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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27
DEFENDER OF PORT ARTHUR SEN.
TENcED TO DEATH BY
CoURT-MARTiAL.
WITH PLEA FOR MERCY
FOUGHT WITH COURAGE, BUT
SURRENDERED BEFORE 1T
WAS NECESSARY.

st. Petersburg. - General Stoessel
was condemned to death Thursday by
military court for the surrender OF
Port Arthur to the Japanese.
General F'ock, who commanded the
Fourth East Siberian division OF Port
Arthur, was ordered reprimanded for
disciplinary offense which was not
connected with the surrender. and
General Smyrnoff. acting commander
of the fortress, and Major General
Reiss, chief of staff to General Stoessel.
were acquitted of the charges against
them for lack of proof.
The court recommended that the
death sentence upon Lieutenant Gen
eral Stoessel be commuted to ten years
Imprisonment in fortress. and that he
be excluded from the service.
General Voder, president OF the
court, read the Sentences amid tense
silence. BY a great effort Of self-con-
troll, General Stoessel maintained rigid,
soldier-like impassivit". General Smyr-
non was seemingly unmoved, but there
were tears in the eyes OF General Relss-
The sentence of death was pro-
nounced upon General Stoessel. ior
surrendering the fortress before all
means of defense had been exhausted;
for falling to enforce his authority. and
for military misdemeanors."
Communication of the sentence was
asked on the ground that Port Arthur.
beset by overwhelming forces. de-
Tended itself under General Stoesseis
leadership with unexampled stubborn
ness and filled the world with aston
ishment at the heroic courage OF IT'S
garrisons: that several assaults had
been repulsed with tremendous losses
on the persistent enemy. that General
Stoessel throughout the siege had
maintained the heroic courage OF the
defenders. and finally. that he had
taken energetic part in these cam
paigns."
Before the sentence was read meas
ures were taken to prevent demon
stration in favor OF General Stoessel
by number OF the younger officers ana
witnesses who We're present. These
latter sent dispatch to the empress
saying that they would humbly bear
testimony that General Stoessel was
the soul cf the defense of Port Arthur
that he had always encouraged and put
heart into the garrison. and that In
case of war they would wish to serve
again under General Stoessel. They
asked the empress graciously to be-
speak from the emperor n full pardon
There was n dramatic moment after
the reading of the sentence. when
detachment of soldiers filed into the
hall. The spectators, thinking that
they were about To seize General Stoes-
sci. displayed great excitement. several
women fainting. 1t developed. hove
ever. that this was merely guard Tor
the dispersal of the court.
General Stoessel. who was accompa-
.t..l Z. .kr th.. ,.l,t loot nf "a
sympathetic demonstration. friends
kissing and shaking him by the hand
as he left the court room leaning on
his sons shoulder.
public festival is being organized
by the municipality OF St Petersburg
in honor of the defenders OF the fort
res5.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27

In the annual report made by the
superintendent of prisons of New
York is the suggestion that some per.
centage of the money earned by Grim
inals be used by the state to support
the families of these criminals wfo
may. by the Imprisonment OF their
heads. be rendered destitute. Such n
suggestion is good and practical. The
punishment of the bread-winner is apt
to bring want upon the family. but IL
systematized distribution OF tho
money is made in this manner one of
the problems met with in dealing with
the criminal classes will be effectively
solved.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27

A bill has been introduced in the
house of representatives providing for
n 25 per cent. rake-off for Uncle Sam
upon every foreign title purchased by
an American heiress. AS the United
States is interested in protecting its
home industries 1t should have the
same care for its women. and too
extravagant importation of impecuni-
GUS titled foreigners might be pro-
vided against with a clause in the
tariff bill placing tax upon foreign
junk of all sorts.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27
PASSENGERS IN PERIL.
Colorado Midland Train Narrowly Es-
capes Fearful Disaster.

