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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-27

bruises, The engine struck 4 piece of
inundated track and tnrned completely
over, pinning the engineer under meath
the ~wreckage, where he was drowned
before any move could be made to res.
cue him. The fireman was painfully
injured about the back and hips and
will be in the hospital for a long time.
The train was not running at a high
rate OF speed or a frightful disaster
might have resulted.
J Fireman Blackburn has resigned
and will seek a warmer cline.
Conductor Charley Stevenson re.
sumed his passenger run yesterday.
Brakeman l.. J. Havert has been
made a member Of Conductor Tom
Bryant's crew for the time being.
Trainmaster Mortified of Ration is
enjoying a visit from his parents who
reside in ST. Louis.
+. l.. Brown of Ration has come
down to the Meadow City and gone to
work as a locomotive fireman.
Conductor Will Hurt and Brakemen
Murphy and Croal took out the first
soldier special yesterday afternoon.
Conductor Dick Davidson has re-
.sumed his passenger run and Conduc-
tor Cramer takes kindly to the way
car again.
Brakemen Hooker, Sam North,
Charles Riley. Charles Gibson, Ed Will
son and ]. W. Dixon are all off duty
for a few trips.
+. P. Barnes, division master me.
chanic, returned to Ration Yesterday,
after ~transacting the business that
called him hither.
Conductor J. d. Notgrass dead-head-
ed up to La Junta from Albuquerque
yesterday to bring No. 3 passenger
train down the line today or tonight.
Engineer Thomas Collier has re-
turned to the throttle and safety valve
at Lamy on the 742. relieving Engineer
Lyster, who had been answering sic.
nails in his stead.
H. d. Allen, a brakeman on the
north end, was taken sick here yester-
day and Brakeman Frank Rich was
sent up the road in his place in Con
ductor II. u. Maynard's crew.
Brakeman Joseph Dougherty,Wbo had
been a member in good standing Of
Conductor swallows crew, has been
assigned to Conductor Hartley's crew.
with instructions TO treat him kindly.
The local railroad yards were block.
ed again al both ends this morning,
F,Il,. -nn narc T., t,apeit bo;ro ~ tbo
tracks waiting to he made up into
trains and sent K their destinations.
Conductor Chas. r. Kemp and
Brakemen j. O'Rourke and II. c..
SWEET are in charge of Conductor J., A.
Quigley's way car, the latter now
wearing a uniform in the passenger
service.
When u train crew on the New
Mexico division ties up for rest or any
other reason. and an extra crew Is put
on their way car. the usual crew will
have to wait till h regular turn OF
their car, as it will run "chain gang"
first in first out.
Engineer Rue OF the 1881 Is laying !
off. resting up for a few days and see
ing that his taxes are paid, while En-.
gineer A. Davis is holding down his
passenger run, putting trains through
on card tine as nearly as possible.
considering The difficulties with which
he is beset.
In the pocket on the body of the
unidentified man who was killed at
Wootton on R9ton mountain. while at
tempting 10 steal a ride OF a Santa Fe
freight train Tuesday morning was a
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-27

Trains stop at Embudo for dinner where
good meals are served.
. CONNECTION
AT Antonito for Durango. Silverton. aud in.
termediate points,
At Alamosa for Denver. Pueblo and inter
mediate points via either the standard gauge
line via La Veta Pass or the narrow gauge vim
Salida, making the entire trip in day light and
passing through The famous Royal Gorge,
also for all points on Creole branch.
a. :. BARNEY,
Travelling Passenger Agent, santa Fe. n NJ.
y. X. HOOPER, O.,
tt-ngtt, Ns
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-27
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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-27

In the pocket on the body of the
unidentified man who was killed at
Wootton on R9ton mountain, while at
tempting 10 steal a ride on a Santa Fe
freight train Tuesday morning was a
card from q Kansas City employment
agency made ont in the nsme OF A.
Rupp.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-27

