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The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-29
wEsTER.i.

Denver will try to secure both the
Republican and Democratic national
conventions of 1912
Bisbee. Ariz.. was swept by a de-
structive flood, eight or ten people be-
ing reported drowned and a portion OF
the city greatly damaged
Affiliation of the Western Federation
of Miners with the American Fedora
ton Of Labor is practically assured. ac-
cording to statements made by promi-
nent officers of the former organiza-
ton.
While no case of the human plague
has appeared in San Francisco in
two years and four months and no
case of rat plague has been found
there in year and six months. the
deadly war on the determination of
rats in the Pacific coast metropolis
continue swithout relaxation.
The Western Pacific Railroad Com
hany has made a deal with the Toyo
Kisen Kaisha, one of the leading jap
anese steamship companies. whereby
the Western, in company with the Dem
yer & Rio Grande and other Gould rail-
roads, will receive the freight of the
steamship line at San Francisco for
trans-shipment across the continent.
President Taft has approved the ap-
pointment by the interior department
of ]. A. Ockerson af st. Louis to inves-
tigate conditions in Imperial valley,
California. where serious damage is
threatened by the Colorado river
breaking its banks. Whether he will
be retained to take charge of the en-
gineering work involved in controlling
the river. for which Congress appropri-
ated $1,000. 900. depends. 1t is said. on
his report to the President.
Perhaps the greatest suit under the
anti-boycott law yet to be fully tested
will soon be brought by the Western
Federation of Miners against the
Homestake Mining Company of South
Dakota. Friday committee on Pres
ident Meyers report reported back in
favor OF his recommendation that the
best legal talent obtainable be engaged
to bring suit against the Homestake
Company. If suit is brought it will be
based on the grounds that several
months ago the mining company closed
its property to union men and com
PEELED all miners employed afterwards
to sign card stating they did not be
long to any labor union and in consid
Grafton OF the employment not to joir
any union labor organization. The
Western Federation Of Miners believes
this is violation OF the constitutional
rights OF free speech and assembly
granted to every citizen OF the United
| States.
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sIauqas Factory for Boulder.

Boulder.-Backed up by the endorse
mant of the Commercial Association.
NJ. J. Stern and Joseph p. Meiners of
the Central Blaugas Company are ne
gotiating for the establishment OF a
bIaugas factory in this city TO supply
the new illuminant demonstrated be-
fore the Commercial Association some
days ago. 1t is considered possible
that arrangements may be made
whereby some of the local oil compan-
les will enter into combination with
the new concern. A blaugas factory in
the beginning. 1t is said. would employ
about eighty men.
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minor Mention.

Fruita wants an auditorium.
Fruitvale has one vacant house.
Thomas A. Mills, aged 81. died at
Fruita.
Las Animas is to have its third
bank
Five miles OF the big canal at Cedar
have been completed.
A central chmarity organization is
being formed at Salida.
T. w. Robson of Hartman got 473
bushels of wheat from six acres.
September 2srd is the date set for
the annual harvest carnival at Ault.
The annual reunion of the pioneers
at Cope will be held August 18th and
18th.
September 14th will be Northern
Colorado Day at the Denver Interstate
Fair.
with capital of s25.Ooo to build a
temple.
The water in the Cache la Poudre is
reported to be the lowest 1t has been
in ten years.
Jose veletes. Mexican of salida,
was given sixty days for stabbing
Harry Rose.
The Ouray Pioneer Association will
hold its annual gathering at Hollis
grove near Ridgway September 5th.
Timothy o'Connor, a resident of the
Grand valley for twenty-five years.
died at Grand Junction at the age of 10.
Edwin w. Baxter, resident OF
southern Colorado for forty years.
died at Pueblo at the age of sixty-two.
The contract for the section of the
new Santa Fe trail'' between Rocky
Ford and Fowler has been let at
1886.
The Colorado Telephone Company
is spending $4,000 for improvements
in the Arkansas valley, $4,000 of it
in La Junta.
Ouray county officials will ask the
state to. appropriate s2.5OO to build
concrete approaches to the state bridge
at Ridgway.
The work of grading for the Den
yer, Laramie & Northwestern be-
tween Greeley and Severance will
start in a few days.
Delirious from typhoid fever, Otis
Kretzer. an employe of the Pueblo
county poor farm. cut his throat with
razor, death resulting.
The state convention OF the Fedora
ton of Labor will be held at Grand
junction beginning August sth. About
200 delegates will attend.
Farmers around Ridgway expect to
gather about 100000 bushels of wheat
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WASHINGTON.

