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THE OBSERVER CENTRAL CITY. • • COLORADO JUVENILE LAWS MEET APPROVAL GOVERNOR SHAFROTH SIGNS BILLS FOR CARE OF DELIN QUENT CHILDREN. DISCIPLINE OFFICERS CAN ARREST AND PLACE ON PRO BATION CONTRIBUTORS TO DELINQUENCY. Denver. —Governor John F. Shafroth signed two of the most important ju venile laws placed upon the statute books at the last session of the Legis lature when he affixed his signature to House bills 54 and 95, introduced by Mrs. Lafforty and drawn by Judge Lindsey. House bill 54 provides for masters of discipline, an innovation in juvenile work in Colorado, while 95 places parents or guardians found guilty of contributing to the neglect, delinquency or dependency of children on probation for terms of not exceed ing two years under bond. H. B. 54 is one which Judge Lindsey expects to work a great advance in juvenile work. It allows juvenile or county courts to appoint discreet per sons in each city, town or precinct if It so desires, within its jurisdiction, who shall hear juvenile cases and make findings of fact in, as far as practicable, the same manner as a master or referee in chancery pro ceedings. The master of discipline shall also make lecommendations as to what judgment should be entered against the child of the adult charged with contributing to juvenile delinquency, and these recommendations shall have all the force and effect of a court or der, unless reversed by the court. Ap* peal may be had by application within ten days for a court trial. The masters of discipline shall re ceive no compensation in counties over over 100,000 inhabitants or from any other country, except in such other counties in cases arising outside of and so removed from the county seat where court is held as to make it ex pensive and inconvenient for the per sons involved to attend a court trial. In such cases the court may allow a sum not to exceed $3 in any one case and not exceeding S2OO for any calen dar year. The money will be paid by the county commissioners. H. B. 95 provides that any reputable person being a resident of the county, may file a petition in writing setting forth complaints against any person who shall cause or contribute to the dependency, neglect or delinquency of any child. If the court is convinced of the truth of the charges after having summoned the defendant to appear be fore it, that person or persons may be placed upon probation for a term not exceeding two years. The court may also fix a bond and send the person to Jail if he fails to give it. If, during the period of probation, the person on pro bation shall violate the order of the court in regard to his case, the court may direct the county attorney to pro ceed against the bond, the recovery to be used in support of the child in the case. If it shall appear during the trial that the child did not receive such training, instruction and discipline as a child should reasonably receive, then the law provides that the presumption of guilt shall be against the defendant and the burden and proof upon him and not the state. The court may also change the proceeding to a criminal prosecution at any time if the facts brought out during the trial shall jus tify it in his opinion. The object of this is to allow mas ters of chancery to go from town to town in country districts ami hear cases at various points, thus saving the persons involved the expense of com ing to the county seat and waiting per haps for several days at their own ex pense for trial. The masters of dis cipline are invested with the power to issue notices, summons, capias or process to have the same effect a no tice issued by a clerk of the court. The master may superintend the pro bation of children or adults. In cities having juvenile courts the probation off let rs will serve as masters, while in outside districts persons who have a special interest in the work will be se lected. Rio Grande to San Francisco. Denver. —Fifty million dollars worth of Western Pacific first mortgage bonds, guaranteed by the Denver Rio Grande, have been sold by Blair & Co., eastern underwriters. The Denver & Rio Grande undertook the financing of the Western Pacific receiving there for $50,000,000 of the $75,000,000 capi tal stock of the company. Rio Grande holdings in Western Pacific are now estimated to be worth $18,000,000. It Is expected that through trains will bo operated from Denver to Sun Fran cisco via the Rio Grande and the West ern Pacific by Sept. 15th. At the opening of the Western league baseball season in Denver, April 20th. Denver defeated Omaha by a score of 4 to 3 in an exciting game that lasted for thirteen Innings. Thou sands watched the game in a storm of wind, dust and snow. THE WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES. IN LATE DISPATCHES DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROG RESS OF THE AGE. WESTERN NEWS. The fifth national stock show will be held in Denver during the week of January 8th to 15, 1910. A bill prohibiting prize fights in California on Memorial Day has been signed by Governor Gillett. An organized effort will be made tn Wisconsin to induce the Legislature to legalize baseball games on Sunday, they being barred by the present statutes. Lightning struck the house of Law rence Winchel, a young farmer near Michigan City, Ind., and he and his wife were killed