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The Lamar register., 1907-06-26

Santa Fee, N. M.-Refusing to testify
voluntarily, subpoena was issued for
+. NJ. Mcmahon of Colorado Springs.
formerly secretary of the Colorado II
tie and Trust Company, compelling
him to appear before the territorial
travelling auditor, Charles V. Stafford,
Sheriff Charles Closson serving the pa
pers. Mcmahon appeared. but refused
10 testify except from an original re-
port he had made 10 Governor Hager-
man upon the result of investigating
the financial affairs of the Territorial
Penitentiary under former Superin.
tendent Bursum, chairman of the Re.
publican central committee of the ter
ritory. and who was bitterly antagon-
lied by former Governor Hagerman.
McMahon's report claimed that Bur.
sum owed the territory $4,000. and
Bursum. under protest, paid $1,000 of
this. He applied to the courts for an
accounting. and Judge Frank w. Par
ker appointed Travelling Auditor
Charles V. Stafford, Hagerman APP
pointee, as referee. Stafford, after n
thorough examination, it is believed,
has found that the territory will have
to repay Bursum $1,000. unless McMa-
hon can produce evidence verifying his
own findings.
The report was at once sent for, but,
to the establishment of the officials.
could not be found on the official files
of the governors office and had disap-
peared, like the vouchers for the con-
tingency expenses of the Office under
Hagerman. local paper charges
Hagerman with having taken the re-
port, as well as the vouchers.
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26

Chicago rates on all
railroads of the United States will be
reduced TO cents a mile The lower
ing of the price and complete abolition
o. the old Scent rates will begin on
July LIST.
This was the decision reach in Chi
cago yesterday after long and heated
discussion by the leading railroad pres.
idents of all the western and transcon.
tiEental roads. 1t was not a formal
agreement, but it is equally binding.
fol two large roads doing a transconti-
mental business are said to have served
an ultimatum to the others that they
would put the rate into effect immedl-
ately.
Following the meeting of these OH.
Gals several roads admitted that they
had been forced to bow to public senti-
mcnt and anti-railroad Legislation.
They said that no further fight would
be made on the 2-cent laws already
passed and that the roads would &C.
cept the inevitable.
Among those who are said to have
attended the secret meeting were
Presidents b. l.. Winchell of the Rock
Island & Pacific, and President A. j.
Earling of the Chicago. Milwaukee &.
ST. Paul. Neither would discuss the
report last night.
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26
DOCTORS FOOD TALK
Selection of Food One of the Most I'm
portant Acts In Life.

A Mass. doctor says: Our health
and physical and mental happiness.
are SO largely under our personal con
troll that the proper selection of food
should be. and is one of the most i'm
portant acts in life.
On this subject, may say that
know of no food equal in digestibility
and more powerful in point of nutri
ment. than the modern Grape-Nuts
four heaping teaspoons of which is suf
ficient for the cereal part of a meal
and experience demonstrates that the
user is perfectly nourished from one
meal to another.
Il am convinced that the extensive
and general use Of high class foods OF
this character would increase the term
OF human life, add to the sum total OF
happiness and very considerably i'm.
prove society in general. l am free to
mention the food, for 1 personally
know Of its value
Grape-Nuts food can be used by
babes in arms, or adults. 1t is ready
cooked, can be served instantly,
either cold with cream, or with hot
water or hot milk poured over. All
sorts of buildings and fancy dishes can
be made with Grape-Nuts. The food
is concentrated very economical,
for four heaping teaspoons are suffi.
cient for the cereal part of a meal.
Read the little book, THE Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's a Rea.
son."
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26

