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PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

ing in ambition or in courage. In the
veins of his ancestors there flowed
Dutch. Irish. Scotch and French HUI
guenot blood
From the Datch. writes one of his
biographers. she obtained his name.
from the Scotch his obstinacy. from
the French his impetuosity and from
the Irish his gift OF tongue
Young Roosevelt was sent to private
schools during his early years to avoid
the rough treatment of boys in the pub
lie schools. He entered Harvard with
the determination to make man of
himself. mentally and physically. By
obedience to the laws of health and
careful exercise the puny. sickly boy
grew to robust manhood At Harvard
the tastes Of young Roosevelt, already
exhibited for natural history and hunt
ing. were plainly manifested. His rifle.
with which he had roamed the woods
in summer, was the most conspicuous
object In his room. Live turtles, other
animals and insects were also In EVIL
dence. His stubborn defense OF his
lon of his instructors. is still remem-
bered by his classmates.
Athletics at Harvard received from
him due consideration. He soon be-
came the champion lightweight boxer
and was also fair catch-as-catch-can
wrestler, good runner and a lively
polo player. For time he was cap
tain of the college polo club.
Young Roosevelt was graduated from
Harvard In 1880. After extended travel
In Europe he returned to the United
States, studied law for few months
and then plunged at once into the mael-
strom of municipal politics. He was
elected In 1881 as assemblyman from
the Twenty y-first assembly district. and,
although then but twenty three years
old. soon succeeded in making himself
storm center at Albany His best
known work in the Legislature at this
time was In connection with the pas
sage Of the acts abolishing the fee sys-
tenn in county Offices and In depriving
aldermen of their veto power OF the
mayor of New York's appointments.
BE served two terms In the legisla.
ture. In 1881 Mr. Roosevelt went to
Chicago as chairman of the New York
delegation to the Republican national
convention.
The next two years of the president q
life bore unexpected and unforeseen
fruit. They made him an author. paved
his way for appointment as assistant
secretary Of the navy and undoubted.
ly gave, him the training and view of
life which later suggested to him the
formation Of the famous regiment of
rough riders. After retirement from
the legislature Mr.. Roosevelt went each
summer to the ranch he had purchased
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TALKING PAVING.
Property Owners on Part of South
Union Avenue Have Taken
Up the Matter.

II the property owners on
South Union avenue from the
viaduct south to Mesa Junction
can have their way about it that
bit of thoroughfare will be the
first paved street in any down
town district.
The street is left in a fearful
condition after each food, the
rapidly flowing water tearing out
the gutter on the west side, COW
ering the street car tracks with
gravel and small boulders and
impeding traffic OF all kinds.
The city would have to pay
for that portion along Royal
Park, but below that point the
property owners again come in
for their share.
At a melting of the city council
held last Monday night the mat
ter was discussed and it was re-
ported that the petition for paw
ing was literally signed.
The fact OF the matter is that
whenever the property owners
along any street desire such street
to be paved, and sign a petition
to that effect it at once becomes
the duty of the city council to
act favorably and promptly in the
premises.
Pueblo needs about ten miles
of its streets paved within the
next year, and the sooner its peo-
pie take it up where Bessemer has
left off the better it will be for
all.
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Theodore Roosevelt

