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The La Jara chronicle., 1908-03-27


day in La Jara.
j. Fl. Shemwell informs US that
nine land buyers from Colorado
Springs and Illinois arrived in La
.Jara this morning.
The local sports are gazing with
longing eye upon the calendar and
commenting upon the slowness of
time in ushering in the opening of
the fishing season.
Frank A. Wadleigh, assistant
passenger agent of the Denver q
Rio Grande railway, was among
the party on the State Agricultural
College spud train.
The question of how to keep the
boy interested in the farm is to
give him some part of the stock
the increase of which will bring
him in something that will make
him ambitious for the future.
One of the largest land deals in
years is the sale this week of 100
600 acres of the Baca land grant
in the San Luis valley to the pub
fishing house of j. b. Lippicott &
Co, of Philadelphia for SS0O,OO0.
This acreage will be used for a
comprehensive colonization scheme
and some irrigation is contemplat-
ed, as much of the land can be wa
tered by the storage process. This
property was the ranch at Crestone,
Saguache county, of the late Geo.
II. Adams, of Denver, and is now
sold by his estate.
1t is true that the majority of
our great men in public and COM
mercial life have had experience in
the country, but just now a young
man on a ranch has by tar better
chance to get along in the world
financially. The market demand
for country lads seems to have
fizzled out, for towns are overbur-
dened with white livered kids who
have nothing to do in the soft snap
business, The world has about SO
much work to do and each gener-
alton is called upon to do its share
of the heavy lifting; so we can
not have soft hands and sit in easy
chairs.
Saguache has been having a.
scarlet fever scare and a rigid
quarantine has been established
in the town. As an evidence that
the quarantine against scarlet fe-
ver is effective, and that the officers
are awake and sensible to their du-
ties, three parties were arrested
and placed in the Saguache Jail
one night last week for violating
the quarantine law. The offenders
were held until thenext day when
an lHNtStlShtlpll Was Ildllt anu tuty
were released. There is no time
for carelessness when a town is
visited by such dreadful and con-
tagious disease as scarlet fever and
the authorities of Saguache are to
be commended for the action they
have taken in the matter.
Mrs. w. W. Seyfer was the her
oine of fire excitement, Tuesday
On that day she followed the di-
rections given in new tangled
recipe for using gasoline in the
wash water for whitening purpos-
es, and, while she went out to hang
up the clothes. threw cupful of
the combustible substance in the
boiler which was on the stove
When she returned shortly after
ward she found that the gasoline
had taken fire and that the flames
had spread throughout the room.
After hastily summoning help ov-
er the phone, Mrs. Seyfer got the
hose and did the stunt of the lone
fireman with such excellent results
The La Jara chronicle., 1908-03-27
n SCOTT SCHENCK
Physician and Surgeon

Eyes Tested and Glasses Properly Fitted
Office and residence, two doors east of The
Chronicle office. Telephone, White ia.
La JARA. COLORAD
The La Jara chronicle., 1908-03-27
SUMMONS.

STATE OF COLORADO, &C
COUNTY OF CoSEJos, 80
In the District Court.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07
KING AND SON
ASSASlNATED.

King Carlos and Crown Prince LUZ
Philippe, of Portugal, were shot TO
death Saturday in a public place where
thousands had gathered to greet their
home coming from sojourn at the kings
estate at Villa Vicosa, accompanied
by the queen and the Infant Manuel.
The sovereign seemingly was in happy
mood when he stepped into the carriage
in waiting at the railroad station.
1t was because of the beautiful
weather that an open carriage was IN
waiting for the royal family, and when
they took their places they were greet
ed with some lifting of hats, but most
ly IN silence. Then as the carriage
sharply turned into the Rua Do Arsenal
there was a cracking of guns, and a
shower of bullets tore their way into
the bodies of the king and crown prince
and the little prince, who proved an
easy target. The assassins, numbering
six in all, boldly ran up to the sides of
the carriage and poured in a hail of lead
before the stupefied escort could inter-
vene. The king and crown prince.
half rising, fell back into the cushions.
the blood gushing from many wounds.
The coachman brought his whip across
the TANKS of his horses, and with a
bound they dashed away, disappearing
into the arsenal quadrangle. The panic
stricken people, who had fed on all
sides, could see the queen leaning over
the crown prince and her younger son,
who also was bleeding from wounds
made by the assassins' bullets.
The guard charged upon the assas-
sins, pursuing them down the streets
and riddling three of them with bullets.
and made others of the band prisoners.
Portugal had been torn by internal
dlssensions the past few months, ter
rorized by acts of crime and blood
shed, uprisings in the strests, outrapes
with knife and bomb, and always fear
ful lest these signs of revolution would
eliminate In some dreadful outburst of
passion.
Manuel ii has been proclaimed King
OF Portugal. The new monarch was
born November Is, 1889, and is the
younger of the sons of Carlos and Ma
RE Amelie.
Premier Franco has announced that
vigorous measures viii be taken to
prevent any Instruction.
A rumor comes from Oporto that
republic has been proclaimed there, but
otherwise Portugal is declared to be
quiet.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07
KECH-AWLs FROM EVERYWHERE

