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is in cultivation.
The Red Springs farm, located
in Robson County, has a coarse,
sandy soil with a sandy clay subsoil
from twelve to fifteen inches below
the surface. This type of soil is rep
resentative of a considerable area in
the Eastern and Southeastern part
of the State. This type of soil, as
it dries out readily and warns up
quickly in the spring, is especially
adapted to the growing of truck and
other crops where early maturity
is an imperative consideration, for
a few days difference in shipment
may mean the difference between sell
ing at a handsome profit and at q
price not sufficient to paw freight. Al
though the soil at the Red Springs
farm is not so strong as that at the
Edgecombe farm, nevertheless it will
produce fairly good yields of corn
and cotton under liberal fertilization
and proper cultivation and rotation
of crops.
The Statesville farm, located in
Iredell County, has deep tenacious
red cls : soil and subsoil. This type
of soil is the prevailing one of the
Piedmont plateau region of this and
other South Atlantic States. Gener-
ally, the only difference between the
surface and subsoil in this type of
soil is that the former has been brok-
en- up by cultivation and weathering
and has more organic matter worked
into it.
This soil is naturally strong and
is susceptible of high state of pro
ductivity under judicious fertiliza-
tion and proper cultural manage
ment. 1t is especially adapted to
the growth of grains and grasses.
This farm, too, embraces some over
two hundred acres, the greater part
of which is under cultivation.
What is a Variety?
A variety is supposed to represent
a class of plants with one or more
distinguishing characteristics, but
with cereal like corn, which mixes
so freely, variety does not mean
much unless proper precautions have
been exercised in it's growth.
Take some variety of corn, say
Cookies Prolific, that has been bred
carefully and intelligently through
a number of years for high yield Of
shelled corn per stalk, and grow it
continuously in or adjacent to a field
of inferior corn and in a very short
time, especially if proper seed selec-
tion is not practiced, it will give
much smaller yields, when grown un-
der the same conditions, than the
original pure-bred corn; this being
due to the fact that you no longer
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23

lack Of circulation. Had a knife been
thrust into my kidneys the pain could
not have been more intense. My sleep
was disturbed by visions Of distorted
figures. The kidney sccrctions were an
noyingly irregular, and l was tortured
with thirst and always bloated. l used
seven boxes Of Doan's Kidney Pills. The
b~loating subsidized until weighed 100
pounds less, could sleep like a child and
was relieved Of the pain and the irregu-
larity Of the kidney action. My c~ircula-
ton is good and l feel better in every
way"
A FREE TRIAL Of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mrs. Jackson will
be mailed on application to any part OF
the United States. Address Foster-Mil.
burn Co, Buffalo, N. y. For sale by all
druggists; price, 80 cents per boz.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23
Photograph mounts, any size, At
The Optic office. II
CALIFORNIA; Daylight Special.

No. 0, the Santa Fe's ~ fast lrain,
will leave Chicago at $40 a, m every
day and arrive In Los Vegas abou.
$40 y. m. the day following. This
train will give seventy.one hours ser.
between Chicago and San Fran
cisco. beating the TINA Of No, ] Fix
, ours fro al chicago 10 Las Vegas.
w. J. LGCAS ks~n.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23

chief engineer Of the order, Is given
in the little booklet. Mr.. Kelley has
been a railroad man since 1863 and
has been an engineer since the early
70's. During his long service he has
never had a head-end collision. but
one rear end, and has never been
manned or responsible for the injury
of a single person.
Six to sever days time between Los
Angeles and Chicago and ten days
time between Los Angeles and New
York city is the schedule on which
the Rock Island and the Southern Pa
cific railroads are running special
trains loaded with celery and bound
for eastern markets, through Eel Paso,
according to the Los Angeles Herald.
~
Reports from Chicago to the effect
that Finley J.. Shepard, general super
intendent of the coast lines of the
Santa Fe system, had rendered his
resignation, were confirmed by Mr..
Shepard himself In Los Angeles. Cal.
He Is more than satisfied with the
new position he will take for a large
and prominent Chicago concern man.
ufacturing railway supplies.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23
stockholders' Meeting.

