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The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

Denver. Aug. PA Republican spe-
cial from Idaho Springs says: On
Thursday Justice of the Peace Morris
bound over eight OF the men accused of
dynamiting the Sun and Moon property
to await the action of the December
term of the District Court, fixing the
and of the other defendants at $500
each. All were released on bond.
The charge against the men who had
been SO accused, and who had been
bound over on other charges. were dis
missed on the arson charge upon ap-
plication Of the district attorney.
H. e. Gregory OF Georgetown.
charged with threats to blow up the
dam of the electric plant OF that town.
was dismissed.
William Bate. ex-president of the
local union. who testified as to the plot
to dynamite the Sun and Moon. was
released upon giving a bond of $1,000
to appear at the next or December term
OF the District Court. Bate had here
tofore been held under bond of $1,000
and having waived his preliminary
hearing has been confined in the coun-
ty jail since he was first arrested.
The Idaho Springs citizens who were
arrested Wednesday on the charge Of
riOting. in that they conducted fourteen
leaders of the union out of the city last
month. appeared before Justice of the
Peace Morris this morning with Thorn
as Ward and Ralph Talbot of Denver
as their attorneys and all waived ex-
animation and were bound over to the
next term of the District Court, which
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

Seattle, Wash, Aug. 22.-The Trans
mississippi Congress adjourned yester-
day after passing the following resolu-
tions:
Statehood for Oklahoma and Indian
Territory combined; territorial govern
ment for Alaska; memorial favoring an
American merchant marine; interna-
tional fish hatchery to be established
on Frazer river: closer trade relations
with Canada; placing the consular ser
vice under civil service; also resolu-
tions relating to forestry irrigation;
public lands and the Improvement OF
rivers and harbors; favoring an appro-
priation of $1.O00,O00 for the Lewis and
Clark Exposition at Portland; roads
and bridges in Alaska: recommending
Transmississippi man for the Bureau
OF Manufactures; recommending man
from the same district for a place on
the Interstate Commerce Commission;
approving plan for canal connect
ing Puget sound and Lake Washington
at Seattle; more stringent pure food
laws; favoring the st. Louis EXPOSE
tion; a differential OF four per cent. in
favor of Pacific coast bidders on battle
ships; protesting against further exten-
sion of forest reserves in Washington; !;
recommending the construction of an
isthmian canal; making The Hague
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
PROF. LANGLEY'S
FLYING MACHINE

Washington, d. c.. Aug. 22.-Profes-
sor Langley has issued the following
statement from the Smithsonian lnsti-
tuition:
ITO the Press-The present expert
ments being made in mechanical flight
have been carried on partly with funds
provided by the board of ordnance and
fortifcations and partly from private
sources and from an endowment of the
Smithsonian Institution. The expert
ments are carried on with the approval
Of the board of regents of the Smith
sonian Institution.
1.-The public's interest in them may
lead to an unfounded expectation as to
their immediate results, without an ex-
PLANTATION, which is here briefly given:
These trials, with some conducted
with steam-driven flying machines, are
believed to be the first in the history OF
inventions where bodies far heavier
than the air itself have been sustained
in the air for more than few seconds
by purely mechanical means.
"In my previous trials success has
only been reached after initial failures
which alone have taught me the way to
it, and know no reason why prospect
i've trials should be an exception.
TT Is possible, rather than probable.
Judging them from the light of past
experience. it is to be regretted that
the enforced publicity which has been
given to these initial experiments,
which are essentially experiments and
nothing else, may lead to quite un-
founded expectations.
1T is the practice of all scientific
men. indeed of all prudent men. not to
make public the results of their work
till these results are certain. This con-
sideration. and not any desire to with
hold from the public, matters in which
the public is interested. has dictated
the policy thus far pursued here. The
fullest publicity consistent with the ma
tional interest these recent expert
ments have for their object the devel-
opment of machine for war purposes)
will be given to this work If it reaches
a stage which warrants publication"
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
FIFTY.TWO MORE CITIZENS
ARRESTED AT IDAHO SPRINGS

