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Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29
An Immense Project.
WASHINGTON =

Washington. = Arrangements have
been completed for the organization of
an $80,000.000 American syndicate, ac-
cording to an announcement published
today, which plans to develop several
million acres of oil lands in Mexico. It
is purposed not only to supply the
Mexican market, but to ship the pro-
duce to Central and South America
and to Europe and South Africa in
competition with the Standard Oil
Company.
The syndicate will take over also the
Mexican Petroleum Company, limited,
which now operates extensively in the
southern republic. The concern was
organized in 1902 under the California
laws. 1t is capitalized at s10.000.000.
The company, 1t is stated, owns ap-
proximately 100000 acres of land in
the states of Tampaulipas, Veera Cruz
and San Luis Potosi.
More than 100 flowing wells are re-
ported to be on the property. The wells
are Of the gusher variety. The oil is
said to be Of the same grade as that of
the Sour Lakes and other southeast
Texas fields.
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29
Left-Handed "lnnards" 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 il
his transposed viscera made him in
capable Of performing the duties Of q
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 1t would have
on a normal man, and SO 1t was with
many tests.
Salyards, who is thirty-four years
old, recently became 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 a surprise. He is six feet
tall and weighs IT'S pounds. He was
reared on a farm in Sullivan county.
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29
Settle Outside of Courts.

Hayden, Colo.-Routt county's IA
nous suit for $27 500 damages for the
alienation of wife's affections has
been settled out Of court, and the sa-
lacious testimony which was 80 eager
ly looked for when the case should
come up for hearing at the September
term Of the District Court will not be
forthcoming.
The parties to the suit were Leon
Green, a ranchman living at Williams
Fork, and Thomas Dunston, the
wealthy bachelor cattleman of Routt
county, man who had, until the suit
was instituted, borne a most excellent
reputation. The charge made against
Dunston was that he had alienated
Mrs. Green's affections and by so do
ing had destroyed Green's domestic
happiness and peace of mind.
Through the Intervention of influen-
tial friends Of both parties a confer
eDce was held here Saturday after
noon and an agreement reached by
which trial of the case should be
avoided, thus saving about half a
dozen prominent men and women of
this vicinity from having the skeletons
drawn from the closets Of that many
homes. Papers have been signed by
all parties concerned asking the Dis
trict Court for the dismissal of the suit
and these documents have been sent
to Hahn's peak by special messenger
to insure immediate delivery.
Green now has a suit for divorce
pending in the County Court, but
whether this will also be dismissed
cannot be learned, as all parties are
very reticent concerning the scope of
the agreement reached
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29
RED TAPE STOPS A FUNERAL.
Mourners Are Gathered, But Under,
taker Refuses to Move On.


Denver.-When the funeral services
were over and the mourners had gath
cred around the casket ready to con-
vey the remains of Louis Van Or
strand to Fairmount cemetery for
burial, the entire assemblage was
amazed and dumfounded when the
undertaken said:
This body cannot be buried until
tomorrow. 1 have no burial permit. !"
The funeral services Of Louis Van
Orstrand were held at noon Sunday
last in Sullivan's undertaking rooms.
There were over 200 people in attend
ance, comprising members of the
Woodmen lodge, friends in the city
and relatives, many of whom had come
from long distances.
1t was at the close of the services
when Undertaken Sullivan made the
announcement that the burial could
not take place. Everything was in
readiness to take the remains to the
cemetery, and the statement of the
undertaken completely surprised the
mourners' and friends. There was an
awkward pause and a gasp Of incredu
lity. When the matter was explained
however, 1t was decided there was
nothing to do except to defer the
burial,
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29
Deer Eat the Big Ones.

Spearfish, 8. D.-Deer that eat po-
to toes and despoil the patches Of pros.
pectors have furnished the latest topic
for the nature takers whom the Presi.
dent has been busily denouncing.
Near Mineral Hill lives John Nee
han, who works O number of claims
during the winter and cultivates a
truck garden in the summer. Meehan
declares that deer In his vicinity are
becoming so plentiful that for three
nights past they have entered his po-
tato patch and gone from hill to hill,
digging UP the vegetables and eating
them. He sat up the third night and
Witnessed the performance. As the
deer season IL not open, he could not
kill them, but drove them away.
The deer. he said, ate only the large
potatoes and paid NO attention TO the
smaller ones.
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29
Judge Finds Work Too sorrowfuI.

