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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-03
THE BRlTisHsARMY.
Its Recruiting and Desertions and It's
Total Available Force.

Some very interesting statistics are
presented in the recent official returns OF
the condition of the British Army. 1t
appears that its aggregate strength on
the first day of the present year was
above $4,000, being the largest ever
known under the present establishment,
and, in fact, exceeding by about 1000 the
authorized maximum. 1t is. naturally
impossible, with the constant recruiting
and discharging, to keep the force always
at the exact point set by law, but the pur-
pose doubtless is to keep the average for
the year close to the maximum, and, in
deed, it was ZIG, 400.
OF the $4,000 men thus spoken of,
about 105,500 were serving in Great
Britain and Ireland; 81, 500 in the colo
MES; II, 900 in India, and 5000 in Egypt.
The recruiting for last year added 30, COO
men to offset the deaths, discharges, de-s
sertions, and so on. London led of, as
usual, and then followed Manchester
with nearly 1000, Glasgow with 922.
Birmingham with $50, and Dublin with
III. In the British system of recruiting,
as in ours, certain physical standards are
set, but special enlistments are alsoal-
lowed. Thus last year no fewer than IL
1OS men were enlisted who were under
feet and inches in height, 4,078 who
were under 33 inches chest measurement,
and / 1857 who were under the minimum
standard of weight. Still, there were
fewer of such special" enlistments than
during the year before, which shows that
recruiting was favorable. And for the
first time in very many years the infant
nv of the line was recruited beyond its
authorized strength.
The assertions for the year were a little
more than 4,S00, and the previous year
they had been 1902. These figures APP
pear to us very small compared with
those of our own army on an establish
ment of about %, 900 men. However, the
percentage of assertions to the number
of recruits enlisted was in the British
army 1871 last year, against 1.9 the year
before. 1t is rather difficult to trace the
exact reasons for such variations.
An important institution IN the British
army which has no analogy in our own,
although bill in Congress seeks to
create one, is the reserve. There were,
II, 1913 men transferred from the army to
the army reserve in 1891, and 17,751 in
1892, with but few hundred less last
year. The total number on January l
last seems to have been so, $50. The
militia enrolled at the inspection dates
last year numbered nearly 124, 700, while
the yeomanty were nearly 10, 400 strong.
The volunteers on November last num-
bered nearly 227, 900, and the militia re-
serve 81 900. The army reserve has been
continually increasing for the last twen-
ty years, but from special causes there
NAV he a SIackeninp in this increase next
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-03

Mr.. New, editor of the Indianapolis
Journal, is quoted as saying that with
the exception of few Eastern politicians
Mr. Harrison is the choice of the country
for the next Republican nominee for the
Presidency. MIR. NEWS acquaintance
with the country must be limited to the
State of Indiana
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-03

Coxey says he is going to stay in Wash
ington until Congress passes his bill.
That means that the capital is to be-
come the permanent home of the great
Massillon crank and pedestrian.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-03
Augusta, Me-, April 8, 1894.

Zone of the generals" of the common
wealers is publicly criticising the great
Coxey. This is insubordinaJion. Coxey
should convene court martial.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-03

If Grand Master Workman Sovereign of
the Knights of Labor orders strike on
the Iowa railroads for no better reason
than the refusal of the roads to carry
Kelly's army at a nominal price he
will do the organization of which he
is the head grave injury. 1t will get
no public sympathy in such strike as
that, but plenty of public condemnation.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-03
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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-09-20

The ENTERPRISE is not a political
paper. For,about three months in each
year one-third of our citizens would like
to have it red-hot Democratic paper
The other two-thirds would like to have
it radically Republican or Populist. But
after the campaign fever has subsided ali
parties are better pleased to have a live
local paper, devoted to building up the
material interests Of the county. Dur
ing the past we have tried to give the
people Of Otero county such paper al
would speak well for the Arkansas val
ley wherever it went, and all the Will.
tend to attract the best class of emigra
tion to our fertile lands. We think w
can better serve our constituency in thii
way than by publishing political paper
and are confident that time will com.
mend this course to large majority O
our readers.
However, during campaign time there
exists demand for the publication oi
matter tending to advance the personal
interests of candidates of the varioui
parties. Communications of this char
acter, when couched in proper language
can have a place in the columns Of tht
ENTERPRISES on the same grounds as ad
vertisipg matter from business men
In this all parties are on the same foot
ing. This will explain the presence o
articles of political nature which ma!
from time to time appear during tn,
present and future campaigns.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-09-20

