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The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
MAJOR sHREvE IN A KILT.
He Will Dance the Highland Fling in
Scottish Costume.

Major Shreve of the governors office
who has been keeping lunatics from
overrunning the executive office and
been generally useful in that depart
ment in many other ways during Gov
Leedy's term, will doff his official robe
Thursday night, and clad in a Scotch
garb viii appear at an entertainment
land fling and plantation dances.
the majors daughter, Miss Netta
Fay Shreve, will entertain with the
butterfly and skirt dances during the
same evening.
a party of officials from the state
house and their families, will attend
the entertainment.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
Annual Possum Hunt .

Postmaster A. ]. Arnold says that
the annual possum hunt in which Capt
Dan Wyatt, Tony Brown, himself and
others take part will be held sometime
this month 1--WE have found a daisy
place for it." said he. "Of course Tony
Brown win go along. A pOssum hunt
without Tony would be like the play
of Hamlet without Hamlet in it. Tony
is charter nnember.''
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
woRKMEN BETTER OFF.
Labor Commissioner johnson Says
the Situation is Greatly Improved.

Labor Commissioner Lee johnson.
who has been travelling over the state
for a couple of months accommodating
statistics for his forthcoming annual
report, says:
The average condition of these men
in Kansas" said Mr.. Johnson to
Journal reporter today sis much better
this fail than it has been for years past.
A large share of the workmen are idle
usually a part of the summer and un-
less they have some money laid up for
the winter, they are very likely to ex-
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13

Believes His Theory OF Capital Pun
ishment is Correct

Governor Leedy on being told that
most Of the state officers were opposed
to capital punishment said:
I cannot help that nor can I infiu-
ence the opinions or sentiment of 9TH
ers, but I do feel that 1 am right on
this matter. L reiterate what L said
and which was correctly reported in
the Journal and propose to stand ex-
actly upon that ground. There is in
my mind no question as to the absolute
correctness of my theory"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
Lake stot1ar Moe to kansas Citn.

Jacob StotIer the former we'll known
Kansas editor and politician who first
conducted a daily paper at Emporia,
and later at Wellington has located at
Kansas City, No, and is conducting a
private boarding house on Oak street.
Mr.. Stotler has been engaged in the
hotel business at West Plains. Mo. for
two years, but has disposed of his in
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
sIMPSON,IBAILEY, INGALLS,.
Notable List of Speakers Billed for
Oklahoma's Territorial Fair.

Guthrie. O. T, Oct. 13.-The attend
ance at the oklahoma territorial fair is
large and every ybOdy is surprised at the
magnificent display of live stock, grain,
fruits, vegetables and cotton. The cen
ter of attraction is the great cotton
palace.
Today Congressman Jerry Simpson
will speak, Congressman Bailey on
Thursday and ex-senator ingalls, Fri
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13

perience want and some times acute
misery before winter ends.
Taken as a whole" said Mr.. John
son, the labOring men of Kansas have
done more work this summer than they
have done for years, but I see no in
crease in wages, or least none to speak
of. They have simply earned more be-
cause there has been more for them to
do, Yet, they are paying more for
wheat, flour, etc, than they did last
year There were fewer dollars last
year, but a dollar Went further,
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
GOV. TANNERS OUTING.
He Killed Several Deer in the Colo
rado Mountains

Denver. Col, Oct. Ex-Governor John r.
Tanner of Illinois and party. who have
been on a camping and hunting trip at
De Beque. arrived here late last night
and left Immediately in a special car over
the Burlington for Chicago.
The party killed several deer while on
the trip and Governor Tanner was greatly
pleased with his outing
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
JUDGE BREW WERMENTIONED
May be Made President ofthe Foreign
Missions Society.

New Haven Conn, Oct. 13.-David J.
Brewer of Washington. associate Justice
of the United States supreme court, who
is prominently mentioned for the presi-
dency of the Foreign Missionary society
for the coming year, has arrived.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
Don't Tobaeco spit and smoke Your Life away.

To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic, full OF life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bac. the wonder-worlIer that makes weak men
strong. All druggists soc or 81. Cure guaran-
teed. Booklet and sample free Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
FRANCES TRADE GROWS.
Official Returns Show a Large In.
crease in Imports and Exports.

