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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-04-09

SHILOH'S CURE, the great Cough
and Group Cure, is the great demand
Pocket size contains twenty-five doses
only 25c. Children love 1t. Sold by
Gulick, the druggist.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-04-09

Children with pale, blush compilations
indicating the absence OF the requisite red
gl0bules In the blood should take Or, Saw
yer's Ukatine. Sold by Gulick the druggist.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-04-09

DR.. A. p, Sawyer | have taken DR. Saw
yer's Family Cure and consider II without an
equal Tor weak or dsordered stomach.
Respectfully, Charles Burch, Marion, Iowa
Sold by GulIck, the Druggist
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-04-09

DR.. A. p, Sawyer After suffering four
years with female weakness was pursuaded
by friend to try your Pastllles, and after
using them one year, ran say am entirely
we'll, can not recommend them too highly.
MRS. NJ s. BROOK,
Bronson, Bethel Branch Co., Mich.
Sold by Gulick, the Druggist.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-04-09
ONE HONEST MAN.

DEAR EDIToR; Please inform your readers
that II written to confdentially, ! will mai
IN sealed letter the plan pursued by whicl
was permanently restored to health and
manly vlgor, after years OF suffering from
Nervous Weakness, Loss of Manhood Lick
OF Confidence. etc, have no scheme Il
nearly lost faith In mankind, but thank
heaven, am now well, vigorous and strong
and anxious to make this certain means Of
cure known to all. Having nothing to sell OIL
send q. 0. D., want no money. Address
JAS. A. HARRIS, Box l0i, Delray, Mich
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-04-09

Consider the prices
carefully for they
are FACTS that will
save you money in
your buying. We
carry a full line OF
General Merchandise
at prices that can't be
beat. Come and see
us.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-04-09

NllVIN
in Abilene, it is a FACT.
That our Shoes are
SOLID LEATHER is a
tact that hundreds Of
people know because
they have worn them
and come back for
another pair like the
last pair I got.' That
our prices are the low
est is known by every
one who has COM
pared them with other
dealers, and the mere
fact that other dealers
will not make you as
low a price on solid
leather Shoes should
prove to you that our
goods are right and
that our prices enable
you to save money on
every pair of Shoes
you buy of The Rack
ct.
These prices are the
most convincing facts:
Kid button baby Shoes, 25
and 49,.
Child's kid or Goat Shoes, 8
to 8, for 65c.
Child's kid, the best, for 95c.
Misses kid, the best, for
1.15 and 1875.
Child's kid tan Slippers, hand
turned, 85c.
Misses Goat, tan, 8 to
IL, 05c.
Misses Goat, tan, IL to 2,
ITO.
Ladies' Goat and Dongola
Oxfords in black or tan
for 90c.
Ladies' kid Oxfords, black or
tan, 1.3O.
Full line Of higher grades in
Children's and Ladies'
Shoes and Oxfords.
Mems oil grain Plow Shoes,
Club Gore,' 1876.
Mems Satin Calf, lace or con-
| gress, 1.36.
Mems Satin Calf, lace con-
gress, 1.75.
Mems Kangaroo lace-con.
gress, 1876.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
NEW ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
Fourth, Hayes and Other Streets
Assisted in Lighting by the
Merchants Association

The Merchants Association has ordered
twelve arc lights of 1000 candle-power on
Fourth street, from Market to Folsom.
They will be arranged one light about
seventy-fve feet from each end of each
block and two lights at equal distances
from the lights at the intersection of the
streets. 1t is expected that these lights
will be installed by New Years eve.
The Merchants Association has also
ordered nine electric arc lights of 1000
candle power on Hayes, between Laguna
and Franklin, arranged as follows: One
light at tie intersection of Hayes street
and each of the cross streets from Laguna
to Franklin, and two on Laguna street,
between Hayes and Grove. These lights
have been ordered installed as soon as pos
sible, so that the property-owners and
merchants along that thoroughfare can
hold demonstration.
At the request OF the Polk-street I'M
provement Club, the Merchants Assocla-
tion has undertaken the unexpired term
of its lighting with the Edison Light and
Power Company. The Pok-street I'm
provement Club was paying So per week
or $12 per month for each light. The
Merchants Association has succeeded in
having this rate reduced to 81 25 per
week or $40 per month, and will thus be
able to save the Polk-street Improvement
Club the difference on it's unexpired term
of six months
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
IS A FAMOUS
MINING KING
L. D. Roudebush, Formerly
Owner of the Robert E.
Lee, in Town.
He and His Friends Cleared
He and His Friends Cleared
Nearly $4,000, 900 From That
Celebrated Property.
Mr.. Roud bush Also Owned the
Golden Cross-The Mining Situa.
t1on in Color ado.

