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Enteric fever Is calculated to have
killed ten Britishers in South Africa
~ur each one who has fallen a victim
to Boer bullets.
Tha heaviest precious stone Is the
ziroon, which is four and one-half
times heavier than an equal amount
of water; the lightest is the opal, only
twice as heavy as water.
mr. Brrs~ and tbo ~h.d ~rty. ~
In disclaiming knowledge of, tmr~!ei-
l)ation In, and sympathy--with the t~l
party movement s~ at Kansas
City Mr. Bryan sl/bti|d'ndt~be taken too
seriously. It may very well be that
there is "nOt a word of truth" in the
premature report that it is organized
to maintain his perennial candidacy for
the office of President, or that he Is the
author of its declaration of principles.
This, however, proves notl~lng as re-
gards Mr. Bryan's future identification
,with this movement, should it become
sufficiently important to warrant him
In assuming its leadership.
I What Mr. Bryan may find it to his
• The 38th anniversary of the estab- political interest to do now or at some
lishment of a territorial government future time in the matter of party af-
for Arizona was marked by the dedi- flliati~s As of much more interest to
cation of the new capital at Phoenix. / the people of the South than to those of
Governor Murphy presided.
I
the North. The present disorganization
" Pope Leo XIlI. has Just reorganized i of the Democratic party in the South
his historic bodyguard. These gentle-
men always accompany the pope in his
walks and attend him at all public
functions. Leo XlII. has increased the
eorlm from eighty to 340 in number,
end has placed them at the head of the
Vatican troops.
The numerous islands of the Pata-
gonia archipelago are covered with
evergreen forests capable of supplying I
immense quantities of Valuable timber, I
while the mountain ranges, being of{
the same geological formation as those t
of Chili and Peru, are probably rlch{
in mineral resources, l
!
A passenger train on the Minne-!
spells, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie
Railroad was recently delayed an hour
~by heaps of Russian thistles which had
'been blown upon the track by heavy
winds. The thistles were caught on
the wire fences along the right of ~ay, I
where they collected in bunches in!
much the same manner in which snow
drifts into rallread cuts.
The king of Italy has Just asqulred
the lsland of Monte Cristo, the scene of
Dumas' thrilling romance, as a hunt-
ing ground. It is about six miles in
extent, and abounds in fur and feather.
There are to be found the wild boar,
the wild goat, the mouffion, hare and f
pheasant. When he was Prince of No- I
pies the king used to often go hunting I
on the island, which then belonged to
the Marquis de Ginori-Lesci.
Colonel James G. Milner, once assist- ]
dtnt secretary of the confederate navy,
when he died at Milford, O, on Tues-
day, had in his trunk a million dollars~
|n confederate bonds and money. Had
he sold these to collectors he would
not have been so poor that his wife'sl
burial and his own need be at the
charge of friends, as was the case.
Colonel Mllner's wife, 80 years old,
died three weeks before him; a neigh-
bor then took him to her home, where
the desolate man died at the age of 82.'
The board of health of the city of
l]alveston is arranging for a large sup-
ply of oil from the Beaumont wells to
be used in fighting mosquitos. The ell
is due almost wholly to his insistence
upon the financial and economic here-
ales which he introduced, and which,
under his disastrous leadership, be-
came for the time being Democratic
doctrine. It cannot have escaped the
knowledge of Mr. Bryan that so fax as
the South is concerned his continuance
lu Democratic leadership, even to the
extent of being permitted to exercise a
strong personal influence in shaping
the party policy or iu the selection of
cam]idates, would render it impossible
for the Democratic party to carry more
than two or three southern states on a
fair count of ballots cast. Certainly
one-third, an4 perhaps one-half of the l
ballots cast for him in the South in the
last presidential election were unwlll-
lag votes, which he would not have re-
ceived If those who cast them had not
felt sure that his election was Impos~l-
ble in any event, and that for r~asous
wholly independent of his candidacy it
was expedient to cast Democratic bal-
lots. This condition precludes the idea
of his again becoming a candidate of
the Democratic party, or of retaining
the measure of influence as a leader
which would satisfy his ambition or
give'the scope for his restless energies
which these must have. He is used to
defeat, and probably at no time really
expected to be elected, but he has whol-
ly lost the-habit of retirement within
the sphere of private citizenship, and
we imagine he had rather lead a for-
lorn hope and so keep in the public eye
than disappear from notice and con-
tent himself with a commonplace life
of modest obscurity.
