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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-10-27
When II q. Montano. the nresent sheriff was electe

sheriff. elected
Co Romero his chief deputy ontano has taken little inter-
office control and
1t will remembered that
him allowing the
criminals cited the Baca statement this Of Mr. Romero
him? The Nov 9th
must decide.
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Massage, all branches. Skillful
treatment given by thoroughly train
ed masseuse. For terms, etc., address
P. o. box 1856, East Las Vegas. 300-1m
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DR.. Baker, dentist. has Iocated over
the First national bank. He is grad
uate of the Vanderbilt college of den
tistry and has had eleven years of OK
perience. He respectfully asks a
share of your patronage. 2sO-1m
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For bargains in all goods for next
thirty days see the line of mems
wear, at the Lewis Shoe & Clothing
Co. 1t
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Wanted-A cook on ranch. Apply to
Browne G Manzanares Co. 292-tf
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Edward Dewey. Dead.

Montpelier VT, Oct. 27.-Edward
Dewey, brother of Admiral Dewey,
died of Kidney trouble. He was sew
enty-ones years of age.
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Ives, the florist, chrysanthemuns,
roses, carnations. Albuquerque, N. Nj.
29S-1mo.
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wanted-From fifteen to twenty
cultured ladies and gentlemen to study
German during the coming six months.
Charges reasonable. Apply at once
at DR.. B. A. Bonnheim's residence.
8S-1m
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Figures and Facts for the Voters
to Render Judgment On
at the Polls on the 9th
Of November.
UNION COLLECTIONS ST,OOO BETTER THAN REPUBLICAN

Dozen Instances Cited Where Unionists Were In-
dicted, and on Turning Republican Escaped
the Just Penalty of the Law.
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! The Want Column

Brings business. Ifyou want
to buy anything, rent any
thing, sell anything. the best
and quickest results are 10 be
had through The Optic wants.
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are used in The Optics Job
Department. so you can depend
on it that your work will be
turned out with an up-to-date-
ness not to be excelled.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-08
KANSAS NEWS.
Fort Scott Owes Thousands
With Small Assets.
The City Council Decides on
Heroic Measures.
AN OCCUPATION TAX.
That is the Measure of Relief
Decided Upon.
To Tax Every Conceivable
Branch of Business.
AN OCCUPATION TAX.

Fort Scott. June S.-The city council
has been called upon to meet on next
Tuesday evening in special session for
the purpose of trying to enact an oc-
cupation tax. In the meantime the city
attorney will draw I'D an ordinance
placing a tax on every conceivable
branch of business, and at the meeting
Of the council they can alter and add
to as they like before the matter is
formally presented to the members
This movement grew out of a state
ment made by Mr.. Fredericks of the
finance committee at the last meeting,
in which he said that the city would not
be able to meet the necessary obliga-
tions at the time first set upon
Mr. Fredericks of the finance COM
mittee reported that at the end of this
900 with only about $4,000 to pay the
bills.
AS a matter of retrenchment Mr..
salaried street employees, with the eX-
ception of the cart driver, of the city
be discharged and that the cash COL
lected by the poll tax collector be used
in each ward as it is collected, for the
hiring Of teams to help in the street
work.
AS an amendment Mr. Tite moved
that the hiring of street employees be
left to the street committee and city
engineer. Mr. Myers offered as a sub
stitute to the motion an amendment
that the street commissioner be allowed
to employ necessary help to carry on
the little work ordered, not to exceed
800 per month, which was carried.
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IS IT MURDER?
Mysterious Death of Mrs. Mary
Elliott.