FROM this week the subscription price
Of the ENTERPRISE will be e1,50 per
year, Is cents for six months, and 40
cents for three months: With this re-
duction Of price there ought to be a large
increase in our list Of readers, and we are
confident there will be. Ithas been said.
and we do not question the truth Of 'fhe
that the ENTERPR1sH is the
best paper published in Otero county.
During the past year 1t has done much
to attract attention to the resources and
advantages OF the Arkansas valley and
will continue in the good work. The
better patronage the paper receives the
better will it be able to serve the interest
of Otero county by more labor expended
on its columns, and by enlargement as
soon as the increased business makes
such step at all feasable. II our pres.
ent subscribers will tell their neighbors
Of this reduction and urge them to quit
borrowing and have paper Of their own
they can help us much. The past year
has shewn our ideas Of what weekly
country newspaper should be, except
that space has not been available for as
much home news and local agricultural
matter as we desired to give.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-09-20
Higher Education for Young People

When DIR. Aston Ellis, Ieident of
the State Agricultural College, was last
in Rocky Ford he wondered why it was
that the institution over which he pre-
sided did not have more patronage from
the people of the Arkansas valley. One
of the best Experiment Stations is located
at Rocky Ford, yet the number of stu
dents from Otero county to the State Ag-
xicultural College have been very few.
DR.. Ellis cannot understand why the
young people Of Rocky Ford and vicinity
are 30 Indifferent to the advantages with
in their reach.
This year has brought a season of
prosperity to the farmers OF the valley,
and we doubt not but that increased in
come will cause some Of our well-to-do
farmers to send their sons and daughters
to some of the higher institutions of
learning. Good crops are very necessary,
but good crops are not to be compared
to good men and women. It seems that
there ought to be an educational revival
in the Arkansas valley.
With all our getting let us acquire that
true knowledge OF life that will round it
out and make it something more than a
time of seeding fields and harvesting
them. Our minds and bodies need ma
ture Just as well as our soil need cultiva-
ton. The Agricultural College offers
superior advantages to the children of
those who are doing work in the States
industrial fields. Here can be secured a
practical, as well as cultural, education
and education that will fit those who
acquire il for life of usefulness and
honor among their fellows. The good
people of this section Of the state should
wake up to the high importance Of this
matter. Young people have but their
youth in which to take advantage of the
means for higher instruction and, if that
youth is allowed to pnss by without max
ing it serviceable in the acquisition OF
school and college training, such training
will not be likely to be secured in after
years Our yonng people should realize
the importance OF an education to enable
them to push their way in the world with
credit and to discharge the important
duties Of American citizenship. ~
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-09-20
Free Pills.

Co., Chicago, and get free sample box
Of DIR. Kings New Life Pills. A trial
will convince you of their merits. These
pills are easy in action and are particu-
larly effective in the cure Of Constipation
and Sick headache. For Malaria and
Liver troubles they have been proven in
valuable. They are guaranteed to be
perfectly free from every deleterious sub
stance and to be purely vegetable. They
do not weaken by their action, but by
giving tone to stomach and bowels great
ly invigorate the system. Regular size
SOC per box. Sold by DIR. E. w. Kearby,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-09-20
The late Republican Judicial COW.

The late Republican Judicial conven-
ton in Pueblo is described by leading
Republicans as being characterized by
fraud in the counting OF ballots, and the
allegation is made that $40 gold pieces
were freely used on the floor Of the con-
vention to buy delegates. The diss atisfac-
ton may take the shape Of an independ-
ent ticket. Above all elective offices the
Judiciary should be kept free Of sus-
picion OF faint of corruption.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-09-20
All Free.

