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The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29
An Intricate Question.

Denver.-Is a blind man eligible to
become a naturalized citizen of the
United States? II he is, how about the
provision in the statutes by which an
applicant for naturalization must be
able to read and write the English Ian
guage? These were the puzzling ques-
tions put up to the United States dis
trict attorney.
The clerk Of District Court in Col
orado wrote to the United States at
torney stating that blind man had
applied for naturalization papers. The
court clerk had never had blind ap-
plicant before and he was doubtful
about his eligibility under the statute
requiring that an applicant be able to
read and write. In his perplexity the
clerk wrote to the district attorneys
Office. the place that is supposed to
contain all the knowledge there. is on
federal law.
Assistant District Attorney Ralph
Hartzell wrote back to the perplexed
clerk that he thought 1t would be safe
to give the man his naturalization pa
pers.
The applicant had two good eyes
when he came to America. but lost his
sight in a mine accident.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29
DENVER MARKETS

Denver Union Stock Yards. August
26.-Receipts of cattle last week were
not as heavy as the week preceding.
and prices advanced about a quarter
on good grades. The demand was bet
ter than the supply and the market
closed in nice shape. Beef steers were
scarce and nothing here good enough
to land above $3.50, at which price
some good eastern Colorado steers
sold to packers. Fair to good killing
steers ranged from $3.50 down to 81.
Cows were wanted If good and sold
well at higher prices, but common
COWS continue dull. Best western
Colorado killers brought 1886 and
bulk OF the fair to good grades ranged
from this down to $2.S5, with common
COWS all the way down to 81. Bulls
were in good demand at steady prices
Veal calves firm to a shade higher,
tops now selling up to &C. Feeder and
Btocker trade was very quiet, as sup
ply last week was extremely light. The
demand for good heavy steers was
very strong and buyers could have
used many more than they were able
to get. Choice light stockers are also
in very good demand, but the com
mon steers are still little dull. as
the demand is light at all points.
Hog receipts were fair. but under
good demand all sold readily. Prices
were lower early in the week until
on Thursday bulk of the hogs offered
sold at $5.60@5.65. but later the mar
ket reached somewhat and bulk of
hogs are now selling around $780,
Sheep receipts were fair and demand
very good. Lambs are lower, however,
on account of big declines East, best
now selling around $7.15. Wethers
and ewes are weak. but not a great
deal lower.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29
Left-Handed "Innardsv No Bar.

Terre Haute, Ind.-Ira c. Salyards,
with his heart, liver spleen and
lungs on the other side of his body
from their proper positions, has been
accepted as an able-bodied soldier in
Uncle Sans army after six months of
examinations and deliberations by
army surgeons. He has stood all the
tests they could invent to discover If
his transposed viscera made him in
capable of performing the duties of a
soldier.
Although not frequent, many cases
have been reported of the heart being
on the right side of the body, but it
Is said that there are only forty cases,
in all medical history, of such derange-
ment of mans "innards" as the X-ray
disclosed in this stalwart interurban
motorman.
When six months ago the depart
ment at Washington was asked for in
structions the department declined to
pass on the case and the recruiting
officer sent Salyards to the barracks
at Columbus, Ohio, where he was
tested in many ways. He was given
long fatigue marches and stood them
as well as could be expected of any
able bodied man. He was kept on
duty all night and the strain had no
more effect on him than it would have
on normal man, and SO it was with
many tests.
Salyards, who is thirty-four years
old, recently became a widower, and
this led him to decide to enter the
army He had known from boyhood
that his heart was on the right side,
but the X-ray disclosure that his lungs
were SO disarranged that the arteries
entered from the wrong side of his
body. and that his spleen and liver
had been specially placed for him,
came as surprise. He is six feet
tall and weighs It's pounds. He was
reared on farm in Sullivan county
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29
Mines Coal From Sliding Mountain.

Meeteetse, Wyo-T. B. Mcdonald,
formerly of this place. is making ar
rangements at Katalla, Alaska, to rob
sliding mountain of its contents
while the frosts of winter hold it sta
tionary. He owns fine deposit of
steam coal at the base of the moving
mass and during the summer has been
taking out several hundred tons day
near the surface. AS soon as the frost
YIELDS the mountain to its base for the
winter he will bore as rapidly as pos
sible to a greater depth and will take
out as much coal as he can before next
summers thaw again starts the noun.
tain moving. When movement again
begins there is little probability that
the deeper workings will not be de-
stroyed. but mining near the surface
can still be continued. The mountain
in which Mcdonald is working is one
of the curiosities Of Alaska. 1t slides
yards season.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29
Ate His Trousers.

