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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-09-30
RIVERSIDE.

John Hamilton of Clifton is here
this week.
Sorghum making will soon be in
full blast.
Miss Helen Rice is visiting rela-
tives in this community.
Terry Hulm of Britt's Landing
is here on visit to relatives.
Miss Mamie Odle returned last
Friday from visit in Camden.
Miss Nora Rice, who has been
dangerously i'll, is reported better
at this writing.
Howard Thomas attended the
State Fair last week, returning by
way Of Danville.
Byrd b. Walker, Thurman Ward
and Bob Odle attended the fair in
Nashville last week.
John Bates has sold his crop to
Brown Fisher, and will leave here
For Caddo, Okla, to live,
O. r. Malin Of Coxburg has ac-
cepted a position with the Whit
field Mill Co. at this place.
James Rice, who is attending
school in Camden, was called home
last week by the illness of Miss
Nora Rice, his sister.
Albert Hamilton was shot and
dangerously wounded Thursday
by Jack Hammack, his brother-in-
law. His brother, Ebert Ham
mack, was also said to be involved
in the difficulty. Hamilton's left
arm was SO badly mangled that
amputation above the elbow was
necessary. 1t is said that % No. 2
buckshot were removed from Ham
ilton's side.
Sheriff A. j. Howe was in the
northern part of the county when
the difficulty occurred, and did not
arrive here until Saturday night.
The fugitives made their escape
toward Centreville, Sheriff Howe
and Deputy Sheriff Reeves started
in pursuit Sunday morning.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-09-30

ton: "By the arrival of the Fac
tor from Falmouth we are put in
possession of London papers to the
Goth of October inclusive, from
which we make the following Sc
lections."
The "selections" taken from the
Gazette, Globe, and other London
papers take up about one-third of
the paper and TEEN with the news
received from the allied armies in
Europe, giving the English account
Of the battle at Zurich, evacuation
of Holland, defeat at Shaffhausen,
advance of the French into the
Italian penensula after cutting
their way through Switzerland,
Austria, Prussia (and other king
doms now embraced in the Ger
man Ln1plfe.
We note in the Gazette that
Joseph Gasherie, Surrogate of the
county of Ulster" gives notice Of
the filing of the last will and test
ament of Alexander Crawford, de-
ceased, and makes due mention of
the disposal of this matter in the
surrogate's office.
John Tremper says he has "a
quantity of Schohary peas for sale,
or will exchange for wheat"
Luther Andres & Co., the only
merchants patronizing the Gazette,
announce they ''have this day been
opening goods both fresh and gay"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-09-30
GENERAL
GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Departed this life on the 18th of
December, 1899, at. 6S."
Messages were received by the
President, John Adams, from both
houses of Congress announcing the
death of General Washington, the
messages from the President, and
the tributes paid to the memory of
the illustrious dead. On another
page we find that familiar poem.
written by a young lady on the
death of General Washington"
which begins "What means that
solemn dirge that strikes my carp
The two inner pages of the Gazette,
which is a 4-column folio, is given
almost entirely to the death of the
Father of our Country and the Off
cial acts of Congress with refer
ence to the same. Heavy borders
and inverted rules of mourning are
conspicuous on the inner pages.
On the front page the first head
ing to greet the eye is american
Congress, Tuesday, December 10,
1899" Congress had assembled,
and the brief message of the Pres
ident is given. This is familiar
history to almost every school boy
of the present day.
Compared with ths. present the
facilities for gathering the news OF
the world were painfully lacking
in that day and time. For instance,
under a heading dated London,
October Is, we find this explane-
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-09-30
RELIC OF THE PAST.
-opy of a Paper Published in the
Year 1900.

