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SLAYS CHILDREN
AND THEN SELF
PAONIA MAN THOUGHT SECRET
SOCIETY WA3 PERSECUTING
HIM FOR OLD MURDER.
PISTOL WEAPON USED
WIFE FINDS LETTER TO SHERIFF
GIVING REASONS FOR DEED,
PLANNED MONTHS AGO.
'Western Newspaper Union New* Service.
Paonia, Colo.—Just nineteen months
after he had decided to kill hlmseli
and children because he said he hud
been persecuted by a secret society
which desired to keep him from tell
ing what he knew about a murder
committed fifteen years ago, in Flint,
Michigan, Charles E. Fox killed his
thiee children, ages six and four years
ai d sixteen months, then committed
suicide. \
' Fox, according to a letter he had
written, but never mailed, to Sheriff
Williams, March 26, 1911, planned to
killed two children and himself, to bo
freed from taunts and threats of
enemies. What prompted him to
change his mind at that time is puz
zlbjg the officers.
In the letter found near Fox's body
Fox spoke of but two children, but
just before he snuffed out three inno
cent lives and his own he scratched
ou; the word "two” and inserted
"three.” The third child was born
three months after the writing of the
letter.
The home, noted for miles around
as a happy one, was a veritable char
nel-house when the wife returned and
found her offspring and husband ly
ing in pools of blood. She had gone
to Paonia to purchase groceries and
upon her return found the house se
curely locked. She broke in a window
and the sight of her little ones and
spouse lying cold in death drove her
Into hysterics.
"Oh, God, I wish he had waited un
til ! came home and had taken me
with him and my dear little babies,”
cobbed the woman, as she threw her
self on the floor and beat it until tho
blend oozed from her wounded fingers.
A physician was called and succeeded
in quieting her.
The sheriff was notified. At first it
was thought that some outsider hnd
ki'lod Fox and his children, and this
theory was held until Mrs. Fox showed
the letter of her husband.
KAISER PREPARES FOR WAR!
Believed That Greatest Conflict in the
World’s History Is Near.
Perlin.—Germany is arming for the
greatest clash in the history of the
world. The war fever exudes through
every part of the capital. Veterans of
’67-’72 say the scenes which preceded
the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prus
sian wars were not to be compared
with the excitement of the present mo
ment. Germany is going to war. Ger
many is prepared for war. Every army
corps, every transport train, is ready
for the expected protocol.
Thousand Die in Wreck.
Mexico City.—One thousand soldiers
were reported to have been killed
when the troop train in which they
were riding was derailed and plunged
into a deep gorge near Maltrata. it is
thought here that the number report
ed killed is greatly exaggerated.
Guerrillas under the command of Gen
eral Aguilar, the report adds, were re
sponsible for the disaster.
“Death if Becker Dies,” Goff Is Told.
New York. —The largest, greatest
city in the United States faces a reign
of terror. The hand of the Under
world, angry, desperate, defiant, is
shaking a clenched fist In the faces of
the responsible officers of the law.
, The aftermath of the conviction of ;
Charles Becker, police lieutenant, j
strong-arm” chief, principal in the I
conspiracy which mi rdered Herman
Rosenthal, "squeal pi jeon” for the dis
trict attorney. Is a shower of death
threats aimed at Justice Goff, District
Attorney Whitman, the prosecution's
witnesses and the jury which doomed
Becker to death. /
Servians Capture Uskup.
Belgrade.—The capture of Uskup by
the Servian and Bulgarian forces is
conformed. The town fell without re
sistance. The foreign consuls at Us
kup have requested the Servian army
to protect the inhabitants.
Bunday Was Roosevelt’s 54th birthday.
Oyster Bay.—October 27th was
Theodore Roosevelt’s fifty-fourth birth
day, and he celebrated it quietly with
his family.
Promoter Is Released.
New York. —George Graham Rice,
Nevada wildcat stock promoter, was
released from Blackwells Island after
spending a year there. He was con
victed of being the moving spirit in
the D. F. Cheftels company, raided
two years ago by the government for
using the mails to defraud.
Working to Save Diaz from Death.
Mexico City.—The most intense in
terest in the fate of Felix I)laz Is still
manifested and the efforts to save his
life continue.
