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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-04-27
THE SILVER STATE

sugar, rice, oranges, lemons and all
name of nuts on the free list will
help to still further reduce the cost
of living. 1t is probably true that
oranges and lemons may be regarded
as a luxury, but rice and sugar are
certainly not. If the duty on citrus
fruits is protective, by the same line
of argument that takes the duty off
wheat and apples, it, too, should be
~removed.'
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-04-27

GENERAL MANAGER FOSS
RETURNS TO NATIONAL
H. A. Foss, general manager of the
National Mines company, returned to
National yesterday morning, accom-
panied by Messrs. Harris and Gordon.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-04-27
MOVEMENTS OF NORTHERN
FREIGHTING OUTFITS

This morning Price Boyd's team
left for the north, loaded with freight
for DEMO and way points.
w. d. Caywood' 8 team left Tues
day with lumber for the National
Mines company, and yesterday morn
ing w. M. Doyle's outfit left with lum-
Der for the same concern.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-04-27

Judge J. A. Langwith, of Golconda,
has been in attendance on court for
several days, looking after civil busi
ness.
l.. l.. Bradley, one of Elko's leading
business men and owner of the Com
mercial hotel at that place, is in town
today.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
SPORT.

The Santa Clara, Cal. baseball team
defeated the japanese players from
Waseda university by a score of 10
to l.
The Keio baseball club sailed from
Toxic, Japan, on the steamer Manchu-
ria for tour OF America.
Jimmy Gardner, Of Lowell, Mass,
and Jack Dillon, of Indianapolis,
fought six rounds to a draw in Phila-
delphia.
Maud S." a trotter owned by the
late George NJ Stearns, was shot to
death in Springfield, KY. as provided
for in Stearns' will. Maud S. was 35
years old and blind.
A golf match which many persons
would travel miles to witness is sched-
uled for Chevy Chase Club links in
Washington. President Taft has is
sued a challenge to "Chick" Evans,
the Western open champion, who is to
play in the English tourney.
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.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
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
800 per cent: in the total value OF farm
land and buildings. 2s3 per cent; in the
total value OF farm buildings. 1s3
per cent: in the average value per
acre of farm land alone. 1S2
per cent; in the average value per acre
of farm land and buildings, 10 per
cent in the total value of all farm i'm
plements and machinery, $50 per
cent: in the total expenditures for la
Dor, 1G1 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 Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
Fine Clay at Boulder.

Boulder.-With a million tons OF
what is believed to be the finest kind
of clay in America within easy reach
just north of Boulder. in Sunshine
caiion, the outlook for a pottery here
is excellent. John j. Harold OF Col
den, formerly with the Roseville Pot
terry Company of Ohio. made several
pieces of chinaware from the clay de
post in Sunshine canon. 1t was ex-
amined by a committee OF the Com
mercial association. compared with
the best domestic and imported china,
and pronounced equal to it.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
Protest from Eagle County.

Washington. - Representative Tay-
lor called on Secretary Fisher to file
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
available agricultural lands prevents
settlement and depriyes the state Of
taxes it would receive were these
lands open to settlement.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
GIBsoN's ONE GOOD POINT
In the Old GentIeman's Eyes II Out
weighed Any Slight Error In
othography.

The old man had given his son q
very fair education. and had taken
him into his shop. The young fellow
was over-nice about a great many
things, but the father made no COM
ment. One day an order came In
from a customer.
Il wish to goodness" exclaimed tie
son. that Gibson would learn to
SPELL"
What's the matter with IT." In
quired the father. cheerfully.
why, he spells coffee with q K"
''No-does he? l never noticed It,"
"Of course you never did" said tho
son, pettishly. You never notice any
thing like that"
Perhaps not, my son." replied the
old man. gently; but there is one
thing ! do notice, which you will
learn by and by. and that is that Glib
son pays cash."
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
COLORADO STATE NEWS

