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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-04
For Sale.

Cheap for cash-Four horse powe,
steam engine and six horse powel
boiler, almost new. Must sell tt
make room for larger power. Ad
dress this office. 2 10 If
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A PLEASANT FAMILY RESORT

ScholZ' Palm Garden. Music
Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday
nights. Fine Saloon, Restaurant
and Billiard Parlors attached. Pc.
Ii attention. 4 20 If
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GERMANIA LODGE, KNIGHTS
AND LADIES OF HONOR,

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May 4th, at Mission garden, consisting Of
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songs, etc, to conclude with a pleasant
Kraenzchen. Admission % cents. Tickets
to be had from members and from the
committee, +. Wesp, Chas. Zoller and NJ.
Rosy, and at the door. STAT
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NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS.
OFFICE OF CITY COLLECTOR,
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS,
April S. 1895,

Owners Of dogs are hereby noti-
fed to come forward on or before
the 1st day Of June next and pay
license due thereon, 80 cents for
each dog. Dogs not provided with
license tag after the above date,
will be dealt with as provided by
law. HENRY UMSCHEID,
4 s City Collector.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Doctors, Lawyers, Etc
E. MURAT BOOKER, Preservation
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Antonio, Texas.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
THE NORTH POLE.
M. Andre Will Try to Make tho Trip in a
BALLOON.

M. Andre Will Try to Make the Trip in a
balloon.
LONDON, July 81. M. Andre has Sc
cured the sanction of the Swedish
Scientific society to his north pole bal
loon project and has received liberal
contribution to help dcfray the ex-
penses from King Oscar, of Sweden.
Sufficient funds have in fact been OBJ
tanned, and the attempt is assured, but
he desires the approval of the Interna-
tional Geographical congress. He ex.
plains that M. Yon, of Paris, has en-.
tered into contract to make the ma.
chine of double silk, of which about
5000 cubic meters will be required, the
cost being $1,000 The balloon is to
be capable of carrying three persons
with the necessary instruments and
ballast. 1t will be sufficiently gas
tight to hover in the air for thirty
days at height of $50 meters. He
calculates that 1,7O0 or 1,S00 cylin-
ders filed with gas under a pres
sure of 100 or 200 atmospheres will be
required for the expedition in order to
refill the balloon from time to time.
He believes that he will be able to
guide the machine with system of
sails and ropes acting as brake in
case of need by dragging on the earth
The car is to be spacious enough to
contain a sledge, sailing boat, sew
eral weapons and ammunition and a
PHOTOGRAPHIC camera.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
TAYLoRs BOTH TESTIFY.
Both Tell the Jury Their Story of the
Meeks Murder.

Both Tell the Jury Their Story of the
Meeks Murder.
CARRoLLToN, Mo-, July 31.-The big
day of the Taylor trial has passed and
the end is in view. The defendants,
George and William Taylor, were on
the stand yesterday and gave to a linn
tied extent the story of the Meeks
murder. The crowd at the court
house turned into jam at
noon, when the people rushed
over the deputy sheriff in their
eagerness to secure seats in the court
room. George Taylor's evidence was
very much like it was on the former
trial. he was made to give very ex-
plicit account of the finding of Gus
Meeks in the straw stack Every other
witness has testified to the fact that
Meeks' face was covered with feet
of straw and about inches of chaff
George Taylor said: Il drove up to the
stack and kicked away the straw and
saw Meeks' face" He found the spot
without trouble-others had trouble
William Taylor in his testimony took
occasion to give what he said was an
agreement he made with Jerry
South about their capture, the
reward to be divided between South
and the Taylors. He little thought
that South was on his way from Ar
kansas with witnesses who are fully
conversant with the facts. William
Taylor described his dealings with
Gas Meeks and acknowledged writing
the letter to Gus Meeks on the 10th of
May, 1894, on a letter head of the bank
of Browning, saying: BE ready at 10
o'clock. Everything right" But he
explained it by saying it was an an
swer to letter from Gus Meeks which
he was unable to nrodnce
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The Tax lew.


