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The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

II may be impossible for the depart
ment OF agriculture at Washington OF
any other human power to succeed In
every attempt to cause two blades OF
grass to grow where one grew before
But there is no doubt OF the efficient
work done by the department, in slim
ulating crop growing wherever poss
fble Now the experts OF lat branch
OF the government are turning atten.
tion to opportunities In the Panam a
canal zone. which is under American
Jurisdiction. II is believed enough fruit
and vegetables. including those OF
both the temperate and tropical eli.
mates. can be produced to meet the
requirements in this direction OF the
$4,000 persons now residing on the
zone. II this can be done a fresh tri.
umph will be scored for the depart.
ment and important economic results
will follow. And al, that Will be in
line with the practical ideas viii III
govern the department OF agriculture.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

At dinner in Bar Harbor a Boston
woman praised the wit of the late Ed
ward Everett Hale.
walking on the outskirts of Boston
one day. she said. he and l inadvert-
emily entered a field that had No
Trespassing' sign nailed to tree.
soon a farmer appeared.
'Trespassers In this field are prose
cuted.' he said In grim tone.
DIR. Hale smiled blandly.
But We are not trespassers, my
good man. he said.
What are you Them asked the
amazed farmer.
Were Unitarians.' said DR.. Hale"
Washington Star.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20
WARDEN WANTS
PRISON FARM
WITH 500 ACRES OF LAND Penn
TERTIARY COULD BE MADE
SELF SUPPORTING.
MUCH IS RAISED NOW
INTERESTING FACTS REGARDING
coLoRApo's INSTITUTION
AT CANON CITY.

Denver-"Give me 500 acres Of land
and in 10 years the state penitentiary
will ask for no appropriation"
This was the confident remark made
Sunday by Warden T. ]. lyman. OF the
state penitentiary, to w. E. Collect,
secretary of the Colorado Prisons AS
ISOLATION, as Mr.. Collett was visiting
the prison. So successful have proved
the crops of the orchards and gar
dens attached to the penitentiary and
worked by the TRUSTEES. that the insti-
tuition has been fully supplied with
everything in the fruit and vegetable
line which 1t needed and a considera-
BILE amount of the output has been
marketed. BY recent arrangement.
some 20 acres Of land adjoining the
prison IL to be put under irrigation
and Warden lyman believes that II he
had 4sO acres more to work on he
could operate the entire penitentiary
on the profits derived from orchard
and garden produce.
"Out OF a prison population of 1872.
one-half are working outside the walls
as TRUSTEES" said Secretary Collect.
II doubt II there is another prison in
the country where such condition
exists. Warden lyman seems to know
Just how to handle them and 1t is sur
prising to see what they will do for
him. During the recent cold snap
there were scores of convicts working
in the apple orchards Of Canon City.
helping to save the crop from being
killed by the frost One prisoner
came back to the penitentiary while
was there who had been working
for a long time, on ranch over 100
miles from the prison. working there
Just like an ordinary hired hand.
THE hospital at the penitentiary is
being pushed to completion and War
den lyman is establishing a school for
the prisoners. with a special teacher
to superintend the general instruction
and educated TRUSTEES to teach the diff
ferent groups.
THE officers dining room has been
abolished and the room Is to be used
for an enlarged library. The officers
get $40 a month more. now. and eat
in town. This does away with the old
competition there used to be between
the prisoners to get work in the Off
GERS kitchen. where they would be fed
on officers food. The food of the
entire place is better now than for
merly.
"A new steam heating plant is be-
ing put in and all the cells are being
paved with cement, instead Of the old
flag-stones.''
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Record target practice scores of the
vessels of the American navy for 1909
made public at the navy department
show that the Pacific fleet. under Ad-
miral Swinburne, leads the fleet In
This beats the world.
According to its revised schedule.
the Senate irrigation committee will
reassemble at Denver October 31st,
and go direct TO Montrose to inspect
the Gunnison tunnel All of Novem-
Der LIST will be spent at Montrose and
vicinity. November End will be spent
at Grand Junction. and the following
day at Thistle, Utah.
The University OF Copenhagen has
been requested by the National Geo
graphic society to renounce its first
claim to an examination OF Dr. Cook q
observations made during his search
for the pole, saying that American
scientists are impatient at the delay
and feel that this is a matter that
should be settled In America. A mes
sage was also sent to Commander
Peary asking for his records.
Crop conditions in the United States
are slightly more favorable than the
average conditions for the last ten
years existing during September. &C
cording to reports compiled by the De-
partment of Agriculture The yield
per acre compared with the ten-year
average in yields was: Winter wheat.
115.5; spring wheat. HIS. oats, 1921;
barley. 92.6: rye. lob: hay. ESQ:
hops, 92.S.
The National Geographical Society.
in response. to a proposal from the
Peary Arctic Club. adopted a resolu-
ton agreeing to join the American
Geographical Society and the Amer.
lean Museum Of National History, in
requesting DR.. Ira Remsen, president
of the National Academy of Sciences
to appoint a commission to examine a
report on the Arctic records. observa-
tons and data of Commander Robert
E. Peary and DR.. Frederick a. Cook.
Although Attorney General Wicker.
sham has refused to state his views
on the dismissal of the removal pro
ceedings in the Panama libel cases at
indianapolis. it was suggested at the
department of justice that the action
on the removal proceedings affects
only the question as to the defendants
in that proceeding being brought to
Washington, and that the government
can go ahead with other phases of this
Panama case.
Failing to secure a reasonable bid
on the enlargement of thirteen miles
of the Montrose & Delta canal. I'm.
compahgre Valley project. Colorado.
the secretary of the interior has au-
thorized the reclamation service to
perform the work.
Brigade General Amos s. Kimball,
U. S. A., retired. who saw forty years
service in the army, and was retired
at his own request in 1902. died on
the 18th inst. at the age of sixty-nine.
from heart failure. He was buried
with military honors in Arlington
cemetery.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20
Sanitary inspectors Report.

