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The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1905-06-21
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
COMMISSIONERS
CLAIMS AUDITED AND ALLOWED
BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
Hamilton, Mont, June S, 1905.

Hamilton, Mont, June 5, 1905.
The board of county commissioners
met in regular session at 9 O'clock a.
m, present Henry Grover, chairman;
J. B. Overturf and Geo. L. Satterlee,
commissioners and Geo. A. Reese,
clerk of the board.
The following claims were examined
and warrants ordered drawn for the
same on the
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1905-06-21
Born.

Reimel-To Mr.. and Mrs. o. J.
Reimel Monday afternoon, a daughter.
Gravelle-To Mr.. and Mrs. John
Gravelle June IA, boy.
Cothrell-To Mr.. aud Mrs. Frank
Cothrell June 10, girl.
Lawrence-To Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Lawrence, Wisdom, June 9, girl.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1905-06-21
International Epworth League Con.
VentlOn.

VCnI1On.
International Epworth League Con-
vention, Denver, COL, July 5 to g.,
1905.
For above occasion will sell round
trip tickets to Denver as follows. via
Billings one way rate plus $500, via
St. Paul one way rate plus $25 on
tickets, via Billings transit limit S
days allowing stopovers inside this
limit. Continuous passage via St.
Paul. Date sale July . to 3, 1905. Co.
ing trip to commence date sale; return
within 80 days from date sale.
S. r. WILSON, Agent.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1905-06-21
More l. ocal Option Cases.

Louis Peterson was tried last Thurs
day in Judge Sedgwick's court at Ste
vensville charged with violating the
local option law. A jury consisting
of James Buck, James Foust, N. P.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1905-06-21
Celebration at Medicine Springs.

The people of the upper valley are
planning to celebrate the glorious
Fourth at Medicine Springs by par
ticipating IN an old fashioned picnic
Appropriate exercises will be held
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04

authority exercised in a lawful man.
ner.
The Panamanian police are under the
orders of the governor of each province.
The police court in Colon is a strange
spectacle for the visitor to see, There
you see the chief of police seated in
the center of the court room; next to
him are his secretary and aids. The
bench is barred by iron bars across the
court room. A cannon in front of the
judges stand commands the respect of
the audience. After the victim is fined
If unable to pay a soldier takes him
or her to the rear to be confined until
friend generally appears to pay the
fine. The offenders are divided in three
elasses-the vagabounds, or tramps,
small offenders, such as drunkards
etc. and the criminals such as EN-
bezzlers, murderers, etc. Before the
jail door sentry with loaded musket
stands watch day and night.
The army of Panama lately has been
dissolved; II is doubtful If there will
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04
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be another revolution, as the United
States has the situation we'll in hand
The military system previous to the
last revolution was very primitive. As
long as a native had a weapon, either
carbine, pistol or machete, he was
full fledged soldier. Each wore diff
ferent clothes and all ages were repre-
sented, from the young bugler ter
years old to the old liberal of seventy
five. They have the reputation of be-
ing good fighters, provided leader is
to be had
Another curious fact is that there are
more Chinese on the isthmus than
whites. All grocery stores and butcher
shops are under their control; they all
have families, unlike in the states, and
lead very moral lives.
Need of Prison Reform
Naturally the progress made at the
isthmus brings down a great many un-
desirable characters, both white and
colored The need of a prison where
criminals under sentence may be con-
fined is evident. The municipal lock-
ups are rude and insecure affairs, and
the system of feeding prisoners is
wholly bad. When an individual is
confined the family and friends of the
person must feed him or he will go
hungry. If there is no one who volun-
teers to supply food the alcade allows
a small pittance with which the prison.
er may buy food, but the amount is
only sufficient to pay for an inadequate
supply of the plainest and cheapest
subsistence. On several occasions the
police have found it necessary to re-
lease persons locked up by the alcalde
who had received no food for two or
three days.
The policy being pursued by the sani-
tary department is to exercise a strict
oversight of the health of all inhabi-
tants of the isthmus. If any one should
be sick or suspected to be sick with
yellow fever such person would be
taken to canal hospital and screened
by wire cloth so that mosquitoes can
not reach the patient. This also ap-
plies to all cases of malaria or the
dreaded chagres fever.
Those who are helpless and without
any means of support as well as those
needing surgical treatment which they
are unable to secure, are cared for in
government hospitals as safety meas
ures to prevent spread of diseases and
as acts of humanity. for the municipali-
ties are unable to care for their own
paupers or sick.
The municipal governments of the
zone are so feeble and the inhabitants
generally so poor that the cost and
of the insane-and there
are about six cases on the isthmus at
almost every instance must
be borne by the United States.
The native Indians always keep 10
themselves. They lead very moral
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04

