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3 ammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmg MEN'S SUITS Almost Being Given Away Now Your Money Back if not Satisfied With Your Purchase... EL PASO DAILY HERALD. THURSDAY, DtCtMBER 6, 1900 One Price To All Suits made of plain and fancy Cassimeres, clay, worsted, cheviot, plaid and stripes in sacks or frocks, single or double breasted. Suits that every merchant tailor will charge you from $25.00 to $40.00; Suits that are Nicely Tailored and L ined; Suits that we Have Been Selling for $12.00. 12 50, 13.00. 13.50 and 15 OO. Your choice now of any of them for the small sum of 8.70. M08088 All cur $8.00. 8.50, 9.00 and IO OO Suit?, Choice now, $5.65. Ladies' Cloaks All our $10.00 Cloaks go at In black, gray and brown, which we formerly sold for $8.50 choicenow$5.90. All our $5 Capes, in black only go at 3.90 Made of the Finest Kersey, in Gray, Black, Brown, Blue and Tan. All Silk Lined, of the Very Latest Styles and Worth $15.00. Choice noW, $9.00. $6.50. - All our Ladies' Cloth Capes You never before and never will again have SUCH AN OPPORTUNITY of choosing a First Class Suit. Cloak or CapeShoes or Hats from Such a High Grade Stock at the Phenominally Low Prices Herein Quoted. Of Course, the Earlier You Come the Larger the Stock You Will Have to Choose From We always Do as We Advertise The Hew York Store Oregon St. Next to Postoffice. Mail Orders with Cash or P. O. Order will receive prompt and careful attention. uiUiUiuiiUUiUiiUiUUiaiUiUiUiUiiuui iuuiuiuiaiiiiuiuiuiuiuiiiiiuuim iiiaiiiUiiiiiaiuuiiUiUiuiuiiiiiuuiaiuiuiUiK i Neighbor. hood Notes 8 - i TEXAS. COMING TO EL. PASO. A dispatch from Austin to the lions ton Post says: "Rev. H. M. Whaling, for the past three years pastor of the Tenth stret Methodist church, preached his last sermon in Austin tonight to a church filled to overflowing with friends. He goes from here to Rock dale to attend the conference and from there he will be sent to El Paso to take charge of the Trinity Methodist church. Dr. Whaling came here from P.altimore and leaves many friends In Austin." A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. 'Papa, you are killing me!" That was the first intimation that John Schlunlger. of Dallas, had that his little 9-year-old boy was tangled in a rear wheel of the vehicle he was driv ing. Looking around he was horri fied to see that his boy. who had been hanging on the rear of the vehicle had got one of his legs caught in the wheel and it was being torn from his body. The leg was amputated at the hip joint and the lad was not expected to live through the night. STRANGE IF TRUE. A dispatch from Austin says that at a recent meeting of the county com missioners' in that city County Judge Calhoun appeared before the body and requested a reduction of his salary from 11.800 to $1,200. The commiss ioners' agreed that his salary should be decreased but a decrease of $600 a year was not enough Tor them. One of them requested that the judge's salary be cut down one half and make it $900 per year. This led to a discussion and the question not being easy to settle it was postponed subject to call. MAY HAVE BEEN HUNG. There is still considerable about the death of Thomas Skid more, a citizen of Lamar county who was found banging to a tree just across the line in Red River county below Hills boro. It wa sat first thought that he had been mobbed and lynched, but af terward when a note was found in his pocket the conclusion that he had -ommi ttei suicide by hanging was formed. Now the ' suicide theory is doubted by many of his friends. A place near the tree wher it is evident a struggle took place has been discovered and it is believed he was murdered and then hung to avoid suspicion. The note could be a clever scheme to help cover the crime. The sheriff is in vestigating the case. THE BRICK FLIRTATION. The Enterprise of Lewisville. Den ton county, says that a young lady of that place asked the paper to furnish her with a new flirtation. She said she knew the fan. handkerchief and parasol flirtations but they were grow ing old and she wanted a new one. The Enterprise gives her the follow ing: Brick flirtation. Picking up a brick from the street 1 am watching you. Carrying brick in right hand 1 am waiting for you. Biting ofT a cor ner of the brick I love you. Rubbing brick on nose Write to me. Scratch ing left ear with brick Don't speak to me. Balancing brick on end of nose We are. watched. Laying the brick down and jumping over it backwards I am married. Throwing brick at stranger's had I want your atten tion. This flirtation is guaranteed by the Enterprise to attract the attention of any one upon whom you wish to make an impression. A CONDUCTOR'S DILEMMA. G. V. Henry, formerly a conductor on the M. K. & T. railroad, who is plaintiff in a $50,000 damage suit against that company in the district court at Ft. Worth, has other troubles besides being permanently disabled by falling from his train. At the trial the railroader's counsel confronted him with two lawfully wedded wives. They are put on the stand to