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THE GLENWOOD POST
A. J. Dickson, Editor and Prop.
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO.
Socrates made a fatal mistake In
drinking hemlock, instead of spruce
beer.
Somebody will be sure to tell that
“western millionaire” that his ears
are not mates.
Brain fag is rapidly becoming a
fatal disease—when it is accompanied
by delirium tremens.
The men who stole the plans of our
champion submarine torpedo boat
ought to be blown up.
Women will know how to play whist
when men know how to give the baby
& bath.—New York Press.
Boris Sarafoff is quite as dead as
any of the other revolutionists that
were massacred in Turkey-—no more.
Science has discovered that there
are 200 kinds of mosquitoes, but the
same adjective will apply to all of
them. .
Carrie Nation is wasting a great
deal of nervous force that might be
used to advantage in hunting for the
north pole.
Ladies are being asked to take oft
their hats in church in order that
those behind them may see the points
in the sermon.
Some carcasses of deer along with
bodies in long pine boxes are arriving
at the homes of hunters from the
northern woods.
Queen Alexandria is 59 years old.
That is one disadvantage of being a
queen. Her loving subjects can spring
the records on her.
George Washington Pancake was
mistaken for a deer in the wilds of
Minnesota the other day. Is the veni
son really worth the price?
Before concluding that one has
brain fag one should always try to
find out whether the trouble is not
plain, old-fashioned laziness.
Prof. Bell of Clark university an
nounces that three-year-old children
are easy prey for Cupid. It is time to
endow another chair at Chicago.
Senator Stewart, who recently be
came a husband, has now to meet the
superior smile of Senator Frye, of
Maine, who has become a great-grand
father.
British medical experts report that
London is suffering from ‘“brain fag,”
but whether it's the tariff discussion
or the question of Ann’'s age is not
stated.
The price of radium has been
marked down from $1,000,000 to $900,-
000 a pound, but at the reduced price
the manufacturers do not give trading
stamps.
Honor the memory of the late Hugh
S. Scott—" Henry Seton Merriman.”
He never allowed himself to be inter
viewed and his photograph was never
published.
ST Y W |
The mnatural history book says that
the female spider, when she grows
weary of her mate's society, calmly
eats him. There is no divorce prob
lem in spiderland.’
Harry Lehr is said to be understudy
ing Fay Templeton so that he may
impersonate her at a coming masque
ball. Harry ought to be just too cute
for anything in petticoats.
It is immodest for women to attend
a prize fight in which two participate,
but if it is one in which there are 22,
they not only attend, but wear the
colors and give the yell.—Atchison
Globe.
A Cincinnati man refused to marry
the girl because she cried on her way
to the church. This should be a warn
ing. It is always best for the girls
to leave the crying to be done by their
mothers.
Sunday proposals are illegal, and
kisses have been reduced in value
from SSOO to $1.49. Thus does love's
young dream fade away before the
stern and unrelenting alarm clock
known as the law.
There is a giant in Amsterdam, Hol
-land, who thinks he can whip Jeffries.
A great many other men with similar
convictions have had the ambition ef
fectually knocked out of them in one
interview with Mr. J.
An Alaska child bearing the rame
of Leon Edward Seattle No. 3 Yukon
Woodpile Bartlett is in trouble. Its
father recently killed its mother. Let
us hope their quarrel was not a result
of the naming of the baby.
An Ohio man died from drinking
five quarts of whisky in a single day
recently, and now Kentucky is moral
fzing on the way in which the physi
cal vigor of the race is deteriorating
Just to the north of her—Newnrk
News.
Looks as though the domineering
and all powerful auto has finally been
brought to bay. A Newport man re
cehtly testified in a suit that a horse
_ran ageinst his automobile and dam
‘aged it badly. We would like to gaze
apon that horse. 1
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON AND
TRANSACTIONS OF CONGRESS
Chinese Treaty Ratified.