postmaster general of the United
States announced that the domestic
rate of postage would apply to the
canal zone, which had been brought
into the American system.
Policing the Zone
The zone police consists of about
eighty-five officers and men, at rates of
pay ranging from $1,000 per annum for
the chief officer to $1,000 for the SER
geants, $500 for corporals and $3.50 for
privates; all must furnish their own
subsistence and clothing. The officers
and sergeants are Americans, the 9TH
ers are natives.
The police rules and regulations
contemplate the maintenance of an or
ganization similar to the Philippine
constabulary, the insular police of
Puerto Rico and rural police Of Mexico.
They report directly to the governor
through the chief of police and act un-
der the orders issued by the chief ex-
ecutive. The may ors Of municipalities
may call on the police to support their
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04

lives, raising large families and living
year in and year out in the iungles A
few ponies and cattle comprise their
stock. Their houses are built from
palm leaves. The lower part Of the
house Is always open. doors being un-
known. In the rainy season they
crawl under the roof, as the rain does
not penetrate these palmleaf covered
houses
The land is rich In mahogany, rub
ber, cocoa, tropical fruits and minerals
such as gold and copper. Sulphur has
also been found. Not fifty miles from
Panama the traveller can notice a num-
Der of old Spanish gold mines. aban-
doned by the Spanish hundreds Of
years ago not because of being non-pro-
ductive, but on account Of their fights
with Indians. Holes hewn in solid
rock served them as crude ore crushers.
At present this country is almost un-
developed save the strip of land five
miles wide across the isthmus. Ameri-
cans are now prospecting and flocking
here, not only on account of the canal,
but to make Dame Nature open her
lap and produce treasures only TO be
had with the aid of modern progress,
machinery and business methods.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04
TH5d1MANIAN FRoTEcTIlFG 7{Ty .5oT5[!{- rec
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isthmus pedestrians pass and repass
and ponies may also pick their way
along the cuts and embankments just
outside the track itself, outside the
immediate aggregation of houses there
are no roads and no means of getting
from one town to another save on pony
back along the railway tracks.
There has never been any post offices
in the canal zone proper, Each day
a mail messenger started from Panama
on a morning train from Colon. Each
of these men carried personally such
letters for points along the road as
had been dropped into the Colon and
Panama post offices, At each of these
stations where the train stopped the
messenger left the letters with the
the station agent, if there was one,
or they We're left lying on the plat
form for any one to pick up. Likewise
he received any letters that might be
handed to him, and at the end of the
route he posted what he had received.
He supplied postage stamps to apph-
cants upon payment therefor.
The French canal management also
sent a daily mail carrier from Panama
to Colon and return, who delivered and
received the company's mail.
Such system of mail service would
not, of course, meet the necessities of
the United States. On June 20, 1904, the
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04


dition. The gauge is five feet, which
is wider than the standard now in
vogue in the states. Very few of the
cars are equipped with air brakes. The
telegraph poles are made of iron, old
rails being stood on end to answer the
purpose. The ties are of lignum vitae
wood, which is so hard that a spike
cannot be driven into it. In order
to get the spike in place a hole must
be bored for it.
Railroading in Panama has some
peculiarities Of its own. The conductors
have a freight run one week and
passenger run the next. The crews do
not follow the same conductor as they
do in the United States, those on the
passenger trains remaining on their
regular runs and those on the freights
staying with their cabooses. The crews
are all black except the conductors
and engineers who are Americans. The
railroad certainly does we'll by it's en-
ployes. 1t pays salaries which are
about fifty per cent more than those
paid in the United States. Houses are
furnished free, or at very reasonable
rental, for the married employees, and
single men are given rooms in the COM
pany's hotel, while all may have their
meals at the hotel at nominal charge.
The hotel is surrounded by pretty
grounds which are lighted by elec-
tricity. There is a splendid bathhouse,
to which employees have free access
They are, besides, given two months
vacation at full pay and $40 rate on
the company's steamers to the United
States. There is no night work; none
of the offices are kept open and no
trains are run after six o'clock
Novelty In Equipment
There is only one telegraph station
on the line but all stations have tele-
phones. A decided novelty in railroad
ing has been introduced here by equip.
ping all cabooses and baggage cars
with telephones, so that a train can
stop anywhere along the line and enter
into communication with headquarters
concerning the whereabouts of other
trains This is accomplished by having
a battery in the car with a ground wire
attached to the ironwork of the trucks,
so that the circuit can pass through
the wheels and rails to the ground.
A wire on pole is then attached to
the telegraph wire overhead, connecting
it with the instrument inside the car.
In case of wreck or unexpected delay
between stations these telephones rem
der service superior to the telegraph.
The railroad hauls the freight and
passengers of all countries. 1t is a
common carrier in the fullest sense.
The raw product of the South Amer
lean republics take the short cut across
the isthmus for Europe and North
America. Trains of sugar nuts and
hides going north take the side track
for trains laden with manufactured
articles going southwark on the
wharyes one sees great piles of coffee
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04