A worn and tattered copy Of the
Ulster County Gazette, published
1T Kingston, Ulster County, New
York, has been loaned us by w.
II. Walker, the genial real estate
and insurance agent of our little
elty. The Gazette was published
oy Samuel Freer d Son, and is
dated Saturday, January 4, 1900
The Gazette is q voice from the
past, being the issue published at
the time when the nation was
mourning the death of the illustri-
GUS Washington, who died in the
month of December, 1899. On the
third page, which is in mourning,
we find the following message from
the near home of Washington:
WASHINGTON ENToMBED.
"George Town, December 20.
"On Wednesday last the mortal
part of Washington the Great
the Father of his country and the
Friend of man-was consigned to
the tomb, with solemn honors and
funeral pomp.
"a multitude of persons assem-
bled, from many miles around, at
Mount Vernon, the choice abode
and last residence of the illustrious
chief. There were the groves-the
spacious avenues, the beautiful and
sublime scenes, the noble mansion
but, alas! the august inhabitant
was now no more. The great soul
was gone! The mortal part was
there, indeed; but, all how affect
ing! how awful the spectacle of
such worth and greatness thus, to
mortal eyes, fallen-yes! fallen!
fallen
GIN the long and lofty portico,
where oft the hero walked in his
glory, now lay the shrouded corpse.
The countenance still composed
and serene seemed to depress the
spirit, which lately lived in that
lifeless form, and there those who
paid the last sad honors to the ben
efactor of his country took an i'm
preseive-a farewell view
"On the ornament at the head of
the coffin, was inscribed SURGE AID
JUDICUA-about the middle of the
coffin, GLoRI DEO-and on the sill
yer plate
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-08-06
All Kinds Of Heroics.

Georgetown.-One OF the most dar
ing rescues that was ever accom-
plished in Colorado occurred here late
Sunday night when Miss Mabel Lynn
an actress we'll known throughout the
country was saved from death by John
Hart. George Layden, Harry Barnet
Ter and Leon Rowan.
Miss Lynn started for the top OF Re
publican mountain at o'clock in tn,
afternoon for the purpose OF viewing
the statue of Madonna. which has
long been an object OF great interest
to tourists, and which is natural i'm
age of woman garbed in the attire
of Virgin Mary. She passed her OBJ
jectiye and, while standing upon \
rock a slide occurred, thousands OF
tons of rock and debris crashing down
the hillside, but unfortunately ONLY
her on the side.
The woman was hurled through the
air for fully fifty feet. where she be
came wedged between two rocks.
Not having been rendered unconsc
Gus, Miss Lynn called for assistance
Despite the fact that she was 1850
feet above the level of Georgetown
her cries OF anguish could be distincj
ly heard all over town. The gentle
men named above formed rescuina
party and reached the young woman
in a little over two hours climbing
As the woman le- in the arms OF her
called for water. None being at hand
I.ayden broke limb off tree ani
from the leaves shook the water in ths
face OF the injured woman
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-08-06

For the protection of deer in Alas
ka. the Department of Agriculture has
issuer regulations limiting to eight the
number Of deer which may be killed
by one person. suspending after the
close of the present season until 1912
the sale of deer carcasses in south
eastern Alaska and limiting the sea-
son in that part of Alaska from Aug.
18th to Nov. 11th. New regulations
regarding the killing of walrus have
also been formulated.
President Taft has followed the re-
cent cancellation of his Western and
Southern engagements by announcing
that his speeches of the future would
be few and far between. He told a
committe from Providence. R. l., that
he could not reconsider the cancella.
tion of his engagement to speak be
fore the Atlantic Deep Waterways AS
sociation in that city in September.
Mr. Taft said important matters OF
public business would claim his atten-
ton from now until the convening OF
Congress.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-08-06
SPORT.
WESTERN LEAGUE.

Football Date-Washburn College
vs.. Colorado College at Colorado
Springs, November 5th.
c. E. Holway. the American sprint
er, defeated Jack Donaldson of South
Africa in 130-yard match race at
Pontypridd. Wales, for a stake of ST..
600. Holway won by four inches in
1917 seconds.
Charles NJ. Daniels, Olympic and ma
tional champion swimmer retained his
title Saturday by easily defeating a
considerable field in the National Am.
ateur Athletic Union quarter mile
championship swim at Travers Island.
New York
Country Jay. the fourteen-year-old
trotter owned by George H. Estabrook
OF Denver. did the most remarkable
mile of the year. if not of all harness
history, at Kalamazoo. Mich, Friday.
Driven by Gus Macy, the well known
trainer. Country Jay smashed the
worlds record for the three fastest
trotting heats, by winning two out Of
three consecutive heats. which were
run in 2:04A. 2:05A and 2:05h. The
performance would have been remark.
able in . horse Of prime age. but for
horse Of fourteen years it is the
most wonderful time in trottinR rec.
ords.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-08-06

After having confessed to the muir
der of Bessie Morrison. 12-year-old
daughter Of Mrs. Mary Morrison, near
Dady, Fla, two negroes were taken
from the officers and lynched by o
mob.
The wages Of thousands of paper
mill workers in New Hampshire, New
York state, Vermont, Maine and Mas
sachussets were advanced an average
Of five per cent Aug. 1st by the Inter-
national Paper Company. The raise
was one OF, the conditions Of the agree
ment which ended the protracted
strike in several states last spring.
Representatives Of twenty-seven ma
tional banks met in New York and
organized the National Currency AS
sociation Of the City of New York for
the purpose of providing for a more
elastic issue Of currency and to lessen
the danger of future financial panics
by providing means whereby the
stronger banks may come to the aid
Of the weaker.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-08-06
FOREIGN.

