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22° = THE EVENING STAR. SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1897-24 PAGES. ; American miners are far better off than | wanst that see th’ pope iv Rome an’ he be- x . ny ToT ve mee = miners of other countries, The coat | come @ ragin' pagan. “Why,” he says, “he AUCTION SALES. » AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SALES. miners of Japan recejve only a few cents a| was a little bit iv a thin man that didn’t FUTURE DAYS. FUT_RE DAYS, FUTURE DAYS. day. Both women ad men work in the | weigh more thin wan hundhred pounls,’ he — — : = - = <f ~ a mines, and the foreign ships. which get | says. ‘He cudden't carry a bucket iv coal DUNCANSON BROS., AUCTIONEERS. ©. G. SLOAN & CO., AUCTIONEERS, 1407 G ST. RATCLIVFE, SUTTON & CO., AUCTIONEERS, coal at Japan are always loaded by women, | upstairs,’ he says.” 4 who pass che coal up the sides of the ship | "He was a lary saj& Mr. Hennessy. | | "Siive TWO-STORY HRICK DNELLING CON | AND HaneuERy Muck” peutic, | PEREMPTORY SALE OF VERY in baskets. ae ES ES said Mr. Dooley. TAINING SIX ROOMS, BATH AND ALL KNOWN AS RTH CAROLINA AV! VALUABLE REAL ESTATE just th’ same. MODERN IMPROVEMENTS, IN THE NORTH- NUE SOUTH WEST SBCTION OF THE CIT KNOWN A: \ By virtue of a certain deed of trust. a PREMISES 1231 T STREET NORTHWEST. | twenty-first day of Febrwary LOT IS 18x100 FEET. corded in Liber 1795, folio By virtue of a certain deed of trust dated the | land tc Dietr Women and Children in the Mines Women are still used in the coal mines | - of Belgium. They dress in trousers, just | prom the Portland dated the TO CLOSE uy te) BRICK HOUS AN ATI No. 108 7TH ords for t n f Cohuabia, and at = Tc EOP mallee like the men, and they do much ihe came is tucuty-sccmd (20S Gay ef Oember, A.D. 160] the cement af the peny newel tee se wm) © f- N. EB, BRICK HOUSE No sorke “They! heip load tthe coal.) and in| ocstne ee je Cocopah hills, in| and recorded among the land records of the Dis- | sell at public auction, In front of th rs. on! - 303 7TH ST. S. E, 2 BRICK wor! ey help 1 the 1 Arizona, is what wn as the Lake of | trict of Columbla, in Liber 2167. in folio 70 «* | THURSDAY, JUNE ‘SEVENTEENTH, . AT ame ee Feta some of the mines they drag the cars| ty phough re ti 5 feq., and at the request of the holder of the notes | FIVE O'CLOCK P-M., the following descrived land HOUSES Nos. 659 AND 661 from the tunnels to the bottom of the | of a aa an ry karat aa mee Secured thereby, we will offer at public auction. | and premises, situate in the city of Washington, NAVY PL \CE ) digs NI = of clear water, id of the lake is | in front of the premises, on SDAY, 5 | District of Columbia, 2nd desig being NA of p shaft. L, Stmonin, a Frenchman, from ep guuia, Tee ere Reg emg = ¢ E. AND re 943, ct of said lot BRICK HOUSE SEY AVE. S. whose book on underground fife the ilius- | Plack and of arg inkike character. The | o:CLOCK P.M., the followlaz described real estate trations of this letter are taken, describes | temperature vai frem 110 degrees to 216] situate in the city of Washington, District of Co and known as and described as follo No, 1902 NEW. At the northwest ce thence southeasterly. 8) easterly to pablic alle 7 Inches; the nd again begin the horrors of their life in the mines. For | degrees, according to the location, and the | !™mbii meets ' 4 : 3 All that certain piece or parcel of land and prem- | northwest corner of said lot. runing gortin THURSDAY APTERNOON UST FIFTH a. long time women were used in this way in | water feels smoo|h gif olly. According to | itm ison aml distineulsbed as und being ter iets | slong the lige of Sere aca Ur, COMMERCE POLE eae ee Bug lend and Scotland, Audit Sa the Indians, not Snlygof the vicinity, but | tered “Q" in W. B. Todd, Jjr., et al. subdivision in | fect eight (8) inches von. a tine | WH sell of heirs, in front of the IN AN ENGLISH MINE. til about twenty-five years ago that parlia- fi h S ke have | "usre numbered two hundred and seventy fons | parallel with the west Mne of lot 1 ablic al- | SPective pre ment passed an act keeping them out. ‘ar away, the waters of the lake have 4), a8 per plat recorded in Liber C. H. B., folio | ley, together with the iinprovements, consisting of | PUSt Tot ¢ baseme s-room pr Seo dwelling, venne south. —---- —_—-—-— Children are employed in the Belgium | strong medicinal qualities, though most e 4 ibe reco of she = at es Nel two-story Francisco. During my travels in Japan I| them for years. They were taken into the | mode of treatment prescribed. The invalid | improvements thereon. pi chspaed se emt oriental oem recon th = visited «ne coal mine which had fifty miles | mines at seven, eight and nine years of | is buried up to his mouth in the hot vol- ‘ermis of sale: Property te be sold subject to a [ cent per annum, prays anuslts of tunnels under the sea, and I learned that | age, and were kept th until they grew | canic mud for from twenty to thirty min- | deed of trust for $: the Japanese were making a great deal of | up. The English coal veins are very thin | utes. Then he is carried, covered with | and due ¢ 2 0 out of their coal. and the tunnels were not more than a yard ; mud, to the edge of the lake, into which he | “ame Ae paiiee: as Facts About the Coal Fields of the| They were shipping it to China, notwith- | high. These children were used as beasts | is plunged for from-fifteen to twenty min- } Pum vot!) pall: - be id cash. A deposi g the fact that the geologists say | of burden. They were harnessed to little | utes, after which he is rolled in a blanket | Pe Paid In ‘asl. : ed October 12, 1892. | by deed of trast’ « and interest on the | at the option of th at 6 per cent per an- | required at. time the purchase monex to | recording at pure of $100 will not complied wit the trustees re in sy 1 <: “One-thir rve the right to re = hina has some of