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The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
600 EDITORS COMING
ANNUAL MEETING AT COLORADO
SPRINGS JUNE 25-27.
Executive Committee of American
Press Association Named the
Colorado City at Chicago.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-Six hundred editors and
business managers of newspapers will
visit Colorado next summer and be
shown the resources of the state.
Word has been received by Alva A.
Swain. secretary of the Colorado Edi-
torial Association. that the executive
committee OF the American Press AS
sociation in session in Chicago. has
chosen Colorado Springs as the next
national convention city.
George Hosmer. state printing COM
missioner, a member OF the executive
committee of the association and of
the executive committee of the associ-
alton and Of the executive committee
of the state editorial body. telegraphed
that an invitation extended by the
Colorado Editorial Association had
been accepted The gathering will
mean that about 1000 visitors will be
brought to Colorado for convention
purposes alone, as the American Ty-
pothetae will hold its convention at
the same place and time. The Colorado
Editorial Association and the Colorado
Typothetae will meet on the same
dates-June 25th, 26th and 27th.
AS now planned two sessions of the
body will be held in Colorado Springs
and one in Denver. The state editors
have already outlined and partly ar
ranged for a trip for the visitors
which will take them practically over
the entire state and will last for ten
days. The plans include special train
to Greeley and around the Horn"
special through the Arkansas valley,
special over the Moffat road to Steam
boat Springs. where the visitors will
be taken by stage to Rifle and thence
by rail to Glenwood Springs.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
Minor Mention.

The Denver lodge, No Al, Knights
of Pythias. held its annual ball at I'll
Jebel Temple.
Tag Day" added $4,000 to the funds
OF the Denver Saturday and Sunday
Hospital Association.
James II. Conklin was the victim Oh
peculiar accident at Grand Junction
when he pulled off his coat and broke
his collar-pone.
w. B. Bamberger OF Baltimore, Nd,
has been informed by City Clerk Otto
Thum that in Colorado man cannot
marry his sisters daughter.
Word has been received that w. II.
williams, well known in Denver, who
was stricken with, heart trouble at
Ardmore, Okla, died as a result of the
attack
Word was received in Longmont OF
the marriage of Mamie Large and
John Holmes, formerly of Longmont.
the wedding having taken place at
Salt Lake City.
While working in a laundry at Eaton
Mrs. A. Baker and Miss Anna Rhoades
were overcome by gas fumes and but
for the timely arrival of doctor
would have died.
Word was received in Denver OF the
death of Samuel A. Wolcott. father OF
Roger II. Wolcott and brother of the
late Senator Edward o. Wolcott, at
his home in New London, Conn.
Among the rapidly thinning ranks
of the pioneers are Mr.. and Mrs. John
Aubrey of Denver. Recently they cele-
brated their golden wedding annivers-
airy, and many were the friends that
came, but few of the early days.
Albert B. SCANNED, for the past six
years county agriculturist of Mesa
county. has resigned and will go to
Atlantic City. N. j., to take up the
study of insect problems under the
United States Bureau of Entomology.
The Western Chemical Company,
whose plant in Denver was destroyed
by fire recently, has begun to rebuild.
The erection of fireproof building
to cost $4,000 has been started and
the steelwork of the structure alone
will cost $4,000.
The half fare railroad rate is about
to follow its big brother, the pass, into
oblivion in Colorado. At a con-
ference of officers of several lines
it was decided to issue peremptory or
ders that no official of any line shall
grant the half fare which it has been
customary to give to certain classes.
principally laborers.
The hunt for Frank L. Smith, con-
fessed murderer of Jesse Stingley, and
jail breaker, has gone beyond the i'm
mediate province of the Denver police
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
WESTERN.

