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THE OBSERVER CENTRAL, CITY, - - COLORADO. THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO REPORT SHOWS LARGE GAIN IN ATTENDANCE AND TWO J, NEW DEPARTMENTS. SPECIAL NEEDS URGED GIFTS TO UNIVERSITY DURING BIENNIAL PERIOD AGGRE- I GATE OVER $300,000. M Boulder.—The sixteenth annual re port of the regents of the State Uni versity shows that two new depart ments of the university, the colleges pt commerce and education, have been established. The attendance in the biennial pe riod has increased from 840 to 1,025, exclusive of 129 summer students. One liundred and nine degrees were con ferred in 1907 and 14G in 1908. The graduates number 1,163. The attention of the Legislature is especially called to the needs of the graduate school. The establishment of a separate department of sociology Os urged. An appropriation is asked for research work upon industrial aud economic subjects for the benefit of {the state and its makers. The college of engineering, which has grown from an attendance of 17C In 1906 to 271 in 1908, has been mate rially aided by the erection of the new chops building. The United States government has established a forestry timber testing station in connection with this department. The medical rchool, which Is peti tioning the Legislature to allow the last two years of the work to be re moved to Denver, has passed a rule that after next year all entrants must have had at least two years of college •work as a requisite for matriculation. A new temporary anatomy building •was opened this year. The medical school is also asking the Legislature to establish a state hygienic laboratory in connection with the school. The report points out that this would make possible a prompt and efficient fight against such diseases as typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria and scarlet fever. The law department reports many changes in its faculty. The chemistry building has been completed. A nurses’ home has been built; ten lots adjoining the campus were purchased for SIO,OOO. The en gineering shops were erected at a cost of $30,000 and the anatomy building for $3,500. A temporary power plant has been built. A power plant, a science and mu seum building and a medical building, It is stated, are, needed at once. The physics department is declared to be overcrowded. A girls’ dormitory, a main building, additions to the grounds, the completion of the library and a gymnasium are also urged. Aside from new buildings the annual expenditure was $177,461.33, while the dneome from all sources was about $175,000. Although the attendance shows an increase of about thirty per cent, in the last two years the income has remained practically the same. Gifts to the university during the bi ennial period were the largest in its history. Andrew J. Macky’s bequest of $250,000 for an auditorium, and the Guggenheim law building, costing $50,000, were the largest. Other gifts totaled $3,000. Gunnison Tunnel Progress. The monthly report of the reclama tion service on progress on the Un compahgre Irrigation project is as fol lows: During October, progress on the Gunnison tunnel totaled 251 feet in all headings. Drill holes into the seam of the river portal main heading were made to keep the discharge up to the full capacity of the pumping facilities. The pressure has dropped only to eighty-five pounds per square inch. The number of gallons pumped amounted to 43,302,000, and 5,429,000 gallons were allowed to flow through the air lino by natural force from this heading. The river portal crew com pleted tunnel excavations to make con nection to the lioadworks. At the headworks during the month 590 cubic yards of mutcrial were ex cavated. The machinery for the con crete plant has been delivered and is ready for installation. The west portal heading was ad vanced 251 feet during the month through good breaking ground, but wa ter in the heading has delayed pro gress. The arch and sides of class 4 tunnel were concreted to the uinount ,cf 278 lineal feet. The Montrose and Delta canal was operated throughout the entire month. Th irrigation season ends November 31st, when the headgates will be closed to ullow for enlargement and repairs. There are 39,000 acres of cul tivated lands under jfbe project, 15,000 of which are under tho eunals now operated by the reclamation service. Tho Montrose Commercial Associa tion is taking steps towards inducing the lnnd owners «*f the Uncompahgre valley to sign the new contracts with the government for tho completion of the Gunnison tunnel at an additional cost of about 110 an acre