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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-03-13
FURTHER TESTS WANTED.
District Attorney Not Satisfied With
TOwel-Burning.

DlSIIlCI attorney NOT SatlSned With
Towel-Burning.
NEW YORK. March I3.-Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Osborne Is not satisfied
with the result Of the two towel burning
tests in the Patrick trial. and he may ask
that further experiments be made TO
show that the story told by Valet Jones
is true.
Attorneys for Lawyer Patrick profess
10 be highly pleased with the result Of
the tests. They ssy that, while the
towels and sponges soaked in chloroform
burned TO ashes. they did not burn free
". as Jones swOre the towel with which
he killed Mr. Rice bUrned-the blaze that
was started lasted but few minutes. and
the rest Of the burning was a smOIderiDg
without blaze.
Mr.. Osborne viii also ask that a false
face bearing beard and hair similar to
that Of the dead millionaire be subjected
70 saturatiOn with chiorofOrm as Jones
says the face OF Mr.. Rice was. with a
view Of determining II the odor Of the
drug viii remain for several hours. as
physicians say Il VIII.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-03-13
DR.. TALMAGE'S ILLNESS.
He Is on His Way Home From Mexico
Suffering Fre.a Influenza.

SAN ANTONIO. Tex. March 13-Tbe
Rev. Dr. T. Dewitt TaImage passed
through San Antonio Tuesday night on the
Southern Pacific, on the way to his home
in Washington. He was accompanied by
Mrs Talmage and his physician.
Mr. Talmage is returning from Mexico.
where he went several weeks ago. Upon
MS arrival In the Mexican capital he con-
tracted cold on the second day. and later
influenza developed. DR.. Talmage express
Cd the desire 10 return home several DAYS
ago
He has been confined to his ber,s in
the drawing room since his departure
from Mexico. He viii stop one day at
New Orleans 20 rest. Mrs. TaImage ex-
presses no fears over his condition.
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IN THE AIR.
The Germs Of La Grippe Are Conveyed
Through the Atmosphere.

No one can escape the Ia Grippe germ because
when an epidemic Of the disease L. prevailing the
air l. laden With H.
Tie reason that everyone does not have the
disease a the same time is because the persons
who ere enjoying perfect health are able 20 sue
ccs-fuIIv resist and throw of the injection while
those who. for any reason. are not in the best Of
health, fall ready victims.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-03-13
BOY SWINDLES BROKERS.
Tricked Firm Out Of a Gold Bar Valued
at Over $500.

NEW YORK, March BY the trickery
Of George H VoIk, sixteen years Old
Handy & Hartman. bankers and bullion
brokers. at No. % Nassau street, were
swindled out Of a gold bar valued at
$500 20.
Volk formerly was an errand boy for
Schmitt & Frey. manufacturing Jewellers,
at No. 323 Fourth avenue On March s
he telephOned 10 Handy & Hartman say
ing SchmitC & Frey wanted a gold bar
and would send a messenger for II. Then.
10 is said be got Ferdinand Menges. sew
enteen years old. Of No III East Fourth
street, TO 90 to the brokers' Office
Menges got the bar OF gold and gave Il
20 Volk, who sold II 20 a dealer IN Maiden
lane on John street
In Jefferson Market Court yesterday
Volk pleaded guilty and was held in 81 900
bail. Menges was discharged the magis-
trate not believing he was a guilty party
10 the swindle
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HANG ON.
Coffee TOpers as Bad as Others.

az friend Of our family, who lived
with us a shor- time. was a great cot
fee drinker and continual sufferer
with dyspepsia. He admitted that
coffee disagreed with him. but You
know how the coffee driuker viii
hold on 10 his coffee even if he
knows it causes dyspepsia.
One day he said 10 me that Pos
tum Food Coffee had been recon-
mended, and suggested that he would
like very much to try il. l secured a
package and made II strictly accord
ing 10 directions. He was delighted
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-03-13
WOMAN AS MAIL CARRIER. .
Mrs. Parsons Daily Route Will Cover
Twenty -one Miles.

