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The Raymer enterprise., 1912-02-01
FOREIGN.

Two unmasked men, armed with re-
volvers entered the Hill Crest branch
Of the Royal Bank Of Canada. at Van.
couver. Is broad daylight, drove Man.
sger Steaves and one Of his clerks in.
to the vault and escaped with s1,9s9.
A mob broke into the Quiot, Ecua.
dor. penitentiary in spite Of double
guard and lynched Generals Elroy
Alfaro. former president Of Ecuador.
Favio Alfaro. Medardo Alfara, VI.
piano Paez and Manuel Serrano.
prominent revolutionists.
A French column commanded by
Colonel Simon has had severe en-.
gagement with the tribes that are In
the habit Of attacking the posts on
the Rabat.Mequinese, Morocco, road.
Many tribesmen were killed or in.
jured and the French lost four killed
and fifteen wounded.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-02-01
SERIOUS RIoTlNG OCCURS
AMONG TEXTILE WORKERS
-oNE WOMAN SLAIN.
q COMPANIES ARRIVE
WHEN ANGRY MODS HOLD UP
STREET CARS, BULLETS STICKS
AND KNIVES FLY.
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Lawrence, Mass.-The worst rioting
in the fortnight Of the Lawrence tex.
tile strike, involving 10000 persons.
occurred when street cars were held
up and stoned by mobs which refused
to let operatives go into the mills.
One woman was struck and killed
by a stray bullet, a patrolman was
stabbed in the back, militia captain
was badly cut by brick and several
others hurt by stones as well as by
the clubs Of the police and militia.
Governor Foss ordered twelve addi-
tlonal companies Of infantry and two
cavalry troops to proceed at once to
Lawrence to reinforce the nine com.
panies already there. All the troops
have arrived.
The state police, who Investigated
the finding Of dynamite in different
sections Of the city, and decided that
the explosive was planted" arrested
School Committeeman John ]. Breen,
son Of former Mayor John Breen.
end one Of the most prominent citi.
zens of Lawrence.
Governor Foss issued an open letter
ITO mill operatives and mill owners"
In which he says:
"The situation at Lawrence has be-
come so serious that every. possible ef.
fort should be made by all parties.
concerned to adjust matters; and I
therefore request all workers to 90
back and resume their places In the
mills for period Of thirty days, pend
ing the efforts which l shall make to
get all the differences adjusted.
"In view Of the fact that no notice
was given to the mill operatives OF
proposed reduction in wages when the
change In hours went into effect, on
January /. request all mill opera.
tors to give fifty.six hours pay for
fifty.fCur hours work during that pc.
riod without discrimination"
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FROM rgLEaRApHlc REpoRrs
THAT COVER THE WEgK's
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST IMPORTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
Western Newspaper Union News servics.
WESTERN.

Nels P. Anderson, keeper Of the zoo
IN Riverview park. Omaha, was gored
to death by buffalo bull.
The third international aviation
meet at Dominguez field, Los Angeles,
has closed, having lasted nine days.
Senator Guggenheim offered an
amendment to the agricultural bill ap-
propriating $4,000 to suppress the al.
falfa weevil in the Western states.
Assistant Fire Chief Robert Wolfe
was killed. one fireman. was severely
burned. and property loss totaling
100000 resulted from a downtown
fire IN Walla Walla, Wash.
Decrepit with age and crippled SO
that he had to be lifted into the ma
chine, A. W. Smith, Wyoming cattle
king, went up with Phil Parmelee in
his biplane at Dominguez field, Los
Angeles.
]. Ross Clark. second vice president
Of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt
Lake railroad. has announced that the
branch line being constructed from
Moapa, New. to st. Thomas. New,
would be extended to st. George,
Utah.
One Of the biggest swindles ever
perpetrated in the country has Just
come to light in Omaha through the
discovery by local jewellers Of the
manufacture and sale Of bogus elk
teeth. Thousands of the teeth sold
throughout the country are made Of
walrus tusks.
Tormented by killing done, he
says. nineteen years ago in Kentucky,
] w. Gray, who went to Eureka, CAL,
recently from Texas, has surrendered
to the police. BY strange chance q
man was found who had knowledge of
the tragedy and he identified Gray by
scars on his back. Word was sent to
Kentucky officials.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
received letter from patron named
P. Pike. In Colorado town, who com.
plains that the postmistress has
threatened to blow his head off and
he is afraid to 90 to the postofflce
for his mail. He says also that the
postmistress horsewhipped his brother
and chased him out Of the postoffice.
He wants the matter attended to at
once.
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Loaf. While Family starve..