Sixteen concerns manufacturing
sanitary enameled ware and their Of
ficers, located in nine states, were
proceeded against Friday by the De-
partment of Justice in bill in equity
filed against them at Baltimore. Md,
under the Sherman antitrust law.
Treasury returns show that to date
there has been paid $26,445,699 of the
assessments originally made, aggre-
eating $27,267,927 on account of the
corporation tax. OF the remaining
1922, 900. about half has been abated
by the commissioner of internal rev.
enue for various reasons or is in dis
pute.
Crossing diplomatic swords with
Norway the State Department, reply
ing to protests from New Orleans
commercial interests against Norwe
gian recognition of the Bluefields,
Nicaragua, blockade, has declared
Bluefields to be an open port Nor
way. it was said, was misinformed of
conditions there.
The population of Rhode Island as
shown by the census returns, the first
given out IOr state, Indicate an IN
crease of more than 11S,000. This fig
use is not sufficiently large to insure
an additional representative in Con-
gress. Thus, for at least ten years
more, the state will have to get on with
two members, as it has been compelled
to do since the apportionment under
the first national census in $780,
In order to protect fthe interests of
the government as well as those of
settlers and other claimants of lands
within the national forests, the de-
partments of the interior and agricul-
ture have entered into a cooperative
programme that will govern the prose
cution of contested cases. Under it's
terms both the general land office
and the forest service will be ade-
quately represented at hearings be-
fore the registers and receivers of
land offices of all cases involving for
est lands. The department of agricul-
ture is given the same right as pri-
vate contestant to appeal TO the sec
retary of the interior from any deci-
sion rendered by the commissioner OF
the general land office.
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SPORT.
WESTERN LEAGUE.

Europe is beginning to worry se-
verely over the health of three OF her
rulers-Emperor Franz Josef of Aus
tria. Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, and
King Alfonso of Spain.
That James ]. Jeffries may again
enter the ring is the belief of Sam
Berger, his manager. and Jack Glea-
son, who. with Tex Rickard. staged
the battle at Reno.
j. A. r. Elliott of New York, with
total of 1876 out of 200 targets, was
high gun in the first day of the East
ern handicap three days target tourn-
ament at Edgehill. Pa.
The belief is held by Scotland Yard
that DR.. Hawley H. Crippen and Ethel
Leneve are on the steamship Sardini.
an, which sailed from Havre for Mon
treal July 18th.
A terrific cyclone swept over the
district northwest OF Milan, Italy, Sat
urday, doing great damage to the
towns of Saronno. Rovellasca and Lo-
nate Pozzolo. 1t is estimated that
about twenty-five persons were killed
and wounded.
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From the inheritance tax paid to the
state of New York Is it estimated that
the late E. H. Harriman's estate is
worth s71.053.737.
General Manager w: H. Meyers of
the Pennsylvania railroad and the COM
mittees representing the $4,000 train
men and conductors employed on the
lines of the road east of Pittsburg.
have agreed on basis for the settle
ment of the wage controversy
The population of Chicago has
passed the two million mark, accord
ing to the 1910 school census made
public Wednesday The total minor
population of the city is 814,115, an in
crease of 66.76S over the census Of
1908. Based on the minor count the
total population is 100000.
AS climax to a night and day of
rioting in the yards of the Grand
Trunk railway. Pinkerton detectives
stoned and five passenger trains
stalled for hours was followed by an
attempt Sunday afternoon to derail
eastbound passenger No. s, known as
the Detroit and New York express.
Formal announcement has been
made by ]. T. Templeton. secretary of
the Bucks Stove & Range Company of
st. Louis. of the end of the fight with
organized labor. The employees of the
plant are to be organized. The an
nouncement says in part: 1.-The pres
ent management Is and always has
been. friendly to organized labor. We
believe labor has right to organize
for its protection and advancement"
A special council of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen has been called
to meet in St. Louis August LIST to out
line the demands for increased wages,
shorter working hours and better work
ing conditions upon which the train.
men on all railroads operating between
Chicago and the Pacific coast and the
Gulf of Mexico. to and including Can
ada, will insist, even to the extent of
striking If necessary to obtain them.
Workmen opening the entries of the
Letter mine at zeigler. ILL.,, which were
closed by an explosion more than a
year ago. Saturday found six bodies
which were entombed by the explo-
sion. They were well preserved and
easily identified.
Minnesota presents the unusual
spectacle of a state with its treasury
filled to overflowing. II the recon-
mendations of Governor Eberhart are
followed all the taxes will be abro-
gated for the year 1911. as there will
be plenty OF money coming In through
ordinary collections, together with
the surplus Of almost $1,000 900, to
] keep the state machinery moving.
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Weeks News from All Over Colorado

