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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-14
PRINCE CHING NOW AT PEEIN
Gen. Botha Forced to Give Up
His Command-Roberts Is
sued an Address.
PRESIDENT KRUGER FLED

Pekin, Sept. 5-Prince Ching arriv-
ed here yesterday. accompanied by an
escort of British, and Japanese caval-
ry. No definite negotiations will take
place until Lii Hung Chang has arrived
and the question of his authority shall
have been disposed OF. The Japanese
minister to China, Baron Nosaii, stat
ed that he wished an investigation
made of Ii Hung Chang's credentials,
as he believed that Prince Ching was
the only man with authority in the
premises. An associated press repre-
sentative saw Prince Ching today. The
prince said he trusted that il the i'm
mediate future everything would be
settled satisfactorily. He thought the
treatment of Pelkin unnecessarily cruel
especially as regards private property.
He had come to Pekin, he said, with
full. authority from the emperor to OBJ
tain peace by any necessary sacrifice
but felt sure the generosity of the
powers would not exact any thing de-
grading to the dignity of China or en-
croaching upon Chinese territory. He
hoped within a month to see the har-
vest gathered and homes being re-
built. Prince Ching thinks great
blow has been given to Chinese com
merce but does not believe the loss
to the city is irreparable for a more
magnificent one may arise from its
ashes.
Shanghai, Sept. Hi Hung Chang
starts for Pekin today.
Washington, Sept IA Minister WI
notified the state department this
morning that he had received, a cable
gram from LII Hung Chang stating he
would leave Shanghai today for Pekin;
also that Yung Lu will BE- associated
with Earl Ii and Prince Ching as peace
negotiators.
Shanghai, Sept. 12--Ii Hung Chang
INFORMED JHS dSSOCldLcu pltSS JOuaJ
that he will start for Tien Tsin, Sept.
14th and will go to Pekin if circum-
stances demand it. He regretted the
recent troubles and said he had no
desire, except ito smooth them over
impartially" When asked whether
he expected demands for a cession of
territory as indemnity, Lii Hung Chang
replied: 81 am in communication with
some governments. l find they have
no disposition to ask for land" The
correspondent said: "There is a great
curiosity abroad to hear the explana-
tion of contradictory edicts issued in
the name of the dowager empress dur
ing the siege. Lii said "The empress,
at the beginning, was badly advised.
She was told the boxers had super
natural powers and could not be in
jured and were able to make it very
hot for foreigners. She believed this,
but afterwards found it not true"
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-14
LAS VEGAS GRANT.
The Patent Will Issue as Soon as Off
ciaI Notes Are Filed

The Las Vegas grant was confirmed
by congress in 1860, but several mat
ters have intervened to prevent the
issuance of patent. 1t is a matter of
some magnitude and concern, and
therefore cannot be disposed II as
easily as the patent, for "a
homestead claim. The Optic does
not desire to do injustice to any officer
connected with the issuance of the
grant patent, and to avoid this has
had made careful and accurate inves-
tigation into the condition of
affairs touching the same, which it is
glad to now place before those per-
sons interested.
1t seems the examiner of surveys for
the land Office, Frank NJ. Johnson,
who is making the re-sarvey of the
grant under the direction OF the COM
missioner of the general land off ce, on
the Sd of September, 1000, wrote to
Surveyor General Vance, who is doing
all in his power consistent with his
duties in so serious a matter, that
there were so many urgent matters re-
quiring his attention in other field
examinations for the land office, that
he has been greatly ami unavoidably
delayed in writing up his notes of the
re-survey, and that he Is now working
on them day and night ia order to ex-
pedite their completion.
The official filed notes of the re-sur-
vey have not heretofore been filed in
the surveyor generals office, without
which the latter officer is unable to
certify the same, so that tIe patent
can issue, and therefore the delay Is
not due to any lack of attention OF neg
ligence in that office, nor has any oc-
Cured there. Such official cannot act
until these notes have been fled with
him, and he assures The Optic
that he will keep his promise to the
people of Las Vegas and expedite as
quickly as possible the necessary work
in his office SO that the patent can
issue as soon as the official notes are
filed.
The matter seems to be up to Mr..
Johnson. and from all accounts he is
doing the best he can, III which case
angels cannot do better.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-14

Montgomery sicard died of apoplexy
today. at his summer hoEle at West
ernville.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-14

Kruger's action shows how hopeless
in his opinion IS the war which has
now been carried on nearly year and
his desertion Of the Boer cause should
make clear to his fellow-burghers that
It is useless to continue the struggle
any longer
Lorenzo Marques. Sept. 14-Presi-
dent Kruger has removed from home
to Herr Pott. The consul Of the Meth
erlands is here, to reside In the dis
trict Of the governor.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-14
cured Of chronic IsI1i DIarrlloea Aftsr

