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THE REGISTER Lamar, - . • Colorado Jxx*k>aw !hth itatwner: »'-oce or , *l*e they are Immune Shall w«- alw> be J'.lly good ft;- if Sir TLflrr-i* .lit* lie cap? That $5/jOO/jDO toy trust will furnish mouijw..} k newe*t something to pi*} j •itk." M. de PJobre tar* Ru*»i* will “*-r. courage tbe Jew* to emigrate. **Kd courage" Is good. Never roll a MS to be offered to an editor, utile** you roll It around a couple of Mecent 'igar*. The prudent woman will think twice before *he take* up tbe men * aock fad and put* her foot in It. Japan i* doubtlea* gritty for it* ' alze, hut it thould he warned In ad ranee that Ru*«la 1* not China. Those thre<- men up north who took poison for whi*ky merely made a mi*Lake in tbe kind of poison. An automobile 1* never so much out of place a* at a horse show. Be sides, it Is liable to add Injury to in sult. It Is suspected by the police that there Is a suicide club in Hoboken. J»ubtle*s there Is one there If any where. Grand Duke Vladimir, the czar's uncle, declares that the Russian Jews are happy. Clad *bey are still alive, perhaps. Fathers-in law make the most trouble before the marriage, but gen erally they mind their own buslnes* Afterward. The Chicago youth who has stolen over a hundred bicycle* during the past year must be crazy. At least be baa wheels. Cuba would like to borrow $35,000.- *OO Just now we don’t happen to know anybody who has that much ly ing around loose. A I>ondon man baa refused to be knighted by King Edward Evidently be doesn’t know of any rich American girl that be wants to marry. A New York paper reports the catching of a mackerel weighing 108 pounds. A decimal mark must have t>een dropped out of the original Hein. The man In London who has Just sold thirteen apostle spoons for the record price of $24,000 cannot be per suaded that thirteen Is an unlucky number. An English Judge has declared that Routh Dakota divorces are no good There are plenty of other people, how ever, who will never be happy till they get them. It’s all very well for the astronomers to tell us that the new comet Is In the vicinity of Alpha Cygnus, but most of us haven’t the least Idea where Alpha Cygnus is. The public men who complain about cartoons of themselves may some day be subjected to the awful condition of not having their pictures In the papers at all. Prof. Marin ski of New York finds that the strains of the bagpipes are eure death to mosquitoes. Very likely; but a more humane way of killing them should be Invented. Possibly the officials ordered the Koarsarge to make that rapid trip In order that the tolling officers might get Into form again after their aiimptuous fare In Europe. __ Englishmen have bowed courteously to the Americans who carried off the marksmanship trophy. A former gen eration once bowed very precipitately to Yankee straight shooting. Tesla’s prediction that It will he pos sible to send photographs by a system of wireless electrical transmissions may be regarded as one of the most brilliant things that he haa done thus far It may be true, as an expert de clares. that the devil lurks In soda fountains, but people are not so much afraid of the devil nowadays as they used to be In the days of Cotton blather. Dr. Stiles’ discovery of the germ which produces laziness may be Inter esting. but It would have been a great deni more useful to have discovered the germ which produces the desire for hard work. Who shall say that tl|e duke of Marl borough Is not fitted for the post ill the diplomatic service to which he 1h likely to he appointed? He showed his skill In diplomacy when he got himself engaged to Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt. There is some talk In ItusKla now of expelling the Jews from that country altogether If they don't quit complain ing about being oppressed. What the Russians like Is a man who will pa tiently let himself he flayed ami pre tends he likes it while the operation Is In progress. A one-armed convict has escaped from the Leavenworth penitentiary by scaling a twenty-flve-foot wall. It Is fortunate that this enterprising per son did not have two arms or be might have taken the prison with him. CJrlf Alexander In Pittsburg Des patch: If Prof. Wiley is really sin cere In his wish to discover the effects of tobacco on the human system, let him send me half a dozen boxes of the best cigars and I’ll send him daily bulletins of my condition. Nothing can be- fairer than that. COLORADO STATE AFFAIRS AND DOINGS AT THE CAPITAL CITY Land Charge* Denied. Id regard to the charge* made that the Colorado Foe] ard Iron Company 1* involved in the coal land fraud*, says the Denier News, Judge D. C. Beaman attorney tor the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, fcaa made the following »tatement **Ves. I bare read the newspaper re port* about land fraud* In Routt coun ty. "One of the most important I* the statement that come government offi cial has said that it would cost the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company fl • j l/jt) 000 to square it* accounts with the land office for