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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-25

I PARIS, July 23-The details sur
| rounding the romantic marriage OF
( Prince Alfonso of Bourbon Orleans. to
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg,
which cost him his position as prince
Of the royal house of Spain and his
| career in the Spanish army, have be-
/ come known.
1 King Alfonso. instead OF refusing
his consent to the marriage. as was
] reported by Madrid dispatches. fav-
ored and actually advised the prince
| to marry her secretly, gave him
leave OF absence for that purpose, and
personally interviewed by telegraph
with the Bamberg ecclesiastical au-
| thcrities. I'm whose diocese the mar
| riage took place, TO procure dispen-
! satiOn for It.
| This story was obtained from the
princes own lips by friends few
days ago in Munich, where the couple
| are spending their honeymoon. and
when il is known in Europe IT is
likely to create greater sensation
| than did the wedding and the princes
disgrace.
| Prince Alfonso and Princess Beat
rice first met on the occasion of King
Alfonso's marriage to Princess Eide
of Battenberg. in 1906. The prince
then was only 90 years old and fell
| desperately in love with the prin-
| cess. and proposed marriage; but
Beatrice refused him in most decided
fashion. even declining him permits
sion to correspond with her. Short
lily after this. the prince entered the
military school at Toledo. and subse-
auently, in 1907. the couple met again
at San Sebastian.
No Obstacle, They Said.
! Both the queen and the queens
mother, knowing CT the princes in
Ifatuation, esposued his cause and
| sought to induce 1eatrice to relent.
! The princess. however, declared that
she never would change her religion.
| but finally, when she said she had
no objection to rearing her children
| as Catholics. the queen mother re-
| piled:
Then there is not the slightest
/ obstacle to the union. | always said
\ that if | had had second son he
1 should have married a Protestant
| She added that she herself had Pro-
/ testant ancestors.
/ Later. at La Garnia, King Alfonso
\ FORMALLY asked the hand of Princess
| Beatrice for his cousin, and when
Beatrice on that occasion raised the
question of religion. his majesty said:
81 give you nv word Of honor there
will not be the slightest difficulty
The prince then again proposed and
was accepted. and the couple. who
had net yet appraised Beatrice's moth
or. the Duchess Of Saxe-Coburg and
lGotha. with difficulty prevented King
Alfonso from officially announcing the
Engagement.
Veto Enraued King
4 When he returned to Madrid. King
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-25
1ec PERSIAN LAWN, t2lac
LADIES' HANDBAGS.

Just receiyed-a lot of La
dies Leather Hand Bags, new
styles priced for quick clear
ance, ........9 CSC to S1.97.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-25
ROYAL LOVERS WERE
AIDED BY THE KING
Details Of Prince AIfonsO's Wedding
To Princess Beatrice Likely
10 Create Sensation.
GROOM STRIPPED OF HIS TITLES

Because Bride is Protestant. Alfonso
Of Spain is Forced by Clerical Party
to "kick His own Cousin Out OF
the Country'-Prince Would Go to
Front in Morocco.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-25

