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The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-30
VICTIM IDENTIFIED.
Sister in California Believes Mrs. 5ou'
ton Was Murdered.

Denver, Dec. 27.-The News this
morning says: Bessie Bouton, believed
to be the young woman who was found
on Cutler mountain with bullet in
her brain and her face burned beyond
recognition, was, with her alleged
paramour, Milton Franklin. a guest at
the Albany hotel from May 2nd to
July 18th. This was established by the
hoIel register last evening.
The couple registered as G. Bouton
and wife, but it is believed Franklin
took the name of the woman, who had
been married to Bouton in Syracuse
and separated from him four years
ago. The man at the Albany was a
gambler. Special dispatches to the
News from Syracuse, New York, and
Santa Barbara, California, give many
additional facts, all of which seem to
corroborate the belief that Bessie Bou-
ton was the victim.
Mrs. Charles Nelson of Santa Bar
bara, where Bessie Bouton and Frank
lin visited, says she received a letter
six weeks ago from her sister, saying
she had quarreled with Franklin, and
the next heard of Bessie Bouton was
when she read descriptions OF the
Cutler mountain victim.
w. ]. Bodno, whose wife's elopment
was told in special dispatches to the
News from Butte recently. Is on his
way to Colorado Springs to see If the
remains are those of his wife. 1t Is
thought he is mistaken.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-30
Lighting UP a Lake.

Portland, Ore, Dec. 26.-Among the
novelties of the electrical illumination
scheme designed for the Lewis and
Clark Exposition is the submarine
lighting of Guilds lake. This lake is
the largest body of water ever en-
closed in an exposition grounds, being
over 200 acres in extent, and the ar
rangements being carried out will
transform the lake into a blaze of
glory.
The lights will be fifty-candle power
and enclosed in air and water-tight re-
ceptables. Spectators will be able to
see all kinds of fish swimming about
in the shallow water. This submarine
illumination will also give the effect
of dancing flames of fire at a distance
in the night.
Completing the vista of Columbia
court on the island in the lake will be
the grand court and gardens in front
of the government building sumounted
with the 300-foot towers, which, with
their outlines trimmed with thousands
of lights can be seen as far as the Cas-
cade range Of mountains, seyenty-tiye
miles distant.
In conjunction with these plans, the
Mazamas, mountain climbing club of
this city, are arranging for the illumi-
nation of Mount Hood. the highest
peak in Oregon, by signal fires, at in
tervals during June and July. The
mountain is easily discernible from ev.
cry vantage point on the grounds.
In the center of the lake an immense
geyser will play. intermingled with
varied lights and Columbia river fish
wheel will be in operation.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-30
LATEST WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
To Regulate Corporations.

The first annual report of the com
missioner of corporations has been
submitted to Congress by Commis-
sioner Garfield. He says no satisfac-
tory reform is to be expected under the
state system of incorporation that the
federal government has at its com
mand sufficient power to remedy exist
ing conditions in It's control OF inter
state commerce.
He therefore suggests that Congress
consider the advisability of enacting a
aw for the legislative regulation of in
eTstate and foreign commerce under a
icense or franchise which in general
,hould provide as follows:
THE granting of a federal franchise
or license to engage in interstate com
merce.
"The imposition of all necessary re
quirements as to corporate organiza-
ton and management as a condition
precedent to the grant of such a fran
chise or license.
THE prohibition of all corporations
and corporate agencies from engaging
in interstate and foreign commerce
without such federal franchise or Ii
cense.
1.-THE full protection OF the grantees
of such franchise or license who obey
the laws applicable thereto.
"The right to refuse or withdraw
such franchise or license in case of vi
olation of law, with appropriate right
OF judicial appeal to prevent abuse OF
power by the administrative officers"
Commissioner Garfield says the bu-
reau, under the direction of the secre-
tary of commerce and labor. affords
the appropriate machinery for the ad-
ministration of such law.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-30
Washinston's Smoke Nuisance.

