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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08
Lightning,s Work.

Special Correspondence of the Optic.
RATION, N. M, June 9Th, 1897
During q severe thunder shower, las
Saturday evening, the residence Of T,
G, Gregory, 10 east r atom, was struck
by lightning, severely. injuring two
OF his children II appears that the
bolt entered through a pantry window.
which beng open, created a drauoht
through the wide open door Of the ad-
joining room, where the children were
at the time.
The Oldest child, a girl Of twelve
years old, who was standing near the
cook stove when the bolt entered, had
her shoes literally torn in strings and
shreds from her feet. At present it is
feared that amputation may be .neces-
sary. The boy is five years OF age,
was injured in the same manner as bis
but not quite so seriously.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08
While !, With splendid backing,

While i, with splendid backing,
The governors chair am lacking;
Yes. ! truly wish that | Aeie never born
Now that / hav list tho game,
Dennis Mudd will be my name,
While this bio min "Glllie' laugheth mo
TO scornl
The Pennsylvania ladies had a meet
ing yesterday to make arrangement 5
for having Pennsylvania's women resi-
dents in Pueblo properly represented
In the great 4th Of July state parade.
These ladies are determined to lead all
other states, and they will no doubt
have a foe float 10 the parade; the
parade IN which each state 10 the union
will be represented by It's former citi-
zens, promises to be The greatest All OF
July parade that has ever occurred IN
Colorado. II you Las Vegans DO not
contemplate a blow out of your own
on the coming Ali OF July, stuff your
wallets with coin II the realm, and
come over IA Pus bio. aud we will be
proud TO help you see the elephsnt,
and blow you In to the queens taste.
JOHN J. BIPPUs.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

The st. Louis Republic recently made ar
rangements with the cable companies,
whereby direct news, from all sections OF
the civilized world, are received. 1t now
prints more authentic foreign news than
any other paper, and continues to keep up
its record for publishing all the home news.
The outlook for the year Is one Of big
news events, fast succeeding each other,
and they will be highly interesting tc ev-
eryone. The price of the Republic daily Is
SO q year, or $1.50 for three months.
The TiOice.d- Week Republic will remain
same-one dollar a year, by mail twice
a.week. 10-tf
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08
Railroad Rates.

General Assembly Cumberland Presby
terrain church at Chicago, ILL.,, May 20tt
June 2ud, '97. Fare and ons-third OF
certificate plan for round trip.
Annual meeting Supreme lodge A. o. u
. W., Milwaukee, Wis June 8 to II '97. Far
and one-third on certificate plan TO
round trip.
Annual meeting American medical as
sociation, Philadelphia, Pa, June ] to
plan for round trip.
terrain church OF North America at Rocl
Island, ILL.,. May 25 to June 5, 'SL. Fare
and one-third on certificate plan for round
rip
Annual Congress Of the international d.
vine Science Association, at st. Louis, Mo
May 11th TO 10th, '97. Fare and one-t thru
on certificate plan for round trip.
Annual meeting OF the American Asso-
citation Nurssrymen. at st. Louis. Mo-.
June 9th and 10th, '97. Fare and one-third
on certificate plan for the round trip.
Quadrennial General Conference of the
United Brethren In Christ, at Toledo,
Iowa, May 10th to 25th, '97. Fare and one
third on certificate plan for the round trip.
G. II. JONES, Agent.
Santa Pc Route-Caifiornia Limited.
Leaves Chicago 500 D. m. Wednesdays
and Saturdays, Kansas City $3.50 a. m. and
Denver $50 p. M, Thursdays and Sun
days. reaching Los Angeles in 70 hours
and San Diego In rs hours from Chicago.
Connecting train for San Francisco via. |
Mojave. Returns Mondays and Thursdays. |
Equipment of superb vestibuled Pullman |
palace sleepers, buffet smoking car and |
dining car. Most luxurious service via anv
line.
Another express train, carrying palace
and tourist sleepers, leaves Chicago and
Kansas City daily for California.
Inquire OF Local Agent, or
A.. 7. & 8. F, R,y
w. j. BLACK, g. p. A..
Topeka, KS.
Meeting Benevolent and Protective Or
der OF Eiks at Minneapolis, MINI, July 6th.
1897. Open rate of one regular standard
1rst-cless fare for the round trip, plus so
cents. Tickets ON sale July 2nd and Ard.
1871; final return limit to be july 10Th
1917: subject to extension Of limit to NOT
later than July 3lst, 1897.
G. #. JONES, Agent
Young Peoples Society Christian I'm
leavor, at San Francisco, Calf, July 7th
O lzth, 1897; $4l for the round trip. Tickets
N sale June 22nd, 23rd and Goth and Both.
md July LIST, End and 3rd. 1897. Going
rip TO begin only on date of sale and to be
continuous passage. Tickets shall NOT be
.ood to leave San Francisco earlier than
uly 18th, and final return limit shall in
o case exceed August 18th, 1897.
G. r. JONES, Agent.
Biennial session, supreme court, Forest
of America at Denver, Colo, Aug
st oath to 2Sth, '97; fare and one third.
Il certificate plan, from GIL point On our
ne.
Annual convention, National Kelley
eague at Minneapolis, MINI August
lth TO Goth, '97; fare and o~ne-third, on
plan, for round trip.
G. F. JONES, Agent
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08
New Gold Fields.

