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Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27

viction. He was one of those men who
have constantly appeared, like evil ge-
muses., in Russian history just at the
time when conditions were more promis-
ing for putting an end to despotism, to
turn the Russian rulers from liberalism
back into the paths of reaction. 1t wac
he who became the guiding spirit Of the
reaction, after Nicholas II. had issued his
famous manifesto, in the fall of 1903,
promising the people share in the gov
ernment. Holding the position of master
of the palace, in league with the court
plotteEs, who were determined to restore
the old regime, he constantly had the En-
peror's ear.
Trepoff's life was many times attempted,
but he always escaped When the Grand
Duke Sergius was assass1nated, he was
named governor general of Moscow. Later
Trepoff was summoned to st. Petersburg
and given the command of the Imperial
Guards and made governor general of the
city.
He took up his residence in the winter
palace and became in fact if not in name,
dictator of Russia. Anarchy prevailed
when he arrived. An uprising on large
scale was momentarily expected. Thou
sands had fled the city, But, with Ire
poff in the saddle, the aspect of affairs
changed. Troops filed the streets and
dead walls were placarded with notices
that the slightest disorder would be sup
pressed without mercy. Under his iron
hand the city became quiet.
During those trying weeks plot after
plot to kill him was discovered and frus-
trated. Two of his own nieces were in
volved in the conspiracy. But in his dun
geon-like room in the center of the palace,
where no bomb could reach him, save by
shattering a dozen walls, with the tele-
phone constantly at his side, he issued OF
ders and received reports.
The Emperor was made to believe Tre-
poff alone was capable of safeguarding
the lives of himself and the imperial fam
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27
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Consul Milner reports that 80 per cent
of the lace manufactured in Calais,
France, is exported to the United States.
Its value is 100000.
Speaker Cannon, Elihu Root, Secretary
CT State, and Grover Cleveland are among
those invited to the trans-Mississippi com.
mercial congress to open in Kansas City
Nov. 1.
In an interview W. R. Hearst announc-
ed definitely his decision to stand for Gov.
ernor of New York as the candidate of
the Independence League, but intimated
that if the Democratic convention at Buff
falo chose to indorse him he would not
object.
The three richest men in the House Of
Representatives are John e. Andrus OF
New York, William B. Mckinley of IHi.
nois and William R. Hearst of New York,
with George F. Huff and Edward Dev,
Morrell of Pennsylvania a close fourth
and fifth.
Gov. Guild was the recipient recently
from the Massachusetts Society of the
Sons of the Revolution of replica of the
flag of Bunker Hill. hoisted by the colon.
lists June II. 1775.
Senator Benson, the successor of Sen.
ator Burton of Kansas, was one of the
three lawyers in the State Senate in
1881 who framed the first prohibition law
the State ever had
Senator La Toilette is vegetarian. His
daily menu consists of fresh vegetables,
English walnuts and milk, and it is said a.
prize fighter anxious to get into the pink
OF condition would envy him.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27
WORSE THAN HOMELESS.
Chicago Has 10000 Young Students
in Crime.

in Crime.
A charitable worker who has come IN
touch with the young Of the poorer dis
tricts Of Chicago, whence come the tough
lad, estimates that there are over 10000
boys in the city who are worse than home
less. In other words, they are in direct
line of becoming criminals or public
charges, under the teaching of the train
ed criminal who makes the city his refuge
The fact that they can buy weapons
and ammunition without explanation
makes it an easy matter for youthful
thugs to start on their careers. They
laugh at the efforts of the police to catch
them. For the most part they live at
home or with relatives, and in the neigh
borhoods are known as dissipated and
tough boys, but not as holdup men. With
companions they sally out at night to iso-
lated sections of the city where they know
the police protection to be inadequate.
Ihey choose secluded spots offering the
protection of darkness and lay In wait.
Then, with plenty of time deliberately 10
stop the victim and take from him valua-
bles, they operate until it is time for the
policeman to be in the vicinity, or until
the profits of the expedition are sufficient
to satisfy their spirit of revelry and riot.
ing
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27
INDIANS AND IRRIGATION.
Employed on Government Projects
In Arizona and Montana.

