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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-14
A New National Park.

Washington, April 1.-THE president
has prepared a proclamation setting
apart 1876, 900 acres of land on the south
side of Lake Tahoe, Cal, as a forestry
reserve and public park.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-14
strlkers Resume Work.

St. Louis. April 1.-THE striking
Mount Olive and Staunton, Ill, coal
miners resumed work today pending ar
St. Louis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-14
Saturday
EVENING SPECIALS
From 7 to 9 o'clock only.

FrOn1 10 . o CLOCK OILY
The regular s1.O0 and $1.25 warranted
Kid Gloves Warranted also under this
sale), $50.
Blacks and the new shades.
200 Sun Umbrellas, full 26 inch, of
warranted Gloria Silk steel rods, worth
from 1925 to $500, at CSC.
Assorted handles, natural, horn and
Dresden.
25 dozen Ladies' fancy Plaid and
Stripe Hose, regular value 25c, at 1712c.
Csc and Csc Ladies' Aprons, white"
15c.
25c Iron Clad Hose, 15c. Remember
marble time is here.
% per cent off on all Belts, Belt
Buckles, Perfumes, Smelling Salts, and
Face Powders.
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SDOt Cash GPOO6IpU
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
1913 East Sixth Street. Telephone AIS.
CLICK F0roDrietor.

You must have Groceries, Why not buy them of the
lowest priced Grocery in the city Our partial list
of prices below will convince you of this Look them
over and leave, send, your orders = and you
have saved money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-14
CURTAIN AND SHADE DEPARTMENT.

Chenille Portieres, full size. s1.69
Chenille Portieres. worth $500, 50 9S.
Tapestry Portieres, $1.69 upwards.
Lace Curtains, latest styles, 4Sc up.
Window Shades, feet felt, 10c.
Window Shades, opaque, feet, zoe
up.
Curtain Poles, with fixtures complete,
15c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-14
AMISSIONARY SOCIETY.
SHERIDAN ARRIVES

MAIL ORDERS SHIPPED PROMPTLY.
The record-union., 1899-10-04

The intriguing politicians will not
down in this matter Of Dewey for
Presidential nomination. They have no
care for the wishes of the venerable
sailor. Their one and only end is
party gain. If a party can be set
astride of Dewey's neck and ride into
power the promoters of such schemes
do not care a flip of finger whether
it kills the brave old man to carry the
load. But the likelihood of Admiral
Dewey committing himself to the
hands Of the intriguers are very small.
He announced long ago that he wanted
to return to his home land for the pur-
poses of rest and the retirement which
he has so justly earned. Admiral Dewey
has duties to perform nevertheless. AS
chief commissioned officer or the
American navy his is not a merely for
NAL office He will be called into coun-
sci with the civil officials of the Fed
eral Government. He will have grave
duties to perform directly related to
the Naval Department. He will be
deluged with documentary matter call
ing for the attention of the chief of the
navy-in short he will have enough and
more than enough to do, but stu Will
not be required to undertake tasks be-
yond his strength. That he will lay
aside the great honor he has won ana
put off the bands of an Admiral
for the confusion, the toll and
the contention of political life, IS IN
thinkable. He is his own master now
that he will become the bonIman OF
politics is therefore about as reason
able to expect as to look for free
man to voluntarily put on slavish
chains. All the acts and expressions
Of Dewey since he has come so proml-
nently into national life, warrant the
belief that he proposes to leave poll
tics to those who have been raised to
and have lived all their lives in politi-
cal atmospheres.
The record-union., 1899-10-04

