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ton of those things which will allow of a
second crop.
1t is a district of fine wells. By boring
from fifteen to twenty-five feet an mex
haustible supply of good water is secured.
sWindmills and tanks are seen on every
hand.
The town of Lodi, with its neighbors,
the pretty cultured village of Woodbridge
two miles away, and Acampo, the village
of the 'Langford Colony district, few
miles farther on, gives this locality more
of an Eastern appearance than some parts
of California, where the distances between
towns and villages are great.
Acampo is on the direct line OF the
Southern Pacific and quite shipping
point. Woodbridge is a village of pretty
homes, surrounded by magnificent trees.
Society is particularly good here, as is al
ways the case in college towns. The
United Brethren College is located at
Woodbridge. Their grounds are large and
extensive and the buildings large and at
tractive. Aside from the classical and
scientific college course, practical busl-
ness department has been added and
special attention is given to a normal
course for the preparation of teachers.
Woodbridge is charming quiet place
for student life. Winds from the sea
sweep in through the Golden Gate, and
these vagrant breezes drift up through the
Straits of Carquinez, along the rivers and
make the climate here healthful and pleas
ant. The snow-capped Sierras are plainly
visible along the eastern horizon and the
Coast Range on the west. This town of
Woodbridge will certainly draw cultured
population to this vicinity. The college
property, owned by the United Brethren
denomination, is somewhat in debt, but
they have hope of raising the money to
pay off the mortgage through church sub
scriptions, as the Methodist people have
now about accomplished such purpose
for their colleges at Napa and Santa Clara.
The United Brethren denomination is
not so strong in numbers, but they think a
strong will and well-defned righteous
purpose will accomplish much.
Lodi in itself is thriving place, with
gas and water works. This enterprise is
under The management of the Casey
brothers, two energetic young men who
have recently selected Lodi as their place
of residence. They have accomplished
much in short space of time, for they
have built a planning mill plant where they
turn out excellent millwork of all kinds.
A large sawmill will soon be erected in the
suburbs of Lodi by Van Buskirk, who has
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spent thousands of dollars on the improve
ment of Mokelumne River. Mr.. Van Bus
kirk is now building an elegant residence
and large sawmill on the bank OF the river.
His purpose is to float the logs down the
stream to the lake he has constructed here,
and the lumber when sawed and seasoned
will be shipped to San Francisco on barges.
Lodi has fine nursery where all kinds of
healthy fruit, vines and ornamental trees
can be secured, of which James A. Ander-
son is the owner and manager.
The Bank of Lodi, substantial !, we'll
conducted financial institution, has been
in existence since 1888. Senator B. f.
Langford is president and Francis Cogs-
well the cashier. Mr.. Cogsweli, who is
practically the manager, is far-seeing,
conservative man, who, while a young
man, has had quite an experience in bank
ing business in Lawrence, Mass, his
native place.
One of the most enterprising and popu-
lar firms in town is the Lodi Soda Works
of Charles Sollars & Co., of which Mr..
Sollars is the active manager. They man
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Senator Langford at the same time
planted $50 acres in fruit trees himself,
thus showing his confidence in the adap-
liability OF the soil and climate for fruit
growing. A. T. Hatch, the most expert
enced fruit-grower of the State, purchased
over 600 acres of this "Langford Colony"
tract which he planted in almonds, figs,
peaches, apricots and olives. Soon after
three brothers-P. B., DR.. E. and DR.. A.
Armstrong of New York-purchased some
four hundred acres, and with A. T. Hatch
formed corporation known as the Hatch
Armstrong Fruit and Nut Company.
More acreage has been added to the
original purchase, until to-day this fruit
ranch has 12O0 acres in bearing. To drive
about it one is hushed to silence-there
are no words adequate to describe its per-
feet cultivation and luxuriant growth.
Figures, as a rule, are an abomination,
and in many instances, when they are
given in relation to California productions
are thought to be gross exaggerations, par
ticularly by Eastern people, who cannot
possibly form even the shadow of a con-
ception of the wondrous bounties of this
State, which is capable of being the orchard
and vegetable garden of the world. The
number of trees in this widely celebrated
Sierra Vista Ranch of the Hatch-Armstrong
Company, which is part of the Langford
Colony, is startlingly large. Think of it
"a 600 almond trees, 10000 peach, 5000
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NOW NEAR COMPLETION.
1t Will Irrigate Thousands of
Acres of Fine Fruit
Lands.
SOME ENGINEERING PROBLEMS.
Tunneling Through Serpentlne and
Gneiss and Building Fumes
In the Mountains.

