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THE OBSERVER OBNTRALCITT • - COLORADO MAY FIGHT STEEL TRUST DISSOLUTION AND CRIMINAL PROSECUTION OF INDIVID UALS EXPECTED. MR. TAFT TO DECIDE STEPS TO BE TAKEN ARE LEFT WITH PRESIDENT AND AT TORNEY GENERAL. Washington. The United States Steel Corporation is to put upon the anti-trust grill at last. Not only will the government move to dissolve it as an illegal combination, but its principal officers are in danger of criminal prosecution. In view of the decisions of the Unit ed States Supreme Court in the Stand ard Oil and Tobacco trust cases, the officials of the administration are con fident the proposed proceedings will be attended with success. Within a comparatively short time Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board of directors of the United States Steel Corporation, will have direct and posi tive information as to whether the Sherman anti-trust law is “archaic," as he contends, and will know whether the policy of “co-operation" among the steel interests, for which he is respon sible, is legal. Within about ten days the results of investigation by the bureau of cor porations into the organization and the conduct of the United States Steel Cor poration will be placed on the desk of President Taft. WILLIAM E. LORIMER. United States Senator from Illinois. In Connection With Whose Election Bribery Has Been Charged. A Com mittee Is Now Conducting an Inves tigation in the Senate at Washing ton. The hastening of the report is the result of directions issued by the President himself to Secretary of Com merce £i:d Nagel. It is reported the information gathered by the bu reau will be turned over to the House committee now conducting a steel trust inquiry. The alleged activity of the admin istration since the House committee instituted its inquiry drew from Chair man Stanley a statement in which he said: “Senator Culberson, myself and others who have studied this question, have long harbored tjie suspicion that somewhere in the archives ot the gov ernment there was evidence that would throw a flood upon the acts and doings of the United States Steel corporation. "The Judiciary committee of the Senate made the must strenuous ef forts to ascertain these facts at a time when the absorption of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Company by the Steel corporation could hardly have been called consummated. "One year ago I was advised by Representative Parker of New Jersey, then chairman of the House Judiciary committee, that neither the President nor the attorney general favored a resolution of inquiry into the United States Steel corporation. When the resolution to have the department of Justice udvise Congress as to the con ditions into which we are now inquir ing wis favorably reported, the attor ney general, with the advice and ap proval of the President, so I am in formed, flutly refused to furnish this information on the ground that it was not compatible with public policy. "It was well known that this reso lution, although heurtily approved by the people and the press, was, over my repeated protests, pigeon-holed in the ruleB committee m the last Con gress. Washington.—The wool tariff revi sion bill has been introduced in the House by Chairman Underwood of the ways and means committee and debate on it begun. The measure was accom panied by a report from the Demo crats of the committee in its favor, while Republicans unanimously report ed against .t NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE. WESTERN. As a result of a street sho’oting in Sioux Falls, S.*D., two persons are dead. A. G. Rushlight, regular Republican, has been chosen mayor of Portland, Oregon. At Oklahoma City a storage house of the Oklahoma Cotton Oil milis burned. Loss, $13tT,000. A freight engine on the Union Pa cific, six miles west of North Platte, Neb., blew up, killing three persons. W. R. Greene of Audubon, Iowa, has been elected congressman of the Ninth Iowa district to succeed Wal ter I. Smith. Mrs. Maria Martinez Rodriguez of Bakersfield, Cal., is said to be the old est person in the United States, being 123 years old. Reports from the bedside of former Gov. Haskell, at Muskogee, Okla., say he is much improved and is considered out of danger. Congressman Alexander C. Mitchell of the Second Kansas district of Law rence, can live but a few days, his relatives believe. A gold strike is reported to have been made on Indian creek, 300 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska. Pay ore has been struck in two places. A large area is being prospected. Gold has alsa been struck on Long creek, on the south side of the Yukon. Six persons were drowned in Utah lake at Salt City, when the launch Galilee, in which sixteen i eo ple were attending a party