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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-11
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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-11

REDMEN meet in FraternaI
Brotherhood hall the second
and fourth Thursday sleeps
Of each moon Al the Seventh Run and
aoth Breath. Visiting chiefs always
welcome to the Wigwam. w. L.
Thompson, sachem; G. N. Higgins.
Chief OF Records.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-11

A HISTORIC OBJECT: While In
Las Vegas yesterday. Hon. y. .
Prince obtained an interesting object
Tor the historical society, says the New
Mexican u was the Iron grated dool
Of the old jail Of san Miguel count,
In which Rudabaugh, Web, and man,
OF the dcsperadoes Of the early day.
! were confined. The old court hous,
and jail now belong 70 Charles Ilfeld
and be very cheerfniiy made the dona
tlon TO the society when requested
The Old door Ii expected TO arriyl
here IN two or three days.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-11

WILL ACCEPT. The invitations
rendered 10 the Elks lodge Of santa
Fc BY Hon. W. s. Hopewell and w. A.
Hawkins at last Saturdays social
meeting OF that order. In which the
entire lodge was offered free trans,
portation To and back from III paso
whenever that body should care to 30
and the freedom OF the city Of Cloud.
croft was accepted.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-11

Fraternal Union Of America meets
first and third Tesday evenings Of
each month In the Fraternal Brother.
hood hall, west Of Fountain Square at
$ o'clock. 7. M. Elwood. r. NJ; W.
G, Koogler. Secretary.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-11

WANTED-A good salesman for gem
eral store; n who car buy as
well IS sell goods and speak Span
ish. Inquire Optic office. 6-2o
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-11

FOR sALE.-old papers at The Optic
office. 10 cents q bundle Of 80 pa
pers, or . bundles for 25 cents.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-11

The Fraternal Brotherhood, No.
1902, meets every Friday night at
their hall in the Schmidt building,
west OF Fountain square. at s o'clock.
Visiting members are always well
come.
c. N. HIGGINS, President.
G. w. GATCHELL, Secretary.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-12
CENSUS REPORT OF COTTON GINNED.
The Amount to December 12th Fell Considerably
Below Nine Million Bales.

The amount of cotton ginned from the crop of
1903 up to December II, according to a bulletin
issued last week by the Census Bureau, was
S,94S, 747 commercial bales, or S,526,244 full bales,
against 9,311 ,S35 commercial bales, or 1905, SOB
full bales, December 13 of the previous year. The
number of ginneries operated during the season
was 29,971, as against &c, 194 in the previous sea-
son. Two more bulletins on this years crop will
be issued by the Census Office, one showing the
number of bales ginned up to January 16, and the
final report at the end of the ginning season,
about March Is. The latter will show the output
by counties, the upland and sea island cotton
and the weight of bales.
The following table shows by States the amount
in commercial bales ginned at the dates men
toned:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-12
Farmers Institutes in Eastern Carolina

Arrangements have been made for holding
Farmers Institutes at the following times and
places:
Jackson, Wednesday, January 20.
Murfreesboro, Friday, January p.
Windsor, Monday, January %.
Gainesville, Wednesday, January q.
Currituck Courthouse, Friday, January %.
Camden courthouse, Saturday, January 30.
Elizabeth City, Monday, February /.
Hartford. Tuesday, February 3.
Edenton, Wednesday, February 3.
Roper, Friday, February 5.
Washington, Saturday, February 6.
Grcenville, Monday, February s.
Tarboro, Tuesday and Wednesday. February
9 and 10.
Goldsboro, Thursday, February II.
The object of a Farmers Institute is TO bring
together the farmers in order that they may dis
cuss the subjects relating to their business, such
as the best methods of using fertilizers on various
crops, the preparation and cultivation of the soil,
stOck-raisimg and stock-feeding, diseases of stock,
grain and grass-growing, trucking, Improvement
Of worn soils, value of cotton and cottonseed
meal, etc.
In addition to local speakers, B. w. Kilgore,
State Chemist; TAFT Butler, State Veterinarian,
and c.. B. Williams, of the State Department of
Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton, will be present and discuss the above-named
questions.
An interesting program has been arranged. All
farmers, and those interested in farming, are in
vited and urged to come and ask questions and
join in the discussions.
Morning session will open at 10 o'clock sharp,
and afternoon session at 1 80.
S. L. PATTERSON,
Commissioner IF Agriculture.
Subscribers will please give both old and new
addresses in ordering change of postofice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-12
GENERAL NEWS.
The Lesser Events of Last Week.

