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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03
Farper'S Magazine
IN1eee

BriSeis, a new novel by WILLIAM
BLACK, written with all the authors we'll
known charm of manner, will begin in
the December Number, 1895, and con-
tinue until May. A new novel by
GEORGE DU MAURIER, entitled The
Marian, will also begin during the
year. 1t is not too much to say that no
novel has ever been awaited with such
great expectation as the successor to
TriIby. The Personal ReCOlIectionS
of Joan of Arc will continue and will
relate the story of the failure and mar
tyrdom of the Maid of Orleans. Other
important fiction of the year will be
novelette, by MARK TWAIN. under the
title, Tom Sawyer, Detective; a hum
orous three part tale called Two Nor
mons from Muddlety, by LANGDoN Ell
wYN MITCHELL; and short stories by
Octave THANET, RICHARD HARDING
81 DAVIS. MARY E. WILKINS. JULIAN RALPH,
BRANDER MATTHEWS, OWEN WIsTER,
and other we'll known writers.
Prof. WOODROW WILSON will contri-
butte six papers on George Washington
and his time, with illustrations by Ho-
WARD PYsI.E. PoULTNEY BIGELow's
history Of The German Struggle for
Liberty, illustrated by r. CATION WOOD
VILE. will be continued through the
winter. Two papers on St. Clair's de.
feat and Mad Anthony Wayne's victory,
by THEODORE ROOSEVELT. with graphic
illustrations will be printed during the
year.
A noteworthy feature OF the MAGA-
ZINE during 1896 will be series of ar
ticles by CAsPAR w. WHITNEY, describe
ing his trip of $500 miles on snow-shoes
and with dog-sledge trains into the un.
explored Barren Grounds of British
North America in pursuit of wood bison
aud musk-oxeD. Mr.. WHITNEY's series
will have the added interest of being
illustrated from photographs taken by
himself
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03
Colony for Cripple Creek,

FORT SCOTT, Feb "a large delega-
ton will soon leave here for Cripple
Creek A low rate will be made and
some families will take their household
furniture and stock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03
CHASE THE COYOTE.

Many Dogs ana 1000 Non VIII join In
a Circle Hunt.
ERIE, Feb. "a wolf hunt in which
1000 men will participate, has been ar
ranged for February %. A mammoth
ring will be formed, all hunters working
to the center. No firearms will be al
loWad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03
AFTER "a YEARS
A Kentucky Man PHys kansas Man
Long Deferred Deb

STAFFORD, Feb. 3.-Mack Newell re-
ceived registered letter from Kentucky
today containing money to pay debt in
Cured twentyfour years ago in Ken
lucky.
Mr.. Newell was then in the undertak-
ing business and buried a child for a
man who was unable to pay him,
The money received was to cancel the
debt with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03
BORING FOR GAS.
Firm Lenses 5000 Acres Mar lola and
VIII Sink Wells.

lola, Feb. 3-The Palmer Oil COM
pany has bought u majority of the inter-
est held by George a. Bowlus s. Co., ia
1900 acres of leases of land lying south
east OF Iola, and will develop it as rapid
ly as possible.
Dir. Beatty is not very sanguine about
finding oil in this territory, but thinks it
is all good for gas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03
REFokMATORY HEATED.
A Wichita Firm Secures the Contract Mt q
Cost of So. TO5OO

HUTCHINSON, Feb. 8-The heating of
the state refOrmatory of this city. has
been let to Wichita firm for the sum of
So, 10000.
In the reformatory job there was
twelve car loads of goods used. COCA o
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03

tiups and valves and over four miles of
pipe, while ten experienced workmen
were kept in employment on the job for
sixty days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03
ANNA EVA .FAKE."

She Was in Denver, and iGave Bale Wag-
Gener Advice.
ATCHJsoN, Feb S.-When B. P Wag-
gener was in Denver latelya he attended
performance given by Anna Eva Fav
ms neted fraud had sheet thrown
over her head, and pretended to ssknow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03
MILL FOR CoTrEYvILLE.
Prospects for that City to Secure n 1000
Barrel Factory.

Barrel Factory.
CoFFEYvILLE. Feb g. The pros
poets for Cofeyville having a 1000
barrel Touring mill is bright
Col. j. G. McGreen, the big mill
man of Missouri, Is here anxious to
locate if he can make suitable arrange
ments. The citizens of CoffeyvilIe Will
be liberal in any donations required.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03
IL. C. VROOMAN INSTALLED

As Pastor of thu Third Congregational
Church of ST. Louis.
Rev. Fl. C. Vrooman, who was a boy
in Topeka, but who has lately been
preaching in Boston, has just been in
stalled as pastor of the Third Congrega-
tional church in Aubert Place, St. Louis.
Mir. Vrooman's st Louis church num-
bers 275 members and a new church
building in course of construction will
cost $35, 600 whe completed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03
supreme Court to HTee4.

