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Show I Boiled Down News EL PASO. Texas. Oct- 12. The board of army engineers headed by General William L. Marshall, now on a lour of Inspection of government Irrigation projects. pro-jects. Inspected tho Elephant Butto project pro-ject today. Tha party arrived from Tucson Tuc-son yesterday and departed for Ros-wcll, Ros-wcll, N. M.. tonight. Tho lour will be completed at Garden City. Kan., early next week. EL PASO. Texas. Oct. 12. Joseph Desmond, a private In company D, Twenty-third Lnlted States Infantry, stationed sta-tioned at Fort Bliss, near this city, died today from the effects of Injuries received re-ceived In a saloon row. Desmond's relatives rela-tives live in Chicago. The injured man was allowed to lie in the saloon four hours without attention. BEVERLY. Mass.. Oct. 12. President Taft returned to Beverly late today from Boston and had luncheon with Representative Repre-sentative Gardner at a hotel. The president's pres-ident's left foot Is still giving him some trouble and he wore a carpet slipper to Boston. LEXINGTON. Oct. 12. What is believed be-lieved lo have been an attempt to wreck the fabt limited passenger train from Cincinnati to Now Orleans on the Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. New Orleans & Texas Pacific railroad was dlt-covcrcd last night al a point (hlrtecji miles south of here. The train was loaded with passengers and had the obstruction on the track nnl been seen in (Imc a heavy loss of life probably would have resulted. NEW YORK. Ocl. 12. Senator Timo-thv Timo-thv D. Sullivan "Big Tim" has startled some of the followers of" the Bowery by declaring openly In favor of woman's suffrage. He advocates submitting the question of giving women the ballot lo a referendum vole. NEW YORK. Oct. 12. Charles Gilbert, tho French - opera baritone, died hero suddcnlv lasl night at the Hotel Gregorian. Grego-rian. He arrived here from Europe last week to sing Ihe coming season with the Metropolitan Opera company. Mr. Gilbert was to have sung one of the parts In Puccini's new opera. "Tho Girl of the Golden West." BOSTON. Oct. 12. Four Chinamen, who were captured in a freight, car at Holvoke September IS and brought here, charged with violating the Inimigralioc laws, have been started back to China, the United Slates being put lo an , cx pense of S1DO0 for their deportation. LOUISVILLE. K. Oct. 12. The opening open-ing session of the American Directory Publishers annual convention began here today. Officers for next year will be elected. DURHAM. N. C. Oct. 12. The work of educating tho negro has progressed so steadily In the last ten years that only 13 per cent of tho race in the United States at present are Illiterates, according accord-ing to Mrs. Emma Erskino Halm of New-York New-York City, who today addressed the students stu-dents of the national religious training school hore. She pointed out that ten years ago S3 per cent of tho negrocn of tho country were Illiterates. Over one hundred students are enrolled at the school. |