OAKDALE, CAL, May 12.-Work on the
canal of the Stanislaus and San Joaquin
Water Company is being rushed with all
the power that money, men and imple
ments possess, and what is destined to be
the most important factor in the develop
ment of the northern part of San Joaquin
Valley will undoubtedly be pouring it's
hfe-giving properties upon the plains be-
fore the end of the coming summer.
Only by visit to the center of opera
tons can correct estimate be formed of
the magnitude OF this enterprise, and when
one observes the many stubborn difficult
ties which have opposed the progress of
the work, he must stand convinced of the
wonderful virtues of irrigation, when men
will risk SO much to obtain it. A work of
this kind means more than mere damming
and excavation. Through six miles of rug
ged mountains and foothills this cond uit
must be bored, humed and dug through
solid mountains, around perpendicular
bluffs, and over an undulating stretch,
crossed here and there by treacherous
ravine or belt of sand which, moistened,
will crumble away as snow before mid
day sun,
The present work was laid out eight
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TO JOIN THE FEDERATION.
MetaUiferous Miners of the Vest May
Make an Important 46iIiattOH.

lie taltiferous Miners of the Vest Mag
Make an Important A1iHattoa.
DENVER, Colo, May 1.-THE annual
convention of the Federation of Western
Metalliferous Miners will begin in this city
at clock tomorrow morning. The fed
Grafton represents membership of 10000
miners, and it is thought there will be 15C
delegates present at the sessions this week
The delegates will come principally from
Colorado, Idaho, Montana and South Da.
kota.
Probably the most important subject
that will come before the convention will
be that of affiliating with the American
Federation of Labor and with the coal
miners. By uniting with the Western
coal miners the membership would be in.
creased largely beyond what it now Is.
President John Mcbride of the American
Federation of Labor is expected to be in
the city and urge utilization with the fed
Grafton.
President P. H. Clifford of Aspen and
Secretary w. II. Eddy of Butte, Mont, are
already in the city. e. D. Boise of C@ur
d'Alene, member of the State Senate OF
Idaho, has also arrived as delegate.
Butte, Mont. will be represented by eight
delegates.
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entire locality holds the moisture and has

entire locality holds the moisture and has
high producing qualities.
The soil is of a soft sand with firm foun-
dation, of a kind which makes the best
natura; thoroughfares in the world, hence
the pleasure of living and working in this
vicinity is much greater than in localities
where bad country roads are the rule. The
product giving an individual character to
this Lodi district is the watermelon. Thou
sands of acres are planted in melons each
season, with the result of 500 or more fine
melons to each acre, which mature with
out irrigation. The Lodi melons have a
fine grain, firmness and flavor which gain
for them the highest place in all the best
markets they are able to reach.
During the melon season from ten to fif-
teen carloads are shipped from Lodi each
day. 1t is needless to say that grain is a
specialty-the entire world knows that San
Joaquin Valley produces grain above COM
parison. Five crops of alfalfa is the gift of
mother earth annually in this corner of
bountiful California
Notwithstanding the great yield of mel
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Moin, the proprietor, is one of the most
active citizens of Lodi, always interested
in street and other improvements. The
private hotel, kept by Mrs. Taylor, an old
resident Of Lodi, is home-like place.
The churches here are prosperous, par
ticularly well attended by the people
from the surrounding country, as the ex-
cellent roads make splendid driving.
Rev. Lorenzo Fellers, pastor OF the
Methodist Church, is man OF energy,
self-made and abreast of the times. The
Episcopal, Congregational, Christian and
st. Mary's Catholic are also under good
charge.
The Grammar School, with the addition
of one years course of High School work,
is doing high-grade work under Principal
E. B. Wright, who is assisted by E. S.
Hogan, vice-principal. This year they ex-
pect to graduate fourteen pupils
Two good weekly papers-the Sentinel
and get-keep matters humming
in this locality.
The Times-Budget is a recent consolida-
ton of the Woodbridge Record, Clements
Tidings and Lodi Budget and is now
owned by Ruggles & Broadbere.
The citizens are wisely cultivating a
plaza Immediately facing the business
street and just where the eye of every
traveller on the Southern Pacific can rest
upon it. With its ornamental plants and
palms casting shadows over carpet of
green it will be in time thing of beauty
and "a Joy forever
1t would rebound greatly to California s
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KILLED THE EARLY CROP,
Extensive and Severe FroSts
in Fifteen Eastern
States.
Peach Belt of Michigan and Gram
berry Marshes of Wiscon-
sin Suffer.

