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THE NEW EH A
WALDEN, - - - • COLORADO.
Good Word for Bank Clerks.
One new thing proposed at the
bankers’ meetings had special rofer
ence to bank clerks. The bank clerks
In the country will be pleased to know
♦hat the new thing may go through
before the time of next convention,
says Gilson Willets in Leslie’s. The
new plan is to admit the bank clerks’
association as part of the bankers’ as
sociation and give all the tellers and
clerks a chance to attend the conven
tions and have a voice in the busi
ness. “And why not?’’ said a cashier
of a big New York bank, while we
sat with cashiers of other banks
throughout the country. “The paying
teller is, in fact, almost as important
a man in any bank as the cashier. He
can break a bank quicker than any
other one man on the premises. By
dint of faultless memory he holds his
cage. In the five hours of banking, the
paying teller cashes perhaps thou
sands of checks. At a single glance
he must know whether the signature
on a check is genuine. The teller is
also a careful student of the human
ace. If he does not know the faces
f his customers as well as the faces
>f their checks he may some day crip
_>le, if npt break, a bank. In the great
banks In the large cities the paying
tellers sometimes have as much as
five or six millions In their direct
charge. That there are wondrously
few betrayals of trust speaks volumes
for the high average of honesty
among the hundred thousand or more
bank clerks of the country.’’
Prize Money Won at Last.
Nearly 50 years have elapsed since
Uriah A. Boyden, a Boston engineer,
deposited SI,OOO with the trustees of
the Franklin institute to be awarded
as a prize for determining by experi
ment whether all rays of light and
other physical rays are transmitted
with the same velocity. It was not
until this summer that the prize was
won. Mr. Boyden doubted the ac
curacy of the experiments of Baron
von Wrede in 1840, tending to show
that light and radiant heat travel at
different rates of speed, ana he hoped
to have the matter established by a
more careful series of tests. Dr. Paul
R. Heyl of the Central high school of
Philadelphia experimented on the rays
of Algol, a variable star in the constel
lation Perseus, and established to his
own satisfaction and to the satisfac
tion of a committee of expert phys
icists that the visible and the ultra
violet rays of the spectrum travel
with the same degree of speed, and
the prize has been awarded to him.
His paper on the subject was printed
In the Journal of the Franklin insti
tute. The accumulation of the fund
for nearly 50 years remains, and the
judges in the contest have recom
mended that the sum be set aside as a
prize for similar successful experi
ments regarding the speed of the in
fra-red rays.
The German Kaiser Wilhelm is pro
foundly interested in aerial naviga
tion, and after watching the experi
ments with military balloons re
marked: “After what I have seen to
day, I am hopeful of the future of air
navigation, and firmly believe in fu
ture successes.” His majesty and
others who are taking up the problem
have come to the same conclusion as
that formed 60 years ago by that pio
neer in ballooning, John La Mountain,
who repeatedly expressed the convic
tion that “man would yet learn to fly.’’
Many other wonderful things have
been brought to pass, and with the
steadily increasing knowledge of sci
ence and natural laws possessed by
the present generation the kaiser
voices the opinion of a growing con
stituency.
Returns from the target practice of
the warships of the Atlantic fleet have
been received and are regarded by the
naval authorities as satisfactory and
In some respects remarkable. But the
army men, who have been stirred up
by recent criticisms of naval officers
regarding the shooting by the seacoast
artillery, have been keeping tabs and
profess to have seen how the work of
the navy can be Improved in various
respects. This is not at all alarming.
On the contrary, it serves to show
that both branches of national defense
are on the alert and that each is try
ing to outdo the other in efficiency.
That sort of generous, friendly and ex
pert rivalry promises the most advan
tageous results to the country.
While other people have been revil
ing ♦he automobile, a thrifty statisti
cian of Connecticut has figured out
that automobillsts left more than $2,-
000,000 In the state during the past
summer. He thinks, therefore, that
they should be encouraged rather thau
repelled.
