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Gilpin observer., 1904-11-24
LLEWELLYN IN DENVER.
Illinois Convict Identified as Murderer
Of Denver Policemen.

Denver, Nov. 22.-In cell No. 2, the
strongest in the city Jail, the Illinois
convict, John Mahran, identified as
Wellington C. Llewellyn. awaits trial
on the charge of numbering Policemen
Thomas Clifford and William Grifiiths
in this city ON the night of August 13;
1899. Mahran's Identification was
secured solely through the personal
efforts of Chief Of Police Delaney, who
stated last night that there was no
doubt In his mind that he was Llewel-
lyn.
The prisoner was brought to this
city from the Illinois State Penitenti.
ary at Joliet by Chief Delaney and
Detective George Sanders. They ar
rived at 10 o'clock over the Union Pa
cific and the man was taken to the
jail in a hack. No one was allowed to
converse with him during the night.
To the detectives who accompanied
him from the depot to the jail he was
uncommunicative.
"Send me anywhere but to Denver"
he is alleged to have said to tAe ILL
nois state pardons board which pa
rolled him In order that he might
stand trial for the double murder in
Denver. When told that he was to
be taken to Denver 1t is said he began
to tremble and In a voice shaking
with fear he is said to have begged
not to be brought to this city. Rather
than come to Denver. he stated, he
would be willing to return tc the JEFF
fersonville prison In Indiana to serve
out long balance Of fourteen-year
sentence for murder. He was pa.
rolled from that penitentiary. although
he IL alleged to have once kaocked
down guard while there.
Mahran has steadfastly refused to
talk on the murder here. In speaking
Of him last night, Cher Of Police De-
laney said:
II told him that without any per-
sonal feeling against him I believed
from all the evidence in my possession
that he was wellington c. Llewe.lyn,
the murderer. He didn't say he was
not and he looked me straight in the
eye"
Gilpin observer., 1904-11-24
Missouri BUILDING Burned.

st. Louis. Nov. 20.-The Missouri
state building was destroyed by fire
last night, resulting from the explosion
Of a heater in the basement. Instantly
the flames shot up through the no
tunda and the north wing and cupola
were O mass Of flames within ten min
utes after the explosion.
The principal loss IL In the contents
Of the building. The building cost
3145,000 and in It were $4,000 worth
Of furnishings, the most valuable Of
these being portraits Of all former
Missouri governors and supreme
Judges. These cannot be replaced. One
fireman was killed. and another badly
injured In going 70 the flre.
Gilpin observer., 1904-11-24
Mead VIII Testify.

Washington, d. c.. Nov. 1s.-In com.
pliance with the request OF Assistant
Attorney General Campbell Of the In.
terror Department, Secretary Wilson
to-day designated Professor Elwood
Mead, chief Of the irrigation and drain.
age Investigations OF the Department
Of Agriculture. to give expert testi.
mony for the government in the three
cornered legal contest between Kan
sas. Colorado and the general govern.
ment for the control Of the waters OF
the Arkansas river for irrigation pur
poseA
Gilpin observer., 1904-11-24
Shot on Railway Train.

Denver, Nov. 21.-The honeymoon OF
Roderick Reid Of Denver and his bride
Of three days was brought to a sad ter
mination near Delta at o'clock yes.
terday afternoon. A bullet from rifle
in the hands Of a careless boy was
fired into the coach in which the cou-
pie were riding. The ball struck Mr..
Reid In the temple and he now lies at
the hospital at Grand Junction in q
dangerous condition. George Yates.
the boy who is said to have dred the
shot. is in the custody Of the authori.
tics at Delta and search IL being
made for his two companions.
Roderick Reid 10 chief clerk in the
auditing department Of the Colorado
Telephone Company. His wife was
Miss Grace Schroeder. who was en-
ployed as stenographer with the same
company. The couple were married
last Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Reid was aboard a westbound
passenger train when the shot was
fred. They had left the day after the
ceremony was performed and were en-
route west. The train departed from
Delta and was three miles out Of the
city. The rife, OF .22 caliber, was
fired point-blank into the window of
the coach.
AS soon Is It was discovered what
had happened, tho train was stopped
and the conductor gave orders to re-
turn to Delta. Mr.. Reid was tempo
rarily cared for and later he was re-
moved to the hospital. His condition
Is considered critical. Mrs. Reid is
prostrated with grief.
There was but one shot fred.
Whether the shot was accidental or
prompted by spirit of deviltry is not
known. George Yates is confined In
the Jail at Delta. He gave the name
of one Of his comrades as Joseph OBJ
gerfell. There were three In the party.
The name Of the third youth is un-
known.
Gilpin observer., 1904-11-24
CHICAGO SUBWAY
VAST UNDERGROUND SCHEME
viii Transfer all Freight Under the
streets-starts with Fifty Mil
lions Of Capital.

