El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. SIXTEENTH YEAR, No. 105, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1896 Page: 1 of 4
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Sixteenth Year. No. 105.
£1 Paso, Texas, Thursday Morning, Apiil «0, 1896.
Price Five Cents
r. f. Johnson & Co-
Wholesale Liquor Dealers,
Finest Kentucky Bourbon and
Pennsylvania Bye Whiskies.
Sole Agent for the Product of
THE ANHBIJSBB'BCSCH BBBfflNG ASSOCIATION
WIPED OUT.
A Second Great Conflagra-
t’on at Cripple
C reek.
OF ST. LOUIS, MO., AND
THE JOS. BOHLITZ BREWING COMPANY OP MILWAUKEE
Wholesale Dealer in Pare Rooky Mountain Lake Ioe.
Families Supplied With Sods, Sarsaparilla, 'Vichy, Saltier and all Form* of Mineral Water
BRANCH IN CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO-
THE ORIGIN UNKNOWN
O R. MOKEHEAD, Preaidant.
JOSEPH MAGOFFIN, VloePrert.
J. 0. LACKLAND, Oiah > t
J. H. RUSSEL? j, Asst. Oath.
State National Bank.
ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1881.
4 Legitimate Banking Business Transacted In ill Its Branchs.
Bat It 1* B.llev.d to be Inoendlnry—TR#
Fire Slopped for Went of Material to Feed
On—Lois of Life Added Horror to the
Situation—Dynamite Deed In Blowing Dp
Buildings In an Effort to Check the
Flam ea.
Highest price paid (or Mexloan dollars.
Pew & Son Dealers in Fine Shoes, El Paso, Texas.
Our Special One Week!
Fine assortment baby carriages of the latest patterns; new de-
signs; best in the market for the money.
TV/T A T1YTO Jnst received 100 rolls matting, of this
JVL.£X iii -IN vX season’s pattern, with cotton and linen
warps These goods will wear well in this climate. The patterns
are dainties and vary in color Call and see these Goods before
purchasing elsewhere.
T. H. SPRINGER
Furniture, Crockery and Carpets,
North Stanton and St, Louis Streets. El Paso, Texas.
L. B FREUDENTHAL & CO..
-JOBBERS IN-
Groceries & Dry Goods.
-DEPOT
Goodwin’s Mining Candles, Fairbanks Soaps and Washing Soda,
Swift it Co.’s Meats and Lard, Friend’s Rolled Oats, Ohnroh & Oo.’s
Arm and Hammer Soda, Schepp’s Shredded Oocoannt, Ronalt's
Las Graces Tomatoes, Mexican Beans, Pelonoillo, &o.
All goods sold by ns we guarantee strictly first olass We
solicit the trade of dealers only.
-THE
First National Bank.
EL PASO. TEXA8.
Capital and Surplus, $125,000.
JOSHUA RAYNOLDS, President
CLYS8R8 8. STEWART, CwhlH.
M. W. FLOURNOY, Yloe President
JOS. F. WILLIANS, Ant. Onahlnr.
Hardware, stoves and tinware,
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
Cutlery, Guns, Pistols, Mining Supplies and
AMMUNITION OF ALL KINDS.
Sole agents for Bnokeye Mowers and Reapers. Fairbanks’ Soalei,
Buftalo Soales, Charter Oak Stoves, Star Wind Mills, Giant Powder,
and Aermotor Wind Mills.
HOUCK & DIETER,
230 EL PASO STREET.
Importers and Jobbers
GERMAN WINES, FRENCH LIQUORS
and Kentucky Whiskies
SOLE AGENTS FOR
Wm. J. Lemp Brewing Co., St, Loui», Mo.
Pabst Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Win.
The White Rook Mineral Springs Co., Waukesha, Wis.
The Appolinaris Company. Limited, London, England.
Telephone No. 65. Warehouse and Bottling Works, 03.
“WHAT WE WANT, IS TOUR ORDERS."
Obipple Creek, Colo., April 29—A
second great conflagration today prao
tloally finished what the fire of Satur-
day only too well began and tha loss
of life gave added horror to the situa-
tion. Cripple Greek is almost entirely
wiped oot, only the old town retrain-
ing.
