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PI DAILY HERALD, 'S NEWS, 4:30. p. m. Last Edition EL pAS0, TEXAS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27,1900. 20th YEAR, NO. 306 PRiCt5CENfS SO EJL BUILDING TO EL PASO There Is Every Indication That the Phelps Dodge People WILL GO BY SEPAR And Come To the Metropolis Of the Great Southwest, Where All Others Roads Center. While no announcement to that ef fect has been made by any official of the Phelps-Dodge Nacosari railroad, it is safe to say that the road is coming to El Paso. The company now has two hundred teams in the field grading the road in a direct line to this city, and not to ward Separ, as has been thought heretofore. This information comes from S. H. Buchanan, who has a part of the con tract for the grading, and who has just returned here from a trip over the line. "They are grading this way," said Mr. Buchanan, "but I do not know where they are going. It would not surprise me if the road came to El Paso instead of Separ, but I can't tell just what they will do." Mr. Buchanan, as well as Mr. Wam bangh has never said positively what the company was going to do, and as they pat it. It is possible that they do not know. The company never does much pecuIation in the way of asking advice and their movements are us ually kept to themselves until the pub lic is able to see what is going on. It Is generally believed by the eur ployes of the company that they are to "build to El Paso and little is now being said about the line to Separ. Mr. Buchanan is rather incommunica tive Qa the subject but doesn't mind saying wha the company is doing. He says that one hundred teams are at work on the Nacosari branch and two hundred are running every day on the line this way. Mr. Wambaugh, chief engineer of the company, has Just returned from New York where he went to consult with the head officials of the road and where general superintendent Douglass has been for three weeks. Those who have watched the movements of the company contend that the decision to build to El Paso instead of Separ was reached a few weeks ago after consid eration for several months. President Douglass of the company has wired here that he has received news that El Paso has offered $50,000 for the terminus of his line and he will consider the matter and report later. There seems to be but one idea in the minds of those who nave been interest ed in the matter and that Is that the road Is coming to El Paso and will be built as Cast as possible. "It is foolish to think that the Phelps-Dodge : company . is going to build . to Separ," said a prominent railroader this morning, "for there is nothing for them. They have an enor moos amount of freight and want to haul it all themselves and of course are not going to build to a station like Separ. A movement is on foot to con solidate all the mineral roads In that section, just as the Herald had it two months ago, and that scheme Is now about completed. I do not wish to be quoted bat it is safe to say that all those roads are going to consolidate and build to El Paso." THE ABDUCTOR OF YOUNG CUDA HY IS SAID TO BE CONCEALED IN ST. JOSEPH. ST. JOSEPH. Mo., Dec. 27. Three Pinkerton detectives from Omaha and two from Chicago were added last night to the force of detectives here who are on the trail of Pat Crowe. At police headquarters it was inti mated that Crowe was being concealed at the home of a prominent attorney, whose home is now under surveillance. The attorney is a power in local and state politics, and the police claim to be handicaped by being unable to search the premises. SEVEN YEAR OLD BOY KIDNAPED BY HIS OWN MOTHER BUT AGA IX RECOVERED... INDIANA TOMS, Ind., Dec. 27 Syd ney Miller the seven year old grand son of e-:-V-.:ted States attorney gen eral Miller, r.-as kidnaped by his moth er yesterday afternoon.' but was found early this morning at Lawrence, In diana, and brought back to Indianapo lis. At 2:30 o'clock this morning the hackman who drove Mrs. ' Miller and her son was located, and informed the detectives that be had conveyed the woman and boy to Brlghtwood, six miles east of this city, where she in tended to take the first train on the Big Four for New York. Samuel Miller, the husband and fath er, with a corps of newspaper men and detectives, immediately secured car riages and the party was driven rapid ly to Brlghtwood. On arrival there they were informed that Mrs. Miller and the boy had been taken to Lawrence, Indiana, the next station north. The party proceeded to lawrence and found the woman and child asleep in a boarding house, and the father brought the son back to In dianapolis. Mrs. Miller was left at Lawrence. HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUS j AND DOLLARS PAID FOR A ! PICTURE. NEW YORK, Dec. 27 The portrait of William