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, 1904-09-08
A Correction.

Last week the Sun had an ar
ticie on the promotion of Special
Agent, Major N. J. O'Brien.
taken from the Denver Post,
which proves to be almost wholly
wrong. Major O'Brien writes
this paper that he has been pro
NOTED rs special agent in charge
of the 9th district, consisting OF
Colorado, Utah, Kansas and Okla.
homa, with headquarters at Den
yer. This is even better than the
Denver Post article, so we gladly
make the correction.
, 1904-09-08
Labor Day.

Labor Day which occurred
last Monday, was rather quiet.
The stores all remained open
during the fore part of the day,
but closed their doors at noon.
There was no demonstration of
any kind. but a kind of general
recognition of the day was man
fest on ell hands.
, 1904-09-08
From Denver, Through
Encampment, Saratoga,
and on to Big Horn.
DENVER CHAMBER COMMERCE
Behind the Scheme, But Name Of Rail
road Which contemplates Build
ing Withheld.

This is an age of railroad build
ing. The great trans-continental
lines are not only reaching out
for, and obtaining foot-holds, on
the Pacific coast, but they are
building branch lines, feeders,
that reach out and tap every i'm
portant part of the country. These
great lines are quick to see and
swift to appropriate adjacent ter
ritory, that is likely to become i'm
portant in point of development
in the neat future.
But there are still large tracts
of unoccupied land which no pro-
titable feeder will reach and CON
troll. Only a main line. reaching
out from some large city in the
West, can control the situation.
Take for example the vast country
which lies north of the L. p. road,
in Wyoming, many miles in ex-
tent. One of the most crying
wants of Wyoming today is for a
north and south road through the
center of the state. This want
is now in a fair way to be rene
died by the construction of a
main line from Denver, up
through the North Park country,
to Pearl, on to Eucampment and
Saratoga, and out north, crossing
the L. z. road at Fort Steele,
reaching the wonderful fields and
pastures of the Big Horn, and fin
ally ending in British Colu mbia.
This road is being pushed by
the Denver Chamber of Com
merce, which has already more
than one important railroad cred
tied to its enterprising foresight.
To the end that such a route isnot
only feasible. but one of great
profit, maps of the country
through which it will run are be-
ing made to lay before railroad
builders. One such is now being
drawn in Saratoga, which will in
clude not only the vast
Of the mountains in the way of
mineral, but also the stock-raising
and agricultural possibilities of
this valley, from Walcott to the
southern boundry of North Park
This map will be made of such di-
mansions as to permit the show
ing of all streams, settlements,
mines, towns, bitches, coal mines,
roads, etc. 1t will be accompan-
led by a table of statistics, show.
ing the tonnage, the cost of trans
portation, the number of passen-
gers that come and go, to and fro,
in this country.
When this map is completed it
will lay the whole situation in
this valley and it's surrounding
mountains, before the investigat-
ing railroad mau, and he will be
able to determine, not only what
is being done, but what the posi-.
bilities of the country offer to
build in this region,
The matter is being pushed ra-
pidly and the prospects that the
road outlined above will be built
are very good 1t will be at least
a year before active work will
have been begun, but that it will
begun. by that time, is almost a
certainty in the minds of those
who are in touch with the situa.
ton.
, 1904-09-08
Wandered in Sage Creek
Basin For Nine
Days.
WAS TAKEN TO RAwlINs
The Full Story Of His Loss and the
Search Made to Recover
Him.

