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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17
The Game Law,

A Topeka lawyer. when asked his op-
inion of the existing game law, said: 1T
is simply absurd, and you can drive a
wagon through it in q dozen places"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17
Shrewd Advice.

Young Barrister Ito young lady)-I pre-
sumo you play the piano?
Mother aside, to her daughter)-Better
say ''No. ''-Fliegerde Blatter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17

There is certainly no baking powder
so we'll known and generally used as the
Royal. Its perfect purity, as we'll as its
superiority in Ieavening power, are mat
tiers of fact no longer disputed by honest
dealers or makers of other bands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17
Roatou and Returu.

GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE.
Call at city office, 601 Kan. Ave, for
itenerary of special train. Palace on
Wheels
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17

KANSAS can no longer point the finger
of scorn at "poor old Missouri" They
have appointed woman sheriff down
thera
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17

The STATE JOURNALS Want and Mis-
cellaneous columns reach each working
day in the week more than twice as
many Topeka people as can be reached
through any other paper. This is fact
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17

1T is sad to think that it is impossible
for Mr. Ingalls, to reach the senate in
time to get a whack at Grover. He
would doubtless make some interesting
remarks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17

1t is q remarkable fact that the Ohio
state food commissioner, in his official
examination of baking powders, found
no powder except the Royal to contain
less than ten per cent of impurities. The
Royal was found practically pure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

At Coffeyville this week the home
ball club defeated the Emporis Maroons
three straight games.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17
BOSTON AND RETURN


With choice of routes east of Chicago
and stop over privileges, one fare for the
round trip. See Rowley Bros. for par
ticulRrs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17

How in the world can you expect to be
cured of the Piles unless you get box
of Beggs' German Salve? Sample boxes
free. Equally good for Scalds, Burns,
Old Sores, etc. Sold and warranted by
all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17
Needs R@r Husband at Home.

Mrs Mart Williams was at the court
house yesterday afternoon trying to Sc
cure bail for her husband, who is pris-
Oner in the county Jail The cause of
Williams incarceration was shooting at
Thomas Morris of Shorey some two
weeks ago Mrs. Williams says the home
work demands the attention of her hus-
band and she hopes to secure bond.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17
IT ALWAYS STOPS.
The Columbian Elevator Boy Religious
~ Observes Every Holiday.

~ ODSerVeS livery monday.
The tenants of the Columbian build
ing were mad yesterday afternoon.
When the lawyers and other business
men who have offices in that building re-
turned from lunch they found the elev-
tor had been stopped and a sign posted
on the cage read The elevator will close
at 1890"
The people who had business on the
first floor did not care except that they
dislike to hear the profanity caused by
the Inconvenience of Others Those on
the second floor made lew objections but
it was the third and fourth floor tenants
that were mad.
Everybody but Joe Waters registered
kick and the only reason Joe Waters
did not kick was that he went to the
races along with the elevator boy.
A fourth floor tenant said; sit is all
right to give the boy vacation but it is
an outrage on the people who rent ofic-
es up here with elevator privileges,
to have our only means of transporta-
ton tied up for boys play"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17
Beggs' German Salve.
Beggs' German Salve.
BeO0s' German Salve.

The greatest pile ointment in the
world. 1t cures where all others fail
A positive guarantee with every box.
Call for sample box. Sold by all drug
Qists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17
Weather Indications

CHICAGO. Aug. II. For Kansas:
Fair. cooler in east portion tonight; vari-
able winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for children teething. 1t soothes
the child, softens the gums, allays all
pain, cures wind collie, and is the best
remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-Five cents
a hOttlo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17
Breaks All Records.
The
Topeka
Daily
State
Journal.

By its sworn detailed statement of circulation
for the first half of the year 1895, 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, 1895-08-17

The true test Of a baking powder is
we'll known to every housekeeper. It is
to try it in making bread. cake, etc. The
application of this practical test. that the
Royal does makes the best, the most and
the most wholesome food.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17

At. Waggoner. prescription druggist.
Lowest prices. T31 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17

We can keep you clean-Peerless
Steam Laundry, 112 and ia W. Eighth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17
Wonderful Growth.

