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The Mena weekly star., 1897-01-13
NEW YEARS RECEPTION
One Day in the Year When the
 White House Is Crowded.
"reat Muititudes Seek Admission. But Only Few Thousand Can Enter The Official Part of the An
 nual Programme.
Special Washington Letter.

Special Washington Letterl
 The king is dead. Long live the king"
 Not only in royal circles, but in every walk of life we often find that the funeral baked meats do coldly fur nlsh forth the wedding breakfast.
 Thus also, it is with time. Totter- ing away into the niche of history pre- pared for it, the old year trembles and quavers into the oblivion of memory or torgetfulness. The tolling bells scarce conclude their requiem at mid night, when, with magic touch, they change their tune to peals of joyous gladness because of the birth of the new year.
 At the very moment, in the twink hng Of an eye, just as the old year is
The Mena weekly star., 1897-01-13

 cannot enter. but they can see the gor- geously attired diplomats and officers of the army and navy, and they arc sat- isfied with that brilliant display.
 Those who enter the white house lobby can barely discern. beyond the potted plants, the red coats of the Marine band The celebrated musi- cians are screened there in the foliage, ready to take part in the reception when the signal is given. As soon as the leader receives the announcement that the president is approaching, Prof. Fanciulli raises his baton, and to the crash of brass and the sound of flute and horn the president comes down the stairway. It is customary for him to bring down the wife of the vice presi- dent. Mir. Cleveland has violated the custom on several occasions by bring ing down his own wife, and, fortunate ly, the rule on the subject is less rigid than the rule of precedence, for, whom soever the president brings downstairs, his own wife stands at his side when he takes his place in the blue parlor.
 Behind the president and his wife are the secretary of state and his wife, and then the other members of the cabinet, escorting each others wives. The hus- bands lose the order of olficinl prece- dence on this occasion, but their wives maintain it for them. The president first receives the am- l bassadors, ministers and attaches of embassies and legations of the foreign governments. Sir Julian Pauncefote, British ambassador, is the dean of the diplomatic corps, and he is the first recognized by the president, who gives him cordial greeting. The other ann bassadors and lessor diplomats follow in order of their rank and standing here, as to length of service at this cap ital. Sir Julian wears a brilliant mlli- tary uniform. He carries q gorgeous cooked hat in his hand. Behind him come the other members of the corps attired in the gayest of uniforms or silk robes. The Chinese minister and hls attaches keep their little kull caps on their heads, and save when they shake the presidents hand they keep their own hands buried in their flowing sleeves of silk. The Japanese are the French of the orient. They are progress sive, intelligent, ambitious and etrns- ively polite. The Russian minister, with his giant military attache, always attracts attention. 1t is a gorgeons sight to witness this diplomatic corps reception. The reception begins at Il o'clock, but long before that time the supreme court justices have arrived, for they are next in order. Chief Justice Fuller, looking pigmy-like beside the stalwart Harlan or the broad-sht ul- dered Gray, occupies the place of honor. He presents his colleagues to the presi- dent, Justice Field in the van, and they pass down the receiving line and into the red parlor and the east parlor beyond it. A few of the diplomats have gone through the parlors, but most of them have slipped behind the receiving line to greet their friends and wish them happy New Year.
 The senate and house follow the members of the supreme court. And here the regularity of the re-
The Mena weekly star., 1897-01-13
Ouince Roll.

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The Mena weekly star., 1897-01-13

It IS well for man to be alone, when eriting fortune.-Up-to-Date.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-06
County.

