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La Junta tribune., 1903-01-31
SATURDAY. JAN. 81 1893
"A JusrA-orsso casa, eosrsAer

A copy OF the contract between
the La Junta Irrigation Distrie
and the city Of La Junta was filed
in the county clerks Office one da,
this week. A synopsis Of the
contract is as follows:
The La unta .Irrgation Com
pany is the owner Of an irrigation
ditch, known as the Otero canal.
and the canal is so located as tc
be capable OF carrying a wates
supply for the city OF La Junts
and delivering water at an eleva
ton above the city sufficient tc
give gravity pressure in the
water system Of the city.
The city Of La Junta is rapidly
increasing in size and population.
and its present water supply is
becoming wholly inadequate fos
the needs of the city. 1t is be-
lieved by the city council that
owing to loss by seepage and
evaporation in the Otero canal,
the same being sixty miles in
length from its headgate to the
city, it will be necessary to turn
into the canal at the headga ate
thereof at least forty cubic feet oi
water per second OF time. flowing
continuously, in order to conduct
sufficient supply for the present
needs OF the city. 1t is known &c
be impossible to secure a continu
Gus flow OF water in the Oterc
canal, and as La unta will in
crease in size as time goes on. il
is deemed necessary by the city
council to provide for future neces
sities, and secure a water supply,
If possible, OF at least eighty cubic
feet OF water per second Of time.
The water plant at present own
ed by the city is operated at very
heavy expense, and it is deemed
necessary to change the plan oi
the water system from a pumping
plant to a gravity system.
The city Of La Junta is about to
purchase from their present own.
ers certain water rights and PRIOR
tiles located in Chafee, Fremon,
and Lake counties, the amount
so proposed to he purchased be.
ing about eighty feet OF water pei
second of time, but in no event
less than forty cubic feet. Proper
proceedings are to be instituted
for the purpose ct removing the
water rights from their present
locations down the river to the
Otero canal, to be diverted at the
headgate of the canal.
The present priority Of right tc
the use Of water. decreed to the
Otero canal, is datedi March 3,
1900, for rag cubic feet of watel
per second of time, but the prior
ify 10 too late in point Of time te
be available in time Of scarcity o
water. The priorities Of right te
the. use Of water which the city o
La Junta purposes to purchase ar,
among the earliest priorities OF
the Arkansas river. so that il they
were turned into the canal the,
would furnish water for irrigatiol
to the lands lying hereunder.
The La Junfa Irrigation Dis
srict agrees to carry oil Of thu
water belonging to and purchaset
BY. the city, Of La Junta. and to de
liver - shc city shall direct. one
fonsfh. of the amount Of water be
logging to the city. which shall .
ssy time As@ into the headgate o
~ canal. without dimiuutioo OF
seeesae e seepaee- OF -svaposa
.sioa ,ehe dslivssy TO be eeas'nuou,
and ap,nterrupsed for aud during
La Junta tribune., 1903-01-31
sssissas ossae.

There is nothing doing IN the
credit business as my piaee sfses
this date. except with thoae peo-
pie Who have an account here
now and pay up in full every
thirty days.
MATT DAxlHER.
January Z, IQo3.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-11
CARELEssNEss THE CAUSE.
Why Young Frenchman Delayed
His, Wedding,

paris Gable to the New York Worldly
The town clerk of Crauzille was
thoughtless one day away back in 1878
Tortured by love of toothache, preoccu-
pied by debts or a rendezvous, mister the
clerk wrote in Crauzilles civil register:
Born this, day, child, Eugene Sauva-
Concerning the parents it matters not
The clerk should have written: Born, a
child, Eugene" rot stEugenie."
All unconscious of the clerical error, the
child grew up, and everyone called him
Eugene, necessarily. When he was old
enough he was conScripted and served his
military term, as the army is not particu-
lar about first names.
Being handsome man, young girl fell
in love with him and he with her. Every
thing had been arranged. Mile. Marie a
papa and mamma had consented the
amount of the little dot had been fixed
pere and mere Sauvanet were delighted
Then the wondrous marriage law of
France came into play. Spinning red tape
by the meter, the law examined the civil
register of Crauzille and discovered that
Eugene, not Eugene, Sauvanet was born
that day In 1878.
How is it possible for Eugene to
marry Marie?" asked the law, enveloping
itself in red tape absolutely.
Now the wedding dress is put away in
lavender. Mademoisele dissolves herself
in tears. 1t remains for Eugene to prove
to the law that it is Eugene and not Eu-
genie who burns to marry. And 1t will
take several months to prove this, grace
to the laws red tape.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-11

