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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-03
HEGIRA THE MURDOCKS
Bent Murdoch Tells How the Family
Came to Kansas.

Bent Murdoch Tells How the Family
Came to Kansas.
T. B. Murdoch publishes an interest
ing personal "Reminiscences in a recent is
sue of the Eldorado Daily Republican:
The Kansas end of the Murdoch fam
ily left the state of Ohio in September,
1856, in covered wagons, for Kansas,
camping out the entire distance. We re-
member passing through Dayton, Ohio,
Terre Haute, Indiana, Urbana, Illinois,
crossing the Mississippi river at Burling-
ton. Iowa, and we further remember
that the national campaign was hot that
year.
1t was John c. Fremont, James Blu
chanan or Willard Fillmore in almost
every town we passed through. Hickory
flag poles, with Buchanan and Brecken-
ridge on the stredmers, were to be seen
at every cross roads town, with an oc-
casionaI streamer with "Free Speech.
Free Press, Fremont and Freedom
flung to the breezs. In our train were
about twelve or fifteen tow-head boys
and young men. We carried Fremont
fiags on our wagons and never struck g
town that we did not shurrah" for Ere
mont
We had a number of fine Kentucky
mules that most always helped US out il
noise making. And speaking of Ken
lucky mules reminds us that one pail
cost $500 in gold. All the roads the en-
tire distance from Ohio to Iowa, were
lined with covered wagons full of home
seekers bound for Iowa, Nebraska anC
| Kansas. They were largely "free state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-03
STEALS LEGAL LORE.
A Thief in Town Who Makes a Speciality
of Law Books

A Thief in Town Who Makes q Speciality
of Law Books
A law book thief has recently made
his appearance in Topeka, and several
members of the Topeka bar have suffered
from his thefts. Several lawyers recent
ly got together and discovered that they
had all suffered in much the same man
ner. The thief seems to prefer ''Kansas
Reports"
The stolen volumes thus far reported
are; w. R Hazen, Kansas reports Nos
90 and 38; 81. W. Euler, Kansas reports
No. 81; II. G. Root, Kansas reports Nos.
10 and 81; D. c. Tillotson, Kansas reports
No 40; A VI. Thomas, Kansas reports
Nos IS and A; E. A Austin, Kansas re-
ports Nos. 20 and 30.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-03

as Athleta johnson and was taken home.
A red haired North Topeka boy. four
years old, was sent to a butchers shop to
get some meat for breakfast yesterday
morning and wasn't found until about 5
D. N. The officers found him at the west
end of the Union Pacific yards.
There were three or four more cases of
a similar nature reported to the police,
but most of them proved to be false
alarms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-03
stevenson VIM Remain HOme.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill, May 3.-Vice Pres
ident Stevenson. who has been in Bloom
ington almost continuously since the
close of congress, says: st shall remain
here all summer, except that toward the
end of the heated term Mrs Stevenson
and may spend few days at some
Atlantic watering place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-03
ACCEPT THE ORDINANCE.
The Upper Company Makes = Formal Ao-
ceptance of the Franchise.

The Topeka Water and Electrical
Power company. or as it is better known,
The Upper Dam company" has ac-
cepted the ordinance passed by the
council granting them franchise, and a
formal acceptance has been filed with
the city clerk.
The contract has not been signed by
the mayor and it will be amended at the
meeting of the council next Monday
evening to read $500 horse power" in
stead of $500" By agreement the
amount of power was @compromised''
and the company has agreed to accept q
contract for 500
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-03

few months she has been at home very
seldom. Mrs. Diggs moved to Washing
ton for the purpose of doing newspaper
work for the reform papers in Kansas
and other western states, but she finds
that the lecture field pays better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-03

people and were bitter against the south
for trying to make Kansas a slave state.
There are good many people WHO read
this that made practically this same trip
in the same way that we did and for the
same purpose. many of them, no doubt,
who are glad they came and glad that
they are here now.
Be sure and hear the Lotus Glee club
sing their Hutchinson Jubilee contest
piece, the "Bugle Song" tonight at the
First Christian church.
Wall Paper SI.OO Per Roll
at VAN HOUTEN's,
720 Kansas Avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-03

Music by the best talent of Topeka to-
night at the First Christian church. Sin
gle admission only 20 cents. Tickets on
sale at Kellam's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-03
WaaIPaper.

