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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-05

J, L. l.iggett of Hillsboro. the mil
~lionaire stockman. has returned from
the east.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-05

RRBEKAH LODGE. l. o. o. p.
meets second and fourth Thursday
evenings Of each month a. the !.
O. O. v. hall. Mrs. A. NJ. Augusta
O'Malley. n. G.: Miss Nora Denton,
v. O.: Mrs. Mary l. wertx. Seere-
tary: Mrs. Sarah Roberts. Treas
urer.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-05

EASTERN STAR, REGULAR COM
munication second and fourth
Thursday evenings Of each month
All visiting brothers and sisters are
cordially invited. Mrs. Ida l.. See
linger. worthy matron: Miss May
Howell, secretary.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-05

CHAPMAN LODGE NO. ?. A. Y, Il
A. N. Regular communication first
and third Thursdays Ia each
month. Visiting brothers cordially
invited. c. d. Boucher. W. H.:
chas. II. Sporleder. Secretary.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-05
society AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY

FRATtRSAL UNION or AMERICA.
Meets first and third Wednesday
evenings % each meath i'm the
woodman hall on Sixth street. Al
q O'Clock. Prank Mcclure. r.
~; W. G. Koogler. Secretary, Wis
iting members cordially invited.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-05

b. P. o. T.. MEETS SECOND AND
fourth Tuesday evenings each
month. at knights OF Pythias Hall.
Visiting brothers are cordially In.
yited. Hailett Reynolds. exalted
ruler; T. II. Blauvelt. secretary.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23
MIKE KELLY is
NO CHEAP MAN

TORONTO, December ,23.-"Manager
Mike Kelly. who will endeavor to retain
for Toronto the pennant won last season
by his namesake, Joe Kelley. will get
salary of $500 in advance of that paid
the latter last season." said President
McCaffrey. "At that we are satisfied
with the deal we made with him.
He is no experiment, having already
piloted a number of teams to PEN
nant positions. and, besides. he is a
young man with many years Of base
ball ahead of him. So much cannot be
said of some of the other applicants for
the managers job of the Torontos-"
Ebbets of the Brooklyn Nationals Friday
morning." continued Mr.. Mccartney, in
which he offered to give us Jimmy Casey
for Mckinley and $1,000. His original
proposition was MCKINLEY and $4,000,
but when he reached reasonable figures
he was too late and we had signed KEEL
ley, who Is undoubtedly one of the best
young managers in the country. We
have no intention of trading mckinley
or using him as the basis Of any deals
that may be contaminated later. He
will be found on the pitching staff again
next season.
The managerial problem has occupied
SO much of the time and attention of
President Mccartney, who is virtually the
manager of the champions at present,
that there has not as yet been favor
able opportunity for the discussion of
the new grounds question, but that Will
be dealt with this week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23

ture and try to convince him that he can
raise the club to higher position in the
league race if he gets the appointment.
The Boston Americans will sport noisy
hosiery next season. Owner Taylor is al
ready calling them his Red Sox, and
thinks that should be their title. He
should remember that red is not win
ming color in the big leagues. When did
those Cincinnati Reds ever win a pen
nant?
The Cleveland team has purchased
Charles Hickman from the Chicago White
Sox. Cheerful Charles" as Hickman is
popularity known, was formerly a Nap.
but finished the last season with Chicago.
Hickman did not want to play with Cleve-
land on account of difference with Man
ager Armour, but he and Lajoie are great
friendc.
Hickman was with Cleveland in 1905.
Then he went to Detroit. The Tigers sent
him to this city, where he played the ma
Jor portion of last season. The White Sox
bought him outright toward the end of the
season. He played at second and did some
fair stick work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23
JETTIEs NEARLY DONE.
Great Channel Work Gives Largest
Ships Access to Mississippi.

