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The San Francisco call., 1909-02-26
CURRENCY RAPIDLY
DEPRECIATING

CURRENCY RAPIDLY
DEPRECIATING
1t is the jefe politico's privilege, as
we'll a s Cabrera's: to make any money
by the way. The whole system is one
of extortion from the we'll to do and
exhaustion of the country's resources
When Cabrera came into office the
Guatemalan dollar was worth 80 cents
American 1t varied when / was in
Guatemala from to cents. That is,
for one American dollar you would get
somewhere between 10 and 16 Guate-
malan paper dollars. In all, he has
issued about s65,O00,o00 in paper. which
has no more metallic backing than the
dead leaves of the forest in autumn.
When L asked him what peculiar eco
nolnic conditions prevailed in Guate-
mala that warranted this policy, Ca
brera answered blandly:
''It is good thing for business. You
see, the planters get the workers for
wages in Guatemala currency, while
they sell their products for gold"
But on leaving the country my bag
gage was searched for silver. Cabrera
does not propose to lose the little me-
tallic coinage which remains within
his borders.
When L asked him if the taxation
of the country's leading product. coffee,
which might be grown in much larger
quantities if there were no export
duties, was considered sound economics,
he answered still blandly:
You see that is the only way / can
protect my people from the foreigner.
On every quinta1 1 get dollar (and it
must be gold dollar) for our Qua
temalans, which, otherwise, would go
to the bankers of Hamburg"
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-26
CABINET MEMBERS
HELD HOSTAGES

? On his last appearance in public he
rode between two lines Of soldiers two
deep, and he gave orders TO his most
loyal retainer a hired German officer.
that on the first sign Of any dem
onstration against him four prominent
men. two Of whom were members Of
his own cabinet, should be shot.
Would you have obeyed?" the Ger
man was asked
- INSTANTLY" was the answer.
- So deep has become the hatred of the
well to do classes for Cabrera that men
educated IN Europe and the United
States regard assassination as a war
rantable measure. You may talk with
q well bred woman who is mild on
, every subject till you come to this one
Then she viii say hopefully:
F; "The monster win be killed yeti He
can not always escaper'
And there are, despite our assump-
tiOn to the contrary, educated, kindly,
hospitable people Of good Spanish blood
In Guatemala, and they value the love
Of their family and friends and the
purity Of domestic life as much as
people at home who do not have to
ask permission of the president of the
United States when they want TO go
from Chicago to New York.
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-26
TORTUREs SON AND
FATHER

Among those arrested for completely
with the cadets We're many Honduran-
cans, Cabrera at that time being angry
at Honduras, which was under the con-
troll of Zelaya, president of Nicaragua.
and Cabrera's deadly rival The Hon
duraneans were kept in Jail without
trial and finally all were released
through the good offices of Secretary
Root, except one. This was a young
man named Mendence. Cabrera re-
fused to let him go on the ground that
he was Guatemalan, as he had at
tended the military school and the
national institute.
Young Mendence's father was also
brought before the military tribunal,
and according to the account given to
me, the court having failed to entrap
him into admissions, told him that he
was an infamous old scoundreI and
liar and he would better come out with
the truth, If he knew what was good
for him. He could only answer that
he was entirely innocent OF any plot
against Cabrera
Then they stripped him and threw
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-26
LANDLORDS REAPING
MHIRLMIND

In part, however the land holding
class may be said TO be reaping what
II has sOwn. only 3 per cent of the
people Of Guatemala are pure white.
The masses are Indians of many tribes
and many dialects, and every tribe has
some distinguishing characteristic. A
third class is the halfbreeds, which in
cIudes all the ladrinos. The English
word for ladrino IS trickster. 1t was
first applied to the camp followers and
interpreters of the pld Spanish days
whose service taught them their po-
litfcal cunning. A first class ladrino
is a good liar, a good assassin, and a
gracious orator
The hero Of the ladrinos and Of lat
: terday Guatemala is Ruffino Barrios.
He was supposed to have led the In
dians out Of serfdom and TO have
crushed the church and the land own
ers But only the form of serfdom is
changed. The Indians are divided into
two classes-those who reside on es-
tates. the colonas, and those who do
not. the jornaleros. The colonas can
never leave the state as long as they
are in debt to their employer who
names the wages and keeps the books
The 5ornaleros are freedmen who live
where they please They may be seized
ana pressed into the army or sum-
rnoned for enforced labor by the Jefe
poIitico.
When a planter wants laborers he
goes to the jefe politico and they strike
: bargain for a certain number. Usu-
ally the price is 80 cents a day, Of
which the jefe politico keeps from 8 to
% for himself Why don't the Indians
rebels you ask. The answer is, the
effect of generations Of oppression. If
they resist it is in groups or crowds.
rhe leaders. when captured, are tor
tured and then shot as an example.
CABRERA AFRAID OF
OFFICIALS
Cabrera is afraid of his own jefes
poiiticos. They obey only so far as it
nieases them. He can not check their
-.neoffv IL he would When President
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-26
CABRERA AFRAID OF
OFFICIALS

