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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-22

even it's commanding
position. fitting itpre-
eminently for a trade
center, and the I'M
bounded wealth of the
resourceful tributary
country might have
failed in their natural
mi 5 son h a d n OF t h e
city's destinies, been
in the hands of self-re-
liant. ent erpri 5 / n g
and far-seeing men.
For Ell Paso is a self
made city, and the
sameinterest attaches
to its growth in popu-
lat ion. ealt h an d
commercial strength.
that is inse para Bile
from the careers of
Self-m Il de m en-. f |
PaSo $50 named from
two Spa n i 5 h word 5
meaning The Pass"
is situat d in the eX-
IRENE western part of
the state of Texas. in
ElPaso county. which
j 5 boun d e d on t h e
north by New Next
co. on the west by
the state of Chihua-
hua. Mexico. the Rio
Grande constituting
the boundry. In 1927.
Don Juan Maria Pom
ce de Leon. an inhab-
liant of Pa-o del Nor
tie. made an applica-
ton to his govern
ment for a grant of
land on which FL Pa
so. Texas, is now sit
uated this was then
Mexican territory.
The application was
granted and thus was
the first settlement
of Ell asO beg gan.
Brigadier General
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-22
A GREAT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

y
Negotiations for the construction of Il
great international storage dam across
the Rio Grande at or near FL Paso. for
the irrigation of the fertile valley on
both sides of the river and stretching
away to the southeast from FL Paso and
JuareZ for n distance of sixty miles, were
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-22

the great eastern cit
les. One of the great
conveniences of the
city and one that Is
entitle d t 20 special
mention in this re-
view is the FL Paso
Gas. Electric Eight
and Power Co. This
enterprise was organ
lied - nd incOrporat ted
in 1888. The equip
ment is perfect in ev-
cry detail. and amply
provides for the re-
quir e m e n is Of t h e
city. The plants COW
ers four acre OF
ground and the build
ings are massive brick
and stone structures,
connected with the
railroads by private
switches. The mec-
hanical equipment is
perfect and composed
of the most modern
and best improved ell
ectrical machinery.
| Some fifteen expert
enced men are emplO-
we'd around the build
ings. The officers of
t h e com ny ar e
among the lnoe1 es-
teemed business men,
and to their enter
prise. the city owes a
most complete anu
serviceable lighting
plant. They ar e:
Messrs j. J. Gordon,
president;Z White,
vice president; Jos.
Magoffin, treasurer,
and a. Larmour, sec
rotary. These gentle
men with the eXcep-
ton of Mr.. Gordon,
who resides in Gin
innati. arce we'll
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-22

is an opportunity to get it, if the prop
o-itions of the Sierra Madre Construc-
ton Co. are received in the right
spirit.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-22
Ell PAsO GAS, ELECTRIC LIGHT AND
POWER co.

Ell Paso. in culture and refinement,
is the equal of any city in the United
States. Here will be found the high
est marks of civilization and all the
convenience, and facilities of these
modern times. Although situst ted SO
far to the southwest and possessing d
compars lively small population, Ell
Paso possesses all the advant- ges of
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-22

the line. and in prospecting, testing
and determining the extent and pros
pective value of the agricultural, graz
, ing, timber and mineral resources OF
the country to be opened.
This road, locally known as the
White Oaks railroad, but incorporated
rs the Ell Paso & Northeastern, will not
only give Ell Paso cheap coal, through
the competition of the White Oaks
fields, $50 miles distant. with those
along the Santa Fe railroad in northern
New Mexico and Colorado, but it will
supply the city with cheap lumber from
the forests of the Sacramento mount
aims, 20 miles distant, and furnish
transportation for a very extensive
mineral region rich in gold, silver.
copper, lead, coal, gypsum, soda and
salt. Moreover, it will no doubt be
pushed on, as speedily as possible. to
Washburn. in the Panhandle of Texas,
where it will cross the Fort Worth &
Denver road and form a junction with
the Southern Kansas & Panhandle, or
Frisco line, thus forming an air line to
ST. Louis, Chicago and New York 264
miles shorter than any other line in
existence, besides giving Ell PasO the
benefit of a short competing line to
Denver and Kansas City.
The building of the White Oaks rail-
road will open up the rich and numer-
Gus gold mines of Black Mountain and
the Jarillas, each within fifty miles of
the city; the great silver-lead mines of
the San Andres, sixty miles, and the
numerous and large copper veins few
miles further north. Thirty-five miles
north from Ell Paso that road will skirt
large fields of fine marble, mountains of
the finest, milk-white sandstone, and
huge ridges of oolitic limestone, from
which the best hydraulic cement is
made.
In word, Ell Paso is surrounded on
every side by but partially developed
resources and brill mt prospects such
AS few cities in the world enjoy, and all
the indications are that the time is
close at hand when she will take leap
forward, both in wealth and population,
such as few cities have ever taken.
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Turl.lsh rrame In slaves.

