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Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-29
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
LOCAL NEWS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Sewing Machines At the "Famous"
Call fs Hardy's Prize Baking Pow
Dor
Dudicy's barber shop for first class
work.
Ice to keep you cool with At Mason &
Prices, The Only Butchers.
You car get the proper information Is
10, Rates, Fares etc. at the Rock Island
CIepot. Ask the Agent.
Hon. A. l.. Ross departed last Friday
f4or Kansas City on business. returning
lpo,ue Wednesday morning.
Sam Livingston came over from Sc.
dalia last Saturday and spent Sunday
with his numerous Versailles friends.
Owing to the hard storm Sunday the
mails failed to reach Versailles and the
Sunday papers did not arrive here until
Monday evening.
Mrs. John i. Gibbs departed last Fri.
day for Jefferson city where she has
been making weeks visit with the
Family of Johu Silvey.
4 Rev. J. Y. Busby will go to Nevada
Mo-, next week to visit his daughters,
! And from there will visit Eldorado Springs
Dps brief visit before his return.
The dam recently butt by the cisy
plant company gave way under the pres
cure of the great volume Of water last
\ Sunday and the washout was complete.
The storm last Saturday night 10 said
TO have done quite little damage west
OF here. Several partially completed
structures were blown down and other
damage done.
Thos. p. Bond departed last Sunday
for St. Louis, where he expects to re.
main during the continuance Of the
Worlds Fair. His family will follow in
the near future.
Your last roast wasn't good, your
steak was tough, that Is a very good
sign you did not get II from d. C..
Hardy, the Butcher. Let US furnish
you good meat
Tke Board Of Education held meet.
lug last Friday night and 6.ed upon
Friday evening May @, as the date 70,
the BOARD to select the teachers for the
ensuing school year.
Mrs. J. c. Settle and Mrs. S. R. Pric,
n arrived here from St. Louis several day
ago for a visit with home folks. Mrs
Price has shipped their household good
preparatory to moving to the city.
Rev. J. l.. d. Blevins once pastor il
the church here, will preach At the N
4. Church Sunday. Bro. Blevins 10
superanuated preacher and resides !,
Upton. All are cordially invited 4
hear him.
Washouts on the railroads. In this sec
tion were the order Of the day last Sun
day. On the Branch near Petersburg
between Bunceton and Boonville over
mile of the tracks washed away. On tn
Rock Island several email wsshout
were reported
Dan VIII III, had been In attend
snce 1T n.a' City Dental Colieg
during "'ntcr and spring. returne'
home for his vacation last Saturday
Dan had suffered for several weeks pre-
vious to the close Of the term with A.
II
10 be himself once more.
H. l.. Gates left for Freebufg We
ussday morning, where he expects I
establish . papef soon. 4 printing ou'
.6t. presses, etc., followed him yesterday
@snd he will start out at FFeebust unde
very favorable circumstances. - the liv
citizens there Are rsspoaaabls f6f III
new enterprise.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-29
LADIES' TAILORING.

Miss Carrie r. Smith desires to inform
her friends that she is prepared to give
full instructions land also to furnisli) on
the Tailor System Simpli6ed, for ladies.
For further information call on Miss
Smith, one door north Of Martin Hotel.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-29
BICYCLE SUPPLIES.

Anything you desire in tho
line Of Bicycle supplies will be
found at X. M. Duf's Hardware
store.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-29
Pasturo for Rent.

FA0VUT0 1OV 1&0BbUs
24O acres of pasture for rent, known
as Pain pasture, five miles northeast of
Versailles. Apply to
ALI HEINAMAN.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-29

fuD DsH0CRAr, and the Kansas City
Rosld daily, for e3.SN
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-02-06

