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The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21
TRAINS WRECKED
BY CLOUDBURST

Denver, Aug. ia Republican spe-
cial from Buena Vista last night says:
Twenty-nine passengers were injured
in the Rio Grande wreck at Nathrop
last night caused by the collapse Of a
bridge, and two trainmen in the wreck
on the Colorado & Southern, caused by
the same washout.
Nearly all the passengers injured in
proceed west on their trips, and the
few who were taken to the Salida hos
pital are recovering rapidly. None is
,eriously injured, say the physicians.
To-day the railroad company com
pleted temporary bridge and track
around the wreck and trains are run
ming tonight on time. 1t has been rain
ing hard again to-day, and in places
the storm was waterspout, which has
caused the railroads to put extra gangs
OF trackwalkers and repairers out to
avoid another disaster.
That more were not injured in the
collapse of the bridge at Nathrop seems
miraculous, as 243 passengers were on
the train and the two coaches that
were wrecked were crowded
Assistance was hurried to the scene,
the wrecking crew at Minturn not wait
ing for orders when it heard of the ac-
cident, while both from Buena Vista
and Salida doctors and nurses were
rushed off on special trains, as it was
reported that many had been killed
The dining car was converted into a
hospital and the injured as soon as
cared for temporarily were placed in
| Pullman berths.
In the darkness. with the flood wa
| ters of the creek rushing near the
| wrecked cars, families We're separated
and friends lost in the tumult and the
| wreck seemed worse than it afterward
proved to be.
The wreck on the Colorado & South
ern was caused by a landslide which
was started by the same cloudburst and
was only a short distance from the
scene Of the Rio Grande accident The
| two trainmen were caught in the
wreckage, but will recover from their
injuries. The engine and FIVE cars
were ditched.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21
FIERCE BATTLE
WITH STRIKERS

Wheeling, w. Va, Aug. ia clash
occurred early to-day between the
striking machinists and about twenty
five non-union men who took their
places in the Riverside plant Of the
United States Steel Corporation. The
battle was started Saturday night De-
spite the fact that more than 1000
shots were fired there were no fatali-
ties and only few persons were
wounded.
The machinists have been on
strike for several weeks and the stu
alton was becoming critical for the cor
poration until they imported about
about twenty men. The strikers last
night attacked the boarding houses OF
the non-unionists. The houses were
heavily barricaded and many volleys
were fired into the structures. Finally
well-directed shot fom within the
house wounded one of the strikers, and
he was carried away. Clay Hoover, a
spectator, was also shot in the knee.
A number of other persons who were in
the building with the non-unionists re-
ceived wounds.
Tonight the strikers, who are lying
in the hills, fired on Peter Silatek, who
was passing that point, the strikers
mistaking him for spy. The man
was seriously wounded
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21

No 5. Women's Cow Pony Race.
No. 6. Second Half Wild Steer Rop-
ing Contest.
No. 7. Indian Scalping Event-With
war dance.
No. 8. Wild Horse Race
No. 8. Second Half Worlds Champi-
onship Bucking and Pitching Contest.
No. 10. Stage Coach Holdup by Indi-
ans
THIRD DAY-AUGUST 81.
No. !. Four and a Half Furlongs-
Free for all.
No. 2. Hat Race
No. 3. Womens Cow Pony Race
Half mile.
No. 4. Consolation Wild Horse Race.
No 8. Indian Squaw Race-Half mile
No. 6. Wild Steer Roping Contest
No. I. Bucking and Pitching Contest
for the Worlds Championship the
five best riders chosen from the first
and second days contests, when Union
Pacific saddle and Festival of Mountain
and Plain belt will be awarded
No. s. Indian Pony Race.
No. 9. One Nile-Free for ALL
No, TO- Drill by United States Artil-
lery.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21

closure and letting the cowboys go af
ter them.
Then there is Joe Wilds white
mule. 1t is known all over Wyoming,
and Wild has a standing offer of s. for
any man who can ride him. The mule
is kept in Laramie and is respectable
looking little fellow. but with more
bucking tricks than two ordinary out
law horses. Considering there are still
few men in the state who think they
can win Wild's money. this mule will
be a part of the Frontier Day.
There has been a good deal of talk
about the Indians There is band of
fifty. Arapahoes and Shoshones. who
will pitch camp in the enclosure and
give an exhibition of their own. They
will have foot races, pony races and
everything else they can think of. They
have always been considered quite an
attraction.
From the looks of things we are
going to have record attendance at
Frontier Day this year We count on
accommodating about $1,000. The rail-
road rates are so low there is no rea-
son for anyone who enjoys the sport
staying away:
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21

