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The Lamar register., 1909-03-10
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS
AT C0LORADO'S CAPITAL
Bills That Passed the House.

In the House on Tuesday, the End
inst, the following bills were passed
on third reading, going to the Sen
ate:
S. G. II. No. IL, Drake-Granting
right to State Agricultural College
and State Normal School to participate
In Carnegie fund for the advancement
of teaching
ii. b. No. IA, Hurd-Providing for
ventilation of coal mines.
II. d. No. 159-Amending act relat-
ing to irrigation districts, approved
May 3. 1905.
II. b. No. 267, Clark-Admitting agri-
cultural college and public school
lands into irrigation districts.
S. b. No. 1923. Wood-Appropriatio
for expenses in building public high
way by convicts. authorized by Six
teenth general assembly
Fl. b. No. 135-Defining private en-
Payment agencies.
Fl. b. No. "a, notwithstanding to
wages earned out of the state
II. b. No. 107. Foley-To amend rev.
enue law relating to tax title deeds.
II. b. No. 10S, Goodfriend-To ex-
empt males over forty-five years of
age from military poll tax.
II. B. No 60. Durpee-To limit levy
In school districts of third class.
II. b. No 156. Foley-To amend law
concerning delinquent children.
ii. b. No. IS. accommodating
to establishment of public parks.
Fl. b. No. 223. Ballard-To amend
law concerning burial places of Grand
Army and Spanish war veterans.
H. b. No. as, Lenrritter-
ton for relief of X. Pressler.
II. B. No. 101, Strickland-To amend
law relating to disconnection of out
lying territory from cities and towns
II. b. No. so. Metz-To provide GER
tain expenses for district judges.
II. B. No. AGO, Metz-To amend law
relative to establishment of public wa
terworks.
Fl. b. No. 81. Mrs. Lafferty-Con-
corning chancery powers of courts in
juvenile delinquency cases
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10

Denver-A Greeley dispatch We'd
nesday says: The Greeley Realty As
sociation has subscribed $50. 900 of the
s50.o00 which the association has
decided TO raise MS its part of
the $250.000 which the Denver.
laramie a Northwestern Railway
Company asks Of Greeley for building
its main line into this city. BY Satur-
day night it is expected 100000 will
have been subscribed. This morning
a delegation went TO Denver and went
over the thirteen miles of the road now
completed. President Charles Scott
Johnson was In Greeley tonight 10
meet the business men and talk with
them concerning the road. Twenty
farmers today offered rights OF way
without charge.
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10
Patrick pleads for Liberty.

New York.-In a dramatic appeal be.
fore the appellate division of the SUI
preme Court in Brooklyn Friday, AL
bert T. Patrick, who was sentenced TO
death for the murder of William
Marsh Rice in September, 1900, argued
for nearly four hours for his liberty.
Patrick declared that life imprison-
ment was more severe sentence than
death. and asked the court to either
give him his liberty or send him to
the electric chair under the original
sentence. Decision was reserved.
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10
Workshop for the Blind.

BY the passage of the $4,000 appro-
priation bill for the Colorado workshop
for the blind. through both houses of
the Legislature. the life of that insti-
tuition has now become assured and al
ready preparations are being made to
acquire property for it. The present
site at Twelfth and Jason streets in
Denver is regarded favorably and nego-
tiations are now in progress with the
owner to buy 1t. The appropriation bill
provides 100000 for the purchase of
land and IA building for the workshop.
In addition $4,000 was appropriated for
the erection of three cottages for the
housing of the blind workers.
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10

The local option advocates of Trim
dad are publishing campaign paper.
The Great Western Sugar Company
has instructed Henry NJ. Sieman. az.
ricultural superintendent. 10 conduct
an experimental farm of forty acres
adjoining the factory at Brush. Nari-
Gus kinds of beet seed will be planted
and fertilizers, systems of irrigation.
blowing. sub-soiling. etc. used in cul-
tivation of beets will be tested
Madison Smith. the oldest surviving
member of the lSion colony that set
tied Greeley. celebrated his ninety
fourth birthday anniversary at the
home of his daughter. Mrs. L. E. Bak-
er. in Greeley on the 2nd inst
The executive committee OF the
Trans Mississippi congress has openeI
headquarters in Denver for the an
nual convention which will be held in
Denver August 16th-2lst Secretary
Arthur F. Francis of Cripple Creek is
in charge of the offices OF the con
gress and will remain until the con-
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10
Bills Passed BY Senate.

