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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

WHILE there is so much rejoicing over
the success of the popular loan" it might
be as well to stop and consider the cost
lest we become overjoyfuL The interest
on 100000, 900 for 80 years at four per
cent will amount to $120,O00.0OO. This
sum added to the principal makes $3.50,
100000, which the people of this genera
ton will be compelled to pay as the price
of maintaining the gold standard. This
is in addition to the 1852, O00, 900 already
issued and the interest thereon. And
the people get nothing in return, since
the administration declares that not
dollar of it is to be used for expenses. In
fact not dollar of it can lawfully be so
used. The debts of the people have
been increased in three years about
half billion dollars directly, in order to
maintain the gold standard and it has
cost them untold millions, Indirectly, in
the way of deprecated values
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

A YOUNG ORANGE GROVE IN CALIFORNIA.
couraged and disheartened men in
Florida half of California smiles broad
", for the Golden State has come to
the front with its golden fruit. and the
luscious globes are to be had by. rich
and poor alike. In spite of the fact that
Florida usually shipped 10000, 600
boxes, this season practically none have
been sent out of the state.
The big freeze of December year ago
is of course RESPONSE Bile for all this. Per-
haps many who read at the time that
the greater part of Florida s great or
ange groves had been destroyed were in
credulous Their distrust in the alarm
ing reports was due perhaps to the in
dustry of the Delaware peach crop liar,
who tells US every spring how the peach
yield has been wiped out by some new
and unexpected devastation. But peach
trees are not orange trees, and last year
the Florida groves, where a freezing
temperature had been rarely known,
were visited by a regular northwestern
blizzard that had strayed far from its
latitude. They told us then that all of
the young trees and 40 per cent of the
old trees had been ruined. Those of us
who knew little or nothing about orange
be permanently injured ard doubted the
reports This winter We are learning
that the blizzard was almost a death
blow to Florida s great industry.
1.-The entire, crop of Florida oranges
will not reach 90, 600 boxes this year.
said President Ruhlman of the New
York Fruit Exchange to me the other
day.
"And what is the average crop for
the state?'' asked.
"Well, about 5000, 1000 boxes are usu-
ally sent to New York alone. Out Of
seven counties in the orange district only
two are shipping any fruit at all this
year. These are Manitee and Lee coun-
ties, and in these sections the business
has never been properly conducted. They
have not used proper fertilizers there,
and their fruit does not keep as we'll as
that which used to be sent from the
northern counties. One reason for this
is that the other counties used to mo-
nopolize the trade
How is the deficiency being filled?'
California is doing the most to sup
ply the demand, but we are getting Or
anges from all over the world. From
Messina, from Valencia and from other
Mediterranean districts we are getting
fruit, and the West Indian islands are
doing their share. No. don't know
how long it will be before Florida raises
her usual crop again. Nobody knows.
They have never had such disastrous
freeze there, and it is impossible to tell
what the result will be. We know now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

that the ruin has been complete in five
counties as far as this years yield goes
Whether it will be permanent or not it
will take fine to tell. Perhaps the new
branches which come out on the old trees
will bear, and perhaps the trees may
have to be cut down and new orchards
planted
The California growers themselves
had something of a scare last December
when small freeze did some damage,
hnt still a tWo-thirds crop is being gath
cred, and this is about all that can be
profitably marketed. The district most
affected was the Riverside section, but
even there the growers are making mon
ey. The picking in California does not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11
The Haynakers.

