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THE OBSERVER Ml II IIIL CHTT • . COLORADO STORM TAKES FIFTEEN LIVES CHARLESTON’S STREETS ARE STREWN WITH WRECKAGE AND UPROOTED TREES. PROPERTY LOSS HEAVY UNITED STATES NAVY SUFFERS— TORPEDO BOATS TOSSED ASHORE. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Charleston, S. C. —Reports from Cha-leston and surrounding country bring the list of dead as a result of the terrific storm up to fifteen. ThiJ list is expected to be enlarged when reports are received from the more re mote islands. Conservative estimates continue to place the property damage in the neighborhood of $1,000,000, despite the fact that reports of losses to shipping Interests continue to roll in. Charleston rests tranquil under clear skies. The streets are strewn with wreckage and uprooted trees. The wa ter front is in many places dismantled, many wharves being ruined. No reports have come in as yet to throw light on the damage to crops in the region between Charleston and Savannah and on the sea islands. It is feared, however, that the cotton and riog crops have been dealt a stagger ing blow. Ships coming to port tell of terrific battles fought with the sea as the re sult of the storm which swept the coast. Only one ship in the Savannah coast territory suffered injury, howev er. The steamer Lexington went ashore on Huntington island, S. C. The ves sel will be floated with great difficulty. The passengers were taken off by the revenue cutter Yamacraw. Five men were taken off the schoon er Fortuna by the tank steamer Li gonier, northbound. The captain, his wife and cook refused to leave the ship. Washington. The raging storm which swept the south Atlantic left its imprint on the navy. Six torpedo boats were wrenched from their moor <.gs at the Charleston navy yards and tossed as toys, high upon the beach. Many buildings of the yard are be lieved to be wrecked. The commandant appealed for S2O, oo as an emergency fund with which to make immediate repairs. Though this amount will not cover the loss sustained by the navy. Acting Secre tory of the Navy Winthrop authorized the expenditure of $15,000 for the most urgent work. The wireless station of the yard is out of commission. Roofs and doors are strewn about the station and many of .the wharves and sea walls have been almost de molished. Major General Leonard Wood, chief the staff of the army, was notified that sixty buildings at Fort Moultrie, Ga., were damaged by the storm. Governors to Tour Country. Pocatello, Idaho.—The governors of thirteen western states will greet 85,- 000,000 people east of the Rockies this fall, when a governors’ special train, carrying the executives of Idaho, Washington, Oregqn, California, Mon tana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota will assemble at Oma ha in October and journey to the land shows at Chicago, Pittsburg and New York city, with side trips to every eastern capital, and wind up at St. Paul in December. Denounces Money Trust. Boston. —In the most sensational ad dress in the history of the conserva tive American Bar Association, its president, Edgar Farrar, flayed the trusts and the laws under which they are organized. The big financial in terests of the country, especially tho money kings of New York, were de nounced in bitter terms as lawbreak ers and law evaders, who plan to con trol the liquid finances of the nation in a gigantic money trust. Jews Make Good Shortage. Denver. —The Jews of tho nation have started a movement to make up the shortage in tho funds of the Na tional Jewish Hospital for Consump tives, according to Rabbi W. 8. Fried man, one of the members of the board of directors, who has returned homo from a meeting at Atlantic City. Russian Aviator Killed. St. Petersburg.—Lieutenant Zolotne hln, a Russian military aviator, full with his aeroplane while making a flight and was killed. Young Gates Gets Million. New York.