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La Junta tribune., 1909-01-09
Rocky Ford Elk. After Charter.

That Rocky Ford has a population
OF 5000 or over Is the BELIEF Of the
local members of the Benevolent and
Protective order OF Elks. and at their
request the city council has ordered
census taken to prove it. While
the census. which was begun yester-
day, is being conducted under munic-
ipal authority. the town will be put
to no expense whatever. for the Elks
interested have guaranteed that they
will reimburse the city for all ex-
penditures.
There are about sixty.five men liy-
ing In this city and vicinity who be-
long to the La Junta lodge of Elks.
and they have decided that It is
about time to withdraw and establish
a lodge OF their own. The application
for charter will be made immediate
ly and every effort made to accom-
plish their object.
According to the rules OF the order
a charter cannot be issued in dis
trict where there is already a lodge
unless the town can show by an Of.
ficial census that It has popula-
tion OF 5000 or more. Therefore. the
Elks At . meeting decided tos ask
the city to conduct the census with
the understanding that the munich
pality would be put to no expense.
The Elks have a reputation for be-
ing the best people on earth. and .
home lodge would be good thing for
the town. AZ stated above. there
are now about sixty-five members Of
the order here. ana they state they
have the promise OF = hundred or
moro who would Join the herd u =
charter was secured. There may b
some opposition ON the part q the
Ia Junta lodge, but Il u thought thfs
CO b Enthusiastically arrnnsad Nhsa
~ - ahle to SLOW tllnt ~ an -
'tlkled q : ssDaSats oexAniaatls ~ -
La Junta tribune., 1909-01-09

-Four bills were introduced In the
Legislature to establish wo,cott. Nor
ton. Felker and Chilcott counties out
OF Bent county.
Master Mechanic Luckey, who re
Gently resigned. left with his fam.
lily for Gslesburg. Ill. and Mr. Lucky
and his family are still residents OF
/ that burg
The Bank OF Eastern Colorado was
organized with directors as .ol.
lows: r. II. Deckey. president: NJ.
c. Stephens. r. w Paterson. L. A.
Benton, Jas. McNeen. q. A. Kiisore,
Sam Strauss. V. Aibera
Grass was so scare that cattle
would eat most anything A range
steer was discovered on the Ar
kansas river bridge trying 10 worry
down square yard of oil cloth.
which he had picked NJ ON the river
I bank.
During the year lsss 23.454 reqnlsi,
tons we're drawn at the local Santa
Fe storehouse. the largest number
ever drawn In one year There were
% .s0s gallons of oil and 5i.SSs
pounds OF waste issued to engines
on this division.
Twenty years ago, according 10
the Tribune, In Junta wanted a
Touring mill. electric lights, and
fifty more dwelling houses. Our
wants. IL numbered today. would
muster fully a score, but they would
be somewhat different from those of
twenty years ago.
Twenty years ago the Tribune as
servated to the effect ut Is about
time for the La Junta Board of Trade
to wake up. go TO work. and attend
to some important business matt srs
concerning our town There is an
opportunity to locate a colony of one
hundred families in n body upon the
fertile lands adjacent 10 La Jnnta.
\ Il the advantages OF the location
were properly presented TO them :
Strange how history repeats Itself
There was a meeting of the Re
publican club at the Tribune office.
Tuesday, January Is. 1889. to con
slider important business. This was
two months after the republicans OF
Bent county had made a clean sweep
In county official circles. Now that
the democrats. twenty years later,
have made a clean sweep. II might
be wise for the republican, Of the
present day to hold another import.
ant meeting to devise ways and
means for two years hence. You
know the story In the books you
have read, about the early bird.
4 Or. Finney read very interest
| ing paper before the Chautauqua Cir
Gle upon the "Railroad Hospital
The hospital was opened for patients
November u, 1884. The funds fol
the support. Of the hospital were OBJ
tanned by a graded monthly assess
ment ranging from 25 cents for .hs
poorest section hand TO $e5 from :ht
president OF the road. Statistics fol
the year 1883 were as follows: Mum
her OF out-patients treated. 574; sici
patients admitted. 1872: injured out
patients. 81; injured patients ad
mitted. IS; employees receiving assist
ance, 26; total patients for the year
s05.
La Junta tribune., 1909-01-09
SHEARS & sAwsvck WAY.


