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The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24
GENERAL NEWS.

Miss Sarah Lathrop Herrshoff. the
nineteen-year-old daughter of j. b..
Francis Herreshoff. younger member
of the celebrated Herreshoff family OF
Rhode Island, and millionaire. visit
ed the city hall in New York, with her
fiance, Signor Luigi Masnaba OF Ber-
gamo, Italy. former jockey both in
America and abroad, who obtained n
license permitting them to be married.
There was issued by the English
Board of Education recently sylla-
bus respecting physical exercises in
elementary schools which Is receiving
the warmest concentrations from Brl-
tish educationalists. This syllabus is
regarded as in measure constituting
the first official recognition in thls
country of the fact that it Is not only
the mind, but also the body, of the
child that requires development in a
system of national education. Old
time pedagogues might hold up their
hands in horror at the role which the
board of education now assigns to the
schoolmaster, who is eXpe red 10 De
stow as much attention on the care
of his pupils bodies as on the training
of their intelligence.
Lord Tweedmouth, former lord
president of the Council, is reported
to be dying at London.
The gross earnings of the railroads
of the United States for the year end
ing June 30. 1909. were s2,43l .3so.S4l
according to the figures compiled by
the bureau of railway news and sta
tistics from the monthly reports OF
the interstate commerce commission
as given out at Chicago. The operat-
ing expenses we're 81 GIL 1927 .l66; taxes,
sSS, ,g6l ,475, and net operating income
S736. 1000.
General Porfirio Diaz. president OF
Mexico. celebrated his eightieth birth
day September 18th. He received
greetings from many foreign countries.
A body of worlSmen expressed the hope
that Diaz might rule Mexico for many
wears and their enthusiasm moved the
pr, sident TO tears. President Diaz has
occupied his office for thirty-two years
He has been renominated for the term
commencing in 1910 and ending six
wears later.
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24
GOLD IN PLACER
TO Be SAVED
OLD LINER DISCOVERS MEANS
OF EXTRACTING GREAT
VALUES FROM SAND
EAST INVITED WEST
THE EAST DOES NOT KNOW
WHAT FORTUNES LIE IN
THE RIVER BEDS.

Dcnver.-Another case OF the east
erner who came to Colorado to visit
and remains to invest and become per-
manently interested. is that OF w. G.
Crumlish. capitalist. of Philadelphia,
and New York.
interviewer with the capitalists de-
termination to put money into this
section Is the story of hard-working
placer miner. G. A. La Point. who
spent years In the placer mines OF the
West He had the usual ups and
downs of the average miner-mostiy
downs. However. he stuck to it and
kept formulating schemes for increas-
ing the returns from his labor. Some
time since. while working on Snake
river he became convinced that most
OF the gold passed through his sluice
boxes. and Immediately began expert
mentirg for the purpose of finding
way to stop the metal that was escap-
ing him.
He found that by raising the RIFLES
in his boxes he retained more gold,
and with crude arrangement made
of barrel slaves he constructed a box
with the rifles suspended about an
inch above the carpet. The result was
an increase of three or iour times the
amount of gold retained In the boxes
and La Point at once came to Denver.
constructed complete machine and
took out patents on his invention.
Meanwhile Crumlish had disposed OF
large business interests in the East
and came to Colorado for recreation
and to look around. Through a friend
he was induced to examine La Points
machine and soon became interested.
The net result is that Crumlish has
taken leases on large tracts of placer
mining lands In this section. arranged
for the manufacture of the machines,
and will shortly install several large
plants in various sections and develop
hitherto Improbable placer claims on
an extensive scale.
81 do not wish to sell dollar OF
stock and would not at any price,"
said Crumlish. have money enough
to finance my plan and it is entirely
too good to take in anyone else. 1
have. OF course, given La Point an In
terest in the venture. and. j. Thomp-
son Sharpe. through whom l met La
Point. may be allowed to come in.
There is Just one thing want to
say. If the men with capital to invest
in the East realized the vast opportu-
mites you have here In the West there
would be an influx of men with money
l know from my own experience that
the eastern CAPITALISTS have no idea
of the advantages of the West
Il have already written to number
OF my friends back there and believe
that a number of them contemplate
coming out here to look over the
ield."
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FAIR PLAY is
ALL they WANT
WOOL GROWERS SAY
HARosHlPs ARE WORKED ON
THEM BY RULING.
NOEVIDENCE0F DISEASE
CLAIM SHEEP LEAVE RANGE
FREE FROM DISEASE BUT
ARE ouARAMTiNED.

