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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-04-24
STORMS
IN THE SOUTH
Tornadoes Devas-
tate Towns and
Villages
CONSIDERABLE LOSS Of LIFE
Path of Storm Extends From
Texas as Far East as
Mississippi.

Memphis, Tenn, April PA tnrna.
do swept over Walls, Mississippi az 9
o'clock this morning and 1t is report
ed that the town was destroyed. At
this time three people are reported
killed. Telegraph and telephone wires
are down. A relief train has been sent
to Walls from Memphis.
At the Memphis Office of the Yazoo
and Mississippi Valley road it was re-
ported that several persons were
killed at Walls. The first train from
the south on that road arrived here
at noon. The train did not stop at
Walls, but the crew reported half
dozen stores and as many residences
there had been demolished. At Ma
son, Tennessee, the Methodist, Pres
byterian and Episcopal churches and
several residences wer blown down.
In Memphis the wind reached velo-
city of sixty miles an hour, uprooting
trees, blowing down telegraph and
telephone wires and forcing In plate
glass windows.
Tornado in Nebraska.
Omaha, April 24-Reports from the
scene of last nights tornado in north
ern Nebraska, show thirty-two build
ings were destroyed and over one
hundred head of livestock killed. At
least fourteen persons were injured.
some seriously.
TwIster In Louisiana.
New Orleans La, April 24.-Rall-
road officials here received reports OF
| a tornado which swept across Rhaids
Parish in the neighborhood of the
Louisiana Railroad and N;.dsatiisa
company's line early today. No deaths
are reported, but the damage to pro
Iperty was great.
Death and Ruin in Texas Storm.
Paris, Tex, April 24.-About 6
loclock last night tornado destroyed
1.-THE eastern portion Of Deport. town
Twenty miles southwest of Paris, kill
ling W. r. Isbell, druggist. and
wounding several others. The 1sbell
family was at supper when the storm
|came, and Mrs. Isbell and the four
children ran to the storm house and
were unhurt Mr.. Isbell remained IN
1.-THE house and was crushed to death
when it fell. Practically all the resi-
dences on the east side Of the town
were destroyed, at least twenty-five or
thirty being scattered over the coun-
TRY in fragments. The Baptist and
Presbyterian churches were destroy
led. The cotton oil mill, including the
lboiler house, seed and hull sheds, were
blown away.
Oak Grove Also Damaged.
Oak Grove a town east of Clarks-
lville, on the Texas and Pacific railroad
is reported destroyed, many houses
being demolished. but without any ia
talities, so far as can be learned.
Three Killed at Ennis.
Ennis, Tex, April PA tornado
passed southwest of here last evening
and three negroes are known to be
Idead and three members of family
Iby name of Reeves, are injured. The
home of Will Kennedy was blown
laway, but none of the Kennedys were
hurt.
Water Spout Kills Indians.
Shawnee, Okla, April 24.-An en-
tire family of Ave Kickapoo Indians
were drowned in cloudburst or wa
tier spout near old Fort Arbuckle yes.
lterday. The family consisted Of
Imam, his wife and three small chill
dren. Great property damage was
Id0no
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-04-24
1EvERlDGE MAY be
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN

Washington, April Ex-senator AL
bert J. Beveridge is spoken OF for the
temporary craftsmanship of the Re-
publican national convention. Whoev-
|er Is elected temporary chairman will
have the opportunity Of making the
so-called keynote speech which Is sup
posed to outline the principles for
which the party will contend IN the
presidential campaign. N
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-04-24
VISITING CARDS.

The New Mexican Printing company
Is prepared to furnish cards de viste
for ladies and for gentlemen on short
notice In iirst class style at reason
able prices. either engraved or print.
led. Call at the New Mexican Printing
company. ss ls
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-04-24
Ex.RESlDE CLEVELAND
REPORTED BETTER TODAY

LaNwood, N. j., April 24--Ex.Presi-
dent teveland was better today and
his pSsicians say they believe he
VIM bAble to leave for Princeton In
9 few Va.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-04-24
Water Spout Kills Indians.

