The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, December 27, 1901 Page: 3 of 8
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BEFORE the
PVBLIC EYE
LATE HEAD OF LONDON POLICE.
Colonel Sir Henry Smith, who has
Just resigned from his post of com-
missioner of London city police, had
held that important place for eleven
years, and is admitted to have been
the best commissioner that ever filled
the office. His resignation was due to
the fact that the police committee of
the common council of London refused
to act on his recommendation for an
Increase in the force. Sir Henry has had
several ugly experiences, due to the
Current News
and Views
•mall number of men at his command
The last affair of this kind was that
of the return of the London volunteers,
when the force was called upon to
handle a crowd of drunken persons,
several hundred thousand times great-
er in number than the police. This
affair drew matters to a climax. Sir
Henry demanded an immediate en
Iargement in the strength of the de-
partment. The council committee
would not listen to his request, and he
therefore resigned his post in disgust.
Much feeling has been aroused in Lon-
don by the council’s sluggishness.
INCREASED COST OF LIVING.
The average cost of living has ad
vanned nearly $30 per capita within
less than • five years, according to
statistical comparison just issued by
Hun’s Review.
In July, 1897, the average cost of a
year s supplies for one person was
$72.45. To-day it is $101.37. Forty
years ago it was $20 greater, the exact
figures in January, I860, being $121.75.
The present prices are higher than
for many years, or since modern indus-
trial, distributive and agricultural con-
ditions were introduced.
During the period mentioned it has
been found that while the price of la
oor fluctuated greatly, the average was
$1.50 a day, or about the rate prevail-
ing to-day. This would indicate that
the increased cost of living has not
been met by an increase in ability to
pay it.
But to offset this there must be tak-
en into account present steady em-
ployment and larger opportunities for
advancement. Existing conditions
certainly do not bear out the bare
statistical statements that the cost of
living has so greatly advanced while
wages havs remained at an average.—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Praise for the Czarina.
There is a most wonderful fascina-
tion about the czarina, and to English
people she will always prove an object
of interest, for was she not the grand-
daughter of our late queen? The Em-
press of Russia is an extremely beau-
tiful woman, and we cannot but ad-
mire the way in which she, a mere
girl, took up her position and its re-
sponsibilities in a foreign land, and
at once made her presence felt at the
court over which she reigned as em-
press consort, says Woman’s Life. A
devoted wife, she is hardly ever ab-
sent from her husband’s side, and at
the same time she is a model mother.
It must be a terrible disappointment
that there is no heir to the imperial
throne; nevertheless, it would be im-
possible to find a happier family party
than the emperor and empress of Rus-
sia and their little daughters.
NEGLECT OF A NATION.
At North Bend, 0.—the place where
General William Henry Harrison lived
at the time he was elected president—
his ashes lie in a tomb which is in a
state of neglect. That fact speaks but
illy of the respect which the nation
shows for the memory of those who
helped to make it great.
The insignificant tomb stands on a
little knoll and overlooks the broad,
tawny Ohio river, which there makes
the WEEKLY
PANORAMA
THE ACCEPTED AUSTRALIAN FLAG.
The Australian Commonwealth gov-
ernment recently offered a prize for
the best design for a federal or na
tional Australian flag. No fewer than
30,000 designs were sent in. The
prize of $750 was divided among five
competitors, who designed almost
identical flags—viz: “The Union Jack
on a blue or red ground, a six-pointed
star representing the six Federated
States of Australia immediately un-
der the Union Jack, and pointing
direct to the center of St. George’s
GIGANTIC, IF TRUE
Hoflg-Swaync Syndicate Reported to
Have Sold Property.
cross and of a size to occupy the ma-
jor portion of one-quarter of the flag
and the southern cross in the flag as
being indicative of the sentiment of
the Australian nation.” To this des-
cription of the new flag, as finally
adopted, the judges add: “Our de-
sire has been to give to the people of
our new-born nation a symbol that
would be endearing and lasting in its
effect.”
Sggt*
BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN SINGER.
Miss Bessie Abbott, who has just
made a highly successful debut in
mud opera in Paris, is a charming
American girl about whose musical
talents and training much mystery has
been made abroad. It is said that she
was found in America by Jean de
Reszke, who brought her to Paris and
placed her under the charge of M.
Gailhard. She is described as being
very dark, quite pretty and an admir-
able singer. The part in which she
made her debut was Juliet in Gounod’s
“Romeo and Juliet.”
a wide sweep to the southward. An
ideal location for the eternal home of
one who loved the spot, even as dearly
as he loved his country.