In the Bad Lands Of North Dakota.
He became there an expert rider aud
gained n reputation as a courageous
man. an ndefatigable hunter OF DIE
game and sportsman Of ability. There
he became intimately acquainted with
the ranchmen rustlers and COW punch
crs who subsequently formed the nu'
.leus OF the regiment Of rough riders.
In 1886 Roosevelt was again In the
turmoil OF New York city politics.
Henry George wns the labor candidate
for mayor Abram $. Hewitt was the
nominee of the Democrats. Mr., Roosc-
welt was put In the field by the Repub-
llcans. Mr. Hewitt won.
President Harrison in 1899 appointed
Mr. Roosevelt United States civil serN-
ir. commissioner He was firm be-
lever In the competitive merit system
and put his ideas In force at once.
President Cleveland retained him In
office. but Mr.. Roosevelt resigned In
1893 to become president OF the New
York board of police commissioners
The police department had just been
exposed as corrupt to such nm extent
that many felt that only reorgnnlza-
tiou would work any radical Improve
ment. Under Mr.. Roosevelt the mo-
rale OF the force became higher than 1t
has ever been since. and the efficiency
of the men advanced In proportion.
President Mckinley nominated Mr..
| Roosevelt on April G. 1897, to be as
sistant secretary of the navy. From
the very first Mr.. Roosevelt foresaw
the possibility OF conflict with Spain.
and lie set about preparing his depart
ment for 1t. He spent enormous sums
of money In ammunition for target
! practice and left nothing undonc thnt
could secure the highest efficiency In
the service when the time for action
should arrive When actual hostilities
began, in 1898. Mr. Roosevelt resigned
his post in the navy department and
organized a regiment Of rough riders
The history Of Roosevelt and his
rough riders during the Santiago cam
palgn is too well known TO be repeated.
After Gunsmas and San Juan Hill
Colonel Wood was mnde brigadier
general and Lieutenant Colonel Roose-
Welt the regiments colonel. After the
campaign was over Colonel Roosevelt
returned to the United States to lind
himself talked OF for the gubernatorial
nomination in New York. He was
nominated and elected.
From the governors chair to the Vice
presidency was but step. although
aY unwilling one for Mr.. Roosevelt. He
was nominated Mt Philadelphia June
81. 1900 Mr.. Roosevelt was unwill-
Ing to have his name presented to the
convention. declaring that he did not
desire the nomination. but he finally
yielded The tragic death Of President
Mckinley Sept. IA. 1901. made Mr
Roosevelt president.
One of the most astonishing things
in the presidents life Is the great
amount Of literary work he has accom-
plished despite his manifold other con
Germs. He began to write before he
left Harvard. and In the year after he
was graduated he produced his "Nava
War of 1872" He wrote a Life oi
Thomas H. Benton" and also biogra
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nation for the higher office at the hands
of his own party. OF his four predeces-
sors in the vice presidential office who
succeeded to the presidency. John Ty-
Ter, Mllard Fillmore. Andrew Johnson
and Chester A. Arthur, but one. Fill
more. was candidate before the peo-
pie for the presidency at the ensuing
election, and even he was not nomi-
mated by the party which had made
him Vice president. The others were
all anxious TO receive the Endorsement
which the nomination for the presi-
dency would have implied. and one of
them. Chester A Arthur. nearly sue
ceeded, but the popularity of james G.
Blaine with his party was too great to
be overcome, and Arthur was defeated
In the convention by the "Plumed
Knight" who in turn was beaten at
the polls by Grover Cleveland, at the
time comparatively unknown man.
The present campaign is the thirteenth
for the Republican party. In all but
three elections since its formation into
national organization 1t has been
successful, the three exceptions being:
1856, when John C. Fremont was de-
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GREAT COMPLIMENT TO ROOSEVELT.

Theodore electoral
lar vote given president Of the Uued States.
overwhelming compliment
thus strongly ndorse his administration.
Roosevelt has gift being blessed with sound judgment which is
backed by convictions and he has the stand for
what he considers right
He undertakes accomplish He things He
policy enterprise heartily
approved by the nation a large.
The United will policy
home industries good wokngmep
and settled condition of business affairs
Let together Theodore
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THE ROOSEVELT SUMMER HoME AT oYsFzh
BAY, N. Y.
ply Of Gouverneur Morris. followed in
1888 by his Ranch Life and Hunting
Trail" which proved very popular
book. 1.-The Winning of the West"
however, he considers his greatest lit
erary work.
Other productions OF his pen are
Historic Towns" "History Of New
York City" Essays on Practical Pol
tics" and ''The Wilderness Hunter"
He also wrote American Political Ide-
als." 1.-THE Rough Riders Life of
Oliver Cromwell and "The Strenuous
Life" and. in collaboration with Henry
Cabot Lodge, produced volume en-
titled Hero Tales From American
History"
Most Of President Roosevelt's time
during the coming campaign will be
spent at his fine country home at
Oyster Bay. At this beautiful estate
on Long Island sound Mr.. Roosevelt
has passed many pleasant summers,
even before he became prominent po-
litically. He has nm interesting family,
consisting of wife and six children.
Mr.. Roosevelt has been twice married.
His FIRST wife was Miss Alice Lee of
Boston. who died in 1884, one year
after her marriage. leaving daughter,
Miss Alice Roosevelt. now twenty years
of age. In 1886 Mr.. Roosevelt led to
the altar Miss Edith Kermit Carow,
the friend and playmate Of his child.
hood. The Eve children resulting from
this marriage are Theodore. aged sev-
enteen: Kermit, fifteen; Ethel, thirteen;
Archibald. ten, and Quentin. seven.
The boys are great advocates of the
strenuous life" and never lose an op-
portunity to put their theories Into
practice. Mrs. Roosevelt is essentially y
home body" although she is mem.
Der Of family which for generations
has been prominent in the social life
Of New York city. She has the repu.
tation Of being one Of the best house.
keepers in Washington. and her deyot.
ed husband, who treats her with the
same gallantry that he accorded her
while they were children and later
sweethenrts. declares that the reputa
tion is well deserved.
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Maxine Elliott in
Her Own Way"