Wooster, Ohio.-Mr. and Mrs. John
Moore of this city entertained a busi-
ness friend of the husband over night
Friday and when he went away he
wore pair Of Moores trousers. In
driving in the suburbs of Wooster the
visitors clothes became stained with
mud. Mrs. Moore volunteered to clean
them while he slept and hung them In
the yard to dry.
The Moores' COW swallowed the
trousers In the early morning, the last
leg disappearing as Mr.. Moore went
out to get them for his guest. Other
articles OF wearing apparel had disap-
peared, but the COW hitherto has es.
capped suspicion. This time, however
she was caught red-tongued, SO to
speak.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29
Ebert County Tribune
). E. Pops, Editor and Publisher.
HILBERT. COLORADO.
Literary Criticism.

Mr.. Shan F. Bullock complains that
literary criticism is becoming namby
pAmby. "Considerateness" is the
prevailing fashion in 1t. One English
journal. noted for its trencbant re
views of books, was rebuked for ita
harshness the other day by brother
editor. who innocentiy observed that
the publishers would soon cease send
Ing volumes for notice. II nicer things
were not said about them. Critics
must be "considerate." This is yari-
ant Of the old phrase to the effect that
they must be Constructive" Honest
1y interpreted, that meant that the au-
thor must be coddled, not told of his
faults; and that the public must be
fed on sugar-plums, not warned OF
Impure or indigestible food. Consider.
hteness. as Mr.. Bullock remarks, is a
most excellent thing. We ought all
TO be as kind as we can. But there
are higher virtues. sterner obliga-
tions. One of them is to be sincere.
And II critic feels that he is set
for the defense of the truth, and has
literary standard to maintain. In
stead Of merely making himself bait
for advertisements, he Will often dis
cover that the truest kindness is to
be severe. The older and more saw
age criticism may have sometimes
been unfair. but at any rate 1t was
never insipid or dull. This. says the
New York Post, cannot be said Of the
new style of "considerate' criticism.
1t may create new geniuses every
week, out of the most unpromlsing
material. and may note the appear
ance OF 20 masterpieces in single
publishing season, but 1t certainly
does cloy one. 1t makes many OF us
look back, with Mr.. Bullock, longing.
iy" to the old "ramping days of Hen
ley" the roaring Nineties," when
"the artists of the rapier and the
bludgeon had their way"
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29

Berlin has recently been astonished
by the appearance of messenger boys
In the American style. to take the
place In some respects of the red
capped Dienstmanner who have so
long done the errands OF that city. At
q loss for a word to describe these
new arrivals, the Berlin public has
had to use the English words, after
trying all sorts of substitutes, such
as Eilbuben (Hurry-boys)-which
plainly does not apply; and Berliner
Blitzhasen lightning hares)-obvious-
ly sarcastic. But Messenger boys"
js pretty hard combination for the
Berliners to master, and it is rapid
ly becoming Messing-boys, which, lit
orally translated, means boys OF
brass"-by no means an ill-ftting
designation II the Berlin youngsters,
are like their New York confreres.
At FIRST the general public mistook
them for English naval cadets or a
new division of the Salvation Army.
Now their mission is recognized, and
30 far as the experiment has gone,
they bid fair to become permanent
institution.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29
ALBERT s4Arrea Is CLEARED
coroner's Jury Gave Verdict Of Justl.
fable kiIlInq.

