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THE REGISTER
ULMAR, .... COLORADO.
The trouble with the lobster busi
ness, as explained by the trust, is that
there are no by-products.
“Don't put a $5 hat on a 5-cent
head," says Booker Washington. No
applause from the hatters.
Somebody Is trying to prove that
Juliet was forty. That’s all right —
the loved "like sixty," anyhow.
Some kind friend will oblige by tell
ing the mikado he would look much
better without that dinky little goatee.
Kissing, they say. Is going out of
fashion In Paris. That Is likely to hap
jen in any city where babies are out
if fashion.
Intemperance is Increasing in
France. Perhaps the 2-cent cigars
sold by the government drive the poor
Frenchmen to drink.
Old Mrs. Oyama is now probably
around telling the neighhors that she
always knew little Iwawo would grow
np to be somebody.
Several interesting explanations of
Iho origin of the term "cocktail” are
prlven. They grow more interesting
after about the fourth.
Perhaps It would be prudent for
New Orleans to organize a beanblower
brigade to stop the onslaught of that
terrific Venezuelan army.
“Our liquor bill,” says the erudite
Savannah Press, "is one billion dol
lars a year." That word “our” is alto
tether too comprehensive.
The magnetic iron sand recently
tiiscovered in Java is said to have
treat potential value. It will help
to make weight In the coffee.
Castro's lieutenant wants to invade
the United States with 30,000 men.
Why 30,000? Thirty would achieve ex
actly the same general results.
The London fashion arbiters an
rounce that trousers are to be very
tight, showing the shape of the calf.
Alas, must the world see our finish!
They are now praying for the city
government in Philadelphia. They
have been swearing at it for some
time, and the change may help some.
Before invading New Orleans Cas
tro would do well to recall what hap-
I*ened there to an English person
named Pakenham in one A. Jackson's
time.
Counting money puts a Baltimore
bank man to sleep. If you are trou
bled with insomnia, take a thousand
dollars In pennies to bed with you.—
Puck.
A supreme court decision has up
held the suicide clause in life insuranc
policies. This knocks out another
somebody else rich quick"
scheme.
A Philadelphia glutton who ate fif
teen plates of ice cream and held
them down with a pork sandwich is in
a hospital. Lucky for him he Isn’t in
a cemetery.
in the spring, says an observant con
temporary. women's footsteps turn
lightly toward the millinery stores.
And men’s hands instinctively toward
their pocketbooks.
Ixmdon papers see “no real reason
why knee breeches should not general
lv be worn.” This is probably because
the real reasons for wearing trousers
are not generally visible.
"When does a girl cease to be a girl
ind become an old maid?" asks "Spin
aier" of the New York Sun. It’s nn
old question, and the answer in every
case depends upon the girl.
The German empress, says a dis
patch, "dines nowhere this year." Let
It be hoped the good lady has a
“course lunch" and a "high tea” to
make up for the dinner deficiency.
Happy the man who has married a
wife capable of making a virtue of the
mother of Invention. She can prob
ably also evolve an Easter hat from a
Itngth of telegraph wire and a cordu
roy coat.
There is a great religious revival in
Philadelphia, but it is understood to
be not far-reaching enough to em
brace the sinners who transfer
names from the tombstones to the
election lists.
King Alfonso is going to visit Lon
don after leaving Paris in the early
part of June, and considering his emi
nence as a matrimonial possibility, the
British girls will all. of course, try to
look their prettiest.
How times change! Six thousand
years ago this spring Adam went to
the fig tree and did Eve’s spring shop
ping.—Chicago Tribune.
Eve went to the apple tree first
and hubby has had to hustle ever
since.
The New York Sun kindly explains
that Manuel Garcia’s preservation is
due to the fact that he abandoned the
pernicious habit of opera singing more
than half a century ago. and so es
caped acquiring an ambition to sing
Wagnerian roles.
Sir Hiram Maxim, talking about his
rew flying machine, says: "Yes. this
time I think I have really solved the
jroblem. I have always said that if a
goose can fly a man should be able
to.” Apparently Sir Hiram never
heard about the darky who remark
ed: "Huh! A cow’s big enough to
cotch a mice, but she caln’t do it."
Cottage City, assembled in town
meeting, has resolved that there must
be no more wearing of bathing suits in
public places. That’s right. You can
swim a good deal better without suits.
WILL FIGHT ON WATER
BIG NAVAL BATTLE IMMINENT
Russian Fleet Passes Singapore Steam
ing toward Japanese Waters
—Warships Outnumber
Japanese.
