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VOLUME 5 NEW RAYMER. WELD COUNTY COLORADO, NOVEMBER 26,1914. NUMBER 28.

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WESTERN.

Nine business establishments werewiped out in Phoenix. Ariz., by a fire,entailing a loss estimated at $300,000.

Seattle was selected by the execu-tive committee as the place for the1915 convention of the Woman's Chris-tian Temperance Union.

Mrs. Marie Petro and her daughters,Amie and Elizabeth, were burned todeath when their home In Homestead,Pa., was destroyed by fire.

Forect fires which are reportedburning in many counties In Arkansasand particularly north and northeastof IJttle Rock, are said to be increas-ing In headway.

Twelve deaths were attributed tofootball in the United States duringthe season, according to a record keptby a statistician at Chicago. Only twowere college men.

Physicians at Columbus, Ohio, inves-tigated the case of Paul F. Tressler,Montpelier, Ohio, a State University*student thought afflicted with footend mouth disease.

Former President Taft left Chicagoleaving behind a string of anecdotes,praise for the peace policy of the Wil-son administration and a plea for alarger army and navy.

J. C. Wilson, a stockbroker who sus-pended business Aug 8, and his part-ner, B. A. Wllbrandt, were arrested atSan Francisco on warrants Issued,charged with embezzlement of $40,000.

I-assen peak waß belching forthsuch volumes of smoke Saturday thatthe mountain was hidden from view.The eruption, beginning before dawn,was the first of any magnitude sinceOct. 27.

Thousands of Californians pouredInto San Francisco to participate Inthe dedication of the California build-ing at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.The ceremonies were in charge of theWomen’s Auxiliary.

Using a crowd of passing school-children as a screen against bulletsfrom rifles of sentries, Guy H. Craneand Nelson H. Hazeltine, federal pris-oners for desertion, escaped from theSail Francisco Presidio.

Arizona's initiative measure pro-viding that SO per cent of the employesshall be American citizens in anybusiness employing more than fivepersons, was carried at the recentelection by a 3-to-l vote.

I.ost for 48 hours without food orwater in the Paternal mountains inNew Mexico. Edward Crlpe, a chauf-feur, of Denver, died from effects ofexposure at Enclno, New Mex., a fewhours after be and a party of otherDenver men reached that town.

WASHINGTON.

Great Eritain has declined to modi-fy, in favor of American manufac-turers. the embargo on exportation ofwool from Australia and other Britishdominions.

Actual difference in longitude be-tween the official meridians of Parisand Washington is 5 hours, 17 minutes

and * 36.658 seconds, according toobservatory officials.

¦ty '*¦[•initiation of the successful can-(fiui.T for the presidency of the Do-

minican republic must await the out-come of the meeting of the electoralcollege, the State Department was in-

formed.Ambassador Page cabled from Lon-

don in response to State Departmentinquiries that Herbert Corey, anAmerican correspondent, reported un-der arrest, never had been detainedin any way by the English police.

Argentina, one of the world's prin-

cipal sources of grain supply, will

have a bountiful crop to export thiscoming year, according to official gov-ernment estimates cabled to the Ar-gentine ambassador at Washington

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from Buenos Aire*.

Europe's cry for food is being an-swered by the United States. Exports

of breadstuffs in October of this yearamounted to $38,247,570, according to

statistics made public by the bureauof foreign and domestic commerce, anincrease of nearly $25,000,000 overfigures for October, 1913. Exports offresh beef also more than doubledduring the month, figures this year be-ing $83,940, as against $36,863 in Oc-tober, 1913.

FOREIGN.

President Poincare issued a decreestriking from the roll of the legion ofhonor the names of all Germans there-on.

I-ady Otter, wife of Gen. Sir Wil-liam D. Otter, was found dead in herbed at Toronto. Heart disease causedher death. She was sixty-eight yearsold.

Recruiting throughout the north ofEngland Ib proceeding alowly. and thenewspapers of Manchester and Liver-pool are outspoken in their discussionof the subject.

Canada will increase Immediately to91,000 the number of men under arms.Premier Borden announced that 60,-000 are to be mobilized and sent for-ward, as requisitioned by the war of-fice.

Freezing weather has set in throughthe length of the battle zone inFrance and Belgium, the temperaturevarying between 26° and 28° abovezero. Snow fell in northern Franceand in the Vosges mountains and alsoat Marseilles.