—Shortly before John W. Cates died In Paris ho made a codicil to his will, In which he left $1,000,000 In cash to his sou, Charles U. Cates, together with a trust lurid of $2,000, 000. Mrs. Gates gets $37,000,000. CONDENSATION OF FRESH NEWS THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS PATCHES PUT INTO 8HORT, CRISP PARAGRAPHS. STORY OF THE WEEK SHOWING THE PROGRESS OP EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND FOREIGN LANDS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN. Kansas City will get the 1912 meet ing of the Loyal Order of Moose. The State Board of Agriculture met with Gov. Hadley and decided to take i census of the fruit trees in Missouri, something never before undertaken. The fire which caused the death of seven men and the injury of three others in the shaft of the Giroux Con solidated mine, at Ely, Nev., is still burning. The state of Idaho and the United States government have agreed to ex change about GOO,000 acres of land in that state so that each may have its lands in a more compact body than at present. E. L. Requin, president of the San Francisco federation of the shop em ployes of the Harriman lines, believes a secret vote now being taken there by the Federation would be unanimous for a strike. The Texas Cattle Raisers’ Associa tion, who control G,000,000 head of cat tle are planning to make a fight on the big packers of the country, and will either bring about a raise in the price of cattle or reduce the price of meat. The Grand Army encampment se lected Los Angeles for the meeting next year over Denver. Denver in 1913 is the pledge of life delegates to this encampment. Judge Trimble of Illinois was made commander-in chief. According to a report received at central police station in Los Angeles from H. G. Otis, an attempt to fright en him into paying $10,000 under pen alty of being shot or his home de stroyed by dynamite, has been made by some unidentified person, apparent ly a crank. F. C. Nicodemus of New York and J. C. Potter of Port Aransas, Texas, har pooned and landed a devil fish. The fish measured fourteen feet across and weighed 1,600 pounds. The monster towed the launch three miles to sea, and was captured only after It had been shot ten times. A highway from Lincoln, Neb., to the western Colorado line, which will follow closely the route of the Burling ton railroad, is the joint project of the several Nebraska counties through which it will pass. Not for several years, in all probability will the road be completed, but Its construction has been definitely determined. That chaos w'ould follow the grant Ing of the demands of the Federation of Shop Employes of the Harriman lines; that it would abridge or deprive the corporations of the ability to ful fill the duties imposed upon them by the law’, and that the officers deliber ately so betraying their trusts as to agree to such an arrangement would be universally condemned by public opinion, was the statement made by Julius Kruttschnitt, at San Francisco, vice president and director of mainte nance and operation of the Harriman roads. SPORT. Wrstrrn l.raicue SlnndliiK. P. W. L. Pet. Denver 126 K2 44 .651 St. Joseph 124 70 5 4 .565 Lincoln 125 70 55 .560 Pueblo 125 67 58 .536 Omaha 125 62 63 .492 Sioux City 126 59 67 .468 Topeka 125 50 73 .4 28 Des Moines 124 41 83 .336 The proposed invasion of Japan dur ing the fall and winter by an all-star baseball nine headed by Manager Me- Aleer of the Washington American League Club, has been abandoned. With 300 horses quertered at the Readvllle, Mas., race track, represent ing most of the prominent stables in the country, the best grand circuit races in years are expected. Carl Morris, the Oklahoma "White Hope," with his wife, and his trainer, Con Riley, have gone to New York city to Join his manager, F. B. Ufer, who 1b there making final prepara tions for Morris bout with Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman. Sheriff Frazer of Wyo., wired to Denver to cause the arrest of Herbert C. Harris, manager of the Laramio Cowboy baseball team, charged with embelzzling more than $100 raised in to support the ball team for the season. Miss Helen Taft, tho President’s daughter, was the star In the women’s doubles tennis tournament at Magnolia, Miss., when she and her partner. Miss Harriet Curtis, defeated Miss F. Wood mansee and Mrs. Allyn. They had to w'ork hard for the first set, 7-5, but the second was easier at G-l. FOREIGN. Twenty-three persons were crushed to death and fifty-nine injured by the fnlling of u church at Veniew, near Wengrowltz, Russia, during a service. POLITICAL* That President Taft considers the issues of the campaign of 1912 already laid down was made apparent when he told callers at the summer cottage at Beverly of five subjects which will form the basis of his six week’s speak ing tour in the West. Where local conditions do not dictate his address, the President expects to discuss one of these five questions: The tariff, the arbitration treaties, Canadian reciproc ity, conservation, which includes the national policy in Alaska, and reform of the currency system. WASHINGTON. Mrs. Rose Keeling Hutchins of Washington, fixed $67 a day as the lowest figure on which a millionaire's wife could live properly. General