Maxine Elliott will appear at
the Grand Opera house Monday
night, November ID, under the
management OF {. b. Dillingham;,
when she will present the sue
cessful comedy by Clyde Fitch
entitled, Her own Way" Mr..
Fitch's play tells a pretty love
story OF stirring human interest
which involves current affairs in
Wall street and the fortunes OF a
young American soldier in the
Philippines. Miss Elliott will
have an admirable company to
support her. 1t includes among
others, Charles Cherry, James
Carew, r. {. Herr, Fannie Addi-
son Pitt, George Lawrence, Nell
lie Thorne and Master Donald
Gallagher.
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is said that he possesses nj prr-''h p'''
a small portion OF the great fortune
which he Inherited from hls father
Theodore Roosevelts birthplace WIS
% East Twentieth street. New N"rh
the dnte. Oct. 81. 1858. His father.
Theodore. was wealthy descendant OF
nn old Knickerbocker family and was
well known as phllanthroplst. iilH
mother was u descendant of Archibald
Bullock. first president of Georgn dur'
ing the Revolution.
Eight generations of President hoos''
yelt's family have lived In New York
and from the middle of the seventeenth
century the name has been In the p"iiu-
cal. business and social affairs o'
Gotham. The founder Of the family IN
America was Klass MarcnSon Rpose-
welt. who came from Holland In l64i
and settled in New York,
The young Theodore was described
as weak eyed. pig chested boy too
frall to take part in the sports OF ladS
of his age" Though frail, however
Teddy" as he was familiarly called
by his playmates. was not at all lack
The indicator., 1904-11-12

THE Bessemer Ditch Co. has expend-
ed 81, ZOO of late in improvements in
the way of constructing new fumes,
repairing old ones and cleaning out
refuse. 1t was big job and the
farmers under the ditch will be the
benefciaries. They are keeping up
the irrigation process even at this
late part of the season, for it re-
quires irrigating late in the fall to
help the next seasons crops, the sed-
iment in the water acting as good
fertilizer.
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Now for the extension of the side
walks on Northern avenue within the
paved district. There is an ordinance
in operation which calls for the wild
ening of the l2-foot walks to a l6-
foot walk, and the work should all be
done this fall. 1t ia the duty Of the
chief of police to notify all property
owners to extend the walks.
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WAKE UPl DRINK
BREAKFAST BELL COFFEE.
Money to Loan.

If you want to borrow money or
improved real estate for a term OF
years PAYABLE in one sum at the end
Of the time or payable in monthly in
stallments call and see US. We have
some individual money for both kinds
of loans. and also receive applications
for loans in the best Building Loan
association in Colorado.
BUFFINGToN & MCWILLIAM5.
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IRRIGATION by the pump process
will some day be a success on the arid
lands hereabouts. The soil is very
rich and will produce crops if only it
has water. Wind mills and small en-
gines are being employed to some ex-
tent in this matter, and if not too ex-
pensive the process will be more ex-
tensively employed.
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The curfew ordinance of the city

The curfew ordinance Of the city
requires that all children shall be off
the street by 8 o'clock p. M, from
October LIST to April 1st., and by 8
o'clock p. m. from April 1st to o.
tober lst. And it is the duty of the
police to see to it that the ordinance
be obeyed. Children of Bessemer pay
little or no heed to the ordinance.
They run the principal streets till q
late hour, and for their own welfare
- well as to save annoyance to their
parents and others, they should he
warned of and taught to ebey the law
If the city.
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E~uEoDoRE ROOSEVELT is the
youngest man who ever held
the Office of president Of the

