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The Elbert County tribune., 1904-04-21
Graders Have a Fight.

Denver, April 16.-A Republican spe-
cial from Central City last night says:
AS a result of a drunken quarrel
among graders and vagrants at Ben
son, in Boulder park. on the Moffat
road. this afternoon. three men were
shot, none fatally, and half-breed
Mexican is in the custody OF deputy
sheriff at Rollinsville and will be
brought to the county Jail In this city
tomorrow morning.
During the shooting A. ID. Thomp
son. the bartender, was shot in the
collarbone. the bullet being extracted
later DR.. Baughman. deputy sheriff.
was shot in the fieshy part OF the right
arm. and an unknown grader was shot
twice in the right hand.
Most OF the shooting was done by
the half-breed. who was severely
ciubued over the head with a gun, and
PUT under arrest. Five men were depu-
lied at Rollinsville. who went to the
Gcene OF the trouble. afterwards taking
tue prisoner to Rollinsville.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-04-21
LATEST NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
Panama canal nlu pasasa.

The Panama canal bill was taken up
III the Senate April 18th and. passed-
Mr.. Hale. upon the suggestion OF
Mesars. Aldrich and Hopkins. Withdrew
his amendment requiring that men.
supplies. etr.. be shipped TO the isth-
mus In American vessels.
Mr.. Spooner spoke in favor of the
amendment proposed by Mr.. Morgan.
that the pardonIng power rests in the
governor instead Of in the commission
He moved also that new section be
added. providing that all salaries or
other compensation fixed by The com
mission shall be subject to the approval
of the President.
The amendment was adopted. as well
ms one requiring more rigid accounting
to the President by members OF the
commission.
Mr.. Bacon offered an amendment at
the end of the first section OF the bill.
providing that 'the payment OF si0.-
100000 to Panama provided for in ar
ticls IA OF the treaty shall be made in
lieu of tho indefinite appropriation
made in the third section OF the act
of June rs. 1902. and is hereby appro-
priated'
The amendment was adopted after an
explanation that this would clear away
all doubt as to the authority TO make
the payment.
Mr.. Morgan made final speech
against the bill. and when he ceased
speaking at 3.25 p. m. In less than n
minute afterward the bill was passed
There was no division.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-04-21
Houae Membera gxonerated.

The report of the special commit
tee OF the House appointed TO investi-
gate the report from the postofiicc
Department printed under the caption
Charges Concerning Members of Con-
gress." was made to the House on the
18th inst. by Chairman Mccall. The
report is signed by all seven members
of the committee. The minority mem
bers, however, append supplemental
views.
The important phase OF the report is
finding regarding the connection OF
members with the business OF the
Postoffice Department. This finding is
as follows:
After n careful consideration OF all
cases specified In the report numbered
1895 tthe report OF the Postoffice Com
mittee on charges against members
OF Congress) so far as relate to pres
ent members OF the House OF Represn-
tatiyes. which the committee assume
to be out OF their Jurisdiction. they
have unanimously reached the conclur
sion that nothing has appeared in con-
nection with said cases that would
Justify the finding that any member
OF the House OF Representatives has
profited financially In the slightest de
gree. or that any member was guilty
of improper conduct In connection
Herewith. or that any member has
done In connection with any OF said
cases anything that did not appear to
be within the line OF his of,icial duty
according to long established customs
Having reached this conclusion.
the committee feel constrained to add
that In their opinion It would be well
to make as formal as may be and to
limits the action OF members In con-
nection with postofiices and the de-
tails OF other executive matters, and
that the severance of members from
work of that character would augment
the efficiency of the House of Repre-
sentatives.
In conclusion the committee would
direct attention to the fact that this
inquiry has come upon the House sud
denly and without any notice to Its
members. Their correspondence has
been brought to the light with that
department OF the government with
which their relations are most inti-
mate. In no instance is 1t likely that
they expected the letters which they
wrote would be published. These let
tiers were written under great va
riety of circumstances. In haste, and
some doubtless by the private secre-
tary OF member; some OF them for
NAL and some OF personal nature.
1T Is to the credit of the member
ship OF the House that correspondence
of this character thus collected to-
gether should contain so little OF an
nnfavorable character. Undoubtedly
there are letters which were careless
ly written. The action In some cases
was not well considered. The state
ments found In some Instances In
some letters from the executive Office.
that what was done as a favor to the
members might well have been re-
scented. But there is nothing in any
OF the cases considered that reflects
upon the integrity OF the membership
OF the House of Representatives"
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-04-21
Worlds Fair Nearly Ready.

