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La Junta tribune., 1906-07-25
New justice Precinct

At the meeting of the board of
county commissioners last week a
new justice precinct. to be known as
Justice Precinct No. 10, was Great
ed, making ten in all in Otero
county. The new justice precinct
embraces Swink and vicinity. ID.
S. Dean was named as justice Of the
peace and S. NJ. West as constable.
An effort was made to induce the
Mayor of Newdale to officiate as
justice Of the peace in the new pre-
cinct, but the mayor says he was
born great. has achieved some dis
tinction. and will not have further
hon ors thrust upon him.
La Junta tribune., 1906-07-25
as they lived. The names and pos
itions of the players and the score by
innings is as follows.
Souvenir Postal Cards.

The TRIBUNE mas added three ad
ditional scenes to the series of
souvenir postal cards, printed from
the cuts which were used in our New
Years edition. They include the
view of the court house park sur
rounded by business blocks, scene
on Colorado avenue looking north,
and the Santa Fe shops and round
house. They are on sale at the
Palace Drug Store, Postoffice Book
store, La Junta Drug Company,
Coltman's and Potter's.
La Junta tribune., 1906-07-25
Biooms Girls lose Out.

Six hundred people witnessed the
first game Of baseball on the new
ball grounds at the east end Of First
street last Sunday. The celebrated
Bloomer Girls, most Of whom are
smoothfaced, good looking boys,
when off duty, were the attraction,
and in very interesting and close
game with the local team met de-
feat by a score of 6 to 4. Not a
score was made on either side until
the fourth inning and the game was
hard fought throughout.
The local boys say that Lady Wad-
dell is a star twirler, with terrific
speed and all of the curves and drops
known to the profession, and admit
that they were unable to hit him"
safely at any stage of the game. In
the first half Of the ninth inning,
when the Bloomer Girls saw defeat
staring them in the face, they tried
to smuggle into the game a horrid
man. who officiated as their mana
ger. with the hope Of winning out
by q safe hit or two. The La Junta
team kicked and the blooming girls
picked up their dolls and things and
announced that they were going
back home and would never speak
to the La Junta boys again as long
La Junta tribune., 1906-07-25
free tsnss Along Santa Fs Railway.

A folder containing much valu-
rble information about the free
United States government lands
along the lines of Atchison, Topeka
4 Santa Fe Railway Company has
just been issued by the colonization
department of the road, at the head
of which is Charles l.. Seagraves.
This folder, among other things,
contains synopsis of the home
stead and desert land laws of the
United States, together with the
acreage Of land tributary to the
Santa Fe system lines, which are
available under such laws, and a
brief description of these lands.
Adequate maps showing. the loca-
ton of these lands are in the folder
and these show much land in Kan
sas. Colorado. New Mexico. Okla
homa. Arizona and California. There
is no government land Of any de-
scription in Texas, ali the vacant
lands in that state belonging to the
commonwealth, and are sold by the
state.
La Junta tribune., 1906-07-25

Last week N. Finity, accompanied
BY George Dreasher. who is totally
blind, went to Denver to consult an
optician in regard to his eyes. Two
Of tie best opticians in Denver ex-
amined him and pronounced his case
hopele1. Only . year ago Mr..
Dreasher could see as well as any
body. Today his eyes are forever
closed to the light, beauty and
grandeur Of this world. What .
I'D fate to . young man Of twenty
five years Of age. The loss Of his
eyes;ght is due to . fall Of forty
feet from . bridge.
Mr.. Dreasher is . young man OF
GOOD principles and strong character
and much sympathy is felt for him
By those who know him. He hss .
Ruvefnnent claim on Horse Creek
"a = veil known in East Holbrook.
vhere he has lived for five years-
He = not discouraged, but takes his
miufostune - phslosophicaIly - any
Spe esuld. He . entirely at - -
% wAne ~ future eoarse shan ee.
- = fnn Il hepe - = dssesnined
= nahe II ~ Il ~ oSDegtuiti1.
La Junta tribune., 1906-07-25
W AND pcvs IME VALLEY.

