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The La Jara chronicle., 1909-01-15
Don't be deceived, Buy nothing

but American f1eld woven wire
fencing. 1t has the weight and
quality. The others are not in its
class. Murphy -Newcomb Ii. Co.
Neil Richardson was home last
Saturday to visit his folks. He
is employed by the railroad COM
pany as pump man since the first
of the year and stationed at Cum
bres.
In printing the posters for Frank
Pursley's sale an item of so head
of shoats was omitted, however,
they will be there and anyone who
wants some nice pigs should be
on hand.
w. S. James. senior member of
the firm Of James Bros, jewellers,
recently moved to Alamosa from
Colorado Springs, was here last
Saturday, He has purchased a
farm east of town and will make it
q
his home he says some day.
S l.. Hagy and family departed
Tuesday evening for their new
home at Vernon, Texas. Mrs Hagy
greatly regretted that in the hurry
incident to leaving on short notice
she could not find time to bid all
the very agreeable acquaintance
she made while here IA personal
good bye.
Frank Pursley, recently back
from a trip to Idaho, where he
bought $500 acres near Nampa,
will hold ii public sale on the 2Sth
and dispose of all his personal
property preparatory to moving
up there. The good qualities of
Mr.. Pursley's stock are well known
and it will pay you to read his
ad on another page and attend the
sale.
The Shawcroft' s, five in number.
are said to have thrashed 27,0O0
bushels of grain from their various
farms in this neighborhood last
season. Can anybody beat it?
This item is vouched for by man
in position to know and one of
the Shawcroft brothers reports an
average yield of 75 bushels of oats
to the acre from his farm north of
Sanford.
f. w. Coakley was here from
his home at Colorado Springs last
Saturday. He represents a real
estate firm of that city in the
valley and reported sales of about
1000 acres for the trip. His firm
operates mostly around Hooper
but also to some extent in this
part of the valley. They have ar
ranged to run two excursions a
month hereafter from the Missis-
sippi river.
A wide awake man in our valley
is S. X. Shirk. He has opened
the eyes of many by his manner
of conducting public sale. He
takes useful articles from the man
that does not need them and can
not use them and gives them to the
man that does need them and can
use them. Mr.. Shirk has proven
himself the proper man in handl-
ing sale and parties for whom he
has conducted sales will testify
that he gave perfect satisfaction.
Fifteen years of experience en-
ables him to do SO. Dates for
sales can be secured at The Chron-
icle office
A. w. Anderson and f. r. Stark
of Colorado Springs were arrivals
Thursday morning on matters con-
nected with the La Jara reservoir,
now owned by Anderson, Ord d
Swope, the contractors who built it.
Mr.. Stark states that company
headed by the same men who now
compose the Denver Dry Goods
Co., have purchased 10000 acres
of the Costilla estate and contract |
The La Jara chronicle., 1909-01-15

place TO get good cigar.
Have your insurance written in
the Continental Fire Insurance
Co. and keep your money in Colo
RADIO. Thos. McCunnitf, Agent
Mrs. Burt Ryan and Mrs. Milt
Guymon and children returned
Thursday from visit of several
months in Utah.
DR.. Wernette, the Alamosa den
tist, will visit La Jara every Satur-
day. Office at Ellis drug store.
j. E. Samples resumed the man
agement of the restaurant on the
corner the first of the week, hav-
ing recovered from his illness.
When looking for friend you
can almost always find him at the
Club saloon because it is nice,
quiet place to spend an hour or two.
Chas. d. Weist departed Tues
day evening for Knoxville. Tenn.
He will be gone about two months
and on his return will be accom-
panied by Mrs. Weist and the
little Weist's.
Levi p. Helms sale at Manassa
was attended by a good crowd in
spite of bad weather and sickness
in the community. The articles
are said to have sold rapidly and
brought fair prices.
WANTED-Lady or gentleman
of fair education to travel for line
of household articles and special
ties. Salary S3 80 per day above
expenses. Address, The Alexander
Supply Co., 336 Deaborn St, Chi
cago, Illinois.
W. c. Wyatt of Monte Vista
loaded "a half-dozen cars of hogs
here Wednesday and started for
California. He had couple of
cars from Monte Vista and picked
up six more at Romeo, making IA
solid train of IA cars. This is Mr..
Wyatt's second train this season
and still there's more to follow.
The jury in the case of Thos.
Weaver charged with the murder
of Brown in an Alamosa saloon
failed to agree and the prisoner
was released on bond. The jury
was out from Thursday until Mon
day and is said to have been even
ly divided. In the case agginst
II. Huffaker the jury, also, could
not agree and he was relsased on
bond.
S. E. Newcomb received a quite
ii bad scalp wound at the stock
yards last Friday afternoon. He
started to climb around chute,
lost his balance and fell striking
his head against car latch, a
deep scalp wound about an inch
long resulted. DR. Blissard dress.
ed the wound and Mr.. Newcomb
went to Denver that night as he
was shipping several cars of cattle
and hogs.
The shop strike on the d. d r.
q. has been adjusted by both sides
making concessions and as re-
suit about 1,2OO members of the
union went to work Thursday.
The men gained the right to con-
tract as unions with the company
but lost some working conditions
that were in effect before the
strike. The public will be glad
of the settlement for it has been
the greatest sufferer from delay in
passenger and freight traffic.
No mail from east or west We'd
nesday. The eastern train was de-
layed by snow at La Veta and
reached Alamosa 10 hours late.
Tuesday evenings train was de-
laved four hours but finally got
through. Mail clerks run from
Pueblo to Antonito and double
back which left Wednesday even
The La Jara chronicle., 1909-01-15
I need money with which to

