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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-09

A lot of 36-inch Perca1es, that were
1oc. and I21c. yard, are now down
to Ole. yard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-09

A lot of Wool De Bieges and
other wool goods, plaids and plain
effects, that were &c.,. are now down
to 25c. yard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-09

Ladies' Fine Lace-striped White
Lawn Aprons, full size and well
made, are now only 13c. each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-09

RADCLIFFE, SUTTON & CO., AUCTIoNEERs.
tSuccessors to RatcliGe, Darr 4 Col
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-09
THOMAS BOWLING, AUCTIONEER,
6l2 f ST. NV,

BEDFORD W. WALKER. Trustee,
au1- d&ds 10O6 F st. W.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-09

Ladies Fine Percale Shirt Waists,
all sizes, worth dollar, are now soc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-09

ON SATURDAY, AUGUST TENTH, 1875. AT
TWELVE NJ, WE WILL SELL. IN FRONT OF
OUR AUCTION ROOMS. ONE VERY HANDSOME
RACK HORSE 1G HANDS HIGH. SUITABLE
FOR COUPE OR 4-SEAT TRAP. OWNER LEAv-
ING THE CITY.
TERMS CASH.
auS-2t G. G. SLOAN & CO., ACCTS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-09

Several pieces Fine Black Silk
Grenadines, surah and satin stripe,
that were ST and $I.25 yard, are
down to 60c. yard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-09

urn which way you will, you
II viii see reductions all over the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-09

au2-eo&ds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05
KANSAS PARAGR1PHS.

The women bicyclsts at Dighton have
taken to wearing sweaters.
A Manhattan dealer last week shipped
1900 dozen ears of sweet corn to Colo
RADIO.
Holton Recorder: An up to date Hol-
ton girl now says: "My TriIby is Sven
CALLED" when her foot is asleep.
The printers at Emporia played a game
of ball the other day, and now they can
hardly get their fingers in the space box.
A Wichita man has been peddling ice
cream in Newton. 1t is hard for Wich-
ita man to quit the refreshment bust
ness.
Some of the people at Oberlin want
the official thermometer placed in the
book store SO as to get stationery temper
ature.
The editor of the Manhattan National
lists seems to be making quite success.
The other editors in town are calling him
names.
A man living near Louisville, Pottawa-
tonne county, married 8 pretty girl, di-
vorced her and then married his mother
in-law.
The Coffeyville Journal is running a
dialect story which makes the purchase
of extra sorts of apostrophies an imme-
| QlAl0 necessity
A "whittling and spike driving" social
at Oberlin is going to fix the women so
they can't put their hands in the dish
water for two weeks.
Quenemo Republican: Billy Farrow
is lamenting the TACT that he is not taller,
for he says a short-legged corn husker
can't get job this fall.
Atchison Globe: Three Atchison bows
drown every summer. Two have drown
| ed already during the present summer.
! The boys had better look out; another
boy is due.
! A D. Brown who for years was in the
newspaper business at Burlington and
who later ran the Nonparel at Coalgate
| L T., has gone to farming near the latter
place for good.
A young lady in Sterling applied for a
district school, says the Bulletin. and re-
ceived a letter from a member of the
board informing her that they intended
to higher mail teacher"
Quenemo Republican: J. R Burton
| feels sure that he will have the seat il
the senate, also coveted by Ingalls,. We
feel safe in saying Mr.. Ingalls, will not
lose any fat worrying about it.
It is said Manhattan young man is
afraid he will have to marry his sweet
heart before he is ready, to stop annoy
ing talk, The old women are wonder.
ing "Why on earth don't they get mar
| ried"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05
' by discrimina ate.

