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-MEMBER- Associated Press "A EL PASO BALD El Paso has $500,000 i bank to spend on lie works. I TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR- EL PASO, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS SHOOTS CONSTABLE WHO TRIES TO ARREST HIM Anderson. Texan, Sept. a terrific hnml to I irju I hnttic with a uogro.

(icorge Clnrk. constable W. II. Taylor was shot and seriously wounded near Sliiro, this county, lr.te last night. Taylor was tnken to Houston today for treatment.

The officer attempted to arrest the negro for raising a disturbance at Vlmcr, and chased him two miles. The negro and the officers then struggled a long for a gun. Clark finally getting it and firing upon Taylor, shattering his hip. A mob of white citizens later captured Clark and lie was found hanging to a tree this morning, living though in a serious condition. He is now in jail.

The whites are expressing great indignation and officers are on guard. Senator So Far Has Passed the Statement Without Gives Out Letter. nesota. The state is rock ribbed Republican and will give Taft 00,000 without a doubt. We will elect our gubernatorial candidate and send nine Republican members to the house of MACK SAYS HE GOT NO MONEY MR.

TAFT ON A SPEAKING TOUR SAYS TAFT IS NOT FORAKER SUPPORTER Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. answer to the statement issued by president Roosevelt last night will be made today by senator Foraker, although he may have something to say later. The senator said today that he had read what the president had said, but he did not care to discuss the matter offhand. The president in his statement made public a letter from Taft to a friend in Ohio, 20, 1907, in which Taft refused to acquiesce in the plant of the Ohio state central committee to indorse Taft for the presiuency and Foraker fbr the senate at the same time. Taft said he did not care for the presidency if it had to come by a compromise with Foraker or anyone else in a matter principle.

He said Foraker had opposed the vital policies and principles ot th 3 administration. REPUBLICAN SPEAKERS TO START OCTOBER 1. It ill lie a iiirlwind Campaign the Rest of the Talk Hopefully of Success. Chicago, 111.. Sept.

the funds necessary to defray the expense of a long, vigorous compaign have not been forthcoming is frankly admitted by chairman Frank H. Hitchcock of the Republican national committee. He said: have devoted most of my time to the adjustment of factional differences in a large number of states where the Republicans were not pulling together. The last of the state quarrels which has needed the attention of the national committee is that in West Virginia. and I am in hopes that this will be settled this Chairman Hitchcock expressed the opinion that if an active campaign can be carried on for thirty days for the month of October, the Republican national ticket will be successful in all of the normal Republican states, and in the most of the states that have been put in the doubtful column by conservative politicians.

was the theory when our plans were outlined at conferences which I held with the party leaders at Colorado Springs, Chicago, Boston and other said Hitchcock. believed then that October 1 would be time enough to put speakers of national prominence and our paid speakers in the held. It costs a great deal of money to keep a large speaking force going, and even if I had thought it necessary, I would not have been able to start tlie paid men before October 1. But I have not thought it necessary and all of the leaders of the party with whom I have conferred agreed with me that tlie month of active campaigning we have planned will be sufficient to get the Republican arguments squarely before the State l.cadcrs Talk. Henry Cochems, of Milwaukee, who made the speech in the Chicago convention nominating senator La Foi- lette for the presidency at Republican headquarters, today said: expect Wisconsin to roll up an old time Republican majority.

While the situation at this time is somewhat chaotic, everything will be all right by election John P. Kealing, of Indiana, who managed the campaign of vice president Fairbanks, said: Indiana, as a result of local issues, the situation at this time is a little uncertain. These issues will be fought out and I have no doubt that Indiana will go for Taft and Sherman by a comfortable Representatives James A. Tawney, of Minnesota, chairman of the appropriations committee of the house, said: am unable to account for the Democratic expectations of success in Min- Declares That Taggart Did Not Turn Over Any to His Committee. New York, Sept.

Mack, of the Democratic committee, addressed a telegram to president Roosevelt today in which he denied flatly the statements contained in a reported interview between Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman of the Republican state committee, and president Roosevelt, which are printed in local papers today. telegram follows: I "I notice in tiie New York Tribune this morning that you are quoted by Timothy L. chairman of the Republican state committee, in the following interview which Woodrutr gave out from Oyster Bay: the president remarked that he considered it significant that $300,000 had been found in the treasury of the Democratic party after judge Parker had declared throughout tho last national campaign that the treasury was receiving nothing from corporations, and further because it was announced at the time of the election that the treasury was empty. The president said he thought it looked queer that such a large sum of money should turn up after Haskell was appointed treasurer of the Democratic national "If you are quoted correctly, no doubt you have in mind the publication in the New York American recently that I as chairman of the Democratic national committee, received $300,000 from former chairman, Thos.

