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The La Jara chronicle., 1910-08-26
EXTRACTS FROM REPORT ON
HUERFANO COUNTY'S
BOOKS.

In view of the much talked of
investigation of Huerfano county
officials. the following, from the
report of Public Examiner Mulnix
is Interesting:
Il am pleased to say that in
all of my experience as an ac-
countant | have never found the
accounts of the officers, where
no exainations had been previous
ly made, kept in any more COM
prehenslve and correct manner.
and as free from gularities
as those OF your county during
this period. Such clerical errors
as | nave discovered have been
corrected. These ! may add have
been very few in number and for
small amounts, and | have found
no evidence of intentional wrong
doing or graft in any one of
these offices. y
"TaX-payers are to be congrat-
uldltu DttdliSt VI iHe SIltHulu
financial condition of the county
at the close of business, December
3lst, 1909. At that time the coun-
ty had no outstanding indebted
ness except $50, 100000 of Court
House Bonds and had balances to
the credit Of the various County
funds aggregating sos, 2,4S3.0S.
This is very satisfactory, since
the rate of taxation is low com
pared with other counties of the
state.
II find that Treasurer Dick
has collected 80 1-5 per cent of
the taxes of 1908. This is doubt
less the largest percentage col
lected by any treasurer in the
state during any one year.
II desire to express my ap-
probation of the uniform court
eous manner in which my assist
ants and myself have been treated
by all of the officers during this
examination
II. f. MULNIX c. p. A.
Examiner.
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-08-26
SUSTAINED THE TAX TITLE.

In the early settlement of the
San Luis valley many persons
came from the eastern states, filed
on land, built shack to live in
FOR six months and in some cases
fenced the land, borrowed money
made final proof and skipped out
The trust deed given for the
loans, pretty generally, went into
the hands of people living in the
eastern states. When the borrow
ers failed to pay their interest,
the eastern owners took no further
action i'll the matter. Since the
lands have become valuable specu
lators have bought up these old
trust deeds and now seek to fore
close them.
The county regularly levied
taxes and sold the land for non
payment. A great number of per
sons from time to time bought
the tax title from the county. by
compromising with the county
commissioners in some instances
and in others by paying all the
taxes.
On Monday of this week Judge
Holbrook at Del Norte decided the
case of Francisco Valdez VS.. Har-
rington Emerson of New York.
The land had been patented and
Manuel c. Pacheco became the
owner He borrowed money of
the Colorado Securities Co. 1t
sold the note secured by the trust
deed to Samuel Turbut of Balti-
more. He willed this with Sc
curities to found home for old
people. That institution held the
papers for number OF years, but
did not pay any taxes.
The county sold the property to
Thomas A. Good of Del Norte
After he obtained tax deed he
sold the land to Francisco Val
dez, who took possession and
sought to make home on the
land
Harrington Emerson, a wealthy
citizen of New York, bought this
trust deed about two years ago
and had it foreclosed. lie then
demanded possession.
Mr.. Valdez had expended about
$500 in building house, fences,
stables, potato cellars, etc, and
he didn t want to lose the pro-
perty, so brought suit to quiet
title.
Mr.. Emerson employed John F.
Mail Of Denver, noted tax title
lawyer, to attend the case for
him. Mail set up as his principle
defense that the tax deed was
void upon its face, though the
county treasurer used the exact
form prescribed by the statute.
The sale took place on the 18th
day of December, 1898, for the
taxes of 1897 and the deed recited
that at an adjourned sale begun
and held on the 18th day of De-
cember, 1898, the treasurer had
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-08-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Neel are
entertaining a house full of com
pany. The following have arrived
within the last few days: Mrs.
Neel's son, Mr. Vernal Babbitt,
wife and daughter, of t't. Collins
Mr.. and Mrs. Arlington Corbin,
of Pullman, w. Va. the latter
being "A sister of Mr.. Neel, also a
nephew of Mr.. Neel, Mr.. Ernest
Hawkins, who is agent for the C..
& 5. Icy. at Pitllin, Colo.-Romeo
Record
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-08-26
HERD OF WILD HORSES