Gen. Diaz Must Die, Says Court.
Mexico -City.—General Fc-lix Diaz
leader of th revolution recently inau
gurated in Vera Cruz, and three of bis
confederates have been sentenced tc
death by court-martial, before whicl
they v. re tried in that city.
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING ThFpAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union New* Service.
WESTERN.
Twelve miner* were injured in the
shaft of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
mine at Wardner, Idaho.
John Pera, mill worker, was shot
and killed by a policeman in South
Chicago after Pera had stabbed four
men.
The trial of Clarence S. Darrow, the
Chicago lawyer, who defended the Mc-
Namara brothers, has been set for No
vember 25 at Los Angeles.
To save the life of her eight-year-old
son. Mrs. J. A. Cross of Newton, Kan.,
is giving skin from her legs that it
may be grafted upon the child's body.
Fatally injured in on automobile
accident half an hour after her mar
riage, Mrs. Charles F. Brown died at
Vallejo, Cal. Brown, the bridegroom,
is getting well.
Frank Willie Smith, a negro, con
fessed to the police that he killed
Krank Foxall and Philip Lepper,
whites, near the state fair October 2,
at Indianapolis.
C. W. Dawson, a farmer of Skid
more, Mo., was fined $250 in the Fed
eral Court'by Judge Van Valkenburg
for selling hogs affected by cholera on
the St. Joseph market.
Before 200 patrons of a cafd at St.
a well-dressed man suddenly
drew a knife from his pocket and
stabbed to death his woman compan
ion and then took his own life.
Jack Johnson was made defendant
in a suit for $25,000 filed in the Supe
rior Court in Chicago, in which it is
charged that the negro pugilist has
alienated the affections of Mrs. Adah
Banks Davis, colored.
Major General Leonard Wood, chief
of staff of the United States army,
speaking at a luncheon in his honor
at Los Angeles, declared that it was
hie idea to have an army in reserve
that would number about 600,000.
The quiet routine of life at Saga
more Hill was picked up again by
Colonel Roosevelt and his family at
Oyster Bay as thought it had not been
Interrupted by the attempt to assas
sinate the former President at Mil
waukee.
With the filing of legal documents
in the superior court at Los Angeles,
the light for the possession of J. Ross
Clark 11, son of Walter M. Clark, a
Titanic victim, and grandson of J.
Ross Clark, millionaire railroad man.
was begun.
More than 100 Greeks, formerly
business men in I.os Angeles, l t eft for
tho East, en route to take up arms
against the Turks. Their special train
was scheduled to make stops at Salt
Lake City, Denver, Kansas City, Chi
cago and Buffalo, where others will
join.
Mrs. Winnie Brown, on trial with
her husband, George Wesley Brown,
for the killing of A1 Neeves, her fath
er, took the stand at Colfax, Wash., in
her own defense and repeated the
story of mistreatment by her father
which she had told at the time of her
arrest.
San Quentin state prison, the Cali
fornia board of control announces, will
not require appropriations for support
from the legislature for the next bi
ennial period. Having a jute mill and
a furniture factory, it is now consid
ered to be self-supporting, exclusive
of the salary list.
Governor Hawley of Idaho an
nounced that he would appoint a well
known citizen of northern Idaho to
succeed tho late Senator W. B. Hey
burn. It is said he referred to Judge
W. W. Woods of Wallace, a prominent
Democrat who presided at the Moyer-
Haywood trial.
Maintaining that the Bible is and al
ways has been the world’s standard of
[ morals, Mrs. Jean B. Wylie of Penn
sylvania urged the need of biblical in
structions in the public schools before
the educational department of the Na
tional Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union, in annual session at Portland,
Ore.
SPORT.
Packey McFarland of Chicago was
given the popular decision over Jimmy
Duffy of Lockport, at the end of a ten
round bout before the Queensbury A.
C. at Buffalo, N. Y. The fight was
witnessed by about 1,000 spectators.
Oklahoma university’s team was de
feated by the University of Missouri,
14 to 0, at Norman, Okla.
In a ten-round bout before the Har
lem Athletic Club at Cincinnati, Tom
my Gary of Chicago bested Andy
Bezenah.
