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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-18

FOR A SHORTOTIME ONLY.

The buying of treasury shares when they being
sold discount by reliable owning
Using property both profitable and legitimate There
certain
ly profitable.
We consider Mexican
equal In promise above cited and
pleasure in calling sale of
placed on the market at twenty five cents per share
Following engineers profits
will derive from working the with concentrating
plant concentrating six into
"a
would Is 23 daily which
silver.
value OF the days product would be fOlOws
Is 2-3 tons of concentrates at 20
%, 1892 at
100 pounds would bring. 5 991 81
One thousand ounces of silver 55
cents $50 90
Thus giving a value for each days
work of ............................... 81, SAL
mining md
would
The freight smelter would $50 300
The daily profits would $I2H 81
The monthly profits
Or about "a month dividend the capital
stock Of the
the development work in the mine
of that will 35 lead which would at
highest
This the
cenrates and correpondi increase in the daily profits
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-18

Nine Thousand A Ton.
1t is reported that q ten-iroh seam
has rece ntiy been struck on the Easter
Sunday mine near Bisbee, Arizona,
that presents ore showing 80, 900 In
gold. The property belongs to Blsbee
people.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-18

Continued on 9th page].
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10
Gift to Yale.

Yale university received last week a
handsome Christmas present. At spe-
cial meeting of the corporation 1t was
announced that the Misses Olivia Phelps
Stokes and Carrie Phelps Stokes of New
York city have given funds for a new
building, which will form part of the big
group of buildings that Yale plans to
erect as memorial of the 200th ami
versary of the founding of the college,
which event will be celebrated in Octo-
Der, 1901.
This building will take the place of the
present building which stands in the CEN
ter of the old quadrangle and is known
as the treasury" This old building will
be torn down.
The new building will be used for offices
of the administration of the university,
namely tor the Offices Of the president,
treasurer, etc. The amount of the
gift is not announced.
The Misses Stokes are aunts of Arson
Phelps Stokes Jr. Yale 90, who last June
was elected secretary of the Yale corpo-
ration, Mr.. Stokes is very young
man for this honorable and responsible
position and the gift Of his aunts is re-
garded as graceful acknowledgement of
the honor conferred upon their nephew.
The corporation elected Hon. Edw.
D. Robbins of Hartford, a graduate of
the class of 1874, Yale law school 70,
professor OF Jurisprudence, to succeed
Prof. Morris F. Tyler, who resigned to
become treasurer of the university.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10
Railroads.

At St. Louis, H. Chappell, of Chicago,
and James Hopkins, OF St. Louis, have
been appointed receivers OF the Omaha
and St. Louis railroad, the Omaha,
Kansas City and Eastern railroad and
the Kansas City and Northern Connect
ing railroad company by Judge Thayer,
of the United States Circuit court for the
eighth circuit. Two bills of complaint
were filed against the different railroads
and submitted to the consideration of
Judge Thayer in chambers. One brought
by the receivers of the Pittsburg and Gulf
railroad, and the other, cross bill, was
filed by the Missouri Railway Construc-
ton company. The averments of both
bills were ostensibly the same. Each
alleged that the defendants were indebted
to It in certain sums, the aggregate
amount being about 100000; that the
companies were insolvent and unable to
meet their obligations. Both bills were
for the appointment of receivers to take
oh" rye of the several defendant railroads
and manage the properties, under the
direction OF the court. There was no
opposition to the appointment of the
receivers.
The appointment of receivers for the
three railroads, according to statement
made by Max Pam, counsel for the re-
ceivers, is the first step taken by the
parties interested to reorganize their
properties so as to bring them under one
system of ownership and control.
Mr.. Pam said it was proposed by all
parties to have these roads reorganized
on such a basis as would make them
financially secure and physically capable
of earning interest on properly fixed
charges aud dividends on stock issued.
]. W. Gates and Mr. Pam will be in this
city a week from Tuesday to take up,
with E. H. Hartman and Jacob Schiff of
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., who are said to be
interested in the reorganization, the
formation of the reorganiz alton commit
tee and formulation of plans. Mr.. Pam
expressed the hope that this would be
accomplished in a short time and that
the plans to be submitted would meet
the approval Of the parties interested.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10