the largest coal | carts filled with coal, and had to crawl | and allowed to sweat on the hot, sulphur-] teen days from day of sale, the property | at the risk ‘cost of aitaaitine ee j hited States. > f the I 1 is filled with coal, and had 1 1 allowed the hot, sulphi A fe fields of the world. I doubt the extent of | along on all fours with belts about their] ous sand or rock near by. The cures | to be resold at the risk and cost of defaulting pur- | after due no wblished In some reqittred at ea ch the Chinese flelds. The people are thrifty, | waists and chains between their legs drag- | wrought are said to be wonderful. chaser after five days aivertisetn at in sae Washing! oa caves in Often days eae and it is curious that they do not use the | ging the coal carts to the surface. Women -- ree CHa ee ee erent ns oy EE eet age. 7 sy Aa aaa P coal if they have it. They are among the | became deformed hy tais work. They were Willing to Please. ‘: * LOUIS D. WINE. jeb-d&ds pa mecca wore RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & CO, A SOURCE OF ENORMOUS REVENUE most economical of people, and in the dif- | dressed in trousers end shirts like men. | from the Chicazo Post CLARENCE B. RHEEM, — : Jy28-d&As Auet ferent Chinese cities coal is so valuable | They learned to fight and swear like the s Ao Sy 29-d& rustees, 916 F st. now. C3THE ABOVE SALE IS HERERY ar saan sai oo gen t it is ground to dust and then mixed | men an@ became bad characters. At the| “This is too much!” he exclaimed when | —~—— 7 ne aag7 Gg ST. | Pond. Ob account of the rain, until Tt ATCLIFFE, SUTTON & CO., Anctio with dirt. being sold in balls about the size | a&2 of fifty they were usually worn out. | his wife appeared in her new bathing suit} C- G- SLOAD by EERE 101 OST | JUNE TWENTY-SEOOND, 1907, AT HAL TRUSTEES SALE OF UNINPROVED PROM of a biscuit. It is interesting to know the | In Scotland young women were employ for his inspection. TRUSTEES’ SALE. DWELLT je18-d) ae order of the % ATED 1s G TOWN, PD. ¢ Worth More Than All Our Gold | Coat ficlas of the world, as estimated by | to carry the coal on thelr backe ont of the De canntiae aye haben calewell "THIRD STREET SEL NuRTH. | 28-dts _By order of the Truste Of a deed of trust to us, weinded among the geologists. Here they are: mines. They dragged the coal to the foot | 11 take off six inches more of the skirt EAST, WASHI The purctaser at the above sale having fatled the District of Col in 1s and Silver Mines. China, 200,000 square miies; United States | of the ladders and then loaded it on their ect ee = By virtue of a decd of trust, dated the 121% of | 9 comply with ‘the tertie thy premises, on FRIDAY, SINTH AU. east of the Rockies, 192,000 square miles; | backs, hoiding it there by a strap around | She—“Who was it that said, “Ihere’s no Ueurovone Of dlisslandi recordin of theiD¥a: Igeetoncieries men ee 7 AT WALE-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK Canada, 65,000 square miles; India, 25,500 | the forehead while they climbed up. the | such word as fall?” and at the Tequest of t FIFTH. 1807, AT FIVE OcLOCTe parotto of In Georgetown, in the = square ‘miles; New South ‘Wales, 24000 landers tolget It to the surface. They | He—"“Oh, I don’t know; sonfe smart Alec will sell at publ saime terms sind conditions ax at the previeus wale, | fort raniecta wal designated as and eins parts = a : : o _| square miles; Russia, 20,000 square mile: ed from twelve to fourteen hours a | who never tried to open a car window, 1 ses, on 1. BL WHITE, 2 equate 1 ne ae Sue Seow IEIR WIDE DISTRIBUTION | United Kingdom, 11,50) square miles: | day, and would do work, it is sald: uricn | Sie pcee eet? open 8. oe ; HENY M: DEKEI: flava bausisiae tetlowe theeee te square miles; Japan, 5,000 | the men wovld not do, tramping through 200 x pt aa Is a = Trastees, point on east line of Jen st ree oe sqvare miles; France. 2,08) square miles; | the water with their loads of coal. Ac- | AUCTION SALES OF REAL ESTATE, &c. | jing Ist numbered thirty-one GU In THOMAS DOWLING & AUCTIONEERS, | Ste is Intersected by ‘the south boundare. line. « Austria-Hungary, 1,700 square miles; Ger- | cording to law women cannot be employed = oghue’s subdivision of square numt hun- G12 EB st the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal ¢ thom, Is07, by Frank G. Carpenter.) | many, 1.770. square miles; Belgium, 510 | In our mines. mee dred and forty-nine. (749), as the same Is recorded ees running then-w sutherly with said nf Evening Star. savare mile: Boys, however, have been largely used ean. Mucresors office of suid elty-of Washington. | TRUSTRES’ SALE OF A VALCARLE TRACT oF | fm eitect 80 foot: theme east — Peni ate = . vate: z They drive the mules, and in the anthracite | CB&MCerY sale of dwelting No, 3027 O st. n.w., on | D, C., in Book ©. H. B.. page 137, together with ABOUT TEN ACRES ADJOINING TR C105 fect 10 inches to the line = HAVE SPENT THE England's Coal Playing Out. tegions they, pick even eae enthracHte | serneday, July 31, at 3 o'clork pom. Mahlon Aste»| the jinprovements, conelsiine of a frame welling, Wood DIIVING VARI AND “TILWVE vriginal plan wf the ity” of S last few days at the| From the ahove table it will be seen that | the slate and refuse out of it, ‘They a ford and Coxstantine H. Williamson, trustees. See ee eee a lebermarurenine a STHEET EXTENDED, | SY SINTE! i boundary line = United States geoloz-| the English coal arca is small. Still Eng- sec 50 to 60 cents a day for bending over pnday. nefoalte baat Mirtue, of a “deed of trust to. us, cap Z ieal survey looking} land has for years been the center of the | the dusty coal, roasting in the summer] Duncanson B 9 : Cetin aces iia, da Maber Ne AbeO, Kalle BOL, ees ot © % f s years n e ros., Aucts., 9th and D sts. now. Ss WHITE, 1 bia, in Liber 1820, folie 301, and at the , up facts about coal | coal production of the world, and for years | 