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The Glenwood post., 1908-02-01
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 10000 ap-
plications from members of the So
called unknown army" Few persons
thought the number would be less
than $4,000.
The service pension act became ef-
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,S5 certificates
granting pensions under this act had
been issued. The total number of GER
titicates 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-
ton of last February-arc 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 the
War Department.
Fifty applications for pensions un-
der the 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 it will
be necessary for them to make new
applications when they reach the Pc
riod Of life which names them to re-
ceive higher rating. For instance,
soldier sixty-nine years old. and pen
stoned at $12, 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 a new application. He says It
is impossible for the pension office to
keep a 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 a higher
rating.
The Glenwood post., 1908-02-01
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 2 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. NJ. Matthias, Monte
Vista; second vice president, c. c.
Williams, Yuma; third vice president,
Ben Breston, Fort Collins; fourth vice
president, Frederick Gaylord; secre-
tary, Fritz knorr; treasurer, H. l..
Locke, Longmont.
Secretary Knorr was also appointed
as delegate to the National Corn Asso-
citation convention at Omaha, Novem-
Der z5th to December 9th. inclusive.
Resolutions approving of President
Olin's suggestion that the organization
be incorporated under the state laws
we're adopted, as were also resolutions
indorsing plan to make the associa-
ton clearing house for frst-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 $400 In prizes for three conse-
cutive years, 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
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 men,
Der 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 Glenwood post., 1908-02-01
RAILWAY SUIT BEGUN.
attorney General Strikes at HarrIman's
Great Railway Combine.

hington.-Attorney General Bon
hparte Saturday directed that 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 Pacific, 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
vestlSation 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 the suit
as Of first Importance, as it is sought
by means thereof to break up a sub
'tantial monopoly of the transportation
business Of the country between the
Missouri river on the east and the en-
tire 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 Nnder a contract by
which it is required to give proxies
to such persons as may be named by
Mr., Hartman and Mr.. Clark for a Pc
riod of years. There are also the fol-
lowing individual defendants COM
planned OF, to-wit: E. H. Hartman, ia
cob H. Schifr. Otto H. Kahn, James
Stillman, Henry C. Frick, Henry H.
Rogers and William A. Clark"
While naming the individual defen-
dants, 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 Glenwood post., 1908-02-01
Suit Against State Treasurer.

Denver.-In order to force State Aud
itor StaLler 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
filed in the District Court at Denver by
the governing boards of the State
School Of Mines, State Normal school,
Colorado School for tho 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,
s35.000; Normal school, for finishing
library, 100000; 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, 100000.
One-half Of each amount Is still due
each school.
The Glenwood post., 1908-02-01
Fort Collins Sugar Season.

Denver.-A Fort Collins dispatch
says: At /: so 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 10th. 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 130 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 a day was
lost during the campaign on any ac-
count, or for any reason, and not a 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
ful and the most satisfactory all around
in the history of the local factory.
The Glenwood post., 1908-02-01
Statehood Legislation DELAYED.

Washington. - Under a decision
reached by House and Senate leaders
that there will be no statehood legis.
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
Turing 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 it will be,
the early passage Of statehood bill
In tho second session of the present
Congress is, in their opinion, assured
The Glenwood post., 1908-02-01
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 its own exertions to raise
large sums necessary to finance the
project, as it receives no assistance in
this respect from the government and
Is, therefore, at disadvantage with
other countries that have held the
games previously.
The Glenwood post., 1908-02-01
Mitchell Voted Extra Pay.

