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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-10-23
RAIL ROADS.
81 Souther n
CN Railway
SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE OCT. 0. 1898
TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND, VA.

SSHbDCl4b EFT ~ lAN II WI. " '~"o'
TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. VA.
1910 a. ~, No. II, Southern Express
daily for Atlanta. Augusta and
points south: sleeper Ilcnmond 10
Danvilie, Greensboro. salisbury
Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta,
Sleeper open at $3.50 +. NJ. stops at
al stations between Richmond and
sensers.
Connects at Danville. Salisbury
shq charlotte with the Washington
ana Southwestern Limited (No. 30.
cdTy'ng sleepers New York 20 Ashe-
Ntei not Springs, Chattanooga and
asnFI.e, New York 10 Memphis
VVe% York TO New Orleans. New
coach between between WashisstSo,aS ' and and
Memphis. Connections are made
Ior az points IN Texas and Califor-
e ei.S y S'sMgper open for occupancy at
R;ol 4 NJ. No. Z. solid train daily for
Shariotte, y. c.. connects az Nose
icy win tarmvile and Powhatan
yiIe n, AZ at kfesysyi.le for ciarks-
ham, and at Greensboro Tor Dur
nam Raleigh and Wnston-Salem:
a. DanViIe with No. %. United
states last mail solid train. daily
Ior sew Orleans and points South,
which carries sleepers New York To-
New Orleans and New York 90 Jack
sonylue Through Sleeper Salisbury
70 memphis also Pullman tourist
sleeper every Wednesday Washing
ION 10 san francisco without change.
e'VO Z NJ, No. II, local. daily except sun
Gay, for heysville and intermediate
points.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND.
Geo 4. A.
Go = All From Atlanta. Augusta.
Asheville.
$40 4. ST., from Keysvllle and local sta
lions.
LOCAL FREIGHT TRAINS.
Nos. Oh and s. between Manchester and
NcapOlis.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-10-23
LACE CURTAINS

in Carpet sizes. Sofa, Hearth size ar
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-10-23
BLANKETS AND COMFORTS.

Pride OF the West. 10c
Black and Colored Inning Cambrics. Sc.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-10-23
ENGLISH LONG CLOTH.

1000 yards Of very fine quality put up in
10 yard lengths at s 3-ic., actual value,
lCc
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-10-23

w L. Guillaudeu. Vice President and
Traffic Manager. New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
SENATOR MILLS RICH.
Oil Wells on His Land Rapidly Max
ing Him a Fortune.

Austin, Tex, Aug. 31-Lieutenant
Governor George T. Jester, who for
the past several days has been serving
acting governor during the tenn
pOrary absence from the state of Gov.
Culberson, is of the opinion that the
oil fields at Corsicana are destined to
equal the oil fields of Pennsylvania and
Indiana in point of production. He
states that the fields are being constant
ly developed, and that oil in paying
quantity is struck in nine wells out of
ten. The total production of the wells
in and around Corsicana is now about
$500 barrels daily. New wells are COM
ing in almost daily, and the limits of
the fields are constantly being extend
ed. The cost of each WELL including
pipes, derrick and tank, is about $1,000.
Nearly all of the wells are located on
leased ground. The crude oil is sold
in the storage tanks at so cents per
barrel. 1t is the general belief that the
purchaser of the product is the stan
dard Oil company, although the bust
ness is transacted in the name of an
other company. The company winch
has the monopoly of the business of
buying the crude oil is now erecting an
oil refinery at Corsicana, the cost of
which is over $100,0 900.
The fact is not generally known tnaI
United States Senator Roger Q. Mills
is rapidly becoming an oil magnate
through the development of the CorS1-
cana oil fields. Senator Mills owns a
large tract of land near the town OF
COrsicana, but he had never been able
to make any money out of it. Soon
after the first discovery OF oil in that
locality Senator Mills entered into
contract with a capitalist of the town
by which the latter was to furnish the
money with which to put down GER
tain number of experimental wells on
Senator Mills land. The two men We're
to share equally in the profits from the
sale of the oil should any be struck.
The first well proved to be one OF the
best producers in the district, and
about thirty more have been put down
since then, all of which have good out
puts. Every barrel of oil represents
so much cash the moment it enters the
storage tank, and it is said that sen
ator Mills daily profit is in the neigh
borhood of $1O0. Many people IN Texas
were at a, loss to understand why it was
that Senator Mills drew down from the
race for reelection to the senate when
his chances for success were SO favor
able. But it is now understood that he
found the counting of the proceeds
from the sale of his oil much more
pleasant vocation than that of serving
fhe Deople of Texas in the United States
senate. twenty-five thousand dollars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31