square up my last years business
and wish to state to all who owe
me that accounts must soon be
settled. In order to close up these
matters as soon as possible | will
allow 10 per cent discount on
all accounts paid before Feb. Is.
W. w. Seyfer.
G. III. Wilder has communicated
with his family over the telephone
almost daily from his bed in st.
Luke's hospital, Denver. He
reports that he is doing nicely and
expects to be discharged the first
of the week when he will come
home to recuperate.
The Iowa parties who recently
agreed to put up 1000 TIC COM
plete the Alamosa reservoir have
acquired an option on the Harvey
ranch according to E. r. Stark
and propose to build a sugar
factory thereon. They are said
to hold options on much of the
land westward from the Harvey
ranch along the Alamosa river
The scheme also embraces an
electric road for the easy transpor-
tation of beets to the factory, run
by electric power generated at the
reservoir. Can you read all that
and not yell for drink 1t makes
ones throat dry but not for reser-
voir water The Iowa people will
be obliged to come again. La
.Iara folks are not all from Mis-
souri, but they need to be showed
Mrs. Orah e. Fluckey, beloved
wife of E. w Fluckey departed
this life Monday morning, Jan. IL,
at o'clock, at her home south
west of La Jara after an illness OF
nine days. Mrs Fluckey came to
the valley for her health three
years ago last June. Previous to
that time the dread destroyer, con-
sumption. which SO often chooses
the worlds brightest and best, had
obtained a hold upon her. From
this trouble she was gradually but
surely recovering when attacked
by pneumonia which was the con-
tributing cause of death. Mrs.
Fluckey was aged 26 years, seven
months and eleven days, she had
been married seven years and had
one child, Howard, stout, healthy
boy, five years old. She numbered
her friends by all who knew her
and her three ambitions in life
were, here own home, to get well
and return to the friends and
relatives at the home of her youth.
A sad feature was the arrival of the
mother, Mrs. w. Fl. Wirey from
Tower Hill, Illinois, a few hours
too late to see her daughter alive.
Mrs. Wirey was accompanied by
the mother of Mr.. Fluckey and
on being told of her daughters
death few minutes after alight-
ing from the train, was completely
prosterated. The body was ship
ped Tuesday evening to Tower
Hill, accompanied by Mr.. Fluckey,
son and mother, and Mrs. Wirey.
Besides the relatives mentioned,
Mrs. Fluckey leaves father, two
brothers and three sisters, who
will be at Tower Hill to attend the
funeral which will be held Satur-
day from the little church where
Mrs. Fluckey was married, the
same pastor conducting the service.
Mr.. Fluckey will leave his son
with his wife's parents, he being
their only grand child, and expects
to return in about two weeks to
look after his farm.
WANTED-Success Magazine
requires the services of IA man in
La Jara or vicinity to look after
aynirinr c,,hccrirtinpc onI 70 ca
The La Jara chronicle., 1909-01-15

