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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-22
VANDERBILT IS
AN EASY MARK
How Some Of the English "Cyps
Took Him in. .on
SOLD HIM EXCESS HORSES
"Cyps" Bought Them in and Then
Resold Them at Handsome
Profit-How the Scheme
Was Worked.

New York, July 22.-The arrival
of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's hors-
es yesterday on the Atlantic trans
port company's liner Minnehaha de-
veloped the fact that the famous
whip was made a victim of English
"gyps" at the sale of his coach hors
es at the Tattersalles, London. His
loss in the transaction was in the
neighborhood of $4,000.
Mr.. Vanderbilt bought sixty Am
erican trotting bred coach horses
and shipped them with his team of
famous grays to England. Early in
May he put his coach venture into
commission and began his daily
runs, leaving London one day and
Brighton the next. After six weeks
on the road, during which time he
broke in the horses he announced
the sale of his horses by auction at
Tattersalles, London.
On the day appointed big crowd
of curiously inclined was on hand,
but in the meantime the English
"gyps," or cheap horsemen, formed
a clique and circulated the rumoH
that Mr.. Vanderbilt had reserved the
best of his horses to take back to
America and would offer only those
for which he had no use The report
found credence and as a result the
British show horse owners failed to
appear. The "gyps" had the bidding
practically to themselves.
The sale was conducted in the in
ner ring at Tattersalles and the fifty
six horses sold at an average of
about $3.50 each.
On the day following the Wander
bilt sale, which was practically pri-
vate, the English horsemen put up
the horses secured of Mr.. Vanderbilt
for sale In the outside, or public
ring, and realized big prices for
them. In one where they had secured
horse for $3.50, they resold it for
$500, while in another where a
splendid bay was knocked down to
one of the clique for $3.50 it was la
ter purchased by prominent Eng
lish horse owner for over $500.
There were several cases of this kind
and the fifty horses secured by the
English dealers at an average of
5000 head were resold for nearly
$500 a head, giving clear profit
of about $4,000 for the British.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-22

Auckland, N. T., July 22.-Al-
though New Zealand owns allegiance
to the British crown, the ignorant
visitor would be inclined to believe
1t an American colony, owing to the
wild enthusiasm that has bcea arous-
ed by the prospective visit of the
Yankee fleet. Thousands of Ameri-
can flags have made their appear
ance In the city. The fleet will not
arrive until August 3, but the prep
arations for its reception, in progress
for many weeks, are about complet-
ed
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-22
SHOT AND KILLED
ON THE HIGHWAY
H. G. Jefferson Attacked by Sam
Barton at Blooming
Grove.
STRUCK THREE Times
Shooting Is Supposed to Be the Re-
suit Of Family Affairs Slayer
Surrenders to the
Officers.

Coriscana, Texas. July 22.-H. G.
Jefferson was shot three times and
Instantly killed by shotgun in the
hands of Sam Barton at Blooming
Grove yesterday afternoon. The
shooting occurred just in the edge
OF town. on the public road.
Barton had been edvised. it is said,
that Jefferson would be in town yes
terday afternoon and was waiting
for him. AS soon as Jefferson came
in range Barton opened fire on him.
The first shot struck him in the
breast, the second in the hand.
AS soon as the first shot struck
him Jefferson fell from his horse into
the road face downward and Barton
fired the third shot, striking him
about the middle of the back.
Barton at once came to town and
gave himself UP to the constable.
JEFFERSON Is son-in-law OF Pete Bar
ton, brother to Sam Barton.
Both are men Of families. Barton
has wife and one little girl. JefYer-
son was about 35 years OF age and
leaves wife Family affairs are
thought to have caused the shooting
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-22
Pennsylvania Democrats

Harrisburg, Pa, July ga meet
Ing of the democratic state commit
tee was called in this city today for
the election Of state chairman and
OF seven division chairmen. It Is the
hrst meeting under the new rules
prescribing election in July.
Party leaders declare that despite
recent differences in Denver, the
Bryan ticket will receive the hearty
support OF Pennsylvania democrats.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-22
Alabama Editors.

