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The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15

caught his breath Just as Bobby Shaw
her divorced husband, had done sew
eral years ago in Old Virginia. And
this was not strange. Waldorf Astor,
always breathing in the compressed
air Of his fathers house, timid, re-
firing and studious by nature, had not
much opportunity for young girls
society, and almost never that Of
American girls. To him Mrs. Mamie
Shaw was revelation. For seven
months he wooed her, and at the end
Of that time he was three fourths
American and four-fourths in love.
Glowing, he followed her across the
Atlantic.
1t is only fair to young Aston to say
that he has never been so aggressively
British as his father, who spurns al
most everything American, or his
younger brother, John Jacob, who Is
an out-and-out Englishman.
EXCLUSIVE WEDDING SERVICE.
, The wedding, which occurred at
London in May, was a very quiet af-
fair, only II invitations being sent
out for the ceremony. The bride made
the loveliest picture, standing, as II
appeared, in a bed Of lilies and roses
near the chancel. A work Of art, In
deed, was her wedding gown, for II
was made of the most expensive silk
obtainable, adorned with rare old lace.
Among the many wedding presents,
the most notable was the Sancy dia,
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15

mond, given by Mr.. Astor to his
daughter-in-law, which LATER on is to be
reset and worn on her presentation at
court. This historic gem belonged to
Charles the Bold, the Duke of Bur
gundy, and fetched 100000 at the sale
of the Demidoff collection in 1865.
1t was secured by Mr.. Astor some
years ago from n millionaire parsee,
Sir G. Jeejeebhay, for $4,000. Mr..
Aston also gave one of the finest tiaras
in London, (Which cost more than
100000, as well as the title deeds to
Cliveden mansion and estates, with
the many treasures he has added
thereto, including magnificent suite
of old Chipperne furniture, and some
wonderful French china, originally
from Versailles, and once the property
of Empress Eugene. The value of
this latter gift probably exceeds So
100000.
1t is understood that the young
people plan to make their home at
Cliveden. In 1898 Mr.. Astor purchased
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15

people to picnic and to walk through
that part of the property lying along
the river The American millionaire
threw them out and threatened them
with the utmost rigors of the law.
Now that he has settled the estate on
his son, the inhabitants of Cookham
and Maidenhead on the Thames
surrounding hamlets-are delighted,
for they believe that young Astor will
at once give orders for the cancel
lation Of the many strict orders against
trespassing made by his father-orders
which turned all the riverside folk in
to bitter enemies of the American
millionaire.
Great walls surmounted with broken
glass to protect the Astor vegetable
garden spoil lovely views from the
public road, and anybody daring to
picnic in the Cliveden woods, as in
the olden days, Is at once threatened
by keeper with Imprisonment.
1t is believed that young Mr.. Astor,
who is very popular with rowing men,
will abolish these feudal and dis.
tasteful regulations.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15

