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THE NEW ERA
-\VAI.DEN, - - - - COLORADO.
Edison’s ingenuity is as nothing
compared with that of a baseball re
porter who can get up » new slang
phrase meaning base hit
Admiral Schley declares that under
no circumstances would he run for
Tice president. The admiral is al
ready on the retired list.
It may be true, as that Yale pro
fessor says, that vegetarians show
more endurance than flesh-eaters, but
do they enjoy life as much?
To the question where the milk
teame from in the milky way, it might
be observed that it probably came
from the cow that jumped over the
moon.
A patent for paper waistcoats has
been taken out in Switzerland. They
■will cost only four cents, and are
said to be warmer than a woolen gar
ment.
Mexico is to be allowed to partici
pate in the Central American inter
vention. It is to be hoped that she
will introduce some of her soothing
and justly celebrated salve.
And now even Turkey has appro
priated additional money for the im
provement and increase of its army.
Nevertheless that Hague conference
will be a very pleasant outing for the
participants.
A Yale professor asserts as a result
of investigation that vegetarians can
endure more than other people. The
other people are able to reply that
the vegetarians not only can endure
but do endure more.
The Baltimore Sun expresses the
•pinion that lawn tennis is a molly
coddlish game. We suspect that tho
editor of the Sun bases his opinion
upon \he fact that some tennis players
wear white flannel trousers.
Col. Joseph Leffel of Springfield, 0.,
(s said to be the smallest business
man in the world. Col. Leffel is just
46 inches in height, weighs 65 pounds,
has reached the age of 73 years, and
Is still the possessor of remarkable
physical and mental activity.
That Boston street car conductor
who found a package containing al
most $6,000 and received a smile from
the owner in payment for his honesty
may have been thankful as he thought
the matter over that he wasn’t
charged interest on the funds for the
half-hour that he held them.
A Pennsylvania man has discovered
how to burn ashes so that they will
produce as much heat as may be ob
tained from coal. His invention will
not be likely to find favor with cer
tain Chicago people, remarks the Rec
ord-Herald of that city, for ashes can
not be expe&ed to produce much
•moke.
Mrs. Hetty Green is regarded as a
good deal of a nuisance by employes
of the Chemical National bank in New
York. This does not worry Mrs. Green
a great deal, however, and every day
or so she appears inside the railings
and asks a few Incisive questions of
bookkeepers and clerks. Ab she keeps
a balance there of somewhere near
$5,000,000 all the while, the employes
carefully conceal their lack of rever
ence for the richest woman In Amer
ica.
New York city is making an experi
ment In the disposition of refuse. Most
of this is always paper, which is un
sightly, and when loaded on the street
collecting carts, easily blows away to
litter other The garbage
gathering cans are moved about on a
pair of wheels to which is attached
an iron rack or frame for holding
the can. The experiment consists in
putting two sheet-iron cans together,
one inverted above the other. The
lower one contains a grate and per
forations for draft; the upper one a
door for the receipt of the refuse.
A constant fire is maintained in this
furnace, as it is wheeled about, and
the refuse is consumed as it is thrown
America should be glad to accept
from King Edward a bust of Nelson
for the naval academy. Nelson’s career
fell between our two wars with Eng
land. If he had lived until 1812 there
might have been some livelier work
for our navy to do. As it was, the
two navies shared alike in learning
lessons from his naval strategy.
Miss Maneta Toskatomba, a full
blooded -Choctaw maiden with a good
education and SIOO,OOO in her own
right, announces that she would rath
er devote herself to charity than mat- i
timony.
The woman justice of the peace of
Evanston 111. has come to the rescue of
femininity by announcing that she will
omit the word "obey” from all mar
riage ceremonies that she is called
upon to perform. Some idea of her
opinion of men is to be gained from
the fact that she declines to permit
her husband to practice in her court.
William Trotter, of Ripley county,
Indiana, enjoys the proud distinction
of having driven tho stage which car
ried Horace Greeley during part of
his overland journey to California In
the summer of 1859.
It is alleged that aKansas City
man is suing for divorce because hi #
wife confesses that she loves Ibsen.
