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Snips and the St. Johns herald., 1904-06-11

Cdpldl LII JOuu S1ORu uC udS been appointed a delegate from this county to the worlds curfew congress which meets in St. Louis July 27th.
 Enrique Espinosa shot himself in the calf of the leg Wednesday while out hunting rabbits. A painful wound was inflicted, but is not considered very serious.
 Don Antonio Gonzales, of Salt Lakes, New Mexico, was in town Wednesday to transact business. He reports Socorro County to he drying Up and stock dying by the hundreds.
 A reception was given in the St. Johns Stake Academy Mon >day night to MT. and Mrs. Brig ham Peterson, who were married recently in Utah. An interest ing program was also given.
 The regular quarterly teachers examinations were held here Tuesday by Captain Hogue. Ethel Farr, Lucia Udall, Naomi Freeman and Orpha Gibbons were applicants for second grade certificates.
 Andrew Gibbons, who has been attending the Stanford University at Palo Alto, Calif., will be here next week. He will remain here during the vacation and visit with his many friends and relatives.
 J. B. Richey returned from a brief trip to Georgia yesterday. We understand that Mir. Richey has taken unto himself a help mate during his absence. The SNIPs- HERALD joins in extending congratulations.
 ] Wm. Holgate and family left
Snips and the St. Johns herald., 1904-06-11

nus lSuay AOl Auul WuCIC InCy will remain until December. MT. Holgate has a contract for ex- cavating, and furnishing 100000 bricks for the Indian school that will be constructed by the g"v- ernment.
 We are informed that Bishop James Ashcroft, of Curtland, New Mexico was killed recently by an explosion of blast, while prospecting. The deceased was brother of Mrs. c. w. Davis and was we'll known throughout this county.
 MT E. s. Perkins and family, formerly residents of this place, but now of Martinez, have gone to St. Louis to see the fair. They will also go to MT. Perkins old home in Kentucky, where Mrs. Perkins and children will remain for two years.
 The territorial democratic convention elected six delegates to the national convention, which meets in St. Louis July eth, and instructed them to vote as a unit for w. K. Hearst. Isaac Earth was elected one of the delegates. This is the first time since the organization of the territory that Apache County has had one of her citizens elected delegate to national democratic convention.
 We have been informed by reliable party that the govern ment intends constructing telephone line from Gallup, New Mexico to Keams Canyon in Ma vaio County. It will go via Ft. Defiance and Ganado. There will be line built to St. Michaels also, for the use of the Catholic
Snips and the St. Johns herald., 1904-06-11
LOCAL
 AND PERSONAL NEWS
"I Know not what the truth may be, | tell to you as twas told to me"

Attorney Alfred Ruiz is having his residence remodeled.
 There has been a good deal of sickness in town the past week.
 James Lesueur is in the mOun- tains looking after sheep interests.
 Supervisor BenignO Lopez was over from COncho Wednesday on business. ~
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Misery Without Company.

Like the rest of US, the actor would
not be unhappy if every one else were
In the same boat Misery can be very
cheerful with company. But no. While
the authors. the managers, the clerks
and the bookkeepers are out on Christ
mas eve with the boys" making merry
as though tomorrow they were to die.
the pillar of the drama and the iIlu-
minator of histrionic art is perspiring
in a stuffy little dressing room, be-
smearing a Henry Irving profile with
grease paint or explaining to wrathful
stage manager how he kicked over the
papier mache piano in the third act
Then. on Christmas afternoon, when
the ignoble pursuer of commercial
coin" is calmly slipping his demi tasse
and putting a fragrant cigar after de-
mOlishing a triple decked. chestnut
stuffed turkey, what is our abused, mis-
used Romeo doing?
There he goes on the run out of the
doorway of quick lunch palace, de-
vouring the concluding fragments of a
minced ham sandwich, Only five min
utes to go twenty blocks to the theater
not a car in sight This is the gay.
careless Bohemian life for which six
years before he left home, mother. little
blue eyed Tommy-and S12 dollars a
week No. dent say Merry Christ
mas" to the actor. It's too much like
New Years and Thanksgiving
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EzA,raf Z'z7zAA
IGNORANCE WAS BLISS.

