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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

Mrs. M. A. Howells was called to Santa
Fe, yesterday, by a telegram announcing
the death of her b brother, Joseph Harris, Of
that city.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

Prof. Alex. Randolph is contemplating
making a trip to Albuquerque with the
Little Lord Fauntleroy" comedy COM
paDy.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06
Weather Summary.

Monthly summary, for the month of
April, 1896; Gallinas Springs, N. NJ.
Maximum temperature. dates, 2lst and c2d,
81 degrees.
Mean Maximum. $50. ........ 74.4 deg
Mean Minimum............. -. -. rs Z deg
Total precipitation .......,. .:IC0 inches
hours, 52-l00 inches, date 18th and 18th
Total snowfall during month 80. % inches
No. clear days II
No. partly cloudy $50. ........ 8
No. cloudy. ....... .............. ........ 5
Prevailing wind direction ~. ...... west
Frosts dates LIST, I'd, Sth, 18th, 18th and 18th.
Winds, from 80 to so miles per hour, 18th,
18th, 2.d, 9th, 18th and 30-h.
JAMES f. WHITMoRE,
Voluntary Observer.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

The election for incorporation of the
Pueblo Pecos grant resulted in a vote
against Incorporation.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

The Lyons house is now run in first class
order, and is the best boarding house In
town for the price asked. 156tf.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

Major Arthur Morrison, the old .time
citizen, is reported in a sinking condition
as THE OPTIC goes to press.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

j. b. Mackel now has telephone No. ~, on
the Las Vegas telephone company's lines,
at his east side establishment.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

George II. Wallace and wife are both In
disposed with what seems to be an attack
of 10 grippe.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

Put your spare cash to work. Take a
share with the Mutual building and lean
association. l!S.t1
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

The wife Of Mateo Lujan has given birth
to a boy at their residence at Leon, Union
county.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

G. v. Reed, the plumber, is numbered
among the sick, to-day.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

The New Brunswick restaurant for an
appstizing meal, 106-if
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

The best assortment of ladies' tan shoes
to be found, at Sporleder's. loS-2t
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

Browne & Manzanares company loaded
out a car OF hides, to-day.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

Mems tan lace shoes, latest styles, at
S~porleder's. loo'2t
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06
Former Resident of Las Vegas

The following telegram was received by
Louis F%leischer, yesterday morning:
"~BIDDLEFORD, Maine.l expect to start
on Cunard .'Lucinia,' May 9th. You better
start Immediately for New York. Wire me
at Biddleford.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06
Z 10 whom i. Many Concern.

TO Whom Il Many Concern.
sEAsT.LAs VEGAS. May 4th, 1896.
Notice is hereby given that the under-
signed, who have been conducting q sa'
loon in this city known as the 1.-Two Joes
Place" under the firm name Of Scott 4
German, have this day dissolved partner.
ship, and that the business will be con
Quoted in the future by Joe W. Scott, who
will pay all bill owing and collect all ac-
counts due Of the old firm.
All persons knowing themselves indebt.
ed to the firm must settle their accounts
before May20ih. The bushes in the fu-
ture will be conducted in a first-c ass, le-
Ultimate manner, and a share of the public
patronage h respectfully soliofTed.
III. GERMAN,
1853 f8t j.. W. ScoTT.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06
METROPOLIS MISCELLANY.

J. BiehI, leading undertaken.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-06

III Bargcinsl Bargainsll
am closing out my entire stock OF glass;
sare, tinwafe. woodenware and novelties,
at prices below cost. Agood selection can
o be made. Call early
9 3t154 MRS II. BARECKE.
The courier., 1896-07-25
nv a TURN or rHe HEAD.

unssea Hh wife and the The seee -
Dot nis Dtnsee
A city ofacial. who supposes the cpl
sode 10 close family secret arranged
with his wife to meet her at the ONCE
last Friday night at Z O'Clock, says the
New York Herald. They were then to
have dinner at q hotel, and attend the
theater. He was prompt. but his wife
had not yet arrived. 20 he patiently
waited on tie sidewalk with his eyes
on the door that she might not come
without his knowledge. He paced back
and forth, reading the bulletins, On
serving the direction of the wind and
looking at the clock - Il marked the
passing minutes: but be saw all who
entered the building. He heard a load
clanging &. gongs. ~ fire engine
dashed down 9Th avenue, and turned
hts head for not more than nve seconds
70 look after Il. His wife was only .
few minutes late. ~ sne hurried from
Q Broadway car and rushed into the
o0ce. during the ave seconds his head
WaD turned. She had not seen him, and
was pleased to think that he would be
the one to BE- blamed for being late. ~
she sat down to wait his coming. He
continued to wait and pace, - the
clock licked Oh the minutes. Eight
o'clock was near and he became very
impatient. - he realized that 1t meant
70 either miss dinner Or the first act OF
the play. when 8 o'clock was passed
he saw another act slip away. In .
few minutes more he had given up the
theater, and feared for the dinner. In
another ten minutes al Of the Ils's
were changed. and he determined 70
% home. She was also discouraged
and hurried to the street to take .
northbound cable car. They met. and
we'll: the theater was given mp. but
they had . dinner and each promised
% ny nothing about II
The courier., 1896-07-25
PARADISE FOR CRIMINALS.

