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The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06
Woman and Child Drowned.

Durango. Colo. - Mrs. Leonard
Boght and her infant child were
drowned in the Animas river at a
point just below Cedar hill at IL
o'clock Monday morning. The woman
and her family. consisting of five
children, an infant, a boy seventeen
years old. and three little girls rang
ing from six to ten years, started in a
wagon from their ranch below Cedar
hill to pass. the week enjoying the car
nival at Durango.
Though not SO high as it has been
during the season, the river still is
dangerous. and when she came to the
toll bridge she was advised to cross on
the bridge instead of taking the ford.
The fact that number of teams had
crossed the ford decided her to try
this way.
She reached the middle of the
stream, when front wheel ran into a
hole, overturning the wagon and
throwing the entire family into the
river. Mrs Ethel Graves. who was on
the bank at the time saw the accident
and ran for help. Three men rescued
the boy and the three girls. who We're
still clinging to the wagon. The
mother and child were found dead a
mile below the bridge at noon. 1t was
the intention of Mrs. Boght to visit
with her mother Mrs. Catherine Chat
fee, who lived in Durango.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06
DENVER-GREELEY LINE.
Electric Railway Planned Between the
Two Cities.

Denver.-That northern Colorado
will be crossed by number of electric
railways within short time is the be-
lief of a good many men who are
watching developments of that great
agricultural region. and there is one
project, says the Republican, that is
being quietly pushed along, but prom
ises to be carried out. Several months
ago ]. D. Houseman came to Colorado
from ST. Louis, and after looking the
situation over, incorporated the Den
yer and Greeley road, the object be.
ing to build an electric railroad be.
tween those two points. He soon af-
ter incorporated and has been quietly
at work.
Mr.. Houseman came West with the
reputation Of having financed and
foated several such enterprises. and
has the confidence of eastern Gnan-
ciers. He has offices on the fourth
floor of the Commonwealth building in
this city.
Mr.. Houseman has secured a right
of-way $50 feet wide for over two
thirds of the fifty miles between Den.
Yer and Greeley He has not found it
a difficult task, and in fact many land
owners have contracted to give the
right-of-way. knowing that the building
of the road will more than bring them
its value in the increased price of the
rest of their holdings.
The route of the proposed road is
about equally distant between the
Union Pacific and Burlington tracks,
and as it is intended for both freight
and passenger business it will give an
outlet to the fertile farms that now
have to team all products fifteen to
twenty miles to railroad stations.
How the new road is to gain admis-
sion to the city is not settled as yet,
but it is said that negotiations have
been opened with the Burlington to
brn. the trains into the union depot.
Negotiations are also under way with
the Northern Power Company to sup
ply electrical power, which it will be
able to DO within the next six months.
This is only one of three different
companies that are now dickering with
the management of the power company
to supply energy for new lines of road
in the northern district, and Two of
them into Denver.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06
Harvard Defeats Yale.

New London, Conn. - Harvard 8
varsity crew triumphed over Yale
Thursday before the greatest crowd
that ever gathered here on a race day.
Coming after years of defeat, the vic
tory was particularly sweet TO the
crimson. 1t was great Yale crew
that Harvard defeated, crew that
had broken all records in practice and
went to the stakeboat a favorite. Har-
wards JOY is unconfined.
Harvard won, but Yale rowed a race
that will live long in the annals Of
college sports. Not only from the
start, but until the last sixteenth of Il
mile did the shells cease to lap each
other. The men in the rival boats
could see each other for more than
three miles and half, as first one cox
swain and then the other called upon
his crew. Harvard really got the lead
when the killing pace proved too much
for the Yale men. In the final spurt
Boulton and Noyes were done, their
oars literally slipping away from them.
Harvard won the race by less than
two lengths and a half Her time was
23.O2: Yales, 23.11.
While the crews had the tide with
them, they had brisk quartering
wind which made fast time impossible.
The record for the course is 20:lO.
made by Yale in 1885
The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06
DEATH OF MRS. TANNER.
Wife Of G. A. r. Commander Killed in
Automobile Accident.