Singapore, Straits Settlement, April
9.—The Russian Baltic squadron
passed here at 2:30 yesterday after
noon. The forty-seven ships, steaming
slowly at eight knots an hour, four
abreast, presented a striking spec
tacle. The vessels, however, bore evi
dence of the effects of their long sea
voyage, and the water line showed sea
weed a foot long.
The squadron was led by a large
cruiser, followed by three converted
former Hamburg-American line ves
sels. Then came the cruisers, colliers,
huttleships, etc. The colliers were
mostly in the center of the fleet. The
decks of the warships were coal laden,
while the colliers and the former Ham
burg-Amcrlcan liners were light of
draft.
The Russian consul visited and gave
dispatches to a torpedo boat. The fleet
consisted of six battleships, nine cruis
ers, eight torpedo boat destroyers,
three volunteer fleet vessels, sixteen
colliers, one salvage ship and one hos
pital ship and three Hamburg-Ameri
can liners.
The squadron disappeared about 5
o'clock in the afternoon, still smoking
black on the eastern horizon.
Following is the composition of the
Russian Second Pacific squadron, com
manded by Vice Admiral llojestvensky,
as far as known:
Battleships—Knias souvaroff (Ro
jestvensky’s flagship), Sissoi Veliky
< Voelkersam's flagship), Alexander 111.,
Oslabya, Orel. Borodino, Navarin.
Cruisers—Admiral Nakhimoff, Au
rora, Vlentonnna, Oleg, Dmitri, Don
skoi, Jemtchug, Almaz, Isumrud.
Torpedo Destroyers—Blestlachy, Be
rovi, Bravi and five others.
Volunteer Fleet—Kieff, Voionej,
Vladlmiroff. Tamboff, Yaroslav.
TransiKrrts - Kaintchatka, Korea,
Goetschakoff, Andadyr, Maynya, Jupi
ter and several others, colliers.
Following is a list of the vessels
probably comprising the Japanese
squadron commanded by Vice Admiral
Togo:
Battleships Mikasa (flagship of
Togo). Fuji, Asahi, Shikishima.
Battleships, Second Class —Chlnyen.
Armored Cruisers —Asa inn, Chlyoda,
Iwnte, Mssliln. Adsuma, Idsumo, Ka
sugn, Tokiwa, Yakuma.
Also thirty unarmored cruisers,
twenty torpedo boat destroyers and
thirty-five torpedo boats, a large pro
portion of which is believed to be with
the admiral.
SUICIDE OF GEORGE WILDER.
Prominent Denver Pioneer Plunges
Into Gulf of Mexico.
Denver. April 10. —A few days ago
the dally papers noted the mysterious
disappearance of George Wilder, aged
eighty-four years, formerly cf the Den
ver firm of Best & Wilder, wholesale
grocers, but a letter was soon received
from him at Galveston, saying that he
hail left secretly to avoid expected re
monstrances of his friends, and that
he was about to sail for Key West,
Florida.
Yesterday the following telegram
was received from Key West:
"George Wilder. Denver passenger
on Concha, disappeared at sea night of
April sth. Please notify relatives."
After successfully eluding his rela
tives ami friends for twelve days, the
wealthy Denver pioneer took his own |
life rather than return to Denver to
be, as he feared, a burden and care to
his step-children and friends.
Since Thursday morning this bad
news has been almost hourly expected.
Early that morning William Scott Lee,
the business agent and an old friend of
Mr. Wilder, received a letter from him.
It had been written April Ith in Gal
veston. but it had not been mailed un
til April sth, a few hours before he
sailed on his last voyage.
Heartrending in Its pathos, and piti
ful in the care shown by the aged man
for his relatives, he manifested his
broken spirit, and fear of becoming a
burden to those he loved, in this last
letter.
To his friends he wrote:
Tremont House, Galveston, Texas,
April 4, 1905.—Mr. William Scott Ix?e:
Dear Friend—l presume this will be a
little surprise to you to hear from me
at this point. I got here Friday morn
ing, March 31st. 1 have to remain
longer than I wanted to In order to get
a steamer, but leave at noon to-mor
row. April sth, for Key West. Florida.
Before 1 get half way I am going over
board. I have got through. I am worn
out. and tired out. and I thought 1
would put this old frame where there
would be no inquest, save the sharks."
Following were careful instructions
in regard to the care of property by Mr.
Lee for Wilder’s step-daughters.
Two letters were also received by
his step-daughters intimating his in
tended suicide.
Message were instantly rushed to
Galveston. An attempt was. made to
stop the vessel, but It had already
sailed. A tugboat was sent in pur
suit. Heavy winds delayed it and the
Concha could not be sighted.
As a last resort, wireless telegraphy
was used.
