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Washington telegraph., 1909-02-05
NO MEDICINE
But Change of Food Gave Relief.

Many persons are learning that
drugs are not the thing to rebuild
worn out nerves, but proper food Is
required.
There is a certain element in the
cereals, wheat, barley, etc, which Is
grown there by nature for food to brain
and nerve tissue. This is the phos-
phate Of potash, of which Grape-Nuts
food contains large proportion.
In making this food all the food ele-
ments in the two cereals, wheat and
barley, are retained. That is why so
many heretofore nervous and run down
people find in Grape-Nuts true nerve
and brain food
Il can say that Grape-Nuts food has
done much for me as a nerve renew.
err" writes a Wis. bride.
"a few years ago, before my mar
riage, l was bookkeeper in a large
firm. | became so nervous toward the
end of each week that it seemed I
must give up my position, which l
could not afford to do.
Mother purchased some Grape-Nuts
and we found it not only delicious but
noticed from day to day that I was
improving until finally realized was
not nervous any more.
Il have recommended 1t to friends
as a brain and nerve food, never hav-
ing found its equal. I owe much to
Grape-Nuts as it saved me from
nervous collapse, and enabled me to
retain my position"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well.
ville," in pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter. A new
nre genuine, true, and full OF hursSS
interest.
Washington telegraph., 1909-02-05
CHILD HAD SIXTY BoILs,
And Suffered Annually with a Red
ScaId-Like Humor on Her Head.
Troubles Cured by cuticura.

"When my little Vivian was about
six months old her head broke out In
boils. She had about sixty in all and
I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment which cured her entirely.
Some time later d humor broke out BE-
hind her ears and spread up on to
her head until 1t was nearly half COW
cred. The humor looked like a scald.
very red with a sticky, clear fluid COM
ing from 1t. This occurred every
spring. I always used Cuticura Soap
and Ointment which never failed to
heal 1t up. The last time it broke
out 1t became so bad that I was dis
couraged. But I continued the use of
Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resol.
vent until she was well and has never
been troubled in the last two years.
Mrs. M. A. Schwerin, 674 Spring Wells
Ave-, Detroit, Mich, Feb. "a, 1905"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props, Boston.
Washington telegraph., 1909-02-05
1t VIII STAY There

"In my family medicine chest no
remedy is permitted to remain unless
1t proves beyond a doubt the best to
be obtained for its particular purpose.
For treating all manner Of skin trou-
bles, such as Eczema, letter, Ring
worm, ETC., Hunts Cure has held its
place for many years. l have failed
to find surer remedy. 1t cures itch
ing instantly" r. M. SWAMI,
Franklin, La
Washington telegraph., 1909-02-05
Not Included

After the dry goods salesman had
completed his business with Cyrus
Craig, Centerville's storekeeper, he
asked what was going on in the town.
Had any entertainments this winter?"
he inquired
No. said Mr.. Craig, mot one Sa.
lone Howe's pupils have given two
concerts, piano and organ, and the
principal of the 'cademy has lectured
twice, once on Our National Forests
and once on Stones AS Know Them
but as far as entertainments are con-
cerned. Centerville hasn't got round to
'em yet."-Youth's Companion.
Washington telegraph., 1909-02-05
Come Get Your Medicine.

II that little bit of three-cornered,
half-jointed, pin-headed squirt with
big automobile and a size three head
on his miserable, slanting shoulders,
who turned the corner Of Ferry and
Main streets on two wheels the other
afternoon, and nearly sent three pedes-
trians into Kingdom Come, will call
at this office we'll tear his scrawny
soul to pieces and lick him to a "fraz-
zle" after the most approved Roose-
veltian methods. He knows who we
mean.-Buffalo News.
Washington telegraph., 1909-02-05
Indian Pholosophy,

Quanah Parker, Comanche chief,
recently visited an ice plant in an
Oklahoma town. He was much inter-
ested in everything pertaining to the
plant. After he had been shown
throughout the building, he remarked:
white man smart. White man heap
smart White man smarter than God.
make ice in summer. fudge.
Washington telegraph., 1909-02-05
But Soon.

