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The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
WESTERN.

Fire destroyed nine buildings in
Fairbanks, Alaska, entailing loss
IN excess of 100000.
raiser and farmer residing two miles
south of Guthrie. Okla. was shot and
killed at his home.
Hookworm has been discovered
among Chinese, Hindoo and other I'M
migrants from the Far East arriving
on the Pacific coast.
Earl Ward, aged 30. who robbed the
state bank at Paradise, Kan, securing
$500. killed himself when surrounded
by posse of farmers, fourteen miles
north of that place.
One man was killed and thirty-one
were seriously injured when three cars
of southbound Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe train were thrown from a
bridge into the Washita river, near Da-
Wis, Okla.
Twenty-six men were entombed by
an explosion of gas in the Greene mine
of the Bond Coal Company. near Ia
coma, Va. Latest reports indicate
that twenty-five of the entombed min
ers are dead.
Twenty-one OF the Oldest and best
developed agricultural counties in Ne
Lraska have lost 16.793 people in the
last ten years while the state of Iowa
has lost 7,0s2 people from some of the
Oldest counties in the state.
For criticising the court in connec.
tion with the granting of temporary
injunction to an electric railway com
| i,any in Seattle, Leroy Sanders, pub
Usher of the Evening Star, was ad.
Judged In contempt of court and sen
fenced to four months in jail
The Rev. Mr.. Thos. McKinzy of Bat
tie Creek has appealed to the COVER
rors of New York, Ohio, New Jersey
and West Virginia, where electrocu
ton is in use, to grant him legal
execution by this means. Mr. Nc
| Kinzy is hopelessly blind and is in
danger of losing his voice.
In the near future 200 high schools
| of Colorado are to receive collections
numbering 10 specimens each of the
typical rocks, shales and mud of Colo
rado, which have been collected and
classified, labeled and described by
nearly years work under the direc
ton of state geoiogists Prof. r. D.
George, of the department of geology
| of the University of Colorado.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23

can farmers may be required in the
future TO raise all the potatoes eaten
N this country At present 100, ,000.-
900 bushels of -.spuds" are imported
annually to supplement the supply
grown by America. The greater por-
tion of these imported potatoes must
be replaced by the irrigated lands of
the Western country. Colorado will
have large share in this production.
The measure is not designated pri-
marily to erect a wall of protection
tor the potato industry, but is aimed
TO Prevent the Importation of disease
epidemics which are devastating for
eign potato fields. Agricultural sci
entists have been watching for some
time for traces of these fatal diseases
IN America, and with the discovery
that they now exist to some extent in
Massachusetts and New Foundland,
they Immediately took steps to pro-
cure national legislation covering that
point.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

lose of stamping out rabies, the same
regulations may be established on
cats
An appropriation of 100000 for
sprinkling Denver streets during 1911
has been asked for by Thomas Phil
| lips, superintendent of the highway
department.
In the matter of the bill OF excep-
tions on the confirmation of the bonds
of the Greeley-Poudre irrigation dis
trict, no decision has been rendered
by Judge Garrigues.
The Rocky Mountain Limited of the
Rock Island line. running out of Den
yer for Chicago and other Eastern
points will not be discontinued, as was
unofficially announced.
A Colorado product dinner" will be
given to the visiting horse and cattle
men in January. when they meet at
Denver, from all over the country. to
attend the January horse show
A bill sure to be introduced at the
coming session of the Legislature will
be to change the method of assess
ment and make it on the actual mar
ket value of the property.
W. A. Groom of Boulder was elected
president of the Northern Colorado
Poultry Association at its meeting g.
the poultry show in Fort Collins. Boul-
der was selected as the next place for
the show.
Cattle owners OF the Williams coun-
try Fork. near Steamboat Springs, arc
jubilant over the open fall and the
mildness of the season. 1t saves hay
and means a larger profit than usual
on stock.
Frank Van Amburgh. who robbed
the safe of the st. James hotel in
Georgetown Sept. 26 of $40. pleaded
guilty in District Court and was sem
fenced to two to three years in the
penitentiary.
A pair of white rats purchased by
C. W Beer of Greeley for pets fifteen
years ago, but which soon disaI-
peared, returned recently with a large
family, overran Beers chicken yard
and killed his poultry.
Two young sons of Hon. Archie Nc
Lachlan of Craig broke through the
/ ice while skating. and sank in ice cold
water. The elder boy was resusci-
tated after nearly two hours work, but
the younger one was drowned.
Governor Shafroth received check
from Washington for $50,306.1O as Col
orado's proportion of the amount of
money collected from the forestry
reserves in the state.
Because of the heavy fall of snow,
about two and oDe-half feet on the
Laramie side of the Greeley-Poudre
tunnel, work has been stopped for the
| winter on the tunnel reservoir.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
c. 6 s. Awards Contract.

