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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14
IA Years Ago To-
From The Herald OF 1o-
This Date 1888 Noy

Mrs. Whitmer. who has been visiting
in California, arrived home yesterday.
Col. Neff went down the road on
the T. P. today for a short business
trip.
Mrs. ". Petherick and two children
left the city yesterday by way Of the
Central
NJ. W. stanton left the city Saturday
afternoon for Brewster county on
legal business.
Judge Walthall and family returned
today after a visit to friends and rel
atives in Missouri.
G. W. Roach. professor Putnam and
DR.. Higgins have returned from a trip
TO the SacramentOs-
T. b HOughton, general agent of the
Santa Fe, was a passenger from Albu-
querque this morning
Mrs. J. 7. French, wife of Rev.
French, left on the c. H today to visit
fri~Tds at san ElizariO.
J. T Scarf was a passenger from Las
Cruces Jnls morning, where he had
been on special business.
P 2. Hammett. of St. Louis, No, is
in the city visiting his parents, Mr..
and Mrs 3. F. Hammett-
". P Jones, an expert shirt irOner
of Chicago, Ill. has been employed to
iron shirts at the Troy laundry
E L. Sargent decided to Ida A Tay-
Tor in consideration of $3.50. lots and
10 block zoo, Campbeu's addition.
Mrs. W. ). AshbroOk, sister of agent
Montague of the Texas & Pacific, left
over that line for a trip to Nebraska.
Frederick Stewart, Of California,
brother of Douglas Stewart of this city,
left today over the T. P. for the east.
Herbert J. Bishop, assistant check
line clerk for the G. H, left today for
Galveston on a ten days leave of alb
sence-
Judge Sam French came down this
morning from Las Cruces and will 20
out tomorrow to his turquOis property
in the Jarillas-
Edwin Thomas has returned from
visiting trip which covered 10 states
Mr.. Thomas Travelled 5000 miles by
rail and 1000 by water.
Engineer Charley Lowe. OF the T
2. switch engine, returned this morn
ing from Dallas. where he has been
visiting for several days He will re-
port for work tomorrow
The ball game between Fl Paso and
Fort Bliss opened up yesterday after
noon at o'clock with FL Paso at the
bat The fort team fell to pieces and
the game was really tiresOme. The
score was % to in favor of Ell PasO.
! W. Brown Umpired the game and
gave good satisfaction.
Referee in bankruptcy Burgess, for
this federal district, this morning said
that as yet only one suit has been
filed IN taking out the papers under
the bankruptcy law" said Mr. Burgess,
the cost Of the issuance OF the papers
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14
The FOUNDING OF ST. LOUIS
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

~ NE hundred and forty nine years
ago-August s, 1763-Pierre La
clede Liquest set out from New
/ orleans, and three months later reached
the point for which he had started.
Fort de Charities
Liquest was the representative and
agent of the firm of Maxent & La
cIeoe, of New Orleans, which eRterpris-
ing company had just been granted
the exclusive trade of the Missouri.
and of the Mississippi as far as the
mouth of River st. Peter, and it was
Tor the purpose of establishing a point
around which the advantages of this
grant might materialize that the above
mentioned expedition was undertaken
\ month after his arrival at Fort
dc Chartres, December 1853 Liquest
set out to select the site of the COM
panyS post, and after looking the
ground over carefully decided upon
the locality near the junction of the
Missouri with the Father of Waters"
Here was firm. bold bank, high
enough to be out of the way of the
floods, and yet not too steep to in
terfere with the loading and unloading
of boats, to which might be added the
fact that 1t was the natural and inevitable
depot of the entire trade of the Mis-
souri,.
Having determined upon the site,
Liquest, on the morning of February
erection of the first building in the
city which today has a population OF
nearly million souls. In April the
settlement received the name of St
Louis, from Louis the Fifteenth OF
France.
While Liquest was on his way up
the Mississippi from New Orleans. the
vast region west of the river passed
into the hands of Spain, where it re-
manned, for 40 years. when the in
evitable happened, and the Province
OF Louisiana" passed into the possess
ion of the United States.
It was an unusual spectacle that
was witnessed in st. Louis on March
and 10. 1904. The formal transfer
Of Louisiana from Spain to France had
not been made when the time came
for its transfer to the United States
In crter that this transfer from France
TO the United States might be made,
Capt StOddard, of the United States
army. had been authorized to receive
the region from France. and was also
empowered by the French government
to act as its agent in the transfer.
which hac first tC take place from
Spain to Franco.
All being ready the Spanish flag
was lowered. with all due ceremony,
and In its place was run I'D the
standard of France. Then. with some
more ceremony, the transfer from
France TO the United States took
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14

