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La Junta tribune., 1908-05-23

Serious concern is felt all over the
Arkansas Valley because of the dry
weather. Records of the Pueblo
weather bureau show that there has
been less rain during the six months
ending Thursday than for any pre-
ceding consecutive six months in its
history. The amount Of rainfall for
the last six months has been 1:54
inches. The dryest six months next
to that showed a fall of 1895 inches.
In the year 1894 conditions were
much as they are now. when on May
26th there came rainstorm which
flooded the valley. did enormous
damage in the city of Pueblo and
washed out the railways from Pueblo
to Florence. Following the rain
storm. the season was wet one.
and even the dry farmers made ex-
cellent crops. In 1894 water was 20
scarce that it was thought that
nothing could be grown. Crops
were dying. streams were drying up
and there seemed to be no relief in
sight. The conditions 1t present
parallel those Of the year 1894.
People survived the dry year Of 1894.
and they will survive the dry year
Aof 1908 various and sundry pessi-
nistic rumors to the contrary not
lvithstanding.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19

of the fortune of the elder Cornelius was left
to Alfred Gwynne, the next son,
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt is a leading direc-
tor in various railroad corporations, as well as
in the Fulton Navigation Company, the Hano-
yer National Bank, the Plaza Bank, the Con-
reid metropolitan Opera Company and the
American Horse Exchange Uimited). He mar
ried Miss Ellen French.
The young men mentioned are only those
who have so far the public is concerned
come to be regarded as holding IN greater OF
less degree an active partnership in the Young
Blood coterie of financiers of whom much Is eX-
pected There are others holding what from the
point of view of the public, may be termed
silent" partnerships in this circle. Among those
of whom the public hears little. but whose infiu-
ence in the years to come may be fully as po-
tent, are the young scions of the Gould and
Astor families, the son of John w. Gates, the
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19
YOUNG-BLOOD.
Continued from third page.

c. Whitney, has fallen the duty of looking after
the many large financial interests left to their
care by their father. Payne is paSsiOnately fond
Of yachting. and the love of this sport is shared
by his wife. who Helen Hay. daughter of
the late John Hay. Mr.. Whitney is president
and director of the Interake Pulp and Paper
Company. a trustee of the United States Trust
Company. director Of the CRANKY Consolidated
Mining. Smelling and Powder Company Oim-
fted). the Great Northern Paper Company. the
Knickerbocker Trust Company, the New York
Loan and Improvement Company, the Northern
Pacific Railway and the Virginia & Southwest
Railway.
Harry Payne. on his graduation from Yale, in
1894 went into the service of a banking house
In New York. He began at the bottom on
salary of $50 week and kept at work until he
obtained a complete schooling in finance.
Allan a Ryan and his brother Clendenin ].
Ryan. are members of the firm of Ryan Bros,
q brokerage house closely allied with the oper-
ations of their father. Thomas F. Ryan. J. B.
Ryan the oldest of the four sons of the ftnan-
cfer does not take an active interest in finan-
cial affairs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, eldest son of his father.
Is one Of the few young men born to great
wealth who have elected completely to master
an industrial calling. that of mechanical engi-
neering, It is this which has made Mr. Van
derbilt one Of the most valued members of the
body controlling the New York Central Rail-
road. He is the inventor Of a number Of me-
chanicaI devices which have proved of great
service to the road. He is u director Of the
New York Life Insurance and Trust Company,
OF the United States Mortgage and Trust Com
pany the Windsor Trust Company the Mutual
Life Insurance Company, the National Park
Bank and the Mutual Bank, OF this city; the
Marine National Bank. Of Buffalo; the Illinois
Central Railroad. the Allis- Chalmers Company,
the I-ackawanna Steel Company. the INTERIOR
ough Rapid Transit Company, the Rapid Tran
sit Subway Construction Company the Subway
Realty Company, the Audit Company, Of New
York; the Hudson Companies, the InterbOrough-
Metropolitan Company, the Commercial Trust
Company of New Jersey; the Mexican Telegraph
Company the New York City InterbOrough
Railway Company, the Provident Loan Society
and is a member Of the Saratoga Association
and an associate member Of the American So
ctety of Mechanical Engineers Mr.. Vanderbilt
married Miss Frances Wilson in 1896 This SO
aroused the wrath Of his father that the bulk
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19