A dreary looking tomb it is at its
best. No one could have planned an
abode more architecturally severe. The
cola, gray granite, damp and dank,
peers from the ground like the rude
formation for some house which was
"never built. Over the iron door of the
vault—which is reached by a path
through a small cut in the hillside-
stands the legend “Harrison.” The
door itself seems imbedded in the stone
wall, unpainted and rusty, and marked
and marred with the scratchings of
vandals. Names are scrawled across it
—names of those who are unknown,
and whom no one need know. A rusty
iron lock, which might be smashed
with one blow, is all that keeps the
door fastened and prevents the vandals
from further desecrating the abode of
Harrison. .
ihe path leading to the door is lit-
tered with rubbish and underbrush
Hosts of weeds mar the beauty of the
green turf from which they spring No
one cares, or seems to care, how the
spot looks. Forgotten—almost—the
tomb stands as a monument.—Cincin-
nati Enquirer.
OLDEST CHAPEL IN AMERIOA.
The lovers of the antique and pictur-
esque architecture of former centuries
in the City of Mexico are pleased at
the announcement that an ancient
landmark, the little cliape! of La Con-
cepcion, is not to be destroyed. It has
been variously claimed for this chapel
that it marked the spot where Cuauh-
temoc surrendered to Cortes, also that
it was the first Catholic temple in
which mass was said in the City of
Mexico. A recent investigation of
these points among the best authori-
ties on ancient history of the capital
did not establish them positively, but
the little chapel is without doubt one
of the earliest places of Christian wor-
ship built in the city by the Spaniards
and probably in the whole of North
America.
The chapel of La Concepcion now
stands in the rather neglected little
plaza of the same name, which is the
Public stand for the heavy carts and
wagons licensed for hire. It is to be
rescued for this unromantic surround-
ing, however, and a park laid out about
it. The chapel will be given a few
needed repairs and protected by a suit-
able, railing. It has been proposed that
SIX MILLION DOLLARS THE PRICE
BOLD ROBBERY.
ClARM AND FLOCK.
On* Man Secures Several Th onsand Dol-
lars From a Bank.
Englishmen the Repu ed Purchasers,
ex-Gov. Hogg Refuses to Affirm
or Deny When Qnestioned.
but
Municipal Golf Links,
There is a certain amount of irony,
says a London paper, in the fact that
the city corporation, which has hith-
erto been so averse to anything savor-
ing of socialism, should be the first
London authority to follow the exam-
ple of Bournemouth in the establish-
ment of municipal golf links. In fu-
ture the golf links at Chingford, in
Epping Forest, will be controlled by
the city, and under the new regime it
will be possible for all
this pastime at
charge.
the new garden be called Jardin
Berriozabal, after Mexico’s late min-
ister of war.
to indulge in
merely nominal
MONUMENT to ROSA BONHEUR.
At Fontainebleau, France, a monu-
ment to Rosa Bonheur, the
Two Similar Points of View.
There are few points of resemblance,
it is said, between the English Arch-
bishop Temple and Pope Leo XIII., but
curiously similar remarks on a simi-
lar occasion are attributed to both.
The pope, as was recently recounted,
when told that a certain necessary
task would kill a subordinate in six
months, replied that he only wanted
the worker for six months. And to
Dr. Temple on one occasion a friend
said he had been told by his doctor
that he could live no more than two
years if he undertook a certain piece
of work. “Well,” said the ar hbishop,
“what does it matter what happens in
two years if you do your duty now?”
Varied German Schools,
There are schools In Germany for
farmers, gardeners, florists, fruit grow-
ers, foresters, blacksmiths, carpenters,
machinists, cabinet-makers, bookkeep-
ers, tailors, shoemakers, druggists;
■there are cooking schools, institutes
for training servant girls, barbers and
chiropodists. One can find a school in
Germany for teaching anything one
wants to know; and it is usually sup-
ported by the government and free to
all comers, or perhaps only a nominal
tuition is charged.
great
May Have Kansas Oysters.
The projected big artificial lake in
Barton county, Kansas, will be made.
The company that is pushing the enter-
prise has won in the Supreme Court
and all that is necessary to do now is
to widen the ditch from the river so
that the flood waters can be turned
in when they come dowfi the moun-
tains. The lake when filled will be
about seven miles wide on an average
and nearly fourteen miles long. It
will be the greatest artificial body of
water in the United States, and prob-
ably in the world.
With the reasonable certainty that
the lake will be completed, the talk of
establishing an oyster bed is revived.
There is a salt spring in the bottom
that will be covered with the water of
the lake. The proposition is to mingle
the salt waters of the spring with the
fresh water of the river in proportion
to suit the taste* of the ocean oyster
and then plant a colony of bivalves in
the prepared bed. A Barton county
man said that this oyster project is a
Probability that will become a reality.
