Abilene weekly reflector. [volume], September 18, 1913, Image 12

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AMLsxa uxssza traxcioa. ABILEXK, kaxsas, seitemreii i, 1913.
STRUCK COAL
AT ST. MARYS
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, A JAYIIAWKER IN SOUTHERN EUROPE, 4
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" By W. T. Morgan Jn Hutchinson News.
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Were INgging WH on t
Houghton Farm.
STRIKE 8 FEET FROM GROUND
Thought to Be Continuation of
BurUngame Field Soft Pro
duct and Burn
Freely.
St. Marys, Sept. 16. A. 8; Hough
ton li dreaming of free coal this
winter. And If his fondest hopes are
not smashed he will have some coal
to anil.
While men were digging a well
on his farm south of St. Marys 8at
urday afternoon, a vein of coal near
ly 11 Inches thick was struck. Mr,
Houghton took two bushels of the
tuff to Manhattan and he found
that it burned freely.
Mr. Houghton had visited the
farm Saturday and started back to
Manhattan when word was sent him
that the men digging the well had
truck coal. Mr. Houghton imme
diately, turned back and there was
a layer of black looking stuff. He
did not know that it was coal, how
ever,, until he found that it would
burn. Today he is busy telling his
friends about his good luck.
The vein was struck about" eight
feet from the ground surface and
under a layer of rock about two feet
thick. The coal is soft. and looks
very much like the Burlingame coal.
Some believe that the vein is a con
tinuation of the fields lying near
Burlingame. '
The farm lies six miles south of
St. Marys and three miles north of
Maple Hill.
DAWSON GOES TO WICHITA.
also Turks, Egyptians,
Big Raid Marked Arrival Investi
gate Reported Law Violators.
Wichita, Sept, 16. Attorney Gen
eral John S. Dawson's arrived in
Wichita to investigate the reported
pen violations of the prohibitory
law and the alleged failure of May
or Babb to run Wichita as a "closed"
town, was marked by a sensational
raid conducted by the sheriff.
As Sheriff John Millhaubt was
passing through the north end of
town he "spied" what he believed to
le a Joint. Raiding it, he found a
tar and liquors on ice and in a
showcase behind the bar. William
Iiomax, said to be the owner of the
place, was arrested. Dawson knw
nothing of the raid.
The attorney general visited po
lice headquarters and police court
today. He would not express him
self on the charges that the local
police nave been allowing saloons
to run in Wichita.
REPORT MINE HEAD
KILLED BY BANDITS
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San Francisco, Seiit. 16. Word
of the murder of Morris P. Root,
American superintendent of tha El
Tlgre mines at Tepic, Mex., was
brought here by the steamer Peru,
which ' had nearly 100 refugees
aboard.' The mining ' engineer was
intercepted by a few bandits at l.e
was 'on his way to join employees
of the company who were preparing
to defend the mine property. He
-was disarmed and cut to pieces.
Root was 60 years old and had
1een in Mexico about 16 years. Max
liambert, another American engi
neer who arrived on the Peru, was
left for dead by bandits who at
tacked his home in Tepic. Lambert's
rife and child escaped by crawling
through a rear window and he re
mained to greet the bandits, whose
approach' was -noticed when they
were a mile away. . They fractured
his skull and left him for dead.
"When they departed Mrs. Lambert
returned and secured aid.
OFFER 950 REWARD FOR
MISSING ROSCOE SWIFT
Salina, Sept. 16: A reward of
150 for the first authentic infor
mation to the present whereabouts
or production of Roscoe (Swift 1
offered in notices sent Out broad
cast over the country today by
Sheriff August Anderson. Five hun
dred notices of the reward were
eent to the sheriffs and police offi
cers in different parts of the coun
try and it is hoped that in this way
some trace of the man, who left
Sallna on the evening of Tuesday,
September 2, and has since not been
keard of, may be secured. Swift
was the principal state witness in
the Swan Johnson case. Johnson
was given a first degree sentence.
Motion for new trial was overruled
Testerday. ; , . ..
Steamship Franz Joseph, Aug.