"Come, dent be foolish" said the
pretty young wife, "he's merely an old
fame Of mine"
Indeed" cried her aged but rich
husband. 'I'll warrant you dream
of his tender advances yet"
NO." she replied, with faraway
look, mot yet."-The Catholic Stand.
ard and Times.
Washington telegraph., 1909-02-05
THE NEWS
IN Brief
A GENERAL SUMMARY OF IMPoR-
TANT NEWS OF THE WEEK
GATHERED FROM ALL OVER.


an automobile accident near Tampa,
Fla.
The waterway improvement bill
will be reported to the House this
week.
The Senate passed the House bill
prohibiting the importation of
opium.
Seven persons were killed in a
cyclone near Birmingham, Ala, last
Friday.
Assaults on white women by ne
groes led to race conflict at Pitts
burg, Pa.
John Gilmore Speed, author and
journalist, committed suicide at
Mendham, N. J.
The bill excluding Japanese from
schools PASSED the California House
of Representatives.
President Roosevelt is much con-
cerned over the anti-Japanese agita-
tion on the Pacific coast.
Continuous earthquakes have been
experienced in the northern part of
the Island of Sanhalin for several
days past.
Luis f. Corea, ex-Minister from
Nicaragua, left Washington for New
Orleans, where he will make his
future home.
Senor Cody, Secretary Of the
Mexican Embassy at Washington,
has been appointed Mexican Minis
ter to Cuba.
The Humphreys bill, providing
for the regulation of interstate ship
merts of liquor, was favorably re-
ported to the House.
The Federal Government will de-
tail men to survey the water bound
ary of the Gulf cost between Louisi-
ana and Mississippi.
Richard Mueller, President of tine
Association of German Veterans in
America, was received in audience
by Emperor William.
William Loeb, Jr., secretary to
the President, will be Collector of
Customs at New York under the
Taft administration
The National Committee appoint
ed to fix the standards of cotton
has completed its work and submit
ted its report to Secretary Wilson.
The Democrats in the Senate con-
tinued their fight against the con-
frmation of W. d. Crum, the negro
Collector of Customs at Charleston,
S. G.
The third torpedo fotilla now at
Pensacola, Fla, has been ordered to
Mobile, Ala, to participate in the
Mardi Gras celebration there, Feb.
Is to 23.
Hundreds of prominent citizens
signed the bond Of Governor Char
les N. Haskell, of Oklahoma, who
was indicted for alleged completely
in Government land frauds,
A duel was fought near Frankfort
on-the-Main by Baron Won Oertzen,
an infantry captain, and Lieuten-
ant Won Stuckras, of the reserves.
The latter was killed.
The skeleton of a prehistoric man
of gigantic size has been found at
a town ten miles southeast of the
City of Mexico. The skeleton meas
ured about fifteen feet in height
The Moscow police have arrested
a man with an American passport
bearing the name of Richard #.
Stevens, of Washington, D. c., OF
the charge that he was associated
with reyolutionists.
Washington telegraph., 1909-02-05

Customs of Charleston, S. c., was
before the Senate in executive ses-
sion for more than four hours, at
the end of which time no substantial
progress had been made toward con-
frmation.
Harry J. Banman, alias DIR. Her.
man Brandt, said to have had fifty
wives and to have swindled women
out of $500,000 in five years, was
sentenced to the Joliet penitentiary
today by Judge Clifford in the GRIM
inal court of Chicago to an indeter-
inmate sentence of from one to ten
years on a charge of swindling.
Wednesday of next week is the
tentative date for the House to act
on the proposal to regulate the inter-
state shipments of intoxicating Ii
quors. Consideration of the revi-
sion of the penal code then will be
resumed, and the first subject to
come up will be the liquor question.
There is no schedule or article in
the new tariff bill now being framed
by the House Committee on Ways
and Means upon which the rate of
duty has been finally fixed, Despite
numerous speculations as the deci-
sions of the Sub committee that
has the work in hand, nothing au-
thentic as to its deliberations is OBJ
tainable.
In an address before the Citrus
Fruit Growers Association Of Tex
as. State Inspector of Orchards
Sam Fl. Dixon asserted that if the
industry is to thrive in Texas
the chinaberry trees and the jessa-
mine business must be cut down be-
cause the white fly, the most dead
ly enemy of the citrus plants, is
given by them.
The Merry Widow hat, beloved by
and jokesmiths, has been
Tne National Associa-
ton of Retail Milliners has said
the word that banishes the monarch
of millinery connections to the limbo
of last years hats. What the Jests
and sneers and the pleadings Of
benighted mankind failed to do, the
milliners nave accomplished.
President Roosevelt is by no
means relaxing his efforts to prevent
anti-Japanese legislation in Califor-
MIA and Nevada. He had confer
ences with Senator Flint of Califor-
mia ndd Mason of Nevada and per-
sisted in his representations to them
that the situation would become
critical if there states insisted on
legislation that would bC insulting
to the japanese, to whom he refer
red as acting with dignity under the
strain.
Indications are that, more anti
Japanese bills will appear in the
Oregon legislature. The Bailey res
olution, which memorializes Con-
gress to extend the present exclu
sion law so as to include Hindoos,
japanese and all other Asiatics,
"views with alarm" the present talk
of repeal of the law and urge Con-
gress to take some action that will
stop the influx of Asiatics. who, the
resolution says, are invading the Pa
cifc coast states by the thousands
The Senate committee on inter
oceanic canals voted to send to the
committee on finance the Hopkins
bill increasing the authorization for
The issue of canal bonds from $135,-
to $5OO,ooO,OOO. This ac-
tion was taken on the theory that an
in excess of the
amount named in the original act
in itself acted to increase the limit
of cost of the Panama canal, and
therefore it was a question with
which the finance committee was
best qualified to deal.
1Hhn A M nrinnn hnt+lnrhi,n Aoo4
Washington telegraph., 1909-02-05