Those who have used DR.. Kings New
Discovery know it's value, and those who
have not, have now the opportunity to
try it free. Call on the advertised Drug
gists and get Trial Bottle free. Send
your name and address to Fl. E. Bucklen
4 Co., Chicago, and get a sample box Of
p Ss 81 Nsw e e to HJ Hab rse sea qs Hosa ws
hold Instructor, Free. All of which is
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nothing. Trial bottles free at DIR. E. W..
Kearby's and DIR. Fenton's Drug stores.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-09-20
THURSDAY, SEPT. 20, 1894.

THE Chieftain fairly foameth at the
mouth over the defeat of Walpole for the
nomination for treasurer. Some kind
friend ought to quietly inform the Chief
tain that Walpole's defeat gives vast
amount of suppressed satisfaction in Re-
publican ranks in Pueblo. Fact!
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-09-20

The good people of Kentucky are re-
joicing over Breckenridge defeat. But
the standard of morals in the Ashland
district would have had a much higher
elevation had not the race between
Breckenridge and Owens been so close
as to make q contest probable.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-09-20

| W. @. Steele: lst on stallion colt, 2nd
on plate red grapes-S5.
Walter Bishop 1st on black grapes,
canned grapes, Australian corn, End on
white grapes, display grapes, canned
Strawberries and npricots, preserved rasp-
berries and grape jelly-s9,50.
Mrs. Cora Benjamin: LIST on salt rising
bread. canned tomatoes, preserved water
ermelon, grape jelly, cucumber pickles,
cake, canned currants and beans, pre-
served currants, currant jelly, picked
cantaloupes-S9,25 % and the ENTERPRIsE
| for one year for best salt raising bread.
Pearl Wykle: LIST on doughnuts, End
on salt rising bread, biscuit and picked
watermelon--S2,50.
Mrs. e. Blake: End on loaf corn bread
and light rolls 81
Mrs. Chas.- Rouhan: LIST on preserved
citrons, picalili, mixed pickles, parsnips,
Lima beans, pop corn, End on doughnuts,
beets, mangle wurtzels; rutabagas,
radishes-sI3, rs and the ENrERpR1sE
one year for best gingerbread.
| Mrs. II. S. Branscum; LIST on canned
peaches, pears, crab apples and beans,
preserved pears, pear jelly, sweet cucum-
Der pickles, picked grapes, 2nd on can
ned apples, grapes, tomatoes and peas,
preserved plums and citrons, picked pears
and tomatoes, grape catsup, chowchow,
picalili, Chill sauce, apple butter and
Kaffir corn-Sl4,75.
Ethel Beckwith: End on canned peach
ESQ cents.
Mrs. W. G. Steele: 1st on canaed
cherries-s1.
Mrs J. II. Crowley: 1st on raspberry
Jelly, End on canned raspberries and
raspberry jelly-S2,50.
Clara Il. Green: 1st on preserved
cherries-S1.
Miss L. Taylor: LIST on homemade
cheese, End on dairy butter-S3.
Mrs. NJ. j. Wycoff: LIST on dairy butter
81, and Otero county special on same S5.
Of bread, Otero county special 50.
F. M. Bell: LIST on one pound dairy
butter, Acme bail churn offered by A. Fl.
Cawthorn, La Junta.
A. @. Best: LIST on SOW and pigs, white
Dent corn, End on red clover 'seed-S7,
for pounds dairy butter, silver butter
dish offered by Joy Bros, La Junta; fol
yellow and white corn Otero county
special S6.
Palmer & Pruter, 1st on Chester white
boar and SOW, End on Chester white SOW,
sweepstakes on boar and sow--Sl3.
w. A. Knock: 1st on stallion and mare,
and stallion and Of his get, End on 8
and year old mares, $47, and for 4year-
old draft stallion Otero county special
80.
A. Nichols: 1st on span draft mares,
End on stallion and jacks-&10.
ID. Bole: LIST on 3-year old stallion-$8.
W. L. Sickenberger: LIST on one and
four year old mares and mule colt, mare
and two of her get, End on stallion colt
--S26,5O, Otero county specials on draft
mare and colt, team draft horses, mule
cott-$3O, and for heaviest yearling colt
$500 of fire insurance by Steele & Beall
@. II. Koontz: 1st on roadster stallion
s15.
Stevenson & Dye End on 4-year old
stallion SO and Otero county special on
same. 80.
h. Weiley: LIST on roadster stallion
$40.
@. D. Baldwin: End on 3-year-old stall
ion-S5.
j. p. Stevenson: list on 4-year old
mare, brood mare and 2 of her get. End
on mare colt 5 %, and Otero county spec
ial on roadster mare and colt trio.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-09-20

