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La Junta tribune., 1905-09-23
otsse ostes 1se0ssss.

Work is progressing rather slowly
on the Otero ditch reservoir dam in
Chaffee county. The concrete con-
conduit was completed some time
ago. 1000 sacks Of cement being
used in its construction. The con-
duit is fifteen feet from the bottom
of the dam and is 326 feet wide.
The darn proper is 40 feet wide at
the bottom. thirty feet wide at the
top. and ninety feet in height. IL
will be necessary To move 90. 600
feet Of earth by the hydraulic system
To complete the dam. and at the
present time about 2.O0o yards are
being moved every twenty-four
hours. working three shifts of pipe
men eight hours each. Considerable
trouble is being experienced with
huge boulders and it is necessary to
utilize a derrick to get them out Of
the way. The dam is located at a
point 900 feet above sea level. and
as there was three feet of snow on
the site last Monday work will have
to BE- discontinued soon until next
spring 1t is hoped to have the dam
completed and ready for the June
freshets.
At this end Of the Otero work is
being pushed on the extension. fifty
teams having been employed for
several weeks. ard il Is expected
that the extension viii be completed
to the county line inside Of forty
days Three gangs are at present
employed near the Apishapa clean
ing out and widening the ditch.
-Four miles west Of La Junta. under
the Otero. prolific crops are heinx
rzi>ed this year where not even a
spear Of er1s has been able to sur
vfve throughout Tire sezspn for four
years. One farmer under the Orero
VIII re2lize enough this sea=pr to
pay for his farm. all his taxes and
have a balance eft. The Otero
looas hke . sure wirner- Just wait
TIL next year and there win be so,re-
thing dong
La Junta tribune., 1905-09-23
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The annual institute Of the County
Sunday Schools will be held in Ordway
next Tuesday and Wednesday. II is
expected that La Junta will send a
dozen delegates. Rev. J. c. Carman.
state Sunday school superintendent.
will have charge Of the program
which means profitable institute
Next Friday afternoon and even
ing Mr.. Carman will address the
people of La Junta on themes OF
vital interest to church workers.
Hour and place announced in next
Wednesdays TRIBUNE.
La Junta tribune., 1905-09-23
County Court.

The county court is still in session.
but the jury summoned was excused
yesterday morning until Monday.
The case of the City of La Junta
VS.. NJ. Finity was called up Thursday
morning. and Fred A. Sabin an
nounced that the defendant. NJ.
Finity. was ready for trial. City
Attorney Miller asked for a contin-
uance on account of the absence of
material witnesses. This the defend
ants counsel opposed. finally result
ing in the case being continued 70
the December term of the county
court.
The case of the Mayhew House
Furnishing Company vs.. n. A.
Martin. the liveryman of Rocky
Ford. occupied the attention of the
cour, all day Thursday. Fred A.
Sabin was the attorney for the
plaintiff and W. B. Goblin for the
defendant. Martin sold horse to the
MAYHEM House Furnishing Company
in April. 1904. for sl35. After the
horse had been used for l0l days the
plaintiff discovered that the animal
was afflicted with acute rheumatism
of his fore feet. and wanted to re-
consider the deal. Martin objected
and in consequence suit was entered
to recover the amount paid for the
animal. The jury of six good men
and true was out all night and final
~ brought in verdict for the plain
tiff. giving judgement for sl2l as.
The court is still in session a. We
go to press.
La Junta tribune., 1905-09-23
SoMg MORE LOCAL iyEAS
Trade with N. G.. Todd.
TraIa ~ tba palaec nvr,u =