New York, Dec. 20.—An important
deal is stated to have just been con-
summated whereby British capitalists
have acquired more substantial inter-
ests in the Texas oil fields and will
ship large quantities of oil to the Euro-
pean markets, says the Journal of
Commerce.
fThe capitalists referred to are rep-
resented by the Roche-Stuart syndi-
cate, London. This syndicate is said
to have purchased the Hogg-Swayne
property, on which, it is said, about
three-eighths of the producing wells at
Beaumont are located. The purchase
price ia ss^d to have been in the neigh-
borhood of $6,000,000. The crude oil
will he carried by pipe line from the
Texas fields to Port Arthur, a distance
of about twenty miles, where it will
be shipped by British tank steamers
to various parts of Europe. Eleven
steamers, representing a tonnage of
20,000, varying in capacity from 48,000
barrels to 35,000 barrels, will be em-
ployed in. the service. The first voy-
age is scheduled to be made from Port
Arthur Feb. 19, when a cargo of 35,000
barrels of crude oil wil be exported to
Cuete for Spanish refining purposes. It
is also proposed to send regular con-
signments to Rouen and Havre,
France, also to Middlesboro-on-Tees
and London, England.
It is said that the oil can be carried
to Europe at a cheaper rate than it can
he at present shipped to Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York or Boston. It
is said that it will he conveyed across
the Atlantic for 25c a barrel.
The Roche-Stuart syndicate has al-
ready issued contracts for the con-
struction of storage tanks of large ca-
pacity, pipe lines from the oil fields to
Port Arthur and for the building of a
refinery at that place, which in all
will entail an expenditure of nearly
$300,000.* In the Port Arthur refinery,
which will be in operation by Feb. 1,
and will have a daily capacity of 6000
barrels, solar oil will he turned out
for the London gas companies which
intend to utilize it for the purpose of
enriching the qualities of their gas.
. In addition to its shipments of oil
abroad the British concern proposes
to ask almost immediately for a ruling
for the United States circuit court to
show cause why it can not utilize a
British steam tug to haul American
barges with oil cargo from Port Ar-
thur to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Ne^tf
York, Boston, etc. It is said to have
already contracted with American
shipbuilding concerns for the construc-
tion of four barges, two of 15,000 bar-
rels capacity each and the remainder
capable of carrying 12,000 barrels of
oil. It purposes to utilize the British
oceon-going steam tug Stormick, which
Is of 4000-horsepower.
1 Ex-Gov. Hogg, when seen Thursday
night, would neither confirm nor deny
the reported sale of his syndicate hold-
ings to English men.
Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 20.—A Gazette
special from Fayetteville says:
At noon Thursday the bank at
Springdale, a town ten miles north of
here, in this cor tty, was robbed by
one man. No one was in the bank ex-
cept the assistant cashier.
The robber drove up to the bank
door in a buggy. He walked into the
bank and to the cashier’s desk before
he was noticed. He compelled the as-
sistant cashier to go to the vault and
Eggs command fine prices.
Maryland has 3,000,000 peach trees.
J. 0. Parsons of Whitewright has
raised an eight-pound turnip.
There are 85,000,000 sheep in Argen-
tin and 17,000,000 in Paraguay.
Jones county is receiving a number
of most desirable people.
J. W. Carr shipped a carload of hogs
from Hondo to San Antonio.
Wild ducks and geese are reported
plentiful near Port Lavaca.
W. J. Stayton has shipped from
give him all the money in sight, about Alice one car of bulls to Beeville.
$7000.
While this was taking place a citi-
zen walked into the bank. He was at
noce covered by the robber’s revolver
and made to “hands up.
Kansas has 3,417,837 head of cattle,
the largest number ever in that state.
Kokernot & Kokernot shipped ten
cars of cattle from Alpine to St. Louis,
miia iv , . . It is said 10,000 bushels of sorghum
I, I 1? tt™.?Urnedlir.lett 18663 "HI ^ threshed to Hall county.
Eleven hundred head of cattle are
being fed at the Hearna cotton seed
oil mill.
bank, dropping $1000 upon the walk.
He jumped into his buggy and drove
rapidly north.
Rathbun on Trial.
Jeffersonville, Ind., Dec. 20.—The
trial of Newell C. Rathbun, formerly
a soldier in the regular army, who is
One man has shipped over sixty car-
loads of persimmons from Duvall’s
Bluff, Ark.
