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EASTERN COLORADO TIMES
Walter L. Bales, Editor.
H. Y. Tarwater, Associate Editor.
CHEYENNE WELLS. - - - COLO.
BEEF TRUST
WILL DISSOLVE
NATIONAL PACKING COMPANY,
$15,000,000 CORPORATION, WILL
DISINTEGRATE.
ACTION INVOLUNTARY
ATTORNEY GENERAL WICKER
SHAM WILL HOLD GOVERN
MENT SUITS IN ABEYANCE.
Western Newspaper Unton News Service.
Washington. Attorney General
Wickersham was advised that the Na
tional Packing Company would be vol
untarily dissolved by the beet packers
by August 1.
In view of this action Mr. Wicker
sham announced that the government
would hold in abeyance the civil suit
which it proposed to bring against the
company to compel Its disintegration.
Mr. Wickersham was notified of the
‘‘beef trust’s” intention to dissolve by
James A. Fowler, assistant to the at
torney general.
Representatives of the National
Packing Company, according to the at
torney general, informed United States
Attorney Wilkinson at Chicago that it
was the purpose of the Armour, Swift
and Morris interests, which own the
corporation, to wind up Its business
and dispose of its interests.
The packers. It is said, expected to
have ready a definte plan by August
1, or if they find themselves unable to
agree upon a basis of dissolution, they
will advise the Department of Justice
of the fact. In the latter event, the
proposed civil suit under the Sherman
law, it Is intimated, will be filed.
About a month ago Mr. Wicker
sham was informed the packers pre
pared voluntary steps in the nature of
disintegration. To give them time to
meet the issue in a friendly way, the
attorney general arrested the filing of
the contemplated petition in equity
The Department of Justice Informed
the packing company a week ago that
it was time definitely to display its
intention.
The National Packing Company Is a
$15,000,000 corporation, owning some
or the largest packing companies in
the world. As it is owned hy the Ar
mour, Swift and Morris interests, ac
cording to the government’s conten
tions, the company is the agency for
controlling the meat industry.
West Facing Big Strike.
Denver. —The West is face to face
with the biggest railroad strike in its
history.
Between 200,000 and 300,000 men
have voted In favor of a walkout.
The orders were not issued on ac
count of negotiations between Julius
Kruttschnltt, director of maintenance
of way of the Harrlman lines, and rep
resentatives of the shopmen on that
system looking to a settlement of the
strike which has ben on for more than
a year.
This development reveals the full
significance of the negotiations to set
tle the Harrlman lines strike.
The proposed strike of between
200,000 and 300,0000 shopmen on all
roads in the West Is contingent on a
settlement of the Harrlman line trou
bles.
The shopmen on the Colorado &
Southern and the Denver & Rio
Grande are among those who voted to
strike.
The failure of President Taft to
take steps to bring about a settlement
of the shopmen's troubles on the Har
riman lines is the direct cause of the
crisis.
Recently an amalgamation of the or
ganizations of the machinists, boiler
makers, blacksmiths and all shopmen
was perfected at Kansas City.
The new organization was christ
ened the Federation of Federations
and represents a membership of ap
proximately 300,000 In the various un
ions affiliated with It.
The membership embraces the un
ions on practically every road west of
Chicago and St. Louis.
Aeroplane Used In Wolf Hunt.
Santa Clara. —Swooping over the
foothills. Glenn Martin’s biplane
scared all the coyotes In sight and
hearing. The occasion was the coyote
hunt of the Santa Ana Rifle Club,
of which Martin Is a member, and the
result of the hunt was the capture of
one coyote, a big fellow. The carcass
was strapped to the aeroplane and was
taken as passenger to Santa Ana.
“SEE AMERICA FIRST” SPIRIT
New Santa Fa Trail Along the Fort Lyon Irrigating Canal In the Arkan
» ; , : . eae Valley, Colorado.
The "See America First” spirit Is
taking a new grip on the western
states, according to information re
ceived from that section. They say
out there that "It you must see Eu
rope, why, see it; but see America
first.”
In the Rocky mountain region Just
now the advocates of this patriotic
principle are talking a great deal
about the south and are urging peo
ple who live In the west to visit the
southland and get In closer touch with
Its people. In Colorado, especially, is
this true.
Colorado has had many southern
people within her borders within the
last year and a special effort Is being
put forward to induce more to visit
that state In the summer months.
