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THE NEW ERA
WALDEN, - ■ COLORADO
CONGRESS MEETS;
EXTRA SESSION
CALLED BY PRESIDENT TAFT TO
CONSIDER CANADIAN RECI
PROCITY.
CHAMP CLARK SPEAKER
FOR FIRST TIME IN SIXTEEN
YEARS DEMOCRATS HAVE
MAJORITY.
Washington.—With riotous enthu
siasm in the new Democratic House
and solemn formality in the Senate
the Sixty-second Congress came into
being at noon Tuesday. It began a
session called by President Taft for
the consideration of Canadian recipro
city, but destined apparently to be con
tinnued through a long struggle for
tariff revision and the contest between
parties for advantage in the coming
presidential campaign. For the first
time in sixteen years the Democratic
party has a majority in the House of
Representatives.
Following his election as speaker
Champ Clark of Missouri, who re
ceived 217 of 365 votes cast, sounded
the slogan of the Democratic party in
CHAMP CLARK.
Congressman from Ninth District of
Missouri.
a speech calling for tariff revision
downward and general legislation in
behalf of the “millions of families’'
who now find it “difficult to live in
decency and comfort.”
With Governor Harmon of Ohio and
Willi&m J. Bryan of Nebraska on the
floor, the triumphant Democratic ma
jority shouted in exultation and sob
ered seriously to the responsibility
which Speaker Clark detailed.
The House was the main attrac
tion and there the packed galleries
roared applause at the flower-decked
members. Messengers scrambled over
each other trying to deliver telegrams
of congratulations, of which Speaker
Clark received several basketfuls.
The Republican minority, with its
leader, Representative James R. Mann
of Illinois, was on hand ready for a
“fight or a frolic,” and Uncle Joe Can
non, the deposed speaker, looked on
with a brave show of pleasure as he
paw his Democratic successor take of
fice.
At this moment Governor Judson
Harmon of Ohio, another presidential
possibility, was discovered in the
crowd.
Hardly had the Democratic applause
quieted down before there was a simi
lar demonstration from the Republican
side as minority leader James R. Mann
(Rep., 111.) walked down the center
aisle.
Champ Clark received 217 out of the
3C5 votes cast; 16 Republican Pro
gressives voted for Henry A. Cooper
(Rep., Wis.), one of La Follette’s fol
lowers. Cooper voted for George W.
Norris (Rep., Neb.) for the speaker
ship. Representative Mann (Rep., 111.)
received 131 votes.
Clerk McDowell appointed Represen
tatives Mann (Rep., 111.), Underwood
(Dem., Ala.) and Vreeland (Rep., N.Y.)
a committee for the perfectly useless
task of notifying Clark of his election.
While they were searching for the
new speaker. Democrats began to pro
duce small flags. When the speaker
mounted the rostrum it was amid riot
ous yells and the waving of flags,
while every member rose to his feet.
Several minutes passed, while Repre
sentative Mann, gavel in hand, stood
ready to introduce him. Finally, by
dint of pounding, he succeeded In re
storing order. In absolute silence
Mann turned to Clark and then to the
House, and said, simply:
“It Is a great office, filled by a great
man. I present to / you the new
speaker, the Hon. Champ Clark.”
England Wants Reciprocity.
London. —In the House of Commons
it became known that the British
eminent contemplates asking the
United Staets to grant to Great Brit
ain the same concessions contained in
the Canadian reciprocity agreement.
Sir Edward Grey refused to disclose
the plans.
COLORADO STATE NEWS
County Commissioners Liable.
Brighton.—By a ruling of District
Judge McCall at Brighton county
commissioners or their bondsmen are
liable to the county for any moneys
expended by them in an illegal man
ner.
Btopovers on All Tickets.
Denver. —A circular issued by the
Western Passenger Association an
nounces that stopovers will be allowed
on summer tourist tickets this year at
all points within the final limits of
the tickets. The privilege is extended
to tickets routed east and west.
Pueblan Heir to Big Estate.
Colorado Springs.—Henry B. Sny
der, formerly of this city but now of
Pueblo, and a resident of Colorado for
fifty-one years, is one of three heirs
to an English estate valued at $600,-
000, according to press dispatches
from Chicago, which Mr. Snyder cor
roborated.
Farm Land Sella High.
Denver. —What is said to be the
largest farm deal closed in the vicinity
of Denver in recent years was con
summated when L. H. Richardson sold
900 acres of irrigated land three miles
north of Arvada in Jefferson county to
George E. De Wolf of Monango, N. D.,
for $135,000.
