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Colorado Assessment.

Denver.-Statistics showing the as
sessment valuation OF various proper
ties OF the state prepared by the audi
tor OF state, have been given out II
is shown therein that there are g
9s9.Ss7 acres OF agricultural land In
Colorado and that the total valuation
is S35 5.39S.55
OIL lands exhibit an interesting in
crease with 7.2Ss acres valued at $122,-
OIL. As returned by the State Board
Of Equalization there we're 5.s39.13,
miles of railroads assessed on the'
basis of $4S,54S,523. The average Of
the cash value Of deposits In thu
banks Of the state is given at $3.50 .ig2.
The average amount Of capital EN-
ployed In manufactures was rated on
a basis of S12,217,753.
The acres OF grazing lands returned
were 2.s5s, 1853; timber lands, 74.67s.
and other mineral lands than those
specially mentioned. SS.264.
Taxes were collected on 216.557
horses. e.172 mules, 7G7 asses. ss7.9si
cattle. 1.131,1s9 sheep, 59.397 swine.
and 1s.s09 goats. Automobiles to the
sum Of 936 were assessed on a valua-
tion OF $4O4,905.
The total assessment was $379,75
314. For personal property exempt on
account OF the constitutional amend
ment OF 1904 was sI2,33S. $40. leaving
the total net assessment for 1907,
1867 .369,374.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-01-02
Christmas Parton.

Canon City.-Christmat was a gala
day for the GAL copvicts in the state
penitentiary, and nothing vas left un-
done by the warden to make them en-
Joy the occasion as much ;is possible
for men deprived of their liberty.
Warden Cleghorn announced that
the Christmas pardon OF Governor
Buchtel was granted to Jacob Zip
perian, which evoked tears from the
other convicts. particularly from shose
Aho knew of the beneficiary's unhappy
plight. Zipperian was No. 64l7 on the
prison rolls, and for the last ten weeks
has been in the penitentiary hospital
with typhoid fever. but is now slowly
recovering. Zipperian was serving a
sentence of seven to eight years for
murder and was received here from
La Plata county September 20. 1905.
Zipperian was first sentenced to life
Imprisonment and was in the peniten-
tiary for year or more under that
decree, when the Supreme Court
granted him a new trial on Il writ OF
error. He was convicted n second
time and given an indeterminate SEN
tence of seven to eight years. He is
about twenty-six years old. He shot
a man in a quarrel over n division
fence. Judge Russell of the La Plata
District Court, who presided at his
trial, and ten of the twelve jurymen
who convicted him signed the petition
to the board of pardons for his release.
The petition was also signed by eighty
citizens of Sea Plata county and by
John A. Holmberg. former state treas
urer. Frank Kratzer Of Denver was
especially active in his behalf.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-01-02
Los. Bullion Promoter. Sentenced.

Denver.-Leniency in the fun sense
of the term was used by Judge Lewis
when, after refusing to grant n new
trial. he imposed sentences upon the
defendants connected with the Lost
Bullion mine frauds Thursday in the
Federal Court. The convicted men
got on with jail sentences ranging
from thirty TO fifteen days and fines
ranging from 81 900 to $50. George s.
Dubois, his son Lee Dubois, and c. l..
Blackman. who are credited with haN'
ing first conceived the scheme OF
palming an ordinary cave on as won
derful mine OF Golconda-like riches. re-
ceived the heaviest punishmeni-each
n 81 900 fine and thirty days In jail.
DR.. II. C. Hunt and Danton Pinkus.
whom the Jury recommended to the
mercy of the court and who are gener-
ally thought to have been dupes rather
than factors In the conspiracy shown
by the government. received $50 line
each. The rest were disposed of as
follows: Arthur Levan, 500 and
costs: f. w. Sebben. 800 and costs:
William II. Wilson. fifteen days in the
COUNTY Jail and $500 fine: w. b. Cam
eron. fifteen days In the county jail
and $500 fine: A. F. keables. fifteen
days in Jail and $500 fine. and Arthur
Lawrence, fifteen days in jail and $500
fine.
"Intercession of friends unknown to
the defendants" Judge Lewis stated,
made him temper mercy with justice
and reach the conclusion not To IN
fiict the punishment that the facts
warranted"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-01-02
chr,.tma. on the Fleet.

