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spared. He began to shout, but he was choked by the moose about his throat Half dead with fear the wretch was quietly dragged along the narrow streets of Las Vegas an hour before dawn to the bridge over Gallinas Creek. There amid a binding snowstorm he was hanged from a stringer. When October P, 1892, dawned the body of Patricio Macs, stiff, cold and covered with snow, swayed to and fro in the wind that was blowing over Raton Mountains. The Coroner's jury decided that he had been lynched for an un- known crime.
 Events moved swiftly with the Silva gang after that. Silva knew that he was suspected. He fled on October 26 to secret hiding place in the noun tains near Los Alamos. He was in dicted for horse and cattle stealing on November ', 1892, and became a refu- gee from justice. The Governor of the Territory and the Sheriffs in Northern New Mexico together offered 5000 for his capture.
 Suspecting that his wife and her youthful brother, Gabriel Sandoval, were giving information to the Sheriff and the secret organization of citizens that were slowly uncovering the crimes of his band, Silva determined to get rid of his family. So he set about plan nlnS now to eApeulllouSly anu "ltH no suspicion of guilt on himself kill his wife and her younger brother. The plans were finished by January 23, 1893, and on the evening of that day Silva and Guadalupe Caballero rode stealth fly into LasVegas. Two policemen in the town, Julian Trugelio and Jose Chavez Chavez, who had been partially in league with the robbers and murderers from the first, were sought out. They agreed to go with Silva to his own adobe home and stand guard at the door while Silva and Caballero went in side to deliberately stab Mrs. Silva and her brother to death. Jose Chavez Chavez was sent ahead to spy out the situation at the Silva home before Silva and Caballero went there Chavez came back and reported that Mrs. Silva had company, and that he had reconsidered and would not be party
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as they could Silva himself joined an organization and contributed money toward detecting the robbers and for finding what haG become of the men who had so strangely disappeared.
 The gang grew bolder and the secret of the frequent crimes came suddenly at last Refugio Esquibel, the wealth jest ranchman in San Miguel County, found four of his best bred horses missing from the range. With his ranchmen he went hunting over the mountains for the animals. He came upon them in the little rock corral at Silva's lonely ranch and forthwith he went and notified the Sheriff that at last a clew had been had to the thieves who had so long been robbing the ranches for miles around. Patricio Macs, who was at the corral, was ar rested and fearful of lynching he se- cretly offered to tell all about the rob- bers. He was accordingly let go for a week, in which time he was to get more accurate information for the police of ficers. That was in October. 1892
 secret report was made to Silva at his saloon that Macs was about to tell all. An order that the gang only knew went forth for a business meeting at midnight at the saloon. It was believed another dividend was pending, and every one of the band was there. Then the gang assembled, coming one at a time, and being admitted by a sign at the rear door. Silva presided. Macs sat there, unmindful of the purpose of the meeting. A member rose and charged Macs with perfidy to the gang, and told what he knew about Macs agreement to reveal the gang to the officers. A brief trial was held. Macs denied and other members of the band told what they knew about Macs per- fidy. Silva called for vote on the guilt or innocence of the accused
 Every one voted guilty" Death had been agreed upon as the punishment for perfidy when the gang had been or ganized. Silva had prepared for the decision of guilty, and he had a rope and moose hidden behind his saloon.
 In the partial darkness Macs was bound and gagged by his companions. He begged and wept that his life be
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"squealing down in Las 'Negas.'' Two
 months later, when the. gang. WasG known and several. men. in it were: tumbling over one another in their .aIiX-. iety to tell all they knew and save their: necks from hanging, the body of: Mrs: Silva was dug from. a shallow grave: in an arroyo in a God-forsaken. region. near San Pedro. A dozen mortal stabs' about the chest told the story: of her death. Frightful lacerations on the dead womans hands: told the struggle. she made with her bandit. husbahd while he stabbed her.. .: :.
 In March, 1893, the. Sheriffs of. san Miguel and Santa Fe. counties had got, abundance of evidence .:as to the Iilelr who composed Vicente Silva s: gang. Twenty arrests Were made in a:.few' weeks. Several men were brought back from Texas and from the southern part of the Territory. Four made explicit confessions and three more: told parts, of the details of .the long. series: of crimes. Silva was dead, and. there. was no longer fear of vengeance from him.
 Then the mills of justice in the: Cow ernment courts in New MeXico> began to grind. They ground very slowly, and :; they have not ground so finei after all, For four years the cases of the Silva. gang have been in every term of the United States courts in, New. Mexico. The whole Territory, .especiaL-r the, Mexicans, has watched. the cases. with: deep interest. Three men. were. mot con-. victed. Four were sentenced to. death; and their sentences cOmmuted' to i'm prisonment for life. Three. have been hanged. Five are serving sentences varying from four to ten years. in. the: Territorial penitentiary. Fw0 served a year or two and were pardoned by the: recent Governor L. Bradford Prince: ::
 The case of Jose Chavez Chavez, the: o1i i-tA d. f1n ,1a- of young Gabriel Sandoval, was in the courts three years. Twice he was sen-. tenced to death. He was to have been hanged on October 29 last. Governor: Otero reprieved him four weeks Now. Chavezs sentence has been coInmuted: to life imprisonment, and the last. of the Silva gang has had punishment. meted out to him. -.
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QUEER JAIL FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS ONLY