Live In the Open Air In Comparative
Freedom.
A correspondent writing from Italy
gives some interesting details Of the
treatment Of prisoners on various
Italian islands he visited while on q
trip In the Mediterranean, says Lon
don Tid-Bits. Each Of these islands
contains several hundred prisoners.
who are locked up every night at sun
set. released at daybreak and locked
up again from midday until 2 o'clock.
During the night no prisoner b al
lowed to be absent under any circum-
stances. but at midday those who work
on farms at distance from the prison
are allowed to remain out by special
permission Of the director. During
these free hours the prisoners can 90
anywhere they like on the island and
can engage in any work offered them
by the townspeople or farmers. Any
infraction of the rules of ordinary life
around them or OF their prison II pun
ished by as usion In special cells.
The government furnishes physicians
and medicines. a summer and winter
suit Of clothes to each prisoner every
year and allows him avepence daily In
money for his food and other neces-
saries of life. Danger of escape 10 pre-
vented by squad Of soldiers-one to
every ten criminals-and q swift-sail-
ing felucca, manned by marines On
account of the cheapness Of labor the
islands are 20 highly cultivated a. to
resemble gardens. The correspondent
adds: As for the prisoners. the open
air makes them the healthiest Of any
criminals ! have ever seen. There 10
no sign In their faces and bodies Of
that prison blight which strikes every
visitor to ordinary jails."
The courier., 1896-07-25
Highest Of al in Ieavenng Powe-Latea U.s. Govt Repoa
@!a!!! q! Rs.assE Rs';ies
ABSOLUTELY PURE
A QUEER EXPERIMENT.
PAssoe rsph,a. tn. sp,..h Of Drsp q
M~rcury

footOe rsphns the sptoso OF Urop ~
M~rcsry.
Prof. Worthington has been studying
. curious phenomenon for twenty
years says knowledge The splash Of
. drop occurs in the twinkling of an
eye yet II 10 an exQuisitely regulated
phenomenon and one that very happily
illustrates some of the fundamental
properties OF the fluid. The problem
that Prof. Worthington has succeeded
In solving IL to let drop of definite
size fall from q hxed = light In 49,. ar
alive darkness onto q surface and to IL
illuminate II by fash of exceedingly
short duration At any desired stage. so
~ 70 exclude all the stages previous
and subsequent to those thus selected.
The many illustrations In this volu.ne
testify to the accuracy and beauty OF
his work. The curious results of
splash Of q drop Of mercury from a
height Of three inches upon a smootl
glass plate are particularly interesting.
Very soon after the first moment OF i'm
pact minute rays are shot out In all di-
rections on the surface with marvellous
regularity. From the ends Of the rays
droplets Of 4 .uid split Oh. The liquid
subsidies In / 'e middle ard soon after
ward nows into q ring. The ring then
divides In such q manner az to Join
up the rays In pairs. Thereafter the
whole contracts till the liquid rises In
the center, 20 as to form the beginning
of the rebound of the drop from the
plate. Immediately the drops At the
central mass rises In q column. which
Just falls. itself to break into drops.
He photographed no fewer than thirty
successive stages Of the splash within
the twentieth of a second. 80 that the
average interval between them was
about the six-hundredth Of second.
Remarkable are the splashes Of water
drops failing about sixteen inches into
milk, but more beautiful are the dome
forms when the height is nfty-two
inches.
The courier., 1896-07-25
sh,pa nav. Ears.