you can't burn EN-, I'm. ~. The ' other ~ night
there. was a fire and one of our safes
was in it. There was a little dog in the
safe, too. He just happened to get
through the fire. After the fire they
opened the safe and what do you think?
lnterlocutor,Why. l presume the dog
Mr.. Bones-No, sir. When they opened
that safe that little dog Just jumped out
and wagged his tail and barkcd; he was
Interlocutor-What are you doing, Mr..
Tambo?
Mr.. Tambo-oh, making safes.
Interlocutor-What, you in that same
funny business?
Mr.. TamhO-YeS, sir.
Interlocutor-Well what kind of safes
are you making
Mr.. Tambo-Safe safes I'm maxim, too
The other day a little white rooster got
into one OF our safes and got locked in.
While he was in there the office caught
fire. 1t burned and burned for two days
and two nights. All the time the little
rooster was inside.
,1ntefloeutor-Wel what happened? Did
the. rooster get out and wag his tail and
bark when the fire was out?
Mr.. Tambo (crying patnetically)-oh.
Interloeutor-Well, what in the world
MIR. Tambo-Why, the poor little white
rooster (more sobsj-the poor little white
rooster tsobs again-Oh, I can't tell you
about ik-the poor little white rooster.
lnterlocutor-Well. what In the world
happened to the poor little white rooster?
Ma Tambo almost .speech,ess with
little white-poor little white rooster was
was frozen stiff.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-11
CARNEGIE's SCOTCH PIPER.
He Has Crossed the Atlantic and
Will Remain All Winter.

There has just crossed the Atlantic Mr..
Andrew Carnegie's piper. Angus Macpher-
son, says Leslie's Weekly, who will re-
main In New York until the spring, and
then return to Skbo castle in Suther-
landshire, Scotland. All the past sum-
mer his pipes cheerily awakened Mr..
Carnegie. in the morning, and again in
the evening that charming pibroch, Mac
ieod OF Raasays Salute" or a lively
sstrathspey and reel would delight the
dbai s sst TOO gieased Mr. Carnegie and and
son son, Of Malcolm Macpherson. Wit, was
Macpherson. Malcolm won champion
honors at. the Edinburgh exhibition in
1886 AT the recent northern meeting at
inverness, the most noted Highland gath
erlng Of the year, Piper Angus made a
record in dancing. He won each of the
three open dancing competitions, viz,
Highland fling in full costume, dancing
strathspey and reel of Tulloch, and Chill
tie callam -(sword dance.) He Is, however,
usually very successful at Inverness both
AT piping and dancing, and he took first
prizes at many gatherings in Scotland,
ana also at Stamford Bridge, London. But
since, he has entered Mr.. Carnegie's SER
vice he is not allowed to compete at pub
nc exhibitions. with the exception of the
northern nc i,i meeting. Mr.. Carnegie is averse
70 ms piper appearing in public. Angus
macpherson is Highlander to the core.
hillside with the scent of the heather in
ms nostrils. And he has pleasant home
at Sklbo, the finest castle in the High
lands of Scotland
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-11

willful intention or some sudden naralv-
SIS SIS let; his horse deliberately describe
ssiia ga course toward the outer. side OF
of the level roadway out of view; her
heart heart stood still, for. she saw that the
be the tossing Of the buggy over the tn elf elf
that here bordered the roadway.
The horse, proceeding unchecked, had
t, thi IS drawn the buggy about hat
IN few seconds horse. driver and vehi-
the limekilns below! 4 horrible sensation,
she could not move. she could not cry
out-the tragedy would occur before her
eyes eyes W VT her being able to lift a
thought = heard, a strangely familiar
sound coming from the direction of the
[ haa curve. 1t was the very sound she
to avoid-+a sound that had always Of
tended her ears; never before had she
n nid s,., 1t on these remote roads Of Maine
ing it-yet she listened to it now as
starving, besieged garrison listens to the
cheery bugle call of "a relieving army. 8
There was indeed no installing it
1t was the measured throb-throb of a mo-
tor car! In an instant more the car had
rounded the curve and came clear into
vieW-the horse in the mail buggy, star
backed violently. abandoning its fatal
career an inch or two from the cliff,
ana, nna!ly running one hind wheel into
the ditch on the inner side of the road.
overturned the buggy wit. a crash and
lay struggling and painting, but safe now,
in tangled harness
so you'll admit that a motor car may
serve useful purpose, after alp
1t was Jack Stebbins who spoke. He
had one arm around Miss Stotts waist
a seemingly SuperfiuouS attention just
now. seeing that it was full five minutes
since she had recovered from her faint
ing fit. With his other hand he was hold
ing her horse by the bride. 'And think
what would have happened if the auto
hadn't brought me here in the nick of
time"
"To. save me from falling off my horse,
ana the mail driver from falling over the
The color was returning to her cheeks,
ana there was a mischieyous twinkle in
her eyes.
yes, Jack she said, "and better still,
you Rave shown me way to end the
troubles of that unfortunate mail horse
I'm going to give his master an-an
automobile"
Confess. Miss Stotts, that your initial
mistake was in abusing the automobile
take it all back. I've changed my
opinion"
Jack stehbins bent his, head little
closer to hers.
And by consenting to change your
name, as WELL" whispered he audacious-
~ you correct another initial mistake,
curlously enough too, isn't it?-without
changing the initial after ALL
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-11

