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The Julesburg grit-advocate. (Julesburg, Colo.) 1907-1972, 1917-05-31
CARS OF CATTLE
AND HOGS ARE SHIPPED

The following car load shipments of
hogs and cattle were shipped to
Omaha during the week:
May %. One car of hogs, to Oma-
ha, by c. NJ Robson.
Harris & Son shipped one car of cat
tie to Omaha, onMay 26.
On May 27, Phil Mccormick ship
ped two car of cattle to Omaha.
May 81. One car of hogs shipped
to Omaha by Phil Mccormick.
May 2S. Three cars of cattle ship
ped to Omaha by Peter Brown
The Julesburg grit-advocate. (Julesburg, Colo.) 1907-1972, 1917-05-31
SCHOOL YEAR SUCCESS

Although Friday, May 25th, was
designated as the closing day of the
public schools of Julesburg, the re
cent action taken by the Board of
Health in preventing the spreading of
small pox i'll this community, neces-
STATED the closing of schools on last
Monday.
After very successful school term
some of the teachers of the public
schools have been leaving for their
homes this week in various sections
of the country, some returning next
year while others will take up their
locations elsewhere.
The various social circles and clubs
The Julesburg grit-advocate. (Julesburg, Colo.) 1907-1972, 1917-05-31
RAIN! RAIN! RAINu!
PLENTY OF RAIN FALLING

This section has been blessed with
an untold quantity of moisture dur
ing the past two weeks. Practically
every day and night has brought
forth more or less rain, and our far
mers are wearing smile that won't
come off. The recent rains in this
section have meant thousands and
thousands of dollars to our farmers,
so why shouldn't they feel iubilant :?
The Julesburg grit-advocate. (Julesburg, Colo.) 1907-1972, 1917-05-31

We failed to mention in our last is
sue the following names of people
who attended Mrs. E. J. Frederick's
funeral: Mesdames Ida Henderson,
Bess Henderson, of Springfield, H.,
Will Beers of Topeka, Kans. and f. R.
Webb. of kearney, Nebr.
The Julesburg grit-advocate. (Julesburg, Colo.) 1907-1972, 1917-05-31
GOVERNOR GUNTER CALLS ON ALL TO
REGISTER JUNE 5-WILL NOT BE
LEGAL HOLIDAY IN STATE
REGISTRARS READY AND WAITING FOR YOU ON REGIS
TRATION DAY.-ALL MEN BETWEEN q
AND 80 MUST REGISTER.

Whereas congress the United States enacted and
the president has approved the eecve bill
the military establishment otherwise
nation for and
Whereas Tuesday the fifth day 1917
designated the president of United
which all who that day have attained their twenty first
birthday shall the registration place the voting
which they reside and there register their the
honor from which each be assigned that his
for which he is best fitted needed
and
The Julesburg grit-advocate. (Julesburg, Colo.) 1907-1972, 1917-05-31

against depotism and for the cause of
liberty throughout the world.
in witness whereof, have hereun-
to set my hand and caused the great
seal of the state of Colorado to be
affixed.
Done at Denver, Colorado, May
90, A ID. 1917.
JULIUS c. GUNTER,
Governor of the State oil COlorodo.
Attest:
JAMES r. holland,
"Sec'y of the State of Colorado
,retarsJulrcshe cmfw yshrdl cmfwy M
The Julesburg grit-advocate. (Julesburg, Colo.) 1907-1972, 1917-05-31

the facts as presented, will prove
highly satisfactory to the Sugar Com
pany, and their final decision will be
the reply that they will build Sugar
Factory in the early future.
The Julesburg grit-advocate. (Julesburg, Colo.) 1907-1972, 1917-05-31

S. H. Carlson and family spent
Sunday in Sedgwick with his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Glen McKinstry and family.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
WESTERN.

Shell explodes and Kills two arttil-
lerymen at Fort Sill, Okla.
Three hundred forest fire fighters
believed trapped by blaze in Montana.
Sheriff at Spokane, Wash. receives
letter threatening death from l. W..
W.
Negroes who "shot up" Houston,
Texas, taken from Jurisdiction of civil
authorities.
Butter sold in Portland, Ore, at the
highest price ever recorded. 55 cents
pound, or $105 for two-pound
brick at retail
Charles L. Alleman, until last July
LIST president of the Standard Oil Com
pany of Nebraska, died at his home in
Omaha after a prolonged illness. He
was 81 years old.
Allen L. Burris. a mining man from
Colorado Springs. was seriously in
jured in an automobile accident near
the San Navier mission while return
ing to Tucson, Ariz., from copper prop
critics in which he is Interested
The wheat pit of the Chicago Board
of Trade has been closed. The action
of the directors closing the pit was
due to request of Herbert c. Hoover,
food administrator, that trading in
wheat futures cease at least for the
period of the war.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
FRENCH ADVANCE AT vERDUN.
Italians Continue Crushing Drive
Through Austrian Lines, Calming
New PLATEAU Points,

