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The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
New Railroad is Certain.

preparation is being made to com
mence lie obstruction of the new
Denver Laramie s. Northwestern
Yailroad and on tn irst of May act
ual woFk will be commenced. This
new ltne will open up a vast terri.
tory TO the Denver markets and In
many ways it will be the most I'M
portapt line for Denver ever con-
structed. The line will probably be
operating as far north as Fort Col
lfns by the first of next year and 1t
Is expected that 1t will be over the
range and into Wyoming some time
next year Up to the present time
Denver has paid little attention to
this neS road and the money for its
construction has been coming from
small investors In Kansas. Okla
hOma, and Nebraska. 1t is about
time that Denver woke up aud got
into the game Record Stockman.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
Another Project.

Incorporation papers for the Lari-
mer County Development company
were filed at Fort Collins Saturday
by Frank Annis. A A Edwards and
IL II. Davy. The object OF the
company is TO make preliminary sur.
ve,s and measurements and obtain
expert reports on proposition to
divert the waters of the Laramie
river at Gleudevy and carry it BY
ditch TO the n th tork of the POu'
DIRE and into l. ne Tree creek for the
purpose of itrigating the north
eastern part of Larimer county The
capital stock of the company is S25,
600.
The proposed ditch is intended te
irrigate large section OF land IL
northeastern Larlmer and northwest
ern Weld counties, including prac
t,cally all the dry land from Carr Il
the foothills and from the Poudr'
liver to the Wyoming line. 1t d
estimated that 1t will cost q 500,
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
Thought Japs Burglars.

Seeing two or three men acting
suspiciously about a house In the
vicinity of Linn Grove cemetery last
Saturday morning, u. G. McClin-
tocK, superintendent of the cemetery,
believed he had discovered bur.
glary. and when he saw one of the
men take a key from his pocket and
open the door and all three enter the
house, he was so sure that he called
up City Marshal Williams. He got
Deputy Sheriff Frazier and the two
officers scooted down there in Genes
automobile. When they got to the
house they were greeted cordially by
the Japanese tenants who lived
there. They were the men who had
entered the house.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
COLORADO LEADS ALL
Average Value of Farm Crops
Per Acre.

Colorado leads all other western
states In the value per acre OF her
farm crops for 1907. The Union
Pacific Railroad company first made
estimates of the value of crops along
this system. and after the crops were
harvested the Agricultural depart
ment of the United States verified
the figures very close to the original
estimate
The average value per acre OF the
crops of the western and southern
states in 1907 was:
Colorado, s25 So; Iowa, sll rs;
Nebraska, $40. As; Missouri, sl3 %
Kansas. 50 25; Wyoming, SIS SO;
Utah, $lS.2l; Idaho, $40 81: Mon
tana, $40 ls; Oregon, $50 II: Wash
ington, s23 80; Nevada, so Sc; Cat
ifornia, s2O.79; Louisiana, s'2 76;
Texas, sl2 so.
We regard Colorado as a poor corn
state and Kansas and Nebraska as
very good ones but In 1907 Cuiurad :
average yield OF corn per acre was ~
bushels, Nebraka "a and Kansas - |.
In wheat Colorado's average yield ~
90 bushels per acre was SURPRISED
only bv Nevada with yield OF 32
while her hay cror OF 27 tons pei
acre led the enire west aud south
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
Big DEAL IS NOW ON
Oasis Ranch Near Grover May
be Sold.

The Oasis ranch, consisting Of
5000 acres. lying In an arid district
40 miles east of here in the Grover
country, but made fertile by the
three Little Crow Springs" whose
storage waters annually average So,
600, o0e cubic feet. Is about to be sold
I.by H5n~ner. Henry thompson. to .
big banking company OF Racine,
Wisconsin, for over 800, 900.
For some time this company has
desired the land for the purpose OF
cutting it into 40acre tracts and
coionizing it.. The ranch. which is
devoted to grain, wheat and barley,
earning a large annual income, Is
also run as a stock ranch In winter,
when hundreds of sheep and cattle
are fed for market.
a most remarkable feature is the
springs, which we're Indian camping
grounds fifty years ago. These
springs occupy but small depres-
sion on a treeless prairie, but some
of them flow a constant stream OF
cold water. Three big reservoirs
impound the water and are filled
with trout, 5000 young trout having
been put there this spring.
The ranch was first filed upon In
1884 by Luther Coggins. father OF
Lewis CoggiDs. mayor of Phoenix,
Ariz., and Thompson is its fourth
owner. Thompson is German VINO
has acquired a fortune by hard work.
He owns several other farms, but on
the sale Of this ranch will visit his
home in Germany for the first time
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
Walker After Them.