Paris, Oct. 13.-The official returns just
issued show that the French imports fer
the third quarter of 1897 have 1nc .eased
SO 035.000 francs over the same period OF
1885. and the returns also show that the
exports of France have increased PIP, ,427,-
coo francs over the same period of last
year.
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To Leaverworth and Return

For G. A. R reunion $1.67 by the Union
Pacific. Trains leave for LeaVenWorth
at 6:37 a. m. and p. m. Tickets good
until October Is.
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terests there and moved to Kansas City
where his son Will is employed on the
Kansas City Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13

V. V advertiser in Journal please
send address to Answer" care of
Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13

We do mendinE and sew on buttons
tree of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
OAsT0REA.

Baths 1Oc. sol Kansas avenue.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-07

me his account book, deed, and papers,
which show him to have been careful
anu m m,ethodioal man of affairs. A paper
Oh ms glme said of him, lever through
Iis Wnole NE has been remarkable LOT
MS exemplary department.. His wife,
1hary oi S NOV. 81, 1881, aged n years.
Daa ari CMMapInan has prepared for the
~ neera Ing, news the story of Capt: Means
as a cltlzen or Stroudwater. with an ac-
count OF his civil services to- his country,
Whicn Is very interesting and instructive.
In1s he also loaned u.s. and il is another
one OF tnose Valuable contributions of his
to the history Of that ancient hamlet.
Capt. james Means was brave patriot
ana one OF tnose men who did not hest
tate at the call of his country. His
country's enemies were his enemies. and
he never faltered until Wasbinoton dis.
banded the army in 1888. The record of
the services he rendered in the lone Revo.
lutionary war, are of lasting credit TIC
him and the town where he lived.
James Means enlisted as q cornoral in
Capt. John Brackets Company. in Col
Edmund Phinney's 3lst Regiment OF
Foot, May IL, IT'S, and served at Cam.
bridge, under Gen. Washington, unit,
Dec. 81. They were in Gen. Heath's
| Brigade, in Gen. Putnam's'' Division
Jan. l.. 1776, he enlisted as sergeant II
Capt. Hart Williamss Company, in Col
Phinneys 18th Continental Regiment
was promoted ensign, Aug. 3, and served
until Dec. 81. In these regiments he
| served through the siege of Boston, ane
marched in August. 1776, to reinforce the
northern army at Fort Ticonderoga, anc
was discharged at Fort George. Dec. 81
He was commissioned lieutenant to serve
| from Jan. ], III, in Col. Samuel Brew
er's 18th Mass, Regt., promoted to cap
tain July 5, 1879, transferred to the Mass
| Regt., Lieut.. Col. Ebenezar Sprout, Jan
1, 17S1, and continued in the service unit
Nov. 8, 1888, when the army was dis
| missed
Capt. Means's regiment was in the bat
| ties Of Saltwater and Saratoga, witnessed
the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne, joined
marched to Valley Forge Dec. 10, 1777
| where they passed that terrible winter, ant
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-07
coming generation who will think they

coming generation who will think they
require the ground. They little thought
when they chose their last resting place,
by the desolate shores of Old Orchard,
that their graves would be the centre of
such pandemonium as now exists there
in the summer season. A
Capt. Means was one OF those men who
first resisted the insults of England to
the colonies, and on the receipt of the
news OF the battle of Lexington, on the
morning of April 21, 1775, seized his gun
and started that day in Capt John
Brackets Co., for Cambridge, to assist
his suffering countrymen. He was then
about twenty-five years Of age, and
ranked as third corporal. The company
was sent back after they arrived at Wells,
and three weeks later he enlisted under
the same captain in Col. Phinney's Regi.
ment, and continued in the service az
will appear in his army record. After
nearly eight and one half years of service
he returned to Stroudwater and married
Mary Cox, April 4. 1875. She was the
daughter of John Cox, who left the coun-
try in the Revolution for Nova Scotia
where he died. They were the parents OF
six children, but have no descendants by
the Means name.
Capt James Means became merchant,
and with him in some of his business
transactions were associated some of his
old companions in arms. They were Capt
John Kilby Smith, of Gen. Lafayette
staff, Major Archelaus Lewis, of Col.
Vose's Regt., Capt. Jesse Partridge OF
Col. Creations Regiment, James Webt
and Andrew Pepperrell Frost, Capt.
Partridge built the house where Andrew
Halves, ESQ.,, now lives.
Capt. Means built the two-story hip
rooted house, wooden with brick lends,
now standing on the hill facing Stroud
water bridge, in 1897. This year it COM
pletes its first century of existence. II
was house of character then and stands
today a monument to his good taste and
Judgment The parlor, in the north cor
ner, is a good sample of the tasteful fin
ish of that period. He filled the import
ant offices, in the gift of his town and
county, to the satisfaction OF the people
and at one time was canoloaIe Ior
member of Congress. Though the courte
sy of l.. B. Chapman, Esq, OF STROUD
water, we have been enapleo 10 exam
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-07

