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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04

in the selection of woman who is tt
play this role. It must be done in /;
tragic travesty style which shading
too much or too little might make Of
fensive. But Mr.. Hoyt feels that there
can be no danger of such happening
with the role Entrusted to the dexterous
and experienced hands'of Miss Lansin G
Rowan. He selected her for the part
out of all the prominent actresses
whose work is known 10 him, and he
has even gone SO far "a to chang" the
part and make /: more prominent.
The play comes to us highly endorsed
by dramatic circl' wherever it has
been presented and it's long run Of
more than 200 nights at Hoyt's
Theater, New York. makes the piece
familiar to that portion of the thester
thestrical affairs in the great me-
tropolis. The cast is an unusually
large one and EN- braces the best peO-
pie in the profession.
AS is generally known."A Milk White
Flag" is a keen but kindly satire on
the amateur warriors who compose the
militia companies of this great CONT
nent. Our boys in blue are just as fond
of an ice cream sOciable as they are Of
an hour on the parade grounds. They
like just as tall to whirl in the giddy
masses of the dance as to go to the
right and left about in company drill.
In other words they combine business
with pleasure, and with slight pre-
ponderance in favor of the latter. 1t
Is with this weakness of our brave de-
tenders that Author Hoyt deals in GA
Milk White Flag" He handles the
boys without gloves, but in such q
humorous way that no ono of them
could possibly take offence at his meth
cd, and strange to say, among the large
audiences that have witnessed the per-
Torrance of GA Milk White Flag"
local militia organizations have been
prominent. We are told that the play
comes to US this season brighter and
better than ever and with some of the
criticised features withdrawn and crisp
and witty dialogue and humorous sit
uations introduced in their stead.
Among the old favcrites who are in
the cast are Jno. w. Dunno, the man
whom Napoleon looked like; Geo. Tall
man, a fine baritone singer; Frank R.
Glenn, as surgeon: Richard Garnella,
as the only 'private'; that capital &C
tor, John S. Marble, as the undertaken,
and that clever artist, Jas. r. Smith,
as the ''dear departe One." The new
corners are Miss Lansing Rowan, a
very beautiful and clever actress, will
impersonate the widow: Jobyna How
land as the friend, N. J. Loring as the
general, and Hoyt's latest discovery in
the soubrette line, Mary Marble, as
the orphan. The costumes and scenery
are all new this season and the band Of
the Ransom Guards will "play on'' as
before, and all the latest catchy music
will be heard in "a Milk White Flag"
and it will doubtless float bravely in
the breezes of popular favor in Ell Paso
when they open here tonight. Mary
Marble, the soubrette, is regarded IS
one of the best travelling and the San
Francisco Examiner devotes half q
page to her antics on and off the
stage.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04
A MILK WHITE FLAG.
How Charles HOyt Came to Write This
Amusing PLAY.


About three years ago Charles Hoyt
visited Boston, and gave dinner to a
party of friends, among them being Eu-
gene Tompkins. proprietor of the Boston
Theater and the Academy of Music
New York; John McNally of the
Boston Herald; Julian Mitchell. gen.
eral stage manager for Hoyt; Harry
Mcclellan, Manager for Eugene
Tompkins, and Others.
During the course of the dinner
Hoyt incidentally told, in his quaint
and humorous way, a story which " as 30
thoroughly funny and the complicated
situations of the characters 90 absurd,
that he sat his hearers in commissions
of mirth. After the laughter had in q
measure subsidized. some one asked
HOyt if he had name sfor the story.
He replied that he thought he should
christen it THE Story of Milk White
Flag"
"Why don't you make play of
that?" said Tompkins
st would make capital play" re-
piled Hoyt, "but it would require so
many people, so,much scenery and no
end Of mechanical effects, so that it
wou be impr6cticable."
Nonsense" said Mitchell, "I'll bet
can with the assistance of Larry Nc
earthly. Tompkins st .ge manager, stage
that mo practicable TO m, and sif you
will write the piece, I'll also bet a
years. salary it will prove one of your
greatest successes"
"All right" said Hoyt. "I'll write a
play around that story call it "A Milk
White Flag" and wager set of dia-
mond shirt studs that it will be utterly
impract CABLE"
"Agreed,' said Mitchell, and the play
was written and produced and it has
proven the greatest financial and artis-
tic success of this popular play
wright.
AS usual thing Charles Hoyt writes
his plays for men. From ga Bunch of
Keys" down to ga Trip to Chinatown"
the women have occupied secondary
positions. There will be a partial
reversal of this condition of affairs in
ga Milk White Flag" Mr.. Hoyt's
newest competition, will receive it's
first presentation in Ell Paso this even
ing.
In ga Milk.White Flag" his shaft of
satire is aimed at our national guard.
One of the chief characters is a fin
de steele American woman who knows
her rights and means toOmaint.in
them. She becomes little tired of
her Lord and masters vacaries and
finally when he shows plainly that he
esteems -Four Queens" above his help
mates piece of mind, she characters
ticaily sets things in operation to free
her. But this is not all. She is eminent
ly practical woman end when the
local military company wishes to secure
the corpse of her suddenly deceased
husband she not only parts with it and
saves burial expenses, but also insists
upon a sum of money for turning over
the cadaver. 1t is easy to imagine just
why Mr.. Hcyt exercised such care
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04