WANTED-Success Magazine
requires the services of a man in
La Jara or vicinity to look after
expiring subscriptions and to Sc
cure new business by means of
specialmethods unusually effective;
position permanent; prefer one
with experience, but would consider
any applicant with good natural
qualifications; salary 81 80 per day,
with commission option. Address,
with references, r. G. Peacock,
room 1O2, Success Magazine Bldg,
New York.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
They re Excused
Or Not According as the Lie Strikes the Legal Ear

with a wooden leg on a strand coul
do nothing, with which ingenious pie
the magistrates expressed their entir
satisfaction. Ingenious, too, was th
plea of a man tried at Kidderminste
Tor coming and uttering counterfei
coin, who said that he should plea
guilty but asked that his wife shout
be acquitted on the ground that whes
married she was told to love, homo
and obey, and that she had only acte,
up to her marriage VOWS. The mai
who said he stole two fowls in orde
to see if his nerves were sufficiently
braced up to permit him passing 4
constable without trembling with feal
made splendid effort to get away
from the conventional, but the most
ingenious defence" the magistrate OF
Marlborough street ever heard, accord
ing to his own statement, was pleaded
in 1901, by laborer charged with
stealing a fur necl1let from a shop.
Said he: Il plead guilty of having it
on my arm, but the wind blew it there.
The man in the shop said it was his,
and said, All right; take it." Could
anything be more plausible ?-London
Globe.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
Washington.

The president has sent to the SEN
ate the nomination of Colonel George
H. Terney to be surgeon general, med
ical corps.
Rear Admiral Casper Goodrish
has been transferred to the retired
list.
N. j. Macarthur, former president Of
the Interstate Cotton college, and an
expert cotton sampler, has written a
letter to Secretary Of Agriculture Will
son, criticising the proposed plan of
a committee, acting under his direc-
ton, to establish a new standard of
cotton grading. Mr. Macarthur thinks
that the attempt to reduce about
thirty distinct points of cotton classi-
ficaion to nine grade designations
would work great injury to the cot
ton grower. He shows that the points
Of difference in any two gradse
would thus be increased, and that all
intermediate half and quarter grades
of the present standard would be vir-
tually eliminated. He asserts that the
grower with cotton only the slightest
shade under any given CLASSIFICATION
would have it graded at the nett low
er grace point.
That Judge Taft has mistaken the
sentiment of the people of the south
and that he could not expect political
preferment there because giving such
preferment is against the principles Of
the people of that section, is the
statement made by Representative
James Hay, of Virginia. Mr. Hay de-
clares the south the land of the dem
ocrats, and he assures the republi-
cans that it is as impossible to
change the principles there as it is to
attitude of Mr.. Taft toward the peo-
ME of the south is "a matter OF sur
prise and disappointment to all self
respecting southern men," said Mr..
Hay.
The United States produced $780,
437,700 worth of gold and $37 ,299,700
worth of silver in 1907, according to
statements obtained from mints. as
say offices, smelling establishments
and the product of mines, AS CON-
rared with the previous year. 1917
showed a decrease of 100000 i'll
gold production and about $1,0O0,O0o
decrease in the silver production.
John w. Gates wants wood, iron,
steel and coal placed on the free list,
Ambassador Griscom cabled ~
state department that the bod
les of Consul Cheney and his wiTe
are buried under tons of debris at
Messina, Italy, and it would necesst-
tate two hundred men at work fo'
days to exhume them. He also stated
that telepraphic communication Wits
Messina is practically impossible.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
$4,000 WANTED FOR SCHOOLS.
ssale of Fertilizer Tax Tags May Yield
That Amount.

Atlanta, Ga.-An effort Is being
made by the department Of agricul-
rEure TO sell sufficient number VI
fertilizer tags to give to each of the
aeleven district agricultural 4 schools
80 900 to start off their schools, which
will open this month. The law re-
sSseRtly passed by the legislature gives
aD these schools for their mainte-
nance and support all OF the proceeds
derived from the sale OF these tags,
except The actual expenses of the de-
partment.
With the approach of the new year
the sale of fertilizers throughout the
state opens up generally, and as each
sack is sold in this state has to be in
Spected and properly tagged, there is
now great demand for these tax
fags.
These agricultural schools, support
sd RN this way, are to act as feeders
FOR the Agricultural college at Athens
An addition to the regular agricul-
auTal topics taught at these schools,
enecial stress will be laid upon CAT
ale raising and dairying and similar
farm industries. In cotton seed meal
mixed with hulls, Georgia has the
cheapest as we'll as the best cattle
Eeed ON the market. and this is being
generally used in all of these schools
in the conduct and operation of the
SEATTLE raising and dairying depart
aNentS.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
WILL BENO MARTIALLAW
sGsOvenor Smith States That Sa-
vannah Does Not Need 1t.
law NOT OPENLY VIOLATED
Reported that Troops Would be Used
TO Enforce Prohibition Law in
Chatham County.

