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JULESBURG GRIT-ADVOCATE
JULESBURG - - COLORADO
200,000 MEN
MAKE DEMANDS
OTRIKE WILL PROBABLY BE OR
DERED AUGUST FIRST IF
NOT PLACATED.
WAGES, HOURS, ETC.
WILL AFFECT EVERY RAILROAD
LARGE AND SMALL IN THE
ENTIRE WEST. |
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Deaver.—A special coumcil of tho‘
Bvotherhood of Railway Trainmen
bes been called to meet in St. Louis
August Ist to outline the demands
for Increased wages, shorter working
bours and better working comditions
wpoa which the trainmen om all rail
roads operating between Chicago and
the Pacific coast and the Gulf of Mex
e, to and including Canada, will in
olst, evea to the extent of striking if
& is necessary to obtain them.
Five or six thousand men in Colo
vado are included in the number mak
fag the demand.
The controversy involves betweea
150,000 and 200,000 men, and, if seri
ous trouble should arise, it would af
fect every railroad, large and small,
fa the entire western country, includ
ing western Canada. None of the
rallroads east of Chicago are affect
od, their contracts being effective for
@ year or more yet.
For about three months the train
maa have been asking for a small in
erease in wages, a shorter workday
and oertain changes in working con
ditions and rules. The railroads have
vrefused the demands and the conven
tion has been called to comsider the
matter and to determine just what de
mands will be insisted upon and to
what extent the contest will be car
ried. {
F. A. Whitney, second vice presi
deat of the organization, announced
Sunday in Spokane that the prob
@ble demands would include an eight-
Bour day, full train crews, white flag
®en and trainmen on all trains and a
mileage basis for passenger brake
men.
The four tralnmen's organization in’
Deaver will meet Monday night to se
loct delegates to the St. Louis meet
fag. There are about 1,500 trainmen
ia Denver, including yardmen, and be
tween 5,000 and 6,000 in the state.
The vardmen have already settled
their differences, having been granted
@R increase In wages several weeks
ago.
Oribe Lawmaker Again Running.
Bpringfield, lll.—This was the first
day for filing with the secretary of
otate petitions of candidates who seek
Comination ut the primaries in Sep
tember. Representative James F. Mor
ris of Sprimgfield, presented petitions
for Lee O'Neil Browne, mincrity leader
of the house, who 1» seeking renomina
tion.
Aero-Amphibious Bail Playing.
Bt. Paul, Minn.—Falling into a lake
after a long run for a high fly, Ar
thur Anderson of the Deep Haven
baseball team Monday caught the ball
before it struck the water, and swam
ashore, heading off three runs for the
opposing team.
Pennsytvania Strike Scttied.
Philadelphia—Goreral Manager W.
H. Meyers of the Pennsylvania railroad
ond the comanittees represcuting the
15,000 trainien and conductors em-
Ployed cn the lines of the rcad east of
Pittsburg, have agreed on a basis for
the settiemeat of the wage contro
versy.
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O'd Missouri Bank Closes.
Sedalia, M2.—Th= Bank of Tipion,
near here, was closed Monday and
placed in the hands of State Bank Ex
aminer Swanger. The 'deposits amount
to $35,000. The bank was established
in 1873 and 3 one of the oldest in the
state.
Would Change Names.
Washington, D. C —The rostmasters
&t Breckenridge, Colorado, and Lara
mie, Wyoming, Monday made formal
application to the postmaster general
requesting that their offices be desig-
Rated postal savings offices.
Bhut Out Pictures.
Ataxth, Ga.—The Georgia Senate
Monday passed a bill prohibiting the
exhibition anywhere within the state
of moving pictures of prizefights be
tween members of different races.
" $200,000 Fire Loss in Indiana.
Whijting, Ind.—A fire in the Stand
ard Oil Company’s factory here Mon
dv destroyed the grease piant, with a
loss of $200,00. .
/
Only Six All-Nighters Left. ‘
! New York—Under the new dispensa
tom of Maycr Gayror, thare now re
majns in N°w York just six places
where & wayrarer abroad after 1 o’clock
fa the morning may walk in through
the front amd order a drink within the
aw.
Week’s News from All Over Colorado
Suriingten to Impreve.
Denver.—lmprovemests that will
cost in the meighborhood of $1,000,000
to emlarge freight terminals, and build
a Bew freight depot will soom be
started by the Chicago. Burlingtoa &
Quincy railroad in Denver.
Seome Wages.