business of the country* is in good condition, as reflected by the official report of the American Rail way Association. An order that will eliminate from the mails absolutely the Red Gross stamps and the McNamara defense fund stamps, because on their faces they are called “stamps,” has been issued by Postmaster Hitchcock. Four hundred dollars an acre is the maximum government price placed on Western coal lands under the policy of per ton valuation. Until the new plan of selling coal lands was adopted, these areas were purchasable at $10 to $20 an acre. President Taft has issued an execu tive order directing that “all per diem employes and other day laborers in the federal public service wherever employed and whose employment ex tends through and beyond Day. shall be excused from work on that day.” GENERAL. Edward Bennett, graduate of Oxford, killed his three small children and then took his own life at Thomaston, Maine. The national convention of Loyal Order of Moose appropriated $50,000 for the organization of Moose indus trial school. Fifty-one societies w’ere repreesnted with about 200 delegate at the con vention of Associated Fraternities at Niagara Falls. Elmhurt, WIs., was almost wiped out by fire which destroyed a sawmill, >100,000 worth of timber, six stores and fourteen residences. Efforts to sell a few' hundred bales of August cotton in the market in New York sent the price down to 12.20, or 78 points lower. At Minneapolis all cold records for August for twenty years, with the ex ception of one day were broken when the thermometer registered forty-six degrees above zero. Judge William Jeff Pollard of St. Lonis, President Taft’s special repre sentative to the international congress against alcoholism at The Hague, says the consumption of alcohol is on the decrease. When the National Synod of the Reform Presbyterian church meets in St. Louis in September it is probable that its constitution will be revised in order that its members may vote upon the liquor question. Seven persons known to be dead, many injured and property loss of more than $1,000,000 is the damage wrought by the storm which struck Charleston, S. C., isolating that city from the rest of the world. Mrs. Charles Ochal nearly killed her husband at their home in Brad dock, Pa., because, she says, he told her she was in the same class with days and forced her to sleep under the bed with the family’s pet canine. An alcohol lamp on the platform in the Congregational church in Eastford Village, Conn., where the annual fair of the Indies’ Aid Society was in progress, became so ashamed of being full of alcohol in such company that it blew up. \ For the first time in many seasons the federal treasury is making no prep arations to meet the autumnal de mands for money for moving crops. Neither do treasury officials expect the usual crop moving season d< mand for bills of small denomination. Vaccination against typhoid fever has been made compulsory for every officer and enlisted man in the United States army under forty-five years old. The only exceptions allowed are those who have had the disease, or who have already been vaccinated. As a result of a quarrel in which R.. G. Whldden, deacon of a country church near Ash burn, Ga., vowed the Rev. Duncan Massey should never preach in the church again, Whidden shot and killed J. M. another leacqn. A deficit of $22,000,000 on ordinary accounts for August already is shown In the government finances, in com parison with a deficit of $14,000,000 last year. Customs receipts show a de crease of $4,000,000 as compared with a year ago. The government’s total expenditures for the same period are more than $2,000,000 greater. Mrs. Nancy Edey, ninety-six years old, was married for the sixth time at Troy, Mo., to Reed Inlow, twenty-fou» years old. The bride’s fifth husband died six weeks ago on the county poor furm at Troy. Because the Baltimore & Ohio Rail road Company will not grunt him sev eral flat cars to carry the “walking delegates” to the “hobo convention" to IX* held In Washington, James Eads How, the “wealthy hobo” who is mak ing all arrangements, is organizing a spectacular march of tramps from Bal timore to Washington. COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. CoSIING EVENTS. Septenfber 11-16 —Delta County Fair. Delta. September 11-16—Fremont County Fair. Carton City. September 12-15 Morgan County Fair—Fort Morgan. Sept. 14-15-16—Annual State Reun ion of Elks—Ouray. _ Sept. 18-21—Annual meeting Masonic Bodies of Colorado —Denver. _ Sept. 18-23—Colorado State Fair- Pueblo. September 21—Elbert County Fair— Elbert. September 18-22—Weld County Fair —Greeley. September 19-22—Western Slope Fair Montrose. Sept. 21-22—Annual meeting order of Eastern Star—Ulenwood Springs. Sept. 22-23—Knights Templar Con clave—Colorado Springs. September 26-29—Las Animas Coun ty Fair—Arinldad. September 25-30—Mesa County In dustrial and Fruit Association—Grand Junction. September 28-30—Sedgwick County Fair—Julesburg. Sept. 28-30—San Luis Valley Fair — Alamosa. October 4,5, 6 and 7—El Paso Coun ty Fair—Calhan. October 16-20 lnternational Dry Farming Congress and International Congress of Farm Women —Colorado Springs. Oct. 14-21.