Recent sensational gold discoveries il
the Red River district, northern New Mex
leo, indicate that this locality will shortly
ne as widely celebrated as Cripple Greek
Already the rush Of miners and -prospector.
has begun, and by the time the snow hal
fully melted, thousands will be ON The
ground. -
Take the Santa Fe route to Springer. N,
M, from which point there is q stage. dai
~, to Elizabethtown, Hematite and RED
River City. For further particulars. AM
ply to @. F. JONES. Agent
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

CONSTANT dipping of the pen into
the ink while writing may be avoided
BY inserting two pens of The same size
in the pen holder, the inner one to
project a little. The writing is done
with the inner pen The ink collected
between the two pens is sufficient to
last through several pages of a manu-
script, and yet it will moi flow more
freely than is desirable. In order to
get the best results the pens must be
cleaned frequently.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

For three years we have never beer
without Chainberiain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy in the house." saws A.
II. Patter, with e. G. Atkins & Co., In
dianapolis, Ind, and my wife would as
soon think of being without -four as a bottle
Of this Remedy In the sunnmer season. We
have used 1t with all three of our children
n it has never failed to cure-not simply
stop pain, but cure absolutely. It is ali
anyone who tries it will find It sou
For sale by K. D.GoodalI, Depot drug store.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08
vhy Have Q

Been stricken with disease while your neigh.
Dor escaped. or vice-versa? Both were alike
exposed, but in one case the the disease germs
found Judgement in the impure blood and weak.
ened system, while In the other, the blood was
kept pure by Hoods Sarsaparilla, and the
body was in a condition of good health.
Hoods Pills are purely vegetable and do
not purge. palm or gripe. Sold by all druggists.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

The Mexican Herald declares thai
tsWar by starvation is not to be recog-
nizsd as war; it is the DETERMINATION
of the on-combatant, of women and
children and old men, and it should
not go on" We do not believe that
there IS a generous heart in all the
world that does not echo that senti-
mani.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

Horatio Burbanks, who has beer
before Justice Crawford in Albuauer.
que five distinct times for being drunk
and disorderly, was again up before
the justice and was sentenced to the
county Jail for thirty days. Burbanks
agreed to leave the town inside of the
next twelve hours and in consequence
his sentence was suspended.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

THE total acreage of Texas in cot
ton this year is estimated at 7,433 .946
acres, which is an increase of a little
more than 81 per cent over 1896 and
the largest 10 the history of the state.
1t seems from all the reports that have
come to this Office, that all the south.
west will have an exceptionally fine sea-
800
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

There are some peopls who never wear
thing bright; It's the people who are dvs-
peptic and soured- Everything Is u ef
joint with such people. II suffered manv
years with Dyspepsia and Liver Tronblee
but have been relieved since taking Sim
mons Liver Regulator. / know Others
who have beon greatly benefited hv Isr
use.'-Jemes NcvIsnd. CarroIton, No.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