Slave dea ing in Constantinople, as
we know, always exists, and the WIFI
of pasha is not above the wretched
business. Richard Davey, Ia as book,
"The Sultan and His Subjects, " says;
"A good deal of Turkish traffic in
slaves is conducted in the following
manner on very well conceived COM
mercial principles: The wife of a pasta,
as a matter of speculation, purchases
two or three little girls for a trifle,
either from slave dealer or some pc /
woman, generally a Christian, possibly
a Bulgarian refugee who is unable to
bring up her own children. The lady
educates each child, teaches it those 40
complishments which are indispensable
to barem life, such as singing, dancing
and playing on musical instruments,
washing, starching, ironing, embroid-
cry and even little cookery. To this
may be added smattering of some for
eign language and very elementary
knowledge of Turkish caligraphy. When
the child is grown up, if she is hand
some the lady turns her to account
and literally repays herself for her
trouble by selling her at a high figure
to some pasha of her acquaintance
through the medium of one of the wei
known old women whose business il is
to carry out transactions of that sort ~
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d MANDS COMPLETE REST.
President M"Kinle" wiz Not BE Both.
cred During Vacation.

President M"Kinle" wiz Not BE Both
cred During Vacation.
Washington, July 2S.-The presiden-
tial party left here today at noon for
their vacation on the shores of Lake
Champlain. The chief executive desires
to obtain as far as possible a complete
rest from { icial duties during his alb
sence, ard for this reason it is probable
that bus few appointments will be
made during that time. 1t is stated at
the White louise that all papers sent to
the pPesiden, at his summer home will be
mailed to Washington without being
opened. 1t IS the intention that ali pa
pers intended for him shall go through
the chanrel they have heretofore fol-
lowed.
The president, it is said, will hook over
no papers while he is away, and what
ever appointments are made will be an
nounced here. Benjamin F. Montgom-
cry, one of the executive clerks, will
have charge Of affairs at the White
House during Mr.. McKinley's absence.
Vice President Garrett A. Hobart is
at his home in Paterson engrUssed in
business affairs. He leaves with Mrs.
Hobart on Friday for Newport, where
he will be the guest of Lspenard Stewart
for a week From there he will go to
Lake Champlain to join the presidential
party.
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Maine Man Iynched.

Machias, Me, July PA report just
received here from Wyoming states that
John D. Sargent of this place has been
lynched by a mob in the region of Jack
sons Hole The news has created a
profound sensation here, where Sar-
gent was born and has resided until with
in a few years. His father is Henry
Sargent of this place, a prominent cit
tzen and proprietor of the Machias iron
foundry. Leander H. Crane, one of the
leading merchants of this town, is the
father-in-law of the man who is said to
have come to his death in this unto
ward fashion.
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THE UNITED OPINION. FRIDAY MORNING JULY 3d. 1897
LIKE DAYS OF 40.
No Method In Ma iness Of the Throng
Anxious to Go to Elondykes

