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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-10
President Board of Ira

untary reduction taken by the railroad
company had been overlooked by the
Commissioners in making horizontal
cut OF s per cent.
In discussion the fact was developed
that no order exists mpelling the rail-
roads to furnish copies of existing rates,
though such has been the custom upon
each request to do SO by the board.
A motion was then carried that the
board communicate with the Attorney
General regarding the legality of passing
an order compelling the railroad compa-
MES of the State to do SO.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-10
RAILROAD COMMISSION.
MEETING HELD YESTERDAY Al
SAN FRANCISCO.
"A Case in Which the Board Raised
Wheat Rates Above the Rail-
roads Schedule.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. AT q meeting
of the Railroad Commissioners this after
noon it was decided to hold sessions of
the board at San Diego on the 2Sth of this
month and at San Jacinto on the 3lst.
This determination was due to two
complaints that had been sent TO the
com mission. one was from taxpayers
of Riverside County complaining that
since the 22d Of February last the South
ern California Railroad Company of the
Southern Pacific system had failed to
operate its line from Barstow TO San
Diego because of a washou.. Several
miles of its track had been destroyed
and they had refused to reconstruct il.
The other petition was from merchants
of San Jacinto asking that the Santa Fe
Road be required 10 reduce its passenger
rates from four to three cents per mile
between San Jacinto aud San Bernar-
dino.
The board thought 1t could better pass
upon these matters by visiting the points
from which the complaints come and
hearing testimony. 1t ordered the Score
tary to notify the petitioners of it's COM
ing.
The question of grain rates being
reached, the following letter was read by
the Secretary:
SAN JOSE, Septemb ber IS, 1895.
To the Honorable board Of RdlLrOdd
COHlnliSS{OHerS-G ENTLEMEN: Noting the
published statements OF the amount liked
for wheat and other cereals in your re-
vised schedule, l find that the tariff
rates on this commodity is increased be-
tween San Jose and San Francisco, rather
than decreased.
Prior to Septem Der 18th of this year
our grain rate was 81 90 in carload lots;
subsequent TO September 18th the rate
was 81 20 in carload lots. On the 18th you
fixed the rate at 81 10. l write you, being
impressed with the opinion that you
were not aware of the reduction to 81 20
a. the time OF fixing the rate at 81 45, and
| respectfully ask that our rate be not in
creased to 81 40 from 81 20, as it is accord
ing to your new schedule, and at the
same time 1t is needless TO say that We
would like the reduction from the rate
which was in vogue at the date OF your
resolution to make the general reduction.
Yours, very respectfully.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-10

Total population OF city..............-..2s.o 5. o61
This is an increase of >. l54 in five years.
The Hawaiians have decreased. The
Portuguese. Chinese and Japanese have
doubled, more or less. Other Foreigners
have decreased Is per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-17

| Allan, 1901 18th street northwest on De-
| cember 81. Miss Allan has been quite a
| !aVor1te In society for several years past
| having come here fresh from her studies in
| Paris and Berlin. She is pretty. bright and
| Vlvacicus, speaks French and German flu
| ently, mas good voice ard is quite artistic
Mr.. Grove is business man of Frederick
| city, Md, and is a son of Mr. NJ. ]. Grove
OF Frederick After the ceremony and re-
ception the newly welded pair will take a
snort trip and then settle in. Frederick
CITY; MISS Frorde Bellew of Devonshire.
England who was at school with Miss AL
Ian on the continent: Miss Edith Coffin of
Pittsburg Pa; Miss Mabel Wilder of New
york city and Miss Addie C. Paine of Bos-
ton VIII be guests of the family during
Christmas and New Year. the two former
having already arrived.
MISS Margaret Cassels gave a dance to
the Princetonians, and the forty men and
the thirty girls invited to meet them had
charming evening. The house was CAV
with the college colors and yellow chrys-
anthemums, and at midnight dainty sup
per was served. Among the home guests
were MISS Sheridan, Miss Keats Rodgers,
the Misses Dodge. Miss Mary Condit-
smith, Miss Long Edes, Miss Rockhill,
MISS Norris, Miss Leech, Miss Alice Lang
horne, the Misses Clagett. Miss Hagner,
worth Barbour, the Misses McCammon,
MISS Genevieve Mattingly, the Misses
Steele, Miss Bessie Ashton, Miss SaIlie
cox, Miss Howard. Miss Helen Hurst Miss
Miss Nellie Belden, Miss Susan Hosford.
MISS Ellen Beale, Mr.. Harris Lindsey, Mr.
MMIc;Cammon: Mr.. w G: Marrow. Mr.: G. d.
Whitney, Mr.. ]. F. Weiss of Harrisburg,
Mr. John F. Wilkins. Mr.. John Davis, Mr..
X C. Wilkins. Mr.. Cassels and Mr. Wal
lace Mclean and Mr.. E c. Head, two Of
the Washington men who are members Of
the club.
The officers and ladies of the Washington
barracks will give a reception, to Z,
Thursday in honor of Gen. and Mrs Miles.
The invitations are confined entirely to
the army and navy circle
Mrs. Hughes wife of Admiral Hughes,
has issued cards for o'clock tea Thurs
day, December 26, at which her youngest
troduced.
Mrs and the Misses Drain have cards out
Tor tea Saturday, December rs, to Z,
at 2036 o street
Mr.. anc Mrs. de Neck have dinner invi-
tations out for January IL
Mrs. Henry Fuller gave a luncheon to-
day In honor Of Mrs. Harmon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-17
he AustrianStOre,
1903 IF ST.
OPEN EVENINGS.
Gloves for Xmas
time Gift Giving.

