West Texas News. (Colorado, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1904 Page: 4 of 12
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THE WEST TEXAS NEWS
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
COLORADO,
- TEXAS
Tara'e Harp.
The real "haip that once thro'
Tara's halls the soul of music
ahed" is in the museum of Trinity
College, Dublin.
Underfed Chfldren.
There are 122,000 underfed chil
dren in the city of London. This,
according to Dr. Eitholz, who
makes out a strong case in de-
fense of the statement that there
is physical deterioration in Eng-
land.
The World Growing.
The world's -* population has
' more than doubled itself from 1880
to 1900. To this increase the Lat-
in nations of the West and South-
west contributed the least, and the
greatest growth was in the East
Duoke Refute to Swim.
Local naturalists are puzzled
because none of the twenty-four
ducks at Brandywine Park, Del.,
will go into the water. They
merely dip their bills in the wale*
and then huddle together along
the shore.
♦ ♦ •
Eat* Poison*.
Hermann Bodenheim, chemist,
laughs at poisons. "I will eat
anything you mention," he says.
You invite him to make a meal
off cyanide of potassium. He
oonsents. Carbolic acid is like
nectar. "It is safe to take such
poisons," he explains, "if you take
the antidote first. That is the
whole secret."
Tho CzWr Gift
1
A boy of II who lives at Ham-
ilton, Ont., wrote to the czar,
asking for some Russian postage
/.tamps. Recently he received
from the czar a complete collec-
tion of Russian postal, departmen-
tal and local stamps in a magni-
ficently bound album. The col-
lection is said to be worth several
thousand dollars.
Heat of Eleotrio Lamp*.
It is a general ppnion that in
candescent electric lamps give
comparatively small quantities of
heat. Measures show, however,
that of the energy of the current
only 6 per cent is turned into
light; the other 94 per cent mani-
fests itself as heat Inflammable
substances near incandescent
lamps are readily ignited.
Tho Wandering Albatross.
Of all the strange creatures seen
by travelers not the least interest-
ing is the wandering albatross.
This great feathered wanderer,
aometinjes measuring seventeen
feet from tip to tip of his wings,
will follow a ship for days at a
time. Some travelers and sailors
declare that they have seen a
particular bird fly for weeks at a
time without ever being seen to
alight upon the waves. It not
merely follows the snip, but
.wheels in great circles around it
and above it, high in the air, as
if to show that it is not tired,
laometi tries the bird will be seen to
hang in the air with its wings ap-
parently motionless and the sail-
ors say that then it is asleep.
KUSSIANS ARE FEARFUL.
Japanese, Contrary to Expectation
Make Counter Advance.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 13—It is now
n'dnight on the battlefield below Muk-
len and the failure to receive news
that tbe Ru&tiians achieved decisive
results in to-days' fight north of Yen-
tai. coupled with a report that field
Marshal Oyama is gaining ground,
causes increased apprehension.
The dispatch of the Associated Press
from Tokio was the first positive in-
formation that Russian troops in any
force were already across the Taitee
River, although it was already Known
that some cavalry had passed over
the river, but the report that another
column was attempting to cu< th Jap-
anese line of communication wit., the
MRS. NATION IN TEXAS.
She Visits the Alamo City and Da
livers a Lecture.
San Antonio. Tex., Oct. 13.—There
were blanched laces among the sa-
loon men In San Antonio yesterday.
Carrie A. Nation was in town. She
is here from Wichita. Kan., to visit
her daughter, Mrs A D. McNabb, of
Richmond, Texas, who has been in a
private sanitarium in this city for sev-
eral ronnlha
Mrs. Nation stayed in the sanitari-
um until about 7 o'clock last night,
when she came to the city to deliver
a lecture in Ihe cour^ house. She first
went to the Hesar Hotel, then stepped
across the street into the Maverick
bar. Few persons were in the saloon
"There are no angels in here-" was
Yalu River, did not come as a surprise information sho imparted.