from the orlg laal estimates by ths government. AN EPITOME OF LATE LIVE NEWS •CONDENSED RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTB AT HOME AND ABROAD. FROM ALL SOURCES BAY! NGB, DOINGS, ACHIEVE MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES AND FEARS OF MANKIND. WESTERN NEWS. Burglars on the night of the 14th Inst, plundered the South Bend, Ind., postoffice of over SIB,OOO in stamps and ! escaped. The insurance commissioner of Tex as, Thomas B. Love, has renewed his campaign for a state rating commis sion to fix fire insurance rates. Oil prospecting is to be carried on vigorously at a point just across the Colorado line in Utah, the nearest out fitting point to which is Dolores on the j Denver & Rio Grande railroad. The commission on country life will be at Cheyenne December sth, where a coq/erence will be held with Governor Brooks, the faculty of the state univer sity and all citizens of Wyoming who wish to be present. The First National bank of Fort Scott, one of the oldest banks in the state of Kansas, closed its doors on the 1 20th Inst. The bank had deposits of $702,000. The closing followed a run ! on the bank, when depositors withdrew | $56,000. United States Judge Taylor at Cleve land, Ohio, November 22nd, granted injunctions against the Bell Telephone ; system, restraining them from inter- I fering with the business of the inde pendent companies in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and adjoining states. The Nebraska Supreme Court Thurs day issued a temporary injunction against the Union Pacific Railway Company, directing it to issue no more transportation in lieu of newspaper ad vertising. It is alleged that the rail road is issuing transportation to news paper proprietors and editors in viola | tion of the statutes of the state. The Lyon county grand jury at Rock Rapids, la., has returned an indict ment against the Standard Oil Com pany of Indiana, charging discrimina tion. It is charged that the Standard Oil Company sells 2 cents a gallon cheaper at Allon, where there is an independent oil company, than at Doon, there is no such competition. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii was a passenger on the Pacific mail liner Mongolia which arrived at San Francisco Sunday from the Orient via Honolulu. She is traveling with Prince Kalauianiola, better known as Prince “Cupid," and Princess Kalauianiola, en route to Washington. The prince was re-elected delegate to Congress at the recent election. A Los Angeles paper says that a line of steamships will be established early next spring between San Pedro and San Salvador and intermediate points by the Los Angeles Harbor Company. The line probably will be under the management of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, retired, who was made chair man of the board of directors, and who is expected to make his homo in Los Angeles. Suit has been filed in the United States Circuit Court at San Francisco by Henry S. Ripley, to whom a large number of claims have been assigned, against the Spring Valley Water Com pany to recover $18,634,000, the value of property lost in the great Sau Fran cisco fire of April 18, 1906. The plain tiff attributes the loss sustained to the inadequacy of the Spring Valley sys tem and its failure to provide water at the time when it was most needed. GENERAL NEWS. The Liberal party carried Cuba at the election just held, electing Gen. Jose M<guel Gomez by a largo major ity. The Auto-Aero committee of the Auto Club of France has decided to or ganize a grand prize for flying ma chines. It will be competed for In 1909 and its value will be about $40,- 000. Grand jurors, investigating the New York police stations unexpectedly made the discovery that the police are meas uring women prisoners and examining them for marks, without the assistance of a matron. They came upon one young woraun undergoing this ordeal and indictments are likely to result. A new draft of the proposed uniform fraternal insurance Dill was agreed upon tentatively at a conference of committees from the National Frater nal congress and the Associated Fra ternities of America held in Chicago. The bill provides that ufter July 15, 1911, no business is to be written oo uny actuarial table giving lower rates than those of the National Fraternal congress table with Interest at 4 per cent. Word has been received at Victoria, B. C., that the British bark. Loch Lo mond, has been lost off the Chatham islands, with all on board. Earthquake shocks were experi enced at several small towns near Lis bon, Portugal, Sunday. The residents were thrown into a panic