Russia is sending troops to Corea to protect
Russian interests there.
Ruth. Cleveland, eldest child of former Presi-
dent Cleveland, died of diphtheria.
A bronze statue of the late DR.. Hunter Nc
Guire was unveiled in Richmond, Va.
Colombia is concentrating troops at Cartagena;
great military activity is manifested.
The total number of dead in the Chicago
theatre fire has been established at 587.
The Census Bureau reports S,521,24 bales cot
ton ginned this season so far against 8,905,5O3
last year.
The general offices of the Southern Railway
will be transferred from Birmingham, Ala, to
Greensboro, N. @.
The official report of the United States Steel
Corporation shows almost a paralysis of business
for the last quarter of 1908.
Nineteen theatres in Chicago have been closed
by order of the mayor because they we're not pro-
vided with asbestos curtains.
A number of theatres in Philadelphia have been
ordered to close galleries and take out seats, a re-
suit of the Chicago disaster.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie's benefactions in 1908,
which aggregated over $19,OOO,OOO, exceeded those
of any other American millionaire
About 10000 steel workers in the Pittsburg dis
trict, who have been idle for some months, will be
put to work by the reopening of many mills.
The United States Supreme Court began the
hearing of the argument in the case brought to
test the validity of the new Constitution of Ala
bama.
The managers of the Iroquois Theatre in Chi
cago admitted at the investigation of the fire that
there had been practically no precautions taken
in case of fire.
DR.. G.. w. Dabney resigned as President of the
University of Tennessee to accept the Presidency
of the University of Cincinnati. The resignation
is effective September 1.
The United States Steel Corporation for the
first time in its history failed to declare a divi-
dend on its common stock, on account of the
great s~hrinkage in earnings.
The nomination of Leonard Wood to be a ma
jor-general in the regular army was ordered fav-
orably reported by the Senate Committee on Mil
itary affairs.
Replying to General Reyes inquiry whether the
United States would prevent the landing of Col
ombian troops on the Isthmus, Secretary Hay says
the President feels it is time to "stop the ruinous
civil war in Panama"
Ex-President Cleveland and Senator German
sent letters and Richard Olney, David B. Hill,
w. Bourke Cochran, A. J. Montague and others
made speeches at a banquet in honor of Mayor
George B. Mcclellan in New York.
The President sent to Congress a long message
reviewing the Panama canal negotiations and
the secession of the Isthmus, and declaring ratif-
cation of the treaty and not the recognition of the
new republic is the most important question be-
fore Congress.
The President sent to the Senate the nomina-
ton of William H. Taft, of Ohio, to be Secretary
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-12

Subscribers will please give both old and new
addresses in ordering change of postof6ce.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-24
The Correspondent on
the Field 81 Action

the officers and men Of the command to which
heSis attached. Ills first duty is to be- every
where Int tho front. in touch with every move;
ment, 50. that he get his ormationstrst
hand, Hissjob Isl to be 81 Johnny on the spot
to get the news, no matter it what financial
cost orgat what personal incpnye once, and 80
8senditto hisoftice with, all haste.
In tho Far East to-day there are two
grades of scorrespo dents First 7, there sisltho
man like FRlrleig or vi lliers-the veteran
--,-wlioShas described many vars, has stratesgys
understanding Of the import of movements,
can look ahead j like a. general and see for q
good distance Just how things are ltie lsa
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-24
Some g eat E Exploits

IA erick iYiiers Is the most picturesque igire-R
sl&l of ordinary str turc slender wizened by
lnlny cump nigns In tho tropics sneWy, eagle
NrchibaI ID Forbes Rim ii hand and tnugh him the
ropes and found the was nude ofViels Is tho
ideal type of And he can make
sketches to ha stor sket ches of things ne
say When he las finished his work, there's nothing left
vilers, SUCCESSOR OF Forbes the past master. shares
with Bennett Blrleigh of London the distinction OF being
speak the calls MIND the life sc
the other, But VeIs first without ejudice He has
had many and escapes us Forbes himself
Forbes man after tho cold. hard facts of ~
the tons for one 70 come sought
b he had nlWays
pek Hsa lea
,T,IE Seryian campaign In 1876, Forbes thought, would
i have d toning down effect upon Villiers II had
nothing Of the Sort All the ilnpusyeness of the young
reporter and the notiona artist hossomed year later
In the Russo, SILL spite Of rs enta4ss
na s sha h
Forbes began to have some hope for him and the VET
Grants confidence misplaced for the youngster
made his the very next year IN Atshanistah ana
up beneath tho forts at the hpmbartmsn or
5 only two years Afterward that villers found
himself In the soudan e denlonst rated there how y
CORRESPONDENT can tak care Of himself w I'LL, /, @
,skstchesh he lost his way There alone sighted
two mounted hostile natives. Who rode off and then work
CONTINUED ON INSIDE IsAd -, ss # L.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-24