per annum income from oil wells is
much better than $4,000 per annum as
senator. Additional wells are constant
ly being drilled on Senator Mills tract
of land, and it will not be surprising
if his daily income does not increase to
his present term as United States SEN
ator expires. The people of Texas can
hardly realize that Senator Mills has
become an oil magnate, and is now
transacting business direct with that
great monopoly, the Standard Oil COM
pany-a trust which he and every other
good Democrat in the state has been
fighting bitterly whenever the OppOr-
tunity presented itself. Money makes
strange bed-felloWs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
NO MISSING LINK.
Genealogy of the Human Race Set
tied at Last.

New York, Aug. 31-A cabIegram
from London says the Cambridge con-
gress of zoology, which sat during the
last week, will be remarkable for a
fascinating paper by Prof. Haecl1el on
the present knowledge of the descent of
man. He does not hesitate to declare
that science has now established the
absolute certainty that man has arisen
through various stages of evolution
from the lower form of animal life dur
ing a period estimated at a thousand
million years. Lamarck, Darwin, and
finally scores of other investigators
possessed the knowledge which must
now be accepted as the crOwning
achievement of science during the nine
tenth century.
Recent discoveries of fossil remains
in Java, Madagascar, and Australia
have made still more complete the
available proof of this. Prof. Haeckel
thus summarized the steps in eVolu-
ton:
''The monophyIetic origin of all mann
malia-that is to say, their origin from
the common parent form, from mono
tremata upward to man-is no longer
a vague hypothesis, but an established
fact. All the living and extinct mann
malta which we know are descended
from a single common ancestral form,
which lived in the triassic or permian
period, must be derived from some per-
milan, or, perhaps, carbOniferous, rep
tile, allied to the progOnosauria and
theriodontia which was derived from
Stegocephala. These amphibians in
turn descended from Devonian fishes,
and these again from lower Vertebrates.
The most important fact is that man
is a primate, and that all primates-
lemurs, monkeys, anthropoid apes, and
man-descended from one common stem.
Looking forward to the twentieth cen
fury, 1 am convinced it will universally
accept our theory of descent. / have no
doubt that the strong influence of an
thropogeny upon other branches of
science will be most fruitful.
A member of the congress said that
Prof. Haeckel had spoken Of one thou
sand million years as necessary for his
evolution tree, while Lord Kelvin sup
posed himself to have proved that this
world. as the scene of life, could not be
more than twenty five million years old.
1t seemed unwise to complicate Prof
HaeckePs theory by assuming that
thousand million years would be re-
quired for proof
Prof. HaeckeI replied that the COM
mutation was not his own. He took
fhe time from one of the most eminent
biologists. For himself, he confessed
that he had no intuition as to the length
of time required for the evolution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
TELLS THEM THEIR DUTY.
Edward E. Lee Advises All His Peo-
pie to Become Democrats.