StTeets-Starts with Fifty Mil
lions Of Capital.
Chicago, Nov. 22.-The Chicago Sub
way company, with capital stock OF
$50. 100000, and composed of men who
represent ninety per cent. of the rail-
roads having Chicago terminals, was
organized to-day and took over the
$3o,000,000 capital here which has
built fifteen miles of freight tunnels
under the city streets. Y
The vast tonnage Of the railroads
represented by the financiers In the
new corporation will be converted into
the companys tunnels. which are al
ready under every street OF the busi-
ness district.
Apparently in connection with the
mammoth deal, Sir Ernest Cassell.
financial adviser of the King of Eng
land, was in Chicago to-day with Ja-
com Schiff, head of the international
banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,
which Is heavily interested.
Men who will enter the directory
Of the new corporation are Edward H.
Hartman, the principal factor in the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific;
James Stillman, president of the Ma
tional City Bank of New York and a
factor in the control of large num-
ber of great eastern and western rail-
ways, notably the Chicago & North
western and the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul; Jacob Schiff. a member
of the Wall street firm of Kuhn, Loeb
& Co.. and a big factor in the Penn
sylvania system.
The deal is declared to mean the i'm
mediate diversion of traffic and freight
from the streets to the tunnels; the
transferring of all newspapers for out
of-town circulation to the early trains
through the tunnels; for transferring
Of mail between the main postoffice
and the railroad stations and between
the stations; it provides a means for
the transportation Of freight and Of
handling it expeditiously without COM
pelling the railroads to absorb high
priced property in the center of the
city for freight purposes, and freight
yards can be moved out ten or fifteen
miles and the freight transferred. The
trains will run into the passenger sta
tionB with electric locomotives and
do away with over eighty per cent. Of
all smoke in the heart of the city.
Gilpin observer., 1904-11-24

Cardinal Mocenni. who. beside Mgr.
Merry del Val. is the only cardinal liv.
ing at the Vatican. and who. under Leo
XII. was administrator of the apostolic
palace, is suffering from creeping par
alysis. It Is feared he cannot live
long.
Gilpin observer., 1904-11-24
oXama Adxanelns.

st. Petersburg. Noy. 21.-Ths jap
anese around Man no are carefully
feeling their way forward. They are
pushing up reinforcement at Yinkn.
There Is every indication that vIe19
Marshal Oyama II gradually develoD-
ing q big forward movement v1tA ~
object Of occupying Hukdea.
Gilpin observer., 1904-11-24

Grain.
Wheat, choice milling, per 100 lbs,
$1.G5. Rye. Colorado. bulk. 100 lbs,
90c. Oats, bulk. Nebraska, new, white
s1.04; mixed. s1.O0; in sack. Colorado,
white, $1.0S; corn in bulk, S1.O1; corn
chop, sacked, s1.0S; corn and oat chop
sacked. s1.20; bran, Colorado, per 100
lbs. 65c.
Hay.
Upland. per ton. s10.OpGl100: Sec
ond bottom, choice to fancy, s75O@
$50; good to choice, s6.50@7.5O; tim
othy, $l100; timothy and clover,
$1,000; alfalfa, prime. s6.5O@7OO;
straw, s3.504 400; South Park wire
grass, $3.50.
Gilpin observer., 1904-11-24
DENVER MARKETS
Cattle.