\ herd of wild horses are run
ming in the Ojita hills. The loca-
ton is one of the isolated see
tions of Costilla county, just east
of Conejos county, and the re
gion offers excellent grazing and
hiding places.
c. II. w. Smith. civil engineer
of Blanca, lost horse in the
herd last Monday while in camp
beyond the old Oiita ranch. He
secured other animals and tried
to cut his stray out of the herd,
but found it impossible to get
close enough to-the herd.
During the past two months
there has been large number
, of strays reported. The owners
have advertised in newspapers
and sent out descriptions, but in
no instance have any of the own
ers received their horses or any
information concerning them.
1t is the general opinion that
the herd is in large part composed
of stray horses.-Blanca Record.
n. A. Clarke, aged Sc years,
one of the old timers of Del Norte
is dead.
\ hail storm north of Center
last week did considerable damage
Del Norte is to have new
depot 22Xl00 feet. 1t will be con
structure Of concrete on metal
lath with cement outside. Both
the exterior and interior will be
nicely finished. The building will
he completed by the time cold
weather sets in.-Del Norte Pros
pector.
\ Telegram from the Masonic
lodge in Las Vegas, n. NJ
Wednesday morning brought the
sad news that u. T. Chandler,
well known Monte Vista man,
had been found dead in his berth,
while the train was nearing Las
Vegas. Mr.. Chandler left Monte
Vista several weeks ago for Port
land, Oregon, as delegate to the
w. O. w. convention. The funeral
was held from his home Sunday
afternoon under the auspices Of
the Masonic lodge-Center Dis
patch.
Charles Sweitzer of the Levy
Construction Co. arrived in Ala
mosa yesterday and will as soon
as Surveyor Sampson can locate
the bridge site, begin work on
the new state bridge across the
Rio Grande river. We are in
formed that the services of
Jno. kniley and w. II. Hapney
have been secured by Mr.. Sweit-
zer. Under these circumstances
we may soon see the construction
begin. The water is low and every
thing is favorable to rapid con-
observation-disclosures journal.
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-08-26

James p. Millett, one of the
proprietors of the Il. & l.. bar at
Alamosa, died very suddenly of
Bright's disease at that place
Sunday night.
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-08-26

exposed this land for sale, but be-
cause of failure of any~bid he
had stricken it off to the county
on the 18th day of December.
Mail claimed this showed the
property was first offered on the
18th day OF December and that
the property was not passed and
reoffered as required by the sta
tute.
The plaintiff put in evidence
the tax sale record which showed
the property was first offered for
sale on the 18th of December, but
passed for the want of any bid,
reoffered on the 18th and l4th
and finally struck off on the 18th.
While the case was pending and
after the evidence had been taken,
the supreme court in June hand
ed down an opinion in "A case that
was taken up from Logan
county, sustaining the contention
made by Mr.. Mail, that even
though the treasurer made the
tax deed on the form prescribed
by the statute there must be some
/ thing else shown, otherwise the
tax deed must be held void upon
its face.
But General Bloomfield, coun-
sci for Mr.. Valdez, had shown by
record of the treasurer S office
that Mr.. Station in making the
sal. had pursued the course pre-
scribed by statute and therefore
Judge IIolbrook held where the
county officers in the tax pro-
ceedings conformcd substantially
to the requirements of the statute,
they had done all that could right
fully be required OF them and
that in such cases the tax deed
,prld be Observation-Disclosures Nis-
ia Graphic.
The history of aeronautics thus
far has been one of accidents. 1t
will apparently continue to be.
not only to the operators, but to
the public. If the aeroplane is
ever to become vehicle for com
mon use, it will have to be "a
companied by number of devices
designed to prevent somerSauIts-
Inventors have great opportuni-
ty not only in perfecting tle con
struction and the engines Of the
aeroplanc, but in inventing safety
devices. Work along this line
ought to be attracting their in
terest now.
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-08-26

Denver has a population of
213,3Sl according to figures given
out by the census bureau. The
increase in the past 10 years is
1922 or 59.4 per cent, higher
per cent. increase than any other
city in the United States so far
reported. with the single eXcep-
ton of Atlanta. Georgia.
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-08-26
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Selected items from the Chama
News.

selected Items from tne CHdInd
News.
Mr.. and Mrs. Waterbury have
come to Chama for their future
home. Mr.. Waterbury has ac-
cepted the position as telegraph
operator here.
T. ID. Burns, Jr., of TERRA
Amarillo, is having hot time in
the East on a combined business
and pleasure trip.
Mr.. .'Slim" Rush, our efficient
and jovial mounted policeman,
has just returned from the des-
ert country to the south, where
he has been on business.
Miss Nettie Thing, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. ID. o. Thing, will
leave soon for Minneapolis, MINI
for school. Miss Thing has been
spending the summer here.
Miss Lemon, recently with the
Burns Mercantile Company at
Chama, left few days ago to ac-
cept a position in dry goods
was here last week and after
many friends regret seeing her
leave Chama.
Mr.. Martin Horn has purchased
the home of Mr. John Rill of
Chama and will make this his fu-
ture home.
F Smiley of Gentry, Arkansas,
was here last week and after
thorough inspection was loud
in praises of the country.
Gilpin observer., 1910-07-21

