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The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14

Nothing is apparent in Lisbon to
show that the Braganza dynasty has
ended and republic has been set up
except small bands of provisional
troops stationed about he city, and the
cheering everywhere of the red and
green flag of the republic Business is
proceeding as usual. At a Cabinet
council presided over by President
Braga, the new governments program
for betterment of conditions of the
country was formulated A circular
note, sent simultaneously to all the
powers, by Provisional President
Braga. announcing that he has been
successful and that he has appointed
cabinet, has been received by the
state department The United States
has not replied to the note. The
state department will not commit IT.
self by any form of communication
until proof Of the stability of the new
government is forthcoming.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
SPORT.

Oldfield went mile on a muddy
track in So seconds at the state fair.
The officials had declared the meet off
on account of the muddy conditions
At Cincinnati, Sheldon Lejeune, of
the Evansville club of the Central
league, threw base ball 426 feet 6A
inches, or rs feet, 1O% inches over the
old record, which has stood for SO
years.
After season, in which the De
troits, three times winners of the
American league championship, were
ousted fro mfirst place, the American
league season ended Sunday. with
Philadelphia in first place.
The series of post season games to
be played under the auspices of the
national commission between the local
National and American league teams
will start Thursday, and games will
be played daily, excepting Sunday, al
ternating at the two parks until one
team has won four contests. Should
a seventh game be necessary, the
place and date will be decided by the
toss OF a coin.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
Crushed to Death.

Aspen.-While tightening a set nut
on compressor in the Smuggler Min
ing Company plant. Dick Pierce, fore
man of the compressor department.
was instantly killed by being crushed
in the five-foot fly wheel of the ma
chine. His head was severed.
Pierce noticed the lose nut while in
specting the machine and had the COM
pressor stopped. To tighten the nut
properly 1t was necessary for him to
put his head and shoulders through
the spokes Of the wheel, which sud
denly turned backward, crushing
Pierce against the machine and sever
ing his head.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
4 LITTLE TOO PRIMITIVE
Shower Bath Arrangement Something
Of Shock to the
Participant.

August Belmont, at dinner in Sara
toga, praised the seaside towns of.
New England.
But some of them" he added, "are
little too primitive. remember a
story about the primitive town of
Rockford. Rockford had. q rough bath
ing establishment, wttha shower bath.
You stood in your bathhouse and
pulled rope and a deluge of cool wa
yer descended from the ceiling.
We'll, a lady visitor stood one day
In her bathhouse. ready for the show
er. She pulled the rope and braced
herself, but no shower followed. She
gave the rope another tug, when the
gruff voice of the sailor proprietor of
the establishment sounded from aloft.
Stand pint more to nor-east,
num- it said. II ye want to get the
full force
"And the Mortified lady, looking up,
saw the old sailor frowning impa-
tiently through hole in the ceiling
and fitting barrel of sea water for
the shower"
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
Aviation Exhibit at Pueblo.

Pueblo-The Commerce club has
practically completed arrangements
for a big aviation meet here next
month, when exhibitions will be given
with three or four of Wright brothers
machines. The aviators will be on
their way from st. Louis to a meet in
Los Angeles, and the plans are to have
them stop off here for a day.
The plans to secure the aviators
we're turned over to a committee OF
Business men.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
Minor Mention.

Sterling is to have X. of P. lodge
Montrose will have a poultry show
in February.
An electric light plant for Montezu
ma is being planned.
Colorado Springs will entertain the
1911 Dry Farming Congress.
Canon City Elks are about to build a
$4,000 clubhouse. They have 500
members. fsa ~
Magpies are killing off Chinese
pheasants around Greeley. The
Chinese must go.
Ten cars OF potatoes were sent out
Of Greeley by one firm Wednesday al
80 cents a hundred.
There is no longer doubt of Colora
dos ample representation at the big
Pittsburg land show, Oct. 1929.
Several deer have been bagged near
Canon City although the dry, warm
weather is detrimental to hunting.
La Sale has substituted a chain
gang in place of the proverbial latch
string for impecunious visitors of the
hobo variety.
Denver automobiles must not an.
proach closer than four feet to street
cars, and stern and forward lights
must be provided.
The President has signed procla,
nation eliminating 1861 acres from
the Arapahoe national forest in the
state of Colorado. W
The community kitchen" and din,
ing room to accommodate about fifty
families planned by the women OF
Greeley is progressing.
Colorado Springs physicians are
active in making arrangements for the
annual convention of the State Medi
cal Society in this city October lib.
A Denver man has leased the ex
elusive privilege of hunting frogs on
several large reservoirs in Weld coun
ty, believing there is fortune in ii
from the jump.
The Pueblo Canning Company has
made one shipment of IL carloads OF
Pueblo county picked cucumbers to
Tacoma, Wash, the largest cucumber
shipment on record from this county
Larkspur, aconite, loco weed and
other poisonous growths, common to
some sections of Colorado are being
experimental with by government ex'
perts with the primal object of saving
stock.
The enormous crop of fall and win,
ter apples which the Manzanola dis.
triet has raised this year, which ex.
ceeds by 100 per cent any crop ever
before produced in this district is
moving.
lE1ocal postoffice receipts for the
quarter ending Sept 80. at Colorado
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
WESTERN.

