El Paso Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 12, 1905 Page: 3 of 8
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El PASO MORNING TIMES. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1?, 1905
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mm rULTON MARKET
PHONE 1555.
DIAMONDS GO
TO SILBERBERGS’
'Gems Worth $30,000, Owned
by Palmist J. J. Craig,
Transferred by Order
of the Conrt.
LONG CASE IS CONCLUDED
The celebrated Silberberg-Tuck-
McHatton, etc., diamond case . Is
setled at last. Sllberberg Bros, are
now in absolute and undisputed pos-
session of the famous jewels, which
are valued at over $38,000, after over
two years of litigation. The final
act which removed the case from the
courts and from public notice was
performed yesterday by Judge Swayne
o( the federal court, when he issued
an order to Deputy Collector Numa
Buchoz, in whose custody the dia-
monds have been since they were
seized by the government, directing
him to turn the Jewels over to Silber-
boyg Bros. Judge Swayne was sim-
ply carrying out the order of the
judge of the United States court of
appeals made at Port Worth three
months ago, which was to the effect
that the government had no claim for
■duty on the diamonds, and therefore
could not hold them, and that so far
as the government was concerned
they should be turned over to Silber-
berg Bros. The case was practically
decided in Fort Worth, but It required
an order from the federal district
court In session In El Paso to release
the diamonds from the custody of the
customs authorities aud turn them
over to Silberberg Bros., from whom
they were originally seized.
Mrs. Tuck Settles Her Claim.
There still remained, however, an-
other branch to the controversy, aside
from the government’s claim, affect-
ing Silberberg Bros.’ title to the dia-
monds, which had to be settled. It
was. the claim of Mrs. Tuck to the
ownership of the stones. This was yes-
terday settled by Mcb. Tuck dismiss-
ing her claim, upon the payment to
her by Silberberg Bros, of the sum
of $1,200. Thus the case was wiped
from the docket and the last cloud on
Silberberg Bros.’ title to the precious
stones was removed.
Story of the Diamond*.
These diamonds have a story which
is now familiar to a majority of the
people of El Paso, and "which is as. in-
teresting as fiction. In the yearl902
J. J. Craig, alias "Harry Silberberg,”
alias “J. Coleman Drayton,” appeared
in El Paso, representing himself to be
a palmist of note, and soon Insinuated
himself into the confidence and good
graces of Mrs. M. A. McHatton. He
told Mrs. McHatton that he had a
valuable diamond brooch and necklace
valued at over $30,000, in pawn in a
pawn shop In London for $10,000. In
proof as his assertion he showed Mrs.
McHatton a pawn ticket. He pro-
posed to her that If she would re-
deem the jewels he would sell them
to her at a price considerably under-
their real value. Mrs. McHatton ac-
cepted the proposition and the two
took a trip to London, where Mrs. Mc-
Hatton paid over $10,000 to the pawn-
broker and secured possession of the
diamonds for Craig. Craig gave Mrs.
McHatton his note for $10,000.
The pair returned to the United
States with the diamonds, which were
not declared at the custom house,
which fact .resulted in the litigation
that ensued. At Detroit Craig had
thewjfiiSimonds examined by an expert,
wbffi was asked to pronounce their
e. The expert estimated their
ue to be $30,000.
Seeing that Mrs. McHatton was
satisfied that the diamonds were gen-
uine Craig proposed marriage to her
and they were married In St.> Louis.
The rWr returned to El Paso In a
few days and the first thing Craig
did was to pawn the diamonds to
Silberberg Bros, for $5,900. In a
short time he left the city and has
not since returned.
Mrs. McHatton in a few days after
her return to El Paso discovered
that Craig was a rascal and a fraud
and that she had been "worked” by
the whilom palmiBt to recover bis
diamonds for him. She immediately
brought suit for divorce and it was
during the divorce trial that it devel-
oped that the diamonds were not de-
clared at the New York custom house
when Craig and Mrs. McHatton re-
turned. The customs authorities
here, claiming that the diamonds, be-
cause of the fact that they had been
obtained in London, were dutiable,
seized them for duty and the precious
stones were transferred from the pos-
session of Silberberg Bros, to that of
Deputy Customs Collector Numa Bu-
choz, Silberberg Bros, protesting
against their seizure.