New York, Aug. 31.-Edward E. Lee,
president of the Negro National Demo-
cratic league, has issued an official ad-
dress to the voters of his race, in ac-
cordance with the instructions given
him at the organizations convention,
held in this city August 10. Among other
things the address sets forth:
Having as a race for so many years
blindly followed the mandate of the
Republican party, we have cultivated
bitter prejudice against independent po-
litical thought and action, so much so
that the race has suffered irreparably.
National issues are often, by the
shrewd manipulations of cunning poll
ticians, COMPOUNDED with local issues.
That is done to influence the unsuspect-
ing voter. This ingenious practice has
been practiced to a disgraceful degree
by the Republican party.
1T shall be the aim and effort of
this organization to overcome these
evils by affording the race such infor-
nation upon all national issues and in
dustrial measures that may arise from
time to time as shall be calculated to
properly advise all.
1.-The Democratic party is today the
party of the masses, the common peo-
pie, while the Republican party is the
party of millionartes, monopolists. iron
kings, railroad presidents and political
cars. In the southern states there is
but one logical course for the negroes
to purSue-becOme Democrats. Get
into the camp of those whom we have
fought for thirty-five years and be
loyal and the negro problem is solved
in the south -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
TO ANNUL CONTRACTS.
Government Ordered Supplies That
Are Not Now Needed.

Washington, Aug. 31.-Since peace has
practically been restored every effort is
being made by the war department to re-
duce expenses. Attempts will be made
to annul contracts for ammunition, light
clothing, provisions and medical supplies
which were entered into before the sign
ing of the protocol.
Letters stating the position of the gov
eminent have been written by order of
Secretary Alger to firms with whom these
contracts were made. In the majority of
cases the contractors have refused to can
eel their agreements. The department in
dealing with these firms will adopt
rather harsh policy, and every technicality
existing in the contracts will be taken ad-
vantage of. If the goods contracted for
are not delivered on the day named in
the agreement the government will i'm
pose the full penalty and enforce the con-
tracts to the letter.
It frequently happens that these exac-
uons are RENTED where the government
badly needs the supplies called for This
will all be changed, and it is expected
there will be large saving to the govern
ment by this action On the other hand
the contractors will make every effort to
carry out the terms of these agreements
and there will be cOnSidera BILE hurry on
their part to fulfill their contracts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
HEAVY SALE OF LUMBER.
Syndicate Disposes of 25O,oOO,OOO
Feet From Ashland District.

Ashland, Wis, Aug. 31.-For the first
time since it began operations in this
section the Weyerhaeuser lumber syn
dictate is a seller, and it makes its ap-
pearance in that capacity with a sale
for which the consideration approx
mates $4,000
The syndicate has sold $50, 600 feet
of standing pine timber on and near
Chequamagon Bay, in the Ashland dis
trict. The syndicate is to cut the tim
Der and deliver it on the bay, and the
price for the timber and logging is said
to be IS per 1000 feet. The largest pur-
chaser is the Hines Lumber company,
which is one of the largest lumber firms
on the south shore, with mills at var
iOus points. This company has taken
20O0OO,O00 feet of the timber.
The Red Cliff Lumber company of
Duluth has taken 50,OOO,OO0 feet, MAX
ing the total ESQ 000, 900 feet. This COM
pany is the one formed some time ago
to cut the timber on the Red Cliff In
dian reservation.
This is the first sale that has been
made by the Weyerhaeuser syndicate in
this section. Heretofore it has always
been a buyer, and a heavy one. The
timber sold will be sawed on Cheque-
MACON Bay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
NO LONGER NEEDS HELP.
Veteran With Fortune Seeks Dis
charge From Soldiers, Home.

Milwaukee, Aug 31-WilIiam Gessie,
an old soldier who recently inherited a
fortune by the death of his father in
Gessie, Ind, and discovered a daughter
whom he had never seen, was in Mil
waukee today to secure his discharge
from the soldiers home and the papers
that would entitle him to continue to
draw his pension money. Gessie's share
of his fathers estate is about $50 600
When the civil war broke out Gessie
then newly married man, enlisted in
an Indiana regiment, and when the war
closed, instead of returning to his home,
he drifted west, where he engaged as A
grader on the Union Pacific railroad,
and later was a jack-of- all-trades in
California He finally concluded he was
too old to work any more, and so be-
came an inmate of the soldiers home
here. Last spring he received notice of
the death of his father, and learned that
the estate had been given to build
school house in Newport Ind. Mr. Ges-
sic employed attorneys to contest the
will, and they not only succeeded in Sc
curing him a snug fortune, but also in
finding him a daughter. who was born
to his wife during his absence as a SOL
der.
This daughter is married and lives
in Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
SCOFIELD ANGRY AT ALGER
Demands Information About Wiscon-
sin Volunteers Now in Florida.