There died at Stroudwater, on Oct.
18th, 1889, at the age of seventy-nine
years, man of some note, in his time,
who seems to have been almost forgotten
by the busy world. The memory OF his
life deserves we'll of u.s. for as citizen OF
Old Falmouth he served us we'll and
faithfully. He was Capt. James Means,
who came from that part OF Saco. now
Old Orchard, to Stroudwater. when a
young man. He was the son of John and
Eleanor (Johnson) Means and grandson
of Robert Means who came from ireland,
a young man, lived first in Massaohu.
setts, then at Falmouth Neck, afterward
at Stroudwater, then at Cape Elizabeth
about ten years, finally moving to SAGE
where he died. His wife was a Miss Arm
strong and she lived until she was about
one hundred years of age. The Means
family are of Scotch Irish origin.
Robert Means died in 1863. aged z!
years, and his son John died in 1776
aged AZ years. Many remember the lone
ly graves, with the slate stones by the
side of the walk from the Boston & Maine
railroad station to the beach at Old Or.
chard Those were the graves of Rober,
and John Means, the grandfather and
father of Capt. James Means. Under
the green plot they now lie undisturbe6
where they weree originally buried, the
slate stones having been laid fat ovel
their graves. Here they will rest in peace
until they may be disturbed by some
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-07
DEERING.
DEERING CENTER.

Mr.. and Mrs. J. Fred Marston, Russell
street. have left for trip through the
eastern part of the state and the prov.
inces and will be ssabsent about two or
three weeks.
Lane, Burnham & Hutchins have the
contract for large double tenement to
be erected on Glenwood avenue.
Mr.. j. T. Gordon has moved from
Clark street to Best street.
Mr.. r. G. Marshall has moved from
Pleasant street to Clai k.
| Mrs, VIM. Soule's two children are
much improv ed from their severe attack
of bronchial pneumonia and will soon
be out again.
Capt. Alvin Hall had days outing
Wednesday over the Maine Central up to
Fabyan and vicinity.
| Mr.. Winnie Body / returned from
his brief visit to Boston, Mass.
| Mr.. G. B. Crockett and Thomas Cor
don of Deering Center, have bought out
the tinware business of F. E. Briggs and
will continue the business in the old
Royal Leighton store at Woodfords.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Hutchins, who have been
visiting relatives in KNOXVILLE, have
! returned home.
Hose No 2 held its regular meeting at
the hose house Monday evening. 1t was
voted to have the Taper that is in the
house at present removed to the house Of
the driver, A. L. Cobb, Clark street, and
clam supper in the near future was
! also suggested.
| Mr.. G. II. Lidback is in Boston for q
| few days on business.
Miss Jennie Body has gone to Boston
| for several weeks stay.
| Mr. S. H. Redmond has gone on a
hunting trip in the wilds Of Bingham.
At the regular meeting of the Good
| Templars Tuesday evening two candi-
dates were initiated.
The young people of Deering Center
will have social at Hoegg Opera House
Saturday evening, October IS. Oysters
| will be served from to s p. M. Enter.
tainment from Sto 9. Tickets to every
thing will be 25 cents. All are cordially
invited,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-07

David Hoyte. Unlisted March 20, 1881.
years.
Phinehas Rigg. Unlisted April IS, 1881.
years. On duty.
Clifford Porter Unlisted March 10. 1881.
On command with Lieut.. Scammell 8
detachment.
Andrew Gilmore. Unlisted April 30,
1881. 3 years.
John Gamble. Unlisted Jan. IL, 1881.
years. On duty.
Jacob Hazen. Unlisted April II, 1881.
years
John Bowen. Unlisted March /, 1881.
years.
Ebenezer Cutler. Unlisted June 49,
1851 years. Sick in barrack.
Nathan She'd On ext IA service, Collier
3 years
Elkanah Elmes. Unlisted April IS, 1881.
8 years. On duty.
Elias Parkman. Unlisted March 10,
1881. years.
John Jordan. Unlisted Feb. 90, 1881.
Jabesh Wright. Unlisted July 8, 1881.
years.
John Brown Unlisted Feby. 8, 1871. 8
years.
Abel Marshall. Unlisted July 2, 1881.
On command at Stony Point.
Nathan Griffith. Unlisted July 20, 1881.
years. On duty
William Abbott. Unlisted feby. III,
1881. On comamnd with Capt. Pray.
Benjamin Toucee. Unlisted July Is,
1881. years
Thomas Huff Unlisted July "a, 1881. 8
years. On duty.
eWest Point, December z, 1881. Mus
tered then Captain Meanss company,as
specified in the above Roll"
GA WILLIAMS, Capt B. l."
Then on the back of the roll as "Proof
Of the Electives it states the following:
Present. Lieut., 2 Sergts., 2 Corps,
Drummers, 90 Privates.
Absent Capt, Sergt., 20 Privates.
Total-49 men.
II, John Whitney, do swear that the
within Muster Roll is a true state of the
company under my comamnd without
fraud to the United States or to any in
dividual, according to the best Of my
knowledge.
i"JOHN WHITNEY,
Lieut.. Commandant"
HSworn before me in Garrison, West
Point, December Is. 1881.
JOHN PATERSON,
B. Genl -
Let the name of James Means be pre-
served in the annals of Old Falmouth
and for what he was ana all he dared
remember him today N. G.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-07
CAPT. JAMES MEANS.