the difference between the amount paid for its lands entered under the timber and stone a/t and that which should have been paid if entered a* coal lands "The reporter and the headliner of the paper then note that a general exo dus of officials, clerks, etc., ha* or is about to take place in consequence. "I do not suppose that any govern ment official made any such state ment. "The fact is that the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company doe* not now own or 'lalm to own, nor did it ever own. a single acre of land that was taken up under the timber and stone act. "Some of our lande —a very small amount —were entered as homesteads and pre-emptions twenty rears or more ago, when there was little doing in or known about coal lands. Some of these have coal In and some not. being mostly along the outcrop and were purchased by us of the people who owned them, and are used mostly for coke ovens and other frontage pur pose*. All our coal land, as well a* all our iron lands, were lawfully ac quired, and we do not fear investiga tion. "A* in many other cases meddlers have protested, and some of our pur chases have been investigated, but in every ca*e they have been found reg ular and lawful, the complaints un founded. and the entries approved by the secretary of the Interior. "There will be a lot of newspaper men leave Colorado before anybody leaves on account of unlawful acquisi tion of land for us. "In Routt county, where we have been charged with conniving with Mr. Moffat and other* in procuring thou sands of acre* of coal land* by forg ing name* of women and girls, this company own* but 220 acres, part of it bought by u» in 1803 and part in JS&7. of the men who bad entered it some years before It is on the S*>ake river, and Mr Moffat’s road will not go within thirty mile* of it. Aside from this half section, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company has no lands In Routt county, nor is it Interested In any way In coal or other filings in that county. "In fact, the company has not ac quired or attempted to acquire any coal land for more than five year* past "These alleged coal land fraud* bloom annually. The southern field was exploited about this time !a>t year by the newspaper*. and the most awful results were predicted. The reporters and correspondents of the Denver papers change about once a year and a new shift come* on that knows little or nothing about the topography, geography or history of the state, and they Htrlke a cold trail and write up a few column*, ninety eight per rent, of which is Imagina tion. "One ha* Ju*f bobbed up at Newcas tle and write* to a Denver paper that we closed our coal mine there because there were so many store* that we couldn't run a company store. “That mine was closed five year* ago. beeaiiHo condition* were such that mining wa* too expensive, a* we thought. It remained for that corre spondent to make a new discovery. "The whole story of land fraud*, so far a* the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com pany i* concerned, may be dlnpoHed of by saying that whatever in these re port* Ih important i* untrue. "I have al*o ween the statement about the change* to take place at the annual meeting. I don't know any thing alKjiit It. A*k *ome other news paper reporter. If he can’t tell you, then nobody know*.” Important Ditch Question. The Denver Republican of August 13tli says: Htate Engineer Carpenter yeslerday received notice of an injunction against the state : iigirtc-er s office to he Issued by the District Court or Ijir- Imer county. The notice states that the I.arimer-Weld Reservoir Company Is about to ask for an Injunction. J. L. Armstrong and J. J. Armstrong are included in the proposed injunction and It is asked In the application to the court, with which Professor Car penter was served yesterday, that the State Engineer's Department he re strained from preventing the reservoir company from taking water from its ditch near Fort Collins. The ditch I* known a* the Little Cache I.a Poudre, and the company claims the right, un der one and one-half shares it owns In the ditch, to store water. This same company some years ago made a similar application on another Hliare and a half which It owned at that time. The matter wa* taken Into the courts with the result that the company was not allowed to store the water. Now It comes Into court ugaln with the same question under a different share and a half and will ask that It be permitted to store thl* water. The land to he Irrigated by the ditch In question ami the crops grown thereon are of such a nature that the water can not he used at every sea son of the year and the company be lieves It ought to have the right to store the water when It can not use It. liy thl* mean* It can get all the water that I* coming to It out of its priority rights. But it I* contended on the other hand by others interested In the wa ter (lowing Into the ditch, that If the water can not he used when It (lows through the ditch that the company has no right to store it under Its pri ority right*. The matter will come up In the District