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Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-12-22
CHRISTMAS DINNER.

The following will be served at the
Myrtle Hotel on Christmas from II a.
m. to 8 p. m. Price seventy-ave cents.
MENU,
Blue Points.
Queen Olives Celery
FISH
Alaska Pink salEaon
BOILED
Boiled Sweet Fam, with Jellsy
ENTREES.
Belle Frittcrs q la Madeira.
Macarshi a Ia Italienne.
ROAST.
Young Turkey with Oyster dressing and
Cranberry Sauce,
Roast Pig, Apple JeIey.
~VEuETABLEs,
Mashed Potatoes B~rowHsweet Potatoes
Hulled Corn,
Russian Salad.
DESSERT
Southern Pumpkin Pie Hot Minoe Pie
Wine a Il Assorted Nuts
American Cheese Craskers~
O0nes - ASS Rog
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-12-22

Mr.. J.. Sheer, Sedalla, Mo-, saved
his child'S life by One minute Congh
Cure. Doctors had given her up to
die with Group. 1t is an invaluable
cure for coughs, colds, grippe, pneu-
monis, bronchitis aud throat trou les.
Relieves at once Roberts & Leahy
Mercantile Company.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-12-22

John KAISER, superintendent Of the
Live Oak copper company. OF Globe,
Is In New York, stepping at the
Broadway Central hotel. Last week
be was sccosted by a man In the hotel
Office, who said he was a guest of the
hotel, who asked what Mr.. KAISER
thought were impairment questions.
Mr.. KAISER intimated to the gentle
man that he thought be was a buncu
%steerer, and left him. The man econ
sidered this d good Joke on him, and
the next day asked KAISER torhave a
drink on the joke. In the bar room
the mao again acted susp%icioutly and
worked another man iato the con.
versation. Finally KAISER collsred
the mar took him mp TO the desk and
asked the cleFkif he was a sguest ef
the house. The clerk said he was not,
w%hereupon KAISER told the man he
had lied to bin, and that he guessed
be was a sure enough bunco sharp,
and accompanied this expression Of
sentiment with a few swift punches in
the face. The other stranger came to
his friends aid, aud was very promptly
kicked outof the frontGoor. The man
from Arizona was the hero OF the hour
aad especially SO because but a day OF
so before an e%x.alderman Of. Brooklyn
had been separated from 5000 by a
couple OF bunco steerers.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-12-22

A LIBERAL representative made a
trip TO FL Paso and back since the last
issue Of the paper. He has been max
log El Psso trips occasionally for the
past few years, and has rode mall
Kinds Of cars excepting cats and side
door Pullmans, from a caboose to a
FANCY Pullman car, but this was the
dfst experience he has had with the
new %vestibuled chair cars recently
put on by the Southern Pacific. He
round this car to be more comfortable
than any car OF which he ever rode on
this road. The car, either because it
was we'll balanced or because It
was v%estibuled, swayed much less than
the other csrs, and a person could sit
in 1t and read without getting his eyes
out OF focus every few seconds. 1t
contained a comfortable smoking
room, like a Pullman car, so one did
not have TO 60 to another car for a
smoke. The seats we're very comfort.
able, being arranged as a chair seemed
TO dt a person omuch better that an
ordinary seat. The only real objec.
tion to The a seemed to be the lack
Of room for hand baggage. A small
grip or other packages could be put 10
the rack, but the rack was not large
enough for an ordinary grip and there
IS not room between the seats for one
as IN an ordinary car, so the man
travelling withsa dress suit case is a
nuisance in a chair car, IL the car is
ordinarily full OF passengers, as these
cars to be every day.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-12-22

II VOC want to buy a watch, clock or di'
amond, or II you want your watch re-
in irst class shape seud 10
GEO. w. HIcKox & HixsoN,
Bronson Block, Ell Paso Texas.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-12-22

Col. Egan was in the city Monday,
en- route from Clifton to Solomonyllle.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
THROUGH SNOW TO BATHE
Two Men Take Plunge in the Surf
to Win a Wager.