URBANA, Ohio, seems to be under
the impression that II an ignorant
brute commits a crime, it is necessary
tor the whole community to set at work
Destroying the law.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

IT is surprising what a big industry
the windmill industry is getting to be.
WindmiIls are getting cheap and used
for a great variety of industrial pur-
poses, and seem to be a saving clause
IN New Mexico's future.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE s, 1887

THE OPrIo Is in receip of the third
annual announcement aud catalogue
OF the Territorial normal school, at
Silver City, with the compliments OF
Chas. M. Light. principal.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

The popular agent Of the Atlantic &
Pacific at Manuelito, N. M, w. A. L.
Tarr, is revealing in the sweet smiles
OF q pretty baby girl, which ar
rived at his home on last Saturday.
June 9Th.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

Warm the joints, ease the pain and drive
out all rheumatic 10 nuence In the body by
using LALLEMAND's SPECIFIC for RHEUMA.
TIsM. It 10 one of the very few old time
remedies which modern medical science
has been unable to improve on. Cure
vial. Sold by Murphy Van Petten Drug
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08
Eyerybody saya so.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won
derful medical discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on Kidneys, liver and bowels.
cleansing the entire system, dispel colds,
and biliousness. Please buy and try q box
of Q. C. G.. to-day; 10, %, SO cents. Sold and
guaranteed to cure ~ all druggists.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

The American mine, Noeal district,
will be in full blast as soon as the
buildings and machinery can be put in
place. They are working quite q force
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08
Nerves

Are the Messengers Of sense.-the Telegraph
System Of the human body.
Nerves extend from the brain TO every part
Of the body and reach every organ
Nerves are like IRE good servants but hard
masters.
Nerves are fed by the blood and are therefore
like 1t In character.
Nerves win be weak and exhausted q the
blood Is thin, pale and impure.
Nerves win surely be strong and steady II
the blood is rich, red and vigorous.
Nerves lind a true friend in Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla because 1t makes rich, red blood.
Nerves do their work naturally and WE'LL
the brain is unclouded, there are no
neuralgia pains, appetite and diges-
ton are good, when you take
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

There will be an union picnic OF
the Evangelical Sunday schools OF
Gallup at the Catalpa mine, Friday.
June 18th.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

One evening last week an argu-
ment was gotten into in Gallup,
which called into action fists, feet and
knives.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08

Yes, I'm ratified sure as sin.
Since 0tero fcooped me ia
Leaving mo so Iorn and lonely IL the co1d
Gosh Who thought that AGillis3 hsd
c1ance 20 FIn< Il makes me mad.
Thinking how In hIae6e he eneake5 n IL
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08
Pattern Hats

to suit the most fastidious. Ladies are
business directly in the center OF thu
rity, a short distance east OF the bridge.
English n So anish.freakirnssstaRn
The herald., 1897-09-21
STATE AND COUNTY TAX RATE

The supervisors yesterday fixed the
rate Of taxation for city and county pur-
poses at $1.25 on the 500 of assessment.
Outside Of incorporated cities 80 1-3 cents
is added for road tax. making the total
rate there $1.5S 1-3. This Is a decided in
crease over last years rate, which was
81 10 inside cities. The increase is main
ly due to the allotment Of SS4,600 to the
Whittier school, a contribution which the
county has not been required to make
hitherto; an increase of the salary fund
as the result Of last winters legislation:
SIS, 900 for a new project to tunnel under
court house hill on a level with New
High street, obviating the necessity OF
climbing several flights Of steps, and
$65O0 for a new elevator Of more rapid.
moving powers.
A part of the new burden Is imposed as
result Of court decisions, part as the
result of new state laws. and these ex-
penditures cannot be avoided. But the
scheme of tunnel from New High
street and an elevator starting from the
bottom of d forty-foot we'll is such a
radical project that it ought to be most
carefully considered before 1t is under
taken.
1t seems to be comparatively easy
matter to increase the rate of taxation.
but awfully difficult to get back to lower
rate again.
The herald., 1897-09-21
ITS WORK CUT OUT

