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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-27
Spectacular and Successful
Presentation Of Enchanted Wood
Sweet Songs Lovely Music Beautiful Costumes Winsomc
Maidcns and Scenes Borrowed from Fairyland Dcieh,
Great Audience.

20, youth, rose.crowned yet fun Of
strife,
Craving half'comprehended joys,
Hearing the desperate fight OF life
But as u faroif pleasant noise"
Memories OF childhood How they
gladden. the heart and refresh the spir.
1t OF those aweary with endless toll
and endeavor Of this busy, workaday
world! How the thoughts 20 back, be
the suggestive impulse but given. to
Sweet dreams ON dim horizon
Where the mists Of a memory shine
Frightening TO clearer radiance
Far days of Auld Lang Syne!
Memory's dreamy retrospects
smooth from the tablets of the past all
the harsher details that even child
hood knows, and, like a master i'm.
pressionist, fill out the dimming pic
ture with color, rich and warm.
Back TO the days of childhood we
go for our choicest experiences, our
brightest dreams, our happiest real.
izations, our noblest impulses and our
highest ideals. And hurrying men and
women,-who after all are "only boys
and girls grown TALL" for hearts
don't change much after all"--- well
come ever that which will reproduce
upon the screen of the present, with
its alternating sun-beat and shadow,
those lumnously subdued and price
less glimpses OF the past.
the choicest gifts of childhood those
old stories of fairies and elves and
magic wands and enchanted woods?
Which illogical advance sermon leads
irresistibly 20 the text-the charming
presentation of the Enchanted Wood
at the opera house last night.
The performance was delightful
throughout. Almost every seat in the
house was occupied b. an enthusiastic
spectator and auditor, and the big au-
dience was taken back wholly to
childhood land--a land of fairies and
enchantment and land of flowers.
and songs and happy school days as
well.
This, perhaps, was the secret of the
most genuine enjoyment of the spec.
tacular and tuneful production; but,
to produce the effect, it was necessary
that the songs should be we'll sung,
the costumes should be effective, the
setting for the land of childhood
which is the land of enchantment,
should be pleasing and natural, and
that the whole bright panorama of the
past should be presented without a
serious flaw.
That this desideratum was achieved
means that some one must have ac
complished prodigious amount of in
telligent work More than a hundred
appeared in the caste, yet not only
We're the individual acts exceptionally
good but the parts were fifty framed
together into an admirable whole.
The costumes of the fairies and the
poppies were appropriate and beauti
full The three score and ten clever
and pretty maidens who appeared In
those costumes, must have caused the
collective Las Vegas heart to fill with
pride and with anticipation of the fair
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-27
Otero County Desperate Killed
By Deputy Sheriff Green

Special 10 the Optic.
ALAMOGORDO. April 27.--Wash.
Parker, for number of years an
esteemed resident of Weed. Otero
county. y. NJ. was waylaid. killed and
robbed Sunday night, April 23rd by
Tom Gentry. Deputy Sheriff Lee
Green started Immediately for the
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-27
Claims 10 Have Seen Young
With Gun In His Hand and
Girl Endeayoring to
Grasp II.
NOT YET SUM-
M0NED BY COURT
Wife Of Dentist Tells Story to
Newspapers. Had Withheld
Owing 10 Poor Health.