Transfers of mining property in the
Nogal, N. NJ, district to energetic min
ing men who have the means to erect
machinery and actively operate prop
critics have brought about great
change in the mining matters in the
mountainous portion of Lincoln county.
The caving in of the Old Abe. and OBJ
stacies to working other good mining
proper ties in the White Oaks district
made in 1896 and the early days of 1897
very dull time in that famous camp,
but the resumption of operations in the
past few weeks has changed all this
and everything now indicates
great prosperity in and around White
Oaks for the rest of the year.
Eastern capitalists have made heavy
Investments in the Salado coal fields
since the first of the year, and the pros
poets for railroad that will give an
outlet, not only for the coal, but for
the products of the farms and ranches,
are very good: in fact this road now
seems Almost certainty. The high
prices for cattle has brought about a
change for the better in this Industry,
and cattlenen are in a position to make
money out of their stock. The wool
and sheep industries are also taking on
new life.
The building of the proposed rail-
rood will open great country full of
valuable resources, aud this section of
New Mexico will become the mos
prosperous of the entire southwest
New Mexican.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-06
THE OHIO DEMOCRATIC PLATTE RM
Its Assertions and Arguments COnsid-
cred and Answered.


| "We are unalterably opposed to
monOmela ism which has locked fast
the prosperity of an industrial people
| in the paralysis of hard times"
The adoption of the free coinage of
| silver at the ratio of Is to l would re-
| suit in true recommendation, with silver
as the money metal. This is proven
by the fact that every country which
has attempted to retain the silver
standard or the concurrent free coin
a1e of both metals at ratio widely
different from the commercial ratio of
the two metals has lost all of it's gold
and retained only silver currency aud
true bimetallism, while other nations
and coming silver on govern
ment account circulate both metals in
large quantities, approaching thus
more nearly to true bin etallism than
those which by the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at ratio widely
different from the commercial ratio of
the two metals obtain only silver mon
metallism. The condition of the peo-
pie of the countries main tanning the
gold standard, or what the trainers of
this platform term gold monOmetal-
lism, is one of vastly greater prosperi-
ty than that of the people of the coun-
tries maintaining the silver standard.
There is more money per capits. better
wages, better homes, more comforts of
life, more education and more general
intelligence among the people of the
gold standard countries than among
those of any of the countries having
the silver standard. Mexico, which is
probably the most prosperous of the
silver standard countries, has total of
S4.95 per capita for its people, the
South American States per capita of
less than So aside from the uncovered !
and deprecated paper, China 1873 the |
Central Amer can States SO sc, while |
Germany has S17.59 per capita, Great !
Britain SPOTS per capita. United States
so 81 per capita, Netherlands S24 25 |
per capita, and France $35.77 per CAPT. |
ia. Recommendations" has indeed |
blocked fast the prosperity of an in
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-06

oil, and small percentage of carbolic
acid. A LAYER two inches thick is plac-
ed in the water, and when the steer
energies from the tank it's body is COM
pletely covered with a thin coating of
the stuff. The solution is said to have
no injurious effect upon the cattle,
while it is deadly to the tick. 1t is
estimated that a thousand cattle can be
dipped in a day, consequently the ex-
pense of the bath per head is very
small item. Some of the experiments al
lists claim that two and even three dips
should be given to make the cure abso-
lutte, and this will be done, should it be
found that single dip does not give
the desired results.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-06