Port OF Spain. Trinidad.-The re
gatta was the big event Of the day on
Christmas. 1t was participated in by
crews from many of the ships and
number of exciting finishes kept the
men and officers keyed up to high
pitch of enthusiasm.
A large number Of officers spent the
day ashore sightseeing and snap
shooting the interesting scenes of trop-
ical life to be found here. Great
SQUADS of Of liberty men landed from
the fleet this afternoon and 1t was esti
mated that at one time there were be
tween 5000 and 1000 American blue.
Jackets on shore. The behavior OF
the sailors has been excellent and they
seem to be thoroughly enjoying their
stay here.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-01-02
WOULD KILL
Federation
MINE OWNERS ASK FEDERAL
COURT TO DISSOLVE MIN
ERS' UNION.
CHARGE CRIMlNALITY
THREE ORGANIZATIONS IN
cluOED IN INJUNCTION
SUIT.

Goldfield, Nev-To carry the nsnt
into the Federal Court will be the
next move OF the Goldfield Mine Own
ers' Association. A suit Will be filed
in the Circuit Court of the district OF
Nevada, asking not only for an in1unc-
ton against picketing and interference
but for the final dissolution of the
Goldfield Miners union
The suit Is to be filed by the Gold
field Consolidated Mines Company
against the Goldfeld miners, the West
ern Federation of Miners. Charles A.
McKinnon, president of the local
union, and nineteen others omcers OF
the same. The complaint sets forth
the alleged vast extent and richness
OF the mining interests involved ana
the large number Of persons holding
shares in the mines in various states
and territories; alleges that the Gold
field Miners union and the Western
Federation of Miners are voluntarily
unincorporated associations. and that
it Is claimed to be II part of another
large organization known as the In
dustrial Workers of the World. also
unincorporated, which has the same
principles and seeks to accomplish Its
results by the same unlawful methods,
and hhs in its ranks as members OF
these associations. not only the min
ers OF the Goldiield district. but other
laborers, such as waiters. clerks.
cooks. BARRIERS and barkeepers.
II is further alleged that the West
ern Federation of Miners is organ
lied for the destruction OF property
and creating endless strife. disorder.
bloodshed and rioting." The Goldheld
union is charged in the bill with in
limitation" and of being guilty Of
"wanton destruction OF property. mur-
der OF innocent citizens. lawlessness
and anarchy to such an extent that It
has instituted n reign of terror in the
Goldneld district" II is further al
legged that the Goldheld union is
criminal society"
The court Is asked to cite the de-
PENDANTS before 1t to answer the nj.
legations OF the complaint and to Is
sue writ OF Injunction restraining
the defendants from obstructing the
business OF the Consolidated Mines
Company by threat. intimidation or
picketing. An Injunction against boy
colt is further asked for. The court
is asked to enjoin the Goldfeld union
from holding any more meetinoa-
Watchers or examiners are asked
for. with full authority to enter or
the property of the complainant AMI
to carry out the orders of the court
and to arrest any person vioiatin:
them. Finally. 1t is petitioned that
the injunctions be made TcT;Ti;iiicG.
and that the Goldheld Miners uniop
be abated and forever dissolved a. c.
nuisance and perpetually enjoinei
from any further meetings or action
of whatever kind or nature. The
complaint is signed by George Wing
field. vice president of the Consoli-
dated Mines Company.
One effect Of the filing OF this. 1t Is
said, may be to induce President
Roosevelt to order a portion OF the
troops now in Goldheld to remain on
the ground to assist in the enforce.
ment Of the mandates OF the Federal
Court II necessary.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-01-02
Noted Pioneer Dead.

Greeley.-On Monday night death
closed the remarkable career OF Oliver
p Goodwin. a veteran of the Mexican
war, u soldier OF many OF the Indian
wars. n flibuster In Central America
under Billy" Walker. n fur trader.
freighter across the plains. miner In
the early days of California and one OF
the first to be Identified with the stock
industry Of northern Colorado and Wy
oming.
- Goodwin was seventy-seven years
old and until month before his death
was active mentally and physically
and had n mind stored with fund OF
information Of the West of early days.
Probably no man living this side OF the
Mississippi had a more varied life than
Goodwin. who was for ave years mas.
ter OF a government transport when
supplies were sent from Fort Leaven-
worth to the forts Of Colorado. Wyom-
ing and Utah in the days when Indians
were most dangerous.
Goodwin had headquarters In Pueblo
when II was merely fur trading post
and trekked all over this locality for
the st. Louis Fur Company when there
was not q cabin in the Cache La Pou-
Dire valley. He made and lost several
fortunes before he was forty and IN
the early 70s. having noted the value
Of northern Colorado for stock raising.
bought land near Fort Collins and
there conducted big ranch until he
went to Wyoming in the early sos.
Continuing In the cattle business. he
again accumulated fortune and two
years ago came to Greeley.
He was born in st. Louis. was
Mason OF high standing for half cen
tury and is survived by widow and
daughter.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-01-02
ELK MOUNTAIN PILOT
3. C. Robinson, Editor and Prop.
CRESTED BUTTE, COLORADO
Undraped Babies.