The treatment of non-Catholic de-
nominations in Spain is being watched
closely by the diplomatic representa-
tives of the United States at Madrid.
The aeroplanist Tyck Monday at
Brussels reached a height of $50
feet, a new record. Saturday Olies-
layers made a flight to a height of
1891 feet in a monoplane.
Notwithstanding the extremely
strained relations between the vati-
can and the Spanish government, the
recall of Marquis de Ojeda. the Span
ish ambassador to the Vatican, has
produced a great sensation in Rome
The Vatican in semi-official com
munication says the recall of the am
bassador proves that the programme
Of Premier Canalejas was not ar
ranged with the hope of accord, but
with a desire for fight and the com
munication adds. he will have it.
The damage caused to French crops
by continued cold and wet weather is
unofficially estimated at $500 ,00o, 900
The wheat crop is estimated at 312,-
400, 900 bushels against 369, zoe, 900
bushels in 1909.
Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen and
Ethel Clare Leneve, his stenographer,
who fled from London after the dis
appearance of Belle Elmore, the doc
tors wife, were arrested at Farther
Point. P. O., Sunday aboard the Cana.
dian Pacific liner. Montrose, at the
command Of Inspector Dew of Scot
land Yard.
The list of bank failures in Ger
many through excessive speculative
operations has received striking
addition in the insolvency of the
Niederdeutsche bank. The liabilities
of the bank are placed at $12, SOC, 900,
while its capital is 100000.
Reports from Douglas. Ariz, are
that a massacre Of Chinese and their
families had taken place at Yaqui, a
town on the Yaqui river in Mexico
Several were killed by a mob who arc
said to have been enraged by the com
raercial activity Of the Chinese.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-08-06
WESTER Hi.

Montana forest fires are reported to
be as bad as ever, especially in the
Flathead valley.
joseph A. Vending. alleged slayer
OF eight-year-old Alma Kellner in
Louisville. KY. has been captured in
San Francisco. after four-months
chase. He admits his identity but de-
MES his guilt.
For the eighth time in the history
OF the organization, Charles II. Meyer
was elected presiden. of the Western
Federation OF Miners by the conven-
ton being held in Denver Charles E.
Mahoney was reelected vice presi-
dent. and Secretary-Treasurer Ernest
Mills was unanimously reelected.
A proclamation of the President
went into effect July 1st changing the
name OF the Medicine Bow National
Forest. Colorado. to the Colorado Ma
tional Forest. and giving the name OF
Medicine Bow to the Cheyenne Ma
tional Forest. Wyoming. at the same
time eliminating 1855 acres from the
latter forest. No eliminations were
made from the old Medicine Bow.
Owing to the lack OF hay crop and
the poor range, due to drouth, cattle
and sheepmen of the northwestern
part of South Dakota will ship all
available stock to market as soon as
possible, and many have decided to
sacrifice their small crops Of grain
in order to fatten the stock before
shipping, believing this will pay bet
ter than shipping lean stock and har'
yes,ing a half crop.
Negotiations between miners and
coal operators of the southwestern ter
ritory, which have dragged along four
months, at Kansas City, were brought
to an end Monday. A general strike
order will be issued Immediately. &C
cording to George Manuel. secretary
of the Missouri district, and 10000 or
more miners, who have not worked
since the expiration Of the old con-
tract, April l, will be formally on
strike.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-08-06

grew stronger, and within three months
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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-08-06
IN COLORADO. WASHINGTON, OR
ECON, UTAH, IDAHO, WYOM-
ING AND NEW MEXICO.
BACK TO THE PEOPLE
LARGEST AREAS IN UNCOmPAh.
GRE AND SAN ISABEL
FOREST.