Eugent Ely, an aviator who attempt
ed to fly between Winnipeg and Port.
age La Prairie late Friday night, fell
several hundred feet and was picked
up in dying condition.
Notices of the termination of com
mercial treaties one year hence have
been dispatched to European coun-
tries. including Great Britain, is the
word that comes from Toxic.
An annual deficit of $99S in the
cost of living of families of wage earn
ers and salaried persons in Germany
was revealed in an investigation by
the imperial statistical officers.
Germany has issued no statement
that could be construed into antago-
nism of the American government IN
what that government has done, is do
ing, or may do, in Nicaragua, says the
German foreign office at Berlin.
After drifting westward LOO miles
through the Sargossa sea, the famous
derelict Crown, Norwegian BARK,
abandoned in mid-ocean last Christ
mas, during voyage from Nova
Scotia to Brazil, has been sighted and
photographed.
The mounted police at Kamsack.
Saskatchewan, received hurry orders
to go to Veregin, seven miles out,
where the Doukhobors were on ram
page. They found a party of thirty
five, almost nude. who had burned
their clothing and chattels and were
chanting hymns.
All hope of a break in the monopoly
which controls the diamond output of
the world is dissipated. The contract
between the De Beers Consolidated
Mines utd.) and the London diamond
syndicate has been renewed for a Pc
'iod Of five years.
All the intricate machinery of Scot.
land Yards has been set in motion to
effect the capture of DR.. Hawley H.
Crippen, the battered body of whose
wife, a noted music hall Ginger, well
known by the stage name OF Belle Ell
more In America, was found buried in
the cellar of their home at Hilldrop
Crescent, North London.
Leon Morane, the French aviator,
has been officially awarded the first
prizes at the meeting just ended at
Bournemouth. Eng. for speed, alti-
tude. sea flight and general merit. j.
Armstrong Drexel, son of Anthony
Drexel. comes next as the highest
prize winner. while Graham White, tn.
English aviator. takes third place.
Gilpin observer., 1910-07-21
W. r. M. Convention.

Denver-A number of interesting
questions will come up before the
convention of the Western Fedora
tion of Miners to be held here for the
next couple of weeks, among which
will be the recommendation of the
executive committee that every mem
ber of the association be assessed two
days pay during the coming fiscal
year for the purpose of raising an
emergency fund. Officers of the as
sociation declare that the fund is for
no special purpose, but that they wish
to have plenty of money on hand to
meet any difficulties that may come
up. The convention will also con-
slider the question Of an affiliation of
the Western Federation with the
American Federation of Labor. The
executive committee of the Western
organization has had this question un-
der consideration for some time, and
it is now being considered by the of
ficers Of the American Federation.
Gilpin observer., 1910-07-21
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

the Union colony which settled Gree.
ley, are dead.
DR.. and Mrs. w. H. Allen have just
celebrated their golden wedding ami.
yersary at Boulder. They came to
Colorado in 1864.
Montrose Odd Fellows have secured
an option on site for the state Odd
Fellows home, which they hope to
have located there.
One merchant at Greeley has sold
$4,000 pounds Of paris green this year
TO be used as breakfast food for potato
bugs and grasshoppers.
The Central City & Pactolus Rail-
way Company, with capital stock OF
s1.250.OOO. filed articles OF incorpor-
alton with the secretary of state Fri
day.
Felipe Lopez, who killed his sweet.
heart, Bertha Little. in Denver June
18th, was by Judge Riddle given from
twenty to thirty years in the peniten.
tiary.
The Ilium power station of the Tel
luride Power, Company. which was bad.
ly damaged by floods last fall. has
been repaired and put in commission
again.
A movement is on foot in Denver tc
revive the Festival Of Mountain and
Plain which in years agone drew such
crowds to Denver. The last festival
was held in 1901.
The board of trustees of the Nation.
about completed plans for the estab
lishment Of a trade school in connec
tion with the hospital. which is one Of
the largest of it's kind in the country.
The Sylvan Lake Power Company
has been organized by H. NJ. Hogg and
associates with $5OO.OOO capital. to de-
velop power in the San Juan country
The site of the works will be on Fall
creek.
Boulder expects to get the $3.50, 1000
home to be established by the Forest
ers of America, and Is preparing to
entertain the grand officers of the or
der who are coming out from the East
on tour of investigation.
A little child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Hoff, living east of Loveland, man
aged to crawl to cistern, the cover
of which was not securely fastened,
and fell in. A search was instituted
and the baby found drowned.
A skeleton found between Hardin
and Masters by Burlington engineers
recently has been identified. 1t is be.
lieved, as that of Mrs. C. A. White OF
Missouri. who was drowned in the Box
Elder in June, 1850. After the find had
been made known Greeley parties be
gan an investigation which resulted
in pretty we'll establishing its identity
Gilpin observer., 1910-07-21
minor Mention.