Court of Larimer coun ty In a short time. Attorney General's Statement. The Denver Republican of August 9th says: Attorney General N. C. Miller yesterday Issued the following statement regarding the Kansas-Coio rado water suit and an Interview re cently published concerning It. In re ferring to the article he says: "I have read the article on the first page of a morning newspaper under •late of August Bth. In relation to the Kansas-Colorado litigation. from the publication of Interviews w:»h persons '■'ho mr*- *-ntlrely ignorant ’tj what U being done In the de fence of the caae. I tee nothing to crlt* icite In the article. "The article appear* In several place* to intimate that the adminis tration doe* not appreciate the Im mense Importance of this suit. Such a statement is entirely unfounded and unworthy; every precaution ha* been taken to see that all the interests of this suit are cared for. It is strange bow many people believe they are the only ones who really know bow to do a thing It will be impossible at the present time to disclose what arrange ments have been made. We can not! try such matters in the newspapers: j it is sufficient to say that they are en-, tireiy satisfactory to the persons whose { finances are involved in the water j rights of the Arkansas river. “The best legal talent In the state is secured to aid in this case. This office has done all in its power to as sist in the gathering of evidence. From our investigation we do notj hesitate to say that the sum approj priated is only adequate to cover this phase of the case. We believe we more fully appreciate the magnitude and critical points of this litigation than do those who would expend this money in the employment of counsel. We have been able to handle this suit more efficiently by not investing the money in attorneys, needlessly, when the best can be had through other j agencies.” Attorney General Miller says that, the state will employ no additional ! counsel Itself, but that it will have the! advice of four of the beat attorneys ; in the state, who have been engaged by ditch companies made parties to the suit. The 125,000 appropriated by . the legislature he says will be used in | gathering the vast amount of evidence needed in the case. Appropriations Apportioned. State Auditor Holmberg has made the apportionment of the monej' pro vided by the general appropriation bllL It is placed In certain funds for the ! convenience of the auditor and as pro vided by law. Items amounting to 517C.0C7.13. which were in the bill as parts of the short appropriation bill, were not included in this a p portion - menL The classification follows: Officers’ Mlary fund $444,542 5< Officers' «-xper.se • J 3.266.69 Kish and game fund "A I*3 X' Kish hatchery 7.PC.W» Election contests .., 3.738.0 T : iv.ard of law examiners 1.66046 Governor's contingent fund S.WO.Wj Governor's advisory hoard 667.60 Lieutenant governor's contingent t rod i 000 oc Ittdexlng house and senate Journ als 2.500.00 Mainterianre state library .. *33 24 Htate fair fund 7.P0.W) Hi**-* tsl report* liWt.Ot legislative fund . . . . LMO.W legislature extra session.. 1 LWiVt tjeneral In* Idental fund 49 •**> SI fioard of arbitration 3.666 67 Hoard of « haritl*-* and correction 4.266.67 Historical and Natural History C.OOO.OQ JlortP ultural ie.ard 4.5«>.01 Dairy commissioner 19.333.34 Total ............ ................. $644,785.53 Shortage of State Funds. According to an estimate prepared by Auditor Holmberg. says the Denver News of August Mth, not one of the state schools and but few of the state charitable Institutions will receive any money this year under the new appro priation bill. The‘recent action of the state board of assessors in cutting the valuation of property in accordance with the cuts made by the state board of equalization on the corporate in terests in the state, has decreased the revenue for this year something more than 9150.000. The legislature, at the extra session, appropriated money nearly 92000,000 in excess of the expected revenue, and this with the 9150.000 reduction made by the assessors shows 9350,000 in funds lacking to meet the Items in the appropriation bill. The world’s fair appropriation is one of the most important, of these. This appropriation is in the fourth class, and there hardly seems hope now of it being paid. Commissioner-ln-Chlef Paul Wilson says, however, that Gov ernor Peabody has assured him that the money will be forthcoming, and be is going ahead with his work. The state officials have prepared the following list of the Items in the appro priation bill that wll probably be turn ed down: THIRD CI.ABB. H. B. 20— Mute and blind $ 69.500.00 11. H. 124—Soldiers’ and Sailors home 60.000.00 11. H. 124 Soldiers' and Sailors' repairs and Improvements 10.000.00 H. H. llS—Agricultural college .... 40.000.00 H. B. 68—Normal school 60.000.00 8. 11. 76 University of Colorado.. 40.000.00 8. H. 41—School of Mines building 30.000.00 Total 1279.600.00 FOURTH AND FIFTH CI-AHS. 8. H. 305 Jackson park S 1.000.00 H. 11. 199—Sanitary board certifi cates 1.000.00 8. H. 167—Traveling library 2.000.00 If. 11. 