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The statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1889-1906, 1906-05-04
VOTE iNTELLiGENTLY.

The agitation over franchises has
taken on the acute stage in which
demagogues strive to drive people
from hysteria to hysteria. The grant
ing of special privileges is business
proposition and should be considered
dispassionately. The attempt to make
political capital out of the coming cleo
ton can therefore come from no good
motive and there is good reason TO
question the sincerity and truthfulness
of agitators. In nothing is this trIer
than in the franchise which is being
asked for by the Denver Gas and Elec-
trio Company.
This company is one in which our
opportunities for labor have been i'm
proving with each succeeding year.
From one colored employee seven years
ago it now has five, and the evident
good will of the management makes its
franchise one in which colored people
have a sentimental interest in addition
to the financial benefit that will come.
Nor are all these persons employed In
the one kind of position usually given
us. At least two of them are in places
from which advancement Is possible
and for one this happy change has al
ready come.
Apart from the utter loss of such
places as we have won through sheer
merit under private ownership OF the
lighting system, the hundreds of col
ored people who are buying homes by
installments will rue the day when in
order TO carry out the opposition idea,
bonds are noated and taxes increased.
Municipal ownership is not an end,
but only means to an end, and the
thoughtful voter will go over the pro-
visions of the franchise that is asked,
to see in what way his condition would
be bettered under public ownership.
The only consideration in lighting
franchise is that the people get good
service cheap. In contrast to the fancl-
full and vague promises of municipal
ownership, the Denver Gas and Elec-
trio Company provides in its franchise
under bond that gas shall be $l.OO per
thousand feet for any purpose, cut
of So cents over the existing rate for
lighting with an even greater reduction
In the price of electric service. These
are facts. Nor are these benefits put
of to an indefinite day, but are guar
anteed for fulfillment Immediately at
ter election. In addition to this, the
company offers a cash payment to the
city which amounts to reduction OF
taxes upon each and every citizen OF
six per cent. This Is one Of the best
The statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1889-1906, 1906-05-04

The fire boys OF engine No. 3 have
been showered with praises for their
grand work in the fires last Sunday
morning. The white people who wit.
messed the superior work Of the col.
The statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1889-1906, 1906-05-04

II you tell woman her baby looks
and acts Just like her she Is pleased
but II you tell her she looks and acts
Just like her baby she doesn't like II.
Sank Centre (Minn.) Herald.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-25

euer ought to be paramount,
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
MINING NEWS,

The Headlight Mining company d
Occur d'Alene has opened up an er
cellent body of concentrating ore il
the lower tunnel.
The principal event of last week h
mining circles at Rossland, B. c., was
the finding and prosecuting on the
18th level OF the Centre Star, former
ly known as the War Eagle mine, o.
a ledge of ore 20 feet in width. TIT
ore is of good grade. There is an u
teresting story in connection with this
important event.
The biggest deal in the history o
copper mining is being Matched .
Boston and in New York, involviH
Amalgamated Copper, the Guggef
helm and the Heinze interests. Henri
H. Rogers and Daniel Guggenhen
have been in almost daily consult
ton, but no announcement will y
made for some weeks. The uf
shot of the negotiations is e.
pected to be that the Guggenheir
will turn up in control of the cops
industry of the country, in which the
will be as supreme as they have bee
in silver and lead.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
king Of DENMARK
Died SUDDENLY

Copenhagen, Denmark, Jan. 3d.
Christian, the ninth, the aged king of
Denmark, dean Of the crowned heads
Of Europe, father Of King George of
Greese, of Queen Alexandria Of Europe
Great Britain and Ireland, and of the
dowager empress Maria Feodorona of
Russia, grandfather of King Haakon,
the seventh, of Norway, and related by
blood or by marriage to most of the
European rulers, died with startling
suddenness in the Amalienborg palace
Monday evening. The successor to the
throne, Prince Ferdinand, his eldest
son, who will be known as Frederick
the eighth, was proclaimed Tuesday.
The following is the official bulletin
announcing his death:
''His majesty died at $3.50 p. m. At
ter his majesty had brought Monday
mornings audience to close he ap-
peared to be quite we'll, and proceeded
to luncheon as usual. Toward the end
of the morning he gave evidence of In
disposition and was compelled to re-
tire to bed at $3.50 p. m. His majesty
passed away peacefully the symptoms
indicating heart failure"
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
Zion Gives up Mexico Idea.

