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The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30
NATIONAL IRRIGATION
CONGRESS- PROCEEDINGS

Chicago, Nov. 24.-Trouble arose in
the meeting of the Irrigation Congress
yesterday afternoon, when the report
of the committee on permanent organ
ization was presented.
1t named Buffalo for the session OF
1901 and this causes so vigorous pro-
test from the western delegates that a
decision was delayed until to-day.
The report honored Colorado by nam
ing Thomas f. Walsh ms the next presi-
dent of the national association.
Frederick " Covillc, botanist, Of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, spoke about New Crops for Arid
Lands" He said in part:
"In Transforming the plains and the
deserts from a purely grazing region
to one in which crop-growing shall as
sumo an important position, both the
DRY and costly experience indicate that
the varieties of fruits, cereals and
other crops most successful in the
humid East are failures in the arid
West. The most pronounced successes
in arid land agriculture have come
from crops introduced into the United
States from those ports of the world
In which the culture of arid lands has
been practiced for centuries.
about 1888 Kansas began the cult
walton of cereal and forage plant
from Egypt and India known as
Kaffir corn. In 1893 the value of the
Kansas crop was $685., 900; in 1896, 3d.
500 1000; in 1897. 4,275,OO0. and in 1898,
S5,S42, 900. The Turkey wheat now so
extensively grown i'll the Great Plains
is an immigrant from Russia. The
cold-resistant variety of alfalfa re-
Gently introduced by the Department
of Agriculture from Turkestan prom
ises to affect an important extension in
the cultivation of this crop into the
higher and more northern plains. The
date palm has now been successfully
introduced into Southern Arizona and
extensive experiments under the aus
pices of the government are under way.
There has been set aside from the
Congressional seed distribution appro-
priation a special fund which the de-
partment of agriculture is devoting to
a systematic prosecution of this plant
introduction work Within the past
three years new plants have been i'm
ported which are capable of adding
enormously to the agricultural product
of the country. The Introduction of
Kiushu rice brought from Japan two
years ago by one of the departments
agricultural explorers means saving
to Louisiana rice planters of million
and n half dollars per year.
The arid West will profit especially
by those importations of new crops.
because the arid-land agriculture is
comparatively new and undevelOped.
and offers attractive and lucrative
possibilities both to the experimental
and practical agriculturiSt.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30

New York, Nov. 24.-Bishop Henry
C. Potter yesterday delivered an ad-
dress on God and the City" in st.
Paul's chapel. in which he suggested
the organization of vigilance commit
tee of 25,OOO reformers, to cleanse the
city of vice He favored a central COM
mittee of three to five men, under
whose orders the public committee
should act. The bishop spoke in part
as follows:
In New York tomorrow there could
be organized a vigilance committee
such as was in San Francisco, Of 25,-
600 men sworn to service for three
years and pledged by night and by day,
when their business and their oppor-
tunities gave them the freedom for It,
to see for themselves whether our souls
had been smitten with the sorrow of
that little victim of five years who was
picked up in the street the other day
in broad daylight and rnvished by a
brute who had lived here. Would such
things be possible in a God-fearing
community?
mo, men and brethren, not II you
and had our eyes open and kept them
open and stood where God calls us to
stand to-day. And then, finally, we
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30

Washington, Nov. 4.-Assurances OF
a particularly gatifying and important
character, declaring their pupose to act
conjointly and in harmony to effect q
prompt settlement of the Chinese ques-
ton, were to-day given the United
States by Russia. Germany, Great Bri-
tain, France and Japan. These deciar-
atoms of the five powers are due to the
diplomacy of the President and Score
tary Hay.
Developments in Pekin had shown
conclusively that none of the ministers
were alive to the Importance of formu-
lating demands with which the Chinese
government could comply. PROPOSE
lions were being made, especially by
representatives of the European pow
ers, whose policies were regarded with
suspicion, the adoption of which could
only result in rejection by the Chinese
government and the resumption Of hos
tilities.
II was therefore decided that in the
interest of prompt settlement it was
desirable to appeal to the powers d.
rect An Identical note was therefore
addressed to the interested govern
ments in Europe and Japan and the
correspondence which followed Gull
minated in the assurances referred to.
These assurances repeat the declara-
tons which made connection with the
endorsement of the Anglo-German
agreement and would seem on their
face to show that the powers are act
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30
SHERIFF FREEMAN'S
EMPHATIC ANSWE FIR

