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sack" it was evidently with the inten- ton of squandering this small portion of their fortune in the shortest possible time, and the story of how they did 1t will proba bly be told for generations in Southern California Purchasing 300 acres of barren land in Nos Nietos Valley, Eli set to work to convert 1t in record time into a vertable garden of Eden, with a lordly pleasure house for his dwelling place.
 He engaged an army of workmen and dispatched agents in all directions to pur- chase full grown shade and ornamental trees, which were transported by night on specially built wagons to his estate and planted there. Another army of men, q hundred strong, secured the country for full grown plants. There were process sions of wagons conveying earth from one part of the estate to make hills elsewhere; grottoes sprang up like mush- rooms in single day lakes and streams made their appearance as if by magic, until, under the skillful direction of land scape gardeners, within a few weeks the barren acres were converted into glorious gardens
 But still the artist eye of MT. Haw- kins was not satisfied. He spent $7OOO on statuary for his lawns and groves, and, to crown the effect, he set two Of the servants to work on them with paint brushes. Mercury blossomed into green tights and black hair; Venus was made radiant in blue sandals. red hosiery and carmine arm stumps all the Cupids were painted black with blue stripes. and Bac- chus graduated in sober gray, with flaming red nose
 Meanwhile palatial house had sprung up in the middle of this ready made splendour; and. that nothing might be lacking to It's completeness. Ell had a private barroom annexed at a cost of $2500 and equipped with the largest as- s1tment of drinks in all California. un-
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cats all of one color. Violet was the color chosen for the stock. Each of the Jersey cows. the bull, the sheep, dogs and cats were treated to sponge bath Of violet dyeing fluid. It was Q sight long to be remembered to see pack of violet-hued hunting dogs scurryng over the fields, while violet sheep gamboled in the Hawkins grove, and a drove Of violet tinted cows chewed their cuds In the neighboring meadow. But sad to say, the cows licked their violet-dyed Hanks too freely and several of the most valuable died of poisoning, while others sickened.
 A favorite pastlme with Ell and his wife, who were both excellent shots, was to use their statuary as targets, and in an incredibly short time there was not statue in the place which had not shed most of its limbs and features. Perhaps the most amusing incident of all, how ever. was when one day, Ell proceeded to his new brick reservoir to take q
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der the charge of an expert bartender. Here, in company with boon companions, he spent many hours daily gloating over the fruits of his enterprise and dispens- ing champagne and cigars with lavish hand to his workmen.
 In his stables he placed thirty horses, the costliest money could buy; his har- ness was all god-plated and his equi- pages were the most sumptuous in the whole continent of America; while to crown his absurdity he would drive be- hind a pair of three thousand dollar horses. wearing clothes no self-respectng beggar would care to be seen in.
 The story of his later eccentricities would fill a volume, and one has only space for samples of them. Thus, one day the idea occurred to him to have great running match at night on the roads of Los Nietos Valley. For this purpose he sent messengers far and wide to purchase 1000 candles, which were placed at intervals. mounted on sticks, along the course: grand stand was
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PECULIAR DRESSES
 ARE NOT NOTICED
ALL SORTS OF COSTUMES ARE WORN IN PARIS, AND YET THEY DO NOT ATTRACT THE SLIGHT EST ATTENTION.
Paris Correspondence of the Londc

Paris Correspondence of the London Standard.
 In contrast with London, with it's strict ness and convention in dress. Paris is easygoing I do not suggest that Paris fans are, as whole. either carelessly or badly dressed-that would be a libel on all whose names are in tout Paris'-but 1t is true, I think. that many Parisians es- pecially among the middle and lower classes show such a dislike for uni- formity that in getting away from the conventional they fall into the remark able. Coats, hats, waistcoast. and boots are worn in combinations which betray little method in the madness. yet they at tract not the lightest attraction and foreigners from north, south, east, and west parade the streets unheeded. Only . day or two ago I met newly married couple in the Rue de la Paix wearing the costumes in which they had just been married. The bridegroom had on the con ventipnal French habit of the working class, very similar to the English evening dress, and his bride still wore spray of orange blossoms in her hair, but the cou- Dlo were stared at no more than were
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sTRANeEsT MILLIONAIRE.
Eli Hawkins and His Wife Did Some
 Amazing Things Out West.
From the London Tit-Bits.