A novelty in the way of a secret soci-
ETY. has been evolved in Maine. Instead
of going back to medieval times for in
spiration the founders took the condi-
tions lying next their hands, and in
place of loading the officers with gran
diose and grotesque titles the under
stardable commonplace is drawn on.
The society is called the ''Annabessa-
cook Hayloft. No. -" and the officers
are chief haymaker, assistant haymaker,
overseer, past chief haymaker, boss dri-
yer, hornblower, guard of barndoor, guard
of hayloft and grand keeper of bundles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

TYPICAL HOME OF A CALIFORNIA ORANGE
GROWER.
fruit orchards. Florida used to produce
twice as many oranges as California,
and so it left big hole in the supply
when the crop of the former failed.
The prospects are that California will
soon be able to meet this demand.
This winter, however, we are eating
lots Of imported oranges. The Jamaicas
are about the first in the market. They are
light colored, but sweet and juicy. The
Bahamas and Cuba send oranges to this
country, many of them by way of Key
West, where they are put in boxes and
shipped north as Florida raised. There
is an import duty on oranges which
amounts to from 40 to so cents box,
but even after this is paid it is still
profitable to ship them here. The Med
iterranean oranges can never be sold for
domestic fruit. They are smaller and the
quality is always poorer. Nevertheless
we import almost as many oranges as
we raise
1t will be long time, however, before
the fruit epicures will find anything to
take the place of the Indian river ma
wells, those big. golden, juicy, seedless
globes of succulent richness. The navels
which are grown on the Pacific slope are
larger and of a ruddier hue, but they
have never been SO much in demand
as the far famed product of the Indian
river groves. CYRUS SYLVESTER.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

IT is becoming more and more appar-
ent all the time that man who commits
a crime which sends him to the peniten-
tiary, should be kept there. The muir
der at Valley Falls is a case in point
The murderer had served a five years
term in the state prison for criminal as
sault. Confinement in the penitentiary
is scarcely calculated to have a refining
or elevating influence and it is improba-
BILE that many come out better men than
they went in. If the facts could be as
certained, it would probably be found
that a majority of released convicts
again enter upon q career of crime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

usually begin until about Feb. 1, but
this year, by a fortunate provision of
providence, the season began several
weeks earlier The Florida season used
to begin in October and lasted until
about March, SO that the two states were
not brought into sharp competition.
Formerly the Californians t7ied to mar
ket their fruit as late as possible, but
this season they have rushed their pick
into the market at the earliest possible
moment.
This season s prosperity means great
deal to many owners of new groves. It
does not require a great amount of cap
ital to start an orange grove in Califor-
mia. but it does take whole lot of tire
and patience to get grove up to the
paying point. With So, 900 a man can
go into the Pomona valley and start an
orange grove If he will stick to it for
ten years, he will find that his trees are
bringing him in a handsome revenue
Once in bearing, the value of a grove
steadily increases, SO that wealth is only
a matter of time.
The greatest California orange district
is located on what was once thought to
be worthless land. A daring genius
came along one day and announced that
he thought those arid valleys would be
good places in which to raise oranges
He made great reputation as humor-
ist, but he carried out the joke, got to-
gether a syndicate of capitalists, turned
the course of the Santa Ana river SO
that its waters filed the irrigatinC
bitches which had been dug at great ex-
pense and transformed thousands of
acres of waste land into a veritable
Eden. That is where the train loads of
oranges which California sends to all
parts of the union come from today.
Riverside was the pioneer orange dis
trict in the irrigated region. Soon after
came the Indiana colony which planted
the now celebrated groves at Pasadena.
The men who started these groves paid
from $40 to $50 an acre for their land,
water privilege included. Now some of
these plantations are worth hundreds of
thousands of dollars. The largest single
orchard is in Pomona. It consists of
over 400 acres, only part of which is
just coming into bearing, but its owner,
Seth Richards, has recently refused an
offer of $3.50, 900 for it.
What will be the eventual yield Of
California when all it's extensive Or
chards now under cultivation begin to
bear can only be conjectured. With the
increase of irrigation facilities the limits
of the fruit. growing district between
Los Angeles and San Bernardino, which
are so miles apart, have been extended
until it will not be many years until
there will be continuous succession Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

THOSE fellows who are trying so hard
to get up row in the Republican ranks
seem to forget that we have no eighty
two thousand majority to fall back on
Holton Recorder.
True as gospel; and Cy Leland's at
tempt to illtreat and injure Topeka may
endanger a 1000 Republican majority in
this county. Topeka always comes man
fully to the front when votes are needed
by the Republican party in Kansas, and
it is hardly fair that she should be con-
tinually accused of "hoggishness" by
counties that contribute a paltry 200 or
800 majority.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11
THE "RUNAWAY COLT"
Can't. AnNOn Threatens to Sue HOyt
& Mckee for $4,000 Damages.


NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE once ad-
miring friends Hoyt s. Mckee and
Capt A G. Arson, are no longer held by
the common tie of base ball friendship.
The elimination came yesterday. when
Hoyt s. Mckee received a letter from
Chicago lawyer notifying them unless
they made settlement with Arson forth
with the latter would sue them for $780,
600 damages.
Frank" Mckee cannot understand
how Arson has been damaged $4,000,
when the "show" dropped $4,000 in
eight weeks.
Mckee says he will file cross petit
ton, and secure judgment against
"Uncle Ans" for one-eighth of the
losses, which will be 1880. Then
when Arson comes east with his Chicago
colts next season, there will be extremely
interesting proceedings awaiting him in
New York and Boston, and especially in
Boston, where judgment debtor can
be locked up till the judgment is paid.
Arson was a partner in the show to
the extent of one-eighth interest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11
Governor hIorton,s Age.

Tho friends of Governor Morton, in AL
bany, have detected an error in the Con-
greSsional Directory that might have en-
barrassed the governors friends when his
name is presented in the Republican ma
tional convention at ST. Louis. The di-
rectory of the Fifty -fourth congress- Sec
ond edition, contains a list of the % vice
presidents of the United States, giving the
date of their birth and age at the time of
their Inauguration. In this list Governor
Morton's age at the time of his Inaugural
ton as vice president in 1889 is placed at
60 years, instead of 64
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11
OUR ORANGE SUPPLY.
Where We Get the 10000, 900 Boxes
We Eat Every Year.
CALIFORNIA is THE CHEF SOURCE

OfSuppIy This Season, as the Florida
Crop Was Ruined by Last Winters
Blizzard.
The California orange is on top. The
Florida orange, once monarch of all it
surveyed, is at the bottom of the heap.
These facts are of more general in
terest than they might seem to be at
first glance. We eat here in the United
States from $4,000, 900 to 20. 600, 600
boxes of oranges each year. If we had
been depending on Florida for our or
anges this year. only millionaires would
have had then on their tables and the
rest of US would have gone without
But it is an i'll wind that blows nobody
good, and although there are lots of dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

Onion juice is the simplest sympathet-
ic ink. 1t writes colorless, but turns
yellow when heated. A weak infusion
OF gall writes colorless and may be turn
ed back by moistening with weak cop
peras water A solution of nitro muri-
ate of cobalt turns green when heated
end disappears again in cooling.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11
a CURIOUS EXPERIMENT.

How q Mans Sight Was Saved by an In
serted watch Glass.
Medical students who are engaged in
the study of ophthalmoIogy are wondering
at the feat DR.. Fleming Carlow, professor
of that branch at the University of Michi-
gan, performed upon young man. This
patient had completely lost the sight of
one eye through disease, and DR.. Carrow
inserted a small thin watch crystal be-
meath the lid of the other eye to save it.
So far the experiment seems to be very
successful, and it is expected that the flesh
will knit closely around the watch crystal,
SO as to permit no impurities to enter it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11
Where Was Poe Bornq

They are to erect a new monument to
Poo in Baltimore. Is there no way of
finding out in what Boston street this
lurid genius was born? 1t seems that
such quest is hopeless And yet his
father and mother, strolIing players, lived
here three years, and Mrs. Poe charged
her son Edgar to Glove Boston, where his
mother found her best and most sympa-
ehetic friends. boston journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11
To Honor GutenberE's Memory.

