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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-01-05
Death of j. D. Dickinson.

Many people in this and Yampa
river valleys will be sorry to hear of
the death of Mr.. j. ID. Dickinson,
father of Mrs. A. l.. Durham of this
place, and Mr.. G. j. Dickinson of
Glenwood, which occurred at his
home at Epworth, Iowa, December
24th.
Deceased was in his S6th year, and
up until about year ago was un-
usually vigorous for man of his adj
vanced years, since which time he has
been gradually failing in strength.
Mr.. Durham had visited this part
of Colorado on several occasions and
had a large circle of friends in the
AXial basin region and in Meeker.
Deceased was II just and upright
man. In his death many friends
extend coincidence to his son and
daughter-Mr. Charles J. Dickinson
and Mrs. Durham.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-01-05

Senator Patterson is raising a great
cry anent the proposed selection of
the Smelter Trust magnate, Mr..
Guggenheim, as his successor in the
United States senate. This is Il sub
ject on which Mr.. Patterson should
"sing low In the minds of ii good
many Colorado Democrats he con-
tributed more to the result he now
seems to deplore than any other
agency = not even excepting the
Guggenheim ''bar'l."
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-01-05
White River Happenings.

Happy New Year.
San Hines is down the river for
the inter.
Lat week plenty of mud; this,
light snow and cold.
Mr. and Miss Burdick and Eph took
in til masquerade at Meeker.
Mr,C w Babbitt and cousin, Miss
Smit /, were city visitors during the
past week.
Mcssrs Kersey and Miller are again
seen in these parts since coming in
off the survey.
Mr. and Mrs G p Hawley gave a
very enjoyable dance at their home
last :,nturday night.
George l. Lambert disposed of Il
load of vegetables and fresh pork on
Pice .nce this week.
Colonel Parker and family are
spen ling the winter in Texas. visit
ing 'Joloners people.
Bl ,ir and Clarence Wilson. Lucius
She, ard attended the New Years
mas uerade at Meeker.
NJ and Mrs Maniece of Mecker
spen holiday week at the home OF
theii daughter, Mrs J w Shepard.
II. Turner. who attends school in
Nee .er, spent the holidays with MIR
and Mrs 9 p Hawley, returning to
school during the week.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-01-05

A national organization has been
formed in Chicago named the Roose-
welt Third Term League. Its pur-
pose is to nominate our strenuous
president again, to which we have
no objection, It's Bryan can beat him.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-01-05

The above cut represents :: beautiful deer
head, which was lately sold to Mr.. J. r..
Sharp of the Auditorium tnneN, Chicago,
by Levi w. Ward, of Ware Lodge, South
Fork, for 500. Itwas killed one mile west
of the lodge on the south Iranch of White
river, and represents one OF the best speci-
mems of u deer head in the velvet that has
been secured for agood' many years. Mr..
Ward was very reluctant 10 part with the
head, on account of past associations, it
having hung over the entrance to the din
nmg room for the last five years, but 800
was hard to refuse. 1t has 81 points, and
has three foot spread of horns. Mr.. w.
will not be able to replace ths head, as the
law now does not allow deer killed while
they are In the velvet.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-01-05

Simon Guggenheim, of New York
and Colorado, was selected by a
caucus of Republican legislators
elect, at the Brown Palace, last Mon
day evening. Thus has the first pre-
diction made by the Democrats in
the late campaign come to pass.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-01-05

The smelter trust furnished the
funds to carry the state in the
late campaign, and the Republican
rsss-ehieo delivered the ssnatcs-ss;s-.ll ~
mantle to Simon, as per agreement.
It's well.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-01-05
YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WANTED.

WE WANT WOMEN REPREsENTATlV ES
in
the whms
position Your profits will with reasonably
shrewd the
m MARGARET HOME MAGA
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-01-05

Good progress is being made on the
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition,
which is to be held at Seattle In 1909.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-01-05

Ex-senator Thomas Bowen died at
his home in Pueblo last Sunday, aged
u years.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-19

Two young women of st. Louis recent
IL discovered by accident that it was not
necessary TO place the lips near the trans
mitter of telephone to be heard at the
other end of the wire, provided the trans
mitter were placed firmly against tie
chest or even other parts of the body.
The advantages claimed for the new sys-
TEN are that it is germ-proof and nom
fatiguing. Prof. Calvin NJ. Woodward,
one of the scientists at Washington uni
versity, explained that there was nothing
new in the principle, but admitted he had
never before thought of its application to
the telephone. He said the sound vibr1-
ton in the lungs is communicated through
the chest instead of through the lips, and
then carried over the wire in the usual
way. The system, he said, is in accord
ance with the principle of the PHYSICIANS
SfafhoSconp
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-19
TWO SENATORS ELECTED.
Robert Latham Owen and Thomas p.
Gore Choice in Oklahoma.

