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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
cashier Acnuittad.

CHICAGO, December 23-W. Berry
Erwin. the ex-cashier of the defunct
Globe Savings bank, was this morning g
found not guilty of receiving deposits
when the bank was in an insolvent
conditit n. Erwin is brother of Sara
Louise Erwin, late stenographer fer
Spaulding, the convicted president of
the same bank. Spaulding's alleged
extravagant admira tion for Miss Erwin
was the cause of the banks downfall.
Senator Mason defe nded Erwin.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
The Actors Estate.

LONDON, December 23.-The estate
OF William Terriss, the actor who wac
murdered by Richard Archer, alais
Prince, at the stage door of the
Adelphi theatre on the evening of
December Is, is estimated to be worth
a quarter of million.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
Good Wishes for the PODe

ROME, December % The Pope this
morning gave an audience to
audience to the cardinals who waited
upon his holiness to express their good
wishes for the New Year. The por q
in reply took occasion to again protes
against The relations which existed be-
tween the natican and the Italian gov
ernment, which he said had been
greatly aggravated by the recent anti
clerical circulars issued by the prime
minister of Italy, Marquis Runidi,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
Shot in his Cab.

CITY OF MEXICO, December 23.-
Dennis Easley, a well known member
of the American Colony and a
locomotive engineer on the National,
was shot dead in his cab near Salazar.
No reasons is given for act. The MUIR
derers have not been found.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

The Pullman company will get the
first 500 of l, 600 cars it is building for
the Big Four lines completed this
week, and will then commen nee build
ing 500 cars for the Chesap, axe s. Ohio
N an order for 0OO
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
Lady MillaiS Dead.

lais, the widow of the late Sir John
Millais, an eminent painter and presi-
dent of the Royal Academy, died to-
day from cancer of the throat, the same
disease that caused the death of her
husband. She was divorced fnom Rus
kin years ago.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
Sticks to His Testimony.

CHICAGO, Decent ber 23.-The exam
iration of old Frank Bialk was resumed
in the Luetgert trial this morning.
The defense was una BILE to shake his
story. The queer looking old night
watchman is sticking with marvellous
persistency to the main points in his
earlier recital.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
POstOfice Robbed .

SHERMAN, Texas, December 23.-
The postofice at Collinsville in this
county was robbed Tuesday pight and
also the store of Charles Cliff, where
the postof1ice is located The robbers
blew two safes open with dynamite.
Two thousand dollars was secured in
stamps, money orders and iewelry.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

All kinds of rumors are afloat today
as to what the finance committee will
report TO the city council tonight. One
report is to the effect that the commit
tee will recommend that the volunteer
fire department be done away with and
a paid department be instituted.
Not much credence is put in this re-
port as it is no ways in the line of re-
trenchment
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

Mr.. Tegmire who is being sued by
the city for sequestration, Gays bat as
he and the city each own an undivid-
ed hslf in that Merrill house, he of
fered Judge Kemp to pay half the rent,
v hich offer was not acceDted
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
The Gerrymaudering Bill.

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, December o.
The regular republican apportionmept
bill pas sed the house this morning by q
voc of 81 ye as to 54 nays. Half the
members o! the house s'ood on top
their desks while the demCc. alic mem
bers yelled and hooted.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
Profits in Wheat,

ST. Paul, December 23.-Chas. A.
Pillsbury is reported to has made two
million dollars out of this year. He
bought wheat all the'way from SOC to Is
cents ard sold it at from so to 81 .O2.
Mr.. Pillsbury feels we'll enough over
his recent work to retire from active
business aud has resigned the manage
ment of an English syndicate.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
Rush for KlOnd;ke.

SAN FRENCISCo, December 23.-
Private advices received from Aus
tralia show that there will be great
rush from the colonies to Klondike.
All the pass euger accommodations of
the stesmear Marlposa and Mora is en-
gagged by Klondikers.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
How the Santa Fe Fraud Was Workei

It is now said that the operations
the forRer of Santa Fe mileage bQ
were not extensive. The work -
done by one man. He used some paint
and a fine brush and changed the years
in the punch margin of the cover. II
1886 was punched and the book had
expired, the year just below the punch
would be 1897, j. st below it 1898, etc.
By skillful use of paint he obliterated
the punch. This indicated tho book
was good for 1897, as the fingere show
ing the years along the punch. margin
were made to run regularly.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

A lone. lorn car load of ties arrived
today from the east for the White Oaks
road, which will last about half an
hour, mere flea bite. However,
more are expected Immediately, if not
sooner.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
A CHASTITY Find.

