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The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-01
Gift Involves Coal Dispute.

Denver.-There are members of the
national administration who seem to
live in mortal terror that the state OF
Colorado is going to get something
for nothing from the government.
Congress recently turned over to the
state the Indian school at Fort Lewis
and about 700 acres of land to be
used for the support of the school.
In return the state agreed to main
tain the school.
Now some members of the adminis-
tration, notably the new secretary OF
the interior, have discovered that
there is coal under this land and in
a letter to the President, the secre-
tary expresses the opinion that TINS
coal was not given to the state and
that it is still the property of the ma
tional government.
The entire transaction was supposed
to have been closed and the governor
has accepted the land on behalt OF
the state. The land was given With
out reservation and, in the opinion Oh
state officials, now belongs wholly to
the state.
Gov. Shafroth has received copy
of the letter sent by Walter l.. Fisher
the new secretary of the interior, IN
which the opinion is expressed that
coal to the value of s2,000,O0O lies un-
der the land.
Federal officials, however, have
strange and. wonderful ideas about
conditions in Colorado and Gov
Shafroth has written to all of the
Colorado representatives asking that
they use their influence to see that
no effort is made to deprive Colorado
of the land it has received. The
state in taking the land assumed upon
itself grave responsibility in agree
ing to maintain an expensive school
for an indefinite period.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-01
Water Rights Question.

Boulder-Judge CANDLES decision
in the injunction suit, brought last
December in the District Court of
Boulder county by the Laramie &
Weld Reservoir Company against
State Engineer c. w. Comstock ana
users of water from the Platte river
in eastern Colorado, should prove IL
Eliminating in a water rights contro-
versy in the Senate that has aroused
statewide interest.
Judge Gamble issued an injunction
against the state engineer and his
subordinates, restraining them from
continuing to enforce between Octo-
ber 1st and April 1st an order issued
last May to close down the headgate
of a reservoir at Fort Collins, owned
by the Laramie & Weld Reservoir
Company. which impounds its water
from a tributary of the Platte river.
The state engineer justified his ac-
ton in closing the reservoir head
gate by the law of 1901, which pro-
vides that the owners of reservoirs
shall not impound any water what
ever when the water is required for
immediate use for direct irrigation
in bitches or in reservoirs holding
senior rights.
The farmers in eastern Colorado
justified their use of the water by the
contention that water was needed for
immediate use for winter wheat and
alfalfa, and, being direct irrigators
through bitches, they asserted right
to the use of the water superior to
the rights of the reserve owner.
The act of 1901, according to New
York, London and Paris lawyers, is
unconstitutional; but Judge CANDLES
decision did not annul the statute, ex-
cept in so far as he defined season
for the storage of water in reservoirs,
which constitutes the first precedent
on record. This season commences in
October and continues until April.
The remainder of the year is the ir-
rigation season and the water. under
present law, cannot be stored as
against the rights of those who have
immediate use for It in bitches.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-01
SPORT.

Tommy Mcfarland of Chicago lost
to Jake Barada in the third round
at ST. Joseph, Mo.
Gym Henry, the Texas sprinter, will
be member of the Olympic team that
goes to Sweden in 1912.
Roy Toliver of Fort Collins defeated
Frank Brown, champion of Wyoming,
in two straight falls of three minutes
each in Cheyenne.
Knocking out Mike Schreck, the
Cincinnati heavyweight, in six rounds
at Sapulpa, Okla, Carl Morris kept
himself in the running as a white
hope" That was about all he did,
however, for his showing was not
such as is calculated to indicate that
Champion Jack johnson is in immi-
nent danger OF losing his title to the
e~-anRinaer of Sapulpa.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-01
FOREIGN.