WINSTED, Conn, March 13.-Mrs Ma
tilda y. Parsons. wife Of Evans c. Par
sons OF Torrington, is the first woman in
Connecticut to be appointed rural mail
carrier. She will commence work on
April l, and her daily route will cover
twenJv-Onc miles. On this route are
$40 houses, in which 5sS persons live
Mrs Parsons intends TO travel in a
sleigh or wagon, according 20 the weather.
but says she will make the trip on horse
back il necessary.
Her husband is the substitute carrier.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-03-13
Kinqsburv Trial Confined

HARTFORD, Conn, March 13-In the
Glastonbury district court this morning
the case Of DR.. Edward Kingsbury was
continued until Saturday Dr. Kingsbury
is twenty-five years old He is charged
with causing the death OF Mrs Maude
Lola Clark, wife Of Charles Clark. Dr.
Kiugsbury's bail was placed at $4,000 to-
day. He was unable TO obtain it.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-03-13
Good for the Babies.

There Is no better MEDICINE made for h,bicy
than ChaulDerlalns Cough Remedy. It's ule4tsuf
TASTE and prompt and chccJual cures make Il =
hvorite with the mothers % email children Ir
quickly cures their coughs and COLDS presertire,
pueumouia or other serious CONSEQUENCE In ~
only cures Group, but when given a. soon d he
coupy cough apDcaB wiz prevent The attalg
ShainperiaIus Cough Remedy contains no opiuf..
oT narcotic in any form, and may be given IS
eoiiAoehlty 10 BABY as 20 an adult. lt always
cure. For sale Dy Henry Evans Wholesale ana
Retail Druggist. gz2-9Z4 i 81. NV
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MISS ANTHONY IMPROVING.
But Her Physicians Say She Can't Re
turn Home Before Nav l.


PHILADELPHIA, March I8.-Miss su-
san 3. Anthony. the noted womans SUI
frage advocate. was able to sit un for
the first time yesterday after an illness
of two weeks.
Miss Anthony. who IS In this city at
the home Of her niece. Mrs. Helen VI.
James, had been in Washington before
a Senate committee speaking on female
suffrage, when she was attacked by bron-
chltis. She came here TO deliver a lee
ture before Bryn Mawr College but on
her arrival was Obliged TO take 10 bed.
At times her illness has been so criti-
cal as to necessitate the presence Of two
trained nurses The physicians in charge
OF her say Il Will be the first Of May be-
fore Miss Anthony can return 70 her
home All her engagements for the next
month have been cancelled, and unless she
grows worse she viii be removed next
week to Atlantic City, in the hope that
the sea air may help her.
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NO BOXERS FROM YALE.
Coronation Invitation Is Promptly De-
elined bY Institution.

Coronation Invitation Is Promptly De-
elined by Institution.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. March 13.-Yale
will send no boxers to take part in the
Dugilistic exhibitions which are planned
as a feature Of King Edwards corona
ton
The Yale athletic authorities today re-
ceived a telegram from the representa-
tives Of the London Boxing Clubs, who
are at the head Of the movement to bring
Yale anC Harvard boxers TO the corona
tiOu.
The invitation was promptly declined.
Yale has no boxers except a few IN
cergraduates who take private lessons in
sparring- No Yale students are permitted
20 appear in public exhibitions IN boxing
and the Ta'e faculty prohibit boxing
matches IN , gymnasium at any Of the
athletic tournaments.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-03-13
ANOTHER RICHMOND MYSTERY
-Four People Have Strangely Vanished
From Virginia CITY.


RICHMOND. Va. March I3.-Within the
last week. there have been four disap-
pearances Of prominent persons from this
city
Last Wednesday night Frederick
Hawkes.. a married man with three chill
dren. disappeared.
Then Hattie Gibbons. & pretty brunette.
seventeen years old. vanished.
Charles II. HUdspeth. disappeared last
Saturday, leaving hundreds Of bushels Of
grain IN cars here to be delivered to mer-
chants, and has not been heard from by
any Of his creditors here. He is believed
70 be in Washington or some nearby city
The fourth disappearance has just been
reported to the police by Mrs George Z.
Gamarsh. who says that her husband has
left her and her child. He vanished last
Monday, she says.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-03-13

with the new beverage, as was every
one of our family. He became very
fond Of II, and in a short time his
dyspepsia disappeared. He contiu-
ned using the Postum, and in about
three months gained twelve pounds
Ny husband is a practicing physi-
clan. and regards Postum as the
heaIthiest of all beverages He never
drinks coffee, but Is very fond OF
Postum. In fact, all Of our family
are, and we never thing Of drinking
coffee any more" Mrs Mary T.
Brown, Waterford, Va
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-03-13

