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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

THE human family has attained a
certain amount of civilization, but it
is constantly tripped into manifesto
tions of its original savagery. Even
civilization seems to delight In CIV
ing information to man that return
to savagery may be expected at any
moment. Every man-ofwar brist,
ling with guns is notice to the hui
man family that after nineteen CEN
turtles Of Christian progress there is
no Christianity such as the Master
taught. Every soldier armed with a
gun is notice to mankind that bar
barism may be the rule at any mo-
ment. We make peace festivals, so
called, and celebrate thereat more
particularly the achievement Of a
Krupp, and as companion for i'm
mense guns from Germany show the
model OF a battleship erected by the
Government Of the United States,
and round the whole festival we
throw the protecting side swords of
lot of Columbian guards, Differed
by a man whose profession is that of
a butcher, for soldier is after all a
person employed to kill other per"
sons, and may not therefore be in
aptly described as a butcher. We
are not yet safely beyond the border
line Of barbarism.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07
PIuto's Safety Valve.

Two and half miles south of the
little Mexican village of Las Hum
mettas, in Western Arizona, in a low,
sandy valley, fanked by tall noun
tains, there is a hole about three
feet in diameter and OF unknown
depth.
From this cavity which is as round
as if fashioned by an experienced
well digger, a dense cloud of smoKe
and steam is constantly arising. For
100 feet on each side Of this appar-
emily fathomless pit the ground is
moist and damp
Water collected from small holes
dug in the damp soil has a curious
effect upon the person rash enough
to drink it-dispelling sleep for as
much as fifty hours in succession.
If the hands and feet be washed in
it, it gives them brazen hue and a
paralytic numbness.
OF an evening, about I o'clock
Seldom varying as much as five min
utes either waN) large volumes
of sand are shot from the
hole several yards into the air.
Sometimes this latter exhibition is.
preceded by increased activity and
loud subterranean noises; at other
times the emission of smoke and
steam almost entirely ceases for
about ten minutes before the sand
squirting show takes place. The peo-
pie Of Las Hummettas know the hole.
by the name of "Plutos Safety
Vnlve
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

UNITED STATES naval officers &C.
cept the loss Of tie Victoria as one of
the incidents natural to going to sea
In an "lron teakettle," as the modern
ship Of war Is unexpectedly called,
The ancient figure Of speech which
represents single plank be-
tween the sailor and death is more
nearly true OF the ships built without
planks than of any others, and every
sailor knows that, whatever the adj
vantage Of the iron ship as a fighting
machine, it is a very tickllsh craft in
case OF accident.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07
KANSAS RAILROADS.

The Santa Fe has reduced its shop
force in Topeka about one-half. Last
year at this time over 1000 men were
at work. Now the number reaches but
little further than 1000. The manage
ment of the road has decided TO close the
car shops temporarily on the first of
September. Only enough employees will
be kept to make the necessary repairs.
The company is looking after every dol.
lar now, and will not employ an un.
necessary man. The freight business
has been picking up great deal in the
past two weeks, and it is said by some
company men that number of the old
employees will be taken back in short
time. Last Sunday there we're seven
extra freight trains out of Topeka. II
the increase keeps up at this proportion,
better times are in store for the idle
men.
The Rock Island has put a through
chair and Pullman sleeper train between
Chicago and Fort Worth.
The Union Pacific has taken off its
Sunday train between Beloit and Solo,
mon City. The Missouri Pacific will
profit by it.
Beginning on the 21st inst, the San.
ia Fe runs through chair cars from Cald.
we'll and surrounding points to Chicago,
This chair car has heretofore been run
only to Kansas City.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

