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La Junta tribune., 1909-04-24
1.-THE Girl Question"

Splendidly staged, THE Girl Quds-
opera house last night before a large
and delighted audience. says the Pu-
eblo Chieftain OF recent date. The
| Girl Question" is one of the very
| best musical extravaganzas that has
appeared here in many moon, and
the greatest credit is due Messrs.
Askin and Sanger for their selection
of such capable company of play
ers.
Paul Nicholson lived up to his
Broadway reputation as comic OPP
era comedian of James T. Powers
class. Paul Nicholson deserves great
credit. Years ago he was one OF
THE Mimic Four" quartette which
delighted vaudeville audiences. He
graduated into musical comedy and
| is now one Of the best known and
cleverest young actors on the stage
at present.
The scene Of the play was laid in
Times Square In New York-right in
the heart OF Broadway's night life.
The whole moved with the dash,
the vim and the ginger that would
have delighted the most blase thea
ire goer. The same play held The
boards at the Knickerbocker Theater.
New York, for run of four months,
and to do that a New York play has
to be good in the triple xxx grade
and "The Girl Question" is all that,
and more. 1t Is the superlative de-
gree of good-the best OF its kind
The chorus was young, beautiful,
well garbed. and danced with fire and
animation. The scenery would make
New Yorker think he was again
at Forty-Second street and Broadway
and Longacre square.
"The Girl Question" with Paul
Nicholson won a permanent niche
in the affections OF Pueblo's theater
goers and well deserved the crowded
house that greeted its production
last night.
THE Girl Question" will be the
high class attraction at the La Jun
ia Theater Tuesday. May 4th. Prices
s1.50, $1.0O, 75c and soc.
La Junta tribune., 1909-04-24

tended acts of the pretended city
council be declared null and void. and
held for naught. and that the same
be not spread upon the minutes. and
expunged from the records wherever
| the same may be-
This resolution was unanimously
adopted
On motion all petitions for appoint
regular meeting.
On motion X. N. Kirkpatrick was
elected to the exalted position OF
mayor pro TEN without opposition.
3. In the matter of the city printing,
NJ. r. McCauley was the only appli.
cant, and his generous request that
Tribune and the Democrat carried
unanimously.
Under the head of unfinished bust.
ness Alderman Shrum moved that
the matter of approving the bonds Of
the saloon men and issuing licenses
be taken up. and 1t was SO ordered.
The old council had already gone on
record by disappearing the saloon
bonds and denying the applications
for licenses. but as this particular
record had been expurgated. expung.
ed and declared null and void by the
new city solons. the bonds were still
"lying upon the table," according to
the new Interpretation OF parliamen-
tary law.
The saloon bonds were then taken
up separately, approved separately,
and licenses ordered issued for six
months to each and severally.
After the matter Of restoring the
saloons to their former pristine glory
and prestige had been attended to-
there was evidently nothing further
to do. and the city solons adjourned
until the first Monday in May.
La Junta tribune., 1909-04-24
DANGEROUS FAKES.
Tricks to Introduce Alum Baking
Powders Which Should BE Expos
ed.

There has recently been. attempted
at some of our grocery stores. and
also at dwelling houses, by agents
who are trying to sell alum baking
powders, what the exhibitors call u
baking powder test They pretend
to show by some boiling test that
pure cream of tartar baking powders
contain something which every wo-
man OF Intelligence knows they do
not.
1t does not need chemist to eX-
pose this trick. Cream of tartar.
which Is the chief constituent OF the
best and most wholesome bak-
ing powder. is originally a clear,
white crystal. This is ground into
q fine. creamy flour in which form.
mixed with baking soda, 1t is pres.
ent In the baking powder. Cream OF
tartar, when mixed with water and
boiled. simply returns to its crystal.
line form, and that is all there is 20
the so-called test.
The matter Of special interest to
the public is to know what these
people offer in place of cream of tar
tar powders of well known purity anl
established reputation against which
these slanders are directed. They
are Offering baking powder which
official analyses have repeatedly
shown is made from alum, a drug SO
well recognized by physicians and
scientists as injurious to health that
In many counties its use In bread
Is entirely prohibited. So cheap and
Inferior are the ingredients OF this
powder that 1t costs to make less
than three cents a pound. No pru-
dent housewife will knowingly put
such stuff as this into her food.
La Junta tribune., 1909-04-24