allowed within these walls. The most the "un-
believers" may ordinarily do is to ascend from
the street to the seventh step one OF the
staircases between the walls.
Within the Haram at it's southern end is the
mosque, originally built a church by the
Crusaders between 1857 and 11S7, though con-
tanning materials belonging to an older church
Of Justinian which stood here. The present
building is 20 feet long by 80 feet wide, and Is
divided by means of four handsome columns
into a nave and two aisles running north and
south.
The most prominent objects in the mosque are
the great shrines OF the patriarchs and their
wives. Those OF Abraham and Sarah occupy
little octagonal chapels in the double porch be-
fore the mosque door. The tomb Of Sarah Is
magnificentIy decorated. The coverings are Of
beautiful, cOored silks, worked most artisticaIly
with gold embroidery; the Arabic writing IS the
Haram are the shrines of Jacob and Leah also
covered with costly embroidered silks worked
with artistic patterns in gold Th.Se shrines
lie in pairs at regular distances apart across
the area Of the Haram, and are supposed By
the Moslens to stand each exactly over the
corresponding body In the cave below; but no
authority has been permitted to descend into
the cave for many centuries.
In separate chamber to the northwest but
is the shrine of the patriarch Joseph, as mag
nificent and as fondly cared for as that Of the
other patriarChs-The Graphic.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19
TOnBS OF P4TRI1RCHS.
The Haram an Hebron Is JealOusty
Guarded by Moslems.

No SPOT in all Palestine is so jealously guard
ed as the Haram. or sacred area, bullt ABOVE
the cave where, according to tradition, lie Dur1ed
the bodies OF Abraham and Sarah, Isaac anu
Rebecca Jacob and Leah This Haram is in
closed within a double wall, an outer one Of
Arab workmanship. dating from the fourteenth
century. and an inner very massive one, with
MANY buttresses which competent authorities
.ascribe to the days Of the HerOds. No Christian
or Jew is, except by very special permission,
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19
THE INVITING JESTER.

Here are some gem answers to questions put
in recent history examination at large pri-
vate school:
Simon de Montfort formed what was known
as the Mad Parliament; it was something the
same as it is at the present day
Cromwell raised famous body CT soldiers
known to history as the IroncIads-'''
"Iortmain tried TO stop dead men from 1eav-
ing their land to churches.'-The Tatler.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19

sons Of Senator Clark. the sons Of Henry Phipps
and several others
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
The Senatorial Verdict.

Cedar Rapids Republican: "Tha
attitude of your paper on the senator
ial succession is very fair and just"
said one man last Friday, but are
you not aware that there is a move.
ment to give Major Lacey the long
term in the senate, in spite of the
primary"
In reply We will say that we have
heard of such suggestion and one
space writer in Des Moines has been
filing certain outside papers, like the
Minneapolis papers, with that sort of
stuff He gets paid so much col
umn for it and it is certainly astound
ing and sensational enough to attract
attention and to secure publication.
But there is not word of truth in
it. We have heard that a few men
in the Des Moines headquarters are
still unreconciled to the result of the
primary, but their efforts will be Of
no avail We all agreed to abide by
the result of the primary. The pri-
mary was not entirely fair, insofar as
SpAllC lptlLO1ldtS nv tAlllItu w DdI
ticipate in it did nevertheless partici-
pate, but there were not enough of
these to invalidate the verdict, either
in morals or in law.
If Mr.. Cummins had been defeated
he would have abided by the result.
But as he was not beaten his oppon-
ents are in duty bound to abide by
that result. We have insisted on this
from the first and we have no oppo-
sition among decent minded stand
patters, If that phrase has not yet
gone out of existence in it's factional
sense. But as we have already said
the reports that any are unwilling to
abide by that result has originated
with a few correspondents who are
interested in keeping up factionalism
because it gives them something to
write about and something to sell to
their papers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19