From the London Tit-Bits.
 Rich men are more or less free from eccentricities than their less fortunate fellows; but 1t is doubtful if there has ever been a more odd specimen of a Croesus than Mir. Eli Hawkins, who re- gently died in poverty. and whose strange story has never hitherto been told this side of the Atlantic.
 When MT. Hawkins, a reputed million aire, and his wife migrated just thirty years ago from San Francisco to Los Angeles with $sO0.000 in leather grip
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The Worlds Weight.
rom the Chicago Journal.

From the chicago Journal.
 A cubic foot of earth weighs about five and half times IS much as cubic foot of water. A cubic mile of earth weighs 25, ,649, 300. 900 tons. The volume of the earth is 259, 9,SS0,OO0 cubic miles. The weight of the world without its atmosphere is 6,ses.- 250 900. 900 600, ,000 600 tons. If we add to this the weight of the atmosphere we get the grand total-s e6s 255. .s1s. 600 0oo. 900 900 tons
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swim before the walls were dry. His wife warned him that she would shoot him if he tried 1t. Hawkins plunged in, when bangl went revolver in the angry woman's hands. Hawkins hid behind the tankhouse. and every time he showed his head bullet whizzed past. She kept him shivering there the entire afternoon. His reservoir was ruined by his haste to use if before if was dry
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Boys OvercOats

Boys and Children's Overcoats in Worsteds, Metons and Cassimeres, beautiful belted garments, warm and waterproof, sizes } to Y years, special at 2.75 and 3.75.
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The Shirt Waist Section Receives Part of This Great Purchase
 Here Is a Great Saving.

l29 Ladies' Flannel, Mohars and novelty cloth waists; just the garment to wear at the pres
 ent time, worth S1 50 only y.................5b 5bc
 So Fine Taffeta Silk shirt waist, all the new est and prettest fall designs and shades are found in this line. The Tucked and Blouse effects, very stylish, worth S4. %, only. .2.S8
 63 Ladies' fine Peau de Soie Silk shirt waist. They come in all the fall shades, Black, White, Green Blue, Brown, Red and Pastel effects, worth $500. For this sale only 3.43
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Fine Fumes and Feathers In Millinery Department

We are closing out big lot of fine feathers at just half-price. We've too many and price must move them They represent the finest Ost- rich pumes Wings Breasts Birds, Aigrettes, etc. Black White and varegated colors.
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51 Fine S2.00 Fumes. 98c 1o5 Fine SIPS to $1. SO Fumes. .6Sc B Fine 8 % Fumes. .i.49
 g Fine S4. % Fumes ........ .l.96 75 Fine S5 % to S7. % Fumes. .3.l9 One lot assorted feathers of all kinds
 t0c to. ..25o
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-01
Business and the Woman

FIoT the New York World
There is no longer a woman railway pres
icent In the United States. Mrs. Mary s.
Holiday has sold the williamsviIle Green
vile and st. Louis line for 100000 and
has gone back to society and her daugh-
ters. Her contribution to the debate ON
Woman in Business Is this:
One can't look after large affairs ana
attend TO ones family properly Then,
too. a business life sooner or later hardeno
woman.
Mrs. Holiday has been successful rail-
way manager. Yet something of the eter-
nal feminine led her to the career when
they would not give me an annual pa 81
because was woman. had to get my
self elected president TO get that pass"
Along with the news of Mrs Holladay's
detection comes the story of two New York
bellies who VIII give up society for the
winter to devote themselves to n great
dairy farm I'm New Jersey. Also II Is an
nounced that Miss Georgia Gelston Jones,
heiress and daughter OF a former MARYLAND
attorney general. will pass from the fash
ionable life of Baltimore into the MANAGE
ment of her late fathers six hundred acres.
business In railway offices and busin ess
on fine farm lands are widely different. 1t
is scarcely conceivable that even the most
susceptible feminnity could be hardened by
associa ton with the wheat field and the
dairy. But there are differences. too, be-
tween the woman who goes into business
Of necessity. With the former the case for
and against the active life depends proably
on which she happens TO get tired of-trade
or society.
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THos. J. OWEN & son. AUCTToNEERs.