From New Orleans, from Key West
and from Galveston desperate efforts
were made to signal the Concha. For
some reason not a wireless message
was received by the ship.
Following is the story of his death:
He nt first went below and shut him
self up. Late in the evening he came
on deck and after looking carefully
around stepped over the rail. A sailor
who wns watching him, came running
down the deck yelling at him to stop,
the old man dropped into the water of
the gulf.
The night was pitch dark.
The vessel was stopped and the
boats lowered.
For an hour the sailors rowed
around, searching for the body, but no
traces could they find.
Secretary Hay in Italy.
Nerva, Italy. April 10.—Secretary of
State Hay is living a very quiet life
here. He drives out daily, the weather
being fine. Mr. Hay Is annoyed by
curious tourists coming from Genoa to
see him and has refused interviews to
all such.
Escaped Convict.
„ Denver, April 10. —A News special
from Buena Vista last night says: Nat
Weston, convict No. 1,456, escaped
from the State Reformatory this even
ing about 6 o’clock. Bloodhounds are
on his trail. He is described as tall
and slender, aged twenty-three, light
‘complexion and weight 158 pounds. He
wns received from Grand Junction
eight months ago and was serving an
indeterminate sentence which would
have expired in a few months.
COMBINES WILL STAY
NECESSITY OF CORPORATIONS
Modern Enterprises Have Outgrown
Individual Effort—But Trusts
Will Be Curbed by Ade
quate Supervision.
Pittsburg, April B.—For the first
time in the history of the Traffic
League the three aspects of railroad
traffic were represented last night in
Pittsburg, the greatest tonnage origi
nating point in the world. The occa
sion was the third annual banquet ol
Jhe Traffic Club of Pittsburg.
Samuel Spencer, president of the
Southern railway, spoke for the rail
roads; Willis L. King, vice president
of the Jones & Ixiughlin Company,
Pittsburg, presented the interests of
the manufacturers, and Judge Peter S.
Grosscup of the United States Circuit
Court, Chicago, upheld the rights of
the people.
Speaking to the toast, "The Regen
eration of the Corporation,” Judge
Crosscup said in part:
"We are now well into the fifteenth
year since the American people started
out, through the Sherman act, and the
several state anti-trust acts, to destroy
the so-called trusts. Are they de
stroyed? Are they diminished? Has
any one of them, except from causes
arising within itself, been destroyed or
diminished? True It is that some of
them have been bitted and reined until
they are again in the highways of the
law. Some of them have voluntarily
come back to the highways of the law.
Some have never departed from these
highways. Some are still at large.
“But none that 1 can recall have
been destroyed; none have succumbed
to the full length of purpose with
which, as a people, we started out to
annihilate them. Whatever has been
the success of our policy of measure
able control, the policy of annihilation
has proved a failure —a flat, sheer fail
ure.
"The reason of this is not far to seek.
A corporation is only the individual
multiplied. The so-called trust is
nothing but the corporation enlarged.
In these days, when enterprises have
grown so large that no single indi
vidual can launch them, or keep them
going, the only industrial expedient
that civilization has yet found of mass
ing and co-ordinating the wealth of the
many into one management, unless we
accept Socialism as a workable means,
is the corporation. Socialism has yet
to prove itself; so that the corporation
is civilization's sole and only way of
wielding large masses of capital. As
such, as I have many times said, the
corporation is here to stay. The large
corporation is here to stay. To blind
our eyes to this truth is to grope in the
mountains in the dark.
“But there is no need in all this that
we should conclude that there is noth
ing wrong—that the public sense that
there is something wrong is without
foundation.
"The corporation is here to stay, hut
not to set aside all the industrial and
commercial laws of the trust. The cor
poration is here to stay, but not to de
stroy the individual ideals, the indi
vidual aspirations, and the individual
opportunities that have given to the
past everything In it that is worth pre
serving. The corporations, and the
enterprises they embody, have grown
great. But behind them, and above
them still rise the peaks of humanity;
higher than commerce Itself, for com
merce only serves humanity bv sitting
at its feet; higher than manufactures;
majestic above the state itself. And
the heart and the hope of humanity is
tho Individual Man
"To enjoy opportunity; to measur
ably exercise individual dominion; to
be a man among men; a proprietor,
even though in a small way. among the
proprietors—these are the instinct, the
incentive, and in great part, the hope
of the race. And it is just this instinct,
this incentive, this individual hope,
that having mounted the heights,
seems ready to disappear again.
The cause of this phenomenon—to a
republican people, nn appalling phe
nomenon—is the corporation.
"But you ask me: How can the
course of things as they are now going
be changed? How can the individual
men be brought back into proprietor
ship? My answer is: Take the cor
poration at once and forever out of the
list of suspects. Put the corporation,
as national banks and trust companies
are now put, under the supervision and
control of law. to the end that it be
come a faithful steward.
