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lower hills, this deer still dozes away
the noon of summer days; and where the
higher mountains are timbered he often
lies out on some shady point that COM
mands a view of the far off simmer
ing sea, and takes his climate and seem
cry together But he generally keeps
& side gulch handy into which he can
slip with Just O whir of glossy fur.
lasting long enough to bring your rifle
from your shoulder. And often he lies
in some low brush along the backbone
of ridge, where he waits just long
enough to be sure you can see him.
when he springs, and then he Is just
over the ridge about the time you have
the rifle comfortably to your shoulder,
He is a master of the art of hiding, and
N the deep gloom of the heavy chappa-
raj often lies so close that you can al
most tread on him. Yet he is rarely
safer than when the first stroke of his
bounding hoofs almost throws the dirt
in your face, for by the time you have
whired the rifle to your shoulder you
see nothing but the brush waving dark
ly green above his sinuous form; or
if he bounds above 1t to take look at
you, it is in shining curves of glossy
gray that sink into the brush like those
of the porpoise into the wave about the
time your eye fines the sights on your
gun. At other times he loves to rum
in full view, and up or down hillside
we'll studded with boulders will run
your lead a race that Is worth going
many a mile to see. You might as well
Try to calculate the path Of a cyclone
AS the course of the beamy pelt that goes
now with fifteen-foot jump, now
with a ten-foot now high to the
right then low to the left with a
sudden twist AS surely as you hold
he sights of the rifle upon the mark
and pull the trigger. so surely will the
erratic mark be above or below or be-
yond that point by the time the bullet
arrives. There is nothing to do but
calculate where he Will be when the
lead reaches that point and fire there
before the game has reached it.
You may have been schoolod on other
deer. and think you know something
about the slowness Of the swiftest ball,
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as we'll as the marvellous absorbtive
power circumambient space exhibits
for lead in big hills like these. But
until you see the mule deer running on
such ground you have little idea how
modern bullets hunger for granite. This
deer runs with bounds, striking all four
feet at once and bouncing twice as high
as the eastern deer. instead of cantering
like a horse with lower jumps, as that
deer runs Hero he scatters the snowy
bloom of the wild buckwheat as he
descends from a lofty bound while your
bullet sings in spray from a smooth
boulder just beyond him; and there he
smashes through the orange floss of
the doGder that twines over the golden
glow of the lucerne, just as the next
bullet raises a cloud of dust from the
hillside in line with his little stubby
tail. And so you may keep the lever
of your swiftest repeater working ana
the empty shells spinning hot and
whizzing over your head with speed
of fire ard suddenly see the glossy fur
slide into the haven of heavier chapar-
raj with sheen intact He makes the
grandest of all surprises for the tyro
and often the more deer there are in
a band the less game falls. But this
very difficulty of hitting him on the
run makes this deer the most attract
i've of all large game to those who know
how to hunt; and of all his range from
British Columbia to far down in Mexico,
there is no finer ground on which to
nunt with comfort and a reasonable
certainty of finding game than most of
the big hills OF this section.
Bear? What question. If there
is anything California ever did make a
success of it was bear. No one ever
questioned the quality of that product
No one ever doubted the size, though
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mountain mahogany robe the towering
slopes in everything green comes the
rich call of the mountain quail to wake
you in the morning. This quail is
trifle larger than the quail of the east.
with two long plumes of jet nodding
, over his head. and of charming man.
ners, though rather retiring in DISPOSE
tion. He can retire with leg or
wing with about equal facility, and gen.
orally prefers the former apparently
because it tempts the tenderfoot to try
pot shot" 1t is one of the grandest
surprises that await human confidence,
and there are plenty of crack shots who
say they are not ashamed to shoot at
this bird under fullleg power. The only
shame they feel is afterward. No bird
can better time his rising into flight.
after foolng you on the ground, and
he can almost vanish into cover above
before the sound of your first barrel
reaches your car. For this quail on the
wing you want your gun loaded to clear
the brush with the first barrel and a
thicket of tough feathers with the Sec
ond. Then you may see whirl of cinna-
mon. chestnut, slate-blue and white
strike the ground with thump that be-
appetite of high mountain air, would
rouse the envy of the gods.
When too lazy to stray far from camp
you may find sport with the gray squir
rel that is here as large and full of tricks
as ever you found him in the east.
And quite as fine stew he makes. al
though he lives here more on pine cones
and acorns than on nuts that are sup
posed to improve his flavor. Fine shoot
ing for the rife he makes in the big
| pines, where his head is one of the finest
| of marks. And if you have a shotgun
and want to try the hardest of all sim
gle shots with it, run him a race among
the trees until he makes a big jump
from one tree to another high in the
air and then catch him midway in the
curve he makes. When he bows his
head and curves his outstretched tail
and comes rolling and smashing through
the leaves below, you feel that you have
done something that very few could do.
Once all the hills of the land were the
home of numerous deer, and even in the
cactus patches along the coast they
were plenty. But now they are mostly
confined to the larger mountains. where
they are still quite plenty, and in fine
condition, early in the summer The
variety is the mule deer, of shorter body
and leg than the deer of the east, with
larger ears, and a bounding capacity
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The absence of rain, the cool nights.
the breezy days, tie somniferous shades
of the mountains, make Southern Cali
fornia the most attractive of all lands
for camping out. In no part of the world
is so much of ii done, and whole families
go to stay for weeks at a time. Those
from the interior often find the coast
the more agreeable change, but the
dweller in the valley can find nothing
more radical than the change to the
hilltop that cuts the sky but few
miles from his home. The mountains
that loom in dreamy blue through the
golden haze that wraps the land in
summer are far larger than one not
used to mountains would imagine. In
stead of barren hills they are a new
country in themselves, and what at
distance looks IKE mere brush is heavy
timber through which you may rove
FOR days finding something ever new.
From where the manzanita and the
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we'll as you, there are always enough
that outwit the tyro to leave good fish
ing for him who knows the tastes and
whims OF the most fastidious of crea
tons charms and values the catch more
for the skill required than for the length
cf the count.
And summer brings here as early
shooting with rifle and gun as in any
other land. Before the waving grain
falls beneath the harvester the wings
of the dove whistle on every breeze,
and nothing more tryisg to the skill of
the expert with the shotgun cleaves
the wind on land or sea. Coming in to
water in the evening. he darts and
twists in way ever new to the man
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PHILADELPHIA BIG HALL
1t is Being Built for the Great Saen-
gerfest in June