If the wealth and intelligence of the
South have any voice in the matter Mr.
Bryan can have no further recogni-
tion as leader of the Democratic party.
It should not be forgotten, however,
that he still has a following in the
South which is numerically strong, and
which is allied with the Democracy
only because such alliance seemed to
promise it an advantage which it has
not realized and from which Democra-
will be distributed in all the stagnant cy has gained no benefit. That each
pools in the city, sprinkled on the sur- should deslre separation is only natu-
face of water ia the gutters, and dis-
trihnted free to owners of open cis-
terns for use in destroying mosquitos
and the fever-breeding germs which
collect in the ponds. Experiments ',
made by the board of health have dem-
ral. Sl~ould they drift apart Mr. Bryan
could gain no advantage from remain-
ing with the Democratic party. HIS
friends and followers, in whose loyalty
resides ~11 the political strength he
onstrated the virtue of crude oil as a' ever had, would have left the party
sanitary measure if properly used and and swarmed by themselves. Consti-
petroleum water as healthful and tuted as he is, it is scarcely possible
nourishing for drinking purposes. I that he could remain a Democrat with-
Agents of the German government out influence or following when the
are scouring Arizona for horses for PSpulists and Socialists had taken up
use in the army. Several days ago they
closed a deal with ranchers in thet
northern and central parts of the ter-
ritory for several hundred head. and
will buy as many more. The Arizona
range horse is peculiarly adapted to
hard campaigning. The stock comes
of excellent blood. Indeed of such
quality Is the Arzona horse that United
States army buyers prefer him when
the discarded standard emblazoned
with the shibboleths of his two unsuc-
cessful campaigns and formed a party
to teach and preach them and fight for
t~em.
It is not to be expected that so
shrewd a politician as Mr. Bryan
would be found ostensibly identified
with the Kansas City movement In its
he can be secured, to the product of incipiency. Common prudence would
any other region. The heavy demand, i suggest to him the wisdom of waRing
however, of the past three years has until the movement has'takenf shape
drawn heavily on the Arizona horse
ranges, and prices have risen. /Army
buyers are paying from $25 to $55 and
getting horses from three to five years
old.
Pennsylvania Is the latest state that
is trying to encourage and regulate!
marriage by new methods. Represen-
tative Roth of Lehigh, introduced a bill
and effected an organization of some
sort. But itqs inconceivable that he
is not with them in spirit. A company
of Populists, Socialists. Communists.
• public ownership advocates, single tax-
ers, Silver Republicans, cranks, mal-
contents and Bryan Democrats could
not very well unite on any other leader
than Mr. Bryan, and if he Is not with
in the state legislature lately which
provides that a male citizen of Penn-i them he will be, should the movement
sylvania over forty years old, making ~ survive the pangs of birth, for the ex-
application for a marriage license shall cellent reason that by that time he
pay to the clerk of courts a license of wilt have no other place to go, po~tic-
$100. This is to be turned Into the ally. So far as the South is concerned,
state treasury for the purpose of main- z the Democu~ats are fully reconciled to
taining homes ~or women over forty the loss of their Populistic allies. They
years old, who have not had a suitable brought the party pelt little strength
opportunity or offer o~ marriage and ] and to hold them the South must con-
have not means sufficient to keep• tinue to oppose the policies which are
themselves In clothes and spending !
money. Any bachelor over forty years in the highest degree essential to its
old who shall go outside of the state~tIndustrial and commercial develop-
for a wife §hall pay $100 into the meat. It has done ~his as long as it is
state treasury. The act is irrevocab'.e
and can never be repealed without the;
consent of, the ~a:lority of the old we- I
men wl~: have bee~L ~egularly admitted I
to the homes establishefl for them. I
!
