I
The search for frozen birds in a New
York city cold storage house, made by
the state game inspector, is ended, and
it appears that in its course neariy 49,-
O00 birds, were discovered, a!l of
which, it is alleged, were killed out o~
sea~on. Criminal and civil actions are
to be brought at once against several
persons.
Eugene Field's first poem was dis-
covered recency in the possession of
'Edgar "White, a court stenographer at
Macon, Me. It is entitled "Bucepha!uS,
a Ttail," and is believed to have been
written by the author in 1871, when
he was a student in the state univer-i
Mty. H. W. Burke, a St. Joseph Jus-I
tice of the peace, who worked with
Field on the old St. Joseph Gazette,
haa pronounced the poem genuine.
The Pullman company is arranging
to establish a pension system for its
ent;'re force of employes, numbering
between 12,000 and 15,000 persons. Six-
ty years will be made the limit of ser-
vice. For each year an allowance of
1 per cent of the average monthly pay
for the last ten months is to be given.
Thus, employes who have been with
the company forty years, receiving
$50 a month, would get 40 per cent of
$50, or $20 a month.
Tradition asserts that the Queen of
Sheba gave Solomon an intricately
pierced stone to thread. He solved the
problem by forcing a worm, dragging a
thread, to crawl through the winding
passage. The modern version is on
a manifled scale. To test the right o!
Chicago to call itself a seaport, the
steamer Northman, loaded with west-
ern grain, timber and machinery, has
made the voyage from Chicago to
Hamburg by way of the Great Lake~
and the Welland canal. The whi~
thread of her wake can harly fall tc
weave new nd important pattern Into
the maritime commerce of nations.
A patriotic New Yorker, a member
of the Sons of the Revolution, is l~e-
paring to ~Ive to each of the public
school buildings of New York city, a
,copy of colossal size, of the famous
IIoudon bust of Washington. The
model, made by Wilson. MacDonald,
one of the oldest sculptors in America,
has already been accepted. The pub-
llc splrlted donor believes that love of
~ountry should be taught in the schools
and that there is no better way el
teaching it than by keeping the mem-
ory of the greatest patriots fresh in
the minds of the pupils. Naturally the
Father of his country comes first.
An Indianapolis correspondent call~
attention to the part played by thei
telephone in a recent d~vorce case at
Noblesvil]e, Ind. A Mrs. Nagle broughl
sult for divorce. On the day appointed
for the trial her attorney, Mr. Fippen,
could not attend, and called up the
Noblesville judge and explained the!
elrcumstances, suggesting that the
case be tried by telephone. The judge
consented the witnesse.~ were sworn,
and in answer to questions asked them
by Mr. Fippen, thirty miles away, sub-
mitted their testimony to the Judge~
after which Mr. Fippen delivered hL,
urgument, tai~ing into the judge's em
by telephone. The divorce was grant-
ed.
r
Dr. N. S. Davis, of Chicago, is called
the father of the American medical
association, for it was in 1845, while a
member of the New York state medi-
cal society, that he offered a resolution
recommending that a national conven-
tion, representing all the medical sect.
sties and colleges in the country, be
held In New York cry in May, 1846.
The purpose was to be the adoption o!
a concerted plan of action for the ele-
vation of the standard.of m~dlcal edu.
cation in tbe United Stat~s. The con-
vention resulted in the formation el
the American medical society. Dr
Davis is 85 years old, and has been
x£:fldent of Chicago since 1849.
The remarks against kissing attrib-
uted to Professor Crook of Chicago,
prompted B. ]3. Wilson, a merchant o!
Mount Hope, Kan., to form an anti.
kissing league. A dozen married me~
were persuaded to become members
The wife of Secretary T. J. Cox, of the
league, has revolted and is suing fo~
divorce, after three weeks withoutkiss-
lag. but Cox boasts he has not kissed
his wife in many years, maintainin8
that it is m~maniy. The pledge one
has to take to Join the league is thai
he will kiss no woman, no matter ii
~he is his wife. "Kissing is for womer
only~the weaker sex," ~vVilson says,
"Kissing is a weak manner of show-
tng affection. We love our wives more
than those men who are all the time
kissing them every time they leave
fhe house. Some wives may object, bu!
that will not induce us to desert the
cause. My wif~ is in favor of the pla~
and looks at it in the same manner as
I do.'"