ares In Georgetown Monday. De-
cember eth. There were fifty-two other
cjtizens arrested Thursday on the same
charge. and they, too. walVeu eAa"-
ination and were bound over.
When Judge Overs helo pistrict
court at Georgetown last week he had
hench warrants issued for the defend
ants arrested Wednesday. but 1t ID
claimed by the union men that tne NJ
tv-two whose names were handed In
Thursday were also impilcateo. AMONG
the names handed In Thursday there
are some who were not In tne CITY az
the time the men were driven from the
camp. 1t is expected that some other
arrests may be made upon the cnaree
of rioting, and District Attorney ihur,
man says he will have all men arrested
against whom complaints are nled.
1t is not expected that Judge De
France will return before the middle
of September, and the civil cases set
for last week will probably be heard
by him upon his return. although Judge
overs was asked by Judge De France
to preside at the hearing OF these cases
Affairs in Idaho Springs are quiet
and the arrest of citizens occasioned
no surprise. All of the men arrested
charged with plotting the blowing up
of the Sun and Moon. as well as the
union leaders, are in the city. but none
of them have found work. At present
there are no union mines in the dis
trict.
Neither d. C. Copley. nor ]. E. Chan
dler, who are wanted as accessories in
the plot, has been apprehended.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS BY
TRANS.MISSISSIPPI CONGRESS

tribunal the court of last resort, and
discountenancing the sale of large
tracts OF Philippine lands and the In
PRODUCTION OF coolie labor into those
Islands.
The only fights made In the congress
were on the statehood question OF Ok
lahoma and the resolution dealing with
the Philippines. The latter resolution
as originally introduced was against
the raising of sugar and tobacco In the
islands and dealt with the tariff Ques-
ton. The changes tabled the whole
matter, after a heated debate. Then
the resolution was amended to deal
with the land question and the intro
duction OF coolie labor only. and was
passed.
After adjournment the delegates
were taken to inspect the battleship
Nebraska. now under construction at
Moran's shipyards.
St Louis will be the next place OF
meeting of the Transmississippi Con-
gress II the executive committee can
make proper arrangements for dates
and entertainment. The delegates
were unanimous in their choice of st.
Louis for the convention city. but the
matter was left in the hands of the ex-
ecutive committee for settlement. with
the understanding that st. Louis Is to
be given the preference.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
COLORADO STATE AFFAIRS AND
DOINGS AT THE CAPITAL CITY
kansa. Water Complaint.

Attorney General Miller on the 18th
inst. received copy of the amended
bill In equity filed by the state of Kan
sas In the United States Supreme Court
The suit is brought by the state OF
Kansas against this state. contending
that Colorado h;ss no right to appro-
pirate the water OF the Arkansas river.
but ought to let the water in the river
now through without diverting 1t and
using 1t for irrigation.
The bill asks that the court issue an
Injunction against the state of Colorado
and all those water and ditch compa-
nies now diverting the water of the
river for irrigation purposes. 1t is fur
ther alleged in the bill that the former
flow of water into Kansas through the
Arkansas river was 1000 cubic feet per
second. but that on account OF the al
legged wrongful use Of this water by the
people of the state OF Colorado. this
amount has been greatly diminished.
much to the detriment of the state OF
Kansas.
The bill alleges that there are thous-
ands of persons and corporations in the
state of Colorado who are diverting the
water of the Arkansas river by means
Of reservoirs and hundreds of miles Of
bitches.
The amended bill concludes by ask
ing the court TO prohibit. enjoin and
restrain the state of Colorado from
granting. issuing. renewing or permit
ting to be granted or issued or renewed
any charter. license. permit or author
ity to any person, firm or corporation
for the diversion of any of the waters
Of the Arkansas river or any OF Its
tributaries from their patural beds.
courses and channels within the state
Of Colorado, except for domestic use:
or to construct. maintain and operate
any channels. ditches, branches, later
ais or reservoirs now In use."
The other defendants names In the
amended complaint by the state OF
Kansas against the state Of Colorado
are the Bessemer Ditch Company, the
Oxford Farmers Ditch Company. the
Otero Canal Company, the Lake Canal
Company. the Riverside Ditch Compa-
ny. the Catlin Consolidated Canal
Company. the Graham Ditch Company
the Amity Canal and Reservoi. Com
pany. the Rocky Ford Canal Reservoir
Land Loan ana Trust Company, the
Fort Lyon Canal Company. the Colo
RADIO Land and Canal Company. the
Great Plains Water Company. the Ar
kansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigated
Land Company. the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company and the Bent-Otero I'm
provement company.
The attorney general stated that he
had not had time to examine the
amended complaint in detail and would
not discuss 1t. He said. however, that
the state of Colorado would make a
great fight in the Supreme Court of
theUnited States. and he was confident
that 1t would win.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
bitches on State Lands.

