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The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-11
FRIDAY

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Purse $40
MIST Event 600 yard dash for Eor,h
Park Cow Horses only Entrance fee s..
Plies LIST $25 End $40 Bird s.
Purse $50
end Event: mile Relay Race change
hoses every mile Entrance fee So.
P ICES list $50 End S15 Bird $40
Purse $50
Bird Exert: ] mile Trotting and Pac-
ire Rice Best 3 i'm ) Heats Four to enter
Three to stlrt Prizes LIST $50 2nd Si5
Bird $40.
Purse $50
18th Event: Wild West Buckirg
Contest No Entrance fee Prizes LIST so
end $50 3rd s.
purse SIS
9TH Event: Two Hundred yard Foot
Rice Free for all No ent &c fee Priz,s
st $40 End s..
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-11
THURSDAY

THURSDAY
Purse $3.50
LIST Event: mile running dash for
North Park Ponies only. Prizes LIST
$40. End So. 3rd So so Entrance fee 81. 90
Purse $40
End Event mile running dash
Four to enter and three to start Free for
all Prizes list $50 End $40 3rd So En-
trance fee 50.
Purse $25
Bird Event: mile Ladies Race No
entrance fee Prizes list $l2. End 81 3rd 50
Purse $50
4th Event. Running Race mile
heats Best two in three Four to enter
three to start Free for all Entrance fee
So. Priz LIST $25 End $l5. Bird $40
Purse $50
5th Event: mile Wild Horse Race
No entrance fee Prizes LIST SIS. End $40
3rd s..
Pusse SIS
9Th Event: One Hundred Yard Foot
Race North Park Boys only No entrance
fee Prizes lst SO End s..
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09
TO FORCE GRAY TO RUN
Delaware Hears of Plan to Insist On
Him For Second Place.

Wilmington, Del, July 9.-Notwith-
standing the universal knowledge OF
Judge Gray's attitude in regard to the
matter, a feeling existed among some
of the prominent Democrats here that
there is a strong possibility of a deter.
mined effort being made at the Demo.
cratic national convention in Denver
to nominate the judge for the vice
presidency of the United States.
Information has been received in
private messages from Denver which
heightens this belief According tc
this information, it is the desire of the
Bryan managers to have strong east
err man on the ticket with Bryan in
the event of the latter's nomination fol
the presidency, and his friends realize
that the Gray presidential sentiment is
the only real menace to Bryan's nomi-
nation, and their greatest desire is to
make terms with the advocates oi
Judge Gray for the presidency. This
feeling exists in other places, and
many inquiries have been received
here concerning the matter.
Such proposition, it is learned
receives no encouragement from Judge
Gray, for he has not made single
move that would give the slightest en-.
couragement to those who would like
to see him nominated for the vice
presidency, and he is just as emphatic
in his stand against such nomination
as he was when it was first mentioned
He is receiving inquiries from other
places asking for his views on the
subject, and all of his replies are In
the nature of a reiteration of his first
declaration, which was published last
week, in which he made known his op:
position to such a nomination.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09
Convict Nominated FOR President.

Candidates for president and vice
president of the United States were
nominated and a platform was adopted
by the national convention of the
Socialist Labor party in New York
The ticket named is as follows:
For president-Martin r. Preston, Of
Nevada
For vice president Donald Munro
of Virginia
The nomination of Preston for pres
ident was unanimous. The candidate
was placed in nomination by Daniel
De Leon, who characterized the man
he was naming as AN honest work
ingman, not professional working
man.
De Leon explained that Preston had
been sentenced to twenty-five years
Imprisonment for shooting restauT-
ant keeper in Goldfield three years
ago during a strike. Preston. De Leon
asserted, had acted as the protector
of defenseless girls, and by SO doing
had enraged restaurant keeper nam
ed Silver. Silver, Mr.. De Leon said.
was shot by Preston while threatening
to kill the latter.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09
PRODUCE QUOTATIONS
The Latest Closing Prices In the
Principal Markets.