Drastic action has been recon-
mended by the President looking to the
suppression of the smoke nuisance IN
this city. A letter was sent by his di-
rection to the district commissioners
November 30th inquiring If it were not
possible to proceed criminally against
the officers of an electric light com
pany.
He denounced the violation of the
smoke law by the company at the very
doors of the White House as an out
rage and urged that the managers o.
the company be arrested again anu
again, at short intervals, in an eroii
to abate the nuisance.
No response having been received
that was satisfactory the President au-
thorized to-day the publication OF the
letter to the district commissioners. II
follows:
"The President has again taken up
with his Cabinet the smoke nuisance
so far as the public buildings are con-
cerned. He would like especially to
call your attention. however to the
well-nigh intolerable manifestation or
the nuisance by the electric light com.
pany. Is it not possible to proceed
criminally against the managers OF
this company? If not, drastic legisia-
ton should be recommended.
at is an outrage on the city that
such a nuisance should be permitted
to exist right by the White House. AT
almost every hour of the day this
great chimney can be seen emitting
dense clouds of black smoke. 1t would
seem to be wise to go to the very limit
of the law and to arrest the head Oh
the company, or those highest up IN
the company, again and again at the
shortest possible intervals. in order to
put stop TO this nuisance. for the
conduct on their part amounts to
fragrant defiance of the law and OF re-
spect for public opinion, and is fraught
with serious consequences to the city
OF Washington"
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-30

London, Dec. 27.-The Telegraph's
correspondent at Che Foo. in dis
patch dated December 2Gth, says:
"a messenger from Port Arthur de-
scribes Japanese attack the evening
of December 22nd, with light column
of 5000 and many machine guns on the
northern defenses. They dashed along
the railway, carried trench after trench
and succeeded in reaching the water
course beneath Payusean mountain,
when the Russian artillery worked ter
rible execution.
"a fierce bayonet fight occurred at
midnight. A strong Russian force
advancing eastward of Payusean noun.
tain threatened the retreat of the jap
anese, who, after a desperate struggle,
retired to the north, leaving several
machine guns, 800 rifles and eighty
prisoners. 1t is estimated that they
lost 600 killed"
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-30

At the request of the Wyoming dele
CATION in Congress the House Indian
affairs committee has agreed to insert
an item of $4,000 in the Indian appro-
priation bill for extending the water
works system at the Shoshone Indian
School, Wyoming.
Once paymaster general OF the
navy, always a paymaster general, is
the decision of Attorney General
Moody, and the line officers have lost
in their fight against the former head
of the pay corps, A. S. Kenny, now
treasurer of the Panama Canal Com
mission.
Representative Hepburn of Iowa has
introduced two bills, one appropriate
ing s25O,O0O for the establishment OF
some abandoned military reservation
in the United States of a leprosarium,
for the care and treatment of persons
in the United States suffering with
leprosy, the other appropriating $780,
900 for n leprosy hospital in the Ha-
waiian islands. Both proposed institu-
tions are placed under the control of
the public health and marine hospital
service.
In the case of w. B. Wetmore vs.
Mrs. A. B. Markoe the Supreme Court
of the United States in a decision
handed down December 18th, held that
an obligation to pay alimony and al
lowance to a wife and children is not
in the nature of an ordinary debt and
therefore cannot be discharged in
bankruptcy. The opinion was dellv-
cred by Justice Day, who said: "The
bankruptcy law should receive such
an Interpretation as will effectuate its
beneficent purposes and not make it
an instrument to deprive dependent
wife and children of the support and
maintenance due them from the hus-
band and father, which 1t has ever
been the purpose of the law to en-
force"
President Roosevelt has given con-
sideration recently to suggestions look
ing to a reduction in the membership
of the Panama Canal Commission, but
thus far no definite decision has been
reached. 1t has been urged by some
members of Congress that the commits
sion is so large as to be unwieldy. 1t is
known that Representative Hepburn of
Iowa, chairman of the interstate and
foreign commerce committee, is in
clined to the opinion that the commits
sion is too large, and that the chief
engineer of the canal ought to have
greater initial authority than he now
has. Mr.. Hepburn talked to the Presi-
dent about canal matters, but he de-
clined to say whether it was the inten-
tion of his committee to introduce a
measure looking to the crystallizatior
of his ideas into law. Before action of a
definite nature is taken the subject will
be considered carefully in all its
phases.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-30