Atlanta, Cain reference to the
xumOr that there had been a confer
@wce BET Heen Governor Holse Smith
and parties interested in the strict OBJ
aervance Of the. Georgia prohibition
law in Savannah, Ga. in which Gov
ernor Smith was said to have decided
Ahat he would warn the people Of Sa-
vnnnah that they must abide by and
be governed by the Georgia prohibit
afDn law, and IL the warning was UNI
needed he would put the city Under
martial law, Governor Smith stated
that no such decision had been
.--,eachcd.
Governor Smith further stated that
ne had received no official informa-
tion that the law was being violated
fn Savannah, and that no such confer
afhe belief that the officials of the
county in the state would not tolerate
for an instant any open violation Of
ahe prohibition law or any other law
In Georgia.
For some time sthere have been
persistent rumors which claim to
have origin from substantial sources,
TO the above stated effect. A special
dispatch from Rome, Ca, in regard to
~ umor is as. follows:
Rome, Gait Is reported, on UNI
doubted authority, that Governor
Smith has decided to warn the people
of Savannah that they must abide by
and be governed by the Georgia pro.
Mibition law If, after this warning
and due time is given for complying
with 1t, the violation Of the prohibit
dion law is continued, the governor
will put Savannah under martial law,
@nd will endeayor to enforce the pro-
hibitiun law in that manner"
When asked about this report, Gov
ernur Smith made the following state
ment:
81 have made no such decision.
have no official information that the
law is being violated IN Savannah.
cannot believe the good people Of amy
county in Georgia would countenance
the open violation of law Of the
estate. | cannot believe that the Off
scials of any county would permit an
aDpen violation of the prohibition law
or of any other law of the state"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
An Incident Of Travel.

In November, having occasion to
ask my way, said, in my best Meis-
terschaft, to gentleman passing:
"Konnen Sic mir vielleicht sagen,
vie man noch das deutschen Mus
cum geht?'
Imagine my modification when he
replied, 81 am going that way; I will
show you"
We walked on, and, learning that
1 was an American and had travelled
in England, he said
81 am professor of English here,
that is why 1 speak English so well;
but 1 didn't been in England already
once yet. "-Lippincott's
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
IN A YOKOHAMA THEATRE.
The Plays Last All Day, and Some.
times Two,

Before leaving Yokohama, went
to the theatre, which certainly was
unlike anything had ever seen be-
fore. We sat on the floor of our So
called box, and had tea like the crowd.
And such crowd! 1t was an endless
source of interest and amusement to
watch them, whole families-mothers-
in-law and daughters-in-law, children
OF all ages, and parents of different
generations, fathers, sons, and grand
sons. All had their dinners with
them. Little trays were produced
tiny boxes full of rice, bowls contain
ing weird food-stuffs, pink, white, and
green; seaweed on rice cakes; raw.
fish and nameless yellow condiments;
tea in microscopic cups, of course,
with no milk or sugar. The Japanese
cannot understand Europeans putting
milk in their tea, as, according to
them, it has strong smell. The chill
dren were dressed and undressed
during the entr'actes, and people
smoked, slept, ate, talked and famed
themselves. 1t was certainly a great
contrast to see liJtie "musme" such
as Pierre Lott describes, daintily
dressed in the gayest of kimonos and
smartest of obs, sitting between a
coolie wearing nothing but a loose
cotton jacket and an old bag nursing
a baby. Although it was true that
most of the men had little on, and the
Thermometer was 85 degrees, the at
mosphere was net impossible, as am
sure would have been the case in a
European theatre under similar cir
cumstances. The plays have. usually
fourteen or fifteen acts, and last all
day, and sometimes two. This par
ticular one not having an actress such
as Sadi Yacco to interpret it, was
quite uninteligible to me; but I adj
mired the grace of the actresses, their
easy movements when dancing, and
the way they managed their tight
clothes, Imagine my surprise when
found out afterward that they were all
men! Up to few years ago men and
women did not act together in Japan,
the theatrical companies being COM
posed of either one sex or the other.
But change has come over them, and
there are now mixed companies
From "The "reminiscences of Lady
Randolph Churchill" in the Century.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
FARMERS WIVES CONFERENCE.
Feature of Big Farmers Meeting at
Athens, This Month.

