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THE HERALD
■NUNGFIELD. • - - COLORADO
MISSISSIPPI
FLOODS RAGING
THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF FER*
TILE FIELDS UNDER WATER.
PROPERTY LOSS $10,000,000.
THOUSANDS HOMELESS
RAILROADS ARE PARALYZED AND
HUNDREDS OF LIVES MEN
ACED BY OVERFLOW.
Western Newspaper L'nlon News Service.
Memphis, Tenn. —ln the wide
stretches of the Mississippi’s flooded
acres there are three striking pic
tures. The northernmost is the 500
square miles of the Reelfoot lake
country of Tennessee, where 2,000 or
more persons have been driven from
their homes by the smashing of a
Mississippi levee in southwestern
Kentucky. In this district thousands
of acres of fertile fields are underwa
ter. Soores of persons who have re
fused to desert their homes now are
imprisoned in upper floors and on
roofs of flood-menaced houses.
A few miles south, in Arkansas,
three counties are under water. From
this rich "bottom” country hundreds
of farmers and villagers have been
driven. Flood waters swept over the
fields and villages with the breaking
of the levee on the Arkansas side,
north of Memphis.
Great numbers of persons marooned
on roofs of houses and in trees have
been taken out of the flooded districts
in boats. Probably many more are in
peril. There are not boats enough to
perform the rescue work. Three coun
ties flooded arc Crittenden, Poinsett
and Cross.
The scene south of those points
impresses one with the power of the
river. Homes that once marked the
center of rich bottom farms now float
in a torrent that cannot be stayed.
Bits of wreckuge carried along in the
tide reflect the extent of the damage
in the valley above.
Thirty thousand persons homeless;
2,000 square miles of country inun
dated, thirty persons drowned and a
financial loss of $10,000,000 constitute
the result of a two weeks’ flood in tne
Mississippi valley.
Thfese figures were arrived at by
government engineers and officials of
state levee boards engaged in battling
the ravaging sweep of the Mississippi
river from points in Illinois to
threatened places in Mississippi and
Arkansas.
Water is pouring into Arkansas
through three new breaks in the levee
south of Memphis. Several hundred
square miles are subject to flooding.
Railroad traffic is practically para
lyzed. Hundreds of persons still are
menaced by the tide of the river at
points in lower Missouri, northwest
ern Tennessee and Arkansas. They
are marooned on housetops, in trees
and on anchored rafts directly in the
sweep of the river.
State and levee board officials in
the districts south of Memphis are la
boring to top the strained levees. Mis
sissippi officials think their embank
ments will hold.
Homestead Bill Includes all Claims.
Washington.—That the Borah three
year homestead bill, if enacted into
law as it passed the House, would be
interpreted by the General Land Office
as applicable to all pending homestead
entries, including those under the 320-
acre act, was made clear at a meeting
of the conferees on the Borah meas
ure.
In answer to the direct question of
Representative Mondell, the secretary
of the interior told the committee that
unquestionably if the Borah bill, as it
passed the House was enacted into
law, he would consider its terms suf
ficiently definite to apply to all pend
ing homesteads, including the enlarged
homestead.
During the general discussion it de
veloped that considerable pressure
would be exerted to have the commit
tee agree to the amendments rejected
by the House, reserving mineral and
water-power sites and certain timbered
areas. While the House conferees arc
opposed to these amendments, from
what developed at the hearing it
seems reasonably certain that the Sen
ate conferees may insist on amending
the bill to at least partially meet the
suggestions of the secretary. The
committee will hold another session in
a week or ten days.
Globe, Ariz.—Henry Perman has
been rescued from the Manitou mine,
twenty miles from Globe, after having
been entombed for ninety-seven hours
by a cave-in.
San Francisco. —Scrgt. John Walsh,
U. S. A., retired, sixty-one years old,
walked into the Presidio with a record
of 176 days for walking from San
Francisco to New York and return.
The previous record hold by Edward
Payson Weston was eighteen days
longer.
lyandon.—Relations of Russia and
Turkey, which a few weeks ago
caused circulation of alarming reports,
may at any moment reach an acute
stage.
Arizona Wants Recall.
