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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

ment Of Governor Roosevelt as the can
didate of the young men of the country,
who represented their desires and am
bitions and embodied their patriotism
and Americanism was not second to
that accorded to the presidents name.
The vast assemblage sprang to its
feet and state emblems, pampas. plumes,
handkerchiefs and hats fairly filled
the air. The band in the main gal
lery began to play ''Therell Be n Hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight" and
to the inspiring strains the delegates
began marching around the hall, filing
past Governor Roosevelt as he sat i'll
the New York degeation. and extend
ing to him their congratulations.
In the procession that filed past
Roosevelt was one woman from the
Utah delegation who presented him
with big bunch of roses, for which
Governor Roosevelt returned pro-
found bow.
Several of the Kansas delegates re
moved their beautiful silk sunfiower
badges and threw them upon Governor
Roosevelt during the march of the del
egates. 1t was an inspiring demon
stration. Mrs. Roosevelt looked down
upon it from her position of vantage
in the side gallery She was pale rs
paper, but appeared smiling and hap
py The demonstration continued for
six minutes and forty seconds, during
which time Governor Roosevelt re
ceived the congratulations of his
friends, looking the while like bronze
statue, so imperturable was he.
Several seconding speeches We're
made, one of them by Chauncey De
pew. The vote was unanimous, only
Roosevelt himself refusing to vote.
Chairman Lodges announcement
that Roosevelt had been nominated for
vice president evoked a burst of ap-
plause that fairly shook the great steel
girders of the building to its found;,-
tions. Governor Roosevelt. now the
candidate for the vice presidency, was
surrounded by delegates showering
congratulations upon him. He stood
in the middle aisle. the stern look of
recent days having given away to an
expansive smile.
Lodge was placed at the head of the
committee to notify the president of
his nomination and Senator Wolcott
at the head of the committee to notify
the vice president of his nomination.
Votes of thanks to Mr.. Lodge and Mr..
Wolcott for their able services as pre-
siding officers were unanimously
adopted. also thanks to Mayor Ash
bridge of Philadelphia, for the hospi-
tality of the city and to all officials of
the convention. This closed the work,
and at 2:14, on motion of Senator
Payne of New York. the Republican
convention of 1900 adjourned sine die.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26
American warship Fired On.

London, June 22-3:30 n. m.-The
United States gunboat Monacacy was
two miles up the Pei-IIo river when
the international fleet began the bonn
bardment of the the Taku forts.
According to the Shanghai cores
pondent of the Express she was shot
through the bows.
The correspondent says that the
Chinese riflemen on both banks of the
river attacked her. unsuccessfully.
Washington, June 21.-Acting Secre-
tary of the Navy Hackett received n
cable message this afternoon from Adj
miral Kempff, dated Che Foo. June
n. saying that Tien-Tsin is being bonn
barded and that much of the American
consulate, as well as foreign conces-
sions. are being destroyed. A relief
party is en- route to Tien-Tsin, includ-
ing $50 American marines under Ma
jor Walter.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

Near Ayuthia, formerly the capital
of Siam, is a curious labyrinth in
which elephants are captured alive
The labyrinth is formed by double
row of immense tree-trunks set firmly
In the ground, the space between them
gradually narrowing. Where 1t be-
gins. at the edge of the forest, the
opening of the labyrinth is more than
n mile broad, but as it approaches
Ayuthia it becomes so narrow that the
elephants cannot turn around. Tame
elephants are employed to lure wild
ones into the trap. Having reached
the inner end of the labyrinth, the
tame elephants are allowed to pass
through a gate, while men lying in
wait slip shackles over the feet of the
captives. The sport is a dangerous
one. as the enraged elephants some
times crush their would-be captors un-
der their feet.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

India is country not half so large
as the United States, with four times
its population. These 300, 100000 peo-
pie must be fed from their own crops.
as there is, relatively. no manufactur-
ing resource to buy food with, says
the Review OF Reviews. There are
parts of India with a population OF
1000 people to the square mile, and
there are millions upon millions of
farm laborers, vagrants, gypsies and
nondescript classes, whose means OF
living, even in times of plenty, are in
Gcrutable.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26
HANNA REELECTED CHAIRMAN
Headquarters for the Campaign VIII lie at
New York nnd Chicago.

