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Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS o.
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

Snow fell for the first time in six
Teen years at Fresno, Calf, on Janu
ary 1st.
Idaho's silver production for the
year 1909 was $S,000,000; gold, $1,50O,
900; lead, $2,500,000; copper, $1,000,
900; lumber. s7.5OO.OO0 (estimated).
l. w. Emmons, traffic manager and
auditor of the Laramie, Hahn's Peak
& Pacific railroad, has resigned and
will take charge of the Southern Pa
cific office at Fresno, Cal.
Because a bull elk "butted in on
the line," Pinedale and Cora, Wyo.,
were deprived of telephone commune
cation for number of days. The elk
carried away several hundred yards
of wire.
Mrs. E. J. Milhan, known throughout
the country in the Wild West shows
as the "cow girl" died at Ponca City,
Okla. December 3Oth, from injuries
suffered the day before. She was rid
ing for moving picture concern when
her horse fell upon her.
Thomas Waggoner of Fort Worth,
Tex, has given each of his three chill
dren property valued at $2,OO0,000 as
Christmas gifts. Waggoner is 81 years
old, a ranchman, banker and capital
list. One hundred thousand acres of
land, 10000 head of cattle and 1000
horses are given to each child.
While there is still prospect for a
$25 tourist rate to Colorado common
points from Chicago next season, it is
said that there is no longer hope of
securing cheap homeseeker's rate.
The Western Passenger association
has increased the homeseeker's rate
to S35. the rate having been $50 year
ago.
January 1, 1910, was the coldest
New Years day ever officially record
ed at Seattle. Wash. A forty-mile gale
blew all day, tearing vessels from
their anchorage, wrecking summer
houses along the shore of the sound
and destroying, with the aid of hign
in West Seattle.
The will of Thomas Murdoch of Chi
cago, late president of Reid, Murdoch
& Co., wholesale grocers, disposes of
an estate estimated at approximately
81 ,O0C 900, of which from 100000 to
$2,500,OOO is bequeathed to public in
stitutions. The principal beneficiaries
cago, the American Sunday School
Union and the Young Mems Christian
Association of Chicago.
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06
GENERAL NEWS.

The only brother of Pope Plus X
and his two sisters celebrated New
Years day with him at the Vatican.
Some 500 employees of the New York
Central railroad and it's affiliated lines
were retired from active service by
the new pension order which became
effective January 3rd.
Charles Wyman Morse, former lice
king" and Millionaire banker, at noon
January Sd began serving a 15-year
sentence in the Atlanta federal prison
for violation of the national banking
laws.
A new animal. that has been named
the "Otocyon Rooseveltus." has been
discovered in British East Africa by
the Smithsonian African scientific ex-
pedition, under the leadership Of Col.
Theodore Roosevelt. 1t is q small
carnivorus mammal, closely resem-
bling fox.
Judge Hazel in the United States
Court at Buffalo. N. Y. on the Sd inst.
granted the preliminary injunction
asked for by the Wright brothers.
against the Herring -Curtiss Company
and Glenn II. Curtiss. restraining
them from manufacturing and selling
aeroplanes.
Mary McCluskey, who was kid
mapped 16 months ago, when she was
three months old, was found few
days since by the police in Brooklyn.
Four persons are under arrest. The
child's mother let woman take the
baby out one day and neither had
been seen by her since.
J. p. Morgan, Thomas f.. Ryan and
Levi p. Morton linked hands in New
York on the Sd inst. in trust com
of $150,000.000. 1t Is triple combina.
ton, bringing the Guaranty Trust
Company, the Morton Trust Company
and the Fifth Avenue Trust Company
under one head, with the title of the
Guaranty Trust Company
The Non-Conformist Anti-Socialist
Union of Great Britain has been or.
ganized in London to fight socialism
in all its forms. 1t will try to prevent
the use of churches and school rooms
for holding political meetings.
Because he could not remember
part of his address, which he was to
deliver at banquet on New Years
day at Georgetown. KY. Judge John
C. vows, 32 years old. shot and killed
himself. Judge vows was one OF the
best known members of the Kentucky
bar and well known as an after-dinner
speaker.
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06
BY WITHHOLDING PATRONAGE
FROM THOSE WHO OPPOSE
HIS POLICIES.
BATTLE IS ALREADY ON
COLD SHOULDER FOR SENATORS
WHO OPPOSED PAYNE-AL-
DRICH TARIFF BILL.

