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CONFIRMED.
Holteno Reported to Have
Been Attacked by
the Boers.
CANJiOXADE LIVELIER.
Boer* Have Boca Shelllne Larfysaattli Since
Joabert'. Return-A Number of Officer*
Killed and Wounded - Hew Battery of
Artillery to be Kqoipped—Additional Ml-
Utla Key I menu Called Out for Service.
the party hare not
and a lieutenant of
retained.
RETIRED HURRIEDLY.
Stkkkstkoom, Jan. ,3—General Gat-
atsre today met an invading force et
Cyphergat. near the British advance
camp at Bnshmanstok. The Boers re
tired hnrriediy shortly after^the British
artillery opened fire. The enemy occu-
pied Holteno and Cyphergat today, bot
the latter place is now occupied by us.
COMING TO LfXTDRE.
Care Town, Jan. 3—The Duke of
Westminster, it is announced, will re-
main in Cape Colony during the war.
It is understood a prominent inhabitant
of Orange Free State, a near relative of
President Steyn, has gone to the United
States to lecture in the interests of the
two republics.
OPPOSED TO
IMPERIALISM.
What Carnegie has to Say
of the Republican
Party.
E WANT A LARGE GOLD OR COPPER
Mine immediately for clients.
If you want an irrigated farm below the city, talk with
us about it.
POSITION MADE CLEAR.
He Wants no Renegade Americanism—W ill
Subscribe if tbe filiform Commits ttie
Pirtj to n Policy That 1* Suitable to Him
—He le With tbe Boer. In Their Fight to
XaiDtain Their Republic.
SUNSET HEIGHTS
^London, Jan. 4—4.39 a m —There is
a complete absence of anything new
from the seat of war. The report of a
Boer attack npon Molteno is not yet
confirmed. Apparent General French
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS.
fa tbe Inoculation of Cattle as a Preventa-
tive Against Texas Fever.
Kansas City, Jan. 3—The recent
^I^inr^hin five miiea'ot CoTeV *aeoe-*fal experiments in the inooula-
burg Junction. His request for rein-
forcements dispels any present hope he
will be able to seize one crossing of
Orange river.
It ie probable that when Lord Roberts
arrives General French will be ordered
to quit his present unsupported posi-
tion and concentrate his command at
Deaar or Orange river. As the Daily
Telegraph says “General French seems
to be in the position of a man having a
tiger oat in a trap and is unable to kill
it for want of a stick. ”
A dispatch from Dover Farm an-
nounces Lieutenant Colonel Pilcher re
turned there safely from Douglass.
Since Commandant General Jonbert’s
return to the front, the cannonade of
Ladysmith by the Boers has been much
livelier. Between December 18 and
December 29, four shells.killed one of-
ficer and thirteen men and wounded
thirteen officers and eleven men.
The war office acknowledges the in-
feriority of the regular artillery by au-
thorizing the equipment of a new bat-
tery attached to the London Volunteer
Gorpa with Vickers and Maxims, some
of which the Boers use, and by order-
ing one hundred of these 124 pounder
quick fires built immediately. The of-
ficers and men of the new battery will
be supplied from the Honorable artil
lery company.
Eight additional militia regiments
have been called out. Seven of these
will serve in Ireland, replacing the reg-
ulars sent to South Africa.
' Hon. Sidney RobertGreville, eqnerry
to the Prince of Wales, has obtained a
prinoe’s commission to go to the front.
Recently he has been aetiug hh Lord
Salisbury’s secretary instead of Sohom
qerg McDonnell, who has gone to Sonth
Africa.
Among the announcements of those
who volunteered yesterday appeared
an hundred or more sons of gentlemen
Many of these were Scotch.
OCCUPATION OF DOUGLASS.
London, Jan. 3—From a source which
has many faciliiiei for gaining the in-
side hews from South Africa, the Asso-
ciated Press learns of Colonel Pilcher's
occupation of Douglass, which is re-
garded merely as the first step of Gen-
eral Methuen's carefully matured plans
to outflank the Boers. According to
this anthority.it is probable that Colonel
Plloher, in conjunction with General
•Babington's force from Modder river,
will proceed to the rear of those in-
trenohments whioh now preveut Me-
tbnen from proceeding to Kimberley.
