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The La Jara chronicle., 1911-09-15
ROMEO NEWS.
FROM THE RECORD.

Farley Beechrft, son of Mrs.
Geo. w. lluffaker. went to Colo
rado Springs, Tuesday. where he
will enter the school for the blind
He was accompanied by Mrs,
Mary Dalton, of Manassa
John Macon, local agent for
the Rio Graude, has been re
Iieved and viii leave on Il vaca-
tion trip soon. The patrons of
the road who hold Mr.. Ma in
esteem for his court sy and fl
deity wish him pleasant time.
This is his first lay-oif in two
years. H. j. Compton is in charge
at the depot.
Romeo friends have received a
photo showing the John McClel-
land family at their peach cut
ting sheds near Selma, California.
The picture shows the entire fam
lily as natural as life. John is
wearing his familiar won't come
off smile" Harold Nassar. son
of w. II. Vassar, formerly of Ro-
meo, is also in the picture. About
one acre of drying peaches are
shown.
The La Jara chronicle., 1911-09-15
BANK OF DEL NoRTE SOLD.

Friday Of last week one Of the
oldest banking institutions in the
west changed hands when Asa f.
Middaugh, for thirty years owner
of the Bank Of Del Norte, sold TIE
controlling interest in the same
to DR.. John McFadzean and l.. +.
Stone of Del Norte and j. NJ.
Stone, l.. E.'s father, Of New
hawha, Nebraska.
Mr.. Middaugh retains "A small
interest in the bank and remains
as one of the directors of the in
stitution. .-Prospector.
The La Jara chronicle., 1911-09-15
NOTICE.

BY agreement with Mr.. Wilder,
The Chronicle is sending out a
lot of subscription bills this
month. Mr.. Wilder never did tn s
and it now becomes our duty. We
hope our readers will help us out
by sending in the money. Individ-
ual amounts are not large but
added together they make a con
siderable sum.
The La Jara chronicle., 1911-09-15

Land owners in the vicinity Of
Mosca have petitioncd the county
commissioners Of Costilla county
to form San Luis Valley Drain
age District. " The land embraced
in the district is all in Costilla
county and covers what is known
rs the Mosca country. This same
district has an irrigation dis
trict in process of formation with
prospective reservoir site on
Crooked creek, IA tributary to the
Rio Grande. These are projects
that will certainly make the Mos
ca country one OF the best in the
valley. Center Dispatch.
The La Jara chronicle., 1911-09-15

A vas, amount of III health is due to i'm
paired digestion. When the stomach fails
to perform its functions properly the whole
system becomes drranged. A few doses of
Chamberlain's TABLETS is all You need. They
will strengthen yuur digestion, invigorate
your liver, and -ulate your bowels, entirely
doing away witt that miserable feeling due
have been perm emily ycurel-whynot You!
For sale by Citv Drug Store.
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The La Jara State Bank has any
amount of money to place on
Conejos county ranches at six per
cent interest with rearonable COM
mission.
The La Jara chronicle., 1911-09-15

When you write your friends
don't forget to tell them about
La Jara's Sugar Beet Day, Tues
day, Sept. 26.
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The steam ditching machine
belonging to Shahan q Robinson
is working day and night on lands
east of Estrella with good success.
The dredge carries its own electric
light plant and after dark presents
quite splendid appearance several
powerful arc lights and numerous
incandescents being in use. The
contractors receive $1,000 per mile
it is said, for digging the big ditch
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we'll know we are soon going to

Quite a large party of sugar
factory and Monte Vista people
We're here last Sunday. Among
them being Messrs. Hoover,
Wright, Cook, Barnett, Brady
and others. They visited the
various sugar beet fields and wer-
highly pleased with the general
outlook. They found all kinds Of
beets in all kinds of ground.
Some in ground so hard that
the beet could only grow upward,
forcing the crown of the beet
three or four inches above the
ground. In IA few instances they
found beets that had received
too much water and We're small
and yellow. In the Bountiful dis
trict field which they thought
worthy of special mention was
that of Alma J. Christensen. y
member of the party estimated 1t
would yield near 30 tons to the
acre. On the ranch of A. l.. Moss
north of town they found beets,
as one party said, big enough
and good neough, weighing from
four to six pounds and ID to II
inches long. Mr.. ID. NJ. Carr is
here as successor to Mr.. Houser.
He estimates beet digging will
begin about the 1st of October.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08

