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The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
RUSSIAN MASSACRES.
Awful Tales Told by Refugees in New
York.

New York-Reports of how the
dead are mutilated to terrify the living
in Russia were brought here to-day by
Russian refugees, 700 Of whom arrived
on the steamer Pennsylvania. One
woman told of having seen a young
married woman kill her child rather
than let the Cossacks murder the in
FAINT
|. Another refugee related how, in the
town of Nova Moscow, five drunken
soldiers marched through the streets
carrying arms. dead baby with a
bayonet run through its body being
displayed at the end of each gun.
Lever Landominski, dry goods
merchant, who had 10000 roubles, or
about $4,000. which he had saved in
his flight. said that it was a common
thing to see men strung up feet first
and lying dead along the route of the
railroad. He left his wife and their
child in Russia and came here to es-
tablish home for them.
Wolf Sobak, from Crinishoff, near
Odessa, said:
Il saw the body of boy about
eleven years of age lying dead in the
road, and on his breast was label
which read: This is the way to kill
them off young"
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
NEW SUGAR FACTORY.
la Junta People Wide Awake and Sue.
ceSsfuI.

Denver.-A Republican special from
La Junta Friday says: The La Junta
Board of Trade gave smoker to-
night which was largely attended,
nearly 800 citizens being present The
city park addition to La Junta was
plated recently. This park contains
twenty acres and has small lake in
the center. In the park addition are
forty-six residence lots, each pur-
chaser paying 500 each for the lot,
were drawn. The deed for each lot
each purchaser shall build house to
cost not less than $1,500.
The reports of canvassers who had
been soliciting acreage for the pro-
posed beet sugar factory were read
and it was found that nearly 600
acres had been pledged. La Junta
business men then pledged individ-
ually from ten to twenty acres each,
which will add 400 acres additional to
the amount already pledged.
Reports were presented from the
Holbrook country that the $500 acres
pledged from that valley had all been
subscribed. These contracts will be
placed In the La Junta State bank In
escrow until the railroad and the
sugar factory are well Under way.
w. NJ. Wiley. manager OF the Wiley
Construction Company, was present
and stated that as soon as the con-
tracts were placed in the bank he
would wire his company at New York
City to place the order for the ma
chinery, which will be done at once.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
WOMEN FOR WYOMING.
Advertisement Finds Thousands Ready
for Work or Matrimony.

Meeteetse, Wyo.-If one-tenth the
number of widows, middle-aged maids
and girls who have answered the ap-
peal of the Gray Bull Club OF Nee
teetse for school teachers, clerks,
stenographers, housckeepers and do
mestics and companions for bachelors,
secure positions, Big Horn county in
side Of a few months will be evenly
balanced with reference to males and
females of adult age.
Some time ago the Gray Bull Club.
in response to the urgent requests Of
bachelor ranchmen desiring to enter
the state of matrimony, lawyers, doc
tors and other professional men de-
string clerks and stenographers, and
housewives needing domestics. issued
a call which was published in the lead
ing papers of the country, for the
names of women of marriageable age,
and females capable of teaching,
clerking and doing housework.
Although the call was issued less
than two weeks ago, Secretary Barrow
of the Gray Bull Club has been
swamped with letters from women in
all parts of the country. Some desire
places as clerks, stenographers and
teachers, while others are frank
enough to admit that they are seeking
husbands.
The secretary of the club has en-
gagged a number of assistants and the
heavy correspondence is being at
tended to as well as possible. Some
of the letters have been forwarded to
those in need Of help and to bachelors
who desire to open correspondence
with marriageable women.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
IMPORTANT DECISIONS
Handed Down by the Supreme Court
Of Colorado.

