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La Junta tribune., 1901-05-01
CITY eouse,l.
Appointments Msss and ceasidsr.
able eusinsss Transacted.

The city council met IN regular
weekly session Monday night and
transacted large amount OF busi-
ness. Mayor Sabin presided, and
CounciImen Draper. Daimler, Car
Isle. Bentley, McNeen and Cart
wright were present.
| A petition for water main on
Cucharas avenue, signed by Clara
NJ. Norton and other property
owners was read and referred to
the water committee; also peti-
ton for a water main on Belleview
avenue, signed by J. w. Fisher,
ct al, the main to extend from
Albera's property south to the
city limits
The annual reports of the police
magistrate and city treasurer were
presented and referred TO the pro-
per committees. The annual re-
port OF the water commissioner
was referred to a committee con-
stituting OF Cartwright Bentley
and Draper.
The council then proceeded to
elect the various municipal officers.
A resolution was passed that all
city officers be employed from
month to month, with the excep-
ton Of the water commissioner,
their terms to be terminated at any
time at the option OF the mayor
and the proper committee. The
following officers were then elected:
William Dow was the only APP
plicant for the position OF health
officer, and he was elected unani-
mously. The salary attached is
SIo per month.
There were no applicants for
the position OF fire chief, but c.
w. Wonderly was unanimously
elected.
Charles Paddock was employed
as driver of the hose cart and
cleanup wagon at a salary OF 500
per month.
There were four applicants for
the two positions at the pump
house. the vote resulting as fol-
lows: John Wiler, 6; d. K.
McCune. 4; E. ID. Ferre.l, /; A.
w. McCreary, !. The two FIRST
named are the present incumbents,
and were declared elected. The
salary-attached is 500 per month
For the position OF water com
missioner there were two appli-
cants, l.. c. Gillen and Frank
Gilchrist. Mr.. Gillen received S
votes and Gilchrist /. The water
commissioned is the only official
employed by the year and receives
a salary OF $40 per month.
On motion the salary OF night
policeman was reduced from $40
to sos per month. He is to be
employed from month to month at
the pleasure Of the mayor and fire
and police committee. The appli-
cants for this position were as fol-
lows: John Devine. G. d. Frank
lin, Gus Weineke, William s.
Nichols, w. S. Stewart and Frank
Nixon. the vote resulting as fol-
lows: Franklin, 4; Devine, II;
Stewart, I. 6. ID. Franklin was
declared duly elected.
On motion the La Iunta TRIBUNE
was designated as the official paper
for the ensuing year.
The matter of employing q
driver for the street sprinkler was
referred to the mayor and street
and alley committee who will have
full charge and employ such per
sons as they see fit. There were
nine applicants for this position.
! ]. c. Handy appeared before
the board and requested tha,
licensed draymen either he given
more protection or that the license
be reduced. He claimed tina,
delivery wagons and private con-
veyanees are encroaching upon the
rights of licensed draymen and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-05
WISCONSIN SOLONS.


The bill providing side paths for bicy-
Gle riders passed the Senate on Thursday
without discussion. The same bill raised
lively debate in the Assembly. and so
many amendments were tackled on that 1t
was referred to the Judiciary committee
to be Strengthened out,
The Lenroot joint resolution to permit
cities, TO raise the debt limit from to 10
per cent for public utilities was killed
Monday evening in the Assembly. The
tax commission bill to relieve the Mil
waukee Northwestern Life Insurance
Company of many thousands of dollars in
retaliatory taxes passed both houses un-
der suspension of the rules havinS'but
three more days in which TO become op-
eratiye this year.
An important amendment in the nature
of compromise was offered Tuesday in
committee to the medical license bill. The
old-schoo doctors who are pushing the
bill offered to compromise with the este
opathists by inserting a provision that os-
teopathists may be licensed to practice
their system of treating diseases, provid-
ed they do not write prescriptions or per
form surgical operations. This offer ma
terially changes the original bill, which
required all osteopathists to pass the reg
ular medical examination for a regular
physicians license before they could treat
disease. As the osteopathists do not be-
lieve in medicine, it was considered
hardship to require them to take the eX-
animation in medicine, and they proposed
to fight the bill. The opposition bill. rec
ognizing the profession of osteopathy and
creating a State board of osteOpathist eX-
aminers passed the Senate Tuesday. and
this fact had an influence in securing the
offer of compromise.
In the Assembly on Wednesday the
Hall bill for an amendment to the con-
stitution, permitting the use of voting
machines, was favOrably reported. Ii
adopted it cannot become operative for
four years. A favorable report was
given on the bill for the separate assess
ment of lands and buildings and an adj
verse report on the measure prohibiting
the sale of intoXicants within a mile of
The State capitol or university. The bill
was passed empowering licentiates to per-
form the marriage ceremony. The bill
TO return the Wisconsin battle flags from
the new library building to the capitol
and making an appropriation for perma-
nent headquarters for the &. A. X. mt
the capitol was advanced to third read
ing, after sharp debate. Final hearings
on the Overlook anti-cigarette bin were
heard, Attorney George Il. Rowe of New
York City, former law partner of Gov.
La Toilette, speaking against it, also
Henry +. COchems, the former star ath-
lete of the university n great many
petitions are coming in for the primary
election bill. \ reception was given the
Legislature Wednesday evening by the
university faculty in the new Engineer
ing building.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-05
CONSTITUTION SIGNED.
Cubans Agree as to the Form of Gov
eminent Desired.