The Senate in executive session rati
fled the treaty for the extension of the
commercial relations’” between the
United States and China, and then re
moved the injunction of secrecy. No
opposition was manifested by any sen
ator to the treaty, although Mr. Nel
son, Republican, of Minnesota, made a
long speech in which he criticised the
convention as making insufficient pro
vision for the trade of the United
States. He said it indicated that the
hand of Russia had been shown against
this country, making it impossible for
the United States to receive the con
cessions needed in the way of open
ports. He said that the ports of Muk
den and Antung, which arc opened un
der the treaty, are in fact inland ports,
accessible only to vessels of light
draft. He blamed Russia for this con
dition of affairs, and warned the Sen
ate that we may yet have trouble with
that country over the Manchurian
question, which he said had been re
sponsible for the inability of the Unit
ed States plenipotentiaries to obtain
the opening of other important ports
under more favorable conditions.
The attitude taken by Mr. Nelson
was upheld in speeches by a number
of other senators, although it was
argued at the same time that this
treaty is an entering wedge to. our
trade and that it was the best China
was able to do under Russian duress.
Mr. lLodge urged the importance of
having the treaty ratified and said that
the State Departnrent considered im
mediate action as essential. He de
clared that the ratification probably
would have a bearing on the settle
ment of the far Eastern question. Sen
ators Morgan, Cullom, Spooner and a
number of others agreed with Mr.
J.odge.
It was stated by some of the speak
ers that if Russia had objected to the
treaty it had not been apparent, and
on the contrary it was said that she
had openly expressed her approval of
it. There was no division on the mo
tion to ratify.
The secretary of war has deter
mined to take no further action toward
the utterances of Major General Mac-
Arthur in Honolulu recently, in which
he is alleged to have predicted war
between the United States and Ger
many. In a cablegram to the depart
ment General MacArthur explains that
his remarks were made in private con
versation, and not with the slightest
icea that they would be given public
ity. In view of the precedents in such
cases, the department will allow the
matter to drop.
Report on Railways.
The seventeenth annual report of
the interstate commerce commission
'says in part:
The preliminary income account for
the year ending June 20, 1903, shows
railway returns for 201,457 miles of
line, which is approximately 98 per
cent of the entire mileage in the Unit
ed States. Gross earnings for that
year amounted to $1,890,150,679, or
$9,382 per mile of line. Operating ex
penses aggregated $1,248,520,483, or
$6,191 per mile, leaving net earnings
of $641,630,196, or $3,185 per mile. Fif
ty-three million dollars in taxes are
not included in this statement of oper
ating expenses. Compared with the
previous year the net earnings are
greater by some $34,000,000 and stock
dividends are greater by nearly $lO,-
000,000. In 1897 the gross earnings
averaged only $6,122, and operating ex
penses 44,106 per mile +of line.
In discussing the Elkins law, it is
pointed out that proceedings can now
be taken against a corporation, where
as the beneficiary of an illegal trans
action formerly escaped. The report
- says increased traffic would enable the
railroads to operate profitably without
advanced rates. It is recommended
that fixed charges for private cars be
established.
The gross earnings of railways for
the year ending June 30, 1903, were
$1,890,150,67%. The gross earnings for
the previous year were $1,726,380,267.
The House passed without division
tne pension appropriation bill, carry
ing $138,150,100,
The President to-day sent to the
Senate the nomination of Joseph W.
Fifer of Illinois to be an interstatecom
merce commissioner. This is a re
appointment.
The Senate committee on public
lands has reported 4 bill authorizing
tne Secretary of the Interior to restore
1o public entry lands embraced in
whole or in part with segregations for
reservoirs.
The President has tendered the po
sition of civil service commissioner
made veacant by the death of John R.
Proctor, to General John C. Black of
Chicago, commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army.
Secretary Moody, in addition to a
letter of commendation to Boatswain
Patrick Deery of the Peoria, who at
great peril swam to the submarine
boat Adder and attached a line to her,
will order that a medal of honor be
presented to him as an evidence of the
department’s appreciation of his hero
ism.
The Senate finance committee fa
vorably reported the bill increasing
from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO annually the
amount available for purchase of metal
for nickels and pennies, and providing
that instead of confining their coinage
to the Philadelphia mint, as hereto
fore, they shall also be made at the
Denver, San Francisco and New Or
leans mints.
