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Elbert Goilnty Tribune
4. E. Pope, Editor and Publisher.
ELBERT, - - - COLORADb.
King*\Ifonso, we are confident,
could get a wife of the right kind by
advertising.
Let the presses be stopped to an
nounce the glad news froik New York.
The shad are running.
The sculptor who swallowed his
.talse teeth had to submit finally to
being carved by the surgeons.
From the way it is talking war Just
now, Peru must be getting jealous of
the attention Venezuela 1b receiving.
Newspaper mention is about all the
profit that comes to the average poor
man who falls heir to a fabulous for
tune.
That new antitoxin of laziness will
have to be produced In enormous
quantities If everybody is going to be
cured.
If we did all the things that we In
tend to do, we’d soon, find that we
shouldn’t have time to Intend to do so
many.—Puck.
We respectfully suggest that the
baseball reporters ought to be a little
more polite and refer to It In future as
the ’ saliva” ball.
The prayer of a condemned mur
derer in Pennsylvania is that he may
be permitted to return as a spook and
haunt his enemies.
Bernard Shaw would better refrain
from any sarcastic comment on Jim
Corbett’s ability as an actor of Shaw’s
or any one else’s plays.
A woman who married a poet ap
plied for a divorce asserting that there
was enough dirt on his person to
make ground for the action.
J. G. Phelps Strikes says his engage
ment to Miss Pastor was ‘'inevitable."
Own up. benedicts, all engagements
are the same, aren’t they, now?
Says the sarcastic Philadelphia
Press: “It is easy to see that Phila
delphia Is going to win both of the big
baseball championships this year.’’
A Croatian emigrant with a mus
tache a yard in length has settled
down In Washington, D. C. He’ll find
Washington a town for his whiskers.
“Taste buds” have been discovered
in the larynx like those on the tongue.
A long neck is no beauty In a man, but
It may add considerably to life's pleas
ures.
The Cincinnati Enquirer asks:
“Was Hamlet really mad?” Probably
not. He hadn’t seen the performances
of any of the people who were to try
to play him.
There are fears that the frost may ‘
have hurt young tobacco plants In
Kentucky. Did you ever have a friend .
who smoked what appeared to be frost
bitten cigars?
Parisians who wish to score a cen
tury of life now breakfast on “yag
hurt" exclusively. Yaghurt tastes like
cream cheese "gone bad.” Allow us to
die young, please.
Alfred Austin Is reported to be at
work on a poem dealing with the
Russo-Japanese war. That ought to
make them agree Vo have peace with
out haggling over terms.
Of New York’s 16.000 babies born in
the last four months,* less than ten
came to the wealthiest section of Fifth
* avenue. Storks don’t like to scrape
their toenails on brownstone.
“Will you take the chair once occu
pied by Immanuel Kant?” said the
German government to Prof. Munster
burg of Harvard, and Prof. Munster
burg responded promptly: “Can't.”
Dr. Gladden says lawyers should
not defend peopie whom they know to
be guilty of wrongdoing. But did a
lawyer for the defense ever believe It
was possible for anybody to be guilty?
There ought to be joy among the
college girls, now that the U. S. cir
cuit court of appeals, considering the
question of duty on pickled limes, has
decided that they shall be admitted
free.
John L. Sullivan now blesses the
language with a new word. ’’Willi
wallapus'* Is intended to indicate the
look of tne man who boxes in the
modern crouching position. And it
It is not true that the revival of in
terest in suits of plate armor is due to
the opening of the baseball season. It
Is merely a coincidence that. It is syn
chronous with the beginning of the
umpires’ work.
The theatrical trust gentleman's
statement that $30,000 is too slim a
season’s profit on one production isn’t
very cheering to those of us who had
hoped to be able to afford to attend
the theater a little more frequently
next year.
M. Vignaud, secretary of the Ameri
can embassy at Paris, announces, af
ter forty years of study on the sub
ject, that Columbus was a humbug.
Luckily, America is now at a point
where her feelings won’t be hurt ty
the discovery.
RUSSIANS CONFIDENT
EXPECT TO OUT-MANEUVER TOGO
Belleva Combined Fleets of Rojeetven
sky and Nebogatoff Can Safely
Reach Port Arthur.