We have been in Algiers for a ball
day and an evening. It did not look
like Africa to me. In the geogra
phy I studied Africa consisted of a
pale cream center called the desert
of 8ahara, with green and yellow
stripes around the edges, Algiers
.. . iu -wA th man
was on tne norm u v.
and that much is correct. But the.
high hills that rose from the coast
as the Fran Joseph approached the
rt. were covered with oeauuiui
green stripes of cultivated gardens
and orchards, dotted with white
v...... !. dark foliaae of forest
trees. The city itself rose from the
harbor front like a semi-circle of
an amphitheatre, tier of houses
above tier, covered at various. points
with churches, mosques and struc
tures which I took to be palaces but
which turned out to be restaurants.
The blue of the Meditteranean was
the foreground of this beautiful land-
scape wnicn sireituw
water's edge to the lighter shade of
blue in the southern sky. The pic
ture was one that artist's brush
would fail In copying or writer's
pencil in describing.
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Algiers is a city of over 100.000
population. It has better looking
buildings fti its, ousiness pistrict
than Kansas City and its apartment
houses are models which New York
could copy. One is hardly prepared
for eight story structures in Africa
but here they are. And down the
street go the camel, the automobile,
the donkey and the trolley car, evi
dence that the orient and the Occi
dent are getting very much mixed.
Algiers was a good town when Col
umbus discovered America. The na-
tlve Africans had been conquered
and assimilated by the Arabs and a
strong Mohammedan state resulted.
Then the foolish Christians drove
the Jews out of Spain and many of
them came to the protection of the
more liberal Ottomans. The Mo
hammedan religion is not much on
progress and its strong teachings in
philosophy do not develop manufac
tures and trade. A little over a
hundred years ago the principal oc
cupation .of the Algerian was piracy.
It was an easy Job, a, good deal like
oDeratln on Wall street. The great
objection was to locate the other fel
low's ship, capture and possess its
contents, and hold the sailors as
slaves for work or ransom. Several
years after our Declaration of In
dependence there were 35,000 Chris
tian slaves held in Algiers at one
time. When the commercial na
tions of the world could stand this
no longer they began a war against
the pirates in which the United
States took an honorable part and
put an end to the great prosperity
of the Algerians and their neigh
bors. It was difficult to get down
to hard work, and Algiers was like
a boom town in the west when the
boom is busted. Fifty-eight years
ago the French took some excuse for
"intervention" and came across from
their own country, a night's sail to
the north. Thus Algiers became
French and the language of Paris,
the ways of Paris, and much of the
habits of , Paris are the superficial
coat on this city and this people to
day. '
It was a beautiful afternoon when
we landed and drove through a lane
of palm trees to the park which
some old sultan planted many years
ago with never a thought of the
profit his descendants would get by
acting as guides for American tour
ists. We had fought our way to the
carriage through a mob of Arabs who
besought us to buy things, from
oriental rugs to embroidered leath
er, hand made brass goods, villan
ous looking knives and delicious
fruit. During the two hours' drive
these descendants of the pirates nev
er left us, and I often got mixed up
in repeating "how beautiful" about
the landscape and "no, no" to the
running salesmen. That part of the
city where the French and other for
eigners have their homes is a dis
trict of beautiful villas, with gar
dens and flowers and trees. That
part where the Arabs reside is a
collection of narrow streets, curious
houses and wonderful smells.
They were all "Arabs" to me, but
that means
Moors. Spanish Jews and natives or
all parts of. northern Africa, snd or
all colors except wnite., me mcu
wore the fes or the turban and as!
a rule were attired In a costume
which was a cross between a bath
robe and a bed spread. They wrap
ped this around them In a rather
decent manner and to my surprise
it stayed on. There was not much
work being done. A store was
about four feet by ten feet and the
proprietor sat on the sidewalk. He
only had one kind of goods and he
evidently did not advertise.
few yards there would be a care
with a few Arabs sitting In the front,
sometimes drinking corree dui us
ually Just thinking. Vegetables ana
fruit, fancy metal ornaments, ordin
ary household goods and tobacco
were the staples in the shops. The
..f itaaif waa almost eight feet
Bll v -
wide and was generally so steep
that it was a series of steps, down
which ran the sewerage, in which
played the children. There were
ladies in our party who criticised
cements but the Arabs
don't mind criticism from such un
believers.