Indianapolis.-The convention of the
United Mine Workers of America
Tuesday unanimously voted President
Mitchell six months pay, with all eX-
penses, including medical attendance.
Propositions sent to the resolutions
committee to employ Mr.. Mitchell af-
ter his retirement as president April
1st. as counsel at a salary of $4,000, to
place him at the head of a national
educational board to work in connec-
tion with the national executive board,
and to levy "A per capita tax of from
10 cents to 30 cents were reported un-
favorably after Mr.. Mitchell had been
consulted and had refused to accept
any of them.
Mr.. Mitchell has announced that he
intends to take long vacation to en-
deavor to recover his health.
Resolutions presented by the Social
lists were promptly voted down. They
were similar to those presented TO the
convention each year.
A resolution to give the Western
Federation of Miners jurisdiction over
all metalliferous mines and the United
Mine Workers jurisdiction over all
coal miners was favOrably commented
upon and referred to commission TO
be named later to bring the matter be
fore the national convention of the
Western Federation.
A resolution opposing government
by injunction" was discussed by Secre-
tary Wilson and several Socialist dele.
gates.
The convention Tuesday afternoon
endorsed the employers liability act
and urged its delegates to the Amer
ican Federation OF Labor convention
TO advocate a universal label memor-
ialize congress to create a bureau of
mines and mining and instructed the
international organizers TO go to
! Washington to appear before the nee
essary committees.
The Glenwood post., 1908-02-01
Chicago Tramps Feasted.

Chicago, Ill.-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," F."
said one of the five members, as he
attempted to eat the dainty things he
had ordered in the club dining room.
Lets 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 dessert - r1c 1titi..g +.
The Glenwood post., 1908-02-01
Packing Plant Burned.

Kansas City.-Fire of unknown
origin started in the canning depart
ment on the second floor of one of the
twin main buildings of the S2,0OO,OOO
packing plant of Nelson Morris a. Co,
on the kaw river in Kansas City
Kan, Tuesday night, threatened de-
struction of the entire plant and
caused loss estimated at S75O,OOO be
fore it was controlled.
All efforts to save the east main
building, in which the fire started.
and the box factory, We're abandoned
within an hour after the flames We're
discovered. and the firemen devoted
themselves to the work of saving the
other buildings.
The building in which the fire
started contained the canning depart
ment, the coolers, the dressing ROOM
the wholesale department, and killing
beds and the contents supplied the
fire with fuel which made the flames
difficult to combat The fire had
gained great headway before the fire
department arrived and the heat was
so intense that it was impossible for
the tiremen to make any progress in
checking 1t except to prevent its
spreading. The box factory in the rear
of the main building was entirely de
stroyed. The flames also spread to
the cattle chutes, many of which were
burned.
The other main building contains
the general offices and the engine
room and much salvage from the
burned building was carried into it..
The Morris packing plant was the new
est in this city, having been completed
two years ago.
The Glenwood post., 1908-02-01
Girl Wins Prize Bull.

Denver.-The ticket which won the
prize bull donated by ]. c. Osgood for
the sale Of tickets during the stock
show, was held by Frances Trumbull
Van Mater, the young daughter of
Harry Van Mater, $50 Emerson, No.
oS9 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 we're sold to Denver
people. The animal is finely bred and
worth separd hundred dollars.
The Glenwood post., 1908-02-01
Grand Plaza for Denver.

Denver.-A new beauty plan for Den
yer, taking up the agitation for civic
center with 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 E1-
change. The report Of the committee
has been submitted to the mayor with
sketches made by Frederick Macmon-
nies, the celebrated sculptor, in consul
tation with the committee, and elabo-
rations of these sketches by Biscoe and
Hewitt, architects.
The plan is ready in every details to
be submitted to the people Of the city.
Briefly. it 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 a 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 and Bannock street. This
will give an irregular six-sided plot OF
ground right in the junction OF the resi-
dence AMI 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, It is planned to build a sta
dunn presenting opportunities for beau
tiication that will place Denver on q
par with any city In the United ststes-
The Glenwood post., 1908-02-01
Employers May Bar Unions.