Ressemer, Ala, July 22.-Called
TO order this morning by President E.
5. Dobster. the Alabama Press Asso-
citation began its annual session in
this city. Reports of officials and COM
mittees occupied the morning.
aAmo1g the speakers this afternoon
will be Colonel Rufus N. Rhodes of
the Birmingham News and F. J. see-
ley OF the Atlanta Georgian.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-22
To Oppose Prohibition.

Kenosma Wis, July ga move
ment in opposition to the prohibition
wave will be thoroughly organized
by the Retail Liquor Dealers Associ-
alton of Wisconsin, which began it's
annual convention here today. Re-
ports show that the organization has
1900 members and sixty-.hree local
branches In the state.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-22
AN ENORMOUS WHALE.

Strange Sight Is Witnessed by Hun.
dreds From Shore.
Portland, Maine, July 22.-While
200 members OF the summer colony
at Ogunquit a shore resort, stood on
the beach watching it, an enormous
whale seventy feet in length thrash
ed itself to death in the shallow
water flats. 1t is believed the whale
chased school Of fish into the bay.
Suddenly 1t struck the treacherous
flats a hundred yards from the beach
and ran high and dry. The tide was
fast ebbing and the whale was un-
able to move.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-22
STRAW
HATS

Why wear the old Straw
when you can get a new
one at SuCn reduction
prices2 Or perhaps you
have not INDUCED in a
new Straw Bonnet.
We've two months or
more OF warm weather
ahead, better treat your
self to a new top piece
and be c o mfOr t able.
PrlceS cut way down.
Matthew's Bros
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-22
Card Of Thanks.

! desire to express through your
paper my thanks and appreciation
to all those who SO kindly assisted
us during my husbands last illness.
Everyone was 50 kind and GOOD.
Sincerely. MRS. HUGUMET.
July Il, 1908. Forreston.
Arizona republican., 1908-05-04

ity of these birds, brought about through utter neglect in failing 10 pro vide for their protection. Let us take warning from the experiences of our eastern neighbors. It is a lamentable fact that the eastern states had but few game laws previous to the year 1876, hence the scarcity of 'furs fins and feathers in those sections. Then let us, while the opportunity presents itself. protect this feathered tribe. I call upon that true and gentlemanly sportsman. Captain Crenshaw. prese- senting the territorial legislature from this county. to interest himself in be- half of this humane raise
 The lessons taught me in my youth have always stood me in good stead. only once, however. did l break the game laws. This incident happened away up in Aroostook county. Maine. in November. 1878, at a time when large game in that region was decid- edly much more plentiful than it is at the present time. The laws but then recently enacted. allowed the killing of one moose. or deer. per day to each man. There were five in our party
 including our old friend, guide and trapper. Joe Murphy, from Bangor
 since deceased. whose fame as a stalk CT was worldwide. It appeared that the moose all came my way. and I des- patched them in their order of appear ance, since no one in our party had succeeded in getting within good range for the desired results. The third an
 imal however. played 'possum on me. While in the act of using my S-inch bowie (the 44-inch rifle standing against a tree some ten feet distanD the bull moose jumped up between me and the rifle and charged against me. My only protection lay in making for the nearest pine tree. The wounded animal then wedged its antlers against that tree finally eXtricating itself. and moving hurriedlv in the opposite di- rection from that in which it came. Remember please. that magazine rifles were not generally in use during those days and that the time construed in running for that gun and re-lOaGing it was one O. the quickest acts of my life. The second attempt to use rny S-inch bowie proved more successful than the first. Tt,e hunt on that day was continued until late in the after
 noon, when il again became my good fortune to approach within shooting
Arizona republican., 1908-05-04
NOT DRY ENOUGH
 FOR ANDY GARCIA
He Managed to Survive Three Days of Great Aridity.

IL takes a pretty dry town to keep Andy Garcia sober. PlioeniX is not dry enough with it's three days of saloon closing for Andy was locked up yes terday as drunk as he had ever been seen. And, Andy has been seen as drunk as an- man ever was who was afterward resuscitated.
 For few days before the local op- ton eelction Andy was asked how he intended to vote. He replied. whisky" NOW, Andy. said the interlocutor, I've been looking over the county books and I find that you have cost the county $100 in the last year with your drinking. What are you going to do about it? Don't you think that S100 is a good deal of money for one man to cost the county? If every oth-' CT citizen should be such burden this county would be bankrupt in six months"
 How much do you say l cost the county" asked And-.
 "One hundred dollars" was the re- ply plainly spoken.
 Did you take out all the work I did for the county. cleaning the court house plaza and sweeping about the jail?" asked Andy.
Arizona republican., 1908-05-04
A PLEA FOR
 WILD PIGEONS Tor Protection Against
 WantOn Slaughter A Few Facts Concerning Their Names and Migrat- ing Habits.