Paul Wayland Bartlett, the sculptor,
who has established his studio in one
of the eastern suburbs of Washington.
has received a letter from the French
government accepting his statue of La.
tayetts, which is the gift to France of
5,000.000 American school children.
Mr. Bartlett's design was the success-
ful one before the American Jury, and
he was required by the French gov-
ernment to erect his statue in plaster
on the site allotted for it in the court
cf the Louvre, where the French Jury
nually passed on It,
BRYAN AND THE "OHIO IDEA." |
t
• The eoneensus of opinion of the]
Democratic press is that the Ohio]
Democrats, by their refusal to reaf-]
firm the Kansas City platform and to[
express continued confidence in ~Vil-j
!
liam J. Bryan, have set the pace for~
the party org~mizatton in the other
states of the Union. Tllc Columbm~
ldatform merely omitted all mention
of the currency question, but the con-
vention went on record agahlst Bryan- :
ism by a vote of more hum 100 to 1.
when an indiscrete fl'iend of Bryan
m~ved the endorsement of the candl-
dine and platf0rm of 1~). The Mem-
phis Commercial A1)peal says that the
l)emocraey of Ohio lies sounded a uew
note, or, r'lther, lies recurred to an
oh] ndte, unheard for several years,
and that it has presented the matter
with .'l dl-Hnatic effec~ as positive as it
was uuexpeete(1. Our conlcnlporary
:ld(ls:
"The Ohio l)emoeracy records its
u'eariness of failure aud defeat. It
tnrns its back upon free silver as a
dead issue, It breaks away from fl
leqdership which, honorqble and well
nleaning as it has been, has brought
the Democratic party to a condition of
nerveless disintegration. We have been
h)ld recently that we must go on. ap-
pended to a corpse, that we must cling
to our defeat as if it were sonlething
holy, that we must continue to flghr
for that whicll the peol)le bare twice
pronounced against, even though we
know that other "uld nlore (lisasu'ous
defeats shouhl follow."
So also tlic Bostou Post soys:
"'In refusing to 'rcaffirnl' the Kan-
s'ls City platform, or re 'express con-
timmd cent(deuce' in Mr. Bryan, the
Ohio Den)oerats have set a good ex-
'ample to tile party throughout the
country. The Democracy has swung
Imck to the nloorings fronl, whlch it
was cut loose iu 1896; it is anchored
ag-lhl to its traditional principles."
The Richnmnd Times, referring to
Bry'ln's recent injunetiou to elect no
alan to committee or convention unles.s
he is a believer in the Kansas City
ptutform, declares hinl to be a marl-
plot, and insists that the Ohio Delno-
crats have given llim a ju'~st rebuke. 1"~
says further tlmt-
"'Mr. Bryan's leadership has not only
becn a fiat failure, but it has cost the
I)emocratic party ahuost its existence.
Mr. Bryan has done about as nluch qs
a~y one man could do to disrupt tile
party nnd destroy its organization. It
was largely through his influence timt
the parry formed an alliance with l'01)-
ulists and Free Silver llelmblieans,
alid it was Mr. Bryan's idea to drive
away from the party till Democrats
who were opposed to his peculiar dec-
Wines, and then to form a new party
of all sorts and conditions of men wllo
believed in Bryanism."
Tile Sawlmlall ~News says that if the
Democrats in tile other states will fol-
low tlle lead of aide there will be no
need of talk about party reorganiza-
tion--the rcorganizqtion will take place
without any special effort:
• 'The inlpression seems to be taking
a firm hold on the Democratic party
that sucqess is not in tile direetion in
which Mr. Br.yan has been leading.
aud that if victory is to be won it
must be with somewhat different Is-
sues and different leaders.