Greeley.-The Colorado G Southern
railroad has awarded the contracts for
Wellington, Colo, to Cheyenne, Wyo
The new line will be thirty-five miles
long and viii cost 81 100000 when com
pleted. The contractors will imme-
diately throw 1000 men into construc-
tion camps. The new line is an inn
portant link in the projected gulf-to
coast route of the Hill roads. The
contracts awarded cover the grading
and bridge work and all substructural
company will lay the track. Camps
will be stretched along the entire route
and the work will be rushed as fast
as possible.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23

Postmaster General Hitchcock says
everything will be in readiness for the
postal savings banks to receive depos-
of the new year. The task of drawing
up regulations, forms and Instructions
has progressed SO far as to assure the
beginning of operations. One expert
mental office will be opened in each
state and territory to make the first
test of the service as thorough as pos
sible under the limited appropriation.
Nothing short of omniscience can
grasp the value of the farm products
of this year is the statement of the
secretary of agriculture in his annual
report for 1910. At no time in the
worlds history has country produced
farm products within one year with a
value reaching $s.926,OOO,O00, which is
the value of the agricultural products
of the country from 1910. The value
of farm products from 1899 to the pres
ent year has been progressing without
interruption. If the value of the prod
ucts of 1899 is placed at 100, the valu.
for this years is 1S9. or almost dou-
Bile the value for the Census year
eleven years ago. During this period
of unexampled agricultural production,
period of twelve years. during which
the farmers of the country have stead
lily advanced in prosperity and wealth
and in economic independence, in in
telligence and knowledge of agri-
culture, the total value of farm prod
ucts is s79.0o0.oO0. .0OO."
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
Irrigation Bridge suit.

Greeley.-By the appeal from the
decision of the District Court in the
case of Walter Chandler against the
Fierce Irrigation Company, to the
Supreme Court, a most important
matter to irrigationists and ditch COM
ranies all over the state will be de-
oided, concerning the legal width of
irrigation bridges. Chandler was
awarded s1.70O of the s14,500 damages
asked because he claimed he was in
jured when his team was pushed off
the bridge over the Pierce lateral,
which he alleged would not have hap
pened had the bridge been the re-
quired twenty feet wide.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION OF ILLu-
MINATiNc GAS PLAYS
HAVOC
DAMAGE THREE MILLION
OF THE INJURED MANY WILL
DIE; SEVERAL ARE
MISSING.


New York.-The terrific explosion
OF Illuminating gas in the auxiliary
power house at the Grand Central
station. which sent tremor along the
entire rock backbone of Manhattan
Monday caused the death of ten per.
SONS, two of them women, the injury
Of 125 others and property damage
estimated at from 100000 to ss,0O0,.
600
Four workmen who are missing are
believed to have perished, and of 1875
Injured, 9S were removed to hospitals.
OF these eight may die.
passing surface car carrying sew
en- passengers was lifted from its
tracks and hurled on an automobile
running alongside Four of the seven
passengers were killed outright. but
the chauffeur of the motor car was
cniy cut and bruised.
Traffic on the New York Central
railroad ceased entirely for some
hours, and was disorganized for the
rest of the day, but the new station
itself. now in process of construction,
was not damaged.
For some hours it was believed dy-
pamite alone could have wrought
such instantaneous and demolishing
havoc. but late in the afternoon Fire
Chief Croker said he was convinced
the explosion was due to mixture of
air and illuminating gas used In light
ing railroad cars. touched off by an
electric spark. The gas had accumu-
lated in the auxiliary power house
from broken pipe snapped off by a
runaway passenger car.
The force of the explosion ran north
and south from one to two miles
along the rocky ridge that is the
backbone of the island, and east and
west laterally for a mile.
Foundations were Jared, walls
were shaken out of plumb, windows
were blown in by the thousands, cell
ings came crashing down on the
heads of those beneath. and the pave
nents were Uttered with pulverized
glass that topped the shoe soles.
A little schoolgirl was about to en-
ter candy store on Eifty-first street
when the blast came. She was picked
up bodily and carried through the
plate glass door of the store and
dropped uninjured in front of the
candy counter. There was not a
scratch on her.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
National Apple conqress..