Taggart, which was said to be left over from the 1904 campaign. This at the time was emphatically denied when brought to my attention. 1 desire to say to you now that there is not a word of truth in the statement. I have not received one cent from Taggart or anyone else connected with tiie last campaign, neither has anyone connected witn the committee. am wiring you this direct as I desire to correct what seems to be an erroneous impression in your Mack sent the telegram direct to Oyster Bay said lie hoped to receive a reply from the president during the day.

The Democratic Candidate Spends the Day in Detroit and Ann Arbor, Returning From New York. ROASTS ROOSEVELT IN BUFFALO SPEECH Detroit, Sept. is Bryan day for the Democrats of Detroit and Michigan and the arrival of the Democratic presidential candidate early todav from Buffalo found the hotels crowded with Democratic leaders from all over the state, together with a large representation of the rank and file. After breakfast Bryan entered upon a series of conferences with Michigan Democrats and with the party leaders from some other states who came here to confer with him. Bryan and party left on a special train at 1 oclock for Ann Arbor, where he addressed an open air meeting this afternoon.

Returning to Detroit he will speak here tonight and start for Columbus, Ohio, at 11 oclociv. Bryan late this afternoon addressed a letter to president Roosevelt in reply to the state nent issued yesterday regarding Democratic campaign funds. PRESIDENT STATES TAFT NEVER HAS LIKED FORAKER. Declares He Stands for Everything That Foraker ops Not Stand Appeals for Support for Taft. Oyster Bay, Sept.

secretary Loeb gave to representatives of the press a formal statement by the president, called forth by the recent exchanges between William R. liearst and senator Foraker of Ohio. Mr. Hearst, in public utterances, has accused the senator of relations with the Standard Oil company in connection with his duties as a senator and his attitude as a representative of Republican policies and professions. In this statement president Roosevelt makes another appeal for the sup- pert of Mr.

Taft, and declares that his defeat would bring satisfaction to but one set of men, namely, to those men who. as shown in the correspondence published by Mr. Hearst, were behind Foraker, the opponent ot Mr. Taft within his own party, and who now are behind governor Haskell and his associates, the opponents of Mr. Taft in the opposite The statement embodies a letter written by Mr.

Taft to a friend in Ohio on July 20, 1S07, in which tiie present Republican candidate for the presidency refused to acquiesce in the plan of the Ohio state central committee to endorse Mr. Taft for the presidency and Mr. Foraker for re-election to the senate in a single resolution. The president points out that Mr. attitude has been always directly opposed to that charged against senator Foraker by Mr.

Hearst regarding the moneyed interests. The president cites the Brownsville affair as a case where agitation was a phase of the effort "by the representatives of certain law defying corporations to bring discredit upon the It was, he says, in large part a genuine agitation on behalf of colored men at LVOV GOES TO CHIC AGO TO PARTICIPATE IN A.M IGN. Ft Worth, Texas, Sept. Lyon, leader of the Republican party in Texas, is here today conferring with friends. He expects to leave for his home in Sherman tonight and thence will go to Chicago to participate in the national campaign.

T. L. HISGEN SPEAKS IN FT. WORTH WEDNESDAY. Dallas.

Sept. 2 number of the Independence party men as well as citizens, will go to Ft. Worth tomorrow to hear Thomas Hisgen. the nominee, for the presidency. BRYAN ASSAILS EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING.

Miss a Man in the Republican Party and Says All Are Dishonest and Corrupt. Buffalo, N. Sept. president has seen fit to give the Republican candidate another endorsement. It seems that I am running against two Republ icans instead of one, but our platform is so plain and the purpose of our party is so well expressed in that platform that I am prepared to meet the argument of one or both of Hurling defiance at his Republican opponents, W.

