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Graham guardian., 1908-09-04

We publish this week the an
nouncement of Archibald G. Nc.
Alister, of Solomonville, as a can
didate for district attorney. Mr..
McAlister was born in TatuD,
Graham guardian., 1908-09-04
FoR SHERIFF.

the GuARpIAs Is authorized to announce the
name Of w. y. sPAw, of Clifton, as Q candidate
for sheriff of Graham County. subject to the
action Of the Democratic County Convention.
Graham guardian., 1908-09-04
Fon SHERIFF.:

TME GUARDIAN Is authorized to announce the
name OF Gid II. Thompson, of Morenci. az q
candidate for sheriff of Graham County. sub.
ject to the action Of the Democratic County
Eonyeption.
Graham guardian., 1908-09-04
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

FOR SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT:
TaE GUARDIAN is authorized to announce
A. Woods as . candidate for School Superin
tendeat Of Graham County. subject to the ac
tion of the Democratic County Convention.
Graham guardian., 1908-09-04
RATES OF LEGAL ADVERTISING.

The following scale of prices has been
adopted by the GUARDIAN on legal advertising;
psten, mining notices, per inch uoin'
sertions)
Articles of incorporation 6insertionS
per inch. h..........' '..''.'''''''''..'''
Notice to creditors and similar notices
from the Probate Court, per notice. ......''..7 oc
Land Proofs, .....'.''''''''''' "''.s -
Notice of Forfeiture .........''''.''''''''to "
Contest Notice. ..'''.' '''''''''''" y
An other legal advertising, per inch,
sach insertion. ..''.''' ''''''''''>
Graham guardian., 1908-09-04

Advertise in The GUARDIAN.
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~ENLIeHTENIMe THE EAST.

This is the season for tourist
traffic from the east to the west, and
many of the tourists will be IN their
first trip west of the Alleghanies. To
these people the trip will be a reyeia-
ton. The fasteners, especially the
New Workers and New Englanders
with their false notions of western
life and western culture, will go home
with an entirely different opinion OF
the west and it's people. They will
find Denver to be a city of 100000 in
habitants and capable of handling a
crowd of twice the size of it's popula-
ton. Their path to Denver will be
dotted with thriving little cities and
rich agricultural lands. They will be
surprised to learn that the people they
meet are their equals in education
and culture and not at all as they had
been pictured.
Denver and other Colorado cities, of
course, benefit the most from the tide
of tourist travel, and the greatest
benefit should be theirs as the expense
of attracting and caring for the tour
lists falls upon them. But the entire
west benefits when trainloads of mis-
informed parties from the exclusive
centers go through on their education
al Journeys, though the returns may
not come in by draft or ~postofice
MONEY order, but in more friendly
thought waves from the newly enlight-
ened travellers.
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o AND MAE.

Broken in spirit, sad and forelorn,
Mae C. Wood, who claimed h was
the wife of the senior senator from
New York state, is visiting her foster
parents at Colon, Mich.
Thomas G.. Platt this week celebrat-
ed his seventy-ffth birthday and was
joyous.
Miss Wood is without funds and her
entry into Colon was quite different
from former triumphant home com
ings. Where was Miss Woods source
Of revenue, one will naturally ask?
What became of the thousands of dol
lars that she lavished on her friends?
Thomas G. Platt, to be sure, said that
she was not his wife but surely Miss
Wood enjoyed some of the New York
er's wealth. Not content with defeat
ing the woman in the divorce courts
of New York state, Platte instituted
proceedings for forgery and perjury
against the former favored one. She
lost out with the old man.
Tom is quoted as saying, with a
new pair Of legs, I would show some
people that Thomas Collier Platts
head is still the same Judging from
the amorous escapades of the aged
senator n Is constrained to cry out
'0Tom Plat thou knowest not whereof
thee speakeSt."
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coLUM BIA.