as big gamers as the southern cattle
men.
Southern cattle bring the ticks into
the stock yards, and the bugs imme-
diately attack the northern and middle
west cattle. The insect eats its way
into the blood of the victim, destroying
the red corpuscles. 1t is estimated
that in 1000 pound steer there are
fifty pounds of corpuscles, and SO &C
germs, disseminated by the tick, that
ten pounds of the fifty are frequently
destroyed within twenty-four hours.
The small percentage of deaths
among southern cattle is due to the
fact that from the time the calf is drop
ped inoculation by ticks begins. and 1t
becomes fever proof. 1t passes through
a natural form of vaccination, but the
northern animal not having these pre-
paratory advantages, succumbs to the
ravages of the tick. While it does not
their growth, and if it could be effect
ually squelched it is estimated that
each animal, when placed on the
market, would bring on an average S.
more than the ruling prices for some
years past. To ranch owners who
ma rket five, ten to twenty thousand
head year gain of So per head
amounts to a considera bic sum.
Innumerable means have been tried
for the extinction of the bug, and all
have proven failures, but no " it is be-
lieved that the problem has been solv-
ed by the adoption of chemical bath
for the infected cattle. The expert
ment is now being tried at Fort Worth,
and within a fortnight or so it will be
definitely settled whether it is efficaci-
Gus. IT favorable results are attained,
similar baths will be constructed in all
the large stock yards at the ditferen,
shipping points, including Ell Paso, an
no expense will be spared to crush the
bug for good and all.
The curative process adopted is thai
known as dipping, and was suggested
by the success met with in treating
sheep in California with the sulphur
dip. The dipping tank for cattle con-
sists of a large wooden vat about ter
feet deep and forty feet long, holding
about 5000 gallons. The cattle are
driven in through a narrow chute at
the end of which is trap door balauc
ed over the edge of the vat. Wher
the steer steps upon the trap it swing.
downward with a sudden plunge, com
pletely submerging the animal before
it bsgius to swim toward the cleate
incline on the other side of the tank
The first plunge brings the chemica
| solution into contact with every part o
| the steers body, and so deadly is its eff
| feet upon the fever ticks that they ar,
said to die almost instantly.
! The solution employed is mixtur,
of crude petroleum, or black minera
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-06
Frightful Mess of Philippines.

The following is an extract from a
private letter dated NJ inila, June 9:
Things are in q frightful mess.
Spanish dollars have been introduced
At | per cent less than Mexican. Every
body wants to sell out. Native brokers
are all over the place trying to sell
houses, grounds, horses, carria ges,
furniture, estates, etc, and no buy
ers.
In the sugar provinces the cane
plants are being burned up for lack of
rain.
In the rice provinces locusts are
eating everything up. A few days ago,
about forty miles from Man la, a train
was stopped owing to the immense
mass of lOcuStS on the track.
Fighting is still going GA in several
provinces and the papers here say
nothing about it, which looks bad. The
papers have not even mentioned sim
gle glorious victory.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-06

dustrial people in the paralysis of hard
times" wherever it has been establish
ed by the process proposed by this
platform, viz: the unlimited coinage
of both metals at ratio widely differ
ing from their relative commercial
value.
Gold recommendation is British po-
licy and has brought other nations into
financial servituoe TO LonoOn.''
Ii is also German policy, French
policy, a Belgian policy, an AusJro-
Hungarian policy, Netherlands pO-
Icy, u Danish policy, Russian policy ,
Chilian policy, Peruvian policy, a
japanese policy, and in fact the policy
of the most enlig htened and progress
sive nations the world over. If the
United States were to abandon her
present system and undertake a great
ly enlarged use of silver without the
cooperation of other nations she would
abandon the company of the most in
telligent, enlightened and prosperous
nations of the world and join the ranks
of the weakest and least intelligent ma
tiOns, al of which are Fastening to
adopt the gold standard as rapidly as
possible.
1T is not only unAmerican but
antiAmerican, and it Can be fastened
on the United States only by the stlfilng
of that spirit and love of llbery which
, proclaimed our political Independence
in 1875 and won IN the war of the re-
vOlutiOn.''
The esprit and love of liberty which
proclaimed our independence in 1776'
and which is still strong in the minds
of the people of the United States is
not in favor of reducing the citizens of
this country to the level of poverty,
degradation, ignorance and practical
enslaYement which characterize the
condition of the masses in the few re-
naming silver standard countries of
the world today. The Ouly attempt to
''stide the spirit of love of Ii oerty' ever
made in the United States began in
1861 by the very party and the very
leaders who are now proposing to de-
grade the working people of this coun-
| try to level of those least Intelligent
and prosperous on the face of the
! earth.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-06
Lets 90 to Mexico -

