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The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22
Tramps Held UP Train.

Minturn, Colo.-A half-hundred ho
boes, without money or food and
foiled in their attempts to make" the
several previous trains which passed
through here during the day, held up
Denver & Rio Grande freight No. 63.
They defied the train crew. officials and
entire town to put them off and for
more than two hours were in complete
charge of the train.
Firearms were accessory to drive off
the hoboes. Marshol Henry Becker and
Trainmaster e. l.. Stratford, heading
squad of a dozen railroad men and
citizens armed with rifles and shot
guns. attacked the train, firing into the
air as they advanced. The tramps were
unarmed and unable to offer resistance
and began to unload from every nook
and corner of the train.
They were finally lined up at the
point of guns on the prairie several
hundred yards from the track and
threatened with death if any at
tempted to break from the ranks and
board the train. The freight finally
pulled out two hours late and the ho-
boes were walked down the railroad
track for mile and told not to return
under penalty of death.
ne tTdllpS TduSeu III ages from
eighteen to sixty, and are believed to
have come from the grading camp four
miles below Minrurn. They came in
afoot, in groups of three and four, and
their actions threw the people into a
state of terror. They tried to board
several trains during the day, but
were beaten off by the trainmen and
fights resulted.
Toward evening they met in the
yards and 1t is believed, voted to take
No. 63, by storm. The train had no
sooner been stopped than the tramps
scrambled aboard and made them
selves comfortable on the rods, roofs,
inside the box cars and any other place
they could find room. Conductor Nc
Laughlin refused To move a wheel un-
til the undesirables had been unloaded,
and after the armed posse had driven
them off Mclaughlin made a careful
examination of the train before he
pulled out.
The tramps ars said to be camped
several miles down the river and fur
tier trouble is anticipated. The Off.
GERS and residents of the town are pre-
pared for an attack.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22
Not Partial to Nursinu,

Not long ago young Irishman ras
seeking work in western Illinois, and
among those to whom he applied was
a farmer near Cairo.
The farmer was attracted by the
Celt's frank, CHEEKY manner, and,
while he was not in need of help, he
asked, after pause:
Can you cradle?"
"Cradle!" repeated the Irishman,
Sure, 1 can! But, sir" he added. per
suasively, couldn't ye give me a job
t-of-dures ?"-Harper's Weekly.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22
Tucker Loses in Bankruptcy Case.

Leavenworth. Kan.-The jury in the
case Of the Uncle Sam OIL Company,
in which ii. H., Tucker. Jr.
sought to have the receiver. ap-
,ointed by the State Supreme Court, re-
moved, returned verdict finding
against Tucker. The receivership,
therefore, stands. The verdict was
written out by Judge Amidon in the
United States District Court, and 1t
was agreed to by the Jury upon the
courts instructions.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03
REVISION OF H TARIFF.

When enato Cullom urged the call
March next for the purpose of revising
the tariff, the friends of Just taxation
began to be hopeful. They may as well
abandon that state of feeling so far as
the tariff is concerned, for the leaders
at Washington, led by Nelson w. AID
rich, have decided that no special ses-
sion shall be called next year. and that
no revision hall be undertaken until
after the next presidential election, in
1908. This means, if it means anything
at all, hat revision shall be attempted
in a special session to meet in March,
1909.
It really ean that the standpatters
of the Nelson Aldrich sort have out
witted the revisionists from the Cen
trail West, and have secured the ae-
Dingleyism two more unchecked years
in which to rob the many in order to
make more millionaires, and to swell
the fortunes of its leading beneficial
ries.
The postponement of action to March
1909. simply mean that the standpat-
ters are in the saddle in the republican
party, and no revision will be attempt
ed at all if by hoG or crook it can be
avoided. The refusal to revise the
tariff in accordance with the dictates
of common decency and common hon.
esty means that the ~benefciaries of the
tariff scheme have promised to put up
a slush fund large enough to buy the
next presidential election.
The purchase of b election in 1908,
and a continuous scheme of robbery
afterwards to recoup all campaign ex-
penses, is the real programme that is
offered to the plain people of this coun-
try by the standpatters of today. The
entire issus goes over therefore to the
presidential election of 1908, and the
many will have an opportunity to ex-
press their feelings and convictions on
the delays and evident intentions OF
the standpatters.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03
TRAIN Held UP.
SedbOdfd Ait Line Train No. 81,
South Bound, Is Held Up Near
LaCrosS, Va, by Two
Men, Who Secure
$500 and Much
JeWelry.

