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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20
The Dash for Liberty.

Their and further from civilization the
guards, sullen and relentless as they
were, became less careful in their SUI
pervision and less strict. Doubtless
they thought that escape was impossi-
ble-and indeed the majority of the
prisoners, respondent and in despair,
bad no heart to make an attempt.
But while most of the others were
resigned to their fate, M. Gehri was
keenly alive to everything that was
taking place. He saw that the laxity
of the guards made an attempt to es-
cape possible and he resolved to watch
for and to seize the first favorable OPP
portunity Success meant life and lib
erty, instead of living tomb; failure
would not make his position much
worse. And IL he happened to be
killed while making the attempt
well, his troubles would be over.
The opportunity came on septem-
Der II, when they were about half way
between Krasnoyarsk and their desti-
nation, the penal settlement, and M.
Gehri and two others, to whom he had
confided his intention, seized 1t with
both hands. While the guards were
drinking the three men crept out into
the darkness, determined to make 9
bold dash for liberty, although they
had very little. If any, idea of the di
rection they should take. And in order
to make pursuit difficult they separat
ed almost at once.
After many adventures, M. Gehr
reached vladiyostok, and finall!
Japan, whence he telegraphed TO
money to pay his passage home t.
Switzerland. He set sail on Novem
Der 16, on board the Messageries Mari
times liner Tonkin, and arrived hom
a few days ago safe and sound, an
not much upset by the terrible expert
ences he had had. His return wa
quite unexpected and when he reache
home his parents We're wonderin
when, If ever, they would see hir
again.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20

has ever known. He Is metallurgy's
genius, combining into one personality
as he does the last of the old type
of practical miner, the first of the new
miner of science and the genius OF
the adventurous gold hunter. The
story of his life is the history of the
exploitation and operation of the rich
est mines on earth, and one by no
means barren of high romance.
Mr. Hammond was born in San
Francisco in 1855, when the California
gold quest was near its zenith, and
it may be said of him that the atmos
phere he breathed bore the fever OF
gold-love. In his youth Hammond al
ready was the wonder of the old
miners because of his knack in find
ing gold and his apparently innate
knowledge of gold bearing ores.
The great wealth of the late Cecil
Rhodes is due to the famous Ameri.
can engineer more than to any other
single man. When the South African
Exploitation company was organized
Hammond was called at a salary then
utterly unheard of. 1t was he who
found the Rand gold. The history OF
| the Transvaal and Rhodesia Is the
history of John Hays Hammond's
work for Barney Barnato and Cecil
! Rhodes.
| Hammond was accounted one Of the
leaders in the unfortunate jameson
| raid and the uprising against the
Beers in johannesburg, which result.
ed in the capture of Hammond and
| three others of the conspirators
While he was waiting trial for his life
the engineer was paroled on his
honor, to go to Cape Town for his
health. Against the pleadings OF his
wife and friends he went back to his
prison when the time was up, stood
trial. was condemned to death. but
finally escaped by the payment of 9
fine, a concession gained for hin
largely through the American state
department.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20
SENT To SIBERIA;
MAKES HIS ESCAPE
SWISS PROFESSOR, SENTENCED
FOR LIFE, MAKES BOLD
DASH FOR LIBERTY.
UNDERGOES MANY PRIVATIONS
Arrested by Russian Officials as a
Revolutonst-TeIis Story of How
He Preferred Death to a
Living Tomb.

Geneva.-An exciting and remarka-
BILE story of escape from Siberia is re-
lated by M. Maurice Gehri, Swiss
professor who Unexpectedly returned
to the home of his parents at Morges,
In the canton of Vana, a few days ago,
after a series of thrilling experiences.
M. Gehri was born at Morges on
April Il, 1885, and after a brilliant
school and university career he de-
cided to become schoolmaster and
accepted a post as professor of French
at the Gymnase de Gitomir, in the
government of Volhynia. He took up
his duties in the spring of 1905, and
began to study the political problems
of Russia with enthusiasm. The SYM
pathy he felt with those who were
trying their utmost to bring about re-
forms of the laws and to alleviate the
conditions under which the vast ma
jority of the people lived soon at
tracted the attention of the authorities
to the young Swiss master. He was
in sympathy with the efforts of the re-
formers, and as the son of free
country, in which it is no crime to
speak openly, he did not hesitate to
express his opinions. His clearly de-
fined views reused the suspicious OF
the police. He was closely watched
and on August %, 1906 Gold style), he
was arrested as revolutionist.
Political offenders in Russia have
little chance of obtaining a hearing
much less of obtaining justice-and or
April 4, 1907, after trial which was
a mere mockery, he was sentenced tx
transportation for life. On August
he set out for Siberia with band O
other prisoners. The prisoners were
carried by train as far as Krasnoy
arsk, in the basin of the Yenisee
where they detrained in order to com
plete the journey by road on foot
Day after day they tramped on, wear,
and footsore, but as they advanced fuI
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20
Their once more
Gave taste to the byes av his lagends
an lore.