MANY arguments in favor of a gold
standard are based on mere assumption.
History and the facts are all against
them. The gold bugs seem to act on
the theory that falsehood well adhered
to is as good as the truth. Mr.. Roke
Smith has been repeating to the people
of Georgia wherever he has spoken the
assertion that in the event of opening
the minis to silver all the gold win leave
the country. In as much as the govern
ment has had such difficulty in getting
gold out of American holders that it has
been forced to go to Europe to supply
its needs, it is difficult to see how Europe
is going to get Wall street to yield up
its hordings of the yellow metal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05
WILD DESERT SHIPS. !"
solemnly Stalking on the Sandy
Plains of Arizona.
CAMELS WHICH THE GOVERNMENT
Imported at Great Expense Wander
ing About the Desert w astes.

Imported at Great Expense Wander
ing About the Desert Wastes.
KINGMAN, A. T., August IL wonder
how many people in this country have
ever heard that there are camels run
ming wild in it-camels which the gov
eminent imported at great expense and
with no end of fuss and feathers, and
which, after using awhile, it turned out
to die on the plains of Arizona. Cross
ing the Colorado desert, the passengers
on the Atlantic and Pacific railroad oc-
casionally catch a glimpse of some
strange, weird creatures, neither fish,
flesh nor fowl, stalking solemnly in the
hot sandy distance-a boding apparition,
enough to scare timid tourist into fits.
And on asking what this terrible beast,
which looks as if it might have dropped
straight out of the Apocalypse, may be
you are told that it is camel, de-
scendant of the herd transported from
the orient during jefferson Davis term
as secretary of war under Pierce's ad-
ministration to do the work of horses
and mules in the great west.
Derelicts of tho Desert.
A military man, an officer from Fort
Wingate, who CHANGED to be a fellow
traveller crossing this desert, gave me an
interesting history of these "desert
ships, which have become mere dere-
lets on this vast sandy sea. Back in
1850, when California was an Ell Do
RADIO, and when the plains were dotted
with emigrant trains, General BeaIe,
who was stationed at Fort Yuma, and
who marked the frightfu1 sufferings
and tremendous death rate of mules and
horses, conceived the idea of importing
camels from the east to carry stores
across this awful waste of country.
General Beale, then a young man, wrote
to Jefferson Davis, secretary of war,
and advanced his arguments in favor of
buying camels for this purpose. The
secretary was pleased with the novel
idea, and soon after a commission was
sent out to Arizona to discover the va
rious uses to which these animals might
be put in military service. A favorable
report was made, and when the secre-
tary made his next report to congress he
asked for an appropriation to buy cam
els in Egypt and Arabia for the use of
the war department..
Mason of Mason and Slidel1 fame was
one of the stanchest advocates of this
measure, and in 1853 a bill was passed
appropriating $4,000 for this purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05


Major Henry Wayne was selected to go
to the east to buy the camels and to
bring them to New York on a naval
stores ship. Major Wayne first visited
London and Paris in order to get all
possible information upon the subject of
camels from military men who had
served in eastern campaigns. He con
suited with camel experts and visited
geological gardens where the animals
were kept in order to thoroughly acr
quaint himself with their habits, diet
and care. Then he went to Tunis, where
the hey, learning his errand, presented
the United States government with two
dromedaries that its agent might have
an object lesson as quickly as possible.
From Tunis the camel ambassador
went to Constantinople. In Egypt the
camel question became a burning issue
in the khedive's cabinet AS it was
against the law to sell camels out of
Egypt, a present of several fine creatures
was made by the Egyptian government
to that of the United States. This num-
Der was augmented at Smyrna, Asia
Minor, and shipped to Indianola, Tex,
thence taken to Camp Verde, where they
were kept several years Then they
were taken overland to various Texan
points, each carrying government stores
of about 1900 pounds. From 1857 to
1861 some Of these camels were kept at
the United States forts at Bowie and Ell
Paso. When the civil war broke out,
these forts were deserted and the camels
allowed to roam away. They wandered
into the mountains and deserts, making
their way to the region Of the Colorado
river and even into southern California
and the ella country. Some got down
into Mexico at least so miles below the
territorial limits, where the Indians kill
ed and Toasted on humber during their
| fete days.
Camel Diplomacy.
All of this history, my military friend
told me, is set forth in the government
reports at Washington and. forms the
most amusing reading. The officials con
cerned in the great camel deal appear to
have had a very important conception
of their parts and to have given most
laborious and minute reports of all their
movements. Jefferson Davis himself in
his reports and instructions applied his
mind to the consideration of the camel
question with the same seriousness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05

