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Distinguished Outing Party.

j. Q. Davis, the manager of the
many stores and banks of j.. w.
Hugus q Co., now a resident of
Denver, but formerly a resident of
Carbon county, and an old friend
OF the Sun man, is now at his big
ranch Oh Sage creek with a party
of friends, fishing and enjoying
al outing.
The guests of Mr.. Davis are DIR.
j. j. Sherwin, president of the
Power company of Idaho Springs,
Colo, W. l.. Bush, president of
the FIRST National Bank, Idaho
Springs, F. W. STANDARD, insurance
man of Denver, and X. K. Horth,
attorney, of Grand Island.
, 1908-08-20
Visits Brother on Elk River.

Chris Farrar arrived here Sun
day from a visit to his brother,
Otis Farrar, who is engaged in
mining ON the middle fork of Elk
river on the other side of the Con-
tinental Divide. Mr. Farrar says
that his brother and Joe Miller,
who are working on the Water
fall mine, have just completed
the erection of an air compressor
and will now begin the running
of a 800 foot tunnel to tap the
lead in the mine.
Mr.. Farrar walked all the way
across the Divide and it took him
two days to accomplish the trip
Such n journey is filled with in
terest and he says he enjoyed the
trip very much. He remained
one night at Hog Park, on the
top of the range and the next
day reached Encampment. he
will remain here a few days and
then go on over to his home al
Rockrlver.
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STOCKHOLDERS
| HERE ON VISIT
Party Of Men Interested In Hold.
inEs Of Equitable Co. are
Much Pleased.

Ash Briie, one of the directors
pf the Equitable Copper Co., has
been busy this week showing a
party of interested investors the
properties of that company. They
feturned Saturday from a trip to
ELK Mountain to the eek Noun
lain" copper mine, which the com
pany has leased. They went to
The Mountain View group of
mines, which are the property of
the company, Sunday, for a look
BIT the claims, returning Tuesday.
The party, composed of Charles
and William Knodt, of Hartford,
IS. d., and G. Aegola, of Altoona,
Pa, were delighted with the pros.
pect presented by the company's
property, and have great faith in
the future of the entire country,
both from an agricultural and min
ing standpoint.
, 1908-08-20
E~ncampment Celebration

Saratoga was about depopulated
Friday and Saturday of last week,
the reason being the celebration
at Encampment. Special trains,
loaded to the guards, left here ev-
cry morning for the terminus of
the 5, q E. Ry., and returned in
the evening. 1t was a great af-
fair and everybody from this
place was gratitied at it's success.
The collection of Farm products.
such as grain, hay, vegetables,
and small fruits and the display
of minerals, made by 9. b. Berg
quist and his associates, was most
favorably commented on by every
one who saw it. This display
, 1908-08-20
Parkersburg. Va, Visitors.

j, E. aud j. F. Mallory, of
Parkersburg, Va, accompanied by
their wives, arrived here Monday
on a fishing trip of ten days or
two weeks. This is an annual ex-
cursion and one very much en-
joyed by the party, They arrived
in a White Steamer auto and
made the trip from Walcott in
one hour and forty minutes and
would have made it in much less
time but got Oft the road. The
Sun is Indebted to these people
for a very pleasant call.
, 1908-08-20
Sidewalk Improvement

H o. Widrig is making pro,
in laying cement sidewalk
along the north side Of Bridge
street. The walk in front of
|Plummer & Swift and McAnulty
Brothers has been completed and
is in use. The work of laying
the walk i'll front Of the LIST Ma
|%tional Bank is also done, and is
now ready for use. Gus Jensen
& Bro. are having II walk laid in
front of their place of business
and c.. W. Maxield and w. F.
Webb q Son will follow suit, thus
making cement sidewalk half the
distance on that block. The work
of making cement blocks at the
home of Mr.. Widrig is going rap
idly fol- ward Some 800 blocks
are now ready for use. This work
, 1908-08-20
Priquet.Peters.

