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IDAHO SPRINGS SIFTINGS NEWS
IDAHO SPRINGS. - COLORADO
"WETS” WIN;
NO FRANCHISE
DENVER'S ELECTION SURPRISING
IN ITS TWO-TO-ONE VOTE FA
VORING THE SALOONS.
RECEIVER FORWATERCO
DEPENDS, HOWEVER, UPON
WHAT VOTERS DID WITH THE
CHARTER AMENDMENTS.
Denver.—Against a “dry” Denver,
17,991; for a “dry” Denver, 8,284; ma
jority for the “weta” 9,707; ward* car
ried by “wets” 16; wards carried by
“drys” none.
The result of the Denver elec
tion, which was of national and in
ternational importance, by reason of
the fact that Denver, a western city,
where woman suffrage prevailed and a
city of metropolitan attainments, was
testing the question of voting out the
saloon, presented a surprise only in
the large majority for the • wets.” The
woman vote did not put the city “dry."
It is a question whether the result
would have differed greatly if woman
suffrage had not been effective. The
experience of those in charge of the
campaigns for the two divisions tallied
In this, that the woman voter voted
very much as the male member of the
family voted. The woman voter was
found on both sides. No doubt a larg
er number of the woman votes went
“dry” than of the male votes, but the
percentage was not large.
The strength of the “wet” movement
came from the conviction of thousands
that to vote Denver ‘ dry’’ would be to
do the city injury. It is a convention
city, a tourist city and a city of resi
dence. One of the most potent argu
ments brought forth was that conven
tions of importance, national gather
ings, would not care to come to a city
where hotels were prohibited from
serving liquors.
On the ethical issue it was contend
ed with much force that voting out the
public or legal sale of liquor would not
abolish altogether the sale and con
sumption of liquor but that the de
mand would be supplied by illegal
means.
The franchise sought by the Denver
Union Water Company was defeated
by the taxpaying electors Tuesday.
* What will follow as a result will de
pend upon what the voters did with
reference to the charter amendments,
dealing with the water question.
There is a possibility that if the
Speer water amendment for a business
settlement of the water question is
adopted there may be an effort made
to keep the matter out of court; but
it looks as if litigation would result
over the company's position or over
the charter amendments. In all proli
ability the first move will be made by
a bondholder of the company, in ask
ing for a receiver for the company, In
order to protect the property of the
company.
Costa Rico Survivors.
New York. —The first survivors of
the recent earthquake in Costa Rica,
in which more than 1,500 lives w'ere
lost in the destruction of Cartago, ar
rived here Tuesday on the steamer
Prinz Joachim. There were nearly a
dozen of them, mostly tourists, among
them being Prof. Philip R. Calvert of
the University of Pennsylvania, with
bis wife.
The Railroad Bill.
Washington—After giving the great
er part of the day to the question of
whether the government or the Inter
state Commerce Commission shall ap
pear as defendant in cases growing out
of orders of the commission under the
terms of the railroad bill, the senate
Tuesday postponed action on the sub
ject until Wednesday.
Cleveland Primaries.
Cleveland. —The results of the state
primary election returns so far indi
cate that a majority of the Republican
“regulars’’ in Congress have been re
nominated.
Pinchot Guest of the Irish.
London.—Gifford Pinchot, as the
guest of Sir Horace Plunkett, of the
Department of Agriculture in Ireland,
18 visiting many parts of Ireland.
Mrs. Pullman Undergoes Operation.
Chicago.—Mrs. George M. Pullman,
widow of the late palace car magnate,
was successfully operated upon here
Tuesday.
Rich Chinese Woman Yankee's Wife
New York.—Miss Hilda S. Single
ton, daughter of Joseph M. Singleton,
a wealthy Chinese of this city, was
married Tuesday to John A. Petry, an
American, of Rockville Center, Long
4sUnd.
COLORADO STATE NEWS
Experimental Land for C. A. C.
