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EL PASO, TEXAS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11,1896.
VOL. XT, NO. 220
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IOSMUA S. !(AY.N'.'LUS, I'llKSIUEXT; M.
VLYssra s. s thwart, cashier: jos. p.
THE
W. FLOURSOY, VICE PRESIDENT
WILLIAMS, ASST. CASHIER.
mm NATIONAL BANK
El Paso, Texas,
Capital and Surplus
$125,000
H. L. NEWMAN, Banker,
H. L. NEWMAN, Jr. Ass't Cashier.
Tex
Business Transacted.
A
W. H. AUSTIN, Cashier.
jEI Lao,
A General Banking
Morican
Bullion Bought.
Money and Exchange Bought and Sold.
SAFKTV DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RUNT.
Gold and Silver
C R. MOREHEAD, President.
JOSEPH MAGOFFIN, Vice Pres.
J. H
J. C. LACKLAND, Cashier
RUSSELL, Ass't Cashier.
State National Bank,
Established April, 1881.
its branches. Exchange
Highest prices paid for
A legitimate banking business transacted in all
d all the cities of the United States bought at par.
Mexican Dollars.
THERE ISN'T ANY GUESS
WORK
About our shoes, they are made "upon honor," by manu
facturers whose reputations are not for sale. We've got
taith enough in these shoes to stamp our name on every
pair, and we are selling them at half usual profits.
PEW & SOZTST, Shoe Dealers.
1 Boast
Wiicb We Rightftally Make
i
Nothing but the best MENS' WE Ail
is to be found on our shelves and
counters. We will not deal in
SHODDY GOODS.
WE HAVE ISO USE FOB THEM.
From Now Until the New
Year Vvre will Give Great Re
ductions in all Lines. Come
and See for Yourselves.
Golden
mm
Iouso
Mall orders receive prompt attention.
MCNOY BLOCK
IS2.50I N E W S2.50
Having adopted a new system of guaranteeing- and insuring
watch repairs from this date, it will cost you only two dollars and a
half to keep your watch in Perfect Order For
( -f ( YGa,!' No matter how badly broken it is or what acci
dent may happen within the year, I KEEP IT IN ORDER.
"You. P'a.y Onoe a,nd USTo More
If the watch is worth repairing."
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Fac-Simile of my guarantee given with each watch repaired.
This does not include case repairs; I also except Howard and fine
Swiss watches from ths above price, but I make the charge proportion
ately as low. Don't Pay from. T-wo -to
Twenty ZDolla-rS EL TEAR to keep your
watch running- when for two fifty you get an absolute guarantee by
J. H RICHARDS,
"Wa.tolies fe Dietxiioncls,
PASO - TBXASIV--
DE. KING, SPECIALIST,
nrClPJTO rrpi:ilentli:il Itln.-k. ilTp Stairs) Corner
VJ I I I Vj CO , El 1'uso anil -an t'runclsc j -streets
CONSULTATION AND
5ss FE EE.
PATADDU Tnvited tiv ti I Ml. A
L-A I An n n cuKi:r i-ii:wat, n
UTERINE DISEASES
UNXATL'It I. IMS II AKiJK and
BLOOD POISON
suoh as Sora riir-vtt, 1"
RECTAL DISEASES, PILES
EXAMINATION
of the
irallou.
iTIdN I'liOCfSS. Thi latest methods for the
NX111AI. ami KI NG ' KOI'ULES.
NKHV jKS I'i't'ST K.T ION, Kalllntf
Wo.nb, H.ces'-ive Meiisiurutioti, l"lc
K and mart v ! tier I roaMf-s r.ci'ii Hii' to worf n.
I'll-'AUV, -ICONKAKV or 'I'KUTIAin positively
CI ' KKH w it hour t lnr uc f niercu ry ; ml com jil leal Ion
;rs .re uoni'i. r in s, 1'ain pi i lit Joints reaiuly uis i4ppe j,r ua
ut'rrnaiient Jl'KK Is l tl a fa nr im1 In cai'li 'ase.