The preparations for the National
Saengerfest, which is to be held In Phil
adelphia during the week of June 21,
are on a scale of greater magnitude than
any event ever attempted in this city
since the Centennial exposition. The
largest auditorium ever used in this city
will be erected.
The hall is to be 200 feet wide and 400
feet in length. The four corners will be
surmounted by towers having gilded
domes. The auditorium will seat TO-
900 persons, and the mammoth semi
circular stage will hold 5000 singers and
an orchestra of $50 pieces.
The style will be German renaissance.
the domes giving the whole Moorish
appearance. The structure will cost in
the neighborhood of 10000. The festi-
val of music and song. which is to be
given in this great concert hall, will be
the eighteenth since the conception Of
the idea of holding national saenger-
tests. 1t is forty-seven years since the
last meeting was held in this city.
Twelve societies from New York. Bos-
ton, Brooklyn. Baltimore. Pittsburg.
Newark and Reading visited the festival
and the massed choruses consisted of
500 singers. The federation now has s.
900 singers.
The singers have been at work since
the beginning of the year perfecting
their arrangements for next summers
feut.al Nventeen district mass
ch,Fuses will be rendered by 5000 male
einsers. besides which number Of
patriotic songs will be sung by chorus
of school children numbering 5000
voices.
The principal societies will come from
New York, Brooklyn and Newark. and
preparations are being made for the ac
commodations of thousands of Germans
who will visit this city during the saen-
gerfest-New York World.
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The Kind She Wanteo

