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The newspaper., 1907-12-20
POPULATION INCREASES RAPIDLY.
More than Forty-Five Thousand People
have Located In Colorado since
Opening Day of Year 1907.

Forty-five thousand persons
have come into the state of Col
orado to make their home since
Jan. l, 1907.
This statement is no idle guess,
but is made upon figures furnished
by the railroads running into
Colorado as a basis for the cal
culation. If anything, this state
ment of the number of people
who have made new homes in
Colorado this year is under-esti-
mated rather than over estimated.
Figures compiled by the pas
senger department OF the Denver
& Rio Grande system show that
every day this year from Jan. !.
to Nov. is. there have been
unloaded at stations along their
line in Colorado alone. an average
OF one car of immigrant goods.
Three hundred and sixteen days
of the current year have passed; (;
3I6 carloads and over OF house
hold goods have been unloaded
along the line of the Rio Grande
system alone. But carefully com
piled figures of the railroads en-
tering the state show that only
ABOUT Our Idn'ry Il" .tr~S I'i"ae
its household goods along when
they move into new location.
The balance before setting out for
a new home have a vendue or an
auction sale and get rid of all
their old household and farm
goods. This auction sale is es
pecially popular in the Eastern
states. About one out of three
of these sturdy Eastern men pre-
fers to enter his new state unin-
cumbered; he prefers to buy new
goods and to get the kind of ag-
ricultural implements best suited
to new locations.
Using the figure three then as
a safe basis calculation. there
have been approximately about
The newspaper., 1907-12-20

the mountains comprising one third OF the total area
of the state stock raising and agriculture as lts
chief industries Second, the mountains ana parks Oh
the central portion with mining and grazing as lts IN
Custries Because of the peculiar climatic conditohs
the natural grasses will nourish live stock every month
in the YEAR the live industry is source OF great
wealth. Nearly $1,000 square miles of the state are
covered by forests which under the supervision
and control of the United States government lhese
forests much OF the grazing lana lor ct.e
Third, the high mesa lands of the western portoh
which produce grain and fruit and OF this tine
fruit industry most interesting to us OF the North
Fork Valley Mesa, Delta and Montrose are the iruit
growing of the state and no greater degree
of excellence in the fruit industry has ever been at
tanned than IL found in these three counties
So with great diversity of natural resources ana
its MANY opportunities it is not a wonder why 30
many of us from other states are here but rather
question why there not for to live IN Colo
RADIO is to live to seek comfort ana elegance
rather than luxury, be worthy not respectable 10
be wealthy rich live not exist all this In lana Oh
better climate sunshine, greater diversity Oh
scenery and natural resources than can
in any other state this is happiness and Colorado
The newspaper., 1907-12-20

900 families settled in the state
by this one railway alone, during
the present year. Again using
Az as a basis tor the average
number of persons in family
land this again is a safe basis, J
there are about $500 persons who
have settled along the line of the
Rio Grande this year. There are
eight big railway systems IN the
state. On some of these systems.
notably the Rock Island and the
Union Pacific in the eastern part
of the state. the immigration bus
mess has been especially heavy.
All of the railroads have carried
more persons this year than ever
before in their history. and a
goodly percentage of it has been
homeseekers' business. There
fore, taking the Rio Grande
figures as a basis for another cal
culation and multiplying the 1900
by seven. the number of railway
systems in the state, exlusive OF
the Rio Grande, we have 81 800.
Adding to this the 1900 of the
Rio Grande gives a total OF 36,-
900 people for the state since the
frs, day OF January.
But r"% ~Ns another factor 10
take into cs--idrration in making
calculation on 'he growth OF
Colorado's population for the
year. There are large number
OF tourists who come into Colo.
RADIO every summer with nc
thought OF remaining here. They
get a glimpse of the scenic beau
1 ties of the state. take whiff or
two of the pure mountain air that
continually sweeps down from
the Rockies. see the great oppor-
tunities offered for investment,
and then, very naturally, they
conclude to remain IN Colorado
and become citizens of the Cen
tennial state. The railroads have
no records OF the number OF
these persons. The one thing on
which they can figure is the NAM
Der of tourist tickets deposited
with the ticket associations in thsr
larger cities and left uncalled for
The newspaper., 1907-12-20