The supreme court will convene in
regular session tomorrow and the appel.
late court of the division will be in ses-
sion here next week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03

smooth as silk is the way our collars
1eeI now. Peerless Steam Laundry, 112
and ia w. sth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03

You can reach the court house BY tax
ing the West Sixth avenue cars and
walking one block north ON Van Buren,
street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-03
Notice.

Notice.
commencing February 1. I will sell
A0r strictly cash. GEO. E BROWNE.
1905 Topeka ave.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08
Studying Our Forestry.

Baron B. B. Hermann, attache of the
Imperial Legation at Washington, D.
G., is on the coast. He has been given
a special mission by the German gov
eminent to investigate the agricultural
industries and resources of America
that are akin to those of Germany, and
also to make a report ON the forests
andssforestry regulations of this country
to afford the German government an
opportunity of comparing the advanta-
geous features of the American and
German systems of preserving forests
and encouraging agriculture
Says he: my investigation into the
agricultural resources of the country is
directed with a desire to ascertain
wherein any Improvements may be
made in our own agricultural indus
tries. Hop culture, for instance, is a
big industry in Germany, and am ex-
pected to investigate carefully the
methods pursued by hop growers here
and note the advantages and results of
different methods of cultivation and
treatment.
This | have done in the hop-grow-
ing centers of some of the central
States, and in Washington and Oregon.
have also looked into various other
agricultural industries, and while in
California l will pay considerable at.
tentlon to the fruit industry.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08
Packing Fruit when Cool.

Il have had some inquiries while
here as to the best methods of picking
and packing fruit for eastern ship
ment." writes Yuba county CORES
pondent to the American cultivator.
My experience has been that one of
the most essential things in handling,
fruit destined for long journey in an
iced car is to see that it is picked and
packed when cool. In these very hot
days the pickers should be at work be-
fore sunrise, and they should cease
work at $3.50 or 10 o'clock in the morn
ing. BY pursuing this method fruit
may be allowed to become nearly ripe
before being picked. Picked and
packed cool, then packed in an iced
car, true refrigeration is the result.
When opened up in the East it is in
fine condition and will bring good
price.
The best returns have seen for a
lot of fruit was in the case of ship
ment of 500 boxes of early peaches.
They We're nearly soft-in fact, some of
them were nearly ripe: but they were
picked in the early dawn, packed up
cool and put in a refrigerator before
the heat had chance at them. They
carried in splendid shape, and when
opened up in one of the big eastern
cities they We're in perfect condition
and Melted the grower fully 5000.
just imagine what the result would
have been If the fruit had been picked
and packed on hot afternoon. -
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08
The Enormous Apple Crop.

Reports from the Atlantic Coast
state that the apple crop in the region
of western New York, where this crop
is most generally grown. is this year
larger than has ever before been
known. In Orleans, Niagara. Monroe,
Genesee and Wyoming the apples are
said to be especially fine. This will be
a great help to the farmers in that Sec
ton, for i'll years of plenty the apple
crop sometimes brings 81 900, 900 to
$4,000, 900 per county, handsome ad-
dition to the farmers income. Owing
to the failure of the apple crop in
Europe this year, the price of late
apples will pobably be good. The early
apples usually sell low, because they
come in competition with the late
summer and early fall fruits, and also
because none of the early apples can be
good keepers. 1t now seems certain
that the total marketable crop Of this
fruit, in the United States, will exceed
that OF any previous year, and double
that OF the large crop promised last
year, which was cut short by reason of
the extreme drouth, heat and high
winds which prevailed during the
months OF August and September.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08
ORCHARD And FARM.
The Latest News in the Fruit
Market.
REQUIREMENTS OF INSTITUTES.
How to Grow the Mushroom-An Enor-
moas Apple Crop in the East-Paek-
ing Fruit When Cool-Notes of
Interest.

