and their
1 in the House, which after some discus- meats
Union army rnd the general location
age reservoir built there, not only for
I
sion
was
passed
by
that
body.
No
ac
of all the Confederate forces1 and their
the benefit of Wyoming, but fit” Ne
tion was taken, however, by the Sen movements are to tom an open boo .
braska as well. The Secretary h set
'
ate
but
after
adjournment
the
Senate
and
the hours spent with him leave but
aside 12,250,000 fc - the Shoshone XOTEDJURIST WOULD ESTABLISH Committee on Interstate Commerce
little to be desired by even those who
River, Wyoming, project and $3,330,000
held extended bearings, and during the are seldom satisfied.
for the Pathfinder project on North I COURT OF TRAXSPORTATIOX present
Congress there has been a Gettysburg wiil always be considered
TO REGULA TE RAILROADS.
Platte Rlv.r, to be partially expended
flood
of railroad rates bills In both by the North and acknowledged by the
for the benefit of Nebraska. Thus
bouses,
ranging
all the way from the South 83 the high water mark of the
about 15 per cent, of the entire re- Numerous Rate Bills Before Congress
clamation fund will be laid out in Wy-' at Present. Senator Morgan Opens Interstate Commerce Commission bill,
oming, although she has contribute».', Discussion.—General Public Desires which is generally considered as the
administration measure, to bills widely
only about 4 per cent, of the fund. | More Enlightenment.
and radically different in their pro
Scenes along the Platte and the Sho- j
Whether or not there is to be the visions. Bills have been introduced by
■hone canyon are among the wildest
specific railroad rate legislation in Senator Dolliver of Iowa, by Senator
and most picturesque in America.
Congress after the lines of the vigor Foraker of Ohio, by Senator Elkins of
Second to Wyoming comes the terri ous
demands of the President, it is a Virginia, the Chairman of the Senate
tory of Arizona, with the great Salt
River project at an estimated cost of fact that many laws have been started Interstate Commerce Committee, by
about four million dollars, requiring rejoicing on their initial courses at Senator Mor»»n of Alabama, by Sena
upwards of 9 per cent of the entire both ends of the Capitol. They are of tor Culberson of Texas, by Representa
reclamation fund, although Arizona all sorts and conditions. Some will die tive Hepburn of Iowa, the chairman of
has contributed less than 1 per cent in the horning, some will be the bases the “railroad rate committee" of the
■ It is stated by the engineers that the for thunderous tirades of denunciation House, by Representative Hogg of
opportunities for water storage in Ari against the railroads, with no inten Colorado; also the Interstate Com
zona are, next to Wyoming, the best tion by the authors of accomplishing merce Commission bill and various
in the arid West, while the soil of that anything but getting their "remarks" others.
Senator Morgan recently made the
territory is not only extremely fertile before their constituencies at home,
and lying at a moderate altitude, but in the horning, some will be the basin first argument”in the Senate on the
the
committees,
and
pigeon-holed,
or
rate
question, in support of his bill,
the climate is semi-tropical and under
careful cultivation, ten or even five possibly merged into the one or two which provides for the regulation of
acres will support a family. Southern bills which will be taken up for serious j railroad rates through the regular
California to-day, with a similar soil consideration by the House and Senate courts of the country. Senator Elkins’
bill also proposes that the Federal
and climate, has thousands of pros themselves.
There is a vast difference of opinion courts shall determine whether rates
perous little five and ten acre farms.
The third State In order of irrigation on the railroad rate question. There are excessive, and provides for an in
some who tell us that the term junction against any road which is
benefits In Montana, which, although are
lying far north, has a splendid water “railroad" signifies everything that is found to be charging an excessive rate.
The bill which has been introduced by
supply and likewise rich land. Actual
Representative Hogg, formulated by
construction has been begun Dy the
Judge Peter Grosscup of the United
Government on
the Yellowstone,
States District Court of Chicago who
where, owing to the plentiful flow of
rendered the decision against the Beef
water, none of the embarrassing com
Trust, provides for a special railroad
plications of vested water rights ex
court to decide all such matters.