President Ingalls,, of the Big -Four,
in speaking of the locomotives of the
future, said:
"Probably locomotives propelled by
electricity will come in the future. If
not, something else may, and we can
not tell what the next years have in
store in the way of improving our rail-
way facilities. Higher speed, possibly
cheaper trains; but it is necessary to
to this country of ours that the rail-
ways should be encouraged so that
branch lines can be built to every
county seat in the country. Instead of
stopping at 1872. 600 miles If railway, we
should build at least 1000 miles q year
in short and inexpensive lines as feed
ers to the main systems, go that the
days of the stage coach and the heavy
wagons should be unknown. This coun-
try will soon have 100, OOO, 900 people. 1t
will require at least 100000 miles of
railways to serve them properly-an
Increase of 40 per cent, over the pres
ent mileage.
"They cannot be built. they cannot
be improved and increased with the
present prejudice against them. The
development of the country demands
that this must be changed 1t is
through such institutions as this, it is
through such students as these, that
the change must come. In the centur-
les that have gone the ambitious youth
of the various countries sought fame
and preferment in war and its accom-
paniments. We live in better days
and in a higher civilization, but the
| service of our railways offers a wider
field for achievement aud for fame
than anything of old. The road to
success in this line is not through
carnage aud suffering, but it is none
the less sure and it requires equally
moral COURAGE and Intelligence. A
new evangel must be preached in
reference to railways; they must be
placed upon higher order, and instead
of being pariahs in business they must
be the benefactors and the friends of
all -
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04
Arkansas Saloon Gamhfiup law.

A Little Rock special Says: An i'm
portant act of the last Legislature will
go into effect tomorro~; and the local
saloon-keepers are making arrange
The act is to prohibit gaming and the
keeping and use in saloons and dram
shops OF musical instruments or gam
bling taoles/or devices; fencing, box
ing, wrestling, sparring or other ex-
hibitlonS or contests of dexterity or
streng9h; billiard and pool tables,
or any device commonly used for gam
ing playing any game of chance,
for smuseme Mt or gain. The penalty
foy the violation of this statute is fpe
OF not less than S25 nor more than 800,
s.nd In addition thereto the offender
Isha! forfeit his license and shall not
again be allowed to hold license for a
period OF three years. Shaking dice
for drinks Is al o prohibited,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04
The Building Unsafe.

Yesterday several builders along
with Chief Holland, of the fire depart
ment thoroughly examined the condi-
ton of the building now used as a city
hall and they all pronounced the
building as unsafe and liable to fall at
any time. With one hand the west
wall can be shaken so that q wave will
run down the walls like waves from q
pebble thrown into a still pond. The
foundation is also crum bling away ard it
does not now look as though the build
ing could even stand q strong wind
without the west and south wall giving
away. Chief Holland will recommend
to the city council that the south and
west walls be torn down and new ones
built. This is q matter that needs
prompt attention as any one who will
investigate can easily see that the
building is unsafe for occupancy in it's
present condition. The walls are
cracked from top to bottom and would
have fallen long ago if it had not been
for the iron braces that were put in
three years ago. The building is toe
dangerous to risk life and property =
and il the aldermen really knew
danger they were in every tins
council meets they would be viii
resign their positions rather t.
their lives in such an egg sheu
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04