The negro population of the United
willing to. Safer and more useful alli-
ances are open to the southern Demo-
crats and they are wise enough to see
that Mr. Bryan and his friends are
much better fitted to organize a third
party than to remain as a millstone
around the neck of the Democracy. We
States is not diminishing, as many
recommend to the members of the
suppose, but is on the gain. The per-
centage of increase since-L~90, accord- Kansas City convention Bryan and
fag to the census of 1900, is 13.78, Tillman as an ideal ticket with which
which is a greater percentage of in- [ to go,before the country in 1904.
crease than that of the previous dec-
ado. The actual figures, according to ] The Philippine Civil Service.
the latest census are as follows: Col-1 Nothing, in its way, could be more
ored population, 8,500,000; increase. | explicit and gratifying than the letter
1,029,960. That is the largest increase ~ of Judge Taft tb Mr. Fonlke of In-
shown by any census since 1790, ex- ! dianapolis, respecting the c.lvil service
¢epting that of 1880, when the gala In qlt~ Phlll~I)ines. It appears to have
was 1,700,784,
been written to repel some ~ur~ous
rumors that the places in the civil ser-
vice were going by favor. It does that
very successfully. It is as evidently
candid as it is explicit. It sets forth
that all the places In the civil govern-
ment, except those of the provincial
governors, have been and will be sub-
Jected to competitive examinatlon;
that is to say, that some test of merit
is to be applied, and that favor is not
to count at all.
Judge Taft's letter is of particular
importance as showing the depth of
his own interest in the subject. As
governor geheral of the islands, it
would he 1~ his power to do much to-
ward turnlng Into farces any regdla-
ttons he might desire to disregard. But
he shows that he partakes the opinion
of those Americans who have all
along considered that the real test of
our capacity to administer colonial
possessions would come after the
troops had been withdrawn, or put in
subjection to the civil authorities. In
the officers of the army we have a
class of public servants who have al-
ready for years been undergoing a
searching competitive examlnatlon, n
puttlng them provisionally in charge
of civic matters we " have complied
with the advice of Mr. Kipling to
"send forth the best we bL~ed." But
there was a distinct danger that, in
filling the civil offices we should be in
dangdr, "because of their lmportun.
ity," of sending forth the worst we
bred. A man who has been a success
at home is not apt ¢o be looking for an
office in the archipelago. A man who
has been a failure at home is a much
likelier applicant. If the~ appoint-
ment were to go by favor, he would
have the "influence" in his behalf ot
all those who had carried the burden
of supporting him, and who hoped, by
shipping him to Manila at the public
cost, to get rid of him once for all. A
competitive examination is the .only
effective barrier against him. And it
Is evident that Governor Gener~ Taft
will not lower it to please anybody.
Indeed, he would be a fool if he did.
But it seems from his letter, as we
.should have expected, that his dmcial
superiors, the President and the sec-
retury of war, have warmly sympa-
thize4 with his efforts to get rid alto-
gether of the element of "pulr' in man-
ning the new government.
The testing of merit is even more
necessary In the Philippine civil ser-
vice than in tha£ at home, because the
American applicants have no "neigh-
borhood repute" out there, and their
reputation at home is liable to be fal-
sified, in the manner and for the pur-
pose we have suggested. As to the
Filipinos who are to be admitted, ac-
cording to the President's promise, to
"the largest possible participation" in
their own government, their examina-
tions will doubtless consist largely of
an ascertainment of what their stand-
ing among their neighbors really is.
But, at any rate, we seem to h~ve
made 1£ certain that the gover~mc-~nt
of the archipelago will be adminis-
tered by the ~hen who have shown the
most promising indications of being
able and fit to administer it. That is
a great point gained, and a great dan-
get escaped.
Views of a Missouri State~am~
The Hon. ChamP. Clark, one of the
most illustrious Democrats in Pike
county, Missouri, was found in New
Orleans the other day by a reporter of
the Times-Democrat. It seems that the
Pike Pitt has lectured on "Picturesque
Public Men" 1t3 times, "in twenty-
four states and territories," and he
still lives. Naturally the talk of Mr.
Clark to the reporter played about
picturesque public men. First, great-
est, freshest of them all, the Hen. Joe
Bailey of Gainesvtlle, the Janitor of
the constitution. It warms the blood
to hear one great man praising an-
other:
"Bailey will be President of the
United States some day. Every one
of sense admires him except those who
are Jealous of hlmJ'
Mr. Bailey can afford to say of Mr.
Clark what Mr. Clark says of him.
Every one of sense admires Mr. Clark
except those who are Jealous of him,
and Mr. Clark's chances of being
President are about as good as Mr.