No Method In Ma lnesS of the ThrOng
Anxious to Go to ElOndykes
San Francisco, July 26.-The desire of
the gold-struck throng to reach the
diggins in the Klondyke district re-
sembles for all the world the craze to
reach California in the days of 40. There
is little or no method in this longing Of
the masses to reach the Eldorado in the
great unknown territory of the north
west.
People who have had no experience in
miningor have undergone none of the
hardships incident to such as will fol-
low trip to the Yukon country, are
clamoring for passage and straining
every nerve to secure funds on which
to make their ip. Many are making
sacrifcesi n order to visit the land that
promises so much.
Every steamship office in the city is
Utterly overrun with people seeking in
formation concerning the Klondyke
country. Those who have the money do
not hesitate to pay for passage, trust
ing in many instances to good luck to
give them food on which to subsist dur
ing the coming winter. The Excelsior,
which leaves on next Wednesday, has
full passenger list, but big bonuses are
being offered every day for a berth on
the vessel
The steamer Umatilla left yesterday
for the north with 290 passengers and
full cargo of provisions She goes to
Port Townsend, where she connects with
the City of Topeka, sailing direct to
Juneau. The owners of the Umatilla
have applied to the inspectors Of hulls
land boilers for permission to carry all
the passengers that the vessels owned
by the company Will hold. The Topeka,
which is scheduled to leave Seattle early
next week has already more passengers
than is permitted by law. The same
Is true of the George w. Elder which is
| scheduled to leave July 30. The people
at Seattle are begging the steamship
officers to provide them with transport
tatiOn.
The steamer Cleveland, chartered as
an extra vessel by the Northwestern
Trading company, sailed late Saturday
night for Seattle, where she will dis
charge part of her cargo and take on sup
plies and passengers for Alaska. About
half of her passenger list from this city
! is booked for Alaska, and she will fill to
the limit, leaving Seattle for the North
1t is probable that she will carry 500
| passengers.
More people are anxious to go to Alaska
and the Yukon country than can pos
sibly be accommodated at the present
time. 1t is believed by many that the
vessels now fitting at San Francisco and
destined for Dawson City by way of st.
Michaels will never reach the former
place. The river begins to freeze about
Sept. 10, and it is not possible for YES
sells leaving San Francisco after August
to reach Dawson City for at least five or
six days after the extreme cold has set
in.
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Grand Army Movement to Preserve Its
sacred Character.

sacred character.
New York, July 2S.-Some members
of the Grand Army of the Republic in
this city are actively engaged in pro-
noting movement for the change of
the observance of Memorial cay from
May 80 to the last Sunday in May. AL
though an act of congress will be neces-
sary to effect the change, the Grand
Army veterans believe it can be brought
about. The subject is to be submitted
to the national encanpment in Buffalo
on Aug. % next If the encampment
acts favorably upon it it is believed that
the change i'll be made.
E. ]. Atkinson, secretary of the me-
mortal committee, said yesterday:
Memorial day is rapidly becoming
one of the enjoyment of outdoor sports,
excursions and picnics. 1t is, in fact,
becoming like an ordinary holiday, and
there is danger that the true meaning
of the day may be lost. There seems
to me TO be an inconsistency in decor
ating graves of a nations dead and
hurrying to bail ground or a horse
race.
AT present services are held in all the
churches on the Sunday preceding Me-
mortal day. BY changing the observ-
ance of the day to Sunday these services
will have an added meaning and the
true purpose Of the day recognized"
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New Alaskan Line.

Seattle, Wash, July 26-The steamers
by Frank Z. Burns to make trips to
Dyea and Skagaway, leaving here July
81 The Rosalie will carry 200 passen-
gers with their freight, while the Edith
Will carry 70 head of horses. 1t is in
tended to have the vessels return in liz
days for another voyage. Should the
business justify, the Resale may be
counted as permanently on the run.
The fares viii be the same as those es-
tablished by the companies now carry
ing passengers to these points.
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Mrs. Gage on Alaska.

Chicago, July 2S.-Mrs. Eli Gage
daughter-in-law of Secretary of the
Treasury Gage, has reached her home in
this city after a 3-months' stay in Alaska
with her husband, who represents the
North American Trading company at
Dawson City. Mrs. Gage says the re-
ports of the rich harvest of gold are not
exaggerated. While admitting that
hardships are to be encountered, she
declares that there is no danger of famine
during the coming winter.
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WARFARE OF CLASSES.
Modern Football Mere Play to Ya1e's Old
Freshman Sophomore Struggle.

