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Elbert County Tribune J. L Pop*, Editor and Publisher. ELBERT, . . . COLORADO. I Salaries of State Official a. During this session' of congtVoo, .M In many previous sessions, the expe diency has been considered of raising the salaries of the higher officers of the national government and of the diplomatic and consular service. It la coming more and more to be recog nised as a fact, says Yputh’a Com panion, that the richest nation In the world, occupying a country in which the highest business salaries In the world are cheerfully paid. Is neverthe less a niggardly paymaster of its high est officers. For a large share, Indeed for most, of the minor positions in the government service the payment is adequate. The earnings of the clerks tin Washington and of most of the men on the civil service lists compare fa vorably with those of men doing sim fflar work for private employes. But (for the president, vice president, mem bers of the cabinet and of the supreme court, the circuit court Judges, am- Ihassado.'s and ministers, and many of ;the higher officers at Washington and iln the states the compensation Is not orfly Inadequate to the demands of the they occupy, but Is notoriously 'less than men of equal ability receive ,ln private life. The word “compensa jtlon” is used advisedly, for it includes foot only the salary which goes with (these offices, but the henor which at ftaches to them. Both together are still inadequate payment. The desire (to preserve that “republican simplic ity’’ which has always been an Amer ican Ideal is the main obstacle to the .raising of official salaries. Many per sons fail to consider that for one who can afX>rd It, liberal expenditure is not necessarily a sign either of ex travagance or of luxury; and that jwith nations, as with Individuals, the scale which Is Just and proper fn the day of small things may be a measure of unseemly parsimony when the cir cumstances have changed. On e Theory of Wealth. Why there should be hard-working poor men and idle rich men in the same community is a question which no one has answered, and no one can Answer satisfactorily. That is why the opinion is so prevalent that the world, (economically considered, Is so very (much out of Joint, believes T. N. Car ter, a writer in Atlantic. But although there is so much unanimity In the opinion that wealth ought not to be distributed us it now is, there is still a wide diversity of opinion, where there is any definite opinion at all, as to how it really ought to be distribu ted. These opinions may, however, be reduced to three fundamentally dis tinct theories, which I shall call the aristocratic, the socialistic, and the democratic, or liberalistic, theories. The aristocratic theory is that the good things of the world belong more particularly to certain groups or classes than to others, by virtue of some circumstance connected with their birth or heredity, and independ ently of their individual achievements. The socialistic theory is that wealth ought to be distributed according to needs, or according to some similar plan arranged beforehand, and inde pendently of the individual ability to acquire wealth in the rough-and-ready struggle of life. The democratic, or llberullstic, theory is that wealth ought to be disVibuted according to p.-oductlvlty, usefulness, or worth. Latest Table Delicacy. “Hothouse lamb” is beginning to appear on the menus at many of the first-class hotels. A quarter of hot house lamb can now be bought, If one is willing to pay four or five dollars for it. But up to a week or so ago the butchers refused to divide the tarcasses, finding ready market for all they could get at from $25 to -, S3O apiece. As such a lamb seldom weighs more than 25 pounds, including pelt and head, it makes the meat come pretty high. “Hothouse lamb is an answer to a demand for a new kind of edible animal.” said a butcher, “but its invention was almost an accident. A farmer out in Kansas conceived the Idea that an animal could be pushed in its growth the same as a plant or flower, so he took ten ewes and put them in the cellar of a stable, keeping the place at a uniformly high tem perature. When the lambs were born he Increased the heat and fed them all they could possibly eat. The lambs developed rapidly and were ready for market six weeks ahead of those born and reared under ordinary conditions.” William Sherring, the young Cana dian who won the Marathon race at Athens, gives the credit to his mother, who, he says, supervised his training. She decided what he should oat, and would not cook anything else. When she was told that he had won, she re marked, "Of course. 