III Arizona and Montana.
On several of the big government irri-
CATION projects now under construction
pains have been taken to give employment
to large numbers of Indians living near
the works. In connection with every pro-
Ject the government finds it necessary to
undertake more or less road building, and
| Il Is principally on this work that the In
! dams are employed. Others, more accus-
toned to labor, have employment on the
canals and at the dam sites. In this way
they are enabled to earn living and to fit
themselves to become self-supporting when
the government moves from the field and
they are thrown on their own resources.
In Arizona several hundred Apache In
dians are now employed in road building
and on other works connected with the ir-
rigation system. When this project is
completed and the lands are taken up by
settlers, the Indians, or many of them,
will be able to find employment with the
settlers, as there is much work to be done
before the irrigated lands are converted
Into productive fields. In Montana many
more Indians are at work on the Milk riv-
er project, and later, when the government
begins constructions in the klamath basin,
employment will be given to all klamath
81 day. Possibly better pay will be
granted to those who are competent to
earn more.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27
SIX HUNDRED JUNKS SUNK.
Loss by TyphOOn at HOngkone
Reaches Appalling Figures.


Reaches Appalling Figures.
The entire fleet of 600 fishing Junks
sailing from Hongkong was lost in the
typhoon, increasing the death toll to 1O,
900 persons. Practically all the Baluchls
tan troops and 800 of the West Kent reg
iment are cooperating in clearing away
the wreckage of the typhoon. Prodigious
efforts are being made to recover the
bodies, which are being carried off IN
carloads The full extent of the typhoon's
havoc is not yet known, but conservative
estimates place the material damage at
$2O,OO0.OO0.
Reports of disasters at sea are constant
ly being received. The steamer Albatross
with fifteen passengers on board, founder
ed near Futuamen pass. Only six passen-
gers and two Of the crew were saved. They
swan ashore. The steamer Hongkone
also was lost, and its entire crew is miss
ing. The steamer Wing Fat, from Sam
chun, foundered and 130 passengers and
ten of it's crew are missing. Only two
,f the crew are said to have been rescued
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27
MANY DIE IN TYPHOON
DISASTROUS STORM IN HONG
KONG HARBOR.
vessels Are Sunk and Loss of Life
LIS Estimated at 1,OOO-Changed
Ocean Currents Held Responsible
Tor Recent Shipwrecks.