i "A
! he thought of the marriage and the
premier replied that the marriage OF
an infante OF Spain to Protestant
could not take place on account OF
the difficulties Il would cause the gov
eminent. King Alfsonso was fur
ious.
Princess Beatrice. because Of heI
friendship for Queen Victoria. said
she would give up the prince, and
King Alfonso summoned the prince to
Madrid. and asked what Il was his
intention to do in the matter. The
rrjnce replied that he had given his
word 10 make Beatrice his wife. and
besides. his personal feelings would
not permit him TO retire from the pro
rosed union. and that he intended 10
marry the princes regardless OF con
sequences.
King Alfonso warmly congratulated
the prince on his attitude. saving
that his reply was Just what he ex-
pected. that II was worthy of 4 Bour-
bon and even is the constitution pre-
vented him giving official consent
10 the marriage without the approval
OF his ministers he. as Alfonso OF
bourbon. would do everything in his
power for the couple.
Princess Beatrice then departed
from Madrid and Prince Alfonso. upon
the advice OF the king. went TO see
Pope Plus. and asked for dispersal
ton for mixed marriage. The
Spanish government. meantime. warn
ed the Vatican OF the proposed union
and the desperation neither was
granted nor actually refused After
this the couple waited patiently. con-
sidering themselves affianced. az also
did King Alfonso, who visited Prin-
coss Beatrice at Munich last sum-
mer.
Urced a Secret Marriage.
When the prince graduated from
the military school at Toledo July IL
he Immediately volunteered TO go TO
the front. as the war in Morocco had
broken out King Alfonso granted the
prince three days leave of absence
before boing to Melila. and urged him
secretly to marry Princess Beatrice
declaring that he would wire the
Bishop OF Bamberg to grant dis
pensaticn.
Prince AiOnSo dtilfNu III R'o"' :,
Julv "a and the civil marriage took
place that morning. At , o'clock IN
the afternoon the priest at Coburg
received a telegraphic dispensation
from the bishop OF hamburg and at
$50 d. m. the Catholic ceremony
was performed II was not intended
that the news of the marriage should
be made public. but II was printed
In Snajn and the royal decree OF the
degradation of Prince Alfonso follow
ed
The prince. in concluding his story
to his friends. said:
"Naura. the head of the clerical
marty in Spain, and because he hoids
a majority in parliament. forced the
king to kick his own cousin out OF
the country and the army to strip MIN
of title and honors for the crime OF
marrying a Protestant who is a neice
of King Edward and first cousin
of the emperors of Germany anu
Russia"
EuIaIie in Grief.
The prince has again wired King
Alfonso. asking to be allowed to go
70 the front. The Infanta Eulalie
the prince's mother. who is here, Is
almost Frustrated over the ruin oil
her sons career. as she knew thai
both the Spanish and British royal
families were in perfect sympathy
with the marriage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26

went north to Danes Island, Spitzbergen, and made preparations for the journey. A balloon house was built, and the big bag was inflated. It was found, how ever, that the gas escaped more rapidly than was expected, and the trip was postponed a year1 Two Swedish war vessels escorted tIse expedition to Spitz- bergen the following June. Experiments had shown that the gas would keep the balloon afioat 80 days. The plan was to have the balloon drift along about 800 feet above the surface of the ice. Of men, freight. food and ballast the craft carried a weight of about five tons
 A favorable breeze was awaited. At last July Il. 1897, it came The ropes were cut and the balloon shot upward Suddenly, for some reason never known it dropped rapidly almost to the surface of the sea. Ballast was thrown out by the men on board, and the balloon arose again and sailed away over the moun- tainous island of vogelsang, an altitude of 1,5OO feet being necessary to make the passage.
 When the watchers on shore and on the war vessels lost sight of the balloon it was the worlds last glimpse of Andree and his two intrepid companions. Three message buoys dropped by Andree the day the start was made have been found. The latest was dated at 10 o'clock that night. An altitude of S2 degrees eight degrees from the pole, had been reached at that time The brave aeronaut re- ported that all was we'll. But of the ultimate fate of the balloon and it's pas- sengers searchers have found never q sign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26

190S-09, and last spring Point Barrow asked for three instead of two mails a year, and the postofflce department is considering the matter and may see it's way to granting the request.
 ''rhe Alaskan mail service!' The words are no more imposing than-well, than the New England mail service But they mean a lot more-and @ lot less; a lot more in endeavor, in difficulties met and conquered; in impossibilities per formed; a lot less in mail delivered: The Alaskan mail service is one of the govern ments practical philanthropies. It doesn't pay, of course in dollars and cents It pays B cents the pound and costs something like $5, but in what 1t contributes toward in making life, under peculiarly desolate circumstances. ap-- proximately worth living, it pays a hundred-fold.
 The Alaskan mail service is the limit of the rural free delivery idea. It is rural free delivery carried to its logical-or. rather to it's heroically illogical-conolu- sion. Its routes are from 15O to 65O miles long. They are traversed, as already in- dicated, from twice a week to twice 8 year. More frequently the mail wagons are sleds, drawn by dogs, though grad ually, as the country Is opened up. the trails of five years ago are the roads of today, buried though they be under many feet of snow, and horses are supplantins huskies. Thus heavier mails are carried,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
One Who Never Came Back.