Daily average for first six
menths Of 1893. .......
Daily average for frst six
months Of 1894.
Daily average for azst six
months Of 1895. .....
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17

The aurora" pure Havana, best 100
cigar in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-17
Il You want 49, the news subacribl

for the JnUPNsT
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30

the merchant and manufacturer from the
busy marts of trade, thread its way
through the air, and under the sea, on
telegraph cable or telephone, furnish light,
turning night into day, and enabling the
guardians of the populace to more easily
defeat the myrmidon of crime; but within
the coming year it Will be called upon to
move the machinery of manufactory, heat
the dwellings and prepare for the table the
food OF the aristocrat, the artisan and the
humble laborer.
Every hour, every day, every month,
new inroads are being made into the cita-
del of this mysterious force, and it is daily
becoming more and more the slave of giant
intellect. The recent success achieved in
the transmission of the fluid from Folsom
TO this city, distance of nearly twenty
five miles. without appreciative loss, is the
opening of vast vista of future triumphs
TO the scientific world at large, and already
steps are being taken leading TO the total
dispensing of the use of steam as a carry
ing agent.
To the observant it is but a matter of a
few years when the cinders, the smoke,
the noise and CRIME of the locomotive Will
be thing of the past, and all the vast
commerce OF the country viii be hurried
to the markets of the world by the noise
less, irresistible motive power, electricity.
n few brief years and this city will be
the center OF a system of radiating electric
paths, stretching in all directions among
the rich farming districts of the surround
ing country. Irrigation, that twin sister
IN advancementw viii divide the large hold
lngs OF the individual into the populous
gardens OF the community. What has
already been performed in the populous
Orangevale and Cardwell colonies will be
duplicated again and again throughout the
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30

situated at Sixth and II streets, in a mag
niieent brick structure, which, under the
personal supervision of Nat L. Mayo, arch
itect in charge, is rapidly nearing COM
pletion. This building has frontage on
H street OF 81 feet, and extends 100 feet on
Sixth street. and is so constructed as to be
absolutely fire proof In preparing the
foundations, Mr.. Mayo found a thin crust
of earth covering fifteen feet of soft slickens,
totally inadequate to bear the weight of a
building containing such an immense
amount of massive machinery. To obvi-
ate this difficulty, Mr.. Mayo was compelled
to drive piles into the solid gravel bed,
lying beneath the slickens, and lay his
foundation on these. The basement of the
structure is ten feet in height, and will be
used as a storage place for wire and sundry
other electric supplies.
The first floor is sixteen feet IN height
and contains the machinery OF the entire
plant. Every portion of the latter is set
upon solid brick and cement foundations,
also resting upon piles. The next floor
will be Il feet in height, and will contain
the transformers and offices OF the COM
pany. The floors are made of terra Gotta
tile arches laid in solid cement, covered
with wood flooring material. The ceilings
and partitions are of terra Gotta with steel
columns and girders throughout. So thor
oughly has the work been constructed that
with all the machinery in rapid movement
not one tremor of the vast structure whis-
pers of stability. Taken as whole it is
a fitting monument to the era of pros
perity it represents and the triumph of in
tellect over the instability of material.
Probably for years and years to come the
resistless power that made its advent last
week into this building will without one
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
GROWTH OF SACRA

SACRAMENTO, CAL, July 24.--To-day
Sacramento is feeling realization of
prophecy made nearly half century ago.
Tt is forty-seven years since Edward G.
Kembly published the first newspaper of
Sacramento-the Placer Times-and in an
editorial said: "If ever town, in extraor-
dinary times, bid fair to speedily become
an important city we believe 1t to be ours.
Built amid a whirl of exciting adventure
and speculation, at period when the in
stability of man resolutely sets at defiance
bright Improvement we certainly can
claim for this place unexampled prosperity
and safely predict its continued growth
and eventual greatness. Another year
will count wondrous changes in California,
but nowhere will the change be more per-
ceptible than here"
AT the time this article was written
Sacramento consisted of a small cluster of
houses and stores along the water front,
and few buildings in the neighborhood
of Suffers Fort, with a floating population
of perhaps 2000 In the main these came
from all portions Of the East, drawn by
the magnet which never fails to attract the
human race-"gold." With no thought of
California as a permanent abiding place,
they slowly plodded their way across the
prairies, braved the storms of Cape Horn
or the burning fevers of the isthmus, to
gain competence that would enable them
to clear their Eastern homesteads from
accumulated debt and pass the twilight of
lie in the homes of their forefathers.
In many instances these dreams were
realized, but disappointment greeted the
Nri+ 70 VIE nf Cl
metal TO be garnered at every turn proved
mythical, and they devoted their energies
to other pursuits, resigned their early
hopes, and entering the marts of trade,
swelled the little cluster of buildings situ-
ated on the river bank, until to-day, the
augury of the early editor having been
fully veriSed, the nucleus has grown to a
city of nearly 10000 inhabitants, contain
ing within its limits some of the most i'm
portant plants and industries of the Pa
citic slope.
Where, nearly fifty years ago, the slow
paced oxen drew the huge prairle-schooner
on streets knee deep in dust now stretch
broad bitumen thoroughfareS, threaded
with rapidly moving electric cars, that
convey the descendants OF the early argo-
nauts from substantial business houses 30
elegant homes that will vie successfully
with those OF any Eastern city.
Another year will count wondrouS
changes in California, but nowhere will
the change be more perceptible than here"
Electricity, the ightning's flash, that,
bridled but 3 few brief years, has been
forced 10 convey mans thoughts and utter
ances from every portion OF the civilized
world, with almost the same rapidity with
which the nerves convey TO the brain no
tice OF injury received by any individual
member of the body, is being forced to
bear more and more the burdens of every
day life. Not only is it obliged to convey
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30