Pueblo. j. Brown was sentenced
to one year in the county Jail by Jus.
tice Of the Peace Corson for cruelty
to his wife, seven children and his
livestock. during the recent cold
weather. Brown resides on a dry
homestead ten miles east Of Pueblo.
It is said that while he spent several
weeks III this city. his wife and chill
dren came near starving to death on,
the farm, and were almost dead from
exposure. Several Of his cattle.
horses and chickens were found dead
from starvation and cold when neigh.
bors went to the place.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-02-01
Army Post Fiqht Comma.

Washington.-The letter Of Secre.
tary Stimson recommending reor.
ganization Of the army garrlsons Of
the United States has reached Con.
gress and senators and congressman
from at least five states have begun
fight to avert the action he requests
OF Congress.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-02-01
Darrow 10 Indicted.

Los Angeles.-Two months Of uncer.
tainty and suspense ended for Clar.
cnce s. Darrow, the noted union labor
attorney. when the county grand Jury,
which for four weeks has been investi.
eating allegations Of corruption in
connection with the trial Jury In the
Mcnamara dynamite case, returned
two indictments charging him with
bribery.
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sanItarlum. May Lose Licenses.

Denver.-The annual licenses Of the
Cakes home. and Of score Of minor
institutions for the treatment Of tu-
berculosis. were held up by the State
Board Of Health pending the adoption
by the board Of rules that will COM
pei all hospitals to burn garbage or
lose their licenses. This is a culmi-
nation Of the fight against feeding
infected garbage to hogs.
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Live Stock.

Kansts City.-Cattle-Market steady
to 10c higher. Native steers, $3.50
500; Southern steers. s5.OOQ6.50;
Southern cows and hcifers, $1,000
500; native cows and helfers, $500
@6.25; stockers and feeders. $4,000
6.25; bulls. $3.75@5.50; calves, $500
6S.00; Western steers. i5.0007.f0;
Western cows. 33.0015.0O.
Hogs--Market steady to SC lower.
Bulk Of sales. S5.90@6.35; heavy.
36.2506.35; packers and butchers.
S6.l0G635; lights. S5.50Q6.2O; pigs.
t4.25d5.25.
Sheep-Market 10c higher. Nut
tons, S3.5O04.75; lambs, S5.oo96S0:
fed wethers and yearlings. 33.750
$50; fed ewes, 32.7504.l5.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-02-01
Klaus Leads Brown.

Plttsburg.-Frank Klaus Of East
Pittsburg and George t"Knockout")
Brown Of Chicago, middleweights.
fought six rounds before the National
Club OF this city. Klaus had the bet
ter OF the bout from beginning to end
but was unable to land a knockout.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-02-01
Rebels Whip lmperlals.

San Francisco.-An Imperial army
Of 10000 men. under General Chang
Fun, was decisively defeated by a
Canton republican army under Gen.
eral Wong Ching near Kuchan, &C.
cording to cablegram received here.
Four hundred Manchus are reported
to have been killed.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-02-01
GEN ERAL.


Rear Admiral Lewis o. Heilner. re-
tired, died in New York at the age
Of sixty years.
A painting by Corot sold in New
York the other day for $S5,0OO to a
western collector.
Women all over the United States
are planning to boycott butter In an
effort to bring the price back to nor.
NAL.
Charles Schultz, his wife and their
foster son were found dead late at
their home in Milwaukee from ahphyx;
iation
Cyrus E. Woods Of Greensburg, Pa,
has been nominated by President Taft
as minister to Portugal to Succeed Ed.
win v. Morgan.
DR.. Harry Elgin Webster. who con.
fessed to the murder OF his wife, Bes-
sic Kent Webster at Oregon, ILL.,, was
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Albert w. Wolter. the youth who
murdered and burned Ruth Wheeler
in New York nearly two years ago.
was executed at S(pg Sing prison.
An investigation will be made of
the charges that the price Of butter
is being manipulated by q combina.
tion in New York and other large
cities.
Shoemakers In Washington who ca.
ter to the fashionable set are busy
making the latest creation In foot.
wear. This is silk slippers with cut
glass heels.
That $4,000 consigned by Pitts.
burg bank to bank at Butler, Pa,
through the Wells Fargo Express Com.
pany, mysteriously disappeared recent.
ly has become known.
Her pilot lying dead on the bridge,
the victim Of a sudden attack Of heart
failure, and with no guiding hand at
the wheel. the giant Hamburg.Ameri.
can liner Cleveland, carrying hundreds
Of round.the.world tourists, left her
course In the harbor at Honolulu and,
after veering about for several min.
utes, rammed the United States ar.
mored cruiser Colorado. lying at an.
chor. The Colorado was damaged,
but no lives were lost.
The federal grand jury which has
been investigating the dynamite con.
spiracy In Indianapolis begun what 10
expected to be the last week Of Its
work. Reports about the district at.
torney's office are that at least thir.
ty indictments have been drawn up.
District Attorney Miller said the in.
dictments, II any are returned, will be
secret, the names OF those indicted
being withheld until arrests are
made.
One Of the most notable achieve
ments Of American foreign commerce
In recent years. according to a state
ment by the bureua Of statistics Of
the Department Of Commerce and La.
Dor, was In the automobile business In
1911. More than 320.000.0O0 worth Of
automobiles were exported from the
United States. During the year, twen'
ty times as much as decade ago. At
the same time the importations have
decreased from year to year.
Fort Logan. Colorado. and Fort
D. A. Russell, Wyoming, are un.
der prescription by the War De-
rartment, and are doomed to abandon.
ment II the plans announced by Secre'
tary Stimson are carried out. The sec
retary. acting upon an exhaustive re.
port by the general staff, has decided
upon the concentration OF the United
States army in eight posts, instead OF
the forty.nine now In operation. BY
this means. he believes that the eff.
cheney Of the army will be multiplied.
while at the same time the govern.
ment will make saving Of $500. 1000
year.
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Frulta Wants Another Count.

