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The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-05
PRICE OF COAL
SCARS UPWARD
CONSUMERS MUST DIG UP, OWING
TO HIGH PRICE IN ALL LINES
OF LABOR.
SAY NO AGREEME NT
ADVANCE HAS BEEN MADE ON
ALL GRADES OF FUEL AND
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT.

Denver.-Colorado coal consumers
must go down In their pockets for 25
cents additional to meet the advance
In coal. Five dollars ton is the
price now, because, it is said, the cost
of production has increased. The op-
orators in the northern field have in
creased the price, but deny there was
an agreement.
The advance In all grades of coal at
this season of the year is usual thing
in Denver. Consumers are given to
understand each year as fall draws
nigh that they must either lay in their
winters supply Of coal in advance, or
pay more for it as each week goes by.
There Is an upward scale strictly ad-
hered to by all dealers. This plan is
an incentive to those who are finan-
cially able to do SO to get their coal at
what is called summer prices" The
poorer class of consumers, who buy
coal in ton and halfton lots, are the
ones who suffer most from the advance
in price. Hard coal viii! be $40 a ton
by October list, say dealers.
F. F. Struby. president of the North
ern Coal & Coke Company. declares
ton.
creased in price," said Struby. Labor,
machinery, lumber and every class of
material used in the production of coal
has become costlier and the advance
in price was necessary. l believe that
the price will not again be reduced be-
low SIS ton while present conditions
prevail"
There was no agreement between
the coal dealers with regard to raising
the prices. Our company decided that
1t was necessary to ask more for coal
to make profit and We acted indie
pendently. The increase has been in
effect ten days"
]. F. Welborn, president of the Colo
RADIO Fuel & Iron Company, said that
his company was not mining coal in
the northern district and he had not
heard of the advance.
Denver is paying more than twice
rs much for fuel as cities similarly sit
uated in the Eastern states. In ST.
Louis the price of coal is $2.25 ton.
Most of the mines there are from .fif-
tt en- to sixty miles from the city The
northern coal fields are only sixteen
rifles from Denver and the supply is
practically inexhaustible. Neverthe-
less, the cost in Denver is S. a ton.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-05
FAIRBANKS LIKES COLORADO.
Vice President Given Warm Reception
and Proves Himself Not an Iceberg.

Trinidad, Colo.-Vice President Fair
banks left Trinidad Thursday at
o'clock on the delayed Santa Fe No. 9,
having spent twenty-siX hours in
this city and having forever
dispelled the impression here that
he is a human iceberg. He made many
friends in southern Colorado and prom
lnent Republicans of this section are
openly expressing the hope that he will
be the next President. The morning
was devoted to a trip over the Colo
RADIO & Wyoming, Mr.. Fairbanks
speaking to the miners at several
places and devoting some time to visit
Ing the mines and coke ovens.
81 believe I should like to live in
this delightful climate" he remarked.
As he left the hotel. Later the ele-
nents gave him reason for changing
his views and the rain came down in
oticketfulls. The Las Animas river
was raging as the Santa Fe train
pulled out. At intervals during his
sightseeing. Mr.. Fairbanks commented
IN the changes that have taken place
in the past twenty years in Colorado.
THE state will eventually be the
greatest agricultural and mineral
state in the union" he remarked as the
train neared Cokedale. At this camp
nearly the entire population turned out
to see and hear the second man of the
nation. The presence of large num-
Der of children led him to say: This
is certainly not a country of race sui
eide"
Sometime was spent examining the
coke ovens. Mr.. Fairbanks listened
closely to explanation of the pro.
cesses in operation. At all of the
other camps large crowds greeted
the train and it was after midday when
the party returned to Trinidad. He de-
ivered a short address to several hun
1red school children. who greeted him
1t the station upon his return. fare
we'll luncheon at the Harvey house
concluded his visit in southern Colo
ado.
1--WE hope" said member of the re-
,eption committee as the train pulled
out. that when you next visit us you
will be the President of the United
States" But the Vice President only
smiled and waved his hand as his tow
sring figure disappeared with In the
car.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-05
Waterways.

