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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20
THEY PERISHED, TOO
FALSE PROPHECY BY SCIENTISTS
Said Mount PeIee Was Not Dangerous
in Order to Quiet the People
Burning Bodies at ST. Pierre.

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st. Thomas, Danish West Indies
May 16.-The Danish warship Valkyrie
has returned from Martinique, where
she has been assisting in rescuing ref
ugees from the neighborhood of st
Pierre. Her officers tell of heartrend
ing sights in the ruined city.
Near Sarbet they found the body of
woman and under it Il dead child.
The mother had evidently tried to pro-
tect her child with her own body. The
mother was burned almost to n crisp
while the child's hair was not even
singed.
Near the cathedral a cart was found
full of dead men and women. Appar-
emily these Were trying to move from
the city when the fire blast overcame
them.
They bring n copy of a newspaper or
proclamation, dated May 18th, in which
notice is given that the commission of
scientists appointed by the government
have examined Mont Pelee and deter
mined that there is no danger of fur
ther serious eruption.
The paper was found in a house
wherein there We're seven dead people,
who We're apparently suffocated by gas
as they We're not burned.
The commission referred to was ap-
pointed by the government to reassure
the people of st. Pierre. They came
to the doomed city and studied the
phenomena of the volcano. and their
report was that Pelee showed no indi-
cations of abnormal violence. but that
the Indications were identical with the
recognized phenomena of volcanoes
generally. They further reported that
the position of the craters and neigh
boring valleys projecting toward the
sea allowed thcm to affirm that the
security of st. Pierre was not threat
ened.
Every member of the commission per-
ished the morning after this report
was promulgated and with them Gov
ernor Moutet and his wife, who had
come to st. Pierre to show by their
presence that the government believed
in the optimistic deductions of the sci
entists.
NJ. Haller. the French consul at St.
Thomas, returned from Martinique ca
the Nalkyrie. He denies the stories
that the government prevented the peo-
pie of st. Pierre from leaving the city.
He says guard was established about
st. Pierre. not to keep the people in 1t,
but To keep out the crowds from Fort
de France. who. attracted by the spec
tacle presented by the eruption of Pc
lee. flocked to St Pierre. He admits,
however, that the government tried to
calm the disturbed population of st.
Pierre with assurances that there was
no danger
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20
WOULD LIMIT LIQUOR SALES.
Prussian Ministry May Be Asked to
Restrict the Traffic.

Count Douglas. descendant of
Scotch soldier of fortune. has pro-
posed n resolution in the Prussian diet,
asking the ministry to bring in Il bill
imposing more rigid restrictions on the
liquor traffic. All parties except the
Radicals, supported the measure, and
the Radicals did not speak against it.
The resolution of Count Douglas set
forth that he was no abstainer himself,
and that on proper occasions he liked
to get "A good drink. But he was deep
ly impressed with the injury inflicted
in Germany by excessive indulgence
in drink The Germans. he added.
spend three billion marks per year in
drink twice the amount of the army
and navy budgets, and 100000 persons
We're brought before the courts through
drink. The number of criminals was
increasing by 10000 annually, and the
number of convicted persons had in
creased from 300 .491 in 1882, to 49,
139 in 1899 In the insane asylums in
temperance furnished thirty per cent.
of the inmate, and eighty per cent. of
Germanys idiots We're the children Of
try through excessive drinking, was in
calculable
Germany, while leading the world in
social reform legislation had done prac-
tically nothing against drinking. The
United States was far more advanced(
than Germany in this respect.
He condemned the drinking cult in
the universities. saying it was "A jolly
life while it lasted, but it had many
tragical sequels.
Practicing physicians followed with
statements drawn from their own ex-
perience. DR.. Endemnnn asserted that
alcoholists succumbed to tubercle ba-
cillus much more easily than others.
and DR.. Martens said the mortality in
all diseases was three or four times
greater in the case of alcohollsts than
among abstainers. comparing persons
of equal physical strength.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

People who are in the habit of sell
Ing their old books to the junk men
should keep the fact in mind that an
old volume bearing the date 1867
brought 81 100 in New York recently.
There was nothing valuable about the
book but its age.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20
High School Graduates Wanted.