Mabel Hite, actress, in private life
Mrs. Michael J. Donlin, wife of the
baseball player, died at her home in
New York. !-ast June she underwent
an operation for cancer. She was
twenty-eight.
Frank Moran of Pittsburg and Char
lie Horn of San Francisco have been
matched to box ten rounds at Oakland,
Cal., October 20.
John Evers, second baseman of the
Chicago National League team, will be
manager of the team next season, suc
ceeding Frank Chance.
Edward R. Silvers, twenty-four, of
Alliance, Ohio, was killed in the last
period of scrimmage of a football
✓ ame between the All Stars of Johns
own, Pa., and the Olympic eleven at
.McKeesport, Pa.
FOREIGN.
Felix Diaz, with the whole of hi*
staff, was captured and all the rebel*
disarmed.
About 1,000 Bulgarian prisoner* of
war have arrived in Constantinople,
according to n dispatch from the Turk
ish capital.
Tho Energetic Explosive Company'*
factory at Halleyburg, Ont., was blown
to pieces. At least flfcven persohs ar*
known to have been killed.
Premier Berntzen at Copenhagen
introduced a franchise reform bill
whereby women will be allowed to
vote and will bo eligible for seats in
the Folkething.
The condition of the czarovitch re
ma'nß serious. Prayers for his re
covery continue throughout Russia.
His imperial highness is now suffer
ing iroin peritonitis.
In the fighting at Yuruk the Turks
are reported to have lost about 300
me-) killed and 500 taken prisoners,
three quick firing guns and twelve
ammunition wagons.
Vienna newspapers publish reports
that the Bulgarians are in possession
of Adrianoplfe railway station and have
repulsed another Turkish attempt at
a sortie from the city.
Hundreds of Berlin housewives
joined in a wild riot because the butch
ers in the municipal markets refused
to handle meat imported so as to re
duce the cost of living.
Queen Wilhelmina has been suffer
ing for several days from a slight in
disnosition. This, according to an of
ficial bulletin, tends to dispel the hope '
which her majesty entertained of the
blvtb of an heir.
The seventh International Dry Farm
ing was officially opened
at the new- auditorium in Lethbridge
by George 11. Bulyea, Lieut. Governor
of Alberta. Addresses were delivered
by Martin Burrell, Dominion minister
of agriculture, and others.
"Roeeline of Old Basing,” a thor
oughbred Jersey, owned by Julian
Sharman of Red Deer, 100 miles south
of Edmonton, lias Just won the title
of champion dairy cow of the British
Empire, producing $1,007.50 worth of
cream and milk in three years.
At a meeting of the International
Congress of Farm Women at Leth
bridge, Alberta, Mrs. J. Harbert of
Ma izanola; Colo., was elected presi
dent. The congress adjourned to meet
in 1913 in conjunction with the Dry
Farming Congress in Oklahoma City.
WASHINGTON.
The First National bank of Wilbur
ton. Okla., has closed Its doors.
The total amount of internal rev
enue collected in the Philippine is
lunds last year was about $10,600,000,
an increase of almost $1,000,000 over
the collections for 1911.
Piracy again has broken out in
Philippine waters, according to ad
vices received from Manila, and the
Philippine is taking vig
orous steps to suppress it.
Infantile paralysis has appeared
among the Esquimaux of Alaska for
the first time on record, and the pub
lic health service is taking measures
to stamp out the disease.
The Scottish clans of MacGregors
ai d Magruders in the United States
held their annual convention here. Sir
Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor,
Scotland, in a letter accepted tho
hereditary chieftainship of the Ameri
can clan.
Mrs. Belva Ann Lockwood, veteran
champion of w’oman's rights, candidate
of the equal rights party for president
of ihe United States in 1884, and lead
ing advocate of the bill permitting
women attorneys to practice in the su
preme court, under the terms of which
she was the first woman admitted to
the bar of that tribunal, celebrated
her eighty-second birthday and re
ceived the good wishes of admirers
the country over.
GENERAL.
Colonel Roosevelt's condition con
tinues to improve.
Five bankers, who have been on
trial at Memphis, charged with con
spiracy to defraud, were found guilty
by a federal Jury.
Mrs. Mary Smith, widow and school
teacher, knocked down a business man
when he proposed marriage to her in
public at Pittsburg, Pa.
