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The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
WORKING OF
PENSION ACT
HAS INCREASED PENSION LIST
LESS THAN SEVEN
THOUSAND.
IN EFFECT ONE YEAR
NEW APPLICATION is NECESSARY
FOR EACH AGE
INCREASE,

Washington.-When the service pen
sion act was passed last February
there was much speculation as to what
its effect would be In placing upon the
pension rolls the names of soldiers and
sailors who heretofore had never
made application. The officials of the
pension office were of the opinion that
there would be as many as I00,0 900 ap-
plications from members of the so
called unknown army" Few persons
thought the number would be less
than 25,000
The service pension act became eff
fective February 9th last. The first
pension certificates under It were is
sued eight days later. Up to the first
of the present year 2S2,S59 certificates
granting pensions under this act had
been issued. The total number of Ger
tihcates issued under all other laws
last year was 60,S79. Only 6,S61 new
names are on the pension rolls at this
time as a result OF the legislation of
February.
About 100000 applications for pen
sions under the service law-most OF
them being from men now on the rolls
who desire to take advantage of the
higher rating afforded by the legisla-
tion of last February-are pending in
the pension office. Many OF these
cases have been delayed by reason of
the discrepancy as to the age Of the
applicant shown In the application and
the age shown by the records of tho
War Department.
Fifty applications for pensions un-
der tho service law were filed the day
the act went into effect The follow
ing day more than 100 applications
were received, and in the two or three
weeks following 1000 applications
daily were not unusual.
The service pension law provides
for the allowance of a pension of $12
month to soldiers between the age
of sixty-two and seventy years who
served ninety days; pension of SIS
month to soldiers between the age OF
seventy and seventy-five years, and a
pension of $40 to soldiers over seventy
FIVE years
In the last few weeks many sena-
tors and representatives have been
asked by pensioners whether II will
be necessary for them to make new
applications when they reach the pc
riod of life which names them to re-
ceive a higher rating For instance,
a soldier sixty-nine years old, and pen
stoned at s12. would be entitled to a
rating of S15 on his next birthday
The commissioner of pensions holds
that in cases of this kind the pensioner
must file new application. He says II
is impossible for the pension office to
keep birthday book" As all pen
sions under the service law date from
the day of allowance, applicants will
suffer no financial loss by reason OF
this regulation. provided they make
their application the day they reach
an age that entities them to higher
rating.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
Congressman Cooks Protest.

Denver-Congressman George w.
Cook EVIDENTLY has no intention of
letting his protest against the Presi-
dents policy in land fraud cases rest
with his recent letter upon that sub
1ect. In communication to the Den
yer Chamber of Commerce he states
that he has sent copies of his now-fa-
nous epistle to every senator and rep
resentative of Congress, to the Presl-
dent, the vice president, the speaker,
the justice of the Supreme Court. mem
bers of the Cabinet, heads of all gov
ernmental bureaus and to 254 repre-
sentatives in Washington of papers
throughout the entire country. To this
he adds:
by misrepresentation by the ad.
ministration have been forced on the
firing line" where I shall remain so
long as these malicious attacks on In
nocent men in my state shall CON
tinue"
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
stockmen Elect Officers.