blended into one about the tine when
the tiger met the man. l was q
realist in the age of the ronanticists
l described at some length, both verb
ally and plctorially, the untimely end
of that wayfaring man. But when the
tiger had absorbed him, l found my
self slightly embarrassed as to how
my story was to go on. 1t is very
easy to get people into scrapes and
very hard to get them out again. was
my sage comment on the difficulty;
and l have often had cause to repeat
this precocious aphorism of my child
hood. Upon this occasion the situa-
ton was beyond me, and my book,
like my man, was engulfed in my
tiger"
At Stonyhurst, and also at Field
kirch, in Germany, Doyle's literary
inclination was shown in the editor
| ship of school magazines. In 1876 he
returned to Edinburgh and took up
the study of medicine at the univers-
| ity there. where he remained until he
| obtained his diploma, five years later.
| In 1880 Dr. Doyle left the university
to make seven-months' trip to the
| Arctic seas as unqualified surgeon on
board whaler. There was very little
demand for surgery aboard the Hope,
| anu ne utstTlDeu HIS CDleI OCcu-
patton during the voyage as being en-
| ployed in keeping the captain In cut
| tobacco, working in the boats after
fish, and teaching the crew to box
he utilized his experience later in his
| story, 1.-THE Captain of the Polester"
Two years later, in 1882, after a
| four-months' voyage to the west coast
of Africa, he settled down as med
| ical practitioner at Southsea, in Eng
| land, where he remained until 1890.
| Those were arduous and trying years,
in which he came to regard the calls
of the profession he had adopted as
Interruptions in the real work of his
| life, and found that the writing of
stories was very slender prop upon
which to lean for livelihood. Fifty
little cylinders of manuscript" he
| says, did l send out during eight
| years. which described a regular orbit
among publishers, and usually came
back, like paper boomerangs, to the
| place that they had started from"
| All this time he was writing anony-
mously, and during the ten years of
his literary apprenticeship, he states
that, in spite OF unceasing and untlr-
ing literary effort, he never in any one
year earned fifty pounds by his pen.
! Then, in 1887, appeared in BeetOn's
NnrlStlnaS Annual story from his pen
called "A Study in Scarlet" 1t is a
significant point in the authors career,
| for in this story Sherlock Holmes
made his first appearance. 1t was
published later in a book form, and
went forth as his first novel, and i'm
mediately began to attract attention
| Under these favoring circumstances
he undertook the writing of Micah
Clarke" 1t was completed after
years reading and five months writ
ing. and represented the most am
bilious and hopeful work the author
had yet accomplished. But it came
back to him from one publishing house
after another, until he began to des-
pair of its acceptance. 81 remember"
| he says, smoking over my dog-eared
manuscript when it returned for
Whit of country air, and wondering
Continued on second page. column two.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15

Rear Admiral Fighting Bob" Evans
were found to be in the way. Dis
patches from the metropolis say that
the supervisor of the harbor of New
York called on Admiral Evans and
served a formal notice on him that
the ships We're taking up too much
room in the river, and were seriously
interfering with navigation. While it
was admitted on the United States
vessels that they We're well out in the
usual channel taken by steamers, they
could not anchor further inshore on
account of the shallowness of the
water.
There is probably no place in the
world where the great white and buff
ships of the American navy show off
TO better advantage than in the North
River. The dozen warriors strung a
long at anchor at intervals of about
100 yards stretching from the foot of
riverside Drive at 72nd Street to
Grants Tomb at 125th Street and =
yond. When Prince Louis of Batten-
burg had his British armored flyers in
the New York port they We're given
berths in the North River and only Il
few weeks ago the Paul Jones French
ileet was in the stream. The New
York people could not be inhospitable
to these tl-ets on account of the inter
national aspects of things, but when
the American ships arrived, waiting
their turn to go to the repair docks
they were ordered to move away and
give the tug boats and scows engaged
in the Hudson River trade chance to
pass.
During the short stay of the fleet in
New York the battleship Illinois in
dragging at anchor suddenly ripped
open Standard oil pipe line laid a.
cross the bed of the river. This line
1t seems was not ch~rted and no one
In authority seemed to know just how
or when it got there, but nevertheless
the Standard Oil Company had been
pumping thousands of gallons into
New York City through it every day
for years. When the Illinois fouled the
pipe line the officers on board the ship
could not imagine what the anchor
had taken hold of until the surface of
the river became a shining mass,
bright with the hues of petroleum
Before the pipe line could be repaired
more than $1,000 gallons of good
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15

says Crawford was in good health and
good spirits.
While Mr.. Crawford was in Beirut
American missionaries attempted to
dissrade him from entering on the
trip, and pointed out to him the great
danger of the undertaking. He was
firm in his resolve. however, and left
on January 9th.
Before departing the skater left his
itinerary with DR.. Williams, an Amer
lean dentist, whose guest he was tenn
porarily. Crawford's intention was to
strike out over the hard road to Bag
dad, which is about 500 miles from
Beirut Thence he intends going
southeast 300 miles to Bassorah, at
the mouth of the Euphrates and near
the Persian coast. He was undecided
whether he would travel by land or
sea over the 1900 miles to Belooch-
istan
His plans included many excursions
through Beloochistan, journey
across the Gulf to India, and a year
or more in that country. He purposes
to accomplish all this on money he
may earn along the way.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15

The author of "The White Com
pany," "Sir Nigel" STUDY in Scarlet"
and other Sherlock Holmes stories
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-was born
in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Mar
%. 1859. He comes of an artistic
family, and is the grandson of
John Doyle, the famous politicai
caricaturist, whose Pretoria
sketches appeared for more than
thirty years under the initials of II.
b." without disclosure OF the artist s
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15
WARSHlPS NOT WANTED.
"FTGHTING BOB'' EHAN'S SHIPS
ORDERED TO LEAVE NEW
YORK HARBOR.
United States Battleships and
Cruisers distractions to Naviga.
tion-Thousands of Gallons Of OIL
Released by Fouied Anchor.