Denver.-In the period beginning
June /. 1909. and ending October I.
Labor Commissioner E V. Brake and
his six inspectors have inspected
1859 buildings as to their sanitary
condition. ventilation. facilities for es-
cape in case OF fire. and safety appli-
ances on machinery. These inspec-
lions have been made under the pro-
visions Of the factory inspection law
and in 526 cases the inspection fee Of
$40 has been charged. Commissioner
Brake states that there are 5000
places which should be inspected. but
the facilities at the disposal Of his
office have not permitted the work to
be carried on to that extent yet.
The detailed list of places inspected
is as follows: Bakeries. As; laundries,
Sc: hotels. boarding and bunk houses,
414; mercantile establishments, III:
manufacturing establishments, 544:
auto and motor shops. 40; brick yards.
q: canning factories. II: cigar facto-
ries, Z.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

months use of them. Mrs. s. A.
WILLIAMS, R. F. D. No. IA. Box 80.
Gardiner, Me.
No woman should submit to surgi.
cal operation, which may mean death,
until she has given Lydia E. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound, made exclusive
ly from roots and herbs, fair trial.
This famous medicine for women
has for thirty years proved to be the
most valuable tonic and remover OF
the female organism. Women resid-
ing in almost every city and town in
the United States bear willing testi-
mony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
1t cures female ills, and creates radi-
ant, buoyant female health. If you
are i'll, for your own sake as well as
those you love. give it trial
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
invites all sick women to write
her for advice. Her advice r. Free
and always helpful
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

Cincinnati, Ohio Robert l.. Engle.
aged So. a veteran railway builder.
the engineer who built the railway up
Pixies Peak and who superintended
the building of the hanging bridge
over the Royal gorge. is dead at his
home in this city. Mr.. Engle accom-
plished some of the greatest feats in
Western railway engineering. serving
with the Mexican Central. Cincinnati
Southern, Santa Fe, the Denver & Rio
Grande, the NJ. X. & T. and the tide
water road in Virginia. He retired =
few years ago
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

Albuquerque, N. M Shouting
Where is Taft? want to kill him.
Thomas Thorpe. an aged prospec:or,
approached Policeman T. Guvera a
few minutes after President Taft and
his party had reached Albuquerque.
Thorpe was arrested at once and
placed in Jail for investigation. He
had acted queerly and asked Chief OF
Police McMillen a number Of ques-
tons which led the chief to have him
observed. Thorpe had been drinking
and is believed to be feeble-minded.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