"If the a~ion of the Ohio Democrats
is any indication of what is going to
take place, the Democrutic national
platforln of 1904 will not be a real
firniatlon of the Kansas City platforln.
It will be different from that platform
in several important particulars--so
different that no Democrat will have
any hesitation in stnnding upon it."
Tlm Atlanta Journal considers that
01e action of the Ohlo Democracy will
have a tremendous effect:
"It will make more certain the re-
turn to Democratic principles and
policies as they were held and pro-
claimed before the Clflcago convention
of 1896. It has made doubly sure the
assurance already amply given that
the Democratic party will go forth in
]904 with other candidates and a far
different platform than those for
which it invited the support and confi-
dence of the counn'y in 1900."
On the same subject the Allmny
Argus says:
"There will be no violent reconstruc-
tion, or disciplining, or reading out of
llie party. The Democracy Ires had
enough of that, and to spare. The par-
ty will simply forget some things--it
has forgotten theln already, and
learned some others. The process
which might better be called rehabili-
tation than reorganization is quietly
doiug Its work all over the country,
and the Ohio convention is merely a
sort of first fruits or visible evidence
of the pracdical unanimity of the Dem-
ocratic party in demanding that dead
issues nnd disastrous alliances bc
dropped."
These quotations are fair samples of
tlm senthnent of Democratic journals,
all of which supported Mr. Bryan for
the l)resldeney in 1900. They record
the conviction (liar the parry is turning
away from Bryanism. The Chleago
convention of 1896 was ~o crazed by
the fever of Populism that it refused
to give even prefunetory endorsement
to the Cleveland administration. The
delirium is abating and sanity is re-
tm'nlng. But it does not follow that
the Democratic party will be neees-
sarilI a stronger foe to the Republican
lmrty that it was in 1900. Air. Bryaa, i
tbe self-conseer:ated apostle of Popt~!
llstlc Democracy. is quite competent
of starting a schism in the I)emocracy,
both to maintali) Iris peculiar political
tenets and to revenge himself npon lhe
Sound Money Deuiocr'lts. who twi~xi
contributed to his defeat, li is not like-
ly that sueb a st.hlsln wouhl he more
than el)llen~eral, but it might lie
formidable enough to accomplish iL,~
leader's purpose. The Democratic
party llas gone so far into the wilder-
ness tha~ tO retrace Its steps will re-
quire a long journey. IqHladelphia
Ledger.
King of the lYlldway.
It is a sadness to have to record the
decline nnd fall-off of a great anti-im-
perialist. A kingly crown has Lu~eu
placed upon lhe poll of the IYon. VVill-
ianl Jennings Bryhn .~nd tlmt 1x~erless
('llief bus aeeel)tcd the haulfle thank-
fully. There c'ln be uo doul)t about
tile /"lets. They ¢'onle fron) fl source
that is beyond the l)ossibility of sus-
picion, fronl the Bnffqlo Times of file
JIon. Norman E. Mack. who prizes tlle
.lcffersou of Nebrasktl above all other
living nlcn and most dead ones. "'Hou.
"William Jennings Bryan re(.eived a
crown last night on his viM( Io the Mid-
way." says Mr. Mat.k's org'lll, gin sha-
1,1y as if the Idol of the producing
classes and the und'tuute(l tlefeqlder of
our liberties had ever been treated to
a coronatb)n before. The flour was
9:45 p. nl. Ilundreds of awestruck
spectators were present. We ealluot
trust ourselves to giv9 tlte details. I,ct
Mr. Mack's paper tell how Mr. Bry-
an's head the likeness of a .kingly
crown had ol):
"Lilt, tim comely hula hnla daucer,
bestowed the crov,-n, which was a H'a-
wniian lei, a yellow wreath of woven
fibre about an in(.ll in thickness. As
Mr. Bryan and party halted in front
of tile Hawaiian village 'tnd stepped
into the lobby at tlw frout, an eager
crowd followed. By a lu'earranged
plan, Lilt, the famous dancer, stepped
forward froni behind -1 pahu. I[er neck
was adorned with necklaces of beads.
