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CIVIL SERVICE LAWS.
A Majority of Republican Con-
gressmen Favor Changes.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE can
vass of Republican members of the
House ON the question of changing the
civil service law, which has been con-
Quoted by the Republican Steering
Committee, is about completed. OF
the POP Republican members of the
House. the canvass is said to show that
a majority varying from eighteen to
forty is favorable to change in the
law, according to the degree of change
proposed. This last fact leads to some
difference of opinion as to the result
of the canvass.
Representative Pearson of North Car
DINA, a member of the committee,
places the number of Republicans who
can be depended on at III. Evans or
Kentucky, another member of the COM
mittee, places the number at $50.
Those who have made the canvass
say that in a number of cases entire
State delegations are shown by the
canvass to favor a change in the law.
notably North Carolina, Tennessee,
Kentucky, West Virginia and New
Hampshire. The Minnesota count
shows all but one for a change, and
Michigan all but two. In Pennsylvania
twenty-five out of twenty seven Re-
publican members are counted in the
canvass for a change in the law.
Beyond completing the canvass, the
opposition to the civil service law is
taking no active steps for the present,
the purpose being to wait until the reg
ular Civil Service Committee of the
House takes action on the bill before
it proposes a modification Of the law.
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FEATS OF SURGERY.
REMOVAL OF THE STOMACHS
OF TWO PERSONS.
Operations Successfully Perform
ed, but in One Case the Patient
Was Too Weak to Survive.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 15.-Conrad Beck, a
machinist, AZ years of age, has had his
stomach removed and still lives He
was sent to the hospital to be operated
on for cancer of the stomach. Wednes-
day morning the operation was per-
formed. When the abdomen was opened
the whole length from the esophagus
to within one inch of the pyloris The
latter outlet of the stomach was entire
ly free from the disease.
All the stomach viscera were re-
moved and then the pyloris was sewed
to the esophagus, making a complete
and perfect duct. The operation was
finished in two hours and six minutes
The fact that Beck has survived thus
far is encouraging to science, but it is
impossible now to tell what the out
come may be. The patient will be kept
in the strictest seclusion for at least
ten days This morning Beck was con-
scious, but extremely weak
THE PATIENT DIED.
CHICAGO, Jan. 15.-Under unfavor-
able conditions the operation of remov-
ing the stomach from a woman, which
was successfully performed in Zunich
last September and startled the sur
gical world, was repeated yesterday in
Milwaukee by DR.. E. j. Farnum of
Chicago, assisted by DR.. D. p. G. Hank
WITT of the Wisconsin City Hospital.
Mrs. E. Bestain was the patient. The
stomach was removed, but the patient
died four hours afterward.
Mrs. Bestain was a sufferer for years
with cancer of the stomach. On No
vember Goth last an operation to re-
move the cancer was performed, but
it was not successful, as the cancerous
growth reformed. She was still weak
from the effects of the first operation
when the physicians decided that an
other operation would be necessary.
When told that it was the only hope
they had of saving her life, weak as
she was, Mrs. Bestain readily consent
ed and it was decided that the only
possible operation which could benefit
her was the same which DIR. Carl
1chlatter had performed.
The physicians closely followed the
Schlatter operation and carefully re-
moved the entire organ. They found
then that the cancer had not only af-
fected the stomach, but that it had also
consumed much of the other tissues.
This necessitated the removal of
had thought necessary at first. They,
however, performed the operation sue
cessfully, but on account of the weak
condition of the patient she was not
able to survive.
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AT THE TRAPS.
Fred Gilbert Defeats j. A. r. FL
lot in a 1OO-Bird Match.

NSW YORK, Jan. 15.-Fred Gilbert
of Spirit Lake, Ia, defeated J. A. r.
Elliot, the wing shot from Kansas City,
in 100-bird match at thirty yards for
the Dupont championship trophy and
$1,000 a side to-day at Dexter Park, l..
l., by a score of SO to 81.
The match was shot in a drizzling
rain that did not deter 200 sportsmen
from wading more than half a mile in
yellow mud to see the contest. Elliot
was a Slight favorite before the start.
but after the first twenty-five pigeons
had left the traps every indication
pointed to a victory for Gilbert.
In the first quarter of the journey Ell
liot, who was first at the traps, missed
his third and eighth. In his second
string he missed his twentieth. His
third quarter of the match recorded
three misses, his seventeenth, twentieth
and twenty-fourth, while in the last
twenty-five he failed to stop his fourth.
ninth and twentieth. The last two fell
dead out of bounds.
Gilbert missed his tenth and twenty
fourth birds in his first twenty-five.
They dropped dead out of bounds. He
shot his second string straight, missed
his fifteenth in the third quarter. and
then shot straight until his twenty
second in the last string, a grand total
of ninety-six killed.
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Eight Men Killed During a Fight at
Sandy Fork.
The Trouble the Outgrowth Of a Dispute
Over a Game of Cards.
A Despondent Bookkeeper at CHI
cago Commits Suicide by Jump
Ing From the Railing in the
Hotunda of the Sixteenth Story
of the Masonic Building OF
That City.