L. D. Roudebush of Denver, owner of
the Rex, Reconstruction and other mines
at Leadville and one of the foremost men
in mining circles in Colorado, is at the
Palace. Mr.. Roudebush for six months
has been In bad health, owing to drop
sical complaint.
He is forced to keep his bed here good
part of the time. he will spend the
winter in California, staying for time at
Santa Barbara, Coronado and other places.
Mr.. Roudebush is famous operator in
Western mines. In the flush days of the
silver excitement at Leadville he was at the
front with some of the biggest properties
that were ever di scovered IN that great
camp. He and his friends secured the
celebrated Robert Il. Lee mine.
They paid $500 for il, and took out
OF it in all no less than $6000,000 The
first five weeks they had 1t they paid for
it out of the ore mined and had $25, 900 to
spare. MIR. Roud ebush also had many
other large mining interests then and has
had since. Had he not been i'll he
would be making big outputs from some
of his properties.
He for some time owned the noted
Golden Cross mine. on the Mohave Desert,
which has lately blossomed out as great
pIOpeIty
"They are asking ST. SOC, 900 for it now.
/ believe said Mr.. Roudebush. I'VE
put $40, 600 into it and then let it go. We
sent money out to pay its assessments,
but the man we sent it to neglected them.
II was busy with other things and
never knew about it till afterward. II
was $40 and $12 ore that we had, though
of course we didn't have so much OF it as
is shown up there now. We had a little
10-stamp mill on the mine, but m ore for
experimenting with than anything else.
. This property is about fifteen miles
from where ex-senator Dorsey's property
is. Mr.. Dorsey got hold of a good
mine there, and sold it in England. He
is in England now."
Mr.. Roudebush says the strike at Lead
vile is still unsettled, and that it is
necessary to maintain troops there. In
fact he says that mining could not go on
without them.
There is some interest in what the
newly elected Governor, Alva Adams, will
do under existing circumstances. Mr..
Roude bush says the mine-owners will
stand together and refuse to give in to the
strikers,
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
WHAT THE nTOY RAILROAD"
HAS DONE TO HUNTINGTON
And What 1t Has Done for the People Of the Rich and
Fertile San Joaquin Valley Since 1t
Began Operation.

in Albany, n. Y, in Fe bruary, to secure,
if possible, the passage OF a law permitting
Sunday track racing in such States as de-
sire it. Wishing 10 assist this movement
as much as possible the Garden City Cy-
clers of San Jose are talking OF getting up
similar meet, to be held on their famous
three-lap track Saturday afternoon, Janu-
ary 23 They are alive 10 the fact that
they would be greatly benefited by the
passage of such rule, as in fact would all
the riders, clubs and dealers in the State.
match race has been arranged between
Charles Jarman and D. Lloyd Conkling of
the Garden City Cyclers, to settle the
much-mooted question of which is the
faster man. 1t should be very exciting.
Victor a. Hancock of the membership
committee of the league in this State has
Just started on a syste matte tour to secure
new mem bers for the division. An in
creased mem bership will do much toward
securing the legislation desired at the n a.
tional Assem- bly,, and in view of this fact
and of the good the league has done for
wheelmen generally in protecting their
rights and working for the cause of good
roads it is largely 10 the interest OF every
cycer to join. Mr.. Hancock will visit all
the clubs of this City and nearby towns,
and any individuals or small bodies OF
wheelmen desiring him to call and ex-
plain the benefits to be derived from a
league mem bership snould address him at
once at 638 Market street
Wilbur f. Knapp has gone to San Jose
on busin ess, and E. E. StoGdard is visiting
friends IN santa Rosa.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
THE AERIAL BALLET.