and their child seri ously burned. At a local option election in Ross county, O., on the 27th ult., the county went “wet” by 2,000 majority. Riots Rt Chillicothe necessitated calling out. the National Guard, who carried wagon spokes in place of rifles. The ] aihfinding car of the Denver to the City of Mexico endurance run left Denver May 1st, carrying letters from Governor Shafroth to President Diaz and to Governor Escandou of the state of Mexico. The main event will take place next fall. A tornado at Douglas, Kas., on the 28th ult. killed one, injured ten and did much damage to property. Lewis Ayres, seventy years old, was killed and Mrs. J. j. Jones seriously injured. Ihree school buildings were wrecked. At Udall and Rose Hill buildings were blown from their foundations. A scandal has been unearthed in Chicago in connection witn the leas ing of the temporary city hall. It is alleged that the city is paying a rental of $99,000 a year, despite the fact that the same building was offered to pri vate firms and individuals previous to the signing of the lease with the city for one-third of that amount. Rates which will be first submitted to every railroad in the West, and then to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, will be prepared at a conference officials of the Hill and Harriman lines to be held in Chicago in June. These rates will pertain to traffic from the Middle Western states to the West and the Pacific coast. The reclamation service has been asked to take up w hat is known as the Tenney-Davy irrigation project, which would reclaim 200,000 acres in Albany county, Wyo., and Larimer county, Colo., along the foothills down Lone Tree creek valley in a southeasterly direction from Buford. Wyo. Senator Warren of Wyoming has interested hmiself in the project and if the gov ernment undertakes it, $5,000,000 will be spent. As the result of the explosion in the Crescent Nickeledeon at Peoria, 111., which plunged the entire front of the theater into flames, William R. Rob inson, city editor of the Peoria Star and manager of the playhouse, was fa tally injured and died as the result of inhaling flames in his efforts to con trol the crow'd. He was one of the most widely known newspaper men in the country. GENERAL NEWS. On Friday morning, April 30th, Queen Wilhelmina gave birth to a daughter. Ex-President Roosevelt’s first day’s hunting in the Mau Hills resulted in the killing of three lions by Mr. Roose velt and one by his son, Hermit. Foster Udell, known ns the apple king, died at Brockport, N. Y., Satur day. Mr. Udell’s orchards are famous. He had probably planted more apple trees than any other man in the world. Criminal prosecutions by the federal government will be begun as a result of the disclosures in the recent suit of the government against the Amer ican Sugar Refining Company in New York. The agreement between the miners and operators insuring industrial peace in the anthracite coal regions for another period of three years, was signed at Pittsburg by representatives of the employers and the men. Charles K. Shu, probably the first Chinaman to be made n justice of the peace in this country, has been invest ed with that authority by the common wealth of Massachusetts. Shu is a nu live of Seattle, Wash. The Bubject for the prize essay of the National Association of Life Un derwriters this year will be “The Life Insurance Agent as a Public Bene factor.” A cottage at Beverley, Mass., near that leased by President Taft, is being repaired for occupancy during summer by Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. This property is owned by Mr. Longworth’s mother and is at Mingo Beach. Dr. Manuel Amador, first president of the republic of Panama, died at Punuma May 2nd, after a lingering ill ness. He was seventy-five years of age. Manuel Amador was one of the prime movers in the revolution in 1903 against Colombia, which led to the independence of Panama. The new Sultan of Turkey Is said to bear a remarkable resemblance to his dethroned brother. His lips are thick and slightly protruding; he has the same curve to the nose and his hair is untinged with gray, but in oth er ways he shows signs of Time’s rav ages. The American Sugar Refining Com pany of New Jersey and the New York corporation of the same name, on the 29th ult., by the payment of about $900,000, completed the payment of fines and claims amounting to about $2,000,000 due the government on ac count of frauds on the revenue. By the breaking of a rope fire es cape Miss Jeanette Tandy of Vevay, Ind., a sophomore at Wellesley Col lege, Mass., fell two stories and suf fered serious injuries. Miss Tandy was fulfilling the college requirement that each student at intervals make a descent on the fire escape. At the Grant birthday dinner of the Union Club in Philadelphia, President Taft paid an enthusiastic tribute to the memory of General Grant as a man, as a soldier and as president. He said that he believes that the spirit shown by Grant and Lee at Appomat tex is today triumphant. The deposition of Abdul Hamid as Sultan of Turkey, so far as he person ally is concerned, is not regretted in England. For years English diplo mats have been fighting against the intrigues emanating from the Yildiz palace and they never really knew whether the Sultan was their enemy or their friend. William E. Corey, president of the United