The lose by today’s fire Is estimated
at not less than 1500,000. Four per-
sons are dead from a dynamite explo-
sion.
The fire started In the Portland hotel
at noon. The origin Is unknown, bat
It Is believed to be inoendiary. The
baildicg was all In Aimes when dUoov
ered ana efforts to obeok the flames
were without effect, the wind blowlog
toward the best buildings which es-
caped the o'her Are, and b.fore 6
o’olook the Are stopped for want of
material to feed It.
Daring the Are dynamite was repeat
edly need In blowlDg op buildings in
an effort to obeok tbe flames, and It
wsb In one of these efforts that four
persons were killed and fourteen in
jared, tome fatally.
Among the buildings horned are tbe
Masonlo temple, tbe new qnarters of
the First National bank, the Blmetaltc
bank, P Lea hotel, Portland hotel,
the new postoffloe building, the Times
and Journal offices, Weinberg’s doth
Ing store, tbe Cripple Greek Mall and
Gripple Greek Prosototor offices
Firemen from Vlotor and Florenoe
respondtd promptly to an appeal for
aid.
The origin of the Are appears to have
been pnrely accidental through the
general aooeptanoe Is that It was In-
cendiary. There has been talk of
oredtting Saturday’s Are to such origin
and this one, oomiog so olose upon it,
gives rise to the suspicion. Facts ap
pear to dlsoredlt tbe snsplolon. Frank
Angel, cook of the Portland Hotel,
oannot be found.
A seoond handed story Is that a
pan of grease on a range blazed up and
caught soaked boards on tbe baok.
Tbe entire side of tbe wall was ablaze
in an Instant.
Bessie Kelly, one of the waitresses,
says she had gone Into the kitohen for
an order, lnnoh being served at the
time. She saw flames np the wall and
believes they came from ontstde the
building, apparently from tbe Ghloago
Cafe adjoining. She gave tbe alarm
and rnshed from the kitohen to the
offloe, orylog “Fire!” At the time she
went other occupants of the kitchen
had not noticed the Are.
The Portland was a frame and a
veneered briok kitohen coonpled the
oentral rear portion. The bnlldlng
was the property of T. J. Moynanan,
who valued it at $60,000, but carried
only $2,000 insnranoe. It was leased to
Peter EadeB and snb leased to Ben
Brewer, of Denver. The matter has
been in litigation. The snb lease ex-
pired Mey 1. The furniture was valued
originally $10,000 and Insured for
$7,000.
Special trains are being ran oat of
tbe camp by both railroads and the
trains are going oat loaded. Many
people will find homes in Victor, Ana
oonda, and neighboring points tonight.
Many will go to Colorado Springs and
Denver. Tbe ontlook Is that a’.l will
be oared for In some way through the
night. There will not be mnoh sleep-
ing done In oamp. Tbe Are Is flnUh
log its work and the town Is lighted by
flames from the debris not yet ex-
tinguished. People are on the streets
walklDg from ruin to ruin dlscusdng
tbe catastrophe, wondering and waiting
for whatever may happen next.
Gen. F. Reardon telegraphed Gov.
Molntyre for live hundred tents for
the nse of the homeless here. A relief
committee has been organized at Vlo
tor and offers a shelter, and provisions
have been made by tbe oitlzens of that
town to tbe relief committee here.
Olty Marshal James Marshall has
sworn In 150 speolal policeman aDd lbs
militia oempaoy has been utilized.
Many men ere mounted and a tborongh
patrolling of the burned section is be
ing made.
About twenty arrests h ve been
made for theft and other oan-es, bat
the poltoe now feel confident they will
be able to prevent any farther depreda
tlocs by vandals. Stolen liquor was
plentiful. Many saloons weie looted.
Prloes for tbe eervioe of a wagon rang-
ed from nothing to $100 oash a load,
aooordlog to tbe exlgenotes of the
Dieter Sc Sauer.
