should properly come from the influence of the Board of Trade and would undoubtedly be fraught with grand and good results. A committee of three, consisting of President Mulvane, Mr. Seabrook and Mr. Troutman, was appointed by the chair to act in concert with the advertising committee and the committee from the Real Estate Exchange in a movement toward securing such an excursion. This committee will meet to-night at the exchange.

The board then adjourned. THE COURTS. District Court. In the district court yesterday the jury in the case of Eliza A. Higbee vs.

Charles McDonald et ah, returned a verdict into court, in favor of the plaintiff. This is the second time she has won the case. A jury was empanelled in the case of Ellen Norris vs. H. E.

Ball. The plaintiff is a colored women and had been engaged in laundry aod other woik. On the 20th of May, 1883, the wss injured by a quantity of rock and ether debris, being blown through her house, dislocating her shoulder and bruising and wounding her variously. The rock which did the injury was hurled from a blast in an adjacent quarry being operated by the defendant, under the name of thelSherman Stone Crushing company. The accident happened at in Douglass county, near the A.

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line.lThe plaintiff alleged that rocks, timber and earth were hurled through the house in which she worked, inflicting the injuries complained of, result-iog in entirely crippling her right arm and rendering it permanently useless. Fiank Herald appeared for the plaintiff while the defendant was represented by P. Douthitt. B. R.

Wheel er and J. G. Stonecker. Damages were laid at The testimony of the plaintiff Bnstained the material allegations of facts. One witness who, chewed gum and mangled his statements was by the attorney to empty his mouth which he did.

then in answerto a question ae to how mut i dynamite" was used in the damaging charge, pulled out a lead pencil and marked off with his thumb tail about three inches; to this he said there was added a quart of black powder. He then put the pencil into bis mouth and chewed it and bis utterances until a juror told him to remove the pencil. From his testimony it became apparsnt that the de-fen ant had been in the habit of giving signals before firing the blasts, which apprised everyone in the neighborhood; that the plaintiff knew of this and that rock had been thrown about her before, and that the man whored the blast was not web drilled in the business. At the close of the testimony for the plaintiff, defendant's counsel demurred to the evidence and the 1 court sustained the demurrer and at 4 p. m.

the jury was discharged. Judge Guthrie in passing on the demurrer said that there was no evidence that defendantBall had specifically orderedor directed the particular blast that had result ed in the damage complained of. Mr. Herald called attention toT the fact that it had been proven that Ball was around the place when the discharge happened. The court then remarked, that the giving of the signal was on the same principle as the ringing of a locomotive bell when approaching a crossing, and it was ample notice to all affected, without proof of the fact that the signal was heard.

If the case were submitted to the jury, they would have to be instructed that if the plaintiff had sufficient notice to avoid the injury, it was her duty to U3e her naural senses and powers to escape. The prcof showed that after one shock she went back into the house and after the signal preceding the second blast, remained within range and in her house until she was injured. The doctrihe of contributory negligence as laid down by Redfield was applied and the attorneys for the defendant directed to draw up a demurrer which would be sustained. Sixty days are allowed for an appeal to the supreme court. Police Court.

John Jones George Marshall and Thomas Smith were accused of vagrancy. They were discharged. Frank Harris was fined $5 for being drunk. Justices Courts. In Justice Searle'e court W.

H. Beard was arraigned for threatening to kill his wife. The hearing was postponed until this morning. Mattie Sawyers complained that Ellen Johnson had abused and assaulted her. After hearing the testimony the court believed the complaint, and fined Ellen $5 and costs, which was cheerfully paid.

Just Look Here. Rakes, 25 cents; toes 25 cents; shovels 50 cents; 3 burner vapor stoves, oven and can, all other goods at equally low prices at T. W. Willis 131 Kansas avenue. Wrxxis Co.

