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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-24

LIVERY STABLES.
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Toronto. Fine turnOu5s. Boarding q specially.
Personal supervision feature. Tel 166.
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NTOTICF-TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
- Be it known that my petition is on file in
the Office OF The probate court Of Shawnee coun-
ty. Kansas. asking 1Cr permit 10 sell intOxi-
eating liquors ar NO. sos West 18th street. in
Third ward in the city of Topeka. Kansas;
and tile hearing OF the same IS SET for Satur-
day, a. m.s Juiy nth, 1896.
A. o. ROSSER.
Topeka, Kans.. June 9Th, 1896
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REAL ESTATE LOANS.

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TT7 j.. BOWMAN & Co. Mortgages of size
H. and kind 10 suit investors always on hand.
Prompt money. lowest rates to borrow on cen
tral. city, or farm properties.
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JEWELERS.

AAIES E. HAYDEN. JeWeler and Opticiau-
- Complete stock Of watches. diamonds,
silverWare, etc Eyes examined and specEacles
properly fitted.
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70 WHOM II nay CONCERN.

N-OTICE-rO WH0aI III MAY CONCERN
LN BE 81 known that my petition is on file iii
tile ciice Of the probate court of Shawnee
county Kansas. asking for permit to sell in
tcXicatug liquors. at 10 73l on Kansas avenue
in Fourth ward ln the city of Topeka Kansas
and the hearing OF the same is set IOr Satur
day. at eiCck q. m. July ls 1896.
al. T- WAGGONER.
Topeka, Kans.. June u, 1896
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27


going to build big brick depot. There is to
be no change.
81 think the paper here got the story from
one at Bellingham Bay. 1t didn't come by
telegraph, and no other papers published it at
all. In regard TO our road, we still have a
force of men working on the great tunnel in
the Cascade Mountains, and they will Continue
to work at it till it is completed. 1 suppose it
may take two or three years yet. Meantime
the trains are being brought oyer by switch
back. 1t only takes about two hours to cross.
''On April we will inaugurate q new sched-
ule for running our trains, so as to shorten the
The running time will be reduced eight hours,
making the trip that much quicker than by
any other overland road. The Great Northern
trains will then make direct connections at
Spokane with the Oregon Railway and Nayiga-
tion Company's trains from Portland, and also
at Seattle with the Northern Pacific trains
from Portland.
'..We do not vestibule our trains In place of
the vestibule we carry iron gates. Mr.. Hill
has an idea, SO am informed, that the vesti-
bules gather all the bad air and concentrate it
in the last cars, where the best passengers are.
For this reason he only uses iron or steel gates
to protect the passengers, and lets the air cir
culate in a natural way.
''No Pullman cars are run. We have our
own dining and sleeping cars. The sleepers
are much like the Pulliaans, except that the
berths are wider. We carry Libraries, baths
and BARRIERS, the same as on the best Eastern
roads out of Chicago"
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
MANUFACTURING VOTERS.

THE CALLS expose of the ease with
which Chinese may be made citizens and
voters without the formality of having
been born in this country throws light
upon danger which is far greater than it
might be. The Supreme Court OF the
United States has yet to pass on the ques-
ton whether Chinese born in the United
States is an American citizen, entitled to
the exercise of the franchise, but it seems
that in anticipation of a favorable ruling
Chinese in considerable numbers are pre-
pairing to produce evidence of American
birth as prerequisite of registra ton,
and that it will be difficult. if not impos-
sible, to expose any fraud that may be re-
sorted to.
The two ways in which fraud may be
practiced are the certificates admitting
Chinese to this port as American natives
and certificates of American birth made
by physicians. In the former case the re-
turn certificate will be accepted as compe-
tent evidence and in the second it would
be extremely difficult to prove fraud. In
view of the innumerable scandals which
have arisen out of the sale of Chinese re-
turn certificates. the impossibility of find
ing doctors willing to make untruthful
certificates of birth cannot be assumed. 1t
had been supposed that it was only the
certificates with which the customs au-
thorities had to deal that represented a
danger, but the recent decision by the
United States District Court on the subject
of citizenship based ON birth has opened
up possible new avenue of fraud.
This State has excellent laws requirin g
records of births, but their constant neg
lect is ceaseless scandal. These laws
were not intended merely for statistical
purposes. That however, is not the point.
They are mandatory and penalty for
their violation is imposed. Their proper
observance would be exceedingly useful in
many ways affecting the Identification OF
persons, and their neglect may work in
jury both TO individuals and the State.
Only recently the announcement was
made that those charged with the per-
formance of this duty were grossly neglect
ing it. Threats were made that unless the
law was obeyed in future punishment
would ensue. but in the absence OF actual
punishment the threat carries no terrors.
While it would be easier to produce
fraudulent certificates of birth in the ca Sc
of Chinese than of persons of any other
nationality, it is conceivable that aliens
from other countries will learn the shrewd
trick which the Chinese can play and will
bring it into operation. Special attention
is called to this matter for the reason that
it is something new and requires to be
vigorously met. It may be taken for
granted that if the Chinese are to be made
voters an astonishing number of native
Americans among them will appear, and
that they will support the interests of
China by advocating free trade.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
a STATUE OF MERCURY.

