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THE HERALD
SPRINGFIELD, - - - COLORADO
DOCTORS IN UNITED STATES.
To one who observe* tbe consider
able number or physicians' signs In
the average city or large town the
report of the last census that there
are In the United states only 130,000
physicians, Including osteopaths, psy
chopaths, bydropaths and doctors of
every description, may come as a rev
elation and a surprise. The addition
al Information, afforded by the cen
sus, that this country has only one
doctor to every 660 of Its population
Is not likely to relieve the observer’s
wonderment until he reflects that a
physician to every 660 people Is, after
all, a fairly liberal safeguard to the
public health, says the Manchester
Union. The figures, of course, repre
sent the average the country over,
some sections of communities having
fewer doctors In proportion to their
population and some having more.
Manchester, for Instance, on tbe basis
of the census figures, would have 107
or 108 physicians. The city directory
gives 98. Tbe census report on the
matter Is not Incredible, yet a person
traveling along the streets of almost
any New England city and remarking
the numerous doctors’ "shingles"
would have been almost certain to
estimate the percentage of doctors
higher than that given by the census
Surprise Is frequently expressed be
cause there are so many school chil
dren who are bad spellers, but there
Is a substantial reason for It. In
Kansas very few of a shprt list of
words were spelled correctly by 113
school and college students. Now
these pupils are not taught the way
their fathers and mothers were, says
the Boston Globe. Under the old pub
11c school system there were spelling
bees In the schools and the pupils
took pride In excelling. Under the
spelling bee system children between
the ages of eight and twelve can ac
quire quite a large vacabulary by the
practice of spelling words of several
Bylables. The rising generation Is full
of poor spellers, but It Is not their
fault, for little attention Is paid to
that accomplishment. It would be well
for all teachers to put their pupils
through a course of spelling every few
days, and also to teach them to read
aloud. Reading, writing and spelling
should go hand In band. Those lack
ing these accomplishments are not far
removed from the illiterate class.
George Wehler, director of physical
education at the University of Wiscon
sin, has Instituted rest classes for
fidgety girls whose nervous systems
“go to pieces” under the fatigue fol
lowing undue exertion. In & report
to the United States Bureau of Educa
tion he says: We do not go on the
theory that the gymnasium Is good for
every one, and. therefore, every one
must take gymnastics. The purpose
of these classes in rest Is to teach
girls who ore restless from the per
formance of tasks that ought not to
produce fatigue how to acquire con
trol over their own nervous systems.
Putting every one—girls as well as
boys—through a stiff regimen of gym
nasium work has had bad results In
many instances, and is a thing to be
avoided. If the director of physical
culture in the University of Wiscon
sin makes allowance for constitutional
differences students not built to en
dure overstrain will have reason to
thank the good fortune which made
him arbiter of their physical destinies.
San Francisco custom house offi
cials have Just made the first arrest
ever recorded at that port for the of
fense of smuggling diamonds - and the
diamonds In the case were valued at
only $477.50. When the New York :
custom house looks at the San Fran
cisco custom house It will have to
laugh.
The assertion that caviare has sup
planted the oyster as the appetizing :
opening of banquet menus may be pre- |
mature. Hotel managers may prefer
the Russian delicacy, but it will be
well to hear from “the general” be
fore taking everything for granted.
American blue points on the half shell
are very good.
A poultry paper tells us that hens
stop laying in cold weather because
they cannot lay eggs and grow feath
era at the same time. As yet no In
genious poultry raiser has tried the
experiment of fitting out his hens In
the fall with warm red flannel over
coats.
A New York woman called a police
man when a man proposed to her on
the Btreet. Perhaps she merely want
ed him held until the Massachusetts
spinsters could get out a requisition
for him.
Instances are multiplying in which
costly fatal fires have been traced to
carelessness with lighted cigarettes or
matches It should be made a minor
degree of arson for the careless toss
ing away of fire in this manner.
Astronomers at Flagstaff, Ariz., have
discovered that two of the principal
canals on Mars are doubling. The
Martian deep water ways commission
Is bumping Itself.