Devilliers by Vandyck, said to be the highest priced picture ever imported Into this country, will take the leading place in the collection of old English masters in the home of William C. Whitney in this city. The portrait was originally in pos session of the Buckingham family, des cendants of the Duke of Buckingham, the favorite of Charles I of England. .when Vandyck became court painter. I Whitney paid . $120,000 for the pic ture. IT IS REPORTED THAT THE BOERS ! WILL SURRENDER ON CER- TAIN CONDITION'S. - BLOEMFONTEIN, Dec. 27 There is an unconfirmed rumor here that Gener al De Wet, President Steyn and General Haasbrook had a conference .and cie- jcided to offer to surrender provided the colonial rebels were not punished '.and the. leaders, including themselves, were not deported. The Boers attacked Burghersdorp on 'December 24 and were repulsed after heavy fighting. Active skirmishes in several places is reported. MILLIONAIRE TEXAS STOCKMAN. SHANGHAI PIERCE. OF PIERCE IS DEAD. Special Dispatch to the Herald. KANSAS CITY. Md., Dec. 27. News has been received here of the death of A. C. Pierce, the famous ' millionaire stock man of Pierce, Texas, best known as "Shanghai" Pierce. It came in a dispatch to his daughter, the wife of ; Henry M. Withers, the former prose i cuting attorney of Jackson county. The cause of his death was Blight's disease. l NO VERIFICATION OF THE RE PORT THAT PADEREWSKI WAS KILLED IN DUEL NEW YORK,Dec. 27 It was rumored at 'the Metropolitan opera house last evening that Padereweki had been kill ed in a duel in France but no verifica tion conld be obtained. ' Today a Paris dispatch to the Sun says: Inquiries in the quarters most likely to be informed correctly on the subject show that nothing is known in ' Parte to justify the report. BILLY STIFT WILL MEET AU NEIL FOR TWENTY ROUNDS AT HOT SPRINGS. CHICAGO, Dec. 27 Billy Stift, a local pugilist has been matched to meet Al. Neill of San Francisco in a twenty round contest at Hot Springs, Ark., on January 8. Stift will start on his trip to the southern resort in the early part of the week. I BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE IN SULTED AND MALTREATED AT CONSTANTINOPLE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 27 Some Turkish soldiers have grossly assault ed and maltreated the British charge 'd'affaires. Mr. De Bunsen. and other ' members of the British ' embassy, i Sharp demands for redress have been made to the porte. - oooooooooooooo oooooooooooo odiiia rc Duya The Pecos Valley NEW YORK, Dec. 27. The Atchison. Topeka& Santa Fe Railroad Company has purchased the Pecos Valley system, runningfrom Pecos City, T xas.throusli New Mexico to AmarillQ. Texas, a dis tance of 372 miles, and will soon con nect its Oklahoma.Iine with the system at Amarillo, snd build from the" Pecos river to El Paso. The distance from Kansas City and Chicago to El Paso will now be 953 and 1411 miles respectively, thus saving about 300 miles over the present route. The above telegram completes a "paper railroad" built by the Herald a month ago. When General Superintendent Resseguie and General Man ager Mudge of the Santa Fe went through El Paso a month ago and went over the Pecos Valley system. The Herald stated that they were not on a pleasure trip but were going to inspect the Pecos Valley system. It had come from a good source that the Santa Fe would buy this road and keep ahead of the Rock Island but the idea was hoot ed by several local railroaders. The dispatch from New York today proves the truth of the statement. There is little doubt that the Santa Fe will build the proposed r extension from Roswell to El Paso on its own account and reach this city before the Rock Island gets in from the north. J oooooooooooo oooooooooooo LONDON SPECULATING ON THE ' HONORS THAT ARE BELIEVED TO AWAIT LORD ROBERTS LONDON. Dec. 27. Public interest here is centered upon the financial stage of Lord Robert's journey from Med era and Gibraltar, and upon the honors which will await him when he arrives in England. Rumors are revived that his name will head the new list of honors, but a dukedom seems out of the question and an earldom is more probable, with the possibility of a blue ribbon, the order of the Garter. BRYAN DEMOCRATS V.'ILL TRY TO KEEP THEIR PARTY ORGANI ZATION FROM GOLDITES. CHICAGO. 