NEW ORLEANS, La. December o.
One of the greatest channel-making I'M
dertakings in the history Of American river
improvements will be brought nearly to
completion this week, when the jetties at
the mouth of the southwest pass Of the
Mississippi river are finished. After some
dredging between them has been COM
pleted. these Jetties will give the south
one of the deepest harbors in the world by
opening to the access OF the largest
steamships afloat the 100 and 200 foot
depths of the lower Mississippi river.
The harbor thus made accessible has
navigable water connection with At least
a dozen states bordering the Mississippi
and its tributaries, the Ohio. Missouri.
Arkansas and Red rivers. About 100000
is being spent on this improvement by the
United States government
The new jetties were begun four years
ago. They are on larger scale and more
substantial than the famous 1etties at the
Missssippi's south pass-an outlet which
for more than thirty years has been the
rivers commercial entrance. They are
nearly parallel walls. one about three and
the other about four miles long, lying
more than half a mile apart and built in
the shoal water at the juncture OF the
pass with the Gulf, Of Mexico.
Their purpose is to confine and thus
accelerate the rivers current across mud
bar about three miles broad SO as to pro-
duce a channel at least 1000 feet wide.
with a minimum depth of thirty-hve feet.
The swift current which they have pro-
duced. aided by dredging. even before
their completion, has caused a tremendous
scour and has already made fifty TO
eighty-five feet of water In some places
where at the beginning Of the work the
depth was but little over a mans head.
To make the uniform contract depth there
Is still in several spots about ten feet OF
mud to be removed. It is expected that
the high water due within few weeks
will sweep the remaining mud deposits
out to sea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23
DANIELS
HAS NOT GONE BACK

Swimmers are beginning to wonder
whether Champion G. NJ Daniels of the
New York Athletic Club will ever reach
the end Of HIS tether. A few days ago
the voice went around that he was out of
shape. going back and unable to come
within striking distance of his former
time. Last Thursday night in the As by
20 foot pool of the Oakland A. c., in Pitts
burg. the human pickereI' set out to dis
prove the statement, and he did to the
queens taste. Paced by his clubmate. l..
deb Handley, to whom he conceded a
handicap, he formed through two lengths
and one-quarter Of the pool at such a ter
rifle clip that the timekeepers could hard
ly believe their eyes when they consulted
their watches, One stood at % 40, the
other two at 80 seconds fat
Sixty yards In exactly half a minute.
The wonderful performance, one and one
fifth seconds faster than the previous
worlds record made by Daniels himself
last year. gives the welcome evidence that
our two-headed phenomenon can be
counted on at any moment to equal his
best figures. Daniels swan that peculiar
long. easy stroke of his own brew that is
half trudgeon and half crawl and that
carries him over the surface with hardly
any apparent effort.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23
MUscATINE BASKET BALL TEAM.

Saturday. Saturday night it went to
Alexandria to play the Alexandria team
Leaving Washington tomorrow morning
the team will travel to Charlottesville
Va. and then strike due west for Gin
cinnati, then through Indiana. Illinois and
Iowa, which will finish the eastern tour.
After rest of three days in their native
town, in which the team will play the
Chicago champions, the boys will leave for
Des Moines, Iowa. which will be the first
stop On the western trip. This trip will in
clude cities in every state until the coast
is reached. Turning north from Los An
geles, the team will take in the entire
coast until Vancouver. B. c.. is reached.
From there it will start southwest, playing
in Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Iowa, reaching home about April. On this
last stretch the team will clash with the
famous Nome, Alaska, team. which will
be starting it's eastern invasion. The two
teams will meet either in Glasco Kan, or
Cheyenne, Wyo.
The Muscatine team is composed of
seven players, hardly more than boys.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23
NOTES OF THE BOXERS.