The visiting party OF thirty members
of the Japanese commercial commits
sioners. including the leading finan-
cial magnates Of the Japanese empire.
is scheduled to arrive in Denver No
vember 18th The Denver Chamber
of Commerce will have charge of their
entertainment and is planning a spe-
cial train to Fort Collins and northern
Colorado.
The first report of the Colorado ge-
illogical survey. created by the legis-
lature three years ago. will be issued
in a few days by State Geologist
George. 1t covers 242 pages. has many
Illustrations. contains complete re-
ports on the surveys OF the tungsten
areas of Boulder county. the Monte
yuma mining district, the foothills for
nations OF northern Colorado and of
the Hahn's Peak region.
It is said that at least one coal land
fraud case is TO come up before the
federal grand Jury at Denver next
month. Evidence secured by special
agents of the United States land Of
flee is expected to cause indictments
to be returned against more promi.
nent Denver men.
Once successful school teacher of
Leadville. wife of a Pleasant valley
farmer in Weld county, Mrs. Horace
Hopkins has demonstrated her sue
cess in growing a new crop. having
taken 81 900 net from 10 acres of peas
gathered for seed.
DR.. A. E. Miller of Austin on the
Surface Creek mesa, eight miles from
Delta. has sold from the trees the
1909 crop from his 40-ncre orchard,
for $4,000, according to advices re.
ceived at Denver by Secretary Oliver
OF the State Horticultural Associa.
ton.
Astronomer Fl. II. Howe of the Uni.
versity Of Denver caught his first
sight of Halley's comet through the
big telescope at the Chamberlin OBJ.
servatory on the morning of the 18th
inst. At present 1t appears faint and
nebulous.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

The New York Tribune says that
Edwin F. Hawley, B. F. Yoakum
chairman OF the executive committee
OF the Rock-isiani-Frisco systems
and James Spere. the sew York
banker, have obtained control of tine
Missouri. Kansas & Texas railway.
James M. Barrie. the English nov.
elist and playwright. has been granted
divorce on the grounds of his wife's
misconduct with Gilbert Cannan. a
young author. The suit was not de-
Tended. Mrs. Barrie was formerly
Mary Ansell. an actress.
Il can only say that the actual. liv-
ing. human witnesses of my journey to
the pole will themselves be able to dis.
prove the distorted declaration put
into their mouths in the statement is
sued by Commander Peary." said DIR.
Frederick A. Cook in an interview at
Buffalo. .'
Five thousand workmen at Buenos
Ayfes held a demonstration during
which violent speeches were made
against the execution of Ferrer. and
a Spanish flag was burned. A bomb
was exploded at the Spanish con-
sulate at Rosario and the building
somewhat damaged.
At Potsdam on the 18th inst. En-
peror William today witnessed a half
hour flight by Wilbur Wright. the
American aeroplanist. leaving impor-
tant state business unfinished. He
engaged Wright in a lengthy CONVEX
sation and presented him with an au-
tographed photograph.
1t is said that the mother of young
Lieut.. James N. Sutton. Jr.. of Oregon.
who met his death at the Annapolis
naval academy during fight with
brother officers, will soon lay charges
against certain of the marine officers
before the federal grand jury at Balti.
more.
Lady Constance Lytton and Mrs. H.
VI. Brailsford, who were sentenced to
a months Imprisonment at New Castle
England. for taking part in a suffra-
gette demonstration against David
Lloyd George, have been liberated on
a government order. owing to their
weak condition.
Colonel Roosevelt has sent a cable
gram to Commander Peary at Port
land. Me-. saying: II deeply appreci-
ate your cable and congratulate you
from my heart, All Americans. and
indeed all civilized mankind are your
debtors. You performed one OF the
greatest feats OF the ages"
Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols was inaugu-
rated as tenth president of Dartmouth
College, N. H.. on the 18th inst. in
the presence OF distinguished assem-
bly,. More than 100 colleges. Ameri-
can and European, were represented.
The British origin OF the college was
recalled by the presence of Ambas-
sador Bryce. For the government.
Commander Bryan Of the Naval acad-
envy stood sponsor.
The permanent International Peace
Bureau at Its session in Brussels Sat
urday adopted a resolution suggest
ing that the various governments Of
the world Join In the creation OF an
international fund for the relief Of
sufferers In the event Of the occur
renee OF great disasters in any part
OF the world. A motion was also
adopted favoring the Introduction OF
the throwing Of explosives from air.
ships in time OF war.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

The little shah Of Persia is between
IL and IL years old. about the age
when the average American boy is
having the care-free time OF his life.
Yet they propose that the young shah
shall marry and assume the RESPONSE
bility Of a domestic establishment
And apparently they have the estao-
lishment picked out No wonder the
little fellow tried to run away. Also
no wonder that even the sluggish east
is awakening to the farcical charac-
ter Of some kinds OF monarchy.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