Washington.-War without quarter
will be waged between the Taft admin
istration and such Republican ''insur-
gents" in Congress as are now oppos-
ing, and who oppose in the future, the
Taft legislative program. The battle is
not with those tariff insurgents who
quietly sheathed their blades after de-
feat, but with those who have nursed
disappointment and are whetting their
knives publicly in anticipation of con-
tinued conflict.
The battle broke suddenly Tuesday
At first it was single shot; then a
scattered firing; swiftly the thing
spread, until by night it had taken on
the aspects of general engagement,
the consequences of which cannot be
foretold. The substance of it is that
the senator's and congressman who
have taken a stand against the pres
ent administration and who continue
to align themselves with the opposi-
ton to the Presidents policies are to
receive no consideration in the mat
ters of patronage.
Utterances such as that made by
Senator Cummins at a recent dinner
in Des Moines, by Senator Bristow in
previous speeches, anti-Taft articles
in Senator La Follette's magazine, and
a recent interview by Senator Clapp
on the price of foodstuffs are said to
have stirred the President to action.
1t has been reported further that
some of the Republican insurgents in
the House have tried to secure the ap-
pointment under the administration of
men more or less openly out of har-
mony with the Taft regime.
Taft's closest friends advised him
that it would be impolitic for him to
give sinews of war to those who, they
warned him, might even cooperate
with the Democrats in Congress
against the Taft legislative program
and in the country at large by Great
the 1912 convention.
1t is stated without reserve that the
President has listened to such advice
and has decided to follow it.
In support of the position taken by
certain leaders of the administration,
the battle is not with the tariff insur-
gents. 1t was pointed out that Sena-
tors Nelson, Brown, Burkett and Bo-
rah, all of whom voted against the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, appear to be
persona grata at the White house,
postoffice department, land office and
internal revenue bureau, where fed
eral pie" is served.
No politician who would discuss the
situation at all dared hazard an
opinion as to the political outcome Of
the contest. Some insisted that it
would arouse bitter opposition to Pres
ident Taft, while others declared that
the effect would be to make all Re-
publicans line up for or against the
President and smoke out" those who
have carefully kept neutral position.
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

According to the report of the Cen
sus Bureau the tendency of municipal
ownership shows itself in some direc-
tions. OF 158 cities. 116 own and op-
crate their own water plants Only
seventy-six own their own market.
places.
President Taft went to New York
City on the 30th ult. to witness the
wedding of his niece, Miss Louise
Taft. to George H. Snowden, took din
ner with his brother, spent the even
ing at the theater and whirled back
to Washington again on the midnight
train.
In an opinion by Justice Day the
Supreme Court of the United States
held to be invalid the ordinance adopt
ed by the City Council Of Minneapolis,
Mimi. in 1907. requiring the Mime
apolis Street Railway Company to sell
six tickets for 25 cents. The COM
pany fought the ordinance on the
ground that it was a violation of the
contract implied in its charter. which,
issued in 1878, was to run for so years
and which authorized charge of five
cents for each ride.
General Bell, chief of staff Of the
army, has issued circular setting
forth the occasion on which officers
and enlisted men are required to stand
at attention when the Star Spangled
Banner" is played. The first is when
the air is played by band on for
NAL occasion, other than retreat, at
any place where persons belonging to
the military service are present in
their official capacity, in which case
officers and enlisted men stand at
attention throughout the playing OF the
air. The second is when the flag is
lowered at retreat and aboard trans.
port when the flag is hoisted at guard
mounting.
II the 15S largest cities OF the
United States were to merge them
selves into one great corporation, they
would need working capital Of 81,
50.000,000. The Census Bureau has
made an elaborate investigation OIL
what 1t costs to run our municipalities
and how the money is spent, and who
gets It. TO maintain the departments
of city government is thirty.six per
cent, OF the total cost. During 1917
the 1853 cities enumerated collected
nearly $600,000.000 In their own revs
nues and then borrowed more than
/! s400. 100000 for improvements.
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06
To Look for Bradley Land.

New York.-Just to satisfy his own
curiosity as to whether there ia any
Bradley Land in the Arctic sea. John
r. Bradley. financial backer OF DR..
Frederick Polar expedition. has de-.
cided to spend 100000 for an expedi.
tion to locate the vast area which the
Brooklyn physician reported he had
discovered and named for his benefit.
Captain Otto Sverdrup, a Norwegian
explorer. has been asked to head the
expedition. which will start from st.
Johns. N. F.. early in July.
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06
Presid ent's Reception.