Freddie WEIGH has been matched to
box Charley Neary at Milwaukee Janu-
arg Is They are to box ten rounds.
JACK blackourn and Mike Donovan OF
Rochester are to box at Reading IN
ten-round bout Christmas afternoon.
Unk Russell Is on the warpath. and
20 "es.' ohn 'hihhs ne mas niplo~ea
since they met and nsures Wine Is al
standstilI
Joe Waicott Is still keeping his hand IN
at the boxing game. He will meet Terry
ase.4,, .. .tx--,,,na r,,,u A.,,ra ~.
eroao"ay Aeh'eic Siuo VI Fh''soeiphla'
H Is SAFE 10 remarR tnat Tommy Burns
Will carry many British wager In the
rest OF his bouts over IN England
Joe Galhgan; the itahan lightweight
VINO gave Mcfarland one OF the bat
his six-round bout December - with Steve
kinney at RACINE. Joe mas one victory
over kinney.
,x,- .r
MIKE Cfwino sullivan is hard at work
VII s M"yieI JACK 70 get a matcn
A'S SoS
:. i n on .ecehtiy. sullivan mas placed
weight 70 De loo POUNDS.
c., ,xo,
ySeoIse Memsic is camping on Battling
nslsohs traii. ne agrees to night the
Drn a. LOO pounos r1nssioe. He also
ons,s .NeIson ms choice OF any OF hve
r rs.ess, aho VIII post wager OF 1000.
MeEsE Shaiiehse Is also open TO Packey
'''' "f'ahu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23
FAST BASKET BALL
CONTEST EXPECTED

What promises to be one of the fastest
basket ball games played in Washington
this season will come off at the National
Guard Armory gymnasium tonight be-
tween the Second Regiment quint, the
fastest in the city, and the Muscatine.
Iowa, team, which claims the champion
ship of the west. The Muscatine team is
at present on a trip which will take in
nearly every town in the country that sup
ports basket ball. Starting from their
home in Muscatine. Iowa, the boys toured
Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and then
crossed the frontier into Canada. Then
coming down the eastern coast of this
country, playing the leading teams in the
east, the team arrived in Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23
THE WILLY-NILLY PARTY.
Lawson Would Force a Third Term
on the President.

NEW YORK, December o3.-When
Thomas w. Lawson left the White House
last Tuesday morning. after long secret
conference with President Roosevelt, he
refused to discuss his visit, while promis-
ing "a statement to the public within a
few days" This statement was outlined
by Mr.. Lawson last night to a New York
World reporter. Mr.. Lawson therein an
nounces the launching of new political
party. Its candidates for President and
Vice President will be Theodore Roosevelt
and Gov. John A. johnson. of Minnesota
Today in Boston Mr.. Lawson's lawyers
are at work on the plan to be followed in
the legal organization Of the new party
Tomorrow. according to Mr.. Lawson's
emphatic assurances. the campaign de-
signed to give President Roosevelt four
more years of ONCE will begin and will
continue until the close of the polls in
every state on election day, 1908.
In his formal announcement Mr.. Law
son avoids any direct statement that his
chosen candidates-PresIdent Roosevelt
and Gov. Johnson-have acquiesced in his
political program. but by suggestion it
was made clear that at the White House
conference Of Tuesday morning the Law
son political plan was placed before the
President.
1T matters not a whit to me-" said
Mr.. Lawson, whether President Rocse-
welt approves of the new party or not,
whether he consents to run as its presi-
dental candidate or openly refuses to do
50.
He will be our candidate just the same,
and by the vote of the people will be COM
PEELED to complete the Job he has COM
menced. the rescue OF the country from
the wholesale thieves of Wall street"
Mr.. Lawson claims to have an organiza-
ton In every, state of the Union. His
state leaders have already been selected
and their work, he asserts, is already
under way. He has as yet selected no
name for his party. not even a party
emblem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23

