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The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15

western Concern That Has Properties
Extending 1900 Miles.

Extending 1900 Miles.
The billion dollar steel trust has a
lusty rival. in the Colorado Fuel and
Iron company, the greatest industry
west Of the Mississippi. This company
now owns and controls nearly 400, 900
acres OF coal land and 5000 acres of
iron ore. With Its great Steel works at
Pueblo, Col, 1t is making a second
Ptttsburg of that city. It employs 49,
600 men, representing. with their fami-
lies, one-tenth Of the population of
Colorado. The income of this COM
pany last year was S13, 900. 900 and its
expenditures a trihe owe $40, 900, 900.
It takes over $500, 900 every month to
satisfy the demands OF the payroll.
Commencing at 6uyrise, Wyo, its
properties form a chain 1000 miles
long to Fierro, N. NJ. The links Of this
chain are % coal mines, nine coling
plants with $500 ovens, and at Pueb-
10, Col, and Laramie, Wyo., the only
steel plants between the Mississippi
river and the Pacific coast. In addi-
ton to these Industrial concerns the
company own $4,000 acres of grazing
land and about 1000 Of the town lots in
the city Of Pueblo. In addition to fur
nishing a vast tonnage for several
transcontinental railroads the com
pany operates 100 miles Of railroad Of
its own. From it's coal mines the c.
r. & 1. marketed last year over 4,0O0,-
600 tons of coal. or 20 per cent of the
entire production in Colorado. Last
year It produced $4,000 bushels of coke.
or 50 per cent of the product of the
state, and hundreds Of new coke ovens
are now in process OF construction,
From its steel mills 1884, 900 tons were
marketed, and orders were refused for
over 100000 IONS more. The c, F. & 1.
company has grown to what it is with
a capital Of S25. OO0, 900. It has recently
increased this capitalization to S4O,-
100000 by the issue of S15, 900, 900 Of 5
per cent bonds, with a like issue of
common stock to redeem them on de-
mand. The SIS, 900, 900 is to be spent at
Pueblo charging the steel plant to a
capacity of 1900, 900 tons Of finished
product each year. The new manufac-
lures are to be tinplate sheets, wire
nails and other profitable products OF
like character. These new mills will,
it is estimated, increase the value Of
the output of the company by 200 per
cent.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15

A little Austrian boy recently met
with a piece Of luck. He lived in a
street in Budapest, and whenever the
Emperor Francis Joseph drove past on
his way to the station, the lad always
greeted his majesty by vigorously wav-
Ing his hat. The Emperor noticed the
child, and whenever he was in the
Hungarian capital looked for his young
friend. This continued for quite six
years. until one day the boy was miss
ing from his usual post. An hour
later q messenger from the Emperor
called at the house and inquired what
had become Of him. On learning that
the lad, who was now ~ years Of aee,
had been sent to school,, the Emperor
promised to pay for his education and
aiterward make an omcer OF him n
he were phY1ically AZ.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15
Where creek Is Not spoken.

A very curious occurrence is report
ed from a village only IL miles away
from Athens, writes a correspondent.
A schoolmistress who was recently ap-
pointed to the village of Salesi, on as
Stunning her duties. discovered that her
pupils could not understand a single
word of Greek, which was also a for
eign language to their parents. The
one language they spoke was Albanian.
She Immediately %telegraphed how mat
tiers stood to the ministry, who sent an
interpreter to her rescue. 1t is a COM
mon thing for the villagers Of the
Greek mainland to employ Albanian as
their chief language, but this is the
first and only instance where the
Greek language is not spoken or un-
derstood at all in a place so near the
capital.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15

on each side OF the long tables and
helped themselves. The dance soon
started up again, and everybody was
having a good time when a pistol shot
and savage yells accompanied by Tony
Lloyd came out Of the woods. He stop
ped his horse a few yards from the
crowd and asked for Les Tilley.
Come on, Les Tilley! Come on and
Jest shoot a little! You can have the
first shot. Come on down herel"
All eyes searched for Les. but ne
had suddenly left the grounds. The
constables on hand, fearing trouble.
had hurried away to raid a crap
game" down in the bushes. Tony
laughed at the sudden decampment OF
Lucy's escort. and went away az
b%oisterously as he came. The dance
again started, and with the exception
Of a hst fight. lasted without inter
%ruption, until late.
Tony was coming from work az a
neighbor's sorghum mill one evening
when he met Lucy in the road. He
took the nat-iron she carried and walk
ed back with her.
Lucy. do you love met WIN you
marry me7 Now. hold on. ] know
I've been acting wrong, but you partly
caused Il. ! couldn't help Il; / loved
you 90.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15