shspa Have Eara
The Gate City. which arrived here
on Monday from Savannah, IL the first
steamer going out Of this port to be
equipped with an aurophone. the new
device for enabling the lookout to de-
termine the direction of sounds at
sea. The aurophone was tried ON the
way up, but little could be told about
Its utility owing to its being placed in
a poor position. 1t consists of q brass
box, which fits over the mast and
which has projecting from each end
broad-mouthed funnel. From this box.
close to the tunnels, two tubes like or
dinary speaking tubes lead down the
mast and through the main deck to
the deck below. Inside Of the box
there is aacomplex arrangement Of dia-
phragme and sounding boards 90
placed Nat sound will enter only one
Of the tubes when 1t Is passing through
the funnel on the opposite side of the
box. On the lower deck Is an arrange
ment like an engine-room indicator, by
which the box above may be turned
around the mast, and directly under
the indicator IL q tell-tale compass.
The man below places the tubes to his
ears. where they are held in place
by cap. Unless the tunnels above are
pointing directly toward the sound
which he wishes to locate he win hear
1t only family and In one ear, because
one of the tunnels being turned from
the sound the tube opposite does not
operate. He then turns the indicator
In the direction from which the sound
appears to come, and when the funnel
is pointing directly at the sound It
passes through the funnel and out OF
the other, putting both tubes in opera
ton, and the operator hears the sound
distinctly and In both ears at once.
He then glances at the indicator and
the point on the tell-tale 1t which Il
rests gives the exact bearing of the
sound.-Boston Transcript.
The courier., 1896-07-25

Year Passport Needed In ksssia.
You cannot enter or leave city or
town In Russia without reporting your
self to the police like ticket-of-leave
man. You are forbidden to extend the
hospitality of your roof to your friend
or neighbor for q single night without
nrst informing the police Of your in
tentions and sending them your guests
passport. Whether you are q Russian
or . foreigner you can no more spend
. night In . hotel or change your lodg-
ings even for twenty-four hours with
out sending them your passport than
you can bespeak rooms In the Winter
Palace. Nay. whether you are Rus
sian subject or foreigner. you cannot
possibly subsist week without pass
port, which IL such an essential part
Of your being that Russian lawyers
have not inappropriately defined a man
~ an animal composed of three parts
body. q soul and q passport. This
passport you must have renewed once
. year. unless You are a noble or an
honorary citizen. and the process is as
tedious and painful ~ moulting is to
birds.
The courier., 1896-07-25
OFFICE sov.s "cHAncE."

Nasoieoa Of Cigarettes.
One of the big stock brokers down.
town has an Office boy who promises
to become . genuine Napoleon Of
finance when he grows up. says the
New York Mail and Express. Wall
street ONCE boys are about as shrewd
and wide-awake youngsters as can be
found. but for the moment the one in
question bears the palm. He has dis
covered how to get something, and lots
Of Il, for nothing.
A package came through the mail for
his employer this morning. The broker.
after opening 1t. tossed 1t to the boy.
II proved to be an advertisement from
q cigarette company and contained
package of I'VE cigarettes. samples OF
q new brand, and a postal card ad-
dressed to the company. The accom-
panying circular stated that the COM
pany had decided to Introduce the
brand in this way and requested the
recipient to write on the back OF the
postal card the names and addresses OF
five friends who smoked cigarettes and
mail It. Cigarettes would be sent to
them and II didn't take the boy long
to guess that each Of the five recipi-
ents would be asked to send In hve new
names. This was an endless chain
scheme with q vengeance. the youth
decided. and offered up a most brilliant
prospect for him.
He promptly erasped the opportun-
ity. First. he filled In his own name
with the once address: next another
name with his own home address IN
Brooklyn, and then thr,e names ne
managed to invent with the same
street number address as his firms.
This done. he mailed the card and left
word with the janitor that If any let
tiers or packages came addressed to
the three individuals for whom he had
invented names they were to be deiiv-
cred to him In the ONCE.
At this point he was assured of twen-
ty-five cigarettes. and he began to hg-
ure out the method by which he would
obtain the 125 cigarettes that would re-
suit later from the first batch. When
last seen he had not made up his mind
whether to make use Of some OF his
ONCE boy friends as consignees. He
did not want to give the scheme away.
yet he could not exactly see how he
could carry on such Wholesale busi-
ness ~ promised to result without as
sistants. He was murm ing: Five
times five IL twenty times
twenty-five IL 125-flve times LIS 10
s15-flve times 625 is" when the
bookkeeper sung out to him to start in
and deliver stockA
The courier., 1896-07-25