Columbia.-Dr. Harry Nye, wife and
two children and Mrs. J. w. Nye Of
Lovilia, visited at the S. A. Nye homo
Thursday.
Miss Harris visited at the home Of
w. A. Roberts over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. T. McElroy visited
the parental Byrum home Sunday.
MT. and Mrs. Roy Gardner visited
day night.
Mrs. Chas. Double has beer quite i'll
at her home in Dudley.
Mrs. w. w. Rapp is visiting in Dem
yer. Colo. She is accompanied by her
sister, Mrs. F. L. Garfield, of South
Ottumwa.
Mrs. Dorothy, of Blakesburg, Wis
tied several days last week at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Roy Miller.
Marguerite, the youngest daughter
of MI. and Mrs. Frank Cramblit, who
had the misfortune to get one of he-
fingers cut off is getting along nicely.
Mrs. c. H. Stuber has been visiting
relatives at Richland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Goltry have been
visiting the parental home at Rus
sell.
Master Oscar and Fred Miller have
been visiting at the home of their
mother, the past week.
Mrs. John Thomas and son Walter,
are visiting the old home in Wiscon-
sin.
Misses Ethel and Mildred Olney Wis
tied several days this week at the
home of their aunt. Mrs. Elias Can
field.
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and manufactures. Yet the opportuni-
ties of expansion are almost unlimited,
and it is within the possibilities that
the present annual addition from agri-
culture to the wealth of the country
will be doubled when the whole coun-
try shall be brought under cultivation.
We are still far behind some of the
older countries in the yield per acre,
for certain crops, and it is in this un-
utilized and undeveloped capacity for
production hat the country's greatest
promise for national expansion and
growth will be found.
Percentages of crop conditions may
mean to the untechnical readers
when the enormous aggregates to
which they refer are understood. AL
though we hear much Of wheat In pres
ent crop reports, that product Is less
important in the table of farm values
than corn, hay or cotton. Whereas
the wheat growers were richer by
S554,437, 900 from last years product,
the corn crop netted the country
S1,336, 900, 900, the hay was worth
STAB, 000.0 900 to the farmers, and the
cotton planters of the south reckoned
the value of their crop at S578;O00,-
900. When there shall be added to
these totals s334.56S, 900 in oats
which sum is likely to be increased
this year-and a few other items re-
quiring nine figures, ii will be seen
why the bountiful harvest of 1908 is
counted upon to add its enormous
weight to the forces that are every
where making for restored confidence
and the onward march of prosperity.
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DENVER AS A CONVENTION CITY

Some doubt was expressed when
Denver was given the Democratic ma
tional convention as to the ability of
that city to provide a suitable hall
for the convention and to properly
care for the crowds. Before the con
vention had proceeded beyond the
first session these doubts were set at
rest. Denver did itself proud as a
convention city. Compelled to pledge
100000 as a fund before securing the
convention, Denver set about with
typical western energy and not only
raised this fund, but erected a $780,
900 auditorium as we'll, PROBABLY the
best equipped, most elaborate and
most thoroughly satisfactory conven-
ton hall in the country.
Denver did not rest here. 1t made
it a duty to see that every delegate
and every visitor to the convention
was given the heartiest welcome of his
life. The visitor was met at the sta
ton with a mammoth sign of "wel-
come and he was made to feel that
this welcome was sincere wherever
he went. The Denver people wore
badges with the inscription, Il live in
Denver, ask me-" and if you asked
them you were given a handshake
with the reply. There were free
bureaus that gave the stranger in the
city all the information concerning the
city and nearby points or interest he
might ask. There were bureaus con-
Quoted by the convention committees
that had lists of the rooming houses
and the private families where rooms
and board might be secured, and
these bureaus were supplied with the
rates Of each of these places sc that
there might be nc owe charge.
The visitors were not attracted to
the city and then left to founder
around as best they might as Is often
the case in similar circumstances.
This is not the Denver way. A Den.
yer man considers himself an outcast
in the community if he fails to con.
vince the casual visitor that his city
is the greatest in the world. This
may take some of his time, and some
| of his money, but he will go through
with it, and his efforts usually bring
conviction.
Denver is made up of a population
of 200, 900 live wires, whose main OBJ
ject in life is to bring the world to
Colorado and most of it to Denver. II
that town and It's climate and its PEG
pie were moved to Chicago's location
1T would be the biggest city in the
world before the next directory is Is
sued.
| Encouraged by its success in caring
for the Democratic convention crowds
Denver has now set about to lay plans
for securing the 1912 Republican con
vention. No other cities have start
ed out this early to consider a mat
ter that is four years off. When these
other cities do make up their minds
it may be to find that Denver has
already secured the plum.
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Foley, have been invited to speak az
the picnic mex Tuesday.
Miss Alma Glew, teacher in Frank
lin school, will isit with friends in
Des Moines this n next week.
r. Dowden, an bic employee of the
packing house, but lately in the serv-
ice Of A. L. Reynolds in the East
End drug store, Is sick at his home
on Foster street.
James Redmond, of the cutting de-
partment, was In Des Moines this
week on business.
James Breakey. government meat
inspector, of Omaha and formerly cell
lar foreman Of MorrelPs, was here on
business Thursday.
Samuel Campbell, foreman of the
Openheimer casing department. will
go to Eldon Monday on business.
C. Carnes, of the killing gang, who
was stricken with paralysis last Mon
day evening, is improving.
Mrs. Harry Hill, of Sioux City, Iowa,
is here on a visit with her parents, MIR.
and Mrs. F. Wells, corner Walnut
venue Inc Roemer street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hill are moving to
Mason City, where Mr.. Hill has been
appointed foreman Of the killing de-
partment OF the Decker Packing house.
Carl Freeman, who had the small
bone of his right leg broken last Tues
day morning, is improving.
Joe Lewis, and old employe in the
stock yards, who had his skull frac-
tured a few weeks ago by a puily
falling from the roo of his barn while
unloading hay, is better.
C. w. Langdale has a force of men
painting the elevated rail road from
Main building to 90"
Miss Amelia Schworm, of the gener-
al office force, has returned from a
two weeks vacation.
AL Swanson, Of the general office
force, is in Denver, Colo. enjoying his
vacation.
Mrs. A. e. Marlowe and her grand
daughter, of Council Bluffs. is hers
visiting with friends for a few days.
Thomas McGarry, foreman of dry
salt cellar and chairman Of picnic
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-21
MEN SAY
TAFT Is THE MAN
Veterans in Rank of Political Writers
We're Unmoped by Bryan Demonstra-
Hons-Say Noise Means Nothing.