1t is announced from Chicago that
Governor Deneen proposes to treat
the deep waterway, to construct which
the state of Illinois has authorized
the issuance of s20.000,000 in bonds,
as requiring emergency legislation.
He has instructed the Internal I'M
provement Commission to prepare the
necessary bills. They will be intro
duced early in the legislative session
in January, and the governors influ-
ence in the general assembly will be
used to secure their passage to take
effect Immediately. 1t has been the
belief of men interested in the pro-
posed legislation that no actual work
could be done on the waterway for
at least four years. The governor is
convinced that most of the prelimin-
airy work has been done and tt at the
state can not get at the actual con-
struction too quickly. Lyman E.
Cooley, the well-known hydraulic en-
gireer, is quoted as saying that there
is no reason why dirt should not be
flying within six months.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
Rev. Or. salter,s Birthday Anniversary

Burlington Gazette: Rev VIM
salter, d. D., since April, 1S46, the be-
loved pastor of the Congregational
church of this city, celebrated his
eighty-seventh birthday yesterday at
his comfortable home on South Hill.
DR.. Salter has been most appropriate
ly called "Iowa's first private citizen :"
From one boundary of the state to
other, he is recognized as a pre-emi.
nent force for the welfare of the com
mcnwealth and its people He has
lived in Iowa euring its entire state.
hood and his yef.rs have been crowd
ed with good deeds in its behalf. Here
in Burlington where DR.. Salter is best
known and loved by all his birthday
excites more than passing interest. 1t
is day of thanksgiving and apprecia-
ton of a grand good man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19

The Democratic executiv, commit
tee, the headquarters of which are in
Columbus. Ohio have already put for
ward Judson Harmon governor-elect,
for the presidential nomination In
1912. This has been done without
the consent of the Peerless One and
without consultation with him, which
leads the Brooklyn Eagle, an indie
pendent Democratic paper, to say;
If the Peerless One would not lose
his title as the perennial Democratic
candidate for the presidency, he must
be up and doing. The campaign for
1912 must be begun now. There Is
no knowing what damage to prescrip-
tive rights may be done by these rest
less and impudent country commit
tees. In eternal vigilance only is the
price of continued presidential nom
nations. There are, indeed, treacher-
Gus and faithless murmurings up in
Minnesota of name that sounds like
Johnson Time must not be lost.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
Pumpkin PIE

Fremont Tribune: The pumpkin
pie is receiving its annual need of
praise at the hands of the word paint.
efs. me pumpkin pie is Ike other
foiks, it all depends. II the crust ia
tough and soaked; If the upho,stering
is compiled in haphazard fashion
sans spice, sans milk but not sans
Jumps the pumpkin pie is Unworthy
TO be embalmed in song or story. But
II II be erected according to approved
plans and specifications, with good
thick layer of pumpkinized done
spread upon faky crust-oh nv
countrymen. stand aside and let the
pie be passed, please.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19

There will be only eight farmers
in the new state senate which meets
In Des Moines in January, but there
will be forty-seven in the house The
lawyers number only twenty, bankers
sixteen, merchants five, real estate
dealers, manufacturers and editors,
three each; druggists two, doctors
three, insurance agent one, preachers
three, abstractors one, electrical en-
gineer one, and teamster one. Four
of the senators have had military
service and fifteen of the house mem
bers. The oldest member of the house
will be John A. Cousins of Butler
county, aged seventy-one, and the
youngest will be H. H. Boettger of
Scott, aged twenty four. The youngest
senator will be H. L. Adams of Fay
cite, aged thirty-two, and the oldest
Jas. A. Fitchpatrick of Story, aged
sixty-eight, with Capt. John D. Brown
OF Decatur the same age.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
BRYAN AND NEBRASKA.