New York, Aug. 1e.-Joseph Pulitzer
has provided 81 900 900 to establish q
school of journalism at Columbia Uni
versity. this city.
A new building for the school will be
erected on Morningside Heights at a
cost OF 100000 for the school. which
Will hold toward the university a rela-
ton similar to that of other profess
sional schools, the law school, the
school Of medicine and the school OF
mines. and like them, will be national
in scope.
An important feature Of the organi-
Sation OF this school will be an advis-
ory board. nominated by the donor,
which will aid in devising a plan and
course OF instruction.
Seven members OF this advisory
board have already been named and,
with others to be elected, will be nom
mated by the trustees OF Columbia
University at their meeting in October.
They are: Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia University, ex-
omcio; Whitelaw Reid, John Hay. sec
rotary OF state; St. Clair McKelway,
Andrew d. White, Victor F. Lawson Of
Chicago; Charles H. Taylor of Boston.
and Charles w. Eliot, president Of Har-
ward University
In making announcement OF MI
Pulitzer's gift, the World says:
At the time of the last census there
were In the United States 141,OO0 law
yers and 30.908 persons classed as Jour-
nalists. The legal profession was pro-
V1ded with trained recruits by 100 law
schools, with 1,106 professors and in
structors. For fair proportion there
should have been at least twenty-six
colleges of journalism with faculties
81 strong.
There was not one Not a single
one OF the 30,9OS newspaper men and
women in the country had enjoyed
what lawyer would call systematic
professional training.
President Eliot of Harvard, one of
the foremost educators, has been re-
Quested to make a suggestion on this
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21
WYOMING'S BIG FRONTIER DAY
CELEBRATION AT CHEYENNE

Denver. Aug. l9-Col. Z. A. Slack
Of Cheyenne has been in Denver help
ing to arrange for the Frontier Day
celebration at Cheyenne August 18th,
26th and 27th. He said:
beginning with the chariot races
and the Olympian games, the greatest
attraction to lovers of sport has been
the horse.
People in Denver do not have TO be
told what a cowboy is. and they know
q good deal about our Frontier Day.
As for the special attractions We are
going to have this year, think | might
give word of explanation.
I'VE have an enclosure of twenty-five
acres. That permits freer action than
Is possible in Denver and it eliminates
some of the danger Have you ever
seen a wild horse race? Well, we are
going to have one. Fifty wild horses
will be brought out and the riders will
select their mounts by lot. AT the word
''Go!" each man starts to saddle. Per-
haps half the competitors will never
get around the track but the man who
comes under the wire first is the win
ner, whether 1t takes him two minutes
or two hours.
Steer roping is always good sport.
We will make a feature of II this year,
turning twenty wild ones into the en-
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21
FAMOUS WARSHIPS REVIEWED
BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT T

Oyster Bay. n. Y, Aug l9.-On Mon
of the country, the President of the
United States reviewed and inspected
in time of peace a great fleet of Unit
ed States warships. The ceremony was
magnificent and impressive naval
spectacle. 1t was unmarried by the
slightest mishap, until just at its con-
Clusion, when the torpedo boat destroy
er Barry rammed the destroyer Dega-
tur, fortunately. however. doing little
damage.
The review occurred on Long Island
sound, two miles and a half off the en-
trance to Oyster bay. President Roose-
welt, in company with Secretary of the
Navy Moody, Admiral Dewey, Rear
Admiral Rogers, Captain Brownson,
General Chaffee and General Barry.
stood on the bridge of the auxiliary
cruiser Maytlower as she steamed slow
ly down one column of the warshps
and up the other. The two columns eX-
tended $500 yards, the ships being an
rhOred at intervals of 800 yards. AS
the Mayfower passed each ship in the
Two columns. the yards and rails of
each were manned by jackies in white
duck. the marines were paraded and
presented arms, the Presidents salute
of twenty-One guns was fired. the bug
Iers sounded flourish, the drummers
gave four ruiiles, the band played
Hail Columbia and the entire crew
stood at salute. AS the Maytlower
swept majestically past each ship. the
crew of the saluting vessel gave the
President three cheers as the COM
mander-in-c chief of the army and navy
of the United States
At the conclusion of the review,
President Roosevelt received on the
Mayflower Rear Admiral Albert S.
Barker commanderin-chief of the
North Atlantic fleet; Rear Admiral
James A. Sands, commander of the
Caribbean squadron: Rear Admiral
Joseph B. Coghlan, commanding the
coast squadron, and Rear Admiral Will
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21
BULGARIA MAKES AN APPEAL
TO GREAT EUROPEAN POWERS

Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 1.-THE Bull
garian government has presented a
memorandum to tho powers setting out
at great length the condition OF affairs
during the past three months in Mace
don1a since the Turkish government
undertook to inaugurate the promised
reforms. The most precise details,
dates. places and names of persons are
given In the memorandum, the whole
constituting a terrible category of mur-
der. torture, incendiarism, pillage and
general oppression committed by the
Ottoman soldiers and officials.
The memorandum begins by stating
that during the past three months the
Ottoman government has taken Sc
ries Of measures with the alleged inten-
ton Of inaugurating the era Of prom
ised reform and Of assuring peace and
tranquility to the Bulgarian popula-
ton of European Turkey, but which
have had the contrary effect of further
exasperating this population and reviv-
ing the revolutionary movement. In
stead of proceeding solely against per-
sons guilty of breaches of the public
order, the military and civil authorities
have sought every possible preteXt to
prosecute, terroriZe and ruin the Bull
garian inhabitants, alike in the large
cities and in the small villages. Whole
sale massacres. individual murders, the
destruction of villages, the pillaging
and setting fire to houses, the arrests,
Ill treatment, tortures, arbitrary i'm
prisonment and banishment, the clos
ing and disorganizing of churches and
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21
Colorado Crop Outlook.

Except in localities visited by severe
hailstorms, the crop outlook in this
state is very good. This seems to be
particularly true of the beet crop in
northern Colorado. To the surprise OF
some who in the early part Of the sea-
son feared a shortage of water for irri-
CATION there has been little occasion for
complaint on that score. Most of the
bitches have been fairly well supplied
and the volume seems to have been
maintained until late in the season The
yield of beets will give the farmers
such large returns that some of those
whose wheat fields suffered from hail
will still find their years work profit
able. All farmers who have been grow
ing sugar beets have learned more
about how to care for this crop. and
hence they are securing better results.
In general the situation shows the
advantage of forming under irrigation.
There is no fear of drought such as
sometimes destroys the crops in Kan
sas, Nebraska and other states where
the farmers depend upon the rainfall
Denver Republican.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21

Cantaloupe seed should not be saved
from melons grown near any other
kind of vine fruit. The melons should
be selected of the right shape, deeply
and roughly netted, from those weigh
ing from one and a half to two pounds.
never to exceed two pounds. with small
seed cavity and thick meated. About
one-third of the bloom end of the mel
on should be discarded, as it will be
noticed that the seeds in the bloom
end are very much smaller than in the
middle of the melon. the same as the
grains in the tip of an ear of corn are
smaller than in the middle. A good
and safe plan is to select one melon as
near perfection as possible, the right
size and shape, netting perfect; dis
card the seeds in the bloom end and
plant these seeds by themselves in
some remote part of the farm so as to
be sure there is no mixing or contain
ination with other vines. Raise seeds
from this one melon for general plant
Ing, and do this every year to keep the
stock up to perfection.-Ffeld & Farm.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21

Following is the program for the
three days celebration:
FIRST DAY-AUGUST %.
No |. Three Quarters of Mile
Free for all.
No. 9. Frontier Day Race-One mile
COW pony race, for men and women.
No. 3. Indian Pony Race.
No. 4. Wild Horse Race-Half mile.
No 5. Stake Race-lOO yards.
No. 6. Indian Squaw Race.
No. 7. Half Mile Free for All. Run
ming.
No. S. First Half of Wild Steer Rop-
ing Contest.
No g. First Half of Bucking and
Pitching Contest-For the Union Pa
cifc championship of the world saddle
and the championship belt offered by
the Mountain and Plain committee OF
Denver.
No 10. Artillery Drill-ByThirte
Battery Field Artillery.
SECOND DAY-AUGUST &c.
No /. Five and a Half Furlongs-
Free for all
No 2. Boys Cow Pony Race.
No. 3. Indian Pony Race-For lndi-
ans only.
No. T. Man-Roping Contest-Distance
half mile.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21