PHILADELPHIA - FLOUR weak;
winter extras, new. s350Q3.65; Penn
sylyania roller, clear, $S.70@3.85; city
mills, fancy, $5.70Q5.85. RYE FLOUR
quiet; per barrel, $4.40@4.50. WHEAT
firm; No. 2 red, western. 9013 091c.
CORN firm; No. 2 yellow, local. Sl1a
0S2c. OATS firm; No. white, clip
ned. w 59d06oc.; lower grades, 5Sc.
HAY weak; timothy, $14.50 a 10.
PORK firm; family, per barrel, 1880.
BEEF steady; beef hams, per barrel,
s27O28. POULTRY: Live firm; hens.
i215m13c.; old roesters, 91ac. Dressed
steady; choice fowls, 121ac.;. old roost-
ers, 95bc. BUTTER steady; extra
creamery, 26c. EGGS firm; selected,
211b @23c.; nearby, 18c.; western. 19c.
POTATOES steady; new, per barrel,
$2.75@3-
BALTIMORE-WH WHEAT flrmer. No.
spot. 93Q9314c.; steamer No. spot,
8T6S7Nc.: southern, 87@91c. CORN
strong and higher; mixed spot 77A@
soc. OATS firm; white, No. 2, $50
691bc.: No. 3. 58@5819c.; No. 4, 500
56c.:: mixed. No. 2, 57@571zc.; No. 8,
560561sc. BUTTER steady, creamery
Separator extras, 241a025c.; prints. rs
@26c.: held, 100 20c.; Maryland and
Pennsylvania dairy prints, l6Ql7cs
EGGS steady; fancy Maryland, Penn
svIya1lia. Virginia and West Virginia,
l7c.: southern, Ice. per dozen.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09
THE CHEERFUL TURTLE.
This Queer Creature Enjoys Many Pc
culiar Advantages.

To be or not to be-a turtle? To be
certainly, II could not be a man. de-
clares one who speaks with knowledge
of his subject. "Basking in tropical
suns or cruising leisureiy in cool
depths, the turtle has an exceedingly
good time. As soon as the baby turtle
emerges from the egg he scuttles down
to the sea. He has no one to teach
him, no one to guide In his little brain
there is implanted a streak Of caution,
based on the fact that until a certain
period his projecting armor is soft
and no defense against hungry fish,
and he Immediately seeks shelter In
the tropical profnsion Of the gulf weed,
which holds within its branching
fronds an astonishing abundance OF
marine life
Here the young turtle feeds unmo-
lested and knows that his armor is
hardening apaee Once he has attained
the weight of twenty-five pounds he
may cheek freely any monster of the
deep. After that no fish or mammal
ever interferes with him. Intending
devourers may struggle all day to
break through his iron shell. They al
ways fail.
"The turtle. like the sperm whale.
has but one enemy man. Now, even
that sperm whale must come pretty
frequently to the surface to breathe,
and if it got beached high and dry on
land what would become Of It? But
the cheerful turtle can stay below the
surface for week If he wants to, and
be often does, while if he had to spend
an equal time on land he would enjoy
the change and be none the worse for
it. He is neither fish, flesh nor fowl,
vet his flesh partakes of the character
istics or all three
Eating seems a mere superauity
with him, since for weeks at time he
may be placed in a barrel, with the
bung out, and emerge after his long
fast apparently none the worse for his
enforced abstinence from food, from
light and almost from air. OF all the
warm blooded organisms there is none
so tenacious of life as the turtle Inju-
ries that would be instantly fatal even
| to fish leave the turtle apparently un-
disturbed, and his power of keeping
death at bay is nothing short of mar
yelous.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09
AN EFFECTIVE SERMON.
Trumpet Blast That Drove the People
to Repentance.

