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BAELY HERALD, EL PA80. TEXAS. TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1901. 4:30 P. M. Price Five Cents Twenty-First Year. EL PA SO HAMETT'S VICTORY Primaries Last Night Resulted in Defeat of Old Gang. The Sight In The Second Ward 'It Was Worth the Smell to Watch the Antics of the Dwyer Boys and the Foreigners. It was a glorious victory. As fore told in The Herald yesterday Hammett won with the utmost ease. In the second it was two nnd a half to one. The vote stood 1090 for Ham mett and 418 for Caples. The Ham mett delegates in the convention will be nearly enough to make it unani mous. Only the first and fourth were corraled by Caples. The silk stocking ward where some of the foremost bus iness men In the city, as well as the railroaders, reside, went strongly for Hammett. Two hundred and eighty-eight votes were cast and 193 of those were for Hammett. This is taken as an indication of the sentiment of repre sentative citisens of the community. The third ward is composed entirely of the thinking element. Caples delegations were elected In the fourth and first, but of course they will cut no ice In the convention, where they will be in. a hopeless min ority. The rebuke administered to Mr. Morefaead was severe. The blame for . the necessity for such a fight as occur red last- night was laid to him and democrats by the score were heard to remark this morning that It were bet ter for a man to always remember that there are others and not get the Idea into his head that he is the whole thine. Most of those who were candidates on the Caples ticket and the majority of his supporters take their defeat philosophically and it is presumed that' the utmost harmony will prevail as soon as the excitement has subsided C. W. Fassett. for city treasurer, died the hardest of all. He made the race of his life, but stood with the wrong crowd and was hopelessly beaten. Still he comes up again and endeavors to win over the Hammett delegates ana was out bright and early this morning hunting for support. It had not at 10 o'clock been decided just what action to take in his case. He evidently wants the place so badly that the man agers and delegates find it hard to turn him down. They are at a loss however to know just why he is so anxious to retain the office. The Moreneaa ngm it will be remembered, centered on him, Speculation is rife this morning as to what will be done by the new politi cal power. There are numerous good offices to be filled and there are any number of aDDlicants for each of them The scramble is likely to be Interesting to the onlookers. There will, it is claimed, be almost a clean sweep of the police force. Of course some men will be retained, but the changes are likely to be radical. Both Charley de Pat and Pat Dwyer were on the losing side. Charley de Pat simnly made a mistake, in going over to Caples that was all. . Second Ward. The money that was spent last night in the second wara wouiu uuiur w auild a first class school house or church. It is roughly estimate tnai r something like $10,000 was put in cir culation. Votes were bought and re- bought and overbid by the factions. The main work ror tiammeu aown there wrnt done by Jim and Sam uwyer, Joe Rogers, the Alderete loyt and Es- Jim Dwyer tooK tne mosi. ac tive part of any of them at the polls. He controlled his wild hordes by mere ly .rirr his hands. His voice couici not be heard above the incessant up roar and It was only by signals that he could Issue his Instructions to me herds of Spanish speaking delegates and In this he had the advantage of Pat Dwyer. Caples's chief executive, for Pat never gained the same control over his forces as Jim. The dihtrict court room last night presented one of the most remarkable sight ever seen In a civilized com munity. More than 1.500 men wearing Mexican sombreros were packed there in and the odor was fearful Men Trorn Juarez. Mexico. Ysleta. and the smelter were there and even sever al of the Mexican bull fighters from Chihuahua voted once or twice. All these people were crowded Into the court room in a surging indiscriminate mat's and when all mere placed it was Impossible for any one person in the crowd to move out r.f his position, so tight was the jam. From the windows high above a few Americans looked down upon the scone. Inside the court room the mob of foreigners was con trolled by perhaps a dozen Americans. The crowd assembled early, but the ward was slow in perfecting Its or ganization. It was Just 7:30 o'clock when Joe Rogers and Jim Dwyer trans ferred 800 non-English speaking sover eigns into the