In Philadelphia, more than half
century ago, a few casts from the an
tique created something very like
public scandal; and when, at an earlier
period Greenough's Chatting Cherubs.
the first group by an American sculp-
tor. was exhibited. storm OF condem-
nation enveloped the undraped fg-
ures: nude babies were familiar in
American homes. but their appearance
in public shocked the moral sense OF
the whole community. This, remarks
Hamilton Mabia in Atlantic Monthly.
was 10 New York. where. still earlier.
gentlemen who lived by piracy had
been influential members OF society.
The symbolism of Powers Greek
Slave and the passionate sympathy
with the Greek struggle for freedom
diverted attention from the nudity OF
the figure to the pathos 1t expressed:
but 1t was thought necessary, in the In
terests of public morals. that the fair
captive should be examined by a com
mittee Of experts. Accordingly group
of clergymen In Cincinnati sat as
jury and. after critical examination
of the figure. issued kind OF license
for purposes of public exhibition. The
humor OF submitting the statue to the
inspection of a committee Of clergy
men does not seem to have occurred
to any save few Americans who had
been corrupted by familiarity with
foreign galleries.: nor does anyone ap-
morality was not in the timid slave.
but in the public opinion which hailed
her effigy as the greatest work OF art
in the history of the world!
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-01-02
Bank President Arrested.

Durango.-Charles f. Mcconnell.
president of the Smelter City State
bank, which closed its doors week
ago last Monday, was arrested late
Wedno sday afternoon on a warrant
sworn out by Harry Jackson. charging
him with receiving deposits when he
knew the bank to be insolvent.
Mr.. Mcconnell gives out the state.
ment that he has mining interests an5
property which he will turn in soon,
so that he can liquidate the debts of
the bank.
1t is said that the books which Re-
ceiver Rowe Pingree has been going
over for the last week will show that
no regular meeting Of the stockholders
or directors of the bank has been held
for the last nine years.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-01-02
FEARFUL ACCIDENT NEAR eoul'
DER THE DAY BEFORE T..
CHRISTMAS.
ON THE c. 8 S. RAILWAY
ONE PASSENGER KILLED AND
MANY OTHERS SEVERELY
INJURED.

Denver.-Colorado & Southern pas
sengcr train No. 25, which left Denver
at 1920 o'clock Tuesday morning Tor
Fort Collins. encountered a hurricane
at Shanahan hill. twfpiy.iour miles
north of Denver, Win liited t>1Et
coaches and baggage r into the ~
and hurled them into 'Ech thirty.hvs
feet from the track.
]. c. Garrett of LongSont died at
o'clock last night In t.a University
hospital at Boulder from injuries. and
fourteen others were serousiy' though
not Totally injured
Following is a list OF those most
badly hurt:
Robert Sharp, Boulder. right leg
crushe and injured about body.
Mrs. w. A. Morrow, $3.50 Tennyson
street. Denver. internal injuries and
fractured rib.
Mrs. C. NJ. shiveley. Boulder, cuts
and bruises.
Conductor Jackson NJ. Greimer. 1881
Humboldt street, Denver, back and side
bruised.
James Kelly, Boulder broken rib.
scalp wound and other injuries.
James rockingham. Denver, spine
and right arm injured.
w. F. Butterfield. broken spine and
right arm injured.
]. f. McLester. Longmont, injured
about body.
James Mcdonald and son of Boulder.
cut by glass.
Frank Tourtellot. Boulder. left leg
crushed.
Clyde d. Epperson. lass Court place,
Denver. right arm injured.
S. Bassananeck. GIL Delaware street.
Denver. head and scalp wounds.
John Bottingher. 344 Gilpin street
Denver head and body bruised.
George Chiles. express agent, Den
yer. bruised about legs and body.
The wreck occupied one mile north
OF Marshall on steep down grade.
while the train WAS travelling at hiSh
speed. and that the number killed an
injured was not greater Is considereS
miraculous. The storm struck the
train broadside and 'hfted the coaches
from tho trucks The ln;pdoxs-IeSs
smashed and car seats torn from,
their fastenings and pinned the unfor
iuhhtc pusScukeiS III 'ue WtcCk ! ne
wind was 80 powerful that those who
escaped injury dared not move lest
they be blown away.
The train was In charge Of Conductor
Jackson NJ. Grciner. Engineer A. H.
Scott Immediately uncoupled the en-.
gine and made dash for Boulder, nve
miles distant. for help.
A relief train was made up and
rushed to the scene OF the wreck. car.
rying with It all the available physi.
clans and several nurses from the hos.
pital.
Several automobiles and hacks hur-
ried to the scene and the injured. as
soon as their wounds had been tempo
rarily cared for. were hurried to
Boulder and taken to the University
hospital.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-01-02
Transformation in Lumber industr