On the Bird inst the following bills
were passed on third reading in the
Senate:
S. B. 1s5. lrby-Concerning public
improvements in incorporated towns.
S. B. III, Gove-Validating foreign
acknowledgements.
S. B. 102. Button-Making tampering
with an automobile or locomotive a
misdemeanor.
S. b. rs. DeLong-Defining daily
newspaper.
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10

Two main amendments to the civil
service law are recommended in the
report of the special committee ap-
pointed by Governor Shafroth to draft
opinions as to the constitutionality of
the act. The recommendations are
that the wardens of the penitentiary
and the reformatory should not be
under the civil service and that all
state employees coming under civil
service regulations should take exami-
nations every two years. or whenever
the general elections bring in new
set of executives.
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10

At the Oxford University sports In
England on the Bird inst. l.. C. Hull OF
Michigan, Rhodes scholar, won the
lO0yard dash and the quarter mile.
His time for the first event was 10 3-5
seconds and for the second 81 seconds.
James A. Leroy, secretary for Presi-
dentelect Taft while governor of the
Philippines, and American consul at
Durango. Mexico, from August, 1903.
to March. 1907, died February 2Sth at
the military hospital at Fort Bayaud.
N. NJ.
On March 10th the Pennsylvania
Legislature will elect George T. Oliver
of Pittsburg to succeed Philander C..
Knox in the United States Senate.
Senator Knox having resigned to be-
come secretary of state in President
Taft's cabinet.
The status of Chinese woman who
has been legally admitted to the
United States is not changed by n
separation between her and her hus-
band. according to ruling made by
United States Commissioner Hayes in
Boston case.
Rear Admiral Schley, on behalf of
the Arctic Club of America. in a letter
made public in New York, makes an
appeal for financial aid to enable Dill
Ion Wallace. Arctic explorer, to res
cue DIR. Frederick Albert Cook from
the Arctic regions, where he has not
been heard from since last March.
Thirty-five per cent. increase in
SnpaI will ha hn pTn
tions the Commercial Cable Company
Is going to make. according to Clarence
II. Mackay. A branch will be run into
st. Johns. N. F., which has been mon
opolized by the Anglo-American com
pany. and from there will be extended
to New York.
Efforts made by the district attor-
ney of Queens county, New York, to
have an early date set for the trial of
Capt Peter C. Hams, Jr.. accused of
the murder of William +. Annis. were
brought to naught on the shit inst. by
a decision OF Supreme Court Justice
Garrettson postponing indefinitely the
naming of date for the Hams trial
President w. C. Brown of the New
York Central railroad on the 5th inst.
announced that the full equipment or
der of the line for 1909 had been de-
cided upon and that 1t included 5.400
freight cars, 200 passenger cars and
seventy-ive locomotives. The ex-
penditure for the new equipment will
aggregate SS,000.O0O.
In an attempt to persuade Congress
to establish reciprocal coal trade with
the Dominion of Canada practically
every coal power in the western Penn
sylvania district has signed his name
to petition addressed to the ways
and means committee of the House.
Such an agreement, says these men.
will mean an immense increase in the
output of bituminous coal
Addressing political meeting in
Bristol. England. MIR. Birrell chief
secretary for Ireland. expressed the
belief that President Taft in his in
augural address pronounced the doom
Of the hope OF the disarmament of ma
tons. There was an universal feel
ing abroad. in which the United States
now Joined. Mr.. Birrell said. for in
creased ornaments
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10
voIIey Mann Murderers Sentenced.

Ogallala, Neb.-Judge Grimes has SEN
fenced Lafayette Dales to imprison-
ment for life and Mrs. Jennie Geiger to
imprisonment for thirty-nine years for
the murder of Volley Mann in October
of last year. Mann, who was travelling
through the country with team. fell
in with Dales and Mrs. Geiger and the
three Travelled together. According to
the story of the woman, Mann was
killed for his property. Later Dales
and the woman quarreled and she de-
nounced him to the Denver police.
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10

