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The times., 1898-10-19
Loans OF SlO ,s.ss I}s;'1s IsssTss ssss s.

Wagons. ETC.. at lowest rates and on the day
you apply. Loans may be repaid on .he build.
ing association plan. in easy weekly O. monthly
payments: every payment reduces cost Of car
ryins loan you have loan with some other
company, will pay it OF and advance yos
more money, II desired.
Loans made anywhere In the District. Call
and get -ates Front room. arst aoor Scientific
American Building.
National Mortgage [ oan Co.
625 F St. N. Vi
The times., 1898-10-19

Chicago Grain and Provision Market
Corrected daily by W. B. Hibbs & Co.
members of the New York Exchange.
The times., 1898-10-19

MONEY TO LOAN on D. C. real estate: payahls
in snail monthly installments JOHN q.
WALTER. WILSON WILLIAMS. 1871 at. nu.
iy23-tf
The times., 1898-10-19
HECHT & COMPANY,
513-515 7th St.

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The times., 1898-10-19

There is reason to believe that the prob
lem of electrical equipment on the Ele
waited is nearing solution. II is understood
that the problem is in President Gould's
hands entirely. and that he has already
received estimates for much of the work
The times., 1898-10-19

The increase in the earnings of ST. Paul
for the second week of October were again
a record-breaker. The grangers were
strong in their announcement. but not so
much SO as might have been expected
st. Paul itself closed at the opening figure
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-01-22

DESCRIPTION OF LANDS AND LOTS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
AFTER Am AUDITORIUM.
Pittsburg, Pa, Working For Larger
City Hall.

Pittsburg. Pa, Feb. 1.-THE regular
monthly meeting of the board of direct
ors of the Western Pennsylvania Expo
sition society was held yesterday after
noon in the SOciety'S office The queS-
ton of the proposed new auditorium
was the chief matter discussed.
The most important action taken was
the inStructing of members of the fin
ance committee to proceed at once to
solicit funds for the proposed big audi
torium. This action practically as
SureS the erection of the big hall in
time for this years show. A number Of
plans looking toward the enlargement
of the present Music hall or the build
ing of a new structure were examined.
The advisability of purchasing more
property was also discussed. It was
suggested that the new auditorium be
built between the two present buildings
and it was decided to get plans out if
the space would permit a sufficient
seating capacity.
Every member present seemed much
interested in the proposed auditorium.
Nearly every one of them had some
suggestion to make on the matter, and
such lively interest among them is ia
ken as an indication that the big build
ing is not far from realization. 1t is
thought that the project to enlarge the
present Music hall will be abandoned,
as it is claimed that it would interfere
with the annual exhibition. 1t was
hoped to have the auditorium ready for
the Moody meetings in April, but it has
been decided to hold these meetings in
the present hall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
AFTER THE RUBBER TREE.
Kansas City Man Returns From a
South American Trip.

Kansas City, Feb. 11.-From Kansas
City to the headwaters of the Tapajos
river, $500 miles into the Wilds of South
America, and back to Kansas City
again is the journey made by a Kansas
City man, Weldon E. Williams, jr.,
between April s, 1897, and last Monday.
Mr. Williamson has had a very sim
liar experience to Henry NJ. Stanley's,
canoeing along unexplOred rivers whose
banks are lined with hostile Indians,
assOciating with people who had never
seen a white man before, bartering
cheap trinkets and beads for their Curl
Os and head dresses, shooting jaguars
and cutting SarDleS of pure rubber of
the gutta percns4 trees.
He started out from Kansas City
without much cash and came back with
less, but as he said to a reporter, he
didn't try to make any more than the
expenses Of the journey, and he easily
did that.
I might have made a lot of money
trading he said, but that wasn't my
object. I wanted to find out if it were
possible to bring crude Indian rubber
down the Tapajos or some other trib-
utary of the Amazon and then down
the big river to the coast, or whether
some hostile tribe hitherto unknown,
or water falls or something else might
make navigation impossible or at least
fmpracticable- Most of the rubber
from these forests I went to is at pres
ent taken south over the Sierra Parcels
range and finally to Buenos Ayers.
L was many miles up the rubber
country. The Indians told me there
were immense forests of rubber trees
further north on the Xingu, but even
where went there We're millions on
millions Of trees to furnish rubber to
the world for centuries. I saw tons of
the dirty, black exudations hanging
from the trees and many trees the
bark of which had just begun to yield
a flow of rubber, a beautiful and pure
white, the rubber not having yet con-
gealed. The tribes to the north along
the Tapajos were said to be hostile, but
I was anxious to penetrate as far as
possible. I would have kept on and
gone, perhaps, to the Amazon, perhaps
to my grave, if the rainy season had not
come on for five or six months spell
of weather, which made it impossible
So 1 turned back and with canoe and
on horseback returned to Cuyaba Com
ing back the way went I considered
a long time at Curumba whether to
stay and make another attempt at the
close of the rainy season. Thinking of
my wife and baby, as well as the idea
that I could get more capital and a
couple Of adventurous young fellows to
go with me, brought me back to Kansas
City
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
INTENSE SUFFERING
From Dyspepsia and Stomach
Trouble
INSTANTLY RELIEVED AND
PERMANENTLY CURED.
a New Discovery, But Not q Patent
Medicine.