VI tne LenOX Avenue Union cnurch oil
the Disciples of Christ in New York
City.
In a speech at Phoenix, Ariz., Presi
dent Taft told the people that he
would help to carry out the pledge OF
the Republican party to grant state
hood to that territory.
James ]. Hill, at st. Paul, denied
that the Great Northern railway was
trying to enter Hartman territory in
California by extending the Oregon
trunk line to San Francisco. He said
he would not build into California.
The body of the late Mrs. ]. Add
son Hayes. the daughter Of the Con
federacy. who died at Colorado
Springs last July. will shortly be re-
moved from a vault in Evergreen
cemetery and taken to Richmond. Va.
for interment in the family lot
At banquet given to her at the
Brown hotel in Denver by the Central
w. c. T. u. Mrs. Frances Beauchamp.
state president of the w. C. T. U. of
Kentucky. made a strong plea for
state and national prohibition as OPP
posed to the local option plan.
A special catle TO the Seattle Post
Intelligencer from Skagway. Alaska.
says four men and one woman were
drowned when a four-horse stage in
which they were attempting to cross
the Klenhinf river near Walls. forty
swept down stream.
On Mount Roubidoux, near Red.
lands. Cal, President Taft participate
ed In the unwilling Of tablet set in
solid rock to the memory of the found
err Of the California missions. Fra
Junipera Sierra. On the tablet were
the three words. "Apostle-Legisla.
tor-Bu.,der"
At Alamosa on the 18th inst. Saul
Halyve. the noted Indian runner. who
won national reputation by defeating
Hatch and Forshaw in the Denver
Marathon last summer. won the ten
mile race authorized by the Rocky
Mountain association Of the A. A. U.
His time was :59:I2.
While most people are killing
snakes. Professor l.. A. Adams. cura-
tor OF the Colorado State Normal
school. is said to be raising them by
hundreds. OF the harmless kind. and
will liberate them in the fields about
Greeley to aid farmers In destroying
mice and other field pests.
A fashionably dressed bandit who
robber the savings bank OF ID. +. Err
skine & Co.. in Highland Park. ILL.,.
an aristocratic village on the Lake
Shore. twenty-five miles north OF Chi
cago committed suicide by shooting
when driven to bay by the Highland
Park marshal and posse OF citizens.
The government Of Austria and
Hungary, on account OF the greatly in
creased immigration OF its citizens to
the Rocky Mountain region. has estab-
lished consulate in Denver with
power over five states and two terri
tories. George de Grivicic. consul gen
eral of the Rocky Mountain district,
has opened offices in the Jackson
block. Denver. He will have jurisdic-
ton in Colorado. Montana. Wyoming.
Idaho, Utah. New Mexico and Arizona.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

He Is very practical, serious
minded man OF business. The other
day he met friend. and related to
him an alleged joke. and at its con-
clusion laughed long and heartily.
The friend looked awkward for a
moment. and then said;
You'll have to excuse me. old man,
but ! don't see the point
why. to tell you the truth. I don't
Just see the point myself. But I've
made 1t rule to laugh at all Jokes;
j think it's good for the health"
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

Manila has been celebrating the
eleventh anniversary OF the capture
OF the city by American troops. What
has become Of that Philippine disaf.
lection and Instruction which the
'anti-imperialsts" were wont to pre-
dict so gloomily? asks the Evening
Wisconsin. Really the admirers OF
Aguinaido have had little to talk about
for some time. Perhaps they will
seize the Incident OF the Invasion OF
New England by the regular army as
an opportunity first to protest loudly
and then to take to the tall timber.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

To deprive of his adopted national
ity a Chinaman who served in the
navy during the civil war. was wound
ed five times In the service OF the
country. and has held citizenship pa.
pers for IS years. must be in accord
with the law. since the courts say so.
But 1t leaves liberty OF opinion as to
what sort OF law it is that infiicts such
results
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

An old red hen in New Jersey, in
digging for worms in the soil, brought
10 light $1,000 worth of stolen jewels.
This proves again how that great ma
tional institution. the American hen.
when egged on. can come up to the
scratch.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20
PRESIDENT AT
ALBUQUERQUE
sTRoNeLY IN FAVOR OF STATE.
HOOD FOR ARIZONA AND NEW
MEXICO.
VISITS AN OLD PUEBLO
GIVES SOME EXCELLENT AD
VICE TO BOTH INDIANS AND
AMERICANS.