Chicago, Ill. May 16.-HiGh school
education will hereafter he of advan-
tage to young men who desire to enter
the service of the Santa Fe railroad.
The management of that company has
instructed heads of departments that
where positions are to be filed, high
school graduates shall be given the
nreferencn
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20
Meat Still Going Up.

Chicago, Ill, May 1G.-Cattle prices
were higher in the Union Stock Yards
il Chicago to-day than for almost
twenty years. The top price for the
day, $3.50. was 10 cents in advance of
the high mark last week. All the Of
ferings We're snapped up. The prices
of hogs and sheep also made record
marks for the year.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

A man with live body and dead
mind has been found in Chicago. but
nobody is reported missing from the
railway station bureau of information
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

1t has been brought out in a Connec-
ticut divorce suit that the man was
drunk twice a day for SG4 days in sue
cesslon. Why he missed on the 365tl
is not explained.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

Kansas City has a bribery scandal.
1t seems to be mere matter of discov-
ering the briber in order to put all
American cities on the same footing.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

Paris has prevented j. Pierpont
Morgan from carrying off one pair of
iron doors, but the city ought to be
careful how it treats our covetous mil
lionaire. He may yet transfer the
Latin Quarter to the Bowery, New
York, or Clark street, Chicago.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

Carnegie advises young men not to
strive to obtain more than a compe-
tence He win not have to plead very
hard with the majority of them to
get their consent.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

The habit of talking back at the
preacher during the delivery of his
sermon is becoming so common as tc
make church services unusually attrac-
tive.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

Having seen a few portraits of King
Leopold we shall not be surprised at
anything the people who see the origi-
nal every day may take a notion tc
do him.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

Belgian socialists who want the "one
man one vote" plan evidently intend
to do the voting for their wives, as we
do in this country.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

State Auditor Crouter has refused
the request of the board of trustees of
the State School of Mines at Golden
to place upon his books. the S25, 900 APP
propriated for that institution by the
regular session of the Thirteenth Cen
eral Assembly His refusal means the
school will not be able to draw against
or anticipate that money until the
close of the present biennial period,
November 30, 1903. Some months ago
the board asked for the money, which
is wanted to use in building and max
ing improvements. The matter was re-
ferred TO Attorney General Post, who
decided the auditor could not nntici-
pate the amount of money whcn
would possibly accrue from the one
fifth mill levy for the school; that be
fore the special appropriation could be
paid, the auditor must know exactly
what the levy would produce. Under
the appropriation the school cannot
receive more than S125,O00. And the
attorney general holds that the $25,-
600 is "A special appropriation. The at
torney general holds that if the one
fifth mill levy should produce more
than 100000, that the school would
not then be entitled to the whole S25,-
600, but just that portion of the differ
ence between the excess of 100000
and the S125,OOO. He further held it
would be unlaw wful for the auditor to
pay the S25,0OO and then, should the
fractional mill levy produce more than
$3.50 credit the excess to the fund
from which the $4,000 were drawn.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

An Illinois girl wrote her name and
address on an egg and put it in a
crate with others to be shipped east.
She is still waiting for matrimonial
proposition to hatch out.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

During the year 1901 nearly half a
-.n'sv--oases OF champagne were. i'm
ported into the United States. 1t will
be remembered as an extra dry year.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

And the greatest victory that Wis
consin Grand Army veteran ever won
was in securing three kisses without
having to pay for them.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

King Edward belongs to twenty
clubs-and probably nothing disagree
able would be done even if he should
not pay his dues.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

Since a Waukegan judge has decid-
ed that egg money is the legitimate
perquisite of a farmers wife, there
will be a chance for some women to
buy new dresses oftener than once in
i've wears.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