A Princeton graduate Is said to be
•worth $6 a week Just after receiving
his diploma. This Is not his own es
timate, however.
A cocked hat has been more popu
lar so far this year than Medicine Hat
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIREB ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THETAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Weatern Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.
Abercrombie, fifteen miles from
Wahpeton, N. D., was wiped out by
fire with a loss of $50,000.
A peculiar disease has attacked
many horses In the Platteville, Colo.,
vicinity and farmers report losses of
valuable animals.
Richard Thiede, aged fifty, and an
old-time miner of Cripple Creek, Colo.,
district, was instantly killed by an ex
plosion of dynamite.
Kansas fruit prospects have never
been better than they were this year,
according to the secretary of the State
Horticultural Society.
Miss Mary Lonergan, an artist of
Kankakee, 111., obtained a verdict of
$25,000 against Dr. Daniel B. Hayden,
a Chicago physician, on the ground of
breach of promise.
At least thirty-two men were killed,
! and parts of their bodies strewn for
■ blocks around, when a big passenger
engine in the Southern Pacific shops
blew up in San Antonio, Tex. Fifty
persons were injured.
Mrs. Ixmise Kramer was adjudged
in contempt of court at Seattle, Wash.,
and was sentenced to thirty days’ im
prisonment for refusing to testify
against her son, L. M. Kramer, on trial
accused of having robbed his mother
of jewelry worth $1,885.
The National Irrigation Congress
will hold its annual meeting in Salt
City July 22 to July 27, accord
ing to a decision reached by the ex
ecutive committee of the congress. It
is expected that 7,000 delegates will
attend the congress.
Herman L. Roth of New York, Nat
C. Goodwin’s personal lawyer, is in
Denver, it in reported, to begin suit
in the Federal Qpurt of that city
against Perry A. Clay, editor and pub
lisher of Clay's Review of Denver, for
SIOO,OOO criminal libel.
Of the 11C men at work in the Sans
Bois mine No. 2, when the property
was wiecked by an explosion 107 have
been accounted for. Twenty-six of the
number were rescued alive (one has
died since), fifty-two bodies have been
recovered and twenty-nine bodies have
been located.
Foreign capital, mostly American
aggregating $125,000,000 and invested
in the border Mexican states of Du
rango, Coahuila and Chihuahua, is
non-productive and threatened by rea
son of the revolution, according to
information in the possession of El
Paso bankers.
Enough potash to supply the United
States probably for the next thirty
years has ben discovered by govern
ment scientists in Searles lake, San
Bernardino county. Cal. Estimates of
field men of the Geological Survey
and the bureau of soils is that the de
posit may amount to four million tons.
WASHINGTON.
Senator Cummins of lowa lias intro
duced in the Senate a nation-wide
presidential primary bill, the national
primaries to be July 8.
Supervising Architect J. Knox Tay
lor has informed Gen. George W. Cook
that he would positively complete the
new federal building in Denver by July
1, 1912 ready to be occupied.
The waste of millions of dollars’
worth of natural gas which is going
on each year in the petroleum wells
of the country may be stopped soon
by a plan that has just been made
j public by the federal bureau of mines,
j Briefly, the plan as outlined by oil ex
perts of the bureau is to take the so
called "wet gas” found in all the oil
fields and obtain from it a liquefied
gas that can be used for illuminating
purposes. This liquefied gas, which is
a by-product of the natural gas, is
held under high pressue in steel con
tainers and can be shipped to locali
ties that do not have a gas system.
In this way small towns, hotels and
country estates may have the advan
tage of gas illumination at a fair cost.
This gas, it is thought, will also prove
an excellent illuminant for light
houses, lightships and other public
works of a similar nature that must bo
located at a distance from a commer
cial supply of gas.
Dr. A. S. Mitchell, chief of the St.
Paul laboratory of the bureau of chem
istry, has assumed office as a tempo
rary member of the pure food board
'in Washington to fill vacancy caused
| by resignation of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley.