The Cuban constitution in its final
form, after being passed upon by the
committee of phraseology, has been sign
ed at Havana. All the delegates were
present except Senior Llorente. Two
manuscript copies were made, both OF
wL.ch were signed. One of these was
delivered to Gov. Gen. Wood Immediately
after the meeting. The other copy was
placed among the archives in Havana.
Senior Cisneros created a sensation by
refusing to sign. He said:
Cuba is now Independent and | can
see no reason for sending this constitu-
ton to the United States for accept
ance. The United States government
has no right to pass on it, for it is dis
tinetly Cuban document and was drawn
up by this convention. which hasaassum-
ed the responsibility of establishing the
republic"
Several delegates crowded around him
and endeavored to dissuade him from his
course, but he was immovable. As the
delegates retired Senior Tamayo remark
ed:
I'VE are all Cubans, senor," and Senior
Cisneros replied:
Yes; when the time comes to fight the
Americans, we will fight them together"
Then he turned toward the press table
and shaking his fist at the American
newspaper men, he said:
The Americans are like the monkey.
When the monkey closes its paw on a
thing it never wants to let 60"
Subsequently he said he would sign the
copy of the constitution that had been
filed with the records of the convention,
but would wait until the other had been
sent to Washington in order to avoid any
possibility of his name being attached to
that also.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-05

OF every woman in 1t; he patronized de
partmeut stores. which he had formerly
avoided because of their crowds OF
women shoppers; and he aStouiShed his
sister By taking her TO the theater more
times In a month than he had all the
previous year That young lady was
also surprised and gratited by his
Suatchjug from his professional duties
time TO attend teas and receptions. and
10y his remarkable interes. in social
functions
Blue eyes" had worn gray. So. again
and again, he pursued gray suit and 4
[elt hat half block, only to find, when
the weaver turned, that her eyes were
not the violets of which he dreamed.
Weeks passed and the memory Of the
eyes was fading into q regret. The
sensible lectures which Howard had
not failed 10 administer to himself be-
gan 10 take effect. In the frs place. il
was absurd TO hope to find those blue
eyes. Were not there several hundred
thousand women in Chicago? Besides.
blue eyes might be miles away. II
found. she might belong 10 another
man. or she might be anything but
'charmA-S
Howard told himseE that he was
fool. aud determined 10 forget the eyes.
That was hard TO do. but he gave up
his quest.
Dr. Carston'S telephone bell rang sud
denly one night. in the small hours. He
hAd Just fallen asleep after nineteen
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-05

