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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-30

When the contradictory and fake
dispatches have all been gone over in
regard to the situation in Manchuria,
it appears that the Japanese are not
pressing the retreat of the Russians,
but rather are repairing the railroads
and making preparations to hold what
they have while preparing to advance
upon Vladivostok. One thing is GER
tain. All the Russians have on the Pa
cific in the shape of islands, harbors
and seal fisheries, will be taken by the
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-30

No official report has yet been made
of the amount of spoils that the Jap
anese captured, but they run, in stores
alone, into the millions. The Russians
lost all of their siege guns, besides
hundreds of field guns. In all the his
tory of ars, there has never before
been captured as spoils of war one
half as much in war material and sup
plies after battle, as after the battle
of Mukden.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-30

The Nebraska legislature is getting
great notoriety in the east for killing
the anti-pass bill. The Springfield Re
publican says that these men will have
some tough questions to answer when
they go back to. their constituents.
That won't trouble them bit. If they
escape d rope they will be happy.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-30

Japanese. Steamers arriving at Seat
tie and other Pacific ports bring the
information that Vladivostok is 50
closely watched that it would be Inn
possible to run the blockade. The Japs
last week captured one American ship
from Seattle loaded with cOntrabrands
The wires are kept hot with rumors
of peace. The stuff for the most part
Is journalistic drivel, yet there Is
enough in them to lead to the conclu-
sion that peace is being pressed upon
the Car by many who have until late
ly been of the war party. The great
est boost that has been given to the
peace idea has come from the French
bankers who have refused to try to
oat another Russian loan and Russia
has been trying to raise money by
domestic loan. On the other hand the
japanese loan of $150.000,000 was in
stantly gobbled up.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Homestead Entry, No. $3.50.

Department Of the Interior, Land OF.
flee at Santa Fe, New Mexico, July
"a, 1905.
Notice Is hereby given that the fol-
lowing-named settler has filed notice
of his intention % make final proof
in support of his claim. and that
said proof will be made before United
States Court Commissioner at Las
Vegas. N. NJ, on September I. 1905,
viz: Placido Lucero, for the S. W. n
N. E. n, S. z. "A N. w. u, N. E. u
S. w. "A, N. w. II s. e. "A, Section
s, T. IA, N, r. 20 f.
He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence up.
on and cultivation Of said land. viz:
Marcos Castillo, of Chaperito, N. NJ;
Andres Baca, Of Chaperito, N. NJ;
RaymundO Ulibarri, Of Chaperito, N.
NJ; Narciso Gallegos, Of ChaperitO.
N. M.
MANUEL r. OTERO.
TIT Register.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07
RALPH CAMERON MAY BRING
SUIT IN ATTEMPT TO SECURE
NEW HOTEL AT GRAND CANYON

Ralph Cameron, former sheriff of
Coeonino county, Ariz, who conducts
a hotel and livery barn at the Grand
Canyon, Is having trouble with the
Santa Fe railway. or rather the Santa
Fe Is having trouble with him.
Cameron own the trail down the
canyon, or at least has possession Of
1t, and has a mining claim for which
he has applied to the government for
a patent, on which is situated the
Bright Angel hotel. He has a suit In
the courts of Arizona for the posses.
sion OF the hotel. He claims II Is on
his property and has been for q mum.
Der OF years, and that the Santa Fee
company has not paid him any rent
for the ground. He has been doing
the assessment work on the claim and
II he a prove that there Is mineral
In the claim there. he can get title to
the ground.
The Santa Fe railroad and the Har-
vey system owns the fine new FL
Tovar hotel at the Canyon and have
excluded Cameron's hacks from the
railroad right-of.way, but Cameron has
men out on the line. and when a pas.
senger train arrives at the canyon
about half Of the visitors go to each
hotel Those who go to the FL Tovar
and make a trip over the trail must
pay 81 for each horse and person that
makes the trip. while those who stop
at Cameron's hotel get to make the
trip for nothing. In that way Mr..
Cameron has the best of the deal, and
the people of the canyon and of VIII.
liams are watching the fight between
the two with interest. Cameron has
a big acquaintance in Arizona and It
will be difficult for the railway to do
anything with him in the courts Of
that territory. AS the case is a civil
action they can hardly get a change
of venue. If he gets a patent to the
mining claim he will have the Bright
Angel hotel and the Santa Fe people
are wondering when he will start after
the Ell Tovar. Cameron is about fifty
years Of age and of a Jolly disposition,
and is getting much employment out
of the situation.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07
Construction PROGRESSING.