Athens, Ga.--Among the many in
&resting features Of the big farmers
conference that is to be held in con
meCfion with the State College of Ag-
rfculture in this city this month will
We Stcunference of the farmers wives.
livery farmer is urged to bring his
wife with him so that she may take
part in the exercises.
The reduced rates on railroads ap-
ply also to the farmers wives. A rest
room will be provided for them at the
naw agricultural hall, and every eff.
8Uvs WIN be made to make their stay
mOst, pleasant.
wrs. Walter B. Hill of this city is
IN charge of this feature of the con-
Ference, and has arranged most ex-
ce1lent program, in which many we'll
known people will take part.
These schools also conduct scien-
a9Hr soil tests to determine which fer
ctIIizer will give best results.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
LATE NEWS Notes


fA1HCo HAS decided TO recommend
restrictions in the application Of the
death sentence.
Efforts are being made by the Penn
sylvania Child Labor association to so
enthuse the residents Of the entire
state with the spirit Of the fight it
is making for the abolition of the
child labor evil to induce Govern
or Stuart to do for Pennsylvania III
1909 what Governor Odell did for the
state Of New York in 1908.
The German government is about
to farm out for series of years the
right to mine diamonds along the
right Of way of the railway in the
South African zone Of German influ-
ence. The diamonds are small and
of good quality
The national child labor committee
is sending a request to clergymen
throrghout the country TO observe
Sunday, January "a, as child labor
day
An official report gives the value of
the mineral products of the United
Kingdom for 1907 as $657, 100000, an
increase of $143,0OO,0OO over 1906.
The Southern Pacific Railroad
company is to build an air line from
Denison, Texas, through Topeka,
Kans., to Lincoln, Neb., connecting
with the present main line at Central
City. The new line is expected to cut
out Kansas City as clearing house
sor Nebraska and Kansas grain, and
will give the Hartman system two
routes from the Pacific coast to the
Gulf of Mexico.
That the fight of the doctors of
medicine against Christian Scientists
and all others who profess to heal
without medicine will be renewed
vigorously this year, has become APP
parent with the appearance at the
Massachusetts state house of the an
nual report of the state board of reg
istration in medicine.
John T. Milliken, the millionaire
brother-in-law of Albert T. Patrick,
now serving life sentence in Sing
Sing prison, New York for the STAY
ing of Millionaire William M. Rice,
has, gone to Texas to take what is
reported to be a death-bed confession
/of the valet, Charles f. Jones, recant-
ing the confession which convicted
Patrick of murder and gained free
dom for the valet.
The religious riots between Moham-
medans and Hindus, India, have TAX
en- more serious turn again, requir-
inc the active Intervention of British
troops at Titaghur, who fired upon
the Hindus mob.
Twenty-Five years after leaving
Brockton, Mass, poor man, Albert
Moore has returned rich, to find that
his wife had secured divorce, re-
married and is now widow. He will
take her to his new home in Califor-
MIA.
For his part in the dispatching of
the steamer. Goldsboro to Honduras
last spring with $4,000 worth of
goods said to have been obtained I'M
der false pretenses, Albert w. Bailey,
former secretary and treasurer of the
defunct Export Shipping company of
New York city was sentenced to
states prison for four years.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
The ESSENCE Of a Gentleman.

The gentleman is the man who is
master of himself, who respects him
self and makes others respect him.
The essence of a gentleman is eternal
self-rule. 1t implies character which
possesses itself, self-controlling
force, a liberty which afirms and reg.
ulates itself according to the type OF
true dignity.-Henri Frederic Amiel.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
NEW SURVEY COMPLETED.
Rcsd Between Moultrie and Valdosta
To BE Completed During 1909.

N5ultrie, Ga.-Fhe surveying corps
OF Tie valdosta and Moultrie railroad
xvached Moultrie completing their
xsrst line. The route has been sur
veyed before and the new company
mas the use of the old SURVEY, but an
.zlSditional line will probably be run.
The distance from ValdostaA is forty
GW0 miles.
The Valdosta financiers WHO are
prOmoting the line were here TO meet
Sane surveyors and to look up IA suit
:abIe terminal property for they road
rT7aey say the road will be completed
I'm 1909 and that they are already con
sixacting the bridge work.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08

Doesn't it make you nervous to
have your son play football?"
ooh no, don't mind it bit. He
is only my stepson you know" Chi
cago Record-Herald.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
One Exception.

"How about the barber shop? Do
they sterlize everything?"
well, everything except the CONVEX
sation. Washington Herald.