Robert Latham Owen of Muskogee and
Thomas p. Gore of Lawton, who have
been elected to the United States Senate
bly, the Oklahoma Legislature, are Demo
Gratis. Owen was born at Lynchburg, Va,
Feb. ., 1856. He is of Scotch-lrish an
cestry, with n mixture of Cherokee blood
His father, Robert Owen, was distin-
guished Confederate soldier and later be-
came president of the Virginia and Ten
nossee railroad. The Senator's mother
was daughter of Chisholm. the last he
reditary war chief of the Cherokee Ma
ton. Senator Owen was educated ut
Washington and Lee University. Since
1879 he has practiced law in Indian Ter
ritory. President Cleveland appointed
him agent for the FIVE civilized tribes.
Senator Gore has the double distinction
of being the first blind member OF the
United States Senate and of being the
youngest man in that body, being only 81
years oil. His sight was destroyed in
childhood when he was a page in the
Senate of Mississippi, his native State
At that time he was boarding in the home
of United States Senator j. II. George,
and il is said that tie associations OF that
period inspired him with the ambition to
be Senator. He was educated at Cum
berland University, Lebanon, Tenn. Mr..
Gore has great oratorical ability and in
the last two national canvasses his SER
vices were called for in many northern
and western States. He is lawyer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-19
SKYSCRAPER MENACE.
What Confagration Among These
Cliff Dwellers Would Mean.

\ catastrophe that will eclipse the
destruction of San Francisco is the cheer
ing prospect offered for the contemplation
of New York by the president of the
board of fire underwriters. says Golfers
Weekly. And it is not New York alone
that is threatened, but every great city
that permits the construction of skyscrap-
ers. The underwriters think that there
is not only possibility but very strong
probability OF a blaze starting in the top
stories of a nest of these aerial hives and
leaping across the canyons that separate
them, raging aloft like a fire in the upper
branches of a forest, and sweeping I'M
checked out of reach of the helpless fire.
men in the street. When Office buildings
go higher than the Washington monument
all the ordinary methods of protection be-
come obsolete. No hose can carry a
stream half way to their roofs. No street
mains can furnish pressure enough to
send water up in standpipes. OF course
there are satisfactory methods of supply
ing the upper floors in ordinary times,
but they would count for nothing in a
confiagiation. The experience of San
Francisco has shown, in the opinion of
President Babb, that "so-cahed 'ireproof
buildings cannot withstand the attack of
a wave of fame" If fire should sweep
the financial district of New York it
would cause loss of from one to two
billion dollars; the insurance companies
would be hard pressed to pay 20 to %
cents on the dollar, title guaranty COM
parties, mortgage concerns, savings banks.
and all other financial institutions would
suffer, and the city would feel at once the
loss of revenue from the destruction of
taxable values.
Another menace that hangs over the
skyscraper districts of great cities is the
danger of panic. 1t is SAID that if sud
den shock should send the swarming cliff
jewellers all surging to the streets at once
the highways would not hold the human
food. The streets of our cities were de-
signed to match buildings three or four
stories high When ten such buildings
are piled one on top of another, and the
same thoroughfares are expected to ac-
commodate the people from all of them,
the results are likely to be startling.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-19
seeking Cause of Poxert-

The idea of going after the caL.,, :; of
poverty, instead of dealing with effects.
was championed by Gov. Hughes in no.
table speech at the recent silver jubilee
of the New York Charities Organiza ton
Society. He said, in part: This society
is the true agent of democracy, seeking
not merely to apply balm to the bruises
OK life, but to eliminate the causes OF
unnecessary injury. We cannot but re-
alize that large portion of our brethren
are the helpless victims of an environment
from which they cannot escape, and
through which they are destined to ply
steal misery, moral impoverishment and
economic inefiiciency. 1t is our duty pa
tiently/to consider what can be done, no.
merely to afford temporary relief TO i'm
mediate sufferers, but to change the I'M
proper environment and promote health
lei life" He went on TO enumerate the
conditions desirable. and said that the
number of preventable casualties to work
men is disgrace to the country.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-19
NEW YORK.