New York.-Magistrate Fred House
Ia 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
&c often Hoods "Son of the Shirt"
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
rome 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.
II finally realized that I 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 60 away from the maddening
crowd. am going to remain on a
farm Of 100 acres in Maine for few
years somewhere near the water, and
I shall turn farmer. ! shall Just have
to forsake the noise and the things /
see here every dny."
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29

Among the newest societies is
that founded in France. called the
Confederation Of Cripples. One of its
objects is to secure repeal of the
law which forbids the halt and the
lame to beg. In Paris, man who
lost both legs in railroad accident is
organizing branch of the confedera-
tion. At present he goes about on two
wooden legs and attracts public atten-
ton by playing a hand organ. He
received orders from the chief of
the league in Marseilles to establish
a society In the capital. 1t is pro-
posed to found branches in all the
French towns, with the hope that
charitable people may contribute in
aid Of members who are unable to
work. Perhaps the most extraordinary
item Of news about this new brother
hood is that its Marseilles delegation
went to Paris on foot!
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29
ALBERT sHAFFER is CLEARED.
coroner's Jury Gave Verdict Of JustI-
fable Killing.

coroner's Jury Gave Verdict Of JustI-
fable Killing.
Golden, Colo.-Albert Shaffer, who
shot and killed Grant McQueary at
Skaters 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, 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 a
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 rifle and shot
without turning around to take aim.
The bullet pierced McQueary's heart
and he died instantly.
Other witnesses who testified were
Charles B. Coatney, who came upon
the scene Of the tragedy few minutes
later, and DR.. D. E. Garvin OF this city,
who testified as to the extent of the
bruises on young Skaters 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 a mountain ranch ad-
joining the Shaffer place.
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29
Ate HIs Trousers.

Wooster, Ohio.-Mr. and Mrs. John
Moore Of this city entertained . bust.
ness friend Of the husband over night
Friday and when he went away he
wore pair Of Moore's 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 ~ Mr.. Moore went
out to get them for his guest. Other
articles Of wearing apparel had disap-
peared, but the COW hitherto has e.
capped suspicion. This time, however.
she was caught rsd-tongusd. 70 to
spsak.
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29
seattsrs Fire In Field.

Longmont Colo.-While Link Dow
was threshing on the P. X. Patterson
ranch an explosion occurred on the In.
side Of the machine, caused by q hot
box setting fire to the dust. This stared
. blaze on one of the wagons which
was loaded with bundles waiting to be
run through, and the horses. becoming
frightened, ran away, scattering burn.
ing bundles in all directions. The
stubble In the field caught fre and II
was with dimculty that the barn and
other buildings wnere saved. The loss
Was a20O.
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29
Bird, a. Air.shlp Models.

The explanation of bird-fiight that
occurs to the casual observer is that
these winged creatures fly by tapping
their wings. But all birds do not do
so. In fact, the birds that fly the best
and most fearlessly can proceed for
hours and sometimes for a whole
day, and not infrequently against the
force of storm, without making the
slightest perceptible movement of
their wings. Although the secret Of
flight on motionless wings is at pres
ent beyond the solution of science, the
principle involved gives promise of
being the one that would be most sue.
cessfully applied by man in aerial
travel. 1t is true that nearly all in
sects and most of the small birds pro,
ceed by beating their wings, some
times with almost incredible velocity.
Possibly the air-ships of the future,
particularly those designed for short
trips, may proceed by this method.
But the present tendency is toward
sailing flight. The most common the
ory in explanation Of fight on notion
less wings is that the birds take ad.
vantage of air-currents. However, q
fact that weakens the air-current idea
is that birds Of prey will dart instant
ly in any direction, quite regardless
Of air-currents, when victim ap
pears. This theory Of necessary air
currents, remarks writer in Every
body's. may have been as serious q
hindrance to the progress of aeronau
tics as has been the fallacy that. in
order to sail. ship must be lighter
than air. But the fact that there Is
among the myriad of bird species 9
number that wing their way without
effort in either calm or storm, some
Of them sailing on motionless pinions
furnishes the hope and possibility that
man may also become absolute master
of the air.
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29
Gave Up Easy.