CHICAGO, ILL, May 1.-THE Weather
Bureau in report of frosts last night,
says:
The frost area reported this morning is
unusually extensive and severe for this
time of the year, frost having occurred this
morning in all of the fifteen States for
which it was forecasted Saturday. In the
peach belt of Michigan and the cranberry
marshes of Wisconsin temperatures below
freezing occurred and the freeze was of a
killing nature.
Frost of more or less severity occurred
throughout the States of the upper lake
region and the Upper Mississippi Valley,
On the east slope of the Rocky Mountains
and in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.
In these States the temperature will rise
considerably tonight.
MILWAUKEE, WIS, May 12.- North
ern and western sections of the State re-
port heavy frost last night Fruit buds
and garden truck are ruined at Chippewa
Falls. At New Lisbon small fruits and
grain were killed. A heavy rain is falling
there. The berry crop was destroyed at
Boscobel.
MARsHALLToWN, Iowa, May r.
Frost in this section this morning nipped
the early crop of corn, potatoes and tender
garden truck quite seriously. Fruit was
not materially injured, except grapes may
be killed.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, May 12--specials
| to the Journal from Northwest Iowa and
Dakota report heavy frost and water
| freezing at several points. Fruit and
vegetables will be damaged considerably,
but corn and small grain escaped with
! little injury. There is prospects OF more
| frost tonight.
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A. P A. WORK CONCLUDED.
Junior Associations to Be Or
ganiZed Throughout
the Country.
1t Is Also Decided to Have a Ma.
tional Political Board for
the Order. ,