New York City in its hurry and rush
of business did not seem to stop for
patriotic reasons to enjoy the sight OF
a dozen United States warships an
chored in her harbor. The American
fleet riding majestically at anchor in
the North River, attracting the at
tention of thousands of sight-seers,
was requested to move on" The
stalwart battleships and armored
cruisers with their great length AMI in
command of no less a parsonage than
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15
Traversing Russia on Roller Skates

A caravan which recently arrived
at Beirut from Bagdad reported hav-
ing passed near the city of Unah
about 200 miles east from there. an
American named Arthur Crawford,
who left that port early last month
with the intention of proceeding
through Asia Minor and India on in
struments which he called road
skates. The leader of the caravan
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15
President Believes in Exercise.

President Roosevelt once rather
shocked mothers meeting by an
nouncing that boy who wouldn't fight
was not worth his salt. He is either
a coward or constitutionally weak. I
nave taught my boys to take their. own
part. I do not know which l should
the more punish my boys for. cruelty
or fiinching. Both are Abominable."
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15
NEW RAIL AUTOMOBILES.
Each Machine Runs Independently by
Its Own Motor.

Tho craze of autoists to build pal
ace touring cars for pleasure trips
has caused railroad corporations to
dabble in the novelty of motor vehicle
transportation. Some of the unique
cars that patents have been applied for
are certainly freak products.
y car that resembles huge steel
gathering ram has been completed at
the shops of the Union Pacific rail
road, at Omaha, Neb. 1t is big
steel structure especially designed
for climbing grades and run by its
own gasOlene motor, over standard
gauge rails. On its trial trip it de-
veloped a speed of forty miles an hour.
climbing, it is said, grade of 20 per
cent
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15
An Expert Opinion.

will alcohol dissolve sugar."
1T WILL" replied Oalde Soaque; at
will dissolve gold. brick houses, and
horses, and happiness, and love, and
everything else worth having"
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15
RACED THE STEAM CARS.

1t was given its first long-distance
trial on April 18th, when it left Omaha
as the second section of train No. 1,
known as the Overland Limited.
The motor car gained on No. 1 to such
extent that at Fremont, 46 miles from
Omaha, the motor car was held on the
block six minutes. Owing to a
heavy wind and meeting trains from
this time on, No. is schedule was not
maintained; however, the total time
of the motor car from Omaha to
Grand Island, 1886 miles, was :
hours and IL minutes, with delays
amounting tc 40 minutes on account
of orders, meeting trains, etc. The
ACTUAL running time for the 1886
miles was 4 hours 81 minutes. or 81
miles per hour. There was no delay
whatever on account of the motor car,
and the machinery was in almost con
slant motion from Omaha to Grand
Island. On the return trip April 10
the actual running time was hours
10 minutes, or 1868 miles per hour.
From Elkhorn to South Omaha, n
distance of 24.3 miles was covered in
30 minutes, or AZ miles per hour.
A maximum speed of SO miles per
hour was attained on this trip.
NallrOau OllclulS Witnessing THE
machines trial trip expressed much
qualification. Some of the officials
go even so far as to predict that the
gasolene motor will ultimately revo-
lutionize interurban railroad trans
pOrtation.
SCHEME OF VENTILATION.
This machine has several new ar
engagements, the most conspicuous of
which is the ventilation of the cars.
The windows are round, similar to
port holes on steamships, and are air,
water and dust proof. The cars have
entrance in the middle instead of at
the end.
The new method of ventilation fair
ly well avoids the close and sometimes
foul atmospheric conditions so often
encountered in electric and other trans
portation cars, sufficiently so as to
predict complete success in this di-
rection. The vibration and noise of
the engine We're largely eliminated
and mechanism of the car worked
splendidly on this trial run.
The cars will accommodate sixty
passengers each, with comfort. They
have every modern convenience, and
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15
OFFENDED THE PoPULACB.

