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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-26
GRAIN RATE HEARING.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 26,-The in
terstate commerce commission began
hearing today In the matter of re-
cent advances in freight rates on
grain and grain products.
Protests against this increase have
been made by grain growers and
shippers throughout the west and
southwest. The advance amounts to
about copper cent over the old sched-
ules and will mean a tax of millions
upon the farmers of the country.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-26
Theatre C0nique.

Week Commencing Monday, Feb. 20.
New show, new comedies, songs ana
drama. First production west of Chi
cago of Charles Thornton's great sen
sational comedy-drama.
SIMON KENToN,"
or the Heroes of Old Kentucky.
Also Connors & Connors. Earl Il
Hampton, Booker Sisters, Gilbert Sis
ters, Mozella, Owens g. Hamard, ia
nita La Mette. Eddie O'Brien and 80
others. Comedy. vaudeville and dra-
ma The big show. Admission, 1O~
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-26
BUSY PEOPLE.

Instruction at the Walton School OF
Expression will reward you with
strong eyes. full. melodious voices.
clear, active brains and n magnetic
personality. The catalogue win tell
you about 1t. Leo Walton. director.
Auditorium block Spokane, Wash.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-26
MnMTAL SCIENCE
COLLEGE LECTURE.

Professor Knox. founder of the
Mental Science college. Seattle,
Wash, and second vice president OF
the International association. will de-
liver his series of lectures In the
Unitarian church in this city. First
lecture. Sunday. March 1, p. m.
Seats free.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-26
ADJUSTMENTS.

Direction of Ward & Wade.
4O-COMEDY DISSEMINATORS-
Harry Ward, John Neff George
Wade, Frank Rodgers. Harry Van
Fossen, George christopher, Charles
Ivers, Fisk & Rogers. The HARMONIC
four--Charles Il. Evans, Ivers & Nen,
Monroe and Morello. Herschal, the
only electrical bag punching act ex-
tant. Regular prices: 75c, soc, 35c.
csc; matinee, SOC and 25c.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-26

Good dead pine blocks, two ricks
for s3.25 delivered. Brownies Addi-
ton Fuel company, Pacific and Wal
nut. Phone Black 3691,
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-06-06
CLouDBuRST IN
SOUTH CAROLINA
Cotton Mills Were Washed Away,
Bridges and Trestles Carried Out
Houses and Barns Destroyed and
General Havoc Wrought.
IT IS FEARED SEVERAL LIVES WERE LOST

Atlanta, Ga, June CA special from
Spartanburg, s. c., says: Mill No. | OF
the Pacolet Cotton Company at Paco'et,
was washed away last night by terrible
cloudbnrst ard Mill No. 2 was totally
destroyed. lie dams of three mills
were washed out. 1t is feared there has
been loss OF life as the mills employed a
large number of operatives who lived
near the mills. The warehouse of No.
was washed away with the total stock
of goods and cotton. The hotel, Preshy-
terian church, livery stable and many
other buildings in the town were washed
away. The flood is moving with the
river and is sweeping everything before
it. At Clifton, s. c., cotton Mill No. l
was destroyed and Mil No. ? Is expected
to be destroyed. Property loss for this
part OF the country is very largo.
DAMAGE NEAR GREENVILLE.
Greenville, Ga, June 6.-Reports are
being received here Of great havoc
wrought By the storm last night and
early this morning. The steel bridge
across the Tiger river at Arlington, sew
eral miles above here was washed away
and the Southern Railways trestle at
Duncan is gone. Several houses and
barns were washed away and much
property damaged at Greers, s G.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-06-06
TRAFFIC NOT
HINDERED
Although the River is Still
Rising at St.
Louis.
no STOCK TO Be RECEIVED
Thousands of Men and Women
at Kansas City With
Shovels and
~ Brooms.
NO STOCK TO Be RECEIVED