Atlantic City, N. J., Feb. Edward
H. .Rade1, secretary and treasurer of the
New Brunswick Traction company, and
William F. Harkins, street commission
er of New Brunswick, who are guests at
the Hotel ST. Charles, opened the bath
ing season here today by taking a
plunge in the surf at ST. Charles place,
about noon.
Mr. Radel first suggested the BATH
would remain in the water Is minutes.
Both kept their compact, and seemed to
enjoy the experience, while a large
crowd of spectators on the boardwalk
shivered and marveled at their nerve.
The two men had to walk through an
inch of snowfall to reach the water,
which in itself was enough to try their
determination. They will repeat their
plunge tomorrow morning.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
TOGO STILLWATER.
Steps Taken Toward Introducing
Manufacture of Binding Twine
in Penitentiarv

BY a vote of 76 to 25 the house has
adopted Captain Seaton'S resolution to
send special committee to saltwater,
Mimi, to investigate the binding twine
plant In the penitentiary there with
view to establishing a similar plant in
the Kansas penitentiary.
On motion of Jaquins of Cowley Cap
tain Seaton was made a member Of the
committee, and the house will also Sc
leet the other two house members.
In speaking of the project Captain
Seaton said:
There is now confronting US the pos
siblllty that the inmates of our penal
institutions may be forced into idle
ness by the public hostility to the idea
of placing goods which they manufac-
ture in competition with the goods made
by free labor. We must find some other
way OF employing them besides the
methods now in vogue, or else they will
have to be kept in idleness.
In the correspondence which have
had with G. E. Faulkner, of Mime
apolis, and the warden of the Stillwa-
ter prison, 1 learn that the binding
twine plant has been in operation in
that prison for the past five years. 1t
has not only been of assistance to the
farmers of the state in keeping the
twine trust from putting up the price of
twine on them, but it has assisted great
ly in paying the expenses of running the
prison. During the year 1898 the out
put of the factory was 5000, 900 pounds,
about one-third the amount used by
the farmers of Minnesota during that
year.
THAT plant cost the state $40, 900, and
is now great success financially. Dur
ing the last two years it has brought
in the sum of 1892, 900 for the manufac-
tured product. If it had not been for
this there would have been a large de-
ffciency in the running expenses of the
penitentiary, which the legislature
would have had to make up out of the
state treasury, but with the twine bind
ing plant in operation the penitentiary
not only paid all of it's running ex-
penses, but it had a surplus of $43, 900
besides.
''I believe something of this character
should be undertaken by the state of
Kansas, but it is only business sense
that we should first send men up there
to investigate the plant and ascertain
if it would be practicable in Kansas
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
LINDSAY,S IDEA.
Kentucky Senator Offers a Philippine
Resolution.

Washington, Feb. 1;-Mr. Lindsay QNy.)
in the senate offered the following joint
resolution:
THAT the acquisition by the United
States, through conquest, treaty other
wise of territory not adjacent to and geo
graphically part of the continent OF North
America carries with it constitutional
or moral obligation to admit said terri
tory, or any portion thereof, into the fed
eral union a state states.
THAT it is against the policy, traditions
and interest of the American people to
admit states erected out of such nom
American territories or portions thereof
into our union of American states at any
time under any conditions.
That the United States accept from
Spain the cession of the Philippine islands
with the hope that the people of those
islands may demonstrate their capacity to
establish and maintain a stable govern
ment capable of enforcing law and order
at home, and of discharging the interna-
tiOnal obligations resting separate and
independent states, and with no expecta-
tion or desire to permanently hold these
islands colonies, subject provinces,
or of compelling their people against their
consent to submit to the authority of the
United States after they shall demon
strate their capacity for self-government
as herein defined, the government of the
United states to be the judge of such ca
pacity."
At Mr.. Lindsay's request the resolution
was left the table subject to call.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
PLAYS IN NEW YORK.
Light Opera, Drama of Virginia Life,
and French Comedy Are on
the Weeks Lists.

New York. Feb. 1.-Another exposition
of the apparently inexhaustible industry
of Reginald De Koven and Harry B. Smith
is to be offered at the Broadway theater
tonight. 1t carries the title of 1.-THE Three
Dragons and it is to be exploited by the
Broadway Opera company.
Irish, Scotch, English and Portuguese
personages are those of the opera, for the
scene of it is located in Portugal at the
time of the Peninsular war, when the in
lesley. In the company that is to present
the opera are Jerome Sykes, Joseph
O'Mara, Richard F. Carroll, William H.
Clarke, Marguerite Lemon. Linda De
Costa, Odele Archer, Leonora Quito and
upward of a score of less well known
singers.
This evening James A. Herne will ap-
pear in his own dramatfza ton of Helen
H. Gardeners book, IAN Unofficial Pa
triot,'' at the Herald Square theater- In
this play Mr.. Herne has done for. the
trate life on the sterile coast of Maine.
CLOSED for rehearsals'' will be on the
signboard in front of the Manhattan until
Wednesday, when the playhouse will be
reopened and Mile. Fiji will trip gayly
in. The comedy is a three-act adapta-
tion from the French, made by Louis Dit
richstein. young vicomte wedS the
daughter of dashing Boston widow and
becomes entangled with a singer a a
Partisan music hall That is a rather
bald outline of the story. Rose Coghlan
Boucicault her son-in-law, Grace George
her daughter. Louise Beaudet the gay
singer and John T. Sullivan susceptible
money lender.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
Market Gossip.