Woodrow Wilson Coming.
Denver. —Woodrow Wilson, governor
of New Jersey, will be in Denver as
the guest of the Chamber of Com
merce May 7, 8 and 9. He will be
asked to address the chamber on mu
nicipal government. The committee
on arrangements of the body is con
sidering the admission of women to
the meeting.
Lawyers to Hold Memorial
The Denver Bar Association will
hold memorial services for those of its
membershop who have died within the
last year on April 11 in the first di
vision of the District Court. Eulogis
tic addresses on the late Chief Jus
tice Steele, Senator Charles J. Hughes,
R. T. McNeal, Rastus W. Smith and
others will be made.
Colorado Water Filings.
Denver. —An examination" of the fil
ings on water rights in Colorado, re
corded in the office of the state en
gineer during the last two years, com
pels the inference that if there is any
thing more valuable than gold in this
state, it must be water. In seventy
water districts, embraced In five di
visions of the state, there have been
THE WEEK’S NEWS EPITOMIZED
WESTERN
Denver spent approximately $250,-
000 in the month of March for auto
mobiles.
As forecasted recently, the first
steps looking to the restoration of
peace in Mexico are proceeding with
all possible speed.
According to Japanese papers Just
received at Seattle 300,000 coolies
have lost their occupation in Manchu
ria through the plague.
Good roads for Jefferson county,
Colo., and the proposed foothills park
for Denver were given a hearty boost
at the first meeting of the Jefferson
County Good Roads Association.
The government lost its first battle
in the effort to punish the alleged
fraudulent locators of Alaska coal
lands. The amount involved is over
one hundred million.
Aviator Charles F. Willard will
leave Los Angeles at once for Salt
Lake City to meet a party of New
York business men and arrange for a
world record long distance flight from
New York to Denver.
S. S. McClure of Gooding, Idaho,
secretary of the N a ti° na i Wool Grow
ers’ Association, i» in Washington and
will remain while the question in
volving the rlduction of duties on
wool is under discussion by Congress.
At least 5,000 delegates, represent
ing 175,000 members of the National
Association of Retail Grocers, will
come to Denver next June to attend
the fourteenth uinual convention of the
organization. It is expected that the
Denver meeting will be the largest
ever held.
Seventy-five of the most prominent
society girls of Denver witnessed a
fast six-round boxing contest between
Young Abe Attell and Charle Fogel
son, lightweights, at the smokeless
smoker given in the School of Mines
gymnasium by the athletic board of
the school.
If you expect an important letter
on a Sunday, you can get it by paying
ten cents. This is the latest order of
the postoffice department relative to
the Sunday closing regulation. The
letter will be charged to the account
of the special delivery department as
if it were a special delivery letter and
delivered by a messenger.
BPORT.
Manager Daniel Shay of the Kan
sas City American association team
purchased “Red” Corridon, shortstop,
and “Pat” O’Connor, catcher, from the
Pittsburg National team. Shay is said
to have paid $6,000 for the men '
within the last two years, 2,297 ditch
filings, carrying & total of 334,297 cu
bic feet of water per second, and 1,506
new reservoir filings, claiming a total
of 972,C17,612,847 cubic feet..
Tuberculosis Convention for Denver.
Denver. —Governor John F. Shaf
roth has written to the governors of
nineteen states west of the Mississip
pi river asking them to send dele
gates to the convention of the National
Association for the Prevention of Tu
berculosis, which convenes here on
June 20. This is regarded as one of
the most important conventions which
will be held here during the present
year. Thousands of delegates are ex
pected to be present. Prominent raedi
cal men from over the world will be
in Denver at that time, and it is the
intention of laying plans for a more
effective crusade against the white
plague.
New Park for Colorado.
Washington.—The President is ex
pected to designate the Monument Na
tional park in Colorado upon the re
port of a special agent of the land of
fice sent there to investigate. The
new reservation embraces a tract of
about 800 acres lying between Pali
sade and Grand Junction, containing
palisades and peculiar rock forma
tions. Representative Taylor took
the matter up with President Taft
some time ago and the secretary of
the interior requested the general land
office to send an agent there to inves
tigate. The report is expected danly
and it is believed will be favorable.
