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EL PASO HERALD 12 PAGES Associated Press TWENTY-EIGHTH EL PASO, TEXAS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18 1908 PRICE FIVE CENTS PREDICTS FAILURE OF THE PANAMA CANAL Holland and Germany, Also Castro, Discredit the Report, but the Dutch Are Not Perturbed in the Least Over It, if Such Action Has Been Castro Runs Away From Trouble. The Hague, Dec. The foreign office here places no credence in the rumor originating in Bogota, Columbia, that Venezuela has declared war on the Netherlands. It is believed the only basis for this report is the declaration of vice president Gomez, of Venezuela that his country is a state of because of Holland's seizure of two coast guard ships. Even should the war rumor turn out to be true the government considers the Dutch squadron now in South American waters sufficient to rmet ail evcntual- ties.

Berlin, Dec. the German foreign office and president Castio discredit the report that Venezuela has declared war against the Netherlands. The foreign office takes the ground ihat even if hostilities ar declared, declaration cannot become effective because Venezuela is in no position carry a campaign beyond its own borders and Holland will not exceed the limits of its retaliatory course as already fixed and known to The feeling is growing that Castro left South America not because of illness but to escape the political turmoil and that he has no intention of returning. still denies that any trouble occured at Caracas Dec. 11.

Castro will be transferred to a sanatorium Sunday for a week's observation to determine whether an operation is necessaiy. ROBBERS BLOW TWO BANK SAfES, BATELE WITH POSSE AND ESCAPE 5 Former Engineer of the Project Says United States Engineers Are Mistaken. Washington, D. Dee. fuel was added to the Panama tire through the remarkable interview with Phillippe Bunau-Varilla, formerly the chief engineer of the Panama canal and a recognized authority on the subject, cabled from Paris.

His prediction that the great work will end in disaster unless that dam site is changed, his forecast that many more millions must be expended without procuring safe results. and other pointed remarks on the work now in progress, caused a sensation equal to the latest developments in the war between congress and the president. I the HAS HIVEH. AT Phelps-Dodge Smelting Interests May Also Be Included in New Concern. TO FIGHT THE GUGGENHEIMS WALLS SHOWLNS ts LOCK- Gibbon, Dec.

robbers dynamited the safes of the Farmers' State bank of Keene, at Keene. 28 miles south of Gibbon, and the Comijier- cial Bank of Gibbon, then engaged in a pitched battle here w-rth a number of citizens early today and made good their escape in an automobile with taken from the two banks. One of the robbers is believed to have been wounded and carried off by his companions. Posses are in pursuit. HANGED FOR MURDERING AGED MAN Springfield, 111., Dec.

Bryant. aged 23. was hanged in the county jail here today for the murder on August 26 last of Thomas Brady, a TO year old man, out of whose trunk after the murder Bryant stole a small quantity of money with which to go to Chicago to visit a sweetheart. In a statement on the scaffold. Bryant thanked sheriff Werner for his kindness during his imprisonment.

Then he said to the 200 witnesses assembled: -Farewell to all. gentlemen." and the trap was sprung. TRAIN ROBBERS MAKE GETAWAY UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE RIGHT 01 APPEAL TO THE COURT Jl WALTHAM- NOT St ED IN JUSTICE COURT The name of judge A. M. Walthall, appearing as defendant in a suit for debt in justice court yesterday.

in The court record, was a mistake. The style of the suit was .1. B. Sanburn vs A. M.

We there 11. and the copy read that way. but it appeared in The Herald A. M. Walthall.

Portland. Dei'. advices have yet been received from the posses in pursuit of the robbers who held up the Oregon Railroad and Navigation train nine miles east of this city last night. The robbers forced tne engineer to bring them into the suburbs of Portland, where they got off and were lost in the darkness. There is no trutn to the story that express messenger Hugg defied the robbers.

Tt is understood he saved $2000 by secreting it under a lot of mercantile express packages. American Remains in Air One Hour, 53 Minutes and 59 Second. BEAT FORMER BEST RECORD Attorney General Wants Law So Amended That Government Can Take Cases to the Supreme Court When Defeated in the Court of Appeals. Annual Report of the Attorney General Made. Cole, Ryan, Ricketts, Standard Oil and Others Forming New Company.

OPERATORS AM) STRIKERS AT MINES MAY SETTLE Charleston, W. Dec. miners and operators on Paint creek, where 1800 miners have quit work following a reduction in wages posted by operators, are today considering a compromise proposition, which, it is thought, will end in a settlement of the trouble. The proposition has not been disclosed. NATUliAU GAS FOR WICHITA Wichita Falls.

