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.
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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.
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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.”
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