DIR. F. D. SHERWIN
DENTIST,
Porcelain Filings, Crown and Bridge
Work Speciality.
ROOMS II. 10. 10. BURR BLOCK
SECOND FLOOR.
Lincoln Nebraska
Empress Josephine toilet preparation
face bleach, face tonic, hair tonic, etct
at Kieinkauf & Grimes. III North lis.
The courier., 1896-07-25
COR ~ AND N.
LINCOLN NHBlRAOKlAs
Open at all Hours Day and Night
All forms Of baths.
TURKISH, RUSSIAN AND ROMAN

TURKISH. RUSSIAN AND ROMAN
With special attention to the apRh.
cation OF nstural salt water b0She
Several times stronger than 80 watse.
Special department for surgical sasss
and diseases peculiar TO women.
lAsanatisw, Skin, Blood and NsgyV0s D.
eaooo, Liver and kidney Tfoahlso aud ChsO01o
Aflnints ere treated suecesrfally.
0sa bathing nay b. enjoyed at al seaseao =
our lAfgo salt sWimming pool, eox1t3 feet, II
- fest desp. heated to uniform Temperature g
= oogree0.
0R6. ~. n. AND j. o. EVERETT
Managing Physicians.
The courier., 1896-07-25
L,ghs.s.e and Trees.

Lighsasag and Tfees.
Cedar and fg trees are rarely struck
by lightning. The beech. the larch, the
DR. and the chestnut also seem to be Pc
culiarly obnoxious to the bolts of
love-" There are trees. however. which
appear to attract rather than to repsl
the lightning fash. The trees general
iy enumerated In the category of those
which the lightning IL most apt to
strike are the oak, the yew. the elm
and the T.ombardy poplar.
BENkE, the popular tailor has
moved to l2l N 18th; Tor first claes work
snd low rates give him q call.
Queen Victoria" Ladies' FarOrife
Her MVesfy's Perfume. 10 the most
asfing and perfect PerfHsre. Ask
ggs' the Druggist. for sample.
The courier., 1896-07-25
AMERICAN EXCHANGE NATIONAL BlHr
LINCOLN. NEe.
A. J. SAWYER
vicee President
d. G. WING
Assistsnt Cashier
] n. RAYMOND,
President.
8. H. BURNHAN.
Cashier.
CAPITAL, s2so.ooo SURPLUS s2s 600

Directors Il. n. Raymond, s. H. Burnham
e.. q. Dawes. A. J. sawyer. Lewis Gregory
N Smell, 9 II Lambertson, d G Wing. Sw
purnam.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-10-08

WHEN a business man requires the
services of a clerk, or an accountant,
or man in any other capacity, and
he finds man who performs his duties
to his complete satisfaction he is not
very likely to let him go so long as he
requires such services and they ARE
agreed on the question of wages. The
county is i'll just the same position,
the only difference being that under
the law there is limit of four years to
the period of service in any one office.
In the clerks Office at present the
county has a man who has made %
great many friends by his courteous
treatment of all with whom he has
been brought into contact in an official
way, and the promptness and e:iicien-
cy which have characterized him in
the discharge of his various duties give
him strong and just claim to the
favorable consideration of his fellew
citizens, upon whom devolves the duty
of selecting a clerk for the next two
wears. The court records Of this cOun-
| ty have never been better or more
neatly kept than they have been by
Mr.. Na9h, and there is no doubt that
on the third of November a large ma
| iority of the voters of the county will
express their appreciation of his ser
vices by re-electing him by q rousing
majority.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-10-08
SHEHIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE.

by virtue of an order Of sale issued out
of the Superior Court of the State Of Wash
ington, for the County Of San Juan, and
to me directed and delivered, for jui,g-
ment rendered in said court on the 18th
day OF September, A. d. 1896, in favor of
The Northern Counties Investment Trust
Limited, a corporation, plaintiff, and
against John Clifford, defendant, for the
sum of 1922. 43-lOO) with interest at the
rate of 8 per cent per annum from said
25th day of September, A. D. 1896. and
the further sum of 1850 100 costs Of sHit l
have levied upon the following described
real estate, tOwit:
The southwest quarter of the southeast
quarter of section number three ca in
township number thirty-four go north
of range number two (2) west, containing
forty (4O) acres, situate, lying and being
in San Juan county, state of Washington
Notice is hereby given that on Monday
the End day of November, A. D. 1896, at
the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, Mt
the Court House door, in Friday Harbor,
in said county of San Juan, will sell all of
the right, title and interest of the said John
Clifford, defendant, in and to the above
described real estate, at public auction to
the highest and best bidder to satisfy said
execution and all costs.
Given under my hand this Goth day of
Se:ss"s:. yer. A. II. lss;. NEWTON los rs,
S:'rr..S of San Juan county, state of
Warrington.
F:~.: :.;'.i :>tion Oct. LIST. 1896.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-10-08