Gratis might vote for Alton B. Parker
but 1t would never grow hoarse in vel
ling for him. That same body would
vote for Bryan and yell for him. The
total vote received by Parker might
equal the total vote received by Bry-
an, but the volume of lung power e X
erted for Parker would be a whisper
to the noise raised for Bryan.
Instead of being moved by the noise
the veteran newspaper correspond.
ents We're watching New York and the
eastern states. They noted that New
York did not join in the Bryan dem,
onstration. though the Tammany vote
did go to Bryan in the convention
when 1t was seen that opposition was
Useless. They watched Georgia and be.
gan specializing on the probability OF
that states knitting Bryan at the polls
and breaking the solid south. The
yells of the men from Nebraska and
Oklahoma, from Mississippi and Ala
bama, did not impress these veterans.
because these We're Democratic states
and would cast their electoral vote
for Bryan whether they yelled or moi.
Do the conservative Democrats OF
New York and New England really
iiSdlH w 81 ~ LIN CAISLt VI oSl
ing Bryan at the polls and voting for
Taft? Will enough of their votes go
to Taft to give him the electoral vote
in these states? These questions were
the only ones asked by the veteran
correspondents. Mere noise did not
mean anything to them.
The newspaper correspondents
were not posing in the role of pro-
phets. They did not lay claim to be.
ing endowed with any greater powers
of analysis than any other class of
citizens. They based their opinions of
the result in November on their
knowledge of public affairs, a knowl-
edge gained from the inside, by
knocking about in the places where
news is made, and by the powers OF
perception developed by their work.
Whether the newspaper men have
thoroughly analysed the situation re.
mains to be seen, but it is interesting
nevertheless, at this time that there
Is such absolute unanimity of opinion
in the ranks of the political writer's.
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Place. Miss Parker is visiting friends
and relatives in Kansas City.
Major 7. P. Spilman was in Des
Moines on business last Thursday.
Robert McLennan. government meat
inspector, of Cincinnati, o., is here
visiting his family and on a two
weeks vacation. Mr.. McLennan is
stationed at Maeschen & Co, 1854
Central avenue.
Richard Trott, of Canada, is here on
a visit with former friends. Mr.. Trott
has secured a large and valuable tract
og government land in Canada.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Lewis received
the sad news of the death of their
little 5-year-old granddaughter, Frau
ces Dubois, of Tonopa, New, last
Wednesday. Their daughter. Mrs.
Linnie DuBoise, has been here most
Of the winter and the face of little
Frances raj well known in the East
End. The sympathy of many friends
is hereby extended to Mr.. and Mrs.
DuBoise in this sorrow.
Major I. P. Spilman and father,
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LRY ]. K. ~poueHERTY.l