some 800 feet long by $50 wide, Is surrounded
on three sides by terrace 10 to 10 feet high
The interior sides of this are stepped so that
standing In the center of the plaza the effect is
that of a sunken court surrounded on all sides
but one, with tiers of stone seats or benches.
The southern or open side is occupied by
small pyramid about 20 feet high, which,
standing midway between the ends of the ter
race, appears to inclose the area. This pyra-
mid, because of its central position with refer
ence to the Great Plaza, must have been
much more important structure than its size
would now seem to indicate. Standing on its
summit and looking northward, a great open
air auditorium lies at ones feet. Tier upon
tier of stone benches rising around its sides,
and five great monumental states, posted
like gigantic sentinels guarding its sacred pre-
cints.
This mound, so conspicuously located on the
open side of the Great Plaza attracted the at
tention Of the English traveller and archaelol-
ogist, Mr.. A. p Maudslay, who visited Copan
in 1885, spending several months there In pho
tograhping and making molds of the sculptures
and in studying the ruins. He cleared its
sides and excavated 1t. The summit, he says,
is very small, and shows no signs of any build
ing ever having stood there. Digging through
the floor he sank shaft into the interior OF
the pyramid and found at depth Of six feet
from the top an earthen pot which contained
several jade beads, few pearls jade spin
die whorl perforated disk, and some roughly
carved pieces of pearl she'll The bottom OF
the pot was covered with some finely ground
cinnabar and several ounces of quick silver.
Fragments of human bones were taken out
during the course of these excavations and,
finally, at depth of nine feet below the level
of the plain, skeleton of jaguar was un-
covered. na
The use Of this pyramid without building
of any kind surmounting 1t must forever re-
main mystery. Perhaps here in full view of the
assembled inhabitants of the ancient city were
practiced the bloody rites of human sacrifec;
or perhaps the DEGREES of rules or the omens
from above were handed down. Who can say
now? One thing alone seems reasonably GER
tain; the close proximity and commanding
relation Of this pyramid to such vast open
air auditorium as the Great Plaza indicates
that 1t formerly played some very important
part in the life of Copan
The most interesting feature of the Great
Plaza, however, is not this pyramid, but the
great sculptured monuments, which are scat
tered here and there around the inclosure. OF
these, five are now standing and three lie pros
trate. They average not far from IL feet in
height and are about " feet in breadth. The
general treatment of them all is much the
same. The side facing the plaza is uniformly
sculptured with the likeness of human be-
ing sometimes of one sex and sometimes of
the other, carved in very high relief, which, in
places, amounts to sculpture In the round The
clothing and headdresses of these figures are
exceedingly ornate.
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not have embraced onefourth of the period of
building activity at Copan.
Again, as We shall see, the hieroglyphic in
scriptions at Copan indicate that 1t was far
older than any of the Yucatan sites, and that
1t probably had been abandoned many years
before the rise OF the great northern cities.
Still another reason for doubling that Copan
was colonized from Yucatan arise when we ex-
anime the historical data bearing on each. All
the early writer's, native as well as Spanish,
with the exception of Palacio, above quoted.
pass over the great southern metropolis In alb
solute silence; but when they come to describe
Yucatan nearly all Of them mention the two
largest of the ancient cities there, Chichen
Itza and Uxmal, and in some instances even
give brief outlines Of their history.
The striking absence of tradition relating
to such an extensive site as Copan can only
indicate one thing-that its fall and subse-
quent desolation had outlived the memory OF
man even at the time of the Spanish Conquest
in 1880; and generation later, when Palacio
visited the place, 1t had been forgotten so long
that he was unable to find out anything about
its former history except the very dubious ira
dition given above.
The ruins are more easily reached today
from Guatemala than from Honduras, in which
latter Republic they are located. One leaves
the Guatemala Northern railroad at Zacapa,
and either by horseback or cart, journeys east
ward for two days, stopping overnight at Jaco-
tan. The actual distance travelled cannot be
more than 35 or 40 miles at the outside, but
the road Is so rough and winds through coun-
try so mountainous that it takes two days to
reach the ruins after leaving the railroad. The
modern village of Copan, where one can secure
accommodations of sort, is about three-quar-
ters OF mile from the main group Of ruins.
1t Is built over part of the site of the ancient
city, and has two beautifully sculptured affairs
standing in the plaza under a large tree. Sew
eral other sculptural monuments are to be
found In various pigsties and chicken yards
throughout the village, and there is another
group OF two or three, short distance to the
northwest In the campo santo" or burying
ground.
Taking the path leading to the east from the
village, fifteen minutes walk brings one to
the entrance on the west side of the Great
Plaza, the largest and doubtless the most i'm
portant court in the city. This imposing area,
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08