but there were no casualties. Mme. Currie who Jointly with her husband, the late Professor Curie, dis covered radium, has been appointed chief professor of physics in the fac ulty of aclence of Paris University. It is reported at Rome that Presi dent Roosevelt is planning a visit to the “Eternal City" with his family In 1910 and is already making inquir ies for a suitable villa in which to live. A dispatch from Vienna Bays that a band of Servians, while crossing the Bosnian frontier near Sevornik, was repulsed by Austrian troops. The Ser vians lost seventeen men killed and the Austrians three killed. The state of Louisiana has adopted by popular vote the constitutional amendment exempting from taxation loans made by life insurance compe nles to their policyholders and loans upon real estate mortgages. Mrs. Russell Sage of New York has given $25,000 toward the establish ment of a college for colored youth in Kentucky to be a branch of Berea college. The college will be modeled after the Tuskegee institute. The American Mining Congress will meet at Pittsburg December 2d to sth. Among those who are expected to be present are: President-elect William H. Taft, James J. Hill, Ed ward Harriman and the governors of at least a dozen states. Wilbur Wright had a narrow escape at Lemans, France, from serious in jury. The chain of a propeller broke and the machine began to turn over. Wright re-established the balance of the aeroplane by leaning to one side and cut off the motor, descending in safety. The death of the Grand Duke Alexis has resulted In the reinstatement of the Grand Duke Cyril, eldest son of Grand Duke Vladimir, in the imperial favor. Cyril was stripped of his hon ors and exiled from Russia following his marriage in 1905 with the divorced Grand Duchess Victoria of Hesse. Directors of the Standard Oil Com pany have declared a regular quarter ly dividend of $lO per share, the same as for the corresponding quarter of last year. This means a total of S4O in dividends for the year, the sam<' as last year. The dividend is payable December 15th, to stock of record De cember 9th. Engineers of the United States Geo logical Survey report extreme low wa ter conditions in many streams of New York and New England during Sep tember and October. The Connecticut river in particular, reached the low est stage ever recorded and continued at this stage for the greater part of two months. A group of 150 girls, employes of the Mercantile Corporation at Dayton, Ohio, which has the contract for all stamped envelopes and wrappers for the government, were posing for a photograph on a scaffold, fifteen feet above the ground, when the scafiold gave way and all were precipitate ! to the ground. A dozen were badly hurt but none will die. The weekly report of the world’s shipment of wheat for the period end ing Saturday, November 14th, shows a decrease over the previous week’s shipments of 264,000 bushels. The de crease over the corresponding per iod of 1907 is 316,000 bushels. The to tals of the corn shipment show a de crease over the same week in 1907 of 423,000 bushels. Careful calculation of the production of automobiles in America next year places the output of all the fa. tories close to 75,000 cars. This total pro duct, valued at approximately $120,000,- 000 will be built by 253 manufacturers; this means that a car will be marketed for about every 1,000 of population in the country and that the cars will aver* afe $1,500 in price. Churches of the country have united in raising funds for the rebuilding of San Francisco churches wrecked in the earthquake, and Dr. Freeman Bo vard, a prominent divine of San Fran cisco, accompanied by W. C. Evans, superintendent of the Sau Francisco, district of Methodist Episcopal churches, have Just returned to the | coast with SIOO,OOO, appropriated by the committee on home missions and churches, which met recently in Tope ka, Kas. Moritz Rosenthal, special counsel for the Standard Oil Company, is said to draw a salary of SI,OOO a day or $6,000 a week. He gained the favor of the Standard by winning what ap peared to be a hopeless western case on a technicality, and the big concern immediately annexed him to its staff. The Independent Fertilizer Company has been incorporated at Trenton, New Jersey, with a capital stock of $50,000,000. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Bids were opened Friday at the Treas ury Department for the construction of a public building at Trinidad, Colo. The bidders were Deeter & Wegol, Wichi ta,j*Kas., $65,163; W. O. Morrison. Den ver, $64,952; the Ladd-Sanger Con struction Company, Denver, $70,300; George Hinchllff Company, Chicago, $74,900. We have already crossed the verge of a timber famine so severe that Its blight will be felt in every hamlet in the land," said Theodore M. Happen, a real estate dealer of Minneapolis, at Frlday’j tariff hearing. "In five years every sawmill in Minneapolis will be abandoned; yet this industry in Its prime employed 5,000 to 10,000 inen." Miss Ethel Roosevelt Is to make her official bow to society in the cnpitol at a dance In the White House Decem ber 28th. rPesident Roosevelt, at a banquet in the White House Tuesday night, held a spirited and interesting confer ence with many of the leading repre sentatives of labor organizations In the nation. Justice Moody and Secre taries Strauss and Garfield took part In the discussions which it is thought may bear fruit in the President's mes sage. BRITAIN NEEDS LARGER ARMY LORD ROBERTS SAYS GERMANY COULD EASILY LAND TROOPS IN ENGLAND. MIGHT EVADE FLEET FEARS LOSS OF NAVAL SUPRE MACY BECAUSE OF ARMY WEAKNESS. London.—Speaking in the house of lords. Field Marshal Lord Roberts ex pressed the conviction that the lack of a military force sufficient to make hopeless the attempt of an invasion would in all probability be the cause of loss of Great Britain’s supremacy at sea. In a studied speech he pointed out the comparative ease with which Ger many could land an army on the shores of England. Under present conditions England would be forced, he said, to submit to most humiliating demands He disclaimed all hostility to or fear of Germany; but he declared that the defense of the islands required imme diate attention. There should be an army so strong in numbers and effi cient in quality that the most formida ble of foreign nations would hesitate to make a landing in England. Lord Roberts said he had ascer tained that vessels capable of accom modating 200,000 men always were available in the northern ports of Ger many and that as a result of the new Gorman service law 200,000 men could be collected in the districts of the nearest port without trouble. The great German steamship lines were in constant practice, embarking and disembarking and as the railroads were owned by the state, all prelimin- ! aries to the actual dispatch of troops could be carried out witth the utmost secrecy. Germany was perfectly aware, the field marshal went on, that it would be essential for her transports to evade ' the British fleet and she could easily distract attention by small raids when disembarking, proceeding undisturbed. “It is calculated," said Lord Rob erts, “that there are 80.000 Germans in employment in Great Britain. They are trained soldiers, and if a Germany force once landed on these shores, they would be ready to help.” Deadly Tornado in Arkansas. Little Rock, Ark. —According to ad vices received up to midnight, meager because of the remoteness of the sec tion affected, more than thirty lives were lOBt and many other persons were Injured In a tornado which swept the northwestern section of this state late Monday It swept through the towns of London, Wallervllle, Jethro, Lodi, Lewisville, Paterson and Berryville and outlying portions of Mulberry, either completely wrecking or laying waste the larger part of these places and destroying timber and crops throughout the intermediate country. Two Arkansas Tornadoes. Little Rock, Ark. —I-ate advices ■how that two tornadoes, one north and the other southbound, swept over west Arkansas Monday afternoon. All means of communication were de stroyed and only indefinite reports have been received from the districts visited. The property loss will reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. The counties through which the tornadoes passed are LaFayette, Columbia, Mil ler, Pike, Howard, Hempstead, Mont gomery, Yell, Pope, Johnson, Franklin and Carroll. China’s Embassy of Gratitude. San Francisco.—Conveying to tho American government the gratitude of the Chinese people for remittance of a debt amounting to nearly {14,000,000, Tang Shao Yl, a powerful figure in tho affairs of tho Chinese empire, arrived In San Francisco Sunday on the steam er Mongolia. With him was Prince Tsai Fu, a member of the royal family and a largo retinue. Accompanying the high commissioner Is Prince Tbul Fu, a youth of twenty-one, a member of the royal family and cousin of the late Emperor. Carnegie on the Tariff. New York.