The frst symptoms are those Of acute catarrh
resembling a hard cold, and If prompt treatment
4 applied ~ tAis time 30 can easily be- brokea
up, one OF the best remedies a. this stage Is
otUart's Catarh rablets sold by druggists every
where and II taken freely. say one tablet every
hour or two for two or three days, the danger Of
pneumonia and serious complications viii be
aFeTted
The Rev l. f. Palmer, Baptist clergyman Of
Csresc0, Mich, makes statement Of interess 10
Ell cataTrh and grip sufferers. He says: 'Stuart's
CatarTh Tablets have certainly been a blessing
70 me- ] have used them freely this fall and
winter, and have found them a safeguard against
IA Grippe and catarrhal trVubles. from which
have suffered for years. feel that I can freely
and conscientlOusly reccmmond them"
PerDns who suher from CsteTrh Of the head
and throat are very susceptible TO La Grippe, and
such will find a pleasant, convenient and safe
remedy IN this new catarTh cure.
SSuarts Catsuh Tablets are composed entirely
q harmless antlseptics and may be used a. freely
a. Necessary. a. they contain no cocaine opiate
or poisonous drug u any kind. mhl3,ls
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-03-13

Never artist
mixed a color
on his palette
that can Vie
with the hues
which tint a
healthful woui-
ans cheek
Why should
this charm Be
sacrificed 10
sickness ? It
need not be
save IN rare
cases The gen
eral health Of
woman Is 50
linked with the
local wOuauly
health that
wasted cheek
- 49, -,
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-03-13
SAILORS VOLUNTEER
TO Chew TOBACCO
Will Test Strength of Various
Brands of Plug.
Five Picked Veterans SOlemnly Set TO
Work on Thirty -One Different Kinds
and Decline TO Hurry.

NEW YORK. March l3.-There was
'.tars'' Of the receiving ship Columbia
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a PICTURE

OF health, we say Of perfectly health
ful woman, and It Is picture everyone
loves to look upon. All the pictures Of
ali the artists WHO have ever painted the
glory and beauty of womaHhood, are
only copies and limitations Of this picture.
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Trans-AtIantic Mans.

FRIDAE-Cb) At 7:l5 p n for EUROPE, per
& Lucania, from New York, VIA Queens-
town
(c) At e-l5 O. m for ITALY direct. per e 8
Lain. rom New York- Nail must be directed
per s. g. LAIN"
(c) AT HIS p m Ior NETHERLANDS direct.
per s. s Staatendam, from New York Nail
must be directed Per s. Staatendam.'
tcl At lI-Z5 D. m FOR SCOTT AND direct per
s. e Anchoria, from New York. Nail must be
directed per s. s. Anch0ria-'
PRINTED NATTER ETC--This steamer takes
Printed Matter. CCmmefcial Papers, and Samples
for GERMANY only The same class Of mail
matter for other parts OF EUROPE VIII not be
sent BY tins ship unless specially directed b.
her.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-03-13

simple grocers
sell Postum POSTUM CEREAL IT,
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FOREIGN MAILS.

WASHINGTON. D. C.. POSTOFTCE. NOTICE
Should be read daily, as changes may occur
AZ any time.
FJREIGN MAILS are forwarded 70 the ports
% calling daily, and the schedule Of ClosinZs IS
arranged on the presumption Of their unsnteT-
rUpted overland transit For the week ending
March IS. 1902. the last connecting closes viii
White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1902-11-27

ern system is practically the same as the
ancient Chinese system described by Hue,
with the exception that steam power is used
instead of manual power, which was trans
mitted through springing boards,
A square frame derrick about eighty
feet high, measuring twenty feet al the
bottom and three feet at the top is erected.
The cable to which the string of boring
tools, fifty to seventy feet in length and
weighing from 1000 to 3, 500 pounds pass
es over a pully at the top of the derrick.
The outside end of the cable is only for
use on a MINDLESS when the boring tools
are to be moved from the well. The per-
pendicular motion of the tools for boring
is given by the cables being attached at
White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1902-11-27

we'll with water and explode by electricity,
or a weight fastened to a wire.
A photograph taken Immediately after an
explosion by hash-light apparatus let down
the we'll showed a forced space of some
thirty feet in diameter with oil dripping
heavily from every part. The expense of
Roberts torpedoes led to their use by stealth
in many localities. The parties who enter
ed upon the business were called moon
lighters" and in the detective shadowing
and resistance involved many murders
resulted.
The operation of drilling we'll was form
erly very slow and expensive. A we'll can
now be drilled 1000 feet at one tenth the
cost and in less than one tenth the time
that was required when the Pennsylvania
oil regions were first explored. The mod
White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1902-11-27

