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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-01-29
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-01-29

Feathers Prime white goose.
45c; dark and mixed old goose, 25c
to Csc; gray mixed, 15c to 30c;white
duck, 35c. MN ,. -
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25
THE WAGES OF SIN.
Dead Mans Finger Points to Signlfi
cant Passage in Bible.

Trinidad, Colo-"Had Zimri peace
who slew his master?"
With the fore finger of his right
hand pointing directly at this passage
in an open Bible that lay on his
breast, the dead body of man be-
lieyed to be ]. L. Paddock. was found
on the bed of his room at the Elmwood
hotel by a chambermaid. Paddock
committed suicide some time during
last Sunday night by swallowing q
large quantity of cyanide of potassium,
because his conscience would give him
no rest.
Paddock came from Albany. New
York, where. 1t is understood, he was
well connected and was formerly in
the laundry business.
He asked the chambermaids not to
molest his room, and it went for days
without being cleaned. A new girl
was put to work this morning on the
floor where the suicides room is To-
Gated, and she forced the door to clean
things up.
Paddock's body lay on the bed with
the open Bible on his breast.
the fore finger of the right hand point
ing to this passage: Had Zimri peace
who slew his master?"
During his stay in Trinidad Paddock
made a confidante of certaiR man. TO
whom he said that he was terribly
worried over something he had done
years ago. 81 haven't had a moments s
peace of mind since that awful night.
Paddock told his friend, land some day
l am going TO end it all. The face OF
my dead friend is always before me-.
Paddock's statement leads the au
thorities to believe that at some time
he killed friend, and that he. com
mitted suicide because his conscience
troubled him.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25
BROWN PALACE UNDER HAMMER
Denver's Finest Hotel to be Sold by
Sheriff to Satisfy Mortgage.

Denyer.-The Brown Palace hotel
will be sold at auction TO the highest
bidder within less than sixty days, and
the money realized will go to the erec-
tion of a huge office building on five
lots at Seventeenth and Stout streets,
to cost about 100000.
The famous Stratton mortgage on
the property, on which an option was
given at a price of sG50.000, has been
transferred to investors who are not
inimical to further proceedings, and 1t
will be foreclosed at once.
Within a few days the great hotel
will be advertised for sheriff's sale. At
the end of thirty days, which is the
tice, the purchaser will takefover the
property, and the famous litigation will
be closed.
The legal complications which have
held this immensely valuable hotel in
an unsettled condition date back
nearly five years. when Winfield Scott
Stratton died. He held a mortgage on
the Brown Palace hotel. and on his
deathbed gave an option of purchase
to Michael ]. Finnerty for approx
mately $650.000 The option was later
transferred to Finnerty's assigne, who
has since held it.
The executors of the Stratton es-
tate were ready to foreclose the mort
gage and settle the ownership of the
hotel. Finnerty's assignee thereupon
began suit to act on the option. claim
ing that he had $650,000 with which
to make the purchase. The Stratton
executors bitterly contested the case.
and won it before the Supreme Court.
The plaintiff made another attempt,
carried 1t through all the courts to the
highest tribunal, and there received a
favorable decision.
Meanwhile the hotel was being
leased literally by the month, on ac'
count of the unsettled condition of its
ownership. The profits were turned
over to a receiver for the creditors
from whom they secured the benefits
due them.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25
10000 Are DEAD
LATEST REPORTS BRING DETAILS
OF MEXICAN EARTHQUAKE.
HOT WATER SHOOTS INTO AIR
The Earth Cracks and Swallows UP
Hundreds Of Human Beings =
Many Crushed Beneath Falling
wall<