NEW PORK. April 27.--Another
person comes forward through the
newspapers with the story Of having
seen Nan Patterson and Caesar Young
a moment before the bookmaker met
death June ith, last in a cab on West
Broadway. The new witness Is Mrs.
Fannie Shapieros. wife of an east side
dentist. She claims to have been
within few feet of the cab, that
Young had revolver In his right hand
which the woman was trying to tear
from his grasp. AS the cab passed
her. Mrs. Shapieros says the man
started to rise from his seat A sec
ond or two later she heard shot,
several persons ran toward the cab
and being In delicate health the den
lists wife hurried from the scene.
She made her way back to her home
on Second avenue and told her moth
g, who confirms the story. They de-
cided. owing to Mrs. Shapieros' poor
health, that she kept the story secret
hoping other witnesses would come
forward and describe the events she
saw, thus saving her the unpleasant
ordeal on the witness stand and much
notoriety. Whether Mrs. Shapleros
will be summoned as witness Is not
yet known as the attorneys In the
case learned of her existence today
for the first time.
Convincing Witness.
NEW YORK, April 27.--- Mrs. Fan
ME Shapieros, wife of the dentist.
promises to be a convincing witness
for Nan Patterson II the defense intro
duces any witnesses. She claims hav.
Ing seen the girl and Young in car
riage the moment before the fatal shot
was fired and declares Young had the
revolver in his right hand and Nan
was trying to get 1t from him. A Sec
ond later she heard the shot. She did
not tell her story before because she
did not want to be mixed up In a scan
dal She told her mother at the time,
statement which the mother con.
firms. but did not tell her husband till
a few days ago.
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trains are held UP here on account OF
a washout near Starkville, five miles
south of here. Seven heavily loaded
passenger trains are stalled, including
two specials bearing soldiers from
Madison barracks, near Allegheny. Pa,
and Fort Thomas, Ky, to the Philip.
pines.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-27

murderer who was oyertaken the fol-
lowing day In the pistol fight which
followed the attempted arrest of the
fugitive, the deputy sheriff shot and
killed Gentry. News of the affair
was just received, as Weed Is forty
miles distant in the Sacramento noun
tains
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-27

Weather forecast: Partly cloudy
tonight and Friday. The tempera-
ture yesterday was 20 degrees max
imum and SO degrees minimum.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-27

by President Roosevelt and three bob
cats killed by DR.. Lambert have been
received here to be dressed and cured.
after which they will be shipped to the
White House.
To Move Camp.
GLENWOuD SPRINGS, Colo, April
Loeb arrived here at
12:45 from Camp Roosevelt. TIE
party will move on Monday seven
miles nearer Glenwood and the courier
from the camp will. report direct to
Glenwood This will be the last mo;e
o. the hunting party before breaking
camp
Mrs. J. II. Fisher of Ration. will Wis
il friends in this pity this week
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kAMRANH BAY, Via SAIGON.
April 27.-The only ships remaining IN
kamranh bay are four German tran.-
ports. All the rest Of the transports
and the Russian hospital ship Orel and
the other vessels left behind by Admi.
raj Rojestvensky left the bay yester-
day morning. This fleet is now as
sembled outside the bay and forms an
extended line stretching from Cape
Varla to the head of Kamranh PENN
sula. Torpedo boats are scouting in
all directions. The ships seem to be
awaiting Vice Admiral Nebogatoff's
division. The French cruiser Des-
cartes, having on board Admiral De
Jonquiers, the French commander In
these waters, returned to Nhatrang
near Kamranh bay, after steaming
around the Russian squadron, and
subsequently returned to Saigon. Two
freight-laden steamers were captured
by Admiral Rojestvensky under the
German flag. 1t is presumed they
are suspected of having contraband Of
war on board.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-27

Mrs. J. H. Fisher of Ration, will Wis
it friends in this city this week.
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Whole Russian Fleet Lined Up
on neadland Outside Of
kamaranh Bay.
FOUR TRANSPORTS
ONLY LIEF T INSIDE
Great Battle Believed to he I'm.
minent. French Admiral
Cruises Around the
Fleet.
Fleets Reported Joined.

. TSING-TAU. April 27.--A pri- .
. vate telegram received here says .
. Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet has q
. been Joined by Nebogatoff's de- .
. tachment. .
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English Firesidcs.

