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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08
WASHINGTON.

When the governments fiscal year
closed June 80 the federal treasury
held a cash surplus of at least $780,
O0o. 900.
Another investigation is proposed
Representative Raker OF California in
troduced a resolution for the investi
CATION OF the public land laws
All formalities necessary to the II.
nal conclusion OF the general arbitra
ton treaty between America and
England could be completed within
four hours, assuming that the machin'
cry was working properly and smooth
| ly, is the official declaration.
Intimation that prosecution OF Ger.
tain witnesses for perjury would grow
1T of the Senate investigation of the
election OF Senator Lorimer was forth
coming during the examination Of Ed
ward Hines, the Chicago millionaire
lumberman whose name is connected
with the alleged 100000 fund collect
ed to elect Mr.. Lorimer.
Senator Guggenheim's bill authoriz
ing the President to appoint an addi
tional federal Judge for the Distric,
OF Colorado was reported favorably
from the Senate committee on judici
ary by Senator Clark of Wyoming and
probably will pass the Senate when
bills on the calendar are again taken
up for consideration.
The Canadian reciprocity situation
has cleared to a marked degree and a
canvass of the situation in the Senate
was in every way assuring to the
friends of the measure.
A weather record for the season
was made here July End. The official
temperature was ninety-eight and the
suffering was increased by the humid
ity. No immediate relief, it was said
is in sight. Downtown thermometers
registered 107. Twenty deaths from
severe heat and forty-seven from
drowning when relief was sought in
the water, were reported from various
sections, with one suicide due to the
high temperature.
Capt. John B. Scoeffel, tenth infantry
has been ordered to Fort Logan. Colo
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lily, but tell them Of my good friend,
your Vegetable Compound, and that
there will be no bsckache and bearing
down pains for them If they will take
1t as have. am scarcely ever with
out 1t in the house.
II will say also that think there il
no better medicine to be found for
young girls to build them up and make
them strong and well. Ny eldest
daughter has taken Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound for pain
full periods and irregularity, and 1t has
always helped her.
II am always ready and willing to
speak q good word for the Lydia E.
Pinkham's Remedies. l tell every one
meet that owe my health and hap
piness to these wonderful medicines"
Mrs. JIG. JOHNSON. Scottville, Mich.
RID. 8.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm
full drugs. and to-day holds the record
for the largest number Of actual cures
Of female diseases.
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w EST ERN.

At a recent local option election
Salt Lake, Ogden and Park City, Utah,
went wet by heavy matorities. Provo
and Logan are dry.
Aviator Lemar was probably fatally
injured at Coshocton, Ohio. when MS
biplane. flying low, struck the roof OF
a house.
Fire Of unknown origin, starting In
the rear OF a saloon at hawthorne,
Mineral county, Nevada. caused loss
Of $4,000.
Fifty men are working desperately
to rescue two miners imprisoned IN
the Whirwind tunnel at American
Fork, Utah. by an earth cave.
Crazed by heat. Mrs. Maud McCrary
OF Los Angeles, Cal, killed her three
small children and ended her own life
in a vacant house in Lockney. Texas.
Texas is to have a banner crop
this year, unless indications fan. de
clared E. F. Adams, assistant general
passenger agent OF the Santa he ran
road at Galveston
Separated only by few seconds
two earthquake shocks, the heaviest
since the big shake of 1906. Jared the
central portion OF California and west
ern Nevada. Each shock lasted about
five seconds.
Helen Rumbel, IA years old, beaten
for neglecting a task, is dead in her
home near Gridley. Cal Her STEP
mother and her stepbrother. were held
by a coroners jury to answer to the
charge of murder.
Steamers down the lake from Du-
luth are sending wireless messages
stating that they are late because they
have been held by a snowstorm this
side of the Canadian 500. Forty-one
degrees with stiff east wind through
the city streets brought about winter
wraps in Duluth.
Accompanied by very heavy rains,
destructive cyclones swept over south
central South Dakota. Farmers wit
messed the demolition of their barns,
outbuildings and trees with compla-
cency, as the rain will benefit the
crops sufficiently to cover the cyclone
damage thousand fold.
Closely pursued by the town marsh.
al, a pickpocket leaped into the bas-
ket OF a balloon near Sayre, Okla,
Just as the air craft was leaving the
ground and sailed away to safety. The
balloon had been filled with gas and
the aeronaut. George Harvey. was in
the basket ready to start when the
marshal discovered the pickpocket
taking a purse from pocket OF citi-
gen whose attention was centered on
the balloon.
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PARALYZiNG SUN PROSTRATES
HUNDREDS IN EASTERN
CITIES.
URGES PRAYER FOR RAIN
PRIEST ORDERS ALL CATHOLICS
TO PRAY FOR RELIEF
FROM HEAT.