Washington.-Thous of acres
of unappropriated land which was
eliminated from the national forests
and restored to the public domain by
recent proclamation of President
Taft will be thrown open to home
stead settlement and entry this fall.
The secretary also has restored to
settlement October 22nd and to entry
November 2lst about 9.220 acres in
the Great Falls. Mont, land district,
formerly withdrawn. The dates OF
opening the former forest lands, to-
gether with the extent OF the area, are
as follows:
Colorado, subject to settlement Oc-
tober 18th and to entry November
18th:
White River national forest, 6.76s
acres in Rio Blanco and Garfield
counties. all of which is chiefly unap
propriated; Battlement national for
est, 16,5G2 acres in Mesa and Delta
counties, about Sc per cent. of which
is unappropriated Gunnison national
forest, II ,195 acres in Delta, Gunnison
and Montrose counties, all of which is
national forest, i5.4s9 acres in San
Miguel and Montrose counties. about
45 per cent of which is unappropri-
ated: Cochetopa national forest, $500
acres in Saguache county. all of which
is chiefly unappropriated; San Isabel
national forest, 1865 acres in
Saguache. Fremont, Custer. Las Ami
mas and Huerfano counties, about
two-thirds of which is unappropriated
New Mexico. subject to settlement:
October 22nd and to entry November
2lst:
Lincoln national forest 6s.34S acres
in Torrance and Lincoln counties. and
Delta national forest, 1858 acres in
Socorro county, all Of which is chiefly
unappropriated.
Utah. subject to settlement Oct. %
and to entry Nov. 21:
Minidoka national forest. 25.170
acres in Box Elder county. all of which
is chiefly unappropriated.
Idaho. subject to settlement Oct. %
and to entry Nov. 21:
Minidoka, 72,152 acres; Caribou, 49,
172 acres: Pocatello. 2.236 acres.
Wyoming, subject to settlement Oct
% and to entry Nov 21:
Caribou, 772 acres, and Targhee, s.
4s0 acres. The eliminated areas are
in Uinta county and are chiefly unsur-
reyed and unappropriated.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-08-06
COLORADO STATE NEWS

Guy Armstrong. aged 1s. ~ss acci-
dentally shot and killed by William
Fedder near Proctor Sunday. An au-
tomato gun in unfamiliar hands was
the cause.
Ninety-seven thousand one hundred
people availed themselves OF the priv
iliges afforded by Denvers pubic
bathhouse during the first seven
months of this year.
The Denver Convention League has
wires laid for the meeting of the Meth
odist Episcopal general conference in
1912 This meeting carries an atten-
dance of 10000 to $4,000.
Canon City authorities have finished
the part of the new Royal Gorge-Park-
dale road assigned to the city and the
county will now finish it. Visitors can
now see the Royal Gorge from the
top.
A new irrigation district comprising
$500 acres has been organized in the
Cache Creek district. Water will be
taken from the Grand river and the
estimated cost to ranchmen will be
less than 500 per acre.
Cosgriff Bros, who have string of
thirty banks in Idaho, Utah, Montana.
Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado
have secured a site for their new Ma
tional City Bank in Denver. which will
be capitalized at $25o,o00.
The Lincoln County fair will be
held at Hugo. October 9Th to Sth. Per
manent grounds have been secured
and the contract let for a half-mile
truck. The grounds, which comprise
eighty acres, Will be enclosed.
Nevadaville citizens held a mass
meeting to discuss a bond issue for
providing water for the town. Rus
sell Gulch is interested in the propo-
sition also and there is talk OF incor-
porating the latter town.
The Moffat road has "laid off" Gen
eral Manager w. A. Deuel., Assistant
General Manager George R. Simmons,
Superintendent OF Telegraph C. A.
Parker and William Weston, general
agent of the industrial land and min
eral department..
The Laramie-Poudre Company.
since Judge Garrigues ruled that its
bond issue was legal, has let the con-
tract for its reservoir on the Laramie
river at about $4,000. 1t will have
capacity of 100.000,00o cubic feet
and it is expected to have 1t COM
pleted by next June. The tunnel is
in 4,500 feet.
The interior department has with
drawn 10000 acres Of public lands in
western Colorado from homestead en-
try and all other forms of disposition
under the land laws. This area is To-
Gated in the vicinity of the Grand val
ley reclamation project and is thought
to be susceptible Of irrigation by that
system.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-08-06
POLITICAL.