111.. Dec. 27. The leaders of the democratic national committee are making preparations to perpetuate, and extend their precinct organization, and presumably fortify the present party machinery against the onslaught of so-called Cleveland democrats. It is proposed by the party mana gers to maintain permanent head quarters in Chicago and conduct a press bureau which shall keep dem ocracy posted on the trend of political events at' Washington. MINING COMPANY CHARTERED AT AUSTIN BY EL PASO CAPITALISTS. Special Dispatch to the Herald. AUSTIN, Dec. 27 The Southwestern Consolidated Mining company, capital $200,000, was chartered by B. A. Kelly-. G. E. Fitzgerald and A. C. Schryver of El Paso. Gen. Openheimer is in Austin, boost ing El Paso, and spending Christi ias in the good old way. , THE INVENTOR OF THE FAMOUS ARMSTRONG GUN IS DEAD IN ENGLAND. LONDON. Dec. 27 Lord William Armstrong, inventor of the Armstrong gun and a writer upon electrical and scientific topics, died this morning at his home at Cragside. THE METAL MARKET. NEW YORK. Dec. 27. Bar silver 64. Mexican money quotations in El Paso today 49 50. 1 HE BRITISH ARE STILL FOLLOW- 1NG UP ThjJ VERY SLIP PERY BOER ARMY. LONDON. Dec. 27. Lord Kitchener cables the following: "PRETORIA. Dec. 26. Knox with Barker. -Pilcher, and White is engaged with De Wet's force holding a posi tion in the neighborhood of Leuwkop. De Wet hopes to break through and go south again. The Boers' eastern column in Cape Colony is apparently headed by our troops about Reithport Spruit. The Boers' westward column is reported to have gone north in two portions, one to Prieska. and the other through Strydenburg. They are being fololwed up." CHAIRMAN HULL IS CONFIDENT THAT THE ARMY BILL WILL PASS EASILY. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 Chairman Hull of the house committee of mili tary affairs does not share the fear expressed in some quarters that :-.he army reorganization bill will fail at this session of congress and that a make shift temporarily continuing the present provisional army will have to be, resorted to. "I have canvassed the situation in the senate, said he "and I believe that all differences between the two houses upon the measure will be adjusted within a week after the bill goes to conference." ENORMOUS STOCK RANCH TO BE ESTABLISHED BY CHICAGO PEOPLE NEAR PHOENIX. Special Dispatch to the Herald. PHOENIX. Ariz.. Dec. 27 MeyT Jacobs of T acorn a, principal heir of the Wormser estate, embracing most of the extensive Old Mexican land, grant near Phoenix, and M. Goldman, have nego tiated successfully for the sale of the property to a Chicago syndicate. The amount of the sale being a quarter million dollars. The new owners will convert the land into one of the greatest stock ranches ' in the world. I LORD BERESFORD IS REPORTED TO BE IN CRITICAL CONDI TION TODAY. LONDON, Dec. 27 Lord William Hereford- ho has been suffering from peritonitis, passed a very bad night, j and was reported worse this morning. MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING OF PROMINENT INDIANA MA SON BY A WOMAN. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 27- W. H. Smyth e, grand secretary of the Ma sonic order of Indiana, was shot and probably fatally wounded at noon to day while in his office in the Masonic Temple, this city, in West Washington street. The shooting is a mystery. The story told by Smyth e, who retained consciousness for several minutes after the shooting, is that a blonde woman entered his office and asked to be al lowed to use the telephone. As he was busy he told her he could net be bothered at that time. Without further words, he declares, the woman pulled a revolver . from somewhere about her clothes and. fired at him. He felt the sting of a bullet and after that he did on t; know what happened until after the woman had made her escape. ' ' DELLa fox married IN BALTI- MORE TO A NEW YORK DIA- MOND BROKER.' BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 27. Delia Fox, the comedienne, was married here yesterday to Joseph David Levy of New York. The ceremony was per formed in the private office- of city clerk Livingston in the "1: new court house, by Rev. Way of EmAuel Re formed Episcopal church. Levy " is a diamond "broker well known in New York theatrical circles. This is his second marriage. His first wife was an actress named Helen Les lie. . ; . REQUEST FOR EXTRADITION OF STANDARD OIL MEN REFUSED ' FOR A GOOD CAUSE. k Special Dispatch to the Herald. .... AUSTIN. Texas. Dec. 27 The I re- quest of Governor Sayers from Gover nor Roosevelt for the extradition -of John D. Rockefeller and other mem-' bers of the Standard OH trust for trial on charges of violation of the Texas -anti-trust law was refused on the ground that they were not in Texas when the offense alleged was commit ted. TEXAS CENTRAL RAILWAY - DE CLARES 5 PER CENT DIVI DEND ON PREFERED STOCK. NEW YORK, Dec. 27 The Texas Central railway has declared a dividend of 5 per cent on the preferred stock for the year ending December 31, 1900. LET EVERYBODY COME OUT TO THE FOOTBALL GAME. It Will Be a Glorious Cont for Las Cruces Will Try to Regain the Territory's Lost Laurels. The foot ball boys met last night for practice but were only given a short practice. Tonight they will go to work in earnest for the New Year's