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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01

picked.
An air-cooling system on q vast
scale is TO be tried at the ST. Louis
exposition. Great fans will bring
down a current of cold air from a
height of 500 feet above the earth
and pour it over the grounds on hot
days.
Prof. Wilbur c. knight, of the state
university of Wyoming, is engaged
in putting together pieces OF a sea
serpent which he discovered in 1895.
The animal was 60 feet long and il
one OF the most valuable specimens
ever captured.
To see objects at distance OF 100
miles the observer must be standing
at height of 6,667 feet above the
level of the sea. The rule is that the
distance in miles at which an object
on the earth's surface may be seen
is equal to the square root of one
and half times the height of the
observer in feet above sea level, ale
lowance being made for the effect
OF atmospheric refraction.
Prof McKendrick, in his presiden-
eAaA ouNANSS ~ IhC pug SlOlOky keCJlOu
of the British association, in Septem-
Der, remarked that the smallest par
ticle of matter that can be seen with
our present microscopes is between
Observation-Disclosures and
one-fiye-hundred-thousandth of an
inch in diameter. The attraction of
light in the microscope forbids the
possibility of seeing still smaller OBJ
jects. Yet the living spores studied
by Psychologists are sometimes,
probably, even smaller in size than
the most minute particle that the
most perfect microscope can show.
The stars which are called fixed
stars" are properly so described.
They do not change their relative
places appreciably even in the long
est periods of time with which his
tory has to deal. Take, for instance,
the twin stars which form the belt
Of Orion, that constellation which
is especially the glory of our winter
skies. There is no doubt that the
relative positions of these twin stars,
and their positions relative to other
stars in the vicinity, were just the
same 1000 years ago as they are to-
day. so far at least as the general
appearance of the constellation Is
concerned
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01

Lake Superior is the deepest Of the
great lakes. It's greatest depth is
1908 feet and the lake is col feet
above the level of the sea.
In Los Angeles, Cal, there is an
ordinance imposing a fine of five dol
lars for allowing chickens to run on
the streets and other peoples prop
erty.
Theodore Roosevelt Is the fifth
president who has held membership
in the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity,
the others being John Quincy Adams,
Pierce, Garfield and Arthur.
A French naval ensign has been dis
missed from the fleet for writing a
satirical novel in which several of
the leading officers were criticised
and caricatured IN a very sarcastic
fashion.
Colorado, Nevada and California
have no representation on the COM
mittee on mines. and mining in the
present house of representatives.
Territorial Delegate Smith, of Ari-
iona, is member OF the committee.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
OBSERVATIONS FROM LIFE.

Statistics sometimes prove that liars
can figure.
A budding genius is all right until he
begins to blow.
Her, fathers boot frequently makes
an unfavorable impression
Too much of the noise in this world
tries to pass itself of as music
1t is better to be wrong at the right
time than right at the wrong time.
The more a woman argues the more
she is unable TO convince herself
Some dancing, instead of being the
poetry of motion, is mere doggereI.
The price of liberty is eternal vigi-
lance, but the cost of repairs is extra.
Young men think themselves wise
and drunken men think themselves So
Der.
The man who knows it all is q fit
companion for the woman who knows
nothing.
Any man can think as he likes, but ID
isn't always policy to put his thoughts
into words.-Chicago Daily News.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
SATURDAY, FEB L, 1902.

TIKI Petersburg INDEx-APPEAL in its
issue of the 21st ult. discussed the work
of the unconstitutional Constitutional
Convention and says:
with respect to the suffrage prob
lem, the review essays no defense. 1t is
an unqualified wall of despair in the re-
cital of the obstacles encountered in the
work. These obstacles, we fear, are in
surmountable by the methods the Con-
vention is pursuing. The Convention
may try from now until doomsday and
it will never be able TO pass a law that
will disfranchise the Negro without dis
franchising any white man and at the
same time comply with the Federal
Constitution.
Never was greater truth more plain
ly spoken. 1t is up against an impossi-
bihty and a man must be both deaf,
dumb and blind not to realize and see
it.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
Troops Coming Home.
Train Robbers secured sis.