The annual meeting OF the stock.
holders of the Aqua Pura company of
Las Vegas, will DO held in the office
Of the company at Las Vegas, N. NJ,
Monday. January card, 1905. at 3
o'clock p. m, for the election Of d.
rectors and for the transaction OF any
business that may come before the
meeting. +. II. PIERCE.
157 Secretary.
January 9TH, 1906.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23
ADVERTISED LETTER LIST.

The following Est Of letters remain
I'd uncalled for at the Las Vegas, N
NJ, postofice for the week ending
Ian. 10, 1905:
Armijo, Jose Porsilla.
Butierrez. Lauriano.
Buslos, Sotero.
Barns, Haurice.
Branch, Rodepp.
Bossert. w, ].
Burkett, X.
Benabides, Juan.
Chavez. +.
Coffin, Sam.
Camden, Robt.
Downs. Chas. p.
Gonzales, lgnacio.
Gonzales, Themes.
Garcia, Raymundo.
Gangler, Joseph.
Gardner, John NJ.
Harden, b.
Hernandez, Rufinita.
Leal, Hilario.
Lava, C%epriano.
Lusero. Luisita.
Mejillas, Juan.
Montoya. Pedro.
Martinez, Nicanor.
Medina, Fidel.
Macintosh. w. G.
Martinez, Francisco.
Partilio, S. 8.
Sandoval, Jose Clemente.
Sshot, Sam.
Slower, Fred X.
Sharp, Katherine Elizabeth.
Sandobal, Adolpho.
Serrano, Nepomeciana.
Trugo, Petra Romero.
Valdez. Pablo.
Wilkinson. l.. T.
Waeden, A. w.
Waggoner, George.
Deck, Mrs.
Gallegos, Maria.
Brant, Miss Florence.
Hernandez, Miss Francisco.
Kelly. Mrs. Eva.
Lusero, Rosita.
Long, Mrs, NJ
Mestas, Josefita.
Martinez. Miss Clofas.
Ribera, Miss Julian NJ.
Anyone calling for the above letters
will please say advertised"
=. o. BLOOD, p. NJ
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23
Locomotive Brake Equipment.

Locomotive Brake Equipment.
Before the senate committee on in
terstate commerce at Washington last
week, r. A. Fuller. representing the
railway brotherhoods, opposed the
bill to exempt marrow gauge railways
from the law requiring that locomo-
tives be equipped with driving wheel
brakes. He claimed that petitions
from railroad employees favoring the
exemption did not represent their real
sentiments and said they had been
signed under coercion.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23

The new board Of county commits
sioners OF Leonard Wood county or
ganized By electing Pablo Aragon as
its chairman.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23
New Fire Department.

A new fire department has been or
ganized at the Santa Fe shops, at Ar
kansas City, with the employees Of the
road in the shops and the yards as
members. This fire department will
answer all calls wherein the COM
pany's property in the yards figures.
There was formerly a department at
the yards, but when the machinists
struck the larger portion of the mem
bers quit and since that time there
has been no regularly organized de-
partment.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23
Your Investment Guaranteed

Did you know the Aetna Building
association pays 9 per cent on
special deposits? Before placing
your money elsewhere see us and
get best interest.
Geo. II. Hunker. Sec. veeder nix.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23
HAPPY WOMEN.

Wouldn't any m he happy,
After years Of b~aekache suffering,
Days OF misery. nights Of unrest,
The distress of urinary troubles,
To find relief and cuwy
No reason why any reader
Should suffer in the face Of evidence
like this.
Mrs, Almlra A. Jackson. Of East Front
st., Traverse City, Mich, says: For
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23
Brakeman Not Guilty.

l.. Bourgeois, a G. II. & S. A. brake
man, was acquitted of the charge of
murder this morning. says the Eel Paso
Daily News. The jury was only out
a few minutes. The trial took place
in Judge Harper's court, and the de-
PENDANT was found not guilty on the
ground that he shot to save his own
life.
The evidence introduced was very
short and of a formal character, and
not contradlcted in any particular.
1t appeared from the testimony that
October 14th last, a mile from Malone
station. Bourgeois came across a
tramp stealing a ride. He attacked
the brakeman and drew a gun, where
upon Bourgeois shot in self defense,
killing his assailant
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23

twenty years I
was doctoring
for kidney and
liver oublc,
but without ben
eft. Just before
l began using
Doan's Kidney
Pills ! was al
most paralyz-
ed. could
hardly stand on
my feet be-
cause Of the
numbncss and
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23
DRESS MAKING.