Shawnee, Okla, April 24.-An en-
tire family Of Ave Kickapoo Indians
were drowned in cloudburst or wa
ter spout near old Fort Arbuckle yes.
terday. The family consisted of
man, his wife and three small chill
dren. Great property damage was
done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-23

prese-ver such as is carried in English
railway carriages ard had used il to bat
ter in the head OF his Vene rabie victim.
There was deep wound over the ear.
the skull was fractured and there wer.
several other blows on the head. Follow
ing up this presentation of the crime, the
distinguished solicitor general presented.
piece by piece. the bits of evidence which
in his mind. convicted Franz Muller of
the murder Of Thomas Briggs. Sir Rob
ert Collyer said that il was the strongest
circumstantial evidence which had ever
been brought forward i'm a murder case
in his time. Muller. on his part. set up
an alibi. but il was not very we'll sub
stantiated. and the jury. without the
slightest hesitation. returned a verdict
of guilty.
After his conviction Muller insisted that
lac had been found guilty upon a FALSE
statement of facts. His case was taken
up by the Society for the Protection OF
Germans in England and the most power
full influences were eXerted there and
abroad to obtain 4 retrieve for the con
Vict. In the meantime, Muller was urged
TO make a confession of his crime. He
evaded any direct response 10 this appeal.
usually saying: why should man cou-
fess TO man? Man cannot forgive man:
only God can do Man is therefore only
accountable TO God" He persisted i'm
last. He was not vicious man i'm any
manner or way. and IL was quite evident
that his crime was not premeditated. and
this fact al times caused some uneasiness
OF conscience 10 his captors. His refusal
To admit his guilt was perplexing Id dis
quoting.
Finally the day of execution arrived. \
German pastor attended him to the scaf-
fold and urged him TO make his peace
with God. Tn" black cap was placed over
his eyes and the rope was adjusted about
his neck The eXecutioner prepared To
give the signal which would launch him
into eternity. Al that psychological mo-
ment Muller leaned over and whispered
in the ear of his pastor:
Il did it,.
The next second the drop had slipped.
and Franz Muller had gore TO meet his
Creator.
(NeXt week: Superintendent Froest
and the Versatile Rogue
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absinthe. l am .seventy-seven years old
Thanks to God and the sobriety of my
ancestors. l have a good stomach yet
My father. dead an. Octogenarian, drank
at meals a finger of wine largely diluted
My mother according to old Provencal
usage. took pure water all her life
Laigo fai veni poulido (Water makes
you Handsomely is the proverb they say
to young girls
To Aid Beauty.
Jules Lemaitre, great playwright, con-
summate critic, whose prose is delight,
has. at fifty years. face that might we'll
slow down an electric clock; but he
does not know 1.-THE is on the water
wagon pour fai veni poulido. to get
pretty.
II dropped wine because it brought out
ugly red spots on my face" says Jules
Lemaitre. 1T gave me a gross look that
was displeasing to me. Since ! am on
water-rarely a glass of light beer or
champagne when dining out have d
more regular appetite. an easy digestion.
and no more 'corkscrews' in the stomach
after meals. AS to my work, ! do not
think a little alcohol hurts or helps it,:
but once or twice when / tried to stimu
late myself the production was worth
less
Lavedan. the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of
great successes, says that all alcohol is
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empire without mourning the risk of be-
ing murdered.
The police chafed under this criticism,
but still they did not appear to make any
progress Col. Fraser sat in his office
day by day and tried to solve the prob
lem. He finally resolved that it would be
necessary 10 trace the gold watch and
chain that had been stolen from Mr..
Briggs before ii would be possible to get
a clue to.the man who had committed the
murder. Every pawnshOp in or around
the metropolis was visited. but none of
them possessed any jewelry that CORE
sponded ITO that which had been stolen
from the, bank clerk in the railway car
riage. Col. Fraser was not satisfied with
these reports, and determined To person
ally prosecute his inquiries and reSearche :
in another direction. He selected the
jewelers. of London and began his work
in the locality known as Cheapside.
To his delight he came upon sgnif-
cant clue within tWenty-four hours. Mr..