Robert c. Reid, an attorney of Ros-
well, who is looking after the legal
interests of the Eastern railway of
New Mexico. from Willard to Texico.
was registered at the Palace in Santa
Fe Saturday. Mr.. Reid has been in
Willard and says that construction is
going right along on the road, the
grading parties pushing the work as
rapidly as possible.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07
Brakeman Standardized.

Attempting, it is supposed. to rob
him Of his diamond stud. unknown as
sailants attacked Frank Root. passen-
ger brakeman on the eastern division
of the Southwestern. at Santa Rosa
Thursday, breaking his Jaw and bruis-
ing him badly. He was taken to Prov
idence hospital in Ell Paso.
Root did not the diamond the
day he was attacked. but had on a
cheaper pin. which was taken. Root
became unconscious and was unable
to identify his %assailants.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07
caboose Buffet.

Missouri, Kansas & Texas train
men car now have hot coffee and eggs
to order, prepared on gasoline stoves
in their cabooses. the insurance COM
pany having rescinded their order pro-
hibiting the use of gasoline burners
on the trains on the ground that they
e~ngendered too much danger.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07
Narrow ESCAPE Of NUDGE specia,.

The special train bearing H. U.
Nudge, vice president of the Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific railway. and
other officials Of the road. narrowly
escaped going into a ditch Tuesday
might a few miles west of Limon, Colo.
Mr.. Mudge's special was about thirty
minutes ahead Of the regular passen.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07

ger train. which was due To leave Col
orado Springs at ESQ o'clock IN the
afternoon. Heavy rains had fallen
all over Colorado during the day,
making the track soft in places. Thlr-
" miles west OF limon there was on
unusually soft place in the track, The
special passed yer safely, but the
passenger train following left the
track, every car and the engine be-.
Ing derailed, No n was injured,
Robbed the Mail.
William S. Lewis Is In iail at Al
.buQuerque. charged with robbing the
Santa Fe mail pouch at Belen and ex-
tracing a package Of bank notes, on
June 25. He was arrested at Kan.
sas City.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07
Starts Suit.

In the district court before Judge
McFie at Santa Fe the hearing was
commenced in the case of the Denver
& Rio Grande Railroad company VS..
the Arizona G Colorado Railroad
company to condemn certain lands on
the right of way of the former COM
pany, and secured by the latter COM
pany for its right Of way.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07

VXyANTED-ru rent a sinai compass for
w about weeks state price, Address n
& Optic '-leW
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07
$4,000 for Foot.

A big damage suit has been filed in
the district court at Ell Paso. Tex,
against the Santa Fee Railway COM
pany, by G.. A. Sewers of Winslow,
Ariz. The plaintiff demands the sum
of $40. 900 for the loss of a foot, which
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07
Robbed the Mail.
Quits the Railroad.

John c. Sears. formerly employed
as cashier at the Santa Fe railway
station In Santa Fe, arrived In the
capital from Ration. For the past year
Mr.. Sears has held the position Of
cashier at the depot In Ration but re.
signed a few days ago In order to at.
tend to business matters OF a private
nature. He will be in Santa Fe for
several days.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07
FOR SALE.