Loss of life estimated at 1000 has
resulted from a typhoon which swept
the island on which. Hongkong is To-
Gated. Enormous damage has been done
no shipping and other property. This
as the news contained in cable dis
patches received from the Chinese city.
dt is reported that the coast for miles
as lined with the wrecks of small sail
Ang craft caught in the storm and driv-
"en ashore. In Hongkong harbor many
vessels foundered and officers were
driven ashore. The loss of life was
heaviest among the crews on vessels in
port 1t is reported that in numerous
cases not man escaped from the ships.
Island in the China Sen.
Hongkong is an island situated In the
China Sea, off the coast of China, from
which it is separated by a narrow
strait. It was yielded to Great Britain
soy treaty in 1912. The roadstead has a
Twell-protected anchorage. Victoria. the
capital, commonly called Hongkong, is
situated on a bay Of the same name,
setting up into the north side Of the
island.
The port is a great center of the for
~eign trade Of China. Total exports are
roughly estimated at $125,OOO,OOO and
imports at S100,00O,000 AS a British
colony on Chinese soil it is the most
Important in its political and defensive
position, and is the headquarters Of the
military, naval and mercantile. estab-
aishments. The population of Hong
kong, the city, is about 275,0OO.
Pacific Currents Changed.
New York shipping men were much
interested in a cable dispatch which
stated that the steamer Empress of
China on arriving at Tokyo Sunday re-
sported that considerable changes have
taken place in Pacific Ocean currents.
They regarded this as accounting for
the stranding of so many steamers in
the Pacific recently in the vicinity of
'fbe Hawaiian Islands. The steamers
Nfanchuria and Mongolia and the Uni
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Day laborers in Japan average 20 cents
for days pay.
The Chicago Walters Union has dou
bled its membership during the, last
month.
Leaf strippers in the manufacture OF
cigars in Porto Rico receive during 9
week an average of $2.65 apiece.
The Victorian government has decided
to buy 1,4OO acres of land at Maribyrn-
ong, near Melbourne, to be used for work.
mems homes.
The nine-hour day for coal miners in
France will be reduced to eight and a
half in the beginning of 1908, and to eight
hours In 1910.
Sunday shaving in Niagara Falls, N
Y, must stop. At least, this Is the de
cision of the officers of the Journeymen
BARRIERS Union of that city.
The Cigarmakers' International Union,
since the adoption of the benefit system
26 years ago, has paid out in benefits
nearly 100000 to It's members.
Chinese laborers in Samoa get only
$3.50 a month, besides board, lodging and
medical attendance. They want S., but
the planters say that that would make
farming improbable.
The most important feature of the con-
vention of the International Brotherhood
of Stationary Firemen, held at Omaha,
Neb., recently was the raising of the per
capita tax to cents to increase the funds
on hand.
Organized labor has protested against
the plan of Postmaster Owens of Mil
waukee to equip street mail cars on the
ground that it might interfere with a
possible desire of the unions to tie up the
street railway lines.
Numerically the Farmers Union Is
larger than any other in the country and
1t Is growing at the rate of a thousand
members a day. In Texas, where the first
was organized, there are 1000 local Or
ganizations, with a total membership of
100000.
AS an index to the state of employment
among workmen, the New York Labor
Bulletin reports that during the first
quarter of the year only 6.5 per cent of
the members of labor unions in the State
were idle. At the end of March 90 per
cent were idle, numbering 37,237 persons.
This was the smallest proportion in ten
years.
The sweat shop evil is being desperately
fought by union labor in New York. It
is hard to kill, as tenement dwellers,
though wretchedly underpaid, prefer to
do the work at their homes. On the prin-
ciple of law that a mans home Is his cas-
tie, which the king may not enter, it Of
fers protection to sweat shop methods in
employment of minor children Of the
slums.
The grand lodge. of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen has issued a state
ment showing the increase in membership
in the last ten years. Jan. 1, 1896, the
organization had a membership of 2O,331,
and July 1 of this year the paid-up men,
bership was S3,2S1. The increase during
the first six months of 1905 was nearly
5,00O and the officers expect to have a
membership of 10000 by the end of this
year. The organization is carrying more
than S75,OO0OOO of insurance on its mem
bers, and is the strongest numerically
and financially of all the railroad brother
hoods.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27

A Pennsylvania mail train broke all
records on that line by the run from Har-
risburg to Altoona, 132 miles in 119 min
utes.
The Illinois Central will soon have it's
own laundry in Chicago, where will be
washed all the linen used on the 1876
miles of this system.
A San Francisco report says that the
Gould lines have secured right of way
across central Oregon to some point on
the Snake river as a terminus for the
Corvallis and Eastern road.
The preliminary statement of the Erie
railroad for the fiscal year ended Juns
30, 1906, shows gross earnings of over
S5O,0OO,0O0 an increase over the previous
year of S4,277, 900, and an increase in
net of 81 ,547, 900. The company incurred
an additional expense of only 100000 in
conducting the transportation of over 81
100000 additional gross earnings. This
is an indication that improvements which
have been completed are producing the
desired results in lessening the cost OF
transportation.
1t is curious fact that the American
style of passenger coach, with end doors,
center aisle and seats on either side,
was an English invention, while the Eu-
ropean railroads cling to the side-dOor
compartment car and use comparatively
few of the end-door coaches.
The Canadian Pacific is the first rail-
road in North America to serve afternoon
tea on its trains. Those who wish the
beverage purchase tickets at % cents each
and in the afternoon tea rolls, cakes and
so on are brought into the sleeper. This
custom, which is English, will be adopted
on transcontiuental trains oaIy.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27
Continuous Smelling Process.

Two Australian inventors have found a
new process for the continuous treatment
of iron ore. which is to be exploited
throughout the woSld. 1t is a process for
directly converting the ore into malleable
iron or steel. and is said to effect a saw
ing of % per cent. After the ore is con-
centrated it passes through a revolving
cylinder and is brought into contact with
the deoxidizing gas; thence it falls into a
bath of molten iron and is converted into
steel or malleable iron, the whole process
being automatic.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27
Man I. own Motor Boat.