18. for natural gas Is being distributed throughout the city today and wTill be laid immediately. The pipe Is now in the trenches nearly all the way between here and the Petrolla field. Ur Mann, France. Dee.

llliur ripht, the American acroplanlM, established a new record Cor heavler-t ntacliiucM today while tryiuft for tbp Michilen cup. remaining In the air one'hour, 53 anti xeeoiidN. The best previous reeord nas one hour, three and seconds, whteh right made October 10. WOMAN DROPS PIRSE AND MAN PICKS IT IP DENTON HOTEL BURNS. Denton.

Texas. Dec. Fire destroyed the Chadwell hotel at Krum early this morning. Several guests narrowly escaped burning. The loss is five thousand dollars.

People of That Town Claim to Ship More Cattle Than Any Other Wholesale House Does Annual Business of $250,000, Yet Marfa Is Not a One-Store For Hotel For Health Seekers. of its any Marfa, Texas. Dec. shipments cattle out and merchandise in. it is probable that the G.

H. S. A. Railway company handles more business at station at Marfa than it does at other point along its line between Paso and San Antonio with the possible exception of Spofford Junction, where a transfer is made to and from its connections in Mexico. Though under the rules of the company figures as to cattle shipments are not obtainable except through the general offices at Houston, it is believed that Marfa leads as an original shipping' point.

Marfa Supremacy. This may not be conceded by citizens of Alpine but every Marfa man is ready to make affidavit to the truth of the statement. In addition to the cattle, Marfa has a wholesale and retail establishment that does a business of a year. Naturally its receipts of merchandise are very heavy. Then there are tiie receipts of supplies for Fort Davis, Shatter, the Terlingua mining district and Presidio down on the river.

The receipts of supplies for the big silver mines at Shatter, which include iuel and machinery, are in themselves enormous and keep many freight teams of from four to 14 mules or horses busy hauling it a way. Big Wholesale Store. The wholesale, house referred to now colloquially known as the Receiver's store, was formerlv known as Murphy Walker's. Murphy and Walker came to Marfa in an early day and from a very beginning built up an enormous business. Through mismanagement and the money panic of 1007, found them unable to meet their obligations and in October of that year they were forced into the hands of a receiver.

W. F. Gohlke. of San Antonio, was named and on taking charge, found liabilities of more than half a million dollars. On the other hand he found assets something like $30,000.

The times were not propitious for liquidation and Mr. Gohlke, after a survey of the situation which enabled him to make impressive representations to the creditors', was duly empowered to reorganize and continue the business with the result that not only will the creditors not lose, but the entire country tributary to Marfa has been spared the blow that would have fallen had the big concern been forced to close its doors. 'lav Be Blit Stock Company. Such is the confidence on the part ot the public in the management of the affairs of the concern by the trustees appointed by the committee and by receiver Gohlke that the business of this year will rival in volume that of any former year in tlie history of the house. There is some talk of the formation of a stock company under the leadership of James Normand, one of the big cattlemen of the county, to take over the whole concern.

Mr. associates in the enterprise, if the present plans go through, will be nearly all )f the cattlemen of Presidio county. It is proposed to eapitaize the new company at $75,000. Not One-Store Town. Notwithstanding the size and volume No Purse-Snatching Incident Uawt Evening, But ohle Did Lone Her Money.

While Mrs. G. H. Noble and her mother were waIking toward their home on Myrtle avenue Wednesday evening, a purse, containing between and dropped from the baby buggy that Mrs. Noble was pushing, and.

before she could recover it, a man, who was following. picked up the purse and placed it in his pocket. Mrs. Noble demanded her property of the man, but he denied finding it. and when she questioned him further, he turned and walked away.

The man has not been caught. JAP WOMAN FROM EI PASO IS ARRESTED. Fined for a errancy In San Antonio Police SnjN She Went There From Paws City. San Antonio, Dec. first Japanese woman ever arrested here was fined $5 in police court this morning, charged with vagrancy.

She says she came from Broadway, in El Paso two weeks ago. and gave the name of Miss Tama Kato Washington, D. Dec. the United States should have the of apeal to the supreme court of the United Stales as a matter of right, wnenever a conviction is reversed on appeal by the defendant to a circuit court of appeals, is the opinion expressed by attorney general Bonaparte in his annual report for the fiscal year ending June 190s, submitted to congress today. In this connection he cites the case of the reversal of the fine of more than $29,000,000 in which an application for the allowance of a writ of certiorari has been made to the supreme court.