IIer hair hung h)osely down her back.
Iler flrlns ~,vere bflt*e. Her ('ostulue ~vas
of yellow silk, fringed with tiawalian
g~ass. She Wore a yellow wreath on
her head and hehl .'lnother silnilar one
in her band. King Tobin now whis-
pere~l to Mr. Bryan, who took off his
hat "lad looked "it Lilt.
'" "I crown you.' said Lilt softly in
Hawaiian, as she placed the let
around Mr. Bryan's while Fedora hat.
" 'I thank you,' said Mr. Bryan, sim-
ply, as he phlccd the hat with the
wreqth around it on his lined."
Then lhe ltawaiians yelled. The
crowd yelled. The crowned colored
raised ltis while l,'edora with its yel-
low diadem and put on his uarmt~st
lflatform "snlile. Tobiu. "King of the
Midway, elad in wllite duck," led Mr.
Bryan and his friends to the best seats
in the theatre and then went omside
"to ballyhoo a crowd by the announce-
meat that Mr. Bryan was ill the thea-
ter."
Bat how can tllere I)e subjects and
va:~sals in tlle United St'lies? Cohmel
Bryan has often goaded hinrself into
madness by the question. But that wag
before his hula hula coronation. New
that lie is King of the Midw,y lie may
take a different view of things.--New
York Sun.
Vindicated.
There is nothing particularly new
in Senator Depew's address last night
to the Wharton School of Politics. in
Plllladelphla, but there was a good,
deal of common sense. On one side
of the scale Mr. Depew placed tim
well-known fact that polities *, is
"nllghty uncertain"--mnch more uu-
certain than it ought to be. The young
man of character and education who
accepts a public office in the hope that
it may ~rove his career, may lose hls
employment as tile result of a political
shuffle. But over against this fact Mr.
Depew places the other, that this state
of affairs can only- be corrected by
party agency. Have an ideal In poli-
tics. and accomplish it by joining the
best party and worldng with it: that iu
/
the moral of the situation. 'l'hel~e is
tittle encom'agement to the ed~teated
nnd public-spirited yonng man to try
to get an office, but there is every en-
couragenlen~ to him to "'go into poli-
tics'* in the proper sense--to work with
his party organization for the best
ends and the purest admlnlstration.
Meantime rhlugs are hnl)roving rapid.
ly, and the men who have stuck to the
Republican lmrty as an agency of re-
form have certainly been vindicated
by events.--Mail and Exl)r~ss.
The Hen. Annie L. Diggs. by far the
cleverest stateswoman and political
nlanager in Kmlsas. is not greatly im-
pressed by the solemn separation which
tim 1)enloerats of that state hqve put
1)e~ween thenlselve.~ and the Populists.
htdec~l, she is very irreverent about
it. "The Kansas Denmerats. lmw many
are there of then)?" slle asks: ~uld then
slle llolds np ten fingers. Well it nmy
be granted that the uumber of the
Kansas Denmcrats is somewhat less
alan that of the little dl~ops of water in
the mighty oceqn. But they know
what they are about. They mean ~o
have the first whack at the federal of-
rices if the Democratic party ever gets"
into ~ower.--New York Sun.
NEW YACHL CONSTITUTION,
DEFEATS OLD CUP DEFENDER
New York, J•uly 22.--The race be-
tween the Coa~s.timtion and tim •Colum-
bia o~ Long Island sound yesterday
again demonstrated that the Constitu-
tion is the faster fair-weather .craft.
Ia a ligh.t breeze a~d smooth water,
over a twenty-one-mile ,course, the
Cohnnl)ia was defeateQ four minn,tes
eigllteen see,oax(L% .elapsed ~ime.
Tile cruise of tile New York Ya,cht
Club opened brilli2mtly to-da.y with the
race for three ~mluable e.ups presented
by Commodore Ledyar.d. After the
all the competitors. She overhauled
tlic lfindmost very rapidly, and several
nlinutes before the outer mark w;is
r(,acllt, d slle held a proKd position in
the van. beating the Co'bnnbia 4 min-
utes, 7 seconds. Luffing beautifully
rom~d the mqrk. she buckled down to a
pretty thresh to windward, and in this
short leg she gained six seconds and
rontped past the stake heat a winner
of the enp.