1t is expected that this mornings
special train to Canon City will be
crowded. Large numbers Of our people
have planned to go.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-16
lhe RAILROADS. Interested.

Largely as the result of the NEW MEx1-
CAMS conservative statements touching
the wonders of Cochiti district, both the
A., I. & s. F. and the D. & R. G. railroad
companies are now taking the liveliest
interest in the subject. The. A., I. & s.
F. is already advertising the camp in all
local papers adjacent to its lines and is
reaping no small return therefrom in the
shape of increased business.
A few days since Col. G. w. Knaebel,
secretary of the Board Of Trade, addressed
President Jeffrey at length on the sub ject
of the D. & R. q. cooperating with Santa
Feans in maintaining the stage lines now
in operation between this city and Aller-
ton. To-day this brought response
from Major Hooper delivered in person
by Capt. W. F. Tibbits, the veteran trav-
cling passenger agent of the narrow
gauge system. The letter stated that
Capt. Tibbits had been directed to come
here and ascertain the facts in the prem
ises and that upon his report the D. & R.
G. would act.
Capt. Tibbits will spend several days
here and may alsogo over and personally
inspect the district. He is, however, al
ready convinced, from talks with practical
miners and business men who have been
in the camp, that Cochiti is all it has
been represented to be. He intimates
that he has quite made up his mind us to
how the report shall read, and says If the
d. g. r. G. takes hold and advertises the
facts, putting on through tickets from all
northern points direct to the camp via
stages out of this city, that Santa Fe will
see rush that will paralyze the average
citizen. Capt. Tlbbits was the firstrailroad
man to report on Cripple Creeks per-
manent ore bodies, and from what he
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-16
HOW THEY TALK.
A Colorado Visitor to COchiti Predicts
5000 Population for the Camp
in Ninety Days.
What Santa Feans Think of the Dis
trict-A D. & R. G.. Representa-
tive in the Field--Mining
News Nuggets.

Mr.. Dan Berridge, late of Rico and
Leadville, Colo, has been in Cochiti for
the past ten days. He is now in the city
for the purpose OF replenishing his camp
supplies and communicating the facts as
he finds them to friends in various parts
of the west, expecting to return to the
camp on Sunday. In an interview with
a representative of the NEW MEXICAN Mr..
Berridge said:
~ have located two claims, but have
had no assays from either one, so I can
not tell how valuable they are, but of
course, think have good thing. Mr..
Chester Greenwood, of Rico, partner of
Thos. Lowthian, of Denver, was the first
to discover anything of value in the dis
trict, therefore Colorado miners know
more about it than the citizens of New
Mexico.
"The camp is undoubtedly going to be
a hummer.
"There are a good many leads that if
if they hold out for even fifty feet, and 1
think they will, must inevitably prove the
camp the biggest in the country. The
formation is porphry and trachite. am
located at the head of Pine canon, with
John Clark. ex-sheriff of Dolores county,
Colo, and John Bemis as partners.
"Mr Greenwood had two assays from
the Lone Star mine, which is better
known as Lowthian's, that were simply
wonders. The first run ten ounces in
gold and GAO ounces in silver, and the
second run eleven ounces IN gold and
1880 ounces in silver to the ton. l don't
suppose they have any great quantity that
will run that high, but know they have
thirty foot ledge that will average from
$40 to $500 a ton. They have an i'm
mense quantity of the latter ore, if the
veins hold out, and l don't think it pos.
sible that they have gone through
the only part of the pay streak.
If the vein is continuous, the Lone
Star mine is the greatest in the world.
They have twenty or thirty tons of ore
on the dump now. Mr.. Greenwood and
his partners have twenty claims located
| The Crown Point and Washington will
also turn out good properties. The Lone
quar-, Ho"oNOA, 40 ohouSH Al ioo0ii w Suuos
great boom.
"The rush is coming, and don't think
anything can stop it now. The Santa FL
people ought to get the new road finished
as soon as possible. This city ought tt
be the central supply point, as it is thu
best to outfit from. predict that Their
will be $500 people in the camp in tn
next thirty days and in the next ninet,
there will be nearer 5000. The boom ha
as solid foundation as any ever saw
as the whole country is highly mineralize
for twelve or thirteen miles. The cam
is way ahead of Cripple Greek in both tn
quantity and quality of ore. 1t run
more gold by two to one, and the silver
you might say, is gratis. The ore cor
tains enough gold alone to make camp
we don't need any silver. 1t is strictl
smelling ore. The Lone Star has pre-
duced enough already to warrant the cor
struction of reduction works"
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-16
More Good words.