Chicago.-.A dispatch to the Inter
Ocean from Galveston, Texas, says:
The lower gulf was converted into
sea of boiling water Sunday night
when the earth cracked and Jets of hot
water shot into the air nearly $50
feet
Fishing smacks of the gulf fisheries.
which ply between Galveston and the
fishing grounds of Campeche, are ar
irving and the crews relate narrowing
tales of their experiences. not know
ing of the Mexican earthquake until
they reached here yesterday.
The crew OF the Aloha. Captain
Swenson. was partly seized with fright
Sunday night, when the smack. which
was homeward bound, was caught in
a series of cross currents, which held
it Il prisoner for nearly an hour. Three
hours later the ice in the hold used to
preserve the fish had melted.
Ell Paso, Texas.-More than 1000
persons were killed in the earthquake
which devastated the territory south
west of the City of Mexico.
The list of the dead may in in
creased greatly, according to late dis
patches received from the affected
country.
the burning lava has set fire to the
forests.
Scores of towns lying between the
City of Mexico and the Pacific ocean
have been wiped out by the earth
quake In many instances the earth
opened and in the chasms thus formed
swallowed whole villages. The great
est damage resulted between the City
of Mexico and the Colima volcano,
which seemed to be the starting point
for the disturbance.
Colima is now in violent eruption,
the most severe in the history OF Mex
leo, and no estimate can now be placed
on tho extent of the damage done or
yet to be done.
One Of the most alarming features
of the dispatches received here is the
indication that there has been a large
loss of life in the City of Mexico, a
fact which the authorities are trying
to suppress. Efforts to communicate
with the government authorities have
failed, but private advices to CONNER
cial houses say that the loss Of life has
been heavy, but that no announcement
will be made by the officials.
Messages received at the town of
Juarez. Mexico, just across the river
from Ell Paso, say that when all of the
dead in the scores of towns and viii
lagos to the southwest have been
enumerated, the list of dead will far
exceed 10000.
In many cases large rents were made
in the ground and in numerous in
stances pedestrians We're simply swal-
lowed up by the yawning chasm.
The waters in Lake De Chabala were
shaken so violently that they swashed
over the banks. The north end of the
lake is now very shallow and the south
end is very deep, showing that the
earth tipped to the south in the up
neayal.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25

straitened circumstances. Would
letter to the mail order house, stating
all these circumstances. secure for
you supply of the necessaries OF
life on liberal credit terms? Most as
suredly not. An appeal to the propri-
etors for aid in your extremity would
be barren of results. 1t is the home
merchant who stands ready to extend
the credit necessary to tide you over
an emergency, and for this reason, If
for no other, he should have your
loyal support in your times of pros
perity.
Perhaps you are financially inde-
pendent, and have never known the
necessity of asking for credit. Even
then you are indebted to the home
merchant for many of the advantages
you enjoy. The proprietors of mail
order house would laugh you to scorn
were you to ask them to subscribe to-
ward the building of your new church,
the Improvement of your school build
ing. or the expenses of maintaining
your fire department. The home mer-
chant contributes literally to the sup
port of these institutions SO essential
to the public comfort and well-being,
and you cannot afford to withhold
from him your patronage.
You know your local dealers. Per.
haps they have grown from childhood
to manhood in your home town; you
were boys together. they have watched
by you in sickness, and comforted you
in sorrow, they take kindly interest
in your welfare. Do you not prefer
that your trade SHOULD increase their
small profits rather than add its
quota to the millions of dollars annu-
ally sent to the mail order houses? II
the home merchants prosper the town
will be better place in which to
live. Their prosperity will be mani
tested by improvements in the appear
ance of their own property, and by
their increased liberality in contribut-
ing toward public improvements, and
by helping them by your patronage.
you will also be helping yourself and
the entire community
FRANCES A. HARRIS.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25
NO VALID REASONS
PATRoNIzINc MAIL ORDER
HOUSES is WITHOUT EXCUSE.
GOODS NOT EVEN CHEAPER
With Freight Charges Added and
Quality Considered the Home
Merchant Does
Best.

Copyrighted. 1906. by Alfred C. clark.)
The reasons why people should
trade at home are numerous, but so
far as we are able TO learn but one
reason is advanced for purchasing
goods of mail order houses. That one
reason--a saving OF money-is often
no reason at all, for in many instances
the express charges or freight and
carriage Will bring the cost of an arti-
Gle that as quoted in the price list
seemed a wonderful bargain, almost
or quite up to the price charged BY
the local dealer. But even were one
able to save a few cents on the pur-
chase price by buying away from
home, IL appears to US that the loss
is infinitely more than the gain, for
he who sends the money which he
earns in the home town out to swell
the Golfers of wealthy dealers in dis
tant cities cannot fail to forfeit In
considerable degree the respect of
those around him. nor can he under
these conditions preserve his self
respect intact.
The man who patronizes mail order
houses must have a sneaking feeling
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25
Great Demand for Horses.