Washington.-The first and prob
ably the most brilliant Of the formal
state receptions planned for the pres.
ent White house season was given
Tuesday night by the President and
Mrs. Taft in honor Of the diplomatic
corps. About 1,500 guests we're in.
vited. Mrs. Taft was present through.
out the evening. The "blue room cir.
Gle" which flourished during the
Roosevelt administration, when se-
lected coterie OF social friends were
invited behind the line," was entire
Iy done away with.
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06
National Apple Exposition.

Denver.-Music galore, a finished
exposition and an unexpectedly large
throng of guests Tuesday marked the
second days evening session of the
first Colorado National Apple Exposi-
ton at the Auditorium. From short.
ly before z o'clock until nearly IL
O'Clock, there were musical numbers
by two bands, an orchestra. soloists,
a player-piano.l a phonograph. all add.
ing to the enjoyment Of 5000 guests
who leisurely strolled in and out, up
and down the long aisles, banked on
either side with boxes of the states
finest apples.
The girls-the twenty-seven eligible
candidates for the honor OF being
crowned queen of the Apple Show
did yeoman work in the solicitation OF
votes, as. evinced in the count of the
ballot box at the close Of the day.
The afternoon session, which was
arranged with special idea of enter.
tanning the residents of the Arkansas
valley, was very interesting, featured,
as 1t was, with an eloquent address
by Ex-Governor Alva Adams of Pueblo.
His theme. Apples and Citizenship"
was of sufficient range to take in a
world of thought and he struck re-
sponsive chord at the very outset in
the declaration. at is fitting that the
first National Apple Exposition
should be held in the capital Of the
greatest apple growing common
wealth."
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06

Total. .............S6 $3.50 ,9OO.32
The bylaws are merely the business
regulations-not those for the conduct
of the home, the only interesting
clauses being those prohibiting polit-
ical and religious exhortation at the
home; providing the affidavits by the
home management to carry out the
will of the dead philanthropist, etc.
The 100000 belonging to the STRAIT
ton estate which has not been trans
ferred to the home, is retained in case
suits pending against the estate are
decided against it. There are only four
suits remaining of the entire litiga-
tion of $32,000,000 against the estate.
Two of these, in the State Supreme
Court, were filed by E. A. Meredith
to recover $4,000, alleged to be due
for commission in the sale of mining
stock, and by Michael Finnerty, who
claims $4,000 commission for the sale
of the Brown Palace hotel mortgage.
All have been won in the lower courts
by the Stratton estate.
The fourth suit, brought by Mrs.
Virginia Stratton Cobb, sister of the
late w. S. Stratton, to recover inter-
est on her legacy of $50,000, was re-
Gently filed in the District Court.
Should this case be decided in her
favor, after a test in the higher court,
the Stratton trustees will pay interest
on the legacies without separate con.
tests. The total interest to be paid
IN this event is about $150.O0O.
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06
Colorado Sugar Factorie

Colorados factories. owned by five
companies follow
American Beet Sugar Comrnny--
Plants located at Rocky Ford. Lamar
Las Animas.
Holly sugar Compnny-Factories at
Holly and Swink.
National Sugar Compnny-SuRnr
City.
The Great Western Sugar COMPANY
Eaton. Greeley. Windsor. Fort Collins.
Loveland. Longmont. Sterling. Brush.
Fort Morgan.
Western Sugar & Land Company
Grand Junction.
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06
STATISTICS SHOW THAT 1T WAS
THE MOST PROSPEROUS YEAR
EVER KNOWN.
IMMENSE PRODUCTION
FARMS POUR OUT FLOOD OF
WEALTH AND EVERY INTER.
EST ADVANCES.

Denver.-The following statistics are
from the New Years edition of the
Denver Republican, presenting care
fully prepared estimates in condensed
form.
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06
ASSETS OF THE ESTATE TRANS
FERRED TO MYRoN STRAIT
TON HOME CORPORATION.
TOTAL s6,397,9oo.32
ONE MILLION DOLLARS TO BE
SPENT ON GROUNDS AND
BUILDINGS.

