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make a speciality of executions and dabble in the morbid with truly arr tistic touch.
 Not long ago Durrant, the father, tried to get Warden Hales consent to the use of a kinetoscope, the sen fur nishing the subject. On Theodore's last night on earth the mother intimat- ed that anything he might say was worth money to the listener. These facts dull the inclination to express condolences.
 Theodore Durrant had boasted that he would die like Durrant He seems to have done so. As to his relig- ious views and their sudden changes, surely a man about to die may be his own counselor. There are phases of the matter rot here to be discussed. and as to speculation as to whence came the traits which made of him a mon- ster, thing of memory to be abhorred pity draws the veil. The man desery- ed to die; he is dead. So far as the world may know, he died without re- morse, upheld to the last by bravery that was perversion, stoicism repel- lant ands abnormal. To the writings he may have left the healthy mind will attach no value, the decent journal give no publicity.
 Durrant retired at 1 o'clock yesterday morning and awakened at 6:20 o'clock The decision made with the approval of his mother late Thursday night that he would join the Catholic Church. in the bosom of whose confessional the guilt of mankind is forever hidden had produced on him a stimulating effect Between the time his mother departed and he went to bed, he paced the floor and rehearsed the speech he uttered from the scaffold. Such is the state
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They speculated whether the prisoner would die game" They craned necks when the prisoners mother went in. Professional men composed a large share of the throng. They did not ap- pear excited. There were jests and talk of the weather. The sun was bright on the waters of the bay, and touched the old gray building. It was good to stand there when one could for get that inside a man was making his last farewell to father and mother, but rafting bolts and the steady pace of guards would not let forgetfulness stay.
 The crowd grew more dense. It parted when the Warden stepped into its midst with hand upraised. pris- oner limped in weary with the drag ging of an iron boot. "He has to serve life sentence" said the officer who had him in charge. This was only an incident, and few noted it. The War den's wish was to counsel decorum forbid the carrying of firearms into the building, and to say there must be no smoking. There was no demur The crowd was well behaved
 As the final hour approached solem- nity rested upon the throng like a shadow. By relays the invited filed in through the massive gates across a court where flowers bloomed; through another gate, and up rickety stairs to ] large room, whitewashed and bare only for some rocking chairs. Here there was no idle talk, and men who spoke spoke in whispers. Beyond the next door they knew were the instru- ments of the law. When that door opened there was no rush. Some hesi- tated, some turned back; those who passed on went with slow step and bar
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William Henry Theodore Durrant died the death he had earned and against which he had fought with the bitterness of desperation. His brief life went out in odium unspeakable, and his body bearing the mark of the felon, is not even welcome to the em- brace of the grave.
 His career, since the day he lured to her fate a helpless girl who had trust ed him, has been with few gleams of aught to show him human. True, he has wept, but his tears were not tears of penitence, such as may efface the record of evil. From Emmanuel Church to the gallows he bore the bur den of his guilt. He died as he had liv- ed. an enigma. With falsehood on his pallid lips he entered where finite judg- ment cannot follow, his last word a hollow plea of innocence which fell up- on the strained ear of every listener as mockery made awful because it came from the tomb. No, not on every ear; there was present a bowed and seemingly broken man who leaned his head to the shoulder of a friend and sought to hide the grief which shook him. The father was there.
 The execution was accomplished without unnecessary delay, and there was no accident to mar the hideous programme. On the scaffold, with the moose about his neck, Theodore Dur rant turned to the hangman and en- deavored to speak, but his jaws were set and his throat visibly throbbed with the effort. Yet the hangman un- derstood and paused. Then Durrant addressed those who had come to see him die.
 At first his voice faltered, but the speaker gained confidence, and went to the end of a set declaration, which he had practiced and had rehearsed in part to most of the visitors to his cell. His tone was devoid of feeling, with out emphasis or elasticity It was as though under the stimulus of gal vanic battery corpse had uttered forms of speech, meaningless, empty; lifeless and soulless. There was noth- ing of the heroic about him; an au- tomaton could not be courageous. He would have said more, but the black cap hid his face Innocent" was the final word, almost lost in the crash of the trap.
 An execution is more than grue- some spectacle. It is horror, giving a lesson to crime. No account of one can be a pleasant thing. Yet it is just that it be portrayed true to life and death, The glamor of the gallows needs to be dispelled. There is a diseased in- telligence which conceives the assassin to be great, would decorate his prison with flowers, would initiate him.
 People seek the privilege of witness ing an execution. They want to look upon the struggle, to hear the gasp, to bear away a picture of a mortal az ony. Yesterdays affair was no excep tion. Long before the appointed hour men began to arrive. They fiocked about the doors, peering in curiously.
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ment of his guards who stood near him on the gallows.
 Captain Edgar had provided brown sack coat suit of clothing, fetched from the wardrobe at the home of the Dur rants, and the regulation slippers. When dressed Durrant asked for black stockings and permission to wear a standing collar and white cravat. It was explained that the wearing of col lars would not be allowed, whereupon he volunteered to take 1t off before the execution. This last expression of his love of display was gratified. Black stockings were procured by Captain Edgar. as were the collar and white necktie.
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Graphic Pen Picture of tbe Last Hours in tbe Career of q Remark
 able CriniDuI.
A GHASTLY BANQUET.