The editor of the Rocky Ford
Gazette has made the discovery that
that burg has eleven miles of cement
sidewalk.
/ Three men We're killed by strokes
of lightning at Dodge City last week
and one at Garden City. Fatalities
from lightning have been unusually
numerous in western Kansas this
year
Bent and Prowers county will soon
have an irrigation district similar TO
the Otero, the election last week, in
which the entire qualified vote was
cast, being unanimously in favor of
the project.
A track laying machine is now at
work on the Holly e. Swink rail-
road. About three-fourths of a
mile of track per day is being laid
and il will not be long now before
the road vii. be in operation.
The Great Western Sugar Com
pany has offered magnificent solid
silver loving cup, valued at $500 for
the best state exhibit of sugar beets
at the exposition of irrigated pro-
ducts at Boise. Idaho, during the
National Irrigation Congress. Sep
tember Sd to sth inclusive.
The statements of the two Lamar
banks on July lst show about S4lO,-
600 on deposit, and the three banks
in the east end of the county will
run this total up to over 5000, 600.
This is quite tidy surplus for
county with population of about
1880 of ali ages Register.
Owing to the unusually cool
weather during June and July can
taloupes have not done well and
there will probably be no shipments
until late in August. The first set
ting on has not done very well, the
damp weather causing a great many
to rot and drop off the vines.
The municipal contest case, now
in the district court, Pueblo, will
come up for hearing July 26th. The
attorneys for the license aldermen
will make strong fight for post
ponement, hoping to stave off the
final hearing until October. The
no-license attorneys will make a
plea for immediate action.
The Fowler Cattle Growers Asso-
citation has been more successful in
the number Of calves found in their
herds this spring than usual. The
fine growth of grass on the range
last year enabled the herds to come
through the winter in excellent con-
milton. The spring round up fur
nished 1900 calves for the branding
iron.
BerRerman Bros, of Pueblo. have
opened branch store at Swink,
starting Tuesday. At present they
will conduct the business in tenn
porary structure 60x25 feet in di-
mensions, but expect to erect a
permanent building later. +. 7.
Kreider installed an eight light FTP
lighting system for the new store
Rocky Ford Tribune.
The adaptability of the Arkansas
Valley to apple culture may have at
some time been over-estimated, but
due prominence has never been
given to the cherry as money
maker. As q sample Of what a
cherry orchard will do we will give
the experience Of Paul Gervais, Of
Grand Valley. He has 200 young
trees from which he will sell a total
Of 1900 gallons. These he has sold
at Is cents per gallon. making a
total Of $500 from q small orchard.
The cost of picking was five cents
per gallon, which leaves a net profit
i OF 32 per tree,-Rocky Ford Enter
La Junta tribune., 1906-07-25

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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-13
IMMIGRATION TO THE SOUTH

A steamship with 800 Italian immi-
grants is on the way from Palermo to
New Orleans, this being the beginning
of a bi-monthly immigrant vessel SER
vice inaugurated by the Italian Royal
Mail Steamship company which has
been promised for the southern port
for some time. A dispatch from New
Orleans a few days ago stated. that this
is one of the initial steps toward in
creasing the immigration to the United
States through that port and practi-
cally stamps with approval the effort to
turn the tide of immigration that. way.
The coming steamship will arrive in
about ten days and the immigrants will
be distributed throughout that section
among the sugar plantations and cotton
fields, where it is said the demand for
labor is daily becoming greater and
more imperative.
A New Orleans paper notes that labor
In cotton and cane fields is badly
needed and the encouragement of immi-
grafton seems to be the only sure
method of solving the problem. 1t is
stated that of the immigrants coming
the majority are farmers and peasants
and Immediately. upon their arrival in
this country are practically ready to
take their places in the cotton and cane
fields. Hence the steps to encourage
the turn of the tide of immigration and
to bring into the country through the
port Of New Orleans greater numbers
of those wishing such employment as
the fields and farms AFFORD. 1t is esti-
mated that at least 5000 immigrants
from Italy will be brought to New Or
leans annually. -tt ~. g.-s
Coming here with a definite purpose
and with opportunities for employment
open 10 them on their arrival, there can
be no doubt that these immigrants will
/ be of great usefulness in the localities
where they may be distributed and will
in due time become desirable citizens
According TO the report, the people TO be
brought here are more or less familiar
with the kind of labor which will be
offered them and consequently can from
the start perform it efficiently. They
will not of course, come here under
contract, but simply with an understand
ing OF the class of work that is available
TO them, and which they will be entirel!
free to accept or not on their arrival
The south is urgently in need of NOR,
labor. For several years am earnes
effort has been made to draw immigra
ton to that section, whose rapid de
yelopment has created "A demand 70
labor in excess of the native supply
Moreover, the negroes of the south. i
appears, can no longer be generally de
pended upon as they could in forme
years. The Italian hnmigfants ar
suited TO the climate and there is n
doubt as to their faithfalnesss and relia
bility. Their coming viii attract others
very likely some who land at northern
ports, 80 that in the not. very rcmot
future the south viii probably. be We
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-13
POLITICAL DRIFT.


