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AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OP THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOINGS, ACHIEVE,
MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES
• AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Wwtsrn Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.
Edward Payson Weston, after a life
time of walking on many famous
trips, will become a Minnesota far
mer.
Col. Roosevelt, burned red as the
desert Indians among whom he has
been sojourning, passed less than two
hours In Chicago and took a train for
Oyster Bay.
Seventy-five American men, women
and children from Madera and other
Chiuahua twons arrived at El Paso,
Tex., on a special refugee Mexican
Central train.
Viscount Haldane, the first lord
high chancellor of Great Britain to
leav his country for 400 years, ar
rived in New York. A reception com
mittee consisting of representatives of
the United States government and of
the American Bar Association went
aboard the Lusitania to welcome him.
District Judge V. J. Tidball of Raw
lias, Wyo., placed a largo period in
the long gun-toting and man-killing
record of Robert D. Meldrum, better
known as “Bob” Meldrum. Meldrum
was sentenced to from twenty to
thirty-five years in the state peniten
tiary at Rawlins, for the murder of
"Chick" Bowen a cowboy at Baggs.
The Republican Congressional com
mittee at Washington elected Repre
sentative Frank I’. Woods of lowa
cahlrmnn. Senator Brandegcc of Con
necticut and Representative Kahn of
California and Patten of Pennsyl
vania vice chairman, and John C.
Eversman of Illinois, secretary. The
treasurer will be named later.
For the first time since the story of
her husband’s infidelity became public
property, Mrs. Maury I. Diggs heard
it at San Francisco from the lips of
Marsha Warrington* “the other wom
an." Marsha told It more confidently,
moro firmly, more audibly, though in
less detail. In the case of F. Drew
Camlnctti, on trial for alleged viola
tion of the Mann white slave act, as
in that of Diggs, she remains the
chief witness for the government, al
though the name of I.ola Norris is the
one coupled with that of Camlnettl In
the Indictment.
WASHINGTON.
The administration currency bill, af
ter nearly three weeks of discussion,
was finally approved by the House
Democratic caucus by a vote of 10"
to 9.
The House passed a resolution au
thorizing Investigation of charges
against Judge Emery Speer of the
Federal Court of Georgia, which origi
nates impeachment proceedings.
The Senate committee on privileges
and elections began consideration of
Representative Henry D. Clayton's
credentials as a senator from Ala
bama to succeed the late Senator
Johnson.
Secretaiy Daniels awarded contracts
approximating $1,087,446 to the Car
negie Company, J. B. Kendall
1 'ompany and the Carbon Steel Com
pany for materials for battleship
thirty-nine, building at New York.
The French commissioners to the
Panama-Pacific exposition at San
Francisco, in 1916, arrived in New
York and proceeded at once to San
Francisco *o select and designate the
alto for tbo French building.
Baron Chinda, the Japaneso am
bassador. delivered to Secretary
Bryan the reply of Japan in the Cali
fornia alien land law matter to tho
last note of Secretary of State Bryan,
In which It was understood that he
urged that Japan accept as a prelim
inary solution of the difficulty the
taking over into the Federal Courts
all future Japanese grievances with
out reference to any action taken by
the states.
Secretary MoAdoo announced the ap
portionment as far as It had been com
pleted of the $50,000,000 to be de
posited by the government In national
banks of the west and south and to
facilitate the movement and marketing
of crops. The total amount allotted
to date is $46,600,000 of which $24,700,-
000 goes to banks In the fourteen west
ern states and $21,800,000 of the thir
teen southern states and the District
of Columbia.
FOREIGN.
Porter Charlton arrived at Naples,
Italy from America on board tbe
steamship Re D' Italia to be tried for
the murder of his wife at Lake Como
three years ago.
Detailed reports regarding the ty
phoon which has raged over Japan for
several days show that it was more
disastrous than at first believed and
that the fatalities perhaps will aggre
gate 1,000.
Constantine Penejottl, a Greek, is
constructing at Pont St. Michael on
the Seine a thirty-foot- model of n
bottle-shaped craft, with which he ex
pects to cross the Atlantic to New
York at the rate of one hundred miles
an hour.
Three Fort "Simpson trappers. G. L.
Deschanscalt and Joseph and William
Hudson, who have just returned to Ed
monton, Alberta, from a long journey
to the far north, confirm the claim of
Viljhalmur Stefansson, the Arctic ex
plorer, that he is discoverer of the
tribe of blonde Eskimo.
The failure of John Lind, personal
representative of President Wilßon, to
return to the capital Friday from Vera
Cruz is taken at Mexico City to indi
cate that Washington and Mexico are
agreed on one thing at least, namely,
that there is no good to be accomp
lished by the trip.
The London morning papers com
menting on President Wilson’s mes
sage are not altogether sanguine of
the wisdom or success of President
Wilson’s policy but are agreed that it
is almost certnin to lead to American
Intervention, therefore indicating that
a grave crisis has been reached.