Any class Of water transportation 10
ancomparably cheaper than land trans
portation, unless something better
than the modern railroad is invented.
For this reason the greater part Of
our domestic. or inland tonnage has
been and is carried by water and not
by rail. For that reason the railways
own the largest steamers on the lakes.
The wheat trade was lost to the Mis-
sissippi, not by competition, says
Charles D. Stewart, in August Cen.
fury, but because the railroads did
not bring 1t there. The Mississippi
above Cairo is decadent not for lack
of ability to compete, but for lack Of
commerce. which is to say, accessible
1ty by means Of its own tributaries.
The Mississippi has 900
tributaries, of which As are navigable:
the tributaries stretch their arms 1900
miles east and west; 1t has drainage
area of 1,267.454 square miles, and
with Its branches it has navigable
length of $4,000 miles. On like area
China supports 400.O00.000.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-05
1he French NoblIlty.
COLORADO

What has become of the French no
binty and what are its pursuits. are
questions much discussed In the Par.
isian press, apropos OF Paul Bourgeois
'Emigre" Under the republic. few
of the aristocracy join the army or
navy. They are generally much rich.
er than before the revolution. Many
have married into commercial fam.
lilies. and many have themselves en-
tered active business. One marquis
OF distinguished lineage is a cham
payne agent at Epernay; another
nobleman sells fish. There are titled
manufacturers of cider, automobiles
Ind pumps. One ue-blooded baron
as distiller. II the aristocracy were
only numerous enough, we might
soon see all trades associated with
the names Of the peers of France:
while the only gentlemen of leisure
would be those who are now com
mercants." A general strike, COM
ments the New York Post, headed by
. duke, with a marquis bearing this
red flag of the International" would
furnish = thoroughly modern spec
tacle.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-05
Lack of Schools.

Not only from the great cities.
where population increases by leaps
and bounds, but In lesser urban dis
tricts and smaller communities comes
the complaint of insufficient school &C.
commodation, declares Our Country.
Children increase much more rapidly
than schoolhouses. Reports are made
Of hired storerooms, basement and
private houses in the school budgets.
and this has become SO general as to
cease to excite remark. Boston, for
years furnishing the model for one
common school system, is several
years behind in offering sufficient &C.
comp1odations for its school popula-
ton. and other cities, notably New
York. are behind much longer time.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-05
Important Arrests in odessa.

Odessa.-The police Of this city have
arrested the sailor, Mathuschenko, who
led the mutiny on board the Russian
battleship Kniaz Potemkine in the
summer of 1905. Mathuschenko has
beeen in New York, where he was en-
ployed in an iron foundry. He grew
homesick, however. and last July re-
turned to Russia in disguise and under
a false name and sattled at Nikolavae.
He was followed by detectives and ar
rested. The officers Of the law. how
over, took no action until he formed
a revolutionary organization. All the
members of this band we're taken into
custody along with their chief and
thrown into prison. They will be court
martialed.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-05

1t locks like universal war on the
mosquito. The example set by Amer
leans, who in clearing out breeding
places of the insects have also les
sened dangers of disease, is being fol-
lowad elsewhere. while some novel
methods have been adopted. Italy.
for instance, is introducing into its
waters an Australian fish which is
credited with an insatiate appetite
for mosquito larvae. This may keep
down the mosquito population, but
1t will not exterminate the pest. The
most reliable way has been found to
drain the marshy places where the
insects propagate most freely. Many
localities where mosquitoes formerly
abounded have been almost wholly
freed from the unwelcome creatures
by this means. with corresponding in
crease in the health and comfort of
residents.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-05

Again comes the startling news
from England that women are becom-
sng taller and more masculine and
that men are shrinking and losing
their Drawn. That woman is intellec-
tuslly, spiritually and morally superior
to the opposite sex. Marie Corelli long
ago informed US. New women, equal
suffragists and politicians with fe-
male constituency hail all this as a
sure sign of human progress. Yet
men of science inform us that the
lower the grade Of animal life, the
smaller and more insignificant the
male and the more dominant the fe-
male. At the starting point-so far
40 we know 1.-THE female principle
only is findable. Is the race retro
grading?
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-05

A Detroit man who had gone to the
courts to seek divorce willingly act
ID a. q witness for another couple
who were there to get married. Evil
IDENTITY misery loves company. :.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-05

