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The Lamar register., 1902-10-15

The Sparks may consider it n
good argument to advise people to
vote the democratic ticket because
the Denver gamblers are betting in
favor of it, but the decent element of
the community are likely to look
upon it in a different light.
The Lamar register., 1902-10-15

The best evidence OF the real sent
iments of the trusts is the fact that
Morgan and other trust leaders have
contributed the largest campaign
fund ever handled by the democratic
national committee.
The Lamar register., 1902-10-15

A democratic paper says that Pea
body is not in Stimson's class. We
should say not. Stimson is corpor,
alton attorney and is running on a
corruption fund raised by the cor
porations whose tool he is.
The Lamar register., 1902-10-15

When Senator Teller on the first
visit he has ever made to Lamar can
not draw a crowd of over a hundred
it looks as if democrats had bad
case of cold feet. "Old Garden
Sass" Bell was Immediately called
for to try to save the day, but the
frost he met was enough to make
him wilt.
The Lamar register., 1902-10-15

The secretary of the democratic
national committee announced that
the democrats would carry congress
this year on account of the large
campaign fund they had secured
from the trusts.
The Lamar register., 1902-10-15

When you wake up with bad taste
in your mouth, go at once to Myers
Drug Store and get free sample of
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab
let's. One or two doses will make you
we'll. They also cure biliousness, sick
headgche and constipation.
The Lamar register., 1902-10-15

The democratic papers have not
yet recovered from the loss of the
publication of the men1ments, and
their support of the state ticket is as
luke wram as their support of the
amendments.
The Lamar register., 1902-10-15

Get free sample of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets at any drug
store. They are easier to take and more
pleasant in effect than pills. Then their
use is not followed by constipation as is
often the case with pills. Regular size
25c per box.
The Lamar register., 1902-10-15
Notice

1 have some choice Lamar real estate
that will trade for stock cattle or stock
Of any kind. Also one quarter section
of dry land under the Fort Lyon Canal.
Team, wagon and harness for sale on
easy terms. NJ. STRAIN
The Lamar register., 1902-10-15
Estrays.

A team Of large grey horses came on
to my premises Sept. 22nd 1902. Owner
can have property by paying charges
for keeping and for this notice,
J,O. STREAM.
The Lamar register., 1902-10-15
cattIa w.nters

1000 head Of one, two and three year
old steers. Must be Of good quality
Call on or address us.
SMITH & PAXTON.
The Lamar register., 1902-10-15
For Sale Cheap

Three-room dwelling house, stable,
trees, block OF lots. In good location,
Reasonable terms. See,
The Lamar register., 1902-10-15
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
STATE TICKET.

STATE TICKET.
For Governor JAMES ii. PEABODY
For Congressman. FRANKLIN f. BRooKs
For Lieut., Governor. Nv. A. HAGGoTr
For Sec. OF State. e........ JAMES CowIE
For Auditor .JoHN A. HoLMBERG
For Treasurer. WHITNEY NEWTON
For Atty. Gen. 80. NATHAN G. MILLER
For Supt. Pub. Inst. Mrs. A. p. BRANDT
For Regents. s........ DR.. o. j. PFEIFFER
w. j. KING.
DIsTRICE TICKET.
For Congressman. H. NJ. HoGG
SLaLe Senator. II. II. WOOD
Representative. GRANNY HILLYER
COUNTY TICKET.
For Commissioner. JOEL KNowLEN
PRECINCT TICKET.
For Justice OF Peace. .....J. ID. MARTIN
For Justice to fill vacancy. C. Il. FEAST
For Constable. ........ FRANK KELSEY
For Constable, vacancy. IL. b. kEYsER
The Lamar register., 1902-10-15
For Rent

The Herbert building and rooms in
the Land Office block. Inquire of
GRANNY HILLYER.
The Lamar register., 1902-10-15
Commissioners Proceedings.

