El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 120, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 1900 Page: 1 of 8
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TWENTIETH YEAR. NO. 120.
EL. PASO,TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING-, MAY 17 1900.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WOW IS THE TIME TO BUY!
w W TION while the lots are selling so verv cheao. Terms:
Do not miss a chance to buy a nice Residence
Lot in FRANKLIN HEIGHTS ADDI-
TION while the lots are selling so very cheap. Terms: One-third or one-fourth cash, balance on easy
terms, 6 per cent interest. Many of our best citizens are buying these lots to build themselves handsome residences, and it will soon,
become the nicest residence part of the city. Call NOW while you can get a choice location lor a fine home. We expect to have
electric street cars in that part of the city in the near future. Call and see the lots and get prices.
A. P. COLES, Real Estate atid Insurance
Henry Pfaff
Successor to R. F. Johnson & Co.
WHO LIS ALIK OF
Liquors, Brandies, Wines & Cigars.
SOLE AGENT FOB
Anbeuser-Busch Brewing Association, St. Louis, Mo.
Joseph Sehlitz Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wis.
Manitou Mineral Water Company, Manitou, Colorado.
Italian-Swiss Agrionltnral Colony, Asti, Cal., Fine Wines
' G. H. Mumm & Co., Reims Champagnes.
F. A Mnmm, Frankfort, O. M. Rhine Wines
Landau Fils, Bordanx Cognac.
Sergnonret Freres, Bordanx Clarets,
Dr. Alexander, Ciudad Juarez, Mex., Native Wines.
MANY ARRESTS
IN HAVANA.
Postoffice Officials are Now
Meditating in the
Tombs.
u. R. MOREHEAD, President. j J. C. LACKLAND, Cashier.
JOSEPH MAGOFFIN, V.-Prest. | J. H. RUSSELL, Asst. Cash.
State National Bank.
ESTABLISHED APRIL. 1881.
«jLi{itMi Banking Business Transacted In all Its Branches.
Highest Price Paid for Mexican Dollars.
& Son, Dealers in Fine Shoes, El Paso, Texas.
The First National Bank,
EL PASO. TEXAS.
Capital and Surplus, $150,000.00.
teahua S. Raynolds, President.
H. W. Flournoy, Vice-Prest.
Ulyses S. Stewart, Cashier
Jos. F. Williams, Asst. Cash.
B. LHIK8KT.
PrAftldAnt
A. SOLOMON,
Vioe-Dresldent
B. P MIOH1L0ON,
Secretary
S. J. FRKUDINTHaL.
General Manager
Wholesale Grocers,
AND JOBBERS OF DRY GOODS.
carry a complete line of Staple and Fancy Groceries, and guar-
antee all our goods first class.
We solicit the trade of dealers only, and give especial attention to
veil erders.
THOMPSON’S TROUBLES.
He Makes a Sworn Statement la Which He
Acknowledge!* He had Taken Money.
Special Agent® Unexpectedly Discovered
the Receipt—Assistant Postmaster Gen-
eral Bristow Going to Havana.
tion of persistent strength in the mar-
ket today. The market showed itself
lefs sensitive than for some time past to
any depressing iufinenoe, and at the
close was distinctly firm, at about the
beBt level of the day.
Closing quotations: Atchison 251;
do preferred 69|; Chesapeake & Ohio
284 ;Colorado Southern 54; do preferred
40J; do 2d preferred 161; St. Louis &
San Francisco 104; do preferred* 61); do
2d preferred 84; American Steel &
Wire35; do preferred 754; Sugar 1074;
Western Union 1104-
NICARAGUA CANAL BILL
Havana, May 16—Warrants were is-
sued this evening for the arrest of E.
P. Thompson, the Havana postmaster,
W. H. Reeves, deputy officer of the is- I Walker and other members of the com
Conclusion of the Committee Presented In
a Written Report.
Washington, May 16—The senate
committee on inter-oceanic canals to-
day, through its chairman, Senator
Morgan, presented a written report
upon the Nicaragua canal bill. The re-
port includes statements of Admiral
land and Edward Moya, and Jorge
Masoarof, Cuban clerks in the stamp
department and by 7 o'clock all were
lodged in Vivao, the tombs of Havana.
This was done under the *advice of pos-
tal inspectors who arrived -here today.
It is considered now that Reeves is
equally guilty with Neely
The investigation as to the record
clerk in the military department who
handled several hundred dollars in
stamps proves the transaction, as far as
he is concerned, was legitimate. The
stamps were purchased at the request
of his brother who is a [stamp collector
in the United States for $800. They
were of the old issue and were obtained
from Neely.
The arrest of Thompson caused great
surprise in the city. It is
looked upon as the peronr-
sor of many other arrests. General
Wood felt, as did the special inspectors,
that it would be better to have the sns
pected persons arrested and to give the
men an opportunity to obtain bail than
to keep them indefinitely under close
supervision at a time when the detec-
tives were badly needed for other
work.