is about S25; that. is. if there is no
contest over the matter"
superintendent Grieg, of the FL Paso
Northeastern. said this morning. I'VE
have just approved of the plans for
the new club house for AlamOgOrdo,
and if everything turns out this win
ter as we calculate at present we will
have one of the largest number OF
health seekers at our resort that has
ever been brought to our city
Another miraculous escape was made
this morning by a woman and two
children who were riding in a buggy
down Myrtle avenue After going down
that street the wheel on a Mexican's
wagon came in contact with a tele-
phone post and the horse hung up
until the owner came and backed the
wagon away from the post. The horse
hitched to the buggy was frightened
at the unusual sight and ran away. He
was stopped before any damage re-
suited.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14
EYES THAT SEE NOT
By wINIFRED BLACK.

"HE other day went to the noun
tain top.
1t was a fair day in the valley.
a day exceeding fair. All along the
way the red indian paint brushes stood
IKE funny little patarans, put there
Iong ago TO show gypsy feet the road
TO the summit. And beside them flow
cred the tall blue lunth and the bright
yellow mountain furZe, and as we went
higher, through the signing pines into
me region Oh the twisted cedars, past
the quiverlng aspen groves, up. up be-
yond the line of timber the blue for
get-me-nots carpeted the upland
meadows like great rugs of priceless
WORTH Blue, blue as the eyes of a
newborn baby, blue as sapphire, blue
as the sky on a June day in Cali
fornia, blue as fOrget-me-nOts.
And little pale girl sat among
them and gathered bouquets to help
pay Tor her living there in the hills
where she hoped to find strength And
INTO the shy eyes of the delicate child,
and asked her what she called the dog
who was her sturdy companion.
And some of us thought of healthy
and some, I think, remembered chill
had failed.
Up we went, up and up to the top
of the world. and there we saw the
glory OF the skies.
They were blue that day. as blue
as the forget me-nOts, and far. far
below US flOated great fleets of snow
white clouds like icebergs adrift' in
strange and silent sea And some
of US could not speak. and some sighed,
and some, 1 know, wept for very joy
at the great beauty of il all.
And one stood beside me and shifted.
say, said she I don't see any
thing much here, do you?"
Not a thing" said l. and she told
me the mountains were all A great
fake, and she wished she had stayed
a home
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14

ing" she said. I'll know better next
time, I'll tell you that"
And as We went down the mountain
side we talked. and 1 found that she
liked the town near by rather we'll"
There are two picture shows there"
she SAID, and every night there's
week and lots of folks moving about
all the time"
And we laughed together. the woman
who shifted and I, at the people who were
Jay enough that was the express
sion she used. TO like the mountains,
and the sky. and the fleets of clouds
and the fields of heavenly blue, and I
suppose that woman thinks she saw all
there was to see in the mountains,
too.
Poor. foolish, blind. deaf, dumb. half
living creature! Why, she never sees
anything, she just thinks she sees.
What do such people get out of the
world, I Wonder2 What a queer. mixed
up, foolish sort of place it must be to
them all the timei
What fools they must think all the
other people or maybe they think the
rest OF US are just putting on when
we like to see beauty instead of ugli-
ness, glory instead of squalori
I knew a man once who said he
knew no one really liked to read
they just said they did to put on"
1 know another man who declares
ne can see the difference between a
dinner at d good restaurant and a
feed" at a cafeteria. its all grub"
he says, what's the difference. ex-
cept the airs?" and he really means
it, too.
Al men are equal says the old law
oh, If some law could only make them
so All men are equal and one is
blind, and one is deaf, and one is dull
and one is lame.
All men are equal and all women
toO-perhapSi
/ wonder il the woman who couldn't
see anything worth looking at on the
mountain top thinks so, too?
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14
DAILY RECORD
Building Permits.