Denver.-One of the most remark
able and narrow escapes from rail-
road catastrophe ever recorded in this
state, which probably would have
eclipscd in horror any in the history
of Colorado railroad wrecks, had 1t
happened, occurred at 3 o'clock in the
evening of February 18th, on the west
bound Colorado Midland road as train
No. 5 was rounding the famous Hell
Gate between Busk and Ivanhoe.
Only the presence of mind of 5. B.
Hopkins, a Rock Island tourist man
ager, who was on board, prevented the
train from leaping the track at He'll
Gate and falling into the canon below
with its nine coaches of passengers.
w. r. Armor, a former Denver man,
now of Salt Lake, who was on board,
tells the story. The engineer stepped
out of his cab for moment on the run
ming board of the engine to examine
something. The cab door blew shut
behind him, and the fireman, who had
not seen him go out, thought he had
lost control of the engine and jumped
to save his life. He became frightened
and leaped from the cab himself. The
engine was running down a heavy
grade and in few moments had
gained n frightful speed.
Mr.. Hopkins was in one of the Pull
mans and, noticing the unusual speed
realized that something was wrong. He
seized the emergency brake and pulled
hard. bringing the train 10 sudden
stop just as 1t was rounding into Hell
Gate. where the chasm is a 1000 feet
down.
The engineer was found upon the
engine. but the fireman was missing.
The passengers instituted search for
him and after an hours hunting he
was found far back along the track
with both legs broken and otherwise
so injured that he was still uncon-
scious when removed from the train
to hospital in Glenwood Springs.
The passengers were SO gratefu'
that they sent a letter to the Rock
Island headquarters at Chicago. com
mending the action OF Mr.. Hopkins.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27
No State Inspection.

Denver.-State Dairy Commissioner
Bishopp desires to correct an impress
sion thot appears to be general among
writer's for the rural press that there
is state law providing for the testing
of dairy herds suspected of being
tubercular. Lately a number OF the
country papers have been printing edi-
torials suggesting that the law ought
to be repealed. AS matter of fact
there is no such law among the Colo
RADIO statutes, although several muni-
cipal councils have enacted ordinances
providing for such tests in the case OF
herds supplying milk for those par
ticular communities.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27
Living Relatives. Of Washington.


Many kindred OF George Washing
ton dwell on and about the original
Washington plantation in Westmore-
land county, Virginia John Washing
ton OF Brighton parish, Northampton
shire. England. came to Virginia In
mac river between Bridge creek and
Pope's creek. in what was then North
umberland county. but which long.
long ago became Westmoreland coun-
~. He bought the farm from Col.
Pope. a great landholder in the early
colonial era, and whose daughter,
Anne Pope, became the wife Of the
immigrant John Washington. These
were the great grandparents Of George
Washington the Great John Wash
ington, through his marriage to Anne
Pope. obtained lands outside of the
farm purchased by him. The original
farm is owned by John Z. Wilson. who
married Miss Betty Washington.
Washington. a nephew OF George
Washington. Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson are
advanced in years. A score or more
of Washingtons live on their ancestral
lands within rifle shot of the spot
where George Washington was born.
Some OF these people, writes Guy E.
Mitchell in Technical World Magazine,
are prosperous farmers and profes-
sional men; others are not prosperous.
They are all plain and simple folk
who have the good will and respect OF
their neighbors. A peculiar thing
about this family is that all its mem
bers have the distinctive Washington
features
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27
Miscellaneous.

The council of administration of the
New York State Bankers association
passed n resolution 'unequivocally dis
approving" the provisions OF the AL
drich bill.
The jury in The Smell will case at
Clinton, ILL.,. after being out i6 hours
failed to arrive at a verdict and was
discharged.
Seventy-one of the ia counties OF
Missouri have voted in local option
elections to Danish the saloon.
A negro attorney of Muskogee. Ok,
has filed suit in the United States
court to test the constitutionality of
the Jim Crow" law.
Army officers on duty at Washington
are excused from duty two afternoons
each week so they may acquire the
art of horseback riding.
One man was killed and two others
seriously injured by a runaway street
car in Omaha. Neb., recently.
The Indictment charging the pad
ding OF payrolls against the superin-
tendent of the st. Joseph. Mo. light
plant has been dismissed for lack of
evidence.
The battleship fleet under Admiral
Evans passed through the harbor of
Valparaiso. Chile. recently. each YES
sci saluting the Chilean president as
it passed in review.
A report prepared by Admiral Con-
verse to satisfy the president as to
the exact facts concerning the eff
cheney of United States battleships
g. f,.f -
those of foreign countries.
The Wisconsin democrats have
chosen three delegates to the Denver
convention. They are instructed to
vote as a unit for William j. Bryan,
first, last and all the time.
Charles Walkenwitz. a joint keeper
at Leavenworth, Kan. was recently
place of business.
A mortgage for s50,Vv0,O0O was filed
at Wichita, Kan, against the property
of the Colorado Pacific Railroad COM
pany.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad has
put into effect the "nine-hour law" lin
iting the hours of service of all classes
of train operatives to nine hours in
each "a.
The Kentucky Legislature has spent
one month in a fruitless effort to elect
a United States senator
Oklahoma's Jim Crow" law requir-
ing separate coaches and waiting
rooms for negroes is now in effect on
street cars and railroads.
The "suffragettes" of New York
paraded the streets and joined the
socialists in mass meeting where
speeches we're made for five hours.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27
Hartman Defeats Fish.