, FASSETT & KELLY,
Hardware, Stoves, Tinware
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
Cutlery, Gnns, Pistols, Mining Supplies and
Ammunition of all Kinds.
|»“Sole agents for Buckeye Mowers and Reapers, Fairbanks’ Scales, Buffalo
(Scales, Charter Oak Stoves, Giant Powder, Aermoter Wind Mills, 8tudeDaker
Wagons and Carriages.
h, M. OpkniikIuhcr, President.
Hf L. Newman, Vice-President.
J G. Lowdon. 2nd Vice President.
T. M. WjifiJO. Cashier.
W. B. WiBH. Assistant Cashier
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The Lowdon National Bank.
Capital Paid in $100,000
Safety Deposit Boxes for rent. Mexican Miney and Exchange
bought and sold. Telegraphic transfers to all points in Mexico.
. ____ _ - . _ BUILDING SUPPLIES,
O’BRIEN COAL CO. "
Dealers in Lime, Cement, Plaster and Hair. Mineral Paints and Mortar
Colors. Roofing Pitch, Tarred Felt and Sheating Paper. Hay and Grain
St, Lou a reet, El Paso, Texas Telephone No. 8.
NAGLEY & LYONS,
FUNERAL DIRECTORS and EMBALMERS
Successors to CALDWELL UNDERTAKING CO.
Parlors at 305 El Paso Street. Office open day and night. Phone 197
SYVOKN STATEMENT.
Postmaster E P. Thompson Tell® of HI®
Trouble® at Havana.
Havana, May 16—Postmaster E. P.
Thompson of the Havana local office,
has signed a sworn statement in which
he says that on September 16th last,
being in need of money, he took from
the money order funds $435, giving his
memorandum as receipt for the same.
When the inspections were held Thomp-
son ordered the clerk in charge of the
money order department to plaoe the
remittances received that day, which
would not have been accounted for until
the following day, sufficient to cover
the amonnt of his receipt, which was
therewith withdrawn nntil after the
inspection. This was kept np nntil
April 7th, when the special agents un-
expectedly discovered the receipt which
Thompson had then paid. He also ad-
mits Charles F. Neely, late financial
agent of the posts at Havana, indorsed
a bill for $350 which Thompson had
discounted by the North American
Trust oompany.
Thompson admits other irregularities
in connection with his department.
AFTER CUBAN
OFFICIALS.
Senator Bacon Wants the
Alleged Frauds In-
vestigated.
FREE ZONE MEASURE.
Morolmndlne Panning Through the United
States to be Transported Free of Duty.
Bacon Insisted the United States lias no
Authority In Cuba—No Progre*® Made
With the Alagkan Code Bill In the House.
GOING TO HAVANA.
Will Leave
Saturday
OFFICE, STAB AND BANlf
FIXTDKfS.
MID Work *f aft Kiwis.
B>h>vei to,El Paso Foundry;& Machine Go's old balldlng’Oi4& Si Louis St,
for Calm Early
Morning.
Washington, May 16—Fonrth As-
sistant Postmaster General Bristow re-
ceived final instructions today and left
at 3 o'clock for Tampa, Florida, from
which plaoe he will sail for Havana,
reaching there early Saturday morn-
ing.
Representative Hay, of Virginia, to-
day introduced in the house a resolution
requesting the postmaster general for
information as to whether Director
Rathbone bad reported that accounts
of the postal officials in Cuba were
fonnd to be oorreot April 23.
The postmaster general would make
no statement as regard to this sabjeot
today.
It is a fact, however, Director Rath-
bone did forward a type written copy
report, made by Special Agents George
O. S. Ribold and William T. Neal,
stating that the accounts of G. W. F.
Neely, financial clerk of poetal depart-
ment, were oorreot on said date.
mission appointed to investigate various
routes and also the conclusion of the
committee with reference to both the
Nicaragua and Panama routes. The
committee takes a strong position
against the proposition to build a canal
via the Panama route, paying for the
work already done by the Frenoh.
The declaration is made the Panama
company is practically without assets
except those included in the Panama
railroad.
The committee takes the position
against holding the pending bill until
the Walker commission can report, say-
ing:
“All the commission’s field work is
done and working parties have return-
ed to the United States except a party
of hydrographers left there to ascertain
the raiufall and finctnations and
changes in the river. If this hydro-
graphio work is to be prosecuted here-
after, as long and thoroughly as here-
tofore, it will be half a century before
we oan determine the practicability of
the Panama canal, so far as it depends
on the rainfall and fluctuation changes
of the river.
On the general question of the con-
struction of the canal the committee
takes the position that whatever canal
is oonstrnoted the ownership must be
American, and delay may be fatal to
the success of the enterprise. It is ar-
gued by the committee that delay in
construction cannot possibly advance
the settlement of the question as to the
canal after its completion. The com-
mittee, therefore, announces its conclu-
sion to be that congress should provide
means and anthority for conetrnoting
the canal by the Nicaragua route and
leave it to the president to deal with
any questions of a diplomatic sort that
may be raised by other nations in the
progress of the work. After the bill
becomes a law it is declared oar first
duty is to agree with Nicaragua as to
terms, leaving to the fntnreall dealings
with other powers as to the privileges
they shall enjoy in the canal.