have thirteen lodges, encampments and
cantons. The Knights of Pythias possess
eight departments of the order. The I'M
proved Order of Red Men of four separate
tribes hold counsel and smoke the pipe Of
peace. The Grand Army of the Republic is
represented by six posts, circles and corps.
The United Order OF Druids, Native
Daughters, Good Templars, United Work
men, Chosen Friends and sundrv other
orders all have representation in
the city, while the energy and
push of the Native Sons of the
Golden West of Sacramento has been fully
exempliied, and is appreciated from one
end of the State 70 the other, in securing
the annual gathering in honor of Admis-
sion day at this point. They raised
larger fund in a shorter space of time TO
insure warm greeting and cordial recep-
ton to visiting brethren and the world at
large than could any other locality on the
coast. To great extent this may be ac-
credited to the indefatigable efforts OF
Thomas Fox, the enterprlsing manager Of
the Pacific Mutual Insurance Company of
this city, and one of the progressive men
of the times.
In point of educational advantages, Sac
ramento will compare favorably with any
locality in the State. Its buildings are
both ornamental and substantial, and are
presided over by competent instructors
whose merits are of the foremost. Thir-
teen public institutions of learning are
scattered throughout the city in healthy
and central locations, and are graded from
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30

calling, has reduced the rates of insurance
to basis as low as is possessed by an ycity
on the coast.
For years the Bell Telephone Company
has had monopoly of the 'hello" busi-
ness in this city and its tributary towns,
and its charges for switching have been
deemed very arbitrary and costly. AS
consequence a number of the progressive
citizens and business men of the commu-
nifty have banded together an6 organized
local company, to be known as the Capitol
Telephone and Telegraph Company, whose
aim will be to abolish all switching charges
and establish basis of rates that will be
within the reach of all.
Mr.. Mott of the firm of .Crocker & Co.,
one ofthe leaders in this as in every other
enterprise. states that the company has
met with the most unexpected success III
obtaining bona-fde subscribers, and that
the company will shortly be on a working
basis, and will insure the best and cheap
est telephone communication oil the
slope. This will also be an added induce
ment to the establishment of new business
enterprises in this city. Much has been
said of the prevalence of a floating crimi-
nal element in this city and surrounding,
when, in fact, there is no city on the Pa
citic Slope in which there is so small an
amount of crime committed or so little
necessity for the establishment of a large
police force.
With population of nearly 10000 the
city has a patrol force of but twelve men,
six of whom are on duty by day, while the
others patrol the city at night, yet this
small force, consisting as it does of upright
conscientious men, headed by Chief of
undoubted integrity and long experience
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30

flowing by its doors, shipping point for 70
per cent Of the fruit industry of the State,
produced i'll its surrounding vicinity, with
nearby fertile valleys that need but the
kiss of irrigation to increase this produc-
ton hundredfold, an almost inexhaust..
ible amount of motive power capable OF
reducing the cost of manufacturing nearly
a half-these are inducements that capl-
tai will find hard to resist.
In Sacramento and its surroundings
there is room for any of the vast manutac-
turing plants of the world, and they will
be welcomed with eutstretched arms and
a hospitality not exceeded by the early
pioneer whose every possession was
offered for the use of the stranger who
crossed his threshold.
Although success has but Just been
assured, yet the first rap has been heard at
the door; the first applicant has signitied
his willingness to remove like the pioneer
of yore from the far-away East to the land
of the setting sun, and the people OF Sacra-
mento have warmly welcomed that
stranger, the OstIander Gun Company, to
their city, and have fully demonstrated
their hospitality.
The future home of this vast power is
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
assist in procuring suitable locations for