From Texas and Oklahoma last sum
mer, It Is said, a large number of
people journeyed to Colorado In their
automobiles. They entered the state
byway of the great Arkansas valley,
which Is said to be one of the largest
Irrigated areas In the world, embrac
ing more than 600,000 acres.
A new automobile highway has been
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Ncwapnper Upton News Service.
COMING EVENTS IN COI.OIIADO.
July I. — Independence Day Celebration
—Plultevillc, Greeley, Pueblo, Trini
dad, Wulsenburg, Ouray, Durango,
Port Collins. Longmont, Loveland,
Lamar, Wulden.
July 17-19.—Electrical Contractors'As
sociation Convention, Denver.
July 18-19—Gunnison County Cattlo
Growers' Association, Gunnison.
Aug. 6-8. lnternational Council
Knlglits of Columbus Colorado
Springs.
Sept. 3, —Convention National Associa
tion State Game Wardens—Denver.
Sept. 18. 19. 20.—San Luis Valley Fair
—Alamosa.
Yawns; Finds Jaw Broken.
Greeley.—Mrs. Nate Calvin, who
■vent four weeks with a broken jaw,
.vithout knowing it, must undergo an
operation. The bone will be wired
into place so It will mend. Five weeks
ago she was thrown from her carriage
on her face. When she yawned four
weeks later she discovered her Jaw
bone was broken.
Pueblo-Stone City Road Opens.
Pueblo.—A formal opening that
proved so informal and enjoyable and
picnlc-llke that it will be long remem
bered was that of the new line from
Pueblo to Stone City, a distance of
twelve miles. More than 250 Pueblo
ans and other especially invited guests
and newspaper men were taken over
the new road in a special car.
Graft Returned; Weld $29,956 Richer.
Greeley.—As the result of various
sums of money turned Into the county
treasury In the last six months by
former county commissioners and oth
?rs connected with the so-called bridge
trnft scandal, Weld county Is ahead
>29,950. Of this sum C. G. Sheely re
■urned $2G,680, Frank C. Peterson
ormer clerk of the board, $500; R. W.
!)evlnny, $2,135, and E. J. Estes $590.
Denver to Have City Market.
Denver. —The first step toward the
t'Stablißhment of a municipal market
building In Denver, where producers
can offer their wares for sale to con
iumers without the mediation of the
price-raising middleman, was taken
when a resolution, introduced in the
board of supervisors recommending
the erection of such a building, was
idopted.
built along what waa known aa th*
old Santa Fa trail, but now called the
New Santa Fe trail, which haa been
dealgnated aa part ot the trana-con
tinental highway. For milea and mllee
thia highway la aaid to be aa smooth
aa a city street. The route leads to
Pueblo, dealgnated aa tbe Plttaburg ot
the west, owing to the vaat ateel
works In operation there; thenoe to
Colorado Springs and on to Denver.
Colorado people are pushing the
construction ot automobile blghwaya
In tbe state and are looking to the
southern states to do the same, ao
that during the winter automobile
owners from that state can motor
through the south.
Colorado has 33,000 miles of roads,
of which 20,000 are passable by auto
mobile and 4,500 miles are Improved
roads. Good hotels and garages can
be found In every town In the state
where the population exceeds 1,000,
according to Information sent out
from the state highway commission.
From this same source It is learned
that Colorado expended $1,750,000 on
Its roads in 1911, and will expend
$2,400,000 In 1912.
State Tax Commisaion'a Report.
Denver—The first report of the re
cently created state tax commission,
which took the place of the Btnte
board of equalization has been made.
Its assessments of the sleeping car,
railroad, express, telegraph and tele
phone companies are, with few excep
tions, the same as those made by the
equalization board last year. The to
tal assessments amount to $G1,008,767,
for 1912, as compared with $60,449,990,
showing an increase of $558,777. Most
of the railroads were assessed the
same as they were last year. The
Missouri Pacific was the only big
railroad operating In the state which'
did not ask for a decrease.
The Santa Fe Is assessed at $5,678,-
550, as last year; Colorado & South
ern, $7,009,290, same as a year ago;
Burlington assessed at Its old figure;
Midland tax Is $2,052,330 In compari
son to $2,090,700 in 1911, and the
Union Pacific will pay the same as
sessment as that of a year ago, $7,-
688,130.
Mountain States Telephone & Tele
graph Company assessment increased
from $3,580,000 to $3,707,860. Horse'
Creek Telephone Company was raised
$lO. Its assessment was S4BO.
The Delta County Co-operative Tele
phonfe Company is assessed at $18,780.