The state board of equalization al.
though not having completed the as.
sessment and taxation for this year
has agreed upon the amount in round
numbers. Many of the western coun-
ties have had their valuations, as re-
turned by the local assessors. reduced,
while eastern counties have been
raised in proportion. The valuation
as agreed upon for the entire state and
incluHing all properties, is placed at
$500, 907, S37, as against $337, sol, 722 for
last year. OF this assessment $50, sos,
654 is on railroad property, as against
$50, 1884, 6S3 for last year. It will thus
be seen that a reduction of only $261,-
600 is made in railroad property, while
in all other property the reduction is
ST, 593. s55. The taxes levied against
this assessment for state purposes
amount to 4. % mills on the dollar, and
the total amount which will be raised
is 81, 402, ITO. AS illustrating the
growth of Kansas, it may be interest
ing to compare the state valuation by
ten year periods. In 1865 the valua-
ton was $50. 100, 945; in 1875, S121, 1885,
353; in 1885, $277, 10, 683; in 1895, $500,
907, S37.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
Negroes Return from Liberia.

PHILADELPHIA, July 31.-At the Way
farers' lodge, Lombard street, home
sick and destitute, are three negroes
from Arkansas, who have returned
from Liberia, whittier they went as
colonists some months ago. OF nearly
a hundred companions in the expedi
ton, some are said to have died o1
starvation, and others are eking out a
wretched existence in Africa. The
three men are farmers of Jefferson
county, Ark. Frank Shelton, one o.
the men, has wife and four children
there. j. r. Tucker, another, has {
family, and Ebenezer Russell, the
third, is unmarried.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
WHY HE DID 1T.
The Level Headed Act of an Heir to Fc
fnnR.

The Level Headed Act OF an Heir Co o FoK~-
The deed was done. A bright flash
in the CRATE and all was over. Morti--
mer Maxwell had burnt his uncle'ss
will. He and his three brothers would
inherit the estate equally.
Why did he do this thing? His uncle
had loved him and had treated his wild
escapades with leniency. And when.
the old man realized that his health
was failing, his heart yearned for the
handsome, hayward youth, and he
made will leaving his entire fortune
to Mortimer Maxwell.
1t was this document that fell intc'
the young mans hands. After he read
it he buried his face in his hands and
remained for some moments in pro-
found thought. Suddenly he started
up and cried: sit must not be! My
brothers shall never have an opportu--
nifty to contest this will and let this
princely fortune be devoured by the.
greedy cormorants of the law! Nor
shall they lay the fattering JUNCTION to.
their souls that they have bluffed me,
into an amicable settlement"
And he destroyed the will as above
mentioned.
Then he went forth into the air with
the free, glad step of a man who thinks.
ne has level head.-Life.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

A strange custom prevails among
certain tribe in the Caucasus. When
I single young man dies,some one CALLS
upon the bereaved parents, who have.
carried to the grave a manageable
daughter in the course of a year, and
SAYS: "Your son is sure to want a wife.
I'll give you my daughter, and you
shall deliver to me the marriage por--
ton in return" A friendly offer of
this description is never rejected, and.
the two parties soon come to terms as,
10 the amount of dowry, which varies.
according to the advantages possessed
by the girl in her lifetime. Cases have,
been known where the young mans,
father has given as much as thirty
COWS to secure dead wife for his dead
sOn-Buch fur Allie
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

w. S. STRATTON, the millionaire, has
struck what is probably the richest
lode ever found in any mine in the
country. if not in the world. In the
independence at Victor, Col, the
miners in following a lead ran across a
vein that will run 81, 456 to the ton,
and the width warrants the statement
that there is not less than several mil
lions of the ore in sight.
III. ri. HOLMES, the man jailed at Phil
adelphia, suspected of numbering many
people to get their life insurance, has
given out statement that he procured
corpses and had them scrapNd and ar
ticulated and made lucrative bust
ness by selling the sl<elet ons, but the
supposition that he had murdered peo-
pie he secuted as arrant nonsense.
A DISPATCH from Market Lake, Ida,
dated the 3Oth stated that there had
been no collision for the past few days
with the Indians, but that the settlers
| were in state of constant alarm. The
| troops now on the ground were ex-
pected to hold the situation well in
hand except in isolated cases where in
1ividual settlers might be attacked.
Mrs. HATTIE CovEY, wife of Bert
| Covey. of Jayville, n. Y, eloped with
another man, leaving her child at
home. She afterwards returned and
was ordered to leave town by a mob.
She went to a neigh boring town and
| got peace warrant and went back and
was met at the depot by crowd who
| stripped her of her clothing and bea
| her so badly she may die.
THE delayed Cunard steamer Auran:a
| reached New York on the both.
THE Irving Cliff brewery at Homes
| dale, Pa, was destroyed by fire on
| the 30th. Loss, 5o.O00; insurance
| R22, 900.
THE county courthouse at Fresno,
Cal, was damaged by fire to the extent
! of $4,000. The fire was supposed to
be incendiary.
THE Official Gazette of Madrid
| SPAIN published decree on the both
calling on the military reserves of thf
| class of 1891. The action was taken in
consequence of the extraordinary
drafts of troops for service in Cuba
SECRETARY J. STERLING MORTON has
called the attention of railroads en-
| gagged in the transportation of live
| stock from one state Or territory into
another to sections 1886, 43s7, 1888 and
1889 of the revised statutes about con
| fining cattle too long and not allowing
| them the legal rest by unloading
them and ordering roads to observe the
demands of the sections. the failure OF
which renders them liable to penalty.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
Rich Colorado Gold strike.