il -i. ts 1'rol l- lirii; li I eeo l n z. Internal Kxter
nal hii It. :!it:i4 positively JUKK1 without the
lanj rous reme.lies and H'K l without u- y detention from busl-
n o? t n IS v.vels utslt lvefv d iti' l
DDI1ATC niOCQCC Nervo is Ih-hi lty. LOST M v 1 It KM . in you nK and middle
rn Vn L U OLnOLO i men ''tic aud p-rfeet M N 'iool restor-t. U,V
kati-k I. 1)1 JJH A liO.'OKUUoEV. t.LKT, SIK CTL'KK 1'ositively CLUED
ADITP '',or Symptom illankii. Satisfactory rusu.ts Guarunteeil th.rou.ali wy perfect
use of he knife
irs. Fistula U
ill,
.ti
system ol correeuadtiace
Looks all right and is all
right to look at, but when
you taste it you wish you
had kept it simply as an
ornament. We have a
fresh lot of
JIICE - HEAVY ORANGES
Fresh from the sunny
clime of Mexico where
sweet things grow. The
sight of them will make
your mouth water. We
also have a full line of
seasonable fruits
FRESH, CANNED AND EYAORATED
We can't reccomend our
York State Pure Cider
too highly. Write your
orders or come in person
and you will get the best
attention and first-class
J: groceries at
J. B. Watson's
J The Grocer, Phone 161, J
Cor. San Antonio and Stanton Streets
T EL, F-A-SO, 1 EXAS. j?
s- -fr-fr-fr -3- -:- -fr-i-i-fr ... . j..
fjoliday presents.
Not "mow Cheap."' but "How Appro
priate," and being so appropriate,
not so very dear.
READ Till? LIST FROM TOP TO BOTTOM !
f BE LTS,
Mexican CHATELAINES,
L;arvea l in UAKU CAtS.
Leather I "OCKE' BOOKS.
ETC., E.TC.
AMONG THE CIIUIiCIIES.
GOOD CROWDS AND POINTED
MONS.
'J'lie Prosbytorian was Crowded to Over
flowing at Hot b. Services. ASynop
is of tUe Sermon.
Washburn and cheaper Grades of
Mandolins and Guitars.
MEXICAN DRAWN WORK.
Standard and Domestic Sewine Ma
chines.
Mexican Opals, Onyx and Zarapes.
COXUBIA AND CRESCENT BICYCLES.
ndian Baskets and Navajo Blankets.
Fastman Kodaks and Films.
Mexican Art in Silver and Gold.
A. B Chase and J. and C. Fischer and
Sterling Pianos.
11ED THIS LIST FROM BOTTON TO TOP !
IV.. G. m COMPANY
Music Store, Bicycle and Sewing Ma
chine Depot.
THE INS AND OUTS.
Going and Coming of Kl Paso People
ana utners
Adam Dieter, of Tularosa, is in town
on business.
Mrs. C. H. Armijo and Mrs. Sterns,
of Denver, are visiting in this city.
II. C. Dinkins, the City of Mexico
aarent of the Santa Fe. is in town
today.
C. D. Lane, congressman from Cali
fornia, passed through yesterday en
route west.
C. K. Eddy of Sag-inaw, Mich., who
spent, some months in this city last
winter, is at the Pierson.
Mrs. J. E. Barney left this afternoon
for Los Aneeles Camp, Calaveras
county, to be absent for a few weeks.
Georsre J. Tansy, brother of the late
L5. M. Tansy, will be in town tomorrow
over the L. oc f ., to eettle un his broth
er's estate.
Train Dispatcher Walker left this
afternoon for San Antonio where he
will be stationed in the local G. H.
dispatcher's office.
H. B. Barnhart, Esq , arrived yester
day from Austin, coming here to try
some cases set for today in the district
court. He will return home to cele
brate the holidays.
Banker Agnew and party are up from
Corralitos, where they went with
Lieut. Davis. Thev not only looked
ver the plant down there, but went
hunting- and en ioved themselves. Thev
are pleased with the outlook for the
Corralitos road.
Deleg-ate W. II. Chilson, of Clay
county, to the irrigation congress, was
at the Pierson today, en route to Phoe
nix, lie is going to work for El Paso;
and says a $000,000 dam, which will
irrigate an immense tract of land, is to
be built in his country.
Singers, public speakers, actors,
auctioneers, teachers, preachers, and
all who are liable to over-tax and ir
ritate the vocal organs, find, in Ayer'i
Cherry Pectoral, a safe, certain, and
speedy relief. A timely dose of this
preparation has prevented many a
throat trouble.
Ladies' and gent's sterling silver
backed combs $1 .00 each.