A circular has been issued to all en- :
ployes of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa
f'e that they will be required to pay
their grocery. board, and doctors bills
with reasonable promptue ss. Outside
standing whisky accounts will be look
ed upon as sufficient cause for instant
dismissal. The company has lately
been troubled great deal by garpish-
ments, and it adopts this method as a
means of avoiding them in the future.
The Two Republics says: Work has
shut down on the construction of the
Mexican Southeastern railway. It shut
down On the 1st instant pending re-
organization of the company and other
details. The grading on this Istbmien
road has been COMPLETED for seventy
kilometers, and the rails will soon
arrive. The government inspector
and the full corpse of engineers are
yet on the ground expecting momen-
tarily word to resume building.
General Superintendent Sample OF
that the company has built at the
Burnham shops during the past year
$50 standard gauge, 80 foot. 10000.
pound capacity freight cars, on special
designs. They are lined so that they
may serve for fruit cars. The dead
weight of each car is only 1900
pounds. The Buroham shops have
turned out good share of the road e
new equipment during the last year
Two splendid heavy locomotives were
built there during the year.
The New York Commercial Adver.
tiser, in recent lengthy article on tb G
condition of the Santa Fee system, pre-
diets q preposterous future for the
road. from the basis Of what has been
accomplished since the reorgan izati IN
The article states that placing the OK.
ceptiOnal expenditures for improve.
ment last year, at 81, SOC, 900, which was
the exact amount spent by President
Ripley in imnreving the system, tbs
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04
To Snend s.. 600. 600.

The requests and estimates for new
work on the Santa Fee during the yeaI
1898 have been forwarded to Presiden,
Ripley in Chicago and by January Il
all will have been passed upon and 8
decision reached in every instance by
the chief executive of the road.
Already number of important i'm
provements, including the improve
ment of the western roadbed at an ex-
penditure IF one million dollars. have
been decided upon, but there are many
others to receive the consideration of
Mr.. Ripley. General Superintendent
Nudge is not to bs forgotten and has a
number of big improvements among
the estimates sent to President Ri
pley.
Among there is the improvement Of
the Fit. Madison shops. In addition to
this improvement considerable new
steel Is wanted on the Kansas and Col
Orado divisions, and the usual number
of substantial iron and masonry
bridges.
With the improvement of the Yves t.
ern roadbed, the Santa Fee company
will during the year 1898 spend over
81 ,O00, 900 in improvements.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04

company should earn, judging from the
figures in the annual report the full 4
per cent on the adjustment bonds, with
81, 900 900 over.
The Santa Fe car shops at Topeka,
Kan, have had an order for eight new
baggage cars sixty feet long and with
out platforms and doors. 1t has been
decided that the platforms on baggage
cars are necessarily weak, and in a
wreck they are generally crushed to
pieces. To do away with the platforms
will be great saving in the repairing,
besides making additional space in the
car. Express is carried In the cars,
and by ,doing away with end doors
and making the entrance on the side
defense against train robbers will be
much more effective.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04
Shippers Protest.

G. R. Hudson, assistant genera
freight agent of the Santa F'e has ,"
| ceived a petition from New Mexic
cattle shippers in the vicinity 81
Watt GUS and Dem!ng, protestiro
against the feeding transit rate Iatel $
placed in effect by the Santa Fee on
shipments of cattle from New Mexic
points into Kansas territory for feed
ing. The petition states that the ne :
b isis ties up too much money on cattl
shipments, and that fiat rate is pr e.
ferred.
Under the feeding transit basis New
Mexico shi ppers pay the rate from the
point of shipment into Kansas City
with the option of unloading the cattle
at any poiut along the main line in
Kansas. feeding there for any length
of time up to O. year, and having the
stock carr led to Kansas City for the
additional charge of SO per car. To
pay the fiat rate into the Kansas point
ard after feeding the fiat rate from
the Kansas points into Kansas City
costs the shippers in the majority of
cases more than the through rate to
Kansas City plus $40. but the shippers
object to paying the through rate be-
cause of the money tied up by such
system. The Santa Fe company put
the new basis in to protect it's inter-
ests by making the shipments of cattle
through to the Kansas City market
sure.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04
A Santa Fe Mineral Branch.