The Rev. William Meade Clark and
Mrs. Clark will spend some weeks IN
Florida. -Times-Dispatch.
The firm of H. G. Brilliant G. Bro
has been changed to Brilliant G. Hard.
ing as Mr.. j. H. Brilliant has taken in
Mr.. Fitz Harding. Mr.. Harding is NOT
only good merchant, but is a vonno
man OF sterling worth and we feel COM,
pllmented in getting one of ReedvilIe's
clerks, as Mr.. Harding has formerly
been with the Blundon & Hinton store
-Fleeton Corr. N. N. News.
Jealousy is conglomeration of dvs-
pepsia; liver trouble, style, uppishness
and all sorts of things. 1t nravs;1s
among the high and the low, the rich
and the poor. the saint and the sinner
and when boiled down it turns to GAS Il
1t don't explode by over-heating. II is
one OF those elements of nature that
makes person feel and act mean to-
wards his neighbor. " estmoreland
Inquirer. ei"nu
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07
SOME DEATHS.

Edgar W. Mills prominent business
man Of Fredericksburg, and brother to
Will ID. Mills, one time foreman of the
VIRGINIA CITIZEN office, died last week
OF pneumonia after two days sickness.
Mrs. Kate Scott, widow of Francis
II. Scott, died very suddenly at the
home of the late Robert L. Ware. her
father, Wares Wharf, Va, Sunday
afternoon. She leaves four children.
three girls and one boy. f. H. Scott,
Ir., her only son, is a ministerial
student at Kimberlin Heights, Tenn.
Mr.. VIM. Hartwell Hugklett, jr.,
Oldest son of VIM. Hartwell and Mrs.
Bette Alice Hughlett, formerly of this
county, but now of Baltimore, died al
his home in Bluff Point Sunday morn
ing, February End, at 5 o'clock, aged
about 80 years. Pneumonia was imme-
date cause, but he had a complicatio n
of other diseases. He leaves a widow
and four small children, mother, faith
er, three sisters ard three brothers to
mourn his departure. Interment Mon
day afternoon at White Marsh Metho-
dist cemetery, Rev. Porter Hardy con-
Quoting the burial services.
After an acute illness which had lasted
since last December, Captain George
ID. Wise, soldier, statesman and jurist,
one of the best-known characters in
recent Virginia history, died at the
William Byrd Hospital shortly before
L O'Clock Tuesday morning. Captain
Wise was unique in point of the many
services he had rendered his State.
First lawyer, then a soldier. then a
lawyer again, and finally becoming q
renowned statesman, he made himself
felt in all the recent political history OF
the Commonwealth. He was widely
known, as an eminent criminal lawyer.
He was member of the last Constitu-
tional Convention, and for many years
a member of Congress.
Mrs. Sallie Stott Edmonds, widow of
the late DR.. Henry j. Edmonds, died at
her home in Kilmarnock Saturday morn
ing at $50 O'Clock, after about two
weeks of typhoid pneumonia. She
was devout Christian and for years a
consistent member of White Marsh
Methodist church. Interment at Kill
marnock Baptist church cemetery,
where her husband had been laid to
rest several years before, at three
O'Clock Sunday afternoon, Revs. Porter
Hardy and F. w. Claybrook conducting
the service. Mrs. Edmonds leaves one
son, Bunyon, one step-son, DR.. H. J.
Edmonds, and one step-daughter, Mrs.
Willie Eubank, beside many other re-
latives. She was in the 64th year of
her age.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07
UNEQUAL TAXATION.
From Norfolk Landmarlkl