q
G1ne Lvnse0u

The leading actor. Dubose' is ei as tresome
hS ne with i stupid npls b He magnes he is Pay
all to himself. No doubt he enjoys his
own acting but the public finds him tire
i IS soe As si for 81 Nile Faury whom tTs
quite unknown in Paris, having emerged
IRON IRON an obscure cafe in Lyons. All the
pays pays are as great failures as tgey are
" hat they would do at the. Bijou theater
IN New York, where it has been proposed
ae 5ake them w9Hld be difficult 1T te inn
cines theater, but her successors have
devoted de their efforts to producing works
of vulgarty.
SARAH BERNHARDT's PROJECT.
project is the union of Sarah Bernhardt:
their. own,in which each will star; for each
considers herself a victim of someone
Or something and all three are determined
theatrical managers. True, Sarah Bern
hardt some time ago escaped from hers,
but the other. two are just trying the
them against the divine Sarahs theater,
which has opened for them.
shaken up the book world is the com
their own book publishing syndicate.
Ever since Bourget attacked the pub
Usher; Lemesse. whom he accused of rob
bling him, there has been a struggle be-
claim that accounts are falsified and that
the author receives the least possible re-
enumeration for his labor, while the pub
fishers grow rich
The new syndicate comprises about eight
men, each of whom will be president for
one year, turn and turn about. The pro-
ceeds. of all books published will be
equally divided among the members of
the syndicate, which will also publish
conditions. AS might be expected, the
publishing houses are furious at this state
their profits.
Curious revelations might be made con-
corning the. way. these popular writers
compose their social stories or feuilletons
for the daily newspapers The latter
pay enormous prices for such stories
when written by men like Decourcelle,
Jules, Marcy and others. but they are
unable to fulfil all their commands. So,
like Dumas, they have humble scribes to
do their work, to which they give the
finishing touches GRACE CORNEAU,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-11
~ ARTS. Nov. Elm an effort to
II down religion and to defeat the
influence of the priests in the

AXIS, Nov. 2I-In an effort to
down religion and to defeat the
influence of the priests in the
last trying moments of life.
the present government has gone to
the folly of proposing to give every citi-
zen who is willing to dispense with IL
olergyman's Offices in his last moments.
and to be buried without a religious GER
emony, handsome, free funeral. in
which purely civil rites are mingled. God
and the republic are incompatible, the
present heads of the government main
tain; the religion of free thought being
from their point of view the only one
compatible with repubicanism.
The way in which government officials
are hunted down by the BLOCK" as the
Combes majority is called, recalls the
obnoxious practices of the inquisition.
Men who believe in God no longer dare
admit 1t if they desire to retain their sit
uations. What is even more extraordinary,
candidates for block favor are often
forced to read their last will and tesla
ment, In which they strenuously enjoin
their executors to have them buried civil
~ by political friends, without church in
prevention. even if their own immediate
friends should so desire it.
Jean JaureS, who allowed his child to be
baptized, only saved himself from dis
grace, with the block by admitting that it
Vas ms wife who desired their child a
Christian, but that he promised them that
ne himself would not be religtously buried.
Anything more extraordinary than such
a promise can hardly be imagined.
III as iast las as the government can do SO,
all the religious ceremonies connected
with blrths, marriages and deaths, are
eliminated or ignored, and the civil rites,
modified something after those of the
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-11
PIRATES OF THE sAHAHA.
romantic and Curious Love Affairs