The Santa Rita railroad company,
organized to build q branch of the
Santa Fee from San Jose. near Silver
district, has been chartered at Santa
Fe city. E P. Ripley, o. Chicago. r..
K. i'alen, j. II. Vaughan, r G.
Gortner, of Santa Fe, and II. L. Waldo
and r. E. Twitchell, of Las Vegas, are
the directors. The capital stock is
$4,000. This move signals a new de.
parture in Mexico on behalf of the
Santa Fe railway management that lie
most encouraging to the mining inter-
ests. The new road will be built al
once, and it is said several branch lines
into other mining camps will soon be
under way.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04
Large Indian Depreciation Claims.

San Antonio, Te3. An Indian de-
probation claim apvolving a good
sized fortune is non being investig ated
by Government Attorney Ellsworth
Ineals. The claimants are the widow
and children of AYhos Barnes, aud the
indemnity they seek to recover amounts
to sl25, 900. Mrs. 5arnes and two of
her sons reside in This city. The de-
to recover indemnity occurred near
Fort Thorn, N. Min the spring of
1861. The elder Amos Barnes, It 10
clsinsd, had contracted to furnish the
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04
Horace B. Stevens,
Real Estate and InSur.
anCe Agent.
! Solicit Collection of Rents
and make no charge for
Advertising.
FOR SALE

NORTH STANTON STREET, near
Hildebrand residence, 2 lots; $500.
One-third cash.
NORTH KANSAS STREET, 81 lots
for 500 cash.
UPSOM AVENUE, between N. Ell
Paso and Santa Fee SITS. As feet for
5000; one-third cash.
NORTH OREGON STREET, corner of
Rio Grande, 175x175. Room for
houses. CHEAP.
MESA AVENUE, 2 lots, corner, for
500.
IDAHO STREET, lots at a sacrifice.
BUSINESS CORNER, Mesa avenue
and Texas Sire ct, II5x6O feet. A bar
gain and terms to suit.
IL LOTS on San Antonio Street, facing
MagOmn homestead.
TWO LOTS on East Overland. Cheap.
ONE LOT, near Mesa School.
6OxI2O feet on West Overland Street.
per month, for Sc, 200.
81 500 will buy row of houses pay
ing 1854 a month
MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS and
small cash payment will buy 7-roOm
brick house, 1l6 Upsom Avenue.
614 N. OREGON STREET, brick house
5 rooms. Easy terms.
407 N. Ell PASO STREET, rooms,
400 N. Ell. PAsO STREET, rooms,
brick
BRICK HOUSE of 5 rooms on North
Stanton Street; southeast corner; q
rleasant home.
NEAR S. p. DEPOT, on N. Kansas
Street, broom brick.
GOOD PAYING LODGING HOUSE,
Is rooms.
LARGE BRICK RESIDENCE. Gen.
trally located. Suitable for fashion
able boarding.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04
New Pass Record.

When the fortunate individuals who
are honored with Santa Fe annual
passes receive their transportation
cardboards this year they also receive
q small yellow card bearing on ore side
the address of General Manager j. J.
Frey. The other side is request for the
signature of the person to whom the
pass is issued and the insertion of the
number of the pass, with space. for
both.
The small yellow cards -sreI for the
purpose of record, and are to} be filed
urass a new SYSTEM rsoo rdSs
passes on the Santa as form 81
rasoras have bsea /st by entry
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04

Sunset Limited east Bound''
leaves e. Psso Wednesdays and Satur-
days at 1900 O'Clock noon city time.
West Bound arrives Mondays and
thursdays at 4:3O p. m. city time:
tickets and further information,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04
Link Restaurant,
3l5 Eel Paso street.
A First-CIass Short Order ouse
Open Day and Night.