Mrs. Mary Elliott. wife of William
Elliott. who lives at 315 East Laurent
street, in North Topeka, died Thursday
morning under peculiar circumstances.
Mrs. Elliott had been sick for some
time and had been taking a great deal
of medicine. Thursday morning she
took dose OF medicine that had just
been gotten at the drug store by her
husband and died a short time later in
commissions. Today her niece, Mrs.
Alice Hillor. announced that she was
ready to make an affidavit to the effect
that Mrs. Elliott died from being slowly
poisoned.
Coroner HogeboOm was summoned
and ordered an autopsy held this after
noon. A jury has been drawn and a
coroner's inquest will be held Saturday
afternoon at l o'clock. The funeral will
take place Saturday morning.
Deputy Sheriff Stewart has in his pos
session a bottle of medicine that Mrs.
Elliott had used. 1t is marked ''sarsa-
parilla" and contains a dark brown sub
stance. Mrs. Hillor claims that Mrs.
Elliott told her that her husband had
threatened to poison her and that she
did not care if he did. Mr.. Elliott has
considerable money and lives without
working. Many of the neighbors and
refidns have been subpoenaed to testify
at the inquest
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New Free Rnral pelivery.

Atchison, June 8.-Five new rural
mail delivery routes will be established
in Atchison county next month. H. G.
Rising, a special agent of the postoffice
department, is in Atchison to locate the
their establishment will result in the
adjustment of six or more country
posteffces. One of the routes will ex-
tend southwest from Atehison eight or
ten miles and may do away with both
the Fighbridge and Hawthorne post
Offices Another will run northwest
from Atchison, taking in the territory
served by. the Good Intent and Eden
postoihces. A route will start from
Pennington and run south to the Par
dee neighborhood and the Pardee post
Office will likely be abolished. The
fourth route is northeast from Norton
VILE into Center township. and the
fifth is south from Horton through
Grasshopper township.
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MR.. BRIsTow's WORK IN cUBl

CBrom the Washington Post1
While the spokesman and organs OF
the Republican party are eagerly pooh
pooling and belittling the postofice
scandals, Mr.. Bristow is busily engaged
in showing us that the scandals are real
enough for our national shame and sor-
row.
One very significant feature of Mr..
BristOws work thus far is the dis
closure of his opinion that these extra
ordinary salaries and allowances in
favor of officials stationed at Havana
are not as Indispensable as we have
been asked to believe. He has not only
Obliterated a great many offices, but he
has reduced in a very marked degree
the emoluments attached to those
which are retained. Already he has cut
down the expense account many thou
sands of dollars. Before all is done, he
viii have shown. to the satisfaction of
the entire country, not only how much
has been stolen, but how much wasted
in the wicked and hcentious carnival
that has held the Cuban boards for the
past year or So We shall know the
extent of the outright robberies and
the names of the criminals. We shall
know. also, the extent of the prohigacy
and the identity of the traitors
Mr.. Bristow may be said to represent
in Cuba the integrity and high purpose
of the American people. He is there to
show the Cubans that while we have
robbers and SPECTATORS among US, we
make it our business to expose and
punish them
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WOULD SET THE PACE.
Socialist Would Lead the
World.

New York, June 8.-The Socialist La
Dor party, Daniel De Leon faction,
which has been in session in this city
since last Saturday, was continued to-
delegate of the party to the interna-
tioral society in Paris in September be
instructed to demand that the prin-
ciples and tactics advocated by the So
lation to trade unions be adopted by
the congress as the proper principle
of all socialist parties and bodies in
Europe so far as the Industrial. po-
litical and economical conditions per-
nit. A motion introduced by Mr. De
Leon was adopted declaring that if any
Socialist party from this county send a
delegate to the Paris convention the
Socialist Labor party delegate protest
against his being seated and that the
delegate request that he be allowed to
sit apart from any such impure delega-
tior
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A WEEK OF PRAYER.
Decided Upon by the General Synod
of the Reformed Church.