Thirty Years Of Suffering.
tI suffered for thirty years with di-
arrhoea and thought was past being
c1red, says John S. Halloway. of
French Camp, Miss. Il had spent so
much that | had given up all hopes of
recovery. I was SO feeble from the
effects of the diarrhoea that / could
do no kind of labor, could not even
travel, but by accident was permit
ted to find bottle of Chamberlain's s
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
and after taking several bottles | am
entirely cured of that trouble. am
so pleased with the result tnat I am
anxious that 1T be in reach of all who
suffer as l have" For sale by K. d.
I.oodall, Druggist.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-14
Rotha Gives un His Command.

London, Sept. 1.-THE following re-
ceived at the war Office from Lord
Roberts says Kruger has fed to Io-
renzo Marques. Botha has been oblig-
ed to give up his command of the Boer
army temporarily to Viljoen, on ac-
count of ill-health. In consequence
Roberts issued proclamation saying:
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-14

FOR RENT-One seven room brick
house on Twelfth street, with bath
room, etc. One seven room frame
house on Twelfth street; one frame
cottage 612 Main street. Apply to
Charles F. Owings, care ]. A. Dick, or
Mrs. Bucci, on premises. 257-tf
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-14

Berlin, Sept. 14-H is officially an
nounced by the directors o. the Dis
te-Gesellschaft that 10000 marks
at 4 per cent treasury bonds falling
due 1904 and 1906 viii be placed on
the market Of the United states.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-14
Admiral sIeard Dead.

Rome. n. 7. Sept. Rear Admiral
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-14
TENNESSEE Mos.
Three Nesro-Murderers Dragged From
Their Cells to Their Death.

Memphis. Tenn. Sept. 14-A mask
ed mob broke into jail at Turica. Miss,
early today and took out three negro
murderers. whom they strung up to
trees.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-14

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The sun., 1900-12-31

tufhed to the bridge we found tho
marks where the bushwhacker had
junhped. We found where the iron shoes
of the horse had scraped the stones,
anA where he had clanbered out. In
thd5 woods, mile away, we found
horee and rider.
11he captain had been shot through
theN body. He had been dragged by the
stiiTnp until his body had become en-
tangled among the underbrush. The
horse had eaten every bush and limb
within reach, but had been without
water and was Just able to stand. His
rider was probably dead within five
minutes after being shot. You may
have made up your mind to hear
that the assassin was also discovered
through my dream, but he was not /
have always believed that it was his
hand which knitted the pickets, but
1t is only my belief. No one charged
with any of the crimes was ever
brought to book SO far as know /
could have identified the bushwhacker
among a thousand men, but never
had the opportunity. A week after the
finding of the captains body our bri-
gade was marching and fighting 40
miles away, and if the assassin was a
farmer living in the neighborhood of
his crimes he was safe from discovery.
The sun., 1900-12-31
Our Grandfather,s Letters.

George Washington never saw post
age stamp or an envelope, says Sue
cess. They were unknown here until
1887, after Rowland Hill had introduc-
ed them in England. Letters were
written, folded and addressed all on
the same sheet and stuck with wafer
or with sealing wax. Our early states
men could hardly have dreamed of the
millions upon millions of portraits of
themselves that would some day be dis
tributed broadcast by a great postal
system. In 1903 the mail routes in
cluded a few cities in Maine, Georgia,
New Hampshire, New York, Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland, Kentucky and Yir-
ginia, making triweekly deliveries in
summer and biweekly in winter. There
was no postmaster general in the cabi-
net until 1929. Letters were charged
25 cents postage for anything over 450
miles long. Half century later 10
cents prepaid carried letter 5000
miles and under that distance 5 cents
and cents.
The popular pen was the good gray
goose quill. 1t was not until 1919 that
we got our first steel pens from Eng
land, where Perry had just begun their
manufacture. Henry Clay learned to
write by tracing letters on sand with a
sharp stick, and Daniel Websters first
pen was surreptitlously plucked from
his mothers pet goose, his ink being
SCOT mixed with water. A few individ-
uals were the envied possessors of gold
pens, which were made in Europe, but
the majority used 'Dutch quills."
The sun., 1900-12-31
MONDAY, DEC. 81, 1900.
HAPPY. NEW YEAR.