Perhaps she may be able to placate
him by setting up the claim that it Is
merely a platonic affection.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings cf tis
Past Seven Days.
ißtereitlnß Krnia Gathered from AU
(iart ■ of the World Condensed
Into Small Space fbr the
Benefit of Oar Readers*
Personal.
Frank L. Emmett, one of the cm- .
ployes of the Shelby Steel Tube com- ,
pauy charged with conspiracy to de- |
fraud the United States in connection
with furnishing tubes for war ves
sels, has turned state evidence and
entered a plea of guilty.
William D. Haywood is being tried
at * Boise, Idaho, on the charge of
having murdered former Governor
Steunenberg
Felix Rodriguez, a Mexican Indian,
died receutly at San Antonio, Tex., ut
the age of 119 years. He was present
it the battle of the Alamo.
Arcangelo Rossi, the noted tenor,
who attempted suicide at Milan recent
ly is dead as aresult of the wounds
inflicted.
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Miller were
struck by a Missouri Pacific passenger
train near Hope, Kan., and both were
killed.
Gen. J. K. Hudson, for years a news
paper editor and publisher of Topeka
Kan., and a veteran of both the civil
and Spanish American wars, died at
his home in Tojeka of heart disease
complicated with dropsy after sever
al months illness.
Frank H. Butler, who was charged
with the murder of the Marvin boy at
Dover, Del., has been released from
custody, for want of sufficient evi
dence against him.
A. E. Stilwell and a party of 90
capitalists who took a trip over the
lines of the Orient railroad in Mexico,
have returned.
Admiral Dewey was the guest of
honor at a banquet held in Washington
to celebrate the ninth anniversary of
the battle of Manila bay.
Gen. Kuroki, of the Japanese army,
who won fame in the war with Russia,
is now- in this country.
Charles H. Hinton, an assistant ex
aminer of the patent office, dropped
dead in the lobby of the Y. M. C. A.
building In Washington, where he had
Just responded to a toast at a banquet
John Cudahy, the well-known Chi
cago packer, is critically ill.
Capt. Edgar Macklin, of the Twenty
fifth infantry, has been acquitted by
the court martial which tried him in
connection with the shooting up of
Brownsville, Texas.
Arthur M«*Ewin, chief editorial writ
er on the New York American, died
recently in Hamilton, Bermuda, of
heart failure.
Miscellaneous.
William Cross, his wife and two
sons were asphyxiated in New York
by inhaling illuminating gas.
William A. Brewer, Jr., former
president of the Washington Life In
surance company, was fined SSOO at
New York recently for making false
returns to the state superintendent
of insurance.
A warm welcome was extended Gen.
Kuroki and suite upon their arrival
in Seattle. In addition to the thous
ands of Americans, hundreds of Jap
anese were on hand to greet their
general.
S< -ious anti-European riots have
occurred at Rawalpindi, British In
dia. A Hindu mob burned several
buildiags, ' ged a mission church,
and looted Uie post office.
Newton Youngblood, a 16-year-old
Oklahoma boy has been sentenced to
prison for life for killing a farmer.
A San Francisco newspaper carrier
has been arrested for selling counter
feit money. In his room was found
several hundred dollars of the “gree.
good.”
Counsel for Mo y *r, Haywood and
Pettibo'ne have issued a formal state
ment denying that their clients were in
Idaho at the time of tha murder of Gov.
Steunenberg.
Thirty thousand acres of irrigated
land near Billings, Mont., are to be
opened for settlement by the govern
ment about July 1.
Ten men of the United States gun
boat Tacoma, while on shore leave at
Santiago, Cuba, were attacked by the
city police and badly injured. An In
vestigation by the authorities was Im
mediately begun.
Charles J. Steedman, of New York
and Philadelphia, son of the late Rear
Admiral Steedman recently commit
ted suicide in a Paris hotel.
The second biennial session of the
Missouri Federation of Women’s clubs
i was recently held In Joplin.
/ The 34th annual meeting of the
State Association of Congregational
churches of Missouri was recently held
at Joplin.