REAL ESTATE KNOWN AS PREMISES NOS
345. BAT. 34y AND 353 TWENTY SECOND
STREET AND NOS. Pas, 215O AND 2152 D
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Under the authority conferred by certain decree
passed by the Supreme Court of the District OF
Columbia. in equity case No. 1892 substituting
new trustee in the place and stead of Thomas e.
Waggaman under the deed Of trust hereinafter de-
duly recorded in Liber No. $780, folio 457 ct seq
Of the land records Of the District OF Columbia
and at the request of the party secured thereby,
the undersigned trustees will sell separately at
NESDAY. THE EIGHTH DAY OF NOVEMBER
A. d. 1905 COMMENCING AT FOUR O'CLOCK
PM, the following described land and premises
situate In the city OF Washington, District of Co
lumba. and designa ted and being lots numbered
four (34, thirty Ave 49, thirty 1851 and thirty
80 in Andrew J. Miller's subdivision in
square numbered eighty four ga, per plat re-
corded In Book 20 page 48. in the surveyors Of
fce of the District OF Columbia together with the
houses, six rooms each, with modern improvements
Terms Of sale: One-third of the purchase money
to be paid In cash. balance In two equal INSTALL
ments. payable In one and two years, with interest
at six per centum per annum. payable semi-annu-
ally, from day Of sale, secured by deed of trust
upon the property Sold all cash, at the option
Of the purchaser. deposit Of $1OO viii be re-
Quired Of the purchaser of each lot time of sale
All conveyancing. recording. etc., at cost Of pur-
chaser Terms of sale to be complied with within
tees the right TO resell the property at the
risk and caNst Of defaultng purchaser after Ave
days advertisement of such resale in some news
paper published in Washington D. C.
JOHN W. PILLING,
ALAN o. CLEPHANE,
= oc27-d&dseSu Trustees
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Woman First in World.
. st. Louis GIobe-Demncrat.

IIOH lue 81. LOUIS biODe-iPenDfrAf-
"Ahe arctic Eskimos have their ira
ditfon of the origin Of man. much the
same as the Caucasian: and their tales of
the prowess In battle, their sagas relating
the past glories of what is now an almost
extinct race. are as thrilling as some of
those that tell of the wondrous deeds Of
Odin and Thor, or of those Grecian an
clients whose deeds are yet preserved in
prose and poetry" So says DR. John p
briggs, the medical missionary at Point
Hope. who has lived among the arctic ma
tives almost continuously for fifteen
years. DIR. briggs believes that man had
his origin within the arctic circle "Ac-
cording to Eskimo tradition" says DR..
Drggs, the first man was made not from
the dust of the earth, but from a piece of
chewing gum-for be IL known that the
Indian is the original gum chewer as we'll
as to tobacco smoker. But woman was
first. The first woman was lying one day
on her couch of furs. chewing gum Grow
ing weary. she took IL from her mouth
and fashioned ii into the form of a man.
Tired then. she fell asleep. to find. upon
her awakening, that the breath of life had
been breathed into the figure of gum of
which she had been the architect, and. 10,
man was there! And so the world began
to be peopled.
1t is related as a fact that high upon a
mountain to the north and east of Point
Hope are the skeletons Of three oomiaks.
or boats, In good condition. They have
been well preserved during twenty thou
sand years or more by climatic conditions.
and may have been the original Noah's
arks They at one time in all proba bility
rested upon the beach.
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S. BENSINGER,
Wash. Horse and Carriage Bazaar,
$40 La. ave.
Regular sale of Horses and We
hicles tomorrow Thursday, COM
mencing at 10 am.
S. BENSINGER.
no1-w.f.m.2
FUTURE DAYS.
JAMES W. RATCLIFFE, AUCTIoNEER.

