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The Portland daily press., 1895-04-13
ROOFING SLATE.

A lot of about II squares, second hand
roofing slate in good order for sale. Apply to
AUG. P. FULLER, 1872 Fore st.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07
KANS4S PARAGHAPHS.

Abilene is going to have an Athletic
park, which will cost $1,000
John Popp lives at Kinsley, but he
declares his name is no abbreviation.
The Baptists and Methodists are both
planning TO build churches at Lakin.
At Winfield the CoffeyviIle ball play
ers are referred to as "CofeyvIlle nee
Webb City"
When offenders run up against Officer
Haste B4nnaman of Atchison, they re-
pent at leisure.
Treadwell, the Emporia burglar, is now
a cook at the penItentiary. He is still
after the dough"
Judge William Easton, of Hutchinson,
was married yesterday to Miss Reba
Anderson at Mumford. N. Y.
A Qaenemo man tried to thresh last
week and the result was two sunstrokes
and three exhausted by the heat
Coon Creek, which supplies the ma
laria for Kinsley, was washed gu,
thoroughly by the recent floods.
Apple stealers are annoying Parsons
people who have orchards. They should
remember Miss Fiagler and be wise
An Usage farmer has actually raised
something from the seeds sent out
through the Agricultural department.
According to Newton paper a New
ton sports idea of a wild time is to go to
Kansas City on an excursion and spend
50.
Frank White, formerly of the Huron
Herald, who went to Colorado to work on
Il ranch. is now on the Rocky Mountain
News in Denver
A team of horses ran away near
Maxson, ran into several hives of bees
and upset them. If death ends all the
| horses know now both what it is to bee
and not to be.
Some Lawrence excursiouists got SC
permeated with Kansas City ideas thai
when they started home they forgot tt
get off at Lawrence, and it is presumed
were seeking Wichita.
Atchison Globe: Though an Atchisou
man has had both fest in the grave fol
some time, that fact hasn't prevented the
doctors from reaching down to get hold
of them, and give his legs a pull.
| Arkansas City Traveller: The Atchi
son Globe calls lager beer the triumph
of civilization" Over at Coffeyville. Z
few days ago, they poured thirty-twC
kegs of this triumph of civilization
| into the cutters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07

The power of injunction resting with
the courts which is perhaps not always
used for the best interests of the people,
has been made to serve a good purpose
by the supreme court of Ohio. The
trustees of the sinking fund of the city
of Cincinnati are anxious to refund
per cent interest bearing debt OF
S3,OOO,O0O A syndicate of capitalists
are ready to furnish money for the re-
funding on a basis of 3. 60 per cent, pro-
vided that the new bonds shall be made
payable, principal and interest, in gold.
The trustees are about to accept the
offer of the syndicate when certain citi-
zens pray for an injunction in restraint
of obligation to pay in gold only. The
case having reached the supreme court,
a decision rendered by Chief JUS
tice Marshall, has affirmed it
to be unlawful for a municipal
corporation. and, by inference, any other
body charged with disbursement of pub
lie money, to contract that its debts shall
be payable exclusively in gold. This
cannot be regarded in any other light
than as distinct advantage to the cause
of bimetallism. The advocates of the gold
standard have hitherto met with little eff
fective opposition to their schemes, with
the possible exception of the refusal OF
the last congress to endorse Mr.. Cleve-
lands proposition to issue gold bonds,
and they were so well paid for that, that
they were not left any cause for COM
plant. The government kindly present
ed them 100000 as a compensation for
the disappointment to which they were
subjected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07

