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The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
WESTERN.

Unusually cold weather for this sea
son of the year is reported from the
Big Hole basin in the southwestern
part of Montana.
A bequest of $4,000 for the care of
an aged horse. with further directions
that 1t never be sold or worked. is con-
tanned in the will of Mrs. Ellen Null
veil. filed in Chicago.
The domestic science classes at :he
are sacred to women. Harley Greaves
and John Short, two students promi-
nent in college affairs. have enrolled
themselves in the cooking classes.
Actual mobilization of the Pacific
fleet began at San Diego. Calf. when
the cruiser California, flagship of the
commander-in-chief, Rear Admiral
Chauncey Thomas. entered the harbor
and cast anchor within a stones
throw of the docks.
The family of DIR. Thomas A. Perrin.
physician of San Jose. Calf. accord
ing to advices just received from
Brantford. Ontario, Canada. has es-
tablished claim to $4.50o.oOO in the
Bank of England, which has been ly-
ing idle for more than 500 years.
Superior Court Judge John F. Main
was waylaid and horse-wh,pped at the
court house in Seattle by Mrs. Chris
tion M. Olson, who had lost case
involving title to some property in
Judge Mains court. Mrs. Olson sue.
ceeded in striking the amazed judge
on the head twice.
Fort Worth & Denver City passen-
ger train No. 5. northbound. was
wrecked one mile west of Bellevue
Tex. Engineer Cunningham is dead
and his fireman. W. C. Gates, of Fort
Worth, and score of passengers re
ported injured. Spreading rails caused
the wreck.
Almost 100000 women will be eli
gible to vote for President OF the Unit
ed States in 1912. Those women are
to be found in the six Western states
which have already granted equal suf
frage. The number of women in each
state who are eligible to vote is about
as follows: California. 100000: Colo
RADIO. 100000; Idaho. $4,000: Utah. 65.
600; Washington. 100000. and wy
oming. $4,000. or a total 90 a'e Ho'
| There are in the United States today
Just nineteen states tn.. n-.~ -
form of woman suffrage. although
some cities in them have. Kentucky
was the first state in this country to
give women the right to vote.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
GEM RAJ.

Miss Fola La Toilette. daughter of
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin, was
iarried at her home in Washington
to George Middleton of New York.
Joseph Pulitzer. proprietor of the
New York World and the st. Louis
Post dispatch. died aboard his yacht,
the Liberty, in Charleston, S. c.. har-
Dor. The immediate cause of Mr.. Pull
tiers death was heartgfailure.
Secretary Fisher of the Interior De-
partment has announced himself as
unqualifiedly in favor of the retire
ment system for the civil employees of
the government. He also favored an
increase in pay for employees in the
intermediate grades of the Executive
Departments.
The tariff boards report on the
woolen industry is to be transmitted
to Congress upon the opening of the
next session in December, in Washing
ton. and the boards report ON cotton
will follow probably before January.
This, it became known, is the admin
istration's programme with relation to
the big tariff fight that will be waged
in Congress this winter
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
Minor Mention.


Joseph Mikulich was found guilty
of second degree murder for killing An
tone Lustik, in Denver.
e. II. Abbott OF Greeley has in his
possession law book which has been
in his family since 1892.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Stephens cele-
brated their fiftieth wedding annivers-
ary in Denver recently.
Following the usual custom. the an
nual coyote hunt in the Plotteville re-
gion will be held early in November.
Trunks containing loot valued at
$500 which had been stolen from the
Santa Fe depot in Denyer have been
recovered.
The fate Of Frank Harold Henwood.
slayer of Sylvester Won Phul and
George E. Copeland. now rests with
the Supreme Court.
Thursday. November 2. will be Su-
gar Day at Longmont when all the
farmers and beet growers are to be
guests of the company.
As result of resisting holdups in
Pueblo Orvid Hitchcock lies in a hos
pital in a critical condition, having
been shot through the groin.
The Grim Reaper has recently been
severe on the old settlers of the Long
mont vicinity. five having passed
away within a few days.
George Edwaldt. who attempted to
coast down the cog road of Pixies
peak on toboggan sled. died of his
injuries in Colorado Springs.
Owing to the resignation of A J.
Woodruff as president of the, Ameri-
can Apple Exposition Association, E
l.. Scholtz of Denver was elected to
fill the vacancy
Effective Nov 15, the Colorado &
Southern will inaugurate round trip
fare between Denver aid Cheyenne, or
vice versa, of So, as against the 1925
fare each way now charged.
The State Bureau of Child and An
imal Protection has so far in October
handled twenty-five cases of depend
ent children. Most of the cases were
where children were poverty-stricken.
C. v. Hudson, owner of the City
hotel at Victor and employed as a
miner at the Portland. was danger
ously injured when rock fell. driv-
ing a candlestick, which was in his
hat, into his skull
The Colorado State Baptist Asso-
citation. in Colorado Springs. went on
record in opposition to the acceptance
by Secretary of Agriculture James
Wilson of an honorary vice presidency
in the Brewers association.
AS result of action taken at Colo
RADIO Springs by the Baptist State con-
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
Durango Wants Aid.