E,oR RENr -Two-roomed furuah~i house.
4 NJ Lincoln ave i.lBl
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-31

those laws that are as essential to the
protection of the good as they are to
the punishment of evil. There can be
no justice in the world and no human
government without punishment of
transgressors. Justice requires it,
There could be no protection Of human
life unless evil is punished
IF the simple principles, common to
human life and the bible, can be un-
derstood and accepted, why should we
doubt when revelation pursues sin to
it's ultimate consequence of separation
from faith, hope, law, good and God?
How can man who lies in constant
defiance of God be happy when he
passes into another world? Death has
no power to change human destiny. AS
sure as there is heaven where good
is rewarded there must be a cores
ponding place where penalty is visit
ed upon wrong doing"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-31
CORNER STONE OF NEW
SOUTH SIDE CHURCH
Harvard Heights United Presbyterians
Hold Interesting Ceremony
Yesterday

The corner, stone of the Harvard
Heights United Presbyterian church
was laid yesterday afternoon in the
presence Of large concourse of people.
The edifice is at the corner of Western
avenue and Eighteenth street. Mics
Anna H. Torrance, missionary, who or
ganized the Sunday school last New
Years day, was to have officiated at
the ceremony, but on account of illness
was prevented from taking part. Miss
Torrance has been leading mover in
the new church and has conducted Sun
day school services in a small building
near the church site.
The church as planned will cost about
$4,000. At present a chapel viii be
erected which is expected to be COM
pleted in October. pastor will soon
be secured.
Rev. w. w. Logan, pastor of the First
United Presbyterian church, made the
address. The following program was
rendered: Invocation, Rev. w. w.
Crabbe; responsive scripture reading,
Rev. C. C. French; laying of store.
George Winans; prayer. Chaplain b. L.
Baldridge. ,.- ---.,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-31
THE USE WE MAKE OF LIFE
The Rev. w. D. Lands breaches
Practical Sermon on Living

The Rev. W. d. Lands. pastor OF
the Westlake Presbyterian church,
preached yesterday one of a series of
sermons on Life" His subject was
"The Use Of Life" He said in part:
"Since It is not ours to originate
spiritual life any more than it is ours
TO create physical life, we ask what is
our part In its development, or whether
we have any part at ALL God giveth
life. He is our Father in spiritual
things. But after he has given us the
germ Of spiritual life. he surely expects
us to develop It to the highest state of
cultivation. This is to be done by
attending to three things. viz, food.
exercise and air.
III we are 10 grow in the divine
life we must give heed to food. The
food OF the soul Is found in the Bible
and In praying Some of as are starv-
ing for the proper foods. just as you
often see a child that does not grow
with plenty around It. but the physician
or the nurse has not yet found out
the food that satisfies and agrees with
It. The Bible has food for all kinds
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-31

of spiritual appetites and will satisfy
the cravings Of every hungry soul.
However, as no man can be strong
without exercise, it does not matter how
well he is fed, so no soul can become
magnanimous and valiant in spiritual
things without exercise. He must try
the powers that he has. He must at
tempt to do things for Christ. This use
of the strength that he has enables him
to have more. as the exercise of the
arm makes 1t able to do more. Few
of us are attempting very much for our
Lord. We have drilled as soldiers too
little and want to enter active service
without the drill. Nothing is too good
to be given our Lord and we must
sacrifice our lives that we may find
them again in Him. He who serves the
Christ and humanity will lose his life
from the selfish standpoint, but he will
be amply repaid by grateful people
and a compassionate Lord.
yet, one must breathe, and our
bodies soon tell whether we are breath
ing the pure air or the miasma.
Disease testers on impurity. Pure air
will soon drive out the malaria. Wher-
ever sin abounds and the spiritual life
of the church is at low ebb, we need
not expect that there will be souls
saved and sinners inquiring the way Of
life. The lives of the church are the
atmosphere in which the spiritual life
of the young will be developed rapidly
or stunted for time and eternity. Let
us live in the sunshine of Gods love
and he will be able to shed an in
fiuence that will make others better
and send the balmy breezes of spring
time to thaw out the lives of the hard
and uncharitable."
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-31
ACTRESS MAKES RECORD
TRIP IN "A LAUNCH
Marie Howe Misses Steamer and Has
Exciting Voyage From
Catalina -