DR.. Redweu relates an interesting &C
cout of what he considers a remarka-
bic cure Of acute stomach trouble and
chronic dyspepsia by the use of the new
discovery, Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets.
He says: The patient was a man who
had suffered to my knowledge for years
with dyspepsia. Everything he ate
seemed to sour and create acid and gas
es in the stomach; he had pains like
rheumatism in the back, shoulder
blades and limbs, fullness and distress
after eating, poor appetite and loss OF
flesh; the heart became affected, caus-
ing palpitation and sleeplessness at
night.
I gave him powerful nerve tonics and
blood remedies, but to no purpose. AS
an experiment I finally bought fifty
cent package of Stuart'S Dyspepsia
Tablets at a drug store and gave them
to him. Almost Immediately relief was
given, and after he had used four boxes
he was to all appearances fully cured
There was no aCidity or sour WaIery
risings, no bloating after meals, the ap-
petite was vigorous and he has gained
between 10 and u pounds in weight or
solid healthy flesh.
Although Stuart'S Dyspepsia Tablets
are advertised and sold in drug stores
yet consider them a most valuable
addition to any physicians line of rem
edies, as they are perfectly harmless
and can be given to children or inVaHdS
or in any condition of the stomach
with perfect safety, being harmless and
containing nothing but pure vegetable
and fruit essences. pure pepsin and
Without any question they are the
safest, most effective cure for indiges-
ton, biliousness, constipation and all
arrangements of the stomach however
slight or severe.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are sold by
druggists everywhere at fifty cents for
full sized packages
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
HARRISON'S HOT TALK.
Chicago's Mayor Scores the Civil Ser
vice Investigation Committee.

Chicago, Feb. 10.-Mayor Harrison
said last night that the report of the
Berry committee would probably not
have much effect politically, as it was
generally believed that lit had it's con-
illusions all typewriter when it came
to this city to begin inquiry"
He continued: 1.-The report of the
Berry crowd will not give anybody in
formation, nor is the testimony it
rests upon worthy consideration. 1t got
together lot Of tramps who had fail
ed to pass civil service examinations
and who were grumblers, mal-cOntents,
soreheads and knockers. These said
the administration of civil service was
not equitable and that merit was sub
Ord1nated to partizanship. The. COM
mission repeats it. 1t is rank nonsense.
Anyone at all familiar with public
affairs knows how the Democratic poll
Cc1anS nate civil service under this adj
ministratiOn just because it does not
give favoritism a show. They are mad
at the commission because of this
grievance, not being able to influence it
Tor patronage, and that is why they
have fought it tooth and nail and tried
to GUST the commissioners. The atti-
tude of all the machine workers of the
party in power is more eloquent on this
subject in minute than the Oaths of
all the Berry drunkards and ignor-
amuses who failed to pass civil service
tests for want of brain power would be
in two years.
'As for a wide open town-why did
not the commission keep on with it's in
curry II 1t round a wide open city? Be
cause 1t found itself running SQuarely
up against the Republicans themselves
and Berry was called off to prevent
such exposure. Chicago is a better city
than it was under Mayor Swift. 1t is
not possible to reform any great city,
and the best that can be hoped is to
keep its evils in check, and as far as
possible under cover. This was known
before the marvellous discoveries of the
Berry microscopic investigation and if
the commission found corruption it is
responsible to the public for an answer
why it did not go on
About personal ambitions I am able
to say cOnscientiOusly at this stage of
the game that I have no greater wish
than that my term of service might
have reached its close SO that I could
go off for a jaunt of six months in the
wilds to hunt bear and elk and do a
little trout fishing.
what do think of the Berry report
as whole? That it is rot, mere rot
and as farcical throughout as the COM
missions work itself"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
FILTERED BLOOD.
Morrow's Method of Curing Disease
Arousing the Interests of Scientists.