MlDDLESBORO Oky.). Jan. II. - Al
special from Hynen says that there was
night at Sandy Fork, in Leslie Coun-
~, late yesterday. Eight men were re-
ported killed, as follows John Williams.
Doc Wilson, Bob ColwelI, Tom Shelton.
Peter Burrough, Mark Paine. Eli How
ard and Abel Coombs, all colored Sim
Payne, Larry McComas, Ed Martin and
Lew Gossom are seriously wounded.
Intense excitement prevails, and fur
Their lighting is expected. The fight
occurred over cards in a blind tiger
The extraordinary blood-letting ac
Sandy Fork began Wednesday. when
a party of negroes who We're playing.
cards at what is called a blind tiger
got into a dispute concerning the way
the game was progressing. Drunkenr-
ness added TO the brutality of the fight
Four men were killed, and subsequent
ly the lighting was renewed by friends
on both sides, until the mortality list
is equal almost to the casualties in u
military engagement. The feeling
aroused gives rise to apprehension of
more crime.
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ANTI-SCALPING BILL.
HEARING BEFORE THE SENATE
COMMITTEE.
Volume Of Business Transacted by
Scalpers Last Year Over
100000.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The Senate
committee on InterGtate Commerce
this morning resumed the hearing of
the anti-scalping bill, and statement
was submitted by Bert w. Lyon. ed
itor of the Commercial Traveller of
st. Louis
Mr.. Lyon said that F. J. Feeley and
+. f. Dow of New York did not repre-
sent the 300, 900 travelling statesmen Of
The country While he did not desire to
be understood as claiming TO represent
all or them, he was absolutely satisfied
that the great majority of these trav-
elers We're in favor OF the pending bill
III 1t were not for the severe restrictions
placed by the railroads upon local rates,
made necessary by the business of the
ticket brokers, it would be possible for
commercial travellers to make much
better arrangements for their trans
portation than they are now able to.
Nh. Lyon held that, as a business
proposition, the railroads could afford
TO sell transportation in large quanti-
Ties at lower rate than they could sell
small quantities. He held, therefore
that the commercial traveller, who was
on the railroads practically all the time.
was entitled to lower rates than the
person who travelled only occasionally
and then for a short distance.
George Mckenzie, the Chicago ticket
broker, presented affidavits from va
rfous ticket brokers in Chicago, St.
Louis, Boston, Louisville and other
cities, setting forth that they had pur-
chased tickets directly from the author
ized agents of railroads, in some cases
receiving commissions. In response to
inquiries by Senator Cullom. Mr.. Nc
kenzie named, among the lines with
which he had done business in Chicago.
the Big Four, Chicago and Great West
ern, Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
Chicago and Alton, Union Pacific. Mo-
non route, Wisconsin Central. Cana
dian Pacific and Rock Island He was
unable to afford the committee details
and particulars concerning the business
done with those lines.
Senator Elkins inquired what the an
nual volume of Mr.. McKenzie's BUSH
ness was, and he replied that II ag-
gregated last year S660,000
No wonder you are making a fight
against this BILL" said Mr. Elkins.
The questioning of Mr. Mckenzie
brought out the statement that the
bulk OF his business was done over the
weak lines. He said that he could do
little business with the Canadian Pa
cific because law of Canada prohib-
tied brokerage in railroad tickets with
in the limits of the Dominion.
MIR. Mckenzie did not say that he
himself had received commissions from
the railroads for the sale of tickets.
but he presented statements from ether
brokers that they had been paid COM
missions from other railroads.
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PARDONED BY THE PRESIDENT
Clyde Mattox, Who Murdered a
Negro in Indian Territory.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The Presi-
dent has extended complete pardon TO
Clyde Mattox, who is now serving life
sentence in the Kansas State Peniten-
tiary for the murder of John Mullis, a
negro, committed in the Indian Terri
tory.
The Mattox case was highly sensa-
tional. He was tried altogether three
times, and in 1894 was sentenced to
death. President Cleveland gave care
full consideration to his case, and upon
strong representations made to him
by friends of Mattox in June, 1896, COM
muted his sentence to Imprisonment for
life.
Mrs. Sadie M. Hatch, Mattox's moth
er, has spent her estate in fighting the
case, and it is due to her efforts that the
pardon has been secured Mattox comes
of an aristocratic Southern family. He
was born in Texas.
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INDIA FINANCES.
A Great Advance Made Toward 4
Gold Standard.