Asbury Park, N. J., June Sat to-
days session of the general synod of
the reformed church in America con-
sideration was given to the first ten
resolutions submitted yesterday by the
committee on the growth of the church
The first resolution adopted was that
recommending the observance of the
first week in January as a week of
prayer.
mittee favoring changes in liturgical
offices, especially those for the ordina-
ton and installation of elders, deacons
and ministers. Special committees were
appointed to revise the form of these
and to revise the baptismal form.
A motion was submitted by the Rev.
Cornelius n. Wells requesting churches
to fill their pulpits with graduates from
reformed colleges.
After a long debate the motion was
declared unconstitutional and was
withdrawn
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THEY REACH ST. PAUL.
Boer ENJOYS Are Given a Hearty
Recar3%ion

st. Paul. MINI, June DIR Abraham
Fisher and c. H. Vessels. two of the
three Boer ENJOYS NOW in this country,
arrived in this city a few minutes be-
fore noon. Mrs Fischer accompanied
her husband. A special reception COM
mittee welcomed the visitors to the
northwest. There was a large crowd
at the depot and the Minnesota state
band played a number of patriotic Am
erican airs. The visitors were taken at
once to the Ryan hotel where lunch
was served. Governor Lind called on
them soon after their arrival. A public
reception was held from 1870 to 3o'clock
this afternoon and a drive about the
city will follow late in the afternoon
A mass meeting will be held in the
Auditorium tonight
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IN THE BoER LAND.
An Atchison Man Serving Under the
British Flag.

Atchison, June s.-Atchison figured on
the victorious side of the British Boer
war, Charley Price, of this city, having
rendered most important service for
England. He was one of several men
in charge of a regiment of engineers
who constructed the bridges for the
English army to cross rivers. His rel
atives in Atchison have been receiving
letters from him regularly, always writ
ten in the field.
His regiment carried an elaborate
system for making pontoon bridges,
and one of the achievements OF the
regiment was the rapid construction of
a pontoon bridge across a stream as
wide as the Missouri, and Lord Rob
erts' army passed over it. The work of
Prices men is now at an end. He was
constantly at the front, and his regi-
ment probably saw as much real war
as any regiment in the army. His
regiment was composed entirely of en-
gineers who volunteered their services
when such a force of men We're sorely
needed by her majesty. He is now at
johannesburg. which town he left in
great haste at the outbreak of the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-08
WANTS $4,000 DAMAGES.
Greenwood County Cattleman Sues
K G. Commission Company.

Emporia June S.-John Edwards,
formerly of Emporia, now in the cattle
business at Eureka, is beginning a suit
against two parties for $4,000 dam
ages on a cattle deal. Yesterday, Win
field Freeman, of Kansas City, was in
town taking dispositions in the case, as
an attorney for Edwards.
Some time ago, Edwards was buying
a big bunch Of cattle. He alleges that
he made a deal with E. A. Guide
meister, of Council Grove, who repre-
scented the Kansas City Live Stock
Commission company, for a big bunch
of cattle; that after he had closed the
deal by paying the commission COM
pany 1000 in checks, the commission
company refused the transaction and
returned to him his checks. He thinks
that he would have made a big profit
on the cattle.
The commission company, on the
other hand claims it had not made
the deal, that Guildemeister was not
authorized to make it for them. and
that if he did so it was without au
thority from the company, and they
had a perfect right to turn it down.
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cream. freezer carefully covered over
with piece of carpet.
If a girl has a father, mother, uncles
and aunts, and a dozen brothers and
sisters, she still feels until some young
man comes along that no one in the
world understands" her.
It takes a person of magnetic in
fluence to interest another for more
than five minutes when talking about
his own affairs, and yet people will
talk by the hour about nothing else.
The young men who went away to
college last fall have returned wearing
shoes a little more yellow than any
one else; ties that are gaudier, shirts
of a more startling design. and their
hair parted more evenly in the middle.
There is really nothing like a college
education for fitting a young man for
the struggle of life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-08
KEEGAN CONFESSES.
Says He Has Practiced a Fraud For
Years.