Richmond, Va, Dec. 31.-Near La
Cross, Va, on he Seaboard Air Line,
at $3.50 this morning, the passengers in
the sleeper of train 81 out of Richmond,
were held up and robbed of about $500,
besides jewelry. The robbers, two in
number, got on at Acca, north of here,
as passengers, and one remained in a
day coach while the other went through
the sleeper. The Pullman conductor,
while attempting to arrest the man
robbing his passengers, was shot by
the robbel through the arm. The man
then pulled the emergency brake cord,
stopped the train and, with his confed-
crate, escaped to the woods. F. K.
Bull, a millionaire, of Racine, Wis,
was among the passengers who were
robbed.
The two men who held up the train
are known to the local authorities.
They had been shadowed here for foul
days, but gave the police the slip. A
Petersburg special says they were
heavily armed, and had the passengers
at their mercy.
The Pullman conductor, G.. A. Eber-
hardt, of Jersey City, n. J., who was
shot by one of the robbers, was not
seriously hurt.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03
Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Charlotte Observer.

Charlotte observer.
4 contemporary remarks that 'the
near approach of the centennial of the
birth of General Robert E. Lee, January
19, 1907, is bringing his name into
prominence not only in the South, but
in all other parts of the country" To
the last syllable of recorded time the
South, yea, the country, should keep
green the memory of General Lee. a
few days ago we copied, with pride and
pleasure, from the Presidents life of
Benton,'' his statement that Lee was
the greatest captain of the English
speaking race. We shall never forget
having heard Gen. r. F. Hoke, ofNorth
Carolina, state, on one occasion, his
impression when he, then a private
soldier, first saw him.. 81 thought"
said he, ''that he was the most sod
like man I ever saw" Private Hoke,
then of a Lincoln county company,
rose, as the merited reward of courage
and skill in battle, by gradual promo
ton, until the close of the war found
him a major general. He continued,
land we have no business to quote him,
for he is the most modest Of men, does
not talk of his honorable record in war,
and would rather not talk about the
war at all, saying sometimes that when
it ended he quit fighting, and intima-
ting an opinion that it would be better
forgotten,) that subsequently he cam
to know Gen. Lee we'll; that he en-
joyed an intimacy with him that they
often rode together and talked much,
and that his first impression was not
only confirmed, as the result of a close
acquaintanceship, but strengthened.
There is lot a more admirable figure
in history. He was entirely great, and
without any of the faults or infirmities
which have attended and attend so
many great men. He was a man to be
w~orshipped and, for his sake, the 18th
Of January should be a record day in
the United States. The story OF his
life as an officer in the United States
army, and as the commander of the
| Army of Northern Virginia, is not only
admirable, out to the day Of his death
| he bore himself with admirable dignity
and poise, and, if possible, was greater
] in defeat than when winning triumphs
ON the field of battle against tremen-
| dous odds. His cry name is an in
spiration.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03
WAYNE COUNTY LEADS.
In its Public School Work, both as tt
the Physical Condition OF its
School Houses and in
School Libraries, 1t
Heads the
List.

1t is with p~ardonable pride that the
ARGUS makes note of the official state
ment from the State Superintendent
office, that Wayne county heads the
list, with 43 libraries in her country
district public schools"
And this is not all, Wayne county
has made greater strides, of late, than
schools-in the physical character and
furnishings of her school houses; in the
higher intellectual calibre of her teach
ers, in awakened interest on the part
Of parents, in the avidity with which
her children are seeking knowledge
and availing themselves of school and
library; in the fostering of literary
societies in her schools, and in the
prideful. determined purpose generally
among her country people to keep their
county at the HEAD CT THE LIST.
All this is peculiarly gratifying to
the editer OF the ARGUS, who is, and
has been for ten years., chairman OF
the Board Of Education of the county;
but the credit OF it all is due in largest
measure to that quiet, unpretentious,
eompetent, grand, heroic man, who for
fourteen years has been superinten-
dent Of Wayne county's public schools,
and has done his work SO well. Mr.. e.
T.. Atklnson-God bless him in his en-
feebled health, and vouchsafe him res
toratioa to his wonted vigor for the New
Year and the work that is SO dear to
his heart-the education of the child
rem of Wayne county.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03
H KING IS DEAD.
NEW YEARS DAY.