Cheapest and best,
at VAN HoUTEN's,
720 Kansas Avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-03
ANNIE DIGGS LECTURING.
Whereabouts of a Very Active and Pom
lar Little POpulist

Mrs. Annie L Diggs is devoting her
entire time to the lecture field. Mrs.
Diggs is talking equal suffrage from a
non-partisan standpoint under the au
spices of the National Suffrage associa-
ton.
Her address is 212 Ninth street, N. E.
Washington, D. c., but during the last
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-03
Mineral Water.

The finest in the west. Come and try it
J. w. PHILLIPS. 612 ". Eighth ave.
The record-union., 1895-08-17

From every corner of the country
come thankful letters written by those
who have been lifted into cheerful, Wig
orous, healthy strength by DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription.
Thousands on thousands of women
have been relieved of the nerve-nagging
drag of weakness and pain.
They have been made better wives and
restored, and without the hu1niliating
exposure of examinations so generally
insisted on by physicians.
The stereotyped treatment by "local
applications " is seldom necessary, and
there is no reason why modest, sensitive
women need submit to them.
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is
of purely vegetable composition and is
perfectly harmless in any condition of
the system. It exerts wonderful sooth-
ing, healing and Strengthening power
over woman's delicate organism. 1t is
an invigorating tonic for the whole sys-
TEN, and is almost All infa1lible specific
for the peculiar weaknesses, irregulari-
ties and painful arrangements of woman.
To these causes may be traced the
trouble of tired, nervous, irritable, worm
out women. Careless, easy-going doctors
frequently treat their women patients for
biliousness, nervousness, dyspepsia, liver
or kidney troubles, when the real sick
ness is in the organs distinctly feminine,
and no help can come till they are made
perfectly strong and healthy in both
structure and function which is brought
about in due time, by the use of DR..
pierce,C EaUOrite Presentation
Prescribed for 80 years by DIR. Pierce.
The record-union., 1895-08-17

imperfectly informed contemporaries of
this movement was designed to discour-
age the construction of a competing rail-
road. We presume. since they have en-
couraged the commission to propose this
reduction. that they must regard the new
grain schedule especially designed to pro-
mote the sale of the San Joaquin Valley
bonds or to encourage subscriptions to
its capital stock.
The record-union., 1895-08-17
THE THOUGHT OF THE CLEVE.
LAND CONVENTION.

That municipal patriotism and the pro
motion of the study of civics for munic-
ipal betterment Is not going backward is
well understood by all who are keeping
thought. At no other time in the history
Of the country has 80 much attention
been given to the economies of town and
city government; at no other time has
there been SO much written about the
subject, and never before have there been
so many civic organizations moved by
such broad and philanthropio purpose.
In the United States there are now
over 800 civic associations working on
varying lines for town and city better
ment in the matters of cleanliness, public
health, financial economy. public educa-
ton, suppression Of vice, community
prosperity and general municipal reform.
The recent Municipal Convention held
at Cleveland. O., WAS a surprise to the
country in the high character of the rep
resentation and the earnestness and in
telligence Of the members. Indeed. one
must believe after reading the reports o.
that convocation, that municipal reform
has grown to be thing of national i'm
portanoe.
The convention proved that no section
of our land In free from the evils Of mu-
nicipsl misgovernmsnt and corruption;
also that the interest in the subject is
widespread, and the awakening of the
people general as to the necessity for re-
form. The thought of the convention
appeared to be much the same as that of
Carl Schurz, when he said: II would
prefer to have the laws made by Lucifer
and executed by Gabriel than made by
Gabriel and executed by Lucifer."
The most troublesome evil in the opin-
ion of the convention is that to which the
Mayor of Chattanooga referred when he
said that "Ths misfortune in our cities Is
the bad citizenship of good citizens" The
remedy that the convention most dwelt
upon was that which will disassociate
National and Stats:politics from munio-
ipal affairs.
The most important fact emphasized by
the convention, says Mr.. Clinton K.
Woodruff in his review Of it. was that the
best elements in our various communi-
ties are beginning to interest themselves
in the question of municipal patriotism,
and so to some extent removing the
stigma that has heretofore rested upon
them.
In the matter OF reform in city charters,
the agreement was that the best possible
charters are of no value in hands Of
kuaves or fools. and that no matter what
the charter guarantees and wisdom, If they
are committed to third-rate men the in
strument will not work good to the COM
munity. So the conclusion of the con-
vention was that wisely-drawn laws are
of little avail unless administered by in
tegrity, courage and brains.
The record-union., 1895-08-17

