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The Greeley tribune., 1909-07-14
SHERIFF FLORANCE ARRESTED
FRANK COOPER
CAUGHT him IN CALGARY
Charged With Ruin Of the Killham
Girl, for Which ORense = Young
or Brother IL Now Serving
Sentence In the Colo
RADIO Penitentiary

Frank Cooper, brother of Will
Cooper, who is now serving term
in the penitentiary. was arrested in
Alberta, Canada, Sunday by Sheriff
Ben Florance upon q statutory
charge in connection with the IA
year-old daughter of Sam Killham of
Pleasant Valley. The child was but
13 years old when the crime was
committed. Frank Cooper is the
oldest of three brothers, all three
of whom are accused of the same
crime.
Frank Cooper is supposed to be
the arch criminal. Two years ago,
before the child was quite 13, she
rode her pony at sunset each even
ing across the prairie to drive home
the cows. From the child's story,
which was told behind closed doors
at the trial of the younger Cooper
in order that the older ones might
be apprehended, 1t appeared that
Frank Cooper had waylaid her one
night, dragged her from her pony
and threatened her with instant
death if she should tell her parents
what had transpired. Using this Sc
cret as leverage, and threatening
to tell her parents the second broth
er became as guilty as the Oldest, ac-
cording to the child's story.
Both the Coopers were married
and had families and all worked for
Mr.. Killham, living on one end of
his farm.
The intimacy of the older Coopers
/ with the child begnn to be noticed by
the neighbors and, knowing thai
their guilt would soon be discovered.
they took team of Killham's horses,
made their escape at night. sold the
team the next day in Denver and
made straight for the Canadian line.
A Younger brother Will Cooper,
was still on the farm. When he was
sentenced to four years for the same
crime against the same child. 1t was
proved by the state that the older
brothers in Canada had induced the
Younger one to run away with the
girl, and if possible, to marry her,
which would leave the coast clear
| for the older ones to return. The
father and the sheriff spoiled that
plot and the young fellow got the
penitentiary for his efforts.
The Canadian police located one
of the Coopers two weeks ago. Ii
took Sheriff Florance an entire week
TO procure eXtradition papers. he
had to make four trips to the COVER
nor's Office and that official had to
send to the secretary of the United
States to have the papers honored.
A week ago Sheriff Florance started
Tor Canada and kept the matter
secret by giving out that he was go
ing to the mountains fishing A
telegram received this morning stat
ed that he had arrested the older
Cooper and that he was putting up
fight against eXtradition. This may
cause few days delay. but there is
no doubt that Cooper will be brought
hack to face the most dastardly crime
of which a white man could be ac-
cused.
Cooper was captured at small
town called Calgary. in Alberta.
Canada.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-07-14
A Charming Reception

Mrs. ]. Il. Neill and Miss Edi'h
Kurtz we're hostesses OF n char'ninS
reception Saturday afternoon IN non
or Of Professor and Mrs. O. w
Kurtz of Cleveland. There "e'y
about forty guests invited TO meel
the guests of honor Mrs. kurt" Is
n prominent w. G. T, U. worker 80
ladies of the local union were III,
yited to meet her, and numper "
voupg friends OF Miss kurtz wer'
also invited to meet her relatives,
Dainty refreshments were se, w."
during the afternoon by Miss h"r.~,
assisted by Misses Jessie Lace anu
Ethel Patterson.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-07-14
Hsd skull Fractured

Denver, July 1O.-While cleaning
the metal ceiling Of the Elite cafe
on Stout street this morning Ben
Eomero lost his balance and fell
rfteen feet to the tile floor below.
fracturing his skull and sustaining
o, her injuries which proved fatal an
hour afterwards.
Romero was working on scaffold-
irg. He was on his tiptoes when
he felt this scaffolding slipping. He
reached for q projection on the cell
ing, but this served to overbalance
him and he struck the floor. head
foremost with q sickening thud. He
sustained a conclusion OF the brain
and eternal injuries which caused
his death.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-07-14
TOOK POISON FOR
A SICK HEADACHE
EATON RANCHER NEARLY DIES
RichlorilDe Tablets Looked Harmless
EnOagh But Are Deadly
(Eaton Specially