C. JUAREZ, MEXICO.
—Importers and Jobbers in Fine—
Groceries, Wines. Liquors, Havana
And Mexican Cigars.
moment and hard bartedness of tbe
owner. While the Are burned over
territory saved from Saturday’s fire,
carpenters were bnistly engaged in
getting np many light fram straotores
that were being built In the area then
burned.
Today’s Are did not enoroaoh upon
tha territory of Its predecessor. For a
time it looked Ilka the bnlldtng being
bnllt in the rear for a temporary post-
offloe would go, bat it was saved
Insnranoe losses will be fully three
times those of Saturday. Ooe agent
estimates flve times as mnoh and says
every agency in town is lotded with
risks. The heart of the business
section went np today and fatly doable
the area le burned over. Also in today’s
district were orowds of refugees from
the previous Are and with them most
of the goods that had been saved. One
million dollars seems a large amount
to asorlbe to a loss in a hurriedly and
cheaply bnllt mlniog oamp, bat there
can be no question bat that today’s
loss will more than reaoh the Agnres.
The Insnranoe loss of $156,000 on Bat
urday will be fully $450,000 today.
Every insnranoe olfl is In town te
burned and Agnres oannot be obtained.
Tbe adjusters of the companies that
suffered in the previous Are are all Id
osmp and had praotloally settled all
former olaims.
At 9:15 this evening a oar of provis-
ions was brought In by W. S. Stratton,
who terned It ever to the relief com-
mittee for distribution tomorrow
morning. This oar was famished by
Stratton exclusively, while a number
of Colorado Springs ottizms made np
another oar. The relief committee has
not bad a great many applications for
aid, bat in (he momiog when the ex
oltement wears off and the pangs of
hanger take hold (he committee may
have their bands fall. Tbe Florence
and Gripple Greek railway has flat oars
at the disposal of the merohants and
kept them busy carrying goods beyond
the reaoh of the Are and to safe shel
ter. The oars Ailed at Cripple Greek
were hauled to side tracks at other
points.
The Times, Journal and Prospeotor
offices were all burned down, leaving
Gripple Greek wltbont a newspaper.
The Times burned out In Saturday’s
Are, but saved some material and bad
started to build on the old burned dis-
trict. It lost everything In today’s
conflagration. The proprietor, Tom
Howell, will Issue a paper from the
office of lbs Victor Weekly News.
Ths most serious accident of the day
was the one In whloh Geo. Griffith, a
miner, lost his life, and a number of
others were badly Injured. When It
was seen that the lire oould not be
oonflned to the Portland blook it was
deolded to blow up bnlldlngB In the
rtolnlty. Two charges were plaoed In
Oharder’s grooery and tbe alarm given.
All the orowd bad got away when a new
orowd oame np within a blook with a
line of hose, They were warned by tbe
people, bat either did not bear or
failed to appreolate, for they tnrned
the water on tbe building. Boaroely
had the water touohed tbe place be-
fore the flrst charge exploded. Brloks
and mortar and timber and glass were
burled about In all directions and
when the smoke cleared away the
streets were oovsred with men urfhble
to rlst. Others rushed to their assist-
ance and before tbe infortnnates could
be dragged baok tbe seoond oharge
weDtoffanda half dozen of the; men
were added to tbe list. Tbe orowd
surged forward and all were taken
away as tbe flames began to consume
the bnlldlog. George Griffith’s head
was blown nearly off and be died In a
half hoar The others, while serloasly
hart, may all reoover.
Those fojared are: Geo. Yonngstrom,
Georgetown, head out; A. K Hlnkley,
foot onf;George Leyden, Georgetown,
hands broken; E E. Bradley,Nebraska
Olty, hands ont; O Ragstadt,
Washington, lad , skall fractured ant
broken leg; H. B. Ordway, Colorado,
mav die; Charles McCann, actor, skall
fractured; J. W. Orelger. Aspen, head
oa';T. W. Gearber, Kansas City, head
ont;J. W. Lynch, Loveland, Oolo.,
arm b’own off; Glad Staten, Aspen,
braised; John E Rose, druggist, arm
broken;Larry Maroney, slightly in
jared; T. H. Lmltb, superintendent
water works, fatally injured; Wallis
Walker, mlniog engineer, serloasly In-
jured; Dloklnson Carpenter, slightly
Injured;Lew Ooohrane, arm broken;
John Evans,cut head; Ohrls Ooffmer,
AremaD,serionely injured; Oapt. Tom
Sewell, Denver, leg fraotnred.