AAob' "fe'' 80 -
Trade at the Palace Drug Store.
r. A. Griffin. painter and paper
hanger. Phone No. ls4 black.
See Wonderly for dry batteries
for gasoline engines. automobiles.
etc.
For SALE Full-blooded Plymouth
Rock cockerels and pullets. T.
Weber. Horse Greek.
Mayhem House Furnishing Co..
undertaking. embalming. Phone.
al2 black. night phone. 462 red.
Gem" -four. best in the market.
Every sack guaranteed or money
refunded. La Junta Milling Co.
FoR RENT Eight room brick
house on Ration avenue. Furnished: Z:
all modern improvements. Inquire
at this Office.
Mrs. +. G. Erickson is visiting rel
atives in various parts Of Iowa.
Ducks are on the fly evidently.
County Clerk Garwood has issued
over fifty hunting licenses during
the pas, week. and there is no let up
on the demand.
+. n. Hubbell. of Denver. travel
ing representative of the Denver
Type Foundry. was in town yester-
day and made the great family jour
nal a professional call.
A grand festival to aid in beauti-
flying the Catholic church and
grounds will take place in Novem-
Der. commencing on the 18th and
continuing nine days
Mr.. and Mrs G.. T. Mattingly. Of
Topeka. Kan. who have been visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. George Spane dur
ing the past week. returned home
Thursday night on No. 2.
The dancing se~~"n Of the Nycta-
ginareae Club viii open on Wednes-
day. September 9th. and be con-
tinued until April. on the second and
fourth Wednesday nights Of each
month. April l1th viii be banquet
night and If the members - desire.
TIE closing dance viii be fancy dress
he exeiusiveness of the club viii be
the same as last year.
G. ". fenlason. Asseseor Of Otero
county. Is in Denver this week. hav-
ine been cited to appear before the
Stsfe Board Of Equalization to ar
swer charges made by the Santa Fe
tfat he had returned only twenty
Eve pr cert If the true valustcs 81
swvsrultural lard IN this county AZ
ter the hearing the bcarr3 derrBed
tllaf the Otero ASse<ment + sbsst
svuionhse. but NJ definite seticn vill
~ tnk<n IN tfe matter until neat
~wA-
La Junta tribune., 1905-09-23
lss vsgss Fair end Festival

Novelty is all We want. Many
persons spend thousands of dollars
every year searching for something
new. Perhaps you're one of those
who desire newness. Take our word
for it: Between September 18th
and 10Th you'll find il near home.
You won't have to spend much
money, nor go very far to see it
either. Go to Las Vegas Fair and
Festival.
One and one-half cents per mile
each way is all it will cost. Just
$3.50 from La Junta to Las Vegas
and return. See Santa Fe agent at
once for full particulars.
La Junta tribune., 1905-09-23
Roy-Abei.

Frank A. Roy and Clara F. Abel
were married Thursday evening at
the residence of Mrs. p +. Bonifas,
Rev. Conrad Bluhm officiating. Mr..
Roy is prominent cattle and real
estate man of New Mexico. where
the couple will be at home to their
many friends October 18th. after a
brief tour of western points.
La Junta tribune., 1905-09-23
wystt- 0snhs.

James E. Wyatt. of Rocky Ford
and Miss Floy Banks. Of Smith
Center. Kan. were married at the
Baptist parsonage by Rev. S. C..
Davis. Thursday forenoon. A party
of half dozen relatives and friends
of the happy couple witnessed the
ceremony. Mr.. and Mrs Wyatt
will make their home in Rocky Ford.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11
COLEMAN RUsHEs TO PRINT.

Mr.. C. c. Coleman is sweating for
publicity. He is quoted in the Topeka
Capital this morning: 81 have given
this letter to Mr.. MacLennan and he
has had the opportunity to publish it
if he so desired"
Returning from the country Monday
afternoon the editor of this paper learn
ed that a sealed communication had
been left. Upon reading it we did not
understand whether Mr.. Coleman real
ly wanted it printed or not. According
to his own statement, he seems to have
merely desired to give the opportunity
to print it. While we are after the at
torney general in his official capacity,
Mr.. Coleman personally is to be pitied.
1t seemed a kindness not to print it. We
do not like to see man make an ass
of himself, even if he has brought a
$4,000 suit against US. The Topeka Cap
ita1 very kindly this morning printed
Mr.. Coleman's side. Now if it will print
the article to which Mr.. Coleman replied
they will give their readers the whole
news instead of half of it. However,
the State Journal in another column
prints both the article which stirred Mr..
Coleman's wrath almost to the bursting
point and Mr.. Coleman's reply thereto,
lettingsfor the bile and anger and saw
ing a disastrous explosion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11
THE EDISON FRANCHISE.

