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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-28

worn by their soldiery, and a prominent
editor, who'd always cOntended that
Captain Dreyfus should have gone into
the retail clothing business al the out
set, shot the captain in the wrist with
a putty ball and then went over and
cried all over the bosom of the clean
shirt which the captains brother, Mike
Dreyfus, was wearing at the time, and
there was great activity on the part
of the local authority known as John
Darn, and something like our John
Doe only he brings home the goods
oftener. and they arr"s ted several hun
dred citizens for cOnsniring and abass-
ing, and then they went home and
called that a celebration. And there
are the Chinese. The Chinese gave the
world gunpOwder but didn't keep any
for their own use. The Chinese idea
of a holiday is 10 sit on an ancestor
grave in a pink silk night shirt cut
short, and eat rice pudding, made ac-
cording to the recipe handed down by
COnfucius. The Japanese viii march
down TO the county courthouse and give
a few banzais for the emperor, and
then go home to their coy residences
built out of paper napkins and fish
poles, and drink tea and witness dane
ing numbers by their famous geyser
girls, and think they're enjoying them
selves. Foolish barbarians, they call
that a celebration. when there's moth
ing about it TO suggest the real thing
no bystander blown into delicatessen
no cheerful aroma of iOdOfOrm gauze
and black dress goods pervading the
atmosphere; nobody picking his births
mark off the ceiling with a nail file;
nobody getting used to the feeling of
cameIs-haiT eyebrow or learning to
button his collar with one hand. Not
even an ambulance call or a Carnegie
library on fire, by gum.
Even in our rural neighborhOOds
they don't seem able to throw into the
Fourth as much eclat as We manifest
here in the teeming city. In the deep
woods the best way they know of ush-
ering in the day is to fire off brass
cannon loaded with back numbers of
the home paper and the index fingers
of the firing party. This lasts until they
run out of fingers, or sample copies. or
both. Along about 10 O'Clock, when
the perfumery of arnica is beginning to
spread freely and DR.. Watts buggy
horse had fallen from overexertion,
everybody goes out TO Perkins grove.
which is so called because it's a tree
less expsnse. with a few newborn sap
lings around the edge, and the Their
mometer climbs up to IS and then
stops and splits on its hands and takes
Il deep breath and climbs some more.
or else there's a cloudburst, with two
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was more than 10 years old at the
time he came IN with his face full of
new blue freckles and two of his fin
gers wrapped up in a piece of news
paper. After that he kept right on.
/ He parted from a thumb or some such
small matter nearly every Fourth, but
his devotion never faltered. This last
time I saw him one hand looked like
a currycomb and the other like a pair
of grass shears, but he's still compe-
tent to light a match if somebody else
| holds the box for him while he
scratches it, and so that's why 1 say
We have hopes
1T oughter be a great day, all right, p"
said the Head Bell Boy. I bet there
amt no other country could pull off
a celebration like We have on the
Fourth"
You're right there" said the Hotel
Clerk. There isn't. They couldn't
stand it. No other country has pop
ulation that increases fast enough TO
stand the drain that would be put upon
it by d truly American Fourth. This
| year l look to see a celebration that
Will cramp every blind asNum and
every retreat for the hopelessly MANNED
in town. We did pretty well last year,
considering the weather land every
thing. There never had been so large
| a sale LOT those SuncOltOn llfOCIdChtIS
that go off in such a manner as to take
most of the forearm with them and
| cause the invalid on the next block
who's suffering from a weak heart to
expire with a loud gasp. From all sec
| lions there came a tremendous demand
! for the kind of Roman candles that
will cause a barn roof to burst into
| flames almost instantly. The manu-
| facturers of artificial limbs and the
| fanciers who make a speciality of sup
| plying the trade with dogs skilled in
| the leading of the blind, reported that
they were rushed with orders clear into
the middle of August So | feel safe
| in saying that we celebrated the day
| in a way that must have been crafty
! ing in the extreme to the spirits of
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, not
to mention Benedict Arnold who. I'M
7 less he's changed his politics since last
/ heard from, would naturally be pleased
to see our annual losses from this
source greater than they We're at the
| battle of Saratoga.
But this year we ought to beat
| last years showing and not really exert
ourselves. There'c a new pinwheel that
1 is guaranteed to garner every eyelash
within a radius of many yards and
leave the admiring thrOng looking like
q collection Of those little John D.. or
| Mexican hairless dogs. Nearly every
body in town Will have the correct
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SAYS THE HOTEL CLERK,
BY IRWIN S. COBB.

