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The herald., 1896-04-23
Los ANGELES HERALD: THURSDAY MORNINGS APRIL aa 1885,

tional deals in Australian for export and in
far western wool for Rhode Island mills
The sales since January l, 1896. have ag-
gregated 61.6H.615 pounds. against S7.315,-
425 pounds in the corresponding period of
1Sg5
The herald., 1896-04-23


Commenting on the depressed condition of
trade in canned goods, especially canned
fruit and vegetables, Baltimore Trade, the
organ of that industry, says:
eve have arrived at rock bottom situa-
ton where there is no profit in the goods
on hand. no orders for futures being placed.
no advances to be had from the banks on
goods to be packed hereafter, and no hope
that prices will be better during the sea-
son. If the knowledge of such condition
as this tempts any one to embark in the
business. others may envy his courage, but
not his judgment. With such a present and
future for the market, buyers may hope or
expect to get goods at less prices than at
present rule but reasonable people can
scarcely see the possibility of it. In other
words, the grain of consolation in the mar
ket is that as prices evidently cannot be
worse all the chances are that they may
be better"
The Southern Pacific Railroad company
report shipments of dried fruit to the east
from points north of Tehachepi in March
as 271 cars of ten tons each, and So cars
of raisins. This is a small movement and
indicates light stocks remaining in the
state.
The herald., 1896-04-23
Stockholders Meeting.

OFFICE OF THE CUCAMoNGA LAND
" Co., Los Angeles, California
The regular annual meeting of the stockholders
OF the Cucamonga Fruit Land Co. will be held at
the Farmers and Merchants bank. Los Angeles
Cal, Monday. the 4th day OF May. at o'clock p m
for the purpose of electiDg board of directors for
the ensuing and the transaction of such OF her
business as may properly come before such meet
ing Il. T. WRIGHT, Secretary
-oy-S0
The herald., 1896-04-23
BOSTON WOOL MARKET.

BOSTON, April 22.-The American Wool
the wool trade: The sales in the principal
markets have amounted to 4.063 100 pounds,
9 2S5, 900 pounds foreign and III, 500 pounds
Domestic. The situation has essentially
The herald., 1896-04-23

BOSTON QUOTATIONS.
BOSTON, April 22.-Atchison 1874: Bell
Telephone, 2O5M; burlington, S1ss; Mexican
11H; San Diego, 10.
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tato bags, 4; dried fruit sacks. 100 lbs, 6isQ
12 bean sacks, 5; walnut bags, 14Ql6; wool
sacks, 80.
BEANS AND DRIED PEAs-Pink. s1.5O
I1.60 lima, ,s275M3.oo: Lady Washington.
cos. small, S200N2.50; garvancos, large,
$500 100: green field peas, S2.5o43 0O black
eyed beans, $22SM2.50; lentils,m ~ imported.
POTATOES-P 100 lbs. Burbanks 500
Csc: Nevada, $lM1 10; common grades. 5oM
Goc: new.- $l.50M1.75; sweet, $1.7512.O0 bur-
bank seed, $1.00
GRATN-Wheat. $l.101t.2o: corn. 9O49lc
feed barley, 75c; oats. $l10q1.25; all per 100
pounds.
The herald., 1896-04-23
TREASJrRy STATENENr


WASHINGTON, April 22.-Todays state
ment of the condition of the treasury
shows, Available cash balance, $40 S35, :
'3'; gold reserve, 1926, 340, ,06S.
The herald., 1896-04-23

PETROLEUM.
NEW YORK, April 22-Petroleum closed
l22tS
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LINES OF VEL
Leave for
Ar. from


COUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY
- TINE TABLE-MARCH 30, 1890
The herald., 1896-04-23
BOND LIST.

NEW YORK, April 22.-The following
were the closing quotations ON bonds today:
The herald., 1896-04-23
1914; May, 291s; July,
1874; May, 1872; July,
CLOSING STOCKS.

