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Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08
Major 6UaIIer Cells
Of His SufCerfn9S.

under the altered condition It required
considerable diplomacy on the part Of
Lieut.. Williams to handle them at all.
Just before reaching the river two
bearers tried to kill Williams, stab
bling him about the chest with a bolo.
He tried to shoot. but had not sufi-
cient strength to pull the trigger. Then
they tried to kill him with his own
pistol, but did not know how to work
the weapon.
Williams was rescued by a few Of
his men, who tottered up, armed with
sticks, and the natives took to the
bush. No F%ilipinos we're seen IN the
region, there being no food. The re-
lief party saw some coming from the
direction Of Hermane.' so it is prob
able that the insurgents about there
got wind Of the desperate condition Of
the marines and were hurrying up to
take advantage of it. Relief came Just
in time.
1T took practically all of Jan. IS
to get the sufferers, thirty-one in num-
Der, Including two oficers-eighteen in
stretchers, unable to move-across the
river and out through the surf to the
vessel. The job was finished at $50
p. m, and at 8 we started for Tacloban
direct, Is an army surgeon said at
Lanang that an hour saved in transit
might mean an arm or a leg to some.
We reached Tacloban at 8 a. m, and
the worst cases were at once trans
ferred to the hospital.
The others, including eight or ten
natives net included in the above to-
tai of t%hirty-one, l transferred to Ba-
sey, seeing Major Waller. His party
appears, from the statement of the
officers, to have been reduced to nearly
the same extremity as the other. They
had practically given up hope when
che opportune capture of a small boy.
the only native seen, resulted in their
getting through to the coast"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

The eastern mail has brought the re-
port OF Major Waller on the famous
expedition conducted by him across
the island Of Samar. Major walters
reports are formal and do not go in
10 details. but the news of the affairs
is contained in a dispatch from Lieut.
X. w. Shoemaker, U. s. NJ, who con-
Quoted the relief expedition that sue
cored the marines. After detailing the
arrival in the American lines of Capt.
Porter and Lieut.. Williams with a por-
aon Of the men the report says:
Capt. Porter and Lieut.. A. S. Will
liams in conversation gave me sub
stantially the following account Of
their wanderings:
"On Jan. 1, being then on half ra-
lions, with very little food left, Major
Waller decided to split the party, he
taking fifteen Of the strongest men
and pushing on for Basey and Capt.
Porter following his trail as rapidly
as possible with the main body.
"On Jan 2 a native came back from
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08
In |oufb Carolina
Dispcnsary Law Seems To Be Accomplishing
Some Good in That State
Especial Lottery

trade in the state and county dispen-
saries.
The receipts for the year amounted
to $1,9b2,0S0 the sales ranging from
$126,56S to S22O,S96 a month. The dis
bursements for the year amounted to
S2,O1l,I26 and the largest purchases
OF supplies were made during January,
when there was paid out 1886, AZ.
An analysis Of the profit and loss ac-
count is interesting. The gross profits
are figured at $3.50, 49O, while a brewing
company having a d%ispensary privilege
in Charleston paid $3.50 therefor and
contraband goods valued at S6,OS5 were
seized and turned into the stock in
trade.
The net profit Of the business for the
year figures S12O.962. That is, that sum
was the states share of the business,
which goes to augment the school
fund, while about as much was made
by the local d%ispensaries and divided
between the counties and towns.
The state owed S196 $50 for liquors
and supplies on the first OF the year.
IN the enforcement of the law there
is great laxity, for Charleston and Co
lumbia, the larger cities in which
there are d~ispensaries, are known as
wide open" places, grocers, druggists,
clubs and saloons selling liquors open
ly in competition with the dispensar-
les. Bars are run wide open, night
and day, in Charleston, and nearly all
of the grocsrs deliver liquors upon
order.
Periodical spasms of enforcing the
law occur, but the violators are sub
jected to merely a nominal fine, which,
as the raids occur o more frequently
than twice a year, does not worry the
dealers, who consider the payment Of
about 5000 a year in fines as much
cheaper than a license under which
they would be restricted to early clos
ing hours and the inspection of their
places by a commission and the po-
lice.
There have been times when the law
was quite strictly enforced in Char
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08
HOW HE LOST ms LEGS.
cripple Answered the old Iady's CUES
ton. out She Wa Not satisfied.