Graves, d jeweler in Cheapside, possessed
a gold chain which was Identical with the
one that had been owned by Mr.. Briggs.
The jeweler said that he had accepted the
chain in exchange for another one which
he had given to a foreign-looking person
who had called at his establishment. To
add 10 the importance of this discovery. it
was learned that the exchange of the jew
ely had been made on the day following
the murder of Thomas Briggs.
The news of this first link in the chain
of evidence was widely published in the
London newspapers. On the day follow
ing. while Col. Fraser was seated at dis
desk in the police headquarters, the door
opened and a stranger entered the room.
He was short, stout. red-faced man.
wearing blue coat With brass buttons.
The man carried a whip and from his
dress and manner was evidently a cab
man. He saluted in an awkward manner.
lis this Col Fraser?
III is was the terse response.
And may you be the chief of police?'
That's what | am called sometimes"
was the ndulgent response.
well. my names Bobby Smith,
Glad to see YOU. Mr.. Smith
I'm "A cabman.'
An honorable vocation" responded the
colonel. with a smile.
Il understand you're investigating the
murder of Mr.. Briggs.
AZ this CO.. Fraser was all attention.
He scanned the mans face carefully and
replied:
Yes. am. Can you furnish me with
any information on the subject?'
Il don't know" was the response; but
| have a little box here that may interest
YOU.
Whereupon\ he handed Col. Fraser a
jewelers. little card box bearing the name
of Mr. Graves. the Cheapside jeweler.
The officer looked it over and said:
w here did you get this?''
1T belongs to my little girl" was the
reply.
'.Whcre did she get it?'
at was given to her by man who
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poison 'in the worst acceptation of
the word
I'll sign all the anti-alcoholic petit
tons they present me- he says. Il drink
only water. that OF the Alet by prefer
ence nearly ice cold. Cold water is a
splendid stmulant; it can bring up the
pulse ten beats per minute. When ! dine
wine into my glass; but of late years l
notice half my neighbors are up to the
same game as myself-pretending to drink
wine while drinking water!
The Army and Navy.
The only French army officer who. like
Lott in the navy. has the artistic push
to try in literature is Maj. Driant. Call
ing himself "Capitaine Danrit.'' he is
strong against the yellow PERIL In ex-
tremely realistic stories of a superior Jules
Verne order he shows us the Japanese
engaged in stirring untold Chinese hordes
to invade Europe.
Well, in Capitane Danrits view. the
energy and genius of the Japanese and
ton are to be due to the oriental water
wagon. And European disorganiZation
and ruin are to follow on the flowing
bowl
German beer is no panacea. THE escape
from aduterated French wines and poi
Serious 'aperitfS." essence-laden alcohols,
verrrouths and abSntheS is not by way
OF beer as we thought fifteen years ago
in Paris. Danrit as a patriotic French
army officer. almost rejoices that the Ger
mans have in their universal beer a cause
of drain and degeneration scarcely second
TO French spirits.
No one has written more against these
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absinthes and vermouths than three great
doctors and professors of the faculty.
LancereauX, Hubbard and Pouchet-yet
they would not see France beer-soaked
like the Germans.
Half the Germans over thirty-five have
pockets under their eyes, labored breath
ing. fatty degeneration and muddy COM
pleXfons." affirms DR.. Hubbard. the great
est specialist of the kidneys in Europe.
Our aperitfs are poisons, but they bear
the poison stamp. Beer is insidious. 1t
deceives In their next war the Germans
will not show the endurance of 1870"
The Cup That Cheers.
Warning the youth of the Latin Quarter
against beer and music. DR.. Lancereaux
Eliminates against the palatial brasseries
that, ten or fifteen years ago. became SO
many peaceful, correct students clubs.
They served no absinthe. discouraged YER
mouths. sold whisky in liqueur glasses and
turned down youths who wanted to make
toddies when they had colds in the head.
Does he sneeze?" asked the proprietor
Of the Pantheon on one historic occasion.
"Something awful affirmed Adolphe
The boy got his toddy and next night
the Pantheon brasserie was full of snuff.