Floyd Thompson did an aot of jns-
tioe commended by every one. He saw
a man deliberately setting Are to a
mass of debris. Thompson palled a
gun and shot tbe man. He was taken
to tbe morgue, bat ooald not be identl
fled.
Several arrested were made of parties
who have been beard to make threats
egalnst the remaining portions of tbe
olty. John Mahoney was rnebed out
ot town shortly after the Are started to
save him from mob vlolenot. When
tbe Are etarted be wae asked by a by-
stander where it was and answered:
“Why the Portland I thought every
body knew that was going to barn.”
Saturday night, after tbe flrst con-
flagration, It was dlsooveied about 12
o’olook that mliorants bed pat a pile
of shavings batween tbe bnlldlcg ooon-
Today, Thursday, April 30.
EXTRA SALES DAY.
As ever we will offer the public an array of
SPLENDID BARGAINS!
Today we will sell:
Simpson’s celebrated Prints at
Cotton Challies, new patterns, at
Fine Percales, neat designs, at
Our Best Duck Suitings at
28 inch Wool Challies at
Plain colored French Organy at
Best quali y French Challle at
5C yd
4C yd
- 7c yd
ioc yd
■ 19c yd
24c yd
s 36c yd
Ladies’Ready Made Wrappers.
Our 75c Calico Wrappers at
Our $1.00 Calico Wrappers at
1.25 Percale Wrappers at
1.75 Percale Wrappers at
2.00 Lawn Wrapper at
2.25 Percale Wrappers at
2 50 Lawn Wrappers at
3.00 French Perca'e Wrappers at
4 00 Persian Batiste Wrappers at
EXTRA SPECIAL.
Children’s Kid Oxford Ties, sizes 5 to 10, for - 88c
Misses’ Kid Ox'ord Ties, sizes 10 1-2 to 2, for - $1 08
Children’s Tan Bu ton Shoos, sizes 8 to 11, for - 84c
Misses’ Tan Button Shoes, sizes 11 1-2 tn 2, for - 99c
Your choice of any of our fine Misses Shirt Waists for 58c
Ten per cent reduction on all other goods in stock for
this day—STRICTLY NET O \SH.
All goocU are marked in plain figures and coirect
change given in every instance
H, KAYSER & CO.,
Corner Oregon and Texas streets, next to Postoffice.
pled by tbe Portland Hotel and tbe
Gbioago restaurant. It was bat a few
feet from this point that the Are origi-
nated.
In a log honse on Oarr avenue Gao.
Wallaoe lay siok of pneumonia. As
tbe flames reached the house Bndd
Oarbirry rnebed to the rescue of tbe
helpless man and palled him out, bat
the excitement proved too mnoh for
Wallace and he died In bis rescuer's
JACKSON MURDER TRIAL.
Startling Taatlir.oux Given by Two Woium
Dr.W.8.PYLE,
DENTIST:
Roomi 18 anti 10, (Bawdy Building.
In order to lotrodnoe my work,
I will make until May 1,
dees Sets of teeth at half the reg-
ular prloe. Satisfaction guaran-
teed or money refunded.
'tin. I
work, •
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s reg J
>ran- i
arms.
Among the principal losses are:
Portland Hotel $20,000, Insnranoe
light; furniture $7,000 Insurance $6,-
000; State bank $12,000, Insnranoe
$2,000; Booth FarnttnreOo. $60,000, In
8aranoe{small. First National bank,
loss light, money and paapars saved.
Bl metallic bank, loss light, papers
and money saved. El Paso Lumbar
Go. $20,000; O. Hardery grooery $20,-
000; Ooiorado Mercantile Go. $15,000;
Masonic Temple, badly damaged by
heat; Midland terminal, Wells Fargo
express, lose nnkcown; New Wolfe
Hotel $25,000, no Insurance; Morning
Times, Morning Journal, Weekly Mall
and Exoelslor Laundry, $7,000; Branch
saloon $20,000; N. O. Jjhnaoo, dry
goods $20,000; S J. Polln Olothtng Co.