J. Bryan, speaking here Monday night before an immense audience, so declared himself. From the moment he began speaking in this state at Brockport, early in the day, until he had concluded his remarks here, the Democratic candidate took the bit in his teeth and assailed at every turn president Roosevelt, Mr. Taft and the Republican leaders. He spoke of the con- GIVES HIS Says Miller Killed Turley While the Victim Begged for His Life and Crouched Behind the Bar.

flict which he said existed between the president and the Republican managers of campaigns; replied specifically to certain queries propounded to him in an open letter in the Chicago Tribune; attacked the president for what he said was his failure to enforce the anti-trust laws an from which he said the president could not escape; denounced senators Platt and Depew as having betrayed the people; charged the Republicans with turning the financial system over to Wail street, and finally poured a volley of denunciation into the Standard Oil company. Whether or not following so closely the heels of his conferences with judge Parker and former senator David B. Hill, the vigor of his speech, was due to the conclusions reached is not known, but )t was admitted on all sides that at no time during the present campaign has Mr. Bryan been so aggressive. He made a dozen speeches to large and enthusiastic crowds along the line.

Bands played, the people cheered. At Tonawanda there was an incessant din of locomotive and factory whistles. Speeches were made at Brockport, Holley. Albion, Medina, Middleport, Lockport, Niagara Falls, San- bcrn. Suspension Bridge, and several smaller places.

CASE WILL TAKE THE ENTIRE WEEK Brother and Sister of Defendant by His Is Secured First Day of the Trial. HEARST DECLINES TO FIGHT FVRTHER WITH HASKELL. Guthrie, Sept. Charles N. Haskell, treasurer of the national Democratisc committee, arrived here shortly before noon today from Chicago.

Upon his arrivAl the attention was called to a statement issued last night in New York by Hearst declining offer to publicly prove his charges before a committee of editors. In his recent speech Hearst charged that Haskell sought in 1S99 to influence district atorney Monnett, of Ohio, to dismiss certain suits then pending against the Standard Oil company. Haskell denied these charges. MACK TO SEND SPEAKERS TO THE FAR A VEST. New York, Sept.

E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic committee, is planning to force the lighting in the Pacific coast states and during the month of October speakers of national prominence will be sent west. Mack said that the reports received from California. Oregon. Montana and Colorado were of such character as to lead him to the belief that with a strong effort they would be captured for Bryan and Kern.

KR TAFT FROM TPE. NO CONTEST OVEK THE ODD OFFICES. Denver, Sept. W. L.

Kuykendall, of Saratoga. was elected deputy grand sire of tiie Independent Order of Odd Fellows at the session of the sovereign grand lodge today. This is the only office for which there was any contest. In accordance with custom, deputy grand sire .1. L.

Nolen, oi' Tennessee, was promoted to be grand sire. All other olo officers were reelected. Seattle was selected as the next meeting place. CHOLERA SVSPECTS IN GERMAN CAPITAL. Berlin.

Sept. cholera suspects from Russia were taken to Virchow hospital this morning. Every preparation is being made to deal with an epidemic should it occur. Ill It ED TEXANS TO ATTEND Tl' BERCl LOSIS CONGRESS. Austin, Texas, Sept.

health officer Brunby leaves Thursday to attend the tuberculosis congress in'Wasn- ington. He expects a hundred Texas delegates to take a special train for the east at Texarkana. Train Bulletin. All afternoon trains are reported on time today. BADLY INJl RED IN FALLING FROM A HORSE.

Brownwood. Texas, Sept. Nunnelly. of Brokesmith, 3 5 miles south of here, is in a critical condition from injuries received when thrown from a horse. His shoulder blade, wrist and i collar bone were broken and other injuries sustained.

The horse was killed. Abilene. Texas, Sept. W. Blackey was the first witness in the Max Miller case.

He said he knew defendant and J. F. Turley, his victim. He gave tiie location of the saloon and the date of the killing and made p. plat of the saloon.

He said lie and Sensor, Admist and Turley were playing cards in the back end of the saloon that night. He said Mrs. M. Miller came in with a bucket and got some beer. Miller came in later and took a glass of beer from his wife and told tier it was her move.

asked us if she had bought the beer for us and Sensor said no. pushed his wife out of the door and they went off, but he came back in about ten minutes and talked with Manning. asked again if she had bought any beer for us and Turley said no. cursed him and Turley ran behind the bar and said Miller, shoot and got down on his knees. raised up and put both hands on the bar and turned, reached over and shot.

Turley fell and never said a At tlie noon hour the defense was cross examining Blackey. The case will take all week. The jury was secured yesterday at 6 oclock Ruby Miller, a brother, and Mrs. Elsback, a sister of defendant from Dallas. are in attendance on the trial, sitting by the side.