Helena Mynt-NIrs. James Tanner,
wife of the commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, died this
afternoon as the result of an automo-
bile accident.
General and Mrs Tanner arrived
here this morning. the general being
on a visit of inspection to the Montana
department of the Grand Army. This
afternoon General and Mrs. Tanner
Mrs. J. X. Toole. wife of the governor,
and Gen. Lester Wilson of Bozeman,
made up an automobile party visiting
points in the vicinity of the city.
On the way to Fort Harrison, while
going at a fairly swift rate along the
narrow road, the chauffeur turned out
to make room for freight wagon. The
road runs along an embankment and
the road was so narrow that the auto
mobile ran off the edge. turned over,
and threw the occupants out.
Mrs. Tanner struck the ground first
and Mrs. Toole and General Wilson fell
on top OF her She was unconscious
and was taken Immediately to a hos
pital. dying just as she reached there.
The other members of the party were
not seriously hurt.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06
ANTI-SALOON RAID.
Governor Hoch of Kansas Smashes
OutIaWed Joints.

Kansas City.-The anti-saloon Cru.
sade was given a new impetus at Kan
sas City, Kansas, Wednesday, when
raids were authorized on forty saloons,
joints as they are called, running in
violation of the state prohibition law.
Many of the joint proprietors nur'
riedly closed their places and some
moved, Or made preparations to re-
move their fixtures.
Since the inauguration of the pres
ent crusade. which was started by Gov
ernor Hoch, ten saloons have been
raided. To-day the liquors and costly
fixtures from three of these places,
valued at about $1,000. were destroyed
by Sheriff Connell on an order from
the Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas Last week the judge ordered
the fixtures burned at public bonfire,
but this idea was reconsidered and to-
day the sheriff and his assistants,
armed with axes and picks. demol-
ished the highly polished bars, tables
and chairs, bottles and barrels of liq-
uor. The fixtures and liquors de-
stroyed to-day belonged to three differ
ent brewing companies operating on
the Missouri side, and were seized last
week.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06
EIGHT-HoUR LAW UPHELD.
Supreme Court Decision in Denver
Labor Case.

Denver.-The eight-hour law of
Colorado is sound. 1t was upheld by
a decision in the Supreme Court yes
terday. Chief Justice Gabbert writing
the opinion. According to this de-
cision the municipalities are merely
branches of the state government. and
the Legislature can regulate the hours
of labor
The decision was rendered in the
case of John A. Keefe, contractor,
against the people Of the state. The
District Court found for the defendant,
and this judgment OF the lower court
is affirmed.
Justice Gabbert cites at great
length from the opinion Of Justice
Harlan of the United States Supreme
Court on the principle of eight-hour
legislation, and says:
The municipality of Denver
though created by constitutional
amendment by direct vote of the peo-
pie. and having the power to frame its
own charter. is just as much an
agency of the state for the purpose of
government as if it were organized
under general law passed by the
General Assembly. The mode of its
creation does not change the nature
of its relation to the state. Like cities
and towns organized under the general
statutes, it is still a part of the state
government.
This act. in effect. declares that it
is the public policy OF the state not to
permit any officer OF agent of the
state, or its municipalities, Or any con-
tractor thereof to employ any working
mar in the prosecution of public work
for more than eight hours a day, and
for the violation of the statute a pen
atty is provided.
The state has never relinquished to
the new city and county of Denver.
and never can surrender to It. the
power to enact laws to punish crimes
and misdemeanors, and the operation
Of such laws embraces all the people
of the state. whether living in muni-
cipalities or counties created directly
by the constitution Or organized
under general laws. Such legislation
would not be valid if it expressly ex-
empted the city and county of Denver
from its operation"
The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06
RAILROAD WRECK
MANY AMERICANS KILLED NEAR
LONDON, ENGLAND.
TRAIN JUMPS THE TRACK
Twenty-Thres Passengers Just Arrived
from New York Among the Dead
List Includes Many Prominent Peo-