Ignacia has a newspaper-the Chief
tain.
Five buildings at Deer Trail were
burned Thursday night.
Iowa residents Of Palisade are ar,
ranging for an Iowa day August Sd.
The hotel at Copperfield was de.
stroyed by fire with loss of $4,000.
Work on Boulder's new $4,000 gov.
ernment building is nearly completed.
Dining cars on the Moffat road have
discontinued the custom Of serving Aq-
uors.
The roof of the Trinidad high school
burned off Friday with a damage of
$4,000.
La veta Methodists have just or.
dered plans for a new church to cost
$4,000.
The Pueblo county Democratic con-
vention will be held at Pueblo Septem.
her 10th.
The dog poisoner has made away
with several valuable CANNES at
Romeo.
A quarter section of state land at
Ramah has been purchased for park
purposes.
The Sons of Colorado will hold their
annual celebration at City Park, Den.
yer, August 1st.
Crook, Logan county, has voted to
issue bonds for the building of a &c..
COO school house.
Mayor Reeder of Palisade is agitat-
ing the question of a public park
among his councilmen.
]. T. Noteworthy is preparing to is.
sue from Greeley new newspaper to
be called THE Insurgent.'
Charles King, tailor of La Junta,
while going to Swink Saturday, fell
from the. train and was killed.
The two-year-old daughter of Wal
ter Barnett at Greeley crawled onto
railroad track and was killed.
John Hill, while charging holes in
the Favorite mine at Ophir, was in
stantly killed by boulder striking
him.
On the 26th Cheyenne Wells will
vote on the question OF issuing $4,000
IL improve and enlarge the city water
system.
President Charles H. Meyer Of the
Western Federation Of Miners says he
will probably not be a candidate for
reelection.
Trinidad business men have started
movement to have a government
mine rescue station established in
that vicinity.
Irving H. Paine, aged 6S. and Isaac
Miller, aged n, original members of
Gilpin observer., 1910-07-21
100000 men
Make DEMANDS
STRIKE WILL PROBABLY BE Or
pERED AUGUST FIRST IF
NOT PLAcATEp.
WAGES, HOURS, ETC.
WILL AFFECT EVERY RAILROAD
LARGE AND SMALL IN THE
ENTIRE WEST.

Denver.-A special council Of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
has been called to meet in st. Louis
August 1st to outline the demands
for increased wages, shorter working
hours and better working conditions
upon which the trainmen on all rail-
roads operating between Chicago and
the Pacific coast and the Gulf of Mex
leo, to and including Canada, will in
sist, even to the extent of striking II
It is necessary to obtain them.
Five or six thousaAl men in Colo.
RADIO are included in ~ number max
ing the demand.
The controversy involves between
10000 and 100000 men, and, if seri-
Gus trouble should arise, it would af-
feet every railroad, large and small,
in the entire western country, includ-
ing western Canada None of the
railroads east of Chicago are affect
ed, their contracts being effective for
q year or more yet.
For about three months the train
men have been asking for small in
crease in wages, a shorter workday
and certain changes in working con-
ditions and rules. The railroads have
refused the demands and the convan-
tion has been called to consider the
matter and to determine just what de-
mands will be insisted upon and to
what extent the contest will be car
ried.
F. A. Whitney, second vice presi-
dent of the organization, announced
Sunday in Spokane that the prob
able demands would include an eight
hour day, full train crews, white flag
men and trainmen on all trains and a
mileage basis for passenger brake
men.
The four trainmen's organization in
Denver will meet Monday night to Sc
lect delegates to the ST. Louis meet
ing. There are about 1.500 trainmen
in Denver, including yardmen, and be-
tween 5000 and 6,O0O in the state.
The yardmen have already settled
their differences, having been granted
an increase in wages several weeks
ago.
Gilpin observer., 1910-07-21
WESTERN.