the Office of president Of the
United States. He was not
forty three years OF age until more
than a month after the assassination
OF President Mckinley. General Grant
was the youngest man ever actually
elected TO the presidency, though IL
President Roosevelt should be success
ful at the polls in November he will
dsplace Grant from that distinction.
Al the time of his Inauguration Grant
was within one month OF the forty
seventh anniversary of his birth, while
Mr. Roosevelt will not be forty-seyen
until Oct 2T. 1905.
In several other respects the present
candidacy of Mr.. Roosevelt is unique
In the first place. of the thirteen presl,,
Dental candidates named by the Re
publican party, Mr.. Roosevelt is the
first native OF New York state. He is
also the first president who was born
In New York city. He is the first man
who. becoming president by the death
Of his principal, has received the noml-
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PRESIDENT Roosevelt has named
Thursday, November 24th, as Thanks
giving Day, day on which all should
look back over the past year and re-
turn thanks to a good providence for
many blessings bestowed.
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE
At the Grand Next Week.

Sunday matinee and night
Sidetracked.
Monday night-Maxine Elliott.
Tuesday night - York State
Folks.
Friday night-Country Girl.
Saturday night-DeviPs Auc-
ton.
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The Woodmen will hold a rousing
joint meeting the night of the 10Th
inst. The W. 0. W. is a wonderfully
active fraternity and strictly up to
date.
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BOWLING is favorite game this
season and the public generally takes
a lively interest in the contest now on
among the teams of the City League.
The contest is waxing hotter every
week.
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MRS. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

feated; In 1884. when Cleveland was
elected over Blaine. and 1892. when
Cleveland again won, his Republican
opponent being Benjamin Harrison,
who had won from him four years
earlier.
Theodore Roosevelt started out in life
with what some observant individual
has declared to be the two greatest
handicaps boy can have-ill health
and great wealth. He has. however
overcome them both, for he is now as
vigorous specimen of physical man
hood ns one would wish to see, and II
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Placards For Sale.

You can get For Sale. For Rent,
Furnished Rooms. Unfurnished Rooms,
Boarding. Board and Room, Dress.
making, Plain Sewing. Rooms for
Light Housekeeping, Boarding Houss
Acts. ETC.,, st the bepGCA1us o0ss.
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THE animal dinner of The Business
Mems association will take place at
the Imperial Hotel, the evening of the
18th inst, and it promises to be a
splendid occasion.
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WILD duck shooting has been un-
usually good in this section of the
county, the additional reservoirs
drawing them from distant parts in
large numbers.
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Portland. Ore, and Return, $45
Via the Colorado & Southern
railway. Tickets on sale Novem-
Der 9 to I3; limit, December 81.
Stopovers allowed. Divers routes.
Further particulars obtainable
at Colorado & Southern railway
Office, 2z5 Main, corner of Third
street.
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81 Paso, Tex, and Return, Sac. 8.

Via Colorado & Southern rail
way. Tickets on sale November
IL, I3 and a. Limit thirty days.
Stopovers allowed returning. The
Colorado & Southern via Delhart
is the most direct line and makes
quickest time to FL Paso. Fur
ther particulars obtainable at
company office, 225 Main, corner
of Third.
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The political campaign now being
over with people will have more time
to give to the ordinary concerns of
life.
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aslsss5RssD

The man who won election bets will
now be in evidence, but the one who
lost will keep mum.
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friend OF his, SO natural was his
delineation OF a tramp.
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'n0aonsseuosae .>.a,
READ N WEEKLY PAPER
A NOTED AUTHORITY
on advertising said re.

A NOTED AUTHORITY
on advertising said re.
Gently:
"TO discontinue advertising
Is simply to destroy a heavy
proportion Of the prelimi.
nary education OF the possible
patrons who are just begin.
ming to be influenced. The
strength Of advertising Is In
Its continuity; continuity;
continuity begets confidence
In the advertiser and In what
Is advertised.
Weekly papers are more
thoroughly read than daily
papers; those that receive
them read the advertisements
as thoroughly ~ they do the
reading matter"
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IHE ISDiCAroR Is the only newspaper pub
lshed in Bessemer and Minneyus, cnInprisInv
the great steel works, manufacturing. sruelt-
Ing and industrial section of Pueblo
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OUR TELEPHONE Is NO Sd

BEssEAER WAS organized and incorporated
as a town under the general laws OF the state
of Colorado on July Is. is>t ON April 5 lSus
u became city of the second class, and on
March q. 1894 1t consolidated with the city of
Pueblo under an act OF the general assembly OF
Tue state. Al that time Bessemer contained
1000 Inhabitants and now as the great In
dustrial suburb OF Pueblo 1t has "A population
OF fifteen thousand.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22
Old House at jamestown.