Charleston, 8. c., Jan. 2S.-Aecord-
ing to the latest advices from Branch
vile developments concerning the
Southern Railway express robbery, so
far as made public, are not important.
1t is known that after securing the
express safe the robbers conveyed it
to a point on the Edisto river, six
miles away. Failing to open it, they
threw the safe into the river. where
it was found yesterday morning. The
amount Of plumber secured is said to
be about S13
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01

When white men commit similar
crimes upon colored females, let our
white friends be equally as indignant
and positive in their demand for punish
ment.
WILLIAM O'BoYLE. (white) is now un.
der sentence of death at Newport News.
Va. for the commission of a crime upon
a colored woman as fiendish as the one
with which Higginbotham stood charg-
ed
He murdered colored woman and
her unborn babe, stamping the life out
of both
Two white juries have found him
guilty of death. Two colored juries
would have found HIGeINBoTHAM guilty
of death. This is indicative of better
state of feeling existing between the
white and colored citizens of the COM
monwealth.
1t shows that the law can and will be
executed, that mobs should be sent to
the rear and that the dawn Of brighter
morning will bring peace and prosperi-
ty, hope and contentment in one Of the
fairest portions of the land of sunshine
| and flowers.
All honor to our state officials for their
| fidelity to duty. When the law is su.
preme, and guilty criminals punished,
regardless of race, color or previous con-
dition of servitude; then the advent of
the millennium is at hand aud the glad
refrain will be heralded from the Allan
tic to the Pacific; from Canada to the
sulf.
Lynch-law must go
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
HEALTH AND COMFORT.

Never use heavy bedclothing. Weight
and warmth are not Synonymous.
A child's appetite is pretty fair in
iicator of health; so, if it fails, and
the failure is not due to indiscretion in
diet, see whether it is worried over
lessons and has enough sleep.
To promote children's appetites, take
care that they have plenty of outdoor
exercise and that they have only such
simple, homely food as they can digest.
If this be done there will seldom. if
ever, be any cause for anxiety on the
score of lackof appetite.
One may prevent chilblains by wrap
ping the chilled part very thickiy in
cotton, wool or flannel and taking
brisk exercise in a room having a tenn
perature of about 60 degrees Fahren-
heit. Should chilblain present itselt
let it be painted" at once with a mix
ture of glycerin and belladonna Hni-
ment.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
DOCTOR SHOOTS WIFE
Lancaster Man Attempts Murder and
Then Commits Suicide.


Then Commits Suicide.
Chicago, Jan. 2S.-Dr. Harry j.
Zieglsr, Of 316 West King street, Ian.
caster, Pa, fatally wouRded his wife,
Anna, and then killed himself yester
day afternoon at the wsllington Ho
tel A note left by the physician de
clered that he and his wife had de
cided to die, and that, IA he lacked
the nerve, Mrs. Ziegler had promised
to commit the act The woman, be.
fore being removed 20 the Samaritan
Hospital in dying condition, de
clared that the shooting was done by
her husband.
The physician and his wife arrived
at the wellington Hotel yesterday
morning and were assigned to a
room. The two were young and ap
parently happy. They retired to their
room and about o'clock q call came
to the clerks ONCE. When the bell
boy arrived at the room he found the
woman tugging at the door Blood
was flowing from a wound in the back
of her head. "Oh, my husband has
shot himself" she cried. forgetting
in her fear for him the pain of her
own wound.
The bell boy took her out into the
hallway, saying that her husband
might kill her, and she let him lead
her away from the room. Then he
FASTENED to the ONCE OF DR.. B. L.
REESE, the house physician. When the
latter arrived the husband was dead
and the wife was barely conscious.
A note addressed to q morling
newspaper was found In the room. II
read: my photograph belongs to your
paper. We decided to die, but lack
the nerve to shoot, so my wife. Anna,
will do 1t. Send my body home to
S16 West King street. Lancaster.
Good bye"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
THEIR ORIGINAL MEANINGS.

Shrewd once signified evil or wicked.
Thomas Fuller uses the expression "a
shrewd fellow" meaning a wicked
man.
The word prevent" originally meant
nothing more than to go before. 1t is
used in this sense in several places in
the Scriptures.
Prejudice was originally nothing
more than judgment formed before
hand, the character of such judgments
being best indicated by the present
meaning of the word.
A saunterer is believed by some ETY.
mologists to have originally signified a
man without lands, such person nat
urally wandering to and fro in search
OF employment.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
A DOUBLE LYNCHING.