On the produce exchange today the but
ter market was steady; creamery, l0ul3l2
dairy, 9W13. Eggs were steady at S4l0.
The herald., 1896-04-23

. Chatsworth Parlt-Ieave from and arrive at
River Station, San Fernando street. only
A Sundays excepted Saturdays and Sundays
only.
All S.P. Co. trains stop &. First street (except
the four San Francisco trains) and Commercial
street except the S:.5 san Francisco evenn;
train), in the business center OF the city sayin
time and street car fares to passengers
General Passenger Office. a2l s. Spring street.
The herald., 1896-04-23

unT[I UnlVDnnn RIV ERSIDE, CAL p,
Evening star., 1896-02-22
LANGDON.

postmaster o. T. Putnam is Quite III
ofhcer Wannell has completed the for,-
oation to his new house on Franlfor,
Street
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bowden have moved
TO Washington.
Inc scholars of Langdon school Gala
orated Washington's birthday with annro-
pirate patriotic songs and recitations Tba
schooi room was beautifully decorated with
Hass. Inc exercises opened with the sing
ing OF America by the school AJiss
'eissoA' teacher In charge then spoke
upcn the patriotism and character Of
ndsninston, which was followed witb
snort REGULATIONS by Susie Morgan Ethel
Baker, Elsie Brown, Olive McNesI, EtnaI
watson, Bessie Haskell Walter Brown
ana Harry Maoauley. Five little girls sang
.ne reIraih OF the Star Spangled Banner"
tn1 Whoie school joining in the chorus
winch closed the events OF the day
Last Monday evening MIR. and Mrs I r
BAKER entertail.ed the LalI gdon Whist Club
al their charming hcme, Oh I'D street, Be-
SIDES the regular members of the club.
Cept- and Mrs. Bartlett, Mr. and Miss
King, Mr. and Mrs. McNeal and Mr.. and
MIS-. 1. ). Baker. all OF whom were pres
ent. were several guests, Miss Anna Mar
shall of Washington, Mrs. Brown of War
saw. n. Y; MIR. r. c. Walton and Mr. T.
Massey. After twenty-four closely con-
Tested games of duplicate whist dainty re-
freShments were served. The table and
dining room were artistically decorated
with white pnks and lilies of the valley.
lnterminSled with ferns and smilax.
The marriage of DIR. Thomas H. Sher-
wood and Miss Mary A Phoebus, both of
Winthrop Heights, ID. c., took place Thurs
day evening, February 70.
Evening star., 1896-02-22

that the skeleton of a living being can be
photographed. or ''shadow-graphed," while
1t IS yet clothed with flesh. We are indebted
probably for the great public interest shown
In Prof Roentgen's discovery, for that dis
coyery is only the latest development ofea
series of investigations that have been GO
ing on for the past thirty years in England
and Germany. none of which have attracted
great popular attention, although they have
been eagerly followed and discussed by stu
dents.
made SO perfect that nearly all the air
could be pumped out of a glass bulb. the
hehaFior of the remnant has been noticed
and wondered at 1t is so peculiar that
Is often said to be in fourth state OF
matter the other three states OF matter
being respectively the solid. the liquid
and the gaseous. If two metal points be
soldered into the bulb so that a rapidly
alternating current of electricity can be
PASSED through the gas from induction
tube. so named from William Crookes.
the distinguished English physicist and
chemist. from whose experiments the first
clear light On these phenomena was
gained When the exhaustion of the tube
Is sufficiently high there proceed from the
negative electric pole (calIed by physicists
the 'cathode'D faint rays or streamers
which have been named cathode rays"
These move in straight lines ard cause
many objects on which they are directed
10 shine with a wonderfully beautiful
pnos phoreScent light They also exert
pressure, as was beautifully shown by
crookes. who constructed one Of his tubes
with miniature glass railway within it.
on which rolled little wheel like a wind
mill When the cathode rays struck this
the wheel rolled rapidly from one end of
Inc tube to the other. The stream could
also be shifted about by magnetic at
traction All these discoveries were not
so sensational from a popular point of
view as the photography Of an invisible
OBJECT, but they were more so to scen-
lists. for at first sight they seemed mex
piioable. and they convulsed the scien-
1ific world for long time. Finally most
people settled down to acceptance of
Crookes explanation. which considered
the rays to be streams of air particles
tprobabiy actual molecules-the smallest
particles obtainable) charged with cleo
trfoity and shown off from the negative
Evening star., 1896-02-22