260-81. l,ouis World's Fair. 100.000.00 8. H. 267—Ha Plata hatchery transfer 2.000.00 8. It. 146 H. B. Bennett 4.996.38 If. M. 107—W. H. Gilbert, relief ... 1.356.00 8 H. 213 W. It. Owen 160.00 11. »». 172—K. K. Van (iohren 2.000.00 11. 11. 220 Hewls llerxotiia 2.600.00 11. U. 427—Cuptuln Copper, relief.. 900.00 Total $119,081.38 Making a grand total of the two classes of $398,531.38. If Warden Clcghorn of the State Penitentiary at Canon City executes Harry King, ihe condemned colored man, he will be. according to the claims made by the prisoner's attorney, guilty of murder, as they argue that the law fixing death as a penalty for murder is unconstitutional. King was found guilty of the murder of his wife at Colorado Springs aml was sentenced to lie hanged in the first week of No vember. Judge R. H. Hubbard and C. W. Dolph have prepared a petition to tlie governor asking that the sentence i>e commuted to life imprisonment, and If this is not granted they will at once sue for an Injunction against the war den restraining him from carrying out the order of the court. Their conten tion Is that the bill was passed by the Senate before the amendment provid ing for the infliction of the death pen alty by hanging had been placed on the members' desks, as provided by law. Drainage Tunnel Suspended. Cripple Creek, Colo.. Aug? 15.—Work on the drainage tunnel was suspended yesterday afternoon, the miners who refused to walk out Wednesday obey ing the union command yesterday. What plans the operators have to fin ish the tunnel by August 25th, the stip ulated time, they will not make pub lic, but It is certain that men win be secured. COLORADO BRIEFS. Many ©f it* .-izens of Greeley strongly ©bp ' o na*eb*2l games on Sunday* and are taking step* to baie them suppressed Tboma* Gordm of Cheyenne has been appoin’*< «-ngjne*-r at the Grand Junction Indian S'bool at a salary of Ssk44) per ann-JE. On the aften. ’on of August !sth a cloudburst :n ’he foothill* between Morrison and did considerable damage to roads and ditches* The annua' corn roast at Loveland which has omitted for several year*, will te revived again thi* year and celebrated September 3rd. Every body i* Invited. Isaac P. Van Wormer, a well-known Denver pioneer and prominent cattle man. died at b.- tome in Denver. Au gust 12th, at tfc" age of seventy-three year*. The Arkansas Valley Fair mill be held at R ty ,Ford September 2nd. 3rd and 4th. Wa-ermeion I>ay will be celebrated on the second day of the fair. September 3rd. An order issued by General Nelson A. Miles before hi* retirement com mand* the preser. e in Manila of Major Daniel M App*l L*. S. A who has been stationed in Denver on spe<ial duty since June 4th. The Pueblo Trade* Assembly has completed arrangements for the Labor Day festival. September 7th. The cele bration will be held at the fair grounds where an extensive program of racing and athletic event* will be given. The work of the annual convocation of the colored Mason* at Pueblo came to a close August 12th, by an open In stallation of offi'ers and an elaborate banquet. More than 190 delegates present. Jefferson Fry. a ranchman living seven miles below Rifle, was drowned on the Gtb Inst, while bathing in the Grand river. He was thirty-four years of age and leave# a widow and three small children. A rural free delivery route has been ordered established at Brush. Morgan county, September 15th. There will be one carrier, who will have a route twenty-two miles long and serve 454* people. Congressman Hogg will introduce a bill at the next version of Congress to forbid entrance into this country of any who cannot show papers signify ing that he has not been prosecuted for a crime for a period of five year*. Dr. Hindman of.Trinidad has pur chased the Staplin ranch, at the foot of Spanish peak*, and will erect a $25.- 000 summer hotel on the place. The sale price of the ranch, which contains 800 acres, was SIO,OOO. In the County Court at Pueblo a few days ago. before Judge Gibson, a speedy divorce record was made when a Jury wa* sworn In, the testimony taken and a verdict rendered in favor of the plaintiff in live and one-half minute*. The first carload of nails produced by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com pany at Pueblo was shipped August Bth. and J. W. Brooks, superintendent of the wire mill, made an exhibit of the first barbed wire manufactured in the West. Samples of telegraph and telephone wire are also exhibited. Verner Z. Reed and O. H. Shoup of Colorado Springs, and A. M. Johnson of Denver have bought the interest of Captain Arthur Hotchkiss in the State Bank at Fort Morgan, and will reor ganize the bank as the First National. Bank of Fort Morgan as soon as the necessary proceedings can be com pleted. Dr. George H. Stover of Denver has received a small quantity, about fif teen grains, in the form of a chloride, of the new metal, radium. He will test it in the cure of cancer and other diseases. The value of the specimen is $175, and an ounce would be worth $5,000. Pure radium would cost about ten times as much. Prof. George H. Rowe, dean of the de partment of electrical engineering In the University of Colorado, has tendered his resignation to the board of regents, to be effective at once. Professor Rowe’s resignation is due to a call from Deland Stanford J. University in California, to occupy a similar position in the faculty there. The Colorado Midland railway has settled with the different parties who had secured judgment by stipulation against them on account of a wreck near Cascade, on June 29, 1902. Miss Mary O’Rourke of Victor was paid $7.