The House emphatically disapproved
the proposition to hold the inaugural
ball in the Capitol building.
The following Colorado appoint
ments have been sent to the Senate:
Bryson p. Blair, register Of land
office, Montrose; George w. SINNERS,
postmaster. Gunnison.
Secretary Shaw has transmitted to
the House request from Secretary
Wilson for a deficiency appropriation
of S150.000 to eradicate scabies in
sheep and mango in cattle.
Capt. John ]. Pershlng, Fifteenth
cavalry, has been selected by the War
Department as military attache at
Toxic to success Litutenant Colonel
Wood, whose term of foreign duty has
expired.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application of L. X. Mul.
ford, William II. Miller, Henry Null
Inns, William Graham, c. NJ. Ball and
other Denver men to organize the Ala
mosa National bank OF Alamosa, with
$4,000 capital.
This government has for the second
time called upon Venezuela to explain
the arbitrary expulsion from that coun-
try of A. F. Jaurette. a newspaper man
at Caracas. The first explanation of
fered by President Castro was alto
gether unsatisfactory.
Secretary Taft recently issued an
order directing the quartermaster
general to award the making of some
$4,000 pairs of trousers for the en-
listed men of the army at Schuylkill
arsenal. Philadelphia, to seamstresses
in that city, mainly the widows and or
phans of soldiers, thus settling ques-
tion raised some time ago SO far as the
present lot is involved.
The secretary of the War Depart
ment has issued an order authorizing
recruiting officers to grant the priyi-
lege of living out Of quarters to sol
diers who were married prior to the
last enlistment, or prior to their
transfer to the recruiting service, and
also to soldiers who hereafter may
receive permission from the War De-
partment to marry.
Labor Commissioner Carroll d.
Wright has sent to Secretary Metcalt
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor a 10000 word reply to the ques-
tions asked by the labor committee
of the House in regard to the effect OF
the eight-hour day, II a law were
passed giving all workingmen em-
ployed for the government the shorter
day. Secretary Metcalf has not indi-
Gated when the report will ne trans
mitted to the House committee.
Secretary Morton has approved the
recommendation of the naval board
on construction for the award OF the
contract for the construction of the
armored cruisers Montana and North
Carolina to the Newport News ship
ping Company at its bid of s3.S75.0Oo
for each vessel. and the contract for
the construction of the battleship New
Hampshire to the New York Ship
building Company at its bid OF Vs.
74S.000.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-30
Four Thousand at Work.

Pueblo Colo, Dec. 26.-The rail mill
and Converter at Minnequa started this
morning and rails are being turned out
in a rapid manner. At noon to-day A.
800 men were at work inside the big
fence. 1t is probable that blast fur
mace A will be blown in on or before
Wednesday, and If such is the case the
number OF employees will be materially
increased.
1t was supposed that none of these
plants except those in operation last
week would be started up before New
Years Day. but the demand for prod.
ucts is so great that other departments
will have to begin operation.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-30
misunderstanding.

Rome. Dec. 27.-Experiments with
the Artons system of autobiography
have been made between Rome and
Sardinia, resulting in q successful
demonstration of the inventors claim
that an electromagnetic wave message
transmitted by his system cannot be
diverted from the point for which 1t is
intended. King Victor Emmanuel,
who witnessed the test. congratulated
the inventor upon his achievement.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-30
Denver.

