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The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18
WASHINGTON.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
joins Charles w. Armour in the pre-
diction that falling prices soon will
give the American consumer cheaper
foodstuffs. 1--WE have had bumper
crops and meat prices should come
down." says Secretary Wilson.
If the prosperity of the nation can
be reflected in it's savings banks de-
posits, the year ended July 30th must
have been a banner one for the Ameri-
can people. The high cost of living
does not appear to have diminished
savings, according to figures compiled
in the Treasury Department. Deposits
in the 1,759 savings banks during the
year increased to more than four bill
lion dollars. The average depositor's
account was $445.22, just $24.77 above
the average of the year before.
With both governments in perfect
accord in regard to the Texas lynch
ing and the anti-American riots in
Mexico there Is no sign of a war-cloul
between the United States and Mexi.
CO. Mexico promises to punish rioters
who have desecrated the American
flag and damaged property of Ameri-
cans in Mexico. Texas is investigat-
ing the lynching of Mexican and,
with the federal government, will sat
isfy Mexican demands. 1t is reported
that the American consulate at Ciudad
Porfirio Diaz, Mexico. was wrecked by
a mob. but no one was injured. Ameri-
can citizens in Mexico have, been eau.
toned by United States Ambassador
Wilson to refrain from acts of vio-
lence. as he is convinced that the
Mexican government is exercising its
best efforts to suppress the anti
American riots.
President Taft is on his 4-day voy-
age to the Isthmus of Panama to get
in personal touch with conditions
along the big canal. He visited the
isthmus just before his Inauguration
in 1909, but since then various execu-
tive and engineering problems have
arisen ard Congress soon must frame
legislation as to rates of toll. form of
government, the regulation of the sale
of coal, disposition OF the Panama
railroad and many other things. The
president expects to make various rec
concentrations regarding the canal at
the coming short session of Congress.
Mr.. Taft sailed on the armored cruiser
Tennessee, with the cruiser Montana
as convoy. While officially known as
cruisers, these vessels have the gen
eral proportions of the battleships of
a few years ago. although they could
not stand up very long against the
modern Dreadnoughts.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18
Effects Of Race Suicide.

Baltimore.-Race suicide is given as
the cause for Baltimore dropping from
sixth to seventh place among Ameri-
can cities. 1t was race suicide, not of
the foreign born element, but of ma
tive Americans. Thus. in the Eleventh
ward. where native born Americans
preponderate to the extent of 95 per
cent, there were only 151 births from
Jan. to Sept 80.
In the Third ward. where foreign
residents preponderate, the number of
births during the same period was sci.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

| America fifty years ago, when physi.
clans assured her tuberculosis would
kill her in six months. Five genera
tions of her family were present when
she died.
| With it's railroad business increased
far more than anticipated, the Union
Pacific Railroad Company must en-
large its roundhouse, recently finished
at La Sale, it says by the addition of
four more stalls. The motor cars on
the new La Salle-Denver road are kept
there.
Charles Monford Robinson. an ex.
pert in civic beauty. will pass on the
parking and paving plans for Colorado
Springs. The council has decided to
engage him as consulting authority
in the plans now being prepared and
copies of the plans will be sent to Rob-
inson in New York.
The frat" problem is again agitat-
ing the Colorado Springs high school
authorities and the periodical war
against secret societies among the
students is to be waged by the new
principal, r. c.. Hill. At least three
among the boys, in direct violation OF
the school laws.
If conditions warrant, the schools of
northeastern Weld county, in the re-
gion tapped by the new branch line
of the Union Pacific, may be central
lied in a few large schools and the
children transported to these centers
by wagon or by motor cars over the
Union Pacific. This includes the Lin
coin, S. L. &c W., Olive Branch, Foss-
ton, Camfield, Ridgdale and Gill dis
tricts.
The Colorado Cliff Dwellings Asso-
citation has elected the following Of
ficers for the coming year at the an
nual meeting at Colorado Springs: Re-
gent. Mrs. Gilbert McClurg; vice re-
gent. Mrs. T. A. Lewis of Pueblo; re-
cording secretary, Mrs. C. A. El-
dredge; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
E. c. Van Diest; treasurer, Mrs. S. M.
Casper, Denver; assistant treasurer.
Mrs. H. w. Hobson; auditor, Mrs. P.
B. Stewart; historian, Mrs. F. E.
Brooks.
After being a resident of Greeley
for forty years, H. T. West, one of the
locating committee Of the Union colo.
ny, has gone to Caldwell, Idaho. whefo
he will remain. His wife is already
there and they will make their home
with G. H. West. West is Sc years old
and for forty years has been president
of the Union Colony Association and
the Union Colony Pioneers. He Is the
only surviving members of the COM
mittee of three which chose the site
for the city in 1870.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18
To ExtermInate orasshoppers.