JAMES W. RADCLIFFE, AUCTIONEEH.
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE DWELLING
HOUSES. KNOWN AS NOS. SOL, 603, COS /
STREET NV. AND 900 9Th STREET NV. |;
STREET BETWEEN Sd AND ATH NE,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Under and by virtue Of decree Of the Supreme
Court Of the District of Columbia. in a cause
wherein George 8. Fraser and others are complain
ants and Harriet II. Fraser and others are de-
PENDANTS. known as Equity Cause No; 25s45, the
EIGHTH DAY OF NOVEMBER. 1906, in front of
the premises sell at public auction the following
described real estate situate in the city Of Wash
ibgton District OF Columbia. COMMENCING AT
FOUR O'CLOCK PM, with parcel /: Being
original lots one "a, two o. three go and Four
%; In square seven hundred and seventyfve (775,,
unimproyed, fronting the entire width of the
square, ON street between 81 and 4th me-; we'll
adapted for subdivision for dwellings or business
purposes.
IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER
parce z: Being lots twenty six (26), twenty seven
cd, twenty-eight t2s) and twenty-nine (20}. OF
Trustees subdivision Of lot "a" in square four
hundred and nfty-two (452,. as per plat recorded
the District Of Columbia. improved By one two
story, attic and basement brick dwelling and two
three-story brick dwellings, known as Nos COL,
500 and sos street NV. and one story build
Ing. used as laundry, known No. 300 9TH
Terms Of sale: One third cash. balance in equal
insta!lments. at and two years, secured by the
promtssory notes of the purchaser and deed of
chaser's option. Sale to be closed within fifteen
days from the date thereof; otherwise the trus-
tees reserve the right TO resell at cost and risk
recording at purchasers cost. A deposit Of $3.50
on each parcel sold will be required at time of
sale.
WM. D. HENRY, Trustee,
BENJAMIN F. LEIGHTON,
Trustee
Offices in Columbian building.
JOSEPH W. cox, Trustee,
ocZt -d&ds. eSu Office In Fendau building.
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JAMES ". RAToLIFFE. AucTIoNEER.

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
PROPERTY. BEING DWELLING HOUSES
NOS. 902 AND 904 B STREET SOUTHWEST
AND NOS. 205, 207, 200 AND 211 9TH STREET
SOUTHWEST, WASHINGTON d. C.
Under and by virtue of decree Of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, In a cause
wherein George s. Fraser and others are complain
ants and Harriet NJ Fraser and others are de.
fendants known as Equity cause No. 25345 the
undersigned trustees Will, on THURSDAY NO.
yEMBER NINTH. 1906 In front or the premises
sell at public auction at FOUR O'CLOCK PM
the following described zeal estate situate In the
city Of Washington. District Of Columbia, known
as and being lots numbered ffty-hve $751; hfty-six
$50. sixty f00, sxtyone 1911. sixty-two (82) and
sixty-three @3l Of trustees subdivision OF lots
twenty nine COZ, thirty t3O and thirty-ons fs1)
In square three hundred and eighty three tsss) q
Of the surveyors office OF said District, With the
pfess-brick dwellings. known az Nos. coz and 0Ol
i ferms OF sale.-0ne- third cash balance IN euuai
fnstallments at one and two years, secured by the
promiSsory notes of the purchaser and deed Of
trust on the property sold. or all cash. at par
chaser's option. Sale 10 be closed within fifteen
days from the date thereof otherwise the trustees
reserve the right TO resell, at cost and rsk Of d.
fauiting purchAser. AL eonyeyancing and recording
at purehasers cost. deposit Of 500 on each
house WIN be required at time Of sale.
WIN. d. HENRY, Trustea and
BENJAMIN r. LE1GHT0N.
Trustee. o0aces IN Columbian batldino.
JOSEPH W. COX, Trustee,
/ ee2e-d&ds,eeA Once II Fendan huia0lno
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rHos. J. OWEN & SON. Aucrs. s1a ST. NV