—Second Annual Show*. Colorado Electric Club. Denver. Harvest Record Oats Crop. Eaton. —Charles Lucas harvested the record crop of oats from a ten-acre field in this section. The oats tested forty-one and a half pounds a bushel and he has 1,331 legal bushels. State Pays for Hole In Ground. Mancos.—The state of Colorado paid out the sum of $3,803.98 for a hole in the ground. The hole, which is 653 feet in depth, is located in Montezuma county. It was bored by Fred Davy, the oil prospector, at the rate of $6 a foot. No oil was found. To Demonstrate Road Machinery. Grand Junction. —A carload of road making nlachinery, consisting of grad er, roller, plows, etc., will be avail able here for demonstration work dur ing the good roads convention lair week. Colorado Man Gets Good Job. Trinidad.—The widely known live stock breeder, and general manager of the Matador Land & Cattle Company of Texas, Murdo Mackenzie, has ac cepted a $50,000 a year position with the Brazil Land, Cattle & Packing Company of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Gauging Station Completed. Meeker. —After years of experi ments, failures and hardships, the state engineering department has fin ally succeeded in completing the work of establishing on White river, a half mile above Meeker, an improved gaug ing and testing station. Uncompahgre Valley Potatoes. Montrose. —The first fifteen days shipping of the enormous crop of po tatoes of the Uncompahgre valley re sulted in 175 cars going out, worth about $71,500 to the growers. The po tato production of this county this year will aggregate over 2,000 cars. President Taft is Coming. Denver. Denver will entertain President W. H. Taft Tuesday, October 3rd. If satisfactory to the nation’s chief executive, the Public con vention will be extended several days that he may address the delegates. President Taft will arrive in Denver at 7:20 in the morning and will re main here until midnight, when he will continue on his tour of the coun try, on which he will pass through twenty-four states. Important Homestead Ruling. Denver.—A ruling affecting home stead entries has been received by Register C. D. Ford, of the United States land office, from Samuel Adams, acting secretary of the Depart ment of the Interior. According to the statute, entrymen must take up residence on their claims within six months from the date of entry. Some title on proof of residence for a period of the six months to build and take up actual residence. It has been the practice in the land offices to give these entrymen the credit for the whole six months just as though they had begun their residence dfight after date of entry. As the statute pro vides that a patent shall not be is sued on a homestead claim until the expiration of live years from the date of entry, they were ‘permitted to se cure title on proof of residence after a period of four years and six months, the first six months making the period of five years. The acting secretary says this prac tice is erroneous and notifies land of fice registers and receivers that the period of five years required before patent is secured must date from the day actual residence is taken up on the claim, not from the day entry was made. Interested Land Owners Meet. Pierce. —Bringing together land own ers in the Greeley-Poudre Irrigation district from Denver, Greeley, Nunn, Pierce, Brlggsdale, Camfleld, Fort Col lins and other places to the number of 200, the Greeley-Poudre Landowners’ Association, organized for the purpose of co-operating with all interests look ing toward the completion of its irrlga tlon system, met here and received a detailed report of the conditions of the project. LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS Small Happenings Occurring Over the State Worth While. Western Newspaper Union Newt* Service. A picnic of all the state societies in Denver will be held on Labor Day. Citizens of La Salle have offered to donate a site for .a canning factory. W. E. Meek, a