Chihuahua expression that day. They
tell me there's an improved brand of
Whistling bomb which may be de
pended upon TO search out the steeple
of a frame church if there's one in the
ward. AS for the mental giant who
gives his l0-year-old son Egbert Har-
ringtOn & Richards revolver and a box
of .32-caliber cartridges with which to
amuse his little sister Agnes, he was
never more numerous or active. Then
we are certain OF the comical Wag who
can send every green and red ball of
| mis- Roman candle into the dOrmitOry
window of the Home for Nervous In
curables, and / feel every confidence
in the promise that we will have with
US somebody's darling, who believes tie
proper way to shoot the large red
cracker is to hold it between the fore
| finger and thumb of the right hand
debOnairly the same as a cigar. True,
he was destroyed several thousand
times last year, but they grow at
| least three sets of that variety every
year. like guinea pigs. This is a wise
provision of nature which keeps the
breed from running out.
I'VE undoubtedly have the proper
notion of the way to observe a great
national holiday. Hops. Everybody
says so. except few fussy persons.
who hate a little pleasant noise and
don't like TO find the sidewalk in front
of the house cluttered up with shoulder
blades and the ear drums of strangers.
and beauty spots and thumb nails and
one thing and another, when they start
down town on the morning of the fifth.
We allow our law-giving bodies some
| latitude. but they dassent go too far
It's all right for congress to take the
canteen away from the soldier and
force him to attend clandestine stewed-
go teas at the Rutherford b. Hayes
Soft Drink Emporium. with a black
! bottle in connection, down at the edge
of the reservation. It's all right for a
general assembly TO compel a southern
gentleman to travel over into Tennessee
to drink the mint julep he made in
| Georgia. OF TO put through a statute
| in South Dakota that will permit a
nonresident husband to get a divorce
from his wife because she's got bad
teeth. But no foolish mischief-maker
| of a legislator dare lay an impiOus fin
ger on the great national festival that
has done so much for the memorial
wreath and allied industries: If he did,
we'd tear him limb from limb.
And that's where we've got il all
/ over all other countries. as you just
now observed, Hops Look at the
| French. They unveiled a bust the other
day at their Pantheon, which. I take
it. is where they design the red pants
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THE CLOVER.