(Eaton SpeciaD
John Larson, a rancher living near
Eaton, recently took number OF
certain kind of bichloride tablets,
installing them for harmless head
ache powder. The tablets are dead
ly poison and for some time it looked
as though there was no chance OF
his Milling through. A physician
was hastily summoned and worked
with lin for hours. and next morn
ing the odds are in his favor, al
II ough he was about as far inside
death S doorway as man can get
and hen back out again.
The story was started that Lar
son made an attempt to commit
suicide and the report gained wide
credeuce, but is strenuously denied
bv the unfortunate mans friends
He came perilously near to self de-
struction. but it was purely acci-
dental they claim. and he is eN-
cteiingly grateful to the doctor VINO
hauled him back into this world.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-07-14
new CHANNEL OF
POUDRE SUCCESS
CUT THROUGH CLAYTON LAND
Old Channel Practically Dry Since
Water Has Receded

Water Has ReCeded
When W. L. Clayton conceived
the idea of cutting just a small ditch
for the new channel of the river
when its course was changed at
Eleventh avenue this spring and ex-
pected the dood waters to cut the
balance OF the channel without any
expense. II has been proven without
doubt that his calculations were
all right unless he regrets few
acres OF land which were taken down
stream ~ the tsrriac Ao0d.
The river has now receded to Its
normal now and every drop Of wat
e is passing through the new chan
mel, which gives 1t a straight shoot
all the way from Island Grove park
to the Union Pacific railroad track.
Owing to the tremendous fall the
new channel has been cut at least
two feet lower than the old channel
v ith its numerous curves, the bot
tom of which is now dry both In the
Eleventh avenue loop on the north
and the Ninth avenue loop on ."e
south.
From a little cut ten or fifteen
feet wide and three feet deep the
channel has been cut by the mood
10 a depth of aix feet and an average
width OF $50 feet. At small cost
the old channel can now be dyked
at the opening of both loops and
when this IL done there will be lit
Il. danger OF the lowlands north OF
town being flooded again. even should
the river raise above the high water
mark Of this year.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-07-14
Funeral of W. W. Kennedy
l,,rindsnr SneciaD

Most of the business houses IN
town closed from 10 a m to IL M:
today, while the funeral services OF
,ha late w. w. Kennedy were being
,a,d @ ar the Methodist church. The
Masons had charge of the ceremony
and the choir of the church fur
njsbed music. The interment was IN
Lakeside cemetery,
The Greeley tribune., 1909-07-14
Ind Concert Friday Night

II nay not be known by all tha'
the c0ncerts in the park during the
summer are paid for by subscription
and heretofore the bulk of the en-
perse has fallen on the merchants
As here is no way of those VINO
circulate these subscription i's's
among the residences, the plan Oh
tRkng up a collection at concert
will h5 tried. So Friday night those
who re going to attend the concert
win Nndly remember TO bring DO
nation; 1t will be greatly appreciated
by the band boys. The subscription
list as It stands now is rather si'ia'i
TO Try the concerts through 'ne
SIMMER, and therefore more none!
is uaeded to carry out the series
some person, known to the malor,N
of tne citizens, will pass through 'ne
1rIInnce to collect the donations
The Greeley tribune., 1909-07-14
Gone to Land Drawing
(Ault Special)

Quite a number have gone from
here to take part in the land draw
ing contest at 1gnacio, In LaPIata
county. Among those who went are
X. l.. Martin, v. Collins. Albert ALL
son, John Kiser and J. W. Bridges
The Greeley tribune., 1909-07-14
New store Mt LaSalIc
(JaSalle Specially

f. W. Hughes of Loveland mas
.rfaF a part OF the old Morrlso"
nTffng and will open a store thete
,or The State Bank of LaSa''e
uG d. s. Ellis store at present o,-
,pr The building; but the pahh
a,pIG will move out as soon as
,qir own building is compie'eu'
MIN will be some time in August
more will be no changes In the NJ
d. ore
The Greeley tribune., 1909-07-14
N a Victim
Enant,iA


who was dan
railroad acci-
1 Sunday is one
men in this part
mas been a resi-
lor nearly forty
Y. years of age
ndchildren He
ammer with a
Mrs. Willie Nc
I who live here
p the hills, and
Z here are anx-
! from them, He
placements With
| one of the few
PERSONAL recollec-
Wsn' In the mud
IN ruins north
The Greeley tribune., 1909-07-14
hCal'on