Physicians of all schools are begin
ming to realize that the primary cause
of nearly every disease that attacks the
human system is the failure of the kid
neys to perform the duties nature as
signed them.
The blood is constantly absorbing
from the different articles of food taken
into the stomach, various impurities,
which, if permitted to course through
the system, quickly render the blood
unfit to carry on the process of healthy
nutrition and ultimately result in the
development of disease.
1t is the duty of the kidneys to filter
the blood; the slightest irregularity in
the performance of this function is i'm
mediately manifested in a general
weakening of the body; tendency to
give out with little eXertion. This
symptom is closely followed by others
of a much more distressing nature
which it is often customary to attribute
to other causes.
John Morrow, an eminent chemist of
Springfield, Ohio, using as a basis for
his work the theory that the kidneys
are responsible for the condition of our
health, has produced a new remedy
which he has named Morrow's Kidne-
oids, the purpose Of which is to act di-
rect1y on the kidneys, eliminating all
unnatural deposits and rectifying the
damage caused by their existence.
The remarkable results obtained by
this medicine have attracted wide at
tention and esta bliShed a new method
of treating disease, the efficacy of which
cannot be disputed.
MorroW's Kidneoids are prepared in
pills so small as to almost rob them OF
their virtue in the eyes of those not
versed in medicine, but so potent is
their influence that their effects are no.
ticed almost Immediately.
They are now on sale generally. If
not to be had of your dealer, they will
per box, 6 boxes for 81. so, by the Herb
Medicine Co.. Springfield Ohio.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
HIGH IN THE AIR.
Was This Waterspout Seen by the
Rev. J. I. Kennedy.

New York, Feb. 11.-One of the pas
sengers on the steamship Asiatic Prince
which arrived yesterday, was the Rev
James L. Kennedy, and with him came
a description of a WaterSpOut which he
says he saw at sea. This is his story of
the sight:
"On Wednesday, February 2. about
z o'clock in the morning, we saw a mar
velous WaterspOut. No one on the Ash
attic Prince had ever seen its equal,
either as to height, size or duration.
The steamer was in latitude 1921 north
and longitude 64.57 west. The water
spout appeared about four miles distant
and was fully one and a half statute
miles in height. The surrounding heav-
ems, just above, were black and lower
ing. The spray and vapor at the base
appeared to be fully 500 or 900 feet in
diameter and leaped upward to a dis
tance of 200 feet.
"A most astonishing feature of this
phenomenon was its long duration
Such spouts generally last fifteen min
uteS or less. This WaterspOut cOntin-
ued for half an hour At the begin
ming its fall was almost perpendicular
but as it began to give way, it assumed
the shape of an immense crank in the
sky. Swerving in a northwesterIy di-
recuon, it broke near the middle, then
reunited, and finally receded and tor
rents of rain fell in immense sheets all
about the lOcalftV''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
YOUNG VANDERBILT I'LL.
Appears to Have Brought Measles
From Harvard Invitations
Recalled.