tilizes and cultivates is sure of a good
return for his labor, and we think that
fumigation will soon solve the problem
of the San Jose scale on deciduous
trees.
The purple scale is the most serious
pest that we have to contend With at
the present time The experiments tried
with hydrocyanic acid gas, where Two
applications have been made, are more
satisfactory than we expected. The red
scale yields readily to one application,
and We see no reason why the orchards
of Los Angeles County should not De
kept clean if the policy of the present
Board of Commissioners is carried out
The commission has abandoned tn9
plan of the county doing the fumlga-
ton, and has sold its fumigation out
fit. The fumigation is now done py
contract with private parties
In November, 1898, the Board OF Su-
pervisors of Los Angeles County sent
a man to the Hawaiian Islands III
search of beneficial insects to prey up
ON our insect pests. During his re-
searches of several months we received
colonies of the Chilocorus circumdatuS
and Sticheletis punctata7 parasites 1or
the purple scale; Orcus chalyDeus Tor
the red scale; Cocinella repanta, Platy-
emus lividigaster, for plant lice; Cryp-
tolaemus montrouzeri for the mealy
bug.
For a few weeks they could be found
ON the trees where they were placed,
but now they have nearly all disap
peared. Whether birds have killed
them or climatic conditions have
caused their death we are not sure.
They were placed in the most favor
able locations and given all the chance
they could have, the instructions In
regard to the distribution having been
followed out. The results have been
far from satisfactory, and we fear that
fumigation is the only hope for the Or
chardist. The only parasite that has
been entirely satisfactory is the We
dalia cardinals, the parasite for the
white scale, which we keep on mana
for distribution at all times.
In spite of the drought the OUTLOOK
for Los Angeles County is bright, and
if we have good rains this winter the
orchardists will have nothing to COM
plain of. Respectfully submitted,
(Signed), EDWARD II. RUST,
Secretary Los Angeles County Boafu
of Horticultural Commissioners.
Los Angeles, Sept 20, 1899.
The record-union., 1899-10-04
Sacramento County.

To the Honorable Board Of Horticul-
ture.-Gentlemen: We herewith pre-
sent to you our annual report as Coun-
ty Horticultural Commissioners of Sac
ramento County.
We were appointed Commissioners by
the Supervisors June IS, 1898. Having
been appointed so late in the season we
had nothing of note to report, therefore
you did not hear from us last year.
The members of the board not having
the time to spare that the field work
requires, we employ five inspectors, one
serving in the city and four in the
country. Our appropriation from the
county does not permit US to keep the
inspectors employed the year through.
The inspector in the city is ready for
duty at any time; the inspectors IN
the country serving four months IN
the spring, during spraying season.
We find but little pernicious scale, but
the brown apricot scale has made its
appearance in different parts of the
county, the growers not being aware of
it until their attention is called to it.
The orange trees in the city show some
red scale. The red spider is quite
plentiful on the almond. The peach
in the orchards that were not sprayed
with the winter wash of lime, sulphur
and salt
The vine hopper has also made its
appearance in some vineyards. With
a few exceptions we have had but lit
tie trouble with the growers in regard
to spraying. Those having but few
trees do not want to be put to the ex-
e
Currier Of Folsom bought an outfit and
for small sum per tree did the spray
ing of small lots himself, by which
means he saved trouble.
Another method we advised was to
make arrangements with some one
party to do all this odd spraying, max
ing it an object to the party doing the
work and a saving to the owners of
small lots of trees
The codling moth is the worst pest
we have to contend with, and the surest
means of exterminating it is through
the marketing of the fruit, for when
the buyer refuses to buy the grower
must spray or lose crop. This year
there were frequent complaints of poor
Paris green, Secretary Lelong pro-
nouncing good portion of that we had
tested TO be OF poor quality.
Taking the orchards of the county
as a whole we find them in good con-
dition as to scale, but feeling the eff
fects of our dry seasons where not ir-
rigated. This has been a good fruit
year, all varieties yielding a fair crop
| and peaches a most abundant crop. in
fact too much so, as large percentage
of the fruit was under size. Taken all
in all we think the grower has had a
good season with fair prices. But for
the Gamers running out of cans Cali
fornia would have handled her largest
crop on record, without the sign of
glut.
1t has been favorable year for the
vineyards, up to within a week; being
| a cool season grapes burned less but
ripened slower. At the present writ
ing reports are coming in that the last
week of hot weather has burned the
grapes all over the county. Respect
fully submitted, (Signed), William
Johnston, George H. Cutter, r. NJ
Grimshaw, Commissioners.
Sacramento. Sent 81 1900
The record-union., 1899-10-04