court room and lined them up on both sides. They had scarcely completed their task when with a whoop and a roar a dark body of men four hundred strong headed by Pat Dwyer was seen to emerge from the Red Light dance hall and move rapidly toward the court house. They dashed into the building Hke wild Indians and filled their opponents with some alarm. Jim Magoffin, of the Caples forces, was elected ward chairman and a man named Richie was chosen secretary. The selection of Magoffin made the ward look like Caples buc those who thought so were soon disillusioned. Captain Charles Davis was the Boone Hammett candidate for chairman. As soon as the organization had been completed, which was about 8:30 o' clock, the fun began and was similar to what occurs in the second ward at everv primary where money is expend ed. There was some talk of bloodshed in th second on several occasions during the election last night, but there were no fights of any description, merely threats. Early in the evening the report got abroad that some of the police force had instructions to shoot up the elec tion hall and incidentally to "remove" Boone, but nothing resulted, for if any such scheme was on foot it was nip ped in the bud when it was reported to headquarters. Just before tne polls closer! it look ed like a fight would break up the meeting and scatter the ballots which had been piled in a large box. isotn ing occurred, however, that would tend to mar the serenity of the occasion ex cept bluffing and threats. First Ward. The proceedings of the first ward were short, sharp and to the point. It was easy to perceive that the Caples men were out in force and as soon as the meeting was called to order a vote was taken and the Caples delegation was elected by acclamation. The fol lowing are the names of the delegates elected : D. Storms. H. II. Charman. George Look. J. A. Whitaker. August Meisel John Caldwell. Peter Grandover. Epi- manio Salcido. John L. Taylor. M. R Robinson. Charles Burns. Third Ward. Long before 7:30. the hour for call ing the meeting to order, the city hall waa filled with the voters of the third ward. Promptly at the hour named Chairman Joe Grant called the meeting to order and announced the first order of business was the election of a chair man. R. V. Bowden was nominated by Richard Burges and on motion of Park Pitman be was elected by acclamation. After he had taken his seat Chairman Bowden called for nominations for sec retary. Park Pitman was elected by acclamation: R. A. Allen. Jim Baird. Lee Bridgers and J. L. Dwyer were named as tellers and the machinery be ing in order the voting began. It was not long before it was clearly demon strated that the third would go for Hammett and at 8 o'clock the polls were closed. The secretary announced that the Hammett delegation had been elected by a vote of 193 to 85 for Caples. The names of the "delegates elected are George H. Langton. B. V. Bowden. George Halle. G. F. Pennebaker. Charles Robinson. C. E. Kelley. O. H. Baum. Charles Rokahr. R. C. Lowell. Frank Coles. G. Nugent. Al Mast. Fred Giroux. Richard Burges. Fourth Ward. In the fourth ward Chairman B. S. Catlin called the meeting to order at 7 o'clock. Upon the question of the election of a chairman for the ensuing two years B. S. Catlin was reelected. Frank Boyd was chosen secretary and the polls were opened for voting. Though everything went off in an or derly and quiet manner there was a strong undercurrent' of excitement and for sometime it was a question who would win out. The Caples faction, however, gained strength as the voting proceeded and won by a vote of 131 to 93 for Hammett. The following are the delegates chosen: Dr.- H. E. Steven son. W. J. Rand. Richard Hillert. Carl J. Ennls. Dr. H. Anderson and Nel son n. Smith. Who Will Get the Offices? It is probable that the Hammett forces will make a clean sweep now that they are In power. There are numerous candidates for all the minor city offices but it is said that Rich Burges will receive the nomination for recorder over Charley de Pat and Ben Jenkins is almost sure to be the next city assessor and collector If a demo cratic nomination is worth anything. T. C. Lyons, who belongs to the Boone faction and worked for Hammett will. It is said, be content to stand aside for the benefit of Jenkins and Incidentally ( receive tne omce or city scavenger to succeed Harry Charman. whose days bin. which has been under conidera are numbered. It ton since the second day of the ses- No one has been mentioned for cltv electrician but Mr. McClintock is spok- en of as the successor to City Engineer , Wimberley. who will. It Is