In one of his books, W. H. Harvey, the
champion of silver, makes the statement
which he claims to have taken from the
records of Cook county, that all the
securities held by all the banks in Chi
cago are assessed at but $4,000; while
the agricultural implements, tools and
machinery belonging to the farmers of
the county are assessed at $S4. 392. These
same banks pay taxes on but $43,925 in
money while their published statements
show them to be possessed of millions
1t would be interesting to know whether
similar conditions exists anywhere out
side OF Cook county, Illinois
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05

The pardoning of Robert R Reed, who
was sentenced to the penitentiary for life
for killing a man who insulted his wife,
80 soon after his sentence was pronounced,
leads to one or two conclusions; eithe T
that he is innocent or that his act was
justified At the same time it must be
concluded that the jury which tiled him
was in better position to judge of the
facts and circumstances surrounding the
case than either the board of pardons or
Governor Morrill, If this man was justi-
fed in what he did why should he have
been subjected to the humiliation and
annoyance of serving seven months in q
penal institution and being branded az a
criminal? If he was not justified why
should an arbitrary power step in and
rescue him from the consequence of his
crime before he had hardly begun his ex-
piati0n-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05
TEN DAYS WHTRL At TIoE.

The time Is rapidly approaching which
Topeka has picked out as the ten days
on which she will be permitted to vio-
late the law against gambling. Ten days
in the year this law sleeps" Betting
on horse-races is then permitted, and
presumably betting on all other chances
Because, if there is no misdemeanor in
betting on how fast horse will run, of
course, there is no harm in betting that
you have better cards in your hands than
the other people at the table.
Even the little black boys who play
craps IN hay mows ought to be exempt
those ten days. Let the hard worked
police have a rest
For ten days we are allowed to be aw-
fully, deprsvedly wicked. Sin is mon
ster of such hateful mien that not more
than ten days acquaintance with it
can be permitted
We have the remainder of the year in
which to purge our souls of the stain of
ten days reveling with the legions of the
devil Vice is attractive when one
doesn't have to be stepped in it. A touch
and go familiarity lends zest which fees
away when we must have it rubbing
at our elbows all the time. If we like
the horse-racing ten days indulgence,
why not drag out the slot machines from
the cellar, send for the wheels of for
tune, give carte blanche to the policy
shops and license to the Louisiana lot
terry for ten days?
Why discriminate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05

A TOPEKA anarchist says: "You can't
enforce any of the avs very well; look
at the laws against gambling, stealing
and even murder; two-thirds of the MUIR
derers are not convicted What's the use
of having any laws Don't you see they
can't be enforced?" Wichita, Leaven-
worth and Atchison can't find any fault
with his logic, either The anti -prohibi-
ton people are ''limited' anarchists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05
Daily Average. 1884.

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 a 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 s,744. 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. 1891 and 1885. shows the
Topeka STATE JOURNALS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05

Col W. R NELSON, of the Kansas
City Star, very wisely put the Atlantic
ocean between himself and the Demo
cratic voters before announcing that he
favored Cleveland for third term. The
feeling of indignation with which the
announcement will be greeted will have
time to die out before his return.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05

MUCH fault is found with Topeka on
account of an alleged disposition on her
part to interfere with the affairs of other
communities in the state. If Topeka
were guilty of the charge she could not
be considered as wholly without justifi-
cation, since Shawnee county pays more
taxes than any other county in the state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05

THERE is $125,OOO in gold in the
Kansas state treasury. When the minis
are opened to silver this will make a
nice little present for somebody on the
other side of the Atlantic. The gold
bugs say all the gold will leave US, so
the people of Kansas may as we'll pre-
pare to see theirs go.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05