Yesterday's Baseball.
Detroit, Mich.. May 16—Detroit 4,
Chicago 7. Batteries: Fifield, Gaston
and Dyan; Fisher and Sngden.
At Pueblo, Colo.—Pueblo 5, Sioux
City 0. Batteries: Andrews and Gra-
ham, McDonald and Cote.
At Denver, Colo.—Denver 1, Des
Moines 2. Batteries: MoNeeley and
McCauslan; Weiner and Sisler.
At Pittsbnrg—Pittsbnrg 8, Philadel-
phia 4 Batteries: Poilsppi and Zim-
mer; Donahne and Douglass.
At Chicago—Chioago 7, Boston 4.
Batteries: Callahan and Donahue; Wil-
lis and Clarke.
At St. Louis—St. Louis 7, New York
6 Batteries: Young, Thomas and
Robinson Doneny and Warner.
At Cincinnati—Cincinnati 5, Brook-
lyn 8 Batteries: Breitenstain and
Peitz; MoGinnity and Farrell.
At Cleveland—Cleveland 7, Minnea-
polis 9. Batteries: Egan, McKenna
andCrisham; Hastings, MoCan, Fisher
and Dixon.
At St. Joseph, Mo.—The opening
game between St. Joseph and Omaha
was again postponed on account of
rain.
At Indianapolis—Indianapolis 15,
Kasas City 10. Batteries; Guese and
Heydon; Gates, Daub and Wilson.
At Buffalo—Buffalo 4. Milwaukee 10,
Batteries: Clarke and Schreoongoet;
Sparks and H. Smith.
Washington, May 16—Discussion of
the administration of affairs in Cnba by
agents of the United States occupied
the attention of the senate during the
greater part of today’ session.
Bacon of Georgia, addressed the sen-
ate at length on his resolution directing
the committee on relations with Cnba
to make an investigation of the conduct
of financial affairs of the island. He
said it was dne the people of this coun-
try to know just how the affairs of the
island are being conducted, and since
the disclosures of the past few days had
been made with respect to the alleged
misappropriation of funds of the postal
service, the obligation upon congress to
make an investigation was donblv
heavy. He urged the honor of the
country depends upon its being able to
clear away the fraud and corruption
which, it was charged, had been dis
covered.
He insisted the government of the
United States has no anthority in Cuba,
and demanded to know how soon it
proposed to redee.m its pledge and
leave the island to be governed by its
inhabitants.
The following measures were passed;
The house bill repealing the provision
of the law allowing merchandise pass-
ing throngh the United States from
any foreign oonntry to be transported
free of duty, as far as the Mexican free
zone is concerned. Also a resolution
offered by Lodge calling upon the sec-
retary of the treasury for information
in regard to the taking of Japanese
labor into this oonntry, and whether
there had been any violation of the
contract law.
THE HOUSE
Washington, May 16-The
house
• • JUST««
RECEIVED
a carload of California Canned
Fruits consisting of
Peaches
rlcots
Pears
Grapes
Api
White Cherries Strawberries
Black Cherries Raspberries
Plums of all kinds Blackberries
We have the best assortment of
California Canned Fruits in the
Southwest. Owing to the extreme
scarcity of these goods the public
will do well to place orders prompt-
ly while the assortment is complete.
El Faso Grocery Co..
THE CASH GROCERS,
Corner Overland & Oregon Streets.
accomplished little today besides pool-
ing the senate bill to incorporate tk«
American National Red Cross. No pro-
gress was made with the Alaskan cod*
bill, owing to the inability of the two
sides to agree on the time allowed for
general debate. The conference report
on the District of Columbia appropria-
tion bill was returned after an extend-
ed debate
Urnin unit Provision*.
Chicago, May 16—Corn was that
leading deal on the board of trade to—»
day. Renewed support from bails and
covering by shorts together with strong;
cables caused a gain for the day of lfc..
Wheat was strong on unfavorable*
weather, closing at 4(3| improved.
Provisions closed from 71 better from-,
2o np.
July corn opened at 361(3 J, advanaadC
with great activity nntil the end of tho
session, closing at 384c.
July wheat opened at 664(3664, rang--....
ed between that and 67, closing at 684
(3 |o.
July oats ranged between 22 and
closing at 224(3 50.
Kruger'* Telegram.
New Yoke, May 16 —Charlea B.„
Pierce, consul general of the Orange
Free State, today received the following*
cablegram from Pretoria:
“Messrs. Wessels. Fisher and Wol—-
May justice and righteous*-•
marens:
ness be with yon.
Kruger.’
jit La* Vega*, N. M EstabHahedUi^
Sooorro, S. M. InoorvoratedlMfc t
Browne & Manzanares Go.
EL PASO TEXAS.
Wholesale Grocer®.
WOOL, HIDES AND PELTS.
Phone 213. Cor. Fifth and El Paaa Sta.
We sell to Dealers only,
McCormick Mowers, Rakes and Harvest Machines.
A A ^ ^ A
A. M. LOOMIS,
t
Real Estate Dealer,
INSURANCE,
Loan and Renting Agent.
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