Burrell Oates. a negro, convicted OF
numbering Sol Aronoff of Dallas. was
hanged at Waxahatchie, Tex.
Fire destroyed the provision house
of Armour & Co.. at the Union Stock
yards in Chicago. causing loss esti-
mated at 100000.
Charged with robbing grave, Rev.
G. w. Adkins. Baptist minister OF
Brazil, Okla. was found guilty by a
jury in the District Court at Poteau.
Okla.
Fletcher Preston. who claims Salt
Lake as his residence, was arrested
after offering. in the presence of two
detectives, to put away" Alfred Sor-
enson for 5000.
William ]. Burns story OF his pur-
suit of the McNamaras and Ortie E.
McManigal after the Los Angeles
Timos explosion was told by him at
the dynamite conspiracy trial at in
dianapolis.
James Burke, partner of James Mar
shall, who first discovered gold in Cal
ifornia and said to be the last of the
party that was with Marshall, died at
his home south of Reno, New, aged
eighty-two.
The constitutional amendment pro-
viding woman suffrage in Michigan
was defeated by 594 votes, according
to figures complied in the secretary of
states office at Lansing from every
county in Michigan.
This is not my farewell to your
beautiful America" were the words of
Sarah Bernhard as she stepped off La
Savoie from Europe, with her COM
pany, at New York. for vaudeville
tour of the United States.
A wage increase OF 20 to 25 cents a
day. effective December 1st. was an
nounced at Salt Lake by D. C. Jack
ling. manager of the Utah Copper Com
pany. to continue only while copper re-
mains above II cents a pound.
/, The lowest death rate in the world
from tuberculosis is claimed for Utan
by the State Board of Health. The
rate is thirty-one TO each hundred
thousand of population against an ay-
erage of 161 for the United States.
A mystery which bids fair to equal
the famous Kimmel case is that OF
Fred Fisher of Homer, Mich. who dis.
appeared in Chicago about three years
ago. A man has come forward claim
ing he is Fisher and demands the
property which is awaiting for Fisher
or his heirs. Another point in com.
mon with the Kimmel case is the fact
that the home of Kimmel was in Niles
Mich, while the man who says he is
Fisher is also located in that city.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
GEN ERAL.

Mrs. Lucien Phillip Smith of Hunt
ington. w. Va. the daughter of Con
gressman James A. Hughes of West
Virginia, who became widow on her
honeymoon trip when her young hus-
band was lost on the Titantic, became
the mother of a nine-pound boy.
When the North German Lloyd
steamer Neckar, from Bremen, bound
for Philadelphia, was proceeding up
the Delaware bay at Wilmington, she
was forced to deviate from her course
because of the presence of a herd of
deer in the bay. Had she kept in the
channel she would have killed several
of the animals.
wedding about which there was
no color of romance, according to the
principals, at Pittsburg. made William
G. Carnegie and Miss Ada A. Bell hus-
band and wife. Mr.. Carnegie is the
eldest son OF Mrs. Thomas Morrison
Carnegie, whose husband founded the
Carnegie Steel Company with his
brother Andrew.
The young man who is osciIlating
regarding the selection of a vocation
should seek the solution in his pros
pective mate, according to Professor
w. C. Bagley of the University of IL
linoi5, who sets greater store by influ-
ences of environment as the measure
of mans success in life than physi-
cal or mental taste.
From the day George Washington
was inaugurated the first President OF
the United States only seven Presi-
dents have been inducted into office
on March 4th under favorable weather
conditions. They are: Adams in 1877;
jefferson in 1901; Madison in 1909;
jackson in 80; Van Buren in 1887;
Buchanan in 1857; Mckinley in 1897.
In all other cases the weather has
been disagreeable. mostly rain and
snow.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

and the posses of many men that have
secured the country around Brighton.
under the direction of Sheriff Herman
scbloo. since Smith and James A. Sta
ton escaped from the jail at that
place.
Thirty-ffye thousand dollars is
huge sum to pay for railroad journey
from Cincinnati to Denver, but that Is
the amount the United States District
Court OF West Virginia has awarded to
Mrs. Catherine Ostenton against Mrs.
Margaret H Williamson for riding be-
tween these cities in the same state
room. il is said, with the formers hus-
band.
In a fit of Jealous rage over the al
legged attentions of Oscar Thompson,
tailor. to his wife, E. e. Callahan. an
upholsterer of Trinidad, fired five
shots at his enemy. The shooting took
placo with Thompson in flight and
Callahan in pursuit, and the race last
ed for three blocks. All of the shots
went wide of the intended mark. but
stray shot struck Facinda Leyba.
eighteen, in the leg. The wound is
not dangerous.
A daughter was born in New York
to Mrs. Robert l.. Livingston. former
ly Miss Marie sheedy, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Sheedy. Both
mother and child are reported to be
doing well. Miss Sheedy's marriage
to Robert Livingston in Denver, Feb
ruary Is, 1912, was one OF the most
notable society events of the year, be-
ing attended by Denver's most exclu-
sive circle and several New York and
Boston society people.
The Alonzo Thompson matrimonial
difficulties have been tossed back and
forth in the courts and the newspapers
for the past six months but 1t took
just exactly three minutes for them all
to be permanently settled in Judge AL
lens court in Denver. Mrs. Annie Lau-
ra Thompson was granted divorce
from the aged philanthropist. million
aire and spiritist. There was no con-
test. Mrs. Thompson received $780,
900 as alimony, half in cash and half
in securities.
The jury in the case of Arthur L.
Craig of Paonia, charged with embez-
zling S3,700 from the North Fork Fruit
Growers Association, at Paonia, of
which he was manager for two years,
returned verdict at Delta finding the
defendant not guilty.
The fifth annual high school Y. NJ.
C. A. conference of Colorado was held
at Boulder, with the largest attend
ance in the history of the organization
One hundred and eighty delegates and
prominent workers, representing eigh-
teen of the leading high schools of the
state, were present.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
FOREIGN.