Some sing of the lily. and daisy. and rose.
And the pansies and pinks that the sum-
mertme throws
In the green grassy lap OF the medder
that lays.
Blinkin' up at the skies through the sum
shiney days
But what is the lily and all the rest
OF the flowers to a man with hart IN
his brest
That has dipped brimmin' full Of the
honey and dew
Of the sweet clover blossoms his baby
hood knew?
never set eyes on clover field now.
Err fool round a stable, er climb i'm the
But my childhood comes back jest as
clear and as plain
As the smell of the clover I'm sniffin'
And I wander away in barefooted
dream
WHARF I tangle my toes in the blossoms
that CLEAN
With the dew Of the dawning Of the
Ere it to- We tirf Ger the graves that I'm
Weepin above.
And so love cIOver-it seems like a part
of the sacredest sorrows and joys Of my
hart;
And thank the good God, as I'm thankin'
And / Dr. pray to Him still fer the stren'th
when ] die.
To go out in the clover and tell II good
And Iovinty nestle my face in its bloom
While my soul slips away on a breth OF
James Whitcomb Riley.
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inches of rainfall in less than twenty
minutes, and the Forks of Elkhorn w
J.. Bryan Silver Cornet band executes
a selection of popular airs. After the
execution, which is a very lingering
one. the county judge mounts a plat
form alongside of a white water pitch
er, in a profound state of perspiration,
and reads the declaration of independ-
ence in loud. sOnOrOus tone, to an
audience consisting of his wife, his law
partner and one member of the band
who has TO stay awake to keep the doc
dlebug out of his slide trombone. Then
they have a picnic dinner, accompanied
by many caterpillars. and a great pro-
fusion of earWigs. and the young folks
repair to the bOsky dell back of the
pesthOuSe TO partake of the wild turnip
and crown their chosen queen with fair
garlands of the poison ivy. In the
evening, on the public square, there is
a program of fireworks and casual
ties, and OH say, you can see by the
rockets red glare that one of Hen ROg-
ers' thumbs is still there. Also that
Constable Wash Spence got too close to
the set piece of George Washington
just before they unset it, and now has
a complexion combining the red. yell
low, green and purple. like an Italian
family washing.
But in the city we throw a little
more variety into it, Nobody reads the
declaration of independence in public
places, because if he did the police
would arrest him for preaching the doc
trines of anarchy or some of the vested
rights would run over him i'm an auto
mobile. But we unfuri Old Glory and
the medicated bandage to the flaunt-
ing breeze. The doorstep is draped
with drainage tubes and bunting. Upon
every hand we see the red white and
blue, and the absorbent cotton. To and
fro go the gallant firemen on their way
to extinguish a small boy or a tene-
ment fire, and when night has fallen
the lockjaw germ sings to the even
ing stars and the tired ambulance sur
geon locks up his tool kit and calls it
a day"
IN bet you it'll be a glorious Fourth
just the same, said the Head Bell Boy
1T viii if We live through it, said
the Hotel Clerk. There's one thing
about the Fourth that 1 always hook
forward to WIN great pleasure.
"Wots that" asked the Head Bell
Boy.
THE fifth" said the Hotel Clerk.
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say, where's Paio-
pinto, anyway? Well,
neither did l. It's
somewhere around
Dallas, but that don't
help me any. Texas,
ell? You sure don't
mean it. Why, I
thought there want
nOthin' but one night
stands down there.
But this PalOpinto
amt in that class
at all. Not much.
It's a real .tOrTid
proposition. 10, l
amt been there: but
I've been up against
Bentley, who has.
He want NINE to
begin with. 1 got
him second hand. You
see, he come along
just as I was having
q slack spell. Mr..
GOrGOn-yeS, Pyramid
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-28
REMARKABLE EYE ACTION.
(Philadelphia Record)

Mrs Humphrey Ward. at a ladies'
luncheon in New York. said OF the lite
erary style OF a popular novelist:
1T is an insane style. II makes me
think Of the school girl novelist who
wrote:
He sprang ardently forward, but
a look of soft entreaty from one OF
Pearls eyes, and a glance of warming
darted from the other in the direc-
ton of her aunt, forced him regretful-
Iy back into his chair"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-28
NONE LIKELY TO INFRINGE.

NASHVILLE Americanl
II am a self-made man, / am.
Well / think there is one timing you
needn't worry about.
What is that
Taking out a patent"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-28
THE RULING PASSION.

Shipwreckcd Mariner-''A sail. A sail
at last"
Fair one in Distress weakly What |
are they advertising Puck.
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-07-10
SAriNERO
Special Correspondence.