The corporation of Mainz has de-
cided to celebrate the five hundredJh
anniversary of the birth of Johann Gu
tenberg, the inventor of printing, with
great pomp and splendor. The celebra-
ton will take place in 1897, though it
is not agreed whether he was born in
1897 or in one of the three years follow
inc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

OsKALoosA INDEPENDENT: Ed. Hoch
in his Marion Record says that if all the
politicians in Kansas were as frank as
Judge j. B. Johnson, of Topeka, the
question would be settled in short order.
He has voiced the sentiments of nine
tenths of the leaders, but few of them
will say SO. Indeed a whole lot of
them will talk one way privately and
another way publicly. This is called
practical politics" We think it is
very impracticabIe politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

THE Virginians have postponed the
Inauguration of their scheme to get pay
for the emancipated slaves little too
long. They should have taken action
while the Democratic party was in con
troll of congress. But if they should sue
coed in the scheme, we have the money
to pay all the claims. We have just Dor
rnrrad IL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11
Plenty Game There.

Hunters returning from the Okefeno-
kee swamp in Georgia, where compar-
atively few hunters go, say it abounds
with game of all sorts-deer. bears, al
ligatoEs, turkeys, wild fowl and fish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11
walkinp and Working.

A Missouri farmer figured it out one
rainy day that he had walked 300 miles
in cultivating one acre of corn. He
thereupon sold his farm and moved to
town, where he walked 600 mills to
find job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

The mayors of Leicester, IN the early
days of England, were elected by SOW.
The ambitious candidates seated them
selves in a semi-circle each with a hat
full of beans in his lap. The man from
whose hat the sow ate first was pro-
claimed the mayor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

THE old topper will conclude that there
are even worse places to live in than
Kansas when he is informed that whisky
costs 80 cents drink in Alaska and the
vender determines the size of the drink
at that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

IT is not enough that members of the
police force shall be discharged for
drunkenness and stealing, but efficiency
should be demanded of those not guilty
of any breach of discipline or violation
of law,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

IF half dozen prize fighters can call
into active service the armed forces of
three governments, it is time all such
were driven out of the country. The
people will soon tire of paying for such
foolishness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

UNDER the metropolitan police system
nothing could be simpler than placing
the force under civil service regulations.
Here is something for the next legisla-
ture to attend to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

THE bluff about making Tiger Bill
chief of police at Wichita worked. He
has been honorably discharged from the
accusation of taking illegal fees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

WHY didn't Dan Stuart take his
bruisers to some heathenish place like
New York to ''pull Off his fstic carnival?
They would not have been molested
there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

Wichita and return by the Santa Fe
Route, one fare for the round trip.
Tickets sold February Is to 10. good to
return including February "a No
change of cars by the Santa Fe Route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

THE senate objects to measures origi-
mating in the house and the house rejects
the senate's bills and the president
does not approve of either. But the peo-
pie must pay the cost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

IF civil service regulations are a bene-
fit to the postal service, which can
scarcely be denied, how much more de-
sirabIe are they in the police service?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

The people of the wild and woody
west seem to have no appreciation of
athletic art. They do tolerate foot ball
but draw the line on prize fights.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11
A. II. WeaSen

Wants your order for coal, try him, his
prices are right. his Bell Tel. number is
$50, Har. Tel. $50 and his place of bust
mesa is 918 East Fourth street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

SINCE the new bonds are already worth
116 in the market, what was to prevent
the government from selling them at
that price?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11
Wearner Indications.

CHICAGO. Feb. 11.-For Kansas: Fair
and warmer tonight and Wednesday;
southerly winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

We mend and sew on buttons free of
charge. Peerless Steam laundry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11
che THAT WORKS EASILY, WORKS
SUCCESSFULLY" CLEAN HOUSE WITH
SA OIL %
GOLD AT CRIPPLE CREEK.
The Best Way Get There IL Over the
Santa Fe Route.