Miss Marie Howe made record
breaking trip from Catalina to San
Pedro in a launch yesterday evening
to reach Los Angeles in time to appear
in her important role in ''The Stubborn
ness of Geraldine" at the Belesco the
ater. Ordinarily Miss Howe can lay
claim to being first rate sailor, but
when she arrived at the Belasco last
evening, before her make up was
applied, she was in condition which
would have given most remarkable
realism to the "seasick scene of the
first act, had she gone on as she was
Miss Howe's ride over the Pacific
was due to the actress miscalculation
of the boat schedule between Port Los
Angeles and Avalon. 1t is one of her
favorite hobbies to spend as much of
her time in the country as her work
allows, and yesterday she decided she
would spend her day studying her role
for "Niobe." which opens at the Belasco
this evening. on the shores of Catalina,
expecting that she could return as she
had done before, and reach Los Angeles
about seven in the evening
After a most profitable day, from the
standpoint of perfecting herself in her
part, she began to haunt the Avalon
wharf with her return ticket in her
hand. She was smiling and happy and
presented a perfect picture of content
ment and calmness. When the hours
went by with apparently no disposition
on the, part Off any steamer 20 seek
the main shore she engaged one OF the
attendants of the Banning company in
conversation and discovered that ac-
cording to their schedule she could not
reach Los Angeles in time for the even
ing performance.
Miss Howe Immediately became the
star performer In a melodrama of her
own. The ocean front OF Avalon was
turned into turmoil that made a great
run OF tuna seem small affair. All of
the available launches were out on the
ocean with sight-seers and It was only
the calmer minds who succeeded in
dissuading Miss Howe from attempting
TO row herself to shRe A launch was
finally secured at an expense which
viii have an unpleasant effect on Miss
Howe's pay envelope. 1t was one of
the toughest ocean voyages ever ex-
perienced by. the actress. But she
reached the stage door OF the Belasco
pale and breathless, and exactly two
minutes before the curtain was to be
rung up on her act.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-31
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Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-31
SAYS THERE MUST BE A HELL
Rev. A. G. smlther Declares Sin VIII
Be Finally Punished

At the First Christian church last
evening the pastor Rev. A. c. Smith
er, preached upon the subject us There
a HELP" He said in part:
"The question of whether there is a
hell, interpreted in modern speech,
means, is there sin I'm the world and
is sin punished? That men suffer for
wrong doing is of common knowledge,
every Jail and prison will bear testi-
mony on this point. The laws Of the
natural world forgive no sransgressors.
Suffering is not the penalty Of God
inflicted upon his erring children. but
is the natural penalty of the trans
gression OF the laws OF the universe;
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-31

Burnett's Extract Of Vanilla
Prepared from selected Vanilla Beans.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-31
PERSONALS

H. Hansler and c. H. Beck of the
department of agriculture arrived at
the Hollenbeck yesterday and will re-
main in the city for several days.
Z Mr.. and Mrs. George Uhler and son
and Mrs. T. C. Uhler of Washington,
d. c., arrived at the Lankershim yes
,terday. The party will remain several
days.
William c. Eakins of New York city
arrived at the Angelus yesterday and
will remain here for several days.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-31

j. H. Conley, 1929 East Ninth street,
was arrested yesterday afternoon on
charge of battery upon H. Correllis,
who was recently employed by Conley
as a teamster
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-31
Arrested for Battery

The more you know about cigars the
better you will like Las Palmas.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-24
RAILWAY RUMoR.