MILWAUKEE,, WIS, May 12.-The Su-
preme Council of the A. P. A. closed its
session in this city at o'clock this morn
ing, and its last acts were among the most
important of the weeks work. The Junior
A. P. A. was organized, which will be
under the jurisdiction of the Supreme
Council of the United States, and will
reach into Canada and England. Boys
and-girls aged from IA to Is will be eligible
to membership. 1t is proposed to teach
the children patriotism, and it is under
stood that the society will not be of the
ironclad-bound order. 1t was also decided
to have National political board, to be
composed of members from different States,
who shall be appointed by the State
Council
President Traynor will appoint COM
mittee of five to meet with the Council OF
Patriotic Organizations at Washington,
December 10, 1895, to take under consider
alton the question of the campaign OF So.
1t is the intention to unity the action OF
the various patriotic organizations.
The committee will also have charge OF
the A. P. A. legislation that is to be urged
before Congress, including the proposed
sixteenth amendment, prohibiting the ap'
preparation of public money for secular
purposes, the citizenship act, etc.
President Traynor said tonight that he
had not yet chosen the men for the Wash.
ington committee, but that he would prob
ably select Judge George w. Vanfossen o.
Tacoma, Allison Stocker of Denver, A. v
Winter of Tennessee, Senator Gibson o.
Pennsylvania and Colonel III. L. Sellers O.
Detroit. The latter will also be member
| of the international A. P. A. committee.
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grade of four and half feet to the mile
will be sufficient to supply six distributing
bitches on the plains forty feet wide where
grade of only nine inches to the mile can
be used. The mountain division OF the
canal is under contract to John Kelso,
with force of 175 men, The fumes are
being constructed by the San Francisco
Bridge Company, with force of fifty men.
J. d. McDougau has the contract for the
foothill and valley divisions. He is now
working three camps, with combined
force of about 240 men and $50 horses and
mules. His largest force is now stationed
on the land of the Oakdale Land and I'M
provement Company, tract of 5000 acres
along the river seven miles from Oakdale,
owned by syndicate of Oakdale and San
Francisco capitalists. As soon as the canal
is complete to this point the land will be
subdivided and placed upon the market.
On the south side of the Stanislaus
River, and paralleling the San Joaquin
canal, is the irrigation system of the Oak
dale Irrigation Company. This canal is
now entirely complete through to Oak
dale, but the company has been unfor-
tunate in having three draws washed out,
oAi1 bAO4O 40 LlOb INV ClOOSA AhO4Cy vi
hand to complete this system. The Oak
dale canal has cost over $i15, 900, and will,
when in operation, irrigate about $4,000
acres of fine fruit land about Oakdale. 1t
is probable that the San Joaquin Company
will submit proposition to build fume
across the river and supply the Oakdale
canal with water. Should this be done the
necessity of a new dam would be avoided,
and the Oakdale canal would be in opera
ton the coming summer.
The Stanislaus and San Joaquin canal
will irrigate from 10000 to $4,000 acres,
but as there are nearly 100000 acres of IT.
rigable land under the canal, the system
may eventually have to be extended.
The entire work is under the supervision
OF G. II. Leadbetter, vice-president and
general manager, and G. III. Leadbetter
Jr., who is secretary of the company. The
Leadbetters are practical canal-builders,
and are constantly at the front looking
after the interests of their company.
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POURED POWDER ON Il COAL.
Careless Deed of Ttco Children May Re
suit ip Their Death.

LOUISVILLE, KY, May PA special
from Sayersville. KY, says a sad accident
occurred near there Friday afternoon IN
which one and probably two lives will be
sacrificed. Two children of Wesley Row
tried to start fire by pouring powder out
of horn containing pound and half of
powder, on small coal of fire, when the
powder in the horn ignited and exploded,
tearing one arm entirely off the girl, 16
years of age and burning her hair and
clothing entirely off. She will die. A
brother, aged 6, was standing near and
parts of the horn struck him in the face,
knocking out both eyes and burning off all
his clothing and hair. He may recover.
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band has surrendered. Malaga is said to
have strong band near Colon. The re-
port of battles in Santa Clare, on March
81, % and &c. are said to be false. The
arrivals assert that Flor Crombet is dead.
Spanish papers deny the engagement at
Baracoa, but the passengers tonight con-
firm the story.
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Company, with capacity for irrigating
thousands upon thousands of acres, is
ready for use, and as result many large
holdings formerly sown to grain have been
divided and will be utilized for the produc-
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Others Failed
Hoods Cured

Mr.. C. s. Groby
is a well : known
resident Of Dayton,
Ohio, and q promi-
nentNmember of the
K. of P. He saysi
81 had two severe
attacks of indam-
m at DRY rheuma-
tism. I tried three
of our home physi-
clans, but realized
scarcely any relief.
l took medicines
foffhfullwv A-%
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unable to see any improvement. I then
visited specialist, paid him $50, but he
did me no good. was then advised to take
Hoods SarsapariIla. / did so. and befere
I stopped l had taken fifteen bottles, q
bottle just lasting me one month, as / took
it very regularly, three times day at
meal times. Ever since l took Hoods
Sarsaparilla have been entirely free from
rheumatism"
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FLYING FROM CUBA.

Several Residents of the Island Seeking
More Congenial HabitattSns.
TAMPA, FLA, May II. = The Plant
steamship Mascotte, which arrived from
Cuba tonight, brought 100 passengers,
most of whom were Cubans seeking more
congenial habitations. The passengers re-
port that there was small uprising at
Caibarien on the north coast, but all the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-14
never DROP SILVER.
Senator Vest Says the Question
Will Not Die.
Declares at Carlsbad That Free
Silver is Certainty.
IT Is AN OUTRAGE.
Profits of the Bond Syndicate
Strongly Condemned.