Geo. W. Hickox & IIixsox,
Cronson block. "The Jewelers. "
Now is the time to purchase a fine
trunk or valise cheap at the closing out
sale near the oostotliee.
gko. Parker, Agent.
221 lbs. sugar $1.00 cash. 2 lbs.
sugar $1.00 with purchase of $ I 00 other
groceries. Pearee, 201 Stanton St.
Telephone 200 for window glass,
per hanging, signs, etc.
EL PASO STEAM LAUNDRY,
Telephone 47.
pa-
Presiding Elder Edington preached
in Trinity both morning and evening
yesterday, owing to tae pastor's atten
tion having been occupied during the
week with sickress at home. The
morning discourse wr,s from the text.
For what the law could not do, in that
it was weak through the flesh, God
sending bis own son in the likeness of
sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin
in the llesh." liomans VIIIUJ. The
speaker said in part: Paul set out to
show bow impossible it was ofourselvts
for us to live up to trie demands of the
law, and gave illustrations in previous
letters of the force and effect of the
law. This law brings under condem
nation, because we all have sinned, but
Christ relieves ua from this condemna
tion. Secondly, he gives us power not
to sin further, enabling us to get the
mastery over our temptations. The
offices of the law are to protect the
obedient and the condemn sin. It is to
protect the righteous and spare the
ust. But the law cannot protect the
righteous and the sinner too because
the law demands punishment for sin.
We cannot depend on the law for sal
vation from sin, because after tinning
the law is our enemy and will accuse us
at the judgment seat of 'God. At that
tribunal justice will be meted out;
money will not prevail there. As long
as we live in accordance with the will
of God we will be free from the law;
only it becomes our enemy when we
disobey God. No matter how much
good a man does, where we sin we
throw all the good we may have down
done away. A striking illustration of
this truth is the end of the career of
Ferdinand de Lesseps who after a life
of honorable work in the scientific
world, became involved in a scandal in
connection with the Panama canal that
blotted and blurred over all the good
he had done.
The good deeds we may do, count
for naught against the evil we may be
guilty of in this life; you can not put
the one off against the other in the
judgment day Our sins unfit us for
heavenly associations, according to the
law; but Christ sitisfied the law for
us where we accept Christ whose blood
has atoned for our sin the moment we
accept salvation through his name.
There is no other name given under
heaven among men whereby wo must
be saved. No man can stand on bis
own merits: it is the merit of the
Satrior on which we must stand, and if
we get to heaven it will be because of
what Christ has done for us. and not
on account of what we ourselves may
have done.
At the close of the services, the
sacrament of the Lord's supper was
administered to a large number of com
municants. AT THE PRESHYTERIA.V CHURCH.
Rev. H. W. Moore preached again
yesterday to packed houses; and in the
evening, not only was the lower part of
the house filled, but the gallery also.
In the morning Mr. Moore preached to
children: in the evening he preached
on Christian Endeavor, the sermon
being descriptive of the wonderful
growth of the Y. P. S. C. E , in the
United States and the world. The
preacher spoke with a force and a
power that held his hearers clear
through and left good seed sown in
good ground. An encouraging sight
was the number of young foike present,
and the interest they showed in what
was said. The preacher said in part:
Young men have always ruled the
world, they always will, and they al
ways ought to. The young man has his
reputation to make: the old man has
his already made. 'Charlemagne was
in his twenties when he had Germany
under his sway. Charles XII was only
twenty-five when he was the
greatest man of his time. Raphael
was but 14 when he started on his
great career as an artist, and died at
37 with his reputation made. Napoieon
at the age of twenty-seven was one of
the greatest tacticians of his age.
Byron and Burns both made their re
putations before they were forty.
Gladstone was in parliament at the age
of twenty two. Peel was in parliament
at twenty one. Henry Clay was in the
United States senate at twenty nine.
Alexander Hamilton at twenty-five was
one of the greatest lights of the scien
tific age. At twenty, Bacon was a noted
man. Yes, young men have always
ruled the world, and they always will.
The same is true of young women;
and the speaker cited the cases of such
well known and talented women as
Miss Alcott, Florence Nightingale,
Itosa Boniieur who painted a picture of
a horse that sold for $10,000, and the
first Mrs. Judson who had won im
mortal renown at the age of twenty
one. The greatest discoveries of this
end of the century are the discoveries
of the young man and the young
woman. And the most noted work
that the young man and the young
woman have have accomplished, has
been in the line of Christian Endeavor.