CALCUTTA, Jan. 13.-James West
land, the Finance Minister Of the
Council at yesterdays meeting Of that
body made a speech in which he said
he was unable to give a final reply to
the question of the Introduction Of a
gold standard.
One thing was clear, he continued. A
great advance had been made in the
direction contemplated by the authors
of the policy of 1898, namely, that the
gold standard would become possible.
Many obscure points had been deter
mined by actual experience. The dis
asters CT 1897 had been followed by a
bountiful harvest, and the renewal of
discussions of last autumn had pre-
pared the public and official opinion in
England to the possible necessity of
the gold standard which might involve
the actual diversion for Indian pur-
poses of certain amount of gold from
the general available stock.
The speaker said also that he was
fully alive to the grave commercial
bearings of the subject, adding that if
the legislation of 1893 had not been in
troduced, exchange might have drop
ped to 8 pence, and the present situa-
ton might have been far worse
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BURGLARS AT GRAY GABLES.
Ex-President Cleve1and's Summer
Home Ransacked.

BOSTON, Jan. ia dispatch to the
Globe from Buzzards Bay says:
Gray Gables. the summer home of
ex-President Cleveland, has been Wis
tied by burglars. who ransacked the
house from attic to cellar, and made
their escape without leaving the slight
est clue TO their identity. When the
burglary took place is quite as much of
a mystery as is the identity of those
who were concerned in it. Brad Wright,
who has charge of the Cleveland es-
tate, made the discovery several days
ago. and he Immediately reported the
facts to the town officials, and notified
President Cleveland
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JAILS IN INDIAN TERRITORY.
McKenna Asks an Appropriation
to Erect New Buildings.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Attorney-
General McKinna has sent to Congress,
through the treasury, a recommended
ton for urgent deficiency appropria-
tions for the United States Courts ag-
gregating over half a million dollars.
The principal item called for is So
600 to establish sites and erect United
States jails in the Northern and South
ern Districts of the Indian Territory
at Muskogee, South McAlister and
Ardmore, respectively, and incidental
purposes.
The Attorney General says 1t is ap-
parent that the buildings now utilized
as jails there are far from satisfactory,
and complaints due to their utter I'M
fitness are constantly arising. There
are no buildings in the Territory pos
sessing even to a remote extent those
qualifications which would render them
suitable for the detention and safe
keeping Of prisoners, according to the
Attorney General and the efforts of the
department to have properly equipped
buildings erected by residents Of the
Territory have been Intellectual.
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MINEWORKERS.
Decide to Ask an Advance in the
Rate Of Wages.

COLUMBUS CO.,, Jan. 15.-The
United Mineworkers of America de-
cided to-day to ask for an advance of
10 cents per ton on next years contract
for pick mining, and three-fifths of
the pick mining price for machine min
ing in Ohio Illinois and Pennsylvania,
and four-fifths in Indiana and other
low coal districts.
The convention decided that screens
ought to be abolished, all coal to be
weighed unscreened. The convention
will go to Chicago uninstructed on the
differential, but instructed to ask oper-
ators to establish eight hours as days
work.
1t is foreshadowed here that the Ma
tional Federation of Labor will probably
select the miners as the organization to
inaugurate the movement for the eight
hour system on or before May 1st, as
per action of the Federation at its last
convention.
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WIFE MURDERER MERRY.
Now Charged With the Killing of
Another Woman.