Denver.-The January term of the
Supreme Court opened Monday morn.
ing, all the justices being present ex.
cept Justice John Campbell, who is out
of the state. Chief Justice Gabbert
handed down n large number of an.
nouncements in important cases, some
OF which came from the old court of
appeals, and which have been pending
for many years.
Among the most important OF these
Is the ruling in the case of Frank P
Tanner against the Treasury Tunnel.
Mining and Reduction Company 1t is
held that parties working mining
claim may tunnel under property be-
longing to another II they so desire,
but that the parties so tunnelling must
pay for the value of the ore taken out.
For the sixth time, the long dispute
between Frank G. Patterson and
others, on the one side, and the Fort
Lyons Canal Company on the other,
has been passed upon, and it is hoped,
finally decided. Patterson asked that
excessive water rights of parties who
had held them for eleven years be de-
clared illegal, but the court declined to
do this, and decided the rights were
valid.
A county judge may call in another
judge to assist him in clearing an over
crowded dicket. Such is the decision
of the Supreme Court, announced in
the case of the Prudential Insurance
Company against Carrie Hummer.
This is a distinct victory for Judge b.
B. Lindsey of Denver, who appeared
before the court in person and argued
that the practice should be legalized.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
KANSAS SHOCKED
EARTHQUAKE FELT IN KANSAS,
NEBRASKA AND MISSOURI.
NO SERIOUS DAMAGE DONE
Kansas City, Topeka, Lincoln and st.
Joseph All Touched by the Terres.
trial Iremor.

Kansas City.-A distinct earth.
quake shock, with a motion from
north to south. lasting from twenty.
three seconds to one minute in dura.
ton, was felt in western Missouri.
eastern Kansas and southern Ne.
braska about 6:17 o'clock Sunday
evening.
The territory affected extends from
Nebraska on the north nearly to the
Oklahoma and Indian tTerritory line
on the south. and from Salina, Kansas,
on the west to KansassCity, St. Joseph
and Joplin, Missouri, on the east.
With the exception of the knocking
of plaster from walls at some points in
Kansas, no damage WAS reported, al
though persons ran to the streets at
some places, in fear that their houses
would tumble in.
No damage was done here, but the
movement. which appeared to be from
north TO south, lasted about twenty
three seconds and was sufficiently
strong to shake chandeliers and rattle
dishes.
Topeka, Kama slight shock of
earthquake was distinctly observed
observed here and throughout eastern
Kansas at 6:15 Sunday evening. In
some places a second and lighter
shock was noted.
Neighboring towns are reporting
similar conditions by telephone, the
most severe experience apparently be-
ing at Manhattan, where citizens left
their houses in alarm. No damage is
reported.
Lincoln, Neb.-At $50 O'Clock Sun
day night residents of Lincoln felt an
earthquake shock that In several in
stances shook globes and fastening on
chandeliers. No damage is reported.
The shock was distinctly felt at Ne
braska City and Syracuse, in south
eastern Nebraska. 1t was slight in
each instance.
St. Joseph.-A distinct earthquake
shock was felt here at $50 o'clock.
Dishes and tinware ratified and small
children were frightened. The shock
appeared to come from the south and
lasted about ten seconds.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
INSANE ASYLUM
REPORT OF coLoRAoo's GREAT.
EST CHARITABLE INSTITUTION
NEW BUILDINGS ARE NEEDED
Financial Condition Good - Number
of Insane Rapidly Inereasing-sixty
Patients in Denver County Hos
pitai-SmalI Per Capita Expense.

Denver.-With insanity on the in
crease in Colorado, the State Insane
Asylum crowded to its utmost capac
ity, sixty insane women waiting in the
Denver County Hospital for accommo-
daticns at Pueblo and every county in
the state puzzling over the problem Of
the care OF its own citizens who are
i mentally unbalanced, DR.. A. p. Busey,
superintendent of the Colorado asylum,
in his annual report strongly urges
definite consideration of the situation.
Some person has said Colorado
coulu not take steps at this time to
make further provision for the insane
says Dr. Busey. Il would like to know
what more worthy cause or what
greater charity Colorado has than the
insane uron which to bestow care and
protection.
| Many of these people have been
good citizens and taxpayers, and now
that they are helpless and defenseless
they are entitled to asylum and protec-
tion, and should not longer be kept
in almshouses, jails and other unfit
| places of abode.
"All friends of the insane should
urge upon the next Legislature the i'm
portance of making some provision for
/ these unfortunate people, as other
states do. The time to successfully
| treat the insane is Immediately after
| the attack begins, and this cannot be
done if some place is not provided
| where they can be taken. One reason
inlay why Colorado has so many
hopeless, incurable insane is because
| they have been confined in jails and
poorhouses awaiting admission to the
overcrowded insane asylum. until
their cases have become chronic and
incurable before they could obtain
treatment. This is an injustice to the
insane, and inasmuch as the state has
these wards, it should have institutions
in which to treat them"
There are at present in the institu
tion at Pueblo 759 patients, of whom
z77 are women and 1872 men. During
the year the total number treated was
901. New accommodations were made
last year for 300 additional patients,
and these are almost all filled.
"The number of insane persons is
rapidly increasing throughout the
state" the superintendent declares,
"and more additions will have to be
provided or new asylum built. There
are sixty women now in the Denver
County Hospital awaiting admission"
The financial condition of the insti-
tuition, DR.. Busey says, is excellent.
With the legislative appropriation of
$4,000. and the 18th mill from the
tax levy, he believes the bien.
nial period will be ended without debt.
Some interesting figures are given
regarding the cost Of caring for the in
sane of Colorado. The monthly aver
age of expenditures for wages, main
tenance. etc, for the year just closed
was $6,144.5G, or daily per capita ex
pense of less than 36 cents. Even with
| the improvements that were made last
year the per capita expense is esti
mated At but Al cents. This Is consid
cred a remarkable showing, which DR..
Busey says cannot be improved upon
by any insane asylum in the country.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
Bell Identifies Orchard.

