Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 282, Ed. 1 Monday, October 16, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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THE GALVESTON TKIBUTTE.
BLOOD WILL TELL.
Big Fight on Mazet
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CAMPAIGN WILL COST $10,000.
Total liabilities.
ARE TO BE FINISHED IN A YEAR.
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A REMARKABLE STORY.
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MORE FILLING.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
THE LA PORTE ROAD.
CLOTHES A CULT.
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Five New Battleships, Otte Cruiser
and 25 Torpedo Boats.
The Job Is Worth Only $150$ a Year—Governor
Roosevelt to Take the Stump for Mazet.
Admiral Hichborn’s Report of Work Now Under
Way and Recommendations for Future
Plans and Appropriations*
this district will cost $10,000.
..for an assemblyman is $1500.
“I-have been around the-district,” said
would not.
tions of the
sence.”
When All Arrive There Will Be 70,000 Men
and 45 Ships.
Sanitary Flooring, Asphalt Paving,
Artesian Wells and Waterworks Plants.
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LAkV/?H/VCE 17. ELDER,
(SUCCESSOR TO J. W. BYRNES).,
C. B. LEE & CO., Proprietors,
Galveston, Texas.
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Tammany Going After the Matt
Who Investigated.
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Manufacturers of AH Kinds of Machinery. Steam Engines and Brass and
Iron Castings. ®"Kr’-----Mill Furnishing and Shafting a Specialty.
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No man knows -the right way so well as
the one who has once been misled.
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.$245,279 54
. 44,133 32
. 47,618 23
Additions to the Navy.
,35,699 99 t
' The ‘‘secret service” was originated by
the Quakers.
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enough work in sight to keep the boat
engaged for two months. It is not con-
templated to keep the dredge employed
continuously, but when the weather is
favorable it will operate on thdJoar, work-
ing inside when the other work is imprac-
ticable owing to weather conditions.
. The Comstock made >an excellent record
on the work recently completed in- the
filling in of the low lands adjoining the
fortifications at Fort San Jacinto, and
there Is every expectation that the high
standard achieved will be maintained in
the present work.
Wonderfully Strengthened.
“ I have been taking Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound, Blood
Purifier and Liver Pills and feel won-
derfully strengthened. Before using
your remedies I was in a terrible state;
felt like fainting every little while. I
thought I must surely die. But now,
thanks to your remedies, those feel-
ings are all gone.”—Mrs. Emilie
Schneider, 1244 Helen Ave., Detroit
Mich. © ®
feet in depth, and it is estimated there is '
Believes the 'Democrats Will Carry Both
Ohio and Kentucky.
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 16.—Chairman Jones,
speaking of today’s conference, said:
“The present conference is merely an
informal meeting of a few members who
fill official positions of importance in the
national committee to talk over what has
been done and what will be done. No
changes will be made asa. result of the con-
ference. I shall remain as I have been be-
GJANKE&CO.
ij. [LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. 26,785]
T “ Dear Mrs. Pinkham—I have many,
many thanks to give you for what your
Vegetable Compound has done for me.
After first confinement I. was sick for
nine years with prolapsus of the womb,
had pain in Idft side, in small of back,
a great deal of headache, palpitation
of heart and leucorrhoea.. I felt so
weak and tired that I could not do my
work. I became pregnant again and
took your Compound all through, and
now have a sweet baby girl. I never
before had such an easy time during
labor, and I feel it was due to Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. I
am now able to do my work and feel
better than I have for years. I cannot
thank you enough.” — Mrs. Ed. Eh-
LINGer, Devine, Tex.
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Contractor for Shell and Gravel Roofing. Manufacturer of Roofing and Paving Pitch,
Canitaru Flnnrrno- Aenhalt Paving Creosote, AspftaH Varnish, 2 and 3-Ply
Ready Roofing Felt, Aqua and Anhy-
drous Ammonia.
Galveston, Texa^i
’Negotiations Looking to Another Com-
> mission for Settlement.
’ New York, N. Y., Oct. 16.—A special to
the Herald from Washington says: Nego-
tiations are in progress between the United
'States and Chile which are expected to re-
sult in the signing of another treaty for
the revival of the Chilean claims commis-
sion.
