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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-11
Sick

and all run down and my health was so
poor could not get out OF doors. was
not able to do anything, being troubled
with asthma and heart disease. was
nervous and could not sleep nights. |
had become completely discouraged when
I happened to read an advertisement OF
Hoods sarsaparilia and concluded to give
It trial. After taking the first bottle
felt better and since taking hve bottles
am SO much improved that i feel like
new man. / am now able to do fair
days work and sleep
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-11

BUFFALO. N. Y.-Blshop Ryan died
here
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-11

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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21
Suit on a Promissory Note

suit OH q Pr0mIss0fy NOte
Judge Mckinley was engaged yesterday
afternoon in hearing the case of b urntelltz
vs.. Duhart, suit to recover on promis-
sorry note for $500, secured by chattel
mortgage on some sheep on pasture in the
mountains.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21
FIRST STREET CUT COMPLETED
The Chain Gang Has at Last Accomplished
Its Job


The First.street cut is at last pra ctically
completed. Chief Glass yesterday gave
out the intelligence that the chainga ng has
finished its labors hacking the huge cash
in the old Fort hill. and will now have to
look elsewhere for something to employ
their time. There is yet day or so to be
spent in the cleaning up generally, but
the street is finished, has been graveled,
sprinkled and is open for traffic.
For over two years work hns been prose-
cuted with more or less diligence in Great
ing an opening to the hills on the west,
and though at times the work has seemed
to progress slowly, yet the constant labor
has done the job.
Up to six months ago much dilatoriness
and delay were experienced from various
causes. The recent spasm of municipal
economy also affected the work, as but
four teams we're allowed, which proved in
sufficient to keep from forty to fifty men
continually employed. For the last six
weeks six teams have been OH duty, the
First-street Improvement company do
mating the use of two, in order to push the
work and in consideration of the extracted
dirt being piled on certain low-lying lots.
This could be done because the city had
absolutely no place to dump it since the
grading of Grand avenue has been finished.
This is another good piece OF work re-
sultant upon the cut. When the job was
commenced Grand avenue from First to
Temple lay in n regular sink hole. All
dirt taken from the cut was placed in
here, and now the street is perfectly
graded between the points namod. After
completing this, there being no other city
work requiring the use of the earth, it was
dumped into the huge hole at Olive street.
The six teams worked steadily and have
accomplished as much in the Past two
months as in any six previously.
The grade of the thoroughfare is as
established by City Engineer Compton,
and is much easier than that on Second
street. A straight cut has been made, en-
cept at the intersection of Hill street. where
an injunction has prevented work and left
a little jog in the walls. The matter will
soon be settled, however, and little work
will be required to straighten out the
street. The chief will make report to
the council notifying them of the compile
ton of the cut and requesting that other
work be provided for his star boarders.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21
The Crack Mnrksmen of the State at the O.
Tournament