When Rudyard Kipling told the Ca
nadians that England has 5,000,000
people to spare, did he refer to those
who do not like Mr. Kipling’s politics
*u poetry?
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
interesting Items Gathered From all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
efit of Our Readers.
c Personal.
Samuel Gompers has been unani
mously rc-elected president of the
American Federation of Labor.
W. J. Bryan was in conference with
the president at the White house for
half an hour recently.
The Nobel Prize for chemistry will
be awarded to Sir William Crookes,
of London.
Capt. James T. Holmes, one of the
last of John Brown’s band of aboli
tionists, is dead at Red Bank N. J.,
aged 74 years.
William R. Hearst, publisher of the
New York Journal, lias been held to
the grand jury on the charge of crim
inal libel preferred by William Astor
Chanler.
J. B. Case, of Abilene, Kan., was
elected president of the Trans-Missis
slppi Commercial congress at the re
cent meeting in Muskogee. The meet
ing next year will be held in San
Francisco.
Andrew Carnegie has put Ida Lewis,
keeper of the Lime Rock light house,
at the southern end of Newport har
bor, on his private list insuring her
S3O per month during her life for
bravery in saving life.
Nathan J. Bachelder, of Concord, N.
H., has been re-eleced Master of the
National Grange.
Brig. Gen. George E. Pond, retired,
is dead at his home in North Caro
lina.
Charles F. Caswell, associate justice
of the Colorado supreme court, is
dead at Denver.
Gov. Sheldon has declared that he
would use all his influence to secure
for Kansas City the republican nation
al convention next year.
The engagement of Miss Theodore
Shonts, daughter of the former chair
man of the Panama canal commission,
to the Due de Chaulnes has been an
nounced in New York.
Andrew Carnegie is now engaged in
furnishing free football to Pittsburg
citizens.
Daniel Sinclair, the oldest editor In
Minnesota, Is dead at Winona, aged 76
years.
Miss Helen Gould has been pre
sented with a silver loving cup by
5,000 enlisted men in the United
States navy.
Steve Adams, in whose trial for
the murder of Fred Taylor the jury
disagreed, has been admitted to bail.
W. R. Chambers, possibly the old
est resident of Pennsylvania, died at
Ceicil at the age of 105 years.
Miscellaneous.
Senator Ilansbrough of North Da
kota favors a central government
bank to be located at either Chicago
or St. Louis to prevent a recurrence
of the present money stringency.
A Canadian patrol boat fired on and
captured four American fishermen
who were caught poaching. The men
were released but their boats were re
tained.
The steamer D. M. Wells left Du
luth for Buffalo with 421,000 bushels
of wheat being the record shipment
of grain on Lake Superior.
The second trial of Harry K. Thaw
for the murder of Stanford White has
again been postponed by mutual con
sent to some date yet to be deter
mined but not sooner than January 1.
A sensation was created at the meet
ing of the American Federation of La
bor at Norfolk, Va„ when President
Gompers declared an attempt had
been made to bribe him by officials of
the National Manufacturers’ associa
tion. The delegates gave their offi
cers a unanimous vote of confidence.
After an Investigation of the Klcka
poo Indian land frauds, Senator Cur
tis, of Kansas, said that the disclos
ures had convinced him that restric
tion on the sale of Indian land should
not be removed.
Strictly fresh eggs sold in Jersey
City recently for 75 cents a dozen.
The police department of Denver
has adopted the photograph as a "jag’’
cure. The picture of the inebriated
Individual is shown to him when he
gets sober.
The corporation commission has is
sued an order notifying all Oklahoma
railroads that a 60 per cent reduction
in coal rates would go into effect Jan
uary 3.
After an Inspection of the Panama
canal zone the congressional commit
tee has returned to New York. They
found the work progresing satisfac
torily.
Russia has paid to Japan $24,302,-
200, being the balance due for the
maintenance of Russian prisoners Ly
Japan.
A young attorney of Waterbury,
Conn., has given up his practice be
cause he cannot bear to witness the
sufferings of his clients.
The national prohibition convention
has been called to meet in Columbus,
Ohio, during the first week in June,
1908.