Wealth of Old Romans. According to Cicero the debts of A. Milo amounted to about twenty eight million dollars; Julius Caesar, when setting out for Spain, is reported to have said himself that he was ten millions worse than nothing. When he first went to Home, after crossing the Rubicon he took from the public treasury $5,500,000, but at the end of the civil war put 24,000,000 in it He purchased the friendship of Curio with a bribe of two million the hundred thousand, and of the Consul, I Paulus, with half that sum. CroESUs was worth in real estate over eight million dollars, and about as much in money, furniture and slaves.

Seneca was worth over twenty millions. Lientulus, the augur, over sixteen millions, Augustus realized by the testament of his friends over one hundred and sixty-one millions. Tiberias left at his death nearly one hundred millions, which Caligula spent in less than one year, and Vespasian at his succession said that he required for the support of the state over $1,614,000,000. Nevertheless, though greatly enriched by her conquests, imperial Home never came into the full inheritance of the high wealth of the and the, larper quantity of the precisrs i----1 1 IHE BARE iSsOBTMEM PROF. GOSS IS rBEPARISG FOB Til STATE MUSEUM.

Honduras AVoods Yield a Rich Harvest of Ornithological Specimens-The ChacU-alaca and the Cassiqne with the Manakin and the Jacama- Comhlaed The Varieties. T'rof. Gobs is preparing some valuable ornithological specimens for his department in the State house. These are the fruita of his recent trip to Central America, from which he returned about the first of this month. He had a very pleasant month's sojourn in the tropics and succeeded in ee curing some rare birds, one of which of the wren species is unknown in the nomenclature accessible to ornithologists who have seen it.DIt is covered with a sort of feathery like hair, except the tail and pinions, which are feathers.

Prof. Goss will bring it to Boston this year at the annual meeting to eubmit it for inspection and classification. In the main room open to the public, the specimens in the center case have been newly arranged and a large horned owl obtained from Cheyenne occupies a prominent position. It was put in place yesterday. It is heavily clothed in cinnamon tinted feathers.

There are already one or two specimens, but this is the largest yet obtained. A pair of the rare tropical fowl, known as the yellow tailed cassique, is ready for its position in the cases. They are obtained in Honduras, as were all the other new specimens. TheBe birds are large and prettily plumaged, but their nests" which were ob tained at the time the birds were 6hot, were also brought to Topeka and are a decided novelty. Two nesta were obtained by the chopping of a tree 90 feet high on which 13 nests hung on one limb, but so adjusted that the swaying of the tree did not cause them to collide.

Prof. Goss caused the tree to be chopped and fallen in such a way that it fell on an immense bed of palms, cabbage palmetto and other shubbery that had been ined away for the banana crop. When tie giant tree fell, it was in this manner saved from a crash of nests and wreck of eggs. Several of the latter were brought here. They are about the size of quails' eggs, some dotted with purple spots, others speckled like a guinea hen's eggs and some nearly white.

The nest is about three and one-half feet long fixed to the twig of a limb at the upper part and widening out at the bottom, being shaped like the glass covering to the incandescent light. It is composed of the various grasses that abound in Central America, and is as firmly interwoven as any mat made by human hands. Two fine Honduras turkeys meleagris ocellatus have been secured. Their plumage is not as gorgeous as the male peacock, but their irrideecent feathers-place them far above anything known in the turkey family. Their size is about that of the ordinary wild turkey of North America.

Th6ir necks and heads are devoid of plumage, being covered in lieu with a bright blue skin. Dead, the skin is a dull black. The tail is broad and long.j The humming birds secured, are varied. The curved bill or scaly hummer, has a long bill gracefully curved like a cobbler's sewing awl. Tha plumage is generally green and very pretty.

The parrots obtained are attired in the same colored plumage. In fact it would seem as if the law of nature which clothes its birds as best to afford them protection is exemplified by the collection added to the state's department as the prevailing color is green, in harmony with the luxurious foliage where they were obiaint though bright red, yellow and white spots, tufts and crescents are numerous. These might easily blend with the myriads of buds, blossoms and flowers of the country. The green jaoamas are white-throated with long straight bills, and there is a a pair of green jays with throats. A black capped manakin, with a yellow breast is noticeable particularly for its white tufted throat which the taxidermists art has preserved perfectly.