1899 Eminently suitable as presents and
sure to win welcome from the re-
cipient. We have gloves in greater
$3.50" variety of shades and shapes than per-
ss'' = haps any three firms together in town.
sss. Here are few prices that will index
I" 80 way of marking them:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-17
so Fine
Upright Pianos
for rent,
S. a month up.
F. G. Smith,
1928 Pa. Ave.


Rev. DR.. Wallace Radcliffe delivered an
address last evening at the Foundry NJ. T.
Church, corner of 18th and G streets, on the
subject The Infallibility of the Book" II
was the first of the second course of winter
lectures given under the auspices of the
American Society of Religious Education
Dr. Radcliffe was introduced by Gen. Eaton
and his lecture was a, scholarly dissertation
on the truth and inspiration of the Bible
The next lecture of the course will be or
1.-The Bible and the Human Intellect" by
Rev. ]. E. Rankin, president of Howard
University, January p.
Carroll D. Wright, United States commits
sioner of labor, delivered the seventh Lecture
in his course on the use and value of sta
tistics at the Catholic University yesterday
afternoon There was a large audience
present and the lecture was thoroughly en-,
joyed.
DR.. A. G. Rogers. pastor of the Church OF
Our Father, closed his course last evening
with an Illustrated lecture on Edinburgh
Old and New
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-17
Tool chests.

You think of tool chests as toys. Ours
are not toy tool chests, for We buy
the finest hardwood chests and fill them
with fine steel tools picked from our
regular stock-tools such as sell every
day to the best mechanics. We will
sell you chest and let you pick as
many tools as you please and quote you a
lump price, We will sell you COM
plete set at $500, containing II tools,
or a set at $25 with 30 tools.
At IS a set-an ash chest complete
with II tools.
At $7.5O-a little larger ash chest, :
complete with IT tools.
At $10-large ash chest, complete with
81 tools.
At $13-large ash chest, complete with
3S TOOLS
At S19-large ash chest, complete with
43 tools.
At $25-large ash chest, complete with
80 tools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-17
Greetings for Miss BnrtOn.

After an address in the First Congrega-
tional Church Sunday afternoon by John G.
Woolley, the temperance advocate, resoiu-
ton was offered by Mrs. s. D. La Fetra,
superintendent of the department of Chris
tan citizenship of the Worlds w. c. 7. L.,
extending to Clara Barton, president of
the National Red Cross Society, loving
cheers and greetings, and the assurance of
daily prayers for the success of her mis-
SION for the relief of The stricken Ar
menians. The resolution was seconded by
Mrs Annie F. Beiler, and unanimously
passed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-17
Skates.

What boy wouldn't be delighted with
pair OF skates? There's long winter
ahead, and perhaps lots of skating.
The Celebrated American Club Skates,
made by Peck Il Snyder, from SOC. up
to $500 pair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-17
Had No COal.

A young colored man named Arthur H.
Harris was given a preliminary examine
ton IN the Police Court yesterday on a
charge Of false pretenses During tho
summer months, Harris. 1t is charged, COL
lected small sums of money from colored
people to deliver coal in the winter al sun,-
mer prices. 1t is now charged that Harris
owns no coal yard, and that he has failed
TO Keep his part of the contracts.
Judge Miller heard the evidence and held
Harris in $500 security for the grand turv-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-17
Sale of PrOperty Aaked.

