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CHEYENNE WELLS TIMES
H. Y. Tarwater, Publisher.
OHBYKNNB WELLS - COLORADO
NINETY-TWO
DIE FROM HEAT
CRICAGO AND TUCSON 102 DE
GREES—HOTTEST PLACES
IN UNITED STATES.
HUNDREDS PROSTRATED
HOSPITALS IN MIDDLE WEST ME<
TROPOLIS FILLED BY THE
WEATHER VICTIMS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Monday’s Heat Death Toll.
Chicago.—46 (lead; hundreds pros
trated; hospitals crowded by heat vic
tims.
Milwaukee.—3 dead; 13 in Wisconsin;
hundreds prostrated.
Joliet. 111.—2 (lead; scores prostrated.
Peoria, i 11.—5 dead; 10 in two days.
Grand Hapids, Mich. —7 dead; 17 pros
trated.
St. Louis.—2 dead; several prostrated.
St. Paul.—n dead; many prostrated.
La Crosse, Wis.—4 dead; 1 insane by
heat, hallos self.
Detroit, Mich.—ll dead; score pros
trated.
Cincinnati. —2 dead; many prostrated.
South Bend, Ind.—s dead; 1 driven in
sane by heat; several prostrated.
Denver, July 1. —Reports received
show that at least 92 persons died
yesterday as result of the heat wave
in the Central West. The heat which
has continued uninterrupted for six
days extended frfom western Kansas
to Pittsburg and as far north as Lake
Superior.
From 90° at Pittsburg the temper
ature through the whole Middle West
ranged well into the nineties. Mar
quette, usually cool, on the shore of
Dake Superior, recorded 92°. It was
102° in Chicago. This gave Chicago
the record of being the hottest place
in the United States, except for Tuc
son, Arizona, where the temperature
also was 102°.
Intense suffering was reported in
all of the large cities enveloped in the
heat wave.
Fatalities due to the heat were re
ported nt llihbing, Minn.; Biwabik,
Minn.; Milwaukee, Racine, La Crosse,
Wis.; Peoria, St. Louis, Grand Rap
ids, Cleveland and Chicago.
In Chicago alone there were 46
deaths officially reported. From dif
ferent points in Wisconsin 13 deaths
were reported.
Drownings. electrical storms, high
winds and intense heat were the fea
tures of the weather near Duluth.
Heat prostrations were beyond count.
Throughout this area hope of only
Blight relief is offered by the weather
bureau officials for today.
PROBE LOBBY CHARGE
Accused Men Demand Full Investiga
tion of Mulhall's “Underground
“System” Lobby Charges.
Washington, July 2.—lnvestigation
of lobbyists and lobbies by the Sen
ate will reopen Wednesday with a
number of prominent Wall Street
men as witnesses.
Chairman Overman decided late
yesterday after a talk with President
Wilson and informal conferences with
his committee associates, to renew
activity at once instead of waiting un
til July Bth as he had planned.
Investigation of the so-called “un
derground system” at the Capitol not
only by the Senate lobby committee
but by a select committee of the
House also promises to be the first
result of the sensational charges by
Martin M. Mulhall, who claims to
have been the general field •'lobbyist”
lor the National Association of Manu
facturers.
Mulhall's allegation that representa
tives, senators and high officials had
been “reached” or “influenced,” that
the lobby conducted its operations
from a room in the Capitol, paid
money to employes there, took an act
ive hand in making up committees
and went out actively in the political
campaigns to defeat congressmen who
opposed legislation the lobby wanted,
have thrown congressional circles into
an uproar.
Speaker Clark issued a statement
confirming the charge that the lobby
had worked for his defeat. Many con
gressmen mentioned, however, who
feel that they have been brought in
without any specific charges against
them declare they will not be satis
fied with the Senate committee’s in
vestigation alone but will insist on a
select committee of the House to sift
the charges.
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
July 17-19.—Meeting of Colorado
Stock Growers at Glenwood Springs.
July 23-26.—National Convention of
federation of American Motorcy
_ clistß, Donver.
July 28.—Pacific Jurisdiction, W. O. W.
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 11.—Daughters of Pocahontas,
Great Council, at Denver.
Aug. 12.—Independent Order of Red
Men, Great Council, at Denver.
Aug. 12-15.—32nd Triennial Conclave of
Knights Templar, Denver.
Aug. 12-16.—Knights of the Golden
Eagle, at Denver.
Aug:. 18-20.—American Association of
lark Superintendents at Denver.
Aug:. 18-20.—Army of the 'Philippines
National Society at Denver.
Aug.—Grand Council of Order of Red
Men at Denver.
Aug. 25.—Conference of Governors at
Colorado Springs.
Aug. 26.—Knights of Pythias Grand
Lodge meeting at Trinidad.
Se Pt- 2-4.—Shan Kive Indian Festival
„ Colorado Springs.
Sept. 8-9.—Meeting of Royal High
landers in Denver.
Sept. 15-20.—Colorado State Fair at
Pueblo.
Sept.—National Association of First-
Class Postmasters at Denver.
° ct i i-3. —State W. C. T. U. Convention
at Sallda.
- ct ; —Colorado State Baptist Asso
*«?l at, 9 n at Pueblo.
1 a**' —*?a st Grand Council -of North
American Indians, Denver.
Holly’s new Presbyterian church Is
nearing completion.
The canning factory at Loveland ts
busy canning peas, a large acreage
having been grown this year. °
Judge Daniel Hawk of Greeley, a
pioneer resident of Weld county, died
at the Colorado sanitarium at the age
of seventy-eight.
July dividend disbursements by
Denver companies, of the stock which
is owned in the city, amounts to a
total of $1,521,053.
Henry W. Hinkle, thirty-six, a col
ored messenger for the Hibernia bank
of Denver, was arrested on a charge
of having stolen nearly S9OO from the
bank.