A honey creeper about as large, as a hummer has an at-hen throat. There several sorts of the tamon, distinguished by their colors, scarlet rumped, blue witha black front, and a red and black one. They are about the size of an American blackbird. The sootee is a little brown bird, with white streaks over its eyes. Several kinds of the aht thrush were obtained.

The Chaoh-alaca, so called on account of the sound it pronounces, is a brown fowl about as large as a prairie hen, but much lighter in weight and more slender. Professor Goss' knowledge of taxidermy has enabled him to pnt these birds in most natural and spirited positions. He has also secured many different kinds of the woodpecker and two varieties of parrots. Numerous green finches have been added and other birds which will be in place in a few days. In all forty-eight different specimens have been secured and they make a rare and very valuable addition to the large collection cow displayed.

BOARD OF TRADE. Foster Home Industries A. Proposed. Chi-cago-Topeka Excursion. The Board of Trade held its regular meeting last night, Vice President Foucht presiding.

i The minutes of the meeting of April 0th Were read and approved. The matter of the Topeka Cracker factory was brought up by Secretary Rodgers, who said the institution was not receiving that support from home merchants which it was entitled to. Outside and North Topeka dealers are doing their share in this direction, but others are not. Several gentlemen spoke on this subject, one of whom said he ate Topeka crackers and smoked Topeka cigars and when he oould'nt get these he would quit on tobacco and crackers. On motion Topeka made crackers were officially recommended to home consumers and retail grocers were earnestly requested to carry Topeka crackers in stock.

A communication was read from the travelling agent of Rand, McNally Go's. Monthly, in regard to the publication of an article in that journal, which had been prepared and was read to the board. No action was taken. CMr. Seeley called attention to the dangerous condition of the streets of the city, which have been torn up by contractors for the purpose of laying gas and water pipes, street railway tracks, and have been left unguarded for an unreasonably long period.

Accidents are liable to occur at any time and result in serious loss and damage. The secretary was instructed to request the street commissioner urge the contractors to greater expedition in restoring the stress to their proper condition. Cartp- 0." IT, T''n behalf A DECISIOX I3f FAVOR OF THE RAILROAD C03IMISSIOX. Increased Depot Facilities Recommended Minnesota Organizing Her Labor Bureau Wednesday 's Grist of Charters Notarial Commissions Issued General Notes. The board of railroad commissioners has for some time had under consideration the case of the citizens of Big Bend, Phillips county, complainants, vs.

the Missouri Pacific Railway company, respondents, and yesterday rendered a decision in the matter, tbe text of which is given herewith: DECISION OF THE BOAED. This is a petition to the board by citizens of Big Bend, Phillips county, asking us to cause to be built a depot at that place, stating as a reason that the people there are put to inconvenience in receiving and sending freight. The petition was referred to the company and response was made that the business originating at that station was not sufficient to justify the company in building and maintaining a station. Subsequently the place was visited by a member of the txnrd after due notice to the petitioners and the company of the time, March 16, 1887. The situation there was found to be aB follows: Big Bend is a small village containing three stores, post-office and several houses.

It is situated between Marvin on the east, distant six miles, and Logan on the west, nine miles, at each of which places a station is maintained. The business mainly tributary to Big Bend i at present done chiefly at Marvin and Logan. A side track and stock yards have been built at this place but no freight is delivered there unless the charges have been prepaid, and all billing upon freight carried away must be done either at Or Marvin. This carries the bulk of the business to those points for shipment. Occasion was taken to examine the country within several miles of Big Bend with a view to ascertain the amount of settlement and cultivation in that vicinity.

