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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
Minor Mention.

| Several parties have recently been
held up by hishwaymen In Delta
The first term OF District Court
for the new county OF Moffat. opened
at Craig.
Olathe will erect a water works sys-
TEN to cost not over SOS, 900. immedi-
ately.
| Company D.. n. G. c., won the
sharp-shooters' cup at the rifle shoot
| in Golden.
Sothrina West. age seventy-five
long resident OF Denver. died at
Briggsdale.
| Thieves looted the Park cafe at
Trinidad and secured $500 and large
quantity of liquor.
The state board is considering the
proposition of investing the school
funds in irrigation projects.
The trial OF the negro. Bob Harris.
who killed the two marshals OF ROCKY
Ford has opened in La Junta.
| Oil in paying quantities has been
| found in at least fifty wells in Range
/ ley district. in Routt county.
| Railway passenger and freight re-
ceipts at Gunnison are $4,000 more
this year than in the previous year
S. S. Kingsbury. the new head mas
ter OF the State Preparatory School.
at Boulder, has arrived from Wichita,
Kan.
| State Engineer Comstock is OF the
! opinion that his office will be almost
self supporting under the new fee sys-
/ TEN.
/ New York capitalists have for $3.50.
900 bought the Colorado Railway,
Light and Power Company at Trini-
dad.
The new Court OF Appeals judges
appointed by Gov. Shafroth will not
assume the duties Of their office until
Oct. /.
! Not for eighteen months has work
on irrigation enterprises in Colorado
been pushed with so much activity as
at present.
| j. v. Blake owns garden spot near
4 Canon City, and from one acre OF
ground he marketed $4,000 pounds OF
early beans.
The Trinidad Transmission Railway
& Gas Company, with capitalization
of 100000 has filed articles OF in
corporation.
AS the result OF premature explo
sion OF a giant powder cap the son OF
James McClaren OF Cripple Creek vii.
lose one eye.
| Mrs. C. NJ. Conrow is dead from the
effects OF shock received when
| lightning struck near Trinidad about
| two weeks ago.
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WASHINGTON.

A woman, Miss Margaret Kelley. is
now in actual charge Of the mints of
the United States.
The condition Of the growing cot
ton crop OF the United States July
25th was S9.1 OF normal.
The millionth patent issued by the
United States has been announced by
Commissioner Of Patents Moore.
The Senate has taken up the Arizo-
ma and New Mexico statehood propo-
sition. Recall Of judges bitterly at
tackled.
The Senate, by vote OF 4s to 30.
passed the Farmers Free List bill.
after the measure had been slightly
changed from the form in which it
passed the House.
Bearing an initiative and referen-
dunn feature to safeguard against ger
rymandering in number of states the
Congressional reapportionment bill
passed the Senate. 1t fixes the future
House membership at 433-with two
more when Arizona and New Mexico
attain statehood-instead of the pres
ent 391
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SPORT.
WESTERN LEAGUE STANDING.

frankie White of Chicago and E6
Winters of Ration. " NJ. fought fif-
teen-round draw at Alamosa.
Joe Jeanette of Boston and Tony
Ross of Pittsburg fought ten fast
rounds to draw in New York.
Patsy Brannigan of Pittsburg was
given the decision over Jimmy Ken
rick OF England after twenty rounds
Of fast fighting at Springfield, Ohio.
"One Round" Hogan of San Fran
cisco. has gone to New York TO begin
training for his ten-round bout with
Knockout" Brown, scheduled for
Labor Day.
All that is left of the fortune made
in the prize ring by the late Stanley
Ketchel. middleweight champion
came to $103.17 when his estate was
wound up in San Francisco in the Pro-
bate Court.
The Junction City, Kans., state
league pennant winners defeated the
Cheyenne Indians in a fast game in
Cheyenne. which proved to be a
pitchers battle between label and
Haight.
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THE WEEKS NEWS EPITOMIZED