Cheyenne. Wyo.-The sheepmen Of
central and northern Wyoming are
up in arms over the action of inspect
ors OF the bureau of animal industry
at Omaha. and claim they are being
un1ustly prosecuted.
Shippers claim that although their
sheep leave the range free from dis
case. are passed as clean at the load
ing points and at the feed-in-transit
stations in Nebraska they are con-
signed to the hog yards and quaran-
tine pens upon arrival at South Oma-
ha, because few sore-mouthed lambs
are found. The sheepmen claim that
these sore-mouthed lambs are nothing
new, and scarcely a shipment has
gone to market in the last twenty-five
years that has not contained some
sore-mouthed lambs.
In pointing out the injustice to Wy
oming sheepmen, the shippers say
sore-mouthed lambs are received in
shipments from Montana, Idaho, Ore
gon, Utah, Colorado and other west
ern states, are passed as clean, are
not placed in the hog yards or quaran-
tined areas, and that IL those animals
are free from disease and are accept
ed. then the Wyoming, shipments
should be accorded the same treat
ment. IL sores on the mouths of
lambs is disease, and 1t is neces-
sary to quarantine the animals and
the section of Wyoming from which
they were received. then there is not
section of the United States where
sheep are grown that is free. argue
the Wyoming shippers.
The Wyoming and National Wool
Growers associations have taken the
matter up with Secretary Wilson and
Chief Melvin of the bureau of animal
industry in the hope that relief will
be Forthcoming soon. The Wyoming
sheepmen say the work of the federal
inspectors at South Omaha costs them
one to two cents per pound on. all NUT
ton marketed there.
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to Withstand the wear of ages. All
the fumes, culverts, division gates.
drops and other work along the lines
Of the main canals are built of steel
and concrete.
There is no dam across the Black
canyon at the point where the river is
turned into the tunnel. Instead of
this, the tunnel itself taps the river
from beneath its granite bed. BY
this plan neither floods nor slack wa
ter can prevent the tunnel taking
from the river all the water needed.
Has Immnse Capacity.
A few statistics of this tremendous
project are worth setting forth. The
tunnel is 10000 feet long. and IL by
13 feet inside measurement. The main
canal is 80 feet wide at the bottom
and SO feet wide at the top, and the
average depth of the water is ten
feet. The capacity is 1900 cubic feet
of water second. After the water
leaves the west portal of the tunnel
1t is conducted, through 12 miles of
canal to the Uncompahgre. There Is
drop of PA feet in this distance, and
this great fall will be utilized for Gre
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With plain cord wood as fuel. ths
wall sided. scow shaped. stovepipe fun
neled craft in which Robert Fulton
first navigated the waters OF the Hud-
fon river under steam propulsion 102
years ago. came to life again recently
when the reconstructed Clermont,
built for the Hudson-Fulton celebra-
ton, had her official speed trial from
Mariners Harbor, Staten Island. to
Robbins reef light.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion received the complaint OF the
Colorado Coal Traffic Association OF
Denver against the Colorado & South
ern, Denver & Rio Grande and Rock
Island railroad companies in which 1t
Is alleged that their carload rates on
coal from the Walsenburg district,
Colorado, to Omaha and Lincoln. Neb.,
and common points. Is unreasonable
and excessive
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ago and had progressed steadily ever
since. Together with its main and
distributing canals, the tunnel will ir-
rigate 100000 acres of land in val
ley naturally one of the most fertile
in Colorado, but which has been semi
arid because of the annual summer
droughts and the inadequacy of the
Uncompahgre river.
This day of the opening of the tun-
mel was made the chief day of the
Western Slope fair, now being held
here. All the morning special trains
kept coming in, from various parts
of the state, and at 10:30 there was a
parade of the visitors. Early in the
afternoon the explosion of a bomb
told the people that the special train
bearing President Taft and other gov
ernment officials had entered the city
limits. A second bomb announced his
debarkation at the station. and third
was sent up as the distinguished
guest, escorted by great procession,
started for Elks' park.
President Taft Welcomed.
At the park, after Introductory re-
marks by F. ID. Catlin, chairman of
the Gunnison tunnel opening commit
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erandenbera to eillinas.