The Crack Mnrksmen of the State at the Gun
Tournament
The second semi-annual tournament of
the Los Angeles City Gun club opened
auspiciously yesterday. A fine bevy of
sportsmen consorted at the beautifully sit
uated grounds of the club, about mile
north Of Westlake park. Excellent ar
rangenents had been made for the con-
venience OF visitors, and vehicles to and
from the grounds were in constant transit.
The days sport was carried out with COM
mendable promptness, and the energetic
cecretary, II. b. Tufts, is to be congratu-
lated on his successful management. Tho
greatest good fellowship prevailed through
o.t, and hit or miss was taken with almost
equal good humor. Indeed, no one could
have looked pleasanter than we'll known
local sportsman who only managed to kill
his bird by the merest accident.
The first event commenced shortly after
am. and some twenty-five gunners com.
peted. Amongst them were representa-
tives from almost every quarter of the
state: Messrs. Tanning of Gold Dust fame,
Grubb and Seaver from San francisco;
Tabor from Riverside; Winston, Casey,
Taylor and Frye from Azusa, and Mason
Vaughan, Parker, West and Proud from
Santa Ana. Some of the local marksmen
present were: Messrs. Van Valkeuburg, L.
Ralph, hatfield, Layton, Shank, j. G. Cline
nu0 ips ultbs WLlAo NlT OcudIu, q crack
shot from Denver was distinguished Wis.,
itor. Young Mason of Santa Ana started
off in great form, capturing theI first two
sweeps without a miss. 1t was not till the
twenty-eight blue rock leaped from the
trap opposite him that he missed. The
third event went to Tanning with 20
straight. The fourth, 10 singles, was
posted between Mason, Tabor, Sedan and
Van Valkenberg, each killing all his birds.
The next event was the championship for
the E. G.. Smokeless Powder company's
cup, for teams of two, twenty-five birds
per man. Representatives of Santa Ana
carried of the trophy. Vaughn killing "a
BIRDS and Mason 81. A team labeled
North and South was a good second, Fan
ming killing every one of his birds and
Chick laying low is. Tabor % and Pack
ard 10, for riverside, were third. The
sixth event fell to Tanning with another
maximum score. The Denver man,
Sedan, showed up finely in the next shoot,
grassing "a out of 20 birds. DR.. Tabor
was second with %. The eighth sweep
was divided between Matficld and Chick,
each killing 10 out of 20, and last was
pooled by Bruner, Layton and Van Walk
enberg. each killing all their birds. Dur
ing the day between three and four thou.
Sand cartridges were blazed away. Fan
ing proved the champion of the day and
MAJ son accounted very we'll for himself
with 1913 birds out of $50.
The big event on today's program is the
L. A. City Gun clubs challenge trophy for
Teams of five men each. large entry is
anticipated and a capital days sport as
eured.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21

ed as flrst-class tourist hotel. Should
the rumor prove true, it would bo an i'm.
portant move.
o. L. johnson is at present sojourning
OH Catalina island and coult, not be seen
in regard to the matter. Fred o. johnson
was seen and stated that he could unequiv-
ocally deny that any such deal had taken
or Mr.. johnson. Mr.. Potter had
some time since been offered the
lease, but had refused it. He
had heard the rumor, but there was abso-
lutely no foundation for it.
Inquiry at the Westminster last night for
Mr.. Potter developed the fact that he had
retired, and an absolute refusal to disturb
him was given. Here also the matter had
been heard spoken of, but nothing definite
was known. Where there is much smoke
there must be a little fire. and the report of
the leasing of the property to Messrs. Pot
tee and johnson doubtless arose from the
offer made to Mr.. Potter. which was subse-
uuently refused.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21
THE RUMOR DENIED
Messrs. Potter and johnson VIII Stick BY the
Westminster.

For several days persistent rumor has
been in circulation that Messrs. Potter &
Johnson, present proprietors of the Vest
minister hotel, had closed q deal with I. N.
VanNuys, leasing from that gentleman for
term df years the building now being
e'acted at the northwest corner of Main
e1d Fourth streets, to be by them conduct
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21
The Groves Met

The Druids had pleasant time on Thurs
day evening. Members of the Mazzini,
Morton and Los Angeles groves met in
Druids' hall. Downey block, and there re-
ceived a visit from the high dignitaries of
the Los Angeles branch of the United An
cient Order of Druids. Noble Grand Arch
.. ii. Hoag, Grand Secretary j. ]. Mollson
and Past Arch L. Lewis of Pleasanton
grove. After the work was over the l2O
Druids repaired to the Poodle Dog restau-
rant and enjoyed banquet. The feast
was presided over by Past Arch F. Sessma.
Our Order was responded to by Noble
Grand Arch 0. H. Hoag; Our Sister Groves,
Gent Druidism, Past Arch r. Lswis. Re-
marks were made by District Deputy
Grand Arch F. Fallandy and Past Arch f.
Hickman.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21
AN "OLD CLO" MAN
His Speciality Was for Handling Second
Hand Garments