A bill in equity for the sale Of certain
real estate left under the will of the late
George Mattingly, and known as lot o.
square 466. has been filed by Philip Har-
wood Mattingly and Albertus b. Mattingly
against Frank Holt Mattingly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-17
Funeral of Henry Jordan.

The funeral of the late Henry Jordan
took place from the Church of the Immac-
ulate Conception yesterday morning, where
the pastor, Rev. S. F. Ryan, OBLIGATED at
the requiem mass. The church was filled
with the friends of Mr.. Jordan, large
number of whom were well-known business
men. The interment was at lit. Olivet.
The advocate., 1895-10-16
KANSAS NOTES.

livery.
Osborne's wsterworks plant cost
1900.
Hiawaths is to have telephone
asStem.
Joe BristoW has bought the Ottawa
Herald.
Corn is worth 25 cents bushel in
Elk county.
Speaker Lobdell is going into the
cattle business.
Ex-senator John Martin will resume
the practice Of law in Topeka.
The Kansas City Gazette Crep.) calls
Morrill, "a flabby old woman"
Judge Reed. Of Wichita, will locate
at Kansas City and practice law.
The linton says that two large brick
buildings are going up in Salins.
Emporia militia encsmpment bills
have been paid amounting to $1,000.
Decatur county Populists will have
eighteen school house meetings in ten
days.
Charles S. Davis, late Of the juno
ton City Tribune, win return to school
work.
County expenses in Ness county: 1889,
Republican, $4,777.67; 1896, Populist,
sS,4So.
Judge Peters, of Newton, is trying
to develop q scheme to break into Con-
gTeSs again.
The sergesnt-st-arms Of the bond in.
Vestigating committee got $162.3O for
his services.
w. X. Morgan, formerly of the
Emporis Gazette, has boughtthe Hutch
insOn Nes0s,
Linn, LesYenworth, Allen and Cove
counties vote on high school PROPOSE
tiOns this year.
Ex-Congressman Hudson will make
some excellent Populist campaign
speeches this fall.
Fred Click, son of the Ex-Governor,
is at the head Of new telephone COM
pany at Atchison.
Sheriff Brown, of Harper county,
was relieved Of 5000 at the Wichita
fair by pickpocket.
The Kansas Conference of the
United Brethren church was in session
at Abilene, October 8.
Robert Mcintyre, of Denver, will
lecture at the State Teachers Associs.
tion in Topeka in December.
j. r. Charlton, "a Montgomery county
lawyer, is preaching now and is great
success In eVsngelistic work.
The Manhattan Republic has been
enlarged to six-column quarto and is
q hard-hitting reform paper.
Bishop Millspaugh, who has been in
favor Of q high license system, has be-
come an ardent prohibitionist.
Arrangements are being made for
some speeches in this State this fall by
Ex-Governor Waite of Colorado.
The Leavenworth Times says the re.
nomination of Morrill, and the present
state officers means certain defeat.
Charles E. Linney, an old Campbell
The advocate., 1895-10-16


why this activity
A very successful well.sttende(
meeting Of the Presbyterian Synod hal
been in session at Parsons about {
week, the closing day being October s
The colored janitor lin the redeeme
service at the State House who was re
Gently convicted of dlsorderly conduc
in the Police court was q son of a mem
ber of the School Board at Lawrence
The Norton Republican says that Il
any one imagined the Republicans Of
that county were for free silver, pc
russl of the platform recently adopted
will convince them that they are not
The LesvenWorth Times wants tt
know if Morrill,, Dawes, Edwards, Cole
Stanley and Atherton constitute thu
Republican party, and if they do snt
must be indorsed, what there is to in
dOrse.
Labor Commissioner Bird will begir
an action against some one he has in
view for importing alien labor. 1t hal
been suggested that he might try it on
Morrill,, making the basis of his actor
the hiring Of Challinor.
1t is said that the Texas preacher
who went to Austin to lobby against
the snti-prize fighting bill, formerly
held forth in Nemshs county
and was at one time a fedora
oficeholder.
Before the convention last year the
Phillipsburg Dispatch could find moth
ing too mean to say about Morrill,
Just as soon as he was nominated Il
took it all back. Such is Republican
journalism.
Sheriff L. BsrdWell, Of Sheridan
county, got an almost unanimous vote
for denomination on the first ballot in
the recent Populist convention in that
county. He deserved it, and will be
elected easily.
Kansas people will learn with
pleasure that j. K. Cubbison is to quit
politics. This does not mean that
Republican politics will be purified
but that one of the many impurities
has dropped out.
Governor Morrill, says: SCUBA is the
worst governed country on the globe
and I hope she will win." But he
didn't add any suggestions on the
question of how to improve the gov
ernment of Kansas.
Arrangements have been made
whereby depositors In the HsrpsteT
bank, at Severance, will be paid in
full. This condition is due to the Vigi.
lance and perSistency of Bank Com
missioner Breidenthal.
J.H. Mahan's letter Of acceptance
as the Populist candidate for Judge Of
the Eighth district is q sensible, manly
one. He is by far the strongest and
best fitted candidate for the place and
would make a model Judge.
John j. ingalls, is trying to get his
residence property set out of the city
limits at Atchison. He probably be-
lieVes it will be necessary to economic
in the matter of taxes, as political
assessments will be large next year.
The advocate., 1895-10-16