From the Spectator.
Before the Reform Act of 1889 its cleo
tors based their title to vote at all on
the fact that they possessed hreside
as a real going concern.
Without linking up the domestic fire
with political rights, the English in their
quiet way have always given the hearth
q place close to their affections. In the
last two centuries it was carried to a
point at which effort and result almost
parted company, as far as proportion Is
concerned, so elaborate was the equipment
of the hearth.
AS a rule, the big logs lay on the
hearth. which was of brick or stone,
in a bed of hot white ashes. Neither by
day nor by night did the fire go out, and
often 1t was placed in the middle of the
room in an octagonal fence of iron or
stone.
This is not our idea Of n comfortable
fircside Nor can 1t be supposed FOR n
moment that It was comfortable Also
it had not a 'siden-lts ill-regulated heat
and smoke drifted in any direction in
which the draught took it,
The equipment of the hearth which
was also the cooking place, scarcely al
tered for hundreds of years until King
Coal same and banshed it all, or changed
it greatly for the worse. In many old
farm houses. in some cottages and in
some manor houses the old kitchen fire
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THERE Is SCIENCE IN NEATNESo.
BE WISE AND USE
SAP POL 10

side remains almost unaltored. In the
last the big old kitchen has some times
been converted into the servants hall,
where the equipment still remains, while
a modern working Kitchen has been
added From up the chimney hung an
iron ratchet" toothed, and from this
hung the big black pot The fire was OF
wood. but often it rested on a low plat
form of iron bars, through which the
ashes dropped.
Lord Tollemache's lamented death will
remind many that the open fire in the
great hall at Helmingham must have
been burning oak logs for some three
centuries. In Sussex. where the vast
woods took the place that coal does now
in industry, the first iron fire-backs and
fire-dogs were made. 1t is about all that
the iron workers of that country did pro-
duce In the way of manufactured iron
till they took TO making cannon.
Now there is a complete change and
return to very early patterns in nearly
all now houses. The fiat brick or stone
hearth. the natural log fire. the dogs.
and even the bellows. all are reintro-
duced. with Il certain intentional rough
ness in the hall and dwelling room and
rather more finish in the reception room.
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LEOPARD KILLS ELEPHANT.
Ea,f of the Menagerie Dies on Stormy
Trip.
From the New York World.

From the New York World
Several leopards, maddened by a Storm
attacked an elephant on the steamer
Neidenfels on its voyage from the far
east, and one OF the 1eopards had to be
killed to end the fighting. The elephant
died of her wounds shortly after the at
tack and today her offspring said to
be the smallest elephant ever imported
arrived here on the North German Lloyd
steamer Gneisenau.
The Neidenfels was in the Indian
Ocean when the fight took place, and
when the ship reached Bremen, where
the Gneisenau was waiting to receive the
menageries, more than half of the ami
mails originally consigned were dead.
The Gneisenau had an attractive col
lection of animals when she berthed in
Hoboken. There were eight elephants,
thirteen cages of snakes, twenty cages
of monkeys, four cages of leopards two
cages of lynxes. panther and many cages
OF birds. The midget elephant whose
mother was killed, is only three and a
half feet high, although a little over two
years old.
Her owners are confident that the mid
get will become as big an attraction as
was the huge Jumbo. The officers of
a gale in the Indian Ocean three leo
pards broke out of their cages en- the
Neidenfels and attempted to take away
from the mother elephant some carrots
which she was eating.
The elephant landed her trunk on the
head OF one of the leapords, and a mo-
ment later the other sprang al her from
the rear. Every animals in the vessels
hold started to howl. and the bedlam
aroused the officers on deck The animal
keepers drove two of the leopards back
to their cages but the third leopard was
tearing the back of the elephant. upon
which 1t had sprung, and it became
necessary to club the leopard to death in
the hope of saving the elephant
Among the consignment of snakes are
twenty pythons seven of them claimed
by Louis Ruhe. to whom they are con-
signed, to he the largest of their species
ever brought to this country. Mr. Ruhe
said today that several of the pythons
are thirty-ive feet in length and that
each is worth over $1,000.
All the animals came from Calcut.a
and are destined for Mr.. Ruhe's animal
farm at Woodside, L. l. The keepers
said that both the Neidenfels and the
Gneisenau met exceptionally bad weather.
and that even the birds had become vici-
Gus through the hardships of the voyage.
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MANY QUESTIONS
BEFORE COUNCIL
ENSLEY MAYOR AND BOARD OF
ALDERMEN WILL CONSIDER
SEVERAL IMPORTANT MATTERS !
TONlGHT-OTHER NEWS.