WANTED-A cook, apply 10 Mrs, A, d,
w Higg ns. 6A
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07

had to be amputated by reason OF an
injury sustained at Gallup, Mckinley
county. while he was acting as brake.
mar on the Santa Fee.
Sewers saws that he was riding on
the footboard In front OF an engine,
to be ready to turn a switch. when the
track gave way and the COW catcher
was broken. His foot was caught and
SO badly injured that 1t had to be am.
putated. /;
Best Vet.
The new Santa Fe railroad depot
at Trinidad. which replaced the one
destroyed by a flood three years ago,
was turned over to the company
on Monday. 1t is said to be the finest
example of the Spanish mission depot
on the Santa Fe system.
Brakeman A. ]. Singer is switching
in the yard today.
Conductor E. c. Crayortook the spe-
cial to Santa Fee yesterday.
Passenger Conductor West is off
duty and Conductor Pritchard has his
run.
Sol Harmon. formerly chief clerk in
the local store department. went to
work this morning in the paint shop.
Extra Conductor Billy Burks took
Superintendent Russells special east
this morning.
Five extra men were marked up for
duty for the south on the train board
this morning.
Two cars of west bound freight No.
33 were ditched at SINNERS bridge
this side of Watrous last night on ac-
count Of a broken journal. The wreck
train was on its way back from Ray
ado. and was on the spot soon after
the accident and cleared away the
wreck in short order.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07

WANTEn-A good experienced cook, 10 cook
W IN small Hotel, u lady preferred call or
address,
X q. KAsAurR cat Mayors oficel,
SANTA ~, y, NJ
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED,

A GENTs-Make ~ daily selling The cheapest
~ aud most perfect Water filtar ever IN
vented R.tail- al SEQ llig proat Exclu,
i've territory SENECA FILTER CO. ssN
rcA, Mo, sSH
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07

FCN SNDe.
EOR SAL.E-A modern Eight room house
partly furnished, OF Eighth street, In
auire 1918 Eleventh street. CHA
TOR SAL.E-A well established mercantile
: business; also business property ) nd resi-
dence, Inquire Of A. j, Vens, Bridge -, 1'e3
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07

in h o order.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-07

Cor. Twelfth and National SITS.
SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK.

Potatoes, 13-lbs. for ....,...,..2 5c
2.lb. can Cottolene, regular price
soc, for .....,....,..,.,..,..2oc
Breakfast Bacon, per pound ....15C
Salt Pork, per pound ...........10 C
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-09
GOSSIP OF TIE DIPLOMATS.
ror.;g, and Washington Notes.

The Sultan Of Turkey some snort
lime since. granted an audience 10 10
senator Bacon. Of Georgia, ana was SO
,rr. charmed with that genial Ame.
i,9n gentleman n that he conferred upon
biy the grand Gordon of the Cheieea.'
era nreseated Mrs. Bacon with ! !o'
~ ,orcelain manufactured In the In
,sr'sl lotteries. 1t remains 10 be seen
Th.th.r the Georgian Senator VIII ASK
,iruissiou from Congress TO be per
ialtted to accept the order oil the
sultan.
Mrs. WI Ting Fang, wife OF the 1or-
ner Chinese Minister TO this country
has defed the time honored traditions
of her native land. by returning 10
china with her feet enlarged to a
normal size. When she came to this
country with her famous husband. Mrs.
MI had her feet tightly bound. as Is
the custom among women OF her rank
in China. While in this country she
had a surgical operation performed, IN
creasins her feet to the size nature
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-09
Weakness of English Colonies.