The sooner our Colorado ranchmen
realize that the demand for more
horses is far more than they can sup
ply, the sooner that industry will grow
to the proportions it ought, writes a
well known stocllman. 1t is simply i'm
possible for any one to fill orders.
The fasteners like the mountain
range raised horses, for they have
greater lung capacity, fiintier hoofs,
from the nature of the soil, and better
bone and muscle. This fact is becom-
ing well known to eastern horsemen
and consequently the demand is CON
stantly increasing. Air, water, soil
everything is adapted for raising
horses which cannot be equaled any
where esle in America. and probably
nowhere else in the world. Mean
while, buyers come here constantly
from all parts of the country, and we
must get ready to supply all the
horses the trade can take. In addi-
ton to the heavier horses, of the draft
variety, steeds of all sorts are being
bred here. Some Colorado men who
are going into the business on large
scale have secured the finest horses
possible in all parts of the world, and
tho Colorado bred horse will soon be
recognized everywhere.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25
TO EDIT IRRIGATED FARMS.
Movement is On Foot to coIonizs
Newspaper Men in Routt County.


A colony OF newspaper men Is to be
established in the Little Snake River
valley. In Routt county. Colorado.
where the state of Colorado will throw
$4,000 acres OF land, under the Little
Snake river canal system. open for set
tlement. under the Carey act, this sum
mer. This is not to be Western Uto-
pia or Rocky Mountain Helicon hall,
but an up-to-date farming community,
where each man will own his own farm
and improvements, the only connection
in which the community idea viii pre-
vail. If at all, being In regard to labor.
Under the Carey act, any citizen OF
the United States may select 16O acres,
the price OF land and perpetual water
right in the canal system being fixed
by the state.
Warren r. Given has taken options
on forty selections of 100 acres each
for his newspaper men friends. MIR.
Given is former newspaper man.
Every newspaper man, think,
cherishes the hope that he may some
day be land owner, own farm where
he may engage in agriculture or STOCK
raising profitably. either in person or
by proxy says Mr.. Given THE dif-
ficulty generally is to secure good land
at a cheap price. arid congenial sur
roundings, in a fertile district, where
values are now low, but viii soon rise.
"These conditions prevail in the Lit
tie Snake River valley. in Routt county,
Colorado. 1t seems to me that this
Is an ideal place in which to establish
a colony of newspaper men. The val
ley is beautiful for situstion, and in
the heart of the rics territory to be
opened by the Moffat road. The Union
Pacific, it is reported, also will build
into the valley"
Prominent newspaper men from all
parts of the country have already ex-
pressed their intention of locating in
the Little Snake River valley.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25
PAYS to Raise Good Sheep.

A little over year ago a man in
Boulder county bought 100 range ewes.
for which he paid $500. or 81 each,
says Field and Farm. They had been
bred to high grade bucks and brought
in a fine grade of lambs. Last fall
he sold twenty-seven of the buck
lambs at $500 each, or $140.40. He
kept thirty-five eve lambs for which
he would not take 81 a head. and at
that they would have equaled SPAS
The wool from the old sheep was sold
for $40, and subsequently he sold
eighty-six of his original ewes for
s42S.50. Fourteen of the ewes had
died, but the remaining eighty-six
brought. more money than the original
100 cost. and wer worth it. for he had
bought two fine full-blooded Shrop-
shire bucks at S25 each, to which he
bred the ewes. so this springs lambs
will be extra fine ones. Now, as a re-
suit of the sheep business for a year
from these 100 ewes; the original in
vestment was $400, and he sold buck
lambs for s140.40. kept eve lambs
worth s245. sold wool. s110; and the
old sheep, s42s.50; or total of 1923. 80.
or $523.90 net on the investment. He
retains the bucks he bought for the
new eve flock.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25
Deadly Work of the stI!etto.