Ensley, April 5.-(Special )-Several mat
ters of importance will come before tile
Mayor and Board of Aldermen at the
regular semi-monthly session tomorrow
night. The questions of voting an appro
priation to maintain the new Carnegie
library, and the proposed enlargement of
the fire department will be taken up by
the council
This being the first session of the month
the monthly reports of the city officials
will be read and referred to the proper
committees. The report of the police de-
partment for the last month will, in all
probability, be one Of the best of the
year.
This afternoon the finance committee
held a special meeting in the Mayors
office, and checked over the bills and
accounts of the last month.
The council will be asked to make an
appropriation of $1,000 annually to insure
the erection of a $4,000 library building
by Andrew Carnegie. The board Is said
to be in favor of the proposed appropria-
ton, and the measure is expected to be
passed without opposition.
The fire and light committee will recon-
mend that the department purchase ad-
ditional hose, nozzles and other fire equip
roopfS
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FIRE DEPARTMENT
SELECTS CONSTOCK
HE WILL TRAIN THE FlREMEN
FOR THE GADSDEN ToURNA.
MENT-FUNERAL OF .BATlsT
LEvEsoUE is CONDUCTED.

Pratt City. April ESPECIAL Tho
Pratt City Volunteer fire department
held an enthusiastic meeting tonight and
adopted a plan TO send a crack COM
pany to the Tri-state Volunteer Firemen's
tournament which meets at Gadsden on
May Il and IS Charles d. Comstoek was
elected as trainer and will have full
charge of training and choosing the team
to be sent to Gadsden.
Mr. Comstoek announces that he will
begin at once practicing the teams from
the different companies who have quail
flied for the trial The crack company"
however, will not be selected until the
first of next month.
The funeral of Batist Levesque, well
known citizen of this city, who was kill
ed by falling rock at Mary Lee mines
on last Monday afternoon. was held this
afternoon from the st. GATHERINGS
church.
The funeral was in charge of the
French society of which Mr.. Levesque
had been prominent member. A special
car brought large number of friends of
the deceased from Wylam to attend the
funeral
Sam Foley Returns.
Mr.. Sam Foley returned last night from
Montgomery where he attended the an
nual convention of the State Embalmers
and Funeral Directors association. Mr..
Foley reports that there were some ex-
cellent work done by the association.
viii Present Play.
A troupe of Ensley talent will pres.
ent the comedy. Mrs. Wigs of the
Cabbage Patch under the auspices of the
Ladies Aid Society of the First Pres
byterian church at Foleys hall Friday
night. The proceeds of the play will go
to the fund, which is being raised to
build manse for the First Presbyterian
church.
The play has been presented in sew
eral towns of the district and received
with much success.
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The Court.
From Puck

From Puck
The Emperor yesterday issued instruc-
tons to the weather bureau to let spring
begin, and to continue as usual 1t Is
April on the calendar as usual 1t has
not yet been decided whether May or
June will follow. but the chances are
that for the present there will be no
change.
1t is a court secret that Prince Kerr
NIT Is preparing a box of caramels
stuffed with cayenne pepper and marsh
mallows filled with cotton to be sent to
the Russian Ambassador on the list Of
April.
Charles Marquis of Fairbanks called
upon the Emperor yesterday, but was
received by the Equerries of the I'm
perial Saddleries, the Emperor at the
time being engaged in the study of jiu-
jitsu with Mr.. Tackawhacka, the Japa-
nese Envoy.
The report that Lord High Admiral
Morton is Frustrated with sea-sickness
as a result of a midnight canoe trip
on the Potomac with the Emperor is a
malicious falsehood. Admiral Morton is
a stanch sailor, as those who have crossed
the North River with him on ferry boat
can readily attest.
Count Won PennypaclSer, Viceroy Of
Pennsylvania has requested the En-
Terors permission to hang sixteen Phil
adelphia editors and boil two cartoon
lists in oil for the crime or lese Penny
packer. The request has been referred
to the Emperor's Acknowledgement,
Lord Moody of Massachusetts. with
power.
A general order has been sent to
the viceregal court at Utah stating that
while the Emperor will be glad to re-
ceive the Duke and Princess of Salt
Lake City, they must not bring more
than one OF their Duchesses or Prin-
cesses at one time The rule will be
vigorously enforced during the reign OF
Theodore the First.
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y. y elackman Appointed.
sunremc Court.