Greeley-To devise ways and means
to exterminate grasshoppers, a conven-
ton has been called to meet here Jan.
5. which farmers from all alfalfa grow
ing regions OF the state will attend.
The convention will be held under the
auspices of the Weld County Farm
ers' Club, and delegates from Lari-
mer,, Morgan, Boulder and Denver
counties and from the Arkansas valley
will be present. President Lory C.
Gillette and s. A. Johnson of the Agri-
cultural college will take part in the
discussion. H. w. Cooper of Fort
Morgan, will present a paper outlining
the manner in which the government
controls the grasshopper pest in
British colonies. district Attorney
Carlson will tell how to secure iegis-
laton to assist farmers in the mat
ter
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18
Minor Mention.

Work on the new $4,000 Episcopal
church began Monday at Greeley.
DIR. C. H. Graves has been appointed
pension SURGEON at Canon City. Colo.
The new motor cars between Den
yer and Greeley will be put in opera
ton about December LIST.
Gilcrest is about to establish an al
falfa mill. the site having been do
mated and a guarantee fund raised.
Grover Lacey, repair man at the Lib.
erty Bell mill, Telluride, was caught in
shaft coupling and whirled to death.
To save the life of his 4-year-old son,
John Phillips, farmer of Pierce. gave
"a inches of skin from his right thigh
to graft on the child's body.
John O'Neill, boilermaker at the
Colorado Southern shops at Trinidad,
was fatally mangled by being drawn
into cog wheels and died later.
Ore cars colliding in the, Pike
view coal mines, five miles north of
Colorado Springs. injured three min
ers, one of them probably fatally.
Articles of incorporation of the
Providence Mining G. Milling Company
of Boulder have been filed. 1t is cap
italized for 100000 and will begin op-
erations soon-
The annual report of the Associated
Charities of Colorado Springs. shows
receipts for the fiscal year ending Oct.
of $9.663.24 and expenditures of s9.-
649.67.
Entering through the rear door.
burglars robbed the jewelry store of
A. w. Root, Grand Junction, of $1,000
worth of watch cases, movements and
rings. Their attempts to blow open
the safe were futile.
John Neill, boiler maker, is in a
serious condition in a Trinidad hos
pital as a result of injuries received.
He was attempting to throw belt
and became entangled in the machin-
cry. His left thigh and right leg were
broken.
DR.. Leslie Franklin, wealthy ply
sician of Sullivan. Ind, died in st.
Mary's hospital, Pueblo, few hours
after his removal from q train on
which he was going to Ell Paso, Texas,
for his health. Death was due to tu-
berculosis.
On petition of attorneys represent
ing the Kansas-Colorado Construction
Company in the receivership of the
Kansas Colorado Railroad Company,
District Judge Riser of Pueblo ordered
that the property be sold at auction by
the receiver Nov. 2S. to satisfy judg-
ment claims.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith. aged 81 years,
died at Trinidad, after an illness of six
| months. She came from England to
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18
Georgia Senator Dead.

Atlanta.-Alexander Stephen Clay.
Junior United States senator from
Georgia, died Of heart disease at the
Robertson sanitarium here. Senator
Clay was 81 years old and was serv-
ing his third term In the United
States Senate. He is survived by a
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18
Son Of Scientist Dead

Colorado Springs.-George B. Ro-
names, son of the late eminent British
scientist, George John Romanes, orig
inator of the Romanes lecture deliv-
cred annually at Oxford. died here OF
tuberculosis.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18
Bio Jack Wants Fiqht.

