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The newspaper., 1906-09-28
COLORADO AT THE FAIR.
A Fine Display of Her Agricultural
and Horticultural Products.

81 wish 1 had more time to tell
you about this exhibit" said Mr.
w. g. Brandenburg. who had
charge OF the Colorado state ex-
-ibit at the Interstate Fair last
week, but really there are so
many people here interested in
our state waiting tor me to tell
them about the different localities
where these grains and fruits
were grown that it is impossible
for me to give you the attention
| should.
Did you see that man to whom
l was talking? Well, he tells me
he recently bought a fine fruit
orchard in western Colorado, and
he is nearly as proud of it as a
young chap would be over his
first pair OF red top boots. He
has brought at least score OF
his friends here to see this fruit,
and if it does not mean the ac-
curing of some valuable orchards
in Mesa, Delta and Montrose
counties by these people ! am
greatly mistaken. These fruits
were grown near Grand Junction,
Palisades, Frui a. Delta, Hotchkiss.
Paonia. Cedaredge and Montrose.
"Our apples, peaches and pears
are not surpassed in flavor and
keeping quality. For this reason
our fruit is in active demand on
eastern markets and commands
fancy prices. The profits realized
from a small orchard in our state
are very great. 1t is not an un-
usual thing for our fruit growers
10 net from 500 to $500 per acre
from their orchards.
1--WE are favored greatly in that
we produce such a variety of
farm products. Not only can we
raise the best in quality and yield
in ordinary cereals, but our pro-
ducts include the most profitable
known to the American farmer.
The sugar beet, for example, pos
sesses more sugar and yields a
larger tonnage than those grown
elsewhere. German experts say
that climatic conditions, coupled
with irrigation, renders Colorado
the natural home of the sugar
beet industry. The average net
returns to our sugar beet growers
last year was more than $40 per
acre, and this on land that does
not command higher price than
average land values in the middle
west, Alfalfa, which Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson says is the
most nutritious of all grasses,
yields three and four splendid
crops per season.
I'VE make no great pretension
in the way of being great wheat
producing state, but according to
the government census reports
we produce more wheat to the
acre than any other state. Nearly
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nets made yield of from 80 to
20 bushels per acre. The use of
irrigation methods, together with
our peculiarly perfect climate and
continuous sunshine, insure greater
crops per acre and better quality
than can be secured in portions
OF our country where these con
ditions do not obtain. Here are
oats measuring seven feet in
height and yielding l25 bushels
per acre on a large field in Delta
county. These other grains were
grown near Greeley, New Wind
sor. Fort Morgan, Las Animas,
Monte Vista, Romeo, Montrose,
OIathe. Delta, Hotchkiss, Paonia,
the Plateau valley and Frulta.
1T used to be said, Give Colo
RADIO soil enough water and 1t
will grow anything Within the
last few years we have discovered
that good crops can be grown in
eastern Colorado where irrigation
IS not practiced under the Camp
bell system OF soil culture. The
rainfall in eastern Colorado is
sufficient if the soil is intensely
cultivated and the moisture con
served as it falls to give crafty
ing results.
Here are samples of grains
grown without irrigation in Chey-
enne, Lincoln, Kit Carson and
Washington counties. This wheat
averages 30 bushels and oats 20
bushels per acre. Much OF the
land on which this was grown was
sold by the railways a couple OF
years since at 81 80 per acre. Today
it is selling at from Sc TO $40, and
am candid in saying its earning ca
pacity is greater than much 500
land in the central west The
day OF cheap lands in Colorado
will soon be past. You can put
that down as being official.
1--WE want more people in Colo
RADIO, and we are going to have
them. That is why we are max
ing this exhibit at the leading
fairs of the country. We can
support rural population of
several millions in Colorado, and
while we have never had a boom
in land values of our state it is
bound to come, because of the
great earning capacity of our
land. A man could close his
eyes and invest in the grain or
fruit lands of our state with the
assurance that no difference
where he invests he is bound to
increase his earnings more rapidly
than by any other investment.
This exhibit is not a private
enterprise, but is under the dircc
ton of the Colorado State Com
mercial association, with head
quarters at Denver. Our asso-
citation is always pleased to give
reliable information about our
state, as it is state institution.
This is one of the best fairs we
have attended, and we are pleased
to have found so many who have
interests in our state" said Mr.,
Brandenburg. Sioux City Journal.
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Clinton Martin, of the Grand
Junction Herald, has been up
against it, as the following poetic
effusion proves:
There's steam upon the windows
And peach skins on the floor,
The tables buried under trash, about
mile more
There's juice on the piano,
And grape seeds in the bed
And pulp and Jelly glasses crowd the
pantry overhead
And fathers in the garrct.
And mothers in the stew,
They're rushing round from morn till
dark to get the Job put through.
The cat is choked on sealing wax,
There's solder in her ear
And l guess we're mighty happy now
that canning time is here.
We regret to hear that Mrs. l..
+. Stephens is quite i'll this week
though not seriously it is believed.
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Empty Longevity.
tenlber.