“Make it impossible to capitalize cor
porations at figures that can have no
purposes other than that of artificial
and temporary inflation—an inflation
that on collapse leaves the victims
holding the bag.
"Make impossible the geologic cap
italization—the capitalization laid In
layers, one on top of the other, the last
kept green for a little while only by
dividends snatched from the air, or ab
stracted from the assets.”
Earthquake Kills Soldiers.
Calcutta, April B.—lt now appears
that 400 of the Seventh Gurkahs were
killed at the Dharmsala cantonment
by the collapse of a stone barrack
building in consequence of the recent
earthquake. In addition, twenty mem
bers of the First battalion and fifty
members of the Second battalion of
the First Gurkahs were killed, while it
is roughly calculated that from twenty
to thirty per cent, of the native popu
lation of the surrounding villages were
killed.
In addition to the Europeans already
reported killed at Dharmsala. seven
children of Europeans are said to have
perished.
The Kangra valley is believed to
have been devastated, and it is re
ported that the town of Kangra was
reduced to ruins, with great loss of
life. No confirmation of the report is
obtainable, as the telegraph station
at Kangra is wrecked.
Independent Pipe Line.
Chanute, Kan.. April B.—Represen
tatives of thirty Independent oil com
panies. which control three-fourths of
the oil production of ansas. met here
yesterday and decided to form a com
pany representing $7,000,000 to build
a fuel oil pipe line from the Kansas oil
field to Kansas City and to construct a
refinery and storage tanks in that city.
Rojestvensky's Squadron.
Ixmdon, April B.—A dispatch from
Singapore to a news agency says the
British steamer Tara reports hi ving
passed forty-seven Russian vessels off
One Fathom bank, in the Straits of Ma
lacca. at noon Friday, steaming south
ward.
A Batavia, Java, dispatch to the
same paper says that Chinese junks
report that Japanese warships are po
licing all the straits available to Ro
jestvensky in an attempt to reach the
China sea.
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS
The Denver Mountain and Plain Fes
tival for 1905 has been abandoned.
A band of gypsies has been telling
'■’ortunes and gathering in loose
change at Bessemer.
Active work has been commenced
on the foundations of the new union
depot at Grand Junction.
This has been an excellent spring
for filling irrigation reservoirs in Colo
rado. In this state water is money.
Thomas W. Jaycox has been ap
pointed state engineer by Governor
McDonald to suceed Prof. L. C. Car
penter.
F. S. McNamara, purchasing agent
of the Colorado & Southern at Denver,
has been appointed purchasing agent
of the Cripple £reek Short Line.
A movement has been started to en
large the Florence Crittenton Home in
Denver, wnlch is devoted to rescue
work for women. The home is now
crowded.
M. E. Sloan, official of the federal
census bureau, is In Denver, directing
and supervising the work of making a
census of the manufacturing industrial
business of Colorado.
The Department of Colorado and
Wyoming. G. A. R., will hold its an
nual encampment at Denver May 17th
to 19th. National Commander Black
mar is expected to be present.
Governor Hoch, the • fighting" Kan
sas governor, will be one of the speak
ers at the Epworth League convention
in Denver this year. His subject will
be "The Problems We Face."
Benjamin Franklin of Fort Collins
will enter the employ of the reclama
tlos service May 15th as masonry in
spector. and will be detailed to the
Belle Fourche project. South Dakota.
C. E. Peters, manager of the Duran
go power plant, while- riding on the
front end of a street car at Durango
on the 4th instant, was injured by
striking his head against a bridge and
died next day.
The country newspaper that James
Barton Adams is about to establish—
in his mind—will be described in a pa
per to be read by the celebrated
“Postscript Man" at the newspaper
gathering at Montrose nbxt June.
. Spontaneous combustion among a
new lot of "green" Easter celluloid
novelties in the stock room of the Den
ver Dry Goods Company at Denver
caused a $15,000 fire and endangered a
stock worth several hundred thousand
dollars.
Five thousand electricians from all
over the United States will attend the
annual convention of the National
Electric Light Association in Denver,
beginning June 6th. The last two days
of the session will be spent in Colorado
Springs.
The State Board of Equalization will
be in session at Denver from April
10th to 20th to hear arguments on as
sessments to be made by the board.
Those whose property is affected may
appear at that time and present their
arguments.
A southern Colorado interscholastic
oratorical contest wil be held under
the direction of Colorado College and
Cutler Academy in connection with the
first annual track meet, which takes
place at Washburn field, Colorado
Springs, April 29th.'