The newspaper man is seldom enter
tanned. The entertainment Is usually
for ohters and he is there as a locker
on rather than a participant. Perhaps
1t was with a realization of this that
the Press clubs of Colorado laid plans
to give the visiting writer's the time
of their lives, as they crowded
in enough entertainment in the
week following the convention to
compensate the fraternity for all the
p~leasureless days Of grinding work
in the past.
During the convention the visiting
newspaper men, numbering we'll up in
to the hundreds, were guests of the
Denver Press club. They were Fro
vided with visiting cards and were
made to feel that everything in the
club house was theirs for the asking.
An informal smoker the night OF the
conventions opening was an event
that will be long remembered by
those who enjoyed the hospitality of
the club and who were entertained
with a brilliant impromptu program by
the newspaper talent of the country.
Saturday a special train conveyed
the guests of the club to Idaho
Springs, through the Newhouse tun-
mel, a giant engineering feat, and oyer
the Georgetown loop trip. A com
missary car was a part of the train
and there was a luncheon with the
Idaho Springs Press club as hosts.
Sunday there was a trip in a spec
ial train from Colorado Springs to
Cripple Creek over the scenic Short
Line road, the zone day trip that
bankrupts the English language"
There was a dinner waiting at th
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10y j. K. ~poUGHERTY.l

If a straw vote of the newspaper
correspondents working" the Den.
yer convention had been taken it Is
safe to assume that nine out of ten
would have expressed the conviction
that William Howard Taft will be the
next president of the United States.
1t was interesting to note the COM
ment of the newspaper men as they
sat at the press benches in the con-
vention hall during the Bryan demon.
stration. Most of them were agreed
that the demonstrations were spontan-
eous and no machine made. They
were agreed, too, that in the matter
of enthusiasm the Denver convention
out-hurrahed and out-yelled the Chi,
cago convention. But they were just
as firm in the conviction that when
the ballots are cast in November Taft
will be given the largest vote.
Some of these correspondents we're
veterans in the ranks and had 'cov-
cred" every convention in the last
quarter century. They We're unmoved
by the demonstrations, as they had
seen so many of similar nature in the
past. They would not admit that the
number of votes was to be considered
in proportion to the amount of noise
made at the conventions. They cited
the convention of 1906 with the wild
demonstration for Bryan and his sub
sequent defeat as an instance that
mere noise at a convention, and es-
pecially at a Democratic convention,
is not TO be considered as any indi,
cation. of the current public opinion.
The correspondents viewed it some
thing like this: Every delegate and
every man in the galleries hurrahine
and yelling for Bryan was a Demo.
cratic voter who could be counted
on to vote for the ticket, no matter
who the nominee should be; every
delegate and every man in the CALLER.
les could be counted on to expend g
greater amount of lung power and
make a bigger noise per capita than
any similar body of Republicans, fol
the reason that they were a body Of
Democrats. Another reason for the
noise may be traced to Bryan's mag
netic personality. A body of Demo
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WAGE REDUCTION.

Now comes the report that the pres
idents of eastern railroads are con-
sidering either raising the freight
rates ten per cent or reducing wages
OF employees ten per cent. A new dis,
patch says that Hartman Is opposed
to the reduction Of wages while some
Of the other magnates are not.
This Is plain to see through. Mr..
Hartman is a shrewd business man.
He knows that an increase in freight
rates of ten per cent will mean more
dividends for his stock than a CORE.
spending. decrease in the wages OF
employees. Mr.. Hartman surely looks
out for e. H.
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Colorado Press Clubs
Are Good Entertainers

Imperial hotel in Cripple Creek for
the 200 writer's and their parties on
the train, and a lunch waiting when
the sightseers returned from a trip
through the 10 Dandy gold mine, 900
feet below the earth's surface. There
was another lunch when the train
reached Colorado Springs. There
were trips ato the summit of Pixies
Peak OF the cog road, to the summit
of Mount Manitou on the new cable
road with a moonlight luncheon at the
summit, burro rides through the
scenic nor and an elaborate
luncheon at the Antlers hotel. The
expense of all this entertainment was
borne by the Press clubs of Denver
and Colorado Springs. The cards
issued by the clubs to the accredited
newspaper correspondents were an
open sesame to the bearers.
The Pueblo Press club; Of which
Clyde o. Hoober, formerly associate
editor of the Courier and now night
managing editor of the Pueblo Chief
tain, Is president, entertained many
of the visiting newspaper men. A din.
ner to the visitors and automobile
trips to the points Of interest at Pue.
bio and vicinity were the attractions.
The Press clubs of Leadville and
other Colorado points entertained
their share of the visitors.
The visiting newspaper men were
rather embarrassed by so much atten-
tion. They were not accustomed to it.
But they did not, however, permit
their embarrassment to lesson their
enjoyment OF the strenuous campaign
Of entertainment, and they will not
soon forget the whole-souled kindness
the Colorado fraternity.
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osTEoPATHY.
R.R. TIME TABLES.