To the Editor of The Republican. sir: Now that the northern flight of the wild doves and white wings has begun, may l be permitted to offer a few remarks pertinent to this kind of game. more particularly in favor of its protection against complete exter- imitation? Having been taught. from early boyhood, to tramp over hill and dale in cuest -Of game 1 was always admonished never to bag more game than was actually needed.
 Judging from this standpoint vou will readily understand why I take such interest !n this matter. Accord ing to my method of reasoning the wild pigeon needs as puch protection as the wild duck, the wild turkey, or deer. quail. grouse. prairie chicken. etc. Cannot a law be enacted limiting the bagging Of this kind of game to fifty birds per day for each person, or some thing similar to the law relating to quail, so that the game butchers may he prevented from doing such wanton slaughter? Why not limit the shoot ing of wild pigeons from April 18th to August 18th, and make the closed sea son from August I6th of one year to April 14th of the next year following? .? Likewise preventing the sale or barter or such game? Let us be true sports men and not wholesale pot-hunters or hogs The practice of hunters killing from two hundred to six hundred wild pigeons in one-daY appears to me to be unreal and inhuman. tending rather to encourage others to excel in this needless killing of birds. This is not true sport. I call it plain, downright destructiVeness. or murder! The fair minded sportsman satisfies himself with winging a bountiful number of birds. and does not shoot for the sake If seeing how many he can get at one stand
 I venture to assert that if the whole sale slaughter of these wild pigeons continues so unmercifully for the next few years as has been done in the past. also bearing in mind that the number of hunters increases each successive year in equal proportion, they will have become almost extinct within the next forty to fifty years. or perhaps earlier and then there will be a repe- ton of exactly the same conditions as they now exist in the central and eastern states. namely. a Woeful scare
Arizona republican., 1908-05-04

On choice of any untrimmed Straw Shape iu stock. This includes all tue popular shapes, regularly priced from $1 .00 to $500.
Arizona republican., 1908-05-04
Cluny Laces

HUNDREDS OF YARDS OF LIN EN ClUNY LACES-In white or ecru, d score of decidedly new pat terms in Bands and Edgings from to , inches in width. actually worth 25c or more-Monday only at. yard ----.-... 1Oc
Arizona republican., 1908-05-04

People desiring rooms for summer can get them at Hotel Adams, with bath. single or en suite, from s15 per month up. European cafe now open. You are invited to call, inspect the rooms and visit cafe.
Arizona republican., 1908-05-04

Navajo banketsl. baskets. drawn work, ostrich plumes. art leather goods being sold at a sacrifice at auc- tion today at old Mission Curio, 4:3O and 7:30 2. m.
Arizona republican., 1908-05-04

Wm. P. CrumD Hay and Grain Co sells Arizona Oranges $2.50.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
PROFITABLE MISTAKES.

NAV be in most towns where subscribers are
charged according TO the number of calls we are
unable to surmise. but speak for one city
where, after Il long experience of having the
wrong number given average OF from 50 To
a per cent of the time We made inquiries as TO
whether the subscribers charged for these
errors by the operator, and were informed by the
accounting department that from seven hundred
to eight hundred corrections were made month
"out of a total of how many cals"' 'Oh, the
total runs into the billions. Suppose however, 1t
/. eight hundred million. mistake. then, out
of one million is rectifed. The rest, in a system
of limited service the subscriber pays for, and the
company is the gamer from every misconneotion-
Golfers Weekly.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
WOMAN VOTED ILLEGALLY THERE.