The last chance to get pension legis-
lation through the House at this ses-
sion was lost when Speaker Clark sus
tanned point of order by Represen-
tative Fitzgerald against the Anderson
invalid pension bill.
Members of Congress from the
West, insurgents as well as regulars.
who are opposed to a revision Of the
| wool tariff at this time, are becoming
convinced that Senator La Toilette
| does not intend that the Presiden.
shall have an opportunity to carry in
to effect his intention to veto wool
bill framed in advance of the tariff
board report.
The secretary of the interior has
submitted to the Public Lands com,
mittee of the House a favorable re-
| port and recommendation for the pass
age of the House bill granting home.
stead entrymen under the Uncompah-
gre reclamation project in Colorado
leave of absence from their entries un-
til water is furnished from the govern
ment canals for the irrigation of the
lands embraced in these entries.
To his story OF how he claims he
was bribed to vote for Lorimer,
Charles A. White, former member of
the Illinois Legislature. added for the
benefit OF the Senate I-orimer COM
mittee that he believed every one of
the fifty-three Democrats who voted
for Lorimer did SO for a money con-
sideration. He added that he thought
some of the Republicans who voted
for Lorimer got money for so doing.
Chairman Underwood and Senator
La Toilette of the House ways and
means committee, who have undertak-
en- to reconcile the differences be-
tween the Senate and the House on
the wool and the farmers free list
bills for the full conference commit.
tee. are in an unquestioned deadlock
with the possibility of remaining so,
and thus forcing an adjournment of
the session without final action on
either of these measures.
President Taft has received the re.
apportionment bill passed by both
houses, providing for increases from
391 to 433 in the membership Of the
House of Representatives for his an.
proval and the result may be known
soon.
President Taft has sent to the Sen.
ate the general arbitration treaties be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain and the United States and
France. signed for this government in
Washington today and signed in Paris
| for the government of France.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12

amounts to $4,000 and cattle men
who were instrumental in getting the
bill through the Legislature believed
that If properly expended it could do
much to put stop to this cattle scour-
age Now the new state veterinarian
is readp to begin work and the money
is not available The appropriation
has been placed in the fourth class
which is for the present a class from
which no appropriations Will be paid.
II is likely that money will not be
available to pay this class Of appro-
priations for a year if it ever becomes
available, and meanwhile Colorado
will have to depend upon the efforts
Of the federal stock inspectors to fight
the cattle mango.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
COLORADO STATE NEWS

|, On the way from Denver to Fort
Worth, Texas, j. S. Camplain died on
Colorado & Southern passenger tram
No. at Aguilar.
The first electrically operated lu'
nicular railroad ever built west oi the
Mississippi river is being constructed
I'D the face Of Lookout mountain, just
west of Golden.
Tom Archuleta, who was arrested at
Lafayette for bootlegging, PLEADED
guilty to two charges OF botlegglng IN
the Boulder County Court and was
fined $500 and costs.
A rich bed OF coal. valued by Col.
]. A. Owenby at 31.500,o00. has been
located on the property OF the Woot-
ton Land and Fuel Company fifteen
miles south of Trinidad.
The Masonic temple. at Montrose,
just completed by the order at cost
OF $4,000 has been occupied for the
first time by the lodge. II has three
stories and is fifty by 125 feet.
The Durango Board of Trade has
will contribute $1,000 toward the sup
port of the Fort Lewis agricultural
school the first year.
At the first annual flower exhibit Civ
en- by Loveland school children IL.
handsome boquets made up from
flowers grown by the children this
year, were entered for a variety OF
prizes.
After a search of twenty-four hours
party discovered the dead body OF
Urbano Vigil, fifteen-year-old son OF
F. Vigil, lying on the bank of Tru-
jillo creek, forty miles northwest OF
Trinidad, with a bullet in his heart.
To test the commercial value Of the
clay beds recently found in Sunshine
canon, Boulder county, Secretary Eek
el Of the Commercial Association will
send 400 pounds Of the clay to the
potteries OF GAINESVILLE. o., where il
will be made into pottery.
Representative Rucker appeared be
fore the Ways and Means committee
in Washington to urge the incorpora
tion of his bill, appropriating $4,000
for public surveys in Colorado, in the
Forthcoming emergency appropriation
measure.
Since the recent Rangely oil strikes
the settlers around Meeker have be
come still more interested in oil. In
i Ill in
several places in the country adjacent
to Meeker, and many homesteaders
have become convinced that gusher.
exist under their property, which only
require the puncturing process to
make them wealthy.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
GEN e RAJ.