Bailey's, except that the Texan Is or
tenderer years.
Of a slightly elder soldier, not a bet.
tel the pride of Pike says:
"As for Wlllla~ ;fennings Bryan, he
will either be nominated three years
hence by the Democratic national con
vention or he will dictate the name of
the man who will be nominated. Iie
is young enough to run at seven dif-
ferent presidential elections. I really
expect to see him elected to the pres-
idency."
Having thu~ conferred the presi-
dency upon two picturesque public
men, Mr. Clark felt at liberty to be
picturesque himself. "lIow do you re.
gard the decision of the Supreme
Court in the insular cases?" he was
arked. Let the m ~,rmldons and minions
of Imperialism ponder and tremble at
his reply:
"There isn't a lawyer in the United
States that is fit to try a replevln case
about a hog in a court of the Justice
of the peace who does not know that
decision is preposterous. Instead of
Settling the muddle, the decision itself
will become a political issue In ~6
next campaign."
TELLURIDE STRIKE SETTLED
BY A WRITTEN AGREEMENT
Denver, ;Iuly 7.--The strike at Tel-
luride is over and the operation.of the
Smuggler-Union mine is to be resumed
at once.
Telegraphic dispatches to that effect
were received by Governor Orman
yesterday afternoon shortly before 6
o'clock at his residence, 1340 Pennsyl-
vania avenue, about an hour after he
left his desk at the state house.
'Phe infm-mation that the strike is ~o
be declared off was telegraphed to him
in a message signed by Lieutenant
Governor D. C. Doates, Judge Theron
Stevens of O~ray, Judge of the Sev-
enth Judicial district, in which Tellu-
ride is located, and Arthur L. C~llins,
manager of the Smuggler-Union mine.
The first two were members of the spe-
cial committee sent to Telluride th~
~atght of July 4th by Governor Orman,
to effect an amicable settlement of the
trouble If possible.
The first message giving notice that
the trouble was all over, read as fol-
lows:
Tellurlde, Colo., July 6, 1891.
Gover~or James B. Orman, Denver,
Colorado.
Conference Just closed and agree-
ment ~ade which ends entire trouble
satisfactorily. Strike will be officially
declared off and operation, of mine at
once resumed.
D. C. COATES,
THERON STEVENS,
ARTHUR L. COLLINS.
To-day has been one of anxiety with
the permanent population of Tellu-
ride, but the strain was relieved about
5 o'clock in the afternoon, when mem-
bers of the citizens' committee who
had been in consultation with T. J.
Sullivan and O. M. Carpenter, on be-
half of the union, and Manager Ar.
thur L. Collins of the Smuggler-Union
mines, in one of the rooms of the Sher-
idan hotel, came down to the. office and
announced that an agreement satisfac-
tory to both sides had been reached.
The Joyful news spread quickly
throughout the city, and it was re-
ceived with great enthusiasm, espe-
cially among business men and prop-
erty owners, who recognized the seri-
ous consequences to the town should
the strike continue and other proper-
ties than the Smuggler close down, as
has been threatened.
The band was summoned to the
front of the hotel, where I¢ discoursed
patriotic tousle for a couple of hours,
and there was general rejoicing.
The full text of the agreement, re-
duced to writing and signed by repre-
sentatives of both parties, is as fol-
lows:
"Telluride, Colo., July 6.--Thls
memorandum of agreement on this 6th
day of July, A. D. 1901. entered into
between the Smuggler-Union Mining
Company and Local Union No. 63 of
the Western Federation of Miners of
the county of San Miguel and state of
Oolorado, witnesseth:
"That the differences heretofore ex-
isting between the parties hereto have
been amicably adjusted on the follow-
ing basis, to-wit:
"First--The union expresses its en-
tire disapproval of the recent out-
rages.
"Second--The company agrees not to
discriminate against the union nor the
members thereof, and the union and
the members thereof undertake to not
interefer wi¢h nor molest non-union
men°
"Third--The company agrees to let
the secretary or president of the local
union have full access to its surface
property at all reasonable hours; pro-
vided, that the work of the men is not
ln~cerfered with.