There was large audience in
the council chamber at the City Hall
last Monday evening to witness the
final spasm OF the retiring. city coun-
Gil, and to observe the initiatory
stunt of their predecessors. The
audience was well repaid for the
time spent. and II vote had been
taken 1t would probably have been
Unanimous In declaring that the ex-
hibition was worth the price. Mayor
Barr presided and all TO the alder
men, Mapes, Phillips. Harrison.
Kirkpatrick, Inge and Draper. were
among those present.
Under the head of reports Of Of
ficers the annual report OF City
Treasurer Fisher. synopsis Of which
will be found In another column Of
this issue. was read and ordered
placed on file.
Under the same head the annual
report Of City Clerk and Water Com
missioner Mayors. . resume Of which
will be found elsewhere. was also
read and ordered placed on file.
Alderman Inge then presented .
petition from the property owners in
the Lofland addition requesting per-
mission to be incorporated within
the city limits. the petition being
contingent upon placing two street
arc lights in the additi0n-one At
the Intersection OF Belmont and
Fifth street and the other At the
intersection Of lawrence avenue and
Fifth street The petition was fa-
vcrably considered by the retiring
council. but win have to be actel mp
ON definitely BY the incoming admin
istration. The territory asking for
admission embraces 22s lots. and IL
entirely surrounded by property al
ready within the city limits.
Permission was granted the Daush-
fess of the Revoluiton to place the
La Junta tribune., 1909-04-24
Hu,.nisti on con..ip.ted Seventeenth


The rankest April fool joke in the
state was the seventeenth general
assembly
The legislature passed bill for
home for feeble minded, and now we
move that it occupy it.
The seventeenth assembly is pass
Ing into history as one of brilliant
promise and microscopical perform
ance
We move that the seventeenth be
presented with leather mdal, with
the inscription. ''Indeligible Ineligi-
bility."
Grabs chew their food with their
hind legs. That's the way the legis-
lature passed primary and banking
laws.
One of the funniest things that
ever happened was the passing of a
resolution by the seventeenth assem-
bly, to the effect that congress ought
to keep its party promises.
La Junta tribune., 1909-04-24
City Directory Progress.

After numerous unsuccessful at
City Directory of La Junta is now
assured. w. a. Jeffries has spent
the past week In making q door to
door canvass for the information and
blocks has been covered. To insure
perfect directory 1t is absolutely
necessary that the names Of all en-
ployes OF firms. corporations and in
dividuals be taken. also all roomers
and boarders in rooming and board
ing houses. During the past week
in many quarters the opinion was
expressed that It was unnecessary to
give this information; however. the
publishers have explained the ne
cessity and Information in all
instances has been obtained. The
amount OF patronage received up to
this time far exceeds the expecta-
tions Of the publishers. and a city
directory which will be \ credit to
the community is assured.
The directory will be given = COM
plete circulation through the Val
ley and solicitations will be made in
most Of the states Of the Union. To
complete the canvass of La Junta
will require about i've weeks. after
which . canvass Of surrounding
neighborhocds viii be taken up.
La Junta tribune., 1909-04-24
Summons on Application for Regis
tration.