The first Kansas state convention of
the Society of Equity, tho farmers’
union, held a two days’ session in
Wichita recently.
The body of little Horace Marvin Jr.
four years old, was found in the
marshes upon his father’s farm near
Dover, Del. This is the child who
was thought to have been kidnaped
and for whom a search has been made
over the entire country.
There is a serious lack of farm
hands in the Northwest, according to
reports received by the Great North
ern railroad. Farmers are offering
$35 and S4O a month for help.
Missouri won first place In the ora
torlal contest held at Emporia, Kan.,
fcjr the league of state normal schools. /
I The state department at Washington
has received information that diplo
matic relations between Mexico and
Guatemala *liave been terminated.
Eleven of the Italians, who have
been on trial at Wiikcsbarre, Pa.,
have been found guilty of having
perpetrated "black hand” crimes.
The coal miners strike in the Cana
dian Northwest has been settled and
a new wage scale signed.
A shaft of granite 45 feet long and
five feet five inches square at the
base has been completed at Branford,
Conn. It is to be used to commemorate
j the completion of the Sault St. Marie
canal.
Secretary of Agriculture James Wil
son has issued a statement in which
he states that while the seeding of
spring wheat in the northwest is some
what backward there is plenty of time
yet in which to mature a crop?
Northwest Texas was visited by a
storm of wind and rain which assumed
the proportions of tornado in places
doing damage to buildings and crops.
Six men alleged to be the leaders
of the mob that lynched a negro at
Sterrett, I. T., March 31, have been ar
rested by United States marshals and
held on a charge of murder.
The oratoryial contest at Parkville,
Mo., in which 11 state were interested
resulted in a victory for E. F. O’Flynn
of Indiana.
President Roosevelt has sent a letter
to the Central Federated Union of
New York stating that if evidence Is
submitted to him showing there has
been a miscarriage of justice in the
Moyer and Haywood case in Idaho
that he will bring such evidence to the
attention of the attorney general.
Navigation on the lakes has opened
later this year than usual and has
been characterized by unprecedented
activity, large quantities of last year’s
grain being still in the elevators of
the northwest awaiting shipment.
Secretary Taft has made public a
decision which fixes rates of pay,
hours of labor and settles other ques
tions concerning labor on the isthmian
canal as a result of his recent visit
there.
There has been a revival of the ac
tivity which prevailed several years
ago on the Chicago board of trade,
cold weather conditions having caused
the belief that there will be a serious
shortage in the crop of winter wheat.
Newton, Kan., recently suffered a
loss of $20,000 by fire.
In the federal court at Guthrie, Ok..
the demurrers of the lumbermen to the
indictments against them were over
ruled. The cases will be called for trial
at the next term of court.
Owing to contrary winds the at
tempt of Capt. Chandler and J. C. Mc-
Coy to reach Washington, D. C., from
St. Louis failed. After being in the air
19 hours the balloon landed at Gol
conda, 111., 130 mlies from the starting
point.
Abraham Ruef recently moved f«r
a change of venae of his case from
San Francisco alleging that for verl
ous reasons he could not get a fair
trial in that county.
A company has been organized to
build a $2,000,000 cement plant at
Tulsa, I. T.
The Web Pressman's union of St.
Louis has ordered a strike in all the
English newspapers of the city ex
cept one. The pressmen and helpers
demand an increase of from 5o to 100
per cent in wages.
In a speech at Worcester, Mass.,
Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of
the treasury declared w*ar for the con
trol of the Pacific ocean was inevit
able.
The wages of tho entire working
force In the packing houses at Omaha
have been voluntarily increased from
five to 15 per cent.
The Inland Waterways commission,
at its final meeting In Washington,
decided to proceed to Kansas City and
make a thorough inspection trip down
the Missouri river to St. Louis.
Cattle are reported to be dying in
Elk county, Kan., of Texas fever.
The new treaty between the United
States and Santo Domingo Intended to
i replace the one which has been pend
ing in the senate for the last two
years, has been ratified by the Do
minican congress.
A disastrous gunpowder explosion
recently occurred in Canton, China.
