La Junta tribune., 1909-04-17
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Official announcement has been
made by the Atchinson. Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad that It will operate
the entire main line from Chicago to
the Pacific coast by telephone in
stead Of telegraph The substitution
will be carried on as rapidly as pos
sible. Contracts have been let for
the installation Of the telephone ,ys.
tenn between Kanssa City and EN-.
poria. Kan. As soon as this section
Is finished. work will be begun be-
tween Kansas City and Chicago. The
entire cost will be about s., 900. 900.
Typhoid is classed among the pre-
ventable diseases. And yet not long
ago in certain eastern city there
were 1874 cases of this terrible dis.
ease In two wards alone, and 5,637
cases during the year for the entire
city. The estimated money cost Of
the 1874 cases in the two wards, in
cluding loss Of wages, medical. hos
pital and funeral expenses, amounted
to nearly $4,000. The moral is, II
pays to spend money for cleaning Up
town. An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure.
With the last issue of the Rocky
as editor and proprietor of that
paper, and was succeeded by ]. r.
O'Connor, who until recently was con
nected with the Munsey papers Of
In charge of the Tribune for about
two years, but Notwithstanding ms
short term in the sugar beet metrop-
oils, was the pioneer editor OF that
burg. He was getting out good
paper. and we are sorry to see
him leave for fields green and pas
lures new May the goddess Of
good luck attend him.
II one may Judge from the action
of the members of the legislature,
Speaker H. L. Lubers made many
friends as presiding officer Of that
body of law makers. A few days be-
fore adjournment he was presented
with gold watch and the members
also voted him $500 as reminder
that he was good fellow, and a
fair presiding officer. Mr.. Lubers
arrived home in Las Animas. Wednes
day, and was given a hearty welcome
and royal greeting. This may Jolt on
Senator Patterson's nervous diasticu-
tus when he learns of this. but such
IL the case-Bent County Democrat.
The new game bill in the Colo
RADIO legislature increases the num-
ber Of deputy game wardens from ten
to twenty, at 500 a month. which
looks like a good stroke Of politics
for somebody. The bill also provides
that the state game commissioner
may feed starving deer, elk and the
like, when such animals have been
driven from their mountain haunts
down to the low lands by SHOWS, such
as was done this winter, to seek
food. The season is closed on
doves and fawns and extended on
bucks from October 1st to 10th. The
old law gave open season on these
for twenty days. The season re-
mains closed on all other game as
under the old statute.
The Industrial Club of Garden
City has fixed May 11th as clean
ing-up day, on which day it is ex-
pected that all the trash, tin cans
and odds and ends will be piled up
by the citizens of that burg to he
carted away by the city authorities.
The great family Journal advocated
cIeaning-up day Of this nature IN
La Junta last year. but the city
council was evidently too busy
cleaning up odds and ends In otner
departments Of the city administra'
tion to pay any attention to tne
suggestion. Nevertheless. we make
the same suggestion to the ne"
city council about to be inaugural
ed. A cleanup campaign in La Jun
ia win certainly do no harm.
The county seat has at last been
thrown in the prohibition class, ieav
ing swink the only vet town In the
county. The election last fall re-