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Evening star., 1896-08-14
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

Washington, June 30. 1906
WHEREAS. by satisfactory evidence presented
to the undersigned. 1t has been made to appear
that The Rigs National Bank Of Washington,
D. c. In the city of Washington and District Of
Columbia, has complied with all the provisions Of
the statutes Of the United States required to be
complied with before association shall be au-
thortzsd to commence the business Of bsnkingi
NOW THEREFORE, 1, James II. Eckels. Con-
troller Of tie Currency, do hereby certify that
The Riggs National Bank Of Washington. D..
Columbia is a1.horixed to commence the bust
ness of banking. provided In section nfty-one
hundred and si1ty-nine Of the Revised Statutes
Of the United States.
N TESTIMONY WHEREOF witness my hand
and seal Of office this thirtieth day Of June 1896
(SeaD JAMES II. ECKEIS,
Controller Of the Currency.
1y1-eOt No. 5,O46.
Evening star., 1896-08-14

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With its delightful homes, Is $50 feet above tide
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diseases. administered on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday, from to II and to 6; Sunday
from 1 to only. Call or send for booklet,
symptom blank, etc, for those who are going
sultation free DIR. Shade In charge. 1892 14th
st. jy1-1m
THE UNDERSIGNED HARDWARE DEALERS
agree to close their respective places OF business
at four O'Clock on SATURDAYS during the months
of July and August
] JAMES Il. I.AMBIE, +. p. MAY CO.,
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Evening star., 1896-08-14

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MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK STOCK
EXCHANGE
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Correspondents Of Messs. Moore X Schley. 90
Broadway.
Bankers and Dealers In Government Bonds-
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Railroad Stocks and Bonds and all securities
listed the exchange OF New York. Philadelphia,
Boston and Baltimore bought and sold
A speciality made OF Investment securities Dis
trct honds and all local Railroad. Gas, Insurance
and Telephone Stock dealt In
American Dell Telephone Stock bought and sold.
Je91
Evening star., 1896-08-14

is best done on the "Columbia''-
the standard Of the world for wheels.
The greatness Of the Columbia Is
evidenced by the fact that other
MAKERS strive to make their wheels
lust as good" POPE MFG. co.
J. Hart Britain. Manager. l52 Pa.
sye f04-tf
Evening star., 1896-08-14

l6 GOLD TO I SILVER
That home At beautiful. heslthful Cleveland
Park viii pay well.
JOHN SHERMAN. Prest. tau5) ofhce clio I4th ct.
ENDOwMENTS AND TONTINE Policies
Purchased at investment prices.
EDWARD ". Burns.
au1-1m 1919 + St, Washington, n. q
Evening star., 1896-08-14
GENERALLY FAIR.

Local Thunder Storms Indicated for
This Evening or Tonight.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17
ClOaks

In a recent coyote hunt near Garden City
William Fant led the chase. overlook the
exhausted coyote: jumped or his horse. tied
the coyotes jaws together. took ii in his
arms and brought it back to town alive.
Dispatch from Chapman In the Abilene
Reflector slightly edited: During the enter
tainment at the Assembly hall IN the High
school Saturday night DR. McSlea and
Dennis Scanlon were called quickly from
the audience to Mr.. Scanlon's drug store.
where had occurred an event which threat
eIed for a time TO have fatal results. Mr.
Scanlon had left his brother, James Scan
lon, Jr., to attend 10 the store while he was
absent at the entertainment. While there
alone he took what he thought a drink OF
carbolic acid, but instead got the whisky
bottle and took mouthful before he knew
what 1t was The pain was excruciating
and tongue. lips, mouth and throat were
fearfully burned. DR.. McShea administer
ed soothing applications and antidotes. and
after few hours the pain was relieved
somewhat although the swelling remains.
For a time it was feared that death would
result. but now it IS thought that he may
recover. IL was a narrow escape.
Abilene Reflector: Ed. Little is getting in
his work. but not in Abilene's direction.
Rev. Fleharty, the man who put Ed in
nomination for OnEressman-at-lsrge, has
been made executive clerk Of the governor.
Job that includes no work except drawing
a good-sized salary. Mr.. Fleharty was an
issue" In an Abilene church during the
campaign. He made a speech here and
wanted also to preach on Sunday. Some OF
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17
THAT COAL COMBINE.