Arthur Dunn, starring successfully in
THE Runaways," tells an amusing sto-
ry on a German cornetist who is one OF
the seven men carried with the COM
pany to augment the orchestras of the
aters visited. This Teuton was lodged
on the third floor of a small hotel in
Minneapolis. On the morning of his
second day there another roomer COM
planned to the boniface: Il can't stand
that Dutchman next to me. He footed
his blooming cornet all night. though !
kept rapping on the wall for him to
stop"
Somewhat later the cornetist appear
ed, his face bea ming.
Fine appreciationer Won musk you
got next to me-" he said. "All night
long efery time 1 played a tune he
knocked on de vail for an encore. ]
played 'Efery Morn 1 Bring Dee Vio-
let's to him fourteen times. and still he
wasn't satisfied.'S
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olive Fremstad In "carmen."

Not since Calve made her triumphant
debut in New York in Georges Bizets
Carmen has singer won such un'
stinted praise as that accorded Olive
Fremstad on her recent performance In
the difficult title role at the Metropo1-
tan Opera House.
Critics and public alike join In voic-
ing their praise of the talented youns
singer. who has dramatic power as wei
as voice. The Calve Carmen" epoch
has now given way to the Fremstad
Carmen epoch, for students of the
operate drama agree that Miss Frem-
stad has restored the role of the Span
ish dancer to the position its writer
originally claimed for it.
One of the leading New York critics
wrote of Miss F'remstad's performances
as follows:
"She is the new Carmen, the Carmen
of Bizet and of Merimee, not the ira
ditional Carmen of the Metropolitan
Opera House. She did not have to get
herself tangled up with the buttons of
Don Jose's coat nor to have her hair
fall down unexpectedly nor to throw
chairs about. She succeeded simply by.
performing Carmen.
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RUNNER T. ]. HICKS
MAY COMPETE ABROAD.

Thomas J. Hicks of Cambridge,
Mass. who rose to international fame
at ST. Louis by winning the Marathon
race held in connection with the third
revival of the Olympian games, will, it
is said go to England in the spring to
compete against the long distance stars
of Britain.
Hicks time for the twenty-five miles
was hours % minutes So seconds. OF
the thirty one starters only sixteen ran
the entire distance Corey seemed to
be in better shape at the finish than the
winner.
The race, although run in slow time,
was hard one for the athletes, and
after the event Hicks said, 1.-The road
is the hardest over which l ever ran"
The first Olympic Marathon race was
held at Athens, Greece, in 1896 and was
won by Loues, a Greek. in hours SIS
minutes. The second, at Paris, in 1900.
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INTERCOLLEGIATE BASKET BALL.


The intercollegiate Basket Ball as
ISOLATION has elected officers for the
coming season and has arranged the in
tercollegiate championship schedule
The officers are: President, Howard c.
Blackwell, Cornell; vice president
Frank N. Spencer, Princeton; secreta-
ry, Ward MacLanahan, Yale and treas
urer, Ralph Morgan, Pennsylvania The
schedule is:
Jan. 6-Cornell and Pennsylvania at
Ithaca
Jan. 12-Princeton and Cornell at Prince
Jan 1S-Columbfa and Cornell at New
York.
Jan. 1S-Princeton and Pennsylvania at
JAN 20-Cornell and Columbia at Ithaca.
Jan. 21-Yale and Princeton at New
Haven.
Jan 27-Yale and Pennsylvania at New
Haven
Feb S-Yale and Pennsylvania at Phil
adelphia.
Feb 1O-Columbia and Yale at New
York
Feb. I-CorneI and Princeton at Ithaca.
Feb 15-Princeton and Columbia at
Feb. 17-Yale and Cornell at New Ha-
ven.
Feb 1s-Pennsylvania and Princeton at
Philadelphia.
Feb. 22-Princeton and Yale at Prince
ton
Feb. 24-Columbia and Princeton at New
York
Feb. 24-cornen and Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia
Feb. 2s-YaIe and Columbia at New Ha-
ven.
March 3-Cornen and Yale at Ithaca.
March columbia and Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia.
March 1o-Columbia and Pennsylvania
at New York
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was won by Teato of France in hours
SO minutes.
Hicks first interest in road racing
was when he accompanied a contestant
in the Boston A. A. Marathon in 1924
as a member of Battery 3, First reg
ment. His company rendered such aici
as was necessary to the runners, and
Hicks repeatedly urged his man. but
without avail After the race Hicks
declared he could do better himself and
proceeded to train for the race of the
following year.
In 1900 Hicks came in sixth in the
Boston A. A. Marathon. The next year
his position was the same, though he
made better time than the year before.
Early in 1902 he took a position with
a telephone company in the west. Dur
ing his residence in Minneapolis he was
connected with the Y. NJ. c. A. there
and in 1908 captained the associations
cross country team. That year the
team won the championship OF the
state.
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"Who Goes There 2,