Boise, Idaho-Sheriff Bell of Teller
county, Colorado, stated here Monday
that he recognized Harry Orchard. the
man suspected of the murder OF OK
Governor Steunenberg, as the same
man who is wanted in Colorado for the
blowing up of the Independence depot
at Cripple Creek.
The officer with him likewise recos-
nized the prisoner absolutely. Sheriff
Bell said further that, though he had
come here with requisition for Or
chard, he had found after looking over
the case of the state against him for
the Steunenberg murder, that it was
not likely that Colorado would get hold
of him at this time. He feels certain
he will be held and is prepared IL z"
back home, but will remain until af'
ter the preliminary examination.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
TEN YEARS IN PRISON.
Heavy Sentences for Denver Savings
Bank Wreckers.

Denver. - Leonard 1mboden and
James A. Hill, found guilty by a jury
of conspiracy to loot the Denver Saw
ings Bank, were on Saturday sentenced
to term in the penitentiary of not
less than nine nor more than ten years.
A stay of execution of sentence for
thirty days was granted to allow an
appeal-that is, the prisoners will re-
main in the county Jail for that period
or until higher court has interviewed.
AS soon as the record man be COM
pleted, and it is nearly ready, although
one of the longest to be presented to
the Supreme Court since the Graves
murder trial, an application will be
made to the State Supreme Court for
writ of supersedeas-a process in law
that would mean bail for the two de-
PENDANTS until such time as the higher
court had time to examine the records
prevailed in the trial court sufficient to
order new trial there.
If the Supreme Court should refuse
to intercede and permit the appeal
from the lower court to take the usual
course, hearing in year or two
years, a further step will be taken
/ there on an application for writ of
| habeas corpus, on the plea that the de
PENDANTS are being unlawfully de-
| tanned. If this should be refused. then
| the federal courts will be appealed to
! for relief. 1t will be cnntended that the
I defendants were Illegally convicted, in
| that the state, contrary to the constitu-
| ton, seized evidence and used the
same against the owners thereof, to-
| wit the famous Imboden-IIill CORE
| spondence. The other points raised
during the trial will also be urged be-
for the appellate courts.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
Bill for Mines Commissioner.

ton.-Rcpresentative Brooks
has introduced bill providing for the
establishment of the office of commits
sioner Of mines, to be under the con-
troll of the Department Of Commerce
and Labor, the commissioner to be ap-
pointed by the President and to re-
ceive salary of $4,000 per annum.
The bill provides also for the appoint
ment of an assistant commissioner at
II salary of $4,000 and of a proper cler-
ical force. Also for transfer to the
control of the proposed commissioner
of the office of director of the Geologi-
cal Survey. excepting the divisions of
reclamation and photographic, which
are to be made a bureau of the Depart
ment of the Interior.
Senator Teller has reintroduced his
bill to aid the Colorado School OF
Mines at Golden. The bill as reintro-
duced provides that twenty-five per
cent. of the funds received by the gov
ernment for sales of mineral lands in
Colorado, not exceeding $4,000, shall
be expended for the benefit and main.
tenance ef the school of mines a
| Cc:den.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
Rozene Meeker Gets Homestead.

Denver.-A Greeley dispatch says
A deed for the Meeker homestead in
Greeley, dated September 2, 1889, ir
which Mrs. Arvilla D. Meeker trans
fers the property to her daughter, Ro
zene Meeker. came to light Thursday
when it was filed for record in the
office of the county clerk by Miss
Meeker.
The deed and letter accompanying
it has been held in escrow by j. NJ
Freeman Of this city ever since it was
made ut. The letter explains t hal
the deed was not to be recorded unit
the death of the grantor, which oc
Cured a short time ago, and also
that the property was given for lo.'
ing care by the daughter.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
Colorado Railroad Profits.

