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The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
RAIL WAY STRIKE
THREATENED
MANAGERS AND ENGINEERS FAIL
TO MAKE SETTLEMENT OF
WAGE QUESTION.
FIFTY ROADS AFFECTED
REFERENDUM VOTE WILL BE IA.
KEN BEFORE wALK-ouT
is CONSIDERED.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New York.-The conference commit
tee of managers of fifty railroads east
of Chicago and north OF the Norfolk
& Western railroad and their locomo-
tive engineers arrived at q deadlock
over the question of an increase and
Standardization of wages. The man
ayers refused to accede to the de-
mands of the men and the engineers
declined to accept this decision and
reaffilmed their demands.
It appears that the question will
have to be placed before the rank and
file of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers employed by the railroads
for referendum vote as to what the
policy of the engineers shall be. w. 5.
Stone, grand chief engineer of the
brotherhood, In letter to ]. G. Stuart
OF the Erie railroad and chairman OF
the managers committee. said the en-
gineers could not accept the decision
of the managers and that II they had
nothing further to offer the matter
would be given into the hands Of the
engineers for decision.
Mr. Stuart replied that the manag-
ers could add nothing to the state
ment and that he hoped the members
of the brotherhood would give 1t full
consideration when submitted to them
The engineers had requested mini
mum wage of $40 per day for passen-
ger service, s5.25 for freight service
and substantial increases for overtime.
They also asked increases for switch,
belt line and special engines, and spe-
Gifted that all electrical trains be
manned by engineers at steam railroad
prices.
The managers replied that to ac-
quiesce in the demands would mean
an increase in wages of about nine
teen per cent. and that they were un-
able to add this burden to their heavy
expenses. After they had read the re-
ply of the managers, the representa-
tives OF the engineers conferred and,
1t is said, agreed unanimously that 1t
was not acceptable.
Not until the result OF the joint con
ference between the engineers and the
managers has been submitted to the
rank and file of the 25,000 members of
the engineers organization will the
question of walk-out be considered.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
WESTERN.

Abercrombie, fifteen miles from
Wahpeton, N. D., was wiped out by
fire with loss of $4,000.
Cracksmen robbed the safe of sa-
loon at Washington, Cal, of $4,000 and
some costly jewelry.
A peculiar disease has attacked
many horses in the Platteyille. Colo,
vicinity and farmers report losses Of
valuable animals.
Richard Thiede. aged fifty. and an
old-time miner of Cripple Creek, Colo.
district, was instantly killed by an ex-
plosion of dynamite.
Kansas fruit prospects have never
been better than they were this year,
according to the secretary of the State
horticultural Society.
Employees of railroads. when riding
on passes in future, will be required
to give preference to cash passengers
in the matter of sleeping car berths.
To colonize poor families of st. Paul
and Minneapolis on forty-acre farms
in northern Minnesota, provide homes
for them and give them a start at
farming. is move started by the Sal
walton Army.
At least thirty-two men were killed,
and parts OF their bodies strewn for
blocks around, when a big passenger
engine in the Southern Pacific shops
blew up in San Antonio. Tex. Fifty
persons were injured.
Fourteen boys whose average age is
fourteen years have incorcorpated the
youngest bank instituted in New Eng
land. ct Quincy, Mass. They will de
posit Sc cents week until the fund
is large enough to invest in business
A tornado struck New Douglas
Madison county. Illinois, unroofed sew
eral houses, wrecked the Pange floui
mill and broke scores of windows
Smithboro and Greenville and Other
small towns were damaged. In Green
Vile 125 houses were wrecked.
Foreign capital, mostly American
aggregating $125.000.000 and invested
In the border Mexican states of Du
range, Coahuila and Chihuahua, Is
non-productive and threatened by rea
son of the revolution, according tc
information in the possession of e.
Paso bankers.
Enough potash to supply the United
States probably for the next thirty
years has ben discovered by govern
ment scientists in Searles lake. San
Bernardino county. Cal. Estimates OF
field men OF the Geological Survey
and the bureau of soils is that the de
posit may amount to four million tons
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29

