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La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-09-14
RseuhlleAn Con ysntien.
rhe republicans Of otero county


assembled in convention at Com
mercial College baH in this city
last Saturday at II a. m. Each OF
the fourteen precincts Of the county
were represented. The conven-
ton was called to order by A. w.
Shelton, chairman OF the county
central committee. The secretary.
C. d. Parks, read the call OF the
convention, and a temporary or
ganization was effected by the
election of F. b. VanGundy chair
man, and F. B. Mason secretary.
1t was moved and seconded that
the chair appoint committee OF
Ave on permanent organization
and the following gentlemen were
named: c. c. Washburn. H. w.
Adsmond, T. J. Hoffmire, w. L.
Barnes, and ]. F. Sickenberger.
On motion the chair appointed
a committee OF FIVE to select dele
gates to the state convention,
naming the following gentlemen:
c. d. Parks, G.. II. Winchell, 0.
B. Staufer, u. S. Ringer and G.
A. Collins.
The chair then appointed COM
mittee OF three on resolutions, T.
|. Hoffmire, A. l.. Kellogg and G.
II. Winchell
A recess was then taken until
2 O'Clock.
The convention re-assembled
and was called to order by Chair
man VanGundy.
The committee on permanent
organization and order of bust
ness made the following report;
Oficers-Permanent chairman.
NJ. L. Farwell; permanent secre-
tary, F. b. VanGundy.
Order of business-First, report
~ various committees; second, Sc
lection OF fourteen delegates to
the stat f.,nvention 10 be held in
Denver, September 18TH; third,
nomination OF Candidate for repre-
sentative; fourth, nomiration can
didate for county Judge; hfth,
nomination of candidate for county
commissioner.
The third. fourth and fifth
clauses OF the committees report
were not agreed to, and a motion
that when the convention adjourns,
it adjourn subject to the call of
the chairman for the purpose OF
effecting fusion with the silver
republicans was carried.
The committee appointed to
select delegates to the state con-
vention made the following report
which was UNANIMOUSLY adopted:
Delegates-T. r. Hoffmire, c.
w. Cultivate, II. l.. Brown, G.
H. Winchell, A. d. Joy. c. d.
Parks, A. L. Kellogg, c. c. Wash
burn, 7. F Godding. Jr., G. w.
MeaGor, w. b. Goblin, o b.
Slauffer, U. S. Ringer, A. w.
Shelton. Alternates-H. 1. Ohm
stead, c. d. Steward. G. II. Will
lis, NJ. l.. Farwell, Andrew Mayers,
F. B. Mason, w. c. Steele, A. NJ.
Jackson, E. W. Kearby, G. A.
Collins, J. B. Blackburn, F. B.
NanGundy, ID. L. McPhilimy. Asa
Scudder.
The aiternates were named as
the delegates TO the congressional
convention which meets in Pueblo
next Saturday.
Speeches were made by T. l..
Hofimire, b. Blackburn and
others. Mr.. Hoffmire related his
experience at Colorado Springs,
where he went to view the politi-
cal landscape DER. He said the
''view" was positively enchanting,
and eminently satisfactory.
The convention then adjourned
subject to the call OF the chairman.
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-09-14
OFFICIAL PAPER OF la JUSrA AND OTERO co

WEDNESDAY. SEPT. "a, 1898.
The times., 1898-03-06

spontaneous combustion. But no such
condition is possible on a ship, because
the gun cotton is always carried in the
torpedo heads and inspected regularly to
see that 1t remains wet. The heads are
practically air tight. but if any evapora-
ton is noticed the cotton can be damp
ened again by a regular means arranged
for that purpose
The process by which so common and
harmless substance as cotton is con-
Verted into a high explosive Is a compar-
atively simple one Pure raw cotton or
ordinary cotton waste is stecped in a So
luton Of one part of nitric acid and
three parts of sulphuric acid. The nitric
acid is the one which renders the cotton
explosive the presence of the sulphuric
being required only to absorb the water.
thus allowing the other acid TO combine
more readily with the nearly pure cellu-
lose Of which cotton consists. After the
cotton has soaked in the acids for sew
eral hours, it is taken from the pots and
squeezed through heavy rollers TO eX-
tract all the superiiuous acid which ii has
not absorbed. Then ii is washed care
fully and thoroughly, still with the same
object of removing the free acid. If any
of this remained, it's tendency would be
to cause chemical changes in the gun
cotton and deCOmpOSe il. Formerly this
washing was the last process resorted to
for the removal OF the free acid. but a
few years ago Sir Frederick Abel found
that the cells in the cotton fiber so alb
sorbed and retained the acid by capillary
attraction that the washing failed to eX-
tract 1t entirely. To remedy this and
and make the gun cotton more pure, it is
now, after being washed passed through
machine similar To that which grnds
up the rags in a paper mill. Here it is
crushed thoroughly and afterward wash
el tho la Of a,fJ
disappears, and the cotton comes out in
| the form of a soft. white pulp closely re-
| sembling the pulp of which paper is
made. This concludes the process of ac-
| tual manufacture, and it now re-
mains only to convert the gun cotton into
the most convenient form for the use tc
| which il is to be put.
The times., 1898-03-06
GUN COTTON .
The Safest of the High Explosives
for Naval Warfare
From the New York Tribune.)