More than 100 buildings were wrecked
and hundreds of the natives were
either killed or injured. The foreign
settlement escaped Injury.
About 20 Chicago women were in
jured in a panic caused b>*"a fire in
the building occupied by the Lotus
Lunch club. Most of the injured suf
fered broken bones by jumping from
windows.
An association has been chartered
at St Louis whose object is the
preservation of the log cabin built by
Gen. Grant in that vicinity. An en
dowment fund of $50,000 Is to be
created.
Three men were killed and six In
jured in an accident in an ore mine
at Riddlesburg, Pa., receutly.
By an explosion in a West Virginia
coal mine li miners were killed and
five others badly injured.
Former State Senator Franklin P.
Mays has been fined in the federal
court at Portland, Ore., the sum of $lO,-
000 for complicity in the land frauds
in that state.
Oxford university has conferred the
degree of doctor of science upon
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of
the telephone and regent of the Smith
sonian institution at Washington.
In a race riot at Greensburg, Ind.,
six negroes were badly beaten and or
dered to leave the l town. The trouble
was brought about by an assault on an
/ aged white woman.
REAL HELL SHIP
TWENTY-FIVE CHINESE SHOT AND
THROWN INTO THE SEA.
PASSENGERS HAVE BATTLE
Grave Charges Against the Comman
der of the Ship That May Cause
International Complications.
San Diego, Cal. —Two officers of the
Chinese crew of the British steamship
Maori King, in quarantine, told a horri
ble story of race riot and mutiny as a
result of which six Chinese and two
Russians are dead and 200 are more
or less dangerously wounded.
The sailors who escaped from tho
ship at quarantine declare that the
mutiny was started and prolonged by
the action of the commander and his
officers in shooting down twenty-five
Chinese and throwing their bodies
overboard.
This the officers deny.
The British vice consul, Allen T.
Hutchinson, has started an exhaustive
investigation.
Capt. J. W. Duncan has filed a state
ment declaring the officers only used
their revolvers in defense of their owu
lives.
According to Captain Duncan, the
Maori King left Vladivostok April 12th,
■with 921 Chinese. 417 Russians and a
crew of fifty-six Chinese.
It appears that a Chinese contractor,
Lee Sun Sal, lured the Chinese on
board the ship from the vicinity of
Harbin on a promise to land them In
San Francisco. When tw*o days out he
told them a mistake had been made
and the boat would land them at Guay
mas, Mexico. On learning of this de
ception the Chinese broke out in
mutiny, chased the officers of the ship
into their cabins, attacked those of the
Chinese who remained faithful and
then started a war on the Russians.
Disease broke out among the Chi
nese, making the situation worse. As
they refused to allow the surgeon near
them, over 100 died like rats and were
thrown overboard.
“It was a real hell ship,” said First
Officer T. S. Vernon, "and I have seen
some pretty tough lots in my time.
“Just a week ago the propeller shaft
smashed through the steel case and it
took us two days to repair it. All of
this time we were being beaten to and
fro in a raging storm, the waves wash
ing clear over the decks. But the Chi
nese and Russians were bent on mur
dering each other and the battle still
went on.
“The Chinese rushed at the Russians
again and again, cutting and slashing
and stabbing. The officers were sim
ply helpless.”
British Vice Consul Allen Hutchin
son has appealed to the military au
thorities and orders have been re
ceived from Washington that as many
soldiers as are necessary to quell the
mutineers be detailed from Fort Rose
crans.
Captain Duncan asks that the
United States allow a guard to accom
pany the Maori King to Guaymas, as
the Chinese cannot be landed on this
Bide. *
Union Pacific Cuts Freight Rates.
Reduced freight rates are announced
by the Union Pacific and the Oregon
Short Line between Denver and 227
stations on the roads mentioned in the
states of Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Mon
tana and Oregon. The reduction is the
result of negotiations between Presi
dent Charles D. Griffith and Thomas
Scott, manager of the Colorado Manu
facturers’ Association.
