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The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-11-20
JUST WHAT mv~r,McroN SAID.
cisvss Salssmaa Aose" Railroad King
In Book Purchase.

The late Henry Miller. Who was
guide. philosopher and friend to many
boOklOvers within Q thousand miles of
New York. was a most successful
salesman. One day he called on Col
lis p. Huntington and showed him .
rare copy OF -.
There are two volumes of this"
said Mr.. Miller The other volume is
p in perfect order. as you see this one
is. You cannot possibly let them es-
cape you. for you know you have moth
ing like this in your library"
What is the price?" asked the
railroad king.
Seven hundred dollars" said the
bookman.
Those are too valuable volumes for
my library" Mr.. Huntington ex-
claimed.
Mr.. Miller went back to his place.
and sent the books to Mr.. Hunting
tons house with bill for 500. Next
day the railroad king sent for him.
why did you send me those
books?" he demanded, sharply.
Because you bought t'.e-'." was the
calm reply.
ri certainly did not" cried ~ MIL
lionaire. ..--..-.
oh, yes, you did" answered Mr..
Miller. You'll remember perfectly
we'll when | tell you what you said.
You told me distinctly: Those are
two valuable volumes for my library"
-Harper's Weekly.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-11-20
~ INTELLECTUAL 40 o. Ola
Boys - rs-osy Ass a Lssse - o~sse
- Their Aaeooeoea

II II often asserted nowadays that
our young men and women attain in
tellectual maturity much later than
did their parents and grandparents.
and in support Of this theory the pre-
cocity of distinguished personages
who Aourished 4 generation or two
ago is cited. Now somebody. who
has probably been bored, like the rest
OF US. with this yarn about the phe-
nomenal brightness Of the old-fash-
ioned boys. has looked up the records
of IL leading colleges to see what
changes have taken place In the age
of graduates. From 1850 to 1860 the
average age at graduation was %
years Is months. From 1890 to 1900
1t was % years 1.9 months. In l30
years at Dartmouth the average age
at graduation has fallen three months.
This average age. 1t appears, has
changed as little as the average wealth
er. Thus one or two precocious
youths of the long ago are sufficient
to endue all their contemporaries with
the same qualities. But the fact is,
the twentieth century boy is smarter
than any OF his predecessors, and (un-
fortunately In nine cases out of ten
he knows 1t.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-11-20
Notice Of Application to Lease State


Notice OF Application to Lease State
Lands.
Office OF the State Board of Land
Commissioners
Denver, Colo, Oct. "a, 1905.
Notice is hereby given that II. l..
Chase, whose postotfice address is
ssdgwick, Colorado, has made appli-
cation No 5496 to lease the following
described Indemnity school lands,
situate In sedgwick county, Colorado.
n-wit: w tofE4 of Section 4, Town
ship n, Range 46 w.
NO other application to lease the
above described lands will be consid-
cred after November q. 1908,
JOHN F. VIVIAN, Register
state Board Land Commissioners.
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T. Il. Liddle,
VS.. ALIAS SUMMONS.
Jennie NJ. Parks.
Defendant.
The People OF the State of Colorado to Jen-
ME NJ. Parks. the defendant above named
You are hereby required to appear in an ac-
tion brought against you by the above named
plaintiff in the county court OF sedgwick
county, state OF Colorado, and answer the
complaint therein within twenty days after
the service hereof. II served within this cuun-
ty: or. II served out OF this county, or by pub
hereof. exclusive OF the day OF service: or
Judgment by default will be taken against
you according to the prayer of the complaint
above entitled action he not served with this
summons. or II the service be made out of
this state, then ten days additional to the
and answer will be allowed before the taking
Of Judgment by default as aforesaid.
: The said action is brought to cancel a pre-
tended deed OF conveyance and hold for
naught the record thereof. purpOrting to con-
vey to the above named defendant the north
west west quarter @ lnw % OF section three {a. town
of the sixth principal meridian in Sedgwick
county. Colorado. and for an order restrain
deed to the defendant, as will more fully ap-
pear from the complaint in said action to
which reference Is here made. q copy Of which
And you are hereby notified that IL YOU fail
to appear, and to answer the said complaint
as above required. the said plaintiff will take
judgment according to the prayer Of said
complaint,
Given under my hand and official seal at
Jnlesburg. in said county. this s1st day of
September. A. ID. 1908.
lSeaI.l A. II. MILLER
Judge and Ex-oficio Clerk of County Court
Sedgwick County, Colorado
c. NJ. Robson, Attorney for Plaintiff.
First publication In The .Julesburg Grit
Advocate October %. 1905 Last publication
November -. 1908.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-11-20
Notice Of Application to Lease State
Lands.