A Gallant Revolutionary Officer of Old
Faimouth-Two Muster Rolls of His
Comprehensive Old Home at Stroud
wafer.
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they would be bankrupt,
simply because the combination won twork
A sick man is in very much the same fix
about getting at the neurishment he needs
to keep him alive. There is plenty of good
food at hand, but his digestive organism is
out of ORDER the nutritive " combination y
of his system won't work. He can't posi-
bly, get at the nourishrnent contained in the
food. He takes it into his stomach, but it
does him no good. 1t isn't made into good
blood. He is just as badly off as if the
food was locked up where he couldn't touch
it. He gets no strength or health out of it.
All these mal-nutritive conditions have
perfect and scientific remedy in DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. 1t puts the NIL
tritive combination of the system into
perfect working order. 1t gives the diges-
tive and blood making organs power to
make pure, red, healthy blood, and pour it
into the circulation abundantly and rapidly.
1t drives out all bilious poisons and scrof-
ulous germs, cures indigestion, liver com
plant, nervousness and neuralgia, and
builds up solid flesh, active power and
nerve force.
Mrs Rebecca F. Gardner, of Grafton, York Co..
Va, writes: II was SO sick with dyspepsia that
could net eat anything for over four months
had to starve myself as nothing would stay on my
stomach was so badly off could not eat even a
cracker thought was going to die. weighed
only SO pounds. I tried almost everything,
and nothing did me any good, until took two
bottles of the Golden Medical Discovery am
now as well as ever was, and weigh Iz5 pounds"
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Condensed Testimony.

Chas B. Hood, Broker and Manutao'
turer's Agent. Columbus, Ohio, ceFtifes
that Dir. Kings New Discovery hes NO
equal as Cough remedy. J; d. Brown,
Prop, St.James Hotel, Ft. Wayne, Ind,
testifes that he was cured of Cough
OF two years standing, caused by La
Grippe, by DIR. Kings New Discovery. q.
T. Merrill, Baldwinssille, Mass says
that he has used and recommended IL ana
mover knew it to fail and wouiu rather
have it than any doctor, because it always
cures.
Mrs Remming. 2a2 e. 25th St :, Chi
cage, always keeps it at hand and has
no fear of Group, because it instantly re-
lieyes. Free Trials Bottles at ii; +. 3.
GOold's Drug Store, 577 Congerss st, IN
der Congress Square Hotel.
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Sometimes a
burglar only sue
ceeds in damaging
the lock of a safe
SO that the combi-
nation won't work.
Next morning the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-07

bank officers can't get at
their own money. There
may be millions in the safe,
but if their credit depended
on getting at it in a hurry
to-. a..1S L.
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The Grover VIII Case.

In the Proabte Court yesterday morn
ing Judge Peabody made a decree in the
will of the late Freeman Grover of Bruins
wick, allowing the will, and appointing
Mr.. Barrett Potter, Of Brunswick, ex-
eeutor.
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BuckEen's Arnica saIve.

: TIE LEST sALVE n lie world fo
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Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Cnapped
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no pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refun 1ed.
Price 20 cents per box. For Gale by Fl. p.
3 Goold, 5T Congress St., under Con-
gresS Square Hotel
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MUNYON'S /

Cold Cure cures colds in the head, colds on the
lungs, old colds new colds and obstinate cods and
the nose and eyes prevents catarrh, drhtheria
pneumonia, and all throat and lung troubles These
pleasant little pellets absolutely harmless, nave
saved thousands of lives and prevented much sick
ness The Munyon Remedy Company prepare
Is cents vial. IF you need medical ADVICE write
Prof Munyon, 1905 Arch Street, Philadelphia 1t Is
frons
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-27
ARTIFICIAL SILK.
Count de Chardsunst Claims to Have Pro-
ducsd 1t With Perfect Success.