Denver. April &c. w. Anderson.
city passenger agent Of the Burlington.
is back from q trip to st. Louis, where
he inspected the Worlds Fair grounds
Il was greatly surprised at the facili-
ties for getting out to the fair grounds
from the Union depot" said Mr.. An
derson yesterday. THE railroads have
made arrangements for handling S0,-
900 an hour one way over the roads
running to the grounds. There is
charge of 10 cents trip over the road.
The time for trains will be fifteen min
utes. Denver people can easily keep
on the straight course to the Exposi-
tion grounds by remembering that all
street cars running to the left as you
come out of the main entrance of the
Union depot will take them to the Ex-
position. The street cars consume
about thirty minutes In making the
one-way trip. They make charge OF
cents The Union depot is centrally
located and the means of getting from
there to the fair grounds are excellent.
There is a Colorado man there as
director of exhibits. He is F. ]. v.
Skiff, and he informed me that all the
rubbish now on the Exposition grounds
could be removed in three hours. The
water has been let into the lagoons and
all the exhibits that are OF charac-
ter requiring them to be erected and
installed before the opening of the fair
are now in place. l feel sure that the
fair will open in first-class shape. The
government will make exhibits there
and, of course, they will be ready on
time and the other exhibits are as ful-
ly advanced as those of Uncle Sam.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-04-21
FiIipinos Comma.

Washington. April 16.-Arthur Fer
guson of this city. secretary OF the
Philippine Commission, sailed yester-
day from Yokohama In charge of par
ty of fifty of the most prominent ma
tives of the islands. for San Francisco.
The party is sent TO the United States
at the expense of the Philippine gov
ernment. the purpose being to AFFORD
these men of influence an opportunity
to study American institutions and
methods, SO that they may impress
their fellow countrymen upon their re-
ization.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-04-21
PLEADED GUILTY
eALssAlrH TO BE TRIED IN JUNE
Murderer Faces a Great Crowd In the
Court Room at Central City and
confesses That He Killed His Wife
and Son.

and Son.
Denver. April ia Central City
dispatch last night says: His features
quivering and his knees shaking Wis
IDLY, Axel ID. Galbraith was led into
the court room to-day in the presence
of fully 500 persons. men and women.
who had gathered to witness proceed
ings at the preliminary hearing. The
hearing lasted Just ten minutes and at
the end Magistrate Thomas Hooper
bound the murderer over to the Grim
inal Court without bonds. The quiet
demeanor OF the large crowd was very
marked. It is now thought by those in
charge OF Galbraith that he is anxious
to escape the full penalty OF his
crimes.
As Galbrnith entered the court
room at II 80 O'Clock he cast one hur-
ried glance about the room and saw
the faces of those he had known for
years looking at him with open hatred.
He then sat down with his back to the
spectators and in voice so low as to
he hardly audible. he answered the
questions addressed to him by Deputy
District Attorney T. @. Miles.
Two separate charges OF wilfully.
unlawfully and with malice afore-
thought numbering his wife and young
son were addressed to Galbraith and
he was told to answer guilty or not
guilty.
For a full minute after the first
charge the murderer stood in perfect
silence. then he said; ITO the best OF
my knowledge and belief am guilty
of the charge" The charge was that
of numbering his son. Azel Donald.
The next charge was that OF the
murder OF his wife, Jennie Lamb Gal
braith The answer came quickly. tho
prisoner answering that he desired to
answer that charge in the same terms
as the first
Deputy Miles then went to where
District Attorney Thurman was sitting
and they held a short conference. at
the end OF which the deputy asked
Galbraith to plead specifically. guilty
or not guilty.
AS far as | can recollect am guilty
of both charges" answered Galbraith.
The names of the witnesses were then
read off and Galbraith was hurriedly
removed by n side door to his cell by
Sheriff Cody and Deputy Sheriff Matt
/ Ryan.
So intense was the interest centered
on the preliminary hearing and curl
osity to see the prisoner was SO great
that many of the stores here were
closed. The disappointment at the
non-appearance OF Mrs. Lottie Russell
was marked. She has excited great
curiosity in the minds OF Galbraith' q
former acquaintances and they regard
her to n large extent as the cause OF
| his downfall.
After the names OF the witnesses
who will appear at the coming trial
had been read. their presence noted
and the court had stated that II would
be unnecessary to place any OF them
unaer bonds. Magistrate Hooper called
upon the murderer to stand up. Gal
braith did SO. his agitation as marked
as before, and was told that as he had
pleaded guilty he would be held
without bonds until his trial should
come up in the Criminal Court nexi
June.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-04-21