Trumpet Blast That Drove the People
to Repentance.
Old Peter Cartwright was a famous
preacher and circuit rider many years
ago.
meeting in Ohio. There was a great
number of campers on the field, and
the eccentric speaker addressed vast
concourses at every service. but he
thought too few were being converted.
He felt that something should be done
to stir the sinners to repentance, SO
he prepared strong sermon on the
second coming of Christ He told how
the world would go on In It's sin and
wickedness and at last Gabriel would
sound his trumpet and time would
come to an end. He described the
horrors of the lost and the joys Of
those who were saved. The sermon
grew In intensity, and be brought his
people up 10 a grand climax, when sud-
denly the sound of a trumpet smote
the ears of the anxious throng.
There was great sensation. and
many fell upon their knees In terror
and began to repent and pray. Women
screamed and strong men groaned.
Pandemonium was let loose for a few
minutes. After the terror had some
what ceased the preacher called to
man up tree, and be descended with
long tin horn in his hand The
speaker then turned in fierce wrath
and upbraided the people He cried
out in stentorian tones that. if man
with tin horn up tree could
frighten them so, how would it be in
the last great end when Gabriels
trumpet sounded the knell of the world!
The sermon had great effect upon
the vast audience, and many hundreds
fioeked to the front and were con-
vefted. !
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

phrase iickled the fancy of the throng.
1t was noticeable that great applause
came from the delegates at Bells i'm,
passioned declaration that the writ OF
Injunction shall not be turned into an
instrument of oppression. Again there
was uproarious applause as he ar
raigned Republican campaign con.
tributions without cash register"
After referring to Taft as "bisect-
ed candidate" and demanding @but one
man in the White House at time he
adroitly turned his speech in a pane.
gyric for Mr.. Bryan, the reference to
the Nebraska leader bringing forth a
tumultuous demonstration.
The appointment of committees was
quickly disposed of. Pennsylvania
presented two sets of officers, one led
by Colonel James M. Guffey, and the
other led by James Kerr. The contest
was referred to the committee on ere.
dentials.
Wednesdays session was marked by
turbulent enthusiasm and the bitter
strife of party leaders, the essential
developments of the day being these:
Two sessions of the convention were
held, the first at noon producing a
Bryan demonstration breaking all rec.
ords In duration, the second at night
being the elimination of the struggle
over the credentials of the Pennsylva-
mia delegation and the supremacy OF
the Pennsylvania leader, Colonel Guf
fey. who had been denounced by Mr.
Bryan.
Outside of convention the commit
tees have proceeded with the serious
work of preparing the way for conven
ton action. The credentials committee
unseated eight of Colonel Guffey's anti
Bryan Pennsylvania delegates, thus re
versing the complexion of the Pennsyl
yania delegation from anti-Bryan tc
Bryan and precipitating the intense
controversy which is being fought oui
before the night session of the conven
tion.
Cheers and Parades For Bryan.
The early meeting of the convention
was productive of little practical pro
eress. as the principal committees
were not ready to report. But it hat
4he effect Of exploding the long-pent-uI
nrvan enthusiasm, which took ths
signal from Senator Cores eloquen
xeference to the Nebraska leader, an6
hurst into q whirlwind Of enthusiastic
tribute lasting one hour and nineteer
nainutes, with seven minutes more O
tbs expiring echoes of clamor, estab
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09
GUFFEY LICKED
IN CONVENTION
Eight Of His Philadelphia
Delegates UnSeated.
HEATED DEBATE ON FLOOR
Senator Gore Starts Wild Cheers
For Bryan.
HEATED DEBATE ON FLOOR
DEMONSTRATION LASTED OYER HOUR

State Delegations Marched and Shout
ed Themselves Hoarse For Nebras-
kan-PIatform- As Drafted Favors
Tariff Revision-The Anti-Injunction
Plank PIeases Conservatives and
Labor Men and Favors Placing
Labor Disputes On Level With Other
Disputes.
Denver, July 9.-The twentieth ma
tional convention Of the Democratic
party to nominate a candidate for
president and vice president of the
United States was called to order at
noon Tuesday in the new Auditorium
by National Chairman Thomas Tag
gart. AS soon as order was restored
Mr.. Taggart announced Theodore A.
Bell, of California, as temporary chair
man.
IN strong, far-carrying voice and easy
gesture, he delivered the opening ad-
dress, a full hour long, with resound-
ing passages, on the righting of public
wrongs. punctuated with yells as some
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09


and the last of the debate was Gov
ernor Haskell, of Oklahoma. He eharg-
ed the Pennsylvania contestees with
being the tools of the Standard Oil
company. He said the convention
should say to the contestees: GO
back to your Standard Oil tanks" and
instantly he was drowned with yell
of approval, which was however min
gled with many Kisses.
The previous question having been
called for. Chairman Bell was about
to put it to viva voce vote, when a
roll call was demanded and granted.
The minority report was defeated by
vote of 3S7 to 615. The majority re
port was then adopted without a roll
call.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09
Simple When You Know How.