He holds that an amendment of the present statute would be appropriate in tin- case of ail criminal proceedings but suggests that it would be especially so in connection with prosecutions where the wealth of the defendant usually renders an appeal on his or its part from any adverse judgment a matter of course. The attrtfnev opinion is that in such cases there is no question of double jeopardy, as the appeal of the defendant from the original conviction is recognized by the undoubted weight of well considered judicial authority as waiver of his rights in this respect and as in the absence of some such provision of law as the attorney general roeem- mends, guilty parties may escape from just punishment under the law as finally determined by the court of last resort. Investigation Thorough. He declares tnat the consistent policy of the department of justice during the year in enforcing the statutes intended to protect the interstate and foreign KIDNAPED AND FORCED TO WED commerce of the country from evils arising through combinations in restraint of trade and attempts to create monopoly, as well as discriminations and other illegal practices on the part of common carriers engaged in such commerce, has been careful to investigate all complaints submitted to it, whether by public authorities or by responsible private citizens, and to authorize proceedings, whether civil or criminal, only when this investigation has hown the complaints to be serious and well founded, I and that success might be reasonably ptcted. Creating He reports that this policy was at- tended during the year by a fair measure of success in the proceedings authorized I and that as a consequence of decisions already obtained or expected soon, thu statutes dealing with such cases will soon be interpreted so authoritatively that those seeking to comply with the I law will be relieved from all uncertainty as to what the law really is.

He says that serious obstacles have been encountered in enforcing the statutes and that these may be with advantage readily removed by further legisaltion. United States has had occasion of late years, and will probably have occasion in he declared, prosecute criminally many corporations or other artificial persons. such offenders cannot be physically arrested, it is obviously desirable that a simple and convenient form of process shall be prescribed by law to have the legal effect of an actual arrest and removal to the trial district in the case of a natural person." HIT BY LIGHTNING ON TELEGRAPH WIRE Curry, Andrews and Luna Are Trying to Restore the Land to Entry. PRESIDENT FAVORS FOOLISH SILL New York, Dec. Herald this morning gives what purports to be the details of movements under way to organize an independent smelter concern.

It says: are well advanced for the formation of a smelting and refining organization on a large scale, in which the leading parts are to be taken by men of tlie Standard Oil. Amalgamated Copper group and the United States Steel corporation. D. Ryan, of Butte, president of the Anaconda Copper company, and managing director of the Amalgamated Copper company, is in charge of the promotion of the new organization and with him in this preliminary work is associated Thomas F. Cole, a prominent mining man of Duluth.

concern is to compete actively with the Guggenheims and the stock issue will be not less than $100,000,000. Western miners, it is said, have been complaining of excessive charges on the part of existing companies and are negotiating with the men back of the new movement. It is believed the new organization will take over the business of many existing concerns and it is even stated that the recent incorporation of the Phelps-Dodge interests in Arizona and New Mexico into a corporation may be a preliminary step toward association with the new company, although this is denied. the Greene Cananea copper properties will be linked directly or indirectly with the new organization is thought probable as Thomas F. Cole is president of this corporation and John D.

Ryan is a director, and both are identified with the various companies in the Greene Cananea concerns. 'It is also known that Dr. D. L. Ricketts.

of the Cananea company, has been in the city recently in connection with the promotion of the new Washington. D. Dec. George Curry and national committeeman Sol. Luna are assisting Andrews in his work against New Mexico forest reserves.

Some have been eliminated entirely and others reduced; in all millions of acres, including a large part of Rio Arriba county and the Mescalero reservation may become national forests. Andrews went to New York today and Curry, B-ujac and others called at the white house. Kelly also wTent to New York. Curry and Luna return to New Mexico Saturday. Foolish BUI.

President Roosevelt has written a letter to congressman Cooper, of Texas. strongly endorsing the bill to compel newspapers to publish a list of stockholders and officers on the front page in bold type daily. COLD NORTHER SWEEPS TEXAS EFFORT TO RESCUE A CHILD FROM A dirty and unkempt little wanderer, Stella Burnett, a 12 year old girl, was discovered by the ilev. Samuel Beri- brook recently, and steps are now being taken to have the child removed from her surroundings'of dirt and vice and placed where she will meet the proper influences. When he discovered the apparently homeless child he commenced to investigate, with the result that he says he found that the parents of the child are not fit, people to care for her.

Rev. Benbrook referred the case to the juvenile court for investigation, but when the parents got wind of the fact that the juvenile court was investigating, they Hed' to Mexico, taking their daughter with them. Girl Is Kept oil Bridal Tour Till of Age; Then Leases Oil Land. Muskogee, Dec. Moses Harris, formerly Susie Turner, has just arrived here after a bridal tour of the continent.

An oil company kidnapped the giri on streets or Ialequah, rushed her to Pryor Creek, where she was married to Harris in a Pullman. The company feared that other firms would get her oil lands. During the trip she became of agi' and. returning she leased the property to the oil corporation. Woman Gets Damages From the Telephone Company in Court.