kitty Bransfield is mentioned as the
new manager for the Milwaukee club.
Jimmie Barrett feels sure that his knee
will be as strong as ever next season If
this is so. the brilliant youngsters will
have to go some to get Jim's old place.
Judge Kavannaugh has decided not to
stand for the nomination for governor of
Arkansas He will continue as president
of the Southern League ant member of
the national board.
William Carrigan will be a fixture with
the Boston Americans next season.
Tim Flood. a former Dodger who was
expelled from the Eastern League for al
legged rowdyism, will be st. Paurs next
manager.
Jimmy McAleer intends TO start the sea-
son with Jimmy Williams at third base. If
Williams is too heavy or slow for that po-
sition he will exchange places with Ferris,
who is willing to play either second or
third base.
Billy Smith of the Atlanta club says he
is developing a big Lacquer in the person
Of Pitcher Ford, one of the youngsters
who helped Smith to land the Southern
League flag. Clark Grimth has his eye on
Ford.
Manager Clymer of the Columbus club
saws he considers Bunk" Congalton the
best pinch hitter in the business Short of
speed is the only weakness developed by
Bunk
With Jake Stahl. Charley Hemphill and
Keller on the job for the Yankees, where
will Bell stand? Perhaps the westerner
will make Stahl and Hemphill hustle for
a regular job.
There is a rumor aDro d to the effect
that Mike Mowrey may not play with the
Reds next season. Mowrey is mentioned in
some deal which would land him at third
| base for the st. Louis Nationals, Hans
Lobart being picked to hoiu down the
Reds third bag.
The Brooklyn club has asked for waiv-
| yers on Outfielder Burch and the St
| Louis club wants to dispose or Outfelder
| Jack Murray The latter is one of the men
who was said to be headed for the Polo
Grounds a few weeks ago Looks like Nc
| Graw doesn't want him.
John CAMEL believes that ne can give
| the Cincinnati fans satisfaction If he
should happen to be chosen as the man.
ager of the Reds for next season. He will
| see President Hermann in the near flu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23
Use Shopping to Cure Insanity.

ST. LOUIS, December 23.-Sbopping
as a contributory means of treating IN
sanity is in vogue at the st. Louis In
sane Asylum. Sixty women suffering
with milder forms of mental diseases
are taking this novel course II treat
ment in the department stores. One
party of twenty will spend the greater
the outing, purchasing rememor ORANGES
for their friends and forgetting for the
time the discipline of the big ,nstitu-
ton on Arsenal street. In the stores
the patients seek the usual naunts OF
bargain hunters and purchase with a
keen regard to appearance and value.
just as their normal sisters buy around
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23
Hickman Pleased With Cleveland.

CLEVELAND Ohio, December %
Charles Hickman is pleased to return to
the Cleveland club and play in a Nap
uniform during the season of 1908. In a
telegram to the Cleveland club yester-
day Hickman says he is more than hap
DIV over the sale that transferred him
.fhe Chicago Americans to the Maps.
This may be the Christmas present
that Manager Lajoie had in mind to
present to the fans. He could not make
a more popular selection. for Hickman
can count his friends by the thousands
in Cleveland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23

who have been brought up in the high
school together. and who are taking this
trip not for the sake of making money,
but as supplement to their education.
During the stay in New York and New
Jersey the team had dates, with some
of the leading quints in those states.
But as there was some doubt as to the
amateur standing of these teams the
games were cancelled at a great loss to
the visitors. who would rather lose money
than their amateur standing The games
played to date show eleven victories out
ofthirteen games The results follow:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23
cracks. Jacobite will likely be favorite

cracks. Jacobite will likely be favorite
for the event.
During the week some little talk has
leaked out as to the yearlings in training
here. Every man at the track ordinarily
refuses to talk of the youngsters, but the
excellent work of a chestnut in the Bur-
lew & O'Neil stable has started tongues
wagging. This trick is by Toddington
out of Luckless and is reputed to be
about the best locker at the track. He
has shown some fine work, according to
the checkers, and is picked as an early
winner. Another good one in the same
stable is by Blues. his dam being un-
known. A brother of Rams Horn is
said to be fast also, but the Toddington
colt Is the sensation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23

way to California. where he gradually
worked to the top. until now he is perched
on the upper rung of the ladder of glove
fame. and all because a pesky false mus
tacne fell of and deprived him Of an easy
living as a professional lacrosse player.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23