Cheyenne. Wyo.-A dog fight led to
a bloody race riot between Americans
and Italians at Carryville. coal min
ing camp in northern Wyoming, dur
ing which number of the former
were so badly wounded and stilettos
that two may die. All of the Italians
escaped uninjured, but four of them
are under arrest.
The wounded:
John Hughey will die.
Charles Fuller, will die.
Daniel Reynolds.
Hughey was slashed across the alb
domen. A stiletto was buried deep in
the back of Fuller's neck, striking the
spinal column and causing paralysis.
Reynolds was stabbed twice in the
neck
The men under arrest are Domino
Carbona, Mike Bumback, Joe Gariessa
and Tony Palpia.
General attention to the riot has
been called by the action of the Ital-
nan consul at Denver, who sent mes
sage to Governor Brooks of Wyoming.
asking him to intercede in behalf of
the Italians Governor Brooks states
that the foreigners do not need assist
ance, as they came out victorious. The
Italian consul had been informed that
his countrymen had been getting the
worst of it.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25

There used to be told a comical
story about judge who occasionally.
when OFF the bench, yielded to tempta-
tion and imbibed too freely for his own
good. The tale went on to tell that on
one occasion the worthy man having
diSsipated to an extent regarded by
the Judge as scandalous. the offender
arraigned himself at the bar, where a
plea of guilty was entered and the jur-
list imposed an exemplary fine upon
himself. There seems to have been
q similar working of conscience down
In Mississippi. where a grand jury in
dicted every one of it's own members
for violating the Sunday law, with the
result that the culprits were arraigned
in court and were fined $40 apiece
That grand jury certainly furnished
proof of sincerity when it gave up
20 readily.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25
Ebert County Tribune
). E. Pope, Editor and Publisher.
ELBERT. COLORADO.
italians In JNmerIcs.


On the authority OF the census
OF 1900 there were then in the United
States 1.217.l24 persons born in Italy
or OF Italian parentage. The Italian
Chamber OF Commerce of New York
city took census for itself in 1904
and found that the Italians in New
York state numbered 4S6.176. Accord
fng TO George c. Speranza there was
in New York city savings banks at
that time $4,000. 900 of the saved
money of Italian immigrants. and
1000 OF them owned real estate worth
ls20, 100000. There were 10000 stores
kept by Italians worth s7,o00.000
more. and a wholesale business in
their hands worth s7.50O.00o. The
property of the Italian colony in New
York city he calculated at s60,000.0 900.
nnd according to newspaper report
before me this is much below the val
uation OF their holdings in St Louis.
San Francisco, Chicago and Boston
I know. as all know, says Baron Ma
yor des Planches in Appleton's Msga-
zine, that the only criminality OF the
italian is the crime of quick anger.
unprecedented and open. which is in
berent in the blood and breed. but
which is never committed except un-
der strong provocatlon. This is not
written to prove the Italians nation
OF model men. Our one fault is our
own; we are sons of Adam like the
rest, but our weakness is not of the
crawling. skulSing, or conspiring
kind. Bad It is and depiorable it is.
but we hope to overcome 1t and to
i've it down.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25

trade with the hose merchant, yet II
other people followed your example
and patronized mail order houses,
trade with. II others bought of him
only when they wanted things In a
hurry, and sent out of town for the
greater part OF their supplies. he
would have left for more promising
fields long ago. or II he had stayed in
those circumstances, the sheriff would
finally have closed his doors You
wouldn't like to live in a place with
out stores, and yet it may be that you
prefer to reside in a country town
rather than in city Do your share.
then, toward making it possible for
the country merchant TO carry on
business.
You must remember, too. that when
you send your money to some big con-
cern in a distant city, you lessen the
amount of money in circulation in
your own residence town. II you had
spent 1t at the home store, some of
it at least would have been paid out
by the proprietor In the form of
wages to his employees, they in turn
would have expended 1t for the neces-
sites of life. and it would have passed
from one to another of the home deal
ers, proving an important factor in
the prosperity of the community. Hav-
ing sent it to the mail order house
the probabilities are that it will never
again benefit anyone in your home
town.
You should trade with the home
merchant because he is the one from
whom you ask and receive favors.
Perhaps you have had a run of i'll luck
you have lost your position. had
long-continued illness in the family. or
have experienced difficulty in collect
ing money due you. You are In
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25

