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La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-08-22

IEeft Will Or z uAfscR Al nox9
Greek, Friday night. August oath
Las AninAs has just organized q
silyer-plzted band Of twenty-five
pieces
The Arkansas Valley Railroad +
past Shelton and pushing It's way TO
Horse Creek
The first car load of ezntAieupes
left Rocky Ford last Tuesday night
bound for New York.
The La Junta Hardware Company
Is agent for the Schwzb Safe and
Lock Company. They have safes for
sale from SIS up
C. Il. Diehl. Of Rocky Ford. is
now at work on the cement foundz-
tions for twenty-three beet dumps
along the line Of the Santa Fe.
S. Frost Hickman. formerly Of
printerorial circles in La Junta. IS
nov running the Dispatch. at Cen
ter .Saguache county. this state.
The plans for the sugar factory At
Las Animas have been received by
Manager Fred Weitzer and work on
the foundation will be in progress in
a few days.
Since January the sugar factory
at Sugar City has shipped out seven
ty-nine ears of molass<s and the
Gazette says most Of il will be con-
verted into pure maple sugar
Newman II. Lewis. an old-time La
Junta boy who has been the lessee Of
the GranAda Times for several
months. has purchased that paper
from the owner. d. H. Dickson.
The Bent County Fair Is scheduled
for September 18th. 10Th and 2lst.
IL will be a strictly harvest home
gathering" this year. the circuit
fixed races" having been eliminated.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has expended 81. 600 in improving
the Lamar telephone system and
now boasts Of the most complete
and modern equipment Of any small
city in Colorado. sufficient to accomo-
date the business Of town Of 10. 600
people.
ID. II. Bane and Company's second
homeeeker's excursion To Lamar
brought in l02 people from the cen
tral states who we're looking for
new homes or investments. As a
result of this excursion over 200
acres Of choice irrigated land were
sold to members of the party. La
mar Sparks.
The first car Of cantaloupes ship
ped from Bent county this year left
Melontield Friday. August 10th. The
car contained 26s crates which were
gathered by members Of the two
melon associations. Local ship
ments continue strong with prices
ranging from $3.50 to 500 per
crate. Las Animas Democrat.
At a recent meeting of the Rocky
Ford school board it was decided to
raise the tuition of students from
outside of the school district who
attend the schools, as follows: Those
attending the grade schools to pay
two dollars a month. those attend
ing high school. three dollars a
month. and should the commercial
department be installed a tuition
Of $3.50 per month will be charged.
II is interesting to read the ebul-
lition in the Lamar papers regard
ing the railroad situation in the Ar
kansas Valley. They seem to take
it for granted that because the Ar
kansas Valley railroad has been
transferred to the Santa Fe that the
Holly & Swink road has also been
sold to them. Mr.. Wiley assures US
that there has been no sale Of the
Holly 4 Swink railway. Holly
Chsoftu,r
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-08-22

CoLoRaDo's acres in farms in
creased from 4,jS9.9 in 1890 to
9,i7i .5Ss acres in 1900.
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-08-22
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La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-08-22
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST p. 1856

ths is1eslos of tlr-- disi-iea.
. " 81 tho santa Re railway. 81
- mil~- ---t a kAEs., cii,. i.i
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oaekiDe shop-. -toreho1-~. addition 70 roand-
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0sesop-,iitAn con ns~ni-see- n~e<t-d by city OF
GIS tppalstion. Including nany nil~- of
hsSsb sidSvsit-, . p>rf~<s sy-s~o sf -ssssary
a0DsraE~. an electric Light plant vhiet sup
49, - sll-dsy and all nisht service, vat~s-
0ssts evs~i by the city, plant for the nsns-
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soplszias fv~aty f,e mem esnsinx fseypsy.
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La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-08-22