Long Legal Arguments Before United
States Circuit Judge Mckenna
The case of Carl E. Nilsson of the Or
pheum against AL Hayman and the man
ayers of the Palmer Cox Brownies Com
pany now at the Baldwin was on again
yesterday before Judge McKenna in the
United States Circuit Court. The action
is for damages and an injunction to pre-
vent the Brownies people from using GER
tain patented machinery and apparatus
employed in the production of what is
known as the aerial ballet.
d. Freidenrich for the Baldwin people
presented several dispositions of people
who claim that the machinery that Nilsson
patented had been in use many years be-
fore Nilsson laid claim 10 it.
j. j. Scrlyner for Nilsson presented many
counter affidavits for the purpose of dis
proving the statements made by the de.
ponents for the defendants. Mr.. Scrivner
consumed the remainder of the day argu-
ing to show why the defendants should be
permanently enjoined from using the ma
chinery of the aerial ballet. The defense
will be heard to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29

the money had been distributed to heirs
under various orders of the Probate Court,
with the exception of several thousand
dollars that went for attorneys fees and
other expenses.
Judge Coffey said he had listened care
fully to the argument of counsel which,
by the way, extended over about fourteen
days, and at the conclusion he was not
able to see that the culpability of the ex-
ecutors was any greater than it was when
he dismissed similar application for
their removal heretofore.
The proceedings were therefore dis
missed, as an order of removal would not
be sustained on the slender record here
presented.
The application to require the executors
to give bonds was held in allegiance for
further consideration. As they have no
assets in their possession the court could
not see clearly that the exaction of a bond
at this tune would be of material value to
any of the litigants.
Attorney Jacobs declared that instead
of making money out of the estate, as had
been charged, the executors had actually
lost sic, 900 because of the trouble and liti-
CATION which their connection with the
estate had brought them.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
TIE PRIVATEs' WAR CHRISTMAS
| Scene In Camp on the Rappahannock In

Scene In Camp on the Rappahannock In
1862.
The snow still fell; the keen wind. raw
and fierce, cut to the bone. 1t was God s
worst weather in Gods forlornest, bleak
est spot of ground, that Christmas day of
'62 on the Rappahannock, a half-mile be-
low the town of Fredericksburg, says a con-
tributor to Harper's Weekly. But come,
pick up your PROSTATE pluck, you shiver-
ing private. Surely there is enough damp
ness around without adding to it your
tears.
Lets laugh, boys"
Hello, Jonnnyp'
"Helo yourself, Yankp
"Merry Christmas, Johnny
"Same to you, Yankr'
"Say, Johnny, got anything to trader
"Parched corn and tobacco-the size of
our Christmas. Yank."
"All right; you shall have some of our
coffee and sugar and pork. Boys, find the
boats"
To see them crowd the bank and push
and scramble to be first to seize the boats
going into the water and stretching out
their long arms Then when they pulled
the boats ashore and stood in Il group over
the cargo, and to hear their EXPLANATIONS. /.
"Hurrah for hogsP' "Say, that's not
ioasteu rye, put RSuuiH Couee. SmeIl III,
you uns." ''And sugar, too" Then they
divided the CONSIGNMENT
such boats? / see the children sailing
them on the small lakes in our Central
Park. Some Yankee, desperately hungry
for tobacco, invented them for trading
with the Johnnies. They were hid away
under the banks of the river for successive
relays OF pickets.
"We got out the boats. An old hand
kerchief answered for sail. We loaded
them with coffee sugar and pork and set
the sail and watched them slowly creep to
the other shore. And the Johnnies?
They laughed and shouted: Reckon
yeu uns been good 10 we uns this Christ
mas day. Yanks." Then they put parched
corn, tobacco, ripe persimmons, into the
boats and sent them back to US. And we
chewed the parched corn, smoked real
Virginia leaf and ate persimmons, which,
if they weren't very filling, at least con-
tracted our stomachs to the size of our
Christmas dinner.
And so the day passed. We shouted
merry Christmas Johnny" They
shouted, Same 10 you, Yank." And we
forgot the biting wind, the chilling cold :
we forgot those men over there were our
enemies, whom 1t might be our duty to
shoot before evening.
We had bridged the river-spanned the
bloody chasm. We were brothers, not
foes, waving salutatlons of good will in the
name of the Babe of Bethlehem, on Christi
mas day in so. At the very 'front.' of the
opposing armies the Christ child struck a
truce for us-broke down the wall of parti-
ton, became our peace. We exchanged
gifts. We shouted greetings back and
forth. We kept Christmas and our hearts
were lighter for it, and our shivering bodies
were not quite so cold.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
ART FOR EYE AND EAR.
Concert To-Night at the Mark Hopkins
Institute.