NJ. C. Barlow, who is nationally
famous by his pen name, Bill Barlow,
under which he edited SageDrush
Philosophy, died suddenly from heart
failure.
Seventeen OF the twenty or more
who lost their lives IN the explosion
which wrecked the Times newspaper
plant at Los Angeles eight days ago,
were laid to rest Sunday in graves
side by side in Hollywood cemetery,
James B. Lawson, concessionaire
at local amusement park in Oakland
Cal, sent a bullet through the brain
of Harry Coogan, an attendant at a
neighboring concession Sunday. Coo
gan died. Lawson didn't know4it was
loaded"
]. l.. Meredith OF Mason City, Iowa,
was killed and ]. Wallace, an employe
OF the Sears Automobile Company OF
Des Moines, was perhaps fatally in
jured when the cars they were driv
iEg in the fifteen mile race 1T the Des
Moines fair grounds collided.
Four hundred children escaped in
their night clothes from the fire which
destroyed the Mount. st. Joseph Or
phan Asylum. San Francisco. The
eighteen Sisters quickly aroused the
children and despite the excitement
and confusion marched them through
smoke-filled halls, out of the building
without injury to anyone.
Funds for the relief Of families left
dependent by the Los Angeles Times
explosion displayed sign Of mounting
up to figures which may soon bear
c. mparison with the amounts appro-
priated for the capture and conviction
of the conspirators. Banks have
Joined with the newspapers In collect
ing funds, and 1t Is ANNOUNCED that the
total so far collected is more than
$4,000.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
from All Over Colorado

Springs, shows an increase of $1,1O0
over the corresponding quarter of 1909,
being $37.5S5 this year and $36,474
last year.
The sugar beet crop for the state
will involve the distribution of $S,210,-
900. according to careful estimates
About $4.125000 will be distributed
among the farmers between Nov. 15
and the middle of January.
A Denver man, Andrew Brott, Just
as flyer, has designed and built and
successfully made two flights in an
aeroplane indulging in all the dips,
turns. spurs and angles common to q
mining section.
A balldog killed a porcupine at Col
orado Springs the other day; moi, how
ever. until enough of the victims out
er covering had been transferred to
make it question as to which was
porcupine and which was dog.
The Mutual Light and Power Com
pany will ask for a franchise in Pali-
sade, and announces that the wires
IN DC CAlCluSu " Ii.
In this event, many ranchers no doubt
will be able to secure the same serv-
ice.
While driving his automobile across
the railroad tracks into Fort Collins,
Dow Law, wealthy farmer of this
district, was struck by a freight train
and his little daughter badly hurt. Mr..
Law escape with minor injurier. THE
child will recover.
With the grade of the Dent-Fort
Collins railroad entirely completed
through western Weld county into
Fort Collins all men and teams have
been pulled off of the new line and
the railroad company is making its
final settlements on the twenty.fiS6
miles of grade costing $175,000.
The Salvation Army Fall Congress-
will meet in Denver. Friday, October
14-1S. This congress is in the inter-
ests of the work in Colorado, Utah,
Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona
and New Mexico. Commissioner Thorn
as Estiol Of Chicago will preside. He
is territorial commander for the West
ern department.
| AS the result of report received
from Pathologist b. F. Kaupp of the
Agricultural college at Fort Collins,
on the condition of a dog sent there
from Greeley four persons will depart
for Pasteur institute. Chicago, within
forty-eight hours.
Owing to the large number of big
timber wolves infesting western Mont
rose county the stockmen of the Para
dox valley have formed an association
to rid the country of them. The wolves
have killed many calves and young
| stock and stockmen offer $50 for. each
wolf scalp taken. slaa ls..G
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
GEN ERAL.