For fashionable and up-todate
Dress Making. call on Miss Dora Stat.
ford. 1926. Ninth street. corner Wash
ington Ave. Colo. Phone l73.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23

Money to loan, Call or address 1917
Seventh street, Las Vegsa, N. M. 1.65
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS,
Professional DIRECTORY.
ARCHITECTS.
HOLT q HOLT.

Architects and Civil Engineers.
Maps and surveys made. buildings
and construction work Of all kinds
planned and supeiintended. Office
Montoya Building, Plaza. Las Vegas
Phone %.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23

FOR RENT-Six room house with
bath and range. SIS. per month; In
quire Optic office. 1c.20l.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23
SvENO0RAPHER.

w. n. Ungles, stenographer and
typewriter, o No. 6, Crockett
block, Las Vegas. Dispositions and
notary public.
Office telephone, Colorado No. 80:
Residence telephone, Colorado No.
CSC.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23
The Albuquerque Eastern.

sUe albuquerque GdStcTU.
Col. W. S. Hopewell. general man
ager of the Albuquerque Eastern, and
Fred Otero, were passengers for Algo-
dones this morning. says the Albu-
querque Citizen. They will take a
team there and drive to Hagan, where
both have coal properties. About six
ty men are employed developing these
properties. Mr.. Hopewell and Mr..
Otero expect to return to the city to-
night.
Work on this end Of the Eastern
continues with undated rapidity. One
outfit Is grading just north OF the
Rio Grande Wooden mills and. Sec
ond outfit is throwing dirt with great
haste on the mesa above the Menaul
school.
Col. Hopewell said this morning
that in the future he would make Al
buquerque his headquarters. He pur-
chased the Grunsfeld property on
West Railroad n some time ago.
and Mrs. Hopewell and children will
join him here during the spring. They
are at present on the ranch in Sierra
county.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23
The Santa Fe's
Fifty Millions
Third Vice>P President ]. W.
kendrick Tells What Dispo>
si'ion Is To Be Made Of
The Money

"The stockholders OF the Santa IL
railroad will meet In Topeka Tuesday
to vote $4,000, 900 In bonds to be used
IN betterments on the system" said
j W. kcndrick, third vice president
OF tle system. to a reporter for the
Kansas City Star.
THE money realized will be used
for the completion OF lines now In
course Of construction. for the build
Ing of second track, for the reduction
OF grades upon parts OF the main line,
for buildings. new freight terminals
and other purposes, There will be
about l5j miles OF second track built,
including the completing Of the double
track of the system between Chicago
and Streator. H.. and new second
track east and west Of Marcellne, la.
The track between Holiday and En-.
poris on the cutoff will be double.
tracked. Kansas City will get It's
share of the money that will be OK.
pended In the completion Of the sew
en-mile freight yard now building End
In the erection of one and a half mil.
lion bushel elevator at Argentine to
cost 100000. The cutoff between
Texico on the Pecos Valley line and
the main line west of Albuquerque
will be completed.
"These betterments are made i'm
perative by the rapid increase In bust
ness. While the business had in.
creased three and fourfold in the last
few years the facilities for handling
the business has increased only about
25 per cent"
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23
DENTISTS.


George n. bunker, Attorney at law.
office, Veeder block, Las Vegas. N.
NJ.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23

George p. Money, Attorney at law
and ex'assistant United States at.
torncy. Office In Olney building.
Las Vegas, N. NJ,
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-23

The Ration Range office, up the
country. has just turned out a very at
tractive piece Of printing In the shape
of a directory Of the B. of l.. f.. diyis-
ion No, 251. It is gotten up in pam
phlet form. printed In colors and
beautifully bound. and Is presented to
the engineers by f. n. colip. A. por-
trait and life sketch of r. b. Kelley.
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SUMNER RESORTS.
VIRGINIA.

VERY ACCESSIBLE. 90 MI FROM WASH. VIA
Blnes,out: y.iley. mi. and water scenery; shaded
and swimming; spring beds: no children: daily
mall. r. p D.: telephone; good fare; fresh meats
milk. fruits. fowls: 81 pr. wk. till Nov; circuae
Star office. MAURICE CASTLEMAN. Castle
mani Ferry. Clarke Co.. Va. 1e6-e0t. xse3
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Russia's Peace Views by Witte.