given in honor of the approaching marriage of Miss Vera Brown and Edward B. Holmes, capsized. Among those drowned were the engaged young cou ple. After floating on a log in a flooded stream for nearly twenty hours Mrs. Sallie Tripp, who with her mother and two sisters was swept into tha Canadian river by a freshet, near Me- Allester, Okla., was found in Gaines creek, two miles above where that stream empties into the Canadian. Mrs. Tripp was unconscious. WASHINGTON. Postal savings bank service will be established at Denver July 1st. President Taft cabled his congratu lations to King George V. of Great Britain and King Frederick VIII. of Denmark. The English monarch is 46 years old and the ruler of Den mark 68. President Taft rebuked Colonel Jos eph Garrard, commanding the cavalry post at Fort Myer, Va., for disap proving Private Frank Bloom’s effort for promotion because of Bloom’s Jewish parentage. Senators Dillingham, Gamble, Jones and Kenyon, Republicans, and Fletch er, Johnston, Kern and Lea, Demo crats, will constitute the sub-commit tee to conduct the new investigation into the bribery charges against Sen ator Ixjrimer. Investigation by the Geological Sur vey of the erosion of numerous drain age basins show the surface of the country is being removed *t the aver age rate of about an inch in 760 years. Though trivial when spread over the United States, it becomes stupendous as a total. Present indications point to this year’B cotton crop as the largest the country ever has produced, according to government experts. The crop will be greater by about 2,500,000 bales than the average and larger by nearly 400,000 bales thnn the biggest crop the country ever raised—that of 1904. The Finance committee’s report of the reciprocity bill to the Senate will feature the beginning of the third month of the extra session. The hear ings, which have continued almost a month, will close and the committee will go into executive session to de termine the disposition of the meas ure. A move that is strongly suggestive of railroad operations on the scale of the Northern Securities -Company of St. Paul, was Outlined by J. J. Hill, chairman of the Great Northern Rail way Company, when in a statement he announced the execution' of a $600,- • 000,000 first und refunding mortgage to secure bonds for the Great North ern and Chicago, Burlington & Quin cy railroad. President Taft Is positively opposed to legislative claims In regard to the wool tariff during the special session of Congress and before the tarlfi board renders a report covering its Investigation of the wool-growing business of the country. Not less than 25,000 miles of road were Improved throughout the South from 1904 to 1909, according to Walter Puge, director of jthe United States office of public roads. This makes a total of improved mileage of 42,280, or 6.C7 per cent of ull roads In the South. FOREIGN. 1 In Cuba a movement to put qn end to the national lottery is under <way. Rumors have reached London from Parir that Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria had djed suddenly. . . . * Cloudbursts, accompanied by heavy hail, caused great damage in South Germany. AJany lives were lost. One hundred residents of Leon, Mex., are dead as the result of a riot in that city, according to messages re ceived. General Porfirio Diaz, who arrived at Havana on the steamer Ypiranga from Vera Cruz, resumed his voyage for Havre. Lawrence Hargrave, a box kite in ventor of Sydney, N. S. W., claims to have constructed an aeroplane which he calls “fool proof.” Twenty-eight Mexican “liberals’ who were opposed to Madero were shot at sunrise on Saturday and Sun day in the Altar district, near Com pania and Altar, Mexico. King George’s imperial crown and the new crown which has been de signed for Queen Mary for the cor onation are being exhibited by Gar rards, the crown jewelers. The value of the crowns is $7,500,000. SPORT. WESTERN LEAGUE STANDING. P. W. L. Pet. Denver 40 26 14 .650 | Lincoln 39 24 15 .615 j Sioux City 40 24 16 -.600 j Pueblo 37 22 15 .595 ISt. Joseph 43 21 22 .488 I Topeka 41 20 21 .488 Omaha 41 19 22 .4G3 Des Moines 43 6 37 .140 New York took the lead in the Na tional League pennant race by defeat ing Chicago in the final game of the series, 7 to 1. Marcel Penot, the French aviator, who fell from a height of fifty feet while giving an exhibition at San Diego de Losa Banos, June 1st, died. Battling Nelson, former lightweight champion is scheduled to fight “Bud” Anderson on July 4 at Vancouver, Wash. Nelson will train at Portland. A boxing circuit after the manner of a vaudeville circuit, has been formed with Milwaukee, Kansas City, Indian apolis, Memphis and New Orleans in cluded. Announcement was made from Na tional league headquarters in New York that Umpire Jack