It is stated at the Interior Depart
ment that President Taft concurs in
the views of the new secretary of the
interior that Congress in granting the
Fort Lewis Indian lands to the staH
of Colorado did not intend to convey
to the state the coal underlying. The
President, it Is stated, will recommend
to Congress the enactment of legisla
tion to make explicit the intention of
Congress to conserve teh coal under
the lands for the use and disposition
of the general government. Should
such legislation be proposed it Is the
Intention of all of the Colorado mem
bers of the House and Senate to op
pose its enactment the grant of the
lands to the state in their opinion hav
ing been entirely unconditional.
William G. Evans, president of the
Denver, Laramie & Northwestern rail
road, is in the East to resume nego
tiations for financing the extension of
the road beyond Steamboat Springs,
where they were interrupted by the
death of Mr. David H. Moffat.
Tommy McFarland of Chicago lost
to Jake Barada in the third round
at St. Joseph, Mo.
, George Hackenschmidt, who is ac
knowledged to be the only legitimate
contender for the world’s champion
ship wrestling title against Frank
Gotch, the present champion of all
champions, sailed from New York for
his home in Germany. “Hack" is a
German, although he is called the
“Russian lion."
Stanislaus Zbyszko. the Polish
wrestler, defeated Dr. Roller of Seattle
in two straight falls at Wichita, Kan.,
but he was given a hard tussle in
the first fall. This fall lasted one
hour, seven minutes and thirty sec
onds. The Pole fairly wore Roller
down and won the second fall in elev
en and one-half minutes with a head
chancery hold.
FOREIGN.
The Russian foreign office has tele
graphed the Russian minister' at
Peking that China’s reply to Russia's
ultimation is satisfactory.
Peru and Bolivia have shaken
hands. The treaty submitting to The
Hague tribunal all boundary disputes
between the two countries has been
signed by the representatives of the
two countries and thus the probabili
ty of war is ended.
The boring of the $15,000,000 tunnel
through the Alps under the Lotsch
berg, in the Swiss canton of Oberland,
finished recently, is a work which
will shorten the railway journey from
Italy to London from two to three
hours.
Information received at the Quirinal
Indicates that 15,000 Albanians are al
ready in revolt and that 60,000 more
are preparing to take the field. Mon
tenegro and Bulgaria are said to be
encouraging the rebels with the idea
of making reprisals against Turkey.
The bloodiest and most important
battle of the Mexican insurrection so
far fought in the state of Sonora, end
ed after two days’ stubborn fighting,
near the towns of Ures and San Ra
fael. Although tlie insurectos outnum
bered the federal forces, their ammu
nition became exhausted, while the
federals were able to obtain more and
the insurrectos were compelled to re
treat.
WASHINGTON.
National banks of the country are
shown to be in a condition which
treasury officials consider favorable,
from recent reports.
Minor Mention.'
The outlook for afruit crop in Colo
rado is good.
Plans are on foot to build a high
school at Gill.
Fire destroyed the old Hester house,
a land mark at Evans.
William E. Winthrow*, city attorney
of Central City, is dead.
James H. Kay, a resident of Denver
for twenty-three years, is dead
Louis Carlson, a farmer, was held
up and robbed in Pueblo recently.
The North Park Rifle club has been
organized at Walden with fifteen mem
bers.
Georgetown was the only town in
the state that held an election Mon
day.
The annual state convention of the
Ladies of the Maccabees was held in
Denver.
It Is estimated that 20,000 acres of
grain have been planted in the Gree
ley district.
H. P. Smith of Estabrook has shot
a mountain lion measuring seven feet
from tip to tip.
The twenty-third annual meeting of
the Pueblo Presbytery was held in
Colorado Springs.
The Teller Indian institute will be
permanently closed by the govern
ment on July Ist.
It is likely that a creamery will be
established in Kersey in connection
with the ice plant.
For the first time in history there
will be no spring elections held this
year In Central City.
One hundred Springfield rifles and
other equipment have arrived in Grand
Junction for Company F. C. N. G.
The government is asking for bids
for carrying the mail between Cortez
and Moqui, the bids calling for two
trips a week.
Charles Beeman, a rancher living
three miles north of Castle Rock,
committed suicide by sending a bullet
through his brain.
Carl V. Rupp, an employe of the
Grand Junction Fruit Growers’ Asso
ciation, and his sister have fallen
heirs to one million dollars.
Some 500 acres of tomatoes have
been contracted for the cannery at
Ft. Lupton with 40 acres of pumpkins,
75 of beans and 75 of sweet corn.
Hegina Martinez, a miner employed
at Berwind shot and killed Mrs.
Rita Trujillo, when the woman refused
to live with him, and then killed him
self.