An action was instituted in the fed-
eral court against the diamonds and
before the case was brought to trial
a new phase developed. A woman,
giving her name as Miss Susana
Tttck, and who it developed came here
with Craig, and, unknown to Mrs. Mc-
Hatton, accompanied her and Craig
to London and back to El Paso, put
In an appearance and claimed that
the diamonds belonged to her aud
were pawned by Craig in London. The
upshot of this was that she filed
suit for possession of the diamonds
and this action took its place as
a contemporeaneous case with that of
the government on the docket of the
federal court.
When the case of the government
against the diamonds came on trial
Silberberg Bros, set up- the defense
that, the diamonds were of American
manufacture and were therefore not
dutiable. The government did not
controvert this but claimed that the
jewels' should have been declared
when the entry was made and that
the failure to do this laid them liable
to confiscation and seizure. Judge
Maxey upheld the government’s con-
tention.
Silberberg Bros, then appealed to
the United States court of appeals.
The case was tried in Fort. Worth
last June. This court held that the
diamonds, being of American manu-
facture, were not dutiable and that it
was not necessary to declare them
upon entry, as the customs laws
only require merchandise to be de-
clared. The court also ordered that
a formal order should be made by
the federal judge holding court in El
Paso to return the diamonds toA Sil-
berberg Bros, and this was done yes-
terday.
FALSE IMPRISONMENT.
This Is the Charge Against the Bol-
dens.
Ft. C. Bolden, L. E. Bolden and
Maud Bolden, who were arested Tues-
day night by the police in connection
with the alleged abduction of Eliza-
beth Ransom are now in the county
jail on a new charge, that of false im-
prisonment. Yesterday afternoon As-
sistant County Attorney W. W. Bridg-
ers drew up an information against
the trio charging them with false im-
prisonment, alleged to consist in their
locking Elizabeth Ransom in a room
in a hotel on South El Paso street.
Maude Bolden had been released on
bond Tuesday night and she was re-
arrested and taken to the county jail.
The abduction charge against. R. C.
Bolden in the recorder’s court was dis-
missed as Miss Ransom snowed a de-
cided indisposition to testify against
him on this charge.
“Merode” Underwear*-for Ladies
and Children—is the best—“Every-
body’s,” the new store—are agents for
El Paso.
SuSCl^j Reacting j^oOefer
feegs to aiwouf\ce to feis friends
ai\d patrols, tfeat feis
9aff §too^ is (Slrri^ing Datfvj,
and tfeat for tfee tferee tno^tfes i\cv»
and tasty designs in
anci §tfi?en0are
v?ilf constantly fee added to stocl{.
^ou are cordially invited to call, vjfeetfeer
MISS ETHEL TUCKER.
Of the Ethel Tucker Stock Company, who will appear a! the Myar Opera
House tonight in “Sapho," Olga Nethersole’s great success.
' Last night a crowded house greeted the performance of “Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde." The title role was well portrayed by Whit Brandon.
EL PASO HAS FEW
VACANT STOKES
C. H.Stanton, of Directory Com-
pany Says Condition Is Re-
markable and Predicts Early
Population of 50.000.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS
C. H. Stanton, of the Worley Direr
tory company, who has compiled direc-
tories in all the largest cities of the
south, and who seldom becomes enthu-
siastic over the prospects of any town,
has a great deal that’s good to say
for El Paso.
Mr. Stanton’s staff of six men has
been busy here seven weeks taking
names for the new city directory, and
the work is not yet Complete, there be-
ing at least three more weeks of work
iii sight.
Therefore, when it is considered that
ten weeks are now required to ike the
directory data, when the wdrk has
heretofore been done in six, it is no
wonder that even a prosaic directory
man gets enthusiastic and makes pre-
dictions about a town that sound pleas-
ing to the ear.
Few Vacant Buildings.
"There is not another city of equal
Size in the United States that has as
few vacant store rooms and office
buildings ag El Paso. I walked to ev-
ery vacant office and store room in
El Paso in two hours. That may seem
a long time to put in visiting places
to let, but I’ll tell you it is something.
I can natne ciiies no larger man El
Paso where it took me more than a
day to visit, all the vacant business
places. My object in such visits Is to
see if anyone has moved in.