as it was known, although not reavcal- i oung man, she said, transfixing
ed for strategic reasons, thai wide turn-,'he bartender with her eyes, don t
ing operations were proceeding on the : -vou know you are engaged in a busi-
Kussian extreme left, screened by the ( ne?s thal w"' your soul to hell?
column 'ope/ating against Sbanpin- \ Tb* bartender worked a bluff b>
taidze. preparing to squirt seltzer water from
Tokio, Oct. 13.—A general Japanese ia Anally leading her from the
advance along a broad front toward ; Place- proceeded to the court
Mukden is progressing. | house and delivered her lecture or,
A brigade of Russian infantry, with prohibition to a large audience
2,000 cavalry and two guns having the
object of striking Gen. Kuroki's flank,
crossed the Taltse River Oct. The
Japanese cut off the retreat of this
force and possibly will capture it.
The Russian.-; are attacking Sienchu-
I an excited moment she referred a3
follows to Theodore Roosevelt.:
"Roosevelt has a Dutch coat of arms
on his carriage. He la a deer slayer;
he is a bird killer: he is a fat-headed
beer guzzling Dutchman; he is a
ling, forty mile* northeast of Sairaaize rott*h rider over every blt of Ameri'
(southeast of Liao Yang and almost can Principles. ' *a> the sa,m!
due north of Feng Wang-theng), evi- thin* of *arkcr if he were in.
dently with the object of cutting off
Japauese communication with the Ya-
lu Rjver.
Gen. Kuropatkin's advance has been
met with a counter advance of the
forces under Field Marshal Oyama.
According to advices received at Tokio jto ber ho,el' but 89i,, hbc d,d n0t Care
a geneiil engagement is in progress !lo sta* ,here;
between Liao Yang and Mukden, but
in a little bit of autobiography she
fc&id sho had been in twenty-four pris-
ons and as many more couris.
After the- lecture she sold several
hundred dollars' worth of little souvc
nir hatchets. iJiter she was escorted
In an excursion amons the cigar
reports from Russian sources describe
storeii he tried to break up several
the fighting there as merely in the na-!
: and she slapped cigarettes and cigars
ture of advance guard action*.
Gen. Kuropatkin is reported to be
aiming to strike simultaneously at two
widely separated points on the Japan
ese left. There has been hard fighting
short distance north of Ifemsihi., in
which a Russian loss of 150 killed or
wounded ok admitted
1 right and left.
Prohibition Muddle in Lamar.
Paris: The count/ Commissioners
Court refused Wednesday to grant a
petition with over TOO signatures ask-
ing that a local option election be or-
dered lor Nor. S. The county went
The Japanese claim to have cut off j<Iry A,,gll8t 27 by over 300 and after
a Russian column south of the Taltse Montrose had refused to grant
River.
Xo official reports from the front
were received by the Russian war of-
fice last night, and the fact is regard-
ed in some quarters as indicating, the
non-success thus far of Gen. Kuropat-
kin's forward movement. Military au-
thorities. however, point out 'hat ow
ng to the magnitude of tbe movement
planned, it ii«'U early to expect news
of decisive restlis.
Forward Movement in Oklahoma.
Law ton. Ok.: It Will not be long
before alt the public buildings in the
the new country, to be paid for out of
the lots aale money of tbe townsites
of L*wton, Hobart and Anadarko.
which are under tbe direction and su
pervision of the Department of' the In-
terior, will be under construction.
The amount of these-lot sales netted
over $1,000,009. of which Law'.on
brought over 9408,000.
The Irrigation scheme projected for
Comanche and Kiawa Counties is
now being considered by tbe depart
ment and It is probable that the ef-
forts of the engineers of the Interior
Department will be directed in this
line. The project is one of the larg-
est attempted In recent years by tbe
Government, and Involves an amount
of money ovar $1,000,000. This sum
has already been appropriated by Con
gress for this purpose
an Injunction restraining publication
cf the notice carrying local option into
effect., the antis filed a bill in equity
contesting the election. Meanwhile
Judge Bryan of the Federal Court, on
application of August Busch it Co.,
granted a perpetual injunction, hold-
ing Ihe election void.