Chicago. Alexander DoWle e
great Mexican plantation scheme,
which has cost him so much toll,
promises to be practically abandoned
under the plans of the triumvirate now
ruling the fiscal affairs of Zion City.
It is declared by one of the triumvi-
rate that no outside ventures will re-
ceive development at present, and that
all efforts will be concentrated upon
bringing order into the affairs at Zion
City itself.
The same man said that the land &C.
ouired by Dowie in Mexico has turned
out to be poor quality and the litigation
necessary to use it will probably oc.
cupy a number of years.
For these reasons the triumirate will
check the operations in Mexico, al.
thought few hundred acres will be
held in order to FURNISH q nucleus for
taking up the project again if it ever
becomes possible to do so. Overseer
Voliva Of Australia. who is slated to
become tenpol airy overseer at Zion
City. is expected to arrive Sunday,
February II.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
HEPBURN TALKED
FOREST RESERVES

Washington, Jan. 3O.-The Chinese
boycott and the administration of the
forest reserves divided the attention of
the senate Monday. The Chinese ques-
ton came up IN connection with a res
olution by Senator Tillman directing
an investigation by the committee on
immigration. Senator Tillman modi.
fed the resolution by committing the
major portion of the preamble and af-
ter considerable discussion the resolu.
ton was referred to the committee on
contingent expenses.
Senator Hepburn raised the question
regarding forest reserves. He sharply
critized the methods of the forestry bu-
reau and charged it with maintaining
a press bureau for the purpose of at
lacking him. He declined. however,
to hold the president responsible for
this course. He asid that the course
avs calculated to retard the develop
menr of the west.
Senator Dubois took contrary view,
defending the policy pursued and con.
tending that it was in the interest of
the arid regions.
Senator Hepburn addressed the senate
in support of his bill to compensate
states for school lands taken possession
of by the government for forest reserve
purposes. He said congress had sur.
rendered its constitutional right to con.
troll the public lands embraced within
the public lands embraced within
the forest reserves and that the admin
stration of the reservations is of such
character as to force the conviction
that the time has arrived for congress
to resume its guardianship.
Senator Hepburn said the forest re.
serves in Idaho cover more than % ,OOC
square miles. he protested against
such an extensive withdrawal as un.
fair, saying:
1T is men we want, not trees.'
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02

Wednesday leave her to her fate?"
One hour after they left the wreck,
he said, the remains of the steamer
collapsed and more than so persons
floated to sea, with no one to pick
them up.
Alfred Willis Makes Charges.
Alfred Willis of Spokane, an ordi-
nary seaman of the United States ship
Pensacola, aged 16, was one Of the
survivors and tells a story of hard
ship that makes the blood curdle. He
was in the second boat, and when it
was launched found that the plugs
would not fit. He could find no other
plug and used his hand as plug to
prevent the boat from filling and
sinking The boat was washed through
the surf and was capsized. He was
washed to the shore and drawn out
three times by the uEdertow, but fin
ally caught his pants on piece OF
jagged rock and held. He is in very
bad shape, but came over the trail
in fine style.
No better example of discipline was
ever shown than when Willis arrived
at Pachena bay and saw Lieutenant
Colville of the United States ship
Grant. Recognizing his superior Off
Ger, he calmly saluted, and said:
Lieutenant, l report, sir. 1t was
indeed it was, a pitiful scene" He is
loud in his praise for Mr.. Bunker, who
kept the party of survivors in good
spirits, and also to the rescue party
from the Salvor, to whom he gives
the credit of saving his life.
He is most emphatic in condemnine
the officers and equipment of the life
boats. In number two boat there was
no one who understood it's manage
ment, and it was steered by a fire
man. The wooden oarlocks broke al
the first stroke of the oars.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
At THE GRIDIRoN CLUB.
scribes Make Fun Over Panama Cana
and Builders.