liam c. Wise. commanding the training
squadron. He also received the cap
tainS and commanding officers of the
twenty-five vessels in the fleet and the
naval attaches to the legations of four
of the great powers: Captain Dechair
of the British embassy; Captain Ed
win SChaeter of the German embassy,
Commander w. G. Boutakoff of the
Russian embassy and Lieutenant Com
mander lsam Takeshika of the Japa-
nese legation.
Among the other guests of the Pres
ident on the Maytiower were Assistant
Secretary of War Sanger, Sir Thomas
Upton, C. Oliver Iselin Butler Dom
can, Colonel SharmanC Crawford, a rep
resentative of the Royal Ulster Yacht
Club, and Emlen Roosevelt.
President Roosevelt entertained his
guests and all the commanding officers
of the fleet at delightful luncheon
on the Maytlower.
During the luncheon the President
arose and said:
We have with us to-day represent
atiyes of the great powers. Great Brit
ain, Germany, Russia and Japan. ask
you to drink to these great powers and
their sovereigns."
The toast was drunk standing Then
the President continued:
I'VE also have with us representa-
tives of an international incident. AS
TO that, may the best boat win
With laughter and applause that
toast likewise was drunk by the guests
standing.
Captain Dechair of the British en-
bassy proposed the heai,h of the Pres
ident. Rising again. the guests drank
the toast heartily.
The President addressed the enlist
ed men on both the kearsarge and the
Olympia. saying:
Il ask you all as Americans. proud
of your country. from the admiral
down to the last enlisted landsman or
the youngest apprentice. to appreciate
alike the high honor and heavy re-
sponsibility of your positions.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21
IMMENSE LAND
OFFICE BUSINESS

Washington, Aug. 19.-The year end
ed June 80, 1908. establishes new high
water mark in the history of the pub
lie land business in the United States.
In that year not only were more en-
tries recorded. but many more acres Of
the public domain passed into private
ownership than in any preceding
twelve months since the land Office was
established.
More than this, there was a phe-
nomenal increase in the receipts for
cash sales, fees and commissions. the
returns of the year just closed almost
doubling those of the year preceding
To be exact there We're the past fis-
cal year 2,01S,072 entries made under
the several public land laws. embracing
in the aggregate 1874 ,070 acres Of
land. This is an increase of 11.G2l en-
tries and 36S,6 acres over the show
ing made in 1902.
The total receipts from cash sales,
fees and commissions amounted in 1903
to $10,557 $50, or $4,G77,442 more than
the receipts of the previous year
Three years ago Binger Hermann,
then commissioner of the general land
Office in making his annual report.
which showed the disposal of IL, 453 .SS7
acres of land and $4,056,S12 in cash re-
ceipts. predicted that the public land
| business had reached its maximum Inn
| it and would thereafter show decline.
He was misguided. because the re-
| turns of the next year were great " in
excess of those of the year before Ey-
cry year since there has been an in
crease IN the public land business. but
at no time has the growth been 50 rap-
| i'd as in the last twelve months.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21

schools, the running of merchants, the
collection of taxes for many years in
advance-such, proceeds the memoran-
dunn, are the facts of the Ottoman ad-
ministration of Monastir, Uskub and
Adrianople.
The memorandum next relates in de-
tail a number of such cases in each
vilayet. Beginning with the vilayet Of
Salonica. it states that in the town of
Salonica itself the Bulgarian professors
OF the university, the students and
shopkeepers, in fact, all the intelligent
Bulgarians in the city, have been cast
into prison. One hundred and twenty
soldiers entered the village Of Gorna-
Ribnitea May 18th and tortured to
death five men and two women.
During the first three weeks Of July,
twenty-five villages in the district OF
Tikvesch were subjected to the depre-
dations Of the Turkish soldiers and
bashi-bazouks. The villagers were beat
en- and tortured, the women violated
and the houses plundered, while the
administrative authorities took no &C.
ton.
Then follows long list of atrocities
Of the most terrible character.
The memorandum has made strong
impression in diplomatic circles. The
Austrian diplomatic agent has already
called upon the premier to express his
anxiety regarding the results that may
ensue from its publication. The French
and Italian agents also expressed un-
easiness, although they took less
gloomy view.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21
PARADE IN HONOR
OF q. A. K. VETERANS