CARLSBAD, Aug. 14-''The silver
question will never be dropped in
America until free coinage is passed"
said Senator George G. Vest of Mis-
souri,, here to-day, replying to ques-
tions put to him by representative of
the press.
Asked to explain the action of Ken
lucky and Iowa, he said: 81 cannot
express an opinion regarding Iowa
until know how the convention was
constituted. If it was similar to that
of Kentucky, composed of state Off
Gals and Officeholders, it is no cri-
terion of public sentiment They
would naturally coincide with Cleve-
land and Carlisle"
In regard to the prospects of an in
ternational monetary conference Sena-
tor Vest remarked: 1T is generally
conceded that the other powers are
awaiting the action of England, and
from all accounts England will not
alter the gold standard. A prominent
English official was here recently, a
gentleman who had the confidence of
the new ministry, and he had several
long conferences on the subject with
Mr.. John Wanamaker. He said, Rest
assured that Eng land will not alter the
gold standard.
Referring to the outlook at home
the senator stated: 1.-The gold reserve
is steadily decreasing, and the treasury
is likely to be obliged to make another
bargain with the syndicate. I regard
it as an outrage that we should be
obliged to pay a bonus of $11, 900, 900
to a syndicate, represented by Belmont
and Morgan, in order to prevent gold
shipments. Their contract expires in
October, and there is nothing to pre-
vent them from again forcing the sale
of more bonds or let the States go to
protest, as Morgan threatened Mr..
Cleveland before"
Senator Vest is greatly improved in
health and the doctors say he has no
serious ailment.
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Or by encouraging newspaper interview
ers. He resides in venerable southern
mansion in the outskirts of Tuscaloosa,
Ala, spends a great deal of his time
communing with nature, and pens his
songs as the muses. inspire them. He is
a bachelor, and his books, his music and
his beloved roses fill his life with pleas
ure and peace.
The poets father was distinguished
member Of the southern bar, and was at
one time chief justice of Alabama. He
was native of New York and was of
Welsh and French extraction. The poet s
mother was a Connecticut woman Of
English descent. He began writing verse
at a very early age and was soon one of
the we'll known contributors of society
verses to the leading magazines. His
first book Of poems, ''Cap and Bells,
has passed through five editions, and is
particularly popular in the south. A
later book, "Rings and Love Knots,
has also been successful and is nearing
a third edition. Many Of the poet g
poems have been set to music and
achieved wide popularity.
One of the best known is ga Little
Knot of Blue, written for Yale stu
dents, set to music by the Yale Glee
club and frequently sung by chorus Of
800 students. Another popular song is
''Mignon, - which has often been sung
by Calve, and still another is the negro
melody, Swinging on Grapevine
Swing" Everything Peck writes is so
musical and is SO perfect in rhyme and
rhyt that it quite naturally suggests
a song.
Peck is man of progressing appear
ance, with a sturdy physique, fair COM
plexion, gray eyes and a well formed
head poised upon broad, powerful shout
ders. When he sings of nature he seems
to get very near to natures heart, and
his ''Ef Song is a rare bit of poetic
fantasy
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ATcHIsoN. Kan, Aug. 14.-William
Burgus, a bachelor farmer, living a
few miles north of Atchison, was
beaten almost to death yesterday
morning by tramp. Burgus, who is
So years of age, was at work in his
field. The tramp wanted something
to eat, but Burgus said as he was a
bachelor his neighbors would be better
prepared to feed him. He then turned
to his work, when the tramp assaulted
him with cane. Burgus was knocked
down and the tramp continued his as
sault, beating him until his head con-
tanned twenty-four scalp wounds,
ranging from an inch and half to
three inches in length. One blow
broke Burgus' collar bone and another
tore a big cash in his face. The cries
of the old man attracted neighbors,
but the tramp escaped. Later a man
answering the tramp's description was
arrested and Is in Jail