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The new era., 1911-02-09

Major Fernham Lyon, 81 years old,
who issued rations to the Southern
army during the Civil war, is dead at
Saginaw, Mich.
Cyrus Corning, prominent In the or
ganization of the Populist party in
Kansas and identified with several
Populist newspapers, is dead.
Both branches of the Kansas Legis-
lature adopted resolutions endorsing
San Francisco as the place for hold
ing the Panama exposition in 1915.
The lower house of the Washington
Legislature passed a bill making
women eligible for jury duty by strik-
in the word male" from the present
statute.
Sunday baseball in Kansas was CIV
en- new lease on life when the House
Of the Legislature went on record by
vote of GO to 5S against any further
means to prohibit the game.
The Senate committee on public
lands has reported favorably the bill
granting permits to explore and pros
pect for oil and gas on unappro-
rriated and withdrawn lands, with the
recommendation that it pass.
For the first time, it was declared.
IN the history of aviation, an aero
plane rose from the surface of the
water, at San Diego, CAL, sailed
about and, returning to the starting
point landed on the water as easily
as gull.
o. do
general manager of the Grand juno
tion & Grand River Valley Electric
railway, has announced that the in
terurban line from Fruita to Grand
Junction will be extended east to Cliff
ton. Work will not begin until spring.
More than 5000 veterans and 200
civilians at the National Soldiers
home at Leavenworth were placed un-
der strict quarantine by Gov. Cook of
the home because there are three
known cases of smallpox at the iEsti-
tuition.
The Arkansas Valley Irrigation
Company of Denver. of which A. M.
Eppstein is president, reports the sale
within the last ten days of water val
ued at $4,000 to farmers owning land
along the company's bitches in Gray,
Ford and Edwards counties, Kansas.
The western Development Associa-
ton was organized by representatives
from all Western states who have
been exhibiting at the land show at
Omaha. The object is to divert the
tide of immigration from the South
eastern states and Canada to the
West. ~
The new era., 1911-02-09
Copyright. 1911.)

1t will be left to the House of Rep
resentatives to determine whether
San Francisco or New Orleans shall
have the Panama exposition.
President Taft has sent to Congress
a SPECIAL message urging fortificatioii
of the Panama canal and recommend.
ng an appropriation of s5.00O000 for
the work, at the present session OF
Congress.
Reports based on detailed field ex-
aminations as made by the national
forest officers, of the lands burned
ever in the forest fires of last sum-
mer in Washington and Oregon, which
have been received by the United
States Department of Agriculture,
show that the national forest timber
loss in these states is about 700, 900 900
feet.
The boycott" case of the Bucks
Stove & Range Company of st. Louis
against the American Federation of
Labor came to a dramatic close in the
Supreme Court of the United States.
hich decided it was question 1t
would not hear. The court proceeded
to hear arguments on the "contempt"
case which arose out of the boycott"
case.
The new era., 1911-02-09
FRISCO GETS
BIG FAIR
PACIFIC METROPOLIS WILL HAVE
PANAMA EXPOSITION IN
NINETEEN-FIFTEE
CITY is ENTHUSIASTIC
CONGRESS GIVES PREFERENCE TO
THE WESTERN CITY OVER
NEW ORLEANS.

San Francisco.-With a gala spirit
that excelled any of the far-famed fes-
tivals ever held in this city, San Fran
cisco celebrated the adoption by the
House of Representatives in Washing
ton of the resolution naming the me-
tropolis of the Pacific as the site of
the Panama-Pa Pacific International Ex-
position, to be held in 1915, to COM
memorate the opening of the Panama
canal.
The receipt of the news was re-
ceived with a burst of enthusiasm sell
dom witnessed even in the spontane-
Gus West.
The firing of bombs from the news
paper buildings announced the victory
to the expectant city and was the sig
nal for the sirens and steam whistles
OF every craft in the harbor and from
the factories and power plants on
land.
AS by magic the great steel and
granite piles of the business district,
reared since the fire in 1906, which
destroyed $4,000 buildings, broke out
in bunting, wreaths and pennants, and
from every flagstaff fluttered the ma
tional colors.
The courts adjourned in the midst
of testimony and arguments. unable to
keep within bounds the enthusiasm OF
their pupils, the city's schools closed
spontaneously and gave the children
half-holiday in honor of the event:
while downtown staid merchants
threw business to the winds and
danced in the streets to the music OF
brass bands which suddenly appeared
from various directions and paraded
the streets during the afternoon. The
central telephone offices were fairly
aglow with the little red lights of sub
scribers ringing in and asking for de-
tails of the vote in Washington.
1.-THE Fair Is Ours!" was the cry
everywhere, and it was fully an hour
before the downtown section of the
city settled down to routine business
again, while in the clubs, cafes. the
atres and on the streets impromptu
celebrations continued during the af-
ternoon and night.
The vote of the House was 1873 to
159, in favor of San Francisco.
The new era., 1911-02-09
COLORADO STATE NEWS