Comparative Receipts
Month TO November 18th ...... 1882
same period last year ........, 1858
.noo ''''..... .......... 3,3l9
Year TO date 233.G68
same period last year ....... .265, ,437
Decrease % 36a
The Following quotations represent
the range of prices paid on this mar
ket:
Beef steers, choice grassers 3.50@4.00
Beef steers. medium to good
grassers 2.75@3.5O
Cows and heifers. choice
grassers .....,.......... 2.7503.35
Cows and heifers, medium to
good grassers ..........2 2.4o@2.sO
caves, veal, choice ...... .3.75@4.50
Bulls, stays, etc ......... 1.50@2.25
Feeders, 500 to 1,10O lbs,
good to choice, F. P. R. :, 3.O0@3.G5
Feeders, 800 to 900 lbs, COM
mon to fair, F.. P. r.. 2.5O03.OO
Stockers, choice, F. p. r.. 3.OOm3.6O
Stockers, fair to good. .2.40Q3.00
Hogs.
Comparative receipts
Month to November 18th -. 7,i43
Same period last year ........ 7,487
Increase .................. 256
Year to date .142,192
Same period last year ..... .125,76
increase ..-............... 16,427
The following quotations represent
the prices paid ON this market:
Choice heavy ............ $4.65@4.i
Light and mixed packers. 4.60@4.7O
Sheep.
Comparative receipts
Month to November IS .113,260
Same period last year ........ 58,653
iuCiSdoc o4,0UI
Year to date .41S,422
Same period last year .3S1 ,735
increase ....-. ............ 3O,6SI
The following quotations represent
the prices paid on this market for fat
sheep:
WetAers. muttons s3.OO@3.s5
Ewes. muttons ............ 2.75@3.50
Yearlings ................. 3.25@4.0O
Lambs y.................. 4.50@5.0O
Feeder wethers, F. P. r.. 3.00@3.5O
Feeder lambs ............. 3.50@4.5O
Gilpin observer., 1904-11-24
Butter.

Eggs. fresh. ranch. loss on.
Eggs. fresh. case count -.
Eggs, state. loss off ........
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sHoRTENs TIME TO DENVER.
Chicago to Denver in 20 Hours on the
Milwaukee & St. Paul.


Chicago, July 11.-Yesterday the Mil
waukee and St. Paul road put into eff
feet new time schedule under which
the time of its overland limited service
between Chicago and Denver is mater
tally shortened. The run from Chicago
to Denver is cut. from twenty-eight
hours and forty-five minutes to TWEEN
ty-sfx hours. AS the distance is 1000
miles the entire distance will be ira
versed at the rate of forty miles an
hour. East bound, the present time
will be cut three hours. AS an evil
dence of the improvement in traffic
conditions which has taken place since
the beginning of June, it may be stated
that the sales of tickets on this road at
St. Paul for that month broke all prev
ious~ records. Officials OF the road say
that prospects are steadily and contin-
ually Frightening.
Important changes were made by the
Chicago and Northwestern and Union
Pacific roads beginning yesterday in the
time of their Colorado special train
This train, which mas been leaving Chi
cago at 1915 a. M, will, on and after
the date named, leave at Z p. M, and
will reach Denver at p. m the next
day. The train will run through solid
between Chicago and Denver and will
be made up of buffet smoking and
library cars, Pullman standard draw
ing room sleeping cars and free reclin-
ing chair cars. Connection will be made
with all lines from the east and south
east. A second train for Colorado points
will leave on the Northwestern at IL
p. m. and will reach Denver early on
the second morning. Under the new
schedules the time between Chicago
and Portland, Oregon, for the Chicago
Portland special is shortened, and that
train will hereafter leave Chicago at IL
D. m. instead of 1920 p. m. Trains
Nos. 16 and 25 under the new schedules
will run between Chicago and Tama
only. instead of between Chicago and
Omaha.
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of the legislature as q Union Conserva-
! tive, and took a leading part in its de-
| alterations. Two years later he was
chosen state senator as a Democrat.
| In 1871 he was elected United States
senator from West Virginia, as a. Dem
ocrat, succeeding w. T. Wiley. He
received almost the unanimous vote of
the legislature, even Republicans vot-
ing for him. Six years later he was
reelected, and during two years of that
in control of the senate, he held the
committee on appropriations. He was,
in fact, one of the leaders of the senate.
At the expiration of his second term he
declined to become a, candidate for re-
election, fearing that by longer service
in the senate he would jeopardize his
business interests in the state by rea-
son of his inability to devote his en-
tire time and attention to them. By
retiring from office Senator Davis did
not cease his interest in political affairs;
he continued to take an active part
both in state and national politics, and
his opinions and judgment carried
great weight in the councils OF his
party.
In the Democratic national convention
of 1884 Senator Davis was one of the fore
most candidates for vice president and
doubtless could have had the nomination
had he consented to accept it, 1t was be-
lieved that the late Thomas A. Hendricks,
who had been a candidate for president,
would not accept the nomination for vice
president, and that it would go to Sena-
tor Davis Senator Davis refused, how
ever, to allow his name to be considered
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A Case of Conscience.