Washington, D. C.-From Washing
ton to Panama the Gridiron club took
fits guests Saturday night and showed
them how to construct the canal
From the reception room of the New
Willard hotel, preceded by the Marine
band and led by President Richard
Lee Fearn of the Gridiron club and
President Roosevelt, members and
guests wendell their way through a
maze of palms and tropical plants to
the dining room, which was trans
formed to resemble the plaza in front
of Governor Magoon's residence in
Panama. From that time forward the
dinner was conducted as if the cor
RESPONDENTS and their guests were by
the side of the big ditch. A pass was
issued to each guest over the Grid
iron way" the "only airline beyond
federal control" and good on the
Washington-Panama personally con
Quoted tour"
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
RUSSIA is WITH GERMANY
Car CIings to France as Auv
Calls Kaiser Brother

st. Petersburg.-A new groun;n.
the powers of Europe, with Germ,,'
and Russia arrayed side by side in y
closest friendship and the alliance
the empire with republican Fra
tagging in the rear, was forecastad /
the words of Emperor Nicholas a,
gala luncheon at Tsarkoe-Selo in ~
or of Emperor Williams birthday
Rising to his feet before a brilu,,,
company of Russian and German 70,
resentatives to propose a toast IN ~.
German emperor, Emperor Nichol,.
lifted his glass and said SLOWLY A..
distinctly, as if weighing every word
II drink to the health of the an
peror of Germany and the kin, N
Prussia. my brother and very de,,
friend"
The phrases chosen were signifca,
enough in themselves, the emperor !,
previous years having proposed n.
health of the emperor-king witbom
the qualifying expression of brotbs,
hood and friendship. but turning n
Herr Won Schoen, the German am
bassador, who was standing at hh
right, the emperor grasped him Nv
the hand, and is reported to haw
said:
"Frere. c'est plus que allie
brother, that's more than ally.D
The stage of the momentuous utter.
ance was the great dining hall of the
Alexander or little palace at Tsarkoe
SelO.
The emperor's choice of the word
ALLY" indicated the defensive alliance
with France is still considered bind
ing, but it evidently had been gossip
in diplomatic circles for some time
that Russia will not go a hairs
breadth beyond the terms of the treaty
providing for common action only il
case France is not the aggressor and
there is no telling how soon it will
be allowed to pass into desuetude
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
YAKIMAIRRIGAIION
PROJECT ASSURED

Prosser, Wash. Jan. 31.-The Tie
ton and Sunnyside irrigation projects
are assured by the signing here of the
government agreement by E. F. Benson
of the Prosser Falls Land & Power
company. All the other rights in the
Yakima river are now adjusted, and
Engineer Jacobs has wired Washing
ton from here that the slate is clean
Taylor & Kemp and Thompson &
Pratt, the two other firms having water
rights, signed the government agree.
ment a week ago.
The government is to take over the
irrigating plant of Mr.. Benson and also
water 400 acres of his individual lands.
It will allow 215 cubic feet of water
to pass Prosser during August, and 229
during the balance of the irrigation
season, and also raise the dam in the
river here from IL to Is feet. This will
leave ample power for manufacturing
purposes.
Engineer Jacobs said he believed the
work in this valley would continue for
IL years, until $12, 200, 900 are expend.
ed and 400. 900 acres of land irrigated,
10000 of which will be in Benton
county.
This is the greatest day in Prossers
history, even being collapsed in enthus.
iasm by the news, nearly year ago,
that Benton county had been created.
odicfiopc ORC froo1v r,oda that Pros.
ser will have % population in 10 years.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
PASSENGER TRAINS
HEADON COLLISION

A fatal headon collision is reported
from Columbia Falls, Mont, at 1O:4O
Monday night between Great Northern
Limited trains. Both firemen, names
unknown. are reported killed. Con.
ductor Quinn of the westbound limited
is repotrde badly hurt, and five passen-
gers are said to have been hurt. The
injured were taken to Whitefish, Mont
The TRANS met on level, straight
away track, where speed of 80 to IS
miles is ordinarily attained. Both en-
gines turned over and landed many
feet from the track. 1t is reported the
wreck took fire Immediately. The sur
ounding country is low and marshy,
and it believed heavy fog prevailed,
which contributed to the disaster. An
engine from the Kalispell branch was
quickly run to the scene from: the juno
tion mile distant. This was coupled
to the rear of the train and the cars
pulled away from the fire.
The engines in the wreck we're of the
"Changhai" type, monster locomotives
with high drivers.
The eastbound trian was in charge
of Conductor Bert Robertson, and En-
gineer Therwichter. Conductor Quinn
and Engineer Barden were in charge
of the westbound limited ALI the
trainmen involved belong to Whitefish,
Montana. So far were the cars hurled
by the force of the collision that all
of the telegraph wires and poles by the
track were thrown down. A wrecking
outfit was promptly DISPATCHED from
Whitefsh.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
MURDERED MILLloNAlRE's WIFE
Mrs. Garfield Was Seated on Front
Porch at Her Home in Los Angeles.