1 knew he would. That Is what I sent him over for.” • This is a very pretty sentiment, re marks Youth’s Companion, but leaves one In doubt as to what the other young men’s mothers said when told that they bad not won. COLORADO NEWS ITEMS The Jewish Alliance of Denver is planning for the erection of a $25,0001 club building. Louis Lucero, a Mexican, who claims to be a sun worshipper, has been ad judged insane by the county court of Las Animas county. Mrs. Z. X. Snyder, wife of President Snyder of the State Normal School, has been re-appointed by Governor Mc- Donald as a member of the State Trav eling Library Commission. Prof. F. W. Cragin. formerly of (he faculty of Colorado College, is compil ing a history of the Rocky Mountain region, to be published this fall, and later Professor Cragin wll Issue an his torical dictionary of the West. The new railroad passenger rate of 3 cents a mile In Colorado, recently es tablished by the Western Passenger Association, went Into effect July Ist. It is expected that the increase in travel will fully compensate the rail roads. Because he thought It was a dis grace to a labor organization, Antone Langroti, an Italian at Trinidad, tried to commit suicide but was unsuccess ful. He was tried In the County Court on a charge of insanity and sent to the state asylum. The cornerstone of the new building of the First Avenue Presbyterian church at Denver of which the Rev. W. , A. Hunter is pastor, was laid Sunday, July Ist. It is designed to seat about 800 people, the present building being •used for Sunday school purposes. Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver says that he has never refused five million dollars, or any other sum of money, from John D. Rockefeller for juvenile reform work. One good ron* son Is that Mr. Rockefeller has made no offer of money. L. C. Dana, commnnder-ln-chlef ot the Department of Colorado and Wy oming, G. A. R., has been formally ac credited by Governor McDonald as ex-officio member of the board of trus tees of the Colorado Soldiers and Sail ors’ Home at Monte Vista. The Rev. David Utter, pastor of Unity church in Denver, and the Rev. James B. Gregg, pastor of the First Congregational church at Colorado Springs, were both honored by Har vard University with the degree of doc tor of divinity at its recent commence ment. The people of Colorado Springs are making a vigorous protest against the action of the Senate committee in re ducing the additional postofflee build ing appropriation from SIOO,OOO to $75,000. If the special appropriation is not cut Colorado Springs will get In all $275,000 for Its new federal build ing. C. E. Hale, a Silverton miner, was recently committed to the county Jail at Denver on complaint of Humane Agent Tuft, who alleges that Hale has failed to pay the sum of S3O a month, as agreed upon by him, for the support of his son, a boy of ten, who is under treatment at the Denver county hos pital for curvature of the spine. The forty-second grand lodge meet ing and twentieth annual reunion of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will be held at Denver July 10th to 20th. The gathering will not be restricted to Elks alone —the dears are coming with them, and the Colo rado game laws have been abrogated for the occasion. The body of Henry Rudy, a prospect or, who was swept down the mountain by a anowslide last winter at the head of Junction Creek, sixteen miles above. Durango, was found in a snowbank on the 30th of June by his brother, who had been looking for him since early Spring. He had been struck by a slide while going from hiß mine to his cabin. In the Cripple Creek District on July Ist, B. F. Wildman, en gineer at the Cameron power house, was struck by a bolt of lightning and paralyzed. He was walking to the door after oiling his machinery, when tlio flash came, knocking him down. Ho was removed to the Red Cross hospital for treatment with little chance of sav ing bis life. , Dr. Louis M. Strauss, former Mayor of Aurora, a suburb of Denver, died suddenly at his desk in the Exchange building in Denver on the morning of the 30th of June. Dr. Strauss was six ty years old and leaves a widow and five children. He was president of the school board of Aurora, and secretary and treasurer of the Crystal River Marble company. Clayton Daniels, a well known miner of Gilman, was instantly killed by a Denver & Rio Grande freight train on July Ist. Daniels, with a companion, was fishing in Eagle