Shears & Sawbuck kept n store
Such as never was Lefore.
City folks they couldn't sell.
Wouldn't let 'em have a smell:
Fetched their money-but. by jins.
COULDN'T buy a blessed thing:
Couldn't meet 'em face to face
And then sell 'em with good grace.
Country trade was what they sought.
Folks who'd pay for what they bought
Fore they saw It. hide or tail,
They sent cataiogs by mail
Out to ev'ry blessed one
Gettin' mail al Possum Run
We set up at night and read.
When we orter been to bed
Book was bout as big as sin
Had 10, OF pictures in.
Had list of merchandise,
Eyry kind and every size.
Giyin' prices that they swore
Knocked out ey'ry country store:
Looked SO good and seem'd SO true,
bit t., it--Jim did, too.
Well. we. Ike pair of fools,
Sent ofs-got some hayin' tools;
Jim got harness and plow.
I a range--I see it now:
Drat the thing. 1t was so light.
Used 1, for torch one night;
Throw'd the darn thing in the yard.
Use ii now for renderin' lard.
Fore Jim used the plow an hour.
Found the blamed thing wouldn't
scour:
Tried his harness-broke tug
Sough, for so'ace in his Jug
In the cooler all that night,
Jim reflected on his plight;
In the morning. Richard Stout.
Hardware merchant, hailed him out
Jim said after that he'd stick
Close as bark to good old Dick;
Since he left the 'Possum Jail
Says he won't buy goods ty mail,
Says Dicks cheaper. anyhow
Might have saved some on plow,
On the other goods some more.
At his old friends hardware store.
Jim says, ''We can't sell no truck
To sich folks as Shears-Sawbuck;
They'll take all our cash away.
But wo'a't buy our corn or hay"
That seemed purity strange to me,
So told oil Jim I'd see
So / wrote to them that night,
Just to see III Jim was right.
Asst m what they pay for oats?
Could they use some likely shoats?
Had about four tons of hay.
could send them right away:
Could I furnish Mr., Shears
With his family roastin' ears?
Also would my friend Sawbuck
Buy some Of my garden truck?"
Answer came one summer day.
Said They couldn't use our hay.
Couldn't use our oats or shoats,
Didn't like our billy goats:
When they needed truck to eat.
Bought 1t down on Water street.
Sorry. but they must refuse
Anything but cash to use"
l sat down and wrote 'em then.
Hate to trouble you again.
But want to thank you, sirs,
| For your bunch OF cookie burs.
II you love your feller man,
Do him. good sirs. IL you can"
While our merchants sweetly sleep
Shears & Sawbuck shear your
l aha i
La Junta tribune., 1909-01-09
s...u. Of oefune. Rocky Ford Bank

At the opening session Of the Jan
uary term of the district court last
Monday morning, c. N. Hall. receiy-
er OF the deftnct Rocky Ford State
Bank, made a report upon the pres
ent condition Of the wrecked insti'
tuition, as follows:
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20
Humboldt People
 Give Out Statement

TIumho'dt Steamship Company have issued the following statement regard ing their rates and conditions of fregth shipments.
 We are not going 10 cut freight rates but we will give all Southeastern A laska shippers the same rate as given by the tariffs of tbu other com paries, less the rebate given hy them. We will treat the small shippers 'le same as we do the lal ge. They w.lt receive from us, the same late. Our attorneys have informed us ct 10 make reb ,te contracts as they cI,m these contracts are illegal. We want to hold ourselves within law aud the Onl, way we can do this. is by giving all shippers the same flat iate without any rebate. We will continue to car ry mail, coming and going without compensation. Thio we do for the nc. comodation of our Alaskan friends. y
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20
METLAKAHTLA NOTES

B. A. Holdane. the merchant, we, [ to Ketchikan Saturday on business.
 Herbert Murchison left Metlakah' a for Ketchikan where he will begin work again for the Ketchikan Power Go.
 The Jefferson came in Thursday at about ten o'clock. Her loo and more passengers took in the sights led bs genial Capt. Nord.
 Charles Fox, the travelling man, rushed around during the stay of the Jefferson trying to scare up an order or two for hls company.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20

Alaska walked up to-day as modestly as bride to the altar and took the oath of office which makes him legal representative of the great district of Alaska.
 Mir. Wickersham always refers to Alaska as territory. He abhors the term district. He says the word dis trict was originally intended to apply to the customs district and it's only official desgination was the ''cutoms district of Alaska,' and referred only to its organization for custom pur poses. "Vermont and Deleware" he said, ''have been respectively the Dis trict of Vermont and the District of Deleware, for cutom purposes for more than a hundred years, yet no doubt
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20

The Alaska Steamship Company's freiyhter Seward left Seattle We'd nesday for Seward. Cordova and way ports.
 While at Tacoma the Seward loaded the knock. down parts of two huge caissons each of which contains 263,- GOO feet of l2xl2 lumber. They are 7C feet long and 2l feet high. These will be set up and sunk in the Copper riv- CT to form the casego for the concrete foundation for the second bridge fol the Copper River railway at Miles glacier, D miles from Cordova. Among other freight taken here com prising the cargo of the Seward, the most of which is for the Copper Riv- CT railway, are ten car loads of bridge steel for the Copper rlver bridge. POO, : GOO feet of lumber, six boilers, l5C tons of 75-pound rails, air compressors, gasoline and l56 tons of blasting pow der,
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20

exits that they are sovereign states of the American union. Since 1868 Alaska has been, now is and will long remain the customs collection ditrict of Alaska, even though it's political status in the government may be that of territory and later that of state. y
 A bill was recently introduced into the provincial legislature of British Columbia with the object of protecting miners and other wage earners against class of men, chiefly foreigners, who obtain options or working bonds on mining properties, employ men to do work, and then fail to pay them. The bill required such an operator to ob- tain from responsible banker cer- tificate that he bad Oh deposit in the bank sufficient money to pay two
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20