Chicago is soon to have hippo.
drome with seating capacity of 6,100.
1t will be the largest auditorium used
exclusively as a theater In America.
A mob of 500 broke into the Fort
Smith, Ark, Jail and seized an uniden-
titled negro and hung him to a tele-
phone pole.
Miss Mary Lonergan, an artist of
Kankakee, ILL.,, obtained verdict of
s25,000 against DR.. Daniel B. Hayden.
a Chicago physician, on the ground of
breach of promise.
The great Lawrence, Mass, strike
which brought in its train increased
wages for 275,000 textile workers in
New England, has been officially de-
clared off at all mills in Lawrence,
having accomplished its purpose in the
opinion of the leaders.
Negotiations between the 100000
miners in the bituminous coal fields
of western Pennsylvania. Indiana and
Illinois and the operators for an ad-
Justment of wage differences have
been postponed. Two compromise Of
ers by the operators were voted down
by the miners.
Much anxiety is felt over the prob.
ability of floods in the Missouri river
watershed. Railroads are expecting
trouble. Dynamite, with which to break
up possible ice gorges, has been dis
tributed to various places. There In
more snow on the ground than for
many years at this season.
| Sidna Edwards, a tall, rugged noun
taineer of twenty-five, sits calmly in
the darkness of the little brick jail
in Hillsville, Va, the first catch of the
posses that have been securing the
mountains for those of the Allen gang
who got away after the court house
assassination of March IA.
President Taft may take a hand in
the coal situation to avert a strike
in the anthracite fields. The President
is said to be preparing to follow the
precedent established by his predeces.
sor and bring pressure to bear on the
anthracite coal operators to make con-
cessions in the interests of peace.
The Delaware. Lackawanna & West
ern railroad was found guilty In Unit
ed States District Court in Buffalo of
violating the commodities clause of
the Hepburn act and was fined $4,000.
The company was indicted on 20
counts and faced a maximum penalty
of 100000. tbs charge being that it
shipped free from Buffalo to Scranton.
Pa, a quantity of hay to be used in
feeding mules in the mines.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Minor Mention.

In the Colorado Springs school dis
trict there are s.175-persons of schoo
age.
Actual work on street paving viii
begin in Colorado Springs within ter
days.
The school census of Grand juno
ton shows 2.225 children of school age
within the city limits.
Strawberries are being cultivated IL
the mountains near Steamboat Springs
5000 feet above the sea level.
The Fort Morgan basketball team
has gone to Chicago to play Iowa. Ne
braska and Illinois basketball teams
The annual society circus of the
Denver Y.sM. c. A. will be given April
H., IL and 13 in the gymnasium of the
Y. NJ. c. A.
By an overwhelming majority the
s2.100.000 bond issue of the Granada
Holly Irrigation project carried at the
recent election.
In all probability $4,000 will be ex
pended by Grand Junction this spring
for the erection of a new fire house
and police station.
Former United States Senator Hen,
ry M. Teller of Denver, who has been
seriously Ill for week, is reported to
be slightly better.
Colorado college students at Colo
rado Springs have voted to hold an.
other spring high school track and
field meet May 4.
Ben Lundstrom, miner. was shot
in Telluride as result of interceding
for a friend who quarreled with q. j.
Charest, bartender.
The first baseball game of the sea
son in Pueblo was played between the
Glitch team of Denver and the Pueblo
Rocky Mountain League club.
Close to 100000 will be cleaned up
in Weld county this season as the re-
suit of fattening sheep and cattle for
Denver and Chicago markets.
There are not to exceed thirty car
loads of potatoes in the Greeley dis
trict and these are going out rapidly,
netting the farmers cents a pound.
Robert Burke, who robbed the ]. A.
Thatcher home lin Pueblo of diamonds
valued at 100000. was given six to
eight years in the penitentiary by
Judge Rizer.
The entire s2,9OO,0Oo issue of bonds
for the proposed Denver civic center
will be disposed of at home by popular
subscription, If the plans of Denver
bankers are carried out.
In beer alone, Colorado and Wyom-
ing drank 1882 barrels less in the
eight months from July l, 1911. to
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
GEN ERAL.

The New Jersey State Senate de-
feated a resolution providing for the
right OF suffrage for women.
w. H. Walker. farmer living near
Murphysboro, ILL.,, missed a hawk and
shot and killed his eight-year-old boy.
The three-year strike of the sea-
mems union, involving $1,000 men on
the Great Lakes, has come to an end.
The Spiritualists in New York city
are to build 100000 temple in the
heart of the fashionable Park West
section
A new crusade against the long hat
pin Ia being launched in New York
this time by the city's department of
health.
A gas well struck near Silver Creek.
is flowing 100000 feet day. 1t is
the biggest gusher ever struck in New
York gas fields.
River men are apprehensive of
floods along the Mississippi river be-
cause of the rapid breaking up of ice
and melting of snow.
Six inmates Of the Huron county,
Ohio, infirmary are dead as result of
asphyxiation. Seven others were over
come but are recovering.
Demands of the 100000 miners in
the bituminous coal fields of western
PENNSYLVANIA. Ohio. Indiana and ILL
nois, for a ten per cent. wage increase
in pay mad shorter working hours were
voted down by the operators.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