Cross currents in trade, nance and in
dustry prevent generalization, but finan-
cial conditions generally have shown fur
Their casing, while the approach of the hoi-
iday period and more seasonable weather
helped enliven distribution, which in some
sections also feels the stimulus of price
concessions On the other hand, whole
sale and jobbing trade has rather quieted
and manufacturing industry has slackened
slightly. Collections generally are very
slow, and failures tend to increase in
number.
There is less talk of cancellations.
though there are evidences of these in
many lines. To offset the possibility OF
large stocks accommodating. buyers are
keeping their activities restricted and this
tendency is also REINFORCED by a fair
volume of resales by jobbers who find sur
plus supplies at hand
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Dec. u number 2S4.
against 272 last week. 30 in the like
week of 1906. 226 in 1905. 139 in 1904
and go in 1908. Canadian failures for
the week number 80, as against 20 last
week and 81 this week a year ago.
Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-19
WANT HALF PAY.
Volunteer Army and Navy Officers
to Urge Their Claims in Congress.


Backed by precedents established
after the Revolutionary War, suryiv
ing volunteer officers of the army and
navy of the Civil War are to demand
OF Congress the enactment of a law
providing for their benefit a volunteer
retired list with half pay for life. In
the last Congress n bill was introduced
providing for such list, but restrict
ing it TO volunteer army oNicers. 1t
did not pass, largely because of the
cry of discrimination that was raised
by naval volunteers and their friends.
1t is now proposed by n committee
of volunteer naval officers to have pre-
pared measure that shall be salts
factory to the navy and marine corps.
Circulars have been sent out to all
surviving volunteer naval officers IN
the United States calling upon them
to take an active part in the interest
of the measure. These circulars re
view the history o. legislation for the
benefit Of volunteer veteran officers
from the close of the Revolutionary
War TO the adjournment of the Fifty
ninth Congress, and it is charged that
there has always been systematic at
tempt to eliminate the naval volun-
teers from the benefits of such laws.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-19

The Senate elected William Z. Frye of
Maine its president pro tenn, an Office oc-
cupied by him continuously since Feb. z,
1896, except during periods he has served
as president of the Senate.
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou
and the British ambassador, Mr.. Bryce,
have both found themselves unable to ac-
cept the invitation extended them to be
the guests of the Chicago Real Estate
Board at the banquet to be given early
next year.
troduced a bill raising the pension Of
widows of Union soldiers and sailors to
$12 nlclth.
Representative Acheson of Pennsylva-
MIA introduced a bill proposing to tax all
beer hrewed in the United States ST q
barrel to raise SJ0,000,OO0 annually for
the development of waterways.
A bill to establish postal savings banks
for depositing savings at 2 per cent in
terest was introduced by Senator Carter
of Montana. The proposed system is to
be under the supervision of the Postmas-
ter General and Secretary of the Treas
ury.
Major w. L. Seward of Guilfcrd,
Conn, a doorkeeper of the Senate. drop
ped dead while entering a revolving door
of the capitol. Major Seward was APP
pointed to his position six years ago.
The War Department published gen.
eral order of the President requiring ev-
cry field officer to make daily practice
march of at least thirty miles for three
consecutive days at least once a year.
Senator Beveridge has reintroduced his
bill forbidding the transportation, in in
terstate commerce, of the products of
child labor.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-19
JG4s EISsg2&ERS
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Chicago-Cattie common 10 prime.
S4.OO to S6.l0; hogs, prime heavy. 500
to $500; sheep, fair TO choice, $500
to $50; wheat. No. =, 92c To 93c;
corn, No. ., 59c TO 60c; oats, standard,
49c to zoe; rye, No. =, &c to soc; hay.
timothy. S11.O0 to $3.50; prairie $500
to $3.50: butter. choice creamery. 2fc
to 29cs eggs. fresh, 22c TO 27c; potatoes,
per bushel. 4Sc TO J6c.
Indianapolis Cattle. shipping. $500
t. $3.50: hogs, good to choice heavy.
$500 to S465: sheep. common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; wheat, No. ,. 93c to 95c:
corn, No. = white. Ole TO &c; oats. No.
white, Acc TO 52c.
st. Louis-Cattle. $50 TO $6.25: hogs.
500 to $500: sheep. $500 to $500;
wheat. No. >. 91c to 99c; corn. No. >,
51c to 52c: oats, No. >, SOC to sic; rye,
No. =, 75c to 79c-
CINCINNATI Cattle. 800 to S5.15:
hogs. $500 TO $500; sheep. $500 to
$3.50: wheat. No >, 99c to S100: corn.
No. 2 mixed. Gle to 62c; oats, No. 2
mixed, SOC to SIC; rye, No. >, 79c to Sic
Detrolt-Catt'c. $4.OO 10 $o-uU; hogs,
$500 to $40; sheep. $3.50 to $40:
wheat, No. =, 9Tc TO Csc; corn, No. }
yellow, 65c to 66c: oats. No. 3 white.
ole to 53c; rye, No. =, 79c to Soc
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. northern.
s1.O4 to S1.06; corn. No. 3. 60c TO 62c;
oats, standard 52c TO 53c; rye, No. 1,
nc to 7Sc barley, No. .. 99c to S1.00:
pork, mess, S12.S5.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
S4.OO to $685.; hogs, fair to choice. $3.50
to $500; sheep. common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs. fair to choice,
$500 to $7.15-
New York-Cattle. $500 to $3.50;
hogs. $3.50 to $5.25; sheep. $500 to
$40; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c TO $1.o1;
corn, No. 2, &c to &c; oats, natural
white, SIC to Soc; butter. creamery, 2oc
TO 21c: eggs, western, 30c to BE
ToIedo-w Wheat, No. . mixed. Csc to
96c: corn, No. . mixed, Soc to SIC;
oats. No. , mixed. sic to 52c; rye, No.
>. 79c to soc; clover seed prime, $500.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-19