othce OF the State Board of Land Commission
ers Denver. Colorado. Nov. 18th. 1905.
Notice Is hereby given that II. j. Smelser.
whose postothce address Is Iulesburg. Colo.
, mas made application No. $50 to lease the fol-
LOWING lowlng described school lands. situate in
SedEwlck county. Colorado, to-wit: All of
seStion 81, Township 10 n. Range a w.
No other application to lease the above de-
Der 1lth, l9Os.
JOHN +. VIVIAN. Register
state hoard Land Commissioners.
flrst publication in The Julesburg Grit-Ad-
'ocate November 2J. 1903 Last publication
December II. 1905.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-11-20
Final Proof Notices
United STATES LAND OFFICE, sTERr.
+: AhAoUR. Register.

csisa Parties \ having fna! proof notices win ro-
careSnii~ imp,., CODY OF this PAPER and shonId
name or land description promptly rno,,I ia"sG o.
any error ~ this office and to the Land I'M
Tor correction. iaiu oiiict
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-11-20
Delinquent Tax Sale List
Sedgwick County, Colorado,
FOR THE YEAR 1907.
TREAsURER's OFFICE,

VlUBLIC NOTICE GWEN l to La
public
and State of Colorado,
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-11-20
londay, the 2lst day of December, A. D.

succeeding of
OF following
which
herein below towit
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-11-20
Alias Summons.

STATE OF COLORADO. In the
County Of Sedgwick. 3d. County Court.
T. r. Liddle,
Plaintiff,
VS.. ALIAS SUMMONS
Jennie NJ. Parks.
Defendant
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-11-01

next empire-the one now beneath
our feet.
Truly he wrote of Opportunity:
more
When once l knock and fail to find
you in.
For every day 1 stand outside your
door
And bid you wake and rise ~
This opportunity" is knocking every
day and asking for the man and the
courage to show the way to an EN-
pire of Development.
1t is a subject for the enthusiast
the dreamer of empire-the originator
of ideas-the faith of a prophet-the
persistency of bigot and the sacrifice
of the martyr. 1t is withal subject
that must, if ever, be wrought out by
the cool, sensible, businesslike appli-
cation of stupendous business methods
to subject so vast that the develop
ment might we'll shrink from it-but
so important and so certain of ade-
quate results that no intelligent peo-
pie ought to hesitate to assume the
burden when the way is pointed out.
| shall not further enlarge upon the
fact or the need or the grandeur of the
possible results. They are all partially
slightly appreciated. I shall pro-
coed to show the way-and hope that
the man for the hour may appear.
The basic principle to be recognized
is that the reclamation of a territory
is not a matter individual to each
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-11-01
THE NEXT MPIRE-DEVELOP
MENT.

The Divine injunction, go We up
and possess the land" is not nullified
by planting the flag of the country and
so solemnly declaring that possession
is taken Even actual exclusive do
minion does not constitute posses
sion" That land only is possessed
which is brought to it's highest posi-
BILE state of production and thus makes
possible population and civilization.
Judged by this standard, let the
thoughtful patriot inquire what ground
exists for satisfaction in this Pacific
Northwest.
The native production of centuries
has been removed; and the land thus
denuded is practically as barren as the
arid regions. Only here and there a
spot of land has been taken and the
world shown that nowhere is land
more fruitful than are the thousands
of acres that are not touched by rea-
son of what has heretofore proven to
be an insurmountable obstacle, viz,
the problem of clearing.
The Homestead acts people the Mis-
sissippi Valley with teeming millions.
The Carey act has brought to the
arid regions millions and thousands.
When the Reclamation Service of
the United States was organized, an
impetus to actual possession" of the
land we had never developed was
given that will easily double the popu-
lation of the United States before its
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-11-01
w. S. VARNUM.