The Right Reverend Bishop N. C.
Matz, head of the Catholic diocese of
Colorado, dedicated the new Church
of the Blessed Sacrament in Park Hill
in Denver.
F. F. Witting, a Longmont druggist
charged with a violation of the liquor
law, pleaded guilty and paid a fine of
$125 and costs, which aggregated
$109.26.
Residents of Englewood are con
tributing to the relief of Mrs. Julia
Guthrie and her three children, who
were made homeless by the Engle
wood flood.
The President nominated postmas
ters in Colorado as follows: Huse
Taylor, Cripple Creek; H. Reynolds,
Greeley; Finley Dye, Julesburg; V. It.
Liggett, Blanco.
The Rev. John H. Merritt, D.D., a
resident of Colorado since IS7I, nearly
thirty years of which was spent in ac
tive work, died at Boulder after an
illness extending for several years.
Architect F. E. Edbrooke of the
state capitol was instructed at a
meeting of the capitol managers to
proceed with advertising for bids for
completing the new state museum.
New engineering shops, to cost be
tween $7,000 and SIO,OOO, are to be
constructed at Colorado college at
Colorado Springs, and work will start
in a few days in razing the old frame
buildings.
Former Mayor Henry J. Arnold and
former Alderman H. M. Moore of Den
ver reported to the police that they
were among the victims of pick
pockets. Mr. Arnold lost $25 and Mr.
Moore sls.
More than fifty newspaper men,
representatives of the principal Ger
man papers through the United States,
were in Denver attending the thirty
first meeting of the North American
Gymnastic Union.
With more brutality than they had
heretofore displayed in any of their
holdups in Denver, the unidentified
man and woman robbers assaulted and
robbed Samuel W. Fargo, chief clerk
and claim agent for the American Ex
press Company.
Because a speeding automobilist re
fused to share a portion of the street,
Father Antonine of the South Boulder
Mission was thrown from his motor
cycle in BQulder. He was obliged to
take to the ditch in order to avoid a
collision. He escaped with a few
minor injuries.
The secretary of the interior ha 3
designated 1,500 acres of land in Routt
county for entry under the enlarged
homestead act. He has ordered with
drawn from settlement 3,000 acres
along the Muddy and West Muddy
creeks in the Battlement national for
est for power site purposes.
Institutions of the state whose ap
propriations come under the second
class must be satisfied to receive
only thirty-five per cent of their
money for the fiscal year ending No
vember 30, 1913, Instead of fifty per
cent, the appropriations made by the_
assembly being for the biennial’
period.
Explosion of an ammunition calsaon during the Battle of Gettsburg, by which a number of soldiers of the
Twenty-eighth Infantry were killed.
HIGH TIDE OF WAR
BATTLE OF QETTY8BURQ WA8
TURNING POINT OF GREAT
CIVIL CONFLICT.
BOTH SIDES FOUGHT BRAVELY
Three Days of Fighting That Resulted
In Total Losses of Over 60,000 and
Put Confederate Forces on the
Defensive.
Bravely fought by two great armies
of Americans, bravely won by the Fed
erals and bravely lost by the Confed
erates the battle of Gettysburg proved
to be the turning point of the Civil
war. Before that the victories of the
south were frequent and Its armies
were aggressive. After the bloody
battle of July 1, 2 and 3, 1863, the
forces of the Confederacy were gen
erally on the defensive. Lee’s Inva
sion of the north, undertaken In the
hope that It would bring foreign aid
to the southern cause, was brought to
a sudden and disastrous end.
General Lee’s army at Gettysburg
numbered approximately 84,000, while
the Federal forces, under command of
Gen. George G. Meade, aggregated
about 80,000 officers and men. Lee’s
corps commanders were Generals
Longstreet, Ewell and A. P. Hill. Com
manders of the Union corps were Gen
erals John F. Reynolds, W. 8. Han
cock, D. B. Sickles, Sykes, Sedgwick,
O. O. Howard and Slocum.
Reynolds, sent ahead to feel out the
enemy, arrived at Gettysburg the eve
ning of June 31, and In the fighting
which began early the next day, was
killed. Gen. Abner Doubleday, who
succeeded him, was forced back to
Seminary Ridge, after hard fighting,
and then had to abandon that posi
tion, so that the first day of the bat
tle was in reality a Confederate vic
tory. That night Meade ordered the
entire Union army to Gettysburg, and
by next morning the two armleB were
confronting each other along a ten
mile line of battle.
Lee ordered Longstreet to turn the
left flank of the Federal army by tak
ing Little Round Top, but Sickles de
fended that position so stubbornly
that Longstreet’s movement was
ohecked, Peach Orchard, Cemetery
Hill, Culp's Hill and The Devil's Den
were the scenes of desperate fighting,
and Little Round Top was saved to
the Federals by the arrival of a brig
ade under General Weed. His men
dragged the gunB of a battery to the
summit by hand. V
The third day opened with a won
derful artillery duel, the greatest of
the entire war, and then came Pick
ett’s charge, which has gone Into his
tory as one of the most heroic as
saults of all time. The men of
Pickett’s division formed In brigade
columns, move dsteadily across open
fields which were swept by such a
storm of shrapnel and rlflle fire as had
never before been seen, and though
they fell like grain before the reap*
ers, some of them reaching the Union
lines, only to be speedily overcome. *
That ended the mighty battle, and
This picture shows a view from Little Round Top, looking over the
wheat field where the second day's battle fiercely surged.
there was nothing left for Lee to
do but get back Into Virginia.
Gettysburg cost the Union army the
lives of a number of generals, and tho
losb of nearly 24,000 men. On the
Confederate side five generals were
killed and nearly 30,000 men killed or
wounded.