"Fourth--The nnion agrees to use all
its influences to stop the illicit selling
of liquor Lu Marshall basin oz" around
the mine. "
"Fifth--,The company is to have the
right to let eontrac-ts to any men who
wish to take them. All such contracts
to be on printed forms, which are here-
after to be drafted by J. H Murphy,
representing the union, and Jacob
Filltus, representing the company.
Such contracts are to be for the per-
led of one month, at the end of which
time the work done under the terms
thereof shall be measured up, and if
it shall appear that the con¢ractor has !
COLORADO NOTES.
Dr. Cherrie and associates are
Ing a ten-ton ice plant in Canon
The new Antlers hotel at
Springs will be run strictly on
European plan.
Late reports from many sources
dicate a heavy cantaloupe crop in the
Arkansas valley.
A fifth sub-station of the
postoffice is to be established,
on Capitol hill, and three new
added to the force.
Benjamin Pettingell of
claims to have invented a method
which nitro-glycerine can be
fired from a cannon.
William H. Snider, one of the
ers of the Manitou Grand Caverns
died at Manitou on the 6th instant,
the age of fifty-three.
Denver hotels are reported full
overflowing with tourists. Tim
Palace, after placing many cots,
compelled to turn people away.
In excavating for the basement of
new building at the corner of
teenth and Lawrence streets,
the workmen found the tooth of
mastodon.
There was a very large
, at the opening of the Chautauqua
sembly at Boulder, July 4th. The
tion was delivered by Father
of Denver.
The new law permitting the lnfllc~
tion of the death penalty for
went into effect July 1, but the quo-
tations do not show any rise in
price of hemp.
At Ouray, on the Fourth, in the rain.
not earned $3 or more per shift, the era' double-hand drilling contest~
company undertakes or agrees either i Hupps and Lindquist drilled in
to pay off the contractor at the con- I regulation contest time 39¼ inches
tractor at the contract rate or to raise
the contract price pro rata. This is to
say, the price for the work will be
raised so as to make it equivalent ta
$3 per shift for future work of the
same character.
"Sixth--If the president of secretary
of the union shall at any time repre-
sent to the management of the mine
that any contractor Is inefficient or
dangerous to the safety of ~ther work-
men, or unable to carry out the re-
quirements of the contract or agree-
ment, the management agrees to, at
once, measure up the amount of work
already done by such contractor, and
in the event of sv'h amount of work
betas less than at the rate of $3 per
shift, the company will pay him as is
provided in paragraph five of this
memorandum of agreement.
"Iu witness whereof the Smuggler-
iGunnison granite.
The club women of l~enver are
sidering the erection of a handsome
building for club purposes, with an.
auditorium in it to seat in the neigh~
borhood of 1,000 people.
W. F. Bailey, formerly general
senger agent of the Colorado
has been appointed manager of
railroad department of Rand,
& Co., publishers of Chicago.
The American Microscopical
will meet in Denver at the same time:
with the American Association
Advancement of Science. One hundred.
members are expected to be present.°
The Glen Park Chautauqua at
mer Lake was opened July 5th, Presl-
den~ Main of Iowa College delivering:.
the opening addl~SS. Present condi*~
tiGriS indicate an exceptionally success-
Union Mining Company has caused its ful assembly.
named to be fixed by its general man-There were fifty-nlne cases of diph-
ager under the seal thereof, and the therla in Denver during the month of
local union, No, 63, hus aWthorized its June, as co~.nl)ared with fourteen the
president and secretary to execute this year previou%, and the health commls-
agreement on its behalf and to affix slo~er has instituted an investlgatlo~
hereto the seal of the union.
"Done in the city of Telluride, San to try to find out the causes.
Mtguel county, state of Colorudo, this Pretty four-year-old Esther
6th day of July, A. D. 1901." of Denver was killed instantly on
d~l'4"~*d'4q'4~+q-4~l.+-l-++÷-F+q-~l- +-F+-F+@~+q. ++ +q.+÷ +@ +@++~l.+
OPENING OKLAHOMA
INDIAN RESERVATIONS
Washington, July 8.--The proclama-
tion of President McKinley opening to
settlement the lands ceded by Indians
in the territory of Oklahoma, was
given to the public yesterday. The
proclamation covers the cessions made
by the Wichita and affiliated "bands of
Indians, in accordance ~'itb the act of
Maxeh 12, 1895, and those made by the
Oomanche, Kiowa and Apache tribes
in pursuance of the act of Juno 3, 1900.