Strong efforts will be made during the
Coming session of congress to secure legis-
lation enabling the president to appoint a
commission to pass upon all claims grow-
ing out of the Cuban insurrection and the
war with Spain. The United States must
settle those of its citizens against Spain.
These aggregate $30,000,000.
The United States is engaged in negotia-
tions with Russia, Guatemala and Hayti
in regard to the arbitrations of claims
.filed against those governments by Amer-
ican citizens. The Swiss government has
not yet announced its award in the mat-
ter of American citizens growing out of
the seizure of railroad property at Dela-
goa bay by the Portuguese government.
New York, N. Y., Oct. 16.—A special to
the Herald from Washington says: Five :
battleships, one cruiser, one cadet train-
ing ship and 25 torpedo boats and torpedo ;
destroyers will comprise the new con-
struction completed and added to the navy
within the next year.
Rear Admiral Hichborn, chief construc-
tor of the navy, makes this estimate in his
annual report for the fiscal year ending
July 1, last, which he has just submitted-,
to the secretary of the navy. Final work
on the battleship Kearsarge will be com-
pleted, he states, in January next; the:
Kentucky will be ready a month later, the
Alabama will be in condition for active? —
service in January, the Wisconsin May 1
next, and the Illinois in October.
The Maine will be ready for sea in June
of 1901 and the Missouri-in February of
1902 and the Ohio by March, 1902. The
four monitors under construction will be
turned over to the government in 1901, in
vzhich year all the torpedo boat destroyers
and torpedo boats will be .ready for deliv-
ery to the government.
In explanation of his estimate of $6,000,- ■
000 for the construction and repair of ves-
sels, an increase of $5,000,000 over the ap-
propriation for the present fiscal year,
Admiral Hichborn states that it has been
and will continue to be found necessary:
to expend comparatively large sums in'
connection with the repair of older ves-
sels, in making alterations necessary for
tile efficiency according to modern ideas
and practice. For instance, the altera-
tions and repairs to the Cincinnati and
the Raleigh will require an expenditure of
about $500,000 under the bureau of con-
struction and repair.
Seventeen vessels, gunboats and tugs,;
: were secured by purchase and attached
to the -Asiatic station. Wc-r.k upon the de-
29,027 66
399 93
136 58
137,050 12
.$503,645 38
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"The Dredge Comstock Begins Operations
at the East End.
The United States dredge Gen. C. B.
Comstock, under control of the engineer
department and commanded by Capt. Geo.
M. Prendergast, began work this morning
in filling in the -government reservation
about the recently constructed barracks
at Fort San Jacinto. The fill will be seven
detail of the military and naval forces
assigned to duty in the Philippines:
Army—Combatants, 63,872; non-combat-
ants, 1500.
Navy—Ships, 45; blue jackets, 4997; mar-
ines, 1184.
First division—Gen. Lawton: 4th, 13th,
14th, 24th and 25th infantry; 4th cavalry;
battery F, 4th artillery; battery F, 5th ar-
tillery; battery D, 6th artillery; Haw-
thorne’s mountain battery.
Second division—Gen. MacArthur: 3d,
9th, 12th, 17th, 22d and 36th infantry; bat-
tery E, 1st artillery; batteries G, H, K
and L, 3d artillery.
At Manila—Twentieth -infantry, 37th in-
fantry, eight fort batteries, 6th artillery,
11th cavalry.
Island of Panay—Eighteenth infantry,
19th infantry, battery G, 6th artillery..
Island of Negros—.Sixth infantry.
Island of Cebu^One battalion 23d
fantry.
Island of Jolo—Two battalions 22d
faritry.