Rome, Aug. 28.-Slowly but steadily
the Italians are breaking down the re-
sistance of the Austrians around
Monte Santa, and making their way
east toward the border Of upper Car
niola. The Austrians have brought up
fresh troops, but latest dispatches say
the Italians have broken through the
lines at many places in spite of the
stubborn resistance.
The French gained an advance OF
1000 yards and captured 1000 men in
an assault near Verdun Monday. The
German assaults on the Aisne front
also have been blocked by the French.
Trench raids seem to be the chief
operations on the British front, al
though artillery duels are in progress
on various sectors.
Berlin reports the capture of Rus
sian positions near Jacobstadt, be-
tween Riga and Dvinsk, but makes no
mention of the fight east of Riga.
In Rumania the Russo-Rumanians
are still holding their own, having re-
taken positions lost near Scoveia last
week
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
GEN ERAL.

Sugar prices have been cut IL
cents
w. c. Won Stein. farmer near
Shawton. Ohio. has field of oats
that measures feet S12 inches high.
and so heavy that rabbits can not run
through it.
John Francis Beckwith. poet, au-
thor and soldier. arrested in Cleveland,
Ohio, on charge of using the mails
to defraud, told federal officers he
made love to scores of women through
out the country in order to get funds
to keep the one woman" in luxury
in home in the Adirondacks, near
Albany, N. Y. 's'
Herbert G.. Hoover, federal food ad
ministrator, went to Chicago to look
into the meat situation" He went
away carrying in his pocket a formal
request from the packers-adopted
unanimously in advance of his arrival
that he appoint federal dictator"
at once to take entire control of the
livestock industry.
Edsel Ford, son Of Henry Ford, null
tmillionaire manufacturer, was exam
ined by a Detroit draft board and It
was announced he passed the physical
tests. Ford claimed exemption on in
dustrial grounds.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
STATE CAPITOL
NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
EXECUTIVE PROCLAMATION.
Governor Gunter Urges that School
Attendance Be Maintained.

Governor Gunter Urges that School
Attendance Be Maintained.
Denver.-Governor Gunter has II
sued the following proclamation:
Whereas in this hour of our coun-
try's great trial when the calls for
men, for equipment and for food are
imperative; when new conditions are
governing and there is apprehension
about the future and fear of making
plans. we are in grave danger OF fail
ing to apply sound Judgment in many
of the affairs of every day life; and
Whereas, so moved, many of our pa
rents, viewing the question of school
and college training for their chill
course to pursue; and
Whereas there is grave danger Of
our overlooking the great need of
trained men and women for the calls
coming now. and that will continue to
come. for skilled workers; the posi-
tive need Of equipped men for tho
great problems Of Industrial. CONNER
cial and civic development after the
war. and the dependence of the ma
tion on the youth of today for expert
leadership few years hence; and
Whereas these facts should be earn
estly called to the attention OF tho
people of our commonwealth as the
President has urged them upon the
attention of the citizenship of the ma
tion;
Now, Therefore, l. julius c. Gun
ter, Governor of the State of Colorado.
do hereby urge upon the citizens of
this commonwealth the great impor-
tance Of the continuance of our youth
in the schools of our state and request
them to make all necessary sacrifice
for that purpose, and to maintain our
school attendance as fully as In years
when war Is not upon US.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
WASHINGTON.

Wilson orders some notifications in
draft law provisions.
Early adjustment of the labor dis
putes in ship yards expected
Explosion at Mare Island navy yard
was caused by outside parties.
President Wilson's reply to Pope
Benedict's peace proposals has been
completed and is ready to go forward
to the vatican.
Regulations TO govern the operation
of coal mines will be issued by DR.
H. A. Garfield. the fuel administrator.
Secretary Baker appointed library
war council headed by Frank A. Van
derlip of New York.
The governments ship building
program calls for total Of 1,27O ships
of 100000 tonnage.
President Wilson may address Con-
gTess at the same time he answers the
pope's peace proposals.
Hearings on the administration sol
diers' and sailors war insurance bill
we're completed by House commit
tee.
Infantiie paralysis as q nation wide
or state wide scourge Is no longer
feared this year by the public health
service.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
FOREIGN.