Chicago.-Judge Ball of the Superior
Court Thursday dissolved the injunc-
ton secured last October by Stuyves-
ant Fish, by virtue of which the Harri-
man interests were restrained from
voting 1921 shares of the capital
stock of the Illinois Central railroad at
the annual meeting of the company.
The theory an which counsel for Mr..
Fish based their arguments in support
of the injunction--that it was contrary
to the laws and public policies of the
state of Illinois to allow foreign cor
porations to own and vote the stock of
domestic corporations-was denied by
the court.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27
PaImer's Ninth Park Gift.

Colorado Springs.-A five-acre site
for a city park on East Boulder creek.
close to the center of the residence
district of Colorado Springs, has been
rendered by Gen. w. j. Palmer to the
City Council. Adjoining the park site.
which was originally intended for
reservoir, is the site for the new Dea-
coness' hospital to be erected this sum-
the hospital, which comprises four
acres, was also donated by Gen. Pal
mer about year ago. Each site is
valued at about $4,000, and the dona
ton of the Boulder street site makes
the ninth park given to Colorado
Springs by General Palmer.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered From all
Parts of the World Condensed
into Small Space for tho BEN
eft Of Our Readers.
Conversational.

The nomination of Col. w. w.
Weatherspoon as brigadier general has
been confirmed by the senate.
The senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Arthur G. Fisk to be post
master at San Francisco.
William Sells, son of one Of the
brothers who organized the Sells
Brothers circus, died of gastritis in
New York.
The president has sent to the sem
ate the name of Charles p. Granfield
TO be first assistant postmaster general.
The legislative, executive and judi
cial appropriation bill as it passed the
house called for $32, ,336.573.
The army appropriation bill as re-
ported to the house by the military
committee provides for 81 per cent in
crease in the pay enlisted men and
non-commissioned officers.
Representative Charles Scott, of
Kansas, has n novel plan to give prac-
tical instruction to the farmers of the
country. His idea is to establish small
experimental farms in each county on
which the farmers will do the work
under the supervision of the govern
ment's agricultural experts.
The house committee on military af-
fairs has decided to recommend 27
per cent increase in the pay of en-
listed men in the army and marine
corps.
Senator Long has introduced a bill
to appropriate 100000 to buy the strip
OF land outside the soldiers home
near Leavenworth. Kan. known as the
'Klondike." This land is now devoted
to disreputable buildings.
The president has sent to the senate
a recommendation that the govern
ment be given control of the wireless
telegraph in order to insure non-inter-
ference with official dispatches.
A new employers liability bill. in
tended to meet the requirements OF
the recent decision OF United States
supreme court has been introduced In
both the house and senate.
Senator Owens bill to establish
government school in Oklahoma for
the teaching of Indian arts and crafts
has been reported adversely to tho
senate.
Representative Champ Clark OF Mis-
souri,. entertained the house for an
hour and half recently with a char
acteristic talk on the president and
his recent message to congress.
A complete agreement has been
reached by the conferees on the urgent
deficiency bill.
Senator Raynor OF Maryland. re-
Gently made a strong speech In the
senate in opposition to the Aldrich
financial bill.
The house has passed the Indian ap-
preparation bill practically in the form
1t came from the committee. The
measure carries an appropriation Of
$4,000. 900.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27
War Talk is Nonsense.