I Qualified or probationary independ
ence for eight years, front July 4, 1913,
until July 4, 1921 after that, full in
dependence for the Filipinos. This is
the plan of the leaders of the Demo
cratic House of Representatives with
respect to the solution of the “Philip
pine problem.”
Representative Martin has decided
to allow the movement for the inves
tigation of the American Smelting and
Refining Company to rest for the pres
ent. It is declared that an investiga
tion of the company’s business had
mown that no trust existed. A House
lommittee will make an Investigation.
FOREIGN.
The Paris dressmakers’ most start
ling contribution to milady's ward
lobe this year is to be a new skirt,
very narrow, with a slit at the side
extending weil above the knee.
SPORT.
The Topeka Club of the Western
League defeated the Detroit Ameri
cans 14 to 13 at Shreveport, La.
Sam McVey, heavyweight champion
of Australia, easily defeated James
Barry, the Chicago heavyweight, in a
twenty-round contest at Sydney, N. S.
W.
In four successive battles, Private
Cleslinski, of the Fourth Field artil
lery, has fought himself from obscuri
ty, In Fort Russell, Cheyenne, fistic
arfairs, to a reputation which will re
sult In his being a contestant in the
main event of next mouth’s boxing
carnival. Ciesllnski is to be pitted
against Bobby Grimes, champion of
the Ninth cavalry, and if be wins will
be in a position to challenge for the
championship of the post.
The athletic situation between the
five leading universities in Colorado
was greatly cleared at the annual
meeting of the Intercollegiate confer
ence, when the representatives of
Denver university, Colorado college,
State School of Mines, the Colorado
Agricultural college and the Universi
ty of Colorado agreed to send repre
sentative teams to the spring track
and field meet. The meet will be held
on University field at Denver universi
ty Saturday, May 25. In ail about 100
athletes will compete and it promises
to be the best contest of its kind ever
held in Colorado.
GENERAL.
The New Jersey State Senate de
feated a resolution providing for the
right of suffrage for women.
The Spiritualists in New York city
ore to build a $300,000 temple in the
heart of the fashionable Park West
section
A new crusade against the long hat
pin is being launched in New York
this time by the city’s department of
health.
Gen. John W. Noble, who was secre
tary of the interior in President Har
rison's Cabinet, died in St. Louis re
cently.
A gas well struck near Silver Creek,
is flowing 3,000,000 feet a day. It is
the biggest gusher ever struck in New
York gas fields.
River men are apprehensive of
floods along the Mississippi river be
cause of the rapid breaking up of ice
and melting of snow.
Demands of the 200,000 miners in
the bituminous coal fields of western*
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illi
nois, for a ten per cent, wage increase
in pay nad shorter working hours were
voted down by the operators.
Following J. P. Morgans long so
journ in Egypt this winter, report’s
have reached New York to the effect
that he is negotiating for the purchase
and removal to America of the famous
ruins of the temple of Pbilae.
Negotiations between the 200,000
miners in the bituminous coal fields
of western Pennsylvania, Indiana and
Illinois and the operators for an ad
justment of wage differences have
been postponed. Two compromise of
fers by the operators were voted down
by the miners.
Sidna Edwards, a tall, rugged moun
taineer of twenty-two, sits calmly in
the darkness of the little brick jail
in Hillsville, Va., the first catch of the
posses that have been scouring the
mountains for those of the Allen gang
who got away after the court house
assassination of March 14.
In a gas explosion caused, it is be
lieved, by mine settlings, nine persons
were killed and two injured in Dun
more, near Scranton, Pa. Two families,
comprising two women and seven
children were either blown to pieces
in the explosion or burned in the fire
that followed and destroyed three
houses.
The Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern railroad was found guilty in Unit
ed States District Court in Buffalo of
violating the commodities clause of
the Hepburn act and was fined $2,000.
The company was indicted/ on 20
counts and faced a maximum penalty
of SIOO,OOO, the charge being that it
shipped free from Buffalo to Scranton.