Howard Paul is responsible Tor TINS
anecdote of Lillian Russell. Ine ran
vocalist was lunching at restaurant
and ordered floating island, popu-
lar entremet. In due course OF time
~ arrived and on it's snowy surface
three little red ants were having cheap
ricnic and wriggllng about in ecstatic
cont ortions on the banquet they were
aniovinr waiter" said Miss Russell.
~ asked you for an island, but ex-
messed no desire to have It inhabited.
Take it away and bring me dessert
island, Judge.
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trout of the Rocky mountains, called
the cut-throat trout, from a red line
across its throat, but cut-sticks would
be much better, for the tyro will find
himself weighing climate in twink
ling if he is not careful. And where the
stream is larger even the expert needs
ponderous care, for many a fish will
take the hook that cannot be lifted
out, but must be allowed to run his
race before he can be hauled ashore;
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and a merry chase he will lead you,
among the boulders and the whirling
depths of the dark caves, where the
water is gathering strength for rush
over the next rapids below, and may
take your fish along in burst of energy
on which YOU made no calculation. All
through the spring and into the breezy
days of summer and the stiller days OF
autumn you may find the trout at home,
and, though too many will love him as
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A Flood Sufferer

you are a flood sufferer? Nit" said
the hired lady. you have been hang
ing around town here all the winter
and spring"
But I am. lady, indeed I am" pro-
tested Mr.. Dismal Dawson. II got to
thinkin' of all that water. an 1t made
me that sick and weak that amt been
even able to ask for work. "-Indianapo-
lis Journal.
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quite marvellous. The eastern deer is
q little particular where he runs, un-
less in great haste and prefers good
path il it can as well be had. But this
deer likes rocks, brush and steep hill
sides, or anything that tends to stop
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A curious suit Is threatened against Dr..
ference Female institute. by Miss G. Gul.
mare Hampton Of Paragould. Ark. a pupil
who was recently expelled because she USED
the name Of Jesus Christ" indiscrimi-
nately in her conversation. She declined to
give up the habit and hence the expulsion.
In the papers to be filed by her the groun4
will be taken that the language 10 not psos
fame In the eyes Of the law.
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The Financial Scorcher is the name by
which Baron Alfred Rothschild was
known during his recent sojourn in Wen
ma. He is a first rate bicycliet, but some
what too quick and rash in his flight
to suit either the Viennese cyclists or the
pedestrians.
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as 10 weight we have never been able
n get accurate figures. because those
% have weighed our bear have al
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bullet or make it glance. Where tho
sumac or the photinia stand in shinir'
green amid the somber brush of t
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: SUMMER DAYS AMONG THE HILLS AND STREAMS :

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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-19
MURDER AT SIERRA BLANCA.
Thrown Down Well, While the Muir
derer Escapes to Mexico.

SIERRA BLANCA, February 49, 1897.
-(Specian "a Mexican who has been
working for some years for John Sell
donbehere on his sheep ranch near
Allamoore was at work digging a well
in company with a Mexican named
Juan Dominguez on Tuesday last. Do
minguez came in to supper and being
asked where the old man was replied
that he had gone to look after his
burros.
After supper he went out and has not
seen been since. Search was made for
the old man and this morning his body
was found at the bottom of the we'll on
which he had been at work covered
up.
Judge Melcher of Van Horn went to
the ranch this afternoon to hold an in
quest. AS one of the burros is missing
it is supposed that DomingueZ took it
with him and made for Mexico
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-19
The Arbitration Treaty Likely
to go Over
10 THE NEXT CONGRESS
Those Who Want Its Consideration
Postponed Making a Strong Fight.
The House Committee on ApprO-
priatioDs Hurrying the Bills Into
the House.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 19.-In the sen
ate today senate bill passed giving &
plot of land to the national society O.
the Daughters of the American
Revolution for memorial purposes.
Immediately upon clio sing the doors
OF the senate the general treaty of ar.
bitration was taken up. Mr.. Nelson,
of Minnesota, made another speech urg-
ing action and postpopment, calling
attention to the press of business on the
senate calendar and dwelt especially
upon the need for the passage of some
form of BANKRUPTCY act. Platt, of Con-
| necticut, again antagOniZed a postpone
ment, believing the best interests of
the country demanded immediate ac
tion. Frye, Of Maine, who was inclin-
ed to think postponment the proper
course yesterday, came out this morn
ing advocating prompt action. Stew
art, of Nevada, strongly urged post
ponement as did Senator Teller. Teller
who is a member of the committee on
appropriations, told his colleagues that
the senate would have all it could do
to pass the remaining appropriation
bills before March +.
1t is believed the senate will agree
this evening to postpone the considera-
tiou of the treaty, the opponents of the
measure wearing out the advocates BE-
fore night: the condition of legislative
business assisting to that conclu-
sion.
The general deficiency bill was taken
up in the house and Mr.. Sayers, of
Texas, wanted to make an agreement
to have three hours general debate on
Southern Pacific railway appropriation
in the bill, but Grow, of Pennsylvania,
gave notice that unless he were given
forty minutes he would object. Mr..
Cannon moved that the bill be
to the house, Grow protesting,
but Payne, of New York, who was in
the chair, put the question and declared
it carried. When he reported to
Speaker Reed, Cannon imm ediately
moved that the house again resolve it.
self into committee of the whole on
the consideration of bills and that the
general debate on the deficiency bill be
limited to one minute. This was done
to allow only the consideration of mea-
sures by amendments in the house prop
err. Protests came thick and the yeas
and nays were ordered.
Additional amendments to the sun
dry civil apDropria ton bill were
reported to the senate amendments
offered by Senator Lodge appropriates
S25. 900 to take soundings between
Hawaiian islands and Japan to deter
mine the most practical route for a tele-
graph cable.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-19
SOuth African Politics