Six convicts have made sensation.
al escape from Sing Sing prison, over,
coming their keepers.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, on the
way from Atlanta to Hot Springs
Ark, made fifty speeches.
VIM. McAbee, believed to be the old
es veteran of the Civil War. died at
the age of 107 years at the United
States naval home.
A case of cholera developed in the
steerage of the Hamburg-American
liner Moltke, which has been detained
at quarantine as possible cholera
carrier.
The South gave Theodore Roose.
welt hearty welcome on his trip.
Throughout the first day, which took
him across Virginia and a part of
Tennessee, he received many honors.
The furry of uneasiness over the
possibility Of the entrance of cholera
at New York was abated with reas-
suring statements from both state and
federal health officers and the release
to the 615 cabin passengers detained
at quarantine.
Harvard scientists who have been
experimenting with rubber plants al
the Arnold arborteum believe 1t will
be possible to grow rubber on the
abandoned farms Of New England
They have had trees brought from
China growing since last spring and
so far they are thoroughly satisfied
with the results.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
Hotel Responsible. for BAGGAGE

When a Colorado hotel accepts the
check for a guests baggage, respon.
sibility for the safe delivery of the
baggage is shifted to the shoulders
of the hostelry. If the luggage hap
pens to have met with disaster in a
railroad wreck, miles from the hotel
it makes no difference. That is a
score to be settled between the rail
road and the hotel management. This
is ruling of the Supreme Court just
handed down. Justice Hill wrote the
opinion in the case of James L. Keith
VS.. w. w. and G. F. Atkinson, pro
prietors Of an El Paso county hotel. I.
is a reversal of the judgment Of the
District Court of that district.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
TERRIBLE TALE
OF FOREST FIRES
SEVERAL TOWNS IN NORTHERN
MINNESOTA DOOMED BY
THE FIRE KING.
1000 UNACCOUNT TED
WILD BEASTS AND HUMAN BE-
INGS FLEEING; VANDALS
LOOT AND ROB DEAD.

Winnipeg, Man.-With forest fires
still raging and famed by a gale OF
their own creation several towns in
northern Minnesota are in grave dan.
ger and late reports add to the horror
of the situation.
Estimates Of the number who have
perished range from $50 to 1000, the
latter figure being given by calm. con.
servative men who have been close to
the line OF fire.
Besides those known to be dead,
hundreds are missing and. It is feared.
lost in the smoke and flame-filled
woods
At present the officials OF railroads
and public minded men are bending
every energy to the rescue and relief
of the thousands of fugitives from the
burning district-helpless, homeless
and destitute men, women and chill.
dren.
Vandals, armed and desperate are
at work robbing the dead and the help
less and looting homes deserted be-
fore the flames reached them.
Stories OF wild animals, fleeing for
safety side by side with human be-
tngs; of mothers burned to death, with
babies on their breasts and Of men
cremated while endeaSoring to- shield
their children were among the tales
of horror brought in.
The Duluth express, when it arrived
brought many refugees from the scene
OF the conflagration.
The engineer OF the train thus de-
scribed the situation:
III the fire keeps on the way 1t is
going there Is going to be mighty lit
tie left Of the population Of that part
of Minnesota. For miles around Bau-
dette and Spooner, Wisconsin, where
there were large tracts of bush, 1t Is
now as level as the prairie. There
have been forests in that part Of the
country for such a long time that the
earth is practically peat and when
tree falls 1t sets fire even to the roots
and the earth around the roots. Ev-
eryone in Warroad who had a revolver
is carrying it. The survivors are des-
perate and a great deal Of vandalism
is abroad. Men are robbing women OF
their Jewels"
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
POLITICAL,

Charles E. Hughes has filed
with the secretary Of state his reslg-
nation as governor Of New York. He
will soon take up his duties as associ'
ate justice of the supreme court OF the
United States.
The Independence League, which
nsminated John Hooper of New York
for governor and William X Hearst
for lieutenant governor, met In con
yention again, and completed a
straight Independence League ticket.
Precedent ruled the Massachusetts
Republican state convention and Gov.
Eben S. Draper was named by accla'
nation for third term. 1t has been
many years since Republican gov
ernor has been refused a third nomi'
nation in the state.
United States Senator Robert L.
Taylor, three times governor OF Ten
nessee. whose term in the United
States senate does not expire until
1912, has been nominated for governor
by the regular Democratic convention
Hoke Smith was Wednesday elected
to serve a second term as governor
OF Georgia. Gov. Joseph M. Brown
who defeated smith two years ago and
whose name was placed before the
voters as an Independent Democratic
candidate, did not receive majority
in a single county.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
Last Hope Abandoned.