Police Lieutenant Charles Becker
spent his time In the Tombs at New
York planning his fight to annul the
verdict of the jury that convicted him
of the murder of the gambler, Herman
Rosenthal.
Police Lieutenant Charles Becker
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree by the Jury which has been
trying him for instigating the death
of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, in
New York.
October Is expected to be the coun
try's record month in steel ingot pro
duction. The steel corporation’s to
tal computed probably will exceed
1,550.000 tons, or not far short of 60,-
000 ions per day.
John Petropoulos, a Greek, shot and
killed his slater, Theodora, eighteen
years old, at Chicopee, Mass, because
he did not like her lover.
As the last word in local option, the
councils of Milford and Georgetown,
two "dry” villages near Wilmington,
Del., have passed ordinances forbid
ding the sale of sweet cider.
“Carry a revolver. When attacked
shoot to kill.” This was the message
which Mrs. Jules P. Brice gave to
Chicago women. A few days ago Mrs.
Brice was attacked and robbed of her
purse.
A pretty young woman. Identified as
Rose Bunnis, was shot to death at
Stratford, a small town near Bridge
port, Conn. She was lured to her death
by five men in an automobile, who
killed her, the police say, because of
her nctivity in the vice crusade in
Chicago.
Those who stripped and poured
' paint on Minnie Lavalley in West
(T'rksficld, Ohio, on the night of Au
i gust 30 will soon be under arrest. In
dictments against six persons on
charges of riotous conspiracy were re
turned by the grand jury at Norwalk
WEEK’S EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union New* Service.
DATES FOIt COMING EVENTS.
Nov. 14-16—Rocky Min. Hotel Men's
Association meeting. Denver.
January 20-25—Eighth Annual West
ern Stock Show—Denver.
NEW CATHEDRAL DEDICATED.
Cardinal Farley Preside* at Ceremo*
nlee Dedicating Cathedral of
the Immaculate Conception.
Denver.—Saturday for the second
time in history, Denver received with
in her gates a wearer of the red hat,
in the person of His Eminence Cardi
nal John Farley, of New York City,
upon whom were recently bestowed
(he apostolic honors. He arrived in a
private car with other notables of
the Catholic Church, among whom was
Archbishop J. J. Glennon of St. Louis,
Monsignors M. J. Lavelle and Lewis,
bather Ebers of New York City and
bishops of the diocese the country
over. They came to dedicate the Ca
thedral of the Immaculate Conception.
Twenty-one years ago Father Hugh
L. McMeuamin, then an ardent young
CARDINAL JOHN FARLEY.
student for the priesthood in Balti
more, made a holy vow to the Blessed
Virgin Mother of God, as he knelt
within the silence of the sanctuary,
that if he were ever instrumental in
the erection of a church, that church
should be erected In her honor and for
her glorification.
Today the spires of the Cathedral of
the Immaculate Conception, dedicated
lu solemnity by Cardinal Farley Sun
day, raise their proud spires heaven
ward in glorious fulfillment of this
vow, so reverently made in youth.
The dedication parade and Jubila
tion exercise were the greatest relig
ious demonstration ever conducted
west of Chicago, and the event re
ceived the cognizance of Catholic of
ficials In Europe, including Pope Pius
X., who has sent his congratulations.
One Dead, Two Hurt In Auto Smash.
Pueblo.—One man was killed and
two probably fatally injured when an
automobile crash' d through the rail
ing .of a bridge on the Santa Fe trail.
Stung by Snake; Better.
Concrete.—Dominic Lombardo, four
years of age, son of Michael Lombar
do, who was bitten by a rattlesnake
October 1, was brought home from thi
Pueblo hospital. He is expected to
recover.
Colorado Land Opened to Settlers.
Meeker. —According to advices re
ceived by the forest reserve officers,
President Taft signed the bill throw
ing open to public entry 82,560 acres of
land in tho White River Forest re
serve.
Fine Hogs from Meeker.
Meeker.—Once more it has been
demonstrated that the White River
valley is sepond to none in the matter
of hog raising. The number raised
this year throughout the county ia
much larger than ever, and they are
pronounced to be in fine condition.
Earthquake Shock Felt In Colorado.