A dispatch from Hermosillo, Mexico,
says the party of California prospect
or- who went into the Yaqui Indian
country two years ago and discovered
rich placer gold on the Baseplilo river,
have secured title to the property
and begun work. Four members of
the party took out $4,000 worth OF
gOlu IN eighteen days. The news of
the big strike reached here this morn
ing aud arrangeme ats are already be-
ing made for big expedition to the
new Ell Dorado. Inc dis5rict is diff
ticult OF access by the mountain route,
DuS can be easily reacue1 from the
coast by going up the Yaqui RIVER by
boat -PrOsDsctOr
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-06
WAR ON THE TICKS.
Their determination Worth S35,OO0,.
600 Year 10 the Cattlemen.

| If certain experiments now II pro
gress prove succs s. full several mil ion:
of dollars will be added to the wealth
of the cattle owners of the south west
ern and middle western states. The
cattlemen of Texas alone would be en-
riched to the tune of $1,000, 600 year
as their cattle would comm nd an To-
creased price amounting to that sum
for toe annual sales. The other south
| western states with large cattle inter
ests would also profit in proportion,
| tie total prospective gain amounting to
SO 600 600 a year.
This neat sum all depends upon the
ability of the government authorities
in killing little bug. Of course,
there is more than one bug to kill; in
fact there are several millions of
them, and they are increasing all the
time. One of them takes up its habi-
tation on fine healthy steer, aud in q
few minutes it divides itself into two
bugs, and in due time these increase
themselves TO tour. The next increase
is eight, followed by sixteen, THU ty-
two, sixty-four, 1913, and SO on indefinite
ly Ut til the once healthy steer lies down
and dies.
1t can readily be seen that q bug of
this kind is a tough customer to deal
with. Ordinary cattlemen refer to it
as the fever tick; learned cattlemen
speak of it as the splenetic fever tick,
and scientists who have wrestled with
it call it the pyrOsOma b:geminum.
But as the plain fever tick it is best
known and most wildly cursed by.
every one who has suffered from its
depre datiOns.
On account of it there are now nine
teen counties in Texas under federal
quarantine. These are Randall, Sir
ling, Glasct ok, Howard, Borden, Lynn,
Lubbock, Cara, Hale. Swisher. Will
barger, Mitchell, Jones, Scurry, Ford,
Fisher, Hardaman, Haskell and Knox.
This quarantine is merely temporary,
and as soon as the conditions improve
it will be lifted by the authorities
The full grown tick is a little les
than third of an inch long, and is
very harmless looking. But though
small and ordinary, it is an effectuai
bar between the vast cattle pastures of
the southern states and the rich grain
fields of the middle and northern
states One result Of the depredations
of this bug is that the middle west is
always short of cattle to feed, while |
the southern states. with an abundance |
IF cattle, cannot develop them to their |
'ull growth.
The Big does not kill the southern |
cattle, but 1T stunts their growth. 1t is |
fatal to cattle raised north of the |
boundary, and if means are found to
exterminate it the middle
vest cattlemen, and particularly the
stock yard owners in this city, Kansas
City and similar central points, will be
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-06
Southern Pacific Excursions.

Commercial Agent Hunt, of the
Southern Pacific, has received tele-
graphic notice of a reduction in excur-
sion rates to California points, i. e.,
Santa Monica, Long Beach, Sau Pedro,
San Bueua Ventura and Santa Barba-
ra. The first excursion to be run
Thursday June 2nd, aud each succeed
ing alternate Thursday during the
summer. Limit for return ninety day s
stop overs west of Cotton. Rate from
Ell Paso $45.
The Southern Pacific announce the
following excursions, round trip rates
The Southern Pacific train leaves Ell
Paso at 80 p. IN. daily, reaching New
Orleans Q195 miles) at 500 a. m. see
ond morning and by taking the close
connecting fast trains east and north
ward at that point passengers reach
Chicago, Cincinnati and Nashville the
following morning and New York early
the second morning.
All year round trip six months limit
tickets on sale to Los Angeles and San
Francisco for $50 and $50 respectively.
The Soutl fern Pacific is the direct
line to California, no change OF cars
being necessary. Train leaves Ell Paso
at 3:35 p. m. daily, reaches Los Angeles
at 9:20 the following evening and San
Francisco at 6:15 p. m. the following
day.
The tickets will allow stop overs in
California both going and coming.
For further particulars, folders, ETC.,
call on:
It. E. HUNT, Comr. Agent.
HARRY TURNER, Ticket Agent.
Offices corner San Antonio and Oregon
streets and passenger depot, Ell Pa
so, Texas.
c. w. BEIN, Traf. Mgr, Houston, Tex.
l.. J. PARKS, Asst. Gen. Psgr. & Tkt.
ACT. Houston, Tex.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-06

