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The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-06-29
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That brings US to another ques-
tion," Mr.. Grimm continued merciless-
ly. IF you did not shoot Senior AL
varez, do you know who did?"
There was another long pause.
81 want to believe you. Miss
Thorne." he supplemented.
She turned quickly with something
of defiance in her attitude.
Yes. l know" she said slowly. TT
were useless to deny II"
who was it?''
81 won't tell you"
Mr.. Grimm leaned forward in his
chair. and spoke earnestly.
Understand. please, that by that
answer you assume equal guilt with
the person who actually did the
shooting" he explained. IF you ad-
here to It you compel me to regard
you as an accomplice." His question
ing took a different line. VIII you ex-
plain how the revolver came into your
possession9"
"Oh. IL picked 1t up in the hall
way there" she replied vaguely.
81 want to believe you, Miss
Thorne." Mr.. Grimm said again.
You may. / picked 1t up In the
hallway" she repeated. II saw It ly-
ing there and picked 1t up"
why that. instead Of giving an
alarm"
mo alarm was necessary. The shot
itself was an alarm"
Then why" Mr. Grimm persisted
coldly. did you run along the hall.
The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-06-29
Llfe's l,eaI Pleasures,

Make yourselves nests of pleasant
thoughts. bright fancies. faithful say.
ings; treasure houses OF precious and
restful thoughts. which care cannot
disturb nor poverty take away from
you-houses built withou. hands for
your souls to live in.-Ruskin.
The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-06-29
County of Delta

County Judge H. Stewart
Clerk and Recorder-w. A. shepherd
Treasurer-B. n. Crawford
Sheriff. ". Williams
Assessor-S. /. Cockrehnm
superintendent of Schools-Bsl Nc
Michael
surveyor-John Curtis.
Coroner-Dr. J. +. ciaybaugh
County Attorney-Porte Plumb
County CommiHsioners-ist Dist 0~A
wilson: End Dist. W. T. Stoeis: Srl
Dist. A. l. Roberts
The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-06-29
SYNOPSIS.

Count III Rosini. the Italian ambas-
eador. is at Dime, with diplomats In
brings note directing him to come TO
the embassy at once. Here a beautiful
young woman asks that she be given
a ticket TO the embassy ball. The tex
ct In made out In the name OF Miss IS
abel Thorne Chief Campbell OF the
secret service and Mr.. Grimm. his head
detective. are warned that a plot of the
latin races against the English speak
Ing races Is brewing in Washington.
and Grimm goes to the state ball Tor
information. In a conservatory his at
,lention ls called to Miss Isabel Thorne.
who with her companion, soon disap,
pears A revolver shot Is heard and
Campbell and Grimm hasten down the
hall to hnd that Senior Alvarez of the
Mexican legation. has been shot. A wo-
man did II. and Grimm Is assured 1t was
Mtaa Thorne
The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-06-29
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PAONIA. COLO.
DIRECTORY
Town of Pnonin

Mayor@Ciarence Nelson.
Town Board-wiil Conine. p z Huff
". C c. Hawkins, A. J. castsiL w. r
Baker and IL a. bryant.
Clerk and Recorder-Myrtis Paist
Treasurer-Myrtlo Paist
Electrician and water Commissionss
w. u. Jewell.
Engineer-L r. shallenbergsr.
Marshai-Bert Chapman.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
GENERAL.

Both branches of the Wisconsin
Legislature have passed bill grant
ing suffrage to women.
Damage estimated at 100000 to
$250.OOO was caused by a severe wind,
rain and electrical storm at Danville,
Va.
James Proctor Knott, former COVER
nor of Kentucky and prominent for
many years in Congress. is dead at
Lebanon.
Prices of potatoes and other vege-
tables are soaring on account of dry
weather. Potatoes are 81 per bushel
in Kansas City.
Attorneys for the Standard Oil Com
pany are at work on plans for reor-
ganization to conform to the decision
of the Supreme Court.
The steamer John l.. Lowery. with
fifty excursionists aboard, burned to
the waters edge at Hamletsburg. ILL.,.
opposite Smithsland, KY. Loss of life
is heavy.
Mrs. Helen M. Borden, wife of Gail
Borden, who with his brother is wide
ly known as a condensed milk manu-
facturer. filed suit in Los Angeles,
for divorce.
At the behest of the Southern Lum-
ber manufacturers Association, the
Long-Bell Lumber Company, which
controls thousands of acres of timber
land, curtailed its yellow pine output
1914 per cent during six months of
1904. So testified R. A. Long. presl-
dent of the company.
The southbound Shasta limited was
held up and the mail car robbed by
two highwaymen between Drain and
Yoncalla. Oregon. The robbers en-
tered the mail car. held up the clerks
and looted the car. They stopped the
train at Yoncalla and escaped. II is
not known how much loot was Sc
cured.
A wind. rain. hail and electrical
storm struck the lower end of the vir-
ginia peninsula and left a trail of
death and ruin. 1t was difficult even
to estimate the number of dead for
many small craft went down in the
storm at various points along the
James river and in Hampton roads.
Conservative estimates placed tho
dead at not more than fifteen.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
Minor Mention.