General satisfaction with President
Wilson’s Mexican message was ex
pressed in a statoment by General
Jesus Carranza, acting head of the
Constitutionalists at their provisional
capital. Piedras Negras, opposite Eagle
Pass, Tex. He spoke In the absence of
his brother, Governor Carranza, who
is fighting at Torreon.
SPORT.
Stnntllne of Western I.ensue Clubs.
Won. Lost. Pet.
Denver SS 47 .839
Des Moines 75 54 .6SI
Lincoln 70 62 .530
St. Joseph ■ 67 63 .516
Onutlui 66 60 .489
Topeka 59 70 .468
Sioux Clity 57 74 .486
Wichita 51 82 .333
The race track vied with the agri
cultural and live slock exhibits for at
tention at the Bent County fair at Las
Aulmns. Colo.
In the international lawn tennis
doubles at Niagara on the Lake, Ont.,
Johnson and Griffin, California, beat
Stracban and Hall, Toronto, 6-3, 6-4.
John Bolen, for ten years secretary
of the state racing commission, is
dead on his farm at Spring Valley, N.
Y. Boden was prominent in racing
newspaper work and politics.
Ralph De Palma won the Cohe cup
auto race at Elgin, 111., over seven
other contestants, doing the 302 miles
at the rate ol 66.0 S miles per hour.
Joe Dawsou, another veteran was seo
ond. De Palma’s time breaks the reo
-ord for this event.
J. Fostor Symes, Denver clubman,
proved to be the hero of the Chejenne
Mountain Country club tournament
at Colorado Springs, when, after being
trampled on by his pony in the polo
game, he resumed play and won the
match for the Denvhr Prairie Dogs.
Official announcement was made by
the Army athletic council at West
Point, N. Y„ that there would be no
Army-Navy football game this year.
The Army will play the Carlislo In
dian school, instead of the Navy, at
West Point on November 29.
Before the best crowd that has
passed through the gates at tbe Stock
yards stadium since the organization
of the State Athletic club in Denver,
Benny Chavez, tbe good little Colora
do boy, and Frankie Burns, one of the
best bantams of the east boxed ten
last rounds to what the third man in
the ring called a draw.
GENERAL.
Lightning, wind and rain caused
heavy damage in southern New Eng
land.
The Butte Central Copper Company,
a Delaware corporation, with prop
erty at Butte, Mont., was petitioned
Into bankruptcy by creditors at Bos
ton.
A feud of a band of Rumanians was
fought to a finish in the streets of
Indiana Harbor, Ind. Five men are
dying from knife wounds as a result
of the battle.
The beginning of the heavy autumn
passenger traffic from Europe brought
more than 12,000 passengers to New
York on eight trains Atlantic liners
that made port in twenty-four hours.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, testifying be
fore a referee in bankruptcy, swore in
New York that Harry Thaw’s mother
had contracted to pay her $15,000 oash
and SI,OOO a month bo long as she
(Evelyn) should'Uve, If she would en
ter Into an action for the annulment
of her marriage to Harry Thaw.
EASTERN COLORADO TIMES.
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western N'c wspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.
Sept. 6.—Second Annual Fall Festival
at Welclona.
Sept. 8-9.—Meeting of Royal High
landers In Denver. , .
Sept. 23-26.—Mesa County Industrial
and Fruit Fair at Grand Junction.
Sept. 9-11.—Weld County Fair at
Greeley.
Sept. 9-12.—County Fair and Race
Meeting at Sugar City.
Sept. 9-12.—Morgan County Fair at
Fort Morgan.
Sept. 9-12.—Delta County Fair at
Delta.
Sopt. 11-12—Eighth District W. C. T.
U. Convention at Denver. _ ,
Sept. 17-18.—Annual Meeting Order
Eastern Star at Grand Junction.
Sept. 16-19.—Western Slope Fair at
Montrose.
Sept. ir, 19, —Annual Masonic Mooting
at Denver.
Sept. 15-20.—Colorado State Fair at
Pueblo.
Sept. 23-26.—Colorado - New Mexico
Pair and Indian Carnival at Du
rango.
Sopt. 23-26 Trinidad-Las Animas
County Fair at Trinidad.
Sept. 27-28.—Bankers' Convention at
Denver.
. Sept. 29-80—Inter-County Fair at
I.imon.
Oct. i-3—State W. C. T. U. Conven
tion at Fort Collina
Oct. 2-4.—Sedgwick County Fair at
J ulesburg.
Oct. 2-4—El Paso County Fair at Cal
han.
Oct. 7-12.—Meeting Society of Ameri
can Indians, at Denver.
Oct. 21. —Colorado State Baptist Asso
ciation at Pueblo.