Durango.-At special meeting of
the Durango Board of Trade held re-
Gently the status of the funds voted
the state highway commission by the
recent legislature was discussed.
The people of Durango and La Plata
county are exceedingly anxious to
have the matter speedily passed upon
by the courts in the mandamus pro-
ceedings instituted.
At this time the people OF the south
west section are especially anxious to
secure state aid. The recent floods
caused much damage to road beds and
bridges along the line of proposed
state highways and the county is very
much in need of the money voted by
the State Highway Commission to go
ahead with the work in a permanent
manner
The effect of the flood on the rail
road systems make good highways an
bsolute necessity and delay in start
ing work in this section of the state
has been a very serious handicap.
There was a general feeling of dis
satisfaction expressed.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03

Several English correspondents ex-
PEELED from Tripoli for not complying
with the rules of censorship. have ar
rived at Malta. They describe the
fighting at Tripoli as more disastrous
to the Italians than the Italians have
admitted.
Reports from Indianapolis that a
federal grand jury would investigate
the so-called Mcnamara dynamiting
cases, in Los Angeles. supplied a
theme for consideration by counsel tor
the defense of John ]. and James b.
Mcnamara and attracted attention in
the offices of District Attorney FRED
ericks as well.
The Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe, mis-
sionary bishop of Alaska. has been
elected bishop of the Episcopal mis-
sionary district of South Dakota.
Other missionary bishops chosen by
the Episcopal house Of bishops we're:
The Rev. d. Trumbull Huntington.
bishop at Wu HUI, China, and the Rev.
Henry st. George Tucker. president of
ST. Paurs college Japan, bishop at
Kioto. Japan.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
Pine River on Rampage.

Durango.--A rapid rise in the Pine
river filled that stream almost to over
flowing. with the result that 1t so
weakened the temporary span of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad bridge
at La Boca that trains are unable to
cross it and passenger traffic is again
at standstill for day or two. When
the repairs to the bridge were made
Immediately after the recent big flood,
piling and timbers were used for the
new span and the former were driven
into quicksand. AS the rushing wa
ters continued to dash against the
piling 1t became weak and the bridge
settled and was forced out of plumb.
All attempt to cross the bridge were
abandoned and the train with its pas
sengers returned to Durango.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
FOREIGN.

Much excitement prevails in Homo
lulu as result of the discoverery of
case of yellow fever.
The town of Milpa Alta. Mexico,
within three miles of the capital, was
almost destroyed by Zapatietas. who
were defeated by the federal troops in
a battle which lasted for more than
five hours near the ruined town.
Reports to the Turkish Embassy in
London are to the effect that the Ital-
ians suffered tremendous losses in
dead and wounded in the fighting at
Benghazi and around Tripoli. Dis
patches say the Turks and Arab allies
in the hinterland are being reinforced
hourly.
Two important towns, Kiu-Kiang
and Sian. the later capital of Shensi,
China. have fallen into the hands of
the revolutionists, materially extend
ing the area of uprising, dishearten-
ing the government and giving new
confidence to revolutionists.
A Chinese newspaper, in an extra
edition, announces that the minister or
war, General Yin Tchang, commanding
the imperial forces, has been ASSASSIN
mated by his own troops. The paper
also states that Canton has been
seized by revolutionists. Great blood
shed is reported there.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
Secretary of State.
Railroads Under Federal Control.

Washington.-Com control OF
all the railroads of the country by the
Interstate Commerce Commission and
virtual elimination of the state com
missions from such control, is fore
shadowed in an opinion handed down
by the Supreme Court OF the United
States. The court held that hereafter
all equipment used on any railroad
which is highway of interstate com
merce. must comply with the federal
safety appliance act. In its opinion
the court held that compliance with
the federal law is compulsory on all
railroads engaged in the transportation
OF persons or freight from one state
70 another Celebrating this, 1t held
that the cars or equipment of suct
roads. even II engaged in transporta
tion within the confines of state,
must be considered as part and parcel
OF the road and therefore completely
under the jurisdiction of the federal
commission.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