At 10 o'clock yesterday morning
Ia very quiet wedding took place
at the Presbyterian parsonage, at
(which time Oscar Priquet and
Miss Violet Peters were united in
marriage by Rev. Forde. The
happy couple at once left for the
ranch of d. P. Johnson, Mr.. Pri-
quet's brother-in-law, on Brush
creek, where he is employed.
MIR. Priquet is one of the sup
stantial young men of the town,
well and favorably known to all.
He bears n most excellent reputa-
Zion for honesty and integrity.
Mrs, Priquet is the second
daughter of Mrs. George Somer-
by, Of Los Angeles, but formerly
of this place. She is a young lady
much esteemed by her friends for
her fine womanly qualities.
The many warm friends of this
couple wish them a bright and
happy future.
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will be continued right along and
as the demand for blocks increas.
es the plant will be enlarged to
meet the demands.
Mr.. Widrig is making cement
blocks for chimneys after a pat
tern invented by himself. He can
put up g cement block chimney
cheaper than any one made from
brick, and it takes but a few hours
to do the work. Brick is a very
expensive article in Saratoga at
this time and these cement chin.
neys will be much in demand.
, 1908-08-20
Return to Fort Collins

q. s. Miner, Miss Lura Miner
and DIR. Burton, who. have been
visiting friends here in the valley
travelling around in their own
conveyance, returned home to
Fit. Collins the first of the week.
Their stay of two or three weeks
was very pleasant and they man
aged to pay a short visit to their
many old friends and acquain-
tances here, who will look for
their coming next year with pleas.
ure,
, 1908-08-20
Women of Woodcraft Install.

At the lass meeting of Silver
Circle No. 249, Women of Wood
craft, the following officers we're
elected and installed: p. &. N,
Minnie G. Large; g. N, l.. Ell
media Edwards; Advisor, Eva
Schilt; Magician, Lena Forney;
Attendant, Viva Harden; Captain
of the Guards, Violet Priquet; in-
guard, Mary L. White; outer
guard, Mary E, Clutf; Manager,
Carrie Priquet.
, 1908-08-20
Called to Sick Wife

Geo. ID. Dobson, the engineer
in charge of the survey of the
canal for the Western Land Com
pany, received a telegram Satur-
day that his wife, who Is in Mo-
line, Ills, was i'll and for him to
come at once. MI. Dobson left
on the afternoon train for his
home. During his absence the
survey will be in charge of G. f.
Martin and H. l.. Jones, both of
whom are competent engineers.
, 1908-08-20
Cow Killed by Lightning

II. 9. Hunter was in from the
Davis ranch Saturday. He says
that Mr.. Davis had lost a fine reg
istered COW by lightning a few
days before that. The sky was
clear, a ball of fire seemed to ex-
plode i'll the air, from 100 to 200
feet above the ground Immediate
ly above where the COW was stand
in II large open place along the
river bottom. The shock killed
the animal instantly.
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will do more to implant the idea
of a county fair in the minds oe
the people of the valley than any
thing that has happened for years.
Hurrah for Encampment! May
she have many returns of the
day."
, 1908-08-20

Mrs. Matthew Watt and daughter
Maud came down from their Cedar
creek ranch Saturday to meet Mrs.
Rhemeyer, Mrs. Watts mother, who
came over from Rawlins to spend the
autumn with her daughter.
, 1908-08-20
SARATOGA CHIPS