Fruita.-Fruita intends to ask Con-
gress to order "a new census for that
town, claiming that the figures given
out do the town gross injustice.
Fruita is given a population Of but S91,
while at the last election there were
over 200 voters registered, and Mayor
Osborne says the city should be given
credit for at least 1000 people.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-02-01
Think Pies Loaded with Bourbon.

Devils Lake. N. D.-County Off.
cials are investigating the heavy sale
Of mince pies, alleging that the bak.
ers are violating the prohibition law
in selling pies loaded with Old Bour.
bon"
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-02-01
Would Close Postofflce..

Laporte.-A petition signed by
three.fourths Of the patrons of the La
porte and Bellvue postoffices was sent.
to the postal department recommend
ing that the offices be closed. The
plan is to supply the villages, located
six and eight miles north Of Fort Col
Inns. by rural carrier.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-02-01
Incline Railway Commenced.

Colorado Springs.-Actual construc-
ton has been begun on the new incline
railway to the summit Of Red Noun
tain, Manitou. 1t is planned to oper-
ate the first train April 10. when 1t is
intended to invite railroad men from
all parts Of the state to Join In the Gel.
ebration.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-02-01
White and Rivers to FIoht.

: Chicago.-Jack White has signed
articles to box Joe Rivers twenty
rounds before q Los Angeles club on
March 18th.
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LATE
MAR K E 7 /
ouoTArIo MS
stern Newspaper Union News Service.
DENVER MARKETS.
Cattle.

Bef steers, corn fed good to
choice ..............6 .6.OO97oo
Beef steers, corn fed, fair to
good .. .45O@5.5o
Beef steers, pulp fed, good to
choice ..................5 .5.5O@6.4O
Beef steers, pulp fed, fair to
good ........... .475@5.5o
Beef steers, grass fed, good
to choice .......... .5.4o@e.25
Beef steers, grass fed, fair to
good .................. .475@5.s5
Heifers, prime, pulp or grass
fed .................. .475@5.5o
Cows and heifers, grass fed,
good to choice ......... .4.4o95.15
Cows and heifers, fair to
good ...................4O .4Oo@4.5O
Cows and heifers. pulp fed,
good to choice 1000. .4.5o@5.25
Cows and heifers, pulp fed,
fair to good ... .s.85@4.5o
Gamers and cutters .2.OO03.5O
Veal calves ...............5.0 .5.0O@7.35
Bulls .................... .3OO@4.25
Stays .................... .325@4.50
Feeders and stockers, good
W Cuolce ................0.V .0.VVVo1o
Feeders and stockers, fair
to good .................4.2 .4.2595.00
Feeders and stockers, com.
mon to fair ,3.5064.25
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STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
G o 1 q r ADO
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Official Bids Opened,

Montrose.-Official bids were op.
ened at the office of the United States
Reclamation Service here for the con-
struction Of the west canal and tunnel
of the Uncompahgre project. The con.
tract will call for ten miles Of open
canal and 1850 feet of tunnel. The
lowest bid was $78,363.
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Sheep.
Lambs, good to choice .....5.75@6.50
Lambs, fair to good $3.50. .5.0O@5.75
Feeder lambs. I. p. r. ..... .4.50Q5.50
Yearlins, good to choice -. .4.50@5.25
Yeerlings, fair to choice ..4.OO@4.5O
Wethers, fair to choice -. .40Oq4.50
Wethers, feeders, t. p. r. 3.0O@3.50
Ewes, fair to choice .......3.25Q3.S5
Ewes, feeders and culls, (.
p. r. Observation-Disclosures. ...2.00q3.25
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Hay.