II has beAn suggested that New York Democrats
might be interested in joint conference on some
such subject illegal Voting Without Detection
Denver has the distinction of having the hrst
woman ever arrested for election frauds. She
was the wife of a Democrat with family, and
she was charged with voting in an election district
other than that in which she lived. Denver un-
auestionably could make valuable contributions to
any conferences on this subject
1t is not likely that Congressional delegates TO
the convention Will hear again of Denvers dream
to become a seaport town With the dust of the
long stretch prairie between Denver and Chi
cago their throats fhey will probably have diff
Guilty in seeing the project:
It is on the Platte River that Denvers dream is
based ..Biir' Nye, the humorist, once considered
the subject, and decided that the only way the
Platte could made navisable to turn the
river on edge. Denver aldermen now have a
plan of starting three monster dredges at the high
est nayigable point the Missouri and letting
them eat their way Denver. building up banks
for a mighty river they proceed with sand and
gravel from the channel
Advertising was what Denver had in view when
the committee vent around jinglng the sl9e.VG9
Advertising is what all Colorado purposes to get
out of the convention. To accomplish this, every
effort will be made to get the delegates and the
visitors out over the The Colorado railroads
will give the mountain resorts. so
that when the cold gray dawn of the morning
after breaks upon the unterriied Democracy 1t may
ccoI its fevered brow in banks Of eternal snow, IL
may Slake Its pafcIilhS throat IN any one "i Il
dozen mineral springs, it may battle L mammoth
pools of hot mineral water. fish in well stocked
streams eat fresh fruit in wonderful orchards,
wander in beet and alfalfa fields and admire Alpine
scenery
The chiId-like faith with which this programme
is being worked what makes those who have
actually attended one of the great Democratic
gatherings smile. The idea of a TamInany brave
drinking ir scenery when there is whiskey; The
idea of a Southern Democrat caring to investigate
the agricultural resources of Colorado; the idea of
evokng Democratic enthusiasm over the beet sugar
industry which under protection has paid Colorado
farmers more than S25 600 in the years,
or over the protected lead mines. the great pro
tected steel industry-these too absurd To be
entertained in any other city
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05

her Neapolitan chamberlain. Count Lucches
PaIi The princess. VINO has already been
designated the sole heiress of the eolossa
fortune OF her foster parents. is the only
child of the late Archduke Henry. who ha<
enthusiastically married the actress LeOpoldins
Hoffman, in defiance Of the commands OF tho
Emperor. and in consequence thereof had beer
deprived of his honors and banished from Aus
tria Thanks to the kindly Intervention OF tbs
Empress. a complete reconciliation was later
brought about between Archduke Henry and
the Emperor, who invited him to come te
Vienna with his wife and daughter, then
young girl. The archduke arrived at Vienna.
in which he had not set foot for twenty years,
took up his residence at the Hotel Sachers
called upon the Emperor. and received from
him not only full and complete pardon for hts
disobedience. but also the restoration Of all mis-
honors and dignities- The interview between
The cousins was most cordial but was the
last that ever took place.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
THE TREND TOWARD PUBLICITY

The whole trend of nodernity, it seems, is tow
ard publicity in thought. in word and in action
New Years Eve-once the most homely. the most
domestic of functions-has become to-day the
great night the year in all the big restaurants II
is form of laziness, this method OF making merry
in crowd for a prix fixe. 1t is easier to pay ones
guinea and be transported in return into an at
mosphere of merriment-a little meretricious, per
haps but still riment of 'knd-than it is to
maintain the economical but somewhat melancholy
lnerrment of the Yuletide domestic hearth.
Another feature of modern social life which has
come with rapid strides TO the forefront OF fashion
during the last few years is that OF dining in
nublic restaurants on Sunday nights in particular.
During the Victorian Sunday night dining In
restaurants was privilege reserved exclusively
for members Of the dramatic profession The rest
of the world dmed at home or not at all. Mrs
Cornwallis West. in her "ReCollections. relates
how during "a hurried journey through town with
her husband Lord Randolph Churchill there was
but one frowsy place at which to dine in all Lon
don To-day the habit of Sunday dining has
spread to all classes of society, from that when
fsvors Claridee's and THE Widow 10 that stll!
more numerous class which dimes sumptuously Ia
seven courses for two shillings aud bottle OF
Graves-The 5r-stander.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05