Shooting of an English woman as aspy in the barracks at Coutrai was re-ported in a message received at Am-sterdam. The woman, it was said,*was dressed in the garments of apriest when captured by the Germane.

Paris papers comment at lengthupon the death of Ix>rd Roberts. Allreview the splendid career of the sol-dier of Lucknow, Lahore, Afghanistanand the Transvaal, and pay eloquenttributes to bis sterling qualities as aman as well as a fighter.

Pope Benedict has written to sev-eral archbishops and bishops in bellig-erent countries, exhorting them tourge on their people the bestowal ofcharity on wounded prisoners, irre-spective of nationality or religion,"making once more shiue the light ofChristendom.”

SPORT.

The Yale and Harvard chess teamsplayed to a draw with five boards wonby each, in their annual chess matchat New Haven, Conn.

At New Haven, Conn., in the pres-ence of the greatest throng that everpaid to see a sporting event in theUnited States, Harvard beat Yale Sat-urday, 36 to 0.

Minnesota won the “big nine" con-ference cross country run at Lafay-ette, Ind., from a field of ten contest-ants. Ames took second place. Wat-son of Minnesota was the individualwinner, crossing the tape in 26 min-utes and 25 seconds.

Harvard won the intercollegiateshoot at the traps of the Yale Clubat New Haven, with a team score of381. Princeton was second with 372;Yale, third, with 337, and Dartmouthfourth, with 332. Johnson of Prince-ton was high gun with 83.

By defeating the University of Wis-consin. the University of Illinois be-came the undisputed football champi-

ons of the "big nine" conference, hav-ing won every game on their sched-ule. Hllnolß won easily, 24 to 9, scor-ing three touchdowns and a field goalto one touchdown and a safety forWisconsin.

James E. (Ted) Meredth, wearingthe colors of the Meadowbrook Ath-letic Association of Philadelphia, wonthe 500-yard invitation run and inci-dentally shattered the indoor recordat the athletic carnival held at theFirst Regiment armory in Newark, N.J. He stepped the distance in oneminute flat, lowering by a second theold mark which was set by Melvin.Sheppard.

GENERAL.

Miss Bertha Rheinhart, a schoolteacher who was caught by a prairie

fire near Horse Creek, Wyo., diedfrom her burns.

Five persons were killed and one in-jured when an automobile in whichthey were riding was struck by a Min-neapolis and St. Louis northboundpassenger train at Moorland, twelvemiles from Fort Dodge, lowa.

Tlie Carnegie foundation has sinceits establishment paid allowancesamounting to $2,551,000 to 482 profes-sors and 114 widows of professors,representing seventy-two seats oflearning throughout the country.

Radical reform in the elementary

education of children was advocatedby Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superlnten-ent of the Chicago public schools, Inan address at the convention in De-troit, Mich., of the National league ofCompulsory Education officials. Shedeclared that unless new methods areadopted, children can not be held Inschool.

Aladdin Vincent, candidate for Con-gress in the Seventh district, and J.

W. Perrin, candidate for Congress Inthe Eighth district, both Democrats,

and both defeated In the Democraticprimary two months ago, have been In-dicted by the United States grand Jury

at Shreveport, Ia., for failing to filesworn statements of their campaignreceipts and disbursements with theclerk of the House of Representatives,as required by law.

COLORADO LEGISLATUREREPUBLICANS HAVE MAJORITY

OP NINE IN HOUSE.

Senate Will Have Equal Number otDemocrats and Republicans—and

One Progressive.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Denver.—There will be fifty-four

Republicans, forty-five Democrats andone Progressive in the next Legisla-ture, according to a compilation madefrom the recent returns. In the Sen-ate there will be seventeen Republi-cans and seventeen Democrats, withthe balance of power held by W. C.Robinson, Progressive, from El Pasocounty. Excepting possible changesby two probable contests, the person-nel of the next General Assemblywill be:

l*era«aael of Seaatr,

•Holdovers.First Senatorial District — Denver—-

•Robinson, ’Morris. ‘Berry. HamiltonDem.; Baton. Knauss, Dodge. Hep.

Second District — Pueblo County—-•Burris, Dem.; Peterson, Rep.

Third—El Paso—‘Robinson, Prog.:Elliott, Rep.