The king is dead, long live the
king. The old year is dead; all hail
to the new. The rule of Father Time,
like the reign of kings, knows no
break or intervals. We pass from
one year to another and from one
century to another in the tick of a
clock and drop a milestone by the
way as we hurry on. So far as our
reckoning goes we have had a year
of growth and prosperity far exceed
ing any in our history, for which we
wish to thank our many friends fer
their courteous and constant patron
age during the year just closed and
may the same pleasant relations con-
tinue to exist during 1907. And let
us all hope that all the world as well
as we may find plenteous, peaceful,
and a little less strenuous than the last
few have been and as it begins let us
heartily wish each other and every
people, kindred tribe that dwell on
earth a very happy and prosperous
New Year.
THE PALACE DRUG STORE.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03
SKITTISH OF The PRESIDENT.

Washington, D. c. December 30-One
of the leading Republican Senators said
to-day that the reason for the reticence
Of the Republicans regarding their
position on the discharge by the Presi-
dent of b negro battalion guilty OF
shooting up'' the town of Brownsville,
was the fear that the President would
change his attitude on the ques-
ton.
81 believe a majority of the Repubii-
cans side with the President, and
against Foraker said the Senator
alluded to. "But experience has shown
them that the President Is liable to
change his mind, ever OF the most i'm
portant public questions. Republican
Senators have in mind the manner in
which the President left many of them
up in the air on the ate bill.
Senate Dolliver, o fIown, was thought
to voice the sentiments of the President
on the subject of rate legislation, and
the speech of the Iowa Senator on the
subject was read as the virtual utterance
of President Roosevelt.
Pretty soon, however, it was an
nounced that Senator Long, of Kansas,
represented the Presidents views. In
less that a month it was stated that the
President was in complete sympathy
with the views expressed by Senator
Bailey, who advocated a limited court
review provision in the bill.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03
NOTICE.

Under and by virtue of a certain
mortgage executed on the 18th day OF
December, 1900, by J.. B. Fields and
wife, Nancy Fields. to John T. Den
ming, and registered in book II, page
221, in the office of the Register OF
Deeds of Wayne county, the under
signed will sell at public aution, for
cash, at the Court House door in Colds
boro, at twelve O'Clock NJ, on Monday,
the 4th day of February, 1907, the land
conveyed by said mortgage, to-wit:
Lying in Wayne county, bounded as
follows: Beginning at a black gum on
the run of Falling Creek, just above
Sweenie's Ford, Edwards upper cor
e on said creek, and runs thence
with his line % IL w. $50 poles to a
stake; then N. 81 w. So poles to a
small post oak near a path ; then s.
268 poles to a small sweet gum on the
III OF Falling Creek then down the
same as it meanders to the beginning,
containing one hundred and fifty (I5O)
acres, more or less.
This End day OF January, 1907.
J.. T. Denning.
J. Tyson Dortch,
Attorney.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03
WORST in FORTY YEARS.
Four Million People Starving in three
Provinces of China.

Pekin, Dec. 13.-Owing to the ex-
cessive rain and consequent failure OF
Anhui province, in the east of Honan,
and in the whole north of Kiang Su is
worse than at any time during the last
forty years. It is estimated that four
persons are starving. Tens of
thousands are utterly destitute and are
wandering over the country, The
authorities are unable to cope with the
situation.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03
NOT DECLINE IT
Is not Seeking the NOmina-
ton for President and
Does not expect It.
Secretary Tdft's Report.