The Hague.-A Leading plenipoten-
tiary, speaking of the situation at the
peace conference, said:
THE machinery is now moving to
the general satisfaction. as all the
countries are sincerely animated by a
lesire for a reciprocal understanding
and the delegates wish to avoid irri-
tating questions. Thus the discus
sions will certainly be attended by
earnest endeavor, without disagree
able incidents.
1.-THE success of this system has
been rendered easier by the delega-
tions being entrusted to the most tact
full and most distinguished men.
Therefore. the American proposition
relating to contract debts. which con-
templates only those between private
citizens of one country and the govern
ment Of another. it is predicted will be
adopted with few slight amend
ments."
NJ. Bourgeois. president of the first
committee, delivered an eloquent
speech in favor of the principle of ar
bitration and produced an excellent
impression. He gave a detailed sur
vey of the arbitration convention of
1899. the recent adhesion to which of
seventeen additional nations gave 1t
the conservation OF the civilized world.
He expressed gratitude to Andrew
Carnegie for his donation of the peace
palace. and said since the opening of
the arbitration court the experience of
all nations had shown that the work
ing of arbitration might become daily
more simple. AS a natural result of
1t, he said. international justice had en-
tered the domain of practical reality.
Public opinion of nations had quickly
grasped it and governments had be-
come accustomed to il.
The results of the establishment of
the court were seen in the thirty-three
additional treaties which had been con.
cludod since 1899 and series of Incl
dents which NJ. Bourgeois recounted.
The North sea incident. and the Vene-
zuela affair. he pointed out. were
among the cases dealt with by The
Hague court.
NJ. Bourgeois paid graceful compli-
mert to the United States and Prcsi-
dent Roosevelt for their part in set
ting in motion the new jurisdiction.
Regarding the task before the COM
mission of perfecting the convention
of 1899 he observed that the rules of
1899 might be modified to a kind of
summary of procedure.
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26

Cheyenne. Wyo.-Eugene Sweeney
the man to whom the Cheyenne council
has granted conditional street railway
franchise. and who desires an electric
lighting franchise also. met with the
council at a special meeting. for the
purpose of enlightening them as to his
intentions regarding the franchises
The enlightenment consisted of the
confession that he didn't know what he
would do with them. Sweeey refused
to agree to deposit the $1,000 forfeit
called for in the street railway fran
chise before the council granted him
an electric lighting franchise. In fact
he refused to promise anything what
ever. and treated the matter as lightly
as he might the application for dos
tax. The electric light franchise will
come up for final action July I'd and
undoubtedly will be killed at that time
1t is reported that the council is dis
gusted with Sweeney's methods.
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26
To Run Japs In.

Ell Paso, Tex.-That a steam
ship line operating between the
Hawaiian islands and the Next
can ports and the railroads of
Mexico have entered into contract
with Japanese syndicate not only to
land in Mexico but to guarantee entry
to the United States of all classes of
Japanese. was asserted here by Sc
cret service agent of the United States
who has just returned from a trip of
investigation into Mexico. He stated
that the plan was to bring the Japan
csc into Mexico in large numbers and
divide them up into groups at the diff
ferent ports along the border. This. he
says, accounts for the numbers of jap
anese that have for some months been
swarming to the border ports. There
are in Juarez. opposite this port. over
200 japanese, and the detective forces
of Ell Paso, Juarez and the govern.
ment state that all are veterans of the
war with Russia.
The agent has already forwarded a
report to Washington 60
Many of the Japanese in Juare1 are
officers of the Japanese army and
many wear medals. All are literally
snpDlied with $40 and 20 gold pieces
OF the United States coinage of 1892.
They are being brought into Mexican
ports by the thousands, and are
shipped to the northern part of the
republic. ostensibly to work in mines
and on railroads.
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26
Competition for Hartman.

INSTRUMENTATION the Fourth o.
July Ezra Meeker, who has come gu.
of the farthest West in prairie
schooner drawn by oxen, expects to lay
before President Roosevelt at Oyster
Bay a plan for the overthrow of HaT
riman and the solution of the problem
of railroad monopoly in the Unite :
States which deserves careful consider.
alton.
The plan contemplates nothing less
than the construction of a great cont,
mental roadway from the Missouri
river to Puget sound, over the line OF
the old Oregon Trail" and possibly
continuing eastward fSom the Missis
sippi to the Atlantic seaboard over the
old Cumberland pike, national road
built by the federal government in the
early part of the nineteenth century.
Twice Mecker has travelled the trail
in an OK wagon. The first time was in
1851, when he left indianapolis and
crossed to Puget sound. A few years
ago he conceived the idea of returning
East over the same route and interest
Ing the Inhabitants of the towns alons
the way in erecting monuments to
mark historic points along the old
highway. He set out with his OK team
and the original prairie schooner in
January, 1906.
After reaching his old home at In
dianapolis he evolved his scheme for
a reconstructed Oregon trail, free to all
who could find any means of convey
ance, as likely to point the way to a
solution of the whole problem of rail
way oppression and monopoly, and dc
termined to continue his journey
across the continent and lay the mat
ter before the President As Meeker
has been promised the support of the
National Good Roads Association and
tho national automobile associations, it
is not at all impossible that he may yet
see his dream come true.
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26
George Thomas Sentenced.