If the Pop members of the Kansas
legislature desire to do something for
which they will receive the thanks of
the people of the state without regard
to party, let them get some able lawyer
to draw up bill TO crush the coal COM
bine lately formed in Kansas and Mis-
souri,. 1t is the biggest job of robbing
that has been evolved in years in this
state. Our dispatches of yesterday
morning announced that retail dealers
who are inclined to do the right thing
have been notified that they must either
put the price of retail coal up to the fig
ureS fixed by the combine or otherwise
said retailers must go out of business.
The trust intends to control the btu
minous coal mines of both Kansas and
Missouri, and to regulate the price and
output 1t is a combine that strikes at
the pocketboOks of everybody, the poor
man and the rich alike, and is as indie
fensible as trust for the regulat. n Of
the price of bread. No ordinary Pop
representative could, probably, draft a
bill which would reach this coal COM
bine, but the chances are that such a
bill can be drawn. Certainly the at
tempt should be made.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17
GOING TO ELY.

General Superintendent Nudge OF the
Santa Fe believes that the fastest piece
Of railway track in the world belongs
to the Santa Fe, and it is said that he
proposes TO make a trial of speed in
which he will attempt to break the
worlds record for fast going, and that,
too, in the course of a few days. The
portion of the road over which the trial
is 10 be made lies between La Junta and
Dodge City. 1t is section in which the
ties rest on a dry, calcareous, sandy
soil. The region is practically rainless
and the road-hed once settled never
varies nor do the ties move. A sound
cedar or Usage tie lasts a lifetime out
there. The incline between the two
points is very regular and gentle, and
the curves very few and long. 1t is
only question Of turning the wheels.
Seventy-fve or eighty miles an hour
might be safely made for the entire dis
tance between the two places if an en-
CINE can be found equal TO turning them
OFF at that rate. We believe the Erie"
and Burlington" respectively claim
the fastest record. although the Rock
Island made a wonderful run a few
weeks since between the Mississippi
river and Chicago.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

THE VOTE IN CALIFORNIA

It was announced week ago that the
final count in California would give Nc
Kmley eight electors and Bryan one
The explanation is in the figures as tab
uiated. The highest Republican elecior
received 146.5SS votes and the lowest
tii.GiS. The highest elector on the
Bryan and Sewall ticket received j23,-
i43 votes and the same elector on the
RryaI and Watson ticket resolved 2J,-
e23; the combined vote being .l4i. .16c,
or ..iS more than the lowest elector VT
the Republican ticket. Inc next low
est on the Republican ticset received
1i5.f74 votes, or I0S votes more tran
the highest elector on the fusion ticket,
and 1.s15 more than the corresp ,ndipg
el,s..or on the fusion tici.:
Tie highest elector on the Rspubii-
can ticket received 1,S22 votes more
than the highest elector On the fusion
ticket. This is given as The Republican
plurality in tie state. To recapi,u;ste
Mckinley received 146,5sS votes. Bryan
and Sewall 123,1i3, Bryan and WATSON
LES, Palmer 1,13o, Levering 2-55s.
Socialist Labor Party 1.611; total vote
csa1 ,2eS: an increase in total vote over
1892 Of - ,662. and an increase over tie
large vote OF 1894 of 12.271. Increase
in Republican vote, 2S,561 over 1892
and $3.50 over 1894.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