Endless litigation is in sight for a
large number OF the ditch companies
OF the state, says the Denver Repub-
lican. Under present conditions 1t is
possible that at any time steps can
be taken to question the right where
by they have constructed their canals
on state lands.
1t is not the intention OF the State
Land Board to embarrass these compa-
nies. which have done so much to de-
velop the state, but for the protection
of the ditch owners themselves an eff
fort will be made to enforce the law
and compel them to obtain the legal
right to occupy state lands with their
capals.
"A large number OF the ditch COM
panies constructed their waterways
without taking the trouble to obtain
permission of the state to build on land
belonging to It," said Register Wood
run yesterday In discussing the sub
1ect. Under the law they have abso-
lutely no right to use the land, though
they all seem to believe that posses
sion gives them that right.
Complaints have been made fire.
quently Of this condition and In some
cases the fact that the ditch crossed
the land caused difficulty in disposing
Of Il. Such a condition of affairs
should not exist, and there is a pros
pect Of great deal OF litigation as
the result. 1t seems to me that this
matter should be Strengthened out at
once"
Many of the big ditch companies
have followed their own bent in con-
strung the waterways. According to
the register of the land office they
have built on lands belonging to be
state without even rs much as "by
your leave" This has made the CON
ditions such that the state can inter
fefe Very seriously with their business
at any time 1t chooses.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
BIG LEAD COMBINE
HAS NEW PROCESS

New York. Aug. 22-Details of the
United Lead Company, which has been
organized with capital stock of $27,-
100000. of which $12.0oO.oOO will be in
bonds and the remainder in common
stock, were given out to-day.
interests identified with the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining Company
have agreed to guarantee the bonds. IL
is said. and syndicate is to take So
100000 of bonds at so, to provide ready
cash.
The company has bought about
twelve lead manufacturing plants, in
Guiding the Chadwick Boston Company
of Boston, the Merrell Lead Company
of St. Louis. the American Shot & Lead
Company of Chicago. the Union Lead
& Oil Company of Brooklyn. Raymond
Lead Company of Chicago, the Gibson
& Price Company of Cleveland, the Nc
Douglall Company of Buffalo, the Hoyt
Metal Company of St. Louis. Raymond
& Blackford Company of Chicago. the
Pitcher Lead Company of Joplin and.
it is understood. latham Bros. of Hcw
York and Philadelphia will join.
The new concern will begin opera
tions next Monday. Guy Major, for
merly mayor of Toledo, and Thomas F.
Ryan of the n-Widener-Elkins syn
dicate. were the principals in the pro-
motion of the United Lead Company.
Those who are in a position to dis
cuss the affairs of the new concern de-
clared to-day that the company has
agents in every lead center in the coun-
try. with the ultimate view of purchas-
ing whatever plants they can. Within
six months. they say, the United Lead
Wv oil ho Ii,,s,
plants in the country.
Foc the past three months the pro-
moters of the United Lead Company
have been experimenting in Brooklyn
with process to produce lead that will
revolutionize the industry. The expert
ments. it was said to-day. have proved
entirely satisfactory to the promoters.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
Grand yurxman Fined.

In the District Court at Denver Au'
gust 18th Judge johnson fined ex.
Mayor William Scott Lee. foreman OF
the grand jury summoned to investi
gate alleged irregularities Of the >oun'
ty ofiicials. the sum OF 800 for di-
vulging the proceedings of the jury
The Judge went further and removed
Mr.. Lee from his position as foreman
but refused to accept his resignation
from jury duty.
Mr.. Lee, in answer to questions by
Judge Johnson, admitted that he told
a reporter that the grand jury had
brought an Indictment against County
Clerk Aichele by vote of 0 to 3 and
also that he had asked to be excused
from the jury because he believed
that Its actions were being Influenced
by politics. He had been inveigled in
to these statements by a reporter who
claimed to have received information
from others.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