Llano, Texas. Dec. district court here today awarded .1. C. Scott damages against the Texas Telegraph and Telephone companw.

the result of a suit in which Scott charged that his wife received an injury when lightning ran over the telephone wire into their home. The case is unusual. R. G. NOT SOLD; WORK ON MORI ARTY EXTENSION.

Santa Fe. N. Dec. Robert Law today denied the reports published In New York and in Denver that the Denver Rio Grande Railroad company had bought the New Mexico Central railway, from Santa Fe to Torrance. He added that no negotiations are pending or are being considered.

The company has seven miles of its from Moriarty to the Hagan coal fields completed and is rushing construction on the remainder. Ft. Worth. Dec. norther descended upon Texas early this morning.

after several days of excessive warmth for December. The temperature dropped over 30 degrees in many localities. The cold wave extends as far south as Austin. Trees were beginning to bud in norih Texas when the norther came. aco.

Texas. Dec. temperature fell 28 degrees between five oclock yesterday afternoon and eight oclock this morning. Yesterday was the warmest day in December in fourteen years. of the Yellow i The greatest detective story of the 1 day starts in The J31 Paso Herald to; morrow.

miss a single issue. TAFT SELECTS HIS ATTORNEY GENERAL. New York, Dec. has selected George W. Wickersham.

of New York, of the firm of Strong and, to be atorney general in his cabinet, it was learned today from a source regarded as reliable. TOM NEPHEW DIES. Dallas. Texas. Dec.

bodv of Ralph K. Taggart, a prominent hotel man. who died here last night, will be sent to Decatur. Illinois, for burial. Deceased was a nephew of Tom Taggart.

former chairman of the National Democratic committee. (Continued on Page Two.) REQl iSITIOS PAPEJtS FOR MEN WANTED NEW MEXICO. Santa Fe. N. Dec.

governor Nathan Jaffa has granted requisition papers directed to the governor of California, for Harry Everett and C. B. Redderins, wanted in Albuquerque for burglary and in custody at San Bernardino. California. Sheriff Perfecto Armijo and deputy Harry Cooper left Albuquerque with the requisition papers for San Bernardino tonight.

FINED FOR VAGRANCY. Joe Smiley was tried on the charge of vagrancy yesterday arternoon in justice of the peace court, and was fined SI and costs, $16.15. He was also ordered to get out of the city. Smiley was arrested on account of the interest lie took in the case of Mamie Walker, the negress who is charged with stealing $700 from Sydney Reed greatest detective story since fail to ad Mystery of the Yellow First chapter in EXPLODING LAMP BURNS A GIRL I Lockhart, Dec IS. Ovie I Portis narrowly escaped being killed or burned to death early this morning, when a lighted lamp she was carrying exploded, setting the house afire.

The girl was injured, but not seriously. The House was saved from destruction. seambn fficial it galveston Galveston, Texas, Dec. president J. u.

Pruett, of the Master i tastes and association, nere today on a tour of inspection. He ill be entertained at a smoker by the local organization. A Great Detective Story. Mystery of the Yellow Equal to Sherlock Holmes. First chapter in Herald.

BOODLERS GET TWO YEARS IN PEN Harrisburg, Dec. Kim el this morning imposed the following sentence upon the men convicted March 18 of the charge of conspiracy to defraud the state in contracts for supplying furniture to the new state capital. J. H. Saunderson.

W. P. Snyder, W. L. Mat hues and J.

M. Shumaker. $500 fines and two years imprisonment each, the maximum penalty. The men sentenced today were tried last spring and last a new trial. veek were refused 1 TRAINMAN 111'1ST.

Ennis. Texas. Dec. is. eatherford.

a Houston and Central fireman, was severely today, when a side bar on the pulling a southbound pa. enge crashing into the cab and doing siderable damage. TAFT REACHES VHil ST Augusta. I rres elect Taft and party arrived at oclock this morning. The tiip Washington was without inciden fistln, Dec.

ho 13 on me out with nn emphatic -James Texas injured nn cement today that of the li III not lie j.ermltted here In I even if the local authorities do not try to force of the statutes. He says "executive may deptndeil upon In every nse. the liquor I lmv the ant l-gnmhlliiK are the only openlj flouted and that all engine broke, ar con- ilenr- 1 from towns uill be compelled to uphold the laii js without exception. The governor Is non awaiting the suit of the upheaval in Sail Antonio before taking definite action. He sheriff Thomas, of Galveston county, has assured him that the lid will he kept down, and he non turning liis attention to Comal county, of Gernimi population, where, he says, Sunday closing has never been taken seriously.

It New Braunfels, In ninal county, prince SolniM settled German colonists in the early republic In- 1 a little Bo- hiiniH of their own all these years, the dominating the of fi Li of EniliHh "Peaking very little The anti-Prohibit Ion declare a indication that he wKh.