Trom the New York Tribune)
Gun cotton" said an ordnance officer
a few days ago, when asked about the
qualities of this substance which Is used
in the torpedoes carried 10y the ships of
the Navy, lis by far the safest of any of
the high explosives. That is The reason
it is chosen instead of nilro-gIycerine
preparations, which, although they will
produce more powerful effects, are Very
dangerous things TO have on shipboard.
They can be exploded too easily, by the
application of heat. by shock, and un-
der some conditions, by spontaneous
combustion. But the gun cotton as long
as it is kept wet is absolutely safe. and
there is no trouble about preserving the
necessary degree Of moisture"
Precisely the same opinion regarding
gun cotton as an explosive for naval
warfare was expressed by the superin-
tendent Of one of the largest powder
manufacturing firms, a man who has had
much experience in the making of gun
powder and gun cotton.
Not only Is gun cotton absolutely inert
and harmless so long as il is wet he
said, but il does not necessarily follow
that ii will explode even when dry Of
course, il Is then much more liable 10
do so, but if It is undisurbed I'm any
remain dry without any accident In our
works we are extremely careful about
the way in which We handle dry gun cot
ton. but there IS no need of any precau-
tions when ii is wet on shipboard the
disks of dry cotton which are used as
primers to detonate the wet are always
kept away from the magazine, either on
deck or in one Of the cabins. The only
danger from them would be in case they
were dropped while being handled The
result then would not always-perhaps
not usually-be an explosion, but YOU new
er can tell with certainty. one of the
disks might be dropped half dozen times
and not explode, and the next time. un-
der apparently the same conditions. il
would go off As far as heat is concern
ed if the dry gun cotton is exposed To a
continuous high temperature for a long
time il is likely to decompose, undergo
ing chemical changes which generate
| heat and may go far enough to cause
The times., 1898-03-06

and given into his keeping. One charac-
teristic feature of a Moslem wedding Is
the beating of two little drums which the
bridegroom carries strapped about his
waist and on which he pounds for hours
at a time until the whole village is in
formed of his happiness. Friends of the
happy couple also march about the
streets with drums and footing flies.
Eager as they are to be married, it is
doubtful If the young girls of Turkey
are very happy in the months just after
the honeymoon. Then for the first time
they realize in their own hard experience
that women are regarded here as inferior
creatures, made for the service of man.
TIL conviction prevails among men of all
races, Christian as well as Mosiem. An
Armenian bride must see her father-in-
law to bed, helping him to undress and
then stand silently by his bedside. holding
light until he has settled himself to
slumber. And in many parts of Turkey
she may not speak above a whisper III
the presence of her husbands relatives
until she has done something to justify
| her existence by having a son. And in
| other parts she must wear a veil night
! and day. when sewing and working. and
! at all times, until she has passed her for
| tieth year. And SO long as her mother
| in-laW lives she is the family servant. Of
| ten little more than q household drudge
When visitors come it is always the
! bride of the house who brings in the
| sweets and then remains standing with
! downcast eyes until the mother-in-law
| motions her to be seated. And when the
! stranger passes through AN Armenian vii
| lase dozens Of women, old and young, will
! rise from their seats on the doOrsteps-
| this out of respect for his masculinty' -
| as they express il. For him to notice
| them, however, by any salutauon. would
! be decided breach of etiquette So gem
| eral is this feeling of inferiority among
! the women themselves that even little
| girls in a school will instinctiyely rise
| as soon as man enters the room and
! stand before him with eyes on the floor,
| as they have seen their mothers do.
One Of the greatest misfortunes that
| can befall a woman in Turkey IL to have
no children. The horror OF barrenness
! that is seen so often in the Bible still ex-
| lists undiminished throughout Asia Minor.
| And next To having no children the great
| est misfortune is to have no sons Arme-
| mans have been known to beat their
wives severely after the birth of a daugh-
ter, and a Turk makes no count of his
| children except sons. The reason for
this is partly that the father wishes to
| have the support of sons in his old age.
The times., 1898-03-06
-or the people to live, to multiply and