German’s hop crop for 1901 is esti-
charged with aving caused the death I at 174,000 bales, against 310,000
of Charles Goodman in this city last ^nlss in 1900.
month, was called in the circuit court Sheep in Wyoming suffered severely
here Thursday. by the recent cold weather and a num-
Both sides answered ready and the | ber of them died,
task of selecting a jury was at once
begun.
After the jury had been selected
Prosecutor Mayfield apened for the
state. He said it would be proved that
Goodman died of a certain deadly pois-
on administered by Rathbun.
The first witness called was Frank
Ogden, the proprietor of the Falls
City hotel, in which Goodman was
found dead. He related the circum-
stance of the arrival ofthe two men
on Nov. 6, who registered at his hotel
as W. Teneyke and Newell C. Rath-
bun. He also told of the finding of
Goodman’s body on the following
morning. There was nothing, the wit-
ness said, to indicate the causo of
Goodman’s death.
He failed to identify Rathbun as the
man registered at his hotel at Teney-
ke, and he was not sure that the body
found in the room was that of the man
who accompanied Teneyke.
Columbus Ogden, son of Frank, Iden-
tified Rathbun as the man who regis-
tered at the hotel as Teneyke.
Doctor Dead.
Galveston, Tex., Dec. 20.—Dr. John
, Mayfield, officer in charge of the
I quarantine station at this port, died
at San Antonio, where he had gone in
the hope of recuperating his health.
He was a nativeof Texas, having been
born near La Grange. For five years
he has been in charge of the quaran-
tine station here, and prior to tftat
time he had resided at Richmond, Co-
lumbia and Velasco. At one time he
served as county clerk of Fort Bend
county.
m
painter of animals, was recently un-
veiled, and is shown in accompanying
picture. On the side panels of the
pedestal are reproductions in bronze
of some of the artist’s works. A bas-
relief portrait in bronze of Rosa
Bonheur occupies one of the smaller
panels, and a bronze branch lies be-
neath.
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Some Prodigious Memories.
Many of the greatest men have hail
phenomenal memories. Caesar knew
the names of thousands of soldiers in
his legions. A modern man of science
often has a prodigious memory for
special terminology. Prof. Asa Gray
has said that he could at once recall
the names of something like 25,000
plants; Prof. Theodore Gill can do the
same for fishes. Our memory for mere
words is itself much more extensive
than is generally admitted. The aver-
age well-to-do child of two years of
age has a vocabulary of some 500 words
and its father may. have the command
of 20,000 more. The 10,000 verses of the
Rig \ eda have, for 3,000 years, been
accurately preserved in Ue memories
of the Brahmins. Not one Brahmin
alone, but thousands can to-day recite
it word for word. Thousands of Mo-
hammedans, likewise, know the Koran
by heart, as all learned Chinese know
their classical books.
Senate.
Washington, Dec. 20.—In the absence
of Mr. Frye of Maine, the president
pro tem, Mr. Perkins of California,
presided over Thursday’s session of the
senate.
The bill temporarily to provide rev-
enue for the Philippine islands, which
was passed by the house, was referred
to the committee on Philippines.
A bill to increase the official bond
of the United States marshal of
Alaska to $75,000 was passed.
At 12:40 the senate, on motion of
Mr. Hale, went into executive session,
and at 1 p. m. adjourned until Jan. 6
1902.
Terrible Accident.
Pittsburg, pa„ Dec. 20.—Ten men
were burned to death and four injured
by an explosion of gas at the Soho
furnace of Jones & Laughlin on Sec-
ond avenue Thursday morning. The
explosion was caused by a slip in the
furnace, the gas and flames belching
upward through the bell. The men
were on the furnace platform, eighty-
five feet above the ground.
There were nineteen men on the
furnace when the explosion occurred,
and fifteen of them were caught
the flames.
i«'it Drown.
Charleston, W. Va., Dec. 20—The
steamer Kanawha Bell went over lock
No. 3 at Paint creek on her trip Thurs-
day night, broke in two and is a total
wreck.
Mistaken for a Wolf.
Granger, Tex., Dec. 20.—A few nights
ago the wolves killed several chickens
for Mr. Heisch and the family have
been on the lookout for their return.
Last night soon after dark the dog
began to bark at an object In the cot-
ton patch near by which proved to be
Mr. Heisch returning from town. Just
as he was crossing the wire fence a
son mistook the stooping form for a
wolf and fired from the second story
window, hitting his father with a 38-
caliber pistol ball in the right thigh,
inflicting a very serious wound.
Three Killed.
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 20.—North
and southbound Southern Pacific coast
limited trains, running between this
Eight of the crew, all deck hands | and Los Angeles, came together
and roustabouts, were drowned. All
the officers of the boat were saved, but
some of them had narrow ^scapes.