After profound study and invesdga-
ton the director Of the mint has con-
cluded to deduct $135, 600, 900 from tho
estimate Of the stock of gold In the
country. Well, what difference does
It make whether the stock IL $1,61s.-
$3.50 or $1.4s4.s45.2s0? Nobody
has to count 1t OF carry it.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-05

attempted TO DO II In OklanOma In tnelr
new constitution. They have got a
provision by which a jury is required
to pass on a question of whether the
courts order of injunction has been
violated.
But when you come to a railway
company, or a corporation subjected
to an administrative tribunal called a
commission, that commission can first
issue the order as an administrative
tribunal, and await its disobedience by
the railway company, against whom
there is charge for having violated
this order, and can then turn itself
into a court. That is what the con-
stitution says. 1t can exercise the
powers of court, transmitting itself
into court. and fine this corporation,
without jury, not exceeding $500 a
day during the time the order is vio-
ated.
Afraid Of Individual.
What say in respect to Mr.. Bryan's
form OF government is that he is SO
afraid of the individual, and is so afraid
to put power in the individual that rep
resents the public, that you will have a
nerveless government that cannot
work and cannot do anything to COM
pei obedience to the law
You cannot weaken the courts with
out enabling the rich man a more eff
fective chance to escape. Through the
very rents that Mr.. Bryan would make
in order that what he considers the
poor and lowly and unfortunate may
escape, the wrongdoer, too, may es-
cape.
Il thank you" - ~-';
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1907-12-13
J0HNs0NToWN BRIEFS.
Newsoy Notes From All Sections OF
Berkeley County.

Johnsontown, Dec. 13.-The funeral
of Mrs. P. L. Keesecker was largely
attended Sunday.
Mr.. Ellsworth Frick and family, of
Tomahawk, were guests of Mr.. Charles
Everhart over Sunday.
Mr.. John Barnes and wife spent
Sunday with Mr.. Martin Hess and
family.
Mrs. Idella Lentz is on the sick list.
Mrs. Charles Manor spent few
days the first of the week with Mrs.
Dora Lingenfelter at Hedgesyille.
Song service held at the Dunkard
Brethren church Saturday evening
proved quite success.
Mr.. Edward Slater and son, Charles,
spent Tuesday with Mr. Charles and
Eliza Manor, at this place
Mr.. Charles and Ira Slater. of Da-
Wis City,, were called home to attend
the funeral of their sister, Mrs. Nam
ME Keesecler, at this place.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1907-12-13
BAXTER NOTES.
News Gathered BY Our Reporter From
That Section OF the County.

Baxter, Dec 13.---Mr S. H. Butts
took trip to Sleepy Creek the first
of the week
Mr.. II. C. Candy was at North Noun
tain Wednesday
Mr.. and Mrs. William Albright en-
tertained small party of young peo-
pie at their home on Tuesday night
MIR. William Jordan cut his hand
very severely with penknife last
week.
Mr.. Thomas Plotner, who cut his
foot with an axe a short time ago,
is in serious danger of losing his
foot.
Mr. George Bowers, OF Winchester,
is visiting his brother, Mr.. Marion
Bowers, of this place.
Mr.. Samuel Shriver. of Martinsburg
is visiting friends in thisv icinity.
1t is said by the Oldest residents
here that the attendance at the flu
neral of Mrs. p. T. Keesecker, of Prov
idenct church. on last Sunday after
noon was by far the largest assem-
blage of people ever witnessed at
that church since it was erected. The
sermon was preached by the Rev. f.
B. Chhbb. Remarks were made by
Rev. NJ. L. Maysilles and r. H. X.
Gill.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1907-12-13
For Sale.

Grocery store, first class, central
location. clean stock of goods. Good
reason for selling. Inquire Journal
office. 11-29-tf.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1907-12-13
Mr.. c. A. Miller is spending the day
in Brunswick on business.

Miss Mamie Fulk, of Shenandoah
Junction, was business visitor in
this city yesterday.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1907-12-13
Don't Puzzle Over Gifts---Come
Here and Select.