Concert To-Night at the Mark Hopkins
Institute.
A concert will be given tonight at the
Mark Hopkins Institute. 1t will be under
the direction of Henry Heyman. Follow
ing is the full programmes:
Organ, "Grand Offertoire in F.. Vincent
Robert d. Burness.
Quartet, Legends s''..............Mo Mohrig
The Colonial Quartet.
Violin, Andante from Concerto in minor
....-..; ....'Menuelssonn
Miss Madeline Beekhuson.
Song, 'Arcadee" Observation-Disclosures .StudIey
Miss Mary Mann.
Song, "Give My Love Good Morrow"
.:..-.-............... MaclarIen
violin obligato. Henry Heyman)
Miss Florence ]. Doane.
Song, "Du blst me cine Blume". "........ Cantor
Miss Clara Heyman.
Organ, "Andante in G''.............B Batiste
Robert D. Burness,
Song, "The Quest '...... Eleanor Smith
Miss Ivy NJ. Gardner
Violin, Spanish Dance" op. 26, No. 8
Miss Madeline Beckhuson.
Quartet Goodnight" ......... Rheinberger
The Colonial Quartet
Organ, ''Marche Heroque'. .......... Schubert
Robert D. Burness.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
SHE GOT A SEAT.
Chairs Were Scarce. but She Was Pro
gressive and Secured One.

Chairs Were Scarce. but She Was Pro-
gressive and Secured One.
1t was noon IN large quick lunch place.
young woman, comely as well as self
reliant, entered and glanced deliberately
around in search of vacant chair. saws
the Philadelphia Press.
She saw one that appeared to be unoc-
cupied, and providing herself with cram
berry tart and cup of coffee started to
take possession of it. But a mans hat
was on the chair, and the owner of the
hat happened to be at her elbow with his
modest luncheon in his hand.
beg pardon, but this seat is engaged, I"
he said.
Returning to the counter the Young
woman put down her tart and coffee and
started to find an empty chair. She
found one in remote corner of the bi g
eating room and, raising her hand to her
head, she pulled ont a couple of hairpins
and flung her hat into the chair with a
defiant ''There, that's takenr'
She then brought over her tart and
coffee and enjoyed them in the conscious
ness that she was dependent upon no
mans gallantry for the comforts of life.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
NEW YEARS DAY MEET.
Entries for the cycle Races at tho
VeIodrome Track Next Friday
Afternoon