''The depletion Of the national forests
Is of serious consideration. At the pres
ent rate, by consumption and forest
fires, in thirty years we will have de-
stroyed the entire forests. According
to the report of the United States sta
tisticians the amount Of lumber cut per
year would plank road one hundred
feet wide and one inch thick around the
world. The government also shows
that the timber has been cleared away
from the forests and that the springs
have gone dry. hence the destruction OF
the forest changes the climate. The
tree culture is Of the most importance,
as it combines the water supply. This
supply is Indispensable to vegetation,
and tree plants absorb moisture from
the atmosphere. Too much stress can
not be given to this fact, as One-half Of
the growth comes from the atmosphere;
this fact is proven by the timber grow
ing on the north side of all the streams
the vapor passing northward and sup
plying vegetation. Here we have les
son by observing nature, and may be
instructed thereby. The clouds Of vapor
pass over the highest mountains. depos-
iting snow and rainfall, which pass
down the mountains by the most Won
derfully crooked streams to the ocean.
From these crooked streams We must
also learn a lesson: the crooks are in
tended for lesson for us. The water
travels more slowly and one-third great
er distance, giving an opportunity for
charging the atmosphere With vapor.
These facts instruct us in our duty,
which is to capture the rainfall by the
construction Of lakes and ponds, and
would recommend the construction of
a pond on every quarter section cover
ing from one to five acres. Stock this
pond with fish; cultivate around it and
plant forest trees and fence it TO keep
stock away from the trees. Take your
stock water by pipes below the dam
and a pipe to your garden and irrigate
your garden well. Do not make your
garden larger than you have water for
and allow no stock about the pond.
Plant your orchard north of the pond so
that it can receive the benefit of the
vepor passing northward. The dam
should have three feet of base for every
foot in height, and n large waste way
at the end of dam. A dam ten feet high
should be twelve feet across the top. To
keep the construction of these ponds,
that from one to five acres of land be
covered the year around, the owner
should have deducted from his taxes
the first year ten dollars, the second
year eight dollars, six dollars the third
year, and when this runs out the owner
of the land win have received pay for
his labor and also the benefit. and the
county has also received the benefits by
the vapor passing over the taxable prop
erty of the whole county, az the atmos-
pbere is charged with vapor and pre-
vents hot winds and does not require
the moisture from the earth. and your
orchard and forest will grow rapidly
under this treatment.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE

In some parts Of Kansas boils are stil
known as pets"
The law practice is always cvercrowdet
after Republican defeat IN Kansas.
]. Mack Love of Winfield would like 10 b,
railroad commissioner, but he VIII be turn.
ed down.
S. & Kirkpatrick. Congressman from the
Third district. is a candidate for consul
general TO Mexico.
a minister known as The Little Texas
Giant is preaching in western Kansas
with ANGELS and Hornets" as text
Ed. Jaquins of Winfield is a candidate foI
speaker Of the house OF representatives
He will not get it He is not in the push
What Kansas needs is a rock-bound
coast and q few lighthouse Jobs TIA;
would relieve the strain on the postof-
fees
II is probable that the Democrats n the
legislature VIII go into a caucus OF their
OWE and in3orse some ons-eat not Brsid-
enthaL
A Dodge City boy syesrs ot az. one year
ago swallowed a sixpe1ny rsn- he rough
ea I; up last Thanksgiving Day. aecos1lag
20 q Local paper.
John Henniz + the only real I've zosfoux
Democrat IN Enporis- He vii probably
get the postSffce, he CID postmaster s-v-
ing beer suspended
we have Eon TOO much" said p-oni-
1enf Popuiist at Topeka TIE ether Gay.
Having everything "a nice. but rssDoasi-
tality goes sioog zi,h IT.
A party oE Uzsfes States surveyors pass
81 through Ga-ieu Ctr izst week Tasy
are making typographical survey q zess-
s-- Kansas II tie Interest of irrigation
Al TIE Pops Z Kansas sse ezDdsssfes soT
the Unst@5 States seasts. II even Pep
rzee fer TIA Un5zsd Sts.sk senate sTesy-
so5y zot opeasy zTe~e5 = dark as-s<-
4 western Rzs*x. so<nzn !. psezdfns
the cause of Ire =ev woman remarks ;1si
II the zo-E<z ss es;e- politics so-zsr oze al
.nvers; srz ears 1zss-~ssa.zs z.<@--Ee
zz6 ssTe re z-sn
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17
POPULIST REFORM.


The hope held out that the Pops
would tighten the burden of the tax
payer by such reformations and re-
trenchments as could be eneompassed
by cutting salaries. abolishing unneces-
sary offices and the like, will not be
realized The Pop party is a spiggot
and bung- hole aggregation. Its leaders
talk spiggot before the election. but use
only the bung-hole after they have Sc
cured the places They have a wonder
fully taking way with their mouths in
campaign. but their mouths close at
the same hour with the closing of the
ll.illot-box. From that on till the body
of their party wants to be fooled some
more it is strictly a pantomime of addi-
ton. division and silence. AS an cam
est Of their desires, promises and prot
estations for rerrenchment and reform.
we notice that they DruDose 10 make the
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17
John Finney, the son of st. Louis minis
ter The divorce was granted at Perry.