The extension of the bowsprit of the
Constitution will necessitate a re-races-
rendezvou.~ at Gle~ Cove ,the squadron l urement of the yacht for time allow-
got mmlet' w-iy and ~teered for the lance. Rougldy estiumted, the C~msti-
starting line o1~ Matinieonk t'oia~t ,buoy, tat(on should allow the Columbia fifty-
where the steam yacht Revere, with[ one set'on(is over the tweniv-()llt!-lllile
the regetta committee aboard, let go]course, so, (m corrected tim'e. Consti-
hot\ anchor. The whole fleet was eli- [ (utica is :a winner by "1 ulinutes, 27 sec-
gil~ to ecru.pete, and was divided into I ends. It should alsO) lle i)orne ill nlind
thr0~ classes, schooners, singte-nmste,4t tka,~ i~ the run before the wind the.
vessels and yawls in cruising trim, nnd
file two cup defenders, Constitution
and C~lnmbia, in racing trim. Natur-
ally the principal intere:u~ was focused
ou these two splendid meets, whieh
came to the encounter in thoroughly fit
conuition.
Starting in a nice sailing breeze.
which, bowever, at no thne exceeded a
seventeen-knot strengtli, the Constitu-
tion beat her rival, the Columbia,
smartly handled and sailed with rare
skill aml judgment, 4 minutes and 1S
seconds over a twenty-onednile course.
The first leg was eleveu miles north-
east by east, one-half east. dead be-
fore the wind; the second leg being a
beat to windward of five miles, west
southwest, one-half west, and tile
thi/'d leg a stretch with the wiml for-
ward of the starboard beam to the fin-
ish line, one mile west from Eaton's
Point light.
The water was smooth nnd the wind
f,tirly steady from start to finisb. The
Constitution started absolutely last of
Columbia w:ts favored with a freshen-
ing brceze, which helped her to nult(,r-
tally tessc~ lhe gap. once nearly n nlile
wide. which ~eparated her from her
nntagonist., Itad it not been for thi,~
the victory of the Constitution wouhl
have:-be~+n fnr more decisive aml con-
vincing.
A pleasing incident in the contes~
was tl(e appearance of the celebrated
old schooner Alnerica, which more than
half a century ago won the historic
CUl) for which Sllann'ock I1. will race
this year.
Another former cup defender, tile•
schooner Colmnbia. wllicb sqiled sev-
eral successful races against Mr. Ash-
bm'y's schooners Cambria and Livonia
when they canle here in 1870 and 1871.
also start(~].
The limes a~ the start were as for
lows: Constitutiml. 2:46:35: Columbia,
2:45:58.
The finish: Constitution. 5:13:7¢.); Col-
umbia, 5:17:31.
EPWORTH LEA(iUE PLATFORM
ADOPTED AT SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco, July 22.--The relig-
ious enthusiasm aroused by the inter-
national convention of the El)worth
League reached its euhnination at the
gland meeting, held yesterday after-
noon at the Mechanics' troy(lion. About
10,000 persons were in attendance and
not a seat vacated until the conclusion
of the sermon preached by Bishop
Joyce, president of the league. His
theme was "Faith in Christ," and noI
• lddress more eloquent or fervent has i
been heard since the assembling of the
convention.
The committee on resolutions report-
ed the following, which were adopted:
"1. We rejoice in the deepening inter-
est among our members in the gr(~t
cause of Christian missions and cou-
gratulate our organizations, llere rep-
resented, upon the educational work
which has alre-uly 1)een accomplished.
We are greatly delighted by the corn-
ever opposed to the open saloon and
tlle liqtmr traffic, and we nlean to keep
up our war upon t]lLq bushles~,I nntil
our continent is freed from the dread-
ful curse.