LONDON, February 19.-The South
African Investigating committee re-
sumed its sitting today. In the course
of the examination Mr.. Rhodes said he
advised Commissioner Hercules Robin
son that if any uprising should occur,
he. (the com missioner.) had better me-
diate with the object of securing the
people their civil rights. The witness
understood that Robinson intended to
act as mediator. Mr.. Rhodes adm itted
that he had not told the high commits
sioner he was actively engaged in pro-
noting an insurrection. The object
of rising" Mr.. Rhodes said, twas to
obtain a plebiscite to a certainty
whether the people were in favor of a
union of whole of South Africa, Or
whether the management of local af-
fairs should be left to the Transvaal
government. Mr.. Rhodes added:
You may be sure that l was not going
to risk my position by changing
President Kruger for President
r hO6eS ;,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-19
For Postmaster General,

CANTON, Ohio, February 19.-James
A. Gary, of Baltimore, came to Canton
this morning by the invitation of the
president-elect, and this afternoon Re
authorized the. United Associated Press
to make this announcements: Gov.
Mckinley has rendered me cabine t
PORTFOLIO" The understanding is that
Mr.. Gary Will be postmaster general.
He is not a lawyer and cannot be attor-
ney general-the only other portfolio
unproVided for.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-19
The LeXOw Investigation.

NEW YORK, February 19.-The
Lexow committee had Henry Burn,
president of the National Wall Paper
company, before it this morning. Mr.
Burn produced a copy of the contract
made with factors" where only Ma
tional wall paper goods would be used.
The company had an agreement with
the labor unions by which the employe S
worked eleven months of the year.
Ten factories were closed within two
years after the cosolidation. This
caused decrease of ten per cent in
the labor employed. Witness said the
rate Of wages had not decreased after
the consolid alton.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-19
A Strange War on Satan.

One of the big circuses experienced
considerable annoyance throughout
entral Indiana because of the warfare
waged against it by the Salvation army,
during its last tour, says the Times
Herald. The Salvationists met the
circus men on their own ground and
declared war by pasting tiny strips
OF paper bearing Scriptural texts and
religious warnings upon the circus bill
board displays. Some of these Saliva
zionist warnings were startling, and ifS
onjunction with the shows Iitho<
graphs produced effects never before
dreamed of, always incongruous and
striking and often appearing blasphe-
nous.
The trouble began at Muncie. A
member of the Salvation Army at that
point, seeing popular attention direct
ed toward the circus bill boards, decid-
ed that they furnished the best medium
by which to Introduce his scriptural
texts to the public. Within the next
half hour those circus displays were
completely metamorphosed. The pic
ture of an aeronaut falling in a para
chute from balloon bore the inscrip-
ton: -'Sinner, you are bound for hell.
Go the other way" The long neck
of the giraffe was labeled, ''The
straight and narrow way is best" A
small negro boy was pictured "a gazing
hOrror-strickeu, into the open mouth of
a hippopotamus, and across its cavern
Gus eXpause were the words: Pre-
pare to meet thy God" The snake
charmer, wrapped in the folds of a
monster serpent, was admonished to
'shun the deadly cup: it stingeth like
an adder" An acrobat, turning SOM
ersault in mldair, apparently grasped
in his hand the question: "Where Will
you spend your eternity?" The lion
tanner in a cage with several beasts
which apparently were about to make
a meal of him. was admonished to
watch and pray, and the human can
non ball" being fred from huge can
non, was confronted by the question,
Where are you going, to heaven or to
hell?"
1t is safe to say that no circus bills
ever attracted more general attention
or caused more comment.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-19
THE GREEKS IN CRETE.
They Refuse TO Evacuate Because the
Powers Will 1t.