river canon and undertook to board a moving train for Red Cliff] He missed his hold and fell underneath the train being terribly mangled. He leaves a widow and a young child, and was a member of the A. O. U. W. W. A. Conant, a pioneer resident of Colorado Springs, in response to a let ter written to President Roosevelt ask ing him if he Intended to run for office another term, has received a reply from Secretary which says: “You will have to vote for some other Re publican next time.” Conant was a delegate from New York to the first national Republican convention, more than fifty years ago. William A. Otis and associates, in cluding G. A. Taff, president of the Pike’s Peak Hydro Electric Company, have organized the Empire Water & Power Company and announce that they will soon begin the erection of a new electric power plant at Manltou, to cost $300,000. In addition they pro pose to expend $200,0u0 on pipe lines and reservoirs, and $500,000 additional in gene Ail improvements. Executing a plan thftt has been in contemplation for some months, Di. Robert F. Coyle hopeß soon to con duct the Central Presbyterian church in Dcvver as an institutional church, taoraries. club rooms, free dispensary —with doors open night and day throughout the year—are to be lx-, stalled. A committee has been ap ivainted to make a thorough examina tion of the institutional churches of the East and by next fall Dr. Coyle’s Ideas will be fully carried out. A re port from the committee will be sub mitted to Dr. Coyle when he vet urns from his summer vacation about Sep tember Ist. NEWS OF THE WEEK Host Important Happenings cf the Past Seven Days. ' a lattrcitias Items Gathered from All part* of the World Coodooaed Xato Small Space for tho Beaelt of Oar Reodora. Personal. President Roosevelt left Washing ton immediately after the adjournment of congress and with his family will spend the summer at Sagamore Hill his country home. A statue has been erected to Maj Gen. Fitz John "Porter at Haven park Portsmouth, N. H., commemorating his participation in the battle of Mai vern Hill. J. E. Millefte, of Springfield, was nominated by the republicans for state senator at the convention held at Lamar, Mo. Judge B. R. Webb, a Texas lawyer of note and author -of several law I>ooks, shot and killed himself in the city park at Fort Worth. J. W. Moore, of Marion, a republi can was nominated by the democrats of the Fourth Kansas district as a candidate for congressman against J. M. Miller on a tariff reform platform. John F. Stevens, chief engineer, and the entire canal commission propofe to sail for Panama to start the work there In earnest. Eva Booth commander of the Salva tion Army in the United States is seriously ill at her home in New York. Secretary Taft will visit Fort Rllev and Fort Leavenworth this fall and will make two speeches in Kansas while on the trip. Rev. William Wlggington. a Baptist minister of Linneus, Mo., has mar ried more than 2,000 couples during his ministry. He has a record of all persons he has married. Col, Oswald Herbert Ernest of the corps of engineers has been retired for age with the rank of brigadier gen eral. Dr. E. B. McCoy, of Caney, Kan.. has been arrested charged with t‘ne murder of his wife who was reported to have committed suicide by shoot ing herself with n revolver. Mrs. David Reed, sister of Gen George A. and Thomas Custer who were killed In the Indian battle of tho Little Big Horn in Montana June 2." 1870, died at her home in Monroe Mich., aeed 80 years. Mrs. James Tanner, wife of the com mander-in-chief of the G. A. R. was killed recently in an automobile acci dent at Helena, Mont. Conigrraaioiml. The senate and house passed tin meat inspection bills placing the cost of inspection on the government. The provision placing date of inspection on canned meats was eliminated. The pure food bill hns been passed by both houses of congress. The railrbad rate bill has passed both houses of congress and has been signed by the president. It goes into effect in 00 days. Congress has passed a bill appro priating $5,000,000 to satisfy the claim of the eastern Cherokees. The attor ney’s fees amount to $750,000. The senate has confirmed the nomi nation of Franklin Lane, of Califor nia. to be a member of the interstate commerce commission to succeed Joseph W. Fifer, of Illinois. The lower house of congress has passed a bill granting $5,000 each to the families of the two San Francis co firemen who lost their lives while fighting the fire in the hold of the transport Meade In San Francisco har bor. By a vote of six to