The reform mayor OF Marion, o., declines
to put on the lid. but he puts chronic
topers on bread and water rations for forty
eight hours.
A st. Louis policeman has been forcibly
separated from the public crib and given
two years in the penitentiary for fracturing
laws he was hired to uphold.
Secretary Taft worked off twenty pounds
of his surplus flesh by recent exercise. His
letters on various Official matters give evil
dence of increased elbow power.
Former Governor Willis ]. Bailey of Kan
sas paid 1920 to the state treasury in
settlement Of grocery bills which he put on
the state. The money came late. but it was
good
The railroad employees at the union ticket
Office In Albany report the largest sale of
tickets this year ever known on the first
day of the legislature. This is due to the
passing of the pass.
An unknown Philadelphia. who over
charged. the city on some job returned
81 1850 to the city treasury on the first of
the year. Thine incident almost knocked
Father Penn off his perch.
State Senator Anderson of North Caro-
lima wants $4,000 damages from the chair
man of the republican central committee
because the latter failed to deliver the
goods-a promised job in the federal SER
vice.
1t was noted that Governor Pattison of
Ohio did not throw stones while occupying
the famous glass cage.
Congressman Longworth of Cincinnati in
tends to seek reelection next fall and defy
Boss Cox.
Eight important departments of the New
York City government are headed by
trained newspaper men, with the mayor as
chief of staff. That the metropolis will get
ideal public service may be accepted with
out further inquiry.
Worse than swearing by the thine gods
of war is the declaration of the new
commissioner of police of New York City
that II shall always remember here that
some one else pays the bills" And Tam
many needs the money.
A bunch OF nutmeg buttinskys has
placed the Connecticut supreme court in
an embarrassing position. The court is
asked to decide whether its members are
entitled to a raise in salary voted by the
legislature, in defiance of the constitutional
provision prohibiting changes in salaries
during official terms
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-13
Slow Pace of Justice.
Dnrt1a M nrAonnta


The slow pace at which justice some
times moves when millions are involved is
noted in the verdict rendered few days
ago by Judge Coke of the United States
circuit court in New York for $3.50, 3SS
against Edward L. Harper the wrecker Of
the Fidelity National bank of Cincinnati
eighteen years ago. 1t is necessary to
brush UP ones knowledge Of ancient his
tory in order to recall the circumstances
of this disastrous bank wreck. Having
evaded penalty thus far Except for PAL
try six years spent in PRISON., it is probable
that Edward L. Harper will find means
further to delay payment and finally to
outwit justice. He is at present vice presi-
dent and general manager Of a s6o,oOo.oOo
steel corporation, and amply able to pay,
with interest, the money he fraudulently
appropriated nearly score of years ago.
But that is another story. the sequel Of
which will not be written as long as this
prince of bank wreckers can help it.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-13
PROBLEM FOR THE COURTS.
Has the seller a Right 10 Boycott
Buyersf
Chicago Record-Herald.


Chicago Record-Herald
Sometime ago we directed attention to
a Philadelphia case in which a federal dis
trict court held that an interstate combina-
ton of wholesalers and dealers to boy
colt a retailer for refusing to adopt GER
tain price schedules was illegal under the
Sherman antitrust law. The decision
practically laid down the principle that
commercial field was a restraint OF trade
within the meaning of the phrase as used
In the trust act,
dictum In that opinion intimated that
any individual merchant or corporation
might lawfully refuse to deal with any
particular purchaser. but the point was
overlooked by most Of those who COM
mented upon the case. Now the question
as to the right OF an individual merchant
or firm to boycott a customer for any rea-
son whatever, or even without any reason
at all, has been directly raised in a New
York suit in which a firm engaged I'm the
wholesale and retail tobacco trade is the
plaintiff and the Tobacco trust the defend
ant. The latter, having vainly tried to in
duce the plaintiff to sell to II his property
and business, refused to furnish him with
any supplies. He alleged that this boycott
injured his business. and claims 100000 in
damages Has he g cause CT action? And
is it a material fact that the defendant
corporation controlled nine-tenths OF the
tobacco trade?
Judge Marean of the supreme court
holds that no action for damages can be
founded on the admitted allegation Of fact
In the case. The state law under which
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-13
NO RETALIATION intended