WHERE LAKE AND CANAL COMMERCE. MEET.
Transferring grain from whaleback steamer
to canalboat]
istic in their way as the good old days
on the western rivers, when most of the
travel was done by water and the steam
boats were floating palaces.
OF course there were sometimes races
between the packets, and once in awhile,
old timers will tell you, the crews of
competing boats used to fight in savage
style, bloOdying noses and blackening
eyes in great shape. Not always were
the combatants satisfied with infict1ng
personal injury, and there are legends
still ahoat of battle royal few miles
out of Buffalo, some so years ago, be-
tween canalers employed by different
packet lines, which resulted in the vir-
tual destruction of two of the hand
soonest, swiftest craft on the canal.
It was not an easy thing for those
who had pinned all their faith to Gin
toms ditch to relinquish their hold upon
the trade and passenger traffic when the
railroads came; but, SO far as the pas
senger traffic was concerned, the fight
against the railroads was short and
final, with the locomotive in the VIC
tors place With regard to the carriage
of freight, the fight has been going on
ever since, and of late years the canal
has suffered grievously.
Some so years ago it was believed
that steam navigation of the canal could
be so introduced as to quite restore it to
its old use as a freight highway, and
many types of steamboats, were invent
ed with that end in view, among them
being queer stern wheelers and bow
wheelers, prOpellers and cable boats
Of these types some of the propellers
remain, but they are not numerous,
and it has long been clear tc every
one that regeneration cannot come
| through steam. Tt is now proposed to
introduce electricity, to be furnished by
the power of Niagara chiefly, and it is
believed that by next fall the force of
| the grand old cataract will be partially
utilized, through the transmission of
| the mystic current to a lately invented
and strange little towing motor, built
to run upon a cable stretched along the
canal on Il foot poles.
If this electrical motor shall do its
work satisfactorily there seems to be lit
| tie doubt that eventually Clinton s ditch
will be widened and deepened so as to
be navigab1e for much larger boats than
at present, and while it is hardly ex-
pected that this viii be done very soon,
when it is accomplished a tremendous
revolution will undoubtedly be wrought
in the transportation business between
the east and the west.
N. I. DEXTER.
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cago, the metropolis of the lake region,
and thence through the new drainage
canal, down the Illinois river to the
Mississippi, and so on, another Thousand
miles to the gulf. Still further, the
Erie canal was virtually the only high
way of trade between the east and the
west in the anterailroad days. 1t was
upon it's smooth and watery bosom that
nearly all the commerce between the
ocean and the granary of the republic
was transported before the iron horse
was harnessed to the work. Tens of thou
sands of immigrants used this man
made river for their route of western
travel, and no single work of improve
ment has done more for the develop
ment of the country than it. Even to-
day, Notwithstanding the vast and busy
network of rails covering the states from
sea to sea, the Erie canal is one Of the
chief channels of trade and a most i'm
portant factor in keeping down the rates
Of transportation beween the east and
the west.
The scheme to build the Erie canal
was first preached almost 200 years ago,
but it was then secuted as wholly i'm
practicable. At first the plan was for
the providing of a navigable channel
through the Mohawk river, Wood creek,
Oneida lake and the Oswego river to
| Lake Ontario. In 1925 something was
done in the way of improving the navi-
cation of the Mohawk, but not much,
and the matter rested thereafter until
1899, when the Western Land Naviga-
| ton company was incorporated. just
| plished have been unable to ascertain,
but its operations were improbable to
the stockholders, and they sold out to
| the state few years afterward for
! $152,718. In 1900 Gouverneur Morris
brought forward the notion Of a canal
extending through the central part Of
| New York state from Lake Erie to the
Hudson river. Still nothing tangible
resulted from the agitation until 1909;
when 5000 was appropriated by the
state legislature for a survey Of the
route. 1t seems almost ridiculous to
state that the work was done within the
appropriation, but so runs the record.
james Geddes was the surveyor who
performed this feat, and his report pro-
| nOuncing the scheme feasible was re-
ceived with general approval In 1910
De Witt Clinton, whose name will ever
be associated with the canal, and who
was then a member of the state senate.
became interested in the project, and
enabling acts for the running of a more
thorough survey were passed by the leg
islature.
1t seemed then that the work would
go forward without further delay of
consequence, but the war of 1912 inter-
vened, and operations were suspended
until after that contest was concluded
and thecountry had somewhat recovered
from its weakened effects. In 1916 the
project was again taken up, and from
that time forward was pushed cOntinu-
ously until completion, in 1925. Six
years before that enough of the big
ditch was finished to enable a boat to
pass from Utica to Rome, but it was
not possible to begin actual navigation
between the lakes and the sea until o.
tober of the year mentioned.
The opening of.the canal was accom-
panied by most enthusiastic celebrations
and manifestations of popular satisfac-
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ton. De Witt Clinton was governor at
the time, and the holding of celebrations
everywhere along the line was insured
by the passage of a f1otilla from Buffalo
to Albany and thence down the Hudson
to the sea. Governor Clinton was him
self upon the first boat of this feet, and
its entrance of the canal at Buffalo was
signalized by the firing of cannon. A
few miles to the east, but within hear
ing distance of Buffalo, was another
cannon, and it was fred as soon as the
sound of the first was heard A few
miles to the east of the second was still
another, and SO on all along the canal to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07

