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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-02-08

A mammoth publishing house is
soon to be established by the Baptist
denomination in Louisville.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-28
HOUSE FURNISHING.
A New Stock and a General Mark
Down at Wolfson.

DO"u at NOiIsOu.
Wolfson does not sell his goods be-
low New York cost just to keep his
clerks busy, but he does sell more
and better goods for the same money
than his competitors, a fact which
has been proven to the entire salts
faction of his customers at home and
abroad. AS an illustration, below
are given some figures in the house
furnishing department:
Tablecloths, plain white and colored
borders, all sizes, from 81 up.
Turkey red, Sc to $3.50.
Table cloths with napkins to match,
white and colored borders, S4 to $40.
Turkey red napkins, SOC doz. and
up. Plain white, Csc doz. and up.
Fancy borders, SOC do. up.
Towels, Sc, lOc, II l-2c, zoe, 25c, and
Soc for fancy. Bleached from Ice up.
Damasks in bleached and un-
bleached, at all prices.
Table linens, bleached and I'M
bleached, fancy borders and turkey
red, 25c up.
Linen scarfs and splashers, an ele-
CANT assortment. Also fancy chair
scarfs and tides.
Lace curtains in cream and white,
from 81 to SIS per pair.
Lace curtains and scrims from SC a
yard up.
An elegant line of portieres from
S. up.
White and colored bed spreads in
great variety and reduced prices.
Pongam, fancy, for curtains, II 1-2c
to Csc per yard. Q
Besides an endless variety of every.
thing needed in the house furnish
ing line at lower prices than ever be.
tore known, 7-2S-2t.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-28
CITY LOCAL NEWS.

Fresh vaccine at Tips d Silver
thorn.
Ramsey & Graves. real estate agents,
have removed to 3l4 East Houston.
Fine harness, Cameron, 9Acequia.
Buggy tops made, mended. Cameron.
Harness repaired promptly. Cameron.
Two pistol carrying cases before
the recorder this morning.
Get your fire, marine, tornado and
accident insurance from r. w. Lay &
Co., Al Soledad street. 3-14tf
There were thirty-four cases before
the recorder today.
Great reductions In gents light
weight clothing in order to close out
the line. One of the prettiest stocks
in the city at a sacrifice.
7-S-tt JOHN X. BERETTA & Co.
The West End addition wants
waterworks and electric lights.
The Alamo brewery has begun
boring it's artesian well.
Justice McAllister called his civil
docket, of 116 cases this morning.
There have been "A deaths so far
this month.
Sim Hart has Joined the Gun
club.
Lotus X. P. Lodge meets tonight.
The early services at the Catholic
churches yesterday were well at
tended.
MIR. James Thornton, the banker,
will build O handsome residence west
side Dwyer avenue.
The remains of the drowned boy,
Kottler, found Saturday in the river
were inferred yesterday.
Justice McAllister performed the
marriage ceremony Saturday night
for r. Martinez and Lizzie Brown.
The gas lamp at the corner of
Losoyo and Commerce street has been
abolished.
Maria Lazo and Alfred Cardona
were married last night by Justice
McAllister.
The Main plaza hack drivers were
''pulled" Saturday night for leaving
their teams alone.
Our Bryan the hustler, is report
ed as a strong dark horse for Cover
nor.
Policeman Segel has been called
to Elmendorf to attend the bedside
of his sick child.
Bryan Callaghan's name appears
as a delegate from five different pre-
cincts, and Theodore Kemzmann from
two.
Billie Knox is acting city police
man in Joe Wilkins and Jim Ste
vens' place, pending the trial of these
two.
"A private ball, given by Messrs'
NJ. l.. Flores, Desiderio Perez and
several others, and largely attended,
was given last night at the hail of
the Sociedad M%utualista.
Mr.. Ed. billiard, registry clerk at
the post office is one of the prominent
delegates to the democratic county
convention.
Quite a number of well-known re-
publicans have been selected by the
democrats as delegates to the Hogg
convention.
Il have several cane mills in stock
which 1 want to get rid of on account
of not being in my line of business,
which mills I will sell at very lowest
prices. Edward Persch, 25S Market
street, San Antonio. 722tf
-Home-seekers or spectators will
find it to their advantage to call on
John T. HambletOn & Co. 416-tf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-28
THE