A rivers and harbor bill carrying
about $4,000 1000 will be reported
to the House i during the coming
week. a
Miss Vera H7Vare shot and killed
John Hanes IN the courtroom at
Gatesville, Text, and fatally wound
ed three other.P.
Mexico may Pelze the Customhouse
at Puerto Cort Iez, Honduras, for the
purpose of el .acting indemnity for
an assault ON Mexican citizen.
ConpressmarI Broussard of Louisi-
ane, Introduces resolution IN the
House providiifg for an inyestiga-
tion of a plalI for Federal control
of levees. u
A bill has b, Zen introduced in the
United States senate increasing the
nav of rural rpute mail carriers to
Al 600 a YEAR and allowire them
thirty days va Fatlon.
Captain Edvjard F. Qualthrough,
commander of lthe American battle
ship Georgia, Pas been arrested at
Gibraltar and will be tried by court
martial nm q enlarge of drunkenness.
Congressman Underwood of Ala
hama asked president Roosevelt to
send a gunboaF TO costa Rlea to
back up the claf fm OF IL. l.. McCon-
nell Of Mobile land u. L. Nabors of
Birmingham.
While shooting at alleged chicken
thieves, who weFe making their get
away across a shhool yard at Okla
homa City, an ohcer accidentally
shot and killed. 4Gladys Meadora,
aged Il years..
Miss Mitchell, swho killed Miss
Mime McBryde lat Rocky Mount
Valley. Va. onI the eve of the lat
ter's wedding. Was convicted of sec
ond degree murRef and given eight
cen years in the penitentiary.
Cipriano Castle former president
of Venezuela yIho has been under
the care of DR.. ilsrael for a month,
following the. plforming of an op-
GRAFTON, left-thS, 3astors private SAN
itarium, after having been declared
cured.
The Odd Fellows Temple of
Chatham, Ont, was robbed of costly
jewels and oraments. What has
caused the most concern, however,
was the discovery that copies of the
secret work of the order were taken
by thieves.
Carrie Nation became acquainted
with the London police courts when
she was fined $3.50 for thrushing
her umbrella through window of
car in the underground railway,
upon which cigarette advertise
ment was pasted.
Foreign Minister Komura, ad-
dressing the lower house of the ia
panese Diet, declared that Japan is
confident that anti-Japanese meas
ures pending in the California Leg
islature will not lead to interna-
tional complications.
Rev. Timothy Dempsey Of st.
Louis is preparing to secure burial
lot, 35x40 feet, in Calvary Gene
terry for those of the inmates of his
hotel who may die during residence
there. The plot which it is proposed
to buy will accommodate about 200
graves.
The American consul at Riga,
Russia, has been instructed to in
vestegatc and make a report on the
circumstances of the death of Fred
erick Stombach, former soldier in
the American army, who is said to
have been killed by the Russian
authorities.
Mrs. katherine Waugh McCul-
loch, Of Evanston, Ind, the only
Washington telegraph., 1909-02-05
NEEDS OF FARMER
SHOWN BY COUNTRY LIFE COM.
MISSION REPORT.
Obstacles 10 Ee Overcome Are Point
ed ou., Together with sueges-
tions for Guidance Of the Ma
tional Government