A proposition of the trustees is to in
quire into the use of coal oil upon the
residence streets to prevent the rising
of dust. If inquiry is made it will be
disclosed to the impartial mind that a
nastier substitute for sprinkling could
not be suggested. The odors as ascend
ing from oil sprinkled streets are some
thing to make saints join in the oaths
of devils. The Shiny, sticky, steaming
mess that results offends eye, nostril
is true that the oil literally applied will
lay the dust, it will not pack the road
way and save the decay of macadam
streets as water does, and it is pro-
posed to prevent the destruction of the
macadam roadways by dosing them
with oil. There is still another consid-
GRAFTON worth taking into account.
There are used in Sacramento some
2,200 bicycles by citizens who are en-
titled to be consulted in this matter
The mass Of the owners of wheels are
property possessors. To them the
wheel is a blessing as a means of
transportation, and as a time saver as
Well as an instrument of recreation
and change. In addition there are
maryland the number is rapidly in
reasing-rubber-t hacks, wagons,
carts, carriages and buggies in use.s To
put oil upon the streets means the de-
struction of every rubber tire in Sac
ramento that rolls over streets treated
with such offending dust settler. Thus
the cost of sprinkling the streets with
coal oil will be visited largely upon
owners of modern vehicles of transport,
without paying a dollar Of such cost
into the city treasury TO meet the bill
for putting the abomination upon the
streets. No, the coal oil treatment will
not do for city streets. For most part
we venture to say people will prefer
dust to coal oil after they have had
weeks experience with the latter.
The record-union., 1899-10-04

Of Susanville, G. Fl. Bein of Beiber and
G. W. Meylert of GAINESVILLE. L. N.
Jones was elected Chairman and G.. W.
Meylert Secretary. We have held
monthly meetings and reported to our
Board of Supervisors. as required by
law.
In the district in which our Chair
man, ]. N. Jones, resides, besides the
pests of codling moth, green and woolly
aphis, the San Jose scale had gotten a
firm hold and a strict and determined
course was necessary to eradicate this
insect. The lime. sulphur and salt
wash as recommended by the State
Board, was used and it seems to al
most have destroyed this scale.
The codling moth has given our or
chardists good deal of trouble, and
the Paris green if persistently used
would doubtless be very helpful. but
there seems to be a feeling of unsafe
ty and danger from its use. that has
restrained this board from recurring
this remedy to be used. We have a
good many small orchards and between
the trees vegetables are grown, also
berries, and there is a fear in using
Par1s green as spray that the fruit
or vegetables may be unsafe for food.
Our county is especially favored in
the conditions of soil and climate to
produce an especially fine quality of
apples and pears, when not DESTROYED
by frosts. Cherries, plums, prunes
peaches and apricots do well here. The
most serious difficulty we find in max
ing the fruit business profitable has
peen our distance from market, the
cost OF TRANSPORTATION being such a.
heavy tax as to leave but little if any
profit to the producer. Very respect
fully, (Signed), 1. N. Jones, President:
G. w. Meylert, Secretary.
SuSanville, Sept. 26. 1900
The record-union., 1899-10-04
Los Angeles County.

To the Honorable State Board of
Hordculture-Gen We herewith
submit our annual report. We have
just closed our third dry year, the rain
fall being below the average. The hay
and grain crop was much better
throughout the country than last year
The alfalfa acreage was much larger
than ever before.
There has been great activity in the
development Of water principally by
wells, both in the foothills and low
lands, and the result is that all crops
will be about the average. The or
anges and lemons, where properly
taken care of, will be of good size and
quality, and the trees that have been
fumigated have much the heaviest
crop. There has been large acreage
of old Seeding orange and lemon trees
cut back and budded to navels
Apricots bore we'll and brought a
good price. Peaches were rather small
on account of the dry year Prunes
We're small, but the trees were heavily
loaded. The olives were very light, and
unless thoroughly watered. fumigated
and cultivated, were almost an entire
failure. The pear blight has been very
bad this season. there being few or
chards that have not been affected. The
apple trees are loaded, and, where
properly sprayed with lime, sulphur
and salt, the San Jose scale is we'll un-
der control The codling moth and shot
hole fungus are very bad except where
Paris green and the Bordeaux mixture
have been used, and where used the
results have been entirely satisfac-
tory. There has been larger acre
age sprayed this year than ever be-
fore.
There has been a healthy demand
for citrus nursery stock the past sea-
son, and fair acreage of deciduous
trees set. The stock of both. citrus
and deciduous trees, will be limited this
winter and a good price will be re-
ceived for first-class trees Owing TO
the scarcity of deciduous nursery stock
an effort will be made to import stock
from the Eastern States, and great
care must be taken that no infected
trees be brought to the State
Fumigation has proven boon to the
orchardfst. Citrus orchards that three
years ago We're badly infested with
black scale and not paying are to-day
practically clean and on a paying ba.
sis, the direct result Of thorough fumi-
cation. There have been over 1,000,000
citrus trees fumigated in this county
during the past two seasons, and the
outlook this year is for more good work
in this line than ever before. An Or
chardist who fumigates, irrigates, fer
The record-union., 1899-10-04
WAR ON THE FRUIT PESTS.
WORK OF COUNTY HoRTICULT-
URAL BOARDS.
Reports From Several Counties
Filed With the State Board
OF Horticulture.