22 almost freesing in the winter. | They | Trustees’ wile of dwelling No. 810 © st. ‘on | _3829-das_ JAMES WHITE, ‘Trustets, ea ee eal B a a eB a ; t mining. The geolo-| ft mined more than half the total amount | means as had with out uel it is Ie no | Monday, August 2, at 5 o'clock p.m. Mablon Ash- €. G. SLOAN & ©9., AUCTIONEER: at suction, in front of she grauines. on TUES. caning Rucnce arnt eth kale aoe gists know more| ysed hy the world. The United States is] witn those of Europe a few years ago, | font and Aldis B. Browne, trustees. z ‘TRUSTEES! SALE OF TWO-STORY BRICK STORE | PAL! the following GaeAMeN kseet oF saan Si Skee ait oe ee about coal than any | now probably ahead of it, and we are in- eenene Ge investigation it was state Prien tetas & Co., ct Oe E es Ey ae LING, NO, 300 N STREET SOUTH- tr ot Comte, S ine part mastein ution’ at” sick aad ay eo taches to one els “Wee poate ~_ | “Tha y Ee ale erty No. 25 und 27 Monros st., Ana- es i : le er's ) : on Lea . one else. They can| creasing our product every year. ‘The En-| jut! Shae oe Slept with a whole | cctia, D.C., on Monday, August 2, et 9 o'clock | By virtue of af order of the Supreme Court of then aid east tine a fe tell you just how the j glish coal veins are thin. ‘The miners have | Kickin Fe once Dace Wenencuu wither es, aki » ot of Ce passed in Equity Cause 1 of let Gh by depth. world looked when| to le on their sides to work many of them cking against the roof and sides of | PM __ by and Data nea A 20ee0 ct, Georgetown: sald Ow ain < = the tunnels, a..d that the walking in th Fee ‘ded among the land records of the Dis- » coal was made, and| They have dug out the surface coal arf Bia 3 e eed Teconded among sie at folio 7, folio 241, be rabia in Liber s 71 et oy. ned will sell, TNT, folio 4 ‘AIL the thes are how working at creat depths, One | Water, covered their feet with festering AUCTION SALE they describe how | 5 ah . | sores.”* the uble auction, in and running tt property feu y | English vein, fourteen and a haif inches ee Senet on then premistes OD DAY, AUGUST erees "west abject to a rh there were ages of | wide, is already down over twelve hun- Some Dangers of Mining. MONDAY. FICTH, 1807, AT FIVE. O'CLOCK P.M., Tot "208, er of part con isto perp aio yoo i of luxuriant growth} dred feet. Such a vein would not be work-| Have you ever been down in a coai mine? | 5 mg = = = In square 546, according to the soballvinton onan mg said land folio ye: iviowe et dey of eale, lee recdanider tress | ed to any great depth in America. The|If so you can appreciate some of the | Ratcliffe, Sutton & Co., Auctioneers, | im the attics of the survexee of the District of Cx | thence with the Kees tind | all of ot 37 and mot all kinds of mosses and plants, wh Newesstle.ccah oe: a, as ie ens oe dangers of mining. A coal mine is like a g20 Penna. Ave. N. W. me of ale: _One-thind of the purchase mio Tine of reat “18 thee h said Be south |p cong ng a = ae ae SO | England, has “shee SAU EIES: 55 must be paid in cash, © balance ‘ degrees east 88 perches to the southeast | Strip’ or jying down year after year, became | thick, while the Wales coal veins are less | §Teat catacomb. It is a city under ground, iretallments, payable ¢ comer of whole tract conveyed to Finckel, being | pure of “Wapaine a great matted bed of vegetation. They the walls of which in many cases are up- day of wile, respectively, with Interest. at the rate | piso, the southwest corner “of. Ia soni d fe eee of six per centum per annum fiom said day, and | Rey b represeiited by the prondssory notes of the’ pur | Liner J. ecured by dee trust on the propert: fori and tenor satisfactory to the under- | 321. or all eesh, at. the option of the pur | With imp ‘A deposit of $100 Will be required at time | pujlaing ‘The right 18 reserved to resell, at the deed r said land records in | th . folio 30: thence with west Hne s lot extended to road "A" north st B6.4AS perches to the beginning ovements thercon, consisting of fi arn; subject to a p ong said land tell you how this bed was bottled up by being covered up with rocks and how it finally turned into coal. They can tell you just when this happened and how long it came to pass before Noah w: aby or eld by timbers. Now and then you come to rooms out of which the coal has been cut. The coal is taken down with blasting powder, and there is danger of the wall felling and of the miners being crushed. There is also danger from fire damp, or gt to prion » sold su aie sa id Cain killed little Abel outside the Garden cast of the defaulting purchaser, $f the the union of the gases of the mine brought of sale are not complied with withia fiftee 400, coe at ay of Eden. together by (he light from a lamp or can- All conve; recording and ‘Terms o! One-third of the parchase moner Men lived for thousands of years upon dle. This causes a great explosion. It Cee Oe eT a ee OED 5. WILESON Dense er eale= pe tien ae pereaee ee al tustallments at ee efore they knew that coa 3 comes like a s @ ghtning, and wi \LERED 8. WILTSO) cesh, of which a deposit of $200 must be rs, With interest f the earth before they knew that coal wa: Guiles HAA Eee Ole er ere anneal EDWARD F, BUCKLE) time of sale, and th ence in equal instal at rate of 6 pet payable sem good to burn. All the iron made t the a clap of thunder. As the explosion occurs Jy26-10t Trust: at one and two which will bet all in cash, at purchaser's option. days of the middle ages was with charcoal a roaring whirlwind of flame goes through SS 7 BROS, “Anctlonee! notes of the pure ing incervst at 6 per | Rarments to be secured by purchaser's. ne and a fairy tale is told in Belgium of how the tunnels, pulling down the timbers and BUS CANON TREE Eee cent per annum, pay annilly, fro eed of trust cn property sold A depu a poor blacksmith discove caving in the walls. It burns ev hing d the first black nd secured by deed of trast on the