Show RECLAIMING ARID LANDS What Expenditure of S150000 S 000 Would Mean for West Denver Cob Nov 12A largo meeting meet-ing of the business men of this city Tor the purpose of arousing Interest In the ninth Irrigation congress which will begin its mission in Chicago on the 2Ist lust was held here today under un-der the auspIces of the Chamber of Commerce 3Jr George II raxc1l chairman of the executive cominlUcc of the National Na-tional TrrJsullon Congress made the principal speech He favored Government Govern-ment construction of reservoirs for storing valor durinp the winter the flovcrnmenl not lo Interfere however whim its distribution by the State under un-der time present system He maintained that it WQK as imluchi the duty of the Government to build storage rcser volrs ns to make river and harbor Improvements Im-provements By expending 15000000 annually fOr a period of ten years he wild the Government could reclaim 100000000 acres of land and thereby provide homes for hundreds of families fami-lies The benefits accruing therefrom lo business men in the East as well as the West were obvious As an example of the remarkable benefits of such a system Mr Maxwell pictured Denver as the center of a population of lp000000 people Pie concluded con-cluded by urging Denver to send a strong delegation lo the meeting and Vice Grand Master Maher of the Broth orhood of Locomotive Firemen delivered deliv-ered a strong address favoring the national na-tional movement Committees lo prepare suitable resolutions reso-lutions and select a delegation of rep lesentativcs to Chicago were appointed appoint-ed the former consisting of Mayor Johnson of Denver Prank C Goudy George Stephens J i Jlobinson secretary sec-retary of the State Federation of Labor La-bor and A C McCune State Engineer and the latter of W N Byres president presi-dent of the Chamber of Commerce Henry Wlchaelson C 13 Wantland G F Wilson John E Loot and R S Branan S S The Woman Vote in Wyoming In support of its contention that woman suffrage is responsible for the sweeping Republican victory in Wyom ing the Cheyenne Tribune says The strength of the woman vote in Wyoming politics was again fully demonstrated de-monstrated lit the election just passed It was alleged that the Hon John Charles Thompson Democratic candl dale for Congres In a letter written S to the AntiSuffrage Association of New York asserted that the womans vote In Wyoming was the easiest thing lo secure and the easiest factor tp control in State politics This created the most intense excitement among time women of the State and on election day they turned out andjjftvo Mondell the greatest majority ever received by any candidate In the State greater even than that received by the Republican Electors showing that many women who voted for Bryan cast their ballot In opposition lo Gen Thompson Thin feeling against one candidate extended to the entire ticket and the result was that of 7000 womens votes In the State at least twothirds were east for McKinley and the Kopubll ran candidates or a number approximately approx-imately equal lo lime majority McKinley Mc-Kinley received in the State Now Paper for Reno C M Sain will establish a Republican Republi-can paper In Reno shortly after the first of the year or us soon as a llno type machine can be put In Tho name of the paper will be the Rco Republican Mr Sain will continue to own and run the Tribune In Lovelock says the latter paper |