st. Louis, June 6.-The river reached
a stage Of BAT feet, rise during the
past "a hours of IL feet, and 1t con-
tinues rising at about the same rate.
All along the levee, the water is up to
the stores and houses, in some Of them
it being at least foot and more deep
on the first floors. So far traffic on
the river has not been greatly hinder
ed, but when the water reaches
stage of SO feet, some of the boats will
probably refuse to receive freight as
the approaches cannot be used and the
water will be too deep for teams to
drive through. At the ferries, the
loading of teams is done with great
difficulty, the horses having to wade UP
to their shoulders.
The break in the great Madison
county levee which gave way yester-
day, has widened and today water Is
rushing through a gap 100 yards wide
covering 10000 acres of fertile farm
tands and the three villages Of Olden-
burg, Mitchell and West Granite.
sHOVELS AND BROOMs.
Kansas City, June 6.-Thousands o'
men and women, armed with sh"vels
and brooms, are invading the west bot
toms, following closely the recedine
waters, and by nigbtfall much will have
been done toward restoring the whole
sale and stock yards districts to thell
former condition Of activity. The MIS-
souri, has fallen slightly over two feet
during the past "a hours aud still
greater district was uncovered. The
Kaw also continues to recede at an In
creased rate. Today hundreds OF fla,
cars loaded with sand and construction
material, pushed several blocks further
west and began actively the work OF re
nsSru ction of miles of washed out o1
damaged tracks in the yards OF Armou
dale and Argentine.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-06-06
chureh Announcements.

Cathedral. = Trinity Sunday. First
mass at 6 o'clock a. M. Second mass al
gao a, m., sermon in English. Third
mass at 1890 a. NJ, sermon In Spanish.
Vespers and Renediction at 6:3O p. IN.
Guadalupe Church. June
9TH, feast of Holy Trinity. The iirst
mass will be at .. NJ; the second at
$50 q. m. Vespers and Benedictlon oil
the Blessed Sacrament at 6:3O p. m.
St. Johns M. Z. Church, San Fran
cisco street.-Sunday-schooI, 10 a. M;
Divine services at IL .. IN. and p. M;
Epworth League, 7:l5 p. IN. we are
expectipg Rev. Il. A. N. Wilson for TO-
morrow, but are not sure. w. A. Cooper
pastor.
Services as follows at the Presbyterian
Church: GAS, Sabbath.school; II o'clock
sermon by the pastor; 700 O'Clock
", p. $. c. Il. No other evening serv
ice. Every body welcome. W. Hayes
Moore, Pastor.
Church of the Holy Faith (Episcopal)
Rev. w. r. Dye In charge Trinit,
Sunday. Snnday-schoOl at 9:4s a. IN
Morning service with sermon and ho',
communion at IL o'clock. Evening
prayer with address at 5 o'clock. Pub
! lie cordially invited.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-06-06

what we have often said that if you
buy package teas, you may know that
YOU are receiving exactly the same
quality from time to time.
Koh-i-noor Breakfast Tea and Or
loft Formosa Oolong tea are packed in
1-2 Id and ID tin foil packages at 4Oc
and 75c.
Gunpowder, choice Moyune, in IL ID
tin cans, 40c.
Oolong and Gunpowder blend in IL
ID tins, 4oc.
G. and S. Basket fired Japan tea in
IL ID packages, Soc Ia lb l5c.
LAUNDRY SOAP.
Crystal White Laundry Soap Is not
only excellent for the laundry, but is
used by many for the bath. 1t contains
considerable borax which is very de-
srable for the water here.
Large bars, only ,................. DC
The only full size bar of pure white
soap sold for the price.
JMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR, the
best, so lb sacks, only $l.25.
Meadow Gold Butter does not melt
down because it is packed in non
conducting sealed package, especially
desirable in hot weather
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-06-06

From Spanish into English and from
Nnrlish into Spanish carefully made.
Onice with U. s. Attorney for the Court
~ private Land Clatms, Federal Build
inc. FRANCISCO DEL8ADO.
Santa Fe, N. n.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-06-06
Pope IS eRowIne WEAKER.
It Is Reported He Is Suffering From Intestinal
inflammation.