for the people to live, to multiply and
to attend to their private affairs.
With no governing class, no intelli-
gent and powerful monarchy and no
principles of policy, there can be no
government in the higher sense of the
word The utter exhaustion of the
country after the miserable weiter of
1S6S-lS76, the docility of Alfonso XII,
the great tact and high personal char
acter of the Queen Regent, daughter
OF the Archduke Albert, with all the
ruling faculty of her house, have given
Spain twenty years Of peaceful an
archy.
But they have not given, and could
not give, good government, thrift in
the management Of the public fortune,
timely preparation against dangers, the
removal of those administrative vices
which have paraIyzed the Spanish ar
my and been the immediate cause Of
the loss of the colonies.
The times., 1898-03-06
DYSPEPSIA.

Remember that GROVER GRA-
HAMS remedy ts GUARANTEED
to remove all distress FROM THE
FIRST DOSE. 1t is folly to suffer
when zoe. hottie, procured from
your druggist, viii correct In
stantIy all anpieasant symptoms.
An infallibIe Specific for Dyspepsia,
Hearthu Gastritis ana all dis
eases arising from an impaired d.
gestive System. %rite to Grover
Graham Co, Newbnrgh, n. Y, for
pamphlet. 4
The times., 1898-03-06
Worth Four and Five Times That.
World=Defying Prices in UphOlsteries.

There's nothing Of bggPIoa9 in This
the {
in Sc
% @ 10 tne
An a1s0ren of @ huns fu Fieees @ Sor9h @ y and sash Zoe
that S %e siss % curtains ~ com pots " yards long " pairs pairs 9Se
d
tn them oaesi veve Aons and Body Brussels We have hitherto sold 59e
36x6OE Rugs
mrs nS a 9sara one the lot fringe at both ends Are 81 -
yard To- d our al fine such de-
o a %
at
madewf The andsk
@ % 9fd sHG n n sS & @ 5 B Fi5 s Py 39c
The times., 1898-03-06
Lower Yet With Lining Prices.


Here's 9e
w ere a I5c
Or a
GENUINE Iaircoth ard
$ o e TIC
selling lO1ac
Il some changed and dsomep
zee "
from5 o... 33e
The times., 1898-03-06
Rapid Transit is Assured

For next summer from Washington and
Baltimore TO Ocean City, Md Choice
lots for sale cheap. Jno. f. Waggaman
100 18th st.
The times., 1898-03-06

The pinnacle of perfection in brewing
is reached In our Champagne" and
Ruby Lager. For purity and delicious
flavor they know but few equals. a
bottles-sent in unlettered wagons-only
81. Wash. Brewery Co, ltb and F ne.
The times., 1898-03-06

If you have no telephone, drop a postal
to the Arlington Bottling Co., corner 9th
and * Streets northwest, for Heurich
Bottled Beer.
The times., 1898-03-06

Heurich's Stock Ale is delicious drink
Try case. Arlington Bottling Co, cor
ner 9th and X Streets northwest.
The times., 1898-03-06

$4,000 Yards Of Sample Embroideries.

ion THEY'RE
a qusu
of
The times., 1898-03-06
s. Kann, Sons & Co
The Busy Corner,
8th and Market Space
THESE PRICES WILL
STIR YOU Up.

Packed ases and
car1orng what accustomed have here and
again this week Yes and other week after this
throughout the
The times., 1898-03-06
To Force Business Well Resort to Extreme Measures

what deliberate regardless reductions that This
offering leavings sacrifice of
building full perfect merchandise prema
tureY marked
The times., 1898-03-06

TennIlle, 700 Seventh str cel Nv
The times., 1898-03-06
Case of diamond" Beer

handsomely embossed, all for Sl.25 Write or
phone %, National Capital Brewing Co.
The times., 1898-03-06
Daring Domestic DOings.