at the expiration OF the time
limit on these tickets.
The record for Denver alone
this summer is put at something
like 1000 in Colorado Springs the
number is 200, while there is no
report from Pueblo. but it is safe
20 say that it is not larger than
Colorado Springs. and not so large
as Denver. Put i, at 1000 to be on
the safe side and there is total of
1900 to add to the total OF $4,000
given above. Now. Denver,
Pueblo and Colorado Springs are
not the only cities in the state by
any means. Figure again another
1000 scattered throughout the
length and breadth of this great
state land again these figures are
conservative there is an approx
innate total OF 5000 persons who
nave found new homes in Colo
RADIO since Jan. |. 1907.
Probably before the end of the
year these figures will be consider
ably augmented.
These figures only 80 to show
the wonderful growth that Colo
rado is making. These new settlers
come from all parts of the coun-
try, the Middle West probably
furnishing the greater number.
These figures show. too. most con-
elusively. that the tide OF immi-
grafton has turned Coloradowsrd.
Denver Republican. Nov. II.
1907.
The newspaper., 1907-12-20

THE Democratic convention
will meet in Denver. This was
grand news that was flashed over
the state last week. While we are
rejoicing let 1t not be forgotten
that the much abused Senator
Patterson is the man above all re-
sponsible for this result. He ad-
vanced the idea and urged it in
season and out of season. The diff
ferent organizations of Denver
took up the idea and it was
pushed to a successful conclusion.
AS an eminent naval man said
once There is enough glory to
60 around" and we should all
give credit to not only the com
nittee but the man and publica-
tions that so earnestly worked for
the matter from the start.
The newspaper., 1907-12-20

in Colorado. The President has
ordered that they be used to keep
order only. He specifically states
that they must not take sides. AS
a result the Mine Owners have
concluded that they cannot put
their wage reduction plans into
effect or the company store
racket. They are now comforting
with the Federation leaders for
wage scale that shall be mutually
satisfactory and in fact are grow
ing quite decent and law abiding,
1t is refreshing to note the differ
ence between regular troops and
the tin soldiers mis- called militia.
The newspaper., 1907-12-20
Resources of Colorado.
BY MRS. MARY GILL FARIs.

The prime factor in the growth and prosperity OF
any commonwealth is its natural resources; and since
the admission OF Colorado into the union statei in
1876 its history has been of progressive develop
ment
Located it is in the heart OF the Rockies it first
attracted the attention of the country by its rich and
seemingly ineXhaustible supply omneral deposits and
it yet leads all other states in the production of
cious metals gold and silver and in the other mining
industries such of zinc, lead "copper" iron granite
and building stone, its values are unsurpassed
But the mining industries OF the state are in meas
ure being ecipsed by the development OF other indus
tries to which the state peculiarly adapted and
Colorado is known and read Of for its many
sources rather than its one.
Colorado has a better climate she produces a
greater average net yield per agricultural acre, pro-
duces fruit that has better color and quality and is
more profitable has greater diversity OF products and
has larger of irrigated lands than any other
American state.
With reference it's natural resources Colorado
divided into three sectionsFrs the plains east OF
The newspaper., 1907-12-20

CONSIDERABLE attention is being
given to the manner in which the
President has managed the panic
as against the record of President
Cleveland in the same sort of a
crisis. To begin with Mr.. Roose-
welt took different ground from
Mr.. Cleveland and in his position
has received the aid. support and
comfort OF the democratic party
practically as a whole. Mr. Cleve-
land was back capped in all he
did and most of it was action die
tated by the banking interests and
they in turn were without scarcely
velt's willingness to issue treasury
notes almost gave the financial
pirates spasms. How in the old
Harry are we to construct a panic
if the administration is going TO
give the people plenty of money?
If the people get the money that
is due them we can't loan them
any! We are as useless as the fifth
wheel on wagon it the people
can get their dues! We must
defeat Roosevelt at all hazards.
and nominate some one like Fair
banks. He would not take the
juicy people away from us just as
we we're ready to take our lunch
off them. Do the people realize
that panics are the harvest of
those who have secured control
of the circulating medium
The newspaper., 1907-12-20