—A notable article from Andrew Carnegie, dealing with the tar iff, will appear In tho forthcoming De cember number of the Century Mag azine. The Iron master takes the pos ition that "Infant Industries" no longer need protection; that the steel and other Industries have now grown be yond the need of tariff protection; tlint duties on luxuries used by the rich should be maintained, but that those on manufactured articles should be re duced greatly or abolished entirely when no longer needed. Probable Nobel Prize Awards. Stockholm.—ls Is announced, but not officially that the Nobel prizes are like ly to be awarded as follows: For chem istry, Professor Ernest Rutherford, di rector of the physical laboratories of the University of Manchester, Man chester, Eng.; literature, Algernon Charles Swlnbourne; physics, Profes sor Max Planck, professor of mathe matics and physics in the University of Berlin; medicine, divided between Dr. Paul Ehrlich of Berlin and Professor Elle Metchnlkoff of the Pasteur Insti tute. Paris GOMPERS STILL LABOR’S LEADER RE-ELECTED BY AMERICAN FED ERATION OF LABOR AT DEN VER CONVENTION. SUCCESSFUL MEETING SETTLES LABOR CONTROVERSIES, FAVORS POLITICAL ACTION AND URGES PUBLIC IM PROVEMENTS. Denver.—The election of the Ameri can Federation of Labor Saturday r* ■ulted as follows: President—Samuel Gompers of New York. Vice President—James Duncan of Massachusetts. Second Vice President—John Mitch ell of Illinois. Third Vice President—James O’Con nell of Washington. Fourth Vice President—Max Morris of Colorado. Fifth Vice President—Dennis A. Hayes of Pennsylvania. Sixth Vice President—W. A. Huber of Indiana. Seventh Vice President —James F. Valentine of Ohio. Eighth Vice President—John Alpine of Chicago. Treasurer—John B. Lennon of Illi nois. Secretary—Frank Morrison of Illi nois. Next convention at Toronto, Canada. John Fry and B. A. Larger were elected fraternal delegates to the Brit ish Trades congress and Jerome Jones delegates to the Canadian Trades con gress. For the first time In many years the American Federation of Labor Is freed from serious internal strife and organ ized labor Is In a position to devote all of Its energies Id taking care of Its Interests. This situation was achieved as a re sult of the Denver convention of the organization that came to an end Sat urday night at 7:30. "Auld Lang Syne” was still echoing against the vaulted celling of the auditorium when the gavel of President Gompers fell, announcing that the convention was adjourned to meet in Toronto. Canada, next year. Nearly all the many trade disputes brought before the convention were settled or placed In the way of settle ment In a manner that works for har mony. The federation. In addition to getting rid of the Internal disputes, went on record as being in politics to Btay. It pledged fealty to no party or no or ganization, but declared that it would as a body support the measures It wanted through whichever party might grant Its demands. To make its posi tion on this point emphatic It deposeJ as a member of the executive council Daniel J. Keefe, president of the Long shoremen's union, and told tho newly elected officers of the council that they must abide by the decision of the ma jority of the recognized officials of the labor unlonß of the country or get out of office. In approving the final report of the resolutions committee the convention Instructed the various international un ions state and city central bodies to use their Influence with the state, national and municipal governments to under take as much public improvement work as possible to give relief to the mil lions of unemployed men. In that con nection John H. Walker of the Miners' unions urged the construction of a deep waterway between the great lakes and the Gulf of Mexico as a means of employing thousands of workers and of benefiting the business and commer cial Interests of the country. Tho strike of the shopmen agnlnst tho D. & R. O. R. R. was In dorsed and the executive council In structed to Issue an appeal for funds to aid the strikers Another resolution attacked the em ployment of Illiterates and non-English ■peaking sailors as dangerous to life and property. The blue cross button adopted by tho Denver Union Label League was In dorsed and referred to the label con ference for adoption for general use. The convention went on record as determined to fight to a finish the legal proceedings Instituted as a result of the strikes and boycotts against the Buck Stove and Range Company of St. Louis and the Lowlo Hat Company of Danbury, Conn., that threatens to ■end Oompers, Mitchell and Morrison to Jail for contempt of court. The last act of the convention was a demonstration In favor of John Mitchell, who was attacked bv A. B. Grout, a Socialist delegate from St. Louis, In an altercation growing out of the boycott against the Buck Stove and Range Company. The vote to adjourn was a rousing “hurrah" Instead of the usual aye. President’s Thanksgiving Turkey. Westerly, R. I.