Seven shillings day has been adopt
ed by the New South Wales govern
ment as a minimum wage to railway
laborers.
Smoking has only been permitted in
English railway carriages since 1846.
On certain foreign lines smoking is
so general that carriages are apart for
non-smokers, and so labeled.
On the railways of the United King
dom there are one locomotive and So
vehicles per mile of line In the
United States there is only one per
four miles of railway, and SO vehicles
per mile.
The Northern of France Railway
company gives dowries to daughters
of all its servants, provided the father
or mother has been five years in the
service of the company, and has SAL
larry of less than e125 a year. Each
r must be between the ages of
II and 80, and the marriage portion
amounts to about Ell.
The rapidity with which electric in.
vention has progressed is shown fore
IDLY by the fact that every indication
points to the adoption of the electric
locomotive before it is 20 years old as
the means by which the traffic of two
of the greatest railroads in the world
into the largest city in the western
hemisphere will be handled.
George H. Daniels told a gathering
of railway and steamship men in New
York the other evening that before
many more years shall have passed
trains between this city and the east
ern metropolis will leave the terminals
every two hours and travel 100 miles
an hour. He added refectiveiy that
under such circumstances the train
dispatcher will be a more important
person than now even.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-24
CHINESE NEVER WHISTLE.
Story of American Snake Charme1
May Explain Celestial Su-
perstition.

Did you ever hear Chinaman
whistle?
It's better than 10 to that you never
never paused to wonder why. No mat
ter how brightly the sun shines or how
the hop market fluctuates the celestial
never whistles note, says the Butte
Miner.
Hop Lee Sing, a member of Butte's
Chinese colony, when asked to explain
the phenomenon told the following
story:
Many years ago a snake charmer went
to China from this country He
charmed the reptiles and compelled
them to go to sleep by a peculiar whistle.
The simple Chinese had never before
witnessed such a wonderful perform
ance and looked upon the stranger with
awe.
One day pretty Chinese girl left her
houseboat home and ran away with the
snake charmer. The orientals believed
that the American had captivated the
girl with his whistle in the same man
ner that he charmed the reptiles.
After long search the foreigner and
his bride we're found The man was
locked up and the girl restored to her
folks. He was ordered to be killed.
The next morning when the execu-
tloners came to the prison their captive
had escaped. The jailer was lying in a
stupor near by and the Cinnamon i'm
mediately decided that he was victim
of the mysterious whistle.
Within short time the snake charm
er was recaptured and again sentenced
to death. Three guards were placed
over him to prevent a second escape.
ALI night long the American sat in his
wooden cage and comforted himself by
whistling songs of his native land. Just
before dawn he closed his eyes and
whispered a prayer
With a brisk step he walked out the
next morning to meet his fate, whistling
as he went.
AS he was about to kneel before the
eXecutioner a whistle sounded in the
harbor and moment later an American
gunboat steamed in The Cinnamon
were dumfounded at the unusual sight
and thought that the snake charmer
must be an agent of the devil. The
whistle, they believed, was his method
of communicating with hell.
Shortly afterward there was a puff
OF smoke and shell whistled over the
heads of the celestials, exploding in a
josshouse near by. The temple was de-
stroyed and two priests killed
This was enough. The executioners
fled and the snake charmer made his
way safely to the gunboat and escaped.
Shortly afterward the emperor deIiv-
cred an edict making it crime for any
Chinaman to whistle.
OF course American Chinks don't
place any faith in the power of whistle.
but the average celestial would lust
about as soon cut off his queue as indulge
in the time-honored Yankee pastime.
They think it would bring them bad
luck.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-24
ABOUT JOHNSON GRASS.
When It Was introduced in Louisiana
It Soon Became Puzzling
Problem.