tWtft0t WSbAsess"
Rocky Ford is planning for a Chau'
tauqua.
A postal savings bank will open in
SaIida June 26th.
Delta will have a postal savings
bank after July 3rd.
Glenwood Springs strawberry fes
tsval was a great success.
Elks of Canon City are soon to be
housed in their own club home.
Rocky Ford parties are figuring on
putting in moving picture show at
Swink.
After three attempts, Mike Logan OF
Salida. has succeeded In taking his
own life.
In fight with a drunken Mexican
in Pueblo. Patrolman J. A. Grady was
badly cut.
Prospects are good for the estab-
lishment of a creamery and cheese
factory at Windsor.
improvements to cost $4,000 will
be made by the d. & R. G. railway
at Colorado Springs.
The State Teachers College opened
in Greeley June goth with an enroll
ment of 600 students.
Most of the trust companies will
have to reorganize in order to comply
with the new banking law.
The Cheyenne Indians defeated the
Trinidad ball team in game at Chey-
anna bv crora Of IN
Two little children were swept to
death in the swift running waters Of
irrigating canals near Golden.
L. NJ. Anderson, convicted of check
forgeries at Pueblo, was given three
to five years in the penitentiary.
The Colorado National Life Assur-
anc Company has consolidated with
the Columbian National Life of Bos-
ten.
The strawberry crop around Long
mont is fair and between $50 and 200
crates of berries are being shipped
daily.
There is prospect that an expert
mental farm to be conducted by dry
farming methods may be established
at Sligo.
Frank volpe. an Italian. was con-
victed of murder at Moffat and given
a sentence of from ten to twenty
years.
Taxpayers in western Pueblo coun-
ty will soon vote on the question of es-
tsblishing the Pueblo Irrigation dis
trict.
In recent game OF ball at Wray be-
tween the married and the single men,
the former were victorious by score
of IL to /.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
News Summary of the Past Week

Representative Taylor introduced a
bill to grant rural free delivery mail
carriers thirty days annual leave of
absence and 5000 a year for main
tenance of vehicles.N
A bill has been introduced in Con-
gress, being House bill No. 7041, which
prohibits the carrying of alcoholic IL
quors into dry territory by common
carriers.
Trust busting" cost the govern
ment sS45.1S4 in disbursements to
srecial assistants to the attorney and
to district attorneys between March 8,
1909, and May 81, 1911, according to
report transmitted to Chairman
Beall of the House committee on ex-
penditures in that department.
The Senate by Ga to "a passed the
resolution amending the constitution to
provide for election of senators by di-
Irect popular vote. The Bristow amend
ment giving to the federal govern
ment supervision of such elections was
adopted, A to "A. the vice president
casting the deciding ballot. The House
had already passed the resolution.
The military committee of the SEN
ate will interrogate Gen. Wood, chief
of staff of the army. concerning the
necessity for the proposed change in
army divisions and departments by
which the work of administration will
be concentrated in three cities of the
| country. Chicago, New York and San
| Francisco.
The Senate Military Affairs com
mittee will bring the officers of the
army general staff before 1t to learn
the necessity for the recent radical
| changes made in army administration,
| by which the administrative work of
the army is to be concentrated in
New York. Chicago and San Fran
cisco.
| The Canadian reciprocity bill now
has sixty votes in the Senate, accord
| ing to the White House count. The
Root amendment will be killed by a
comfortable majority in the same
body, say the men who have studied
the situation for President Taft.
The Senate committee on foreign re-
lations decided to report favorably the
treaty between Honduras and this
country, providing for loan of s10,.
10000 from banking interests of the
United States to meet the Honduran
debt. OF this amount s7.500,000 is to
be forthcoming at once.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
WESTERN.