It has been authoritatively announced that President Taft will visit Alaska during the coming summer. The Phil 'delphia Times has printed long ar ticle on the probable movements oi the president from which we take the following.
 President elect is quietly making his plans with view of putting in most of the summer by taking trip to A laska
 If he carries out his intention, he will visit Denver and attend there a meeting of the Trans NJ ississippi Con sress: go to the Alaska Y ukon- Ex- ,osition in Seattle, and then proceed o Alaska.
 A review of the invitations Mr. Taft ,a' received and the replies he has made to them gives good idea oi what he is contemplating. The extra session of Congress according, to the forecasts, wi last until the middle o July. Following the adiournm nt MT. Taft, his cl''sesJ friends say, will go to Denver. It " II he remembered that n Washing Jl last summer, after the 'hicago coJvention, he was visited " delegaiion headed by Thomas F. Walsh, who invited him to att nti he meeting of the Trans Mississipp. Congress which will be held in Angus n Denver,
 At that time he told the commute, that he would certainly go 10 Dspve If he could and since then tile Denve people have been reminding him oi the promise from time to time.
 He is particularly interested in the Alaska Yu ukon Exposition, because he believes it will be q great thing not only for the Pacific coast, but also fu the Philippine Islands. He has bee entreated to attend it. It was in be- half of this exposition that, as secre tary of war. he appeared hefure the congressional committee. He argued that the exposition was q good thing, and that generous appropriations should be made for it.
 His desire to visit Alaska comes from his belief that he should have 2 better and closer knowledge of that great territory. If the president-e'ect makes this trip-and his friends say there is not much doubt that he will he will have to he back in the United States in time for his extended tour through the south, as he has alread, made many engagements to visit towns from Virginia to Texas. Consequently he will have to do his Pacific coas, and Alaska travelling during the last week of July and all of August. and start south in September.
 While he is on the Pacific coast, he will in all probability take in all the
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20

esonths' wages to the men he employed. While the government admitted that in some cases men were defrauded ol their wages by irresponsible operators. in the way indicated by the support CTS of the bill, it was not deemed ad- visable to pass the legislation asked for, since it could be carried to ex- tremes, for it should not be applied to miners only, but to all classes of labor. Other serious objections were alsc raised to the measure which was vot ed down.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20

Nine men out of ten who have not had their attention called to the mat ter, if asked "Is alum a vegetable or mineral'i would answer, vegetable of course" But 1t is not it is a min- eral. says the Fairbanks Times. Within the past ten years, many minerals have been found in Alaska that were not supposed to exist here. and many more wi ill doubtless be dis closed to the searching eye of the pros pector within the next few years. tha, are not believed to exist here at the present time.
 Few men in this vicinity will b.- lieve that there exists in this country a commodity known to every man, woman and child and they will be sur prlsed tv learn that somewhere, the exact location of which, is not known 10 but few, has been discovered a mine of alum. Yet it is fact, and l it is vouched. for by well known chemist who yesterday analysed the ample brought to him by the man vho discove: ed the deposit.
 A few days ago a man came into Fairbanks and exhibited couple o handfuls of what appeared to he coarst gravel. It seemed to be coated witt
 .oarse particles Of sand ard whe. touched to the tongue had distinc puckery taste, and it was apr aren | hat il was alum. The state in whicl
 was found is impure and must gt through the process of reduction in ,rder to have the pure article. Alum
 $ not a valuable mineral and a min
 ,f it in Alaska could hardly pay to ship to the outside.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20
TIE GR A P H
Items of Interest From All Over the World. Told in Short
 Paragraphs