Washington.-From cities east OF
the Rockies. broiling in temperature
OF 100 or higher. ninety-fiye deaths
are REPORTED, which, added to sixty
n.ne brings the death toll Of forty
eight hours to 164. Hundreds of pros
tration3 are reported. Many OF the
victims were babies.
Chicago added twelve deaths and
one suicide to the list attributed TO
the paralyzing heat, making the death
list in tnat city forty-cight. twenty
eight OF which were babies. within
thirty-six hours
Three are dead in Boston, two in
Washington, eight at Newark, N. j..
twelve in Pittsburg. fourteen in New
York. two at ST. Joseph. TWO in Louis
vile, twenty-five in eastern Pennsyl
yania, five in Toledo, four in Balti-
more, .wo in Omaha, five in Cincin-
matt and one in Oklahoma City.
OF Pittsburgs dead, six were from
exhaustion by heat and six by drown
ing One woman was found wander
ing in the streets, demented and cry
ing.
Bishop James Davis OF the Catholic
diocese oil Iowa sent out an order TO
all priests of his diocese that prayers
for rain be recited daily.
Prosestant pastors in several East
ern cities have urged their congrega-
tons to pray for relief from the ter
rible suffering.
With reports OF l04 degrees tenn
perature in four widely separated
cities, together with c score OF other
cities broilng in temperature OF 100
or higher, no hope for relief could be
discovered
Local thundorstorms may alleviate
suffering in some sections, but they
will be showers by blessed chance.
for no indications of rain are any
where to be seen. The heat is taking
a heavy toll of death ard the suffer
ing is increased by n drought that
practically has been unbroken in the
south Atlantic and East Gulf states.
where the temperatures are moder-
ate.
At the weather bureau here the
mercury reached the 80 mark. while
two hours later the bureau thermo-
meter on the street level showed a
temperature OF 107 There were two
fatalities.
Nineteen persons who were over
come received treatment in hospitals.
Many others were given private at
tention.
Louisville, Ky; ST Joseph, Mo-:
Davenport, Iowa, and Yuma, Ariz
were the four cities in which the
1o4 mark was reached. Boston at
tanned q record OF 1902, the highest
ever reached there. a like tempera-
ture being also recorded in Albany.
N. Y. Kansas City, Columbus. Ohio,
Parkcrsburg, w. Va; Concordia,
Kan; Dubuque, Iowa; Des Moines
and Fresno, Cal
For the first time in its history
Hartford, Conn. scored 100, that rec
ord also being equalled at Fort
Wayne, Ind: Cincinnati. Ohio;
Springfield, III; Harrisburg. Pa;
Chicago, St Louis. Indianapolis, To-
ledo, Ohio: Oklahoma City. omaha
and Fort Smith, Ark.
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COLORADO STATE NEWS