EXECUTORS SALE OF VERY VALUABLE UN-
IMPROVED PROPERTY, FRONTING ABOUT
6sle FEET ON M. STREET AND ABOUT
BOD AND 33D STREETS WEST WASHING
TON. ID. C.
By virtue of authority vested In U.S. by the will
Of the late George Hill, jr.. will sell at public
THE TENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER. 1905. Al
FOUR O'CLOCK T. n. parts Of original lots 10, 81
and 90. In square 1907 Said lot or lots fronting
about 69la feet on n street by depth OF about 123
feet, viii be Offered whole will be offered
in three lots, with frontage Of about % feet each
The said lots on Prospect avenue will also be
offered whole or divided into three lots with
width of about % feet by depth of 100 feet
Terms of sale: One-third cash. balance In
and two years. with interest. secured by deed of
trust the property sold, all cash. at the pur-
chasers option. A deposit of 500 viii be required
upon each lot Mt tome of sale. Conyeyancing, re-
cording. &C., at purchasers cost Terms of sale to
be complied with within ten days from day of sale,
otherwise the executors reserve the right resell
the property at the risk and of the defaultiny
purchaser, after I'VE days previous advertisement
OF such resale In some newspaper published In
Washington D.. C.
HENRY P. GILBERT,
RUFUS Fl. DARBY.
Executors Estate of George Hill, jr.
oc30- dds, eSu
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c. G. SLOAN CO.. AucTIoNEERs. 14o7 G ST.

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE UNIMPROvED
REAL ESTATE. LOT AT CORNER OF I'D
AND NJ STREETS NORTHWEST 100 FEET
SQUARE, AND PARCEL IN COUNTY ON
BLADENSBURG ROAD.
BY virtue # decree in equity cause 2326S Of
the Supreme Court OF the District of Columbia,
the the trustees VII as e. public a NC
NOVEMBER. 1905, AT HALF-PAST -FOUR
O'CLOCK PM, lot No. In square No. 10, situ-
ated at the of 22d and N streets northwest,
the city Of Washington, District Of Columbia in
front Of the premises and ON TUESDAY, THE
Foua oeLocK Il the Suction
rooms Of O. g. Sloan & Co.. 1407 G street north
west. Washington, d. c.. lot No. g. containing
acres, rOods and "a perches, and adjoining part
of lot No. ~ IN the subdivision called s.Granby, !"
the North Biadensburg road, containing 4,048.A
square feet as set forth upon plat Is Of the rec
lumbia
Terms Of sale: Onethird of the purchase money
to be paid In cash and the balance In two equal
tnstallments, payable In one and two years from
day OF sale. and to be represented by the promis-
sorry Of the purchaser bearing interest at the
all cash, at the option Of the purchaser A deposit
Of 500 will be required Of the purchaser at the
time Of SALE All c0nveyancfng and recording, etc.,
at the cost Of the purchaser. Terms OF sale to be
complied with within fifteen days from day Of sale,
otherwise the trustees the right to resell
the property at the risk and cost OF the defaulting
resale IN aome Newspaper puhiishsd in Washins-
D. W. BAKER. Trustee.
WILLIAM =. MArrTHGLY Tfastss.
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JAMES ". RATCLIFFE. AUCTTONEER.