Miss Clara Polzsky is a Russian in
ventor, whose forte is aerial naviga-
tion. The Czarina recently honored
Miss Polzsky with her presence at a
dress rehearsal Of the %high-hying ma
chine. Miss Polzsky has designed her
air machine on distinctly original
lines; she uses no gas. but has her
egg-shaped airship just opened at the
top, and fitted at the base with an cleo
trio motor apparatus. Accompanied
by a little girl, the lady assembled to
a height of about sixty yards at her
demonstration meeting, a sail spread
ing gracefully as she rose In the air,
and after remaining there poised for
a while she descended in her ship,
proving that It was perfectly amen
able TO control and a very promising
invention.-Lady's Field.
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GIren CltIrenshIp Pnn.yn.

In New York the other day Lee
Hong, a Chinaman who had been in
this country twenty-six years, was
given his first citizenship papers. This
is thought to be a precedent Of doubt
full legality. At any rate the federal
authorities in other cities have invari-
ably refused similar requests by China
men. OF course a Chinaman born In
this country becomes an American citi-
zen without the aid OF the courts, and
in the west, particularly in San Fran
cisco, there are many such. Very few
Of them. however, attempt to exercise
the right Of suffrage, The New York
Chinaman who took out his first pa
pers did so IN order that, should the
exclusion act ever be repealed, he
might get his full citizenship napers
Immediately. At least he gave that
reason. On the other hand the au-
thorities here contend, says the Phlla-
delphia Record, that the government
has entered into a contract which Il
cannot consummate.
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HUSBAND WAS A rRIPLEr.
Bride Couldn't Distinguish Him from
His Brothers and Leaves Him.

Bride Couldn't Distinguish Him from
His Brothers and Leaves Him.
Pretty Mas. Louis levin, bride Of
three days Of Louis levin, a wealthy
merchant Of New Britain, Conn, has
gone home to her mother in New York.
My husband is a triplet," she says.
He has two brothers who leok so
nearly like-him that I can't tell one
Of the three from another. It's too
much of a puzzle for me, SO l think 1
will be happier with my mother" The
marriage three days ago was cele-
brated with great aplomb, but the
honeymoon was of brief standing. The
two brothers, whom she saw for the
first time at the wedding, were so near
ly like her husband in looks that she
confessed to her friends the peculiar
predicament she found herself in when
the three were about at the same time.
Other differences arose, It is said, dur
ing the three days, and today the young
bride packed her trunk and took the
train for New York. my wife lost her
affection for me because I changed my
religion after the marriage" the bride
groom explains it. she says she can
not live with a man Of religious belief
than is not the same as hers" levin
has begun suit for separation, says a
New York World special. alleging that
his wife abandoned him. Last night his
department store was attached in his
wife's %counter-suit for alimony.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15