hold its conference at Cascade June
20 to 80.
Delta is to have a sane Fourth Of
July, declares the Fair Association,
under whose auspices the affair will
be carried out.
The tunnel through Red Point south
Of Carbondale. is about finished, it be-
ing but matter of few days until
it is complete.
Senator Guggenheim has been re-
quested by citizens OF Hugo to secure
an appropriation for public building
for that town.
Plans for the new Eaton Union Pa
cific depot have arrived and contracts
will soon be let. 1t will be OF brick
and stone. 23x100 feet.
Mayor Hamble OF Colorado Springs
notified denizens of the red light dis
trict that they must vacate their
abodes and leave town.
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 1920 acres of beets
have been signed by growers in the
Loveland district with the probability
| that the acreage will reach 1880
Seven Western slope towns will
take part in the first annual high
school athletic and oratorical contest
in Grand Junction April 27. 2S and 90.
Work is progressing on the new ar
mory at Windsor. which will be fin
ished by July and opened with a ball
| Capt. ]. H. Shane has forty men in
Company E.
Oscar Vandebur, deputy sheriff at
Delagua, has been named and ident-
| fled as the man who fired the shot
| that resulted in the death of Pongrac
Culk. an Austrian miner. March 10.
For the first time this year the
baseball team OF the University of
Colorado played in championship
form. winning from the State School
Of Mines in fast and well played
game by the decisive score of to g..
1t is reported from all localities, es-
pecially north OF Greeley that the
strange worm which made its appear
ance about two months ago and
seemed to be living on grasshopper
eggs, continues to thrive as the eggs
disappear. So far as can be ascer-
tanned. the work does no damage.
The Western Federation of Miners
headquarters in Denver stands ready
to levy an assessment of IS against
each OF its $4,000 members as a de-
fense fund for ]. ]. Mcnamara of the
Structural Iron Workers, who was ar
rested recently in Indianapolis for al
legged completely in blowing up the
| Los Angeles Times building.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29

the season. Winter wheat is saved in
many places and bumper crop Is
assured. The Kersey district re-
ceived a copious fall which extended
as far east as Briggsdale in southern
Weld county. The rainfall in many
places was the heaviest since last Au-
gust. Reports have been received from
the following sections: FIT. Morgan
Canon City. Greeley. Pueblo. Holyoke
Grand Junction. FIT. Collins. Boulder.
Loveland. La Junta. Lamar. Eaton,
Kersey. Ault Windsor and La Sale.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29

wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. In
. short time I had gained my average
weight and am now strong and WELL"
Mrs. SALLIE STEVENS, R F. D., No.
8, Box 81, Waurika, Okla.
Another Grateful Woman.
Huntington, Mass-"I was in ner-
vous, run down condition and for three
years could find no help.
II owe my present good health to
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and Blood Purifier which l be-
heve saved my life.
"My doctor knows what helped mo
and does not say one word against it."
Mrs. MARI JANETTE BATES, Box
1S4, Huntington, Mass.
Because your case Ia difficult one,
doctors having done you no good, do
not continue to suffer without giving
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound . trial. It surely has cured
many cases Of female Ills, such as In
11ammation. liberation, displacements,
f1broid tumors, Irregularities, periodic
pains, backache, that bearing-down
feeling. and nervous prostration.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
WESTERN

There will be two eclipses during
the year 1911 and both will be Of the
sun.
Judge Otis of Brule. Neb., has
shown that he will not allow the
Harem skirt or anything approaching
1t in 5rule.
Locomotive firemen on all the west
ern railroads are in Eew dispute
with the managers over the wages for
certain work.
DR.. J. l.. Wilson, chief surgeon OF
the insurrecto army is seriously i'll in
the rebel camp, near Ell Paso, threat
ened with blood poisoning.
Opium valued at $4,000 was found
in a gunnysack in ventilator tube
over the boilers OF the steamship Min
nesota at Seattle recently.
The supreme convention Of the
Modern Brotherhood of America will
be held in Denver August 7th TO
August 18th this year.
The 100000 announced broadcast as
the aggregate of rewards for the cap
ture of the Los Angeles Times dyna
miters has dwindled to $4,000.
Marshall Edward Kirkpatrick. So
cialist, was elected mayor of Granite
City. ILL.,. a city of $1,000 people and
the next largest town to Milwaukee
to put Socialist into the chief execu-
tive chair.
The University of Iowa rifle team
has defeated Massachusetts Agricul-
tural college by score Of 1891 to
1880, winning the national intercolle.
giate shoot with fifteen straight vic
tories.
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 steamer Charles Poizat, oper-
ating between Manila and Corregidor,
foundered in a typhoon. 1t is esti-
mated that fifteen persons were
drowned. Fishermen rescued a num-
ber of the crew and passengers. One
American is missing.
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 10 no explanation Of the phe-
nomena except the fact that the coun-
try u Of volcanic formation.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29