have supervision over all irrigation en-
terprtses in Colorado may be the re-
suit Of action taken by the directors
of tho Denver Chamber of Commerce
The chamber directorate believes that
many legitimate projects for the iri-
cation of thousands of acres Of land
with consequent increase of the value
of the state agricultural output are pre-
,ented from being executed on ac-
count of the disfavor in which irriga-
ton securities have fallen during the
last few years.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Railway Commission Is Legal.

Breckenridge.-Und ruling of
Judge Cavender. sitting at Brecken.
ridge in the case of the Colorado Rail-
road Commission against the Colorado
& Southern railroad. the legality of
the railroad commission and it's right
to make regulations which must be
obeyed by the railroads, within reason,
is established. Judge Cavender over
ruled the demurrer of the Colorado &
Southern railroad, which protested the
order of the commission seeking to
force that road to re-establish train
service between Como and Brecken-
ridfe. declaring that the commission
was without authority of law.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
WASHiN GTON.

Senator Cummins of Iowa has intro
duced in the Senate a nationwide
presidential primary bill, the national
primaries to be July 8.
Supervising Architect ]. Knox Tay-
lor has informed Gen. George w. Cook
that he would positively complete the
new federal building in Denver by July
1, 1912 ready to be occupied.
DR.. A. S. Mitchell, chief of the st.
Paul laboratory of the bureau of chem
istry, has assumed office as a tempo
rary member of the pure food board
In Washington to fill vacancy caused
by resignation of DR.. Harvey w. Wiley.
Qualified or probationary independ-
ence for eight years, from July 4, 1913,
until July 4, 1921 after that, full I'm.
dependence for the Filipinos. This is
the plan of the leaders of the Demo.
cratic House of Representatives with
respect to the solution of the Phillip
pine problem"
The waste of millions of dollars
worth of natural gas which is going
on each year In the petroleum wells
OF the country may be stopped soon
by a plan that has just been made
public by the federal bureau of mines.
Briefly. the plan as outlined by oil ex-
perts of the bureau is to take the So
called "wet gas" found in all the oil
fields and obtain from it liquefied
gas that can be used for illuminating
purposes. This liquefied gas, which is
by-Droduct of the natural gas, is
held under high pressue in steel con-
tainers and can be shipped to locall-
ties that do not have gas system.
In this way small towns. hotels and
country estates may have the advan-
tage of gas Illumination at fair cost.
This gas. it is thought. will also prove
an excellent illuminant for light.
houses. lightships and other public
works of similar nature that must be
located at distance from CONNER
cial supply OF gas.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Want More Money, shorter Hours.

Cleveland by union
officers of possible compromise in
the wage demands of the miners in the
bituminous coal fields of western
Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana and ILL
nois resulted in a decision that when
the conference with the operators is
resumed the miners will adhere tc
their original demand for ten pei
cent increase and shorter working
hours.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Price 6f Metals.

fTiCe OF Metals.
New York.-Standard copper, firm;
spot, March and April, s14.5O@14.75;
May. June and July. $14.57H @14.75;
Lake copper, s15.O0@15.25; electrolyt-
ic, $500; casting. s145o@1475.
Tin, quiet and steady; spot, $4,000
42.15; March, s42.OO@42.12A; April,
$41.75@42.00; May, $41.35@41.75;
June, s41.0oQ41.37k; July, s40.75@
ALPS.
Lead, steady; s4.2O@4.3O New York;
$4.25@4.37h East st. Louis.
Spelter, quiet; $6.50@7.00 New
York; s6.371s bid East st. Louis.
Antimony, quiet; Cookson's, $7.62h.
Iron-Locally iron is firm; No. /
foundry Northern. s15.25@15.50; No
2. s14.50@15.00; No. 1 Southern and
No. Southern soft, s15.OO@15.50.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
May Free sugar Trust.

New York. The prospect tha'
Judge Hand of the United States Dis
trict Court would instruct the jury to
acquit John e. Parsons. Washington
B. Thomas and other officers of the
American Sugar Refining Company on
trial fer conspiracy. was in view when
counsel for the defendants finished
arguments on a motion to dismiss the
indictments.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
YOUNG Farmers, Club GROWING.