you see, dot new clerk WAS recon-
mended to me ash sharp feller, said
the dealer in secondhand clothing,
"und so 1 takes a SO coat out of stock
und slips oafer to my friend Schmidt
und asks him to send his boy to der
store NIT it. Der boy goes along init a
pitiful face and asks how much?"
Two dollar says my new clerk.
But it vhas new coat and belongs
to my ladder
Where vhas your fadder?"
He goes by states prison for fife
years
Den I don't pay $3.50 for dot coat
q For why?
Because of your ladders feelings.
Suppose der governor come to visit
dot prison some day und hat dis coat
on his back? Shust see your ladders
feelings When dey shake hands together
und Vhas like old frendts.'
But won't fadder feel shust ash
bad for $3.50 ash for S2?' asks der boy.
He may, my son. says der new
clerk, but get rs per cent off my
conscience by changing der buttons
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and threw his strength to Mr.. Hendricks,
who was nominated on the ticket with
Cleveland, and elected. Senator. Davis
was called into consultation with the
Democratic president-elect upon the mat
ter of the selection of members of his
cabinet, and had the treasury portfolio
gone to any other than New York man
Senator Davis would undoubtedly have
filed that important position.
Not long ago he rode 40 miles on horse
back in one day along the line of rail-
road he was building from his home town
of Ellzins to Charleston, a distance of
nearly 200 miles, and he felt the effects
of the long journey in the saddle no
more than would a cowboy upon west
ern cattle ranch.
In 1888 Senator Davis was urged to ac-
cepr the nomination for governor, but
declined. In the matter of attending
Democratic national convention, it is said
that his record exceeds that of any other
Democrat in the country. He has been a
delegate to six national conventions of his
party, and again this year heads the
West Virginia delegation to the st. Louis
convention, making in all seven national
delegations of which he will have been
a member.
Henry G. Davis. although 81 years old;
is active and to the person meeting and
conversing with him, he does not appear
to be more than 50 years of age. In fact,
he is more active than the average mar
of 60: his health is excellent, his consti-
tuition strong, his mind alert.
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RAILROAD NEWS.
Decision in Northern Securities
Case Expected Soon.
Believed That 1t Is known
What Decision Will Be.
THE STOCK HAS RISEN.
Santa Fe Agent at Oklahoma
City Is Arrested.
THE STOCK HAS RISEN.
Appointments and Promotions
I'm Railway Circles.

What is regarded as very significant
action has been taken in connection
with the annual meeting of the
Northern Pacific road The meeting
should have been held last October,
but on account of the suit of E H.
Hartman to restrain the cancellation
of the Northern Securities stock and
the exchange of Northern Pacific and
Great Northern for it, it had been adj
3ourned from time to time since, sew
eraI months usually elapsing be-
tween the dates of the different ad-
tournaments Last week the meeting
was again adjourned, but only for one
week. This is taken as a confirma-
ton of the reports that have been in
circulation for some days past that
the decision in the United States cir
cult court at Trenton, N. J., in the
within a week.
There has been a sharp rise in the
market price of Northern Securities
stock and 1t is intimated that the rea-
son for this rise is that some people
have inside information of when the
decision will be rendered and what it
will be. The fact that the stock has
risen is taken as meaning that the
outstanding temporary injunction will
be dissolved and that the stock will
be disposed of as originally planned.
The question arises, however, whether
an appeal from the decision dissolv-
ing the injunction would not act as a
stay of the distribution of Northern
Pacific and Great Northern stock as
planned If it should, it would result
in continuance of the present condi-
ton of affairs indefinitely.
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WILL PIPE MUSIC.
Company Proposes to Supply 1t to
Families Like Water or Gas.

