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The Lamar register., 1902-12-03
BEET SUGAR FACTORY
Tho Citizens Of Lamar and Vicinity
Will Make a United and Strong
Effort to Secure a Factory


Effort to Secure a Factory
A mass meeting of our citizens was
held at the Commercial Club loom
on last Saturday night to take steps
toward securing beet sugar factory
at Lamar, and although the notice was
short the attendance was large and
all we're united and harmonious in
their sentiments.
The action of the Rocky Ford fac
tory in.cutting down the acreage of
many of our farmers makes it evident
that they cannot handle the product
of the valley, and our farmers will
have to either secure another factory
or soon 90 out of this lucrative bus
iness.
Lamar being in the center of the
largest and best watered section of
irrigable land in the state of Colora-
do, and having a large acreage of
sugar beets already in cultivation,
and surrounded by large farming
population experienced in raising
sugar beets, naturally offers the
greatest inducements of any town in
the state for factory, and our citi
zens feel that by properly placing
these facts before capitalists inter
ested in the industry, factory can
be secured.
The meeting organized by the Sc
lection of w. @. Gould as chairman,
L. Writ Markham as secretary and
q. @. Huddleston as treasurer. After
a general discussion of the situation,
that the work could be better pushed
by committees appointed for that
purpose. A general committee was
selected as follows: A. +. Bent, l..
Writ Markham, N. N. Mclean, Mort
Strain and w. j. Johnston. A finance
committee composed of J. s. Hasty,
Chas. Maxwell and W. j. Johnston
was also appointed, and before the
crowd left the hall enough money
had been raised to carry on the work
for the present.
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$50 head of cattle the latter part OF
last week and turned them into the
company's pasture-he having rent
cd the same for the winter. Mr..
Smith expects to bring down s,veral
hundred head more in tho near
future.
From the Granada Times.l
CRANKY Hillyer was down from
Lamar, Sunday, looking after mat
ters on the Graham estate.
The vacancy in the primary de
partment of tfe Granada school,
caused by the resignation of Miss
Mardough, on account of illness, has
been filled by the appointment OF
Miss Mae Jeffers.
AL Francis was taken to La Junta
lat Tuesday morning, to be operat-
cd on for appendicitis. His brother
Charles, who was night Operator
here for some time, but who is now
in the chief dispatcher's office at
Dodge City, came up on No. 81,
Monday evening, and took the sick
man to La Junta the next morning.
The Lamar register., 1902-12-03
AUCTION SALE

ON s NTURDAY, DECEMBER 49, AT ONE O'CLOCK F. M
| will offer sale my herd of 90 HEAD OF HIGH GRADE
SHORTHO&N COWS This herd was shipped here from eastern
1901 and the perfectly accmaed They
without exception the HIGHEST GRADE SHORTHORNS
good milk sock and Of them have been broken to milk ARE
BRED TO REGISTERED SHORTHORN BULLS and will be
January They will positively be sold to the
highest bidder lots of five years DO miss this
opportunity
The Lamar register., 1902-12-03
COUNTY Notes.
From the Holly Chieftainl


H. j. VintoD, a prominent farmer
and road overseer in the Amityville
district, is reported to be seriously i'll
of typhoid fever. Road Overseer
Bryce, of this district, has been work
ing the roads in Mr.. Vinton's district
during his illness.
Nearly all the towns in the valley
report beet blockades, and it seems
to be source of pleasuae to report
such a condition. 1t may look good
to newspaper men but to the farm
ers who havc to lose two or three
hours every time they bring in a
load of beets on account Of the
blockade it doesn't look so good, and
such conditions are bound to have a
tendency to reduce the beet acreage
The delay in getting their beets
marketed is causing great deal OF
dissatisfaction in this end of the
valley, many declaring they will quit
the business altogether unless a
factory be built in their own country.
If factory is built for next years
crop these same farmers would
double their acreage, because they
know there is big money in raising
beets, providing they can be market
ed without any loss of time.
From the Holly News.l
7. S. Freeman, of Brookston, Tex
as, purchased tract of irrigated
land near Holly this week and re
turned to his home Tuesday. Mr..
Freeman expects to move up here
soon. And 80 we grow.
L. g. Wilson, who purchased 40
acre tract iu Amityville last summer.
came in Tuesday evening from Fort
Scott, Kansas, with car of house,
hold goods. He has rented house
of Joe McMurtry in the northeast
part of town in which he will live
for awhile.
James Smith, who lives a few
miles nor.h Of Lamar, brought down
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HAD TO KILL ONE.
Janitors Plan for Keeping Loiterers
Away from Building.

