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The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
Brutally Assaulted.

AL. Gallatin, . renter on the
Thomas Perry farm near Evans. Is
lying at his home In serious condi-
tion, the result of q brutal assault
upon him, said to have been COM
mitted by A. L. Abney, hostler In
the ]. G. White livery stable at
Evans, and the two sons of j. G.
White, Guy and Roy. The mans
jaw is broken In q couple Of places,
his eyes badly blackened and swol-
len, and he has had several hemorr-
hages, the result Of internal injuries.
The assault Is said to have been
committed In the White barn, the
victim being called inside on some
pretense. He claims not to know
any reason for the assault.
Abney was arrested IN Greeley
Sunday and last Monday was ar
raigned in Justice court In Evans and
his case set for hearing Jan. "a. His
bond was fixed at o., 600. The White
boys were not brought into court.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
Sorority Reception.

4 The twenty members Of the Delta
Phl Omega Sorority give reception
next Saturday afternoon at the
1prority house, 1927 Ninth avenue.
G large number of invitations have
been issued and the guests will in
Guide the faculty and wives and many
Students of the State Normal.
81 This is the beginning of the mid
v1nter rushing season" of the
aorority, there being three during
ehe year-fall, winter and spring.
hlring the rushing season. they
eitertain lavishly and select for new
Members those girls among the
epests whom they think would be
rbost congenial.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
The PUBLIC HEALTH
What City Physicians Report
for Year Shows

DR.. Ella Mead, the city physician,
rer orts only one case of quarantine
and one case OF typhoid this month
The general health of the community
is good and there. has been only
twelve quarantine cases the last six
months. OF these three were small
pox, IN one family, three scarlet
fever and six diphtheria and none Of
the cases were fatal. This averages
about the same as the year previous.
People seem to have the idea that
there has been more typhoid this
fall than usual. There we're forty
eight cases the last season and while
this makes rather large per cent IL
is less than the year before. Over
fifty per cent of the patients had not
been drinking city water which goes
to show that this was not the cause
as has been generally supposed.
Fully thirty per cent of the victims
contracted the disease away from
Greeley and over twenty per cent
were using we'll water instead Of the
city water. ..
DR.. Mead considers flies one Of the
most prevalent sources Of Infection
and people should realize the i'm
portance of screening their houses
early and keeping out the pests.
There were 1O4 deaths In the city
during the year 1905. A large num-
tAr OF these we're tubercular patients
who came too late to be benefited
by the climate.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
Another Survey Being Made.

A corps of Union Pacific surveyors
have been busy the last few days
surveying a route for cutoff from
point about midway between Hardin
and Masters to Fort Lupton. This
would shorten the distance between
these two points somewhere between
fifteen and twenty miles, and cut
down the running time to Denver by
about half hour. The new line Is
run out almost straight between the
two points mentioned and will run
through the new country which 1t Is
claimed will shortly be opened up
by various irrigation schemes.
Whether or not this cutoff will be
built is another question. Ii 1t Is,
it will mean that all the through
passenger trains, instead OF coming
through LaSalle, will be run across
on the shorter line into Denver.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
Local Option Bill.

The first move to redeem the
pledge Of the republican party to
give the state local option law was
taken last Wednesday in the intro
duction Of a bill by Representative
II. G. Watson OF Weld county, the
provisions Of which are drastic. The
law Is modelled after that In effect In
Ohio. 1t provides for the division
of the state into every possible dis
trict from county down to precinct,
In each division of which the electors
have the right to pass on whether or
not saloons shall be allowed in that
district.
The question can be submitted
for an election upon petition of 40
per cent of the voters and period
of twenty three months must elapse
before q resubmission of the ques-
tion.
Prohibition of the most rigid type
Is carried out within the territory
that decides against saloons. No
liquor may be sold. given away or
delivered within such territory. nor
may orders by taken for liquor. All
attempts to violate the intent of the
Law are designated rs devices for
violation and punishable ~ such.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
QUEST q j s; not \ " IN VAIN
Man Seeking Uncle's Grave Dis
covers q Cousin