Office of the Board q County Co@%is:ionssrs 1iH s
Board met pursuant to adjourdment, all
Members present.
oi Ihe ,y minutes OF the quarter ending September
Allowed claims and drew warrants on the
ordinary county revenue fund af follows:
quarter ending Sept. 80, deputy hire 100 10
Gee z Pollard services as ianitor etc...... 20 %
missioner Tor Aug and Sept ........ eo 40 90
% oSh DsSshE board :. sSsps nss, ssrasy e
Lamar. Colo. Oct. g. l. p. IN.
Board met pursuant to adjournment all
The petition OF Fred Williams was granted.
asking for rebate OF taxes on the following
described proPpeTsS s,s,inv sw s1a ns ns sw
this land valued at 500 per acre lies above the
dtsh And is M only for grazing Sad
cents per acre making the total valuation on
=. The o petition Of F. a. and C. F.. williams for
Abbie l.. Williams, was granted asking for
o T. Said petitioner was granted a rebate
The petition Of MIS-. b. L. Keeley asking for
rebate rob O., o. 1 taxes % on lots In Lamar +. was
6ste said M as1ss e in vsustion to
granted. asking for a reduction OF the vaiua-
y. to 5000 becsrse 81 said land being non non
irrigable. Tho pttitioner was granted re-
Approved quarterly report OF F. NJ. Tate for
quarter ending September 30th, 1909.
Allowed claim Of +. A. O'DOnnell, for fum-
for amount, $1<.25.
On motion Board adjourned to meet Oct. 7th
1904.
Attest: J.F. CURRY. Clork.
Lamar, Colo, Oct. 7th, 1902.
Office of Board of County Commissioners,
Board met pursuant to adjournment, all
members present.
Approved monthly report of II. J. vinton
overseer of road district No. 2, and drew war.
rants on said road district No. as follows:
T B Pile. IL 90
ID ID vinton. ...... ............."...."... 70 %
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-17
FACTS ABOUT CUBA.