Denver, Colo, Nov. 26.-The dailies
this morning publish the answer of
Sheriff Freeman of Lincoln county, to
the letter of District Attorney McAllis-
ter asking him to arrest the lynchers Of
John Porter. In his answer, Sheriff
Fireman says:
Under the laws of this state Meth
neither rape nor murder Is punishable
by death, nor are rape and murder
combined punishable by death under
the law, and yet every man of common
sense knows who was at all familiar
with the horrible particulars of the
rape of Louise Frost and her fiendish
murder, that the citizens of Lincoln
county would not wait for the slow
processes of the law and the wholly in
adequate punishment that would come
as a result of conviction under the
law
''rhe men who took Preston Porter
from my custody We're citizens of Lin
coin county, and personally known to
you and to other officials of the district
and state. The lodging of informations
against them and the trial of them for
lynching the prisoner would be wholly
fruitless, and would impose upon the
county an enormous expense without
any beneficial results whatsoever.
II have no desire to avoid any re-
sponsibility, but do not intend to make
n grandstand play in order to set my
self right in the eyes of yourself or
Governor Thomas, or those citizens
who We're pleased to meet in Denver
and pass resolutions after the lynching
had taken place.
''If that meeting of preachers and
lawyers, politicians and sentimentalists
Mt Coliseum hall had been held before
the lynching the lynching might have
probably been deferred for period of
ten or twelve days. You certainly
know that no jury could be impaneled
In Lincoln county, or by change of
venue in Douglass county, FL Paso
county, Kit Carson county, or Teller
county, which would convict any one
under any conceivable charge that
might be brought against him of com
plicity in this lynching."
After stating that the affair has nc
political Significance. and that he will
not permit the governor and district
attorney to saddle the blame on him,
Sheriff Freeman adds:
when it comes to the administering
of death to brute who first rapes the
child. and then stabs and kicks her to
death, l take il that true Americans
lose sight of mere politics and remem-
Der only that they are only fathers and
brothers. 1t seems to me we had bet
ter let this episode rest where it is
now"
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30
KRUGER'S VISIT
EXCITES THE FRENCH

Paris, Nov 24.-"Vive Kruger and
Down with the English rang yester-
day from the threats of thousands OF
people at the stations along the route
from Marseilles to DIXON. President
Kruger's journey was one grand ova-
ton. Multitudes frenzied with enthus-
iasm cheered the great Boer leader at
every stopping place.
In spite of every precaution by the
French government, the visit of Pres
ident Kruger has already taken on
grave political importance. The anti
English feeling is rapidly approaching
the danger point. The nation has been
stirred to Its profundest depths, and
the responsible heads of the govern
ment may find themselves utterly UNI
able to Withstand the demands of an
excited people.
Especially significant is the stand
that will be taken by the army. French
officers mingled with the crowds and
Joined in the cheering.
Everything depends upon the events
in the French capital. All Europe
awaits the result of the demonstration.
President Kruger will arrive in Paris
in the morning, and probably the scenes
of yesterday will be re-enacted in far
greater magnitude. Preparations have
been made by the police to prevent any
demonstrations hostile to England, but
1t Is doubtful IL the crowds can be con
trolled.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30

Boston, Nov. 24.-Booker T. Wash.
ington said last night regarding the re-
cent lynching of negro in Colorado
that the same class of people who be-
gan to break the law by lynching n
negro will soon learn TO break the law
by lynching n white man.
II think said Mr.. Washington.
that the Colorado lynclng emphasizes
the fact that the only way TO stop such
outbreaks is. in the first place. to bring
about such general education. not only
in books, but in industry and thrift
as will make odious such acts as that
which provoked the lynching fever, and
then to educate public sentiment up to
the point where people of all parts of
the country will see that we only can
have the highest civilization if the law
Is enforced regardless Of race or color
Wherever people begin to lynch for
one kind Of offcnse they are soon led
into the temptation of lynching for
any other kind of offense. Aside from
the injustice that is perpetrated upon
the individual put to death without a
legal trial, we must bear in mind that
there is a permanent degradation
which comes to the individual who
takes part in and witnesses such an
outrage as occurred in Colorado"
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30
BISHOP POTTER ANNOUNCES
A PLAN TO REDEEM NEW YORK