Denver-With the election OF II. A.
Jastro of Bakersfield, California, as
president, and the selection Of Los An
geles as the next meeting place as the
principal features OF the session, the
American National Live Stock Associ-
alton closed its fourth annual conven-
ton at the Broadway theater Thursday
morning
The speakers who talked in behalf
of Los Angeles impressed upon the
gathering that the new location was
chosen to stimulate interest in the
work OF the association on the Pa
cific coast, and was in nowise retail
alton on Denver for the action of the
Colorado Cattle and Horse Growers
Association in opposing the associa-
ton in its support of President Roose-
velt's grazing policy Probably the
convention will be held in Denver the
following year.
Other officers chosen we're: First
vice president, Murdo Mackenzie, Trim
idad, Colorado; second vice president,
NJ. K. Parsons, Salt Lake City, Utah.
President Jastro then named his exec
utive committee as follows: Dwight
z. Heard, E. s. Gosney. ]. J. Riggs,
Arizona; J. v. Vickers. Ben F. Rush,
II. l. aOWdru, CdlllOrIld, JUN W.
Springer, ]. A. Dockhart, Merle d. Vim
cent. c. B. Rhodes, Colorado; Fred w
Gooding, Idaho; r. M. Bressie, Okla
homa; II. c. Wallace, A. Sykes, Iowa;
w. A. Harris, T. M. Potter, w. ]. Todd,
Kansas; H. s. Boise, J. M. Coburn, Mis-
souri,; Capt. ]. T. Brown, ]. M. Board
man, r. ]. Shannon, David Fratt, Mon
tana; e. Z. Lowe, E. p. Myers, Robert
Taylor, Nebraska; C. M. O'Donnel,
Charles Schlater. C. w. Merchant. w.
H. Jack, New Mexico; w. G.. Comstock,
Nebraska; William Hanley. Oregon;
#. NJ. Stewart, A. e. de Ricqles, South
Dakota; s. b. Burnett, l. T. Pryor,
Richard Walsh, ]. H. Parramore. II. e.
Crowley, Texas; NJ. x. Parsons, Utah;
]. M. Cunningham, A. ]. Splawn. Wash
ington; Ora Haley, A. r. Reader. Luke
Voorhees,, J. NJ. Carey, Wyoming.
This committee met at the Brown
Palace hotel in the afternoon and re-
appointed T. w. Tomlinson of Denver,
secretary; William e. Hughes of Den
yer. treasurer. and S. H. Cowan OF
Fort Worth, Texas, attorney.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
BUILDING FOR STOCK SHOW.
Liberal Offer Made by Denver stock
Yards Company.

tssoS SoHipdnys
Denver-Through a plan broached at
tne annual meeting OF the Western
Lave Stock Association in the conyen-
non hall of the Albany hotel Wednes-
DAY night, Denver is practically prom
ised as fine a stock show stadium and
exhibit sheds as possessed by any city
IN the entire country. Chicago not ex-
cepted. They will cost from $500 900
to s400, 900.
The Stock Yards Company, con-
trolled by the National Packing Com
pany of Chicago. through Colonel w.
II Skinner. its Denver representative,
has promised the Western Live Stock
Show Association to erect all neces-
sary building and guarantee the finan-
clal end of the show upon the condition
tnat guaranteed fund of $4,000 be
placed in escrow in one of the banks
70 assure the Stock Yards Company
mat stock show will be held in Den
yer every year for ten years. They
DO not want this sum pledged by Den
yer merchants, but by stockmen them
selves, men who will take an interest
In the show and exhibit every year. 1t
IS planned to raise the money. as out
lined by President e. NJ. Ammons of
tion, by issuing life memberships in the
association for 500 each, the money
to be returned with interest at the end
OF ten years. This money will not be
used in construction of the buildings.
Representatives of other states and
the various breeder associations made
speeches in which they united in say
ing that nothing in the history of the
country had ever parallel the marvel
Gus growth of the Denver show, which
they place next to the International at
Chicago.
The crowds at the stock yards have
become so large that half the spec
tators cannot gain entrance to the
stadium. The afternoon show Wednes-
day was repeated in the show yards in
order to accommodate all, and two shows
will be given every afternoon for the
rest Of the week in order to give every
body a chance to see the great blooded
stock exhibit in action.
Directors of the Western Live Stock
Show Association were elected last
night as follows: John Painter. Rog-
gan, Wyoming; c. o. Culver, Fort Col
Inns; T. s. Harper, Colorado Springs;
William Reynolds, Lusk, Wyoming; j.
p. Adams, L. NJ. Ammons, George w.
Ballantine, George Bernard. Colorado
Springs; Colonel w. f. Skinner. A. J..
Campion, C. X. Boettcher, Henry Geb-
hardt, John Grattan, Ora Haley. Wyom-
ing; F. j. Hagenbarth, Idaho; James d.
Hustled, l.. A. Johnson. Fred p. John
son, Gordon Jones, Jared l.. Brush,
Murdo Mackenzie. Trinidad; II. w.
Moore, Harry Petrie, A. e. deRicqles,
]. NJ. Kuykendall, Thomas Mostyn,
Ouray; A. G. Cornforth, Ebert. Colo
rado; l. F. Twitchell. c. E. Stubbs,
John F. Vallery, B. o. Cowan assistant
secretary of the Short Horn Breeders
Association of America; Charles Gray.
secretary of the Aberdeen-Angus
Breeders of America, and Robert
Brown, secretary Of the Galloway
Breeders. The last four represent the
four great national breeders associa-
tfons of the country.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
Statehood Legislation Delayed.