Russia is on the point of addressing
to China an ultimation, fixing a date
for entire satisfaction of her de-
mands.
The Russian foreign office has tele-
graphed the Russian minister at
Peking that China's reply to Russia's
ultimation is satisfactory.
After a gruelling fight for twelve
rounds, Hugo Kelly of Chicago, claim
ant for the middle-weight title, won
over Bill McKinnon of Boston, in the
latter city.
Colonel Won Schlichting, one of the
German instructors in the Turkish
army, was shot dead on the parade
ground by an Albanian soldier at Con-
stantinople.
Admiral Togo, who won the great
naval battle of Tsushima, writes that
he will tour the United States after
acting as one of Japan's representa-
tives of the coronation of King George.
Aviator Louis Breguet made rec
ord performance at Douai, France,
when he carried eleven passengers
two miles in his monoplane. The
flight was made at height varying
from so to rs feet.
The British Columbia Shipping
Company's little wooden steamer
Sechelt, built for passenger service
on an inland lake, turned turtle in a
furious gale off Beechey Head, Van
couver Island, and went down with all
on board-twenty-two passengers and
the crew of four men,
The Diaz cabinet has resigned.
Following a meeting of that body,
every minister rendered his res
ignation to Gen. DiaZ. None of the
designations has been accepted bu.
on excellent authority 1t is said that
but two of them-possibly not more
than one other-will be asked to re-
tain his portfolio.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-01
WASHINGTON.

National banks of the country are
shown to be in condition which
treasury officials consider favorable,
from recent reports.
Magazines and other bulky periodi-
calls, after July 1st next, will be trans
ported by the Postoffice Department
in carloads as fast freight.
The national forest reservation com
mission is ready to begin purchasing
land for national forests in the APP
palachian and White mountains.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
designated forty-five additional post
offices as postal savings repositories
in as many states and territories.
mostly Industrial centers, where there
are many wage earners.
Secretary MacVeagh has approved
an order which will place a woman
in charge of all the mints and assay
offices in the United States, for short
intervals at various times within the
year. She is Miss Margaret V. Kelly
of the Mint Bureau.
President Taft was gratified to
receive from the Emperor of Japan a
message reciprocating the Presidents
expressions of good will and friend
ship toward Japan made to the Japa-
nese ambassador, Baron Uchida, sew
eral days ago.
Executive clemency will not be sx-
tended now to Charles w. Morse, the
New York banker and John r. Walsh,
the Chicago banker, who are serving
fifteen and five year sentences, re-
spectively, in federal penitentiaries,
the former at Atlanta and the latter
at Leavenworth.
The fight over the removal of the
capital of Oklahoma from Guthrie to
Oklahoma City began in earnest IN
the Supreme Court of the United
States in Washington when Guthrie's
claim was presented to the court In
printed brief. Both sides are to ar
que the case orally.
Arrangements have been COM
pleted by Postmaster General Hitch
cock with the Pennsylvania and Mis-
souri, Pacific railroads for a new fast
mail train from New York City to
st. Louis and Kansas City. With the
addition of this train the mail serv-
ice between the East and the South
west will be improved.
With the departure for Mexico
City of Francisco Leon De La Barra,
Mexican ambassador, who was ap-
pointed minister of foreign affairs in
the new cabinet of President Diaz,
official Washington believes the ini-
tial stage of an era of peace in Mex
leo has been inaugurated. President
Taft and Secretary Knox, as well as
the members of the diplomatic corps,
it is known, share this belief.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-01
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DolNes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

Robbers blew open the safe OF the
Bank of Prue in the southern part OF
Usage county, Oklahoma, securing
$1,000.
Many eastern states have been Wis
tied recently by destructive wlnd
storms, accompanied by snow and
sleet.
James Charles, a farmer who lived
near Lawrence, Kans., committed sui
eide by jumping into the Wakarusa
river.
Bert Ness. rich farmer. was found
frozen in a field near his home at Bed
fields, S. d. He evidently had become
lost in a storm.
L. r. Teubner, cashier of the Bank
of Tulsa, at Tulsa, Okla, who has
been missing for ten days, killed him
self by opening his arteries with
penknife on a train running into Jack
sonville, Fla.
w. A. Hawkins, Wells-Fargo express
messenger on the Ell Paso & South
western railway, has mysteriously dis
appeared and officers of the express
company state that $4,000 also is
missing.
Ammunition is being loaded aboard
the scout cruiser Salem, the gunJoat
Tacoma and the three transports IN
port, at Galveston. Every prepara-
ton is being made for war even
though the mobilization of troops and
war vessels results in nothing more
than war play.
Mail advices from Alamos Sonora
to Ell Paso confirm report that revo-
lutionists. led by Loya, slaughtered
every federal official of the town of
Guazaparas, near the Sonora line IN
Chihuahua, when they took the town.
All were placed in jail and will be
shot.
A high wind, rain, snow. sleet and
dust swept over Kansas and western
Missouri. In many Kansas towns the
wind tore down wooden supports and
canvas awnings. Telephone and tele-
graph poles were blown down, inter
rupting service and delaying trains.
In northwest Kansas snow fell.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-01
GEN ERAL.