must have not only vigilance but pc
slstence.
1--WE shall not redeem New York. me;'
and brethren. by emotions; we sha'
not redeem 1t by denunciation; we
shall not redeem 1t by pessimistic ten,
per that wraps its garment around 1t
and turns its back upon it. There an
burning with zeal and enthusiasm an1
q high purpose of sacrifice In this grcnt
city to-day great multitudes of mcn
and women. They are of different re
ligions; they must forget that. They arc
of different nationalties; they must
forget that. They are of different po-
litical associations, most of all. they
must forget that. And if. having
reached that point, we could find three
or five men whom all trusted and be-
lieved in there are hundreds of them.
and say to these three or five men:
Now, then, tell us what you want us
to do, where you want me to stand,
what relation do you want our party.
our church, our organization to bear
to the betterment of New York. We
will trust your Judgment: we will fol
low your lead, and the work is done.
Next to that in this service of enlight-
ened soul we want violence"
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30

New York, Nov. 26.-Herbert L..
Bridgman, secretary of the Peary Arc
tic Club. tonight gave out extracts
from letters sent by Lieutenant Peary.
the Arctic explorer, to his wife. She
did not receive them, having started
to rejoin her husband last August,
without his knowledge. She was at
Disco, Greenland. on August 10th.
The letters of Peary's We're carried
by natives to the camp of the Stein
party, at Cape Sabine, and thence con-
veyed to Cape York by DR.. Kahn, who
boarded the steam whaler Eclipse on
June 9th and was landed by her at
Dundee. Scotland, on the 9th instant.
Following are the letter extracts fur
nished by Mr.. Bridsman:
Fort Congo. Lady Franklin Bay,
March 81, 19O0.-Just a line to so
down to n whaler by returning natives.
1 arrived here at midnight on the 18th,
twenty-four days from Etah. Six and
one-half days of this time we We're held
in camp by heavy wind storms. The
doctor and Hensen each left Etah with
natives before we arrived here. The
journey was tedious one owing to the
storms, but not an uncomfortable one
for me- A number of dogs died on the
way, but l had an ample number for
the work ahead. Twenty-one musk
oxen were killed in sight of the fort
the day before l arrived; we have an
abundant supply of fresh meat.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30
BIG FLOODS IN
THE OHIO VALLEY

Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 26.-Floods
We're reported all along the Ohio val
ley last night. In almost the entire
valley it has been raining since last
Tuesday and almost continuously since
Friday.
While no lives are reported lost, the
damage to property is considerable.
The Licking river in Kentucky is
very high and has caused some damage
on the Ohio side by it's waters rushing
across the Ohio channel and sweeping
the Cincinnati landing. One of the
bridges over the Licking, connecting
Covington and Newport, was swept
away. The lumber yards, mills and
shipping generally suffered great loss.
Pittsburg, Pa, Nov. 25.-The Ohio
river at the dam tonight is SO feet
high and rising rapidly. BY tomorrow
fourteen feet or more is expected.
Five million bushels of coal will be
shipped to Southern points. The Con-
solidated Coal company has arranged
for every boat in the port, twenty-five
in number. to go out on this rise. and
the boats coming up with the empties
will be returned ms rapidly as possible,
until the 100000 bushels now loaded
are on their way South,
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30
PEARY'S DASH FOR THE POLE
MAY PROVE SUCCESSFUL