In a lengthy letter in the Utica IN.
" Observer DR.. George L. Miller of
Omaha, the venerable and beloved
former editor of the Omaha Herald
explains the preponderance of votes
in Nebraska for Bryan. He declares
that Bryan did not carry that state
as against Taft. The meager plurality
credit was brought about by two strict
ly local issues. The first of these was
the passage of two-cents-a-mile pas
senger rate law, without discrimina.
ton as to population in sparsely set
tied localities and sweeping cut in
freight rates by Republican legisla-
ture. Railroad managers at once be
gan to hedge on the cost of operating
their lines, and the first man struck
was the workingman, indirectly by a
halt in construction, and then quiet
discharge from the service Then
came the panic. Eight thousand men
were driven out of employment on the
Union Pacific alone from sheer neces-
sity. The railroad workingmen bit
terly resented this attack on the rail
roads by Republican legislature and
six months ago began to organize to
defend the roads and themselves. The
railroad managers had nothing what
ever to do with this action 1t was
taken by the employees on their own
motion. The late election found them
10000 strong at the ballot boxes vot-
ing in large majority for the Demo
cratic ticket and in less numbers for
Taft The result is a legislature that
is overwhelmingly Democratic. DR.
Miller declares that Taft would have
carried Nebraska in spite of the local
interests If the railroad men could
have handled the ballot, which was
too cumbersome for average discrim-
ination.
The second main influence that car
ried the state for the Democrats, on
the same authority, was the issue of
county option (practical prohibition),
on which the liquor interests. led by
Omaha brewers and organizations
throughout the state, who cared for
nothing but the defense of their bust
ness, and they did their part with
deadly effect. What inquiries DR..
Miller, did these strong and intelli-
gent German brewers. and the saloon
men, as the liberal element, care
about the President under such life.
and-death conditions?" In concluding
his letter DR.. Miller repeats state
ment made in the beginning of it that
Bryan had no more to do with carry
ing Nebraska than the old man in the
moon had. The writer's long ac-
quaintance with Nebraska politics and
his thorough knowledge of conditions
there qualify him to speak with author
ity on the subject
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19

Whiskey in tablets and in the form
of stick candy has made its appear.
ance in some parts of the country
The innovation was introduced by
representatives of liquor house in
Kentucky as way to get around the
local option law. The prohibition
people are wrought up over the in
vasion and will take the matter up
with the county authorities, with the
view to banishing the deceptive jag
tablets.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
A New Missouri Persimmon

Sioux City Tribune: Missouri is
coming into ler own. One of her cit
liens. emulating Luthes. Burbank has
deserved a monument to his memory
by improving the Missouri persimmon
He has enlarged It. Increased the rela.
tive quantity of delicious pulp while
decreasing the number of seeds, and
eliminating some Of its pickering quail.
tiles when green, and all this without
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19

The annual reports of the Burling-
ton and the Illinois Central railroad
companies filed with the state railroad
commission show slight decreases in
the passenger receipts during the first
year of the two-cent fare law. The
Burlington fell off s36,579 and the
Illinois Central $47.334 in passenger
receipts. The former does not report
the number of passengers carried. but
the Illinois Central carried $4,000
more people during the first year of
the two-cent fare and anti-pass law op.
Grafton than during the last year pre-
viouS The Burlington's gross earn
ings We're $10,34S.734 in 1908, as com
pared with s10,733,262 in 1907; the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19

operating expenses were s7,669,751 in
1908 and s7,405,170 in 1907; the net
earnings were $2,67S,9S3 as compared
with s3,32So92 and the passenger re-
ceipts were s2,727S65 this year as
against $2,764,344 last year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
Iowa Dailies the Best.

Marion Register: One reason why
an Iowa daily is better than the dali
lies of the big cities is that they are
edited in the sanctum by the editor
while the B. c. papers have live
wire connecting the counting room
with the desk at which the hired man
does his stunt as copy maker.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19

In accounting for the election result
this year the Charleston News and
Courier declares that "the Democrats
lost last weeks election at Chicago In
1896" That was the year the Demo
cratic party surrendered to BRYAN at.
ter hearing his Grown of thorns and
cross of gold" speech.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19

Missouri should go Republican again
in 1912, who can say that tne generous
fates would not lead another Burbank
to develop her famous paw-paw and
thus free us from the exactions of the
banana trust? It's worth Missouri's
while to ponder this.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
A Large Opportunity.