State OF Colorado, County of otero,
S.
In the District Court. No 16.
George w. Finnup, plaintiff, versus
Charles A. Solveson, also known
as Charles A. Salverson, Albert e..
King. and the United States Sc
curity and Bond Company, and all
other persons or parties unknown.
claiming any right. title, estate,
lien or interest In the real estate
described In the application here
in, defendants.
Summons on Application for Regis
ration.
The People of the State of Colo
rado to the Above Named Defend
ants-GREETING:
You are hereby summoned and re-
quired to answer the application Of
the applicant plaintiff in the above
entitled application for registratiol !
OF the following land situate in
Otero county. Colorado, to-wit: The
southwest quarter of the north
east quarter; the west half of the
southeast quarter and the south half
of the southwest quarter of section
eight; and the north half of The
northwest quarter and the north
west quarter of the north.
east quarter of section sew
enteen. all in township twenty-five
south OF range fifty-four west, of the
sixth principal meridian, and to file
your answer to the said application
in the office of the Clerk of said
Court. in said county. within twenty
days after the service OF this sum
mons upon you, exclusive Of the day
of such service; and II you fail to
answer the said application within
the time aforesaid. the applicant
plaintiff In this. action will apply to
the court for the relief demanded in
the application herein.
Witness, Sherman Farr, Clerk of
said court, and the seal thereof. at
La Junta, in said county and state,
this seventh day of April, A. D.
1909.
SHERMAN FARR,
(SeAD. Clerk.
BY Blanche B. Brown. Deputy.
First insertion, April "a, 1909.
Last insertion, May Is. 1909.
La Junta tribune., 1909-04-24
HAIL AND Farewell
OLD CITY COUNCIL IS DEAD AND
NEW soLoNs INAUeuRATE0
WITH FIREWORKS.
PltlBDB GnFATRRs cREIAID
Retiring City Council Close Up susi.
ness Of Administration As Usual,
and Have All Of Their Acts
Declared Null and. Void
BY Successors.

Never before in the history
OF La Junta was there ever
such an exhibition of dis
courtesy as that given by the
incoming to the outgoing city
council at the City Hall last
Monday night. The old city
; council met. as II has
from time immemorial, to
, close up the affairs of its ad-
ministration and complete all
unfinished business. They
then retired, and turned the
affairs OF the city over to their
; successors Some features of
the closing spasm of the re-
tiring administration were evil
IDENTIFY not In accord with the
views of the new city solons
acted by them was to pass an
insulting resolution declaring
; all OF the pretended acts of
; the pretended city council
) null and void" From a COM
; mon sense point of view they !.
; had as much right to do this
; as the ''constipated sew
; enteenth" would have to pass
; resolution declaring all of
) the acts OF its predecessors
) null and void. 1t may be that
; the incoming administration
; had to redeem some pre-elec-
; ton pledges, and contrary to
) the rule now in vogue in Colo
) rado, made good. Twenty
; years ago. when the town was
; wild and woody. the incoming
) and outgoing city councils
; partook OF banquet at the
; Harvey House. after the busi-
. ness of the evening had been
) concluded. but there was
; nothing doing in that line
) this year Of grace.
La Junta tribune., 1909-04-24

son, brown ana hTkpdtIich.
Finance and Salaries = Harbour.
Cartwright and Shrum..
Printing and Electric Light-Cart-
wright, Brown and Anderson.
Mayor Spalding then requested the
city clerk to read the minutes OF
the previous meeting, and when the
clerk informed him that the minutes
of the last meeting had not as yet
been written up. the mayor replied
81 mean the last minutes that have
been recorded
City Clerk Mayors. although evi-
IDENTIFY somewhat non-plussed, pro-
ceeded to read the minutes that had
been passed upon and approved by
the old city council. After the read
ing had been concluded. the minutes
were approved with proper and lue
solemnity for the second time during
the evening. All OF the annual re-
ports Of the city; officials were then
re-read. 9nd all Of the bills. which
the new council knew nothing about
were re-read. approved with due so
lemnity. and ordered paid for the
second time.
At this juncture the niger in the
voodpile was sprung by Alderman
Anderson. who introduced resolu-
ton which reads a. follow:
whereas, q body Of men who were
once mayor and councilmen in he
city Of La Junta. Colorado, have. It
II rumored. after their SUCCESSORS
we're duly elected and qualified, with
out. authority or right. pretended to
cit - the said city council Of the city
Of La Junta;
Resolved. that all Of the said pre-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