Five children, ranging in age from
two to 11 years, were recently burned
to death in their home near Pleasant
ville, Pa.
The postoffice safe at Fort Gibson,
Ok., was recently dynamited by rob
bers and S4OO in money and stamps
secured.
Lieut. John W. Crawford, secretary
of Admiral Dewey, has disappeared
and it is feared he has committed
suicide.
R. C. Horne, an editorial writer on
the Kansas City Post, shot and seri
ously wounded O. D. Woodward, man
ager, and H. J. Groves, managing edi
tor of that publication, during a busi
ness disagreement.
The athletic treasury of the Univer
sity of Minnesota has benefited by
the four games of football played on
the home grounds to the extent of
$48,733.
President Roosevelt has addressed
a letter to members of his cabinet re
questing them to inform employes un
der their jurisdiction to refrain from
activity with the object of the re
nomination of himself for president.
The master carpenters' organization
of New York has notified the Brother
hood of Carpenters that January 1
there will be a reduction of 50 cents
per day in their wages.
Attorney General Hadley has filed
application in the circuit court at Jef
ferson City for a writ of mandamus to
compel the Western Union Telegraph
company to comply with the Missouri
law governing foreign corporations.
A statement by the Bureau of Man
ufacturers shows that the value of
the annual production of manufac
tured articles amounts to $15,000,000,-
000.
The officers and crew of the steamer
Dick Fowler, who were charged with
reckless navigation on the occasion
of President Roosevelt’s trip down the
Mississippi, have been acquitted by
the government inspectors at Mem
phis.
The federal grand jury at Salt Lake
has returned indictments against sev
eral western railroads and officials of
the companies for violation of the in
terstate commerce law.
A jury in Dunklin county, Mo., has
acquitted Aud McMunn of a charge of
murder for killing a man who was in
the act of writing a letter to Mrs. Mc-
Munn.
The turbine steamer Mauritania,
sister ship of the Lusitania, has ar
rived in New York on her maiden voy
age with $12,500,000 in gold on board.
This is the largest amount ever
brought across the Atlantic at a sin
gle trip.
By the burning of Sawtell’s hotel In
Buffalo, N. Y., recently, one man was
killed, one fatally injured and the
balance of the 80 guests had narrow
escapes.
Gov. Cummins, of lowa, has caused
the arrest of the commissioned officers
of the Davenport company of militia
who failed to stop a prize fight in that
city when ordered.
A permanent organization has been
formed by the Atlantic Deeper Water
ways conference, in session at Phila
delphia, to push the project of an in
land waterway from New England to
the Carolinas.
The Trans-Mississippi Commercial
congress at Muskogee, Ok., has passed
a sweeping resolution favoring the im
provement of the deep waterways of
the country.
The executive committee of the
league of republican clubs of Ohio In
dorsed Senator J. B. Foraker for sena
tor and for the republican nomina
tion for president.
The 1908 meeting of the National
Educational association will be held
in Cleveland, 0., June 29 to July 3.
Several persons were shot and oth
ers injured in a street car riot at
Louisville, Ky.
An understanding is said to have
been reach**! by which the hanks oi
the larger cities will in a few days
resume cash payments.
The supreme court of New York
has refused to make permanent the
injunction granted against the Inter
national Pressmen’s union to compel
them to live up to the agreement
made last January.
Attorneys for H. H. Tucker, Jr.,
and the Uncle Sam Oil company has
filed formal charges with Judge
Hazen, referee in bankruptcy, charg
ing Receiver Morse with having sold
products of the company for less
than he was offered and conducting
the receivership extravagantly.
Trial of the Colorado land fraud
cases will begin before the United
States district court at Denver De
cember 16.
The football receipts at Yale for
the season will reach approximately
SBO,OOO.
L. Penn, colored, killed Frnk Emer
son, also colored, In the jail at Inde
pendence, Kan., by cutting his throat
with a razor.
Fire in a retail dry goods store
In Cincinnati caused the death of one
person and the serious injury of sev
eral.