The following are the entries for the
open events to be contested at the New
Years day meet at the Velodrome next
Friday afternoon. The fve-mile profess
sional race will probably be the best race
in that class seen here in many a day.
There will also be a number of exciting
record trials and a game of pushball,
something new here, but which is very
popular in the East. The entries follow
One-mile match race, amateur-H E. Grim
menstein, /. C. c., Sausalito, v. s.; H. w. Col
Inns, unattached, San Rafael.
0ne-mile post race, amateur-Prize for win
ner OF first lap, chain, So; second lap, racing
suit So; third lap, sweater, So; fourth lap,
lap, diamond stud, sis. First heat. first and
second in each neat to quality for final-E. F.
Russ, o. g. w, San Francisco; C. J. Birdsall,
= C. &. c., San Francisco; F. L. Norton, B. C. w,
San Francisco; w. B. Plumb, r. A. c.. Oakland ;
George A. Wyman, Acme, Oakland.
Second heat-Morris NJ. Cook. o. C. W., Los
Angeles; Z. R. Williams, r. A. c., Oakland; L
L. Ryder, G. C. c., San Jose; c. F, Lennon, O.
c. w. San francisco; Charles Kraft, B. c. W,
San Francisco.
Third heat-J E. Wing, o. C. W.. San Jose
borelIe. o. c. W., San Francisco; William
KIotz, B. c. W., Vallejo; C. N. Bolte, A. c., Ala
media.
Ffve-mile scratch, professional. Prizes
First $50, second $25 third $15 Heats will
be one mile, first and second in each heat and
third in the fastest heat to qualify for the
final. First heath. F. Terrill, b. c. W., San
Francisco; c. L. Stevens o. C. W., Ottumma,
iowa; A. h. Jones, o. c. W., San Francisco: /:
George Boyee, B. c. W., FL Paso, Tex: Max
Morris, A. c., Fort Worth, Tex; w. E. Becker,
o. C. W., Minneapolis, Minn.
Second heat-D. +. Whitman, G. C. c., Los
Angeles; w. A Terrill, B. c. w, San Francisco !;
c. S. Wells, B. C. W., San Francisco; Horace
Slater, B. G. W., Phoenix, Ariz.; C. Z. Dow, C..
C. c., Seattle, Wash.
The wheelmen of San Francisco are to
have a benefit meer on Saturday after
noon, January 16, to raise funds to send
delegates to the National Assembly of the
League of American Wheelmen, to be held
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
HEYDENFELDr EXECUTORS.
Judge Coffey Refuses to Remove Then
NO Money in the Estate

Judge Coffey Refuses to Remove Them.
No Money in the Estate.
Messrs. Ashton and Jacobs, the exec
utors of the Will of the late Judge Hey-
denfeldt won a victory in the Pro bate
Court when Judge Coffey refused to make
an order removing them from their po-
sitions.
Attorney Osmont contended that the
executors had been negligent and that
they had allowed the estate to be de-
Vastated py reason OF their unauthorized
and improvident acts, and offered figures
to show that they ought TO have on hand
at this moment 5000, 600 belonging to the
estate.
Attorneys Meredith and Jacobs replied
by submitting records showing that all
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
MRS. sPALDING'S WILL.
Contest of Her Brother and Sister Said
to Be without Merit.

Contest of Her Brother and Sister Said
to Be without Merit.
w. F. Goad and Mrs. W. s. Tevis, divi-
sees under the will of the late Lydia A.
Spalding, Mr.. Goad being one of the ex-
ecutors of the will, have filed demurrer
and an answer to the contest recently in
stituted by Alexander Benham and Mrs.
Helen Bush, the brother and sister of the
deceas q.
Mr.. Benham and Mrs. Bush complain
that their sister did not bequeath to them
as great a share of the estate as they
thought they ought to have and, wishing
to aLnul the provisions of the will which
distributed the property among the testa-
tors most intimate ana faithful friends,
they made the usual allegations that their
sister was mentally incompetent to dis
pose of her property, and that she acted
under undue influence.
The demurrer to this accusation is based
on the proposition that the allegations in
the contest do not state facts sufficient to
constitute cause for action, that the petit
tion is ambiguous and hypothetical, and
that it has no legal standing in court.
The answer of Mr.. Goad and Mrs. Tevis
denies all the allegations of fraud, undue
influence and incapacity on the part of
Mrs. Spalding at the time she made her
will.
Mr.. Goad and Mrs. Tevis not only deny
the allegations of the contestants, but
atfirmatively aver that the document in
question is actually the last will and tes-
lament OF Mrs. Spaldlng; that titwas prop
erly executed, signed, published and ac-
knowIedged by Mrs. Spalding; that the
testator was of sound and disposing mind,
and that the Will was not procured to be
made by Mrs. Augusta T. Tracy, Mary p.
Marshall or any other person.
The court is asked TO deny the petition
of the contestants and TO enter a decree
whereby the will shall be confirmed and
be declared valid and ire vocable.
Judge Slack will hear argument on the
points at issue at an early date next
month.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
GOT THIRTY DAYS.
Cornish's Fondness for Turkey Lands
Him in the County Jail.

