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The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Senator eorah Indicted.

Boise, Idaho-The trial of United
States Senator w. E. Borah, charged
with conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment, was set for September 23d, and
a trial jury composed of sixty-fve
names was drawn.
The indictment found last spring
was served on Borah and made pub
lie for the first time. 1t includes
Frank Martin, attorney general of the
state under the Steunenberg admins
tcation; James T. Barber and Sumner
G. Moon, millionaire officers of the
Barber Lumber Company, residing in
Wisconsin; John /. Wells, Patrick
Downs, John Kinkaid, Louis M. Pritch-
ard, William Sweet and Horace 8.
Rand.
It is charged in the Indictment that
the defendants entered into a conspir-
acy to secure for the Barber Lumber
Company 10000 acres Of ti1ber land
in Boise county by means of fraudu-
lent entry. The lands involved, now
owned by the Barber company, are
v"lued at million dollars, and the
government has suit pending for the
canceling of entries and restoration of
the lands to the government.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Ate Ten Carloads of watermelons.

Rocky Ford, Colo-Another Water
melon Day." a day now historic in
Colorado. has passed and the record
of that day is one of .riumphal sue
cess. The weather was ideal and the
attendance $4,000, the largest on rec
ord.
Every home in the city was deserted
and the special trains from the towns
and cities of the Arkansas valley
brought the population for miles
around. Thousands of vehicles lined
the streets of Rocky Ford.
At the fair grounds was the great
watermelon pile; ten carloads, plenty
and to spare.
Ten years ago 5000 sufficed to buy
the melons for the great feast, but this
year the bill was $1,000. The money
was raised by the business men of
Rocky Ford And the Rocky Ford folk
did the festival bupsiness up right Ev-
erybody had plenty, and the great pile
of melons soon melted before the on
slaught of individuals of rapacious
appetite. There were thousands of
cantaloupe. too, that helped out the
melons, If they needed any helping.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
New Road for Routt County.

Denver.-The development of Routt
county is to be advanced by the build
ing of railroad. A number of wealthy
men from New Hampshire and Massa-
chusetts have organized a company to
be known officially as the Larimer &
Routt County Railway Company, capt.
talized at $1,OO0,0O0. The railway will
operate in both Larimer and Routt
counties. 1t will run from the terminal
point of the Larimer and Hahn's Peak
G. Pacific railway. which is on the state
line between Colorado and Wyoming
into North Park, terminating near the
mouth of Grizzly creek.
The directors of the new road are
Isaac Van Horn, Holderness, New
Hampshire; M. T. Dickinson. Brook
line, Massachusetts,; l.. w. Thompson,
Woburn. Massachusetts; George M.
Colby, Lawrence. Massachusetts,; E. S.
Crawley, Brookline, Massachusetts,;
Fred Muller and Otto Gramm, Laramie.
Incorporation papers were filed with
the secretary of state last week.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Weld County Rejoices.

Greeley, Colo.-With an excellent
harvest of grain at hand, the beet crop
promising the biggest yield on record.
the alfalfa fields giving three big cut
tings and the potatoes to make rs per
cent of crop, with prices for all
never better, the farmers are most
prosperous. While in previous years
yields may have been as heavy, never
have prices ranged As high at the same
time. Barley. which brought 60 to IS
cents a hundredweight last year is now
81 to $1.5O. Oats selling at $1.1O per
hundredweight last year now bring
$1.30, and wheat is $1.20 per hundred
weight.
The largest crop of early potatoes
this year was raised by A. E. Mont
gomery of Eaton, who planted eighty
acres late in the season. He has fin
ished digging and his crop was 100
sacks to the acre, or 5000 sacks in
all, for which he received $1.3O per
hundredweight, or s10,5o0, being over
five times the price of his land and
water.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Athletics in English colleges.

The first number of the new Oxford
and Cambridge Review has its inevita-
BILE article on athletics in the univer-
stiles. One gets from it. however. .
new impression of how far behind the
procession the English really are. The
writer objects to the time spent in
preparation for the university boat
race as excessive" But what is his
idea of excess? ut has become Gus
tomary for both the Oxford and Cam
bridge crew to spend at least week
on the upper reaches OF the Thames
at Henley or Coolham." Tell 1t not
in New London! But the English are
coming on. They are waking up to
the truth that athletics is the great
pursuit Of the undergraduate, and
must dominate even his hours Of sup
posed study, declares the New York
Post. To talk athletic shop" ell the
time is becoming as common in the
universities of England as in our own;
and the danger of allowing any intel
lectual interest to crowd out absorb
lug attention to "the record" and to
competitions in games and sports, Is
now thoroughly understood. The true
attitude was neatly expressed by one
university coach, when he said: You
can't row, because you aren't always
thinking about it. Now, when you're
in lecture, press your heels against
the floor and think of bringing your
body pack with the feet firm on the
stretcher."
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Monument to Memory of Mckinley.