From observations made and data obtainable from the assessors' records, it was ascertained that upwards of 10,000 acres of lands lying nearer to Big Bend than to any other point having a railroad station are in cultivation. It was escertained from conversations with the farmers in that locality that the wheat, corn and other productions raised there are hauled to Logan and Marvin for shipment, but that Bie" Bend, if shipping facilities were provided, would be their most accessible point. We further found that about three hundred persons get their mail at this point. The passing passenger tiains pass this point in the middle of the night. They stop at Big Bend only when signaled to take up passengers, and as there is no agent to signal the trains citizens as an accommodation to those desiring to take passage sit up to watch the approach of the inuoming trains and stop them.

Of course with these meager accommodations the number of passengers taking the trains at this point is not the greater number going to the next nearest station for that purpose. We do not think it would pay the company to build and maintain an expensive station at this place at the present time, but we are clearly of the opinion that sufficient need exists for increased facilities, and these needs will hereafter rapidly increase. A email station house ith an agent who could at a reasonable compensation devote such time as was necessary to take care of the business coming to the railroad there would answer present requirements and would not greatly inorease the expenses of operation. The board under the circum-ftances feel no hesitation in recommending to the company to provide station facilities of the characters here indicated, at Big Bend. CHABTEBS FILED.

The following new charters were filed yesterday in the office of the secretary of State: "The Stockton Street Railway company." Capital stock $25,000. Directors: Charles C. Woods, J. B. Gordon, J.

N. W. S. Chambers, W. A.

Moore, H. T. Miller and O. A. Higgins, all of Stockton.

"The Union Banking company, rion. Business headquarters at Marion, Greensburg, Jetmore and Hope. Crpital stock Hon. Geo. H.

Stearns, Mcnchester, N. Joseph L. Hoe-mer, Sunoook, N. John T. Whitehouse, Larned; Wm.

H. Dudley, Edwin R. Tren-ner, A. W. Stanford, Roswell O.

Nelson, Edwin M. Donaldson, J. S. Dean and Fred. L.

Frazer, of Marion, J. C. Moore, Chas. F. Morrill, Horace Marshall end S.

B. Stearns, of Manchester, N. H. "The Miltonvale Cheese and Butter Company." Capital stock $7,200. Directors: James H.

Burbank, Ira Angelo, C. E. Mc-Daniels, Wm. Barrett, A. B.

Fry and W. W. Can field, of Miltonvale, and A. J. McAllister, Heber.

"The Eudora Mineral Springs Town Com pany." Headquarters at Mineral Springs and Lawrence, Douglas county. Capital stock $10,000. Directors: A. S. Johnson and Thomas A.

Osborn, Topeka: Charles E. Has tings, Kansas City, Hyne, O. Learnard, George Leis, R. K. Tabor and John D.

Miles, Lawrence; O. G. Richards, Henry Abies and A. J. Hiddleston, of Eudo ra.

"The Lyons Real Estate company." Capi tal stock $100,000. Directors: C. W. Shnm- way, R. B.

Shumway, J. T. Godfrey, F. G. Sutton, William Murphy, J.

E. Gilmore and C. M. Rawlings, all of Lyons. "The Wichita Classis of the Reformed church in the United States." Trustees: J.

W. Love and J. H. Brown, Wichita; S. A.

Alt and M. R. Remsberg, Iola and D. B. Shuey, Emporia.

"The Oloott Town company. Capital stock $12,000. Reuben Hiram Stout Kingman. "The Essex Directors: of Olcott; and C. A.

W. N. Davis.and C. W. Fairchild, J.

Fairchild, of Town company." Head quarters at Essex and Ravanna, Garfield county. Estimated value of company's property $50,000, and capital stock $50,000. Directors: C. Van Patten, C. E.

Clark, E. V. Clark and F. W. Holloway, of Essex; J.

P. Cessna and C. T. Sale, of Ravanna, and J. E.

Dixon, of Cuyler. Capital stock $50,000. Directors: F. R. Morton, S.

L. Coulter, G. W. Hawk, V. J.

Knapp a cd H. L. L. Kniffin, all of Parsons Ken. KANSAS AS A MODEL John Lamb, commissioner of labor statis tics for Minesota writes to the Kansas labor commissioner that they are now organizing the bureau in that state, which was created by act of the last legislature.