In the Boulevard Quarter the beer bras
series chased out the white cafes"
Bars that now triumph, were exotic
things for tourists. Literary lights like
Catulle Mendes, Capus, Richepin, Barres:
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France is II. III. Harduin. the Mite Inou-
ern Voltaire, whose daily paragraph OF
forty lines nets him 100000 francs yearly
from the Matin. He could do this ana
advertising business of the Petit journal
on his shoulders whence his so
briefly of the camel. HarGuin takes
pains to explain that it is neither health
nor morals but pure business.
Lott affirms he is three-auarters MUS
suman wherefore he drinks only water.
l. love good Bordeaux, and don .dishhe
champagne says the little Noltaire.
Some day I'll drink both. Meanwhile
7 hope I'm not a Mussulman, because L
drink pure water. Good Camille F1am-
marion is lucky to have only the stars 10
keep tab on,
This because the genial astronomer
RACES against selfish, calculating water
mania" as unworthy of our birthright In
the land of the vine
Used Externally Only.
1.-The heavens are infinite, and life passes
as shadow says Flammarion. Il have
never drunk water; l use it externally
drink wine-Bordeaux. Burgundy, Cham
payne. Suresnes and Picolo-red. white,
blue rose and gray-so that it's good.
My dear grandfather was wine grower.
and he died a ninety in bad-crop
year"
Rodln. the. sculptor. Is another Such:
Wine is an. excellent creature" he
AYERS And if our young men are cut
ting it out it must be because it is so
often falsified. Look you. I've never
known a bad artist who drank all the
good wine he wanted, nor a good artist
who could keep his production up on
spirits aperitifs. vermouths or absinthes"
quite So replies Lucien Deserves. Il
still count myself a rising young man.
he is of the Goncourt Academy, and his
plays bring him a fortune yearly-"and
my afternoon is lost when l drink wine
at lunch. Evidently. it must be bad
wine: because when France was produc-
ing the best wine in the world her sons
We're also producing the best plays, from
Moliere to Dumas fills. ] am looking for
a work-favoring wine; and l can't find
it,
Misfral, the fine old Provencal poet,
has such wine from his own vines. At
meals only he drinks it cut with two
thirds water.
After soup at dinner. however. I take
one glass of pure old red wine" he tells.
Apart from meals. l never drink. I
/ never touch aperitfs strong waters,
except. now and then when travelling. I
may light my lantern with an exceptional
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The Issue.

At dinner in New York DIR. Charles
f. Aied of the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church illustrated with a story the harm
OF church controversies.
There was an Argyllshire elder. said
DR.. Aked. whom I asked one day in Lon
don how bis kirk was getting along.
"'Aweel' said he we had 400 members
Then we had a division. and there were
only 20 left Then came disruption
and only ten remained Then we had a
heresy trial and now there's only me and
ma brither Dusald left, and have great
doots of Dugald's orthodoxy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-23

PARIS, February 10. 1905.
I'm Paris the best champagnes can be
bought in the grocery stores. You
take home a quart of Pomery. Mumm
or Cliquot in the market basket for
S16O Meet or Montebello for Sl.D-
Buy 81 worth of foodstufs. they give
YOU a pint of excellent rum Brandy.
without headache. costs 81 a quart: with
headache, 80 cents: Kuemmel and Mara
schino down to 10 cents: absinthe. -
cents Frequently the grocer sends your
servant girl home wobbly. Families buy
their table wine in barrels. doing their
own bottling: it comes guaranteed pure
as low as cents.
In this land of liquid gladness. where
workingmen wash down bread and cheese
with red and white. the tourist listens for
the popping of corks as he walks the
street. knowing the people 10 be beauti-
fully alcoholized. he is surprised to learn
the proportion of successful modern
Frenchmen who ride on the water wagon
That il is pink water is but local color.
FLUSHING water little girls kind. is
made with a tablespoonful of red wine
per goblet. Quentin-Bauchard. president
of the Society of Men of Letters-that sees
10 it that a writer gets his pay in France
SAYS that he got the tip from Berthelot.