New York.-Whitelaw Reid. ambas-
sador of the United States to Great
Britain. in speech at the dinner of
the Pilgrims of the United States at
Delmonicos. declared that talk of the
obligation of Great Britain to sustain
Japan in war against the United States
was nonsense. The ambassador said
that there was not the ghost of a pos
sibility of war with Japan" and that
there was every reason to think the
Japanese sincerely our friends" Our
relations with Great Britain, the am
bassador said, were cordial and there
We're no serious complications.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27

Half a dozen business men of Brat
tleboro. VT. have acquired tracts of
cheap pasture land in that vicinity
and are setting out pine tree seedlings
by the thousand. They are not asking
what posterity has done for them. but
are preparing the way for a crop OF
pine timber 50 or 20 years hence
which will prove a handsome legacy
for children or grandchildren. The
little trees are from six to ten inches
high when set out, and about 200 are
planted to the acre.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27

It is well not to make faces at or
sighting remarks about persons who
look the part of foreigners. They may
be subjects of governments that are
touchy. Calling one of the least OF
these harsh name or biting him
lightly on the ear may bring on inter
national complications. Some of the
governments that pay no attention to
their subjects when at home unless
they organize bread riots or ask in
low. polite voices for universal suf-
frage. get mighty touchy when the
subject has left them for country
that he thinks he will like better.
Then his liberty and pursuit OF happi-
ness cause much tender solicitude.
They may step on him Mt home, but
over here they want his rights pro-
tected in three languages. Tears well
up in the eyes of gentlemen whose
breasts look like pawnshop windows
by reason OF their display of medals.
while secretly they wish we were SO
small that they could lick us. How
ever. there may be more method in
their solicitude than would appear to
n person up tree. II their wandering
boy doesn't get a good Job how can he
continue to send money to the old
folks and thus help to keep down the
poor rates?
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27

A Japanese military authority was
recently taken through the arsenal at
Springfield by order of the war de-
partment. At any rate the govern
ment of the United States Is not
sahamed Of its military resourcea.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27

A writer who claims to know all
about 1t says the waters of the Straits
OF Magellan are thoroughly charted
and much less dangerous than our
great lakes. Is this another attempt
to deprive Fighting Bob" of glory?
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-02-27
ELK MOUNTAIN PILOT

3. c. Robinson, Editor and Prop.
CRESTED BUTTE, COLORADO
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-23
ENGINEER STOPPED
TO VISIT HIS
FAMILY
lRy Associated Press.l

Chicago, Apr. 23.-A dispatch TO
the Tribune from Pekin. Ill. says:
Governor Deneen had hard time
getting over the country from Quin-
cy to Pekin yesterday, while on
speech making trip.
He had taken hog train 20 get
across to Pekin. The train took its
own time in making the trip. a few
miles out of Havana it stopped The
passengers craned their necks to SEQ
what the trouble was. and found that
the engineer was sitting on the ties
talking to his wife who had brought
their children along for visit.
Household matters were discussed
at great length by the engineer and
his wife. The wife was going shop
ping and found that she needed more
money.
The astonished passengers heard
a debate as to whether they had bet
ter paper or whitewash the kitchen
this year.
After the passengers had begun to
complain, the engineer climbed into
his cab and the train proceeded on
it's way.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-23
This HEN WORTH
$1,000 PER POUND
Especial to The Sentinel }

Boonville, Mo-, Apr. 23.-Boon-
Vile has a hen for which its owner
has refused fortune. which has been
three times around the world, costs
$500 a year to maintain and has
a private valet of her own.
Pegs food is cooked especially and
the travelling expenses of this hen are
enormous.
But she has won honors for her
owner, and is worth almost $l,Ooo
q pound.
Peg is given bath every day, her
beak and comb manicured, her legs
scrubbed and she is given exercise
in an open lot with clean straw and
fresh worms. No other chickens are
allowed to associate with her. She
is fed toasted bread and the finest
of ground meats.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-23
HERO OFaWHEAT PIT
SOON TO BE MARRIED
lBv AssocIated Press. }

Washington, Apr. 23.-The Post
today says:
The engagement of Mr.. Joseph
Letter of Washington and Chicago
and Miss Juliette Williams of this
city. daughter of Col. ]. r. Williams,
will be announced today.
The wedding will probably take
place in Washington in few weeks.
In the summer of 1898 on the Chi
cago board of trade Letter was the
hero of perhaps the largest and most
daring deal in wheat that this coun
try has ever known.
Miss Williams is one of the most
beautiful of the seasons debutantes.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-23