resident of Colorado Springs for thirty-eight years, is dead. Eaton people have invited President Taft to visit that city on his western trip. The E. L. Holland eighty-acre farm near Greeley sold recently for $200 an acre. J. P. Carraher killed himself by shooting at a rooming house in La Junta. , C. L. Seymour of Buffalo, N. Y., died in Meeker following an operation for appendicitis. Louis Gorch, a steel worker, was fa tally injured at Pueblo when he was struck by a car. Grand Valley will celebrate Fruit Day September 20. The fruit crop is in fine condition. The three-day harvest festivnl to be held at Brush Sept. 6, 7 and 8 promises to be a big event. The annual conference of the Meth odist church will open in Colorado Springs Aug. 30. Herbert Carlson was killed in Tom Boy mine at Telluride by being caught in the shafting. Myers fifteen years old, of La Junta, was fatally injured by the ex plosion of powder. In the Bohemian community, near Ramah lightning killed three cows be longing to Mike Dzurochin. F. E. Armstrong of Colorado Springs was killed in a Denver & Rio Grande accident near Salt Lake, Utah. Water will be distributed in part of the Greeley-Poudre irrigation district in time for the crop next year. At the Davis Wolgamott place, near Hayden, lightning struck the big gran ary, smashing it to kindling wood. It is estimated that 3,500- people have visited Estes Park this summer and as yet the park is full of tourists. Albert Compton of Fort Collins was arrested in Denver charged with rais ing checks and returned to Fort Col lins. Nearly one thousand employes of the Colorado & Southern took part in the “family reunion” at Dome Rock recently. Edward Johnson, fifty years old, of Pueblo, was found under a bridge in that city in a critical condition and may die. Miss Mona Shockley, living on a homestead east of Grover, lost her cabin and its contents, valued at $700, by fire. Edward Beeson, one of the three oldest men In Weld county, a pioneer of the seventies, and known far and near as "Uncle Ed,” died in Evans. Florence Glassy, of Fort Morgan, is winner of the $10 state prize for the best temperance essay in a contest conducted by the State W. C. T. U. A $12,000 blaze destroyed the lum ber yards, hardware store and resi dence of C. O. Cooper at Nucia, in the western part of Montrose county. William Stacy, aged 70, of Devers, Texas, who stopped in Pueblo a few days ago, while on his way to Cali fornia on an extended pleasure trip, died. J. F. McCreery, secretary of the Weld county and the Greeley Com mercial clubs, has invented an ex hibit box for grain, which promises to be widely used. Thousands of acres, twelve miles southeast of Greeley, are being brought under cultivation by means of wells sunk deep enough to tap the underflow. 1 Miss Mary Rush of Yuma, Colo., showed the grit of a true Western woman at Cheyenne when she made a thrilling ride in ladies' cowpony race with a broken hip. Manager W. A. Groom, of the Bould er Fruit Growers’ Association, pre dicts the most successful year in Boulder county’s history. Already three carloads of apples have gone to Texas. The crop has been unusually large. The first school of pharmacy to be established in Colorado will be op ened next fall at the State University at Boulder, under H. C. Washburn, B. S., ph. C., who for seven years has been a member of the faculty of the University of Oklahoma. Announcement has been made that the Santa Fe railroad will Inaugurate, about December 1st, a special extra fare train between Chicago and the Pacific coast, cutting five and one hours from the eastbound running .lie. A common houBe fly with a body one Inch long and measuring two Inches from tip to tip of Its wings is in captivity at Erie. It is believed to be the largest of Its kind in Colorado. It was oaptured while taking a drink from a glass of beer. A law was passed by the laBt legis lature and has been in full force and effect since August Cth, that all deal ers in milk shall pay an anuual license fee of $1.00, and the law effects any one engaged In selling milk wnethor It Is one quart a day or ten gallons. Robert Lee, marshal of Segundo, a C. F. & I. Co. camp, fourteen miles west of Trinidad, is lying In tho Min nequa hospital in Pueblo In a serious condition as the result of an attack made upon him w!»