prove that his injuries were not caused by the railroad accident but resulted from other causes. It developed that one of his wives, who is blind, was deserted by him several years ago and until she was pronounced in court the second wife never snspicioned that he had been married before. When the two women met in the court room there was a sensational scene. His blind wife is now making her home in Kan sas City and had lost track f her hus band until a claim agent of the Katy railroad traced her up and located her. A DASTARDLY CRIME. The Culpepper ranch. eight miles east of Beeville. is the scene of one of the most dastardly crimes ever com mitted. A very old Mexican, who was never known by any other name than Jose, and who was harmless and well respected, was found dead in a thicket on the ranch with his head crushed and his body burned to a crisp. He was engaged in chopping wood on the ranch and was brutally murdered, wrapped in his bed clothing and burn ed. He had been camping near the thicket and the murderer evidently thought he would leavo the impression that the old man's bed clothing had become ignited accidentally while he slept. His brains were knwkeil out and part of them were cooked in his mouth. A Mexican nearby was sus picion because he was known to have heard the old man say he had lots of money and he was arrested. The ax with which Jose had been cutting wood was found at the suspect's house and he could not give satisfactory reas ons for it being there. He was jailed at Heeville to await developments. ARIZONA. A YARN CONTEST. A con les is on between papers of Yavapai and Yuma counties to see which can tell the biggest deer hunting story. A Yavpai county paper says that a citizen of that county killed an entire hunch of four der at one stand. A Yuma county paper gives that the horse laugh and says that a citizen of that county killed six out of a bunch of eight at one stand, or rather at one run. as almost all of them were killed on the run. two of them being shot at very long range. His cartridges gave out or. he says, he could have killed the whole bunch. The hunter gained a point of slight eminence, overlooking a valley, in which the deer were feed ing, and he had two of them killed be fore they knew what had happened. Then the others ran in the direction to his best advantage and lined out so that he had an unobstructed view of them and he could kill them as far as his gun would ihoot. EVERYTHING AGAINST HIM. David Care, a miner who own some good claims up in the edge of the Brad shaw mountains, went into Phoenix to buy some clothing and tells a rare hard luck story about himself. A spring near his camp, from which he had been getting his water, went dry and he took his two canteens two miles up into the mountains to fill them at an other spring. On the way back he dropped one of them and It went tumb ling over a precipice 200 feet high. He found it badly shattered and made a waste of flou rand water to mend it. That night the rats ate the paste and he gave up mending his canteen, man aging to plug along with one. Then he went up to the spring to wash his clothes. He hung them out to dry and went back to camp. He went back the next day to get them and found that some hungry range cattle had eaten them up. He cays he will not go back until the grass gets better so that the cows will not have to depend on his clothing for sustenance. PLUNGED TO DEATH. David Perea. a 18-year-old citizen of St. Johns, while carrying the mail to that place from Springerville. met a horrible death. It was his first trip and he did not know the road. It was a dark and rainy night and he could not s?e the way. so he let the horse take its own course. The horse left the road and wandered towards the canyon of the Little Colorado. It is supposed that when the horse reached i he brink of -the canyon he stopped and Perea got out to see what the trouble was. Not knowing of the nearness of the canyon he stepped off the edge of a sixty foot precipice and plunged to his death. His body was found in a sitting posture between two rocks, one arm. one leg and his neck being bro ken. A searching party went out from St. Johns the next day and Perea's brother was the first to find the body. He leaves five brothers, four sisters and an aged mother. He was considered a good boy anil his loss is mourned extensively in the territory where he was known. NEW MEXICO. MICA MINES LEASED. At a meeting of the Santa Fe Mica company in the offce of Gov. Otero, a lase on the company's prospects near Namle. in the Santa Fe county, was given to O. H. Howarth. of l-ondon. England, who was present at the meet ing. Mr. Howarth agrees to begin work on the prospects at once and to spend at least $10,000 n opening the mica deposits. He will pay royalty on all the mica taken out. HIDDEN TREASURES FOUND. On the road to Pellman's well, about eight miles from Tularosa. two pros pectors uncovered some tools, provis ions and treasures that were buried ther many years ago. The find con sists of the following: Mining Imple ments, including gads, drills, picks, shovels, saws, hammer