WI % SdttICtO was oCdSCO OF
Porch at Her Home in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, Jan. 2S.-Mrs. C.. A..
Garfield. wife of Multimillionaire and
Oil Magnate c. A. Garfield and a
prominent society woman of Los An
geles, was shot and killed while sit
ting on the front porch of her resi-
dence in the fashionable section of the
city. Her slayer was Morris Buck, a
former family coachman, who is in
custody. According to his own story,
related to the officers who captured
him, Buck wrote to Mrs. Garfield, so
Letting an interview and demanding
the payment of large sum of money,
which he claimed to be due him. He
said his letter met with no response
and he determined to seek a personal
interview with Mrs. Garfield. He ar.
rived at the Garfield mansion about
$40 in the evening and found Mrs.
Garfield sitting on the porch. When
he renewed his demand for cash, she
want of the household started toward
him and Buck drew pistol from his
pocket. Mrs. Garfield grabbed the pis
toll and attempted to wrest it from
him. During the scuffle, he pulled the
trigger of the weapon and the bullet
struck Mrs. Garfield in the breast and
she fell back on the porch.
| Officers who arrested Buck after a
chase of several blocks are convinced
that the man is sane. According to
the version of neighbors. who wit
messed a portion of the tragedy, Buck
first shot Mrs. Garfield in the breast
and when she fell back on the porch
he leaned over and deliberately fired
another shot into her abdomen. The
first shot went directly through heI
heart. On Bucks person, in addition
to the pistol with which he had done
the killing, were found a 80 caliber re
volver, long dirk knife sharpened tc
a razor edge and several loose cart
ridges Buck is about % years old
and little is known of him.
C. A. Garfield left home a few days
ago in a private car for an inspection
of oil properties in Mexico. He was
accompanied by two of his young
daughters, IL and IA years of age
Mrs. Garfield was about As years OF
age, and was the mother of five chill
Der of the firm of Garfield q CHAINS
lor, the largest oil producers in the
state.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITfMs FROM
ALL PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI.
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

T. w. Barnes will be appointed col.
lecto- of customs at San Diego. Cal.
Ell peror Williams birthday was
celebrated Saturday with the usual
observances, in Berlin.
By vote of 100 to 1O8 the house
waived the eight hour day law fol
alien labor on the Panama canal.
The order dismissing Midshipman
Decatur from the naval academy was
read sut at dinner formation at the
academy recently. He left the grounds
shortly after.
Jack Gineau lies dead in the morgue
sat Tonopah, New, and George Cole, q
member of the legislature from Nye
county. is shot through the arm as the
result of a pitched battle between
union and nonunion miners at Cliff
ford's, on the Manhattan road.
Myrtle M. Hubbard. young woman
who came to San Francisco from Sc
attic three months ago, committed sui
eide recently by turning on the gas ir
her room.
The invitations which the president
and Mrs. Roosevelt have sent out fol-
the marriage of Miss Roosevelt to Mr.
LOngwOrth are limited to the imme
date family connections, small of
fetal list and the intimate persona
friends of Miss Roosevelt and Mr.
Longworth.
In a bargain counter sale recently
Qf kho
that one woman had an arm broken
: and more than dozen tainted.
Midshipman Richard R. Mann, pres
fdential appointee and a member o.
the first class, has been acquitted Of
the charge of hazing and restored tt
duty.
Ground was broken at Washington
recently for the new residence of thu
apostolic delegates, which is to bt
situated on Baltimore street, in fash
ionable section of the city. The home
will cost 100000 and is to be finished
in October.
1t has been decided to raise the
Japanese legation at Rome to the ranl
of an embassy, and it is announced
that M. Uichida, the Japanese minister
at Pekin, will be appointed ambassa
dor to Italy.
Robbers have wrecked the safe O.
the bank of Owasso, in the Cherokee
nation, with dynamite, and escaped
with several thousand dollars. The
exact sum secured is not known.
A. L. C. Atkinson, secretary of Ha
wall has informed the president tina
on account of the illness of Governor
Carter he will return at once to Homo
lulu.
The voting is now practically owe
in England Only ten contests remain
to be decided. The totals are now
liberals 81, unionists, 157, Irish ma
tionalists 80, laborites so.
Two engines and several cars wer'
badly damaged by a headOn collision
on the Rio Grande at Bingham juno
ton, Utah, recently.
Captain William H. Van Schaicl
was found guilty of criminal negli
gence in failing to have fire drills OF
the steamer General Slocum, which h
commanded in June, 1904 when tn
steamer burned with the loss OF owe
1000 persons. He was sentenced t.
ten years. Imprisonment.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
Vast City Buried in Forest.