Senator Mitchell made a speech in
advocacy of the bill to aid the Lewis
and Clark Exposition at Portland, Ore
gon. He said that almost $500,000
had been raised by the sale of stocks
in the exposition company, and that
over $700,000 had been raised by dif
ferendt states for the purpose of mak
jng exhibits, making a total of sl,-
126,907 of available money for the en
terprise. He sald that a magnificent
site of over 400 acres had bzan secured
on the Willlamette river, which already
tad been graded and planted to shrubs.
Secretary Root's Letter.
The letter of Secretary Root to
Senator Proctor, acting chafrman of
the committee on military affairs, dat
ed November 18th last, giving a resume
of the military record of Gen. Leonard
Wood and stating the chief considera
tions which led to his nomination as
a major general, has been made pub
lic. After quoting from remarks com
mendatory to General Wood, made by
Generals Miles, Lawton, Graham and
Forsythe, the letter recites that “upon
these and similar evidences of fitness
PPresident McKinley appointed Cap
tain Wood colonel of the First Volun
teer cavalry in May, 1898.”
The secretary also quotes from the
commendations of Generals Young,
Wheeler, Sumner and Shafter on Gen
eral Wood’s conduct in the Santiago
compaign, and says General Wood's
appointment as commander of the San
tiago province appears to have been
based upon a statement made by Gen
eral Shafter in a dispatch to the de
partment in which he said he “thought
General! Wood by far the best man to
leave in command of Santiago.”
The secretary reviews General
Wood’s subsequent military career, say
ing in this connection:
“The high estimate put by the
Secretary of War upon General Wood’s
services as military governor is shown
in the published orders of the War
Department,” referring to the general
orders of March 25, 1903, and July 4,
1902, which have heretofore been pub
lished. The secretary adds that the
opinions expressed in those orders also
were the opinions of both presidents
under whom the service was rendered.
Terms of Friar Purchase.
Governor Taft informs the War De
partment that an agreement has been
reached for the sale of the friar lands.
It is in contemplation to sell the land
for the benefit of the Filipinos them
selves, for the money will go into their
own treasury. Payment will be made
by bonds, either turned over directly
to the friars, or sold by the Philip
pine government at the best price ob
tainable, the proceeds being given to
the orders. The lands are to be sold
as far as possible to the tenants who
live upon them now, and on long-time
payments, at a very moderate rate of
interest on the deferred payments.
The main purpose is to create the
greatest possible number of landlords
in the Philippines, for it is believed
such a body would he a strong con
servitor of peace and do much to dis
courage future revolutionary move
ments.
The question of the withdrawal of
the friars has, it is said at the War
Department, practically settled itself.
Of the immense body of friars in the
islands at the outbreak of the war,
only 200 are said to have remained,
and nearly all of these are at Manila.
Even if a few remain, it is felt that
their power to further embarrass the
future relations of the government and
people in the Philippines has disap
peared. 3
It is not doubted that the President
and Secretary Root will approve Gov
ernor Taft's arrangement, particularly
as it appears that the people of the
United States are not to be charged
with any of the money required to buy
the friar lands. i
The Supreme Court of the United
States will take a recess of two weeks
from December 21st.
The committee on insular affairs of
the House has reported a bill giving
Porto Rico a delegate to Congress.
Senator Hevburn of Idaho, has in
troduced a joint resolution requesting
the President acquire by annexation
the island of San Domingo, the depen
dencies of San Domingo and Hayti.
Congressman Hogg, member of the
House committee on general pensions,
was appointed a sub-committee to €x
amine pension bills pertaining to Colo
rado, Nebraska and the two Dakotas.
The gross postal receipts of the fifty
largest postoffices in the United States
for last month, compared with Novem
ver, 1902, were $5,402 580, an increase
of over seven per cent. The highest
increase was twenty-five per cent., at
l.os Angeles.
Mr. Williams of Mississippi has in
troduced a concurrent resolution in the
‘ House proposing an amendment to the
constitution to give Congress power to
collect taxes on incomes, and providing
that such tax shall not be construed to
{ be a direct tax within the meaning of
the constitution.
| The House Committee on Territories
has reported favorably Delegate Wil
son’s bill authorizing the counties of
Phoenix, Temple and Mesa, in Arizona,
to issue bonds amounting to $50,000
for the purpose of building a road from
Phoenix to the proposed new Tonto ir
rigation enterprise.