in sacks bound for the north, while the
ships that brought it are waiting fos
the railroad to bring them cargoes of
-four, etc. for the return trip.
Freight rates across the isthmus are
very high, the tariff on fifty pound
sack of flour being thirty cents. The
local rates are higher still, the same
charge being made as if II were for the
entire distance. First class passenger
fare up to fifteen years ago was $50
a head across the isthmus; later 1t
was $4 while now it is $2.4O, or six
cents mile. In addition to this pas
sengers must pay three cents pound
on all baggage over thirty pounds car
ried in the hand. 1t costs the average
travel more to get his trunk across
than to have himself transported. Dur
ing last years travel the average
amount paid by a traveller was 80.
About fifteen second class passengers
are hauled for each first class traveller,
the fare being one-half of the first class
rate.
Life In the "Zone"
There are usually two public schools
i'm each town, but they are badly off
for teachers and supplies, while the at
tendance is very poor. Within the
canal zone. outside the village streets.
there is no public highway of any
kind passable for wheeled vehicles. All
along the railway that crosses the
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04

= ~
7 I is said that the building of the
Panama railroad cost human life
for every tie laid on the track from
Colon to Panama. Today, however the
hardships of the early times are for
gotten. An efficient train service takes
the place of the long lines of pack
mules. Comfortable hotels replace the
shanties of half a century ago. Many
factors combine, however, to make life
on the isthmus exceedingly varied and
picturesque.
The railroad was built by New
York company at cost of SS,OOO.OOO.
The equipment of the Panama railroad
Is old fashioned but in excellent con-
-. 81, 1. 4 4. !.
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30
v..., aisss. r,...ss.,ss-

Last Monday. at one day special
session of the district court at which
Judge Northcutt presided. a decree
was entered transferring twenty-five
cubic feet of priority from the Cat
lin to the Jones ditch In the mat
ter Of prioTities on Limestone creek.
the court granted permission to the
petitioners TO introduce further tes-
timony. Court then adjourned.
Attorneys o. G. Hess and Fred A.
Sabin. of La Junta. and CRANKY
Hillyer. of Lamar. were present.
Las Animas Leader.
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30
S,r,hss. ns.s .'usess" asssss-

The striking Santa Fe mschinists
who went out some fourteen months
ago must seem somewhat elated on
being informed that they are to re
eeive an increase in salary from
their reserve fund. and it certainly
goes to show that the order expects
to win out Fourth Vice President
Buckalew informed the members at
a recent meeting at Topeka. that
after September LIST they would re-
ceive an allowance Of S54 q month
for single men. and s72 for men
with families. This will give them
a very good living. and they can
stay away from work until the fund
runs out. or until the differences be-
tween the railroad company and
their order can be adjusted. which
We hope will occur in the near
future. Railroad Bulletin
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30
essa cseastsses aseeese-


From a three-acre patch of cantA-
loupes Emery Kelso has shipped $50
crates SO far this season. For these
he received an average of 1913 or
81. 49,. so. This week he began pick
ing from another two-acre tract.
He also has ten acres Of beets for
which the American Beet Sugar
Company over q month ago offered
him $50 m acre. Mr.. Kelso ex-
poets his beet crop to yield him At
least 500 per acre.-Las Animas
Leader.
Cantaloupe shipments in car lots
are keeping the growers joyful and
happy. Thirty-three cars have been
billed from Lns Animas and Woods
Station One grower has picked
l,5O0 crates. - from three scres
another expects TO reaIise n go.
The average price 80 far Is &s.43 .
crsfe. Bent County Democr.t.
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30