Glenwood Springs.—An earthquake
shook Glenwood at 10:30 a. m. on the
25th, two distinct shocks being felt.
Each quake lasted about thirty sec
onds and was severe enough to rattle
windows, shake dishes in cupboards
and in one instance bricks were
thrown from a chimney-top.
Northern Rates Must Be Reduced. '
Denver.—Holding that the reduction
in railroad rates on coal from the
northern Colorado fields authorized by
the State Railway Commission two
years ago was reasonable * and that
that body acted within its rights when
it authorized the reduction, District
Judge Greeley W. Whitford dismissed
the appeal of the railroads from the
order of the commission and affirmed
the rat,ps fixed by the latter.
Head and Face Beaton to a Pulp.
Denver.—His head beaten to a pulp
with a crowbar, with three bullets in
the brain and u bullet in th# back, the
dead body of Jesse H. Stingley, a de
tective, was found in a clump of weeds
about 300 feet from the Denver,
Northwestern & Pacific railroad sta
tion at Utah Junction, three miles
lorth of Denver, in Adams county.
The body was discovered by C. H.
Vinton, a fellow detective, who had
been sent out o hunt for Stingley
when the latter failed to report for
duty or return to his home.
Havemeyer Visit# Greeley Factory.
Greeley.—Horace Havemeyer, a
heavy stockholder in the Great West
ern Sugar Company, was here to in
spect the sugar factory and visited all
plants of the company in this district
before returning to Denver for the an
nual stockholders’ meeting.
Work Starts on Grand Valley Canal.
Grand Junction.—Work has started
m construction of the Grand Valley
high line canal, the government pro
ect tc water over 60,000 arid acres
t a ccst of about $4,000,000.
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happening*. Occurring Over the
Btate Worth While.
Wutern Newspaper Union New* Service.
The annual dinner and reunion of
the founders of Greeley was held last
week.
John W. Valentine was married at
Boulder to his sister-in-law, Miss Ly
dia Burr.
The twenty-fourth annual convention
of the Baptiste at Loveland was large
ly attended.
The eighth annual dog show of the I
Colorado Kennel Club was held at the
Denver Auditorium.
More than one million acres of land '
in northwestern Colorado is still open
for the homesteader.
A party of 100 Denver Elks partici
pated In the dedication of the new
Elks’ building at Greeley.
Harry Cartee, 39, was crushed to
death in the Vindicator No. 3 shaft at '
Independence by a slab of rock which i
fell twenty feet. i
That prosperity has returned to i
eastern Colorado was evidenced on tho i
tour of the Hock Island's dry farming ]
educational train.
John Gibbons, Democratic candidate
for representative from Lake county, '
dropped dead from hemorrhage of the 1
lungs at Leadville.
Joe TossonJ, aged thirty-three, em- j
ployed at the Standard mine, Lafay
ette, was fatally injured by a fall of
coal at Boulder and died.
Mrs. Henrietta Selby Sale, ninety
one years old, and a resident of Den
ver for fifteen years, died at the homo
of her daughter, Mrs. Luella S. Stocks.
A plan to reclaim 5,000 acres of fino
land on the lower end of the Dolores
river near Westwater is being pushed
to the front by a numtier of Eastern
capitalists.
After a chase through several states,
which lasted three months, E. F. Kel
ley, twenty, wanted in Denver for al
leged forgery, was captured at Eureka
Springs, Ark.
Thomas K. Irwin, wanted in Duran
go on a charge of embezzling $12,000
to $15,000 of the La Plata County
bank funds while he was its president,
v/as arrested in Omaha.
That civilization will ultimately re
ly upon solar energy rather than on
that of coal was one of the opinions
delivered by State Chemist John B.
Ekeley at Boulder in a lecture before
the University of Colorado Scientific
Society.
Pueblo county is $547,111 richer than
p year ago, according to the report of
County Assessor Samuel McCoun de
livered to the county commissioners.
The assessed valuation of Pueblo coun
ty is $27,9G2,720. A year ago it was
$27,415,009.
Five eastern and European insur
ance men and capitalists, with their
families, were guests at a luncheon at
tho Country Club at Denver while on
a tour over the western states, and
from indications a large amount of
outside capital is expected to be in
vested in Denver and Colorado as a
result of their visit.