Their once more
Gave a taste to the byes av his lagends
an lore.
Patrick banished the snakes and the
sinners, you know,
To a place where hope there VIII
none of us go.
That's the lagend accepted, but have
1t right
A tale that bates that out O. mind, out
O. sight.
At Tara he preached to the king and
the chiefs
His Decalougues, Catalogues, Psalms
and beliefs.
Once the king says to Patrick, 1.-THE
Druids all say
that you're settin' the minds of me
Firbolgs astray.
How can one be in three. and be one
all the timer
Come, laddy-buck, answer in prose or
in rhyme"
THAT'S aisy," says Patrick. this dear
little plant,
praise God! twill be famous the
oceans beyanD-
Has stalk all In one, but divides into
three:
Yet the shamrock is one. three In one,
don't you see?'
"Bedad!" says the king, that bangs
Banagher sure.
Now, byes Ito the Druids), ye now
have the fiure."
| But the sorra a word could those
clargymin find
So from then his respect for the
Druids declined.
Now, Patrick, me byes, you need
scarcely be tould,
Was funny an tricky, though holy an.
bould.
So now of the Druids he'd got the
whip hand
Bethought him of blessings he'd show
er on the land.
To the king then says he, For the
favors you've shown,
I'll put e'er a back and new legs to
your throne.
(Not manin' the Taste disrespect, but
you see
The preachers don't speak such plain
Irish as wei.
In youth a spalpeen taught me herdin'
OF swine
Your majesty's pardon, the fault was
not mine.
Let me here introduce the boneen an
I'll go bail,
Over the evils of Erin the pig will pre-
vail
| Now the Druids held sarpints as sa
cred, you see;
In England they larned that. betun'
you an me.
| They would cast up Ia line sometimes
nearly mile
/ The sods all as one as sarpint's pro
file.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20

Twas the days of the hedge-school;
Mullarky was then
At the side of the ditch the most
dreaded of men.
Sure the flight of the bird, or the
speed of the hare
TO watch for moment there's no one
would dare.
An when circles and squares on the
dirt he would trace,
Twas amazin' the larnin' that showed
in his face.
While the thoughts that revolved in
his towsy ould head
We're deep and tremendous, himself
often said.
Religion, of coorse, was thame he
well knew,
Not your new-fangled notions, but stuff
that was true.
Wild that he taught love for the sacred
ould sod,
Thus helpin' his kind, an so plasin' his
God.
Now the seventeenth of March, reck-
oned then by old style,
The jewel Of days in the darling ould
isle,
Was approachin' an SO the good mas
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20
How Cathedral viii Look When Com.
pleted.

600, and the advocates of a more ex.
uensive building urged that building
operations were more expensive now
than ever.
The expensive brownstone walls of
the old church, which stood intact,
have been discarded because the ma
terial has developed poor resistance
10 New York's flexible climate.
This new church will be French
Gothic In architecture, rather palmer
Tor such style than is usual, and the
material will be stone. The Cathedral
of Bourges will be followed, and also
that of Amiens and Westminster abb
hey. There will be tower with four
spires and smaller spires elsewhere.
A special feature will be spacious
entrance In the avenue front, en-
tiched with statues.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20
MAD RUN AFTER WILD
TRAIN ON MAINE ROAD
STRING OF FREIGHT CARS Is
CAUGHT BY ENGINE AFTER
LONG DoWN-GRADE RACE.

Portland, Me.-Word comes from
Copperville, near Percy, N. H., of the
narrow escape from collision be-
tween a runaway string of loaded
freight cars moving at terrific speed
and the Portland-Montreal express,
which left here at seven p. m. with
200 passengers aboard.
After missing the passenger train
by less than half minute the freight
cars, running down grade for 1S miles,
most of the way at an S5-mile-an-hour
clip, were caught by a locomotive
after one of the most hazardous
chases ever recorded.
At II o'clock, just as the last car
of the Night Flyer on the Grand
Trunk, bound for Montreal, had
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20
Oldest Ex-Governor Dead.