Montgomery, April 5.-(Special.)-The SUI
preme court took UP the day or as much
of 1t as is devoted to hearing arguments.
to a continuance of the arguments on the
Mobile water front case.
Decisions were handed down cnfirming
the life sentence of Marshall Banks, alias
Long Boy" alias High Pocket" vas
was sent up for killing fellow named
Dean The fun list of the decisions fol-
lows:
Mcclellan, C. ..-Jefferson County Saw
ings Ban. vs. j. C Hendrix, appeal from
Birmingham city court; reversed and re-
handed.
I1aralson. Marshall Bank VS.. the
state of Alabama. appeal from Jefferson
criminal court; affirmed.
Dowdell. J.AKansas City. Memphis and
Birmingham Railroad company VS.. John
+. Randolph, appeal from Walker circuit
court; affirmed.
rcnson. J.-Kansas City, Memphis and
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AGENTS wanted everywhere to sell our
popular policies. covering all accident.
diseases and occupations; romething
tirely new and issued by this socie..'
only: easily understood and easily
sold; cost but s. per annum each. pay
able monthly If desired; large commit
sion. paid Immediately, and exclusive
territory allowed. Au.- -. national Ac-
cident Society, go Broadway. New York.
Established 20 years. 2-1+eod.ly
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pleasure of TRAVELLING.

Any trip is a pleasure to those who
travel over the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
way. The best of equipment, excellent
service, quick time, beautiful scenery.
Finest dining car service. Polite atten-
ton. Convenient schedules. Every COM
fort the most exacting traveller could
wish. New York tickets permit stop-over
Of 10 days at Washington. Baltimore and
Philadelphia; also the famous Virginia
Hot Springs -11-fri-su-we-tf
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waIker.putnam MARRIAGE.

Mr.. Edward Putnam of New York and
Miss Jennie Warker of Pratt city we're
married last nie,t at s o'clock at the home
the Rev. A. J. Dickinson. pastor of the
First Baptist church Only a few inti-
mate friends witnessed the ceremony. The
couple left last light for New Orleans and
points In the west. On their return to
Birmingham. they will be at the Morris
hotel.
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Real Estate Men to Meet.

The real estate men of Ensley will prob
ably hold meeting in a few days, to
adopt a plan whereby the real estate
men may work in unity. 1t is proposed to
perfect an organization and adopt plan
to advertise Ensley.
The real estate business In Ensley has
been very active for the past three
months and many important deals have
been made
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Yesterday afternoon at Brighton, after
days illness of pneumonia, took place
this afternoon. The interment was made
at Union cemetery. Mr.. Hall is survived
by three small children, his wife having
died about two months ago
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Birmingham Railroad company vs.. Jonn
IS. Randolph. appeal from Walker circuit
court; affirmed.
Kansas City. Memphis and Birmingham
Railroad company VS.. John b. Randolph
appeal from Walker circuit court ar
firmed.
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CUNNINGHAM Goes TO Mobile.

Lieutenant Governor r. NJ Cunningham
left last night for Mobile where he
goes to deliver an address before a med
zeal society. He will return to Ensley
the latter part of the week.
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Just the Same.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
McFlub-I see the Senate wants TO
change the name of the Congressional
Record. Wants something more appro-
pirate.
sleeth-well, they might call it the
''Vindicator"
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