If a really practical marker is de-
sired for the Santa Fee trail through
Kansas, why not build a fine through
state road over it? asks the Kansas
City Journal
Congressman Vic Murdoch obtained
5000 of the new Lincoln cents and
gave them to the school children of
Wichita. That beats patting the
youngsters on the head, from their
standpoint at least.
Night Riders in Kansas? A report
came from Langdon recently telling
of several stacks of wheat in that
neighborhood that were destroyed
through incendiary fires.
THE editor of this paper will prob
ably be arrested this week. writes
Frank Jarrel in his Holton Signal.
Our children who are required to do
some chores around home threaten to
complain to the county attorney that
we are violating the child labor law
According to the Salina Journal, a
colored man complained to the store
keeper that ham which he had pur-
chased there was not good. 1.-THE ham
is all right, Seph," insisted the store
keeper. No, it amt boss insisted
the negro, dat ham sure is bad
How can that be- continued the
storekeeper, when it was cured only
last week? ' The colored man scratch
ed his head ref1ectively and finally
suggested: We'll, sab, then it must
have had q relapse"
The latest story. going the rounds
of the Kansas papers tells of a certain
preacher who had received a call else
where and in taking leave of his con-
gregation, said: Brothers and sisters,
l come to say goodby to you. 1 don't
think the members of this church are
popular in Heaven, for none of you
ever die. I get no salary. Your do
antions are carpet slippers and wormy
apples. I don't know whether YOU
have anything to eat at home, because
have never been invited there to see.
I've lost my taste for chicken. You
hold up your trousers with nails and
your dresses with pins, for 1 get all
the buttons in the contribution plate.
And now, dearly beloved, I am going
away to prepare a place for your COM
ing. I go to be chaplain of the PEN
itentiary."
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.


No man is smart enough to be fun
ny when he is drunk.
Many farmer says, Its too wet to
plow," when it isn't.
A woman is always more anxious to
look up rich kin than a man.
We wish we were a woman; a wo-
man can improve her looks so much.
Every married man realizes that he
&alked too much during his engage
ment
The school teachers hate the child
rem, and the children hate the school
teachers.
The man who really suffers, says
least about it; he is afraid to confess
how bad off he is.
How often you hear a smoker, a
giggle or chuckle. but how seldom
you hear genuine laugh,
What is there in the Bible that Sal
walton Army women twist into a COM
mand to wear poke bonnets?
In order to have everything about a
home in the latest fashion. change
the name of the rainy day" fund to
the Operation fund.
We have noticed that WI, IN the real
thing in grief starts in to whiten a
woman's hair, she forgets all about
the hundred ways of dyeing it.
What has became of the oId-fash-
should be told when it is known they
can't get we'll, in order TO have time
to "prepare?"
For the first month after man
buys an automob bile, and while his car
is new and working we'll, he is apt to
be stuck up a little, although he may
try not to show 1t.
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THE NATIONS NEED.

Speaking the other day before the
gathering of the bankers of the ma
ton at Chicago, James ]. Hill, 'the
empire builder reiterated some of
the assertions he made at the opening
of the Alaske-Yukon exposition to
the effect that large enough crops
from which the food-stuffs are made
are not being grown in this country.
He augmented his Seattle remarks
by expressing the opinion to the bank
ers that the time is not far distant
when America will not have any
grain and other food-stuffs to export
to other nations because she will
need all she can raise 10 feed her own
people.
AS is usually the case Mr.. Hill, who
is Familiarity known throughout the
great northwest as Uncle Yim,'' is
talking the soundest of sense and his
warning in this respect should be
needed. AS he says furrner the pros
perity of this nation must be builded
on agricultural foundations and there
is a crying need today that they be
greatly developed. Regardless of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