city and had escaped with their money But then
began rrearranged still hunt for the Democratic
convention. The Sl00,oe0 pledged as guarantee to
insure the expenses of the convention was turned
over bodily to the Democratic campaign fund. and
now lot of stanch Republicans find themselves
piedged to give money to help elect Bryan.
VIII they do It? Well, unless the courts make
them The chances that Denver will pay all
me legitimate expenses of the convention, but If
Tom Taggart takes any more Denver money
back with him he will have to get ii by guessing
the high card picking the right pony at the
track.
IL Taggart did play the races with campaign
money he would only be following in the tracks OF
the State Democratic Committee of Colorado. That
organization used to have vote manufacturing
machine in Denver, with which it could grind out
any majority required. A few years ago, on cleo
ton night, the odds suddenly the Republi-
can state ticket It's a cinchi' said the at
Democratic headquarters. So they took the whole
roll and wagered it at the poolroonls. The up
state counties returned such majority for Pea
body that the Denver machine could not overcome
it, and the next day found the state machine with
$1,000 in unpaid bills money and Offices in
sight
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05

he returned to earth and Denver for the conven-
ton A possibility is William Randolph Hearst
allotment, with Independence Park and mu-
nicipal ownership promises for followers Of the
New Yorker.
To illustrate Denyers skill at getting all that is
coming to ii one has only recall the plan of
County Assessor Alexander to bring out taxes on
watches. He found that his assessors were miss
ing watches by the thousand Accordingly he is
sued a proclamation that every voter OF Arapahoe
County would. for purposes of taxation be consid-
cred the owner of watch worth $50 until he proved
an alibi. Those who had watches which had to
be wound three times day could get a reduction
by showing the timepeces Those who had only
pawntickets show for their tckers would be
exempt from taxation by showing the tickets
Denver has heard that there is prevailing be-
lief in New York that its streets paved with
gold ore. A special detail of policemen will be set
on guard over the streets until the convention is
over. Delegates warned to buy return trip
tickets before leaving home, they will not be
permitted to mine street corners for the price of
a ticket East.
1t is actually true that mile or SO Of pavement
between the streetcar tracks put down of ore
that on smelling would yield about S6 ton in gold.
1t came from a quarry Bowlder, and the tram
way company knew nothing about its value until a
Denver citizen attracted by the glitter of the pave
ment had a piece of it assayed. They turned
the quarry into mine prospect, and Denver had
to go back asphalt.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
SEPARATING VISITORS AND COIN.

Delegates from every part of the country can
look forward a striking exhibition of a town
separating visitors from their coin That hundred
thousand has got to come back with interest Den
yer business methods will not be satisfied with less
than 100 per the investment and all sorts
of plans are being worked up to take it away from
the delegates and those who come to see the Demo
cratic show.
A number Of new additions to the Great City OF
the Plains, are being plotted and will be put
sale during the time of tile convention. Delegates
who are real estate dealers at home will get valua
BILE pointers how to sell land to persons who
haven't the slightest for it, If they watch the
hustIine Denver agents. There will undoubtedly
De a Bryan addition of many square blocks. There
may be Jefferson City in honor Of the old Demo
crat who could not possibly recognize his party il
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
BEFRIENDs HER BROTHERS SON.

1t is the now widowed Grand Duchess Sersius
who first befriended and interested herself in
the welfare of the son born to her brother-in-
law Grand Duke Alexis, by his runaway
riage with his mothers maid of honor, Marie
Jourovsky, niece of the poet of that name.
This ecclesiastical union. failing TO receive the
sanction of the Car, was never regarded as
legal The grand duke was forced by his father
TO abandon the girl who, after giving birth
to boy of whom the grand duke the
father married, in 1875, a Saxon officer of the
name of Baron Henry de Woehrmann. Soon
after Princess Elizabeth of Hesse went to Rus
sia to become the wife of the late Grand Duke
Sergius she insisted taking charge of this
boy of the Grand Duke Alexis, and had him
brought up under her immediate care She
procured for him the title OF Count Belevskoi
attached him when he grew up TO her hus-
bands staff as an A. D. c.. with a commission
of officer of cavalry. and eventually married
him TO her own extremely wealthy and very
charming maid of honor. Princess Marie Trou-
betZkoi Moreover, she interested the young
fellows father in him TO such extent that
he has arranged to bequeath the whole of his
large fortune To his son.
Old Archduke and Archduchess Rainer. OF
Austria have an adopted child in Marie Bar
oness Waidech now married to Prince Henry
OF Campofranco. grandson of the royal
Duchess of Berry by hes second marriage with