op- | Will be required at time of sale. TRUSTEES’ SALE OF TWO BRICK HovseEs oF | of Sele ‘ e k sIthin pei eavara sha TEES’ SALE é x OF | Cry sold, or all in cash, at purchaser's option Ie with within ten days from a diamonds. He found that he could not ge within reach. Miners are blinded, scorched BOE e Ne eee eee TOT PROWE, | erty fold, or all tn cash, at surchaser's option. it | hs ; harm oan wldttie fo fb, GOK #0), Wiehe tiie Laake and sometimes burned to cinders. Hu MENTS. NOS. 231 AND 233 OAK STREET, LE ee eat te Coline muabiintie Ve eT ee eal i = re dreds have often been killed at a time by Dror P. S SoG eee ea eee his charcoal for his furnace. He was just dreds have | Kk e ROIT 1 ted in| erty at risk and cost of the detwultl HESRY 'T- about to commit sui when a white- such: explosions, and! by) the “Acog io0- (car ae ' rust, recorded in | Conveyancing and recording at, pur Wi Akds bearded old man appeared at his shop and Omi Acie p Bes Wane ae Oo Way Denies: records of th % we shall sel RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & CO., AUCTIV: : old hi : : statistics show that even in the United SS 2 AUCTION told him to go to the mountains near by ABEL even een it TUESDAY, TH Jy28-d&ds - and dig out the black earth and burn it. Biles: Gas ab LSU ds CGAL its Dass 1 | oe FA DESIRARLE Prick K STREET NORTHEST eof a deed of trust, duly recorded in dred thousand tons of coal mined, and those who are in,ured number many times this proportion. LOCK P.M, lors thirty-six y of block ten (0), in Ts t Park, recorded’ in Book aml thirty-seven subdivision in T nty No. 8, He did so. and was able te make a horse shoe at one forgirg. This is the Belgiz SON BKOS., AUCTIONEERS. story of the discovery of cecal. The first *RAN! ‘ARPE 140, of thi id Distrlet. NS MEE coal found America was near Ottawa, BEYASES Ge CAINESB Terms of lance inone and] pe virtue ne cttie tok iat ext of the Illinois. It is mentioned by Father Henne- two years, with 6 per cent interest per ped trasten w INSS, cand duly re pin, house require im 16 Richn by a boy wh He was hunting for small creek, and thus outcroppings of the Our anthi paid better the worl payable semi-annually, $50 onc neh explorer, . The first mine te'dime of-sate. CHARTS ig eseat comeuias, en at 5 it) ® arty secured there the und == will sel, at : NSON BRO: * : SALE OF V , ,dleseftted land “and. premiies tt R TH STI Z| the county of ington, istrict of . a ty lumbia, and designated se_and w lots 4 aml 5, 2 of a certain deed of trust to us, dated | in block 8 of Cyras A. Baker's suldliviston of part 1sM6, und duly recorded January 81, | of a tract of 1 ho visited there rked were about coal was discovered Uncle Sam's Atten 5 From the Kansas Ci bed, | than three feet in rhiciness. Some of our} Artesian wells are now pouring a never- ; | Penn: nia anthracite veins run from for bait in a bled upon the coal , perhaps | Pet ; ending flood of subterranean water upon any other coal felds of | thirty feet to sixty feet in thickness, while te ee the Pittsburg bituminous coal veins are and running th north mi the earth’s surface in nearly every state Mi called Haddock’s Hills, and now Weuntéerviamed. Niches “Altea. cel by at} from eight to sixtéen feet thick. At the | located within the well-defined limits of the | Within our robms, (920 Penna. ave WS, folio 84 ot Me, of, the | Kncien as Langion Park, aw ead sublvisie ts re- wen U0) thence east, veats Washington was Pre . Allen en-| Present rate of mining it is estimated that| artesian well basins of this continent. . en sear ees Of the office af the surceror of sald District. t ato the place of begin ot camped one night in the Schuylkill regions, | all the English coal will be exhausted in| From British America to the Rio Grande ew), undersigned trustees, will sell at pul gether with the improvements and. appltrte Improvements, rights, etr kindling his fire upon some black | 212 years if it is worked down to 4,000 feet. | the busy drill has penetrated the varied 7 the pretutees. i fhereunto belonging. be sald wubheet, however. to a peta He awoke to find himself and this will be 113 feet de2per than any of | 511444 in search of water lying under a TH DAY OF) AUGUST Terms of sale: One-third of the pu i m9, the full particulars of wi The were the English mines now worked. Notwith- | Strata in search 0! pies 2 "CLOCK P.M., the following 4 to be paid in cash, and the balance in two eq Will be stated at the tine of sale. Este Nae thie Shortly | standing the enormous amo cf coal | pressure sufficient to raise it to the light 9 With the easement installments, payable in one and two ye rterm cas (over the trust. A daponit of $200 atte ills: af coninatn nined ta | which we have taken out of our anthracite | of day. In some localities, netably in Uta Meee eee ce at Waultetemn SS ee a ay z ae See sell anthracite coal. taken around | region it is estimated that we could go on | a flow has been secured at a depth of les Bare 2 Lot five (6) 1, In the gal of trust upon the property sold, ct ell the property to the blacksmith: did not know | at the present rate for 616 Z than 400 feet. In other places thousands \ of the t known as “I orth, the option of the purchaser. A deposit of $100 wil : ing purchaser s ow e it, and vas ve . s Engla . a er CO: moe plat ded in Liber Levy Court Carbert Ie required of the purchaser at the thie of sale, | dys’ advert t how to use it. and it was very unpopular. | As England goes further down’ her coat dollars have been expended in boring er rg records of the odice of the surveyor of | All cenweyancing, vecording and notarial fees at | raper published in Washin Some of it was shipped to Philadeiphia by | mining will become more expensive, and oe : booed a Colonel Shoemaker and sold there. It | her days as a manufacturing nation are, fe Pie coat Oe aE araremecte: eee So Oe ares enn es f One-third of the purchase mon lied with with