The Senate Finance Committee heard
Director of the Mint Roberts on a bill
providing for the coinage of small
coins at the San Francisco mint. The
Colorado delegation has asked that
smaller coins be coined at the Denver
mint. The chief point of Mr. Roberts’
statement was the item of cost in
transporting coins from the West to
the East,
Congressman Shafroth will make an
other attempt during this session of
Congress to procure the establishment
of a national soldiers’ home at Denver.
His bill last session received a favor
able report, but was kept from coming
before the House by the speaker and
committee on rules, Mr. Shafroth says
he has strong hopes that the measure
will sudceed this session. The bill calls
for an appropriation of $250,000.
Senator Warren presented a memo
rial of the Wyoming Legislature asking
that the time for the expiration of the
Carey act be extended ten years. He
also introduced a bill making such
provision. The Carey act which al
lows arid states to select 1,000,000 acres
of public lands for the proceeda of
which shall be spent for irrigation pur
poses, expires next August. Senator
Warren also introduced a bill giving
railroads, pipe lines and canal right
of way across public lands and the
right to use timber and stone from land
adjacent to sald right of way.
COLORADO BRIEFS.
l Jacob A. Riis, the noted reformer,
sociologist and author, is coming West
:nr.‘.i will lecture in Denver February
5
Hugh A. Elwood, a ploneer of Gilpin,
Welid and Summit counties, died at
Boulder December 13th at the age of
seventy-three years.
' The Boulder Chautauqua manage
i ment has fixed upon July 23d as “Tem
| perance Day” and will engage John G.
!\Voougy as orator for the occasion.
The returns show that ex-Gov.
ICharles S. Thomas received the great
{est number of votes of any of the can
tdldates at the recent Denver charter
election.
l William Miller, a youth of seventeen,
!sat on a keg of powder to smoke his
| pipe in the Tynon coal mine, near Erie.
]He was blown up, but came dowz
iagain, and it is thought that he will
| recover.
! Edward Dale, one of tha pioneers of
Leadyville, died of pneumoania on the
18th inst. Mr. Dale served two terms
as county clerk of Lake county and was
| widely known in business and political
| circles.
I Brigadier General Merriam, retired,
who is well known in Colorado from
‘having been stationed several years !
jat Denver, is again in the state on a
visit to his daughter, who lives in
Denver.
| Percy Brillhand had a part of hls‘
left foot and leg torn off by the chain
of a coal-cutting machine in the Simp
son mine at Lafayette and was taken to
the university hospital at Boulder on
'the 11th inst. |
! The walls of a large apartment
house in Denver are being constructed
of cement blocks, which, it is claimed
by the builders, are a cheaper hulld-|
ing material than stone or brick and in |
every way as good.
\ The detention home in Denver for
juvenile delinquents is now in oper
ation, the first installment of five boys
having been sent to the home by Judge
Lindsey on the 12th inst. It preserves
the boys from jail associations. 1
| Tho caucuses of the Democratic and
Republican delegates t 6 the second
Denver charter convention met on the
12th inst. and agreed upon the Rev.
Charles H. Marshall, pastor of St.
Barnabas Episcopal church, for presi
dent of the convention,
The two colored companies recruited
for the National Guard at Denver were
not mustered in December 14th, as had
been arranged. When they discovered
that it was the purpose of the govern
or to appoint white officers the men
declined to proceed with the muster.
The Board of Head Managers of the
Woodmen of the World have invested
$50,000 of their surplus funds in Fort
Collins water works bonds and $32,-
000 in Montrose county refunding
bonds, making a total bond investment
on account of equalization funds of
$700,000. |
The Fort Collings Sugar Company
has finished paying for the November
delivery of beets, the total disburse
ment being $235,000. This sum, added
to $135,000 paid out for October de
livery, makes a total of $370,000 dis
bursed this year to beet-growers by the
company.
At a meeting of the State Board of
Pharmacists December 11th and 12th,
the following passed as registered
pharmacists: Abraham Bresler, Den
ver; J. F. Burns, Denver; F. B. Davies,
Pueblo; Frank Dunkle, Denver; Walter
H. Kimlin, Denver; Loyal H. Mudge,
Denver; Folke W. Sefverin, Pueblo, |
and Claude Watthall, Sterling. i
~ General Manager J. A. Edson, of the
Rio Grande, has addressed a letter to
Secertary Palmer, of the Pueblo Busi
ness Men’s. Association, in which he
states that it will be impossible to re
establish the daily passenger service
in western and southwestern Colorado.