ON GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD,
ist, which have prevented work thus
Judge Grosscup’s bill establishes seven
far on the upper Missouri River and
great
civil contest, and when the sun
Courts of Transportation, situated in
on the Milk River. The funds allotted
different sections of the country, to went down on that bloodlust of fields
to Montana for the Huntley, Lower
try the particular cases arising within where the dead and dying had fallen
Yellowstone and Milk River projects'
as it looked upon the
their territory. During a stated period by thousands,
amount to over three million dollars,
of Pickett’s Immortal charge, It
of each year the judres of the seven defeat
or nearly nine per cent of the fund,
also
saw
the
beginning
the end of
courts are to meet together and hold the greatest of modern of
which is in excess of the amount con
conflicts.
court
en
banc
in
Washington
or
else
tributed by Montana.
And becausa there was no shame la
where. just as the Supreme Court of that
defeat and because deeds of en
The fourth State in order of benefits
the
United
States
sits
together
for
a
durance and heroism belong to each
Is Nevada, contributing the least
stated
term,
after
having
held
Individ
army
in equal measure, the battlefield
money to the fund but probably most
ual court in the different Federal dis will remain forever the Mecca of al)
needing the benefits. It was, in fact,
tricts of the United States. There is brave Americans and of every military
through the dire wants of this State
right of appeal from this Court of student of the entire world.
that the law received its Inception, be
Transportation
to the Supreme Court
ing first known as the Newlands bill,
of the United States. It Is argued in
this unique plan of automatic appro
favor of this bill that Inasmuch as
Autos for Rural Delivery.
priation being originated and intro
railroad rate matters, even where The recommendation of Fourth As
duced by Senator Newlands, then a
they
are
decided
upon
by
the
Inter
Representative, in the spring of 1801.
Postmaster General DeGraw
state Commerce Commission, must ft : sistant
that rural carriers be allowed to use
Following Nevada come Idaho,
nally
go
to
court,
the
matter
can
be
Washington,
Colorado,
Nebraska,
in serving their routes
simplified by having them considered automobiles
JUDGE PETEK GROSSCUP,
South Dakota, Oregon, North Dakota,
has been approved by Postmaster Gen
in the beginning by this Court of eral
Oklahoma. Utah. Kansas, and lastly bad, and that no legislation could be Transportation.
Cortelyou.
The Postmaster Gen
Also that this Court
New Mexico.
too severe to mete out as a proper pun of Transportation having no other eral, however, expressly reserves the
Throughout these States Govern ishment for these monsters of extor I business to attend to, can try the rall- right to require the rural carriers to
ment surveyors and engineers are tion. On the other hand, there are road cases much more quickly than discontinue the use of such vehicles
working upon many Interesting pro those who think that the railroads the regular courts, while the members and resume the service of their routes
jects where strong rivers rush flown have been of a very material benefit will
—* be
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*-4——
n— I in the ordinary vehicles prescribed by
experts
on *■--
the — subject,
making
jut of the mountains in time of heavy to the country and that while they the subject the study of their lives. the regulations, if proof is made of un
spring floods, but which will be Im should be regulated and shorn of their The Grosscup bill also continues the satisfactory service arising from the
pounded behind great masonry dams undoubted powers to injure the ship work of the Interstate Commerce use of automobiles. In addition to
to form storage lakes whence the water pers and the communities which de Commission with some modification in 1 this, the rural carriers are required
will later be diverted into the Irri pend upon them, they should still be organization, authorizing that body to also to maintain a fixed schedule so
gation canals and used for crops on the accorded a hearing and reasonable arbitrate railroad matters wherever j that the boxes for their patrons may
desert soils. Thousands of prosperous treatment.
possible and to act a3 counsel or at ' be served at or about the same time
each day.