quarters is Flowed to go, where no pleases,-73
but always at his own risk 81 In rgencys he
takes pot and for his own w
pains and aches. his ofessional labors areal
his priva to perqiiisitcs, and none q tho bust
ness the co1nmanding officer, who has itrou-
sbles Of his own. The corresp pendent isSa gen
oral officer reg mental officer and enliste man.
all rolled into one I'll Isl so to say, the es,
sencoaef ~ q WHO muat tak IS
togthe rear.
eImust adapt hinself to cire plllst ances as
he finds them, and they always changing
though N hey sll1ay chang as
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-24
.@x>a What he Xydf Jews Costs -mn>
he Soldier Who

Z n q Z ~ = 80
n TITLE does The public knosu tie.
enormous scost rUar. nesOs----ol tie.
money hat IS paid on or OF The hard AT.
slliips8a,id per1ils of the nte,, commits.
stoned 10 gathersinf oranationi IL the feld. s.
rom d pnrely commercial Z viesup oint, IL
Il; estimated conservditgelyy thai the nesvs-.
spapcrs aid yveckl;es 81 the s0orld are paying
5ffor uesvs Of The R0sso-7a panese operationsi'r
3llIanchuria. rate q SIC, 900, 900 year.
AIost b this an onlt Is borne BY publ icationsa
printed II Eng lisl., and byy lfay ME greatest
iteu, III he biz toll abontftty8
8cents Ia ssD0r1t.
Onsthc personal side, the ft,ar so ffa, has
cost ne Lies D at least fsco correspondents
and he scounding aid illness rom esposure5
Sof "a score. hal casually list MAY ee,u az
51rst though on1espldt iusi g1,ifcant,l lardly
1corih III thansaieafioN 3 earl tlleEcan-3
5paign BIZ sUlc1r orr comes make The per-
#1enfagc, tlleSreport IS serions. here are 200
CORRESPONDENTS 9Th lhe Russian and ] apt--S
5anese lorces. hcre.are 10 rein orcententsf ors
5fhc8 200. ~ 1Ihena man drops, this 33 third
Is called rsan q ble'
8sloss o oue-haljf ss1 per CEN. 1,iougA The
lind operations haze Just begun, the casually
Iist# of the third ARMY already 10 per-
#ceut.# Neiithcr me Russian nor; tie japanese
oo7n,nand er-iu- chieff has experienced suc]i q
@deeinialion 81 his forees. hes Ind though
NE kuesv hes rvonld sbe RENT orced, hc Mould
scontempl ate his pos fion spit anxiety
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-24