VICTOR COL, July 31.-W. s. STRAIT
ton, the millionaire, has struck what
is probably the richest lode ever found
in any mine in the country, if not in
the world. In the independence yes
terday the miners in following a lead
ran across vein that will run 81, 456
to the ton. 1t was at a point where
both veins come together and the
width warrants the statement that
there is not less than several millions
of the ore in sight.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

HEREAFTER the agricultural depart
ment will call on specialists in certain
lines of agricultural work, though not
connected with the Office, to make in
vestigations of Importance to agricul-
tural interests and to prepare brief
papers or articles embracing the re-
suits of the work. These will be paid
for at rates which the department re.
CARDS as reasonable. Many persons
well known in this country and abroad
will be asked to contribute. It's object
Is to do away with labored articles.
couched in technical language, and of
little interest or Importance to the
average farmer,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
WICHITA IN DANGER.
Twelve Inches More Water VIII Flood the
Entire Town.

Entire Town.
WICHITA, Kan, July a1.-Another
rise of inches added to the food stu
alton here, entailing an estimated loss
of $12O, coo to the farmers along the
Arkansas valley. The back water in
the small streams tributary to the Ar
kansas lifted bridges from their foun
dations and in this manner did great
deal of damage. The high water
has completely inundated the seven
springs and artificial lake at the sum
mer resort of Geuda Springs, where
there are great numbers of invalids
and visitors at present. Less than
d 12-inch additional rise will food
Wichita.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

A MOBILE, Ala, paper recently said
that there were 25,000,0 900 gallons of
molasses stored in tanks on the Louisi-
ana plantations which the planters
could neither sell at profit nor throw
away without creating a nuisance in
the neigh hOrhOOd
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

THE assistant secretary of the in
terror has decided that municipal cor
poration which cared for a sick soldier
and buried him as a pauper in the pot
ter's field had no right to REIN burse-
ment under the pension laws. Had the
corporation cared for and buried him
decently then the claim would have
been allowed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
Decoyed, Garroted and Robbed.

possession of the empty house, 81
Nevins street, telephoned to DIR.
Drury's office at lis Johnson street for
him to come and see a patient named
Schofield, and when he got there took
him to the third story of the empty
house, choked him and relieved him OF
diamonds and cash valued at $3.50.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

THE United States evidently intends
to have one of the finest bodies of regu-
lar troops in the world. Two hundred
applicants for places in the ranks were
examined in Chicago last month and
only four of the number were accepted.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
CURRENT COMMENT.

THIS years corn yield promises to be
by far the greatest ever gathered. The
estimate is 2,4OO, 900, 900 bushels In
nearly all the western corn states the
prospects are unusually good.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
STRIKE WILL SOON END.
New York Contractors Accede to the De
mandS of the TaiIOrs.

Tnands of the TaiIOrs.
NEW YORK, July 31.-The contractors
are coming forward in such mum bers
to accede to the demands of the strik.
ing tailors that it appears probable
that the strike will be soon ended.
More than sixty contractors have
signed the agreement These are the
leading contractors of the city, and
they employ from fifteen to fifty work
men each. The settlement committee
will cont inue to hold sessions daily un.
til the contractors are accommodated
who desire to be.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

IT is stated at the treasury depart
ment that the present demand for l.
cent pieces is unprecedented and to
meet it shipments have been made
from the sub treasures where there is
an over supply. The very general use
of penny slot machines throughout the
country is believed to be the cause of
the demand
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

Consul DEBELLET, at Rheims, France,
has informed the state department at
Washington, through an official report,
of the discovery of a new process for
keeping fruit fresh, which consists in
treating them to vapor of water and
alcohol. The discovery was made by
a MIR. Petit, who contends that even
fruits which have begun to decay may
be preserved for an indefinite length OF
time by the process.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