William Webster, postmaster at
Box Elder. In I.arlmer county, died
suddenly on the sth instant at the age
of seventy-three years. He had been
postmaster through several adminis
trations and was probably the oldest
postmaster in Colorado.
The Lincoln County Cattle Growers’*
Association held its regular quarterly
meeting at Hugo. April sth. which was
well attended. Ix>co weed is flourish
ing in some parts of the county to such
an extent that the association's time
was taken up mostly with this ques
tion.
By an appe-al to the District Court,
the Socialist party of Boulder suc
ceeded in getting a representation on
the list of judges of election at the
spring election. It was shown that
only two parties were in the field last
year and the Socialist party was one
of them.
Mrs. Birdie Moats, accused of kid
naping. was acquitted in Justice Ru
by’s court at Colorado Springs, the
by’s court at Colorado Springs, the
judge holding that the mother had an
equal right to the child with its fa
ther. who was recently divorced from
the defendant.
Mr. and Mrs John Platt celebrated
their golden wedding at Greeley April
7th and Mrs. Platt received. a letter
of congratulation from her mother at
Mendota. Illinois, who is ninety-seven
years old. It is not often that a
mother survives the date of her daugh
ter's golden wedding.
The Denver art commission has ad
vertised for designs for an ornamental
wrought iron arch to span Seventeenth
street in front of the union depot. A
prize of SIOO is offered for the best
design received by April 21st. The
arch will be ablaze with colored elec
tric lights at night.
Ninety-five carloads of fat sheep
and lambs were shipped out of Lari
mer county April 4th. Of this number
forty-two carloads were billed to
Cleveland. Ohio. Buffalo. New York,
and Jersey City. New Jersey. It was
estimated that about 125.000 fat sheep
and lambs were left in the county.
W. H. Copeley is under arrest and
held for trial at Colorado Springs on
the charge of defrauding Mrs. Emma
A. Powell out of S6OO. He is said to
have interested her in a scheme to
capture mythical wild camels, alleged
to abound on the Arizona desert, which
were to be sold at an immense profit.
The midsummer meeting of the Col
orado State Editorial Association will
be held at Montrose June 26th and
27th. Papers will be read by thirteen
well-known newspaper men and among
the side features will be a banquet
and ball given to the editors by the
Montrose people, and a railway trip
"Around the Circle.”
State Treasurer Holmberg's office
has been in receipt of about $5,000 a
day from liquor licenses. They have
been coming in at the rate of 200 a
day. as most of the state licenses fell
due on the 4th. There are about 3,000
state licenses issued by the state.
This money goes into the revenue
fund when collected.
David M. Richards, for twelve years
regent of the Colorado State Univers
ity. and since 1869 a prominent figure
in the western mining world, died at
St. Luke’s hospital in Denver April 3d,
of strangulated hernia. Mr. Richards
was the founder of the Rocky Moun
tain Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
and is said to have made considerable
money recently through the sale of
coal landa in Routt county. In early
days he served as a member of the
Territorial Legislature from Gilpin
county. For many years he had been
almost entirely blind, but went about
the streets with remarkable activity
and fearlessness.
SAN ANTONIO'S REUNION
ROUGH RIDERS AND ROOSEVELT
Chief Executive Meets With a True
Western Reception Never
Dreamed When Rough Riders Were
Mustered in That He Would Return
as President.
San Antonio, Texas, April 8. —With
San Antonio richly decorated with pa
triotic emblems, flags of all sizes and
likenesses of the President, and the
streets filled with cheering throngs of
people, Theodore Roosevelt yesterday
could not mistake the hearty welcome
accorded him. Enormous crowds of
people greeted him along the route of
the procession from Fort Sam Hous
ton to Alamo plaza, where an address
of welcome was delivered and a re
sponse made. The people felt that they
had as their guest not only the Presi
dent of the United States, but a man
toward whom the people of San An
tonio feel especially friendly on ac
count of the fact that it was here that
the Rough Rider regiment was mus
tered in.
The President was delighted with the
reception. He was kept busy bowing
right and left, acknowledging the out
bursts of enthusiasm. it is seven
years since President Roosevelt left
San Antonio with his rough riders.
"No human being dreamed that af
ter that I would return as President of
the United States,” he said in a short
address at the railway station.
Yesterday was a busy one for the
President. The day begun with a re
ception at the train. This formality
was soon over, and the President and
party proceeded to the parade grounds
of the post, where the troops in Fort
Sam Houston were reviewed. This in
teresting ceremony over, the start was
made for the city.
From the moment the procession of
troops, carriages, police and rough rid
ers swept out of the gates of the post
into Grayson street until the President
entered the fair grounds to go into
camp with the rough riders, he was the
recipient of hearty greetings.