also present 200 officers and soldiers
who had been at Port Arthur and who
were clad in their full dress uniforms
blazing with stars and decorations.
Gen. Stoessel alone was in civilian
attire, and this made him conspicuous.
He wore proudly around his neck the
Gordon of the military order of st.
George, which was conferred upon him
by the emperor during the siege, and
on his breast was pinned the cross Of
George I'LL, awarded the general for
conspicuous bravery in frontier-fght-
ing
This same coveted decoration was
worn by many of the witnesses and
spectators. Empty sleeves ana crutch-
es. especially among the men who had
been at Port Arthur, showed that many
of them had seen hard service during
the war.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-19

The farmers Union warehouse at Tay-
lor. Texas. with 1000 bales of cotton.
burned. Loss S125.Oc0, fully covered by
insurance.
Five hundred persons will leave New
York City Jan. 10, 1908. to establish an
industrial colony on one of the islands of
the Southern Pacific ocean
At the sale of the effects of the late
Stanford White in New York Damascus
carpet 81 feet long by 10 wide was Iur-
chased BY Miss Elsie DE Wolf fer S4,lO0.
The interstate commerce commission. at
Washington, is preparing TO assume juris-
diction over the street and interurban
railway systems doing an interstate BUSH
ness.
Practically all of the Cambria work.
men suspended recently, partly by reason
of needed repairs and partly on account
of shortage of orders. have resumed
their employment at Johnstown. Pa.
Oscar Frederick Spat, alias Regi1al
Spauldng, alias Sterling. was fired 500
o. thirty days in the workhouse at Pitts
burg on a charge of swindling certain peo-
pie of that city with an offer to introduce
them at King Edwards court If well paid.
King Leopold's private domain in the
Congo will pass to Belgium and be subject
to Belgian laws as the result of the Kings
agreement to the treaty annexing the
Congo State to Belgium He will thus
lose all his revenues from this source.
The treaty recognizes American rights in
the Congo.
The Philadelphia company. a holding
company for various companies operating
traction lines, natural and artificial gas
and electric light plant in Pittsburg. Pa.
and surrounding boroughs, announced q
reduction in the price of natural gas in
2ittsburg for domestic purposes. to 30
cents per thousand cubic feet, with IA
cents discount il paid within ten days.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-19
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