Modern Football Mere Play to YaIe's Old
neutrality-suspicious. Struggle.
The organization and development Of
Intercollegiate athletics now absort
much of the energy that used to BIZ
given to the furious internecine warfare
of classes. From time immemorial there
were mighty games of football on the
New Haven green in which whole
classes engaged The freshmen posted
their formal challenge on the bulletin
of lyoeum, and the supercilious accept
ance of the sophomores named the day
for the struggle. Come, " cried The
class of go,
And like sacrifices in their trim
To the fire eyed maid of smoky war,
All hot and bleeding will we offer you
And the Tyrt8us of '59 cheered his
mates with the noble lines:
Let them come on the baseborn crew.
Each soil stained churl-alackl
What gain they but splitter skull,
A sod for their base back
On the bloody day appointed both
sides massed in heavy column with Ma
poleonic tactcis, while the New Haven
fathers surrounded the field. When the
round leather ball was kicked, 200 men
clashed together in frantic, showing,
dusty, roaring chaos, the one side striv.
ing to kick the ball to the Chapel street
fence, she other to force it to the steps
of the statehouse. Swift runners hung
upon the outskirts to seize the bal
chance directed to their feet, and hurry
it amid full gazing applause to the goal
But it was in the middle press where
deeds were uncrowned, where shirts be.
came streamers and rib squeezed rib
until they cracked, that the heroes OF
war and the college bully were to be
found. From this Titanic struggle the
degenerates of today have evolved the
emasculated game which they call foot
ball. wretched sort of parlor pastipo5'
Henry T. Rowland in !6crib-
Qer's
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A Case of suicide.

Boston, July 26-Miss Alice Barrett,
who was reported to have been killed by
lightning on Saturday, committed sui
eide. This startling announcement is
made by the police.
Boston, July Fit seems as if every
hour brings forth new developments in
the death of Miss Barrett last Satur-
day afternoon Her family and later
her employee are almost positive she
was murdered, but even this question
lost some interest when it was as
certained that the cash book of the firm,
which Miss Barrett had kept for two
years, had been burned. The police,
who have BIN hard at work on the case
since it ass ed such phases. are almost
satisfied that Miss Barrett burned the
book before her death.
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Nav Have Reen Andree's Balloon.

Rotterdam. July 2S.-A letter from
from Captain Lehman Of the Dutch
steamer Dordrecht appears in one of the
papers of this city to the effect that he
saw a curious object floating in the
White sea on July II, which was neither
a ship or a dead whale, but resembled
a balloon. and Captain Lehman suggests
that il may have been Andree's balloon
which he saw.
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They do say that every American IS
a born inventor, said the patriotic
gentleman.
MY husband" said the fat lady, is
an exception. He uses the same old eZ-
cuses for being out late that used to
hear my father use. "-Indianapolis
,JOurnal
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Newport VT, JU., -S.-A small row.
boat containing Mrs. J. Fuller, her I
year-old son and her sister, Miss Chill
son, all of Springfield, was capsized in
Lake Memphromagog yesterday after
noon, and while both ladies were rescued,
the boy sank before aid could reach him.
The accident, which was caused by the
ladies trying to change seats occurred
about 500 feet from the shore, and the
cries of all three brought two men to
their aid. Both ladies were very much
exhausted when brought to the shore.
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pOSTERS Printed at short
L notice at this office. y =
q TATE OF VERMONT, : Court of
- Bradford District, S. Insoiy

CTATE OF VERMONT, Court of
- Bradford District, Insolvency
in the matter of the IaCkman Manufacturing Co.,
InSolvent Debtor.
Take notice that petition for adjudication Of
the Insolvency was filed in this court against the
lackman Manufacturing Co. Of Bradford, VT On
the 18th day Of June \. D. 49, at the Probate Of
fee at Thetford IN said district upon which they
have been adjudged insolvcrt debtors and that
a meeting OF their creditors viii be held n me
trict, the 10th day Of August a. D., 1907 at zen
O'Clock a. m, to prove their debts and choose one
or more assignees Of their estate; and that the
payment of any debts and the delivery Of any prop
erty belonging to said debtors. 10 them for their
use, and the transfer of any property by them, are
forbidden by law.
Dated at Thetforf, this goth dav OF July, y. D.
1871. Al 5. VI. GLEASON, Judge.
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NOTICE.