The Best Way to Get There is Over the
Santa Fe Route.
The fabulously rich gold mining dis
trict of Cripple Creek, Colorado, is at
tracing hundreds Of people. By spring
the rush bids fair TO be enormous. That
there is an abundance of gold there is
demonstrated beyond doubt. Fortunes
are being repidly made.
To reach Cripple Creek, take the Santa
Fe Route, the only standard guage line
direct to the camp. Through Pullman
sleepers and chair cars. The Santa Re
lands you right in the heart of Cripple
Creek.
Inquire of ]. P. Rowley. city ticket
agent, A. T. & s. F. R'y., Topeka, Kan.
Smooth as silk is the way our collars
feel now. Peerless Steam Laundry, 112
and ia w. 8th.
Try as on collars. We can make
them look like new. Peerless Steam
Laundry, 112 and ia W. 9Th.
The daily STATE JOURNAL at news
dealers anywhere in Kansas Ten cents
per week. .+-.- -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11
RUSSIAN CHESS TOURNEY
Hou pillsbury ana stelnitz were nsat.

How Pillsbury and Steinitz Were Beaten
In the Fifth Round.
Appended are the scores of the two
games as lost by Pillsbury and Steinitz
against Tsehigorin and Lasker respective
ly in the first sitting of the fifth round in
the international tournament at ST. Pc
tersburg. The games were played on Jan.
IA:
RUY LOPEZ.
TsCHIGoRIN. ITSCHIGoRIN.
PILLSBURY. PILLSBURY.
White. Black. White. Black.
PIX PIX i12 B-R Castles
XIX B Kt-Q 8 Is PM POS
3B-Kt PIX Kt SlI4 Castles 70
Kt-B3 BIKE n P-QB4
5PQ3 XIX 3 Is PIX Kt4P-0 1t s
6B-Kt 5 P-B3 rs Kt-Q Kt Pr
sB-R2 P-S K is Is KPAt P Ell
9B-Kt 8 Kt-R 4 10 Okla O-KtB +;
~ 20 KIT 20 B x xB
II K p KIT B-Kt2 ~ PIT 5 Kt-Q5 !
l22 PR 1t Z Kt Z
POSITION AFTER BLACKS TwENTY-sECoND
MOVE.
Black (Pillsbury)-Thirteen pieces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

Official Paper Of the City of Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11
Black (steinitz)-Ten pieces.

POSITION AFTER BLACKS TwENTY-FoU
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-11

By FRANK P. MAcLENNAN.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-09-29

''There are none more miserable than epi-
leptics. For 20 years Isufered with epilep-
tic fits having as high as five in one night. /
tried any number Of physicians, paying to
one alone, a fee OF $4,000 and have done
little for years but search for something to
help me, and have taken all the leading
remedies. but received no benefit A year ago
my son. Chas. 8. Galiaher. druggist ut 1911
Reed st., Milwaukee. gave me DR.. Miles
Restorative <Nervine, and I: tried It with
gratifying results. Have had but two fits
since began taking it. I am better now in
every way than have been in 20 years l..
DE-. Miles Remedies are sold by druggists
on positive guarantee that the first bottle
will benefit Or price refunded. Book on the
Heart and Nerves, free. Address, !.
De. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart Ind.
d.. Miltess' Remedies Restore Health,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-09-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Carrigan. who pur-
ported coming from Montevideo about
a month ago and took rooms in the
Fixen building, have left town under
peculiar circumstances. The following
particulars have been learned by in
quiry from different parties: On the
18th Of September child was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Carrigan. Last week
Mrs. Carrigan told Mr.. Fixen that he
should leave Monday, but instead he
left Sunday and took the child with
him in q basket it seems. He went on
the train with Conductor Sprayue as
far as Morris. Between Benson and
Morris the child commenced to cry
and he asked a woman who had an
other child with her to quiet it for him.
She did so, but on changing cars at
Morris for Browns Valley the man dis
appeared leaving the child with the
woman. She left the child at the Sis
ter's home in Browns Valley. Mrs.
Carrigan, mother to Mr.. Carrigan
and sister OF his who are supposed
to live about Is miles this side of
Hutchinson, were here Monday and
took Mrs. Carrigan Jr., with them
The parties were very poor not having
stove Or bed even. Mr.. Carrigan
while here was supposed to represent
nursery firm. He left his horses at
Glarum's feed barn.