States Steel Corporation, is try ing to form a big combination of the copper interests of the country. Mr. Corey and his friends recently called together forty of the leading copper men of the country and sub mitted his plan to them. Practically all favored the idea. In an address before the New York bar Attorney General Wickersham stated that the Shermon anti trust law will be enforced by the Taft adminis tration. Rebates will be prevented so far as possible. The work of the Roosevelt regime in this direction will be carried forward with vigor though by different methods. Severe earthquake shocks are re ported in Kameron, West Africa. The d.sturbances have compelled the col onial German government to vacate Buea and remove temporarily at Du ala. Buea lies on the slope of the Maron mountains at an elevation of 3,000 feet. The mountains are vol canic and 100 years ago some of the craters were active. A dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph from Constantinople says that in an interview Enver Bey, one of the leaders of the Young Turks, de clared that they had proofs that a mas sacre of all Turks suspected of liber alism had been projected in Constan tinople, and was only prevented by General Schefket’s hastening the occu pation of the capital. The Areo club of Sarthe, Tenn., has applied to the public officials depart ment asking it to co-operate in the pre sentation of a work of art to Wilbur and Orville Wright as a souvenir of their flights at Lemans. It is proposed that this shall take the shape of a group representing the Wrights dis covering the secrets of flight, by some celebrated sculptor. At Icemans, France, the Sarthe Aero club gave a farewell banquet to Wil bur and Orville Wright, the American aeroplanists. The president of the club, M. Bollee, presented Wilbur Wright with a bronze group represent ing the genius of aviation, revealing the secrets of flight to the brothers. He also handed him checks for the club’s two prizes which were won by Mr. Wright. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. The woman’s suffrage bill that passed the Wisconsin House some time ago has been killed in the Sen ate. Secretary Ballinger has approved the Wyoming state indemnity land list No. 11 for 10,349 acres in the Douglas laud district. Secretary Ballinger has issued an order restoring to entry 20,500 acres of land in the Alliance, Neb., land dis trict, withdrawn from use in connec tion with the North Platte irrigation project, and found not available for such use. There can be no monopoly in the use of the word “sockeye” in denominat ing the species of salmon canned by any of the great salmon packing in terests of the Pacific coast or of Alas ka, nor is a packer required to state on the label of his cans the locality in which the salmon is taken, according to a decision by Solicitor Earle for the Department of Commerce and Libor in an informal opinion to the United States fish commission. The arena of land designated by Secretary Ballinger for entry under the new enlarged homestead law, ag gregating 157,000,000 acres, are al lotted to various western states as fol lows: Colorado, 20,000,000 acres; O.egon, 7,000,000; Washington, 3,500, 000; Utah, 7,000,000; Wyoming, 9,000,- 0(0; New Mexico, 14,000,000; Nevada, 49,000.000; Arizona, 20,000,000; Mon tana, 19,500,000. President Taft has appointed Alfred W. Cooley of New York as an asso ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico. A thirty-day march to be made my army officers over the battle grounds of Virginia to study problems of war fare, was begun on the 2nd inst., when a long line of horses and trooperB equipped with all the paraphernalia of the field, left Fort Myer, Va., under command of MaJ. Eben Smith of the general staff, on their way to Freder icksburg. FIND GATUN DAM ENTIRELY SAFE TWENTY-SIX CONGRESSMEN WILL SO REPORT AFTER VISIT ING PANAMA. LOCK SYSTEM IS BEST SEA LEVEL WOULD COST $200,000,- 000 MORE AND TAKE TEN YEARS. LONGER. New York, —Tht lock system is the right one for the Panama canal. It would require ten years longer time and cost $200,000,000 more to change to sea level plan. The Gatun dam is safe. These are the conclusions of President Taft’s commission. Twenty-six representatives, members of a special congressional committee sent to Panama by President Taft to report on the progress of the work on the canal, arrived in New York, Sun day on the Panama of the Panama railway steamship line. Representative J. A. Goulden of New York, chairman of the Panama com mittee, said that the investigation had been conducted In a business-like way, and that with a few exceptions all the members had been agreeably surprised with the progress of the work. “Many of us were of the opinion when we left for the canal, on April 14th, that the sea level plan was more desirable than the lock project,” said Mr. Goulden. “A week’s study of the conditions, however, changed our opin ions. and we are to report that the plan decided upon by President Taft is the better of the two. “Every assurance was give to us by the engineers in the canal zone that the foundations of the Gatun dam would prove more than strong enough to hold the load. These foundations are at a depth of 180 feet and in some places more than that. “Estimates by our experts show that to change the plan of construction from the lock to the seal level plan would entail an additional cost of $200.