smaller streams. Bridges were fas-
tened with log-chains, and the fatten-
ing hogs in pens along the banks had
to be moved to the ridge. People with
nothing else to do sat on the banks
and watched logs, fences, bridges, and
occasionally a dead animal, pass down
in the swift yellow current. BY eight
o'clock that night the back-water was
where it had hot been for several
years, and was still rising. Along to-
wards midnight, above thu roar Of the
murky creek, came the cry:
Come and get u.s."
Tony Lloyd, who lay awake, heard
the cry, and was soon standing with
his lantern on a hill, waiting for the
second cry, which SOC came. Tate
olives family in the bottom, near the
creek, had been driven to the loft Of
their house. Tony padded the fam
lily ashore in his skiff, and then went
down the strip Of water and around a
bend.
Dink Joiner went to Tony's house
the next day to see about some fence
rails, but the house was deserted.
That evening he inquired around the
neighborhood, but Tony had not been
seen since he rescued olives family on
the night before. NelghDors began to
inquire, and at last a search was ad-
vised, which followed, and was thor
ough, but availed nothing towards
finding Tony LLOYD. Days passed-and
he was not heard from, and parties
went away down the creek in search
of his body, for it was very probable
that he had been drowned. Every pile
of drift wood was Investigated and the
banks and thickets closely watched,
but the body could not be found. AS
persistent search and inquiry brought
to light nothing, he was given up as
lost-drowned and washed away. His
home, which had always borne a lone
some look, because 10 one occupied. 1t
but quiet, peculiar Tony Lloyd, now
stood with a mysterious, lonesome air.
The doors were fastened with chains
and padlocks, and the windows nailed
down.
Lucy was not the same girl now.
She went to none of the social settle
ment gatherings, and often stood on
the back porch looking sadly at the old
house and out towards the creek. Pill
fer creek winds around, and finally
empties into Cumberland river. Sew
eral weeks later, the half-wasted body
of a man was found on a ~sand-bar a
few miles down the Cumberland. Bad
ly -decomposed, 1t was buried at once,
without being recognized, in a little
graveyard at a nearby church. Lucy
went there, and on that new grave
tenderly strewed wild roses and plant
ed on it fragrant honey-suckle.
Two years and more have gone since
the above story was written. The
church women in a small Arkansas
village are busting around decorating
the village church, and preparing a
reception for their pastor, who win re-
turn from another state with a bride,
on the evening train, The pastor, /
will add, is Rev. Tony Lloyd, who came
into that village a year or two ago.
Lucy Is his bride.
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Au.lran. obIesl. . Afrhan..

The Immigration Of Afghans into
Australia is increasing rapidly, steam
ers bringing in large numbers weekly,
writes a Melbourne correspondent.
Mr.. Barton, the premier, in response
to representations urging him to pre-
vent their incoming, has replied that
had he known in time that the last
batch were about to arrive he would
have prohibited their landing as an
act Of state. The labor party are
clamOring for an aliens bill to exclude
natives Of Asia, Africa and Polyne-
STA, but the ministry adhere to their
bill prescribing an educational test.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15
old 81 on Competition.

The old mar brought in the mill
matter and then stopped to remark:
"Wuz y~ou-alls up ter de opery
house las nite?"
mo. What was going on?"
well 20 orter ben dar. Dey had
hot goins-on ober dis heah kompe-
tishun Q%ueschun!"
What did they make out Of it?"
Nigh as l cud make out dere's
Gnudder guess err comm bout dat.
But whedder we gifts hit er not we
knO's now whut hit ar"
"And what is it2'
"Why, de kompetishun whut ives
got Is err matter OBJ how much de
korporashun on top kin git outer de
people an how little de people kin
keep fer derselbs an dere chillun's
chillun! OATS how hit struck me!'
Sam w. Small in the Atlanta Con
stitutiOn.
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CAPT. GEO. C. REITER.
WILL PROTECT OUR INTERESTS IN
THE SOUTH.
Commander Of the BattIeship wisconsin
Now In South Amerlca-The Largest
Fighting maohlne IN Our Navy Of
Powerful Sea Going Forts.

In the somewhat turbulent state OF
affairs in South America, where Vene-
Euela. Colombia and Ecuador are
mixed up in an International squabbh,
the interests Of the United states are
well guarded by Capt. George Cook
Reiter, of the Wisconsin. The United
States is by treaty bound to keep open
traffic across the Isthmus Of Panama,
and should there b. any serious inter
ference with the International rail-
way. Capt. Reiter will take prompt ac-
ton.
Capt. Reiter is a Pennsylvania by
birth, and was graduated from the
United States Naval Academy in 1865.
His progress through the various
grades Of the service has been steady,
and he has seen a variety Of duties.
There is scarcely a station to which he
has not been attached, and he has had
considerable land duty. During the
Spanish-Amerioan war he commanded
n Of the smaller warships. He at
tained his present rank two years ago.
The Wisconsin will be the greatest
fighting machine ever seen at Panama.
The Oregon and Iowa have been there,
but neither Of these is as large as the
Wisconsin. Comparatively few British
battleships or war vessels of other ma
tions come this way, and none that
could be compared with the Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin was launched at the
Union Iron Works, in San Francisco,
November 26, 1898, and has been in
commission several months. She is of
1885 tons displacement, and has a
length Of 1858 feet; breadth, 70 feet 2h
inches; draft, % feet 6 inches. Her
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15

