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GUARANTEE SATISFACTION A DE8ERVED DEATH. Ice. As has been our custom for the last Beven summers we are prepared to furnish you ice to your heart's content. Give us your order and you can rest assured that our wagon will be at your door every morning to supply your want. Be not misled we are here to stay, and will not allow any one to make yon cheaper prices than we will.

Send your order to office of El Paso Ice Telephone No. 119, or to office of Houck man who had heard the shots and was running to learn the cae. Chipman called to Rector to throw down his pistol. Rector did so, stepped back from it, and said quietly and calmly. "I surrender.

I killed Koehler because he has ruined my daughter. I couldn't stand it any longer." Officer Chipman arrested the captain and took him to the county jail. Half an hour later bTimes reporter called at the ail and was accorded an interview with the slayer. Captain Rector was found alone in a cell on the first floor of the south wing of the Jail. As the reporter stepped to the grated door Captain Rector came forward and talked freely about the awful affair.

He said: "I shot John Koehler because he ruined my daughter, his sister-in-law. Her 010 KEWAHD. This reward will be paid for the arrest and cou-Tietionofany thief caught stealing copies of the Timm after they are delivered to subscribers. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Wc are not responsible for the debts of onr employes, unless contracted through our written or der, which merchants should always demand, if they expect payment from this office.

TlMFH PCBLISniNU COMPANY. -i- jl UNITED STATES SIGNAL SERVICE. 'BL PASO, TEXAS, April 12, 1888. The following are the observations for to day Highest temperature 74 Lowest temperature BO Mean relative humidity 40 Maximum velocity of wind, 12 miles per bourj Direction SE Rainfall 00 MENTIONS. The attention of readers is called to the two notices at the head of this page.

Z. B. Clardy, who has been confined to his huuse for some time, is again able to be about. The remains of John Koehler, who was shot yesterday by Captain Rector, will be embalmed by Undertaker Mott and will be held to await a reply to telegrams sent to the brothers of the deceased in Denver. The Stanton street line of railway is nearly ready for use and will probably be in full running order in a day or two.

This new line brings Stanton street at once to the front as one of the best business streets in the city. There is a decided stir in real estate circles. Sales are increasing and prices stiffening. The prospect of cheap fuel, the reduced freight rates and the generally good outlook for El Paso are beginning to tell on the business interests of the city. The thirty Remington breech loaders ordered by Prof.

Esterly for the high school cadets arrived yesterday, and the way the lads displayed the weapons about the city, with bayonets fixed, made the locality look like a Franco-German A FATHER'S VENGEANCE IN-LAW. ON HIS SON- A Seducer's Merrited Fate Last Chapter of a Strange Story. Never before has this community known such a tragedy as was enacted yesterday. It is doubtful if the strange circumstances were ever before paralleled. A little after one o'clock yesterday afternoon two pistol shots rang out from the blacksmith shop of John W.

Koebler on east Overland street between Utah and Stanton. Those shots meant the death of John Koehler at the hands of Captain W. G. Rector. It was the vengeance of an aged father for his young daughter's lost honor.

What mado the deed doubly, terribly shocking was the fact that the victim was the son-in-law of the slayer, having married one daughter and, as the father believed and believes, seduced a younger daughter. The story of the killing is best told in the language of the eye wit nesses, who testified AT THE INQUEST held by Justice Cline. At the time of the tragedy there were present three men besides Rector and Koehler, and their names are T. S. Fitchell, William Cran-mer and John McIIenry.

Fitchell's tes timony was as follows About ten minutes before 1 o'clock John Koehler came into his shop on East Overland street and sat down on a block. About the same time the old man who, I have since learned, Rector, and John Koehler father-in-law, sat on a box lust inside the door. Koehler said to Rector. 'IIow are things down the valley?" Rec tor said, "All right," or something to that effect. I did not pay much attention.

Then the 1 o'clock whistle blew and Koehler said to me, "We'll go out and take off that hind axle," referring to a wagon in front of the shop. While I was stooping down under the wagon, I heard a shot. I looked up, saw Koehler in the act of falling, clasping his head with both hands and exclaiming "01" or "Don't!" or something of the kind. Just a9 soon as Koehler struck the ground Rector took sight over his re volver and fired the second time. Bv tnat time was out irom under the wagon and drew back my monkey wrench to strike Rector, thinking he was crazy.and said to nun, "What are you doing? Kec tor then swung his pistol around towards me and I then ran around the house.