Buffalo, N. Y.-The dedication of
the Mckinley monument and its
presentation to the state by the
monument commission was the feature
of the Old Home week celebration
here.
The monument dedicated was
erected by the state of New York on
site approved by the city Of Buffalo.
1t is in the form of an obelisk of white
marble, eighty-six feet high, and is
situated at Niagara square, the inter-
section of Niagara and Court streets
and Delaware avenue. The obelisk
rests upon a pedestal fourteen feet
high, the base of which is twelve feet
above the street level. The whole is
surrounded by tesselated promenade,
embellished with ornate parapets and
balustrades and splashing fountains.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Hanged for Attempted Assassination.

st. Petersburg.--Two of the three
men who were sentenced to death for
plot against the life Of the emperor
were hanged here. Their names were
Sinasky, alias Purkin, aged 81, and
Vladimir Nacumoff, aged 26.
The authorities maintain silence re-
garding the case of Marie Prokowifa,
who was one of the seventeen on trial
on charge OF conspiring against the
life of the car. This young woman,
who was highly educated, was be-
trothed to Sozoneff, the slayer of
Baron Won Plehve. At her trial her
old white-haired father made a pro-
found impression upon the jury, even
the Judge being moved to tears by his
appeal.
Despite her fathers plea. Marie was
convicted. One report Is that she has
already been executed Another that
she has been sent to Siberia for life.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Western slope Fair to Be Big.

Montrose, Colo.-The Western Slope
fair. which is to be held at Montrose
September 18th, 18th, 10Th and goth,
will be the biggest and finest meeting
ever held in this part of the country
Over $4,000 in purses have been put
up for the horse races alone, besides
large amounts for premiums. The
grandstand has been doubled In capa-
city and the race track made sixty
feet wide.
Ouray will send down two special
trains of between 500 and 1000 people.
and Delta, Hotchkiss, Paonia and
Olathe will each have several trains
Besides the 1000 Woodmen and their
ladies who have written they are COM
ing. Grand Junction has notified the
fair association that she will be there
with q brass band and 500 strong. Ar.
rangements are also being made for
another special train from Florence.
Canon City and Salida-
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

in August and September. 1906. for
western Canada The situation has
become so alarming that senator's from
Wyoming. Idaho, Kansas, California
and from other western states have
begun an attack upopn our homestead
laws, hoping to stop the exodus from
those states to Canada. But it is not
the homestead laws that are RESPONSE
BILE for this remarkable trekking to
the Canadian Northwest. It is their
superior system of colonization that is
drawing them from the United States
and not because their lands are more
productive or their laws more liberal
and just.
I'VE should study the plans In op-
Grafton by the Canadian government
very carefully for the fact that $780,
900 Americans have left the Middle
West to settle in the Canadian North
west during the last few years proves
beyond q doubt that our own system
of colonization is far inferior to the
Canadian system"
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
WATER CASE is UP
Judge Palmer viii Hear Evidence and
Give peeision.


Idaho Springs, Colo.-The most i'm
portant water litigation in the his
tory of this district. and which has an
important bearing on the future of the
mining as well as the agricultural in
drstries Of Clear Creek. Jefferson and
Arapahoe counties, has been begun
here before Referee Peter L. Palmer
of Denver. The rights Of every indi-
vidual or company using the waters
of Clear creek and its tributaries for
power or irrigation or mining are at
stake. Already claim has been laid to
several times over the amount of wa
ter that the streams will carry, and
there are dozens still to file their
claims.
The case comes up in the District
Court Of the city and county Of Den
yer as result of the original juris-
diction sixteen years ago In old Arapa-
hoe county, when the first claims for
adjudication were asked by farmers
living in Arapahoe county. 1t was
later extended to most of the Clear
creek water shed. Last year the
Rock Flour mills at Golden made ap-
plication before Judge Peter L. Pal
mer In Denver for an adjudication OF
their rights at Golden. This was fol-
lowed by demands from other claim
ants. Judge Palmer transferred the
case to Judge Mullins division, and
Just before the retirement of the two
Judge Mullins appointed Judge Palmer
as referee to take evidence in the
cases.
For the past six months he has had
those making claims to file the same
with him for hearing. It was de-
clded that the referee should hold
hearings In all three counties. The
suit is of great importance, for 1t In
wolves the rights of all ditch compa-
MES to take water from this stream.
no matter for what purpose. All min
ing and milling companies are also in
volved. and 1t is believed that more
than year will be required to take
the evidence.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Race War In Washington.