Cabrera is afraid Of his own jefes
,oifticos. They obey only so far as it
nieases them. He can not check their
rapacity If he would. When President
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-26
FORTUNES SPENT
FOR FETES

He boasts that he has not kept all
the taxes for his Paris bank account
like that hated rival, Zelaya, of Mica
ragua. The king has spent literally
out of his privy purse for fetes for his
people on the national holiday of inde-
pendence, when the Guatemalans be-
came a free and sovereign people. With
the country bankrupt, its debts repudi-
ated, and the salaries of government
employees in arrears, he spent $4,000
gold to bring an opera company this
year from Italy to play in the subsi-
died national opera house.
He loves display and the trappings
of power and to see his name in large
gold letters. Among other things his
vanity has the credit of some schools,
of which 1 shall have something to say
when L take up the subject of educa-
tion in Central America. OF course,
they are called the Estrada Cabrera
schools. There is also an Estrada Ca
brera Temple of Minerva on the race
course First, he built it 7of wood When
it fell down the priests said that this
was what came of honoring a heather
goddess. The fierce little Indian die
tator said he would show the priests
who was master, and he spent a small
fortune in making it of stone so that
it would stand.
DARE NOT VENTURE
OUT
But for fear of assassination-and that
is certainly hard luck--he can never
drive along the new promenade with
It's statues or see his own name on the
Estrada Cabrera barracks or the Es-
trada Cabrera national museum, with
it's most Impressive exterior. After
tour of his public works, so generally
ornamental. you ride back into a town
of 100000 people, with less movement
in the streets and less business activity
than many towns of 10000 at home
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-26
COUNTRY A NATURAL
PARADISE

The mountains Of the backbone ridge
Of this part of the continents tapering
end, lacking Andean grandeur, are
greenclad and soft Of outline, with the
intimate charm Of the Apennines
Guatemala city is surrounded by Alban
hills on every side, rising TO a Mediter-
ranean sky, where silver clouds are
ever marching and rolling and tumb-
ling No capital that 1 have ever seen
has so fair a situation.
One is no longer puzzled that the
greatest civilization that the aborig-
) ines ever had on this continent existed
in Central America Guatemala was
meant TO be country Of the gods
Had It known progressive rule, the
German steamers that take well to do
Americans on winter cruises would
pass by the islands Of the Caribbean.
our tourists would be seeing the beau
ties Of Lake Amatitlan. taking horse
back rides on fine roads, Iounging on
the verandas Of hotels in a climate of
cool airs and delicious sunshine, or
ascending the heights to catch a
glimpse OF the Pacific as a misty floor
p merging into the sky
% Putting dreams aside, no tourist ex-
cept OF the brasher sort ever comes to
this land. where the people are as used
TO martial law as most of US who live
D in cities at home are to Overcrowded
streetcars. Spies watch him at his
hotel; he must have the permission Of
the comandante in order TO land or
to depart. Above the comandante is
the jefe politicO Of the province. and
above the jefe politico is Estrada Ca
brera- His people live in terror of him
and he lives in terror Of daggers and
poisoned food
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-26
JAILS FILLED WITH
SUSPECTS