Grand Junction today is paying
homage to one hundred or more fair
ladies of western Colorado--women
who lead in the social and club life
of score or more of the towns and
cities of the western portion of the
great Centennial state.
The city is theirs for the time be-
ing.
We are delighted to have them
with us.
1t is to be hoped that their visit
to Grand Junction will be so boun /
about by pleasure that it will be
remembered long after the sessions
of the Western Slope conference of
Woman's Clubs are over ald at an
end.
Proud to Have Them.
Grand Junction extends a most
hearty welcome to these splendid
women of western Colorado. We
are glad to have them as our guests.
We are proud of their presence in
the city. We welcome them as the
representatives of the best home life.
the best social life and the best in
tellectual life of Colorado.
There is only one regrettable feat
ure in connection with the big gath
ering of the ladies', and that Is the
fact that the usual and ideal wealth
of sunshine that is enjoyed in the
valley of the Grand day after day
was marred last night and today by
the presence of clouds and the fall.
ing of showers.
The forty and more ladies who ar
rived in the city last night from
Montrose. Ouray. Gunnison, Delta
and other towns in that section of
the state were cordially welcomed at
the union station by committees from
the Grand Junction Woman's Club
the club that is the host for the 1908
conference. The ladies were all
quickly assigned to homes. Last ev-
ening there were many informal en-
tertainments and social affairs in
honor of the visitors but no general
meetings or entertainments.
Many Came Today.
This afternoon on the Denver &
Rio Grande and the Colorado Mid
land thirty or more ladies came in
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-23
WELCOME TO THE LADIES
GAMBLER LYNCHED
BY The ANGRY
CITIZENS
(By Associated Press.l

Los Angeles. Cal. Apr. 23.-Joe
Simpson, who shot and killed James
Arnold last Sunday, was lynched at
Skidoo, Cal, last night.
Shortly after dark last night a
small band of citizens at the Skidoo
camp, which is 50 miles south of
Rhyolite, New, overpowered the
sheriffs guard in charge of Simp-
son and hanged to a telegraph pole.
Simpson, who was a gambler and
bore an unsavory reputation, killed
Arnold after threatening the life of
Cashier Dobbs of the Southern Cal
fornia Bank.
Arnold was the man who located
the townsite of Skidoo and was for
merly a justice of the peace there,
where he had been instrumental in
prosecuting Simpson on previous oc-
casions.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-23
HOME IS DYNAMITED
BUT FAMILY
ESCAPES
(By Associated Press. }

Oakland, Cal, Apr. 23.-The en-
tire detective department of the city,
assisted by many of the best mem
bers of the San Francisco force, is
busy in Oakland today in trying to
solve the mystery connected with
the blowing up of the home of for
mer Supervisor James l.. Gallagher
last night.
Gallagher is the states most inn
portant witness in the bribery graft
prosecutions.
The house was completely wrecked
and windows for blocks around were
shattered by the explosion.
Gallagher and the members of his
family had narrow escapes from
death, one big splinter piercing Gal
lagher's hat.
A wire and fuse and caps were
found on the premises this morning,
indicating that bomb was used to
blow up the place.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-23
BOAT WAS UPTURNED
THEY HAD TO SWIM
fBy Associated Press. J

Vienna. Apr. 23.=Count Szechen-
vi and the countess (formerly Gladys
VanderbilD had a disagreeable ad-
venture on Easter Sunday. which for
tunately had no serious result.
They were boating on the river
Laborcza when the boat capsized and
they were thrown into the water and
forced to swim a short distance TO
reach the shore.
A friend residing near the scene of
the accident supplied them with dry
clothing. Neither. suffered any i'll
effects from the experience.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-23
SOCIALISTS HAVE
ANOTHER CANDIDATE
Especial to The Sentinel.


Chicago, Apr. 23.-The socialists
are preparing to spring a dark horse
as their candidate for president in
the convention which meets in Chi
cago May 10.
The new candidate is John w.
Brown, formerly of Connecticut, but
now living in Worcester, Mass.
William D. Haywood, whose SEN
sational trial for the murder of ex-
Governor Steunenberg of Idaho
brought him into the lime light. has
not, it is claimed, caught the popular
fancy.
Haywood has been making
speaking tour of the country with
the presidential bee in his bonnet.
but his boom, it is said. has col
lapsed.
Eugene V. Debs, who headed the
socialist ticket a number OF times.
has become "Bryanized, I" according