Section 16S of the State Constitution
claims. that "all taxes, whether State,
local, or municipal, shall be uniform
upon the same class of subjects within
the territorial limits of the authority
flevylng the tax" The corresponding
section of the preceding Constitution
was as follows:
| taxation, except as hereinafter pro-
vided, whether imposed by the State.
county, or corporate bodies. shall be
equai and uniform, and all property.
both real and personal, shall be taxed
In proportion to its value. No one
species of property shall be taxed
higher than any other species of property
of equal value
Inc Constitution of 1851 said-on this
subject: Taxation shall be eoual AMI
uniform throughout the Commonwealth.
ana all property other than slaves shall
be taxed in proportion to its value. 4"
Ihere were two previous Constitutions
Oh virginia, but neither of them touched
upon uniformity of taxation.
1t looks almost as if the provision of
the present Constitution on taxation was
drawn in recognition of the sad fact
that the previous declarations for mi
1ormity had failed and become dead
letters. There has been nothing Ike
equality in the tax valuations in the
state OF Virginia for many, many wears
The VIRGINIA CITIZEN, of Irvinpton
gives a very fair view of the matter
when, after commenting critically unon
the TACT that farm land is valued flor
taxatlon) at 81 an acre in the Eastern
counties of Essex, Caroline. King and
queen, and Spotsylvania, farm land ;s
now valued at SIG an acre in Aecomaclr
SlZ IN Northampton, $1I in Lancaster
and Mathews, $40 in Northumberland
ana ~ IN Gloucester, that paper pro-
ceeds to arraign certain Western Vir-
ginia counties:
But when we see some of the timber
ana mineral and stock lands of Wastern
virginia we feel quite proud of Some of
our Underwater counties. Out wonder
TWO and three dollars an acre for lands
superior to ours, surely calls for some
better system of assessing taxes The
table In full for Virginia is not so nopcb
an incentive to shame some counties
and pull them up towards honest re-
turns as 1t will be to pull down some of
our Ildewater counties and make them
dishonest in returning
This evil of unequal taxation is a
favorite subject with Senator Sale of
Norfolk and he cannot attack it a b;t
zoo hard. Senator Sale is the patron of
Dill creating State Board of Tax
EquaizatIon, composed of three mem
oers serving six-year terms latter the
nrse terms, which are fixed at two. four
ana SIX years. respectively and drawing
salaries OF $4,000 a year each in add.
ION TO necessary travelling and incidental
expenses. Putting salaries and expenses
together at $50, 900 a year, the animal
'ost Oh the Board would be equivalent
o the interest on $40O, 900 at per cent
even at a total of $3.50 the cost
! .san pc equivalent to the interest on
eSoO, OO0 at the same rate. We aJnoit
mat the figures give US pause.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07
In MEMORIAM.

Our friend and leader, Mrs. Annie
Conlbourn, has passed away-gone be,
fore the God she so earnestly tried tc
serve. We feel sure that she will hear
the Masters voice say "well done,
good and faithful servant" Gentle
and retiring in disposition, she was ever
bold and courageous in her efforts to
spread abroad the gospel of Christ and
our little band has lost a faithful lead
er. But her sweet influence will be
felt long after all those who knew and
loved her have passed away. Friends,
let her example be an incentive to US,
urging us on to better and nobler things,
and remembering, that our time here
for work is short at best, for soon the
might cometh when no man can work. {"
(MRS.) S. c. CURLETT.
Wheaton, Va.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07
BOAT NOTES.