Fire in Mason City, Ia, destroyed
the high school building here. Loss
100000.
F. NJ. Vigil, for six years justice of
the peace at Aguilar. Colo, died OF
cancer of the stomach. He was "a
pioneer.
George Wycliffe Mcbride. former
United States senator from Oregon.
died in Portland. the result OF stroke
of paralysis.
Fire in Atchison. Kans., destroyed
department store, the Ebenezer Bap-
tist Church, one residence and greatly
damaged two shoe stores and an ice
plant. LOSS 100000.
The Kansas Supreme Court handed
down a decision in the states suit
against three subsidiary companies OF
the parent Standard Oil Companies,
prohibiting them from containing to
stifle competition.
A will leaving $4,000 for the sup
port and maintenance of a pet parrot
has been drawn and witnessed by
Thomas Billingsby. a capitalist of
Oklahoma City. The parrot is twenty
years old
Heavy rains are reported through
out western South Dakota, eastern
Wyoming and southeastern Montana.
every parched section receiving its
share. The fall was heaviest in the
Black Hills.
A veto against the proposed Morris
Flynn fight at Supulpa July 4th has
been announced by Governor Cruce
and the governor threatens to call out
the militia if necessary to prevent the
bout, is being widely discussed in
Oklahoma City churches.
A letter has been sent to each of
the congressman from Western states
and to Senator Guggenheim by the
Estes park committee of the Denver
Chamber of Commerce, asking their
support of the bill now in Congress TO
make Estes a national park.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
SPORT.
WESTERN LEAGUE sTANDINc.

kid" Graves of Milwaukee has
been matched to box ten rounds with
Pal Moore of Philadelphia at Boston
June 26th.
An effort is being made to match
Peter Jensen, the Battling Dane, and
Randolph Unholz for a 15-round bout,
at Trinidad. Colo, July 4th.
Eddie johnson, of Alamosa. Colo.
and kid" Texas. of Pueblo. win meet
at Alamosa. June 22nd, in a 15-round
contest. Phil Kearney, of Denver, will
be matched with the winner
Frank Maggold of Kansas City and
st. Louis, an expert at all kinds of
billiards. who holds the Southern
championship, is in Denver in search
of a match.
Fighting Phil Schlosberg, champion
of the United States navy, and Eddie
McGorty of Oshkosh have signed arti-
cles for ten-round bout at East Chi
cago. Ind, June 2Sth. The articles
call for 163 pounds.
The 20-round bout between Jimmy
Mcdonald, of Denver, and Howard
Baker, of Boulder, which was to have
taken place at Sheridan. but was
stopped by the governor. wili-in all
probability take place at Lander. Wyo,
July 3rd.
Two more worlds records were
smashed at the Tuileries motordrcme,
in Denver. when Eddie Hasha, the
Southern speed demon. lead a field of
four other racers for ten miles in the
phenomenal time of z minutes and 10
seconds. which is 9 2-5 faster than
the competition record made by Earl
Armstrong two weeks ago, on the
same track. Later he lowered the
two-mile mark.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
WASHINGTON.

The senatorial opponents of Cana
dian reciprocity have given up all
hope of defeating the bill.
The whipping post for wife beaters
has been instituted by the sheriff in
Rockville, Montgomery county, Mary
land, just over the line from the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Such estimates of the bids for the
governments 3 per cent $4,000, 900
Panama loan as are available indicate
that the loan has been three times
over subscribed and that the average
price of the new bonds will ruifa little
over 102.50.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

The oil wells at Akron has reached
depth OF LOGS feet and the opera
tors are waiting for more cable to
continue the digging.
plans for the establishment of an
immense duck hatchery with the use
of the surface OF large reservoir
near Greeley are under consideration.
Field Superintendent Timothy of the
sugar factory. says that of 5000 acres
OF bee,s planted for the Greeley fac
tory, only 1000 acres was lost by
wind, dry weather, etc.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for
the approaching term of the Fort
I Lewis school A dairy department is
to be inaugurated with twenty pure
bred cows.
Dummy" Rosson, who is well
known in Rocky Ford, Fowler and
other Otero county towns. has been
taken over by the Des Moines, Iowa,
base ball team.
The lifeless body of woman was
recently found near Newdale by the
tracks of the Santa Fe railroad. In
quiry revealed the fact she was a
Mrs. Trivett of Eskridge. Kan.
An unusual revival of interest in
grange circles has been manifested in
the Louisville district by the erection
of a $1,000 grange hall by the Clark
son Valley Grange Association.
Five thousand eight hundred dol
lars has been raised recently by the
farmers of Niwot for the erection of
cooperative creamery, to be devoted
to the interests of the dairymen and
farmers of that district.
PIatteyille will celebrate with a big
Fourth of July programme this year
The new race track has been com
pleted and there will be a ball game,
balloon ascension, fireworks and a
grand ball.
George Gion won fast wrestling
match from Clarence Ecklund at Fort
Morgan in alternate falls. Gion took
the first in fifteen minutes. His op-
ponent then took the second in two
minutes and the third fall was Sc
cured by Gion in thirteen minutes.
Work will start soon on an irriga-
ton project in the Big Park which
will water 10000 acres. The water
will be from Clear creek 1t will be
gravity system, financed by Grand
Junction men and installed on a CO.
operative basis.
Senator Guggenheim has presented
to the secretary of the interior pc.
tition signed by $50 residents of Bent
and Prowers counties, asking that the
enlarged homestead act be extended
to lands along Butte creek. south and
west of township twenty-five, in the
Lamar land district.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
Good Rain over the state.