Cheyenne, Wyo.-George Thomas
who was convicted of defrauding the
Guernsey Bank of $500, today was sen.
fenced to four years in the peniten-
tiary. Thomas is a striking looking
character. wearing an immense beard
and flowing hair. which drops upon his
shoulders. During the trial of his case
he insisted on participating in the ar
gument between counsel and caused
much amusement in the court room.
At the time of the arrest in Pueblo,
Colorado. of Thomas. firm of Denver
attorneys attempted to blachmail the
Wyoming authorities, getting the
money which Thomas had fraudulently
obtained and threatening to retain pos
session of it unless the prisoner was
released
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26
The Personality of Labor.

The notion is quite too prevalent
that the workingman is primarily ar
economic problem" that he ought tc
realize this and conduct himself with
mechanical regularity and impersona
uniformity as fractional unit of labor
power. We shall never make any
Roadway under that doctrine. The
workingman is first of all human
being, The purchase of his labor is
only In a limited sense to be compared
to the purchase of a commodity and
cannot be treated in the same way
As DR.. Abbot has suggested, in the
sale Of sugar or flour the personal re
lation OF mutual confidence need enter
only once. at the time of the ex
change; but where you are buying la
Dor the laborer goes with the labor
and the personal relation of con
fidcnce and responsibility must be
there all the time. from day to day
and week to week, or somebody Is
cheated. Therefore. whatever methot
of getting along together is adopted
says Hayes Robbins in Atlantic. II
must count with personal qualities as
an essential part of the relation.
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26
FRANKS OF MAD STEER.
Breaks Into Houses, Upsets Coffins
Cores People, and Is Shot Dead.

Boulder, Colo.-A mad steer caused
more excitement on the streets of
Boulder one night last week than ever
a bullfight aroused in the heart of a
Spaniard, and as result of its esca-
pades Neil B. Mackenzie of this city,
recent graduate of the University of
Colorado Law School. will be in bed
for several days with badly bruised
side.
The steer was one of herd that w.
w. Wolf was driving to his slaughter
house. 1t became obstreperous, and
ran down the street to Trezise's un-
dertaking parlors, where it backed
against several collins. A boy pursued
it on horseback and attempted to las
so it, but the steer turned toward the
horse and threatened to attack it. BY
this time large crowd had gathered
and some one, becoming courageous.
attempted to grab it by the tail. The
steer wheeled just in time to see Nc
Kenzie turn into the street, and at
once charged Mckenzie tried to get
away. but the animal was too fast. He
was run down. and the steer tore sew
eral holes in his side.
AS soon as he fell the steer turned
on the boy on horseback. who had fol-
lowed. Before the horse could be got
ten out of its path the steer horned it
in the side, knocked 1t down and Sc
verely injured it. Looking for new
fields to conquer. the animal went into
The yards of the residents of Pine
street. Seeing some people on a back
porch it charged at them, breaking
through the screen door. 1t then at
tempted to break into Greenman's
drug store. Here it was overtaken by
Wallace Chambers, a policeman, who
shot 1t between the eyes, killing it in
stantly.
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26
DENVER MILLIoNAIREs INDICTED
Grand Jury Finds Cause for Holding
Prominent Men,