A Young deer, chased by a hound,
fell over a precipice in the Loveland
Grand Canon last week and was In
stantlv killed, AS George johnson
was returning from Estes Park,
where he is conducting u livery
stable, and driving along the canon
bet ween the third and fourth bridges
he heard the barking of hound on
one of the high mountains aud look
ing upwards saw the deer jump from
the precipice and fall In the road a
few fact in front Of his team, life
less. w. Fl. Campbell, o. l.. Green
and Monte Tucker, who were WORK
ing on the road bed at this point
also saw the accident.
There are large droves OF deer
which frequent the Grand Canon and
have been seen by teamsters ana
nassersby many times during the
past few weeks.
Every precaution is being taken to
rrotect the wild animals and Alex
ander Walker, chief game warden OF
this district. with headquarters at
peckham, Colo, has been spending
tbe mast few days in this distric on
t,e lookout for violators of the game
laws. who will be severely dealt WIN
If caught. Loveland Reporter.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09

the prospective customer, and his
own rig being out he hired a swell
turnout from the livery stable and
drove down in style. Miss Brown
was waiting for him, expecting to
step out from her own home and
give him the laugh, but when she
saw the expense the joke had put
Mr.. kinsella to, her nerve failed
and the joke was on her. There
was no lady to meet the real estate
man.
When Mr.. Brown returned to the
office in the afternoon and Kinsella
repeated the strange experience of
the morning, the former commenced
to laugh, and told his partner that
ii was the first day OF April.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
A Big BOND ISSUE
This is Voted by Northern Colo
RADIO Power Company.

A $4,000, 200 bond issue was au-
thorized at the annual meeting OF
the Northern Colorado Power com
pany held in Denver last Saturday.
The proceeds from the sale of the
bonds Is to be used In extending the
work of the company In Northern
Colorado and the plans include the
stretching of power lines to prac-
tically every town north OF Denver.
The company has 4 big plant In
operation at Lafayette with suctfiient
capacity for all needs and the work
to be done is to lay transmission
lines to carry the power to the towns
which are to be supplied. This will
begin as soon as the bonds are sold.
The following were elected officers
for the ensuing year: William j.
Baker, president; George c, Smith.
of New York, vice president; George
Best, secretary, and Thomas Keely,
treasurer. N, a. Carle rendered
his resignation as vice president and
general manager and will return to
New York, where he will be asso-
ciated with Westinghouse, Church,
Kerr & Co. Mr.. Carle was ioane' to
the Denver company for one year
during the constructive period of the
plant and the eastern house wants
him back. George G. Smith. the
new vice president, is vice president
of the Electric Properties company
of New York. subsidiary corpora
tion Of the Westinghouse Electrical
Manufacturing company. He repre-
sents the Westinghouse interests In
the Colorado corporation in which II
holds the control.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
GREAT SIGHT
FULLY 1000, 900 TOMATO o
PLANTS ARE SET OUT.
Tender Plants Being Hardened
to the Climate-Other Facts
About the Canning
Factory.

When you want to see something
interesting and different take ride
or walk out past Frank Young's
gardens on what would be West
Second street. Think first about
what 1900, coo tomato plants will
look like. and when you see them
they will be entirely different from
what you expected.
The plants have arrived for the
first seasons setting for the new
Empson canning factory, and are
being hardened and accustomed to
outdoor life at the Young gardens.
The plants have been started at
Boulder and Denver, shipped up here
in boxes and have been or are being
set out In beds here. These beds
cover nearly eight acres, and are so
arranged that not alone are the
plants covered with canvas, but at
night the wooden lid is closed over
the beds. 1t Is something of task
to open and close nearly eight acres
OF such beds each day, and q large
force of men is employed at the task.
The work of setting out the plants
in the beds is big job In itself. II
you don't believe 1t, just sit down
and count two million and see how
long it takes you, and they cannot
set out the plants as fast as you can
count.
The planning Of early peas for TIN
canning factory is now in progress.
Fully 1000 acres Of peas will be
planted, with several hundred acres
each of cabbage and tomatoes. The
factory Is also nearing completion
rapidly. The building has been
done for some time and the machin.
cry is nearly all installed. Harvest
ing will probably commence shortly
after June Is, unless the season is
kept back by unfavorable weather.
One beauty of the pea crop is that
another crop may be grown on the
same ground in the same season,
after the peas have been taken of.
Several people are planning to plant
late cabbage after the first harvest.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
WATER TROUBLES
Police Court and Citizens May
Lock Horns.