Greeley.-In every section of Welt
county rain fell. soaking the grount
to a depth OF six inches and bringine
the total precipitation here to 2H
inches. as against 31a inches. the tota
since January 1st Severance, Wind
sor, Johnstown, Milliken and Kersey
had copious showers and the value OF
the potato and beet fields has In
creased so per cent because OF it
Reports from all over the county show
that the rain was heavier than al
first supposed.
Boulder.-Farmers In the valleys
east OF here are rejoicing because OF
the heavy rain.
Fort Collins-Rain fell here all day
Wellington had twelve hours of rain
and Waverley is reported surrounded
with water from an abnormal fall.
ILoveIand-Over half an inch OF
rain has fallen here. This is the first
good rain for six weeks, and crops
were suffering.
Sterling.-For twenty-four hours
rain fell here and the sugar factory
weather station reports one and hall
inches. While it may be too late for
some winter wheat. 1t is in time for
the second crop of alfalfa, beets and
small grain.
Castle Rock.--A hard rain was the
first Douglas county has had for two
months. Corn will be saved. but other
crops are pretty well gone.
Steamboat Springs.-Heavy rain
fell for twenty-four hours. This sec.
tion has not suffered from drouth,
heavy rain two weeks ago providing
needed moisture.
Montrose.-A light sprinkle fell
here. Crops have had plenty of mois-
ture and never looked better. Farm
ers are cutting the first crop of al
falfa. which is heavy.
Trinidad.-Light rain fell here,
barely laying the dust.
La Junta.-Light rain. Crops about
are in excellent shape, as there has
been plenty of water in all bitches.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
Live Stock.

Kansas City. = Cattle = Market
steady to strong; native steers, 81. 90
@6.95; Southern cows and heifers,
s2.25@6.10; steckers and feeders,
s3.75@5.25; bulls. s3.25@4.75; calves,
s5.00@7.50; Western steers, s4.SO@
$40; Western COWS, s2.75@4.50.
Hogs-Market sc to 10c lower: bulk
of sales, s5.s565.95; heavy, $3.50
$50; packers and butchers, $3.50
900; lights. s590@6.OO.
Sheep-Market steady to 1Oc high.
er; .muttons, s32j@4.O0: lambs, $3.50
@700; fed wethers and yearlings,
s3.7544.60; fed Western ewes, $4,000
$50.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23

August Clondeaux, AZ, an expert
glass worker of Ford City, Pa, de-
parted for Belgium. his native lana,
accompanied by his wife and twenty
four children.
Four convicts were killed, tweIve
morta)ly wounded and seventeen
guards and conyicts more or less seri-
ously hurt by the collapse of the bull
pen in which they were housed In a
mountain pass at Waynesville, N. C.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
kansas,clty Grain.

Kansas City.-close; wheat-July,
s2% @sSc bid; sept. S2%@s3c bid.
Corn-July, 54K@54Ac sellers; Sep.
tember. 551s@55Sc sellers.
No 2 hard. s5h q'2c; No. 3. s1@soc;
Corn-1c higher No. 2 mixed. 551sc:
No. 3, 54A @54H;; No. 2 white. $500
56Ac; No. 8. 5cAc.
oats-Unchaiged; No. 2 white, 400
4ohc; No. 2 mixed. 37@3Sc.
Rye-s549Oc
Hav--Steady choice timothy. s17.Oo
Q1S.00; choice prairie. s14.25@15.00.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
One Dead, Three Hurt in Accidents.

victor-One miner dead and three
others in the hospital here. suffering
from fractured skulls, from which
they may die, is the toll Of four acci-
dents here. William Carveth. a Cor
nishman, fell 1900 feet down the
Golden Cycle shaft to his death, be-
ing mangled beyond recognition. The
body was broken into hundreds of
parts by the terrific impact. w
Welsh is in the district hospital suf-
fering from broken skull when he
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
Weld Gets Soaking Rain.