A systematic listing of autos regis
tered in the United States shows that
the number used is 100000.
Unions have asked railroads for in
creases in wages and a general strike
is threatened on all western lines.
The crimes committed by members
OF the so-called Black Hand in Chica-
go, so far during 1911, is total of
eighteen murders. scores of stabbings.
more than 100 bomb explosions. and
100000 collected in blackmail
A romance, interrupted sixty years
ago by a lovers quarrel. had happy
elimination recently when Mortimer
Baldwin and Miss Hannah Wells, both
81. were married at the parsonage in
Marengo, Ohio.
Suit was filed by the government in
the Federal Court at Columbus, O.,
against six railroad companies and
three coal mining concerns, charging
a combination in restrain of trade
and asking that the combination be
enjoined from continuing business.
When the executive traffic officials
of transcontinental railroad systems
gathered at the Railway Exchange
building in Chicago for an important
conference. it was freely predicted in
railroad offices that as a result of the
meeting the recent ruling CT the In
terstate Commerce Commission on
rates between Denver and the Pacific
coast. would be appealed to the United
States courts.
Shot by his seventeen-year-old son
after he had abused the boys mother,
William Sutton. forty-five years old.
is dead in Philadelphia.
Through newspaper ad John Aber.
crombie, confectioner of Remidji,
Mimi, has just learned that he is heir
to an estate of more than a million,
Benjamin C. Fox, a bachelor and a
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for mayor OF Chester, Pa, prom
ises his constituents that if elected he
will Immediately set about getting
married.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
New Court Of Appeals Judges.

Denver-Governor Shafroth has
filed with the secretary OF state his
appointments to the new Court of Ap-
peals authorized by the last session
of the Legislature.
There were more than 100 candi-
dates for the five judicial positions
each being a prominent lawyer in Col
orado. The governor has had all these
candidates under consideration for
three months. and his announcement q;
the five men is the resul. of long
study.
The five men the governor has ap'
pointed to the Court OF Appeals are
among the best known lawyers in Col
orado Each OF them is resident of
the state for many years and OF va
ried experience in law.
| Tully Scott OF Cripple Creek has
been named as presiding Judge of the
new court.
The other judges appointed by the
governor are: Alfred r. King. Esq,
of Delta, Delta county, Geo: Stuart
d. Walling, Esq. OF the city and coun-
ty of Denver, Colo; Edwin w. Hurl.
/ but, ESQ, OF the city and county OF
/ Denver, Colo, and Louis W. Cunning
I ham, Esq, OF Colorado Springs, FL
/ Paso county, Colo.
The Court of Appeals will, on Octo
ber /, when its members assume Of
/ flee, begin en- the back Calendar OF
/ the Supreme Court. II VIII not TO.
the present, in all probability. assume
any of the new business Of the Su-
/ preme Court, but will clear up the
docket and then it takes up its duty,
handling part of the work that now
comes to the Supreme Court.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
Henryiyn Irrigation Project.

Empire.-HaYing secured sufficient
funds to begin actual construction
work. and with the balance in sight
through arrangements with the Bank
Of France, 1t has been announced by
F. A. Hensley. director OF the Henry
lyn irrigation district, that within two
weeks contract will be let for the
driving of a tunnel under the CONT
mental divide west Of Empire to carry
water from Williams Fork, tributary
of the Grand, into the Henrylyn irri-
CATION district, northeast of Denver.
The tunnel will be $4,000 feet, or near
ly three miles, and the work will cost
approximately s1.500o00.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
NOTHING BUT AN AMATEUR
Fair pamsers Questions That Re
veaIed caIlow Lover In His
True Light.

do you really and truly think I
am beautiful?" she asked
You are simply divine" he replied
But there are other girls whom
YOU think more beautiful than ~
NO, / don't think there Is a more
beautiful girl in the world than you"
There are other girls you think
are lust as beautiful, though"
You are more beautiful than any
other girl 1 ever saw"
Il suppose there are plenty OF
xtrls whom you consider almost as
beautiful az am"
II think you are far more beauti-
full than any other girl that ever
breathed."
We'll, why didn't you say that in
the first placer"
That was what meant. If didn't
exactly say So"
20, well, go on. My goodness!
Must 1 suggest everything nice that
you say to me?"
What more can l say"
Heavens. I'm not going to sit here
giving you lessons. l thought the
way you started out that you had
made love before"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
W WESTERN.