Doyle had been temporarily relieved from duty— “for not knowing the rules,” thte offi cial announcement runs—and that Robert Emslie, who has been acting as extra umpire, would for the present take his place. v GENERAL. The Kansas City Electric Light and Railway Company has been placed in hands of receivers. A Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste Marie passenger train was wrecked at Verges, Minn., and two persons killed. The new Chicago & Northwestern passenger station has been formally opened. The cost of the building was $23,750,000. At Kirksville, Mo., the temperature reached 105 in the shade. The sam« degree of heat was recorded at Phil lipsburg, Kans. Jack Johnson, the world’s cham pion heavyweight, will take all his Jewels along when he aqd his wife sail for England for the coronation. Fire destroyed the two nine-story grain elevators and a large malting house of the Schrier Brewing Compa ny, at Sheboygan, Wis. Loss, $300,000. After July no pasenger steamer car rying fifty or more passengers to sail as far as 200 miles, will be permitted to leave uort unless equipped with wireless apparatus. A government investigation of con ditions in the lumber industry, look ing toward the prosecution of the so called “lumber trust,” has begun be fore a special grand Jury in the fed eral District Court in Chicago. J. D. Bren, cashier of the University of Minnesota, who reported that he had ben robbed by three men of $14,- 000 near the campus, has been arrest ed and charged with embezzlement. Chal War veterans, 2,Q00 strong, sang "John Brown’s Body,” “Marching Through Georgia” and other wartime songs as they led the great Memorial Day parade in Chicago up to the point of review. Resolutions which were adopted at the weekly meeting of the Methodist Ministers’ Association of Cincinnati (onaeirtnlng the cotirts for allowing George B. Cox to escape may result in the arrest and punish ment of those ministers for contempt, of court. Heat records for-the year have been broken In the southwest, highest tem perature was reached at Pittsburg,' , Kans., whA’e it was 105. Other high marks were .loplin and Topeka, 97; Oklahoma City, 95, and Wichita, 94. Excessive heat was also reported from northern Arkansas. The 1911 Glldden tour which was to have started at Washington on June 21st, has-been postponed by the con test board of the Automobile Associa tion or America to an Indefinite date In the early fall. Running at fifty miles an hour, westbound ’train No. 9 and eastbound tran No 12 of the Burlington collided bead-on two miles west or Indlanola, Neb Dispatches from the wreck give fourteen people killed and a score or more injured. Passengers of the tralu declare that the list of dead will run bight r than this. COLORADO NEWS Gathered From All Parts of the State COMING .EVENTS. June 13, .14, 15—State Sunday School Convention, Pueblo. June 15-18. —Convention Christian .En deavor Society, Grand Junction. June 20-30.—Western General Confer ance Women’s Christian Association, Cascade, Colo. June 28.—Colorado Association of Let ter Carriers’ convention. Boulder. June 20-21.—National Association for Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, Denver. SIOO,OOO Hospital Completed. Grand Junction.—The new SIOO,OOO St. Mary’s hospital in this city, built by the Sisters of Charity of Leaven worth, who also erected St. Joseph’s hospital in Denver, is now complete. It is the most up-to-date hospital be tween Denver and Salt Lake City. Clifton Gets Interurban. Clifton. —The Grand Junction & Grand River Railway Company have announced that the interurban line would be extended from Grand Junc tion to this city at once. Later the company expects to extend the line to Palisade and into the Plateau valley. Boat Upsets; Two Drown. Glenwood Springs.—While Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Lewis, with two friends were boating on the big reservoir of the Antlers Orchard Development Company near Silt, the small boat capsized and all were thrown into the water. The Lewises were drowned and their bodies have not yet been re covered. Grasshoppers Getting Busy. Merino. —Grasshoppers are begin ning to get active In the Atwood and Merino districts. While they are not yet noticeable around Sterling, there is no doubt that unless preventive measures are taken at once the whole Sterling district will be infested as were the Greeley, Fort Collins and other upper districts last year. Expect Big Berry Crop. Steamboat Springs.