'P'''oi
Wednesday, July s.
f. n Vance is visiting relatives
here this week.
Miss Nettie Grout of Gunnison is
spending a couple of weeks here.
H. W. Clark, VIM Schmitz and
John Harris are visiting here.
Mrs. Mary Hankley and daughter
visited Mrs. Geo. Livesey last week.
A party of Young folks visited l..
ID. Akin at Twin Buttes Sunday
evening
The foundation for ii. S. Carpen-
ter's hotel is about completed and
the building will be finished about
September /.
Ernest Nelson and family, Dick
Clark and Harry Hauser returned
Sunday from Montrose where they
spent the 4th. All report a fine
time.
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-07-10
HomRAceS 0DoGlD1eS
49, ~ - - a.
knaaus Ess - fU.AD
- -

T..as she Cs.assdo iniers;sss f.ar
t.xpassssaa. ID. tr-s erh8bltgsa a.
~bsch ~sll be held N beaver ine
.ecund ~esA IN >eps~sntcr ct tis.
Tear. ~1iI D. mech b eacseraSe the
,saysesenseuf and gro~st 81 Western
Industries st esesy cssEscser. ~
ssliy ss.osn "a tse Preaassas b-s a
cop. # ~ksch ba. ts-se EseesSea
sr8Sa MIR @ e felIeF. acting secre-
,arv. Tabor Opera Haa.e BusidsnS
beaver. wlso ~rsses thai he will he
pleased D. send copy 10 snyo.e en
Request. The classification. IN the
hsi are extensive, eoserang the pro
DUCTS st esery industry and the
pTIzes offered are exceptionally lib
era
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-07-10
RA14
News Champton Correspondence.
"Wednesday. July :

" 'haHEFa torIesfoGaehct-
"Wednesday, July ;
Pearl Jones spent the fourth at
Wauniia
berry o'Eegan aud OGrady are
In Denver this week
Mr. and Mrs Reese spent the
f1arth with Mrs Susie Moore.
Mr. aud Mrs Will Manson spent
the fourth with Il. ). I.obdell.
Bert Jones returned Tuesday from
Denver. lie reports very pleasan,
time.
\ party Of fishermen spent a
couple Of dsys at the O'i3egan rlmch
the first Of the week
Mrs. Susie IIoss and Miss Tlldie
Markham II Walsenburg and Mrs.
Dice oi Bowerman are the guests of
u : l.obdell this week.
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-07-10
LEGAL PUBLICATIONS.
>.iiee .f >seriAl Seetinz ~ >iacs h"is'-ts
InI pf>YIG kNB Kto sslNpf HAIi4Kots
stVaFAN
DenVer, Col0Tad0- juno ]

Denyer Colorado, June n. is..
To tiie Stackhold.rsuf 81
THE DENSEH kNp RIO GRANDf RAILROAD
Nutice i Hereby Given that a special meet
iua ct the stockhoider- of / he Denver aud RIO
6rsnde Railroad Com pany Nill b. hcid a. She
principal office ct the Company koam
s2i. Equitable Building At Denver. oio-
RADIO, up''n Thurs lay, the 23d day of July. isr,
a. two q CLOCK 2 ", Tor the pgrIo-e Of cunsid-
erins aud voting upgn a proposition ior the
consolidation Of The Denver and Rio Grandc
Railroad Company aud the Rio Grsnde West
ern Railway company aud their capital stocks.
railroads, franchises aud other propertie- aud
Interest," under the laws Of the state Of Colo.
RADIO and the laws of the the state ot Utah.
thereby uniting the properties and concerns of
said two companies m one organization. and.
by Joining said two corporations together,
creating a new cansol dated corporation which
viii be distinct from said constituent corpor-
stIons aud from each thereof and Tor the pur-
pose eft considering aud voting for the adop-
tion - rejection OF, agreement for such
consolidation made IN writing by the directors
of both of said companies under date OF June
sth- isN, and by them ~ he submitted In writ
Ing To- said meeting, which sets forth the terms,
manner and effect Of such proposed cousoltda-
ti"n; also Tor the purpose OF considering and
sition and agreement for such consol olitstio
which at the time of said meetine may tse duly
submitted tsser-to In writing by the directors Of
both Of the said mpABies which it il propos-
ed so to consolidate. and for the puryssse of
taking aLy lawful action in relat ion to such
proposed consolidation, or Incidental thereto,
"a may ny the stockholders ~ such meeting be
deemed necessary or desirable.
The transfer books for the transfer Of stock
bus siness on Monday, the I'D day sf june, I,.s,
and reopen on the day succeeding the day of final
adjournment Of said special meeting OF -Iock-
holders not earlier than the 18th day of July,
by order of the BOARD of Directors.
THE DENLER AND RIO GRANDE RAIL
srEpHrS LITTLE, T.. T. JErFERY.
Secretary. fresldeot.
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-07-10
OHIO CITY
News-Champion Correspondence.