Greeley.-Nearly two inches of rain,
which in some localities was almost a
cloudburst. fell on strip of country
ten or twenty miles wide and thirty
miles long. from Ault to Gilcrest. do
ing great good to growing crops. saw
ing thousands of acres Of wheat and
practically insuring the potato crop.
on which farmers are pinning hope for
Fbig harvest.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
packers Must Stand Trial.

Cbicago.-Judge George A. Car
penter in the United States District
Court denied a motion of J.. Ogden
Armour and nine other Chicago pack
ers for rehearing of their motion to
quash indictments charging violation
of the Sherman antitrust act. This
means that the packers must stand
trial.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
Grain.

Hay.
prices paid by Denver Jobbers F. o.
B. track Denver).
Colorado upland, per ton. .14.O0@15.0f
Nebraska upland. per ton. 13-00Q14.OO
Second bottom, Colorado
and Nebraska. per ton. 11.50612-5o
Timothy. per ton ....... .13.e0@1400
South Park choice, per ton 16.00@1T00
San Luis Valley. per ton. 10000 400
Gunnison Valley, per ton. .15.00@ 400
Straw, per ton ......... 4.00@ 500
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23

fell into winze In the Portland mine.
At about the same time, ]. A. Mutton
received a fractured skull from a fall
Of several feet down stppe in the
Modoc mine. He is unconscious and
there is little hope for his recovery.
At Clyde. near Victor. Edward Chew
was seriously hurt by a runaway
team.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
Grand Valley Cherry Crop.

Grand Junction.-The cherry crop
Of the Grand valley is now practically
harvested and it is estimated by the
Grand Junction Fruit Growers Asso-
citation that $4,000 worth of this fruit
has been sent out. The frost did prac-
tically no damage to 1t.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
svIvester r. Smith Dies.

Denver.-sylyester t. Smith. Civil
war veteran. railroad builder and
menager and empire builder, until
few years ago one of the foremost
residents of Denver, died at his home
in Chicago.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
Work of Raising Maine.

Havana.--With the discovery of
some human fragments. work of ex-
pioring the hull of the Maine for the
purpose of recovering and giving hon
orabIe sepuicher to bodies Of her
crew was at last begun after many
weary months.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
state Revenues are Low.

Denver.-State revenues are run
ming at the rate of 100000 year be-
hind those of two years ago. State
expenditures under the appropria-
tions made by the Eighteenth Gener-
al Assembly and approved by GOV.
Shafroth, are at the rate of $45O,000
to s475,000 year. greater than they
were for the same period.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23

The sinking of an overcrowded ferry
boat on the Volga. near Uglitch. Rus
sia. is reported. Thirty persons were
drowned. S
Work of removing the water from
the cofferdam enclosing the wreck of
the battleship Maine is in progress
and the vessel will be raised soon.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
Postal Bank Opens Soon.

Colorado City.-The postal savings
bank to be established here will open
June 27th. Postmaster Morgan has
received all instructions regarding
conduct of the office and is making
preparations for a big business.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
Denver Man Among prisoners.

Washington. American prison
ers captured by the federals at the
battle of Casas Grandes. March 9th.
and released from prison in Chihuahua
include Floyd A. Martin of Denver.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
prealdents silver Weddlna.

washington--Th silver wedding of
President and Mrs. Taft, the second
In the White House, came to an end
with a reception on the lawn.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23

Farmers along the Arkansas in
Pueblo county are happy at having
their bitches filled for the first time
since last September. A heavy rain
up the river caused rise of three
feet and sent the water through all
irrigation bitches.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
FOREIGN.

Johann SEVERN Svendsen, the Nor
wegian composer, is dead at Copen-
hagen. He was born in Christiania
in 1910.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
st. Louis Wool.

st. -Wool-Unchange me.
dium grades, combing and clothing.
1s@2Oc; light fine, 17@1sc: heavy. Is
@17c; tub washed. 25931c.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-06-23
Ye.tern Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS.
June z0-s0.-Wsstern General Confer
ance Women's Christian Association.
Cascade. Colo
June 20-z1.-National Association for
Study and Prevention OF Tuberculosis.
Denver.
June 2s.-colorado Association of Let
ter Carriers convention. Boulder.