after resting and feeding the dogs
few days longer l shall go on and the
other Eskimos will remain at theSfort
hunting am in good condition and the
Journey shows me that l am myself
again. If do my work this spring ]
shall come back and hasten down TO
meet the ship and turn back with her.
1 hope to write again by natives which
1 shall send back from some point up
the Greenland coast. DIR. Didnick
wishes to be remembered"
The second extract follows:
Cape D'Urville. Grinnell Land.
March -, 1901 write this note on
the chance of Stein and DR.. Kahn
reaching Upusauk by way of Kolville
bay. The fall and winter passed COM
fortably at Etah, without even days
indisposition on my part. l have hus-
banded myself carefully. My feet
have given me very little trouble and
now l feel that l am myself again
am now at the Windward's winter
quarters with the rear division. Mott
and the doctor are ahead with two 9th
er divisions. All but n few of the ma
tives will return Mt once from there.
leaving few with me. l shall push
on from Conger without delay, per
haps by way of the Greenland coast. |
shall strain every nerve and, God Will
ing, shall do my work this spring, that
1 may come back this summer. 1 send
duplicate of this to Cape York for n
whaler,"
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30
Big INCREASE In THE MINERAL
OUTPUT OF THE UNITED STATES

the ruling prices being higher than
for q number of years past.
Crude petroleum advanced nearly
$50, 100000, or about foryt-five per
cent, due principally to advanced
prices, the production increasing less
than four per cent. The value of the
natural gas consumed in 1899 is placed
at little over S20. 100000, against $15.-
300, 600 due entirely to the higher prices
charged.
An increase of about ten per cent.
or from SCI, i63, 900 in 1890 to ST. ,O53,-
400 In 1898, is shown In gold produc-
ton. The production of silver showed
a very small increase.
Lead production decreased SIX per
cent, but increased over S2OO0,OO0 in
value. Speltcr increased to 119.4os
short tons, valued ut S14.I31.020.
The building stone industry increased
nearly $SOOO,OOO The total value of
the metallic product in 1899 was S527,-
21S,S4, an increase of fifty-four per
cent Non-metallic products increased
twenty-seven per cent to S44I. I90,S6i.
Every year since 1881 to 1898 i'll
elusive the value of the non-metallic
production has exceeded the metallic,
but in 1899 the metallic exceeded by
$40, 100000. A change of nearly $50
100000 occurred in the relative values
between 1893 and 1899
Unprecedented activity and advanced
values, the report, says, We're shown
in nearly every branch of the mining
industry during 1899
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30

Washington Nov. 26.-David Il. Day,
chief of the division of mining and min
eral sources of the United States geo
logical survey. has Just completed the
annual summary of the mineral pro
duction of the United States from 1890
to 1859 inclusive.
The total value of all the minerals
produced during the last calendar year
amounted to SS7G,O0S. 0i6, against $685.
$40, 100 in 1889, an increase of $27S,-
1SS,226. or practically forty per cent.
This Increase was the most notable
In the history of the mineral industry.
The previous largest increase was from
1894 to 1895, when the value advanced
eighteen per cent.
The production from 1890 to 1898 has
exceeded 5000. 100000 in every year ex-
cept two, the panic years of 1898 and
1894. The average yearly production
from 1890 to 1898 inclusive was $685.
2S6,51O, making the production in 1880
1851, 722, 436. or fifty-eight per cent. In
excess of the average for that period.
The greatest Increase in 1899 was In
the value of the pig iron product, which
increased to S245. 172, 654. or about 40
per cent. over 1898. The enormous in
crease was due to the phenomenal de-
mand and high prices.
The increase in coal production added
over S4S, 100000, or twenty-three per
cent, to the 1898 value. Copper in
creased nearly GO,OOO,OOO pounds in
quantity, and over $40 100000 in value.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30
COLORADO LIVE
STOCK CONVENTION

Denver, Colo, Nov ga state con-
vention of all of the live stock organ
izations and stock growers of the state
has been called, to meet in Denver,
December 18th, 14th and 18th, for the
purpose of passing upon and recon-
mending needed legislation in the In
terest of the stock industry to the Leg
islature, and the repeal of laws that
are considered useless or insufficient.
The call is signed by several Of the
largest live stock associations of the
state, and Senator e. NJ. Ammons of
Douglas county has been appointed to
act as temporary chairman and l.. X.
Watkins of Arapahoe county as tenn
porary secretary. Delegates will be
.apportioned one at large from each live
stock organization and one additional
for each 5000 head of stock represent
ed by members of the organization.
County commissioners of all counties
in which there are no live stock asso-
Citations may appoint three delegates.
Live stock companies owning 5000
head of stock may send one delegate,
and the governor may appoint three
delegates at large, to be men engaged
in stock business.
The convention will ask the Legisla-
lure 10 make disposition oI tue Is
tray" fund, for a disposition of money
realized from the tax on brands, a new
law regarding payment by railroads
for stock killed, amendments to the
bounty law for predatory animals, the
removal of the brand inspection de-
partment from politics. amendments to
laws regarding inspection for brands
and recording of brands, and amend
ing the laws regarding veterinary san
itary inspection.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30
EUROPEAN POWERS EMPLOY
DILATORY TACTICS in CHINA