Walter G. Brandenberg of Denver,
who is superintendent of exhibits in
the Agricultural building at the Inter
state Fair. has received marked rec
ognition OF his ability in gathering to-
gether notable showings of farm pro-
ducts by his appointment as superin-
tendent of exhibits at the fourth an
nual dry farming exposition, to be held
in Billings. Mont. October 26th. 27th
and 2sth. An agricultural and devel-
opment congress is to be held there
in connection with the exposition, and
Mr.. Brandenberg will be one of the
spo-Hers. lie will leave Denver to
make preliminary arrangements at
Billings as soon as the Overland fair
closes.
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24

Denver police have been asked to
help locate Charles C. Connely of La
toni. Ky.
Denver" the burro presented to
Tom Taggart. at the Democratic ma
tional convention in Denver. has foaled
young Denver, but its name is Pluto
That the Union Pacific railroad will
establish shops for the manufacture of
pressed steel cars at La Sale. and that
this is why the Union Pacific has just
purchased $50 acres on the west side
of town, was learned from an authora-
tive source.
Mrs. Esther Kitchell. probably .he
Oldest woman in Laramie county. cele-
brated her ninety-sixth birthday at
the home of her son. Aaron Kitchell,
in Fort Collins She enjoys excellent
health, is quite active and has full
possession of all her faculties. She
has 20 descendants.
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24
Six Billion Tons of Coal.

Seatle.-The ruling of President
Taft in the Ballinger-Glavis contro-
versy does not change the title to the
vast coal areas near Katalla, in Alas
ka, which are claimed by several syn
dicates. including the Cunningham
combination, with headquarters in Sc
attic. The geofogists in charge of the
United States survey of Alaska said
recently that six billion tons of coal
are in sight in Alaska, with the coun-
try only partially explored. This coal
is claimed to be superior to any found
elsewhere in North America except in
Pennsylvania. Estimates of the value
Of the coal lands claimed by the svn-
dicates vary from $75,OO0,0OO to ST..
000, 900 900
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
A RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN NEWS.

Reports OF serious damage to the
wheat crop of Argentina by locusts
caused sharp bulge in wheat prices
at Chicago.
Right Rev. William George McClos
key, bishop of Louisville. KY, and the
Oldest living prelate in the United
States. died. aged eighty-five years.
The 10000 ton battleship to be built
by the New York ShipbuildiDg com
pany will be known as the Arkansas,
and that by William Cramps Sons &
tracts for these ships were let several
days ago.
Attempting the part of peacemaker
between w. o. Terry and John Shan
non at Tyrone, N. M, Grant county
mining camp. Thomas Burch received
two bullets and died soon after. Terry.
who fired the fatal shots, is in jail at
Silver City.
-Four men were drowned at Cordova,
Alaska. when a small boat. containing
party of five descending from the
mine of George Esterly on the Nazina
river. was swamped. The only one to
escape drowning was Hamelin Andrus.
son of Congressman John E. Andrus
of Yonkers. N. Y. The lost men were
James Hinto. Robert Furst, Benja-
min Mullendorf and David Piper.
The Standard Oil Company has a
deal pending which is recognized by
financial interests as the beginning of
a movement to gain control of the en-
tire country's production of natural
gas. This deal, which will so through
within short time. will give to the
Standard Oil Company entire owner
ship OF the Reserve Gas Company,
which controls the gas output of West
Virginia.
The biggest gold stampede in Alaska
since the Tanana rush in 1903, is now
in full swing to the creeks of the Idit-
alod. tributary of the Innoko river,
$50 miles from Fairbanks. Thousands
of persons have gone to the Iditarod
during the summer. Nowhere are the
new gold fields deeper than twenty
feet. and every man has chance to
make stake, there being q wide ex-
tent of gold bearing country.
General sorrow is felt In railroad
circles at the news that Frank D.
Brown, local treasurer of the Union
Pacific Railway Company. at Omaha,
had died Monday night from an attack
of pneumonia. Mr.. Brown was well
known among railroad men. and also
among great many other people OF
social and financial prominence. He
had been an employe of the Union Pa
cific for the past forty years and made
fiequent visits to this territory.
Important changes are impending in
the method of handling the advisory
rating bureaus in the various western
states. Considerable dissatisfaction
developed under the arrangement now
in force and recently the Continental
issued notices that 1t would at once
retire from any state rating bureau
which completed the proposed leases
Several prominent union companies
had also declared themselves as ready
to refuse cooperation. fearing that the
plan might be attacked by some OF the
states, and it has been decided Il
abandon it.
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24
Wants U. s. to Learn English.