possibilities are exhausted.
During all these wonderful happen
ings in our sister States we have
merely been satisfied with taking the
natural products that have been pre-
pared for centuries-apparent with
out thought for the time surely coming
with continually accelerated speed
when these will be exhausted.
When these riches of lumber are
gone this will again be a pioneer
country-just commencing the devel-
opment of it's other resources, when
other States have reached high de-
velopment, unless imme diate steps are
taken to follow the logger with the
clearing machines so that the land can
be put to productive uses.
But right here we encounter an
amazing barrier to progress. We know
that the land will raise crops and fruit
in such abundance as to make the
value of the wealth placed here by ma,
ture for man, pale into absolute insig'
nificance. Total the lumber products
and still you can afford to despise
them, as you consider what the land
remaining will produce in wealth for
it's occupants.
But as in the case of the desert
land that thirsts for water and the
swamp land that waits release from
water to pour untold riches from its
peaty depths into the lap of the Guilt
vator, so we here meet the appalling
barrier of the stumps and logs left
after the logger has passed over. And
to the one who has the far-seeing Wis
ion to see a cultivated acre worth
$250.00, where the logger has left an
acre worth $1,000, and shows the way
to make it so, will be due the thanks
of the thousands who will inhabit the
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-11-01
SALUTATORY.

SAEO ~ Sn
In assuming the management of this
department of The Ranch, it is with
firm conviction that the most imme-
date and pressing problem confront
ing the farmers of Western Washing
ton is to discover and apply some
method of quickly and cheaply remov-
ing the stumps and roots and logs that
now render any cultivation practically
impossible. The "Snohomish-Littooy
Idea" seems to satisfy the first con-
dition The donkey engine and blast
ing powder will rapidly do the work
if handled by a competent crew. 1t is
the function or purpose of the Var
mum Idea" to enable the second con-
dition to be accomplished.
This country has now been known
and more or less settled by the white
man more than fifty years and not
nearly per cent of it is fitted for
the plow The end of the lumber in
dustry is in plain sight and then the
growth and development and material
prosperity of this section practically
ceases unless in the meantime we can
find way to cheaply fit our fertile
acres for homes. The soil and eli
mate is such that on the average ten
acres may be made to supply family
with all the comforts and many of
the luxuries of life. It's geographical
position between and adjoining cities
that will shortly contain several mil
lions of people will compel and render
immensely profitable an intensive Gull
of Iroa n6 NJ Q1SQ.
where save in the immediate vicinity
of the great eastern cities But first
we must clear the land.
The Varnum idea is an attempt to
point out how this can be accomplished
with profit to every member OF the
organic body we call society. 1t is
based upon the proposition that the
advance of civilizatiOn-the progress
of the race-is conditioned upon an
equitable exchange of services between
the cells that compose the social or
ganism. 1t assumes the fact patent
to all that there is here now an abun-
dance of labor to clear all the land we
can profifitably use. 1t is an attempt
to show how to so relate the work to
the workers that every member OF So
ciety shall directly prosper. 1t is the
firm conviction of the writer that It's
application in any county will result
in clearing more land in one year
than has ever been done heretofore in
five or ten. 1t makes possible a par
tial solution of the unemployed prob
lem that is ever with us and points
the way to it's complete solution
Among the immediate results of its
application will be the injection into
the arteries of trade of a fresh sup
ply of the "life blood of commerce"
Each town in the county may have an
increase in the circulating medium OF
exchange amounting to $3.50 or $500
per week, which it is needless to say
would exert most marked effect on
every line of business from that OF
bootblack to banker. By enabling the
small farmer to have his land cleared
at once at a minimum of expense and
allowing him ten or twenty years in
which to pay for it from the products
of the soil-the only place the cost
should come 'front.' will materially
increase the producing population. In
stead of requiring five or ten years
to get ten acres cleared the poor man
can have it done in thirty days or
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-11-01

less. Every factory, cannery, cream
cry and merchant in the community
would at once feel the effect in new
business and consequent increased
profits.
In conclusion, permit me to express
the hope that The Ranch family will
discuss the Varnum idea at their
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-11-01

homes and with their neighbors since
it is only thus that it can be tried out
and put in practical operation. If you
do not think it feasible or practicable,
register your objections with We edi-
tor man who will attempt to answer
them.
w s. VARNIM
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-11-01

These two cuts taken from photo
graphs, present a reliable argument in
favor of logging off the lands of West
ern Washington and the making of ag-
ricultural districts on the west slopes of
the Cascades 1t is the most tremen-
dous argument that the editor of this
department can offer Enumclaw,
thriving and prosperous little city on
the main line of the Northern Pacific
railroad, about fifty miles from Seattle,
in 1890, was a saw mill town with four
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-01