government with $500 head of cattle
at $50 per head. Before be had de-
livered the cattle band of Apache
and Navajo Indians, some 400 strong,
m ade q raid on Barnes ranch, and ac-
cording to tbs testimony deduced by
the claimants, drove off the entire
herd. Some of the troops from the
fort and posse of ranchmen and cow
boys pursued and overlook the raiders,
but after q fight the Indians escaped
with the cattle.
Cuban church authorities state that
the loss of life on the island the past
year has not been Less than 1000, 900,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-04

in passbs oks. The system l. ssid
to be more convenient and is il
use on many of the large rail- DAD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-07
HIS HEALTH RETURNS.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Fully Recovered
After Winter in Egypt

Network, March 7.-Cornelius Van
derbilt has written a letter of ten pages
from Damascus to Chauncey NJ. Depew.
IF crystal had a mind" Mr.. Depew
said today in reply to a question
about this letter. that is the way it
would write"
Mr.. Depew's face radiated happiness.
He continued: Mr.. Vanderbilt's
strength has returned, he has been in
Egypt, where the weather in winter is
gentle to man He is not worried by
business affairs, as a cOnvalescent is
always, which is an evidence that his
efforts and those of his physicians to
aid nature for his recovery have not
been in Vain.'
Jean Charcot is Mr.. Vanderbilt's ply
iscian, accompanying him on his travels.
Jean CharcOt is the son of the celebrat-
ed scientist in nervous diseases, who
made marvellous experiments on the
subjects that he fascinated in the Sal
petriere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-07
is POPULISM DOOMED?
j. Lee Simpson Thinks the Appoint
ment of Frank Gable Sealed the
Party's Fate.

J. Lee Simpson of Tonganoxie,a mem
Der of the POpuHst state committee
from the First district seems to be
thoroughly convinced that Governor
Leedy's appointment of Frank Gable,
a Democrat, to the position of deputy
warden of the penitentiary which he
held under the Lewelling administra-
ton, will ultimately wreck the cause of
POpulism in the United States.
In Mr.. Simpsons opinion the great
wave of reform will roll backward and
the S2,0 600 majority which did not dis
appear without a cause" will again
Overwhelm the dOwntrodden people of
Kansas.
Me-. Simpson aired his grievances in
a lengthy communication to w. T. Tip
ton, clerk at the penitentiary, who is
also secretary of the state committee of
which Mr. Simpson is a member.
In the letter to Mr.. Upton, Mr.. Simp-
son points out wherein the governor has
irreparably damaged the party. He
says:
4 now am of the opinion that Gov.
Leedy has no more show of reelection
if renominated (and every effort posi-
BILE is making to renominate him) than
a snow ball has to go through-(what
is the new word for hell, gehenna, shoel
Topeka, Hades or Kansas City?)
Gov. Leedy has bitten off more than
he can masticate in too many in
stances.
First, the railroad bill veto and act
ion on the matter This effort to get
the expression of senators and repre-
sentatives on railroad legislation indi-
Gates that somebody has given him the
tip.
Second, when he sat down on Sena-
tors Harris and King and their sup
pOrters and spit on them.
Third, when he used his appOintive
power to build up personal political
party-a Leedy party out of refused
material Won't the fur fly, though,
when the political debts are being
squared? The best thing Gov. Leedy
can do for himself and the party is to
decline to make the race for governor"
AS a postscript Mr.. Simpson adds the
following: when Gov. Leedy appoint
ed Frank Gable, a Democrat, deputy
warden Che is really warden now Leedy
broke his neck and made our recoming
into power a questiOn-as explained to
the conference at Topeka after the
eIection-what I then predict has come
to pass
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-07
SENATOR RUSH FREED
From the Indictment in Connection
With the Larned Bank.

EX-State Senator ]. w. Rush of Lar
ned is again a free man as far as the
government of the United States is
concerned.
He was under Indictment on nine
counts for misappropriating the funds
of the First National bank of Larned,
of which he was president, but Judge
Williams today quashed the indictment.
The indictment was quaShed on the
technical grounds that it did not state
an Offense, that the language was not
sufficiently explicit, that an attempt
was made in one indictment to charge
two separate Offenses, and there was
no averment of crime.
This will end the prosecution, for there
is no likelihood that Mr.. Rush will
again be indicted
The motion to quash was argued this
morning by Charles Blood Smith and
decided by Judge Williams at once.