The Garlleld County Telephone Com
pany was reduced from $16,980 to $5,-
100.
A few changes were made in the
express company taxes. These com
panies were assessed as follows;
Adams Express Company, 1911, $138,-
030. 1912, $158,160; Globe. 1911, $162,-
480, 1912, $212,800; United States, 1911,
$34,170, 1912, $9,030; Wells Fargo,
1911, $156,100, 1913, $132,600, and the
American, 1911, $54,820, 1912, $89,620.
The Colorado Postal Telegraph was
granted a reduction of SIO,OOO. The
Western Union assessment remains
the same—s6B2,Boo.
A statement was issued by the board
that the assessments levied by the old
board of equalization are, for the most
part, accurate and to the standard
adopted by the board and the assess
ors of the state.
Trinidad.—The breaking of a bean
bag when it struck Fanuel Salvator,
aged three, in the mouth resulted In
its death. He threw the bean bag
toward the celling. Falling, It struck
‘.he boy in the mouth. One of the
beans then went down his throat and
he strangled to death.
Arkansas Valley Experimental Farm.
Rocky Ford.—An experimental farm,
probably the most unique of Its kind In
the --world, was started here this
spring, and already results, have been
obtained that bid fair to be not only
of the utmost value to the Arkansas
valley, but to the state
THEIR MOST JOYOUS MOMENT
Of the Trio, Probably Roprasantatlva
Redfleld Had the Beat Ooea
elon to Smile.
The talk In one of the cloak rooms
of congress turned to the thought of
the happiest moments In one’s life.
Senatdr Bailey said his came the day
he wore his first pair of trousers. And
Paul Howland of Ohio declared his
big moment of loy was when he was
permitted once to drive a chariot in
a pony and dog show parade.
Representative Redfield, who Is a
wise chap, even If he does hall from
Brooklyn, said It was when he was
going to school and trying to master
long division.- Three or four aisles
over from where he sat a boy yawned.
It was not an ordinary yawn, but one
of such genuine expression of feeling
toward things In general that It at
tracted Redfield’s attention. He was
fortunate In having a paper wad right
at hand, ready for any emergency,
and he aimed this at the boy's caver
nous mouth. - The wad went right
square Into the goal and—well, Fourth
of July fireworks are tame to the
stunts that boy did In the next few
minutes.'
He says he almost smiled once on
ship board when the vessel gave a
lurch and threw a platter full of
beefsteak, gravy and all, over the
open-faced shirt front of a pompous
passenger across the table.
When She Comes Into Her Own.
Fair Pleader —Finally I submit, your
honor, that there Is an unassailable
reason why my client should not re
ceive the only sentence dictated by
the evidence. Tou have but to cast
your eye upon my client to see that
one of her—er —ah—full figure would
be unmistakably humiliated by being
foroed to wear prison stripes!
Her Honor! Ha! ’Tie true! Pris
oner discharged.—Puck.
Literal Obedience.
"How Is It I have such big telegram
bills r
“Tou told.me, sir, to use dispatch
In that correspondence, so I wired all
the letters."
Garfield Tea the International Remedy for
all Irregularities of stomaoh, liver and ltlaneys
la oompoeed entirely of pure herbs.
Woman conceals only what she does
not know.—Proverb.
The Old
Oaken Bucket
uj 'Filled to the brim with
cold, clear purity—no such
water nowadays.
Bring back the old days with
a glass or bottle of
I It makes one think of everything that’s pure
I and wholesome and delightful. Bright, spark
■ ling, teeming with palate joy—it’s iSBi
■ your soda fountain old oaken bucket.
Free ur - new -
That’s the ldnd—Lib
by’s There isn’t an
other sliced dried beef
like it: Good? It’s the
inside cut of the finest
beef sliced to wafer thin
ness.
Dried Beef
stands supreme. The tasty
dishes one can make with it
are almost numberless.
Let’s see I There’s creamed
dried beef, and—but just try
it. Then you’ll know t tj|
Always Insist on Libby's H
Don’t accept “a jnrtugood.'* From 11
rallsh to tout, from condiment to II
conserve, the quality of Libby’s |i|
' Reedy-toServa Foods is always H
sn peri or. And they don’t cost ona B
whit mors than the ordinary kinds. H
Pat up in gtmrilixmJ glasa or tin
containers |
At Every Grocers If
Libby, M £ Neifl & Libby
Chicago
PATENTS^^^i
W. N. U., DENVER, NO. 26-1912.