CHICAGO, December 23.-The head
less body of man who hanged him.
self proba bly, u year ago was found in
the woods near Evapson. His head
was found buried in the snow twenty
fe ct from the body.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

the city over $4,000 does not receive all
the attention it ia entitled to, 1t is
generally coated with dust and the ccn-
tents of the engine are frequently neg
lected and are liable to cake and SER
iously injure the engine, SO the
Star
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
Nine Men Drowned.

LONDON, December 23.-Nine stew
edOres were drowned in the Thames
today bv the accidental overturniug of
small boat which was being tOwed by
8 steamer.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

Work has begun on an irrigation en-
terprise up in the Las Animas country
by which 81, 600 acres of flee agricul-
ture and fruit lands will be reclaimed.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
Shot the Constable.

TERRELL, Texas, December %
Henry Cariker justice of the peace,
shot and killed J. D. James,a consta-
bile, on the street yesterday afternoon.
The re has been blood between the pair
for some time. Cariker is under ar
rest
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
Shot his Wife's ParamOur.

ELMIRA, N. Y. December 23.-At 10
O'Clock this morning the jury reported
q verdict acquitting George Orme OF
the murder of James Punzo. Puuzo
had been intimate with Mrs. Orme.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

Nineteen did not arrive this after
noon from the west until after 500 p.
m. owing to q breakdown on the en-
CINE. The east bouui trains waited "a
the S. P. now carrieo through Pullmans
both for New Orleans and st. Louis.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

Hon. w. w. Mills has been confirmed
by the senate and his exequator has
been issued by the Mexican govern
ment and Mrs. Mills will proceed to
Chihuahua as soon as possible.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

George S. Stewart, formerly chief
dispatcher at Torreons has been ap-
poin' ed chief dispatcher at Tucson for
the S. z.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

A $3.50, 900 memorial to the late Bish-
op Phillips Brooks of Boston is to be
erected at Harvard university, in the
shape of q new college building.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

Ex-Agent Stevens of the T. & p. has
been made general agent for the Cor
ralitos road at Casas Grandes, his du-
ties including the superintendency of
terminals.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

The Canadian Pacific railway earn
ings for the week ending December 7
were 1884 900; for the same period last
year, 1881, 900; increase, Sl53,8 800.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
After a Piece of China

ROME, December 23.-At the meet.
ing of the Italian cabinet today it was
decided to send squadron OF war ships
t. the Chinese waters.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

At last accounts "Kid" Hadlock was
making up the lost hour with the Sun
set Limited, aud was to reach this city
on time, at 4:30 p. M, local (mountain)
time.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

William Gordon Prince of Boston.
aged "a, the oldest living Harvard
graduate, has just died.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

It was showing this morning, all
along the line Of the G. II. east of
here.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

The citizens of Tulorosa have sub
scribed 800 towards the erection of
much needed Jail in the town.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

Brakeman Pierce, an employe of the
Las Vegas division, will shortly be
married to young lady residing in Ell
Paso.-Optic.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

ArArkansaw mob recently took q
prisoner awav from q constable, and
in the wrsngle, hanged the officer, by
mistake.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

Caritatures are found among the
sculptured monuments of Thebes,
Egypt, made 1850 years before
Christ.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

The combined Yale and Prin ,t t n
glee, banjo and mandolin clubs i've a
concert tonight in Carnegie hall, Pitts
burg Pa.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

There are 297 $50 workers in the
city of New York, of whom 90 .O75 are
idle against 125,375 idle persons last
year.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

Commissioner Sexton ordered
Chino deported this afternoon.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

Close come ctiops are now being mad 9
between the Southern Pacific and the
Santa Fe at Demipg.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

Eleven daily Papers are now publish
ed at our principal colleges and
universities.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23
Silver Markets.

NEW YORK, December 2S.-Silver
5Ss,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

Princeton has 1865 students this
year, twenty more than last year.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-23

Typewriter paper ct the HERALD Of
Gee.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-07-01
Charges Against Bryan.

Prof l. {. Bateman of Auburn, who
was the candidate of the Peoples party
of Maine for Governor, and who is lead
er Of the Middle of the-road forces in
New England, has made public two inn
portant charges against William J. Bryan.
He says that Populist Congressman
Freeman Knowles of South Dakota, while
on his recent trip to his old home at
Skowhegan, informed prominent citizen
of that town, that Mr.. Bryan's recent gift
of 500 to the Populist National COM
mittee was made with the distinct under
standing that no action against the fusion
should be taken by the Peoples party
before the next national convention.
This Prof. Bateman says, is nothing more
or less than direct bribery.
Bateman also says that Bryan has APP
pended his (Bateman's) name to Senator
Aliens letter of notification given out,
last September. Bateman was Secretary
of the notification committee but did not
sign the letter in question. He says that
Bryan's action in printing his name to the
letter in his new book is an action OF
political forgery.
Bateman is a delegate Of the Middle-of
the road National conference at Nashville,
Tenn, July a. and will bring these mat
tiers before that body.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-07-01
ENGLISH OR BRICK SPAWN