Building Permits
To. Frederick Aguirre, to erect
porch, 1924 BaSsett avenue, estimated
cost $50
Deeds Filed.
Sierra Blanca Texas-T. R James
and sons to c NJ Mickle, lot 3, block
1. Sierra Blanca; consideration, $1,000;
July IS, 1911
FL Paso county, Texas-L e Gibbs
to c. NJ. DIickle. sections L and Il,
block 5415, public school land; consid-
Grafton, $1,000; August u, 1912
FL Paso county. Texas. A Web
block >. public school land; considera-
ton. $40; June Z. 1912
Licensed to Wed.
c. 7. Becker and Mary E Roman
Hilario Lopez and Maria Duran
Automobiles Licensed.
1O62-C Hudspeth. ITO Montana
street; Indian motorcycle
BirthS-Girls.
To Mrs. L Esparza, 1115 South Santa
Fe street; August Il
To Mrs. D. Garcia, 900 South Florence
street; August 10.
To Mrs Crescencio Marquee, 1914
Zaragoza alley; August g.
To Mrs Jose Morales, SIS Seventh
street: August s.
To Mrs. Felix Galindo, GuerrO alley
and Eighth street; August s
To Mrs. EIgiO Orona, Eighth and
Leon streets; August Z
To Mrs T Aragon, 425 South Oregon
street; July IS
Births-BOys.
To Mrs. V Nalenzuela- Stanton and
Eighth streets: August Z
To Mrs Jesus Enriquez, rs South
Florence street; July p.
To Mrs Juan BarnO. zoo South Ore
son street. July Is
To Mrs Marin. SIT Broadway; July %.
To Mrs Jose Villar, Santa Fe street;
July 81
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14
The HeraId's Daily
Short Stsry
The Laying Of the Past

wards off and A crowd quickly gathered
all eyes peering eagerly tow ",s,rl5
the river He hurried aIoAS anu dsAeu
what had happened -..
"A woman has Jumpeu ONei' SOile-
one said.
PbiIbanIl threw off his coat and dove
towards a dark object which could just
be seen. He swan strongly but as he
reacher her, she struggled herceIy 10
free herself from his grasp
Don't be fool" he cried, and when
she continued to fight. he raised his
fist and struck her sharply on the TEN
pie.
Then her struggles ceased ana ne
commenced TO tow her slowly towards
the embankment. Her clothes became
saturated. and his burden the heavier,
hut still he struggled on. Bodily weak
ness told at last, and his strength waV-
cred. until his arms barely moved
I'm done" he gasped, and his senses
were vanishing when a dark body loom
ed over them, and voices sounded IN
his ears.
When PhiIbank recovered conscious
ness he was lying in a bed with clean
sheets the touch of silk on his skim
where am u" he asked feverishly-
And kindly blue eyes looked down at
him.
.'Strathmore." he gasped.
you mustn't talk, old man. Go to
steep, was lAlG SNANAG cAiSNCA-
A couple of days later he was seated
on the balcony, but now he was well
dressed, and his stomach was no longer
empty. Beside him was Colonel Strath-
more.
You are sure you are strong enough
to go to the inquest?' the Colonel ask
ed, anXiOusly.
quite sure. And so the poor devil is
dead. Well, she wanted TO die"
An hour later Philbank entered the
and his eyes rested on the
face of the woman whose life he had
struggled to save.
My God. he cried. and his voice was
filled with horror 1t was the woman
who had ruined his life. He touched
her hand and trembled at its chill.
Her eyes-they were blue-were open,
and on her forehead was a bruise.
Slowly he bent his head. and his lips
touched the discOlored skin; the mem
DRY of fierce kisses overwhelmed him.
And then he went out to face the
world.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14
CBy Paul Trent)

Tit was the third time that the two
men had made the same seat on the
- embankment their restingpIace for
the night
I'm wondering what it'll be like
when the cold weather comes"
Sufficient unto the day." Philbank
Laughter harshly.
1t was weakness and not vice that
had brought him to this state. In
South Africa he had ought1brilliantly,
and returned to England with the
brightest prospects. But a woman had
crossed his path-a woman with the
devils beauty that had made him for
get everything save his desire. Career
had been sacrificed at her altar
money had been thrown away-and
then she had coldly dismissed him. The
descent had been rapid, and now for
months he had been eXisting-from
hand to mOuth-and for the last few
days, homeless and half-starved.
I wish TO God they'd give me an
other chance" the younger suddenly
said
PhiIbank looked at him suspiciously.
and seemed about TO speak, then hest
tated, and finally remained silent.
Couldn't you make goodwill an
other CHANGER he asked at last.
I believe So"
Then you shall have one. Wait a
moment"
1nllDdnk nalle0 d passing pOlceman-
Officer, can you oblige me with a
piece of paper and a pencil?" he asked.
The constable put his hand in his
pocket. and produced the required ar
ticles. Philbank wrote rapidly, and
handed back the pencil with thanks.
Take this TO the Savoy and ask for
Colonel Strathmore. But I want your
word that you won't say where you
have seen me-" Philbank said, roughly
TO the other. Good luck to you"
Thanks and"
Cut along"
Philbank watched him cross to the
other side of the Embankment.
4 believe I can do it-nOw," he NUT
tered, and drew near to the parapet
For moment his muscles were taut
and then his body relaxed.
4 haven't got the pluck" he said
with a SrOan, and he despised himself
the more for his cowardice
He was about to turn away when
shrin cry could be heard some thirty
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14
TRUST MONOPOLIZED
COLORADO BUSINESS
Evidence Shows Trust Had
Eyes Open to Control All
Colorado Business.