Count Maurice de Peregny, an o.
French archeologist, has discovered
the Peten district Of Guatemala an y
mense ruin of an ancient city OF "
Mayas, which it will take months y
him to investigate properly. The e
plorer will return to this contin@
next year to complete Investigations
the ancient city, whose ruins are
the utmost archaeological interest.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
SEEMS TO FAVOR LOCK CANAL

Commission Said to Have Accepted
Minority Report Of Engineers.
Washington.-The isthmian canal
commission has concluded it's consid
Grafton of the report of the board OF
consulting engineers with respect to
the type of canal that should be built
The commission has had before it the
reports of the majority and minority
of the consulting board.
While no official announcement is
made with reference to the commits
sion's report, there is good reason to
believe they have summarized the two
reports and have recommended the
construction of lock canal, with 1Sa
foot level, practically following the
recommendations of the minority OF
the consulting engineers.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
Our Fleet Leaves Tanqier.

Algiers.-The Second squadron Of
the North Atlantic feet, Rear Admiral
Charles D. Sigsbee commanding, has
sailed for Villefrance. A dozen de-
serters were left behind, and the po-
lice authorities are searching for
them.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
Bio Railroad Death List.

A bulletin issued by the interstate
commerce commission shows that dur
ing the months of July, August and
September last 1908 were killed ana
1896 injured among passengers and
employees of steam railroads in the
United States.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
Murderer Ends Own Life.

Ashley, N. D., Jan. 30.-The body
of Henry Folkenson, murderer of w.
7. Drake, prominent Minneapolis den
fist. was found in a corn field near the
outskirts of the city. Indications
point that he ended his own life.
Folkenson killed Drake during a
quarrel over a bill for As cents, which
Folkenson claimed was due him.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
WORK OF INSANE POLICEMAN
Attempts Life o. Peoria, llIinoi
Chief.

Peoria, Ill.,, Jan. 29.-Charles Har'
wood, a former policeman, now VIC
lently insane, entered the police head
quarters Sunday afternoon and at the
point Of a revolver held up the chic
in his office for Is minutes while b
vented his insane wrath in a delug
of curses. After threatening to shod
the entire crowd and failing to shod
because of a snapped cartridge, he
backed out Of the station and made
his escape.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
Strange Crimes in St. Louis,

st. Louis, Jan. 2S-While WALKING
along Kossuth avenue Bertha Riley
aged II years, was stabbed in the
back, presumably by young man
The girl ran home and was given
medical attention, and it is said the
wound is not serious. This makes the
sixteenth girl that has been stabbed
in the night within the past two
weeks.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02
DAMAGE DONE By BOMB.
Dynamite Projectile Hurled Into

Dynamite Projectile Hurled Into
Crowded House.
Worcester, Mass, Jan. ga dyna-
mite bomb, hurled through a second
story window of the house of Paul
Mosczynski, 80 Union avenue. at an
early hour this morning, exploded and
tore away the rear part of the house,
blowing out the floors and rear wall.
Twenty-Five persons were asleep in
the house, but no one was injured.
The wife of Daniel c. Booth, who was
ill. was rendered insane by the ex-
plosion. She was taken to a hospital
tonight.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-02

Queen Maud Of Norway will need
little tuition in the speech of her new
realm, for she took to the Danish Ian
guage with instructive ease during her
girlhood. The difference between the
two languages. both in vocabulary and
pronunciation. are principally dialec-
tic.