Former premier of Dussia seriously
III in prison.
A second fire in Salonizi destroyed
1000 houses. ~
Austrians are crying for peace, says,
subject just from Vienna. y.
H. A. Earl, Lake Preston. S. D., is
on the Canadian casualty list among
those killed in action.
Thirty chiefs and sub chiefs Of
Yaqui tribesmen, who have been in
revolt against the Mexican govern
ment, have accepted amnesty.
England, the archenemy of Ger
many, must be beaten down at what
ever cost, Emperor William told his
troops while on visit to the Flanders
front.
M Savinkoff, acting Russian minis
ter of war, has resigned. His resigna-
tion was the result of military and po-
litical differences with Premier Ker-
cnsky.
The French war cross hkas been
awarded to r. A. Drake, Franklin. N.
H., of the American ambulance field
service for driving through a barrage
OF gas shells.
The first detailed account of the
disastrous fire at Saloniki is con-
tanned in a Reuter- dispatch from that
city which says that 10000 persons
are homeless and that the property
less is enormous.
The crew of the German steamship
RCnate Leonhardt, which was tor-
pedoed and sunk off the Dutch coast
while on the way from Rotterdam for
a German post, has been rescued and
landed at Ymuiden.
Cardinal Anthony Mendes Bello, the
patriarch of Lisbon, has been given
five days by the Portuguese govern
ment to leave the capital. A decree
| forbids the cardinal to reside in Lis
bon or the suburbs for one year.
A dispatch to the London Exchange
Telegraph from Melbourne says Adele
Fankhurst, daughter of the English
suffragette leader, was sentenced to a
months imprisonment for a demon
stration she started outside parlia-
ment building.
| The factories in the southeastern
portion Of Petrograd were burned as
a result of an explosion. One hun
dred and twenty persons were killed
or injured. The entire militia which
has been employed since the revolu-
tion to police Petrograd has resigned
on account of the refusal of a demand
for an increase in pay.
Three women received the legion Of
honor for their work in connection
with the war. They are Lady Michel
ham, the founder of the hospital in
the Astoria Hotel, Paris; Mrs. Borden
Turner of Chicago, who has main
tanned a hospital In Belgian territory
since the beginning of the war, and
Miss WINS Of the Scottish Women g
hospital at Royamount.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
COURT TERMS
AT DURANGO. SEPT. rs, AND
GRAND JUNCTION. SEPT. II.
Petit Jury Drawn for the Term Of
United States District Court at
Durango.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-The Petit jury for the
term of the United States District
Court, to be held in Durango Sept. 20.
has been drawn. The venire of forty
men was drawn by Charles Bishop,
clerk of the Federal Court, Denver,
in the presence of Samuel ]. Burris,
United States marshal. Judge Rob
ert E. Lewis will preside at the Du-
range term.
The term of Federal Court also will
be held in Grand Junction Sept. II.
two weeks earlier than at Durango.
but no jury cases are docketed and
no jury, in consequence, will be
drawn.
The drawing was the first from
which trial juries will be selected for
the first term of Federal Court ever
held in Durango The term to be held
at Grand Junction also is the first
term OF Federal Court for that city.
The terms at Durango and Grand
Junction will be held in the District
Court room at the courthouse. The
new federal building at Grand juno
ton, now in course of construction,
will be completed by the 1918 term
Appropriations have been made for a
federal building at Durango, but con-
struction work has not begun,
Among the principal actions on the
docket at Durango are several home
stead cases, and the government
against William A. Smith, former
cashier of bank at Silverton,
charged with making false entries.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
SPORT.
Standing of Western League Clubs