was not at all satisfacte consequently, numbered. Already we sur- | of the earth without results. t ran ne=ti p complied h within te de- | pass her a great deal in manufacturing, ° ° Yy, and a writ Ww nd the bal: ott: gotten out from the city authorities, » The average depth at which water Is se- ments, payable in ove and two cing ete, at the purchaser’ 4 A&ds” THOMAS J. PARKER DUNCANSON PROS., AUCTIONE f sale to be days from day of sale. rwise the trustees reserv right to reseli cars, with | the property at the risk and cust of the defaulting nouncing the colonel as a knave and scoun- {and there is no doubt that we, with our | cured seems to be abcut 1,400 feet and such Z rest at G)per cent yer atin, parable sual. | purchasers v0 en drel for trying to impose rocks upon them | vast supplies of coal and iron, are to be | @ well under ordinary circumstances costs iS annually from day of sale, secured by deed 0 MAHLON ASHFORD, _ E as coal. Still Philadelphia has largely heen | the chief manufacturing nation of the fu-| herween $2,500 and $3,000. This is with the 2 - traxt_upon, the prineriy Sold, oc all cash, at the CONSTANTINE H. WILLIAMSON, ee up by anthracite coal, and 50,000,000 | ture. improved machinery and tran: portation fa- 2 fe neuomainenseetatathe cence otcat ded In Labor 1 Colla” 435, of 1h of this coal w Our Appalachian coal ficlds alone could | gjjities of modern days. Deprived of these Randle “audbnotariat: ter ee |! NAWEDN WanSON, : tt riet of Columbia, and at the ania field SI the purchaser. ‘Terms of sale to be S 2 request of the purties secured, we will the following lots, and at the times mamed, in front Since then som th within t lays from 4 ¥ of sale, . suulre ipply the world with fuel for centuries. | well boring becomes expensive to the polnt Lad pote a Se ese ote O 1€s frie later the jareesti anolicioness eaowi | Coen onic For AMC | sei, SCANSON S. of the premises, on WEDNESDAY, THE FOURTH been sold as hig: | and they are so situated that the coal cam Uncle Sam dug a well himself many at e the uateee ie ae resell DUNCANSON BROS. 3 wh ‘oF AUGUST. AT SIX’ } phia and RK | be shipped from them long distances by | years ago in the Panhandle of Texas. It is Che propurty at ‘the risk andj custiot the Qefeulting | re rones oF TWO-STORY AND CEL following lot, ia the District IST] paid $30,000,000 for 100,000. acl water. From Pittsburg coal can be car-| the first attempt on record to secure an Corconax THOM, PIESEDMKICK AND. BILOW ; Vot ne hanevd and thirty-one 4 coal land in this region. As a sample of | ried for eighteen thousand miles on navi- jan flow in the Lone Star state. It en emen. WM. H. DUNC. FRONT DWELLING, NO. TWENTY -FIL ny . urliurd’s the amount of business done in anthracite | gable streams, and the grate fires of the only 700 feet deep and no water ever Jy29-d&ds ‘Trustecs. STREET NORTHWEST. and ei ‘ ; : = By virtue of a certzin deed of trust to u ves’, stihl vinl te coal, the Delaware and Hudson Canal! scuth blaze with the rays from the black | came to the surface from it. Since then : Ale SOS SoS +s seas - Le S02, | Pleasant’ and Pleasant ¥ subtly Company paid $514,000 in one year for | diamonds from Pennsylvania. The Ohio | there have been hundreds of artesian wells These wheels are strictly ee ee in Liber Noo 1600. at folio: 337 one ch 1G Ue | tecrecorded in Counts. Bool of the mining, nd their coal sak 2 $10,000,000. that year| river is the great coal chute for the Mis- | bored in Texas which threw fine streams of ii rt 4 'STEE’S SALE Vs J_| records of the District of Columbia,’ and at the | ords of the surveyor’s offic District of ippi valley. ‘The coal is carried down | water and the pioneer hole has been for. |Migh=-grade, with factory | TRUSTEES SALE OF VALU-| Manat Sr ‘the ‘party peberebe. we, the | lunutla recured thereby, amounted to more th. We Beat the World. 1 great barges pushed by little steam-j gotten y all except a few cld-time fron- guarantee Assortment of ABLE AND DESIRABL unas ened, trustees, eu sell, ti pane. auction. s Pog hye Sa pacer tee a = gp Pony F ! and so fastened together that a single | tiersmen who went on this peaceful mis- D BUILDING LOTS ON Be A | It is hard to estimate the enormous | steamer will push acres of cou!. Loads of | sion into a country which was far trom | colors and sizes of frames. ¥) LEAN . O'CLOCK PM. the following diseribed dand and | _‘Tecms of sale on each lot: third cash, bal- amount of money the United States makes | twenty thousand tons are taken. A vast | peaceful owing to the anti-civilization N hibiti © desde NEAR H ST. nises, situate in the city of Washington, tn tl ence in ne and alae ee es ut of its coal. We get more ths | amount of coal is carried on the ca creed of the roaming Comancie Indians. iS r 7 oT District ‘of Columbia, and desiznated as and being | est. pay tannually. secured ty deed of trust Saas eS ean ear piles ore | and the great lakes form one of the c SCE The ee Gay cece can | Oe! GH OSM) NORTHEAST, all of lot numbered one hundred (100), tn Joseph | om the Property sald. oF ttt Oeirding at ent oe A ae ti as -, | highways of the coal traffic. made, as the United States government — WASHING- Ht. Johnson's subdivision of Jot six (6), in square | chaser. | Conrexpncing ie must be complied. with out of our gold mines, and the silver metal | a “9 - os isanle 4 - 2 £25 2 numbered one hundred and four (04), as per plat | purebasers. Te at plied The amovint of coal carried on the rail-| thought it advisable to have a water sup : = ss 2 Deer AST RUNING AS or tie weeds ote any ‘or the trastecs reserve the right to is not in it with the black diamonds. There | roads is almost beyond conception. The | ply for an army post on the Staked Plein. | Ratcliffe, Sutton & Co., Auctioneers, TON, D.C. ors office of the District i resell at cost of defaulting purchasers, Deposit of is a little region In eastern Pennsylvania, | Philade'phia