There Is nice little trouble brew
ing In police court because eight or
nine prominent Greeley men were
fined for sprinkling lawns out of
regular hours. Among them are G..
II. Wheeler, A. j. Condor, II. G.
Strong, Henry Arbuckle and several
others. While the men all paid the
tines Imposed by Police Magistrate
Willard, -thsy now claim they viii
contest the cases and show up some
things about the police court not &C.
cording to Hoyle. 1t Is claimed
that in most of these cases Judge
willard acted as spotter, complain
ant, Judge and finally BENEFICIARY by
tining the offenders so much and
costs, and even including more in
the costs than the law allows.
Some OF the men say they do not
object to paying the fine, because
technically they violated the ordt-
nance, though not Intentionally, but
what they do object to Is that any
individual get benefit from their
misfortune, arguing tnat whatever
the fines and costs amount to should
be turned over to the water works
fund Of the city, just the same as
water rent. ..
Had the cases been tried before
Jury it Is likely that most OF the
defendants would have been ac-
quilted, unless the otfense was too
trivial for the jury to acquft on.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
TEACHERS TO MEET
Will Have Big Time in Long
mont Tomorrow.

The fourth annual meeting Of the
Northeast Colorado Teachers asoo-
citation will be held in the Central
Presbyterian church OF Longmont
tomorrow and Saturday. The first
forenoon will be spent in visiting
the Longmont schools and the gen.
eral session will open at = O'Clock
tomorrow afternoon. The principal
address OF the afternoon will be by
President r. J, Wells. The rest Of
the afternoon win be taken up with
business meetings and sectional con-
ferences of various kinds.
Interest of the day centers on the
lecture by Prof. o. j. Kern, super
intendent of the Winnebago county.
Illinois, schools. His topic will be
''On the Front Line Of Country
School improvement. Following
this there will be a social hour.
Friday morning there will be an
address by Katherine l.. Craig, state
superintendent of education, on the
topic, Civilization Through Educa-
tion.' In the afternoon Prof. E. B.
Sherman. superintendent of the
state industrial school, Of kearDey,
Neb., will lecture on THE Spirit
and the Word"
In the evening Prof. Kern will
give another lecture on the topic.
THE New Agriculture and the
Country School.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
ANOTHER NEW PLAN
Man Wants County to Build
Reservoirs.

A new plan for irrigating land is
under consideration by the board Of
county commissioners uf Arapahoe
county. 1t was suggested by c. M.
Hicklin OF Denver, who owns con-
siderable land in that county. and
is receiving serious thought by the
comm iss toner's.
Mr.. Hicklins' idea is that the
county of Arapahue should make a
special appropriation for the purpose
of building storage reservoirs or
rather for purchasing and maintain
ing the necessary equipment for such
work. He states that an outlay of
about $4,000 by the county should
be sufficient 10 guarantee results of
beuft to every land owner in the
county,
II can see no reason why the
county should not take an interest
in aiding the settlers there in get
ting their land under cultivation, y
says MIR. Hicklin. Such plan
has never been worked out, l believe,
but / cannot see why it would not
be successful. The land is being
taken up rapidly by settlers, but 1t
needs water before it can be properly
developed.
IF the county would provide
several outfits for the construction
of reservoirs, farmers could ask for
the services of them when desired,
and by uniting together in districts,
reservoirs could be built to catch
flood waters every season. The soil
of Arapahne count a, very rich, ana
is especially adaptable for irrigation,
having a rolling pitch ideal for the
purpose The soil Is also suitable
for reservoir purposes, furnishing q
hard pan bottom that would hold
water through an entire season."
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
600 to complete the project, which,
it is claimed, will be worth fully
IS, 900, 600.
Close Call for Boy.

The little son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert J. Luther had a close call
from death by poisoning last Thurs
dav evening. His mother had been
doing some cleaning with gasoline
and corrosive sublimate, and had ~
the can up on a high ice box. There
the gasoline had evaporated. leaving
only the poison in the can. In. bis
mouher's abence the little fellow ~
cured two boxes and climbed up and
reached the can. His coughing and
splitting attracted the parents At
tention, and they quickly discovered
the trouble. Generous doses OF milk,
later supplemented by doctor with
q stomach pump made the little iel-
low as good as ever In a few hours.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
A Remarkable Woman.