That the American people are muir
dering their mother tongue and one
of the great opportunities for reform
at the present time is to teach them
the English language, was the opinion
expressed at Chautauqua, N Y, by
President Faunce of Brown university.
He did not spare American colleges
in his arraignment and declared they
are turning out an alarming proper
ton OF actual illiterates.
81 would like" he said. ito see. tue
colleges of the country join in an eff
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24
East Mails to the Coast.

Washington,-Rival propositions to
carry the mails from Chicago to Sc
attic in fifty-six hours have been sub
mitted by the Great Northern company
and by the Chicago Milwaukee & St.
Paul railroad. Such an accomplish
nient as is promised would clip sixteen
hours off the present schedule for the
twenty-five hundred miles.
The threatened speed war has for
its reward the four-year contract for
carrying the Overland mail from Chi
cago for the Puget Sound country. Al
aska and Trans-Pacific ports and from
Chicago to st. Paul and Minneapolis.
1t means nearly $7,000.G00 additional
revenue to the successful road during
the four years following next Febru-
ary. when the contract is due to be
awarded
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24

Coloradoans, the celebration winding
up with an Illuminated parade and py-
rotechnic display.
Story Of the Great Tunnel.
First OF the big government recla-
nation projects to be undertaken, the
Gunnison river tunnel has been one of
the most difficult to carry through.
The ample waters of the Gunnison
flow through narrow valleys insult
ed to agriculture or through deep.
rocky canyons. while only a few
miles to the west the lovely Uncom-
pahgre valley has been suffering for
water. The Gunnison, descending in
ever deepening gorges. finally plunges
into the Black canyon, one of the most
magnificent mountain gorges in the
world. This unpromising spot was Sc
lected as the starting point OF the
tunnel. Brave engineers lowered
themselves into the Black canyon at
points where the granite walls rise
almost perpendicularly hundreds of
feet. and after their surveys were com.
pleted active work was started on the
immense project.
At great expense and under enor-
nous difficulties, a wagon road was
built to the east portal Of the tun-
mel. 1t is is miles long. and. climb
ing the granite ridge between the
canyon and the Uncompahgre valley.
descends the rocky wall on shelf.
work.
Bore Built for Az Time.
simultaneously work was begun at
each end of the tunnel and at point
several thousand feet from the west
end. where shaft was sunk. AS fas,
as the tunnel was driven through the
shale and solid rock. 1t was timbered.
and then the heavy timbers were
covered with impervious cement This
gives tunnel of solid concrete built
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OPENS
GuNN|sON BORE
Taft Let's Waters Flow Into Un-
compahqre Valley.
BIG PROJECT IS COMPLETED
Mountain Ridge Pierced by the Gov
ernmsnt In Order to 'rrisate
Beautiful. But semi-ArId
Tract In Colorado.

Montfose. Col. Sept 23.-President
Taft. standing at the west portal of
the great Gnnnison river tunnel a
little before five O'Clock this afternoon.
-ulled lever. and with mighty rush
the waters OF the river six miles away
poured into the Uncompahgre valley
in life-giving flood.
Thousands Of men and women who
a moment before had stood In silent
awe burst forth In wild cheering. can
non which had been captured by Col
o.ado troops in Manila roared salute.
and brass bands added their patriotic
music to the clamor.
Mighty Proeet Completed.
Thus was flttingly signalized the
completion Of the Gunnison river tun-
mel. the first project undertaken by
the United States government re-
clamation service. Work on the pro-
iect was begun four and half years
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tee. Mayor ]. @. Allen turned the
key of the city over to the guests.
Then John c. Bell delivered the formal
address of welcome. to which Presi-
dent Taft responded briefly and
happily. The exercises here con-
cluded with remarks by Senator
Charles j. Hughes and Gov. John
Shafroth. At four O'Clock trains start
ed for the west portal of the tunnel,
where President Taft opened the
gates, and speeches were made by l.
w. Mcconnell. consulting engineer of
the reclamation service, and Senator
Horace T. DeLong of Grand Junction.
After the return to Montrose there
was reception to President Taft and
others. and this evening speeches were
delivered by number of well-known
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24
Osborne Held for Murder.