Fourth—Las Animas —‘Barela. Rep.Fifth—Boulder—‘Affolter, Dem.Sixth—Chaffee and Lake—Candllsh,

Rep.Seventh—Weld—Windburn, Rep.Eighth—Jefferson—‘Carver. Dem.Ninth—Fremont—‘Lines. Rep.Tenth —Larimer —Wilkin. Rep.Eleventh — Gunnison and Delta —

•Pearson. Dem.Twelfth—Logan. Sedgwick. Phillips,

Washington and Yuma —Mitten, Rep.Thirteenth —Jackson, Routt. Moffat

and Rio Blanco—‘lies, Dem.Fourteenth—Costilla, Huerfano and

Custer —Hayden, Rep.Fifteenth —Rio Grande, Saguache and

Mineral —Means. Rep.Sixteenth —Mesa —Kluge, Dem.Seventeenth—Dolores. Montrose and

San Miguel—Schermerhorn. Dem.Eighteenth — Hinsdale. Ouray. San

Juan and Archuleta—Curran, Rep.Nineteenth—La Plata and Monte-

suma—‘West, Dem.Twentieth —Teller and Park—Lewis,

Dem.Twenty-first — Eagle, Garfield and

Pitkin —‘Napier. Dem.Twenty-second — Adams. Arapahoe

And Morgan—‘Tierney. Dem.Twenty-third—Crowley und Otero—-

•Welland. Hep.Twenlv-fnurth —Conejos and Ala-

mosa—‘Adams. Dem.Twenty-fifth—Baca, Bent, Kiowa and

Prowers —Hasty, Rep.Twenty-sixth—Clear Creek. Orand,

Gilpin and Summit —‘Williams. Rep.Twenty-seventh- Kit Carson, Chey-

enne, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln—Riley, Dem.

House of Representatives.

Denver County—C. M Bills. GeorgsB. Drake. It. M. Hagerman, RobertHarris, w. W. Howland. K. M. SabinF. D. Thompson. Thomas Tonge, H. E.Garwood. Rep.; John Dietrich. E. V.Dunklee, Evangeline Hearts, Dem.

Pueblo County—A. S. Andrew, Dr. FE. Wallace, F. M. Stokes. Rep.: F. LHiggins. Derm

El Paso—Phil. B. Stew-art, Geo. M,Taylor, L. A. Puffer, Rep.

Weld —W. K. Gllcrest. C. R, GravesRep.

Larimer —P. 1>. Nelson. Rep.Boulder—Montgomery, Rep.; Ardou-

rel, Dem.Mesa—W. M. Porter. Dem.Las Animas—Mayer ami Schmidt.RepTeller ami Park —-Clinton K. Roberts

Emory R. Young. Deni.Fremont—George E. Colgate. Rep.Crowley and Otero—O. W. West

Dem.; Reuben C. Inge. Rep.Je fferson—Wesley Staley, Dem.Arapahoe and Elbert- -,!. J. KruseRep.Garfield and Rio Blanco —John L

Noonan. Rep.Delta—George W. Bruce, Dem.Montros«- Horton, DemComjos—Celestlno Garcia. Rep.Alamosa—R. M. Born. Dem.Adams—-Counter. Dem.Bitkin —Charles Dailev, Dem.La Plata —McDevltt. ,/r.. Rep.Lake —F. J. McNair. I )ern.Rio Grande —August Weiss, Rep,Chaffee—A. K. Wright. Dem.Morgan and Washington—Mark B

Gill. Rep.Clear (’reek- Herman E. Crist. RepGilpin—H, C. Bolsinger, Dem.Ouray—IJ. 11. Du Draw. Dem.San Juan -Fox. Dem.Logan and Sedgwick- John C. ScottRep.Phillips and Yuma—Charles E. Dame-

wood. Rep.Gunnison—W. Scott Hu mason. Rep.Saguache and Custer Carl L. Mar-

old. Dem.Douglas—Hugh Taylor. Rep.Lincoln. Kit Carson and Cheyenne—

F. H. Spencer. Rep.Kiowa and Bent —Best. Deni.Prowers ami Baca—-Ray McGrath.

Rep.San Miguel—W. H. Doyle. Dem.Hinsdale. Archuleta and Mineral—

O’Rourke, Deni.Routt and Moffat Norvell, Dem.Summit, Grand and Jackson—Finch-

er. Dem.Eagle—E. C. Kennedy. Dem.Huerfano and Costilla—J. P. Galle-

gos. Rep.Montezuma and Dolores—W. I. My-

ler, Dem.