Phoenix, Ariz. —The Republicans of
Arizona will exercise the initiative to
present to the people at the next gen.
/ eral election the recall amendment
which was defeated in the Legislature
recently, according to Senator Lorenzo
Hubbell, chairman of the Republican
state committee.
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURIN6 THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENT*
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
W«stern Newapaper Union News Sarvlcc.
WESTERN.
Mrs. J. A. Thalzgraph of Oklahoma
City gave birth to four boys. The ba
bies are all alive and vigorous.
The first through Eastern mail to
reach San Francisco in several days
arrived on a special train of nine cars.
The explosion of a gasoline tank in
their sod house near Mead, Kan.,
brought instant death to Mr. and Mrs.
J. R. Miller.
John Brisben Walker of Denver has
been appointed director of exploitation
of the Panama-Pacific exposition, to
be held in San Francisco.
To make smooth the path of the bor
rowers. the legal authorities of Salt.
lAike county, Utah, are making war
on loan sharks.
Hearings on the House free sugar
bill have hegiin before the Senate com
mittee on finance. They are expected
to continue a fortnight.
Colorado Springs is to entertain the
annual convention of the supreme
council of the Knights of Columbus, an
international organization, Aug. 6. 7
and 8.
Perfecting its plans for intervention
in Mexico, the war department at
Washington is receiving hourly details
as to the militia strength and condi
tion from adjutant generals of militia
from the states.
To enable the poor to aid themselves
in securing a food supply, the Spokane
City Council has made arrangements
for the free plowing of back yards and
vacant lots for those who wish to raise
vegetables and grain.
Two men were killed and three
others were injured, one fatally, at the
Missouri Pacific railroad shops at
Huntington. Kan., when a discharged
negro engaged in a revolver
battle with shop employes.
Mrs. Emma Rumbull entered a plea
of guilty to a charge of manslaughter
in connection with the death of her
stepdaughter, Helen Rumbull at Oro
ville. Cal., and was sentenced to two
years in San Quentin penitentiary.
The police aided by volunteers, have
begun in earnest the expulsion of the
Industrial Workers of the World from
San Diego, Cal., and declare that the
work will continue until all have been
sent away. Nearly a hundred have
been driven from the city recently.
The Democratic wool bill passed the
House, 189 to 82, with twenty Pro
gressive Republicans voting for it.
Supporters of the bill declared it
would not cut the government's rev
enue, but would save more than $50,-
000,000 a year to consumers.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion and the express companies of the
country have practically reached an
agreement as to reforms to be insti
tuted in the express business, which
will be of far-reaching importance and
will, it is predicted, revolutionize the
express business.
Calbraith P. Rodgers, the first man
to cross the American continent in an
aeroplane, was killed at Long Beach.
Cal., almost instantly when his Wright
biplane, in which he had been soaring
over the ocean, fell into the surf from
a height of 200 feet and buried him
in the wreck. His neck was broken
and his body badly mashed by the
engine of his machine. He lived but
a few minutes.
The seventeen irrigation states show
an increase in population during the
last decade of forty-two per cent. The
increase in population in the remain
ing thirty-one states was seventeeen
per cent. The value upon farm lands
of the United States by their owners
has increased 117 while in eleven of
the western irrigation states* it has in
creased 203 per cent during the past
decade.
SPORT.
The Chinese baseball team, repre
senting the College oft Hawaii at Hon
olulu, will play the State University
team at Boulder, Colo., April 19.
Howard Briscoe won the Dupont
trophy at the gun club meet at Gill,
Colo. The club is arranging a Fourth
of July shoot with Eaton, Greeley,
Kersey and Gill.
In a go scheduled for fifteen rounds,
between Kid Williams of Vernon, Cal.,
and Kid Willard of Gallup, N. M., ban
tamweights, Williams knocked Willard
out in the eighth round in Albuquer
que, N. M.
While Cheyenne will probably not
have as fast a baseball team as the
last two seasons, when the Cheyenne
Indians won the championship of ten
western states twice in succession, it
will be well represented on the dia
mond.