from New York Among the Dead
List Includes Many Prominent Peo-
pie.
Salisbury, Eng-Driving at a mad
pace over the London Southwestern
railway, the American Line Express,
carrying forty-three of the steamer
New York's passengers from Plymouth
to London, plunged from the track
just after passing the station here at
1851 Sunday morning and mangled to
death in its wreckage twen'y-three
passengers who sailed from New York
June 23d, and four Of the trainmen.
Beside those to whom death came
speedily dozen persons were injured,
some Of them seriously.
Frederick Henry Cossitt, who was
married in New York June 18th and
who is among the dead. was the Sec
ond member OF his wedding party to
meet tragic death within a week Stan
ford White, who was killed by Harry
X. Thaw, was one of the wedding
guests.
The list Of dead includes number
OF prominent residents of New York
and other American cities.
The late hour of the New YorkS
arrival at Plymouth saved many lives.
She carried more than sixty travellers
for London, but many of them elected
to travel on comfortably to Southamp-
ton in preference to the late landing
at Plymouth and the long night ride
across the country. If the New York
had made faster passage the somber
roster of the dead and injured would
have been longer.
A short distance out of Salisbury be-
gins remarkable curve which some
times has been described as the most
dangerous in the world and which GER
tainly possesses elements OF danger.
Not only does the line enter and leave
the station on curve, but where 1t
crosses Fisherton street, the line takes
a slight rise. 1t was practically at this
point that the engine jumped the rails
and brought about disaster. both as
regards the percentage of lives lost
and the extent of the damage to roll
ing stock, almost without precedent
in the annals of British railway acci-
dents, especially of boat expresses.
The first bodies recovered and iden-
tilted included those of John F. Nc,
Donald, New York; w. H. Thompson,
address unknown; c. F. McMeekin,
New York; Frank W. Koch, Allen
town. Pennsylvania; Jules Keeler, ad!
dress unknown; Charles Senteil, New
York; Rev. E. l.. King, Toronto: Miss
Mary F. Howison, New York; Mrs. c..
w. Elphicke, Chicago, and Mrs. Waite
of New York. Dudley P. Harding of
New York. Louis Cassier of Trumbull,
Connecticut, and F. Fl. Cossitt of New
York were alive when they were re-
moved from the wreck, but died at the
infirmary soon after their admittance.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06
NEW TRIAL REFUSED.
Denver Murderer Must Serve Life
Sentence.

Denver.-Russell Boles, convicted
forsthe murder of Harold Fridborn and
of assaulting his sister, Florence Frid
born. must serve his life sentence, un
less he receives freedom through some
other channel than the Supreme
Court A decision written by Justice
Gabbert and handed down Monday up
holds the decision of the District
Court.
The court declares that the conten-
ton of the defendants counsel that
the crimes were committed by para
mour of the girl are cruel and unjust,
as well as unreasonable. I'VE con-
clude that the evidence abundantly
supports the finding of the jury, and,
this being true, in absence of error in
the law committed during the prog
ress of the trial, we should leave the
verdict and sentence undisturbed.
The Fridborn murder was committed
December 81, 1901, and Boles was ar
rested in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06
POWER COMPANY
WILL BUILD LARGE PLANTS IN
NORTHERN COLORADO.
TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY
Will Operate in Many Towns-con-
trolls Water Power and Coal Lands
is to Furnish Light and Supply
Power for All Kinds of Uses.