rT7EIII term third army is d m Rather
should the 200 be- called the general staff of
the third army, the public at home, read
ing the newspapers and paying every cent Of the
bill forSthe whole, tcrribl war. 3s3
Z # Nowadays the war correspo -how the
names cone up, Of the dead and the living Forbes,
Crane md RAJ who are gone Etzel killed only
il, CIV weeks ago BY the Chinese ddeton, dead Of
Villicrs Burcigh, Mcknight, Brndlc, Emerson, o.
X. Davis, Palmer, Marshall, Creelman, and Dunn
and Hare. the photographers Stickney, who was
on the bridge q the Olympia with Dewey anila
i Bay--how the names Of thees men and scores of
Others come to mind for what they did or for what
they are doing ss$s5s
Nowadays tho war espondents arc for the
most part men experience IN the field if not on
the firing line There few novlces in5s Man
$chllria, least among representa- Of publica
Etions in English. And the mission Of every ngle
one ofSthcm, regardless of cost in money
sonal convenience TO find out all can about
everything and as quickly as possible send a con-
5densed3rcportto his office. s,$S 3g3 g$8
Perilous as is the calling of thess soldier that of
the war correspondent is more 50. Probabl " no
one member ofsan army takes part IN every battles;
front. It ii the duty of the war correspondentsto
be as near the every battle as he get
IF he is not upon the battlefield, through any fault
Of his own he is derelict. f39s s5 s
&(<TOW, in figuring the cost Of correspondence,
31 IN u commercial y-taking the Manchuria cam
apaign for5nstance-tle Average eegraph toll per
worlds fifty cents. The rate from Chefu, Shanghai
and 1'iontsinSto. New York is fortS-tWo cents Il
word; from Toxic 5ffty-four cents. Each core
spondent sends about 1000 words a week. So there
is an outlay Of about 900 per week for mes
sages. The 200 average week salary, making
$4,000. irlinterprcters servants and mess and
forage require 5000 lncidentas bring the
total outlayup to $150,O00 week for tho 200, IN
addition, several newspapers employ dispatch boats,
for which they pay something like ST. 500 week
each for charter and maintenance. s3 82 l 5556
Though this expenditure for the Rlsso-Jap
anese wa may strike the ordinary reader as OK
it isn't eXtravagant ut all when
compared with3the actual outlay OF $50, 900 week
BY one newspaper during the Spanish war.
On$the personal side, the cost cannot be COM
,puted III dollars. It's a matter of death or dis
ability. The correspondent is down and out and
his value istobe rcckoned only By the tears Of his
mother or his wife and children at homo,
III N THE field, at tlle beginning of campaign
before shot is fired, tho spondent is at
tached to the staff of the commando n;chief Or
the headquarters of regiment. In camp ho is re-
ferred to iokngly as the man who has the heavy
thinking part" is nonGomba tant, though PRIV
ileged ia carry arms for solf-protection He has A.
complete equipment similar to that of staff Off
ticer-horse, tent, servant, and SO onald is ut
terly independent pass from general head
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28

vres. while a large corps of officers and their
families add to the summer society. 1t would
be difficult to find harbor in the world with
such a representation OF battleships. cruisers.
gunboats. torpedo destroyers and torpedo
are invariably joined in the summer by the Brit
Recreations at Bar Harbor are many. Fine
roads lead everywhere on the island. OF these
there are one hundred and twenty miles skirt
ing the shores in the town of Eden alone. While
the cottagers have all sorts of vehicles of their
own. chance visitors may have choice of twelve
passenger buckboarfs and all other types OF
traps driven by horse or power. Lakes lie NJ
high attitudes. that of Eagle Lake being 1880
feet, while 500 foot peaks afford extended
views to observers Yacht squadrons and innu-
merable canoes and row boats are perfectly safe
on the inclosed bays and waters. which are pro-
life In fish ready for the angler. The lakes
abound In landlocked salmon and the streams
In trout
There several social clubs. 4 big reading
room. with library. cafe and billiard room. and
spacious verandas. The Canoe club. with large
membership. has weekly receptions and an
nual canoe parade. The Pot and Kettle Club is
a social organization with limited membership.
largely OF summer residents. who indulge in lib
eral hospitality The Kebo Valley Club was or
gained in 1883 for golf. tennis. horse races
and other sports. The golf links comprise
nine hole course. 200 yards long. There is the
annual horse show and fair. which originated in
1900 and has three days programme. The
Association Park Is nj the base OF Newport
Mountain. The show attracts the best horses
of New-York. Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
81 MOUNTAIN ISLAND.
Natural Beauties of Bar Hnbor, ON
MOunt Desert, Me.

Mount Desert Island was discovered In 1904 by
Charnplain, and is the largest island on the New
England cOact, with an area OF about one hun
dred square miles chain OF fifteen peaks ex-
tends across il. and 1t is practically mountain
range. with beautiful valleys and headlands pro-
jccting above the ocean. In IIT6. the town of
Eden incorporated. in which is included the
village OF Bar Harbor. where the first summer
hotel was erected in 1850. with n steamboat
landing for use of the first steamer. the Lewis
ton. The first summer residence was built In
1865. by Apheus Hardy, of Boston.
Eden has population Of 1919, of whom Bar
Harbor claims 5000, whose sole business is to
cater to the summer population and enjoy their
wealth (the summer populati0n'O in winter. The
village is thoroughly modern. IL is electrically
lighted. has a water supply ana fire extinguish-
ing service, street sprinkIug and sewerage sys-
TEN costing $iI5,001 There are uniformed po-
lice and a Board Of Health.
The star attractions at Bar Harbor however
the vessels of the North Atlantic and train
ing squadrons of the United States navy, which
make 1t their headquarters for summer manou-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
FILLING RAILWAY WEEDS
Process Made Necessary Under
Tropical Sun TN Ecuador.