\ vention. the Colorado Woman's col.
| lege at Montclair, Denver, is to be
freed from its Indebtedness and steps
taken to accommodate double the
| number of students now there.
The properties OF the Ben Hur Gold
Mining and Milling Company at Grip
pie Creek we're sold under a writ Of
execution by the sheriff, and were
bought by the Judgment creditor. Hill
dredth Frost of Colorado Springs, the
only bidder. for s2.405.33.
With $4,000 tons of beets ground
and made into 5000 tons of sugar by
the three factories of that district in
the last month, and with the sugar
campaign but fairly well begun, this
seasons output promises to exceed
all others in the Greeley district
District Judge Greeley W. Whitford
followed the precedents laid down by
District Judges Hubert L. Shattuck
and Carlton M. Bliss and sustained the
ruling made by the school board over
two years ago prohibiting any pupil
from being affiliated in any way with
| ITaternllleS or SOfOTltleS.
The needle with which Josie Meek
er sewed her blanket dress when she
was captured by the Indians who
killed her father, n. c. Meeker, found
er of Greeley, on the White river in
1879, is to be presented to the Gree
ley Historical Society by Mrs. Sarah
Inman of Denver, to whom Miss Meek
er gave 1t soon after her rescue from
captivity.
Allen Fowler. exonerated by a cor
oner's Jury at Trinidad on a charge of
having stabbed to death ]. w. Bundy.
when he encountered Bundy and
Charles Samuels in company with his
two young daughters near the rear OF
a local roming house, has been ar
rested on the charge of murder on a
complaint sworn out in the office OF
the district attorney
David Snider of Platteville and Den
yer filed suit in the District Court at
Greeley against Horace Haskins, ask
ing total of $4,000 for mental and
physical injuries and to cover the loss
of q $500 diamond ring all of which
occurred when Snider and Haskins be-
came involved in an alteration that
led to blows. Snider is one of the
wealthiest men in northern Colorado.
South Platte and other ditch own
ers who appealed from Judge Gam
ble's decision defining the storage sea
son of water in reservoirs have filed
a $4,000 bond in the Supreme Court,
putting into effect the decree issued
by that court stopping the storage of
water in northern Colorado until
April I, 1912.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
Price of Metals.

New York.-Copper-Standard dull
Spot, October, November, December
and January. $12.10@12.25. Lake cop
per, $fs.62A q 1915; electrolytic.
$12.S7k@12.50; casting. $12OO@12.25.
Tin-Steady. Spot, $41.95@42.25;
October. $42.00@42.25; November, De-
cember and January, s41.75@42.O0:
February, $41.50@42.0O.
Lead-Easy, s4.2o@4.3O. New York:
$4.07h @415, East st. Louis.
Spelter-Nominal. S6.2O@6.3O, New
York; $6.15@6.40, East st. Louis.
Antimony-Dull. Cookson's, $1,000
s.12h.
lron-Locally, iron is quiet No. l
foundry Northern, $15.25@15.5O; No. 2,
$15.00Q15.25; No. 1 Southern and No.
Southern soft, $15.OO@15.5O.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
SPORT.


Frank Gotch failed to throw Jesse
Westergaard of Des Moines three
times in an hour at the Baker thea
ter In Denver.
Philadelphia defeated New York
13 to 2, which gave the Philadelphia
Americans the worlds baseball cham
pionship for the second consecutive
year.
Harry Riede. the Aspen whiri-
wind,' and Johnny Shaskey of Wal
senburg. fought 15-rpund draw in
Walsenburg before 500 fans The
fight was marked throughout by vi
cious milling, the Aspen bantam fore
ing the fight. Shaskey used his great
er weight to advantage in the clinchcs.
Riede weighed 11S pounds and Shas-
key 100.
Philadelphia Athletics are cham
pions of the world for the second sue
cessive year. In an exhibition of bat
ting seldom seen in premier baseball
series. the American league team de-
feated New York in the sixth game
of the series by the overwhelming
score of 13 to 2, thus giving them the
four necessary games out of the six
played to carry off baseballs great
est honor. With the victory goes six
ty percent of $127,91O.61, or s76.746.37.
of which each Athletic player will re-
ceive $3,654.59. The losers will re.
ceive the remainder. $51.161.24, or 49,.
43639 for each New York player.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
News Summary of the Past Week