Immediately after the passage of the.
canal bill in the Senate the supdry
civil appropriation bill was taken up,
and the reading OF amendments begun
There was no debate until the amend
ments authorizing the secretary OF the
interior to appoint agents for the pro-
lection Of public timber. without re-
gard TO party afiiliation." was reported
Mr. German made an inquiry regard
ing the civil service feature OF the pro-
vision, whereupon Mr.. Bailey made an
attack on practices under the civil SER
vice law. He spoke OF the civil service
requirement as a "dream-an rides
cent Dream and added the conviction
that "the present President has sus-
pended the civil service law in order
to make political appointments more
times than all of his predecessors. -
He then announced himself n spoils-
man and said that he delighted In it,
adding that he never had been able
to attain the intellectual enthusiasm OF
those who would entirely disassociata
an applicant for Office from political
conviction. Il believe" he said fiat
ly, that to the victor the spoils be-
long. and II had my way under Re
publican administration would not all
low a Democratic endorsement to be
filed. nor would | as n Democrat per-
nit the filing OF Republican endorse
ment under Democratic administra-
ton" He added that he would ask
no favors OF political enemies and said
that II such favors were granted he
would not think much OF those who.
granted them. as he would know that
they would expect favors In return.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-04-21
Race Trouble Ended.

Kansas City. April 19.-Race feeling
at Kansas City. Kansas. has apparent
ly died out. When the high school
opened yesterday a squad OF police
men were drawn up in line at the main
entrance to see that the eighty col
ored pupils were not molested by the
200 whites. Boys and girls OF both
races took their accustomed places
and no sign of friction was displayed.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-04-21
PARKER WINNER
GETS NEW YORK DELEGATION
Hill Heads the List of Delegates, Who
Are instructed to Support Judge
Alton 3. Parker for President at
the Democratic National conven-
finr

Alton 3. Parker for President at
the Democratic National conven-
tion.
Albany. N. Y. April 19.-In the Dem
ocratic state convention yesterday the
delegates to the national convention
were instructed. by vote OF 301 to
149. for Alton B. Parker as the states
candidate for President.
Tammany was not treated as badly
as had been predicted, being allowed
TO name delegate at large. Mr.. Ehr-
ct, and an alternate. and one of the
two electors at large. Harry Payne
, Whitney. the other being John T.
Woodford.
The platform adopted is brief. and IN
addition to instructing for Parker,
compels the delegation to vote as a
unit.
The convention selected the follow
ing delegates at large:
David B. Hill of Albany. Edward
Murphy Jr. Of Troy. George Ehret Of
New York City. and James w. Ridge
way of Brooklyn. AS alternates 1t Sc
lected C. N. Bulger OF Oswego, w.
Carey l.. Ely OF Buffalo. c. H. Ack-
erman OF Broome and Francis Burton
Harrison of New York.
Among the district presidential
electors are Isidor Straus. Robert B.
Roosevelt. Hugh j. Grant, Herman
Ridder and John D. Crimmins.
The list of district delegates to the
national convention include the fol
lowing: Perry Belmont, P. H McCar-
rem. Martin w. tittleton, Controller
Edward NJ. Grout, James Shevlin, Con-
O.Nlv I .axxssGf
S. Coler. William McAdoo. w. Bourke
Cochran. Robert A. Van Wyck. Charles
F. Murphy. Franklin Bartlett. Charles
A. Towne, Thomas F. Grady. Harry
Payne Whitney. Jefferson NJ. Levy,
Charles w. Dayton. Asa Bird Gardi-
ner, Elliott F. Danforth. George Raines
and John b. Stanchfeld.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-04-21
Majority for Roosevelt.