@ o ton prices
of
he sec
Yard-wde Bleacled Muslin York Mills
only cases, worth yard than Loom and
Androscoggin Quantity limited dzsc
New York Mills Beacled Sheeting Osc
pieces Fast Color Apron Ginglans. 2zsc
Yadwide Sea Island Percas Csc
Zephyr Dress Gnghans choice styles. Csc
India Linen color striped Slightly damaged &c
lot Barnaby Dress Ginghans, all the 12c
lot Imported Dress Gnghan choice styles......... 1oc
styles Yard wide Madras quality, largest
sortnen in Washington 12Hc
pieces Imported Pique Corduroy Stripe Pink Cream
and Black Worth ............... SOC
The times., 1898-03-06
7oc New Brocaded Gros Grains, 40c.

imesve when Dc Slksw will be
We have 5
raj and
Ioi OF
The times., 1898-03-06

You can tell in an instant that these are il
anything ever offered at price like this. Eve
An uncrockable, unrustable black. too. 80 inc
The times., 1898-03-06
98c Plain Rustling Taffetas, Toe.

This quality The tailoring
worlds afforded instead
The times., 1898-03-06
81 New Rustling Taffeta, 69c.

quality inches wide heavier than
Gay,C
| m
The times., 1898-03-06
45c All-Wool Cloth Suitings, 28c.

Qualities like this trumphs of mill These sings
finish like imported adies cloth real
The times., 1898-03-06
A Guaranteed Black Taffeta, ST.

ywomen have
their by having the silk which
wells
Worth
New-York tribune., 1898-01-29
PERSONAL

Major Asa Bird Gardiner. the Distric,-Attorney Of
New-York is on the retired list Of the Army and
receives salary such OF ,s75 a year. His sal
ary as D!strict-Attorney is $1,000 additional. Colo
mel Theophlus r Rodenbough who was appointed
Superintendent of the Bureau Of Elections on
salary of s. 625 year In addition 10 his salary from
the city of 5000 year.
J. J. Hill. president Of the Great Northern Rail-
road has given s2occo TO Hamllne CiinnD Uni
versty on condition that $5, 900 more he raised.
Catharine Bartlett Crane. who has been min
isier In Michigan for the last ten years. has de-
ciaod to take a course OF theology the University
Of Chicago
When President Dlaz Of Mexico passed through
San Luis Potosi on his return from his hunting
trip the other day he found the station gayly deco
rated. the whole population turned out en- masse.
and banquet Of 80 covers laid In the station shed
in his honor.
Congressman Belknap. Of Chicago. is member OF
a club organized in the White House stable when
General Grant President. Beiknap Of
the Cabinet bows then. his father being Secretary Of
War. Jesse Grant was president Of the club. and
the members were generally sons OF Cabinet offi-
GERS. Army and Navy officers and prominent men
In Washington
The officers Of Captain Fags's Old regiment In
the war the 10th Massachusetts, gave dinner in
his honor at the Quincy House. Boston. on Thurs
day evening. Captain Flasg who recently returned
from Europe. distinguished officer in the
Army Of the Potomac. and was with his regiment
when mustered out at the end OF the war. The
Captain IL secretary to Mr. Vanderbilt. in the
office OF the New York Central Railroad. a place
which he has held for many years. Colonel Law
sOn, Of he regiment was present AZ tho dinner
president o. the reeimenal association.
Nowi Tehuhonevake. The chief OF the Iroquols
Indians at Caughnawaga. Canada. is preparing to
visit Queen Victoria in order 10 secure renewal
OF the American treaty Of 1873 under which his
people cross the border without paying duty on
their manufactures
Nine Dreyfus. wife OF cxCapta Dreyfus.
plains that she receives only copies OF the letters
her husband sends her the originals being retained
By the French Government. This Is done because
the Government suspects that the two carry
lng on a correspondence In cipher His keepers
noticed that he had received Information In ad-
vance OF the recent exciting demonstration In his
favor. BESIDES this. II has been observed that for
every letter he sends his wife Drcyius makes no
fewer than twenty or thirty rough drafts. which.
when compared. show strange dinere nces In spell
ing and penmanship Now. Captain Dreyfus was a
graduate OF the EcoIe Polytechniquc, but his let
ters have lately been marked by the most absurd
New-York tribune., 1898-01-29
A,enu?1orjs Dailp Iribn,,s
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1898
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-A Shanghai newspaper announces Hn'S -
the murder Of four German sailors al klao-Chau
by Chinese twelve Chinese are aso sala 10 no ON
been killed - II Is estmatea ona.to Inai noo n
wages and spent S2OOUO besides py reason
Of the strike just ended. - 1t IS rep1I.eu
that the yacht Mayfiower has oeen sou cola 20
Leopold OF Belgium for 100000: - DoIo 10
The amount Of $4,000 was Withdrawn from tne
Bank Of England for shipment 10 New nn,,a vi ~
- Canadian bicycle manulacluIeis no. To-,
aeked their Government to lay a specilc oue'
of 50 apiece wheels 10 protect mem Ior,,
conpetition Of the United States - "a a.
General Blanco predicted that peace woolu pre-
vail in Cuba next month; the spanish ~ ~ ~
rncnt issued sem-offcial note regarding 'he
visit Of Spanish warshps 70 America
CO%GRESs.-Both branches in session. 80 =.
Senate: The Teller resolution declaring M nsi
Cov7rnrnent bonds are payable III stanoa103 81. 81.
@ dIiar vas mas ,ed by vote Of A. to 81 ar
fer y debate lasting throughout the da!; D--I
House. A bill for the relief or the BOOK ruo
fishing Company. OF the Method's' hp''0''"
Church South passed
MESTIC-President Mckinley arrived IN
washington. returning from his VISIT 10 .nis
civ - bill has been introduced at Aioany
nv Senator Wieman 20 abolish the Brooklyn
Shore Road Commission and have Mayor an
W-vck apDoint a new one. bipartisan in cnar-
ac;er. = \ contract was signed at ShlSaso
between the operators and the CMlteo Mlile
Workers Association - Controier , DaMes
announced that Re would appoint receiver
for the Chestnut Street National Bank oI niiS
delrha to-day. - IL Is repoI' 'eu mo
Oliver Iselin's business abroad has TO DO with
rho interests OF new cup-detender syndicate
- The Divorce Reform League reports I'M
portant changes in the divorce and marriage
laws of many States.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-The report OF CHIEF
McCullach was made public; he recommends
among other things the partal re-esta Dlis,-
ment of the Broadway Squad, and new Head
quarters building. -- Hugh Bonner was ap-
pointed Chief Of the new cty's Fine Department.
and lanes Dale Deputy-Chief, by Fire Commits
sioner Scannell - number Of final esti-
mates for various city departments were passed
ty The Board Of Estimate - Further detells
Of the plan for the union Of Vanderbilt lines
were learned ----- The Peoples Traction Com
pany has passed into the control Of syndicate
headed by p. ~. Flynn and w. a. Boand -
Stocks were active and Irregular.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Snow followed by fair. The temperature yes
terday: Highest % degrees; lowest. p: average.
23l.
New-York tribune., 1898-01-29
LOUISIANA POLITICS

