North Park union., 1900-10-05
Local and For
eign News Items
MIR. Otis Groves is talking of going
out on a trip to his old home in Ne
brLska on important business.

out oii u "TRIP W his Oh nome IN Ne
braska on important business.
Rev. John Oliver formerly of Wal.
den, but now located at Hebron, was
in town Wednesday, assisting about
moving the last load of goods to his
home.
By new scientific processes, SO ore
can be worked successfully and
proiitably. That ought to be Ell
couraging to all North Park miners,
as there are vast quantities of low
grade ore in and around the park.
Mr.. VIM Poe is dong some goot
work on the road north of town. The
new grade around the steep hill east
of Brownlee's fence will be much
needed improvement that the public
will appreciate.
We understand that frank McCas.
land has leased the ranch of A. c
Devices on the West side, and will
take possession as soon as proper ar
rangements can be made
Nothing could be more childish than
the plaint of Mr.. McKinley,s comimis,
sion that ii is the hope of Democratic
success in the election that keeps the
Filipino insurrection alive. Was it any
hope of Il Liberal success IN Spain that
kept them lighting against Spanish
domination for two hundred years:
Were Pitts speeches required to encour-
age our Revolutionary insurgents" in
their seven years war for frccdom?-
New York World
Rev. Edward G. Lane of Boulder,
it seems sent letter to the Union
editor which he desires to have pub.
lished. From the fact that it was
written on both sides of two sheets
Of paper and was not accompanied by
any request to us to publish the
same we did not do so, but he did
send request to gentleman in
Walden that it be published, so the
same will appear next week, and we
will respond to it later
The activity which prevailed among
our prospectors early in the season,
has somewhat abated. This can be
attributed to several causes. The
haying season most always brings Il
check to prospecting and it is well
known that deep mining is not done
by the prospector For reasons that
perhaps could be explained, Il presi-
dental campaign intcrferes with
speculation affairs, and all combined,
the mining interests of the park are
at least temporarily disturbed.
Did you know that our common
every day animal known as the horse,
has very ancient ancestry and that
it dates back not less than 2,250,c 600
years ago2 1T was no larger at that
time than q fox and was called, or
rather the name given to it now Is,
HlHucOtJ,ere. 1t hnd five toes and
began existence in the morning of
life scampering about over Tertiary
rocks in the Eocene age. These facts
come to us from . study of paleon-
tology.
Ex.Speaker Thomas b. Reed recent ly
attended the celebration of Old Home
day at Portland, Maine. The following
is the closing part Of his speech:
Here it is not permitted to give =
toast but if it were | should saf'
Here's to the state OF Maine, settlci
mostly by the blood of old England, b.:
always preferring liberty to ancestry !.
strong old democratic state, yet the tir,t
to help to give liberty to the slave-may
her future be rs noble as her pas
Here is to the state OF Maine, the la'l
of the bluest skies, the greenest earth,
the richest air, the strongest and, WI II
is better, the sturdiest men, the fairest,
and what is best of all, the truest won
ON under the sun New York Times.
In the Fort Collins Express q
Sept. 20, in news item entitled
aSlnall Pox Rumor False" reference
is made to the fact of DR.. klllgore
coming to North Park to investigate
the reported outbreak of smallpox
and further, that after = thorough in
vestisation the DR.. states sit is not
smallpox; and still further on the
item states, the four deaths at the
railroad hospital rumored to be from
smallpox, proved to be typhoid fever
cases, The last paragraph, or state
mcnt, leaves the impression that tie
deaths occurred at Walden, or in
North Park, when nfact they must
.Loro bnen ot Tie Siding on the rail