The cause is stated to be reduced rev
enue on account of the strikes.
. It is said to have been decided that
the cruiser Denver will be ordered to
Galveston as soon as practicable after
being placed in commission late in the
month, and the date for the prcsenta
tion of the silver service will be fixed
for late in February or early in March.
Efforts will be made to arrange a large
excursion from Denver for the occa
sion.
In the District Court at Leadville
Howard Fisher and John Knapp were
sentenced to nine and a half years
in the penitentiary for the burglary
‘of the Blackhawk stables, and to life
improsinment for the murder of Oscar
Boegel, the hot tamale man. The life
imprisonment will take effect imme
diately after the burglary sentence is
completed. '
| Robert E. Bell of Denver, who is
raising funds for a home for consump
tive actors, has received communice
tions from Colorado Springs and from
places in Arizona and New Mexico
asking that the institution be located |
there. Colorado Springs has offered to
donate a site for the building and in
timates that it might add a gift of
money. Letters from the other towns
mention many inducements.
C. H. Prince, a Carbondale carpenter,
who went to California about a year
ago, committed suicide at Los Angeles
December 18th by turning on the gas
In his room. The act {8 supposed to
have been due to a fit of despondency.
He left a note for his wife, who, with
fonr small children, is living in Car
bondale, requesting her not to let the
children know how he died.
| In the District Court at Glenwood
Springs December 14th William Ohler,
recently convicted of criminal assault,
was denied a new trial and sentenced
by Judge Sumate to imprisonment in
the penitentiary for not less than ‘
eixhteen months nor more than two
years. Ohler was formerly a pump
]man for the Rio Grande railroad lt‘
Rifle, and had been confined in the
county jail for ten months.
| Friday, December 18th, was a day of
accidents in Colorado. John Herbeck, ‘
a Bohemian miner, was killed by fall-
Ing coal in the Simpson mine at Lafay-'
ette; Edward Percy had right leg cut
off by an electric car at Elkton; Bert
Martin, employed in the Sunnyside mill
at Eureka, fell ten feet and broke his
neck, and John Darby, a Fort Collins
Carpenter, fell into the basement of the
BElk building on his way home, sustain-
Ing injuries that paralyzed his lower
Ymbs and were fiund to be fatal.
IRRIGATION PROGRESS REPORTED
BY CHIEF ENGINEER NEWELL
‘Washington, Dec. 20.—An interest
ing Jjoint meeting of the Senate and
Hpuse irrigation committees was held
yesterday in Representative Mondell’s
committee room, in order to hear Chief
Engineer F. H. Newell explain opera
tions to date of the reclamation service
under the new irrigation act.
Nearly the entire membership of both
committees was present and Senators
Bard, Newlands, Hansbrough, Gibson,
Stewart and Warren, who attended,
questioned Mr. Newell closely from
time to time concerning the work ac
complished and projected in various
parts of the West, and concerning the
practical workings of the new act and
the desirability of any amendment.
Chief Engineer Newell was before the
committee for over five hours and ex
plained at length, with the aid of maps
and bas relief plans, the operations of
his office in carrying the irrigation act
into practical effect.
‘Work has actually commenced upon
one project known as the Salt river, or
Tonto enterprise, in Arizona, where ir
rigation works to cost $3,500,000 and
calculated to supplement and increase
the water supply on 200,000 acres of
land now in private ownership, are to
be built.
Bids have also been called for on a
project on the Truckee river, in Ne
vada, éontemplating the diversion of a
canal from the Truckee river costing
SBOO,OOO, reservoirs on the Carson river
costing $500,000, and distribution works
costing $1,000,000, the entire enterprise
to water 250,000 acres.
In Colorado the first work which will
4 bbbt deb et depofed ebl bof ol ol
TUNNEL DECIDED BIG CELEBRATION
FOR MOFFAT ROAD AT NEW ORLEANS
Denver, Dec. 20.—The News this
morning says that Moffat road officials
have decided at last upon the site of
the big tunnel, and the contract will be
let soon. The decision is to gun the
tunnel at the low site instead of the
high one. This involves almost twice
as much work, but it insures a freedom
from snow at points adjacent to the en
trance and will enable the road to op
erate trains at all seasons of the year
without keeping snow plows and crews
constantly on duty during winter
months.