Two more colored men were offered
up TO the fendish brutality of Judge
Lynch last week.
The telegraphic report bears date of
+ the Jan. 81. 1t seems that G.. N. GRANT.
and a white man named MCKAY
were out hunting when they came upon
some colored men cleaning hogs in Car
roll Parish, Louisiana.
GRANT claimed that the hogs belong
ed to him. 1t has never been explained
how he could tell his hogs from any
body else's or whether he could recog-
nize them even if turned inside out or
outside in.
Any way, he claimed the hogs as his
property without even counting his hogs
beforehand to see if any were missing.
To charge men with stealing without
having evidence of it was bad enough;
but he attempted to arrest them with.
out a shadow of the authority of the
law.
Il is evident that he was about to
shoot them. Be this as it may, the col.
ored brother was two quick for him, fir.
ing first, the bullet lodging in the brain
MCKAY quickly disappeared and
aroused the white people in the
neighborhood, who formed lynchine
party and succeeded in capturing three
<colored men.
AS to whether any Of them were the
aynes who shot GRANT and killed him
tieponent sayeth not.
They proceeded to hang two of them
while no doubt the colored brother wht
did the shooting is even now going il
another direction as fast as his legs cal
carry him.
This is the idea of justice now pre-
vailing in this benighted section. 1t i
a virtual announcement that there cal
be no self-defense as between whit
and colored person when the forme
loses his life in the deadly duel.
Three lives are offered up for a few
hogs, thus placing value upon tn
four-legged animals all out Of proper
ton to the market prices now prevail
ing.
The sacrifice Of two colored men an,
the loss of one white one may result
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
IN THE FAR EAST.

A German tourist in Corea writes
that the usual bill of fare consists of
dog meat, rice an.' beans.
Turk holds that the day begins
exactly at sunset. At that time he
sets his clocks and watches at the
hour of 12
Vladivostock, which 40 years ago
consisted of four Chinese fshermen's
huts, is now a 1ourishing city of 5o,-
600 souls, and Khabarofsk and Blago-
vestchensk are not far behind in
wealth and population.
Corea is believed to be rich in gold,
but it all belongs to the king, who
gets 25 per cent. of the gross earn
ings, and whose consent for mining
undertakings is hard to get. Never
theless about s2,5O0,oO0 of the metal
was secured last year.
The Chinese have the idea that milk
revives the youthful powers, and that
1T has special virtue as a winter food
for old people. Pictures and charac-
tiers illustrating this idea, as well as
the value of it for baby food, would
without doubt increase the sale of
American milk in China, as one of
the consuls suggests.
Arab music has been described as
the singing Of a prima donna who
has ruptured her voice in trying to
sing a duet with herself. Each note
starts from somewhere between a
sharp and a fat, but does not stop
even there, and splits up into four
or more portions, of which no person
can be expected to catch more than
one at time.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
A ponnInr Anrihnte

Mike" said Mrs. Flanagan, look
ing from the paper in her hand to her
husband, who had just signed the tenn
perance pledge, "shure an a great
docther seq thot alcohol do be a shure
cure for carbolic acid pizen, an if so be
yez haven't amy olcohol, thin twict as
much whisky Will do jist as we'll"
BE quick, thin, Aprah, ME dear, an
lay by good store o. the stuff. Shure
I'm thot desp'rit there's no tellin' whin
I'll be nadin' the rimidy."-Judge.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
better state of feeling.

better state of feeling.
Certain it is, that hog-owners will be
more careful in identifying property in
the hands of colored men.
They viii exercise caution in dealing
with colored men, realizing that con-
tinued oppression and submission to op-
preston leads at times to a desperation,
the exercise of which causes the colored
man to set no value upon his own life
and care still less for the life of the man
whom he is attacking.
Lynch-law must gol
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
BIG RAILWAY COMBINE
New Company Being Formed to Take
Over All Lines In Philadelphia.