Washington.-Report of the commits.
sion on country life. of especial inter
est to the farmers, was read in both
houses Of congress. A summary fol.
lows:
To the President: The commission
on country life herewith presents its
report. The commission finds that
agriculture in the United States. taken
together, Is prosperous commercially.
when measured by the conditions that
have obtained in previous years, al
though there are some regions in
which this is only partially true. The
country people are producing vast
quantities of supplies for food, shelter,
clothing, and for use in the arts. The
country homes are improving in COM
fort, attractiveness and healthfulness
Not only in the material wealth that
they produce, but in the supply of in
dependent and strong citizenship. the ag-
ricultural people constitute the very
foundation of our national efficiency
AS agriculture is the immediate basis
OF country life, so 1t follows that the
general affairs of the open country
speaking broadly. are in condition
of Improvement.
Most Prominent Deficiencies.
1et IL Is true Notwithstanding all
this progress as measured by his
torical standards, that agriculture Is
not commercially as profitable as 1t is
entitled to be for the labor and energy
that the farmer expends and the risks
that he assumes, and that the social
conditions in the open country are far
short of their possibilities.
The reasons for the lack of highly
organized rural society are very many.
as the full report explains. The lead
ing specific causes are:
Lack of good training for country
life in the schools
Lack of good highway facilities; -
The widespread continuing deple-
tion of soils, with the injurious effect
on rural life;
general need of new and active
leadership.
Other causes contributing to the
general result are: Lack of any ade-
quate system of agricultural credit,
the farmer may readily Sc
cure loans on fair terms; the short
Age of labor, a condition that is often
by intemperance among
lack of institutions and in
,entives that tie the laboring man to |
he soil the burdens and the narrow
ife of farm women; lack of adequate |
supervision of public health.
La Junta tribune., 1909-08-28
Elmer Conner Arrested.

Elmer Conner. who formerly lived
here was arrested last week In Los
Angeles by Sheriff Potter. and
brought back here to face charge
OF wife desertion and failure to sup
port. The complaint was made by
his wife. who has been living In this
city and providing for herself and
children since Conner left three years
ago. Mrs. Conner is a daughter OF
son OF the late A. &. Conner. Conner
was arrested at his apartments in
Los Angeles by Sheriff Potter. who
had secured from the governor OF
California the necessary reQuisitiou
papers to take the prisoner from the
state. They left on the first train
after the arrest. arriving In La Junta
last Saturday night. Conner was
lodged In jail. but was released on a
81. 500 bail furnished by his mother
and sister. The latter were also In
Los Angeles At the time Of the ar
rest. but were out II the beach
They followed on the next train
after learning Of the arrest.
The case will come up In the coun'
~ court next month.-Rocky Ford
Tribune.
La Junta tribune., 1909-08-28

Ion OF the Otero canal from
The headgate 10 Its terminus, and
make report with recommendations
plans and estimates for putting the
ditch In first.class condition.
SIR. Fields, accompanied ~ Il. W.
Norton and J.. ID. Craighead. two OF
the directors OF the district. spent
from Thursday TO Sunday OF last
week. .trayersing the entire length
Of the canal Mr.. Fields had heard
many OF the ISLANDERS that have been
circulated about the Otero canal, and
II u reported that he was very much
surprised to find the ditch In as good
condition as II is. Mr.. Fields left
for Denver last Sunday and has since
written that he will have his report
ready for a meeting OF the directors
10 be held next week.
La Junta tribune., 1909-08-28
o. D. Ritter on Native Heath.

A recent issue OF the Clearfield
(PaD Spirit contains an extended
write-up Of the return OF d. ID. Rit-
ter. a well-known La Junta resident
for years, to his native heath. 1t is
as follows:
Darius ID. Ritter. who with his fam
lily. left Clearfield county twenty-one
years ago for La Junia, Colorado,
where he has resided during all that
time. was a most welcome caller TO
see the editor OF the Spirit this morn
ing. Mr.. Ritter had come down from
Barncsboro. where he had been spend
ing a week or two with his son and
was on his way TO Curwensyille and
Pike township, his old stamping
ground for many years. While ~
town he met some old friends who
recognized him and whom he knew al
sight. namely: Geo. W. Rheem. Ale,
Livingston, Arnold Bloom and John
l.. kragle. Mr.. Ritter is now nearly
so years OF age and carries the weigh
OF four score years as lightly ms the
average man OF 60.
Back In the early seventies Mr.
Ritter was an active school director
OF Pike township and one Of the best
school men In the county. He must
have been good school man else
he wouldn't have favored the editor
OF the Spirits teaching five success
sive years In the Bloomington school
Mr.. Ritter Is sincerely glad to SET
his old Clearfield county friends ant
having sold his property In Colorado
he feels he will spend his remaining
days among the hills and friends Oi
Pennsylvania. Mr.. Ritter's chief re
gret at having been gone 80 lons
from Us ID that he was all these
years without q drink Of old Clear
field county cider. He seemed tc
get mad At Colorado every time b.
thought Of the cider he used to make
out At Locust Ridge along the old
Erie pike. We are mighty clad Il
see our old time friend Darius d. Rit
ter and may the good Lord spare him
many years In which to enjoy life
In his own best way.
La Junta tribune., 1909-08-28