| Victor, Colo, Jan 31-The coroner
! Jury in the mine disaster inquest yes
terday returned the following verdict;
I'VE. the jury, find that the deceased
lying there dead, came to their end in
| the STATIONS Independence, Limited,
mine, on Tuesday morning, January
26th, through Frank T. Gillice's losing
/ control of the engine, there in use, and
pulling the cage into the sheave wheel,
| thereby parting the cable and precipi-
tating the cage, loaded with the above
| named men, down the shaft to their
| death. And we further find. if the man
| agement had not neglected the usual
precautions, the said casualty might
have been reduced, if not avoided.
1.-The usual precautions that were not
taken are as follows:
First, no man is required to preside
at the collar of the shaft while hosting
men.
Second. no safety device was in use
on the cables to prevent the overwind-
ing of the same.
Third, men were loaded and unload
ed without placing the cage on chairs
Fourth, the disc brakes on the hoist
ing engine were detached from their
I'VE. the jury, would recommend
that all safety appliances and 'precau-
tons herein named and recommended
be adopted and used, not only by the
STATIONS Independence mine, but by
all mines in this district not now using
the same, thereby reducing to mini
mum the danger to life ana limb that
men working in mines are subjected to-
I'VE further recommend that a COM
petent extra man should stand near the
engineer while he is hoisting or lower
ing men, whose duty should be to rem
der any assistance needed"
The coroner and members of the jury
were very indignant aver the reputed
statement of the mine commissioner
published in the Cripple Creek Times
and Denver papers. A subpoena was
Immediately issued for Commissioner
Lyman White and he was informed
that the statement was q gross insult
to the jurors and that they proposed
TO do all in their power to have his ac-
lions Investigated by grand jury
The commissioner was then sworn
and testified as follows:
The Coroner: Wr. White, we do not
object in the least to what the object
OF your investigating committee may
be; we simply want to know whether
or not the statement as published in
the Cripple Creek Times is correct as
given by you.
Mr.. White: No, sir 1t is not cor
rect.
O.: Is this your statement: Upon
my arrival at Victor and after making
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-02-06

dissolute, drunken and lawless Ameri-
cans who are willing to associate with
low Filipino women and live on the
proceeds of their labor. To rid the
country of this class Of Americans the
commission passed what is known as
the "dissolute American and vagrancy
acts"
There has been a great increase in
school attendance in all the provinces
but one. Still, only about 100000. or
ten per cent. of the population of school
age. are receiving public instruction.
Teachers and school houses are among
the crying needs of the islands. Gov
ernor Taft says several million dollars
could be well expended In the erection
of large, airy and healthy school
houses. and that the number OF teach
ers well might be multiplied by seven.
Governor Taft says the Sultan Of Jolo
long since has violated the Bates
agreement and has forfeited all his
rights under it. Governor Taft pro-
nounces him a gambler and an in
trigger. without spark Of courage or
patriotic and fraternal interest in his
people, one who runs his whole system
of government solely for the exaction
of taxes.
General Wood says force seems to be
the only method of reaching the Moros
and placing civilized restraints upon
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-02-06
MRS. r1AYBRICK is
NOW AT LIBERTY

London, Jan. 31.-Lloyd's Weekly
Newspaper says this morning that Mrs
Florence Maybrick. the American
woman who was serving life SEN
tence for having poisoned her husband,
was released from Aylesbury female
convict prison at 6:45 O'Clock on the
morning of January 25th on special Ii
cense. Her mother, the paper says,
had visited her Saturday, January 23d,
and evidently was the bearer of i'm
portant news. On the 25th Mrs. May
brick, accompanied by one of the pris-
on matrons, entered a closed carriage
and drove to Aylesbury station. where
she took a train for London. She drove
from Euston station and from there
went to private house not far from
the metropolis. She will remain there
for short period in order to recuper-
ate and to await the completion OF GER
tain formalities which will give her
freedom of movement not allowed per-
sons on ordinary ticket-of-leave.
Mrs. Maybrick, the paper concludes,
during the last few months in prison,
was employed in the lightest work, as
reward for good conduct.
Mrs. Maybrick's case has been one of
international interest. The daughter
on a banker of Mobile, Alabama, she
was educated in France and Germany
and married at the age OF seventeen
to James Maybrick a rich London cot
ton broker She lived with him nine
years and had two children. In 1883
they had several quarrels and May
brick objected to the fact that she at
tended the races with Albert Briefly.
who was staying at the same hotel
with them. Maybrick, who was addict
ed to the use of arsenic to quiet his
nerves, died after an illness of two
weeks with symptoms of arsenical
poisoning. Poison was later found in
Mrs. Maybrick's room. She was &C
cused of murder, tried, convicted and
sentenced to death, which sentence was
afterward committed to imprisonment
for life She has been in prison since
1889, although great efforts have been
made in America and in England to
secure her release or a new trial.
Her present liberation is attributed
to the good offices of Sir Thomas Lip
ton, who is said to have made per-
sonal appeal to King Edward.
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-02-06
SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS MADE
IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