Colonel Pilcher has only about forty
miles to travel before he achieves this
end, and if this understanding is cor-
rect an attack by Methuen and a deter-
mined effort to relieve Kimberley may
be expected any day.
The Pall Mall Gazette announces that
Winston Churchill, the newspaper cor-
respondent captured by the Boers in
Natal and taken to Pretoria, whence he
subsequently escaped and arrived safely
in Delagoa Bay, has been appointed
eqnadron leader of the South African
Horse.
BRITISH HOLD THE BRIDGES.
London, Jan. 3—A special from Nuu-
wpoort, dated January 2, says the Brit
ish command Norvalspout bridge with
two guns, also command Colesberg
bridge and the Boers have no way to re-
treat except by tbe way of Formberg.
Big developments are expected tomor
row.
WILL NOT TAKE DELAGOA BAY.
London, Jan. 3—The Associated
Press has been informed on good anth
ority that Great Britain will not take
Delagoa Bay, in spite of tbe clamor of
the press and publio opinion npon the
advisability of so doing.
SHELLS WELL PLACED.
Kimberley. Dec. 26.—The Boers last
night evinced considerable in the Pre-
mier mine, using searchlights. This
morning they actively shelled ths fort
and the Royal artillery replied. Oar
shells were well plaoed and dropped
amid the smoke of tbe enetney’s gnns.
Last night’s storm ignited some of
our military mines, bnt there were no
casualties.
Cecil Rhodes has enpplled the Boer
prisoners with new clothing.
enemy found in force.
Frere Camp, Jan. 8—Captain Thor-
neyoroft’s patrol found the enemy in
some tone at Little Tugela bridge.
tion of calves and yearlings as a pre
ventative against Texas fever are to be
followed by an experiment on a large
scale. There will be shipped tomorrow
from Kansas City to Beeville, Texas, an
hundred pure bred Hereford and short-
horn calves selected from the best herds
of the country. The Texas state board
of agriculture has for two years been
preparing for the reception of these
animals, having set apart and fenced
off a ranch of ten thousand acres, on
which not a hoof has been allowed for
two years, so it is wholly free from any
germs of Texas fever, owing to the -ac
tion of frosts for two winters.
On this ranch the northern calves will
be inoculated with the poison of the
fever ticks, in such a manner as to bring
on the disease in a mild form, and will
then be allowed to run and become im
mnne of Texas’fever, after which they
may be generally introduced into herds
of Texas. The shipping of high priced
northern cattle south of the fever line
has heretofore caused heavy losses, as
mature animals have been continually
liable to the disease.
Mr. T. F. B. Sothatn, president of the
National Hereford Cattle Breeders’ as-
sociation, is leader in tbe present ex-
periment, Cand the hundred Hereford
and Shorthorn calves to be shipped to-
day have been gathered from prize
herds in the states of Misslouri, Kansas,
Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana.
The one hundred calves are valued by
Mr. Sothatn at $30,000.
LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION.
Important Order From Wauhlnjfton
Stork Interests.
Fort Worth, Jan. 3—The National
Live Stock association, with the assist-
ance of F. H. Brandenburg, resident
director of the weather bureau of Den-
ver, has jnst secured an order from
Washington which is of considerable
importance to live stock men of the
west. The letter reoeived by the sec-
retary of the association from Branden-
burg says:
‘Pursuant to onr understanding
took up iu the interest of the stock men
the matter of a change in the regula-
tions governing the issue of special
warnings, and I am pleased to say Prof.
Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather
bureau, has issued instructions to the
effect that emergency or special warn-
ings will be issued when prolonged
spells of abnormally cold weather, high
northerly winds, with snow, or heavy
falls of snow, are indicated for any sec-
tion, and special warnings will also be
issued when unseasonable or abnormally
heavy rains are indicated for any sec-
tion.
“Heretofore these warnings have been
restricted to a few settled points in each
state. Therefore, it is very gratifying
to know in the future telegrams convey-
ing information of the above described
character will be sent to no fewer than
102 points in Colorado and a proportion-
ate number of points in Wyoming, Mon-
tana, Idaho, Utah, North and South
Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas.”
ASHORT.SESSION.
New York, Jan. 3—Andrew Carne-
gie was interviewed by a World re-
porter concerning the report that he
had promised to subscribe $50,000 to
the Republican National Convention
fund.