I started towards town for a policeman.but when 1 saw the crowd gathering I went back and saw Koehler still lying on the ground. William Cranmer testified as follows: a lew minutes to one clock 1 was in John Koehler's shop. There were in the shop besides Koehler T. 8. Fitchell and John McIIenry.

While we were waiting tor the one clock whistle Rector came in and sat down on a small box near the door. Koehler asked him. "how is every thing down the valley?" Ho answered, 'All right." Pretty soon the whistle blew. Koehler said to Fitchell, Wp'11 take off that axle." and tome, "You cut some bolts." Koehler and Fitchell went out of the shop. Pretty soon I heard two shots, and saw Rector go by the door towards town with a large pistol in nis Hand.

At the time 1 heard the shots I heard Koehler exclaim, my," or don't 1 went out of the back door and up the acequia to Utah street. When I got there 1 saw Rector give his pistol to Officer Chipman. I came back to the shop and found Koeh ler lying on the ground dead." John McIIenry, who did not testify at the inquest, gave to a Times reporter an account which agreed substantially with the above. The weapon was a Colt's 45- caliber. TUB CORONERS VEUD1CT rendered by Justice Cline was in the usu al form, to the effect that deceased came to his death from wounds made by a pistol iu the hands of W.

G. Rector, fired with homicidal in tent, and that the coroner could find no justfication of the offense. Dr. W. Vilas examined the wounds.

Ho found that one ball passed through the flesh of the right arm and entered the right side, passing nearly through the body so that that it was easily cut out from the left side. The other ball entered the back. But to go back to the killing. As soon as he had fired the tw shots, Captain Rector started down street toward the business part of the city, walking slowly and carrying THE 8MOKINO PISTOL in his hand. He soon met Officer Chip- Dieter, telephone No.

93. Arrived A beautiful variety of visiting cards. Order early. T. card scrip books.

Times Publishing Co. See Tuttle's new stock of wall paper. Wholesale Quottatlons. Coal, Coke and Wood. Special induce ments.

Telephone 128. E.M. Fink Co. Elegantly furnished rooms. Bath and gas.

uver Emerson uerrien iurnuun: store, $3 to $5 a week. A new stock of wall paper at Tuttle's. Fixtures For Sale Cheap. 3 show cases, 1 large coffee mill, 2 counters, shelvings, 1 pair scales, spice boxes, etc. Enquire at Times office.

H. L. Latey having leased the Baggs' stable would beg leave to announce that he has opened the same as a boarding and sale stable. This is the finest and best ventilated establishment of the kind in thefetate, and special care will be tak eo of private carriages and horses intrusted to my care. The patronage of the public is solicited.

Prices as low as any ones. H. L. Latey. For Sale.

Two large Hambletonian horses, in excellent condition, with carriage and harness, or separately. Will be Bold at a great bargain, as I expect to be away Hills. for some months. Apply to W. S.

The Best Table, The cleanest service, the most polite attention and the choicest cooking at the well known Boss restaurant. Notice. I wish to settle all accounts against the St. Charles Restaurant, if creditors will gib me a reasonable time and discount on bills contracted by C. N.

Howe (for TIIK RESTAURANT ONLY), 88 I do not wish any one to be a loser, and as it has been run in the name of the St. Charles hotel. I do this to save the credit of my house at my own personal expense. Mrs. F.

II. Moore. II. C. Paulsen.

the ticket broker, has removed to 216 El Paso street, next door to Lightbody James. At 406 El Paso Street Second hand goods are going so rapidly in consequence of the iutlux of people, attracted to the city by the prospects of the beginning of the White Oaks railroad, and the scarcity of second hand goods offered for sale, nobody now leaving the city, that unless you call soon you wili not have so great a variety to select from. Yet in order to keep up the 6tock to re pletion as nearly as possible, I will give the very highest prices possible for second hand goods and invite sellers and buyers to come and see me before buying or selling elsewhere. In Etore now for sale: 100 volumes law books. 300 volumes biographical, historical, scientific and fictional books.

Webster and Worcester's Unabridged Lexicons. Spanish, French, German and Italian books. Magazine, pistols in great variety, clocks, patent mirror plates mirrors, of various sizes, and iron safes, one new Estey's church organ; one second hand cabinet organ, stoves, ranges, lamps, bar counters and other fixtures, feather pillows, new and old mattresses, oil paintings and chromos, suddles. harness, clothing, show cases and all kinds of furniture. Call at once on M.