and Reading has more than | An elaborate expedition was fitted out un- < Dy virtue of a certain deed of trst, dated the he improve consisting of a’ tw $100 on each Jot when side enon about « hundred and twenty-five miles from | fifty thousand coal cars, which are dragged | der Captain Polk, who subsequently be- g20 Penna. Ave. N. W. Sth day of Ji aan Fre ea amen Nar dwell with p o ee eae . Philadelphia and not more thar two hun- y nine hundred coal locomotives. These | came a general. Equipped with the best Jy29-3t pager Noa Baban diy GK? anaes v stone SD Se sane morthiwes ty23-a8ds mice = dred miles from New York, which pro- | rs are kept busy in carrying anthra well boring apparatus available at that | ~~ UXcanson BROS. SFE request. of the party secured thereby, [will sell ance of nee in tho tatal | — DOR San rm —_ duces every year coal to a greater value; coal. The Pennsylvania railroad employs | time, a formidable wagon train, a force of CANSON BROS., AUCTIONEERS. : ‘In front of the premises, on | Installiue ae nae. ae DUNCANSOD ss than all the nd id mine: aska. It is our anthracite which turn out between 30),000,- of the # ekies. | more than seventy thousand cars for the | mcchanics and a guard of cavairy, the ex- | pRysTEEs’ SALI THE 5 UST PWELFEM, 1897, | AT | jnterest at arya Aer | movement of its coal and coke trade, and | pedition started from one of the posts near TROT. BRICK OOWELL eae Te BIC = “wk P. ie eas semi-annually, from day of sale, secured cs deed | the Central Railroad of New Jersey carries | the gulf cosst. An apparently suitable | SPABLE IN REAK, No. 310 C STREET NORTH. | deserlbed land and premises. ith the cascmome, | of trust upon the property, sold: or all cash, at tle ).000.0e0 Tons of anthracite every | about five million tons of anthracite coal | location was selected and the work begun. oe ‘. ae ie aituaterand Tste y of Washington, D.C, | te ee ears =Aen sere ee? Pa have in addition to this a hun-| every year. More coal is handled at New| Unfortunately for the government, how- | BY ,"i#tue of a certain deed of trast to us dated | O81 : All conveyancing, recording and notarial fees. thirty odd million tons of ee than at any other place in the world | ever, the geological survey had not yet hers * eT the dats 6 TRUSTEES’ SALE AT ACTION TE AT THE NO 10TH M_ AND LINGTON, D. MONDAY. AUGI P. ENTS, at FIVE as tras Mer Kee ad0b, at folio sie Parts of lots numbered nineteen (9, twenty | the cost of the purchaser. Terms of sale to be Coal winually. We have, in short, | except London, more then fifteen million | reached that section of the country and | records’ of the Distrlet_of Columbie’ aed‘at “the | G0) and ‘twenty-two 122), an John W. Starr's sub | Compited with within ten days trom day of val st coal measures on the| tons being used or transshipped at that | the well boring was purely experimental. | request of the party secured thereby, we, the up- | division of lots in square mumbered seven Lundred | otherwise the trustees reserve the tight ty re globe. It is estimated that our coal east | point annually. After going down 700 feet and failing to | dersigned trustees, ‘will sell, ut public auction, in | wud seventy seven (77e as per plat recorded ne | the property at the risk and cost of the defau strike flowing water the scheme was aban- | {font of the premises. on MONDAY, THE SECOND Secon fe. Distrle m aie ooee MAHLON ASH ‘he Gest. A.D. 1897 YO CLOCK he surveyor of the District of Columbi: doned and the expedition returned to the | pq “ene fellowing duecribved’ ined wei Oe ing for the Same on 3d, two (2) feet six ¢ ALDIS B. BR ius vam in the subdivision of sq died aud forty place from which it came. This was the | gituat: in the city of, Washington, in the Distaet is south of the northwest corner of said lot Trustee first attempt ever made in Texas to dig an | of Columbia, and designated and being all of n (19), and running north on said street E, SUTTON & CO., AUCTIONEERS ottice of thi artesicn well and it cost the government | lot numbered thirty-four (34) in reservution num- Wo (G2) feet elx (6) Inches (with th. rare 2 eK in Book 3 over $100,000. bered ten (10), together with the Improvements, 20 feet front of lot 21, whici ALE OF _FOUR-ROOM AME | an enti a eit consisting of a three-story and attic brick dwelling: Pa NO. 430 N STREBT NORTHWEST. | M street north, “by depth of 120 feet. eee es se, NO D st. B.W., a prick ret; thence Fipitbet Oba GiniaeS a abe AapoeIA A f he Weat Hide of 10h street west, and |i Ge ee ee, bouse, No fe brick stable in | tytn slatytwo (62) feet six (6) inches (with the | » BY Virtue of a decree of the Supreme Court of the | the west ss e stores and dwellings, Terms: One-third cash, of which $500 n deposited with the trustees at time of sh ee oe District of Columbia, passed in equity cause No. ‘Terms of sale: One-third of the purchase money | thove exception of 20 feet west one Khe udldtenigenl arettio ont oe ao SS m to be patd in cash “nd the balance int a1 | hundred (100) feet to the place of beginnin; A ee Ee gh pnetetichel Why Mr. Dooley Didu't Attend the | instainments, payable in one and two years, Wen | ject to a right of Way over {he Tear or east “f auction. in front of the | premise and nts, xt one and tro. Logan Celebration. interest at eix (6) per centum per annum, payable | ) fect of the e described land, and with Ser i nee Eig ee from date of sale at G per From the Times-Herald. semi-annually, from day of sale, secured by deed | perpetual right of way over a strip of land five ‘of lot 22, in square 513, fro per arpuin, payable se woually, wd we of trust upon the property sold, or all cash, at the | () feet wide Immediately adjoining and extending “I knowed Logan, 1 tell ye, an’ though | option of the pur-haser. A deposit of $400 will be | the vd on the prop entire length of the east or rear line of the | feet 1s inches by a depth