for the German student-convict goes to prison on the first suitable day after conviction and sentence. If Thursday Is not convenient he tells the officer sent to hale him to jail that he will come on Friday or Saturday or Sun day, as the case may be. The officer never doubts his word, and it is never broken.
 The prison is up three flights of stairs and Is approached by a passage as richly decorated with the art work of convicts as the cell itself. That apart ment is not roomy, but bigger than an ordinary prison cell. It has an iron grated window, a small stove, two wooden chairs, two old oak tables and narrow wooden bedstead. The fur niture is profusely ornamented with carving, the work of languishing cap tives, who have placed on record their names, armorial bearings, their crimes and the dates of their imprisonment, together with quaint warnings and de- nunciations. Walls and ceilings are covered with portraits and legends ex-
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ecuted In colored chalk and in soot, the prison candle forming handy pen cil.
 The prisoner must supply his own bedding and is subject to various charges On entering he pays about 20 cents, and on leaving a similar sum. Every day in prison costs F cents; fire and light, 12 cents extra. The jailer supplies coffee for a trifle. Meals may be ordered from outside. Every pris- oner leaves his carte de visite. which is fixed, with a multitude of others, on the door of the cell.
 Academic criminal procedure in Heid- elberg is curious. If the city polics apprehend a student, the captive shows his matriculation card. He is then asked for his address and set free, bu, will hear more of the matter, for the civil authority reports him to the uni- versity. In Heidelberg the University Court try and pass sentence, the civil power taking no further concern with the offepse.
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The seductive little paper rolls can no longer be purchased at the rate of twen- ty for a nickel. Cigars, too, are taxed, but the burden will not be heavy, and the best dealers have promised that 1t will not be felt by consumers. The tax on smoking tobacco Is so heavy that three. instead of four, ounces, will be sold for 5 cents.
 Five o'clock teas will come high. An additional war tax of 10 cents pound is being levied on the product. Here are some of the taxes that are still to come under the new war bill, and they must be paid by the purchase of stamps to be affixed to the article taxed:
 One cent on every telegram sent. Two cents on each bank check, money order and draft. One cent on receipts. One cent on each railway and sleeping ticket.
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Twenty-Five cents for each lease signed. One dollar for each S1000 covered by a life insurance policy and $1 for each 5000 coy- cred by fire insurance policy. ..
 On legacies, 75 cents for each $100 re- ceived. On mortgages, 9 cents for loans up to S1500 and an equal amount for each $500 additional.
 All business paper, even rent receipts. will be taxed. Brokers will have to pay $50 a year, pawnbrokers S20. commercial brokers $20, and custom-house brokers $10. Bankers will have to pay $l00 a year, stock.
 Proprietors of theaters, museums, con- cert halls and circuses will be taxed $100 d year, and there will be an impost of S5 a year on each billiard table and bowling alley for public use.
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the drink dealer is using the war tax as an excuse to fire broadside into his tin-clad opponent. Whereas the tax on beer has been increased only $1 a barrel, the price of beer in the can has been doubled.
 1t takes a dime to buy what a nickel would pay for a few days ago. The sa- loon-keeper isn't getting the worst of 1t for a barrel of beer. Each barrel con- tains 4SO glasses, which he sells at , cents each. He thus sells his barrel for Can sales may reduce these profits some what, but the tax cannot possibly reduce the saloonists' comfortable margin more than S1.
 also suffer, especially the cigarette fiend.
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TT costs money to sink fleets, cork up
 harbors and provide places for sons of their fathers. If the average citi-
 zen has been too busy enthusing to A- think of this he will be rudely awak-
 ened soon. He is going to be taxed to finish The stamp act will be in vogue again, and life will be subject to an internal revenue grind.
 The war taxes on tobacco, snuff. cigar cites and beer are now in effect. The re- suit is most noticeable In the case of beer. Saloon-keepers are massing their strength for a death blow at the growler. The old tin palladium that has been rushed so often is being rushed off the earth The can. and the saloon-keeper are old-time enemies, and 1t appears that
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IN T the ancient and famous Uni .:+j versity of Heidelberg a jail Is "A maintained specially for the ben . I A eft of students. For all minor :a =, crimes and misdemeanors they :" are tried and imprisoned not by the' civil authorities, but by the university. The Heidelberg Career, or university prison, has been occupied by the most famous men of Germany. While there they always decorate the walls with '. their names and in other ways, so that their stay in jail may be permanently remembered.
 Every reader of Mark Twain will re-
 call his entertaining description of the place, and how he contrived to visit it,
 even unwittingly enlisting as his guide a Herr Professor" His pretext was
 to see a young friend who had "got"
 twenty-four hours. and had conven- Iently arranged the day to suit Mark
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-11-09
slFFLlNTOwN GRAIN MARKETS
MIFFLINTOWN, NOV. 8, 1895.