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La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-08-22

the largest the Arkansas Valley outside of
IL Peho This celebrated for its fair and square
esng In is accommodating and liberal; but IT Is
fu and exactng There is only one way to do business
and that Is PRINCIPLES, and this applies
- 80 bs,L Than any other Don't blame the bank
tss follows this rgid. and don't you must
~ vnr vii fail Come bank want to borrow.
want 10 Law up money money to be safe and
5rsvr small of want money order
want safe place TO keep you private papers
and vauables If YOU to do banking business
Ia Juna growing with wonderful stride There Will be
xrea during than $O go in buildings and
hic this there will be
Il Junta from factory the building OF the
railroads the outgrowth OF the
te fully another 10000 The improvements are as follows
NsxH High
nsaSh~ry ---. .--- -
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Ma Build
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Charlevoix county herald., 1906-06-02

hers, whose birth has given monu-
ments and loving tribute to both liv-
ing and dead Southern heroes. Her
object In uniting the women Of the
South was to bring them together, to
pull shoulder to shoulder with the
Confederate veterans in extending all
necessary aid to the needy survivors of
the war between the States; to protect
historic places of the Confederacy; to
record the part taken by Southern
women, as well in untiring effort after
the war in the reconstruction Of the
South as in patient endurance of
hardship and patriotic devotion dur
ing the struggle; to honor the memory
of those who fell in the service of the
Confederate States; and to cherish
ties of friendship among the members
of the society.
She worked for years striving to
organize the United Daughters Of the
Confederacy before even her own
association of which she was presi-
dent would cooperate with her in call
ing a convention and inviting other
Daughters of the Confederacy to unite
i'm forming a national association. At
this time, besides being President Of the
Tennessee Daughters, she was a men,
Der of the National Conference Of
Charities and Corrections, the .ational
Prisoners Association, and the National
Humane Association. and was edu-
Gated up to the point where she could
see the advantage Of consolidating the
scattered forces of Confederate work.
ers who were few and far apart. Her
work with the national associations
showed her the great possibilities in
concert of action, and, having time,
means, and social influence to back her
in the work, she determined to carry
out her plans, and unflinchingly fought
opposition from start to finish. The
result was that on September 10, 1894,
the Society Of the United Daughters OF
the Confederacy was organized at
Nashville, Tenn.
When the TenneseeanS announced
little over a month ago that they pro-
posed to have a portrait Of Mrs. Good
lett painted and placed in the museum
at Richmond, Va, appeals came at
once from the chapter Of the States re-
questing that they might also con-
| tribute toward honoring their founder.
The requests were complied with and
the portrait was unveiled at Nash
Vile, Tenn, June 8, 1905.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-06-02
MEMORIAL DAY.

No memorial day, or Decoration
Day, as 1t Is more generally known,
has ever come around, since after
the institution Of the observance, more
than thirty-fve years ago, when a
better state Of feeling existed between
the North and South. and between
the men who fought in the war, than
now. There has been a decided ten
dency this year to all sorts of Blue and
Gray proceedings. The Grand Army
posts ana the Confederate camps have
mixed themselves up in q most genial
way.
This does not mean that the special
value of the day, to the northerner, as
commemoration of the services and
death of the Union soldier has lost its
fine edge On the contrary, it has
gained in zest The soldier died for
the Union, and those who lay flowers
on his grave cannotdo so without think
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-06-02