In order to supply the rapidly in
creasing demand and also because
In accordance with the plans of
Secretary Meyer for the Atlantic fleet
of twenty battleships after July 1,
1911, the battleships Maine, Missouri
and Ohio have been ordered • in com
mission June Ist.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
designated forty-five additional post
offices as postal savings depositories
in as many states and territories,
mostly industrial centers, where there
are many wage earners.
Keen disappointment prevailed at
the Supreme Court of the United
States when that tribunal finished its
weekly task without touching on the
dissolution suits against the Standard
Oil and the Tobacco Corporations.
The government’s charges of crim
inal libel against Joseph Pulitzer or'
the New York World and Delevan
Smith of the Indianapolis News, for
publication of charges of graft in con
nection with the Panama canal, have
been formally dropped.
James Bryce, the British ambassa
dor, held a lengthy conference witn
Secretary Knox regarding the pro
posed arbitration treaty between the
United States and Great Britain. The
negotiations are still in a tentative
stage. It is said in official quarters
that no hitch has been encountered
and that reasonable progress is being
made.
Since the enactment of the Curtis
bill empowering the secretary of the
interior to modify and rearrange spe
cific payments to the Reclamation
Service, with a view of affording re
lief to needy settlers under reclama
tion projects, a steadily increasing
number of'applications have reached
the department through members of
Congress. The disposition of these
cases presents a serious problem to
the secretary, who has thus far an
nounced no definite procedure to gov
ern this class of cases.
GENERAL.
Commander Edward B. Latch, U. S.
N., retired, died at his home in
Merlon, Pa.
Coral jewelry has been growing in
popularity of late, according to New
York dealers and importers.
The Republican ticket was elected
by a safe majority in Michigan, but
it is difficult to estimate the ma
jority.
B. F. Bush, president Western Mary
land Railway, has been selected to
succeed George J. Gould as president
of the Missouri Pacific.
crops were short last season, 500,000
acres near Greeley will be placed to
alfalfa.
The Grey Nuns* Canadian order of
the Catholic church is considering
Colorado Springs for the erection of a
sanatorium which will be built in Colo
rado or New Mexico.
The liberal stopover privileges and
low summer rates which the railroads
have announced for Colorado points
are expected to bring more tourists to
the Pike’s Peak region than ever be
fore.
Work along the inlet and outlet
ditches of the Milton reservoir near
Greeley has begun. Men and teams
are on the jof and the numbers will
be increased as other works get under
way.
A landslide at Lookout mountain,
one-half mile down the gulch from
the portal of the Roosevelt tunnel,
Cripple Creek, will block the Cafion
City & Cripple Creek railroad for
weeks.
A passenger train Was wrecked near
Gunnison. The engine and baggage
car left the track and rolled down an
embankment but stopped on a shelf
above the river. Engineer was badly
scalded.
A contract for construction of th3
east end of the Pueblo & Southwest
ern railroad from the new town of
Wilson to the St. Charles river will
be let immediately. The road will be
thirty miles in length.
Accused of stealing several hundreds
of dollars from the Colorado & South
ern railroad, L. F. Freiger. aged twen
ty-six, formerly station agent at Su
perior, is being sought by railroad de
tectives.
During the meeting of the religious
educational association to be held at
Greeley April 6 to April 10, Judge A. Z.
Blair, who disfranchised 4,000 voters
for five years in Adams county, Ohio,
will be one of the speakers^
The largest sale of state land that
ehas been held for some time is an
nounced by Dr. B. L. Jefferson of* the
State Land Board. At this time 15,-
000 acres of land, mostly in the east
ern part of the state, will be sold at
auction.
George Giles, superintendent of the
Gorham mine at Marshall, was fined
sls and costs by Judge E. J. Ingram
in the County Court for violating the
state child labor law.
A purse containing SBO in green
backs belonging to G. M. Wilcoxson, a
ranchman near Pueblo, was devoured
by six small pigs, and as a result the
pigs were butchered.
Major George W. Rue, who is cred
ited with capturing the guerilla chief,
John Morgan, during the Civil War,
is dead at Hamilton, Ohio.
Four thonsand carpenters will quit
work in St. Louis because the demand
of the union for an increase of five
cents an hour in wages was refused.
Snow was general in Nebraska,
South Dakota and northeastern Mis
souri last few days. At Omaha four
inches fell.
Dates for the meeting of the Gen
eral Federation of Women’s Clubs, in
cluding board meetings, to be held in
Memphis, Tenn., are April 18-22, in
elusive.