Corn1sh's Fondness Tor Turkey Lands
Him in the County Jail.
John M. Cornish. the assistant janitor
of the bull ding sos California street, who
was caught Friday nigh suspended from
the transom of room 81. appeared before
Judge Low yesterday morning.
Cornish is colored man. and it was sus-
pected that he gotinto his suspension act
while attempting to get possession of four
turkeys tha. were in the room. A charge
of burglary had been entered against him,
but after hearing the evidence the Judge
reduced the charge to an attempt to COM
NIT petty larceny and sentenced him to
thirty days in the County Jail.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
SAN FRANCISCO "cALL--

BUSINESS OFFICE of the San Francisco CALL
TO Market street, open until IL O'Clock every
night in the year.
BRANCH oFFICEs-b27 Montgomery street.
corner Clay; open until $3.50 O'Clock.
S39 Hayes street. open until $3.50 O'Clock.
713 Larkin street, open until $3.50 o'clock.
sw. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets. ope>
until O'Clock.
26lS MissioR street, open until O'Clock.
lis Ninth street. open until 80 o'clock.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
THE PROPORTIONAL SYSTEM.
A New Method of Election Being Con-
sidered by the Olympic Directors.

"A new metnou OF ELECTION Bang Con-
sidered by the Olympic Directors.
The petition recently circulated among
the members OF the Olympic Club asking
that the proportional and preferential sys-
tenn of electing the board OF dire ctors be
substituted for the present method has
been presented to the board and was re-
ceived with much favor. 1t has been
posted on the club bull ietin- board.
An amendment to tue bylaws prov;d-
ing sor the new system will be considered
at the next meeting OF the directors, when
1t will be illustrated by trial ballot. The
petition has nearly hundred signatures.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
Nua.Ln q. MEnIINGs

NoliCE 6H MLEIISGS.
ECES GOLDEN GATE LODGE NO. 3d. a
a6~S +. and A. M.-Called meeting this "A
grmEs !go a,dI.a pap evening, December 20, at Xxx
GEO. ]. HoBE, Secretary.
@R NJ. f. B. A. No. 35-THE ANNUAL
e-S election of officers will take place at Portola
Hall, n. s g. w. building, TUESDAY EVEN
ING, Dec. 2e. Members requested to attend.
BY order c. X. KINGSLAND, President
j. j. EAREY, Secretary.
FSS A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE MEM
Sr>S bers of the Bishop Armitage Church Or
phanage will be held at the Office of the secretary,
DO California street, room SO, on January ~,
1897. at II N, for the purpose or revising or
anne nding the bylaws of said corporation, or
adopting new bylaws; also for the transaction OF
such other business as may come before the meet
fng. L. WADHAM, Secretary.
GCSs- ANNUAL BfEETING-THE REGULAR
Vs. annual meeting of the stockholder rs Of the
sum Dunn Chief Mining Company Will be held at
the office of the company, room in the Ho-
bart building, 532 Nj arket ST., san Francisco CAL,
on SATU RDAY, the I'd day of January. 1897, at
the hour of O'Clock p. NJ, for the purpose of
electing board of directors to serve during the
ensuing year and the transaction of such other
business may come before he meeting.
II. G. STEVENSON. Secretary.
Ofice-Room in the Hobart building b32 Mar
Ret ST., san Francisco Cal
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
HELP wANTEp-Cont,nnos

PARBERS' PROTECTIVE UNION hNrpr
ID ment secretary. CONRAD TROKLL s57 q