I The 100000 French loan for the
Denver Reservoir & Irrigation Com
pany has been authorized by Judge
After a three days session at the Al
bany hotel in Denver, the annual con
vention of the Colorado Retail Hard
ware & Implement Association came
to a close.
AS the result of an alteration over
mining matters, c. B. Baker shot and
1t is believed fatally wounded David
Parks, at Copperfield. in the western
part of Fremont county.
M. D. Thatcher. president of the
Capitol National bank of Denver and
of the First National bank of Pueblo
has purchased control of the Ameri'
can National bank of Alamosa.
Official notification has been re.
ceived by Superintendent Burkin OF
the Teller Indian Institute at Grand
Junction that the school will be closed
June 30th as government school.
The first batch Of deeds of trans.
fer of real estate to the Colorado &
Southern railroad for it's right of way
for the Wellington-Cheyen connect
ing link has been filed with the coun-
ty clerk for record at Fort Collins.
For four days. Thursday, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, February 9th.
10th, 11th and 18th men from all sec
tions of the state will be gathered in
Fort Collins for the twenty-fourth an
maui state, convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association.
In the recent state bar examination
In Denver, the results of which were
announced recently, the highest per-
centage made by any of the twenty
six applicants was made by Butler Dis
man of Salida, his percentage being
SS.2.
H. Med. Thompson, late city clerk
of Montrose, who has been found
short $4,000 in his accounts by Ex-
pert Harry F. Munix, has confessed to
correct and made a clean breast of the
whole affair.
That the government is interested
In reservoir projects in northern Colo
Iado, is evident from the visits of en-
gineers from the department of the in
terror looking over reservoirs built,
and the sites of those to be con-
structed.
Hildreth Frost, a prominent young
attorney and captain of Company A. N.
G. C. of Colorado Springs, maintains
that the city ordinance providing
against bicycle riding on the side
walks is unconstitutional when the
roads are bad.
The new era., 1911-02-09
Ex-Gov. Haskell Loses.

Guthrie, Okla.-Judgment in favor
OF Cornelius S. Loder of New York
City, against former Governor G. N.
Haskell of Oklahoma for $4,000 and
interest since February, 1900, and
costs, was rendered here by Judge Cot
teral of the United States Circuit
Court. The interest amounts to about
$4,000 The principal represents the
amount due from Haskell to the
Illinois Steel Company on loan made
to Haskell in 1898 to promote the
Lima & Northern railroad in Ohio.
The new era., 1911-02-09
sIo Snow slide Near Monarch.

Salida.-The first snowslide of the
season in this section occurred at Mon
arch, twenty miles west of Salida, in
jured one man, George Barnes, who
had the novel experience of riding
down a hill, 1000 feet at lightning
speed. One hundred and fifty feet Of
the Madonna tramway was taken out
and it will be necessary to close down
No. 4 level of the mine until the tram
can be repaired. 1t was on this hill
that a big slide ran two years ago,
practically wiping out the little town
The new era., 1911-02-09
Minor Mention.