Philadelphia, June 21.-The national
committee met in the rooms back of the
convention hall Immediately after the
adjournment of the convention. AS
soon as the committee was assembled,
Senator Hanna was nominated and re
elected chairman for the next four
years. In accepting the nomination he
made very short speech, in which
he thanked the old members of the
committee who had stood by him in
the campaign of 1896. and said that in
taking the position for another four
years. and especially for the coming
campaign, he did so with the direct I'M
derstanding that every member of the
national committee would stand by
him and work Loyalty for the success
Of tho ticket which had been nomi-
mated to-day.
Colonel Dick of Ohio was elected
temporary secretary Chairman Hanna
was authorized to select from the mem
bers Of the national committee an ex-
ecutive campaign committee. and the
committee then adjourned subject to
the call of the chairman
The headquarters of the national
committee will be established at Chi
cago and New York, as in the campaign
of 1896.
Just before the adjournment of the
national committee. on motion of Sena-
tor Scott OF West virginia, George Wis
well of Milwaukee was unanimously
elected sergeantat-arms of the nation
al committee for four years, in the
place of II. l.. Swords of New York, re-
signed.
Chairman Hanna tonight announced
the names of the five members of the
new executive committee of the nation
nj committee. as follows: Henry C.
Payne. Wisconsin,; Joseph Manley,
Maine; n. B. Scott, West Virginia;
Sboup, Idaho.
1t is expected that the committee to
inform President Mckinley of his NOM
ination will perform its duty Mt Can
ton, Ohio, July 10Th.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

Must the Japanese go" too7 Ten
thousand of them are said to have
landed on our Pacific coast during the
first three weeks of April. and for sew
eral months they have been arriving
at the rate OF hundred thousand a
year, ten times the normal immigra-
uon. Some are known to be contract
laborers and will be deported; others,
later on. may wish they, too, had been
sent. back IT is hhagsue5Sdiffd1 beulsS
they fear war
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26
Third Day.

Philadelphia, June 2l.-This was the
great day, and long before 10 o'clock
the hour set for the re-assembling of
the convention.sGfe hall was surround
ed by an immense army of people who
besicged all the doors and entrances.
clamoring for admission. When the
doors We're opened they surged in like
a flood, submerging the vast hall.
At 1920 the big band from Canton,
Ohio, the Presidents home, made its
way into the hall from the west side,
and broke out with the pealing strains
of the national anthem. The whole au-
dience rose to its feet and stood until
it was concluded. The Canton band
Is one of the most popular organiza-
tions of its kind in the United States.
1t is here on the day of the nomina-
tion of Mckinley at the Presidents re
quest.
He regards the band as his mascot.
Heretofore in his congressional and
gubernatorial contests, and in 1896 in
his presidential contest, the band play
ed him to victory. When it was sug-
gested that the band could not be pres
ent, the President insisted that it
should be, and at his request the not
ed organization was engaged.
At 1876 Chairman Lodge, with three
raps of his historic gavel, stilled the
tumult on the floor, while the band
ushered in the session with the ma
tional anthem, Senator Hanna being
one of the first to rise, and the entire
audience following as the inspiring
strains reverberated through the build
ing. AS the anthem closed the chair
man announced the opening inyoca-
tion by Archbishop Ryan.
The chair then laid the amendment
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26
Money is cheap in New York.