AS a sequel to the conference between
Premier Rouvier and NJ. Witte at the for
eign Office In Paris on Saturday. the Rus
sian peace pienipotentiary held an extend
ed conversation with M. Neiidof. the Rus
sian ambassador. after which special
courier left for st. Petersburg. he having
dispatches for the emperor. The utmost
discretion has been observed with refer
ence to the exchanges made at Saturday S
meeting, but there Is reason to believe that
the French premier is now fully acquainted
with the Russian standpoint and with the
line of action which NJ. Witte will adopt at
the peace conference. NJ. White appears to
be satisfied with M. Rouviers assurances
that France will adopt every possible means
to assist her ally to reach satisfactory ar
rangement. Until now both have succeed
ed In keeping their respective programs
from publicity, and therefore assertions
emanating from various quarters purport-
ing to specify the claims of either side are
purely speculative. 1t Is the universal de-
sire here that the result of the conference
will be cessation of ho5tilities, while the
hope Is expressed that Russia will be able
to find an issue from her awkward situa-
ton without sacrificing her national self
respect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-24
Young Woman's Suicide in Almshouse.

Bertha Rogers. who several days ago took
carbolic acid and probably other poison,
died yesterday afternoon at Bellevue Asy-
lum. the county almshouse. at Hagerstown,
Md. whittier she was taken soon after she
took the poison. She was aged about
twenty-one. Her home was formerly at
Luray, Va. where her father and step
mother reside. She had been living In
Hagerstown for several years and was en-
ployed in a factory. For the past year she
made her home with Mrs. Lee Conner, for
merly of Luray.
Last winter she went TO Luray to visit
her father Soon afterward she eloped with
her stepmothers son. young man named
Smith. For some reason-objection on the
part of the stepmother, II is alleged-the
couple did not live together, and the girl
returned to Hagerstown. retaining her
maiden name. She frequently spoke OF her
unhappy lot and told friends that some day
she would become desperate and end her
earthly existence. After she swallowed The
carbolic acid her trunk was searched and
capsules containing drugs were found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-24
DESPERATE FIGHTING REPORTED
10000 japanese Troops Attacking
Russian Position-Bayonet Charges.

A London news agency dispatch says that
desperate fight for the possession OF Tu-
men Pass is progressing Thirty thousand
Japanese under General Hasegawa are i'm
petuouosiy attacking the Russians. Four
bayouet charges have been already re-
pulsed. with terrible slaughter The Rus
slams are stirl stuhborniy holding their
ground.
Before the engagement became general
the Japanese attacked n Russian position
fifteen miles below Kaikjond at o O'Clock at
night. The Russians held them at bay un-
I'll midnight when they were forced TO fall
back on their main body. They retired In
good order. saving all their guns and los
ing. so far as known. thirteen killed and
fortyseven wounded
There Is no confirmation OF the foregoing
but the latest unofficial kilograms from
Tokyo suggest the lmmnence of lighting
at Tumen Pass
The Russians reported to be holding
the north bank of the rumen river. They
are busly intrcnching. believing the main
Japanese advance against Vladivostok will
be from northern Korea and Possict bay.
1t is reported that the battle was expected
as long ago June 2o.
According To the Tokyo correspondent OF
the Telegraph. 1000 Russian infantry and
cavalry. with four guns. came into collision
prematurely with 800 Japanese cavalry on
Thursday last at Mahansan. The Russians
retreated with great loss They showed re-
luctance to fight.
The correspondent OF the London Daily
Telegraph at Tokyo forwards a dispatch
from the Japanese correspondent Of that
paper at Moi. Japan. telling Of a daring
reconnaissance Of a Japanese squadron in
Possiet bay July II Three days later
the Japanese vessels occupied Russinpan,
where there is vast and splendid harbor.
Some of the vessels the correspondent says.
ran right inside Possiet bay. which ia of
great strategical value.
The ST. Petersburg Novoe Nremya says
that Japanese torpedo boats. taking adj
vantage of thick mist and rain, have
approached several bays near Nladivostok.
They landed party at Gashkevitch gulf,
hay
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-24
VICTIMS OF GUNBoAT DISASTER
Forty-Seven Buried in One Grave at
San Diego Yesterday