Chicago. April 17.--Seven states
held their Republican conventions dur
ing the past week and elected dele
gates to the national conventions.
While some of the states did not in
struct for President Roosevelt. his
administration was indorsed.
The result. to date, Is as follows:
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-04-21
Decrease in smaII-Pox.

DR.. Claude E. Cooper. secretary of
the State Board of Health. believes
that smallpox will be entirely
stamped out in Colorado within a few
years, owing TO the care that is now
being exercised in vaccination. The
decrease Of cases of smallpox during
the past six months in the state, as
compared with a, similar period year
ago, has been fully 500. Typhoid
fever was very light during the same
period of time in all parts of the
state except Leadville. which suffered
an epidemic of the disease as the re-
suit OF bad sanitary conditions. which
have since been remedied. The fol
lowing report was submitted by DR..
Cooper ut the semi-annual meeting of
the Board. held April l1th:
Scar Ty-
Diph- let Smal-phoid
therin Fever box Fever
SeSober ,sSs .e date a s5s ss ,Ss s III isii
The totals for the biennial period.
1902-1903, follow:
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
POLITICAL
Afraid of the Issue.


The Republican party has made the
United States of America so prosper
Gus by means of a protective tariff
that the Democrats have been unable
to make an anti-tariff fight in the pres
ent campaign. The tariff has furnished
the necessary revenue for all the ex-
penses of the government and has SO
protected the American market that all
american industries have prospered as
never before in the history of the Re
public. Starting on home prosperity
the American manufacturer has been
able to conquer markets IN other
worlds regardless of tariffs, which
they may have imposed. Such a con-
quering has aroused the whole world
to the dangers Of what it calls the
American peril" The American peril
referred to is the much feared Ameri-
can competition. The Democratic par
ty knows these things and appreciates
them. And the Democratic party has
been unable to make any Roadway in
attacking the great principles Of the
protective tariff. A few Republicans
in Massachusetts and Iowa are the
only people who are dissatisfied with
present condit1 ms. Other people be-
lieve in standing pat. Other people do
not believe that the American protec-
tive system can be maintained with
free raw materials and manufactured
products. So soon as the producer Of
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
Scarcity of Heroes.

In addressing the class Of cadets
which recently was graduated from
the Military Academy at West Point,
General James r. Carnahan, Of In
dianapolis, a member of the Board of
Visitors, tried to impress upon the
graduates that they were not heroes.
In all the worlds history" he said,
there have been only two or three
heroes, but there have been a great
many good soldiers. Now that you are
entering the army, you can take to
heart the spirit of this little incident
Of the Santiago campaign, when war
correspondents were making heroes az
fast as they could write.
ut was the afternoon Of battle,
and a young woman came upon SOL
der who was returning to camp badly
wounded.
".Are you one of the heroes?" she
asked.
Lord, no, miss. I'm no hero-just
one Of the Sixth Regulars"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

semble. The bucks go out and hunt
until they have killed enough game
for feast. The roasting ears are
pulled and prepared and eating and
dancing begins.
The fish killing is still in vogue, and
Indians are now enjoying it to the ut
most. They assemble for a killing as
at a stomp and the basis Of this frolic
is also feast They dig devils shoe
strings" bruise the roots and place it
in the upper end of a deep hole Of
water. 1t has a curious effect on the
fish. They are apparently put in a
stupor. They feat to the top Of the
water and then the Indian kills them
with bow and arrow. The rest Of the
fish killing is like the stomp, usually
ending with ball game and feast
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
Political Potpourri.