Harry B. Stout of Milwaukee has an
nounced that New Orleans promoters
bad authorized him to offer a purse
of $17,000 for a twenty-round fight be
tween Ad Wolgast and Joe Mandot,
the battle to be fought within two
months. Mandot already has accept
ed the offer and agreed to make 133
pounds ringside for the champion. He
is willing that the bout go to a finish.
W. E. Hash a of Dallas, Tex., low
ered the one mile world’s motorcycle
record from 40 1-5 seconds to 39 3-5
seconds at the Stadium one-third mile
track in Lcs Angeles.
FOREIGN.
The executive committee of the
miners’ federation at a meeting In
Ixmdon, decided to recommend a re
sumption of work by the miners
throughout the kingdom. This recom
mendation win be taken under con
sideration at a conference of the whole
federation.
POLITICAL.
Henry L. Jost, Democrat, was elect
ed mayor of Kansas City over Darius
A. Brown, Republican incumbent.
One hundred and fifty-four cltios
and towns of Illinois voted under the
provisions of the local dption law. Re
turns received up to a late hour indi
cated that the advantage was slightly
on the "wet” side.
Dr. G. A. Bading, nonpartisan candi
date for mayor, defeated Mayor Emil
Seidel, the Socialist, by a vote of 43,-
117 to 30,200. Of the thirty-three al
dermen elected, twenty-six were non
partisan and seven were Socialists.
WASHINGTON.
The SIOO,OOO appropriation for the
completion of the Denver postoffice
that passed the Senate will not pass
the House, it is reported.
The Senate passed the Esch-Hughes
House bill to put a prohibitive tax up
on the manufacture or importation of
white phosphorus matches.
The House passed, 173 to 17, a bill
creating a children's bureau in thy de
partment of commerce and labor. The
measure already had been passed by
the Senate and it will now go to the
President for his action.
Senator Smoot introduced a bill,
framed by the Interior Department,
which proposes a repeal of the “apex
mining law.” The proposed law limits
the ownership of a vein to the area
embraced within the boundary lines of
the claim in which it is found.
The House interstate and foreign
commerce committee reported favor
ably a bill to amend the law giving
the Interstate Commerce Commission
authority over express companies. Pro
vision would be made for rate zones,
the charges varying according to the
distance the package was carried from
the point of origin.
The rate laws and orders in Mis
souri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ore
gon. Minnesota, Arkansas and Ohio
will stand or fall by the decision of
the Supreme Court to be handed down
soon. Rate orders in practically every
state will he swept out of existence
if the court finds that the orders and
laws now in question burden interstate
commerce.
President Taft’s answer to the
Lodge resolution calling for informa
tion as to the reported establishment
by Japan of a naval base on Magda
lena bay in Mexico is designed to set
at rest the constant rumors of Jap
anese colonization in North America
and is a distinct blow at the bugaboo
of war with Japan. President Taft
submitted to Congress a message in
which he made strong recommenda
tions bearing upon greater efficiency
and economy In the methods used in
transacting public business of the va
rious executive departments and other
governmental establishments.
GENERAL.
An eclipse of the sun will occur on
April 17.
Potatoes are selling in Chicago at
$1.75 a bushel wholesale, the highest
price recorded in recent years.
Mrs. Hetty Green, for the first time
in her business career of nearly fifty
years, has opened offices of her own
at 111 Broadway, New York.
The government has applied for a
patent on what, it is believed, will be
a practical compass to permit the safe
and accurate navigation of an airship
either in fog or at sea.
The bill by Representative Hughes
of New Jersey, virtually taxing out of
existence the phosphorus match indus
try in the United States, was passed
by the House after a heated debate.
An appropriation of $50,000 to en
able the federal government to par
ticipate in the celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of the battle of
Gettysburg passed the House in Wash
ington.
Three thousand or more national
and state banks will be interrogated
by the House "money trust" investi
gating committee. The banks will bo
asked to furnish lists of their direc
tors, information concerning deposits,
trusts and stockholdings and numer
ous other details.
A "mulatto” girl, nineteen years of
age, told the police at Lafayette, I>a,
that as high priestess of a negro cult,
the "Church of the Sacrifice,” she had
killed with her own hands, seventeen
of the thirty-five negroes mysteriously
murder in southwestern Louisiana and
Texas towns during the last fourteen
months. Two other women and two
men, she said, members of the cult,
had participated in these sacrifices,
which she, Clementine Barnabet, had
directed.