- 750, and Miss Estelle and her mother. Mrs. Lewis, were handed a check for $6,500. The Mormons of Denver are complet ing plans for the erection of a house of worship at West Sixth avenue and South Water street. The church will be a two-story structure, and besides the hall for religious purposes will have also arrangements for an office. Sunday school rooms and housekeep ing rooms for the resident elder. Secretary Shireman of the State Fair at Pueblo announced that two couples will be married before the grand stand during the State Fair. The ceremony performed last year was so ]M>pular that the management .will give two at the coming State Fair. One wedding will be on Wednesday, or I,abor Day. and the other on Thursday, or "Pueblo Day." Ste|>s are being taken at Greeley to organize a Farmers' Association. The object of the organization will be to further the Interests of the farmers of Weld county by securing competent la bor for the harvest fields and to estab lish a uniform scale of wages. Much trouble has been experienced in former years in securing men for the potato digging, which begins September 15th and Is at Its height during the month of October. G. W. Patterson, director of the Physical Culture Club of Deliver, re cently made a record-breaking trip from the depot of the cogwheel rail road at Manitau to the top of Pike's Peak and back. He made the ascent in three hours and five minutes, and after taking a rest of five minutes, made the return trip In one hour and twenty-one and a half minutes, making the round trip In four hours and thir ty-one and a half minutes, breaking all previous records by forty-five minutes. M. R. Brystone of Sterling was killed on the night of August 10th, by a bolt of lightning, while driving home from his stone quarry near Spring dale lake. The lightning also killed one of his horses and set fire to hlB wagon and the body of Brystone was badly burned. Brystone came to Colo rado from Shelby county. Illinois, about fifteen years ago. and had re sided In Sterling for eight years. He was fifty-four years old and leaves three daughters and two sons. The eldest son is a student at the Univer sity of Boulder. SHORT TELEGRAMS. William E. Dodge, the New York xillionaire acd philanthropist. d:ec at tar Harbor. Maine. August S'. Andrew Carnegie has offered the city c f Dublin the sum of Stoward the erection of a free public library. It la announced that John A. Book waiter. of Springfield. Ohio, will be a candidate for United States senator to succeed Senator Hanna. Fifty ladrones. who wt-e implicated In the recent raids near Surigao. in the province of Mindanao, have been sen tenced to long terms of imprisonment. At Kamloops* British Columbia, on the 10th inst., while playing with a re volver. Willie Edmonds, aged six. was shot and killed by Charles Newman, aged seven. The Treasury Department on the 11th lost, purchased 70.000 ounces of silver for Philippine coinage at an average price of 55*4 cents, delivery to be made in San Francisco. The volcano of Kilauea. on the isl and of Hawaii, the movement of which was suspended a few days ago by a lava slide into the crater, has resumed its usual state of activity. The strike riots at Cracow Austrian Poland, have resulted, according to a Cracow newspaper, in sixty deaths since August 5 through conflicts be tween the strikers and the troops. General Miles has accepted the of fice of president of the Thomas Jeffer son Memorial Association, and the as sociation announces that his election is for the remainder of its existence. The Co-operative Union laundry, which was established by union laun dry workers during the big strike in Chicago's warehouses last June, has been declared a failure and has closed. Eaton Stone, an old circus perform er. who is said to have been the fi r st man to turn a som* rsault on a gallop ing horse, died at Nutley. New Jersey, on the 10th inst. at the age of eighty six. The Italian minister of marine has directed that » squadron be kept in readiness to sail for the East should the complications in Macedonia make it necessary to protect Italian sub jects. Brigadier General A. E. Woodson. U. S. A., retired, died at Paola, Kan sas. August 7.. aged sixty-two years. He was in the military service forty one years. He will be buried In the national cemetery at Arlington. Vir ginia. It is rumored at Constantinople that the Turkish troops in Macedonia have become so demoralized by their failure to receive pay that hundreds of them are deserting and selling their rifles to Insurgents, in order to obtain pro visions. The