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The record-union., 1897-04-30
FLOOD IN KANSAS.

INDEPENDENCE (Kas), April 20
Tonight it is reported that four feet
of water surrounds the depot at Elk
City, and that the Verdigris River has
risen there until the greater part of the
town is inundated Further west the
Caney River is out of its banks be-
tween Peru and Caney, and at Caney
the stream is two miles wide.
The Verdigris River is still rising
slowly at this point.
The record-union., 1897-04-30
Cuban Com missioner.

WASHINGTON, April 29.-The Pres
ident has selected w. j. Calhoun of
Danville. ILL.,, as special Cuban Com
missioner, to make the Investigations
for which Judge Day was originally
chosen.
The record-union., 1897-04-30

One hundred spoonfuls make one
quart.
The record-union., 1897-04-30
Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty.

WASHINGTON, April Ex-senator
Allen of Nebraska to-day introduced
the proposed amendment to the bill
for the abrogation of the Hawaiian
reciprocity treaty, July /. 1898.
The record-union., 1897-04-30

| noon trains were running north, but it
| will be several days yet before the road
| is open south. The approaches to the
new bridge across the Cimarron River
are crumbling away, and passengers to-
| day were transferred by boats. Be
| tween Guthrie and Seward fully six
| miles of track are gone. The Santa
Fe road is refusing shipments of live
stock or perishable freight. Bad wash
outs have also been experienced on the
| Choctow railroad west of Oklahoma
City.
| 1t is still impossible to accurately es-
| innate the loss to property and crops
The damage to property will be in the
neighborhood of 100000. while that
sustained in crops may be several times
| greater.
The receding flood has left an i'm
| mense pile of wreckage at the railroad
| bridge two miles below the city
| Search for the dead was begun at that
point this evening, and when darkness
| put a stop to the work the bodies of
white man and a colored man had been
| recovered. 1t is claimed that several
other bodies have been sighted in the
debris there.
! An attempt was made to poll the resi-
dents of West Guthrie this afternoon,
but the count is not considered at all
accurate. 1t shows eighty-two persons
missing, most of them being negroes.
SITUATION AT Ell RENO.
Ell RENO 90. To, April 29.-The food
| of the North Canadian River is falling
almost as rapidly as it rose and to-
night the water has so far receded from
! the bottoms that farmers are returning
| 10 their homes. All bridges have been
swept away, however, and as the high
ways are practically impossible it will
| be some days before ordinary business
can be resumed. There has been no
railroad traffic in or out of this city
since the flood. 1t is believed that gem
orally wheat has been injured by the
| excessive rains but corn will mostly
have to be replanted. Oats and po
tatoes are not hurt, except in places
where the flood washed away the soil.
OKLAHOMA 60. To, April gov
ing to washouts and destruction to
bridges, neither the Santa Fe nor
| Choctaw Railroads have run any mail
trains into or out of this city during
the past sixty hours. Both roads prom
Use to resume traffic on Sunday next.
LEVEES THREATENED
ST. LOUIS (Mo), April 29.-At Han
nibaI, Mo, the gauge to-day registered
| 20 feet 10 inches, the highest stage
reached since 1885 when the levee
broke. Since midnight the river has
! been stationary. About half of South
Hannibal is under water and the streets
are navigable by boats.
1t has been raining here all day, and
the levee cannot stand much more
| pressure.
In the Missouri bottoms a few miles
north of this city farms are submerged
and the people have fled to the hills
| The people on Sny Island ar getting
their stock and goods off as fast as
possible, for the levee may break any
| hour.
| FLOOD IN KANSAS.
| INDEPENDENCE (kas), April 20
Tonight it is reported that four feet
| of water surrounds the depot at Elk
! City, and that the Verdigris River has
risen there until the greater part of the
! town is inundated. Further west the
! Gopay &c of he
The record-union., 1897-04-30

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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30
Native Christians EscaDe.