The Ingleville mine at Trinidad has
suspended operations indefinitely.
| The business men of Grand Junction
have organized a social club.
The total tax levy for 1910 in Ric
Grande county is $140,904.10.
Mrs. w. H. Conklin. aged Sc, and q
resident of Sterling for thirty years, is
dead
Edgar Buchanan has been reelected
president of the Durango Board OF
Trade.
Greeley has organized a motor
cycle club with charter membership
of twenty.
Walter Cheney of Leadville, with
his bare hands captured a bobcat and
Gagged it.
The residence of William Orwig in
North Cripple Creek was burned, with
loss of $1,000.
Sadie Carter of Pueblo has made
application for position on the fire
department of that city.
A banquet and dance will be given
by the New York Society of Colorado
February 10th, in Denver.
The Colorado & Southern has signed
contract for joint use of the Santa
Fe track from Pueblo to Denver.
An examination for clerk and car
rier will be held at the postoffice in
Sterling on February II, 1911.
Trinidad will perhaps receive rec
ognition from the Santa Fe in being
made Colorado common point.
In the wrestling match in Denver re.
Gently between Hackenschmidt and
Westerguard, the former won after a
hard contest.
James White, veteran of the Civil
War, pioneer of Georgetown and a
resident of Clear Caeek county since
1872, is dead.
The sixth annual banquet of former
Fennsylvanians now resident in Den.
yer was held at the Brown Palace ho.
rel January 3Oth.
Several settlements of Oklahoma
farmers will be established in the
Crow Creek district, east of Greeley,
next spring.
Raising OF hogs is an important in.
dustry in the Hayden valley. The
Cary ranch has 400 or 500 and has pu.
in a packing plant.
The new pavilion erected under the
management of the Celtic Club in Flo
renee was formally opened recently
with big dance.
For the first time in thirty-six years
Judge Hart of Ault has heard from
bis brother by letter written by the
supposed lost man, w. w. Hart OF
Corning, Cal.
The new era., 1911-02-09
Great Double Track Plan.

New York.-The executive com
mittee of the Union Pacific and South
ern Pacific lines have voted to COM
piete double-tracking of the lines from
They also voted to double-track the
Oregon Short Line from the junction
with the Union Pacific main line at
Granger, Wyo., to Huntington, Ore,
also the line along the Columbia river
in Oregon to Portland.
The new era., 1911-02-09
GENERAL.

| Senator R. M. LaFollette was for.
mally reelected in joint session In
Madison, Wis.
The University of Michigan has
graduated 26,979 men and women
since it was founded.
Horsewhipping in public may be.
come the method of furnishing tobacco
chewers and smokers in Zion City.
near Chicago. f
The strike of the Florida cigar max
ers, which has lasted seven months,
has been called off by the joint ad-
visory board, conditionally.
The entire police and detective
force of Pittsburg, Pa, and of pri-
vate detective agency are endeavoring
to solve the robbery of $4,000 worth
of jewelry from the home of Mrs. viii.
liam Tbaw, Jr
| Death came to four persons while
walking on Market street, the busy
thoroughfare of Philadelphia, when a
sign on building near Tenth street,
blown from it's fastenings by high
wind. crashed down upon them.
Nevada, the last of the wild and
woolly West" is going to reform
Carson City reports movement to
carry through the Legislature meas.
tres to bar cigarettes and easy dL
yorces, and give the ballot to woman
Deposits of individuals in the 1900
National banks of the United States
decreased s191, ,566,4SS between Nov
10 and Jan. Ia situation probably
unprecedented in the reports made to
the comptroller of the currency in
Washington.
A protest against what he called
government Interference in the cap
italization of railroads has been made
by Charles G. Dawes, president of the
Central Trust Company of Illinois, in
the hearing before the railroad securl-
ties commission in Chicago.
After struggling for more than TWEEN.
ty-four hours with the testimony, the
jury in the case of Mrs. Laura Farms
worth Schnek, charged with poison
ing her husband, John Q. Schenk, at
Wheeling, w. Va, announced that it
could not reach verdict Judge Jor-
dan discharged the jurors and Mrs.
Scnnek isagain in jail to await another
! trial.
The new era., 1911-02-09

The Senate passed a bill authoriz-
ing the Secretary of the Interior to
sell to the highest bidder burned tim
rer of public lands and on lands on
which entries are pending. In the lat
ter case the proceeds of sales are to
go to entrymen as soon as they re.
ceive patents.
AS result of vigorous and persist
ent effort on the part of number of
Western members, the House commit
tee on postoffices and postroads has
added $4,000 to it's original allow.
ance for star routes = whereby the
West materially benefits.
The new era., 1911-02-09
SPORT.

Joe Hamilton of Wichita, 20 years
old. broke the worlds continuous rol.
Ter skating record. skating a total of
"a hours.
Frankie Burns, of Jersey City, out.
fought and outpointed Digger Stanley,
English bantamweight champion, in a
ten-round bout in New York
Zybszcko, the Polish wrestler, won
two straight falls over Paul Nogard in
Lowell, Mass. The first was in 32
minutes and the second in 12 minutes.
The new era., 1911-02-09
snows.orms Isolated workmen.