The new commonwealth of Aus.
tralia does not seem to be getting on
very well. The population In the ten
years ending with 1901 was 3,771.715,
the increase being 597 ,402. The whole
Island continent has less population
than the city Of Greater New York.
Long dependent upon England. If
has not developed internally. "Were
Australian ports" says the Sydney
Bulletin. ''shut by hostile warships
tomorrow, the commonwealth wouln
be without guns or cartridges for its
troops, without ships or the means of
making them. without fabrics for
clothing, without machinery for nine
or railway, without even paper on
which to print its journals. Australia
would have to beseech the grace Of
some master. crawl to the hand ~
whatever power was for the time moat
strong, OF lapse into savagery,"
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-09

intended them to be. Mrs. Wu's Wash
ington friends, with whom she keeps
up a steady correspondence, state that
she is able to walk now with COM
fort.
By the will Of the late German
Field Marshal. Count Won Waldersee,
commander of the allied troops during
the Boxer uprising in China, his in:
sigma of the Order of the Black Eagle.
set with diamonds, was sold for the
benefit of the needy soldiers in his old
regiment. Count Won Waldersee's wife
is a Miss Lee, of New York, and as
serts most powerful influence at the
Berlin Court where she succeeded IN
securing promotion after promotion for
her husband.
DR.. Wallason. the Cars American
dentist, lives in St. Petersburg in a
palace in a quarter reserved for Grand
Dukes and Ambassadors. 1t is furnish
ed with such exquisite things that each
room represents a fortune in itself.
Wherever the Gar or Czarina or the
Grand Dukes are. they always send
for DR.. Wallason, and he is kept busy
travelling from one end of the big Rus.
sian empire to the other.
In the same way, DR.. Thomas, an
American dentist at Vienna. has been
for many years an intimate friend OF
the Emperor, and has never betrayed
the Emperor's confidence by a single
indiscreet utterance.
The German Emperor's American
dentist not such very long time
since committed suicide.
Each Earl of Oxford, at his burial Is
driven in his hearse three times round
the church before his remains are fin
ally laid to rest. The origin of this
queer custom, according to family and
local tradition, is that Horatio, second
earl of Oxford, destroyed the tomb
of the Scalmers, former possessors of
Warrington Hall, in Norfolkshire, and
one Of the unhappy ladies' of this fam
lily, finding no rest. still haunts the
churchyard always searching for the
remains of her relations. 1t is to mol
lily her spirit that this weird drive of
the hearse round the churchyard takes
place On the occasion of the obsequies
Of every Earl of Oxford. The present
Lord Oxford, whose wife is Louise
Corbin, daughter of D. c. Corbin, and
niece OF the great railroad magnate
of that name. is at present travelling
in this country. van Calava.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-09

RUINS OF OLD SPANISH CHURCH.
tions long held and regretfully let go
Of, are that this sunny land of the
border is the land of manama, of to-
morrow; that its day of awakening is
not yet come. Well, wake up! Life
is just as zeal. just as earnest and as
strenuous in Ell Paso as in New York
or Chicago, and when you rub up in
business against the Ell Pasoan you
need all your shrewdness and business
acume1.
The Old and The New.
Ell Paso is old-very old, and Ell
Paso is new, too-very new. This de-
l,ghtful paradox is full Of surprises
and charms. Right up against the old
Spanish dwelling Of adobe with long,
low windows, heavily barred, and its
patio in the center, YOU are likely to
md q modern Office building with ele-
vators and electric lights.
Something Of feeling Of living in
the past comes over you when you en-
ter one of the old churches, down here
churches erected more than 300 years
ago. The solemn silence of these
shadowy halls has been broken by the
orisons Of countless thousands and
softly intsned aves were echoing here
long before the eyes of the Anglo
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-09

less sounds which we cannot hear, and
co!ors as different as red from green.
Of which we have no conception. These
and a thousand other questions re-
main for solution. The familiar world
which surrounds us may be a totally
different place to other animals. To
them it may be full Of music which we
cannot hear, of sensations we cannot
conceive. To place stuffed birds and
beasts in glass cases, to arrange in
sects in cabinets, and dried plants in
drawers, is merely the drudgery and
preliminary of study; to watch their
habits. to understand their relations to
one another, to study their instincts
and intelligence, to ascertain their
adaptations and their relations to the
forces Of nature, to realize what the
world appears to thsm-these con-
stitute, as.it seems to me, at least, the
true interests of natural history, and
may even give us the clue to senses
and perceptions of which at present
we have no conception"
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-09
TIE MEERSCHAUM PIPE.
Almost Impossible to Select a
Genuine One.