The French inventor who recently as
Honished Paris by the introduction of
vnotor boats has now adopted the petrol
motor. so as to apply water propulsion
direct to the human body. The apparatus
5s devised so as to keep the body afioat
INV means of air bags and a water-tight
box containing the engine and fuel strap
ped to the back. The user sits on a sort
aof a saddle and two rods connect the
engine with a propeller. The man steers
himself by altering the position of his
hands in the water.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27
Doctor. Differ as to Alcohol.

During the recent meeting of the Brit
ish medical association, Toronto, opin-
ions as to the value of alcohol were ex-
pressed. Prof. Woodhead testified that
surgeons had come to the conclusion that
alcohol interferes with the production of
the state of immunity and that it inter
feres with the recovery of the patient
Also Sir Victor Horsley thought that the
value of alcohol as a drug was now prac-
sically nil.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27

cause, a t b o u 6 b
there have been ru-
mors that he was
poisoned.
Gen Trepo f,
whose name was in
delibly linked with
reaction and sup
preston of Russia,
was in many re-
spects a remarkable
man. He was q nat
ural despot, a ty-
rant by inclination,
aduoo tion and NOn.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27
Record-Herah.
ted States transports Thomas and Sher
thic fofn

ted States transports Thomas and Sher
idan have met this fate.
The Tokyo dispatch adds that the re,
Gort of tidal changes harmonizes with
the Kobe observatory's report Of a
great earthquake in mid-Pacifc, which
preceded the convulsion at Valparaiso
by several hours and is believed to
have made important changes in the
bed of the ocean.
AS a result of the stranding OF the
Pacific Mail liner Manchuria and the
transport Sheridan, both on their way
TO the Orient, and now followed by the
Mongolia striking reef near Midway
Island, all within less than month,
there is much congestion Of passengers
at Honolulu, and the long interruptions
of mails is causing great inconvenience.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27

lily. And so, with the press bowling at
his heels, he retired to the Cars palace
to become master. Here, in more con-
genial atmosphere, he took the direction
of the campaign for the restoration of
the old order of things. In all, six ac-
tual attempts on the life of Gen. Trepoff
have been made within the last three
wears
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27
Te1egraphic Brevities.

Armogines Sanchez, a Pulujanes chief,
has been captured by native Filipino VOL
unteers.
S. f. Kline, a laundry clerk, who went
to Atlanta, Ca, from Savannah, commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat with Q
razor.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27
Chicago.

UlICdQU. tions evince seasonable eS'
pansion and are supported
by developments which materially en-
courage industrial enterprise. Fall ac-
tivity Is practically entered upon with
An accumulation of forward work hith-
erto unsurpassed in its demands .pon
leading producers. This involves enor-
nous use of capital, and it is very op-
perfume that the bank statements this
week reflect gains in the aggregated de-
posits and heavier cash accumulations
than those of a year ago.
Notwithstanding the extreme pres
sure to which plants are subjected, 1t
Is noted that there is steadiness in the
quantities turned out, especially OF
manufactured materials, and that this
Is accompanied by an unprecedented
distribution of general merchandise.
The wholesale markets show an IN
usually large attendance Of outside
buyers and this has stimulated increas-
ed bookings for staple wares suitable
to the cold weather trade. Many new
accounts have been opened among the
jobbing branches, and heavy shipments
proceed to Pacific and Southern points,
the orders for Che latter section being
the best ever entered here No injury
has happened to the extraordinary corn
crop and the rapidly approaching har-
vest imparts added confidence in future
business projects. While the discoun2
rates for money have become frmer,
legitimate borrowing is not made diff
cult and mercantile collections continue
satisfactory.
Although the average cost of raw ma
terials has advanced to an exceptionally
high level, there is no serious complaint
from consumers, and new demands for
supplies remain unabated.
Failures reported in Chicago district
number II. against % last week and
10 year ago.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27
TREPOFF Is DEAD

Great Russian Reactionary Passes
Away Suddenly.
Gen. Trepoff, Russia's "evil genius"
died at Peterhof Saturday, and it is an
nounced that angina pectoris was the
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27
| New York