The proclamation provides for th~
op~nlng of the lands in those reserva-
tions which are not reserved at 9
o'clock a. m. on the 6th of August
next, the lands to be open for settle-
ment under the homestead laws of the
United States.
The proclamation says that begiu-
!aing 9n the 26th. those who wish to
make eh,ry of lands under the home-
stead laws shall be registered. -Tile
registration will take place of the land
offices at Reno and Lawton. The reg-
istration ai each office will be for both
land districts.
Registration cannot be effected
through the use of the mails or the em-
ployment of an agent, excepting that
honorably discharged soldiers and sail-
ors may present their applications
through an agent, no agent being al-
lowed to represent more ths:n one sol-
dier. No person will be allowed to
register more than once. After being
registered applicants will be given cer-
tificates allowing them to go upon the
ceded lands and examine them in or-
der to aid them in making an intelli-
gent selection.
It Is explicitly stated fhat "no one
will be permitted to make settlement
upon any of the lands in advance of
the opening provided for," and the
statement is added that "during the
first sixty daYs following said opening,
no one but registered applicants will
be permitted to make homestead settle-
ment upon any of said lands, and then
only in pursuance of. a homestead en-
try, duly allowed by the local land of-
fleers, or of a soldier~' declaratory
statement, duly accepted by such offi-
cers.
The order of the applications is to be
determined by drawing, the plan for
which is described as foll,~ws:
"The order is which, dt~lvg the first
sixty days following the opening, .the
registered appllcants will be permitted
to make homestead entry of the lands
opened hereunder, will be determined
by draw|ngs for both El Reno and
Lawton districts publicly held at the
United States land office at El Reno.
Oklahoma. commencing at 9 o'clock on
Monday, July 29. 1901. and coutinutng
for such period as may be necessary to
complete the same:'
DRIVEN INSANE BY
HEAT IN NEW YORK
[
New York. July 7.--With a record of I,
over a thousand deaths due directly to
the heat and three times that number
of prestl~ations, the week just passe~
has been anything but a happy or com-
fortable one for New Yorkers. The
conditions here have been simply ter-
rific, and unte~s one has experienced a
"real New York hot spell" it is hard to
realize just what it means. If it had
not been for the thunder'storms whiten
tempered the hot wave during the lat-
ter part of the week the deaths, sui-
cides and insanity ca~es wo~uld have
been more than three times the number
now recorded.
Driven mad by their terrific suffer-
ings scores have committed suicide. A
woman, insane from the terrible con-
ditions, took uer three little once to
the river side and threw them from the
pier into the u-ater below and then
Jumped after them. The woman and
two of the children were rescued and
are now in a hosp4tai, but the other
little one fell a victim to her mother's
insane delusion.
Jessie ~[orrison 8enteneed.
Eldorado, K~n., July 7.~Jessle Mor-
risen; convicted of manslaughter m
the second degree for the murder of
Mrs. 4~lara Wiley Castle, on June 22,
1900, was yesterday sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary In close con-
finement at hard labor.
Miss Morrison took the sentence
calmly, and returned to her cell with
steady step. She will be taken to
Lansing at once• Judge Aikman over-
ruled successively motions for a new
trial, for postponement of sentence
and for arrest of judgment. Court ad-
journed to September. when Miss Mor-
rl~on's attorneys will file a bill of ex-
ceptions and take an appeal to the
I~t~t~ S~tpreme Court.
5th instant, by a d~:namite torpedo~
which had been carelessly dropped l~L
the yard the day before by Fourth of'
July celebrators. It exploded in her"
mouth.
Chancellor H- A. Buchtel of the Uni-
versity of Denver reports that the unI~
verslty had 878 students last year in.
all departments, a gain of 248 over
the preceding year. He says the at-
tendance wlll easily reach 1,000 thls.
fall,
From all parts of the state come the-
usual reports of Fourth of July acci-
dents. If all the victims could be'
gathered in one crowd it would furnish
an appalling object.lesson, for ther~
would be fully 10(3 sufferers, some very
seriously hurt.
A. L. Cassidy was shot and killed on
the 7th instant while tryiiig to escape.
from Policeman J. J. McDonell. Cos-
• sidy had injured Howard Fisher in a
saloon quarrel and was arrested by
, McDonell, who fired at him wl~en he. o
tried ~o run away.