New York, Oct. 20.-Patrick Devan-
ney, an FISHERMAN, has been shot and
killed by Francis Kelley, janitor of an
apartment house at 704 Washington
street.
Devanney who lived in West Eleventh
street near Washington, had been car
ing for his sick wife all day, and had
walked out for a breath of fresh air.
He stopped in front of an apartment
house and leaned against the railing,
putting his cigar. Suddenly the janitor,
an entire stranger, rushed out and or
dered him to move on. Devanney is
said to have replied that he had a per-
feet right to use the street, whereupon
the janitor drew a revolver and fired.
Devanney fell dead.
The janitor went back to his quarters
where the police found him. To them
he said, as he was taken to jail
There have been a lot of loiterers
about here, and I made up my mind to
get rid of them If I had to kill some one.
I guess the next one will move when l
tell him to-
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and carts, laden with paraphernalia.
After the advance guard of Russian
drilled cavalry came a. regiment of in
fantry, slouching along the road in
every variety of patched and tattered
uniform, once sky blue. Some of them
wore two shoes of different pattern,
most of them none. The majority were
old men and mere boys. Rifles of all
patterns were stuck promiscuously on
the back of any unobjecting niue. Each
large band instrument crowned, in soil
tary grandeur. the load of a pack
camel.
When a mishap necessitated 1epacking
a load in the middle Of the road one got
a glimpse of costly carpets, OF tents with
walls of many colors, of robes of honor,
silken embroidery, quilted bedding. Here
and there a silver ever or piece of gaudy
French furniture. tied on loosely with a
bit of string, kept clanking at the side of
a mule.
OFFICERS of the household, with silver
slaves; ffunkeys in scarlet coats. high
state officials in full-walsted black coats.
multahs with green and white turbans;
Persian ladies shrouded in ample black
dominos and with thick white veiis, jos
tied in bewildering confusion along the
roads or sat in groups IN the rest houses.
Further on we're the two huge camps
of the imperial harem, suddenly comma nd
ed by telegram from Europe to meet the
shah at the frontier
The total cost of this motley pilgrimage
probably was more than $500 0o1.
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RUN NEGROES OUT.
Neodesha Mob Tries It and a
Number Arrested.

Neodesha, Kan, Oct. 20.-The Regis
ter says: A great tidal wave of moral
reform struck Neodesha last Monday
evening when a crowd of fifty or more
white men and boys started out to run
out the niggers.'' The result is that
number of well known reformers are
under arrest and on trial at the city
nall this afternoon for assembling for
unlawful purposes
Lately a few strange negroes, men
and women, some of them unquestion-
ably disreputable and unfit to remain in
any decent community, have been COM
ing to town.
On last Monday evening several white
men We're standing in front of the bill
lard hall on South Fourth street when
two negro women came along. One of
the moral refoTmers tried to josh" one
OF them and she gave him a cursing. A
negro man who was nearby took the
Wolnan'Ss part. 1t was then and there
decided to run this negro out of town
and the crowd put him in front and
headed west on Main street for the rail-
roads. The negro stopped to argue the
matter at Fifth street but was knocked
down. He ran and the crowd overlook
him in Justice Wells yard and gave
him beating. He promised to leave
town and the crowd went to the tent
occupied by the two women, tore it
down and ordered them to leave. On its
way back up town the crowd stopped
at seventh and Wisconsin and formal
vote was taken in which it was decided
to run EN- all OUT
BY this time the mob numbered fifty.
The boys in it were for doing physical
harm and damage to property but the men
in charge refused to permit it-or tried to-
John Greer, night city marshal, followed
along with the crowd but only carried cut
the orders of the mayor, mot to let them
do any harm" N. L. Moore, day marshal,
tried to disperse the mob but it jeered at
him and he could do very little.
A part of the mob went to thu Hotel
Brown and tried to take out the negro
porter. Another part went to the Houston
for the same purpose. Part of these de-
tailed wanted to go inside and use force
and three men did enter the Houston.
Wiser heads in the mob prevailed and
there was no violence, both parties, how
ever, left town that night
In the north part of town lives a quiet
and Woodworking negro woman named
Patterson. She has a nephew who, it is
now claimed. has been suspected of hav-
ing frightened white women at night. The
mob went to her door and demanded him
Somebody forced the door and somebody
broke window. These depredations. the
| leaders friends claim, were done by ire
| sponsibie boys. They got the negro boy
| however, and marched him to the rail-
| roads. hfs aunt following along lamenting
She was assured by the leaders that nc
personal harm would be done.
| On South Fourth street lives a recentl5
arrived negro named Anderson who does
feather renovating business. The mot
He refused, but no violence was offered
Every negro the mob drove out of towr
| is back and the two women it was partic-
| ularly after have not left
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machine has been On exhibition. here for
some time, has been examined by Score
tary Coburn of the state board of agri-
culture, and Is thought to be a success.
John Parker, the commission man
who swindled a large number of people
in Topeka and other localities in the
state. pleaded guilty before Judge Hook
of using the United States mails to de-
months in the county Jail at Leaven-
worth. On account of the sickness of
Parker's wife. Judge Hook granted a
special permit that Parker should serve
the first thirty days of his sentence in
the Franklin county jail, at Ottawa,
where Mrs. Parker lives.
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OCEAN TRAVEL.
Coronation Did Not Greatly Increase
Mum Der of Tourists.