Washington, Feb. 1.-The President
yesterday sent to the Senate the annual
report of the Philippine Commission.
including the report of the civil gov
eminent of the Philippines and the re-
ports of the heads Of the executive de-
partments, for the period ended Decem-
Der 90, 1908. The report of the COM
mission contains a detailed statement
by the auditor for the islands of ex-
penditures under the appropriation OF
So 100000 for the relief of distress in
the islands.
Governor Taft says the year was one
of much suffering among the people
of the Philippines. on account OF
short food supply, but that the worst is
passed. While he does not consider the
future as bright as it might be, he be-
lieves we are beginning an era in the
history of the islands which. with the
assistance OF proper tariff reduction in
the United States and proper naviga-
ton laws. will be one of decided ma
terial developments.
Speaking of the conditions in the is
lands. Governor Taft says that no time
has there been less ladronism than
when the report was written, December
10. 1903.
One of the greatest obstacles with
which the government has had to con-
tend, he says. has been the presence OF
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-02-06
Y. M. c. A. Building for Denver.

Denver. January 31.-The reception
and banquet rendered to Jacob A. Riis,
at the Adams hotel last night, devel-
oped into a boom for building for
the Young Mems Christian Association.
1t was the launching of movement
that bids fair to result in building for
the local branch.
Rev. Robert F. Coyle of Central
Presbyterian Church announced that
he had pledges of $4,000 from friend
whose name he could not divulge, and
President w. E. Sweet reported that
the board of directors have pledged
$11 900, and pledges from other sources
amount to $500, making a total
pledged of $28.500 President Sweet
ventured the opinion that the 500, 1000
the minimum sum required for the
erection of the contemplated building
can DO secured, and said that the $11,-
600 pledged by the directors represents
but one-half Of what the board WI
subscribe. If the support CT the citizen
Of Denver is secured.
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-02-06
SUDDEN DEATH OF
RICH NEW HEXICAN

Albuquerque, N. M. Feb. mariana
Otero, the wealthiest native in this ter
ritory, died at his residence yesterday
morning at 4: 80 o'clock from apoplexy.
He was in excellent health all day SUM-
day, having spent the afternoon at the
Commercial Club. where he played
cards with several friends, and was
unusually good natured. At 1920
o'clock yesterday morning he awoke
his wife and complained of a severe
headache Mrs. Otero went after
smelling salts. and on her return to
him he said: Il am going. | am dy-
ing" He lapsed into Inconsistencies
and before physician could reach the
home he was dead
Mr. Otero was a Republican leader
for thirty years. and represented this
territory as delegate in Congress in
the term following the election of 1878.
He ran again in 1890 and was defeated
by Antonio Joseph. Democrat He had
been county commissioner and probate
judge of this county for several terms.
Born in Peralta, Valencia county,
August IS. 1914, Mr.. Otero was educat-
ed in st. Louis and at Notre Dame. He
married a daughter of Jose Leandro
Perea, who at the time of his death
was COHSlubTeu lne DDduldlu
in the Southwest.
Mr.. Otero was president and direc-
tor of the Bank of Commerce and was
vice president and director of the Com
mercial Club. He practically owned
half dozen or more land grants,
among them the Baca location, consid-
cred the finest timber lands in New
Mexico, and the TETON grant. upon
which are located the famous Hogan
! coal fields. He owned about 10000
sheep. and half dozen immense sheep
ranges in this, Sandoval and Socorro
counties He owned the land grants
upon which are located the Jemez and
Sulphur hot springs resort, and re-
Gently put in operation an immense
plant for the manufacture of sulphur
at the Sulphur Hot Springs.
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-02-06
CORONER'S JURY FINDS VERDICT
AND CONFRONTS COMMISSIONER