THE Georgia tail of the Bryan kite
keeps wagging in way that must be
very annoying to the main tail and to
the "Boy Orator" himself. In recent
statement Of his views of the situation
to the New York World the irrepressi-
ble Watson says: "As a grave-digger
for Populism, fusion with Sewall on
the ticket may as well be recognized as
his work, the digger will have the hole
ready by the time the funeral process
sion arrives"
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-10-08

AN inquiry conducted by the Ameri-
can Protective Tariff League discloses
that $50 representative employers of
labor, in So different states, who in 1892
were giving employment to 114,25l
hands, are now employing only 1900.
In 1892 these concerns distributed in
the month of July total sum of So, 927-
900 in wages. In July of this year, after
nearly two years of German Wisconsin
they paid only So, 469, 712. Not only has
the total number of employees decreased
IS per cent, but the average wages of
those who remain at work have suffered
sharp reduction.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-10-08
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

For Superior Judge
[ENRY MCBRIDE, of Mt. Vernon
For Representative
WILLIAM III. THACkER,
of Friday Harbor.
For Clerk
ELIJAH III. NASH,
of Argyle.
For Auditor
ALBERT III. Sitter,
ofShaw Island.
For Prosecuting Attorney
HAWLEY S. KING,
of Friday Harbor.
For County Superintendent
THEODORE L. DYER,
of Friday Harbor.
For Sheriff
NEWTON JONES,
of Friday Harbor.
For Commissioner 1st District
JOHN BUCKLEY,
Of Argyle.
FOR Commissioner 3rd District
WILLIAM GRAHAM,
of Richardson.
For Assessor
OBERLIN L. LOOS,
of Deer Harbor.
For Surveyor
ANSLEM P. VAUGHN,
of West Sound.
For Treasurer
Ebert w. HARRISON,
of East Sound
For Coroner
GEORGE S. WRIGHT,
of Friday Harbor.
For Wreck master
JOHN 3. LANTERMAN,
of Decatur.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-10-08
REPUBLICAN, STATE TICKET.

For Governor
POTTER CHARLES SULLIVAN,
of Pierce
For Lieutenant-G Governor
JOHN w. ARRASM1TH,
of Whitman
For Judge of the Supreme Court.
JOHN p. HO1T,
of King
For Secretary of State
JAMES III. PRICE,
of Pierce
For State Auditor
JOHN f. FROST,
of kittitas
For State Treasurer
J. A. KELLOGG,
of Columbia
For Attorney General
Z. w. ROSS,
of Cowlitz.
For Superintendent Public Instruction
K. L. BRUNTON,
of Walia Walla
gor Commissioner of Public Lands
WILLIAM T. FORREST,
of Lewis
For State Printer
OLIVER c. WHITE,
of Columbia
For Presidential Electors
L. B. ANDREWS,
of King
SOL SMITH,
of Kiickitat
JOHN \. GONNA,
of Pierce
w. K. KENNEDY,
of Adams.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-10-08

IT has come to be an almost unlver-
SALLY recognized principle of justice III
politics in this country that an official
who has honestly, faithfully and Ell
fciently discharged the duties of his
trust for one term is entitled to re-
election. Familiarity with every de-
tail of his duties and closer and more
extended acquaintance with the pe"-
pie whose servant he is adds materially
to his ability to give full "Halne re-
ceivedu to the taxpayers, WHO nav"
to nav the administration OF pHni'c
affairs. The fairness and common
sense of this idea are pretty Senera''v
conceded in this county, where we nc"
have several officials who are candi'
dates for reelection. Among them
are County Auditor A. H. Sitter, whose
duties are such as to demand the
closest attention and the utmost care.
1t is very important the county records
should be correct in every detail, a'a
all who are familiar with the work "a
Mr.. Sitter know that the records OF
his office during his tenn are models
Of neatness and accuracy. lie has
been extremely careful and economical
in his purchases of supplies, and, In
short, has given to the duties OF his
office the same painstaking care ana
attention that a good business man
gives to his personal affairs. He has
been weighed in the balance for
nearly two years and has not been
found wanting in any respect. NO
man in the county ever better merited
the compliment of recollection by
big majority, and that compliment
will undoubtedly be paid him.