From the Kansas City Star.
 "The One Who Never Came Back" was 8 newspaper headline of last week in recounting the various expeditions to the North Pole. Of the long list of those who have braved the frigid terrors of the Arctic seas in the interest of science or to grasp the will-o'-the-wis of fame there are endless tales to stir the souls of men and arouse sympathy, but it is the chap ter dealing with 'the one who never came back from which the world turns with a shudder. It is 12 years now since s. A Andree made his daring and, as 1t has proved, foolhardy attempt to sail over the. North Pole in balloon How he perished, and when and where is one of the secrets locked in the icy rastnesses of the region of everlasting cold What terrible suffering, what hor- TOT of loneliness and despair beset him before he perished is dreadful to comtem- plate.
 Andree was a Swede. He was mem- Der of the Swedish International Polar Expedition of 1882 and 1883, and an aero naut of considerable skill. He had his own ideas about reaching the goal of the ages. He had observed that at cer- tain seasons of the year a steady current of air flowed toward the North Pole What could be easier argued Andree, than for well equipped balloon to set sail in this current of air float over the pole. descend, take observations and then float away again to carry the word to a waiting world.
 Desperate as appeared the undertaking. Andree found men who were willing to aid him in carrying it out. Even more. he found two men who were willing to take the slender chance with him and stake their lives for fame and adventure.
 Oscar, late King of Sweden, was among those who gave their support to the venture It was in 1896 that Andree
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
Genius Has It's Vanities.

From the New York Evening Post
 Genius has it's vanities as we'll as it's eccentricities. Rostand, the French poet and dramatist, recently sold the house in which he had lived in Paris Before parting with the property he sealed up the door, and placed a bronze tablet ''to mark the threshold once pressed by the. foot of genius. . This thing of marking dwellings of great men In their lifetime is pro cess not without its perils. The story Is told of German composer, that a friend once said to him: Well, they appreciate you at least in your native city. On the house where you were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
ItD0 Entrances 22O North 2Oth Street X and 1929 Third Aue.
UNCLE SAM'S SANTA CLAUS.
Heroic Method of Delivering Mail in < Our Farthest North.

|From the New York Hines
 |H Suppose instead of two or three mails Ia day-to say nothing of 10 or a dozen you had to content yourself with two or three a, week. Suppose, instead of two or three a week. even, your chance Of
 getting letter, or of sending one, were cut down to two year. Suppose you had to wait six long, weary months for the assurance that she-the particular |s'she' for whose sake, perhaps, you were |seeking your fortune so far from civilizn- |tion-still loved you, and then had to De |content with the assurance that she did |several months ago. Wouldn't the ar |rival of the mail mean a lot to you? |Wouldnt the announcement of one more |i11ail week. the possibility of one more |mail year, be thing to lie awake nights thinking about?
 We'll Alaska has been having the one more mail a week this last winter Point Barrow the ''farthest north of the pos tai service of the entire world, has been dreaming of one more mail a year-and the dream may come true. For last fall Uncle Sam announced three instead Of 1.-two mails for Alaska for the winter cf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26

palace; and that officer. as custom re-
 quired, fell to the ground before hinp
 and called him all powerful. ''Th ou shouldst lie to me on nothing,' said
 the Bogdychan and tears started in his eyes. 'I called all powerful. I who cannot make one man happy" And as he wandered through his beautiful fragrant gardens he thought
 sadly: "I am the sun which lights and warns only from afar, but singes and parches when he comes near the poor earth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
Cornered.
From Judges Library.

From Judges Library.
 Pa Edith, how often do you practice on the piano when I'm away?'
 Edth-"Every day, pa.'
 Pa-"How long did you practice yester- day?"
 Edith-"Four hours"
 Pa-"And today?"
 Edith-"About the same"
 Pa-"Well. I'm glad to hear you're so regular. The next time you practice how ever, be sure to unlock the pig no. 1 locked it last week, and I've been carrying the key in my pocket ever since. Here 1t isr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26

Empire Offices s12.5n up. JEMISON R. E. & INS. co.
The Glenwood post., 1909-02-27
To Vote on Irrigation Project.