• homes will lie the result when these
The President’s attitude on the rail- torney for the shipper or - complainant,
__
works are completed, and the great road question is specific. He favors at the Government's expense, wherever
West, which Is to-day in reality but a the enlargement of the powers of the any case of controversy arises between
The greatest depth to which a sub
sparsely settled community, will be Interstate Commerce Commission so j the shipper and the railroads.
marine boat has descended and re
come more rounded out and better bal as to enable that body to fix railroad
—J ’ This bill is favored as a measure
anced against the more populous East rates, where they are deemed by the , whose provisions overcome the danger turned to the surface is 138 feet
ern half of the country.
Commission to be excessive, at the which it is stated would arise from
the creation of a Commission at Wash
ington which would hold the vast rail
road Interests of the United States In
the hollow of its hand. There is an
apparently growing sentiment among
many poople that to constitute any
body of men a political commission
with such vast power as the ability to
make or unmake any railroad rate on
the 70.000 miles of railroad in the
country, would afford such an enor
mous centralized power as has never
heretofore been dreamed of by the
most radical advocates of the central
government Idea as against the dlftu
slon of power among the people and
the several States. It is realized that
such power in the hands of any ad
ministration would, if misused in any
degree, make po—*M0 the indefinite
continuance In power of that political
party and require an absolute uprising
of the entire nation, en masse, to bring
about political changes.
The great number of railroad bills
thus far Introduced and which are be
ing widely discussed, show that there
Is as yet no general crystalizatlon of
sentiment on the subject and that
statesmen and supposed specialists, to
say nothing of the average individual
throughout the country, are In a recep
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Near Government
and education on the question.
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The CoHee Importers and Roasters are Attacking
POSTUM FOOD COFFEE
Dam Site.
Building
Government Dam " j
in Nevada.
Zl
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD.
The Turning Point of the Civil War.
A Remarkable Guide.!
There is a guide at Gettysburg, Pa.,
Charles D. Sheads, to be found at the
Gettysburg Hotel, who is a genius.
While not himself a soldier, perhaps
As all the money which is being ex • same time he has stated that it’ls of : few if any of the actual participants
pended In the construction of these > course his desire that nothing should ' of that three days’ terrible fight have
irrigation works is to be paid back to 1 be done to injure railroad properties a tithe of his knowledge of the details.
the Government by the settlers taking : or drive the companies out of business. He has been a resident of the town
the land, and to go Into the "reclama The railroads themselves are not since 1855, and was conductor of the
tion fund." the work of future con - pleased with this plan of regulation. Gettysburg A Hanover Railroad until
struction will proceed as fast as the re ■ While many of them may not have It was burned by the Confederates
payments are made from the projects ‘ done, in past times, the best possible June 20, 1863.
Upon the memorable first day of July,
now under construction. Possibly also, by the public, they fear that to give an
when the first few completed irrigation absolute rate-making power to a politi with many other citizens, he went out
projects shall have thoroughly demon cal commission, such as the Interstate to the right of the Union army, where
strated themselves to be the successful Commerce Commission, appointed by a the battle had already commenced. A
experiments which they are proving. Chief Executive, would be not only an member of the Twelfth Illinois cavalry
Congress will not be averse to making unconstitutional method of regulation fired the first shot, and a squadron of
a direct appropriation as a Ioan to the 1 but would place In that body a power that regiment continued skirmishing
“reclamation hind.“
which If not wisely administered until relieved by the Infantry of the
A direct Congressional appropriation might practically put them, the rail First corps, commanded by Maj.-Gen.
for such a loan Is not believed to be roads, out of business. The provision Reynolds. I-ater in the day Gen. Rey
at all beyond the bounds of accom that they would have recourse to the nolds was killed, and the Union troops
plishment some time In the future courts after a rate hnd been fixed bv under Doubleday fell back through the
after, as stated, the systems now under the Commission and put into effect town and fortified the heights beyond.
construction shall have demonstrated would help them but little since their Every house, public and private, had
themselves to be the successes predict entire schedule would be changed and become a hospital, and Sheads found
ed. The present figure above noted of the damage done, before the courts his little home filled with dead and
dying of both armies. Upon the second
137.000.000 for irrigation would have could be brought to reach a decision.
third day of the battle he was car
been looked upon as the dream of an
The other point of view Is that with and
Impractical enthusiast at the time that the knowledge that their rates will be ing for the wounded and shortly after
the Irrigation bill was being discussed carefully scrutinised and contested, commenced again running his train.