-DE DayIG Kenn2dyS
EdVOEsHte Remedy
CURES ALI KIDNEY. STOMACH
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-11-09

marriage to James Caveny of McAlis-
terv1lle, Juniata county, where they
TOOK up their residence and lived in
that vicinity until 1877 at which they
removed to Newton, Kansas.
On April 5, 1878 her husband died
and since that time she has been maxi
ing her home among her children in
this city.
She united with the Evangelical
Lutheran Church when quite young,
and after coming to this city she
changed her church relation and united
with the MethodiHt Episcopal Church
OF which she he4 npnsistant men,
ber sSgp up to t the IT, death. h ..
her: John ~ W. Caveny; !;
and Mrs. A. NJ. Young, of Fort Collins,
Colorado.
The funeral will take place from the
residence of her son, John l.. Caveny,
22S East Third Street, Friday afternoon,
at $50 O'Clock. Interment at Newton
Cemetery.
The sensation last week in Philadel-
phia, was the return of Gideon w.
March, president of the keystone Ma
tional Bank, which failed in 1891. 1t
was the failure of that bank that sent
City Treasurer Bardsley to the Peniten-
tiary. The cashier was also sent to the
Penitentiary who with Marsh the pres
ident had been charged with falsifying
the books of the bank. Marsh gave
bail for his appearance to answer in
court. William Wanamaker went his
bail, $4,000, when Marsh fled William
paid the $4,000. Marsh has been
fugative ever since. In the recent pO-
litical discussion Senator PenrOse, in a
speech against John Wanamaker, in
simulated that Wanamaker was in some
unfavOrable way connected with the
bank failure and that Marsh might be
returned. John Wanamaker speedily
took up the insinuatiOn and in speech
he said he would be glad to have Marsh
return, and serve the sentence that
might be imposed on him and if he tells
all he knows, the whole truth and moth
ing but the truth about the broken bank,
then he, Wanamaker, will be pleased to
do for him to start him again in an honest
career in life. 1t appears that Marsh
has been living in Washington State.
Some one sent him a Philadelphia
paper with the eX-Post Master Gener-
al's speech, and invitation for him to
return. He returned and is now i'm
Jail to await trial. The trial will be
looked upon with great interest by
every man who takes notice of impOr-
tant events outside of his own town or
vicinity.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-11-09
THE RUPP ESTATE.

Philadelphia Times, November 1st,
1898 Alfred Loy left Philadelphia
on the 1ss of October for Colman, in
Alsace Lorraine, to look after an es
tate said to amount to 100000
france, in which some hundred per-
sons il. Berks and Lehigh counties
are interested The heirs say that
this is not one of the many European
estates existing only in the minds of
men who work upon the credulity Of
the alleged heirs, but that, in this
case, they have letters from German
Government officials assuring them
that the vast property lis awaiting
the rightful owners.
the heirs tell quito a romantic
story in connection with this inherit
ance. It is said that, while the es-
tate in this section of the country is
known as the Rupp estate. it is. in
reality, that of John Henry Won
peterhol:z, of Alsace-L Lorraine, who
died in that country more than a
century ago. He had daughter,
Ursula, an only child. who fell in
love with one George Rupp in 1850.
Her parents opposed this match be-
cause Rupp "as not her social equal,
but the young couple ignored the
objections of the girls parents,
eloped, were married and, coming to
this country, settled ut Chapman s
Sta: ion, Lebigh county. where they
died in 1906 and 1907 respectively.
I: IS the descendants of the runaway
couple WHO how claim the estate in
Alsace Lorraine, and they have rails.
ed a large sum to carry on the in
vestigation.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-11-09
HORSE SALE.