said, have to go. J. A. Escajeda is believed to be the man who is trying hardest to succeed Ben Catlin as city clerk and his prospects are said to be good. Several 'lawyers want to succeed Judge Kemp as city attorney, but at present there seems to have been no ' (Continued on Fourth Page.) AGUINALD0 TAKES OATH He Swears to Uphold the Constitution of the United States. M'KINLEY DOUBTS His Sincerity, and the Capt ive Will Be Held Until the News Is Well Known. WASHINGTON. April 2 Glad tid ings has just been received from Ma nila. The war department publishes a dispatch received from MacArthur announcing that Aguinaldo this after noon took the oath of allegiance to the United States. The oath administered is also cabled, and according to it Aguinaldo swears to abide by the constitution of the United States and do all In his power to uphold American supremacy in this country and in the Philippines. The president was perhaps the man most gratified by the news. It is believed that Aguinaldo will he given an important position in the ad ministration of Philippines affairs by AiacArthur or the inited states com- mission. The wholesale surrender of the In - surgents is now predicted. It was decided by the president and the officials of the war department this afternoon that Aguinaldo shall not be given his liberty for some time. It is very evident the administration doubts the rebel leader's sincerity and will keep him in confinement until the news of his capture can reach the most remote points of the entire archipel- ago. ELECTION IN FORT WORTH TODAY DOES NOT CALL OUT VERY MUCH ENTHUSIASM. Special to The Herald. FT. WORTH. Texas. April 2. An election is in progress for chief of po lice and city treasurer. There is no opposition to the present incumbents. l ne vote is light. i light. Serious Trouble in Denver Over the Election DENVER. Col.. April 2. The republicans claim that the democrats are practicing the grossest frauds and stuffing the ballot boxes. Serious trouble is brewing in the down town wards. Early this afternoon Mayor Johnson issued a proclamation calling upon every able bodied man between the ages and see the no more fraud be practiced. The men were also urged to be present at the count, to insure that the men elected are fairly counted In. and ta boxes. The machine gang by a display of fire and arms is intimidating voters, and moving dozens of men from one pollii.g place to another, voting them at each. At two o'clock the mayor gave Brigadier General Irving Hale command ( the men called out to guard the polls. Hale has summoned to his aid fifty veterans of the Philippines. Each one will be placed In charge of the men at every polling place ini in the event that the gang tries to keep voters from exercising suffrage, it is believed Hale will prevent any outbreak. But a spark may cause a tragedy. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX'xx"xx4x4.x5x8 COLORADO ASSEMBLY ADJOURNS AFTER APPROPRIATING WITH OUT PROVIDING MONEY. DENVER. Col.. April 2. The thir- . l en the general assembly adjourned at 3:30 this morning. Corporation Influ- ernes succeeded in killing the reveuue slnn. The bill was nasseri few mln- utcs Iwfore adjournment, but it will never become a law. as the supreme court holds that the legislature has no right to turn back clocks and bills passed after midnight of the last day's session shall not Im enforced. This saddle th expense of an extra session on th state, as the appropria- tlon bill. that passed last evening greatly exceed the amount of money available under tne present nietnou or raising state funds. Doings of the Texas State Legislature. AUSTIN. Texas. April 2 In the sen ate yesterday an act passed by the Ne vada legislature providing for chang ing the method of electing United States senators to a direct vote of the people was read and referred to the committee on federal relations. There is a resolution providing for just such a change now pending in the Texas legislature but it will not be reached at the present session. A bill passed appropriating $12,000 to pay officers and men of the Texas vol unteers for service prior to their mus tering in by the United States govern ment for the Spanish war. A resolution was introduced appro priating $5000 for special counsel to represent the state in the settlement of claims due Texas by the federal government, for school houses built in Greer county prior to the decision that Geer county was part of Oklahoma ter ritory. The house this morning, by refusing to adopt the resolution setting apart the four last days of the session to con sider senate bills has made it impos sible for many of