I made out a reQuisition for half a
dozen brooms and he signed it. When
| got to the store l showed it to the
sergeant in charge and he laughed at
me.
"'You must get it signed by the
major he said.
81 finally hunted up the major and
he told me that the order must be on
army form 790,S97K, and not on
foolscap. 1 told him that my party
were recruits and we had no station
cry. He told me to go or to send to
Washington and get some. l explained
that this would take long and that the
brooms would not do any good If we
did not get them sooner. He then
asked if the lieutenant was the COM
mander Of my corps. l answered that
of course he was not. Then l was
told, he must put under his name
For Officer Commanding
81 went back to camp, and after
writing out q new requisition had the
desired improvement made. When 1
returned to the major he explained
that it was all wrong. Instead Of
saying required for such a regiment
and company, six brooms,' / should
have concluded it with 'brooms six
| scratched out the line and rewrote
1T. l was then told such corrections
were not allowed, and a new requsi-
ton was necessary. | drew up q new
one and asked if it was all right.
The major reluctantly said he thought
it would pass. / then rode back to
camp and got it signed. Taking it to
the ordnance store l was informed that
nothing could be issued on such an
,rder. 1t had to be registered. 1 asked
for. further particulars, and was in
formed that this could be done at the
majors Office. Once more l trotted
back and eventually corporal placed
my paper under q little stamp and in
fiicted mark something like no.
tary's seal. Again 1 went to the ord
nance store.
6" is this all right now l asked.
YES answered the sergeant. It's
a bit irregular, but it will do
"'May have the brooms nowT
"'You can't have them at ALL an
swered the sergeant, severely.
why, in Heavens name, can't ~
Because he replied as he turned
away, we haven't any. We are all
out Of them.'"
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-06-02
ANTI.MONOPOLY LAYS.
Regulations In France Which RigidIy
Prohibit the Cornering of Neces-
sary Commodities.

1t seems that our antitrust and mon.
oply crusaders might learn something
from the methods employed in our
Sister Republic of France. There,
are limited in their opera
lions of "cornering" commodities. This
applies particularly to those products
which are considered necessities Of
life, such as grain and its products,
bread, meat, wine, vegetables, fruit,
butter, vinegar, coal, wool, silk, etc.
Any "cornering'' of such articles is a
criminal offense in France. 1t has been
so, with varying forms of penalties
dealt out, since 1893. The offense has
been made so broad and sweeping that
1t now includes all persons who de-
stroy or permit to perish merchandise
OF prime necessity, whether 1t is their
property or not.
The criminal code prohibits mani
pulations tending to bring about an
advance or fall In price that is not
warranted by the law of supply and
demand. The law does not include
tobacco, of course, for tobacco is a
government monopoly and controlled
absolutely by 1t. The punishment met
ed out to the vioiators Of this law con-
sists Of both Imprisonment and fine,
the term and amount being measured
by the magnitude Of the offense. In
addition to this the offending manu-
facturer, merchant, or manipulation has
his factory or business establishment
placed under police supervision, the ex-
pense Of which he pays for from two to
five years. There is no more trouble
in handling offending corporations
than individuals Every director or
employee In a managerial capacity is
responsible. For second offense, the
penalty is so severe that it would re-
suit in the determination of almost
any establishment.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-06-02

Lesson challenged anybody to show
single resolution passed by an organ
lied body of farmers favoring this
species of graft"
Mr.. Mondell held the attention OF
the House until he had concluded, and
his speech was the one cool, dispassion-
ate episode of the day. "The question
u.s." said he, "Shall we continue to en-
dear ourselves to the hearts of our
constituents by distributing among
them few packages annually of seeds
of unknown vintage and uncertain
heredity of the fragrant onion, the
luscious rutabaga, and the humble but
glorious-'the kind that mother used to
make-pie promoting pumpkin, or shall
we, with Spartan self-denial, forego
this ancient and potent promoter or
our claims to craftsmanship
Mr.. Mondell concluded by CONFUSING
! the House with a famous poem writ
: ten by the poet lariat" of his State
on the subject under discussion by
the House.
When Mr. Cocks, the representative
Of President Roosevelt's district on
Long Island, began to denounce the
free-seed evil he soon had the House
by the ears. Messrs. Sulloway and
CONTINUED on next page)
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-06-02
Granted.

At the Grant family dinner Major
General Frederick D. Grant told this
story on himself:
Il was booked to speak at large
dinner in town and the POSTMASTER
felt it incumbent upon him to make
my path as smooth as possible. he
therefore spoke of my father and said
1 strongly resembled him. This had
the desired effect on the people present,
and they gave me their best attention:
Although I spoke as well as could,
felt that everyone was disappointed
in me and 1 sat down with relief that
it was over.
"The postmaster rose and smiled
at me. Then he said to the guests:
"'Didnt 1 tell you he was just like
his father? He can't speak worth
cent"
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-06-02
Joys i'm Tree Planting.