Deaver.—lt is estimated from offi:
sial sources that two Colorado cor
porations, the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad and the Colorado Fuel &
(ron Company, have paid nearly $20,-
300,000 in wages during the past year,
anding June 30th.
New Gold Excitement.
Georgetown.—The new camp oi
Beshear on Bard ce-<k is the scene of
the biggest mining excitement in
years. During the last ten days more
thaa 500 claims have been staked.
One property has ore going $650 per
tom. .
Tot Drowned in Ditch,
Greeley.—While his parents sat on
the porch reading, Harold, the two
year-old babe of J. 8. Clague, fell into
a small irrigation ditch Thursday
night and was drowned. His eleven
year-old brother found the body a few
minutes later, but life was extinct.
The parents did not know water had
been turned into the aitch.
| Electric Road Opened.
~ Grand Junctipn.—Klectric interur
ban communication was establiched
Thursday between Grand Junction and
Fruita, and in honer of the event a
celebration more elaborate than any
ever held in thic sect:on was given
jojintly by the two cities. Over 7,000
people from all wc:sietrn Colorado
Joined to make the celebration & suc
©ess.
Fears Typhoid Epidemic.
Denver.—Colorado is in danger of a
typhoid epidemic this fall, in the opin
ion of Commissiomer Cannon of the
state pure focd department. He baser
his view on the prevalenc@bf flies,
which, according to reports received,
are four times as bad in all parts of
the state as ir previous years. This
condition is thought 10 be owing to
the dry spring and summer.
New Postoffices.
Greeley.—Three mnew postoffices
have been established in Weld coun
ty, Briggsdale, Cornish and Help Hey,
Mrs. Alice Bird has been appointei
postmaster at Briggsdale. The others
have not beed named as yet. The
first two towns are on the Crow creek
News Summary of the Past Week
WESTERN.
Seven persohs were injured, omne
probably fatally, in an auto collision
at Seattle.
The steamship Jefferson, from Skag
way, arriving at Seattle SBunday night,
brought $300,000 in Nome gold dust.
A. G. Spalding, the sporting goods
manufacturer, will be a primary candi
date for the United States Senate from
California.
James Parkerson, aged 117 years, ac
complished the feat of riding horse
back sixty miles in one day. He is a
resident of Eastland county, Texas,
near the town of Cisco.
The interest of land seekers has
been recently aroused in the Bun River
irrigation project in Montana and the
remaining farms on the Fort Shaw
unit are being rapidly occupied.
With five Republicans, one Demo
ciat, one Prohibitionist and one Social
-18 in the race for nomination for gov
ernor, the entries for California’s first
election under the direct primary law
has closed.
The biggest mining excitement for
years in Colorado has ben «occasioned
at the new camp of Beshoar, near
Georgetown, where 500 loca§ons have
ben made in ten days. One property
has $650 ore.
Gov. Hay of Washington has imvited
the governors of Oregon, Idaho, Mon
tana and North Dakota to go to Wash
ington as his guests during the army
maneuvers at American lake, August
15 to 26.
Sept. 9 next Harry Thorne, 19 years
old, will be chot to death at the state
rrison at Salt lLake for the murder of
George W. Fassell, a groceryman. Sen
tence was pronounced by District
Judge ' Lewis, the prisoner choosing
th€ bullet in accordance with the law
giving him choice.
The movement headed by President
Magnus Brown of the Minnesota Wool
Growers' Association, to lease the
rlant of the Rio Grande Woolen Mills
at Albuquefxue for western woql gLow
ers, and colduct from there a figh? for
independence, has already caused a
stampede of eastern buyers to Magda
lena, the wool shipping center of cen
tral New Mxico.
SPORT.
WESTERN LEAGUE. |
Won. Lost, Pct.
Sioux City ............52 29 42
Denver . ...cecceeeessbl 32 614
Lincoln . ..ccececee...47 36 566
Wichita . ...ccoecee...4b 3¢ 556
Omahß . ...ccececess.36 43 429
St. JZeeph .c.ieecacee .38 47 427
Des Moines .....e.....38 52 419
TopeK& . . eescececs-+-28 5 350
branch line of the Uniom Pacific. The
third is mineteen miles morth of Ke-
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Nerth Longment Saleons Clesed.
Longmont.—The salooms im North
Loagmont are closed at last, after sev
eral years of hard work by the anti
salooa people of this city. It was the
local optios law which accomplished
the desired result, as last fall over
two-thirds of the voters ia Precinct
24 voted to make it dry. The saloons
died hard and it took a decision of the
Supreme Court to shut them up. Real
ettate in North Longmont has alrcady
takea a jump, although the saloons
bave been closed omly three or four
days.