John Finney, the son of ST. Louis minis
ter. The divorce was granted at Perry.
A. Trip, who lived on farm near Cloud
Chief, was found in his bed with bullet
hole in his head one morning last week.
George w. Steele. congressman from In
diana, is besieged with cries from Okla
homa for his aid in getting appointments.
In Cleveland county's case against Thom-
son, an ex-county treasurer. for disputed
fees, John /. Ollie, referee, found for Mr..
Thomson.
1t is not true that Dennis Flynn had a
private dinner party all by himself with
Mark Hanna. Flynn attended banquet
with Hanna.
A great many people from FL Reno go to
Oklahoma City to get married, and great
many from Oklahoma City go to FL Reno
on the same mission.
The most sensible thing the fellows In
Oklahoma ever did was to wait until Nc
Kinley is seated before beginning the con-
test for spoils. 1t means much to the
party.
The Guthrie Leader. which fears neither
man nor the devil, pretends to have seen a
letter from Professor Halleck, who is now
a lieutenant in the Cuban insurgent army.
Halleck is in Texas on a ranch.
When Jenkins, the Newkirk candidate for
governor, was in the national convention
in Chicago from Kansas in 1855, and per-
sisted in voting for Mckinley. Major Nc
KinIey crossed the convention hall to the
Kansas delegation and asked Jenkins TO
stop voting for him. jenkins reply was
that he appreciated McKinley's motive In
asking him to stop but that he intended to
continue to vote for him until he became
president of the United States Now, II
that doesn't mean a cinch, what does 1t
mean?
Cloud Chief Sentinel: Last Sunday even
ing, while out in the lot. Mr.. Stevenson,
who lives one mile southeast OF town, be-
came angry at an unruly cow and picking
up a large stone hurled it with all his might
at the cow. The stone struck the COW.
glanced off. struck the ground. bounded up
and struck Mrs. Stevenson. who was stand
ing some distance away. On the head. The
blow knocked her down and cut an ugly
cash on her head, but we are glad 70 state
that the blow was not danserous, though
very painful
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17
oKLAaoMA oUrLINss

Way Is South AcAleste- IN TIE territory
known as suca, Where s North Meal
e<fsrZ
The First National bank Of South Meal
ester. with q capital Of Ssa-"ea has been
cpensd-
Oklahoma City has a n,es-cpoiitan pick
pocket He relieved Miss Ada Curnu.f OF
SIS the other day
The Pops Of Cleveland county VII ask
the next legislature 70 change the rzns o,
tire county to Bry an
Tae Cole brothers. farmers = The no.iA-
east cf Oklahoma county. have .sse buss-
els % their vh-a; cr0p seft
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17
STAND BY The PLArFoRM.

| The Washington Star, would-be or
gan, contains an editorial which no
doubt is held to be significant, at least
| by the editor Of that sheet. According
| to that paper there is less talk in Re-
publican circles about standing by the
platform than there was during the
campaign; that, in short, there is a
seeming disposition. if not of determina-
ton, among Republican members of
congress to go back on the tariff deciar-
ations and bimetallic promises made by
| the national convention at st. Louis in
June last. The aspect Of these interests
have changed, it is claimed, and by the
| developments and results of the late
campaign. There is talk, says the Star,
among prominent leaders TO the effect
that no tariff legislation should be at
tempted other than to pass a bill encom-
passing a lump sum sufficient to cover
the deficiency, presumably a tax on
beer. or tea or coffee or the like.
We don't know what the talk and
feeling at the capital may be, but such
policy as outlined by the Star will
fail Of support among the rank and file
Of the Republican party Of the country
at large 1t looks now as if the Repub
lican party was going to find it diff
ficult matter to pass any protective tar
iff measure through the senate. But
what the Republican party demands
there can be no question. If the idea
in Washington is that the Republican
party is going TO slough off its silver
Democratic party, and that, therefore,
all tariff and silver legislation would
prove impolitic, then the Republican
congressman do not represent the Re
publican party. The Republican con-
gress which meets in either extra ses-
sion or regularly next fall will have the
plain and unmistakable duty of for
warding international bimetallism, and
the passing of round, sound general
protective tariff law, if possible, with
out any regard to the demands or
protests Of the goldbug contingent of
the Atlantic states, who voted for Nc
Kinley simply because there was moth
ing else for them to do. The Republi-
can party inserted the word ''gold'' in
their platform at the solicitation partly,
and partly from the threats of this same
eastern element who are now claiming
that both the tariff and money issues
have been settled and ought to be drop
ped.- But such insertion came nearly
costing the party the presidency. 1t is
true the party's popular majority was
a great one, but the bulk Of that major
ity was rolled up by three or four states
A change of a very few thousand votes
in each of five states would have rem
dered the large popular vote, which was
a sectional one, nil. In fact, had the |
st. Louis convention known what the |
Chicago platform was to have been the |
word gold or "gold standard" would |
not have been incorporated in the St |
Louis platform.
The only thing for Republican con-
gressmen TO do is to stand by the st. |
Louis platform, and in all good faith.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17
Th aaihia pay gxgle Thurs 8ornug 1ember II 1896
.alary OF the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS equal