"Pa, Methuselah lived to be very
old, didn't her"
Yes, my son, about $50 years,
| believe; but then, as far as | can
learn, there was just about as much
doing per year in those days as
there is in FIVE minutes now."-EX.
Old papers for sale at this Office,
25 cents per hundred.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-23
ORPHEUM-
Modern Vaudeville.

Knowing that the Christmas season
is one in which the public seeks amuse-
ment without effort, the management
has assembled a bill to include almost
everything good from acrobatics to an
lmpersona5ing actress and from piano
playing prodigy to a troupe Of trained
dogs and ponies. First are the ground
and mid-air acrobats, the Six Glinser-
lettls, Europeans who. toss each other
from shoulder to shoulder and throw
human catapults in double somersaults
The daring of the circus and the finish
Of the drawing room characterize the
performance. Violet Dale, vaudeville s
cleverest impersonator and mimic, re-
turns with representations of Fay Tenn
pleton, Yvette Guilbert and Vesta Vic
toria, the London music hall favorite.
A fierce fight with the risibles is ''The
SANITY Mr.. Billings,' as played by
Emmett Dewey, Herniini Shone, Will
lam Mckee and Will Gaylor. Another
favorite is James H. Cullen, "the man
from the west, who is Just back from
rousing reception. in England. His
songs, stories, parodies and jokes are
said to be funnier than ever. The
artistic Feature will be the brief con
cert on the baby grand piano by the
almost-baby pianist, Willie Eckstein.
For the especial delight of the children
Howard g dogs and ponies have been
engaged. to give an exhibition Of near
human Intelligence. The bill is filed
out by Fred Watson and the Morrisey
Sisters in a singing and dancing act
and the kinodromet's animated scenes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-23
METROPOLITAN
Ezra Kendall in "Swell Elegant
Jones' -

The inimitable comedian, Ezra Ken
dali, returns to the Metropolitan for
the whole week, in his latest comedy
success, "Swell, Elegant Jones.'' MI.
Kendall portrays millionaire, who
made a lucky strike in mining claim,
and with his wife, who is younger than
himself, proceeds to dispose of the for
tune as fast as he made it. He awakes
one morning to find himself ruined A
scheming lawyer, and former sutton for
Mrs. Jones' hand, learning that Mrs.
Jones is about to fall heir to sub
stantial fortune schemes to separate
the happy couple, with the aid of a
female detective. He places Jones in a
compromising situation, and succeeds
in estranging husband and wife. Poor
Jones, no longer called "Swell, Elegant
JONES' is forced to resume the prac-
tice of law. His reduction from afflu-
ence to poverty does not worry him;
his attention is turned to the task Of
winning back his wife: He finally sue,
ceeds in uncovering the deception, and
is restored to home and happiness, and
becomes "Swell, Elegant Jones' once
again. The action is simple, and it's
course is along lines that do not at any
time ask too much Of reason. His com
pany is well calculated to give life to
the characters. The stage Settings are
in keeping with the spirit of the play,
and it is a distinctly tender comedy,
syet funny from first to last.
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the hall to see a man who said his name was
Bulge.
What did the captain give?' he demanded
'Three hundred answered.
"In see him. quoth Bulge
DO you honestly mean that you'll give three
IN the affirmative.
Then I went back to the captain and told
him what Bulge had done. "I'H raise him
fifty" said he. E#
went back again to Bulge, but this time
he shook his head and wouldn't bulge any
further.
Next got up souvenir satin program and
wouldn't print any mans name it unless he
gave $50 for two seats. Also got into a fcti-
ttous argument with Batchelder as to whether
the first opera should be aida or Martha"
and we had voting contest in the morning
paper. Aida won because she was scheduled
to wear diamond crown. The long and short
OF 1t was that we got subscription fund Of
$1,000, and the total receipts for the four per-
formances were $4,000 more!
Griggs didn't have the faintest idea what the
opera was all about. After it was over he came
to George and me and said that it was all very
grand, but he thought in the next show we'd
better have 'less yodling and dancing!"
became manager Of the opera house and
editor Of the morning paper. When my year
was up I went to San Francisco with w. B.
theater In Frisco. One day Bronson Howard
came to the theater and fell to discussing
play that Sothern was doing. why don't
you try to write play yoursef?' he asked.
IT would If I were YOU; I think you have
dramatic instinct" .-2t ...
Then fell to wondering why it was hadn't
tried to write a play. The result was that
wrote 1.-THE Speculator.' The second manager
who read it took it, and Thomas O. Seabrooke
opened In 1t just ten years ago."
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-23
DEWEY
"Parisian Bellies"