alent TO the seeds of higher plants. But
raising mushrooms from spores or seed
is natures business In artificial cult
walton they are never grown in this
way, but instead are prOpaRated from
pieces of living spawn. As the under
ground stems of the black berry and
raspberry are cut into pieces and these
planted to raise young plants, or as the
farmer chops up Bermuda grass roots
and sows them to raise sod, so if lump
of spawn is broken into several pieces
and these pieces planted, each will, I'M
der favorable conditions, start into new
life spread, and eventually produce
mushrooms.
Only two kinds of spawn are in gen.
eral use by our mushroom growers
namely, English brick and French flake,
both of which are imported. One of our
largest market growers, however, uses
natural spawn, but as yet there is no
good homemade marketable spawn. The
English brick spawn is put up in bricks
of dry dust manure. The bricks measure
about 8A by 55s by ia inches and
weigh l pound 4 "A ounces. The manure
i'll the brick has no virtue of itself, but is
simply the medium for the white spawn,
hence the more spawn in the brick the
more potent it is. The bricks are not
planted whole, but each one is first
broken into about 2 or . pieces. The
French flake spawn is imported in flakes
Of dry, strawy horse manure, either
loose in bulk or more commonly in three
pound boxes. Az "A rule, the flakes show
more spawn than is seen in the bricks.
The flakes are broken into pieces about
two or three inches square and are
planted in the same way as the Jumps
of brick spawn. Many growers have
from time to time tried to make their
own spawn, but at no time has an
article been made which for appearance
and evenness has been equal to the i'm
ported bricks.
Spawn is kept in stock by all promi-
nent seed stores and is advertised in the
The Somerset reporter., 1897-07-01
Elm Tree Leaf Beetle.

Country Gentleman says; About the
only protection of elm trees from the
ravages of the elm tree leaf beetle is to
be found in thorough spraying of the
foliage with paris green and water. The
spraying will be the most efficient in
the early spring as soon as the work of
the young larvae is to be seen on the
leaves and should be repeated about ten
days later to reach the larvae which are
later in Matching. When the larvae that
have not been reached by the paris
green descend the trunk and are to be
found upon the ground at the base of
the tree in readiness for changing to
their pupal stage, they should be killed
by crushing, by applications of hot wa
ter or by kerosene emulsion The second
brood of the insect appearing in the
summer should also be met in the same
manner as above. As the eggs of the
beetle are deposited ON the leaves of the
elm, no applications to the trunk would
be serviceable against it,
The Somerset reporter., 1897-07-01
The Argument for Teachers
Pensions.

The limitation of pensions to such de-
partments Of the public service as are
actually dangerous 10 life and limb be-
cause of physical violence is the crudest
form in which the idea of pensions ha,
ever existed Its restrictions SAVIOR OF
that stern policy of non-interferenCe on
the part of the State which SO long en-
barrassed all efforts to soften the rigor OF
the poor laws, and to ameliorate the con-
diton of inmates of asylums and penal
institutions. But as society has develop
ed, the relations of the State to the indi-
vduals who constitute it have been soft.
ened, and the principle of injury through
violence as the only basis of pensions has
been SUPERB eded in the broader humani-
taraniSm of our times. Pensions &c
judicious officers, as in some States. dc
not proceed upon that harsh principle
nor does the national gratitude that pro-
vdes for the soldiers widow and orphans
They proceed rather upon other princi.
pies, and it is to these and not to the
primitative rule that we appeal. But in
jures are incurred in the line of school
duty. An entire breaking down of health
not infrequentiy occurs. After twenty
or thirty, or more years, of poorly paid
service the teacher has given more than
an equivalent and has earned a pension.
Herein lies difference: A pensioned
soldier, policeman or fireman may have
been disabled before rendering actua
service, He is pensoned. not for what
he has done, but because of his noble will
to do, and because of the injury incurred
in his attempt to do it.-From Re7qea0 q
A..-tt..-lia
The Somerset reporter., 1897-07-01
The Blue Hill Case.