A statement given out by the board
of health shows that the bubonic
plague situation at San Francisco is
much improved.
Ten thousand Arab tribesmen at
tacked the French camp at Maghnia,
Algeria, and were not beaten off until
1,200 of their number had been killed.
Two men locked officers of a Clin
ton, 111., bank In the vault took, the
money from the counter and escaped.
An extra supply of coal is being
sent to Honolulu and Manila for use
of the battleship fleet In case it should
be decided to have it return to the
Atlantic byway of the Suez canal.
The village of Chain, lowa, was re
cently destroyed by fire. Only one
building was saved.
The jury in the Steve Adams mur
der case at Rathdrum, Idaho, dis
agreed and has been discharged.
At Sandusky, 0., five men were ser
iously injured in a head-on collision
between two trolley cars.
Edgar Grubb, his wife and one-year
old baby were recently cremated in
their home near Beverly, Ohio.
The Detroit Free Press nnd the De
troit News have announced an in
crease in price from one cent to two
cents per copy.
DEFENDS THE
GERMAN ARMY
CHANCELLOR VON BUELOW
MAKES NOTABLE SPEECH IN
THE GERMAN REICHSTAG.
ARMY NOT CORRUPTED
ALL PARTIES EXCEPT SOCIAL
ISTS WILL VOTE FOR IN
CREASED APPROPRIATIONS.
Berlin. —Thursday’s sitting of the
Reichstag was notable for the ener
getic speech of Prince von Buelow,
the German imperial chancellor, in de
fense of the army, the Emperor and
himself.
In replying to Dr. Spain, the leader
of the .center party who asserted that
conditions prevailing in the army re
called those of ancient heathen Rome,
the chancellor rose, full of Are, and de
clared that no one imagined that the
whole army was affected by a few in
stances of unworthiness. The chan
cellor assured the house that these
would be sharply attended to by the
Emperor, than whom no one strove
more for a high tone of morality in
both the army and the nation. It was
the crown prince, he said, who had
called his father’s attention to the
articles in the Dierzukunft disclosing
corruption, with the result that imme
diate action was taken in the matter.
He pointed out that neither the chan
cellor nor the ministers could take
such a step without holding proofs of
their assertions.
Prince von Buelow then referred to
the so-called court camarilla which is
widely alleged to have influenced the
Emperor’s decisions. No one, he said,
had ever accused the Emperor of be
ing without his own will and the cam
arilla could only exist where the mon
arch was willing. Such a poisonous
growth as a camarilla, he said, was
utterly un-German and reports regard
ing its existence could be taken as
being without foundation.
In concluding his address the chan
cellor denied the assertion that he had
dissolved the last Reichstag in order
to protect himself against personal
attacks relative to his supposed par
ticipation in intrigues. The reason for
such action, he t-aid, was the obstruc
tion offered by the center party, which
desired to pit its strength against the
nation’s will. Any chancellor who had
submitted to such a course would have
forfeited the confidence of the nation.
The chancellor promised to take part
in the budget debate tomorrow.
Freiherr von Stengel, secretary of
the imperial treasury, stated that di
rect taxation could not be raised in
consequence of the increases in the es
timates and the government must rely
upon the indirect method, but as yet
he was not prepared to state by what
means he hoped to bring the empire’s
finances to a sound condition.
The representatives of virtually ev
ery group with the exception of the
socialists, gave assurances that they
were prepared to vote for the augmen
tation of appropriations for the army
and navy if it was proved in the com
mittee that this was necessary to the
defense of the country. Dr. Spahn
greeted the Emperor’s visit to Eng
land as a sign of better relations be
tween the two nations and a step to
wards the maintenance of the world’s
peace and the development of com
merce. He then declared that the pow
erful center party was utterly opposed
to the new Polish expropriation bill,
which in his opinion would give Am
erica and other countries a further rea
son for their impression that freedom
was unknown in Germany.
Carnegie’s Recipe for Happiness.