Chicago.-It will not be long before
Jack Johnson, worlds heavyweight
champion. signs articles to meet any
Of the fighters who are olamoring for
chances to step into the ring with
him.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18

The Rev. and Mrs. C. B. Harvey,
who have lived in Colorado Springs
for two years. will leave for Bombay,
India, next week, to resume mission
any work they carried on before COM
ing to the Springs.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18
Buys His own Coffin.

Boston.-In coffin he purchased
three years ago. John P. Hart of Som
erville. Mass. was buried. In the Sc
lection OF his coffin he was particular
and insisted that the one he took
should. be sound. He visited weekly
and inspected the coffin. which he
paid Tor on the snstallment plan.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18
Meat Prices to Drop.

Chicago.-According to indications
retail prices of meats in Chicago and
surrounding territory will suffer a
marked decrease within a few days.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18

Greatest Colo. Irrigation Project.
Greeley.-The greatest irrigation
project ever proposed in Colorado
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18

ALEXANDER s. CLAY.
United States Senator from Georgia.
widow. five sons and daughter, be.
sides his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. J..
Clay of Cobb county.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18

Mrs. Helen Marsh Wilson, Republi-
can candidate for state superintendent
of public instruction, has made phe-
nomenal race in Denver county, and
has defeated Mrs. Katherine Cook.
Miss Anna L. Wolcott, Republican can
didate for regent of the State universi-
ty, has made even stronger race than
Mrs Wilson.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-11-18

Denver.-Chairman Jesse F. McDon-
aid of the Republican State Central
committee, states that Judges James
e. Garrigues. Benjamin Griffith, Mrs.
Helen NJ. Wilson, on the Republican
state ticket, were elected to the su-
prem bench, attorney general. super.
intendent of schools and regent of the
university, respectively.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-11
THE MAIN QUESTION.
Oregon Journal.)

Whether the federal government
shall take and exercise control OF
minerals and water powers on pubic
lands or not the whole question, nor
the main feature of the question, over
which antagonistic forces have ar
rayed themselves for a great battle
of which we are witnessing the pre-
liminary skirmish. The main question
is whether the minerals especially
coal. and the water power sites, not
vet passed into private hands, shall be
kept out of the hands of a few men
with immense aggregations of capital
who seek to grasp them and monopollze
them for their greedfly selfish pur-
poses, and preserved or safeguarded IN
the interest of all the people to whom
they belong.
1t is said that the eastern part of
the country has developed and pros
pered greatly without government
ownership or guardianship of these
resources, that this has been satisfac-
! tory and very beneficial to that por-
ton of the country, and that the same
policy should be pursued in the west.
That the results have been wholly ben
| eficial and satisfactory cannot be adj
mitted. The forests of the east are
gone Under the same policy the for
ests of the west and south would soon
go. or be held for great prafits. Coal
fields are owned by men who form a
trust to limit production and maintain
prices Millions of poor people are
charged ext1rtionate prices for coal
| in order to increase the enormous
profits of a group of multimillionaires.
Many of the water power sites of the
west have not yet been grasped by
monopolizing combinations, but that
they will be so acquired as they be-
come valuable, unless action is taken
to prevent, there is no doubt
Years ago these colossal combina-
tions, intent on monopolization, did
not exist as they do now They are
a recent growth. The predictions of
! conservationists that would have
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partments If a feeling prevails In
congress that the departments are not
run on business principles one of the
surest means of grating those prin-
ciples upon the service is to apply to
them the same rules of old age pro-
vision for faithful workers that have
gone SO successfully into effect in pri-
vate lines.
If congress will but regard this pro-
position selfishly from the business
point of view it must see the advan-
tage to be derived from a well con-
sidered, wisely administered system of
civil retirements that will insure a
wholesome current of promotion, Will
afford an opportunity to relieve the
service humanely from time to time
of the veterans who have become in
capacitated by age, and will give the
entire service the stamp Of permanence
that will draw into it more efficient
class of workers even than at present.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-11
REPORTS ABOUT ANDREE