For the second time, Capt Klaus
Larsen of Detroit, successfully navi-
gated in motor boat the turbulent
Niagara Falls, and the great mael-
strom at the point where the stream
turns on it's journey to Lewiston.
This. he declares, will be his last
Niagara trip.
DR.. B. Clark Hyde of Kansas City
is for second time on trial, charged
with numbering Colonel Thomas H.
Swope by poison. The verdict of the
first jury which on May 16, 1910,
found DIR. Hyde guilty and fixed his
punishment at life Imprisonment was
reversed and the case remanded for
retrial by the Missouri Supreme Court
April IL last.
The annual meeting of the boards
of home and foreign missions of the
Trinity Methodist Episcopal church
will take place in Denver November
10 to 23. The bishops of the church
as well as missionery authorities from
all over the United States will be in
attendance. The meetings will be held
|
church. The first session will be that
of the home board. Friday. Nov. TO-
George Dyott, an Englishman, fly
ing Duperdussin monoplane with
capt. Patrick Campbell Hamilton, an
English army officer, as a passenger,
at Hampstead, demonstrated the pos
sibilities of an aeroplane for night fly.
ing, when with the aid of a powerful
searchlight attached to the running
gear of his aeroplane and connected
by electric wires, he flew all about
the vicinity of the Nassau aerodrome
and landed without even straining a
wire.
The governments long planned suit
to break up the so-called steel Trust"
was begun in Trenton, N. j., in the
United States Circuit Court 1t is the
most sweeping antitrust action ever
brought by the Department of Justice.
The government asks not only the dis
solution Of the United States Steel
corporation, but for the dissolution of
all constituent or subsidiary com
panies which are alleged to have com
bined in violation of the Sherman law
to maintain or attempt to maintain.
a monopoly of the steel business. -
Thirty-six subsidiary corporations are
named as defendants. ]. Pierpont
Morgan. John d. Rockefeller, Andrew
Carnegie. Charles M. Schwab, George
w. Perkins, E. H. Gary, John d.
Rockefeller, Jr.. Henry Frick, Charles
Steele. James Gayley, William H.
Moore. J. H. Moore. Edmund C. Con-
verse, Percival Roberts. Jr., Daniel G..
Reid. Norman B. Ream. P. A. widener
and William P. Palmer are named IN
dividually as defendants.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
To Move Dry Farming Congress.

Colorado Springs.-The headquar-
ters of the International Dry Farm
ing Congress here will be closed and
Secretary Burns expects to leave with
in ten days for Lethbridge, Alberta,
Canada, where the 1912 congress will
ber numbers of the Dry Farming
Bulletin, the official organ of the con-
gress, will be issued from here. The
December number. containing the re-
port of the congress here. will be is
sued early in December.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
PRESIDENT SETS ASIDE DAY FOB
THANKSGIVING AND
PRAYER.
NAMES NOVEMBER 30
SAYS COUNTRY is BLESSED WITH
RICH HARvEsTs AND
PEACE ASSURED.


westcrn Newspaper Union News Service
characterization Taft has issued
his annual Thanksgiving proclama-
tion calling on citizens of the United
States to celebrate Thursday, the Both
of November next, as a day Of
Thanksgiving and prayer. The proc
lamation reads as follows:
The people Of this land. having by
long sanction and practice set apart
toward the close of each passing year
day on which to cease from their
labors and assemble for the purpose
OF giving praise to Him who is the
author of the blessings they have en-
joyed, 1t is my duty as CHEZ execu-
tive to designate at this time the day
for the fulfiIlment of this devout pur
pose.
Our country has been signally fa-
vored In many ways. The round of
the seasons has brought rich har-
vests. Our industries have thriven
far beyond our domestic needs. the
ing enlarged markets abroad. We have
been free from the curses of pesti-
lence, of famine and of war.
Our national councils have fur
thered the cause of peace in other
lands and the spirit of benevolerce
has brought us into closer touch with
other peoples. to the strengthening of
the bonds of fellowship and good will
that link us to our comrades in the
universal brotherhood of nations.
Strong In the sense of our own right
and inspired by as strong a sense of
the rights of others, we live in peace
and harmony with the world. Rich in
the priceless possessions and abun-
dant resources wherewith the m
stinted bounty of God has endowed
us. we are unselfishly glad when 9TH
er peoples pass onward to prosperity
and peace.
That the great privilege we enjoy
may continue and that each coming
year may see our country more
fiSMly established in the regard and
esteem of our fellow-nations. is the
prayer that should rise in every
thankful heart
Wherefore. l, William Howard Taft.
President of the United States of
America. designate Thursday, the 30th
of November next. as a day of
Thanksgiving and prayer. and earn
estly call on my countrymen and on
all that dwell under the flag of our
beloved country, then to meet in
their accustomed places of worship
to join In offering praise to Almighty
God and devout thanks for the loving
niercies He has given us.
In witness thereof | have hereunto
set my hand and caused the Seal of
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Chicago, this
30th day of October, in the year of
Our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and eleven. and of the Independence
Of the United States of America the
one hundred and thirty-sixth.
BY the President:
P. C. KNOX,
Sacratarv of State
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
Live Stock.