"'Tom Waldren has beenfound."
was the word that came we the
wire yesterday evening. Later it
y was learned hat he had been pick
& ed up by Frank Humphrey, yes
terday. and taken into Rawlins
q and turned over to Sheriff Hor-
ton.
II He was found in Sage creek ba-
sin, not far from the ranch of
Robert Middlewood. He had an
Il old slicker, but no hat.
He was wandering around aim
\ lessly when found. He is very
4 badly sunburnt, but beyond that,
seems to be o. k. He was given
a bath and something to eat and
h rested well last night.
n He is in a remarkably good con-
3 dition physically, though clear off
mentally. Nothing can be learn
81 ed from him of his wanderings.
He will be examined today and
probably sent direct to Evanston
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. NJ. Scribner
3 left for Rawlins this morning to
see what they can do for the un-
q fortunate man.
Y The following Is IA history of
the case:
Mr.. Scribner, the proprietor of
I the Saratoga ncampment Stage
Line, who, has for the past four
years been caring for Thomas c..
Waldren, in response to enquiry
4 concerning Waldren's disappear
ance, said:
"On Monday, the 10Th of Aug
d ust, LIE Due, the stage agent at
Pass creek, started Old Tom out
from that place with a load of
bats for my ranch at Lake creek.
Old Tom left there about 1870
-. m. He should have gotten to
Bake creek in good time, but my
wife phoned me here at Saratoga
that he had not shown up. There
had been aterrible rain storm down
1t Pass creek and l supposed that
Old Tom had stopped for the
night at Cooks ranch, on the Old
Stage Road, and he would get
home the next day. AS he did
not arrive, and we could hear no
thing from him, i started my boy
Mace out to.look for him. Mace
returned without finding any trace
of him. Wednesday | started out
myself. l struck the track of his
wagon where he had turned off OF
the old stage road, toward Ben
nett's ferry, on the Platte river.
The tracks followed that road I'M
til they come to the coal road to
the Phillips mine, when they
"a turned and followed that road. At
the Phillips mine L learned that
he had been seen passing that
place at about Z o'clock Monday
evening. | followed the tracks
down to the Kindt ranch, where
he seemed to have stopped and
camped Monday night.
TUESDAY morning he had APP
parently forded the river, and !
followed the tracks up to where
he had come into the road from
Saratoga to Rawlins. where they
turned and went toward Saratoga
AT Rankin station / lost the trail
hnd had to come on into town
he next day a party of us search.
ed that country thoroughly with.
put a trace of him, but / found
he horses out west of the ranch
pf the Jack Greek Land & Cattle
20. One of the horses had beer
, 1904-09-08
PRICE FIVE CENTS.



School opened on Monday with
a very small attendance, there be-
ing a smaller number in town this
year Those present have been
carefully assigned to their grades
and work has begun in earnest.
The tenth grade is, accordingly.
the fullest and this class will have
a strong and very hard years
work in order to make the grade.
Only those enrolling at the first
of the term can expect to do the
work of this grade, and pupils en-
tering later in the year will be as
signed to special or lower classes.
The primary room begins with
y pupils, with an equal number
of boys and girls. The beginning
or baby class is open for enroll
ment only the first two weeks af-
ter which no beginners can be re-
ceived until the next class begins
or opening of a new term. Par
ents are expected to act according
ly.
There are some new faces. Mr..
Nickel is sending four children,
DR.. Anderson three, Mrs. f. p.
johnson two, and also the new
faces of Charles Wilcox, Gertrude
Priluet, Frances Sears, and Ora
Vivian.
The following was the enroll
ment by rooms for Wednesday
morning:
High Room l6.
Grammar 20.
intermediate 10.
Primary %.
Total Enrolment II.
The drawing classes will begin
the 2nd week under direction Of
Miss Brown. The bookkeeping
class, which will be quite large,
admitting nearly all of the High
Room will not begin until the
2udor Bird month. New books
have been ordered and are expect
ed this week. The pupils have
entered earnestly in their work
aud the number being small in
each room gives each pupil Il bet
ter chance to push ahead and &C
complish that much the more.
We urge parents to see that
their children are enrolled not a
day later than necessary and re-
member hat perfect attendance
will be a requirement in the pass
ing of any grade this year.
Respectfully submitted,
r. ID. Stearns.
, 1904-09-08