Lawrence World: Gibson 4 Son have
harvested their crop of onion sets and
will clear over $3,000for their year'swork
They had fifteen acres planted and have
harvested $500 bushels OF sets.
The La Vita Jersey Cattle company
of Topeka shipped twelve OF their choice
Jerseys for exhibition Of live stock at
tho worlds fair. II. J. Miller and son
Fred, are in charge Of the animals at
the fair.
Atchison Champion: Two stacks OF
wheat on the farm of Lloyd Allison were
consumed by fire and over $50 bushels
of wheat was lost. John Howard was
threshing for Mr.. Allison and spark
from the engine caused the fire which
consumed the stack Of grain.
Atchison Champion; The new crop
Of apples are beginning to come to town
more plentiful and the quality is very
good. There are number of fine Or
chards in the vicinity of Atchison, but
the yield this year is not large. Ship
pers are paying from So to "a per bar
rel for apples.
Atchison Champion: A great many
farmers are in this city making purchases.
They feel very jubilant over the crop
prospect this year and say they will need
big force of men and more cribs to
store the corn crop this year. In Atchi-
son county the crop has not promised
SO great yield in many years.
Kansas City, KS, yards had nearly
three times as many cattle as Chicago,
and over twice as many as ST. Louis,
and with it all an active and firm mar
ket. Besides the usual buyers there
were a number Of buyers of butcher cat
tie from interior points, and good de-
mand for feeders from the country.
Sedan Lance: The drouth in this
country has been very severe, however
there are a few nelghborhoods where it
has rained enough to make fairly good
corn. But take the county over there
will not be over one-third of crop of
corn. There was large acreage Of
oats which will come in good play, and
proving the advantage of diversity in
crops.
Kansas City, Mo-, Journal: AS Sep
TENDER is pretty nearly upon us, and
the corn crop in this section is practical
ly made, the stocker and feeder market
is commanding increased attention. The
commission men are trying to encour-
age early buying, believing that this
class of cattle can be had cheaper now
than by waiting, when the time for buy
ing for fall feeding will be limited, and
everyone will want cattle at once, and
thus bid the price up on one another.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07
Electric stnmn.Puller.

Space for fort on a hill near Lon
don is being cleared of tree stumps
by an electric root-grubber or stump
puller The dynamo for supplying
the current is about two miles from
the hill. The current is taken by
overhead wires on telegraph poles to
the motor on the grubber carriage.
BY means of betting and suitable
gearing the motor drives a capstan
upon which is coiled a few turns of
wire rope. A heavy chain is attached
to the tree roots, and as the rope ex-
erts its force the roots come up
one after the other
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

brought hisseventh wife into Vernon,
Texas, TO have her photograph taken.
He is quite wealthy, lives high, and
is now looking for another wife.
There is nothing whatever the mat
ter with Quanah, and in adopting the
methods OF a great many white men
he is both happy and prosperous.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

A HUMOROUS young man who
tickled an Eskimo girl under the
chin at the Exposition regretted the
act a moment later, for the dark
skinned girl from Labrador suddenly
twined both arms around his neck
and planted kiss on his ruby lips
that might have been heard at the
fisheries building. That young man
will be more careful after this.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

A RENvLLE (Minn. man without
arms or legs has been arrested for not
working out his poll tax as the law
prescribes. Self-decapitation would
seem to be the poor mans only pos
sible way Of evading such law, and
as he has neither arms nor legs that
would be difficult If not impossible.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

REAR ADMIRAL MARKHAM has
cleared his skirts Of responsibility for
the Victoria disaster; but how much
larger he would have figured on the
canvas of history If he had had the
courage to signal back to Tryon, Il
cannot obey your order" and taken
the consequences! The Victoria and
her men would have been saved. and,
let the court-martial have done what
it might, that would have been glory
enough for Markham.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

MOUNT TACOMA is the highest
mountain in the United States, aC-
cording to the six measurements
taken by f. G. Plummer, Tacoma
civil engineer He makes the noun
tain Is, 900 feet high. Mount Whit
ney is only IA, S9S feet tall,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

The hotel-keepers of Chicago
having had a lively time for several
months past calling upon the rail
roads to make half rates to Chicago
might turn in now and give visitors
dose Of thesame medicine.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

THERE is a new element of indig-
nation in South Carolina against the
new liquor law because it is discov-
cred that the official quart TASKS Of
liquor sold by the State are of short
measure, The palmetto States Off
cial groceries should not sand their
cI1Onr
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

JUDGING by report, there is a big
opening for some enterprising party
to start soap factory in Mecca.
The "holy places" of Moslemdom
need nothing SO much as to be made
clean.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