who Goes There?' an American mil
itary comedy written for Walter E.
Perkins by Henry A. Du Souchet, au-
thor of MY Friend From India" 1.-THE
Man From Mexico" and other farcical
plays, is now touring the country with
success.
The idea for the plot, which is in
three acts, was suggested to Du Sou
Chef at the time the state militia regi-
ments were encamped preparatory to
going to the Spanish American war.
Many girl sweetheartS were so afraid
their embryo heroes would never re-
turn that they ran away from home to
marry them in the camps, as many as
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No Other Challenge In siqht.

There is no indication that a chal-
lenge will be received from any other
source.
Canadian yachtsmen in Halifax are
anxious to ''have try" but they can
not raise the tremendous sum of money
necessary to finance the project. EN-
peror William of Germany was credited
with an ambition to challenge for the
cup, but the "only William seems to
have lost all desire to do so. That he
has much interest in international
yachting, however, was shown by his
gift of a handsome silver cup to be
awarded the winner of a race across
the Atlantic. BEN TAVIS.
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ica's cup this year has been received
with regret by most of the yachting
sharps on both sides of the Atlantic.
The death of Designer George L. Wat
son, who planned Shamrock IL, led Sir
Thomas to an adverse decision. How
ever, Upton may come over in 1906
with a. craft designed by one of the
younger British experts, whose work is
now being closely watched by Sir
Thomas.
Many American yachtsmen are glad
that an Americas cup series will not
occur for at least two years. because
they believe that the races detract from
the interest in local events over here
and thus retard the progress of the
sport.
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In the Days of Old.

In the old days at New Orleans for
instance, a man who raced his string
had to be on the inside" TO make even
his feed bills. Many races were run ac-
cording to programme, and talk of deals
and of fixed jockeys was heard on ev-
cry side The race officials, too, We're
lax Startling form reversals passed
unheeded except by the public, and
riders who at some tracks would have
lost their licenses escaped scot free.
The reform in winter racing is de-
cided boon to the turf, and it appears to
have come to stay
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FRITZ scheTs New operetta.

FRITZ Scheff, the former grand opera
star. has scored again in comic opera.
At the Broadway theater she is now in
stalled for long run in The Two
Roses" based on Oliver Goldsmith's
She Stops to Conquer"
The Two Roses is gay and tuneful,
so Miss Schef is in congenial sur
roundings. Ludwig Englander has writ
ten her some rollicking songs, and. of
course. the winsome little artists voice
and charming presence do the rest
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The Leaders.

In the United States only two cities
produce really expert figure skaters
New York and Brooklyn. Why do not
Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston en-
deavor to wrest. the supremacy from
New York?
Figure skating is a science and re-
quires years of study and practice to
master it, but there are men in a dozen
cities who could make a good showing
against the New York cracks and de-
feat them, too, in time.
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What Basket Ball Needed.

