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Also, To amend act establishing city court of Bessemer.
 By Drysdale-To propose an amend ment to the constitution to establish new counties.
 Also To rearrange the boundary lines of .Bessemer. I-/ Insane Asylum.
 By King-To appoint a committee to investigate the Insane hospital. MT. King said: "Very serious charges have been made against this institution, 1t being charged that many inmates had been cruelty beaten. I have on my desk several affidavits about these charges. and if 1t is true, then 1t should be stopped.
 The resolution was referred to the com- mittee on resolutions.
 A number of new sections were insert cd in reference to definitions
 The committee says 1t thinks 1t will be the best code Alabama has everhad The report was received and filed
 By John-To adopt the code of laws of Alabama.
 Also. To provide for publication of code and acts.
 Also, To propose amendment to section 194 of the constitution.
 Also, To further amend the revenue laws of the state.
 Also To establish reform school for colored boys.
 Also, To provide for recovery of in- fringment of copyright of supreme court reports.
 Book Commission.
 By Lee of Etowah-To create text book commission.
 By Haley-To vacate certain streets and alley in East Thomas.
 Also, To change boundary lines of Ely ton.
 Also, To provide for payment of circuit judges by counties.
 Asa, To create inferior court in pre- cincts for beats 37 and 21.
 By Houghton-To regulate operation Of pool tables.
 Also to appropriate s10.Ooo to the women of the Confederacy.
 By Smith-To provide for redistricting of public schools.
 By Kirby-To fix time and place of hold ing chancery court fin Madison.
 By Hoffman-To provide artificial limbs for persons who lost them in the war Also to protect fish in East Fowl river. Also to provide for better working of public roads In Mobile.
 Also to prohibit sale of liquor within one mile of Bakersville church.
 Also to provide for compensation of so- licitor of Mobile county.
 By Lyons-Also to amend act creating office of revenue commission.
 Also to appropriate s25,o0o for National
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
rHE LAzIEsr MAN ALIvE.
After 20 Years in Bed He lie Obliged
to Get Up.

What may well be the worlds rec
ord has been established by a man
named James Thompson, who went to
bed in 1877 and did not leave it until
about a fortnight ago. The LATEST
man alive was a term applied to him
by the Lurgan guardians, say the
London Telegraph.
Thompson, who lives with his moth
er at Glare, Lurgan, was still a youth
when he began his long rest. He vas
looked after by his mother, and his
presence in the house was hardly
known to the villagers. He would
have remained in bed for the rest
of his life in all probability had not
a crisis occurred in his domestic af-
fairs.
Mrs. Thompson, who is now so
years of age, was at that time taken
i'll, and had to be removed to the
Union inirmary. Left helplessly alone,
Thompson was compelled to get up.
A search was made for the suit which
he discarded 30 years ago, but he was
unable to dress without assistance.
Two neighbors were called In, and
the work of squeezing him into the
clothes occupied the three men a
whole evening. When dressed he was
too tired to walk and an ambulance
had to be brought to convey him to
the Union. He reposed there until
his mother was well enough to leave
the infirmary, when he followed her
home. This time he was compelled
to walk, as the guardians refused an
ambulance.
Thv facts Of the case came out
when the relieving officer applied tC
the Largan guardians for relief fol
Mrs. Thompson, who has only oeca
sional help from some more energetic
sons who have emigrated to Aus
tralia. She was allowed Is pence &
week. The recital of the story con
vulsed the guardians.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
CAREER OF r. D. BUCHANAN, A
MASSACHUSETTS BOY.
Began Sea Life as Cabin Boy at Six
teen-At Forty He Has Charge
Of Fleet Guarding the Bos-
porus and D~ardanelles.