Colorado Springs.-In the District
Court Monday Judge Morris signed an
order approving the proceedings OF
the Stratton estate trustees, including
the incorporation and bylaws of the
Myron Stratton Home for the Poor,
and also granting a petition of Trus-
tees d. H. Rice, Tyson S. Dimes and
William LennoX to transfer to the
Myron Stratton Home corporation as
sets of the estate totaling $6,397 ,9OO.-
32. This includes the entire estate,
except S5OO,OOO, to provide for possible
adverse litigation.
The long-delayed home will probably
be started this year. The will pro-
vides that not more than $1,OOO,OOO
be spent on grounds and buildings.
The estate has already bought practi-
cally all of Broadmoor, including the
Broadmoor hotel and casino, for $780,
600, and will spend about 100000 on
buildings.
The assets to be turned over to the
Myron Stratton Home are:
Real estate, including
Brown Palace hotel at
Denver. ............$ 81 ,O2S, l25.OO
Mining companies stocks
controlled by estate. -. 1861, ,32S.4S
Other mining stocks. .... 774,632.5O
Seat on mining exchange. 10000
Stocks and bonds. ..... 2,426,715.12
Notes (good). ........ 13O,9OS.77
Notes (doubtfuD. ...... 3,76O.2O
Cash on hand. ......... 16,93O.35
Furniture Brown Palace
hotel. ........... 100000
Supplies Brown Palace
hotel. ............ 100000
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06

Totals .......... 4.030.3O0 $75. .207. 900
The total number of head handled in
1908 was 4.324.200, having total value
of 500, 100000. There was a slight de-
crease in the number of all kinds ct
stock, which was more than made UP
by the increase in value. in 1909.
Colorado nairu Drolnrtc
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06

VnIue OF IruIt crop, IyUy,
(estimated) ................$S SIS, ,0O0, ,0l
Value of fruit crop. 1908. 5000, o,
Acres planted to fruit in state 1895
In Fremont, Garfield, Mesa. Deli
and Montrose counties. the highest d
velopment of apple growing has bee
attained The area to be develope
that to which attention Is now beIr
paid, is contained in Montrose,
Plata and Montezuma.
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06

Value of dairy products. $40. .000. o
Colorado used gallons of
milk. 1909 ............. 31,025,0
Denver used gallons milk. 1909 14,5O0.1
Colorado creamery butter. lbs 1000 O
Colorado ranch butter. lbs. 10000
Colorado cheese, lbs. ....... bO0,0
Colorado process butter, lbs. 1,250,O
Butter consumed in state, lbs 16.6O0,0
Cheese consumed in state 1,500,O
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06

Grand total ........... 81 .226.20
In Delta county. more than $4,000 900
will be paid for the products of the
fruit soil In the year 1903 This In ad-
dition to the large quantities used for
home consumption. Of which no record
has been kept.
The result follows:.
Apples. $500 cars ....... 2,250, 900
Peaches, 1000 cars ...... 100000
Small fruits ............. 10000
Fruits Of local markets. 10000
Delta has about $1,000 acres bearing
orchards. and some $4,000 acres planted
TO young orchards. Land is selling
from $50 to 1000
Gilpin observer., 1910-01-06