The first piece OF stone statuary ever USED as
a building ornament in this City still occupies
the same position in. which it was orlslnaily
placed. 1t is on the top OF the Iate Dr' Aelie
building on pacific street, and has been but
slightly affected by the action EFF the winds,
rains and sun OF twenty-eight years,
The carving is copy OF the Original Greek
statue of Mercury and is credltabie piece OF
work. 1t was made for exhibition at Tue nrss ..
American exposition held in New fork III
1858 and received an "honoTable menllon.
For some reasonit was impossible TO ais pose p ot
it in the East, although it was exhlplteq at
many different places. In 1867 1t arrlyso IN
San Francisco, after long passage around G tne
Horn, together with a lot OF other CARVING.
They were in boxes made of three-inch planks
and strongly bound with iron. No one mere
had ever seen anything of the kind, ana IL was
several days before Mr.. Newhall, the con-
signee, could find any person TO undertake the
job of opening them.
When the carvings were first placed on view
people could scarcely get uear the place, SO
dense was the crowd clamoring for sight.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
PERSONAL
NJ. d. Grover of st. Paul is here.
D. M. .Dysart of Cuba is in town.
sion is roses.

NJ. D. Grover of st. Paul is here.
D. NJ. Dysart OF Cuba is in town.
DR.. A. B. Clayton of Chicago is at the Palace.
Dr. G. NJ Brunson of Joliet, H., is at the
! Grand.
George Wetzel merchant of Montague, is
in town.
NJ Broderick, mining man of Butte, Mont,
is in town.
S. o. Houghton, an attorney of Los Angeles,
is al the Occidental.
Joseph S. Gill, a lumberman of Portland, is
at the Cosmopolitan.
R. H. Handy, mining engineer OF Silver
City, Idaho, is in the City.
DR.. John Ellis of New York City is at the
Russ, accompanied by his wife.
silas earle, the contractor, of Sacramento,
was among yesterdays arrivals.
Captain William Gray, an extensive land
owner of Merced, arrived here yesterday.
James Tarlton, a general l-merchandise dealer
and mine-owner of AmadOr, is at the Cosmo-
politan.
W. r. Newlin. the capitalist, of Pacific Grove,
is at the Grand, accompanied by his friend, A.
A. White, a business man of New Mexico.
Nine. Materna, Miss Materna; Pianist Isaac
Luckstone and Mr.. and Mrs. Ondricek re-
turned here yesterday, and are at the Palace.
J. A. Todd of Chicago; q manufacturer OF
jewelry, is at the Lick. He has been looking
around the coast with view OF making some
investments
Miss Belle Archer the actress, who recently
resigned from the Frawley Company, has gone
East, and will spend the summer at her home
in New Jersey.
Mrs. John Collins. wife of ex-Mayor John
Collins, pioneer and noted Democratic poll
tician OF Seattle, is at the Palace, &C companied
by Miss Collins and Master John Collins.
&. A. Lehman of the American Palace Car
Company has arrived here with party of
Eastern tourists. They came in the new car
Boston, and will remain ten or twelve days.
W. R. Shape of Cripple Creek has brought
here from Arizona, which he recently visited,
some very fine specimens of gold quartz. He
has been travelling with the view of purchas-
ing mine, as he has made money in mines at
Cripple Creek and now thinks he can make
better investments on the coast. Mr.. Shape
formerly mined in Montana.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27