Water stands from three to six feet
deep in the streets of New Madrid,
Mo. There is water in every, house
and the distress is great. Business
has been suspended and the city is
almost deserted.
Reports from Rampart House, 150
inlles north of the Arctic circle, tell
of the mildest winter there for many
years. The coldest weather during
the winter was 39V6 degrees below
zero and that only for three days. The
temperature usually drops as far as 70
below.
Gen. Clarenco R. Edwards, chief of
the insular bureau of the War Depart
ment, urged before the Senate finance
committee the removal of the 300,000-
ton limit of Philippine sugar which the
tariff law now permits to come into
this country free of duty.
By unanimous decision of the Su
preme Court in San Francisco, the
heirs of Elias J. (Lucky) Baldwin are
confirmed in possession of his estate,
estimated to be worth approximately
$11,000,000, and the claims against it
of Beatrice Anita Galdwin or Turnbull,
as a pretermitted child, are dismissed.
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newsuauer Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS IN COLORADO.
April 29.—Democratic State Convention.
Colorado Springs.
May 6-11.—State Y. M. C. A. Convention,
Pueblo.
June 18-20.—State Sundav School Con
vention. Colorado Spring*.
June 11-July 19.—Summer Term, Btate
Teacher*' College, Greeley.
To Open Old Wagon Road.
Mijliken.—The Commercial Club is
moving to reopen the old wagon road
from this district into the St. Vrain
country. It is Intended to extend the
St. Vrain road into Denver eventually.
Attempted to Vote; Are Arrested.
Frederick.—Charged with perjury,
G. Gray, E. S. De Long and his sister
in-law were arrested and each placed
under S4OO bonds. It is alleged that
Gray and Mrs. Smith were ineligible
to vote and attempted to vote.
Longmont to Protect Fish.
Longmont.—At a meeting of the.
Commercial Association an organiza
tion for the protection of fish was or
ganized and is called the "Ixmgmont
Fish and Game Protective Associa
tion.” Its purpose is to look after
game and see that the laws are en
forced.
Denver Churches Unite.
Denver. —Forty churches of Denver,
representatives of all the denomina
tions in the city will unite to form an
inter-church organization as suggest
ed by the experts of the Men and Re
ligion Forward Movement. The work
done by the inter-church organization
will be along the lines of evangelism,
community extension, Bible study, mis
sions, social service and boys’ work.
Insurance Concerns Must Give Bond.
Denver.—State Insurance Commis
sioner W. 1* Clayton has issued an or
der that fraternal insurance compa
nies which are in formation, but have
not been given a license to issue poli
cies in the state, must furnish a bond
of $5,000 as a guaranty that they will
be ready to commence business with
in a year or make proper accounting
to their stockholders.
Coal Miners Get More Pay.
Lafayette.—Realizing the hardships
Imposed upon their employes by the
constantly Increasing cost of living the
five big bituminous coal operators of
Colorado have granted their miners a
substantial wage increase, represent
ing a yearly advance in the wage dis
tribution of approximately $1,000,000.
The advance dates from April 1.
The following companies, it is un
derstood, have entered into an agree
ment to participate in the increase:
Tho Rocky Mountain Fuel Company,
the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company,
the National Fuel* Company, the Vic
tor American Fuel Company and the
Consolidated Coal & Coke Company.
Twelve thousand miners employed
in the 100 or more bituminous mines
of southern Colorado are affected by
the increase. Individually the miners
will receive an increase in their daily
pay of from 15 to 20 cents.
Notice of the increase was given
with the forwarding of instructions to
t lie various mine superintendents of
the several companies to post the fol
lowing circular at the mines:
“To all Superintendents—Effective
April 1 the price af mining will be in
creased 5 cents per ton on a mine run
basis. Other prices of labor will re
ceive an equitable advance and the
exact figures will be Turnlshed just
as soon as the old scale can be worked 1
out.”
Las Animas Sugar Factory to Run.