the mouth of the we'll to a walking beam,
operated by a steam engine in similar
fashion to the walking beam of the COM
mon side wheel river steamboat.
This beam successfully raises and low
ers the tools which pound the rocks into
fine fragments. Every five feet the tools
are raised out of the we'll and the debris
removed by means of a sand pump.
The cost of drilling depends upon many
varying circumstances. In Ohio and In
diana wells have been drilled 1000 feet
for 81, 900. In Pennsylvania 1000 foot
we'll varies from $4,000 to So, 500.
The depths of wells depends upon the
the relative position of the surface
to oil rock. During the first twenty
years of their business Pennsylva-
MIA wells averaged 900 feet. Since that
White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1902-11-27
Millions For Irrigation.

Commissioner Herman estimates that
the receipts from land sales for the icsal
year ending June, 1903, will approximate
So, 900, 900 in the fund that may be made
Immediately available for irrigation pur-
poses.
The commission reports that the demand
from homesteaders for western lands is
increasing very rapidly and that the fund
will grow from year to year at the rate OF
about S., 900, 900.
White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1902-11-27

date the famous Bradford sands in Wash
ington county, which poured millions of
dollars into the treasury of the Standard
Oil company, have been explored to con-
siderable depth. Probably the average
depth Of Pennsylvania wells bored in the
last twenty-five years is not far from I, 900
feet.
White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1902-11-27
The Way in Which the Qualities
of Oil are Determined.

All oils, whether of vegateble or mineral
origin, are lighter than water, and conse-
quently float on the latter when poured up
on or mixed with it, The circumstances
has induced scientific men to compare the
White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1902-11-27

weights of equal volumes of the two bodies,
and to choose water as the unit of compari-
son or I, when all the oils arrange them
selves below the latter figure The Rela-
tive weights thus arising are known as the
specific gravities Of the oils and offer a
means of judging approximately about.. their
constituents.
Crude petroleum is liquid varying in spe-
cifc gravity Tor Density from o.73 to oo7,
at the wells, that of Pennsylvania ranging
between the figures o.78 and o.83, while
the natural Colorado product varies in that
regard from o.72 to o.95, as fas as expert
ence reaches. In order to render this point
more clear by comparison, we will add,
that rosn oil possesses the high specific
gravity o.oo8, while commercial castor
| beam and hence purely vegatebe oil, has,
as rule, a specific gravity lying between
the figures o. $50 and o.o64
AS general conclusion drawn from the
observations enumerated above, there re-
mains to be stated that the specifically
| lghtest oils are the most volatile, and that
those of higher specific gravity are to be
considered as illuminants and lubricants.
In order to facilitate the establishment of
these points, instruments, known as hy-
drometers, have been introduced, which
frequently have a compound scale, showing
the Beaume divisions for light liquids at
tempreture of of 90 degrees Fahrenheit, or
10 degrees Centigrade, ranging between
10 and TO, and specific gravity scale begin
ming with 0. 700 and ending with 1000, the
intervening space having been divided in
convenient subdivisions. When the instru-
ment is immersed in a glass cylinder filled
with destilled water, it sinks to 900 of
the specific scale and TO of the Beaume
scale, respectively and if the cylinder is
| filled with an oil and the instrument inser-
ted, it sinks to any of the points lying be-
tween the figures TO and TO, and I 900 and
o. 7oo the latter number being the lowest
of the scale. On the other hand, the in
tlammability of an oil is conditioned by the
amount of volatile constituents contained
in it, SO that an oil, in which the latter
compounds prevail, ignites more readily
and has, therefore, lower flashing point
than oils consisting of illuminants Of high
boiling points. This circumstance is taken
advantage of to ascertain its safe applica-
ton for burning or lighting purposes in
lamps, since an oil of a very low flashing
point is liable to form explosive mixtures
with the air enclosed above the level of the
oil in the lamp, and thus to cause accidents
of a severe nature In order to prevent
such occurrences, legislative restrictions
have been placed upon the burning of these
lighter hydrocarbons, the flashing point for
illuminating oil having been fixed by leg
islative act for Denver as no degrees Fab
renheit, or 43 degrees Centigrade, SO that
no petroleum having a flashing point lying
below this figure can be brought into mar
ket without running the risk of penal pun
ishment following such illegal procedures
Written for Mines and Minerals" by
DR.. Julius Only.
M;ll;onS For Vrrida tiOn
White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1902-11-27
BORING FOR OIL
Conditions Under Which 1t May
be Found and How.
Richmond Times.