those measures to be taken up and the result is that they will die on the speaker's table. It is very probable that the double header bill will be of the number. The house passed to engrossment the senate bill granting a pension to Mrs. Mary Batcheler. of Washington. D. C. sister of Senator Vest of Missouri. The eight hour law was under de bate. Today's Session. Today in the senate a resolution was introduced providing for adjournment. A committee will be appointed to draft a reapportionment bill. The members will get five dollars a day for the spe cial session. The senate nassed a bill preventing the theft of gas anl electricity from the companies. . Senator Harrin Introduced a bill I amending the constitution to permit an appropriation for the St. Louis fair, The house voted down the resolution to change the date of adjournment to - . May 6. - - Representative Phillips introduced a resolution lauding Aguinaldo: it was amended by Parish, by substituting the name of Funston. A bill allowing Galveston to use all taxes collected for the next fifteen 'years to laise the grade of thcity was taken up. TRACES OF OIL DISCOVERED IN AN ARTESIAN WELL BEING SUNK AT VICTORIA. TEXAS. Suecial to The Herald. VICTORIA. Tex.. Anril 5 Traces of ' oil have been discovered in an artesian i well being sunk here. wll heine sunk here. Today of eighteen and fifty to go to the polls prevent the stealing of the ballot SOLDIERS SENT TO FIND PROS PECTOUS OX Tl HURON ISLAND RETURN. Special to Tln Herald. PHOENIX. Aril.. April 2 Reports ! from Guaymas say that the Mexican troops sent to investigate the alleged killing or five prospectors on Tiburan island have returned to the mainland. They found no trace of the missing men. The island Indians disclaimed all knowledge of the killing. STREET CAR MEN GET MORE MONEY IF THEY HAVE BEEN AT WORK THREE YEARS. NEW YORK. April 2 The wages of employes who have been with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. three years were today advanced 15 per cent. RIOTERS DISPERSED At the Point of the Bay onet in Russia, But Fearful RIOTS CONTINUE And There Are Rumors of a General Revolution With Plots and Assas sinations. BERLIN. April 2 The afternoon pa pers are full of rumors of Russian rev olution. The Zeitung prints a Lemburg dis patch saying that information from Warsaw is to the effect that the Rus sian minister shot at was Councillor Scipiaguir. but the plot to assassinate him failed. The students at Warsaw are uneasy and are preparing a great demonstra tion in sympathy with Russian stu dents. The authorities have closed the in stitution at Poulavy because of the stu dents' riots. A funeral Sunday at Bialystok start ed a wild outbreak and a thousand so cialists paraded the streets singing revolutionary songs. The rioters were dispersed at the point" of the bayonet. MARSHAL SIEBRECHT WILL BE HERE IN THE MORNING WITH ...... ARTHUR HUMPHRIES.- , Special to The Herald. SAN ANTONIO. April 2 Marshal Siebrecht who returned yesterday from Cuba with Arthur Humphries, wanted in El Paso on a charge of re- rpivlnr fimtlircrlcwt ftnttlA laff 171 I Paso with his prisoner this morning. ! L-0110 KITCHENER REPORTS THE uuctrATiON OF A TOWN WITH A FEW BOER GITNS LONDON. Anril 2 Lord Kitrhenor ! reports the British occupation of Ny- lestonm and th runtnro nt thirfo Boers and three guns. There were no ! casualties. ! casualties !a record OF CRIME MUCH WANTED FORGER Caught by the Albuquerque Officers After He Had Succeeded in Eluding Police of Many . Cities. The man who claimed to be a weal thy Californian named Chailes Mad dox and swindled the First National bank of Albuquerque out of $200 after unsuccessfully trying to get a larger i amount and was afterward captured and landed in jail in that city, turns out to he an old offender and it devel ops that the city marshal of Albuquer que made an important capture when he landed him. On March 4th he appeared at the First National hank in Albuquerque and wanted to get a check cashed. It was for a large amount and he claimed that he had that amount and more de posited in a hank in southern Califor- nta. The bankers told him that he would nave to wait until they could inquire of the bank in which he claim-1 ed to have his money deposited whether or not what he claimed was true Why. certainly that was all right. He didn't mind that, but in the meantime he would like to have a little spending money and he would just write out a check for $200 and they surely would cash that. Yes. they would, provided, he would get proper endorsement. Sure he would do that. He went out and in a few moments returned with the check endorsed by