"There is not a word of trnth in the
report,” he said. “I will not give a
dollar to help the Republicans if their
platform is not sound—if it is not
American.
“Not a cent to imperialism—not a
cent to renegade Americanism. My
position on these questions has been
made dear.
“My mind is open, but my parse is
closed. If the republican party is true
to the principles that made this country
great, then I would subscribe. But not
it the platform commits the party to a
policy to which I stand unalterably and
uncompromisingly opposed. ”
“I am in favor of securing all the
West indies islands, if we can do- so,”
he continued. “I believe they will make
desirable and proper acquisitions to onr
territory. That sort of expansion is on
the right line. Bnt mind yon, it
should not go beyond territory on this
continent. We have no business either
in morals or politics to take and keep the
Philippines.”
"Do yon mean that we should annex
Cuba?” was asked.
“No, we are pledged as to the action
wa are to take there. We have given
our word that tuba shall be free. If
the people show a disposition for annex-
ation then that raises another question.
‘The annexation of Cuba, however,
would, in my opinion, kill the Republi-
can party. Its free iron, free coffee
and free sugar, competition of its oh’eap
labor with onr labor would strike a
blow at the vitals of the Repnblioan
party.”
"Suppose the Democratic party de-
clares against expansion and Republi-
cans for it. would yon contribute to the
Democratic fund?”
“I would consider it. My mind is
open but my purse is closed, as I have
said.
“I want to see the Republican party
range itself on the side of true Ameri-
canism. No renegade Americanism for
me, no rnnning off after the will-o-the-
wisp of territorial aggrandizement.
“It involves dangers on every hand.
If we shut the door in the Philippines
we aronse Europe. If we open it we
destroy the very thing that imperialists
give as their reason for taking tbe
Philippines —commercial expansion.
The latter coarse permits all nations to
enjoy commercial privileges there on an
equality with ns.”
Carnegie paused for a moment and
then wen• on:
“I am with the Boers in their fight.
They are fighting bravely to maintain
their republic. Their stand, is for Re-
publican institutions. They are bat
tling for a principle with which all
Americans should be in sympathy.”
with more than 1,200 lots is now the attraction of buyers.
We can sell you anything you want at prices that defy
competition.
Sole agents for P. K. Wood’s Propeller Pumps.
EL PASO COMMERCIAL CO., Mills Building.
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THE WOOL MARKET.
Temporary Lull Will Be Followed by Pro-
Douoced Activity.
Boston, Jan. 3—The American Wool
and Cotton Report* r will say tomorrow:
The new year opened with a quiet,
bnt hardening wool market. There was
no pressure whatever to sell. On the
other hand, the holders are firm in their
ideas and will not huge an iota from
what they consider a fair valuation of
their stock. Manufacturers, however,
are not buying. Several are really
ready to take wool when offered to them
slightly under the market, but conces-
sions are not being made. The general
belief is the present lull iu business is
only temporary and preliminary to an
other period of prononDced activity and
strength. It is thought the next Lon-
don sales, which begin Janaary 16, will
then be on at least a parity with the
closing rates of the last series, if not
higher.
The situation abroad is strong.
JEFFRIES AND SHARKEY.
BRYAN IN LINCOLN.
A Challenge to Fight Twenty Rounds in
x Thirty Bays.
Hot Springs, Ark., Jan. 4—Jack
Stelznerof St. Louis, tonight knocked
out Dan Bayliff, of Lima, Ohio, in the
fourth round with a vicious right
swing on the point of the jaw.
Tom Sharkey tonight received a chal-
lenge from James Jeffries to fight
twenty rounds within thirty days, the
winner to take all provided Tom
O’Rourke is excluded from his (Shark-
ey's) corner. Sharkey said he was glad
of the opportunity to fight Jeffries on
the terms stated, bnt wonld insist that
George Siler should not referee the
fight.
STOCK MARKETS.
The House Adjourns After a Session Last-
ing Fifteen Minutes.
Washington, Jan. 8—The house
was in session only fifteen minutes to-
day, and during that time had a little
flurry over an attempt by Sulzer, of New
York, to secure consideration of a reso-
lution asking information concerning
the relations of the treasury depart-
ment with the National City bank of
New York. The resolution was referred
to the committee on ways and means.
IN THE SENATE.