Washington.-The reclamation serv-
ice reports that several of its con-
struction camps are now entirely cut
eff from the rest of the world by reas-
on of continued billiards and exces-
sive snowfall. In the Teton noun
tains, at the headwaters of the Snake
river in Wyoming, $50 men are COM
rietely isolated. owing to the blizzard
which has prevailed without cessation
for many days.
The new era., 1911-02-09
Instructed In RESCUE Work.

Golden.-Believing that a mining
engineer should have practical knowl-
edge Of mine rescue work and render
Ing first aid to the injured. instruc-
ton along those lines is being given
members of the senior class of the
School of Mines under direction of
Professor F. C. Roberts, of the federal
bureau of mines.
The new era., 1911-02-09
La Iunta Is Pleased.

La Junta.-The announcement that
the potsoffice department has ac-
cepted the proposition Of citizens of
La Junta for site for new postof-
flee is pleasing news. A bill has been
passed appropriating $4,000 for the
building, and all hope the work will
be puShed
The new era., 1911-02-09
To Fight Jack Frost.

Grand Junction. = The campaign
against the probable spring frost has
been started and the watchers are be-
ginning to purchase and prepare fuel
for a three-day battle against Jack
Frost similar to last year. 1t is est
mated that over half the fruit growers
in the valley already are prepared to
fight the frost.
The new era., 1911-02-09

The San Luis Southern, running
south from Blanca. and which is ex-
rected to extend south to Taos and
Santa Fe in New Mexico next sum-
mer. is opening up some of the finest
farming lands in the Western country.
The new era., 1911-02-09
St. |. & s. F. Ry. Take Part.

Pueblo.-The hand of the st. Louis
& San Francisco railroad system,
which has more than 1000 miles OF
road in the Southwest, and which has
had Colorado territory for its main
objective for number OF years. is
seen in the organization of financing
Of the Pueblo & Southeastern railroad,
designed to connect Pueblo with the
town, of Wilson, sixteen miles south
east.
The new era., 1911-02-09
Large Land Deal Made.

Pueblo.-One of the largest deals in
real estate ever made in this section
was closed when 5000 acres. ten miles
southeast of Pueblo. was sold by c. H.,
C. L. and F. w. Tallmadge to Robert
H. Atkinson OF st. Joseph. Mo-, for
S750,0OO.
The new era., 1911-02-09
WEEKS NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS

DR.. Jean Charcot, the French Ant.
artic explorer, issues an appeal to
france to follow other countries in
honoring Captain Robert E. Peary.
There is much mystery in the death
of Prince Tchin Pomii, former Korean
minister to Russia, whose body was
found hanging in his lodgings in a
suburb of st. Petersburg.
The new era., 1911-02-09
Beef Contained Formaldehyde.

Seattle.-Forty carcasses of beef
which had been held in cold storage
since December 1. 1909, and which
were owned by five Japanese restaur-
ant keepers, were sei:ed by state
pure food inspectors and found to con-
tain formaldehyde. Warrants were
sworn out for the arrest of the Japan
eSe 8
The new era., 1911-02-09
Mysterious Disease Among Mcxicans

Marathon, IeXaS. - A mysterious
disease is killing off Mexican inhabi-
tants in settlement of San Vicente,
Brewster county. south of here. No
doctor has investigated, but in the
last week five strong men have died,
hile there have been heavy deaths Of
women and children.
The new era., 1911-02-09

In tho Blood.
Willis-Are those Kentucky horses
you bought scared of autos?
Gillis-No, indeed. They never no
tice a train either. but can't get
them used to sprinkling-cart to save
my nfe!-Puck. pfIr
The new era., 1911-02-09
Maryland College Burns.

Baltimore.-The Maryland College
for Women at Lutherville was practi-
cally destroyed by fire, entailing loss
CT 100000.
The new era., 1911-02-09
FOREIGN.

Owing to the prevalence of the
plague, railway traffic in North China
has ceased.
The new era., 1911-02-09
His Opinion.