Hay.
Colorado upland, per ton. .15.OO11600
Nebraska upland, per ton. .13.5OQ14.50
Second bottom. Colorado
and Nebraska, per ton .11.5O@12.5O
Timothy, per ton ....... 5000 1900
Alfalfa, per ton ......... .11.50012.50
South Park. choice, per
ton ................1G.0OG1700
San Luis Valley, per ton. .13.50@14.50
Gunnison Valley. per ton. .15.OO@16.0O
Straw, per ton ........... 4.O00 500
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Live Poultry.
Butter.

Elgln ................. o.
Creamerles, ex. East lb. ..3G Q39
Creamerles, ex. Colo. lb. ..3G @39
Creameries. I'd grade, lb. ..3l Q32
pTOCesb .........s.ss..ss 90
Packing stock ............ rs
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Eggs.

Eggs.
Eggs. case count. less com. -. .3l0.50
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Hogs.

Good hogs ................59 .59096.05
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-23

St Louis, No. Sept 23.-When
Roosevelt bitterly attacked Repre-
sentative Richard Bartholdt OF this
city for the part he took in helping
20 seat all the Taft delegates at the
Chicago convention, he aheuated
thousands OF Missouri Germans who
otherwise would have been with him
In the present campaign. Bartholdt
Is immensely popular with the big
German republican element IN ST.
Louis For 20 consecutive years they
have voted for him and helped to
keep him in congress. They know
him very well. and reseAt the colonies
statement that he took part in a
theft OF delegates.
BsrtholdJ is now asking the voters
10 return him 10 congress for the
18th consecutive term. He has come
out squarely for Taft. and in doing
so has strengthened the president
chances in Missouri Bartholdt him.
self will 10 all Likelihood be returned.
no matter what presidential candidate
! wins in his district
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-23
HUMAN SLAVERY.

In connection with the mine strike
now going on in Utah il comes out
that the strikers are mostly Greeks
and others from southeastern Europe.
and the principal grievance is that
they are under system OF peonage,
Greek employing agent being the
contractor. who furnishes their ser
vices to the copper trust. and takes
share from their wages as his com
mission.
This 10 a close cal on the revival
OF human slavery in the interest OF
cheap labor for trusts and It is com
ing of in nation that taxes its
people on nearly all the necessities OF
life and pretends that IL is for protec-
too OF its wage workers against the
cheap labor OF Europe
II is greatly TO the credit OF the
people that they are sufficiently pa
tient 10 right these things at the polls.
which they will do in November by
the election OF Wilson
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-23
GETTING Il Out Of the sy,tsn,.

l never liked the kind OF riminE
That called on frsakishness in Ginning.
Nor can | warm UP to the style of
The stuff though have seen a pile OF
The sort of verse that strung the meter
out
As though the author feared that II would
peter out.
Though possibly it makes the diction airy
For one who does not own dictionary.
Full many a thought a man can scarcely
spell. see or
Sense turns out by methods of this-sort
excelsior.
Though one who has a heroine, has hid
her ably,
To find her this method helps consid-
erably
One does not have this way to chart or
diagram 'er
Or use the rules of rhetoric or yet OF
grammar
Or say. This sort of thing shun; null
Is it and void and contrary to the con-
stitutiOn."
One who psuses need not think he is a
candidate
For the bug house and that there is a cell
and a date
For him at the asylum. Not on your pho
tograph.
For in ii simply is note o graph
&c description. He nay run on all Sc
rene Oh,
Yes, and say it is a peacherino!
Then he can start to read it backward,
and he
VIII find it Just smooth lssses
candy.
The sense or yet the nonsense does not
matter. He
Makes on the language an assault and
battery.
What any one may say he doesn't care a
cent or
Pay close attention to the literary mentor
He goes ahead where cautious would the
way shun,
And any word will get him to his station
But, on. to make his ending neat proper
And pat he writes not with a pen, but g
meat chopper.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-23
WADE ON THE SITUATION

could use from the same sources
which are financing the campaigns of
Taft and Roosevelt
You can generally tell what a man
stands for by ascertaining who is sup
porting him. Wilson has the support
OF the great body of the American
people who believe in decent govern
meat who are opposed TO special
privilege and every man who tolls
knows that in Governor Wilson they
have friend whose friendship will
be as warm when he is in the White
House as it is while he is candidate.
His labor record as governor is
unexcelled by any governor in the
United States. He has beea consist
ent in his efforts TO see that Justice
is done 10 labor as well as 70 capital.
He plays no favorites. He is a states
man whose soul is in his work. His
highest idea is 10 see that the fruit
OF toll shall not be eaten by the idler.
He will make the greatest president
since Lincoln laid down his life.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-23
CONSERVING THE RIRns.