AIADDl1 Aus - ~ A~NAJ > NaNo
ton, but She Was Not satisfied.
Speaker Henderson lost n of his
legs in battle, but does not miss it
much nowadays, as he has such an ex-
cellent substitute. "A good many
people" he says, ASK me how l lost
my leg. Generally | tell them, but :
always think of the story of the Iowan
who had both legs cut off by a buzz
saw. One day he was riding in a rail-
road train n an old lady who sat
across the aisle from him stared at his
stumps pretty hard. Finally she said:
q" Pardon me, sir; but will you tell
me how you lost your legs?'
No, l won't, the legless man re-
piled. The old lady sighed and settled
back in her seat. Pretty soon she be-
gan staring again, and, unable to con
ceal her curiosity, she pleaded:
"I wish you would tell me how
you lost your legs.
"The man relented.
Well he said, III tell you II you
will promise not to ask me any more
questions. Now. mind you, you can't
ask another question
81 promise, said the old lady In
a culver of excitement.
Well said the legless man, I had
them chawed on
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

There is an alarming increase in the
duties and responsibilities laid upon
the highest officials Of our country.
Some remedy should be devised, for ii
is not wise for Us as a nation to over
work those whom we intend to honor.
Ex-secretary of the Treasury Lyman
Gage made the following remark to a
friend just after retiring from his inn
portant position in the government:
II feel like a man who has been upon
a long and stormy voyage. Though
am now upon firm ground once more, |
still feel the motion of the ship.
can't persuade myself yet that | am
really free"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

Men and women endowed with horns
are not by any means unknown in the
world we live in to-day.
A short time g Surgeon Lamprey
Of the army medical staff met with and
studied three horned men in Africa,
each having a horn on either side of
his nose.
while serving on the Gold Coast"
said he, Il had opportunities of max
ing drawings of these people. The
first horned man 1 had an opportunity
of observing was a Fantee named
Cofea, aged about 80 years, from the
little village of Amaquanta, in Wasau
territory.
THE second horned man was a long
faced youth. aged about IS, named
Quassie Jabin, from the Gamin terri
tory, and not a kinsman of the first
one.
From a statement made by him
through a Fantee interpreter, 1 gath
cred that this hornlike growth had
been in existence as long as he could
remember.
The third case was that of Cudjo
Danso, aged about 20. He stated
through an interpreter that so far as
he was awar this horn-like knob had
grown of itself. 1t certainly had
grown larger as he had grown Older.
1t gave him no Inconvenience. He
could see and smell perfectly"
Hundreds of cases more remarkable
have recently been collected in an in
teresting report by Drs. George Gould
n Walter Pyle, both well known
pathologists.
Human horns" say they. are far
more frequent han ordinarily sup
posed. Nearly all the older writer's
cite examples. MEy mention horns
on the head.
IN the ancient times horns were
s%ymbolical of wisdom and power. Mi
chael Angelo in his famous picture OF
Moses has given the patriarch a pair
of horns"
There is a greater f. eluency Of no ma
among women than among men, ac-
cording to these authorities.
The combination of horns and tail
on a human being would naturally give
rise to %extravagant superstition, There
is a description of such a case in a re-
cent medical report. The creature,
said to have been dubbed the Hoo
doc OF Plato" was born eight years
ago in Minnesota. He was a boy five
weeks old when described. He had
hair two inches long all over his body;
his features were fendish, and his eyes
shone like beads beneath his shaggy
brows. He had a tail eighteen inches
long, horns from the skull, a full set
of teeth, and claw-like hands. He
snapped like a dog, crawled on all
tours and refused the natural susten-
ance Of a normal child. The country
people considered this devil-child a
L4nishment for a rebuff that the moth
er gave a Jewish peddler selling cruel
fixion pictures.
Fabricus, the famous Italian anato-
mist of the fourteenth century, records
that he saw a man with norns on his
head, and who chewed the cud.
DR.. Saxton reports that he has cut
several horns from ears of patients.
There are further reports of such pro-
tuberances found on the eyelid, the
nape of the neck. the lower lip and
the chin.-London Express.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

was designed to benefit the schools, in
that all of the states profit in the
handling Of liquors goes 20 the school
fund, It is SAD commentary hat the
money is tied up in the business, and
the schools will not benefit to any
great extent for several years unless
money is set aside by the state for the
conduct of the business and n e profits
are annually turned into the school
fund. The report Of the board OF
control shows that thene is 70 the
credit Of the school fund about SELL
600, which is represented by stock In
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