New Company Being Formed to Take
Over All Lines In Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Jan. 2S.-Thc direc
tors Of the Union Traction company,
which controls all the street car lines
In this city, at special meeting held
In the offices Of p. A. B. Widener, yes
terday afternoon, granted the request
OF John M. Mack for a conference be.
tween the Union Traction company
and the Mack-Foerderer company.
which owns all the street car fran.
chises granted last summer by city
councils. Immediately after the meet.
ing Mr.. Mack left for New York.
1t is proposed to form q new com.
pany, to he called the Consolidated
Traction company, which will be capt.
talized at $4,000, 900. The promoters
OF this company made a proposal ia
the Union Traction company to lease
all its lines on a sliding scale rental.
in which the dividends increase each
year until the fifth year, when a q
per cent basis is reached. After that
period the Consolidated Traction
company guarantees a fixed rental OF
per cent. to the Union Traction
stockholders. To the Mack-Foerder-
Wolf syndicate the proposal is made
to take over all their franchises which
were recently granted and which cover
in perpetuity all the important street
! railway concessions. The new com.
pany will therefore have a monopoly
OF all the local transportation, sur
face, underground and elevated
which Philadelphia has and will ever
! require. The deal involves financial
interests worth fully $3.50, zoe. 900.
Troops Coming Home.
Washington, Jan. 2S.-The war de-
| partment has been informed that the
| troops which are to return home from
the Philippines will sail from Manila
as follows: Twenty-second Infantry
February /; Twentieth Infantry, Feb
ruary 10; Headquarters and First and
Second Battalions Of the Seventeenth
Infantry, February 2S. Tho Third
Battalion of the Seventeenth Infantry
will sail from Manila after the arrival
there OF the Second Battalion of the
Twenty-seventh Infantry, between
March / and 10.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
Last Years output Of Pic Iran,

Philadelphia, Jan. 2s.-Tke Amsri-
can Iron and Steel Association has re-
ceived from the manufacturers COM
plete statistics Of the production Of all
kinds Of pig iron in the United States
In 1901. The total production Of pig
iron was 15.s7S,354 gross tons, COM
pared with 13,789,242 tons In 1900,
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
An unsirterIx FIinr

"She is pretty" said the young
woman, but she is so obviously made
up"
YES" answered Miss Cayenne, 81
can't help wondering how she got
back from Europe without having
paid duty collected onfher as a work
If art."-N. Y. Telegraph.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
BITS OF SCIENCE.

The wasp and the fly are irrecon-
cilable enemies. The presence of a
wasp's nest is a guarantee to the
whole neighborhood of the absence
of flies.
a product of the heretofore unpro-
ductive deserts of Utah is kind Of
watermelon which is picked in Oc-
tooer The melon ripens after it is
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
FLoTsAM AND JETsAM.

The largest slaughter house in the
world is in Kansas City, Kan.
The trade of all South America is
not equal to that we have with Can
BY the use of a process invented at
bridgeport, Conn, wooden doors are
being electroplated with copper or
brass.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01

Trivvet-Did you hear of the dread,
ful revenge rockingham took on
Miss Dimling when she refused his
proposal?
Dicer-What was it?
TriVvet--He proposed to her moth
er, as Mrs. Dimling was widow, and
now he won't let man come to the
house to see his stepdaughter.-Chi.
cago Journal.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
Nut. Cracked by Ng.cbtDe~

There are three nut-eracking plants
in st. Louis. The machines are driven
by electricity each nut being fed in
dividually into the crusher. After the
shells are cracked the nuts are win
moved by an air blast and the meat
is picked from the cracked shells by
hand, women and girls being employed
for this part of the work.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01
Boarding House ParsImony.

Landlady-our Shakespeare club Ia
to discuss the character of Cassius to-
night.
Boarder-Did You know Cassius?
Landlady-What question:? OF
course, not.
Boarder-I didn't know but he
boarded here; he was lean and hun.
gry' you know.-Brooklyn Life. 90
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01

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should be sent 50 as to reach us by W ednesday.
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Entered i'm the Post Office at Richmond. Va
ras second class matter.
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JOHN rMTLhELL. JR., EDITOR.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-01

published every Saturday by JOHN MITCHELL,
JR., at 81 North 4th Street, Richmond, Va.
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Hes Getting Even

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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-12-06
TOnopah POstmastership.