A spectacular scene occurred at
Travis park. where 8,000 school chil
dren cheered the President and sang
“America,” while a band played the
national air.
In Alamo plaza, within the shade of
the old Alamo, w.dch the President
said had seven years ago filled him
with a determination to do nothing to
reflect on the heroes who died there,
he was greeted in a manner which
touched him. His arrival was the sig
nal for a burst of cheering which
lasted uotil after he had taken his seat
on the stand and which was renewed
when hs arose to respond to the ad
dress of welcome.
The President's speech was fre
quently punctuated by applause. He
was pleased that San Antonio agreed
with him in his ideas of race suicide.
He notei with satisfaction the atten
tion Texans are paying to education.
The law of the worthy life, the effort
in a cavse of striving for, was his
in a came worthy of striving for, was
his theme. His reception throughout
Texas had touched him, he said.
A banquet was given the President
in the Menger hotel last evening by
the Business Men's Club. At its con
clusion the Club gave him a handsome
pair of silver spurs with gold buttons
and ornaments. The President bade
farewell to the rough riders In the
parlors of the hotel. His train left
for Fort Worth at 11 o’clock last night.
ATTACK MORMON CHURCH.
Injunction Asked Against President
Joseph F. Smith.
Salt I.Bke. April B.—An injunction
suit was filled In the Third Judicial
District Court yesterday asking the
court to restrain the Church of Jesus
Christ of letter Day Saints and Jo
seph F. Smith, its president and trus
tee-In-trust, from investing the tithings
of the church for any other than
church purposes.
The petitioners are Charles A. Smur
thwaite, of Ogden, who was recently
excommunicated from the church and
Don C. W. Musser. a member of the
church who yesterday voted against
sustaining the twelve apostles.
The petition, after setting forth that
the tithing paid by members of the
church amounts to $1,000,000 a year,
and that Joseph F. Smith, as trustee
in-trust for the church, has each year
since his elevation to the presidency
invested fully $500,000 in sugar factor
ies, woolen mills, banks and other
secular enterprises, and also “to es
tablish estates and residences for the
church leaders and their favorites.”
which action, the plaintiffs aver, is in
violation of his trust, prays the court
to declare the legal duty of President
Smith with respect to the tithing and
other funds entrusted to his care, and
the purposes for which they may be
used.
The Mormon church is incorporated
under the laws of Utah. /
Rough Riders Elect Officers.
San Antonio. Tex., April B.—The
fullest reunion in the history of the
rough riders is in progress in San An
tonio. Camp was opened Thursday
morning. The rough riders met in the
afternoon in business session. Offi
cers were elected, the constitution
amended, the retiring president made
a speech, and four names were added
to the rolls of honorary membership.
The new officers are: President, C. E
Hunter, Indian Territory; first vice
president. David Goodrich. Indian Ter
ritory; secretary. Robert Colbert, In
dian Territory.
Probably the most striking feature
of the business session was the selec
tion of honorary members. Those
chosen were as follows: Lieutenant
General S. B. M. Young. Major General
Joseph Wheeler. Major General Sam
uel Sumner and Brigadier General
Charles T. Cooper, retired.
The constitution was amended so
that biennial reunions will be held
hereafter. Governor Joseph H. Kib
bey. of Arizona, and Mayor Morris
Goldwater of Prescott appeared before
the association and extended a hearty
invitation to hold the fiext reunion at
Prescott. This matter was left In the
hands of the executive committee.
Goldfield Deportation.
Reno, Nev., April 8. —As a result of
the abduction of Deputy Sheriff Jen
nings at Goldfleid, this week, the peo
ple of that place, or at least some of
them, have prepared an appeal first to
Governor Sparks, and that failing, then
to President Roosevelt, for protection
against a recurrence of the outrage.
Jennings, it is said, was in charge
of a “bullpen” at Cripple Creek, some
months ago. It is alleged that the four
men who abducted him are members
of the miners’ union.
HER JOURNEY TO MANILA.
Officer’s Wife Writes Interesting Let
ter From Philippines.
The wife of an army officer who re
cently went to the Philippines writes
a glowing account of the journey, and,
instead of discomforts, which one is
supposed to encounter, seems to have
found the experience altogether novel
and interesting. Honolulu she de
scribes as a wonderfully picturesque
place, with its cocoanut palms, flower
ing trees and shrubs and hedges of
night-blooming cereus. The sea bath
ing is excellent and the hotel as got.-l
as any in Washington. In Guam, she
writes, the tropical growth is marvel
ous, but there are few flowers. Thev
ride from the landing to the town, a
station of marines, in a carabao cart,
which she declares to be “not a swift
means of locomotion, but safe and good
for the liver,” and adds: “The drive
from the dock is the most beautiful
I have ever seen; following the shore
line is an avenue covered and shaded
by immense cocoanut palms and be
yond a tangle of tropical growth. The
natives were without garments, save
from their hips down, the women wear
ing trailing skirts in an efTort to equal
ize their clothing.”