A-Dat,y; B., ca-iy except Sunday.
C.. Daily e-can. Monday.
BURLINGTON ROUTE. c.. 3. & @.
No Going East. Depart.
l2A-Chic, Dubuque. Quincy 1875 am.
.92-Local freight ........5:25 a.. m.
ISB-Bu.iingtcn, st. louis. 1895 a. m.
isB-Peorjs Dub. Quincy. IL: 40 a. m.
6A-Chic., Limited. ........2: pm.
!0B--Ft. Madison. st. Louis. $3.50 p. m.
4A-Chic., st. L.. Quincy. 7:15 .. m.
2A-Chic.. Peoria. Rockford 11:25 D. m
Going West.
5A-Omaha and Nebraska. 1870 a. m.
3A--Omaha. Oregon. Calf-7:50 a. m.
9B-Arrive from Ut. Mad.11:45 a. m.
1tB-Arrive from Chicago. 10: so p. m.
1A-Chicago to Denver -. a:0S 2 m.
1S-Gmai,a. Billings and
Northwest ........... 4.22 D -.
". 8. Parker. Ticket Agens
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CROP ouTLook-lTs MEANING.

A bountiful harvest is SO vitality i'm
portant a factor in the general well
fare of the country that the Govern
ment reports estimating the condition
of the principal crops are worthy of
more serious and intelligent study and
consideration than are usually given
to them except by the most astute of
business men and by the farmers who
are most directly interested. Last year
the farm value of the chief crops of
the United States fell but little short
of four billions Of dollars, to total of
all farm products reaching TO quite
6 5000, 000, 900. This year, owing to en-
larged acreage and to increased values
this aggregate is likely to be material
ly increased, SO that the reports of the
trained observers of the Agricultural
Department giving a generally favor
able view Of conditions on July lon
the eve of the wheat harvest in most
localities, and at the height of the
hay harvest-are of incalculable sig
nificance.
Slight variations are shown by these
estimates, between the present condt-
ton of the crops and the average at
the same period during the last ten
years, but it Is important to note that
the discrepancies are slight and more
than balance n another. Moreover,
these are but estimates, and in the
absence of any definite unfavorable
showing the prospects are for a rich
harvest and a vast addition to the ma
tional wealth and justify the most
jubilant optimism.
The most encouraging view of the
situation is found in the enlarged
acreage. American agricultural statis-
tics show that the national produc-
ton from the farms has not advanced
in the same nronortion as from mining
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committee, was in Eldon on picnic
business last Saturday.
Harry Davis, of the general office
force, is on q two weeks vacation this
week and next.
Rev. w. r. vinson, pastor Of the
Presbyterian church of Kirkville, Iowa,
will fill the pulpit Of the East End
church tomorrow morning at II
o'clock.
Art Smith, of the trimming room,
was in Trenton, Mo-, asst Saturday
attending the funeral of his mother.
w. X. Breckenridge, of the govern
ment service, was called to Columbus,
O., last Thursday by a telegram an
%nouncing the dangerous illness of a
relative.
Mrs. John Mozart and her 500
Frank, attended the funeral of a rela-
tive in Batavia last Wednesday.
C.. p. Pool received a telegram last
Thursday evening that his sister, Mrs.
Joe Williams. had been stricken with
paralysis which makes the third time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Williams are well
known in East Ottumwa, having lived
in the East End for years.
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Judge Taft has been enjoying a rest
at Hot Springs, Virginia, but now as
his speech of acceptance is not fin
ished he has decided to forego all
recreations until the document is con-
Guided. 1t is to be delivered at Gin
cinnati on July %, but must be COM
pleted several days before that time.
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Weekly Bank statement.

New York, July 1s.-The bank
statement follows: banks hold the
s52,72S, 400 more than requirements
of the 25 per cent reserve rule.
Loans increased $s,975,0o0
Deposits increased SIT. 713,000.
Reserve increased $1,003, 900.
Surplus increased $5,675, 600.
Elk u. S. deposits increased s5,006,-