and axe. coffee mill, coffee and tobacco, 100 pounds of rich gold bearing rock, fifty Mexican dollars and 190 smaller coins. The handles of the tools were decayed which indicates that they were buried several years. The articles were prob ably hidden by some one who intended to return to the spot and get them. It is up posed that they were hidden by prospectors who either lost their bear ings and could not locate the spot again or were killed by the Indians. The gold paned out $31.40. EVIDENTLY MURDERED. ' At Gal 1st eo a Santa Fe passenger train struck the body of a man that was lying on the track. It was at first supposed that the engine killed the man and he was taken to Santa Fe and delivered to an undertaker, who found a bullet hole in his breast. This prompted the theory that .he was killed for his money and placed on the track. Papers on the person gave the infor mation that his name was J. H. Lar son and that he was" a boiler maker from Holly Springs. Miss. He wore an Odd Fellows' badge and was well dressed. He had been in Ias Vegas the day before and was known to have some money in a pocketbook and both the money and pocket look were mis sing from the body. There was a man with him in las Vegas and it is thought they left together on a freight train, but the companion could not be round. The Odd Fellow lodge at Holly Springs has ordered the body shipped there at its expense. MEXICO. GOOD WORD FOR US. Our neighbor on the frontier is mak ing elaborate preparations for the grand carnival which will be held there next month. El Paso Is not as large as some cities, but It contains a large proportion of push ami energy in its make-up. Chihuahua Enterprise. OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OUR ELECTION The Enterprise says that Chihuahua has already begun to feel the effects of the American election and in the years to come when the "oldest inhab itant" speaks or the history of Chi huahua he will have much to say of the tremendous boom which struck the town just arter the re-election or "El Presidente McKinley." CHIHUAHUA EXHIBIT WON. The Chihuahua exhibit at the Coy oacan fair won many honors. The grand prize, a handosme clock, award ed to the best general head of stock, was won by the Chihuahua Hereford cattle. Six other prizes and various diplomas were also carried oft by Chi huahua. A Kansas City man who was there says that one of the greatest honors won by the Chihuahua exhibit was the attention given it by President Diaz, it being plain that he took a greater interest in it than any other. GOING TO MEXICO. A party of prominent citizens of Buffalo. N. Y. are on their way to the City of Mexico on a pleasure trip and incidentally for the purpose of boom ing the Pan-American Eexposition to be held in their city in 1902. The par ty is traveling in the private car of F. H. Goodyear, president of the Buf falo & Susquehanna railroad. They stopped a day at St. Louis and left that city over tbe Iron Mountain road Sunday night. Their next stopping place is San Antonio, from where they will enter Mexico over the Mexican In ternational. In addition to Mr. Good year, there are in the party, Edmund Hayes, engineer and capitalist; Ros well Park and Charles Carey, phy sicians; Ainsley Wilcox, attorney; S. M. Clement, bank president; these are from Buffalo and E. J. Barney, the millionaire car manufacturer of Day ton. Ohio. They will spend about two weeks in the city and probably return by way of the Mexican Central and El Paso. Remember that Potter and White's drug store is open day and night. Tel ephone orders given prompt attention. Chopped in Two. Your dollar Is epllt In the middle when you buy ooal that la half watte aehea.ollnkers.slaflr. Why not et a dollar's worth for your dollar? How? Buy hooeet, clean, well-screened, accurately weigh ed ooal from Payne-Badger Coal WROUULI AND RBTAiL DBALtKS III COAL Wood. Lime, Cement. Plaster Fire brick. Fire clay Plas tering, Hair, Etc. Tai.nbon.sHa Second and Chihuahua HOTELS. Unier One Management HOTEL PIERSON KATES $3.00 to 13.00. All ouMlde saaay rooms. Excellent table board, Battar and cream from our own jersey dairy. ; Special rates by the month. HOTEL FR4NCIS Ku rope An plan rate 76c to 91.60. ' FtaeM rooms and finest furnished in tba oHr. Rvery room has pur. porceiaae baUta. Special rates by the week or mouth. . ARDMORE RESTAURANT American Cooks. Everything strictly first-claa. NO. 207 TEXAS STREET. OLD TRAVELERS J atwayaataa lawieaa wvic.ottfc. Z Queen & Crescent Route f art Im. t. the EAST AND Z I THROUGH SLEEPERS . X Shreveport to Chattanooga. Pullman buffet SLcrpraa I New Orleans to New York Cincinnati and St. Louis. 1 I T. BJ. HUNT. GIO. H. SMITH. um k rams. ... UUI, Ttl. NCWO.LCAM8, LB. 2 If You The . . Gentlemen's Resort. . . want to find a man and don't eee him on the treeta, go to the . . . Gem Billiard Rooms POMEROTS El Paso Transfer Com pan v. HACKS. BOB AND ItOOAai. Phoa. It. tan to sia soat Ormi mm If you want a Nobby and neat Suit of the beat material call on NAP J. ROY. Th e Merchant Tailor El - BOYD THE TAILOR. Room 28, Bronson Block.