THE county Of Otero is making
quite a reputation for itself in the
production of pinto or Mexican
beans The western part of the
county has a very good crop OF
pintos this season and the harvest
will soon be on. Beans are easily
grown on sandy soil and yield about
as well as anything. The eastern
trade has not yet assimilated itself
to the pinto but it is gradually
growing in favor and the demand is
increasing. .-Field and Farm.
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30


1T would. in our estimation. be a
very good investment for the county
commissioners to invest in a steam
roller for the roads. This can be
used at any time. and there are
many places in the county where.
by the addition Of little crude oil
and the aid Of the roller. the roads
ca be placed in fine condition.
Sufficient money is spent every year
to lay several miles Of good perma-
nent road and this is the way the
money should be expended. Quit
doing it out to this politician and
that one for the sake Of political
preferment in the future. Let the
county commissioners use the county
road fund in the same business-like
manner they would their own money
and the county will soon have good.
permanent roads and the enormous
drain each year can soon be cut to a
minimum. Florence Ex-Parte. The
arguments in the above are good.
apply with equal force in Otero
county. and could be adopted with
profit to the taxpayers.
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30
1.meL.s 1sss st Stses Esss.

You remember those big delicious
pumpkin pies. such as mother used
to make" when you were = boy or
girl at home7 You remember hos
tempting they were and how you
would hang about the kitchen door
for hours till mother. out Of the
goodness of her heart. took pity on
you and gave you one huge portion
Of the pie stsaming hot from the
oven7 And you remember how.
with your newly acquired booty.
you scampered out into the hack
yard. hunted up your playmstes.
and then. perchanee. devoured it
alone while they stood about with
longing eyes.
There are to he hundreds Of Just
such pumpkin pies at the State Fair
this fall. and perhaps you might b.
able to get a position As one Of the
judges in the Pumpkin Pie Contest.
All Colorado matrons. who pride
themselves in making pumpkin pie.
can enter this contest. A prize Of =
complete kitchen cabinet hss bssn
offered by the G. w. Daniels Home
Furnishing Company. Of Pueblo. and
will be awarded to the woman max.
ing the best pumpkin pie.
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30

MASSACHUSETTS Is the home OF
famous universities and other CEN
tiers Of learning and many Aassa-
chusetts people snigger at Colorado
as being merely upon the borderland
of civilization And yet the stats
tics for 1890 show that in Massa-
chusetts, with all its schools and its
eonceits. six per cent of its people of
voting age were illiterates. while in
Colorado but four per cent were
illiterates-
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30
chSaes ~ . lseosims.

The great family journal has =
few copies Of Souvenir of Colo
rado." containing many fine views
of scenes in various parts of this
state. which we will be delighted to
give away. while they last. with
every $l.5O paid on subscription.
The souvenir" is not worth the
price of subscription. but it is worth
having. Come early and avoid the
rush.
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30

Longrnont. which has been a pro
hibition town for ten years. and by
a close margin voted for prohibition
again at the last spring election. has
decided to resume the wet" policy.
II is claimed that under the anti
saloon policy business has grown
more stagnant each year until the
merchants and business men have
grown restless under the restraint.
A delegation Of business men under
took to reason the matter with the
new board with the result that they
finally succeeded in convincing four
of the six aldermen that prohibition
was . failure and that the only way
to keep life in the town w.s to
IeRalize the saloons under . high
license ordinance. An ordinance re-
peaIing the ordinance against the
sale Of intoxicating liquor has al-
ready been placed on its frst reed-
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30

Now while the good roads move
ment is on. and the yellow press is
calling attention to the treatment Of
convicts. why isn't it good time to
agree that the very best and most
humane thing we can do for the
convict is to put him to work max
ing these good roads the public is
crying for? Resolutions and oratory
are all very well. but they don't
build highways.- Manzanola Sun.
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30
conise evGsvs.