Denver.-Large increases in the vol
ume of gross earnings of the roads
leading into Colorado during 1905 are
shown by their reports. The gross
earnings of the Denver & Rio Grande,
from July 1st up to the fourth week in
December, were $9,S4l 100, 3 clear gain
of nearly S1,250, 900 overthe correspond
ing period of last year. This is rec
ord breaker. The Rio Grande Southern
during the same period earned $751;
O2O, an increase of $49,42l, which also
makes a record for that time.
The Colorado & Southern earned 3d.
G14,297 during the period mentioned,
and the amount Of the increase over
the previous year was almost as great
as that of the Denver & Rio Grande.
The Burlington showed an increase
of $2,500,000 in earnings for the year
up to December 1st, $2,00O00O OF which
was net.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
NEW PREMIER's POLICY.
Severe Arraisnment Of the Former
British Government.

London.-The election address OF
Sir Henry ell-Bannerman, the
premier, is wholly devoted to a severe
indictment Of the late governments
record and its policy on protection and
to referring the electors to his public
declaration on assuming office for an
exposition of his governments in
tended policy
The premier declares that the last
decade represents, well-nigh an
broken expanse of mismanage1Ient
conducted for the benefit of privileged
classes; of wars and adventures
abroad, hastily embarked upon and
recklessly pursued, and that the legacy
the Unionists bequeathed to their sue
cessors is in the main a legacy of en-
barrassment; an accumulation of pub
lie mischief and confusion absolutely
appalling in its extent and ramifica-
tiOnS.
He declines to regard Mr.. Balfour's
free trade tenets as having more than
nominal place in the estimation OF
the majority Of the Unionists. whose
fiscal reform policy he holds is
fraught with incalculable mischief to-
the nation and the empire.
He characteriZes protection as i'm
moral and oppressive, based, as he
says it must be, on the exploitation OF
the community in the interest of the
favored trades and financial groups,
and declares the policy of his govern
ment will be to hold fast to the time
honored principles of liberalism. peace,
economy, sclf-gOvernment and civil
and religious liberty and to pursue IL
substantial continuity of the foreign
policy without departing from the
friendly and unprovocative methods
adhered to by previous Liberal admin
iStratiOnS.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
Sentences COMMITTED.

Denver.-At meeting of the State
Board of Pardons in Denver last week
three sentences were committed.
The sentence of Walter McWilliams,
who was sent to the penitentiary from
Denver December II, 1908, was com
muted to from five two two years. This
releases him from the institution I'M
mediately. He was convicted of forg.
ing and passing a check for $500.
The sentence of Garfield Schneider
convicted of assault to kill In Denver
May g. 1903, was commuted from a
term of five to ten years to three and
one-half to ten years.
The sentence of John Peak. who was
originally sentenced to from six to ten
years, was commuted to three and
one-half to ten years. He was con
victed of criminal assault and the ar
gument made in his favor was by for
mer State Senator Drake.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
Removed From tunacy Board.

Denver.--E. G.. Middelkamp has been
removed by Governor Mcdonald from
his position as member of the State
Board of Lunacy Commissioners and
M. Studinski of Pueblo is his sue
cessor
The change was made Friday and
was the result of charges flied against
Mr.. Middelkamp by NJ. A. Vigil. an
other member of the lunacy board. The
charges included allegations of official
misconduct in refusing to record GER
tain resolution passed by a majority
of the board. A hearing was had De-
cember 18th and the removal Of Mr..
Middelkamp Friday was the governors 8
final action on this hearing.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
CANAL ALL RIGHT
SO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DE.
cLARES TO CONGRESS.
GRAFT ACCUSATIONS FALSE
Secretary Taft's Report Shows Good
Pregress-Preliminary Work is Be.
ing Dope-Advocates Generous Sal.
aries for Competent Men.