"A story is told of smoker who spent
eight of the best years of his life trying
to color meerschaum pipe, keeping it
enclosed most of the time in case SO as
to prevent it getting scratched and its
finish being dulled by the oil and moist
ure from his hands, only to find at the
end Of that period that he had been
tenderly nursing an imitation instead
of the genuine "ecume de mer." The
best imitation is composed Of the par.
ings Of genuine meerschaum, combined
with mineral clay. These compost
tions can usually be determined from
the genuine meerschaum by their
greater weight, but there Is no ALSO
lutely certain test for distinguishing
the counterfeit. One method of test is
to look for slight imperfections. Con-
position bowls never exhibit these
slight blemishes, which result from the
presence of foreign bodies in the natur-
al meerschaum; however, as the blem-
ishes do not usually manifest them
selves until after the bowl has been
used fer some time, the test is not Of
much value in buying new pipes.
Meerschaum is silicate Of masnesia.
and preparatory to carving 1t is soaked
in composition Of wax and oil. The
wax and oil absorbed by the meer-
schaum are the cause of the coloring
Of the pipe due to smoking, and in con.
nection with the further absorption of
nicotine. Where meerschaums have
been smoked for some time without
having acquired a good color, they can
frequently be improved by rubbing.
when warm, with beeswax.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-09
OLD DESERT JOURNEYS.
MODERN CIVILIZATION, THRIFT
AND ABUNDANCE IN SAGE
BRUSH COUNTRY.
Where Sunshine and Fertile Soil
Await the Coming of Canai-Borne
Water to Laugh Abundant har'
vests
c. J. Blanchard.

Ell PASO, Tex. tSpeciaD.-on the
Southeast border of ths Great Ameri-
can Desert, where our sister republic
Mexico touches the commonwealth OF
Texas on the East and the progress
sive old-young territory OF New Mex
leo on the North, stands the Largest
city in the largest Congressional dis
trict of the largest State of the great
est Nation on the earth"
To the fastener who first visits this
charming city and enjoys the hospital
ity which its citizens know so well
how to extend, the question is upper
most, what makes city here? After
journeying more than 500 miles across
Western Kansas and the Panhandle OF
Texas, the short grass country, where
it is all one vast cattle range, down
into the adobe hills and sage brush
wastes of eastern New Mexico, there
is reason for asking this question.
You naturally want to know from
whence comes all this hustle and hustle
with all these evidences OF progress
and substantial growth. All your no.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-09
Saxon had looked upon Plymouth

Rock.
In the first half of the Sixteenth
Century the Spanish Conquistadores
seeking new fields of conquest for the
glory OF Spain, swept up the Rio
Grande Valley. They found pastoral
settlements of Pueblo Indians prac-
ticing agriculture through the aid OF
irrigation, carrying the precious waters
of the Rio Granoe out upon the desert
and reaping harvests from fields which
had been in cultivation beyond the
traditions OF the Oldest members OF the
tribe. Spanish settlements followed
the conQuerers. With the ready adap-
liability of the early explorers they
utilized the old irrigation systems.
Thresh by Trampling Of Goats.
The unprogressiveness OF the Span
lard is no where more strikingly re-
vealed than in the Rio Grande VAL
ley, where the descendants of the early
SpazaGa explorers are to-day engaged
in a0F3culture in just the same man
ner as their forefathers practiced it.,
and indeed with methods strangely like
these in the days of Abraham. You
can see them reap with the sickle and
thresh by the trampling of goats.
Progressive Americans settling in the
upper reaches OF the Rio Grande in
later years, showed small regard for
the settlers in tho lower valley. Soon
their long lines of broad canals began
to make sad inroads in the water sup
ply which was needed for the Old