THE debts OF the United States,
national, corporate, municipal and indi-
vidual amount to about 40 billions of
dollars and we have about $2Oo000,00
in gold to pay them with. Is it any
wonder that the people who owe the
debts want more money with which to
pay them?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05

JUNCTION CITY Sentinel: The editor
was dying, but when the doctor bent
over him, placed his ear to his breast and
remarked, "PoOr man, circulation almost
gonei' the dying man arose and said:
you're another, we've got the largest
circulation in the county"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05

ABOUT 80 per cent of the people in the
United States can view the promised ex-
odus of gold when silver comes in with
complacency. 1t will not deprive them
of anything. They haven't seen a gold
coin in a wear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05

ALL the diamonds and jewelry in the
city of Chicago are said to be assessed
at but $17,50O. Who pays for the ex-
pensive city government of Chicago?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05

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 JoURNAL-as no postage is paid on any
circulation within Topeka or Shawnee county.
The STATE JOURNALS local circulation is far
and away ahead of the combined circulation of
all the 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.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05

CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-For Kansas: to-
night and Tuesday, cooler tonight;
warmer in western portion Tuesday;
westerly winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-05
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 circulation, during the first six months
as stated, of a
The herald., 1895-07-11
AN ELECTRIC POWER co.
An Abundance Of Energy at q Mini
mum Cost
Factories without Smoke or SCOT, Heating
and Cooking Without Filth or Odors
Some Of the Promised Results

The Kern River and Los Angeles Elec-
trio Power company is new organization
which proposes to supply to consumers
in and near the city with electrical energy
for consideration. 1t is claimed for
this company that The prices that will be
charged are sufficiently moderate to war
rant general use of electricity not only
for power but for domestic heating. and
even cooking. The company, it is said,
will cordially cooperate with real estate
owners in inaugurating manufacturing
enterprises to the extent of giving free
power for tho first year and minimum
price per horse power thereafter to any
reputable factory plant that will be given
free site by owners of acreage property
who desire their property built up AID
populated. ~
The history of the enterprise is not
the Hon. J. W. Eddy Of Aurora, ILL.,, on
o business trip to Bakersfield saw the
facilities existing there for an electric
plant. Kern river has total of thou
sands of feet Of fall which means that
with turbn IS and dynamos. there would
bean immense power harnessed for uti IL
zation. Mr.. Eddy recognized that in Los
Angeles and vicinity was marekt for
that power and the question remaining to
be answered was "Can it be transmitted
from the point of generation to the point.
of kconsumption?" Tho consensus of
opinion among electricians with whom
he at once corresponded was that no great
difficulties stood in the way of such con-
summation. That gentleman then secured
needed water rights and formed a COM
pany with board of directors com posed
Of the following gentlemen:. L. j: @.
Spruance Chicago; H. s. Mckee, New
york Eady a. Rrodk, snd ~ "a G1s Rsnd. a..
Mich; John Ross, O. W. Childs and W.
H. Davis of Los Angeles; P. J. Beveridge
of Hollywood, Cal. E. H. James, Paso
Robles, CAL, and @. J. Taylor. Kernville,
Cal.
The principal Office of the company is
in rooms 42l and 400 Stimson block and
the capitalization is s5,O00,000. Three
conditions are necessary to make the
enterprise success. First-An abundance
of water power in Kern river. Second
A remunerative market for The power in
Los Angeles and gbborhood, and third,
the ability tostransmit the power gener-
ated distance Of 100 to 120 miles. On
the first point, careful measurem ents
show that at all times there will be suffi-
cient power; on the second point, Los
Angeles is already using daily 1900 horse
power exclusive of locomotives. and on
the third point electricians a:e convinced
of its practicability and stand ready to un-
dertake the work and will guarantee re.
suits.
1t is claimed that nowhere can there be
found stream better adapted to supply
energy than Kern river and no city where
it would be better appreciated than in
Los Angeles. 1t is further claimed that
every interest in the city. not excepting
the oil industry, would be benefited and
receive an impetus as result of the in
guration Of the enterprise.
The herald., 1895-07-11
FIVE MEN CREMATED
A Livery Stable Burns to the Ground In
lefrQit