Meeker.-Growing much more rapidly
even than the proverbial sapling is the
Young Peoples Agricultural Club. re-
Gently organized in the government
road district, seventeen miles west Of
here. The organization, composed en-.
tirely of the younger boys and girls of
that section. boasts OF thirty-seven
members, taking in about every young
ster living on the road.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
viii Plant 1000 Acres Of Flax.

Grover.-To the fact that woman.
Mrs. Mary Martin. successfully expert
mented with twenty acres of flax in
the vicinity of Grover is due the con-
tract Just made by which 1000 acres
of land In the Greeley-Poudre irriga-
ton district will be planted to flax
next month.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Schools Have Good Roads Day.

Denver.-Colcrado school children
will this year be given instruction on
the value of good roads in the state.
This is the result OF the adoption by
the last Legislature of an act which
sets aside the second Friday in May OF
each year as Good Roads Day in the
schools.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Women Hold Good Roads Meeting

Guanison.-March 23 there was a
woman's good roads meeting here held
by the first woman's good roads or
ganization in Colorado. At that time
d full list of officers was chosen and
the Woman's Good Roads Association
went on record.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Muller shortage over $4,000.

Denver The filing of claim for
sG5.743 by the National Jewish Hos
pital for Consumptives against the es-
tate of the late Alfred Muller in the
County Court disclosed the fact that
Mullor's defalcations amounted to
more than 100000. or $4,000 more
than was shown in the last reports.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29

A huge hens egg, weighing six
ounces-more than three times the
size of the normal egg-measuring
three inches in diameter and ten
inches in circumference. is on exhibi-
ton at Meeker
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Baby. Brains Put in Mans Head.

Baltimore.-With the brain of a
newborn baby substituted for a por
ton of his own. William Buckner, a
wealthy real estate broker and oper.
ator of Cincinnati. is recovering from
the rarest operation ever performed in
the Johns Hopkins hospital. Buckner
had for months been in a state OF
semi-coma.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29

Washington.-The War Department
is considering the advisabIlity Of re
moving to some western reservation
the remnant of the Apache band cap
tured at the time of the surrender o
Geronimo. The males from the origi
nal band. six in number, are still hels
at Fort Sill. OKLA, as prisoners Of war
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
ExcItement. Kills Marshal.

st. Joseph. Mo.-Reuben Harris
eighty-seven years old. marshal Of
Quitman. Mo-. is dying as result OF
the excitement attendant on his first
arrest.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Monument to Burns.

Boston.-A monument to Roberi
Burns is to be presented to the city as
gift from the Scottish organization
OF the city.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
w.st-rn Newspaper Union News Service.

COMING EVENTS IN COLORADO.
April 29.--Democratic State Convention.
Colorado Springs.
May 6-1I.--state Y. NJ. C. A. Convention.
Pueblo.
June 1B-20.-State Sunday School Con-
vention. Colorado Springs.
June 11-July 19.-Summer Term. State
Teachers' College. Greeley.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Eastern Produce.

Chicago.-Butter-Steady; creamer
les, 26@29c; dairies, 23@27c.
Eggs-Firm; at mark, cases includ.
ed, 1s1A @2oc; ordinary firsts. 1870;
firsts. 2e7Sl.
Cheese - 'eady; daisies. 1sh@1sc;
twins. 1sWIshc; Young Americas
1sh@19c; long horns. 1S1aQ Q1sc.
Potatoes-Strong; Wisconsin. s1.15
Lib; l.ichigan and Minnesota, SLIGO
LIS.
veal-Steady. 7@11a
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Colorado College Must Raise s25o,ooo

Colorado Springs.-Colorado college
must raise $25o.000 between now and
Jan. 1. 1913, II it gets the $4,000
pledged some time ago by the carne-
gle Foundation.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.

Flax.
Duluth Closing-Lipseed in store.
$2.O7A; on track, s2.0s%; to arrive.
$2.oSA; March, $2.07% nominal May
and July. $2.0S% bid.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Hay.

Hay.
prices Paid by Denver Jobbers F. o.
B. Track Denver.)
Colorado upland, per ton. 10 00@16.00
Nebraska upland. per ton. 13.50@14.5o
Second bottom, Colorado
and Nebraska, per ton. .11.50 @12.50
Alfalfa, per ton. .12.00@13.00
South Park, choice. ton. .15.00@16.00
San luis Valley, per ton. .12.00@13 90
Gunnison Valley. per ton 1850 @14.50
Straw, per ton ........... 1000 500
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
MAR K EFT
oTATIo N S
western Newspaper Union New. Service.
DENVER MARKETS.
Cattle.