ESTATE. BEING PREMISES NUMBER 41s
TENTH STREET S.w.. AND UNIMPRoVED
PROPERTY IN REAR OF NUMBER Ills
TWENTY-FIRST STREET NV, BETWEEN
l. AND NJ STREETS NORTHWEST.
The undersigned trustees. In pursuance Of a de-
cree of the Supreme Court OF the District OF Co
lsmbia. passed in Equity Cause No 2555s. viii
q Celumbla; on MONDAY THE SIXTH DAY OF
en- nifty six (56i. Afty-seyen t5D and ffty-elght
t5sl, in square three hundred and eighty-seven
95so, described as follows viz; Beginning on
four uI4 feet seven % inches from the north
west corner OF said square. south on said street
seven on feet eleven inches TO tweIve-root
alley; north twenty-four (24) feet seven inches;
west ninety seven te7) feet eleven inches to the
place of beginning, improved by premises AIS 10th
on THE SAME DAY. AT FIVE O'CLOCK. lot
seventy-three 73l. in John Curtis subdivision of
(lOO. said subdivision Is recorded In the Of
nee OF the surveyor OF the District OF Columbia in
Book u.s. page 169 said lot being In the rear or
1115 21st street northwest. between l. and 81
streets.
Terms cash but purchaser obtain a loan CT
Opc-half Of purchase price. with Interest from
date OF sale at per cent per annum, payable
semi -annually. and secured by the note OF the
purchaser under deed OF trust on the property
sold 4 deposit OF one hundred dollars Will be
required each parcel at the time Of sale. IL
terms Of sale not complied with within fifteen
days from the date OF sale the trustees reserve
the right 10 resell the property at the risk and
cost OF the defaulting purchaser after five days
advertisement of said resale. Conveyancing, re-
eordlng, ETC., AT purchasers cost.
MAURICE ID. ROSENBERG.
Jenifer building;
CHARLES W. DARR.
Merchants and Mechanics Bank bldg,
oe25-d&ds.esa Trustees
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JAMES W. RADCLIFFE. AucuoNEER.

TRUSTEES SALE OF HOUSES NOS. 9Os AND
9os B ST: s.W., 2o1 10TH ST. S.w. AND 1902
1904 AND 1905 ST. S.W., WASHINGTON
Under and by virtue of decree Of the Supreme
Court Of the District of Columbia. In a cause
plainants and Harriet NJ. Fraser and others are
defendants. known equity cause No. 25345. the
SEVENTH DAY OF So 51i 1905. in 'front.'
OF the premises. sell, at public auction, the fol-
Of washington District Of Columbia GoMME ny
ING AT FOUR O'CLOCK PM. with
Parcel l. All of subdivision lots twenty CD
and twenty eght t2S). in square numbered three
hundred and eighty-three $780, improved by a
ttwossory frame nee DWELLING five rooms and bath
dwelling containing eight rooms and bath. known
as No. 9os b st s.w.
Parcel q Part Of original lot numbered one u,
in square north Of square numbered three hundred
on street and afty-e i5so feet on 10th street
s-w., improved by three-story brick dwelling
known as M Nj zoh iHlh T r fEi
Parcel 3: Part Of original lot numbered one %.
in square north OF square numbered three hundred
on street. by the depth Of said lot, improved BY
two-story, attic and basement brick. containing
esA' IMM aa I 'I THEREaFTER '' BY"
Parcel A: The west twenty-five t25) feet of orig
and seventeen hundredths us1D feet Of original
lot numbered two (2), In square north of square
numbered three hundred and ffty-one (s5D, front
ing fortythree and seventeen hundredths t43.17)
feet street, by the full depth OF said lots,
improved by two two-story- frame dwellings. six
rooms and BATH being Nos. 1904 and 1008 ST.
s.w., with shoe shop In the of No, 1905.
Terms OF sale: One third cash. balance In equal
installments at and two years, secured by the
pronissory notes of the purchaser and a deed of
trust the property sold, all cash, at pur-
chasers option. Sale to be closed within fifteen
days from the date thereof otherwise the trustees
the right to resell at cost and risk Of de-
faulting purchaser. All conveyaneing and record
ing at purchasers cost. deposit OF 5000 on
each parcel sold Will be required at time Of sale
WM d. HENRY, Trustee. =
BENJAMIN F. LEIGHTON Trustee
Offices In Columbian building.
JOSEPH w. COX, Trustee,
oe26-d&ds eSu Office in Fendall building.