A Livery Stable Burns to the Ground In
DETROIT, July 1O.-At 2 O'Clock this
morning fire was discovered in the livery
stables Of G. F. Case. Al West Congress
street, a four-story brick. All the en-
ployees were lodged and fed in the build
ing. On the fourth floor were sleeping
accomm odations for twenty-five men
How many occupied the beds last night
Is not definitely known, but five bodies
are at the morgue awaiting burial and
one other person is missing. There were
MANY narrow escapes and heroic rescues
bv the fremen and police. Following are
the victims: John Shaw, driver. 35 years
old; John Bowman. second cook. aged
20; Thomas Webb, painter. aged 55; James
r. Shaw, harness man, aged 2'; Charles
Davis, barn man. Eighty horses in the
stabessin the basement we're gotten out
with the exception of one. James Cum
mings aged IS, stable man, reached
window in the top story but overcome by
the flames and smoke. fell headlong to the
street. He was badly injured and mayldie.
OF all the horses in the barn which
were owned by Mr.. Case. the only one
not taken out alive after the fire was Lit
tie Mac, the PAGER, valued at $500. The
latest estimate places the loss at $100. 900,
with insurance of about $4500. The body
of Edward Hughes was dug from the
ruins this afternoon. which completes the
list of dead and missing 50 far as known.
The herald., 1895-07-11

MRS. E. CHILDS' POULTRY
A Thief Tries to Rob Her Chicken
House
A Connolsseur Of Broilers Is Disappointed In
Filling His Larder and Is
Shot At

For some time past the coops belonging
to Mrs. Emeline Cnilds have been suffer-
ing from the depredations of chicken
thieves. The coops are on the Hill street
side OF the grounds between Eleventh and
Twelfth streets and are rather remote from
the residence. Night Waterman smith
has been on the lookout for the maraud
ers lately and early yesterday morning
saw fellow in the yard and fired three
shots at him. This thief, however, got
away.
Police Officer NeIghbors heard a great
commotion among the chickens just be-
fore am. ana waited on Hill street for
the the thief to make mis- appearance.
The man did not come and the officer
peeked over the fence just as the poultry
had become quiet and by then nobody
was to BIZ seen, he went around on Main
street and told the watchman to be on
the lookout. Smith walked over toward
the chicken house but the thief heard his
footsteps and ran toward the fence. The
only mode Of exit was over the high pal
ings SO the fleeing man grabbed barrel
containing setting hen on dozen or
more eggs and inve,ting the cylinder, hen,
eggs and everything, sprsng upon 1t and
over the fence. Smith fired three times
but probably did not wing his man, as
tne latter uttered no cry and made his
escape. The hen no longer sets.
The herald., 1895-07-11
Bunco M.n corvIcted

STOCKTON. July 1O.-J. B. Green,
alias Crooked Mouth Smith, one of the
Brack OF the northern part Of the county
out Of $4,000. was today convicted Of
grand larceny. The jury was out only
eight minutes ]. T. Gray. the partner Of
Green. will be tried tomorrow and Clinton
r. Smith, the one Of the trio who opened
the lottery for the buncoed farmer. will
be taken up last. Green was the doctor
Of the party who camelto Braok's place To-
buy Ms ranch, and Gray was the iudse
trom Alalnedq, Who wrs Ioo'-'nc iors q
The herald., 1895-07-11
H.rvesters for South America

STOCKTON, July 1O.-Two combined
harvesters built here for wheat raisers in
Argentine Republic will be shipped to-
morrow. They will go to the purchasers
at Rosario de Santa Fe, and two skilled
mechanics will be sent to start them. The
machines will be shipped bv way If New
York. gong by fast freight, and the men
will start in time to 60 on the same ves-
sci from New York. This shipment is
believed to be the opening trade with
South American farmer, as the patents
for ,the machinery are all own here
The manufacturers are the Stockton Car.
Machine and Agricultural Works, success
sors to the Shippee company.