Cuba contained at the time of the break
ing out of the last revolution loo, 600 farms,
ranches and plantations, valued at 5000, 00O,
900.
No less than five minor revolts occurred
in Cuba between 1875 the date of closing the
"ten years war" and 1894 when the last
war began.
From 1927 to 1864 Cuba contributed direct
ly to the Spanish treasury the sum of $780,
100000. Since 1867 the island has contrib
uted but little directly to the Madrid treas
ury, but indirectly much of the entire rev.
enue of the island has reached Spain.
From the eastern end of Cuba to Hayti is
81 miles, and to Jamaica So miles; from the
northern shore on the western end it is Sc
miles to Florida, and from Cape San An
tonic, the western extremity of the island,
to Yucatan is 40 miles
Cuba is nearly seven times as long as Long
Island. 1t stretches from point about even
with New York City on the east to Cincin-
natl on the west, distance of $50 miles. In
width it is nowhere greater than 100 miles,
while at places it is as narrow as 20 miles.
There are 1900 small islands and keys ad-
jacent to and belonging to Cuba, and these,
with the main island, comprise an area of
about $4,000 square miles.
Cuba had at the close of the war with
Spain about 1000 miles of railway divided
into numDer OF small INES Since the
evacuation of the island by Spain Sir Will
liam Van Van Horne, the builder of the Can
dian Pacific railway, has been building a
new trunk line that, when completed, will
traverse the island from one end to the
other, and, with its various branches, will
comprise more than another thousand miles
of railway line. The main line of this road
from Santiago to Nipe, in Santa Clara prov
ince, is now nearing completion, and will be
opened to traffic in the early summer, and
the remainder of the system will be pushed
to completion as rapidly as possible. The
older lines of railway are practically all in
the western portion of the island, and sew
eral of them center at Havana, or connect
with Havana
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but demanded of Spain dear price for the
sacrifice.
The story of the ''ten years war" is a
story of ten years of hardships and sacrifice.
1t brought with it the first declaration of
Cuban independence, signed on October 10,
1868, and also the first election of Cuban
officers including president and vice presi-
dent and the appointment of cabinet of
fcers.
1t was Carlos NJ. de Cespedes, at the head
of 128 alarmed men, who started this con-
fict, and who issued the proclamation of
Cuban independence at Yara. Cespedes was
a lawyer of Bayamo at the beginning of the
war, but he was a natural leader of men,
and soon had $4,000 men with which to op-
pose Spain. Tt was he who virtually wrote
the first Cuban constitution which was
promulgated at Guaimaro on April 10, 1869.
For the first two years of the war success
attended almost every effort of the Cuban
army, which increased rapidly until it had
reached the numbers of $4,000 men, but the
ability of Spain to furnish war materials
and fresh troops was greater than that of
the insurgents, and the rank and file of the
Cuban army began finally to tire of the
struggle. From lS73un February, 1878, the
war dragged along in desultory way, and
finally ended with the peace of San Antonio
which guaranteed pardon to all who had
taken part in the conflict, and representa-
ton for Cuba in the Spanish cortes.
1t was during this war, in 1873, that there
occurred the incident of the steamer Vir-
ginius which came so near resulting in war
between Spain and the United States, and
which did result in some pointed CORE
spondence between officials of the two coun-
tries, and the execution as pirates at San
tiago of 50 persons.
The incidents of the last revolution that
UEslN II
vention for the pacifcation and liberia ton
of the island are too well known to need
any accounting here. The leaders who
focked to the Cuban standard were men
who had fought for Cuban freedom from
1S68-78. Jose Marti started from New Y ork
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gun organizing as early as 1920 under the
name of "Soles de Bolivar" and In 1923
these societies made an attempt at open re-
volt But the attempt was fruitless of re-
suits other than the arrest and punishment
of the leaders.
The next revolution came In 1926, and was
planned by Cuban refugees in Mexico and
Colombia. The scheme included the lead
ership of the great Hberator, Simon Bolivar
but it resulted in nothing tangible through
lack of adequate support. The same lead
ers attempted to organize another campaign
for the freeing of Cuba during the years 1927
20, this time including among their support
ers many persons in the United States, but
this plan was frustrated through the infiu-
ence of the slave interests in both this coun-
try and Mexico.
Another revolution came in 1884 in which
the principals were the slaves on the sugar
plantations about Mantanzas. With some
difficulty Spain suppressed this revolt, and
punished in various ways l ,346 Of those con-
victed of participating in it, but the seed of
liberty then planted resulted in later years
in the patriots who fought the long ten
years war, and again those who led to ulti-
mate victory the forces of Cuba in the last
war.
The next Cuban revolution, started year
later, was led by an ex-oficer in the Span
lSu ARMY, NdIClSO Lopez lie hdS uilS W
cessful at the time, but his efforts led final
ly to the attempt of this government to
purchase Cuba from Spain in 1S4S. The
overtures made to the Spanish government
by President Polk were of no avail, however,
and Lopez continued his efforts at liberia
ton until he was finally captured by the
Spanish authorities on Cuban soil and exc
cuted in 1851.
In 1854 came both the attempt of Gen.
Quitman, of Mississippi, for the invasion OF
Cuba, which resulted disasterously to the
leaders, they being captured and executed,
and the -Ostend Manifesto which recon-
mended the purchase of Cuba for $120, O0O,-
600. But this, like the previous attempt at
purchase, came to naught, and the island
was left to drag along in comparative peace
until the breaking out of the "ten years
war" in 1868.
1t was this long struggle that brought to
the fore such men as Gomez, Garcia, Palma
and many others destined to live in the his
tory of the new republic as the names of
Washington, Lee, Putnam and a score of
others live in our own history. They are the
grandest names Cubans will ever know;
true patriots, who yet live to guide the young
republic through its first troubled waters
with the same courageous hands that taught
the Cuban soldiers to match Cuban strategy
and daring against the heavier forces of
Spain. To this list must be added that of
Alaceo and the others who sacrificed their
lives in the last struggle for Cuban freedom,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-17
AMERIcA.s FIeHr FOR CUBA.
We Have Done Battle Not only with
the Sword But with the Scrub
hing Brush as Well.