L. Bacon. To Subscribers. Subscribers to the Times frequently report that the carrier has missed them, when we know that the papers have been delivered, and then stolen or blown away. Each subscriber should have a Letter Box Plate put on the door.

Then the paper will not be taken away. These plates can bo bought at Krakauer, Zork Moye's and at Henry Beneke's hardware stores for from 35 to 50 cents. They are handsomely bronzed so as not to disfigure the door. The Times urges each subscriber to buy one of these plates at once, as we cannot be responsible for papers left iu door handles or thrown in halls rv ir name is Lee Rector and she is 18 years old. She is the mother of a child two weeks old, whose father, as she confessed to me, was John Koehler.

His guilt is the deeper because he has reared her since her mother's death, he having begged me to let her live at his house. Her sister Florence, whom Koehler married about seven years ago, is only 22 years old. They were married when she was 15. I came here from Bryan, Texas, in 1880. My wife died on the journey.

After Florence married John Koehler I took Lee back east, but John wrote to me and asked that Lee be sent to live with them. His house has been her home from that time till now. Since I heard of her shame I have hardly slept or eaten. I stood it as ong as could, and then I determined to kill Koehler rand went to his shop for that purpose. I am ready to take the con sequences, whatever they may be." The manner of Captain Rector during all this statement was cool, quiet, without any show of anger or bravado, but simply a deop grief and melancholy that seemed to have broken HIS SPIRIT.

Koehler leaves two boys, aged two and four years, and his widow is in a delicate condition. The only sentiment displayed by his widow is one of intense grief at his death and anger at her father for killing him. Koehler was about 32 years old and a large, finely built man. He has two brothers. Charles, a livery man, and Joseph, a carpenter, both in Denver.

It has been generally understood since the birth of his sister-in law's child two weeks ago, that he was the father. Captain Rector lives at Ysleta and did not hearot his daughter ruin till two or throe days ago. Captain Rector is 64 years old, rather small in stature. He was born in Alabama, but lived nearly all his life in Bryan till he came here in 1880. He is a veteran of the Mexican war and com manded a company in Roger Q.

Mills' Texas regiment during the war of secession. The Rector family stands high at Bryan and indeed throughout the state. Captain Rector is spoken of in the highest terms by Messrs. Charles Davis and others who came from Bryan, where they knew the captain well. In this community Captain Rector has been known as a quiet, peaceable, honorable man, with many friends and no enemies.

The Times merely states a fact when it says that the captain is upheld by the general sentiment of the community in thus avenging the villainy of his son-in law. Plenty of men are ready tojgo on the captain's bond as soon as he can be ad mitted to bail. Messrs. Jay Good and F. Neill have been retained to defend him.

New Hotel. The Center Block hotel, on the Euro pean plan, will shortly be opened by Mrs F. U. Moore, who is so well known to the traveling public in her management of the St. Charles lodging house.

The new hotel will be strictly first class in all respects. For two months a large corp9 of workmen have been employed in fit ting it up. The rooms are engaged faster than they can bo furnished. A full de scription of this elegant new hotel will soon appear in the Times. T1II3 TIMES OFFIO HAS The Only Book Bindery in the City Ruling Machine Perforating Machine Folding Machine Complete Job Office Paper Stock Steam Printing Outfit Paging Machine Numbering Machine BlankBookMauufsc'y THE CITY.

'La International" cigar Biscuit glase at Vienna Cafe. Best table board at the Vendome. Dm. Love Brown Dentists. Cuckoo clocks at T.

Rothschild. All flavors of pure ice cream at Vienna Cafe. For elegantly furnished rooms go to the St. Charles. Get your cigars made at Kohlberg Bros, to suit your own taste.

For diamonds, precious stones and artistic jewelry, at Rothschild's. Manitou Water from Pike's Peak, Colorado, at Julian Johnson's, Ice Cream and Cake to order at all hours at the St. Charles Restaurant. Anything and everything in cigars, tobaccos and pipes at Kohlberg Bros. The Vienna Cafe will furnish pure ice cream to families at moderate prices.

All kinds of engraving at Rothschild's. El Paso City Directory, 1888, Now Ready. Price $3. Times Office. itnv voiir Furniture, Bedding, ts.

Shades at tlie Ullman Furniture Company. Family Dining Room. The Boss restaurant has been enlarged and refitted. Families who take meals away from home will find a separate and elegant family dining room, where any meal will be served as well as at home. Upholstering and repairing furniture of all kinds at sua an Antonio street.