Washington. D. C. —The House Mon
day passed Representative Taylor’s
bill conveying to the state of Colora
do 1,600 acres of land for experiments
in agriculture, forestry, grazing and
stock raising in connection with the
State Agricultural college at Fort Col
lins, Larimer county, and wil be sold
to the state at $1.25 an acre.
Hard Blow on the Plain*.
Cheyenne Wells. —The tramp who
was severely injured while stealing a
ride on the Union Pacific freight train
of nine cars, which was blown from
the track Sunday night, died Monday
morning here, where he was brought
for medical attention, A seven-months
old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mil
ler, living several miles southeast 01
Union, was instantly killed by being
struck by a timber which blew off the
house.
Children’s Agricultural Clubs.
Greeley.—After covering 300 miles,
visiting thirty-three districts, thirty
four different schools, sixty-four teach
ers and 1,450 pupils in the interest of
forming boys’ and girls’ agricultural
clubs, Prof. Netherton of the State Ag
ricultural college and I* H. Harrison,
superintendent of schools of Weld
county, returned to Greeley Friday
morning, completing the canvass in
eleven days. They report great en
thusiasm over the club plan and that
practically every school district visit
ed will take it up.
Old Powder Cache to Be Marked.
Fort Collins. —A shaft of rough Col
orado marble will mark the spot
where the old French trappers cached
their powder to hide it from Indians,
about half a mile from Bellvue, from
which incident the (.'ache Poudre
valley derived its name. The local
chapter Daughters of the American
Revolution will mark the historic spot,
the contract having been let Monday.
The powder was hidden in 1836 and
this fact will be inscribed on the shaft.
There will be an unveiling ceremony
June 14, day.
Good Roads Convention.
Denver.—Denver i* to have one of
the largest good roads conventions ev
er held in the West the latter part
of May or early in June. Resides a
majority of the county commissioners
throughout Colorado, there will be
hundreds of delegates from Kansas,
Nebraska and Missouri. By June 1.
the automobile highways running from
Denver to Golden, Colorado Springs,
Brighton, Longmont and Crags w;ill all
be completed and In fine shape. The
WEEK’S NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS
WESTERN.
Fire of unknown origin Sunday al
most wiped out the little town of Bo
nanza, thirty miles east of Klamath
Falls. The loss Is about $50,000, with
little insurance.
Dr. B. C. Hyde was found guilty at
Kansas City Monday of murder in the
first degree in the Swope case. His
punishment will be imprisonment for
life.
Fern Willis and Vergie Grant,
elepers from Wray, Colo., were ap
prehend in Omaha and returned
home by Sheriff Devlin of Wray. Wil
lis is 26 and the girl 14 years of age.
Gov. W. R. Stubbs of Kansas has
refused to order out the state militia
to lend influence in the controversy
between the striking miners of the
Kansas coal fields and the operators,
according to an announcement made
Sunday night by Charles S. Keith,
president of the Southwestern Coal
Operators’ Association.
Dr. Charles G. Lamb, state veterina
rian of Colorado, has been advised by
Chief Melvin at Washington that Colo
rado cattle must be dipped before be
ing moved interstate, or in the case of
shipments of exposed cattle that the
cars be placarded and the billing must
be marked in accordance with the de
partment regulations in order that the
cattle may be properly handled at mar
ket centers.
Ix)s Angeles and surrounding terri
tory was visited Sunday by a series
of earthquake shocks that alarmed
many people, but did little damage be
yond breaking dishes, destroying
house ornaments and cracking light
walls. The shocks began about 6:50
in the morning and were felt as late
as 7:53 at the beach resorts and in
Pasadena, Riverside, Redlands and
San Bernardino, where tremblors oc
curred Thursday night. Pasadena suf
fered the heaviest damage, so far as
reported.
GENERAL.
Four Italians, a man, his wife and
their two children, lost their lives in
a fire that destroyed a Brooklyn tene
ment Sunday.