I from their $500 acres this year. There
Is mill at Ridgway. too.
The electric light franchise recently
granted to A. v. Walther by the town
of Ridgway has been extended and TAX
en- over by a new company.
The Pueblo Commercial Club has
started a movement for the decora-
tive lighting OF Union avenue from
the union depot to the court house.
The Montezuma County Pioneers
Association will meet at Mancos Sep
San Juan country prior to 1885 are eli
gible to membership.
The new hotel to be built at Fowler
will be three stories in height and
equipped with elevator, electric lights.
baths. and other modern convent
ences.
Mrs. Rhoda Lutes, the Oldest lady of
the western slope. died at Grand juno
ton as the result of fall which she
sustained several days ago. She was
a little over 95 pears old.
The federal Bureau of Mines, re-
Gently instituted. has decided upon
Trinidad as one of the first points
at which a mine rescue station will
be established.
Harold Stevens of Grand Junction
will receive an automobile as the re-
| suit of his hustling qualities in sub
scription contest conducted by an
eastern fruit paper.
E. l. Estep Of East Holbrook mar
keted 1,53S bushels of wheat at La
Junta, which he threshed from forty
five acres, an average yield of thirty
four bushels to the acre.
A new town will be established on
the Denver & Rio Giande between New
Castle and Silt. to be called Chapman
A town company has been organized
and petition made for a postoffice.
The heavy rains last week in Clear
Creek county destroyed the homes of
H. B. Baker. r. R. Graham and Rob
ert Zoller at Idaho Springs and SO
damaged the Spring Creek and Chi
cago Gulch roads that the hauling of
ore will be sediously affected for
some time.
The Delta county commissioners
have asked the state highway commits
sion for an appropriation of $500 to aid
in building a first-class highway be-
tween Delta and Grand Junction. There
is by far more good-roads work pro
posed in Colorado at this time than at
any other period of the states history.
Colorado fisherman who persist in
taking fish from the public streams
of the state and then selling them in
market. without any form of license.
will be prosecuted by the state game
] and fish commission.
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Ezra Meeker at ereeIey.

Using a cracker box for a
rostrum. Ezra Meeker, the old traveller
now seeking the Oregon trail in order
to mark it, talked to Greeleyites Satur-
day in the park. Although so years old
Meeker is fluent speaker. He paid a
high tribute to N. C. Meeker, founder
OF this town, for his education. He says
when he went to Oregon fifty-eight
years ago. he subscribed for the New
York Tribune. OF which Meeker was ed
itor at that time. He read and reread
this paper and made 1t his reading
book and dictionary. Meeker has been
well received here and was the guest
OF honor at dinner given by ex-Mayor
Frank Green and his mother.
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Novel English Insuranee.

New York.-The latest insurance
scheme, which has just been put in
operation In England. provides for
compensation in case of wet weather
during summer holidays. 1t is de-
scribed as holiday weather insur-
Ance." The underwriters are pre-
pared to compensate proposers in the
event OF rain falling on more than
two days week during their holi-
days at watering towns on the coast
The premiums are based on govern
ment statistics and compensation will
be given ct the rates from $3.50 per
day upward.
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FIRST EFFoRrs TO BE DIRECTED
IN THAT DIRECTION BY
THE GOVERNMENT.
NATION is INTERESTED
5000 KILLED AND 100000 INJURED
DURING LAST TWENTY
YEARS.