Washington. Jan. 3—The senate
evinced a disposition today to take up
tbe work of tbe session in earnest, and
while the fitting was of only a little
more than an hour’s duration, a large
number of important bills were intro-
duced and a definite foundation laid for
proceeding with the financial bill by
fixing the hoar for beginning debate on
this measure for 2 o’clock tomorrow.
The most notable event of tbe day
was the protest entered by Mr. Hoar of
Massaobnsetts to tbe snmmary disposi-
tion of resolutions asking for Informa-
tion abont the oondnot of the Philip-
pine war. He indicated a purpose to
demand consideration for snoh meas-
ures even at the expense of the financial
WU.
The 10th instant was namsd as the
bj the day for the delivery of eulogies in mem-
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COTTON CLOSED WEAK.
Price McCormick A Co. Urge the South to
Accept Present Prices.
Special to the Times.
New York, Jan. 3-Cotton closed
weak, confirming the opinion of Price
McCormick & Co., that the present
prices for spot cotton should be accept
ed. The movement promises a relative
increase daring January, and with En
gland involved in war and tight money
in America, conditions are not propi-
tious for higher prices at present.
Price McCormick & Co. said today:
“Our efforts have been for the best in-
terest of the south, whioh will not be
best served if they oversty the
ket.”
mar
He Is Interested In Meeting the Fusion
Mate Central Committees.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 3—Colonel Wm.
J. Bryan retnrned from St. Louis today
after an absence of six weeks. He found
a number of leading Democrats from
other states ’awaiting him and confer-
red with them in an informal way.
Bryan will remain in Lincoln until
Saturday. He is interested in meeting
the Fusion state central committees
Friday and to respond to a toast Friday
at the banquet of the Nebraska Travel-
ling Men’s club.
He leaves for Chicago early Saturday
morning.
THE
Stock Exchange.
New York, Jan. 3—The stock mar-
ket today was unable to resist the fac-
tors working towards reaction and clos-
ed at losses both for specialties and in
railroads rnnning 1 to 4 points.
Closing quotations: Atchison 124;
preferred 60J; Chesapeake & Ohio 30;
Colorado & Southern 54,1st preferred
41, 2nd preferred 15; St. Lonis & San
Francisco 94, 1st preferred 68, 2nd
324; American Steel & Wire 48, prefer-
red 8j9; Western Union 85; Sugar
1328.
Weather Forecast.
Washington. Jan. 3—For Thursday
and Friday:
New Mexico—Threatening Thursday
and Friday; variable winds.
Colorado and Wyoming—Threatening
Thursday, probabiy fair and cooler
Friday; variable winds.
McLaurln Nominated.
Jackson. Miss., Jan. 3—The Demo-
cratic canons tonight unanimously
nominatedex Governor J.A. McLanrin,
for the long term for United States
senatorship.
INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS.
SHOOK THINGS IT.,
Quotation* from Horn* of ttia Loading Ex-
change. of the United State..
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 3 — Cattle
receipts, 3,000. Market steady.
Native beef steers $4.25 @$5 85
western steers $4 00@485; Texas steers,
$3.75 @4 25; cows and heifers $3.25@
@4.40; oanners $2.25@3.00;stookers and
feeders $3.50@$5.10; calves $3.50(87.00;
bulls, stags, eto.. $3 00@4.25.
Sheep —Receipts, 2,400. stroger.
Native muttons $4.35@4.65; Western
muttons $4.00@4.40; stock sheep $3.75@
4.20; lambs $4.25@$5 50.
Chicago, Jan. 3. — Cattle—Good
to choice, $5.40@6.00; poor to medium,
$4.65@5.05; stookers $4 10@4 90; se-
lected feeders $4.30@4 85; good to
choioe cows $3.40@4.60; heifers $3.25@
5.00; oanners $2.25@8.00; bulls $2.60@
$4 50; calves $4 50@7.50; fed Texas
bevees $4.25 @5.35.
Sheep and lambs— Native wethers
$4.35@5.00; lambs $4.50@$6 00; western
wethers $4 40@5.40; western lambe$5.50
@6.10.
Receipts—Cattle, 15,000; sheep 20,000.
An Explosion of Twenty Ton* of Powder
Near Lake Linden, Mich.