Troops en route:
By transport Victoria, expected to ar-
rive Oct. 9, 3d cavalry, 800 men; by War-
ren, Oct. 11, recruits, 1506 men; by Colum-
bia, Oct. 11, five companies 34th infantry,
566 men; by Belgian King, Oct. 14, seven
companies 34th infantry, 779 men; by Az-
tec, Oct. 25, 336 horses, 9 men; by Tacoma,
Oct. 14, seven -companies 27th infantry,
735 men; by Elder, Oct. 21, five companies
27th infantry, 494 men; by Grant, Oct, 24,
26th infantry and recruits, 1631 men; by
Sheridan, Oct. 30, 32d infantry, 1663 men;
by Charles Nelson, Nov. 1, two companies
32d infantry, 209 men; by Glenargle, Nov.
1, six companies 33d infantry, 718 men; 'by
Sikh, Nov. 8, 35th infantry, 632 men; by
Rio, Nov. 8, 35th infantry, 692 men; by
City of Para, -Nov. 5, seven companies 29th
infantry, 788 men; by -Zealandia, Nov. '5,
■five companies 29th finfaritry, 557 men; by
Valencia, Nov. 5, recruits, 432 men.
Troops -to sail, with dates of departure:
Thirty-eighth infantry, Oct. 20; 39th in-
fantry, Oct. 15; 40th infantry, Oct. 30; 31st forded,
infantry, Nov. 20; 42d infantry, Oct. 30;
43d infantry, .Nov. 15; 44th infantry, Oct.
25; 45th infantry, Oct. 22; 46th infantry,
Oct. 16; 47th infantry, Nov. 1; 48th in-
fantry, no date fixed; 49th infantry, no
date fixed.
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New York, N. Y., Oct. 16.—A special to
the Herald from Washington says the
combined military and naval forces of the
United States in the Philippines, when
all the troops and ship? now under orders
reach- there, will aggregate more than
70,000 men and 45 war vessels. The last
of these forces will arrive in Manila early
in December.
’This statement shows the strength in
Eczsis.
Mr. H. T. Shobe, 2704 Lucas Ave.,
St. Louis, Mo., says: “My daugh-
ter had Eczema, which covered
her head and spread to her face.
She was treated by physicians and
taken to celebrated health springs,
but only grew worse. Many patent
medicines were taken, but without
result, until we decided to try
S. S. S. A dozen bottles cured her
completely and left her skin per-
fectly smooth. Not a sign of the
dreadful disease has ever returned.’’
S.S.S.% Blood
(Swift’s Specific) is the only cure for
Eczema, and all other obstinate blood
diseases. Valuable books mailed free
by Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Ga.
The deficit in the operation of the road
from Jan. 7, 1896, to April 30, 1899, and ex-
penses of receivership to Sept. 30, 1899, was
$149,817.95; the loss ■ added to the assets
gives a total of $503,645.38, which balances
the liabilities, scheduled as follows:
Receiver’s certificates outstand-
ing
Bills payable
Audited pay rolls unpaid
Freight balances due connecting
lines ’.
Mileage balances due other lines..
Ticket balances due other lines..
Audited vouchers unpaid
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The following real estate transfers were
filed for record in the county clerk’s office
Saturday:
Deloss E. Reaser and wife to R. P. Jo-
sey, lots 24 and 25, block 36, in Alta Loma,
$200.
Alf. H. H. Tolar and wife to M. C.
Davis, lot 5, block 60, in Arcadia, $300.
J. J. Shannon to William Lucas and
wife, division 2 of lot 8, section 1, Galves-
ton island, $1250.
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INFANT FOOa
on the Great Lakes has been suspended:
pending definition of the characteristics
that will be permitted under the treaty
with Great Britain.
’Delay ‘on Vessels under construction has
been occasioned, Admiral Hichborn ^as-
serts, by the impossibility of procuring
armor and other material at the proper
time, especially in the case of some tor-
pedo craft.
Admiral Hichborn renews his recom-
mendation, vzhich will enable the depart-
ment to make a single contract '.for .ships
and armor, urges the authorization of an
assistant chief of the bureau of construc-
tino and repair, the removal of the limit
of the number of officered corps, now re-
stricted by law to 40 and an increase in
the number of carpenters to. 75. War ex-
perience’ has-demonstrated, Admiral Hich-
bo>rn states., the strategical and tacitcal
advantages of sheathed over unsheathed
vessels., -j ■
remedy for female troubles is
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Good Health.