Secretary of State OF Montana.
Abram n. Yoder. died suddenly OF
heart failure. He was appointed oy
Governor Norris.
The California State Board OF
Health claims the great white
plague" causes over one-seventh OF all
deaths in California.
Indications are that Denver Will
send a large delegation to the annual
convention of the American Bankers
association in New Orleans, begin
ming Nov. 20.
State Fish and Game Warden Dyehe
of Kansas recently ruled that the tur-
tie dove belong to the isectd tdestroylng
variety of birds and that sportsmen
OF this state must not kill the birds.
In order to guard against the pass
age of the La Follette-U nderwood
wool bill over the expected veto OF the
President, the Republican managers
are urging all absentee Republican
senators to return to the capital i'm
mediately.
In Galveston a whipping post, or
horsewhipping bee for chauffeurs who
have been making life miserable Tor
residents of the western part OF the
city by fast driving. is what the moth
ers of many of the children have es-
tablished.
To escape the opportunities Of the
police, who were pressing him to
make good several worthless checks, j.
T. Waterhouse, a brick contractor OF
Salt Lake, Utah, put the muzzle OF a
reyolved in his mouth and sent bullet
into his brain.
Sixteen prominent young men OF
Caney, Kan, were arrested on
charge of kidnapping Dale Williams.
who was married to Pauline Canary.
who has a monthly income Of $4,000
Her income is derived from the Ca
nary oil pool. which is located on her
land allotment.
William F. Lally is dead and John
O'Connor is seriously injured and in
the hospital, Goldfield, New. as the
result OF an accident in a mine at
jamestown, a coming mining camp or
ganized by Colorado boomers three
years ago, and which had god pros
poets.
Kept in cage with pair of South
American hyenas which were being
shown with carnival at Rapid City,
s. D., and bitten AID scratched until
he moaned when anyone touched him
is the experience of a five-year-oid
boy, according to the charges OF
States Attorney Denu, who caused the
arrest of the child's foster parents.
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Photo by Western Newspaper Union.
gave and took hard blows and always
laughed. who followed many courses
in his interchangeable chase for wealth,
made and lost many millions, but more
often won than lost, John w. Gates
lived to forgive and then attend the
funeral of most of his enemies and
died Il successful and wealthy man.
MIR. Gates virtually began his ca
reer in St. Louis and there achieved
his first and most characteristic vic
went to Chicago like most of the en-
terprising young men of his age. The
cards came up wrong for me in Chi
cago," he used to say, SO he moved to
St. Louis, carrying no excess baggage
in the way of money, opened an office
as a broker in the iron and steel busi-
ness and began to spy out the land.
Seven or eight years ago Mr.. Gates
health, which he had treated as cava-
lierly as he had his fortune, began to
break and rumors of his retirement
began to be heard. He had removed
to New York in the meantime and
opened expensive offices in the Wall
street district with his son, Charles T..
Gates, and a number of other part
ners. This firm was the center of
many large operations. According to
one story, he won s5,000,000 in one
operation in the street" in 1904 and
the next year other millions in
wheat
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
JOHN W. GATES,
F|NANC|ER, DEAD
AMERICAN PASSES AWAY IN
PARIS IN ARMS OF
HIS WIFE.
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
PNEUMONIA AND KIDNEY TROU-
BILE CAUSED MR.. GATES
DEATH.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Paris.-The American financier
John w. Gates. died in the arms O..
bis wife and his son Charles G.. Gates.
The end was peaceful and it seemed
as though he was falling asleep.
The usual restoratives failed in the
last crisis.
His iron constitution and courage
ous resistance, backed by every re-
source OF medical science. failed &c
save Mr.. Gates.
He had battled for weeks heroically
with disease of the kidneys and
when it was believed he was almost
sure to recover, he contracted pneI-
monia
Several times he was reported to
be at the point of death, but with the
Md OF powerful stimulants. rallied. The
pneumonia and kidney troubles ameli-
GRATED somewhat, but there was re-
currence Of the congestion of the kid
neys which was followed by a further
attack
Mr.. Gates suffered general re.
lapse and gradually sank until death
interviewed.
Mrs. Gates and his son Charles G.
Gates had been at the bedside almost
constantly since Dir. Gates Illness
was pronounced serious.
Genial, warmly loved and fiercely
hated, who never accepted defeat.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12

The duty has been taken off coal
imported into Canada at all ports be-
tween 500. Ont. and the Pacific coast.
to relieve the coal famine in the
western provinces. Orders have al
ready been given for 100000 tons to
Washington and Montana mines
The first division of the revolutions
ary army has entered the capital and
Immediately proclaimed General Gin
cinnatus Leconte chief executive OF
Hayti. General Leconte's election to
the presidency appears assured. The
city remains calm.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
Exhibition Of Real Faith.