Machine-like driving, deadly sec
onds and seldom faltering stride on
the green carried Larry D. Brom-
field back into the Colorado state golf
championship in the thirty six hole
final match played at Lakewood
course in Denver.
After receiving only eighteen les
sons in swimming. Mary James Sny-
der, Years of age, of Denver. dived
fr''m the twenty-three foot tower at
Washington Park lake and swan to
the opposite pier, distance of 10
yards. So far as can be learned this
record has never been approached
The junior, senior, all around and
relay championships of the Amateur
Athletic Union will be held at the
Washington University stadium. st.
Louis, on Aug. 31st, Sept. lst and Srd.
respectively. The earnings will be do
mated to the st. Louis chapter of the
American Red Cross.
Denver fans have seen their last
game of professional baseball in Den
yer this year. Unable to make his
club pay, Hugh l.. Jones, owner of the
Denver Western League franchise.
wired that after due consideration" ="
he had decided to play the balance Of
the schedule in Wichita, Hutchinson
and Joplin.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EvEHTs IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Bulgarians have wanted peace for
over a year.
Since April the entente allies
lave made prisoner 167,780 men of en-
emy armies.
Five per cent of the drafted men
will be modified Sept 5th, others on
Oct. 3rd. and the balance as soon as
practical.
Dead Mans hill, famous in the Yer.
dun fighting, has been captured by
the French, together with Avocourt
wood and other German strongholds.
The French are gaining steadily on
both sides of the Meuse, taking the
Fosses and Beaumont woods and
reaching the outskirts OF Beaumont
and Bethincourt.
The German advance toward Riga
seems to have been checked To the
south the Russians and Rumanians
are keeping up their strong resistance
against the Germans.
Artillery duels seem to be the chief
operations in the west, especially Sc
we're encounters having been fought
east of Ypres. The British have won
some important trench positions.
Incendiary bombs, which were
dropped by two German aviators on
two hospitals behind Verdun killed
ten wounded men, one woman nurse
and nineteen trained male nurses.
The Russian council has begun at
Moscow, with Kerensky and other
members OF the government present.
Kerensky sounds warning in address
that all attempts against power will
be met with blood and IRON"
In the week which ended August
10. five French steamships of 1,60O
tons or more we're sunk by mines or
submarines, according to the weekly
official report. Four vessels under
1,6OO tons were sunk. No fishing
ships were destroyed.
The Italians are keeping up their
drive eastward over the Bainsizza
plateau. Airmen are lending great
aid to the forces, dropping bombs and
using their machine guns with telling
effect. Gen. Cardona's troops have
captured total Of $4,000 men. includ
Ing 900 officers, and have taken much
booty In their rapid advance along the
Isonzo front.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
Former Premier Seriously III.
Toxic. - Marquis Okuma, former
premier Of Japan, Is seriously i'll.
w. w. Held for Little Lynehins.

Butte, Mont.-'It's frameup. They
can't connect me with the crime"
was the assertion made by C. A. Nc
Carthy, formerly Of Denver. an officer
of the Butte Industrial Workers of the
World local, who is in jail here pend
ing an investigation on charge that
he was a member Of the party that
lynched the Industrial Worker Of the
World leader, Frank Little, near the
city. Mccarthy. booked on charge
of vagrancy, gave the name Of
Charles Albright.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
Radetsky ordered to Operate Road.

Denver-M. 8. Radetsky. owner Of
the Denver. Laramie & Northwestern
railway, who plans to funk" the road,
was ordered by the State Public Utilt
ties Commission not to dispose Of any
OF the equipment Of the railway b.
fore Sept. Q, and to continue opera
ton until that date. The order was
issued at the conclusion Of Testimony
presented by shippers, protesting
against the closing Of the line and oi
rebuttal testimony presented By Rad
stsky.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
Limon Is Scene of Race Fight.

Limon.-A free for all fight occurred
at the Rock Island roundhouse be-
tween a number of American and Mex
lean employees of the railroad. Bad
feeling has existed on the part of the
Americans for some time because the
railroad company sent a number OF
Mexicans to do the roustabout work at
the roundhouse. The Americans re-
sented the presence of the Mexicans,
believing that they should be kept at
work on the section. About a dozen
men were involved in the fight and
one Mexican was shot in the leg, and
hit on the head with brick, causing
conclusion of the brain.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
Fuel Men Protest Coal Prices.

Denver.--On the ground that the At
the-mine prices given by President
Wilson, in his coal-price-regulating
proclamation are not based on any In
vestigation of coal production in Colo
rado. that they are confiscatory, with
out due process OF law. and. therefore.
not in accordance with the constitu-
ton of the United States, leading Colo
sedo operators protested to the Presi-
aent and say that rather than con-
tinue operation under the Presidents
rices they will close down.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
Rio Grande Sued for $ss,27o,s4s.

Denver.-The Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad Company is made defendant
in suit for $3S.27O.343.17, instituted
In the United States District Court by
the Equitable Trust Company of New
York City. Action Is brought here to
enforce the judgment awarded by the
United States court for the southern
district of New York on June IA, 1917.
The suit is an outgrowth of the fail
ure of the railroad company to pay in
terest on bonds of the Western Pa
cific railroad, which it had guaranteed
to the bondholders 1t would do.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
Premiums Worth $1,000 Hung Up.