$20,000; Weinberg $15,000; telephone
station, Western Union and postal offl
oes; Fehrlngar and Black, drags,
18,000; J. M. Koseberry, several build-
ings; Meohem Investment Go,, $20,000.
Mlaatielppt Democrats,
Jackson, Miss., Apall29—The Demo
oratlo state convention* was called to
order at 10:30 by Chairman Williamson
of the state exeontlve committee. Ex-
Ocngressman Muldrow was chosen
obatrman. Ua daolared there should
be no nnoertalnty as to tbe declarations
of tbe party. Mississippi was tbe
rightful leader of tbe'.Demooratlo party.
Sbe should declare for tariff for revs
one only and for free oolnage of sliver.
It was a regrettable faot that the De
mooracy was divided on this paramount
question of money, the convention
should send free silver men only to the
Gbioago oonventloD, who would voles
the sentiment of nlne-tenthe of tbe
Demooratsof Mississippi.
A resolution wae adopted to bIIow the
delegatee from tho respective oongrtB
stonal districts to retire and name dele
gates to the national convention.
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Just opened at Yelets, Texas,
The tnsor Institute,
for the treatment and permanent cure of
the LIQUOR, MOKIlllINK, COCAINE,
i OPIUM and TOBACCO H A BITS. We nee
the celebrated
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Sure cure and leaves no 111 effects.
For further particulars call on or address
8. M. KARR, Manager.
Dr C.F KNOBLAUCH,
Physician iu Charge.
VALET A. ’1HAA8
Hotel in connection.
Arizona Republicans.
Phoenix, Ariz., April 29-The war-
ring factions have held the territorial
Repnblloan convention at a stand still
all day, the question being npon organ
Izatlon and tbe admission of slxty-two
oantestlng delegates from tha three
main oonntlesof the territory. This
evening in order to avoid a bolt, it was
agree to admit all contestants giving
them a half vote e»oh. Tbe money
plank of tha platform will probably be
strongly In favor of silver. Delegates
are already named In the oanoet. They
will b» J. F. Mahoney,Ralph Cameron,
Wm. Ohrletlo, F_ T. Stoddard, Bart
Daolapandj. A Zibrlskle. All give
flrst oholoe for MoKloley though
Christie Is ooneldertd for Allison. .
Against tha Defendant,
Newport, Ky., April 29—Startling
testimony was given today In the
Jaokson murder trial by two woman
who oonflrmed to some extent the
story told by Goaobman Geo. H.
Jackson. Mrs. Solthers, who lives on
Lloktng Pike, and comes to Newport
on foot every day, testlflsd that about
8 o’olook nu tbe mornlog ot Friday,
January 31, she met two men who
stared at her In snob a way as to
frighten her. This Is the road over
which Jaokson says he drove the oab
Friday night. Witness had never seen
these men sinoe until this morning,
when she recognized them as Jaokson
and Walling.
Mrs. Alioe Stelfele who lives on an
nnfreqneuted road between Licking
Pike and Alexandria Pike, also part of
the route described by Jaokson, testi-
flsd that after midnight, Friday, Janu
ary 31, she was awakened by a dog
barking and heard a one horse vehiole
passing along the road rapidly.
Dr. Edward Freeman, of the Cincin-
nati Electric Medical oollege, as
expert, testlfled to the condition of the
neck and other parts of Pearl Bryan’s
body and claimed tbe oondltIons olearly
showed (he bead was amputated when
Pearl Bryan was alive and death was
oansed by amputation.
Union PsolBe Oflioca.
Boston, April 29—The annual meet-
ing of the stockholders of the Union
Paolflo railway was held here today.
The old directors were re eleoted with
the exception that Alex Miller, secreta-
ry and assistant comptroller, was chos-
en to snoceed S. Endloott Peabody,
while George Q. Cannon, of Salt Lake
Olty, was eleoted lntheplaoeof James
Sharp, as representative of Salt Lake
lotereets.
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