The will of Daniel S. Ford, publisher
and proprietor of the Youths Com
panion, has been filed for probate. The
value Of the estate is estimated at 81
100000
The will is dated October 81 1893 and
contains the following public requests:
Boston Museum OF Fine Arts, $4,000;
Boston Public Library, $4,000; Boston
Young Mems Christian Association,
$1,000; Boston Young Women's Chris
tian Association, $1,000; Massachusetts
General Hospital, $1,000 Boston City
Hospital $4,000; Boston Children's Aid
society, $4,000; Children's Hospital, Bos-
ton, $4,000.
Article 10 provides $4,000 per year
for two years for the religious, educa-
tional and benevolent work OF the Rug
giles Street church. Article II bequeaths
$35O,000 to the Baptist Social Union
subject to certain conditions. Article II
leaves the entire Youths Companions
plant with certain real estate to the exc
cutors to be administered for the benefit
OF the Baptist Social Union. This article
sets forth at length the desires of the
testator in the matter. Article 13 d.
vides the residue among the various
Baptist Mission societies and conven-
tions, including one-ninth to the Yer
mont Baptist convention.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10
Woman to Explore for Treasure.

Mrs. Emma Louise Hitchcock, wife of
Prof. Hitchcock, OF Washington, is organ
izing an expedition which she will lead to
Cocos Island, to search for the $50, 000,-
900 worth of gold, silver and diamonds
supposed to be stored in a cave.
Mrs. Hitchcock is wealthy and is re-
cording secretary of the Woman's An
thropological Society in Washington.
Many legends exist as to how the treas
ure come to be stored on Cocos Island,
but all the reports agree that the valu-
ables are worth about $50, 100000.
Cocos Island is $50 miles southwest Of
Panama. 1t is but few miles in extent,
but is rich in tropical vegetation and
fruits.
The most popular stories about the
treasure are that it was stored there by
pirates or else by refugees from South
American republics during revolutions.
The republic mentioned oitenest as fur
nishiug the refugees is Peru.
A Scotchman, Tom Smith, who turned
pirate in the South Seas in 1921, figures
Economically in many legends as the man
who buried the treasure. His speciality
was footing churches on the South Amer
lean coast. i Washington Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10
Bundy's Calendar.

r H. Bundy, editor of The Morning
News. has received copyrights covering ii
low calendar. He would SHIFT mankind
from II to 10 months of % days each in
ayery year and straighten out the pre-
cent system, by which we are compelled
n cut off leap year every 100 years,
and make other corrections of which
the masses know comparatively little
Though the opening OF the new century
;s yerv near at hand, he has hopes that
he will have it universally adopted and
mt in use during it's first year. Already
he has attracted the attention of some Of
the most prominent men of Europe and
America, who advocate universal SHIFT
from the present system to his calendar.
Mr.. Bundy says: "As 1900 comes in
on Monday and Monday is the first day
Of the commercial week l make it also
the first dav OF the first month. This
new thirteenth month is called Century
because OF the time of its proposed adop-
tion-the end of one and the beginning of
a new century. Every month of every
YEAR and every century begins with Mon
day. That is the greatest of all advan-
tages over all calendars of the past and
present. If a person wants to know
what day July 2 would come on, he
would start with Monday and find it
would come on Thursday, while at pres
ent calendar has to be hunted for the
Christmas would come on
Thursday every year, Valentine day on
Sunday and April fool day on Monday.
Monday is thus made the first and
Sunday the last day of the week. The
permanencv Of holidays is thus es.
tablished, and, as luck will have it, none
of the great days come on Sunday. Me-
mortal dayis the only one that is thrown
out, and it would probably be placed on
the 2Sth of May, the last day, which
would be Sunday and just as we would
arrange it no doubt If it were left to
popular vote.
This plan gives us year of 1854 days,
it is true, and day and quarter are
left over. The present calendar takes an
extra day every four years to keep us up
with the solar procession. For the sake
OF this splendid division of the week and
month system why not let those one and
a quarter DAYS each month go until we
have enough to make an extra week,
which we can tack on to any one of the
This done and my calendar is
very simple, complete and on a par with
standard time. 1t is practical in every
way and abreast with this progressive
age Marion Ind Letter in Indian
apolis News.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10
Silver Dollar Smith Dead.