Twice he has escaped assassination
only by the sheerest luck. The first
time a mine was exploded under his
carriage as he drove through the
streets. Arrests were made by the
wholesale. 1t was unfortunate to have
been in the streets at the time Of the
attempt. The jails were filed with
suspects who were, who were brought
before military tribunal, without
any chance to defend themselves,
where they had a form of secret trial
Many were tortured to make them
confess guilt concerning an affair of
which they probably knew nothing, and
many We're executed
The second time his own cadets, the
young men of Guatemala's West Point
which he had fondly organized, planned
his death. A spy apprised him of the
plot in time to have the ammunition
removed from most of the rifles. But
acting as his guard of honor, they fired
on him, nevertheless, and he escaped
by ducking under the folds of the flag.
These cadets were all of good families
How many were hunted down and shot
nobody knows. Every one who had
been seen talking to a cadet within
two or three days previous to the at
tempt was arrested. Many of those
already in jail on suspicion of being
party to the mine plot were summarily
shot.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-09-17
James J. Hill Gives Warning.

At the meeting of the American
Bankers Association at Chicago, James
j. Hill, the railroad magnate and en-
pire builder, sounded the following
warning:
''The idea that we feed the world is
being corrected, and unless we can in
crease the agricultural population and
their product the question of a
source of food supply at home will
soon supersede the question of a
market for our own products
abroad" said Mr.. Hill. eve have al
most reached point where, owing to
increased population without increased
production per acre, our home food sup
ply will be insufficient for our own
needs. Within ten years, possibly less,
we are likely to become wheat i'm
porting nation. The percentage of the
population engaged in agriculture and
the wheat product per acre are both
failing. At the same time the cost of
living is raised everywhere by this re-
lative scarcity of bread, by artificial
increase in the price of all manufac-
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-09-17

A contract was entered INTO between
the Board and j. H. Jensen and w. +.
Stein for repairing the reservoir fill,
and resolution was passed authoriz-
ing the president and secretary of the
district to sign the contract.
J. H. Jensen and W. F. Stein filed a
bond Of SO, 600. 90 for the faithful per-
formance of the contract awarded for
the repair work, etc. on the reservoir
fill; the bond was signed by j. H. Jen-
sen and W. F. Stein as principals, and
Jay .kimball and J. w. Broadhead as
suretites, which bond was accepted
and approved by the Board.
The Board then took up the work of
making the levy and annual appropria-
ton resolutions as follows: That for
the purpose of defraying the expenses
of the JulesLurg Irrigation District,
including salaries of officers and en-
ployes, and for the purpose of paying
generally all the expenses which have
been and will be necessarily incurred
in carrying on the work on the reser
voir, canals, bitches, and for the care
and maintenance of the affairs of the
district, the Board of Directors of said
District estimate. that the amount nee
essary for the purposes hereinbefore
specified, is S26, 10000, and the same
/ is hereby fixed at that sum.
! And that the amount necessary to be
raised for the purpose of paying inter-
est on the bonds of said district, such
interest maturing April lst and October
1st, 1910, will be S2l, 10000, and that
the same is hereby fixed at that sum,
making total of SAT, 10000.
The Board instructed j. o. Thistle
and c. C. Saunders that in case they
did not receive an answer by wire in
regard to the reinforcement for the
reservoir fill, they should go to Denver
at once and make the necessary ar
rangements for procuring the same.
c. M. HARRIS,
Secretary.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-09-17
Against Night Stsdies.

DR.. Edward S. Lawrence of Boston
protests against the practice of forcing
night studies on school children. He
calls attention to the well known risk
of overwork for grown people. Men
of common sense know" he says,
that night work after day Of busi-
ness is vitally injurious. Yet in their
own homes is presented almost every
evening the sublime picture of children
poring from one to two hours over les
sons for the next day. And while the
lesson is to the child exactly what the
business problem is to the man, we
warn men of mature growth against
the very thing which we allow children
to do. What a superbly consistent
people we are, to be sure.
"What to demand of our school sys-
tenn is the first step, and if child,
when he reaches the age of 10, has
been taught to read aloud pleasantly
and inteiligently, to write legibly, to
spell correctly, to express himself
clearly in letter, to count accurately,
to use his mind, to use his fingers, so
that his hands viii be a help to him in
earning his living that is all that is
and should be expected of the child,
either boy or girl. That is enough for
seven years learning in the great for
native period of life.
'There must be shorter hours and an
absolute aboishment of home study be-
fore the age of Is, and even after Is no
evening study beyond an hour.
How to get these reforms for their
children is the next step. They can
only come through closer cooperation
of home and school The teacher and
parent must come Closer together.
That is the root of the present evil.
One means towards this end lies in fire.
uuent conferences between mother and
teacher. The teacher must know the
timber she is seasoning.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-09-17
Administrators Sale of Real
Estate

