New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-29

Sheriff Frank Carter. OF Lawton. Okla Garter
and his wife are combating the race suicide idea
Carter on the train and he told about his
family. He and his wife are the parents OF tven.
ty-three children. all living. There are fifteen bor
and eight girls Fourteen OF the children are twins
Seventeen OF the children were sick with the
measles at one time. The Sheriff and his heIpmeet
got tired Of hustling night and day for drinking
water. Mr.. Carter attached a hose to a faucet
and In that way the afflicted passed IT from ous
20 a99neT Wiyhou. disturbing the sleep Of Papa
anu mamma carter. The whoopinS cough caught
twelve Of the youngsters at once, and broke up
sleeping for four months All the boys sleep in one
provided for, There is a second table, at meal
time, and the children draw lots once a week for
table honors. Mrs Carter is thirty-nine wears Dbl
and the Sheriff is forty-one.
Up at Colorado Springs the traveller will discover
the first hour after getting or the train that Gen.
eral Palmer former president OF the Denver and
A'io Grande Railroad. a part OF the Gould sys-
TEN. is to be considered The general is a
prohloItionist. and no rum is sold in Colorado
Springs except on a doctors prescription. Liquor
OF al kinds is on draught IN Colorado City which
physically is the western part Of Colorado Springs
General Palmer is building city park for Colorado
springs The natives say it will cost S7500o0 Col
orado Springs capitalists are securing wonderful
water power up Pixies Peak A trench has been
dug straight up the side OF the mountain from
Manitou. AT elevation OF 500 feet a tunnel IS
being driven through the mountain to a lake the
other side. With the pressure through BEinch
steel pipe grouted in cement. il IS proposed 70 run
an electric light plant for Colorado Springs. The
waste water is to be used for irrigaJns purposes
General Palmer is rebuilding his summer house
in tire Garden Of the Gods There IS grove rS ..
cottonwood trees before one reaches the place tbs
road Is lighted by electric lanterns fastenea 70 ihs
trees ~ order not 10 mar the sylvan el lscbsrt
electSh' Tight wires are concealed under the pain
on uss. Sree trunks. -,
General Palmer was Pennsylvania Quaker. 6qt
he was against slavery, and broke away rom rom, h,
and then he Continued. "Tls's yot more money than
he needs and he's bound TO make colorado Sp'i'S'
the most beautiful place in the world"
over at Cripple Creek your correspondent found
two things out of the customary rut. Owing 70 tn'
absence Of grass or shrubbery the chickens nav
alaTmingly poor compilations and az tmpor~"'
funerals there Is brass band music. The roos'e'
and hens encountered in Cripple Greek look az .ns
visitor apOlogetically. They purple OF ss
and combs feur de lis. \ steady tadng OF ps
gold cure has made them temperate Of sait an
cackle. and doubtless stored their craWS WIFI =
dust but It has given their compilations sa1SS
tint There was a private funeral with ora press lest
music the day your correspondent was tHai ~, fbe
svsrase s,id The 1ssfr ..,ro,lSV we buried
saloonkeeper who belonged to the order OF ne
deuce Cert9nly it's all the go out here TO hsss
a brass band at funeral. had Spllt nR viii
an Elk's funeral Yesterday. but got away
the Job to-day all right"
At oklahoma City man got on the iF1-"
soon grew companiouable. He wanted TO 49,
about the political situation in the Empire -
and said: Well Roosevelt is pretty quick ." -.
trigger for a like me. bat I'm goihs ,rrs
for him. The President is strong with u'1 -
down here in oklahoma ] live In kansas.
travel around a good deaf The Demo Democrats
carry a State west of the Mississippi -,arked
Changing from politics TO vcltStln n 80 tire
give Just been out 20 Weatherford lnS ea l aga
/ went To Wcat herfOrd was about hVe -, there
when they Openin' up the country LOW, uow ard
The Rock Island was runntn me - a boom
Gulf road toward oklahoma, and there ", 'obout A.
on My friend and myself get 70 WITHIN ,rsE We
teen miles of Oklahoma one nlght at LING 70
walked about eight ten miles before V srs Us
farmhouse. The farmer didn't want 20 .SSsITSbt We
because. as he told attcrward re ~ rrife ard
were confidence men. Finally ne ana 10 lsavins
children climbed up ladder to the s'siasor5 was
to us the only bed IN the house. MY ll' DE- knet
Methodist and 7 am a Presby eriaih ~ ,ur De-
down at the side OF the be- TO 60 5t,h them
votiOns and was about halfway throusll three
when my partner yelled and jumped "a guess
feet in the air. A dog under the u.eosb,s VS.
he wasn't used to prayers. When st ess3snd-s bare
quiet ne his cold nose against my ~, Folk W
leg soaring him almost into nts Ne partael
stairs thought the house was on nFt. - ( neNes,
is a Sunday school superintendent NO. 4aafs cci-
hear him pray without thnk!ns OF tiat IRIS radc1,
nose. / guess there must be some OF 49, IL sort
IN dogs It's always so cold . against you
freezes a hole when be puts IL -