opment At the very beginning of our study
of Copan We find ourselves confronted with a
grave difficulty. namely, the entire absence Of
aboriginal tradition concerning the place,
which consequently renders a reconstruction
of the historical background impossible In
Yucatan we were able to piece together some
what of the early history of the principal cities,
such as Chichen Itza, and Uxmal, from the ac-
count of native as well as Spanish writer's,
many Of whom derived their Information from
those well acquainted with the former history
Of the country. And while this information Is
often quite fragmentary, nevertheless it sheds
a very considerable light on the pre-Columbian
history of these two northern sites, and in
measure, at least, dispes that darkness and
obscurity which SO completely enshrouds al
most all the other great centers Of the Maya
culture.
Concerning the fornsr history of Copen.
however, we know absolutely nothing, except
ing the tradition of very doubtful value given
below In 1867, or thereabout, Diego Garcia
de Palacio, an official of the Audencia of Qua
temala, visited these ruins and later described
them in letter to Philip H., the then king Of
Spain. In this communication, after a de-
scription of the different buildings, he says he
endeavored to ascertain who the former in
habitants of the city were:
81 endeavored with all possible care to as
tions derived from the ancents, what people
lived here, or what they knew or had heard
from their ancestors concerning them But
they had no books relating to their antiquities,
nor do / believe that In all this district there
is more than one, which l possess. They say
that in ancient times there came from Yucca
tan a great lord, who built these edifces, but
that at the end of some years he returned to
his native country, leaving them entirely de-
serted"
Unfortunately, the reliability Of this trad
ton is disproved by too many different lines
of evidence to permit our accepting it. In the
first place, the structures of Copan are far too
numerous and massive to have been built
within the span of a single life; and its elab-
orately scuptured monuments are far too in
tricate to have been carved in one generation
with the tools available. Had that Great lord
from Yucatan" lived twice the allotted three
score years and ten. his life, even then. could
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08
Cats to Be Taxed in Munich

Though the taxation Of cats has
been discussed for some time in Ber-
lin, the drastic step has been averted.
Munich, however, has decided to put
the threat into operation and a. charge
of five marks per cat per annum is to
be made in the Bavarian capital. 1t is
not. In the first place. as a source of
revenue that the tax is to be imposed.
for ostensibly the purposes sought are
the public health and the protection
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08
Picked Berries

Fred Vosen, fishing in the Lee res
ervoir, heard on shore noise that he
at first supposed was made by musk
rat, but on investigation it proved to
be big carp.
He watched the fish for some min
utes, and says that along the shore
Strawberries hung over the water a
distance of from four to ten inches
from the surface, and he was aur-
inrissd to see the big fab bobbina ats
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08

head out of the water and grabbing
the berries. He watched the carp re-
peat the operation half dozen times.
He then tried his bait and succeeded
in hooking the fish, but had to shoot
it before he could land it. The carp
weighed 80 pounds.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08
Hope.

When l come home tonight" said
Tommy's father, after Tommy had
while In temper, upset the milk on
the clean tablecloth. II shall punish
you."
"Gee," said Tommy along about
noon. Il hope they'll give dad raise
tocay."
why do you want him to get a
raiser" the boys mother asked.
He always seems to be SO kind and
cheerful for about week after he
gets raise"
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08

of singing birds. Whatever the cause
puss is to be the object Of the tax
collectors energies and must hence
forth wear the badge of authority os
fall into the ruthless hands of the cal
catchers, corps to be formed to en-.
force the new decree at its inception.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08
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mountains of consider
able height, supplied
with an abundance of
never failing streams.
and renowned for its
fertility, offers a strik-
Ing contrast to the
pare b e d waterless
plains of northern Yu-
catan, which form the
general environment Of
northern Maya sites.
With the former the
water supply was new
er a question of mo-
ment, but with the lat
ter its satisfactory So
luton In a few places
only, absolutely de-
termined the distribu-
ton of the aboriginal
population. And yet,
unlike as these two re-
gions are, the Maya
civilization, which over
spread both of them,
was of sufficient homo
geneity, as we shall
see. to follow In each
one much the same
lines az cultural devel-
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08

Howell-They say that the new
queen likes to have her own way.
Powell-My wife is queen, all
right.
No man is base who does a true
work: for true action Is the highest
being.-Henry Giles.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08

Natick, Mass.,-"I cannot express what
went through during the Change of Life before
II tried Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. / was in such a nervous condition
Icould not keep still. My limbs were cold.
had creepy sensations and could not sleep
nights. 1 was finally told by two physicians
that had a tumOr.
"I read one day of the wonderful cures made
Iby Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
land decided to try 1t, and it has made me q well
Woman. NV neighhnrs and friends declare it
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08
ANOTHER SIMILAR CASE.

Cornwallville, N. Yer have been taking
Lydia e. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound for
some time for Change of Life, nervousness, and
q fibrOid growth.
"Two doctors advised me to go to the
hospital, but one day while was away visiting,
met a woman who told mo to take Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I did SO and /
know it helped me wonderfully. am very
thankful that was told to try Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound" VI
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08

Death and birth arr two boundaries.
Beyond these boundaries there is an
identical sometime.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08

There are men who sound like pure
gold, and then there are others whs
malse neies Ike brass.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08
Horse Sense.