Pa., a quantity of hay to be used in
teeding mules in the mines.
Wage increases aggregating more
than $10,000,000 will go into the pock
ets of New England textile workers
during the next twelve months, ac
cording to authoritative estimates of
the result of the present upward trend
of wages in cotton and woolen mills.
On the basis of an anuuul payroll of
$79,u00,000 in the woolen mills, the in
crease there will amount to $5,000,000,
while cotton mill operatives will re
ceive an advance of $5,000,000.
Read Admiral George W. Melville,
U. S. Navy, retired, died at his home
in Philadelphia of paralysis. He was
national commander of the Loyal Le
gion at the time of his death. Rear
Admiral Melville, who was placed on
the retired list January 10, 1903, was
seventy-two years old. For sixteen
years he was chief of the bureau of
steam engineering in the Navy De
partment, and was a member of both
the Jeannette and the Greeley relief
expeditions to the Arctic Circle.
A tornado struck New Douglas,
Madison county, Illinois, unroofed sev
eral houses, wrecked the Pange flour
mill and broke scores of windows.
Smithboro and Greenville and other
small towns were damaged. In Groen
ville 125 houses were wrecked.
President Taft may take a hand in
the coal situation to avert a strike
in the anthracite fields. The President
is said to be preparing to follow the
precedent established by his predeces
sor and bring pressure to hear on the
anthracite coal operators to make con
cessions in the interests of peace.
According to a recent report of the
geological survey mines in America
have produced so fdr over 15,230,000,-
000 pounds of copper. Of this magnl
tudlnous quantity 5,315,000,000 pounds,
or 34.75 per cent, came from the Butte,
Mont., district, 4,756,000,000 from Lake
Superior, Mich., and 1,285,000,000 from
Bisbee, Ariz. Especially interesting is
the fact that not a single one of the
principal producing properties yet
shows signs of nearing exhaustion, al
though some of them have been in op
eration for thirty years.
WEEK’S EVENTS
COLORADO
Weatern Newspaper Union News Bervlce.
COMING EVENTS IN COI.OHADO.
April- 29.—Democratic State Convention
Colorado Springe.
May 6-11.—State Y. M. C. A. Convention,
Pueblo.
June 18-20. —State Sunday School Con
vention. Colorado Springe.
June 11-July 19.—Summer Term, State
Teachers' College, Greeley.
Fort Lupton Gets New Bank.
Fort Lupton.—The Platte Valley
State bank will open here April L
This will give Fort Lupton two banks.
Swink Only Oasis.
Swink.—Swlnk is the only oasis be
tween Kansas City and Pueblo, and
the coming election will hinge on the
question of whether the town shall be
wet or dry.
Women Hold Good Roads Meeting.
Guunison. —March 2:’. there was a
woman's good roads meeting here held
by the first woman’s good roads or
ganization In Colorado. At that time
a full list of officers was chosen and
the Woman’s Good Roads Association
went on record.
Schools Have Good Roads Day.
Denver. —Colorado school children
will this year be given instruction on
the value of good roads in the state.
This is the result of the adoption by
the last Legislature of an act which
sets aside the second Friday in May of
each year as Good Roads Day in the
schools.
Muller Shortage Over SBO,OOO.
Denver. — The filing of a claim for
$65,743 by the National Jewish Hos
pital for Consumptives against the es
tate of the late Alfred Muller in the
County Court disclosed the fact that
Muller’s defalcations amounted to
more than SBO,OOO, or SIO,OOO more
than was shown in the last reports.
Stock in Rio Blanco Not Suffering.
Meeker.—Stockmen report this to
have been the longest feeding season
known for many years on this slope,
and think It may continue another
month. The hay supply of the valley
has been practically exhausted, al
though there is thought to be enough
on hand to tide them over. Cattle
have not suffered.
Routt Fawner Feeding Elk.