ermor plate, etc. weld so finely made ss
10 be quite invisible to the naked eye Is
brought out at once in shadow photo
grn'h ny the ROenIeen rays.
The process of making the shadow -photo-
graphs, as at present carried out, is of the
simplest. The object is placed on the plate
holder. and the Crookes tube is suspended
close above. thus throwing a shadow of
the object through the plate holder, on the
pate within. The feat may be performed
IN broad daylight. since sunlight cannot
penetrate the plate-holdcr. while the X
rays can.
Shadow photographs have also been made
recently by placing the object and the plate
pe~"een electrodes in open air, without the
intervention of the Crcokes tube a. ALL
rms. however. is not cathode photography
but the development Of a form of electro
magnetic photography that has been per
formed many times in the past two years
wore than year ago a photograph OF a
coin made in the dark by Professor San
!ord OF Leland Stanford University by law
ing u on a Photographic plate and subject
Ing 1t to a powerful alternating discharge
was Reproduced IN large number of tech
meal papers. The sensitive plate in this
case Is affected by electromagnetic waves
proceeding across 1t. 1t Is possible, how
ever, that there is a real connection be-
tween TINS process and cathode Dhotog-
raphy, and that when this connection is
known the whole mystery Of the cathode
rays will be cleared up.
II must rot be assumed however, that
all processes of photographing by inyis!-
BILE rays are the same There are MANY
Kinds of Invisible rays; for instance, those
OF invisible heat. as from a stove that is
not heated to redness. 1t is now possible
10 photograph with these last, as we'll as
with the invisible ultraviolet rays of the
extreme upper part OF the spectrum. The
Roentgen discovery. like most widely no
lced discoveries. has been productive of a
large amount of sensational predic lions and
foolish suggestions, many of them the re-
suit OF a partial knowledge of the subject.
although some may perhaps bear fruit in
new discoveries. The hope that great prac-
teal results will follow in the Way Of The
photography Of the interior Of solid bodies
seems hardly warranted by anything thai
has been done 50 far. The possibility that
the human system has excited interest hIt
none has yet been discovered, although
Thomas A. Edison has announced that he
Evening star., 1896-02-22

is ABOUT to experiment on their properties
as serm-killers. AS Is well known ordinary
sunlight Is fatal or injurious to the growth
OF dlsecse germs. and the new rays NAV
possibly be more so. During a recent at
tempt TO photograph a mouse with the
rays. the animal which was supposed to he
crowned, revived, and this incident was
mace ire most CT. in a sensational man
ner. put the expcrinenter himself said that
ne peHcVea the rays had nothing 10 DO with
the mols es recovery
one OF the directions In which new dis
ccEeries may follow Is that of ran1erire.
the image or shadow cast by tha raYs
1jsioIe 10 the eye. A process proDosed bv
MI thompson. New York electrical en-
sineer. Is to receive the shadow n;cturs On
d surface covered with a fuoreseent s,,h-
stance instead of on photographic n1.+e
fluroascence would be excited in yarviuc
degrees, according to the proportion az The
rays transmitted by the object. and p sbsI
ow picture OF it would thus spnear 80
responding to the shadow-photogranhs al
ready taken. This process mas NOT NO,
developed in dstail, but there seems "a ~,
no reason why it should not succeed al
though the hopes of the ,nyertor If -.
alleged. he expects by its aid to see tho b,,.
man heart beating in the living body na,
never be realized. 1t must be iemeIoiaray icy
however. that in discovery of this Li;
deiicacy Of result depends largely ON nar'
lection of detail in the process. and tho
generation that has seen the dev.Ionmant
OF the modern photograph, together wiz
the kihetoscope. the telephone and rho
phonogrdph, need Lot be surprised at nv
tfing IN this line. Only the skeptjcs MAJ
be pardoned for wishing to see before tha3
fully believe. >"eS
Evening star., 1896-02-22
MODERN HOUSE INTERIORS,
A Unique Display Showing the Fur.
nishinE of n ParlOr Floor.