At Dead Rock. a small mining
camp in the western part of Mont
rose county. Alex Peterson was killed
by John Foster after a quarrel.
The wolftone mill at Nederland has
closed down for an indefinite period
This was the only place where local
miners could sell ore or concentrates.
Suit will be instituted to prevent
the S450.oo0 bond issue. planned for
of the Kennah creek water system.
II having been found thai turpentine
of the purest quality can be produced
from the sap of piiion tree; expert
ments in this line are to be carried on
in Mesa county.
In Delta county there has been
formed an organization known as the
Delta County Good Roads Associa-
ton" The membership fee being
800 a year.
Beginning August 4. the new law
governing public drinking cups will be
rigidly enforced, according to the or
der issued by Health Commissioner
Sharpley.
The $4,000 900 contract for con-
struction of a double track between
| Pueblo and Walsenburg for joint use
OF the Rio Grande and c. & S. rail-
roads will be completed by July goth
! Andy Elofson. a miner in Russell!
Gulch, was killed by his horse running
away and throwing him among a pile
Of rocks. fracturing his skull, break
ing several ribs and causing other in
| juries.
| Three hundred Ute Indians from
/ the Uintah and Uncompahgre valleys
/ have finished their three-day sacred
sun dance at Grand Junction. whicr
stamped out consumption among the
tribesmen for another year.
Federal Judge Lewis of Pueblo has
appointed Samuel Trimble master in
sets of the Colorado Railway. Ligh,
& Power Company of Trinidad Atig. 2
at Trinidad.
Native and rainbow trout to the
amount OF 250.0oo have been received
from Denver by the Boulder Fish and
club hatchery. about five miles ul
| Boulder canon.
That the beet crop in the Peckham vi
cinity will be bumper one is believed
by the farmers. who have planted ex
Itensively. as beet six inches long and
three inches in circumference repre-
sents the average at this time
county to Los Angeles, via Arizona
and New Mexico is not an improb
able enterprise eventually. according
to well laid plans Of a newly organ
| lied Colorado company.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08
Thirteen Deaths on Fourth.

Chicago From the old-fashioned
celebration OF the Fourth thirteen
deaths was the total reported in the
United States, according to figures
compiled The nationwide spread of
the sane Fourth movement brought
fruit in the smallest number of cele-
bration casualties ever recorded. In
nearly every city where the use of ex-
plosives by individuals was prohibit
ed, no accidents were recorded.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08
FOREIGN.

Returns for the five days ending
June &c show that there are ninety
seven cases OF cholera in Naples.
The sensations caused by Ger
many's action in sending a warship to
Agadir. Morocco. showed no signs of
abating. and diplomatic circles are
said to be in a ferment.
1t is estimated that sixty persons
received more or less severe bruises
in the street panic following the ex-
plosion OF bomb in Gale Bordedaros.
Italy. near the corner Of Gale Mayor.
at the moment that parade was pass
ing through the latter thoroughfare.
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PIatteville Wins Honor.

Platteville.-First and second places.
respectively, among the commercial
clubs of the state for having made the
great percentage OF gain in member
ship in the contest lasting from May
Is to May Is. were won by Platteville
and Evans. Platteyille's club Increased
from five members to seventy. making
gain Of ,420 per cent, while Evans
made a gain OF ] .067 per cent.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08
Human Bones Found in Closet.

Pueblo.-By the finding OF human
bones in closet of a cheap lodging
house here. what is believed to have
been an atrocious murder. is revealed.
The discovery was made by new pro-
prietor Of the place in cleaning up
dirty premises. Wrapped in news
paper of Jan. /. 1911. date were found
practically all the bones of man.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08
Greeley Wins Big Victory.

ST. Louis.-In the United States Cir
cult Court OF Appeals the city of
Greeley won All important victory,
when an opinion was handed down al
firming the decision OF the lower court
in its suit against the Union Pacific
Railroad Company.
The opinion was written by Judge
w. II. Munger and was concurred In
by Judges Henry T. Reed and W. II.
Sanborn with slight exceptions.
The suit was to clear the title 10
Denver TO Cheyenne and TO procure in,
functions prohibiting interference
with the right OF way. which, by an
act OF Congress, the railroad claimed
TO be 400 feet.
Judge Munger concluded that .he
property in question was for public
and not for private use, and that the
part of it that Greeley wishes to use
Is not required for ar alleged right
of way and is not necessary for the
road to discharge its duties to the
public.
He considers the road Is fully barred
from claiming it is entitled to posses
sion of the entire 400 feet of the rlghi
OF way and that the decree of the low
er court was right.
Judge Reed said the city has righ'
to lay streets across the right OF way
The decision means the saving ol
$500, 900 to Greeley, as there are many
public improvements and business
houses on the extra 300 feet claimed
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08
nenwood Case Comes to Ed.