The lightship at Winter Quarter
Shoals, with its crew, has been missing
since the gale of two weeks ago.
The photographic Bulletin warns
mariners of many wrecks and derelicts
off the coast threatening navigation.
One wreck in rine fathoms. lies Off
Thimble light, Chesapeake Bay, in the
ship channel.
Fishing steamer Wicomico, wrecked
near Chincoteague some time ago, was
last week salved and towed into Norfolk.
Her after houses were damaged, but
she did not appear to be as seriously
smashed as reported.
A moderate wind moves seven miles
an hour, storm thirty-six miles and
hurricane eighty miles. The wind of
Friday two weeks ago reached sixty
miles an hour and the one of last Sat-
urday night and Sunday fifty miles.
Some little excitement has been stir
red up by inquiries at the u. S. hydro
graphic office about British treasure
ship said to have been sunk MANY years
ago near Windmill Light, at the mouth
OF the Rappahannock river, with half a
million dollars in bullion on board.
REGULATIONS FOR GASOLINE BOATS.
U. 5. Inspectors are soon to visit this
section to overhaul gasoline boats. we
understand. The laws now embrace
gasoline as well as steam vessels. and
all the requirements for one will be
demanded of the other such as license.
whistle Tor horn, lights, etc. A
postal to Hon. Lawrence o. Muir
ray, Bureau of Navigation, Washing
ton. ID. c., will bring any one copy
OF the rules governing gasoline boats.
Tidewater Virginia, as well as the
other sections of the Atlantic coast, had
during, the past week the lowest tides
IN many years, due to the continued Off
shore winds that have been blowing
for nearly two weeks, forcing the bulk
OF water to sea. The conditions caused
general comment in shipping circles.
Officers of steamer Middlesex found if
difficult to navigate the upper Rappa-
hammock Monday, and, notwithstanding
that they left fredericksburg several
hours before schedule time, the boat
was held fast in midstream for hours
at the time.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07
SOME TEMPERANCE NOTES

Henry Fields was fined $40 and cost,
and Robert Fields $50 and costs al
Saiuda court last week for SELLING
liquor Thos. Baytop was put unde,
S2oo bond for the same cause.
"A few days ago John L. Sullivan
knocked down a man who offered him
drink. " Time was when John wonl6
have knocked down a man who didn,t
offer him drink.-Richmond Evening
News.
State convention of Anti-Saloon
League is in session Tuesday Wednes-
day and Thursday of this week at First
Baptist church, Richmond. TIE gather
ing, which is made up of Representa-
tives of local leagues in all paris of
the State, is the largest and most rem
resentative ever brought together bv
the State organization. Over 400 dele,
gates present, many coming from the
Tar Southwest and from the Upner
Valley. sections that have heretofpra
taken but little interest in the State
conventions of the Anti-Saloon League.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07

Two cases of smallpox have broker
out at the Medical College of Virginia
at Richmond.
A report from Sussex county, Va, i.
Is to the effect that Mrs. Lieke. a Rus
sian woman with several children. i,
suffering with leprosy.
State Supreme Court has entered 9
mai decision, and will not reopen the
case, in favor of the State Council .Jr.
Order U. A. Mechanics.
Harry Thaw was acquitted of the
murder of Stanford White upon second
trial and after two years in prison.
insanity was the grounds, and he was
sent to Mattewan Asylum for the erimi-
nal insane.
a handsome new oil painting, repre-
senting the naval battle between the
Confederate ironclad Virginia and the
U. 5. frigates Congress and Cumber-
land In Hampton Roads, the work of w.
Z. Matthews, native of Virginia. has
been presented to the State and is now
in the Governors reception room at the
capitol, Richmond.
Battling Bob," the fiercest game
chicken in Isle of Wight county. Va.
committed suicide by jumping in front
OF the N. & w. cannonball train near
Suffolk. The fowl had just defeated
another gamecock, which was rescued
before humiliation. Bob then attacked
the bystanders and just before the train
passed, ran on the track, Drawing the
train, and waited for death. The story
is verified by reliable witnesses.
"Ouida. " famous all over the English
speaking world as the author of ''Under
Two Flags" died in Rome on Saturday
IN extreme poverty. In her long life of
work she made and spent a large for
tune. "Ouida" had about as much idea
Oh the value of a dollar as did Oliver
Goldsmith. She had an extrayagant
taste and big heart; no one ever called
on either of them in vain. Her forty
novels Melted her a fortune of some
$5OO, 600, but she died without a pennv
Genius and the business instinct do not
OFTEN go hand in hand. "Ouida' did
not suffer as result of unfortunate
business speculations, but only from
constitutional impulse to give and to
spend.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED

oy local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure Deafness and that is by constitn-
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
named condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is infamed
you nave a rumbling sound or imperfect hear
ing, ana when it is entirely closed, Deafness
IS inc result and unless the inflammation can
oe .aNeh OUT and this tube restored to its nor
NAL condition, hearing viii be DESTROYED for-
ever; nine cases out of ten are caused bv Ca
tarrh, which is nothing but an infiamed con-
dition of the mucous surfaces.
we wiil give One Hundred Dollars for any
case OF Deafness tcaused by catarrh) that cam
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars free.
+. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggist, 75c
Take Hairs Family Pills for constitution
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07