Personal and Other Items from Our
Big Roads.
The Southern Pacific pay car was
in Saturday and went west.
Mayor Connor, of Dallas, and party
returned Saturday from Corpus
| Christi.
Conductor Bob Sadler, of the In
ternational and Great Northern rail.
way, is ill.
A train of fifteen carloads of hogs
from Kansas City, billed to the City
of Mexico, passed owe the 1. and G..
n. yesterday.
Conductor Hollinger, of the L. and
G. N, is enjoying a short lay-off and
Conductor Bowden is holding down
his run.
Mr.. G. P. Matlack, resident engi-
neer of the L. and G. N, left for head
quarters yesterday.
Three Sunset specials passed east
yesterday owe the Southern Pacific
and fifty cars of California freight
went west yer the same road.
Joseph Landa's new flour mills at
New Braunfels have been completed
and the I. and g. N. road is laying a
track to it.
Conductor James Wiley, of the I. &
G. N, came into town Saturday to
take in the city.
Dispatcher A. B. Steeds, the ladies'
man of the Southern Pacific force,
took a trip to Seguin on social BUSH
ness, Saturday.
1t is currently reported that the ap-
pointment of Receivers Mcnamara
and Yoakum of the Arkansas Pass
will be contested as illegal.
Milton Everett, the debonair city
passenger and ticket agent of the
Arkansas Pass, departed Saturday on
a pleasure jaunt to Corpus Christi.
A considerable reduction in freight
has been made. For particulars, call
on the local freight agent.
The boys oftheI. &G,N. round-house
held a kangaroo court to pass sem
tence upon one of the employees,
"Slobs." The verdict condemned the
culprit ro a bath.
The stock shipping traffic, in conse-
quence OF the state of the market at
Chicago has fallen to a point appro-
priately designated as zero. The pas
senger traffic is still of an encourag-
ing aspect.
Mr.. H. J. Lyons, chief clerk of the
traffic department of the Southern
Pacific, and Mr.. Huffman, General
Manager Schriever's chief clerk, are
in the city, accompanying their re-
spective chiefs.
Messrs. J. G.. Scbriever, general
traffic manager, and E. G. Bleker,
general freightagent Southern Pacific,
will be in the city to-day, in their
special car, where they will he pleased
to meet all merchants having any
complaints to make against the road.
They will remain here n or two
days.
On the first of August Superinten-
dent r. H. Innis, of the Ell Paso divi.
sion of the Southern Pacific will be
transferred from that post to fill the
office of superintendent of the San
Antonio division, which is resigned
by Mr.. Murray, the present incum-
bent, who resumes his old position as
manipulation of tho punch on the
passenger run betw cen Houston and
San Antonio.
Mr.. Richard Marinion, assistant
city ticket agent of the l.. & g. n. has
returned from a short holiday vaca-
ton which he spent at Comfort. 1t is
rumored that he intends to invest in
a sheep ranch up there.
Mr.. F. A. Lister, superintendent of
transportation of the Arkansas Pass,
was in the city this morning.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-28
DO you WANT

the best refrigerator made? If SO,
don't buy before you have seen our
Self entilators."
Do YOU WANT to enjoy cooking
these hot summer days? Get a
Monarch Vapor stove.
Do YOU WANT the best ice cream
freezer? Get the White Mountain.
For other seasonable goods as bath
tubs, fy-traps, fruit jars, milk shak-
ers, beer coolers, beer pumps, etc.,
call on WAGNER & CHABOT'S.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-28
STRANGERS IN THE CITY

should not fail to visit the Dia nond Pal
ace of l.. Rouvant, 2S3 Commerce street,
where the best articles can be obtained at
the lowest figures.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-28
THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT

of fine diamonds, watches and jewelry ia
Texas can be seen at Rouvant's Diamond
Palace.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-28

IN nOnOr OF MIS-. oducneZ.
City weigher Sanchez reports
that the hay receipts have fallen
away down, and there is a great deal
of complaint that the hay is so much
burned by the sun as to be almost
undesirable for feeding purpose.
H6s-Bear in mind that Frank J.
Beitel keeps builders hardware and
lumber, at the International and
Great Northern depot. If
Seth Thomas Clocks, the most re-
liable time-pieces, a complete stock at
72S If BELL BROS,
No. 2S1 Commerce street.
Patrons Of Mr.. l.. Wolfson's i'm
mense establishment can now enter
from the street car line on Soledad
street, where they will find the furni-
ture department. From there they
can reach every department in the
building, all of which are convenient
ly located, and if they desire return
to the Soledad entrance and wait for
the cars going in either direction.
7-2S-tf
"A strong petition will be present
ed to the city council this afternoon
in favor of the city extending the
water works mains, and the electric
lights out to West End. The West
End people are spending a great deal
of money for San Antonio, and the
council should render any reasonable
assistance in this progressive work.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-26
RICH PUYALLUP INDIANS.
A Widow Worth $25O,OOO-General al
Peter Stannup Very Well Of.
Puget Sound Real Estate News.