Pueblo.-Chief OF Detectives McDer.
mott approached Lon Goldman at the
Union depot and said: Hand over
those diamonds and that $95 you stole
from Mrs. Bates"
Goldman Immediately reached in his
pocket and produced three diamonds
valued at 500 each and purse con-
tanning S95 in cash.
Mrs. Bates conducts rooming
house on Victoria avenue. She had
laid the purse down while she went
into an adjoining room. Goldman was q
roomer at the Bates house.
He was arrested. He Is a hotel por.
ter and about twenty.three years old.
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29

Northern peoples are all given to
free and Independent ways, as has
been shown from the days OF the an.
cient Scandinavians and Norsemen to
the present time. Even the hardy
leaders OF viking days were selected
by their followers. and no king could
rule without the consent of the peo.
pie. King Frederick Of Denmark.
himself a liberal constitutional mon
arch. in visiting Iceland. part Of his
dominion. has assured the Icelanders
that they shall remain free and CO.
operate with him in making laws that
will be satisfactory to them. And that
wise and tactful procedure will prob
ably make the Icelanders more faith.
ful and devoted subjects than before.
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29

The fossil of lizard 314 feet long
has been found out in Wyoming.
When some prehistoric giant stepped
ON the tip Of his tail. we wonder. ex-
claims the Boston Globe. how long
e was before it, head discovered Il
Uvt
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29

Gov. Magoon is taking stern meas.
ures to put a stop TO dueling In
Cuba. In this he is right. No country
can hope to be ranked among truly
progressive and civilized communities
II It adheres to the barbarous and
anuquated practice of fighting duels.
Gilpin observer., 1907-08-29

commence on the brick veneer soon.
G. F. Neff, one of the pioneers who
farmed four miles west of Greeley for
twenty-eight years and is now living
twenty-five miles west, will grow
eighty acres of potatoes next season on
nOnirrigated land for seed potatoes for
the Greeley district. The land was
sod until this spring, when 1t was
plowed under and seeded to wheat, CIV
Ing good yield. Mr.. Neff will grow
red and white potatoes. He has $50
acres which he now farms by the
Campbell method. which he said he
employed in a modified way twenty
five years ago on his Greeley farm. He
declares that dry land wheat of good
quality is sixteen per cent more weight
in -four than first-class wheat raised
by irrigation.
George Wallace, a prominent busi-
ness man and president Of the State
Sunday School Association of Ne.
braska, is visiting his brother, r. B.
Wallace, at Greeley. He has been look
ing over the western Nebraska country
where large tracts Of grazing lands are
being taken up for farming without ir-
rigation. Heretofore this section sup
ported large herds OF cattle, which
could be purchased cheaply, taken to
Iowa and Missouri and fattened for
market. Packers from Omaha have
begun to look elsewhere also for sup
ply. Mr.. Wallace believes that eastern
Colorado and Nebraska are closely al
lied In their crop conditions ana that
II eastern Colorado dry farms combine
stock raising with agriculture II will
profit a. greatly ~ does western Ne.
brasxA.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-25
ROADHOUSE WILL De
DEAN Of NEW COLLEGE

The Board of Regents of the College
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
has received cablegram from J. E.
Roadhouse accepting the position of
dean of the college.
In reviewing the work before him,
Mr. Roadhouse, in a letter written be-
fore he finally decided to accept the APP
pointment, says he is heartily in favor
Of giving short courses at the earliest
possible date. The course of study for
the freshman year is practically the
same for all agricultural schools and
consists of a fundamental training in
chemistry on agricultural physics, bot
tany or elementary biology, mathe-
mates, English, plant propagation
Students who have taken the college
preparatory course in the High school
would be qualified to enter the fresh
man class next fall. but to get all stu
dents on common ground, elementary
course viii be provided, especially with
relation TO agriculture.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-25
FROM POLICE COURT
To j. s. SUPREME COURT

A writ of error to take the Jacintho
Miguel case to the Supreme Court of
the United States was sued out yes
terday. This is the case brought to
test the new liquor law. Jacintho
Miguel was a saloon keeper who was
refused a license by the new license
board. Contending that he had legal
right to a license he sold liquor after
the expiration of his old license and
was promptly arrested for it. He was
fined in the police court and appealed
on points of law to the Supreme Court
of the Territory which also ruled
against him He now proposes to spend
some more money and go to the Su-
preme Court of the United States.
This is the first case to go from the
police court of Honolulu to the United
States Supreme Court.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-25
GRAND JURY To REPORT
ON STANDARD OIL