New York, Oct 2a.-By the end of this
week most of the American tourists in
Europe will have returned and the trans
Atlantic passenger business will begin to
assume it's winter proportions. The close
of the tourist season and the approach of
the winter season have shown themselves
already in the passenger lists of the in
cc~ning steamers.
The business this year was not more
than a thousand passengers greater than
it was last year. 1t may be described as
normal-normal meaning between 65 900
and 10000 in one direction. The number
travelling westward in the first cabin al
ways is slightly larger than the crossing
in the other direction, as few immigrants
come in that cabin. The coronation did
not increase the traffic, but started the
eastward migration earlier.
The business up to June showed an in
crease over that of the same period for
the previous years of about 1850. From
that time forward there was no increase
last year.
An interesting phase this year was The
increase in the number of eastbound steer
age passengers over last year This was
in the neighborhood of 24,O00, and is as
cribed to the desire of many aliens to visit
their old homes
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NEW FACTS ABOUT MOON.
Harvard Professor Made Valuable
Discoveries During Eclipse.

Cambridge Mass, Oct. 20.-Professor
w. H Pickering of Harvard made
valuable discovery during the last lunar
eclipse that confirmed a theory of his
with regard to the crater Lime. He
found that during the period of maxi
mum darkness, when the heat of the sun
was most nearl- shut off from the
moon, the bright area around the crater
yisibly increased This demonstrates
positively. he says. that this bright area
is due to boar frost. instead of reHec-
lions from rocks. Professor Pickering
has entertained this theory for some
time but for the first time he had an
opportunity to obtain what he regards
as absolute proof of his hypothesis.
The spot increased in area noticeably
as the suns rays were cut off by the
shadow of the earth. indicating that the
temperature was lowered. Professor
Pickering says that this was all he
wanted~to obtain a working basis for an
investigation of the surface of the
moon. He refused to say just what his
theory was.
OWN. to the clouds that obscured the
edges of the moon. the observers. were
unable to get any good photographs.
Professor Wendell was greatly disaD-
pointed at his inability to get any rec
ards of value of the oscillations. from
doing which he was prevented by the
same reason.
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ROW OVER COAL STRIKE
Ends in Death of One Man and Injury
of Two.

Chicago. Oct 20.-A political quarrel
beginning with an argument on the coal
strike, and an attack upon socialism,
ended last night in the death of one
man and the injury of two others. The
fight. which took place in the saloon Of
James Wallace, S13 Fulton street. was
participated in by five men. The dead:
CHARLES WULFF, q years old.
The injured: Geo. Bows, bartender;
cut on head, neck and body. David
Schultz. stabbed twice in the right leg
and oEce in left side.
The other two men who participated
in the fight were Frank Brown, who
escaped, and John Fitzgibbons, who Is
held as witness.
During the discussion someone made
an uncomplimentary remark about So
cialists. Bows, who is a socialist, was
offended. Someone hurled an empty
bottle, and that was the signal for q
general fight in which Wulff and Schultz
were stabbed by Bows, who was cut
himself, and claims self defense. Wulff
died from his wounds shortly afterward
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KELsO COMES HERE.
Illinois Man, Pastor of First
Cumberland Presbyterian.