Mr.. Ireneo L. Chaves, deputy clerk of
the U. S. land court, and Mr.. Eusebio
Chacon, interpreter of the same court
have just returned from Cochiti, where
they have been for the last seven days.
They went very carefully all over that
section and report that there are at least
800 men in the camp at present There
are over 1000 locations already staked
and every one shows from good to fair
indications of mineral. great deal of
work is being done in Pine canon and
ore is being hauled on burros to point
four miles above Allerton, and from there
it goes by wagons to the A., I, s. F. road
at Wallace for shipment to Denver. In
Peralta canon is lively camp with sev-
eral hundred men at work. A good deal
of the country is yet covered with snow.
The snow is melting very fast and the
river is rising so rapidly that within a
few days it will be impossible to ford it.
Some of the mines that are being de-
veloped contain such an immense guam
tity of ore in sight that if it should turn
out to be worth 81 per ton net, Cochiti will
be one of the richest camps in the world.
Over fifty men are arriving every day.
Messrs. Chaves and Chacon have made some
promising locations. Samples Of the ore
have been sent to we'll known assayer,
and if the result is satisfactory, new
camp will soon be in existence. No one
is yet discouraged in the camp. If the
returns from the ore that has been sent
to Denver are satisfactory there will be
5000 people in the neighborhood of Co.
chit before the snow is gone. Poor
people should not 60 to the camp with
the expectation of picking up gold in the
roads, however.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-16
PERSONAL.

Deputy U. g. MarOhal Loomis 10 on
business in Rio Arriba county.
Mr.. T. j. Helm is able to be out again
and is rapidly recovering his health.
Matt. Piersol returned from Cochiti
last evening. On the way home he counted
thirty miners, most of them from Colo
RADIO, headed for the new Ell Dorado.
Capt. w. F. Tibbits, the popular
and we'll known travelling passenger
agent for the d. & R. G. road, is a guest
at the Palace.
At the Bon Ton hotel: Michael Viette
D. Munso, Rico, Colo; Esquipula Baca
Marcelino Baca, Pena Blanca; Jose Lu-
Zero, Antonio Lucero, Cochiti mines; Ma
nuel Baca, Allerton; j. P. Murphy, Boise
City, Iowa; Matthias Jakelia, Durango,
Colo; A. Bender, Allerton; H. Whitfield,
city.
0. W. McCuiston, Springer; E. W.
Eaton, Socorro; G. Benedetto, Leo Ma
more, G. Plilibeo, Cerrillos; A. Vanderwart,
Trinidad; Sol Kahn, Amizett; W. E. Van
volkenburg and wife, Cerrillos; Bias
Sanchez, Las Vegas; Guadalupe Mascara
mas, San Ignacio; M. s. Anderson, Hum
boldt, Mo-, are at the Exchange.
Mr.. Wilson Waddingham lisa guest at
the Palace to-day. He says the reports
the New MEXICAN give of Cochiti's rich
ness are simply wonderful. Mr.. Wad-
bingham is known as progressive man
and capitalist. He is cordially invited
to investigate, and ifhe does he will
verify easily all the New MEXICAN has
had to say of the camp.