Denver, Colo, Aug. 1.-THE taking
OF testimony here in the governments
suit against the sugar trust in an ef-
fort to bring about its dissolution con-
tinueS.
A new side was presented when
the Colorado Wholesale Grocers' asso-
citation, and c. F. Best formerly a
wholesale grocer, testified regarding
an agreement the Wholesale Grocers
association entered into with the sugar
combine in 1904 BY agreement ac-
cordinS to testimony. the wholesale
dealers received rebates from the SUI
gar companies to reComDcnse them for
losses incurred prior to this agree
ment
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14
By FREDERIC ]. aASKIN.

lions. the committee must have gone
In 1900 the Republicans had plenty
of funds while the Democrats had al
most an empty treasury. In 1904 it
was thought at the outset that Parker
would get the bulk of the big cOntri-
buttons, but it did not work out that
Where the Money Goes. 81.
MIR. COrtelyOu has stated that the
Republican fund in 1904 was $1,9OO.OOO.
and puts il as about half as large as
the funds which were behind Cleveland
in 1892 and Mckinley in 1896 He re-
Gently testified before d senate com
mittce that he never knew that the in
surance companies had contributed to
the fund of that year until the fact
was brought out in the New YORK IN
surance Investigation. While he places
the Republican fund of 1904 at SL9UO,-
600 certain New York newspapers as
sert that il amounted to S11,OOO.OOO- Mr.
COrtelyou's tented statement Of ex-
penditures throws an interesting llSnt
upon the cost of the different actlVl-
ties financed by a national committee
First of all, of the $L9OO,OOO he says
was received, some StOO,OOO was con-
tributed to the various state commit
tees. For literary work and advertls-
ing the expenditure apPrOXlmaIeo
$500, 900, while the speakers bureau
cost $175,O00- For Autographs and
other work of that kind 100000 was
required. and for headquarters $780,
600. The committee had a surplus of
approximately 100000 at the end of
the camDaiGn On the Democratic side
August Belmont has placed the expen-
ditures at about 100000, of which he
contributed S25O,OO0. William F Shee-
han put the total about ,S1,OOO,O0O.
AS a matter of fact, no living mortal
knows within millions, probably, what
was spent in any campaign of recent
years. prior to 1908. Political mana
gers have always made it a point not
to know too much about things Rec
Ords were destroyed and evidences of
full war chests covered up as much as
possible
Tomorrow-Four Years Ago.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14
FIND TEN
THOUSAND DOLLARS
Supposed to Have Been Hid
den by Bandit in House
Where Found.

Liberty, No, Aug. 14.-Ten thousand
dollars in gold, believed to have been
hidden by William Anderson. a bandit
who terrorized central Missouri after
the civil war. has been found in the
ola manor house. on what was the
plantation of William Burch. in How
ard county. Missouri. and which now
is the property of c. f. Yancey. of Lib
erty- Mr.. Nancey was notified of the
discovery by employees who are re-
modelling the old house
According to those who are familiar
with the story and the death of An
derSon IN 1868, he was wounded after
rObbing a central Missouri bank and
stopped that night in the manor house
OF the Burch plantation. It was in
the room in which the bandit slept that
the money was found.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14
-ORTH CAROLINA is located Just
north of South Carolina and fits


over it like the cover of a soup
tureen- 1t is 500 miles long, $50 miles
wide and has 100000 inhabitants who
are so evenly distributed over the soil
that the largest town in the state only
has $4,000 people.
North Carolina is protected against
commerce on the east bv Cape Hatteras
and many miles of sand bars and on the
west by mountains and railroads which
use yesterdays trains warmed over with
perfect content. A great deal of the
eastern part of the state Is so soft that
the casual visitor is likely to sink into
it up to his neck but when about 3,OOO,-
600 acres of swamp land are drained agri-
culture will receive a great boost and
North Carolina will begin to rival Illinois
as a producer of corn.
North Carolina raises vast quantities
of tobacco and cotton and also supplies
the peanut roasters of the world with
fuel. If it were not for this state Che
elephants in a hundred menageries would
die of starvation and baseball would lose
half its charm. North Carolina produces
in one year enough peanuts to litter up
a street 10000 miles long and 100 yards
wide with shells.
North Carolina was settled go years
ago and has remained calm and placid
ever since, rot even getting into the
civil war to any extent. 1t took a
prominent part in the production of early
patriots. turning out Andrew jackson,
Andrew johnson and James X. Polk. Its
only feat in the last 100 years however
has been the production of Uncle Joe
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14