New York. Nov. 26. —Hale and
hearty in spite of his seventy years,
Andrew Carnegie, standing beside a
table piled with messages of congratu
lation on his birthday, November 26th,
gave a rule for happiness. The rule
was this:
“To obey the judge within and make
others happy.
“If the judge within gives you a
clean verdict, we have no other judge
to fear, here or hereafter.
“But after satisfying that judge,
above all else the way to be happy is
to make others happy.”
“Can a man accomplish as much at
seventy as at forty?” he was asked.
“More, bless you, more,’’ replied Car
negie. “All things being equal a man’s
efficiency is increased at seventy. He
is equipped with greater experience.
The world is growing better, and It
follows that the men in it grow better
as they grow older.”
Carnegie was asked: “When is man’s
usefulness ripest?”
“When he has attained the highest
degree of perfection of which he is
capable,” was the reply. "This means
that if he conserves his physical and
mental powers he will be ripest when
he has attained long life. At seventy I
am convinced that man’s usefulness in
creases with age.”
Aeroplane Competition.
Washington.—After bids for the flrsi
dirigibles for the United States serial
fleet are made and contracts awarded
the signal corps contemplates adver
tising for aeroplanes early next year,
so that experiments may be carried on
with “heavier than air” flying ma
chines.
"Hundreds of letters are received
every day from inventors and the big
nal corps make reply in every case, but
no contracts are made or will be made
except by open competition, when bids
are advertised for,” said General James
Alien.
“The Wright brothers liavo commu
nicated with the War Department, and
have made propositions, as have oth
ers, but we have made no arrange
ments with any one, as all are to be
treated alike when proposals are re
ceived.”
THANKSGIVING PARDONS.
Governor Directs That Prisoners Go
to Their Former Homes.
Denver. —Governor Buchtel, in par
doning three persons from prison in
stitutions the day before Thanksgiv
ing exiled each from Colorado for
life. The pardons are said to be with
out precedent in carrying this condi
tion witn them. For the first time the
governor of the state went outside of
the State Penitentiary also, pardoning
one prisoner from the county Jail of
Denver and one from the state reform
atory. Each prisoner is to be sent back
to his mother. Following arc the
Thanksgiving clemencies:
Frank Herold, life sentence, peni
tentiary, for double murder. Served
eight years.
John Rundle, intermediate sen
tence, Buena Vista reformatory, stole
bicycle.
T. E. Cavanaugh, vag, county jail of
Denver.
human W. Scovel, commutation of
sentence, State Penitentiary, from
seven to eight years to two to eight
years. Voluntary manslaughter. Sco
vel is an old soldier.
Herold has never applied for a par
don, having been sentenced in 1899 for
the double murder of Charles H.
O’Hara and Mary A. Moulton O’Hara,
at Brighton, both people of bad repu
tations. The woman was formerly a
habitue of Market street. Herold was
an ignorant German boy of 19, and the
governor said in his letter to Herold
that he believes his story that O’Hara
killed his wife and that Herold killed
O’Hara in self defense when O’Hara at
tacked him as the only witness of the
crime. Herold drove off a few cattle,
sold them and tried to get out of the
country, but fear is advanced as the
cause of this act by those who inter
ested themselves in his behalf. Mrs.
Henrietta Barmeier, one of those who
secured the pardon, was formerly a
well known German grand opera
singer and sang in Governor Buchtel’s
j church twenty-five years ago.
It was the intention of former Gov
! ernor McDonald to give him the
1 Christmas pardon, but the plan did not
1 succeed. He was recommended for
the Thanksgiving pardon by both Gov
ernor and Mrs. McDonald and Mrs. J.
B. F. Reynolds, as well as the warden.
Scovel is sixty years of age. He
was sentenced from Telluride, San
Miguel’county, November 28, 1907, for
voluntary manslaughter, being charged
with the murder of Sam Clark. His
wife is said to he an invalid and needs
; his support. Scovel was formerly a
volunteer officer of the State Bureau
of Child and Animal Protection, serv
ing without pay, because he could not
bear the sight of a child or animal be
ing abused. The officers of the bureau
I believe that he killed Clark in self de
| fense.