The attention of the Maine Board Of
Agriculture having been called to the
case of alleged poisoning OF the family
of Luther Bridges, by the using Of milk
of a COW sick with tuberculosis, Secre-
tary McKeene instituted an examination
and has reported thereon in print.
Two children had died, and their
deaths were attributed to infection from
using the milk of the COW. A veterinary
Of Ellsworth, applied the tuberculin
test, and the temperature went up 3
degrees, whereupon he ordered the COW
killed and buried, and no examination
Of the COW was made after she was kill
led. Mr.. HinckleY, the member of the
board of agriculture for Hancock county,
employed Dr. Manning Of Ellsworth,
and they obtained portions Of the dead
COW, and with consent of the parents,
the lungs of the children, and sent them
to DR.. Chas b. Smith of Portland, June
18th. DR.. Smith made careful eXami-
nation and reported in detail the result
of the examination of the lungs and I'D
der Of the COW, the doctor reported as to
tubercle, negative.
In concluding his report he says:
"No tubercle bacili were found, nor
do sections show the presence of any
tissue changes which can be attributed
to tubercuar infection. The gross APP
pearance Of these lungs and the micro
scopical appearance of prepared sections
show them to have been the seat Of ex-
tensive croupous pneumonia.
have considered the determination of
the true nature of these cases of so much
importance that have verified the fluid
ing in each specimen by other methods
of examination and the result has been
the same
Ny conclusions are:
81. That the children who died, died
of croupOus pneumonia, and not of tu-
berculosis.
2. That the present illness of Luther
Bridges and his son is pneumonia and
not tuberculosis.
3. That no tuberculosis was present
In the COW from which came the portions
of the lung aud udder which | have ex-
amined."
In closing his official statement Of this
case Secretary Mckeene says:
1.-The dairy business of Maine is one
of the most important industries of the
State. A large number of people are
dire city dependent upon it, and it brings
more money into our farm homes than
any other branch If farming; therefore
any effort to bring distrust upon the
healthfulness Of its products or to sub
iect those who are engaged in the bust
ness to unnecessary expense or incon-
venence should be looked upon as a
blow at the welfare and prosperity of
the State and discountenanced by all of
her citizens
The Somerset reporter., 1897-07-01
"Horse Leg" Irrigation.

Rural New Yorker says that Guilt
vator in the hands of bright man may
beat a fine engine and pump in the
hands of dull man. In most parts of
the country the rainfall is sufficient to
grow ample crops. The point is to hold
the water in the soil, so that the plants
can utilize it when most in need of it,
Water is lost by drainage and eyapora-
ton. In heavy soils we do not care to
prevent drainaRe-in fact, we like to
facilitate it. In light, open soils a sup
ply of vegetable matter will hold water
enough for ordinary purposes To pre-
vent evaporation, we must work on the
surface of the soil and break it up so
that the passages through which the
water would naturally escape are closed
or clogged. When we keep the surface
stirred up and fined, we make what is
known as dust mulch. The soil
water rises to the stirred surface and
there stops-much as it does under a
mulch of leaves or straw 'Horse leg
irrigation does not add water to the
soil but it arrests it. 1t Is like solder
ing up a hole in the milk can and thus
saving milk, while pump irrigation is
like pouring more i'll at the top.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-07-01

The "new corn product" is the hard
outer shell of the cornstalk-which has
been relieved of the pith-dried and
pulverized. In appearance it is fine
brown substance, The pith is used as
packing in warships. AS there is great
demand for the pth there is a large
quantity of the stalk left. This is cut
and ground, making fine product con
tanning more nutriment, according tc
some authorities, than timothy hay and
being more digestible than corn blades
1t occupies less space than baled hay and
is fed along with grain to make bal
anced ration.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-07-01
NOTICE or FORECLOSURE,

Whereas Edward C. A. True and George E.
Austin of Skowhegan, in the County Of Somer-
set, State of Maine, by their mortgage deed
dated the twenty-second day OF February A.
d eighteen hundred and ninety six, and re-
corded in the Somerset Registry OF deeds
book 219, page 273 conveyed to me, the under
signed, u certain parcel OF real estate situated
in said Skowhegan, in the county of Somerset
and bounded as follows: On the north by
land OF Calvin Eaton; on the east by land OF
Isaac Ames aud by the Daniel Lambert lot
and by the STRICKLAND place, so called and by
land of John Ross on the south by land OF
Horace Eaton, and on the west by land OF Cal
win Eaton and containing fifty acres mere or
less. Also another parcel OF land situated in
said Skowhegsn and bounded on the north
by land of the late Daniel Lambert: on the
west by land formerly occupied by the late
Nathaniel Malbon; on the south by land of
John Ross and on the east by land forme rly
owned by Augustus Strickland. And where.
as the condition of said mortgage has been
broken. now therefore, by reason OF the
breach Of the condition thereof l claim a
foreclosure of said mortgage.
June 70, A. d. 1897. 3w Is
FRANK w. AMES.