l
Albuquerque, N. M.-President Tart
had another day OF travel through the
FAR Southwest Friday and traversing
New Mexico, had glimpse of some
o. the most ancient adobes in Amer
lea, leaving the train at one time to
go into the plaza OF pueblo to Wit
ness an Indian dance. especially ar
ranged.
The color of the Southwest tinted
his reception at all the various stops
along the way.
Arriving here at 3 o'closk, the presi-
dent was greeted by one of the largest
audiences of his territorial travels OF
the past three days and aroused in
tense enthusiasm by repetition Of
the declarations he made in Arizona
that he favored statehood for the two
remaining territories of the United
s..,a. ona xyou,d 40 oil in bis nower
,.,oa 49,, 80
W 'ee '."'
the peop,e Vi A''Aona anu NC"
are grained
1t was at Laguna, a township maze
up entirely of Indians. that the presi-
dent was met by local committee of
Indians and where he had one Of the
uos, un,oue entertainments of his
-
u,,,. .,nn,aa .tard
~. 80, 81.
III tne pia-a ene'oSeu WIZ" "No'e "
ana wahs' tne presiueh' was sno"
cred with presents Ihere were Dian
kets Of gaudy color. Indian bread and
other offerings which the red men had
fashioned in mis- honor.
The pIaza itself. the walls and the
.o-r.,.a roofs os tho adobe houses
-. it,. tel ,nd,.rs tho s,raws
- g. ,..,..,,. ,,..,.s
oeins a''''e1 ~
whicn seeHea al INC 1's..e, 80
tne siafe Vi an unoiouueu su.,
mere WIS na'uy sdua" H,.s.s,sS
eo'o 'na' aia ~, " -. =,
enuooy-i"eeu n,'o p"pos -,
her ai".s
her oacA. more n'.e iAu 49, -. ~
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welcome tne ple''uea ~, a""
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piaAa' "i.e, ."e ~. ~. ,.s, .,an,
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Vi 'ne oo"i"n"e ua 49,, ,n.
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ii.'ie ehi'ure" '"'e Suns
vo., ,,,,r.
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Nary'ana. Ms "a'y'a -,
rron 'ne r'1A .,o 49, as,,,an,
gus 'nfone y. ~ h,,,,a,na
went 20 .ne ."u." ~ 49, -. %
III "''i. spe -,,s.>,
win emphasis on easA :, r,.,,., a.,
uer INA. al VIZ "nue -..s..
All misnt "nu.. ''-"u M -,
assured the ihaiahs ., .ne go -
OF the government anu ISL ~"
De eooa FARMERS anu sou
ne was Warmly app,auu" ~"
Inoian "ah''u " !.
inese e'iuehces Vi ".e'' anu
might De sa'o OIL sueh en'nus'"s"
unique coming from sucn s'''iu
race
In all OF ms speeches. our'ns me
DAY the president AGAIN urged 'ne
people OF Arizona anu NE" "eHieo "
take time anu 10 deliberate I'D 'he ioi
nation OF their new STATE cohseitu-
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

The head of the chemical bureau
says that modern housewives are Luz
cretia Borgias. who devote themselves
to bridge while ptomaines revel I'M
checked in the icebox. This indict-
ment is enough to freeze the marrow
of their bones even to the extent of
boycotting the icemen.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

A Montreal paper has figured that in
dancing at ball beginning at ten
O'Clock at night and ending at FIVE
o'clock the next morning the distance
covered is more than IL miles. Yet
the average girl prefers 1t to a day
at the washtub. where there is very
little walking.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

King Edward denies that he made a
small fortune in American steel stocks.
But he needn't worry at the report. II
fortunes in stocks are good enough
for our money kings. they are good
enough for him.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

Editor Junkin of the Sterling BulIe-
tin has red hair. Editor Gretchen Of
the Sedgwick Paragraph has no hair
at all.
Mac" asked Junkin. how did yor
lose your hair?"
1t was red and ! pulled II out"
growled Cretcher.-Everybody
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

Georgia has a new law prohibiting
false gossip about women. 1t is still
lawful there. however. to tell a woman
to her face that her new hat is too
sweet for anything
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20

anu u BeV6Ic Itul6l6
weakness. T h 9
doctor saidI would
have to 60 to the
hospital for an
operation, but /
could not bear to
think Of 1t. / de-
cided to try Lydia
Z. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
andSanative Wash
and was entirely
cured after three
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-10-20
ANOTHER
WOMAN
CURED
ByLydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Gardiner, Maine.-"I have been .
great sufferer from organic troubles