Have you examined the beau
tiful line of Japanese china at
Woods Grocery and Bakeryr
1t is just the thing for neat, beau
tiful and pleasing Xmas gifts.
The newspaper., 1907-12-20
Do You Want q Home {?

Then see !. ID. McFadden at
once and buy one of those choice
fruit farms with plenty of water
which he is selling to good work
ers who have nothing but their
labor to invest. Low prices, easy
terms and no cash required al
time of purchase.
The newspaper., 1907-12-20

FOR SALE:-Twenty acres choice
fruit land near Elberta. under
fence; ten acres orchard twenty
inches Of perpetual water: 5000 on
easy terms. Now il the time to take
advantage Of low price. as prices
will double with the next crop.
|. ID. McFADDEs.
The newspaper., 1907-12-20
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The newspaper., 1907-12-20

In the beginning the order for
Federal troops to Goljfield looked
pretty bad for organized labor.
But later developments show that
the troops go in good faith and
are not going to be used to COM
NIT crimes as were the state troops
The newspaper., 1907-12-20

We have buyer for some Co
operative telephone stock. Any
one having some OF these shares
may find buyer by calling at
this Office.
The newspaper., 1907-12-20

THE Delta Laborer came out
with a boom edition last week
and - =. 49, "~y ~N;u'
to have sold 500 extra copies and
it ought to have been 5000.
The newspaper., 1907-12-20

Old papers for sale at this Office
% cents per hundred.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-03
TRAFFIC AND NEW CONSTRUCTED,

IH6FFIC AND VIEW CONSTRUCTION.
The significant statement is made on
what passes in financial circles as the
highest authority that rs per cent of
all the railroad financing for this year
has been provided for, and detailed
lists are published showing such oper-
ations aggregating over $500. 900 900,
They include the provisions made by
the Hill lines for $3.50, 100000, by
the Hartman lines for 500, GOO, 900,
by the Milwaukee for 100000, 900
and by many other roads for amounts
ranging down to few millions, some
OF them by the sale OF short-time
notes. Not In every case, however, do
the arrangements contemplate the ex-
penditure OF the full amount within
the year
The total, II 1t could be expended,
would still fall far short of the nee
essary new construction and equip
ment which the accepted authorities
have asserted to be necessary to ac-
commodate traffic. J. J. Hill recently
estimated that fully $1,000 miles, re-
curing s1.2OO.OOO.O 200 a year for the
next FIVE years, would only meet the
growth of business. If every dollar of
the funds authorized and provided for
by ali the roads could be transmitted
into new tracks, terminals and rolling
stock within twelve months 1t would
be only one-half the figure set by Mr..
Hill.
The financial limitations are not the
only serious conditions. New eonstruc-
ton is also restrained by the supply OF
materials. Practically every ton OF
steel rails. every freight car and every
locomotive that the mills and shops
can turn out within the year have
been already contracted for. and the
orders might have been doubled II
there had been possibility OF flling
them. There is also shortage OF
labor.
Meantime there is no sign OF sub
sidence Of the deluge of freight and
travel. Pressure of tonnage Is re-
ported from every quarter of the coun-
Try. and actual Industrial engagements
indicate that It will continue at least
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-03
personal AND OTHERWISE.