Application for the incorporation of
the town of North Longmont was filed
August Goth with the secretary of state.
The town is in Boulder county and
heretofore has been a part of Long
mont. Recently the town went Prohi-
bition. and this did not suit some of
the inhabitants of the city. So forty
eight of them made application for the
new town of North Longmont, in which
there is population Sf 14S. The mat
ter was taken into the courts and the
court appointed Charles r Dutro. Mary
E. Dow, J. NJ. Richman. Julia Talman
and W. r. Duncan to be committee
to hold the election for the officers of
the town, on the first Tuesday in Sep
tember.
Up to August Goth, thirty-ive OF the
assessors of the state had filed their alb
stracts of assessment with the state au-
ditor Yuma county was the last one
up to date. There has been slight in
crease in Yuma county from last year.
The total assessment will be 81 .4OS, 1858,
of which $5S6,3S2 will be on the rail-
roads of the county. The general
run of the abstracts that have already
been filed show that there had been a
reduction in the assessed valuation of
tHe stdlt, VIII hot bC aS Llluth
as was anticipated at the time the
meeting of the county assessors was
held at the capitol. While there has
generally been a reduction, In the as
sessment of the railroads. there has
been an increase in a large amount of
new property that has been created
during the past year. The large coun-
ties of the state have not yet been
heard from.
The amended bill of the state of
Kansas in the case instituted by that
state against the state of Colorado.
to restrain Colorado in the use of the
water of the Arkansas river for irri-
CATION purposes. was filed August 18th
in the United States Supreme Court
The amended bill names seventeen of
the leading irrigation companies which
secure water from the Arkansas river
as parties to the suit. whereas in the
original bill the state of Colorado was
the only defendant. 1t is alleged that
the entire flow of water in the Arkan-
sas has been appropriated by Colorado
and by corporations organized under
the authority of that state.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
Philippine Chief Apoloojzes.

Manila, Aug. 22.-The Sultan of De-
seen has appeared before Mai. r. H.
Bullard, with a large retinue, and has
made a full and complete apology for
the insult rendered the United States
nag and for which reparation was
promptly demanded by Major Bullard,
then in command. The Sultan declared
that his crazy son, since disinherited,
was alone responsible for the outrage
The Sultan of Bacolod is reported
to be refortifying his various camps
and demanding substantial indemnity
from the United States on account of
war losses before he will tender his
submission.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
New Moffat Road Directors.

Denver. Aug Arrangements
were made at a meeting of the Denver,
northwestern & Pacific road yesterday
for the issuance at an early date of ST.
100000 of bonds to be used for the con-
struction company of the road.
The annual meeting was marked by
no unusual features excepting that
Thomas Kelley was elected director
of the road in the place of George
'Ross-Lewin. The others of the old
board of directors and officers were re-
elected. They are:
Directors-D. II. Moffat. w. G. Ev-
ans, c. ]. Hughes. Jr., Frank B. Glib
son, s. NJ Perry, w. S. Cheesman and
Thomas Kelley.
Officers-D. H. Moffat. president: w.
G. Evans. vice president; Frank B.
Gibson. secretary: Thomas Kelley.
treasurer, and c. ]. Hughes, Jr., gem
eral counsel.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
Italy in Accord With Russia.

Rome. Aug. 22.-In official circles II
is declared that the fact that Italian
war vessels are preparing to start for
Turkish waters must not be inter
preted as counter demonstration to
the movement of the Russians. Italy.
1t is affirmed. is in agreement with
Russia and Austria with regard to the
enforcement of reformr in the Euro
pean provinces OF Turkey.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
Land Leasers Must Pay.

The State Land Board Is taking de
cisive action on the case of irregular
tiles which have been called to its at.
tentiOn during the past week. says the
Denver News of August 18th.
They are called Irregularities now
according to Register Woodruff. be.
cause up to this time they have not
been able to prove criminal intent to
defraud the public but unless they arc
settled within a short time criminal
action will probably be begun.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany is one OF those that are al
legged to be greatly indebted to the
state for land secured in what the
state officials claim to be a very pc
culiar manner.
Skinner & Tabor. a firm that is now
occupying 10000 acres OF the finest
grazing land in the state, is another
one of those peculiar deals that is be
ing Investigated. This matter came VI
nearly a month ago. when an eNamin
alton of the land office records showed
that no rent had been paid on the
land, which Is situated in Pueblo
county. for several years. Something
over $4,000 is due, and the state want
ed to find out who was to pay this
They went to the men who had leased
the land. There were five of them
and to their surprise they found all OF
them holding menial positions in the
Brown hotel. Mr.. Tabor is manager Of
this hotel.
Appraiser Swanson was at once sent
to Pueblo, and he found that the firm
OF Skinner & Tabor was using the
land. He reported to the State Lane
Board, and yesterday Skinner & Tabor
were notified that unless they prompt
ly paid up the rent due and gave ar
explanation of how they came to be
using the land, proceedings would b,
started at once.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
British Troops Destroy a Town.