T
whereabouts, the search was given
up and the entire party returned
home Sunday evening. Every
body felt that everything possible
had been done. and that if the
man was dead it would be almost
impossible, except by accident to
find his body in the high sage
brush of that region, or it might
be that ne had found his way into
some distant sheep camp and thus
have been saved from starvation.
&. M. Scribner, assisted by Dep
uty Sheriff George w. Sisson. has
used every endeavor to find the
lost man. Mr.. Scribner has cared
for Old Tom for years, simply out
of the peculiarly strong fellow
feeling that the old timers have
for each other. The citizens of
this town have shown much inter
est in the search and turned out
eagerly to help. 1t is some ff-
teen miles from Saratoga to where
the wagon was found, which is
situated about section fifteen,
township seventeen, north of
range 81. The country is rough
and covered with sage brush, from
three to five feet in height. There
are also numerous small quaking
asp groves, scattered here and
there over the country, making it
very difficult to retrace the wan
behring's of an insane man.
Cuthbert Thomas Waldren, the
missing man, was about sixty
years of age. He has been a resi-
dent of this country for many
wears. He located on Cow creek
where he took up a ranch. He
had the misfortune to accident
ally shoot a man by the name of
Smith. q partner of Thomas Swan,
who was running cattle in this
part of the country at that time.
The shooting, which took place in
the fall of 1882, was purely acct
dental. bat Waldren seemed to
brood over the misfortune, and
his mind had never been quite
right from that time. Since then
he has been gradually failing
both in mental faculties and fin
ances, until a few years ago he
lost everything he had, and be
came a subject of charity.
1t was at this time that G. NJ.
Scribner took him and he has
cared for him ever since. OF late
his mind was almost gone and he
could not keep track of anything
he was doing. He went to his
meals simply by following the other
men at the ranch. On one occa-
sion, when the men went to din
ner by two's and three's, as they
came in from their work, Old
Tom followed them in and ate
three separate dinners.
He would have been sent to the
Insane Asylum but for the fact
hat his benefactor, could not
bear the idea of seeing him sent
to that institution. There was no
harm about the mamie simply
could not remember. 1t was
thought perfectly safe to send
him to Pass creek, or any place
like that, for the team, old and
gentle, would keep the road, and
every one, knowing his condition,
would are for him. Undoubted-
ly his leaving the road and be.
coming lost was occasioned by a
terrible rain storm which over
took him between Pass creek and
Cooks ranch.
An Old Timer Returns For a Visit.
, 1904-09-08

and 1t was coming home. They
were in a very bad condition
showing that they had been driv-
en- for a long time without feed
On Friday among the large
number of men who went from
this place in search of the lost
man we're A. j. Doggett and Bret
Bailey. They went to Rankin
and took the back track to the
river, where they fell in with a
camp mover of Cosgriff Bros.
sheep camp. From him they
learned that he had seen Old Tom
up on what is known as Sage
Greek Rim, on Tuesday. He was
asked where he was going, and
said to Pass creek. He was told
that he was 30 miles from that
place. The camp mover then
asked him who he was working
for? Old Tom replied that he
did not know. He was then ask
ed whose team he had, and he
said Charlie Scribner's. Old Tom
then asked the camp mover:
"Who are those men, over
there?"
Il see no one" replied the
camp mover.
why, yes" Old Tom insisted,
there are three men over there
talking"
At this the camp mover said he
was convinced that the man was
crazy and left him.
Acting on this information Dog
gett and Bailey returned to Rank
in and found the wagon tracks
had turned into an old, blind
trail, about 100 yards south of
the station. Following this trail,
which lead straight up in a south
westerly direction to the Sage
Greek rim, they found the wagon
on a little fiat just below the rim
Following the wagon tracks up
onto the rim, they found where
it had been driven several times
in a circle of three or four hun
dred yards, on the top of the rim,
and had then gone down where it
had come up. The hill was very
steep and the horses had slid for
Is or 20 feet at a time, the wagon
having no break. At one time he
had driven out in the direction of
the .Blydenburgh ranch. 3 or 4
miles. and then back.
The ten sacks of grain we're in
the wagon and had not been open
ed. There Old Tom had unhitch-
ed and embarrassed the horses,
placed n harness in the wagon
and the other on the ground. His
tracks where he had left the wag-
on were soon lost in the rocks and
he could not be traced from that
point.
On Saturday morning a large
number of citizens starred out,
equipped with camping outfit,
horses, ETC., determined to find
the missing man, dead or alive.
Beginning at the wagon a sys-
tematic search was made for trac-
es of his footprints. These were
discovered and about 100 yards
from the wagon his hat and coat
were found.
Evidently his coat had been
very wet, for it looked as though
he had started to wiring the water
out of it, and then threw it down
in disgust. His hat lay within
a few feet of the coat. Here his
tracks led up onto the rim again;
then down, almost to the wagon,
where they were lost. AT noon,
William Turnbull arrived on the
scene with his pack of hounds
1t was thought they might be
able to find the missing man, but
all efforts failed. Though search
was made for a circuit of several
miles, continued on through Sun
day, aud enquiry made of the
numerous sheep camps in thaI
, 1904-09-08
Democratic Primary.

The democratic primary was
called to order, shortly after 2
Americus times-recorder., 1904-02-23
FIVE LIVES LOST
IN SHIPWREek
Two Vessels Go Ashore A.
Bellport, L. I.
HEROIC WORK OF LIFEsAvERs.