WaShington.-The constitutionality
of the act of Congress of June |, 1908,
prohibiting railroad companies en-
gagged in interstate commerce from
discriminating against members of
labor organizations in the matter of
employment was called into question
by the case of William Adair VS.. the
United States, which was decided by
the Supreme Court of the United States
Monday favorable to Adair. The opin-
ion was by Justice Harlan and held
the law to be repugnant to the consti-
tuition.
The court held that Adair, as mas
ter mechanic of the Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad Company, had a right to
discharge an employe because he was
a member of labor organization just
as it was the employees right to quit
such employment because of his mem
bership in such organization.
Such course. the decision added,
might be unwise. but. regarded as a
mere matter of right, there could be
no doubt. Congress could not under
the constitution authorize violation
of contracts under the guise of pro
tecting interstate commerce.
Justice McKenna delivered a dis.
senting opinion favorable to the law,
in which he said the courts decision is
along very narrow lines.
Justice Holmes also expressed the
opinion that the law should be con
strued as constitutional. He thought
that the right to make contracts had
been stretched to the limit by the
courts decision in this case. That
Congress had right to so legislate
as to encourage labor organizations
was another suggestion of Justice
Holmes.
The Glenwood post., 1908-02-01
MRS. EDDY MOVES TO BOSTON,
Founder Of Christian Science Will
Live on Beacon Street.

Boston.-The following statement
was given out Sunday night from the
office Of Alfred Farlow, head of the
Christian Science publicity bureau:
REV. Mary Baker-Eddy, discoverer
and founder of Christian Science, has
moved from Concord. N. H., to Brook
line, a suburb of Boston. The Law
renee estate, which has been remod-
eled, has been quietly furnished for
Mrs. Eddy and her household, and she
occupied it about 4:45 this afternoon.
Only few of Mrs. Eddy's friends
knew of her contemplated move.
while there has been much specu-
lation about the Brookline house, no
one had guessed Alright concerning its
future occupant.
Mrs. Eddy and her household, in
Guiding Calvin A Frye, her secretary,
with Archibald Mcclellan. as a guest,
constituted the party. They left Con-
cord at 2 p. m. on special train, which
had been held in the yard at Concord
until a few minutes before the time
scheduled for leaving. 1t was then
run under the shed of the Boston side
of the depot and was quietly boarded
by the party, about ten or twelve in
number.
The train was transferred to the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad at Lowell, Mass, whence /,
was run to South birmingham where it
was transferred to the Boston & Al
bany road, and went to Chestnut Hill
station, where carriages awaited the
party and carried them to their new
home on Beacon and Hammond
streets. Here everything was found
in full equipment aid supper was
served at the usual hour. Except for
the three hours required to make the
trip, there was no break in the usual
routine Of the family.
This move was not prompted by
any sudden decision. 1t is known to
some of Mrs. Eddys friends that she
has for some years been considering
the advisability Of returning to this
city.
Her purpose is to be more conven-
lent to the mother church of the de-
nomination, nearer to its headquarters
'The whole affair, including the
preparation of the house, was in keep
ing with Mrs. Eddy's usual way of do
ing things. She weighs matters de-
liberately and carefully, then acts
quickly"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-01-09

| There lUGs that Joe, and nobody else,
stuck up in q little boa outside tent"
promptly and without change of coun-
tenance, Positively no free seatsr'
What's the matter with you" Mr..
Arp whirled upon Uncle Joe Davey,
who was enjoying himself by repeating
at intervals the unreasonable words,
Couldn't of ben Joe," without any
explanation. why couldn't itY' shout
ed Eskew. 1T was! Do you think my
eyes are as fur gone as yours? l saw
him, | tell you. What's more, that boy
Joe II turn up here again some day.
You'll see if he don't. He's seed of
trouble and iniquity, and anything of
that kind is sure to come back to Ca
aaanw
Mr.. Arp stuck to his prediction for
several months. Then he began to
waver and evade. By the end of the
second. year following its first utter
ance he had formed the habit of deny
ing that he had ever made it at all and,
finally having come to believe with all
his heart that the prophecy had been
SiSA40CA c~tNiy AOAolC0 uEOA AAAn anu put
in his mouth by Squire Buckalew, be-
came SO sore upon the subject that
even the hardest dared not refer to it
in his presence.
Eskew's story of the ticket seller was.
the only news of Joe Louden that came
to Canaan during seven years. Anoth-
er citizen of the town encountered the
wanderer, however, but under circum-
stances so susceptible to misconception
that in moment of illumination he de-
cided to let the matter rest in golden
silence. This was Mr. Bantry, and the
cause of his silence was the fact that
his meeting with Joe occurred in the
STRAW Cellar tough New York re-
sort, in which neither of them should
have been.