There was a furious current at the
lock and the pilot was unable to con-
trol the boat on approaching the lock.
Senator Berry Hurt.
Lebanon, Mo., Dec. 20.
States Senator
m a head-end collision at Uplands
early Thursday morning, a fireman,
baggageman
express messenger and
B. Maurer and T. T. Hunter shipped
a carload of fine Angora goats to their
ranch in Arizona.
H. W. Jones has shipped from Alice
four cars of beef cattle. They were
sent to New Orleans.
L. B. Burnett has finished the de-
livery to E. B. Harrold of Fort Worth
of 8700 head of cattle.
R. S. Campbell shipped from San An-
gelo to St. Louis on the 16th fifteen
carloads of fat cattle.
Guy Bordon shipped from Hebron-
ville through Alice four cars of cat-
tle to National stockyards.
A cattle ranch near Tilden, Neb.,
which was bought for $900 a few years
ago, has been sold for $98,000.
A turnip was raised in Armstrong
county and exhibited at Claude weigh-
ing ten and one-fourth pounds.
It is found that oats that were net
put in deep were injured by the cold
weather. The sameap plies to barley.
W. T. Ditto,King county cattle-
man, says cattle in that county will
go through the winter, he thinks,
nicely.
Smithville has a fruit and truck
growers’ association. J. M. Reneck Is
president and W. H. G. Grady, secre-
tary and treasurer.
The fruit trees of Delaware, accord-
ing to the census, are 567,618 apple, 82
apricot, 14,436 cherry, 2,441,050 peach,
394,814 pear and 49,165 plum,and prune.
According to the report of the sec^
retary of agriculture exports for the
past fiscal year amounted to $950,000,-
000, one-half of which went to Great
Britain.
A company with $5000 paid up capi-
tal stock has been formed at Devine
for the purpose of putting in an irri-
gation plant .at that place. Fifty acres
will first he irrigated.
The residuq from castor beans after
expressing the oil is about 60 per cerfS
of the beans used, and it is extensively
used near Marsailes, France, as a fer-
tilizer for garden truck. .
A report comes from Mexico that •
new disease has broko out among
the cavalry horses purchased in Colo-
rado and Wyoming last winter by the
Mexican government, and has proven
fatal to quite a number.
G. W. Parsons, living on Red river
sold* to J. F. Hembree of Petty, Lamar
county, eighty head of hogs for 5 cents
gross in the pen. The animals aver-
aged in weight 200 pounds and pre-
sented a splendid appearance.
Several breeders in McLennan coun-
ty have adopted the system of mixing
sorghum molasses with cotton seed
hulls, which they have found to have
an unusually fine effect in fattening
cattle for market.
At Waxahachie on the 16th H. A
Pierce received twenty-one cars of cat-
tle to be fed at that city. Mr. Pierce
intends feeding several thousand head
at that city. After they .hall have
been fattened they will be shipped to
northern markets.
A committee of cotton growers of
the Brazos valley met at Waco and
prepared a memorial to be sent to the
legislature asking that body to pass a
killed and twenty-five passengers IaW inc]uding study of insects in
more or less injured, probably not on*
fatally.
and
B oke Down.
Chicago, 111., Dec. 20.—Dr. oJhn Al-
United Wander Dowie, the proclaimed “Eli-
... Berry of Arkansas, jah, the Restorer.” broke down Whon
w i e en route to his home in Benton- he went to the witness stand Thursday
vi e, was badly injured at Newberg in his own behalf, and between chok-
Thursday by a fail on the ice. ing sobs told how bis confidence *
enator Berry, took dinner at New- his brother-in-law and legal opponent
berg and as he re entered the Pnllman Samuel Stevenson, bad been shaken
“ CrUtCh 6“PPed ra th° lce 0!!! The portly figure of the aged witness
lv, P . 0r“’ tlm t0 fall fore shook spasmodically and the tears
stump’Th seieg°aCh' He Str“Ck ‘f streamed d°m Wa face as he related
, . P. . . 8 n an Iron weather memories of Stevenson’s
stnp. injuring his hip joint. Okie's sister.
espousal of
course at the Agricultural
chanical college.
It is worthy of note that the Indian
cattle and stock association in history
bas been organized by fifty of the
wealthiest Flathead Indians on their
reservation in the northwest part of
There a« “.OOO cattle and
^0,000 horses represented.
George C. Hascell of demand O
has Purchased the Hunt pasture In
Victoria county and will raise rice on
an extensive scale. He will construct
irrigating canal 100 ft*t wide. Perry
Ward of Cuero will be manager. A
$65,000 pumping plant will be put i
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