selling of newspapers, and among the
newsbOys of New York. that remark
able army of ants, prematurely old.
and wise beyond their years in self
preservation and independence, he
grew callouSed to hard knocks and Dri-
yatiOns. He varied the monOtony of
his newspaper peddling by jumping
from the dizzy heights of boats
moOred at the New York docks.
thereby unconsciously preparing him
self for the event that was to trans
form his life. In 1879 Brodie Joined in
the craze for lOng-distance walking.
and was so successful in the matches
that in three years he had saved $4,000.
whereupon he married the daughter of
a Confederate Colonel He built and
su0let bootblack stands and later be-
came Street-car conductor. Even in
this most proSaic of industries he
found opportunity to save two negro
children from a fire along his route.
When he was only 10 he saved girl
from drowning in the ice-choked East
River. He then Joined the New York
Life Saving Corps. and soon afterward
rescued three persons from drowninr
At the Worlds Fair he saved 2 chorus
girl from drowning aud found il nee.
eSSary to present this last flotsam with
what the poet has called two lovely
black eyes" before he could persuade
her not TO cling to him and drag them
both down.
But everything was not smooth sail
ing for BI0die. He lost money on the
race tracks, and in 1884. on election
bets. lost the last of the $4,000 he had
made in his walking matches. In 1886.
when reduced 10 extremities, he deter
mined to recoup his fortunes by A
plunge from the Brooklyn bridge. This
he accomplished. and fame aud fortune
came TO him at his beck. HeNwas fair.
" fought for by managers of muse
ums. and finally consented 10 display
his charms for $3.50 week In Coney
Island galaxy of living skeletons and
bearded ladies. Thence he moved to
most of the larger cities, earning as
much as $1,000 a week in Boston. that
home OF culture. After a short dra-
matte career in Two plays wherein he
displ ted only sush histrionic promise
as ca Abe expressed in leap from
high \ wer, he travelled the country
as br.dge-jumper. One leap OF 100
feet he made every day for week. for
an equal number of dollars
To his many activities he added that
OF newspaper correspondent and
made a tour OF Europe. sending home
his impressions. which were turned
into the pureSt Bowery-ese aud pub
lished in New York paper.
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hour day, but he could not Ignore the
ring. The summons was imperative.
A stranger had called the nearest ply
stefan.
Pray come" she implored, "for am
afraid my father will die" The sweet,
girlish tones were eloquent of distress.
Howard dressed himself hastily and
went downstairs. He could scarcely
open the hall door so strong was the
wind.
"A doctor leads a dogs life" he NUT
tered to himself as he went out into
the storm.
The address given him was that of
boarding house on the next block-one
10 which this was by no means his first
visit. He found Mrs. Madison, the
clearinghouse keeper, awaiting him
in the hall.
II am so glad you've come" she said
"Mr. Wharton is awfully sick, and the
poor young lady, his daughter, is most
scared to death"
| The patient was so i'll as to occupy
| the doctors entire attention. Mrs. Mad
isOn gave him the efficient assistance
which he had learned to expect from
ner in such emergencies. She was ably
seconded by Miss Wharton. whom
| Howard scarcely noticed.
| The battle was for life. Hours passed
before it was won and the tired but
glad physician was free to go.
Now your father needs nothing but
rest. Let him sleep as much as posi-
BILE, and see that he has a cup of Mrs
WhartOn's beef tea when he wakes. |
will call this afternoon" he said, look
ing at Mrs. Madison, although he spoke
to Miss Wharton.
Howard went home to refresh him
self with an hours nap, a bath. and a
cup of coffee before his office hours. At
3 o'clock he visited his new patient and
found him doing well.
You have saved his life," said Miss
Wharton. in Il voice tremulous with
gratitude, anI she raised her eyes to
Or CarstOn's.
Towards head swan. He saw again
Il crowded street crossing, a waiting
car, and held a slender girlish form in
his arms.
Miss Wharton's eyes were the violets
of his dreams.
When Violet Wharton left Chicago
for her country home she wore a new
ring, holding twin sapphires.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-05
ALLliOVER THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN BADGER
DOM.
Village of Woodruff Swep by Flames
Young Lovers Defy Parental opposi-
tion-Narrow Escape of South Huron
Woman's Mysterious Death.

Woodruff was visited by a very disas-
trous fire The loss is S64, go. with S1O,-
900 insurance. The fire broke out in the
third floor of the Woodruff House. owned
by Swanson & Co. and when discovered
was beyond all control. a high north
west wind prevailed at the time and.
there being no fire protection with the
exception of a small tank supplied by
windmill, the flames swept everything
before them. The hotel was situated
about the center of the block on Front
street and the fire worked west to the
corner building. occupied by Matt Reed IS
confectionery store, where, with hard
fighting by the bucket brigade it was
finally stopped. The fire swept east, the
entire length of Front street, and not
building stands. This street was the
business street of the town and some tif-
teen business places were wiped out, in
Guiding two large hotels, the Woodruff
House and Wisconsin House. The losses
are as follows, with about $4,000 insur
ance: A. Toussirut, five buildings, $1,000;
II. Studeman, $500; Charles Rylander,
$1,000; Fred Fitch, $1,000: Frank
Waechter, $4,000; Swanson & Co.. $25.-
900, with $4,000 insurance; Fay, $1,000;
Kennedy. $500; Smeaton, $500; Role
Hagen, $3.50; Skud Bros, $4,000; Bar
team, 500; Fredet, 5000; Hills, 500.
The majority will rebuild at once and it
is expected the town will soon regain all
it has lost in the fire.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-05