IFanbroFnApch IN IuHtoeF inooepy
A few American citizens are still
living who were alive IN the days when
the Indiana and Ohio pioneers were
cutting great clear-grained black wal
nut, white oak and hickory logs. pilinS
them and burning them to ashes In
order TO be rid of them. Farmhouses
are still standing in the Ohio valley
whose tenoned frames are Of black
walnut, and whose roof boards are OF
wide. clear lumber such as lis now
sought for to be made into kings table
tops. Black walnut lumber In Ameri'
can commerce Is to-day little more
than a memory. says Milton o. Nelson
in the American Review OF Reviews;
white oak in the finer finishing grades
IS worth half the price Of mahogany.
and the American vehicle industry Is
in distress for the lack OF hickory.
Even in sawmill cities Of the present
day the lath from the walls OF wrecked
houses 10 carefully cleaned and bun
died for resale. while half-decayed pine
logs are sawed into merchantable lum
Der. Thus in the span OF one life the
American lumber industry has passed
from aurfeit to hunger. Such another
span promises to carry US from hunger
to starvation.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-01-02
sribe Goes to Charity.

Denver.-District Attorney George
stidger has turned over the sum OF
$3.50 to the oid Ladies' Home and the
Denver. This is the sum n, ,nonew al
legged to have been paid by Herbert and
Daniel Sullivan of Cripple Creek to
Morgan for his vote for Adams in the
Adaihs,feauoay s 1 slbernatorial contest:
fight Morgan alleged that he had been
paid $3.50 to vote for Adams. A COM
mittee Of the Senate, headed by Sen
% ator sai,insss, .hn eear was appointed to inves.
that 1t was unable 10 snbstant,ate Nor
gan's assertion that he had been
bribed. Later Morgan was expelled
from the Senate. vac
At the time of his confession of ak
legged bribery Morgan ts,U turnes s9so Owed
to the diatriet attorney tn eI he used IN
evidence in the prospect,va criminal
action. and 1t has been held @ by him.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-01-02

New Jersey has gay bridegroom
of 81 Cupid is. after all. the real level.
or. though it takes some people quite
q while to realize that there is nothing
half SO sweet in life as loves young
dream.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-01-02

King Edward now is eligible for
membership In the hotel clerks union.
with his fine big s750.OO0 diamond
He could paralyze the drummer and
the blase traveller simply by extending
his front few inches and not saying
Q word.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-03
TWO DERELIcTs DESTROYED.
Revenue Cutter Mohawk Blows Up
Coal-Laden Craft.

Wrecks of two vessels. dangerous to
navigation. were destroyed by the revenue
cutter Mohawk. under the command of
Lieut.. B. l.. Brockway. last week off Bar
negat.
One was the wreck of a schooner nine
miles east-northeast~ half ST off Barnegat
The other was barge sunk fifteen miles
northeast by east of the same light Both
were laden with coal. Big charges of gun
cotton were used to destroy them.
The new revenue service tug Acushnet,
built for service at New Bedford. Mass.
Saturday underwent her dock trials at
the yards of the Newport News Shipbuild-
ing Company, at Newport News. Va.
where she was built. The trials were
satisfactory and the vessel will now be
made ready for her official acceptance
trials.
The Acushnet large tug. is a hand
some vessel of her class. She will be
ready for service early in the coming fall
Capt d. p. Foley of the United States
revenue cutter service. superintendent of
construction and repair for the service, is
on leave and has gone to Wilmington,
N. c., to spend a month with his family.
During Capt. Foley's absence Constructor
w. c. Besselievre has charge of the Of
fee at Baltimore and the work at the
station at Arundel Cove, near that city.
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BIG FIRE IN w1NsTED, CONN.
Property Valued at $4,000 De
stroyed in Business Section.