—An indication of the importance that the strawberry industry is assuming in the vicinity of • Steamboat Springs is the fact that ; Manager Houston of the Produce As sociation is now negotiating for the purchase of two carloads of boxes and crates for the use of local growers. Electric Line for Otero County. La Junta. —A representative of the Pueblo Light Power & Traction Com pany has appeared before the commis sioners of Otero county asking for a franchise for a power line down the valley 'from the western edge of the county to La Junta. The commission ers have taken the matter under ad visement. Union Pacific to Build. Greeley.—That the Union Pacific intends to carry out a plan which it has had under consideration for two years, to build from Fort Collins up the Poudre canon byway of Bellvue Junction, through North Park, to a connection at some point on the main line, probably Wamsutter, Wyo., is the opinion expressed by officials of that road. Bulger, Soldier pf Fortune, Alive. El Paso, Texas. —Captain Bulger, soldier of fortune, Mexican insurrecto, farmer, ranchman and town builder of Denver and Fort Collins, who sought the'dangers of the battlefield and the glories of a soldier’s death, is not dead According to the story brought here by his colonel, Antonio Villareal, Bul ger, although wounded, will live, un less complications arise. Rio Grande to Add Another Train. Denver. —Announcement is made by the Denver and Rio Grande of an ad ditional train between Denver and Salt Lake City and San Francisco, to be Inaugurated June 18tb. On that date a new fast train will be added to the present service, and the run ning time will be reduced two hours. On the same date the Western Pa cific will add to its service a second daily train over its line between Salt Lake City and San Francisco, with through Standard and tourist sleeping cars on both truins between San Fran- ! cisco and Chicago in connection with the Denver and Rio Grande. Secures SIOO,OOO Gypsum Mill. Hotchkiss. —A deal has been com pleted between George O. Harper, a Milwaukee capitalist, and the ranchers in this vicinity for the construction of a $350,000 railroad which will be run from the Maher country to this 1 clt yfor the purpose of opening up rich gypsum .claims along the Gunnison* river In Red cation and starting in op eration a new SIOO,OOO gypsum mill here. The deal as It stands will mean half a million dollars in new improve m?nts for this section of which $125, 000 has been subscribed by the ranch ers between this city and Crawford. The richest field of gypsum in the state Is located south of here along the Gunnison river In Red canon. Work Progressing on Standley Lake. Denver. —Of the $2,000,000 supplied by the Banque Franco-Amerlcalne for the rejuvenation and completion of the Standley lake and allied projects of the Denver Reservoir Irrigation Company, over $600,000 has been ex pended since March 15th, the date on which the funds became available. Estimates of the future cost of the work, which will be completed Octo ber Ist, contemplate the expenditure of $300,000 per month, according to Receiver Arthur Day. LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS. Small Happchings Occurring Over the • State Worth Telling. Pueblo’s Western League baseball _season.httß opened.. The Delta National Bank has moved into its new $50,000 home. The Grand Junction police in one day rounded up 107 hoboes. The Mine Inspection bill *has been vetoed by Governor Shafroth. Mrs. Hatty Grew ’of Austin com mitted suicide by taking carbolic acid. The Windsor Gun Club has been or ganized and Will hold weekly matches. A movement has been started to erect a Masonic club house fh Den ver. Mrs. Mary C. Ewing, aged 82, a resi dent of Greeley for twenty-five years, is dead. Work on the Burlington railroad be tween Greeley and Hudson will begin July Ist. Patrick Doran was killed in Denver by running his motorcycle into a street car. A school of pharmacy will be opened at the Colorado University at Boulder next session. The Weld County Farmers’ Union, with a membership of 3,000, has been formally organized. R. B. Wallace, a banker of Monte Vista, died in Denver following an op eration for appendicitis. Denver is to have a festival of the Mountains and Plains the last week in September. The Gunnison Stock Growers’ Asso ciation has decided to organize a county fair association. Odd Fellows of northern Colorado have organized the Northern Colorado Odd Fellows Association. From the effects of an overdose of laudanum, Charles Murray fell dead in a saloon in Cripple Creek. Gov. Shafroth will be the principal speaker at the dedication of the pio neer monument in Denver, June 24. The Cheyenne Indians defeated the Fort Collins Umb Feeders in a game at Cheyenne by a score of 11 to 3. Five Mexicans whe were arrested in Fort Collins on charges of bootlegging were convicted and fined from SIOO to S3OO. Charles Blanchard, postmaster at, Brandon, has been arrested on a charge of embezzliug the funds of the office. Preliminary steps have been taken for reorganizing and financing the Glenwood Hot