w. H. Oviatt, manager of the
RED Feather" opera company, that
was here last week. spent the MORN
ing after the performance In the
rather runusual quest bf the grave of
an uncle. w. H. Oviatt, whose name
he bears. .
Thursday morning Mr.. Oviatt re-
ceived letter from his mother tell
ing him to find the grave of his
uncle, who was pioneer here and
died in 1870.
In looking over her sons route for
this month the name Greeley, Colo,
recalled memories of events almost
forgotten when her husbands brother
had died In the wilderness, as 1t
seemed to them, - far from the
home folks.
Their little son was given the
brothers. name and after thirty-six
years he tried to find that his uncle S
grave was cared for.
No record could be found at the
city hall or 7. G. Macy's Of the
burial here. At the assessors office
in the court house Mr.. Oviatt learned
Of q family Of the same name living
near Longmont. He Immediately
telephoned them and discovered q
a a
he was not before aware. From
them he learned that his uncle and
aunt were buried at Highlandlake.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
New Basket Ball Team.

A new basket ball team has been
organized with Harry McAfee cap
tain. They call themselves the
Commercials and all have excel
lent records, as players during their
high school days. The members OF
the team are Rea Couzens, Louis
Wyatt. George Horne, Harry Youngs,
Ralph Henderson and Harrv McAfee.
Their colors are orange and white
and they have new suits which they
say are the ''swellest in the state. ="
The first game will be Friday,
Jan. 18, with Company d and they
expect to have games with the high
school and Agricultural college soon.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
Congregational Annual Meeting

The thirty-sixth annual meeting
of the Congregational church. which
was postponed from Jan. l, was
held Wednesday evening, Jan. 8, In
the church.
Reports were read and accepted
from the officers Of the church, Sun
day school and Christian Endeavor.
The reports showed all the depart
ments to be in a prosperous condi-
tion. The building committee ex-
poets to let the contract for the new
church by Feb. Is.
The following officers we're elected
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
Mems Banquet.

The gentleman members Of the
Congregational church held BAN
quet in the church last Friday even
ing. There was not one lady pres
ent, the serving and even the dish
washing, being done by the men.
Following the feast Rev. John Doane
talked to the men. Joseph @. Ew-
ing spoke on "Men in Sunday
School," Speeches were also made
by j. E. Shook, DIR. R. F. Graham
and many others on various subjects.
Frank Gerritt of Milwaukee gave
some excellent vocal selections.
About forty men we're present.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
BAD DISEASE
EPIDEMIC OF SPINAL MEN
INGITIS AT PLATTEVILLE
Six Victims Already Dead From
the Dread Disease-State
Board of Health
Acts

So bad an epidemic of spinal men,
ingitis, or spotted fever, has broken,
out at Platteville that practically
the entire town has been quaran-
tined by the state board of health in
the effort to check the further prog
ress Of the disease. Already the
victims of the disease, who have
died, number a half dozen and there
are still symptoms of more breaking
out.
The main cause of the rapid
spread of the disease seems to be the
large attendance at the funeral of
Hiram Stewart, who died there from
the same disease on Jan. 3. James
Underwood, nephew of Mr.. Stewart,
who had been nursing the latter
during his illness, was taken sick
with the same disease shortly after
the funeral and inside of SO hours he
also died. Miss Anna Moore, aged
II years, and Miss Margerie Mann, a
near relative who nursed here, both
died shortly after.
Two more victims we're taken III
with the disease last Sunday. They
we're Hazel aud Edith Moffat
daughters of John Moffat, proprietor
of the Platteville hotel. So Quickl!
were the two stricken that one wa
found unconscious in her room, be
I fore any outward symptoms OF tn
disease had Shown themselyes
DR.. George G. Stemen, vice presi
dent of the state board of health an
chief medical inspector for that body
has taken personal charge of th'
situation and has called to his ate
all of the best authorities on thu
subject. All pronounce the form O.
the disease of the most seriou:
nature, and there Is practically ne
hope for the victim once he Is
stricken.
Just where the germs of the
disease first became communicated to
the Inhabitants of Platteville is not
known. A young boy, beet tender
on one of the ranches near Platte
Vile was the first victim.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
N"ouht limited as his salary should