Washington. Under decision
reached by House and Senate leaders
that there will be no statehood Iegis-
lation for Neww Mexico during the
first session of the Sixtieth Congress.
arrangements have been made with
Speaker Cannon and Chairman Ham
llton of the house committee on terri
tories, which Chairman Beveridge of
the Senate committee approves, to
have members OF both Senate and
House committees visit New Mexico
during The coming recess of Congress-
Tor the purpose of making a complete
examination and report
1t is suggested by the New Mexico
delegation that the visiting committee
be enlarged by ten members of the
House and Senate. II the report of
the committee is favorable. as the New
Mexico delegation expect 1t will be.
the early passage of statehood bin
In tho second session of the present
Congress is, in their opinion, assured
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
Fort Collins Sugar Season.

Denver-A Fort Collins dispatch
says: At 1850 o'clock Sunday morning
the last of the beet crop of 1907.
grown in this district for the local
sugar factory, was run through the
slicers, thus practically ending the
sugar making campaign which opened
September 18th. A few days will be
required to convert the juice on hand
into sugar, and when this is done the
factory will close until next fall. Dur
ing the campaign of 100 days the fac
tory sliced more than 100000 tons of
beets, including between 1900 and
$4,000 tons raised in the Loveland and
Longmont districts, and not day was
lost during the campaign on any ac-
count, or for any reason, and not Sc
rious accident occurred from the time
of starting up the machinery until it
was ready to close down Sunday. The
campaign has been the most success
full and the most satisfactory all around
in the history of the local factory.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
Seed Growers Convention.

Denver-The Colorado Grain and
Seed Growers convention met at the
Albany hotel convention hall in this
city. Thursday. January 23d. The
convention was called to order at p.
m. by President w. H. Olin of the De
partment of Agronomy, Colorado Agri-
cultural College, who read his annual
report, showing the organization to be
In excellent standing and outlining the
work which should be done during the
present year to further the objects of
the association. Several papers were
read during the afternoon session.
At the night session OF the conven-
ton officers for the ensuing year were
elected. Professor Olin was reelected
as president of the association by ac-
clamation, and was given a vote of
thanks by the convention for the inter.
est he has displayed, and for the ex-
cellent work of organization he has
done.
other officers elected are: First
vice president, C. M. Matthias, Monte
Vista; second vice president, G. G.
Williams. Yuma; third vice president,
Ben Breston, Fort Collins; fourth vice
president, Frederick Gaylord; secre-
tary, Fritz Knorr; treasurer, II. L..
Locke, Longmont.
Secretary Knorr was also appointed
as delegate to the National Corn Asso-
citation convention at Omaha, Novem-
ber 25th to December 9th, inclusive.
Resolutions approving Of President
Olin's suggestion that the organization
be incorporated under the state laws
were adopted, as were also resolutions
indorsing plan to make the associa-
tion clearing house for first-class Sc
lected seeds Of all kinds.
President Olin reported the awards
made to the boys and girls of the Pat
terson Seed Competition Club. In 1905
Senator Patterson made the munificent
offer of S400 in prizes for three conse-
cutive years, a final term prize series
amounting to $3.50, to be distributed
among the boys and girls securing the
highest and best results in two or more
grains during the three years, and a
handsome gold medal, as sweepstake
prize, for the one securing the highest
average.
Senator Patterson at the night meet
ing was elected an honorary life mem
ber of the association and presented
with magnificent, solid gold, hand
hammered insignia of the organiZa-
ton, representing full head OF Def
ance wheat
President J. w. Jones of the Ma
tional Grain Growers Association, was
present and took occasion to publicly
thank Senator Patterson for the good
work he is doing
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
London Olympic Games.