Frederick Holbrook, governor OF
Vermont during the civil war, recent
" celebrated his ninety-fifth birthday
He is the Oldest living ex-governor
and one of the three surviving war
governors. In spite of his advanced
age he still retains an active interest
In public affairs.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20

When this had been done. sorra one
burst complain
Though the land were his own and his
fathers domain.
1t was sacred, and then for the sake
of his sowl,
He must part wild it, barrin sigh or
growl.
Then the snakes represented were
holy likewise
An bit at their will all the colleens
an byes.
Well, the pigs went to rootin', bedad
1t was fun
To watch the ould Druids when their
ruin begun.
Wild faces of fury and hearts full OF
hate
They would curse the dear pigs, I'm
ashamed to relate.
They invoked all the planets and far
as they knew,
| The fixed stars and comets, the sun
and moon, too.
Next the wraiths that inhabit the
winds and the floods,
Then they danced holy jigs In the
scantiest of buds.
But the pigs took no notice, but ate all
the more,
And the Druids saw Fate was now
hard by the door.
Then they prayed to the giants that
-avaged the isle
When ten foot of spine was the height
of the style.
There was one who from Mona oft
waded to Wales,
And one who In coughin' produced the
wild gales.
Another in sport tried to bridge the
broad say,
the Causeway In Ulster bears witness
to-day.
Then the one who at Powerscourt
drank up the fall
An the one who complained Devils
Bowl" was too small.
The priests cursed the pigs loud ant
long, but no matter,
On the snakes and their eggs they
grew fatter and fatter.
Oh, those were great times when the
factions forgot
What side they were of, and what side
they we're not.
The thousand would follow all jeerin
the while
The Druids who could them no Longer
beguile.
When rivers they'd reach as the Banl
or the Boyne,
Baptized, they the ranks Of believer
would join.
It was Patrick alanna, me turn at y
, plaise
Viii guyin' an Gospel the land wa
ablaze.
, Such dippin' an plungin'. baptizin
confessin',
/ Such prayin' an preaehin', such prin
pin an dressin'!
) It was good for their souls and thei
bodies by token
I The record for bathing his saintshi
had broken,
And thousands who'd never been lat
i cred or rubbed,
Had their skins an their sowls no
. most thoroughly scrubbed.
For the saint told them plainly for e't
they we're shriyen,
a That nothing onclanely was welki
In heaven.
q So the pigs ate the snakes and roote
up eggs
e From the round hill of Howth dow
to Bally-kil-begs,
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20
GIVES UP PRlNcELY SALARY.
John n. Hammond, Mining Engineer,
Retlres on Account of III Health.

New York.-John Hays Hammond,
the mining engineer, has severed MS
connection with the Guggenheim Tx
ploration company, by which ne was
employed at salary said to be $2oO,-
900 d year. Mr. Hammond, it is said,
will be succeeded by A. Chester Beat
ty, who was his first assistant, and
has done most of the work of the posi-
ton since Mr.. Hammond went west
for his health several months ago.
John Hays Hammond has been
more than once referred to as the
greatest mining engineer the world
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20
VIII Develop Coal Lands.

About 5000 acres of coal lands in
Monterey county. California, about zoo
miles from San Francisco, are about
to be developed in an extensive man
ner. Most of the coal of this section
is Ignite in character, but this tract
is said to contain a vein of se<ni-bi
luminous fuel.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20
CATHEDRAL TO COST 100000.
New Episcopal Church VIII Follow
French Gothic in Architecture.

New York.-New York's new st.
Thomas Episcopal church at Fifth
avenue and Fifty-third street will
cost 81 100000. There has been diff
ference of opinion In the congrega-
ton over the cost of the proposed edi-
Ace, one faction holding to the belief
that 100000 ought to build house
OF worship sufficient to all demands.
But it was found that the church de-
stroyed by fire in 1905 had cost $780,
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20

From the Gap of Dunloe to the Glen o
the Downs.
And Slieb-na-mon grandly Killarney's
lake crowns.
There was vootin' an preachin' an
laughter an prayer,
No wonder for Satan to leave must
prepare.
For barrin' the Saxon ard whisky I'll
say
Saint Patrick has rid US Of evil to-day.
So now you all know how the snakes
met their doom,
And the class will It's studies in Gaelic
resume.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-03-20
Real Fortitude.