structure in which Pocahontas was
baptized and where she afterward
married John Rolfe.
In the past year, while clearing the
old graveyard, which lies directly in
the rear of the tower, the entire
foundation of the main body of the
church was uncovered. There were
two foundations, the larger thirty-six
by ffty-six feet, with four buttresses
on each side. This is now being re-
stored, so that tourists will be able to
see exactly the size and dimensions
of the first Protestant Episcopal church
in the United States.
The jamestown Parish Church, as it
was formerly known, has the distinc-
ton of being the only church in Amer
lea which had two sets of communion
silver given to it by the royal family
of England, one set known as the
Queen Anne" set, and the other Civ
en- by William and Mary. This silver
is now held by the Diocese of South
ern Virginia and is in the keeping of
the vestry of the Bruton Parish Church
at Williamsburg, Virginia.
Surrounding this old foundation are
the graves and tOmbstones of some of
Virginia's most celebrated children,
among the most noted of which are
those of Lady Francis Berkeley, the
wife of the notorious Governor, and
OF the Hon Phillip Ludwell, who was
Lady Berkeley's second husband,
though she declined to give up her
old name and title when she married
him.
The waters of the James river, by
their constant wearing on the banks
of the island, have laid bare many
graves and skeletons. One of these
graves contained the bones of a man
clad in complete armor, with a long,
two-handed Scotch claymore lying on
his breast. The name plate of his cot
fin was broken in half and part of it
lost. The remaining part had on it:
Sir Rod" This armor is now in
the rooms of the Virginia Historical
Society, at Richmond.-James Perrine
Barney, Lieutenant Fourth United
States Cavalry, in Chicago Record
Herald Sunday Magazine.
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E1-n--sH,~-~<ar-.~-..
5 Colony Dates from 1907


In 1907 there is to be held on Hamp-
ton Roads, Virginia, an exposition to
celebrate the three hundredth ami
versary of the first establishment OF
a permanent English colony in Amer
lea, on jamestown island, Virginia,
May 13, 1907
jamestown island, the site of the
settlement, lies on the north side OF
the James river, thirty miles above
Hampton Roads, and contains sixteen
hundred acres; four hundred acres OF
cleared land, the rest in wood and
marsh. Here, on May 13, 1907, the ex-
petition sent out by the London Com
pany in three small vessels, the SUI
san Constant, the Godspeed and the
Discovery, landed and founded the
first permanent English settlement in
America.
jamestown (as it was called in
honor of King James, was then To-
Gated on a peninsula three and half
miles long and mile and half wide,
on the concave side of great bend
of the James river; but the constant
washing of the river has cut through
the isthmus connecting jamestown
with the mainland, and it is now an
island. The erosion of the water has
also washed away large part of the
upper portion of the island, where I'M
doubtedly were many Of the early
houses.
The first regular establishment Of
the Protestant religion in America
was contemporaneous with the land
ing, and the Rev. Robert Hunt held
the first services under a sail cloth
suspended from trees.
In December, 1908. Ann Burras was
married to John Laydon at the James
town church. This is the first record
ed English wedding on American soil.
The marriage of Pocahontas and John
Rolfe, in April, 1914, at jamestown,
marked the first conversion and re-
corded baptism of an Indian in the
United States, as well as the first law
flu. marriage between a white man
and an Indian
In 1919 Gov. Yeardley issued writs
for the election of the General Assem-
bly, of Virginia, and on July 80, 1919,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22
THE FOLLY OF GILT LACE.

AS 1 have often said, 1 wonder that
monarchs cannot officially meet with
out each arraying himself in the uni
form of the other. If 1 were to call
on Turk 1 should not put on a fez
and expect him to cover his head with
hat. Why, indeed, monarchs should
wear uniforms except when taking
part at reviews 1 do not know. They
are the heads of states which are
composed of civilians who pay a GER
tain number of persons to be soldiers,
or who oblige all to serve as soldiers
for fixed period.
Why, too, an English citizen who
is asked to attend the Levee of his
vereign-supposing that he has no
uniform, as is the case with many
should be called upon to array him
self in the dress of a bygone age of
velvet and frills, with a sword by his
side, is also a thing that surpasses
my understanding. The poor man
manages to look as ridiculous as some
stout civilian deputy-lieutenants strap
ped up in the uniform of a colonel
London Truth.