If there is any truth in the story
that is sent from Saskatchewan. An
dree the intrepid balloon polar ex-
plorer, probably met his death at the
hands of the natives after he had
| crossed the arctic ice and had reached
a point from which his return to civ
ilization would have been compare
lively easy 1t is to be hoped that the
mystery of Andree's fate will be clear
ed He started July IL, 1897, from
Danes Island off the coast of SpitZ-
bergen in large balloon with two
companions, hoping to catch north
erly wind carrying him over the polar
region where he thought it might be
possible to effect landing and make
the necessary observations to deter
mine the character of the polar area,
and then to reascend and drift back
to some inhabited region. Two days
after his departure message was re-
ceived by carrier pigeon stating that
the balloon was in latitude 1922 and
longitude 1915. That was the last word
from the balloonist. Search was made
throughout the arctic regions from
time to time for traces of the party,
but nothing authentic was ever heard
from Andree. Occasionally a rumor
drifted down over the ice that the bal
loonists had been seen and that wreck
age had been found in the hands of ma
tives, but these reports came from
points so widely scattered that no
credence could be placed in any of
them. The present account from Sas-
katchewan is more circumstantial than
any that has preceded, priest bear
ing the word that natives had told of
the descent of a great balloon with
three white men, who died soon after
their arrival from hunger, statement
which it is suspected covers a possible
crime. Fragments of balloon material
such as ropes have been found in the
hands of natives throughout the region
of Raindeer lake, near the Hudson bay
and the belief is strong that they came
from the Andree equipment. If An
dree did in fact drift to the point in
Dictated his fate was indeed tragic
Whether he had passed over the polar
point or not he had in this event trav-
eled an immense distance, probapiy
the greatest ever traversed by bal
loon, and was within almost calling
distance of rescue.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-11
CIVIL RETIREMENT.

1t is unjust to the government and
to the government workers to suggest
that the proposition to place the lat
ter upon civil retirement basis is JUS
titled on the score that that they are
serving the country in the sense OF
soldiers who are enlisted for an emer-
gency The presidents recommends
ton to the end of increasing the eff
cheney in the government service by
Offering to the department clerks the
prospect of retirement is based upon
a broader business principle. 1t is
not to be urged that any appreciate
proportion of the government clerks
enter the service for sentimental rea-
sons or patriotism. Indeed, the retire
ment plan rests for it's justification
upon the very opposite proposition
that these men and women look upon
the government service as a career.
To the extent that that career is as
sured, given efficiency and good con-
duct. they will render better service to
the government
Few clerks in commercial life enter
upon their services through motives
of enthusiasm or loyalty to any par
ticular line of occupation. The ma
iority accept the most promising op-
portunities to earn a livelihood. After
they have entered the service it is the
business of the employer to encour-
age them to remain by holding out the
prospect of promotion and of ultimate
honorable retirement upon compe-
tence, granted as something earned
by long and faithful service. The es-
adjustment that neglects this prin-
ciple works against its own interests
The retirement principle insures en-
thusiasm after the service has begun
by affording to every loyal worker the
opportunity to make for himself ca
reer of honor and usefulness.
The government loses whenever ar
efficient clerk, recognizing the futillty
of continuance, resigns to accept en-
ployment under private auspices II
should be the deliberate policy of the
United States to hold in service al
who are efficient, not merely by shield
ing them from the menace of dismissal
for partisan reasons, but by setting w
the standard which obtains in the best
managed private corporations of these
times and assuring to all workers OF
competence decent provision for their
old age.
Retirement plans have worked well
in commercial lines. in large corpora
tions, railroad companies and other en-
terprises where the value of the dol
lar is as keenly recognized as in the
government service. 1t is not to be
imagined that different results will flow
from the establishment of the civil
retirement principle in the public de-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-11
Company Is Transferred,

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 10.-The
Portland Gas company will formally
be transferred to the Portland Gas
and Coke company this week. The
agreement to transfer the plant to the
new company was ratified today. The
consideration is about 100000. The
purchasing company is an offshoot Of
the Electric Bond and Share company
of New York
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-11
WARDE DRAWS
LARGE HOUSE
FAMOUS TRAGEDIAN AND LEG
TURER SPEAKS ON "shAkEs
PEARE" LAST NIGT.
TELLS OF NOTED AUTHOR AND
HIS WoRKs-sPEAkER
PLEAsEs HEARERS.