uated by the single purpose OF ending
the present unsatisfactory conditions
In the celestial empire.
Yet the fact remains that at least
two powers have been pursuing at Pc
kin the most obstructive tactics and
have evidently favored a policy de-
signed to provoke the Chinese to
armed resistance.
An important point about these latest
declarations is that the powers express
ly state that they desire such solii-
ton of the Chinese troubles as can be
adopted by any imperial governments
without danger to its safety.
Minister Conger Is directed to urge
upon his colleagues the necessity of
agreeing upon demands which will be
reasonably certain of acceptance by
the Chinese. The President and Secre-
tary Hay appreciate the weakness of
the imperial government and do not
want the shadow of imperial authority
to disappear as n result of the machi-
nations of powerful princes and ofii-
Gals.
The suggestion for settlement OF
the question by an international con
ference, to be participated in by repre-
sentatives of the powers and to be held
in some European capital. has been re
vlved, but among conservative officials
1t is believed that an even better plan
would be the policy Of referring the
matter to The Hague court of arbitra
tiOn
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30

Constantinople, Nov. 24.-The porte
has definitely rejected the request for
an exequatur for United States con-
sui at Harpoot. This refusal is re-
garded by the United States legation
as n direct violation of treaty rights;
and. consequently, despite the refusal,
DR.. Thomas II. Norton. who was ap-
pointed by President Mckinley some
time ago to establish ii consulate at
Harpoot. has been directed to proceed
to his post
The expected visit of the battleship
Kentucky to Smyrna is believed to re-
late quite as much to this matter as to
the indemnity question
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30

&fR M. A. Theatre, Minneapolis, MINI.
Peruna Medicine Co.. Columbus. o.
Gentlemen-"As remedy for ca
tarrh l can cheerfully recommend Pc
runa. / have been troubled with
chronic catarrh for over six years.
had tried several remedies without re-
lief. A lodge friend advised me to try
Peruna. and l began to use 1t faith
fully before each meal. Since then /
have always kept 1t in the house.
am now in better health than have
been in over twenty years, and feel
sure my catarrh IL permanently
cured
Peruna cures catarrh wherever To-
Gated. AS soon as Peruna removes
systemic catarrh the digestion becomes
good, nerves strong, and trouble van
ishss. Peruna strengthens weak
nerves, not by temporarily stimu-
latin9 them, but by removing the
cause OF weak nerves-systemic ca
tarrh. This is the only cure that
lasts. Remove the cause; nature Will
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Addrsss The Peruna Medicine Conn
pssy, Columbus, Ohio. for . book
treating of Cafanh In its different
phases and stages, also book en-
titled "HesIfh and Beauty" written
especially for women.
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30

Henry Miller, the inventor OF the
steam and air brake for steam rail
IN his s0th year. He studied out his
invention after the great Norwalk
drawbridge accident in 1854. and it was
patented in 1856. but Notwithstanding
New Haven and Hartford and Mich
gan Central railroads in the two fol
lowing years, it was twenty years be-
fore it was adopted into general use;
all such brakes now in use were pat
termed upon his Invention,
The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-30

The search for convenient ways Of
transportation by which the products
Of the Sudan may reach the outer
world has called attention to a re-
markabls phenomenon of vegetable
life on some of the headwaters and
tributaries of the Nile. This consists
of enormous Krowths of papyrus and
other plants, completely covering the
streams and forming carpets Of vege-
tation two or three feet thick, beneath
which flows the water Navigation by
small boats is. of course, entirely in
terrupted by this obstruction, which is
in places supplemented by vines and
clinging plants which arch the streams
from bank to bank. Heavy floods oc-
caaionally sweep away the accumula-
lions OF plants, but they are quickly
reformed.