that everybody in town knows that
to the community. He is not wanted
in public positions, and when ques-
tions of local interest and Importance
are discussed, his opinion carries far
less weight than the man who con-
tributes his share TO the prosperity of
the community by spending his mon
ey where he earns it.
In addition to losing in a large de-
gree the respect of others and his
own self-respect. the man who does
nothing to build up the town in which
he lives fails to find the contentment
which Is necessary to happiness. Hav-
ing done nAhing to make the town
better, he is unable to see the many
advantages it possesses, and is con-
tinually talking and thinking of its
deficiencies. He does not move out.
however, but stays on year after year.
discontented parasite getting all he
can and giving as little as possible in
return. There is an unwritten-law of
nature that makes it impossible for
one to really taken an interest in a
place until he has done something for
It, and 1t is only when we have done
our share toward building up the town
in which we live that it becomes a
real home to us.
Perhaps the local dealers in country
towns do not always have in stock
just the articles you desire, but thew
are usually willing to order whatever
their customers want, and under or
dinary circumstances can supply Won
as quickly as you can procure the
goods from mail order house. When
you buy of the home merchant. the
goods are before you and you see
what you are getting In buying nv
mall there is always chance that
when the goods arrive they will not
prove to be Just what you expected
and desired. In that case you are nut
to the Inconvenience of sending tbem
back for exchange, or if the need ia
immediate and pressing, you are
Obliged to accept that which is not
entirely satisfactory.
Trade at home in order that vo,,r
nome town may have stores at which
10 trade There are many times when
you are in hurry for some article
there is no time to send to New yorl
Chicago, or elsewhere. Your mead ;s
immediate and imperative. You are
siad under such circumstances TO
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25
Dead Under Suspicious Circumstances.

Laramie, Wyo,-Much mystery sur
rounds the death of E. H. Miller. the
sixten-year-old son of G. P. Miller. sec
ton foreman at Harper, side track
thirty miles west of this city Word
was brought to this city by the
father of the boy that the youth had
tainted just after getting off hand car
at IL o'clock.
The father appeared to be much
alarmed and physician left at once
OF a hand car for the scene Upon
his arrivel the physician found that
young Miller was dead, and discovered
marks upon the body which appeared
to him to be suspicious. Neither the
father nor the six section men under
him could give any satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION of the marks upon the body
and all appeared to be under the in
fiuence of liquor. The physician be-
lieved that the death was caused by
some accident or violence and sum-
noned the coroner.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25

Honey bees are generally credited
with instructive skill in making the
cells OF the comb hexagonal in shape,
out 1t is probable that this construc-
zion is merely the ordinary result of
mechanical laws. Solitary bees al
ways make circular cells. and the
bees in a hive no doubt make them
circular also. but mechanical press.
ure forces them into hexagonal
form. A well-known naturalist, in
speaking of the matter. says that all
cylinders made of soft, pliable sub
stances become hexagonal under such
circumstances.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25
Freed on nunwritten Law.v

st. Louis. Mo.-Frank Baker, who,
February 18th. shot and seriously
wounded Lee Robbins while the latter
was assisting Mrs. Baker to board a
street car, was yesterday discharged
by the court. Baker pleaded the "un-
written law" Mrs. Robbins, who, pre-
vious to the shooting, had filed suit
for divorce. alleged that her husband
and Mrs Baker lived together in Colo
RADIO and Wyoming. The divorce pa
pers were served on Robbins in Gar
den City, Wyoming, where he was liv-
Ing with Bakers wife. After the
shooting, Baker and his wife became
reconciled.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25

In England interest has been
shown of late by the army and navy
authorities in new method of pre-.
serving -four by means of compress.
sion. With hydraulic pressure ap.
paratus the flour is squeezed into the
form of bricks, and experiments are
reported to have shown that the pres
sure destroys all forms of larval life.
thus preserving the -four from the
ravages of insects, while it is equally
secure from mold. Three hundred
pounds of compressed flour occupy
the same space as 100 pounds of flour
In the ordinary state.