"He has plenty of horse sense"
why so?"
"He never bets on one"
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08

Nothing can be so inspiring to a
human being as the idea that he is Of
value, that his help is really wanted.
Oliver Lodge.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08
Sion the Pain.

The hurt of burn or cut stops when
Coles Carbolisalve is applied. 1t heals
quickly and prevents scars 25c and SOC by
druggists. For free sample write to
J. w. Cole & Co.. Black River Falls, Wis.
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08

mas WORKED miracle 1Of LyuI@ VeSetaDo
Compound worth its weight in gold for during this
period of lfe If it win help others publish this
IetterArs. Creation 81 Main St. Nac,
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MmamlAvzpn%
@s;@Aha6sh
By Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Conn

The Change of Life is the most critical period of
wornans existence, and neglect of health at this time
invites disease.
Women everywhere should remember that there is
other remedy known to medicine that will successfully
carry women through this trying period Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound made from native
and herbs. Here is proof:
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08

The makers of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound have thousands of such letters those above
they tell the TRUTH else they could not have been obtained
for love money This medicine no sranger-lt has
ctoo the testf
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and half wide, and It Is upon this rich river
plain that the ancient Maya metropolis built
The river here flows east and west, now skirting
the northern foothills, and again having crossed
the plain, rushing along the base of the southern
slopes, modest stream, easily forded in the dry
season. but raging, swollen torrent frequently
overfowing it's banks after the rains have set in
This pleasant valley surrounded on all side by
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08

HE ruins of Copan are situated In
the valley of the Copan river in the
western part of the Republic Of Hon
duras only a few miles from the
boundary of Guatemala. Mountains,
the foothills of the Cordillera, reach
ing an altitude of some $500 feet,
surround 1t on every side, their low
er slopes overgrown with a we'll
nigh impenetrable thicket of low
trees and bushes, and their SUBMITS
sparsely covered with pine. The
valley at this point is about a mile
The Ely miner., 1911-09-08

For so years Lydia e. Pinlham's Vegetable
Compound has been the standard remedy for
female ills. No sick woman does Justice to
herself who will not try this famous medicine.
Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and
has thousands of cures to its credit.
mrp Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
80 to write her for advice. She has
guided thousands to health free of charge.
Address Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-05-31
NOT AN EQUAL BURDEN.

The income tax has been exploited
ia all imaginable ways and the Justice
and injustice Of it have been many
times pointed out. but no man has
touched IL in the same way a corre-
spondent of the Wall Street Journal
does when he says.
IF we are 10 have such tax 7 do
Dot imagine there is any hope OF
escaping the error of an exemption Of
quite large income. Now, if there
is to be such exemption, purely arbi-
trary and without any true reason,
why should not the number Of persons
70 be supported By such income be
taken into consideration? II would be
nanifestly most unfair that a bachelor
with an income ofy$1O,000 should only
pay the same rate as a married man
with a wife and children TO support:
unless congress would put "a tax on
marriage and children. Leaving rate
alone. ii would appear more just to
exempt the married man, in addition
"a the regular exemption, so much for
support. etc, Of a wife. so much for
the support Of each child according to
age and requirements OF position
As matter Of fact there is no such
thing as an equal tax when present
tax systems are honestly exploited.
and the considerations which are pre-
scented here might he applied to other
forms OF taxation. It would be a
marked advance TO have taxes laid
with more regard to fairness; and as
the trend is that way il is pleasing
20 nourish hope that our burdens
win be moro even by.and by.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-05-31
Not an INVITING Place.

There is nothing more abominably
unciviliZed than the practice which
survives from ancient days in parts
of this country of hazing the newly
married. All persons possessed of the
slightest refinement are agreed about
this business Glassboro. y. j., is one
of the places where this tomfoolery
has survived. and for years one Ray
mond f. Shute had been a ringleader
in the business. He was married a
few days ago, and his many victims
resolved to treat him to a big dose of
his own medicine The Shutes man
aged to get away after the ceremony,
but they had to come back, and the
result is thus told in despatch to
the Philadelphia Record:
Upon the return of the newly wed
ded couple to their home they were
overpowered by a company of visitors
cart which had seen service so often
under Shute's lead. The bride was
then taken to her home while the
crowd proceeded to work out its re-
venfe. Shute was first taken to the
public fountain. where he was com
PEELED to take off his shoes and socks
and wash his feet. He was then taken
To the Auditorium ball room and there
did some spectacular dancing in his
bare feet with his trousers rolled up
to his knees, to- the great delight OF
ried in q waiting automobile and TAX
en- to cafe, where his face was
BACKED and he was rorced to eat a
Sllted cocoanut pie. Some sugared
oysters had also been prepared for
him, bus the brigade relieved him of
that ordeal In another automobile
he was taken to Spring lake, about