Denver-The First American Ap-
pie Congress adjourned, fully organ
lied and thoroughly equipped for
lasting career as national institu-
ton A constitution was adopted and
officers were chosen for the coming
year. The next convention city was
not chosen, this being left in the
hands of an executive committee.
Former Gov. l.. Bradford Prince of
New Mexico was unanimously chosen
president. Two other candidates
were placed in nomination, but upon
motion that Colorado should be given
the privilege of naming the next presi-
cent, the Colorado delegation held a
caucus, reporting the name of the ex-
governor of New Mexico as their
choice. His election was then de-
clared. For the office of secretary
there was no opposition. Clinton L.
Oliver, who acted as temporary sec
retary. and upon whom deyolyed a
large portion of the work of creating
the first congress, was rewarded with
that office unanimously. e. H. Shep-
ard, editor of Better Fruit" was
elected treasurer Each state delega-
ton was allowed to choose a vice
president. For the five states repre-
sented by delegates in person the fol-
lowing vice presidents were named:
Colorado, John c. Bell; New Mexico,
Alex Gusdorf; Washington, C. G.
France; Utah, w. H. Ray; Wyoming,
Joseph NJ. Carey.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
GENERAL.

The charity ball, Philadelphia's
largest and most important society
event, may not take place this year.
One of the fashionable hotels in
New York permits women to smoke
in any part of the house.
Dan d. McGann, former captain and
first baseman of the New York Ma
tionals. committed suicide in Louis
vile, Ky.
William Baker. employed in tele-
graph office in Detroit, shot and
killed Mrs. Katherine Devine and then
committed suicide.
The New York Stock Exchange will
close December e5th. preceding Chris
mas Day, and remain closed until
Tuesday morning.
Andrew Carnegie's gift of s1O,O0o.-
900 for the furtherance of information
al peace brings the total of his bene-
factions to something like $1S0,0OO, 900.
The strike of the Missouri Pacific
machinists. boilermakers and black.
smiths, which has been in progress for
nearly seven months, will be called off.
A report has been received in New
Orleans that score or more persons
were killed as a result of an earth
quake at Port Limon. Costa Rica. The
cable companies were unable to con-
firm the report. One report says sew
enty families were killed.
John b. Moissant went to a height
of 1864 feet. if his barometer read
true. at Memphis, Tenn. In the Unit.
ed States Armstrong Drexel and
Ralph Johnstone alone eclipsed this
distance, which is within 1,135 feet OF
the present worlds record.
The war of the Chicago Barbers'
Association against safety razors will
reach its climax when, at a meeting
in Metropolitan hall, members of the
association will vote on a proposition
to charge every man who shaves him
self, at least so cents for hair cut.
The court was startled and the
crowded room stood aghast when
body was carried in by direction of
District Attorney Thames and offered
in evidence by state in case of Rose
Minor, charged with the murder of
George Smith, In Vicksburg. Miss.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
Minor Mention.

U. s. Census gives Weld county q
population OF 39.177.
The Telluride brewery was damaged
$4,000 by a recent fire.
Thieves recently entered store in
Clifton and carried away 5000.
The construction work on the new
jail at Brighton is progressing rapidly
A fire company has been organized
In Grover, under the auspices of the
Commercial club.
The cattle disease called black leg
has been found In the herd of E. A.
Carter Of Brighton.
Colorado Springs boasts of a citizen
possessing the shortest name in the
state. He is A. Elk.
In the Steamboat Springs vicinity
more than 100 acres of Strawberries
will be planted in the spring.
workmen are now tearing down the
old stage house just outside of Salida
that has been standing since 1865.
The annual Catholic fair given by
st. Peters Catholic Church at Greeley
has closed. The receipts were $1,000
A 5O0-barrel flour mill to cost s7o,
600. is proposed for Milliken by local
business men and Kansas capitalists
Death claimed one of the pioneers
of Pueblo county when ]. d. Andrus
who came to Pueblo in 1865, passed
away.
j. s. Johnson, farmer, near Rocky
Ford, recently sold two wagon loads
of cantaloupe seed, for which he re
ceived $500.
Wanted in Salt Lake City on a
charge of robbing diamond broker Oi
100000 worth of gems, Walter Parish
is in jail in Pueblo.
Not content with stealing a ton OF
coal from Orville Harsh of Greeley
thieves carried off Harsh's dog
placed to guard it.
The case against Mrs. Mike Flynn
charged with the killing of Gordon
Wilson. in Browns park at Steamboat
Springs, has been dismissed.
Admittedly the largest and most en-
thusiastic. convention of the Colorado
State Board of Horticulture recently
closed two I session at Rifle.
The Puei poultry show is the
largest evei held in that city. ovel
700 entries having been received
The premium list is also large one
The Commercial Club and Associa
tion of Retail Merchants of Greeley
are making arrangements to entertain
the retail merchants of the state Jan
Is. 16 and II.
In addition to the strict quarantine
kept on dogs in Greeley, for the pur
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
Frazier Says Votes Tainted.

Chattanooga.-Un States Sena-
tor James B. Frazier denies he signed
the report of the subcommittee of
privileges and elections of the Senate,
which found the election of Senator
Lorimer of Illinois free from scandal.
Instead he says he filed statement
H. which he said he believed seven of
the votes cast for Lorimer in the
Legislature were tainted. 1t has been
generally reported that all members
OF the subcommittee signed the re-
port which gave Lorimer clear
record.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
Engineers and Railroads Firm.

Observation-Disclosures of Labor
Charles p. Neill continues his efforts
to bring the railroad managers and
the locomotive engineers together, but
without success. A strike of the en-
gIneers would prove the worst labor
conflict that the country has ever seen
In the railroad business, as sixty-one
systems are involved and every line
west. of Chicago would be tied up.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
Creamery Products.

Kansas City Butter Creamery.
2sc; firsts. 25c; seconds, 2Sc; packing
stock, 19c.
Eggs-Extras, soc; firsts, 2Sc; Sec
onds, 19c. 4
Butter Steady --Creameries, 23d8
29c; dairies, 21@25c. "
Eggs-Easy; receipts, 1,4S0 cases;
at mark, cases included, 191s@22hc;
firsts, 29c; prime firsts, Bic
Cheese-Steady; daisies, lax @15cs
twins, 14G141s; Young Americas, IN
@15c. Long Horns, 147s @15c.
Enthusiastically; choice to fancy,
43@45c; fair to good 3S@42c. 1
Poultry-Easy; turkeys, live, 17c;'
dressed, 22kc; chickens, fowls, live,
1Ohc; dressed, 12c; springs, live, 1Oc;
dressed, 12c.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
Colorado Good Roads Convention

Denver.-Governor Shafroth has is
sued call for good roads conven-
lion to be held in Denver January ID
and IA. w. 8. Whinnery. of Hinsdale
county, who is president Of the State
Board OF County Commissioners.
called on the governor to arrange for
The annual meeting Of the state board,
which will be held at the Albany ho-
tel. January 1913.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
Loan usarers Fined.

adelphia.-Arthur v. Hill, man
pger of loan company, the first per-
son to be convicted in this state un-
der decision which classes money
loan offices where usurious rates are
charged. as disorderly houses. was
sentenced to pay fine of $500 and
costs
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
cudahy Estate s11,ooo,ooo.

Chicago Michael J. Cudahy, found
or OF the Cudahy firm of meat pack
ers. left an estate worth $11,000,000,
according to the win made public OF
this sum 100000 is in personal
property and the remainder in real
estate.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
Fortune In Gifts.

Chicago-Workers in Chicagos fac
tories, mercantile establishments and
lanks will receive from their en-
rIoyers s1,5O0,O00 in Christmas gifts.
Some of the gifts have been presented
IN gold coin. Many salaries are
raised.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23

At meeting of the seventeen del
egates chosen to represent Boulder
County at the Apple Congress in Den
yer, plans were laid for a fruit show
in that place next year under the au-
spices of the Boulder Fruit Growers
Association.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
Kansas City Grain.

Kansas City Wheat December.
so@9OBc bid; May 93% @93%c- sell
ers; July. ss% @S9% sellers.
Corn-December. 1880 bid; May,
45B BQ46c; July. 467s @46Ac bid.
Cash wheat unchanged to 1c lower,
No. hard, 91@95hc; No. 3, 9O@95c;
No. 2 red, 961sc; No. 3, 94@96c. -.
Corn-Unchanged No. mixed,
4SAc; No. 3, 421s@43c; No. white.
43q44lsc; No. 3, 42Ac.
Oats-Unchanged. No. Q white, q
@34c; No. 2 mixed. 32h @32Mc. /
Rye-No. 2, 73@76c. y
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
COMING Events IN coLoRapo.

Jan. 1s-l4-state Good Roads Con-
Ian, is@oId Time cowboys' Association
at Greeley.
Jan 16-21-NatIonal Stock Show. Dem
Yer.
Jan. IL I7-1s-coIorado Cattle Growers
Convention, Denver
Jan -17-1g-Colorado and wyoming
Lumber Dealers Association Conven-
tioQ. Denver
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23

In spite of what is considered a
practically prohibitive poll tax there is
constantly increasing stream of Chi
nese coming to Canada. In a little
over half of the fiscal year more than
5000 Cinnamon have arrived.
Friendly relations have been re-es-
tablished between Argentina and Boil
via. The trouble between the two
countries originated in Bolivia's re-
sentiment of the decision rendered by
President Alcorta, the arbitrator of
the Bolivia-Peru boundary dispute, it
being alleged that he had favored
Peru.
1t is thirty years since England has
known such floods as are now deyas-
tating immense stretches of the coun-
Try. The deluge practically has been
incessant since the first OF December,
cnly two days out OF sixteen being
without rain. The farmers have suf-
fered heavy losses. Large areas are
Inundated and the water IN some parts
of the country is twelve feet deep.
cD@o-
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
settlers lime Extended.

Washington.-The Senate passed
CANDLES bill extending time for max
ing settlements on public lands in
Colorado. Wyoming and Montana.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
News Summary of the Past Week

A modification of the service pen
sion bill SO as to provide for a mini
mum pension of SIS is proposed in a
bill introduced by Senator Dick Of
Ohio. The present rate is $12.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
Eggs.
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Live Stock.

St -Cattle-Market steady.
Steers. s475G6.35; COWS and heifers,
$S.O0@5.50; calves, S4.00@S.25.
Hogs-Market slow, about steady.
Top, $40; bulk of sales, $7.55@765.
Sheep-Market steady. Lambs,
s5.s5@6.25.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
PuebIo,s Tax Levy.

Pueblo.-fhe Board of County Com
nissioners has made the county tas
1evy 14.5 mills for next year. which IL
6 OF one mill higher than this year.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
FOREIGN.

Attacks on Americans have been
started by Mexican revolutionists in
chihuahua.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
SPORT.

Kid Erne OF Livingstone. Mont,
knocked out A. v. Magirl of Long
mont, Colo. in the sixth round of a
scheduled 20-round fight in Crawford.
Neb. The fighting was fierce from
start to finish Magirl being knocked
down five times. The men are welter-
weights.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
Sheep.
Grain.

Grain.
Wheat, choice milling. 100 lbs. .1.S2
Rye, Colorado, bulk .........1.10
Oats, Nebraska, sacked .........1.21
Corn in sacks ........... SO
Corn chop, sacked .........1.OO
Bran, Colorado 100
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23

Fighting Imported Potatoes.
Denver.-If bill fathered by Sena-
tor Guggenheim receives the sanction
of Congress in Washington, Ameri-
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
MAR KET
q OTATYIo MS
DENVER MARKETS.

Cattle.
Beef steers. grain fed. good
to choice .5.25Q6.0O
Beef steers. grain fed, fair
to good .475@5.25
Beef steers, grassers, fair to
choice 5@5.50
Beef steers. grassers, fair to
good ...-.--.--.-- .4.OOQ4.60
Cows and heifers. grain fed,
good to choice .4.7595.25
Cows and heifers, grain fed,
fair to good .4.0O94.75
Cows and heifers. grassers,
good to choice 3.75@4.50
Cows and heifers. grassers,
fair to good .3.00@3.65
Stock COWS and heifers ...2.75@3.45
Gamers and cutters .2.O0Q3.O0
Veal calves .4.50q6.00
Bulls ................. 2.75@s.5O
Stays .3.00@409
Feeders and stockers, good
to choice ...-.-.--. -.... .4.40@5.25
Feeders and stockers. fair
to good 3.75G4.40
Feeders and stockers, COM
mon to fair .S.e0@3.75
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
Game,
Butter.

Elgin :. =. ........... 30 4
Creameries, ex. East. -. 80
Creameries. ex. Colo. -. 32
Creameries, End grade -. 26
Process and renovated -. &c
Packing stock ....... 0S
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-12-23
Hogs.

Hogs.
Good hogs ............765q7.I9
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-09-18
re Was Too Enthusiastic.

Hank Dobbs was noted its an hon
est" horse trader He would not lie
about q horse He would merely sup
press the truth Incidentally he always
beat the customer " no dealt with him.
The way be could slur over the de
fects and buzz about the virtues Of an
animal amounted to genius.
Once Hank was trying TO sell 6
neighbor a horse that had an eye
which was nearly sightleSs. Thu
neighbor knew Hank would not lie
outright TO him. so he questioned the
horse trader as to the various points
OF the brute.
How about his eyesiaht? Can be
see out of both eyes,"
Sure said Hank Ties rot good
eyes" Here he leaned forward, his
eyes fairly sciutlllating with SUP
pressed honesty. "One eye Is particu
larly good"
Hanks enthusiasm for the truth hac
carried him TOO far The Geal was off
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