THE demand gold" circular dis
tributed among the pensioners Monday
has brought to light certain possibilities
in connection with pension payments
which are not pleasant to contemplate.
Suppose some pension payment day the
banks should conclude that they didn't
care to cash Uncle Sans checks any
more how would the old soldiers get
their money. Why doesn't the govern
ment send money here to pay its debts in
a businesslike way instead Of placing its
creditors under obligations to private
citizens, who have no interest in the mat
ter, for accommodations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07
FROM LAKE TO OCEAN.
Clinton's Big Ditch, the Longest
Artificial American Waterway.
IT IS KNOWN As The ERIE CANAL

And Has Played an Important Part In
the National OevelOpment-Will 1t
Continue a Factor in Transportation
At the present time, when it is be-
heved the new era Of canal construction,
already we'll begun, is to be developed
to the utmost the Erie canal, the longest
artificial highway in North America, is
an institution of peculiar interest.
The Erie canal is something more
than the longest canal on this continent.
By virtue of the fact that it already con-
meets the fresh waters of the great lakes
with the salt waters of the Atlantic it
must certainly become one of the chief
links in the projected grand chain of
natural and artificial navigation that is
to reach inland 1000 miles, or more
than third of the total distance across
the continent, from New York, the
metropolis of the Atlantic coast, to Chi
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Albany, and from thence down the Hud-
son, and on to Sandy Hook, and the iron
throAEed heralds of the fiotilla' s progress
spoke in quick succession all the way
down. Then the signal was passed back
again, the double round of cannon boom
ings forming what was no doubt the
most impressive celebration on record of
6 great Improvement completion.
After the firing was finished the gov
ernor's fotilla proceeded in stately
processionto navigate the entire artificial
and natural waterway from the Erie to
the Atlantic. Everywhere it was greeted
with rejoicings In the daytime bunting
was flying, and IN the night bonfires
were burning. Bells were rung, speeches
were made, young ladies all dressed out
in white greeted the party at various
points, and when the f1otilla reached
New York and had sailed down the bay
to Sandy Eook a vessel containing fresh
water from the lake was thrown into
the salt water of the sea, and with the
most elaborate ceremonies the Erie and
the Atlantic were formally declared to
be welded. To De Witt Clinton was due
chief credit for the political work neces-
sary to carry through the enterprise. It's
chief engineers were James Geddes and
Benjamin Wright, neither of whom at
the time they began had ever seen a
canal or enjoyed means of acquiring any
knowledge of practical engineering be-
yond what they could attain by survey
ing land. Yet it is stated that their en-
cheering operations were accomplished
with a precision that would not be dis
rr0Hifa 01o To tho 5cI,o
gineers of the present day, and to all
three of these men this waterway will
be most impressive memorial as long
as it is navigated. The Erie canal is
49.74 miles long, and its total cost
was about $23, 900, 900, a vast sum to
be expended by single state at that
early period.
Although the canal has always been an
important factor, yet its earliest years
were undoubtedly its most glorious.
Before the steam demon came to run
with the swiftness of the wind along
iron rails passengers as we'll as freight
travelled on the Erie, and the packet
boats of the thirties and forties were
such craft as were never seen before
and have never been seen since. They
were long and narrow, with sharp prows
and high cabins, reaching from stem to
stern. They were gayly painted on the
outside and luxuriously furnished with
in. They were drawn by two, four and
sometimes six fast horses, SLOWLY har-
messed and plumed, which were urged
along the towpath at the top of their
speed. Often the boats carried bands of
music, and the ''good old days of the
packets on the Erie were as character
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07
NTAFELAUNDRY TRAIN.