To supply music like gas or water
is the project of the Cahill Telhar-
monte company. ThaddeuS Cah1II is
the inventor of the system, and va
rious wealthy Baltimore men are SAID
to be furnishing money to carry 1t out.
President Todd, in speaking of the
invention and plans of the company
said:
'sThe general plan is to, establish
a central station in every large city.
The first one will be in Boston, and
this will be followed in New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington
and other large cities.
There will be no such thing as PAD
music when the utility of the machine
is fully employed. At the central
station the best artists only will be
employed, and the music VIII pc va
ried from Wagner to rag-time, to suit
the tastes and whin1s of the public
1.-The machine is operated by max
ing and breaking electric circuits
Nothing is heard from the machine
when this is done. as the music is
brought out by the translating device
The machine originates the music.
The translating device may be an or
namental piece of any appearance.
ITO meet the desires of those who
may want to study the personnel of
the artist or artists, the generating
station will be a public hall, with
translating devices. The music will
be supplied by measured service.
''It is planned to have six classes of
selections. All will be sent out over
a pair of wires. The subscriber who
gets this service will receive all the
music.
Another method will be to have
six wires, so that the subscribers to
this may select just what they want
to hear. and still another will serve
theaters and halls, giving full or
chestral effects. For the first, the
rate will be at the start $50 a year.
The second will be about 500 a year,
and the third will be much more ex-
pensive, as it will displace an entire
orchestra.
There will be a device for raising
or lowering the volume of sound, SO
that it can be heard only a few feet
or will fill a whole building. For pub
lie Fairgrounds, hospitals, factories,
hotels, restaurants, as well as for
homes even of the poorer classes, the
worlds best music, by the greatest
musicians, will be within the reach of
all.
at is contemplated even to have
slumber music, so that the sufferer
from insomnia may be lulled to
sleep. Any one who can afford to rent
or own a piano or organ can afford
this service. It can be transmitted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-11
READING ROOM FOR EMPLOYEES.
Santa Fe Spending $4,000 to Equip
Reading Room at Chanute.

Chanute. Kan. July 1.-THE work of
converting the building at the corner
of Third and Grant, formerly occupied
Dy the division officials of the Santa
Re railway, into a reading room for the
benefit of railway employees, will be
completed as soon as the plumbers have
finished piping the structure for water
and gas The reading room will be for
mally opened when all furnished and
equipped and the reception which it is
proposed TO hold will doubtless be
largely attended. The exact date of
the opening has not yet been decided
but it will be held some time this
month
The reading room is being installed
OF Berkeley. Cal, superintendent of
reading room for the A. T. & S F.
railway system. Mr.. Busser was here
a short time ago and appointed Peter
Farrell. the veteran Santa Fe employee
TO have charge of the reading room
when it is completed. The selection
is good one Mr.. Farrell is one of
the oldest and best known railroad men
in Chanute. He worked up from the
lower ranks to a conductorship, and
has OF late years been running as an
expressman. He resigned the Bartles-
Vile run to take his new position Mr.
Farrell lives but a block and a half
from the room and will be able to give
IL his entire time and attention.
The rooms have been repapered and
reprinted throughout, and Mr.. Farrell
has received an order placing a squad
of section men under his command to
assist in placing the furniture in place
Some of the furniture and equipment
for the institution have already arriV-
ed. Among the items now at hand are
two billiard tables which are stored in
the freight rooms and will be moved
to the reading room and set up as soon
as possible. The railroad company will
spend $4,000 in furnishing the institu-
ton. There will be a complete library
including all of the standard classics
in literature and the current reading
writing rooms. smoking rooms, bath
rooms, and many other departments. A
slight charge will be made for the use
of the billiard tables and the baths the
sum being so small that it will seem a
mere bagatelle.
1t is the desire of the company to
interest the wives and families of the
employees in the reading room and have
them regard the institution as one
which is intended as much for their
benefit as that of their husbands and
fathers. The building is surrounded by
a spacious lawn where the women folks
may meet to pass a social hour and If
the ladies manifest sufficient interest
it is probable that a sewing room will
be provided for them in the building.
The motto of the Santa Fe is: Give
a man a bath. a book and an enter
tainment that appeals to his mind and
hopes by music and knowledge and you
have enlarged, extended and adorned
his life; and as he becomes more faith
full to himself, he is more valuable to
the company"
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coed the wonderful performance of
1903, but there is every indication
that the year will end WELL and June
reports encourage this belief The
government report on cotton was
thoroughly optimistic.
The earnings of the car building
companies are small only because
they compare with three or four big
years, when they got their own prices
from the railroads. If prices for steel
rails are adjusted fairly there is no
reason why large orders for rails
should not be given for 1905. But
this is matter that depends very
much on price. The situation, on the
whole, is sound. / am a believer in
good times this fall. Operating ex-
penSes of railroads show no reduc-
ton, because wages and the price of
everything disable is practically as
high today as a year ago.