Mrs. E S. Hume, of Bombay, writes
to the wOman's board of missions at
Boston of the great plague: SIN the
Hindoo burying ground down on
Queens road, DR.. judd, the assistant
coroner, says the papers give not q
fractional part of the facts as to the
plague; that in one burying ground the
day before there had been $50 bodies
brought, and they could not dispose of
them fast enough. In the Mohamme-
dian burying grounds they are laying
four and five bodies in grave, and vet
with all this about US, not a native
Christian has been attacked Eight
Europeans. if not more, have died.
Since the death of little girl in one
of our schools the doctors have ordered
all four of our outside schools closed
Our Christian school, with two board
ing departments, had to be closed
without any prize giving or annual
school exhibition, and those of our
boarders who have homes have been
sent away; The rest are here with US
as usual"
One marked reason for the immunity
by native Christians is that the first
thing done after converting a native is
to teach him how to keep clean.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30
Take Ayers SarsapariIla for the Complexion
BRYAN Before the Texas.SoIons.

W. j. Bryan visited the Texas Legs.
lature and business was suspended,
while he made speech characteristic
of his last campaign.
Ho took occasion to say that he
noted with pride, tt a. Texas was in
the lead in the matter of laws to regu-
late corporations, which were doing
this country great harm. He stated
that in his state and in others for the
past twelve months. corporations
stepped out OF chartered rights, and
into politics and he favored the enact
ment of law prohi biting corporations
from contributing to a campaign fund.
He said that while refOrmers were al
ways called enemies of government the
time would show that they were right.
and that he desired to encourage them
in their worthy fight against the
wicked corporations.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30
HITS THE NAIL ON THE HEAD.
Rev. Peters on the Waste of Riches and
Excessive Display.

Excessive Display.
In. his strong discourse Sunday night
in the Blooni lgda1e r formed church,
New York, Rev. Madison G. Peters
had the following to say which will be
read with advantage in Ell Paso as well
as elsewhere.
Nero, Verus and Helloga balus, ex-
pended from S240, 900 to $500, 900 on a
single banquet. Mr.. Gavius Apicius,
after squandering 100000 in the
pleasures of the table, took poison
because, having only S400,000 left. he
saw starvation staring him in the face.
Saneca is said to have had five hun
dred tables, each of which was worth
from s40,0 to $4,000. And while
on the laborer lived upon S44 a year
and the slave upon 10 cents day."
I'm all seriousness, 1 ask, are we not
falling back into the reckless and SEN
sual prodigalities of heathenism? Ex-
pendltures on balls, banquets and
Indecent entertainments are growing
ulgarly lavish and ostentations, while
tens of thousands of our .citizens are
clothed IN rags, shivering in the cold,
crying for food. In our ostentatious
display of wealth, in the gradual Gull
tivation of caste and the ever widening
cnasm between the rich and the poor, l
see peril to the republic.
WAS 1t not luxurious ease and vul-
gar extravaganza consequent upon vast
wealth that led to the downfall of
Rome? L do not proclaim against
wealth: L leave that to the envious An
archist. But L speak as preacher of
the Gospel and declare that you are
only stewards and that money must be
rightly used, and not used for vulgar
display. 1t must be used for love to
our fellow man."
"Riches disjOined from the proper
sympathy of man with man are deadly
and mischievous. Money held for sell
fish purposes or spent in tawdry dis
play not only sutfOcates men, but tempts
others to live in a style beyond their
financial ability. 1t makes the multi
tudes restless, credulous against soci-
ETY., against their more fortunate neigh
bors and against God. That man can
do as he pleases with his money is the
eternal falsehood which mothers all
our woes. Sacrifice and not selfishness
is life's law. The life which is not
self-sacrifce in the service of others is
an immoral life. Our men and women
of wealth can solve our social problems
by the right use of wealth, as many do
nOw,';
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