Washington.-The last Wednesday
of April is suggested as the proper
date on which to inaugurate Presi-
dent in joint resolution introduced
by Senator DeDew. The resolution was
in the form of an amendment to the
constitution and provides that the
Sixty-second Congress and the term of
office of President and vice president
shall continue until the last Wednes.
day of April, 1913, at noon.
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Secretary Wright approved the find
ings Of the retiring board in the case OF
Col. William F. Tucker, OF the pay de-
partment of the army. and son-in-law
of Mrs. John A. Logan. This places
Colonel Tucker on the retired list for
life on three-luarters pay.
One of the last acts of President
Roosevelt. before retiring from office,
was to issue an order supplementing
an order made by him August l. 1905,
prohibiting the use of influence to OBJ
tain assignments to duty by officers
of the navy and marine corps.
The American Live Stock Associa.
ton has established headquarters in
Washington and will maintain an or
ganization during the coming special
session OF Congress to work against
any reduction of the duty upon wool,
hides and other live stock products.
One of the last acts of President
Roosevelt was the signing of proclama-
tions creating additions to thirteen ma
tional forests in Nevada, California.
New Mexico and Arizona, aggregating
4.9SO.7S6 acres. bringing the total ma
tional forestry acreage up to 195,013,-
$50 acres. The land will be managed
in accordance with the governments
forestry principles.
United States District Attorney
Healing at Indianapolis has resigned
rather than participate in the efforts
OF the Department of Justice to bring
Delevan Smith and Joseph Pulitzer to
Washington to stand trial for Grim
inal libel in connection with publica-
lions concerning the Panama canal
and railroad. He does not believe it
right or lawful to force them to stand
trial in Washington.
The heroism of little girl in saw
ing the lives of nine children will be
recognized at the capital March 18th.
when a gold medal will be presented to
Miss Mary Mccain. about to be grad
uated from the Florence Crittenden
training school of Washington. Speak
er Cannon and Vice President Sherman
will participate in the exercises. The
girl saved the children at the time of
the destruction of the steamer General
Slocum. June Is. 1904.
Miss Alice Bleuch. an attache of the
Bureau of American Republics. has
been selected by Mrs. Taft as her So
cial secretary.
President Roosevelt signed the naval
appropriation which contains clause
restoring the marines to the ships of
the navy from which they were taken
by his order.
In his last public speech before be-
coming President. which was given at
the banquet of the Yale alumni. Mr..
Taft said: Il feel in all my bones and
nerves the disposition to make good"
President Roosevelt on the I'd inst
gave luncheon TO a number of init,
mate friends. sharers OF his sports,
and included in the so-called tennis
cabinet." To them he spoke in high
terms of praise of his cabinet officers
ana their subordinates.
The Senate in committee of the
whole rejected amendments to the
civil appropriation bill providing for
participation in an international exhi-
hilton at Brussels. the hundredth cen
tenary of the discovery of the Hudson
river and funds for representation at
on exposition in Austria Hungary.
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10

Under the provisions of Senator Cas-
aday's bill. which passed the Senate
on second reading. the governor APP
points an examining board of five men,
bers of the osteopathic school, After
the life of the first board the terms are
to run for five years. The osteopaths
are expressly forbidden to practice
surgery or administer medicines ex-
cept antiseptics or poison antidotes.
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10
complimen. Ex-Lieutenan. Governor.

In the Senate Tuesday Former
Lieutenant Governor Harper was pre-
scented with a handsomely engrossed
copy of the complimentary resolution
adopted by the Senate at the close of
his term of office. The presentation
was made by Senator Campbell. who
paid high tribute to the former presid.
ing officers fairness to the obstructive
Democratic minority in the last SEES
sion. Mr.. Harper with tears in his
eyes expressed his gratitude for the
kindly feelings of his former associ-
ates.
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10

In committee of the whole Tuesday
the following passed second reading:
Senator belongs bill to define
daily newspaper, lrby's bill to provide
for facilitating special improvements
in incorporated towns and Gove's bill
concerning acknowledgements TO deeds
and other papers executed in foreign
lands and making them when submit
ted under proper seal prima facie
evidence in all courts.
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10

A bill by Senator Croke is aimed to
facilitate the operation of the initia-
tive and referendum law by providing
for contests on franchise and other
elections dealing with questions of pub
Tic policy. Another bill by Senator
Croke defines a taxpaying elector and
is intended to prevent the voting of
bogus taxpayers by the corporations in
terested in franchise grabs
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10

Three bills to change the registration
laws of the state and to provide addi-
tional protection against false registra-
tion have been placed on the calendar.
One is by Senator Scott and two are by
Senator Irby. The Scott bill was
drafted by Judge Ben b. Lindsey. and
proposes an entirely new registration
law to reach every political subdivis-
ion of the state.
The Lamar register., 1909-03-10

Money doesn't grow on bushes"
declared the purveyor Of bromides.
That's right" assented the other
half of the sketch. Not even in the
gold fields kansas City Journal.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27
cOuncil Proceedings.