A formal armistice for a fortnight is
now within sight, according to an of
ficial announcement made at Constan-
tinople.
War between China and Russia may
be expected to break out any day, it
was asserted by well informed foreign
ers at Pekin.
The meetings of the peace delegates
have been held near the bridge span
ming the river Karasu. between Cha
tal1a and Hademkeui.
Mrs. Justin Mason, who weighed
$50 pounds and is said to have been
the largest woman in the world, died
at Montreal. Canada.
The Western Greek squadron occu-
pied the Turkish island Of Sasseno, in
the Adriatic sea. off the coast near
Avlona. according to dispatch from
Athens.
Despite the close watch inaugurated
by the London police, suffragettes
again destroyed the contents of vari-
GUS mail boxes by pouring chemicals
into them.
Mistaking the Kew. Forbes Jackson
for Chancellor Of the Exchequer David
Lloyd-George. a suffragette lashed the
clergyman across the face with a
horsewhip at railroad station at
Aberdeen. Scotland. She was arrested.
Owing to the prostratiou of the tele-
graph wires no definite estimate is
possible of the number of fatalities or
of the property loss caused by the
typhoon that crossed the islands of
Samar. Leyete and North Panay sew
eral days ago.
Governor Woodrow Wilson is willing
to take the oath of office as President
OF the United States without ostenta-
ton March 4. and have the formal
ceremonials that every fourth year at
tract thousands of citizens to Washing
ton postponed until the last Thursday
in April.
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rxphoon leaves 17,ooo Dead.

Manila. P. I.-Seventeen thousand
persons, including a number of Amer
leans. are dead, more than 500 Amer
leans and hundreds of thousands of
natives are homeless. and one entire
city. the capital of the Island of Leyte.
was wiped out in the most disastrous
typhoon which has struck the Philip
pine islands in years. With the coasts
of five islands strewn with wreckage
of steam and sail vessels. Father Al
que, the weather expert. caused TO be
cabled all over the islands warning
of second typhoon, heading for the
center of the archipelago.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
News Summary of the Past Week

The Colorado School of Mines foot
ball team defeated Pomona college by
13 to 0, at Pomona. Cal.
The fact that the state authorities
made no representations to the War
Department in an attempt to stop ths
fights held on the Fort Russell mill
tsry reservation of Cheyenne. Wyo., is
accepted as indicating that there will
be no effort to have the state anti
fight law applied to the reservation.
which is exempted under special stat
ute. and boxing carnivals will be held
throughout the winter monthly inter
walls.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
WASHINGTON.