"JAcK THE CLIPPER" who creeps
upon victims and cuts their back hair
of, may serve to remind the barber
that such things can be accomplished
nOiselesslY.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

RUSSIA is gradually approaching
India from the northwest, and France
is pushing forward her frontier from
the east No wonder the Empress
and her representatives are getting'
nervous.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07
PRoFEssoR W1ae1Ns, who made his

PROFESSOR W1aeINs, who made his
farewell prophecy about a year ago,
has emerged for another farewell.
He says that the country is going to
see another comet this year. The
farewell wave Of the comets tail
after its tour Of the country is evil
dence that Prophet Virgins has at
last made a correct prophecy.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

THE fool-klller's love Of variety Is
discernible in the surf bathers who
enter into deep water without knowl-
edge Of the gentle art Of swimming.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

WHEN Benjamin Franklin proposed
to start a newspaper his mother tried
to dlssuade him, because there were
already two newspapers in America.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

THE advantages of civilization are
shown in the case of Mr. Quanah
Parker, the old chief of the Co
manches, who has substituted mar
Fying for fighting, and who recently
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

The only suspicion Of crookedness
in heaven came about when an as
tronomer discovered that some Of the
stars had been fixed.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

THE oddly about Germany's stand
ing army is that through all the
standing it's the people who are get
ting tired.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

TIE rural tough poisons fishing
waters and gets up charlvarls. The
city rough shoots and cuts, but he's
no worse.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

THE most unhappy people in the
world are those who are so well of
that they are always trembling at the
thought Of loss and ruin.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

If the sluggard gets tired Of going
to the ant he might try the malaria
germ, who seems so reluctant about
taking q vacation.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

THERE'S a married mans scheme
to abolish seal fishing altogether.
No seals, no sacques.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

TIME flies fastest on the wings OF a
promissory note
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07

THIS country is IN danger Of be-
coming conspicuous for rheumatism,
both physical and financial.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-07
HUMOR OF THE WEEK
STORIES TOLD BY FUNNY MEN
OF THE PRESS.

Many Odd, Curious, and Laughablc Phases
of Human Nature Graphically Portrayed
by Eminent Word Artists of Our Own Day
"A Budget of Fun.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-11-22

(olgneu)
County Sup't."
This blank is prepared by a dealer in
school apparatus evidently for use in all
counties and school districts in the terri
tory, and is such as no school directors
have any right under the law to sign, and
if they should 80 sign, in my opinion the
order woulG be absolutely void as against
the school district, although it is prob
able that the individuals who signed it
might be compelled to pay it. section
20 of chapter 60, session laws of 1891
prescribes the duties of school directors
In reference to procuring school furni-
ture. It is their duty to provide the
necessary fuel, furniture, etc, for school
houses and they shall make an estimate
of the tax levy necessary for that purpose,
provides "that no board shall issue war
rants or certificates of, indebtedness of
the school district in excess of the amount
of the levy for one year." And further
on In the section it is provided that any
school director who shall willfully refuse
or fail to perform all the duties
required by this section shall be guilty of
misdemeanor and be punished by fine or
| imprisonment. 1t was the contemplation
of the school law to prevent just such in
discriminate mourning of Indebtedness in
excess of the needs or revenues of the dis
trict as is sought to be brought about by
peripatetic vendors of school furniture in
obtaining signatures of school officers to
such so-called warrants. Very respect
fully, EDWARD L. BARTLETT,
Solicitor General of New Mexico
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-11-22
SUNSHINE-LAND.
Wisconsin Man Finds 1t in New
Mexico and Proceeds to Talk
Scripture.