August Both to September lst-
Prowers County Fair. Lamar.
September 4th to 7th h-National
G.. A. r. Encampment. Denver.
September 5th To sth-Arkansas
Valley Fair. Rocky Ford.
September 7th-Watermelon Day.
Rocky Ford.
September llth TO 18th Colorado
State Fair, Pueblo.
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30
ooaies - evbssessise.
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CxIrEp Srsr,. L,xp OrYIcr ,rl
PcHaLo. CoLo-, August p Issr,
NOTICE Is HEREBy GIVEN THAI TH.
~ foliowiux na0~f -~stler has flr-i nos,~~ n
his Intention "a wshe final prs-,f in snp,-prs =
his claim, and that sid proof will ~ made ~
fore the cl~rh of the a rirs court =, a limit.
Colorado. 90 S~psentrr ~ INE viz. Ch.ri~s
=. Boyd. VI. =. ti.iss. for the loss and 4.
-,uth half northwest yuar rt~r ~<rs,pu tawn-
ship ~ south. rans- - west
Ne nsme> the following wiss-~--- To- prove
q said Land viz: l~asc n Read. smhrc.e n.
Ed<rfsca- Sylvester Hiil. Frank B. MIL ali n
L. IuBta- Colo~ndo4
=. A. ABBEY Register.
First puhlieat;su. August ~ Ises
Last publication. S-rs~mh.r ~ fAss
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30
SAesRe &ose-

NoTICE Is HERE0f GIVEN THAT By
~ virtue Of writ af eHsrssioa issu-a oat os
the County Cozst Il Osero cpansy. state Of
Calsrssio. 90 sAe Afsssask dsy II An<uss. 80
IL favor Of J. u. hosard ana asainss the xoots
aud chAssei~. iAads ssd tens9ents sf T. j.
Jonss, and Tn dirsrssd. vhee.by q. esa:
nssnsie.s make tAa sun al o5UllS debf- and
the further SUN Of sg1 50 costs and interest On
j1axnens. I have s<isrd ssd tsksa In esecutioa
he solL, sing s~.rritvd real estate sa-vis.
The northeast quarter 81 seesiou ss, to~aship .
a -oufh, ranse y. ssst the southeast quarter
ot sectioa - township "a south rAns- "A,
s--i the ss.shsess 9asrser of ssssaos - soen-
ship n. south rana~ a Uess all IN the coAnfy J
sf 0s~ro, stats OF Colorado. the property of
toe aid T. j. Jeoes. saA sosire y hereAz sises
thai oa Moudsy. the eleventh day of septe@-
t.-s in6 ~ ten o clock in the forcoospo OF said
day at the aofth door Of tbs court ho2-e in the
city Of Ia Juns2- in said oounsy Of Os~ro yill
ell at public suction te The highest bidder,
for cash the above d~-crihv-f real estate. or "A
much ther.-of ~iii satisfy said Judgment.
Interest aud costs
La Jant.. coior~dn. August Eth lAS.
GID. BARR sheriff.
X, C. ID. srs~sKp. Csdersheri6.
First p.biir.tion- August - iAn-
Last pahiscarioa. septeshsr D. 1850
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30

A NEW heat record was made in
La Junta last Sunday. Some Their
mometers indicated AS high as l06.
and still the lid did not come off.
Dad" Stephenson. our local wealth
er observer. who has very conser-
vative thermometer. says the great
est extremity on that day was 90.
which is the highest he has recorded
this year. II it gets any warmer.
however. it may be necessary to call
upon Sherman Bell and his tin
soldiers to hold down the lid.
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30
Ass,,s..,.. ,e lssse ss.,. leads.
otFrck 90 rak >rsrE BosEr
% LAND tossI-~IoxEK-.

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90 LAND rosst-~IoxEK- I
px~yEs, CoLo., August q tssr
NOTICE Il HEREBY GIVEN THAT n "
~ Potter. who's tss-tofiiee Addr~ss i Il
Junis, Colorado, August T. rsn. made sr-
plrsfiou No. ! .ste ta the state B.sara s,f Land
Com i-~teorr~ to lea - the following ds-rrii,-t
school Lands. situate in Otero eoaniy fioiors.
do. tn Wit
Al ~ --ction n. township u south. r.ar- :;
west
No other application TO- l.s~e the st-,,e d..
-erih-rf premises object ien- against th~
shov~ application will h. nsisiqrsSi aftrs
September .. fsss.
NtRk u. WOODRUFF
Register state Bs-~ri Land Cosnrni - iot~rs
First pahiiession- tuxu-t 9. tsr.
Last pu ubiicAsion- August N i.sd
La Junta tribune., 1905-08-30

Why can not Otero county ar
range to take advantage of a recent
ly enacted law which authorizes the
employment of eonvicts on the
county roads? This is the cheapest
way in which good roads can be
maintained, and at the same time an
act Of humanity is done in relieving
prisoners Of demoralizing enforced
idleness. The ownership Of a steam
roller and the employment Of con-
victs would give US a splendid sys-
TEN of roads at minimum Of cost.
Rocky Ford Enterprise.