Under the flags of the twenty-one
republics of the Western hemisphere.
Thanksgiving day was celebrated in
in Washington.
Decisions in many of the one hun
dred and one cases which are under
consideration by the U. S. Supreme
Court are expected to be announced
soon.
With its recent defeat at the New
York Horse Show fresh in mind, the
United States army will begin active
work in bettering its mounts by sci
entific breeding.
When the Senate reconvened Mon
day for the short session, several IA
miliar faces were missed. Vice Pres.
ident Sherman, Senator Isidor Rayner
and Senator Hepburn have died.
The sergeant-at-arms of the Senate
sent squad of deputies scurrying
about the east to summon witnesses
tor the trial of Judge Robert w. Arch
bold of the Commerce Court. A list
OF forty-eight witnesses for the trial
was furnished by the House managers
of the Rrchbald proceedings.
Schaefelysky De Mukkadel de Cas-.
tellane Seymour. relative of the ia
nous Castellane family of France, lit.
terateur. cosmopolite and one-time
dentist to his highness. the Bey OF
Tunis. has arrived In Washington in
search of an American wife. with
whom he says he can win a fortune
of S15O.000 on Jan. l next.
Rumors that Secretary Meyer of the
navy department was about to resign,
which were in active circulation in
Washington. brought an emphatic de.
NAL from the secretary himself at the
conclusion of cabinet meeting.
To President-elect Wilson will be
left the task of determining whether
the tariff alone is to be considered al
the special session of Congress next
spring or whether special legislation
shall be taken up or whether the tariff
is TO be revised as whole in a sin
gle bill. or by schedule. one section
at a time.
President Taft has announced that
he will appoint Edgar E. Clark of Ce
dar Rapids. Iowa. as a member of the
Interstate Commerce Commission fol
seven-year term, beginning January
l. 1918.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
CANNON AND sULzER cHEERED
IN LOWER BRANCH AS
THEY ENTER.
AWAIT TAFTS MESSAGE
RESOLUTIONS OF SORROW ON
DEATH OF SHERMAN HEY
BURN AND RAYNER.
western newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-Congr met prompt
Iy Monday noon for the short session
OF the Democratic administration
March 4. Crowded galleries looked
down on the animated scenes on the
floor as Speaker Clark In the House
and Senator Bacon. president OF the
Senate. raped the respective bodies
TO order.
II was not quite 10 when Senator
Bacon, president pro tenn. took the
chair at the desk OF the late Vice Pres
ident Sherman and raped for order
in the Senate, and 1t took some time
TO obtain order for the prayer by the
chaplain. the Rev. U. G. b. Pearce.
Failure OF members OF the House to
reach the floor delayed the opening of
the session in the House. When Speak
err Clark climbed the stairs to the ros-
trum he was greeted by applause and
cheers from the floor and crowded gal
leries.
When the prayer was concluded 4
burst OF applause greeted Representa-
New York. as he took his seat.
The roll call by states followed
When the name OF former Speaker
Cannon was called the members arose
and applauded and cheored the veter-
an legislator whose services at this
session will conclude forty years in
the halls OF Congress. Uncle joe rose
in his place and bowed his a6knowl-
edgement of the greeting.
After the adoption of the customary
resolution to appoint members of a
Joint committee to notify the Presi-
dent that Congress had assembled,
Senator Lodge moved that the Senate
meet Tuesday at IL o'clock. 1t was
adopted without debate, the purpose
being to give time for the reading of
President Taft's message before the
hour set for the convenng of the Arch
bald court of impeachment at 1890.
Senator Root gave the Senate the
formal notification of the death OF
Vice President Sherman.
Resolutions were adopted conveying
the Senate's sympathy to the family of
the late vice president.
Senator Borah presented tne notiIi-
cation of the death of his colleague,
Senator Hepburn, and Senator Smith
OF Maryland that of Senator Rayner.
Again resolutions of sorrow were
adopted and after a session of twenty
two minutes the Senate adjourned out
of respect to the memories of Vice
President Sherman and Senators Hey
burn and Rayner.
Four new members were sworn in
in the House. They were Lewis l.
Morgan of Louisiana. who succeeds
the late Representative Wyckliffe;
Archibald C. Hart, who succeeds Rep
resentative Hughes of New Jersey.
elected to the Senate; George C. Scott,
who succeeds the late Representative
Hubbard of Iowa and Edward A. Mer-
ritt. who succeeds the late Representa-
tive George Maltby of New York.
The House. after session of an
hour and ten minutes. adjourned until
noon Tuesday on motion OF Represen-
tative Cannon out OF respect to the
members who have died since last ad-
journment.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
SPORT.

Richard Frayne. an aeronaut, fell g.
900 feet at Jacksonville, Fla, and was
instantly killed. Three thousand per-
sons witnessed the accident.
George F. Slosson of New York de.
feated Kadii Yamada of Japan, 2,40o
to 1874 in six-night special match
at 1872 ball-line billiards in New York.
The Hurlingham Club of London
sent a challenge to the American Polo
Association for a series of games for
the American cup. The challenge stip-
ulated that the match should be played
in the United States in 1913.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06

button will comprise the basis of dis
cussions at the annual convention of
the State Horticultural Society in this
city December 18th and 18th. The low
prices obtained for fruit this year will
be taken up by the various speakers
and solutions for the problems Of
fered. 1t is understood here that a
general attack upon fruit growers as
sociations will! be made by indepen-
dent shipping agencies. Albert E.
Mauff of Denver. secretary of the So
ciety, is arranging the program.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
conviets Finish pueblo Road.