The attraction underlined for the
Dewey theater for this week is Tay-
lor g BIPARTISAN Belles,'' company Of
burlesquers and vaudevillians of I'M
usual ability. This organization will
present a new two-act musical comedy
entitled "a Pair Of Peaches,' which
has proved to be a sensation. The
bright musical numbers, of which there
are fifteen, are admirably rendered by
the twenty-four handsome "broilerso
who constitute the chorus. They are
all pretty and winsome, having been
selected from the ranks Of the. more
pretentious companies. Leon Enrol, a
late London importation, will have a
leading part in the comedy. He has
been the talk of the European halls for
two years. Others on the vaudeville
bill are Somers and Law, Dutch com
edians; Charles DAILY, and Kitty
Q 'Brien, Irish comedians; La Petite
Emile, dancer; Sheppard Camp, mono
logist; Reba Donaldson, national char
acter dancer; AL Rice and Sheppard
Camp, the heavyweight comedians (2SO
pounds each), will play the comedy
parts. The scenic investiture as well
as the costumes and light effects are Of
the most artistic order The show also
includes Sawtelle and Sears new nov
city act. An amateur performance will
be given Thursday, go.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-23
LYCEUM-
"Too Much Johnson

Those who delight in crisp, sparkling
humor will approve of the announce
ment made by the Frawleys for Christ
mas week. The play is William Gil
lette's ifarcical comedy, "Too Much
Johnson, " every line of which is bub-
bling over with merriment. Augustus
Billings, having home in Yonkers
with a business in New York, becomes
attached to Bertha Dathis, a French
matron whose husband takes frequent
trips to California. During these alb
sences Billings remains in the city ex-
planning to his wife that he must take
a run down to his plantation in Cuba.
The story opens with Billings prepar-
ing to leave for Cuba when his wife
and her mother announce their inten-
tion Of accompanying him. Billings is
forced to secure passage for Cuba and
to display knowledge of voyage he
has never taken and Of a country he
has never seen. Mons. Dathis tracks
his wife's admirer to the vessel, believ-
ing him to be an Albert johnson and
unWittingly abets the love affairs Of a
youthful couple about to be separated,
the father of the girlssshurrying her off
to Cuba where he PROPOSES to give her
Fin wedlock to the sugar planter, Joseph
johnson. Finally all come together at
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-23
UNIQUE
Polite Vaudeville.

For Christmas week the Unique Of
fers a program replete with sensation
and mirth. Tinkham and company will
present a motorcycle act of marvellous
daring that will appeal to those who
appreciate feats that amaze. A. YER
satile act introducing a humorous song
and dance followed by an acrobatic
performance will be given by the
Meeker-Baker duo. The black-face
song and dance comedians, Taylor and
Fairman, come prepared to deal out "a
dose of laughable African funnyisms.
A bright comedy sketch will be given
by Mason and Fi1burn while Perez and
King promise surprise in their sing
ing and novelty act. The character
vocalist. Eugene Emmett, will give a
group of popular songs and Irene Lit
tle,. whose popularity becomes stronger
each week, has prepared some especial
~ pretty ballads for this week which
will be effectively illustrated. A series
Of new pictures closes a bill that is
widely varied.
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work. That is why the complicated sys-
tenn of medical ethics has grown up.