of 100 foot 8 4 un complies tant ral : i cae ad if tetris are not complie within Ya ‘ve nailed him with a chenk of anthra- | feaulted of the purchaser at the time of sate, all | above desertbed land. Se ¢ from day mente the tuners teste te yaneing, rec : arial fees at the is Sos i ‘and cost of defaulsing pur- cite twmty years ago, I'd put a wreath on! purchaser's ‘cost. | Terins of sale to be complied | all of lot numbered twenty-three (23) of sald sub. | Perms, 28 prescrilied by the decree, are chaser, on 6 ye" advertiszim av eyaueing in two equ . rs from the day | at purchaser's © s ; ae with within ten days from day of sale, otherwise | division of lots in square numbered seven hundred | 1 ts x his grave today. It on'y takes @ little | The ‘trustes reserve the right to resell the property | and sevemy-seven (777) (fronting twenty (2u) fect | Sitllmnents, in two and three J. RORERTS FOULK while to smooth out th’ char-ackter iv aj at the risk and cost of the purchaser in default on 3d street by an even depth of one hundred | Of Sle, with interest at 6 per cent per anuuin, I, BARTON TOWNSESD, imanithat fought lous antihie Hacrd: a6: MAHLON “ASHEORD, (100) feet), These lots will be sold in separately. | ImiSable semi-annually, secured by deed of | teast ‘Vrust rs iz ut : oo eae rn pacts ALDIS B. BROWSE, Terdis of malo on cach. Jot: Oue-fourth of the | 98, the property sold. or all eaah, ot the option of nw. not fr Logan nor ft'r Char-les Stew-| _4y20-4&ds aeons Trustees, | purchase mouey In cash, the balance in one, two, | {he Wemaser: 2, devon heart pila art Parn’li wud I thrust mesilf to | T1joMAS DOWIING & CO,AUCTS,, 612 A eee tore ae iin saiceee ae ee chat pee | complied with fn fifteen days. from the day of #9 ‘ona S oes ‘ one soe nee pverbeen th tog | AUCTION SALE OF VALCABLE BUSINESS PROP- um, parable semi-anntally, or the purchasers | (ty ‘atthe ‘rk and cost ‘of the ‘defaulthug pep: SAL RAME HOUSE, WITH an al boy, forty years, an’ it's ERTY, NOS. 25°AND 27 MONKOE STREET, eT I et ee I chaser, after five days’ advertiseme . a Ww twinty 1. thim most since I see th’ ANACOSTIA, D.C. quired on cach lot at the tine of sale. All con- | CISD. 2Eer Sheep pulllsbed $n BRICK STAB! RE, BS NEW lake. I've been in State sthreet foor or | On MONDAY, ATGU: ar | Yexaneing, recording and notarial fees at cost | ee eer rere ae YORK AVENL five times in all these years. I've been to | FIVE O'CLOCK P.M, we * | of the purchasers. Should the terms on any lot be tS “ser ig By virtue of th’ Audiotoroom twict an’ wanst 1 wint | ton, in front of Me pre 35 and 27 | Bot, complied With in Sfteca days from the day of | OA * * popeer H. TERRELL. Traster, weeding page Bom 4 Mont ost ttt, pro le the lot or lots so in default may, at the dis- : : ; REEL Aa Seamee, ords for the’ District of Colt by th’ Masonic Temple on me way to get a | Momoc street, Angcone D. ©.” Linprove Cretion of the trustee, be resold at risk amd cost | _J¥24-cod&ds me G0 F stu. | quest of the parties sec car comin’ fr’m th’ city hall. What fr | “Terme: Sold subject to a trust of $1,500, of defaulting purchaser or purchasers after five ©. G. SLOAN & ©0., AUCTIONEERS, | Sixned trustees will offer f me shud [ lave quiet an’ pace to dodge cable | ance cash. $100 it required at tine of sa Le ee 1407 G st. nw. ae GER O'CLOCK cars an’ have me pocket picked? If there's | ‘ud all aig re ing Star newspaper of aforesald city. ot GUST, AD, 1. Lock aunything goin’ on I see it in th’ pa-apers, | “hase te r 2 - R. JONES, Surviving Trustee, TRUSTFES’ SALB OF VALUABLE IMPROV ae = red eer lp or md an’ it reads betther th'n it looks” To me | ifteen days, or the property, will he rea ——— —— = en Tamia, ‘te wit: Lot Sftycelght Get. in Powell's subs a ae eae th’ Logan monymint 1s a hundhred miles | i sd cst of derumiting purebuser, jy2i-d&ds_ | “RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & CO., AUCTIONEERS, | TWEEN THMENY-SECUND AND. THIRTY | Givision of lot twelve (iz), in sgiare five lnindeed of the Rocky meuntains covers 192,000! One would think that there would be a! : = S 7 > THIRD STREETS, IN GEORGETOWN, ae ep ae, Bio sirtas ok var donee ors the enn Celat ok | ee ee (i), together with all the im- TWO BRICK HOUSES, NOS. | me’ pistrict “or Columbia, passed in equtty cause | PUES EIN Seah, the balance tn one and ee & Feces 303 AND 305 FIRST STREET | pitumnts’ ard Sisry Au arise stat ‘are defeat: | 25° 2 per aman, secured "deed tet om WHOM TT ME CHARGE eee PAY STOR- S. E, 11 ROOMS EACH, WITH | 22%, 2. undersigned trustees will offer for sale, at | tue property sold, or all cash, at the option of the blic auction, in front of the preutises, ou MON- | pure : ‘ sel es Ratelitte, 00, < "3 — 1ON- | purchaser. A deposit of $200 required at the time a wilt sell’ at the Uae os ALI MODERN IMPROVE- BAY. the NINTH DaY of AUGUST, at FIVE of sale. If,the term. of sale ere not complied with ave, n é O'CLOCK P-M., the following real estate, ‘situated “ ne day of sale the tranters ro DAY OF AUGUST, 8. Diso7, it TEN O-cLOcK | MENTS, BY AUCTION. in Georgetown,’ D.C., ond known and distinzuisued | 2,%¢h an Sars ae eral Gta ag hgeeghe S high an’ made iv goold. That's because I niver seed it. If I'd gone with you it'd be no higher than an Injun cigar sign an’ built iv ol’ melted-down dog tags an’ other joolry. ‘Th’ crowd was magniticent to read about; if I'd seen it it wud’ve been just a million sweatin’, badly dhressed people, squallin’ babies, faintin’ women an’ a bad FUTURE, Days. RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & CO., AUCTIONEERS. square miles, and within the past few | lot of money in coal for the miners. There years coal has been found in many parts| is not, and it is a question whether the of the far west. Colorado will eventually strike will materially better mat- be a great manufacturing state on account | a as strikes have gone in the of its coal, | pest, they have been