Seven persons were injured, one
probably fatally, in an auto collision
at Seattle.
The steamship Jefferson, from Skag
way, arriving at Seattle Sunday night
brought 100000 in Nome gold dust.
A. G. Spalding, the sporting goods
manufacturer. will be a primary candi
date for the United States Senate from
California.
James Parkerson, aged 1T years, &C
complished the feat of riding horse.
back sixty miles in one day. He is a
resident of Eastland county, Texas,
near the town of Cisco.
The interest Of land seekers has
been recently aroused in the Sun River
irrigation project in Montana and the
remaining farms on the Fort Shaw
unit are being rapidly occupied.
With five Republicans. one Demo
cIat, one Prohibitionist and one Social
is in the race for nomination for gov
ernor, the entries for California's first
election under the direct primary law
has closed.
The biggest mining excitement for
years in Colorado has ben occasioned
at the new camp of Beshoar, near
Georgetown, where 500 locations have
ben made in ten days. One property
has $3.50 ore.
Gov. Hay of Washington has invited
the governors of Oregon, Idaho, Mon
tana and North Dakota to go to Wash
ington as his guests during the army
maneuvers at American lake, August
Is to 26.
Sept. 9 next Harry Thorne, 19 years
old, will be shot to death at the state
prison at Salt Lake for the murder Of
George w. Fassell. n groceryman. Sen
tence was pronounced by District
Judge Lewis. the prisoner choosing
the bullet in accordance with the law
giving him choice.
The movement headed by President
Magnus Brown of the Minnesota Wool
Growers Association. to lease the
plant Of the Rio Grande Ncolen Mills
ut Albuquerque for western wool grow
crs, and conduct from there fight for
independence, has already caused a
stampede of eastern buyers to Magda
lena, the wool shipping center OF cen.
trail New Mxico. tt
Gilpin observer., 1910-07-21
WASHINGTON.

The tide of emigration of homeseek
ers to Canada, which has been the
subject of great concern to the admin
istrators of the public domain for the
last few years, has turned, in the opin.
ion of officials of the Reclamation
Service. During the last nine months
it was said at the reclamation office
fifteen thousand settlers have re.
turned to the States from Canada and
the prospects for a general backward
movement are bright.
President Taft sent a messags OF
thanks to the emperor of Japan for
the cordial welcome extended to Sec.
retary of War Dickinson.
More than $1O.000.00O reduction in
the postal deficit was made in the
first nine months of the fiscal year
just ended, according to returns re.
ceived by Postmaster General Hitch
cock, Such reduction Is unprece.
dented in the history of the depart.
ment. The deficit for the nine months
was $2,709 900 as against S12,S32. 900
in the same period of the preceding
fiscal year.
In an official statement the Inter.
state Commerce Commission has an.
nounced its intention to suspend all
tariffs naming general ard important
rate advances, pending an investiga-
ton as to the reasonableness of the
increases.
Confined in a filthy cell. six by five
feet, unfed save by charitable strang
crs. William Pittman, an American,
captured by the Madriz government
forces near Bluefields. was found In an
overcrowded local prison at Managua,
Mic. by Consul Olivares. who tele.
Graphed the state department that he
visited Pittman. discovered the revolt.
ing conditions and through protests
forced DR.. Madriz to furnish the ad.
venturous American better prison &C.
commodations.
Gilpin observer., 1910-07-21

the bearing down. / recommended It
to some friends and two Of them have
been greatly benefited by it." Mrs.
MAE MCKNIGHr, Oronogo, Mo.
Another Grateful Woman.
st. Louis, Mo. was bothered
terribly with female weakness and
had backache. bearing down pains and
pains in lower parts. / began taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound regularly and used the Sanative
Wash and now have no more troubles
that way."-Mrs. AL. HERzoo, 5722
Prescott Ave-, st. Louis, Mo.
Because your case is q difficult one,
doctors having done you no good,
do not continue to suffer without
giving Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound trial. 1t surely has cured
many cases of female ills, such as in
flammation, liberation, displacements,
fibroid tumors, Irregularities. periodic
pains, backache, that bearing-down
feeling, Indigestion, dizziness. and ner-
vous prostration. 1t costs but a trifie
to try it, and the result is worth mil.
lions to many suffering women.