1t is the easiest thing in the world to select Christmas
presents here This store with its exhaustive collections of
splendid gift things indeed the for all who puzzled
what to give
In Cloaks and Suits Waists and all of wearing
apparel does superiority of style and variety assert itself
Also Umbrellas Handkerchief Gloves and Jewel Boxes and
all kinds of Christmas novelties have in great diversity of
style, size and quality.
And remember, that while prices lower than
those to be found elsewhere qualities just good
better Economical and discriminating doing
their Christmas shopping HERE-are you?
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1907-12-13
Here Are Gift Suggestions
Suited For Every Purpose

Leather Goods, Pin
Cushions, Portfolios,
Smoking Sets, Work
Boxes, Pillow Tops,
Post Card Albums, Ink
Stands, Glove Boxes,
Fancy Boxes, Hanbker-
chief Boxes.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1907-12-13
Furs Always Welcome

for Men, Women and
Children. Handsome
boxed, comprising the
neat little conceits for
the children up to the
fiuest Hand Enbroider-
ed for ladies. A Wide
Price Range.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1907-12-13

Jewelry
Cuff buttons, collar buttons,
and stick pins.
After all, there is nothing - umrwsz
nicer than pair Of cuff but <4E>A. HHS SSS
tons, collar buttons or stick
pin. E=A=A
After you have seen what @&sSSS ~h~
we are offering, and the price
they are offered at you may
conclude to give one.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-24
AFTER NORTH POLE IN 1910.
Explorer Amundsen viii Train Polar
Bears to Haul His Sleds.

New York, Oct. 17.-Capt Roland
Amundsen, the Arctic explorer, who
arrived on the steamship Oscar H.,
said he will make an attempt to
reach the north pole in 1917. He an
nounced that he is having four big
polar bears trained to haul sleds and
intends to use them in the far north.
He said also that he and his friends
expect to petition President Roose-
welt and the United States govern
ment to allow his vessel, the Gjoa, in
which he navigated the northwest
passage in 1904, to be the first to pass
through the Panama canal upon its
completion. The Gjoa formerly was
a whaling vessel of 794 tons, and is
now undergoing repairs in the Mare
Island navy yard at San Francisco.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-24
SHOOT SOUVENIR HUNTERS.
Indiana Governor So Instructs Militia
at Fontanet.

Fontanet, Ind, Oct. 1S.-Col. Alfred
l. Dupont, vice-president of the Dupont
Powder Company, accompanied by
General Superintendent Connable, ar
rived here Thursday and began an in
vestigation as to the cause of the dis
aster on Tuesday, in which 40 persons
are known to have been killed and sew
eral hundred injured.
The search for the remaining six
bodies around the scene of the pow
der mill explosion was continued
Thursday. Many parts of bodies were
found by digging into the dust around
tho boiler house, but all were horribly
pangled. Relatives of some of the
lead asked that the bodies be not
Iearched for, but the coroner believes
the work should be carried on.
Gov. Hanly has instructed Major
l-erschner that any person found dig
ging in the ruins for souvenirs should
be arrested, and If an attempt at es-
cane is made, the offender should be
shot.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-24
Veterans at vandaIIa.

Vandalia, III, Oct. 1.-THE annual
Fayette County Soldiers and Sailors
reunion met here Wednesday and will
continue over Friday. Former U. s.
Senator w. E. Mason will address the
veterans on Thursday afternoon. 9th
ers of note who will make addresses
are Department Commander A. C.
Matthews, Congressman M. D. Foster
of the Twenty-third district, and Hon.
Z. S. Dickson.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-24
Spirits GO Hioher.

Cincinnati, Oct. 17.-Word was re.
ceived in this city late Tuesday after
noon of an advance of / cent gallot
in the price of spirits. making thu
basis $1.S5. This is the highest price
for spirits since the civil war. The
advance is due to the Increasing cos
of raw materials. About three weeM
ago an advance Of cents a gallon
was made. making the basis Sl.s4.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-24
SAYS MONEY
IS like LIQUID
PLACE AN OBSTRUCTION IN ITS
PATH AND 1T WILL STOP
FLOWING.
IT IS INSTRUCTED NOW
Edward Il. Hartman, the Railway
Maenate, Pleads for Saner
Popular Attitude Toward
Corporations.