may talk by wire. 1t consists in taking
the elements of Impotence in an Or
binary telephone or telegraph line AID
balancing them against each other, so
that their effect is neutraIiZed and
clear passage is left for the transmits
sion of electrical waves. Telegraph
companies scout the idea that it is pos
sible to put Pupin's theories into prac-
teal operation. For one thing the cost
is against it. An ordinary telegraph
cable to Europe costs from S3,O0O,000
upward and the proposed telephone ca
bic would cost much more. This would
prohibit its use for ocean telephoning,
say. the telegraph people, as no capital
lists could be found who would advance
funds. However, there is no doubt
that the new discoveries will virtually
revolutionize the telephone system Of
the world.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-05
Horace Gree1er,s ProdigaIitr.

Horace Greeley was lavish in his
gifts, often TO most unworthy recip-
tents, and was most sensitive when ad-
monished on the subject by even his
closest friends. He loaned thousands
of dollars to a scapegrace son of Com
modore Vanderbilt, and, when Wander
bilt appealed 10 him to stop it, Greeley
CURLY closed the conversation by say
ing he did not expect the commodore to
pay the loan.
In one of the many conversations
had with him in his dingy office in the
old Tribune Building. I ventured to
suggest that he was Il more generous
giver than his means justified, TO which
he answered: We'll. l guess that's so,
but can't stop it. am like the South
ern planter, who, after spending the
proceeds of his crop in winter revealing.
closed up the account by selling a mig
ger; l do it by selling a share of the
Tribune" he originally owned nearly
or quite one-half the paper. When b,
died he had but one share remaining of
the 100.-SucceSs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-05
Sharks from the Wires.

Plague is spreading at Cape Town.
DAILY, Fitzgerald and Day, bank rob-
bers New Philadelphia, Ohio, get ten
years in the pen.
Iron lands showing more than 100000
tons of ore have been leased in northern
Minnesota by the American Steel and
Iron Company.
Striking Chicago messenger boys ham,
mered the "scabs' until police were call
ed. Reduction Of wages caused the
strike. Lively times.
The first municipal crematory ON record
has been opened in Hull England. II u
n model establishment, costing S12,5ca.
The charge for cremating body is So.
Plans are being made for a party -
scientists to leave Victoria, b. c., in Ju-1
for the big glacier on Mount Fairweaths=.
where the Silent City Of Alaska" is seen
every year about that time. The expedf-
ton will be backed by some Californiarax.
Tents, Photographic and surveying appa-
ratus will Je taken. The mirage, which
stretches for a distSce Of FIVE miles
across the great glacier, ig said to be
representation Of the town OF Bristol,
England, and in order TO investigate this
the expedition will note the time and
weather when their observations are
made, and all characteristics of the mir
age.
Another new religious sect has been
started in New York. They call them
selves the Babists. and follow the teach
ings Of one Abbas Effendi, whom they
hold to he a son Of God.
Earl Roberts will have to pay. in onx
way and another. something like $1,000
for the honor Of being an earl. The
greater part Of this, Of course. will be
the cost OF the corOnet. but the ehargs
is swelled by fees OF all sorts.
Lubbock is about to exercise its right az
n free city to issue a coinage Of its ow-1.
The city arms viii take the place OF the
aaiser's head ON one face of the Ger
Aan coins. The last Lubbock coins weru
.sk7eA 1e9 years ago, in 1901.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-05
A Pair of Blue Eyes