Denver.-Work is progressing in
preparation for the installation Of the
great electrical power plant of the
Northern Power Company. and indica-
tions are that it is going TO be a much
larger anair that even J.. w. Henry,
its protector, anticipated.
w. w. Churchill, vice president, and
W. S. Lyford, chief engineer of the
Westinghouse company of New York,
have been in the city and left few
days since for the East. They took
with them the plans for the power
Plant that is TO be erected at Lafayett'
and for the transmission lines. w. =
McClurS and w. M. Riley, construc-
tion and transmission engineers, who
came West with them, have remained
in the state and are working out the
details. such as locating the lines. The
management has decided to embrace
Fort Lupton, Brighton and Platteville
in the sections to be supplied with
power, which were not in the original
plans. This is the company which re-
Gently bought the Boulder and Chey.
cnne power plants.
1t is hoped TO have the plant in
Y
is no small task and will take consid-
cradle hard work. A contract has re-
Gently been signed with the United
Power and Light Company at George
town to supply it with extra power.
This company has the electric bust
ness in Gilpin county pretty well in
hand and manufactures about 500
horsepower, but it Can utilize more
and some 1000 horsepower will be
wholesaled and distributed. There
will be connection with the Northern
Power Company's feed lines at point
in Boulder county.
The Northern Power Company has
made secure its titles to more than
5000 acres of coal land in the vicin-
ity of Lafayette, where the power
house will be located. 1t has also Sc
cured itself an abundant water supply
by the purchase of Miller lake and an
other body of water of nearly the
same size. In addition artesian wells
will be sunk to make it certainty
that there will be sufficient.
Mr. Henry says the possibilities for
the use of power in agriculture in the
northern district are immense and
that the company is preparing to irri-
gate number OF tracts of land by
pumping. Between Evans and Fort
Lupton there is considerable under
flow of water, which has not changed
in many years, but what is needed is
some cheap power to raise it from the
wells and distribute ii on the land.
This the power company can do
cheaply. In the vicinity of Barr lake
and also near Union reservoir close
to Longmont, are large tracts of land
that can be irrigated as soon as the
water can be pumped over the soil.
1t is expected to bring G,000 acres into
cultivation near Barr lake in this way.
All of this kind of pumping will be
done early mornings.
Mr.. Henry has no doubt concerning
the future of northern Colorado and
Denver, which he thinks will be
brought into closer relations in few
years by means of electric lines. The
land is going TO be cut up into small
farms and intensely cultivated, and
there will be large population.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06
Benefit Society Decision.

Buffalo, N. Y.-An important decis-
ion governing the question of raising
the rates in the Catholic Mutual Bene-
fit Association was handed down by
Justice White in the Supreme Court
Monday in the case Of Michael Dowdall
against the supreme Council OF the
Catholic Mutual Benefit Association to
recover money paid on increase of
rate. Justice White in his decision
holds that the high rates imposed on
the members of the Catholic Mutual
Benefit Association at the 1903 conven.
ton are null and void, on the ground
that the certificate of issuance is
contract, and that the rates announced
in the certificate cannot be increased.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06
Canon City Liquor Troubles.

Canon City. Colo.-Joe Walton and
John d. Lloyd. proprietors of the
Canon City Labor Club, which was de,
stroyed by raid Sunday, were
brought before Police Magistrate ROg-
ers Monday afternoon on charge of
conducting nuisance. They were
fined $500 and costs each. Both immc-
diatcly filed appeal bonds to the
County Court of $500 each. David Har-
ton and Frank Goldsberry, under sim
liar charges, could not be found. AT Il
meeting of the City Council the plan
was outlined to again declare Wal
dron's place nuisance, give him twen-
ty-four hours to close the joint or the
place will be taken charge of by the
officers and will be securely locked.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06
Will Push Canal Work.

New York.-Theodor Shonts, chief
of the Panama Canal Commission, and
John F. Stevens, chief engineer of the
canal, sailed for Colon Thursday. Mr..
Shonts authorized this statement:
THE work of building the canal will
now be pushed and within eight years
the canal should be completed. 1t can
not be said that any certain day
marked actual bN Inning of the work
of digging, for though the type had not
been decided upon, much work had al
ready been done. This is available
for q lock canal.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06
Denver County Commissioners.

Denver.-The Republican county
commissioners of Denver, Thomas A.
Uzzell, Eugene Mccarthy and William
Lawson. are alone entitled to act as
county commissioners of Denver
county states the Supreme Court in
an opinion returned Monday. The
question. came up on the appeal OF the
commissioners flom decision of the
District Court. Frank Anderson and
George e. Smith Democrats. secured
a mandamus in the District Court
permitting them to sit as members Of
the board.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06

hington.-Because of the failure
of the Senate to confirm the lsthm1an
canal commission. President Roose-
volt has named Il new commission con
sisting of Theodore p. Shonts, chair
man; John F. Stevens, Gov. Charles r.
Morgan, Brig. Gen. Peter G. liaines, U.
s 4. tretired), Mordecai Endicott,
civil engineer U. S. N, and Benjamin
NJ IIarrod, members. Mr.. Stevens re.
nlaccs Brig. Gen. Oswald II. Ernst,
who retired from active service in the
army last week and will hereafter de.
vote practically his entire time 10 the
international waterways commission.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06

William Mcpherson and John Tet-
low. who were badly injured by the eX-
plosion of missed shot at the lngle-
side limestone quarries, are Still in the
hospital at Fort Collins, and not likely
to get out for some time. Neither is
aware of the loss of his sight, as their
heads have been kept bandaged ever
since the accident. and they have not
teen informed of that fact.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-04-02
CHELSEA.