William Spills little girl, who had
been playing at making mud pies.
aided by tiny sprinkling can for q
reservoir, ran to her father as he
alighted from a car, bearing a pack
age of dry-cleaned wearing apparel.
Pointing to her muddy little boots
Father Spill admonished his tiny
daughter, impressing her with the
value of a neat appearance.
That night the young lady offered
her usual prayer with great earnest
ness. And don't forget dear Lord"
she prayer fervently, "to dry-clean
our street, and my shoes. for Jesus
sake, amen!"-Cleveland Leader.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
Union Pacific Asks Injunction.

Denver.-In a complaint filed in the
United States Circuit Court, the Union
Pacific Railroad Company asks an In
junction restraining the Board OF
County Commissioners OF Weld coun'
ty, w. r. Patterson, county treasurer
and S. J. McAfee, sheriff, from max
ing the railroad pay s5S.0S5-30 taxes.
The company contends it should pay
$23,234l2 less than that amount.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
An Undefinable Definition.

A few days after school opened in
the spring a teacher in Brooklyn
school was testing the members of
one OF her old classes on what they
had remembered of the definitions she
had taught them during the preceding
term. Finally she asked the bright
boy Of the class this question:
Now, Robert, tell me what a hypo-
critic is?"
"a hypocrite." replied Robert with
out hesitation, Is kid wat comes to
school wit smile on his mug"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
Hot Time in Pueblo.

Pueblo.-Charges OF graft by spec
tators and reports of liars" by Alder
man Keating marked the passing OF
the ordinance providing $250.000 for
water Improvement bonds for filtra-
ton plant, which was passed over
Mayor Vests veto by the City Coun-
ell. Alderman Martel was not present
at the meeting. The ordinance was
passed two weeks ago by vote OF /
to !.
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w..s.r. Newspaper Union New, Service
COMING EVENTS.

Lamar
Aug. 29.-K of p. Grand Lodge En-
campment Canon city.
August 30-September 2-Fair aho
Races. Glenwood Springs
September 40 Arkansas NaAey
September s-s-Yuma County Fair.
Wray
September 11-ls-Delta County Fair
Delta
September u-ls-Fremont County
Fair. Canon City.
Sept. Is-2l-Annual meeting Masonic
Bodies OF Coiorado-Denyer-
Sept 2l-22-Annual meeting order oi
Eastern Star-Glenwood Springs:
Oct 14-2l.-Second Annual Sho"
Colorado Electric club. Denver
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
Railroads to Fight Demands.

Chicago.-Railroads of the West
will present united front in combat.
ing with every means at their com
mand the demand made by shop work
ers for increased pay and changes in
working conditions that would drain
their treasures OF $50,000,00O a year
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
No Money to Fight Scabies.

Denver-An appropriation made by
the state Legislature to be used in
Joining with the federal officers in
fighting the spread OF COW mango or
scabies in this state is unavailable be
cause OF the crippled condition OF the
states finances. The appropriation
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
Senate Passes Statehood Bill.

Washington. - The bill granting
statehood to New Mexico and Arizona,
legislation that has been for many
years the dream of the people of those
territories, was passed by the Senate,
SO to Is, after rejection of the Nelson
amendment which proposed striking
out of the Arizona constitution its ju-
dietary recall provision.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
Reapportionment Bill signed

Washington.-Mr. Taft signed the
reapportionment bill, under which the
House of Representatives is increased
from 391 to 433 members.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
Rocky Ford Cantaloupes.

Rocky Ford.-The general condition
of the cantaloupe crop is most favo.'
able in this section. The early mel
ons are now reaching the Eastern
markets by express shipments.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-08-12
THE TRUTH ABOUT sLuiNo.
Talk No, II.

The well often runs dry where they
make bottle blue. It's easy to see.
Only a little quantity, say half cent
or a trifle more. In the double
strength kind and a large bottle OF
water and the delusion is completed.
Buy RED CROSS BAG BLUE. Get
4 pure blue. Makes clothes snowy
white. ASK YOUR GROCER
The evening world., 1911-06-12

~ Manhattan. lie succeeds Lewis r..
Birdseye. His sslary has not yet been
fixed. Birdseye received Sa.6OO.