In view of last nights developments
in the council, the time now appears
to have arrived when the council may
satisfactorily give the Edison people
franchise to continue business in TINS
city.
The council and the city have de-
bated long and earnestly. A business
mems committee has been working in
dustriously to protect the people and
the public. Things have been pretty
thoroughly thrashed over. The COM
rnfttee has made its report, and the
committee and the council seem to be
practically together, and the Edison
COMPANY now seems to be with them
both.
The thing to do is to give this ex-
celIent company it's authority to go
ahead, enlarge its splendid institution
and give power to the factories asking
for it and prepare for more factories
which are coming, and which look
alone to the Edison for cheap and
satisfactory power now ready for
them.
If anything more were needed. it Is
the remarkable attempt of Mr.. Brady,
the gas trust, to not only control the
article he manufactures, but the
article Kansas manufactures by ma
ture, but now to control the electric
light, the competitor of gas.
1t is a wonderful spectacle to see in
the council Mr.. Holiday, who was
elected to represent the city, to be the
agent in securing for Brady a fran
chise to shut out the Edison company
and also cripple the Topeka Railway
company and deprive that company of
the results to which it is entitled by
its splendid restoration of our street
railway system.
Councilman Holiday said: Mr..
Brady had to have a franchise. Mr..
Brady telegraphed me twice before l
introduced that consumers ordinance"
Isn't this astounding? A councilman
of the city of Topeka getting his in
structions as to what he should do in
the Topeka council from New York
owner of millions of light company
shares.
Well, Mr.. Brady may have to have
another ordinance in addition to the
numerous ones he already has in this
city, but Topeka doesn't have to give it
to him, merely because he telegraphs a
councilman twice.
Topeka believes in fair treatment for
her own citizens. Now that the differ
ences between the Edison company and
the public have been worked out, the
mayor and council will certainly do the
rest; give the Edison people their fran
cF7ica
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

The east naturally watched with con-
siderable interest the outcome of the
state oil refinery suit in the Kansas SUI
preme court. The east was curious to
see if a Kansas court would dare to go
against a mighty public sentiment, if
it happened to think that the law was
the other way. It has found out. In
discussing the decision of the court the
Chicago Record Herald says:
Had the supreme court seen fit to ig-
more the history and antecedents and
surrounding circumstances of the act,
to strain a point, in the words of
Governor Hoch, who is naturally disap-
pointed al the decision, and to assume,
in the face of all notorious facts, that
the real and sole object of the Iegisla-
ture in passing the bill was to estab-
lish branch penitentiary in response to
presumed state needs, it might have
sustained the act.
But the court, having regard for the
spirit of the Constitution, and cognizant
of the acknowledged purpose of the ex-
ecutive and legislature in procuring the
legislat ion finds itself constrained to de-
clare the act an attempted violation of
that constitutional clause which abso-
lutely forbids the state to become "a
party in carrying on any works of in
ternal Improvement
THE proyocation was great, admits
the court, but that is hardly an argu-
ment for overriding the constitution by
subterfuge or painfully strained con-
struction. If the evils of monopoly are
so threatening that the state, in order
to protect the consumers, must enter
the field of trade and commerce as a
competitor of private corporations, then
we must amend the constitution and
adopt an entirely different system of
government concludes the opinion.
Sympathy with Kansas in it's plucky
and determined warfare against the oil
monopoly does not preclude intellectual
Endorsement of a decision manifestly in
spired by respect for the substance and
spirit of the organic law. Kansans love
their constitution too much to ask, on
reflection, the straining of it's provisions
and the sanctioning of the use of I'M
constitutional weapons even against a
hated monopoly"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11
IN DEFENSE OF EvE.