Miss Florence West has hcen spending
few days with friends in StralTord.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred r. Goodwin were
in Washington for a day recently, tho
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Downing.
IL. u Trssk and II. ID. Corse OF East
Brookfeld were in town Thursday as
was Elwin g. Harrington Of East
Broolyficld, Thomas Waldo and H. g.
jackson If Willamstown and William
W. Wilson 81 Washington on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Heber West were in
South STAFFORD the frst OF the week
the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Qmmby.
Mrs. Lydia Bixby, widow of the late
4. i. Bixbv Of East Brookfeld, came
Thursday to visit friends and is a
guest at COL n. o. Bixby's
Mrs. Hale X, parling went TO Mont
pelier Friday Afternoon 60 join her hus-
band who has been there during the
week.
Miss Eva +. Jackson has secured the
position Of teacher in The seventh and
eighth grades and principal Of the
graded school AT Grafton, Mass, and viii
assume The duties III her aGN POSITION
Monday, April INA. Miss JAxksoil Viii
be remembered w many astlae daughter
Of Mrs. " II. Spraglle and i'm NJ Short
time Teacher ~ il,e grammar room Of
the high school here g year ago.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-04-02

EAST MONTPELIER.

John Gallison was obliged to have
anothe' operatiog on his leg last week.
He has suffered o long time with run
ming gore ON one leg and is now in hopes
it win heal all right
H. b. Arbnckle and family visited in
South Barre last Sunday at the home
of Howard Arhuckie
john Long was in Barre Thursday on
business.
Frank Mayo aud family leave here
next weak for their old home in Cham.
plain, n. Y.
A. Witham and wife we're in Middle,
sex Sunday and Monday visiting their
son, Ralph.
Richard Doying returned the first of
the Week from visit Of several days
with his daughter in Milan, \. Fl.
Mr.. and MrA A. 9. Whitcher were at
the home Of " II, Fletcher in Barre
Town last Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Vincent returned
last week from a visit in Brattlehoro.
A pound son was born, March 18th,
to Dir. and Mrs. John Gsllison.
There were 40 couples at the dance at
the hall last week.
Fred Strong was in Barre on business
last Friday.
Several extra men will begin work on
this section Of the M. & w. Il. X, Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. +. Robbins were in
Calais visiting relatives last Wednesday.
II. VI. Farnham returned last Satm-
day from the west with carload Of
rs horses.
Mrs. Fannie Foster Of Montpelier has
been in town the past two weeks visit.
ing and family gathering was held
last week in her honor NJ the home Of
her daughter, Mrs. Roy SibIcy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-04-02
ANNUAL SALE, TEN MILLION BOXES
Agents Wanted.

We want the calfshins, hides, sheep
pelts, tallow, bones, etc, collected in
your vicinity.
Can't You arrange to purchase these
goods for us this spring.? We will fur
nish the cash with which to buy; we
will also furnish tags, advice sheets,
taking of directions, cloth posters to
enable you to advertise the business,
etc, etc.
We pay highest cash prices and keep
our customers thoroughly posted ON tho
condition of the market and pay the
freight.
TO any one writing us and mention
ing this paper we will mail full particu-
lars. Address Carroll $. Pays Hyde
Park, VI
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-04-02

To ANY farmer who will write US, men
tioning this paper, we will send free,
postpaid, several formulas for making n
frst-class fertilizer At home, together
with the cost Of the ingredients, dIrec.
tions for mixing, etc.
The Vermont Experiment Station in
Its bulletin No. 1i6 has the following
70 say with reference to the value OF
home.made fertilizers as compared with
Che ordinary commercial brands: "0n
every account, however financial, edu.
eationa, agrieuitural--it is better to
buy tile crude stock and home mis- ii one
uses q ton 81 more
Every up-t0.date iarnie should b.
interested 10 the subject 81 home mixed
fertilizers and ne are IN position 70 Help
thciiL ADDRESS, Carroll :. Page, Hyde
Park. VI.