St. Petersburg, May 7. —Admiral
Nebogatoff’s Junction with Vice Ad
miral Rojestvensky Is now considered
by the admiralty as practically as
sured, and hope for a successful Issue
in the approaching struggle for mas
tery of the sea Is greatly encouraged.
Nebogatoff is regarded as the
Blucher of the situation and, indeed,
he is said to resemble him greatly in
temperament. He may lack his strat
egy and finesse, but like the Prussian,
he has bulldog courage and is a born
fighter, who gfles straight for the
enemy.
If Vice Admiral Kamlmura, like
Grouchy at Waterloo, falls to prevent
a Juncture of the Russian fleets, as the
admiralty here believes he has. the
Impression is strong that Vice Admiral
Togo will not dare risk an open battle
against the united divisions of Rojest
vensky and Nebogatoff, but will pro
tect himself by torpedo attacks and
posibly a long range action, being pre
pared to draw off In the event that he
ise unable to make an Impression.
Naval officers arc prepared to see
Rojestvensky lost half his convoy, but
in. fact of the united divisions it is be
lieved that Togo will accomplish little
or nothing in the way of opposition
to the advance to Vladivostok, and
that h© must be content with the aid
of the army nnd make Vladivostok
another Port Arthur.
If the fleet reaches Vladivostok in
tact, however, naval officers* here
claim that victory Is won.
Although there is a little more than
100,000 tons of coal at Vladivostok,
with the reinforcement of the fleet by
the Gromobol, Rossla and Bogatyr, and
the torpedo boats and submarines now
in the harbor there they claim that
Rojestvensky could drive Togo off the
sea and leave Marshal Oyama's
army stranded In Manchuria.
Simultaneously with the increasing
tension over the approach of a sea
battle, comes news that Field Marshal
Oyama Is pressing the Russian right
along the Liao river north of Fakowan,
as if he is beginning a general engage
ment.
GORE CANON SUIT.
Federal Authorities Ask Injunction
Against Moffat Road.
Denver, May 7. —The second move
in. the Gore canon controversy on the
part of representatives of the United
States government was made yester
day when a bill for an Injunction was
filed In the Federal Court asking that
the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific
railroad be restrained from construct
ing its line through Gore canon. The
suit is similar to the one instituted
several days ago, which asked that the
right of way of the road be vacated.
This one is a little stronger. It de
mands speedy action to prevent the
road from getting Into the canon.
The papers were served on Charles
J. Hughes, counsel for the road, last
night. A hearing in the matter has
been set for next Thursday before
Judge Moses Hallett.
Besides the road the Colorado-Utah
Construction Company Is made a de
fendant and various officials of the
two companies are also Included. The
bill Is signed by Earl Cranston. United f
States district attorney, and William
H. Moody, attorney general.
It is alleged that the government en
gineers had it in mind to make a res
ervoir of Gore canon as early as 1901,
long before the Moffat road was organ
ized. The value of the situation a
reservoir site Is set forth and it Is al
leged that it is the key to the water
ing of about 500,000 acres In Califor
nia, Arizona, Utah and Colorado, 95,000
acres being in Colorado alone. A mil
lion people could be maintained on the
lands now arid which this reservoir
could Irrigate.
The road has three rights of way
surveyed, it is claimed, one going
through Gore canon at an elevation
above the proposed dam. another
around Gore canon and a third through
the canon at the level of the river.
It is claimed that the government
would be glad to have the road built
at the elevation above the dam.
Japanese Push Forward.
Gadgeyandana, Manchuria. May 7. —
Since April 29. Japanese have been ad
vancing slowly and intermittently,
pushing forward their columns suc
cessively from right to left under cover
of a screen of Chinese bandits. The
advance has resulted in straightening
the alightment of the opposing armies,
Russian detachments, which were far
advanced on the flanks being forced
to retire.
It is reported that, the Japanese
armies in the center have been rein
forced. The force of Field Marshal
Oyama’s disposal, according to Infor
mation recently received, is 348 bat
talions, or 390,000 men.
The Japanese are said to have
armed 25,000 or 30,000 Chinese bandits
with captured Russian rifles. The
Chinese population has been drafted
by the Japanese for rood making and
entrenching, and roads are being con
structed to Sinminpu, Banchensee and
Nangapass.
Crowe Has Flown.