OUR erratiC evening contemporary has
seen fit to oonstrue remark of the REC
oRD-UNIoN concerning Sunday laws as
favorable to enactments of that character,
Notwithstanding the REcoRD-UNIoN in
the same sentence quoted stated that it
doubted the wisdom of such laws. What
the RECoRD-UNION did say. and what it
repeats and what no sort of reasoning
can down, was this truth, that Tennessee
has the right" to enact Sunday laws;
that when it does so they should be uni
thing to do with any law. A dead letter
law is abhorrent, and a confession of in
capacity for self-government. When,
therefore. either a good or an obnoxious
law is enforced against one class and not
against another class of offenders. the act
becomes the meanest and most disgusting
and offensive of prosecutions. Yet, be-
cause the RECoRD-UNIoN entertains this
belief, which, by the way, is not original
with it, but is the doctrine of the most
learned law writers and most prominent
civicists of the century, our contempo-
rary declares it is surprised, amazed, etc.
There ia one thing that never surprises
the REcoRD-UNIoN. namely, that its
amiable and highly esteemed neighbor is
ever surprised out of the common, since
it's normal attitude is one of chronic sur
prise.
The record-union., 1895-08-17
Special Agencies.

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Eastern business omoes.

As Tribune Building, New York.
500 "The Rookery." Chicago
s. c. Beckwith. sole agent foreign advertising.
The RECoRD-UNIoN and WEEKLY
UNION are the only papers on the Coast,
outside Of San Francisco, that re-
eetve the fall Press Dispatches from all
parts Of the toorld. Outside Of San Fran
cisco, they haze no competitors, either IN
s,efuence or home and general circulation
throughout the State.
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" anthar Eoraoasr.

Northern California-Fair, except cloudy
along the northern coast; nearly stationary
temperature; fresh to brisk westerly winds
along the coast, becoming northerly In the
Sacramento Valley.
The record-union., 1895-08-17

Wellington, at Waterloo, did not say:
"Up, guards, and at 'em v' These words
were put into his mouth by an imagi-
native writer.
The record-union., 1895-08-17

GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES. SUITS
made to order from $40 up. Pants. So and
upwards. Perfect fit and good work. STONE
d MELOGLI Merchant Tailors, AT street
The record-union., 1895-08-17
TIE CRoCKER-EUFPMAN LAND .
WATER COMpANY'S

irrigated lands at MerCed, in the very
heart of The State, under splendid
climatic conditions, with the free
use OF water as an appurtenant to
the land. for sale for interest only,
for FIVE or seven years, at the chOle0
of the purchaser, eventual settle.
ment on the land and cultivation.
dating one year from date of pur+
chase, being made incumbent upon
the purchasers.
The record-union., 1895-08-17

It is estimated by engineers who have
studied the subject that 16,000,0 900 horse
power goes to waste every hour over
Niagara Falls.
The record-union., 1895-08-17

Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento as
second-class matter.
The record-union., 1895-08-17
SPECIAL NOTICES.

FOR the best Photographic work go to Con-
rad Young, 421 j street. Prices to suit the
times Satisfaction guaranteed.
The record-union., 1895-08-17

In q very sensible plea for justice to
home industries the Sacramento RECORD
UNION directs the attention OF the busi-
ness men Of that city to the folly Of pay
The record-union., 1895-08-17
Brief stated.