stroyed in Business Section.
WINSTED, Conn, August 3.-Incen-
diaries yesterday started a fire in the
armory here which destroyed property
valued at $4,000 and endangered the lives
of score of people. who were taken from
the third story window of Odd Fellows
building. five-story brick structure op-
posite the armory on Main street. Many
persons had narrow escapes from falling
walls.
William Brennan, living on the fourth
floor of the building. west of the Odd
Fellows building. was aroused by the
barking of terrier. His apartments
were full of smoke. and after waking his
family he gave the alarm to the other
tenants.
The whole roof of the big armory, which
was a wooden structure. was a mass of
flames. The fire spread TO adjoining
buildings and across the street to Odd
Fellows building. Eighteen people were
taken down the ladders from this build
ing. Mrs. Lucy Eaton, living on the
third story of the Manchester building,
fought a fireman when he tried to get her
out of the burning building. She declar-
silverware.
Three thousand rounds of ammunition
went off without hurting any one. The
fire completely destroyed the armory.
Odd Fellows building. the Manchester
building and the residence of S. A. Har-
man were partially destroyed. Blazing
shingles from the armory ignited the
roofs of dozen houses some of which
were a quarter mile from the fire. The
stocks of five merchants were completely
consumed. Nine families lost everything
they had.
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turn. demands immigrants to supple
ment the paucity of the present popula-
ton and thus supply labor necessary to
material development.
The sum CT $4,000 was appropriated
for the encouragement of immigration,
with particular reference to its introduce
ton along a portion of the frontier ad-
jacent to Haiti. The neighboring islands
Cuba and Porto Rico-have benefited
vastly during recent years by the imlni-
grafton of hardy Spanish laborers from
the farming districts of northern Spain.
Under the same head and direction of
the department mentioned $4,000 was APP
propriated for an experimental agricul-
tural school. This amount, if properly
expended. should go far toward ultimate
ly obtaining better returns from the soil
than has been the rule i'm the past Santo
Domingo possesses the climate. its soil is
of the best and the wealth of it's natural
resources Is beyond argument.
Irrigation work in the Monte Cristi
district commenced during the past year
has been further provided for by an ap-
preparation of $4,000.
Two wireless telegraph stations. with
the latest approved appliances, are now
in course of constructiOn-the one at the
capital more than half completed. For
this innovation SIS. 200 was. made avail
able. 1t is understood that successful
working of the wireless station at SantO
Domingo will afford an independent COM
munication with the outside world. Such
is the expectation of the government.
1.-The position Of director general Of
public works has been created. and it is
already occupied by an engineer who has
enjoyed practical experience in his pro-
fession in other countries. Under his
supervision the work of public improve
raent is now being prosecuted.
Another tangible result accruing from
the convention was the recent taking over
by the government from the Santo Do
mingo Improvement Company of the rail-
way between Puerto Plata and Santiago.
This road is now operated directly by
the government and 1t is expected that
the receipts from it for the coming year
will yield surplus over expenditures"
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carious condition. He is one of Pater-
sons leading physicians and is a brother
OF DR.. r. NJ. Curtis of that city.
The party left the North Jersey Coun-
ty Club at about o'clock. Mr. Holmes
did not want to go lin the automobile,
but finally yielded to coaXing.
A Dangerous Crossing.
The crossing at Bogota. where the
fatal accident occurred, has long been
known as one of the most dangerous
in this section. The automobile owned
by DR.. Curtis was reduced to splinters.
Coroner W. w. Curry of Hackensack
viewed the dead men and will hold an
inquest.
Mr.. Holmes was about twenty-eight
years of age and single He was SON
of William J. Holmes, who up to the
time of his death was in charge of the
eastern division of the Western Union
Telegraph Companys service Ii was
said later that the auto wrecked did not
belong to Dr. Curtis. but was engaged
by him from the garage of Shaw a.
Hughes The injured chauffeur is
part owner of the garage.
There was great excitement among the
passengers of the West Shore train when
they learned the cause of the DELAY
Many went to the head OF the train and
several women tainted. II looked as
though three of the party were dead, for
they were unconscious and bleeding.
There is a large lumber shed on the
south side of the crossing that hides
the track from the view of approaching
autoists.
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CATBOAT CAPSIZED.
Four Men Caught by Squall, All
Hands Rescued.

NEW YORK. August 3-John Fairman.
assistant agent of the London and North
western Railroad Company. at as7 9th
avenue. and f. ]. Miner, G. c. Moore and
{. j. Luce. all connected with the Man
haitian Wooden Company. at 81 Blocker
street. hired catboat yesterday morning
at Webber's boathouse. New Rochelle.
and went out for sail on the sound.
They got far Whitestone without
-. hap, but when they were off Stepping
S,one light on their return. about
o'clock a sudden squall came up and the
catboat was dismasted and capsized
No other vessel was within a thousand
yards of them. and every boat, apparent
ly. had all it could do to weather the
squall itself. The four young men chung
to the bottom of the boat for half an hour
before launch put out from Oyster Bay
and rescued them.
They were landed at City Island and
communicated to Capt. Webber the where
abouts and condition of his catboat over
the telephone. Then they came back TO
Manhattan.