IT is known of all men that
women are more severe on erripp
woman than is man. "Man's inhu-
manity to man" cannot equal WON.
ans inhumanity to woman. We saw
this In maintaining that the sweet
est of Gods cIeation--human femi-
nlnity, from cradle to the grave-is
the real bearer of earth's woes.
Mans pangs of torture, grief or an
guish cannot parallel that of his
helpmeet. Berated as she is by some
OF mankind and womankind, the
sins of man, the crosses he bears, the
penalties he suffers fall also upol,
her though she be guiltless of any
act. The editorial writer of the
tsichmond Journal touches it in full
sy this illustration ave once heard
the silyer-tongued Moses ID. Hoge say
In his impressive. majestic style that
40 revengefui whip ever raised
welts upon the body of culprit that
The lashes thereof did not crimson
the tender shrinking shoulders of
some innocent woman. Mans inhu-
mainly to man is infnitesimal when
weighed against his cruelty tn the
best creature that divine goodness
and wisdom ever fashioned"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07
Friday, February, z, 1905.

FAMINE is stalking in the indus
trious but frigid country of Lapland
There are no wealthy there, and all
fare alike-a community of interest.
almost, as it were. The populace are
now engaged in eating cats and dogs,
aud unless assistance arrives we pre-.
sume they will soon begin eating one
another. There is more physical
anguish than there is ease or pleasure
IN the corners of this world. When
we are tempted TO bemoan our lot
would it not be well to think how
much better off we may be than some
others. That is selfish kind of sat.
isfaction aud "cheer up" plan, but
Is works. Then let US get down to
plying others, and show our feelings
by our works. The Moslem has the
happy faculty of getting bright by
thus thinking of the misery of 9TH
ers (though he seldom lends a help
ing hanI). They tell the story of a
traveller that had slipped over brink
and could not retrace his steps.
Having nothing but a few nuts in
his pocket he began eating them and
throwing the bulls over the precipice
still lower down. CHANGING, by
chance, down beneath, he saw an.
other traveller in sorrier plight
than he, picking up the shells and
eating them. The one above had
found another in a worse predica-
ment, and his spirits revived.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07

THOUGH we have storms and win.
try blasts, still Tidewater Virginia is
biest-among her fellows. READING
few days ago where freshets in the
up'conntry had recently swept away
property, one farmer alone loosing
slxty-two improved sheep in the Rap
idan' we looked out upon the water
OF the James at Newport News. and
the only token that our highland
brothers were wrestling with might
to save their little all was a tinpe of
discolorat:on in our river of rivers.
NO rise in the water of an inch
only stain to tell of the turmoil
and strife above. That is their lot:
ours better one. And let us he
thankful while sympathetic.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07

II the CITIZEN and Sentinel are really
IN earnest about deep water and rail.
roads, we have plenty of accommoda.
tons for, and would welcome their
beautiful little towns as annexes to
Cape Charles. Now-easy, gentlemen
please. Northampton Times.
Thanks. Since Urbanna is lack.
ing both, We pass it on to Ryland
lrVlngton, needing only the railroad,
can afford to be unselfsh. Apropos,
pretty Cape Charles would look
much like the beautiful butterfly
all wings-with Urbanna and Ir.
yington annexed.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07
People Who Object 10
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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07

A SENSIBLE Landowner and far.
mer" writes the Richmond papers,
anent the stir over the protection of
game, that if the Legislature would
tax dogs, and require the CANNES To
be tied up from April to July of
each year, there would be no need of
further protection. True, indeed;
more birds and nests are DESTROYED
by dogs running loose the year round
than by any sportsmen's guns, foxes,
hawks or owls.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-02-07
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
SHAREHOLDERS MEETING

Annual meeting of stockholders of
the Northern Neck Mutual Fire Asso-
citation will be held February Id. 1908
10 a. M, at Irvington.
BY order of Board of Directors.
w. Med. LEE, Sec'y.