The selection of the more expensive
site is characteristic of the Moffat road,
which has never allowed a spirit of
economy to interfere with the building
of the best road possible.,
“Baild the best road that can be
built,” is the order of Mr. Moffat. This
order was given at the very beginning,
and will obtain until the road is com
pleted.
1t is announced that this tunnel will
be two and one-sixteenth miles in
length, with a maximum grade of two
per cent. from the ends to the valleys,
which lie just beyond the 4pproaches
to the tunnel. The big hole will be
through the continental divide at an
elevation of 9,930 feet, or 2,270 feet be-
Jow the crest of the Rockies. It will re
quire from two to two and a half
years to do the work. Arrangements
are being made now to install modern
plants, so that the work can be done on
both sides of the mountains.
The Moffat road will abound in tun
nels, but most of them will be short.
The officials of the road have also
decided that the switchback now being
constructed shali be a permanent fea
ture of the road. The switchback here
tofore has been termed a temporary
line. but those who have been over the
survey say the scenery is so magnifi
cent that the retention of the line will
prove a great attraction to tourists, so
it wili be retained after the tunnel is
built.
Smuggler Mill Starts.
Denver, Dec. 20.—A Republican spe
cial from Telluride last night says:
The Smuggler mill started up this
morning. All the stamps began drop
ping and a full force is employed in the
mill and 125 miners at work in the bul
lion tunnel have been supplying the
crushers for several days past. Thirty
miners arrived last night and as many
more are expected to-night. The Nel
lle mine’s force has been increased
from twenty to thirty men. Manager
Herron of the Tom Boy company start
ed for a three months’ vacation in Cal
ifornia this morning. The Tom Boy
company has all the men it needs at
present and is running as usual.
~ Attorney Engley brought suit in the
' District Court against Sheriff Cal Ru
tan and the American Bonding Com
pany going his surety. Guy Miller,
Martin Marchiandi, Louis Mascani and
Tony Langeri each demand SIO,OOO for
alleged false imprisonment. |
Bank Money Order System.
New York, Dec. 21.—After a three
days’ sessior here the bank money or
der committee of the Bankers’ associa
tion, representing 7,000 bankers, has
agreed upon & plan for a money order
system, whereby sums not to exceed
SIOO can be sent by mail and the orders
cashed by any bank belonging to the
association. The scheme will, of course,
come into direct competition with the
money order division of the Postoffice
Department, and it is expected cut
largely into the government revenues.
The proposed system {s to be operated‘
precisely as exchange ig now sold, and
the orders are to be guaranteed by a
guaranty company. |
The committee report will be submit
ted to the executive council of the na
tional body at its regular meeting next
April. 4
SAO o .
Bids For Flying Machine. |
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 21.—Uncle Sam
wnnts the flying machine invented by
Orville and Wilbur Wright of Dayton,
Ohlo, the brothers who made a success
ful test of their invention last Thurs
day at Witty Hawk, Virginia, The gov-|
ernment has been communicating with
| the Wrights, and it is sald has made
the same overtures to them that were
made to Professor Langley, who thrice
failed to make & successful test of his
machine. 3 |
be undertaken is the Gunnison tunne?
project, to cost upward of $2,000,000 and
watering 100,000 acres. ;
In Wyoming it is contemplated that
actual work will be commenced next
spring upon three projects, the prinei
pal one being on the North Platte riv
er, from which lands in Wyoming and
Nebraska will be watered.
In New Mexico there is a prospect
of immediate work on the Hondo river
enterprise, in Pecos valley, costing
$150,000.
In Utah investigations have not been
carried to the point where it is possi
ble to say just when actual work will
commence,
Idaho has two large . projects upon
which work will commence early next
spring. These are upon Snake river,
the largest being the Minnedoka enter
prise, near the American Falls, and one
near St. Anthony’s, contemplating the
reclamation of 200,000 acres. Idaho
also has a smaller project near Boise.