assist in procuring suitable locations for
the same.
Electricity as motive power has already
been adopted by one of the largest manu-
featuring establishments of the East, the
Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadel-
phia, and it is claimed that the saving to
the company has simply been enormous,
as by its use they have been enabled to in
troduce series of travelling cranes by
which heavy portions of machinery can be
conveyed to the various lathes and boring
machines without the slightest difficulty.
IL this introduction of electricity can re-
suit in such a large monetary advantage,
the extent to which this advantage could
be increased by the use of power generated
by water is almost incalculable.
The Folsom Electric Power Company
have already closed several contracts for
the furnishing OF power, notably for the
operation of the immense fruit elevator, in
the shipping sheds of the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company, and to operate the
large draw in the new bridge now in course
of construction across the Sacramento
River at this point, and il is claimed that
negotiations are in progress leading to the
operation of the entire machinery of the
railroad shops by this new force that has
SO lately made its appearance in this city.
as a commercial center Sacramento can
successfully compete with any locality in
the State. Surrounded on all sides by ex-
tensive orchards and vineyards, which, as
before stated, produce IS per cent of the
fruit output of the State, with six lines of
railways radiating in all directions and
direct river communication with the me-
tropolis. the city ranks equally with San
Francisco and Los Angeles as basis for
all the necessary supplies of life, and in
the main these can be obtained at as rea-
sonable rates as in the metropolis itself,
while in some lines the city possesses
larger establishments which transact a
more extensive business than any city on
the coast, bar none. The total exports
from this point by rail and river transpor-
tation for 1894 in tonnage aggregated 362, :
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
From Small Cluster of Houses Has Sprung Californias
Prosperous Capital City.

231 tons, while the total of imports reached
the figures of 434 ,676 tons.
Within few miles of the city, covering
the fertile river bottom lands, lies what is
fully conceded to be the largest hop-pro-
ducing district in the United States, and
the entire product from this acreage finds
its way TO the markets of the world,
through the gates of this city, while the
amount of money kept in almost constant
circulation through the production and
handling of this immense crop is con-
tinual source of prosperity to all.
During the past years much speculation
has been INDUCED in as to the possibility
OF the flooding of this city during the
highwater freshets of early springtime
but repeated rises in the river districts
have fully demonstrated the fact that the
levees of the Sacramento are simply i'm
pregnable and have been erected with such
solidity that the cost of maintenance is
hardly perceptihle.
The city possesses an unlimited water
supply, with fire pressure that can be
applied almost instantaneously. This, in
connection with its excellent fire depart
ment, the members of which are. more
than enthusiastic in the following of their
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30

moments cessation continue to rapidly
revolve the huge motors that will furnish
heat, light and power TO this city.
Before speaking of the many induce
ments offered by Sacramento to Eastern
capital it would perhaps be advisable to
clearly represent the supposed detriments
that are alleged TO exist.
At the present time the rate of taxation
on property in this city is 81 90 on the
800, and the real debt of the city is in
the neighborhood of 5000, 600, although
purported to be 81, ,O00, 600, but at the present
rate OF taxation the sinking interestfund is
increased at the rate of S150, 900 to $1,000
per annum, which insures a total clear
ance OF the city's Indebtedness within
period of little more than three years
time. With the debt paid off the rate of
taxation will be merely nominal, in fact
lower than that of any city in the United
States. To great extent this rapid ex-
tinetion of the city Indebtedness is due to
the fact that the income from the city's
water works, which Is owned by it exclu-
sively, is nearly sufficient to pay its cur
rent expenses.
There is refunGing scheme on foot.
which, If successful, will reduce the rate of
taxation to merely nominal figure imme-
diately. In the meantime the members of
the Citizens Industrial Association will
take il upon themselves to provide means
by which new enterprises deslrous of locat-
ing in this city need have no fear that ex-
cessiye taxation will prove detrimental to
their interests, with the positive assurance
that at the end of four years at farthest,
taxes with the enhanced valuation of prop
erty will be less than in any other Locality.
These facts have been obtained from
Thomas B. Hall of the firm OF Hall, Luhrs
a. Co., who has made an exhaustive study
of the matter and is conceded by all to be
undoubted authority on this question. Mr..
Hall is one of the most progressive men of
Sacramento and his name, and that of his
partner, Mr.. Luhrs, is linked prominently
with every industrial or other enterprise
tending to the welfare of the common veal.
In presenting few of the numerous ad-
yantages Sacramento is prepared to offer
capital and Eastern immigration Of the
moneyed classes electric motive power
must of certainty be classed at the head,
and q positive assurance is given that this