Says the Washington Post: There is
nothing in the record to show that Eve
was a good housekeeper."
Neither is there anything to show
that she was not. Inasmuch as she
probably had very little house to keep,
SO far as the record shows, it is quite
likely that she wasn't up very high in
the science of domestic economy.
But neither is there any record that
she belonged to the Helianthus club. or
that she was ever q candidate for an
Office in the Garden of Eden federation.
And we don't know but what it's to
her credit hiatt there is no record to
show that when Adam came home from
the Office at noon he sometimes had to
eat his lunch on the sewing machine
leaf in the back bedroom, just because
Eve needed the dining room table to
stand on while she mopped the dust off
the ceiling in the parlor. Eve was an
ancestor of ours, and we believe in
standing up for the family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Ever notice that a mother imagines
her boy will learn bad habits from
other boys, but that she cannot think
for a moment they will learn any
from him?
Maybe you hadn't noticed it, but the
sun is travelling south at a good swift
trot.
Young ROSTERS are just beginning
to try to crow. There is nothing any
funnier than young rooster trying to
crow-unless it is Attorney General
Coleman trying to make people be-
lieve he is just ready to eat Tom Kelly
alive.
The packers will, of course, raise the
price of meat again to get the money
with which to pay their fines, but it is
difficult TO see how they are going to
make the rest of US serve their Jail
sentences for them.
You people who believe enthusiasts
tically in Tom Lawson, get busy and
sell your stock.
If Mr.. Burbank succeeds in pro-
ducing that cobless corn, what will
northern Kansas do for kindling?
Mr.. Cleveland evidently desires to
see what is under the lid, instead of
sitting peaceably. on top of it.
The mercury was UP around the 101
mark down along the southern Kansas
boundary a few days ago. Times are
generally just about that hot on the
"101" ranch.
There is mighty little romance out
at Hutchinson. Topeka and Lawrence
give such classic names as Shunga-
nunga and Wakarusa to their limpid
streams but Hutchinson has to worry
along with plain old Cow Crick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11
AYHA WKER .JOTS

Mr.. Weakley of Neosho county lives
down his name by weighing something
over 200 pounds.
Judge Theodosius Botkin has finally
found out where Mauritus is and he has
started thither.
Dry creek, in Saline county, has been
flooding things again, and the people
have concluded to dyke it to make it
live I'D to it's name.
There was a hard baseball game be-
tween Troy and Severance the other
day. The winning team was to have a
watermelon which had been put on
ice. 1t is suspected that the water
melon grew principally on hop vine
The gifted editress of the Lindsborg
News, has engaged in an editorial joust
with the equally brilliant editress of the
Louisville Tyre. Party of the first part
refers to party of the second part
as 1.-The Louisville Lyress." Here's
good place for US men folks to KEEP out
of apparently.
Don Wells says that when the Sun
day school lesson recently was about
man being injured, after which he
prayed for relief from pain and received
it, the superintendent of an Erie Sun
day school asked class of small bows
what their fathers would do if they were
injured in some way. MY papa would
get mad and cuss,'' was the prompt
reply of bright-eyed 5-year-old young
stefs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11
KELLY AND THE VOTERS.

A correspondent of the State Jour
nal suggests that the equitable-this
word is not used in life insurance
sense-that the equitable thing to
do would be to call upon the voters of
Kansas whose ballots elected T. T.
Kelly state treasurer to make good
the loss to the state caused by Kelly
Those voters will have to pay it
part of it. The trouble is that the rest
of us, who gave out warnings against
Kelly and who opposed his election.
will have to help pay it. And the ma
jority were really against Kelly. The
State Journal represented the MAORI
ty-but that majority was a good deal
like Speaker Reeds quorum-present
but not voting. There were thousands
of voters who did not register their
choice for state treasurer last fall, ana
many others voted for some of the
minor candidates. If all who were
against Kelly had voted for the Demo-
cratic candidate Kelly would not have
been in a position to loan a half mil
lion dollars to his principal bondsrnan
through the medium of the bonds
mans bank, the late First National.
But the money loss is not the most
serious thing that confronts Kansas.
The question whether a criminal is to
successfully override and defy the laws
and sentiment of the state time and
again-whether the rising generation
is to be shown that rascality pays bet
ter than honesty-are the great prob
lens.
Kelly has repeatedly defied the laws
of the state, and like Tweed of old,
said, what are you going to do
about it?'' His dishonesty has been
exposed time after time. Yet he was
nominated for state treasurer by the
Republican party, and his nomination
urged by Governor Hoeh in the face
of his stealings as county clerk of
Miami county; he was reelected in
spite of the shortages in the state
treasury and his embezzlement in
connection with the notorious CO.
manche county bond deal and his
connection with the Abilene and Gar
den City shortages. He has been
dominating the state government to
a large extent for three years. Re-
Gently, in connection with Secretary
of State Burrow, he was furnished
with a private car by the Pullman
company and the railroads, in which
to take a party of friends on a three
weeks tour of the Pacific coast free.
These two men assess the railroads
and yet accept. and probably asked
for, these unusual favors.
This is one of the rewards of
Kelly's dishonesty. Now he has re-
peated his lawlessness, with the re-
suit that more than half a million
dollars of the states funds have gone
down i'll a bank crash. Is he still to
go unpublished? What sort of a crop
of criminals will the state of Kansas
reap if T. T. Kelly is gforified and
honored instead of being punished
for his crime Will the young men
of Kansas who look only at imme-
date effects believe that honesty is
the best policy, if Tom Kelly is APP
plauded for his shrewdness in defyine
the officers and giving vast sums OF
the states money to the business
uses of his friends? That is the
serious part of this matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
[From the Chicago News. ]