Furnished by E. NJ: Strawn Brokerage
corner Seventh and Kansas ave-, Topeka,
Liverpool: Wheat. Esd lower; corn, Nd
lower.
Liverpool, second cable: Wheat sd
lower.
Receipts of hogs: Chicago, $4,000, sc
lower: Kansas Citl, 11OOO, lower; Omaha,
Receipts of cattle: Chicago, 1900. slow;
Kansas City, 5000. steady; Omaha, 2,5oo,
steady
Chieago Estimated receipts of hogs for
Chicago receipts: Wheat, ss cars; corn.
434 cars; oats, 103 cars.
New York: 1t is rather curious to see
Wall street express satisfaction at a fall
ing away in business. The reason for 1T
is that the speculative and investment
spirit is not SO rampant as a week ago
An opportunity is now afforded the spec
ulatiVe future for Wall street machinery
to be repaired and strengthened for future
tests. Few houses in Stock Exchange
precincts were putting themselves in a po-
sition to handle even a larger average of
tranSa ctiOns than was scored last week.
The majority of commission houses and
the majority of the large financial inter-
ests may still be counted as bulls on the
country. commendable desire gener-
ally exists. however. to prevent a runa-
way speculation. Yesterdays reactions
in prices happened to bring about
healthier condition in the securities mar
ketS.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
AN OUTRAGE.
That the People of Shawnee
County Will Resent
If the Collins Case is Tried
Over Again.
1T COST THE COUNTY
Five Thousand Dollars to Try
the Case
And Nothing is to be Gained by
a Re-trial.
IT COST THE COUNTY

The date for hearing the arguments
for a new trial in the Collins case IS
still an open question. Judge Hazen
said today that he will not fix date
for the arguments on the motion until
after the affidavits upon which the mo-
tion will be based are filed. The attor-
neys for John Collins have until Sat
urday night to file these affidavits, and
up to this time not one has been filed.
John NJ. Wilkerson, who has been
doing detective work for the defense,
said today that affidavits have already
been secured, but that he is not pre-
pared to say what they contain. 1t is
supposed that the principal claim for a
new trial will be irregularities on the
part Of members of the jury, such as
reading newspapers and talking about
the case during the progress of the trial.
Clarence Spellman of Kansas City,
who is one of the attorneys in the case,
is quoted as having said that he feels
confident that new trial will be
granted on the showing that will be
made.
Attorney Charles Hayden of Holton,
who is now the active attorney in the
case. spends most of his time in Topeka,
and the afiidavits are in course of prep
aration. The reason that date has
not been fixed for hearing the argu-
anents on the motion for a new trial is
because the county attorney may want
time to file counter affidavits after he
sees what showing the defense makes.
John Collins is still kept in his private
cell in the county jail which he has oc-
cupied since he was arrested He is
still being vigorously guarded by the
officers so far as the public is concerned.
Anyone who walks up the stairway is
warned to keep away from John Collins
cell. He spends most of his time in
reading and the time hangs heavily
upon his hands. One of his friends said
today:
4 am convinced that all this talk
about people making a great fuss over
people charged with a grave crime is
all bosh, for it has not been true in the
case of John Collins. His friends send
him books occasionally, but that is
about all the favors he receives, and his
life is dreary, dismal one
If the motion for a new trial should
be overruled, John Collins will be SEN
fenced at once, and then d stay will
probably be secured to prevent him
from being taken to the penitentiary
while his case is pending in the supreme
court.
The people of Shawnee county, who
have paid $4,000 to try John Collins,
could not be more indignant than they
would be if SIS, 900 more is pulled out of
their pockets to try him again. He had
q fair trial, and another one would be
simply an imposition on the taxpayers.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
DRUNKEN NEGRO
Soldiers Terrorize the Town of Tex
arkana.