In the early spring the tree fakir is
thriving upon the fad for foreign trees
and shrubs. About the time the snow
disappears in early spring the tree
fakir takes his grubbing hoe, his prun-
ing shears and ball of twine and goes
into the woods. There he grubs up tree
sprouts-sumach, oak, alianthus, hick-
DRY, beech, poplar, chestnut-or almost
anything else will serve his purpose.
These he trims and prunes and ties up
in bundles for removal to the place
where they are to be stored.
When the spring tidying up of the
home garden commences the tree fakir
makes his appearance in public. He
will show pictures of rare japanese or
Chinese or Mexican or East Indian
shrub trees and offer to supply you
sprouts at a figure that is most invit-
ing. You see an opportunity to get q
plant worth $12 for 81, and then you
think of the envy which that queer,
red-leafed, wide-spreading bush will
excite in the breast of your neighbor-
and you buy.
BY and by you shout with joy and
call your wife out to see the tiny
leaves, and then you begin to brag and
look down upon your neighbors. You
invite them in to see the wonder, and
you talk learnedly of horticulture in
Japan or the East Indies.
And then your glorious tree bursts
into leaf-when you discover that you
have bought an ordinary, common,
everyday sumach or a maple, or, per-
haps, scrawny little peach tree. Then
you lie in wait for him, and you meet
with another disappointment. He
doesn't come around any more.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-06-02
HOUSE FOR FREE SEEDS.
LOWER BRANCH OF NATIONAL
LEGISLATURE PASSES THIS
APPROPRIATIONS.
Members Of Congress 'Fiaze'' Op.
ponents of Free Seeds.-COnfusion
Precedes Final Vote on BiI..-Agri.
cultural Oratory.

When the House Of Representatives
took up the agricultural appropriation
bill, quite a discussion arose over the
elimination of the usual free seed item
by the committee on agriculture. The
House gave to the country during the
days of debate, spectacle that else
where than on the floor Of that parlia-
mentary body, would have been known
as trough house."
There was great tendency to
"haze" members when they spoke in
defense of the action of the committee.
Much was said about the attempt to
strike down the Woodworking farmer
and take from him that helping hand
in the shape of free seeds which had
been held out to him for so many
years.
None Of the advocates of free seeds
emphasized the fact that the total val
lie Of the package containing five
small packets which forms the quota
sent to each farmer cost the govern
ment "a cents, and that each member
had the enormous sum of $3.50 worth
of these seeds to distribute among his
entire constituency. The arguments
advanced sought to prove that the
withdrawal of this subsidy Of less than
2 cents to each farmer would drive the
entire agricultural voting strength of
the country into bankruptcy.
ELOQUENCE ON TAP.
Some of the speeches made will 60
rolling down the corridors of time
as specimens Of that matchless elo-
quence always on tap in the House of
Representatives when a great national
issue is up for consideration.
= Mr.. Henry, Of Connecticut, submit
ted innumerable letters from his con-
stituents and from organized oranges
urging the adjustment of the free-seed
practice. Mr.. Mondell, Of Wyoming,
delivered himself of a humorous
speech in which he poked fun at the
Department. Mr.. Burleson, OF Texas,
opposed free seeds because ne did not
believe the intelligent farmers of tine
country expected the government to
aid them in lAeir business. Farmers,
under all circumstances, he said, had
supported the government and never
expected the government to support
them.
Mr.. Burleson paid his respects,
rather sarcastically, to certain men,
bers who advocated free seeds on the
floor and then in the cloak rooms
sneered at the "Reubens" and "hay-
seeds" who demanded them. Mr.. Bur
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-06-02
RED TAPE IN DAYS OF '61.
The Best Way to Get Brooms Was
to Beg the Money and Buy Them.