The Taxpayers Of the town of Topshau, V 1.
are hereby notified that have in my hands
for collection the Town, school and High
way Taxes assessed on the Grand List
allowed on all taxes paid within 80 days from
this date, tsaid time expires Oct. 10, l@ll
After the expiration Of said time the balance
If any Will be payable to the Collector Win
costs. EVERETT FORSYTH
Town Treasurer
1,nnshnrr, VI I1lv On Isn-
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Sir James Grant predicts that the
gold output of Canada, especially of
British Columbia, will astonish the
world at no distant date
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turn disturbs the digestion Nothing will
ever completely relieve but radical
cure. The start of so-called female com.
plants " may be a very slight thing indeed.
1t may be that in the beginning some small
hygienic measures would stop the trouble
Certainly at this time, a little bit of II
right medicine would stop it. When t
trouble becomes worse, it is harder to GU.
but still it can be cured DR.. Pierce's +.
vonte Prescription will positively cure any
trouble of this character. 1t may be abso.
lutely relied upon. 1t affords lasting relief
to a woman whose natural modesty has
kent her from consulting physicians
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Boston, July 2S.-The criminal suit
against Mrs. Abbie A. May of West Will
ton. y. H, charged with obtaining $4,000
Of the funds Of Christ Episcopal church
of Cambridge from r. d. Washburn by
false pretences was yesterday nolle
pressed, after a consultation between
the attorneys and Judge Forsaith. The
defendant will not begin suit against the
prosecution
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We are always bored by those whom
we bore La Rochefoucauld.
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Xictoria,s Thanks.

New York, July 26.-Through the Brit
ism consulate here, Queen Victoria has
sent her thanks to all her subjects in
this country who celebrated her Jubilee.
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Topsham. VT, July %. 1897.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-19
THE SILVER HEELS DETAINED.
She Is Denied Clearance Papers be-
cause OF Her Record.

WILMINGTON. n. C., December b.
The schooner Silver Heels. suspected OK
having engaged In filibustering operations,
Is still here. She has discharged her
cargo OF coal and has taken on a cargo
OF lumber. which the captain says ne VIII
take TO Barbados. The vessel finished
loading several days ago, and has been
ready 10 clear, but on account OF her
questionable record has not pesh au'c :"
get clearance papers
To-day United States Pistrict A'torney
C. h. Aycock took the Ss1timony OK the
captain and the crew. s;nich they gave
voluntarily. While Mr.. Aycock refusen
10 make the affidavits public, II Is gene
rally understood that the testimony was
an absolute denial OF having Ia any way
violated the neutrality laws.
II is rumored that F'irst-Mate Alfred
Thompson told a representative or ina
Spanish Government that the silver
Heels transferred q cargo or arms ana
Ammunition to the DauntleSs. but theirs
Is not the slightest reason for believing
that his sworn testimony yesterday diff
fered from that OF the rest or the crew.
Testimony was taken also from me steve
dores who unloaded the coal and loaded
the lumber.
All the information viii. OF course. be
sent 10 headquarters at Washington, and
nending the action that the goyernmeHe
will take. the Silver Heels VIII remain az
this port, though Captain Quinlan ana
his men are chaiing at the delay.
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An EARTHQUAKE SHOCK HERE.
IL Was Heard and Felt in All Parts
of the City Last Night.

A seismic disturbance Of considerable
proportions occurred in this city last
night just before o'clock.
1t was distinctly noticeable everywhere,
but appears to have been more violent
in the eastern part of the city towards
Oakwood in the western limits, and in
the county. It shook houses in the four
quarters Of the city and passed by with
a -umbling noise, which has been likened
by those who heard it to the numbering
Of a heavy wagon.
1t was felt more appreciably in the
large buildings--the City Hall and the
penitentiary, for instance. In the latter
institution it was said that the quake
lasted for several seconds, but the sounds
accompanying it were indistinct.
At Oakwood it was both heard and felt
very distinctly, and numerous enquiries
came 10 the Dispatch from the western
extremities of the city as TO its extent
and effects.
At Bon Air it created quite a sensation,
and reports came from Henrico county
that It had been felt in that direction
also. Absolutely no damage was done as
far as could be learned; it ratified wil-
dows and shattered nerves, and passed
on into history.