With an uncommon record Of disaster
and human slaughter, January earned it's
repose in the cemetery OF time.
st. Louis grocers propose to start a CO.
operative bakery to head of the Bread
trust. Both sides will knead the dough.
A Texas prophet throws hammer at
Medicine Hat by predicting that a hot
wave will blister the world in a few days.
All hail the thirteen hoodoo. A shame
less poygamist was caught redhanded with
wife No. 10 at Toledo, o.. and given a sem
tence Of six years in the penitentiary.
The marked activity In religious revivals
would be productive OF more enduring re-
suits II communication with New York's
criminal court could be severed for about
sixty days.
The saddest spectacle ever put up to the
''Old Kentucky Home" was an even hun
bred barrels of booze gathered up by the
Ohio river mood and gleefully hoated to-
ward the gulf.
It is calculated that the estate of the
late Marshall Field will yield yearly tax
of 100000. During life Mr.. Field was a
generous taxpayer, but he did not know
how much he was worth.
Five fairly competent business men con-
sumed nearly a year in determining the
value of Marshall Fields estate. Yet the
law of Illinois expects plain assessor to
do a like job in sixty days.
The proposition to tax bachelors has
broken out again in several legislatures.
Let's see. Didn't King George impose un-
just burdens on liberty. and didn't George
get what was coming to him?
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-03

1t was not to be expected that the
important negotiations pending be-
tween the American and japanese gov
ernments could go through without
the interposition of meddlers and
mischief-makers. The sensational
newspaper rumors, however, of war
like turn of affairs and imputations Of
inflammatory utterances to Secretary
Root and to the japanese minister of
foreign affairs are absurd on their face
and hardly need the formal denials
they have received.
The negotiations are of the highest
Importance, looking to a solid settle
ment Of the relations between the two
countries. The sole irritating question
arises out of the San Francisco school
regulations, a purely local matter, and
our government has moved promptly
to have the rights of Japanese chill
dren there defined in the only prac-
tical way, namely, by submitting the
case to the courts. Their decision,
whatever it may be, will clear the way
for practical adjustment. In the
meantime the two governments have
wisely gone on in search for an abid-
ing and conclusive basis of agreement
as regards not only the school, but
also Japanese coolie immigration and
other questions.
But all these exchanges have gone
forward in the spirit of most assured
friendship. The two nations stand to-
wards each other on present and ira
ditional terms of special confidence
and comfy 1t is an i'll service for pub
lie men, and especially members of
congress, in the spirit of local preju
dice, to magnify and distort mere ex-
ceptOnal irritating circumstances be-
cause reckless rumor mongers are al
ways ready to superadd sensational
and outright fabrication, as has been
done by current stories of war prepa
rations in the Pacific.
There are altogether only $4,000
japanese among our population of So
000, 900 Americans, a number COM
paratively so trivial that insuper-
able difficulty in their relations is in
conceivable. But because the two ma
tions are so friendly and are mutually
so profoundly interested in preserving
and strengthening their friendship is
the very reason why both governments
have been moved to make the first
local irritation in the school matter
the occasion for thorough settlement.
And there is not the slightest ground
for apprehension that such a result
will not be duly reached in spite of the
worst that sensationallsts and mis-
chief-makers can do. .
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-03
ENCOURAGING POSTAL FRAUDS.
Hats off to Root.