New York, June S-Knowing that
death is near, Alexander Keegan today
made an affidavit eonfessing fraud and
deceit in an attempt to recover dam
ages from the Third Avenue Railroad
company. In 1894 Keegan was injured
in collision between car and a cart.
He subsequently sued the road and the
owner of the cart. There followed
years of litigation. Keegan succeeded
in making judges and doctors believed
that he was afflicted with epileptic fits
as the result of the accident, and he
secured a verdict for $1,000. The case
was appealed and is now on the court
of appeals calendar.
Keegan asserts in his affidavit that
he never suffered from epileptic fits,
and that whatever pain and loss of
memory he suffered was the result of
a bullet wound inflicted by himself
eighteen years ago.
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po1NrEp pARAaRApHs

[From the Chicago News.l
a guiltless conscience makes a soft
pillow.
Gratitude is the fond recollection Of
the heart.
He is a poor actor who can't get any
one to take his part.
New styles are usually old ones that
people have forgotten.
Probably the biggest thing about a
jealous woman is her suspicion.
If a row of columns is a colonnade
row Of lemons must be a lemonade.
Love is one of the few things that is
never displayed in bargain counter.
A man down in a mine who wonders
if he will ever get out is a deep thinker.
When love fails a girl she begins to
boast Of her Indifference for the other
sex.
His satanical majesty always smiles
when a boy is whipped to make him
attend church.
One way for a man to best a woman
in an argument is to state his version
Of the case-then run.
In talking of the meantime a man
probably refers to the next morning
after he has been having "a good
time"
When a woman plans to do anything
out of the ordinary she always won
ders what the neighbors will say about
it.
The modest friend who offers to lend
you money when you are broke is more
worthy of praise than the hero of 10C
| battles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-08
MILES PROMOTED.
Commission of Lieutenant Gen.
eral Given by the President.

Washington, June Sin accordance
with the provisions of the military
academy appropriation bill the presi
dent today issued commissions to Lieut.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, commanding the
army and Major General Corbin, ad-
jutant general of the army. These are
recess appointments and will be nom
mated to the senate at its next ses-
sion in December.
General Miles said today that he
would make no change in his staff in
consequence of the legislation the
principal effect of which will be to give
Major Micheler. Fifth cavalry. Major
Bailey and Major Whitney, General
Miles present aides, the rank, pay and
allowances of colonies of cavalry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-08
BYLAWS AMENDED.
Women's Club Directory Will Consist
of Eight Members.

Milwaukee, June S-An amendment
to the bylaws provides that the board
of directors shall hereafter consist of
eight members instead of nine.
Presidents of individual clubs are no
longer to be vice presidents of the gen
cral federation
The Illinois delegation, most of whom
are disappointed that Mrs Robert Far
son was not placed on the board of
directors. held a meeting today. The
failure of representation for Illinois is
due, it is said to opposing forces within
its own sanks.
Buhalo. Atlantic City and Boston are
canvassing fos the next biennial meet
ing.
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Closing DAY at Baker.

Baldwin, June s.-The graduation ex-
ercises of the college of liberal arts.
Baker university, was held here Thurs
zell of Africa on 1.-THE Briton and the
Boer in South Africa" He called Pres
ident Kruger 1.-THE George III of At
rica." Degrees were conferred by
President Murlin upon fourteen grad
yates. Among the honorary degrees
given was that Of the doctor of divinity
to Guy Potter Benton, president of
Upper Iowa university. Bishop Hart
zell conducted the ceremony incident
to the laying of the cornerstone of the
D. Togle gymnasium to be erected this
summer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-08
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[F'rons the Philadelphia Record
The soda fountain clerk is recognized
by his phiz.
It's about as difficult to win a name
as to name a winner.
The doctor and the legislator both
amend the constitution.
The man with an itch for notoriety
can get it by lively scratching.
Hoax-"Borem is said to be a re-
markedly bright fellow" Joax-"Bright!
Why. he knows as much as his wife
thinks he knows
They were completely at the Villains
mercy. "Strike!" cried the hero, def
antly, as he barred his brea st to the
glittering dagger. Piteous sobs escaped
the trembling heroine. Hal hal
chuckled the villain, nerving himself
for the terrible crime; lone strike and
one bawl."
The seashore girl, so tanned, so cute,
Is here. Wen see much of her,
Because her skinny bathing suit
Her form will scarcely cover.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-08
BooMINe THE TOWN.
Cottonwood Falls Commercial Club
Starts Number of Projects.