five, the senate committee on inter-oceanic canals has decided not to go to the Isthmus of Panama and take testimony in the canal investigation. A bill has passed congress authoriz ing the secretary of war to deliver to the Leavenworth Monument associa tion of Leavenworth, Kan., condemned cannon to be cast Into a statue of Gen. Leavenworth. Mlacellnit«MiaM. The appraisers of the C. J. Devlin estate claim that they have discovered 80 acres of farm land in Illinois be longing to the estate. Sensational disclosures concerning a large number of food products are made in a bulletin issued by the Kan sas state board of health. A negro named Davis was lynched near Bradley, I. T.. and it is asserted that federal officials will investigate the occurrence. Harry K. Thaw pleaded not guilty when arraigned for the murder of Stanford White in New York recently. For the year 1005 Andrew Carnegie’s gifts to libraries in the United States nnbered 211 and amount to over $3,- 000,000. Chairman Shonts, of the canal com mission has expressed the opinion that the Panama canal will bo com pleted in eight years. At the hearing or the Dowie esse In Chicago a teller of the Zion City bank testified that Dowie’s account was overdrawn $481,237 and that for the last seven years Dowie had drawn money from the. bank at the rate of a year. Missouri claims to be the first state to recognize Oklahoma as a state by floating a flag with 46 stars over the state capliol. The American group of the Inter parliamentary Union at a meeting in j Washington elected Representative | Bortholdt of Missouri president. A general strike of all employes of Mason City, la., street car and Inter urban lines has taken place. Two tanks of the Union Oil company exploded at University Park, a few miles north of Portland, Ore., with, suf ficient force to shatter every window within three-quarters of a mile. The cause Is not known. The corner stone for a new village of Ottajano has been laid with cere mony upon the site of the village of that name destroyed by the recent eruption of Mount Vesuvius. In the wreck of a passenger train at Salisbury, England, 23 passengers mostly Americans, and four trainmen were killed and seven persons injured. The train was loaded with 43 persons who had landed from the steamer New York. C. H. Luting, superintendent of in surance for' Kansas, has announced that all insurance companies failing to pay San Francisco losses in full will be immediately deprived of the right to do business In Kansas. The third Pan-American confer ence, or, to be exact, the third inter national American conference, will meet at Rio de Janeiro, capital of Bra zil, July 21. The Missouri supreme court has rendered an opinion upholding tho right of suffrage for the old soldiers in the federal home In St. James. Tho right had been denied by a decision of the circuit court of Phelps county. Attorneys for Ex-Senator Burton deny the rumor that an appeal will be made to President Roosevelt for a par don for Burton in case the supreme court denies the request for a hearing. After July 31 of this year no more saloons than are In existence can be opened in Chicago until the popula tion of the city is nearly double that of the present time, according to an ordinance passed by the city council. The senate bill which repeals the so-called 28 hour law. by fixing the maximum of time in transit for stock at 3G hours upon the written request of the owner or person in charge of the particular shipment has passed. The board of health has directed the owners of 37 out of 171 slaughter houses In various sections of Philadel phia to abandon their establishments. Conditions, it is charged, were un sanitary. The Nebraska. Kansas and Okla homa headquarters of the rural free delivery department of the postoffire will be removed from Omaha to Kan sas City. Conferences are being held In Washington by United States district attorneys preparatory to filing the criminal suits which are to be brought by the government against the Stand ard Oil company. President Roosevelt has approved the resolution passed by congress ex pressing the horror of the people of the United States over the massacre of Jews in Russia. Lewis Embry Jr. has been nomina ted by the democrats of Pennsylvania for governor. Mr. Embry had pre viously been nominated by the Lincoln republicans for the same office. Nearly every building in the town of Tittzewah, Ok., has been practi cally demolished by a tornado. Many people took refuge In cyclone caves and no person was injured. The correspondent at Constantinople of the Standard