Postal authorities at Washington
have become aroused over bill passed
by the house and now pending in the
senate which, they claim, would have
the effect of multiplying much of the
good work done in the last few years
toward eliminating the get-rich-quick
concerns and other shady enterprises
using the mails to defraud the public.
The bill, which went through the
house without attracting any attention,
provides that after a hearing before
the Postoffice department fifteen days
must elapse before a fraud order may
be issued against any party complained
of and that, If the defendant wishes,
he may take the case to civil court
for trial, subject to the ordinary rules
of practice.
Under existing law, the postmaster
general may, when convinced that any
concern or individual is using the
mails for purposes of fraud, instruct
the postmaster at the home Office to
withhold the mail of the offending con-
Germ, returning it to the sender, when
known, or to the dead letter office.
This power is large one, it is true,
but the law has been in force many
years and nothing in the record shows
that it has been seriously abused or
that any legitimate concern has been
injured by it's operation. 1t was the
chief instrument employed in breaking
up the Franklin syndicate, Ryans turf
swindle, the st. Louis concerns that
had Senator Burton in their employ
and scores of other swindling outfits
throughout the country. So effective
has been the operation of the law that
most of these concerns have been re-
tired from business or compelled to
use other methods of communicating
with their victims.
The enactment of the pending meas
ure would undoubtedly furnish an OPP
portunity for the fraudulent concerns
to resume. 1t would make the stop
page of a fraud possible only after a
long legal process, involving postpone
ments and other technical forms of de-
lay, during which the harvest OF vic
Tins would proceed. 1t would substi-
tute a lawsuit for prompt administra-
tive action. AS these swindling con-
Germs change names and methods in a
night, prompt action is necessary for
their punishment upon discovery of
their guilt. In the last Ave years
2,470 fraud orders have been issued
by the Postoffice department. OF these
but thirty cases have been appealed to
the courts, and in no instance has the
Postoffice department been reversed.
The record refutes the charge made
by the champions of the pending meas
ure that the postmaster generals
power under the existing law has been
abused. 1t would seem. also. TO fur
nish an unanswerable argument
against any far-reaching change in the
existing law and practice on the fraud
order subject
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-03
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.


No man ever did his duty standing on his
dignity.
The finger of scorn never is on the help
Ing hand
Soul culture is a matter OF spiritual COM
partnership.
He who has no faith in goodness has no
experience of it.
Character is the only absolutely indis-
pensable capital.
Men are always weary until they take up
some worthy task.
Knocking the saints will not open the
doors of paradise.
Our goods do us no good until we try to
do good with them.
Men who elope with a single idea never
get welded to truth.
He who does not fight his appetite must
forego his aspirations.
One Of the great mistakes of this age has
been the substitution OF the church as an
institution for the church as an inspiration.
Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-03
GET THE DELEGATION TOGETHER.

GET THE DELEGATION TOGETHER.
The members of the Douglas dele
cation in the legislature ought to get
together for more harmonious action,
especially on measures involving the
interests of Omaha and Douglas
county. On some bills before the leg
islature the members from this county
will doubtless be at variance the same
as members from other counties, but
On the main propositions affecting the
welfare of business interests here or
the simplification or reorganization of
city and county governments they
ought to be of one mind.
Unaninlity of purpose, however, is
not all that is needed to put legisla-
ton through. Harmony of action and
agreement on method are just as i'm
portant. 1t is highly imperative that
we have team work from our senators
and representatives, rather than indi-
vidual play The delegation has so
far avoided any spectacle of dissen-
sion, and it is to be hoped 1t will not
spoil the record during the remaining
weeks of the session, yet 1t is positive
results that count in the long run, and
If the delegation from Douglas county
is to achieve results in the legislature
it will have to get together without
further waste of time.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-03
LITTLE HAND LIES ON MY KNEE

Beriah F. Cochran in Youths Companion
A little hand lies on my knee,
Two trustful eyes look up to me,
A thrill the childless cannot know
Sets all my quickened blood agloW.
And so tits given me to feel
While these bright eyes his mother gave
Are holding me willing slave.
This little five-ieaved, rosy fist,
BY loving lips so often kissed;
Was ever force more beautified?
Can strength in greater beauty hide?
Unsteady are his steps just now,
But when white locks lie on my brow,
And age creeps with vision dim,
My waning strength may trust in him.
Then he will be the strong. and
The weak and trusting one, sigh
To think Il, but i see that day,
And aoQuiesce In Natures way.
For thus the links of life connect
In love we give, and so expect
That love and life will ever spring
Where hearts and hopes their treasures
bring.
And so in giving and receiving
Is found the best and sweetest Ivingt
So life 10 life renewal gives,
And in the young the parent lives
Whateer may come of good or I'll,
IT'S good 10 have these loved ones MI
The measure OF domestic Joy
My sweetheart wife, my bouncing boyt