There never was such an organization
in this world as the Young Peoples So
ciety of Christian Endeavor: and the
work it is doing can not be overestimat
ed in importance. Mr. Moore then
gave an extended description of his ex
periences at the Cleveland convention of
the Y. P. S. C. E. of two years years
ago. He told how Major McKioley who
addressed one tent full of thirteen thou
sand delegates, declared with emphasis
that Eothing but the cause of Jesus
Christ and t he cause of man could have
brought such a multitude together. It
had been thought that because of
the Debs' strike the de'egation would
not be large. But there were present
from the btatus outside of Ohio Hl.OOO
delegates, ar.d 21, W0 present from the
Buckeye state, with two millions at
home who could not attend. There
were thousands in this tent, thousands
in that tent, and thousands gathered
somewhere else: until the entire city
was taken for Christ. There were de
legates from Alaska, from Japan, yes
from Jerusalem even And with all
this vast throng of strangers, the
police testified that they had never be
fore seeu the city so orderly. Mr.
Moore declared he never knew what
enthusiasm was before. The Y. 1. S.
C. E believe in loyalty to one's de
nomination, but with liberality to
wards all. They believe in the gospel
Of Jesus Christ they believe that our
politics should be cleared; .!so, that a
man has no more religion than he
professes; that we should injure no
mas.) but ua tae contrary tarcrw around
him the mantle of protection and raise
the fallen. The Christian Endeavor
believes in enthusiasm for the man
who fights without it fights single
handed. The Endeavor has not merely
zeal, it baa knowledge with it. The
glorious singing at the convention had
deeply impressed Mr. Moore, it was
such a vast volumne of glorious
melody with extended instrumental ac
companiment. The Y. P. S. C. E. is being pushed
and organized more than ever. It is
being inaugurated among the New
York police force, it is being planted
in fact all over the state. It is be'ng
pushed in China, and all over the
world. The society is taking a hand
in the purification of American politics
that the disgraces that nave blurred
the fair name of our country in the
past mav be wiped away. With that
end in view a Christian citizenship is
being organized that promises the best
results. In Indiana it is fighting the
horse racing interests that are violat
ing the laws of the state. Elsewhere
it is fighting the saloon interests that
are working against law and order.
In fact much also is being accomplished
looking towards the purity of the bal
lot, and electing Christian men to
office. This society of Christian en
deavor is not conducted by children.
On the contrary the most noted men
are at the helm. One of the speakers
at the Cleveland convention was
Chauncey M. Depew who declared that
religion had taken a hold on the world
that could not be shaken off. With
the Epworth Leagues, Baptist Young
People's Unions, Brotherhoods of St.
Andrew, and such organizations, the
entire Christian force of young people
at work for the cause of Christ amount
ed to nearly four millions. God is
training today his guns on the ram
parts of evil and iniquity, and right
eousness is driving evil against the
wall; and the reason that we hear so
much about wrong these days is be
cause the powers of darkness are being
driven into a tight corner and are
being made to squeal. Mr. Moore
closed with an eloquent descriptive of
the marching of the countless thousands
of young people under the banner of
the cross to certain victory, as they
shout Hallelujah! Hallelujah! for. the
Lord God omnipotent reigneth! Let
the ages tell for God!
The singing was excellent as usual.
George Parker is now with the choir
as tenor.
y. M. c. A.
J. B. Walker delivered the following
address last evening before the Y. M.
C. A. His topic was God's Building.
Mr. Walker spoke from Eph. 11:19-22:
'Now therefore ye are no more strang
ers and foreigners, but fellow citizens
with the saints, aud of the household of
God. And we built upon the
foundations of the apostles and proph
ets, Jesus Christ himself being the
chief corner stone. In whom
all the buildings, fitly framed together,
groweth unto a holy temple in the
Lord. in whom ye are also
builded together for a habitation of
God, through the spirit."
To understand more fully what was
in the mind of the Apostle Paul, we
must not omit the comparison of what
we were by nature (latter part of 3rd
verse), "And were by nature the chil
dren of wrath, even as others," with
what we are by grace (verses 7-9),
"That in the ages to come he might
show the exceeding riches of his grave,
in his kindness toward us through Christ
Jesus. For by grace are ye
saved through faith, and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God.
Not of works lest any man should
boast."