1t is not given to many countries to
boast that it's soil is too fertile. and
that plants transferred to it bloom and
grow with too great luxuriance. This.
however, is the case in Louisiana. says
the New Orleans Times-Democrat
where nearly everything fiourishes bet
ter than it does anywhere else even in
its native soil 1t will be remembered
how few years ago a gentleman of
this state, pleased by an aquatic plant,
bearing a beautiful purple blossom
which he saw in Honduras, brought the
water hyacinth to Louisiana He threw
a few bulbs into tub in his back yard;
but the hyacinth, which grew slowly
in Central America, its original home,
spread so rapidly in Louisiana that it
soon became great pest; filling our
lakes and streams, interfering with
navigation, with logging, fishing and
a hundred other industries.
Still later an enterprising planter of
East Carroll parish, who had found
cotton not profitable, determined to
convert his plantation into a cattle
ranch. He had heard of Johnson grass
as affording excellent grazing in the
west: and he bought a quantity of it
and planted it on his Louisiana place
1t did well. better than anticipated, bet
ter than desired. The Johnson grass,
encouraged by the rich alluvial lands
of East Carroll to a growth it had
never known in the west, spread with
great Iapidity over the entire planta-
ton, and to neighboring plantations,
and one of the leading agricultural
problems in Louisiana and the south
west ever since has been how to get
rid of it, When the increasing price
of cotton led the introducer of Johnson
grass to try and change his crop to cot
tn, he set to work to extirpate the
grass, but his efforts were entirely un-
successful. A sturdy fight against it
has been kept up ever since, with only
moderate success.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-24
THE DESERT WEST.
TERM THAT NO LONGER APPLIES
WITH TRUTHFULNESS.
A Mistaken Impression Regarding
Fruitful Country Given by
Word on Old French
Mans

In these days when the st. Louis ex-
position has awakened and the Lewis
and Clark exposition has greatly slim
ulated interest in the great west and
when at the same time we are reading of
the vast crops that are being raised in
the west and of the work that is being
done in irrigation, it is interesting to
look back at the opinion of the west that
was held by previous generation and
analyze that feeling, writes Charles
Woodward Lamb,
For long time the west was known
as desert and it was so described in
many books, both educational and fic-
ton. This was especially true of
books published in England, and it is TO
English works held the precedence in
this country, and official reports that
told more of the truth were neglected
1t is only 25 years ago that English
works describing the west as a desert
waste were popular and much read in
that part of the west east of the Missis-
sippi as well as in the east AS late as
when Minnesota was admitted into the
Union, in the fifties, a United States
senator opposed it's admission, saying
it was desert waste with an arctic eli
mate and could never support an Amer
lean population, and when he was told
that residents 'of the state and federal
officers reported differently he quoted
English books that in turn had quoted
French writer's, and declared that Amer
leans were prejudiced.
Now it is strange thing that
the translation of simple word
should affect popular opinion re-
garding one of the earth's great
est empires, but that is just what
caused this misunderstanding the lit
tie word desert. On all of the old French
maps, and it was the French who first
explored this great west, the unknown
places were marked Desert" gener-
ally with the picture of griffin or other
fabulous beast beside the word. With
out much of an understanding of the
meaning of the word the early English
publishers copied these old French maps
and the people used them and in
terpreted the word according to the
English understanding, so that all the
English-speaking world came to believe
that the greater part of the American
continent was a hopeless waste instead
of merely wilderness, new and unex-
plored, which is what the word, as used
by the French, really meant.
1t is from the use of this word in the
sense of an uneXplored wilderness that
we have gathered the word desert as
used on many western towns, noun
tains and lakes to-day, such as the beau
tiful Lake of the View of the Desert, in
northern Wisconsin, a lake first ex-
plored by the French and given the name
because of its location between the wild
hills and pine forests. The two or
three mountains that bear the name also
have received it from this same source.
as we'll as several towns.
A little intelligence leaveneth the
mass of ignorance and little ignorance
does some funny things to a whole lot
of intelligence