The Territorial Grand Jury was in
session all day yesterday, not adjourn
ing until after 4 o'clock. 1t will meet
at $3.50 o'clock this morning again and
a report will then be made to the
Circuit Court.
Yesterdays session was devoted en-
tirely to the investigation of the STAN
dard Oil Company and it's local repre-
sentatives and of the fire at the gov
eminent warehouse in August. A large
number of witnesses were called and
examined, among them Lionel Hart
who was before the grand jury for
considerable time.
Hart was before Judge Lindsay at
10 o'clock yesterday morning to plead
to the Indictment against him, but the
matter was put over until Monday
morning at 10 o'clock 1t is under
stood that he is to plead guilty but
it is desired to postpone the matter of
sentence until the grand jury shall
have concluded its Investigations in
order that their findings and the result
of the Investigations may have its
weight in determining the sentence to
be imposed on Hart.
There is a pretty strong feeling that
the grand jury will make a sensational
report in this matter. There is much
to indicate that important testimony
has been secured.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-25
DID GALBRA|TH
GET THE CHANGE?
Who Secured the Amendment
to the Organic
Act?

The dispositions of Columbus Bierc,
and E. W. Holden taken in Chicago
in the matter off William w. Bierce
Ltd, VS.. Clinton j. Hutchins, trus
tee. and others was filed in the Cir.
/ cult Court yesterday. The dispositions
were taken before William G. Wise in
/ Chicago. The deposition of Bierce dis
| plays considerable heat. In concluding
he says: Il also know that contin-
uously since the entering of said judg-
ment on March 10, 1904, down to the
present time, the judgment defendant,
Clinton J. Hutchins, trustee, has
waged an aggressive fight against us
in the courts in endeavoring to have
SAID judgment reversed or in some
way nullified, first by taking up the
case on bill of exceptions to the SUI
preme Court of the Territory of Ha-
wall, by which the case was heard
and the judgment reversed, and later
by contesting the appeal of William
w. Bierce, Ltd, to the Supreme Court
of the United States in the same case,
by which the decision or decree of the
Supreme Court of the Territory was on
April 8, 1907, reversed, and the cause
remanded to the latter court with di-
rections to proceed therein in con-
formity with the opinion of the SUI
yreroa Court of tho TTpita5 states and
he is now trying to induce the Ter
ritorial Supreme Court to evade, or
to proceed contrary to, the mandate
and opinion of the Supreme Court of
the United States in that case, and in
open defiance thereof, in order to null
lily said judgment; and that he has
been and is represented in all of said
proceedings and attempts by John w.
Cathcart and Castle & Withigton as
his attorneys at law.
This deposition has a somewhat Gu
rious bearing on the question of how
the amendment to the Organic Act
was gotten through Congress, which
permitted appeals from the Supreme
Court of the Territory to the Supreme
Court of the United States in cases
where the amount in controversy is
more than $4,000. 1t has always been
supposed that this amendment was
secured by former Justice Galbraith |
in the interest of the William w. |
Bierce, Limited, and this suit. But |
in this deposition Bierce says that
during the time that Galbrafth was
of counsel in this case he was in Ho-
nolulu. Bierce says that the only
agents he ever had in this Territory
were his attorneys and counsel, Kin
ney & Mechanism, and afterwards
kinney, McClanahan & Cooper, these
two firms representing his company
1p to November, 1905; Galbraith from
the fall of 1904 to April, 1905, and A.
9. M. Robertson alone since Novem-
Der, 1905. Regarding these several at
he says:
while acting as such counsel for the
plaintiff. Judge Galbraith was in Ho-
loluIu, Island Of Oahu, and the firms
If Kinney & McClanahan, and Kinney,
& Cooper, while acting az
uch counsel and attorneys We're also
Engaged in practise at the same place
md resided there. The authority of
he agents named in this answer was
United to the duty of prosecuting the
suit in which the Judgment
eferred to was rendered and in pro-
Getting that judgment in the Supreme
,ourt of the Territory of Hawaii.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-25
I2-ROOmed House
1.-TWO story

built entirely Of cedar: double walls
concrete and stone base: marble slat
fioored conservatory with bathing poo
in center. There are large, lofty
bedrooms. 2 toilets and large bath
room; very large Railways and lobby;
closets in every room; reception room;
large living room; dining room;
library; pantries; kitchen; stable;
coach house; servants rooms.
The view is unexcelled; looking
down over the city. harbor and ocean,
on either side are the valleys of Nuu-
anu and the pals of kalihi, while in
the rear are the famous pail bluffs
and beautiful scenery of the upper
Nuuanu. The climate is cool, snappy
and bracing-recomme by physi-
clans as a particularly desirable resi-
dence part of town.
The property almost adjoins the
fashionable Country Club. There are
good macadam roads, electric lights,
telephones and water service, while
the cars are expected to run by the
place in two months. The lands are
four acres with various kinds of soil