Bellingham, Wash.-Six badly.
beaten Hindus are in the hospital, 400
frightened and half-naked Sikhs are
in the Jail and corridors of the city
hall guarded by policemen, and some
where between Bellingham and the
British Columbia line are $50 natives
Of India. beaten, hungry and half
clothed. making their way along the
Great Northern railway bound for
Canadian territory and the protection
of the British flag. The long expected
cry of Drive Out the Hindus!" was
heard throughout the city and along
the waterfront. The police were help
less, all authority was paralyzed, and
for five hours mob of half thousand
white men raided the mills where the
blacks were working, battered down
doors Of lodging houses sheltering the
foreigners and dragged the invaders
from their beds and with a beating
started them for the city limits with
orders to keep on going.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Not a Comfortable Homo.

Even in q palace life may be lived
WELL" declared the great and good
emperor Marcus Aurelius. Even in .
palace. too. 1t may be lived happily
but that significant little even belongs
as truly to one statement as to the
other; for to live either well or hap
PLY In palace Is to do so in the face
of special obstacles. and is indeed
rare achievement. BY Just SO much
as a palace Is palatial is it unhomelike
"a place where only the most care
full and persistent cherishing can pre-
serve those home virtues that often
flourish so sweetly and readily in the
simplicity and coziness Of common
home. Little wonder is it, then. that
palace-dwellers are often glad. after
brief trial. to escape as soon as they
may. Millionaire after millionaire
builds his palace. only to weary of it.
One great mansion after another Is
closed. leased or sold; especially city
mansions. where there is not, as in
the great country estates. any refresh
ing adjunct of natural beauty to Offset
the smother Of artificial luxury. Few.
indeed. of such houses remain long
enough in one family to gather tradi-
lions and associations; few are in the
same ownership even enough brief
years to enchain the affections of
single generation. Besides. however
artistic, however truly magnificent q
private palace may be, does such a
setting befit the private life? For
public purposes, doubtless. beauty
cannot be upon too majestic a scale:
for libraries, museums. colleges. halls
Of justice and assembly let artist and
architect compass their utmost. But
people of the best taste and finest
wisdom. in building a home, will de-
sire the beauty of homelikeness first,
and all other beauty. whether Of
rich or simple detail, afterward and
subordinate. Not long ago, relates
the Youths Companion, vast marble
palace was pointed out to a young girl
as the place to which the multimil-
lionaire owner was about to bring his
bride, whom she had known at col
lege. She viewed it with sincere dis
may. "Oh, poor Marion!" she cried.
Must she really live there? What q
pity she didn't marry a husband who
could provide her comfortable
home!"
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
FREE LOVER ROUGHLY HANDLED
Artist Who gave up Wife and Child for
"Affinity" ls Mobbed.


New York-The artistic tempera-
lnent" collided with public decency,"
and Ferdinand Pinney Earle, the artist,
reaching Monroe after having shipped
his wife and child to Europe in order
that he may marry his SOULS affinity"
who is said to be Miss Sophie Kittner
CT Bethlehem. Pennsylvania. fell into
the waiting and welcome arms of a
mob.
The mob, composed exclusively of
Earle's neighsors and former friends,
dragged him from his carriage, which
they overturned, trailed him in the
mud, dashed him with horsewhip, and
might have responded to the repeated
suggestions that rope be secured had
not the mayor of the village and the
chief of police recalled them to their
senses and given Earle a safe conduct
to his home.
escape from being mobbed by crowd
of unsympethetic longshoremen while
he was waiting on the Hamburg
American pier in Hoboken to wave
farewell to the wife and infant son.
Five minutes before the liner left
with his wife and baby aboard. the ar
st-millionaire-poet fed from
the Hoboken dock of the Hamburg
American company, lodging the blows
and the hard words that were aimed
at him by the crowd of dock laborers
who knew nothing of the longings Of
the temperamental nature, or the
emancipation of love-" and who are SO
crude as to have nothing but contempt
for man who would trade wives at
the promptings Of his artistic soul.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