For the past nine years he has em-
In Congress, less than four years ago (they will be extremely careful about
ploved his entire time as a battlefield
The year before the passage of the act. 'the
making
or
enforcing
of
anv
ex-
the securing of a hundred million dol , crestve rates, while with the enact guide, and no one has witnessed more
lar appropriation would have been ment of a comprehensive law the rem of the 450 monument nnvettlnes. over
the 35.000 acres where the battles were
believed to be as likely a figure as five
million, to say nothing of thirty-seven edy will always lie with the Govern fought Generals and privates. Fédér
ment to Inspect and supervise anv ex ais and Confederates by the hundreds
mlUlou.
isting rates, without, however, disturb have been piloted by him over every
ing or overturning the business of the ’Dot where thev bad been stationed «nd
railroad or Interfering with the busi have listened to his trothfol history of
Peter Larsen, of Montana, Is th« ness of communities.
their movements, while from them he
richest Scandinavian in the United
tsutl
At the fast session of Congress the has steadily added to and
States. He is quoted as next in wealth
hts
store of knowledge
in Montana to Senator William A. greatest Interest In railroad matters
The name and location of all the
Clark.
centered around the Esch-Towsend bill corps, divisions, brigades and regl-
Many people have found out the truth about old-
fashioned coffee.
They have overcome disease caused by it.
The plan was easy and sure.
Quit Coffee and use Postum.
Proof with one’s self is stronger than any theory.
The Postum army grows by hundreds of thousands
yearly.
The old-fashioned Coffee Magnates arc now derid
ing Postum through the papers.
Because their pocketbooks are hurt, they would
drive the people back to the old coffee slavery.
One coffee prevaricator says: “It (Postum) has
lately been exposed and found to contain an excess
of very ordinary coffee.”
Another that “it (Postum) is made from a small
amount of parched peas, beans, wheat, dried sweet
potatoes, and paste of wheat middlings.”
Here’s to you, oh faithful followers of the tribe of
Ananias:
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w.ll be deposited with any reputable trust company
(or a less amount if desired) against a like amount
by any coffee roaster or dealer. If the charge, prove
true we lose, if not we take the money as partial
liquidation for the infamous insult to our business.
The Postum Pure Food factories are the largest in
the world, the business having been built upon abso
lutely pure food products, made on scientific lines,
or a reason and the plain unvarnished truth tnld
eve^ day and all the timeTThcsc factc^^Tvisited
by thousands of people every month. They are shown
into every cranny and examine every ingredient and
process. Each visitor sees Postum made of different
parts of the wheat berry treated by different mechan
ical methods and one part blended with a small part
of pure New Orleans molasses. So he knows Postum
contains not one thing in the world but Wheat and
New < 'rleans molasses. It took more than a year of
experimenting to perfect the processes and learn how
to develop the diastase and properly treat the other
elements in the wheat to produce the coffee-like flavor
that makes suspicious people “wonder.” But there
never has been one grain of old-fashioned or dn<
coffee in Postum and never will be.
Another thing, we have on file in our general offices
the original of every testimonial letter we have ever
published. We submit that our attitude regarding
coffee is now and always has been absolutely fair. If
one warns a stimulant and can digest coffee and it
does not set up any sort of physical ailment, drinkit
But, if coffee overtaxes and weakens the heart (a»l
it docs with some).
Or if it sets up disease of the stomach and boweb
(and it docs with some).
Or if it causes weak eyes (and it does with some).
Or if it causes nervous prostration (and it doc»
with many).
plain old-fashioned common sense might
* ithout asking permission of coffee merchants) sug
gest to quit putting caffeine (the drug of coffee) into
we-'hb » Oir^uCil hUman
for hea,th »
wealth and the happiest sort of wealth.
into th* f °ne S 0W" *KSt *nterest urges him to study
t
will m-
coffee
3,1 of the sophistries af the
coffee importers and roasters cannot refute.