Las Animas.—The outlook for the j
beet crop in Bent county this year is
by far the best of any previous year, j
The weather conditions thus far have
been so favorable toward this sugar
product that it leads one to believe
that the tonnage an acre will be great- ,
er than ever before. The high price |
paid on this year's contract by the
American Beet Sugar Company for
beets has induced many who hereto
fore would not sign contracts to grow
beets. That the Las Animas factory
will be in operation this fall is now an
assured fact, as the company has sev
eral hundred more signed up by the
| farmers than is required. The Ameri
i can Beet Sugar Company has near sl,-
000,000 Invested in the Las Animas su
gar factory. It is equipped with the
latest, and most modern machinery of
any factory in the valley, and has a ca
pacity of 700 tons of beets a day. The
local factory was established here in
1907 and handled the beets of this
district during three successful cam
paigns following, since which time, ow
ing to climatic conditions, it has not
been possible for the company to se
cure tonnage enough to justify its op
eration.
Big Year for Loveland Beets.
Loveland. —The local sugar factory
is to have the largest beet acreage
this yeqr that has ever been signed
for it. Contracts now total 1,500 acres
and more are being signed as growers
receive their seed. The factory has
shipped a carload of seed to the John
stown district, and will send another
car to Elm at once. The factory has
enough seed for 17,000 acres of beets.
The seed is furnished farmers at tho
same price as last year, 10 cents per
pound, although it costs much more.
Lumpy Jaw Affects Boy.
Loveland.—A peculiar case of lumpy
Jaw has been found here on Bryan
Preston, a lat of fifteen. The boy was
around straw stacks picking up straws
and putting them in his mouth, afte>
cattle afflicted with the disease had
been eating tho straw or had rubbed
against it. The case has been attract
ing medical attention from all parts
of the state, great interest being taken
on account of the few cases on record
in humans.
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
8m»ll Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.
Western Neweneoer Union News Service.
A Chautauqua is planned for Gree
ley, to begin June 22.
Work has begun on the new opera
house for Idaho Springs.
Mrs. James Moore, a pioneer of Gol
den, is dead, aged seventy.
The. Fruita canning factory will be
in operation again this season.
John R. Arms of Baton celebrated
his ninety-second birthday recently.
Farmers of Carr have organized for
the purpose of operating a cheese fac
tory.
There is a rumor that the Evans
nunicipal election is to be contested
by the drys.
Denver and Colorado are to be ex
tensively advertised throughout the
Bast this summer.
C. C. Acton, aged seventy-two, a
prominent placer mine operator of
Breckenridge, is dead.
T. A. Wright of Greeley reports that
in the last four months his fifty-eight
hens have laid 2,851 eggs.
J. B. Empson has purchased five
acres at Johnstown and will erect a
pea-hulling plant to cost $15,000.
The State Board sold eight
lots in Littleton recently. The high
est price was $750 for one pair.
More than 2,000 hides of cattle
which starved to death on the ranges
near Fowler, Colo., were shipped re
cently.
Frank Voduski, aged fifty-two, and
married, was instantly killed by a fall
of rock in the Primero mine, near
Trinidad.
Rev. M. Li. Laybourn, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of
has tendered his resignation to take
effect June 1.
About 2,000 acres of peas, tomatoes
and beans have ben contracted in the
Greeley district for the canneries of
northern Colorado.
For the thirty-fifth consecutive time
James K. Thompson has been elected
treasurer of the First Presbyterian
church at Greeley.
The prices of all kinds of beef, in
creased in price in Denver, thj in
creases ranging from twenty per cent,
to fifty per cent.
The Colorado Springs Zooz will be
gin the game this year with the strong
est semi-professional team that the
city has ever had.
J. Kersey Painter, formerly road
master of Julesburg branch of Union
Pacific and after whom the town of
Kersey was named, is dead.
Gunnison county took the lead when
a group of her woman met at the
court house in Gunnison and organized
the Gunnison County Women’s Good
Roads Club.
Ground has been broken for the
Pleasant View grange hall at Boulder,
and work is to be pushed so that it
can be used for meetings now held at
farmers’ homes.
Gov. Shafroth sent a telegram to
Darius Miller, president of the Bur
lington railroad, to reconsider his re
fusal to help the storm swept dry
farmers of Colorado.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company’s
plant at Pueblo is running to capa
city, night and day, in order to turn
out steel rails for several western rail
roads. All the orders have been re
ceived this year.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ennis, aged ninety
one, a member of a prominent Bouldor
county family, committed suicide re
cently by slashing open the arteries
in her arms and bleeding to death at
her home in Boulder.