"I want to say that El Paso real
estate is more active than in any other
city in Texas, and yet the price is not
high.
El Paso will soon be a city of 50,-
000 or 60,000 people, and the date will
not. be far off. El Paso will then
cease to be a nonentity/politically,
in Texas, as she now is. for her pop-
ulation wilj force recognition. El Paso
has the brains. A directory man can-
not fail to be surprised at the quality
as well as the quantity of Ei Paso’s
population. When the city is larger
it seems to me that some of these
brains will get. some of me offices that
are now going to other parts of Texas.
“Here is a fact that will surprise
El Pasoans: There are 6,000 Mexi-
can workmen living in Ei Paso. A lit-
ue calculation will approximate the
population of these people. There is
one Institution in El Paso that em-
ploys 1,200 persons.
500 Chinese and Japs.
“There are in El Paso 500 Chinese
and Japanese, ail in a prosperous con-
dition and a good sized village by
themselves.
“In fact, everybody In Li Paso seems
prosperous. The city's jobbing and
manufacturing Interests are growing
fast. In a few weeks we will be able
to announce within a thousand, the
population and many outside of this
city will be surprised.
GROCERY TO PAY 100
CENTS ON THE DOLLAR
A- fcsm dutonw Street
;TefepStoqe 57®«
The Roberston Grocery company,
which wss recently assigned and was
placed in the hands of a receiver, yes-
terday began the Raying off of all its
creditors, at 1(M) cents on the dollar.
Ail bills against the firm were al-
lowed and the peculiar spectacle of
the employes of an assigned firm
looking for its creditors in order to
settle with them was witnessed yes-
terday. The indebtedness of the firm
amounted to $5,230. but in paying
the debt* the stock has not been
touched.
Now that all indebtedness has been
paid. Judge B. Bryan, the receiver and
assignee, will he discharged and the
stock and fixtures *,lrt. Samuel C.
(Robertson, the proprietor, said yea-
‘ terday that he had made no business
plans for the future.
We will buy good vendor lien
notes. A. P. COLES & BROS.
BIG BULL BREAKS
A COWBOY S LEG
With Lariat Around His Hind
Logs, Wild and Powerfni
Boast Jerks the Pony
From Its Feet.
BRONCHO FALLS ON RIDER
After traveling fifty miles overland
in a stage, and 1JS milea by rail, all
the while suffering and without med-
ical attention, O. S. Culbertson, a
cowboy on a ranch near Hachita, New
Mexico, has ariveil in' El Paso to
.lave set a broken leg, which he sus-
tained while roping a large and
vicious bull on the range.
Mr. Cnlbervaon had thrown his
lariat neatly, tile rope anclrcllng the
bull’s hind legs; the wiry little cow
pony had galoped around and settled
on his haunches to throw the bovine,
but the bull, large and powerful, was
too strong for the broncho, which was
suddenly jerked from its feet, the
pony falling upon the cowboy and
breaking ilia leg.
Despite ids long trip to reach a
physician, Mr. Culbertson's injured
leg is healing nicely at Hotel Dieu.
and he expects to be out of tho hos-
pitql in about three weeks.
For the lies! Shoes for school wear
—go to "Everybody’s,” the new store.
Signing of Treaty Delayed.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 11.—Though
both transcripts of the Portsmouth
peace treaty—not only the original
French, but also tho English copy,
which the Japanese at the last mo-
ment wished to have ratified—are un-
derstood to be ready for signature, the
signing is delayed, pending arrange-
ment or an understanding for the
slmiuitanooim - exchange of ratifica-
tions. At the foreign office, however,
it was said today that this was only
a matter of a few days.
See the new embroidered White
Waists at $1.25 and up at "Every-
body’s,” the new store.
Patronize home Industry! Call for
El Paso beer.
TODAY
our special on ladies'
ready-to-wear gar-
ments- unprecedentedly
low prices*
Saturday we will offer
at Lapowski Mercan-
tile Company’s special
prices a few startlers
in our gent's depart-
ment. See Saturday's
p t'f 9
Times.
EL PASO &
SOUTHWESTERN
SYSTEM
DONT travel a roundabout way,
but take the shortest line possible. Same fare. A trip from here to
the East is plenty long enough without adding twelve or fifteen hours.