Projects in California, Oregon, Wasli
ington, North and South Dakota were
also explained. Responding to ques
tions, Mr. Newell explained that all
projects deemed feasible from examin
ations up to the present time involve
an outlay of $25,000,000. He said also
that irrigation development has been
greatest in states having large land
grants, like California, where large
holdings subsequently became subdi
'vided into small farms. He pronounced
the irrigation act a practical piece of
legislation and said the work to the
present time has not shown that any
amendment of it is necessary.
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New Orleans, Dec. 21.—Under the
sunniest of skies yesterday the Stars
and Stripes rose to the top of the tall
staff in the historic Place d’Armes amid\
cheers, the ringing of cathedral bells,
the roar of cannon and the centennial
celebration of La Transfer ended in
a burst of patriotism. The day’s exer
cises opened with the pontifical mass in
the old St. Louis cathedral, built while
the Spaniards were still in possession
of Louisiana, the shrine to which An
drew. Jackson went immediately after
the battle of New Orleans to hear the
high mass of thanksgiving sung for the
victory of the American army. Fes
tooned in the great nave were the
flags of the three celebrating nations,
Spain, France and the United States.
The immense auditorium was crowded
with a representative congregation.
Archbishop Chapelle officiated in the
celebration of mass. The regular choir
of the cathedral was supplemented with
the principal artisfs of the French Op
era Company and a full orchestra.
Reverend Father De Lamoriniere, the
Jesuit orator, preached an eloquent ser
mon, and Archbishop Chapelle spoke
briefly.
Following the mass there was a re
plica in the Caboldo of the scene and
events of a century ago. The treaty
of cession, the powers of the commis
sioners and the declaration of Dausant
placing the American commissioners in
possession were read in turn. Then
the keys of the city were delivered and
the proclamation of the American gov
ernor was read.
The ceremonies concluded, at a sig
nal the American flag rose to the high
staff in Jackson’s quarters, while the
‘Washington artillery thundered a sa
lute. On the river within view were six
American and French warships. The
Spanish cruiser Rio De La Plata was
delayed by bad weather. She was giv
en a welcome when she reached the
city after the Caboldo exercises were
concluded. Omne of the features of the
celebration has been the popular Span
‘ ish representation. Senor Tuero ¥y
O'Donnell has been the recipient of un
usual attention.
Papal Treasure Story Denied.
Rome, Dec. 20.—At the vatican yes
terday the statement of the Tribuna
that Cardinal Gotti, prefect of the
propaganda, had handed Pope Pius $9,-
000,000 in bank notes, said to have been
.conflded to Cardinal Gotti by the late
Pope Leo, with instructions to turn the
money over to his successor after a pe
riod of four months had elapsed, was
denied. On the same authority the
statement of the Tribuna that an elec
‘trician found in a hole in the wall sl,-
850,000 in gold, or any other treasure,
was also denied.
The Associated Press is authorized to
announce that the truth is that the
! present Pope, immediately after his as
cension to the throne, received $8,400,-
000, as indicated in the part of the late
Pope’s will which was not made public.
The delivery of the money was effect
ed by Cardinals Gott{, Rampolla and
Cretoni, Pope Leo's executors, who
brought the larger part of the bonds
from the propaganda, where they were
kept.
It is absolutely denied that any mon
ey was found behind the hangings of
Pope Leo’'s bedroom.
Fair Estate Contest.
Denver, Dec. 20.-—A Boulder dispatch
says that Charles J. Smith will leave
for New York in a few days to be pres
ent at the trial between himself, his
mother and other heirs of the late Mrs.
Charles L. Fair, against Mrs. Herman
Qelrichs, Mrs. Vanderbilt and other
heirs of Mrs. Fair's husband.
The case involves millions and turns
upon whether Charles Fair or his wife
died first in the automobile accident
which was the result of the death of
both of them ct Paris a year ago. 4
Two eminent physicians have ex:
pressed their convictions that Mr. Fal
| was the first to die, which, if sustain
by the jury, would give the Nelson
Smith heirs the estate through Charl
Fair's will, to his wife's rather than
Fair's sisters, Mra. Oelrichs and
Vanderbilt. Mr. Smith has recel
-very enmcouraging assurances from
lawyer in Paris. . e