- 000,000. Also it would delay the com pletion of the canal for ten years be yond the date now set by the engineers for the work to be finished. The canal will be completed inside of five years, we believe.” Representative H. F. Conroy of New York said that the principal objection to the sea level plan was the action of the tide. “The tide rises to a height of 20 feet on the Pacific side of the isthmus,’’ he said, “while the rise on the opposite side is several feet less, and at differ ent times of the day and night, I was a strong supporter of the sea level scheme until these facts were made clear to me by personal investigation. These conditions were convincing in my mind, and I now believe also that there is no reason for fear from the Gatun dam.” Wrights Honored In London. London. —There was a demonstra tion of remarkable enthusiasm at the Institution of Civil Engineers Monday night when the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain conferred on Wilbur and Orville Wright the aeroplanists of Dayton, Ohio, its first gold medal. The spectators cheered and ap plauded repeatedly while the Wright brothers blushingly bore their honors through an hour of the warmest eulogies. Finally the entire assemblage rose up and gave three cheers for each of the brothers. They sang “For They Are Jolly Good Fellows” and ended by cheering Miss Katherine Wright. Sir Hiram Maxim, Lieut. Gen. Baden- Powell, Capt. F. S. Cody, an American who is struggling, but thus far un successfully to perfect, his aeroplane for the British army, and a large num ber of scientists and ladies were pres ent. Speeches were made by Major Bad en-Powell, Col. J. E. Capper, the war office’s aeronautical experts, who re ferred to the Wright brothers as “un spoiled as though they were nobodies.” and the chairman of the gather. Ed ward Purk»3 Frost, who presented the medal. Wilbur and Orville Wright made brief speeches, expressing their thanks. A reception was then held and the brothers were surrounded, questioned and besieged for autographs. Earlier in the evening they were given a dinner at the Ritz hotel by the Aeronautical society. Sleeping Slyness In St. Louis. St. Louis.--George J. Owens is dead at the City hospital here of a malady diagnosed by physicians as the Bleep ing Bicknem. How the man contracted the diabase in St. I-ouls Is not known. He said he had never been in the trop ics, to which the malady is peculiar. Holland's Gift to America. Amsterdam. —Good progress is being made in completing the ship “Halve Maan,” recently launched here. This queer looking craft, which the people of The Netherlands are Bending as a token of their friendship for America, Is expected to prove one of the most attractive features of the naval parade to be held in connection with the Ful ton celebration on the Hudson river in October. When rigged and fitted out the “Halve Maan” will be an exact re production of the vessel sailed by Cap tain Hudson centuries ago. COLORADO NEWS W. F. Cannon, pure food commis sioner, has been reappointed to that office by the executive committee of the State Board of Health. Secretary Boggess of the Colorado Chautauqua Association, is receiving letters, indicating a large attendance to the summer session commencing July 4th. The discovery of two cases of sup posed rabies in dogs in Greeley has postponed the revoking of the ordi nance which requires that all dogs be kept at home or be shot. In the District Court at Pueblo on the Ist inst., Ed Hager, recently con victed of the murder of Mrs. Eliza beth James, was sentenced to death during the week of August 14th. Rev. Benjamin Brewster, who will be consecrated Episcopal bishop of western Colorado June 17th, has an nounced that he will make his future home in Glenwood Springs. Measurements taken at the Roose velt deep drainage tunnel in the Crip ple Creek district, show a total gain for the month of April of 98G feet, said to be a record for tunnel driving in any country. The State Board of Horticulture has issued its annual report. The volume also contains the proceedings of the horticulturists’ convention, held at Montrose, and the report of the State Beekeepers’ Association for the year 1908. Copies of the report can be ob tained by applying to Secretary Mar tha A. Shute at the state capitol. The directors of the Greeley-Poudre irrigation district are considering the purchase of 500,000,000 cubic feet of water from Boyd lake to supplement the enormous supply already con trolled by the district. Boyd lake has 2,000,000,000 cubic feet of water stored and the district will pay about $5,00,- 000 for the supply it wants. An increasing demand for power for irrigation purposes is noted by the Northern Colorado Power Company, whose transmission lines extend over Northern Colorado. Two new pump ing plants are being installed near Ixmgmont to raise water above the ditches for irrigation, and Inquiry is coming from all parts of the district :• cached by the line. Denver City troop, classified on the roster as Troop B, First squadron of cavalry, carried off the honors of the First squadron at the fourth annual field competition of the National Guard of Colorado, at the Denver range May 2nd, winning the team and Jndividual matches. Private A. Smith of Troop B won the individual match by a to tal score of 415 points. Prof. William C. Strieby of Colorado college has been asked to investigate a phenomenon near the Ute Chief min eral spring at Manitou. While boring for carbonic acid ga.