In a decision by the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals it is held that
the town or Fletcher, now Aurora,
must pay to Samuel J. Hickman of
Westchester, Pa., the sum of SIBO,OOO
as the result of its failure to redeem
a bond issue of $150,000, voted in 1891.
The estate of the late Charles B.
Kountze, president of the Colorado Na
tional bank of Denver, expects to pay
into the Denver county treasury $43,-
325 as inheritance taxes due from the
estate, which was appraised at $2,206,-
000.
The jury in the case of Gar
cia, charged with the murder of Night
Officer C. A. Brockman, Dec. 17, 1911,
at Fort Collins, returned a verdict
finding Garcia guilty of murder in the
' first degree and imposing the death
penalty.
T. F. Dunaway, general manager of
the Nevada, California and Oregon
railroad, is in Denver for the purpose
of purchasing $500,000 worth of nar
row guage railroad rolling stock from
the Rio Grande and the Colorado &
Southern systems.
There will be a meeting of the stock
holders of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad in Denver the last week in
April to authorize the $25,000,000 bond
issue proposed by the directors of the
road several weeks ago. The funds
from the sale of these bonds are to be
used in improving and extending the
system and renewing equipment.
While extracting a rich streak of
sylvanite ore in the heading of a drift
on the fourth level of the famous Six
Points mine, on Bull hill, Cripple
Creek, F. S. Chillson, aged forty,
drilled into a missed shot and as a re
sult of the explosion which followed,
will lose the sight of both eyes, if he
recovers from his injuries.
Elias Cohn of Aspen, one of the
foremost mining men of the state, died
at a hospital in Denver, where he has
been ill since last October with malig
nant cancer of the throat.
The order of the State Board of
Health, directing proprietors of hotels
to report to it the names of ail guests
afflicted with tuberculosis, will be re
sisted by the Rocky Mountain Hotel
Keepers’ Association if the board in
sists upon compliance with its man
date, according to President Charles
B. Hamilton of the association.
Denver has been selected as the
meeting place of the supreme lodge
of the Knights of Pythias, and Au
gust 6 to 15 of this year will see, it Is
estimated. 60,000 members of the or
der in Denver.
COLORADO MUNICIPAL
ELECTIONS
Evans. —Tlie hardest contest In the
Colorado municipal elections was
fought at Evans where the saloon
people won by a majority of 20. E. W.
Balfour was elected mayor.
Georgetown.—Dr. H. C. Haeseler,
Republican was elected mayor over B.
C. Catren, four times mayor.
Coal Creek. —The Citizens' party
elected Harry Irwin mayor.
• Rockvale. Democrats elected
Claude Becker mayor.
Portland. —James Hoop was elected
mayor.
Manitou. —The Republicans elected
William Lennon, mayor; auditorium
bond issue carried.
Central City.—Election for mayor
and five aldermen, the Democrats cap
turned the mayor and two aldermen
and the Republicans three aldermen.
Burlington.—A mixed ticket was the
result. F. D. Mann, the present mayor,
and H. G. Hoskin were tied for mayor,
getting 102 each.
De Beque.—Progressive ticket won.
Sandenberg elected mayor. A
$20,000 bond issue for mountain water
supply carried, 24 to 20.
Oak Creek—Dr. Charles A Pankey,
Socialist, elected mayor.
Berthoud—The Taxpayers’ ticket
was victorious. John Bunyan was re
elected mayor.
Nevadaville.—lndependent ticket on
ly one in the field, and little interest.
Thomas Roberts elected mayor.
Collbran. —The Citizens’ ticket elect
ed F. A Bloss mayor.
Steamboat Springs.—Hottest politi
cal campaign ever fought here. Repub
licans defeated. Dr. L. C. Blackner
chosen mayor. Ordinance to repeal
the initiative and referendum carried
by a majority of 32.
Littleton. —Three tickets: Citizens’,
Independent and Socialist. John B.
Meyers, Socialist, elected mayor.