In order that she may take up a
homestead near Pierce. Mrs. Louise
Warner, aged 10 years. a native of
Sweden last Thursday took out her
first naturalization papers here. She
Is all alone in the world. her hus-
band and children having died some
years ago, She has lived In this
country for about twenty-five years,
but came to this state recently. She
Is firm in her determination to own
. farm in northern Colorado and
ready to 20 through the slow process
Of acquiring one by homesteading
piece OF land.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
Girls Picnic.

The Sigma Psi Omega Sorority
girls formed a merry picnic party
last Saturday and drove out to
'Shark's TOOTH" where they spent
the dav and enjoyed the usual de-
lights of a picnic including q splen-
did dinner. The club members are
Misses Edith Harris, Edna Lewis,
Halle Daven, Dorothea Haynes,
Kathleen Wheeler, Marion Fezsr and
Ailene Thompson.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
GOOD JOKE
lnsella Was the Victim
This Time.

fere numerous good April
played here. but the one
W. Il. Kinsella was made
P 10y a charming little Miss
az good as any. On the
ot April l the young lady,
PS Brown, daughter of Mr..
Is partner, called In a dis
'olce for Mr. Kinsella to
le owned a certain house IN
ply of the Brown home and
Iot sale? Being assured
y we're the facts. she asked
'mllted to look 1t over that
aud as she lived right near
Mr.. kinsella would just
= There ON his wheel she
IN over to the place with
y they could talk terms.
Ipeen previously posted by her
! real estate parlance, she
ne OF incumbrances, modern
'ehtals, etc The whole
'Aeu good to the real estate
l,hsella wanted to make as
Impression .as possible or
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
Two are Ares ed.

John Rickard aud John Hvle, two
old residents of Evans, were arrested
last Friday on behalf OF the Anu,
saloon League OF that place. charged
with irving to influence voters IN
the coming spring election. Dan
pierpont and Mrs. K. j. Smart are
the complaining witnesses i' ~
claimed that the men were oherihs
,nonev for votes In behalf Of saloons
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
USE THE BEST
SELECTION OF SEED POTA-
TOES IS IMPORTANT.
Prof. E. R. Bennett of Agricul-
tural College Gives Some
Valuable Hints on Mat
ter of Selection.

The change or improvement that
has been made in our breeds of
domestic animals and plants comes
from selection. This selection Is
artificial rather than natural, but
In all cases natural laws are followed.
When variety runs OUT it Is
usually because Of a selection which
might be called the opposite of nat
ural selection. That Is. selecting
the weakest rather than the strong
est specimens for the parent stock.
In selecting potatoes the hill or
plant is the unit to be considered.
The points of excellence In the plant
are, first, health and strength of
plant; second, a good number of uni
form, medium sized tubers; third,
all tubers should conform to the
ideal type of that particular variety {;
fourth, the eyes or buds should be
hallow, so as not to cause too much
loss In preparing for the table.
When tubers are selected from bins
1t is impossible to know whether the
individual tuher, no matter how
perfect it may be, came from a plant
which produced all perfect tubers,
or whether 1t was the only perfect
tuber Oh the plant: consequently
with bin selection, the tendency Is
more apt to be toward running out
than toward the upbuilding of the
! variety.
TEbeEs from ideal hills shcsld
produce plants similar to the parent
plants, but a certain per cent Of
them will be poor hills owing to a
reversion to the parent stock further
back than the first generation. With
each years selection this reversion
becomes less and less, until the per-
centage of poor hills should be very
small The results of two years
selection of hills by Mr.. III. Edger-
ton, Of Carbondale, Colorado, was to
reduce the number of culls (large,
cracked potatoes, and very small
potatoes) from one sack in twenty
from the uin selected seed to one
sack in two hundred from the hill
selected seed.
A good practice Is to leave seed
tubers exposed to the light for few
days after digging, before storing for
the winter. This practice, known
as 'greening' the seed, toughens
the skin and makes the tubers more
resistant to disease In storage.
Seed potatoes should be stored IN
crates, shallow bins or loose barrels.
In dry cellar, with plenty OF ven-
tilation, and a temperature between
30 and 4C degrees. Heating In the
bins in storage is frequently the
cause of poor stands In the field.
Heated potatoes can not be detected
in the spring. and the only way to
avoid the difficulty is in using care
in storing. Treatment of seed pota-
toes with formalin and corrosive
sublimate before planting to prevent
scab has not in most cases proved
successful in Colorado. Exposing
The seed tubers to the light and air
in the fall aud again in the spring
before planting appears to be more
satisfactory. +. Il. Bennett,
Potato Specialist. Colorado Experi-
ment Station, Fort Collins, Colo.
Another Project.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-04-09
CTED ALL
|1 SPEAR CONTROLS
bRTHERN COLORADO
Railway Terminals
h After Four Years
k-Other Railway
News of Week.