My drink is three parts water. one part
wine. said the illIStrious chemist In his
last days IF one wants 30 be success
full in these times of pressure. cut out all
eXcitantsr
DIR. Navarre-typical Partisan of Paris.
prouder of his place in the municipal
council than he is to be prince of
does DIR. Paul Carnot. son of the assassi-
mated president.
Berthelot approved technically the
claims of DR.. Atwater. the distinguished
American, that alcohol. in weak doses,
may be useful food" says DR.. Navarro:
but he thought ii so easy to pass over
to stimulation that he Jumped together
wines. strong wines, spirits. coffee, tea
and tobacco He would often cite the
glassworkers of Flanders, who keep up
on fifteen or twenty cups of coffee daily.
Their pulses are hard and vibrating. their
hearts hypertrophied. and their kidneys
gone in SclerOSiS.
Ashamed of Water.
NO need TO go to Flanders" says DR..
Paul Carnot. THE Paris theatrical world
is coffee-sodden. Good Victorien Sardou
holds alcohol for rank poison. a glass
of wine or thmbleful of cognac inca
pacitates him from work. He won't touch
them: yet he so abuses coffee that his
days are good or bad according he
takes it. OF late he sleeps better when
he cuts out all after dinner coffee eX-
cept. perhaps, two cups. without sugar.
AS to Berthelot, if he took a little red
wine in his water, it was rather as an in
teStinal antiSeptic, to prevent fermenta
lions.
DIR. Paul Carnot recognizes that we pure
water drinkers may be slightly more in
danger of appendicitis Mixing with the
food a little wine does not hurt the liver
and. instead OF Irritating the stomach.
aids its contractionS. How could French
man Of the land of wine say less? In
deed. il is curious TO find so many up
to-date. successful FrenChmen seemingly
ashamed of their pure water, as selfish
secret for keeping the head COOL
Tie highest-paid newspaper writer in
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tered the carriage just before the train
left Fenchurch street in London. His
impression was that they were together,
but he had no certain recollection of that.
As TO their appearance. he was totally at
sea He only knew that he had a crowd
ed train that day. and in the hurry and
hustle of his work paid but scant atten-
ton TO individuals
x =
There was one clue. however, and that
was of character that could not be
by the railway officials 1t was the i'm
preston of a blood -stained hand on the
door OF the railway carriage. The first
act of Col. Fraser was to order the guilty
carriage out of service. He directed that
special pains be taken to preserve the i'm
preston of the blOOd-stained hand. so that
il could be referred TO whenever the Oc-
casiOn demanded.
Tie same night word came TO police
Headquarters that the body of a we'll
dressed man had been discovered at a
spot where the North London railway
passes Victoria Park. The man was I'M
conscious. but still alive. He was taken
10 a nearby hospital and all that medical
science could do was done to restore him
To consciousness. but in vain. He died
within twenty-four hours without saying
word 1t evident from the start
ne had been murdered Unfortunately.
his head and face had been beaten so
cruelty that he was unrecogniza BILE. Just
at q time Wnen the solution of his Identity
seemed farther away the hospital author
iiics came upon q card in his vest pocket.
II read Thomas Briggs. Robarts L. Co,
Lombard street. London.
An officer was al once dispatched 10 the
office of Robarts 4 co. i'll Lombard street.
Th. head OF that firm said that Mr..
Briggs WAS their chief clerk and one of
their most valued employees. and that
they wern at "a total loss to account for
his unexplained absence from his post.
He 4ad been with the banking house for
nearly half Il century. and during all lOf
that time had-prom reported for work
as the clock was striking g. He failed to
90 SO That morning and they had assumed
that ne was i'll. Just as they were pre-
pairing 10 send an inquiry To his home a
message was received stating that he had
not returned TO his house in Hackney the
night before. \ hurried investigation
proved thar Mr.. Briggs left his home at
the usual hour on the previous day. He
carried "A eold-headed cane and wore
eold-rimmed eyeglasses. and had in his
possession a gold watch and chain. After
concluding his business "a the bank ne
left at the usual hour in the afternoon
and dined with his married daughter at
Peckham. He returned to the city In
time to take the regular train at Fen
church street Tor his home at Hackney.
That was the last time he was ever seen
alive.