Kitff. Russia, correspondent of the London Times say« a leading Rus sian employer estimates that the strike in Russia affected a half million men and that the strength of the movement is Increasing and the authorities are nonplussed. At Chicago on the 5th inst. John Al exander Dowie. general overseer of the Christian Catholic church, was made a citizen of the United States upon re nouncing in the Superior Court his al legiance to the sovereign of Great Britain and Ireland. An American firm has contracted to furnish the Russian flour mills, at Pe kin. with 1300.000 worth of machinery. The output of the mills will be in creased within a year to 1.500 barrels per day. superseding the supply of flour from America. A violent earthquake shook Lisbon. Portugal, at 10 o’clock on the nlglit of August 9* The shock lasted but two seconds and no fatalities are reported, but it serves to recall the great earth quake and succeeding Are in 1775, when over 30,000 lives were lost. The President has tendered to Charles P. McClelland of Westchester county. New York, a membership on the Board of General Appraisers. Mr. McClel land is a Democrat and a member of the New Y'ork State Senate from the Twenty-second district. A dispatch from Pekin says 700 per sons were drowned In the disastrous floods which occurred at Che Foo, China. July 27. The bridges within the city and many houses with their occupants were swept away in the tor rent. Two thousand of the inhabitants are left destitute. Three workmen were killed and twenty-four wounded ar Kieff, Russia, August 6. when the Cossacks flted on the strikers who were attempting to interfere with railroad traffic. The rioters numbered 2.000. A magistrate, an officer, and several soldiers were Injured by stones. A Cape Town dispatch says that Princess Radziwlll, who was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by the Supreme Court. April 30. 1902, for forgery In connection with not<6 pur porting to have been indorsed by Cecil Rhodes, has been liberated from prison and has started for England. At Carthage, Missouri. August 8. a wind storm before daylight destroyed thousands of dollars worth of fruits and shade trees and caused moreor less damage to small buildings and mining property in the town and at Jasper. Lamar and Seneca, taking in three counties along the Kansas line. The Photographers' national con vention. at Indianapolis, approved the plan for bunding a national salon at Winona. It will be the first undertak ing of its kind in the world. It was derided to postpone for one year the acceptance of Sheadman’s new actinic light unit as a universal standard. The contract for the magnificent new terminal for all the steam rail roads now entering Washington has been let. and actual construction will soon begin. The award represents up ward of $2.000,u00. and is for that part of the work which the officials of the Baltimore and Ohio company will su pervise. The manufacturers of Chattanooga have been notified by the railroads that beginning September 1st there will he an increase on nil freight consigned to the Pacific states, the advance to be equal to the rate between all southern points and the Mississippi river. The increased rates will affect all shippers south of the Ohio and east of the Mis sissippi rivers. The same increase will apply to goods received from San Francisco. The viceroy of Innia has telegraphc-d to the Indian office that the wheat crop prospects are good except in a few dis tricts where the rainfall was scanty and the monsoon late and weak. Three of the sixteen mills of Home stead steel works, at Pittsburg, have closed down for necessary repairs throwing out of employment about 500 men. The suspension at this time is not unusual. During the next few weeks many of the mills and furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Company will he closed down for repair*. GREAT BOXING MATCH RESULTS IN EASY VICTORY FOR JEFFRIES San Francisco. Aug. 15 —James J. Jeffries, champion heavyweight of the world, played w:th J:m Corbett for nice rounds and a half last night, and then Corbett's sc'-ocds motioned Ref eree Gracey to stop the fight in order to save their man from needless pun ishment. The end came shortly after the be ginning of the tenth rojnd. when Jef fries planted one of fc:s terrific left swings on Corbett's stomach The man who conquered John 1-. Sullivan then dropped to the floor in agony, and the memorable scene at Carson, when Bob Fitzsimmons landed his solar plexus blow, was almost duplicated This time, however. Corbett strug gled to his feet and again faced h:s gi gantic adversary. With hardly a mo ment's hesitation. Jeffries swung his right and again landed on Corbett s stomach. Jim dropped to the floor, and then It w-as that Tommy Ryan, seeing that It was all over, motioned to Referee Graney to stop the punishment. The fight last night demonstrated be yond all doubt that Jeffries stands alone in his class. He showed remark able improvement in both speed and ■kill. Corbett, during the first part of the fight, was almost outpointed, and 'the few blows that he landed on Jef fries were apparently without sting. Jeffries was never in better condi tion. He looked lighter than usual, and the way he moved about on his feet and the frequency with which he countered on Corbett's leads astonished everybody. WESTERN FEDERATION SENDS OUT ANSWER TO MINE OWNERS Victor. Colo.. Aug. 15.