Golden. Colo.-Albert Shaffer, who
shot and killed Grant McQueary at
shaffer's crossing. thirty miles south
of Golden, was given his liberty at the
conclusion of the coroner's inquest
held here. The jury found that Nc
Queary came to his death by a wound
caused by a shot from a rife in the
hands OF Albert Shaffer, and that said
wound was inflicted by Shaffer In the
necessary defense of his life.
The only eye-witnesses to the shoot
Ing were Charles Shaffer, a brother of
the young man who did the shooting.
Pearl Shaffer. wife OF Charles. and Will
bert Matthews. thirteen-year-old boy.
who was at the Shaffer ranch at the
time. All told the same story Of how
McQueary had come out early Friday
morning. had accused Bert Shaffer OF
stealing ties which he had piled on
tract of government land near by and
had finally attacked him. first with a
rock, and later with a piece OF gas
pipe five feet long.
Young Shaffer stated that he knew
McQueary had a violent temper and
when angry would use anything he
could get hold of as a weapon. He at
tempted to run away. but when finally
cornered. grabbed his rife and shot
without turning around to take aim.
The bullet pierced McQueary's heart
and he died instantly
Other witnesses who testified we're
Charles B. Coatney, who came upon
the scene Of the tragedy a few minutes
later, and DR.. d. E. Garvin of this city,
who testified as to the extent OF the
bruises on young Shaffer's body as the
result of McQueary's blows.
No one appeared at the inquest to
say word in behalf of the dead man,
although 1t Is said that In there own
neighborhood there is considerable
feeling against the Shaffer family. For
many years McQueary has been con-
nected with the lumber interests of
southern and western Jefferson county
and lately has lived with his wife and
two children on mountain ranch ad-
joining the Shaffer place.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29
Judge Finds wora Too sorrowful.

New York.-Magistrate Fred House
Is about to resign his position on the
bench and turn farmer. He says he is
going up to the Maine backwoods,
away from the noise and hustle of city
life and the long lines of sad faces
which his duties of magistrate obliged
him to gaze on morning after morning
until the sight sickened him. The un-
dercrust of city life which he saw
turned up in the courts sometimes nine
hours in the day; the broken tale of
some wife whose husband had beaten
her; the cases which recalled to him
SO often Hoods "Son of the Shirt" I"
have SO worked upon House that he
would certainly collapse should cir
cumstances prolong his term much
longer.
House found that he was unable to
listen unmoved to the recital of all the
narrowing details which were poured
into his ear day by day. Often after
some peculiarly distressing case he
has been seen in tears, and he said
this morning that his work on the
bench has placed him under a more
severe strain than he ever suffered
before.
81 finally realized that / ought to
yield to the advice of my physician
and my friends" he said today. "They
have for four or five years importuned
me to go away from the maddening
crowd. ! am going to remain on a
farm of 160 acres in Maine for a few
years somewhere near the water, and
shall turn farmer. l shall Just have
to forsake the noise and the things l
see here every day"
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29

The common custom of that part
OF the world which calls itself civil
fzed is to seclude its choicest art prod
ucts in museums and galleries, where
they are seen only by the small pro-
portion of people willing to go out
OF their way and to spend time and
money in visiting them. Japan and
some other countries, which, accord
ing to prevailing Anglo-Saxon ideas,
have not yet fully emerged from a
state of barbarism, have made art
part OF the common life, so that even
the humblest citizen is familiar with
beautiful handwork. 1t has occurred
to some leaders of thought in Dem
mark that acquaintance with artistic
achievements should belong to the
general education, and to that end
a plan is being developed for display
ing the work of Danish railroad sta
tions. II the scheme materializes 1t
will be interesting to watch results
At least the public will learn to know
what artists are doing, and II 1t is
really true that art, hung on the walls,
is educative and uplifting, then peo-
pie will derive a benefit they do not
get from museums.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29

The Kokomo movement for a spe-
cial fee from lovers who use the tele-
phone lines will meet general approx
al. remarks the Indianapolis Star. On
party lines it has become an insuffer-
able nuisance. If they ever said any
thing worth while It would be diff
ferent, but to keep dozen people
hanging to receivers in hopes of use
full information and give them only
sweet nothings" is an imposition
that calls for redress.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29
JUDGE LYNCH
HANGS A man
MURDERER PULLED FROM TRAIN
AND STRUNG UP TO BRIDGE
BY THE NECK.
BODY FILLED WITH LEAD
NEBRASKA MOB GROWS iMPA'
TENT AT DELAY OF LAW
AND ENDS 1T ALL.