The B'nai B'rith convention, in ses
sion in St. Louis, urged Jews to boy
cott theaters where their race is bur
lesqued.
By order of Mayor Gaynor, the
play '‘The Girl With the Whooping
Cough," In which Valeska Suratt was
starring, has been taken off the
boards at the New York theater.
Rioting followed the initiation of a
kosher meat strike at Cincinnati on
Monday. Angry women invaded mar
kets, threw kerosene on the stock and
attacked other women who had bought
meat.
visitors will be taken over these and
shown the efforts Colorado is making
to improve her highways.
Coldest May Day in 39 Years.
Denver. — May 16, 1910, was the cold
est May 16th in thirty-nine years, ac
cording to the records of Forecaster
Brandenburg. The lowest temperature
was thirty degrees and the highest
sixty-five degrees. One-half inch of
snow fell altogether. In the fruit dis
tricts of the Western slope a frost
warning was sent out Monday nigh:
and the smudge pots were put to
work. Grand Junction reported a tem
perature near freezing, but the farmer.;
there believe that the crop will not
be injured.
Northern Mines to Open.
Denver. -Preparations are being
made by the coal mine operators in
the northern fields to re-open every
one of the thirty mines in that district,
the majority of which have been
closed since the' walk out of the miners
about six weeks ago over a disagree
ment in signing new wage schedub s
The operators believe that many o r
their former employes are weary of
idleness and willing to go back to
work, so Saturday notices were posted
saying that the mines would be re
opened on the eight-hour basis at th
scale In effect prior to April 1, 1910,
and that if former employes did ie
apply for work miners would be
brought in.
King Solomon's Big Lead Strike.
Frisco. —At 4,000 feet in the King
Solomon Tunneling and Development
Company has encountered a six-!<
streak of w hat is known as steel g i
lena ore running seventy per cen
pure lead. The vertical depth is about
2,000 feet. The ere is exceedingl;-
heavy and is very close grained. The
vein Is a true fissure vein, running di
agonally up and down through Igneous
rock. The ore is rich in other miner
als besides lead. A typical analysis
by a Denver assaying firm shows the
total values to run over $50 a ton. The
sample contained $20 worth of gold,
$15 to $40 worth of silver and as high
as $10 worth of copper. Samples ran
as high as $20 in gold. $40 in silver
and $10 in copper.
Old D. A. R. G. Engineer Dead.
Gunnison. —George Estes, the oldest
engineer on the Rio Grande system,
is dead from paralysis. He was strick
en while on his engine at Alment
Monday and was brought here, wh* re
he died, surrounded by his family.
J. W. Van Cleave, former president
of the National Manufacturers Asso
ciation, died of heart disease at his
home in St. Louis Sunday.
Thirty-six negro convicts lost their
lives early Monday, when the stockade
of the Red Feather Coal company at
Lucille, Ala., was destroyed by fire,
•et by one of the prisoners in an effort
to escape.
William E. Hudson of James A. Pat
ten’s grain firm, Bartlett, Patten &
Co., was held to the federal grand
Jury at Chicago on Monday for refus
ing to give certain Information to a
census enumerator.
Albert H. Walker, a New York law
yer, has issued a pamphlet in which
he charges that the Reading railroad
has '‘robbed’’ the Independent coal
miners and owners along its lines of
$26,500,000 in less than thirteen years
by violations of the interstate com
merce act.
John D. Rockefeller, always popular
among the people of Tarrytown, N. Y..
where he lives. Is adding to that pop
ularity this spring by his fondness
for taking his friends and neighbors
out driving. Not a pleasant day goes
by without the oil king inviting some
of them, men, women and children, to
ride with him In automobile or car
riage, and it la safe to say that the in
vitations are seldom declined, for his
vehicles are the best to be had, and
the drives around Tarrytown are beau
tiful. Mr. Rockefeller, before starting
for a ride, always dons a paper vest,
declaring it a great protection against
colds, and he insists that his guests
do the same. After the ride he re
fuses to take back the garments, and
consequently in nearly every home in
Tarrytown may be found a paper vest
preserved as a souvenir of a delight
ful ride with the multi-millionaire.