She describes the passage through
the San Bernardino straits, through
reputed to be a dangerous one, as
very delightful—mountains as large as
the Alleghenies sloping up from the
water’s edge and green to their very
tops. They wound in and out among
the islands a day and a half, and so
close to land that they could distin
guish natives on the shore.
1-ike most others, she finds life in
Manila very fascinating, but admits
that her first introduction to a native
bed was not calculated to make them
lifelong friends. It has a cane-seat bot
tom, where springs usually set; on
that is spread a thin pad and then a
straw mat. or one made of palm leaves,
upon which is laid the usual sheets,
etc. She says the civil government peo
ple wouid like to have the entire army
evacuate the islands, but that, in her
opinion, the army will be needed for
some time, and cites In that connection
the fact that the priests take the school
boys from the Luneta before "The Star
Spangled Banner” is played, which is
done at the close of every concert, and
that the Spanish native element also
leaves.
WHY OLIVES ARE PICKLED.
California Joke on Tenderfeet From
the East.
“I have just returned from Califor
nia,” said the traveler, "and for your
Information, in case you ever wander
thither, let me post you on one of the
merry little jests which the inhabi
tants love to ring in on the innocent
tenderfoot.
“About the first thing they’ll run you
up against the California ripe olive.
Ever eat them? You can hardly get
them here because they won’t stand
shipment. And they’re mighty good.
"Most real olive eaters prefer them
to the ordinary green pickled olive.
The ripe olives are pickled also, you
understand, and come out of the brine
jet black.
"After you have eaten and approved,
they will lead you on by remarking:
" 'Well, if you like them that way
you’ll like them better fresh. Just
stroll out to the orchard with me and
we’ll have one.’
"Then they will lead you out to one
of their long lanes of olive trees. I
pause to remark that you don’t know
what olive, green and olive brown
mean until you’ve seen those colors in
that slim, graceful little tree.
“There are the fresh olives all right,
hanging among the gray leaves and
looking mighty tempting. You pick
one with the confidence of the easy
mark and bite into it.
"Whew! Bitter? I can taste it yet.
It’s all the quinine and rhubarb and
wormwood in the world, combined in a
nasty, haunting bitterness that hangs
to you until you have eaten two meals.
It is an oily bitterness that gets into
the corners and crannies of your
mouth and won’t be washed out.
“When you recover a little they ex
plain that the brine takes out the bit
terness, and that's why olives are
pickled.”
John Paul Jones’ Grave.
J. A. Wheelock, editor of the Pioneer
Press, who is in Redlands, California,
writes that a Mrs. Preston, an aged
resident of Redlands, but a native of
Dumfries, Scotland, declares that the
grave of John Paul Jones, for which
Ambassador Porter has been searching
in the old cemetries of Paris, is really
located at Dumfries, Scotland.
When Mrs. Preston read of the
quest of Ambassador Porter, she im
mediately wrote to him to tell him
where the grave of John Paul Jones
was.
She well remembered it, for it is
marked with a stone which bears the
sinister inscription: "John Paul Jones,
the black pirate.”
Her story is that his mother caused
his remains to be transported from
Paris and buried among the graves of
his kindred in his native village. Be
cause John Paul Jones had not even
spared his native village during his
raids on the coast towns of the Brit
ish isles, the villagers vented their
wrath on his memory by inscribing the
epithet of "The Black Pirate” on his
tombstone.
In-the Spring.
Lowndes, Mo., April 10th. —Mrs. H.
C. Harty of this place, says:
“For years I was In very bad health.
Every spring I would get so low that
I was unable to do my own work. 1
seemed to be worse in the spring than
any other time of the year. I was
very weak and miserable and had
much pain in my back and head. I
saw Dodd's Kidney Pills advertised
last spring and began treatment of
them and they have certainly done me
more good than anything I have ever
used.
“I was all right last spring and felt
better than I have for over ten years.
I am fifty years of age and am strong
er to-day than I have been for many
years and I give Dodd’s Kidney Pills
credit for the wonderful improve
ment.”
The statement of Mrs. Harty is only
one of a great many where Dodd's
Kidney Pills have proven themselves
to be the very best spring medicine.
They are unsurpassed as a tonic and
are the only medicine used in thou
sands of families.
Postoffice Lights.