Washington, March 12-Secretary oi the Interior Ballinger will visit Alas ka this summer and make a thorough investigation of the coal beds.
 Washington. March l2-At the cab inet meeting today successor to Judge Gunnison will be selected. All indi- cations lean toward the election o1 Judge Lyons.
 Seattle, March 12-The Guggenheims are completing plans for the construc- tion of railroad sixty miles in length and which will extend from the coast to the Behring coal fields.
 Chester, West va., March 12-May- or Chapman has been indicted for per- jury and conspiracy, as result of his testimony in the illegal liquor selling cases which are being tried here.
 Olympia, Wash, March 12--Closing of the legislature has been forced by the Hay investi gation. State officers, especially the insurance commissioner have been accused of irregularity.
 Seville, Spain, March Fixing AL fonso expects the stork to visit his household in May. This will make three children for the royal pair who preside over the destinies of Spain.
 Los Angeles, March 12-In the face of recall election which was brought about through charges of graft cor rupsion, Mayor Harper has resigned and withdrawn from the mayoralty race. His action is a tacit acknow- leugement of guilt and prosecution may follow.
 Washington, March 12-Secretary Wilson has extended the deer killing season in southeastern Alaska to De- cember b. No sale of carcasses will be allowed except during the months of September, October, November and December. Individuals will be al- lowed to kill but twelve deer during the year. These rules become etfec- tive on April 10th.
 Washington, March 13-Dele"ate Wickershan refuses to answer the re- cent felony charges made by James Sniveley in his attempt 70 prevent the seating of the Alaskan member. He ignores the whole affair and does not seem disturbed about the outcome.
 New York, March 13-Joe Cans the colored champion has added anotber seal D to his belt. In the tenth round of racy contest he defeated Jabez White, the English champion at the
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20

towns and cities possible. The Pacift coast is the only section of the country which he has not already toured pretty thoroughly.
 Mir. Taft has made no secret of the fact that he intends to be great tray eler while he is ppesident. He has said he believes it to be one of the duties of president to travel tnrough h the country as much as possible.
 His intention to go to Alaska, as described by his frien 's, is evidencA that he means to waste no time in be- gining his travels.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20
National Athletic club rooms last

National Athletic club rooms last night.
 Yokahoma, March l5-The Japanese training squadron sailed for the Amer ican coast to-day.
 Seattle, March 15-L. c. Smith and John Hughes, two prominent Alaskan miners who stampeued to Nevada, have returned from the gold diggings there and will return to Alaska.
 Honolulu, March 15-The Transport Logan which went aground in the harbor here is still stuck fast. Three tugs have been working for the past twenty four hours but have failed to move the big ship.
 Washington, March 15-The insur- gents of the house are organizing against the adoption of the old house rules. They will vote against them to a man. It is thought they will not develop strength enough to secure any great modification, how ever.
 Los Angeles, March 15-William Stephens was elected mayor here Sat urday. The contest was one of the bitterest ever known here and special police had to be detailed to preserve peace. Mayor Harper, a candidate for election was charged with corrup- tion and resigned and pulled out of the contest
 Washington, March 1o-The extra session of congress convened at noon to-day. Joseph Cannon was immedi- ately elected speaker of the house and proceeded to swing things into shape for a brief session.
 The session was called for the pri- mary purpose of revising the tariff but it is not expected that any radical changes will be made.
 Washington, March 15-The white dove of peace has taken Hoggatt and Wickersham under it's wing, and all through the intervention of President Taft and Secretary Ballinger. They acted as peacemaker and the patronage office is to be equally divided be- tween the two with Hoggatt having the first chance.
 Mir. Hoggatt promptly selected Judge Lyons to succeed Judge Gunnison.
 Mir. Wickersham was allowed to select the judge for the new district when it is created.
 One will name the new marshal and the other will select the attorney iol the new district. No other decisions have been announced, but it is pre- sumed they will be guided in all things hy the pacificatory policy laid down by Messrs. Taft and Ballinger.
 Senator Kanute Nelson of Minnesota has endorsed Henry Sullivan as mar shal, but it is unknown whether he will be favored by other members or not.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20
SIXTY-THREE NAVAL HEROES LIE NEGLECTED
 IN THE WRECK OF THE MAINE

in the of Representatives
 
 The honor of the country demands that the Maine be raised Public sentiment has been aroused and will be appeased until the wreck of the Maine is raised the truth of her distraction old the derect removed from menacing commerce.; and the bodies of the brave sailors who sacrificed their lives the altar of their devotion to country recovered and brought home and decently inferred in the national cemetery. The ords in the Navy Department show that at least 63 bodies recovered accounted for, and now entomed in the wreck of the Maine. For nexplicable reason the Maine has been raised and these bodies of the Nations heroic dead recovered and brought home for burial Our neglect to these remains is big black blot boasted grati tude patriotism and refusal to raise the wreck for fear it may appear the Maine destroyed by internal explosion is to cowardly to contemplate. No true American is afraid of the truth We afford to say we were mistaken We can not afford to have it said we are afraid of the truth
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20
Have Quit Spending
 and Gone to Making

New York, March i6-Wireless Special-E. H. Hartman said to-day that the people had quit spending money and gone to making it. The country is getting along nicely and will soon be better. Wealth is com. ing out of hiding and is being in- vested.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20

Oscar Jonhson has returned from a tour oD the West Coastr