washington-Grea benefit to the
mining industry Of the United States is
expected to follow the establishment
or the new government bureau of
mines provided for in Congress-.
Enactment Of the law was in re-
eponse to a nationwide demand. The
entire nation is interested in the ques-
doun Of the prevention of the tremen-
dous loss OF life in American mining
operations, as all OF the states are en-
gagged in mining, or the 40 states and
territories only three have mineral
production valued at less than s1.O00.-
zoe per annum. Thirty states produce
coal. The total production averages
Sfe.oo0.o0o yearly for each state and
territory.
Some idea can be gained as to the
necessity for improved conditions in
mining from the fact that this industry
In the United States is killing from
two to three more men in every 1000
employed than is the case In any coun-
Try In Europe. Conditions In Europe
before the industry received govern
ment assistance were as bad as they
are at present in the United States.
During the last twenty years 10000
men have been killed and 100000 in
fured In American coal mines alone,
with IL 900 widows made and 10000
children left fatherless.
The creation OF the bureau OF mines
by Congress. however. is not the first
effort made to ameliorate appalling
conditions. II is rather the carrying
cut of work found necessary through
experimentation. After four explosions
In coal mines in December. 1907, cost
ing TOO lives. Congress authorized an
appropriation Of s150.000 to be used by
the geological survey for the establish
ufent of.nine rescue stations and gen.
ersi study of the causes OF mine disas-
sers-
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viii Case Decided.

Greeley-By the failure of attorneys
to file an appeal bond July 1. the Sam
uel Armstrong will case, which has
been prominent in the courts of Weld
county for two years. has been settled.
the valuable western Weld county
farm, bank stock and milling property
worth 100000 going to Nettie L. Knapp,
beautiful young woman of Garden
Plains. ILL.,, niece of Armstrong. in
whose favor the will was drawn. in
stead of to Mrs Belle Sammis. the
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-29
GENERAL.

Col. Robert NJ. Thompson, who was
abroad June 18th last, when the fed
eral grand jury indicted him.. together
with James A. Patten and five others
for conspiracy In restraint of trade
in connection with the operation OF
an alleged cotton pool. surrendered
himself to United States Commits
sioner Shields in New York and was
released on a 5000 bond.
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Cashier Wa. No nPiksr..

New York.-A general alarm has
been sent to the police throughout the
United States and Canada for the ar
rest OF Ernest Wider, cashier of the
RussoChinese bank. who is charged
~ the banks officials with having
taken $4,000 in bonds from safety
deposit box. Reports today say tina,
Wider has taken securities far in ex-
cess Of that sum. and approximating
S600, 900.
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8. Y. ?. U. ELECT. offleer..

Cascade. e.-Alvin Steinmetz OF Denver
was elected president of the Young
Peoples Association at the annual Cas-
oade Canon assembly OF Baptist
churches of Colorado at the election sat
rfday afternoon. Other Officers fol-
low: Vice president. W. d. OvNeil. La
mar; secretary. j. II. Schlotter, Colo
rado Springs: treasurer. Miss Anna
Martin. Grand Junction
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Chicago options.

rhicago.-Cash quotations were as
follows:
Flour-Firm.
Rye-No. 2, soc.
Barley-Feed or mixing. 52062c;
fair to choice mailing, 64@71c.
Flaxseed No. / Southwestern.
t2.43h; No. Northwestern. $2.53h.
Timothy-Prime seed, s4.75@5.5O.
Clover-$12.50.
Provisions-Mess pork. per barrel.
$26.00@26.25; lard. per 100 pounds.
$11.75; short ribs, sides Qoose). 11.S71z
1925; short clear sides (boxed), $1,000
@13.25.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-29
Kansas Farmers Automobiliouo.

Kansas City-Kansas dealers esti-
mate that $7.5s0.00O will be expended
tor motor cars in the territory contigu
Gus to Kansas City. within the next
tow weeks. Il is said that fully 5000
cars of an average value OF 1880
have been shipped to Kansas City and
nearby points to supply the anticipat-
ed demand that is expected to follow
the close OF the harvest season.
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daughter of Armstrong. who fought the
Ihree Head Proatr.tIon.

Eyans--For the first time in the his
tory of this locality prostrations from
heat were reported Saturday when d.
ID. Luper, Mrs. p. Herriott and w
Smith were rendered unc.nscious 9th
er persons have been made Ill by the
heat. the thermometer for two weeks
having been clos to 100 in the shade
The season is the dryest since 1870
and the hottest in twenty years.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-29
Powder Trust Hearings Ended. !.

Hew York.-The hearings in the
uuIt brought by the government for
the dissolution of the powder trust
for alleged violations punishable
under the Sherman antitrust act.
were concluded Monday, after two
years Investigation.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-29
Mine Fatalities.

Trinidad.-Three miners were killed
Saturday by falls OF rock In a mine at
wootton. Two were brothers. named
Josephia and Carlo GagIeri. They were
single. Antonio Tonera. StarkvilIel
miner. was killed by rock fall there
Saturday afternoon. He leaves Wild
ow and five children.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-29
New York Money.