Gov. Floyd of New Hampshire
doubts whether the summer boarder
business has added to the profits of
the majority of New Hampshire farm
ers, because, he says, it has helped
create the unrest and discomfort
which are fatal to good farming by
spreading the idea that the summer
boarder business is an easier and
more genteel way to get living than
by having crops or cattle. when a
farmer gets that into his head" he
adds, "and mortgages his farm to At
his home for boarders and neglects to
plant and hoe because he expects he
will be busy waiting upon boarders, in
nine cases out of ten the mortgage
will sooner or later eat him up" But
isn't 1t the usual New Hampshire idea
that the women can take care Of the
summer boarders while the farmer
runs the farm?
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
sHELToN HOTEL CATCHES FIRE
AND HALF A SCORE OF ROOM.
ERs ARE SHUT OFF.
eleven ARE CREMATED
GUESTS SCREAM AND PLEAD FOR
HELP. BUT TiNDERBox sTRUc-
TURE PREVENTS AID.

Tacoma, Wash.-Fire destroyed TIL
Webb hotel at Shelton, twenty mile
from Tacoma, on the night of Septem
Der 9Th. 1t Is reported that fifteen per
sons persisted. Miss Bailey and Mra
Nudge, both of Shelton, are known to
be among the lost. Eleven bodies have
been recovered.
The following bodies have been
identified:
Miss Ida May Bailey. waitress.
w. M. Holmes, master mechanic IN
Peninsular railroad shops.
Leora Bideaux, bartender.
Pearl F. Larson, butchers boy.
Mrs. Gay. employe of the hotel.
D. ]. Hennessy, logger, Seattle.
Sam Holt.
Mrs. Nudge.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. j. Westvall.
Unknown. man, jumped from third
story through skylight to kitchen floor
and was killed.
There were eighty-five persons In
the hotel, according to the register,
and many are still unaccounted for.
The monetary loss ic estimated at
$4,000.
Eight or nine are still unaccounted
Cor. The hotel was three-story frame
with front and side stairs, but no ele'
vator.
The fire was discovered about 1:40
In the morning. It had started In the
hotel annex probably from a lighted
cigar dropped In the sample room.
The top floor was occupied by num-
Der of ioggers, but the exact number
Is not known.
Within q few moments Of the time
the fire was discovered the hotel was
mass of flames. Screams and cries
for help were coming from almost ov
cry window and there were dozens o.
people risliing their own lives to help
bring out the unfortunates.
The hotel occupied corner OF .
block in the center Of tho city that
was solidly built of frame structures.
Those in the upper stories were entire
ly cut off from the statrways and at
least seven or eight jumped from the
windows before help could reach them
from the outside.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
New state EmpIovment on;ee

Wesley Nethers and Harry Pennock
Will have charge of the free employ
ment bureau at Colorado Springs, the
former as superintendent and the lat
ter as assistant. The appointments
were formally announced by Secretary
OF STATE O'Connor. With the organiza-
ton OF the Colorado Springs Bureau.
there are now three free employment
bureaus in the state, the other two be-
Ing at Denver and Pueblo,
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

Mr.. Webb of Chicago has discov-
cred hardship and discomfort among
he workingmen OF Scotland. They
are sorry now that they did not all
come to this country and become Car.
negies.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

Tourists are reported to have spent
$4,000, 900 in New Hampshire this
summer. Uncle Joe" will probably
find 1t easy to convince the hotelkeep-
ers down there that the only way to
be happy Is by standing pat.
The Washington herald., 1907-01-23
DESCRIBES TURBINE PLANT.
Supt. sinclair Talks 20 Washington
society OF Engineers at smoker.

