La Junta tribune., 1914-01-03

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7 present from the Board OF Trade
OF Little Rock. Ark. where he posed
I last summer as Rip Van Wrinkle. tn.
second.
The Japanese In the provinces OF
[ ammori and Hokkaido are suffer
/ INK from the worst famine since
1863 They must have a democrat
&c party In Japan. Hard times and a
vast army OF unemployed are al
ways the sur. signs OF democratic
ascendancy in the srsa, L. $. A.
/ what,
All of the barber shops w.re clos
ed on Christmas. and likewise on
I New Years Day. and thereat there
vas more or less discontinue. one
man walked around town rrumbling
to himself. The only thing that
Santa Claus brought me was 10, OF
Shiskers" He VAS p..yed. decid-
eddy so,
e. a Fellows. who was mayor OF
Topeka for two terms In the middle
nineties and later. In 1905. built
the present Santa Fe shops In La
Junta, has prosper.d quit. estsn-
siycly since he moved Ia Los Ange-
les few years ago. 4 Topeka pa
per tells OF MIR Fellows oe.an-ro-
INK yact, with Accommodations for
twelve guests. which shows tina, in
his prosperity he has a Fellows feel
INK FOR his friends and an Inclination
io show them a good time.
Sheriff Alex Nant returned home
last Thursday afternoon from Lave
land Colo. where he had been on
official business Mr. Yaut reports
some suow In Loveland. the snowfall
iu Ia Junta very much resmbling a
light frost iu comparison with that
Of the hin country There vas about
three feet OF snow on the level all
over that section. and In the business
section, where II had drifted. it was
piled higher than a mans head along
the sidewalk Non. Of the old tim
crs Of that section ever saw anything
like 1t before
n L. Nudge. president OF the
Rock island railroad. Is one OF th.
railway presidents who believe that
the Interstate commcrc. commission
should have increased powers over
the transportation companies. IL.
says The railroads cannot go on
serving 80 many masters aud at the
same time continu. To give the pub
he the kind OF service II requires
and deserves. Since tn. federal gov
eminent IL now regulating our rates
of r"yenu. and Ia large extent l.
deciding our wax. disputes II Ger
taipN u no NOR, than just that IN.
authority for Ia. regulation OF rail.
way securities shall also De placed
in the hands of the federal board '
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\ Garden city man-uot man
Nho claims sanctificatiou by any
means returned recently from Kan.
sas city. where he visited with an
old l.rt.uH.r ,,l..N n. .ag,-t -
fact with great gusto. to tn. as.
tonished multitude Ia Garden CITY
that his bartender friend predicted
that within ten years there would
not b. an open saloon In IN. United
States, and that his Job. with thou,
sands lik. Il. would 30 begging
Wors. things might happen. though
possibly not This may no, b. -
much OF jolly as II will prohabl,
appear ,o som. of III. Ne, ones Nh,
ar. not inclined 10 read IN. signs oI
the times. Ii.may b. less than ter
years. The world moves toi.rabi,
East in these DAYS of the auiomobil.
and ten years Is long time to ,ol.r
at. IN. liquor business. when yol
consider the fact that II has not
sinEi. r.d..minx feature. and ,ha
no good ever came out of II,
Was isil hoodoo- Not 40 20,
could motto. II. at i.as, not In rrea
family journal circles. Tn. pas
year Was IN. very best that the Tri
bun. ev r had during the seventeen
years that II ha. been under tn
present management. and the montl
of December Was the best Of the en-
tire year, Only during one mon,l
did the advertising patronage -Soec,
that OF last month. and that VA
during III. month Of February. 1911
when We issued the forty page In
dustriai edition. The job work 10