The board Of health has its work cut
out in the matter Of stopping the sale of
bad fruit ard vegetables, and averting
the possible dangers arising from the
consumption Of sewage-irrigated vege-
tables and fruits. At the meeting of the
city council yesterday the board was
instructed to further investigate the
question Of sewage irrigation, and the
contract for the disposal of such sewage,
and then to take such steps as may be
clude the preparation of an ordinance
providing for the disposal Of the sewage
in some other way than by the method
at present in vogue.
1t was brought to the attention Of the
council that bad vegetables and fruit
were being sold at the city market, and
the board of health was asked to look
into the charges that had been made to
this effect. The council felt that the
selling of bad produce right under the
nose Of the city, so to speak, was a spe-
ces Of audacity to be severely dealt
with.
The Herald is very glad to see these
matters, that so closely concern the
public health, taken up by the council
and dealt with in a practical manner.
1t is also glad to see that the board of
health does not consider itself purely
ornamental body, but rather an or
ganization that has accepted a great
responsibility and feels it. What a
board of health is, what 1t can be, is
shown whenever an epidemic arises like
that of the yellow fever in the south.
But 1t Is in preventive rather than in
curative work that board Of health
finds its greatest and best usefulness.
Some day, it may be twenty-five or
fifty or one hundred years hence, the
public will pay its physicians for keep
ing them we'll rather than for curing
them after they get sick. 1t used to be
the rule in China, and perhaps 1t is so
now, that when a doctor failed to cure
a case of illness in the royal family, off
went his head. Prevention, in such q
country, would be far more congenial
work than cure.
This is getting to be far cry from
the problem of the disposal of sewage
and the prevention Of the sale of bad
vegetables. But such things lead to
others Of the same relative nature and
they only show how closely related, af-
ter all, are the questions that involve life
and happiness in the human race.
The herald., 1897-09-21
Celibacy Of Pope and Priests

Peter, whom Roman Catholics count
as the first pope. was married; whether
his wife was alive when he was pope we
do not know. st. SylveriNs, pope in A.
D. 536, was the SON of St. Hormisdas.
pope from 514 to 523; whether the wife
Of Hormisdas was alive during his pom
tificate we do not know; she may have
seen her son pontiff. Although there were
many papal prohibitions against clerics
marrying, they were disregarded very
generally, and not until Gregory VII. 3
time. 1914, did celibacy become law Of
the Roman Catholic church. Who was
the last pope to marry is not stated. Reg
ular priests-members of the monastic
orders-take the triple vows Of poverty.
chastity and obedience; secular prie1ts-
those not members Of any order-are un-
der the rule Of celibacy, and take vow
as well,
The herald., 1897-09-21
THE WOMEN OF THE STRIKE

In the strike in the Hazleton district.
where the Latimer tragedy occurred,
General Goblin, in command of the mil
itary, finds the management Of the wo-
men in the families of the strikers his
hardest task. In fact, he has been quite
they throw sticks and stones, they "in-
duce" the working min ers to throw down
their picks and shovels just as if the
soldiers and deputies were a thousand
miles away. He cannot order his troops
to fire on these women; if he should. II
is not likely the order would be obeyed.
It must occur to one who reads Of these
things that the wives and mothers and
sisters Of the strikers must have had
great provocation to make them behave
as they have been doing. They must have
been goaded to the verge of madness by
the troubles, the hardships and the sac
iifices they have been obliged to mako.
Who does not know that in cases of this
kind, and, indeed, in every case where the
or both, the blow falls hardest upon the
women? 1t is 80 every time. We cannot
wonder, then, at the seeming madness
of the women of the coal district
How was it in the French revolution?
Every reader of history knows that in
that terrible period Of French history
the women were far worse than the men
They were the soul Of the reign of ter
ror. When the men of the republic fall
tered, drenched and sick with blood, it
was the women who urged them on to
greater slaughter.
The Reign of Terror was not the work
of day; it was not the product of an
impulse. 1t was the fruit of many years,
long drawn out and terrible in the bur-
dens they imposed, of merciless, grinding
exactions on the part of the upper
classes. The middle and lower classes
were taxed for the very right to live.
They we're ground down lower and lower.
until human nature could. endure it no
longer. Then the pendulum swung to the
other extreme.
Who shall say these maddened foreign
women, "but little higher than beasts"
are not prototypes of the women of the
French revolution? Not that there is any
present danger OF another reign of ter
ror, with this country for its theater.
but that the same causes, the same spirit,
and, in a manner, the same results are
seen in the coal fields in Pennsylvania
that were visible on greater and more
frightful scale in France century ard
more ago.
The herald., 1897-09-21
A NEW BROOM