Worcester, Mass.-After a varied
career "Rancy" Buchanan, formerly
of this city, is now a naval adviser to
the sultan of Turkey, and the fleet of
which he is admiral guards the Bos-
pOrus and the D%ardanelles.
knowledge of his attainment of
this high position has recently been
received by a relative here. While
he was a resident of Worcester he
was known as Capt. Ransford D.
Bueknam. His father was lost at sea,
and when a lad the son was taken in
hand by his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Buchanan. After receiv-
ing a good education he had the
choice of going to sea, to which his
boyish ideas and hereditary inclina-
tions led, or of remaining on a farm.
He chose the sea, but first went to
Duluth and gained experience with a
Capt. Elliot on a schooner plying on
the great lakes.
From cabin boy at 16 to admiral
at 40 is his record. He included me-
chanical and electrical engineering in
his study of navigation. His first rise
was to mate on a lake schooner.
Later he went to Boston and shipped
fos a number of years on one of Pea
body's Australian packets, plying be-
tween this country and the orient.
He was one ~shipwrecked on the
north coast Of Australia, worked his
way to Iloilo, in the Philippines, then
to Hong-Kong and finally back to
Worcester.
Then he returned to the great
lakes, and John d. Rockefeller, who
sailed with Capt. Bucknam from Og-
densburg, n. Y, to Duluth, with his
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
MUST MARRY OR PAY FINE.
Fort Dodge, la, City Council Passes
a Drastic Law.

Fort Dodge, Ia.-Every man in For
Dodge between the ages of 25 and IS
years must become a married MAJ is
the result of an ordinance introduced
by Mayor Charles Bennett and passed
by the city council. Any man failing
to comply with the law will be fined
The ordinance in part provides:
THAT all a%ble-bodied men between
the ages of % and as years, whose
mental and physical propensities and
capabilities are normal and who are
not nov married, shall be required to
obtain a license and a bride and
straightway be exalted to a state Of
connubial bliss.
ANY person or persons failing to
comply with the provisions of this or
dinance shall be fined a sum not less
than $40 nor more than 500, accord
ing to the degree of criminal negli-
gence."
Speaking of the matter, Mayor Ben
net said: IF there are any who de-
sire to escape at once the penalties
provided by the ordinance l will be
at my Office at all hours of the day,
ready and willing to perform the cere-
mony free of charge, or l will answer
telephone calls from my residence.
Il have performed a number of mar.
riage ceremonies in the past and can
follow the latest and most approved
fashion. None of the couples l ever
have married has had cause to regret
the step taken. The offer is open to
all the young people of the city.
If l am called upon to pronounce
sentence on any one under the provis
ions of the ordinance it will be the
heaviest fine shall be able to impose
under it's provision"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
COLD mine.
ILLINOIS MAN SEARCHING FOR
RICH TREASURE.
John Huff, Of Joliet, Driven Away
From Claim in Wyoming by In
dams in the Seventies, Goes
Back to Recover Property.

Shoshoni, Wyo.-John Bryan. a
mine owner of Joplin, Mo, and John
Huff, a business man of Joliet, H.,
after an absence of % years from a
gold mine which they worked to-
gether in 1879 and from which they
were driven by Indians, have returned
to central Wyoming and will attempt
to relocate the old placer mine which
babe fair to make millionaires out of
them.
Mr.. Bryan passed through Shoshoni
en- route to Wilson creek, upon a great
fiat of which creek the placer was
located. Huff is expected daily to fol-
low his old-time partner, having left
Joliet several days ago, according to
kilograms which Bryan had with him.
In the late '70s Bryan and HUFF were
partners and prospected all over cen
trail Wyoming. On Wilson Creek, in
1879, the two men struck it rich in a
placer of coarse golden grains. Ac-
cording to Bryan the placer gravel
was three feet deep to bedrock and
paid from the grass roots downward.
lit UEuIOCh llbGll was 2GdnACh III "a
directions, and these cracks yielded
regular chunks of gold. In a few days
the two men had coarse gold valued
at $500 to show for their work.
Then the Indians came. While the
miners were at work at the placer the
Shoshoni Indians raided their outfit
and lay in wait for the two miners
when they returned at night. But
| Bryan and his partner discovered the
ambush, escaped it and had a running
fight lasting two days, finally reach
ing a mining town and safety. They
had with them the gold which they
had taken from the placer.
Then followed several years of In
dian outbreaks and. uprisings, during
which time the two miners were
afraid to return to the mine. In time
they separated, making a compact
never to return to the mine until both
could go together. Then the govern
ment made an Indian reservation out
of the land upon which their placer
was located and none but Indians
were permitted on the reserve. The
two men drifted apart, always keep
ing up a correspondence with each
other, however.
Last fall the Shoshoni reservation
was thrown open for settlement and
after the drawings were made there
were thousands of acres which were
subject to any one who settled upon
them. Bryan and Huff then deter.
mined to return to Wyoming and to re-
locate their gold mine. Arrangements
were made to start as soon as the
winter was over, and in accordance
with their compact the two men are
out on Wilson Creek looking for the
old mine.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
MEAT TRADE SHOWS GROWTH.
Statistics Indicate Increase of As Per
Cent. in Last Decade.