-» the workmen re cently struck an apparently magnetic rock at a depth of 125 feet. It was al most impossible to pull out a drill, and when it was finally extracted the steel was found to be highly magnetized. Henry A. Decker, owner of Decker lake and ranch near Crested Butte, died on the 20th ult. of pleurisy and heart failure. He was a pioneer resi dent of Crested Butte, having been for many years in the hardware business. He engaged In fish culture and had a trout hatchery at his lake from which he had been shipping to Denver and other points in the state for years. Madison Smith, aged ninety-four, the oidest man in Weld county, a resident of Greeley for thirty-nine years, and a vice president of the Society of Union Colony Pioneers, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. E. Bak er, in Greeley, on the 28th ult. He Ifaves three children, O. C. Smith of South Dakota, Pitts Smith and Mrs. E. E. Baker of Greeley; eight grand children and nine great-grandchildren. Now that the supply of water as furnished by the Antero and Lost Park reservoir is assured, the Antero Reser voir Company has arranged for storing the water carried to Denver by Its High Line ditch by the purchase of the Toll Gate and Platte Land reservoirs north and east of the city. The trans fer of the Toll Gate reservoir located just east of the Windsor farm involves an expenditure of about $250,000. It is estimated that the fruit crop on the Western slope this year will ag gregate nearly 8,000 carloads, requir ing eighteen carloads of paper to wrap the Individual peaches, pears, plums and apricots, without counting the upples. Fruit growers are al ready appealing to the railroads to ar range for furnishing the thousundH of extra people who will be required to pick the crop, and for moving the crop after it is picked. In the District Court at Golden May Ist, a verdict for $2,000 for the plain tiff was rendered by the Jury in the case of Sarah A. Stock vs. The Big Five Mining Company, after deliberating the entire night. Mrs. Stock sued for $25,000 for injuries alleged to have been caused by a defective bathtub owned by the company at Idaho Springs. This was the third trial of the case, the first resulting in aver- , diet for SI,OOO, which was set aside; and the second in u hung Jury. John G. Lilley, Sr., Indian fighter, j railroad builder state representative and for mnny years commissioner of Arapahoe county, was buried at Lit tleton on the 20th ult. He was seven ty-six yeurs of age. Last month’s work on tho Gunnison tunnel has reduced the distance be twten the two headings to 1,250 feet, nenrly 600 feet having been bored dur- April. At this rate the end of June will see the tunnel finished. ( NEW STRENGTH FOR OLD BACKS. No Need to Suffer Every Day from Backache. Mrs. Joannah Straw, 526 North Broadway, Canton, S. D., says: “For three years I suf fer e d everything with rheumatism In my limbs and a dull, ceaseless aching In ' my back. I was weak, languid, broken with head aches and dizzy spells, and the kid- I ney secretions were thick with solids. 1 was really in a crlt- leal condition when I began with Doan’s Kidney Pills, and they certain ly did wonders for me. Though I am 81 years old, I am as well as the aver age woman of 50. I work well, eat well and sleep well.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. PROOF POSITIVE. “Do you really love me, George?” “Didn’t you give me this tie, dear?” “Yes, love. Why?” “Well, ain’t I wearing It?” RASH ALL OVER BOY’S BODY. Awful, Crusted, Weeping Eczema on Little Sufferer —A Score of Treat* ments Prove Dismal Failures. Cure Achieved by Cuticura. “My little boy had an awful rash all over his body and the doctor said it was eczema. It was terrible, and used to water awfully. Any place tho water went it would form another sore and it would become crusted. A score or more physicians failed utterly and dis mally In their efforts to remove tho trouble. Then I was told to use the Cuticura Remedies. I got a cake of Cuticura Soap, a box of Cuticura Oint ment and a bottle of Cuticura Re solvent, and before we had used half the Resolvent I could see a change lit him. In about two months he was en tirely well. George F. Lambert, 139 West Centre St., Mahanoy City, Pa,. Sept. 26 and Nov. 4, 1907.” Potter Drug 6c. Cbem. Corp., Solo Props., Boston. A Little Slip. Rev. Mr. Spicer had for three days enjoyed the telephone which had been his laat gift from an admiring parish ioner. He had been using It Imme diately before going to church. When the time came for him to an nounce the first hymn, he rose, and with bis usual Impressive manner, read the words. Then In a crisp, firm tone, he said: "Let us all unite In hymn six double o, sing three.”— Youth's Companion. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, aa they cannot reach the d*- eaa*-«i portion of the car. There la only oue way to cure ilrafiieaa. anti that la by cfMudltutional rr medic*. Deafness w cauaed by an inflamed condition of the mucoua lining of tha Kuatachlan Tube. W hen this tube u Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or im perfect hearing, and when It la entirely closed. 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