Charles Smith, widely known as
"Silver Dollar" Smith, died Jan. in
New York from a complication of di-
seases. One thousand silver dollars were
imbedded in the floor and along the bar
in his saloon on the Bowery. He was
AZ years old, and began life as a news
boy. He served several terms in the
legislature and as alderman, and was
typical and picturesque product OF New
York city politics. His character was
compound of contradictions. He was
more than once indicted for felonious
assault yet he was kind and generous to
his family. He drew profits from debas-
ing resorts yet he gave freely to relieve
distress. Although he was himself con-
slant violater of the laws, he acted as
arbiter of the quarrels and disputes OF
the people OF his district, and word
from him would insure the restitution OF
lost property quicker than an appeal to
the detective bureau.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10
Postal Oddities.

The postmaster general has concluded
an excellent treaty for the exchange of
postal packages with Germany and
packages up to eleven pounds each will
be received for transmission by mail to
Germany, and vice versa. The arrange
ment is so good as to disarm all criticism.
And vet one can hardly help pointing out
some oddities.
If we can exchange packages with Ger
many, why not with France and Eng
land Surely, our relations with Eng
land are more intimate. The very steam
ers that will carry the postal packages
between this country and Germany stop
at English ports. 1t is little odd, per-
haps, to give them the long haul, and to
exclude them from the short haul.
package to or from Germany may
weigh eleven pounds; package mailed
at Boston for Washington or New Haven
is limited to four pounds. Again, it looks
as if the short haul was sacrificed to the
long haul If it be fair to give Germans
such manifest mail advantages, why can
not Americans have like privileges A
stronger plea for domestic parcel post
cannot be found, just now than this very
package treaty with Germany.
The postage on big package sent to
Germany will be twelve cents pound;
on smaller package sent from Boston
to New York the postage is sixteen cents
per pound OF merchandise. Were the case
carried before the Interstate Commerce
Commission, it could hardly call such an
arrangement just or reasonable. An
eleven-pound package mailed at San
Francisco for Germany will pay $1.32
postage; the same package sent from
Germany here will pay less than sixty
cents. A package of law briefs and man-
uscript court records is carried by mail
from San Francisco to Germany for eight
cents pound; clothing and other mer-
cbandise pays twelve cents a pound
when sent across the water; at home it
pays third more, and lawyers briefs or
manuscript court records sent from one
American postoffice to another pay
thirty-two cents pound, except when
they go to our West Indies, in which case
they pay $16O a pound. Perhaps one
might add that letter from Dawson
City to Calcutta costs four cents an
ounce; the same letter sent from New
York to London costs ten cents. Both
are apt to go by the same steamer.
The United States postal service
abounds in such oddities, either merely
antiquated and arbitrary, or artful and
jobbing, as the case may be. But the
treaty with Germany is long step for
ward, and indicates once more that our
foreign service is really much better than
our domestic mail service, and that the
latter might gain if studied the princi-
pies, the mechanism and the finance OF
our foreign mails Boston Evening
Transcript.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10
Rush for Pensions.

twenty-five thousand applications for
pensions have been filed on behalf Of
soldiers who served in the Spanish
American war. More than 800 applica-
tions have come from the list New York
regiment and $50 from the 9th Massa-
chusetts regiment.
The business of getting new pensions
has been systematized. The number of
cases filed in the name of soldiers who
have served in the Philippines have be-
come so numerous as to attract official
attention.
Upon investigation it has been dis
covered that the attorneys send their
agents to the war department every day
to copy the list Of casualties cabled by
Gen. Otis. The pension attorneys then
ascertain the next OF kin from the enlist
ment records. Correspondence is opened
with the soldier or his relatives with a
view to obtaining authority to prosecute
claim. The authorities are preparing
to issue an order that will bar pension
attorneys hereafter from the department
records. The zeal of the attorneys, how
ever, will enable them to procure more
clients, nevertheless. The daily des-
patches furnish the names of the sick,
wounded and killed.
The total number of enistments for
the Spanish war and the Philippine in
surrection was about $4,000 Nearly
10000 of these were ie-enlistments, so
that the total OF enlisted men is approx
mately 100000. Judging from the ap-
plicatlons already filed, one soldier in
every IL has become pension seeker in
less than two years from date of declara-
ton OF war. While the showing is some
what of a reflection upon the men who
are seeking government aid already, it is
more an evidence of the pernicious &C.
tivities of the pension attorneys, who
stop at nothing to build up cases from
which fee NAV be collected.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10