reports that Turkey has decided to take measures to sup press the Creek bands which are dis turblng Macedonia. Attorney General Moody has directed that suits be brought, against a large number of railroad companies to re cover penalties for violation of tha safety appliance law. It is stated that Czar Nicholas will attend with emperor William the en tire maneuvers of the German fleet near the end of July. John Clark, superintendent of a Red Cross relief station in San Fran cisco, has been arrested for selling large quantities of relief blankets and appropriating the money. Seven tramps captured a freight train near Glendale, Ohio, and at the of revolvers forced the crew to leave . They ran the train ten miles and then abandoned it. Havnrd defeated Yale in the annual varsity boat race at New London Conn., by two lengths and a half. Harvard’s time was 23:02 and Yale’s 23:11. The emperor of Russia is now vir tually a prisoner in his palace, only driving within the grounds. He is sur rounded only by his most trusted ser vants and has the imperial yacht always ready 'o sail at a moments no tice. Wireless communication with several fortresses is maintained. Over two inches of rain fell in Lon don in eight hours recently constitut ing a record. Many districts were flooded and people were driven from their homes, the underground rail roads were inundated and traffic was stopped. Ouster proceedings have been Insti tuted by Circuit Attorney Sager against the Celia Commission company of St. Louis. Mr. Sager asks that all pro perty of the firm be forfeited to the state. William Patrick, of Pridmont, Kan., has surrendered to the military au thorities at Fort Logan his 19-year-old son. who had deserted from the army. The last report from the dry dock Dewey received at the navy depart ment shows it to be within 1,300 mile 3 of Manila. More than one-half of the insurance companies doing business in San Fran cisco have signed a compact and an nounced that under no circumstances will they pay mor« thun 75 per cent of their losses. POWER COMPANY WILL BUILD LARGE PLANTS IN NORTHERN COLORADO. TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY Will Operate in Many Towns—Con trols Water Power and Coal Lands —ls to Furnish Light and Supply Power for All Kinds of Usee. Denver.—Work is progressing in preparation for the installation of the great electrical power plant of the Northern Power Company, and Indica tions are that it is going to be a much larger affair that even L. W. Henry, its projector, anticipated. W. W. Churchill, vice president, and W. S. Lyford, chief engineer of the Westinghouse company of New York, have been in the city and left a few days since for the East. They took with them the plans for the power plant that Is to be erected at Lafayette and for the transmission lines. W. A. McClurg and W. M. Riley, construc tion and transmission engineers, who came West with them, have remained in tho state and are working out the details, such as locating the lines. The management has decided to embrace Fort Lupton, Brighton and Platteville in the sections to be supplied with power, which were not in the original plans. This is the company which re cently bought the Boulder and Chey enne power plants. It U hoped to have the plant In stalled by the Ist of February, but It is no small task and will take consid erable hard work. A contract has re cently been signed with the United Power and Light Company at George town to supply it with extra power. This company has the electric busi ness in Gilpin county pretty well in hand and manufactures about 1,500 horse-power, but it can utilize more and some 2,000 horse-power will be wholesaled and distributed. There will be connection with the Northern Power Company’s feed lines at a point in Boulder county. The Northern Power Company has made secure its titles to more than 5,000 acres of coal land in the vicin ity of Lafayette, where the power house will be located. It has also se cured itself un abundant water supply by the purchase of Miller lake and an other body of water of nearly tho same size. In addition artesian wells will be sunk to make it a certainty that there will be sufficient. Mr. Henry says the possibilities for the use of power in agriculture in the northern district are immense and that the company is preparing to irri gate a number of tracts of land by pumping. Between Evans and Fort Lupton there Is a considerable under flow of water, which has not changed in many years, but what is needed is some cheap power to raise it from the wells and distribute it on