On Wednesday, November 18th,
1898, John r. Stewart, of Frank
lin Grove, ILL.,, will sell at public
sale, at the Jacobs House in Milf
flintOwn, car load of very super
iOr heavy draft horses and mares.
Sale rain or shine, regardless of
cost or value. Attention is called
to large posters where full de-
scriptiOn of the horses is given.
Everybody is invited to come to
the sale. The weight of these
horses range from 1850 to 1900 lbs, :,
plenty of action and substance and
all are young and sound.
H. H. SNYDER, Auc't.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-11-09
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS,
November Z. 1898.

NONculUcI 4, 1870.
Wheat 71c. ; oats 3Oc; corn SOC;
Pennsylvania wool q to Scots a
pound. Lard 5 to cts. a pound :;
Cured ham s to 9 cts. a pound {;
Breakfast bacon s to 10 cts. a pound;
hay $500 to 5000 a ton; tangled
wheat and oats straw at $3.50 a
ton; butter 81 to 2Sc eggs 22c !;
beef cattle ~ to sac ; potatoes 80 to
IS a bushel veal calves 5 to Sc;
sheep "a to 4 cts lambs - 50 to
$5.S5 thin cows IS to S22 milch
cows slS to $50; hogs 5 cts. to
6 cts; live chickens Z to Sc +; Su-
gars 81 cts, spring chickens 2 and
pound IL to 12c a pound. Tai
low &c pound in cakes sweet pO-
tatOes 10 to 2Oc basket; onions 45
to 4Sc basket coal oil 99c a
barrel; peaches so to $3.50 a
bushel, for bushel basket 6Oc to
81 .25, for 20 pound basket 80 to
S5c.; Bartlett pears 81 to $500
a barrel; WatermelOns SS to $40
a hundred; cantelOupes per basket
5 to 25 cts; coffee, Rio 81 20 1O4c,
Santos Z to lie, Java 20 to soc,
Mocha II to 21c, Costa Rica 10 to
10, Nicaragua 10 to lie; candles z
to Sc pound Feathers 81 to 35c
for duck and % to SIC for geese :;
white fish half barrel $3 90 to So
so; hops 3 to 19c pound To-
baccO, Pennsylvania filler s to 12c,
and II to lie ; fine wrappers 40 to
6Oc; wool, Pennsylvania % to SOC
a pound.
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rae BEST AsD CnEAPEsr.

The New York Independent, the
leading weekly newspaper of the
word, and one whose pages exer-
else the widest influence, is enter
ing upon it's fiftieth year of publi-
cation. The Independent empha-
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The Independent in its new form
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PUBLIC SALES.

Novembea 16.-Barton Deer, in
Spruce Hill township.-Cattle, horses,
hogs, farming Implements, household
goods.
November 17.-Mrs. Malinda T.
Showers, in Turbett township
Horses, COWS, hogs, chickens, house
hold goods and farm implements.
November Isl. W. Bender,
Spruce Hill townsbip,--A large lot
of horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-11-09

the average earning Tor the year OF 81 l
working days, the average paid man
and boy, common labOrers included
every man paid by the day, was S2.9l
per day, 1905 per year. Now, to know
Just what that means, the average at
Pullman last year, | see, the highest
ever made there was SJ3S. There is
one proud satisfaction our firm has in
business. 1t challenges the world to
produce record like this"
The election is over. 1t was a
mud singing campaign. Much wns
said, by some men, against other
men that should not have been aaid.
But the matter is all over, and may
lie lesson for some people tho next
time to not be so vile with their tor
CUES. 1t is not Every time that O
soft answer turns off bitter lar
gueged charge. However, with all
the vile charges considered d in the
late campaignsit is better way of
changing or electipg government
than that in the old world. There is o
getting rid Of q government in tie old
world countries except by resort 10
arms. The American system with
all its vile languaged charges is in
initely bett. than going 10 war for
the Offices.
The Newton Daily Kansas Republi-
publican, of the 18th ult., publishes an
obituary notice of Mrs. James Caveny,
who twenty years ago was well known
to many people in Juniata county, par
tcularly to people in Fayette township.
Mrs. James Caveny died at the resi-
dence of her son, John l.. Caveny, last
evening at O'Clock, after lingering
illness of several months.
The deceased at her death was eighty
years, eight months and four day, Of
age. She was born February s. 1918,
at Lillieville, Mifflin County, Pennsyl-
vania Her maiden name was Susan
Yeater. In 1889 she was united in
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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-07-14

New York, July 6. - John j.
Burke, the comedian, died last
night in Bellevue Hospital from
injuries received while diving in
the ocean at Sea Cliff, l.. l., last
Friday. He had been diving from
a raft and struck his head on q
sharp stone. When he came tc
the surface he was unconscious
and partially paralyzed.
Burke was we'll known in the
South and West. He was a mem
Der of the Reilly and Woods Or
ganization and was also in the ex-
travsgsnza of David Henderson,
Aladdin Jr." and "Ali Baba."