After acquiring it, Astor had an
opportunity to show himself more ex-
elusive than the Duke OF Westminster.
That potentate and all previous owners
of the estate had allowed the common
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15

Standard oil went Swimming down the
Hudson into the ocean. There appears
to be no way in which the oil company
can collect for fhe petroleum thus
wasted, rs there is no official chart
showing the location of the line in the
river bed.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15

will be devoted especially to touring
parties throughout the West. The cars
will be run either separately or in
trains. In the latter case one car can
easily be fitted up as a combination
observation dining car. Later on
equipments for transforming the cars
into palace sleepers will be installed.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15
GIBSON GIRL Welded.
MRS. MAMIE SHAW, SLSTER.LN.
LAW OF ARTIST, BRIDE OF
WALDORF Aston.
One of the Five Virginia Beauties
Daring Horse Woman and Fond OF
Exercise.-FiveM Million Dollar Eng
Iiah Estate a Wedding Present..

A "Gibson Girl is the talk of all
England, for she has married young
man of that country. who is heir to an
estate of more than 100000, 900.
The bride is none other than Mrs.
Waldorf Astor, and sister-in-law of
Charles Dana Gibson, the celebrated
American artist.
! Mrs. Astor is one of five sisters, all
natives of Virginia and belonging to
family numbered among the F.F.V's.,
standing high in the aristocracy of the
South. She was Miss Mamie Lang
horne and later the wife of Bobby
Shaw, from whom she was divorced.
All of the Langhorne sisters are re-
markable beauties, paying particular
attention to every detail of face and
figure. A Virginia lady who knew
them in their girlhood days stated that
their rules of living were something
like this: Breakfast early and exercise
briskly for an hour or two. Have n
luncheon and exercise again, this time
riding. Luncheon again and then a
long vigorous tramp or a cross country
ride to hounds, just for the pleasure
of it, then hearty supper, then long
walk in the southern twilight, and then
bed"
SPLENDID WOMAN RIDER.
With strong horse beneath her, and
the pack in full cry, to see Mamie
Langhorne riding to hounds was Il
sight for men and gods. In the days
of her girlhood, at the Deep Run, in
Virginia, she was Diana stirruped, and
1t is no stretching of facts when
one avows that men came from far
afield just to see her, with her pink
cheeks aglow and her fair hair loos-
ened to the breeze, pound the sod in
a madcap abandon for the brush.
Nothing daunted this young Virginian
in the way of ditch or fence, hill or
hollow, and at 16 she was famed as
the most intrepid and brilliant horse
woman in her native State.
Two things won for Mrs. Langhorne
Shaw the heir of William Waldorf
Astor: the beauty of her being, when
on horseback, and her bubbling ir-
repressible Americansm. Youpg As
tor, when he beheld her in her glory
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15
cL1vEDES MANSION ON THE BANKS OF THE THAMES

the beautiful country house from the
Duke of Westminster and paid ST.
100000 for it. Cliveden is situated In
the heart of the boating and picnicing
region of the Upper Thames.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15
SHERLOCK HOLMES.
CREATION OF MOST WONDERFUL
AND PULLING OF DETECTIVE
CHARACTERS.

Sketch of Discourage of Conan
Doyle to Break into the Field OF
observation-disclosures Regularly
Returned.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-11

II? Does the American laborer? Go
+ ask the man who produces these ex.
ported wares thus dumped aboard. |
/ nave been criticised for saving that
| | would prefer to have the American
manufactures sell his products abroad
cheaper than at home rather than
nave the foreign producer sell his
wares in America cheaper than at
home This is the same as saving
that | would prefer 70 have the pro.
ducts of our factories close foreign
shops rather than have the products
OF foreign shops close our factories
wish all the world wen. but if any.
one has to be out OF employment il
there must be suffering somewhere,
then ! will use my best efforts that il
come nor nigh my country. If. to ac. |
complish this, II shall be necessary
that | pay more for my clothes. more |
Tor my shoes, more for my sewing
machine, more for my Typewriter.
more Tor the barbed wire used on NV
Iowa farm than is paid for the same
articles in Europe, then | will not oh.
Iect SO long a. the products of Ameri
can farm feed. and the products of
American looms clothe, and the pro
incts of American labor generally
upply every need Of. those who pro-
luce these things thus sold abroad AT
edaced prices. ! will consent TO paw
little more than otherwise would
'e necessary to the end that the pro-
ucts of American labor shall be put
N foreign markets. b
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-11
SHAW POINTS OUT
Concluded from First Page