"2. That we greatly rejoiced at the
abolition of the eanteen in our army,
and deplore the fact that a persistent
effort is being made-to have it re,tor-
e(1. Specially is this distressing to us
when we note that Rvssia 4~ protesting
against the cqnteen and that even
Fr.ulce hqs prohibited it in ber army
c'unps. We earnestly hope that wise
coun~sels will prevail in free, Christian
America. and to this end we will ever
pray and fight."
"We have learned that representa-
tives frmu various Christian young
people's s~eieties, among the colored
churclles of the country, plan to hold
a gathering in the summer o,f 1902,
looking to the better development of
prehensive "rod 1)ractical plans which their young pe3ple in Christian work,
have been devised t)y our leaders for a [ and we desire to express our approval
great campaign in behalf of missions~ of the Ulovenlent and lm'u'tily recom-
and other beue¥olence, durhlg the I nlend it to the colored young people of
colni~lg year. ~Ve urge all our chapters ~ the l,~pworth League."
to increased study of nlissionary liter-I
attire a~u:i to fervent prayer for thc
coming of the kingdom.
"2. ~Ve approve, without reservation.
the plans for Epworth League exten-
sion whieh provide for the systematic
training of our young people ill Chris,
tian work. The imlmrtance of file
"'We are much encouraged with the
continmtl growth of our Junior Ep-
worth League; and, believing this
school for the tr'iining of our youngest
soldiers for Christ is.,acompliMfing
great good, wouh] unhesitatingly urge
all Our pqstors and Christian workers
to organize our boys and girls into Jun-
study of such great topics as the Eng- (or chapters wherever possil)le."
dose of convention
lish Bible, Christian stewardsllip aud] .After the the
personal evangelism cannot be over- i' many of the delegates started on sight-
estinmted." [ ~eeing tours in the coast and monntain
"1. That we are as unalterably as states.
COMING SNAKE DANCE
OF THE MOQU[ INDIAN
Denver, July 23.--The Moqul snak(
dance is announced for August 20th,
and many inquirks are belug received
by the Santa Fe railway concerning
methods of visiting the re,ion. I,ast
year 100 tourists were present at the
(lance. and it is expected that the num-
ber will be much larger this sunmler.
The Department of the Interior re-
quires all visitors to hpld a permit. The
nearest railway stations to the Moqui
villages are seveuty-five miles across
the desert, and the Journey ls nntde
by wagon, requiring fern' days, in ad-
dition to the time spent at the dance.
Round trips, ranging from ten days to
eight weeks, and inchiding many
.strange sights are announced hy tile
Santa Fe pa'ssenger del)armlent.
The snake dance is a prayer for rain.
It continues for nine days The l)ublic
performance, in which live rattle-
snakes are handled, occurs on the lastI
day of the ceremony. The Moqui res-:
creation covers 4,000 square in(los,
and is inhabited by 2,000 Indians, who
are grouped in seven villages. As
there are no hotels among the Moquis.
traveler, s are obliged to move with a
complete camping outfit, providing
th-mselves with food.
A well-known lectm'er of New York
has organized a party of eastern peo-
lfle to visit all the Moqui villages this
summer, taking in two snake dances
and the flute dance. The party will i
travel in wagons, affd will camp sev-
eral times on the rim of the Grand
Canon of the Colorado. A mtmber
of women are enrolled in tlle party.
The Moqui villages arc h)cated in n
desert known as tile painted desert on
account of the ancient paintings on
the rocks. It is one of the most desp-
late districts of the world, with little
water, a dead le~el of hot sand and nc
monn~nins to relieve the molmtony.
The villages of these strange peoph
are located qt the top of high rocks.
where they were built long ago, as a
protection ~gainst enemies. The
strange habits and customs of the
Moqui have been the subject Of ninny
'articles hy inquisitive writel~, but it
is tile opinion that tile natlon is dying,
as the number inhabiting the villages
Is nmeh less than when white men first
visited the country. Notwithstanding
the constaut battle in sustaining life
in this thirsty desert, the Moqui can-
not be persuaded to leave their old
homes for'promising fields in other lo-
calities. No advance has been notice-
able in the people and the customs of
their fathers are religiously main-
talned. It is claimed by representa-
tives of the Santa Fc road thai inter-
est in these peculiar people is greater
now than ever before.