If we then are encouraged to aspire
to eternal life, being accepted by grace,
through faitb, we are no longer strang
ers, but fellow citizens with the saints.
Not only with the saints now on earth,
but all who have gone before, and with
all who shall come after us, for in spir
itual life a thousand years are as
yesterday, and we must regard the
natural span of human existence on
earth as like a bubble or air bell upon
the vast ocean of eternity.
Did you ever experience the loneli
ness of being a stranger in one of our
large American cities, or the still more
desolate feeling of being a foreigner in
a strange country, unable to speak the
language of the hundreds, it may be,
who pass you on the highway?
If so, you will more rapidly appre
ciate the friendly sentiment of St. Paul
when he wrote: "Now therefore ye
are no more strangers and foreigners."
The idea of building and especially
the familiar idea of building a house,
is frequently used in scripture to illus
trate objectively some important spir
itual truth, as in 11 Cor. V:l, "For we
know that if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved we have a
building of God, a house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens."
Paul's idea of building a habitation
of God, through the spirit, has at least
two points in common with habitations
built by man, namely, the foundation
and the corner stone. We all remem
ber the parable (and the consequences)
of the two men who built the one upon
the sand, and the other upon a rock.
It is not always that a natural rock
stratum is in the location selected for
building, therefore the builder imitates
nature, by first building a rock founda
tion deep and wide in proportion to the
weight and importance of the proposed
structure. So Paul, in describing the
spiritual building, gives primary at
tention to the foundation, which he
declares to be the apostles and the
prophets. The prophets looking for
ward and the apostles looking back
ward to Jesus Christ as the chief comer
stone of the foundation "for a habita
tion of God, through the spirit."
It has long been a custom in import
ant buildings to deposit in the corner
stone, legendary documents setting
forth the time and purpose of the
building and other contemporary in
formation, as witnesses to future
generations of tho motives of the
builders. So in Christ as the chief
corner stone have we the legendary
documeuts as recorded in the four
gospels, and other contemporary in
formation, as witnesses to this and
suceseding generations of the motives
of tho builders.
The legeud of the mission of Christ
holds those who have been accepted,
through faith, as members lilted and
framed together "unto a holy temple
in the Lord." This idea of a temple is
further emphasized in 1 Cor. 'A 16
"Know ye not that ye are the temple
of God. aud that the spirit of God
dwelleth in yon?" and again in 1 Cor.
0. lit. "What! know ye not that your
bo ly is the temple of the Holy Ghost,
which is in you, which ye have of God,
and ye are not your own?"
In conclusion, it may bo said that the
saddest thought, in spiritual life, is
tbe feet tat toe catyrai caaaot ua-
derstand the spirit of truth. In St. John
14.17, it is written "Even the spirit of
truth whom the world cannot receive,
because it Sc-eth him not, neither
knoweth him; but ye know him: for he
dwelleth with you." Again in 1 Cor.
2 14, "But the natural man receiveth
not the things of the spirit of God; for
they are spiritually discerned," and in
Horn. 8 11, "But the spirit of him that
raised uo Jesus from the dead dwells
in you, he that raised up Christ from
the dead shall also quicken your
mortal bodies by his spirit that dwel
leth in you." Aud finally wo have in
verses .'IS and .'!!) the solid thoughtful
faith of I'aul himself when he wrote:
"For I am persuaded that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor prin
cipalities, nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come, nor height,
nor depth, nor any other creature, shall
be able to separate us from the love of
God. which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord."
THE CITY SOLOXS.
THEY MET SATURDAY M(iHT
Kl'SIXESS.
FOR
The Tax Suit Committee Report lint no
Action was Taken, Owing to
Disagreement.
The city council met last Saturday
night pursuant to adjournment, to dis
cuss delinquent taxes, -principally.
Mr. Stewart for the finance committee
set to rights the 0"Brien Coal company
matter by explaining that it was the
fault of the city scales which had ben
partly disabled by a rock being caught
between the frame and the platform.
Mr. Stewart was authorized to
publicly explain the matter over
the signature of the finance committee.
Judge Coldwell of the ordinance
committee then presented the follow
ing report on the ways and means of
collecting back taxes, allhough the
plan was not endorsed by the other
members of the committee:
To the Hon. Mayer and city council
of the city of El Pa.o:
"Your committee specially consti
tuted and directed to ascertain and re
port as to the best methods of collect
ing the back taxes aue the city beg
leave to report.