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An Arab woman is dressed in
Droper fashion when she winds a
sheet of eoft white goods around her
self and puts on a veil which covers
her face uo to her eyes. The gown
culminates in some way as a turban
and covers her forehead, so all that
a man can see of that lady Is a
fhoatlikfl figure with two bright
eyes. I was naturally interested be
cpuse the costume was different
from that which is worn at home.
except at an early morning fire. At
first I refrained from curious looks
for fear I might offend the ladies,
But I tried a look at one ana ne
did not seem to mind. I looked at
her and she looked at me. I imag
ined I saw the beginnings of a lady
like Arabian wink. Just to be po
lite I would have winked once my
self but I saw a half dozen male
Arabs observing the situation and I
promptly decided that winking was
not in good form for an American
at anrh a time. So I never will
know whether that Arabess was
winker or a deceiver, but I am alive
and well, which is some satisfaction.
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In the eveninK our party from
the ship wanted to do something ex
citing. We hired a guide and told.
him to show us Algiers by electric
light. He marched us up and down
several streets and Into a .moving
picture show! The first film was one
of those thrilling melodramas of the
American cowboy, the villain, the
sheriff, the fight and the final tri
umph of innocence with matrimony,
That was the best Algiers could do
for us in the way of devllishness, so
we went to the city square and'heard
a good French military band.
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Algiers is becoming quite a, win
ter resort, especially for French and
English. The climate is like that of
the Riviera and the additional charm
of the Arab and the Moor, makes it
more interesting. And then there
are the "bargains." No Arabian mer
chant has a "fixed price." He is
readv to meet his customer half
way. The shopping instinct, wnicn
is strong in some of us, is thus given
a treat opportunity, i saw a v,ai-
cago lady offer $3 for a rug which
the merchant priced at $25. Just
before the boat sailed she got it for
$3.50. A very curious sword was
coveted for a present for some man
at home. The lady and the merchant
put in forty-five minutes and the
weapon goes to a fellow in Boston at
a cost of two dollars, when the orig
inal demand was ten dollars. Bar
gain hunting with women is a good
deal like duck hunting with men.
When the ducks appear in the fall
the duckster cannot resist the call
of the game. When the "bargains"
appear as they do in Algiers, the
bargain hunter refuses to look at
scenery or art, and goes after the
game.
Very few duck hunters ever get
any ducks and very few bargain
hunters get any bargains. The duck
hunter gets rheumatism and the
bargain (hunter gets stu)ck. But
they have had the fun of the hunt
and they will respond to the call
when it comes again.
A WITNESS AGAINST
SULZER DISAPPEARS
New York,. Sept 16. Frederick
L. Colwell of Yonkers. regarded as
a star witness against Governor Sul
zer at his forthcoming trial on im
peachment charges, has disappeared,
according to announcement by the
assembly board of Impeachment
managers.
PASSED RELIEF BILL
TO PROTECT AMERICANS
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Washington, Sept. 16. Without
reference to a committee the senate
today unanimously agreed to the
house joint resolution appropriating
Immediately $100,000 for the relief
and protection of American citizens
from Mexico, - ; C
$Jn3f .aQoii Li(ses
Read The List; It Will Save You Money
We have bought in large quantities and are prepared to maintain the
following low prices which are not any higher than last season, and In
some instances higher:
1 sack Best Granulated Sugar. ... ., 5.25 ..'
18 pounds Best Uranulated Sugar , $1.00
1 sack Crown Patent Flour. .'. , ; . . . 1.25
1 box Lenox Soap, 100 bars..... ......... 3.35
1 box Flake-White Soap, 100 bars. ....... 3.50 '
1 case- Royal W Standard Tomatoes, 24 cans 2.70 .
1 case Royal W Early June Peas, 24 cans . . . S2.G0
1 case Royal W Standard Corn, 24 cans. 2.10 '
1 case Standard Tomatoes, 24 cans 2.20
1 case Standard Corn, 24 cans $1.75
1 case Royal W Sliced Lemon Cling Peaches, 24 cans 4.00
1 case Harvest Lemon Cling Peaches, 24 cans 3.25
1 case Royal W. California Apricots, 24. cans ; 3.25
1 dozen cans Royal W. Tomatoes 1.35 '
1 dozen cans Summer Girl Early June Peas .. . 1.35
1 dozen cans Royal W Early June Pea .. 1.35
1 dozen cans Good Kraut ; . 1.25
1 dozen cans Monogram Corn, high grade 1.35
1 dozen cans Cream Corn. 90
1 dozen cans Good Salmon . r 1.25 :
1 dozen cans' Lee Summer Girl Salmon 2.00
1 dozen cans Good Hominy . . . i 90
1 dozen cans Van Camp's Pork and Beans SI. 00
1 dozen cans Lee Summer Girl Sliced Pineapples 2.25
1 gallon can Royal W California Apricots 50 .