Denver.-The Jury in the case OF
Frank II. Henwood, being tried on
charge Of killing Geo. E. Copeland,
returned verdict of murder in the
second degree. judgment will be re-
served in order to give defendant
time to file motion Tor new trial.
Henwood will be tried also for killing
Won Phul.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08
Stabbed over Springer Case.

St. Louis.-While engaged in an ar
gument over the merits OF the Spring
er divorce case in Denver, Theodore
Williams, aged &c, was stabbed in the
throat by James Stinson, teanster.
A friend of Stinson who attempted to
act as peacemaker. was slashed
0:ross the hand.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08
Suits Against Circus.

Cripple Creek--Three actions have
been commenced in District Court
against the Cole Rogers circus, each
plaintiff asking $1,000 damages for
personal injuries as a result Of the
collapse OF the circus seats during an
exhibition
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Pottery sand In Weld.

Greeley.-Eastern capitalists will
investigate a rare kind OF sand. suit
able for making the finest pottery
that has been uncovered in Weld
county, about ten miles west Of Carr
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08
Fight on Postal Banks Ended.

Washington Postmaster General
Hitchcock, in announcing the addi-
tion of fifty more postal savings de-
positorils, noted with satisfaction that
the opposition of banking institutions
had almost disappeared. Applications
for authority to receive postal funds
are being received from forty banks a
day
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08

Senator Guggenheim has been ad-
vised by the Postoffice Department
that his request for an increase of
service from three to six times a
week from Craig and Pagoda post
offices, Routt county. has been
granted and advertisements have been
issued calling for bids.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08

The crushed bodies OF three men
were found near the bottom Of
freight car loaded with lumber at Sc
ward, Neb. The men had been steal
ing a ride.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08
Albuquerque Defeats Santa Fe.

Santa Fe, N. Mn closely con-
tested game here the Albuquerque
baseball team defeated Santa Fe by
score Of 4 to 0.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08

years I was almost
helpless. Kidney -
cretions scalded ter
ribly and obliged me
to arise ten to twelve
times . night. Ny
left limb became 20
sti6 and sore I could
hardly walk - Just
hobbled around with
. cane. I had almost
every complaint that
diseased kidneys pro-
duce. and Doan'o Kid
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08

v oR0L8 Ol0 CO@>
pound and Sanativ0
Wash have done me-.
i live on farm and
have worked very
hard. I am forty
hve years old, and
am the mother OF
thirteen children
Many people think
1T strange that l am
not broken dow n
with hard work and
tho care of NV fam.
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ditor. $4,000. 900 more are required for
the current period than was spent by
the Buchtel administration.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08
GEN e ERAl.

In many parts of Kansas, Missouri
and Oklahoma the temperature is re.
ported to be higher than 100
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08
OWES
q
HER
HEALTH
To Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Scottville, Aich.-"I want TO ten
you how much good L Lydia E. Pinkham'0
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08

ney Pills removed them all. At the age
OF 76 feel like . boy and enjoy health
and comfort. Can anyone wonder 1t
my gratitude?
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by druggists and general
storekeepers everywhere. Price Soc.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. 7.
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FEELS LIKE A eOY.
since Doan's Kidney Pills Cured Him
Of Terrible Kidney Trouble.