81 Paso, Tex, Feb. 30. Pat Gar
rett, known the continent over as.
the man who killed "Billy the Kid, =
the noted outlaw, and one Of the
last Of the prominent gunner Of
frontier days, was shot and killed
today by ]. Wayne Brazell, youth
full ranchman, at Maxwell's ranch,
near Carrizoo, in dispute over a
ranch lease
Garrett had been on a visit to one
Of his ranches near a New Mexico
town and in a blackboard with a
friend was returning to Las Cruces,
when they were overtaken by Bra
zle. A quarrel between the princi-
pals followed and Garrett is said to
have reached for his shotgun. Bra
zle fired twice, both shots taking
effect, and Garrett fell dead.
Brazle then rode five miles to Las
Cruces and surrendered to Sheriff
Lucero. He was locked in the city
Jail after making a statement to the
officer that he had shot in self-de-
Tense and that he had not drawn his
gun until after Garrett had reached
for his shotgun.
The quarrel between Garrett and
Brazle arose over ranch that had
been leased by :Brazle and on which
he had pastured a herd of goats
Since then both men were armed
according to the reports, and it wa.
common talk In that farrifn r,r IS s., q.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-01
NAVAL OFFICERS TESTIFY
BEFORE sen, COMMITTEE
Fellows Whose Literary Efforts Opened Way for Criticism
Of Navy Don't Seem to Know Much
From Their Testimony II Would Seem Inventive Genius
Is at Discount in the Navy

show that there should be some struc-
tural separation between a turret's
probes and the handling rooms on
battleships, which does not now ex-
list and never has existed in the ser.
vice. It is, he said, imperative that
there be some improvement. Reply
ing to question by Senator Gillin-
ger, he said he believed American
turrets to be inferior to those of for
eign ships. He thought disaster, such
as that on the Missouri, which cost
sixteen lives, could not have happen.
ed on a foreign ship. A bareback
would have been avoided by the me.
thod of construction Of the turrets
of those ships.
Admiral Capps questioned the wit
ness at some length and asked whe-
Their he had ever seen any protest
against the direct type of hoist dur.
ing the Spanish-American war and
witness could recall no such protest
Senator Hale said he thought hi
understood the trouble that caused
the turrets disasters. ibid they evel
have these disasters before the manis
arose for rapid target practice?" h.
asked.
Mr.: Voge1gesang replied that rapi,
practice was necessary to train mel
for battle The troubles of the flare
back had arisen since smokeless pow
der had come into use.
1 IF you can propose anything t
render turret absolutely SAFE" sal
Admiral Capps, "you will earn tn
undying gratitude of the navy depart
ment. l personally believe that i
will be impossible to make any bat
tleship immune from danger durin
the time of battle
| Admiral Caps added that the &C
cident on the Missouri would nc
have occurred had not the ammun
ton been brought out in a way neye
contemplated by the regulations.
i "But 1t Is the way it would be don
in battle" suggested Mr.. Vogelgesan,
Admiral Capps retorted that he b,
z. lieved that in times of battle a ba
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-01
MORE LAYING over Ill. CENTRAL

Chicago, ILL.,, Feb. pa new at
tempt to prevent the voting of 2S1,-
231 shares Of the Illinois Central
railroad stock held by the Union
Pacific Railroad company and Rail
road Securities company at the an
nual meeting of the Illinois corpora
tion was inaugurated today.
Henry w. Leman, who was one of
the attorneys for Stuyvesant Fish in
the recent suit filed by the latter for
similar purpose and decided adver-
sely to him, asked the superior
court of Cook county to adjudicated
the legality of the holdings again.
Many of the points alleged in the
first suit are omitted in the bill filed
today but practically no new grounds
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-01
bATTLESHIP FLEET SAILS
FROM CALLA0NORTHWARD.
Great White Fleet Of Admiral Evans Leaves Peru Amid
Cheers Of Thousands Of People
President PradO Conveys Ships Out Of HarbOf Amid Boom
ing Of Great Guns and Good Wishes .