Pueblo.-Pueblo county's contribu-
ton to the Colorado Springs-Pueblo
road north of here was completed aft
er ten months continuous work by a
large force of convicts. The strip of
road completed by this county is sew
enteen miles long and cost $4,000.
From twenty to thirty convicts were
at work continuously for almost year
and s,2eO loads of gravel were used.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
Colorado College Professor very H.

Colorado Springs.-James Hutchin-
son Kerr, president of Colorado Col
lege for some time after the resigna-
tion of President Tenney and for
years head of the department of
chemistry and metallurgy OF the same
institution. is critically i'll at a local
sanatorium from a complication OF
diseases. He is seventy-five years of
age
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
Boy Killed as Cellar Caves In.

Meeker-The four-year-old son of
Charles Mcpherson was killed and a
ranch hand was seriously if not fatally
hurt when a cellar roof caved in,
burying the boy under four feet of de-
bris. Mrs. Mcpherson, who was stand
ing near her husband at the time, es-
capped The accident occurred on the
Mcpherson ranch, twelve miles from
Meeker.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
Union and Southern Pacific Dissolve

Washington.-The Supreme Court in
an opinion announced by Justice Day.
held that the Union Pacific railroad
Company by the acquisition of stock
In the Southern Pacific, had effected
combination in violation of the Sher-
man antitrust law. Justice Day. read
ing the opinion, indicated that the
Court would enter decree to dissolve
the combination and also an injunc-
tion to prevent the Union Pacific from
voting Southern Pacific stock.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
Aspen EIks Honor Dead.

Aspen.-Aspen Lodge No. 224. B. p.
o. e, held memorial services at the
Armory hall. More than 1000 persons
attended. DR.. Warren H. Twining oe-
liveyed the eulogy to the departed
members. four OF whom died in the
last year.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
pope Announces New U. s. preIate..

Rome.-The Pope has officially an
nounced the appointments of the fol-
lowing American prelates: Right Rev.
Dennis O'Connell, Bishop of Rich
mond: Right Rev. Patrick A. McGov-
ern. Bishop of Cheyenne: Right Rev.
Austin Bowling. Bishop of Des Moines,
and the Rev. Edward ]. Hanna. Auxil-
iary Bishop of San Francisco.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
Woman Puts up LOO quarts Fruit

Raymer.-The preserving record of
Colorado is believed to be held by Mrs.
G. l.. Blackburn of Peace Valley, who
broke her own record this year and
has LOO quarts of preserved fruit of
nearly every variety known in the
state.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
Man Escapes; COW injured.

Fort Collins.-Ralph Bristol an en-
ploye of the sugar factory hit COW
with motorcycle which he was rid
ing. The machine was completely
wrecked. the COW crippled. but Bristol
was thrown over the animals head
and landed in some weeds. unhurt
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06

Half dozen slim, graceful. beard
less and small-footed detectives were
selected at Chicago to be dressed up
in women's clothes with muffs and
tempting-looking purses. to decoy the
army of purse-snatchers that have de-
scended on that city.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
New Map Of European turkey.

Iondon.-The work of charting a
new map OF what hitherto has been
European Turkey will begin immedi-
ately after the signature of the armis-
tice by the pienipotentiaries of Tur-
key and the Balkan Allies at the vii
lage Of Bnghtche.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
12,ooo 900 Lbs. of Sugar from Factor,

Grand Junction.-The local sugar
factory has rounded out a seasons
record of 100000 pounds of sugar.
Before the season is over. which will
be about February 10th. they expect TO
have refined $4,000 900 pounds.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
Physician Heir to Big Estate.

Colorado Springs.-Dr. Wilbur F.
Martin, physician of this city. is re-
ported to have inherited large for
tune. variously estimated at 100000
to $4,000
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
Neeress shoots Actress.

London. Mrs. Anna Gross. an
American negress. shot and killed
Miss Jessie Mcintyre. young English
aotress.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06
JACK Johnson to Marry cameron Girl

Chicago.-Jack Johnson. the negro
rugilist. in an interview declared that
he would marry Miss Lucille Cameron
before the end of the week.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-06

Fruit Growers to Meet Dec. 17-19.
Grand Junction.-Method of distri-