You're going 20 start for the top OF the
And 5lazon your name 20 the world:
All obstacles passed BY the strength Of
you will.
Your banner triumphant unfuricd
You'll Ming TO the breezes that Flow from
the sky
All neveF earth-taintcd you say:
It's noble and grand and delightful; but
Why
But why don't you do f. to-day
that you do
Are millions OF long miles apart:
What good TO the earth. NJ you're good
% you're true
But never outside OF your hearth
The generous deeds you intend TO per
form
Are all very lovely. but say.
While your soul is 80 high and your heart
Us so warm,
why don't you perform them today
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15

Mexican MIsor Devised Ills Wealth IN q
singular Manner.

Mexican MIaer DcNi1eu hW
singular Manner.
perhapa Il was not parsimony, as his
rolafives alleged. that led a Mexican
miser VIII recently died TO tattoo his
last will and testament upon his body
Tbev ailege that the decedent named
Noreche. I'm order TO save the cost OF
pen. ink and paper. imprinted his Will
indelibly upon his body with some req
piqment. when the old miser died his
heirs protested against the burial Of
the bodv and petitiOned the court TO
have the remarkable human docu'
ment' admitted to probate. It was a
knOtty problem, but the court decided
that a o d should be made Of the tat
tooed will, and that the copy should
have the full effect Of an original will.
After the CODY had been made the old
miser was buried by his legatees, the
original viii being filed for reference.
as It were.
This case IS another instance of the
imaginatiOns Of authors being realized
in fact. In one Of Rider Haggard's stO-
ries the plot hinges upon the existence
of lust such a tattOoed viii, only In the
case Of Rider Haggard's mar he will
was tattooed ON his back because he
was shipwrecked and there were no
pens, ink or paper handy for the draw
ing up Of the last will and testament
In the case Of the Mexican mlser the
tattOOed will could be read easily, and
the o Of 1t was attested by four wit
nesses before being admitted to pro-
bate.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15

Wisdom is not the same as under
standing; nor is It talent. OF capacity.
ability, sagacity, sense. or prudence;
neither will all these together make It
up. It is that exercise Of the reason
into which the heart enters-a struc-
ture Of the understanding rising out of
8e moral and spiritual nSture. It is for
this cause that a high order of wisdom
that is, a highly intellectual wisdom
is still more rare than a high order
OF genius. When they reach the very
highest order they are one; for each
includes the others, n intellectual
greatness is matched with moral
strength.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15

According to advices from Kiel. Ger
many, the new high school there for
the teaching of shipbuilding and con-
struction OF machinery WI be opened
in 1903. The school will be wholly in
the hands Of the state, but the cost
will only in part be borne by the
state, the town of Kiel contributing
$4,000. There will be one department
for the learning OF shipbuilding, each
course lasting n year. n another
department for machinery, the course
OF instruction being divided into four
qp2rters-of the year classes being held
IN the evenings and on Sundays for
~shipwrights, lOcksmiths and smiths.
The Krupp Germania wharf has al
ready prom ised as much as $3.50 an
nually for the next ten years towards
the expense.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15
A HEALTHY VOICE.
faithful Practice WIN DO Much to
Acquire IL.

Faithful Practice VIII DO Much 10
Acquire It.
A. strong, Sweet beautiful voice is
greatly to be desired by every one,
a y Health. In some climates, like
Italy, for instance, the voices are al
most all fine. In other places where it
is cold and moist the voices are too
often bad. In the country, where the
young grow up in an out-of-door life,
where they can "holler" and even
yell" the voices are much better and
stronger than in the city, where a
young person must suppress himself
and always speak in gentle tones.
Thin, throaty tones, Of those with a
nasal intonation are bad enough to the
sensitive ear when used in the key
of ordinary conversation. When it is
needed to expand such voices to the
declamatory point, then lack of volume
and mellowness is evident.
Faithful practice may do much to
correct faults of emphasis and infiec-
ton, but the most sanguine coach will
not undertake to make over a poor
voice in a coarse of three or even six
weeks rehearsals. The possibilities Of
the speaking voice are beginning to be
understood. Parents are discovering
that it is a wise plan to cultivate in
their children an agreeable voice. II
f%tructors in the art of developing the
exquisite mechanism and wonderful ca
pability of the human speaking voice
are springing up on every side. 1t can
not be long before it will be a positive
reproach for a woman of education, at
least, to speak in shrill. nasal or un-
placed tones. The voice is a mirror of
the mind. A coarse, harsh, disagree
able voice can best be cured by i'm
proving the mind and heart.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15