John A. Ryerson, a prominent Chicago
business man, jumped from the thir
teenth floor of the Chamber of Com
merce building Monday night and was
instantly killed.
Announcement was made at Dayton,
Ohio, Tuesday, that the Wright broth
ers will attempt to better Paulhan’s
long-distance aeroplane Teat by flying
from Dayton to Chicago.
Federal investigation of the sinking
of the packet City of Saltillo in the
Mississippi river at Glen Park, Mo..
Wednesday, with a loss of twelve
lives, will soon be made.
The Supreme Court of the United
States on Monday failed to announce
a decision in the corporation tax cases.
The court fixed June 14 as the date for
the rehearing of the Tobacco and
Standard Oil cases.
Minor Mention.
Odd Fellows have organized a lodge
at Grover.
The Baptists are organizing a con
gregation at Kirk.
The Evans town council has stopped
Sunday baseball there.
Ground has been broken for Anto
nito's new flour mill.
School at Eagle has been closed on
account of scarlet fever.
Frederick E. Cole has been appoint
ed postmaster at Arriba.
The gun club at Genoa is preparing
for a tournament on the 28th.
Romeo’s new hotel will cost over
$20,000. The contract has been let.
Clifton has petitioned the postoffice
department for a rural mail route.
Scott Teague and Oren Gray of
Yampa bagged four bears in two days
last week.
The Greeley Public Playgrounds As
sociation has been incorporated, not
for profit.
The I>ogan County Sunday School
convention will be held in Sterling.
May 25th.
Lamar sportsmen have organized a
trap club and have held their first reg
ular shoot.
I*ake Crosho, eight miles from Yam
pa, is to be improved with a fine ho
tel, launches, etc.
Colorado Springs census guessers
believe that city will show a popula
tion of 54,237.
The town of Umon has passed an
ordinance taxing real estate dealers
$200 a year.
Richard O. Jones, a resident of Mon
tezuma since 1874, died there at the
age of seventy-four.
The mail service from Craig to
Itaggs, Wyo., will be changed back to
three times a week.
A Fowler farmer has a pig which ap
peared on earth with only three legs.
And pork so high, too.
Miss A. S. Jones of Sheridan Lake
has invested in a gasoline plow and
put it to work on her land.
One hundred acres of ground at
Steamboat Springs is being set with
2,200,000 strawberry plants.
The Park County Cattle Growers’
association will hold its annual meet
ing at Fairplay on the 28th.
A boosters’ club has been formed at
Derby to acquaint the world at large
cf the advantages of that section.
Yampa people will build a good road
to Trapper's lake, one of the most
famous resorts in the slate.
Mrs. Helen Sill of Gunnison was
elected department president of the
VV. R. C. at Grand Junction last week.
WASHINGTON.
The Senate and House have adopted
the conference report upon the bureau
of mines bill, which goes to the Presi
dent for his signature.
Charles W. Morse was on Monday
denied the right of filing an applica
tion for a writ of habeas corpus by the
Supreme Court of the United States.
Representative Rucker of Colorado
on Monday introduced a bill granting
160 acres of land In Denver county for
the use of the Douglas Lincoln sani
tarium.
Without a single dissenting Repub
lican vote the House Tuesday passed
the railroad bill, one of the chief
measures that President Taft wishes
enacted at the present session of Con
gress, by 200 to 126. Fourteen Demo
crats joined with the majority.
By the lack of one vote the House
on Monday declined to accord the nec
essary two-thirds vote to submit to the
several states of the Union the ques
tion of changing the date of the inau
guration of President and vice presi
dent from March 4 to the last Thurs
day in April. The vote stood 139 to
70, one less than the necessary two
thirds majority.