CHICAGO, Jan. 15.-Another charge
of murder may be placed against Chris
Merry, the peddler, who is on trial for
beating and kicking his wife to death.
A woman, Ducene Johnson, who was the
only witness to the murder of her room
mate, Mary Muller, at 10 Green street
a year ago, and who was held by the
police for several days. told the police
to- day that she was certain Merry was
the murderer. She reiterated her state.
ment at the County Jail, when brought
face to face with Merry. The Muller
woman was stabbed to death by man
whose identity has been a mystery.
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CRUISER CHICAGO.
Secretary Long Asks for a Large
Sum to Improve Her Battery.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Secretary
of the Navy Long sent a recommends
ton to Congress to-day for an appro-
priation of $4,000 for improvements in
the battery of the cruiser Chicago, and
accompanying it is a strong report of
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt in which
he points out some weaknesses of the
navy Mr.. Roosevelt says the Chicago
is being rebuilt at cost considerably
greater than was her original contract
price, and says the department will be
inexcusable if it turns out "a new ship
with defective guns for her main bat
terry. 1t will be expensive to put four
new guns aboard the Chicago, but no
more than 6 per cent. of the total ex-
penditure on repairs.
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nounces that the insurgent leader Lo-
relo Cepero, q naturalized American
citizen. has surrendered to the Spanish
authorities.
According to Spanish advices, Briga-
dier-General Molina had an engagement
lasting two hours at Boca Camaraca,
Province Of Matanzas. with a force of
800 insurgents The latter. the adj
vices say, occupied we'll intrenched po-
sitions, but were compelled to retire,
leaving six of their number dead on
the field. A quantity of ammunition
was captured by the Spaniards. The
Spanish loss was three killed and
twenty Eight wounded, including two
officers.
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KIAoCHAU BAY.
China Refuses to Grant a Lease for
Ninety Nine Years.

PEKJN, Jan. 15.-Germany has de-
manded a ninety-nine years lease of
Kiaochau and large area surrounding.
China offers to lease the bay and shores
only for fifty years. Here the matter
rests. The Germans insist on the right
to build railroads and work mines
whenever they wish.
1t is reported that railroad from
Kiaochau to Binan Flu has been agreed
to, the Germans acquiring mining
rights for a mile on each side of the
line and Chinese to be admitted as
shareholders. Germany has renewed
her demand for an indemnity of 200. 900
taels for the erection of a Cathedral
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CHICAGO, Jan. 15.-Jack Bonner Of
Philadelphia and Australian Billy
Smith met for six rounds in the gym
nasium of the Chicago Athletic Club
tonight. George Siler, who acted as
referee. gave the fight to Bonner in
the third round. Bonner had the best of
it throughout, knocking Smith down
twice in the first round, once in the
second and three times in the third.
Jimmy Murphy of Chicago met George
Kerwin, the club champion for six
rounds The decision was given to
Kerwi1 in the fifth round, he having
Knocked Murphy down repeatedly.
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Battleship Texas.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The bat
tleship Texas sailed from New York
at O'Clock this afternoon to join the
North Atlantic squadron. Admiral ST.
card has been granted permission by
Secretary Long to delay the sailing of
the squadron from Hampton Roads I'M
til tomorrow morning in order that the
Texas may join it off the Chesapeake
capeS.
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charged before the Maiden Head Coun-
ty Court with riding their bicycles on
sidewalks. The papers have pointed
out that few days ago man who was
leading an urfmuzzled dog belonging to
the Queen across Windsor bridge was
summoned for so doing, and claimed
exemption. But the magistrate said:
The bite of Queens dog is equally
as dangerous as the dog of another.
The Queen must pay fine of five shil-
lings." The Queen paid the fine.
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TRANSPORTATION of Bullion.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15--The SUBJ
committee of the Senate Committee on
Appropriations considering the urgency
deficiency appropriation bill decided to-
day to eliminate the provision inserted
by the House requiring owners Of bull
lion to pay the transportation on 1t
from the assay office to the minis.
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Afridis Reoccupy Khyber Pass.

LONDON, Jan. 15.-The Earl of Ell
gin, Viceroy of India, has wired the
Government that the Zakka-Khel Afri-
dis have reoccupied Khyber Pass, and
that the cutting of wires and firing
upon escorts have recommended.
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Eight Hundred Buildings Burned.

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Officers of the
Atlas line steamer Andes, which vessel
arrived to-day from Haytian ports, say
that 500 buildings were destroyed by the
fire which devastated Port au Prince on
December 18th
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Commodore Howell.

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Commodore
John A. Howell started for Genoa to-
day on the North German Lloyd steam
err Werra, to assume command of the
American squadron of war ships on the
EllrOpean station.
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Condition Of the Treasury.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-To- days
statement of the condition of the Treas
ury shows: Available cash balance
$3.50 GAG, 1879; gold reserve, S162, AIS, 500.
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Money in Football Games.