Washington.-The total expectations
Of meats, dairy products and food ami
mails from the United States last year
aggregated over $3.50, 900, 900 in value,
according to a statement issued by the
bureau of statistics of the department
of commerce and labor. This repre-
sents an increase of $40, 900, 900, or As
per cent, during the decade 1896 to
1906.
More than 60 per cent. of last years
exports went to the United Kingdom.
Even this large percentage, however,
is less than that of a decade ago, when
Great Britain took over 10 per cent.
of American exports.
OF the $3.50, 00O, 900 worth of meats,
dairy products and food animals pass
ing out of the United States last year
$40, O00, 900 was in live animals, $751;,
600, 900 worth in lard, $36, OO0, 900 in
bacon, $25, 900, 900 in fresh beef, $21,-
900, 900 in hams, SIS, 900, 900 in cleo
margarine, $14,OOO,OOO in pork other
than bacon and hams, $4,5 00,0 900 in
butter and so, SOC, 900 in cheese.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25

Portsmouth, N. H.-A strange find
was made in the base Of an old tree
on the Bates farm on South road.
The tree was struck by lightning
last summer, and recently when Mr..
Bates was cutting it down he found
a wooden plug almost in the center
Of the trunk. In the plug was a scrap
of an old time Boston paper, in which
was wrapped a tress of golden hair
and half a dozen finger nail clippings,
all well preserved.
The tree had grown than is
inches outside the plug, and experts
figure it must have been nearly 100
years since the strange find had been
placed in the tree.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
MADE HIMSELF AT HOME
Tommy Atkins Scored One on His
Commanding officer.

Private Tommy Atkins, of the --
regiment, was considered the smartest
man on parade that morning, so he
was told to report himself at the com
handing officers quarters at ten a. m.
sharp; dress-belt and bayonet, and
his stick. The commanding officer,
who was just having breakfast. star
lied by the sudden rap, rap" thun-
dered forth, Come in"
Tommy (entering and salutiAg)-
Commanding officers orderly for the
day, sir.
Commanding Officer - Don't you
know how to report yourself to a com-
handing officer?
Tommy (nervously)-N-no, sir.
Commanding Oficer-Then l will
show you. Just consider you are the
commanding officer for the time, and
1 am your orderly. Just sit here.
The commanding officer then re-
tired, closing the door, and Tommy,
creeping up behind. turned the key,
then deposited himself in the chair
and commenced eating the unfinished
breakfast. Then a knock sounded at
the door.
Tommy-Who's there?
Commanding Omcer - The com
handing officers orderly for the day,
sir.
Tommy-Oh, just stay there until
have finished my breakfast.-Tit-
Bits.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
RAISE FOR RURAL CARRIERS.
Postmaster General May Fix Salaries
Not to Exceed 5000 Per Year.

Washington.-Under the recent act
Of congress making appropriations for
the postal service for the fiscal year
the postmaster general may fix the
salaries of carriers in the rural de.
livery service at a rate not exceeding
5000 per annum after July ], 1907.
The highest rate now paid under the
existing law is $720.
The readjustment of salaries under
the new law has been fully determin-
ed, but it is proposed to allow the
maximum rate, 5000, to all carriers on
routes "a or more miles in length.
This will give approximately 22,S0O
or about 60 per cent of the carriers
an advance in salary of $3.50 per an
mum. A substantial increase in pay
for other carriers is contemplated, but
the chief b~eneficiaries Of the new law
will be those serving the longest
routes, on whom the greater hard
ships of the service fall. Carriers
on the shorter routes, ranging from y
to IA and from Is to 1G miles in
length, now receive 1904 and $40 per
annum, respectively, being proper
t~ionally better paid than carriers on
routes of 20 or more miles. The pay
of substitute rural carriers will alse
be increased in many cases. This ad-
vance in pay for carriers and subs,
it is estimated, will result in an APP
proximate increase of $4,000, 900 in the
cost of rural delivery service.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
eettIna the lis Thousand.