Ashing turl-
p al a 40
- car con-
GERS rushed
sdnd freight.
fed up the
human freight
he two, fatally
nd dangerously
others received
b hurts while
> alishted upon
oadbed unhurt.
Of the smaller
p Fort l.upton
! the appalling
bred.
Pred at the curve
| Baileys, forty
Pr Sunday even
fd orders for a
Pd. according to
ndo & Southern
was being run
from the com =
hfge of the sec
! assistant The
returning from
Shawnee.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-07-14
LAWS
! OF ACCI-
kATH
+ CANON
,sh Car Meet
KILLED Out
Ne Killed
Bomb
ity

ls.-Nine men
I in a pitched
horsebuyers
Adoes, accord
WED from At
west OF here
! brief account
ihed here the
neither lHe
the Western
10 raise Alton,
tther side an
lat the line is
ther the oper-
lace of safety
! of the cattle
ation has been
hnd both men
khat the horse
J camp for the
bed by the out
|xn upon the
shooting right
ting TO exter-
le SurNlNOT W as
led death until
driven off the
II Alton more
le operator was
kd account of
he wire went
The Greeley tribune., 1909-07-14
|splosion

n 'uly l2 Three
EF Killed by the
|, d during a post
y 81. u Johns day
lso' the Holy Ros.
|, u here Sunday
\ OF others were
Esse Antonio Gras-
La sfse of touching
%a a a colored man n
l'sre ct bystanders
IL ne {, bomb him
fIng it. 'S'ry
The Greeley tribune., 1909-07-14
d Suicide

|,tnaae aaal1erio sadi.
bk,huen' ottompt-
lang ,, nitric acid
| .,n He had told
m ,tassaged .s to Miss
[,',,s''e She denied the he
|nesn1.' used him Sc
trsen",s.' =, He retired
llns, "V poison.
The Washington herald., 1909-01-17

The Man of the Hour" in Washington at this time is
DR. McKanna of 1925 Eye Street N W. who has established
residence in this city
Dr. McKanna the president of the McKanna Santarium Com
pany and the dcoverer of the treatment bearing his He has
dozen Western which the McKanna
administered and there McKanna Sanariums also Richmond
Va-Murphy Hotel Annex-and Reidsvile, N. C.
Dr. McKanna has located w ashngon and will direct the
agement his santarums all parts the West
Washington residence
The Washington herald., 1909-01-17

The McKanna for the whisky habit ndosed wherever
known by governors officials of railroad companies Supreme and
Superior Court Justices mayors of Cities ministers the press and the
public generally.
One of the last Governor Robert B. Glenn of North Caro-
na before turned over the affairs of his State eCongman W.
W. Ktchn governoeect reia his Endorsement of the Nc
Kama treatment which has been North Carolina the past
eral years.
Nothing discovered has secured such Endorsements
that given the work of DR. McKannas Sanitarums
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-07-24
SPORTS IN
COLLEGE
SURPRISING

sbeenai athletics
prohibiting competitive
aid than ordinary the
in
athletics
college brand
PoMu
the
into
the beakdowns unusual
of the physical
of
months is easily
training the
athletes heart but this
before
he views IF into athletics
physical foundation cannot fail to benefit
him Investigations Oxford Cambridge Harvard
that that of the
introducing of competitive
the participants
sderaby This indulgence in strenuous athletics
made with reference
athletes This
TIE stimulate while
il has any o injurious effects
the
their training 1t
institutions They
intercollegiate certainly
is
anyex
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-07-24
CURRENT COMMENT
FORGOTTEN TROUBLE.

Do you know what it was that caused
you to fret,
Only a year ago?
Can you tell me the source of your
utmost regret,
Only a year ago?
1t looked big to you then and you
moped and you pinned,
The long nights were sleeplesS and
troubled your mind,
Yet you can't tell what happened in
looking behind,
Only a year ago?
Do you know why you frowned as
you journeyed your way,
Only a month ago?
Can you tell now what made all your
blue skies look gray,
Only a month ago?
What trouble was it that your happi-
ness marred,
That caused to say that your heart
had grown hard
And from all future joys in this world
you were barred,
Only a month ago?
You've forgotten them all, both the
great and the small
The pain and the woe;
For few are the troubles we ever re-
call
AS ownward We go.
All, few are the troubles, my brother
that last,
They seem big at first, but the mo-
ment they're past,
They slip from the mind, for they
never stick fast.
1t is we'll that it's so.
Detroit Free Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-07-24