Less than one hundred dollars, spent
by the Improvement League of Mont
clair. New Jersey, has done more to
cleanse and beautify the place. says
the town council, than the thousands
Of dollars the town has expended in
conventional ways. The league began
by Offering prizes for clean and orderly
back yards and alleys. and went on to
give prizes for the best v~ine-covered
fence, the finest vegetable plot and the
most beautiful towering plant Then
IL organized the children to pick up
waste paper from the streets. keep the
school yards neat, and tidy up" the
vacant lots. In six months Montclair
became a noticeably attractive place,
and a wholesome one. too, for the
death rate had perceptibly lessened.
Like methods will yield similar results
In any other town. and Il will not be
necessary to spend much money pro-
vided a few people are willing to use
inspired common sense"
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Mme. as Pomnaaonr.. 100.

Nine. de Pompadour was not, ac-
cording to the testimony OF her con
te%mporaries, a beauty, o anything
more than a fairly good looking wo-
man. She gained her influence by her
pleasing manners and her wonderful
tact and address. Her chief beauty
was her Lair, which. to increase her
apparent height, she wore In the fash
ion that has since borne her name.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15
~ swInplINa eAME.
rrospsrouu Looking old Gentleman Ha'
" Good one.


~ Good one.
Persons who advertise for situations
should beware Of a slick swindler, who
is working a new game. He is described
az an elderly man Of substantial APP
p%earance and an air Of fatherly benevo-
lence. whose very name Is enough TO
call On young men and women who
are advertising for situations, and after
a long talk, during the course Of which
he inquiries closely into their habits.
ne engages them. Here is my ad-
dress he says, giving one that is
equally as fictitious as his name. You
may begin work In the morning" Sat
isfactory terms have been agreed upon,
usually In excess of what the applicant
had expected. This puts him in a good
humor- Then the old man rises as
though to take his departure, and, still
talking. he feels in his pockets. He
discovers that a pickpocket has gone
through him, but, fortunately, he had
very little money when he started out.
Still It is embarrassing to be totally
without change. Could he be obliged
with a small loan, just a dollar or so?
II will be returned when the young
man or young woman, as the case may
be, conal work in the morning. I'm
der the circumstances it would not be
policy to refuse, and he gets what he
asks for. The next morning the victim
goes to the address given prepared to
start in qp-the new duties and finds
that no such person is known. Several
cases Of this kind have recently come
to light, So the Philadelphia Record,
and the same benevolent-lookng old
man has been implicated in all of them.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15

In many o. the western and midland
counties Of England the nineteenth
century closed with the most terrible
floods within living memory. Happily
few lives were lost. but hundreds of
folk-mostly poor-were washed out OF
hearth and home. Farmers, small and
great, lost cattle. sheep and poultry,
and immense damage was lone to all
kinds of property. One comic incident
was remarked at Alcester in Worces-
tershire. When the water fell the rec
tor took his walks abroad to see what
loss he had suffered. AS he passed
through an orchard he was greeted
with the piercing squeals of a per-
picked pig, which had got mixed up in
the boughs of a damson tree. Probably
II had been borne into the branches by
the rising food. When the waters
went down 1t was left high. and pos
sibly dry, but terrified u of its wits.
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slte d ths s.. LouI. rrpo.ltlnn.

Forest Park, chosen as the site OF
the st. Louis Exposition, is the city'a
greatest and most centrally situated
park, II Is readily accessible, being the
western terminus Of practically all the
crosstown street railway lines, In ad-
dition. five steam railroads run in close
proximity. Much OF the park Is In a
natural condition. covered with large
trees and Watered by the Des Perez
river with its six small tributaries.