Venice, June 6.-The Gazetta III
Venetia asserts that the Pope is suffer-
ing from intestinal inflammation, that he
eats practically nothing and that his
strength is diminishing. The paper
adds: "rhough there is no immediate
danger there is room for apprehension
unless an improvement Is soon mani
tested"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
sheep and cattle in the county will
show a reduction as it is claimed that
quite a number of these animals have
died or have been sold. In all cases
where reductions Of real estate values
from last years figures We're returned
by property owners, the board raised
them to the assessment value fixed TOT
the wear 1902. The board will meet as
a board Of appeals on the first Mon
day in July and will be in session for
several days for the purpose OF hear
ing and deciding appeals from its ac-
tion and those of the assessor In in
| creases of assessments. Chairman A.
T.. Kendall of Cerrillos, and Commits
sioner Nicholas Quintana Of Pojoaque'
left for their respective homes this ev-
ening.
One of the attractive features which
has been arranged for The Plaza fete OF
the Woman's Board of Trade, and which
will be carried out to the most minute
detail and which will be place OF COM
fort. will be the booth wherein to sip
and smoke. Mrs. T. B. Catron Is In
charge OF it, and an inviting place Will
be arranged with seats, tables, etc. Col
fee, lemonade, grape phosphate, etc.
will be served, while cigars and cigar
cites will be on hand In profusion for
those who enjoy them. 1t will be de-
llehttul resting spot for those who wish
to recuperate from strenuous life OF
who wish to quietly observe others lead
strenuous life.
The Coronado Tent City band OF the
, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail
way system will begin its entertain
, ment in the plaza at $40 o'clock this
eveniog. In the event Of its raining
there will be concert under the porta
in front OF the governors palace
!; stereioptican views to the number o
! 40 will be shown OF scenes along tn
: ro,,te of the Santa Fe railway tn New
Mexico, Arizona and California aud
y ,ecture will be delivered BY A. A
Weiss, Of Cincinnati, Ohio, the lecture
= in charge. The lecture will be Illus
tratsd by the views. The concert to b
. given by the Tent City band under tn
y leadership Of Henry Ohlmeyer will D
we'll worth hearing. The band ha
. twenty pieces.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-06-06

Did you notice the new iron fences IN
town? Did you notice the improve
ment in the looks of the property?
They are cheaper than wood. Davis and
spooner, the Sanitary Plumbers.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-06-06
F. DAVIS, President q. CARTWRIGHT secy
ClRIVR|GHT-DaT RI lI!i'ii| ! j S { GO,
CONSOLIDATED.
MEAT MARKET.
Meat Telephone No. 40.

In spite of the washouts we have
managed to keep our customers sup
piled with our usual high grade meats
1t will pay you in satisfaction. 1t will
pay you in pocket, to buy our corn-fed
first choice beef and mutton, our fancy
Bacon. .
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-06-06

Those who sample our wines, liquors
and cigars always call again. J. Wein-
bergers, south side Plaza.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-06-06
BUTCHERS !
BAKERS |
GR0CERS !
Grocery Telephone No. 4.
CANNED FISH,

Oil SardineS ...................... DC
3 Cans Pink Salmon .............. 25c
Flat cans salmon go. 15c, 20c and 25c
Ferndell salmon ........... l5c ana 3oc
Monarch lobster, small ........,... 15c
Ferndell lobster, large ............ 40c
Ferndell shrimp .................... 30c
Imported sardnes 10c, II 1-2c, 15c, zoe
CANNED PEPPERS.
Las Cruces green chill -. 15c and 25c
Spanish peppers, large .......... 25c
Spanish peppers are excellent for salad
OLIVE OIL.
We carry an excellent line Of olive
OIL 1t is much used nowadays as a
flesh producer.
La Crescenta brand of California oil
is now very popular.
For an imported oil nothing is better
than Rae's Lucca:
Quarts .......... -. ?oc
E'lllIS ..''''' .'oot
1-2 PintS ..... ....... SOC
HIGH GRADE TEAS.
We are Offering a full line of desira-
BILE teas packed by Chase and sanborn
in packages. We desire to repeat
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-06-06

Loose leaf ledgers at the New Mexi-
can Bindery.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-19

ting race 1t was not Denny's intention to
drive the race himself but the young man who
was to handle his team showed that he was not
capable of handling the lines and made num-
ber of ugly breaks during the line up Denny
became irritated ordered the young fellow out
of the gig jumped in himself. adjusted the
reins in a twinkIing. and succeeded in getting
fair start with the others and in winning the
race with ease.
Denny was in his younger days a Cavalry-Tnan
in the United States service. and lost his arms
while firing a volley over the body of General
George H. Thomas He known as fear
less horseman in the cavalry, and no sooner had
the torn-off arms healed than the desire 10
handle horses returned. and, although he
cannot harness the animals. he is just as
much at home as ever on horses back or
holding the reins- Denny uses pair of tweez-
ers on the stub of his left arm, and with ii he
do many things which would seem almost
impossible to an armless man. The tWeezers
are the same make and pattern as those used
by Dennis and Decker Denny writes good
Iegible hand by holding the penstaf with the
tweezers, and while at the War Department his
record book was as neatly kept as those of any
of the hundreds of employees. He resigned from
the government service in order to give his
entire time to raising blooded horses.
L. a. Neur a guide in the Government Print
ing once, came mere from CulcdSot III Nh-ciL
city ne had the misfortune to have both arms
crushed off by a railroad engine while he was
in the employ Of the Armours as barber and
hairdresser. When not duty in the office o.
soliciting life insurance. Neur takes part in out
door exercises and sports. He often takes long
swilns in the Potomac. In winter he be
found on the basin with the skaters. Dancing
is recreation in which he takes great delight
and he is regarded as one of the most graceful
dancers in Washington. Neur tried false hands
and cast them aside. There are few signatures
the payrolls of the Office more IegibIe than
Neur's, and it is written with a pen held be
tween his teeth. He has invention of his own
which he straps to the stub of his right arm
when he wishes to write long letter.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-19
"THE DEFUNCT" W4S DE4D.