the land. Tills the power company can do cheaply. In the vicinity of Barr lake and also near Union reservoir close to are large tracts of land that can be irrigated as soon as the can be pumped over the soil. It Is expected to bring G.OOO acres into cultivation near Barr lake in this way. All of this kind of pumping will be done early mornings. Mr. Henry has no doubt concerning the future of northern Colorado and Denver, which he thipks will be brought into closer relations in a few years by means of electric lines. The land is going to be cut up into small farms and intensely cultivated, aud there will be a large population. ANTI-SALOON RAID. Governor Hoch of Kansas Smashes Outlawed Joints. Kansas City.—The anti-saloon cru sade was given a new’ impetus at Kan sas City, Kansas, Wednesday, when raids were authorized on forty saloons, joints as they are called, running in violation of the state prohibition law. Many of the joint proprietors hur riedly closed their places and some moved, or made preparations to re move their fixtures. Since the inauguration of the pres ent crusade, which was started by Qov ,ernor Hoch. ten saloons have been ; raided. To-day the liquors and costly fixtures from three of these places, valued at. about $5,000, were destroyed by Sheriff Connell on an order from the judge of the Court of Common 1 Pleas. Last week the judge ordered the fixtures burned at public bonfire, but this idea was reconsidered and to day the sheriff and his assistants, armed with axes and picks, demol ished the highly polished bars, tables and chairs, bottles and barrels of liq uor. The fixtures and liquors de stroyed to-day belonged to three differ ent brewing companies operating on the Missouri side, and were seized last week. Harvard Defeats Yale. New London, Conn. Harvard’s ’varsity crew triumphed over Yale Thursday before the greatest crowd that ever gathered here on a race day. Coming after years of defeat, the vic tory was particularly sweet to the crimson. It was a great Yale crew that Harvard defeated, a crew that had broken all records in practice and went to the stakeboat a favorite. Har vard’s Joy is unconfined. Harvard won, but Yale rowed a race that will live long in the annals of college sports. Not only from the start, but until the last sixteenth of a mile did the shells cease to lap each other. The men in the rival boats could see each other for more than three miles and a half, as first one cox swain and then the other called upon his crew. Harvard really got the lead when the killing paco proved too much for the Yale men. In the final spurt Boulton and Noyes were done, their oars literally slipping away from them. Harvard won the race by less than tw’o lengths and a half. Her time was 23.02; Yales, 23.11. While the crews had the tide with them, they hud a brisk quartering wind which made fast time impossible. The record Jar the course is 20:10, made by Yale in 1888. Manufacturing Jeweler e Witches, Dtamafe and Jewelry • Stark 709 16TH STREET Denver, - Colo. Send for our Illustrated Catalogue—FßEE THE ELK HOTEL Denver, Colo. A good place to stop at in Denver is the Elk Hotel, 17th and Blake streets, two blocks from Union depot. European plan, rooms 50c to $1.50 per day. Res taurant in connection. Everything new. DAVID WHINTON, : Proprietor. Inter Ocean Hotel DENVER. COLO. When in Denver stop at the Intel Ocean Hotel, corner of 16th and streets. American and European plans. Rooms 50c, 75c and $l.OO. Everything neat and clean. Steam heated throughout. GEORGE N. STEIN, Proprietor. SPAULDING HOUSE Colorado Springs, Colo. When in Colorado Springs stop at the Spaulding House. Everything neat and clean. Electric cars from depots and to all parts of the city. Rates $1.50 to $2.00 a day. Special rates by the week. Opposite new court house, South Te jon street. J. HIMEBAUGH, Proprietor. Barber Shop Shaving 10c Sunday shave 15c Hair cutting 25c Children’s hair cutting.. .15d Whisker trim 15c Singe 15c Shampoo 25c —Photographs Taken— Geo. McKimmie ELBERT, COLO. THROUGH Standard sleepers and free reclin ing chair cars front Denver to Union Station, Chicago, every day. Leave Union Station, Denver, 4.35 p. m. or 10.20 p. m. The former is the famous one-night-on-the road train. Route —Union Pacific Railroad and Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway On your next trip East insist your ticket read via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and you will be glad of it. Tickets from any agent of a connecting line, or from J. E. PRESTON Commercial Agent 1029 17lh Street, Denver £