Steamboat Springs.—A band of for
ty is being fed at the Mallory ranch,
six m’les from here. Several weeks
ago Mr. Mallory allowed the animals
free access to his hay stacks and in
tends to ask the state game commis
sioner for a park license permitting
him to keep elk within his pasture all
the year.
WILSON VISITS COLORADO.
James Wilson, Secretary of Agricul
ture. Who Recently Visited Colo
rado, Delivered an Address
at the State Agricultural
College at Fort
Collins.
Night Riders at Yoder.
Colorado Springs.—For the second
time in about five weeks, night riders
went to the home of Charles Bernda,
on his ranch near Yoder, 46 miles east
of here, and fired a volley through the
door. Berndt appealed to the sheriff
for protection, and two deputies prob
ably will be placed on guard at the
ranch.
State Irrigation Commission.
Denver.—A state commission to
have supervision over all irrigation en
terprises in Colorado may be the re
sult of action taken by the directors
of the Denver Chamber of Commerce
The chamber directorate believes that
many legitimate projects for the iri
gation of thousands of acres of land
with consequent increase of the value
of the state agricultural output are pre
sented from being executed on ac
count of the disfavor in which irriga
tion securities have fallen during the
last few years.
Pueblo to Aid Farmers.
Pueblo.—Pueblo has decided, through
the Commerce Club, to go to the re
lief of Kiowa county farmers whose
resources have been exhausted by the
unprecedented severity of the winter.
County Commissioners Woolver and
Baldwin of Kiowa county placed the
situation before Pueblo business men
and a large fund will be raised at once
to purchase feed and seed, which will
be distributed among the settlers. The
money will not be used as charity but
as loans.
Farmers Oppose Armory Loan.
Windsor. The Farmers’ union
passed a resolution protesting against
lending the $150,000 asked by Adjt.
Gen. Chase from the state land board
to build an armory for the Denver
militia. This money must be taken
from the school fund, the farmers say,
t<J which they are opposed.
Municipal Ownership Favored.
Animas.—An agitation for mu
nicipal ownership of tbe electric light
plant of this city has been started.
IMPORTANT
RATE RULING
COMMISSION 8 AYS RAILROADS
MUST NOT DISCRIMINATE
AGAINST STATES.
DISREGARD STATE LINES
RATES MADE FOR STATE TRAF
FIC MUST BE ACCORDED IN
TERSTATE TRAFFIC.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.—ln an opinion made
public recently the Interstate Com
merce Commission established the
far-reaching principle that a railroad
must so adjust its rates that justice
will be done between communities re
gardless of state lines. If a railroad
makes a low rate upon traffic wholly
within a state even when forced to do
so by a state commission, it must ac
cord the same rate to interstate traf
fic moving under substantially similar
conditions.
The principle was laid down by a
vote of four to three. The minority
held that the powers of Congress
were usurped by the majority opinion
and that the remedy for such a situa
tion should be applied through addi
tional legislation.
The case practically precipitated a
conflict between federal and state au
thority over the control of interstate
traffic.
The opinion of the majority by
Commissioner is a definite
assertion of the supremacy of
national regulatory authority over
the powers exercised by any state.
It is the first time this as
sertion has been made distinctively
by the commission. Chairman Prouty
and Commissioners Clark and Meyer
concurred with Commissioner Lane,
and Commissioners Clements, Har
lan and McChord dissented.
A proceeding brought by the Louisi
ana commission placed in issue tho
right of interstate carriers to discrim
inate in favor of state traffic and
against interstate traffic
“The gravamen of the complaint,'’
the opinion says, “is that the carrier’s
defendant make rates out of Dallas
and ether Texas points into eastern
Texas which are much lower than
those which they extend into Texas
from Shreveport, La.
A rate of sixty cents carries first
class traffic to the westward from Dal
las, a distinct of .ICO miles, while the
same rate of sixty cents will carry the
same class of traffic only fifty-five
miles into Texas from Shereveport.”