The ground upon which tbe Commis-
sioners' Couri refused to order a new
election is that the question of the le-
gality of the other election has not
been settled yet finally and that until
it is settled the first election must be
regarded as valid.
The Commissioners also refused to
order the election oil the ground of ex-
pediency. The pros will apply for a
writ of mandamus to compel the Com-
missioners' Court to order the elec-
tion. claiming it has no discretion, and
in the event a mandamus is refused,
the case will be carried to the Court of
Civil Appeals.
The report is current Umt the steam-
er Call, bound from Tracarie. N. B., for
New London, has been sunk near New
London, and that the Captain and crew
of seventeen were !oet.
Effect cf Rocking Baby.
Dr. Manacoine, the famous Russian
authority on sleep phenomena, says
ibat locking is an artificial method
of Inducing slumber. The process
fatigues consciousness by a series of
monotonous sensations and incident
ally deprives the brain of its blood
supply. Absence of blood from the
brain makes sleep. The influence of
the lullaby Is objectionable, but not
equally so. A baby will go to sleep
unaided when it needs sleep.
Lively Times in Africa.
There is no lack of excitement
along the .line of the Uganda, East
Africa Railway. At Nairobi, one of
the principal stations, the postmaster
found a fion on his stoop cne morn-
ing; several natives and more than
one white officer along the road have
been eaten by lions; on one occasion
an engine could hardly make its way
through miles of locusts on the track,
and a rhinoceros collided with an en-
gine and the train narrowly escaped
wreck.
Edward Caspar Stokes.
Edward Caspar Stokes, the Repub-
lican nominee for governor of New
Jersey, is a graduate of Brown uni-
versity, and was occupied as the su-
perintendent of schools in a New
Jersey town from 1889 to 1893. His
political carcer began in 1831, when
he entered the legislature. He was
continued there for eleven years. In
1901 he was appointed to the lucra-
tive office of clerk of the chancery
court and he has served for some
years as the vice chairman of the
Republican Sta'e Committee. He is
a native of Pennsylvania and is
forty-four years of age.
Cure to Stay Cured.
Wapello, Iowa, Oct. 10 (Special)—
One of the most remarkablo cures
ever recorded in Louisa County la
that of Mrs. Minnie Hart of this place.
Mrs. Hart we3 in bed for eight month9
and when she was able to sit up she
was all drawn up on one side and
co^p not walk across the room.
Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her. Speak-
ing of her cure Mrs. Hart says:
"Yes, Dodd's Kidney Pills cured ma
after I was in . bed for eight months
and I know the cure was complete
for that was three years ago and I
have not been down since. In four
weeks from the time I started taking
them I was able to make my garden.
Nobody can know how thankful I am
to be cured or how much I feel I owe
to Dodd's Kidney Pills."
This case again points out how
much tbe general health depends on
the Kidneys. Cure the Kidneys with
Dodd's Kidney Pills and nln<*-tenths of
the suffering the human family Is heir
to. will disappear.
Hea. Henry G. Davis. Democratic
candidate for Vice-President has spent |
te week touring Maryland and West!
Virginia, delivering addresses at va-'
rious towns.
A Hunter and the Shah.
Dr. William Lord Smith, oi Wor-
cester, Mass., graduate of Harvard,
sportman and hunter of big game, is
headed for home, loaded down with
decoratlona from the grateful. Mux-
affer-ed-Dln, Shah of Persia, whom
he cured of a malarial disease which
had baffled natives and foreign phy.
slclaas. Dr. Smith has also now the
title of physician !n ordinary to the
throne of. Persia, but it is not certain
that he will return to the laad of
the shah and fill the position. Dr.
Smith Is ending a two years' tour of
the world. Early in the summer he
arrived In Persia, and, as the plague
was raging there, was quarantined.
But just then the shah was taken 111
at Teheran and Dr. Smith was sum-
moned. A journey of 210 miles to the
palacc on camel back across the des-
ert followed. After tho shah was
cored he and his doctor went hunting
together and this cemented their
friend ship.
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