PuScC SOund keaI Estate News.
There are scores OF Indians on the
reservation worth from $50 600 to $780, :
600 each, and when the reservation is
thrown open by Congress, as it will be
in very few years, there will be in
Pierce county a dozen or two OF the
richest Indians in the United States.
Following are the names of some Of
the wealthy Indians:
Mrs. Joseph Douette, a full-blooded
Indian widow, $25O,OOO. Mrs. Douette
owns 16O acres on Browns point. She
was q full-blooded Indian girl. Her
husband died about two years ago.
She has several children, and now lives
at the reservation buildings, leasing
her land to some fishermen. Her land
is probably the most valuable ON the
reservation. The Union Pacific railway
will run through it.
Chris Laughlet, a widower, 120 acres,
100000. Laughlet holds 120 acres
back Of Mrs. Douette's, which is worth
at least $500 an acre. He has one son.
Joe Coates, 160 acres, $4,000. Mrs.
Joe Coates, 160 acres, $4,000. The
Coates family is worth $l2S,OO0.
Gates has 160 acres in his own name.
His first wife died and he married an
Indian widow who had 160 acres, worth
at least 5000 per acre. Theirs is tide
flat land. She has one child.
Jonas Stannup, father of the we'll
known Indian, Peter Stannup, so acres,
100000. Jonas Stannup's land is on
the banks of the Puyallup river, is
among the very best tide-fat soil, and
is worth not less than $3.50 per acre.
The old man has lived so long that he
has forgotten the number of seasons
he has lived, but he does not forget the
value of his land.
General Peter Stannup, 16O acres,
$4,000.
Mrs. Lahobit, a widow, 120 acres,
$S4 goo; the best tide-fat land.
Charley Jake, married and large
family, 12O acres, $s4 900 best tide-fat
soil.
There arc at least q dozen more
Indians who have from 10 to 120 acres
of the best tide-ffat bottom, worth from
$700 to $1,000 an acre. All of these
Indians are pure-blooded Puyallups.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-26
Things which Attract Men.

What attracts man is one thing
what will hold him, and command his
respect, is quite another, says Edward
w. Box in the Ladies' Home Journal.
A woman's smile, for example, at
tracts a man; but an even temper
retains him.
A pretty gown attracts man; the
knowledge that it was inexpensive de-
lights him.
A pleasant manner attracts man
brightness of brain holds him.
A knowledge OF how, when and
where to be a little stately, attracts a
man; an appreciation of the folly OF
frivolity, wins his respect
A respect for the religious belief of
every human being, attracts Il man ;
irrevercnce in woman is to him abomi-
nable.
A consideration for his comfort, at
tracts man, u continuation of this
makes him your most humble slave.
A chat in which there is no malice,
attracts a man; neither scandal nor
evil speaking make woman seem
sweet and lovely to him.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-26
AN INDIAN EXPLAINS A COMET.
The Ute Theory Of the Sun and the
Moon and Their Progeny.

During the year the last comet was
streaming in the sky was camping one
night in II canyon near the foot of
Cocks peak, N. NJ, says a writer in
the Kansas City Stn,. In the party
was IN old and-for an Indiana
fairly intelligent Ute named Sam.
Sam had been attached to some cav
airy troop at Fort Cummings as a
scout, but his day of leaving the service
being reached he attached himself to
me--!or consideration. Pointing to
the comet asked Sam what he could
say in its defense from the standpoint
OF a Ute. Sam was, unlike most In
dians, good single-handed talker, and
could speak English very we'll. He
was ambitious to perfect himself in the
language and readily seized on every
chance for talk" Indeed, | dis
covered him on one or two occasions
all alone and talking vigorously ut
mark like savage Demosthenes sans
the pebbles.
"Tell about that?" said Sam, point
ing toward the comet, "Sam do it heap
easy, you bet. The sun is the man
and he have moon for squaw. The
stars-big stars and little stars-all are
their children. The sun don't like 'em
and he chases 'em. If he can catch
one he eats it. This makes the stars
heap 'fraid and when the sun has his
sleep over and comes out, the stars run
and hide. When the sun comes stars
go; creep into holes and hide. But
the moon is good. She loves her chill
dren, the stars, and when the sun sleeps
she comes out in the sky and the stars
are glad, and they come out uf the
places they hide in and forget to be
'fraid and play. But when the sun
wakes again they run. He is always
after them and lie catches them some
times. This one" continued Sam,
again pointing at the comet, "the sun
catch one time. He got away, thought
but the sun bit him and hurt him.
That's why he bleed so. Now he's
heap scared, and so he keeps his face
always toward the place where the sun
is sleeping.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-26
THE ALASKAN FISHERIES.
Rapid Decline Of q Great Resource.