Sheldon Smith, Prop. Arlington
House, Woodland, Cal. says: Three
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-08

The Same, but Different.
When it comes to the task of TAX
ing up the parlor carpet, do you run
away from the job?"
mo, beat it."
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not to mention sideboards an cab nets which, though
not aving no legs, amt to be by no manner omeans
despsed therefore-w'at wi this an that an tother
that confined, you might say confused,
don't know which legs is mine. yourn, anybody
ese's. Mr. Grimes Sir, makes so bold ak your
pardon all over again, Sir
During which speech Adam contrived once more to
fall against to tread upon and to jostle the highly in
CenSed Grimes back into the crowd again Thereafter
ne became a Nemesis to Grimes haunting HIM through
the jungle of chairs and tables pursuing him into distant
and shady places where, the sausage
like finger poised itself for interrogatory poke, the
fat red fist doubled itself for spring testing punch the
innocent seeming Adam would thereupOn fall against
him from the rear sdewise in front.
Meanwhile, Beew sat in his secluded corner, watch
ing the crowd through the blue wreaths of his pipe but
thinking of her Who brave though she had
thcess away from it all at the last moment Pres
emily however he that the chandler had
seated himself the other side of the chioncr putting
and painting with heat and Indignation where he
presently joined by another individual small rat eyed
man. who bid Grimes deferental good day
THAT there ADAM pulled the chandler, "that
there Adam ought be throwed out into the stables
where he belongs. 1 never see man as was SO much
growed feet and elbers in all my days He ought to
be took repeated the corn chandler land shook, and
thrOwed out into the Yard
"Yes." nodded the other. "took, and shook, and
throwed out, neck and crop, Sir! And what might
you think O the furniture, Mr.: Grmes:'
SO so, Parsons, nodded Grimes, so sou
Shall you buy
Il am going, said the chandler with much de-
liberation ." going to take them tapestry cheers,
here, likewise the four-pos bedsead wi the carved
cardboard, and most particular, Parsons, shall take
this here deboard There amt another piece like this
in the county: as know Of Solid mahogany Strand
the carvings! and herewith he gave two loud double
knocks upon the article of furniture question. ooh
I've ad my eye this sdeboard for years and years.
Knowed I'd get it day, too: the only wonder is
she amt had to sell up afore now
"Meaning Miss Anthea. Sir?'
"Ah. her. say as it's a wonder to me.-w'at wi the
interest on the mortgage old on the place and one
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joviay. Upon catching sight of the furniture he be-
if possible joval than ever, and, beckoning
to his aSSlStant,-that to say to the small with
the red and the blue chin who. it seemed answered
to the of Iheodore.he clapped him jovialy upon
the back rather though he knocking him down
unfortunate bidder, and Immediately fell into
business converse with him. albeit joval still.
But all the while intending purchasers arriving.
They horse and afoot and in conveyances of
every sort and kind and the tread OF their feet and the
buzz of their awoke unwOnted echoes the old
place. And still they came, from far and near, until
some hundred odd people crowded into the hall.
Conspicuous among them was large man with fat,
red neck which he continually hopping at and rub
bling with vivid bandana handkerchief scarcely less
red Indeed red seemed to be his pervading color;
for his hair red his hands red and his face,
heavy and round reddeSt of ALL out of whose fam
ing circumference two dimnutive but very sharp eyes
winked and blinked continually. His voice, like HIM
SELF large, with peculiar brassy ring to it that
hall He was, beyond all doubt, of substance and
of no small Importance for he greeted deterentlay
all hands, and it to be noticed that people ell
bowed each other to make way for him, people ever
will before substance and property. 10 some OF them
he nodded, to he spoke and with others he
laughed albeit he of solemn, sober, and serious
nature. as becomes man of property and substance
Between whiles however, he bestowed his undivided
attention upon the furniture He sat down suddenly
and heavily in chairs; he pummeled them with his
plump red fists, whereby to test their springs; he
opened the doors of cabinets he peered drawers;
he raped upon tables and altogether comported him.
self thoroughly knowing man should who Is not to
be housed by veneer taken in by the shine and pen
dor of we'll applied beeswax.
Beew, watching all this from where he sat screened
from the hrong by great carved sdeboard and divers
chairs and whatnots drew rather harder at his pipe,
and, CHANGING catch Adams eye beckoned him to APP
prOach.
~ no is that round red yonder, ADAM he in
CURED nodding to where the individual in question was
engaged at that moment pok1ng at something or other
with large SauSagclike finger.
That replied Adam in a tone of profound disgust,
"that be Mr.. Grimes O Cranbrook Sir. Calls hissef