nouht limited as his salary should
revert to the county.
ihe matter was taken into court
Sheh County Attorney Yeaman
brought suit against J. U. Vigil.
sa'county clerk, for s346, the amount
y hunting license fees he had kept
gnoer the impression that it right
July belonged to him.
Judge Hunter upheld the conten.
zion OF Mr.. Mulnix and gave the
county a Judgment for the full
smonnt. According to Mr.. Mulnix,
attorney General Miller had inter.
preted the law to mean that the 25
peht fee was the personal money of
blie clerk over and above his salary
ehd that Mr.. Miller had so written
v many of the county clerks who
pad asked for his opinion in the
matter. This is the first court de-
clslon regarding this particular
point. The saving by this decision
70 the various counties of the state
VII aggregate $40, 900 annually. All
CLERKS who have kept this fee will
nave to return the amount to the re.
1pective counties.
4 County Clerk Davis believes that
the whole matter has been brought
up at Trinidad simply to secure a
sppreme court ruling on the law,
md that all county clerks in the
etate may soon be asked to contri
butte to fund to have the Trinidad
case appealed.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
Some Old Fossils.

Professor Beardsley, of the State
Normal school, has offered a wonder
full collection Of fossils for the school
museum, gathered at Flortssant'
Colo, some 40 miles west OF Colo
RADIO Springs. The fossils embrace
those Of insects, the imprint OF
whose forms are marvelously pre-
served in the rock. In only one
other place in the world, in Switzer-
land. can fossils of insects be found,
and for this reason the collection Is
especially valuable.
The collection also embraces the
fossils of plants and specimens OF
trees, some Of which are said to DC
standing in Florissant six feet high
and IS feet in diameter. Professor
Beardsley says these are the fossil
stumps of the sequoia or big trees
which once hourished in Colorado,
now found only in California. He
attributes the preservation OF the
vegetable life there in fossil form to
the successive rain of ashes which fell
over that part Of Colorado from vol
canoes now extinct near by. The
club women of Greeley are so inter-
ested in this valuable collection and
the section which furnished 1t that
they will endeavor to interest other
club women to induce the govern
ment to have this portion OF the
state set aside as government terri
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
&an CLASS TALENT
Midland Concert Company Please
Large Audience

Now that the Midland Concert
company, which appeared here In
the Tribune lecture course last
Th. rsday evening has been here and
gone away again, we are sorry that
we did not know more of the quality
Of the talent or we should have been
inclined to make a house to house
canvass to tell about it, in order tc
give every person in Greeley and sur
rounding country a chance to hear It.
The entertainment given by the
four young ladies was art OF a high
order. Whether or not the good
sized audience knew that 1t was TAX
ing in classical music, with some
thing lighter in between, everybody
seemed to like everything that was
done, and after each young woman
had given a number on the program
she had but to show herself again to
be greeted by round Of applause
Before the evening was half over en-
tertainers and entertained were like
old acouaiptances. The audience
could hardly be blamed for wanting
90 much, but the young women re-
sponded generously TO the frequent
encores.
The company was so uniformly
satisfactory throughout that 1t woulo
hardly be fair to single out any
member for special mention, but as
Miss Alice Drennen Robinson, So
prano, and Miss Rachel Steinmah'
violinist, carried the heaviest part
Of the program, they are prooao'y
entitled to the most credit for the
splendid entertainment. Miss Roo'
inson has, without doubt, one OF the
best voices ever heard in Greeley
and 1t is fairly safe to say that d
violin has never been played oetter
here than by Miss Steinman'
Miss May Dellen, mezzo'sopfaho
and accompanist, also has a rich anu
pleasing voice, that the audience
would liked to have heard more oi'
and Miss Olga Miller was partic.
uIarly happy in her reading OF chi'o
stories.
There Is one more number IN lhe
,rs. r.,,L II Camel In a lecture
on "The American Boy Feo. TO-
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
BUYS ONIONS
NEW YORK MAN GETS OUR
PRODUCTS
Potatoes Going to Pacific Coast
Long Hauls to Find Good
Markets for Greeley
Products