Paris is to have a special kind of
street lights to indicate the where
abouts of branch postoffices.
The Nebraska man who recently
eloped with his toothless mother-in
law now heads the list of candidates
for hero medals.
THOUGHT SHE WOULD DIE.
Mrs. 8. W. Marine of Colorado Springs
Began to Fear the Worst—Doan’s
Kidney Pills Saved Her.
Mrs. Sarah Marine, of 428 St. Urain
street, Colorado Springs, Colo., Presi
dent of the Glen Eyrie Club, writes:
”! suffered for
three years with
Bev ere back
ache. The doc
tors told me my
i kidneys were af-
Ifected and pre
■scrihed medl
■oines for me, but
ll found that it
Rwas only a waste
Vof time and
money to take
them, and began
to tear that I
would never get
well. A friend
advised me to try Doan'3 Kidney Pills.
Within a week after I began using
them I was so much better that I de
cided to keep up the treatment, and
when I had used a little over two
boxes I was entirely well. I have now
enjoyed the best of health for more
than four months, and words can but
poorly express my gratitude.”
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N.Y.
"What are ye going to shoot, sir?”
“Well—er 1 never can tell till after
I’ve fired.”
TEA
If weary, tea is rest; good
tea. If wakeful, sleep. If
dull, animation. If silent,
talk.
There are men who never pay any
thing they owe except grudges.
Washing Blankets.
Have ready three tubs of moderately
warm water; for the first water make a
strong suds by using plenty of Ivory
Soap. In this put a pair of blankets
and stir with the clothes stick until
clean; then rinse through the other two
waters, putting a little soap in each.
Wring by hand and stretch carefully oa
the line. ELEANOR R. PARKER.
An amiable bachelor s&ys that al
most any miss is better than a mile,
providing she is neither too old nor
too young.
Those Who Have Tried It
will use no other. Defiance Cold Wa
ter Starch has no equal In Quantity
or Quality—16 ox. for 10 cents. Other
brands contain only 12 oz.
Patches that decorate the trousers ot
a calamity howler ure not on the knees.
How** This?
We offer Ose Hundred Dollere Reward for aaw
•aee of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hell's
Catarrh Cure.
_ r. J. CHENEV ff CO.. Toledo, o.
We. the underelgne<l. ha*e known P. J. Cheney
for the last is rear*, and believe him perfectly hon
orable In all buelneea transaction# and financially
abla to carry out any obligations made by hie firm.
Waldinu, Kinsam a Martin,
_ Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, O.
Hall s Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent free. l’rlcs 73 cents per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Hall’s Family 1*1 lie for constlpaUoa.
An average girl thinks all the young
men of her uriiuiilntMnce wonder If she
would refuse them If they proposed.
No chromos or cheap premiums, but
a better quality and one-third more
of Defiance Starch for the same price
of other starches.
Paris announces that kissing is
going out of fashion. Here's where we
refuse to longer follow Paris styles.
TEA
What is good tea? Tea
that tastes good and feels
good afterward.
Your grocer returns your money if you don’t like
Schilling *i ■—
A wise man has all the money he
neetis, but a fool never has enough.
OPERATION AVOIDED
EXPERIENCE OF HISS MERKLEY
Bha Was Told That an Operation Was
Inevitable. How She Escaped It
When a physician tells a woman suf
fering with ovarian or womb trouble
that an operation is necessary, the very
thought of the knife and the operating
table strikes terror to her heart, and
our hospitals are full of women coming
for ovarian or womb operations.
There are cases where an operation
«j he onl y resource, but when one con
siders the great number of cases of
ovarian and womb trouble cured by
Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Com
pound after physicinns have advised
operations, no woman should submit to
one without first trying the Vegetable
Compound and writing Mrs. Pinkham,
Lynn, Mass., for advice, which is free.
Miss Margret Merkley of 275 Third
Street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkbftm:—
ofsti-cngth, extreme nervousness
•hooting pain, through the pelvic organs.
I 6 * 1 . ng ° own .. P n J na . * n d cramps compelled
me to seek medical advice. The doctor, after
making an examination, said I had ovarinn
trouble and ulceration and advised an opera-
To thi. I Inanely objmtod and deffid
*° tr 7 Lydia E. Pinkham'■ Vegetable Com
ulceration quick!? healed, all
the bad symptom* disappeared and I am
once more .trong, vigorous and well.”
Orarian and womb trmiblra are atead
llyon the increase among women. If
the monthly periods are very painful,
or too frequent and excessive—if you
have pain or low down in the
left side, bearing down pains, leucor
2*®*; don t neglect yourself : try Lydia
B. Pinkham s Vegetable Compound.