The uncertainty as to the result of
the fraud investigation as it affects
the goverlorship. has been largely re-
moved since my last letter. The in.
yesugation conducted by the Republi-
cans and the Supreme Court has pro.
duced evidence which clearly demon
strates that the fraudulent Democratic
vote in Denver far exceeds the total
plurality counted for Mr.. Adams on the
race of the returns.
This evidence will be presented to
the Legislature on January 4th and an
Immediate hearing will be asked which
will undoubtedly be granted.
AS already stated. the fraud in the
100 lower precincts is so extensive and
consists of SO many varieties, as to
mako it impossible to separate the
good from the bad ballots. The fraud
ulent vote in the other precincts is not
quite SO extensive or complicated and
it is possible that in these the good and
the bad ballots might be separated.
a Recognized Principle.
The outcry against the Supreme
Court from leading Democratic attor-
neys on the ground that it has estab-
lished a dangerous precedent has
failed to make any impression upon
those who are in any way familiar with
the matter. Technically the court did
form a precedent, but really it violated
no principle of law or Justice. On the
contrary 1t followed the practice that
has been in vogue in our courts and
legislative bodies for century. Where
the fraud Is so extensive or of such
nature as to render it impossible to de-
termine the actual legal vote cast in
precinct, the whole return is tainted.
When the election officials are parties
10 the fraud the return is further
tainted and its integrity destroyed and
under such conditions it has been de
cided always that the whole return
from such ballot box should be thrown
out. This is all the Supreme Court
did.
There is no law against forming
precedent in this country. particularly
when the precedent is formed to pur-
ify our civic life.
Mr.. Patterson and the other Demo
cratic attorneys appear to be thor
oughly welded to the belief that es-
tablished precedents should not be dis
turbed. that violation of them tech
nicaily or in principle Is the invasion
of constitutional rights and danger to
the perpetuity of Republican institu-
tions.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-30
A Democratic Precedent.

the lower wards of Denver long since
established the precedent OF stufhns
The ballot boxes in that section OF the
city. and stealing the elections FOR the
Democratic ticket. The average
Democrat is glad to see these election
crooks punished and their outrageous
crimes on the ballot suppressed, but
The big Democratic lawyers, faithful TO
their love of holding established pre-
cedent" inviolate, are objecting serl-
ously to this smashing OF the Big
Mitt's most precious precedent. Mr..
Patterson goes so far as to say that
in smashing it a deadly blow has
been struck against republican institu-
tions."
These attorneys are equally active
and insistent upon maintaining their
contention that the state canvassing
board has no right to go behind the re-
turns: that it must accept them as sent
in by the county officials and issue
election certificates accordingly. Ihey
about the power of the Legislature
when that body undertakes to investi-
gate the Democratic frauds in Denver
and other counties which have "on the
face of the returns" shown Mr.. Adams
TO be elected.
Who Decides the Question?
1t Is conceded that some high au-
thority of the state government must
receive the returns and determine who
is elected. This privilege at present
seems to be claimed by Senator Pat
terson for himself and his brother lead
ers OF the Democratic party. But the
law says that the state canvassing
board shall canvass the vote for ma
tional candidates, legislative candi-
dates, and. in fact, all candidates en-
cept the state officers. When the re-
turns are in and it is determined who
is elected this board issues election
certificates accordingly.
When the Legislature meets 1t re-
ceives the returns for state officers
from governor down, canvasses them
and issues certificates to those whom
in its judgment are elected.
Two years ago they maintained that
the canvassing board could go behind
the returns and Judge Adair Wilson of
the Appeals Court, Democrat him
self. SO decided. Now it appears to be
wrong. But aside from the opinions of
political lawyers and judges it would
seem plain that these canvassing au-
thorities have the right to reject what
they are convinced are fraudulent re-
turns. The people of Colorado would
hardly be SO foolish as to create a can
vassing aathority and make it its duty
TO accept returns as sent In from local
county ofncials whether right or
wrong.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-23
TIE REPUBLloAx rnArroRm.