The low rate within the state of
Texas was forced upon the railroads
by the Texas railroad commission in
furtherance of a policy to protect and
promote the jobbing Interests of Tex
as. The Louisiana commission de
clared that Louisiana was being dis
criminated against because of the ex
action of the higher rates from Shreve
port westward and demanded an ad
justment. The contentions of Louisiana
were sustained by the commission.
The majority held:
“That if a state by the exercise of
its lawful power established rates
which the interstate carriers make ef
fective upon state traffic, that carrier
does so with the full knowledge that
the federal government requires it to
apply such rates under like conditions
upon interstate traffic. To say that
an interstate carrier may discriminate
against intertate commerce because o>
the order of a state commission would
be to admit that a state may limit and
prescribe the flow of commerce be
tween the states.
“An interstate carries must respect
the federal law and if it is also sub
jected to state law it must respect
that in so far as it can without doing
violence to its obligations under the
national authority.’’
Floods Are Feared.
Omaha.—Much anxiety is felt over
the probability of floods in the Missou
ri river watershed. Railroads are ex
pecting trouble. Dynamite, with which
to break up possible ice gorges, has
been distributed to various places.
There is more snow on the ground
than for many years at thi3 season.
Mill Strike Is Over.
Boston.—The great Lawrence strike
which brought in its train increased
wages for 275,000 textile workers in
New England, has been officially de
clared off at all mills in Lawrence,
having accomplished its purpose in the
opinion of the leaders.
Misses Hawk; Kills His Son.
Murphysboro, 111. —W. H. Walker, a
farmer living near here, missed a
hawk and shot and killed his eight
year-old boy.
Mexican Rebels Claim Victory.
Jimenez, Mex.—The rebels after
three days of fighting claim victory.
There are many dead on both sides.
Gen Gonzales Salas, the federal leader,
and late Mexican minister of war, is
among the wounded. He resigned his
portfolio to take the field.
Arkansas Mob Hangs Negro.
Fort Smith, Ark.—A mob of 500
broke into the city jail and seized an
unidentified negro and hung him to a
telephone pole.
Harmony.
Wife—How nice it would be if all
things in the world would work in har
mony.
Hub—Wouldn't it though! For in
stance, if coal would go up and down
with the thermometer.—Boston Tran
script.
Cracksmen Rob Safe of $9,000.
Nevada City, Cal. Cracksmen
robbed the safe of a saloon at Wash
ington, twenty miles north of here, of
$9,000 and some costly jewelry.
WONDERS OF THE DEAD SEA
Interesting Trip Around This Body of
Water Told by Jacob B.
Bpafford.
Jerusalem. —An Interesting trip
around the Dead sea was made In a
motor boat by Jacob E. Spafford, aj
member of the American colony in'
Jerusalem.
In circumnavigating the lake four or
five very fertile plains or ghors were,
met with. “These plains,” writes Mr.
Bpafford, “naturally bring to mind the
connection of the Dead aea with So
dom and Gomorrah, the 'oltles of the
plain,’ that were overthrown. They
have been variously placed on every
side of the aea.
“These plains and the small oasis
at Engedl are the only points where
life of any kind and water are to be
Defile Leading From Rlvsr Ammon.
had. This evidently was a little para
dise In the time of Solomon and Is
frequently mentioned in the Old
Testament.
“About ten miles from Engedl lies
the peerless natural fortress of Ma
cada (Sebbeh), first fortified by the
Maccabees, then used as a place of
refuge by Herod. At the foot of the
tableland can be seen the Roman wall
of circumvallatlon and the two Ro
man camps on either side of the small
ravine.
“The fortress, which Is 1,700 miles
above, the sea, has steep sides at about
an angle of 75 degrees and cannot be
approached, except from a connecting
neck called the Serpentine. A more
inhospitable place or one more disad
vantageous to besiegers could not be
Imagined.
“Eight miles away is Jebel XTsdum.
a mountain of rock salt rising to s
height of 600 feet. In this mountain
Is a large cave which was explored
to the extent of about 200 yards, at
which point a tapering cylindrical
shaft of about 20 feet in diameter was
discovered, piercing the solid rock salt
80 feet high, as though through pol
ished marble, evidently the effects of
the rain.