Distance lends enchantment to
ones view of stage beauties.
Many man has ruined his eyesight
looking for work in a saloon.
Advice that has no value is the kind
most people hand out gratis.
If water sold for 10 cents a glass it
would be more popular with some
men.
Never judge the complexion of a
mans wife by the stray hair seen on
his coat sleeve
To many people the most popular
hot weather drink is the one some
other fellow pays for.
Costa Rica is the married mans
paradise. There isn't a millinery store
in all that country.
People should marry their opposites.
That is probably why a poor young
man is always anxious to marry an
heiress,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

The Chicago Record-Herald sug-
gests that Kansas has not been en-
Joined from amending her constitu-
ton, If she really wishes to build a
state oil refinery. True enough, but
before we could get that done we
would be all out of the notion of go
Ing into the oil business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

Now what do you suppose the Chi
cago Tribune means by this. published
as it is in Illinois instead of Kansas:
"a man who has been a first class
governor might, with some show of
reason. ask to be promoted to the
United States senate, but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

Mr.. Cleveland is too good a fisher
man to be caught for a sucker him
self. He wishes to know just what is
doing in the Equitable before he gives
1t his o. K
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

Now that the supreme court has
had its guess and Governor Hoch has
told some of the thoughts he has been
thinking about its opinion. we pre-
sumo the oil refinery incident may be
considered closed with the lid shut
down and locked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

It is an encouraging sign that rental
farm lands are becoming scarce in
most Kansas communities. Farms
are, as a rule, owned by the people
who live on them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the state Journal
away during the summer may haN E
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the rate of thirty
cents month. Address changed as
often as desired. While out OF town
the State Journal will be to you like
a daily letter from home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

with Jerome, Lawson and LaFol-
lette speaking in Kansas" says the
Washington Post, 1.-The funnel-shaped
cloud will probably scurry to the
cyclone cellar and hide"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

Heretofore the packers have used
everything about the hogs but the
squeal, and now are beginning to wish
they had canned that, as they are
likely to need it soon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

The war cloud has changed its
headquarters. For many years it mas
generally lowered over the Balkans.
but now it has probably settled per-
manently once more along the Franco
German frontier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

While Gaynor and Greene are still
arguing the matter up in Canada,
Capt. Oberlin Carter has served his
time and got that little matter off his
mind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

President Roosevelt is a member
of the stonemasons' union besides
several others, but has he a working
card in the cabinet makers union?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

A report has been started that
Oscar Wilde is alive and is working
as a clerk in New York. The Wash
ington Post is willing to believe that
he is alive. but not that he is work
ing for living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

Secretary Taft weighs consider
able more than Secretary Root, it is
true, but will he continue to be the
really big man of the cabinet?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

It is reported that England fears
Russia will invade India. Looks like
England is mighty hard up for some
thing to be afraid about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

Isn't it about time to pass a law
making it a capital offense to send
out stories to eastern papers like some
of the alleged wheat belt incidents
that have gone to eastern journals
this summer?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11

What's the difference now if they
really are not the bones of John Paul
Jones? They will do just as welI-if
we think they were his.