ganie which promises to be as pretty a game as theone on Tuesday. The Las Cruces team Is being strengthened and the boys will have to play even harder than they did Tues day if they hope to win and they say that they will never lose a game. Suits have been ordered to replace those that were destroyed in yester day's fire and by next Tuesday every thing will be in readiness for the big game. El Paso will . have to go up against a much heavier team than on Christmas. . ',' A foot ball enthusiast asked the re porter this morning to mention in The . Herald that those going to give dinner parties on New Year's should begin the dinners at one O'clock so that all might attend the game. Many were kept trom Tuesday's game because they were at dinner. The citizens are realizing that El Paso has a great foot ball eleven and they are now more willing to support it and the prospects for a large crowd next Tuesday are very bright. HOW THE VOTE STANDS TO DAY for CARNiVA'tif Queen. Miss Claire Kelly 4002 Miss L. Trumbull 2956 Miss Irma Schutz 2421 Miss Florence Beall 208 Miss Mabel James 87 Miss Gertrude Catlin 72 Miss Helen Brady v. . 57 Miss Grace Allen ... .. 12 Miss Marguerite Ainsa. . .. .. .... 11 Miss Lena Falvey 7 Miss Sexton . . 7 Mrs. Ethel Catlin Peck. Miss Nellie Lyons, Miss Minnie Campbell, Miss M. Haggart. Miss Sarah Green, Miss Maud Stevens, five votes each. .' SPLENDID EXHIBIT Cf Minerals, Especially Me' tallic Ores, By Pr,t. Carrera AT THE CARNIVAL The Collection Is One Of the finest In the Country For J pecial Local ities. Prof. J. C. Carrera, of Las Cruces, ar rived this morning with his collection. of ore specimens which is to be on ex hibition at the chamber of commerce during the carnival. He is hard at work now arranging it in order for ths inspection of visitors to the chamber. He has been weeks packing it ready for shipment and will be probably two weeks getting it ready for exhibition. The exhibit will be in eight doubl.r cases, five feet wide and seven h?h, each containing twenty shelves. Prof. Carrera will have more specimens la the exhibit when it is arranged in the chamber of commerce than it ever had before. He has just received a 1 00 pound box of specimens from Pennsyl vania that were never on exhibition before. In eight or ten days he will receive a collection of the latest tils-. coveries made in the Cripple Creek (lis- . trict. Prof. Patton, of the state, school of mines at oolden, Colo., has ex changed specimens with Prof. Carrera and this has given him a collection of the most interesting gold finds of the telluride family, which has made Crip ple Creek one of the most famous min ing camps in the world. This alone will be a treat to men interested in fine ores. Besides a full and complete display of all the minerals known to exist in the world there is a collection of roeks of the sort in which the richest gold veins of the world are found and which. have given birth to the greatest min--ing camps of the world. "The man who wants a peach goes to the peach tree," said Prof. Canvra,. "the man who wants coal goes to the sedimentary rocks and the man who wants gold goes to the eruptive n;ks It seems that the home of the gold- is in the phonolite and particularly that of gold in the telluride form, hence the importance of studying these rocks in connection with the ore deposits." This exhibit of ore specimens which will soon be open for inspection by cit izens of El Paso ana visitors to the city. has been exhibited in part at many notable fairs, expositions, etc.. and the part of it that Prof. Carrera had at the recent Paris exposition won two medals. The collection was start ed by the professor when a small boy in his home in Milan, Italy, and. he soon afterwards commenced to put it on exhibition. It was an insignificant collection then to 'what may be sen in the chamber of commerce but., it then . created ' a . great interest. Even at the time of the Centennial exposi tion -in Philadelphia., it surpassed' in variety and richness anything , of the kind in the United States, but has since probably doubled in size and value! It now consists of more than five thous and specimens and is valued at more than $10,000. Sometime during his stay the profes sor will deliver a lecture explaining the exhibit, the system of arrangement its history and significance.. The ex hibit will be one of the most interest ing features of the carnival and mining men from all over the country are ex pected to visit it while attending the carnival. A COLD WAVE IS PROPHE SIED FOR TONIGHT The following bulletin was rec-eied by the local weather bureau this af ternoon: WASHINGTON. Dec. 27 Much cold er over north and west Texas tonight, with high northerly winds antf possi bly snow and extending' into south Texas, Friday, without snow. i Moore, Chief of .Bureau.