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Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
Sugar Factory for Delta.

Denver.-A Delta dispatch Friday
night says: Citizens and business men
are dancing around large bonfire at
the corner OF Third and Main streets
tonight as the result of the news which
reached here by telegram from New
York this afternoon that Delta is to
have one Of the finest sugar factories
In the state of Colorado.
The factory will cost nearly $780,.
900, and is to be built by New York. St.
Louis and Kansas City capital.
For the last week M. j. Dunbar Of
New York. representing capitalists
from the three cities mentioned, has
been in Delta comforting with the Busi-
ness lens association, which has been
working hard for the factory, and the
message today states that its efforts
have not been in vain.
The company back of the affair is
known as the Surety Sugar Land & 1r.
rigation Company. and the telegram
stated that the company had put up its
100000 bond as a guarantee that the
project will be carried out.
The company is incorporated for ST.
100000. divided into 25,o0O shares OF
800 a share. Work will be started
soon and the factory Is expected to be
completed within about a year.
Delta has pledged a 50-acre location
for the factory and must take 100000
of the capital stock. Six thousand acres
of sugar beets have been pledged. Th'
company ngrees to pay nat rate Of g.
ton Tor .bects for three years.
Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
Mare. For Experiment Station.

Dean Carlyle of the Agricultural
College will leave for the East within
a short time to join Professor Curtiss
of Iowa and Expert Rummel of the De-
partment Of Agriculture and the three
acting as a committee will select a
number Of mares to be added to the
government experiment stud at Fort
Collins. The appropriation for this
purpose is only $4,000, and it is prob
able that it will not go far in purchas-
ing the kind of mares that Carlyle
wants.
The horse experiment station al
Fort Collins has been in operation now
for about three years and results al
ready obtained indicate the complete
success Of the experiment. There are
now some forty odd colts on the farm
the beginning there was fear of two
things: First, that Carmon, the stall
lion, would not prove prepotent enough
to reproduce himself, and second, that
it would be impossible to secure the
size and weight wanted without sac
rifice Of quality and finish. Both of
these fears have proven groundless.
Every colt in the bunch shows the
unmistakable stamp Of the sire and
the climate and food have produced
the size and weight without any ap-
parent loss of quality. beauty and fin
ish.
The training of the older colts has
already commenced and they are max
ing fine progress. The addition of
few fine mares will add very greatly
to the value Of the experiment.
The establishment of type of Am
erican carriage horses was an expert
ment that was regarded with much
doubt by the horsemen Of the country
but those who have seen the results
thus far obtained are enthusiastic and
in the minds of those who have been
watching Carlyle's work there is no
longer any doubt but that the new type
will be established and that it will be
popular with the people.-Record-
Stockman.
Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
Steers at County Fairs.

In the classification for the last
" Western Stock Show premiums were
offered on steers that had won first or
second premium at any county or state
fair. The idea of this classification
was to thus make a connection with
the county and state fair live stock ex-
hibitions, but to the surprise of the
managers of the show there were but
few entries. Investigation developed
the fact that the county fairs as a rule
do not offer premiums on steers, con-
sequcntly would-be exhibitors were
barred from this class. Notwithstand-
Ing this fact the show association will
make the same classification for the
next chow and the county fair manage
ments throughout the state are urged
to make a classification for steers so
that the various localities may be
matched against each other at the next
stock show in Denver. No more inter-
esting class could be made at any
county fair The fat steer is the COM
mercial end of stock growing and 1t Is
fitting and right that in addition to the
breeding stock that the product be ex-
hibitcd. X stockmen through the state
would insist or even ask for this clas-
siflcation IL will undoubtedly be grant
ed by all the county fairs. The exhibit
ton OF the winners at Denver will
make most interesting feature OF the
show.-Record-St -Stockman.
Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
BURNED CHILDREN BURIED.
Last Sad RItes for Victims Of Collin
wood School Fire.