Loveland.-With the value of farm
crops the largest ever known in this
county, the agricultural and stock
displays of the Larimer County fair
this year bid fair to break all pre-
vious records. The fair will be held
in Loveland. Aug. %. 20, 80 and 81.
and this city is already beginning to
hum with preparations for the big
meet.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
Minister Decorated for Bravery.

Denver.-The Rev. DR.. John M. Nc
Neill, formerly of Toronto, Can, and
more recently pastor of Presbyterian
church here, has been awarded the
Victoria Cross. according to English
newspapers. DR.. McNeill left Denver
last October to act as a chaplain with
the English forces in France.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
Fall River Road Contract Awarded.

Fall River Road Contract Awarded.
The State Highway Commission has
awarded a contract to build five and
n half miles of the Fall River road
leading up to Miner pass at the sum-
nit of the Continental divide. The
contract price is estimated at S21.-
O24.21 and the road is a portion of the
highway that is to traverse the Rocky
Mountain National Park connecting
Grand lake with Estes Park, which
must be completed by July Is, 1913.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
craanizina Home Guard Company.

organizing Homo GUARD Company.
1t has been announced that a home
guard company is to be organized in
Denver at once. Recruits will have to
enlist for state service only and pri-
Yates have an excellent opportunity
for advancement. Privates will re-
ceive compensation at the rate Of $720
a year. with an opportunity Of rising
to the rank of captain at salary of
$500 a year. lieutenants, $1,000 q
year. sergeants, $1,000 a year. and
corporals, 5000 a year.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
Ranch Owner Sued for Heart Balm

Pueblo.-A $4,000 breach of prom
ise suit was filed in the District Court
here by Grace Hazel Donald against
Charles Herbert Beecher, a widely
known Pueblo county rancher. Miss
Donald says in her complaint that
Beecher promised to marry her sew
eral years ago when the pair was in
New York City. Since then he has re-
peated the promise, she alleged. but
has failed to keep it.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
GaveI Presented to Bishop.

Pueblo.-A sermon by Bishop E. R.
Hendrix of Kansas City, Mo, featured
the Denver conference of the Method
st Episcopal Church South. Bishop
Hendrix was presented with a gavel
made from wood taken from ancient
ruins near Aztec, N. M.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
Grange Secretary Resigns.

Denver.-RYdolph Johnson. secre-
tary of the Colorado State Grange As
sociation, resigned and Otis Scruggs
was chosen to fill his place until his
term of office expires. Johnson will
enter the officers training camp at
Fort Sheridan.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
U.S.. WAR BUDGET FOR YEAR.
Ordinary Expenses VIII Make Total
Outlay $500, 900 900.

Washington.-Detail of the govern
ment's expenditures for war and all
purposes for the fiscal year 1917-1S.
and the method by which the money
to meet these expenditures will be
raised, as roughly estimated by Chair
man Kitchin of the House ways and
means committee, are:
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
PRESIDENT CABLES GREETING TO
.~ NATIONAL COUNCIL AT
MOSCOW.
.KERENSkY STANDS FIRM
SAYS SLAvS WILL PUT DOWN
COUNTER REVOLUTION AND
HALT GERMANS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. President Wilson
sent to the members of the National
Council Assembly at Moscow assur-
ances that this government Is willing
to extend "every material and moral
assistance" to the government of
Russia.
No official comment was made by
government officials on Premier Ke-
rensky's speech before the members
of the council Monday, but it was
made clear that the sentiments ex-
pressed by the Russian leader were
heartily approved here, and that his
declarations indicating the firm man
ner in which he and his counselors
are prepared to deal with enemies of
the new government had aroused a
greater confidence in the outcome of
their plans. The message cabled by
President Wilson follows:
81 take the liberty to send to the
members of the great council now
meeting in Moscow the cordial greet
ings of their friends, the people of
the United States; to express their
confidence in the ultimate triumph Of
ideals of democracy and self govern
ment against all enemies within and
without and to give their renewed as
surance of every material and moral
assistance they can extend to the
government of Russia in the promo
ton Of the common cause In which
the two nations are unselfishly
united.
(sipnedl "wOODROW WILSON,"
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30

Rocky Ford Boys Win at Fort Riley.
Every young man from Rocky Ford
who has been attending the officers
training camp at Fort Riley has won .
commission.
Cheyenne record., 1917-08-30
(signed) WOODROW WILSON,"

Moscow.-Premier Kerensky, who
came to Moscow to attend the Ma
tional Conference for consideration of
the military and political problems
which confront the country. reviewed
troops at the Hippodrome and in ad-
dressing them said he was convinced
by the valor they were showing that
they would be able to drive back the
enemy at the front and crush any at
tempt at a counter-revolution.