ing. Tobacco is used in many differ
ent forms to satisfy the taste. and fancy
of the multitude who love the weed.
Some people like pipe, some like a
cigar, while others like a cigarette.
Some men like a strong pipe while
others can't even bear the smell of a
pipe that is saturated with the least bit
of nicotine. Some people like strong
cigar while others want a mild one.
Some do not smoke more than half of a
cigar while others smoke it as close as
possible, claiming that when the cigar
is short it has a better flavor. 1t is the
same with cigarette smokers, many
differ in their tastes and there are
enough brands made to suit the tastes
of all. When a person becomes accus-
toned to one certain brand they do not
like another, which goes to show that
there is some difference in the manu-
featuring of cigarettes, even if they do
look just the same. Some of the CT
garettes are made of pure tobacco,
while Others are ''doctored" and con-
tain considerable opium and when once
the habit of smoking cigarettes con-
tanning opium is acquired it is very
hard to break away from. There are
Turkish and Egyptian cigarettes that
contain 80 per cent opium. Not many
of them are found in Ell Paso. but they
can be obtained in some places. These
cigarettes are used mostly at home and
I
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

so, and while [ am not very we'll in
formed on the subject, l believe that
the larger part of the tobacco used
comes from Mexico. The better grade
of Mexican tobacco is only of recent
growth, but it is improving in grade
yearly, and now that the Cuban crop
of tobacco is entirely cut off there has
become great demand for Mexican
| tobacco and l am inclined to the be lief
| that the Mexican weed has come to
stay, even after the Cuban war is over.
Mexican tobacco has always been used
as filler, but it did not make good
wrapper heretofore on account of its
color 1t is darker than the Bahia de
A baj % tobacco of Cuba and the result
is that a Colorado Claro' made OF
Mexican tobacco is as dark as on 'Oscu-
ro' made of Cuban tobacco. The
planters of Mexico are, however, TAX
ing advantage of the war in Cuba and
are improving the grade so that their
tobacco will soon meet all the require
ments of trade.
The Mexican cigarette is made pure
ly OF tobacco and paper specially pre-
pared for that purpose. There is no
opinion in Mexican cigarettes, but
sometimes the tobacco is highly per-
fumed and impregnates the air with a
delicious aroma that is pleasant even to
the nostrils of those who do not use the
weed. | could recommend severa! diff
ferent' brands of cigars and cigarettes
to the public because am an inseter-
ate smoker, but | do not propose to
turn the reading matter of the HERALD
into an advertisement. At some other
time l will tell you more of tobacco
and the smoker"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

WE thought the Tribune had cast it's
fortune for the future with the republi-
can party, and were much surprised to
read its observation that 1.-THE city will
never return to cash basis until a
democratic administration is elected. {"
or course the Tribune is for sound
money, but it onght not to require
a great stretch of memory to recall the
extrsvagances of past democratic ad-
ministrations that have made it impos-
sible for this republican administra-
tion to pay cash.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30
DaunfIess Landed Her Cargo.

Word has been received by the
Cuban leaders iu Washington that the
last expedition, the one originally car
ried by the Three Friends and finally
taken from Florida key by the steam
er Dauntless, reached its second desti-
nation. The news causes considerable
rejoicing among the friends of Cuba.
The expedition consisted of forty-six
men, 1900 Remington rifles with Mauser
block, 100 machetes, 500, 900 Mauser
cartridges 10000 revolver cartridges,
one Hotchkiss l2-pounder, 100 shrapneI
shells and quantity of dynamite
chemicals and medicines.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

are X Z II Z 1 u L y
smoked after one
ha as retired. AT
first they sooth the
smoker into a de-
lightful sleep. but
after a while one
becomes q fiend to
their use and can
not sleep without
them, and often
wakes up during
the night in a hor-
rible night mare
and is unaElo to
sleep again unless
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

IT now seems that the reason General
Weyler expelled all the gamblers from
Havana was that a Spanish captain,
who was cashier of his regiment, and
who was entrusted with $1,000 with
which TO purchase provisions for the
army, lost every dollar of the money in
a gambling house. Weyler won't do a
thing to him.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

MEXICO has just let a contract to an
American firm to make a deep water
harbor at Nazatlan, at an estimated
cost of between SIS, 900. 900 and SIS, OOO,-
900. The contract for the improve
ment of the harbor of Vera Cruz
involves the sum of $40, 900. 900.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