He desires to avail himself of the advantages of similar organizations which experience has given to bureaus is sister states and therefore, asks for a copy of the last anual report of the Kansas bureau and of such blanks as ma? prove useful in the premises. This is one of several similar letters received from south, east and north, and shows that this important branch of the machinery of the state is well and favorably known throughout the country Thus does Kansas continue to take the Ibad and furnish an example for other and older states to follow. Real Estate Transfers, As reported by Bartholomew real estate, mortgage and loan brokers, 189 Kan sas avenue: Are-eon ITiri wick to John Milllesn marser street, Mets- THE INDISCRIMINATE SLAUGHTER OF FEAIHEBEO CAME IN KANSAS. Observations on Sporting Generally The Interest in Base Ball Absorbing Everything Else The Field Sports and Pot Buuters The Method to Save the Game For the Commonwealth. has reached an eminence through its bai-e ball club, in the sporting world, which many older cities have struggled for in vain, in a surprisingly brief period.

Superiority is the aim of the city, in everything it undertakes, and so much has been said about the base ball club that but few are unacquainted with its achievements and the great and favorable notoriety given this city through it. In the other fields of sport inactivity appears to prevail when compared with other thriving cities. The wheelmen are not seeking to earn for themselves recognition in the national tournaments to the extent they should. "The dog kennels are also allowing time to whirl away without bearing any record of preparation for a creditable display. There are not natural facilities for sculling or other aquatic sports, and even the cultivation of a high standard of marksmanship in target shooting seems to be neglected.

The interest taken in the creeping up of the earth's valuation thermometer is not the sole cause of this general indifference. Nor is it sufficient to concentrate every idea, outside of business, on the Topeka base ball club. Other athletic and manly sports ehould be encouraged and patronized. There are many who would like to distinguish themselves by smashing Peoria blackbirds but there seems to be a want, in the number, of unity It was but a few years ago that Topeka had a sportsman's club. There was a game law theD.

The members of the club were united to enforce this lav. It is cltimed by some of the survivors of the club in Topeka, for many like Wardel, the dog kennel man have left, that too many of the members mistook or ignored the objects of the organization. In act they degenerated into the pests of the field sport, the pests they wer organized to discourage, pot hunters. Upon discovering, in the harvest time that reckless individuals were shooting down younger prairie chickens in defiance of law and even in defiance of justice to their own favorite, a boiling pot, the weaker brothers organized themselves into committees to go out into the fields where the shaved stubble concealed the crouching chic from the view of man, but not from the scent of the dog, and through sloughs where the August winds whistled through the weeds, and when the whir'r of the littla chicken was heard bang, bang, burst from the guns of the committees and puffs of white smoke dipped and floated responsive to the soft breezes and the unfit birds broke the straight line they were describing and angled swiftly and heavily to the ground dead. The committee's reason for killing these young things, about a month before they were fit to cook, was to save them from brut a1 butchery at the hands of unorganized pothunters.

Between the organized and unorganized slayers game in Kansas has become scarce. Last fall there was no water and aquatic fowls, as a consequence are rare. A year ago the past win ter the weather was extremely cold'and the snow continuing so long on the ground, covering seeds and all other things that constitute the bright little quail's bill of fare, his tribe perished from the land in myriads. This loss is a serious one. The merry whistle of a "Bob White" from a hedge, a fence or tree, or running his even pace across the country highway, has long been considered a charrcteristio of western nature's field melody.

And the flesh of the bird in the winter, though different from the Roman emperor's lunch of peacock is more in demand among American epicures. There are plovers, curlews, Wilson snipe, sometimes though perhaps not so frequently as in other places ducks and geese. The increasing settlement of the state and the observance of Arbor day and the millions of trees being planted by the urban and suburban residents of Kansas is producing the natural result, observable from the increase in settlements and timber: moisture and rain. Water fowl may yet be found in numbers in the state and nothing more harmful can follow from the inauguration of a policy calculated to protect game. The injudicious course generally pursued hitherto has destroyed to an almost irreparable extent the covies of chickens and quail that formerly populated Kansas' surface, but other states are largely supplied through the fostering care of laws executed.