When election day comes around the
Democratic party will still be reorgan-
izing.
Senator Fairbanks is skipping about
the country in way quite disheart-
ening to Grandpa Davis.
The Democratic campaign textbook
is not likely to be In such demand as
If it were not an ''expurgated edition"
Bourke Cochran insists that the
times are out of tune. Maybe that is
the reason why there are so few CAM
paign songs this year.
The Republican national platform
may contain a few errors, but 1t can
be said Of it with degree Of pride
that it was not edited by Western
Union telegraph wire.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
FARMERS TO DROP THE BEET.
Colorado Sugar Manufacturers Will
Buy Land and Raise Own Supply.

Colorado Sugar Manufacturers Will
Buy Land and Raise Own Supply.
There is wise whisper in northern
Colorado of an approaching revolution
airy change in the methods Of the great
beet sugar industry.
1t is now said that the northern
Colorado farmer is neither an enthus-
last in the culture of the sugar beet
itself nor firm believer in the justice
Of prices, weights and measures melted
out to him at sugar factory doors.
On the other hand, it is reported that
the sugar factory managers are not in
love with the present system of con-
tract sugar beet cultivation.
The farmers and the factory have
developed a mutual antagonism, the
farmer saying that he can get better
returns from his land in other crops,
while the factory owners claim that
they have already reached, If not
actually overstepped, the margin of
profits In the present prices paid and
methods pursued.
The northern Colorado farmer has
already practically refused to raise
sugar beets, while the northern Col
orado sugar beet factories are pre-
pairing to meet the conditions which
confront them by the outright purchase
Of sufficient lands to supply each fac
tory with beets. BY this combination
of factory and farm, the factory people
claim that they can reduce their pres
ent beet growing expenses at least
one-half, and can produce much high
er saccbarine beet average than can
be grown under the farmer contract
system.
The land purchases can be made at
from $50 to 500 an acre, with the
cheaper and more distant lands prefer
red. These outlying and therefore
cheaper lands are to be reached by
electric line. A significant pointer in
this general direction is found in the
recent statement Of well-posted and
observant northern Colorado business
man: Every beet sugar factory in
northern Colorado will be compelled to
close down within three years If they
do not buy and farm their own sugar
beet land"
The next move of the manufacture
ers. it is said, will be a gigantic beet
sugar manufacturing trust, which will
speedily add to the six northern Col
orado factories all the other sugar
manufacturing plants of the State, and
eventually form a combination Of west.
ern American beet sugar factories
Detroit Post.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
Aphorisms of Roosevelt.

In our country, with its many sided
hurrying, practical life, the place for
clustered virtue is far smaller than is
the place for that essential manliness
which, without losing its fine and
lofty side, can yet hold its own in the
rough struggle with the forces of the
world round about us.
The man or woman who, as bread
winner and home-maker, or as wife
and mother, has done all that he or
she can do, patiently and uncomplain-
ingly, is to be honored; and is to be
enyied by all those who have never
had the good fortune to feel the need
and duty of doing such work.
1t is a base and an Infamous thing
for the man Of means to act in a spirit
Of arrogant and brutal disregard Of
right toward his fellow who has less
means; and it is no less infamous, 70
less base, to act in spirit of rancor,
envy and hatred against the man of
greater means, merely because of his
greater means.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

when good times returned Kansas 1t In all cases
unsafe and In many impossible, erect buildings
them Only small portions of the material they contained
could be utilized in the construction of other foundations
Not unlike the fate which these abandoned foundations
Suffered is that which the educations which
many men acquire in the schools Schools and colleges
lay but the foundation education They may lay it
broad and deep but If supersrucure is later erected
over 1t the foundation will quickly fall to pieces Asso
ciaon the mortar that binds the bricks and stones Of the
mind together will be washed away in time Ideas, which
the minds bricks and stones will crumbe and fall
apart foundation without superstructure is worth
less 1t has adaptation environment Nature will
not let 1t long exist There thousands of and
women who have smaller total of knowledge and
reasoning power at 81 40 than they had when they threw
aside their school text books They have erected for them
selves intellectual persucture their intellectual
foundation being otected has fallen into decay-Oh
cago Tribune.