The object OF the ruling class in Louisiana In
voting for a constitutional convention is frankly
proclaimed by their orators and newspaper or
gans. They have at least the merit Of coura-
geous candor. What they seek is the dlsfran-
chisement Of the negro voters. or Of so many Of
them as to eliminate that factor in Louisiana
politics. As in 1870 they declared their pur-
pose Of destroying the Republican government
set up under the operation of reconstruction
laws-a purpose they accomplished by violence
SO now they tell US that they intend to make
Republican government impossible in the future
by taking from the great mass Of the Repub-
licans in that State their right Of suffrage The
New Orleans Times Democrat" In recent issue
said
vote to-day for the Constitutional Convention
and the Democratic nominees to that cOnvon-
ton. The Democratic canddates-and they
alone-are pledged to the policy OF so limiting
the suffrage as 10 get rid Of the negro voters.
They are under pledge TO the Democratic party
to change our suffrage system. and they dare
not violate these pledges or disobey the orders
Of the party to which they belong. Every vote
is needed. There has been no election Of greater
Importance since the Civil War. Under the
present system Of suffrage Louisiana was for
eight years under negro Republican rule. dis
graced dishonOred and despoiled. We have
held the State since then but only by the great
est exertlons ana never without grave FISK or
losing ii.
At each election there have been danger and
threats Of another negro invasion, Of another
era Of Republican supremacy panic unset
tied business and frightened investors and in
dustries II is true that we win these elections
but at heavy cost. and by the use Of methods
repugnant TO our idea Of political honesty and
which must In time demoralize the people OF
Louisiana. We have felt that this condition of
affairs could not continue forever: that il was
simply question OF time when a division in
the ranks OF the whites would give the negro
access 10 power again or when some whites he
traying their race. would the negroes TO
elevate themselves TO political power The last
election showed us how close this danger
OF division in the ranks OF the whites and
warned us that unless We eliminated the negroes
from our voting population AT the earliest pos
sible day there every chance that the State
would be lost.
No one can complain Of any lack OF cal ndor in
this utterance There is no attempt to Disguise