ceptional value. Every street from the
fashionable quarter of the Western Addl-
ton crosses it. One end of 1T opens upon
Market street and the other touches Fort
Mason and the channel. 1t forms the
most important link in the chain OF bouie-
wards with Fort Mason, Lombard street,
the Preside, the park and Golden Gate
avenue. There is no street so fortunately
situated.
Doubtless the Board of Supervisors, act
ing upon petition of sufficient prop
erty frontage, might compel all the prop
erty-owners to contribute toward the I'M
provement. 1t would be very much more
graceful and finer exhibition OF pubic
spirit for. the owners to make the improve
ment on their own motion. Whatever
course may be determined upon the prop
erty-owners have an opportunity to set
most valuable example of public spirit.
By reason of climate which would keep
the park in bloom and color all through
the year Van Ness avenue might be made
the most beautiful and famous boulevard
in the United States.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
SIMPLE TRANSFER SYSTEM
NEEDED.

General Manager Vining of the Market
street Railway Company in his extreme
anxiety to carry out the policy OF making
the lines under his supervision return "all
the traffic will bear" is in danger of infiict-
ances and impositions that they will not
be inclined to bear.
There is probably no city in the world in
which a more complicated system of
transfers exists. And it is this unnecessa-
rily puZZling contrivance which causes
more grum bling and trouble to both the
carrier and the carried than any other
single factor.
There is no reason why the entire inter
change of traffic between the various lines
cannot be placed on the simplest basis.
As it is now one line transfers at so many
as half a dozen different points: here to
the westbound cars of one line, farther
along TO the eastbound cars of another
road, then to the northbound cars of
third and so on for half dozen transfers.
Then on the return trip of this same car
an entirely different order of transferring
prevails. The wonder is not that the. pas
senger does not get thoroughly confused,
but that the conductors are able to fulfill
their duties as well as they do in the
various lines of distributing and receiving
transfers. collecting fares and stopping
and starting their cars to meet the re-
quirements of passengers. All these. COM
plications OF the transfer system are in
vented for the one purpose of preventing
a few persons who have more time to
waste than most individuals from riding
indefinitely in a circuit for a single fare.
There is little question that all this red
tape could be abandoned with but a
trifing loss to the railway lines and with
much increased comfort and convenience
to their patrons.
AS the transfer system of the Market
street Railway Company exists to-day
there are several hundred poiuts at which
passengers are compelled to change from
one line to another in order to reach their
destination. In view of this the least the
company should do is to make the trans
ferring process as simple as possible. This
would be accomplished to a great extent
by making transfer from one line to an
other available for ride either way on
the car to which the change is made. Ex-
cept to regular daily patrons of the street.
cars trip on them requires all the time
and study that accompanies the scrutiny
of time cards preparatory to an overland
Journey to New York
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
Statue of Mercury. Said to be the First
Piece of Stone Sculpture Used as a
Building Ornament in San Francisco.
From q sketch.l


Dr. Zeile was so much pleased with them that
he bought the whole lot at price below
half of what was originally asked The statue
ofMercury was carved of gray sandstone, and
the four others were of marble.
DR.. Zeile's building was then almost
finished, and he found the carvings just what
he wanted. A magnificent marble mantel was
in the collection, and he placed that in the
parlor, where it still is, and in almost perfect
condition. 1t is in the gothic style, and so
delicate is some of the work that it has the ap-
pearance of lace. 1t is safe to say that there is
not such another piece of work on the Pacific
Coast, and very few like it in the United States.
1t cost the doctor $4,000.
The other marbles were placed in different
parts of the building, where they remained for
many years, but are now stored in a back
room. They consist of a statue of Minerva, a
head OF @The Infant Caesar" and a head of
Aristotle. They are a ii excellent copies from
the originals. The statue of Mefcury is OF the
least value on account of the material used,
but the whole collection could not be dupli-
Gated to-day for less than $4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
A SUGGESTIVE REMARK.