Late information received at the
Treasury Department shows that the
season just closed has been far from
prosperous for any people engaged in
the sealing business. The North
American Trading Company, which
now controls the right to take seals on
the Islands OF st. Paul and st. George,
in the Prybil group, are understood to
have succeeded in getting but 10000
skins out of the 10000 allowed by the
Secretary of the Treasury.
Seals have never been SO scarce on
the islands as this summer. The
Alaska Commercial Company, which
still holds the right to take seals on
Russian island, has done some better
than its rival, and by buying all skins
possible from vessel owners who have
been sealing either in Behring sea or
the Northern Pacific ocean, controls
probably $4,000 skins or more.
Before the season opened the Alaska
company was credited with openly
threatening to break down the market
for seal skins, so as to deprive their RI
walls OF the usual profits, by throwing
large numbers OF skins upon the mar
ket at low rates. They are understood
to have quite stock OF skins on hand,
and with these and the large share of
this years catch which they control,
they are probably in position TO con-
troll the market and force it down below
a point where any profit can be made.
1t is doubtful, however, whether they
will use this power, and it is believed
in some quarters that before next season
opens, the North American Commercial
company may be willing to sell out to
the Alaska company. The Secretary
of the Treasury will probably prohibit
the taking of seals on the islands al
together for year or two, in order to
give them chance to breed, without
nolestation and increase in numbers.
Such course will not be pursued, how
ever, unless in the meantime some
agreement be entered into with Great
Britain, by which sealing in Behring
sea can be stopped at the same time.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-26
English Insolence and American
Pluck.

Colonel James Pepper, of Kentucky,
who has been on his wedding tour in
Europe, sailed with his wife on the
Serria for New York, few days ago,
followed by the blessings of many
American visitors TO London, who have
stopped at the Hotel Metropole. The
employees of this establishment have
never been noted for courtesy to Amer
lean guests, and this has been the case
during the present season, particularly
as the great influx of transatlantic
travellers has made the hotels feel in
dependent. 1t was reserved for Colo
mel Pepper, however, to introduce disci-
pline. The colonel and his wife came
home from the theater one night lately.
Mrs. Pepper at once got into the ele-
vator while her husband stepped up to
the desk for his key. The night clerk,
a particularly naughty and pompous
person, was talking to an Englishman
close to the keyboard, but, though
Colonel Pepper asked him three or
four times for his key. the clerk paid
not the slightest attention until he
had finished his conversation. Pepper
took this calmly enough, but when he
got into the elevator, the Englishman
who had been talking to the clerk, said
al beg your pardon, sir, but think
you really ought to know why that
clerk was so inattentive. He said to
me, when you first asked for your key,
Hes only an American. Let him wait
The Colonel's Kentucky blood sud-
denly rose to boiling heat. He sprang
from the elevator and whipped a huge
pistol from his pocket.
"Come out from behind that desk"
he shouted to the clerk. "Come
quickly; come running"
The clerk came, and he came rum
ming, like mad, perspiring with terror.
His face was ashen and, though he
was trying to speak, his lips moved like
the jaws of an expiring trout, and no
sound came from them. Fifty people
in the great corridors rushed up to see
what was the matter.
"Get down on your knees" cried
Pepper in an awful voice, relapsing
into the Kentucky vernacular. "Get
down on your knees, or I'll shoot your
ears off,"
The terrified clerk hesitated but a
fraction of a second, and came down to
his knees on the marble floor.
"Now," cried the Kentuckian, "you
apologize to every American that ever
stayed here for your impudence to the
people that keep your hotel going.
Repeat, after me, what say; Il apol'
ogize to all Americans in London.
Say it quick"
II apologize to all Americans in
London" stammered the clerk.
"For all my previous incivility,"|
continued the colonel, sternly.
"For all my previous incivility,"
faltered the victim.
"'And l hereby solemnly promise
to treat all Americans with respect and
consideration hereafter Quick; say
it."
The menial obeyed, and Pepper then
allowed him To rise and retire behind
his desk, the humblest and most crest
fallen being in any hotel, anywhere.
Then the colonel showed his pistol to
the assembled multitude.
at is one picked up in q curiosity
shop in Paris for friend, who has a
collection of old and ancient Fl firearms"
he said, "and it has not been loaded
for hundred years."
Up to date the Metropole clerk has
kept his VOW to treat all Americans
with respect.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-26
POWER OF SEA BREAKERS.
Granite Blocks Weighing Tons Move
by the Waves.