Montezuma.—Citizens’ ticket elect
ed, with John Lund mayor.
Dillon.—The People’s party re-elect
ed C. C. WArren, mayor.
Breckenridge. Democrats carried
election by majorities to 2 to 36. R. 0.
Duncan was re-elected mayor.
Frisco. —One ticket in the field. Hen
ry Hickman was elected mayor.
Gunnison. —E. M. Nourse, Republi
can, was elected mayor of Gunnison
over O. H. Aikyne, 97 to 13. The lat
ter represented the Gunnison faction
which is opposed to the purchase of a
water plant to cost $70,000.
Grand Valley.—One ticket in the
field, the People’s. M. H. Street elect
ed mayor.
Platteville. —Plattev’lle elected An
drew mayor.
Nunn. —Independent ticket won over
the Prohibition ticket with F. E. Hul
bert mayor.
Olathe.—Citizens’ party won over
the Progressive Citizens’ ticket. C. E. J
was elected mayor.
Ridgeway—J. B. Culver, non-parti- j
san, elected mayor. Proposed issuance
of $30,000 in bonds for water system
carried.
Rifle —The liquor question, para
mount issue, and the retention of sa
loons carried by a majority of 73. A
Glover, on the dry ticket, elected
mayor.
Milliken —Two tickets in field. R
M. Benton, Peoples’, re-elected mayor
Voted to bond the town for a $15,000
water works.
Erie —William Nicholson elected
mayor.
Fort Lupton—The Anti-license tick
et won over the Anti-saloon ticket
Charles Sells was re-elected mayor
Voted to sell the irrigation watei
rights of the town.
Windsor —George Frey, Independ
ent, was re-elected mayor.
Johnstown—W. P. Porter elected
mayor.
Frederick John Burkhardt was
elected mayor. Fight was between the
union and non-union supporters, and
the union won.
Eaton —Independent, T. C. Phillips,
elected mayor.
La Salle—David Stewart, Independ
ent, re-elected mayor.
Kersey—L. B. Tucker was elected
mayor.
Ault—Conservatives elected George
A. Hall mayor. The issue was on the
town bank.
Palisades —H. W. Kluge wan re
elected mayor, Peoples’ party, over J.
D. Reeder, Citizens’.
Do Not Fear Strike.
Florence. —While considerable dissat
isfaction still exists among coal min
ers of this district concerning the sys
tem of weighing coal used by various
mine owners, labor leaders do not fa
vor a strike at present, and no trouble
is anticipated. Mines have been work
ing steadily up to this month and while
there is a lull in mining at present, it
will be only temporary.
Civic Center Bonds Sold.
Denver. —The East Denver park dis
trict bonds, $2,700,000, a major part of
which consists of civic center bonds,
have been sold, and within thirty days
Denver will see work on the civic cen
ter started.
Will Name Child for Governor.
Denver. —Gov. Shafroth received a
letter from a prisoner, in the state
penitentiary, who wants to be paroled.
The letter contains the statement: "If
you will parole me, governor, I will
never forget you, and I will name my
next child for you.”
Independent Sugar Factory.
Greeley.—An independent beet su
gar factory, to be run on the co-opera
tive plan, will be established here pro
vided farmers will pledge acreage.
Loveland Pioneer Dies.
I^oveland.—M. Samuels, one of the
oldest and wealthiest men in this city,
died, aged sixty-eight, from complica
tions due to old age. He came to this
section In 1863 and was one of the
largest ranchers in this district.
Yawns and Fractures Jaw.
Greeley.—Because of a yawn Mrs.
W. H. Babcock is suffering intense
agony and physicians say she has
tracturod her right jaw.
LATE
MARKET
QUOTATIONS
Wsatern Newspaper Union News Service.
DENVER MARKETS.
Cattle.