Council met in adjourned session
Monday evening with all the coun-
cilmen present except Shackleti,
Bids for the crossings to be oon-
structed or Highland avenue were
received. The bid of j. l.. Ashurst
was Il cents per 50. foot aud that of
Pat Lyons Is cents. The contract
was awarded to Mr.. Ash irst.
The city engineer filed a supple
mental report on the street paving Of
East Main street.
An ordinance was introduced and
read for the first time to levy two
special tax bills instead of one here
to fore issued upon the property be-
longing to j. d. Shewalter. This or
dinance was laid over 10 some future
meeting.
An ordinance to change the grade
of Franklin street from 18th to 2Oth,
wa introduced and read for the first
time. This ordinance was also laid
over for a future meeting
The council then adjourned to meet
April 5th.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27
Making a Fine Character.

The sweetest bread that any man OF
woman ever ate is that which is won
by their own energy, or deserved by
their usefulness. Whether labor be
that Of the hand or the head, there is
dignity in 1t.
20 not stand around with arms akib.
DO until occasion tells you what to do;
don't live in hope with your arms
folded. Fortune smiles on those who
roll up their sleeves. put their shout
ders to the wheel and push!
To begin at the very foot OF the hill
and work slowly up to the top may
be a very d~lscouraging process, but
1t is precisely at this spot where Sc
many begin to spoil their llves.-Ex.
change.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27

Mrs. Fred Campbell little son,
Francis, aud parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
John McBee visited relatives in
Waverly Sunday.
Indigestion or dyspepsia is inabil-
ity of the stomach-weak digestive
iuices-to digest what you eat. Ko.
dol is a combination of all the nat.
ural digestive juices found in an or
binary healthy stomach, and it will
digest your food in natural way.
Pleasant to take. Sold by Creushaw
and Young.
A. NJ. McDermott, w. Barris, l..
Johnson and Misses Forestine Gates,
Beatrice Gates. Elizabeth Daniels
and Catherine HammiI of Richmond,
Mo-, spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph McDermott and family in this
city.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27
Real Meaning Of "cravat.r

"Cravat." or rather the French
"erayate," means simply Croatian F;
Hume, the historian, for instance.
speaks of certain troops as "Cravates
and Tartars, Hussards and Cossacs.'
But the French borrowed the word for
the new neckwear introduced among
them in imitation Of the linen scarfs
worn by the Croatian m~ercenaries
whom they saw during the Thirty Years
war. In English "cravat" has ranged
in meaning from a tie to a comforter
and has varied also in pronunciation,
both Pope and Dryden accenting the
word upon the first syllable.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27
The AppreeIatlon Of Music.

II we would appreciate music Alright,
We must remember that it's beauty de
Ponds, not upon the composer alone,
but upon ourselves also. Deep calls
upon deep; and the harmony of
sound, though appealing primarily to
the outward ear, must be answered by
a harmony from within ourselves. The
more culture we bring to the hearing
of music, the wider our sympathy, the
more exquisite will be the echoes
which it awakens in the soul. If we
would understand the composers mes
sage, we must cooperate with him.
We must reach out to him with all
our faculties. If we do that, the reve-
lation of music will ceaselessly renew
its beauty, ever turning u~nimagined
aspects to gladden. us.-Redfern Ma
son, in Atlantic.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27
IF You woULO HAvE ERIgNos.
pcn't Annoy People by Comparisons
That Are Humillatins.

When you start in to say plain
things TO anybody be sure to use plain
words and not idioms. Never use fg-
ures of speech when rebuking others.
for in time your helpful rebuke may
be forgotten, but the tang of the
biting figure will be forgotten.
and perhaps not forgiven. For ex-
ample. you might wan to tell a con
%servative person he was not up TO the
times in some particular matter, but
don't call him q fossil-he would
never forget il. There is a good deal
in a name. Never cali a person a
crank-crank's a figure of speech.
Simply say You have an odd way of
looking at things" This will please,
as it suggests individuality, and not
eccentricity or worse Picturesque
language is only interesting when APP
piled TO things. People don't like it
when applied personally. People don't
like to be placed in a comical and
spectacular light, and that's where
picturesque language is apt to place
them. Whatever a persons character
istics may be don't call him a mule.
or her a zany. The clearer the deini-
ton the deeper the resentment. Better
not call people names, anyway-it
only arouses a lot Of feeling which is
slow to simmer down. Nothing an
noys a person more than to be called
some ridiculous name-it doesn't
seem to set well. In other words, use
plain verbs. and cut out the nouns
and adiectives, and you will not make
many enemies Newark News.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27
The Lurid Glow of Doom