Chicago, Oct. 1S.-"Genuine money
is like a liquid. The moment you
place an obstruction in front of 1t, it
causes a diminution of the flow"
This is one of the new financial
aphorisms to which Edward H. Harri-
man, who came to Chicago to battle
with Stuyvesant Fish, gave utterance
when asked to express his ideas upon
the future of the country.
This obstacle" said the Napoleon
of the railroad world, "has been placed
in front of the liquid stream of money
and it has already caused a serious
check in its flow. This obstruction is
the apprehension which has run like
a prairie fire throughout the land and
has permeated the minds of the peo-
pie. This apprehension has been
caused partially, if not entirely by agi-
tation against corporations in general
and railroads in particular, and it will
last until the people awaken to the
fact that we must have a saner com
prehension on these important sub
jectsp
Asked if he looked for any serious
effect from the rapidly changing CON
ditions in the financial and railroad
world, Mr. Hartman replied:
mo, do not. l think the country
is too great and too prosperous to have
money panic. should rather think
that, instead of heading toward a pan
ic, we are entering a natural and
healthy period of reaction. If we go
through it safely, and l am certain
tnat we shall do so, we will sail
smoothly and calmly into more mod
crate times when we shall live slower.
and surer and saner"
Mr.. Hartman was asked if he really
thought that the alleged difficulty in
raising capital was not largely in the
Imagination of those who gave express
sion to the thought
by no means" he replied. "The diff
ficulty in raising money not only for
railway enterprises, but in all lines of
business, is real and not fancied
one.
ASK any merchant whom you
should chance to meet why it is that
he. is not carrying such large stock
of goods as was his custom, and he
will reply that it is because Of his ina
bility to raise sufficient capital to
carry large stock. There is a gen
eral lack of accommodation every
where in the United States; and it is
not confined to this country"
Il do not fear any serious result.
however, because it is claimed that
liquidation practically has taken place
on Wall street, and people after a
time will realize that a large part of
their apprehension is groundless and
they will realize, also, what is of vast
ly more Importance, that the time has
come for cooperation between the ma
tional government and the railroads
and other corporations and also be-
tween the state governments and rail
roads and other corporations"
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-24
The Scotch Juror.

In Scotland in civil case jurymen
get ten shillings day for their sery-
Ices and the litigants must in addition
provide them with lunch. If two cases
are tried consecutively and the same
Jurymen~ officiate, they get ten shill-
ings for each case.
But the most important differences
between an English and a scottIss
Jury is this: An English jury
returning their verdict mus b,
imous, and if they fail to az er
a certain length of time u az
missed and the whole y lgs are
begun again de noro Z fresh
jury. This is a r. jcnsiye mode
Of administer slice. IN civil
cases, In orr avoid this result
the htigapf lotimes agree to ac
cept tn It of a majority. In
Scotls' jury can always give
verf majority in civil cases
~ lapse Of three hours
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-24
The Shortest Hour

What is your shortest hour in the
day." asked a business man Of an Al.
quaintance. Don't say you have
none. You have. although you NAV
not know it. Everybody has. Of
course, reckoned by actual measure.
ments, each hour is somposed Of 60
minutes, yet, notwithstanding that
chronological exactness, the houFs
vary in length. My shortest hour il
from two to three o'clock in the att
ernoon. l find upon inquiry that that
is the shortest period for many PEG
pie. In my case, so swiftly do those
so minutes hurry by that try To-
crowd into them as many of the dis.
greeable yet inevitable things Of life
as possibly can. If | have to inter
view bore l see him then; II have
to visit the dentist I do it then. That
hour is bound to slip away quickly, no
matter what happens, therefore the
agony of disagreeable scenes seems
of shorter duration"
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-24
SOUTHERN FRANCE is FLOODED
Vast Damage Has Been Inflicted by
Overlooking Rivers.

Paris, Oct. lS.-Dispatches from the
center and south of France Thursday
confirm the worst reports of destruc-
tion caused by floods. The rivers
Loire, Rhone and Saone and their trib-
utaries are raging, the water in some
places being the highest ever recorded.
In hundreds of cities and towns there
is from two to ten feet of water in the
streets. Great distress has resulted.
Railroad traffic is utterly disorgan-
lied. At places the roadbeds have
been washed away and the stations are
under water.