Little Rock, Ark, Feb IA special to
the Gazette from Texarkana, Ark,
says:
There passed through Texarkana to-
day eight trainlOadS of negro soldiers,
1,200 in number, composing the Tenth
United States cavalry, enroute to San
Antonio When they arrived here they
were a drunken mob, and an effort was
made by them to tear up the town. A
number of the colored soldiers kicked
in door and entered a resort and
started to run the place at the point of
loaded rifles. Constable James Rochelle
was called to the place, after they had
broken up the furniture. A chase for
the cars resulted, and just as they
reached them Rochelle captured the
leader of the gang. AS soon as he did
so a hundred rifles were leveled at him
and every negro loaded his gun. Every
car window held a drunken negro with
a cooked rifle, and after the guns had
been stuck into the officers face the
negro escaped into the cars.
The news spread and every officer in
Texarkana and hundreds of citizens
hocked around the negro soldiers, who
seemed anxious for trouble. County At
torney Horace Vaughan placed himself
in communication with the governor
and as a result the trains were held here
for seven hours. The negroes wanted
were kept in a car with an armed guard
outside. The trains were surrounded
by irate Texarkanans, who were sup
piled with dynamite. ready to send the
learned of this, and finally agreed to
hand over the guilty ones upon identi-
fcation, but as this was impossible no
arrests were made.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
STARTS WITH 100000
Barrels of Whisky, and New Trust
Will Turn out 100000
Gallons q Year.

New York, Feb. 1.-The largest COM
bination of whisky and distiIling inter
eStS yet attempted has been concluded
in this city, under the title of the Ken
lucky Distillers and Warehouse COM
pany- Fifty-seven firms mak;1g Ken
lucky whiskies have entered into the
agreement. The new company will be
capitalized for $32, 900 900. Incorporation
papers will shortly be filed in New Jer-
sey-
Among those chiefly instrumental in
bringing about the combination were
Trust company and S. NJ. Rice, presi-
dent of the American Spirits Manufac-
turing company. Levi Mayer of Chi
cago has acted as counsel in the draw
Gng up of all papers. He becomes gen.
eral counsel to the new company. The
termined upon tomorrow. S. NJ. Rice
will hold some high executive position
The combination is said to be in the
nature of sequel to the recent absorp-
tion of the American Spirits Manufac-
turing company by the Standard Dis
tilling and Distributing company.
OF the So, ,000, 900 capital stock, $12,-
100000 will be cumulative Z per cent
preferred and $50, ,000, 900 common A
cash working capital of 100000 is as
Sured. Distillery properties having more
than go per cent of the total capacity
for the production of the standard
brands of the state of Kentucky will be
acquired. The companies already in the
new agreement have more than 1, 900, 900
barrels of whisky in bonded warehouses.
The new company is expected to pro-
duce Is, 600 gallons of whisky an
nually at an average profit of 81 500 600
The total net revenue of the company is
whisky will be concentrated in the best
plants
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
TRoUTMAN FOR JUDGE.
May Be Named as q Member Of the
Court of Visitation.

J. A. TrOutman has appeared as a.
candidate in the race for judgeship on
the court of visitation. There is little
doubt that ]. c. Postlethwaite of Jewell
will be one of the appointees. He was
persuaded to withdraw his candidacy
for superintendent of insurance, it is
stated, only when he was given positive
assurance that he would be given a place
in the court. Lit Crum continues to be
mentioned as one of the appointments
to this place. 1t was asserted that he
could not accept such a position be-
cause he was not lawyer. Governor
Stanley said a few days ago that he
was not convinced that one, to hold
such a judgeship, must be necessarily
a lawyer.
Judge ]. c. Pollock of Winfield, if the
governors friendship counts will be
appointed on the court of visitation. He
has other influence than this friendship
So the real fight here is between Trout
man and T. F. Carver of Topeka
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
ARMOUR'S AGENT
Is Mixed Up In the Failure of the
San Jose Bank.