In four years Chicago has received
more than $6,000.0O0 as its share of
the earnings uf the street railways.
Ninety thousand citizens Of the
United States have petitioned Congress
to withdraw the troops from the Mexi-
can border.
The New York Senate passed the
Wagner resolution ratifying the pro.
posed income tax amendment to the
federal constitution.
A decrease of one billion feet in the
total production Of timber in New
York state the past year is reported
ty the state forest commission.
A trunk filled with gold watch cases
valued at $4,000, consigned to a 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, paid $150.000 for Velasquez's "Por
trait of Young Ecclesiastic."
The International balloon race will
start from Kansas City October 5th,
George NJ. 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 DR.. B. Clark Hyde. in
whose behalf the Supreme Court of
Missouri recently reversed a verdict
convictfng him of the murder of Col
Thomas B. Swope in Kansas City and
remanded the case for a new trta,
filed a petition for a writ of habeas
corpus for the physician.
Against the advice of Superintend.
ent Hotchkiss Of the State Department
of insurance and of its trustees. the
Equitable Life Assurance Society nv
vote of its board Of directors. elected
William A. Day Of New York, J. Pier.
pont Morgan's candidate. to succeed
the late Paul Morton as president os
the society. at salary of $50 900 a
year. as against the $4,000 a ve.r
paid to Mr.. Morton.
Although forced out of the position
himself George J. Gould opposing tn.
Observation-Disclosures interests caused
the election OF B. F. Bush as pre.,.
dent Of the Missouri Pacific railway.
defeating David r. Francis, forme,
governor Of Missouri. Mr.. Bush Is
president Of the Western MARYLAND
railway.
Win Potter, 4 negro, was the cen.
tral figure in a tragedy in Livermore
Ky. when fifty citizens dragged him
upon the opera house stage and after
hanging him. r'ddled the body with
bullets.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
Minor Mention.

A first class ball team is to be or
ganized at Kersey.
Denver will have a new Union de-
pot two years hence.
About $4,000 has been subscribed
for the Eaton cannery.
The new ice plant at Kersey is now
ready for business.
War is to be waged by Denver
against fake eyeglass dealers.
Denver recently won a ten-inning
game rom Lincoln. score ! to 0.
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.
Plans are under way for organiza
ton of a brass band in Grand June
tion.
The Weld County Bar Association
was organized recently with twenty
members.
Peter Stoehr. aged IS, dropped dead
at his home in Montrose from heart
disease
hc -Olu eOu I'll TIeS-
nall OF near Rocky Ford was drowned
recently.
The School OF Mines graduating
class has been doing mill work at Ida
no Springs.
Fire destroyed 200 feet of the East
Evans 6o0-foot bridge doing probably
$4,000 damage.
Two hundred thousand fish will be
placed in the headwaters Of Mesa coun-
ty streams this summer.
Jack Reynolds OF Omaha fell un-
der train at Grand Junction and
had one foot cut off.
The baseball team from the Univer,
sity Of Kieo OF Japan has asked for
a game in Grand Junction May S.
special train carrying 100 work
ers to the sugar beet fields of Mont
rose and Delta has gone from Denver.
Mrs. G. S. Barnes, aged eighty-three.
one of the best known residents and
pioneers of Colorado Springs is dead.
While digging a well near Num-. F.
A. Carr struck stream which has an
amber color and which foams like
beer.
The second fire within a year WIS.,
tied the Monroe paint shop in Trini-
dod and damaged building and stock
$4,000.
Mrs George p Avery has an
nounced her candidacy for the school
board OF Fort Collins at the election
next month,
The national board Of the Young
Women's Christian Association has an
nounced that the Western division will
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
Bio Men Facing Jail.

Springfield, Ill-Edward Tilden Of
Chicago, president of the National
Packing Company, reputed custodian
of the alleged 100000 bribery fund
used in connection with the election of
United States Senator William Lori
mer is charged with contempt by the
Illinois Senate Lorimer bribery investi
cation committee. The contempt
charge is the result of the refusal Of
Tilden to appear before the committee
and produce his books showing his ac-
counts during the reputed time of the
collection of the alleged Lorimer brib-
cry fund. In addition to Tilden, Geo.
NJ. Benedict, cashier of the Drovers
National bank, and William c. Cum
mings, president of the Drovers Saw
ings and Trust Company. both of Chi
cago. were declared to be in contempt
by the committee for refusal to ap-
pear and testify and produce bank
documents demanded by the commit
tee
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
FoaEioN.

In a 300-foot fall OF his Farman bi-
plane Captain Edward Tarron of the
army engineers was instantly killed in
Paris.
The city hall at Schaerbeck. a 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 it.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
THE WEEKS NEWS EPITOMIZED

Frank Pierce, assistant secretary of
the interior. has rendered his resigna-
tion and it was accepted by President
Taft.
Governor Hadley of Missouri vetoed
the bill which sought to prevent re-
duction in passenger rates In that
state.
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, 900
inherited by the present administra-
tion has been wiped out.
President Taft's Canadian reciproc,-
ty agreement. supported by all but a
handful OF Democrats. and opposed by
a majority of the Republicans, passed
the House of Representatives by a
vote Of 265 to SO.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has concluded another weekly
duty of handing down decisions with
out announcing opinions in either the
Standard Oil or the tobacco suits un-
der the Sherman antitrust act.
A plea to all Unitarians to provide
in Washington a 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.
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.
Race issues are to be raised in the
House ~in the near future, il several
Democratic members from the South
have their way. Representative Rod
denberry of Georgia announced that
he had prepared a bill prohibiting me-
groes from eating in the House res
taurant.
With the resignation Of Edward C..
Kinney as chief law officer Of the
Reclamation Service, to take effect
May 1st, all the officials of the Inte-
rior Department who figured promi-
nently in the Ballinger-Pinchot inves-
tigation. have now severed their con-
nection with the service.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
CHARGED WITH
KIDNAPPING
DETECTIVE BURNS AND OTHERS
HELD IN INDIAN
APOLlS.
UNDER $4,000 BOND
LABOR OFFICIALS AND ORGANlZ-
ERS HAVE COME IN LARGE
NUMBERS.