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It is by design, and after ma ture deliberation, that The Call prints the story of the Durrant execution without any illustra- tions, and with no attempt at establishment of the plain facts. There is a feeling freely expressed that the continued strain of sensationalism has been distinctly injurious, that to the movements ard plans of the man while living an undue prominence was attached, and that now that he is dead, only a morbid craving, to which there is no wisdom in catering, is to be satisfied by making a pictorial display of the last hours of his wasted life. In talk ing this course The Call has no apology to offer, believing that it will be sustained by the best sentiment of the community.
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ed heads. It was the chamber of death.
 There stood the gallows, the noosed rope looped over a beam There was the sentry-box. in which three guards were secreted, their mission to cut the cord that should release the trap and send soul into eternity. Each of the trio
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Until after breakfast Durrant was taciturn, but evidently resigned. He ate heartily of beafsteak, ham, eggs, fruit, crackers and tea.
 Meanwhile the buses had arrived from the early trains and the area in front of the prison was crowded with
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YELLOW
 JOURNALISM
 UNDERTAKERS
How tbe Body Was Escorted to tbe Home of the
 DurrQNtS.

The larger part of the visitors made haste to catch the first train back to the Tiburon ferry, and by 12:30 o'clock only a few reporters lowered about the prison. Mrs. Durrant meanwhile had
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been escorted by a guard to the furni-
 ture building, and seated in the rear room to which the elevator ascends un- til the body of her son was brought out from the cell corridor. After having dined complacently with her husband
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they heard the mother say, Papa, I'll take some more of that roast" they could but wonder.
 Having satisfied their appetites the parents went away in a hack, paid for by the Examiner. and accompanied by representatives of that paper, who
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reporters, persons who had cards of admission to the execution and per sons who had none but begged to be favored. The Warden positively re-
 fused to issue another one. He briefly warned everybody not to carry any
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

FIRST PAGE. Theodore Durrant Is Hanged.
 SECOND PAGE. What the Moose Said to Durrant. Fresno Bremen at War.
 THIRD PAGE. Dudley's Arrest a Mistake. Wife Killed by Her Husband England and Japan Are Allies. Lining Up Democrats Against Hama
 FOURTH PAGE. Hangman's Day at the East Congress Hard at Work. Officers to Be Retired.
 FIFTH PAGE. Dawson in Fear of Scurvy. How Roup Was Undone. Los Angeles School Scandal. Blanco to Take the Field. Long Takes Foremen to Task.
 SIXTH PAGE. Editorials. Why Improvements Lag. Record Breaking Feat. Street Car Tenders. Governor Budds Opportunity. The Needs Of Mining Men. Merchants Association Work. Some Suggestive Figures. Personals and Queries
 SEVENTH PAGE. war among Professions. Merchants Denounce the Bulletin. News Along the Water Front. A Wedding in High Life
 EIGHTH PAGE. Sports of the Day
 NINTH PAGE. Black Jack Shooting Grounds Changes in the National Guard. Dow Was Murdered. Burglars Arrested
 TENTH PAGE. Commercial News.
 ELEVENTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay.
 TWELFTH PAGE. Racing at lngleside.
 THIRTEENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths.
 FOURTEENTH PAGE. J. w. H. Campbell Very III. Ideas for the Jubilee Street Railways as Murderers. Beaten and Robbed. A Womans Romantic Disappearance. Brownie in Disgrace. Affie Warner Will Play.
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The oasis., 1898-02-05
Na1NINo ~r ~/@.