Omaha. May 8. —Chief of Police
Donahue to-day personally offered a re
ward of S2OO for the capture of Pat
Crowe, wanted in connection with the
Cudahy kidnapping. Although the
hunt for Crowe had been kept up con
tinually since Saturday morning, no
clew to his whereabouts has been ob
tained.
Incensed Against France.
London, May B.—Special dispatches
from Tokio to the London morning
newspapers represents that the Japa
nese feeling is becoming highly in
flamed at France’s alleged failure to
prevent ostentatious disregard for the
priciples of neutrality by the Russian
Pacific squadron.
THE FARM AND RANGE
Irrigation from Pumps.
The experiments In irrigation by
means of pumps, which will be made
In this, state and in the vicinity of
Cheyenne, Wyoming, by the Depart
ment of Agriculture under the direc
tion of Mr. Elwood Mead, will be of
great interest.
The results may show it to be en
tirely practicable to irrigate small
tracts of land by this means all
through the plains region, thus re
claiming from aridity what in the ag
gregate will be a large area. The chief
question involved seems to be whether
an adequate amount of water can be
raised In this way to irrigate sufficient
land to mak>> the employment of the
method profitable.
It Is evident that this method of ir
rigating will tend toward intensified
agriculture. Water raised by pumps
whether wind or steam is used, will be
too precious to be wasted. Farmers
will put it to the best practicable use
by growing c rops yielding a high per
centage of profit per acre.
This Is the kind of agriculture Colo
rado and all the other arid states need.
They may leave the production of
cereals to localities where farming can
be conducted without irrigation. The
reclaimed land of the arid states will
thus be used in growing crops that
commaiid a high price per acre, but
which require careful tillage and close
attention to give the best results.
/.’lose or intensified farming of this
kind makes ii practicable to maintain
n large population per square mile. In
stead of dividing a square mile into
four farms of 160 acres each, It will be
divided into sixteen of forty acres
each. Instead of supporting an agri
cultural population of twenty per
square mile, farming of this kind will
support eighty. From this one may
see what intensified farming means to
Colorado and hence what may be
looked for from any method of irriga
tion.
Introducing Durum Wheat.
The following communication Is from
prof. W. H. Olii* of the Experiment
Station of the Agricultural College of
Colorado:
“We have just finished sending seed
durum wheat to farmers in the semi
arid sections of the state. This wheat
was sent in amounts varying from
twenty-five pounds to 100 pounds to
each farmer asking for same, as long
ns the wheat lasted. This wheat was
not sent out free, as some papers have
stated. Where pure pedigreed Ku
banka durum wheat could be obtained
the college paid the market price for
same, recleaned where necessary, re
sacked, labeled and sent to the fanners
over the state.
“To get this wheat to the farmers at
as reasonable a price as possible, the
college made no charge for Its work,
sending the wheat at the original cost
price of same and the railroads of the
state transported this experimental
wheat, waiving freight charges on the
entire amount.
“The Colorado & Southern railroad
transported all of the wheat and from
the experiment station to Denver. The
Denver & Rio Grande railway and Col
orado Midland carried it to the West
ern slope farmers, while the Unloa Pa
cific, Burlington, Rock Island, Missouri
Pacific, Santa Fe, and Colorado &
Southern railroads distributed the
wheat along the eastern slope of the
Rockies and out over the easteAi
plains.
“I feel that, this state test of durum
wheat is made possible by this co-op
eration of the Colorado railroads and
take pleasure in giving public acknowl
edgment of same.
“I wish to thank these railroad offi
cials for this courtesy and the interest
they have shown in having this wheat
distributed, testing the possibilities of
our semi-arid lands.”
The Campbell System.
In a recent Interview Mr. W. G.
Cheesman. president of the Denver
Union Water Company, spoke enthu
siastically of the agricultural prospects
of Colorado, saying:
“In the agricultural line Colorado
has made great strides, particularly in
the cultivation of the soil without ir
rigation. The new Campbell system
of agriculture means more to Colorado
than many people realize. The water
company had an experience with this
last season, which was very gratifying.
On some of our lands we did not care
to ÜBe water because It was needed for
the use of the people of Denver, so we
planted our crops and raised them
without Irrigation.