NcWs-IHamplon Correspondence.
Tuesday, July Z.
Mrs. John McLain returned Sun
day from a visit in Pitkin.
The Raymond will start soon and
the Links is increasing its force.
J. b. Msyfeld left Sunday for
Denver and the national convention.
Q. N. Carter and wife of Denver
are enjoying a visit with their son.
Mrs. Ball arrived Monday to take
up her duties al the section house.
j. F. Pearson passed through here
tuesday enroute for the big conven-
ton in Denver.
Mrs. j. Mcdowell has been in
from the saw mill for a few days for
medical treatment
The little eight year old daughter
Of Mrs. Mundell is rapidly improv-
ing from her severe illness.
Raymond Barnhill was badly
burned at Waunita the 4th bv fall
ing in the hot water near a spring.
The old crew at the Carter Tun-
mel took a weeks vacation over the
fourth while new crew was put on
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-07-10

Some good work is being done by
Representative Lehrritter in helping
along the Irwin Somerset state road.
He has made a number of trips to
Denver for consultation with the
state engineer, and has been active
in getting the forest service and pri-
vate parties to help with this public
enterprise 1t will be a fine piece
OF development for this, at present
almost untouched section of Gunni-
son county. With the extension of
the Colorado q Southern through to
the North Fork and the state wagon
road opening communication nearly
100000 acres of virgin ground or an
area half as large as the state of
Delaware will be opened to settle
ment and other development.
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-07-10

j. seems to take from six months
to year to get a homestead applicat-
ion through ON forest reserve ground
under the red tape of the present
system. Even then one is wh,i.v at
the mercy of whim of the rlrest
officer who may arbitrarily decide
that the land wanted for a home is
mot agricultural land" The pro-
spective settler cannot even squat
upon the land until his application
is considered. Should he brave the
red tape, in year he is generally
out OF the notion, or gone to Canada
OF his family has starved to death
Why not have a public land system
like Canada where the government
like real estate dealer. welcomes
the homesteader as long lost brother
and spends money to help him pick
out home, instead of, as Pinchot
and Roosevelt are doing, regard him
with suspicion as a thief in disguise
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-07-10
0Du0Ul
A~Os-Cs~s4vsss Co<resSosasscs-
Weas~~asy Juiv :

- Ost ts>1&vsssS SorTeasrHoosoes-
NeaD~sasy. July
Is A is-GuEat,e- aFsse 10 F.rsaa
Asaesv
n A Tteado1 h>. t<esn - ~ork
On tsr bsTn that kne~te. ksa~. are
banding
A 10 posad gsri arrived at sl.<
kauss 81 Mr. snd Mn Cisffssa TIpso1
las ~essk
AIs Wls.ey s-ks. fssmerly keps
the na.ei al Msen,;s arrived an
Doyae las; ~ees sn her ~.v b. Bower
nssH.
Id johnson q brutier ~ Mrs A
H. Mcdonnell arrived Thursday
trom Clio Iowa 10 visit for some
time with has SISTER
Over lto people attended the Atm
ct Jsiy celebration at WaunIta
Nearly all the ,oylev lie reople weni
sp. the maiarlty Of them going
over Sunday 10 witness the ball
game between the Carter tunnel
boys ssd Pltkin club. The FIikiH
bows were the winners
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-07-10
BONNEVILLE
News Champion Correspondents.