| ne able successfully to compete with
rivals who always have the benefit
OF cheap labor and frequently of non
dutiable and untaxed material.
The policy of allowing drawbacks
upon the expectation of manufactur
es into which dutiable raw material
has entered is in strict harmony with
The principle of protection. The pro
tactive principle ayowedly and in fact
gives the American producer an adj
vantage within the American market.
but but no economic policy can give
the American producer an advantage
over his foreign competitor in the
foreign market.
The Republican party from the time
OF it, birth until now has protected
the laborer who produces for the Am.
erican market in every way possible
for man to conceive.
Republican laws against contract
labor are OF The same class. But for
these laws manufacturers would 20 |
abroad. hire laborers at the European
scale OF wages, and bring them TO
This country under contract to work |
bc!o| ihr American scale This was
g. lac Practice 10 the prejudice
iui ony Of labor but TO the prejudice
e .fcricaI farmer as we'll Low
ne s. compel poor living and poor
manufacturer also. for il restricts the
-lsiEptiyc capacity of the country.
The Republican parry gives the Am,
arican manufacturer for the foreign
market, however. every possible adj
ianiage except that of cheap labor.
No law can protect the American pro
lucer In the foreign market. hence
ne exporter of the product of Ameri.
an labor is given the cheapest DOS
ible raw material. If II be said that
his is to the advantage of the export
T. ! rely that it aids quite as much
Aose whom the exporter employs.
While those who supply the ordinary
leeds OF these employed artisans ars
enefted also.
But what shall be said of this prac
ice as a policy? Is the practice bad
per sep Who suffers because of
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-11
JOSEPH PHILLIPS DEAD.

milwaukee,, Wis. Sept 1O.-Joseph
Philips. aged 81 years. well known in
hre insurance circles throughout the
country and at one time MAYOR of
Milwaukee, is dead.
Inc best Ii aIwsys the cheapest.
Advertisers uss the usIleti..
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-11
TO KEEP SECRET
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whom Herring lost his money PLAYING
the horses. This method of procedure
is well defined by the statutes but f.
is not quite certain that a judgment
against the persons named in this
connection could be enforced with any
results for the reason that they gen.
orally have nothing for which attach.
ment might issue. Criminal prosecn.
tion will be made II the state can con.
NO, the persons who assisted in the
gambling operations with knowledge
Of the means by which the money was
obtained. That connection is the hitch
that arises in the consideration Of
the criminal side of these cases.
Calls Herring Liar.
Herring Is a liar when he says that
the clerks in the bank had full knowl.
edge OF the the affairs of the bank"
said John 5. Gullickson. one of the
clerks at Stensland's financial palace.
yesterday.
1T is true he said that Frank
Kowalski and myself bad an idea that
something was wrong with the saw.
ings accounts and We went to Stems
land and told him about it, He prom.
led 10 fix it all up. None of US had
any general knowledge Of the crook /
edness Of the bank. We did not know
OF The methods that were employed by
Stensland and Herring"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-11
TWENTY-SEVEN HURT
When Southern Pacific Train Was
Wrecked Near Santa Barbara Cal.

Santa Barbara, Calf, Sept. l0.-The
second section of train No. 10. south
bound on the Southern Pacific Coast
line from San Francisco, was wrecked
at Sea Cliffe, a siding 20 miles south
of Santa Barbara today.
Twenty-seyen PERSONS We're injured
two of whom may die.
The wreck occurred at a point
where the roadbed runs very near the
sea on slight emcankment Some
parts of The engine broke and dropped
on the track causing the engine to
leave the rails. The baggage car and
four coaches followed and all topped
over and slid down the embankment