New York. play more snap, sales,
shipments and outputs in
crease, and later improve as cooler
weather sets a period to the vacation
season and fall activities become more
pronounced. State fairs, special trade
displays and low-rate excursions help
to attract buyers, who reflect conf
dence born of good crop returns and a
faith in a heavy future trade. JObbers
and wholesalers report business active,
buying free and shipments taxing ia
cilities. Railroads return the same re-
port as to business offering, and there
are rather more evidences Of strain to
operating facilities by the heavy move
ments of crops, merchandise and fuel.
Collections are rather better than OF
late, western and northwestern reports
being most favorable. Business fall
ures in the United States for the week
ending Sept. number 121, against 1873
last week, 137 in the like week of 1908,
IA in 1904, 165 in 1908 and 1877 in
1902. In Canada failures number IA,
as against "A last week and % in this
week a year ago.-Bradstreet's Com
mercial Report.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-09-27

The commercial conA
tions evince seasonable ex7
pansion and are supported
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a Disappointing Waterfall.

The late William Sharp, the
Irish poet, said an editor, was
once talking about books that de-
scribe noted places and things
Byron's description of the Dying
Gaul, Zola's description of Lour-
DIES, Washington Irving's descrip-
ton of the Alhambra.
Mr.. Sharp thought these de
scriptions caused a great deal OF
disappointment. They made peo-
pie expect too much. Suddenly he
turned to me.
" Did you ever see Niagara
he asked.
" Yes, I answered.
Then, he said, I would sym
pathize with the experience of an
American abroad. This man had
lived beside Niagara all his life,
and loved the great waterfall pas
sionately.
But one day he happened upon
Southey's excellent description of
the fails of Lodore--'The Way
That the Water Comes Down AT
Lodore, and he made up his mind
that the Lodorc Falls must be in
many ways finer than Niagara and
packing his trunk, he made a trip
to Cumberland.
After a journey of thousands
of miles, he reached Cumberland
and he arrived at the place where
he had been told that the Falls of
Lodore were situated. But were
they? He could not find them; he
could not hear their deep roar.
Not a vestige could he behold of
Southey 5 mighty torrent tumbling
and laundering down the noun
tainside.
Tired with his vain search, he
sat down to rest, and while he resi-
ed young farmer approached.
Young man, said the Amer
lean, where IS the Lodare Water
fall?
The young farmer frowned.
You are sitting on it, he said. ~
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Great men have many friend
and many more enemies. '
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Notice of CITY Election.

by virtue OF the laws OF the STAKE
of Texas, in such cases made and
provided, ard in accordance with
an ordinance of the city council of
the city of Brownsville, Texas,
made at its regular session, Monday
evening, March nineteenth G9),
A. D. 1905, ordering and providing
for a general city election, to be
held in and for the said city of
Brownsville, county of Cameron,
and state of Texas, notice is hereby
given that 2 general city election
for the said city of Brownsville will
be held on the first Cd Tuesday il
April A. D. 1906, it being the
third CD day of said month, for
the purpose of electing the follow
ing officers of and for the said city
of Brownsville, towit:-
Mayor
Secretary.
Treasurer.
Assessor and Collector.
City Attorney.
City Engineer.
City Marshal,
Two Co Aldermen for the First
Cd Ward.
One Cd Alderman for the Sec
ond CD Ward.
One Cd Alderman for the Third
60 Ward.
One'(D Alderman for the Fourth
@ Ward.
The election to be held and con-
Quoted. in all things, as required
BY law, and the following named
persons and places, respectively,
are hereby designated as the pre-
siding officers. and polling places,
for each of said respective wards,
towit;
First Ward At the house of
Joaquin Trevino. on s.. Charles
street, presiding officer, Fred Ko-
walski.
Second Ward-In a building at
corner OF Elizabeth and Tenth
streets, opposite Post Office build
ing presiding officer, Philip Bar
bour.
Third Ward-The City Hall of
the city OF Brownsville Caledonia
NJ. Cara, presiding officer
Fourth Ward-In The frame
building of Casimiro Tamayo, cor
ner 18th and Monroe streets; pre-
siding officer, Jesse O. Wheeler.
BY order of the City council of
the city of Brownsville
FREDERICK J CO1IBE
Attest Mayor
F. CHAMPION, Secretary.
Brownsville. Texas, March 10Th.
4. D. 1906.
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