London, Aug. 22.-Dispatches re-
ceived at the colonial offices from
Zunguru. northern Nigeria, dated Au.
gust 18th, give details of the destruc.
tion of the town of Burmi by Brit
ish force of thirty white and 500 ma
tive rank and file.
The enemy's less was 700 killed, in.
Guiding the former sultan of Sokoto
and a majority of the chiefs. The
British loss was eleven men killed, in
cluding one officer. and sixty-two men
wounded. The enemy made a desper-
ate house to house resistance.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26
Root Sails for EnuIand,

New York. Aug. 22.-Secretary OF
War Root sailed for Liverpool yester-
day on the Celtic. He goes to England
to act with Senator Lodge and Former
Senator Turner of Washington as the
United States representatives in the
Alaskan boundary dispute.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

'rhey are kind to automobilists in
PENNSYLVANIA. At Uniontown the other
day a funeral procession was stopped
and the horses were unhitched from
the hearse for the purpose of pulling
a big red devil out of mudhole in
which 1t had got stuck. 1t may be,
however. that the undertaken was
thinking of future business.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

If the young New York banker who
has just made $3.000.0O0 on the bear
deal in stocks is wise, he will get out
of the market permanently now and
see how many good things he can find
IN life.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

The Hartford Post remarks that the
staid and sensible business man who
attends social function is always
glad when it's time for him to go
home And the rest of the bunch are
always glad when he's gone.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

If artificial rubies can be made in
Errope so much like genuine stones
that only an expert with a micro
scope can tell the difference, why
should any one care to buy the genu-
inc stones?
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

A little girl in Chicago killed herself
because she had to work too hard in
a laundry. Here is where Chicago's
Il will ought to mean something In
abolishing child labor.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

Right in the middle of trumping her
partners trick woman is SO inter
ested in the game that she pauses to
see how her rings look as she lays
down the card.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

The urgent need of an elastic cur
rency will be admitted by any one who
has ever tried to make $40 bill
stretch to cover all the expenses Of
two weeks vacation.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

President Roosevelt has slept out on
the bare ground. but II he wants some
thing real strenuous let him try the
old. fashioned country feather tick.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

A woman's way of loving man
when he is travelling in Mexico is to
be scared to death when she reads
there has been a railroad accident In
Canada.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

A Boston man has been asleep in
New York for forty-four days. Phi!a.
delphia should wake up and notice
this.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

Another effort is being made to put
up beer in tabloid form. But imagine
two drinkers clinking their tabloids
and crying "Gesundheit!"
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

The lava stream now pouring from
vesuvius has reached within twenty
metres of Pompeii-modern evidence
that the city was built too near the
dread volcano.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

II a girl can wear a shirt waist
three days in succession. she can
knock all the petals OF any daisy that
grows.-Atchison Globe.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

Spain is getting her navy ready for
active service, but whether for the
Manchurian war or the American
yacht races is not stated.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

Russell Sage's secret of long life is
that he always has things fixed 80 that
the other fellow does the worrying.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

It took 800 gallons Of gasoline to
bring that automobile from San Fran
cisco to New York. But that was not
the sole expense.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

II Mr. Lehr's cute little wrist bag
were small enough he might put his
brains in 1t without danger of losing
them in one corner.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

A boy in St. Louis has been cured of
lockjaw caused by Fourth of July
toy pistol. But the doctors bill was
$500. The cost of the toy pistol con
tinues to stagger humanity.
The Lamar register., 1903-08-26

An indiana man committed suicide
because his wife went home to her
mother This probably completes the
list. Men have now committed sui.
eide for everything under the sun.