The fowl know no state lines and by the compulsory cessation of game killing for a time, the neighboring states may be in duced to give Kansas a sufficient number to renew the feathered tenantry of the fields and forests of tbe state. Conscientious and earnest sportsmen will exert themselves to this end, and with a good law rigidly enforced the end can be attained. COUBTS. District Court. The case of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe railway company vs.

Stark, was dismissed, the matter in controversey having been compromised. Harry Hill vs. W. L. Lawless.

This was a replevin suit brought to recover a horse valued at $100. It was an appeal from a justice's court. A jury brought in a verdict for defendant. i Mrs. J.

W. Williams sues E. J. Cody's bondsmen for the value of a buggy which Cody, as constable, sold to satisfy an execution issued on a judgement against her husband. She and her husband have since been separated by divorce.

Plaintiff claims to have hand raised a colt which she traded for the buggy. The evidence and argument of counsel were coiu eluded last evening and the case taken under advisement by the court. Probate Comrt. Ann Gundrod, administratrix in the estate of M. T.

Swatz, filed her second report. Benjamin F. Williams and Mary B. Smith obtainedfa marriage license. Justices' Court.

Justice Jamison issued two warrants, bat the names of the parties to be arrested are necessarily suppressed. In Justice Searle's court H.H. Beard was arraigned on the charge of making threaten ing demonstrations toward Lis wife and daughter. The parties live at 1126 Quincy street, of late. They had formerly resided ci a farm rear tha citj.

It is stated that James Enwer ana wife to J. E. Reynolds lots 6o9 and 671 Lime street, bteven- Bon's eub-division 500 00 Charles Lardner and wife to Eliza Boe- burk. A of lot 19. Frazier's eub-div.

1.500 00 Ed Wilcox and wife to J. 8. Colline of of Section 12, township 13. ranee 14 1.500 00 Wilson Keith to Samuel Conder, lots 590 and 592, Adams street, Keith's Second addition 500 00 MA-ry H. Turner and husband to John A.

Simpson, lota 249, 251 and 253, Brooks avenue, Brooks addition 825 00 Total 113,325 00 THE TOPEKA TEAM. A Brief Record of the Men Who Will Battle for Topeka on the Diamond this Season. The regular championship season of the Western league opens this afternoon, the initial game in this city being between the Topeka and St. Joe teams. At the same time Hastings plays Denver at Denver, Kansas City plays Leavenworth' at Leavenworth and Lincoln plays Omaha at Omaha.

Although Denver won the pennant last year, it is the general opinion of those most interested in base ball, that the St. Joe team was the stronger of the two and that their defeat was the result rather of bad luck than of the superior playing of their opponents. The St. Joe and base ball papers generally claim that the St. Joe team this year is superior to that of 1886, and consequently the opening games with the Topeka club to-day, to-morrow and Saturday, should be very close and exciting.

Topeka will do her best to win, as a grudge exists for the innumerable trounsings St. Joe administered to our boys last year and it is cow hoped the tables will be turned. Topeka has a strong team and if it meets with no bad luck ought to have a fighting chance to win the pennant. Other cities in the Western league have strong clubs and the contest will be a hard one. That our boys will play good ball there is no doubt and we hope they will win.

Of course the team is not invincible and will lose some games. If it could not be beaten the men composing it would not be playing in Tope- ka. The men are all in good spirits and are confident of their powers, which is a good start in itself. We give herewith a brief story of the Topeka team. W.

H. Goldsby, manager, captain and left fielder, in 1884 played with the St. Louis Browns. In 1885 he captained the Atlanta team, which won-the championship of the Southern league that year. In 1886 he man aged and oaptained the Nashville team and at the end of the Southern league season was engaged by the National league club of Washington, where he remained until the season closed.