Greeley, Colo.-On Saturday, the
27th inst, land owners of the pro-
posed Denver-Greeley Valley irriga-
tion district will vote yes or no on the
matter of forming the irrigation dis
trict which will embrace $4,000 acres
in southern Weld county and north
eastern Adams county, reaching al
most north to Kersey and Kuner and
extending due east Of Platteville, TAX
ing in the fertile Box Elder valley.
The district is divided into three por-
tions, in each of which will be held an
election, one at the residence of Ed
ward Jones, one at that of Robert Pc
nix and the other at the home of
Della Kinney.
This project will benefit by Stand
ley Lake reservoir and will make
southeastern Weld a highly cultivated
region.
The Glenwood post., 1909-02-27
Indian Schools Transfer.

The United States Senate in passing
the Indian appropriation bill adopted
Senator Teller's amendments transfer
ring the Grand Junction school to the
state of Colorado, provided the gov
ernOr of the state accepts it from the
Interior Department prior to July l.,
1910. The amendment provides also
for an appropriation of s42 900 for con-
tinuing the school under the Indian
bureau until accepted and transferred
to the state.
Senator Guggenheim's amendment
providing for similar transfer of the
Fort Lewis school and an appropria-
tion Of $44, for continuing it dur
ing the coming fiscal year also was
adopted.
If the schools should be transferred
to the state earlier than July l, 1910,
a pro rata amount of the appropria-
tons will be expended.
The bill also contained amendments
which we're adopted providing for pur-
chasing sufficient water to irrigate TO-
600 acres of land for Indians on the
southern Ute reservation, and to send
the claims of the confederated bands
of Utes for lands transferred to for
est reservations and other public uses
to the Court of Claims judgment.
The Glenwood post., 1909-02-27
BUILDING GREAT
STANDBY DAM
PROGRESS OF IMMENSE IRRIGA-
TloN WORKS ON SOUTH
BOULDER CREEK.
AT COST OF s2,5oo,ooo
SIX LOCOMOTIVES AT WORK AS
PART OF CONSTRUCTION
EQUIPMENT.

Denver-lf one could look down
Seventeenth street, through the Union
Depot, and across the growing North
Side, with a combination X-ray and
could see the Standley lake project
of the Denver Irrigation and Reservoir
Company, one of the largest enter
prises of its kind, government 'or pri
vate. in the United States, says The
Denver Republican of Sunday morn
ing.
Could this range of vision 10 con-
tinued, in perfectly straight line, El-
dorado Springs would appear. At the
latter point the irrigation company
has put across the South Boulder
creek canon large cement dam, with
big headgates. One hundred and fifty
second-feet of water, or as much as the
Platte river holds in flood times. is di-
verted there from South Boulder creek
into Marshall lake
From Marshall lake the waters are
carried to the STANDBY dam by means
VI llle NlOdh canal. AllUOuSn Mar
shall lake is one of the largest in the
country Immediately north of Denver,
it is only one-tenth as large as the
Standley lake. and no better method of
illustrating the tremendous size of the
dam could be made.
Six locomotives are at work now as
part of the equipment in use in build
ing the Standley dam, and it will be
completed this fall in ample time for
the irrigating of the crops of 1910. 1t
will impound 10000 acre-feet of water,
and its cost, together with the neces-
sary feeders, will be something over
s2,500,0OO.
Next Sunday the South Boulder di-
version dam as the works at Eldorado
Springs are known, will be finished
as will also be the tunnel connecting
the creek with Marshall lake. The lat
ter is splendid piece of engineering
1,040 feet long, and as straight as a
rifle barrel. The tunnel is eight by
seven feet in size and is lined for its
full length with eight inches of CON
crete The works at Eldorado Springs
pass through the center of the famous
resort, and will prove a great object
lesson in modern irrigation engineer
ing projects to the inquiring easterner
next summer.
The Glenwood post., 1909-02-27
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