Wife Slayer John Freeze Convicted.Denver.—A verdict of murder in the

first degree with the penalty fixed atlife Imprisonment returned againstJohn Freese in the West Side Courtonly brought laughter to the pris-oner's lips. To him it meant that hehad gained a victory. Before his trialhe had offered to plead guilty to mur-dering his wife, Rarhel Freeze, thenight of June 19 last, on condition thathe should not hang. District Attor-ney Rush refused his offer and, in hisclosing argument to the Jury, urged

the death penalty. Although FreeseBtyot himself three times after killingthe woman, he decided that after thatfailure to end his life, he wanted tolive. Throughout the four days of histrial he cobix-ratod with his attorney

to caßt mitigating circumstances aboutthe crime which be freely confessed.I-ife Imprisonment, he said, was thebest he could hope for. When theverdict came in he chuckled audibly.

Mrs. Seitz Assailant Gets Five Years.Pueblo. —Andrew Hogg, who twice

shot and wounded Mrs. Augusta Seitz,with whom be was infatuated, wassentenced to serve from three to fiveyears In prison.

G.N.G. READY FOR DUTYSTATE HEADS EMPHASIZE NEEDS

OF UNITED CITIZENSHIP.

Governors Ammons and Carlson ArePledged Loyalty by Members

of Colorado Militia

We.lri-11 New.,piper Inlon New, Service.

Denver. Governor Amnions andGovernor-elect Carlson emphasized theneed of a united citizenship behindthe constituted authority of the stateat a banquet given for the benefit ofthe officers of the Colorado NationalGuard, who gathered in Denver for in-structions. Iroyalty and support werepledged to both the Incoming and out-going executives of the state by Ad-jutant General John Chase and otherofficers. The banquet was held at theDenver Athletic Club. The speakersgenerally expressed the hope thatthere would be no necessity to returnto the coal strike fields, but declarethat, If the necessity should arise,they would he ready to do their dutyand do it well.

At a gathering in the Senate cham-ber of the Capitol building GeneralChase told the officers to be ready forduty by Dec. 1, saying that biß advicedid not mean that the guard was toreturn to the strike field, but that Itshould be ready to do so.

"There Is only one man In the Unit-ed States who knows whether or notthe federal troops are to be with-drawn,” he said, "and the militia

a placed in their stead, and he has notyet told us. That man is PresidentWilson."

The meeting of the officers was aregular one for tactical instruction.At the rifle range near Golden a tac-tical problem prepared for them byCaptain Walter T. Bates and CaptainJames K. Shelley, Infantry and cav-alry Instructors from the U. S. army,was worked out by the militia leaders.

GEORGE A. CARLSON

George A. Carlson, elected governorof Colorado by the Republicans, is theyoungest chief executive ever chosenfor that office, being only thirty-eightyears old. A native of lowa, he wentto Colorado in his youth and workedhis way through the Colorado Agricul-tural college, the state normal schooland the state university. He hai beendistrict attorney of the Eighth judicialdistrict for six years and attracted at-tention by his handling of strike mat-ters In the northern field.

Urge Civil Service Pensions.Denver. —Pensions for aged civil

service employes by the government

was urged by speakers at a meetingof Branch No. 89 of the National As-sociation of Civil Service Employes.Passage of the ilatnmll bill now inCongress was advocated. The speak-

ers were A. D. Taliaferro, A. L. Frl-rn; g, the Rev. O. W. Auman, the Hon.Tully M. Scott, Congr* ssman Benja-

min C. HllliaTd, Charles li. Timber-lake, Senator John Shafroth, Alexan-der Nlsbet, Frank C. Goudy, the Rev.William O’Ryan, Governor Ainmons,Mrs, Helen Ring Robinson, LlutenantGovernor S. R. Pitzgurrald, Dr. Wil-liam 11. Smiley and A. I’. Ardours).

Keller on Accounting Board.Denver.—Governor Ammons ap-

pointed Albert Keller a member of(lie state board of accountancy to filltin vacancy caused by the expirationof Die term of Clem Crowley. Kellerwill serve until Oct. 20, 1917.