London.-Good progress has been
made with the preparations for the
London Olympic games, which promise
to be the greatest athletic gathering
the world has ever seen. 1t is officially
stated there will be In all probability
more than 5000 athletes in competi-
ton, including very large contingents
from America, where Capt. f. Whit
worth Jones, the assistant secretary
Of the British Olympic Association,
says matters have been most enthusi-
astically taken up.
The British Olympic Association has
to rely on It's own exertions to raise
large sums necessary to finance the
project, as 1t receives no assistance in
this respect from the government and
Is, therefore, at disadvantage with
other countries that have held the
games previously.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
Bryan's Running Mate.

Washington.-W. J. Bryan held an
fmpromptu reception in the rooms of
the house committee on ways and
means, where a number of Democratic
representatives and many outsiders
chatted with him.
Asked by someone to name his
choice for running mate in the event
of his nomination at Denver, Mr..
Bryan laughingly replied
Il shan't tell. That is too bold a
question"
To the newspaper men he said:
You may say that my coming to
Washington was not to consult any
man or set of men as to whether l
ought to be a candidate for the NOM
ination. / have not put that question
to any men, nor shall I. The people,
not individuals, have the sole right to
decide that point. I am not here to
solicit support for myself as a pos
sfble presidential candidate. I never
solicit individual support. 1 never ask
any man to vote for me. In the past
when was before the people as a can
didate, my efforts to obtain votes have
been confined to statements of my
views"
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
Suit Aqainst State rreasur.r.

Denver.-In order to force State Aud
itor Statler and State Treasurer Bent
to turn over to them that portion of the
appropriations made for the various
state schools by the last Legislature,
remaining unpaid, petition has been
hled In the District Court at Denver by
the governing boards of the State
School OF Mines, State Normal school.
Colorado School for the Deaf and
Blind, Agricultural College and the
State University. asking an alternative
writ OF mandamus for that purpose
The boards will hold that the
payment OF the Stratton inheritance
tax is sufficient to supply money
for all the appropriations and Mr.. Bent
believes that this money does not go
into the general appropriation fund
The question will now be decided by
the courts.
The appropriations made by the Leg
islature were as follows: School of
Mines, natatorium and gymnasium.
$4,000; Normal school, for finishing
library, $4,000; Deaf and and Blind.
for balance due on new administration
building, $4,000, and for pipe organ.
$4,000; Agricultural college, for expert.
ment station, $4,000. and University
of Colorado, improvement of grounds
and erection of buildings, 800, 900.
One-half OF each amount is still due
each school.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
Death of Colonel FreeIands.

Denver.-A Philadelphia dispatch
Monday night says: Col. Francis T.
Freeland, noted mining and civil en-
gineer. globe trotter and mine owner
of Colorado, who formerly lived here,
was fouId dead in his apartment at
the Colonnade hotel this afternoon.
Death is supposed to have been caused
by a stroke of apoplexy. The sudden
end of Colonel Freeland is similar in
nearly every detail to the deaths of his
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas M.
Freeland, who resided here, each dy-
ing suddenly from stroke of apo
plexy.
Francis T. Freeland was in charge
of the Isabella companys properties
at Cripple Creek during the time of
the Haserman administration, from
1895 to early in 1898, when he returned
to Aspen to look after the Hagerman
properties in that camp. He had been
in all of the worlds great mining
camps.
Before his arrival at Cripple Creek
he was superintendent of the Iron Sill.
yer mino at Leadville.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
RAILWAY SUIT BEGUN.
Attorney General Strikes at HarrIman's
| Great Railway Combine.