Famous for her spring lambs, can
taloupes and fruits, which are lux
urles throughout this country, Colo
RADIO onions and potatoes are likewise
being demanded by new markets
thousands Of miles away.
For the first time In the history Of
the state, eighteen carloads of Colo.
RADIO. grown oniops-the Yellow Dam
vers variety-were shipped to the
New York market this week. There
were 5000 sacks, making an average
trainload.
Twenty carloads of spuds from
northern Colorado were shipped this
week to the California market.
This is also the first time that the
famous Greeley potato has gone to
the Pacific coast trade. There were
some 5000 sacks in all. Agents for
the big commission houses In San
Francisco and Los Angeles are still
In northern Colorado buying all of
the potatoes they can get at Is cents
per 100 pounds.
The onions were sold by the Law
renee Hensley Fruit company, l6A-30
Market street, through A. j. Martin,
manager of the vegetable depart
ment, to Frank Frommel of From
mel Bros, New York City. Mr..
Frommel was in Denver last week on
q visit. He droppsd in on tn
Nasket sessss sandinisn1su houSs 6f.G
became intefsstsd In onions.
When he saw the lot on hand he
liked them for their fine quality.
He had never seen any like them, so
struck bargain Immediately.
There were eighteen carloads. He
bought them all and ordered them
Immediately.
There is large surplus of onions
this year." said Mr.. Martin. I'VE
we're wondering what to do with all
of them, because Texas had been sup.
piled, and that is our largest Market.
Mr.. Frommel came along, liked
our lot and said he would take all
we had. The price was agreed upon
so cents per 100 pounds-and we
began to make the shipments, com.
pleting the order yesterday.
"This is the first time our Colo
RADIO onions have found their way to
New York, because of the long dis
tance there and the difficulty in
placing them on the market in good
condition. 1t means that our onions
have broken into that trade and will
hereafter hold their own against the
world"
The sale means 5000, for that is
what the eighteen carloads brought.
1t means also that Colorado onions
will become as famous as her .spring
lambs, fruit and cantaloupes in the
far eastern markets.
And while Colorado onions are be-
ing shipped 1000 miles, her famous
spuds are going an equal distance
west to the Pacific coast. In, fact,
the demand for this vegetable on the
Pacific coast and the eagerness Oh
the part of the agents from there
now in Colorado buying all the pota-
toes they can get has operated to ad-
vance the price from 65 to rs cents
hundred pounds. Denver Post.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17

A few evenings ago some one broke
into G. w. Whetstone's hen house at
4l5 Tenth street and wrung the
heads of q half dozen chickens, leav-
ing the heads but taking the bodies
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17

Mrs. E. Z. Preston returned IaSI
sunday from Florence where s.'e
wasscalled several weeks ago by the
illness of her husband, who oieo
shortly after her arrival there'
Mrs. Preston will make her home III
Greeley.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17
We A KICK
|,0ony CAN NOW JUMP
ON WIRELESS
c,t Scheme of Stock Job
That Operated Here is
|pally Exposed Some
Facts and Figures