“We planted some land to durum
wheat and this yielded forty bushels
to the acre. Our rye yielded thirty
bushelß. In some special eases, where
we gave particular attention to the
crops, we raised forty-six bushels of
durum wheat to the acre. These spe
cial tests opened our eyes. So well did
we succeed with our agricultural ex
periments without water last year,
that we will largely Increase our acre
age this season, planting about 150
acres of durum and probably about the
same amount of rye. all of which land
will be handled without irrigation.
“You can see what this means for
Colorado. There is a vast amount of
land which can be utilized for agricul
ture by this system, where it is im
possible to raise crops by Irrigation.
Colorado has now come to be an agri
cultural state and our crops are the
wonder of the world.
Cattlemen In the eastern part of the
state have until the first of next month
to dip their cattle. After that the
state veterinarian and his assistants
will make an examination and where
he finds any cattle affected with
mange, he will proceed to gather and
dip the expense of the owner,
holding the cattle for the cost of the
work. The Stock Inspection Bourd has
passed the matter up to the stockmen
this season, and having given them
fair notice of the law. they will take
the condition of the cattle as proof
of whether or not the law has been
complied with. The government has
agreed that where cattle are properly
dipped, they may be moved in the fail
without restriction, but it is up to the
cattlemen and it will pay them to get
busy. Most or the cattlemen are busy
dipping or are preparing to dip and
many counties will be free from the
disease when Inspected next month
Denver Record-Stockman.
PAT CROWE IN OMAHA
ALLEGED KIDNAPPER RETURNS
Wants Immunity From Punishment —
Served in Boer War—Has
Since Lived in Chicago.
Omaha, May 6. —Pat Crowe, the al
leged kidnapper of Eddie Cudahy, son
of the millionaire packer of Omaha,
and for whose arrest rewards aggre
gating |50,000 have at different times
been offered, walked into the office of
the World-Herald at 1 o’clock this
morning, accompanied by Thomas
O'Brien, proprietor of a hotel hero.
Crowe stated that he had served in
j the Boer war, fighting with the Boers.
| He returned to this country after the
! war and lived continually, according to
his statement, quietly hi a South Side
flat in Chicago. He says he has been
in Chicago nearly three years and that
ho has visited Omaha on three differ
ent occasions during that time.
He stated that he had been negotiat
ing for several days for immunity from
punishment in case he should surren
der himself to the authorities, although
he declined to say with whom the ne
gotiations are being held.
He said that in case he was permit
ted to remain in Omaha and have in
dictments against hlrn quashed, he
would probably get into business at
once.
Crowe has been at the home of his
brother, J. J., Crowe, who resides in
Council Bluffs, and runs a saloon.
He was asked if he had a hand in
the famous Cudahy kidnapping, but de
clined to either deny or admit his guilt.
The interview lasted for nearly an
hour, during which Crowe was appar
ently ill at ease.
The crime with which Crowe is
charged is that of kidnapping Edward
Cudahy, Jr., whose father is the pro
prietor of a large packing establish
ment in this city. The kidnapping oc
curred December 18, 1900. The kid
napper demanded a ransom of $25,000
for the boy, but he was set free near
his father’s home by his captors, who
got no money.
Following the kidnapping Edward
Cudahy, Sr., offered a reward of $15,-
000 for the capture of Crowe, and this
offer was followed by another of a sim
ilar nature by the city council and
county cofnmissioners. Other rewards
were also offered, bringing the aggre
gate amount up to $50,000.
After the interview to-night Crowe
left for the home of his brother in
Council Bluffs. What action, if any,
will be taken by the authorities is not
known.
Militia Reorganization.
Denver, May 6.—Colorado's militia
is to be reorganized under the provi
sions of the Dick act and Adjutant
General Wells, Brigadier General Bell
and Inspector General Sholz will plan
the work, assisted by General Cooper,
of the U. S. A., military adviser to the
governor.
The purport of the Dick law is to
organize the militia of the various
states exactly as the army is organ
ized.
The question of armories at various
cities was discussed. The state should
own its own armories, but it has never
had the money and Is compelled to
spend considerable sums in rent an
nually. Propositions have come from
three towns in the state to build ar
mories for the state, which shall in
time become its property. To do that
would involve a larger expenditure for
rent than has been customary, and
whether it can be done is a problem
for the military board to solve. Prop
ositions have come from Captain C. C.
Spicer at Colorado Springs, Major
Crary at Boulder and Captain Towne
at Greeley. Others even more favora
ble may be presented at the next meet
ing.