| San Francisco. August 19.-Seldom
has finer parade been witnessed in
San Francisco than that which yester-
| day did honor to the Grand Army of
the Republic. The veterans were not
In line. their procession being sched-
uled for later, but many allied organi-
| cations participated. chief among these
being the naval reserve, the veterans
of tie Spanish-American war and the
national guard of California
The regular army was well repre-
sented. The order of Red Men. which
/, , was largely represented. added pic
turesque feature to the display The
German societies of the city, including
| amateur athletes and children from the
various turner schools. made splen-
did showing. as also did the League of
Cross Cadets. Gems. Miles and Shafter
were greeted with cheers along the line
of march, which included the city's
chief thOroughfares.
During the day reunions of the La
dies of the Grand Army. Women's Re
lief corps. the Union ex-prisoners of
war and Berdan's sharpshooters were
held all being well attended.
Last night Mechanics pavilitH was
crowded to the doors by Grand Army
men, their wives and friends. the oc-
casion being an informal reception to
Gen. Stewart, commanderin-chief. The
Spanish American veterans met in a
social way and open house was kept
by the departments of Illinois, Missouri
and OHIO at the Palace hotel.
The city was again illuminated last
night and the effect appeared more
brilliant than on the preceding even
ing, when the lights had not all been
properly placed.
Yesterdays parade was certainly one
of the finest displays ever seen here
and the utmost enthusiasm prevailed
among the spectators. who greeted
their special lavorites in each branch
of the service with rousing cheers as
they passed in the procession.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21
GIFT OF TWO MILLION DOLLARS
TO EDUCATE JOURNALISTS

subject and has submitted this outline
for a practical school Of study:
Newspaper administration - The
organization OF newspaper ONCE:
functions Of the publishers: circulation
department; advertising department;
editorial and reportorial Departments;
the financing OF a newspaper; local. out
OF town and foreign news service; sdi-
torial. literary, financial. sporting and
other departments.
Newspaper manufactures-Print-
| Ing press; inks; paper; electrotypinG
and stereotyping processes; type COM
| position; type-setting and type casting
machines: processes for reproducing IL
lustrations; folding. binding and mall
ing devices.
Tho law OF Copy
right; libel, including civil and sedi-
tious libel; rights and duties Of the
press in reporting judicial proceedings;
liabilities of publishers, editor, report
er and contributors.
Ethics OF journalism-Proper sense
OF responsibility to the public on tho
part of newspaper writer's; to what ex-
tent should the opinions OF the editor
or owner of . newspaper affect its pre-
sentation Of news? Relations of pub
Usher, editor and reporters as regards
freedom OF opinion.
History of ournalism-Freedom OF
the press. etc.
The literary form Of newspapers
Approved usages in punctuation. spell
ing, abbreviations, Typography.
Reinforcement of existing depart
ments of instruction for the benefit OF
students Of journalism-In English, re-
porting Of news. news letters, reviews.
paragraph writing. editorial writing; In
history-emphasis on geography; In
political sciences-emphasis on con-
temporary economic problems and
financial administration
"The building of the school will
probably be completed by the autumn
Of 1904 and it is hoped that the school
may be opened soon after. The course
of study will be two years"
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21
Sending Food to Strikers.

Denver, Aug. 19.-Secretary William
d. Haywood of the Western Fedora
tion of Miners announced yesterday
the purchase of three carloads of gro
ceries and provisions, which will be
shipped to the Cripple Creek district
to-day. for the relief of the strikers.
For the present the food will be dis
tributed at points in the district. hut
the Western Federation of Miners ex-
poets to have strikers commissary
in active operation in less than week.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21
Meteor Strikes a Bridue.

Detroit, Mich. Aug. ia special
to the Free Press from Mendon, Mich
igan, says:
A large meteor which fell here
Wednesday night destroyed a portion
OF the bridge over the ST. Joe river
1t buried itself in the earth and
made a hole nearly twenty feet deep
lt gave forth a screeching sound as
IL passed through the sky and struck
the earth with report that was heard
for long distance.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21
Alton Shaken by an Earthquake.

Alton. ILL.,, Aug. 16.-An earthquake
shock was felt here at 1854 this morn
ing. The majority of the residents of
Alton were awakened. The shock
broke quantity of plastering in the
main auditorium of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. At East Alton
bricks were shaken from several
chlmneys and glass broken In several
windows