Mr.. H. L. Austin, of Evansville, Wis,
has been travelling through New Mexico,
and he writes thus to the GAINESVILLE, Wis,
Republicans:
During the last two months there has
been more rainfall in the territory than
there has<been for many years.
The grass;clothes the earth much the
same as in former years when New Mex
leo was "the home of the cattle range"
The ranchman begins to feel the pulse
beats of renewed activity. New Mexico,
which deserves statehood, awaits glor-
ious future.
The following declaration may place
New Mexico in the most fitting and terse
manner:
PSALM 151.-NEW MEXICO VERSION.
!. New Mexico is fruitful, who shall
want: ....
2. The apple, peach, pear, apricot
plum and prune tree blcssometh and
beareth with magnifcence, and much
grape is on the vine.
3. The sheep lieth down in green past
ures, and the cattle feedeth beside still
waters.
1. Verdure is restored; the earth quick.
eneth into newness of life; the herds
are laid into paths of abundance, for they
delight in fairness.
5. Yea, though they walk through the
valleys of tho mountains, they fear nc
hunger, for much grass is in the land, i,
supporteth and comforteth them.
6. The plain spreadeth out before
them in great distances, covered will
rich vegetation; it annointeth theil
mouths afresh, their appetites are re-
plenished.
Z. Surely plenty of prosperity shal
follow, and the hocks and the herds shall
dwell upon the plains for many seasons
and verify they shall be fed.
8. The vaults of the mountains scaled
by natures time-lock now await def
hand to reveal the vaulted treasures, yer
lily much wealth shall abound.
8. The voice of silver cryeth in thu
earth, how long o! Cleveland, how lone
before the promised deliverance! Selah
H. L. AUSTIN.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-11-22
THE PLACER MINES.
Splendid Activity in the Fields Of
Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and
Taos Counties.

The prospectors who have been pour
ing into Santa Fe from the north for the
past two months in anticipation of a
hard winter up that way have "taken to
the woods" In an earnest search for gold,
and as consequence the placer tields of
northern New Mexico are experiencing
extraordinary activity. This is SO even
in the camps where scarcity of water and
"Aour" gold make it impracticable to
adopt the ordinary sluicing process, rs
witness the interesting tests now in hand
with the Mckinley machine at Dolores,
the Bucyrus plant on the Rio Chama and
the Burlap screens on the Rio Hondo.
The partial success already attending
these experiments may we'll rivet the
attention of gold miners and the public
in general for the coming few months,
and they are also of particular interest
to Santa Feans because they are likely to
make this city the center of gold pro-
ducing district that must become fam GUS
if any ono of these new methods proves
of practical utility in saving the yellow
stuff with which the thousands of acres
of gravel beds are known to be impreg-
mated.
At Dolores the excitement over the dis
covery of new streak of placer gravel
that yields IS to 500 per day per man
continues. A miner said yesterday that
fully forty new prospectors had arrived
in that camp within two weeks. The
Cerrilos Supply company last week dis
posed of stock of gold pans which they
have had on hands for nearly two years,
ordered two dozen more and sold
them out in three days. This indicates
something of the coming of new pros
pectors.
On the Chama river the last of six car
loads.of machinery for the Bucyrus placer
plant reached there from the east on
Monday and is rapidly being placed in
position. This week four capitalists from
Buffalo, N. Y, arrive at Hunter, nine
miles above Abiquiu, on business con-
Il ected with the development of these
| placers.
Again, along the Hondo gravel beds in
Taos county, there is much activity, des-
plte the lateness of the season, and, on
the whole, the enterprises pertaining to
placer gold saving are going on with the
most encouraging outlook.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-11-22
PERSONAL.