Foxhall Keene. who is now as notable for
daredevil automobiling as he was formerly
table for daredevil riding 70 hounds. was q wit
ness some years ago in a small case that was
tried before country magistrate in Maine.
This magistrate was most iIiterate. and Mr..
keene sometimes tells 4 little story about him
According TO the story. the lawyer upon one
side had occasion to refer to a dead man whose
evidence, had he lived. would have been i'm
portant
The defunct," the lawyer would say would
have cOrroborated me in this, your honor" or
The defunct may it please the court would
were he here" 1t is notorious that the de-
funct declared frequently, your honor" and so
on.
Whenever these references to the dead man
were made, indignant objections came from the
lawyer on the other side. The words the de-
fuuct.' in fact. always caused a squabbIe. and
New-York tribune., 1903-07-19

falls backward This is its position so long
the comet is coming in toward the AS
the nucleus has begun to recede the tail
goes ahead.
For that remarkable behavior better ex-
planation has yet been offered than that the
sun exercises an electrical repulsiOn. When that
theory advanced seventy-Odd years ago py
Olbers it made only little impression on other
astronomers, but faith in it has steadily in
creased ever since. OF course, if interstellar
space was filed with air the performance which
is witnessed at perihelion would be attended
with immense difficulty There inside of two
three days, perhaps the head of the comet
swings around an are of nearly $50 degrees and
in order to maintain its normal attitude the tail
must make a tremendous sweep in a very shot
time IT. as was the case with the comet of
1858 the tail was over 30 600 900 miles long and
if the medium in which ii moved offered any re-
sstance to that manouvre, the tail would prob
ably be sadly demoraliZed Its own average
density is estimated to be lower than that of
fog. AS it is. the appendage goes around with
the precision of a platoon of regulars executing
a right wheel.
Bred kline, who was successvey director Of
the Moscow and Pulkowa observatories, made a
provisional classification of comets in accord
ance with the form of their tails. If the latter
were exceedingly straight, he computed that
the repelent force Of the sun was sixteen times
greater than its attraction. Where the ap-
pendage was curved like a scimetar plume,
the excess was much lower though it was ade-
quate (he thought to give the elected matter
velocity of a mile a second Bredikhine's third
type included comets whose tails were short
and brushike, and which had two or three tails.
He believed that the repellent force might not
cont ter
than gravity.
The Russian suggested that these dssimi-
arities might be due to differences in the COM
position of the tails. He fancied that the long,
straight ones might consist of almost pure
hydrogen, the curved of hydrocarbons
dixie Illuminating gas), and that the third might
contain iron YapOr. The spectroscope does not
reveal any pure hydrogen tails and there is
doubt about the presence of iron, too, in the
train, though it undoubtedly exists in many
nuclei. This later theory of Bredikhine. there
fore. is not generally accepted. Miss Clerke
says, ELECTRICITY alone seems competent to pro-
duce the varieties of cometary emanation, -
though she does not indicate just how.
Even the novice in astronomy has noticed the
resemblance between the attenuated nebuOus
envelope of the sun, known the corona, and
the gauzy texture of a comets tail A striking
illustration of the delicacy of the former was
afforded in 1882, when a comet passed within
100000 miles of the solid surface. This distance
is about one-third of a solar diameter Hence
the comet not immersed in the corona.
Neither the speed of the vagrant the form of
its appendage was perceptibly affected by the
encounter. though the retarding effect which
might have been anticipated lasted through at
least half a million miles of the journey.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-19
SKILL or ARMLESS MEN.
-Four at Washington Who DO Nany
Surprising Things.