l @OA&4Se
Judging from the favorable mention
given him by opposition papers as well
as those of his own party, L. W.
Chesley, the POpulist nominee for Com
missioner in Marshall county, must be
all right and just the man for the
Office.
Some Republican County Clerks are
trying to make capital out Of the fact
that they do not charge for acknowl-
edgments of pension vouchers. Voters
who. take this in don't stop to think
that the fee charged would go into the
treasury.
The Gesry county Populist conven-
tion nominated the following ticket:
Sheriff, B. r. Keihl; Treasurer, E. c.
Gleason; Clerk, William Kennel; Reg.
lister of Deeds, Samuel j. Philips: Sur
Veyor, John Dixon; coroner Pat
Tamplin.
The story that Private Secretary
BristOw will be a candidate for Con-
gress in the Second district don't meet
with unanimous approval on the part
Of the Republican papers down there.
In fact, his fences are in mighty poor
condition.
Senator Milton Brown, Of Garden
City, says very little wheat VIII be
sowed in that section until prices are
higher. Still Brown voted in the Sem
ate for a man for United States Sem
stor who will vote to continue present
conditions.
At the meeting of the Western Edi-
torisl Federation at Salt Lake city,
Ewing Herbert, publisher of the Hia-
wsths WOrldsnd the Newspaper West,
was made Recording Secretary. J. E.
Junkin, of Sterling, was on the orgsni-
zation committee.
Another expensive liquor prosecu-
tion in Wichita has resulted in a hung
jury. With all the court officers it
would seem that verdict ought to be
reached in q case once in a while down
there if the ''powers that be- really
wanted to convict.
The entire cost of the school fund
investigating committee will be about
81, 1000. This was q timely investiga-
tion and the most sensible one in the
lot, but there was no necessity of so
many meetings and the expenditure of
so much money for mileage.
Lawrence Journal Attorney Gen.
eral Dawes is going to Nebraska to
make speeches. He will probably tell
the people there how gsllsntly he
charged on Pitcher and made him
leave the State, and sfterward closed
every saloon in LesVenworth.
Congressman Long and Kirkpatrick
have gone to Washington, and the
smsll-fry politicians who are this year
candidates for county Office and who
last year Whooped it up for these two
gentlemen, are inclined to feel that
they are not being treated right.
The public is confdentislly informed
that Governor Morrill, presented his
daughter, Grace, with $4,000 check
on her wedding day. 1t cannot be
that this amount came from the con-
The advocate., 1895-10-16

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Atchison.
W. E. Whsley, Of Manhattan, has
accepted the chair Of history in the
preparatory school Of the Chicago
university.
Cherokee, Weir City, Scammon and
Columbus are soon to be added to the
circuit of the Southeastern Kansas
Telephone Company.
The $4,000 names signed to the re-
submission petition to the Legislature
last winter were all signed by men
not q woman In the lot.
Chief Of Police Massey, at Wichita,
has been removed, and Burrows, who
held the job when Humphrey was Gov
ernor, was named in his place.
Preachers are having q hard time
rustling their salaries, notwithstsnd-
ing the fact that "there is just as much
money now as there ever was"
Mrs. BIsckmsn, formerly of the
Labor Net0s, LesVenworth, and Police
Commissioner at that place, is work
ing on Shows Ottawa Journal.
The Kinsley Graphic wants Clsud
Deval, of the Hutchinson Wholesale
Grocery Company, nominated as the
Populist candidate for governor.
R. M. Clark, of Minneapolis, has
been appointed Coroner of Ottawa
county to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of John Msclsy.
The Spring Hill New Era (rep.) says
that If Dick Blue made the remark
attributed to him at Sslins he will
serve but one term in Congress.
Hampton d. Denham, who was the
first mayor of LeaVenworth and a mem.
Der of the first Legislature of Kansas,
died in Washington, October IL,
The Presbyterian synod at Parsons
appointed committee to urge union
of church organizations to promote
punishment of Sunday desecrstion.
The State bank at Everest is in the
hands of Commissioner Breidenthsl.
It Is insOlVent and is indebted to one Of
Governor MorrllPs banks In the sum of
$1,000.
OF the new students at the State Ag-
ricultursl college 125 are children of
farmers, 10 Of mechanics, lS of trades
men, 8 Of lawyers, 4 of bankers and Sof
preachers.
Cowley county taxpayers are won
dering what has caused the $4,000 de-
ficit In the county treasury. The
Republican officers are being called on
to explain.
One of the bad things published
about o. L. Moore, the Republican
candidate for Judge in the Eighth dis
trict, is that he is law partner of j..
r. Burton.
The Osborne Farmer has insisted
thatthe Populist party is dying out
for Eve years, but the Populist ticket
in that county is elected every year
just the same.
A delegate to the Republican con-
Vention in Norton county rode to town
on horseback and was so enthused that
he rode home with a neighbor and left
hia hnroa n, knrun
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-10-25