Max Miller, a saloon keeper, gambler, and a red light politician, killed J. F. Turley, a railroad man, in the corner Overland and Leon streets in El Paso on the night of October 1, 1906. WANT TO REVOKE THE LICENSE OF A HOMEOPATH. Waco, Texas.

Sept. petition was filed in the district court today in behalf of the State Medical board asking that the license of Dr. H. B. Stiles, a prominent homeopath, be revoked.

NEWSPAPERS SVE ANTI- PROHIBS FOR ADVERTISING. San Antonio. Sept. suit was filed today against ft. IX Hildebrann.

manager of the Ceu- tral Democratic Anti-Prohibition club by five local newspapers. for $230 due for advertising during the recent campaign. Passes Away in Short Time After a Fight With C. M. Barber.

BARBEE IS IN JAIL SENSATIONAL BREAK IN STOCKS is Held to Answer to Charge of Murder; Regrets the Death. New York, Sept. had another sensational break today after an hour of uncertain and irregular fluctuations. On the decline such influential stocks as Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and Amalgamated broke half a point between sales, in some cases, of only 100 shares. At intervals there were transactions in blocks of several thousand shares.

A violent break came, however, after some show of recovery. The dccline in some cases reached from to ZVz in so me stocks. Marfa, Texas. Sept. sad accident occurred at the ranch of R.

R. Ellison last evening, when a small boy, aged about six years, son of Geo. A. Howard, accidentally killed the little daughter of Mr. Ellison, aged about four years, wii-i a target gun.

From injuries presumably sustained while in a fight with Charles M. Barber late Monday afternoon, Rockwell C. Loomis, a well known El Paso real estate dealer, died last night at nis home, on the corner of El Paso and Boulevard, about 11 oclock, and a few hours later Barber was arrested by the police on charge of murder. Barber was taken in custody this morning about 1 oclock in his room at the Lake house, on North Stanton street, and shortly before oclock was transferred from the city to the county jail, after complaint had been made in jusiee C. W.

court. The prisoner was arraigned for a preliminary hearing tiiis afternoon at 2 oclock. Rockwell C. Loomis and his brother, Ralph, according to reports received the office of Loomis Bros, this morning hailed Barber as he was passing tho place in his automobile, relative to a difference over an automobile bill, about 2 oclock Monday afternoon. Bystanders, who claim to have seen the affair, say that as Barber got out of his ifiaehine, he fell, but got up and that it did not long for a tight to start between the three of them.

Borh Barber and Rockwc 11 Loomis fell several times to the sidewalk, while Ralph sustained an injury to his leg against an iron post in front of J. Watson's store. Blows were struck at first, Barber to(Continued on Page Three.) KILLS PEOPLE Washington, D. Sept. demoniacal fury Andrew Light foot, a mulatto inmate of St.

Elizabt insane asylum, killed Patrick Maloney, overseer of the grounds, and Millie Follin, a young inmate, early today. The murderer escaped from the grounds and fled to the swamps nearby, where shortly afterwards a cordon of police quickly surrounded the place of concealment. He was finally caught after the policemen found it necessary to shoot him in the leg. and returned to the asylum. Lightfoot has bet a regarded as harmless, but today he became violently insane.

Grasping an iron bar he attacked and killed Maloney. Millie Follin was in his way when he tried to escape and he crushed her skull with the same bar. He also struck at Miss Robinson, breaking her arm and inflicting a slight scalp wound. Juneau. Alaska.

Sept. American bark Star of Bengal lias been driven ashore on Coronation island and is a total wreck. The bark has 136 men aboard of which 100 are Japanese and Chinese. The cable ship Burnside has gone to the relief of the stranded bark, but may not be able to reach the wreck owing to bad weather. Those on board have no chance to land.

The Star of Bengal was being towed to sea by tugs when blown ashore. The tugs were obliged to cut loose to save themselves. PRESIDENT CLOSES SUMMER AND RETURNS HOME R. C. LOOMIS.

Oyster Bay, L. 1., Sept. Roosevelt's final summer vacation during his present term of office as president, came to an end this morning when with his familj and members of the summer white house executive staff he departed amid cheers from a throng of residents for the white house at Washington. At the same time Oyster Bay ceased to be the summer capital of the i States, the title it has proudly for seven years. The president has had a busy summer, but found much time to read regarding that part of Africa which he is to visit on his hunting trip next year..