COTTONWOOD Fails, June S-The Com
mercial club of this city is working
hard to push forward the best interests
of the town. An enthusiastic meeting
was held at the court house this week.
A large number of committees were
appointed along the line of develop
ment of all the industries of the county
The club authorized the building of a
creamery or station with George
George recommended as chairman.
Committees were appointed on cattle
and hogs, stone quarries irrigation,
roads, writing up the city and its old
settlers and new settlers, water and
electrical works. development Of home
gas and Gil wells, etc. Most of the time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-08
HIGH PARIS RATES.
A Winfield Man Back From Europe
Roasts the Exposition.

Winfield, June ST. K. Robinson has
returned from Europe. Mr.. Robinson
says the reports of extortionate prices
at Paris are not exaggerated He was
there in April, and the hotels were then
charging about 80 per cent. more than
regular rates. May ! rates were ad-
vanced so per cent, and he understood
that June l the rates were to be again
advanced so per cent This will make
anything like a decent room cost SO
per day with board about 81 extra. He
estimates that a person can go to Paris
and stay three weeks at a total cost
of about $500. This would not permit
of extravaganza, but he thinks it
would enable the person to live COM
fortably.
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Gets an Tnanrgent cum.

Ottawa, June 81. H. Baker has re-
ceived an old shotgun from his son,
S. w. Baker, who is director of the
Sixth United States artillery band in
the Philippines. The gun was picked
up on a branch of the Pasig river
known as "Weyler canal" and is sup
posed to have been used by the in
surgents against the Spanish. It is
rusty and has only one hammer left.
1t is not a muzzle loader, but has no
plungers for exploding a shell, but a
couple of notches in the barrel were
apparently made to permit the use OF
a rim fire shell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-08
SLOW PROGRESS.
Made by Colorado Democrats in
Reaching a Business Basis.


Denver. Col, June. S.-When the state
Democratic convention was called to or
der at IL o'clock today the credentials
committee reports were presented.
The majority report favored the seat
ing of the Thomas delegation but made
no argument in support Of the recon-
mendation. The minority report signed
by "a members of the committee argued
that the Maloney delegation was regu-
lar and therefore entitled to admission.
Ex-Governor Adams. of Pueblo coun-
ty offered a substitute for both reports
providing for the seating of both dele
cations with full votes, the sending Of
both Thomas and Maloney to the ma
tiOnal convention and the appointment
of a committee to frame laws for the
government of the party to prevent fu-
ture trouble OF this kind.
The debate which followed wasat times
very heated.
At 1925 the convention took recess
until o'clock without having reached
a vote on the Arapahoe county contest
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CARDS EXCHANGED.
Duel Arises From Reports About
American Building.

Paris. June 8.-As a result of the
statement published in New York that
the United States pavilion at the Paris
exposition is unsafe cards have been
exchanged and seconds have been ap-
pointed on one side at Ieast. between
NJ NORM Gustiaux, the builder and as
sistant architect, and NJ. Henri Dumay
the correspondent who sent the story
to America.
The two men were introduced last
night al a reception at the national pa
Vilion by the assistant United States
Commissioner general at the Paris ex-
position, benjamin D. Wood who is an
intimate friend of M. Gustiaux. After
some words, NJ. Gustiaux and Dumay
exchanged cards. Newspaper circles
are deeply Interested
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-08

Later reports regarding the evacua-
ton of Pretoria indicate that about all
Lord Roberts found was an empty
shell. The Beers got away with their
entire army. their artillery, their pris-
oners and all their store of money and
provisions. All that the British have ac-
required by the campaign is a small
portion of territory in the southern part
of the Transvaal. Botha's army is only
u miles from Pretoria.
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New Phone Line For Junction City.

Junction City, June S.-The city COUNT
ell has granted a franchise to H. P.
Wareham, of Manhattan, to construct
an independent telephone exchange in
This city. This means that Junction
City is to be another link in the chain
Of Independent exchanges that reaches
out in every direction and covers nearly
every town of Importance in the state.
AS an example of the extent of the in
dependent telephone the three cities
nearest us, Abilene, Manhattan and Sa-
Ina have over 1000 INDEPENDENT
phones, and only 124 Bell phones.