That dust is a cause of consumption
is clearly shown in the statistics Of
the patients treated at the sixty insti-
buttons Of the German Empire for
the cure Of tuberculosis.
In 1,O95 cases. or more than one-half
OF the 2.16l persons under considera-
ption. the origin Of the disease was al
legged to be due to the continuous in
halation Of dust involved by their en-
ployment, as follows; -Four hundred
and thirty-one cases from the effect Of
dust" without more exact desigEa-
ton; 1872 cases from the effect of metal
dust; 129 cases from the effect Of
stone, coal or glass dust, III cases
from the effect of wool dust and 126
cases from the effect Of various kinds
Of dust.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

as Uncle John Kirby, a shoemaker by
trade, and weighing $50 pounds. He
was very religious, and exceedingly
thoughtful of his wife. One day Uncle
John started down cellar for a pitcher
of cider, missed his footing and fell to
the bottom of the stairway. His good
wife heard the noise, guessed the
trouble. and ran quickly to the head OF
the stairs.
John, did you break my nice
pitcher she shouted.
After a moments silence John ans
wered:
mo, d. it, but l Will"
And he did.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

DR.. George c.. Lorimer, OF the Madi-
son Avenue Baptist church, New York,
when visiting Philadelphia recently.
told this story:
1T is queer what a liking young stu
dents have for long words and Latin
quotations, and what a dread possesses
them Of appearing conventional. l once
knew a promising candidate who was
given charge of a funeral in the abb
n of the pastor of the church. He
knew it vas customary for the minis
ter to after the sermon that
those who wished should step up to
view the remains, but he thought this
was too hackneyed a phrase, and he
said instead:
1.-The congregation will now pass
around the bier"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

The other day, just as a train was
about 20 leave Kutas, in Hungary, for
Palfaiva, an Official appeared and pa;
seals on the wheels Of the engine. The
passengers had to get of and walk,
The company was 296 crowns in ar
rears in payment Of taxes, Next day
the taxes We're paid and the train pro-
ceeded.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

ing compulsory the sale only in day
light, it tends to keep men hon
nights. and the influence of the family
circle takes the place of that of the
saloon and club. In all these essen
tial features the d%ispensary law drives
the s~aloonkeeper to seek another oc-
~cupation, while it is minimizing mis-
%demeanors and crimes. This from the
viewpoint of strict enforcement.
Concisely stated, the South Carolina
system is the distribution of liquors
by state agencies, subject TO local SUI
pervision. Penalties for violations of
the law and for breaches of trust
range from $500 to $500 fine or one to
twelve months Imprisonment, or both.
Dispensers must not sell to minors
or intoxicated persons and besides
making weekly returns to the state
treasurer, they must also make re-
turns of the profits ACQUIRING to the
city and county at least once in three
months, dividing the money equally
between the county and the city or
town treasurer. In the case of the
non-enforcement of the law the state
board has the right to withhold the
county's share of the profits Of the
business and use it to pay constables.
All liquors must be sold only when a
written request is made therefor, the
request to bear the name and address
of the purchaser and the fact of his
being of age, and no dispenser can sell
or offer for sale any liquors other than
such as are furnished by the state
commissioner, while the adulteration
of any such liquors is punishable by a
fine Of 5000 or six months imprison-
ment. All requests for liquors are
made upon blanks similar to bank
checks, which are furnished by the
county auditor, to whom the blanks
when filled out are turned over every
three months as a check upon the dis
penser. Any person making a false
or fictitious signature or signing n
others name to a blank is liable to a
fine of s25 or thirty days imprison-
ment.
The annual report OF the state board,
recently submitted to the legislature,
showed that the aggregate business of
the state d%ispensary for 1901 was near
ly 50, 000, 900. There was on hand at
the beginning of the present fiscal
year S647,7 700 worth of liquors, about
equally divided between the state and
county ~dlspensaries. While the law
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08
Esports 10 RrIlIah colonIes.