From experiments made last month
at Bell Rock and Skerryvole light
houses, on the coast of Scotland, it
was found that while the force of the
breakers on the side of the German
ocean may be taken at about a ton
and half to every square foot Of ex-
posed surface, the Atlantic side throws
breakers with double that force, or
three tons to the square foot; thus a
surface OF only two square yards sus-
tains blow from a heavy Atlantic
breaker equal to fifty-four tons, says
the Chicago -Taiuaes- sAiso-
In March of this year heavy gale
blew for three days and nights at
Skerryvole, washing out blocks of
limestone and granite OF three and five
tons weight as easily as if they had
been empty egg-shells, in some cases
throwing them entirely over the
brcakwater at Plymouth. Over 300
tons Of such blocks were washed 300
feet up the inclined beach, after being
thrown over the breakwater, and
scattered about in various directions.
One block of limestone, estimated
to be of fifteen tons weight, was moved
over $50 feet from place in the surf,
where it had been firmly grounded
since 1897, it having first been rolled
in sight by the awful gale of the
Windy Christmas" of that year.
This is quite high sea record for
1890, showing that the gale of March
Sd, was the worst known on the Scot
tish coast for 1913 wears.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-26

OLYMPIA people are in state OF
high glee over the activity OF railroad
operations in their vicinity. The
Northern Pacific has its right-of-way
along the bay into the center of the
town piled, and already has begun to
fill in. The Union Pacific is no less
active, and the Oregon improvement
is good third. 1t is expected that
Olympia will take a big stride forward
as soon as the roads are actually in
the city, and predictions are freely
made that the Oldest town in the
State will have the latest and largest
boom.-Port Townsead Gail.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-26

THE reason why barber's pole is
striped is thus explained by one of our
exchanges: Anciently BARRIERS per
formed minor operations in surgery,
particularly bleeding. To assist in
this operation the patient would grasp
a staff or pole which was always kept
by the barber surgeons. To this staff
was tied the tape used in bandaging
the patients arm. When not in use
the pole was hung outside as a sign OF
the duties performed within. Later
the identical pole used by patients
was not exhibited as sign, but in
stead painted pole was placed beside
the doorway. At first surgeons poles
were painted red and white striped,
while those of mere BARRIERS were re-
quired to be white and blue. This
law was enforced in England up to
1792. :.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-26
Greatest Lumber Region.

A lumber pie made OF boards, each
100 feet long and six feet in width,
says an eastern exchange, would be an
unprecedented sight in the east, but a
gentleman recently returned from a
visit to the coast of the North Pacific
ocean says that piles of timber such as
that are common at the mills on Puget
Sound. Boards 100 feet long and
six feet wide, without knot in them,"
he says, care common cuts from the
gigantic fir trees of the Puget Sound
forests. These trees grow to the enor-
nous height of $50 feet, and the
forests are so vast than although the
saw mills have been ripping 500,0O0,-
600 feet of lumber out of them every
year for ten years, the spaces made by
these tremendous inroads seem no
more than garden patches. Puget
Sound has 1900 miles of shore line,
and all along this line and extending
thence on both sides miles and miles
further than the eye can see, is one
vast and almost unbroken forest of
these enormous trees. There is moth
ing like it elsewhere ON the Pacific
coast. An official estimate places the
amount of standing timber in that
area at 100000, ,OOO,O 900 feet, or thous-
and years supply, even.at the enor-
nous rate the timber is now being
felled and sawed. The timber belt
covers 10000, 600 acres of Washington,
an area equal to the States of Yer
mont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and
New Hampshire. The markets for
the Puget Sound lumber are entirely
foreign, being South America, Aus
tralia, Central America and the Pacific
ocean islands,"