A Sunday school basket ball league is
the latest feature of eastern athletics.
Albany, Brooklyn and Orange, N J.,
have fallen victims to the craze. There
is no doubt that basket ball as played in
some quarters has needed this purify
ing influence. 1t is to be hoped that the
football and pugilistic reformers will
continue the good work.
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Wins Two Mile Race

Now the Britons must play a different
tune. Schultz defeated their best men in
a two mile race. He did it so easily
that great surprise was manifested by
all witnesses of his great exploit.
Schutt was the holder of several in
tercollegiate championships while at
Cornell, ranking at the top of the long
distance class. AS a cross country run
ner he was unequaled, and he developed
the Cornell aggregation into holders of
the American championship
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which Mr.. Mansfield unfolds is partic-
ularly timely Possibly Mr.. Mansheld's
managerial staff, departing from their
usual custom, instigated the hostilities
between Russia and Japan in order to
attract additional attention to the play
At this moment convincing proof OF
such deep dyed doings is lacking.
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Nance o'NeiI lin "Maoda. y

Nance O'Neil has won much genuine
praise in Sudermann's "Magda" at
Days theater- The depths of this diff
cult role have been sounded by Mrs
Flske and Eleonora Duse, and Miss
O'Neil does not suffer by comparison as
much as would naturally be thought
Her performance bears every evil
dence of conscientious and well directed
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Mr.. MansfieId,s Tour

Richard Mansfield's tour this season
Is one of wide extent, as usual His
plans are nothing short of enormous.
he is doing repertory of ten plays, of
which six are what may truthfully be
termed gigantic productions.
Ivan the Terrible's is one of the six
plays of principal Importance This
play provides a rigid test of an actors
powers of tragic representation No
other American actor can approach Mr..
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Improved RACING.

Winter racing is of a higher class
than formerly; hence the added interest
shown in it. There was a time-and
that not long past-when only the need
the money" fraternity raced their
horses in the "off season." Now, how
ever, we find these meetings attended
by almost as much eclat as that popu-
larly assembled to the events at Wash
ington park (Chicago), DeImar est.
Louis) and Sheepshead Bay, Brighton
Beach and Morris Park New York;.
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perts are coming over to eempete. They
will have three worthy opponents in
Champion Duffy, ex-Champion DR.. A.
G. Keane and Irving Brokaw, all of
New York.
Figure skating is woefully neglected
in this country. For some reason the
number of able performers is astonish-
ingIy small, whereas in England, Ger
many and Switzerland interest in the
pastime is remarkably keen.
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"Rodion,"

"Rodion'' is to be a big production
too This is not a revival of "Rodion
the Student" 1t is a new play into
which one great scene from the other
is introduced. 1t is a story of Rodion
Won Edelfeldt, a psychological composer
in Leipsic as much ahead of his period
as Richard Wagner or Richard Strauss.
His masterpieces are unappreciated. He
is a combination of cheerful .optimist
and of fate ridden unfortunate. He
commits d murder (rnseen) to save a
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study. She showed emotional strength
that makes her deserving of serious
consideration.
That Miss O'Nen would rise to the
heights scaled by Duse and Mrs. F'iske
was not expected, but in the last act,
in the interview with DR.. Won Keller,
she gave striking expression to the
tragic situation.
Mckee Rankin as Colonel Schwartze
and Gertrude Binley as Marie appeared
most creditabIy
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TROTTER.

break all records for activity and in
terest- An unusual number of owners
have arranged to work their stables on
the several tracks which are open be-
tween November and April. At New
Orleans, at Hot Springs and on the
three California tracks Oakland, Ingle-
side and Tanforan) rich purses have
been hung up to lure the wary turf pa
irons
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parents and guardians the leading
theme of his plot in ''Who Goes There? ''
There are others marriage bent which
create complexity, incident to a confu-
sion of Identities. $ The part of Lieuten-
ant George Washington Newman
known to his comrades as "Toppy," has
been written by Du Souchet with the
qualifications in mind which Walter E.
Perkins has shown in the leading roles
of the other Du Souchet farces.
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Capable Support.
Miss

Miss Scheff's supporting company is
capable one. Louis Harrison as Fer
dinand Day is particularly good.
The vivacious singer is winning even
greater success in THE Two Roses
than she did last season in "Babette,"
her initial light opera vehicle. and there
is no doubt that she is firmly estab-
lished in her new field.
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the heavyweight fighters and has no
fear of losing his title. Jimmy Britt
should be cheerful Christmas a. m. also.
for he has successfully lodged all at
tempts of Young Corbett to secure a re-
turn match.
And so we might continue down the
list Every sportsman has something to
help him be merry on the greatest holi-
day of the year. Here's to you, Mr..
Reader, and to your very good health!
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kELcEY.shANNoN PLANS.