Great Britain's exports to its colo
MES, according to recent returns, in
creased in 1901 by ISL, 1866, 900. Its ex-
ports to foreign countries in the same
period. decreased S104, $50, 900.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

Several young members OF the Bel
gian a%ristocracy are nov serving their
time as apprentices on board English
sailing ships
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

No matter how positive a woman may
be OF anything. she is seldom willing to
bet real money on Il.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

Successful doctors know how to pro-
long the convalescence of their wealthy
patients.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

A couple of years g the Union Pa
cihc Railroad Company offered prizes
FOR the best articles on the subject.
can the Farm and Ranch Products of
Colorado Be Doubled. and If SO, What
Would Be the Effect Upon the Bust
ness of Denver? The three best arti-
cles are published in pamphlet form.
For n copy and some recount of what
we have done in the vicinity Of Ro-
meO, in the sunny San Luis valles, in
the way of a practical demonstration
of this subject, write to Zeph. Chas.
Felt, 1O2 Boston building, Denver,
Colorado.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08
pEapoILs rAE pRIroN.
Lament That EnsIsnd's Art Treasures
Are Now Going Across the Atlantic.

Lament That England's Art Treasures
Are Now Going Across the Atlantic.
Mr.. Claude Phillips, a well known
art critic Of London, now curator of
the great Wallace collection at Hert-
ford house, sounds a note of alarm
in the Nineteenth Century and After
for March on the rapid disappearance
from Great Britain of the art treas
ures which by fair or other means
have been accumulated by British
wealth. He begins his article on The
Increasing Export of England's Art
Treasures" with the statement that
'for the last twenty years or more the
gains of England in masterpieces Of
painting and in works of art generally
have been greatly overbalanced by her
losses" Collectors from all parts OF
Europe, ore particularly the Berlin
gallery, have outbid Englishmen at
auctions and at private sales.
Furthermore. a growing and greater
danger threatens the British hold on
its works Of art, the competition Of
Americans as buyers. IF the flow Of
works Of art westward is as yet a
moderate though already a menacing
stream, it threatens soon to become a
cataract, then a mighty river, then an
ocean, so astonishing is the lust for
pictures, good, bad and indifferent,
that has developed itself"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08
HORNED MEN ABOUND
MANY PROOFS THAT THEY AoTU-
ALLY ENIsT IN MODERN LIFE.

English Surgeon Serving on the Cold
Coast Found Opportunities OF Making
sketches OF These Natural Curiositles
Coordination OF Horns anu Tall.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

HE dispensary law OF
South Carolina is novel In
its workings, and where it
is enforced 1t seemingly
advances the cause Of pro-
hibition and good govern
ment. Requiring the sale
Of liquors only at author
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

lied places, and the taking away
Of all purchases with the seal I'M
broken, it eliminates the saloon
and tho treating habit, compell-
ing traffic only in liquors tested
and certified to be pure by a state
chemist, and sold by salaried agents
under state and municipal supervision.
It destroys one OF the saloon evils, the
element Of personal profit; while max
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

An InOpPortuue Question.
There used to be an old gentleman
living in Williamstown, N. j., known
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1904-09-08

GTOVF REPAIRS or every known make Of
O1OI ~ stove, furnace OF range. GEO. A.
PULLEN, 1881 Lawrence St, Denver, Phone 725-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-08
TELLS OF A MURDER
Strange Document In Sarah
Schafer Case Produced