Bancroft, Neb.-Maddened by the
delay In the course of the written law
in the revolving murder case OF Louis
Ray Higgins, the twenty-nine-year-o
Denver man who, on May 10, shot,
beat with club and mutilated the
bodies of Walter F. Copple and his
wife and left seven children orphans,
on a farm near Rosalie, a mob over
powered the three officers who had
the prisoner in charge and hanged him
to a bridge near the town and riddled
his body with bullets.
Mrs. Cora A. Higgins, the mother of
tie victim of the mob, who resides
in Denver. has been notified.
AS precautionary measures, Higgins
was given his preliminary hearing on
an Overland limited Union Pacific
train and has since been held in the
jail at Omaha. Nebraska. Sheriff
Young of Thurston county went to
Omaha, secured the prisoner, obtained
two other guards to help him Offset
any attempt at a lynching and started
for Bancroft, the county seat of Thurs
ton county, where Higgins was to have
been placed on trial.
sheriff's Vain Threat.
When Sheriff Young left this place
Sunday night he was accosted by citi-
gems who asked him what he would
do II an attempt was made to lynch
Higgins.
Shoot the first man who tries it."
was the response.
well, we just thought we would
ask" said the committee of citizens,
because the chances are that you will
have some shooting to do"
The Lynching.
Thus forewarned, Young took every
precaution to guard his prisoner. On,
the train Higgins. noticing the extra
guard. smiled and said: There is no
need of this; l won't try to get away"
He did not seem to realize his dan
ger and was cheerful on his trip to
Bancroft.
The train bearing Higgins and his
guard arrived in Bancroft at O'Clock
In the morning. A mob of more than
a hundred men awaited 1t. All the
men were armed and they scrambled
on the coaches before the train had
stopped. Locating Young, his depu-
ties and his prisoner, demand was
made for the murderer. Young and
his men resisted, but were soon over
powered and the prisoner, trem-
bling, miserable human being, taken
from them.
Higgins was made to stand In the
bed of dray. being held up by men,
bers of the mob. The remainder of
the maddened crowd ran shouting
after the vehicle. The dray was driven
at rapid pace under the bridge
where a moose was alread changing.
AS the wagon passed under the bridge
the moose was dropped over Higgins
neck and the speed of the wagon
jerked 1t taut and sent the victim to
eternity. AS the body swung In mid
air the mob ran yelling around it and
shot hundreds of bullets into the sway
ing corpse.
The body was later cut down and
delivered to the coroner.
Sympathy was expressed on all sides
for the aged mother of the murderer
In Denver, but as Higgins crime was
one of the most revolving ever COM
mitted in this section and as Justice
had long been delayed, no regret for
the action of the mob is felt even
among the most conservative citizens
here.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29

A Chicago professor has declared
that in . few Thousand years women
win be wearing boards. Perhaps.
says the Warrington Post. by that
dine they will have learned how to
keep still long enough to get shaved.
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The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29

A woman in London. Eng, has been
sent to prison for i've years for OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
She represented herself to be a sister
OF ]. Pierpont Morgan. One touch of
nature doesn't always make the whole
world kin.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29

Wheat. choice milling. per 100 lbs.,
sl.22. Rye, Colorado. bulk, per 100 lbs.
Sl.o0. Oats, bulk. Neb.. No. 8. white,
sl,6b; same, in sacks. s1.7O. Corn, in
bulk. s1.O4; in sack, s1.13. Corn chop,
sacked, $1.14. Bran, Colorado, per 1Oc
lbs, $1.15.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29
Hay.

Upland. per ton, $13O0@14.5o: sec
ond bottom. $s.50@10.5O; timothy
$i4.ooQlb.OO; alfalfa. $S.00@9.50
straw, N.6o@5.00; South Park wire
grass. s15.00d16.5O.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29
Live Poultry.
Butter.

Elgin' hrm .............. PAN
Sreameries. extra Colo, lb. .26@27
Sreameries, ex. east'n. lb. .26@27
Creameries. I'd grade, .22@24
Process and renovated, lb. ... "a
Packing stock .19M2O
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-29
Eggs.
GRAIN.

Eggs. fresh, case count. 800
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-21
Baptist Church.

Baptist church, morning service at
II o'clock; preaching by the pastor,
Rev r. f.. Story, subject, "Some
Foundation Stones of the Church"
Evening service at 1880 with a short
sermon, Meaning OF Christmas"
Sunday school at 10 a. M; Junior b.
Y. p. u. at p. m. Young Peoples
union at 6:30. Christmas exercises by
the Sunday school children Tuesday
evening at 700, with a tree for the
scholars
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-21