Major Comstock is IA born genius,
Fifty cents please.
IDon McPhaIl was in from his Jack
creek ranch Tuesday.
Mrs William Miser was shopping
in this future great Monday.
Shelly Wood and wife left yester-
day for Cheyenne to spend Frontier
Day.
w. B. Hugus went down to Chey-
enne yesterday to take in Frontier
Day.
S. S. Wood, of Elk Hollow, was
transacting business in town Mon
day.
Harry Hansen came down from the
tie camp in the Hayden range Mon
day.
Risky haying weather, but farmers
have to work between showers or not
at all.
Y Mrs. Don McPhail and her daugh-
ter, Miss Marion, were IN town Sat
urday.
w. II. Hunter, of the firm of Hun
ter, Casteel j. Hunter, is in the city
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex. McPhail were
in this week from their large ranch
on North Fork.
Hunter Il Laughlin are still i'm
proving their place of business. Let
the good work go on.
Superintendent Frank j. Cramer,
of the 5. 4 L. Ry., is improving from
his late indisposition.
Mrs. o. E. Oehler and son Curtis
vel to Cow creek yesterday to at
tend the picnic there.
n Miss Rose Willford arrived Sunday
aud will visit for a couple of weeks
with Miss Viva Harden.
Geo. A. Bible returned from a trip
to Denver Tuesday and resumed his
labors in the Saratoga State Bank.
johnson Doggett returned to Den
yer Tuesday after a Two weeks visit
with his many warm friends here.
Ask Mace how he likes to walk
home from a fishing trip. He can
give expert testimony on that subject.
Mrs. E. S. Dixie, of Ogden, mother
of w. Nj. Okie and Mrs. Frank j..
Cramer, is here on u visit to her child
rem.
Notice the new adj of H.. o. Widrig,
the cement block man. He is bound
to make the concrete business go
here.
}. A. Reudle, cashier of the Raw
Inns National, has been up this week
looking after the affair of the LIST
National at this place.
Arthur Roberts has accepte / a. po-
ton as ~bookkeeper in the Saratoga
State Bank. Arthur will make good
there as he has everywhere else.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Torbett went
out to the ranch of John Swanson on
South Spring creek Saturday for the
purpose of gathering red currants.
Mrs. Stigers and little son arrived
here from Ogden Monday on a short
visit to her sister Mrs. Frank j.
Cramer. She will return home to-
day.
Mrs. Tessie Martin, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Griffin, is here
on a visit from Denver, where she is
employed as st~enographer and type
writer.
G. NJ. Scribuer has turned farmer
and favored this office with a mess of
fine onions from IA 3-acre field of
those vegetables now growing on his
Lake creek farm.
NJ. Polack and wife, of Chicago, ar.
rived last week on a visit to Mr.. Pol
ack's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ID. Pol
ack, of this place. The will remain
for a couple of weeks.
Miss Julia Campbell and Angus
England left Monday afternoon on
horseback for the Campbell ranch on
Pass creek where they will assist
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he has now given up the day work. He
has constitutional hatred for the capital
istic group. especially such as are en-
gagged In the manufacture of bath tubs
and soap. He feels that any man who
shaves his neck regularly is foe to the
common people. He generally comes
from somewhere else and knows just as
soon as he lands that this country is
wrong and will have to be done over
again right away.
ION the other hand. the amateur was
born here, but can't remember anything
else Of real Importance that the United
States has been able to pull of. He shows
his adherence for the false conventions
of the plutocratic breed from which he
sprang by wearing bone collar buttons
and long hair and living in settlement
club.
81 know a chap named Wilbert SCHUYLER
Jones that used to be a shining example
of. the class. which was pretty easy be-
cause Wilibert had been a shine from
But the socialists thought the world and
all of him. even If he did have a brain
like small five-cent sack of the mixed
confetti. It seems that 1t counts them
ten for game when they can snag off a
convert with rich kinfolks and a hyphen
for a safety min to hold the loose ends of
his last nam together. And Wilibert was
right there with the rich relatives.
think maybe that was what helped to
make socialist of him. You don't feel
SO poor II all your family Is poor, too.
Wfiibert was where he could smell wealth
all the time. and yet never taste it. So
he hoped in. and quit patronizing the
barber, and began to preach the doctrine
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brood OF mild-eyed Hungarian cows es-
tablished in the front parlor of her baro-
NAL castle, and she lays down the paper.
and she looks in the glass and says thank
goodness no foreign nobleman shall ever
snare her. And Wilibert told me that all
wealth should be divided.
But one day saw in the papers where
a casual great-uncle had died and left
him nine hundred millions or some such
pleasing amount For weeks 1 sat around
waiting for him to bring me my share in
a bundle. But he didn't come. It was
about a month after thar that met him.
He stopped his touring. car to speak to
me. He was dressed up like all the meld-
ed aces in the world. He carried his
pocket handkerchief up his cuH. and
when he wanted to say that he laughed
he said that he guffawed. Yes. II was as
bad as that. and that's as bad as they
ever get, and still live. He spoke very
Roosevelt was stirring up discomfort
among the lower orders and unsettling
vested rights. He invited me to GO riding
with him. He said he was going to hang
around with the car, in the hope that he
might get chance to run over Upton
Sinclair. This morning I read In the So
cial notes that he'd just led his eight
hundredth successful. consecutive cotil-
lion. The next time I see him L expect
he'll be carrying lorgnettes. and have
Harry Lehr's picture in his watch
Larry. there appears to be one thing in
the world that'l tempt even an amateur
socialist"
"wot's tnat?" asked the house detec-
tive.
Temptation" said the hotel clerk
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Kolumbia's Pretty Home.