Forty of the gunboat BennIngton's
dead were buried at San Diego Cal, yester-
day, in a common grave In the little mil
itary cemetery on the crest of the promon-
tory of Iona. high above the waters of
San Diego bay on the one side and within
sound of the booming surf of the Pacific on
the other Without the crash of drum
or the sound of brass, without pomp or pa
rade, yet with simple impressiveness, all
honor was paid the nations dead.
They have honored dead to keep them
company. All about them lie those who
died in the nations more trying times
Gravestones. yellow with age bear the
names of men who died at Monterey in
the Mexican war: others who gave up
their lives in the conquest of California.
and who followed Commodore Stockton at
old San Pasqual. These are their neigh
borS In death.
Army and navy paid their last tributes
no less sincere than the simple grief of
the representatives. of peace. who made
the long journey around or across the
bay. From Fort Rosecrans came the 18th
Company, Coast Artillery; from the city
OF San Diego the naval reserves; from the
Universal Brotherhood's home, on Point
Iona. company of khaki-clad representa-
tives, and from the government ship For
tune dozen sailors. But the most i'm
pressive body OF mourners were the fifty
two men from the battered Bennington.
Besides these there were hundreds of civ
ilians who, unthoughtful of the fatiguing
journey from the city. brought their offer
ings of flowers to lay upon the graves.
San Diego was city of mourning. AL
though the people of this little city have
taken in the Bennington catastrophe an in
terest that was personal to all from the
moment that it happened. they set apart
this beautiful Sabbath day to pay last and
loving tribute to the dead.
Thousands filed through the morgues yes
terday morning with arms filled with flow
ers dropping the blossoms here and
there upon some unfortunates hag-draped
coffin. Other thousands gathered In the
plaza whence the procession OF coffin
laden wagons was to start.
Promptly at noon the long line of vehi-
cles began the journey around the bay to
the burial place. Owing to the steep hills
and rough roads. 1t was found impracti-
cable to use hearses or even dead wagons
and the bodies were stacked in heavy ex-
press wagons and other ordinary vehicles
There were no bands of music to stir
the people with doleful melOdy-everythin
was quiet and businesslke. The task was
too big to be hampered by any usages of
ordinary funerals. Forty-seven bodies were
to be buried. and to bury them It was nee
essary to haul them ten miles up steep hills
and along dusty roads.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-24
Cyclone Caused Havoc in Wisconsin.

With roar that was heard FIVE miles
a cyclone struck the northern rim OF Racine
county. Wis. yesterday. killing two men
and damaging property and crops 10 the
value of 100000. The cyclone came from
the southwest. and its first dip struck a
large barn. which was torn to pieces. the
debris. with grain and farm machinery. be-
ing scattered 200 feet Trees were uproot-
ed and fences blown away. the damage on
this farm alone amounting to 5000. In
every quarter grain il ruined. For miles
down. A farm in Thompsonville an IN
known workman struck and killed
Near Union Grove. Adam Hunter an old
farmer. was picked up by the cyclone and
his neck broken. At the Haumerson brick
yard lightning struck a shed and six men
were stunned. At least a dozen cattle were
killed and the telephone wires in the district
were blown down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-24

but as he says? Nobody can do a thing
with him when his back Is up
NO sooner had the delegation of owners
left Witte with his ultimstum as TO the
concessions to be made than he sent or
ders TO the striking operatives to inmed-
ately return to work. which they did with
out remonstrance
Nltte Is far and away the biggest mar,
of hts generation in Russia and II is doubt
Tul II the empire ever produced a greater
as that which goes in such country to lift
IL out OF the past and into the present.
No act of the reign of Nicholas III can
be believed more personal prompted by "A
higher conservation 10 duty or of larger
significance as to his tendency to independ-
encc than the final selection of White the
representative OF his country In delibera-
lions and proceedings so involving its flu
ture. Only those who have seen a bit of
the inside of Russia. been In the atmos-
phere of officia lido n-which. in other words.
is thralidoDl--can have any appreciation of
what Nicholas had TO undergo in schooling
himself to the appointment"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-24
MARYLAND.
BLUE MOUNTAIN
HOUSE.
BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, MD.
NOW OPEN.

Marylands Queen Mountain Resort 25th consec-
utive season Everything strictly frst-class For
rates, reservation OF rooms etc. address p s.
FLYNN, Manager. Blue Mountain p. O., Washing
ton CO., Md. iyI5-l5t Ia