Rev. A. H. Kesso. lately pastor Of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church of Alton,
H.. has accepted the call to the pastorate
of the First Cumberland Presbyterian
church of Topeka, Succeeding Rev. Hal F.
Smith, resigned several months ago. Rev
Mr.. Kelso is already in charge and occu7
pied the pulpit in this city Sunday.
Rev Mr.. Kelso is q graduate OF Leban-
on theological seminary. Lebanon, Tenn
He has been in the ministry for ten years.
His first pastoral charge was at Washing
ton, Ind, where he built $S.UtG church.
For nearly three years he has been at Al
ton, H., there also having raised the
money for a handsome church structure
For the last four months he has been en-
downent agent for the James .Mtiilken
university, an industrial school being bult
at Decatur, H., ard backed by James MIL
liken, a banker of that city. This school
has an endowment of more than milton
dollars and will open next September
Rev. Mr.. Kelso resigned his place with
that institution voluntarily, believing thai
he had a call to the ministry, distinctly,
He is a native of Indiana, a preacher OF
much earnestness and man that can
rank with any of the downtown ministers
of the city. His family will arrive in q
few days from Alton, ILL.,, and will make
their home az SIS West st.
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WOMEN BUCKET BRIGADE.
Men Were All at Business and Ladies
Saved Burning House.

Laurel Springs, N J., Oct 20O-Fire was
discovered Saturday evening in the home
here of Elmer Barrett, a PHILADELPHIA bus
mess man. Women gave the alarm but it
was too early for the men to be home on
the commuters trains.
Every minute the flames became more
threatening and at last some of the cooler
women suggested that they form bucket
brigade This was done and old and
young formed a long line from wells and
cisterns to the house. They worked like
beavers with the water and so well was
the work done that when the frenE%n ar
rived the flames were almost out and the
house saved from destruction.
The men of the village are proud of the
work of the women and suggest that thev
form a fire company of their own for just
such emergencies.
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SOLE HEIR FIGHTS WILL.
Doubts Sanity of Brother Who Left
Him All His Estate

Trenton, N. J.. Oct 20.-Ferdinand
Poetzsch appeared before Judge Rellstab
in the Orphans court to oppose the pro-
bate of the will of his brother who named
him sole legatee 1t is believed this is the
first time in New Jersey where a sole leg
atee under will has opposed its probate.
The will is that of the late William
Poetzsch of Titusville, who died in the
State Hospital for the Insane. He left all
his property to his brother Ferdinand, but
because there existed a belief that William
was not in his right mind at the time the
will was made Ferdinand refuses to ac-
cept the estate until he is sure it rightful-
ly is his.
He has told his counsel if the will is
probated he will see that every one of his
brothers relatives has a just share of the
estate.
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WEEDS TWICE IN TWOHOURS
Strange Experience of a Pretty Mary
land Jewess.

Baltimore, Md, Oct. 20.-As Miss
Marie Roypen, a beautiful young Jew
ess of this city, and Samuel Oren of
Philadelphia, were walking down the
aisle of Moses Montef1ore synagogue to
be married Joseph Goldberg, in the
presence of the entire audience, stepped
in front Of the pair, slipped a dollar
into the glove of the young woman and
then placed ring on the tip of her
little finger.
Then ia a loud voice he announced
that in sight of God, Abraham and the
company assembled Marie Roypen was
his wife. The woman screamed and
tainted.
Instantly the church was filled with
discordant cries. Mr.. Oren threw him.
self face downward in the aisle ana
cried.
The parents of the bride, Mr.. and Mrs.
David Roypen, protested against the in
terruptiOn and cried out to Rabbi Tobias
Goodman to proceed with the ceremony.
A long discussion followed in an at
tempt to convince the rabbi that the
marriage just performed by Mr.. Gold
berg was lacking in the essentials de-
manded and considered binding by
orthodox Jews.
The weeping bride stood mute, wiring
ing her hands. Suddenly she touched
the PROSTATE Oren and as he raised his
tear-stained face she cried out:
II cannot marry you, Sam. In the sight
of God and man [ am Joseph Goldberg s
Wife. L am MS VIE IN the eyes OF our
faith"
Rabbi Goodman decided to take two
hours for deliberation. At the end of that
time it had been proved to his satisfaction
that Goldberg had not uttered the words
of the marriage contract entirely correctly,
and that this made the one-sided union in
valid.
The rabbi called Oren and Marie before
him and pronounced them to be husband
and wife
The company was divided as to the JUS
tice of Rabbi Gooaman's decision. the men
declaring he was right, while nearly every
woman denounced the act, averring that
Joseph Goldberg was Marie's real hus-
band.
Despite this difference Of opinion more
than 1000 guests attended the wedding
feast at Powhatton hall later in the even
ing.
Goldberg declares he will fight to be de-
clared the rightful bridegroom. He says
that according to the old orthodox Jewish
faith, which is held by both himself and
the bride. when man places a new coin
In mafden's hand and a ring on her
finger, and in the presence of three or
more witnesses proclaims her his wife, she
is his wife.
Three rabbis of the orthodox Hebrew
faith are to meet in conference this week
to decide whether Marie is Oren's or Gold
berg's wife.
On Wednesday Oren applied for war
rant at the Southwestern police station
for the arrest of Goldberg and his wife
He declared they had eloped.
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BOOST FOR HARVEY.
Judge Wall Says Nice Things About
Him After Debate.