Unique Display Showing the Fur
nishinE of n ParlOr Floor.
A unique feature of the display Of furni-
ture in the establishment of w. B. Moses
& Sons has just been completed. and is
now ready fer the inspection of the pub
lie and patrons Of his enterprising firm. 1t
consists of suite of rooms representing
those which are usually found on the first
or parlor floor of residence and the
scheme is carried out with completeness
tfat is believed to have never before been
equaled in this country.
There is first an entrance hail. then come
a drawing room. library, Turkish room
and dining room. All Of these rooms are
complete in the various details, are hand
somely lighted and show the modern style
that prevails In the decoration and furnish
ing of this portion OF a residence The
framing about the doorways and windows
and the treatment of the walls exhibit to
advantage the woods and the decorations
that are used.
An interesting detail in the drawing
room is the filling of window frame with
mirror. showing what an effective adjunct
to handsomely furnished room a device of
this sort can be. Especial interest will be
taken in the drawing room because Of the
rich furniture. which is in the style of
Vernis Martin. The marquette floor shows
off to advantage the gold furniture
ne Ipfary is 1lnlShed in red, with furnf-
ture of inlaid wood, imported from France,
and some fine pieces of East India black
wood. An oriental atmosphere is readily
recognized in the Turkish room, the walls
of which are hung with rich Turkish hang
ings. There are luxurious divans and
chairs, covered with Turkish scarfs and
stuffs. The dining room is supplied with
Flemish articles Of furniture, and there
is one piece which is looked upon with es-
pecial interest, as it is an old black oak
linen press from European monastery
and is said to be over one hundred and ten
years old
Evening star., 1896-02-22
RELIEF WORK IN TRANSVAAL.
President Kruger Makes n Speech
That Is Well Received.

That Is Well Received.
The latest estimates place the number Of
deaths from the explosion Of dynamite at
Niedendorp, near Johannesburg, South Afri-
ca, Wednesday evening. at 100, and about
400 persons more or less seriously injured
A number Of the wounded have succumbed
to their injuries. The white victims were
chiefly of the poorer class Of Beers Whole
families Of white people were wiped out
President Kruger has arrived from Pre-
toria. In speech, he congratulated the
inhabitants upon the splendid manner in
which they have sunk all race feuds in the
common endeavor to relieve the suffering
resulting from the disaster. He added that
he earnestly trusted that the good feeling
which has arisen from a common sorrow
much better feeling in the future between
the Boers and the Uitlaniers.
The presidents remarks have had a great
effect upon the foreign population, and il is
believed that the reforms in the internal
administration of the Transvaal which have
SO long been advocated by the Uitlanders
will shortly be inaugurated in a form which
will give general satisfaction.
President Kruger has been chosen nres;
dent of the relief committee, and he ia
directing the work of clearing the rszsi
ground at Viedendorp and sheltering the
thousands Of people who have been ren
dered homeless by the terrible calamity.
All the corrugated iron available is sent
to Johannesburg, and the work Of erecting
huts for the homeless has already COM
menced. The popular subscription raised in
behalf of the distressed people already
amounts to over $500, 900.
Evening star., 1896-02-22