Ne~s-C hampton Correspondence.
Wednesday, July s
The saw mill started hrst Of the
week
Several from the valley are riding
IN the round up this week.
Miss BESSIE Briggs arrived Fri
day from Denver to visit friends.
Miss Katherine kase Of Pennsyl-
vania arrived Saturday 10 teach our
school.
Misses Briggs and Spann went tc
Crested Butte Tuesday to visit few
days with friends
Rev and Mrs. Robinson and Mr.
and Mrs. Morris spent the fourth at
the Vim. Allen ranch.
Mrs. n. Willis of Lafayette and
Miss Ida Dsnnern of Missouri are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. w A. Willis
The picnic on Taylor was a social
event much enjoyed by the large
attendance. The day was filled
with races, contests and other
amusements Mr.. Rider and Miss
Briggs proved the best mountain
climbers while the fishing contest
was tie.
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-07-10
0sss aa1bsai Apsusains

Montrn9e Enterprise saws thai
irom lJ'rl 10 2,ssp ears ot potatoes
Will g. oui Of there this fall bound
for Texas aud other southern states.
ali II which would naturally seek
the Dol9raio a Southern as a dlreci
route If thai Rad Is extended thruuch
the North Fork Paunia has 1850
cars OF apples g. go the same wsy
Crawford and Maher people are 50
concerned about the shipping out
l0ok that they are ready to build a
portian Of the road themselves
Hdtchkiss, Cesiaredge, Delta and
ulathe are all bo0sting f1r the G. 4
; extension A good deal of rail
road talk Is hot AIR. but when such
earnest men as comprise the bpsi-
ness men associations IA these
cities are united iR going after a
certain thing and are 80 concerned
about it that they seriously consider
building the connection themselves.
yoa NAV he sure there is business =
aiaot
The lIotchklss Times SAVE:
"On the other hand IT would bs
a paying proposition for the railroad
company as well Delta county has
a population Of 1900 people and
Is able 10 support 5000 Fruit of
course holds the center Of the stage
and this year when frost nipped a
large amount OF fruit, we expect To
ship out 800 car loads At $50
a car, which Is a conservative estim-
ate. tins means return OF : ,l2J,
900, of which the railroad gets a
part for its service in handling
quite considerable item.
There are the immense coal de-
posits at Somerset and other parts
Of the county which produce thous-
ands Of dollars annually; the great
cattle Tanees Of the North Fork val
ley, more especially of the Crawford
Maher section which is vast unde-
veloped empire in itself; the sugar
beet industry, which is one of our
greatest sources of income; small
fruits, hay and grain, vegetables,
honey, poultry, hogs and sheep and
the one thousand and one other
items which make this section the
paradise that it lis, in fact we do not
see how the railroad can overlook it.
for the valley is rapidly settling up.
If the c. a 5. will send a represen-
tative here we will show him, and
seeing is believing Mere words
cannot convey to the mind the real
greatness of our valley.
This proposition is one which all
booster organizations of the county
should take up and push. Also let
each individual do his share. Boost"
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-07-10
INNJvOg'~ NOJIrE

Estate Of Jonathan NJ. Harris. deceased.
The uDdersi ignei, having been appointed exc
cutor OF the estate of Jonathan NJ
Harris late of the County Of Gunnison, and
state Of Colorado, deceased, hereby gives
notice that he will sppear before the County
Court of Gunnison County, at the Court House
in Gunnison. at the June term, ON Monday
the 18th day of July, A. ID. ls~, At which
time all persons having claims against said
estate are notified and requested To attend for
the purpose 81 having the same adjusted. All
persons indebted To said estate are requested
10 make immediate payment to the under
signed
Dated this aHh day of June 4. u Ials.
ARCHIE A. SliAtk MILFORD, Lxecutor.
DEXTER 4. SAPP. Attorney
June 26-July "a