healthy appetite ever present and
ready to do business at regular per
'ods. II the time ever comes when
we nave TO take course OF training
at camp La Junta to develop an ap.
petite It's us for the headwaters Of
the Otero canal to shuttle off this
mortal coil by drowning. Fishing at
Camp La Junat is a pipe dream. and
the pipe hasn't gone out, as they
are fishing yet, and probably will be
until the snow flies.
49,
After four days of fishing, without
even having a strike" We joyfully
folded up our suit case one bright
morning and quietly stole away. Our
journey home was via the Gunnison
Tunnel, which We had the pleasure Of
inspecting. and then over and under
the Rio Grande. through washouts
galore, and via Montrose, Delta, Grand
Junction and Glenwood Springs. back
home again. They have a great
country over there. but it's outside
Of the pale OF civilization where you
have to read daily paper four days
old. There isn't much more doing in
any of the towns on the western
slope than there is right here at
home, where some people tell us we
are on the verge OF stagnation. La
Junta sure looked the part OF the
biggest and best town on the map
when We arrived home, and II you
don't believe II just try trip around
the circle. You will find there Is
nothing more satisfying than your
own home and fireside.
La Junta tribune., 1909-08-28
Elks VIII Play esssosIl.

The Elks OF La Junta and Rocky
Ford will play baseball on Labor Day,
September 9Th. at Pasiime Park.
Representatives Of the xntlered tribe
are practicing faithfully. every morn.
Ing at 8 o'clock. and In the evening
at 6 O'Clock. In order To get into good
condition for the great event Some
very good baseball talent has already
bssn developed. and from those who
show the best form the team will be
nsde up. Vic Lagerquist is already
slated for the position Of box artist.
- they say he can pitch . ball with
more curves and twists 10 II than
either Pratt or Deniston. Hubbell.
WEIGH, Anderson. Miner. Todd and
Demsron have also demonstrated that
thsy arc ball players Of some class.
ard II they are not swiped BY some
Of the major leagues before the game
comes off will be In the big event
- Labor Day.
La Junta tribune., 1909-08-28
Electric Juice on the Rampage.

La Junta suffered from severe
attack Of electro-hysteria last Tues
day night. II was about the worst
electrical storm this city ever expert.
enced. Vivid flashes Of lightning
were followed by others. frequently
after frequently, succeeded ly such
terrific cannonading that IL caused
some umid females to entertain
thoughts Of crawling under the bed.
There were no fatalities, however,
not even at the Park House, where II
was reported In some newspaper cir.
cles. that there had been tragedy.
There could not have been much In
the report that this hostelry was
struck by lightning for the reason
that some OF the inmates knew moth
ing OF II until they read 1t In the
papers the next day. The electric
light plant had hard struggle to
maintain its equilibrium during ,the
electric storm. The forces without
bucked the forces within and 1t was
a rather severe trial on the engine,
but outside OF a broken guide no
damage was done. although part OF
the town was In darkness for IA short
time owing 20 shut. down OF tho
plant as a measure Of precaution.
La Junta tribune., 1909-08-28
TIMPAs ITEMS.

Emmett Bleyins and Jacob Byers
made business trip to La Junta
last Saturday.
Mr.. Reese has legun work on his
new reservoir. located about two
miles southeast OF Timpas.
Mr. O'Neil. Of New Mexico. was
here one day last week looking after
his interests near Timpas.
Miss Barbara Thatcher has been to
Thatcher this week. visiting her sis
ter, Blye. and Mrs. T.. A. Coe.
w. T. Reese In here this week.
looking after his interests and will
return TO Manitou Saturday.
The Hne rain which we had this
week filled both reservoirs No. ! and
No. 2. the water is running In the
ditches and the farmers are all irri-
eating.
The dance which was given a, the
Lawrence hall. Saturday night. was
well attended and every one seemed
TO enjoy themselves
The weil.drillers who have been
drilling the artesian well have struck
= constant flow OF water at the depth
Of 5s6 feet which is said TO be one
Of the best artesian wells In the state
Mr.. and Mrs. Lovclady passed
through Timpss Tuesday evening from
the Cedsrs on their way TO La Junta
10 attend the funeral of her father.
Mr.. Haskins. who died Tuesday morn
Ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Berger had = narrow
escape last Friday morning. They At
tempted 10 cross Timpas creek. and
found the water deeper than they
expected. They drove In but the cur
rent WAS 80 swim that the horse.
buggy and all drifted down stream.
After they had drifted about 100 yards
Mr.. and Mrs. Berger got out Of the
buggy and swan TO shore. and tho
horse wont on and landed on = sand
bar