pole. or cathode Just as a charged pith
hall is repelled from an electrical ma
chine. The reason that the phenomenon
appeared only in high vacuum was ac-
cording to him. that in air or gas of ordi-
nary density even the density of the So
called vacuum under the bell of an
old-fashioned air pump. the molecules are
not Tree to move for sensible distances
without striking against one another
their Tree path, in other words, was
toc small This explanation has been
gwen without comment In most OF the
orthodox books on physics. But about
Two years ago German experimenters
threw bombshell into the English camp
by showing that the cathode RAYS would
pass through thin films or sheets of GER
tain metals. and that by inserting an
aluminium window in the glass tube
they could even be made to pass out into
ordinary air. Hence. it was argued. they
could not be streams or molecules but
must be kind of light. and Lenard. one
OF the German Investigators. pointed out,
IN additional support of this view, that
The rays would produce photosraphic i'm
Pressions. If he had followed this up
Roentgens discovery would have been an
feoated. As 1t is. these experiments hay.
again thrown into doubt a matter that
was once thought by many to be definitely
Explained. The English stand by Crookcs
the Germans by Lenard, ard each side
has obtained new experimental evidence
thet only adds to our perp!eyity. If the
rays are streams Of electrified gas how
DO they strike through solid objects and
take photographs? If they are a kind OF
light why do they drive windn,ilIs and
follow magnet?
1t can now be seen that Rocntgen's dis
covery was only the logical outcome of a
long series OF previous experiments To
say this is net to belittle him. for this Is
the usual course of discovery and inyen-
lion. Rotntgsn's discovery is that the
Evening star., 1896-02-22

cathode rays, Or that part Of them capa-
bic Of taking photographs, or perhaps q
second kind OF rays generated by them,
will pass not only through an aluminium
window. but through the glass sides OF the
tube itself and through most solid sub
stances. ard that they win SO pass with
different degrees of case. If they passed
through all substances alike. the shadow
pictures already referred to could not be
taken; it Is only because, for instance. the
bones are more opaque to them than the
flesh that We can make q shadow photo
graph Of the skeleton Of the hand.
The actual discovery WAS made by acc1-
dent, and in his original description Of It,
read at WurZburg last mcEth. Prof. Roent-
gen does rot dwell particularly on the pho
tograpbic possibilities. He made the dis
covery by noticing that phosphorescent
substance near a Crookes tube over which
q cloth had been thrown gave out gleam
wherever the current was gent through
tho tube. although the cloth prevented the
tubes light from being seen. Tho discover
er Is decidedly of the opinion that the rays
which pass the glass walls Of the tube are
not the cathode rays, but hitherto un-
known kind Of rays generated by the cath
ode rays In the gisss itself. Hence he calls
them the K rays, since the letter X Is
used in algebra to designate an unknown
quantity. He bases his conclusion largely
on the fact that q magret VIII not defect
the new rays, while Its power over the
cathode reys is one Of their most peculiar
Lenard discovered seme time ago that the
cathode rays ware not simple. hut made up
Of several different kinds Of radiation.
some of which were detected by the mag
net more easily than others.
Roentgen suggests, in accordance with the
general German belief. that the cathode
rays are a kind of light or al least akin to
light, that the new rays are vibrations
lengthwst in the ether. instead of cross
wise. as those of ordinary light are sup
posed to be. Such ribra tons have long
beer looked for by physicists, and it is
natural that any rev phenomenon should
be ascr!bed to them. But Roentgen him
self admits that there is not yet any posi-
tive evidence for his view.
The discovery once made, the experi-
ments were quickly repeated and arp'!fied
all over the world. since they require 10
very delicate manipula ton nor costly tsp-
paratus. In this country they have been
Performed with great success by Professor
Wright and Mr.. Runstead Of Vale. by Pro-
fessor Trowbridge at Harvard. by Professor
Pupin at Columbia. and by Thomas 4.
Edison.
The possible use Of the Roentgen shadow
Photography in surgery was suggested In
the first reports of the discovery. Professor
Wright has succeeded by its means. in To-
eating a large number Of shot in the body
of a rabbit. and in Montreal bullet was
found in mans leg by the same means
One direction in which the invention
promises to he particularly useful is In the
detection OF flaws in metal. as in castings,
Evening star., 1896-02-22