8TEEL WORKERS ISSUE
STRIKE BULLETIN
Pittsburg, Pc., July 23.--The expeet-
ud did not happen to-day at Wellsville,
or McKeesporL At Wetlsville the ru-
lnored importatipn of men failed to
materialize, and at McKeesport th~ ex-
)ected attempt to resume at the I.~e-
weeg-~,Vood tube plant was not made.
Both points, which (ire considered by
caell side to be the strike centers, af-
fairs renmin in statu quo. neitller of
the parties to the controversy have
made any decided move. From (be
other important point, Duneansvllle,
conflicting reports are 'received. and
the result of the quiet struggle going
on between the American Steel Hoop
Conlpany and the Amalganulted Asso-
ciation is still uncertain, with the conl-
pany's chances probably better for
winning in the end.
Late this afternoon the Alilalganlat-
ed Association Issued it's first strike
bulletin from the general offices. The
bulletin gives an outline of the condi-
tions prevailing nnd reproduces dab-
streets of President Shaffer's receut
addresses at ~Vellsville and McKees-
port. In the most prominent p'lrt of
the bulletin is priuted the warning
words, "do not drink, espeeially if the
trust tries to break tile strike by im-
porting non-union men. Don't believe
any one who says the mills will tm
closed or taken out of the community
if you don't go to work."
Further on are the words: "'There
were not enottgh men hi the conntry to
run file mills before the strike, so all
you need do to win tile strike is, don't
work. Enjoy your summer sitar-down.
It means nmre work next whiter. 'Phi~
Is not the time for mill work, any-
how."
Fifty Thou~attd Tourists.
1)enver, July 23.--Connnissioner Par-
ker of the Colorado Passenger Associ-
ation. Judging from the number of tick-
ets deposited with the Joint agents at
the Union depot thus far this season
estimates that more than 50.000 tour-
ists will visit Colorado this year. The
number has been estimated at 60,000.
The estimate is based largely on the
number of. tickets deposited so far this
month, the number for tbe first two
weeks In July being 17,000 against 8,-
(r00 during the corresponding period
last year.
COLORADO NOTES.
Ex-Senator Wolcott is now in Lore
don.
The President has appointed W. II.
Ogle postmaster at Lake City.
The new Antlers hotel at Colorado
Sprlngs will be run strictly on the
European plan.
There are many more people on the
Chautaqua ground~ in Boulder than
on any previous year.
The newsboys of Denver propose to
give a fair August 12th to 17th to raise
money to lmy for uniforms.
A new postoffice has been estab-
lished at Vona. Kit Carson county,
with Sarab C. ~Vebb as postmistress.
The Woman's Club of Boulder has
placed wire settees in various parts of
town in shady places, for the benefit
of strangers.
While drilling a well twenty miles
south of Granada, in Prowers county,
Ley Blackwell struck a heavy flow
of artesian water at a depth of 160
feet.
The fact ttmt lhere were (alleged)
Rocky Ford melons on sale in Denver
before the vines qt Rocky Ford were
falrly in blossom is troubling the mel-
on growers.
Peaches from Grand Junction and
other parts of the Grand River valley
are now on the market throughout
most of the non-peach growing por-
tions of the state.
Running races will be held at Glen~
wood Springs AuguSt 21st, 22nd, 23rd
and 24th, at which $3,000 in prizes
will be offered. A cowboys' tourna-
ment will conclude the races, in which
the entire western slope will partici-
pate.
While John Mosconi, Ed. Gabarsky
and a party of dog fanciers from• Cen-
tral City, were out east of Denver
hunting coyotes one Sunday recently,
Mr. Mosconi had his right arm badly
bitten by a coyote that had been
brought to bay by the dogs.