Donald G. .Mitchell, known far and wide .
as Ik Marvel, lives on a 200-acr.e .’farm
upon a hill mean, New Haven. From the
road the house is invisible, a high ever-
green hedge 'concealing it, but from the
porch a ifiire vle-w of New Haven is af-
For many years Mr. Mitchell has
lived there, indulging in his '.love for na-
ture and agriculture. It is an ideal pla<m£
The house is covered by English.ivy .and
ever green trees surround it. The fields
are level as floors and the stone walls have
been built -with neatness and accuracy.
A little house on the farm is built .from
stones gathered from the fields and cost
only a trifle over $1000.
Mr. Mitchell is 72 years old, but he walks
in the woods every day. He is very fond
of walking and thinks to it he owes his
life, for when young he was told he had
consumption. For two years he tramped
over Europe, walking 600 miles in Eng-
land aione. He successfully staved of the
disease, but has always kept up his walks.
New York, N. Y., Oct. 16.—The opening
gun in the campaign against Assembly-
man Robert Mazet to prevent his re-elec-
tion so that he will not be able to present
the report of his committee, will be begun
by Tammony hall tonight.
.For the first time in the history of poli-
tics a Tammany leader is to take charge
of the canvass of a Citizens’ union candi-
date. This leader is Police Commissioner
John B. Sexton,- the Tammany leader in
the 19th assembly district. He not only
has indorsed the Citizens’ union candi-
date for assembly, Perez M. Stewart, but
from now until the eve of election he will
work hard to defeat the chairman of the
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committee who is investigating Tammany
departments. The man who has been se-
lected to make the first speech against
Mazet is Tammany’s silver tongued ora-
tor, Senator Thomas D. Grady. Ten Tam-
many orators will speak for Stewart. For
Thursday night Sexton has ararnged a
special attraction. This is the night Gov.
Roosevelt will speak for Mazet at Dur-
land’s academy. To offset this Sexton will
have a torchlight procession and he says
he will have 3000 men in line. Stewart,
the Citizens’ union-Tammany candidate,
will ride at the head of the parade.
If Sexton is busy so is Mazet. The latter
will also open headquarters today and will
start out to make the fight of his life.
Prominent campaign speakers will flood
the district and Thomas M. Platt him-
self may come out and make a speech for
him.
Collector George M. Bidwell, who is the
Republican candidate in the district, will
have charge of the canvass. Lemuel
Quigg lives in the district, and if Mazet is
defeated at will mean la rebuke to him. It
was said .last night that the-campaign in
The salary
No person can have good health without
pure blood, as all diseases are directly
traceable to a diseased or impoverished
condition of the blood. Impure blood falls
short of its duty of nourishing the sys-
tem. The color and life in the blood is
the iron there is in it, and with the lack
of iron there is just as certainly a lack of
health.
Read this testimony of W. C. Josselyn
regarding Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic.
“State of California, City and County of ’
San Francisco:
“Before me, the undersigned authority,
a notary public in and for said city and
county, personally appeared W. C. Josse-
lyn, who being duly sworn on oath de-
poses and says:
“I am a merchant tailor, doing business
at 9 Geary st., rooms 1, 2, 3 and 4, in the
city of San Francisco. I am now nearly
69 years of age; came to this coast on the
bark Rocket in the year 1850, and have
been here ever since.
“Twenty years ago, at White Pine, Nev.,
I was attacked with what my doctors
termed rheumatism. My case baffled the
skill of the physicians at that place and
those at Virginia City, who advised me
to come to this city for treatment, which
I d'd fourteen years ago, and placed my-
self under the care, one after another, ol
the best physicians that money could pro-
cure. I kept growing worse all the time,
and supposed that I never would get well.
For the last eleven years I was unable to
put my coat on without some one helping
me. During this time I lost the use of
my left hand, which had become drawn
out of shape and badly swollen from the
effects of this disease. About nine years
6.go ulcers formed on that hand; they
grew so large that a walnut could be
dropped into them. About a year ago
tfleers formed on my right temple, one on
my forehead'and one on my left cheek.