There are few changes in the fruit
market. Conditions still remain I'M
satisfactory TO growers, says the Los
Angeles Times. The local market is
loaded up with fresh fruit of all vari-
cites. When one sees plums offered at
retail for > cents pound, and pears
at l cent pound, it is evident that
there can be little profit left to the
grower, after paying the expense of
cultiyating, picking, hauling to market
and profit for the middle man. On
such investigation it will be found
that such fruit is not of tip-top quality
by any means. We have now arrived
at point i'll California when it only
pays to raise fruit that is strictly first
class III every respect then to pick it
and pack it with great care. Where
growers have trees that will not pro-
duce first-class quality of fruit, it
would be better for them to either
graft their trees over or dig them up
and set out something else, as they
cannot expect to make expenses and
interest on second .class fruit from now
on.
The Eastern fruit market is still de-
pressed by hard times, which prevail
in the East, where people are in the
habit of regarding fruit as strictly a
luxury. There is little hope for de-
cided improvement in this respect until
after the election.
Reports from the orange growing
districts go to show that the crop will
be considerably smaller than was first
expected. 1t is, however, probable
that the quality will be frst-class.
The market for hay is steady, but
prices have not gone up to the point
that was expected by many producers,
in view of the apparent shortness of
the crop. Hay has come into market
from all directions in larger quantities
than expected, and this has kept prices
from going up.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08

Guard, and General Graham, Com
mander Of the Fifth Artillery Regi-
ment, against the transfer of the regi-
ment from the Preside, San Francisco.
70 Florida.
The forthcoming biennial report of
State Mineralogist Crawford will show
that natural gas exists in Kings,
Marin, Sacramento. San joaquin.
Santa Barbara. Santa Clara, Solano
and Tulare counties. Gold is to be
found in every county of the State,
and in paying quantities except
fifteen. High-priced mining experts
are investigating the Southern end Of
the mother lode. and it is thought that
a large deal in mines will follow.
The first car over the klamath river
and Eureka Railroad arrived at Samoa
one night last week, the road having
just been completed. II is about
twenty miles in length and connects
the northern part of Humboldt with
Eureka. For several miles it runs
parallel with the Areata and Mad
River Railroad, ON which the bridge
accident occurred recently. The road
has been in process Of construction for
the past ten months.
Charles Cavill, the Australian cham
pion swimmer, and son of Prof. Fred
CaYill, of England, who swan across
the English Channel in eleven hours,
making a worlds record, accomplished
the hitherto uninterrupted feat of swim
ming across the Golden Gate from
Fort Point to the Marin county shore
in hr. 10 min. The time spent in
covering the distance is remarkably
short, considering contrary tides and
currents, ana the fact that he was
carried almost a mile out of his course.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08

markets every day in the year in local
titles where they are cultivated.
The seed is the spawn of horse
manure and put with virgin soil
quarried expressly TO put with it.
Earth or soil that has been used for the
gowth of any plant, or in any way has
its strength exhausted, will not mix
with this spawn so as TO produce the
mushroom.
Mushrooms are planted, or rather the
beds are prepared about three months
before they begin TO bear.
To dry mushrooms they are cleaned
and prepared as if TO be eaten at once,
then cut into pieces and plunged into
boiling water for several minutes.
They are then strung like beads, but in
such manner that they do not touch
each other. They are then suspended
in the shade in the open air or in a
well ventilated room. After being
thoroughly dried they are put in a
paper bag and stored in a perfectly dry
place, or, after the drying process, they
are dropped into melted butter or olive
oil, thus preserved i'll sealed jars.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08
The Institute at Santa Mop,ca.

The work of the recent Farmers In.
stitute, at Santa Monica, was very in
teresting.
One of the leading papers read was
that on olive culture by ]. S. Calkins,
of Pomona, who is recognized as one of
the leading authorities on the olive in
California.
In the discussion which followed the
paper, Mr.. Calkins expressed doubt
whether 10 per cent of the people of
California have tasted our olives, or
whether 10 per cent of the people of
the whole country have as yet learned
that California can produce olives.
Prof. Hilgard also took part in the
discussion, and urged the Importance
of selecting for oil-making such olives
as contain large percentage of oil.
The Importance of exercising care in
this direction is shown by the act that
while some olives contain over 80 per
cent of oil. others contain about Is per
cent. He also urged the more extern
siye use of the oil as a valuable food.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08
Notes of Field and Farm.

The Salinas Index says that the
farmers of that vicinity have guaran-
teed the necessary acreage, and that
Salinas will get the big sugar factory.
The stock journals unite in predict
ing great scarcity of serviceable farm
horses and roadsters within the next
few years. Those, however, who have
been breeding scrub trotting stock for
roadsters will find no mari ct.
The Pennsylvania secretary of agri-
culture has already completed his pro.
gramme of Farmers Institute work for
the coming season and made his an
movements. There will be 1856 insti
tutes in that State during the coming
season. 1l6 of two days, and 70 of one
day. We, in California, have only
Just begun to inquire what localities
desire them.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08
The University Farmers Institutes.