That a world’s fair should be held
in Denver to commemorate the com
pletion of the transcontinental tunnel
under James Peak and the establish
ment of a new transcontinental rail
way line through Colorado, was the
suggestion made at the weekly
meeting of the Denver Chamber of
Commerce.
The dedication of the Dudley C.
Shoonberg farm at Westminster, do
nated to the National Jewish hospital
for consumptives, by the man whose
name it bears, took place at 10 o’clock
Sunday morning. The dedication of
the Joseph E. Shoonberg memorial at
the hospital, the gift of the man whose
name it bears, took place Sunday af
ternoon.
Recognizing the fact that one of the
greatest needs to this state is good
roads, the county commissioners of
Colorado have gone on record as fa
voring the proposition to vote bonds
to the extent of $10,000,000 for such
improvements in the next ten years.
If this issue carries it means an ex
penditure of $1,000,000 each year for
road construction.
B. F. Kapp, pathologist from the
State Agricultura? College, who has
been investigating the mysterious dis
ease which has infected horses near
Holly, has reported to the commission
ers of Prowers, Otero, Bent and
Crowley and Pueblo counties. He says
that of 1,200 horses exposed, 157 be
came diseased, 126 died and 31 recov
ered. A serum has been prepared and
horses on twenty ranches have been
vaccinated.
The largest vote in the history of
the state will be cast Tuesday, No
vember stli, according to the prognos
tications of leaders of the Democratic,
Republican and Progressive parties.
Reports from all parts of the state in
dicate a registration of approximately
300,000, they say, and it is expected
that in excess of 270,000 ballots will
be case. At the presidential election
in 1908, 263,877 ballots were counted
up to the present the highest vote ever
polled. In 1910, the state election,
213,275 votes were cast.
Sticking at his post in an attempt
to save two passengers, A. H. Gilmore,
motorman on the Fort Collins street
railway, had a narrow escape from
death when a freight train demolished
his car.
Two Colorado College girls, Harriet
Bartlett, aged 19. and Anna Bartlett,
20, have just finished, unaided, a four
room cabin on the slopes of Cheyenne
mountain, five miles south of Colorado
Springs. They curried stones and tim
ber nearly a mile, and their masonry
v ork is high class. A huge fireplace
is a feature.
Following a game of hide and seek
in which pursued and pursuer dashed
through the streets in automobiles,
Frank B. Kesmodol has appealed to
the Colorado Springs police to find his
wife, who lie believes has left town
with about $2,700 of his money.
The Supreme Court has decided that
John R. Dixon is the lawful county
judge of the City and County of Den
ver, and that Wayne Williams and
Roger H. Wolcott, elected at the last
city and county election, have uo
right to the position, because it is a
stale ar.d not a city or county office
THIRTY-TWO BILLS
TO GO TO PEOPLE
LIST OF INITIATIVE AND RE
FERRED BILLB TO BE BUB
MITTED TO PEOPLE.
AT ELECTION ON NOV. 5
SUPREME COURT’B DECISION PER
MITS VOTERB TO PABB UPON
MANY PROPOSITIONS.
Western Newspaper Union Wewe Service.
Denver.—At the general election on
Tuesday, November 5, the voters of
the state will find upon the ballot, in
addition to presidential electors, state
and county officials, five constitution
al amendments submitted to the peo
ple by the legislature, nine constitu
tional amendments initiated by peti
tion under the initiative and referen
dum, eleven laws initiated by petition
under the initiative and referendum,
one law passed and submitted to the
people by the Legislature, and six laws
passed by the General Assembly and
referred to the people by a * tlon
referendum.
Initiated.
State-wide prohibition.
Search and seizure. t
Women’s eight-hour day.
Public service commission.
Public utilities court.
State fair appropriation.
Levy of 1-20 of a mill annually for
state immigration bureau.
Requiring one publication of sub
mitted measures, with arguments pro
and con, in two newspapers in each
county.
Home rule for municipalities above
2,000.
Recall of all elective officers.
To reduce the cost of publishing
initiative and referred measures.
Requiring publication of initiated
and referred measures, with argu
ments thereon, in pamphlet form.
Abolishing constructive contempt
and granting trial by jury In contempt
cases.