Oct. 30.-Nov. I—Colorado Kennel Club
Show at Denver.
Jan. 19-24.—National Western Stock
.Show at Denver.
1915.—Last Grand Council of North
American Indians. Denver.
Longmont’s Pumpkin Pie Day cele
bration was largely attended.
Wood alcohol is believed to have
caused the mysterious death ot M. B.
I-owe of Denver at Fruita.
J. W. Graham, seventy-five, for
iwenty years a resident of Denver,
died at his home In Greeley.
Daniel Cashmaker, a teamster, was
fatally injured when he was struck by
an automobile on South Main street In
Pueblo.
One hundred and fifty thousand
trout will be released Into the Cache
la Poudre river from the new Fort
Collins fish hatchery.
A romance of the conclave culmi
nated In Denver in the marriage of
Miss Josephine Stelnmotz of Denver,
to J. D. Edwards of Chicago.
Fifty dollars in real money was the
profit Greeley made on the municipal
oat crop and in addition had enough
left for all of Us live stock this win
ter.
John Poland, prominent rancher of
Collbran, was fatally hurt when he
was caught under his mowing machine
drawn by a runaway team, and his
body practically cut In twain.
A 300-pound bear was captured with
lassoes by Aaron McKee, James Me
llae and Clarence McKee, Collbran
cowboys, after a fight in which Mc
ltae’s horse was badly clawed.
The thirty-three hoys and girls ex
pelled from the various high schools
of Denver last June on account ot al
leged frat and sorority membership
will not suffer further suspension.
Denver was host Saturday to
twenty governors, representing states
north, south, east and west, and they
were royally entertained at a banquet,
picnic of the Democratic Club and at
many other functions.
Scout O. P. Wiggins was as happy
as a child when George M. Morrows
and Everett Owens, from the town of
Wiggins, named after the frontiers
man, presented him with a huge bou
quet of curnations and roses, the gift
of the 700 residents of Wiggins.
Promises of riches and a fine home
with an English education are of lit
tle value against training by sturdy
Americans, in the opinion of Judge
Charles Calender, of Grand Junction,
who awarded the custody of six-year
old Marlou Ethel Pearso to her foster
parents, Frank D. Parks and wife of
Itio Blanco county.
The banquet which was given by
Governor Ammons and the business
men ol Colorado Springs was one of
tile most brilliant affairs of the Gov
ernor’s conference. Only Colorado
products were served and the large
dining room was banked with Colora
do flowers aud a huge basket of Colo
rado fruit decorated the table.
His body forming a conductor for
2,300 volts of electricty, Olon A. De.
Long, forty-nine, an employd of the
Denver Gas & Electric Company,
dangled over a circuit of GOO arc
lamps, a ball of tire playing about his
body. He died after physicians and
fellow workmen worked over him for
two hours, administering oxygen and
flexing his chest.
That true progress In agriculture in
the west can be secured only by co
operation of the farmers with the
State Agricultural college and with
the Department of Agriculture, is the
sentiment expressed in an address tc
the Greater Colorado bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce of Denver by
W. J. Spillman, agriculturist in charge
of the bureau of farm management of
the Department of Agriculture.
SIXTY CARS OF MELONS
THAT NUMBER BEING SHIPPED
DAILY FROM LA JUNTA.
Army of MerT, Women and Children
Buey Moving Great Arkansas
Valley Crop.
Weatarn Newspaper Union News Service.
La Junta, Colo. —Cantaloupes are
being shipped out of La Junta at the
rate of from sixty to eighty carloads
a day. Raisers of the Arkansas valley
are bringing in wagonload after wag
onload to this point, where they are
Iced and placed in cars for the East
ern market. Everywhere In the val
ley every available man, woman and
child is busily engaged harvesting the
immense crop. Picking and crating
goes on from early morning until long
after dark. Fully 800 carloads have
already been shipped from this mar
ket and the campaign will continue
for perhaps six weeks more. The
flats of twelve melons are bringing $1
on the Chicago market, where most
of the melons are shipped for distribu
tion to the Eastern points. Pony
crates are bringing 75 cents.
Develop Federal Land for Public.
Denver. —Settlement and develop
ment of the public domain under
such regulations as will bring the
greatest good to the greatest number
by prohibiting monopolistic exploita
tion of the public lands, the extension
of federal aid, wherever possible, to
encourage homesteaders of small
moans to procure farms and the regu
lation of power sites in the interest
of the consumer through the estab
lishment of maximum rates, are de
clared by Secretary of the Interior
Lane to be the policies of his depart
ment.
Secretary Lane, who had been at
tending the governor's conference In
Colorado Springs as the representa
tive of the national administration,
motored to Denver and spent a few
hours there, departing for San Fran
cisco. He was accompanied by his
daughter. Miss Nancy Lane, Miss
Betty Hall, daughter of Henry C. Hall
of Colorado Springs: his private sec
retary, H. A. Meyer, and Miss Nancy’s
governess.