“Great snow white stalactites hung
from the celling. The approach to this
mountain presents most fantastic ap
pearances of walls, buttresses, par
apets. projecting towers, etc., caused
by the stratification and lay of the
salt boulders.
“A little south of Masada lies the
rich Ghor-el-Mlzra. Here and else
where abound the apple of Sodom de
scribed by Josephus.”
CHEESE DENOTES THEIR RANK
Bwiss Family Found Without Aged
Variety of Delicacy Is
Scorned.
Lucerne. —The Eugiish, the Ger
mans, and the Norwegians are great
consumers of cheese, but the people
of Switzerland surpass them all. The
cheese of Zermatt is bo bard that one
Is obliged to scrape it or cut off chunks
with a hatchet, and Its use is con
sidered most important on all cere
monious occasions. The rank of a
Swiss family Is known by the age of
Its cheese, and the more nflectlon or
respect a guest inspires the harder Is
the cheese which Is cut In bis honor.
It Is said that there are families In
Switzerland whose cheeses date from
the first French revolution, and these
are served only at weddings
and after funerals.
The larder in every ramlly Is guard
ed with care and the cheese Is named.
Upon the birth of a new heir a cheese
Is made that takes the name given
him or her, and that particular cheese
Is never under any circumstances cut
until the boy or girl grows up and Is
married. On such occasions each of
the guests takes a piece of cheese
from the bridegroom and from the
bride and drinks to their felicity, the
cheese held aloft. —Harper’s Weekly.
Girls Bteal a Bath.
Fort Worth, Tex. —Chief of Police
Renfro and three policemen were call
ed to a barber shop late at night to
irrest burglars. With drawn revol
vers they opened the door of a bath
room where the “burglars” were hid
ing, and were amazed to find two pret
ty young women, nude, bathing in the
tub. Feminine Bcreains startled pass
ersby. The two girls threw water into
the chief’s face and he beat a retreat.
Later he arrested them for stealing a
bath. They gave their names as
Miss Katbaryn Reid and Miss Jessie
Hoover.
Deposits Savings of 20 Years.
Monticello, N. Y.—Miss Cynthia
plntler deposited In a local bank near
ly SI,BOO In old coins of small denom
inations, the savings of her brother
during 70 years.
Was Disappointed In Wife.
Chicago.—Held for deserting bis 17-
year-old wife, Albert Kostlcky de
clared he was disappointed in her, for
American girlß were far prettier.
LATE
MARKET
QUOTATIONS
Western Newspaper Union News Servlcs.
DENVER MARKETS.
Cattle.
Beef steers, corn fed, good to
choice G. 5007.00
Beef steers, corn fed, fair to
good 5.75 06.25
Beef steers, pulp fed, good to
choice 6.4006.75
Beef steers, pulp fed, fair to
good 5.75®6.25
Beef steers, hay fed, good to
choice 6.2506.75
Beef steers, hay fed, fair to
good 5.50 0 6.25
Heifers, prime, pulp or hay
fed 5.2506.50
Cows and heifers, hay fed,
good to choice 4.60®5.25
Cows and heifers, hay fed,
fair to good 4.0004.50
Cows and heifers, pulp fed,
good to choice 4.G0®5.25
Cows and heifers, pulp fed,
fair to good 4.00®4.60
Canncrs and cutters 3.00@4.00
Veal calves 6.00®9.40
Bulls ’ 3.75® 4.50
Stags 4.25® 5.00
Feeders and Stockers, good
to choice 5.25®6.00
Feeders and Stockers, fair
to good 4.75®5.25
Feeders and stockers, com
mon to fair 3.75®4.50
Hogs.
Good hogs 7.300 7.62 V&
Sheep.
Lambs, good to choice G. 2506.75
Lambs, fair to good 5.75@6.25
Feeder lambs, F. P. R 5.7506.26
Yearlings, fair to choice... ,5.50@6.20
Ewes, good to choice 4.2504.85
Ewes, fair to choice 4.0004.75
Ewes, feeders and culls, f.
p. 2.75@3.50
Hay.