Headless ballot; disfranchising illit
erate voters.
Making social centers of school
houses.
Recall of decisions.
Support of dependent children
(mothers’ compensation).
Strengthening and extending civil
service.
So-called eight-hour law for miners.
Abolishing legislative ‘‘pork barrel”
by placing all road moneys with stato
highway commission.
Referred.
Eight-hour law for miners and smel
termen.
Transferring department of brands
to state livestock commission.
Requiring state officers to pay col
lections into treasury daily.
Requiring that all summer normal
schools for teachers be held at Gree
ley and other points to be designated
by trustees of State Normal school at
Greeley.
Raising educational and experience
qualifications for teachers.
Carpenter reservoir bill.
Proposed Constitutional Amendments
Submitted by Legislature.
Giving state power to regulate smelt
ing charges, etc.
Validating creation of state tax com
mission.
Abolishing fee system in many of
fices.
Increasing indebtedness counties
may Incur for public buildings or
roadd.
Bonds of $10,000,000 for highways.
Proposed Law Referred by Legislature.
Moffat tunnel bill.
Cranks End Life by Gas Route.
Chicago.—What is believed to have
been a conspiracy against the life of
Col. Roosevelt was ended by the death
of Maximilian Caxello, twenty-four
years old, and Miguel Ortez, the same
age, both of the United States of Co
lombia. The men w'ere asphyxiated
by gas in their room in the Fifth
Avenue hotel. That these men planned
to kill Roosevelt and that they even
visited Mercy hospital for that pur
pose is an established fact, say the
police. These men, it is said, have fol
lowed Roosevelt for months. They vis
ited the Mercy hospital in company
with Luis Monllla, son of a Colombian
senator, whose whereabouts are un
known. They insisted on seeing
Roosevelt but were turned away. A
lett§r was found in their room warn
ing Col. Roosevelt that “the time had
come for you to mediate on the black
est spot in the history of your life.”
“Remember,” aided the men in the
letter, "that although you are and
have been a great world citizen, the
homage you received when you came
tack from Africa was marred by the
refusal of the Vicar of Christ to see
you.”
Billy Rugh, Newsboy Hero Dies.
Gary, Ind.—"l guess I’m some good
eftor all.” Billy Rugh, the forty-one
year-old cripple whose withered leg
was amputated to save the life of a
girl by a skin grafting operation at a
hospital here, spoke these words and
then died. Pneumonia was said by the
physicians to have been the cause of
death. The ailment, however, resulted
1 directly from his self-sacrifice, having
been due to irritation of the lungs by
the ether thdt was given him when
! nis leg was cut off.
Babies Witness Mother’s Murder.
I Cortez, Colo. —Revolver In hand
, Charles J. Schornhorst, aged seventy
) one, formerly county judge here and
* cnce an officer in the Bavarian army,
i burst into his wife’s home just ai
three of his children, tho oldest six
l dressed for the night, were gathered
about tbelr mother’s knee for theli
cveniug brayer, and fired the first
I shot of three that put an end to adi
l once an officer in the Bavarian army
, morning and took both, him and hii
■ wife before a tribunal higher than wi
of this world.
LATE
MARKET
QUOTATIONS
Western Newspaper Union Nawa Barvlca.
DENVER ‘MARKETB.
Cattl*.
Beef steers, corn fed, good
to choice 8.50(5)9.50
Beef steers, corn fed, fair to
good 7.00(5)8.50
Beef steers, grassers, good
to choice 6.50@7.50
Beef Bteers, grassers, fair
to good \ 5.75@6.50
Heifers, prime grassers 5.50@6.00
Cows and heifers, grassers,
good to choice 4.75(5)5.50
Cows and heifers, grassers,
fair to good 4.00@4.75
Cows and heifers, corn fed,
good to choice 6.50(3)6.00
Cows and heifers, corn fed,
fair to good 5.00(5)5.50
Feedings cows 3.50(0)4.60
Cancers end cutters 2.50(54-00
Veal calves 6.00(5)8.50
Bulls 3.75(54.50
Stags 4.00(55.50
Feeders and stockers, good
■•to choice 5.75(57.00
Feeders and stockers, fair
to good 5.000)5.75
Feeders end stockers, com
mon to fair 4 00(55.00
Hogs.