DONT forget about your meals
but take a seat in one of our diners. Plenty of time to eat. Prices
reasonable. Service unexcelled.
“The Rock Island Diner,”
“There’s nothing finer.”
DONT neglect your comforts while traveling
but take advantage of our fine train at 2:10 p. m. and enjoy the privi-
leges of theJObser ration car; the up-to-date Buffet car; the library
supplied with the latest books and magazines; the barbershop, the
bath. I’ts electric lighted and there are lights in every berth.
That’s the thing
SERVICE!
Ask about it
Garnett King,
Gen. Atft.
F. L. Waterman,
City Pass. Agt.
A TOUCH OF WILD WEST
MEXICAN CHARGED WITH ‘SHOOT-
ING-UP’ PASSENGER TRAIN.
Pistol Ball Fired by Miscreant at Ys-
leta Narrowly Misses Head of Girl
in the Coach and Several Tourists
Crawl Under the Seats.
Leandro Mata was brought in yes-
terday from Ysleta by Deputy Sheriff
Ed Bryant and placed in the county
Jail on the charge of malicious mis-
chief. Mala is accused of shooting
into a (!, H. passenger train as It pass-
ed through Ysleta Monday evening.
Tile hall went through one of the win-
dows of l ha day coach and barely
missed the,head of a girl. The train
crew upon their arrival here reported
the matter to the sheriff’s office and
Deputy Sherlft Ed Bryant went to Ys-
leta for the purpose of locating and
arresting the miscreant, If possible, |
Mata, the man arrested, stoutly denies j
shooting into the train, but parties j
at Ysleta say that, he Is the man,who
committed the wanton act.
It Is said that several Eastern tour-
ists thought that Diamond Dick was
holding up the tra'n and accordingly
they crawled under the seats.
A Premium for the Ladies
With all 3 months snb-
„ c-r V •.*' • "T Jfl/ mail, free of ‘■Large.
Wj*A to an \ ilihiivs.- ill the
1 ^ lilt'd Stull, o! Nil X
"e'/r/'ye Kg !<•<> Hie cm rent i....11r- i,t
that ^excellent. Ladies’
^^9 9111C
j| ],Wr iui up-to-date home mag-
features.
Address: THE TIMES, El Paso, Texas.
DIRECT TO GALVESTON.
San Francisco will Have Another
Railway Connection.
San Francisco, Oct. I),—President
E. P. Ripley of the Santa Fo Railway
company has decided to build a new
piece of road, which will give San
Francisco another direct rail connec-
tion wirh Galveston, Texas. The com-
pany, just incorporated, is to build
350 miles of road from Brownsville
northwest to Toxlco on . e Texas ami
New Mexico boundary, and a point on
the north and south Pecos Valley line
of the Santa re.
From Texieo to Rio Puerco on the
Santa Fe and California overland road
and thirty miles west of Albuquerque,
the distance is 275 miles and the road
is being hunt there by the Eastern
New Mexico railroad, a Santa Fe com-
pany.
EI Paso beer is as pure, as good,
as wholesome, and has as fine flavor
as any beer brought here. Phone
1588.
NEW WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR,
NEW GRAHAM FLOUR
NEW PRINCESS BUCKWHEAT
(Prepared t
FI .OUR (the best ever put, In a pack-
age).
NEW R C. W. PANCAKE FLOUR.
Howard-McPhetridge Co.,
204 St. Louis St.
"BUSY”
BUSINESS MAN
PROGRESS.
BAR TO
i John A. Howland in Chicago Tribune)
Among the young men of to.ipy win
are looking for op.nommiMe» for
launching into *uerc*r.*ql careens if
may be said that 'he great msjcity
have tiefo < L or eyts as an example
for emulation the t*'i:.—1 busy busi-
ness man. in thl« at re meet 1 want to
make a marked duL.’cthn list worn
the business man and the business
man who is ehron.esii’v of the bus!-
nes.; type For ii m • opinion tnere
is no type in ixIwUmcs who lu all his
Beginning Sept. 20th
THE MEXICAN CENTRAL RAILWAY
will have two Pullman Buffet Cars. One
throu&h ear Mexico to El Paso and one
Mexico to Chihuahua, the Chihuahua
ear having been placed in order to ac-
commodate t l*o heavy increase in traffic
in Northern Mexico.