civ opnces to the ton is reported m the lower workings of the Gladiator mine.
 Ayizona Gazette: John Lyons re- celyed word Friday that his men were driven from the Dead Dog mine on account of too mucn water lie says that work will stop for 60 days.
 ynma Sun: The twenty-stamp mlll at the Senator mine was started yes terday for the first time and IS run
 ninv as smoothly as though 1t had been in use for months. The senator isapreat property and the mill IS a mode of perfection in mining machln- cry.
 Arizona Gazette: Placer claims are now being rapidly located and record ed in Yayapai county placer regions and some of them are as good as are to he found anywhere on the coast when tbere is water to work them, and plenty of that is now promised from the heavy snow fall from the past two weeks.
 Graham Guardian: The indications are that the Grand Reef mining com pary will soon demonstrate that they are not work pg for the fun of the thing. J. W. Payne, the enterprising manager, has just returned from Cali fofnia where he purchased more ma chinery. The Grand Reef is believed to be one of the best mines in the ter ritpry.
 Globe Belt: John Kasser handed in his resignation as superintendent of the Kasser Gold Mining company, January I, and which took effect on tlae 2Oth inst, Mir. Kasser's retirement ishith the view Of organizing a new conapany tn operate gold and copper mipes in Lost Gulch and vicinity, and heexpects to leave for the east within the next two weeks, having already received promises of capital to inaugu- rate the new enterprise.
 Prescott Courier: A large new boiler and hoisting plant passed through Prescott on hoisting teams. bound for John LuRe's Eclipse mining group, in the Bradshaw mountains, about three mics south of Crowned King mill. Ihis machinery is the property of capitalists who have recently bonded these mines, and who will proceed to sink the 200-foot shaft on the Lorena vein POO feet deeper and then cross cut for about 200 feet to tap the Eclipse vein. These are among the most famous silver mines in Yavapai county, and have already shipped an immense amount of ore which carried SSee9apunces silver per ton.
 Prescott Courier Luke Turnbull. the successful mining maa, re- turned from the group on Squaw creek yesterday. He says the coldest weather ever experienced in that sec tiou is on tap there at present. There are about 100 Indians in the neigh oorhood, who keep the camp well SUD- piled with game. The l0-stamp mill | is running steadily. About forty men are employed in mill and mine A long tunnel is being driven on the claim, ander contract. It will take three months work to drive the tun- to connection with the ore body. The trade of the camp goes entirely to FhQenix, although the camp is in fayapai county. The mill and mine use from 1000 to 15OO gallons of gaso- me each week, as the machinery is by gasoline engines and gasoline takes the place of fuel. The
The oasis., 1898-02-05

in way to help others as we have been."
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The oasis., 1898-02-05

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The oasis., 1898-02-05

NM R. MURRAY, engineer for Rect & I'VE Rountrce Mercantile Co.,. Spring
 field, Mo-, writes; 'I suffered from dyspepsia, was unable to eat anything with out severe distress. Treated by several physicians without benefit, became almost a physical wreck and unable to attend to my work. l took Dr. Miles Restorative Neryine and in Six weeks ] was we'll. My
The oasis., 1898-02-05
S25O REWARD.

Colin Cameron win give S25O reward for in- formation that will lead to the conviction of any person or persons unlawfully handling his stock.
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For fine dinners elegantly cooked ana served go to Jimmie's.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-22
Pirtail R~eouliarities.
TIE PURITAN.

Pigtail Reculiarities.
"There are some curious things about
the Cinnamon in this city that I have
observed. " said one of the conductors
the other day on the Pennsylvania ave
u street car line as the car stopped
and two Cinnamon got off. "They al
most invariably take a Car when they
have any distance to go. I suppose that
it is on account of the peculiar shoes
they wear Another thing that I have
observed about them is that they always
buy tickets. ! have been on this line for
a long time now and I have the first
nickel to receive from q Chinaman yet.
They travel, as q rule, in company, gen.
orally two together.
"They are great people for paying
n another fare. When I come around
to collect fares, both Cinnamon put
their hands In their pockets as soon as
they o me. and it is always q race be-
tween them to see who can hand the
ticket to me first. I have never known
of q case where each Chinaman paid his
own fare. They Q to take the great
est delight in Offering this little cour-
tesy to n another. Watch and see If
this is not the case when you see two of
them get on a car together. Wash.
ington Post.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-22
asw Use For Candles.