Ineyer knew any man in my life who
would not bear another's misfortunes
perfectly like a Observation-Disclosures
Pope.
The Dolores star., 1908-08-21

THAT the people Of Dolores like
our national game was proven by
the crowd that was present last
Friday afternoon to witness the
game between the Bloomer girls
and the Dolores boys and we doubt
If there was one in the entire audi
ence who did not feel that the
entertainment furnished was worth
all and more too than it cost to see
1t. The players on both sides were
jolley and goodnatured throughout
the entire game; the taunts thrown
from the grandstand were met with
a smile and at no time was the
t1mpire's life in danger. There was
however, one very disagteeable
feature which interfered with the
players and made every Dolores
citizen present ashamed and that
was the condition of the grounds on
which the game had to be played.
For town the size of Dolores not
to have ball gtourd is certainly
a disgrace that should make any
citizen with spark of public enter
prise in their breast ashamed.
Matters like this are usually over
looked until a time like last Friday
then we see how much they are
needed. And now. before we for.
get about it, would be good time
to take some attiofi ih the matter.
One of our ball players secured
permission from the Town company
last spring, to use the lots between
Seventh and Eighth streets and
Central avenue and the railroad for
q ball ground and by taking in
some railroad land and Eigh
Street, which is Travelled very little,
q very fair gfound could be made
but it will take some leveling to
put it in shape. 1t will probably
cost $50 or $40 to do this work.
Now it happens that there Is no
play ground in connection with the
Dolores school house and the only
place the boys nave to play ball is
on the street, and objections are
made to this because teams are
sometimes frightened. Wouldn't
it be a good time fight now for the
business men who are interested in
the advancement Of the town, the
ball boys. the school board and the
town trustees to get together and
falk fhic s,1ottor cunr
The Dolores star., 1908-08-21
Program. .

The following program will be rem :
dered at the Old Settlers reunion to
be held I'm this place August 18th:
10 n. m.-Music by the Mancos band
at band stand.
IO:l5-Parade to Park.
1O:3O-Song and Music by Band.
-Oration by Speaker of the Day.
Song.
"Eariy History Of the County" by
Mrs. A. w. Dillon.
Short Speaches by John White and
A. s. Sampson of Mancos.
Music by Band.
Remarks by A. w. Dillon and F. M.
Goodycoontz of Montezuma Val
ley.
Song.
Remarks by Jas. t.. Trimble and Jno.
NJ. Brumley Of Dolores.
Music by Band.
Song.
Barbecue.
Social time In the afternoon.
6 p. m.-Iunch at Park.
Evening-Dance and Supper.
All old timers and families are cor
daily invited to attend. There will
be plenty of bread, meat, coffee and
pickles. Old timers or Dolores and
Montezuma valley are requested to
bring baskets filled with good things
to eat.
The Dolores star., 1908-08-21
Cortes Items.

Bozman & Blatchford displayed q
load Of fine apples ut their office Mon
day. This fruit was grown In thelr
McElmo canon orchard.
C.J. Ciosson left Tuesday for Den
yer.
The basement for the Montezuma
National Bank building is being exca-
vated and every thing put IN readiness
to erect fine bank building.
Heavy rains have rusted the grain
badly, and affected the auto traffic.
A party was given at the Mowfy
residence Saturday evening in honor
of Messrs. Frysinger and Pixtler Of
Ohio. A good time is reported.
The people Of Cortez have changed
their cry to W.. H. Blake. 1t was
"give us water"; II now is, "too much
water" Those who were kicking for
water are now kicking the other way.
w. X. Elder is putting up fine
barn and expects to follow 1t with d
new house.
Il. n. Lambs two-story store build
ing Is nearly completed. 1t Will be
fine business building.
The following persons from this
place are fishing at Bear creek this
week: j. F. Mowry and wife, W. +.
Mowry and wife, Miss Mable Mowry
and daughter, Ethel, Messrs. Frysinger
and Pixtler, and the boys, Eliza, Albert
and Earl Mowry.
Lee Dawson has started working for
editor Hall on the Herald.
X. Il. Smith went. to Mancos Mon.
day on business trip and returned
Tuesday.
Mrs. A. B. Mead weet to Paonia on a
visit Friday.
The Miller, ressidence /. completed
and 1t is very nice building.
The Dolores star., 1908-08-21
TRACTOR