they are mother and daughter, and you
realize that a woman at forty or forty
five ought to be at her finest and fairest.
Why isn't it so?
The general health of woman is so in
timately associated with the local health
of the essentially feminine organs that
there can be no rich cheek and round
form where there are facilitating drains,
and female weakness. Women who have
suffered from these troubles have found
prompt relief and cure in the use of DR..
Pierces Favorite Prescription. It gives
vigor and vitality to the organs of wom-
anhood. 1t clears the omplexion bright
ems the eyes and reddens the cheeks.
No alcohol, opium or other narcotic is
contained in "Favorite Prescription"
Any sick woman may consult Doctor
Pierce by letter, free. Every letter is
held as sacredly confidential, and an
swered in plain envelope. Address DR..
R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
"I commenced to take DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription, writes Mrs. Martha E. Barham,
1897, also his Golden Medical Discovery and
cannot express the benefit have received from
these medicines. was suffering with what the
doctors called chronic indigestion, torpid liver
and vertigo. I also suffered with female weak
ness. The doctor did not do me any good so
wrote to you for advice. When I commenced to
use the medicines I weighed only II2 pounds,
now weigh I4o pounds"
DR.. Pierce's Pellets regulate the liver.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10
The Harper Failure.

At the instance of creditors whose
claims aggregate half the entireindebted-
ness Of Harper & Brothers, committee
of FIVE, of which Alexander E. Orr is
chairman has undertaken to prepare and
submit to creditors plan of reorganza-
ton. Preliminary to this task the COM
mittee has prepared statement OF facts
in which it is set up that the total liabili-
ties OF Harper & Brothers December 4,
1899, were SO, 1+2 ,00O diminished since
the date named by the turning over OF
S150,000 OF bonds, which leaves the
total Indebtedness So 963 000 The Sc
cured indebtedness is 81 DOL 900.
In 1896 the corporation mortgaged its
property to secure So 900 600 8 per cent
100 year gold bonds. OF this amount
50 645 900 stands as collateral. The re-
mainder of the issue bonds, 1855, 900,
are outstanding and controlled by the
committee for the purposes Of reorgani.
zation.
The estimated net available assets not
covered by mortgage to meet unsecured
claims, are substantially SAP GOT. The
net liabilities in excess of bonded indebt-
SuuCSS dlS JldSCh at PIIJN-'OA-J SUI '"
ing that the net available assets are
equal to % per cent of net liabilities,
exclusive of cost of receivership and
liquidation.
The committee regards these estimates
OF value of assets, except as a going con
Germ, to be very excessive. All of the
assets covered by the mortgage are de-
Quoted in computing the probable excess
/ of unsecured creditors. The committee
concludes, if the corporation is not con-
5tinued as going concern unsecured
acreditors would receive very small per-
scentage of par value of their claims.
Statement is made by the comm ittee
that g. b. NJ. Harvey, agent of the trus-
tee and receiver now in charge OF the
property, has reported that the corpora
{ ton is now earning its operating ex-
spenses and he believes that if it is tree of
Scustody of courts, the business can earn
Pm 1900 100000 above operating ex.
Spenses.
q The committee therefore recommends
81 the creditors that the business be con-
Finued under strong, single-handed con-
Strol. A plan for the financial readjust-
fnent OF the corporations affairs is now
pm preparation and will be duly submit
ted to the creditors.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10
An Old Violin.