If the Prince of Wales comes we
can promise him that the menus will
always be presented in our choicest
French.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

The ordinary wedding is closed with
a ring on; but that telephone matri-
monial alliance down in Kentucky end
ed with a ring off.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

Some people are not bothering SO
much about the price of meat since
the cost OF cigarettes is being reduced.
All kinds of living are not dear.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

The originator of the comic valen-
tine has just died at the age of ninety.
He lived in Philadelphia and was
therefore very slow about facing the
ghosts of his numberless victims
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

William Waldorf Astoria has given
500. 900 to an English university. but
when last heard from he was still
waiting for that title.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

President Loubet's life has been
threatened. The people of France are
becoming restless again.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

Kubelik and Paderewsld no sooner
wind up their season than it is an
bounced that the seventeen-year To-
Gusts are headed this way.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

BY the way, just ask your wife what
the phrase. the differential sugar"
means, OF course you know. yourself.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

Venezuelan soldiers seem to thinl
that foot-racing is the greatest of sol
dierly accomplishments.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

If a successful airship ever be de-
vised it will be worth far more than
the s25O,00O Sir Hiram Maxim offers
to pay for it.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

Sightless men of Toledo have form
ed trust. This looks like a blind
deal
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

Mr. Morgan is getting perilously
near that place on the public stage
where Alexander posed while he wept
because he had no more worlds tc
conquer.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

The prospect of having American
college yells at Oxford seems to dis
woman and proved that though mar
riage may be lottery there are no
blanks for the man with a will.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

Mrs. w X. Vanderbilt, Jr.. is taking
cooking lessons. Now let the hired
girl beware.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20
California Farm Machinery.

In no Locality has modern soeam
farming machinery been applied with
such effectiveness as upon the grain
ranches in southern California. On
one ranch the engine used to draw Ihe
machinery is of fifty-horse power, and
has drive wheels eight feet high. 1t
consumes twelve barrels of oil every
day. and its operation requires the ser
vices of seven men. In plowing, fifty
five furrows are turned over nj one
time, covering ii breadth of forty feet.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

Novels OF Bahyloniau life are not rare.
but hitherto no writer OF fiction has ven
tured beyond the shallow depths of the
classical legends which formerly were
taught as "Assyrian history" This
argues lack Of enterprise originality
in the novelists as the fund of material
that has been gathered since Botta
struck the first pick into the ruins of
Sargon's palace In 1872 is ample and var
led enough for either history or romance.
A new writer. Josiah NJ. Ward, is to
strike out into deeper water. and take
his readers back into the times OF Neb-
uchadnezzar and the last days of Nine
veh. The title of his book Come with
Me into Babylon" is a pleasant promise
which challenges attention. one expects
something more than a glimpse into the
lives OF the Babylonians. whose nama,
has come to be "A synonym Of luxury and
wantonness. Those were heroic days re-
ally. when the greatest nations of that
remote antiquity. the Babylonians. Modes.
Lydians and Egyptians. met over the
carcass OF Assyria and engaged in that
fierce struggle for the mastery Of the
world.-Lesle's Magazine for May.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

The meat combine is said TO expect
n great profit on stored eggs, but it
may be counting Its chickens before
they are hatched.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