An innocent -cockney while in the
country asked farmer how they man
aged to grow streaky bacon.
"0h, it is simple enough" said the
honest agriculturist. Zone week we
starve the pig or feed him very little.
That makes layer of lean meat. Next
week we give him all he can possibly
eat, even working overtime, and that
makes a row of fat. So by alternate
starving and feeding we get the beau
tiful streaky bacon
Dear me-" said the cockney. "and
how do you make the hami''
ooh, we manage that by putting
ring in the pigs nose was the reply.
London NJ. A. P.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09
The Careful Scots.

A Scot and his wife came to London,
and the worthy pair were in hundred
fears concerning the diaboIicai ingenui-
ty of London thieves.
AS they took their first walk down
the Strand the husband whispered of
a sudden hoarsely In her ears. Janet,
wumman. hast thou got thy teeth
feexed feermly in thy gums 7.
ma, na," she answered: "A'm no
sich a fule! I've left 'em safely locklt
ava In the portmontyr' London
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09
HITCHCOCK CHOSEN
Elected Chairman of Republican Ma
tionaI Committee.

tiOHdt O0UtttfttSCs
Hot Springs, Va, July 9.-Frank IL
Hitchcock, of Massachusetts, chairman
of the Republican national COMMITTEES
and manager of the national cam
paign; George R. Sheldon. of New
York, treasurer of the national com
mittee, and Arthur l. Vorys, of Ohio
member of the national committee in
charge of the Ohio Republican head
quarters, which are to be In Cincin-
natl. This was the result of the meet
ing of the executive committee Of the
Republican national committee here.
All of the eight members of the ex
ecutive committee were present and
their report was unanimous, The en-
tire action of the committee was an
approval of the recommendations Of
William H. Taft, the nominee Of the
Republican party for the presidency
who presided at the meeting.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09
he physlcal value Of ratlroaas ana the


guarantee of bank deposits. There was
sharp division of sentiment upon
many Of these. but as time wore on it
became evident that large majority
of the full subcommittee was COM
pletely committed to all of Mr.. Bryan's
policies, and while the members did
not manifest the willingness to accept
the language even Of Mr.. Bryan, in a
majority of instances was one or two
opposing expressions with reference to
his policies. So nearly unanimous was
the subcommittee that one of the
members faeetiously declared that it
stood sixteen to one" on all PROPOSE
tions, Judge Parker generally being
the one ODD senber.
No Declaration On Rights of Negroes.
During the day the committee
reached its conclusion that it would
not insert any declaration on the
question of the rights of negroes. Mr..
Bryan had made tentative susT.es-
ton against discrimination on acc6fnt
of race, but the southern members OF
the subcommittee expressed the opin-
ion that the declaration of principles
would be more acceptable in the south
ern states if there should be no inti-
nation of the party's attitude on this
subject During the discussion some
of the members of the committee said
there would be no objection to Mr.,
Bryan's announcing his own personal
views on this subject in his letter OF
acceptance il case he should be nomi-
mated Probably the nearest approach
| to clash during the day was on the
subject of the courts, when Judge
Parker and Senator Pettigrew ex
pressed in sharp language diametri
cally opposite opinions. Mr.. Parker
presented plank announcing the
party's confidence in the federal
courts, in support of which he made q
strong plea. He had no sooner taken
his seat than Mr. Pettigrew took the
floor in opposition to the plank. He
said that as for himself, he had little
or no confidence in the federal courts
but he was willing to compromise by
leaving the subject entirely untouched
and the subcommittee decided to fol
low this course.
A conclusion to ignore the question
of woman's suffrage was also arriv
edat
A number of planks from the Ne
braska state platform were accepted
practically as they appeared in thai
document. Among them were those
smbodying approval of the anti-pass
and anti-rebate laws; prohibiting cor
porations from making campaign con
tributions; the election of Unitef
States senators by direct vote of ths
| people: recommending a constitutions
amendment permitting an income tax
the enlargement of the powers of rail
road commissions, state and national
favoring postal savings banks; the
eight-hour day; the adjustment of dis
putes between labor and capital; urg
ing an employers liability bill ap
plicable to both public and private EN-
! ployers, and recommending the admis
sion of Arizona and New Mexico al
separate states.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09
RELEASED ON BAIL
Fred Gies Had Nothing to Do With
Wilson Murder.
HELD FOR WIFEs DEATH
Convict Nominated For President BY
Socialist Labor Party-Bursting Alb
scess stransles Woman-Dies From
Scratch of Chicken.