work. That is why the complicated sys-
tenn of medical ethics has grown up.
Shakspere is once more the target
of some idol-smashing attacks. DR.. Karl
Blelbtreu, German man of letters,
has just published in Berlin a book
called ".The True SHAKESPEARE, in which
plays were not written by ,"the low
comedian, William Shakspere, who
regularly got drunk at the Mermaid
tavern,'' but by ,Rogers earl of Rut-
land. DR.. Bleibtreu makes out very
ingenious case and promises later on
to put it all in drama to be played
on the stage! He was an smithsonian
in the days of the Donnelly cipher and
at that time expressed confident be-
thorship: He has now taken other
ground in his book, but his conclusions
are not as yet accepted by any Shak-
sperean scholar Of note. Another attack
on the bard of Avon, that of Count
Leo Tolstoy, just published, does not
question the authorship, but attacks
vigorously the genius of Shakspere. It
declares that he was not an artist and
that his plays are not artistic, They
| were, Tolstoy says, mere mosaics, Dor
rowed and fitted together ingeniously
and having nothing in common in art
and poetry: He believes the admiration
with which they are universally re-
garded is due to sort Of "epidemic
suggestion - originated by Goethe.
Bernard Shaw, whose anti -Shaksper-
can sentiments are well known, con-
tributes, an appendix to the Tolstoy
work, along similar lines Shaw thinks
s1hi s g philosophy empty, his NOR;
lncoherent, himself full of snobbery,
vulgar prejudices, ignorance and dis
qualifications of all sorts for the philo-
sophie eminence claimed for him. Shaw
admits, however, SHAKESPEARE extraor-
binary literary power, his fun, his MIN
icry and the endearing qualities that
won fol. him the title of "the gentle
SHAKESPEARE.
Also comes Hall Caine to declare that
of all the Shakspere plays there are
only seven worthy to be preserved.
These seven he has not yet deigned to
enumerate.
Nevertheless, the greatness of Shak-
spere will continue to endure.
w. B. Chamberlain.
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BIJOU-
'Arizona. "

"Arizona" is play singularly at
tractive to- all classes. The Bijou is
to be congratulated on having secured
so worthy an attraction as it's Christ
mas week offering. When Augustus
Thomas wrote "Arizona,' the critics
said he had written the best American
play. It is a story Of the lives and
loves Of men and women living in that
picturesque section. The characters
are typical Of new country. Candy,
a splendid old ranchman who dominates
the 'Aravaipa Valleys; his kind hearted
but peppery tempered wife; their two
beautiful daughters childreR of the
plains, veneered with San Francisco
culture; the officers and soldiers of a
frontier cavalry post-those are the
principal types that move and live in
the play. The scenes are on ranch
close to- the Mexican border and Fort
Grant, one Of the United States mill
tary posts, established primarily to
keep the Indians in order. The motive
is simple and the complications which
lead to the denounement,s rational.
The young wife of the colonel, many
years her senior, wearied to the point
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Press Agent Yarns.

One of the most pronounced charac-
teristics Of the extremely youthful
pianist, Willie Eckstein, who appears
at the Orpheum this week is his I'M
spoiled boyishness. He is still. boy
and loves the healthy sports that all
boys love. She oting, fishing, horses, all
delight him.. and it was the first named
of these recreations that came near
having fatal termination for Willie IS
piano playing. In trying to bring
down a bird one day with his "trusty
rifle. he missed the bird, but managed
to shoot his own precious finger. Since
that unlucky day the finger has been
limp and has formed rather serious
handicap to the young performer. He
manages to get. scholarships and other
coveted prizes just the same, however,
and next year he and his father win
journey to Leipsic, where the bows
musical talent will receive further cul-
tivation.
In an Iowa town where The Prince
of Pilseno company played recently
Jess Dandy found in the local school
superintendent an old friend and neigh.
Dor. Mr.. Dandy is a member Of fha
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-23
JniQuo Taylor and Fairman