wood School Fire.
Cleveland, O.-Funeral PROFESSIONS
on Friday began to wend their way to-
ward the cemeteries, bearing the bat
tered and charred bodies Of some OF
the 1877 children who perished in We'd
nesday mornings fire in the Lakeview
school, Collinwood.
From 9 o'clock in the morning until
dusk there was no cessation In the fu-
neral corteges. Those who had no
dead to mourn as personal loss stood
In the streets with barred heads as the
professions passed.
One of the saddest funerals was that
Of the three children of Janitor Hirter,
held jointly with the services for three
other little ones. Mutterings against
the janitor could be heard about the
village as grief-crazed parents sought
an object upon which to wreak ven
geance, forgetting, as they did, that
Hirter himself was walking with
bowed head and broken heart behind
the bicrs Of three of his beloved.
A detail of police was placed about
the Hirter home when the hour for the
funeral came. Fully 500 persons had
gathered, but when the coffins were
carried out the doorway the crowd
spread and opened the way for them
without protest or expression OF hos
tility.
Altogether there were fifty burials
Friday and Saturday the gruesome task
was repeated. Sunday witnessed the
last of the Individual burials, and on
Monday the bodies of all those who are
1oi1
funeral.
Testimony, describing the mad rush
to death Of the school children was
given at the continued session Of the
coroner's inquest. Stories of heroism
on the part of the women teachers
were recited.
F. p. Whitney, superintendent OF the
Collinwood schools, stated his belief
that no fire department could have
done any effective work after the fire
had started
Two of the teachers told OF their un-
availing attempts to open one of the
doors in the rear, which they said was
locked.
The inquest also developed the fact
that after the first crush at the door
it was beyond human possibility to aid
those whom the fire was devouring.
In statement Friday Chief Wallace
of the Cleveland fire department, after
an examination of the ruins Of the Col
linwood school. said it was his opinion
that the loss of life would not have
been so great had there been no par
titions at the sides of the storm doors
at the rear entrance. Two feet eight
inches had been taken off either side
of the hall for the partitions. His ex-
opened outward.
With the appropriation of $4,000 by
the Ohio Legislature and the funds SUBJ
scribed locally there will be plenty Of
financial relief for the stricken fami-
lies.
Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
Denver Murder and Suicide.

Denver.-Believing that death was
preferable to living when his divorced
wife should be another's, Harry Adler.
a clothing salesman, shot and killed
Grace Adler (nee Nottingham) and
then. placing the gun In his mouth.
blew out his own brains. The tragedy
occurred early Thursday night In the
Waldorf hotel. Eighteenth and Stout
streets. The bodies were discovered
shortly before 10 o'clock Saturday
morning when Policeman Hunter
forced the door at the request Of the
landlady, who had twice gone to the
room and had found the door locked.
The woman was entirely dressed
while Adler was clothed. except for
his coat which hung on nail in the
room and in the pocket Of which the
following note was found: "The cause
OF this rash act is s-- Of the
Bismarck cafe. He alone is responsi.
bic for this. Her mother is not to
blame for any of our trouble. My
only regret is for her mother. But 1,
must be done. Hoping everybody will
forgive us-God have mercy on our
souls. Amen" (Signed) III. A.
And on the other side of the paper was
written: Notify G. c. Nottingham
Avon, Eagle county, Colorado. i hope
We will be buried together as love
Grace better than life ITSELF"
Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
snowsiide Near LeadvIIIe.

Leadville, Colo.-A disastrous snow
slide occurred on Long and Derry hill,
near here. Sunday night, when about
800 tons of snow and rock swept down
the mountain side. The slide carried
away a part of the ore bins and shaft
house OF the Aurora Mining Company.
in Iowa gulch, and came within few
feet Of a cabin in which half dozen
miners were sleeping. The men were
awakened by the roar and rushed from
their beds. They knew from the sound
that slide was on its way down the
hill and started for safety. When the
slide had passed they saw that their
home had not been touched.
Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
Power For Northern Colorado.

Greeley.-Many plans are being pro-
posed to furnish electrical power from
the headwaters OF the Cache Ia Poudre
river and 1t Is understood that the
Fruit Belt Power & Irrigation Com
pany. capitalized at $1.500,000, which
proposes to develop electricity from
the Grant river near Grand Junction,
will also invade northern Colorado and
by serie3 OF reservoirs In the Poudre
canon. evolve horsepower sufficient to
furnish electricity to all towns OF
northern Colorado for running sugar
factories and farm machinery and pro-
vide for an electric railway. The COM
.pany is said to have enormous fnan-
cial backing.
Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS.
Remarkable List Of Prizes Offered by
international Congress.