Denyer.-Four Denver millionaire
have been indicted by the federal
grand jury, which since May 18th has
been investigating coal and timber
frauds in Colorado. Two other Denver
men had true bills found against them
and, altogether, twenty indictments in
volving seventy-three persons, were re
turned.
The offenses alleged against the in
dicted men are violations of the laws
regarding timber, coal, homestead and
mining filings and conspiracy in con
nection with these violations. Four St
Louis corporations were indicted on al
legations of false bidding.
The Denver men known to be in
dicted for alleged fraudulent timber
and coal filings, on conspiracy charges
either as entrymen or promoters, are:
A. T. Sulienberger, millionaire, 1911
Washington street, connected with
Whitney Newton in the lumber bust
ness, and interested in the Pagosa
Springs Lumber Company.
Edgar NJ. Biggs. millionaire, 1174
Race street, president of the New Mex
leo Lumber Company.
John Porter, millionaire, Denver and
Durango, president of the Porter Fuel
Company of Durango, which owns 10, 0OC
acres of coal land; formerly had large
smelter interests but sold them re
Gently.
Robert Forester, formerly with the
Denver & Rio Grande; now geologist
for the Utah Fuel Company.
Otis B. Spencer, 1910 Lafayette
street, formerly federal office holder
and former clerk of the District Court
John ]. McGinnity, millionaire. 1850
York street, interested in the New
Mexico Lumber Company.
Others indicted include timber
stone, homestead and mining entrymen
and promotes from a half dozen
states. Inquiry was made into the bus
mess of Charles Freeman of the state
of Washington. c. E. Herr of Durango
as to timber and stone entries,
Milwaukee and st. Louis people OF
prominence as to similar transactions,
and people y Colorado, New Mexico
Wyoming, Nebraska. Missouri. Wis
consin and Utah. No official informa.
tion was given out as to the outcome
in these cases. An effort is being made
to keep the results secret until those
of the people who were indicted shall
be arrested and placed under the S..
900 bonds prescribed by the court for
each case.
dictments have been returned, how,
ever. there is possibility of peniten.
tiary sentence, If conviction is Sc
cured. But many of the complaints in
issue are already involved in civil
suits.
OF the cases considered by the grand
jury, twelve were alleged land fraud
transactions, and in a general way in.
clude charges that large corporations
through agents and small holders. Sc
cured homestead and other entries
through stool pigeons" the result be
ing to get through the names of others
new and lasge holdings for the corpor
atoms. TAre are other changes in
some cases. especially as to the alleged
wrongful procuring of timber. but the
stool pigeon" allegations cover most
of the lumber cases and involve in the
meshes of the law the men who are al
legged to have profited by the transac
tons, the alleged stool pigeons" anG
the alleged promoters.
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26
THE REoRGANIZED NEW YORK
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

The new Board of Trustees of the
New York Life Insurance Company
chosen by the policyholders under the
Armstrong laws, has taken charge OF
| The company's affairs and has begun
he work of reorganization.
In choosing the principal officers C.
The company, the Board has adhered
to the idea that life insurance com.
pany should be managed by life in.
surance men. The new president is
Darwin P. Kingsley, a college bred
man of good New England stock, who
mas been in the company's service in a
variety of capacities for period of
nearly twenty years. In the parlance
Of life insurance. he began with the
rate book" and has advanced step by
step up to his present position.
The first vice president of the COM
pany is Thomas A. Buckner. who has
served the company for more than a
quarter of century-indeed has
never had any other business connec-
ton.
Associated with these men are
others long trained in the company's
service. each an expert in his own de-
partment of work. VIM. E. Ingersoll,
who has for many years had charge
Of the companys great business in
Europe, is one of the second vice pres
dents, and will continue at the head
If the company's office in Paris.
Rufus w. Weeks, who has been in
the company's service for nearly forty
years, ranks next to Mr.. Buckner as
vice president, and continuous as chief
actuary of the company.
The policyholders have expressed
heir belief in this company in no un-
certain terms. The upheaval in life in
surance within the last two years has
resulted in a great deal of misunder-
standing and policyholders, alarmed on
matters which were not very clear to
them, have been disposed to give up
their contracts at heavy sacrifice.
This has not been true in the New York
Life to any great extent. The COM
pany had s2.OOO.O00.0O0 insurance on
its books when the life insurance in
yestigation began. and while the laws
Of the State of New York now do not
permit any company to write over
$3.50. 100000 a year (which is about
one-half the New York Life formerly
lid. the company's outstanding bust
ness still exceeds $4,000, 100000.
Policyholders generally will be still
'urther treasured by this action of the
Board. as 1t places at the head of the
company to protect their interests men
Of thorough training and unexception-
able character.
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26

when universal peace is finally es
tablished." said Alfred II. Love. the
president Of the Universal Peace un
ion. in an interview in Philadelphia
then many a man who now ridicules
the peace movement will claim &c
have been its lifelong champion. II
is always SO. We thump and kick 9
poor. weak, struggling movement a.
its inception. and when It has succeed
ed and no longer needs our help. we
give 1t the most solicitous support
There was once a young lady whose
betrothed, a very poor young man
was about to set out for South Ameri
ca to seek his fortune in the rubber
trade. AS he took his leave of her the
night before his departure. he said
TREMENDOUSLY: And you swear to be
true to me. Irene? Yes. Heber.' cried
the girl; 'yes--if you're successful 81
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26
This looks like anti-oslerism. Chi,