The resignation of W. J. Sinclair,
postmaster of Butler postotiice, is in
the hands of the postal department.
The question of his successorship
comes up and already candidates for
the position are in the field. f. r.
Shields, the merchant of North Main
street, and c. r. Ford, of the livery
firm doing business on South Main
street, are aspirants for the respon-
sibilities and work, in the interest of
whom petitions are being circulated.
W. W. Booth, editor and manager of
the BONANZA, representing as cen
trial a point as the postottice now oc-
cupies, has announced his willingness
to accept the office, but has no peti-
ton in the field.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-12-06
The New Banking House.

At the meeting of the directors of
the Nye County Bank recently held
in this city, the following officers
were elected T. l.. Oddie, Presi-
dent; George S. Nixon, vice Presi-
dent and general manager; John S.
Cook, cashier The board of direc-
tors are T. L, Oddie, George S.
Nixon and Kenneth jackson. The
steel doors, attached to which are
time locks, have been placed in their
place in the stone vault which will be
completed in d couple of days. The
bank will be ready for business inside
Of ten DAYS.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-12-06
The Site Acquired.

1
tuesday last the STATE Bank ana
trust company bought the JAS. l.,
Butler lot on the southwest corner OF
NAN street ana brougner ave- pay
my therefor sl0'ooo. Inc site, now
occupied by the once saloon
Ihe MliiIne bureau Silith
photograph gallery ana tne
lo"niey urus STORE Is ooA wv ieet III
area Inc transfer was enected oy
non. l. D. h'ckey' president OF the
oanklhS corporation
Inc struc eufe WIN oe tnree stories
hiSh, oulIt oil soIld cut granite hre,
PROOF ana PROVIDED win burglar PROOF
vaults ana every noaern equipment
so iar devised SO py Ine oull1lhg ART OF
the day. me ounalng VIII cover tne
ehtire iot' WIN d ,ront elevation OF
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-12-06
Sale at Gold Mountain,

Messrs. Johnson & Colehan have
sold to r, T. Brodek the Morning
Star and Georgia Taylor claims,
which constitute a portion of the
original Colehan group at Gold Noun
tain Mr. Brodek, formerly of the
Comstock, is now extensively inter
ested at Bakersfield and in Kern
county oil lands. His investment in
Gold Mountain property evinces good
mining judgment, at least. The re
cent developments on the rich Cole
han ledge in the Tonopah Union shaft
particularly has enhanced values all
along the line, to and including the
Lucky Tom.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-12-06
BOstOn.TOnOpah.

The valuable holdings of the Bos-
on-Tonopah Mining company com
prise five full size claims, the Reptile,
Nevada Queen, Mayday, Pinto
and the Pedro. They are situated
one-half mile north from the Mizpah
ledge and adjoin the properties OF
the Mizpah- Extension and those OF
the North Star TUNNEL and Devel-
opment company On broader con
sideraton of relative position, they
are in line with the great mineral
zone running through from Silver
Peak, Klondike, Ray, Liberty and
Berlin. On the Reptile is exposed
ledge of quartz from five to fifteen
feet wide, cropping for 1850 feet,
which carries fair values in both gold
and silver No work has been done
directly on the ledge except hole
five feet in depth, which shows six
feet of white and blue quartz of very
good quality. Messrs. Wingheld X
Hennessy run tunnel l75 feet ex-
pecting TO tap the ledge at 200 feet,
but suspended this work when ncor-
poration was effected In view of
future operations the tunnel will be
of no advantage In its course there
was disclosed a small stringer Of
black spar that carried Sl350 per
ton in gold 1t is in the plans Of the
company to sink a shaft 100 feet be-
low the ledge, and then drive cross
cut A 40 horse power steam en-
CINE has been ordered from Fair
banks, Morse & Co., which can be
rated at 50-horse power, and is ca
pabe of sinking $500 feet
From all surface indications the
groupings of the ledge is the one up
on which the Mizpah- Extension com
pany are now working, only 400 feet
distant Being so near to proper
ties that have proven good, with u
known outcrop of ore, the Boston
Tonopah will also prove to be pro
Queer. This result will be expedited
by rapid work with one Of the best
equipped hosting plants in the camp.
Supervision of the work is in the
hands of J S. McCambridge, a
thorough miner who has had much
practical experience while in charge
of some of the heaviest producing
sections in Tonopah.