Mr.. Taft, with a few assistants, is
attempting to do what 100000 of
Democrats with a President and
Congress at their head failed to ac-
compIish. Finding that he is in earn
est, the greatest of trusts now sounds
a general alarm, summons every sub
sidiary trust to the fighting line and
inscribes on it's banners, 1--WE stand or
fall together" Wool, cotton, STEEL
iron, glass, crockery, oil, salt, lumber
copper, sugar and all the rest, disre
garding minor considerations, are ex-
pected to move forward solidly in de-
Tense of privilege and plutocracy.
If Mr.. Taft can compel even SO much
as a material concession to justice and
decency from this combination he will
find a conspicuous place among re-
formers and emancipators. The wrong
that he attacks is hoary with tradi-
ton. 1t is buttressed on all sides by
craft, falsehood and ignorance. 1t Ass
placed industry and trade in an obi
Gus thraldom. To check the growth
of this trust, the most powerful of all
trusts; to deprive it of some spoils;
to weaken it in vital spot; to render
it less capable of mischief, and to en-
courage honest men to continue their
warfare upon it-what nobler aspira-
ton could an American President
have?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-07-24

by Commissioner Gambler. We have
read it, and we do not find anything
which puts in question the position
taken by McLendon.
Consequently, as it seems to US, the
issue which the Legislature is to try is
this:
Did McLendon forfeit his office by
refusing to grant special privileges to
Atlanta?
Mr.. Smith, handsomely paid as a
lawyer, goes before the Railroad Com
mission and demands special favors
for his own town, Atlanta. He meets
a determined opponent in Joseph M.
Brown. He runs for governor and
says in his speeches that if elected he
will remove Brown. Is elected, and
removes Brown.
Then he brings the same question
before his packed commission, and
loses again. And then he hops on Nc
Tendon, as he jumped on Brown.
There's the case, gentlemen of the
legislature.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-07-24
THE PRESIDENT ABROAD.
(WaShingtOn Post

washington Post
Since President Taft and President
Diaz have arranged to shake hands
over the boundary between Mexico
and the United States on the Ell Paso
bridge, it might as well be stated that
there is no law against the President
of this country leaving it's territory,
although the chief executive of Mex
leo must get congressional permission
before he may do likewise. Nor does
precedent any longer stand against
the President of the United States if
he should wish to visit foreign lands.
Col Roosevelt tossed custom to the
winds when he went to Panama
To be sure, the Canal Zone is Am
erican soil, the little republic having
relinquished sovereignty along with
the strip of land through which the
ditch is being built. But Mr.. Roose-
welt in the course of his presidential
inspection of the work rode blithely
across the boundary into Panama ter
ritory, not once, but many times Per-
sons then present are authority for
the statement that when he passed a
point on the road marked by an Am
erican flag on one side and a Panama
flag on the other he never blinked an
eye in recognition of the momentous
event Unfortunately on that day it
was raining so that no photograph
could be obtained to perpetuate for
the eyes of posterity a great historical
event-the blasting of tradition which
had grown mossbacked because no
body ever had occasion to disturb it.
With his long record for glObe-trot-
ing, President Taft will not be likely
to allow this once-shattered idea to
confine his travels if necessity arise
for him to go beyond seas to domains
other than our own. 1t would not be
strange if he should take a notion to
see, as President, the Panama Canal
work he long guided as Secretary Of
w dl. liz ID huOW IL W nave ClIICl IGAlll~
ed, as President elect, a wish to visit
the Philippines as President. On all
his visits hitherto he has touched at
Japan. 1t might easily happen that in
another visit he would be the guest of
the mikado in Japan, or even make a
visit to Picking, and there meet his ce-
lestial majesty, Pu vi, the 3-year-old
ruler of 4OO,0OO,0OO people. That would
be a meeting we'll worth witnessing.
Foreign rulers visit around" for
the purpose of bolstering up friend
ship with their neighbors. Perhaps
the day may come when the American
chief magistrate may do the same. 1t
is not difficult to forecast time when
a visit to the capital of Mexico or
Candada by the President of the Unit
ed States will be the most natural
thing in the world.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-07-24
THE GREATEST OF TRUSTS.
New York World.)

Trust busting has been going on for
years and yet to-day the greatest trust
on earth is arrogantly confronting gov
eminent and people at Washington
The protective system is the greatest
trust on earth, because it compre-
bends all of the trusts, fighting for a
common purpose and defending kim
dred iniquities. No one is ineligible
to membership who can deliver a
Senator or a Congressman or a con-
tribution to the campaign fund.
An honest President, pledged to
curtail the privileges enjoyed by this
colossal trust and unquestionably
speaking for three-fourths of the peo-
pie, of all political parties, is defied
by combination of all the interests.
They care little for each other, but
they are a unit in the presence of a
common danger. 1t is no rope of sand
which embraces them. They are bound
by all the tight considerations of
greed and plumber.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-07-24
TOM WATSON'S VIEW OF 1T.
(The Jeffersonian.)