Madison, Wis, Aug. Ex-Governor
ScOfield is highly incensed because he
can get no information from the war
department as to when the typhoid
stricken First Wisconsin regiment at
Jacksonville is to be ordered home and
mustered out. The war department has
ignored all his queries on this matter
and tonight he wired the following tel
egram to Secretary Alger:
To the Honorable, the Secretary OF
War, Washington, D. c.: Almost
week ago was notified by the adjutant
general of the army that the First and
Fourth regiments, Wisconsin volunteers,
were to be mustered out. Since that
time sickness prevalent in the First
Wisconsin at Jacksonville has in
creased as has also the anxiety of the
soldiers relatives throughout the state
I have several times respectfully ask
ed for information as to the date when
the First Wisconsin would be ordered
home, and have also asked for informa-
ton as to what arrangements had been
made for transporting the sick of the
First regiment from Jacksonville to
their homes, but have not received
word in reply. If this were matter
of official routine merely I would not
complain, but there are involved the
lives and health of Wisconsin soldiers.
and the deepest anxiety on the part OF
thousands of people in this state, and
submit that my inquiries ought to re-
ceive attention.
EDWARD SCOFIELD,
Governor of Wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
RATCLIFFE'S TIME IS UP.
Wifebeater Will Try and Return to the
Dramatic Stage.

New York, Aug 31.-Edward J. Rat
cliffe's six months sentence in Black
wells island penitentiary will end on
Wednesday next. 1t is said he will en-
deavor not only to return to the stage,
but expects to secure an engagement in
this city.
1T will be interesting to see how New
York will receive Ratclffe,' said an ac-
tor on the Rialto today. Il wonder if
his wonderful nerve and his ability as
an actor will carry him through, or will
New Workers remember the parts he
has played in actual life-matinee hero,
beaten, bigamist and convict? Rat
cliffe is a clever player and he may
work hard and behave himself and re-
gain popularity, but the matinee girls
may not forget how he courted, won
and welded the daughter of Peter De
Lacy While already having a wife in
England, and that he beat his second
wife with his fists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
SENATOR LODGE is ROBBED
Relieved of His Pocketbook in Grand
Central Station.

New York, Aug. Ex-senator Henry
Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts was re-
lieved of his pocketbook in the waiting
room of the Grand Central station this
afternoon. Fortunately he had bought
his ticket to Boston and went home af-
ter reporting his loss to the officer in
charge of the station. One of the sem
ator's constituents, to whom he was
about to loan $40, had to get along
without it
Senator Lodge spent the greater part
of the last week with Theodore Roose-
welt at Patchogue, going over the polit-
ical situation. He came to New York
today, prepared to take the 3 o'clock
train home. He bought his ticket and
boarded the train, but did not notice
that his wallet had been taken until
just as the train was about to start
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
THE KAISER CONCURS.
The Gear Consulted William Before
Making His Proposition.