This looks like anti-Oslerism. Chief
Chemist Wiley of the department OF
agriculture at Washington. addressing
the graduating class of scientific
school at Cleveland, said jocularly that
he belongs to hundred-year club
any member of which who dies before
completing the century will be ex
PEELED in disgrace. Speaking more
seriously. he said: The present gen
Grafton is going to live much longer
than the one which came before. be
cause 1t knows more about the laws
of diet, hygiene and surgery. 1t is a
rank disgrace for any man to die, ex
cept OF old age" And Dr.. Wiley
thinks that, in view of the good pros
poets of long life as a result Of rJcper
care and understanding of the rules
Of health, 1t will pay a man to spend
long time, even 20 years or more. in
the schooling which shall fit him for
his. work. From which it ia to be in
ferred that learning how to live is one
of the essentials to long life.
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26

A new series of Indian portraits is
needed. The noble red man" OF
Fenimore Cooper and of Cat!in, the
fierce figure In war-paint and feathers.
lost his romantic interest when he was
confined to a reservation and FED on
rations. Now the Stalled reserva-
ton dweller has been supplanted In
turn by the new man. Indian only IN
blod and traditions. who is stepping
up to take his place in the life OF the
west The pictures that are to repre-
sent the new Indians will include a
short-haired. dark-faced man, dressed
in black SLOUGH hat, dingy white cot
ton shirt. blue overalls. and hobnailed
shoes. He may be a Kiowa farmer
who gathered GOO bushels of corn
from 20 acres of cultivated land last
year, or one of the 391 Pine Ridge In
dams who put up 600 tons of hay to
carry their stock through the winter.
Or he may be Plenty Buffalo, who has
worked with team and scraper on the
Huntley irrigation project in Montana
for six months; or Bert Frederlcks'
the Hopi night foreman on the tunnel
at the Zuni dam in Arizona. The pic
lures will also depict the Indian
woman as mistress of a prairie cabin,
feeding the chickens or carrying food
to the calves and pigs. They Will in.
clude group of children. dressed very
like white children. trotting off to day
school at eight O'Clock with their noon
lunches in packages under their arms.
A big canvas to hang beside the old
painting of. the war dance. says
Everybody's. will show 1000 Sioux at.
tending convocation of the Episcopal
church at White Swan. S. d.. and lis
tening to addresses from Bishop Hare,
or from their own clergyman. Amos
Ross, full-blood.
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26

James Rudolph Garfield. secretary
of the interior. was standing by the
side of his father in the Pennsylvania
railroad station in Washington ON that
fateful day in July. 1881. when the as
sassin's bullet for the second time
dealt death to a president of the
United States. The secretary was
then only IL years old-just the age
when the average mind is most sus
ceptible to impressions. Close friends
say that the horror of that hideous
tragedy has never fully left Mr.. Gar
fields mind. and some of them be
lieve that its effects account fcs the
half-sad expression that always lin
gers in his face. even when he smiles
or laughs.
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26
Female Haekdriver at War.

Colorado Springs.-A wordy war be-
tween Mrs. Dan Gaines and spiritua-
listic medium. Mrs. Mamie Hendricks.
on the street has found its way into
justice court. Mrs. Gaines was ar
rested on a charge OF disturbance. She
gave bond in the sum of 5000 for her
appearance before Justice Dunning-
ton.
Jealousy over her husband is said to
have been the reason for Mrs. Gaines
verbal attack on Mrs. Hendricks. and
the latter accuses Mrs. Gaines Of
threatening to kill her.
The Lamar register., 1907-06-26

Raasay island. in the Inner Heb
rides. which lies between the main
land of Scotland and the Isle of Skye
has failed to find a purchaser at the
upset price of $225,00O placed upon it
Its name is the Scandinavian for 1.-THE
place of the roe deer" and the shoot
ings, with the mansion house ant
grounds at the southern end. consti
tute the chief value of the island
Near the northern end are the ruins
OF Brochel castle, the residence of its
ancient lairds, the MacLeods. In
celtic lore Raasay has place and in
England literature it is mentioned In
Samuel Johnson's Journey to ths
Western Islands of Scotland"