He is a fine fielder, having good judgment of fly balls, and being a strong, accurate thrower. He is also a good batter and a remarkably fine base-runner. Last season his fitlding average was 861 and batting average 277. J. B.

Gunson, catcher, played with the Washington Nationals in 1884, with tbe Meriden, club in 1885, and with the Atlantas in 1886, which team won the championship of the Southern league. He is a fine back-stop, a quick accurate thrower to and his preliminary work this season shows that he retains his skill. Fielding av erage 934. batting average 183. J.

P. Conway, pitcher, was with the Brook lyn in 1884 and with the Atlanta team in 1886. Conway and Sanson were Atlanta's most effective battery and contributed not a little to winning the pennant by their efforts, and there is every reason to believe that they will duplicate their hne work this season. His fielding average last year was 939, batting average 201. Jake Kenyon, catcher, played his first professional engagement last season with the Topeka club.

His work was such that he was engaged at the close for this year. He is an earnest, hard working, faithful player, always doing his best even under i he most discouraging circumstances. Considering the fact that last season was his first, his work was remarkable. He caught in over fifty games and only made sixteen errors. He rarely has a passed ball, is a good thrower to bases, and the man must be quick who can steal second on him.

His fielding average in 1886 was 959, batting average 2 23. Thomas Sullivan, pitcher, in 1884 played with the Springfield, club, which won the championship that year of the Ohio State league. 1885 he was with the champion Atlantas and began the season of 1886 with Louisville, but Charleston purchased his release end he finished with that club. He is not only a good pitcher, but fields the position well, ns his fielding average last season was 957, batting average 163. He and Kenyon will form a battery.

C. E. Hoover, citcher, was with the Lincoln team of last season, and his fine backstop work and throwing to bases, caused the management to secure his services for Topeka this year. He caught fine ball with a losing club and there is every probability that he will even'do better this season. He is not only a good catcher, but also a first rate fielder and strong hitter.

On account of thesa latter qualifications he will probably be played in right field when not catching, so that the club can have the benefit of his batting powers. He will probably prove one of the best men on the team. Last season his fielding average was 927; batting average 280. F. R.

Hafner, pitcher, was also with the Lincoln club last season and it was a mooted question which was the better pitcher, Hafner or King. Each had his adherents, but all conoeded that these two were the best in the Western league. Last season was Hafner's first as a professional, and with the experience gained he will unquestionably prove much more effective even this year. His fielding average was 953, batting average 135. J.

F. Macullar, short stop, has played with the Baltimore club, of the American association, during the seasons of '84, '85 and '86. His record is first-claes in every particular, both as a batter, fielder and base runner. He is very sure on fly balls and grounders, and some of his stops already this season have been a revelation to the base ball public as to what could be done in the position. He is a left handed thrower, but swift and accurate.

He ranked sixth among the short stops of the American association last year and was the second best batter in the Baltimore team. His fielding average was 868, bat ting average 227. D. E. Stearns, first baseman, was in the Baltimore team in '84 and '85, and with Macon in 1886.

He ranked second in his position last season in the Southern league and is one of the very best first basemen in the country. He is not only a good man there, but also at the bat, being a strong hitter and a fine base runner. He has thus far given several very pretty exhibitions of his base, running and sliding ability. His fielding average last year was 981, batting 275. Joseph Ardner, second bsseman, in 1884 played with the Cleveland National League team, in Richmond in 1885 and with the Oswegos in 1886.

He also ranked second in his position last season in the Inter-National League. He is also a good man with tbe stick and on the bases. He was very close to the top also in the record of stolen bases. His fielding average was 918, batting average 232. R.

Johnson, third baseman, begins his career as a professional. He comes from Chicago, highly reoomended and thus far his work has been first-elass. When he was first signed many thought it was an unsafe experiment to pnt an amateur in such an important position as third base, but thus far his playing has been up to the mark and he will undoubtedly show that he is fully able to hold his own in even the fast class he is in. hitting has been hard and safe and base running good. Perry Warden, center fielder, played with the St.