The new schedule will go into effect
June sth and averages a cut of twenty
per cent. Manufacturing in this city
will be benefited very much, for it will
enable the various houses to better
compete with outside rivals.
Packing house products, which paid
a rate of $1 will be carried for 71
cents; glass bottles will pay 45 cents
instead of $1.20, as formerly. Other ar
ticles affected are:
Agricultural implements, bags and
bagging, packing house products, bot
tles, brick, butter, preserves, cornmeal,
flour, coal, coke, cotton piece goods,
crockery, earthenware, stoneware,
cooperage, emigrant movables, dried
fruits, bedroom furniture, iron bed
steads, chairs, desks, safes, school
seatfe, window glass, axle grease, all
kinds of iron articles, mining machin
ery, liquors, marble, granite, mineral
water, nuts, oilcloth, baking powder,
paints, paper bags, wrapping paper,
news, tablets, etc., powder, sash, doors
and blinds, school books, soap and
soap powder, enameled ware, starch,
stoves, vinegar, etc.
One Hundred Are Drowned.
Buenos Ayres.—A dispatch from
Montevideo, published here, announces
that the French Transport Maritimes
cruiser Poitou, from Marseilles April
6th, for this port, has been wrecked off
the coast of Uruguay. One hundred of
her passengers and crew are said to
have perished.
It is understood there aro 200 pas
sengers on board the vessel, and that
her cargo will prove a total loss.
The Poitou struck thirty yards from
the shore at a spot called Rincon de
llerrero. Panic broke out on board tho
vessel when she grounded and a great
number of terrorized people jumped
overboard. Some of them swam
ashore, but many were drowned. Cus
toms officers at Rincon de Herrera
saved fifty out of tho 300 pasesngers
who are said to have been on board.
How many others have been saved is
not known.
Baby Rides Cowcatcher.
Engineer Slanson was driving his
big locomotive on the Chicago, Milwau
kee & St. Paul railroad when he saw
a flutter of calico out by the pilot of
his engine. He looked again and was
horrified to see a baby clinging to the
cowcatcher bars. Stopping the train
he found a little girl, just learning to
talk. She had got on at Calamar,
lowa, to tak3 a “buddy ’ide,” she said.
So tight had she held on that though
the big engine was going forty miles
an hour she seemed perfectly safe.
BIG WORK FOR GRAND JURY.
Coal, Lumber ar.d Land Frauds Wilt
Be Looked Into. .
Denver. —The federal grand jury,
which is to hold a special session in
Denver to take up the matter of in
dicting the persons guilty of extensive
coal and lumber laud frauds, has been
drawn.
Three hundred names were placed
In a box, and a lottery drawing was
made, from which twenty-three names
were taken. Twelve of these men will
be sworn in as the federal grand jury,
but their names will be kept secret
until May 15th, the date of opening the
session.
Everything conducted with the in
vestigation is being kept under cover
for fear that the big corporations
might In some way get inside knowl
edge of the affair and find a loophoie
of escape for their officers.
Even in filing the two suits in equity
against the New Mexico Lumber Com
pany and the Pagosa Lumber Com
pany, the names of the officers and
stockholders were withheld under the
pretext that they are unknown, and
only the name of the. least prominent
stockholder in the companies was used
as a basis for suit.
Whitney Newton is vice president of
the Pagosa Lumber Company, but his
name does not appear in the equity
proceedings. Instead the complaint
was made out against James T.
Hatches, H. T. Sullenberger ar.d
others "unknown,” but a party to the
suit.
In the case of the New Mexico Lum
ber company Edwin M. Briggs was
named as the only person known,
while J. J. McGinnity of McPhee &
McGinnity is the secretary of the
company.
Besides the twenty-nine citizens of
St. Louis who have been subpoenaed
to apear before the jury in connection
with the coal land frauds, a score of
other persons from different points in
the state have been served with pa
pers to be on hand to give what testi
mony they can to the grand jury.
Widow Leaves $6,000,000.
New York. —By the will of Mrs.