which makes It all sAe more note
worthy"
-Sweden's state telephone 10 soon to
be connected with the state telegraph.
Instead of addresses the telephone
numbers will be used, the telegraph
clerks looking up the address. Mes
sages may be telephoned to the tele-
graph Office and telephoned back, thus
dispensing with the greater number OF
the messenger boys, as In Sweden
nearly everyone uses the telephone.
-gullheaded British courage was
shown in a recent sewer gas accident
in London. A man went down INTO q
sewer and did not come up, another
man descended to look for him, and
was followed, one after another, BY
three others. The sixth man who en-.
tered the death trap succeeded In
bringing up the fifth still alive and IN
getting ont the bodies of the first four.
A thousand and eighty-one wolves
and coyotes killed in one medium
sized county would appear to be fair
record, but the farmers of Yellowstone
county, Mont, who have collected
bounties on that number thus far this
season complain about the meager re-
suits. Neighboring counties have done
much better. Still, the sheep and
poultry should rest trifie easier even
in Yellowstone county.
President Lincoln issued procla-
nation to the states in rebellion on
September %, 1862, declaring that he
would free their slaves unless they re-
turned to their allegiance by January
/, 1863 True, to his word, on January
/, 1863, he issued the Emancipation
Proclamation; it offered to receive the
freedmen into the federal service, and
warned them to abstain from violence
and disorder Lincoln said In the
proclamation that this act was
prompted by military necessity"
1T has been estimated that out OF
one hundred manuscript books sent
unrequested to publishers in New
York, more than ninety per cent. are
rejected by the house to which they
are first sent and probably moro than
seventy-fve per cent. never find pub
Usher. One general publishing house
accepts only two per cent. of the un.
solicited manuscripts received, and o
partner in another firm is of the opin-
ion that ninety per cent. of all manu-
script books once rejected never see
the light. AS novels lead in point Of
books published, so, also, they lead In
manuscripts rejected, forming, it is
said, upward of tAree-quarters of the
bulk of rejected material. Theology,
too, is 4 much ovcrwritten science, and
volumes on this subject are annually
declined.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-10-25
THE ELECTRIC ENGINE.
Likelihood That Grand Trunk Will Ado
1t for the Port Huron T1nnel.

Likelihood That Grand Trunk viii Ador
1t for the Port Huron T1nneI.
Passengers on Grand Trunk trains
may make the journey through the tun
mel under the Detroit river at Port
Huron behind an electric locomotive,
according to information current in
electrical manufacturing circles. 1t is
to the effect that the conservative Can
adam railway management is figuring
on an adoption of methods practically
the same as those in use in the Balti-
more & Ohio tunnel under Baltimore.
A desire to avoid smoke and cindors
was among the causes which induced
the latter company to install electricity.
The Grand Trunk is forced to abandon
steam engines, so it is said, because of
their effect upon the tunnel structure.
The latter cut through the rock is
lined with steel casing. back of which
is filling of what is said to be pecul-
lar kind of asphalt. The tunnel is a
mile and one-elghth in length and the
grade at both ends is an important one,
amounting TO 105 feet to the mile.
Specially constructed locomotives
weighing ninety-five tons and having
eight drivers are used to haul trains
through.
In developing the energy needed to
handle long heavy trains it has been
found, it is stated, the excessive heat
and escaping steam from the engines
is exercising an effect upon the asphalt
backing, the result of which is it's de-
terioration. In other ways, it is stated,
steam has been found to exercise in
auences upon the tunnel structure that
are serious.