A sensation was sprung in Wash
ington Saturday when a stenographer
of the Interior Department issued a
statement that the letter of President
Taft of Sept. 13 exonerating Secretary
Ballinger was prepared by Oscar Law
ler, assistant attorney general of the
Interior Department. President Taft
explains by saying the letter was his
own but he had asked Mr. Lawler to
prepare a letter and he used only a
couple of statements from it.
SPORT.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
Won. Lost. Pet.
Denver 13 7 .650
St. Joseph 12 7 .632
Wichita 12 8 .600
Sioux City 9 9 .500,
Lincoln 9 10 .474
Omaha 8 11 .421
7 11 .389
Des Moines 7 14 .333
Matt McGrath of New York hurled
the 56-pound weight 31 feet 10*4
inches without run or follow, two
inches and a fraction beyond the
world’s record, Sunday. The record
was 31 feet 8 3-5 inches.
The most valuable dog In the world
died Thursday in the kennels of J.
Cooper Mott, at Great Neck, L. I. The
dog was champion Chinehan Young
Jack of English bull breed, for which
Mr. Mott paid $5,350 on May 12, 1909.
The Order of Moose will build its
own lodge hall at Salida.
The salting plant of the Kuner Pick
le Company at Brighton was burned
down Thursday night with a loss of
SIO,OOO.
A business lot in Greeley sold the
other day for $16,000, or $4.75 per front
foot —a record price for the spud me
tropolis.
lowa capitalists are making their
second visit to Kersey to consider the
establishment of a canning factory
there.
A Vernon correspondent says the
wheat is looking fine and prospects
are good for another banner crop this
year.
The proposition to issue bonds for
a county high school in Rio Blanco
county was emphatically endorsed in
every district but one.
The new Denver & Gulf road is to
build a depot at Lamar which will al
so temporarily house the general of
fices of the company.
The new town of Mesiat, east of
Antonito, is preparing to welcome the
first train on the San Luis Southern
Railroad early in June.
Jose Velasquex, 107 years old and a
veteran of the Civil and Mexican wars,
died near Trinidad Friday. His wife,
104 years old, survives.
The D- & R. G. is reported to have
leased its Calumet line from Brown's
Canon for twenty-one years to David
Heaton, who will call it the Box Canon
railroad.
A movement has been started to es
tablish a starch factory at New Castle
to take care of the surplus potatoes
of Garfield county.
W. W. Ferguson of Denver was
elected department commander of the
department of Colorado and Wyoming,
Grand Army of the Republic, at the
annual encampment held at Grand
Junction.
A baby was born to Mrs. Ella M.
Delaney of Glenwood Springs in a
Pullman car just as the train was
pulling into Fruita Friday night. Mrs.
Delaney was returning home to Glen
wood from the coast when the event
occurred.
At the special election as to the
formation of the Elk River and Routt
county irrigation districts, both in
Routt county, the decision was in the
affirmative In both cases. Bonds will
be issued.
The county commissioners of Cone
jos county will as the corporation of
other counties in the San Luis val
ley in preparing, as the Antonito Ledg
er says, “the grandest agricultural dis
play ever witnessed by mortal man,”
for the National Irrigation Congress
meeting at Pueblo.
Stanislaus Zbyscko, the Polish wrest
ler, Monday night at Buffalo defeated
Dr. Roller of Seattle in a finish match.
Roller's left shoulder was badly
wrenched when the Pole slammed him
to the mat for the first fall.
In the opening game of the three
cushioned carom billiard tournament
for the championship of the world on
Monday night in New York, Alfred De
Oro won from Thomas Hueston, the
champion, by a score of 50 to 41 In
fifty-six innings. De Oro’s high run
was 6 and Hueston’s 5.
San Francisco sporting circles here
were disturbed Monday night by infor
mation which came from Oakland tc
the effect that the promoters of the
Jeffries-Johnson heavyweight cham
pionship fight had been warned that it
s possible that the authorities will not
permit the contest to take place at
Emeryville on July 4th, as scheduled.