jpg IN a state Of innocuous
ior about twenty wears.
klthern Colorado Railway
Held a stockholders meet
kction last Saturday after
lis company WAS organized
/ years ago and bought a
lie tract of land in East
be used for terminals for
)ilroad into Greeley. Ten
! the subscriptions to stock
in. and some work toward
bother railroad done.
past four years George J.
been working to secure
the stock of this old com.
ecently rounded up enough
SO that he had a meet
Stockholders called. When
a showdown at the meet
.ound to have absolute
|the company and elected
of the eleven directors.
bit was elected president,
b, secretary and w. f.
teasurer Of the company.
with II. N. Haynes, A.
orge j. Spear, Aubrey
b. Jones and Fl. c. Ben.
city, and A. W. Tren-
ptto Bremen Of st. Paul
the board of directors.
bany owns twenty.six lots
side of Fifth avenue be.
Esenth and Tenth streets
ealout 1ps tesminal SAcili-
Ailroad. Nj. Spear ex-
the property in connec-
be proposed line of the
Northern Railway &
mpany. The property
for no other purpose than
minals.
e a few new developments
ilway circles outside OF
.. Olson, OF st. Paul, who
prking for some time as
)gent for the Gree ley 4
company, and who had an
20 days on the bond issue
to complete and equip
fom Greeley to Evans, has
e to place the bonds. ow-
financial stringency In the
for the present no more
be made to place the bonds
py more construction work.
has been negotiating with
parties for the sale OF
mines that he controls In
and he was depending
deal largely to take the
the Pittsburg people have
Re so far to make the raise
essary money.
pected that the suit against
| Greeley to determine tile
|of the franchise granted
! ago to Mr.. Spear will be
|e federal court this week.
lev ii. N. HavneS.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-08-11
BEN TILLMAN,
United States Senator From South
Carolina, 81 Years Old Today.

Benjamin Ryan Tillman, United
States senator from South Carolina,
is sixty-one years old today He was
born in Edgefield county, that state,
August II, 1S47. In 1864 he quit
school to join the Confederate army,
but was stricken with a severe ill
ness, which caused the loss of his left
eye and kept him an invalid for sew
eral years. 1t was not until 1886 that
he took an active interest in politics.
and then it was for the purpose of
promoting legislation looking to the
establishment of state institutions for
agricultural education. In 1890 he
was the successful candidate on the
democratic ticket for governor of
South Carolina and was reelected in
1892. His term as governor was sig
nalized by the passage of the dispen-
sary law for the control of the liquor
traffic by the state. He was the sue
cessful candidate against General
Butler for the United States senate,
and was reelected in 1901 and 1907
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-08-11
ONE OF WONDERS OF AGE
Is General Booth, the Venerable Head
of the Salvation Army-Goes
to South Africa Soon.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
London, Aug. 11-General Booth,
the venerable head of the Salvation
Army, continues to be one of the
wonders of the age. In his eightieth
year he is just completing his fifth an
tomobile tour through Great Britain
Starting from Dundee, the general
and his staff have visited scores of
towns, and addressed hundreds of
meetings. Everywhere he has been
received with enormous crowds.
General Booths next trip will be to
South Africa, where he goes in order
to have a look at Rhodesia, and to
form an opinion as to its capabilities
to receive British settlers Should the
field be found favorable the Salvation
Army will turn part of the present
emigration from Canada to Rhodesia.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-08-11
MEMS LIST.
Geo. w. Burkitt, Jr., P. M.

c. w. Allen, w. R. Attorney, A. j.
Abel, Nelson Banks, w. M. Barnett,
Johnnie Carlston, C. NJ. Cantrell, Jas.
e. Caldwell, NJ. ]. Coote, Fred Collier,
w. H. Davenport, j. r. Ferguson, Lee
Fields, Abe Fletcher, C. S. Garrison,
F. r. Gfvens, DIR. r. d. Giffin, Tom
Hardy, Dan Harmon, A. W. Kellogg,
E. w. Kurtz, VIII Low, Wylie Man
ming, Sidney Moreland, Frank Nor
gan, Henry Moren, w. M. Martin, j..
NJ. Nance, Bill Parker, ]. ]. Perkins,
F. e. Rice, Geo. Swanson, L. Clarence
Triwell, Luther Trowell, ]. II. Thomp-
son, Isaac Turner, Dave White (3),
Buckley & Jennings Co.