Cattle.
Beef steers. corn fed. good to
choice .............. .t.50Q1.O0
Beef steers, corn fed, fair to
good %. 10 Vo.No
Beef steers, pulp fed. good to
choice ....-....-....6 .6.40Q6.f5
Beef steers, pulp fed. fair to
good ..-........-..... .o.ta0yo.Ao
Beef steers, hay fed, good to
choice .e.25@s.75
Beef steers. hay fed, fair to
good .5.5O0e25
Heifers. prime. pulp or hay
led ................ .o.1oVo.os
Cows and heifers. hay fed,
good to choice .......... .4.50D5-25
Cows and heifers. hay fed,
fair to good .4.0004.5o
Cows and heifers, pulp fed,
good to choice .4.GO@5.25
Cows and heifers. pulp fed.
fair to good ............ .400Q4-60
Gamers and cutters ...... .3-O0W4.oo
Veal calves .6.o009.4O
Bulls .3.75@4.50
Stays .4.25Q5 500
Feeders and stockers. good
to choice ................5.2 .5.25Q6.0o
Feeders and stockers. fair
to good -...............-. .4.io Vo.1o
Feeders and stockers, COM
mon to fair ..............S. .S.foV4.oo
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29

Lambs. good to choice .6.25@6.75
Lambs. fair to good ...... .5.75@6.25
Feeder lambs, F. P. R.......5.7506.25
Yearlings, fair to choice. .5.50@6.20
Ewes. good to choice. 4.25@4.s6
Ewes, fair to choice. ....... .00@4.75
Ewes, feeders and culls, +.
Dr.. .2750S.5o
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29

State Irrigation Commission.
Denver.-A state commission to
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Hogs.
Sheep.

Good hogs ...............7.8O@Hs2h
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-03-29
Butter.

Eggs.
Eggs, case count, less com. .$6.75
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-12-15

NEW YORK.-The most important
social event Of catdom-a cat be
{ othal party-will be given at the
J. otel Plaza, Dec. 10. The secret
a. rather the cat in the bag-has
! zen let out. 1t is just that Don Dia,
English silver chinchilla cat, has
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-12-15
Two TRIBES HAVE
N sjNG history
CHOCTAMS AND CIIICKASAWS
HAVE A COMPLETE
HISTORY.
They HAD A ROYAL FAMILY
First White Men Found Tribes Had u
II, endid System of Gov
crnmcnt.

CLAREhORE, okla, Dec, IA
Perhaps it Is not generally known
that at least two Of the civilized
trbes-the Choctaws and Chickasaws
are able TO trace their history foI
several hundred years and that, from
the earliest time their history or ira
ditions, their method Of government
and social life was far different than
the Cherokees.
The dawn Of ChoCtaw history finds
that people strict adherents OF mon
archy. Their king had all the power
Of his European prototype. HIS word
was law. The blood that coursed
through his veins was royal blood
and, biologically, as pure as the king
of England. The crown descended
to a member Of the clan Of the royal
blood and none other The royal
clan was known as Hyah-pah-tuk
kalo, in Choctnw meaning Twin
Lakes. This clan was in the early
years Of 1900 known as Hattaki-hol-
latah or Beloved of the People The
last of the true descendants was Mos
hola-tub-by who was the son of the
last king of the tribe and a grand
uncle of David and Isaac Folsom. The
Folsom family today is well and ia
vorably known throughout the Choc-
taw nation, and it is claimed, and on
seemingly good authority, that Mrs.
FRANCES Folsom Cleveland, the ac-
complshed and beautiful wife of eX-
President Grover Cleveland, was
closely related to this Choctaw clan.
When the white man first settled
near the Choctaws they found that
they had regular royal government.
The reign of the royal clan was at the
zenith Of its splendor. To the Choc-
taws the methods Of government were
entirely satisfactory, as far ss the ira
ditions of the tribe chronicle. The
French settlers chafed under the au-
tocratic rule of those red kings of
the forest and sought, by every means
in their power, to break down and
destroy the incluences OF the royal
clan; That they were successful, is
attested by the appointment of kings
through French influence, therefore
when the English succeeded the
French prior to the revolutionary
war, the reign of kings among the
Choctaws was fast waning and his
tory records the appointment OF sew
eral kings through English influ-
ences,
Chiefs were named over each clan
and sub-chiefs had power only over
restricted territory. In the social
status the Choctaw citizens the fol-
lowing; was. the, errier-and woe to
him who should attempt to pass the