The State Board of Horticulture is
now receiving reports from the yari-
Gus County Horticultural Commission
ers, whose duties relates directly TO
the inspection of orchards and the
proper care and treatment Of the trees.
to the end that they may be kept free
from injurious pests
The Sacramento Commissioners are
among the first to send in the report
of their stewardship. The perusal OF
these documents should greatly inter
est fruit growers, for there is no sub
ject of more Importance to them than
that relating to the destruction OF fruit
pests. These reports have alreadJ
been filed:
The record-union., 1899-10-04
To Cure a Cold In One nav

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money if it fails
to cure. e. w. Groves signature is on
each box. 25c. MTuWTh
The record-union., 1899-10-04
Orange County.

To the Honorable State Board of
rticulture-Gentleme The progress
of horticulture in this (Orange) Coun-
ty during the year has been greater
than during any previous year. Many
trees of inferior varieties of fruit have
been uprooted and better varieties
have been planted in their places, and
much new ground has also been plant
ed.
Much effective fumigation with hy-
drocyanic acid gas has sensibly decim
mated the red scale (Aspidiotus auran
tiD, but has not exterminated it. The
black scale has largely increased dur
ing the year. This is due doubtless
to the unseasonableness of the insec-
ticides application. The best time in
this county for destroying black scale
is September, October and November,
as they are during those months un-
protected by the armor with which
they cover themselves later on. The
purple scale (Mytilaspis citricola), hav-
ing found a lodgment in few places
in this county, yields to no treatment
but fire.
The methods of executing the hor-
ticultural law against delinquents in
Orange County may be different from
what they are in other counties, but
have worked smoothly and well. The
law has often been enforced, but since
the organization of the county ten
years ago, no loss has been sustained
by it. The several county attorneys
have so discharged their duties in con-
nection with the Boards of Commits
sioners and Supervisors as to avoid lit
igation, friction and loss.
Each Commissioner has a section of
the county for his district, and is his
own Inspector. On the last Friday Of
each month the three meet at the coun-
ty seat and report the work done the
past month and take orders for the
month to come. It has never been nee
essary in Orange County to enforce
the law against resident fruit grow
er except in cases where the land has
been so heavily mortgaged that the
real owner was out of sight. No grow
er in this county has ever been so
short-sighted as to resist so wholesome
and useful law as the horticultural.
No Supervisor could be easily elected
from any district in this county who
has not a high appreciation of the
value of the fruit industry, and prob
ably, no county of the same area has
so large a per cent. of first class fruit
land. (Signed), Hiram Hamilton, Pres
ident; /. N. Rafferty,, Secretary; L. z.
Huntington, Horticultural Commis-
sioners Orange County.
The record-union., 1899-10-04

San Bernardino County.
To the Honorable State Board of
The record-union., 1899-10-04
HIGHLAND PARK SCHOOL.
1t Has Reopened Under Very Fa-
vorabIe Conditions.

Inc public school in Highland Park
reopened on Monday, after the sum-
mer vacation, under the supervision of
MISS Lizzie Klotz. The school has
mace great progress during the last
three years, making additional accom-
mediation necessary.
A room which has been fitted up as
a primary school was formally opened
with appropriate exercises. Mrs. Keys,
the newly-appointed teacher. was con-
graduated by the Trustees and Rev.
A George.
There are upward of eighty scholars
under the care Of Miss Klotz and Mrs.
Keys.
The record-union., 1899-10-04
THE Willy FILIPINO.