would not even ask my heart to say
If I could love another land as well
As thee, my country, had I felt the
spell
OF. Italy at birth, OF learned to obey
The charm of France, or England's
mighty sway;
I would not be so much an infidel
As once to dream or fashion words
TO tell,
What land could hold my love from
tBee away.
For like a law of nature in my blood
I feel thy sweet and secret sOver-
eighty,
And like a birthmark on my soul
thy sign
Ny life is but a wave and thou the
flood;
I am a leaf. and thou the mother tree;
Nor should I be at all, were 7 not
thine
=Henrv Van DYKE.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14
UNCLE WAITS DENATURED POEM
Smiles
By Walt Mason.
By Walt Mason.

around the world .ou.
Il 9I' une people
man worth while
dS loops the a nbee
Ile daily the OF
% hono and in
OOeloh lay he hasn
he
song bu
COOL ne helps dtreatsa
Nle ana sucks to the Golden his
You al once career ~ 81" uiHe''
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14
Interstate Liquor Shipments

The United States senate the judiciary committee reports
enacted into law and found constitutional
PfOnuOn WITHIN the states ectual whereas it
There fOong
te revenue OF interstate would
De enforced 1t would pretty nearly break prohibition
STATES To be
"her 1t wise attempt without also mr.
the manufacture and sale still it is certain
that
Ine hquor manufacturers would be hardsr
case Such law passed by become necessary f
nuO nom wet into d-y territory within no serious
MADE nowadays to accomplish this partly if not pn
cPahy due to inability
viii law a time ~
Fort
"e the going viii be good but present. roads torn Id for r.
II almost as hard as the
some OF the drivers are wondering so thew cou1d drive
alongside the new road impossible pull through the
pun 'HiOusH the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14

place. The flag Of France was pulled
down, and the Stars and Stripes"
waved for the first time in the future
metropolis of the wonderful Missis-
sippi valley.
Thus st. Louis enjoyed the unique
honor of being the only city in All
history which has seen the flags of
three different nations float over it in
token Of sovereignty within the brief
space of q hours
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14

tains and has a climate which can be
breathcd with benefit by a man with only
half a lung. Outside of its principal
cities the state has changed little since
the war and after Gabriel has blown
everyone else into line on the last roll
call he viii have to give three special
toots for North Carolina.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14
NORTH BY GEORGE FITCH
4VCAROLINA Author Of CAT Good Old siwash''
Copyright, 1912, by George MathewAdams.)

Cannon. 1t is a peaceful, hOOk-wormy
state whose only diversion Is to send a
Republican TO congress now and then and
to watch Cornelius Vanderbilt try to
farm his patch of ground at Biltmore
with a gold-mounted pillow and imported
horse flies.
North Carolina has been introduced to
modern Americans chiefly through Ash
Vile which sits nn in its western noun
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14

Tn poor house is full O. distinguished
lookin' people. This is gOin' t be an off
year in politics fer fellers with plaid
clothes an three chins.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14

THIRTY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION
c.
narf (oxno Of ?
ckhoider whoa a A
Mundy H r c.
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-14

<~ WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. IL
M The campaign funds of the
w political parties in the United
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1912-02-29
They Fooled Dad

Midland Mail: When Alvin
Waggoner arrived in Midland
Sunday morning to deliver his
lecture on Abraham Lincoln, he
came from Fort Pierre, and put
up at the Bastion House. Unbe-
knowns to him, Mrs. Waggoner
and their little baby accompanied
by Mrs. Gallagher arrived from
Philip and stopped with their sis
ter, Mrs. }. ID. Snow. Along
about noon Sunday, Jim Snow
called "Wag" up over the phone
and asked him to come over to the
house; he had something to show
him. When he arrived Mrs. Snow
wheeled the baby in and presented
it as their own. The usual baby"
formalities we're gone through
with such as asking it's age, which
was three months--just the age of
his own baby. If he had heard of
the Shows having a baby he must
have forgotten it. Such was about
the way his mind ran when he
was brought to realization of
the shortcomings of the average
man, by the appearance of the
baby's mother. Of course they
bantered him about not knowing
his own offspring. 1t will proba-
bly, be sometime before he hears
the last of it.