Washington.-The central committee
Of the international congress on tuber-
culosis has announced the offer OF the
following prizes:
/. A prize of 81, 900 is offered for the
best evidence of effective work in the
prevention or relief Of tuberculosis by
any voluntary association since the
last International congress in 1905.
2. A prize of $1,000 Is offered for
the best exhibit OF an existing sana-
torium for the treatment OF curable
cases of tuberculosis among the work
ing classes.
8. A prize of $1,000 is offered for
the best exhibit of furnished house.
for a family or group of families of
wage-earners designed In the interest
of the crusade against tuberculosis. In
addition tc the prize of $1,000, two gold
medals and three silver medals will be
awarded. The prize and medals will
be accompanied by diplomas or certifi-
Gates of award. This prize is designed
to stimulate efforts towards securing
a maximum of sunlight, ventilation,
proper heating, and general sanitary
arrangement for an inexpensive home.
A model of house and furnishing is re-
quired.
4. A prize Of $1,000 is offered for
the best exhibit of dispensary or
kindred institution for the treatment
of the tuberculous poor.
5. A prize of $1,000 is offered for
the best exhibit of hospital for the
treatment of advanced pulmonary tu-
berculosis.
In addition to the $1,000 prize in
each of the above cases, two gold
medals and three silver medals will
be awarded.
The Hodgkins fund prize of $1,000
Is offered by the Smithsonian institu-
tion for the best treatise that may be
submitted on 1.-The Relation of Atmos-
pheric Air to tuberculosis"
The detailed definition of this prize
may be obtained from the secretary
general of the international society or
secretary of the Smithsonian institu-
ton. Charles ID. Walcott.
A gold medal and two silver medals
are offered for the best exhibits sent
in by any states of the United States,
Illustrating effective organization for
the restriction of tuberculosis.
In the list of prizes, attention is
about equally divided between meas
ures for the care or relief of sufferers
from the white plague" and those
concerned primarily with the preven-
tion of the disease. 1t has taken a
long time for civilized people to find
out that the principal ground on which
the battle against tuberculosis is
fought is in the homes. 1t has been
much easier to accept scientific discov-
cries than to face the every day fact
that dirt, dampness. darkness, vice and
privation are the strongest allies that
tuberculosis has. The records of the
visiting nurses, and the maps of lung
blocks" give all the positive evidence
needed on this score.
Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
cottonless Cottonwood

Many people object to cottonwood
trees on account of the cotton. But
this can be overcome. Only the pistil-
late trees bear cotton. Nurseries now
propagate by cuttings made from stam-
mate (male) trees only. These they
sell rs "cottonless cottonwoods." Any.
one else can do the same. Mark the
trees that are "cottonless," take your
cuttings from those only and you will
be sure to have "cottonless cotton.
woods" The Carolina poplar Is only
variety Of cottonwood and would not
be cottonless were not this same pre-
caution taken In propagating It.
Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
Assassin of Priest on Trial.

Denver.-The opening of the trial OF
Giuseppe ALA for the murder Of Father
Leo Heinrich is summarized as fol-
lows:
Trial opened at 10 o'clock Monday
morning in the West Side Court. Judge
Greeley w Whitford on the bench.
Prosecution conducted in person by
District Attorney George Stidger, as
sisted by John Chiles, assistant district
attorney
Giuseppe ALA represented by Attor-
ney Robert Widdicomb. Joseph Mattel,
former policeman. interpreter.
Thirty-four jurors examined: eight
peremptory challenges by the defense.
Little interest manifested by the
public, the courtroom being filled al
most entirely by jurymen. Perhaps 100
persons were on the outside Of the
court building. No more than twenty
women present.
Attorney Widdicomb asked each
talesman these questions:
What is your religion?"
Have you any prejudice against the
defendant because he is foreign born?"
Would you fail to give the defen-
dant the same consideration as you
would a wealthy American, because he
Is poor and friendless and the state is
paying for his defense?"
District Attorney Stidger asked each
talesman II he would inflict the death
penalty i'll case proper for 1t and
whether he could conceive a crime so
heinous as to merit the death penalty.
Following is list of the jurymen Sc
lccted, their occupation and religion:
A. p. Angel. insurance agent. nom
sectnrian; James Wallace. mining.
Presbyterian; Charles BI Rcken, unem-
ploycd, non-sectarian;; William R.
Rumble, mining, Presbyterian; Jacob
Bingley. carpenter. unemployed. Camp
bellite: James Slater, former express
man. Methodist; S. H. Campbell, unem-
ployed, no religious belief; Joel II. lie
Moyne, mining, not questioned; Frank
C. Wyman. unemployed. no religious
belief; w. A. Lyons. ticket agent.
Union depot, Protestant, no church;
d. s. Johnson. mining engineer, Meth
odist tEpiscopalian; G. w. Emerson, for
mer dairyman, Presbyterian.
Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
Knights TempIar coneIave.

Pueblo.-Following a custom which
has long prevailed in other states, the
Knights Tomplar OF Colorado have ar
ranged to hold state conclave In Pu-
eblo August 26th and 9th. at which
time 1t is expected that something Ike
1000 members Of this organization. ac-
companiei by as many ladies. will be
here for n twodays sojourn. largely
given up to amusement and entertain
ment. This state conclave will be =
small edition OF the great triennial
conclaves held by the knights Tenn
pla. Of The United States The trien-
nial con;lave In Denve: In 1899 was
the means os briaging 100000 visitors
into the state.
Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
Death Of Colonel Carpenter.

Denver.-Col. Lewis Cass Carpenter.
graduate in many professions and one
Of the best known men In Denver,
among the older residents, died at his
home in this city Friday morning from
an attack of cardiac dropsy at the age
of seventy-two years.
Former Congressman from North
Carolina. Union soldier during tho
Civil War, postofiice inspector, re venue
collector, attorney and newspaper edt
tor. were few of the characters
played by him during a crowded ana
vadied life. OF late years his princI
pal business has been that Of pension
and patent attorney.
Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
Aspen Bankers Arrested.

Kansas City,. F. Long and q. J.
Pumphrey. cashier Of the Peoples Ma
tional bank Of Aspen. Colorado. were
arrested Saturday under orders from
COMPTROLLER Of the Currency w. B
Ridgeiy. who directed District Attorney
A. 8. Var valkenburgh to proceed
against them on charge Of misappli
cation Of funds. The bankers were ar
raigned before United States Commits
sioner John M. Nuckols. They pleaded
not guilty. and their preliminary hear.
ing was set for March 21st. Each tur
nished the 5000 bond required 70,
his release.
Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
colorado and wyoming RalIroad.