My physicians decided that a portion of
my cheek bone must be removed before
I could recover, but I declined to have it
done. I was in this ulcerated condition,
very much debilitated, confined to my bed,
with no appetite, my friends having given
up all hopes of my recovery, when, dur-
ing January last, I received one of Dr.
Harter’s almanacs, read it and resolve,d
to try Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic. I quit
using all other medicine and commenced,
taking the Iron Tonic as directed, occa-
sionally taking a dose of Dr. Harter’s
Little Liver Pills. .
“After taking one bottle I felt a change;
the ulcers commenced to heal, my suffer-
ings grew -less and I regained my appe-
tite. After taking five bottles of the Iron
Tonic the ulcers were completely healed.
I now feel as free from aches and pains
as a 6-year-old boy, can dress myself
without assistance, attend to my business
and walk miles without fatigue. I at-
tribute my cure, not in part, but wholly,
to the use of Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic.
(Signed) “W. C. JOSSELYN.
“Subscribed and sworn to before me this
9th day of May, A. D. 1896.
(Signed) “W. F. SWASEY,
“Notary Public.”
Read this from another Texas man:
“Dallas, Tex., Dec. 16, 1897.
“Publisher News, Dallas: Dear Sir—To
those suffering from indigestion, loss of
appetite, biliousness and general running
down of the system, I cheerfully recom-
mend Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic. It. worked,
wonders with me. 'CHAS. E. FIELD.
“Northwest cor. Camp & Akard.”
Sold everywhere.
Sample dose of Dr. Harter’s Little Liver
Pills and Book of Dreams mailed -free.
Address HARTER, Dayton, O.
Dr. Harter’s Little Liver Pills do the
business. _________
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Goebel, Blackburn and Other
Democrats Start Today.
Cairo, Ill., Oct. 16.—State Senator Goe-
bel, Democratic candidate for governor of
Kentucky, accompanied by a distin-
guished party of Kentuckians and a num-
ber of newspaper representatives, reached,
this city last evening on a special train
from Louisville. Mr. W. J. Bryan and Na-
tional Committeeman WoodsoQ of Ken-
•Mazet last night, “and .1 .am confident .of tucky -arrived last night and all -left
my re-election. It will be a.hot campaign, at o’clock this morning for a tour of
Kentucky, extending’’from west to east,
Bardswell being the first,stop and Coving-
ton, the home of the Democratic. candi-
date, the end of the trip. .The special
train, in covering the .state, will occupy
about a week.
Mr. Bryan is scheduled for from five to
eight half-hour speeches per day.
Ex-United States- Senator Blackburn
will join the party at Frankfort. Today’s
schedule includes Bardswell, Fulton, May-
field, Benton, Hopkinsville and Central
City, the latter point being reached at 7
o’clock.
The Receiver Files a Report Showing a
Deficit.
There has been filed in the United States
court the report of't1'. M7'. House, receiver
of the Galveston, La Porte and Houston
railway, for the period ending Sept. 30,.
1899, and will come up for hearing, during
the term. This of course is not a final re-
port, but is as near final as can be made
at this time. There are a number of
freight claims to be adjusted, and these,
are being investigated now.
It is estimated,, after a careful com-
parison of the figures, that ’the receiver-
ship will pay about '87 ‘per cent of the lia-
bilities, when the court costs are added to
the expenses of the receivership.
In submitting the report the receiver
says:
No reference is made to .the sale of the
railway property and..equipment, all of
which are turned over to the purchasers
(per order of court) May 1, 1899. There
are quite a number: oMuhsettled matters
in the freight claim department which are
being adjusted as fast ‘as possible. The
-item charged t© the general freight de-
partment as “Claims for adjustment,
$1712.76,” will be -mostly charged to the
Houston and Texas Central railway and
■other lines as soon as .settlement with
those lines can be completed. .Every ef-
fort has been made -to- hasten this- settle-
ment of all claims," and, ..we have the as-
surance of connecting -lines that they will
give preferred attentionicLjiliims in which
the receiver is interested.