Britt Defeats Englishman.
San Francisco, May 6. —James R
Britt of California became champion
lightweight of the world last night
when he knocked out Jabez White of
England at the close of a magnificent
twenty-round battle. With just twenty
seconds to go Britt hooked the English
man with a left on the jaw and the for
eigner went to the mat, where he lay
flat on his back for eight seconds. He
staggered to his feet but was power
less to defend himself and Britt swung
right and left on his jaw. The referee,
to save the plucky Englishman from
needless punishment, stopped the con
test, although White was still on his
feet, leaning up against the ropes in
a helpless condition. White was car
ried to his corner and in a few min
utes revived sufficiently to make a lit
tle speech in which he said:
“I fought the best I knew how. I
received fair play, but Britt is evi
dently the better man.”
Utah Railroad Automobiles.
Denver, May 6.—C. O. Baxter, gen
eral manager of the Uintah railroad in
Utah, is making extensive purchases
of new equipment for his road in Den
ver. Among the equipment already
purchased are three Pullman sleeping
cars and three track automobiles.
Mr. Baxter will use automobiles in
two ways. He will run one automobile
service as an extension of the rail
road from Dragon to Vernal and will
use another on the railroad track, hav--
ing secured large autos with flange
iron wheels made especially to fit the
rails, this service extending from Mack
to Dragon.
The automobile trains will alternate
with the trains of railroad cars. The
autos are provided with a broad can
opy top and side seats. Each vehicle
will carry fifteen or sixteen passen
gers. Running on a level railroad
track, a high rate of speed can be
maintained. The use of automobiles
on railroad tracks is the next thing to
the gasoline motor car which the
Union Pacific railroad had in Denver
recently.
St. Petersburg Expects Trouble.
St. Petersburg. May 6. —Undeterred
by the complete order which prevailed
in St. Petersburg May day. according
to the western European calendar, and
the energy and potency of the govern
ment’s measures to prevent disorders,
the Social Democracy committee is go
ing ahead with plans for great demon
strations May Ist according to the
Russian calendar, which falls on May
14th according to the western calendar.
DENVER MARKETS
Cattle.
Comparative Receipts—
Month to May sth 1,814
Same period last year 2,032
Decrease 218
Year to date G5.1G2
Same period last year 41,059
Increase 24,100
The following quotations represent
the range of prices paid on this mar
ket:
Beef steers, comfed, good
to choice $4.75*35.35
Beef steers, comfed, com
mon to medium 4.00@4.75
Beef steers, hayfed, good to
choice 4.25@4.75
Beef steers, hayfed, common
to medium 3.50@4.25
Cows and heifers, comfed,
good to choice 3.75@4.50
Cows and heifers, comfed,
common to medium 3.00*33.75
Cows and heifers, hayfed,
good to choice 3.25@3.75
Cows and heifers, hayfed,
common to medium 2.25(53.25
Canners 1.50®2.2i
Calves, veal, good to choice 4.75*56.00
Calves, veal, fair to g00d... 3.50(34.75
Bulls, stags, etc 2.00@3.60
Feeders, F. P. R., good to
choice 4.00@4.75
Feeders, F. P. R., common
to medium .«*... 3.25*34.00
Stockers, F. P. R., good to
choice 3.T5@4.25
Stockers. F. P. R., common
to medium 3.00*33.75
Hogs.
Comparative Receipts—
Month to May sth 4,G23
Same period last year 1,312
Increase 3,311
Year to date 80,003
Same period last year 69,500
Increase 10,503
The following quotations represent
the prices paid on this market:
Choice heavy $5.25@5.37Vi
.Light and mixed packers. 5.25*35.35
Sheep.
Comparative Receipts—
Month to May sth 1,442
Same period last year 943
Increase 499
Year to date 100,463
Same period last year 41,052
Increase 59,411
The following quotations represent
tne prices paid on this market for fat
sheep:
Wethers, muttons $5.00*35.50
Yearlings 5.50*36.00
Ewes, muttons 4.50@6.25
Lambs 6.50*37.00
Feeder wethers. F. P. R 4.50*35.00
Feeder lambs, F. P. R 6.25*36.50
Grain.