The movement to promote the agri-
cultural interests of the State by a
series of Farmers Institutes, under
the auspices of the Agricultural De-
partment of the University of Califor-
MIA has received decided impetus of
late and they promise to accomplish
much for the farming communities.
For the guidance of farmers the fol-
lowing requirements for meetings"
printed in the circular before referred
to are given:
1t is desired to hold not less than
fifty Farmers Institutes in this State
during the next six months. Other
things being equal, communities APP
plying first will have the preference.
As prerequisite to the appointment
of an institute it is required:
81. That twenty or more persons,
and as many more as possible, shall
signify, i'll writing, their desire for an
institute and their intention of attend
ing it.
2. That the use of suitable hall,
heated and lighted as may be necessary,
shall be assured without expensevto. the
State.
80. That there shall be commit
tee of one or more persons who shall
be responsible for all local arrange
ments, including the proper advertising
OF the meeting by means of posters, and
by frequent notices in the local press,
and programmes printed at local ex-
pense.
Compliance with the above re-
quirements may be certified to the
organizer in any way which may make
clear to him that they have been COM
piled with, but blanks for the purpose
will be supplied on application.
ANY person who desires that an in
stitute be held in his vicinity may be
one of the first to get an application
on file by Immediately, upon reading
this, securing the requisite signatures,
and causing the committee called for
to be appointed. AS it is expected,
now that public attention is called to
the subject, that there will be more APP
pllcations than can be granted this
year, the above will be wise course
for any one interested to pursue. -
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08
A Fair Orange Crop.

Mr.. George Frost, of Riverside, who
IS an authority on oranges, has been
able to make an estimate as to the crop
OF oranges this coming winter, fnow
that the oranges are getting we'll de-
yeloped on the trees and the dropping
OF young oranges has about stopped.
This dropping caused much damage
earlier in the season. The entire
orange crop will probably be about 60
per cent of normal crop, which
means that Southern CALIFORNIA;
orange shipments this season will reach
5000 carloads, or about the same
amount shipped last winter. Orange
growers will probably receive excellent
prices for their product ON account of
the poor crop of Florida oranges, which
Will make the California fruit more in
demand than heretofore.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08
Killed BY Rats.

Baltimore. Three big rats attacked
the two-months' -old baby boy of Isaac
Asher the other night, gnawing its
that 1t died in short time. The mother
of the child had gone to market, and
the father had left it sleeping on bed
in room ON the second floor while he
went into his store down stairs. But
a short time had elapsed when Mr..
Asher heard the infant crying, and. as
he entered the child's room, three
large rats jumped from the baby's
couch and scampered off.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08
The Mushroom.

Very few mushrooms are cultivated
in Southern California, and quantities
have to ba brought in from the north
to meet the demand, says the Califor-
mia Cultivator.
A mushroom bed bears daily for
about three months. At the end of
that period the soil is exhausted of its
substance and new beds, which three
months previously had been prepared,
then begin to bear; hence it is that
this vegetable is found fresh in the
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08

A wreck occurred on the Southern
Pacific the other night at Casa Grande.
A freight train went on the sidetrack
to allow the westbound passenger to
pass. The brakeman forgot to close
the switch and the passenger crashed
INTO the rear of the freight. Both the
oaooose OF the fright and the engine of
the passenger were wrecked, but no
one was hurt.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08

A system of 1900 feet of pipe has
Just been placed in Elysian park for
the irrigation of the botanical gardens.
The grounds under the management
OF ii. c. Harvey, president of the Bo.
tanical society, and manager of the
Standard Oil Company's interests in
Los Angeles, are assuming an interest.
ing appearance.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08

The Board of Supervisors of Ventura
have fixed the city and county tax lew
at $l.SO, reduction over last year Of
DO cents, and the special high school
tax and bond levy at 70 cents over
1895.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08

Inc Oregon grain harvest is not full
ming the predictions made earlier i'll
the year. The Willamette valley
crops are generally reported as poor.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08

The London Times has published a
dispatch from Sebastopool saying that
the Russian Black Sea fleet has has
been put on war footing and that
three battalions of infantry have been
embarked. Part of the fleet is cruising
off Otchakof, at the mouth Of the
Dnieper river, forty miles from Odessa,
under orders that if its commander
receives telegram from M. Nelidotf,
the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, it
must join the remainder of the fleet,
leaving Sebastapool and go direct to the
Bosphorus. The dispatch adds that
all the troops in south Russia are
ready for active service.