First, That since 1379 limitation does
not run against the city so far as taxes
due it is concerned: there is therefore.
no necessity of any radical and hurried
action that might involve the usual
consequences of precipitancy.
Second, That the decision of the
district court in the case of the city of
El Psso vs. J. P. Dieter does not go to
theextentof asserting that the city
has no remedy to collect taxes by writ,
but merely affirms that the suits for
taxes heretofore brought are not in
proper form.
Third We are of the opinion that
the city attorney should at once file
such amendments in one or more of
tbe pending suits as will properly
present all of the questions involved
and forthwith press the same to trial.
However decided, these cases will
probably be appealed to the superior
courts and when a decision is had on
the appeal, if it is in the city's favor
the taxpayers will to a great extent at
once discharge their obligations to ths
city, and in any cent it will furnish
light for our guidance. Associate
counsel should be employed to assist
in these test cases. It is believed that
the expense of such counsel will not
exceed two hundred and fifty dollars.
The majority of the committee not
agreeing to the above, I submit the
same as a minority report.
The report, after discussion, was laid
over for further consideration on next
Thursday night.
Judge Coldwell then offered this
report relative to the ordinance for the
1897 tax levy :
1st. That when the city water works
bonds were authorized in 1893, then
the city council enacted an ordinance
directing the levy and collection of a
specific sum to provide a sinking fund
and pay interest thereon and to raise
that sum directed that an annual tar of
fifty cents on tbe hundred dollars or so
much thereof as might be necessary be
levied and collected.
2nd. That by the charter the city can
only levy taxes to the amount of two
dollars on the hundred.
3rd. That by the proposed ordinance
taxes to the amount of one dollar and
seventy seven cents on the hundred dol
lars are to be levied.
4th. That the proposed ordinance
does not include any levy to provide
for the interest and sinking fund of the
city water works bonds.
oth. That the levy to raise the above
mentioned sinking fund and interest
should amount to about thirty-five cts.
on the hundred dollars which added to
the one dollar and seventy-seven cents
proposed to be levied would amount to
two dollars and twelve cents on the
hundred dollars.
6th. It would thus appear that if
the levy of 1893 above spoken of is a
solid and subsisting levy, as to which
no opinion is expressed, the city has
exceeded its charter power of taxation
and thereby imperilled the entire levy
for lSVUi.
th. It is very dojbtful if a city
without ths express permission of the
logisla'ure can buy its own bonds. The
artesian well bonds have in effect been
attempted to be soid to thb city. If it
is illegal to tax the citizen to provide
interest on and a sinking fund for said
bonds until sold to a person authorized
to purchase it would appear that the
proposed levy of live cents ou the
hundred dollars for that purpose is
invalid.
8th. Some objections can be raised
to the proposed ordinance so far as it
relates to occupation taxes but it is
suggested by the city attorney that
equal, perhaps, greater ones would pro
bably be met with it urawn up in a dif
ferent form. Your committee therefore
does not feel warrant, d in advising any
change in that rop.-et.
9th. It appears to your committee
that the only way to put the validity of
the proposed levy beyond all doubt is
either to repeal the ordinance author
izing the issuance of tlia water works
bonds or to reduce the municipal
expenditure and to prune down the
taxes to tho scale of the expenditure.
Any attempt to reduce taxation with
out a corresponding decrease of ex
penses would be but a mockery and
would entail greatly increased burd
en on the tax payors which would
have to be met during the succeeding
years
The water bonds levy was the matter
which appeared to engross: the attention
of the council most, sind as no final
ending was reached, it was continued
Poor Farm 31 afters.
Poor Farm Supt. J. K. Carr writes
County Judge Harper from Socorro as
follows: "Enclosed you will find a re
port for eleven months which may be
of service at next Monday's meeting of
the commissioners' court. I have
thought over a proper way to run tbe
poor farm economically and I will
make this proposition: "The county to
furnish the houe furnished as it is, and
I will buy all the supplies on hand
January 1 at cost price. I will feed
the inmates on the same substantial
food for $10 cash per mouth per capita.
I make this suggestion that you may
think the matter over."
Accompanying the above, is a list of
inmates,number ing thirty four.of whom
thirteen are Mexicans. The total
number of days spent by these paupers
in the poor house was 3079, tho daily
average being eleven.