New York-Money on call easy, 2Q
2la per cent; ruling rate. 21a; closing
bid, q offered, 2A.
Time loans easy. 60 days. 3@3k per
cent and 80 days. az "a; six months 8.
Prime mercantile paper. 5h@6 per
cent.
Sterling exchange steady with actual
business in bankers bills at s4s360@
ts370 for 60 day bills, and at $4.s565
for demand.
Commercial bills at s4.ss@4s3%.
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Miner Found Dead.

Cripple Creek-Fred Shaeffer. les
see operating on the City View mine
on Gold hill, was found dead Friday
morning at the second level of the An
choriaLeland Company's main shaft
The bowling of Shaeffer's dog led to
the discovery of the body.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-29
Republican Convention at springs.

Pueho.-The Republican state cen
selected Colorado Springs as the place
Of holding the state convention Sep
tember goth Pueblo. Grand Junction
and Glenwood Springs We're the other
aspirants for the meeting
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-29
seventy bushels an Acre.

Greeley.-Greeley's only wheat crop,
the best ever grown in this region, on
the home tract OF Mrs. A. Erickson.
across the street from the State Nor
NAL school, yielded seventy bushels an
acre. 1t was planted the middle of
April and cultivated by Mrs. Erickson
and her young son.
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$4,000 to Walk Out.

Chicago.-A general tie-up of build
ing operations in Chicago. involving
ls,100 mechanics was decided upon
Monday by the Chicago Building
Trndes council.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-29
Striking Miners Meet.

Saturday evening. the strikers
at Louisville held mass meeting
in the ball park, at which there were
speakers from Denver. Similar meet
ings were held in the other camps this
week. Feeling is high between the
strikers and the non-union men. and
special officers are on the constant
lookout for trouble.
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noth Sides confldent.

Montreal-Both sides claim that the
days Developments mean ultimate
victory The Grand Trunk railway
officials we're jubilant Monday night.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-29
Kansas City Produce.

Kansas -Butter-Creamery ex-
tras. 21c; firsts, 24c; seconds, 22c;
packing stock, 20kc.
Eggs-Firsts. $3.50; seconds. $500;
current receipts, new cases. $4.25; mis-
eellaneous, $4.20.
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Three Killed in Auto Accident.

Grand Junction. Colo.-Whiie rum
ning race with q westbound Rio
Grande express train Monday. an auto
loaded with Joy riders was struck and
three of them we're instantly killed.
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shiverinq Paris.

P1ris--While New York is sweiter-
ting under heat wave. Paris Is shiv-
ering under gloomy skies and fire.
quent showers. with temperature
that ranges from 56.4 to 6s above
zero.
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Upland. per ton, s12.Oo@1S.oo; sec
ond bottom, s1O.5O@11.o0; timothy.
s1250Q13.5O: alfalfa. $1,000 a 100;
straw, s4.O0@5O0: South Park wire
grass, s155O@16.5O. San Luis valley
wire grass, s1450@15.00.
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Work on condensory Started.

Johnstown.-Ground was broken to-
day for the condensed milk factory and
the event was made the occasion of a
grand celebration here. The factory
will cost $4,000.
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New cas strike.

Falcon.-For the second time within
the last few weeks gas is reported to
have been struck at depth Of 700 feet
Indications point to large deposits of
oil.
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Sheep.
Grain.

Wheat, choice milling. per 100 lbs.
s1.52. Rye, Colorado. bulk, per 100
lbs, s105. Idaho oats, sacked, $1-75;
Nebraska oats. sacked. $1.50; corn in
sacks, s1.31; corn chop. sacked S1-32;
bran, Colorado, per 100 lbs, $1.30.
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Denver cIearinss.

Denver.-Bank clearings for the
week ended July 21st were $9,3s2,O0O.
an increase of 9.3 per cent over the
corresponding week last year.
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ST. Louis Wool.

st. s--Wool-Steady. Medium
grades, combing and clothing. 22@
23hc; light fine, 17@1sc; heavy fine.
13914c; tub washed, 25@32c.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-29

st. Louis Lead and SpeIter-
ST. Eouis.-Lead-Fi s4.35. Spelt-
er-Firm, $5.02la.
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Butter.
EGGS.
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.

Galveston Cotton.
Galveston, Texas.-Cotton-Steady,
14Ac.