By virtue of an order and decree of
the county court for Sedgwick county,
Colorado, made on the petition of the
undersigned, Christian Wostenberg,
administrator of the estate of Hansina
Henni, deceased, for leave to sell the
real estate of said deceased at the
july term, A. D., 1909, of said court,
towit: On the thirtieth day Of August,
1909, | shall on the twenty-seventh day
of September next, between the hours
of ten O'Clock in the forenoon and five
O'Clock in the afternoon of said day,
sell at public sale, at the Office of the
county Judge, in Julesburg, in said
county, the real estate described as
follows, towit: The northwest quarter
(NW la of section eighteen 1s),
township ten G0), north range forty,
two az, west of the sixth principal
meridian in Sedgwick county, Colorado,
and the southeast quarter (SE l-4l OF
section twelve Q2), township ten 10),
north, range forty three 49,. west of
the sixth principal meridian in Sedg-
wick county, Colorado, on the following
terms, towit: Cash.
Dated this Both day of August, 1909.
CHRISTIAN WOSTENBERG,
Administrator of the estate of Hansina
Henni, deceased.
First publication Sept. 3.
Last publication Sept "a.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-09-17

tured articles, and by . habit of ex-
travagance which has enlarged the view
of both rich and poor of what are to be
considered the necessities of life.
1T means the same thing. in kind
and consequences, when the agricultur-
al population, the producers and depos-
itors in the great national treasury of
wealth, is declining year by year; while
the city population, which thrives only
by drawing drafts upon the land and
cannot live year after these cease to
be honored, rises at its expense. Yet
not only is such crisis approaching.
but it is being hastened by legislative
stimulation in favor of other industries
while overlooking this.
THE younger generation thrOngs the
cities; and the land, rented by its own
ers to tenants careless of anything but
immediate profit, is abused and robbed
of its fertility. In New York state
20, 600 farms are for sale. The south
ern central portion shows progressive
loss of population. If anyone imagines
that this process of exhaustion and
abandonment or transfer to other uses
is peculiar to the east, let him look at
| Iowa, whose average wheat crop in the
five years, lS83-s7 was %, ,6s2. $50 bush
els and in the five years l9O4-s was
1876, 4SS bushels. In 1908 it was
S,06S, 900.
Practically only few months liz
between universal cessation of pro
duction and the destruction of the
human race by starvation. The mar
velous diversity of modern industry ant
its products blind us to the bare sim
picity of the situation. Those who
like you, are main factors in supplying
to industry the means to carry it on
who open up the main and lateral chan
nels through which the fertilizinl
stream of capital may be turned upol
the otherwise barren field of labor
should be always. mindful of the frs
great source and storehouse of nationa
} wealth, and the most sensitive when
ever it is depleted or endangered
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-09-17
For Sale or Trade

For sale or trade, equity in Lot 10,
Block 80, good house and close in. For
particulars see K. +. Barrett
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-26
A SALE ATTRACTS
CROWDS TO WISSNER STORE.
Advertising Campaign Accounts
for Activity.

The Wissner piano store has been the
scene Of much activity during the
last few days. The cause is easily
found In the recent advertisements
which lave g appearing in the local
papers.
1t is said a sale of pianos has never
before attracted such widespread pub
Lefty. A piano sale is no unusual oc-
currence. and why this one should
prove so magnetic an occasion is the
cause OF nue. speculation. A visit to
the local warerooms revealed the fact
that this condition Of affairs was not
considered out of the ordinary at that
emporium. It was stated that the Wiss-
ner House operates several factory
warerooms in Greater New York and
vicinity and that two immense plano
sales are held annually. One is an Of
fering Of the sample style new pianos
and the other is a disposal sale OF
used pianos received in trade in the
regular course of business. together
with the styles of pianos which have
been discontinued to make room for
the later designs. A representative OF
the Wissner House stated that these
sales have been held for thirty years
and there was nothing unusual in the
fact hat they would naturally Safn
some favorable reputation as money
saving events. Many people, he said
especially friends or relatives of for
mer sale patrons, made it a point TO
wait for a Wissner sale when in h
market for a piano. Undoubtedly the
real reason lies in the fact that the
wissner louise is one of the old relf-
able piano c and that the gen.
era1 public realizes that they will do
just az they state in their ADVERTISE
ments.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-26
CAT CAME BACK TO ANNOY
SURGEON THREE TIMES.
Fort Mott Doctor Now Thinks
Feline Is a Witch.