Today we bid good bye to the old CEN |
tury and old year in the same breath.
1T has been wonderful century and a
wonderful year-the year a fitting end
Of the century. The century has been
one of political emancipations, of un-
thought Of progress in civil and religious
liberty and of marvellous progress in
industrial fields. The marvellous things
which men, women and children do nat
urally and as a matter of course now
would have been miracles at the opening
Of the century. When the steam engine
was but d crude affair; when men We're
only dreaming about steamboats, and
when the locomotive had not been
thought Of. These have come to perfec-
ton and electricity has come as rival
to steam. The railroads drove the mail
coaches out of business, and the tele-
graph and telephone now bid fair to sup
ercede the telegraph. These are only a
FEW Of the marvels of the industrial
world. Its marvels are legion. In litera-
ture, art and science the-eentury has sur
passed all others, and in the world OF
ethics has made great strides toward
the millennium. Its churches, schools
hospitals and libraries are as wonderful
and as glorious in their effects as are the
wonders Of mechanical and industrial
progress--a century Of miracles.
Family, this is the century we take
leave Of. We are glad to have lived il
it and been of it. However, as we sa!
good bye, we welcome the new year ant
the new century, expecting bigger ant
brighter things of it, and while we bei
everybody happy new year, we con
gratulate the young folks whose lives ar
Just beginning What they will see hatl
not eutered into the heart of man to con
ceive- Happy, Happy New Year. Wei
come the new century.
The sun., 1900-12-31
TOO Rich to Smell,

"I wish," said Mrs. Parvenu to her
daughters teacher, "that you would
drop spelling from the list of Janet's
studies"
drop spelllngg' exclaimed the teach
er. "Why"
"It is so common" replied Mrs. Par
venu. Everybody learns to SPELL"
"But your daughter will need the
knowledge" protested the teacher.
"She'll need it for her correspondence,
and'-
"Enoughw interrupted Mrs. Parvenu
haughtily. Evidently you cannot rise
above the common level. My daughter
will move in the highest circles of So
riety and will be rich enough to have
private secretary to write anything
shat she does not wish to haze printed.
do not wish to have her time vast
sd."-London Answers.
The sun., 1900-12-31
RAILROADS.
B. g. O. Railroa

Schedule in effect November rs, 19oaL
All trains illuminated with Pintsa
1l EXPRESS TRAINS.
Trains leave Wilmington, Delaware Ave-
nue. Station, for
S5S MsW y me- n9sk & week ss esSs sSs SIS isl tRcys ss
Limited), 3e.27, 27.42, s1o.5s D. m. Sun
days, SOL, 1888. +l1.S5 q; m; +S.Sa, 1858.
0 E4yeh Lfmlfs week e lSss Ssys p g. 5o1
$50. $50. 7s0, .8.25. .sss, sio5a H.oS a. M M;
,iisl9, .2$4 soS %sss .51s (ESyal Linn
Sundays, sssn 81 5ci S2 aso IS $50 ~ .sss ioS
ted, It D. ess, '' 9s, ~ soS 's sio5s S p i.0sa Lug
.s5 SsestsE 6s Yfes Ss a. aaxs vs. Is? & sSS sS .s 5s 3
lo.5s, sii.$5 4. NJ; sa.si. 800. SIS. T.lz. Sa.
Atlantic City, week days. $3.50 a. M;
+121S .2.S4, and *5.25 p. m. Sundays, 7.9
a. M; ~2.34 p. m.
Cape is May Ocean city, week so days, $50
Sea Isle City, week days. $3.50 a. M;
Baltimors Is q and O. aWS,ashington y week sa days.
$40, '4.57, t6.2o (Royal Limited. 's.o4.
~. Sc, .2.O9, *4.57. *6.2O (Royal Limited).
Baltimore and way stations, 65s &. M; |;
S.19 p. m. daily except Sundays; 3.o5 a. M;
6.4s p. m. Sundays only, : = 40 q. -, .,
a. m; $is56, 3.l9, s4.57, 625 .s.os y. m.
Sundays, .4.1s "s.04, 9O5 a. M; '1256 '4.5f,
Pittsburg, week days. 's.o4 a. m; .4.57,
*62O (Rcyal Limitedl, ,+1e16 p. m. Sum
days, *S.04 a. M; *4,57, $500 CRoyal Linz
i'eSi Chicago, 0 daily, Ia .S.o4 a. M; .457 p. m.
Cincinnati and st. Louis, s4ls a. nj;
+12.56 and *1O.16 p. m, daily.
Singerly accommodation, week days,
6.55 a. m, 319 6.25 p. m. Sundays, s.O5
| a. M. 6. d3. 332 ID, n,
Landenberg aceommodatsio9gn. week days,
LEAVE MARKET ST. STATION FOR
Baltimore, week days, $40 p. M.
Landenberg, week days, $40 a. M; $40,
500 p. m. Sundays, $40 a. M; 6.45 p. m.
LEAVE PHILADELPHIA for Will
mington, week days. 1885. $50, +7.30 s1o. 26,
ll.OO a. m; 1920, s1;a, 2.15, t3o7, s4So, 4So,
s9. 40, *11.35 p. m. Sundays, *3S5, *7.3o $40,
l1.OO a. m; +12.2O, %1.37, Las, H.20. $50.
f5.4S, (Royal Limited), $50. $780, s9.4O.
1870 p. m. -
Delmarvia Telephone No. 1893.
Rates to Western points lower than via
any other line. +. ID. UNDERWOOp,
D. B. MARTIN. Man. of Pass. Traffic.
The sun., 1900-12-31
Liauid AR to supply Power.