Get the first $1,000. After that
money making is easy" This is the
old-time sage advice of the hard
headed, self-made man. That axiom
has set many men to saving. They
fix upon that sum as the glittering,
far-off herald of a fortune some time
TO be made. To a man on a small
salary, say out of which something
can be saved weekly without too
much deprivation-the advice is good.
TEere is something in it that acts as
a stimulus to economy, declares the
Denver Republican! And who will
deny that economy is a good thing or
that any truth that lights the way to
1T should not be known? Many men,
therefore, have been buoyed up in
their economies by the belief that the
first $1,000 is the hardest to get, and
that afterward all the rest would be
easy and the good things of the world
that follow a bounteous supply of
money would be within easy reach.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
Red River PrOSpeCtOr
RED RIVER, NEW MEXICO.
MaanetIe PoIe Mo- statIonarv.

MaHNGANN wv 1AoANANeNV
Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer,
Is in Paris, where he has been lion
lied, made a Commander of the Le-
gion OF Honor and brought before
various scientific bodies. In his inter
esting talks he tells much about his
experiences in the polar region, in
GLIDING his discovery Of the northwest
passage, through which he sailed, al
though that was a secondary consider
alton. Amundsen spent three years
in the north, 10 months of which we're
devoted to making careful observa-
lions, day and night, of the magnetic
pole. He finds that the pole is not
stationary, but while he has a vast
amount of data on hand the exact re-
suits have not yet been completely
figured out. At all events, says the
Troy Times, new scientific knowledge
has been gained which will be of
much value to the world, even If the
northwest passage shall prove imprac-
ticable for ordinary commercial pur-
poses. And If the pole is an oscillat-
ing point there may be an explanation
as to the failure Of so many seekers
to find that elusive object.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
AROUND WORLD IN IS DAYS.
Completion of Channel Tunnel Will
Make Great Feat Possible.

London. A journey round the
world in 35 days will be possible
when the channel tunnel, connecting
England with France, is completed.
The Transsiberian express, crossing
Europe and Russia to the Pacific, will
then start from London instead Of
Moscow, and travellers will be able to
get from Charing Cross to Vladi-
vostok without changing cars, the
journey across two continents occupy
ing about a fortnight.
The points in the S5-days world-tour
will be London, Moscow, Dalny, Yoke
hama, Vancouver, Quebec and Liver
pool, the estimated time being as fol-
lows: London to Yokohama, Is days;
Yokohama to Vancouver, eight days;
Vancouver to Quebec, six days; Que
bee to Liverpool, six days.
Without The channel tunnel it is
possible to make the journey by the
Transsiberia route in Al days. The
weekly train express from Moscow is
the most luxurious train in the world,
as it should be in the interest Of trav-
elers who spend a fortnight in 1t.
There are dining cars, smoking cars,
sleeping cars and even bathing airs.
The train also has its barber shop
and safe deposit and gymnasium,
where passengers can take exercise
on "home-trainer" bicycles.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25

took a battleship to Constantinople
after its completion at Philadelphia.
Buchanan remained there several
months training the sultan's men.
Abdul Hamid offered him a vice ad-
miralty and he returned to America
to look otter some business interests
before accepting. He went to San
Francisco and married Miss Rose
Thayer and then to Constantinople.
He has now been made an admiral.
He speaks several languages, but
has remained an American at heart.
He holds many patents on navigating
instruments now in use, among these
a ships compass which traces the
course of a ship in ink on a chart.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25

Although the eternal city" figures
so extensively in ancient and modern
history, it has been the capital of Italy
for less than so years, a fact that
will probably surprise many persons.
The italian government dates the ac-
quisition of Rome as the capital city
from March q, 1861, and is preparing
to observe the semi-centennial ami
Rersary in 1911. One of the projects
in contemplation in connection with
the observance is to create a new
port which will be Rome's exit to the
sea. The idea is to make this port
One of the largest and best equipped
in the world. Italy is growing as a com
mercial power, and Rome itself is get
ling into the swing of modern trade.
The new and improved facilities no
ioubt will be of much Importance in
promoting the material interests of
the nation and city.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25

A hundred square miles Of country
around Mount Kosciusko, n of the
highest peaks of the Australian Alps,
have been proclaimed a reserve by
the government, with a view to forma-
tion of a national park. freedom
shrieked when Kosciusko fell" ac-
cording to the poet Campbell. md this
peak was so named by a brother Pol
ish patriot, the late Count de Stree
lecki, a political refugee, who spent
several years in Australia, and did
some valuable exploring and geologi-
cal work. He was probably the first
discoverer of gold in Australia, but at
the request of the local government,
which feared an outbreak Of the con
vict population if the news became
known, he made no public announc-
ment of the fact. He spent the clos
ing years of his life in London, and
was knighted by Queen Victoria.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
nurIed Treasure unearthed.