Wheat, choice milling, per 100 lbs.,
$1.50. Rye, Colorado, bulk, per 100 lbs.,
90c. Oats. bulk. Nebraska, new, white,
$1.10; mixed, $1.08; in sack, Colorado,
white, $1.20. Corn, in bfilk, 90c. Corn
chop, sacked. SI.OO. Bran, Colorado,
per 100 lbs., 85c.
Hay.
Upland, per ton. $10.00*311.00; sec
ond bottom, $8.00*39.00; timothy,
$12.00*313.00; Timothy and clover,
♦*1.00(312.00; alfalfa, prime, $6.50*3
7.50; straw, $4.50*35.00; South Park
wire grass, $12.00*313.00.
Dressed Poultry.
Turkeys, fancy dry picked 20
Turkeys, choice 17*3 18
Turkeys, old toms 15® 16
Turkeys, culls B*3 10
Hens, fancy, small 14
Hens, large 13
Hens, extra large 11*3 12
Hens, culls 3*3 4
Broilers, lb 23*3 24
Springs, fancy 16*3 17
Springs, Choice, lb 14
Roosters, old 7
Spring cocks 12
Geese, lb 113 12
Ducks, lb 14® 16
Live Poultry.
Broilers, loz 5.00*37.00
Springs, live, lb 14*3 15
Hens, lb 13
Roosters, lb 5
Ducks, lb 12(3 13
Turkeys, lb 15® 16
Geese, lb 09*3 10
Pigeons, dozen 60
Butter.
Elgin butter 25
Creameries, extra Colo 25® 26
Creameries, extra eastern 25® 26
Creameries, firsts, Colorado
and eastern 23® 24
Process and renovated
goods, lb 22
Dairy, choice, lb 20
Dairy, medium grade 18
Packing stock, fancy 17
Pack’s stock, other grades 14® 15
Eggs.
Eggs, fresh, ranch, loss off 5.00
Eggs, fresh, case count... 4.70
Eggs, state, loss off 4.50
Crowe Has Flown.
Omaha, May B.—Chief of Police
Donahue to-day personally offered a re
ward of S2OO for the capture of Pat
Crowe, wanted in connection with the
Cudahy kidnapping. Although the
hunt for Crowe had been kept up con
tinually since Saturday morning, no
clew to his whereabouts has been ob-
tained.
Prohibition Law Sustained.
Topeka. Has., May 7.—Two impor
tant decisions sustaining the prohibi
tory law in Topeka were rendered by
the Supreme Court yesterday.
Druggist Lee brought a replevin suit
against Sheriff Stahl to recover liquors
taken under the search and seizure
act, and Judge Hazen sustained Lee’s
contention. The Supreme Court over
rules Judge Hazen.
In the case of Jointist Darian. his
attorneys declared that the sale of
liquors for medical and scientific pur
poses cannot be prohibited by the Leg
islature. The upper court held to the
contrary.
CLUB WOMEN MEET
BTATE FEDERATION AT PUEBLO^
Important Topics Discussed by Lead
ing Women of Colorado—Welcomed
by Ex-Governor Adams.
Pueblo, Colo., May s.—Representing
the Pueblo Business Men's Associa
tion, Gov. Alva Adams addressed the
delegates to the State Federation of
Women’s Clubs at the morning session
yesterday, held at St. Paul’s M. El
church and was loudly applauded • for
his words of warm and well expressed
welcome. Late trains from the south
brought many delegates who failed to
arrive for the first session.
Mrs. J. R. Gordon, president of the
Pueblo federation, presided, and Mrs.
C. A. Anderson offered the invocation.
Delegates from the northern and west
ern portions of the state were numer
ous. Mrs. Gordon took the place of
Mrs. F. El Thompson of La Junta, who
would have presided had she been
present. Mrs, Harry Churchfll of
Greeley, president of the state federa
tion, delivered a brief response to the
address of welcome, which closed with
a poem delineating the kind of women
club women are trying to be.
Mrs. Covert of Canon City, in the
absence of Mrs. E. R. Bess, read a
paper on “Club Women as Promoters
of Art in the Home.” Mrs. El A. Wall
of Las Animas was to have read a
paper on “Club Women as Promoters
of Art in Schools,” but she also was
delayed. A paper on “Club Women as
Promoters of Juvenile Literature,”
was read by Mrs. F. R. Wood of Trin
idad.