What, then is the exact truth?
Governor Smith suspended McLen-
don from Office because he refused to
Atlanta that special privileges which
had been denied her, by formal de-
cisions, three times before. And the
feature of the incident which deserves
particular notice is that Mr.. Hoke
Smith, the hired attorney, had failed
to get the former commission to do
the very thing chat Mr.. Hoke Smith,
the governor of all the people, tried to
get his packed commission to do.
McLendon's ruling in the case which
caused his suspension is that the COM
mission cannot grant special favors to
the Atlanta jobbers without doing an
injustice to other town and cities.
The dissenting opinion was delivered
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-07-24

With the exception of a single coun-
ty up in Pennsylvania, Orangeburg
county South Carolina, has the most
individual farmers in the United
States. That is what tells for pros
perity. The great areas owned by
individuals are not potent factors in
building up a county 1t is the small
farms, the places of 100 to 500 acres,
that tell. The United States experts
are also stated to have given the South
Carolina county credit for the two
finest fields of corn in the country this
year. But these experts had not seen
Tom Hooks field just outside of Am
CIRCUS.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-07-24
THE RAILROAD COMMISSION AND
POLITICS.
Savannah Morning News.)

Savannah Morning NeWs.)
The action of the Senate in passing
the Irwin bill taking from the Cover
nor the power to suspend a member
of the railroad commission will be
very generally approved The fact
that the Senate passed the bill unan-
imousIy justifies the conclusion that
the House will also pass it. The Gov
ernor will hardly oppose it. If he
should, the sentiment in the Legisla-
ture is strong enough to pass it over
his veto.
Giving the Governor power to sus-
pend a railroad commissioner was a
mistake. The effect of that power is to
drag the commission into politics. The
commission should be free of politics.
1t is expected that the Railroad Com
mission will hear and determine cases
brought before it on their merits.
There are always two sides to the
cases on which it is called to pass.
The railroads are entitled to a square
deal in each and every case.
Gov Smith made an anti-railroa1
campaign in 1906 and he was success
ful He probably thought the Railrol.'
Commission was a part of his ad-
ministration, and that it was its duty
to follow his instructions. He was
particularly emphatic in respect to
port rates. Becausa the chairman of
the commission didn't follow the plat
form that was adopted in 1906 in the
matter of port rates he suspended him
and preferred charges against him.
The Governor wanted to make good in
the matter of his platform. 1t was a
question of politics.
1t may be said that the people want
ed port rates. 1t is safe statement
that the vast majority of them knew
nothing about port rates when Gov.
Smith was elected or at any time
thereafter. That this is true is shown
by the fact that a number of the joint
legislation committee that investigat-
ed the charges against the suspended
commissioner asked, in one of the
committee meetings, for an explana-
ton of port rates. The inference from
what he said, when he asked for the
explanation, was that the Legisla-
ture knew nothing about port rates.
If the Legislature knows nothing
about them it is reasonable to suppose
that the people don't.
1t is apparent therefore that if
justice is to be done as between the
railroads and the people questions af-
fecting the railroads should be heard
and decided by commission that ism t
controlled by a Governor who has a
policy to carry out or by platform
made by politicians who seek to gain
certain political ends.
The Senate acted wisely in severing
the relation between the Governor and
the Railroad Commission. Let us have
a commission that will be as free
from political influence as the courts
are. If we want to keep the railroads
out of politics the Railroad Commits
sion mustn't be guided by political
platform.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-07-24
DOES ANYBODY KNOW?
Chicago News.)

Chicago NeWs.)
Some things, perhaps, are no concern
Of either yours or mine,
But none the less we sometimes year.
All secrets to divine
These problems very many are
What makes a baby cry?
Why is girl particular?
Why does your shoe unite?
What puts the piggy's tail in curl?
Who needs a baseball fan?
Why does hat become a girl,
A boy become a man?
How do you get beside yourself?
What makes a doctor slow?
Who lays man upon a shelf?
Where does your money go?
Does Mr.. Rockefeller yearn
To pick the dairy plum?
Is Jersey butter hard to churn
From crude petroleum?
OF these and other things as we'll,
We wonder every day,
The reason why We cannot tell
And yet sometime we may
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