Scratch of Chicken.
With the elimination of Frederick
Gies, Jr., from the case, the police
of Philadelphia have begun tracing
the movements of the supposed
murderer of DR.. William H. Wilson
through Bristol, Trenton, Jersey City
and New York toward Boston. Fred
erick Gies practically proved to the
satisfaction of the authorities that he
had nothing to do with the sending OF
the bottle of poisoned ale to DIR. Will
son on June &C. He was arraigned be-
fore magistrate and held in $500 bail
pending an investigation into the death
of his wife, Elizabeth Wilson Alexan-
der Gies, on June 10, though no charge
was preferred against the prisoner
Detectives simply stated that in inves-
tigating the Wilson murder they came
across suspicious circumstances in
connection with the death of the pris-
oner's wife and desired to have him
held pending investigation.
Though no quantitative analysis has
been completed, it was officially an
nounced at the coroner's Office that
DR.. Robinson, the city chemist, and
Professor Meeker, in an examination
of the ale sent to DR.. Wilson, found in
| that portion turned over to them sufi-
cient cyanide of potassium to kill
twenty men. The chemists also report
ed that a partial examination of the
viscera taken from DIR. Wilson's body
show that it was literally saturated
with cyanide.
/ Detectives Long and Paul succeeded
in tracing the man supposed to be the
/ murderer from here to Jersey City.
The first clue in this derection came
from the letter supposed to have been
written by the murderer and sent to
/ the coroner from Bristol, Pa. The man
who is supposed to have mailed that
| letter got on a Pennsylvania railroad
train at Torresdale, a suburb. on Sat
urday, June %, at 1885 p. m. When
the train reached Bristol at 1243 he
jumped off and mailed a letter and
/ then got back on the train. From the
| crew of the train the police secured q
/ description of this man and traced him
to Trenton. They found that he got of
| the train there few minutes after
/ one O'clock and waited for the con
Meeting train to New York, which he
took. The man got off the train at Jer
sey City and supposedly went to New
| York, though the work of the de
tectives ended at Jersey City. The
| description of the man who Travelled
on this train to Jersey City cores
| ponds with that of the man who pur
chased type letter IS" from the Key
stone Type Foundry, and which was
used to stamp a seal on the neck oi
| the bottle of poisoned ale. The descrip
tion also corresponds with that fur
nished by Fred Buckman, who receiv
ed the package of ale at a local ex
press Office the day it was shipped te
Dr. Wilson.
| The success of the police in tracing
this man conyinces them that they
have been just ten days behind time in
taking up the right trail in the mat
ter, and they will continue in their
efforts to trace the supposed murderer
to Boston, whence second letter was
received by the coroner from the sup
/ posed murderer.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09
Bursting Abscess strangles Woman.

Mrs. Franklin Lafferty, wife of a
leading cafe proprietor at Pottstown,
Pa. died a few minutes after hav-
ing a molar extracted. The woman
had been in the best of health, with
the exception of large abscess at the
root of the tooth. After the tooth had
been extracted, the abscess burst and
the woman was strangled to death
She was twenty-four years old, and
was member Of welIknown family
here.