J. Van Dyk. For elegant meals, good scrviee, the handsomest and cleanest Kestaurant in El Paso, fro to the St. Charles in the Cen ter Block, one door west of the Grand Central hotel. Day board by the week $7, single meals 50 cents.

Short order meal tickets $10.00 for $8.00, a discount of 20 percent. Breakfast from 6:30 to 9:30. Lunch 12 to 2. Dinner 4:30 to 8:00 Short order continuously. For sale A first-class soda fountain all in first-class order, at F.

P. Brown's drug store, 108 El Paso street. All kinds bought and trcct. of second hand furniture sold at 209 San Antonio J. Van Dyk Sti angers, Excursionists, nri nihera who are in El Paso for a short time, can cct the best of eating, regular mooi nr unocial orders, at the Boss res taurant.

ii City Directories. t.o now r.itv directory of El Paso is ivered to subscribers in the city and bv mail and express as rapidly as be obtained at the Times office. Price $3. Bottled Ileer for Family Use. Wo nrn bottlinir the celebrated Win.

I.nmn'n fin Anheuscr Busch St. Louis beer especially for family use. We guar untPA that nnr bottlinir comes nearer to a fresh class of keg beer than any other beer in the market. Btnlft nr flat beer. Give us an order for a case and you will nan nn other in the household.

Orders by telephone No. 03, or by mail will receive prompt attention. IIOUCK DlETEK. Parties breaking up housekeeping wi do well to call at 209 San Antonio street Highest cash prices paid. J.

Van Dyk For Sale Six head of good horses, well broken. Drive single or double W. Houston, near gas company. frontier town. The guns are breeeh oaders, 32-caliber and look quite like business.

The case of Sam Malin against the acific Express company, which was be gun Wednesday afternoon, was concluded yesterday, by a verdict for $3,000 fur the plaintiff. The amount sued for was about $6,000. The plaintiff was represented by Judg E. B. Sexton and G.

W. Smith, and the defendant by R. L. Ball and I. Burney, all of Colorado city.

Entre Nous Muslcale. a wen mied house greeted the young performers at the Trinity Methoiist church last evening. The entertainment was given under the direction of VIrs. Smythe, nearly all the performers being pupils of Mrs. Smythe's conservatory of music.

The program was as follows: FIRST PART. Opening Quartette: "While Swiftly the Sullivan. Misses Connie Small and Maud Doane and Messrs. Thomas Weston and Chas. Rokahr.

Piano Solo; "Sleigh Carl Sidus. Miss Katie Crosby. mso Solo: "Hondo Sidus. Miss Florence Beall. Duet: Misses Helen and Jessie Ecker.

Chorus: "Herd Piano Solo: "Twilight F. Johnson. Miss Nannie Beall. Piano Solo: Miss May Crowther. Duet: "Basket of Streab- borg.

Misses Florence Beall and Katie Crosby. Song: "Last Piano Solo: "Dream of the W. Hertel. Miss Jessie Ecker. Quartette: "Caliph of Boieldieu.

Misses Sudie Beall. Mnv Crowther, Helen Ecker and Mary H. Gates. PART SECOND. 'The Millionaire Bootblack.

Miss Connie Small, Miss Maud Doane and Mr. Thos. Weston. PART THREE. Piano Solo: "Bubbling J.

Rine King. Miss Sudie Beall Dcet: Miss May Crowther and Mrs. Smythe. Piano Solo: Du- -Miss Lizzie F. Beers.

Sailor's L. O. Emerson. Miss Connie Small, Miss Maud Doane, Thos. Weston, Chas.

Rokahr. Duet, two Pianos: Rossini. Heller. Misses Nannie Beall and Mrs. Smythe.

Quartette: Misses Lizzie F. Beers, May Crowther, Mary II. (Jutes and Mrs. Smythe. PART FOUR.

"The Secret." The church had been tastefully decorated with United States flags and festoons of red, white and blue, and the south end of the room was curtained and fitted with a raised platform that afforded an excellent stage, furnished with carpet, table, chairs and two pianos. Want of space forbids individual mention. The frequent applause and occasional encores indicated the pleasure and satisfaction of the spectators with the efforts of the youthful performers. It is be hoped that Mrs. Smythe will give the parents and friends of her pupils as many such opportunities as possible to witness the progress of the rising generation of musicians.

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