help that is given in this regard by an
outrageously protective tariff. the es-
sential reason for the abnormalIy
| high prices which the consumers of
the United States are compelled to
pay for most of the food that they put
into their mouths and for other of the
necessities of life. is due to the fact
that not enough of the available lands
in this country are being devoted to
agricultural pursuits.
Mr.. Hill thinks that one reason for
this is that people are forsaking the
farms for the cities. This is probably
quite true of the eastern states but it
is scarcely true of the conditions here
in the great west. There is another
far more potent reason ror a lack of
agricultural development in the states
hereabouts which are peculiarly fitted
for it, thanks to a lavish and generous
nature. 1t is to be found in the
scarcity of labor to properly work the
farms. There are countless farmers
in this section of the United States
today who have the land and the in
clination to materially increase the
size of their crops. But they cannot
find the labor to do the work, even at
wages which, with the best of board
and lodging thrown in, are far more
remunerative than the ordinary labor
which is to be found in the large and
small cities.
1t is this farm labor problem which
is so seriously retarding the agricuI-
tural development of the great west
and the great northwest and the great
southwest. Its solution is one of the
important questions of the day. 1t
might be helped along by Mr.. Hill and
other owners of the large railroad
systems if they would carry on cam
paigns of education to show the ILL
fed and poorly paid laborers in the
great cities that golden opportunities
for excellent livlihoods are to be
found in the farming sections of the
nation. If such campaigns could be
successfully carried out the returns to
the railroads would eventually be ten
fold.
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on her cheek. He hardly knew what
ne said. but she laughed, merriIy.
really did not intend to-knock
you down! I'm sorry, Dick" She
called Dick with manifest good feel
ing; me mans heart leaped as he
looked at her glowing face. He turned
10 walk with her a little.
Going home? You don't look like
girl who danced till one this morn
ing, Anne, I must say"
sat out three Dances" she an
sWered coolly. Harry says I'm get
ting to be a cross old maids that
why you did not ask me for a waltz Pc
GU have-refused me SO many
times I began to accept my fate.
I'm sorry-Dick." She interrupted
him to say what she would not even
nave thought a few days before. I'm
sorry" she repeated.
He turned to her eagerly. Anne"
ne said In low voice, you could not
possibly cross your heart and hope to
die and say you are sorry for-any-
She only nodded an instant while she
swallowed the remnant OF her old
pride. He was looking down at her,
glorying in her blush. Then she spoke,
fully and freely. gladly.
Il treated you very badly-and l
am very sorry. Dick" Her eyes. full
Of tears, bravely met his gaze. Of
not kiss her on the street, but he also
knew that it would not be long till
they reached her home. He knew, too,
that whatever demonstration he made.
Anne's mother would not care. He
bided his time. Meantime be and
Anne were very happy.-(Copyright
1909, by Associated Literary Press.)
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GRU POIICE.

When the gentlemanly burglar
Executes a boyish prank,
Such as stealing fifty thousand
From a safety vault or bank.
II is wrong for us to Jail him:
Unmolested he should walk
with girl policeman, giving
him a sweet maternal talk
When CRATER is discovered
We should raise no hue and cry. y
rather should we take his promise
TO do better by and by.
we should never prosecute him
w hen he promises to stop:
we should simply have him scoIded
BY a sweet-faced lady cop.
When murders been committed
And the killer flees in haste.
It's unk1nd of us to shoot him
Or to. even have him chased
Ihere,s no need for great detectives
He'll come back if we will wait:
Let a sweet young girl policeman
Write to him and make a date
All this talk of inefficient
COPS at once would disappear
ana or footpads or of sneak-thieyes
we no longer would nave fear
For they'd want to be arrested
And they'd fight against release
ana they'd stay in jail forever
III we had girl police!
-NAyu orb
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Many a man is his own obstacle.
Sowing wild oats is apt to make a
fellow look seedy.
One of the things you can't get for
nothing is experience.
The football player now begins to
feel that he has a kick coming
It is possible to turn a crank but
you can't always turn him down
The young doctor must have
patience before he can have patients
1t sometimes happens that a mans
most prominent features are his feet
You can't convince the man who
gets $500 for lecture that science
is golden.
You don't have to consult a bar
tender to discover that rye is the be-
ginning of riot.
The ordinary pickpocket may be
low, but the porch climber has an am
bition to rise in his profession.
Blobbs-''A woman is always flloef-
cal" Slobbs-"Of course she is: a
woman will always expect you to re-
member her birthday. but never her
age"
Young Saphedde had taken Miss
Caustique to the Zoo. "Oh, I just love
monkeys" she exclaimed. IF I
should offer you a monkey would you
accept it?" he asked. "Oh, Mr.. Sap
hedde; this is so student" she replied.