Minnesota Democrats have nomi.
mated the following state ticke.
Governor, John Lind: lieutenant gov
ernor. H. C. Tiff. Long Prairie: sec
retary OF state. Fred w. Johnson
clerk OF the Supreme Court. Fred E
Wheaton, Minneapolis; attorney gen
eral. J. N. Freeman. Olivia; treasurer
Charles F. Lander. St. Cloud: raj.
road and warehouse commissioner
James C. Tracy. Rochester: auditor
T. ]. Meaghan, Albert Lea: justices
of Supreme Court. T. J. O'Brien. St
Paul; A. W. Snow OF Winona; PHILLIP
T. Brown of Luvrne; Calvin L. Brown
NJ Morris.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-08-06
minor Mention,

Felita Fena of Ell Moro ate two boxes
of sardines and died.
Canon City is also in the race for
Greeley poultrymen have organized
an association and will hold a show in
the winter.
Ell Paso county Democrats will meet
in county convention at Colorado
Springs August 11th.
CoIlbran is trying to get the Grand
Valley interurban railroad to extend
its line to the Plateau valley.
Bonds in the sum OF 31.000.000 for
he Florida Mesa project in La Plata
county were voted Saturday.
Joseph Hudson, Colorado Spring
drug clerk, was fineo $500 and costs
for the illegal sale of liquor.
William Babberger of Canon City
calculates that his forty-fiye colonies
OF bees will net him $500 this year.
Denver's school enrolment Is 27,T30
and it cost 1885 per year for each
child's education. Teachers number
963.
The midsummer meeting of the Col
orado State Editorial Association will
be held at Buena Vista August 19th
and Goth.
Arthur Gogelin, aged %, night mar
shal at Telluride, was killed inonday
bad man.
j. o. v, Wise, a farmer near Long
Inont, caught 125 bushels Of grasshop-
pers in three days. tNot one at a
tine. however)
Station No. on the Dent-Fort Col
Inns branch of the Union Pacific, To-
Gated northwest of La Sale, is to be
known as Koenig. .-
Mrs. Katherine NJ. Cook, state Sill
perintendent of public instruction. has
announced that she will again be a
candidate for that office.
Howard C. Chaplin. well known min
ing man, is in the hospital at Aspen to
recover from injuries received when
he was thrown from horse.
If weather conditions continue favor
able the Wyatt ranch of $500 acres,
three miles cast OF Ault. will harvest
a crop valued at 100000.
Mayor Houston of Greeley has is
sued circular warning druggists
against the sale of Jamaica ginge-
and other hybrid brands of firewater.
A girls Sunday School athletic
| league is being organized in Fort Col
Inns. Basket ball. volley ball and ten
mis- will be played and taught to mem
bers.
In District Court at Greeley the
Union Pacific filed a condemnation
suit to secure land for extension OF its
lines from Dacono to Fort Collins. thir-
| ty miles.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-08-06
Marriage Stopped by Killing.

Denver-Celebratio for a wedding
that was to have taken place Satur-
day came to a sudden stop Friday ev-
ening when the bridegroom-to-be,
Thomas Scully, a ranch hand from
near Quinby. Colo, was stabbed and
killed by f. c. Jones, known as
"Humpy" Jones. The killing took
place in a little lunch car on Larimer
street, in which Jones was employed,
and was witnessed only by Annie
Thurston. who declares that she and
Scully were to have been married the
next day.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-08-06
Burned by Vitriol.

Philadelphia-Two children were IA
tally injured and eight other children
and four men were seriously burned
Eere Tuesday afternoon. The axle of
a fire department supply wagon carry
Ing four fifteen-gallon carboys of vi
triolic acid. and on which the children
were riding. broke as it was turning
out of street car track. The wagon
upset. spilling out the children and the
carboys. The carboys broke and the
ten youngsters were covered with the
acid.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-08-06
GENE RAL.

Fifty-eight cases of infantile paraly-
sis are reported at Mason City, Iowa;
seventy-one cases at Springfield,
Mass. ..E.
A heroic size statue of President
Lincoln costing 200 is to be placed
in the rotunda of the new capitol at
Frankfort. Ky.
lacking three enumeration districts,
has been announced by the Census
Bureau as 1,C51.951.
The biennial grand encampment CT
the uniform rank Knights of Pythias
and convention Of the supreme lodge
opened in Milwaukee, Monday.
Governor Mann of Virginia has ap-
pointed Former Gov. Claude A. Swan
son of Chatham to succeed the late
John w. Daniel In the United States
Senate.
Representatives of locomotive engi.
neers on fifty-six railroad systems
west Of Chicago met there Monday to
consider plans which may result in a
general demand for higher wages.
Cooperation between the federal
and state governments in the good
roads movement was advocated bv
the speakers at the opening session
of the third annual convention of the
National Good Roads Congress at
Niagara Falls. N. Y. B. F. Yoakum
of the ST Louis 6 San Francisco
Railroad and Congressman William
Sulzer Of New York favored the idea
of the federal government loanine
money to the states for good road
building.