Dr. D. K. Pearson, of Hinedale, 111.,
will celebrate his ninety-first birth
day, April 14th, by the distribution
oi $300,000 to schools and religious
organizations. This will make his
total distributions of recent years
nearly $5,000,000, most of which has
been given to small colleges.
A new high quotation was made on
the gold dollar of the issue of 1863
at the auction sale of old American
coins held in the rooms of the Chica
go Numismatic Society. The new price
is $37.50, the former record being $35
for that coin.
Prosecution of alleged bucketshop
operators in Chicago by the federal
government will not be affected by a
decision by Justice Wright of the
District of Columbia Supreme Court
that amendments to the law there
were unconstitutional, if the govern
ment attorneys understand the situa
tion. j,
February 26, last, Patrick Cudahy,
the Milwaukee packer, gave out an in
terview ii\ which he expressed the be
lief that provisions would sell much
lower. That day May pork closed at
$17.75. Recently that option 'was quot-'
ed at $15.15. This is a drop of $2.60
in a little over one month. May lard
has declined over SI.OO in the same
period.
. Intense feeling against the negroes
of the town was evident among the
whites at Laurel, Del., following the
recent outbreak, when a party of des
perate blacks shot up the town, kill
ing one man, and wounding several,
and further trouble is feared.
The California Supreme Court de
nied the petition of Abraham Ruef
for a rehearing of the motion vacating
its original order to rehear his ap
peal against the Judgment and sen
tence of the trial court sentencing him
to fourteen years In San Quentin on
a charge of bribery.
To Get
Its Beneficial Effects
Always Buy the Genuine
Srajpfies
fUXIR-'SfNHA
manufactured byihe
OUDMMfMiW^
Sold by all leading
Druggists
One6iie Onjy. S(K a Battle
WHICH ACCOUNTS FOR IT.
Briggs—l understand that Mr. Blgge,
your wife's late bbsband, made every
thing over to hert
Henpecklett—Yes, and now she’s
making everything over for me.
A Preaching Cross Restored.
The preaching cross In the village
of Burrington, situated amid romantic
surroundings on the northern side of
the Mendip hills, has, by the generos
ity of CoL Evan H. Llewellyn, been
restored. It is recorded that early in
1805 the handsome fifteenth century
base of the cross—all that then re
mained of it—was removed and uti
lized in building a new house for th«£
then parish clerk.* Happily, the orna
mental dial stone did not share the
same fate, and this has been incor
porated into its original position in
the new cross. Three broad and mas
sive steps carry the old socket upon
which rests a tall monolith shaft,
which is crowned by one of those
lantern-shaped canopies so peculiar to
the west country.—From the London
Standard.
Moissant’s Comparison.
"The late John B. Moissant was a
genial as well as a skillful airman,”
said a Chicago editor.
"I remember well a visit he once
made me, with drawings of an aero
plane of his own invention under his
arm. I Joked him a little about the
machine —it certainly had a heavy,
awkward look. But he said with a
laugh:
“ ‘Oh, don’t Judge even an aero
plane by Its outside. What if the man
who discovered the oyster hadn't
stopped to pry open the shell?’ ’’
COFFEE HEART
Very Plain In Some People.
A great many people go on suffering
from annoying ailments for a long
time before they can get their own
consent to give up the Indulgence
from which their trouble arises.
A gentleman in Brooklyn
his experience, aa follows:
“I became satisfied some
ago that I owed the palpitation of the
heart from which I suffered almost
dally, to the use of coffee, (I had been
a coffee drinker for 80 years) but I
found It very hard to give up the bev
erage.
"One day I ran across a very sen
sible and straightforward presenta
tion of the claims of Postum, and
was so Impressed thereby that I con
cluded to give It a trial.
"My experience with It was unsat
isfactory till I learned how It ought
to be prepared—by thorough boiling
for not less than 15 or 20 minutes.
After I learned that lesson there was
no trouble.
"Postum proved to be a most palat
able and satisfactory hot beverage,
and I have used It ever since.
"The effect on my health has been ;
most salutary. The heart palpitation ;
from which I used to suffer so much,
particularly after breakfast, has dls- \
appeared and I never have a return of A
It except when I dine or lunch away i
from home and drink the old kind of
coffee because Poetum Is not served <
I find that Poetum cheers and lnvlg ,
orates while It produces no h&rmfui
stimulation." Name given by Postunr
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Ten days’ trial proves an eye openei
to many.
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. "There’s a Rear
son."
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