Starkville.-The rescue parties who
have penetrated further and further
into the fated mine, in spite OF pois-
onous gases and after-damp. find no
encouraging indications OF any of the
miners having been able to shut them
selves off from hte deathly atmos-
sphere. Rescuers have reached a dis.
tance of three miles underground and
have nearly reached the tomb OF the
miners
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
Women In Control.

Aurora, Ill.-Nine women are now
owners OF the Western Wheeled
ScrGper Company of Aurora, a million
dollar corporation. The company en-
ploys more than 500 men and is one
OF Aurora's biggest industries. The
women are left in control of the COM
pany by the death Of the late Captain
Charles H. Smith, its president. who
bequeathed all his stock to his widow
and three daughters, Stella. Edna and
Genevieve Smith.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
Bore Through Range Advanced 1871
Feet

Greeley.-Although Contractor Neil
wee. who has charge Of the boring OF
the Laramie-Poudre tunnel through
Green mountain failed to better his
own worlds record for month in Sep
tembe5 excellent progress was made
on the tunnel and the bore is now 7S1
feet nearer completion than on the
last day OF August. 1t is completed
for over a mile.
During September the eastern bore
was advanced 4S6 feet, 527 being the
record for August, which sets a new
world mark in tunnel boring. The con.
tract calls for completion in Decem.
ber, 1911.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
News Summary of the Past Week

The house of deputies of the Protes-
tant Episcopal church in Cincinnati,
Thursday passed an amendment to the
constitution providing for suffragan
bishops throughout the church. The
debate brought out the fact that the
object of the suffragan bishops was
not only to look after the people of a
particular nationality or race, but also
to assist bishops who preside over
large dioceses.
Another big insurance promotion
bubble has been pricked by the New
York Insurance Department the
United Insurance Company of Chicago
and New York, one of the Van Laning-
ham enterprises. They find that or
the $4,000 contributed in cash by
the investors in it's stock sold at So
for each 81 share, only $4,000 re-
mains; the rest has all been consumed
by the high.pressure methods of the
company's promoters and stock sales
men. The cost of actually selling the
stock was 140 per cent of the par
value, and the cost, including salaries
and other expenses, was 242 per cent.
Mr.. Josiah w. Thompson of Union
town, Pa, has just closed deal by
which he transfers to the Standard
Oil Company $4,000 acres of coal
land, located in Washington and
Greene counties, Pennsylvania, and in
six West Virginia counties. The deal
involved about s100,0OO,OO0, and is
without parallel for magnitude. The
Greene coal land involved in the trans
action amounts to about 10000 acres,
while the Washington county block
contains 100000 acres. The remaining
277,0O0 acres are located in Ohio,
Marshall, Wetzell, Lewis, Harrison
and Monogahela counties In West
Virginia.
The Standard Oil company through
its official publicity representative, j.
/. c. Clarke, has announced that the
company has inaugurated a cam
paign to increase the worlds con-
sumption of refined oil,' and is lower
ing prices of kerosene in Europe and
INC ldi edSt. L his dCliOu lOuOWb tndt
of August last, when the Standard OIL
company reduced refined oil in bar
rels l cent gallon from 9& to 8A
cents at the refinery. and refined oil
in tanks from 6h to 51s cents gal
Ion. In part the statement reads
THE Standard OIL company has mar.
gurated campaign to increase the
worlds consumption Of refined oil.
The level of prices for refined oil to-
day in the United States is lower than
at any time during recent years, and
as direct result Of these prices the
consumption of refined oil in this
country is increasing. The same pol.
icy is now being actively pursued
| abroad"
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
A MIle-and-a-Half Dam.