4 HNVMAAUAC anu OuC1OuS Love 4ndArS
Y.S Recounted by King.
- sIn writing in Harper's Magazine for De-
Gnkember of the masked robbers who invade
Yefle Sahara and ere known as Tawareks,
~. T. Harding King tells of some curious
give customs among these strange peo-
Nle:
The young Tawarek gallant. mounted
DE- his swlftest camel, armed with sword,
QU1agger and lance" says Mr.. King.
vnTroams the Sahara like knight errant
sobf old, protecting and guiding the cara
Means under the charge of his tribe, re-
Cosressing and avenging the wrongs done
SOio his slaves and serfs. or, in order to
Saring glory to his lady-love, whose gage
Ramour he wears, and to find the neces-
n airy aowry to settle upon her, engaging
0vIn adventurous forays upon his neigh
Yhpors herds and the caravans under the
:, Protection of the neighboring tribes.
The From time to time, when an oppor-
he .nnity occurs, ne sends letter to his
sdored, giving. in a somewhat vainglor-
ReEus tone. an account of himself and his
Nploits. These letters are written in the
hich at the present day is in use among
Chfags Of the incidents referred to- Occa-
= ,9onally they Ire written in cipher, of
LyNhlch the writer and the recipient alone
20 x2osSssS the key, and not unfrequently
~. Aley take the form of short poem ad.
full ressed by the absent Tawarek to his in.
z. Muorata.' ~
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-11
Attic Greeks. are being accepted as sub
stitutes.

HANDSOME, FREE FUNERAL.
When man nov dies he may have a
by the mayor of his district. The words.
DE Profundus, OF any other inscrip-
ton Of a religious character, is strictly
crosses are allowed on The collins or
hearSeS but WreathS are permitted or a
silver star. or in fact, anything, provided
gin.
All bodies are burned to demonstrate
the nonsense, from a French point OF
view, of the belief in the resurrection, and
not from excusable sanitary motives. An
exception to this rule of cremation
may be obtained. but in such cases the
covered without word; Anything more
desoate and hopeless than such a flu
neral can hardly be imagined. and may be
considered as an almost fiendish effort to
capture the Impoverished working classes
by offering to bury them free OF. charge.
For French people dearly love display
funeral, even If its rites are pagan in
character, is an alluIing perspective to
many people.
The temptation of Faust, in the face OF
again proves the saying that truth is
stranger than fiction. Curionsly enough,
these funerals never. tempt women, who
prefer being laid away in a rough pine
box with a rude cross placed upon it,,
accompanied by a clergyman's prayers.
TO the pompouS burial at the sacrifice of
their religious opinions.
For this reason Madame Marguerite
Durand, the leading feminist. makes no
Roadway in converting French women
into believing in free thought and free
love. Their backwa rdness in this matter
has enraged the leaders of the anti-relig-
ious movement, and Nine. Durand's paper
as Mother confessor," Mother Noug slts 3
and other ,disrespectful .appelations, be-
cause she is d good. strict woman, who
has brought up her family after religious
principles.
Nine. Durand declares the French wom-
en- are, in her opinion, hopeless, unless
they renounce all religious belief.
AS direct result OF this agitation poor
Madame Loubet who was invited to ac-
company orappa the president to Rome has been
menaced, insulting her; and such scandal
mas been created in the whole matter that
the president will make his visit alone.
Frohman's success with his French
troupe in New York has tempted
another American impressario to
take over the troupe playing at
the little bandbox theater : Les
Gapucines. Unfortunately the present
troupe Is poor one. and no possible
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-11
Big Men Are Sometimes Small.

Some Of the great men of the country
are small of stature. Andrew Carnegie
is only a few inches above five feet in
height. Henry w. Phipps, his oldspartner.
is not an inch taller and John Walker.
the other member of the, trio who revoiu.
tionized the manufacture of steel, has per-
haps a little the better of both Carnegie
and Phipps. AS for Henry c. Frirk. bis
head would just about reach to the
shoulder of man of ordinary height. it
is said that one day, when these four
steelmasters We're Walliing together on
called out to his business rival farther
down the block. as the millionaires
passed: "Eh, Jimmy, git onto der runts!"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-11
POOR LITTLE ROOSTER.
Louis New Postmaster Toll,
Old-New Story.
.fPost-Dispatcbl