The long hatpin with the sharp
point exposed now is officially and
legally barred in Kansas City.
From Paris comes news that Flying
Fox, the great race horse Edmond
Blanc purchased some years ago for
100000. is dead.
The club house and outbuildings of
the Hyde Park Country Club. a promi-
nent golf organization of Cincinnati,
burned. Loss 100000.
Safe-blowers set off five charges
Of dynamite in the Bank of Curryville.
Mo-, wrecked the building and safe,
and escaped with $4,000.
State Senator John Broderick was
found not, guilty by jury in the San
gamon county, Illinois, Circuit Court,
on charge OF bribery. The jury was
out twenty minutes.
To find a white stenographer willing
to work for William H. Lewis, the
new assistant attorney general, a
negro, in New York, the department
of justice was forced to promise a
salary bonus.
The sudden collapse of the Hon.
duras National railroad with its
promise of dividends of 100 per cent
a year has left scores of small invest,
ors, chiefly Methodist ministers and
churchmen in America, minus an even
$1,000,000.
Samuel Frank Emmons, nored
geologist, died at his home in Wash
ington, d. c. He continued until his
irt nf a
United States geological survey, with
which he had been connected since
1867.
The schooner Elizabeth DantZler,
which sailed from Havana, Cuba, for
Moss Point, Miss, on March 7th. is
believed to have encountered a squall
in the gulf and foundered. Nothing
has been heard from her by her own
ers since she left Havana.
Louis ]. Duveen and Joseph Duyeen,
members of the art importing firm of
Duveen brothers, of New York, plead
ed guilty to charges of conspiracy to
defraud the federal government by
making differentiation of imports of
art objects. They were fined $4,000
each.
That more than thirty men have
been killed and many of them are
buried beside the railroad tracks is
the report received from prominent
citizen of Somerset, KY, the center of
the strike district on the Cincinnati,
New Orleans G. Texas Pacific rail-
way, between Lexington and Chatta-
nooga.
The American public held more
than 100000. 100000 telephone con-
versations over the Bell systems
wires last year, says the annual re-
port of the directors of the system.
The average cost of each conversa-
ton was little more than two cents.
A stir was created in financial and
business circles when it was rumored
that a giant merger of steel, iron ore
and shipping companies will be per-
fected at Duluth, to compete with the
United States Steel Corporation, with
Duluth men and others at the head.
including Thomas F. Cole.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-01
"oueen ANN Under Arrest.

Craig.-As a result of warfare
between large and small cattlemen of
the western part of Moffat county,
which has been waged at irregular
intervals during the last quarter of a
century. Mrs. Ann Bernard, known
throughout the cattle district of Colo
rado, Utah and Wyoming as Queen
Ann" is under arrest, charged with
killing beef cattle that were the prop
erty of others.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-01
Common Point Great Help.

Greeley.-Greeley is much bene-
fitted by the concession of last Feb
ruary by which it becomes a common
railway point with Pueblo, Colorado
Springs and Denver, which allows all
homesteaders and tourists to visit
Greeley without additional fare If they
buy ticket to either Colorado
Springs, Pueblo or Denver.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-01
Ties Up s12,ooo,ooo sequest.

Grand Junction.-The $12,O0OOOO
bequest of Isaac C. Wyman. who died
in Massachusetts year ago, TO
Princeton university. has been tied
up in court by the filing of a petition
here on the part of w. S. Phillips, who
demands that an administrator for the
estate be appointed in Colorado.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-04-01
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO
ALL COLORADO
Pc OPLE
-rades Assembly Condemns Taft.