of despair by her lonely life, has a
passing spasm of romance and is on
the verge of elopement with almost too
transparent villain, when the young
lover of her sister foils the plan, but
at such a critical moment that he must
himself bear the burden Of suspicion
or reveal the wife's frailty to her hus-
band, who has been to him almots
father. With genuine manliness, he
chooses to shield the woman and await
the future for his justification. By
thus sealing his lips, he innocently.. de-,
velops a series of crimes that are high
ly tragic. But when the sun breaks
thru the clouds, one feels that in every,
step his Judgment was, sound and his
has been given to every detail and the
company is made up Of people Of the
highest standing, especially adapted
for the roles they portray.
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the plantation of the real johnson and
as Billings. Miss Clayton will be cast
as Mrs. Billings. The piquant little
Consuello Bailey will play the daughter
who is to wed the "real'' johnson. AS
the mother-in-law, Miss Hill will be in
her element. Fred Smith, new mem
Der, is cast as Joseph johnson, and
Charles Bates as Mons. Dathis. Mon
day will be ladies' night. Wednesday
each head Of every Johnson family in
the city will receive a mplimentary
ticket. Friday the ladies will receive
pictures of Consuelo Bailey.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-23
NEAR DATES
Metropolitan

With Phoebe Davies, Robert Fisher
and the same cast and production seen
in past seasons, "Way Down East''
will hold the stage all of next week.
Joseph R. Grismer's elaboration of Lot
tie Blair Parker's play is now in the
tenth season of success. Mildred Hol-
land will be the attraction the half.
two romantic plays. THE Lily and the
Prince and s A Paradise Of Lies. e
The latter part Of the same week will
witness return engagement Of feThe
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-23
Lyc Gum -~
Goo. Nc ManuS

County Chairman with Theodore Bah
cock in the title role. Jan. 14-15-16
Francis Wilson will appear in his latest
success, "The Mountain Climber. -
Max Figman in "The Man on the
Box is underlined for Jan. 17-1S-19.
The DAILY Musical company come the
first half Of the week of Jan. 20. and
James K. Hackett in "The Walls of
Jericho'' will be the Offering the last
half of the week.
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Orpheum-

Orpheum- =
Next week will be presented as the.
headline feature the Empire City quar-
tet, the most successful four music and
funmakers now in vaudeville; Patrice,
woman with much beauty and great
talent in playlet; the Kita Banzai
Japs. oriental gymnasts; Eugenia Bar
ker, formerly soprano with the Carl
Rosa Opera company; Mazuz & Ma
zette in a novel acrobatic speciality,
"The Tramp and the Brakeman; An
Pero & Wilson, jugglers and barrel
Jumpers. Julius Steger, who comes
with his company in 'FThe Fifth Com
mandment,' the week of Jan. 10, is
now playing with great success in the
Pacific coast houses of the circuit.
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ular comedian, Billy B. Van, in a new
connection, "Patsv in Politics'' The
week Of Jan. Is William A. Brady's
company in The Pit :, will hold the
boards. For the week of Jan. 20 James
j: Corbett, in "The Burglar and the
Lady, will be seen. The week of Jan.
~ will introduce ''Raffles,'' the play
made famous by Kvrle Bellew. This
list of bookings is as strong one as
will be presented by any "popular
priced' theater in the country.
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Bi.jou-,

New Years week will see the advent
Of Harry Clay Blaney, the inimitable
little comedian, in his stirring war
play, "The Boy Behind the Gun" The
week of Jan. will Introduce that pop
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-23

While this sort of dilemma is per-
haps rare IN the life Of the average
many dilemmas involving life and
death beset the physician s daily
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1906-02-16
KaMr. Maize Hogs.

Another consignment of
Plains hogs went to the Fort
Worth market Thursday of last
week and were sold there Sat
urday. A. K. Harp of Plain
view was the shipper, the mum.
Der OF hogs, 81. The average
weight when sold was 2al
pounds and the price received
s5.97t. The top price for that
day was $500, only two lots
bringing it. The Harp hogs
were little too heavy.
These hogs were from twelve
to fifteen months old and were
reared, fed and finished on
Kaffir corn and maize.
AS The News has frequently
stated, hogs on the Plains are
good money getters.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1906-02-16
From TuIia Standard.

Hayden Donaldson came down
from Canyon City, Sunday, to
work in the Tulia Bank, and
Jim is going to Canyon City to
work awhile.
Another victim of the small
poX-the fourth-haS occurred
in Prof. Ferguson's family. So
far all the smallpox cases have
been confined to one family. If
all our citizens will cordially
cooperate with the health au-
thorities, there will be no cases
developed outside of the Fergu-
son household, in which the
disease in Tulia originated.
On THE RoAD.-Last Tuesday,
lumber for the following new
buildings in Tulia was reported
to be on the road overland: