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Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
eIBsoN's ONE GOOD POINT
weighed Any Slight Error In
orthooraphy.

The old man had given his son .
very fair education, and had taken
him into his shop. The young fellow
was over-nico about great many
things. but the father made no COM
ment. One day an order came in
from q customer.
Il wish to goodness" exclaimed the
son. that Gibson would learn 90
spell"
Whats the matter with 1T" In
Quired the father, cheerfully.
why. he spells coffee with X"
"No-does her never noticed It,"
"Of course you never did," said tho
son. pettishly. You never notice any
thing like that"
Perhaps not, my son." replied tho
old man. gently; but there is ono
thing I do notice. which you will
learn by and by. and that is that Glib
son pays cash."
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27

wroto to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. In
. short timo had gained my average
weight and am now strong and well.'
Mrs. SALLIE STEVENS, R. F. D., No.
8, Boz 81, Waurika, Okla.
Another Grateful Woman. y
Huntington, Mass,-"I was in ner.
vous, run down condition and for three
years could find no help.
owe my present good health to
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound and Blood Purifier which I be-
feve saved my life.
my doctor knows what helped mo
and does not say ono word against It."
Mrs. MARI JANETTE BATES, Bog
134, Huntington, Mass.
Because your case Is . difficult ono,
doctors having done you no good, do
not continue to suffer without giving
Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Com.
pound . trial. It surely has cured
many cases Of female ills, such q In
hammation, liberation, displacements,
fibrOid tumors, Irregularities, periodic
pains. backache, that bearing-down
feeling and nervous prostration.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
Want OH Law Amended.

Washington.-Upon the petition of
nearly 200 citizens of Denver and Colo
RADIO Springs, an effort will be made
to secure an important amendment to
the oil land act of June 25, 1910, of
great interest to the West. The petit
TONERS are those who had initiated
rights to coal lands in Routt county,
Colorado, prior to the withdrawal act
-expending from 500 to $3.50 on each
claim. They seek an amendment of
the oil act to save to them the same
rights as extended to oil prospectors
under that measure, and such bill
will be introduced soon. The act Of
June rs, 1910, expressly recognized
the initiated rights OF oil prospectors,
whose titles were not affected by the
new law. The coal locators now plead
for the same protection. One Colo
RADIO case was taken to the secretary
OF the interior on appeal, but met with
an adverse decision both here and at
the local land office.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
WESTERN

Judge Otis Of Brule. Neb.. has
shown that he will not allow the
Harem skirt or anything approaching
it in Brule.
Locomotive firemen on all the west
ern railroads are in a new dispute
with the managers over the wages for
certain work.
The supreme convention OF the
Modern Brotherhood of America will
be held in Denver August 7th to
August 18th this year.
By the will of Ernest v. Coweh,
which was filed in the Probate Court
in San Francisco, the University OF
California is given three bequests OF
a total value Of $750.000.
Marshall Edward Kirkpatrick. So
cialist, was elected mayor Of Granite
City. ILL.,, a city Of $4,000 people and
the next largest town to Milwaukee
to put a Socialist into the chief execu.
tive chair.
The University of Iowa rifle team
has defeated Massachusetts, Agricul-
tural college by score Of 1891 to
1890, winning the national intercolle-
giate shoot with fifteen straight VIC
tories.
Engineer Harold Porter was killed
and three other persons injured. one
fatally, in a headon collision between
trains Nos. / and on the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railway at Chero-
kee Junction, Kans.
The cost Of living is decreasing.
Hosewives may not have noticed 1t
especially, but such is the case, at
least as far as certain staple articles
are concerned. For example, flour Is
10 cents a barrel cheaper than two
weeks ago.
The Santa Fe has solved the water
problem on its Southern Kansas divi-
sion by the construction Of six enor-
nous reservoirs. They really are
lakes, covering hundreds Of acres of
land. The largest Of these reservoirs
is at Chanute.
Through the opening Of wide gaps
In the ground In the eastern part Of
White Pine county, Nevada. cattlemen
report losses that are gaining serious
proportions. In Jake's Valley Capt.
Moorman has already lost forty-eight
head. The gashes in the range vary
from eight to twenty feet in width
and there II no explanation Of the phe-
nomena except the fact that the coun-
try IL of volcanic formation.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
coIorado,s FARMING Growth.

Denver.-While the increase in acre.
age of Colorado forms from 1900 to
1910 was less than fifty per cent, the
Census Bureau reports an increase in
the total value of all farm land alone
300 per cent; in the total value of farm
land and buildings, 283 per cent; in the
total value of farm buildings, 1873
per cent; in the average value per
acre of farm land alone, 1872
per cent; in the average value per acre
of farm land and buildings, ITO per
cent; in the total value of all farm i'm
plements and machinery, 100 per
cent; in the total expenditures for Ia
bor, 161 per cent; in the total expen-
ditures for fertilizers, 152 per cent
in the total improved farm acreage,
eighty-nine per cent; in the whole
number Of farms, eighty-six per cent.
and in the total farm acreage, forty
two per cent.
The only decrease during the decade.
among the items for which per-
centages are given, in the first section
of the summary. occurred in the aver
aoge acres per farm, and amounted to
twenty-four per cent.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
News Summary of the Past Week

The New York Senate passed the
Wagner resolution ratifying the pro-
posed income tax amendment to the
federal constitution.
Robert T. Lincoln Of Chicago, pres
ident of the Pullman company, is
about to retire as head Of tie $120, 0,000,.
900 corporation.
A decrease of one billion feet in the
total production of timber in New
York state the past year is reported
by the state forest commission.
trunk filled with gold watch cases,
valued at 100000, consigned to man.
ufacturer In Chicago from Cincinnati,
was stolen from an express wagon.
Henry E. Hutting of New York,
nephew of the late Coils p. Hunting
ton, jaid $15O.000 for velasquez's "Por.
trait Of a Young Ecclesiastic."
In ten years from 1900 to 1910 the
net revenues of the American Tele-
graph & Telephone Company were
multiplied by five, increasing from S..
4S6.058 to $26.S55,S93.
The International balloon race will
start from Kansas City October 9Th,
George M. Myers. president Of the
Kansas City Aero Club, announced the
National balloon race, which will be
held to select an American con.
testant in the International race, will
start July 10th.
Attorneys for DIR. B. Clark Hyde, in
whose behalf the Supreme Court of
Missouri recently reversed a verdict
convicting him of the murder Of Col.
Thomas b. Swope in Kansas City and
remanded the case for a new trial,
filed a petition for writ Of habeas
corpus for the physician.
Although forced out Of the position
himself George ]. Gould opposing the
Rockefeller-Ku interests caused
the election OF B. F. Bush as presi.
dent Of the Missouri Pacific railway,
defeating David r. Francis, former
governor OF Missouri. Mr.. Bush is
president OF the Western Maryland
railway.
VIII Potter, q negro, was the cen.
tral figure in tragedy in Livermore,
KY, when fifty citizens dragged him
upon the opera house stage and after
hanging him. riddled the body with
bullets.
Against the advice Of superintend-
ent Hotcakiss Of the State Department
Of insurance and Of Its trustees. the
Equitable Life Assurance Society, by
vote Of its board Of directors, elected
William A. Day Of New York. ]. Pier
pont Morgan's candidate, to succeed
the late Paul Morton az president Of
the society. at salary Of $4,000 q
year, % against the $4,000 . year
paid to Mr.. Morton.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
SPORT.

The Keio baseball club sailed from
Toxic. Japan. on the steamer Manchu.
ria for tour Of America.
The Santa Clara. Cal. baseball team
defeated the Japanese players from
Waseda university by score of 10
to /.
Jimmy Gardner. OF Lowell, Mass,
and Jack Dillon, of Indianapolis.
fought six rounds to draw in Phila-
delphia.
Maud ST." trotter owned by the
late George M. Stearns, was shot to
death in Springfield, KY, as provided
for in Stearns' will. Maud s. was 35
years old and blind.
The Des Moines Press Club accep.
ed the invitation of Owner Higgins to
take charge OF the ceremonies conect-
ed with the opening Of the Western
league season In Des Moines. Gov.
Carroll will pitch the first ball.
L. A. Blochman, former commodore
of the Corinthian Yacht Club. who Sc.
cured the Upton cup for yachting
CluDb A<iPeOhB JuSI U6eu
appointed a member of the exhibits
committee Of the Panama. California
exposition to be held In San Diego.
Cal. during 1915.
Packey Mcfarland. the fast Chicago
lightweight, won all the way in his
ten.round fight with Tommy Murphy
Of Brooklyn, at the Fairmount Athletic
Club in New York. The Chicago boy
outboxed and outfought Murphy.
The opening Of the 1911 Western
League baseball season in Wichita,
Kans., was attended with more than
the usual ceremonies, the afternoon
virtually being half holiday. The
majority Of the merchants will close
their places Of business and the city
offices were closed the entire after
noon.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27

Frank Pierce, assistant secretary of
the interior, has rendered his resigna-
tion and it was accepted by President
Taft.
The President is considering Mich.
olas Longworth of Ohio as successor
to David Jayne Hill, as ambassador to
Germany.
A deficit in the operation Of the
postoffice department Of $17,60O.0 900
inherited by the present administra-
tion has been wiped out.
A woman smuggler, conscience
stricken, has sent Secretary Macveigh
a SO bill and suggested the treasury
invite contributions of that sort and
relieve many a restless soul.
From authoritative source 1t is
learned that the revision of the wool
schedule contemplates reduction OF
about so per cent on raw wool and
40 per cent in the manufactured ar
ticle.
President Taft's Canadian reciproc,.
ty agreement. supported by all but a
hehaAuA VI 4SCAh0CAatbt anu OPpO6cu ny
majority Of the Republicans, passed
the House Of Representatives by a
vote Of 265 to 80.
Rear Admiral Richard Inch, u. 8. N,
retired. died in the naval hospital at
Washington after an extended illness
For eminent and conspicuous conduct
in the battle of Manila Bay, when chic.
engineer Of the cruiser Boston, Rear
Admiral Inch received advanced rank
Most of the criticisms OF the Cana
dian reciprocity bill are from agricul.
tural sections and are based on the be-
lief that reciprocity with Canada un-
der the agreement would injure the
agricultural interests Of the United
States.
A plea to ali Unitarians to provide
In Washington principal church
to correspond with the cathedrals Of
other denominations was made by
President Taft in the regular service
In All Souls Unitarian church, OF
which he Is an attendant.
Utah's decision to place a picture Of
Brigham Young on the silver service
to be presented to the battleship Utah
was criticized at the closing session
in Washington Of the twentieth CONT.
mental congress Of the Daughters Of
the American Revolution.
The diplomatic shake-up, which was
first evidenced by the resignation OF
David Jayne Hill as ambassador to
Germany. continued when It was an
nounced' that Herber B. Pierce had
resigned as minister to Norway and
that In consequence several transfers
would be made.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
FoREioN.

In 300-foot fall OF his Farman bt-
plane Captain Edward Tarron of the
army engineers was instantly killed in
Paris.
The city hall at Schaerbeck, su-
burb Of BRUSSELS. together with its
priceless works of art, was destroyed
by fire.
Three hundred insurgent troops
have taken possession of Concordia.
which has been made the provisional
capital Of Sinaloa. The town was cap
tured without firing shot. The in
surgents have demanded the immedi-
ate surrender Of villa Union. but the
federal troops there are preparing to
defend 1t.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
Minor mention.

The population of Greeley is now
estimated at 5000. lsf
A first class ball team is to be or
ganized at Kersey.
About 10000 has been subscribed
for the Eaton cannery.
The new ice plant at Kersey is now
ready for business.
Denver recently won ten-inning
game from Lincoln, score 1 to o.
Loren Lister was recently drowned
near Palisade in the Grand river.
The home Of j. A. Y. Alderman, liv-
ing near Castle Rock. was burned.
Bert Snider was given six months
in jail in Pueblo for beating his wife.
Hiram Heckles, aged 80, a pioneer
of the Cripple Creek district, is dead.
Plans are under way for organiza,
tion of brass band in Grand juno.
tion.
Beginning about the middle Of May
the streets of Holly will be sprinkled
daily. M
Peter Stoehr. aged 7S, dropped dead
at his home in Montrose from heart
disease.
Fire destroyed 200 feet of the East
Evans 600-foot bridge doing probably
$4,000 damage.
No trace Of VIM. Ward, who disap-
peared from Windsor recently. has
been found.
There are now only about seventy
cars OF sheep on feed for market in
northern Colorado.
Charles T. Howard, an old soldier
and pioneer of northern Colorado. died
suddenly at Longmont.
Two hundred thousand fish will be
placed in the headwaters of Mesa coun-
ty streams this summer.
The baseball team from the Univer.
sity of Kieo of Japan has asked for
a game in Grand Junction May S.
Colorado now heads the list of states
for loss Of life in coal mine accidents.
with Alabama close second.
Mrs. G. 8. Barnes, aged eighty-three,
one Of the best known residents and
pioneers of Colorado Springs is dead.
Efforts are being made to secure an
aeroplane exhibition for Grand juno.
tion during the Mesa county fair, next
fall.
While digging well near Num-, F.
A. Carr struck stream which has an
amber color and which foams like
beer.
Charles Sears and Walter Lock
were Jailed in La Junta for robbing D.
B. Mckenzie, an old man. They got
$50 or $40.
Representative Martin has nominal
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
Miners Would Raise ,2so, 900.

Denver.-The Western Federation
Of Miners headquarters in Denver
stands ready to levy an assessment of
IS against each of its $4,000 members
as defense fund for J. ]. Mcnamara
of the Structural Iron Workers. who
was arrested Saturday In Indianapolis
for alleged completely in blowing up
the Los Angeles Times building. This
would give a fund of $250,000. This
was the statement made by Charles
H. Meyer. president Of the Western
Federation of Miners.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

ed Phillip Ogrodowski of Trinidad as
alternate candidate for a cadetship a.
Annapolis.
The Gold Belt theater in Telluride.
an immense frame building erected in
the bonanza days. was burned recent
ly. loss $4,000.
Senator Guggenheim has been re-
quested by citizens Of Hugo to secure
an appropriation for a public building
for that town.
Plans for the new Eaton Union Pa
cific depot have arrived and contracts
will soon be let. It will be of brick
and stone, 23x100 feet.
Milton R. Kerr, for three years pas
tor of the Unitarian church at Gree
ley, accepted the position of principal
of the Fort Morgan High school.
Contracts for 11,200 acres OF beets
have been signed by growers in the
Loveland district with the probability
that the acreage will reach 1850.
Seven Western slope towns will
take part in the first annual high
school athletic and oratorical contest
in Grand Junction April q, % and 20.
DR.. w. H. McGlauflin, general su-
perintendent Of Universalist churches
in America, is in Colorado Springs to
establish a church with a regular pas.
tor.
The national board of the Young
Women's Christian Association has an
nounced that the Western division will!
hold it's conference at Cascade June
20 to 80.
Senator Guggenheim has been ad-
vised by the Postoffice Department
that rural free delivery service will be
extended from Broomfield, commenc-
ing May 1.
Work is progressing on the new ar
mory at Windsor, which will be fin
ished by July and opened with ball.
Capt. ]. H. Shane has forty men in
Company e.
The Boulder Presbytery is in ses-
sion in Fort Morgan and elected Rev.
]. w. Currens, student pastor of the
University of Colorado. moderator for
the coming year.
A track meet OF the athletic asso.
citation of the Canon City. South
Canon, Florence, Victor and Salida
high schools will be held at Canon City
April %. and teams representing each
of the schools in the league are in
training for the occasion.
A nine-minute flight by Rene Simon,
in which he climbed to height Of be-
tween 500 and 600 feet and made two
wide circles. each time flying square.
ly across the grandstand, was the ex-
tent of the aviation meet in Denver, in
the presence Of approximately 1000
spectators.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
Protest from Eagle County.

Washington. = Representative Tay-
lor called on Secretary Fisher to file
a protest forwarded to him by the
commissioners of Eagle county. re-
garding power site Withdrawals. The
secretary has taken the matter under
advisement, but there is little hope for
any modification Of the executive or
der. The petition and protest from
Eagle county recites that about all of
the land fit for agricultural develop
ment in that portion of Colorado Is
along Eagle and Grand rivers and
that this immense area has been with
drawn by the Interior Department for
power site purposes. The result has
been to stop all agricultural devel-
opment, as the withdrawal of all
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
TWENTY-THREE
BURIED IN mine.
NO HOPE FOR RESCUE ENTER.
TANNED BY SEARCHING
PARTY.
ALL ARE AMERICANS
rHE BODY OF ONE MAN Is
FoUND-PRoGREss Is VERY
SLOW.

Elk Garden, w. va.-Twenty-three
miners are entombed in OFT mine No.
of the Davis Coal & Coke Company
here, as the result Of an explosion.
Little hope is entertained for the
rescue of any alive, because tons of
debris impede the progress of res
cuers.
1t is not known whether the explo-
sion was caused by dust or gas. Of
ficials of the company say they have
never known their mines to be gas
eous.
Superintendent Robert Grant or
ganized rescue corps of the miners
off duty, and these attempted to en-
ter the mine.
The rescue party had not advanced
far in the workings before it was
found it would take several days to
dig through the heaps of roof coal
and slate, loosened by the explosion.
1t then was decided to effect an en-
trance nearer the probable point Of
the explosion by cutting through the
wall of an adjoining mine.
After penetrating about mile down
the main entry, the rescuers found the
body of a man, not Identified. 1t had
been crushed beneath a fall of slate
as he was running out of the mine.
The discovery Of this body dis
heartened the rescuers, who are posi-
tive that none of the others is alive.
Several yards beyond the passage
was completely blocked by the col
lapse of the roof. Behind and under
this fall it is believed the bodies of
the miners lay. Gas is heavy in the
main entry and in the workings not
totally blocked, and the rescuers have
to work in short shifts
Havoc wrought in the mine would
indicate that the explosion was ter
rifle. For a square mile or more the
slate and coal was split and props
were splintered. letting the roof fall
in in large sections.
In contrast to the usual mine ex-
plosions, the victims in this case with
one exception are Americans. The
mine usually employs 200 men on the
day shift and about the same number
at night. A temporary suspension OF
work required fewer men in the mines
else the casualty list might have been
greater.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
Dry Farming Congress.