The latest dispatches recite the ad-
mission within our lines of certain Fill
pino officers with American prisoners
whom they surrendered. Two things
about this visitation are notable, that
the foremost officer was very solicitous
to impress upon our military authori-
ties that as they had surrendered to US
these prisoners of war, and as we had
accepted them and met Filipino off,
cials for that purpose, therefore the
latter regarded such action as recogni-
ton of the Filipino government, be-
cause the surrender was made by order
Of the Filipino Congress.
Secondly these visiting Filipinos were
very anxious to ascertain about the
growth of anti-expansion sentiment in
this country and how far it would af-
feet Congress in December. Concern
ing the first matter it is to be noted
that the Filipino officers overshot theil
mark. They betrayed anxiety to have
delivery Of prisoners construed into rec
ognition of Filipino independence. This
confesses weakness and desire by
adroit means to bring to an end a. war
Of which they are weary. In their
ignorance Of government they fancied
that mere exchange of prisoners be-
tween belligerents viii by the powers of
the world be taken as recognition of
i, -
rection.
In the second case the solicitude Of
the Filipinos to ascertain the state of
the public mind in the United States
confirms the position of friends of the
Administration that the attitude and
expressions of the Atkinsons, Bryans,
Masons and other -expansionists,
constitute aid and comfort for the
enemy and that upon such opposition
the insurgents are building their hopes.
This confirmed belief we need not hope
will lessen the ardor Of the home Tag
alos. On the contrary it will inspire
these public enemies with new zeal.
But on the other hand it should and
will confirm the faith of the loyal and
devoted friends of the country, Jealous
for the honor of the flag. and believ-
ing in the manifest destiny of the ma
ton indicated along the best lines of
progress. It will have tendency to
consolidate the loyal men of America
in the belief that there should be no
peace in the Philippines short of COM
plete suppression of the insurrection,
and submission Of the Filipinos to the
authority of the United States.
The record-union., 1899-10-04
Weather Forecast.

Northern California: Fair Wednesday;
continued warm weather in the interior;
cooler on the coast; northerly winds in
land; westerly winds on the coast.
The record-union., 1899-10-04

yacht or witness race, much less pos
sess one of the feet-footed nymphs OF
the sea-
The record-union., 1899-10-04
Lassen County.

To the Honorable State Board of
ty Board was duly organized at Susan
vile, February 20, 1899. There were
present full board. viz: T. N. Jones
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-15
Fourteen Men stiIl Missing.
THREE SEEN IN THE BOAT.
Probably Frozen to Death rs They Sat
While Fast in the Ice.

New York. Feb. 15.-DurinE the storm
of Monday Herman Kuehne. 50 years
old: Edward Tuthill. S, and Daniel
Brown. the 17-year-old son of Atwood
Brown. all of East Marion. Long Island
went to the beach to shoot ducks They
used a rowboat to move from place TO
place. Captain Tuthill and Brown. who
the evening, found on the dock two
guns. four dead ducks and d dozen
cartridges. They went TO the west
ward. calling at the top of their vSices.
Soon an answering shout came lack
We're all right. papa" called young
Tuthill. cheerily; I'VE are caught in the
ice. but We Will he able to get OUT in
the morning. You had better go hone
and don't worry; We are comfortably. -
1t was bitter cold and the wind ms
blowing a gale. At 10 O'Clock the thr,e
in the boat were hailed again. and thy
answered. but after this nothing waI
heard from them. The moving ice had
carried them seaward.- Yesterday nes-
sageS were sent along shore and the
Teddie secuted Peconic. Orient and
Gardeners bays until the iCe-bound bat
was discovered.
The Teddie's whistle aroused no sgn
Of life in the rowboat. There vas
a figure III the bow. another was sen
in the stern and a third in the midce.
all still upright. but slightly crouo-
ing. Mesa ges were sent for ocea-
going tugs which can break z,roual
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-15

Charleston. 5. c., Feb. ia con-
struction train was wrecked by the
spreading of the tracks on the South
Carolina and Georgia railroad. eleven
miles outside of this city early yester-
day and two men were Killed and eight
more or less seriously injured. The
dead are: NJ. 3. jackson. Atlanta,
telephone employe: Fred d. Forbes.
Ypsilanti Mich, telephone employe.
The injured-W. r. Etheridge. Macon
internally injured. may die; r. Null
Iigan. Augusta. cut and bruised: w. F..
Wells Atlanta. bruised: Conductor Ed
ward Coughlin. this city, fractured col
lar bone: w. d Norman, engineer. dis
located shoulder. fractured collar hone:
]. T.. Clark. fireman, wounds on head
and legs: Dan Marlee, brakeman,
bruised; John Doyle, brakeman. legs
mashed