So fresh in the minds of the American
people are the events of the historic summer
of 1898 that they really need no recalling at
this time when the complete fruition of the
objects of the struggle between the United
States and Spain are now to be realized in
the establishment of that independent gov
eminent in Cuba which this government
guaranteed when it declared the welding of
the sword for the islands independence to
be part of our duty.
The destruction of our good ship Maine;
the declarations and appropriations voted
by congress; the mobilizing of armies and
fleets; the victory of Admiral Dewey at Ma
Mia; the dispatch of troops to Santiago; our
naval victory off that harbor; the fall of the
city; the capture of Porto Rico, and SPANS
cry for peace at almost any price, all these
incidents need but mention to recall them
to the minds of the people of this country.
History was never made more rapidly than
it was made during that summer, and it was
history of which the country and the world
may well be proud in after years.
With the sword we drove Spain out of
Cuba, our soldiers and sailors reaped won
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people of Cuba began to think seriously of
freedom, or rather of righting existing
wrongs, and forcing from the mother coun-
try more liberal form of government
England's colonies mad thrown off the yoke
of oppression, and the seed of freedom that
had sproutCd on the mainland mad been car
ried to the island. a grievance that brought
with it armed resistance came in 1896 when
Spain withdrew the ship building yards
from Havana to reestablish them at her
home ports. The industry had existed in
the island from 1925, and the closing of them
was bitterly resented. But Cuba at that
time demanded only her rights as a loyal
colony, and not the absolute freedom for
which she has since fought.
During her earlier history the develop
ment of Cuba's great agricultural resources
progressed but slowly. Her ports were
closed to the commerce of all the world save
Spain, and it was not until after circum-
stances which Spain had opposed for years
but which finally overcame her, that the
Cuban planters began to really realize the
narrowness of Spanish rule. The Change
that began to be apparent in the colonial
policies of other European nations carly in
the last century was not shared by Spain,
who but attempted to draw the lines
tighter.
This fact is evidenced by the issuance of
the royal decree of May %, 1925, defining the
functions of the captain generals of Cuba,
a decree whic: invested them with prac-
tically the powers of oriental despots, and
this decree remained in force until Spain
had been driven from the island.
Even before the issuing of this decree
had come the first attempt to break the rule
of Spain. Secret political societies had be-
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derful victories in rapid succession, but
Spain left behind her harder struggle than
her armies or her fleets had given us-it was
with dirt and disease.
How we'll Gov. Gen. Wood has conquered
this foe is evidenced from the health reports
from Cuba. First at Santiago, and later
throughout all the island he has persistently
fought the battle for clean cities and good
sanitation until to-day Havana, instead of
being the breeding ground of all the various
types of malignant fever, is considered as
healthful as almost any city in the United
States. He has taught to the Cubans the ne
cessity of cleanliness, a lesson they are not
likely to soon forget.
He has done more than this. He has
opened the public schools, and has so ex-
tended the system that practically all the
children of school age have now offered
them the advantages ofan education, and has
instilled in the hearts of the people a desire
for learning, a desire which their own gov
eminent will now be in position to fulfill.
Gen. Wood, as the representative of the
American people, has builded a government
of the people, for the people and by the
people of Cuba into whose hands our coun-
try can now safely place the reigns of con-
troll, and Gen. Woods name must be added
to the list of Cuban heroes whose memories
will long live in the hearts of the people of
"the ever faithful isle"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-17
ALL SORTS.

Fire-escapes were first used in Paris
in 1851.
The shipyards of the Pacific coast
are at work on scores of vessels.
Stamps are first mentioned by Syne-
sius, bishop of Cyrene, about 800 a. d.
The United States had last year the
record hay-harvest of $1,000, 900 tons.
Roller skates were introduced into
England by Tyers, fruiterer, in 1923.
China raises and consumes more
ducks than any other country in the
world.
The police force of Montreal, Can
ada, are hearing lectures once week
on both civil and criminal law.
The Columbia, which sailed from
Boston in September, 1887, was the
first ship that carried the stars and
stripes completely round the world.
French has been made the official
language of the Quebec legislature,
city council and board of trade. Eng
disappearing members viii be allowed
to use their own language, of course,
but all the records are to be kept in
French. The change is due to the
growth of the French element in the
three bodies named.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-17
CLEANED BY ENGLAND.
Gen. Wood Was Not the First Fore
eigner to Give Havana
Thorough Washing.

The municipal housekeeping which has
marked the administration of Gen. Wood in
Havana was not the first experience in that
line which the city has undergone. In 1853,
during what is known in European history
as the ''seven years wal" an English squad
ron under Lord Albermarle captured Ha-
vana after campaign which lasted for more
than two months. British troops held the
city for more than six months, and during
that time subjected it to such securing and
cleaning as it had never known before or
since until Gen. Wood began his campaign
against the accumulated dirt. At the same
time they instituted effective hygenic regu-
lations, and opened the port to the trade
of the world, When the city was finally re-
stored to Spain she attempted to close the
port to the worlds commerce, but never
wholly succeeded, though she did succeed in
again permitting the dirt and filth to &C.
cumulate.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-17
Santiago First andLast.