Governor Hunt's Monument.
Colorado Springs.—From the moun
tains of Colorado and these scenes of
: his early activities and his rise to em
inence and wealth, a monument lias
been selected to mark the resting
place of A. C. Hunt, territorial gov
ernor of Colorado from 1567 to 1869,
! who, with William J. Palmer and W. H.
i Greenwood Incorporated the Denver &
I Rio Grande railroad and who in the
early life of the state fought Indians
and law-breaker* as president of the
[ vigilantes.
A massive boulder, weighing* several
tons, was taken from Ute pass for ship
ment *o Baltimore, Maryland, where it
will mark the grave of Governor Hunt.
This simple monument is to be erected
in compliance with the wishes of Mr 3.
Hunt and her daughter, who are act
ing in conjunction with General Pal
mer. Later a statue of Governor Hunt
will surmount the boulder.
Several days were required to move
and load the massive piece of granite.
Exciting Football Games.
Denver. —For the fourth successive
season the Colorado School of Mines
football eleven Thanksgiving Day won
the Colorado championship at Broad
way baseball park, defeating the Uni
j versity of Colorado by the score of
five to four in a superb strug
| gle witnessed by fully 10,000 en
thusiastic spectators, who for seventy
minutes of actual play watched the
spectacular contest between the splen
didly matched teams. In the morning
! the University of Denver team de
feated the Agricultural College team
iby a score of 5 to 0.
Foreigners Going Home.
New York. —That the estimate that
50,000 emigrants will leave New York
this week for European ports Is far be
low the number that will probably sail,
is the opinion expressed by Gustav H.
Schwab, of the North-German Lloyd
line. At least 60,000 and perhaps 70,-
000 will sail, according to Mr. Schwab's
figures. The Pennsylvania railroad
alone brought more than 2,000 to New
York Thursday. A curious feature of
the situation is that the number of
immigrants arriving in New York this
month is greater than for any Decem
ber on record but it is believed that
the exodus will cause a falling off in
immigration.
Pettibone Jury.
Boise, Idaho.—After the first dny’s
examination of talesmen in the case of
George A. Pettibone, charged with uio
murder of former Governor Frank
Steunenberg, seven were in the Jury
box who answered questions as to
their qualifications satisfactorily to
counsel of the state. Much hotter
progress than was expected was made.
The regular venire of thirty-five was
exhausted befo.e adjournment and sev
enty or 100 will report Monday morn
ing, when the work of securing a Jury
will be continued.
Big Fire at Granite.
Denver.—A Republican special from
Granite Friday morning says: A the
which started from the overturning of
a lamp In a barber shop late last nlghr
destroyed three-fourths of the business
and residence section or Granite, a min
lng station twenty miles east, of Lea I
vllle. The town being without a fire
department, tho flumes soon spread to
other buildings before It Anally burned
out at tho edge of the Arkansas river.
The totul lohh may exceed $25,000.
JUDGE HELM
APPOINTED
A8 JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT
TO SUCCEED THE LATE CHAB.
F. CASWELL.
WAS TWICE ELECTED
BELECTED BY GOV. BUCHTEL,
THOUGH NOT AN APPLICANT
FOR THE POSITION.
Denver.—Joseph Church Helm of
Denver was appointed Monday by Gov
ernor Buchtel as a member of the Su
premo Court of Colorado to succeed
the late Justice Charles F. Caswell.
No definite time has been set for the
taking of the oath of office, but this
ceremony will probably bo fixed as
soon as possible, owing to the impor
tant. matters which the court now
or soon will have, under consideration!®
In idcussing his appointment Mon
day night, Judge Helm said:
“I was not an applicant for the place,
nor a candidate in any sense. I have
not seen the governor since Judge Cas
well's death, and had no conversation
with him until he called me this even
ing by telephone and read the appoint
men' to me.”
Joseph C. Helm was born in Chicago,
Illinois, in 1848. He enlisted in the
army in 1861 and served for four years,
until the close of the war; three years
in the Thirteenth United States infan
try and one year in the Sixth infantry.