New York. June 2l.-An offer of a
large brokerage firm to loan S10.000-
600 on New York real estate at 3 IL
per cent. has established n new record
for bond and mortgage loans. Iiie
lowest rate of interest heretofore paid
by borrowers, even on Broadway prop
erty. has been from 1 to ) per cent, ac-
cording to the amount borrowed and
the relative amount of the mortgage
TO the value of the property.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26
Mining Congress nns lengthy Contention

Milwaukee, June 2l.-The intcrna-
tional Mining Congress devoted three
and one-hnlf hours tonight in an on
deavor to decide upon the next place
of meeting. One ballot was taken with
out result. Kansas City was in the
lead, with Colorado Springs close sec
ond. Scattering votes went TO Buffalo,
Boise City, El Paso and Cleveland.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

The revelations made at the ecu
menical conference on foreign mis-.
sions concerning the services of mis-
sionaries in Intending education,
trade and civilization, as well as the
doctrines of the Christian religion, are
strong reminder that civilization
does often move forward in other
ways than ION a powder-cart."
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

The people of Porto Rico were aston
ished to see their first American gov
ornor come among them in plain
clothes, and with no pomp and circum-
stance. They had been accustomed to
bad government with endless fuss
and feathers They ought easily to
be reconciled to the change. SO long
as the quiet man in plain clothes gives
them good government.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

Pekin, China, has tower in which
is hung large bell, cast in the fif-
teenth century, and another tower
containing a huge drum, which is in
tended to be beaten in case great
danger should threaten the city. No
one is allowed to enter these towers.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

The terrible interviewer" is not
half as bad as the man who holds up
the interviewer to tell him all the news
that the terrible interviewer" col
lected, wrote up and published the day
bC.ore,
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

Artificial legs and arms were in use
I'm Egypt as early as B. c. 700. They
were made by priests, who were the
physicians of that early time.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

In this country placing the thumb
to the nose and extending the fingers
is a sign of derision. Among certain
hill tribes in India it is the most ex-
pressive manner of showing respect.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

Only seventy years have elapsed
since the first railway in the world
was finished. During that compare
lively brief period 100000 miles have
been constructed.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

II the surface of the earth were per-
fectly level. the waters of the ocean
would cover it to the depth of 600 feet.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

That the utmost r0ixan0o
can be placed upon this
great medicine Is test II
fled to by an army @
urafeful women who have
been helpod by IT.
Mrs. Pxnkl,as,,, who has
the greatest and most
successful experience In
the world to qualify nor
will advice you FREQ Of
charge. Her address Is
Lynn, Mass. Write to her.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

There are some wet spots on what is
known as ''the dry land" In the
Kameruns, West Africa. the meteor
ologists have Just reported a small
area over which 372 inches of rain fell
In n single year Even this is droughty
compared with Cherra- -punji. among
the hills of Assam, where the record
shows a mean annual rainfall of AIS
inches. or nearly forty feet. In Ore
gon. where they have eighty inches
of rain. the Californians say the peo-
pie are "web-footed." The water.
soaked Hindus and Africans shonld do,
yelop Ems and gills
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

The Indian girls of the Chickasaw
nation seem to be "up-to-date." The
evils arising from the marriages of
white men with Indian girls have be-
come notorious. Usually the unions
were sought by whites of worthless
character, merely in order that they
might get possession of the valuable
lands allotted to the brides. In view
of this a law was enacted by the In
dian legislature establishing the mar
riage fee in such cases at 81 900. As a
remedial measure, much was expected
of the law. It has just come into ef-
feet, and at Ardmore. Indian Territory,
recently, some thousand or more In
dian girls, in meeting assembled, in
dignantly resolved" that the law and
the instigators thereof were intolera-
BILE interferers with woman's inaliena-
BILE right to marry whom she would.
And the end is not yeti
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26
M'KINLEY AND ROOSEVELT.
Both Standard Bearers Chosen Unanimously Amid
Scenes of Greatest Enthusiasm Senator
Foraker Nomnates Mckinley.

years ago to-day. white-haired and fee
BILE, delivered a benediction upon the
convention.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26
The
urn
Of Life

This Is q CRITICAL ueslod
In the life of every woman
and no mistakes should
be z,sad0.
Tho ono roc0gnLxed and
reliable kselp for W0s,se,
who arc approaching and
passing through this
wonderful change 10
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26