The council acted with more decision
than was expected in the matter of the
street cleaning controversy yesterday
afternoon. 1t sustained the report of
the special committee appointed to in
vestigate the charges made by Health
Officer Powers against Inspector Nc
Clellan. declared the latter's office va
cant and appointed +. E. Drummond,
an employe of the Los Angeles Street
Railway company, to succeed him.
The report severely criticised the in
spector for the existing condition OF
things and substantiated the charges
made by the health officer while 1t mild
ly scolded the latter for allowing the
bad condition to continue so long with
out taking action. The report also finds
that there was no collusion between the
inspector and the street cleaning con-
tractor. The atmosphere gets a bit foggy
at this point. 1t would seem that the
contractor is not at all to blame for
neglecting his work or performing 1t
improperly. But municipal govern
ment is often hard to understand.
We shall now have a new broom and
1t is to be hoped that he will see that the
streets are swept clean. If the wretched
conditions that prevail at present con-
tinue, the council will have to do some
thing besides bounce inspectors.
Nothing was said at yesterdays meet
ing about the plan proposed by the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association,
but a committee was appointed at last
nights meeting of the associa-
ton to confer with the council,
who will doubtless afford what
assistance may be necessary in making
thorough test of the hand-sweeping
scheme.
The herald., 1897-09-21
RALLYINa ROUND THE "STAND.
ARD"

Why should there be such a rush of
magazine writer's to the defense Of the
Standard Oil company? What is the
true inwardress of this new excuse and
palliation? Contemporary with the ar
ticle by F. B. Thurber in the North
American Review, which was comment
ed upon briefly in this column is an
article in Guntons magazine entitled
Fresh From the Oil Regions" It is
anonymous and presumably by the ed
itor. He says he has discussed the eco
nomic effects of the Standard Oil COM
pany before. The writer begins by stat
ing great truth. He says: 1.-The Stand
ard Oil company seems to occupy very
much the same position in the indus
trial sentiment of the community that
Satan does in the atmosphere OF theo,-
ogy." Then he twangs the same old
string:
The trusts great economy and supe-
rior efficiency in the oil industry
That 1t has improved the quality and
reduced the price of petroleum, with
out In any way inconveniencing the
community, is no longer seriously chal-
lenged.
But 1t Is seriously challenged. 1t is
admitted that the price Of petroleum has
been reduced since the Standard Oil
company became monopoly. But what
does that signify? So has the price Of
other things not controlled by monopo-
lies. Shall we keep the cents gallon
we save by the reduction in the price Of
petroleum before our eyes, shutting out
the vast injury that the trust has in.
fiicted upon competition?
& TIE defender OF the greatest monopoly
The herald., 1897-09-21
A Mark Twain Story

While Mark Twain was in Dresden he
expressed a wish to meet DR.. Paul Lin
dau. The result was a dirner given by
an American resident there which
brought the two distinguished authors
together. When conversation became
general, DR.. Lindau gave his views on
America. He had been there for a few
weeks and knew it ALL In particular he
condemned the climate of Florida. Mr..
Clemens thereupon spoke up: II was
there some years ago and spent some
time in Key West. While at Key West
a schooner put in one day with several
of the crew dead from yellow fever.
Well. there was great excitement in the
town, and elaborate preparations were
made for the funeral. A minister was
secured to of1iciate, and when all was
reacy he opened his prayer book and
read the marriage service. There was
no funeral service in the Key West
prayer books. They never have occa-
sion to use it."-Chicago Chronicle.