st. -Cattle-Market steady:
native beef steers. $5.OO@650; cows
and heifers, $300@7.50; stockers and
feeders, s3.25@5.00; Texas and Indian
steers. $4.00@6.75; COWS and heifers,
$3.O0@4.75, calves in carload lots,
$4.00@700.
Hogs-Market &c lower; pigs and
lights, s4.25@6.10; packers. $4,000
6.S5; butchers and best heavy. $1,000
GAO.
Sheep-Market steady. Native NUT
tons. $S.25@S.so; lambs. s4.0005.95.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
Wolf Hunter Transferred.

Meeker.-By recent decree of the
White River forest reserve officials.
Joe Beach, the famous wolf hunter, is
to be shortly transferred to the Arapa-
hoe reserve in Laramie and Grand
counties, thus taking from Rio Blanco
county the man, who by his wonderful
work, assisted in bringing the stock
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
Asks Restoration Of Valuable Farm

Pueblo.-Stating that advantage
was taken of her poor eyesight. Mrs.
Jean Wilkinson filed suit in District
Court. asking the restoration of
farm near Pueblo valued at $4,000
which, she alleges. was taken from
her fraudulently by Mrs. Nellie E.
Bowers.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
To Paw for Y. M. c. A.

Grand Junction.-To raise $4,000
to pay off the Indebtedness on the Y.
M. c. A. building, subscription cam
paign to run ten days will commence
November goth.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03

industry here up to the highest point
OF productivity and profit. The wolf
is of all predatory animals the most
destructive to stock. In the Arapahoe
reserve these wolves have become SO
numerous and are such pest that
bounty of $50 each is offered
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
UNIQUE Irritation system.

Greeley.-R. c. Wykert, living west
of Ault, has filed maps and statement
Of unique irrigation system which
he will build for his farm, combining
bitches. reservoir, pumping plants, use
Of springs. etc. at a cost Of $4,000.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
Y. M. C. A. Conference.

La Junta.-The boys conference
held under the auspices of the Y. NJ.
g. A. of Denver closed its three days
session here. The general purpose of
the convention was the moral uplift
of boys and the advocacy of Christian
training in connection with their daily
environment.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03

The Woman's Club has started a
movement for better drama for Dem
ver A branch of the Drama League
of America will be organized to place
the taboo on all bad plays that come
to town and circulate enthusiasm for
the plays considered worth while.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03

Washington--Mate advances in
the freight rates on the heavy traffic
In apples in carloads recently proposed
by the Western trunk lines and IN
diyiduaiiy by the Chicago. Rock Island
& Pacific, effective No. l. have been
suspended by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, until Feb. 2s.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
kIIIed In Coal Mine.

Trinidad. Colo.--John Buic. Slav
coal miner. aged twenty-one. was in.
stantly killed by fall OF rock in the
Hastings mine.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EyENTs,

Nov. 14-1s.-Amcrican Apple Con-
Rress. Denver
Nov. .l3-19-American Apple Congress
yer.
November 27-2s-coIorado Teachers
observation-disclosures.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Wool in St. Louis.

St Louis.-Wool-S Slow. steady. Me-
dunn grades. combing and clothing,
17Q20c; light fine. 16@1Sc; heavy
fine. 13Q15c; tub washed. 2O@26c.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03
Hay.

Hay.
Colorado upland, per ton. 1880 @1 1850
Nebraska upland. per ton. 14.00@15'oo
Second bottom, Colorado
and Nebraska, per ton. .10.00@11.o0
Timothy, per ton ....... .15. 80 q l6.5O
Alfalfa, per ton ......... .1O.U00p ll.ou
South Park. choice, per
ton .17.50@1S.50
San Luis Valley, per ton. .14.00@15.O0
Gunnison Valley, per ton. .15.50Q 1850
Straw, per ton ........ 4.00@ 500
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-11-03

Sheep.
Lambs. good to choice ...- .4.75@5.25
Lambs, fair to good ..-.-- .4.25Q4.15
Feeder lambs, F. P. r. .4.25@5.00
Yearlings, fair to choice ... 3.50@4.0O
Yearlings. feeders. F. P. R.. .3.25@3.75
Wethers, fair to choice I. 80. .3-00@3.5O
Wethers, feeders, F. P. R.. 2.75@325
Ewes. feeders and culls, b.
p. R. .-........... .2.0002.75