Chauncey M. Depew's talk with CALL
interviewer at Los Angeles was that odd
mixture of raillery and seriousness for
which this man with facile tongue IS
famous, but he made some observations
which indicate radical fault on the part
of Eastern capitalists. This fault it should
be the duty of California to cure.
"Neither Mr.. Vanderbilt nor myself,
he said, "has ever been in California
before. You know we New Workers are so
well satisfied with ourselves and our local
habits that we do not travel much. Mr.
Vanderbilt and finally came to the con-
clusion that we would break through our
crust of exclusiveness and see California
for ourselves, believing that in doing SO we
would get into closer touch with the peo-
pie of this great State, learn to appreciate
your more wonderful resources and posi-
bilities and go back to our work. invlgor-
ated both in body and mind"
In denying that the visit had any sig
nihcance in connection with the recovery
of the Pacific roads debt, he said: 1--WE
have been offered lots of things for sale
since we struck the West. Ranches,
mines and railroads galore are showed at
US, each with the assurance that it is the
opportunity of lifetime to make for
tune, but we are not on the buy"
Mr.. Depew was jesting in all this,
but the fact remains that the enor-
nous capital and vigor of New York and
the other Eastern centers of money and
energy remain Indifferent both to tne op-
po1tunities for making fortunes IN the
West and to the National advantages
which would accrue from an intelligent
attention to these opportunities. 1t is
from the West that the sustenance of the
country is to be drawn. The inexhausti-
BILE gold, silver, iron and coal mines. and
the matchless agricultural resources, hardly
yet in the beginning of their DEVELOPMENT,
offer promise and extend an invitation
that nothing but the most sordid stupidity
of Eastern money centers would think of
ignoring.
In all the broad region east of the Rocky
Mountains there exists no opportunity for
the development of individual prosperity
and the broadening of community charac-
ter comparable to that which lies on the
Western slope. With the exception of
Boston no Eastern city has sent an ap-
preciable number of intelligent citizens to
sit at the banquet which nature has spread
in California, and even these have con-
fined themselves to particular corner OF
the State. The whole situation makes as
pitiful picture OF ofnegected opportunity as
it is possible to conceive, and New York is
the head and front of the offending. Cali
fornia should be thankful to Mr.. Depew
for confessing with SO charming frankness
a sin which Western man would be too
proud to acknowledge.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
NATURES HYBRIDIzERs.
WHAT THE BEES AND HUMMING- BIRDS ARE
DOING IN THE WAY OF CREATING New
VARIETIES

WHAT THE BEES AND HUMMING- BIRDS ARE
DOING IN THE WAY OF CREATING NEW
VARIETIES.
To the Editor of the San Francisco Call-SIR |:
While so much praise is pressed upon Luther
Burbank for his patient and indefatigable sue
cess as grand hybridizer with both flora and
escuients, a due share of praise should be
awarded to the successful wonders accom-
plished by the little humming- birds and bees
in glorifying, the fora and adding SO greatly
to the value of the fruit and esculents of the
Pacific Coast. Their lifetime's pollinations
have not been in vain.
In some twenty years experience in Oregon
and California have found that one could
procure entirely new seeds-potatoes, beans
and corn especially-from the sStates," and in
less time than four years the wild and do
mestic bees had hybridized and created new
varieties by aid of their subtle means OF
polIination. And the same effects with
native and exotic flora and herbal plants
Judging from the present effects of the hum
ming birds and bees hybridizing the eucalypti
in Southern California, Rave not the slightest
doubt but that in less than ten years. time
many varieties OF the numerous family of
eucalyptus will have to be renamed. The
little workers can accomplish in months per-
lection of hybridizing that man can only sue
ceed in by years of patience and perseverance.
BURRIs.
Soldiers Home, Los Angeles County, March
12 1896
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
ENGLAND'S NEW ALLY.