Washington--Attorn General Bon
Rparte Saturday directed that a bill in
equity be filed to set aside the control
by the Union Pacific Railway Company
and its subsidiary corporations OF the
Southern Pacific and the San Pedro,
Los Angeles & Salt Lake roads; also to
have declared Illegal the ownership by
the Union Pacific or the Oregon Short
Line of stock in the Santa, the Great
Northern and Northern Pacflc, all of
said lines being competitors of the
Union Pacific
The attorney general issued an of
fetal statement to this effect which.
after referring to the extensive in
vestigation by the interstate commerce
commission into the relations existing
between the various lines of roads en-
gagged in transcontinental traffic. says:
From the evidence so far adduced
and from Independent investigation the
department has arrived at the conclu.
sion that the stock holding of the
Union Pacific and its subsidiary com
pany in the other corporations men
toned above is in direct violation of
the Sherman act.
THE department regards tho suit
as OF first Importance, as II is sought
by means thereof to break up a sub
stantial monopoly of the transportation
business of the country between the
Missouri river on the east and the en-
lire Pacific coast south of Portland on
The west.
ASIDE from the railway companies
above named, the other defendants in
The suit are the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company of New York, which is
the depository of all the stock of the
San Pedro road Wnder a contract by
which 1t Is required to give proxies
TO such persons as may be named by
Mr.. Hartman and Mr.. Clark for pc
riod of years. There are also the fol-
lowing individual defendants COM
planned OF. to-wit; E. II. Hartman. ia
cob II. Schiff. Otto II. Kahn. James
Stillman. Henry c. Frick Henry II.
Rogers and William A. Clark"
While naming the individual defen-
iants, the statement makes no mention
Of any intention to prosecute any of
these officials personally in any Grim
lnal proceedings.
The attorney general has engaged as
special assistants for the purse of this
litigation Messrs. Frank b. Kellogg and
Cordence A. Severance OF st. Paul,
who acted as counsel for the Interstate
Commerce Commission in the investi-
CATION above referred to.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
Grand Plaza for Denver.

Denyer.-A new beauty plan for Den.
yer, taking up the agitation for a civic
center with a plaza and beautiful sta.
dunn In the heart of the city, has been
presented by the committee of twelve
citizens appointed by the mayor on the
recommendation of the Real Estate Ex.
change. The report of the committee
has been submitted to the mayor with
sketches made by Frederick Macmon-
nfes. the celebrated sculptor, In consul
tation with the committee, and elabo-
raAions Of these sketches by Blscoe and
Hewitt, architects
The plan is ready in every details to
be submitted to the people OF the city.
Briefly. 1t suggests
The cutting through of Broadway to
the river.
Strengthening of the double curve
leading from Fifteenth street into
Broadway at the present junction.
By the acquiring of the city of two
blocks of ground due west of the CAPT.
tol grounds, between Colfax and West
Fourteenth avenues, and between
Broadway and Bannock street, with the
possibility of third block reaching to
Cherokee street, should the city decide
on a new city and county building on
that ground. Part of this ground-that
on which the new library is going up
the city owns already.
The acquiring by the city of the
Bates Triangle, and a similar piece of
ground directly opposite to the south,
cutting into the territory between
broadway ard Bannock street. This
Will give an irregular six-sided plot of
ground right in the junction of the resi-
dence and business districts.
This ground, according to the plans.
will form the plaza. In the middle of
the plaza. with its line running east
and west, 1t is planned to build a sta.
dunn presenting opportunities for beau
uhcation that will place Denver on a
par with any city in the United States.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
Chicago Tramps Eeasted.

Chicago, nl.-Two hundred and fifty
tramps fed on the bounty of five mem.
bers of the Chicago Athletic Associ-
alton Monday.
I'VE have food, but no appetites, :"
said one of the five members, as he
attempted to eat the dainty things he
had ordered in the club dining room
Let's get satisfaction by proxy; per-
haps we can find someone hungry"
1t was easily done and in half an
hour men from a West Side lodging
house had assembled and were taken
to three restaurants in lower State
street and fed at 80 cents head, with
pie as q dessert.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
Girl Wins Prize Bull.

Denyer.-The ticket which won the
prize bull donated by ]. c. Osgood for
the sale of tickets during the stock
show, was held by Frances TrumbuiI
Van Mater, the young daughter OF
Harry Van Mater. ESQ Emerson. No.
eS9 was the one which claimed the ami
NAL. this being one of several tickets
bought by Mr.. Van Mater for his
daughter. There were altogether
about 1900 tickets sold at 81 each, the
proceeds to go to the Denver Orphans
home. A great number of tickets were
sold at the stockmen's convention, but
as many more were sold to Denver
people. The animal is finely bred and
worth several hundred dollars.