Count de Chardsunst Claims to Have Pro-
dscsd 1t With Perfect Success.
Count Hilairs de Chardounst, the
French savant, is prepared to abolish
the silkworn and mako silk artifcially
superior to the natural article. Speak
ing about the invention he brought out
some two years ago, he says the worm
only mixes vegetable matter, suoh ~
mulberry leaves, with q gummy sub
stance and then winds it into threads
A quicker means of getting silk 10 to
reduce the leaves to pulp by machinery
and mix the product with sumny
substance similar to the silkworm's se-
erection. This, Chardounet says, no has
done with perfect success, and he asserts
that the silk thus produced is more bril-
liant in luster than the silk produced by
the worm The leaves Of the orange
and other trees may be utilized, and
the cost, it is estimated, will be aimin
ishsd three fourths.
The production of artificial silk BY
ths Chardounet process has been tried
both in France and England, and the
opinion of experts seems favorable 70 iti
success. Another process, differing bu
slightly from that of Count de Chardou
net, has also recently received attention
New York Sun.
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GOLD FROM SEA WATER.

Company Il Organized to Amass . For
tune In a Novel Manner.
The Electrolytic Marine Salt company
of Nswburyport, Mass, has been inoor-
poratsd at Portland, Me-, with a capital
stock of $40, 900, 900.
The purpose Of the company is to
wrsst from the sea the gold that is held
in solution, according to the promoters
belief, by a jealously guarded secret
process. The DISCOVERY Of the wonder
full process by which the gold is to be
obtained is Row. P. f. Jernigen. He
saws there is one grain of gold in each
ton of sea water, and by handling bill
lions of tons Of the salty the company
expects to amass q fortune exceeding
the dividends of the Standard Oil trust,
The first issue of stock to be placed
ON the market will comprise 100, 0Ot
shares. The company proposes to place
a large block of the stock on the New
York market. On the coast OF Maine
there is an abandoned gristmill whlcf
will be used by the company in its mrs
essay at recovering gold. The inventor
declares that a scientific experiment
proved that sea water was impregnate'
with gold. Chicago Times. Herald
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tho place of Professor Christomanos,
who for 20 many years past has attend
ed her majesty in all her wanderings
for the purpose Of teaching her Greek
and conversing with her in that Ian
guage. The professor for some reason or
other has been dismissed, and Barker
has taken his place as the constant COM
panion of the empress on her interim
nable pedestrian expeditions.
His duties are, to say the least, pc
culiar, for throughout the walk, which
lasts hours and extends over miles at an
exceedingly rapid pace. he has to read
almost necessarily to her from the daily
papers in English, French, German,
Italian and Spanish. He trots along be-
side her with q bundle of 25 or 30 news
papers under his arm, keeps up con-
slant flow of journalistic intelligence,
and when he shows signs OF being IA
tiQued in one language is asked to try
another. In order to prevent stumbling
in his precipitous progress he is forced
to keep one eye on the printed sheet
and the other on the path, with the re-
suit that his eyesight is becoming i'm
paired, so that his tenure of his present
appointment is not likely to prove
permanency. New York Tribune.
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THE UPPER YUKON.
WHAT CAPTAIN RAY REPORTS ABOUT
4 ALASKAN PROSPECTS.

Chance of New Route Into the Interior
Via the Upper Rivsr-Ths Yukon rs a
Trade Roulette Estimated white Pop
ulatien.
In order to realize actual facts of the
state Of affairs along the Yukon the fol-
lowing extract from the report from
Captain p. II. Ray of the Eighth in &.
fantry, u. S. A., is worth while read.
Ing The report is dated Fort Yukon,
Sept. 10, 1897:
1.-THE Yukon and its tributaries are
the great routes of travel and must be
for some time to come the highways
for the transportation of supplies for
the people of our territory and British
North America, and while tho immi.
grafton will be by various routes the
people once in the territory will be
compelled to follow the waterways, ow-
ing to the absence of all animal trans
portation, except dogs, in the winter.
with steamers and bsrgss of proper
construction and draft the capacity of
the Yukon il limited only to the num-
Der of vessels engaged in the work, and
should the south pass of the delta be
found to be navigable tho open season