London, Aug. 31.-The newspapers here
continue to devote a large amount of their
space to comments upon and criticism OF
the cars peace note. While, naturally,
differing in regard to the reasons actuat-
ing the appeal, they generally agree that
the outcome will be a conference OF the
Dremfers if not of the Sovereigns them
selves. probably at Copenhagen, which
will be followed by an expression OF con-
currence in the humanitarian aims OF the
car and a report of the resolutions to
their respective governments, When the
whole thing will be shelYed Indefinitely
The latest comments from Paris show
that there is intense irritation there on 5i9
s11biact The cars proposal is regarded
as Being unfriendly and inconsistent with
the Franco-Russian alliance. Curiously
enough. in support of this view, today
official Hamburger Correspondent pup
fishes a telegram from St. Petersburg CON
firnfne the report that Emperor William
of Germany and the cZar exchanged views
in regard to the establishment of last
ing peace (which was fully demonstrated
by the Identity of the mOnarchs' wishes
Madrid, Aug. S1.-The Impartial today,
referring to the car peace no!e, eH-
Dresses the belief that his majeSty's pro-
rounceu1ent can hardly come from a mere
"Reffection convinces US that it was only
issued after consultation with President
Faure and Emperor William, and that 1t
foreshadows a period of great diplomatic
In Conclusion the Impartial says:
I'VE urge Spain to pay close attention
~ 80 ms n0x 1e last Interested in it,
The Liberal is of the opinion that the
cars object was to avert "a threatening
rupture of views which prevails, adding:
1.-THE work of the HiSpanO-A nnerican COM
mission in Paris is hardly worthy of men
ton in comparison with the proposed con-
the United states as well as Europe, for
should war break out and extend from the
N o 10 f to Dregerve the {ttie
she has managed to save from the ruin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
WEYLER,S POLICY.
He Has Finally Decided on a Course
of Action.

cording to a special dispatch from Madrid
published here this afternoon, has out t.
appears, to be Independent of both the
government and of the opposition, al
to reorganize the army He expresses
the belief that the. Carlists have plenty
of money, some of which, he alleges,
comes from France. He says that the
Republicans have no personal animus
ing to adopt a firm international stand
one result of which would be to check in
some measure England's ambition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31

If you the best Baking Powder on earth
desire,
For sGipsy Queen" you had better in
Favorite with the ladies it always has
Gypsy Queen"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
BRISTOW COMES TOKANSAS
Will Line Up Republican Postmasters
In Coming Campaign.

Washington, D. c., Aug. 31.-Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Bristow
has gone to Kansas to take part in the
campaign. 1t will be his business to
line up the Republican postmasters
throughout Kansas in behalf of the
Republican state and congressional
tickets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
GRAND EXCURSION
To st. Joseph-$1.25 for the Round
Trip Via the Santa Ee.

The knights and Ladies of Security
will have charge of this excursion, leaV-
ing Topeka Wednesday, Aug. 31st at z
O. m, returning leaving st. Joseph 7:45
p. m. For particulars see K. and L. COM
mittee or agent at depot. Tickets viii
be on sale at the national headquarters
i'll the Stormont building on the even
ing of Aug 30th.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
Suro ner Rates for Colorado.

Commencing June 1st the Santa Fs
route will sell round trip Colorado tick
cts with stop-overs, and good until Oc-
tober 81. at rate of $24.OO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31

Ladies Shirt Waists Hundred so that
the colors will not fade. by Fearless
Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31

The Ladies Of the G. A. r. have ar
ranged for through train to Cincinnati
via santa Fe on September ). The
round trip ,is S16.1O. An excellent OPP
portunity to give your family outing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
RARpLN COLLEGE & CONSERVATORY

26th year. Unprecedented prosperity "a PrOfes-
sors from Universities and 5 European ConservA-
tories. a 81 Piano to best pupil German
American Conservatory. XAVIER SCHARWEEKA,
Director General, present in person during May.
Largest. Cheapest Best. Address
JOHN w. MILLION, Pres, 10 "a ST.. Mexico. Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31

The c. A. r. will meet in CINCINNATI
c.ar,+er9I1aT 5-1o 1898 They will leave
here in special train via Santa Fe Sep
TENDER 5. The round trip fare IS St6.IO.
Santa Fe agent viii give you partlcu-
lars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31
S16.1o to Cincinnati and Return.

Tickets on sale September 2, 8, A and 5,
and for train No. 2 Of the 9Th, limited to
october 2. 1898. Agent Santa Fe Route
will reserve berths in sleeper and check
baggage through.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-31

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