President McKinley has signed the-
following Colorado commissions: Per-
ry Hobkirk, receiver of public moneys
at Del Notre; David C. Fleming, red-
Only once before in the last ten years [ lster of the land office at Sterling (re-
appointed)'; Charles B. Timberlake, re-
have eo many dead horses been seen in I ceiver of public moneys at Sterling (re.-
the streets. So many.died in the streets appointed).
that it was Impossible to keep the thor- I Judge Northcutt of the District:
oughfares clear and a short ride on a Court at Lamar o=erruled the de-
street car would brlng to one's eyes
eight or ten dead horses awaiting th~
dead wagon.
The condltlons in the tenement see-
tloma were terrible. The five and seven
story double deckers were literally ov-
end, with their teeming, perspiring pop-
ulation. It wa~ impossible to llve in
the tiny rooms and the families moved
to the fire escapes and roofs. In the
daytime the streets were practically
deserted, only those stirring abroad
who were obliged to. At night all was
('hanged. The cars carried three times
their usual number of passengers, peo-
ple who were trylng to gain resp4te In
the open air from the terrible heat. In
all the parks and along the water
fronts and on the recreation piers hun-
dreds of thousands of people gathered
,und slept on the ground, thus escap-
ing to a certain extent the terrible con-
dition~ in the tenements.
Excludes Gift Periodicals.
Washington, July 8.--Postmaster
General Smith has decided to debar
from second-clasa mail privileges the
large class of periodical publications
which depend largely on gift enter-
prises, guessing contests or nominal
subscription rates for their circula-
tion.
By the new regulatlons a vast
amount of printed matter that now
pays for transmission at the rate of 1
murrer of the attorneys of Prowers
county ~o the complaint filed by the
attorney general's office, in the suit to
compel the payment of interest dolleet.
~d on delinquent state taxes by the
~ounty.
The safe in the postoffic4~ at Manza-
nola was blown open about 2 o'clock
in the morning on July 4th and $10@
stolen by robbers, who escaped. It
was a good time for the safe blowers,
as the explosion attracted no special
attention on accounl of the celebration
of the day by firing guns and crackers.
On Sunday, the 7th instant, prac-
tically the whole clergy of Denver de-
nounced Judge Palmer, who had a few
days before l~lblicly reprimanded two
of their number for contempt of court
in eriticising his injunction in favor
I of Sunday liquor selling in restaurants
and permitting wo~r~n to frequent sa-
tloons.
Vernon Minnihan. aged two, the only
child of M. Minnihan, foreman of the
Denver & Rio Grande section at Doug-
las, two miles south of Castle Rock,
was poisoned to death on the night of
the 7th by eating some medicated tab-
lets containing strychnine, which its
father had been using as medicine. It
died in convulsions before relief could
be secured.
The directors of the Denver Horse
cent will be charged 8 cents a pound. Show Association are making prepar-
The second-class matter has grown ations for the third annual exhibRlon
until it now embraces nes~ly three- i of the association. They have assur-
fourths of the entire weight of all mail Ti once of a large attendance of exhibit-
matter handled by the government, ]ors and visitors not only from Cole-
and yet it brings in a revenue of less rode, Wyoming and Utah, but also
than $4.000,000 a year, out of the el- from Kansas City, Chicago, Jefferson
tire postal revenue of more than $110,- ] City and Topeka. The show will be
given from September 3rd to 6th, In-
000,000. t elusive, at D. A. C. park.
Great Educator Dead. Thomas F. Armstrong, a prominent
San Francisco. July 7.--Professor ranchman from near Franktown, in
Le Conic, of th~ University of Califor- ~ Douglas county, has been adjudged in-
nia, died yesterday in the Yosemite , sane by the County Court and com.
valley, where he had gone for a brief ~ mitted to the asylum at Pueblo Arm-
outing. His death was the result of i strong lms for many years been a re-
heart failure. ProfessorLe Conte was ~ spected citlzen, "but during the pas~
one of the oldest instructors in the few months has been suffering from a
university, and had a national reputa, i religious mania In a violent form. HIS
tion as an lnstructbr in philosophy0 trouble is helieved to have been caused
history and the science& ~ by an attack of the grip-five years agc~