Plans fer Saguache Hall Approved.Denver. The State Board nr Chari

ties and Corrections approved theplans for a town hail and jail at'Saguache. It will be a two-story brickbuilding and cost $3,5d0.

OLD "WHITEWAY" BURNSFIRE LOSS IN FAMOUS LEADVILLE

DISTRICT $20,000.00.

Camp Was Once Famous for the lm-mense Stakes Won and Loit

in Gambling Dena.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.I.eadvllle, Colo. — Ancient frame

buildings which have seen hundredsof thousands of dollars change handsacross the hoard in the early days ofthe Leadville camp were wiped outby fire when a rapidly-spreading blazedestroyed the greater part of thefamous tenderloin district. Nearlyan entire block along State street be-tween Harrison and Pine was gutted.

Previous to 1885, State street wasthe city's show place aud its buildingssince then had constituted* a profusionof landmarks. The district fell intodisrepute about 1885, but before thatevery distinguished visitor was pilotedthrough it.

DeWitt Talmage was shown thesights there in 1882. He saw thestacks of money at the faro, poker,roulette and monte tables, the saloonsand the dance-halls.

President Grant was “shown" Statestreet in the early '80s, and James G.Blaine, “the Plumed Knight of Maine,"toured It. r

The recent fire started about 4o’clock in the morning, in a resort.The overturning of a coal-oil lamp isbelieved to have been the cause. Theflames raged unchecked for hours.The fire extended from the Pioneersaloon at 142 State street, which wasnot burned, to Kurgan's saloon. Twen-ty-two buildings were destroyed. Theflames leaped across the street andset fire to the American and Worthrooming houses, occupied by working-men. The flameH there were con-trolled before firemen turned their at-

tention to the main fire.An unidentified man leaped from a

second-story window early in the fire

and his leg was broken. The loss isestimated at $20,000. Insurance car-ried on only two houses, is $1,500.

Until 188.) only the lowest cornerof the district was disorderly. Therest of State street, was a "great whiteway"—a kerosene-lighted one—as fa-mous throughout the world as Broad-way, New York, Is today, or as theBowery was a few years ago.

Stakes at the gaming tables of from$1,000 to $5,000 on the high card werecommon place. On several occasions

amounts ranging from $150,000 to$250,000 changed hands in a singlenight.

Among the owners of gambling

houses or other amusement places onthe street or men well known in thedistrict, were Joe Hall, who started thegas works here; George L’Abbe, nowpresident of a large trust company inSeattle; Joe Gavin, the original Soapy

Smith; Chapman and Houston. Tex-ans; MacDonald, who came down fromCheyenne to operate the Comique The-atre, and "Texas Jack" Omahudreon.once an associate of "Buffalo Hill" In

the early days on the plains. Omahu-

dreon, who died of pneumonia In 188(1,

married Madame Molachi, "the Rus-sian Premiere Danseuse."

Woman Leaps to Death.Pueblo, Colo. —After a thrilling

fight at the railing of the bridge, in

which two little girls, clad only in night-

gowns. fought desperately against

their mother, who was going to "take

them to heaven,” Mrs. Ella Barker,

thirty-five, leaped oft' the West Fourthstreet bridge into the Arkansas river

bottom at 2 o’clock In the morning

She was Instantly killed.

Grange Elects Officers.

Boulder. —Boulder County PomonaGrange, one of the largest grange organlsations In the* state, elected thefollowing officers It. J. Altig of Valmont, faster; Philip R Haas, of Niwot, lecturer: Mrs. Tobey, Altorui, secreiarv; NnthanLeggett, Boulder valleytreasurer. Tin* next meeting of til*

grange will be held at Niwot in February.

Mrs. Ballard Loses Suit.

Colorado Springs, A verdict for Ih*street company was returned in ih*damage claim of Helen N. Ballard foi$7,000 She claimed to have sustainedInjuries by falling from a car.

Rocky Ford Creamery Ready.Rocky Ford.—The new SIO,OOO cream

ery is practically completed and I hi'machinery will be in operation within

a few days.

Confessed Husband Slayer Insane.

Lumar. —A jury lu the District Courihere found Mrs. Mllllo Pingreo, triedfor the killing of Iter husband, to b<insane.