TIC. Jones, of the San Luis Coal com
pany, came in from Monero last night.
Col. T. T. Moore left last night for
Phoenix, A. T., on railroad business.
Mayor K. E. Twitchell left for Phoenix
last evening; he goes there on legal bust
| ness.
Hon. Louis Sulzbacher went north this
morning en- route to Las Vegas and Kan
sas City.
DR.. John symington left last evening
for Albuquerque and will return to-
morrow morning.
The Messrs. Duetcher leave tomorrow
on their return to Amizett where they
have extensive business interests.
Mr.. Pike has removed his family from
the Yrisarri residence to the U. s. Indian
school, he being employed there.
J. D. Hughes, business manager of the
New MEXICAN, has gone to northern New
Mexico on business for this journal.
| 7. G. Jones, Monero; s. R. Barbeau,
wife and daughter, Ell Paso, Texas;
Charles Mckinley, Butte, Montana, are at
the Exchange.
John Caswell, Martin Cornesford, of
Creede, Chas. Sweeney, of Salida, G. B.
Hawkins, of Durango, came in over the
narrow gauge from Colorado last night.
Mr.. Warren B. Mcveigh, connected with
the New York Sun, is in the city and will
remain several months for the benefit Of
his health; he is stopping at Mrs. Kelley'r
on upper Palace avenue.
Hon. Walter c. Hadley, the we'll known
mining man, and competent authority
on New Mexico's production of precious
metals, came up from Albuquerque this
afternoon. He is en- route to Denver.
> E. W. Pierce, of Las Vegas, is in the
city to-day. He says there is quite 6
J financial plum in the Mora county officia
printing and he proposes to shortly
launch the Mora Democrat with view te
controlling this business.
At the Bon Ton hotel: T. Z. Reynolds
Chicago; w. R. Osterhof, Chicago; w. F
Hewlett, Ell Paso, Texas; John Caswell
Creede, Colo; Martin Cornesford, Creede
Colo; Francisco Archibeque, Cerrillos
N. M; James johnson, City; W. G. Nelson
Garden City, Kas.; Geo. Anderson, Gardel
City, Kas.; Gregorio Montoya, Ell Rito, N
NJ; Martin Trujillo, Ell Rito, N. NJ.
Geo. Roberts, Albuquerque; Richard Bar
rett, San Antonio, Tex; Chas. Sweeney
Salida, Colo; Geo. B. Hawkins, Durango
Antonio Martinez, Las Vegas; Juan Jos
Salazar, Las Vegas; Fred Skinner, Pueblo
: Colo.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-11-22
ClaDtor A..

An ordinance to prevent cruelty to
animals.
Be it ordained by the city council of tine
city of Santa Fee:
Section Amy person who shall here
after give or permit exhibitions of dog
fighting, cock fighting, bear or bull fights
or the fighting of any animals, wild or
domestic, in any building, hall, corral or
other place within the corporate limits of
the city shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be
punished by fine of not less than fifty
nor more than two hundred dollars, or by
Imprisonment for not less than thirty nor
more than ninety days, or by both such
fine and Imprisonment, in the discretion
of the magistrate.
Section thereafter no person shall
torture, cruelty beat mutilate, cruelty kill
or over-drive any animal, or unnecessarily
fail to provide the same with proper food
or drink, or cruelty drive or work the
same when unfit for labor, and any per-
son violating the provisions of this sec
ton, upon conviction, shall be punished
by fine of not less than five nor more
than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in
the city Jail for not more than thirty nor
less than five days.
Passed Nov. 20, 1898.
Attest: Il. Z. TwITcHELL,
I'D. HUGHES, Clerk. Mayor.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-11-22

Have Beecham's Pills ready in the
household.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-11-22

mauent place there, AS rule such time
tables stand as SO much incomprehensib
lingo to the average reader, bat in this
case Agent Lutz has endeavored to make
it SO PLAIN that even be who runs to catch
a train may read and understand. BY
this table also the traveller out of Santa
Fe may ascertain the day, hour and min
ute he is due to reach almost any given
point in the west between Chicago and
San Francisco.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-11-22
SCHOOL AFFAIRS.
An Opinion by the Solicitor General
of Moment to Public School
Directors.

The following is self-explanatory:
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO, }
Office of Solicitor General,
Santa Fe, N. M, Nov. 21, 1898. }
Hon. Amado Chaves, Superintendent Public
Instruction. Santa Fe.
Dear Sir: Your inquiry based upon a
letter from county superintendent, as to
whether the enclosed form of a school
warrant, to be issued in favor of dealer
in school apparatus, was valid, is received
and in reply would say that the form sub
mitted, is as follows:
"--, New Mexico, --- 49,
awe the undersigned directors of schoo
district No. - do hereby warrant an6
agree that the county treasurer of -
- county will pay To- or or
der the sum of - dollars. With in
terest at - per cent per annum, out o.
any funds that are now or shall be to the
credit of said district. 1t is agreed thai
should there not be the amount of this
warrant to the credit of said district, thai
the county treasurer is to pay over what
ever funds are to the credit of district
No. - and endorse same on the back OF
this warrant.
"Given for school apparatus for sale
| district.