!le he wbb on his way home from Valdez, a neighboring camp. MUNYON'S WORK TALK OF CITY Big Success Shown by Numbers of Callers at Philadelphia Headquarters. , LOCAL MAN TELLS OF REMARKABLE RELIEF FROM RHEUMATISM IN YEAR’S TIME. The apparent success with which Pro fessor James M. Munyon, the world famous health authority, has been meet ing has started much discussion. Every street car brings dozens of callers to his Laboratories at 53d and Jefferson Streets, Philadelphia, Pa., and every mall brings thousands of letters from people inquir ing about Munyon’s Famous Health Cult. Professor Munyon’s corps of expert phy sicians is kept busy seeing callers and answering the mail. Peculiar to soy, these physicians prescribe no medicine at all for 60 per cent, of the callers and mall Inquiries; health hints, health ad vice and rules for right living are given absolutely free. Medical advice and con sultation absolutely free. Munyon’s followers seem to be enor mous. Those who believe in his theories seem to think he possesses the most marvelous powers for the healing of all sorts of diseases. Munyon, himself, laughs at this. He says: “The hundreds of cures which you are hearing about every day In Philadelphia are not in any way due to my personal skill. It Is my remedies, which represent tho combined brains of the greatest medical specialists science has ever known, that are doing the work. I have paid thousand.** of dol lars for a slagle formula and the ex clusive right to manufacture It. I have paid tens of thousands of dollars for oth ers of my various forms of treatment. This Is why I get such remarkable re sults. I have simply bought the best products of the best brains In the world and placed this knowledge within the reach of the general public.” Among Munyon’s callers yesterday were many who were enthusiastic In their praise of the man. One of these said* "For six years I suffered with rheumatism. Mv arms and lega were af flicted so badly that I could hardly work, and I could not raise my arms to my head. The pain was most severe In the back, however, and I was In perfect tor ture. I tried In many ways to get cored, or even to secure temporary relief, but nothing seemed to help me until I waa persuaded by a friend to try Dr. Mun yon’s Uric Acid Course. It was the most marvelously acting remedy I ever saw. within a week the pain had most gone .and Inside of a month I considered my self entirely cured. I can now go out In the worst weather—cold, wet or any thing else, and I have not felt any sus picion of a return of the disease. I think that every person who has rheumatism am! does not take the Uric Acid Coursa la making a great mistake.** The continuous stream of callers and mall that comes to Professor James M. Munyon at his laboratories at 53d and Jefferson Sts.. Philadelphia. Pa., keeps Dr. Munyon and his enormous corps of expert physicians busy. Write todav to Professor James M. Munyon personally. Munyon’a Labora tories. 53d and Jefferson Sts.. Philadel phia. Pa. Give full particulars In refer ence to your case. Your Inquiry will be held strictly confidential and answered In a plain envelope. You will be given the best medical advice, and asked more questions. Remember there Is no charge of any kind for consultation, or medical advice. The only charge Munyon makes la. when hla physicians prescribe his remedies you pay the retail selling price. It Is Immaterial whether you buy from 2dm or from the nearest druggist. RIGHT HEAVY. Novelist—l’m so sleepy I can hard ly keep my eyes open, and I must fin ish this chapter tonight. His Wife —Wait till I get tho butch er’s bill; I’m sure that will open yoar eyes. To Cheer Her Up. An old Scotswoman, who had put herself to considerable inconvenience, and gone a long way to see a sick friend, learned on arriving that the alarming symptoms had subsided. “An’ boo are ye the day, Mrs. Craw ford?” she Inquired In breathless anxiety. “Oh, I’m quite weel noo, thank ye, Mrs. McGregor,” was the cheerful an swer. “Quite weel!” exclaimed the visitor, ”an’ after me haeln’ come sae far to see ye!” As Waists Used to Be. A London paper prints an article from the ladles’ treasury of 1866, In which a prize Is offered for the woman with the smallest waist In proportion to her size. A silk dress was the first prize and a gold watch second prize. In the school in which the prize was offered by the principal the pupils were required to sleop in corsets, which could, however, be loosened when retiring. Important to Mothers _ carefully every bottle ot CASTORIA, a safe and aura remedy for Infanta and children, and aaa that It Bcara the Signature of ( Yea TTaa In Uae For Over 30 Yean. Children Cry for Fletcher’* Caatori* Suitable. "Tboee drew uniforms have a lot ot fro**.” "Then they ought to look well et ■ militia, hop.” Prevention U better then e cur*. Poverty keep, off the gout