There is very naturally a good deal OF
interest being felt i'm portions of this
country as to what may be the decision
of the Dominion tariff commission.
This is especially the case in New Eng
land and in part Of the northwest,
where the sentiment in favor of reel
procity with Canada is more or less ex-
tensive. The commission has not yet
completed its hearings, but It is so near
the end that those who have given care
full attention to the progress of the in
quIry are able to form a tolerably cor
rect Judgment of what will be the out
come .'..'
According to what appears to be trust
worthy opinion, the tariff commission
will not favor any retaliatory duties
against this country. 1t was under
stood to be the original plan Of the
manufacturers to urge rates all through
the manufacturing schedule of radi-
cally protective character but 1t APP
pears that petitioners for such duties
have been turned down by the commits
sioners all, along the line and the same
fate has befallen advocates of retalja-
ton against the United States. In
stances are noted Of certain interests
that have appeared before the commits
sion and urged an increase of duties for
the particular Industries represented
which have received no announcement,
but on the contrary have been told at
least in effect, that the policy contem-
plated does not look to any such
changes in the tariff as would operate in
a retaliatory way upon American trade
with the Dominion. tSg
If these reports correctly represent
the situation there seems to be no reason
to apprehend any serious interference
with the commercial relations between
the United States and Canada through
any notifications Of the tariff law of
the latter country. 1t is impossible. Of
course, to foretell just what changes
will be made, but the present indica-
tions are that they will not be very
extensive or very radical, and that per-
haps the most important will be in in
creasing the preferential in favor of
British manufacturers, though it is, by
no means certain that even this will be
done, since the Canadian manufacture
ers would manifestly be losers thereby.
What they desire is more protection
and they want this not only against
American competition, but also against
that Of British manufacturers. They
argue that they cannot grow and make
prosperous progress without such pro
lection. They are quite ready for any
sort Of concession to British manufac-
turers IL given a higher tariff against
the competition of the United States,
but If they cannot have the latter they
will oppose the former. What now
seems probable is, that there will be nc
tariff conflict between Canada and the
United States, as some have feared
would be the case. There will be
changes in the Dominion tariff, undoubt
eddy, but as now indicated they will moi
be so general or so radical as to materi
ally affect our commercial relations with
| that country. i
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-13

the suit was brought prohibits straint OF
trade, but is refusal to sell goQks restraint
of trade? Can a corporation He compelled
to sell to any would-be custoHler? Must 1t
do business with anyone who chooses to
patronize It? No. says the 4purt; the law
does not attempt to force npn or corpora
tons engaged in an ordinary business to sell
to any and every custom@. The boycott
ting corporation may bel very powerful,
but that does not affect its right. This
boycotted in that case srtply suffers from
the lawful power that go$b with control of
an industry or trade. HI has no remedy,
unless a contract to sell has been violated.
In these days of greatS combinations the
boycott weapon can be fused with disas-
trous effect. 1t is very important to have
1t determined whether the right to boy
colt, the element of conspiracy being alb
sent, exists even where the law expressly
prohibits restraint of trade. The highest
court OF New York will be appealed TO by
the plaintiff In the case in question.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-13
THE COMMON WAY.
Somerville Journal.


Ten resolutions standing in line.
One day he got mad and swore-
Then there were nine.
Nine resolutions, sober and sedate,
Some one asked him in TO drink
Then there were eight.
Eight resolutions, pointing UP to HEAVIER
Some one gave him cigar
Then there were seven.
Seven resolutions, all as square as bricks.
He told little lie ~. s-
Then there were six. -.
Six resolutions-how they do survived
He talked about himself t|G.
then there were five. ftt~t
Five resolutions-would that there were
more!
He used a bit of slang
Then there were four.
Four resolutions cheerful as can be.
He skipped his cash accouns-
Then there were three.
Three resolutions, so far tried and true
He got into an argument go
Then there were two,
Two resolutions, shining in the sun
He stopped to hattery-
Then there was one.
One resolution. pitiful to see.
He stayed at home from church-
oh, dear me! rr
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-13

The voice of the venerable Keifer of
Ohio, who twenty years ago presided
over the house of representatives, is
again heard on the floor of the national
machine shop. Keifers temperance
was very reminiscent and his vociferous
defamation recalled the charge Of the
Light Brigade, with muzzle-loaded can
non roaring in front OF him and
muzzle- loaded smooth bores belchine
forth thunder 10 the right and TO the left
of him.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-13

Now, as ever, patronage is great
bone of contention between the presi-
dent and members OF congress, and II
will continue until an absolute divorce
is decreed between the legislative and
executive branches of the government
1t was so in Great Britain up to the
first quarter OF the last century, but
since the abolition of parliamentary
office brokerage there has been no trou
BILE experienced by the administrators
of the British government.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-13


Admiral Dewey's recent statement that
the middle west furnishes most of the en-
listed men of the navy is corroborated by
the dispatch from Washington, giving the
navy departments latest tabulation. OF
the present total enlisted force of S0,S04
one-flfth is provided by the states of IL
linois, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri,
Wisconsin and Nebraska. Pennsylvania
makes good showing with 2,754 enlisted
men, holding third place In the union, New
York being first with 5.54s and Massachu-
sets second with 2.s71 Illinois leads the
middle western states with 1.512. 1t is a
curious fact that those who have been
brought UP to the sea as a profession do
not always make the best man-of-war s
men. Those dwelling farthest from the
sea are often the most eager for life
on the ocean wave.