Emma J. Richardson of this city, who
died in Charleston, South Carolina, the
bulk of her fortune, estimated at. $6,-
000,000, is left to Mrs. William Tucker
Washburn, a niece. Mrs. Washburn's
daughter, Miss Emma Luce, will get
the millions ultimately, as she is her
mother's heir. She is given several
hundred thousand dollars as a wed
ding portion. She is to be married
next month to Sidney Beardsley Wood
of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The will of Mvs. Richardson, after
distributing over $500,000 among vari
ous churches and charities, leaves the
remaining millions to Mrs. W'ashburn.
Mrs. Richardson was the widow of
Joseph Richardson, who died in 1897.
Mr. Richardson came into public no
tice some years before his death when,
because of a dispute with a neighbor,
he built what became known as a
"spite house,” at Eighty-second street
and Lexington avenue. The house was
built On a strip of land which had a
frontage of only seven feet and was
about 100 feet deep. This unique
house was Richardson’s home until his
death.
Judge Southard Resigns.
Greeley, Colo. —County Judge Charles
E. Southard has tendered his resigna
tion to the Board of County Commis
sioners, which was accepted, and
John C. Nixon, formerly of Denver,
named in his place.
Failing health from overwork is
given as one of the causes of Judge
Southard’s resignation. He will go to
Europe and recuperate and then return
to Greeley and go into private law
practice.
Judge Southard has been three times
elected county judge. His successor
is an old Greeley resident and a gradu
ate of the University of Colorado. He
practiced law in Denver for three years
and was one of the committee that re
vised Mills’Annotated Statutes. Lately
Nixon has been practicing law in Ault.
Wright a Free Man.
Denver.—Benjamin C. Wright en
joyed his first day of freedom since
February 25th, when he was arrested
at the county hospital, charged with
the murder of his wife, Cora, and their
daughter, Genevieve.
"The first thing I shall do will be to
hunt up a job.” said Wright. "I shall
remain in Denver notwithstanding any
reports that I am preparing to go
away.
"I bear no ill feeling against any
persons, although I think I was treated
rather harshly by some of the news
papers.”
“Wright’s father is still with him,
but is preparing to return to his home.
Samuel Hull, father of Mrs. Cora
Wright, still entertains the bitterest
feeling for Wright. He is convinced
that justice has miscarried.
Strawberry Day.
Glenwood Springs, Colo. —Straw*-
berry day preparations were begun
last night at an enthusiastic meeting
of citizens at which tho soliciting com
mittee which has been collecting funds
for the celebration reported they al
ready had an amount equal to tho total
sum raised last year and enough sub
scribers still to be heard from to
make a fifty ner cent, increase.
Tho executive committee was organ
ized with Charles H. King as chair
man, W. S. Parkison-treasurer, and H.
G. Ovevbeck as secretary. The date
was set for June 15th.
Gould Coming to Colorado.
New York. —There is a strong belief
at Lake wood, New Jersey, that Mr. and
Mrs. Georgo J. Gould will give up their
estate, Georgian court, there and move
to Colorado. One liundr?d men on tho
Gould ('state have been laid off within
tho last two weeks and only half a
dozen are left. Heretofore the force
has been kept on all summer, and all
kinds of rumors are afloat. It Is said
that George Gould has offered to sell
his Lakewood estate for $3,000,000 and
make his homo in Colorado. He is tired
of being so near New York and the so
cial whirl and longs for the quiet
and beauty of the western state.
CROPCONDITIONS
RECENT SNOW AND RAINS PUT
DRY FARMING FORWARD.
A POSSIBLE COAL FAMINE
Union Pacific General Superintendent
Advises Dealers in Small Towns
to Fill Their Bins.
W. L. Park, general superintendent
of the Union Pacific railroad, is author
ity for the statement that crop condi
tions in the Northwest are normal,
wheat is looking at its besU and re
cent snow and rain storms have pro
vided ample moisture to practically in
sure the crop. He notes great activ
ity in the dry farming in western Kan
sas and eastern Colorado. Many new
people are going into this region.
In view of the rapid settlement of
the country, Mr. Park is of the opin
ion that the coal situation is the most
serious that confronts the people, par
ticularly in the West. The population
is growing so fust that the demandtr
made upon the mines are very muc#i
beyond their capacity.