There is also a memorandum of the
supplies consumed by the indi
gents as follows: 2,200 pounds flour at
$2.75. $60.50: l.OfiS DOiinds ha. -on at 17
cents, $181 56; 3.056 pounds beef at 9
cents, $275.04; 742 pounds sugar at 8
cents, $59.32: 130 pounds coffee at 39
cents, $00.70: 2,570 pounds spuds at 3
cents, $77.10; 319 pounds beano at 4
cents, $13.50: 248 pounds oatmeal at 10
cents, $24.80; 202 pounds lard at, 11
cents, $28.82: 70 pounds rice at .8 1-4
cents, $5 77: 347 pounds corn meal at
2i cents, $8.87; 494 pounds onion at 3J
cents, $17.29: 5 pounds tea at 40 cents.
$2; 115 pounds salt at 3 cents, $3 45: 300
pounds soap $22 o0: 13 pounds bak
ing powder at 50 cents, $6 50: 3i pounds
black pepper at 40 cents, 81 40; 9
pounds mustard, at 30 cents. $2 70; 2
nminds Knda n t 20 cpnta. 40 100 nnnn rt u
! dried apples at 14 cent?. $14 00: 45
cords wood at $4.00, SISC.O): 270 dozen
clothes washed at 35 cents dozen, 894.
50: superintendent's salary for four
months at $40, $160.00; salary for seven
months at $50 per month, $350. Total
amount, $1,650 59, or reduced to cash
at 65 cents. $1072.88.
until next Thursday
night- Adjouro-
Secretary Heath.
Perry S. Heatb, who is probably to
be secretary to President McKinley,
was in town for a short time Saturday
evening, en route to Canton, Ohio,
from the City of Mexico, suddenly
called by the president-f-lect. Ho said
to a reporter here that during the cam
paign 300,000,000 documents were sent
out from the bureau of which he was in
charge; and in addition to that, plate
matter was sent out to 3200 newspapers
having a circulation of'3,000,000 copies
weekly. Eighty eight car loads of
documents were shipped from the Chi
cago headquarters alone, and forty car
loans irom the JNew lork headquarters.
The shipping department under Mr.
Heath included 250 persons. Mr.
Heath thought that the matter supplied
to the newspapers had been more ef
fective than the other reading matter.
The literature for distribution was sent
to the state committees, and by them
distributed to the county committees.
Mr Heath besides being an old
friend of the president-elect, was for
years a Washington newspaper man.
Darkest Russia.
A romantic drama dealing with life
and scenes amid the splendors and
nobility of St. Petersburg and the snow
covered wastes of Siberia will be seen
at the opera house, Thursday and
Friday Dec. 17 and IS. with the sug
gestive title of "Darkest Russia." The
name conveys very little to the imagi
nation of the theatre goer of tbe
splendor of the production, the merit
of the play or the picturesque beauty
of the scenery. The theme of Russia's
wrongs has been exploited before the
public before, but in such a way as to
convey a wrong impression of what life
in Kr.sna really is. In "Darkest Rus
sia" the miner is held up to nature in
such a manner asto reflect accurately
and without exaggeration the various
phases of life seem in the vast Empire
of the Czar. The noble in his palace,
the minister of police in his office, the
Nihilist in his secret renderous and the
oxile in his Siberian home have each a
a photograph in this great play. The
characters are all taken from real life,
the places represented are exact re
productions of national localities in
Russia that have a historical value from
being visited and inhabited by three
generations of the imperial family.
a special leature or the production
will be the scenic environment. Every
scene used to illustrate the play is car
ried complete and are gems of the
scenic painters' art, all the costumes,
brie a brae and necessary adjustments
are reproductions made from correct
designs by Baron de Grimm, and pre
sented in a perfect manner.
A genuine ghost story has yet to be
attested; but not so a genuine blood
purifier. Over and over again it has
been proved that Ayer's Sarsaparilla
stands alone among medicines as
the most reliable tonic alterative in
ph armacy. It stood alone at the World's
Fair.
Fresh Kansas eggs 25c per dozen.
Best creamery butter 25c per lb. at the
El Paso Grocery Co's., 112 East Over-
laud St.
22 lbs. sugar $1.0J cash. 25 lbs.
sugar $1.00 with purchase of $4.00 other
groceries. Pearce. 201 Stanton St.
Glaze
ptatinums
Photo car.
finished
$2.50 per
cabinets
dozen, at
$1.50,
R. R.
19
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Highest of all leavening strength
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