The latest device for economizing
fuel in steam furnaces has been
brought forward in association with
the name Of Professor I.lnde, well
known as the first man to put the in
dustry of geration-otherwis cold
storage-on commercial basis. Pro-
fessor Linde, as is well known, has
lately been giving his attention to the
industrial production Of liquid air, in
which he has been fairly successful.
The liquid air can be supplied In any
required quantity, but the uses to
which it can be profitably applied have
not developed in the same proportion.
Professor I.lnde now proposes to en-
ploy liquid air in conjunction with coke
or inferior fuel in steam boiler fur
naces. 1t Is stated that after giving
of the nitrogen gas remains that
consists Of so per cent of oxygen that
can be profitably used in boiler fur
naces at the present high price of fuel.
The sun., 1900-12-31
The Reunion of the Toys.

A little toy bug and a little toy mouse,
And little toy tiger met
On the little toy porch of little toy
house,
Where little toy table was set,
And the little toy bug gave sad little
squeak
And the little mouse walled: "Oh myw
And the little toy tiger attempted to
speak,
But emitted Il sad little sigh.
A little toy soldier set down toy emp
And indulged in a pitiful wall,
And sadness came over little toy pup
With poor little stump of tail;
And a little toy engine that ran on a
track
Gave ii sad little toot as it sped,
And little bisque doll said: "Alas!and
alack!
| really wish | were deadr'
Then brisk little Jack popped out in
the air
From box he had opened, somehow.
And he said to the toys: This is strange,
/ declare,
What makes you 50 sad? What's the
row."
And the little bisque doll put little bis
que hand
On her little bisque heart and replied;
I'm stranger alone in strange, for
eign land.'
| And the others in unison sighed.
And the soldier said; That's what's the
matter with ME;
| I'm homesick and lonely today.
[ For the ones that love are far over the
Oh, why did they bring me away
And the little toy mouse and the little
toy cup
Andt he little toy table and plate
And the little toy tiger and little toy pm
Had the same little tale to relate
lThen the Jack-in-the- Box dashed teal
from his eye
And said in a sorrowful tone;
l"I, too, am Il stranger beneath Il strapg'
sky,
Far, far from the haunts | have known
IIhey made me in Germany, thousands o
miles
Across the blue occan.' And DER
The faces around him there broke happ,
smiles,
Where sadness was pictured before.
made over in Germany shouted tn
doll
81, TOO, was made there!' And the bu
And the soldier and tiger and PUPPY an
all
Rushed forward to give her hug:
, "They made me in Germany" each Q
them cried
And ''Wie gehts!' s1ueaked the nous
: to the Jack.
"Danke shoen," in glad little voice, h
replied
The engine leaped clear from its track
Then the little toy bug and the little to
mouse
And the soldier and doll anl III, re,
Formed ring on the porch Of the ittl
toy house,
And joy was in each little breast,
And they sang: 'AIade in Germany ovt
the sea!'
And they danced all around in delight
And little boy woke and sat up an
I said he:
why, they're Just as | left them la
nightw
$. Il. Kiscr.
The sun., 1900-12-31