diligent inquiry respecting tho inyesti-
CATION then in progress, l ascertained
that coroner's jury had been empan-
eled and that an inquest was being con
Quoted in manner that precluded the
possibility of arriving at the true facts
concerning the Independence disaster
Is this sentence correctly quoted?
A: No, sir; it is not entirely correct
1t is in part.
O.: Who Intercepted you. MIR.
White?
A.: could not say who the man
was.
The coroner then read the second
paragraph, which referred to the Jurors
as selected on account of their atti-
tude in existing labor troubles, and in
answer to the question rs this cor
rectly stated?" Mr.. White replied
Il do not think ! made any such
statement as that. 1 want to compare
that with the notes have. l have kept
a record of it."
O.: Would you make such a stateA
ment as that. Mr.. White?
A: No, sir; I would not.
Mr.. White then said in substance
that he did not think the men selected
by the coroner as jurors were unreli-
Their denied fatty that he had made the
statements that counsel representing
private interests were permitted to be
present and cross-eXamine witnesses
and that questions We're propounded to
witnesses by the jurors to determining
criminal responsibility rather than -
ascertain the facts"
In answer to practically every ques
ton of the coroner Mr.. White replied
that he was not correctly quoted and
that the statement was not made by
him. In reply to Coroner Doran's ques-
ton. DO you believe. Mr.. White, that
selected men who are biased or pre-
JUDGED against the employees and the
management of the company" MIR.
White replied
Il believe, Mr. Doran, that | have
answered that question, but l will an
swer it again. / certainly think you
have selected men of good judgment;
as before stated, l have known most
of them for number of years and
believe them to be fair and impartial"
After Mr.. White left the room Hous-
ton Tayor, reporter for the Cripple
Creek Times and Denver Post, swore
that the article in question was identi-
cal in substance with a written state
ment by Commissioner White which he
(Taylor) received from General f. Nj.
Reardon at his office and which was
signed by Wr. White. Mr.. Taylor said
he saw Whites statement and that it
was the same as the copy furnished to
him in Mr. Whites presence in General
Reardon's Office.
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-02-06
WIND AND FIRE
AT FORT COLLINS

Denver, Feb. g. special dispatch
from Fort Collins yesterday says:
Fort Collins was panic-stricken for
an hour to-day. Early in the morning
a roar of wind was heard several miles
west of here in the mountains. Short
ly after O'Clock it struck town and
few minutes afterward the city was
filled with dust. flying boards. limbs OF
trees and other loose objects. Barns
and outbuildingS were wrecked all
over the city. Wagons and buggies
were rolled away, overturned and
wrecked
r. A. Trimble. weather observer at
the college, reports the velocity of the
wind from 1870 to - O'Clock as aver
aging eighty-five miles an hour. The
force of the wind was so great at
times that many of the large plate
glass windows in downtown stores
were forced in and much damage done
by dust. Windows were broken all
over the city by missiles carried
through the air.
Several small fires occurred in the
city, the most serious being in the
Loomis addition. where the home of
Russell Barckley was licked up by
flames. On the adjoining lot barn.
team of horses and two wagons were
burned. The fire spread from this
place to vacant lot. but before it
could reach the town force of fire
fighters checked it.
At 9 O'Clock Senator W. A. Drake,
who lives three miles south of Fort
Collins, telephoned to send men re-
CARELESS of cost to fight fire that had
started west of his farm and threat
ened the whole Harmony district
About fifty men responded and sue
ceeded in getting the flames under con-
troll, but not until a granary contain
ing 700 bushels of grain and corrals
and stables had been burned to the
ground and an orchard. barn and feed
pen belonging to Henry Franz had
been destroyed.
Will Daffin's barn, near Wellington
twelve miles north of here, was lifted
into the air and carried over two
fences without damaging them in the
least. While in the air, however, the
barn came in contact with five tele
phone wires twenty-five feet from the
ground, broke them and shut of tele
phone communication between Fort
Collins and Cheyenne. In the same
neighborhood about a dozen haystacks
were burned. Other fires are reported
from wellington. but all wires are
down and the total damage is not
known.
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-02-06