~ bo A shame to kick Il
M, .s we were unable to get
Dsr action on the thing while
|live, breathing and feeding
L.nt and gullible investors,
lie pardoned when the oppor-
finally presents itself to
! the DeForest Wireless Tele-
lmpsuy that operated here
Ming messages at a cent a
Iut-selling stock, a few
La. In our bones some OF
khat the thing was all hot
/ how to prove it In our
eld here was another ques-
he Denver Post started out
lbt track, but probably con-
at there was more money,
lore glory, IN standing in
outfit than to expose 1t,
aper quit. Success Maga-
hnuary has finally muck
e whole scheme.
brief Is the story: The
theme was started away
pl, when the Marconi dis
that line become known.
\ added right here that
real and not over-esti-
was one, L. f. Pike of
Conn.,, a wild cat pro-
saw the possibilities OF
new wireless craze and
nying basis. The graft
ipme old patents on wire-
Apply taken out fifteen
p by Prof. Dolbear of
ge. While the patents
been a step in the right
hey we're utterly worthless
lsican Wireless Telegraph
one company was started
apital of So, 600, 600 with
.par value. These we're
l.N a share to start with,
y the price was raised to
nile sub-companies were
lhe American was not
" company. 1t owned
something like the
ell Telephone company,
% its subsidiary COM
New England, Federal,
'n' Atlantic, CONNER
W Western, Gulf, Con-
racine, was to operate
v coast, The capital of
'"''ess outht was S55,-
tags used in all of the
with which the country
was the rapid advance
pnohe ., stock, once it be-
mat this instrument
The wireless prom.
ss'er ~ things and people
ller various contractions
ms Of capital and reor-
~ merging of companies
AL DeForest Wireless
" a'ong and swallowed
luu h .he following table
otlei form just how the
.veu by leaps and
as promised In the first
speculation, six years
money bought s5o
Fs's Wireless, January,
x., .,,sofuary, 1902, for s5o
y oalefed oe Consolidated.
,,Dv0' 0r.ooer, 1902, for $40
\ salered p.,' Consolidated.
ntteofuary, 1903, for $40
n, January, 1904, for s,o
Hns1lcan 'n 1l DeForest. Wv
u,Io1 r% 1c0.mpany's %. money!
oms W. VI stock at For.
I'''ce' October 1906.
pr,es es@%pany's u, n,s money!
ss Nsw OF y. DeForest stock
I, ssw sN1 York onice. '''
ssa sale by stock broksrs
:" '"''e' real cash valus
',lsIs,.t nSS the $50 paid in
d ',ess ,es stock has beer
i. INTO So cents. ''e', ~,
n,ms na,r''ous yrafters have
b "as ,0s such costs a,
alEu' NJ Conducting the
The Washington times., 1907-11-29
New York Stocks

Quotations furnished by Post & F1agg.
members OF New York Stock Exchange. 1891
d
The Washington times., 1907-11-29
WASHINGTON STOCK
EXCHANGE CLOSED
Stock Brokers Have Earn
ed the Right to a Day
or TWO for JubilatiOn.

The Washington Stock Exchange did
not hold its regular session today nor
will the gavel call fits members TO order
until Monday. Fortunately. however,
the adjournment was not taken as a
relief measure. but rather as a jubilation
over the excellent manner in which
Washington people have held their con-
fdence in things; in celebration Of the
fact that, while values In all other marts
have been swept away in n most dis
tressing manner, values of Washing
ton stocks have suffered but little
change, and only Insignificant declines
In comparison with all other market de
precautions.
In celebration Of the fact that Wash
ington banks have paid over the cur
rency to depositors on demand have
cashed drafts on New York or Chi
cago-in fact have not faItered from
their plain duties as bankers, despite
the fact that New York, Chicago. St
Louis, and practically every large cen
ter In the country was Going business
on credit. on bank certificates, on checks,
and clearing house promises TO pay.
Washington bankers have a right 10
prune feathers and talk loud Of this
great achievement.
The stock brokers who have assisted
not a little in checking nervous holders
OF stocks, who have acted with wise
perspicacity and rare good judgment.
have a right TO be proud OF themselves
and take a day or two off for self-con-
graduation il they want to. They have
earned the rest.
The Washington times., 1907-11-29
Detectives at Work.