Whitesburg, Ky.-After a search ex-
tending over two years, Mrs. Mary
Jane Mullins, aged 60 years, has I'M
earthed a pot containing $4,000 in gold
and silver in an abandoned lot on the
farm of her father, the late Benjamin
Osborn, of Letcher county. The ia
Their died 20 years ago, leaving at least
$4,000, it is said, somewhere on the
farm. Mrs. Mullins will continue to
search for the remaining $4,000. In
the find are some valuable old coins.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
ADMIRAL FOR SULTAN

family, liked bis work and offered
him command of the first of the
w~haleback steamers just building at
the time. Buchanan was then known
as the Kid Captain" He accepted
Mr.. Rockfeller's offer and became
master of the Joseph L. Colby. His
first trip on her from the great lakes
to the Atlantic was exploited far and
wide.
He then went into the service OF
the Cramp Construction company and
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
Chair Once Owned by John Eliot, Fa
mous Apostle to Indiana.

apostle to the Indians, is to be the cen
ter of a great gathering.
On Sunday evening of March II,
this chair was presented with appro-
pirate exercises by the First Church
of Dorchester to the First Church of
Roxbury, Eliot square, near the Nor
folk house.
The First Church in Dorchester came
into possession of the chair two gener-
atoms ago through a former minister,
DR.. Thadeus Mason Harris-settled in
Dorchester 1793-1S36 and his been
cherished these many years in the
church as a venerable relic.
At the suggestion of the pastor,
Rev. Eugene R. Shipper, it was recent
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
JOHN ELIOT'S CHAIR.

ly voted to present the chair to the
Roxbury church in recognition of the
fact that as John Eliot, "The Apostle
to the Indians had been minister in
RoXbury for many years the Eliot
church, so-called, was the most suit
able place for it.
A recently erected tablet in the
First Church of RoXbury-placed high
up on the wall back of the pulpit
gives in brief epitome Eliot's life's
history. 1t reads:
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25

1t will certainly be news to most
people, says the London Globe, that
New York is a short cut for kilograms
between London and Paris and Lon
don and Berlin. However, the fact is
vouched for. The messages are re
ceived at an agreed address in New
York and are Immediately passed on
for London, Paris or Berlin, as the
case may be. The reason for this
amazing roundabout to save time is
curious. New York time being about
six hours behind European time, its
wire connections with Europe are al
most %unoccupied during the London
forenoon, while during the same time
European wires are often congested.
Via New York, therefore, is a short
cut" but an expensive one.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-04-25
RAISES CHICKS IN KITCHEN.
Philadelphia Man Has New and Pay
ing Industry.

Realizing the demand for early
chickens and knowing that they com.
mand good prices, a West Philadelphia
dentist. who is much interested in
poultry raising, is trying the novel ex.
pertinent of raising chickens in his
kitchen. He expects to have from 80
to 40 broilers by the first of June, and
If they weigh more than two pounds
each by that time there will be a good
market for them at so cents per pound.
The doctor, Z ofiting by his experience
of last winter, decided to try a new
game this year. He set several hens
near the furnace in the cellar in Janu-
airy, and n Matched out 10 chicks.
AS soon as Matched the chickens were
taken to the kitchen and placed in a
specially constructed cage. He says
they need all the room they can have.
About the middle OF March the chick
ems can go outside. AS the doctor has
not lost a single chicken, he is led to
believe that he has found a way to
raise early chickens, and says he ex.
poets to set every hen he has in the
cellar next winter. He also intends
to enter the duck and goose business
on a small scale. A grocer who sells
to the best trade has promised to buy
every fowl the doctor raises and pay
the highest Observation-Disclosures Rec
ord.