The Court of Appeals handed down
long list of decisions on the Eth
inst, few of which We're of notable
Importance. The long conflict between
the Lacombe Electric Company and
the Denver Gas and Electric Company,
represented by Perry l.. Hubbard, was
finally settled, when the court an
nounced that 1t would deny the motion
for n rehearing. This finally disposes
of the case. The appeal of the Chi
cago, Burlington X Quincy Railroad
Company from the decision of the Dis
trict Court of Boulder county was de-
MED. Burch won a damage suit from
the company which he sued under the
name of the Burlington X Missouri
River. The company alleged as II
ground for reversal of the judgment
the fact that its name had not been
properly given in the suit. The court
held that the two roads We're owned
by the same corporation, and affirmed
the judgment. Judgments We're also
given against two fire insurance com
panies. The first was that of Henry
Stewart against the Farmers Alliance
Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Stewards stock of goods was destroyed
by fire, but when he tried to collec
from the company payment of the pol
icy was refused, it being alleged that
Stewart set fire to his store. The
court in which the ease was tried gave
n Judgment in favor of Stewart, saying
that no>evidence had been adduced TO
show that he fired his own property.
The Court of Appeals affirmed this de-
cision. The second case was that of
Mrs. Eliza j. Trombly against the
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Com
raf 10
for household goods belonging to Mrs.
Trombly. which We're destroyed by
fire, alleging that the property de
stroyed was not the same as that
named in the policy. The Court of
Appeals afiirms the judgment of the
trial court, which gave II verdict for
Mrs Trombly.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20
81 Want Everybody to Know How
Completely Ii Cures Indigestion" +"

This shows the unselfish disposition of Mr..
Hodge, of Orchard Cottage, Ippleden, New
ton, who, having been cured by Vogeler's
Compound, wishes every other sufferer to
know of the benefit he has received from
this marvellous remedy. He tells his story
as follows: -
Gentemen-I find Vogelcr's Compound a remedy
above all others last year was in thorough bad
of health, and could hardly drag leg after the
other had tried dozens OF remedies advertised
indigestion and all its attendant evils, but
rapidly going from bad to worse. when had the good
fortune TO be recommended to take Vogclcr's Com
pound. | did SO, and thankful to say it made
new man OF me. | should ike other people 70 know
its virtues, and how completely II knocks under the
worst forms of indigestion and dyspepsia.
(Signed) GEoKGE H. HoDGE.
Vogeler's Compound is the greatest reme-
dy of the century for all stomach disorders
and liver and kidney troubles in both men
and women. A free sample bottle will be
sent on application to the proprietors, St.
Jacobs Oil, Ltd, Baltimore. Md.
Why Is 1t
That St. Jacobs Oil always affords instant
relief from pains, after all other remedies
have signally failed? Simply because it is
peculiar to itself, wholly unlike another rerH
edy. 1t possesses great penetrating power
reaching the very seat of the disease. m
acts like magic. 1t conquers pain quickly
and surely. 1t is an outward application,
and is used by millions of people.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20

With the growth in population and
the establishment of great manufac-
turing concerns, Denver's death rate
steadily declines. Health Commission
er Clough has just issued his report
for April showing that there We're 2O2
deaths, as against PIG for the same
month last year. OF these forty-seven
were consumptives who contracted the
disease outside the state and came
here too late TO derive benefit from the
climate. Deducting the latter cases,
the death rate would be only 12.4O per
LOCO of population. Including the
cases contracted elsewhere, the rate
would be 1916 per 1000. Last year
the statistics We're imperfect and
showed IL death rate of 1I.2S and ex-
cluding cases of phthisis contracted
elsewhere, 1901. OF the deaths last
month, 126 We're males and seenty-siN
females. Pneumonia reaped the
grimmest harvest, claiming twenty
victims. Scarlet fever caused five
deaths, diphtheria three and typhoid
three.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20
Mining Machinery sn..iies and

Leather and Rubber Betting, Pulleys Mil Supplies
etc. Write for complete catalogue just issued. Fair
banks, Morse CO., l0Oo1G02 l7th St. Denver, Colo
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20
COLORADO'S CAPITAL.