Denver. - Resolutions criticizing
President William H. Taft for his ac-
ton in sending United States troops
to the Mexican border were passed by
the Denver Trades Assembly, after
stormy debate.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-12
FIRE DESTROYS A
TEXICO BUILDING

Artesia, n. W., Aug. 12.-The Chill
dress rooming house and feed store in
Texico, eight miles east of Clovis, were
destroyed by fire yesterday. The origin
Of the fire is not known 1t was dis
covered too late to save anything of
value The furniture was valued at
about $1,000. J. W. Childress, the owner,
and his family were living in it.. None
of the family was injured. The feed
store was empty.
the way of cut glass. china and jew
elry belonging to Mrs. Chi1dress was
also lost
Mrs. Lialah Snuffer, one Of the
teachers in the Clovis high school last
year, died in Artesia of heart trouble
with which she has been afflicted for
a year or more.
A party of prominent Santa Fe Of
ficials, including W. f. Buck, superin-
tendent Of motive power; John Purcell,
superintendent of shops at Topeka, and
A Oman, mechanical superintendent at
Amarillo, have visited Clovis on the
semi annual inspection trip of Mr..
Buck.
Cap" Hill, one of the two men who
broke jail few weeks ago and were
caught at Amarillo, has again made
an attempt for freedom, but city mar
shall Frank Ivy and his pony were too
fast for him and he is now again in
the county jail.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-12

Suit need cleaning? Phone Wright
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-12
COLUMBUS VALLEY
WORKING WONDERS
Irrigation Is Doing Great
Things For Its Rich
,andS

Columbus, N. NJ, Aug. 12-Prof H.
NJ Cottrell, agricultural commissioner
of the Rock Island lines, accompanied
by his wife. staff photographer and
Alvin T. Stencil editor of the South
west Trail" was in Columbus this
week in his private car.
They inspected the big wells of A. O..
Bailey and E. S. Pearce, each throw
ing 1900 gallons Of water a minute.
They also stopped at C. w. Keenum's,
where the water shot out over the
ground in artesian flow when the cap
was put on. In the afternoon they
were taken north to see the new Glib
son well, brought in last week, which
also throws a 1900 gallon stream of
water every time the second hand goes
round. The farm of S. r. Hunt was
visited and pictures of the watermel-
ons heaped in the field were taken.
Mr.. Hunt is irrigating IL acres with
only a windmill and one horse to do
the work, and his place is a model irri-
gated farm. Other places of develop
ment were also visited and photo
graphs of crops and wells were taken.
Mr.. Cottrell said: Il have visited
every pumping irrigation proposition
Of any merit in the United States, and
this is the best ever saw"
Robert McC1ughan, a real estate
dealer of Albuquerque, is in the lower
valley looking over a location for sew
en- families. He is more than pleased
with the outlook, and not only will
recommend the location of his friends
but is seriously thinking Of making
this his future home also.
Albert Lindauer imported 900 head
of cattle from Mexico this week. They
were driven north of Deming to the
Spauialng-F Fisher reserve where Mr.
Lindauer has leased 10000 acres of
summer pasture.
j. B. Clement is out from Ell Paso
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-12

TO make improvements on his holdings
in the unsurveyed township southeast
Of Columbus.
A. B. Pettus, of Luling, Texas, is
prospecting in the region OF Columbus
with view to immediate location.
DR. Linhart went to Ell Paso this
week to buy goods for the new drug
store which he will soon OPEN
Mrs. Stepp is this week completing
a residence in the south part of town.
R. N. Poff, of Coffeyville, Kansas,
is one of the new settlers this week.
Mr.. Poff visited Columbus about two
months ago, but went elsewhere to
look. He returned here, stating that
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-12

Swift and reliable. Cactus messen-
gers
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-12