Beef steers, corn fed, good to
choice 6.7507.50
Beef steers, corn fed, fair to
good 6.00@ 6.75
Beef steers, pulp fed, good to
choice 6.50@7.20
Beef steers, pulp fed, fair to
good 6.00® 6.50
Beef steers, hay fed, good to
choice 6.40®7.15
Beef steers, hay fed, fair to
good 5.75®6.40
Heifers, prime, pulp or hay
fed 5.75@6.15
Cows and heifers, hay fed,
good to choice 4.75®5.50
Cows and heifers, hay fed,
fair to good 4.0004.75
Cows and’heifers, pulp fed,
good to choice 4.7505.60
Cows and heifers, pulp fed,
fair to good 4.25®4.75
Canners and cutters 2.00®4.00
Veal calves 6.00 09.40
Bulls 4 00®5.00
Stags 4.5006.00
Feeders and Stockers, good
to choice 5.5006.25
Feeders and Stockers, fair
to good 4.7505.50
Feeders and stockers, com
mon to fair 4.00@4.75
Hogs.
Good hogs 7.6507.90
Sheep.
good to choice C.75® 7.25
Lambs, fair to good 6.0006.75
Feeder lambs, F. P. R 5.7506.25
Yearlings, fair to choice ....6.00 06.50
Ewes, good to choice 4.2504.85
Ewes, fair to choice 4.75@5.40
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. .16.00® 17.00
Nebraska upland, per ton. 14.50® 15.50
Second bottom, Colorado
and Nebraska, per ton.. 13.00® 14.09
Timothy, per ton 16.00017.00
Alfalfa, per ton 13.00014.00
South Park, choice, ton.. .16.00017.00
Sau Luis Valley, per ton. .13.00014.00
Gunnison Valley, per ton. .14.50® 15.50
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 1-96
Corn, in sack 1.54
Corn chop, sacked 1.55
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 17 @lB
Ducks 15 @l6
Geese 13 @l4
Roosters 7
Live Poultry.
Hens, fat stock 13
Springs, lb 16 @l7
Roosters 7
Ducks 15 @l6
Turkeys, 8 lbs. or over.... 16 @lB
Geese 13
Butter.
Elgin 30
Creameries, ex. East, lb. ..31 @33
Creameries, ex. Colo., lb. ..31 @33
Creameries, 2d grade, lb. .. 29
Process 26 @2B
Packing stock 22%
Eggs.
Eggs, case count, less com $5.90
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Price of Metals.
New York. Standard copper
Quiet; spot, $15.37V&015.87^; April
and May, $15.55015.75; June and July,
$15.60015.75. copper, $16,000
16.25; electrolytic, $16.00; casting,
$15.50015.75.
Tin—Quiet; spot,
April, $42.750 43.25; May, $-12,750
43.00; June, July,
$42.12 , /fc@42.62 , /fc; August, $41,900
42.50.
Lead—Quiet; $4.3004.40 New York;
$4.12V604.25 East St. Louis.
Spelter—s6.6oo6.Bo New York;
$6.450 6.60 East St. Louis.
Antimony—Quiet; Cookson’s, SB.OO.
Iron—Locally iron is steady; No. 1
foundry Northern, $15.25015.75; No. 2,
$14.75015.25; No. 1 Southern and No.
1, Southern soft, $15.25015.75.
Eastern Produce.
Chicago. Butter—Steady; cream
eries, 27@30c; dairies, 23@27c.
Eggs—Firm; at mark, cases in
cluded, ordinary firsts, 18V6@
19c; firsts, lO^c.
Cheese—Steady; daisies, 19019% c;
twins, 19c; Young Americas, IS%@
19c; long horns, 18%@19c.
Potatoes—Easier; Wisconsin, $1.38
@1.42; Michigan and Minnesota, $1.40
@1.43.
Poultry—Live, steady; turkeys, 14c;
chickens, 15%c; springs, 15V&C.
Veal —Steady, 7@11%c.
Live Stock.
Omaha.—Cattle—Market steady to
lower. Native steers, $6.0008.00;
cows and heifers, $3.50 0 6.60; Western
steers, $4.4007.00; Texas steers, $4.25
@6.25; range cows and heifers, $3.25
@6.25; canners, $2.7603.85; stockers
and feeders, $4.50 0 6.50; calves, $4.00
8.00; bulls, stags, etc., $4.2505.75.
Hogs—Market 10c to 15c lower.
Heavy, $7.6007.70; mixed, $7,600
7.65; light, $7.5007.65; pigs, $6.00@
7.50; bulk of sales, $7.60@7.65.