The Pueblo Single Tax Club has
been organized with B. D. V. Reed as
wesident and J. ~V. Printlinger as sec-
retary. J. R. Herman, who has been
giving lect~!res on the street corners in
Denver and Pueblo on the single tax,
has gone west to cuntinue his lecturing
in other cities.
Aided by the use of electrical mln-
ing umehines lately installed by the
F'remont coal nline at Williamsburg,
better known as Bear guleh, the Colo-
rado Fuel and h'on Company is said to
be t)rodueing as much coal with sixty
men as it did last fall with 140.
The net earnings of ti)e Denver &
Rio Grande in the second week in July
were $250,200, an increase of $41,000
over the corresponding week of last
year. The first two weeks of July the
net earnings were $464,300, an Increase
of $(;0,800 over the corresponding two
weeks of last year.
The Pullman company in its repair
shops at Denver will pay tlle 1st and
16th of each month, conforming with
the new state law calling for bi-
monthly payments of employes. '/'here
are 300 men now enlployed, but it is
expected that the number will be
raised to between 700 and 800.
Colored menll)ers of the Knights of
Pythias from Colorado Springs, Cripple
Creek and Leadvilh~ met in Pueblo re-
cently and founded the first Afro-
American Pythian grqnd lodge in Colo-
r'ldo. There are some 240 members
anlong the colored people of the state,
but ~o hitherto recognized lodge.
Long mountain trips on foot, on
horseback and by wagons are one of
the popular features of the Glen Park
Chautauqua at Palmer Lake this sum-
mer. A recent tRree days' trip includ-
ed Manitou park, Woodland park, Ute
pass, Green Mountain falls, Cascade
canon and the Garden of the Gods.
James Page, postmaster at 'White-
water, Colorado, has informed Postof-
rice Inspector Sullivan at Denver that
his office had been burned on'the night
of July 16th. The loss was somewhere
between $60 and $75 in stamps burned,
Just the amount could not be deter-
mined unttl the safe was recovered and
opened.
The Pueblo Press Club will keep
open house in CA)lorado Springs to the
editors of the state dm~lng the Quarto-
Centennial celebration. August 1st, 2nd
and 3rd. Joseph D, Glass, the repre-
sentatlve of the club, has secured, sub-
~e£t to the approval of the Press club
~tt its next meeting, headquarters in
the Antlers hotel.
The manager of the Arkansas Valley
Electric Company at Florence announc-
es that the concern will at once spend
$5,000 in improving the local plant by
adding machinery and rebuilding
xorks. By the addition of the ma-
chinery the llghting capacity, of the
plant will be Increased fully one-thh'd.
It is the intention of the company to
arrange the plant so t'hlit a day ser-
vice can be inaugurated,
The managers of the Festival of
Mountain and Platn at Denver have
decided that inasmuch as the festival~
follows the state fair at Pueblo so
closely they will n~)t attempt any ex-
hibit of state products. The only state
fair exhibtt that will be made this
year will be at Pueblo, September Zlrd
to 27th. This will do away with the
flisplay of grains, grasses, fruits, vege-
tables and furs and feathers that wa~
made at the festival last year.
The snowball excursion of the Boul-
der Cha~l~auquans, July 17th, was a
novel experienve to many of the vis-
ltnrs. The excursionists went "on the
narrow gauge road as far as Camp
Frances, the 1,dst station before reach-
ing Ward. and from there went on foot
or horseback to the suow fields on the
northern slope of the mountains. There
they enjoyed a rare sport, for snow-
balling in the ndddle of July is not a
frequent occurrence, especially for the
people of Texas.
It is announced that W. S.
will shortly place the general manage-~
ment of the street railway system of,
Colorado Springs. controlled by him,
in the hands of a competent man,
will virtually be W. A. Ramsay's suc-
cessor. For some time the road has
been without a head other than Mr.
Strut(on himself, and the circumstance
has elicited considerable curiosity. Mr,
Stratton will also build and maintain
a handsome park at Dixon's place,
the end of the Rapid Transit
where he owns about forty acres of
land. No admission will be charged,
and comfortable seats and shade
will be provided .....