mines of the world in 300 years prece
ding that date, as shown by the highes
official authorities.
I'VE demand that the standard silver
dollars shall be full legal tender
equally with gold for all debts, public
and private.
1t is now "a full legal tende:. for all
debts, public and private" except
| where such men as William M.
Stewart, John P. Jones, Arthur S3wali
John P. Altgeld, Johu r. Mclean
| and other silver leaders deprive it of its
full legal tender value by making their
contracts and loans and rents and inter-
est payable by the poor in gold only.
Every one of the 45O, 100000 standard
silver dollars which we now have is a
full legal tender for all debts, public
and private and the party which as
serts even by implication that this is
not the fact intends either. to discredit
those doll ars or to deceive the people,
or both.
eve favor such legislation as will
prevent for the future the demOnetiza-
ton of any kind of legal tender money
by private contract"
An excellent plan, but the fact that
the leaders of the party proposing this
now refuse to follow that plan in their
private affairs, casts a suspicion upon
the good faith of this public assertion.
1--WE are opposed to the policy and
practice of surrendering to the holders
of the obligations of the United States
the option reserved by law to the
government of redeemipg such obiiga-
tions in either silver coin or gold coin. :"
Every holder of Obligations of the
United States can receive his pay for
them in silver if he desires Or in gold
if he desires. If the government were
to insist on paying in one metal to the
exclusion of the other it would i'm
mediately discredit it's obligations and
at the same time injure the standing
of a large share of the money which it
has itself issued and promised by i'm
plication or in words to keep as good
as the best While these obligations
call for payment in ''coin,' that term,
when the acts authorizing the bonds
we're passed. related only to that which
was the equivalent of gold in value and
power. and to attempt to
take advantage of the fact that the
metal OF which a part of this coin is
now made has in the meantime depre-
GATED in value, and force coins Of that
particular class upon the holders of
those obligations would be dishonest
and would lay the government liable.
as it does those who propose it, to the
charge of taking advantage of a tech
nicality to do adishonest and teacher
)us act. 1t would bring upon the
government of the United States, as
It does upon the men who now make it,
honest men the world over.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-06
Navy May Save Money.

Anderson. Ind, dispatch: Judge M
A. Chapman has gone to Washington
to file patent applications and interes
proper government officials in inven
lions by Frank M. Reed, of this city
which have been completed, testet
practically and found to be capable o
revolutionizing the handling of wal
vessels at sea. The inventions carry
out to perfection the idea originated
by Russia in using oil instead of Goa
for fuel for war vessels.
Reeds invention covers a system o.
oil burning which would make it pos.
sible for vessel like the Indiana te
carry enough fuel to last on q trip
around the world. The system is ga.
generation from oil. The gas is geper
ated by an atomizing plan, is smoke
less and capable of tenth more heal
than the Russians get. or 3 per cen1
more heat than the government is now
getting from coal, making it possible
to work up to great speed.
Instead of thirty stokers, which are
now necessary, on great war vessel
one man could handle all of the valves
Another one of the inventions covers a
storage tank that is absolutely bulle,
and shell proof. The cost of the equip
ment is very small, and would be paid
for in q month or so in the saving OF
fuel.