Nephew-What do you think Of the
operAf sgEsN f 70
Uncle Josh-Them women in tn
boxes ought to be able to raise enough
money on their diamonds to buy some
clothes with. by links!
The new era., 1911-02-09

Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle OK
CASTORIA, safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children. and see that 1t
Signature sss.s s's ., &x&2ZszA
In Use For Over so Years. ....
The Kind You Have Always Bought
The new era., 1911-02-09
WESTERN

Major Fernham Lyon, 81 years old.
who issued rations to the Southern
army during the Civil war, is dead at
Saginaw, Mich.
The new era., 1911-02-09

Senator r. NJ. LaFollette was for.
mally reelected in joint session in
Madison, Wis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
Fear of the Mob

Fear of ridicule has ruined many nor tals.
 Capt. John Frisbie, a bird man, on the day he had been advertised to make a demonstration discovered that his bi- plane was not working properly. Because of the defects of the machine he decided he would not go up in it.
 Whereat the crowd, which had paid 10 see the flight. jeered Frisbie.
 They called him coward and faker
 Personal vanity and dread of unpop- ularity made the man change his mind against his better judgment. Dread of ridicule moved him to risk his life.
 Frisbie went up.
 He came down-deadi
 Had he been possessed of the courage of his convictions he calmly would have faced the crowd with his announcement and turned his back upon it.
 But with a physical courage tGa- lid not fear to risk his life he lacked the moral courage to disregard the tauats of a mob
 He feared ridieue more than death. Like many another, he lacked proper conception of real courage.
 He is not the brave man who does things because somebody calls him a coward On the contrary he is the cow ard who is moved against his sense oi right doing by dread of ridicule.
 Recklessness is not bravery. Foo1hard- mess is not courage.
 The brave man is the man who cannot be driven to desperation or the committal of a wrong by the derision of one man or of 10,O00 men.
 The crowd does not care.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22

Washington, October 21.-(Special)
 question which has been !, ing
 some circles in Washington no little
 will soon be settled. It is just what
 place In the social life of the capital
 will Miss Alice Copley Thaw, formerly
 Countess of Yarmouth, take.
 Since the beautiful sister of Harry
 Thaw secured the handsome residence
 of the late Chief Justice Fuller and
 began to remodel it the curiosity of
 society has been acute
 Mrs. Thaw since the break with Lord
 Yarmouth and her return to this coun-
 try some three years ago has lived
 very. quietly, eschewing society prac-
 tically altogether but there Is a gen
 eral impression now that she intends
 to take an active part in the social life
 of the capital this winter.
 The lavish manner in which changes
 have been made in the Fuller man. sion lends to their report an appear ance of truth.
 Home coming is progressing in many quarters, and long boarded house fronts are taking on a more hospitable
 aspect The fashionable hostelries of the city have their usual number of temporary residents, some stopping 10 open their homes for the occupancy of their own families during the coming s season; some to turn them over to new tenants, and others simply to arrange some detail of their nenage for the coming winter before beginning an au- tumn visit elsewhere. Mrs. Letter was anon g. those who made flying visit to Washington recently. an interlude to the closing of her summer home in Beverly Farms and her departure for England, where she will spend the au- tumn with her daughters. Mrs. Colin Campbell and the Countess of Suffolk. Mrs. Stimson, wife of the Secretary of War, was another arrival coming to take possession of the home in Six teenth street, leased from Mrs. churchill Candee for the next two years. The house, which was only re- gently finished, will take it's place this season among the "Wednesday homes, with one of sthe most distinguished Hooking wofnens in the cabinet circle to dispense it's hospitalities.
 Mrs. stephen B.. Elkins and Miss Katherine Elkins also were among the arrivals stopping to superntend the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
TripoIi and Turkey

The Vatican, which is quoted by press agencies as in sympathy with Italian en- terprise in Tripoi, has determined to maintain an attitude of the most reserve. Negotiations have been in progress for some time past for the establishment of official diplomatic relations between his Holy See and Turkey, and the Vatican has delayed completing them hitherto ou; of consideration to France which still claims the right to protect Christians in the Turkish dominions But both the fScpe and tine Secretary of State are most anxious not to do or say anything in the present crisis which would off, fend Turkey. Hence there is no founda- ton for the stories that the Vatican has pronounced in favor of Italy.
 Private information enables us to an- nounce that the present crisis in Europe, which is regarded by the Holy See as the n ost dangerous in a century. is destined to produce one of the most important documents of the present Pontificate. The letter on peace addressed to Mgr Faconio, the Apostolic Delegate to Washington, last June, Is only a prelinii- nary to an Encyclical addressed to tle whole world and dealing with the ques- tfon of International peace. In it the Pontiff after describing what the Popes down to the time of Leo XIII have done on behalf of peace between nations will emphasize his own deep interest in the same cause and will point out the evils resulting, not only from actual war, but from the system of armed peace which Is being maintained at such enormous cost to civilization. The publication of the document will be deferred until the burning questions of the movement have been settled, as it is felt that the pres ent state of tention in Europe would initiate against the efficacy of the pro- nouncement.