Notice is horeby given that the Boatd of
County Commissioners will, on ths ffrst dhy Of
afternoon Of shid day meet at their office In
the Court House, at Cortez, Colorado, for the
purpose Of settlement and making payment CT
certain contract between the Board OF County
Commissioners, b. Bennett and W. H, Derby
Dolores River in said County. at the Bridge
site in the E of Section 6, township u r
- w PM. whence ths proposed public
highway beginning at the East end of tho May
Bridge and crosses said river and that
claimants to whom spms are. owing for
tract may file with the County Clerk. .their
claims therefor, as provided by an. act ,of the
General Assembly Of the State Of Colorado,
approved April 10th, 1889, -.4.4,
By order of the Board of County Comm iss ners,
H. n. SPrague, County Clork, Montesuma
County, Colorado.
The Dolores star., 1908-08-21
MAscos and cortex each have /.

MANcos and Cortez each have a
business mems club, and these
clubs are doing things. For ex-
ample-We attended the annual
meeting Of the Montezuma county
fair association at Cortez last week
were where officers and directors
for the ensuing year were elected.
and no sooner was the election over
than a representative ofthe business
mems club informed the newly
elected officers that a committee Of
three had been appointed at a pre-
vious meeting of the club to assist
the officers and directors in the
matter of making the Montezuma
county fair grand success this
fall. An organization of this kind
Is in position to make its influence
felt at any time. If the business
men of Dolores would organize
they would get better acquainted
with each other and might we not
be surprised to learn how much
public enterprise the other fellow
has. Why not try it!
The Dolores star., 1908-08-21

1t makes little difference what the
ambitions of place are along manu-
featuring or commercial lines, it will
never make model home town II its
schools are not the very best.
The concerns and interests that
center IN the home, the circumstances
and influences that constitute desira-
Bile environment for the home~-thcse
are the elements that should be most
assidhously cared for by those who
have the future growth Of the town at
heart.
Certainly, adequate and varied pro-
vision for education is a price requisite
from the point Of view of the home
The home means children; and ctiildfer
The Dolores star., 1908-08-21

demand schools. And a town which
claims to offer unique advantages to
home-lovers must possess not average
but superlative school facilities What
ever else is stinted, the schools must
be well cared for. The highest devel-
opment OF the schools of the town in
the years ahead is largely conditioned
by the teachers, directors and patrons
doing their whole duty by the schools
today.
Dolores has fine four-room school
building but only three rooms are
occupied for school purposes at present.
1t will, however, be necessary in the
near future to occupy the entire build
ing. The building is well furnished
and has a library of more than 200
volumes.
District No. 4, In which Dolores is
located, has two school houses outside
bf Dolores and Is at present erecting a
third. This Is a prosperous district,
free Of debt and has money to It's credit
IN the treasury.
Tile following corps Of teachers have
been elected for the Dolores schools for
the ensuing term which begins Septem-
Der 1st: G. A. Van Buren,, principal;
Miss Xarina Atherly of Fort Collins,
Intermediate; Mrs. Flora j. Denney,
primary.
All the grades DIP to and iiicluding
the ninth will be taught.
The Dolores star., 1908-08-21
Notice.

A Republican County Convention is
called to meet in Cortez, Montezuma
County, Colorado, on Saturday the
29th, Of August, 1908 at the hour of II
o'clock a. IN. for the purpose of electing
|6 delegates to attend the. State Repuh-
lican Convention at Denver, Colo, on
the 12thy day of September, 1908, and
10 delegates to attend the Judicial, Con-
vention at Durango, Colorado, ON Sep
tember 2lst, 1908, and 9 delegates to
attend the Senatorial Convention and
|6 delegates to attend the Representa-
tive Convention. -
Also to nominate one candidate for
County Judge. one candidate for Coun-
| ty Sheriff, one candidate for County
Treasurer, one candidate for County
Clerk and Recorder, one candidate for
County Superintendent of Schools, one
candidate for County Surveyor, two
candidates for County Commissioners,
one candidate for County. Coroner, one
County Central Committee, one Chair
man Of. the. county central committee
land Justices Of the Peace and Consta-
bles for. the various precincts OF the
county and to transact such other bush
ness as may properly come before said
tconvention., y, 40.
The different precinct committeeman
are requested to hold primaries in sthelf
respective precincts on i Thursday
August q, 1908, between the hours oa
2 and s o'clock p. m. The number oi
delegates from each. precinct being ap.
portioned rs followe: ~