Connoisseurs of violins are just now
discussing the reality of a "Strad"
which it is alleged had been rescued from
the shop in the Midlands of pawnbrok-
er who did not know its value. Accord
ing to the story, an itinerant musician
was unable to pay his bill at an inn in
Northampton, and left his violin
instead. The landlord took it to a
pawnbroker and raised little money
on it, and gave the owner the ticket, so
that he might redeem it when his SER
vices were financially more appreciated
than up to then they apparently had
been. That consummation never arriv-
ed, and as ,Boniface could play little
he purchased the unredcemed fiddle from
the temporary holders for So and play
ed it for his own amusement. Every
body was struck with it's peculiarly rich
tone, and at last, he submitted it to
experts, who declared it to be a read
Strad. Inside was found the inscription,
"Antonius Stradvarius. 1776." This
remarkable fiddle will no doubt form the
subject of many discussions.-[ London
Telegraph.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10
Delayed by Bees.

No little commotion was occasioned at
Thorpe Railway station, Norwich, re-
Gently when the London mail was on the
point of starting. In the guards van
were four boxes Of bees, for conveyance
to the metropolis. Just as the whistle
was about to signify the departure of the
tram, the bottom of one of the boxes
came out. So did the bees. Out they
new, and the guard simultaneously van
lShed. In moment, porters and passen-
gers on the platform were having a very
lively experience. Indeed, for some time
there was no entering the van. Eventu-
ally, the other boxes, which had remained
intact, were removed. The next thing
was to drive out the buzzing swarm
from the shelves and lockers, to which
they. chung tenaciously. The stings Of
the 'ntruders were effectively used, as
some OF the officials discovered. Eventu-
ally, the honey seekers were ousted, and
the train proceeded onits Journey twenty
minutes Late London Telegraph.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10
For Over Fifty Wears.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
peen used by millions of mothers TOR their
children while teething. If disturbed at
niSht and broken OF your rest by a sick
enid suffering and crying with pain OF
SGutting teeth, send at once and get a
bottle OF "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
syrup for Children Teething. 1t will
Ielleve the poor little sufferers imme-
olately. Depend upon it, mothers, there
Is no mistake about it. Itcures diarrhea
regulates the stomach and bowels, cures
; wlna collie, softens the gums, reduces
and gives tone and energy
q 90 tne whole system. Mrs. Winslow's
soothing Syrup" for children teething is
peasant to the taste, and is the prescrip.
llon OF one OF the oldest and best female
PHYSICIANS and nurses in the United
S . Price twenty-five cents bottle.
oold by all druggists throughout the
wor d. Be sure and ask tor Mrs. Win
SLOW s Soothing Syrup.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10
Home Endorsement.

We, the undersigned, druggists of Bur-
lington, VT, have sold during our entire
business experience, the well known rem
edy, Baxter's Mandrake Bitters, and in
variably found it to give entire satisfac-
ton to our customers. We regard this
medicine as among the most reliable
household remedies that we sell. R. B.
Stearns & Co., W. H. Zottman & Co.,
Geo. A. Churchill, F. L. Taft & Co., ]. G.
Bellrose, w. ]. Henderson, F. Henry
Parker & Co., J. w. O'Sullivan, M. E.
Collins, Gosselin Bros, w. P. Hall, Geo.
Loveland & Co. Sold liquid in bottles !;
tablets in boxes. Price rs cents for
either.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10

"There is only one chance to save your
life and that is through an operation"
were the startling words heard by Mrs.
|. B. Hunt of Lime Ridge, Wis, from her
doctor after he had vainly tried to cure
her of frightful case of stomach trouble
and yellow jaundice. Gall stones had
formed and she constantly grew worse.
Then she began to use Electric Bitters
which wholly cured her. It's a wonder
full Stomach, Liver and Kidney remedy.
Cures Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite Try
it. Only SO cts. Guaranteed. For sale
by Flint Bros, druggists.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10

Provide for the future.
It is easy to lay a few dollars
aside weekly or monthly if you
have some safe place to deposit
them. We accept deposits to
open an account as little as one
dollar. We know if we once get
you as a depositor your account
will soon grow to respectable d.
mansions, Our Office hours are
$50 a. m. to 8 p. my Saturdays
and 7ths Of month 7 to s +. m.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10
New Years Gift.

The University of Chicago received a
New Years gilt of $3,370,00O. Four
years ago Mr.. Rockefeller gave the uni
versity 100000, and promised to dupli-
cate every amount donated before Jan. 1,
1900, up to 100000. One year ago
DR.. Harper had secured $1,135,000 from
various sources to apply on the So, 000,-
900. Since that time this amount has
been raised $3.50 600.