Pueblo.-Oflcials Of the Santa Fe
recently inspected the rolling stock
and other property Of the Colorado 4
Wyoming railway with the intention.
It is said. of reporting to the manage
ments as to its availability for the
Santa Fe system. 1t is reported that
the Santa Fe intends to purchase the
property, which is an auxiliary CON-
pany OF the Colorado Fuel & Iron Com
pany. The report further says that II
the Santa Fe takes control of the prop.
erty the road will be extended to Wy.
oming and Trinidad, as was contem-
plated by John G. OsRood.
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nant when it is made. 1t doesn't even
occur to us to ask how it comes that
we care 50 little about some things
which seem TO be of such vital import
to Others 1t is certainly absurd to
keep OH talking about the influence Of
Puritan traditions to descendants who
arc so remote from those traditions as
to be unable to distinguish between
the austerity that hated ceremonial
and the dcbonair indfferentism that
dismisses all idea of religious order
liness.
According to the late Bishop Potter,
who now lies at rest in the crypt of
the great cathedral which he was SO
instrumental in rearing, the American
public is not altogether to blame for
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picture letters In order to become q
scholar. The viceroy would simplify
matters by the introduction of new
alphabet OF fifty letters by means of
which reading may become general III
all parts of the empire instead of be-
Ing monopolized by the privileged few.
Yuan Shi Kai's greatest achieve
ment however, has been the revival of
the military spirit in nation that for
unntmbered generations has regarded
the soldier as a social outcast. For
merly the Chinese soldier was saddled
with servitude of the most ahasing
description The viceroy's first order
was. Ss"rhere must be no more kneel-
ing" The humiliation of the Chinese
soldier was abolished by that one COM
mand, and today regiments march
through their native provinces with
heads erect and chests we'll forward
proud OF the fact that they are the
defenders OF tile nation. From the
Lowest the profession of soldier has
become the most honored in the land.
AL classes in the empire show the
most unboundeti enthusiasm over mia.
tary matters and Long live our ma
tional arny." is heard on all sides.
Not a Soldier.
Perhaps Yuan Shi Kai is more re-
sponsible for this wonderful change of
popular sentiment than any other man
in the empire. He is not#a soldier and
never has been one. Until the break
ing out of the Boxer trouble he had
never seen a repeating rifle. At the
time he was yiceroy of the province Of
Shantung, but he was Ignorant OF
any military tactics more elective
than those practiced by his own
troops. such as "the Infatuated tiger
charge" and .'the stubborn wounded
elephant retreat" In those days the
viceroy's secretary took command OF
| the troops when his clerical duties
| were not too pressing In spite OF TINS
1 inefficient method of warfare yuan
| kept the Boxers out Of his province.
| He was also the one man IN CHINA
who, during the trying months OF the
| foreign occupation, demonstrated MS
4 ability to please both the foreign
devils. and his own people.
Moreover. he seems to have been the
one man in the empire who kept his
ewes open and profited by what he saw
4 at that critical time. From the day
on which the armies of the allied pow
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VI YUAN SHI KAI is the master
NJ builder of the new world OF
China He is the viceroy of
IL the metropolitan province of
Chill, which guards the gateways to
the capital Hundreds of thousands OF
tho best classes in the empire have
taken UP the great vlceroy's slogan.
what Japan has done we can DO.
and it may become a war cry. Through
it and by it, SO acute an observer as
Count Okuma predicts, China at last
will come into her own and by her
new armies and schools furnish the
best guaranty of the permanent peace
of the far east.
It takes a long time for the fame OF
an oriental statesman to reach Amerl-
ca. 1t is possible for man whose
name is on every lip in China TO pc
practically unknown In this country
outside of official circles. Until the
great Ii Hung Chang came TO inc
western world we knew him put
slightly, and even the charming MI !,
WI was an unknown quantity until
he came to represent his government
ut washington Although Yuan Shi5
Kai is conceded first place among Chi
nese official reformers by the repre-
sentatives Of foreign powers In the
empire, he is little known outside OF
Asia. While he has actually been IN
official life for more than thirty
years it is only within the last decade
that he has become a national figure,
and his international reputation is a
growth of the last three or four years.
Not Court Favorite.
In spite of the popularity Whieh
Yuan Shi Kai has won throughout the
empire he is not an especial faVorite
at court. That is because he IS such
plain spoken person and not pro-
fessed admirer OF the empress dow
ayers policies or even of her poetry.
The old empress and Prince Ching are
reputcd to be exceedingly literary "
their tastes, and they are surroun '
by a coterie Of writer's poets soeii 'i's
given the preference Yuan processes
to know nothing at all about slettefs'
his enemies declare that he affects an
Ignorance which is not precisely gen
uine, He has offended the doWaget
BY his proposition to reform the en-
nese language. AS it is constituted az
present It is necessary to carry II
ones memory some 5000 ideographs Q!
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its irreverence. We have had a very
unsatisfactory environment in which
to learn to be revercnt, The vast ma
jority OF places of worship in this
country are lamentably barren in
themselves of any idea of worship.
There is absolutely nothing about
them 10 suggest hushed speech, un-
covered head on Bonded knee They
were no: dc.isned with that fnten-
ton. Tho spiritual appeal was not to.
be made through the senses
So 1t seemed Ia Bishop Potter that
there was an actual necessity for an
other cathedral in New York. He be-
lieved that the noblest ideas should
have the noblest expression, and he
regarded the popular Protestant no.
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ers paraded the streets of Pekin to the,
present his studies have been on mill
tary and kindred subjects. He began
by experimenting with army reforms
in his own province. He accomplished
so much in this direction that in 1905,
after the Russo-Japanese war and its
instructive lesson of the value of mills
tary preparedness. he was appointed
chief commissioner of army reorgani-
cation and went to work Immediately
TO make military reform general all
over the empire. Two years later lie
turned over to the recently created war.
department at Pekin a foreign drilled
army of 100000 men. not including the
reserve battaiions
Not Welded to Tradition.
Yuan Shl Kali does not seem to have
been born with the deep and unchang-