Lake Linden, Jan. 3—Last night
the bnildings of this city were shaken
np as the result of an explosion of over
twenty tons of powder, whioh ocourred
nearly twenty miles distant, near Eagle
River.
Today it was learned that two sleigh
loads of black powder had been in some
unknown manner exploded.
Joseph St. Lonis and Joseph Pam-
merston and four horses were blown to
atoms.
The powder was valued at $2,000, and
was the property of Richard Blight,
the proprietor of a fuse factory at Eagle
River.
Forresters Installed New Officers Lost N Igbt
—Adjourned to Refreshment.
Last night Court Robin Hood No. 1,
Forresters of America installed the fol-
lowing officers for the new year;
M. Whoel. C. R.; H. Hierholzer, S. C.
R.; W. R. Grayson, Financial Secretary;
T. A German, Treasurer; C. Reese, Re-
cording Secretary; O. M. Jones, S. W;
A. 8 Williams, J. W.; John Meines, S.
B ; J. V. Revierre, J. B.; J. E. Nagley,
Trustee
After the installation ceremonies the
Forresters adjourned to refreshments
and had a jolly good time recounting
their wonderful experiences with Sir
Robin and his brave archers in the for-
ests of Yordshire.
Railroad extends west from Chicago to
Sioux City, Sionx Falls, Dubuque and
Rockford and north fromNew Orleans
to Chicago, St, Lonis, Cairo, Jackson
Memphis, Vicksburg, and Baton Rouge
It is the
Great Through Line
BETWEEN THE
Fast Vestibule Train
The New Orleans
and
Chicag Limi
Makes distance between the City of
of Mexico and the Great Lakes with bnt
one night on the road. Through fast
Vestibule trains between the Missouri
River and Chicago Direct connections
to principal points North, East and
West, from all principal points Sonth
East and West.
Tickets via the Illinois Central oan be
obtained of agents of its own or of con
oecting lines.
A. H. Hanson
Gen. Pas. Agent, Chicago
W. A. Kelloud
Ass’t. Gen. Pass. Agent,
New Orleans
Banker Routs a Robber.
•J. R. Garrison, Cashier of the bank of
Thornville, Ohio, had long been robbed
of health by a serious lung trouble. All
medicines failed to help him until he
tried I)r. King’s New Discovery for Con-
sumption. Then he wrote; ’“It is the
best medicine I ever used. It is just the
thing for a severe cold or a bad case of
lung trouble. I always keep a bottle on
hand.” It’s almost criminal to suffer
with Coughs, Colds, or any Throat,
Chest or Lung trouble when you can be
cured so easily. Only 50c: and 81.00.
Trial bottles free at
W. A. Irvin & Co., Druggists.
TO ESTABLISH QUARANTINE.
Will Adopt a Policy Toward* the Philip-
pine* Like That of Oaba.
Washington, Jan. 8—The war de-
partment is taking steps to prevent the
introduction of plagne in the Philip-
pines. Secretary Root called into con-
sultation Surgeon General Wyman of
the marine hospital service to disease
the establishment of a quarantine sys-
tem for the island. It was decided the
war department should adopt towards
the Phiilppinee a polioy like that pur-
sued towards Cuba in the matter of pro
teotion to health, namely, confine the
maintenance of a quarantine system to
Grain and ProviMou*.
Chicago, Jan. 3—Irresponsive cables
were a depressing factor In the wheat
market today, May dosing {@4 under
yesterday.
Provisions were affected by heavy
hog receipts and persistent profit, tak-
ing, and closed nnder yesterday: May
pork 124o, May lard 10 and May ribs
5@74o lower.
May wheat opened at 70c, advanced
to 70|, slumped to 69$ and dosed at 69{
(®4o.
□ May oorn ranged from 33 @4 to 33}o,
dosing at'334 @4c.
May oate ranged from 23|@24o to
244 nod dosed at 23|@24c.
AFTER BOER SYMPATHIZERS.
Glttxen* Committee to Institute Prosecu-
tion* for Treason.
Victoria, B. C., Jan. 3—A citizen*
committee was formed today to ascer-
tain the identity of all Boer sympathiz-
ers identified with the Transvaal's as-
sistance movement and Mititnte prose-
cutions for treason. They are also ar-
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To be bound hand and foot for years
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headache, backache, fainting and dizzy
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