New York, Feb. n,-William K. Van
derbilt recalled yesterday the invitations
which he had sent out for dinner dance
to have been given at his residence, Fifty
second street and Fifth avenue, in honor
of his niece, Miss Leila Sloane. The rea-
son for recalling the invitations was the
illness of Mr.. Vanderbut's elder son, Will
liam K. Vanderbilt, Jr.
and nember of fhe freshman class o at
Harvard, came on from Cambridge on
Saturday to spend Sunday with his father.
On Saturday evening he developed a very
pronounced case of measles. A physician
was at once called and he stated that
the patients condition was in no way
serious, but that he would have to re
main housebOund until the disease had
run it's course. Not wishing to expose his
guests to a contagious disease, Mr.. Van
derbilt recalled his Invitations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
REPLACE THE ANCHOR LINE
New Line of Steamers Will Take the
Place of the One in Bankruptcy.

st. Louis, Feb. ia telegram from
Vicksburg, Miss, last night announces
that If is quite likely that in a short time
Captain C. c. Meissonnier of Vichsburg
will be at the, head of steamboat company
which will fill the place made vacant by
the bankruptcy of the Anchor line
Joseph Hirsch, general counsel for the
friend of Mr.. Meissonnier, returned, to
Vicksburg from St Louis, where they
talked over the affairs pertaining to the
new line with Captain Meissonnler: Nlr.
Hirsch says that Captain Meissonnler mas
been working for some time on the ,,d reor7
eranization of the matter and expressed
Himself that it would be in conditlon 70
resume operations in a short time. IN. Inc
orpanizat ton. according to Captain Mels-
sonnier's statement, viii be brought about put
nv the creditors of the old line, with the
assistance of financial backing Whlch me me
captain has secured in st LOUIS; me
HiIl CITY one of the Anchor lines most
Important boats, has been sold to Captain tan
Sims. but Captain Meissonnier told MT.
Hirsch that this makes no no differe enc ST IN
mis- and several other boats in view
Would make a good. foundation to to star, start
on, The new line, if started, viii PROB
ably be called the St. Louis Anchor me
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
Eureka springs, Ark.,

As a summer and winter resort cannot
be surpassed. To this famous al-year-
round resort round-trip tickets are on
sale from all principal cities through
ont the country at greatly reduced
rates. Double daily trains via the
Frisco Line A neat little pamphlet
giving detailed description of Eureka
Snrings will be mailed free upon appli-
cation to Geo. T. Nicholson, General
Passenger Agent. 'FiscO Line, st.
Louis, Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
Give the Children a Drink

called. Grain-O. Tt is a delicious, appe-
tizing, nourishing food drink to take the
place of coffee. Sold by all grocers and
liked by all who have used it because
when properly prepared it tastes like
the finest coffee but is free from all its
injurious properties. Grain-O aids di-
gestion and strengthens the nerves. It
is not a stimulant but a health builder
and children, as well as adults, can
drink it with great benefit. Costs
about 4 as much as coffee. 10 and Csc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11

After using a 10c trial size Of Elyis
Cream Balm you will be sure to buy a
50c size. Cream Balm has no equal in
curing catarrh and cold in the head
Ask your druggist for it or send 10
cents to US.
ELY BROS, Sc Warren St, N. 2 City.
L suffered from catarrh for three
years; it got so bad I could not work:
/ used two bottles of Ely's Cream Balm
and am entirely we'll; 1 would not be
without it.-A. c. Clark, 341 Shawmut
Ave, Boston.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
NEW KIND OF ANIMAL.
A Blind salamander With Legs Use
less for Locomotion.

Ithaca, N Y, Feb. Ian artesian well
driven at San Marcos, Tex recently
found not only water but a kind of ami
NAL inhabiting the water which is found
nowhere else Specimens have just been
received for study at Cornell university.
The creature proves to be a blind sala-
mander, nearly white in color with long
slender legs and toes useless for locomo-
ton, but valuable for feeling in the blind
darkness of the underground waters. They
have been given the graceful name of
TyphIomolge-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
Homeseekers' Excursions.