- 2 1VSlSI11ppiCCIIJ
This Is Frank Wyman's favprite story.
Ee has been telling 1t thirty years. He
|bys It is so old it is new. His acting
I'D millinery as he tells it have delighted
multitude. Mr.. Wyman says he adopted
when an old minstrel company aban
!: !ntsrlocutor-What are you doing now,
lMr. Bones-Oh. I'm maxim safes.
MISUNDERSTANDING business for a
Jack man--makin, safes,
Mr.. BoStes-Oh.. that's right, though.
PISS: I'm maxim safes ali right-safs
Observation-Disclosures do you mean. sirs
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-11

Copyright, 1903, by W. R. Hearst:
A walking stick which until the
death of Abraham Lincoln was his
cherished possession and constant com
panlon was sold at public
auction. From $25, the first bid, the price
advanced to $1A5. and is was sold for that
sum to III. II. Wibert an ardent admirer
of the great president.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-17
THE KIDS, REVOLT.

Politics, as practiced in Ramsey
county, is not to the liking of that sec
ton of the Republican party which has
hitherto been permitted to vote, to sit
to carry the, banner in the torchIight
procession. The men in the ranks
have become imbued with the spirit
that makes for the uplifting of the man
above his fellows by political prefer
ence, and they are going after the jobs
for themselves.
And why not?> The f1eshpots are
there for those. who would dip, and 1T
is only necessary for. the kids to get
together in order to push out of the
way those oIdsters who have been uu
to their elbows; in the savory stew OF
public pelf for these many years At
present they have the numerical
strength, but they want. that cohesion
which comes OF practice in creating
and directing public sentiment wild
they find the glue?- win they be able
to stand before the. Establishments of
those foxy individuals who have hith-
erto piloted the Republican bark is
these waters?s ssk
For it is not to be expected that the
ancients wiilelie down at the behest OF
these untried- cubs 1t is. not possible
to imagine the callow Mr.. Qbst, of the
Fourth, leading that seasoned veteran
of the arena. Mr. Edward G. Rogers,
by the hand; ner issitseasy to conjure
a picture of Ermattnger, Of the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-17
'Steenth, fixing the head of Darius f.
Reese for a speech.

'Steenth, fixing the head of Darius r.
Reese for a speech.
There is, however, a prospect OF
much joy for the onlooker in the
growth of the Republican Tammany.
What a vending of gold bricks thera
will be! What bargain sales Of green
goods when that notable warrior and
statesman, Col C. A. Van Duzee, leads
his host of hereditary Republicans into
the political mart! And the weeping
and wailing that will ensue when the
untried bargain hunters find the gilt
wearing off their bricks!
There is now, as there was even IN
those days when Demus directed the
fortunes of Athens, an ever present
disposition on the part of the younger
element to push those at the top out OF
the way. And the powers that be are
no more ready to get out of the way
for the youngsters than they were OF
old. Hence the organization Of Tam
many kindergarten is bound to add
some suggestion of the picturesque to
the scenery hereabouts.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-17
INEVITABLE SUIT
is AGAINST PATTI
Attempt Is Made to Have Her Declared in
Contempt of Court.

NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-Because Mrne.
Adelina Patti failed to appear when a
suit against Nine Patti and Grau her
manager, for $1,000 was called in the su-
preme court today the attorney for the
complainant announced that he would
apply for an order directing the singer to
show cause why she should not be ad-
judged in contempt of court for failure to
appear and punished accordingly. The
suit is for $1,000, alleged to be due for
securing loan of $4,000 for Nine Patti
and Grau. tt-l.4l
Grau's representative declares the suit
was an attempt to collect bill of 800
for insignificant brokerage services"
Her attorney said that Nine Patti did not
know that the papers served upon her
contained an order for her examination.
On learning the facts her attorney COM
muncated with the attorney for the
plaintiff and it has now been arranged that
application will be made on Wednesday
next to the court to vacate the order on
the ground that it was improvidently
granted If the court declines to vacate
the order. Nine. Patti will submit TO the
examination.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-17
Among the Merrymakers
Merely a Suggestion

The editor is going to have Soma fine
pork this winter. Delinquents, who are
short OF cash, are going to bring us corn
squash. wheat and potatoes to feed the
porker. variety of rations like this
makes the finest kind of meat, it is said.
It sometimes happens, though, that the
del1nquents do not bring the grub lust
when they promised to, and the pig is
without ratlons for a day or two at
part of the pigs diet consists of light
air and mountain scenery, which at this
season of the year is supremacy beauti-
fui. A delinquent assures us that this is
benefit, however. as it makes a streai9
OF lean and streak of fat, which is the
most desirable kind of meat.-Vernal
(Utah) Express.