—The Rhode Island turkey which Horace Voso has sent to the President, according to his annual custom, to grace the table at the Whlto House on Thanksgiving Day, went on the execution block Sunday and was shipped to Washington Monday. It Is the best of a lot of chestnut-fed birds, which have been selected and especial ly reared as candidates for the dis tinction and weghs twenty-six pounds. Mr. Vose'a birds have graced the White House table on Thanksgiving Day for many years. A t-: This woman says slio was saved from an operation by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. LenaV. Henry, of Norristown, Ga., writes to Mrs. lTukham: “ I suffered untold misery from fe male troubles. My doctor 6aid an opera tion was the only chanco I had, and X dreaded it almost as much as death. “One day I read how other women had been cured by Lydia E. Pinlcham’a Vegetable Compound, and I decided to try it. Before I had taken the first bottle I was better, and now I am en tirely cured. “Every woman suffering with anv female trouble should take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.” FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that tear ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tion, dizziness or nervous prostration. Why don’t you try it ? Mrs. Pinkbam Invites all sick women to write her for advice. She bos guided thousands to health. Address. Lynn, Mass. Not Always What They Seem. Prof, and Mrs. Hadley were on a train bound for New York, where Yale's president was to speak before a national convention. He made use of the hour and 20 minutes he spent In the train by rehearsing his speech In a low voice, using his hands to em phasize certain passages. A kindly matron who was sitting di rectly behind Mr. and Mrs. Hadley, and who had been watching and lis tening, leaned forward and, tapping Mrs. Hadley on the shoulder, said, feel ingly: “You have my sincere sym pathy, my poor woman; I have one Just like him at home." —Success. One of the Three. "Well, there were only three boys In school to-day who could answer one question that the teacher asked us,'* said a proud boy of eight. “And I hope my boy was one of the three." said the proud mother. “You bet I was." answered Young Hopeful, "and Sam Harris and Harry Stone were the other two.” “1 am very glad you proved yourself ■o good a scholar, my son; it makes your mother proud of you. What ques tion did the teacher aRk, Johnnie?" " 'Who broke the glass In the back window?’ ” Mr. Lapsling's Mean Joke. "You have named tho baby Tetan us?" exclaimed the horrified caller. "Yes.” answered Mrs. Lapsling, "I think that's what we'll call her. If* the name my husband suggests." "But think how It will mortify her when she grows to be a young woman! Do you know what ‘tetanus' means? It means lockjaw." "You must be mistaken about that. He says it means silent, quiet, re served.” They Don't Speak Now. "You love long rambles in tho coun try?" asked the girl In the white sweater. "Yes. indeed," responded the young man In the green hat with the purple band and buckled shoes. “When 1 go out In the country all nature seems to smile." “Gracious! I don't blame her. It la a wonder she don't Isukli nut right” NEW LIFE Found in Change to Right Food. After one suffers from acid dyspep sia, sour stomach, for months and then finds the remedy Is In getting tho right kind of food it Is something to speak out about. A N. Y. lady and her young Bon had such an experience and she wants others to know how to got relief. She writes: "For about fifteen months my little boy and myself had suffered with sour stomach. We were unable to retain much of anything we ate. "After suffering in this way for so long I decided to consult a specialist In Btomach diseases. Instead of pre scribing drugs, be put us both on Grape-Nuts and we began to Improve Immediately. "It was the key to a new life. I found we had been eating too much heavy food which we could not digest. In a few weeks after commencing Grapo-Nuts I was able to do my house work. I wako In the morning with a clear head and feel rested and have no sour stomach. My boy sleeps well and wakes with a laugh. "We have regained our lost weight and continue to eat Grape-Nuts for both the morning and evening meals. We are well and happy and owe It t« Grape-Nuts.” "There’s a Reason." Name given by Poßtum Co., Rattle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Wollvllle,” In pkgs. 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