Tickets will be sold on the first and
third Tuesdays of January, February
and March via the Union Pacific to
noints in Missouri, Arkansas, Indian
Territory, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana,
Arizona and New Mexico, where the
,7ofninum round trip rate is $500 or
o1-ar at one fare for the round trip plus
$500.
For exact territory and full informa-
ton or tickets, call on or address,
F. A. LEWIS,
City Ticket Agent
J. c. FULTON,
Depot Agent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
chinook winds in Idaho.

Boise Idaho, Feb. n.-Chinook winds
have taken the snow off so rapidly that
serious floods have resulted in a number
of places in southwestern Idaho Ft1Vu-
let's have in some places become raging
torrents and considerable stock has been
drowned while a great deal of other
property is reported destroyed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
PROFITS In OIL.
The Trust Cleaned Up Nearly
$5O,OOO,OOO Last Year.
Scheme Devised to Make the
Per Cent. Smaller
AND EVADE THE LAWS.
Proposed Plan Has Already Sent
the Stock Up,
Making the Holders 7,OOO,-
900 Richer.

New York, Feb. n.-Preliminary steps
toward the complete rehabilitation of the
Standard Oil trust are being taken by
John d. Rockefeller and the other multi
mllIionaires who control the oil fields Of
the world. The trust is too unwieldy in
its present shape, and the big dividend
which it declares quarterly on it's 500 Co.,
600 of 'Iquidating certifcates''-w are
nothing more than collateral trust stock
certificates issued in exchange for the
stock Of various small companies forming
the trust-attracts too much attention
from the legislatures and people.
When this change is to come only those
in the councils of the company know
though the secret has leaked out that
the reorganization plan is being thought
out by the legal minds in the pay of the
trust. When its details are announced the
enemies of trusts will be greatly surprised.
1t will set at naught all antitrust laws
in the country and challenge, by it's in
genious construction, the efforts of law
makers to attack it.
Thus far no details are vouchsa fed
There IS only the report which comes
from several parts of the country stimuli
taneously- But this report is 50 firmly
believed by Wall street that it put up
the price of Standard Oil certificates from
4O3 20 43O. Wall street believed that the
plan is to organize the whole trust into
one giant company with an elastic charter
which viii permit it to carry on its
enormous and diversified business without
violation OF any law. Wall street believes
that TINS new company Will acquire all
the capital stock Of the seventy-eight
companies composing the trust-Of which
at present it holds only a majority-and
put IOrIn an entire new issue of stock,
retiring the Hquidating certificates.
1t is believed that the exchange will
pc on the basis OF four shares of the new
Standard Oil company for each Hquidat-
ing certificate of a par value of $1O0.
When this change is to come is entirely
81; The dividends declared by the STANDARD
follows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
Mineral Water.

The finest in the west. Come and try
It J. w. PHILLIPS,
612 West Eighth st.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11

In other words the Standard Oil COM
pany earned 500, 900, 600 above an enormous
sum it turned into its surplus fund and
the cost of operating its plant. 1t is be-
lieved that the actual net earnings of the
trust in 1897 were $50, OO0 900. These divi-
dends have been paid to the following
great holders in proportion to the amount
their stock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11

NO-To-B3.S Cor Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tor7acco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. SOC 81. All druggists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11

AiC SAAe1i 60 u liz
Oil must be distributed among individuals
in the subsidiary companies the largest
holders being Clement A. Griscom, the
WOrden estate of Philadelphia and Joseph
Seep. without a bead of perspiration
Standard Oil stockholders have grown
richer since Saturday by 1000 by the
In less than five years $4,000, 900 have
been handed to stockholders, as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11

caDitefisfs inferasted in the Standard Oil
properties are Marshall Field and Robert
T. Lincoln. The stock of the Standard
trusts of big earning powers, is not listed
at New York, as listing would require
statements from time to time as to earn
ings. and such items of information the
company zealously guards against max
ing public, in order to avoid legislative
assaults. Hence few facts are licked over
the wires and local spectators have no
data to attract their attention. Dividends
have been paid at the rate of 50 per cent
annually. The appreciation in the stock
during the last five months has been
enormous-about 500 a share. During the
last three days the stock has been quoted
at nearly 25 points advance. The closing
Yesterday was at 425, representing the
enormous capitalization value of $425, 000,-
coo