one OF the most difficult and expensive prob
LENS that railway companies IN tropical coun-
tries have to contend with is keeping down the
rank growth of tropical foliage. weeds. etc.
along the roadbed.
I'm the tropical belt OF Ecuador. which extends
from the foothills of the western cordIllera of
The Andes Mountains TO the Pacific Coast the
humidity averages 81 per cent In winter and
until the end OF spring. The extreme humidity
and the intense equatorial make this tropi-
cal belt one vast dollhouse.
The Guayaquu and Quito Railway, which
crosses this dense jungle belt. some siXty-odd
west coast with Quito, the capital. three hun
dred miles distant. and at 10000 feet elevation.
has solved the weed problem in a satisfactory
manner by spraying the right of way with a So
luton composed largely OF arsenic and nitre.
At Earraganetal. midway OF the tropical belt,
the company has erected plant for preparing
and distributing the poison. BY means of large
watts and steam pipes the ingredients boiled
and dissolved into strong solution. which.
OFF into large tank, constructed like n regu-
lar railway water tank. From this tank the
spraying car is filed. and by pipes arranged at
the end Of the car the solution is sprayed to any
degree desired In the manner that n city
street is sprinlEled. The pressure 10 maintain an
even force Is obtained from the air brake system
OH the engine.
When the rainy season starts in tho weed
Killer plant begins operations The first spray
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
CAPT. PRESCRIBED FISH.
Traits of a Sturdy Ne1c-Englander
Who Lies at Rest an This City.

In the Marble Cemetery. in Second-st, among
tombstones of men more or less intimately asso-
ciated with the early history of New-York City.
stands one bearing the inscription: Preserved I
Ffsh's Family Vault" The inscription has
queer ring to it, suggestive of the odd character
whose name it perpetuates. According to all the
tales told of him, Preserved Fish
centric sort of man. and that definite. almost
defiant declaration of ownership on his tomb
stone is in keeping with the rugged self-reliant
character OF the man in life
There is some doubt about the manner IN
which Preserved Fish came by his given name
According to one story. when small boy he
picked up in midocean hanging to a bit OF
sroken spar with that determination which he
eyinced in after life in such a marked degree
His rescuers declared then and there that Pre-
served" was the name for the youth. and Pre-
served he called.
But. according TO Edmund Norman Leslie, a
relative. Preserved was n common name among
the Huguenots prior to the American RevoIu-
ton. and his ancestor came by his name in the
same prosaie manner many Of the period.
being born the of a Portsmouth Qs ID black
smith in 1I66. who had been ehristened Pre-
served
Like many other boys Of the time ne ran
away to sea, shipping cabin boy a whaler.
He rose rapidly. and 1T twenty-One was a cap
tain. Evidently Captain Fish appreciated The
odd name he bore. for story Is told of him
that while captain of New Bedford whaIer he
held up by a revenue cutter.
What ship is that demanded the captain OF
the cutter
THE Flying FISH answered the youthful
commander
What's = r cargo was the next qUes; ion
Pickle d FISH," the prompt answer.
And who is captain:''
preserved Fish
These answers had 4 fishy sound to tbs reve-
officer He ordered the brig to heave TO- and
boarded her, only to find that the answers were
true in every detail.
Captain Fish turned iandsmaR in 1910 quit
ting the sea and going into business in New
Bedford. He entered politics. and after a most
troublesome time suddenly decided To leave
New Bedford.
Il want YOU TO sell my house" he declared
to an auctioneer whom ne CHANGED TO meet in
the street
But viii not get anything like its value
here" protested the auctiOEeSr-
did say anything about getting It's value-
Sell it-value be hanged" the fierce rejoinder
of Captain Fish So. sacrificing his property
the captain LEFT New-Bedfurd and settled in
Flushing Long Island. as a farmer. Il was
while living there that a disagreement arose be-
tween him and u neighbor who had been his
Continued eleventh page.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
y J. Horgan. r. Scranton. Penn

ing Is done thoroughly. and this trip a tank
car full viii properly spray from three to four
miles In about ten days another spraying IS
given. and this time a thankful will properly
spray from six to eight miles After this trip
spraying at intervals OF thirty days proves sufll-
Client to keep down the growth. which would
otherwise clog the rails so badly IN a few weeks
that all traffic would be stopped
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28

Continued on eleventh page.