Greeley, Colo.-A map and state.
ments of Farmers reservoir No. 5
were filed with the county recorder
Wednesday by P. D. Jones of Greeley
The proposed reservoir will have a
dam a mile and a half long and IS
feet high and is to cost $725, 900. The
water supply will be through the tun.
mel and bitches of the Greeley Poudre
system and the reservoir will have 4
capacity of $500, 100000 feet. The tland
to be irrigated lies north andseaH 3,
Greeley. fl4t
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
FOREIGN.

The expulsion Of the monks from
Portugal has begun. Several hundred
nuns have been assembled and will BIZ
deported out of the country.
The overflow of Manuel, the de-
posed King of Portugal. is certain to
spoil the marriage between the young
ruler and niece of King George OF
England.
King Alfonso Of Spain. is trembling
on his throne. With the fear tugging
at his heart. that his people will fol-
low in Portugals footsteps, he has
strengthened every military garrison in
Madrid with troops OF whose loyalty
he has not the slightest suspicion.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
Mayors Vote May Decide,

Ordway,-District Judge Rizer rem
dered his deferred decision in the
case Of Brenaman VS.. Olmstead, hold
ing that 1t was legal for the mayor to
cast the deciding vote in the case of a
tie in meeting of the town board, that
1t the membership of the board was not
complete that 1t could be filled in this
manner. and that the actions of the
board so constituted would be legal.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
Lucky John Strikes Two weII,.

Galveston.-"Lucky" John O'Neill,
the well known oil operator, brought
in two wells, flowing 1000 and 200
barrels. respectively. on his latest
find. four miles from the Humble field
on the San JacInto river In Harris
county.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
Inspectino Pierce Coal Deposits.

Pierce.-To inspect the coal depos-
its on the Boulter farm C. R. Welsh,
C. H. Clammer and T. H. Jones OF
Fort Collins will pay a visit to this
town in the near future. II the de-
posits are found sufficiently thick,
outside capital will be invested to de-
velop the veins.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
To Store Coal Creek Waters,

Greeley.-Work Is well under way
on the big Hereford system of bitches
and reservoirs which contemplates
the storing OF the flood waters Of
Coal creek, in northeastern Weld
county, fifty miles from here, into a
chain OF reservoirs and spreading the
water over 10000 acres Of level land
adjoining Hereford.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
Through eunnison Tunnel on Raj

Delta-A ride through the Gunnison
tunnel was the experience of Paul Phip,
peny, employed on the project. Phip,
peny secured raft and made the trip
in good shape, and encountered no diff.
ficulty until he reached the drops out,
side the tunnel, Here his raft was
smashed and he would have drowned
but for the timely assistance Of a
farmer named McCullom, who offered
assistance in the form of long pole
on which Phippeny climbed to safety
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
is This the Partlnn7

Hot Springs, Ark.-Theodore Roose-
welt took issue with President Taft on
the subject OF reclamation OF the
delivered here at the Arkansas State
fair. Col Roosevelt declared that the
national government should do all 1t
legitimately could do to assist in drain.
ing these lands.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
Philadelphia Wins Championship.

After season, in which the De.
troits. three times winners OF the
American league championship, were
ousted from first place, the American
league season ended Sunday, with
Philadelphia in first place.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
Simple ExpedIent.

An American student at German
university tells Of professor who
was reading aloud in classroom pa
pers on a celebrated living German
novelist, who had been written by
the members of the class. After read
ing one he commented upon its ex-
cellence. "You show an exact com
prehension of the matter" he said,
addressing the student who had writ
ten the paper; tell US what method
you used"
"oh," replied the student, 81 Just
wrote to x, stating what I wanted
to know, and that was what he sent
back"
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14

Breaks 36-Year Long-Distance Throw.
CiDcinnati.-Sheldon Lejeune, OF the
Evansville club OF the Central league,
threw base ball 426 feet 6H inches,
of rs feet 1OA inches over the old
record. which has stood for 36 years.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
Taft's Engineers BUSY.

Albuquerque, n. M.-The Board OF
United States Army Engineers are in.
vest'gating New Mexico and Arizona
projects.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14
COMING EVENTS

Oct. l7-Streets OF all nations. Audi
torium. Denver.
Oct. lT-20-State convention Disciples
OF Christ at Rocky Ford.
Nov S-State election.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14

But the pure food laws do not make
any provision for love that is adul-
terated with filthy lucre.
The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-14

A Kansas woman wants a divorce
because her husband throws bricks at
her. No man has right to throw
anything at his wife but bouquets and
hot air