Calloa, Feb. 29-The American fleet
sailed today for Magdalena bay, in
lower California, territory Of Mexico.
Signals went up from the Connect
cut, the flagship, this morning, and
shortly afterward battleships were
steaming slowly out to the ocean for
the long run to the next stopping
place.
The fleet described a semi-circle,
the great white ships moving to the
southwest, and when they passed the
Peruvian cruiser Almirante Grau,
from which President Pardo and the
officials of state viewed the depart
ure, each Of the warships fired sa-
lutte of 81 guns. The cruiser replied
when the Connecticut was passing
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-01
ISOUIIuU1u ON F6g0 81
IN ESCROW
Mutual Reserve Life ReCeiv-
ers Will Accept Payment
for Assessment Policies
Pending Outcome Of Liti-
cation

New York, N. Y, Feb. 29.-In
notice issued tonight to the holders
of assessment policies the receivers
Of the Mutual Reserv Life Insur-
ance company, state that they have
concluded to accept payment on the
premiums not matured or hereafter
maturing, hold the same in special
deposit, and under orders Of the
court return the same to policy
holders in the event sthat the COM
pany does not resume business.
The assessment policies referred to
by the receivers are those issued
and bearing date prior to April II,
1902.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-01
Died WITH HIS BOOTS ON
The Man Famed for Killing BILLY, the Kid Gets His at
the Hands Of Ready RdnCher
Men Quarfeled, But Pat Was Slow With His Shotgun and
Now Lies up on the Hill

they were looking for each other.
Pat Garrett was sheriff of Lincoln
county, New Mexico in the early
sos and his campaign against cattle
rustlers was replete with dashing
arrests, pitched battles and bloody
encounters with cattle thieves.
The best known of his operations
was when as an officer of the law
he BILLED "Billy the Kid" who, after
killing, according to some reports,
two score of men, was lodged in the
territorial penitentiary only to es-
cape.
Garrett took up the hunt anew and
locked the outlaw in a house in Dona
Anna county. Garrett was in the
room where the "Kid" was to come
to a rendezvous, and as the outlaw
stepped into the place with his gun
drawn and covered Garrett, the Of
fcer killed him. Garrett fulfilled his
own prophecy that he would die
with his boots on.
At the inquest held this afternoon
the coroner's jury at Las Cruces re
turned a verdict that Garrett had
come to his death as the result in
flicted by a revolver in the hands OF
Brazle.
The sole eve witness to the killing
Carl Adamson, told story Of tn.
shooting in which he said Brazil,
l 5harafnnod norrntf 5
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-01
PAY Cut
Missouri Pacific Employees
Notified Their Checks
Would Be Smaller

ST. Louis, Mo-, Feb. ga number
of employees in the ST. Louis offices
of the Missouri Pacific have been noti-
fed that their services would be dis
pensed with after March 1. 1t is said
that the reduction of the clerical
force applies to all departments.
At the general managers office the
statement was made that the bust
ness situation had not sufficiently i'm
proved to keep the normal forces of
men at work in the operating and
clerical departments of the road
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-01
SEVEN FOOT
Ball GAMES
SCHEDULED
Five Of the Eight Colleges
Have. Voted for Two Ex-
ira Games This Fall, But
Gan Play But Five If
They Wish

77.P5 sgl7
Chicago, Ills. Feb. 90 Colleges be-
longing to the Western College Con-
ference may yet play seven games
Of football next fall. Reversing its
previous stand, the board of control
of the University of Chicago voted
in favor OF the longer schedule. but
at the same time made 1t clear that
the local team will not play more
than six games.
AS matters now stand only the
Northwestern University and Univer-
sity of Wisconsin are in opposition
to the plan to 1engthen the schedules
from Ave to seven games, but the
University Of Chicago senate, the rul-
ing body OF the institution, has not
expressed approval OF the stand talk
CONTINUED on Page 81
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-01
Still LEADS
American Car in Auto Race
Has Got Over Into
Iowa

Chicago, Feb. 29-Five contestants
in the New York to Paris automobile
race are tonight scattered from Mich
igan City, Ind, to Clarence, Ia.
The latter village, which is a few
miles from Cedar Rapids, is the rest
ing place of the American car, leader
in the contest. Back of it is the Ital-
ian car, at Rochelle, HIS; French car
No. is at Dekalb, HIS; and the Ger
man car and French car No. 2 are
at Michigan City. The American car
is now two days out Of Chicago. The
first French and Italian machines left
here this morning.