napolis.-Detectiye w. j. Burns
has been served with warrant charg-
ing him with completely in the kidnap-
ping OF j. ]. Mcnamara, secretary
treasurer OF the International Assocl-
alton of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers.
Three attorneys. arraigned on the
same charge, spent two hours in jail
because OF delay in obtaining bonds.
They are Walter Drew and j. A. q.
Badorf OF New York, counsel and as
sistant counsel for the National Erect
ors' Association, and Joseph Ford, as
sistant district attorney OF Los An
geles.
Burns was arrested while going to
the court OF Justice Manning to surren-
der himself. He was released under
$4,000 bond to appear before the
grand Jury and was subpoenaed to
testify later.
Drew, Badorf and Ford were re-
leased under bonds of the same
amount. They waived preliminary
examination and were bound over to
the grand jury.
Frank Fox, chauffeur charged
with assisting in the alleged kid
mapping of Mcnamara, in that he had
driven the automobile in which Nc
Namara was taken from here last
Saturday, was released under $4,000
bond TO appear before the grand jury,
Constables with John Doe" warrants
are said to be seeking some Of Burns
assistants.
These incidents and the continuing
OF the investigation by the Marion
county grand jury were the develop
ments in the investigation into the al
legged conspiracy to collect dynamite
here to blow up structures being
built by "open shop" contractors and
OF second alleged plot to discredit
the Association OF Bridge and Struc-
tural Iron Workers by planting" dy-
Mantle and other evidence against it
and by "railroading" to California its
secretary, ]. J. Mcnamara.
Officials and organizers OF labor un-
ions have come to Indianapolis from
other cities in large numbers since the
arrest of ]. j. Mcnamara. and dem
onstration OF ill-feeling against Drew
and Ford was made at Justice Man
ning's court when constables took
them to the county jail.
After executive conferences OF ma
tional officers OF several labor organ
izations here it was announced that
definite plans will be made for the as
sistance of the Bridge and Iron
Workers Association in defending
itself and its secretary, J. ]. McNa-
mara.
State Representative John J. Kee-
gan. who is connected with the ma
tional organization OF the Machinists'
Union. and who made the affidavits al
leging kidnapping. said the arrests Of
the private detectives and unofficial
investigators was not a "grandstand
play" on the part of labor organiza-
tions.
1t is intimated the grand jury pur-
poses to learn IL the police officials
and Police Judge Collins exceeded
their authority in the part they took in
the arrest and extradition of McNa-
mara.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
Oppose Prize Givinq.

Greeley.-Believing prize giving at
fairs, picnics and card parties fosters
the spirit OF gambling and later de-
yelops poker fiends and race track
habitues. ministers of Greeley have TAX
en- firm stand against any and all
forms Of prize gatherings and from
nearly every pulpit there will follow
a general campaign against games Of
chance.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
Governor Appoints Committee.

Denver.-Gov. Shafroth has appoint
ed the committee to investigate and
report on the taxation of the public
lands lying within the state. This COM
mittee was called for in resolution
passed by the Senate. The members
are Franklin f. Carringer, DELPHI E.
Carpenter. B. r. Napier, l.. A. Hollen-
beck, L. J. Williams.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
Convict Labor Arrives.

Grand Junction-As a direct result
of the Western Slope Development
congress session in March, thirty-fiv@
conyicts have arrived at a road camp
% miles from here, in the Plateau
canon, and will be kept by Mesa coun
ty for several weeks for work on high
ways
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
COMING EVENTS IN COLORADO.

June 6-7-s.-Grand Encampment Colo.
and Wyo. G. A. r.. Salida.
June l5-1S.-Convention Christian En-
deavor Society, Grand Junction.
June 20-2l.-Meetiug Colorado for Pre-
vention and Control OF tuberculosis.
Denver.
June 20-30.-Western General Confer
ance Women's Christian Association.
Cascade, Colo.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29

A minute flight by Rene Simon,
in which he climbed to height of be-
tween 500 and COO 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.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-04-29
To Appeal to Carnegie.

Grand Junction.-The board OF con-
trnl OF the Carnegie library has de-
cided to ask the noted philanthropist
for an additional $4,000. The library
was built ten years ago, when Grand
Junction was less than half as large
as now