The third number of the Y. M. c. A.
lecture course was given last night
ut the Central Christian church by
Frederick Warde, on Shakespeare,
and His Plays
Five years ago this famous actor
gave up the stage for the lecture
platform. In his inimitable way he
has made Shakespeare's life and plays
more real to the thousands who have
listened to his lectures
From $3.50 to 1915 he held the
large audience in his grasp, and
swayed them from deep pathos to the
highest mirth, at his will. From the
to the close of the lecture, he was the
actor again, and, thrilled with the in
spiration of the thoughts of the great
poet, he made real the characters and
the thoughts Of the greatest of all
the great writer's Of drama.
Mr.. Warde made clear the fact that
Shakespeare, as a boy, had the adj
vantages of a good education in books
and in nature That he had access to
one of the greatest libraries of the
day, and made use of it in the pro-
duction of many Of his plays.
The speaker asserted Shakespeare
was a great believer in God and
Christ, as his works contain the names
of God and Christ S57 times.
Much of the philosophy in his
works is founded upon the Bible.
He was great lover of nature and
drank in the beauties Of woodland,
field and stream, only to give them
out again in poetry. He was a leader
in science and speaks of the law of
gravitation, in one of his plays. al
though he lived before the time of Sir
Isaac Newton, to whom we credit the
discovery of the law Of gravitation.
Shakespeare proved to be, while he
yet lived, the greatest poet Of his own
day, and while the critic has tried 10
tear down his fame, is still the great
leader of poets. His principles ana
teachings are sublime and form the
notices for many lives today.
Mr.. Warde'e versatility was clearly
shown in his portrayal of the char
acters, taken from both the heavier
tragedies and the lighter comedies of
the poet. The large and appreciative
audience which greeted him and
cheered him again and again, during
his lecture, attest the fact that there
is still as there should be. warm
place in the hearts of the citizens of
waIla walla for the real actor, who
is master of himself, of his thought,
and who has lesson to teach.
Frederick Warde is always welcome
in Walla Walla, and any agency that
will bring such talent to our city is
to the general education
Of our citizens.
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seemed absurd not very many years
ago are entirely reasonable now
Then the men who spoke of millions
talked large; now they speak in terms
of billions. Unhindered, with govern.
ment not only not opposing, but act
ually aiding then, and yielding to
their demands, there is no limit. to
their power. Within another decade
they can practically own the country
and in one way or another everybody
else will have to work for them. Gift
ford Pinchot is an enthusiast, but he
is no dreamer There is nothing fam
ciful in his predictions. They only
amount to saying that what is goins
on in this respect will continue to g"
on, covering new fields and broader
areas, improving all opportunities.
There is no reasonable ground to
doubt that Morgan, the Rockefellers,
the Guggenheims, and other kings OF
finance and industry desire and design
to do all that Pinchot has pointed out
as their objects. And that the horses
were stolen from the eastern stables
before any Pinchot arose to suggest
and to urge the locking of the doors
is no reason why all the western sta
BILE doors should also be left unlocked.
1t is urged that men will not de-
velop mines and water powers and
the lumber industry unless they can
absolutely own them, together with
ground on or within which the tim
Der, waterfalls and mines are situated.
This is an unreasonable assumption.
| The government can sell the ground
and these other resources separately,
as Mr. Ballinger himself has recon-
mended, or can lease the water powers
and mines so that investors can make
large and sure profits, yet cannot COM
bine as owners in fee simple to create
monopoly and plumber consumers
unconscionably 1t is a strange thing
if there can be no development in this
country unless it is backed and
financed and controlled by Morgan and
Rockefeller. Must the usufruct OF
every large enterprise turn to Them
as the needle to the pole. Is there
nothing of any size or consequence
that can be done without the people
paying tribute to these groups of bill
lionaires?
Whether the federal government, OF
state governments, should have con-
troll and assume conservation of these
resources is a question upon both
sides of which much may be said. The
states appear to be the more proper
agencies for this purpose. but Will
they do it? What chance would conscr-
walton have in a state governed as
California or Colorado, for instance,
has been at some times? But however,
this question may be settled, this is a
fight for the people, present and flu
ture, of this country against monopo-
lizing forces that have already become
too powerful, and whose power, If
allowed to grow, will make this coun-
try mere oligarchy of billionaires.