The
Electric
Carnival to be
Held Admission
Day, When Native
Sons and Daughters will
Be out in grand array, will
Prove the greatest wonder of this
Most progressive age, And must
Show Sacramento's industrial advantage.
GET a bottle of Angostura Bitters to flavor
your soda and lemonade. DIR. Siegert's the
only genuine.
The record-union., 1895-08-17
TIE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD
COMPANY's LAND DEPARTMENT

can supply any seeker of investment,
or any home seeker, with any variety
of land desired, at lower prices and
on more favorable terms than can ba
had of any other landed proprietor in
California.
The list Of land for sale i'll this De-
partment embraces bodies OF from
ten to thirty thousand acres. or az
small subdivisions q may be desired
in the form of five, ten, twenty or fortg
acre tracts of irrigated land.
The record-union., 1895-08-17

STUDENTS wanted at Sacto School Short
hand, us j. All graduates in good positions.
The record-union., 1895-08-17

Rz- These publications are sent either by
Mail or Express to agents or single sub
ecribers with charges prepaid. All Postmast
ers are agents.
The best advertising mediums on the Pacific
The record-union., 1895-08-17

IN the city Of Buffalo the citizens have
started q movement to secure better men
in the City Counoil that is TO say, to
push aside the ward bosses and petty
politicians and select men for the city's
legislative body competent and fearless
in business sense and intellectually, to
discharge the duties. and honest besides,
with no political debts to pay. Such a
movement might well be the cause of
activity in all communities. But why
should it be necessary to bring on to the
field special organizations to effect that
which every sober and thoughtful we'll
wishing citizen desires for his town?
A COMMISSION has started for the scene
of the recent massacres in China to In
vestigate and report to the British Gov
ernment. AS an associate member, acting
in advisory capacity probably, an Amer
lean naval officer accompanies the COM
mission. We shall now have within 8
few days, therefore, the exact facts of
ficially reported. We would be willing to
wager that it is found not only that the
mobs but the leading Chinese officials
were concerned in the outrages and MUIR
ders. The Mandarin class enters into no
such schemes, unless it knows that there
is official backing.
The record-union., 1895-08-17

IF AFFLICTED with Sore Eyes use DR..
ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE WATER. Sold
at 90 cents S
The record-union., 1895-08-17
THE CAPAY VALLEY LAND COM.
pANy'C TANDc

are located in the rich, fertile valley
in the western portion OF YolO Coun.
ty, California. They are splendid
fruit lands, in one OF the earliest 10
ealities OF the State, and range IN
price from 525 an acre upward, and on
terms Of interest only, for five years,
that is to say, for five years the qur.
chaser pays interest only, at the end
OF which time the purchase price be-
comes due. The object of these terms
is TO give the purchaser an oppor-
tunity to pay the purchase price out
of the proceeds of the land. Cultiva1
tion is required of all purchasers.
The record-union., 1895-08-17

vehicles-BAKER& & HAMILTON-Hardw
Carts, Buggies, Carriages, Phaetons, Balm Farm
and Header Wagons. Wholesale. Hardware.
Send for Catalogue.
The record-union., 1895-08-17
SUGAR PINE FoREsTED LANDS IN
OREGON AID CALIFORNIA,

in large or small quantities, will be
sold for interest only, Tor five years,
the purchaser agreeing TO protect
the lands from all depredations. Tbs
forested lands of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company and the Oregon
& California Railroad Company en-
brace the best and most accessible
timber land to be found on the Pacific
Coast They offer special induce
ments for speculative inves tment.
The record-union., 1895-08-17

"Record- Union" Telephone.
Editorial Rooms Req ~
Rusinsss Office Black 131
The record-union., 1895-08-17
THE WEEKLY UNION

rs the cheapest and most desirable Home.
News and Literary Journal published on the
Pacific Coast
The WEEKLY UNION per year..............S1 30
The record-union., 1895-08-17

TN THE SUPERIOR COURT. STATE OP
l California, County of Sacramento.
IN the matter of the estate OF HENRY
SPIERLING, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that FRIDAY, tho
3Oth day of August, 1895, at 0 o'clock a. VI,
OF said day land the courtroom OF said court
at the Courthouse in the City of Sacramento
County OF Sacramento and State OF California,
has been appointed as the time and place ios
proving the Will OF said Henry Spierling, de,
ceased, and for hearing the application Oh
Benjamin Schwartz for the Issuance TO him
of letters festamentary thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said coura
this 18th day OF August 1895.
SEAL w. 3. H HAMILTON. Clerk
By E. s. WAcHHoRsT, Deputy Clerk
d. E. ALExANDER. Attorney for Petitioner.
Endorsed. Filed August s. 1895
w. B. HAMILTON. Clerk.
By E. s. WACHHoRsv, Deputy. au16-Iot
The record-union., 1895-08-17
THAT2INDEMNITY.