WHILE all the civilized states ard
nations were Fastening the passage OF
laws to prohibit prize fighting. the
"Rotten Borough" of Nevada jumped
in and passed law especially to en-
courage that particular species of bru-
tality.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

W. II. WHEELOCK tru:hfully says
thought the Associated Press: "Offi-
cial morality in Nevada is of differ
emit type than in Texas Or Arkansas.
That is something to be proud off.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

not good to
smoke, but q
good cigar
can be had
for a nickel
andthere are
more smok-
ers of nickel
cigars than
any other
class.
There are
large num-
Der cigars
nnanufactur-
ed in Ell Pa
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

The extra session of congress, to be
called by President Mckinley for
March 10th, will not consider any other
measure than revenue bill. The bill
will be ready when congress meets, and
the lower house will perfect and put it
through and send it to the senate with
in thirty DAYS.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

SIR JOHN GoRST, head of the educa-
tional department OF England, in a
recent public speech, declared that sat
birth there as not much difference
between a baby and a monkey" and
that the monkey has the advantage.
For this he has been taken to task in
all parts of the kingdom.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

WHEN application was recently made
to Federal Judge Grosscup, of Chicago,
for receiver for the Harrison Interna-
tional Telephone company, the judge
looked into the matter and remarked
to the petitioners attorney: "This
corporation seems to have been 6oaUing
on a wind capital of $50, OOO,O 900. 1t is
not as solid as water
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

THE Rothschild are not only inspect
ing, purchasing and equipping gold
mines in all the mineral regions of the
United States and British America, but
experts and practical prospectors are
securing Mexico and Chile in search
GOLD
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

THE San Francisco Chronicle thinks
that the bill collector who takes in
hand Uncle Sans $4,000, 900 claim
against Spain will have earned his
commission by the time he finds his
debtor at home.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

THE venerable Joe Jefferson, the
veteran actor, has volunteered his SER
vices for an entertainment to be given
in New Orleans for the benefit of the
widows and orphans of Cuban patriots.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

1T is now stated that Senator Sher-
man has recommended to Governor
Bushnell, Of Ohio, the appointment OF
Hon. Mark A. Hanna as his (Sher-
senate
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

one of the little tobacco and opium rolls
Is procur ed. A smoker of these Gig
arettes soon becomes addicted to the OPP
Jun habit. But L am diverging from
my subject.
Il think cigars the best form to use
tobacco. Of course an old stinker is
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

WHEREAS, letters OF administration uron
w the estate OF Al ce ABBOTT. deceased
were grant ed to the undersigned;by the COun-
ty court of Ell PasO county, Texas, on the 3rd
day of October A d. 1896 all persons holding
claims against sa' d estate are requested o
present the same within the time prescribed
by law.
My residence is a FL Paso and my post
Office address is Ell PasO, Texas
HORACE B STEVENS,
Administrator of Estate of Alice Abbott,
Deceased,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

AT the recent New Orleans conven-
tion of the bishops of the A. M. E.
church the fact was brought out that
they have 100000 church members,
$1,000 local preachers, $4,000 class
leaders, $500 stewards and 1850 sex
toms
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

AT Providence, R. l., an electric
ship Is being built with fourteen pro-
pellers, which, it is claimed will drive
her across the Atlantic in three days.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

Easy to take-Dr. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets. Smallest, easiest, cheapest,
best. They're tiny, sugar-coated, anti
bilious granules, compound of refined
and concentrated vegetable extrscts
Without disturbance or trouble, con-
stipation, indigestion, bilious attacks,
sick and bilious headaches and
all arrangements of the liver
stomach, and bowels are prevented, re-
lieved and cured. Permanently cured,
too. By their mild and natural action,
these little Pellets lead the system into
natural ways again. Their influence
lasts.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30
THE WEEKLY HERALD.