Was seer in the red face, hands and
body of the little son of II. NJ. Adams
of Henrietta, Pa. His awful plight
from eczema had, for five years, de.
fed all remedies and baffled the best
doctors, who said the poisoned blood
had affected his lungs and nothing
could save him. But" writes his
mother, "seven bottles of Electric
Bitters completely cured him" For
Eruptions, Eczema, Salt Rheum,
Sores and all Blood Disorders and
Rheumatism Electric Bitters is SUI
preme. Only so cents. Guaranteed
by Crenshaw q Young.
Mrs. Evan Young returned from
Kansas City Saturday evening.
Miss Meta Primer of Kansas City
spent Sunday with relatives here.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27

Piano tuner NoRvELb is in town.
Phone 81. 323t6
Garden seeds of all kind in bulk
We have plenty for all. Buy your
seeds at home. You see just what
you get and we can sell them to you
just as cheap as you can get them
from the seed men.
Jos. L. Long, Cash Grocer.
Miss Virginia Aull went to Kansas
City Tuesday for a short visit.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27
YOUTHFUL SCOT WELL vERsED
Prompt and Concise Answer to Cate
gorieal Question.

Boston, Massachusetts,, has long en-
joyed the reputation Of having exceed
ingly learned children who are able, so
1t is said, to dispute on subjects far
above the heads of their elders of 9TH
er regions. But Boston is not unique.
In a book entitled THE Scot of the
Eighteenth Century" Ian Maclaren de-
scribes a similar characteristic of the
Caledonian.
1t is the inevitable tendency Of the
Scots mind to follow out every line
to its terminus, yer If il, be over a
precipice, and to divide every hair till
infinity is touched.
1t is not only in church courts, but
In market places and in railway sta
tons, in humble cottages as well as in
university societies that the Scot is
disputing. in every spare moment of
his time, from morning till night.
The story goes that a minister over
heard a mother questioning her child,
as it supped its porridge, after the
days work was done.
What" said this austere mother,
rs the true relation between kirk and
state, according to the principles OF
the Free church,"
And the favored child promptly re-
piled: Coordinate jurisdiction with
mutual subordination youths Com.
panion.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27
LOCAL BRIEFS.


Robert Stating spent sunday in
Slater.
Prof. E. W. White was in Kansas
City Monday.
Pine salve Carbolized acts like a
poultice and draws out Inflammation
For chapped skin, for cuts, burns,
sores, bruises, skin diseases. Should
be kept in every home. Price p
cents. Sold by c. w. LOOMS.
Il. Swartz was a Kansas City visitor
Sunday.
Dan Stlddard of Topeka visited
here Sunday.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27
FRIDAY. APRILe Q, 1909,

between the hours of nine o'clock In the fore
noon and FIVE o'clock In the afternoon of that
day, in front of the court house door, In the
City of Lexington, Lafayette county, Mis-
souri,. during the session of said Circuit Court,
sell publicly at auction, TO the highest bidder
for cash in hand, all the right, title, aud inter-
est, claim and estate of the said ID. H. Smith
and Emma Smith, defendants in said execu-
ton, in and 70 the following described real
estate, situate, lying and being in the County
OF Lafayette, and State OF Missouri, towit:-
Forty acres, the southwest quarter of the
southwest quarter OF section thirteen (18L,
township f%orty-nine l49), and range twenty
four l24). The said above described real es-
tate to be sold to pay the delinquent taxes
thereon for the years 1904 and 1905, amounting
to the aggregate sum OF fifteen dollars and
sixty cents (S15,60l, and the interest. com
mission and all costs thereon,
Given under my hand this 18th day Of
March, 1903.
WINFIELD S. PEACOCK.
3-a0td Sheriff.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27

Mrs. S. A. Kepner with her daugh-
ter, Miss Anna, of Indianapolis,
Indiana, arrived Saturday evening
for a visit with her son, George Keep
ner, in this city.
Brandsford and Martha Crenshaw
of Kansas City arrived Friday
evening to spend several days with
their grand parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T,
G.. Crenshaw.