The new treaty OF alliance between Eng
land and Italy was the result of England's
fear that King Menelek's victory over the
Italian army would so encourage the der
wishes as to threaten the whole extent
of European civilization in Northern
Africa. The shrewdness of English diplo-
macy in forming this alliance is manifest.
French hostility cannot resist his move
ment, which has the additional indirect
support of the Dreibund. The new alliance
means that international jealousies in
Europe ale to be buried, in the face of
common duty to exterminate slave-dealing
in Northern Africa.
Although Simonetti, the Italian Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs, has assured the
Senate at Rome that the alliance has been
formed for defensive interests" he ad-
mitted that if the Dongola expedition was
aimed at the reconquering of the Soudan,
Italy must look to the restoration of Kas-
sala. That means a war of conquest in
Africa. Already General Baldissera has
begun to move to the relief of Adigrat,
where the fugitives of the italian army are
hopelessly awaiting determination unless
Europe comes to the rescue.
England, in it's advance up the Nile,
will not again make the mistake that it
committed when it sent "Chinese Gordon"
in 1884 to oppose moral suasion against
the revolt of the Mahdi and his slave
holding followers. The bitter lesson was
learned in the tragedy OF Khartoum that
savage fanaticism was more potent than
civilized intelligence. Gordons own fol-
lowers turned against him under the in
fuence of the Mahdi and Osman Digna
Even Wolseley's expedition for the relief
of Khartoum failed to rescue the Soudan
from the slave-traders' grasp, and served
only to fill the Dervishes with a fierce de-
termination to restrict the influence of
Egypt to the coast.
The British now hold Suakin, which
is 400 miles north of Massowah, the
Italian base of supplies on the Red
Sea, but all the region on the Nile
below Wady Halfa is in the hands of the
Mahdists. The Kassala expedition would
be illogical unless we assume that the des-
tination OF the English expedition is
Omdurman, the capital of the Mahdi, just
across the White Nile from Khartoum.
The Anglo Italian alliance is undoubtedly
intended not only to restore Italy's pres
tige in Abyssinia, but also to recover to
England the whole of the Soudan from
Darfour to Abyssinia, and of the Nile Val
ley to Gondokoro. Menelek's victory and
twelve years of English apathy will make
the task difficult, but never before has
there been SO powerful an association
of European interests in common cause,
and this means the inevitable conquest Of
all Africa between the second cataract of
the Nile and the Red and Mediterranean
seas.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
CURRENT HUMOR.

Smither-I hear that Sizzletop and Buzzfuzs
had a big fight when they were out cycling
yesterday, -
Rinktums-Why, don't see what they he'd
to fight over. They both rode the same make
of fwheel.-Judge.
"Blest if 1 can understand this currency
question. asked somebody what legal
tender was, and he said it was like this: If
owe you 81 and offer you 50 bill to settle
the debt you must take it." ''Well, that's
rightp eyes; but what a blooming idiot you
would be if you wouldn't take itl"-Puck.
He-Can you cook?
she-Cook? don't believe in q woman
doing mems work"
Wife (dreariIy)-Ah me, the days of chiYalry
are past.
Husband-What's the matter now7
Wife-Sir Walter Raleigh laid his cloak on
the ground for Queen Elizabeth to walk over,
but you get angry simply because poor, dear
mother sat down. on your hat.-TitBits.
Teacher-Your additions are wrong every
time; is there no one to help you at home?
eyes; father does"
s'But he always makes the answer too big,
What is he, then?"
ga waiter"
"Ah, 1 see" ."-Schone Blaue Donau.
Bobby-Popper, what makes them call hard
times ''a rainy day." and talk about laying up
something for rainy day?
Mr.. Ferry-It is called that, my son, because
on rainy day there is no dust in sight.-Cin.
cinnati Enquirer.
His Mama-Johnny, think of thatl No less
than 81, All ,602 pies were eaten in Boston last
year.
Johnny-H'm; that isn't much. I en- eat
most that many myself.-Roxbury Gazette.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

r. G. Stevens, general western passenger
agent at Seattle OF Jim Hiil's famous overland
road, the Great Northern, is one OF the con-
spieuous figures about the rotunda OF the
Occidental Mr.. Stevens has spent nearly all
his life in Chicago, and only went to Seattle a
couple of years ago. Things are new and
strange to himyet, and he says he finds it diff
cult to adjust himself to the new conditions.
Mr.. Stevens takes no stock in the story pub
lished in mining paper that the western
terminus OF the Great Northern has been
moved from Seattle to New Whatcom, on Bel
lingham Bay.
"Idon't see where they get the foundation
for this story" said he. sI have seen and
heard nothing in regsrd to such change. The
Great Northern has acquired terminal grounds
at Seattle. in the south part of the city, and is
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
LADY'S WAIST WITH BOX-PLEATED
BLOUSE FRONT.

The waist shown here has a. fitted lining,
over which the material is laid in box-pleats
in the front, the back being smooth at the top,
with four tiny pleats at the waist line. The
lining fastens in the center front, the box
pleated front hooking at the shoulder and
under the arm-seam on the left side. The
sleeves are leg-o'mutton shape, and are shown
herewith trimming of lace. The same lace
is laid over the back at the top in yoke fashion,
and is placed between the pieats in front to
simulate yoke.
The model is much used for silk waists, with
lace trimmings as shown here. A green and