A feat that will not be duplicated In
years occurred Saturday when two
men broke the world’s pole vaulting
record. The first man to accomplish
it was F. T. Nelson of Yale, who set
the mark at 12 feet 6*4 inches. It was
his fate to hold the record for only s
few hours, however. Scott of Stan
ford, who held the record before,
cleared the bar at 12 feet 6% inches.
Only the difference in time made Nel
son a world’s record-holder at all.
FOREIGN.
It is learned that the accounchemeni
of Queen Victoria of Spain is expected
within a month.
Commander Peary lectured Sunday
before the Geographical Society, King
Victor Emanuel, the Duke of the
Abruzzi and Marquis di San Guiliano,
minister of foreign affairs, were pres
ent.
The commission appointed April 23
to inquire into the expulsion of Jews
residing illegally in Kiev, Russia, and
elsewhere outside the pale, has fin
ished its labors. Eleven hundred and
fifty cases have been Investigated.
One hundred and seventy families will
be allowed to remain and possibly an
additional thirty when the list has
been revised.
Daniel Kinet, the Belgian aviator,
at Mourmelon, France, Sunday broke
the world’s record for an aeroplane
flight with passenger, remaining in
the air for two hours and fifty-one
minutes. At Chalons Sur Marne on
April 8, Kinet made a flight with pas
senger of two hours and twenty min
utes. Previous to that Orville Wright
held the record, having remained in
the air at Berlin last September with
a passenger for one hour and thirty
five minute*
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THE VOICE OF CONSCIENCE
Michael Keenly Surmised Possibilities
of Action Under the Circum
stances.
Late one afternoon Michael Flanni
gan and Dennis O’Rourke met upon the
avenue. Mike was considerably under
the weather.
’ Moike,” asked O’Rourke, “why don’t
yez brace up, and lave the dhrink
alone?”
“Oi've thried, Dinnie, but the job’s
too big for me.”
“Thry this once more, Moike. Here’s
a church forninst us. Go in there, old
man, and confiss and take a frish start.
I’ll wait outside.” W
He waited until he was tired, then,
peering into the darkened building,
said In a horse whisper:
Moike!’’
“Phwat?” “ #
“Have yez conflssed?”
“Oi have that!”
“Where’s the prast?’’
“ E gorrah, Dinnie, and Oi think he's
gone out to call a cop.’’—Success Mag
azine.
Benefit in Outdoor Schools.
Speaking before the National Associ
ation for the Study and Prevention of
Tuberculosis recently, Dr. Henry Far
num Stoll of Hartford, Conn., said:
“Every city should have one or more
outdoor schools.” He recommended
such institutions for all delicate, so
called scrofulous or anaemic children,
and those with tuberculosis of the
bones, who are now in ordinary
schools. Doctor Stoll declared that
tw’enty to forty per cent, of school
children in large cities are infected
with tuberculosis. By the use of tu
berculin, it was ascertained that 79 per
cent, of the children from tuberculous
homes were infected as against only 2&
per cent, of those from supposedly
healthy homes. It was also found that
60 per cent, of the frail children from
healthy homes had the germs of the
disease, but that only 13 per cent, of
the robust children from similar homes
were thus affected.
Out of the Race.
vmi wt in® nac«.
Because of the general scrapping W
match between the various cities as
to who shall have the honor of the
National or International Congress of
Aviators, Washington and Baltimore
have both withdrawn from the whole
business.
Looking at it in another way, what
harm is there in letting one head of
hair make several generations of wom
en beautiful?
A clear brain and
Steady nerves
Can win wealth and fame
For their owner.
Clear headedness and a
Strong, healthy body
Depend largely on the
Right elements in
Regular food and drink.
Coffee contains caffeine—
A poisonous drug.
Postum is rich in the
Gluten and phosphates that
Furnish the vital energy
That puts “ginger” and
“hustle”
Into body and brain.
“There’s a Reason” •