rain and Devonain formations it frequent
stone serve as the best reservoirs. Drilling
in a number of oil fields has disclosed the
fact that the oil bearing sands usually lie in
three distinct layers, known as the first,
second and third sands, the distances be-
tween them varying from IS to 100 feet.
In some instances fourth sand has been
found.
The very uncertainty of the oil trade,
which has been most extraordinary giving
a meaning to the American phrase 'strik-
ing OIL ;" has brought to the business of oil
boring charm and fascination peculiarly
its own.
On one occasion we'll was bored and
no oil found. The apparatus was drawn
out and later steps we're taken to widen the
hole half an inch in each direction, pre-
paratory to boring deeper An enormous
vein was struck. The boring apparatus
had just missed the vein and as later bor-
ings proved that there was nothing below,
the we'll would have been a failure but for
the suggestion that it be slightly enlarged
for convenience in boring deeper. Another
we'll in that same locality was bored flow
ing large amount of oil; but by the time
tanks had been built to collect it the oil
had altogether disappeared. The deepest
we'll in the district more than 1000 feet
yielding no oil whatever. And altogether
only IS per cent of the boring we're sue
cessful.
One of the most remarkable wells in the
earlier history of the century was sunk in
1889 near Burkeville, Ky. The proprietor
was boring for salt The discharges we're
by profuse floods at intervals of from two
to FIVE minutes The flow continued in
the city for month or more and then set
tied down to steady stream, running
many thousands of gallons a day, and
flowing out over the surface of the Cum
berland river. and reaching a distance of a
hundred miles. A boy set fire to it and
the effect was grand beyond description,
the flames rising from the surface of the
river to hight far above the trees and
affording literally the spectacle of river
on fire.
The section of Pennsylvania, Ohio and
West Virginia known as the "oil region"
before the oil fever" of 1859 and the years
following. was an almost unbroken forest.
few farms and cultivated tracts dotted
the valleys and bottom lands. After the
discovery. as though by magic, the land
scape became dotted with countless derricks,
towns springing into existence, land sold
for fabulous prices fortunes were suddenly
made and recklessly lost, and railroads
quickly pushed into regions hitherto un-
hunter.
1t was soon found that many wells be-
came clogged or ran dry from exhaustion.
In 1862 Col. Z. A. Roberts conceived the
idea of exploding torpedos at the bottom of
the walls of the we'll and if possible secur-
ing further flow without new sinking
The success of this theory created a new
excitement. Many patents were fled
inuumerable lawsuits for infringement in
stituted, ending finally in victory and for
tune for Col Roberts. The method of ex
ploding was to sink flask containing the
explosive to the bottom of the shaft, fill the
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An Ordinary Ad.
From The Star Of August %. 1861.


the newspaper offices for anything later
from Charleston" was terrible indeed, and
on Saturday afternoon the pressure on The
Star Office was the most intense We have
experienced. Not only was the interior OF
the office damned and crammed, but the
street in front of the office for some dis
lance was blocked up in all directions by
the anxious crowd.
/ Those who got papers were unable to
make their exit the way they entered and
a paSsageway through the office and so
out by a rear alley was improvfsed for the
occasion. Fast as the presses worked, they
were quite unable to supply the demands
or to-thin the crowd OF news seekers Later
in the evening after the working or of our
regular city edition. the intelligence of the
surrender Of Fort Sumter was received. but
the news was really so unpalAtable that II
was at first utterly discredited
This dispatch, then being placed upon our
bulletin board, attracted dense crowd In
stanter. and It was almost amusing to see
people starting on the run squares AWAY In
the direction Of the bulletin on seeing 9TH
ers gathering around 1t. The Union men
said: They'd be dEn II they believed II 4"
and even some who nave hitherto INDUCED
secession sympathies went SO far as to saw
they would rather see Charleston sunk than
Sumter surrendered
Today. and now that the news OF the sur
render has been confirmed. 1t Is noticeable
that politics are comparatively sunk here,
the phrases Republican Democrat"
Wing being scarcely remembered. There
Is but one feeling among bona fide citizens