The workings Of the new turbine plant
al Bc1ning. which was started several
days ago. were explained Informally by
I. +. Sinclair. general superintendent of
the Potomac Electric Power Company,
before the Washington Society Of En-
gineers, which held the first smoker Of
q series at The headquarters. - Fifteenth
street last evening. The horsepower now
being generated al the new station is
from 2.pn 10 5000. The power IS trans
ferred 10 the city by means OF three ca
bles. which have been laid in conduit
The station a. BernIug win eventually
furnish all the power for the Potomac
Electric Power Company and the WASH
ingtOu Railway and Electric Company.
When completed its capacity viii be- Do
Go horsepower. The first station % be
abandoned viii be the power house at the
foot of FOur-aud-a-half street. Later the
old power house. at Fourteenth and II
streets northeast, viii be done away with.
Next Tuesday afternoon the Society %
Engineers viii De taken 90 BaUning in a
special car for the purpose OF inspecting
the new power plant
Among those present last evening were
u. ). CARL, chief engineer and superiu-
tendent of the Capital Traction Com
pauy, 9. + GTuusky. consulting engineer
of the Government Reclamation Service.
and =. II. Newell. chief of lhc Reclama-
ton Service. Mr.. Newell is president of
the Society Of Engineers.
The Washington herald., 1907-01-23
". a. NIMICK DEAD.
lie Was One of the Pioneers of Or
ganized RnNehau.

Pittsburg. Jan. 22-In the death of W
A Nimick. of this city. NJ Pasadena
where be went a year ago for his health
the baseball world has lost one of the
pioneers Of organized baseball in this sec
tion of the country
-4r. Nimick is remembered by all old
time fans rs one Of the original stock
holders in the old Alleshenys. which later
became the Pittsburg Baseball Club Of
the National League. The Alleghenys
We're originally organized ny A. c. Pratt
in 1859. and It was not until two years
later that the club was Incorporated and
conducted as q stock company.
At this time there were 125 sharehoId-
ers, Nimjck being one Of those backing
the venture i'm its membership in the
American Association. In 1891. the club
being deeply in debt, Nimick took over
the indebtedness and assumed control Of
the franchise.
In 1887 the PittsburE club became a
member of the National League. and
Nimick continued as president until 1890
remaining at the head Of the local club
throughout the Brotherhood year Al
though he was an ardent adherent of the
national game, and many of his friends
believe that his devotion to It during the
early days Of its organized existence had
much TO do with his i'll health. vet he
never played the game after leaving col
legc, and never held any interest in arv,
other club.
The Washington herald., 1907-01-23
EVERY FAVORITE LOSES.
Public Has Little Luck with the Oak.
land Races.

san Francisco, Jan. 22-Not solitary
favorite scored to-day, the fast drying
out track being responsible for numerous
upsets. The handicap at six and one-half
furlongs was taken by Hector. who led
from start TO finish, CIeverly beating zoe
Coyne at the end. Collector Jessup. the
fav0Tite, finished third.
FIRST RACE-Fiss and o1e-iaW EuIo1as Al
Lindley, log DlcBrdei, g 20 !. won; Ely Benn, r.
III tWiiamsl. 90 10. second. UucraU0 Ij CA.
Miller. 10 J. third Time. I.s Coo, Burning
Han. sam AlcGib5sn, and Ear7lyi also ran
SECOND BACE-siz iurlaaeS. Fr.lie. 10 ,FGW-
5 70 I, second; Joe Goss. l8 NauderholtI, 50 90 l.
,hird. Time, I.l6 Is The NIissauriau Box ELDER.
Alice Carey DIR. Scharf. GetRicb-Quicb. ROYAL
White, I'm Joe, Nsttie EicGs LIitus, a. A. Pow
ell The Rcrr0tate and GIeuC-c also ran.
THIRD EACE-SU fUlCngs NaCTalC. les as.
Miller. To J. won, Nisti5 Pride, i1j "a. Williams,
S 10 p second; Pal, l05 lBloui Is TO D third.
Time, l.l6 Hersain. LuEauo. Prestige, Bumolettc.
Tavcrs and HoIla also ram
FOURTH RACE-Sx and 0no-half furlaugs
handicap. Hector, I92 Mcintyre % ]. won; Joe
Coyue 100 CWlliamsi Is 20 s. second, Collector Jes-
sup, Zoe Homer, % 5. third Time - ESCama-
dora also ran.
FIFTH RACE-Oue mile and fifty yards. Lone
Wolf. l07 Homer, 20 l. wou; Swagser, l07 CIV.
Miller II % g. second: Brers 100 lBUjolI. 90 O.
Potrero Gnudc Tauigl. and San Reno also ran
SIXTH RACE-One u-iie. Eub-lc, ia SANDY. j,
q g. won; Ramus. l1j uG.lCri. 70 D. second
Ocean Shore "a l&irzcAbauml. 90 l. third Time
la3 Fulletta, JCCund. EOl0mau, aud Hugh Nc
Gcuan also IAN.