Springs Company by eastern capital. Chas. Campbell of Cripple Creek, charged with murder committed in 1903, was found guilty of Involuntary manslaughter. The City Council of Salle ac cepted the offer of J. B. McCutcheou to give the city a tract of ground to be made into a park. Arrangements have been completed for the annua] Chautauqua at Greeley, and the programme will open July Bth and close July 15th. In District Court In Trinidad, three horse thieves, Joe Mackley, Fred Chaves and Juan Sanchez, were found guilty by a jury. Governor Shafroth at the eleventh hour placed his veto upon the bill pro viding for the registration of all cases of tuberculosis in Colorado. Fourteen employes of the State Land Board will be dropped. A pav ing in money of $36,000 in the bien nial period thus will be accomplished. Charles A. Johnson, president of the Chamber of Commerce, is In Washington to urge President Taft to stop at Denver on his visit to the West in September. Hugh M. Smith was awarded $5,000 damages against the city of Pueblo in District Court for injuries received several months ago by a fall from bis bicycle at the Union avenue bridge. Every glass and aspoon in the soda fountains will have to be thoroughly sterilized before It is used, if the State Board of Health institutes one of the reforms which It Is now considering. Governor Shafroth has signed House bill Nd. 711, which creates a perma nent tax commission. The bill calls for a tax commission of three, each of whom is to draw a salary of $3,600 annually. A reduction of four hours and fif teen minutes in the time of Denver & Rio Grande and Western Pacific pas senger trains between Denver and San. Francisco will be made in a new schedule to be adopted June 18th. Isaac Cox, who shot and killed Bill Truby and shot at Sam Truby, some time ago, at Durango, was shot three times and probably fatally wounded, in front of the city hall, in that city, while going home with Sheriff Sease. Petitions and memorials relating to the establishment of an investigation station of the bureau,of mines at Sll verton, will be laid before the House by Representative Taylor, and refer red to the committee on mines and mining, of which he Is a member. A call has been issued for a confer ence of those engaged In work at ex perimental stations and agricultural colleges to meet in Colorado Springs October 16th to 20th to discuss agri cultural methods In regions of limited rainfajl. S. F. Harrington, a butter dealer In Denver, was fined SI,OOO and costs by Judge Lewis In the Federal Court for making adulterated butter. Harring ton pleaded guilty. The government officers said he took butter so old that “It smelt up to heaven” and renovated it by means of acids. Iff Sliced Njlj lyDried Beef# Old Hickory Smoked \J| i/| Highest Quality fl Finest Flavor M ll Try This Recipe II To the contents of one medium size jar of §ft Libby’. Sliced Dried Beef, (J add one tablespoonful of I M. butter, then sprinkle VA with one tablespoonful l\ of flour and add one-half 111 tti cup of cream. Cook 5 J/i fl minutes and serve on Vv II toast. f| Ask for Libby’s in the swk sealed glass jars. FMm 41 At All Grocer* If ||fi Libby, McNeill fie Libby The Real Reason. "I am going to send you my little kitten to keep you company.” “How good of you.” “Don’t mention it. Besides, we are moving.” He Was Innocent. Johnny Williams had been “bad” again. “Ah, me, Johnny!” sighed his Sun day school teacher. “I am afraid we shall never meet In heaven.” “What have you been doin’?” asked Johnny, with a grin.—Harper’s Month ly. Hugging a “Lamb." Parson Johnson had been caught hugging one of the finest “ewe” lambß of the congregation who happened to be a very popular young lady and It created quite a stir in the church. So “Brudder Johnson” was brought for trial. ‘•You have seen these great pic tures, I suppose, so you know dat de great Sheperd am always pictured wid a lamb in his arms,” said “Brud der” Johnson. “Yes, sah, pahson, dat am so.” ad mitted Deacon Jones. “Den, Brudder Jones, what am wrong in de sheperd of this flock having a lamb in his arms?” This was too much for Brudder Jones, so he proposed that the people have a called meeting that afternoon. After the point was discussed at the afternoon meeting the following reso lution was made: “Resolved, Dat for the future peace of this congregation, dat de next time Brudder Johnson feels called on to take a lamb ob de flock in his arms, that he pick out a ram-lamb.” Breakfast A Pleasure when you have Post Toasties with cream A food with snap and zest that wakes up .e appetite. Sprinkle crisp Post Toasties over a saucer of hesh strawberries, add some cream and a little sugar— Appetizing Nourishing Convenient “The Memory Lingers” SoM by Grocers POSTUM CEREAL CO.. Lid., Bull. Cr.ik, Mich.