The greatest revival services in the
history of the western slope were in.
augurated at the Auditorium in Grand
Junction on the Sd inst, with DR.. J..
8. Hamilton of Cleveland. o., in
charge. They will be participated in
by practically every denomination in
the city. Despite the inclemency of
the weather, there were fully 1900
present.
AS in almost every other phase of
achievement Colorado established not
able weather records in 1909. Espe-
cially in the amount OF rainfall was
the state prominent for exceptional ac-
complishment. The precipitation for
1909, as reported by the weather bu-
reau at Denver, was 22.96 inches in
comparison with 1896 inches during
the preceding year. The rainfall was
pretty evenly distributed throughout
the state, although some sections got
more than Denver.
Preparations for the ten days cam
paign of the Denver Y. M. c. A. for
the raising of s150,000 are rapidly be-
ing completed. J. r. Thompson of
New York, who has been unusually
successful in conducting similar cam
paigns in the East, is in charge. The
members of the board of directors of
the association already have pledged
$4,000 toward the fund, while friend
has promised to give $4,000 when the
campaign opens. II will last from
January 18th until 9 p. m, January
eth.
Theodore De Land. assistant secre.
tary of the Boston Board OF Trade,
has been rendered the position Of Sec
retary OF the Denver Chamber of Com.
merce and head of it's publicity de.
pnrtment to succeed w. F. II. Mills.
resigned December 1. De Land he's
had charge OF publicity work of simi.
lar character in Chicago and Detroit.
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Berlin. April O.-(Special.)-The lead
ing feature of the present political situa-
ton is the complete and remarkable
self-effacement of the Kaiser, which mas
been evident from the very beginning or
the heated controversy now proceeding
In regard to the franchise question in
Prussia The Kaiser. formerly the most
prominent politician in the country. has
disappeared from party politics, and af-
fer thrusting himself into the very fore
front of all current public disputes and
faction rivalries for two decades, Will
fam III has abondened the habits and
customs of a lifetime. and has envel-
oped himself in an impenetrable re-
serve.
The Kaiser's present reserve STANDS
In such striking contrast to the freedom
with which he previously plunged head
long into the strife of party politics that
+he whole character and personality Of
His Imperial Majesty seems to have
changed within the last eighteen months.
From the beginning of his reign in 1883
till 1908, the Kaiser delivered public
speeches upon almost every subject I'M
der the sun. and many of his utterances
dealt with questions both of home and
fore'tn policy.
y attacked political parties in his
,ountry he criticised others, he as
his views on many questions of
In and Prussian domestic affairs
powerful emphasis, SO that for
years he was the central figure
h ly heated controversies.
The question Of Prussian' franchise re-
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observe more reserve and respect for
constitutional usages.
The pledge, given to the nation seven
teen months ago, is the key to the mys-
terry of the Kaiser's silence during the
Prussian franchise controversy. The
kaiser unlike many other monarchs who
have given pledges to their subjects. has
kept his promise in letter and In spirit.
He no longer intervenes In party poll
tics He delivers no more impromptu
public speeches which astonish the
world. When he speaks in public on Of
fetal occasions, the manuscript OF his
speech is handed to him by the imperial
chancellor and he reads the prearranged
text of the address without additions or
supplementary remarks.
When he receives distinguished for
eigners in audience, the secretary OF
state for foreign affairs is always IN at
tendance in contrast to the practice OF
former times when the Emperor received
such visitors alone and talked to them
with characteristic candor. The change
IL amazing. and any prophecy that it
would come to pass within the reign OF
the present Emperor would have been
laughed to scorn two years ago.
What are the Kaiser's feelings in re-
gard to his withdrawal from the arena
Of practical and controversial politics?
Does he enjoy the additional peace and
repose obtained under the new regime,
or does he long for the good old times
when he fought his own political battles
The Kaiser is in the sixth decade OF his
life, and the growing years have natural
ly brought about the disappearance OF
some of the impetuosity of youth, de-
yelopment that would make 1t easier for
him to endure his retirement from con-
troversal politics If this were uncongen-
ial to him. Perhaps there are moments
when his irrepressible dash and energy
cause him to be impatient of the restraint
which he imposed on himself by his pledge
of November II. 1908; perhaps there are
times when he would rejoice to rush again
into the thick of the political campaign.
1t would be grave error to suppose
that the Kaiser's real power and influence
over the control of public affairs have
been in any degree diminished by the
change Quite me contrary. Now, as at
the beginning of his reign. the Kaiser is
his own foreign minister, and his grip Of
the management of domestic affairs has
never been firmer than at the present
time. but his role Is played behind the
scenes instead of behind the footlights of
the political stage.
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Here is the essential part of the clipping
he showed me:
One of the difficulties which confront
the department of state is the fact that
In some cases our bankers and business
men have sharply competed for the pres
tige of being the honored recipient of one
of the opportunities to be the govern
ment's instrumentality. To measure the
claims of different American interests is
not a function which should burden the
department charged with the conduct of
our foreign relations. and 1t is to be
hoped that some means may be found to
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and large investors of its own country"
provide against this difficulty and so put
an end to disappointment which have too
frequently been translated into Injurious
attack upon the department of state. In
other countries the instrumentalities OF
financial diplomacy are generally powerful
wedges, presenting a united front in the
foreign field and wide open at home It
Is known to be the wish of Secretary
Knox that whatever such opportunities
there are may be participated in as
broadly and impartialy as possible by
all interested. reputable and suitable
American agencies.
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ing of the circumstances, and of what is
sought to be accomplished.
A little while ago one of our diplomats.
who has seen nearly two decades of ac-
tive service, said to me: Here Is a
newspaper clipping taking it out of his
pocket-book (which ] would like to put
in the hands of everybody in the United
States who Is at all interested In the mo-
tives animating our state department at
the present time. Secretary Knox is only
seeking to do what every important for
eign office in the world is doing and has
been long doing for the banking houses