BEDFORD, Ind, June Mayor /. ].
Dixon has returned to Bedford after an
absence of several weeks. Today he made
public letter from a man in Illinois,
which created much comment during the
investigation by the last grand jury. The
letter follows:
''LawrencevilIe.. In.-To the Mayor Bed
ford, Ind.-Dear Sir: read by the pa
of Mcdonald on trial forN the murder of
Miss Schafer. Don't let him suffer for
what he did not do. was one of the
parties that did the deed was to help
lddnap2 her and she fought so that she
was hit so hard thatsAt killed her and we
laid her where she was found.
was toe get $500 Tor the job q Got
half of the money, but have not got the
rest yet The man at Vincennes hired me
to help him. He told me to keep still
and | would get my money, but cannot
let that man suffer for something he did
not do.
If you will promise me that / don't
get hung I viii tell all about the matter
We left town and went east to White
River on a big bluff and stayed on big
cave. He called it Buzzards Cave
(TheTe is a cave near Bedford called
Duzzard Cave). There we changed our
clothes and left them. in the cave and
he gave me some new ones and told me to
walk to Mitchell and he would meet me.
He came that night and said we
would get out of the state. We went to
Terre Haute and went to Illinois and
down here. I did not know that the girl
was dead until l got to Mitchell. Then
he told me to keep out of the state and
have done so. Ii you will send some one
TO me and not let them hang me 1 will
tell you who did it, and why he did it
John Brown
Please come at once for 1 cannot stand
this awful thing sany longer. It will kill
me and don't want that man you have
to suffer for something know he did not
do tG
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-08
INSIST UPON GRAY
Democrats Ignore His Wishes
and Instruct for Him

DOVER, Del, June S.-Contrary to
the expressed wish of Judge George
Gray, the Delaware Democratic state
convention by a unanimous vote today
instructed it's delegates to the st.
Louis convention to present his name
to the convention as the choice of the
Delaware Democracy for president.
This action was taken after one of the
most stormy conventions ever held in
the state.
The leader of the opposition to the
Gray resolution was former United
States Senator Richard r. Kenney, who
was opposed to the word instruct" He
offered resolution that the delegates
be requested" to place Judge Gray's
name before the national convention
The fight between the Gray and anti
Gray factions became so bitter that
the former paid no attention to Judge
Gray's letter in which he asked that
the delegates be not instructed. They
fought to defeat Kenney and would
not listen to anything that his sup
porters offered. In his letter Judge
Gray expressed his great anxiety for
harmony in the Democratic party this
year and held that the Democratic ma
tional convention should be left free
to select as the candidate for president
the strongest and most available man.
He, therefore, requested that the dele
gates be not bound by instructions but
be left free to act as the best interests
of the party seemed to require.
The national delegates are; Willard
SALISBURY, D. Irving Handy, r. r.
Kenney, Alexander M. Daley, Elisha c..
Dukes and John p. Holland.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-08
TALKOF LYNCHINGAT CRIPPLE CREEKD|STR|CT
Continued From First Page

nished them when threatened with
hanging,
One thousand deputies have been
sworn in by Sheriff Bell. The Victor
Record was censored by a special COM
mittee appointed by the sheriff before
publication was permitted today.
Suggestive Revolver Found
Boys playing in the neighborhood of
the hole made by the explosion at
Independence today found portion of
a cheaply made British bulldog re-
volver. The. weapon contained one
she'll and when taken to the office OF
the Citizens alliance it was regarded
as conclusive proof that the dynamite
was set off in the fashion similar to
the explosion of giant powder in the
Vindicator mine.
The bloodhounds in charge of Hugo
Palmer, of Trinidad, today trailed the
assassin who killed the Findley min
erS to mile beyond Clyde Station,
distance of three miles. There the
scent was completely lost. 1t is be-
leved by the detective working on the
case that the assassin took a buggy
at that place where the scent was lost
and proceeded along the old stage road
to Colorado Springs.
Hangman's Nooses Before Them
Two hemp ropes knotted with a
moose for hanging were lying on a
table in the room where the Cripple
Creek district Mine Owners associa-
ton held a heated discussion at Victor
today behind closed doors. The mem
bers were greatly incensed by the
discovery of what they regarded as
evidence of the existence of a plot in
the Victor Miners union for wholesale
assassinations of mine owners and
miners.
This evidence was a bundle of forty
marked photographs found by Lieut..
Keegan in the union hall. On the back
OF some of the photographs was the
name of James Cochran, secretary of
the union. The photographs were of
groups of men employed in various
mines. The most important one was a
group of the night shift of the Vindi-
Gator. The photograph contains about
twenty portraits, five of which were
numbered from one to five. On the
back were written the names Of the
persons numbered. Of the five names,
those of Charles Mccormick and Mel
Beck had been crossed out. These two
men were killed in the Vindicator ex-
pIosIon last November.
On other photographs, it is asserted,