at the romantic spot, mama?
Oh, no, my child. she tries to get
some man to read 1T to her.
Is she dangerous, mama?
Oh, no. my child She gives her
game away in advance.
Are there any other species Of Sum-
mer Girls, mama?
oh, yes, my child There is the
Loud Girl that you can hear from affair."
Her clothes are screams. and her voice
sounds like a meg-a-phone, and she
de lights in banging on the piano
after everybody has gone to bed.
Is she dangerous. mama?
Only to nervous old ladies, my
child. No man wants steam cal-f-ope
for a domestic pet
What other Varieties Of Summer
Girls are there. mama?
There is the Ham mock Girl, my
child
What are Hammock Girls dis-tin
guished characteristics, mama?
The Hammock Girl stays in nice,
cool, shady places. and keeps the
powder on her nose. She is very at
trac-tive, my child.
Is she danger mama?
Oh. yes, my child. she belongs to the
family of man-devourers.
What other Varieties OF Summer
| Girls are there. mama?
There is the Picnic Girl, my child.
She knows nice places to go to, and
carries along forty-seven va-ri-e-
ties of sandwiches that she made her
SELF, and many cool bottles.
Is she dangerous, mama?
, Oh, yes, my child. She is fatal to
many men.
Is there any other variety, mama
Oh, yes, my child. There is the
Quiet Girl She does not attract at
| the hotel ye-ran-da, but she is a swell
listener, and she looks so mild that
men are not afraid of her.
Is she dangerous, mama?
Oh, yes, my child Nobody knows
! how she does 1t, but she generally
manages to snare the catch of the
season.
Is there good hunting for the, Sum
mer Girl at the summer resort, mama
Oh. no, my child, 1t is very poor.
The good hunting is in town. and the
| Summer Girls with wise mamas stay
home where the game is.
Are the Summer Girls enjoying
themselves. mama?
Oh, no. my child The only fun they
have is in sending back home picture
| postal cards to make the other girls
en-vi-ous.
Oh, mama, here comes a man. Look
| how all the Summer Girls are running
after him
1t is the first one they have seen
since last summer. my child
VIII they catch him, mama?
That depends upon how fast he car
run, my child.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-12

Watch us grow. Cactus Messenger
Co
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-12

there was nothing in the southwest
that looked so good to him as the
lower Mimbres valley. The next morn
ing he placed filing on $50 acres, five
miles north of town
During the past week the following
FL Pasoans found homes in the lower
/ Mimbres valley near Columbus: E. c.
West, Zezna Swain, c.. A. Allison, z. B.
Faulkner, w. S. Williams. F. G. A
Hoehlke. Lloyd Allen and C. E. Boyn-
ton
j. S. Anderson, of Abilene, Texas. has
located a claim southeast of town and
has hauled out lumber for building
q residence.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-12

Oh. YES. ny child, there are very
many.
What are they called, mama?
The most common species is known
as the Athletic Girl This species is
in-dig-e-nous to all summer resorts
You will recognize 1t wnen you See
it by its big feet, and Its sun-purnt
appearance, and by the freckles on
fts nose. It also has arms like mill
nosts and. as It never wears any hair
but its own, its head looks ike bill
lizard hall that is sprout-ing alfalfa
How very curious it must be, mama
II is indeed, my child, and its habits
are most extraordinary and mex
nlf-ca-ble for no matter how warm
fbe weather is. it is always jumping
about after small balls, or going On
long tramps, or rowing boat OF
doing something else that fa-u5ues
YOU even to hear about it.
Is the Athletic Girl beautiful
mama. when she is engaged in these
queer antics?
on. no. my child She gets red in
the face and mussy looking and is
most un-at-trac-tive-
Is she dangerous, mamaz
Not at all, my child. Even the
Youngest boy or the most defence-less
old wi-dow-er at a summer resort can
play with her with perfect im-pu-ni-ty-
What other variety of Summer
Girls is there, mama?
Another fa-mi-lia species is known
as the SEN Elemental. You may rec
ognize her by her soulful air and the
book of poetry that she carries around
in. her hand
What else does she do, mama?
she has a passion for hunting out
romantic spots
Does she read the book of poetry
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-12

Ons yes
child, she has almost
SIS glad rai-ment as
a fifteen dollar a
week chorus girl
Are all Of her
family as gaiiy be-
deckei as she Is,
mama2
Oh, no, my child.
Her father IS wear
ing the same suit he
has worn for three
years. and her moth
er has on her last
summers hat
Why does the sum
mer Girl have all OF
these good clothes,
mama?
Because she is
dressed for market,
my child.
Are there many
varieties OF Summer
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-12

~ H, WHAT. is this radiant crea-
ture, mama?
That is the Summer Girl, my
;hild.
Oh, see what beautiful features she
las, mamaf