The secretary announced he would
return to Denver within the next three
weeks for a conference with the Pub
lic Utilities Commission over the
granting of rights of way for ditches
to divert waters from the Western to
the Eastern slope as proposed by the
commission in its plan for a munici
pal water system.
Two Cherry Crops In Year.
Clifton. —Two crops of cherries from
the same trees in one year is a new
record made this year for even the
fertile soli of the Grand valley. S. T.
Behymer, a rancher residing east oi
Clifton, harvested Ills first crop ol
Montmerency cherries. from half a
dozen trees at the usual‘time in the
spring. About a month ago the tree
burst into blossom again, and now
they nave another good crop of cher
ries on them, as big as hazel nuts.
Behymer expects to harvest his sec
ond cherry crop this month at good
prices.
Unveil Memorial to Everhardt
Colorado Springs.-—Governor Am
mons will deliver ail address here at
the unveiling of u memorial to Charles
Everhardt and George and Franklin
Robbins, who were scalped by the In
dians in an attack on the settlerß o(
Colorado Springs by the Navajos iu
1808. The memorial has been erected
by the El Paso County Pioneer Asso
ciation and is located on Cascade ave
nue, the principal show street of the
city, where Everhardt fell.
Assassin Kills Steel Boss.
Pueblo. —Fired on from the dark by
an assassin believed to be either a
black hand member or one engaged in
settling a grudge of long standing. Jo
seph Gnrlo, a "straw” boss at the steel
works, and the father of seven chil
dren, was fatally wounded, but before
he died he raised himself on his hips,
drew a revolver and fired three times
at his assailant.
Names Clayton Guardians.
Greeley.—Judge H. M. Baker in the
County Court, appointed William H.
Paul of Denver and Burkett S. Clay
ton, as guardians of Genevieve and
Pauline Clayton, daughters of the late
W. L. Clayton, former commissioner
of insurance. The Clayton children
were provided by their father with an
annuity of $25 a month.
Marshal Accidentally Shot.
Trinidad. —When Ramon Apodoca,
night marshal of Aguilar, twenty-five
miles from here, accidentally droppad
his revolver, the weapon was dis
charged, the bullet inflicting a wound
from which the officer is not expected
to recover.
TiME A MATTER OF MOMENT
Something Poultry Dealer Had Foifc
gotten to Explain to Hie Very
Much Dlaappointed Patron.
Mr. Tlmkins of East Orange had
bought sis new hens from a poultry
lealer In Plainfield.
"Didn't you tell me that you got aa
many as ten and twelve eggs a day
trom them?” asked Mr. Tlmkins -*
tew weeks later.
“That’s what I told you,” said the
Plainfield man.
“I've had those chickens several
weeks now and I never got more than
xmr eggs on any one day. How do
ron account for that?”
“Well. I don’t know." said the guile
lul dealer, "unless it’s because you
look too often. If you would look only
Dnce every three days, you would
probably get as many as ten or twelve
eggs in a single day, just as I did.” —
Sew York Evening Post.
ERUPTION ON ANKLE BURNED
Kingsville, Mo.—“My trouble began
eighteen years ago. Nearly half of
the time there were running Borea
around my ankle; sometimes it would
be two years at a time before they *
were healed. There were many nlghta
I did not sleep because of the great
suffering. The Bores were deep run
ning ones and so sore that I could not
bear for anything to touch them
They would burn all the time and
sting like a lot of bees were confined
around my ankle. I could not bear to
scratch It, It was alwayß so sensitive
to the touch I could not let my
clothes touch tt. The skin was very
red. I made what 1 called a cap out
of white felt, blotting paper and soft
white cloth to hold it In shape. This
I wore night and day.
"I tried many remedies for most of
the eighteen years with no effect.
Last summer I sent for some Cutlcura
Soap and Ointment. The very first
time I used Cutlcura Soap and Oint
ment I gained relief; they relieved the
pain right then. It was three months
from the time I commenced using
Cutlcura Soap and Ointment until the
sores were entirely healed. I havs
not been troubled since and my ankls
seems perfectly well.” (Signed) Mra
Charles E. Brooke, Oct. 22, 1912.
Cutlcura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cutlcura, Dept. L. Boston." —Adv
J. Pluvius’ Veracity In Question.
Saturday afternoon there wen
black clouds and flashes of lightning
and the rumble of thunder, but na
general rain. “Sounds like It might
rain," suggested someone. “Nils," r»
plied Mr. Pozozzle. “It has reached
a point where I wouldn’t believe J.
Pluvius under oath!”
Who Does the Washing?
Precocious Child (to friend) —I
notice a clothes basket going bach
and forth between your house and
Scrubbins’ every day.
“What of It?”
“Do you wash for them or do they
wash for you?”
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