—The follow ing statement was sent out yesterday afternoon by the District Union No. 1. Western Federation of Miners, in reply to the statement issued by the Mine Owners’ Association the day before: "That philosophical organization of dividend grabbers and professional stock gamblers, commonly known as the Mine Owners’ Association, has in flicted upon the public a statement that is based upon the corporate idea of Jus tice of coining dividends out of the toil of the workers, regardless of the condi tions that surround their employment. Their statement is the usual corporate appeal to union strikers when making their stand for Justice or fairer condi tions. to renounce their union, the on ly protection the wage earner has un der the present system of corporation units, and return to work under the protection of their special deputies and thugs and corporation vassals. It is needless to say that the union roan will stand true to his obligation and hurl back in the face of the would-be brib ers the offer to sell his manhood for corporation gold. The statement of the Mine Owners' Association says in part: ’The fad that there are no grivances to adjust, and no unsatisfactory con ditions to remedy, leaves the mine op erators but one alternative.’ and that alternative is that they have the pro tection of a corporation guard until the controversy is settled, when the traitor to his fellow man is to be cast adrift and become an outcast on the indus trial field. The fact nevertheless re main* that it has required an eternal vigilance on the part of the unions of tha Western Federation of Miners to PARLIAMENT HAS BEEN PROROGUED Ixjndon. Aug. 15. —Both houses of Parliament assembled yesterday to wind up the business of the session. Regarding the complaints that the government was showing lack of sym pathy with Macedonia. Mr. Balfour pointed out that one of the deep Bources of mischief was the dissensions among the Christians, it was not the Turk alone —deep as his guilt undoubt edly was—who was responsible for the miserable conditions. It would be folly to forget that the Christians commit ted atrocities on Christians. The gov ernment was still of the opinion that the best policy was to support the Austro-Russian endeavors to improve the administration. Subsequently the House was sum moned to the House of Lords to hear the King's speech, proroguing Parlia ment. read. The most interesting portion of the speech to America deals with Ireland. It says: "The warm expressions of good will with which I was everywhere re ceived greatly touched me. My visit enabled me to realize how much was being attempted to improve the hous ing accommodation for the working population, stimulate commercial ac tivity. advance the methods of agricul ture. develop technical education and provide for the sick and infirm. Much remains to be dohe. but it was with feelings of the deepest gratification that I noticed signs of increasing con cord among all classes of Ireland, pre saging. as I hope, a new era of united efforts for tbe general welfare.” Referring to the Irish land bill, the speech says it offers inducements to the land owners to continue their resi dence among their countrymen and provides facilities for improving the conditions of life in the poorer dis tricts of the West. It adds: "This reform, by removing the an cient causes of social dissension, will. I heartily trust, conduce to the common benefit of my Irish subjects." After tlio reading of the King's speech Parliament was prorogued until November 2nd. Irish Lane* Bill Passed. London. Aug. 15. —The House of Ixirds agreed to the Irish land bill in the form finally approved by the House of Commons. The latter house accepted all the amendments save two unimportant ones added to the bill by the lords. The measure now awaits the royal assent to become law. Cannot Provide for Wives. Washington, Aug. 15.—The Woman's International Auxiliary to the Typo graphical Union discussed Mrs. Waud by’s proposition that the auxiliary' take action toward making provision for the aged and infirm wives of printers who are received into the Printers' Home at Colorado Springs. General sympa thy with this proposition was ex pressed, but the sentiment of the dele gates was that the auxiliary was too young to take up a movement involv ing such a large expense. Corbett. In comparison with the big man opposed to hlrn, looked very light, but wait really heavier than ever be fore. He appeared to have lost some of bis old-time speed and skill during the early part of the fight, but this may have been due to Jeffries' marvel ous improvement Corbett’s physical condition appeared to he all that b* had claimed for it. He stood many of Jeffries' terrific blows without wincing and came back swing left and right and landing frequently, but bis blows hardly stung Jeffries. Jeffries was not only faster, stronger and cleverer than ever before, but he used his h'-ad to better purpose, and. although Corbett would hit him hard enough to hurt an ordinary man, Jef fries would bore right in without no ticing the blows, and would deliver telling bits that materially helped in deciding the result of the fight. At first Corbett was very cautious, and apparently was outpointed by Jeffries, but later in the flgtit he warmed up and showed some of his old-time cleverness. From the first, however, it was generally regarded as a hopeless case for Corbett. He made a gallant fight, but he never stood a show to* win. 