! Attempt After Attempt Was Made by
the Lifesavers to Reach the Wreck,
but the High Seas and Dense Fog
Prevented them.
New York, Feb. 22.-Five men were
drowned in the wreck of the schooner
Benjamin F. Cromwell, off BelIport,
l.. l., today only two OF the Grew OF
seven being rescued from the break
ers when they were washed ashore on
pieces OF wreckage.
The schooner was broken up by the
heavy waves.
During dense fog two vessels went
ashore today one near Bellport, L. l.,
and the other near Long Beach, N.
j. The former was TIKI Benjamin C.
Cromwell. a Portland, Me-, schooner
from Charleston, S. c., for Halifax
with pine. The name of the craft
ashore at Long Beach is as yet un.
known. The mate of the BENJAMIN
Y. Cromwell was drowned, one man
reached the shore on a floating piece
OF wreckage, and seven others clung
to the wreck of their ship in the hope
that the lifesavers would be able to
reach them
Attempt after attempt OF the life
savers to reach the wreck was unsuc-
cessful and close watch was kept for
any OF the crew who might come
ashore.
The three masted schooner which
went ashore near Long Beach began
to break up almost Immediately un-
der the blows of the heavy breakers.
The fog and the heavy seas made
the work of the lifesavers extremely
difficult, but repeated attempts were
made to rescue the crew Of the doom.
ed vessel.
Attempts to launch the life boats
proved unsuccessful. Time after
time the lifesavers dashed into the
waves with their boats, but each time
they We're hurled back to the beach
Then the guns were trained on the
wreck, just as the fog closed In more
thtckly, hiding the vessel from view
However, the lifesavers having the di-
rection, shot the first line at the YES.
sci. Several other lines were dis.
charged within the next half hour,
but with what effect it has not yet
been learned
Several pieces of the wreckage have
fioated ashore which led to the fear
that the vessel was breaking up.
Americus times-recorder., 1904-02-23
NEUTRALITY TEMPORARY.
Chinese Admire and Sympathize with
Japan.


Japan.
New York, Feb 22.-An interview
attributed to Chinese minister here
quotes that diplomat, says a World
dispatch from Belin, as having pro-
only temporary; that no one, even
claimed that China's neutrality is
only temporary; that no one, even the
best diplomats can tell what change
day will bring forth in China's atti-
tude
The minister is quoted as having
said:
1T should never be forgotten that
the war will be fought out in Manchu-
ria, on Chinese territory, and that the
excitement Of the Chinese people will
increase as the war progresses.
Naturally, therefore, the Chinese
government may be expected on any
one day to decide that its continued
neutrality is neither possible nor de-
sirable
Thirty thousand we'll drilled Chi.
nese troops are already stationed in
the province of China ready at a
moments notice from Pekin to enter
Manchuria
Our nation admires the Japanese
and sympathizes decidedly with their
efforts"
Americus times-recorder., 1904-02-23
THE JEW AS A PATRIOT.
American Hebrews Will Not Give ia.
pan a Warship.

New York, Feb. 22.-In a sermon on
The Jew as Patriot the Rev. Jo.
seph Silverman, of the Temple OF
Emu-El has branded as false reports
that the Jews of the United States
are raising a fund to purchase a war.
ship for Japan.
Il am astonished and pained," he
said, that anyone could believe such
q statement to be true. There is no
movement on foot among American
Jews to do anything of the kind. We
are not living in any political situa-
ton as Jews in this country. We
shall not side with or against Russia
| as Jews.
We follow the policy of the Ameri-
can government, and if that policy is
defined, we Jewish Americans will
side with our government to be a
friend of Russia or a friend to the
japanese, as the case may be.
The temporary persecution, mas
sacre or riot OF the disorderly ele-
ment among Russians will not induce
the American Jew to take sides one
way or the other in a struggle that is
international and seems about to be-
come even broader.
The worst feature of antt-Semitism
is the charge often made that the
Jew is stranger in the country in
which he resides; that he is not an
integral part Of the people and can't
be a true patriot.
This charge has often been refuted,
but still requires an answer, because
there are thousands and thousands
who will not listen to the truth, and
still, Indifferent, reiterate the charge
with vehement emphasis
The fact is, that the Jew is a pa
Griot by nature, training and by virtue
Of his religion. The Jew is so con-
stituted that he becomes the best pa.
triot Of all nations, and there is sur,
ticient evidence in history to bear out
this statement"
Americus times-recorder., 1904-02-23
TELEoRAPHrc BREVITIEs.