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‘ Srother Stabs Brether.
Trinidad.—A report comes from
‘P‘orbc s, near this city, that four Itali
ans, miners, were the participants i
‘flnt appears one of the most bfuta
crimes in the historv of l.as Animas
county. Palo Ciamco, assisted by 2
friend, Guiseppi Gampacorta, the re
port says, held his brother, Guiseppi.
while another brother, Giasue, stabbed
him to death. Palo Ciamco and
Guiseppi Gampacorta are in jail in
this citly, but Giasue Ciomeca is still at
large although a large posse has bhee:-
scouring the country. ~
W. F. M. Convention.
Denver.—A number of interesting
questions will come up before the
convention of the Western Federa
tion of Miners to be held here for the
next couple of weeks, among which
will be the recommendation of the
executive committee that every mem
ber of the association be assessed two
days’ pay during the coming fiscal
year for the purpose of raising an
emergency fund. Officers of the as
sociation declare that the fund is for
no special purpose, but that they wish
to have plenty of money on hand to
meet any difficulties that may come
up. The convention will also con
sider the question of an affiliation of
the Western Federation with the
American Federation of Labor. The
executive committee of the Western
organization has had this question un
der consideratiop for some time, and
it is now being considered by the of
ficers of the American Federation.
Judae Terry Buried at Pueblo.
Silverton.—The body of Judge J. H.
Terry, the well known mine owner
who died here Saturdav night, was
taken to Pueblo for interment in Rose
lawn cemetery. \
Abe Attell, featherweight champion
of the world, and Pete McVeigh of Se
attle, have been matched to fight in
Seattle on the night of July 26.
Sheriff Marrerro of Jefferson Parish,
La., where nearly all prize tights in
Louisiana have been fought, has issued
an order prohibiting the Nelson-Wol
gast fight, which was being figured on
by local promoters for Labor Day.
William Durand, who claims the
heavyweight pugilistic championship
cf the United States navy, was convict
ed at Hampwoon, by a jury in the Cir
cuit Court of prize fighting. He was
sentenced to one year in the peniten
tiary.
WASHINGTON.
The tide of emigration of homeseek
ers to Canada, which has been the
'subject of great concern to the admin
listnlors of the public domain for the
last few years, has turned, in the opin
“ou of officials of the Reclamation
Service. During the last nine months,
it was said at the reclamation office,
fifteen thousand settlers have re
turned to the States from Canadca and
the prospects for a gemeral backward
movement are bright.
President Taft semt g messags of
thanks to the emperor of Japan for
the cordial welcome extended to See
retary of War Dickinson.
More than $10,000,000 reductiom in
the postal deficit was made in the
tirst mine months of the fiscal year
just ended, according to returns re
ceived by Postmaster General Hiteh
cock. Such a reduction is unprece
dented in the history .of the depart
ment. The deficit for the nine months
was $2,709,000 as against $12,832,000
in the same period of the preceling
fiscal year.
In an official statement the Inter
state Commerce Commission has an-|
nounced its intention to suspend all
tariffs naming general and important
rate advances, pending an investiga
tion as to the reasonableness of the
proposed increases.
Confined in a filthy cell. six by five
feet, unfed save by charitable strang
ers, William Pittman, an Amerlcan.‘
captured by the Madriz government
forces near Bluefields, was found in an
overcrowded local prison at Managua,
Nic., by Consul Olivares, who tele
graphed the state department that he
visited Pittman, discovered the revolt
|ing conditions and through protests
fcrced Dr. Madriz to furnish the ad
| venturous American better prison ac
| commodations. )
amner Montion.
Igeacia bas a newspaper—the Qld-‘
tain. |
Five buildings at Deer Trall "-o‘
bursed Thureday might.
lowa resideats of Palisade are ar
ranging to_rfp lowa day August 34.
The hotel at Copperfield was de
stroyed by fire with a loss of $4,000.
Work oa Boulder's mew $70,000 gov
ernmeat building is nearly completed.
Dining cars on the Moffat rosd have
discontinued the custom of serviag liq
uors. .
The roof of the Trinidad high scheol
burned off Friday with a damage of
$5,000.
La Veta Methodists bave just or
dered plans for a mew church to cost
$5.,000.
The Pueblo county Democratic econ
vention will be held at Pueblo Septem
ber 10th.
The dog poisoner has made away
with several valuable canines at
Homeo.
A quarter section of state land at
Kamah has been purchased for park
purposes.