San Jose, Cal, Feb. 1.-The failure of
the Union Savings bank is alleged to be
due to large advances made to E. B.
Howard, a large fruit broker and the
agent of Armour & Co. The amount of
Howards Indebtedness is said to be
over 100000 and it is only partially Sc
cured by fruit warehouse receipts. The
bank issued drafts upon eastern banks,
many of which have been returned, pro-
tested.
Several circumstances connected with
the failure have aroused adverse COM
ment, principally the recording of a
mortgage yesterday conveying the bank
building and property to Mrs. Myra
E. Wright. 1t is alleged that the con-
sideration was $50, 900. On the first of
last month the bank furnished a, state
ment to the bank commission, in
which it put the value of the bank
building at $4,000. The deed. to the
building was dated June Is, 1898 Fur
ther confusion was caused by the ac-
ton of the Union Trust company and
the Nevada Bank of San Francisco,
whose agents filed with the county re-
corder assignment on the bank amount
ing to $4,000, making $134, 900 of the
banks assets which had been trans
ferred in the past and recorded on the
day of the failure. Howard has made
an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors. His liabilities beng given as
$3.50, 600.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
A BIBLE SHOW
By the United States is Recommended
For the Paris Exposition.

Chicago, Feb. 1.-The Chicago Wo-
mans Educational union today adopted
the following:
Whereas, There is to be another
worlds exposition to signalize the be-
ginning of the new century. to be held
in Paris, and
Whereas, The Bible, the worlds su-
preme book, has been for our America,
the source and strength, the light and
creative inspiration of everything best
in our national life, character and hope
for the future; therefore be it
Resolved, That we most heartily favor
the proposition that under the auspices
of the United States government such
an appropriate and prominent exhibit
be an acknowledgement to the world
of What America owes to the Bible.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
TO SETTLE THE AsYLUMs.
A Committee Is to Decide Whether a
New One Shall Be Built.

Senator Lewelling introduced a reso-
luton in the senate today, which went
over under the rules until tomorrow.
1t provides for the appointment of a
committee of four from the senate and
seven from the house to visit the places
seeking an asylum and to thereafter
decide which location is the more de-
sirable.
a. special order this afternoon, the loca-
tion of an asylum, fail to reach an
agreement the resolution may solve the
problem, but there is no reason to pre-
sumo that some of the towns which
want an asylum will fail to land the
prize today.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
LOCAL MENTION.

The greenhouse adjoining the resi-
dence Of Mr.. c. H. Sheffield, on the
Kansas avenue road north of Soldier
creek, was destroyed by fire Monday
night. It is supposed that the fire
started from matches left near warm
pipes. The damage amounts to several
hundred dollars.
Frank w. Martineau, advance agent
of the Walsh Mcdowell company, made
arrangements today for the visit of the
company to this city next week. La
Tosca'' will be put on Friday night and
Saturday matinee and Fedora Sat-
urday night. The sale of seats will open
next Wednesday.
Sheriff Cook today paid the $25 re-
ward which was offered for the arrest
of Frank Filing, the escaped burglar.
He sent Marshal Thomas of Herington
$40 and Conductor George Harris and
the brakeman received $3.50 each.
The national meeting of the Wood
men of the World will be held in Topeka
February IA and Is. There will be del
egates from Kansas, Nebraska, North
and South Dakota, Oklahoma, and the
Indian Territory John I. Yates of
Omaha, who is the national president,
will be present, and there will be ad-
dresses made by well known speakers.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
When Is the First Day of the Next
Century

What will be the first day of the goth
century? Is the following line of rea-
soning correct, and if not why not?
One hundred complete years consti-
tute century.
The goth century can not begin until
the 18th is ended. At midnight Decem-
ber 81, 1897 81 years of the 18th century
had passed.
At midnight December 81, 1898, 80
years of the 10Th century had passed.
At midnight December 81, 1899, 80
years of the 18th century will have
passed.
At midnight December 81, 1900, 100
years Of the 18th century will have
passed, and the 10Th century will have
been completed, and on the first day of
January, 1901, the Goth century begins.
H. G. PRICE
The Topeka state journal., 1899-02-01
KIP. SUPREME COURT
Meets in Indianapolis to Dispose of
Appealed Cases.

Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. THE su-
preme tribunal, Knights of Pythias, be-
gan to arrive here today and will hold
sessions lasting until the last of the
week The body is composed of Judge
Sea of Dallas, Tex; Edward Realm of
Montgomery, Ala; John H. Alexander
of Leesburg, Va; w. A. Gale of Boston,
and A B. Gardiner of New York. The
supreme chancellor of the order, T. G.
Sample of Allegheny, Pa, and Recorder
w. D. Kennedy are also here. 1t is
expected that a, number of litigants will
be in attendance. The tribunal will
take uD a number of cases appealed
from the state division, but no docket
has been issued. The body composes
the court of last resort for the knights
of PythiaS.