1loentgen and his followers have made one
answer to the latter question fsmiliar-the
rays discovered by him will pass through
many substances that are opaque to ordi-
nary light. and since they will affect a pho
geographic plate just as light does, shadow
pictures of objects inclosed in opaque mat
. ier may be made The word photograph
spphed TO these shadow pictures is unfor-
tunate. as by a photograph We usually un-
uerstand picture OF object taken by
hsht reflected from that object. No such
picture can be taken by the newly discov-
cred radiations- They cannot take, for in
stance, full-face picture of a man. though
they can throw shadow of his profile on
Inc sensitive plate. And since they can
traverse flesh more easily than bone, the
bones in the shadow picture of mans hand
stand out black, while surrounding flesh ap-
pears DINNER
10 this somewhat sensational discovery
Evening star., 1896-02-22

ms theater. Mr.. Johnston has also wr,,te,
a Hlarch called Beau BrunmeI" and
iGaaeo the iaea II to Mr.. Harry c. Fisk. also Of
one LaIayette Square Theater, n has q
ca..hy theme and is quite pleasing
D., entertainment was recently given at
Vanns Vs mount. n c., for the benefit of the
49, monument fund, in which Miss
Mamie Donnelly OF this CITY nar,icr,. 80
nd hiat ,he wilmington Messenger speaks in
M i,asn a.. terms OF her work. referring to her
oo,,,s1il,st an srust of exquisite beauty and ac-
IN ,ha ,,'ae' VINO contributed largely
~ ine success of the entertainment.
al ,he catholic church choirs will p,ys
aperisi at Cd musical programs during Lent. and
az ot. Patr1cks Church there will he n
e.an eeahse IN the hour OF vespers from q 70
,t too Pm Pm. III Is the intention OF Prof Mama
ne oIrector OF the choir. to give the ..Jn,
Maniinatus and other selections fron,
hossinis "Stahat Mater" Curing the Lem.
In season. the large and efficient choir
at.orIlhg on good material for this, as Well
acter.- ai SAars
Evening star., 1896-02-22
SHOT DOWN BY HIS SON.
Tragedy ON the Streets of Nashville
Yesterday.

E. r. Campbell, ex-clerk Of the United
States district court, was shot and killed by
his son. Robert Campbell, at Nashville.
Tenn, yesterday. Young Campbell has
been resal ded as mentally unsound for scnls
time.
Mr.. Campbell was walking on North Vine
street with his son, E. R. Campbell, jr..
when the latter suddenly drew revolver
and shot his father just o-er the right ear,
bell fell and expired instantly Young
Campbell was Immediately taken into GUS
tody and conveyed to the police station
He IS twenty-siX years old. and had been
a patient at private sanitariums in Mlchi-
gan and Tennessee at different times 1t is
thought the killing was due 10 the belief On
the part of young Campbell that his father
INTENDED to send him back 20 an asylum for
treatment. Deceased had been clerk of the
United States district court for many years,
and was well known.
Evening star., 1896-02-22

While temporarily insane Mrs. Ethel Kel-
so. wife of George Alfred Kelso, business
manager of Martin & Browns printing es-
tablishment of New York, killed her two
children, Ethel aged four. and George.
aged two. in that city Thursday. and then
attempted suicide. From the circumstances
surrounding the case it is believed that
Mrs. kelso had delib erately planned to
commit suicide, but that she did not at
first intend to kill her children, and that
their murder was due to q sudden impulse
as result or homicidal mania with which
she was afflicted.