[ The Sons of Colorado will hold their
‘annual celebration at City Park, Den
‘Ver. August Ist.
Crook, Logan county, has voted to‘
istue bonds for the building of a $lO,-
(00 school house. \
Mayor Reeder of Palisade is agitat
ing the question of a public park
among hig councilmen.
J. T. Norsworthy is preparing to is
sue from Greeley a new mewspaper to
be called “The Insurgent.”
‘ Charles King, a tailor of La Junta,
while going to Swink Saturday, fell
from the train and was Kkilled.
The two-year-old daughter of Wal
ter Barnett at Greeley crawled omto
a railroad track and was killed.
John Hill, while charging holes in
the Favorite mine at Ophir, was in
stantly killed by a boulder striking
him.
On the 36th Cheyenne Wells will
vote on the question of issuing $12,000
L, improve and emlarge the city water
system.
President Charles H. Moyer of the
Western Federation of Miners says he
will probably not be a candidate for
re-election. -
Trinidad business men have started
a movement to have a government
mine rescue station established in
that vicinity.
Irving H. Paine, aged 68, and Isaac
Miller, aged 77, original members of
~ Eugent Ely, an aviator who attempt
€d to fly between Winnipeg and Port
age La Prairie late Friday night, fell
several hundred feet and was picked
up in a dying condition.
Notices of the termination of com
mercial treaties one year hence have
been dispatched to European coun
tries, including Great Britain, is the
word that comes from Tokio.
An annual deficit of $9.98 in the
cost of living of families of wage earn
ers and salaried persons in Germany
was revealed in an investigation by
the imperial statistical officers.
Germany has issued no statement
that could be construed into antago
nism of the American government in
what that government has done, is do
ing, or may do, in Nicaragua, says the
~terman foreign office at Berlin.
~ After drifting westward 1,100 miles
through the Sargossa sea, the famous.
derelict Crown, a Norwegian bark,
'abandoned in mid-ocean last Christ
mas, during a voyage from Nova
Scotia to Brazil, has been sighted ana
photographed.
The mounted police at Kamsack,
Saskatchewan, received hurry orders
to go to Veregin, seven miles out,
where the Doukhobors were on a ram
page. They found a party of thirty
five, almost nude, who had burned
their clothing and chattels and were
chanting hymns.
All hope of a break in the manopoly
which controls the diamond output of
the world is dissipated. The contract
between the De Beers Consolidated
Mines (Ltd.) and the L.ondon diamond
syndicate has been renewed for a pe
“iod of five years.
All the intricate machinery of Scot
land Yards has been set in motion to
effect the capture of Dr. Hawley H.
Crippen, the battered body of whose
wife, a noted music hall singer, well
known by the stage name of Belle El
more in America, was found buried in
the cellar of their home at Hilldrop
Crescent, North London.
Leon Morane, -the French lvlltor,l
has been officially awarded the first
prizes at the meeting just ended at
Bournemouth, Eng., for speed, alti
tude, sea flight and general merit. J..
Armstrong Drexel, son of Anthony
Drexel, comes next as the highest
prize winner, while Graham White, the
English aviator, takes third place.
GENERAL.
Found guilty of conspiracy, Willlam
P. White, mayor of Lawrence, Mass.,
has been sentenced to three years in
the house of correction and fined sl,
000.
‘ll‘ Usnios celoay which settled Gree
ley, are dond.
Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Alien have just
celebrated their goldes wedding anni
versary at Boulder. They came to
Colorado im 1864.
Moatrose 044 Fellows have secured
an option om 8 site for the state Odd
Pellows home, which they hope to
have located there. '
Ose merchant at Greeley has sold
SO,OOO pounds of paris green this year
10 be used as breakfast food for potato
tugs and grasshoppers.
The Central City & Pactolus Rail
way Company, with a capital stock of
$1,250,000, filed articles of imcorpor
ation with the secretar) of state Fri
day.
Felipe Lopes, who killed his sweet
heart, Bertha Little, in Denver June
13th, was by Judge Riddle givea from
twenty to thirty years in the peniten
tiary.
The [lium power station of the Tel
luride Power Company, which was bad
ly damaged by floods last fall, has
been repaired and put in commission
again.
A movement is on foot in Denver to
revive the Festival of Mountain™ and
Plain which in years agone drew such
crowds to Denver. The last festival
was held in 1901.
The board of trustees of the Nation
ai Jewish Hospital at Denver have
about completed plans for the estab
lishment of a trade school in connec
tion with the hospital, which is one of
the largest of its kind in the country.