Washinston.-The Senate gave at.
tention Monday to the Panama canal,
the situation in Santo Domingo and the
merchant marine shipping bill.
The canal question came up in con
nection with message from the Presi-
dent, in which, among other things, he
invited the closest scrutiny into all that
had been done by the government ir
the isthmus of Panama, saying:
IS lnclose herewith the annual report
of the lsthmian Canal Commission. the
annual report of the Panama Railroad
letter transmitting the same, together
with certain papers.
"The work on the isthmus is being
admirably done and great progress has
been maze, especially during the last
nine months. The plant is being made
ready and the organization perfected.
The first work to be done was the
work of sanitation, the necessity pre-
llminary to the work of actual con-
struction, and this has been pushed
forwar with the utmost energy and
means. In short while shall lay be-
for you the recommendations of the
commission and of the board of con-
to be adopted for the canal itself, to-
gether with my own recommendations
thereon.
All the work so far has been done
not only with the utmost expedition,
but in the most careful and thorough
manner; and what has been accom-
plished gives us good reason to believe
that the canal will be dug in a shorter
ha had ioin TOT md ut
an expenditure within the estimated
amount. All our citizens have a right
to congratulate themselves upon the
high standard of efficiency and integ-
rity which has been hitherto main
taained by the representatives of the
government in doing this, great work.
IF this high standard of efficiency
and integrity can be maintained In the
future at the same level which it has
now reached, the construction Of the
Panama canal will be one of the feats
to which the people of this Republic
will look back with the highest pride.
From time to time various publica-
tions have been made and from time to
time in the future various similar pub.
locations doubtless will be made pur-
porting to give an account of jpbbery,
cry. as obtaining on the isthmus. l
have carefully examined into each of
these accusations which seemed
worthy of attention
In every instance the accusations
have proved to be without foundation
in any shape or form.
Every specific charge relating to
jobbery, to immortality, or to inefi-
cheney, from whatever source 1t has
come, has been Immediately investi-
gated and in no single instance have
the statements of these sensation
mongers and the interested complain
ants behind them proved true. The
only discredit inhering in these false
accusations is to those who originate
and give them currency and who, to
the extent of their abilities, thereby
hamper and obstruct the completion
Of the great work in which both the
honor and the interest Of America are
so deeply invOlyed"'
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
Fort Logan Target Range.

Washington. - Lieutenant General
Chaffee has announced the creation of
a military reservation comprising $50
acres of land In Douglas county, Colo
RADIO, to be designated as the Fort Lo-
gan target range. Deeds from Mrs.
Nellie Cheesewright. William II. Lith-
gov and the Denver Sugar, Land and
Irrigation Company, conveying to the
government the lands in question, have
been completed and recorded.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
Idaho Suspect Identified.

Boise, Idaho-J. J. Sullivan o
Denver arrived Saturday and iden
titled Harry Orchard, the alleged dy
namiter of Governor Steunenberg, as
Thomas Hogan of Denver. Sullivan
told Orchard he would not defend him
and Orchard wired Spokane firm tc
take his case.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-05-24
ICE. ICE. ICE.
TO THE ICE CONSUMES OF
GOLDSBORO.

" II1C 1IL CONoO LED VI
GOLDSBORO.
This is to inform you that I
have opened an ice house at w.
J.. Carriers old stand back of
Denning 6 Summerlins cash
grocery store, where | will be
glad to serve you at all times,
and assure you honest weight
and prompt delivery. Give me
d trial and L will convince you
that st is a dntie that you owe
yourself and your family to buy
your ice from j. H. McClenny,
wLere you will get what you
buy each and every time. Sun
day houis from 7 o'clock until
IL a. IN. and from 3 to 6 p. IN.
Very Respectfully,
J. n. m clenny.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-05-24
REVISE BAPIiSM RITUAL

Methodist General Conference
Adopts, in Half-Hearied fash
ion, Resolution to Appoint Com
mittee to Eliminate Alleg ed
CalvanistiG Doctrine,
Birmingham, Ala, May I9.-It is
now practically assured that the Gen.
eral Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, will TAKE
final adjournment Monday, and the
probability is that only a morning
session will be held on that day.
Many of the delegates left for their
homes to-day and others are greatly
wearied by the long grind.
The features of to-day's sessions
were the decision to appoint a COM
mittee looking to a revision of the
ritual for infant baptism which will
recommend to the General Confer
ence of 1910, and the debate this af-
ternoon on the resolution, which was
finally accepted in half-hearted fash
ion. The debate on the resolution to
revise the baptism on the ground
that it contains Calvinistic doctrine
and that it implies "doctriEal bap-
tismal regeneration" was spirited
and tor a time it looked as though
the present Conference would take
up the work of revision.