At the afternoon and evening ses
sions of the federation a varied pro
gramme was presented with music by
local and visiting musicians. Mrs. M.
D. Thatcher of this city read a paper
on “Domestic Science as It Interests
Club Women.” ‘‘Manual Training”
was the topic of Mrs. Catherine Pen
dergast of Victor. Mrs. C. A. Ballreich
of Pueblo spoke on “Forestry,” and
"Legislation” was the title of an ad
dress by Dr. Polly of Cripple Creek.
Mrs. C. F. Evans of Rocky Ford read
a paper on “Civil Service.”
“Personal Observation of the Needs
of Our City, Country and State Insti
tutions,” was the subject of an address
by Ellis Meredith of Denver. Mrs.
Dick of Denver spoke on “The Study
of Education.” and Mrs. Harding of
Canon City on “Scholarships.” Sev
eral other interesting topics were dis
cussed by club women of the state,
among them Mrs. C. C. Bradford of
Denver. Mrs. J. R. Gordon of Pueblo.
Mrs. McHarg of Boulder. Mrs. H. W.
Harris of Pueblo. Mrs. Ella Celeste
Adams of Colorado Springs. Mrs. J. L.
Harbaugh of Colorado Springs. Miss
Dale of Canon City and Mrs. Hawley
of Fort Collins.
Kansas Witnesses Help Colorado.
Denver, May 5. —Prof. L. C. Carpen
ter has returned from Garden City,
Kansas, where he attended sessions of
the Kansas-Colorado irrigation suit.
Professor Carpenter states that the
testimony of Kansas* own witnesses at
Garden City has been very valuable to
Colorado. There is considerable ill
feeling among the Kansas attorneys
owing to the trend of the testimony
of some of their witnesses, and most of
the proceedings have been kept from
the public as much as possible.
D. S. Hogbin of Syracuse, Kansas,
a civil engineer, manager of one of the
largest ditches in Kansas, testified that
during the last ten years, he said, he
could only remember once when there
was not sufficient water for all neces
sary purposes. During the spring and
summer seasons, for the last two years,
conditions have been better than ever j
before. His ditch has not been oper
ating continuously, but he explained
that this was due to the fact that it had
been in the hands of a receiver, the
English company owning it refusing to
spend money for repairs demanded by
water users.
B. F. Stocks, a resident of Garden
City since the early 'Bos, who lias al
ways been active in Kansas irrigation
matters testified that he considered the
doctrine of riparian rights to be as det
rimental to irrigation interests in his
own state as in Colorado. He said wa
ter should be used for irrigation pur
poses by all means, although he said
Colorado ditches with later priorities
than those of Kansas should not be al
lowed to step *n ahead of the latter. He
said he had no sympathy with the ri
parian rights contention and consid
ered it fundamentally wrong.
Lieutenant Governor Contest.
Denver, May s.—Claiming that he is
entitled to the office of lieutenant gov
ernor, that he is holding it under the
constitution; that Senator Fred W.
Parks in his quo warranto proceedings
against him does not state facts suffi
cient to make a case, and asking that
the entire proceedings be dismissed,
Arthur Cornforth, lieutenant governor,
filed his return in the case Wednesday
in the Supreme Court. The return was
signed by Attorney General N. C. Mil
ler.
After citing the various constitu
tional reasons why he is entitled to the
office, the return denies that on the 3d
day of April Senator Cornforth ceased
to be lieutenant governor by virtue of
the election of Senator Parks as presi
dent pro tempore of the Senate, and al
leges that he is the lieutenant governor
de jure, and that he became such when
a vacancy was created in that office by
the resignation of James H. Peabody
and the assumption of the office of gov
ernor by Jesse F. McDonald.
The sub&tance of Senator Comforth’s
contention is. that the president pro
tem. of the Senate at the time a va
cancy occurs in the office of lieutenant
governor 'succeeds to the office for the
remainder of the term, no matter who
may afterward become president pro
tem.
Japanese Army Movements.
Gunshu Pass, Manchurfia, May 5.
The armies of Generals Nodzu, Oku
and Kurokl are concentrated along a
line from Tie pass, with the right flank
extended northwest. * General Kawa
mura is northeast and General Nogl is
west of Tie pass. The grouping of the
Japanese armies indicates that Field
Marshal Oyama when he advances will
move his right flank first.