is threatened. The avowed purpose OF
the moss-hacks present was to unite
with the Regulars to defeat Addicks,
in order that the Tory Democracy might
regain control of the two lower counties
and once more intimidate voters, stuff
ballot boxes, and alter the returns as in
the good old days.
John Biggs favored the election of two
Regulars, knowing that he had no cnance.
Willard Salisbury, hopeful Of carrying
off the phize if such a deal could be
arranged, wanted the Democrats to agree
on Senator apiece The Sussex County
Bourbons favored two Regulars. This
hit at Salisbury caused him to declare
[, that then both should come from Sussex.
This would give the Democrats Of that
county the burden of opposing at future
elections the weight of Federal patronage
and prestige that the Senatorships carry
land be blow at Biggs' friend, present
Senator Kenney. 1t would also clear the
way for New Castle man in 1905 who
might be Salisbury, or du Pont, who has
lno chance Of election this time.
County Chairman Neary who stands
closer to Biggs than to Salisbury, urged
1.-THE support If two Regulars without ask
ling anything in return. Every Evening
hints that Salisbury is not in the race.
lSenatorial aspirant Bancroft, who is a
Handed aristocrat of the du Pont stripe,
land hostile to Bryan Democracy, eyi-
IDENTIFY prefers the Colonel to even so
mild a Democrat as Salisbury.
So. as usual the leaders had to ail
their factional differences. even while
agreeing that the defeat of Addicks was
essential to Bourbon supremacy. And
masking their purpose behind pre-
tense of regard for the public welfare
they showed plainly that when then
mutual interests are threatened the
Tories of both parties are as one.
The sun., 1900-12-31
lin Eisk,s EInrshin.

stripped of her ornaments and be-
reft of her old time splendor," says the
Providence Journal. "the once magnif-
cent, new, stanch, commodious and pa
latial steamer Providence, flagship of
Jim Fisk's feet and one of the queens
of the sound. now lies at the I.onsdale
wharf, to be the home of rats and
slowly rot away. The old steamboat
came into this port the other day and
made her last dock. Unable to com.
pete with the latter day floating hotels
that float so fast over the green waters
between Long Island and the Connscti-
cut shore. the old Providence has
crawled off to die, and her last days
will be spent in this city, that gave her
her name"
The sun., 1900-12-31
Taxes High Enough.
Daily Republican.

From Daily Republican.
1t should be borne in mind that real
estate in this city can't stand any more
taxes The Board of Education will re-
uuire 100000 to meet its obligations in
connection with the new High School
Building. The Board is now paying in
tertst on money borrowed, and it could
fleet q saving by paying off The lenders
through bonds at low rate Of interest.
The building will soon be in use and
must lie paid for. City Council will
ask for loan of $4,000. The needs of
Of the city are beyond the revenue avail
able and the only remedy is a new loan
for real estate will stand no more taxes
The sun., 1900-12-31
FALCON ISLAND REAPPEARS.
The Little Pacific Island Which Dis
appeared Comes Again Into View.


Falcon island, which early in 1890
was reported to have completely disap-
peared beneath the waves of the Pa
citic, is again showing it's fiat surface
above the water. The life history of
this speck of land has been unusual
and interesting. A cable dispatch from
Europe printed in April last year said
that after brief life of IA years Fal-
con island had ceased to exist. 1t was
thought that no trace of it would ever
be seen again. But Mr.. Vossion, the
consul general of France in the Tonga
group, announces that Commandant
Ravenhill Of the cruiser Porpoise has
returned to those islands from a cruise
in the Pacific with the news of the re-
emergence of Falcon island. He says
that the highest part of the island is
now about 16 feet above sea level.
The island was formed by a great
volcanic eruption at the bottom of the
sea in 1885. 1t took the waves and
storms of the ocean IA years entirely
| to obliterate 1t. Mr.. ]. ]. Lister, who
visited the island short time before II
being torn to pieces by the action Of
the waves. Unless a fresh volcanic
outburst occurred he thought 1t would
soon disappear. His prediction came
true, and steamer that visited the
place about the beginning of last year
reported that not trace of it was to
be found above the water level.
I Tho island l,,1i1+ ~ ty, 4ho =, nfs srI,
borhood Of the Tonga group. about 35
miles from the island Of Tofooa. A
submarine volcano had reared from
the bottom of the ocean a mighty mass
of ejecta, and on this foundation rested
the outpourings which rose above the
J water. The island consisted of two
distinct parts. One of them was hill
of gentle slope and wide base, whose
height was 1881 feet. On one side the
hill ended abruptly in cliff whose
base was washed by the sea at high
water. The other part of the island
was fat, extending away from the
base Of the hill in northerly direction
and only 10 to IL feet above the high
tide level. The whole bit of land was
just a bare, brown heap of ashes
around which the great rollers broke
and swept up the black shores in
sheets of foam. The island was entire
ly destitute of vegetation save for
a half dozen Seeding plants that had
found lodgment there.
1t will not be strange IL the. island is
torn to pieces and again disappears
from view within very few years. Its
reappearance now is doubtless due to
another jvolcanlc eruption. Volcanic
islands seldom endure many years un-
less they are so large or sd well pro-
tected against the sea that there is
time for them to become covered with
dense masses of vegetation before
ocean stdrms have an opportunity to
! tear thenh to pieces.-New York Sun,
&c t. ,r. E 9 rug eflps, SUI,
Third strs ships &