Powers Will 1t.
| Is3ATHENS, February 19.-In the rse
of debate in the chamber of deputies
last evening. Premier Delyannis stated
| that the government had been seeking
| to discover the reason for the powers
opposing the operation OF Greece in
Crete. AS a result of the investiga-
tions, the cabinet had arrived at GER
tain conclusion, which it could not yet
communicate to the chamber, further
than to declare that Greece would per-
sist in the policy and course of it's
action in Crete.
CANEA, February 19.-The Austrian
vice-consul at Heralion confirms the re-
port of the massacre of 1000 moslems
by Cretan christians at Sitia, the east
ern extremity of the island. Colvassos,
commanding the Greek forces in Crete,
has given orders to the troops to re-
frain from molesting or giving offense
to civilians and unarmed moslems.
The Greek consulate here is now be-
ing guarded by Russian marines. The
consul, in complying with the order TO
withdraw the Greek guard, protested
that the admirals were exceeding their
functions.
PARIS, February ia dispatch
from Canea says the British warships
in Cretan waters prevented the landing
of a force of Greek troops which arriv-
ed there Thursday.
BREST, France, February 19.-An
the officers and men of the French navy
absent on leave from this station have
been ordered to rejoin their vessels
without delay.
ATHENS, February 19.-The Greek
steamer Pau-Hellenic, conveying mum
itions of war to the Insurgents in Crete,
has been stopped and turned back by
British cruiser. The action of the
British vessel has created the fiercest
Indignation here.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-19
SHERIFF OF EDDY KILL Ed
Was Assassinated Last Night
by Two Men.
PEOPLE VERY INDIGNANT
The Sheriff Was Going Along Street
When he Was Shot by Two Parties
Standing Concealed in Door
way. He Died This Morning at Z
O'clock.
Special to the HERALD.


EDDY, New Mexico, February 10
Yesterday about S:45 p. m, Sheriff A
l.. Dow was assassin ated on Fox street
in Eddy. He was coming from the bank
building and was almost in front of the e
Argus office, and was shot by one of
two men who were concealed in the
doorway, who had evidently been wait
ing for him. Two shots were fired,
only one taking effect. The bali en-
tered at the left corner of the
mouth shattered the jaw bone and pass
sed out at the back of the neck. The
pistol was held quite close as his face
was severely powderburnt. Immediate
ly after the shooting the parties ran
past the post Office and turned down in-
to the alley Mr.. Dow staggered across
the street ditch, finally sinking down
in front of the E. V restaurant from
drug store, his wound dressed and
later removed to his home. It was not
thought at the time that the wound
was fatal, but be only survived till
early this morning, dying about I
o'clock. While nothing positive has
been announced, it is thought the men
were recognized by Mr.. Dow and are
also known to the officers.
Later.-D. L. Lemp and VIM. Kudon
have been arrested en- suspicion. The
coroner's jury are now in session. 1t
will 60 hard with the parties if caught
A mass meeting of citizens has been
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-19
British.rs Want to Celebrate.

WASHINGTON, February 19.-The
navy department received a telegraph
ic application from Maj. Carlson at
San Diego. for permission for the Brit
ish cruiser Comus to land its forces
and take part in the great land parade
on Wasbington's birthday. The re-
quest was referred to Secretary Olney.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-19
A Panic in School.

BOSTON, February 10 "A fire in the
Everett school this morning caused
g stampede among the pupils,
and in the, rush TO leave the build
ing ten or twelve children were crush
ed. but not seriously injured
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-19

Our people are growing more and
more in the habit of looking to the
local dealer for the latest and best of
everything in the drug line. They
sell Cham berlain's Cough Remedy,
famous for its cures of bad colds, Group
and whooping cough When in need
of such a medicine give this remedy
trial and you will be more than pleased
with the result.