detective. Jest look at the bleat some
of them phony socialists put up when the
cops gave EN- the hard ends Of the night
sticks down to Union Square after that
bomb went off,"
II was just coming to that" said the
hotel clerk. THAT would have been an
other forward step in the uplifting
cause. II the toung party with the bomb
hadn't got 80 nervous and premature.
You remember they advertised 1t as m eet-
ing of the unemployed. II was one of
the unemployed I'd be too busy looking
for a Job to attend and IL had the job.
wouldn't have time either. because one
of the worst things you can do to job
is to 90 of on a busy Saturday afternoon
and leave 1t unattended. When you get
back. you're liable to find the boss has
put on an understudy. But be that as It
may. they got together a large crowd
LAT the start of, everything looked
lovely The heartless police were there
with their brutal clubs and several hum
dred unemployed gentlemen and ladies
we're starting up the Marseilles in several
hundred different keys, and one whole
souled patriot had sacrificed his last fian-
mel undershirt SO the inspiring red flag
would be ready when needed. But the
bomb sort OF precipitAted things. It
was quaint little conceit, made of rust
wire nails and broken lamp chimneys.
feeked here and there with nitroglycerin.
The member Of the entertainment commit
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pending on tallow candles and fond men,
cries for their animal fats.
THAT was the beginning. Next the
Duchess Of Marlborough-your duchess
and mine. Larry, as the papers have
said although she don't know she's ours.
and Is not advertising the fact II she
does-'twas her who gave things an up
lift by coming away from her dinner ere
the seventh course had been served. and
hurrying into her simplest tiara and COM
ing over to that gathering place OF the
prOletariat, the Waldorf-Astoria. and tell
ing q breathless audience how her heart
beat in accord with the movement to pro-
vide free Fairgrounds in the congested
quarters. and would beat good deal
harder only the diamond stoma6dler she
was wearing fit her grace so snug.
Whereupon. there was loud applause. and
q simple collation. was served at 30
plate. but at that. you weren't allowed to
take the plate away with you. Then they
balanced the books and found there was
something like one-ninety-five left over
after paying the expenses. and SO the re-
cording secretary was instructed to take
the money and buy helpful literature for
the poor with it. presume the starving
man who hadn't had anything to eat for
couple of weeks got Mrs. Rohrer's. Hun
dred Ways to Cook an Egg, and the
family that had just emerged in a signed
state from tenement house fire Was
made happy by a neat copy of Barriers
Burned Away That's the way the truly
rich usually administer to the wants of
the truly poor
These here play-like phi,anthropists
gimme gnawin patn.' said the house
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are quite snug. Everything suggests
comfort. and constantly reminds one OF
the purpose to which the hut is put
On the upper river the various camps
are models of beauty and comfort The
places selected for camps. some Of which
are open all the year. compare favorably
on a smaller scale. with the recognized
canoe camps in the Adirondacks and on
the Virginia banks. looming gigantically.
above the waters of the river. cast
majestic shadow from their overbearing
rusgedness. encircling the huts below in
picturesque grandeur.
From the feeder dam. off to the west OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. the ma.
torfty OF the upper river camps are To-
Gated. Above this point the river is filled
confined principally to the expert follow
ers Of the sport. Every available island.
as well as the Maryland and Virginia
shores. is lined with shacks. each sur
rounded with ground enough to afford
the utmost >seclusion and privacy to the
occupants. The houses are Of various
kinds. some of neatly dressed pine boards.
painted according to the taste OF the own
ers: some Of hickory slabs. dressed, on the
inside with tongue and groove boards.
and others Of logs hewn from the thickly
freed hillsides nearby.
An Ideal Location.
At High Island. where perhaps twenty
canoes will slide into the water. one of
the most picturesque huts in the upper
Potomac has been built. 1t is perched
far above the waters Of the river. and
while a little inaccessible. 1t affords an
ideal location. The elevation permits a
survey of the entire valley of the Poto-
mac. On Sycamore Island. Just above.
one of the oldest fishing and boating
clubs Is situated. The house is complete
In every detail and the comfortable as
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- REErED with the sound of ham,
mers. axes and the 3ubilant
- shouts Of canoeists, the spring
outing season was ushered in
last Sunday on the upper Poto-
mac by an outpouring Of devotees OF the
aquatic sport. The lower river. too. pre-
sented a scene that is sure to predict one
OF the most popular seasons to come.
The Kolumbia kanoe Klub. George
Washington. High Island. Sycamore.
Washington and various other canoe clubs
are making preparations and reftting
their houses and canoes. In fact. from
the Aqueduct bridge to far above Cabin
John bridge the busiest activity is mani
fest by all the canoeists. The Wash-to-