New York Sun: The effects o,
well meaning men to induce MIR. Bry.
an to become a revivalist continue.
Whether successful or not, some othel
man must be found to revive the Dem.
ocratic party.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
Old Timers Greeting.

Washington Democrat: A couple OF
old timers met the other day and one
said to the other. "Why you know me
don't you? didn't think you would"
The other replied, Know you. why +
guess do. would know your hide
in tan yard"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
a EOFecaet

ottumwa Courier: Just week or
two more and the do-your-shopping-
early editorials will begin to make
their appearance. And then 1t will
only be step or two until the nagging
fer = F2-e Fc--rtl1 cr T-1- l~~f.,e
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
The Cannon Bandwaoon.

Speaker Cannon is driving along
in a vehicle that glitters with
gold paint and mirrors. It looks
like-yes it must be-a sure
enough bandwagon. There is Repre-
sentative Burton hopping on.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19

Tennessee may properly be put in
the list of doubtful states in the next
presidential campaign. The Bryan
majority there was less than 10000 in
total vote of $4,000
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19

Illinois and Iowa lead In corn pro-
duction, with Nebraska in third place.
The advance of the last named state
In this particular in recent years has
been little short of marvellous.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19

During the year ending June 30 last
seventy-one men We're killed and $50
Injured in coupling cars. There is still
room for Improvement in the matter
of railroad fatalities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
No Comparison.

Chicago Record-Herald: With the
returns practically complete, whole
lot of folks can not see anything in
Friday, the 18th, that can approach
comparison with Tuesday, the 9rd
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
ReckIessness Personjfied.

Washington Democrat: A young
so-calied sport went into a candy
store and said, Il am a regular candy
fiend. Give me nickel's worth OF
sour drops" Wasn't he a reckless
cuss?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19

The Mt. Ayr Record News, in speak
ing of the demise of the Des Moines
Tribune as a Democratic organ of the
Bryan type, says it died of cholera
dnfantum
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
dates" suggests the Dubuque Times

journal.
If the Oskaloosa Herald Is to be be-
lieved it frequently happens that the
man who owns the best kept lawn in
summer has the worst kept sidewalk
in winter.
There are a great many warm per-
sonal friends of Evangelist Billy Sun
day. says the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
who wish he would be more choice in
the use of language. They do not be-
lieve 1t is necessary to use some of
the language attributed to him in Or
der to reach men and fit them for the
kingdom of heaven
Mr.. Jameson of the Eighth district
will sell his newspaper as a prelim-
mary to going to congress. The
Davenport Times predicts that in two
years he will wish he owned it again.
Look out for bogus five-dollar
bills is the slogan just now of the
United States secret service. "Whila
you are doing it you might as well
keep your eyes peeled for the good
ones, too" suggests the Burlingto ton
Gazette.
G. F. Rinehart, editor of the Des
Moines Tribune, has prepared lee
ture entitled 1.-THE Price of Liber
ty," which he will begin delivering
after Dec. / when the Tribune passes
into other hands. Mr.. Rinehart is
brilliant man and we'll worth hear
ing.
| Tsze Hsi An, the late empress of
China, was the child of poor people
who lived in Pekin. She was sold as
a slave to great general, and so
beautiful was she that he adopted her.
He offered her present to Emperor
Hsien Feng, who was SO charmed
by her looks that he made her his
secondary wife, and the birth of son
I raised her to first rank Since his
death she has ruled over $4,000 Off
Gals and close to 2T0ooo,o00 people
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19
What He sano.

He picked up rose on the ball room
floor
Did the waggish country drummer,
And, kissing 1t, sighed and softly
sang,
'Tis the last rose of some her!'
-Young's Magazine
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19

The eternal fitness of things is
again illustrated in the sending of
Morse, the New York "ice king" to
the cooler.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-19

misunderstanding lecturer in Chi
cago declares that the snakes men
see when they have delirium tremens
are real. That is what they all say