First army corps. He served in the
armies of the Mississippi, the Tennes
see and the Potomac. He wa9 In the
battles of Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas
Post, Raymond and Champion Hills.
He was in the assault on Vicksburg,
May 19th, and In the siege and capture
of Vicksburg; in engagements at Jack
son, Mississippi; Colliersville, Tennes
see, and in other engagements. He
was a prisoner of war on Belle Isle.
Judge Helm obtained his education
after the close of the war at the State
University of lowa. Between his colle
giate and law courses he had charge of
the schools at Van Buren and at Little
Rock, Arkansas, for three years. The
degree.of doctor of laws was conferred
on him by the State University of lowa
in 1891. On graduation from the law
i school at lowa City he came to Colo
| rado in 1875. Ho was first city attor
ney at Colorado Springs, lie was first
city attorney at Colorado Springs. Ho
was a member of the House of Repre
sent* tives in the First General Assem
bly of the state of Colorado from El
Paso county, and was a member of the
state Senate from the Tenth senatorial
district in the Second general Assem
bly. He resigned from the state Sen
att and was elected to the distri^ v
bench in the Fourth judicial district W
succeed Thomas M. Bowen.
Judge Helm was then elected to tho
supreme bench in the fall of 1882 and
served for one full term of nine years.
He was re-elected for a second term in
tho fall of 1891 and entered upon his
second term In January, 1892. In tho
fall of 1892 he resigned from the su
preme bench, when more than eight
years of ser\ ice were before him, to ac
cept the nomination for governor on
the Republican ticket. He was defeated
by Davis H. Waite. If he had not re
| signed from the supreme bench at that
time he doubtless would have been con
tinued on the supreme bench during
the remaining years of his life. Since
Ills retirement in the fall of 1892 he has
been engaged in the practice of his
profession in the city of Denver.
Throughout the forenoon Governor
Buchtel listened to the claims of sup
porters of various candidates.
From the western slope delegations
appeared in support of Alfred R. xing
of Delta, who Is a warm personal friend
of the governor. Among Mr. King’s
supporters were Postmaster Price of
Delta, Representative Hoyt, Senator De
Long. Chairman of the Mesa county
Republican committee, and Postmaster
Sullivan of Grand Junction.
From the University of Denver law
school appeared L. J. Kavanaugh, J.
Paul Lee, E. W. Upton, Max Bulkley,
Forrest Jeffries, M. A. Aylesworth,
Walter Reckendorf and Charles Mor
ris, in support of the candidacy of Dean
Lucius W. Hoyt.
W. W. Story ,of Ouray, Sterling &
Sherman of Montrose, A. C. Phelps
Harper M. Orahood of Denver had thWr
friends at the capita], too.
A delegation of colored lawyers
called on the governor in support of Jo
seph H. Stuart.
Beed Growers’ Convention.
Denver. —The annual convention of
the Colorado Grain and Seed Growers'
Association will be held in Denver
January 23, 1908, while the big West
ern stock show is in progress. The ac
tion of Former Senator T. M. Patter
son in offering to the boys and girls of
Colorado substantial money prizes for
seed growing has aroused great inter
est. and the announcement of the win
ners of this year’s prizes will bo
mado at tho convention. Last year,
the first year of the competition, $-100
In cash prizes was awarded; tho
awards for this year will be the pres
ent «*mtest, they will be Increased.
Senator Patterson will be present at
the convention arid will deliver an ad
dress.
General Palmer Recovering.
Colorado Springs.—Gen. William
Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs,
whoso spine was broken September I t,
1906, Is able to walk again. With tho
assistance of some one to keep his
knees from giving away under him. lio
can take a few steps at a time and tho
indications are that within a few
months ho will regain fairly good con
trol of his limbs, which have been al
most completely paralyzed since tho
accident.
General Palmer, who is seventy-two
years old, was thrown from his horso
while riding through the Garden
Gods, two vertebrae of his splno Tf
lug broken.