THE st. Louis Globe Democrat re-
Gently said that Americans spent at
least $4,000 900 year in visiting
Europe for pleasure and hardly 81, 900,
600 at our own natural wonders of
Niagara, the Yosemite valley and the
Yellowstone park Most of the tour
lists at these home resorts are Europe
ans. Among the 5000 visitors to the
Yellowstone park during the last three
hears only sixty were Americans.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

RAILWAY officials say that tourist
travel this summer is 80 per cent. more
than it was last season. To such pro-
portions has this traffic grown that its
increase this year will cut a decided
figure in passenger earnings. They
will show large increases over last
year and will probably equal those of
1900
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

THE pension roll of the war of the
revolution will be now closed, as the
last pensioner in that list has just died
The pension office has been notified of
the death of Mary Brown, of Knox
vile, Tenn, at the age of 81 years.
This woman became a revolutionary
pensioner from the fact that she was
the widow of Joe Brown. a revolution
airy soldier, whom she married in 1924,
at the age of 90 years. Her pension
amounted to $12 per month.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

mrAll accommodations for this paper must
be accompanied by the name of the author;
not necessarily for publication, but as an
writer Write only on one side of the paper
BE particularly careful in giving names anc
dates to have the lettara and figures plain
- diSfinAA
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

THE Chicago bureau of charities esti-
mates that one-tenth of the whole
population of that city has fallen below
the line of subsistence, either tempo
rarily or permanently. There are
%, 795 persons who are now, or have
been within two years, recipients of
aims. One significant feature of the
report is the light thrown on chronic
pauperism. During the winter of 1895
more than 81, 900 cases were reported
for charitable relief, yet on compari-
son with the files of previous time only
., 1000 of them were found to be new
subjects for aid.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

j. II. MIILIKEN, encouragement of
the G. A. r. arrangements at Louis
vile, Ky, recently said in a letter to
G. A. R. men there that all statements
regarding the proposed drawing of the
color line at the national encampment
against negro ex-soldiers are absolute
IL false
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

SOME notion of the amount of lum-
Der being cut in the Minnesota forests
is had from the fact that one day re-
Gently there was a jam of logs in the
upper Mississippi above st. Cloud
which was estimated to contain $780,
900, 900 feet of lumber, and a little fur
ther up the river there was another
jam, which extended for 20 miles.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
cot over the peIusion.

SANTA CRUZ, CAL, July BID. E.
Barrett. who accused himself of the
Emanuel church murders, was released
from jail yesterday, having recovered
from his hSllucination.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONA AND PoLITICAL.

A RECENT dispatch from London
stated that England has abandoned
her CLAIM to Trinidad
Gov. CULBERsoN, of Texas, has is
sued proclamation prohibiting the
Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight
REV EDWARD BEECHER. brother OF
the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
died in Brooklyn on the 29th, aged 90
years.
GEN. ScHoFIELD, commanding the
army, returned to Washington on the
Goth from his tour of inspection OF
army posts in the west and north est
and his trip to Alaska. The general
has nothing but words of praise for the
army, which is, he says, higher in tone
and composed of better material than
ever before.
IT has been decided by Capt. r. f.
Kolb, Col. d. S. Troy and other free
silver men of Alabama, populists and
others, to issue a call for convention,
to be held at Birmingham in Novem-
Der to further the silver movement,
without regard to party lines.
AT Denver, Col, as a result of the
recent democratic state convention an
address has been issued by a committee
appealing to democrats to get together
and reorganize. The address asserted
that vast majority of the ad vocates
of bimetallism were democrats, and
that the restoration of silver would
come only through the agency Of the
democratic party.
THE last day of the financial debate
between Messrs. Horn and Harvey
closed at Chicago on the goth.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

THE acknowledgement Of the
army recently drew attention to the
fact that under the act approved
March g. 1898, all soldiers and sailors
honorably discharged and buried in a
private cemetery were entitled to a
headstone and that the government
paid all transportation expenses to the
point of cemetery. provided the au-
thorities paid for the erection.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
A Real Hardship.

In the SURF:
do you know, Miss Saline, I'm aw-
fully fond of diving?"
=; = Indeed? It's too bad that you have,
to come up for air. Chicago Record.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

THE preliminary steps toward the
building of an electric line for the
transmission of passengers, mail and
express from Chicago to Buffalo are
now on foot, and it is the intention to
continue the line to New York. The
run to Buffalo is to be made in four
hours, and to New York in from eight
to ten hours. An average speed of 15G
miles per hour is promised.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03

New Jersey ranks high among the
manufacturing states, having 1S7, 39Ss
factory hands and making every year,
1854, 573, 571 worth of goods.