In the United States District Court
on the 18th inst arguments We're heard
in the cases of George w. Cooke
against the Pullman company and
eleven railway companies, accused of
infringement of brake patents. On ap
plication of the defendants the case
was continued until the November
term of court.
In the United States Court May 10Th
the following We're adjudicated bank
rupts: Enoch II. Williams of Berthoud,
Ellsworth j. Edwards of Denver and
Dudley NJ. Gray of Cripple Creek.
These We're discharged: Herbert g.
Kinsman of Colorado Springs and
Charles NJ. Graft, David l. Goldstein
and Anna X Smith of Denver.
Arguments before the Supreme
Court on the O'Reilly protest TO the
six constitutional amendments has
been set for May 26th. Attorney
O'Reilly appeared in this matter May
10Th and Attorney General Charles q.
Post appeared for the state. Briefs
are to be filed and ii hard contest will
be made 1t is said that each amend
ment will have its defenders, Senator
Whitford, Senator Rush and Attorney
j. Warner Mills appearing for various
pected to address the court for his two
amendments.
Fish Commissioner Holland left
Denver on the Eth inst. for the EN-
erald lakes for the purpose of securing
u large quantity of spawn TO take TO
the new fish hatchery which Game
Warden Harris is building at Steam
boat Springs The lakes We're given to
the state two years ago by their own
er, w r. Kirkpatrick. who rejoices
in the soubriquet of the fish king.
They teen with native mountain trout
and Mr.. Holland expects to get large
quantity of eggs for Matching. He
says that there will be more fish in
the state this year than ever before.
The new hatchery will cost $500 and
will be completed within II short time.
All the other state hatcheries are com
pletely filled.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20
Why Is 1t

Mjnjnu Machinery, also seeqnd,ha machinery
chinery Co.. 1879 Lawrence St. Denver send for list
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-20
O S G A II j. Il II o 5 II ,
ASSAYBR and CHEMIST

1852 Champa ST., DENVER, COLO. Specimen prices:
Gold, Silver COR both same sampe) 81; Lead, 81;
Copper. q. other prices ON application.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-31
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A RuCl, CHAM R3rbccuc.

SHEPPARDS. VA. Oct S0-rSpec,al>-
pa Buckingham was on a holiday yester-
~ on account of the big Democratic
@rhecue and speaking. E S. Lyle. of
toanoke; Hal D. Flood. of ApponattoT:
=" 5ubard of Buckingham. and other
NomireHt speakers addressed large
va enthusiastic audience at Sheppards.
!iaFe were large number of ladies in
"l"ndance. 1t Is without doubt the larg-
gathering OF the KIND every held in
his part Of the county. and Judging from
remarks of the voters. Hon. Hal.
orc viii return TO congress from the
zen n district with an increased majority.
mere are two syndicates of land buyers
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-31
REAL ESTATE ACTIVE.
Demand Mt Present Runs Towards
Residential prODnrtv.

Residential Property.
real estate market yesterday. The great
est demand. at present, seems to be for
residential property.
About $1,000 was invested Wednesday
through Pollard & Bagby in Lee District.
These lots were on Monument avenue
near Meadow street. The names Of the
purchasing parties for the present are
withheld.
w. B. Pizzini & Co. sold yesterday
the four adjoining large residences at
Nos. 1905 1907, 100, and I'LL west Main
street. The price paid for all four houses
was $4,000, but the name Of the buyer was
not given.
1715 west Main street, the property Of
H. S. Winston. to J. w. SANDMAN. for
$3.50 In each Of the Main-street sales
the price paid was in cash.
W. 3. PiZzini & Co.. sold also the small!
frame building at No. Coz Hughes stree,
to H. NJ. Smith, Jr.. for s425.
The three buildings at the southwest
corner of Twelfth and Bank streets, be.
longing to the estate of Celeste Pizzinl.
was sold by w. B. Pizzini to M. r. Wood
for SS5E5.
This is considered by real estate men as
a good price. IS the buildings are or
ground belonging to the Mitchell estate.
Old Trinity church. on the south SIDE
of Franklin street, between Fourteenth,
and Fifteenth. now used as an Odd Eel
lows Hail. was not sold at public auction.
as was expected. There were no bids,
il is said that came near the figure al
which the property is valued by the own
ers and the sale was called off This ole
building will now proba bly, be torn down