His Speciality Was for Handling Second
Hand Garments
On the police blotter stands the name of
John Ross, and against it the statement
that he is booked OH suspicion. For some
time past petty burglaries in great number
have been reported to the police, and in
Ross the detectives think they have the
perpetrator. He was arrested by Officer
Henderson at Also and Alameda streets
on orders from Detectives Hawley and
Auble, who have been working on the case
for some time. When taken in Ross had
on a stolen pair of trousers and a great
deal of plumber he had disposed of has
been recovered. His specially seems to
have been clothing of all descriptions,
both ladies and gentlemens'.
Several burgiaries have been traced to
him, and today complaint will be filed
alleging the robbing of "a Fifth street resi-
dence some days ago. Detective Steele
has recovered from secondhand stores
numerous articles pawned by Ross, the
owners of which are now being looked up.
The name given. by the prisoner is UNI
doubtedly fictitious and the officers believe
him to be an old offender who has a record,
and this they are looking up.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21

Highest government authority pro-
nounces DR.. Prices by far the best.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21
A FINE DAYS SPORT

Hundreds have tried but mono have
equaled DR.. Prices Baking Powder
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21
Rich
Red Blood

Is the Foundation Of The Wonder ful Cures
by Hoods Sarsaparilla.
That is Why the cures by Hoods Sar-
saparilla are CURES.
That is Why Hoods Sarsapariila cures
the severest cases Of Scrofula, Salt Rheum
and other blood diseases.
That is Why it overcomes That Tired
Feeling, strengthens the nerves, gives
energy in. place of exhaustion.
That is Why the sales of Hoods Sar-
saparilla have increased year after year,
until it now requires for it's production
the largest laboratory n the world.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21
Want to Buy q House

We have buyer for cottage in Boyle
Heights or East Los Angeles who will
make moderate cash payment and balance
monthly with interest, and will pay all
taxes and insurance. They want place
of four or five rooms, and it must be sold
at reasonable figure-that is, fair price.
Call or address Langworthy Co., lawyers,
226 South Spring street.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21

The following marriage license was
issued by the county clerk yesterday:
Benjamin Franklin Shepherd, a native
of California, aged 20 years and resident
of Fresno, and Mary Rookie Bin Bowler, a
native of Illinois, aged 81 years and O
resident of Los Angeles.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21

The finest wedding invitations or announce.
ments either printed or engraved, at reason
able prices. furnished by II. NJ. Lee & Bro. lao
N. Spring st.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21

Santa Monica and Return so Cents
Via Santa Fe Saturday and Sunday. Trains
leave La Grande station at 7:1O am, 10
am, 5 :06 pm.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21

Mena Fountain used foul language on
Alameda street last evening and raised a
general disturbance. She was placed in
the police station but afterward released
on $40 bail,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-21

Over 100 Odd Fellows will 60 to Santa
Monica this afternoon to establish an en-
campment branch of the lodge at that
place. /. ID. Mcneil, ID. d. G. p, will init
ate the new officers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-04

that the Mahdist capital has become
thronged with men who were once rails
ing dates and millet In the cases of the
FAR desert, with the natural result that
food in the Soudan has fuctuated in
prices greatly during the last few years.
At times they have risen to literal famine
rates, and then the bodies of people who
have died of starvation were as common
in Omdurman itsslf, not to speak of the
deserted villages of the interior, as ever
they were In the most disastrous pesti-
lences of the Middle Ages
No ons knows what the population of
the Soudan may now be, but 1T is not
doubted that it has decreased so, 60, posi-
bly, even rs per cent, within two decades !;
but, though less in absolute size, it is far
more concentrated, SO that thu Khalifa
still has at his command great armies of
resolute men, bound to him not less by
interest than By religious fervor; for,
while he has meroilessly ohastised every
clan that he has even suspected Of medi-
tsting revolt, he has loaded with rewards
the strong military tribes upon Whose de-
votion his empire rests. And about his
lowwalled palace. in the heart OF
Omdurman, he has drawn as a safeguard
against attack or assassination many
thousands of desert warriors.
: Thus the BKhalifa is strong, but his
strength is of theGsort that would yield
readily to a determined attack. The
fanatieism of the followers of the Mahdi
himself when, fifteen years ago, they
hurled Etheir naked bodies against the
lines of the welldrilled soldiery has de-
olined with the discovery that the prom
ised victory over all the world has not
come to pass. There is discomfort, too,
among the triDesmen whom the KhaIifa
has turned from their homes; among the
river boatmen whose daehabeias he has
contisoated under the name OF taxation;
among the merchants of the Arab race,
whose former business along the great
caravan lines leading from Khartoum to
Assouan, Kassala. Lower Egypt, and the
Red Sea he has almost entirely destroyed.
Disaffection reaches it's height in the dis
tant armies which, from Dongola. the
northern province of the dervishes, con-
front the Egyptian advance at Wady
Halfa. These tribes are charged quite as
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-04