(Prices Paid by Denver Jobbers F. O.
' B. Track Denver.)
Colorado upland, per ton. .15 00® 16.00
Nebraska upland, per ton. 13.50® 14.50
Second bottom, Colorado
and Nebraska, per ton. .11.50012.50
Timothy, per ton 15.000 16 00
Alfalfa, per ton 1£.00@13.00
South Park, choice, ton.. .15.00016.00
San i.uis Valley, per ton. .12.00013 00
Gunnison Valley, per ton. 13.50 0 14.50
Straw, per ton 4.00® 5.00
Grain.
Wheat, choice milling, 100 1b5...1.52
Rye, Colo., bulk, 100 lbs 1.45
Idaho oats, sacked 1.90
Corn, in each 1.44
Corn chop, sacked 1.45
Bran, Colo., per 100 lbs 1.40
Dressed Poultry.
Turkeys, fancy, D. P 19 021
Turkeys, old toms 15 @l6
Turkeys, choice 15 @l6
Hens, large 14 @ls
Hens, small 14 @ls
Springs, lb 15 @l6
Ducks 15 @l6
Geese 13 @l4
Roosters 7
Live Poultry.
Hens, fat stock 15
Springs, lb 14 @ls
Roosters 7
Ducks 15 @l6
Turkeys. 8 lbs. or over ....16 @l7
Geese 13
Butter.
Elgin 29
Creameries, ex. East, lb. ..31 @32
Creameries, ex. Colo., lb. ..31 @32
Creameries, 2d grade, lb. .. 29
Process 26 @2B
Packing stock 23%
Eggs.
Eggs, case count, less com $6.75
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Flax.
Duluth.— Closing—Linseed in store,
$2.07%; on track, $2.08%; to arrive,
$2.08%; March, $2.07% nominal; May
and July, $2.08% bid.
Price of Metals.
New York.—Standard copper, firm;
spot, March and April, $14.50014.75;
May, June and July, $14.57%® 14.73;
Lake copper. $15.00@ 15.25; electrolyt
ic, $15.00; casting, $14.500 14.75.
Tin, quiet and steady; spot, $42,000
42.15; March, $42.00042.12%; April,
$41.75042.00; May, $41.35041.75;
June, $41.00041.37%; Jul£, $40,750
41.25.
Lead, steady; $4 20@4.30 New York;
$4.2504.37% East St. Ix>uis.
Spelter, quiet; $6.50@7.00 New
York; $6.37% bid East St. Louis.
Antimony, quiet; Cookson’s, $7.62%.
Iron —Locally iron is firm; No. 1
foundry Northern, $15.25015.50; No.
2. $14.50 0 15.00; No. 1 Southern and
No. 1 Southern soft, $15.00015.50.
Eastern Produce.
Chicago.—Butter—Steady; creamer
ies, 260 29c; dairies, 23® 27c.
Eggs—Firm; at mark, cases includ
ed, 19%@20c; ordinary firsts, 19%c;
firsts, 20%c.
Cheese—Steady,; daisies, 18%@19c;
twins, 18018%c; Young Americas,
18%0 19c; long horns, JB%@l9c.
Potatoes—Strong; Wisconsin, $1.15
1.18; Michigan and Minnesota, $1,160
1.18.
Veal—Steady, 7@llc.
Poultry—Steady; turkeys, live, 14c;
dressed, 19%c; chickens, live and
dressed. 15c; springs, live and
dressed, 15c.
Live Stock.
Chicago.—Cattle—Market steady to
Btrong; beeves, $5.1508.65; Texas
steers, $4.50@5.85; Western steers,
$5.0006.85; stockers and feeders, $4.23
@6.50; cows and heifers, $2.4006.70;
calves, $5.5008.00.
Sheep—Market steady to 10c higher;
native, $4.00@6.00; Western, $6.25@
8.10.