SALEM, Nov. 26.-Surgeon Charles
e. Macdonald, of Fort Mott, is a firm
believer that cats are witches after his
experience with a black feline, the pei
OF his wife. This cat had an annoying
habit Of sticking it's claws into the
doctors legs at meal times, and he de-
termined to get rid Of it. When his
wife came to Salem on a shopping
expedition the cat was carried to q
farm about Ave miles from the fort
and thrown in the woods.
The next day the cat WAS scratching
the doctors ankles as usual. A few
days later it was thrown into the
Delaware river, but again the cat
came back to annoy him. Then his
wife announced that she was going to
visit her mother-in-law in Camden.
After she started DR.. Macdonald
boxed the cat up securely with a few
days rations OF meat and shipped
it by express to his wife's Camden adj
dress. Mrs. Macdonald, when she
learned the contents of the box at
once directed that 1t be shipped back
to the fort C. O. d.
This was done and the express bills
were paid by the doctor, who didn't
mind them so much asNthe laugh of the
other officers AZ the most.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-26
NEW BAYONNE HOSPITAL
RECEIVES PATIENTS,
Big Crowd Attends the Dedica-
tiOu Exercises.

BAYoNNE. Nov. 2e.-Several hum
bred persons were present yesterday
when the new Bayonne Hospital, in
East Thirtieth street, was formally
thrown open and debated.
The dedicatory exercises We're held
in the corridor of the new building.
which was decorated for the occasion.
Ex-Mayor Egbert Seymour made the
opening address and told how s2e.ooe
had been raised at the carnival in 1906
and $3.50 from the "half-a-day's-pay'
movement october 10, 1905, toward the
erection and equipment of the hospital.
He announced that another half days
pay would be held in October, 1910. the
monies raised to be used In liquidating
the present Indebtedness and TO Ray tor
improvements to the old building.
The new building received patients
today. The kitchen has been in use for
several days.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-26

Mabel F. Easton, extension secretary OF
the Young Women,s Christian Associa-
ton, has eliminated in the establish
ment of an industrial branch Of the
LEGAL organization, with headquarter.
at the factory. The firm has fitted VI
a room for the girls to meet in, and
they themselves have furnished rest
rooms. This event is practically the
merging of the Gamma Epsilon Club
into the larger work. The club, composed
of girls from among the 1000 women
employees of the works, has been hold
ing moo meetings, when the members
were instructed in ~dressmaking, en-
broidery, English and Bible study by
volunteer teachers from the local
association.
AT the last meeting the following
members of the firm and heads Of de-
partments were present: r.. S. Nc
Neil, N. NJ. Long, William L. Parker,
s. Holzer, Thomas Sheridan, John w.
Howell, H. b. Rogers, Frank w. Pat
erson and A. 8. Van Nestron. Other
guests were Mrs. Richard c.. Jenkin-
son, president of the local association;
Miss Elizabeth Gray, chairman of eX-
tension committee; Mrs. Addison B.
VI
Poland, first vice-president; Mrs. John
W. Howell. Mrs. William L. Parker.
Mrs. e. e. Worl, Mrs. Robert Robbins
and Miss Cara May Adams, general
secretary of the local organization.
George F. Morrison, general manager
of all the branches of the General Eiec-
trio Works throughout the United
States, expected to be present, but was
unable to attend. r. s. Mcneil read a
message from him expressing his pleas
ure over the progress Of the club and
offering cooperation in the work.
In response to this Miss Lillian
Joithe, a member Of the club, made a
suggestion that the club affiliate with
the parent body and requested that
Miss Easton be appointed secretary.
The suggestion was joyously applauded
by the girls.
Mrs. Jsnkinson then welcomed the
girls, and Miss Elizabeth Gray adj
dressed them, urging them to make this
new organization a model for future
factory branches. A social hour fol-
lowed, during which William L.. Parker
rendered vocal solos and Mrs. Z. e.
Worl gave a humorous reading. Miss
Easton win sun her new duties in
January.