from Denver with extra passenger
coaches, passing this city about c
O'Clock. There was number of poles
down on the track and wires were re-
paired. The daily freight train turned
back from Lawson because of the Sc
verify of the blow.
The storm was very severe at
Georgetown, and for a time after the
news of the accident intense excite
ment prevailed. Considerable damage
was done to property in Georgetown
and vicinity The roof was blown of
the Catholic church. and several houses
suffered a similar fate.
Among the passengers on the train
who received severe shaking up. but
were not seriously injured, were C. j.
Wolff Of Georgetown, county commits
sioner; Thomas Coppard of Idaho
Springs, County Clerk A. o. Walker OF
Georgetown, ]. d. Cummings, travel
ing salesman of Denver; l. d. Cannon
of Denver, representing the New Yorl,
Life Insurance Company, and Rev E..
]. Wilcox of Denver. manager of the
Waldorf mining properties. The ac-
cident occurred about 800 feet below
the Georgetown station. 1t is rather
singular coincidence that on February
A, 1885 an accident occurred at the ev-
act spot. which was indenticel with the
one of to-day, except that in the for
mer case the engine and tender were
overturned with the cars. This is the
third time cars have been blown from
the track at nearly the same point
The accident was caused by a forma-
ton of the mountains where strong
currents of wind are peculiar to this
season of the year. Engineer Allen had
charge of the train.
Conductor Pat O'Mara. discussing the
accident, said: I'VE had just passed
over the sand hill that has caused so
much trouble in the past, and the wind
was so severe that the train had 10 be
stopped. We were standing dead still
when the train blew over. The side OF
the engine was badly battered where it
had been pelted by rocks while standing
>on the track during the storm"
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-02-06
viii Inspect eiIlett's Mines.

Kansas City. Feb. Grant G. Gill
lett. the former Kansas cattle plunger
who fled to Mexico three years ago,
has made definite move to settle with
his creditors. to whom he owes an ag-
gregate sum estimated at $1,500,000.
Local creditors have received draft
from Gillett for sum sufficient to pay
the expenses of committee to go to
Mexico and inspect the ex-kansan's
mining holdings, by the disposition of
which he hopes to pay his debts. The
committee will start for Mexico about
February 18th
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-02-06
RAILROAD TRAIN BLOWN FROM
CAS-. TRACK NEAR GEORGETOWN

Denver. Feb. "A News special from
Idaho Springs yesterday says:
Just as the morning passenger train
was entering Georgetown at 11:45 this
morning it was overthrown by strong
gale. The two coaches and combina-
ton baggage and express car were
overturned, falling on their side on the
south side of the track. There were
about twenty-five people abroad. Only
one of them was seriously injured
]. X. Robinson of Denver, express
messenger, has several ribs broken,
shoulder broken and it is feared .that
injuries have been sustained which
will prove fatal.
w. Straight, banker of Dunlap, Kan
sas, a passenger, right hand cut and
bruised by glass bruises and hip in
jured.
Marsh Smith of Denver, brakeman,
wrist and nose badly cut.
Pat O'Mara, conductor, scalp wound;
not serious.
A. S. Hurley of Denver, news agent,
scratches on forehead.
Robinson is the only one seriously
Joseph hospital.
hc puy say lo-hSuL that
Robinson's injuries may prove fatal,
but the injured man is still conscious.
He has not been able to tell how he was
injured, but it is believed from the ma
ture of the wounds he must have been
crushed by heavy trunks. Robinson
is about fifty years of age, and has
been on this run for years.
While all of the coaches and bag
gage cars were overturned, the engine
and tender did not leave the rails. The
accident left the track clear and unin-
jured, but the cars were badly
wrecked.
At the time OF the accident the tele-
graph wires were down between
Georgetown and this city. and mes
senger was sent to Lawson. a distance
of six miles down Clear Creek, to send
the notification to the railroad officials
in Denver. A wrecking crew was sent