Good hogs 8.40(58.60
Sheep.
Lambs 5.75(56.25
Ewes 2.75@3.40
Yearlings 4.50(55.00
Wethers 3.70(54.20
Feeder lambs, f. p. r 5.25(5615
Feeder ewes, f. p. r 2.35(53.00
Feeder yearlings, f. p. r 4.25(54.75
Hay.
(Carload Prices Paid by Denver Job
bers F. O. B. Track Denver.)
Colorado upland, per ton.. 13.50(514.50
Nebraska upland, per ton. 12.00(512.50
Second bottom, Colorado
- and Nebraska, per ton.. 10.50(511.50
Timothy, per ton 13.00(514.00
Alfalfa, per ton 9.50(510.50
South Park, choice, ton. .14.00@16.00
San Luis Valley, per ton. .12.00@T3.00
Gunnison Valley, per ton. .13 00(514.00
Straw, per ton 3.50(5 4.50
Grain
Wheat, choice milling, 100 1b5...1.32
Rye. Colo., bulk. 100 lbs 1.05
Nebraska oats, sacked 1.15
Corn chop, sacked 1.50
Corn, In sack 1-49
Bran, Colo., per 100 lbs 1.00
Dressed Poultry.
Turkeys, fancy, D. P 18 @2O
Turkeys, old toms 18 @2O
Turkeys, choice 12 @l4
Hens, large 15
Hens, small 9 @lO
Broilers 16
Springs 14
Ducks 14
Geese 12
Roosters 8
Live Poultry.
Hens, 3% lbs. and over.... 13
Hens, under 3% lbs 7 @8
Broilers 15
Springs 13
Roosters 6
Ducks 13
Turkeys, 8-lbs. or over 16 @l7
Geese 10
Eggs.
Eggs, graded No. 1 net, F.
O. B. Denver 25 @27
Eggs, graded No. 2 net, F.
O. B. Denver IS @2l
Eggs, case count, are bring
ing from $6.75@7.65
Butter.
Elgin 29
Creameries, ex. East, lb. ..31 @33
Creameries, ex. Colo., lb. ..31 @33
Creameries, 2d grade, lb. ..26 @27
Process 26 @27
Packing stock 23%
Wool In St. Louis.
9t. Louis. —Wool —Steady. Medium
grades, combing and clothing, 23%@
26c; light fine, 19@21c; heavy fine, IS
@18c; tub washed, 27@3Gc.
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Omaha Live Stock.
Omaha. Cattle Native steers,
$6.00@10.00; cows and heifers, $3.50@
6.50; Western steers, $5.00@5.25;
Texas steers, $4.40@6.40; range'cows
and heifers, $3.25@6.25; canners. $3.00
@4.25; stockers and feeders, $4.50@
8.00; calves, $5.00@9.00; bulls, stags,
etc., $4.40@5.40.
Hogs—Heavy, $8.30@5.46; mixed,
$8.40@8.45; light, $8.40@8.50; pigs,
$6.50@6.75; bulk of sales, $8.40@8.45.
Sheep—Yearlings, $4.60@6.35; weth
ers. $3.00@4.50; ewes, $3.50@4.26;
lambs, $6.40@7.40.
Kansas City Grain.
Kansas City.—Wheat—No. 2 hard,
87%@91%e; No. 3, 87@89%; No. I
red, $1.04@1.07; No. 3, 89%@1.05.
Corn—No. 2 mixed old, 59@60c;
new, 58@59c; No. 3 old, 58@59c; new,
56@67c; No. 2 white, old, 59@60c;
new, 58@59c; No. 3 old, 58@59c; new,
sC@s7c.
Oats—No. 2 white, 34@35c; No. S
mixed, 34%@35%c.
Rye—7l@7l%c.
Price of Flax.
Duluth. Linseed On track,
$1.52%; to arrive, $1.51%; October,
$1.51% bid; November, $1.50 bid; Do
icomber, $1.47 asked; January, $1.47%
nominal; March, $1.50 asked.
Lead and Spelter.
St. Louis.—l.ead, Dull, $4.90.
Spelter—Steady, $7.40.
Cotton at New Orleans.
New Orleans.—Cotton Middling;
10 13-l Cc.