C. F. BERN/4,
v Com’l Agt.
Postaj Cot)to Bldg.
W. D. MURDOCK,
Pass. Traffic Mgr.
Mexico, D. F.
out into a certau 'rtwlnoon of hydro-
phobia.—
Manifestly neither the business man
nor the bu».v Imgtnc. s man is able,
willing, or called upon to receive every
person who rails tjpoji him for a por-
tion of !C« t'tne. But in my experi-
ence of this busy business man, be
squanders more time in busying him-
self, mentally and physically, than he
would need to give every person a
hearing who might call upon him in
the routine day.
This man who '« mentally aberrat-
ed with the ingrowing idea of hi* busy
condition, and yet who is more or less
passive under the spell, is one of the
most Irritating of the types. He has
the demeanor of gentleness, perhaps.
He can smile, sometimes, vaguely in
a fa1, off manner. But business ab-
straction is buried Into Ills eyes until
you may feet that using them with
hypnotic intent he might Induce you
to become a packing box or a block of
blank stock certificates.
His most maddening aspect (s shown
when you have approached him with
something which is not business,
thank God. but which is so much wor-
thier that he is compelled to reiterate
almost incoherent if that he "would be
relations wita tr.c wor! 1 Ir s) rtiu Hulh- { delimited to take the matter up with
ty a bar to the progress of the human j von—only—vou know * cm so—so
race. I frightfully busy, always, that l—l— ”
Not infrequently the busy business! and you hav no impression of the
man Is not mtsv. it: is cmotto.ud. ex- j conversation ever getting anv farther
citable and is ito-rjwl.i-i trouble s Mid I than that stammering personal pro-
tangle*. He think, tan ir most st.eou- noun Hi- whole bearing, so tar as it
ous when as a matter of fart he basils «an», is that he Is regarding his
lost merely his self-control. Person- busy business as be retards an incur-
ally ne may rush madly by train and J able discs o from 'which he is doomed
cab to his office, dash to Hie express I always to stiff *r -as perhaps he must,
elevator. trounce into his office and | This *mme caller appearing before
be at, hour roroco -i.ig from hi* ajno-j that other type of violently busy man
fiunnUsm. But this min in his own
estimation l« on® of the huaiost of
men. and the busy feetiog grows upon
him until it become* a condition of
logically may expect almost any kind
i of explosive negative, and at the best
having it temp rod with the quer-
Ion* reiteration of his busy condition
fixed mental atiareattoo In a passive j ,■’mounting to more than an obsession,
state, or until it n» violently breaks i This raonomnntaeal representative
of business in its busiest garb is the
one rnan in business who has given
to the term "business” much of Its
hard, 'uncalculating immobility and
narrowness. His outlook on life is
Abnormal to I he last degree. He'has
yoked himself fast to the grim spec-
ter, Time, arid he goes protestlngly
toward any object in life wtoich would
halt his partner.
Viewed from any side this overbn-
sied business man wears the standing
and indelible confession of his insuffi-
ciency. The man feeling the pressure
of his business day after day is unfit-
ted for the exactions of his work. Ho
is a quart cup in the gauger’s plant,
where only the gallon measure is of
economical use. He needs make too
many trips from the cask to the barrel
in rendering service. He is in use
in many places, however, and in the
process ho is inimical to good business
In a great measure and wholly so to
ail else in life.
Yemhis is the type of business mau
which so many observers of the busi-
ness world naturally attracts atten-
tions. We have become too much the
blind apostles of strenuosity. It no
longer interests us that a man with
calm exterior and an Inward confl-
denea in himself moves with even cer-
tainly to a legitimate end. The lime-
light and the grand stand are the
properties necessary to attract in bis
accomplishments. Without this porta-
ble background for attainment, the
world does not care to look, to say
nothing of learning.
"I have been putting in a month of
hard work, but I’ll be able to look over
the ton of it soon." Is an expression
creditable to a man who has upon his
shoulders the success of a business.
”1 am so busy I don’t know which way
to turn." is a much commoner and ex-
cited expression, however, and when
yon hear it put It down that It comes
from a weak nature confessing its in-
efficiency.
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