The Sylvan Lake Power Compaay
has been organized by H. M. Hogg and
associates with $500,000 capital, to de
velop power in the San Juan country.
The site of the works will be on Fall
creek.
Boulder expects to get the $250,000
home to be established by the Forest
ers of America, and is preparing to
entertain the grand officers of the or
der who are coming out from the Bast
on a tour of investigation.
A little child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
‘Hofl. living east of Loveland, maa
‘aged to crawl to a cistern, the cover
aof which was not secu-ely fastened,
and fell in. A search was instituted
and the baby found drowned.
A skeleton found between Hardin
and Masters by Burlington engineers
recently has been identified. it is be
lieved, as that of Mrs. C. A. White of
Missouri, who was drowned in the Box
Elder in June, 1850, After the find had
been made known Greeley parties be
san an investigation . which resulted
in pretty well establishing its identity.
The American Institute of Hom
eopathy elected Dr. J. G. Jones of
Cleveland, Ohio, president.
A sheet of window glass fell five
stories im New York and killed Miss
Lena Phillipps. She was almost de
capitated. |
Five hundred New York cloak nd!
skirt manufacturers have organized a
united resistamce against the strike of
their employes. |
John Struble, chief of police of Clin
ton, ITI, was shot and fatally wounded
#hile grapplisg with a criminal and '
his death is expected. |
Chicago is to bhave a railroad connec
'tion with Winnipeg which will divert to |
it a large part of the wheat traffic of
the Canadian morthwest. |
Resenting a reduction of 19 per cent!
‘ln the wage scale, 300 miners employed
by the American Lead, Zinc and Smelt
‘lng Company at Webb City, Mo., have
quit work. ‘
State-wide prohibition is the leading
issue of the campaign now on in the
Democratic party of Texas to select
nominees for all state officers !rom‘
governor down to constable. ‘
August Hermann of Cincinnati has
been elected grand exalted ruler at
the largest meeting of the grand lodge
of Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks ever held.
The Knights of the Maccabees have
amended their general laws, authoriz
ing the directors to classify hazardous
and prohibitive oecupations, and to
materially redyce the prohibitive list.
Theodore Roosevelt has given out
the itinerary of his western trip as fol
lows: Aug. 26, leave New York; Aug.
27, arrive Cheyenne; Aug. 29, Denver;
Aug. 31, Ossawatomie, Kas.; Sept. 2,
Omaha; Sept. 3, Sioux Falls, S. D,;
Scpt. 5, Fargo, N. D.; Sept. 6, St
Faul; Sept. 7, Milwaukee; Sept. 8,
Freeport, 111, and Chicago; Sept. 10,
Fittaburg; Sept. 11, arrive New York.
There was increased excitemenmt in
the cotton market Friday with every
indication that the long talked of July
squeeze was at last on, owing to- an
even more urgent demand from July
and August shorts. Prices had a fur
ther sensational advance, with July
cotton selling at $16.43, or 50 points
above the closing point the night be
fore, and fully $5 a bale above the
price ruling before the covering move
ment started.
A bill making it a misdemeanor to
bet on an election has been passed by
the Georgia House of Representatives,
The bill is not aimed at freak bets, but
seeks to prevent the wager of money
or articles of value. The measure still
has {0 be passed by the Senate.
SLEEPING IN THE OPEN AIR
Useful Beck With Full Dlncfl‘
Given Away by Philanthrepic
Asescistion,
“Drrection for Living and Sleepin,
ia the Open Air,” is the title of a
pamphlet being semt out by the Na
tiomal Association for the Study and
Preveation of Tuberculosis to its local
represeatatives in all parts of the
United States. The pamphlet is
meant to be a handbook of informa
tice for anybody who desires to sleep
out of doors in his own home. It em
phasizes the fact that outdoor sleep
ing is as desirable for the well as for
sick. The booklet will be sent free
of chaige to any ose applying for it at
the headquarters of the National As
sociat'on for the Study and Preven
tion of Tuberculosis in New York, or
to the secretary of any local or state
antituberculosis association.
Some of the subjects of which the
pemphilet treats are, how to take the
open-air treatment in a tenement
house; how to build a small shack or
cabin on a flat roof in the city; how
to make one comfortable while sleep
ing outdoors either in hot or coid
weather; “how to arrange a porch on a
country house; and how to build a
cheap porch; the construction of ty
and tent houses; the kinds of '}
and bedding to use in outdoor sléep
ing, and various other topics. The
book is well {llustrated and attrao
tively prepared.
Truth is cut up to patch too many
lies. You can never boll the lies baek
into truth again.
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