Rev. J. H. Marsh, pastor of the Congregational church of Albu querque. He was given the $200. The bankers thought It best to look a little further into the matter and Carnegie May Endow a Model Play House. LONDON. April "2 The Express claims to have positive information that Andrew Carnegie will establish and endow an international theater, probably in New York, and endeavor to elevate the stage. The works of struggling authors will be produced. Carnegie remarks that he would have endowed a theater before now if he had known as much about its manage ment as he does about conducting a library. J. PIERPONT MORGAN DENIES THAT HE CONTEMPLATES PUR CHASING PANAMA CANAL. NEW YORK. April 2 J. Pierpont Morgan denies in toto the statement published in a morning paper today saying that he had organized a syndi cate of American and foreign capital ists to purchase the Panama canal. Ac cording to the paper Morgan proposed to complete the big ditch and run an opposition waterway to the Nicaragua canal. ANOTHER INSURGENT LEADER SURRENDERS WITH OFFICERS AND MEN. MANILA. April 2 General Bates in forms MacArthur today of the sur render at Malabon of General Gonzales, insurgent governor of the province of Manila, with nine officials and forty five men. GOVERNOR ALLEN OF PORTO RICO WILL VOLUNTARILY RESIGN HIS OFFICE SOON. WASHINGTON. April 1 The state department was informed by cable this morning that Chas. H. Allen of Bos ton, governor general of Porto Rico, left San Juan for Washington today. Upon his arrival Allen will volun- tarilly tender his resignation. When appointed he promised the president that he would remain at his post only a year. v. '.. ' Allen ' has done " much . - to. . .advance American interests on the island, and will probably be given his old position as assistant secretary of the navy. Allen's successor is not yet named. NEW YORK. April 2 A kidnaping epidemic has struck' the metropolis. 'Willie McConniek, Jr.. has been roiss- ing since last Wednesday, and all ef i ions to nna mm are witnout avail. I 1 ne Police are now confident that ! he has been taken by a gang of kid- napers and is being held for ransom. AU Quarters of the city are being SCOUred for the missing DOV. The Parents who are fairly well t do. are prostrated. sent word to the Rev. Mr. Marsh that they had cashed a check bearing his endoresement and wanted to know if it was bona fide. He said it was not. ' The city marshal was put on the trail of the forger and he was captured and most of the money recovered. The eity marshal had an idea that he had made an important capture and he wrote to the Pinkerton National Detective agency at Denver to ascertain whether : or not the man was wanted anywhere else. He found that his idea. was not unfounded. J. C. Fraser. superintend ent of the Pinkerton National Detec tive agency, at Denver, sent rlie Albu- -querque marshal the following crimi nal record of his prisoner. 1 On December 1. 1896. he secured from ' Ladd & Bush's bank. Salem. Ore.. $20. using a bogus check for $75. dated No vember 26. 1896. drawn on the Nation-, al bank of Commerce. . of Tacoma. Washington, to the order of Charles Fryer, signed Edward W. Fawcett. to which he forged the endorsement of Rev. W. C Kentner. On -December 7. 1896, he obtained $50 from the bank of Sisun. Sisun. Cal.. on a bogus check drawn on the -r National bank of Portland. Portland. " Ore., to the order of Charles Hinton. signed James Howland. and with the- " forged endorsement of E, N. Sager. on January 3. 1897. he obtained SlOtV from the First National bank of Crip ple Creek. Colo., using a hocus cheek dated January 1. 1897. drawn on the San Miguel National bank ef Las Ve gas. N. M.. to the order " of Charles Williams, signed by S. P. Holland, and bearing forged endorsement -of C. L. Kirk. On or about January 7. 1S97. he ob tained $75 from the San Miguel Na tional bank of Las Vegas, on a bosus check dated December 23. 1S96. drawn on the Orange Growers' Kink of Riv erside. Cal.. payable to Chas. B. Hogg, signed R. A. Habersham, and bearinsr the forged endorsement of A. A. Lav ton. OTi Janimrv 21. 1S97. he was convict- etf'and sentenced to ten years at Som erville. Tenn.. for a forgery p-; petrated against the Fayette County bank of SomervIIle". Tnn. He obtained from them $50 on a check drawn by R. A. Habersham on the Thi,rd National bank or St. Louis. Ma, to which he had forged the endorsement of Rev. P. C. Thogmorton. In January this year he was pardon ed and released and in a short time he showed up at El Paso and going to the First National bank he present ed a certified check for an amount of (Continued on Fifth Page.)