Italians and the Abyssinians, make con
quest Of the So1danese if Europe would
but hold its hand and let the game be
played out. II there were no peace be-
tween Italy and Abyssiania, the former
would at least be assisted to hold Kassala
against the Mahdists by diversion of
their forces to meet attacks from other
directions.
The only difficulty in the way is that
Egypt, although nominally an indepen-
dent power, Is practically the ward of
Great Britain, which is committed to
temporary occupation of the country for
the Khedives good, and is striving as
usual to find excuses for making that
occupation permanent France, which
by Withdrawing from the joint military
occu patton of Egypt, foolishly left Great
Britain in command, has never recon-
ciled herself to the logical consequences
of her own act, and is accustomed to look
with suspicion upon any plan with re-
speot to Egypt which involves the extern
sion OF her power and possessions.
But the friendship of Russia for the
attack upon the Soudanese, reconcile
France to Anglo Egyptian advance from
the north, if Salisbury scan suggest any
other corresponding advantage for France
Perhaps he has already suggested such
compensation in Siam. Far more likely
he has suggested it in Africa itself
When the Mahdist pie is cut. there may
be a slice to add to the greatssNiger possess
sions Of the Gallo republic.
There can be no doubt, political con-
siderations aside, that the interest of the
Soudanese and of Egypt itself are closely
bound up with the reoccupation of the
equatorial territory by the Christian
powers. Up to date the question has
been one of religion and of government.
1t will become question of livelihood
itself. The Nile has been called the
father Of Egypt, but its waters are limit
ed in quantity. Away in Central Africa
about the head waters of the Nile and
of that river, the Italian colonies from the
east and French colonies from tho west
may one day seek to divert the upper
waters Of the river from Egyptian use TO
such an extent as to cause in the Nile
valley such disputes over the:ownership of
the water necessary to redeem the desert
as have occurred on q small scale in some
of our own Western States.
Even if the two, three, or four parties
which are contemplating the conquest of
Soudan succeed in winning that country
and dividing it between them, thus re-
storing to Egypt its lost provinces and
even if the Jealousy of France is placated
for the time, there may still be plenty of
occasion for fighting over the disposition
of the waters of the Nile basin,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-04

cussed save with reference to these.
Roughly speaking, the Mahdists, or der
wishes, ruls in the heart of Africa terri
tory stretched along "a portion. of the
Lower Nile, and along both branches Of
the Upper Nile, thousand miles from
east to west, thousand miles from north
to south. and inhabited by millions of
have seen great changes, whose preciae
nature, no man in civilization exactly
knows. Whole tribes have been wiped
out by war, famine, and pestilence, and
other tribes have changed through migra-
tions, inspired by religious fesling, the
habitations which had known their fore
fathers for centuries.
Nearly opposite the site of Khartoum
has sprung up with rapidity SURPRISING
the growth of the boom towns of the
West, new city, the capital Of the NAH
al and Of his successor, Omdurman.
Here, where twenty years ago was moth
ing but huddle of tribesmen's huts
marking ferry from the western bank
OF the Nile to the low sand-bar at the
foot of Khartoum, has sprung up town
some three or four miles in extent, walled
against invasion, dotted with the dome
Of mosques, and shining in the clear
Soudaness sun, with the glittering decor
ations Of palaces At the heart of the
town is the new shrine of SCUBA nsse Mo-
hammedism, the burial place where the
late Mahdi was inferred within Eyear
after his great triumph over Chinese
Gordon at Khartoum by his successor,
Khalifa Abdullahi who Is himself still
sometimes mistakenly called the Mahdi,
but whose real title is Muntazer ell Mahdi,
or successor of the Mahdi. The Khalifa
was onesof the four generals of the late
Mahdi, and was by the latter proclaimed
before his death as his successor. He dis
posed of all his rivals and of the relatives
Of the late Mahdi by the usual Oriental
method of slaughter or imprisonment
b lis favorite command, when any of the
tribes of dervishas or hillmen were sus-
pscted of chatting under his authority,
has been to send them orders to come
into Omdurman, and the orders have sell
dom been disobeyed. The result has been
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-04