The Wichita Beacon of Saturday, Octo-
Der 49, SAYS:
Judge T. B. Wall returned home from
Kiowa this morning where he upheld the
principles of Republicanism in joint de-
bate last night. His opponent was Major
Harvey of Topeka, former lieutenant gcv-
ernor of this state. The judge stated this
morning that both state and national is
sues were discussed, and when asked if
he won the debate, his reply was that his
side seemed satisfied, as did the other
side. also.
He paid Major Harvey a splendid tri-
butte by CHASING him 1.-The best repre-
sentative, and perhaps the ablcst, of the
opposition to the Republican party in this
state. He is of pleasant address, good abil-
ity, and very much of a gentleman,
are the exact words used
who spoke so minutes. Then Judge Wall
spoke so minutes and his opponent closed
the debate with a 20 minute spe ech-
There was a big crowd present.
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consideration of the education bill Sew
eral questions will be put to the govern
ment in the house of commons today
with reference to the position of affairs
in Ireland, and Premier Balfour will be
urged to give day for the discussion
of the prosecutions under the crimes act.
The Nationalists are in fighting trim.
and they will move an adjournment If
they can not get a definite promise of
a day for the consideration of the condi-
ton of Ireland
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Glue Works Burn.

Pittsburg, Oct 2O.-The plant of the
American Glue company, located at
Springdale, was destroyed by ~fire last
night entailing loss of $120, 600 which is
covered by insurance. This fire was the
fourth blaze within a month and it is
thought to have been the work of incen-
diaries. Two hundred men are thrown out
of employment.
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Italians Offer elm.

Rome. Oct. 2O.-Many Italians are vol
unteering in support of the Macedonian
cause and they have appealed to General
Riccioti Garibaldi to assume their leader
ship. The general, however, thinks the
time is not yet ripe. He expects the spring
viii see the revolt spreading in Albania
and other Turkish provir<e s, in which
event he says he will not hesitate to lead
italian volunteers in operations in AL
bania-
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Made a PERFECT Score.

Chicago. Oct 20-Corporal Fred Dehnert
Of company D, First regiment, Illinois
score on the army rifle range at Camp
Logan. At a distance of 500 yards Dehnert
put five balls through the bulls eye.
making a perfect score. Miiitiamen say
that the score stands as record
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ROCKEFELLER GIVES SHOW
Hires Artists to Entertain Sunday
School Teachers.

Cleveland, oct. 2O.-John d. Rockefeller
provided a show at Forest Hill for the
past and present teachers of the Euclid
Avenue Baptist Sunday school tenn
porary stage had been erected.
The artists were Miss Jessan1ine Pike, a
singer. and Warren G.. Richards, a monoI-
ogist. Mr.. Rockefeller paid the latter's
expenses from New York.
The Standard Oil magnate sat in the
front row and led the applause. More than
two hundred persons were present, and
all enjoyed themselves.
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stormy in the House.

New York. Oct. 20.-The parliament
tary barometer indicates a continuation
of stormy weather in the house of COM
mons. cables the London correspondent
of the Tribune The Nationalist of par
lament are determined that the autumn
session shall not be entirely devoted to