Kola Club, which is the farthest from
tn. city. being opposite Cabin John. is
being renovated and put into shape. Ca
noes are being fixed up. and every indica-
ton shows that the canoeists are going
to make this one Of the most notable
seasons in the annals Of ''canoedom.''
Cozy, Comfortable Camps.
Especially is this state Of affairs evil
denced on the Virginia shore. where the
secluded spots afford ideal locations for
canoe nuts and shacks. Between the
Aqueduct bridge and Chain bridge the
Virginia shore is lined with cabins. and
it Is here that most of the sport Is in
dulged In by canoeists. who swarm this
section Sundays and week day evenings
Some Of the houses. although not beauti-
full from an architectural standpoint. are
At least picturesque and conform In
quaint symmetry to the natural beauty
OF the landscape. Inside. however. things
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tee who had 1t in charge made it ac-
cording to one Of Aunt Emmie Goldman
favorite recipes In the household hints de-
partment of the Anarchists Home
Journal But there must have been a
typographical error somewhere, or else
he's stirred the gun cotton in the wrong
way, because just as he was getting ready
to touch her off. and fill the vicinity full
or hne-cut cop and shredded bystander,
she sort of exploded on her own hook, and
before the police could reassemble the
young gentleman they had to borrow a
bucket l understand that some of our
most prominent young dillitante socialists.
belonging to the best families. were very
much put out over the faux pas
Il dunno wot Forepaugh had to do
with it, said the house detective, but l
do know ii / wuz still on the force, and
had been down there. there'd a'been one
of them busted harp designs in white
rosebuds sittin on the pianola in the
front parlor of some amateur. socialist s
late residence the next afterneon.'',
You don't want to be confusing the
non-professional radical leader with the
professional kind" said the hotel CLERK.
There's a world of difference The
professional Is apt to be a gentleman who
formerly combined two callings-ciear-
making or something like that. in the
daytime and bar polishing at night.
Finding the strain was too much for him,
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rs been . great month for the
- down-trod. taking 1t all around"
said the hotel clerk.
You'll have to show me-" said
the house detective. Nobody
amt been around handin' me any aspar-
agus tips or uncut emeralds. From where
I sit. II looks like the customary relations
between labor and capital is still bein'
preserved-capital keepin' all the capital
and labor dom the bulk Of the laborin'. -
Don't be q pessimist. Larry" advised
the hotel clerk.
Just wot Is a pessimist?' asked the
house detective.
"A pessimist.' said the hotel clerk lis
a party that can't enjoy his cocktail as
it's going down for thinking of how it'll
taste IL il should happen TO come up.
After q while he's apt to slough of his
last two syllabIes and get to be a plain
pest.
II was saying when you interrupted
that it's been q great month for the down.
trod. And so IL has. Just look around.
Discovering that meat-eating had a bad
effect on the wage earners. because II
made them full blooded and cocky and
gave them skin diseases and independent
feelings around election time. the packing
house philanthropist thoughtfully lacked
tie price up until now the Pomeranian
pooSles Of the rich have been driven to
eating second grade porterhouses and the
children Of the working classes are de-
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made of dressed lumber, presents a de-
cidedly picturesque view from the Mary
land shore. the members having con-
structed it that the building would
porch. containing four rooms. A wide
kitchen to the side is the delight of the
members. 1t being provided with all nee
essary utensils. 1t is presided over per-
manently by one of the members who is
noted for good biscuits and hot rolls and
for his ready acquiescence in preparing
meals for the hungry members
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that all the property of the well-to-dos
ought to be chopped up among the moth
ing-to-dos.
"As 1 was telling you. Wilibert was no
intellectual prodigy. He was one of those
mustard sardines. hen he tried to think
hard. you could see his gills lift up and
down. He was tall and pale yellow with
greenish shades. like sprig of Michigan
celery. He carried himself we'll. but he
had a light load. To teach him his let
tiers I'll bet his parents had to feed him
on educator crackers and alphabet con-
somme. But he used to come in to see me
with his limp collar. and his head like a
brush arhor. and tell me 1t wouldn't be
long until they began cuttin up all wealth
into equal slices. the same as pie in a
quick lunch.
You know how it is, Larry The stout
party who can't lean over to pick up mis-
overshoes without rubbing all the skin
off his stomach against the floor. always
says that no matter what fashion may
demand. he'll never let any blamed tailor
put corsets on him. Fond father looks at
little Master Ethelbert, aged eight, who's
got nine-inch chest. q bulged-out fore
mead and convex lenses to his eyeglasses
and announces. that no boy Of his shall
ever grow up to be brutal fuIlback on
the Yale team.