much with the duty of allowing no one to
leave as of allowing no one to enter the
Soudan, because such has been the mis-
rule Of the kalifa, and the suffering it has
caused. that large proportion of his sub
jects would, if permitted, gladly leave tho
country. For this reason resolute ad-
vance made by the armies Of Egypt might
if they were successful in capturing Dom
COLA, the birthplace of the Mahdi himself,
and now the northern most possession of
the dervishes, it is probable that deser-
lions would be numerous and that whole
tribes of harried desert jewellers would
go over in masses to the Egyptians.
The situation is not what.its was sixteen
years ago. Then the people of the Sou
dan were irritated by the minor mistakes
which the Egyptian officials had made :
now they have an opportunity to soc
how much worse than even imperfect
colonial government is anarchy with a
grant centre of despotic power. with
broken telegraph wires and stranded
steamboats,; with caravan roads, used tor
1000 years in the past, nearly deserted :;
with ruined villages dotting the distant
cases as far as the borders of the Congo
Free State with spies on every hand and
prosperity only a memory in the minds
of the people old enough to recall what
Egyptian rule really was For, although
Egypt did not do all things for the Sou
dan, and, although many of its minor
officials were corrupt and incompetent, it
did do much, and the older Soudaness
must appreciate that fact.
Had the Mahdi lived, it is probable
that the power Of the dervishes might
now be more strongly intrenched, for to
considerable ability the Mahdi added a
reasonable degree of human kindness
For his successor, the Khalifa, no word
of excuse can be uttered; his character,
as it has been painted by Slatin Pasha,
Father Don Joseph Ohrwalder, and one
or two other European prisoners who
have escaped to Cairo, and as it has been
revealed by his wholesale murders, his
shameless private ife, and his lack of or
binary intelligence, is utterly and ire
deemably bid. In order to remove the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-04
EGYPT and THE SOUDAN.
Facts That Read Like a Medieval
Romance.
WILL EUROPEAN NATIONS UNITE
TO WIPE OUT THE DERYISHEs.

The Darkest Dark Continent-Po ssible
Effect of the Friendship of Russia for
MISUNDERSTANDING for the Waters
of the Nile Basin.
If the Mahdi, says writer in the New
York Times, who was by all accounts a
merciful If misguided man, were living
today, he would perhaps repent in bitter
ness that he had ever preached through
out the Soudan the Jehad, or hoy water,
raising those marvellous hosts of fanatical
Fuzzy Wuzzies" which shriveled the
puny armies wherewith the Government
of Egypt bolstered up its power along the
Upper Nile; which fell upon Hicks
Pasha's 10000 men and bIotted them out
In day, and which swept away within
single year all the traces Of that civil
ization which had begun to do so much
for equatorial Africa.
More than fifteen years have passed
since the dominion of the Mahdi in the
Soudan began, and at this late date it is
for the first time rumored. with some
thing like show of authority, that
Egypt, the puppet behind which England
pulls tbs strings, is seriously to advance
for the purpose Of reoonquering the lost
provinces. This re-conquest, sooner or
later, is inevitable the sooner the better
for civilization and the future of Africa,
but whether thespoweri to carry recon-
quest to a successful issue rests with
Egypt is question of the larger politics
which is played in Europe, and is SO en-
tangled with questions of European state
craft that it cannot be intelligently dis
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-04

least excuse which devout Mohammedans
might seize upon to leave the country,
the Khalifa has decreed that it is no long
or the duty of the faithful to make pill
grImages to Mecca, but to the tomb of
the Mahdi, small hexagonal structure,
crowned with dome, which stands in
the hear of Omdurman itself About q
country nearly as large as the United
States east of the Mississippi River the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-04

The two lodges of the A. o. u. W. at
Augusta, have paid out in death premi-
ums during the past two months in this
city $4,000.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-04
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.

Take laxative Bromo Quinine tablets
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c.