Former Mayor John D. Swartz. seventy
six years old. died suddenly at his home
in Hagerstown, Nd, yesterday afternoon.
While walking in the yard he was strick-
en- and fell to the ground. He was as
sisted into the house and died in a few
hours. He was native Of Hesse Darn
stadt, Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23

Napoleon Lajoie will visit his old home
in Woonsocket. r. l.. about New Year.
and spend several weeks there. 1t has
been many years since Larry paid his
old hunting ground an extended visit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23
Remarkable Shooting Feat.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. December GA
remarkable shooting exhibition ended yes
terday when A. Toepperwein completed a
ten-day shooting series during which he
shot at 1850 targets and missed only
nine.
This breaks the worlds record in sew
eral different ways. both as to the num-
Der Of targets shot at and the number
missed. Toepperwein closed the exhibi-
ton in whirlwind fashion. shooting at
the final $500 targets, and missing only
one. Toepperwein used a 22-caliber auto
matte rife, and the block targets were
az inches thick. They were thrown into
the air twenty feet from the marksman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23
Weston snubs Dan o'Leary.

NEW YORK, December Backward
Payson Weston. the sixty-nine-year-old
pedestrian who recently walked from
Maine to Chicago. refuses absolutely to
accept the challenge Of Dan O'Leary.
Weston says that O'Leary is seven years
younger than he is. and is not in his
class.
He talks about walking 1000 miles in
1000 hours" said Weston. why, the
only trick In doing that is to keep awake.
A woman could do it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23
BASE BALL NOTES.

kitty Bransfield is mentioned as the
new manager for the Milwaukee club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23

These are q few Of the important re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23

John CAMEL believes that ne can give
the Cincinnati fans satisfaction If he
should happen to be chosen as the man.
ager of the Reds for next season. He will
see President Hermann in the near flu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23

Jimmie Barrett feels sure that his knee
will be as strong as ever next season. If
this is so, the brilliant youngsters will
have to go some to get Jim's old place.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-04-19

colony in all the lands I have visit
ed, and our people are as good as
any other people. It will be even
more true Of foreig gners beguiled in
bulk to our. shores by immigrant
agents and labor bureaus, +,
(5) After every allowance has been
made for lamentable defects and re-
grettable blemishes it remains true
that our southern type of life is
about the best to be found anywhere.
l have seen many lands, and I give
it as my deliberate Judgment that
there has not appeared on the earth
better type of civilization than
that Of the old south. Our people
believe the Bible, attend church,
keep the Sabbath, reverence the sane
tity Of the home and stand for pur-
ity in government better than do any
people | have seen. If there IS any
hing better this side of heaven than
an oli-fashioned Christian home in
the south / have NOT yet met it. For
my part, I do not care to change the
type, or even to take the risk Of
changing it. If any good foreigners
desire to come among us on their own
motion, and will conform to this type,
we shall be glad to see them, and we
will give them Christian welcome.
But we need no other sort, and not
too many Of any sort. We shall need
all the land God has given us for our
own children and our children s chill
dren.
The south is the home OF Ameri-
canism and the stronghold of evanec-
lical religion, anl the nations can
rive us nothing which we can afford
to take for these good things. We
can do the world more good by pre-
serving an example of such Il high
type Of civilization than we can by
furnishing refuge for huge blocks
OF foreigners who come 10 us for
money only, and whom we seek 20
draw to us from no higher motive
than that of greed.
"Godlincss with contentmcnt is
great gain" said the apostle. It is
great gain for the south in both in
dividual life and in the life of the
community as whole.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-04-19
A Poor Organ.

Dam isl the bile. That's whav youl
liver does if it's torpid. Then the
bile overflows into the blood-poisons
your system, causing sick-headache,
biliousness, sallow skin, coated ton
que, sick stomach, dizziness, faintjns
spells, dark rings about the eyes,
worn-out look, etc. Ramon's treat
ment of Liver Pills and Tonic Pellets
strengthens the liver--makes it do it's
own work. Prevents and cures these
troubles. Aids-doesn force. Entire
treatment 25c.