against the working Utah has large coal fields, and so have | men. Some years ago Carroll D. Wright, states of Montana, Washington and! the United States commissioner of labor, are“now getting something | figured up the profit and 1c ! < W of ten years . eS AM., a lot of household goods stored with me in re : pattern e 5 be rts of lots 89 and W), in Beatt i purchaser after Ove Eke 20,000,000 tons of coal a year out of In- | of striking in all branches of labor. He es. | ETCH: Taisen tiniclose NyeE ape the ame of F. TH. Jones. “All parties interested | ,0%) SATURDAY | APTIRNOON. AUGUST | SEV- Hapkteg’ “salition’ Gp itieet pete’ beginuiag a0 | Saeco ee ont menting pnarhener Stine Se Gare Giana, Kentucky and Illinois, and the great ' timated that the employes during this ee Will please take notice. - alt off gaat, NE | feet east of the west line of lot 90; thence north All con fer. nt the y : ; ph out more thin wan man that'd r-run away | _jy31-6t BUGENE MAY. | Bill offer for rale, by public auction, in front of | gy feet, east 15 feet, south to Prospect street, and Appalachian field produces more than four | time lost fifty-nine million collars, an av-| frm a cow. The bands played beautifel oes = A" | the promises, sublots 15 and 16, square 692, front- | lence west. to the besinning, improved by. preta- FS times this amount. There is more good | erage of forty dollars to each striker in-|{n th’ papers, but if I'd been on th’ curb | WALTER B. WILLIAMS & ©O., AUCTIONEERS, | tng cach 18 feet and rcnning back to an alley. fses No. 3225 P mt avenoe porthwest. Surnable earth tx’ the) Appalachian “moun Sele: CheRemiDleersE at : Helle | with a man with a tall hat standin’ in are Sear iy rg ands stated (at the ‘time 0f'7 ) Seues of sale third cash and the balance tn AUCTIONELARS, po igen ges op geet ge ‘or thirty mit: | froat iy me ana woman behind me aula Bicycle pcs, eae haSStay Fetanh win 2 te | Re amtgee, reams wiht, 2 ail can Ie PE Sw and in some mines they are almost on the | The coal miners live as ly ROCK CODES a see cree jands'd stop ° Spent SE ee the right is reserved Yo sell at the risk and cost é % ar y are almost on th < : © as poorly as any | playin’ befure they come by. So I set here Sale Extraordinar Jy30-d&ds Auctioneers, | he Pen 18 Ting archtwer All onverancite Sot | PEREMPTORY SALE « top of the ground. They are better than | other class of workmen in the country. For | in th’ cool shade, playin’ solitaire with me- y- RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & CO. AUCTIONEERS. | recordi the cost of the purchaser. A deposit pS any other coal fields Jp this respect, with | the most part they are in dirty villages, | siif an’ cheatin’ ‘outhrageous, an’ whin th’ Hamilton-Kenwood —— r * | Of $100 Will be required at the time of sale, COUNTY, MARYA Raven one single exception. This is the new coal | with narrow streets, thair houses blackened | pa-apers come up I bought wan an’ en- oo ‘PO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. EMILY H. GIVEN. fF AT HALEY AST POUR GCLOCK Tk. oa field of Alaska, which, one of the geological | by coal smoke. In’ many mining districts | joyed th’ gloryous scene f'r two hours. I hy Sues COLLATERAL NOTE AT AUCTION. WILLIAM’ MARSHALL, 2007, AT HALE-PART POUR, 5 survey men tells me, comes right out over | the houses belong to the company cwuing | heerd th’ oration; ye didn’t. It was grand Strictly High-Ciass Wheels AUGUST SIXTH, Shae a Hoileud, about S cnlice from Anacostia, nm 24 the water, so that the coal can be dug down | the mines, and the miners pay ren: for | an’ th’ man that made it knew more about Bs P.M... we wilt welt, | 728-0808 REET tnlles from new bridge, the sawe beluga’ tract pt and almost fall into the ships below. This | them, so that when a strike occtrs and | Shakespeare thin Logan did. But Til pet | and Fully Guaranteed, — | witiin our sates rooms, 920 Pennsyivania avenue | “AUCTION SALE OF UNREDEEMED PLEDGES | Ini conveyed frotn Lost P. Suit esecutiix of SMe . northwest, by order of the helder, one Collateral | 1 wilt sell by public au . ‘To be sold at public sule at our sales rooms, cor- | Note of S.A. Tercy for $70, dated June 23, 1807; | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST POURTIL 1807, AT HATE Xo. 16, folio GM, ete., one of the land per Lor and Penta. Oye it, TUESDAY’ and | 230 shares National Capital Street Car Motor Com: } PAST SEVEN’ O'CLOCK P.M, ali goods on waich | icchnds of Prince George’s counts, Md, “This ) ST akg AOUR Par TED 8ed FOURTH, at | pans’s stock, ond twenty (20) stares Aldrich Car | interest remains nnpald. consistins of Gold. Silver | a very desirable plece ef property should com TEN A.M. end FOU! 1 Manufacturing Company's stock. and Metal Watches, Chains, Kings, Jewelry of all | the attention of ony one secking au investme Alaskan coal will probably be used to sup- | they are out of money they are given or- | ye a hat he was a fat man in a black co: ply the Pacific trade, and its importance | ders to leave. Many. of the houses have | Sn’ swabbed his forehead with a wet tou will be appreciated when It is remembered nothing more than two rooms and a | between sintences. that the largest fleet that safis the Pacitic itchen, and in some plices the only “Glory be, I've often thought I was luc! fae “my 2 Is the coul fleet. Most of the coal from that | stores at which the miners can trade are | not bela’ prisint at some Iv th’ grand pad SiC a Te Soe sO aritee Tabeseated sri pirate: Soke motion: Kinds, Diamonds, Clocks, Clothing, ATREN | land’ frou Washiueton ae nat region comes from Australia and Japan. | the company’s stores. With all this the j sions I've r-read about, I knowed a snan| jyai-2t WALTER B. WILLIAMS & 00., Aucte, | j300-0t" HATCLIFFE, SUTTON’ & O0., Aucts, | JOHNSON, Auctloncer: HENBY 1 GHOCE jy29-0 | “Ieruis made Luowa at sles?” gyo7-auds Suit, 2 Mobert 1. Simpeom, and recorded in Libor