Herbert Kelcey and Effe Shannon
are to continue under the management
of Sam S. Shubert and will be seen
again either in a new play or in a
sumptuous revival of an old one. Rob-
ert Lorraine will continue in their sup
port until January when he is sched-
uled to present George Bernard Shaws
Man and Supernlan-"
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sehutt,s Success In Ennland.

Warren Schutt, former captain of the
Cornell university cross country team.
now student at Oxford university, has
created a tremendous sensation in Eng
lish athletic circles. At a recent inter-
college meet in London Schutt defeated
the leading long distance runners of the
United Kingdom, accomplishing what
has long been considered impossible
England has always boosted of her
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Gabrielle Rejane has shown Ameri-
cans how the real Zaza differs from the
Zaza of Mrs. Leslie Carter At the
Lyric theater Rejane pictured the dis
solute Frenchw with all the SUI
perb art and sympathetic intuition that
have carried her to a lofty pinnacle in
the modern dramatic world. Where
Mrs. Carter was theatrical Rejane was
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Two shakespearean RevivaIs.

Mr.. Mansfield has two imposing
Shakespearean revivals under way. One
is 1.-The Merchant of Venice the other
an exact duplication in minute detail of
the production OF King Richard ILL.,
which Mr.. Mansfield made at the Globe
theater, London. This has never been
surpassed, not even by Mr.. Mansfield's
own spectacular King Henry ""
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Sehutt a Scholar Too.

In spite of his athletic accomplish
ments, Schutt did not neglect his stud
les. Consequently he graduated from
Cornell with highest honors and be-
came the first winner of one of the
scholarships in Oxford provided for by
the late Cecil Rhodes, the South Afri-
can f1nancier.
Schutt's example is one that can be
followed to advantage by every Ameri-
can college student. Athletics need not
prove bar to advancement in studies.
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supremacy in long distance running
Englishmen have frequently been heard
to say: You Americans are all right in
the short distance events. AS mere
sprinters you are a great success, but
when it comes to a long race, a real
test of ability, you are not in the game
with oxford and Cambridge lads.
Americans are sprinters. We are real
runners
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The Foul Strike Rule.

If the baseball dictators repeal the
foul strike rule at their winter session
the manufacturers will be the principal
winners AS matters now stand the
short games require fewer balls, and
fewer bats are broken.
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the elementary nature to become al
most historical in fu1lsome praise. The
other causes the thoughtful, cultivated
playgoer, the student of drama, to ad-
mire with reason and gives him a new
mental stimulus
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NANCE ONEH

Stanislaus STANCE is the author of
the book, the humorous lines of which
succeed as laugh getters.
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Figure Skating championship.

The national figure skating cham
pionship of America viii be competed
for IN New York in January. George
Phillips, the old time champion, has Of
fered the use of the ST. Nicholas rink
for the occasion. Several fageign ex-
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Nancy H, 2:OSA, is one of the famous
Lady Pepper family. Her dam is Leila,
sister of Choral, 2:06A, and Leola,
2:10H.
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, PoRTsMEN throughout

~ PORTSMEN throughout the
- country have every reason to
enjoy a merry Christmas
~ Never before has every branch
of sport shown evidences of such unaI-
loyed prosperity. Clubs and associa-
tons are uniformly prosperous, and
athletes and promoters are seen on all
sides wearing smiles that won't come
of.
Prosperity has certainly extended to
athletics and sport in general. Think of
II! The Yale football team cleared over
$4,000 on the season That is enough
to guarantee a merry Christmas at the
New Haven university.
Lou Dillon, the worlds champion
trcttinS mare succeeded in lowering
Major Delmar's record of 2:O1K with
out pacemaker or wind shield. She'll
have a merry Christmas too.
Jim Jeffries will be merry, never fear.
BE has frightened away or defeated all
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| girl, musician, he loves, whom he
| cannot rescue without money. When
| he returns to his lodging he is met by
| his musical friends in high carnival
| over the news they bring that one of
his operas has been accepted by the
Royal Opera.
If it had only come sooner!
He escapes the punishment of the
law, but conscience and remorse pursue
him till several years after, on the
night of the last and greatest of a Gu