Odd Name Given to an Excursion Train in
Texas.
The Santa Fe runs what is known as
laundry" train every other week from
Purcell to Galveston and return, placing
the fare for the round trip at the exceed
inglv low rate of 50.
The reason for the nickname of "laun-
dry" train is that a great many people
take advantage of this train in order to
enjoy an ocean bath, and trainmen are
proverbially quick to see a point and
give anything an appropriate nickname.
The train goes every other Saturday.
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AND now another $500 is demanded to
patch up that old bridge. Will there
never be an end to this wasteful expendi-
ture of money in an effort to keep from
doing what should be done? Enough
money ia spent every year on the thing
we call bridge to pay the interest on
the cost Of new one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07

JOURNAL seems to be the most popu-
lar name with Kansas newspapers. for
80 have adopted it Thirty-six preferred
"Republicau;" 35 "Herald;" S5 "News,"
% "Times;" Is "Tribune;' IA "Demo-
crst;" Il "Gazette;" 10 "sentinel;" II
advocates" "Press;" Eagle" and
HUniouo
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FERMENTED WINE.

Presbyteries OF Chicago Refuse to Allow
1t in the Churches.
CHICAGO, Aug. 7.-Hereafter fer
mented wine will not be used even in
communion services in the presbyteries
of Chicago. Unfermented grape juice
will be substituted at all times To carry
the work of temperance still further,
schools.
The last meeting of the presbytery has
scided on the wine matter after a long
discussion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07

AN Alabama firm has just secured the
contract for furnishing the city of Toxic,
Japan, with water pipe, over competing
firms in England, Germany and Belgium
European pauper labor doesn't seem to
prevent American manufacturers from
underselling the world. The effort to
make an issue of the tariff next year is
becoming more hopeless every day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07

A BIG mercantile failure has just oc-
CURED in Leavenworth. It seems that
these things happen in towns where
there are saloons just the same as in
Gowns where there are none.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07

The proposition of Messrs. Miller and
Vanderpool to do the sanitary work of
she city cheaper is very good as far as it
goes; but it is not cheaper work the city
needs SO much as it is better work,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07

Our dispatches announce that General
Artz is about to engage in a discussion
regarding the efficacy of prayer. Those
who know the warrior will wonder what
knowledge he can have of the subject
from practical experience.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07

THE Investigation going on at the state
Insane asylum is apparently placing DR..
Eastman in an embarrassing position. 1t
will be hard to convince the public that
he did not, knowingly and wilfully, mis-
FeDresent the facts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07

WHILE we are selling the products of
our iron industry in the markets of
Europe and Japan the wages of the
workmen are being increased.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07

REPORTS coming from Pertle Springs.
Mo-, do not indicate that "the silver craze
is dying OUT to any appreciate extent,
in Missouri, at least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07

CHICAGO. Aug 7.-For Kansas: In
creasing cloudiness, followed by showers;
warmer tonight; south winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07
Daily H0erA&e g, 1874.