NEW HAVEN (Conn.), JAN 15.-Ac-
cording to the report given out to-day
by Manager T. c. Twitchell. the total
receipts of the Yale Princeton football
game were $2S.316. and the expendi-
lures 81. 231
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You can't always tell what a man
thinks of you by what he says.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-10
Still Experimenting.

1t would seem from the action of con-
gress that the law makers are not veal
of dangerous experiments or else the
members of the two branches of that
body are ~endeavoring to disarm opposi-
ton in the coming election.
The conference committee on the war
revenue bill has agreed to the PROPOSE
ton to coin the silver seigniorage in the
treasury. although in a modified form
from that proposed by the senate. The
senate amendment provided for the coin
age of 81, 900, 900 per month; the confer
ence arrangement provides for coming
ST., 500, 900 per month. Treasury experts
estimate that it will require five years
to coin the silver on hand available for
that purpose, which means that 1t will
be five years before there is any market
for a single ounce of silver more than
the demand requires at this time.
No doubt the free silverites imagine q
great victory has been won for their
hobby, and perhaps several congress
men will be reelected because of the
arrangement, but it requires a very
vivid Imagination to see where the vic
tory comes in. 1t is to be hoped, how
ever, that this action on the part of the
United States will force the great none
tary powers of the world to restore sill
yer to its former place as a primary
money metal. II such should be the re-
suit no country would receive greater
benefit than the United States, but
That little word "but" is so full of
adverse possibilities that even the
~staunchest friend of silver will almost
hold his breath while the experiment is
tried. 1t may bring financial hardships
which will prove a burden on the coun-
try; it may result in conditions which
will in q large Measure destroy the
prosperity 10Y in sight for the country.
However, it is best to always look upon
the bright side Of such affairs.
There is one consoling feature about
the new coinage act, should 1t receive
the presidents signature, II 1t proves
disastrous in its operations, 1t q be
repealed before any vast amount Of harm
has been done.
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A. D. Wilson has returned to Albu-
uuerquc from a visit to his son in Ration.
Mrs, James Sullivan sand children
have returned to Ration from a visit to
Missouri.
A. Cecil and Geo. NJ. Roesgen caught
70 trout in the Sugarite near Ration, one
day last week.
Colonel Harry Whigham, su%perinten-
dent of the Ration Coal &Coke company,
is in Chicago on business.
Miss Helen and Esther McNair, of
Las Vegas, are visiting their cousin, Miss
Sadie Blackwell, in Ration.
diff Rydberg and family, of Bloss-
burg, have moved to Cerrillos where
they will reside in the future.
Mrs. N. CORN, of Ration, is chaperon-
ing Misses Elma Weight and Lizzie
Downing on a Colorado trip.
Miss Lizzie Colley has returned to her
Springer home from a visit to her sister,
Mrs. James Gillespie, at Ration.
The pay roll for the La Junta-Raton
division of the Santa Fe Ry. last month,
was $50, 900. Over half the amount goes
to Ration.
Mrs. A. Hoffman and daughters, EN-
ma and Esther, of Ration. have gone to
Queen City, Mo-, where they will spend
the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Liberman, of
Chicago, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Simon Cohn in Ration. Chicago does
not compare to Ration in their estima-
tion.
Colfax County.
Thomas W. Mould died at Willow
Creek last week.
Ranchmen around Elizabethtown have
seeded a large area this season.
A daughter has been born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Pearson of El~izabethtown.
DR.. l.. l.. Cahill, of Menden, Mich,
has hung out his single in Elizabeth
town.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-10

The revenue laws of the territory are
good enough were they properly exc
cuted in letter and in spirit. But they
are not. Several of the counties are In
a hopeless financial muddle and the ter
ritory has to borrow right along in one
shape or another. AS territorial legis-
lation does not seem to better the fnan-
condition of the territory and of the
counties, what is the matter with a little
federal legislation?
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-10

Some cough mixtures
smother the cough. But the
next breeze fans it into life
again.
Better put the cough out.
That is, better 60 deeper
and smother the fires of in
Aammation. Troches can
not do this. Neither can
plain cod-liver oil.
But SCOTS Emulsion can.
The glycerine soothes and
makes comfortable; the hy-
pophosphites give power and
stability to the nerves; and
the oil feeds and strengthens
the weakened tissues.
soc. and ei.oo, ali druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New Yeek.