Colorado Springs. - Announcement
of names Of members Of the Colorado
State Board of Control for the Inter.
national Dry Farming Congress. which
meets this year at Colorado Springs
in sixth annual conference, Oct. 16 to
20, has been made. Through its exec
utive committee this board will have
charge of all the affairs of the con-
gress and its accompanying exposi-
tion of dry farmed products.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
Another official ResIons,

Washington.-With the resignation
Of Edward c. Kinney as chief law Of.
ficer Of the reclamation service. to
take effect May 1st. all the officials
of the interior department who fig.
ured prominently in the Ballinger-Pin.
chot investigation, have now severed
their connection with the service.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
Convict Labor Arrives.

Grand Junction.-As a direct result
of the Western Slope Development
congress session in March, thirty-fiys
conYicts have arrived at a road camp
25 miles from here, in the Plateau
caf1on, and will be kept by Mesa coun
ty for several weeks for work on high
ways.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
Mand amu. Proeeedinqs Begun.

Fort Collins.-M. G. Nelson, the new
ly elected city treasurer, went into
District Court and secured writ OF
mandamus to compel the former treas
urer, w. J. Ralph. to turn over $685.
900 in cash held in the First National
Bank on certificates of deposit.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
Trust decisions Again postponed.

Washington.-The Supreme Court
Of the United States has concluded
another weekly duty of handing down
decisions without announcing opinions
in either the Standard OIL or the to.
bacco suits under the Sherman anti
trust act. Action may be taken any
time.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
Io AppeaI to carneaIe.

Grand Junction.-The board Of con-
troll of the Carnegie library has de-
cided to ask the noted philanthropist
for an additional $50,000.. The library
was built ten years ago, when Grand
Junction was less than half as large
as now.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
CoMING EVENTS IN COLORADO.

May 3-4.-Colorado Realty Dealers AS
sociation, Las Animas.
June 6-7-8.-Grand Encampment Colo.
and Wyo. g. A. R.. Salida.
June 16-1S-Convention Christian En-
deavor Society, Grand Junction.
June 20-21.-Meeting Colorado for Pre-
yention and Control of tuberculosis.
Denver.
June 20-30.-Western General Confer
ance Women's Christian Association.
Cascade. Colo.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27

00Q 30 uoLvOw i
could not do any.
thing. Tho doctors
treated mo for dif.
ferent things but
did mo no good. i
got 90 bad that i
could not sleep day
or night. While in
this condition / read
Of Lydia E. Pink
hams getable
Q o mpo d, and
lhe0on Ska y,oA opA
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
Opium Worth $1,000 Found.

Seattle.-Opium valued at $4,000
was found In gunnysack In venti-
iator tube over the boilers Of the
steamship Minnesota.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
oroanIxe Coal Company.

Organize CoaI OompaHy'
Boulder.-Gustav G. Bartel, James
H. Blood and Earl G. Bartel filed in
corporation papers here for the Rider
Coal Company, capitalized with $780,
600. to operate in Boulder. Fremont,
Las Animas and Huerfano counties.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
AFTER 4
I YEARS
SUFFERING
I Was Cured by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

Waur1ka, Okla.-'T had female trou.
bles for seven years, was al run down.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27

His Limit.
Joshua had made the sun stand
still.
Fine. but we bet you can't make
Willie Jones do It." we cried.
Herewith he acknowledged his linn
itations.-Harpers Bazaar.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27

available agricultural lands prevents
settlement and deprives the state of
taxes 1t would receive were these
lands open to settlement.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
Poor Tom.

Poor Tom.
A very youthful and entirely un-
known musical composer read some
verses by the renowned Thomas Moore
which he liked very much. Forthwith
the buzz Of inspiration circulated
through his brain. and the next thing
he knew he had evolved q tune which
went right prettily with the words Of
the Irish poet. Much elated, the very
youthful composer took the product to
q publisher Of popular songs and sang
1t to him. The publisher shook his
head.
THE music's all right" he opined.
but the words are bum"
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27

Homo Training.
Mother-Robert, come here to me
instantly!
Robert-Aw, shut up!
Mother-Robert, how dare you talk
to me like that! Say: Mamma, be
quiet"