 The platform adopted by the Repub- lican National Convention yesterday is long enough, and it is not near as narrow as the discouraged Democrats will say it is. There is much that is interesting and important in it. It points with pride" a good deal, but the achievements of the Republican party warrant considerable pointing with pride, especially at the beginning of a new campaign. And it properly views with alarm any prospect that the Democrats may ever again have a chance to damage the country which the Republicans have saved and i'm proved.
 There was a ghost of an idea that the platform might have tariff plank that would be little radical. But it hasn't. we insist 1t says, 'upon the mainte- nance of the principle of protection, and therefore rates of duty shall be read justed only when conditions have so changed that the public interest de- mands their alteration" and then never by Democrats. Commercial reciprocity without injury to protection, American agriculture, American labor, or any American industry is favored. The platform further says gold, upbuild the merchant marine, a navy powerful enough to take care of United States interests, thorough and honest civil service reform, liberal administration of the pension laws, protection of Ameri- can citizens abroad, equal treatment of capital and labor by the law, and Roese- welt the wise, the great and the efficient. Under his guidance we find ourselves at peace with all the world, and never were we more respected or our wishes more regarded by foreign nations"
 If Republicans can't find firm footing on that platform they will be hard to suit. Anybody who doesn't like it will do well to compare it with the Demo- cratic platform when that is made.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-23
TEE 1HoUGHrFUL JApANEsr.

What the alert and far-seeing Japan csc don't think of isn't much. pr. Wada, a staff surgeon of the Japanese navy. who had charge of a field hospital at Chemulpo in which Russian sailors wounded on the Variag were treated, reports that in many cases fragments of shell making the wounds had carried with them bits of clothing, which caus- ed suppuration before they could be ex- tracted. With this in mind he will write to his government proposing that it be made a rule in the navy of Japan that every man, when fight is expect ed, shall be thoroughly washed and have his clothing disinfected. When a fight is expected the men who have to do the fighting are usually pretty busy and not in a mood for taking a bath. But the Japanese may be different, for Dr. Wada says: Happily, 1t is rule with our men, in the army as well as in the navy, always to go to battle in their newest and cleanest uniforms. This is not for any sanitary consideration, but it works the right way all the same. We Japanese used to say, as we always fight like gentlemen, we also die like gentlemen, and dressed like, gentlemen" !"
 General Skobeloff, the great Russian fighter, used to go into battle dressed in his cleanest and best clothes, but he was an exceptional Russian. If the Japanese take to baths and disinfected clothes just before a battle they will have quite an advantage over the Rus sian soldiers, who are generally sup posed to go around quite soiled.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-23
ANNUAL MEETINGS.

''The League shall meet annually for
 the election of a Board of Control and
 the transaction of other business. with in the first fifteen days of December of each year. on such date as the
 Board of Control shall designate" So
 saith Section one of Article VI of the Constitution of the Citizens League of
 New Haven. Annual meetings, What
 a comforting suggestion of stability
 and permanence in these words. Other Citizens Leagues have sprung up and held about one Annual Meeting or less.
 but this one is going to hold an annual meeting within the first fifteen days of
 December in each year. In order to do this it will of course have to con- |tinue to exist, and New Haven will of course get the benefit of its continu- lance. So let us rejoice and sing
 paeans, or whatever is proper to sing with such an outlook. Blessed New HavenI With the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and the An nual Meeting of the Citizens League things can't go far wrong here. And it should not be omitted in singing that one of the performance at the Annual
 Meeting of the Citizens League will be the election of Board of Control.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-23
SHIFTING POLITICAL ISSUES.

The near approach of the national conventions and the fact that at least one of the great parties has not yet hit upon an issue again reminds one that the old issues are dead and cannot be revived, and also that there are other and more vital matters claiming the attention of the public. Perhaps here in is found the explanation of much of the apathy in campaign issues of late years. But the new interests are at once the problem of statesmen and the opportunity of demagogues. How shall the parties deal with them?
 These newer interests are commer- |cial, industrial and social. They have arisen in apparent serene disregard of party lines. Let democratic dema- gogues shout as they will, many demo- cratic leaders favor the trusts, as do many of the rank and file of the party, while many others are still unsettled in their minds about them, and, on the other hand, many republican leaders, as well as many of the rank and file of that party, positively oppose the trusts, and many others of them are also in doubt. Indeed, as to the real blood and bone of the country, the par ties are, divided about alike on this question. Doubtless if the country were boiled on this issue alone, and ir-