A large eight page paper giving the
local events of the week, published
every Saturday. Just the paper to
send friends for information regard
ing FL Faso. Price So. 90 per year
six months 81 90.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

For pain in the chest a piece of
flannel dampened with Cham berlain' s
Pain Balm and bound on over the seat
of the pain, and another on the back
between the shoulders, will afford
prompt relief. This is especially val
liable in cases where the pain is caused
by cold and there is a tendency
toward pneumonia. For sale by all
druggists.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

THE Texas senate has before it a bill
to locate 100, 900 acres of land for the
endowment of a university for colored
Youths.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

The motion for re-hearing in the
Borrego case was denied by the L. S.
supreme court, at Santa Fe, and the
mandate is now or its way from Wash
ington. The territorial supreme court
meets on Monday, and it will fix the
day of execution.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

THIRTEEN state legislatures are now
in full blast in this country.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

u.l..aa Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
crs of Ei Sxso.
Meets every Sunday at 10 a. M at LABOR
hal. VISITING mem oers welcome.
GED " hIDENREOk, Rec. and Sec
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30
FOresJers of AmeriC
Fire Department
G.. A. r.

Emmett Crawford Post. No. ie, @. a. r.
Meets 1st So nday of each month at 80 D M
Hall on San Antonio s5rees. All comraiesl IN
good standing invit ed to Wait the post
GEO. NJ. @cCONAUGHEY, Commander
r. i, TUSTEN, Ad1utant.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

BOOK AND JOB PRINTING.
THE HERALD is fully prepared to do all
inds of plain and fancy Job printing in all
promptly DONE
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30
ADVERTISING RATES.

Rates of advertising in the Daily or weekly
edition made known on application at the
publication office. Or ring up telephone num-
Der 115, and a representative of the business
department win call and quote prices ana
Contract for space.
Locals 10 cents per line in every instance
for first insertion, and cents per line for each
additional insertion.
Legal notices of every description 81 per
nch each insertion.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30
Mexican Central Railway

NhSNiCd1 SeIlETdi
Is the only standard gauge line be-
tween the United States border and
Mexico City.
Mexico is known as an all the year
round tourist resort for pleasure travel.
Health resorts and mineral springs ad-
apted to all the various ills to which
human flesh is heir ARE found in the
great country. Climate unsurpassed.
For full particular address.
J. F. DONOHOE.
COm'l. Agent FL PasO, Texas.
Via Santa Fee Route.
Round trip rates to Las Vegas Hot
springs at all times, as well as to the
seaside resorts on the Pacific coast.
Full information cheerfully furnished
upon application to.
E. COPELAND,
General Agent
Mining location notices for sale at
he HERALD job office.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30
8, p, Q, G
a. o. v. w

a. Q, v. W.
Meets in G. A. R. hall on the first and
third Tuesdays in each month. Visiting
brothers cordially invited.
FRKD WIDMAN. NJ, W,
G. O. KEIFER Recorder.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30
woodnen OF tho Woris,

Hoodmen of ths Wcria.
TorniIlo Damp. No. AZ.
Meets every second and fourth Tuesday
esch month at uheir forest, Il. A. &. hall, D.
~ sharp. Soyereigns 2Gd strangers cordially
invited, q. h. HALM, Commander.
TERkY PEAkUE, Clerk,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30
Miscellaneous
knishts of Honor.

Meets second and fourth Thursdays of each
nonnth at ODD Fellows ball. Visiting brothers
&C rG1ally invited. D.
E.A. SHELTON, Reporter.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30

ri Paso CommanderY. No. ID, x. T.
Meets fourth Wednesday of each month at
Masonic hall. Visiting Sir knights ceTo1aiy
IN vibed. GEO b. IILTOS, d. "
w, E. RACE, Recorder.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30
Masonic.

Ell Paso Chapter, No. 1877. r. A. Nj.
Meets the second Wednesday OF each month
at Masonic hall. Visiting companions coz
daily invited GEO +. TILrON ID. 2.
A. kAPLAN, Secretary.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-30
Via Santa Fee Route.
Estate of Alice Abbott, Deceased.

Mining location notices for sale at
he HERALD job office.