'Jj After the fight was over. Corbett quickly recovered, walked over to Jef fries and shook him warmly by the hand. He said: "Jim. you beat roe fairly. you. stand alone. No one can touch you." Referee Eddie Granley said after the fight that it was a great heavyweight contest. maintain a partially fair condition which existed prior to the present strike, which fad in well known to all members of the Federation in this dis trict.”. Here follows a criticism of the Mine Owners’ argument that the mill and smelter employes should not be affili ated with the miners. The Mine Owners' Association, in their statement, would have the mem bers of organized labor believe that the miners of the district are being co erced by their officers to take part in an unjust and an unreasonable strike. This is certainly too flimsy to be taken seriously by any member of the federa tion. The operators know too well that ' the rank and file of the federation have implicit confidence and are in full ac ! cord with the action of the officers whom they have elected and whose duty it is to manage the details of the strike, and will stand as a unit in car- I rving out the policy of the ■ ti’on. in their efforts to establish living • conditions, not only in the mines, but in the mills and smelters, and maln • tain the right to belong to a labor or ganization without endangering the chances of earning an honest living. “They propose to resume fearlessly as fast as men can be secured, and all men will be protected to the last de gree.’ which from the language, means that the man who is willing to sell his manhood and become a Benedict Arn old to the miners of the Rocky Moun tain region will have the protection of a corporation armed guard until the controversy is settled. ”By order of District No. 1 of the Western Federation of Miners.” MAJOR DANIELS TO EXPLORE PAPUA Denver, Aug. 15. —Major William Cooke Daniels of the Daniels & Fisher Stores Company, Denver, who is form ing a party to explore the island of Papua, has practically completed pre parations for the expedition. Within the next six months this savage island, unsurveyed and unexplored, will be in vaded by the Daniels party. Major Daniels Is now in London or ganizing the party of scientists who will make up the party. Within the next few days they will leave for Syd--| ney, Australia. From there they will* embark in a $20,000 brig for the island of Papua, or New Guinea, which is sit uated north of Australia. The major has been for some time interested in the island, which is inhab ited by cannibals, and has been visit ed by only a few white persons. In February he laid his plans before the Geographical Society of London and other organizations and they were ac cepted. Delegates were appointed to ac company him and he has every encour agement. The island, and everything on it, will be classified and a study made of its anthrr logy. mineralogy, botany, hydrography, geography and other sub jects. Major Daniels will devote him self largely to ethnology, while Dr. C. G. Seligman will have medical charge and Dr. W. Mesh Strong will give his attention to pathology*. The photo graphic work will be under the super vision of A. H. Dunning. The party will include 200 armed servants and guides, as the expedition is considered to be a dangerous undertaking. One of the principal objects of the expedition is the investigation of the theory that Papua is the birthplace of leprosy and that the cancerous germ is bred and propagated there. G. A. R. Invited to Colorado. Denver. Aug. 15.-—A formal in>t‘a tion to the grand encampment of G. A. R.. in session at San Francisco, to hold the next meeting in Denver, has been forwarded to the Colorado dele gation there by the Chamber of Com-| merce. Accompanying it were com munications from the governor, the mayor of the city of Denver and one each from every mayor and president of a commercial body in other cities and towns of the state. Herder Murdered in Montana. Dupuyer, Mont.. Aug. 16. —Fourteen masked men took a herder from the sheep camp of Joe Sturgeon Wednes day night, and carrying him ten miles into the mountains, tied him to a tree and whipped him to death. The were cattlemen who had warned the sheepmen to leave the country. They shot many of the herder’s sheep and drove the rest away. The name of the dead herder can not be learned. Sheriff Taylor and a heavy posse is In pursuit of the white caps. Their horses were recognized by the brands.