Consul General Skinner in his re.
port shows the great success of his
mission to Abyssinia.
The Mexican sugar trust alleges that
its failure was due to the American.
Cuban reciprocity treaty.
Peach growers of Pike county are
expecting a fine crop year owing to
the continued cold weather
]. A. Owens, OF Atlanta, is making
preparations for his Journey on foot
to ST. Louis behind wheelbarrow.
A farmer named Bramel, near Mays
vile, KY, while intoxicated, killed his
wife, set fire to the house and perish
ed in the flames.
Two men were asphyxiated, one
burned to death and several severely
injured in an explosion OF gas at a
Buffalo, N. r., furnace.
Young Mems Christian association
delegates to the state convention filled
most of the pulpits at Augusta and
addressed fair-sized congregations.
A number OF citizens of South Car
olina met tragic deaths in various
ways One may committed suicide
and one woman was burned to death,
Department OF superintendent oi
the National Educational association
convenes in Atlanta tomorrow with
an attendance Of fully 1000 delegates,
The senate will vote ON the Pana
ma treaty Tuesday The doors OK the
senate chamber will probably be clos
ed while the treaty is under consider
alton.
Riots were started in Prague yes.
terday by the pro-Russian demonstra
tions OF Czechs, who wished to attack
the United States consulate because
OF sympathy for japan.
The question OF electIng judges by
direct vote of the people is now g
prominent one before the Mississippi!
legislature. There is strong oppost
tion to the project in the senate.
A dispatch from San Domingo to
Paris papers says that the United
States cruiser Columbia and the train
ing ship Hartford, have bombardet
Duarte, which is occupied by the In
surgents.
A respite has been asked for young
Register, under sentence for praticipa
tion in the assassination OF Staley
and Soles, in North Carolina. Regis
ter, in his confession, says his father
planned the murder.
French markets are badly demoraliz
ed by the war in the Far East Great
losses have ensued OF almost all
securities. The worst slump since
the outbreak OF the Franco-Prussiau
was is being experienced.
the seven places on the Alabama gu
preme bench The four old members
of the court are practically certain
OF retaining their places. ~ The figf
is being made on high plane.
Crews of two freight trains on the
Southern road were baaly injured In
a collision near McCarty, Tenn, Sun
day. One negro fireman was killed
and almost all Of the members OF the
crews OF each train were more or less
injured.
The German Sloman liae steamer
Albano reached New York Sunday
from Hamburg, bringing into port ten
shipwrecked men belonging to the
British freight steamer Ksntigern
which they abandoned at sea on Feb
16 in sinking condition.
Americus times-recorder., 1904-02-23
THREE PERSONS
BURNED TO DEATH
Alhambra Theatre and Hotel
Destroyed.
CHICAGO HAS ANOTHER FIRE.

Brave Night Clerk Succeeds in Arous-
ing Over 200 Sleeping Guests, all
but Three Escaping Uninjured-Loss
Estimated at $4,000.
Chicago, Feb. 22.-Fire today par
tally destroyed the building occupied
by the Alhambra theater, hotel and
apartments
The structure was three stories high
and fronted on Archer avenue ana
State and Nineteenth streets.
After the fire was extinguished the
remains OF three persons, two men
and woman, who had been suffoca-
ted, were found in the ruins. There
were many narrow escapes.
The loss is estimated at S75,-
0OO The Alhambra theater, around
which the hotel is built, was
partially destroyed. In the theater
new stage fittings and furnishings had
been stalled and remodelled IN com
pliance with the new theater ord
nance, and it Was practically complet
cd. The fire is believed to have
started from an over-heated boiler in
the basement of the Alhambra annex
The smoke filled the halls and but
for the night clerk, Philip Vingo, the
fremen asserted, there probably
would have been much greater loss of
life. He ran through the halls awaken
ing the 200 guests. A moment later the
halls were filled with halt-clad men
and women, who goped their way
down the stairs to the snow-covered
streets and sought refuge in nelghbor-
ing stores.
The building is owned by Stair and
HaviIand
Fully so occupants, most of them
were carried down the ladders by fire
men. The three bodies were found
in room on the top floor. The DO
sition of the remains, the men had ap-
parently attempted to assist the wo-
man to escape, but had been overcome
by the smoke All their clothing had
been burned from the bodies and the
flash scorched
The remains of the men were identi-
fed as William Fisher and Frank
Beck, both of whom arrived here re.
Gently from Cincinnati. The BODY
of the woman was identified as that
of Anna Smith.