An immense balloon, the "All America :"
carrying seven passengers. made sue
cessful trip from Pittsield, Mass, to Con-
tcrbury, N. III. Leo Stevens was pilot.
While rounding a sharp curve near
Marshall, CAL, train of the Northwest
ern Pacific railroad was derailed. and af-
ter running over the ties for distance of
rSOO feet dashed down an embankment into
Tomales bay. Only the shallowness of
the water saved the crew and passengers
from being drowned like rats in trap.
Two citizens were shot and two police
men injured by being struck by stones in
a street riot in Louisville, Ky. The riot
was an outgrowth of the street ca strike
Founders day and the three hundredth
anniversary of the birth of John Har-
ward were celebrated at Harvard univer-
sity. The speakers were Prof. f. G.. Pea
body, DIR. Lyman Abbott and President
Eliot
AS result of an agreement between the
tubemakers of the United States, Ger
many and Great Britain, to stop losses
from international competition. the Scotch
tibemakers advanced the price 80 shil-
ihgs q ton.
Captain John Ilawn, who was captain
If militia company in Kentucky in
900, testified at the trial of Caleb Pow
us at Georgetown that the defendant and
his brother John had tried to get him to
take his company to Fronkfort in citizens
clothes and with their arms boxed.
Saburo Hisamidzu. the retiring Japan
csc consul at Seattle, Wash, on the eve
of his departure for Toxic refused to
accept a costly silver loving cup present
I'd to him by the japanese association of
Seattle, and instead asked that the cup
be disposed of and the money used in
fund started toward building club house
10 that city as gathering place for the
subjects of the Nikado.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-19
FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.

Chinese troops in Formosa mutinied
and killed sixty-three japanese.
Horace Mckinley of Portland, Ore,
bored his way out of Jail at Mukden.
Two hundred students at Klev Russia.
were arrested to quell an incipient riot.
Richard Croker announced his inten-
ton of leaving Ireland to spend the win
ter in Egypt.
The Pope postponed until January the
consistory which was to have taken place
in December.
Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClin-
took, mainstay of the British navy,
died in London.
The King of Spain was entertained at
a ball given in the subterranean palace
of the Duke of Portland.
A stone hurled through car window
in St. Petersburg injured the Austrian
ambassador, but not seriously.
1t was reported that the Ea.l Of Var
mouth would seek divorce from his
wife, sister of Harry n. Thaw
Miss Mary Robinson, a witness in the
famous bruce case, tainted in a London
court room, where she was teStifying.
The session of the Russian ddma OPEN
ed without extraordinary scenes. it being
in marked contrast to former meetings
Frenchmen, eager to help America in
the financial stringency, urged the Bank
of France to ship gold to the United
States
Count Okuma urged Japan to take a
hand in the affairs of India. saying that
heaven has granted an opportunity which
cannot be ignored.
The German Kaiser, visiting the Isle
of Wight, where he was supposed to take
the rest cure, decoted himself 10 the most
strenuous pursuits.
The German government has completed
plans for the construction of harbor on
the island of Heligoland, in the North
sea, at cost of $7,500,000.
The new armored cruiser Ibuki, which
was launched at Kure, Japan, was built
entirely from japanese materials and her
keel was laid only last April. Japan has
made the lowest bid of any power for the
construction of a warship for Spain.
A strike begun by the European engi-
neers on the East Indian railway, which
is 2.165 miles long, has now spread to
include the native helpers so that the
most important section of the road Is tied
and thousands of passengers are strand
ed, while many industries are at a stand
still. The strikers complain of overwork
and poor pay. The situation rs especially
serious in view of the recent mutinies and
of the prevailing famine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-19
CHICAGO THE WINNER.
Republican National Convention to
Be Held There June 16.

The Republican national conveGtion
of 1908 will be held in Chicago. June
16. This was the decision reached by
the Republican National Committee m
session at Washington, Chicago having
thirty-one votes on the first ballot,
against eighteen for Kansas City and
four for Denver
Chicago won on a guarantee to pay
the legitimate expenses pertaining to
the convention. and without any prom
Use to raise the nucleus Of the cam
paign fund for the national committee
which will be chosen to prosecute the
work looking to victory at the election
in the fall
1t was pointed out at the meeting Of
the national committee that the next
convention of the party will develop
the only real contest incident to the
nomination Of a presidential ticket
since 1888. and that in consequence a
great crowd will be attracted. Chiol-
90 was the city that offered the facili-
ties to care for the crowd, as well as
the best facilities for the transmission
of the news Of the convention to co.
100000 people vitality interested in ev-
cry feature of its action.