Factory Will Be Built.Rocky Ford.—A wood working fac

tory is soon to be erected on Walnut

street by Peterson & Beck.

COLORADOSTATE NEWS

Wflstern NVwspapvr Union N-wh Ssrvice.Sixty-eight Shrtner candidates were

initiated into the shrine at El JebelTemple in Deaver.

John freeze was convicted of slay-ing his wife by a Jury In the WestSide Court In Denver.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Buchanancelebrated their 50th wedding anni-versary at their home In Denver.

The Northern deanery of the Epis-copal churches of Colorado held a two-day meeting at St. Peter's church inDenver. '

Marcia Ann Gavitt, eight-year-oldstepdaughter of Mrs. Marie TurnerCooke Gavitt, of Denver is heir to$11,000,000

Search was made in Rocky Ford fortwo Mexicans who escaped from thecity Jail. They dug a hole through a12-inch brick wall.

The Denver police have been askedto find William Alexander laiyman,who disappeared seven years ago fromhis home in Oxnard. Calif.

Regular daily passenger service onthe Denver & Rio Grande railroad be-tween Salida and Alamosa will be re-sumed on Thanksgiving Day.

Adeline Zimmerman, the 6-year-olddaughter of G. P. Zimmerman of Lufayette, was instantly killed near herhome when she fell under the wheelsof an automobile driven by R. L. Finkof Boulder.

Two men convicted of murder inthe first degree, were sentenced inthe West Side Court in Denver—thefirst, John Freeze, to life Imprison-ment; the second, Oscar Cook, todeath.

An army of pretty girls invadedDenver streets Saturday flyiug thecolors of stricken Belgium and whenthey laid down arms at 6 o'clock in theevening $2,951.73 had been added to

the Belgian flour fund.

It is reported that E. H. MeClenan-han of Greeley will he appointed hvGovernor-elect Carlson to the StatePublic Utilities Commission, the mostsought for office at the disposal of thenewly elected executive.

That Christmas this year may hoone of the most memorable In thehistory of Denver, a movement to com-bine all commercial and charitable organizatlons of the city, was begun ata meeting called by the AdvertisingClub of Denver.

Beet growers of northern Coloradoreceived $1,016,000 for their crops.The amounts are divided to the different towns in the district Fort Collins,$650,000; Loveland, $660,000; Greeley.

$395,000; Windsor, $112,000; Eaton.$160,000; Fort Morgan, $530,000, anil$909,000 at Longmont.

Voting at the primaries to be con-ducted by the Denver Bar Associationduring which candidates will lie hilected from among the 650 lawyers inDenver for recommendation to suc-ceed Judge James H. Teller of theDistrict Court, recently elected to theSupreme Court bench, was comiuenced Tuesday.

After he had been knocked dow n, hesays, beaten and then ejected from theTrades and Labor Benefit Associationin the Quincy building in Denver, W.J. O’Leary, 38, a bookbinder, fired ashot through the door, which struckJoseph Death, a member of the hoardof directors of the organization, andsevered an artery in his left arm.

Turkeys, cranberries, sweet pota-

toes and all the other Thanksgiving

“trimminV were more plentiful andcheaper this year than ever before,and about everything needed on an aje

peti/.ing menu may come from Colo-rado. The Colorado farmers haveraised the best and biggest crops ofturkeys this year in their history.

The $50,000 appropriation made by

the Legislature in 19<>9 to pay part ottin cost of the W est Colfax viaduct inDenver may be turned back into th<state general fund and cease to b*available for its original purpose unless the city meets certain requirements before Nov. 30, according tcState Auditor Kenehan and StateTreasurer Leddy.

With the* arrest in Denver of Iie-vene Battle and Leon Loser, two memhers of the oJd May bray gang, themembers of which collected more than$1,000,000 throughout the West tenycarB ago by means of fake foot races,horse races and prize fights, an attempt to swindle Robert R. Blair, awealthy retired Nebraska farmer, ot539 South Grant street, out of $5,000,w as nipped.

Although Longmont is proud of ita£reat agricultural productions, saidMilo O. Rice, in a visit to tin- StateBoard of Health, it is prouder still olits babies, in the month of Octoboithere were thirty-three births reporterat Longmont and only seven deathaThe records so far for November indicate that during the present monthLongmont will equal last m #nth in thfDumber of new babies.