The list OF causes alleged to be
oontributory 10 the high cost OF living
Is already voluminous. but there is al
ways room for one more. This is sup
piled by DR. W. T HornAday. direc-
tor OF the Bronx Zoo. New York. who.
himself q sportsman OF note. blAmes
his ovsrenthusiastic brethren OF the
chase for helping to cause an annual
loss 10 the farming interests OF the
country. and therefore indirectly TO
all Of US, Of over S4OO.O00.OOO. The
Igure denotes the damage wrought
TO the crops Of the country BY de-
structiye insects. A couple OF gener-
Ations ago, says DR.. Hornaday, there
were enough birds TO repress the per.
niCious activities OF the insects. but
now. 'preyed upon by their enemies,
the sportsmen. they are being so rap
idly thiuned out that only imagina.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-23

II would enable the American con-
sumner TO buy his beefsteak at Ar
gentine prices with freight added; but
the meat would be that from the cattle
raised by the American farmer
Because, the truth OF the matter is,
that the price OF meats 10 the Ameri-
can market has been increased by the
beef packer far beyond and above the
increase in the price OF cattle He
places fictitious values on cattle in
odd lots, and then fixes the prices OF
meats TO the consumer based on these
fictitious values. and fixes an exhor.
bitanj profit on his product The
packer is enabled 20 do this through
the special favors conferred upon
him by the robber tariff
The beef packer is not the friend OF
the American farmer. nor OF any one
bui himself He wants q protective
tariff so he mag be enabled 10 con.
troll the market. buy the cattle and sell
his product at prices OF his own fixing
Thus Catching the coon comm and
goin
The American farmer is not bene
fitted an "iota" by any tariff provis
ion. The prices of his product are
f~ed BY the trusts that deal il them
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-23

The latest bit OF fashionable apparel
Of you can call it that for women, is
the cane
A few fashionables in the feminine
world have created a mild sensation
here and there by appearing in public
disporting a cane So far, the practice
hasn't been common. But now that
canes are 10 be universally offered 10
the public at Slightly reduced prices,
possibly we shall soon see Tillie Of the
lace counter so equipped. and Bridget
Of the kitchen sporting something akin
TO a shillalah. while Madame OF the
Almost-Elite Apartments trips along
the pavement with a slender bit Of
wood. or Mrs. Kowalski ambling
through Central market marshaling
her numerous brood with a small imi-
tation OF the big stick"
For We must be fashionable or die,
no matter what our station in life, and
it's possible that the cane will become
as universal as the near-silver mesh
bag. What lady, attired in her best,
would issue forth without one?
But how is a woman going TO man
age cane in addition to her other
equipment. fashionable or otherwise
\ weighty handbag occupying one fist
an armful OF small bundles. a large
hat that wobbles with each breath OF
wind and which needs constant adjust
ment, skirts that must be lifted over
muddy crossings. babies that must be
carried or guided, pay-as-you-entel
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-23
Field of Literature

The Red Book Maeazine.-The Red
Book magazine for October begins
new series OF thrilling romances Of
the sea by Frederick R BechdoIt. who
has just completed six stirring tales
under the general heading of The
Adventures OF Lighthouse Tom" In
the new set Nj. BeChdolt finds him
self one Of a group of men who spend
their winter evenings seated around
big stove in Mother MonOhan's saloon
for sailors on the san Francisco water
front Each member Of the party has
taken part in thrilling adventures Of
the Seven seas. Nj ReChdolt. in a
style which he alone of the American
writer's seems 10 have mastered. sets
forth their accounts of the things they
have seen and heard. The first story
is called The Clubhauling of Mono
han. This number Of the Red Book
also contains another Of James Oliver
Curwood's stories. "Kazen." the wolf
dog, and story by John A Moroso
recounting how Bonehead Tierney, the
detective. combats the dictograph. II
also introduces a new writer in the
short story game, George Vaux Bacon,
whose style will make readers watch
for his work. Other contributors to
this number are Eugene P Lyle, Jr.,