The following schedule is filed:
ASSETS. '
Cost of road under receiver ship.. $215,237 55
Overcharge, loss and damage
claims 2,510 83
Individuals and companies.. 4,653-45
Cash on hand..... 2,218 30
Material and shop machinery 1,945 16
Overcharge claims..;/ 1,712 56
Due receiver from old cojilpany,. 38,575 66
Passenger equipment....30,599 99
Freight equipment
Locomotives 20,774 00
A writer in the -English magazine Black
and White says: “The ‘Intelligent Bar-
barian,’ as Froude calls him, carries back
with him to the Punjab, or Bangkok, or
Tartary, or whencesoever he has ventured
forth, some curious and instructive im-
pressions of English habits and customs;
but far and away our most striking char-
acteristic to the mind of the observant
pagan is our reverence for clothes.
'“Nasrulla Khan, the ameer’s son, went
back to Cabul after his very memorable
sojourn -among us with the profound con-
viction that sartorial embellishment was
a kind of religious cult among us. Our
less distinguished but equally observant
Matabele visitor thought clothes were a
fetish in London. A native Subedar of
Sikhs, who has just published his notes
of a journey beyond the Kalapani, says
that the. English always dress .in black,
and adds that he believes there is a law
making this observance compulsory upon
men, though ‘no restrictions as to dress
are imposed upon the women;’ and the
fact is we do, in some odd -fashion, seem
bound down by-certain tyrannies (the silk
hat and frock coat, to wit) in 'the way of
clothes.
“Herein, no doubt, lies the true inward-
ness of the incident at the Dublin law
courts the other day, when the lord chief
justice publicly rebuked a Q. C. (who had
been attorney general for Ireland) for ap-
pearing in court in a white waistcoat. It
was no mitigation of the barrister’s of-
fense that it was committed on one of the
hottest days in summer. The white waist-
coat was unprofessional, and Sir Peter
O’Brien would have none of it—would,
perhaps, have declared that-whole day’s
proceedings at nisi prius null and void
had not another barrister come to the
iconoclastic Q. C.’s rescue with a pin
■wherewith to fasten his robe over the “un-
professional” garment. The incident is
typical of the Briton in every station of
life.”
fore, chairman of the national committee.
None of the important acts of the com-
mittee were without my knowledge. Gov.
Stone wrote to me fully concerning every
important action of the committee before
executed. I have, even while I was out of
the country, kept in thorough touch with
the committee and have been at its head,
except that I was not present to preside
at its meetings. I asked Gov. Stone and
Committeeman Johnson to meet me here.
“I shall take no part in the campaign
in Ohio and Kentucky. Mr. Bryan and
Gov. Stone have done as much work there
as can be done by non-resident Demo-
crats. I am going back to my home as di-
rectly as I can and follow the advice of
my physician and do no active campaign
work.
“All my friends whom I have heard on
the situation appear to be very hopeful of
success in both states. I myself have not
been able to familiarize myself thorough-
ly with the situation there, but I share
the hope of my friends.”
Asked if he would favor a reconsidera-
tion of the resolution which the national
committee passed at its last meeting con-
cerning the conduct of the press bureau
by P. J. Devlin, the senator said: “No, I
I approve entirely all the ac-
i committee
The Players Get Into a Row and the Pro-
prietor Loses.
Saturday night was quite lively along:
Market street, and one of the instances,
occuring is thus recorded on the blotter at.
the police station:
“A crap game in operation over Jake
' O’Donnell’s saloon on 27th and Market-
streets broke up in a row, and the pro-
prietor, C. S. Armour, lost a sack con-
taining about $140, and ’accused Charles
McCubbins of taking it and preferred
charges of theft against him.”
The. charge was entered on the blotter
as theft (felony), making it a state case,
but up to 1 o’clock the papers had not been
lodged with either of the justices of the
peace. McCubbins gave bond for his ap-
.pca-rance and was released., ..The,row took
place about 2 o’clock Sunday morning.
GAIL BORDEN.
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What the Society Has Done Was Well
Sho wn, at- Columbus.