Following al inquest of two days
length. which proved remarkable be-
cause two autopsies were held in the
ease, at Denver. coroner's jury found
that Albert Kero came to his death as
the result of an assault made upon him
with felonious intent by Eldridge NJ.
Osborn and as the result, the latter
was arrested on charge OF murder
and placed in the county jail.
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24

fort to induce the American people
to write and speak the English mother
tongue decently. The colleges are not
doing it now. Many of our college
seniors cannot write a decent bust
ness letter. We Americans should
link our minds and hearts and hands
in an effort to preserve this mother
tongue, which is our definite intel
lectual heritage"
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24
FOR A SONG.

Thomas Tabby-Yes. 1 fitted up my
fiat at ridiculously low price. In
fact, 1t cost me but a song.
Tabby Tiger-A song!
Thomas Tabby-Well, you see.
started up solo on the back fence at
2 a. m. and the donations received in
the shape of furniture. ETC.. Just filled
the bill
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24
AppIes Bio as Pumpkins.

Montrose. Colo.-John Ashenfelter
sent today to Fred Wild, Jr., general
freight agent OF the Rio Grande, a
box of Wolf River apples. forty-two OF
which filled an ordinary apple box.
This Is probably the finest box of ap-
pies ever sent out OF the county, each
being perfect in color and shape. Or
dinarily there are about eighty-five
Wolf Rivers in box.
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~re, Them Found po,e.r

On board the S. S. Oscar H., at sea.
Sept. II (Via Marconi wireless tele-
graph to Cape Race, N. F.)-"Tell the
people of America to have the fullest
confidence in my conquest of the pole.
have records of observations made
by me which win prove my claim. I
shall be glad to set my foot on Amer
ican soil.''
This was the brief message DR.. Fred
erick A. Cook asked the Associated
Press to give to his countrymen as he
nears home on the steamer Oscar H.,
bound for New York
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24
Her Bathinu Suit,

Papa the stuff want my new
bathing suit made of costs ten dollars
a yard
We'll, here's $15o-get what you
want, my dear"
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bid eerIln PhiIanthropy.

More than $4,000 children were en-
abled by the authorities of Berlin to
spend this summer on land within
easy reach of the city limits. They
were assigned plots where they could
play and cultivate gardens profitably
with the help of their families and the
advice of public instructors.
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24

Moscow.-Count Tolstoy. who cele-
brated his eighty-first birthday last
week. came to Moscow for the first
time in several years. He left for
nearby town to visit his friend NJ
Pashkoff. the leader of the religious
movement among the better classes.
which resembles Tolstoyism. The count
appeared to be in vigorous health.
Vernon. Tex.-Julius Truelson. alias
Jonathan G. Thaw, who posed as n
cousin to Harry X. Thaw, was SEN
fenced to two years and six months in
the penitentiary following conviction
on the charge of defrauding local
bank of 81 900,
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24

The blessings of life are seldom
equally distributed. Somehow or other
tough chicken and dull knife al
ways manage to get together.
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24

Many man has sustained COM
pound fracture of the reputation by
falling off the water wagon.
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24

A little bottle of Hamlins Wizard Oil
is a medicine chest in itself II Ian be
applied in a larger number of painful
ailments than any other remedy known.
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24

ating power. A series of concrete
drops has been constructed and the
immense body of water rushing over
them is capable of generating at least
10000 horse power, which will be util-
lied in lighting the entire Uncompah-
gre valley by electricity.
The cost of the tunnel and distrib-
uting canals is over $5.00O.0 900. and
perpetual water rights will be sold to
actual settlers at about $35 an acre.
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OF ALL HOT WEATHER ENEMIES
enoe "a isthe worst. Treatment bo nj ipmpt use
Painkiller Perry Davis which ovcrcouics all bowel
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24

DE- PsIees Pleasant Pellets first put up % years
and bowels. Sugar-contcd tiny xranuiex
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
For children tecthng, softens the gums reduces in
nAmmaton, slays pain, cures wind colic. 25c bottle.
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24

Out of total of is south pole ex-
petitions nine have been British.
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24

Brazil grows more coffee than any
other country in the world.
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Just Comfortably Bad.

Uncle-I hope you've been good
boy, Tommy.
Tommy-Wen, no-I haven't
Uncle-Dear, dear; l hope you
haven't been very bad.
Tommy-N-no, Just comfortable. !.
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24
Danish Proverb.

Where the will is ready the feet are
light.-Danish.
The Springfield herald., 1909-09-24

In India there are nearly 5000, 900
widows.