"For the purpose Of relieving the
burden imposed by recent publications
upon some of my friends among the
Washington newspaper correspondents
of putting further inquiries to me, I
wish to say that my ambition is not
political; hat I am not seeking the
presidential nominations; that I do not
expect to be the Republican candidate,
if for no other reason because of what
seems to me to be objections to my
availability, which do not appear to
lessen with the continued discharge of
not foolish enough to say that in the
improbable event that the opportunity
to run for the great office of President
were to come to me, / should decline
it, for this would not be true"
Washington, D. c., December 29-
The statement given out by the secre-
tary today, in which he declined in
any name to supplement or explain,
will, of course, be constructed to mean
WIdGONC1 10 oColICu Ny IL PCAoOu
ing the construction. Like Mr.. Bryan,
in his recent interview, Mr.. Taft points
out that the nomination for President,
coming from a great party,is not ONE
thing to be casually put aside. He says
he should not decline, if opportunity
presented, to make the run for Presi-
dent, and this may be constructed, and
doubtless will be, as a confirmation of
the story hat his friends have been
given permission, in his behalf, to de-
termine how general and vigorous is
the desire that he be formally entered
in the race.
But, in truth, Secretary Taft has au-
thorized no statement in his behalf,
aside from the rather ambiguous one
given above. His friends, indeed, gen.
orally opine that interests in Ohio poll
tics, not friendly to MI. Taft, have in
spired the report of his sudden excess
of interest in the presidential situation
as a means of forcing him on record,
and thus smoking him OUT"
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03
PURSUIT RELENTLESS.

Albany, N. Y, Jan. 1.-The first
paper served on the new attorney
general, today was au application for a
re-argunaent OF the petition of William
ranto proceedings to ESst the title OF
George B. Nc Cle1lan tots14e office OF
mayor of New York, of (which Mr..
Hearst claims to have been deprived by
fraud and violence in the election of
1905,
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03
No Crash Coming.

All the croaking over excessive
prosperity is meaningless. Panics and
slumps are not brought on because
business is good and general happiness
and eontentment high. The cr0akers
should go too. They should study the
sales'ef pig iron, for example, for the
third quarter.of 1907, and see at a glance
how silly their predictions of disaster
and slumps are.
Reverses cannot come while the
producing earth is bountiful in crops
and mineral outputs. Our mines are
turning out large quantities of needful
materials and OUR fields of winter wheat
are promising. It is idle to croak
under such circumstances. Let the
croakers bide their time. Let them
wait until crops fail and the mines do
not respond.
Probably ill-judged and in-condi-
toned enterprises will collapse here
and there. Possibly, too, our currency
system will work some mischief, but
such exceptional troubles will simply
serve 10 eliminate the unfit and to place
all that remain in a normal and health
full condition.
More than this will not happen while
the earth continues to produce nobly,
especially if we can secure soon a re-
vision of D~ingleysim and the passage
OF a currency reform bill that is opera
tive and just and applicable to all parts
ofthe country. We really have no factor
OF calamity at hand. We have none
coming, and those who predict and
predict are simply croakers who either
do not know what they are saying, or
else they are bears who have something
hidden away in their shaggy coats of
fur.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03
A Dead Man and a Live CompanV

Prevent widows and orphans from becoming charges
on charity. But a dead man without a previous connec-
ton with a Live Life Insurance Company did an awfully
poor stroke of finance when he died. The live man and
the live company must get together, else the surviving
live company can't do anything towards making things
easy for the dead mans family. Some one has said that
dead men tell no tales, and may be they don't; but if they
could retrace their steps and see the sort of tales that the
widows and orphans are left to tell, they would be filled
with regret at their own failure to prevent such a tale.
They would tell you to seek out that live company-the
State Life, for instance--and form a partnership with it,
whereby it was to look after your family when you cease
and determine.
They would point out to you the great security which
the State Of Indiana throws around you when it requires
all Indiana companies to keep enough securities deposited
with the State Department to cover every dollar that the
Company owes to it's policy holders. These dead men
would tell you a lot Of things that would make you more
of a live man if only they could come back.
Now, Listen: Your widow and children will have hard
enough time to get along after you leave them all the in
surance money that you possibly can, and their lives won't
be very cheerful if you don't leave them anything. Think
it over, with your own self as the star actor in the picture,
and then write for rates and further particulars concern
ing the State Life.
p. Sam COX, Mgr Of Agents.
Columbia, S. c..
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03

Sarsaparilld is unquestiona-
bly, the greatest blood and
liver medicine known. II,
positively and permanently
cures every hssmor, from
Pinples to Scrofula. t. is
the Best,
Blood Medicine.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03
new YEARS EVE.
What of the Year That is
Done? Have you Utilized
it's Golden Opportunities or
Wasted it's Passing Days.