1t seemed that there was something more
than mere incident of circumstances in the
first campaign of the Americans in Cuba be-
ing directed against Santiago. Ceryera's
squadron in 1898 sought refuge in the same
harbor that the first Spanish settlers on the
island had selected as the site for the first
of the Cuban cities early in the sixteenth
century. Trinidad was the second city
founded by the Spaniards and Havana the
third. The city that saw the first of the
Spanish occupation of the island also saw
its fall, as it was the capture of Santiago by
the American troops that brought about
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-17
.oThe Ever Faithful I.1e.n

Cuba has been known the world over as
"The Ever Faithful Isle," a name. it re-
ceived at the time the Spanish Bourbons
were deposed by Napoleon in l8O8 At that
time each member of the provincial Cuban
council took an oath to preserve the island
for its legitimate sovereign. The island con-
tributed voluntarily 100000 to the Span
ing treasury during the Napoleonic wars,
and declared war against France for depos-
ing the Spanish sovereign. For such fidelity
the Cuban people were rewarded by having
taken away from them the rights of their
provincial council, and imposing upon them
a line of captain generals whose despotic
rule continued down to the day this country
wrested the colony from the hands of the
Dons
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-17

of armed force. This opposition was not at
all times Of sufficient vigor to be dignifed
by tie name of revolution, but it was con-
slant. For many years it was more of
sea fight than land fight and was carried
on by the buccaneers whose object was to
drive Spain from the western seas, not be-
cause they were friendly to the native
Cubans, but from motives of revenge against
the mother country, and as allies of other
European nations at war with Spain. Nor
were their operations directed against the
Spaniards in Cuba alone, but in every part
Of the western world where the Spanish flag
foated.
1t was not until late in the eighteenth and
early in the nineteenth centuries that the
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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-17
Havana Twice burned.

The city of Havana has twice been de-
stroyed by fire set by French privateers.
The first destruction occurred in 1888, soon
after the city was founded, and to prevent
repetition of the disaster Fernando de Soto,
then governor of the island, built the first
of the fortresses intended for the defense of
the city, the Castillo de la Fuerza, but this
proved ineffective, for the city was again de-
stroyed by the French in 1854 After this
the Punta and MORO fortresses were built.
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tually no resistance from the natives save
from one chief, Hatuey, refugee from His
PAMELA, or Hayti as now called, where he
had witnessed the barbarities of the new
corners and resented their invasion of his
new home, as he, unlike the others, knew
from terrible experience what such COM
ingmeant to the native people. But Hatuey
like many others who came after him in
later years, was unsuccessful in opposing the
will of the Dons, and paid for his desire for
freedom with his life, being burned at the
stake as a fugitive slave.
Spanish oppression and Spanish cruelty
reigned in Cuba from that day until in the
summer of 1898, when, with the assistance
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in February, 1895, Gomez, Antonio and Jose
Maceo, Crombet, Cebreco, Borrero, Angel
Guerra and a score of others gathered again
on Cuban soil from different points to again
begin the fight for Cuban freedom. In time
Garcia, Robi, Rivera and others joined
them, and what Spain at first believed to be
but the beginning of a negro riot thst could
be suppressed within short time proved to
be the final conflict for Cuban freedom, a
conflict that has waged on sea and land for
more than a century.
I'D LCsII.r1 A I, : ,T-1,-zzro Cox
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of the United States, the patriots banisheG
their oppressors from the island forever.
Almost from the day of the Spaniards'
first landing in Cuba until the signing of the
peace protocol that put stop to the war
of 1898 the Dons had found it necessary to
meet opposition to their reign by the use
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-17
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
The Long, Desperate Struggle That
Brought Cuban independence.
1t Began Almost with the First Set
Element of the Spaninrds ia the Is
handsome Men Whose Names
and Deeds VIII Live In
Cuban History.

UBA'S. fight for freedom from
Spanish rule may be said to have
begun almost before the Dons
became masters of the island.
When, in 1911, the son of Co.
lumbus determined to take pos
session of Cuba in the name of
Spain he selected Diego Velas-
quez to command an advance
guard, as it were, of some 800
men. This force met with vir-