Lydia E. PInkham's Vegetable Compound
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-27
INDIA'S GREAT
FAMINE
Despite Her irrigated Lands,
Thousands Will StarVe
THROUGH LACK OF WAFER
The Boer War Occupying England S
Attention And treasure Is d
Disadvantage To India.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 26. India is
again confronted with the misery of q
great famine and England, even with q
disastrous war in South Africa upon
her hands, will have to stretch forth
a strong arm to help the suffering
millions of her far eastern peninsula
over SO, 900. 900 souls are now reported
to be affected by the famine, and with
the famine area rapidly extending.
A London dispatch siases that the cum
of Sc, ZOO, 900 will be expended Oh
relief works" and that already over
5000, 900 persons are receiving relief.
Water, or rather It's lack, is the cause
of the affiiction. This year both the
monsoons and the winter rains failed
and left the earth parched and dry for
months.
Yet the English by their public
works in India and their great irriga-
ton projects have yearly added to the
producing capacity of the country and
have greatly amelorated the natural
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-27
BIlndfO.d Chess.

In regard to the remarkable per-
Torrance of Mr.. 81. N. Pillsbury at
blindfold chess, the chess editor of til e
Chicago Tribune b ss this to say:
Harry Nelson Pillsbury, unquestion-
ably the greatest all around chess
player in the world today, played six
teen games yesterday without sight of
board and men at the Chicago Chess
and Checker club. It is the fret time in
about 20 years that SO large number
has been attempted by any player, and
it is said that this is really the only
instance in which sixteen games have
all been completed without q part OF
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-27
A Life and Death Fipht

Mr.. w. A. Hines, of Manchester, la.
writing of his almost miraculous es-
cape from death, says: Exposure,
after measels induced serious lung
trouble, which ended in consum ption.
L had frequent hemorrhsges and
coughed night and day. All my doc
tors said ] must soon die Then be-
gan touse Dr.. Kings New Discovery for
Consump tion, which completely cured
me. would not be without it even if
it cost s.. 90 bottle. Hundreds have
used 1t on my recommendation and all
say 1T never fails to cure Throat, Chest
and Lung troubles" Regular size soc
and ST. 90. Trial bottles free at W.
A. Irwin " Co. g drug store.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-27

condition of the natives. The products
from irrigation for last year, according
to the Indian official figures, amounted
to 45O, 600, 600 rupees.
NATURES MIGHTIES1 WORKS.
India includes within her borders
the highest mountains in the world and
some of the mightiest rivers and
greatest plains. The great Himalayan
range 1900 miles long, lying across
the northern border, shuts out the
rest of Asia. Mount Everest, the
highest peak In the world, pierces the
sky 29, 002 feet above the tides while
peaks over 20, 900 feet elevation abound
in all parts of the range. There are
numerous we'll worn trails leading
from India across the Hmalayas
through Kashmeer and Nepaul into
Thibet and China, and the passes on
these are from 10000 to 1000 feet
high. In making such a journey the
traveller for several days rem aims
above LIZ. 600 feet altitude. Only one
pass is as low as 16, 400 feet.
The historic Gauges, the Ind-+a and
the Brahmaputra are the three grea.
rivers of India. These with their
sffiuents drain an area of nearly 900,-
600 square miles. Their waters are
largely used for irrigation, constitut-
ing in reality the life blood of much of
the country. The flood discharges of
these great streams are enormous.
The Ganges alone, in food, may dis
charge 100000 cubic feet per sec
end.
RAINFALL IN THE WORLD. |
-India's rainfall. which is account |
q bic for this immense volume OF wa
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-27

them having been adjudicated. Mr..
Pillsbury took his seat with his back
turned to the tables at about 2 O'Clock
and Immediately called IF his first
move on every bosrd. He played with
remarkable rapidity and before two
hours had passed some of the adver-
saries were already in difficulties.
When the games were adjourned for
supper at O'Clock eight games had
been finished, seven in his favor and
the other draw. After dinner an
other hour and ten minutes NAV re-
suited in the last game being brought
to conclusion. The total time con-
sumed was less than five and one-half
hours
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-27
STORAGE RESERVOIRS.