China is said to be willing to pay any
reasonable indemnity in settlement for
the outrages perpetrated upon the Eng
lish and Canadian missionaries. These
latter themselves are willing to have q
liberal indemnity paid, but also desire
the European Powers to administer such
other punishment as will be lesson ior
the future to the Chinese Government.
While it is probably in accordance with
the principles of absolute Justice that
some such steps should be taken, one cam
not help recalling that the founder of the
very religion which the missionaries are
teaching to the heathens, in the moment
of supreme agony caused by mob OF
heathens on Calvary, said: "F'ather, for
give them; they know not what they do.o
The record-union., 1895-08-17
COLONY LANDS.

A% Among the most attractive offerings
are the following:
$4,000 acres OF oak forest, farming
and fruit land in the heart Of Cali
EA fornia. Irrigation practicable, Rail-
lib road operated to the center Of the
tract.
II 1900 acres of splendid villa prop.
81 erty down by the sea- Sloping TO
the surf of the Pacific Ocean: in para
e. covered with pine forest; in part tn9
garden and fruit land under irriga-
tion.
A 12000 acres of Sacramento Valley
"a plain land, suitable for general farm
ing. All for sale in subdivisions on
80 as a whole
30 Fruit Lands Timber Lands
Farming Landsi Grazing Landsl
. Townsite Propertiesi
S Real Estate
sFA for every known use, on terms attrac.
rn tive to both the speculator and the
Ga home-seeker.
"a. For particulars and printed circulars,
saS apply to or address
sE WILLIAM Il. MILLS,
"a LAND AGENT,
4 Hobart Building. San Francisco
The record-union., 1895-08-17
JUSTICE TO HOME INDUSTRIES
Stockton Mail. |

some Truths for the Business Man tt
Reflect On.
The record-union., 1895-08-17
COMMUNISTIC IGNORANCE.
Oakland Times.

We hear the 10 mutterings of communistio
ignorance, and now and then threats of q
bloody future; but they come from a
class too small at the present time to Gre
ate alarm. But should their numbers be
sweled by unlimited immigration of the
ignorant hordes of other lands the time
may come when the pessimistio prophe-
cies concerning the future of the Repub
lo may come to be q sad and terrible
reality.
The Wise man foresees the evil and pre-
pares for it. Wisdom should dictate
policy of prevention, and that without
delay. The red schoolhouse can only
prepare the young for good citizenship;
it cannot assimilate the mass of ignorance
spewed upon our shores from the cess
pools of the outside world. Self-protec-
ton is the first law of nature, and should
be acted upon at once.
The record-union., 1895-08-17

No one can over estimate the import
ance of Feather River to this town.
When our citizens awake to its numerous
advantages they Will then better appreci-
ate it. 4 gigantic stream flows by US un-
used and neglected when its channel
ought to be dredged and used for boats.
There is an abundance of water for boats
to ascend to Oroville, and all that is
needed is push and enterprise on the part
of our citizens.
From here would be shipped great
quantities of wood, wool, ore, fruit, etc.
Goods could be delivered cheaper by
water than they are now obtained by rail
and this would lessen the price to con-
sumers. Thus every man in the COM
munity is interested in seeing Feather
River opened up and put to use.
THAT3IN
The record-union., 1895-08-17
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions From Newspapers Of In
terror California.

alameda Argus.
1t is bad sign to see the factories about
the bay here closing up or moving. The
latest that is announced to go is the Oak
land jute mill. We should think the Oak
land people would manage somehow to
keep 1t. They ought to have as much
money and as keen perception of the ad-
vantages of factories as anyone.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1895-11-16
An Infamous Monopoly.

The Infamous Sugar Trust,
which has so long been the releut-
less, grasping oppresser and incu-
bus of the sugar interests Of this
State, has again clutched the bust
ness BY the throat and in response
to the pressure the market price
Of prime yellow clarified sugar has
declined / of a cent. AS the SELL
ing price of cane is based upon
the market price of this grade OF
sugar, this decline means an &C
tual robbery by the trust of 6O
cents on every ton of cane sold by
the small farmer and of course q
larger loss to the planter who
manufactures sugar.-Meridional.