AS we review the pastyear let us ask
ourselves: What has it been to me?
Has it been charged with benefcence?
Has it been consecrated to good? Can
you say truthfully that the past year
has been rightly and nobly employed?
Is there a fire that burns the brighter
for your Eberality? Is there any heart
which beats more gladly because of
your sympathy and helping hand? Is
there any one trace left by you in he
sands of time that the rising tide of
years will not efface?
You have not wasted the past-that
is impossible-there are no blanks in
Gods universe. You have either blotted
it or blessed it. Which is it? The
future will raise it up at the last day to
witness to the good you have poured
into it or the evil with which you have
poisoned it.
What is the primary object of your
life? Is it to make money? You are
quite mistaken if you think hat will
make you happy. Money is no doubt
a good thing, and brings US much that
is desirable; but it will neither bring
nor buy happiness. No man ever en-
joyed the riches he gathered by setting
his heart exclusively or them. The
real fountain of happiness is not what
is in the purse, but what is in the
heart.
Let your aim, then, be not to get rich,
or great, but to serve God. DO His
will and walk in His ways and all the
according to your need.
What are the influences that are day
by day su~perinduced upon your life?
Never forget that we are being made
upon earth what we shall continue to be
when life shall be no more. Character
is not cheated at the judgment seat; it
is there fixed, God takes US as He
finds US. "Let him that is holy, be
holy still: let him that is unholy be
unholy still"
What are the responsibilities of your
life? Every word o speak, every
deed you do, every path you tread,
makes or mars you and these around
you. You are daily putting forth in
huences that will form character long
after you have passed away. For no
man lives unto himself. We cannot
keep the body from dying; we cannot
keep the soul from living.
Therefore, whatsoever thy hand
indeth to do do it with thy might"
1t is a solemn thing to live. The battle
of lite must be earnestly fought if we
would be conquerors. b way of
life must be diligently trod if we would
reach the goal. Now there is pardon
for the greatest sin and acceptance for
the greatest sinner. It is Gods great
law that anything you would have of
happiness, you may have it NOW; if re-
.jected now, it is lost forever.
Nineteen hundred and six is almost
gone! With its opportunities, it's sins,
its follies, it will soon disappear; but
its record is written in unfading char
,acters. Nineteen hundred and seven
stands at the door with fresh and new
opportunities for us to serveGod and
do our duty. Go forth to meet it with
a manly heart and without fear.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03

The Bank of Wayne, issues a
Booklet. Banking Made Plain. It
tells you all about how a Bank is
managed, n how O can deal with
it. We will SEND you one if you ask
or it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-11
DEALING IN FUTURES.

The evenings counting was ended;
They were standing at the hall door,
He ready to take his departure
And she to be kissed just once more.
His thoughts were all of the future,
But of them not a word did he speak;
He was wondering how they could
manage
To keep house on nine dollars a,weel,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-11
THE MOON AND THE MAN..

The Moon-Yes, just at present, I'm
out late at night because I'm down to
my last quarter.
The Morning Star-Therein you differ
from the average man. He is often
down to his last quarter because he
was out late at night.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-11
TOOK II LITERALLY.

The former rector of rather small
MARYLAND town having been drowned.
colored servant Of the place was in
formed by her mistress several days
afterward that the body had been re-
covered.
"Golly!" she exclaimed Couldn't
dey fin de head?''
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-11
Little playing
fully we'll today isn't Brisss?
A HIGH ROLLER.

what saved old Wealthy from the
disgrace of dying rich?"
Ills son-i. law"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-11
COULD SPARE TIME FOR THAT

Percy-Just moment, Miss Cunning.
Let me tell you what l think.
Miss Cunning Certainly. can wait
long enough for that.