on a table. Mamma and papa Roose-
welt VII superintend the opening Of
the packages, and, like countless
thousands Of parents all over the
world, will find one of their greatest
joys in the enthusiasm of their off
spring and their delighted cries as
each parcel is opened for inspection
And it is not alone the White House
children who will be remembered. In
this tine of Christmas cheer the
Roosevelts like to see everyone about
them wearing happy, smiling faces,
and they overlook no opportunity to
accomplish this result. The distri-
button Of turkeys among White
House employees. clerks, messengers,
doorkeepers, s'ablemen, etc. will be
carried out this year as usual, and
will be only one OF many manifesto
tions of the Christmas sp rit which
the Rooseyelts will bestow upon their
servants.
Nor will the Roosevelts themselves
be forgotten. The ladies of the cab
inc, il lis said, have combined to
purchase a magnificent gift for Mrs.
Roosevelt. while all the cabinet mem
bers will, Of course, extend similar
courtesies to the president. Members
Of the diplomatic corps, prominent
officials of the army and navy, con-
gressmen and government officials
will shower gifts upon the president
and his wife. Admiring citizens all
over the country will also send offer
ings, and these are already beginning
to arrive During the next few days
the stream Of gifts will likely increase
In volume, until entire express wa
gons are required to make deliveries
to the executive mansion. These gifts
from stran ~"-s when of small value,
are accep ID K costly they are
returned 70 7-nors with a polite
ly worded messI3b of thanks. This
plan has 'con adopted by the presi-
dent to ayo The appearance of plac-
ing himself under obligations to peo-
pie unknown to him, and will be rig
idly adhered to this year, as in the
past.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-21
CHRISTMAS As CELEBRATED At THE
WHITE HOUSE

Washington. Dec. 21-With the
near approach Of Christmas, 'preda-
tory capitalists" congressional legis-
lation. the third term movement and
other affairs Of state have ceased TO
be subjects Of discussion at the
White House and the selection Of
Christmas gifts and preparations for
the holidays are engrossng the chief
executive and the first lady of the
land In spite Of numerous exacting
social duties. Mrs Roosevelt has spent
much time in the last two weeks in
the different stores of the cap tai
city. and as a result her selections
have nearly all been made and her
gifts are ready for distribution next
Wednesday morning. Like Mrs. Nc
Kinley. the wife Of the present presi-
dent gives to her close friends little
articles made by her own hands, and
these are naturally considered great
er treasured by the rec pients than
would be the most costly and eiabo-
rate manufactured art Gle.
Mrs. Roosevelt is an adept wi-h the
needle and the vari-colored cmbroid-
cries. the dainty initiated handker-
chiefs and the filmy lace collars
which she will present to her friends
will be things Of beauty, whose value
viii be greatly enhanced by the fact
that they are the product OF the skill
ed fingers Of the wife Of the nations
chief executive.
The selection Of gifts for the White
House children has naturally been a
most important subject of discussion
within the last few days. When the
Roosevelts first occupied the execu-
tive mansion, the children were all
small and appropriate gifts were not
hard to find. Miss Ethel. who was
once more than satisfied with a hand
some doll. clad in garments made by
her mother, has now become a young
lady. She has reached an age when
additions to her doll family are no
longer in order. and the selection of
presents that will suit her more criti-
cal tastes is naturally a more diff
cult task. Quentin, too, who had a
great assortment Of boy babies clad
as rough riders and soldiers present.
ed to him at Christmas, has outgrown
such infantile joys. Archibald has
always scorned such inanimate play
things, and demands something alive,
such as rabbits or pigeons or even
pet snakes Theodore, jr., now a
1aunty poung college man, will prob
ably be remembered in a manner to
conform to his somewhat scholastic
and quiet tastes.
The youngsters as usual, will hang
up their stockings which will be
GRAINED with the smaller gifts left by
the White House Santa Claus. The
inspection Of stockings, however, will
be merely preliminary to the real Joys
of the day. The study upstairs will
be the headqua rters for st. Nicholas.
and after hasty and unappreclated
breakfast the youngsters will be per-
mitted to proceed to that joyous re-
treat, where the gifts will be laid out
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-21

for a person keeping a vehicle for
hire. not to take out a license, and
it further provided that the license
could not be issued for period Of less
than one year. All teams hauling
brick. stone and dirt are exempt from
license.
There was much adverse feeling to
the council making the license as high
as was provided for by the ordinance,
and Attorney Blandford, as a repre-
sentative Of the teamsters Of the city.
made an address in. which he stated
that in Seattle and all larger cities the
license fee was only about 81. Not
withstanding this, the ordinance was
passed
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-21
. salvation Army.

The Salvation Army 80 W. Webb
street-ll n. m, holiness meeting; 3
p. m. praise service; s p. m, salvation
meeting. All welcome. Captain and
M-e RnMie IN charEe