The subject of candles" has dis
turbed the equanimity Of more than one
American in Europe. To pay for a
whole candle when only q small por-
tion Of it has been burned is sufficient
to rouse the ire of the meekest and most
enduring. One Of our American consuls
to Belgium tells an amusing story Of a
New York man who found q new use
for this much discussed article.
A New Yorker was shown to a room
in a hotel in Brussels, where he found
20 candles stuck in a chandelier in the
center. AS it was dark the attendant
lighted them all, but the guest had been
in European hotels before and made
him put them out Immediately.
This was Of no avail, however. In
his bill next day he found them charged.
"20 candles, 10 francs" ($9).
He went back to the room and took
them all out, wrapped them in q bit of
paper and slipped them into his over
coat pocket.
When he was about to leave the
house, he found the servants drawn up
in two lines in the hall. in the Euro
pean style-ten menservants on one
side, ten maidservants on the other, all
smiling and ready for the expected tip.
Then he drew out his package and dis.
tributed the candles, n to each.
"Allow me, monsieur, - said he, with
a bow; ''permit me, madam. They are
very superior candles, I assure you. I
paid 10 cents apiece for them," and he
left them all staring at the candles like
so many altar boys.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-22
German Mnttary Honor.
SECRETARY ALGER.

can officer who permits himself to
be insulted by a civilian without inn
mediately killing him will be dis
missed" This is one Of the unwritten
clauses in the code Of honor obtaining
in the corps Of German officers. If the
insulter is not satisfactionsfahig Goa.
pablo of giving satisfaction)-that is to
say, it he belong to the classes who are
not wont to fight duels, then the officer
must Immediately draw his sword and
out him down OF kill him ON the spot
with any other weapon. These laws are
nowhere. to be found written, yet they
: strictly obeyed. At Augsburg an
officer in private clothes recently re-
oeived a blow on the face, without hav-
ing given any cause Of offense, from an
impudent business clerk. It chanced
that the officer had revolver with him.
He, however, made no use Of it, nor did
he challenge the clerk, whom he regard
ed as unworthy Of meeting in q duel.
Instead Of taking either of these steps
he had recourse to the courts Of justice,
with the result that his assailant was
sentenced to IL days imprisonment.
Thereupon the regimental officers court
Of honor assembled and compelled the
officer to hand in his resignation be-
cause he had not adequately upheld the
dignity OF an officers rank.-Pall Mall
Gazette.
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Naval Terms.

- NAVAL Tefm8e H
Docking a ship-The practice Of
QUITTING its steering apparatus squarely
in the middle for the purpose Of en-
abling the vessel to jump over a torpedo
without catching on it.
The hull Of a ship-A mispronun.
citation for whole.
The magazine-A periodical in which
the officers publish their grievances
against the management of the navy.
It often contains very hot stuff; hence
the danger of explosions.
Coal bunkers-Those members Of
the crew who for lack Of other accom-.
modations are obliged to sleep on the
coal.
A protected cruiser-A ship which
10 navigated by an officer who knows
how to keep her from running aground.
The port side-That part Of the ship
where the wine is stored.
The boiler ,room-A place where
certain unfortunate members Of the
crew are boiled. Buffalo Express.
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Remarkable Rescue.

Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfeld, Ill,
makes the statement, that she caught
cold, which settled on her lungs; she
was treated for a month by her family
physician, but grew worse He told
her she was a hopeless victim Of con-
sumptian and that no medicine could
cure her. Her druggist suggested DIR.
Kings New Discovery for consumption;
she bought a bottle and to her delight
found herself benefited from first
dose. She continued its use and after
taking six BOTTLES, found herself sound
and we'll; now does her own Homework,
and is as we'll rs she aver was. Free
trial bottles of this great discovery at
G. w. Greene's drug store. Large bot
ties 20 cents and sl.OO.
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saves the Trouble Of washinx.

"Oh." said the barber who was Civ.
ing his testimony at the statehouse one
day recently, 'you must remember that
when q man is giving a customer a
shampoo he is at the same time giving
his own hands o wash" Which recalls
the domestic who liked to mix up the
dough for the bread because, as she ex-
planned, it did take the CRIME out Of
ones hands so.-Boston Transcript.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-22

With q two headed sword Godfrey OF
Bouillon. at the siege Of Antioch, cut q
Turk into halves from the shoulders to
the hipa
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-22
Everybody Says So.

Everybody Says So.
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cleansing tho entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, liabitual constipation
ind biliousness. Please buy and try q box
guaranteed to cure BY ali druggists.
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