Columbus, Tex., Oct. 15.—The negroes of
Colorado and adjoining counties under the
■organization knowfi as the Farmers’ im-
provement society, have come and gone,
and it is but simple' justice to say that
they have done more to -open the eyes of
white and black alike than any gathering
which -Columbus has ever witnessed. It is
almost marvelous to witness what has
been seen in this town the past four days.
The fair given by the Farmers’ improve-
ment society has demonstrated that the
negro of this section possesses skill along
industrial lines. Their display of field
and garden crops was a revelation. When
one sees wheat, corn, cotton, oats, peas,
potatoes, pumpkins, sugar cane, hay,.
sorghum, tobacco—in fact, all staple crops,
exhibited in perfection by negroes, it
speaks weIF.Tbr their industry. Again,
they have ®5Ehtbited as never was shown
iBO C ■ '
before here,othe varied agricultural re-
; 3O.:£ ‘
sources of the- county—egg plants, squash,
beans, radishes,; persimmons as. large as
the fist, pears, cucumbers and other vege-
tables in perfg^jon, as late .as the season
is, were on ex^iSi-tlon.
art d^^rtment was a constant
of adpjl^iti.Qn. The whites; showed
more attentidji' to this than to any other
except the sp^ethes. The painting and
crayon draWfiigs of Mr. Lucius Harper of
Galveston and Mmes. Perreault and Brock
.1 r-l J •
of Houstonfwo-uld attract attention and
elicit admiration anywhere; they were
really artistic and showed professional
skill. The hand paintings, shell paintings
and fish scale work were generally ad-
mired. Miss . Lee of Victoria and Mrs.
Smith of Oakland -showed especial skill in
their line, which was painting on silk.
An Aged Man Drugged and Held a Pris-
oner by an ex-Policeman.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 16.—Adelbert W.
Cox, for several years prior to Oct. 1 a
member of the Washington police force,
and Etta Williams, a young woman with
whom he lived, were arrested yesterday by
Detectives Miller and Peck, charged with
larceny of $1600 from James A. Stewart, 55
years old, and for a long time a clerk in
the general land office.
Back of this formal charge, according to
the police, is a most remarkable story.
Stewart disappeared -from his boarding
house Sept. 6, and for fourjveeks an un-
availing search was made for him. He
was finally found in the attic of the hoiise
where Cox and the Williams woman lived,
in a state of collapse and almost de-
mented from the effects of drugs which he
alleges had been administered to him by
the pair under arrest.
Stewart was taken to the hospital and
though at first his life hung by a thread,
he recovered in about 10 days. He is a
widower with .a married daughter living
in Annapolis, Md., and roomed alone in
Washington. He left his rooming place on
Sept. 6 to make a call and for weeks no
trace of him could be found. Finally the
police gained a clew, by learning as the
result of inquiry at all the local banks,
that he had $375 on deposit with the Wash-
ington Loan and Trust company. All of
this amount, save $10, they ascertained,
had been drawn out oil checks payable to
bearer, signed by Stewart. and indorsed
by Adelbert W. Cox. The first checks
were clearly written, but the later ones
were in a weak and almost illegible hand.
Cox had explained this at the Trust com-
pany’s office by saying the old man was
rapidly failing.in. health.
With this clew the detectives found
Stewart in the garret of a house where
Cox lived. He had had hardly any food
for a month. He said he had called on
Sept. 6 on Cox and the- Williams woman,
who formerly boarded where he did. They
sent out for some liquor and after that he
remembered thing's only in a vague way./
On his statement the police arrested Cox
.and .his partner, on a charge of larceny,
pending invesiigatton and consideration
Of the making of am ore serious charge. of agunboat to replace the Michigan
'Both prisoners-secured bail in $1000 each.
Cox was. compelled to resign from the
police force a short time ago because of
his relations with the Williams woman
and a suit for divorce brought by his wife.'
He denies having had Stewart -as :a pris-
oner. Cox says that Stewart went to At--
lantic City in .September with two women
and about $200 in cash and when he -re-
turned he said lie had been robbed and
beaten at the seashore. At Stewart’s re-
quest he was permitted to use a room in
the house where.he (Cox) lived and was
cared for by Miss Williams.
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