salary OF the lieutenant-governor equal
to those of the state officers. The leu
tenant governors duty is to preside
over the senate, for which services he
receives five dollars per day, the mem-
bers Of that body receiving but three,
Under the law he is also chairman OF
the state board. of railway assessors, for
Which work he receives some $500 an
nually additional. The Pop scheme is
to give him salary of $1,000 or $1,000.
Great is the reform of humbug, besides
it is a winner.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

Major Mckinley has decided to de-
part from Cleveland's and Harrison's S
practice and leave the distribution of
patronage 10 his cabinet. If you want
an office you are interested in the cab
inat aloue
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

The Chicago Inter Ocean says Spain
has not been friendly to the United
States for four generations-that when
Spain owned Louisiana she refused to
cell it, and afterward kicked when Ma
poleon did dispose of it.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

In all probability your wife dropped a
hint Of what she wanted for Christmas
four or five months ago. 1t was your
business to have listened then. She
won't tell you now.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

If Weyler was as black as he is paint
ed, he would first have persuaded Ter
tucha to betray Maceo and then have
murdered Zertucha. There is gratitude
In Weyler or he would have killed Ter
tucha
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

A good many people are righteously
indignant about Turkey. They careful
ly read up the whole Armenian trouble.
so they could tell what the European
war was about when it came, and then
the war didn't come.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

If Rivera, Maceo's successor, doesn't
have forty tons of strategy for every
soldier in his ranks, the Cuban cause is
lost. Maceo had squad and won
through strategy and nothing else.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

Posrmasters for years have been al
lowed to complete their terms under
presidents whom they opposed. If Bry-
an should be elected in 1900 every pcst-
master will be cut OF forthwith. In
case OF Bryans election many OF the
postmasters appointed by Mckinley
viii not serve two years.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

Colonel Hartman OF Kansas City.
when told that Spanish spies were in
the city watching his organization of
a Cuban company, said: Spanish spies
can't stop U.s." Waugh! Good for
Colonel Hartman.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17
TREES AND PONDS.

At the Oklahoma Farmers Institute
the other day Major J. 4 Foreman OF
El Reno. il the course OF a speech On
irrigation offered tine following instruct
i've Suggestions touching Tree growing
and pond construction. He said thai
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

Pingree of Michigan says he is going
10 be inaugurated without any fiop-doo-
die. Pingree is a Republican who lives
mp to the professions which a-e made
by Populists but never lived up to.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

Politics is deadly poison. A. D. Har.
Ian. seven years ago leading Pennsyl.
'anlan and candidate for state treas.
urer. has just accepted the place cf
doorkeeper of the United States senate
committee on naval affairs.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

A syndicate has been formed to con-
troll the coal mines of southern Kansas
and the territory. 1t might be well to
take in our hole at Thirteenth street at
night
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

Allen OF Nebraska wants committee
appointed to investigate the extent to
which money was used in the last cam
paign. That committee would find out
whole lot.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

Major Mckinley has been invited to
attend a football game in Chicago. He
may be able to get a point or two on
withstanding the onslaught of office
seekers
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

Governor Rogers of Washington
tirely or reduced to mere skeleton. AS
Rogers is a formerly Kansas Populist,
this sounds strange.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

A gentleman in Cleveland, Ohio, who
lis very close to the president-elect, :"
Is gradually letting the country grow
into a savage longing to call for his
name and insist on having it.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

IL Professor Halleck, formerly the
Eagles representative in Oklahoma. is
IN Cuba as an insurgent, the people are
seeing the finest lot of high-cIass ill.,
surging ever displayed by a single arm.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-17

Colonel Tom Davidson Of Lexington.
Kentucky, sab, has burned, sab, the
Spanish flag, sab, and let the Associated
Press print it, sab, so Spain would
know it, b'gad.