A veteran Of the civil war. in COM
menting on the so-called Panama
circumlocution Office, gave some anus
ing "reminiscences of the working Of
the rep tape" during the days of 1861.
II was quartermaster sergeant in a
New York regiment and had been
detailed to assist in handling a bunch
of recruits" he said. "At the end of
the first week 1 discovered that we
were out of brooms, and when 1 re-
ported the matter to the lieutenant he
told me to stop off at the ordnance
store when l rode in to get the rations.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-06-02
Is OLD AS HE FEELS.
AT EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS, SENA.
OR PETTUS DISCUSSED At
BEING CALLED AGED.
Constituents Idollze Him-But They
are Preparing to Hold an Election
to Decide on Successor-in Case He
Dies.

TO DecIde on SucceSS0r-in case lie
Dies.
Something unusual is happening in
Alabama. The people unanimously
want Edmund Winston Pettus to con-
tinue to serve them in the United
States Senate as long as he lives. Yet
they are preparing to hold an election
to decide upon his successor. The rea-
son is that when Senator Pettus' pres
ent term expires, in 1909, he will be
SO years old, and the election is to be
held because Alabamans fear he will
not live longer than that. But Grand
pa Pettus is indignant. He says he
is as spry as he was at 60 and that he
expects to live out the whole six years
of another term. He is candidate for
reelection on the platform: "a man
is as young as he feels"
Senator Pettus had reached the time
for chloroforming, according to the
so-called Osler doctrine, back in '63-
about the time he was performing
deeds of daring in defense Of Vicks-
burg, fighting with the Confederate
army. 1t seems that the situation had
become desperate; volunteers were
called for forlorn hope. A brigade
of reckless Texans offered for the
service, and Pettus offered to lead
And he did lead-led where fight was
hottest, and at the head of the column,
his six feet four looming large in front,
that protruding lower jaw set on TAX
ing those works at any cost. Where
that tall figure rose and that black
straight name waved those Texans
followed. They loved him for his dar-
ing, and when all was done and they
learned that he was from Alabama
and not from Texas they insisted on
adopting him for their State, and by
one acclaim he was christened "Old
Texas" Pettus was a FortyNiner.
He rode from Alabama to California
on horseback with a company Of some
forty of his neighbors. He was mere
lad then of twenty-eight, but had al
ready had adventures in the Mexican
war, in which he fought. At eighty
five his record is said to be something
like this: Enjoys a game of cards,
reads his Bible, loves flowers, runs no
bills, carries a red bandana, calls his
wife sweetheart, has fund of subtle
humor, and being Senator who works,
hasn't time to think whether the Grim
Reaper is twenty or only ten years
off. That, his friends believe, is a
good enough platform in itself.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-06-02

Daughters of the Confederacy. No
one but a woman of such force of
character united to the social training
that comes from inheritance through
long line of ancestors, together with
parliamentary experience, could have
conceived and firmly established in so
short a time society that now num-
bers 10000 members.
Mrs. Goodlett is very modest in
speaking Of this cherished child Of
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-06-02

| ing of the Union and its sacredness.
But the Union is now secure forever.
The rancors of war time are dead.
The work of the hero of that war is
complete. There is now no further
occasion for maintaining the conflict
that he had part in.
At the side of the soldiers graves,
in this year of 1906, many stalwart
grandsons of men who are buried
there will stand with flowers in their
hands. 1866 was a good while ago.
A certain amount of the decorating
this year will be done by veterans
great-grandsons. For there were old
fellows in the ranks of Bull Run and at
Gettysburg on both sides. But there
were youngsters, too, and thousands OF
these we have with us still. They are
honored above all other men, and pro-
perly, on Memorial Day. 1t is their
day. Nothing can be more impressive
than their annual turnout. 1t is the
nations most beautiful spectacle, and
the honoring of it weaves into Amer
lean lives the enduring pattern Of
patriotism.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-06-02

what of subscribers at Crockett, Texas
writes
The March number of your excellent magazine is before
1t is certainly filled with helpful articles, and would be
glad that every family in Texas had the benefit of its
teachings. The first article in this number, Homecroers
Garden should be preserved for reference THE ARTICLE
HEALTH IN HOME FOLLOWED WOULD SAVE
SICKNESS Anything that can do to assist
you extending your circulation in Texas will be gladly
DONE"