President Roosevelt has announced
that he will not make any more ap-
pointments during his term of office.
The Senate adopted the conference
report on the Mondell-Smoot bill per-
mitting the entry of 32O-acre home
steadsc
The Treasury Department has called
for bids for construction of the pro-
posed public building at Boulder, Colo,
bids to be opened March 25th.
The house has passed the Mondell
bill granting the Montana, Wyoming
& Southern railway right of way
across the Fort Keogh military reser-
walton.
A contribution few days since Of
$4,000 brings the grand total to ST.
CO0,626 of cash collected for the Ital-
ian earthquake sufferers by the Amer
ican Red Cross Society.
The late senators William Boyd AL
lson of Iowa and Asbury Churchwell
Litimer of South Carolina and Repre-
sentative Ariosto Wiley were eulogized
in special session of the House Of
Representatives Sunday.
(Chief Forester Pinchot says he can
not possibly get to Colorado to appear
before the Legislature before March
18th. Senator Guggenheim notified
him of the wish of the Legislature to
have him before them within twenty
days.
The Colorado Portland Cement Com
pany of Denver has been awarded part
of large contract for supplying ce-
ment for the reclamation projects. The
contract calls for 10000 barrels for the
Uncompahgre project at $1.1S per bar
rel and 16,6OO barrels for two projects
in Idaho at "a cents per barrel.
An amendment to the naval bill was
agreed to in the Senate, providing that
in the discretion of the President one
half of the navy shall be kept in Paci
fic waters, SO far as practicable. The
President already has the authority to
SO divide the fleet, but the amendment
amounts to an expression of Congress
in favor of such action.
review of the invitations Mr.. Taft
has received for events during the
summer recess of Congress indicates
that he will visit Denver to attend the
trans-Mississippi congress in August.
to which he was invited by a delega-
ton headed by Mr.. Thomas F. Walsh.
1t is believed also that Mr.. Taft will
visit the Alaska Yukon Exposition at
Seattle and possibly go to Alaska.
President Roosevelt has directed
Secretary of State Bacon to invite for
eign powers to send representatives to
a conference at The Hague next Sep
tember to deal with the question OF
the conservation of the natural re-
sources of the world.
The House select committee on pa
per and pulp investigations reported
in favor of a reduction in the duty on
news print paper from Sc ton to 81
a ton, the placing of ground wood on
the free list and the establishment Of
duty Of 1-12 cent a pound on mechaa-
ically ground wood pulp.
The Glenwood post., 1909-02-27

In Philadelphia. Richard w. Barrett,
reform candidate for city magistrate,
was elected over George Hogg, regular
Republican. by 5000 votes
An earthquake AT Sivas in Asatic
Turkey. on the 10th inst, destroyed
several government buildings and
caused tne'loss of thirty lives.
The season OF the American baseball
league will open on April IL. On that
day New York will play at Washington
and Boston will be at Philadelphia.
AT Guadalajara, Mex, Jose Guade-
lupe Alcala, believed to be the Oldest
man in the world, has just celebrated
his one hundred and thirty ninth birth
day.
The Wright brothers, the American
aeroplanists, now in France, are ar
ranging to turn over second aero
plane soon to be completed, to their
pupils, NJ. Tissandior, Lembert and
Girardville, who will try flying alone.
By vote of 50 to 81 the Kansas
House, at session Tuesday night,
killed the bill granting women the
right of suffrage in Kansas. Three
hundred women occupied the galleries
while the vote was being taken.
Wall street has further evidence Of
the big investment demand for bonds
which has kept up for year in the
announcement that an additional $5,-
100000 Denver & Rio Grande first and
refunding per cent. bonds had been
largely oyersubscribed
Queen Helena has decided to under
take with her own private funds the
reconstruction of a town on the out
skirts of Messina, on the hill where the
lighthouse stood. The new community
will start with 1000 inhabitants. Her
majesty personally is directing the
plans. The name of the town is to be
| Regina Elena.
Demend for the immediate creation
by Congress of permanent tariff com
| mission was voiced today in resolu-
| tions adopted by the national tariff
commission conference at Indianapolis
A provision was added urging that
Congress during its special session
| prepare and adopt revised tariff to
| the best of it's ability under present
| conditions.
Student attendance at the Univers
| ity of Michigan passed the five thous
| sand mark for the first time this year
| it having reached four thousand in
| 1904. A decennial catalogue of all
graduates, students, faculty members
regents and officers connected with
the University Of Michigan since its
founding in 1887 will be issued in
| 1911.
Belief in spiritualism is not evidence
of insanity the Illinois Supreme Court
decided in the case of James T. Crum
baugh, who left an estate worth $3.50,
900. He disposed of the property in
accordance with alleged directions by
the spirit of his infant son, who Crum
baugh believed, had grown into man
hood in the spirit world and was
known as Bright Eyes