Louis Unions in 1884, in Memphis in 1S85 and with Lincoln in 1886. He is a valuable man as he is a good all around player, there beingno position that he cannot creditably filL He is a good catcher and a pitcher of no mean towers. Last year he played four consecutive fames on the Topeka grounds, filling the positions of catcher, pitcher, first baserr. s.n and fielder, and pisy- mg tnem in good is a very trong Maine statesman, has been offered the place of General Freight Agent on the new extension of the great Atchison Boad, says the Chicago MaiU With the exception of that enterprising young fellow, who married not long ago the young and pretty Ohio actress, whose career was under the fatherly care of George W. Childs and Murat Halstead, all James G.

Blaine's sons are now Chicagoans. Emmons Blaine has been with the Northwestern Boad ever since 1879, and has become a practical railroader. The elder Blaine has a large interest in- the Northwestern? Eoad, and perhaps that, as certainly his eminence as a publio man, might also naturally have some influence in the treatment of his son over at tha general offices. But Emmons is considered by all the friends of the Blaine family, and in fact by the family itself, especially the girls, as the one most likely to prove the "son of his father." His training as a practical traffic man. has been first class from a clerkshipr' in the traffic department he has advanced through the different grades until he was finally Division Superintendent of one of the branches, tho place where railroading is learned the most rapidly, and finally to the General Freight Agehtship of one of the important feeders of the big system.

The gossip is that the father intendadi the eldest son for a diplomat. He was Bent with the South American Commission, as a member, and afterward wast made a member of the famous Court of Claims. Emmons was a Harvard, and Walker a Yale man. Tin Collision Was One of the bravest Averted. as well as ths most notable river men who ever navi gated the Ohio, says the St.

Louie Qlobe-Dcmotrat, is Captain David M. Dryden, who now lives in Ballard County, Kentucky. Captain Dryden is seventy-five years of age, and spent sixty years of his life on the river. In 1836 he was pilot on the Swiftsure, a mail-line packet plying between Louisville and Cincinnati. The Paul Jones also ran in the same trade, and a great rivalry existed between the two boats.

One cold day in January, 18.30, both boats puffed out of the Louisville harbor, and the captain of each resolvetl that his craft should be the first to land at Cincinnati. Pine knots, coa5 oil, bacon, and everything that woulcl make a blaze were thrown into the frar-naces, and the engineers received orders to turn her wiile open. For several miles they were exactly side by side, and, although both engines were doing their utmost, neither had the-advantage. The captains and crews were greatly excited, and the boats quivered under the immense steam, pressure. Finally the Hwiftsure began slowly to forge ahead of its rival.

Sylvester Edwards, pilot of tbe Jones, saw the race was lost, and instantly resolveci that if he could not distance the Swift-sure he would sink her. He accordingly turned hia bow toward the side of the other boat. Captain Dryden whistled and shouted to him to keep off, but he did not heed the signals, and in a few moments the sharp, iron-covered bows of the ones were nearly against the Swiftsure. Captain Dryden realized at once that unless something was done his boat would be sunk and his passengers drowned. Hastily snatching a rifle from the floor, he tired through the window, and the ball, striking Edwards in the center of the forehead, killed him instantly.

The Jon i tL-n. A Pennsylvania farmer near Phoe-nixville is waging a successful war on the groundhog, which, as every farmer knows, does much damage to meadows. His method is to fill a large beer or porter bottle with powder, letting a fuse run through the cork. He then places the bottle in the groundhog's hole, with the fuse projecting outside, taking care to pack the earth tightly at the mouth of the hole and close tip firmly all other holes leading to the home of the doomed animaL Then the fuse is fired, and the result is that all the groundhogs in the hole are killed by the conclusion. Two of a Kind.

Mrs. Tempest (after an unusually unpleasant seance with Mrs. Tempest, Jr.) "I hoped, my son, that when you chose a companion you would at least sleet an amiable one. 2It: Tsnpest, Jr. (in ficsperaticn) veered o-T era tl 3 ty 1 1 8 cor 3 a.

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