Washington, July 1S.-In Uncle Sans vast
army of hired helpers in Washington there were
until lately four armless mems H. Decker,
Thomas Dennis, w. b. Denny and L. A. Neur-
each of whom is happy and prosperous.
Until within the last few months for fifteen
years the correspondents of the leading news
papers have daily net in the House press gal
lery s. H Decker, who was employed there as
doOrkeepeI and messenger. Notwithstanding
the fact that Mr. Decker has both arms eff,
with the use of tweezere hooked to the stumps
Of his arms he able to perform almost any
duty required of him.
Decker lost his arms by a premature dis
charge of artillery at Perryville, Ky. The first
thing he did was to try to find some artificial
means of providing hands. but did not succeed
until he got his cwn brain to work and devised
pair Of tweezers, which, he declares-and two of
his arnlless friends End associates agree with
him-are the greatest invention of the age. The
tweezers are used on the stub of the right arm
and 4 hook on the other, the latter being used
to lift or turn articles.
Uncle Sam gave Decker good pension, but
during Grants administration the manned SOL
der failed TO get his pension money for about
six months He was at his home in Toledo, and
received the information that his name had
been dropped from the roll, and that he was not
entitled to q pension. Coming TO washington
Decker went to the Pension Office and de-
manded to know why he had been dropped An
examining surgeon almost paralyzed him by
informing him that no man without arms could
write his name. and that there fraud
somewhere Mr.. Decker was astonished and
angry at this declaration that he asked for q
pen and ink and proceeded to show the surgeon
some pretty penmanship. Il not only
write" Mr. Decker said to him, but 1 am yet
able to do some right lively punching, and 1
want to say to you right that unless my
name is restored to the roll and my money paid
over pretty quick l will send you to the hos
pital for repairs" He got his back pension.
along this line.
With little negro boy to bait his hooks Mr..
Decker spends a great deal of his time when
Congress is not in session on the Potomac fish
ing. and he is known as one of the best fisher
men in the District. One day last week Mr..
Decker landed a string of perch measuring over
six feet and it is a common saying among the
fishermen that if there are any fish in the river
Decker will get them. Although deprived of
arms, he is fine swimmer and declares that
he can stay as long in the water as any other
man.
Thomas Dennis. the oldest of the four armIess
men, until a few months ago was a watchman
in the War Department. When a young man
he enlisted as a seaman in the United States
Navy, going on duty on the Princeton While
cruising in the Mediterranean. along the coast
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07
Ohe Goueru0r's Pet dies.

fight the bill providing for the establishment of state
night with nermissons only for meals without vote being
the debate opened amendment making the
proposed elective instead of apponve defeated
by overwhelming vote.
early argument Mr. Frear paid attention to the manu-
meeting Milwaukee, saying brought about by
former political leaders, who have gone of business and who
have now enlisted the aid of the manufacturers.
The bill special order at 10 o'clock, and the
through three sessions AT the evening
called Mr. maey the chair and took
argument for the BILL in which he made direct
charges shippers receiving rebates basng the
charge made at the hearing before the committee
proceeded until midnight Mr. Leroy offered
attaching referendum clause to the BILL providing
people the next spring election For
Speaker Ray opposed this saying would cause endless
turbance gave notice that if it adopted the
disturbing element the next general cleo
ton
The defeated of 81 to S.
by the committee and it voted down. ayes
nays final reached 1920 when the bill
indefinitely postponed, % to 25.
The womans suffrage bill was killed by the assembly,
Is to r.
Senator McDonough introduced resolution memoaizing
pass federal inspection law to operate under civil
service requesting the Wisconsin representatives
work passage of such bill adopted unan
mousy
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

Ellsworth Plumstead the elocu-
zionist and character delineator,
was greeted by frst-class audiences
Wednesday and Thursday evenings
and delighted them with most pleas
ing entertainments. The entertain
er has a fine voice for mimicry and
recites the James Whitcomb Riley
style of literature in a manner
which the author himself could
scarcely be expected to surpass..
His pathos is fine, his enunciation
distinct and he can look the parts.
The thanks of his audiences are due
to Professor Farmer. the principal
of our schools, for having prevailed
upon Mr. Plumstead to come here
and give US such rare treat. Sill
yer City, Idaho, Nugget, May 3,
1901 At the Opera House next
Saturday night, for the benefit of
the public schools.