1 gallon can Royal W California Peaches ; . . 5o
1 gallon can Fine Blackberries . f 55
1 gallon can Apples '. 35
, 2 cans Royal W .Tomatoes. 25
2 cans Royal W Peas 2Sj
2 cans Summer Girl Early June Peas 25
2 cans Royal W "Wax Beans.. 25
2 cans Monogram Corn 25
3 cans Good Cream Corn .' 25
2 cans Good Kraut . . 25
3 cans Pork and Beans. ..; 25
3 cans Good Hominy 25
1 can Mistletoe or Summer Girl Tomatoes 15
1 can Lee Fancy Corn. 15
Fancy High Grade Sifted Peas 15 and 20
1 can California Peaches J 15 and 20
1 can California Apricots 15 and 20
Full line of Campbell's Soups, per can. ......... ; 10j
We carry a full line of Heinz 's High Grade Table Delicacies.
BIG SNAP. 30 dozen cans New York State Red , Pitted Cherries at 1.65 per
dozen or 15 per can, while they last. . -
1 can Circle Brand Asparagus ..' ................ 15 "
1 can Asparagus Tips, very fine 25
1 16-oz. jar Cocoa .... ".... . i 35s
1 pound Chocolate. . . . . . . . ....... . ... .. 45
Lowney's Cocoa, per can. . ...... . . . 15 and 25
1 jar Prepared Mustard .................. 10, 15 and 20
1 -jar Beach-Nut Sliced Bacon, extra fancy 30
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1 iar seacn-INut unea ueei, extra iancy
1
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jar xJeacn-iNUt reanui ouiwr , .xuf? auu ovp
cans Oil Sardines
can Mustard Sardines . . . ........ . . . 10
can line imported ssarames x-fr, iu, auu
can Jjuncn Tongue. avf7
can Lobster. .". . . . ... ..' 30c
can Clam Chowder 10
L can Clams. 15
1 quart jar Large Queen Olives 40 v
1 bottle Monarch or Heinz Catsup 15 and 25
1 bottle Marchino Cherries. .25 and 50
6 bars Lenox Soap 25
6 bars White Soap 25
3 bars Sayman's Toilet Soap. (. 250
3 cakes Wild Rose Soap; 25
1 bar Glycerine Toilet Soap , , 5
6 packages Borax Washing. Powder. 25
3 cans Lewis Lye. . . 25
4 pounds Navy Beans ......... 25
3 pounds' best Rice. ,. 25
2 packages Grape Nuts.-r 25
2 packages Post Toasties, large size . . 25
1 package Washington Crisp. , 10c)
1 package Puffed Wheat. IO4
. 2 packages Shredded Wheat Biscuit. 25
1 large Jar Arrorted Preserves. , ... . 25
1 gallon Fancy Table Syrup. 45
5 gallons Gasoline. w ; 90s)
5 gallons Coal Oil........... 55J
1 gallon pure Cider Vinegar 30?
1 pound Pure Pepper 25.
1 pound Horse Shoe Tobacco ,. 45
3 pounds Fine Dried Peaches, big bargain 25t
1 Seeded Raisins. .... ..... 10
1 Clean Currants. 10f
3 packages Jello. ................. .. , 25e
1 box Soda Crackers, about pounds eacn, per pouno , c
25
25
25t
5
25
3 packages Macaroni...
3 packages Vermicelli. . H,
3 packages Spaghetti.
1 Palace Gloss Starch...,
1 nanfeflsrea Gelatine
1 Good Broom...... ....35 45, 50
1 can Crisco. 25c4 and 50
1 can Cottolene. 30 and G0
1 pound Japan Tea 25
Our celebrated line of Coffee is winning friends daily, the various grades have right
flavor and taste, try them. Prices 20t, 25, 23c, 30c 32c 33c 35, 40c
. I3py . CloocLg-
We are now getting in our new FALL AND WINTER DRY GOODS. Big line
of very attractive patterns and styles, m arked at low prices that will interest you.
Come in and look our new goods over and you will be pleased as well as save money.
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