Although the matter Of supplying wit
nesses to testify in the investigation
is thought to have been left to Terminal
Superintendent Martin. It became known
today that the Commissioners had de
tectives making a private investigation.
with q view Of learning the names OF
persons who are said 10 know some
thing about the wreck, but were not
on the list handed the Commissioners
Detective Burlingame. Of the Central
Office. was detailed by Inspector Board
man 10 investigate the case, and, as a
result. half a dozen or more witnesses
whose names have not figured in the
investigation viii be called. SuPerin-
tendent Martin is thought 20 have taken
umbrage at this procedure by the Com
missioners. Burlingame IS still investi-
eating. and Il appears as though every
man connected with the terminal block
towers may be called 10 testify as TO
their knowledge OF the wreck
The Washington times., 1907-11-29
WASHINGTON PRODUCE
MARKET

Although prices Of live and dressed
poultry were very unsettled and sales
infreQuent this morning. the general
average was fairly good for the day
after Thanksgiving. Where turkeys
brought anywhere from 10 to q cents
Wednesday and Thursday the best stock
could be had this morning for Is and Is
cents, dressed. With chickens II was
the same way. The high price yester-
day and the day before was Is and II
cents, but this morning Ii had dropped
10 l3 and Is cents. and some grades sold
or cents lower Receipts of all prod
ucts were light, this being especially
true of live stock. AS usual. green
fruits and vegetables came in better
than any other commodities. The grain
market remained unchanged. Hay has
dropped % cents ton for all grades
Eggs-Fresh Virginia. 3ld32c; strictly
fresh, S W. Va. S0c; storage. 19U22c.
Cheese-N. Y factory. large. 151zG17c:
fats, lie; small i7Ql71zc; fair 10 good
12Q13c-
Butter-western. first. 2s@291bc; sec
onds, 24125c; process. fancy, 24a25c: fair
20 good. 2042lc; dairy. choice, 20g21c;
store packed. fresh. 10000.
POULTRY.
Turkeys-Live. per pound. toms. 15Q16c;
hens. i5ni6c. Chickens - Live. per
pound, fancy, large. 13al4c; medi I'm,
lSql4c; small. l3aI4c; hens, 1lc; ROSTERS.
&C. Ducks-Live, per pound, spring. l0G
lie Geese-l0dl2c; keats, 12al4c Tur-
keys-Dressed. per pound. hens. un-
drawn, l6HGc; average, undrawn. l55kd
/ l6lzc; old toms 16c. Chickens Dressed.
large. Ice; small. 14d15c: hens choice.
he; ROSTERS, S@9c; ducks, l2d14c; geese,
12013c.
GREEN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Apples (per Dbl. )-Yor- Iunperj~J
packed, SZO0u3.75; Wiae Sap. gO1d2 30:
Fancy Table, S3.5OQ5.00: Spy. Sc. 25a4. so.
loose packed, $L50Q3O0. Grapes (oer
basKet-Catawbas. l2a15; Niagaras. fs
sI-Oc: Concords. uG15c; Salem. l3aI4c
Cranberries Cper box, 2G2.50. Grape
fruit Florida. $4N5. Oranges, Florida
S2.J0d3.25. Keller pears, Dbl. 81 Wal
nuts, To-, 3afc. Potatoes. bbL Sl25G2.
sweet potatoes. Dbl, 81 1880: vans.
bbL. &H2.50. Cabbage. hundred. s2G4
Cucumbers, bu., S203.50 Onions bu..
75NSOc. Celery crate. S35Qd4OG. SGuasll
Fla, Der basket S1.z5dL75 Beans. NJ
basket. SL50g225. Egg plants. per crate.
H-75Q2O0.