This is the greatest showing the STATE JOUR
NAL has ever been able to make for period Of
any six months in its history.
This is greater figure than was reached by
any daily paper in Topeka for the year 1894.
The American Newspaper Directory, issued in
June. 1895. and covering the year 1894, gives the
average daily circulation of the Topeka Daily
Capital for the year 1894, as only STA. These
figures were furnished by the publishers of the
Capital to the Directory, and are guaranteed to
be correct by forfeit of 500. which will be
paid to any one disproving their correctness.
The following figures, substantiated by sworn
statements in detail, giving every issue for the
first six months in 1898. 1894 and 1895. shows the
Topeka STATE JOURNALS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07

T1LLMAN has scored again in South
Carolina. The registration law has been
sustained by the courts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07

EXPORTS of gold and bank failures ap-
pear to rise and fall together. But of
course, there is no connection between
Ehem
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Red wilkes May Be sold.

CINCINNATT, Ang. 1.-The Commercial
Gazette's Lexington special says: w
C. France of New York sold here yes
terday to John D. Creighton of Deneroil,
Ky. large string of high Olooded wesn-
ling trotters for high price. the figures
of which are private Mr.. France is ne
gotisting by cable with some one in Eng
land or France who wants to buy Red
Wilkes, the stallion, for which Mr..
France paid 100000,
q. y. Cruisers SO to Newport.
NEW YORK, Aug. The United
States cruisers New York and Cincinnati
sailed today for Newport
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MILLINERY.

MILLINERY.
Latest style high crown Sail
ors. 300 left:
The dollar kind. Csc.
The 75c kind. 5Uc.
The soc kind, 40c.
The 15c kind, 10c.
KID GLOVES.
500 pairs for Ladies. drum
mers' samples and odd lots:
$3.50 kind, 81 per pair.
81 kind, zoe a pair.
75c kind, SOC pair.
SHTRTINGS.
71<c goods, &c yard
Zoe goods. Sc yard.
12c goods, &c yard.
The loo goods, 1870 yard
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1880
1854

The boast of the Topeka Capital that it pays
more postage than all other Topeka dailies
combined, only proves the meagerness of its
local circulation as compared with that of the
STATE JorRNAL-as no postage is paid on any
circulation within Topeka or Shawnee county.
The STATE JOURNALS local circulation is far
and AZ " ahead of the combined circulation of
al : other Topeka dailies.
the circulation of the Topeka Daily STATE
JOURNAL in the towns near by and tributary to
Topeka is very large, as the evening trains IN
various directions carry the STATE JOURNAL,
giving its readers the first and latest Associated
Press and state news of the day.
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Breaks All Records.
The
Topeka
Daily
State
Journal.

By its sworn detailed statement of circulation
for the first half of the year 1885, it is shown to
have a circulation, during the first six months
as stated. of a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-07
Wonderful Growth.

Daily average for first siz
months Of 1893.
Daily average for first siz
months Of 1894.
Daily average for first SIX
months Of 1895.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-06-22
THE COURIER.

and fresh the fields of grass and growing
grain. How nature seemed to glow
with life and glorious promise on the
slightly undulating prairie! Never has
Nebraska looked fairer than on that
bright day OF the Ashland run. And as
we sped along in the early part Of the
day, instinct with joyous freedom. keen
to all the beauty of the panorama before
and about us, something Of realization
of cyclists inestimable privileges came
to all. Waverly was reached with the
riders in good form, and the town pump
Immediately became the center 10 at
traction. A few minutes and off we
overlook Mr. and Mrs A. NJ. Dickey and
Mrs. Snyder walking. Only 22 of the
party succeeded in pedaling over the
hill. The Greenwood stores were in
vaded somewhat to the detriment Of the
stock of soda water, pop, cookies, etc.
From Greenwood to Ashland it began
to seem just little like work. There
are two roads. Some took one and some
the other. One was rough and the other
billy. The junction was reached at
about the same time. and forty three
dusty, perspiring cyclists finally register
ed at the Hotel Selma in Ashland. This
was an almost fatal mistake, putting up
at the Selma. Country hotels are com
monty divided into two classes. bad and
very bad. The Selma is entitled to
class all by itself. Its wretchedness is
superlative unprecedented. Ii was bad
enough when forty persons were com
PEELED to perform their ablutions in
three bowls but when dinner was served
the unanimous sentiment of the party