- q OWARD put both arms around
iii her, held her close for an instant,
SS aud then released her. 1t was in
brOaddaylight, on a crowded street cross
ing; they were not related to each other,
and he did not even know her name.
II must be sad in his defense that she
was more to blame than he was; in
deed, it would have been great impO-
likeness, not to say unkindneSs. on his
part, TO have done otherwise She was
hurrying to catch the car from which
he had Just descended. The street was
wet and muddy; she slipped and would
have fallen had he not caught her just
in tine. She blushed celestial rosy
red" aud raised a pair of startled blue
eyes to his face.
20, thank you" she stammered. Yet
never was thank you" said in a tone of
less gratitude.
She was gone before he could speak,
and caught the car, which was just on
the point of leaving.
All day the blue eyes hauD ed him.
They came between him and his
writing aud danced on the lagos of the
Lancet. although, as he said to himself
severely. he had no time for such non
sense. Had he been less devoted, heart
and soul. to his profession it is to be
feared that even his patients might
have found him absent-minded, for he
failed TO see two of his best friends on
the street and at dinner that evening
was so preOccuped that his mother
worried lest he was working too hard.
Or. Howard CarstOn was a rising
young physician with a downtown
office aud a fair practice. He cared
almost nothing for society and hereto
fore the brightest eyes that ever shone
would have interested him less than a
cut finger.
Now. in moment, all was changed.
Chicago is 4 big city, yet Howard
vowed to himself to find the owner of
those blue eyes. Persistence was one
OF his strong points. He never entered
a street car without scanning the face
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-05
UNLUCKY MEN ARE ALL ALIKE.
Go Cropping and Dreaming Through
Life but Never Find Success.

Go Cropping and Dreaming Through
Life but Never Find Success.
"The unlucky men all are kin; they
all have certain qualities alike" says
IN American Mother in the Ladies'
Home Journal. They have eyes keen
10 look into the root of things, but which
also dream dreams and see visions;
they have hot human, blood, they love
or hate in no halfway measure. To
each of them, too, comes at times-no
matter what the business or pursuit
may be by which they strive to push
their way among men and to grow rich
a sudden disgust of it. heartfelt and
real. a contempt for the work and for
its successes. They dream of some
thing before them better than money
or office, and they try to clutch at it.
So they go through life. cropping for
success with one hand and for their
dream with the other. and-they lose
both. We must choose either God or
Mammon as master and keep faith
with him if we mean to succeed"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-05
FIFTEEN MEET DEATH.
Result of a Collision on the Peunsy1-
Nnnia Road.


Vania Road.
Fifteen dead, two fatally injured, and
thirty-eight more or less seriously injur-
ed is the result of a collision on the Cam
den and Amboy division of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad at Bordentown, y. j. The
''Nellie BY" express, from New York to
Atlantic City, cOllided with local pas
senger train. Both trains were running
at great speed, and the force of the col
lision was tremendous. The wreck took
fire, and it was only by the most heroic
and energetic work that more lives were
not sacrificed.
AS it was. the scene was fearful. Wom-
en- and children, terror-stricken, and
many of them injured badly, had to be
pulled through car windows to escape the
fury of the flames that burned with amaz-
ing rapidity. Ten bodies were found in
one heap. Among the killed was Walter
Earl engineer of the express, and James
Birmingham, baggasemaster of the local
train. The two trains cOllided at full
speed, and both engines and the forward
car of each train, in both instances a
combination baggage and smoker, were
demolished. The wreckage then took fire.
The second car of the Nellie BLY," turn
cd over on it's side, and the passengers
had to climb out through the windows.
In this they were assisted by passengers
from the cars that did not leave the
track.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-05

James d. Brown, formerly of Laporte,
Ind, now of KenOsha, was married to
Miss Florence SlausOn of Racine, at Chi
cagO. Willis Slauson, father of the young
lady, received a message from his daugh-
ter which states: will be married when
you receive this message" The marriage
was to have taken place at a previous
date, but on account of stories having
been circulated against Mr.. Brown it was
prevented and Brown said Mrs. James
+. Slauson, the grandmother, prevented
it. Brown received a paper signed by
forty citizens of LapOrte as to his good
name, and objections We're withdrawn
by the uncle and aunt at Chicago, but
not by Mrs Slauson or the girls father.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-05
Nearly Bed to Death.

Lewis Kenyon. one of the best known
residents of South Huron, came very los
ing his life by an accident. He was in
the woods chopping wood near his home
and made a glancing stroke with his ak,
which STRUCK his left foot and severed an
artery. Companions hurried to his as
sistance and summoned a surgeon as soon
as possible, but Mr.. Kenyon had nearly
bled to death before help arrived.