He says: "It is quite likely that
next winter will see a much more se
rious conditions than existeu during
the past, for the reason that the coun
try west of Rock Springs mines is set
tling up very rapidly and requires the
entire commercial output at tho pres
ent time. Recently very litle Rock
Springs coal has been shipped east of
Cheyenne and practically none has left
the rails of the Union Pacific or its af
filiated lines during the past year. It
may be possible for the consumers
along the Union Pacific, east of Rock
Springs, to obtain this coal, if the deal
ers store it during the summer. This
we are urging them to do, knowing
how much the people appreciate the
quality of this fuel. This w’ould also
give them some insurance against a
coal famine in the winter of 1907-8, to
which they are entitled.
"As the railroads will be entirely se
gregated from the coal business next
winter, it is up to the dealers to pro
vide such facilities for storing it and
it is up to the people to see that they
Ido it. Heretofore, the railroads pro
tected the people against coal short
ages by selling from their company
supply coal to individuals and to deal
ers. Under the Hepburn bill this will
not hereafter be permitted.
"It Is by no means a question ol
transportation. The problem will be
producing the coal In sufficient quanti
ties to meet increased demands.
“I would not like to see the people
along our line suffer ns they have done
in Montana and Dakota, and in Can
ada, during the past winter, and I
want to get on record this early that
they must look out for themselves to
a greater extent than they have done
heretofore, on account of the changed
conditions.
! “Our ro*d, as well as the other
have plenty of cars and power at this
jtime to handle coal, and instead of
laying the miners off during the sum
mer, ns has been the practice fre
quently heretofore, they should be con
tinuously employed and the coal got
ten to where It is accessible to the con
sumer. Those who have the space in
their cellar bins should lay in a good
supply. A great many can, by a very
small expense, add to their individual
supplies. Neither the dealers nor the
railroads can rightfully he expected to
assume the entire responsibility for a
coal famine. The small consumer must
sit up and taj<e notice of the existing
conditions and protect himself as far
as possible, either by contracting with
his dealers for all early delivery In or
der that he may provide facilities for
holding or taking the coal and storing
it on his own premises.”
Net Work of Electrical Lines.
Trinidad, Colo. —The first definite
move of the Westinghouse people and
a company backed by a capital of $lO,-
000,000 to build a network of electric
railroads aud supply the various coal
camps with light aud electrical power
was made when the county commis
sioners granted a twenty-five year
franchise to the right of way of all
county roads for thb erection of poles,
transmission lines and other appurten
ances.
The franchise stipulates that the
plant must be in operation within one
year or it will be null and void.
franchise was granted to C. L.
dershot, who is representing the
inghouse people and in interested in
promoting the gigantic enterprise.
The Westinghouse interests have a
three months option on the Trinidad
Electric Street railway, the Trinidad
Electric Light and Power Company,
the Walsenberg electric light plants
and several other electrical plauts
in this part of the state.
The company intends to supply all
the camps of this and Huerfano
county with light and electrical power.
The Trinidad Electric Street railway
will be extended to Walsenburg and
to many of the camps. The line will
be used for hauling freight and pas
sengers. It is also learned from a
reliable source that tho electrical road
will bo extended to Pueblo, Colorado
Springs and Denver.
Dyed His Hair.
Atlanta, Ga. —Fear of the noose
turned the black hair of Arthur Glover
white during the night before he was
to bo hanged for killing young Maud
Williamson.
When tho sheriff went to his cell on
the day fixed for tho execution to tell
Glover that a new trial had been
granted he hardly knew his prisoner,
who was chattering that he was John
tho Baptist.
To<lay Glover was placed on trial
for the second time, ills counsel en
tered a plea of paranoia. Dr. Sutllffe,
au expert called bv tho defense, could
not spell paranoia, but sworo Glover
was a paronoiuc.
Tho prisoner was prominent in poli
tics here, was married and had chil
dren., For two years he was friendly
with Maud Williamson. When the
told Glover she was goiug to lead a
better life he killed her.