Anywhere in our arid west, where ir-
rigation works can be constructed it fs
reasonable to suppose, therefore, jud O.
ing from analogy, that when a sufici-
ent population settles below them, the
works will. be called upon to supply
their full capacity, ard if they have
been carefully planned and estimated
for, economically constructed aud ad
mipistered under proper system,
they should return fair interest on the
original outlay.
1t has been in our semi-humid re-
gion of the United States where there
are naturally good crops once in sew
eral years that hard times have fallen
the hardest. but it is also here, judg-
ing from Indian experience, that ir-
rigation works would pay least, be-
cause they would not be continuously
used.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-27
irrigation works have generally

Indian irrigation works have generally
been OF the most substantial and in
destructiole character, of solid mason
ry and great strength. In some in
stances canals Of immense volumes of
, water are carried clear over other
rivers.
There are in India two classes of ir-
rtgation works which may be termed
productive and protective works. In
general, protective works have been
constructed as protection against
famine, such as now stares India in
the face. and they act 10 the ameliora
ton of such disasters in two ways.
First. they are constructed during
famine times to give employment to
the people and furnish them money and
food for their sustenance; and second,
after their construction, they are ex-
pected to furnish protection against
future fsmines in those districts. Most
of these protective works consist of
storage reservoirs, but they have been
they have generally proven finsn-
"ial fixtures while the so-called pro
ductive" works have earned good
interest on the investment. From all
of which we can learn a lesson applic-
able to Americas arid west. The
productive works have been construct
ed in arid regions SO barren and de-
void OF water that nobody could live
there to produce crops of any sort
without irrigation, til erefore those who
to the country were COM
PEELED to use the water and make the
works do full duty. On the other
hand the protective works have been
built in semi-arid regions where crops
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-27

can often be raised under the natural
rainfall, go that the works have been
in entire disuse through some sea-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-27

ter, comes exclusively from evaoora-
ton from the Indian ocean and the
bays on either size of the peninsula.
The distribution OF this rainfall is ex-
tremely varied. ranging from couple
of inches year, or In some sections
practically nothing, t. over 6OO inches.
which falls in limited area in Assam.
A. Chara Buugi, Assam, the maxi
mum rainfall of the world is r. ached
in an average annual precipitatio Of
1863 inches, whils at this place in 1861,
80 inches fell in "a hours, and 3O5
inches fell during that year. These
figures can be appreciated when it Is
in the Atlantic states on the America
sea board is from 35 to 40 inches, aud
that in the west. farming is conducted
without irrigation on as low an annual
rainfall as Is or Is inches.
STUPENDOUS IRRIGATION WORKS
The irrigation works of India are the
vastest in the. world, watering over
20 600, 900 acres of very fertile soil.
The government has entire control
over all sources of wafer supply and so
exercises il as to make 1t the greatest
benefit to the community at large.
E Oh provioce has a separate depart
meut known as the irrigation branch,
at the head of which ia q chief en-
gineer, while over all the chief en-
gineers is an Inspectors eueral Of ir-
rig alton. The Indian government is
greatly in favor of the extension of
irrigation works. II fosters the use of
irrigation waters by placing the water
rates very low or by even giving the
W xter away in years of scarcitv The
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-27
He Fooled the Surpeons

All doctors told Renick Hamilton, of
West Jefferson, O.. after suffering IS
months from Rectal Fistula, he would
Ole unless costly operation was per-
ior meo: out be cu' ed himself with five
boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve. the
surest Pile cure on Esrth, and the hest
Sslve in the World. % cents box.
Sold by w. A. Irwin & Co, druggists.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-27

DIR. Finn will give consultations and
examinations free on Sundays. Office,
No. 100 Ell Psso street.