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Show THE SEMI-WEEKL- william mckimey osborne, statesman and NAIM. Y Beauty of Colorado. CIVIL WAR VETERAN, WHO RECENTLY DIED IN LONDON. B. T. HTDE. Publish LOOAN. Irrigation and Scientific farming have Aade the State a Veritable Paradise. UTAH Still, it is hardly believed will attend the coronation. Ooxn Paul Now that we happen to think of it, what has become of the dreaded kissing hug? Chicago has a trust for cleaning windows, but it haB not yet developed Into a habit. People who think they would like to he vegetarians might find this a profitable time to try It. A lloston paper Bays the lobster Ib It will have to busgoing backward. tle to keep up with Boston. On the other hand, if beef were only two or three cents a pound hardly anybody would take the trouble to eat This is the season when men go Lome, carrying enthusiasm and a spade, and come down in the morning with a backache. Any fellow who has invented a new kind of striped summer shirt now thinks he is a bigger man than the president Count lloni Castellane has a son. If he is a chip of the old block, Count Bonl may as well begin to economize without delay. Count Bonl de CasteKanes new son and heir will bear the name of Jay, presumably in honor of both his father and grandfather. Carnegie fears that the steel trust may lose money and he would hate to have to foreclose and go into the business again himself. Counterfeit postal cards are being found in the malls. This fact proves that the meanest man in the United States Is still at large. A London paper Bays J. Pierpont Morgan wants to control English railroad. Well, if Plerp. wants them they are practically his. King Alfonso is about to come into possession of his majority, but how long will it be before the majority will have possession of Alfonso? A New York publication asserts that death can be postponed. It can in some parts of Texas by never refusing an invitation to take a drink. Letter.) OLORADO is at the present to the front as a (Special time, without any question, one of the most prosperous states in the Union. Indeed it Is having an boom. This applies not only to the larger cities like Denver, Pueblo and Coloto every hut rado Springs, nook and corner of the state. In Denver more new buildings are being erected than at any one time ever before in its history. More men are being employed In Its different establishments, and manufacturing more new enterprises are under way than at any previous time. At Pueblo the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. are making additions to their already vast works, that will cost ten million dollars and give employment to 5,000 more men. This company la now one of the largest Iron manufacturing concerns in the world. At Colorado Springs new reduction works are under way that will cost several millions of dollars and employ thousands of men. There are several things to be credited with this happy condition of affairs. Flrat may be mentioned the prosperity of the agricultural interests The progressive farmers of the country are just beginning to William McKinley Osborne of Mass- ment as the late president At the learn that the only scientific way of achusetts, United States consul gen- close of the war young Osborne, like farming is by Irrigation. Not only eral at London is dead. He had long hie companion In arms, took up the are crops rendered surer, but the probeen an invalid. study of law and settled at Youngs- duction per acre is enormously InMr. Osborne was a cousin of Prestown where he built up a good prac- creased, while the market reports show ident McKinley, by whom he was ap- tice. Taking to politics, he was elect- that as far as quality is concerned, pointed consul general at London ed mayor of hla town. About seven- grain, vegetables and fruit of all kinds March 18, 1897. His predecessor in teen years ago Mr. Osborne left Ohio are immeasurably superior to those office was Patrick 'A. Collins of Bos- and went to live in Boston, of which grown in more humid regions. The deton, of which city Mr. Osborne him- his wife formerly Miss Francis Clara velopment of Irrigation enterprises Is self was a prominent resident. The Hastings was a native. He was well therefore proceeding at a rapid pace. deceased was born in Trumbull coun- known and generally liked In hla new The summer flow of water in most of ty, Ohio, and was a schoolmate of home. Hie appointment u the office the larger streams was long ago all President McKinley at the Poland of consul general was one of the first appropriated, while vast quantities ran Academy. He joined the Union army made by President McKinley after his away in the winter and early spring and waB a number of the same regi first Inauguration. unused. Hundreds of storage reservoirs have already been constructed to hold these surplus waters until needed BOY INVENTOR WHO HAS WON FAME K. DAVIS TO WED SPANIARD MRS. and many more are now in process of Some of these are very Widow of Former railed Stated Senator Melvin E. Vnkouta of Lamoille, 111., construction. costly. One Is being built near Fort Oran tod Patent on Davloo. Announce Engagement. Melvin E. Bukoutz of Lamoille, 111., Collins that will coet 1300,000, and News of the engagement of Don Cabinet a lad of 20 years, has been granted a Lake Cheeseman, near Denver, is about a former Spanish Abazuza, Sencompleted at a cost of over a million. Minister, to the widow of the late The latter will be a lake of no Inconator Cushman K. Davis caused much siderable size, In fact will be the largfavorable comment in prominent soest body of water in the state. These cial circles of Madrid. various reservoirs permit the cultivaMrs. Davis Is well known in Madrid tion of hundreds of thousands of acres court society and has a great many that would otherwise remain a barren admirers there. desert. 'Already Colorado- has pasfeed She met DoVbauzjt in Paris wfjen California In the number of acres culDavliWas one of the AmeriSenator tivated by Irrigation and Is of course can members of the Peace Commission, a long way ahead of any ether state or and the friendship which sprung up territory. then ripened into the love which has And what enormous crops are raised resulted In their engagement. on these lands! Fifty bushels of wheat Don Abazuza was Secretary for the to the acre, four hundred bushels of United colonies which the Spanish potatoes, eight to ten tons of alfalfa States wrested from Spain. not much above the average. A are Mrs. Davis Is well known both In on the Santa Fe riding from traveler soSt. and Paul Minneapolis Chicago, line to Pueblo, or on the state the ciety. Her engagement to a Spanish Pacific Union riding from Sterling to nobleman has caused much pleasant can Denver, hardly realize that the talk In St. Paul and throughout Min- patent on a device to do with beautiful, away productive farms highly nesota, which state her husband rep- Btraps on and teleIs passing were only he which bags traveling through Senate States United in the resented a a decade ago considered a part of the scopes. The device works with at the time of the late Spanish war. movement and is operated by Great American desert rachet She is a lady of rare attainments, a a button immediately under the handle The discovery that these Irrigated of the telescope. This Is the second lands were peculiarly adapted to the patent granted to the young man, the cultivation of the sugar beet Is one first having been for an Incubator reason for the great Interest shown three years ago. He was at that time the youngest inventor In the Unite States. In 1900 Bukouts was awarded a medal on his Incubator and a year later was made a life member of the Academic Farlsienne Des Inventeura of Paris, France. At the same time he received a gold medal from that Institution. The young inventor has other g plans afoot in the shape of devices and promises not only to reap some fame in the mechanical of world, but gain some modicum wraith as well. ed dollar-hunter- s. A baseball umpire out in Lincoln, hit a player so hard that he went home and died. The rules are to he strictly enforced this year. Neb., Many housewives ars discovering that their sons who can win prize cups In golfing contests have not enough strength to brat a 2x4 Smyrna rug. Luckily for the good health of the rest of the community, the story over which a New York doctor laughed himself to death is not being repeated. There is a man in New Hampshire who boasts that he lives on sixty-nin- e cents a week. There's a fellow who can snap his fingers at the beef trust A jealous lover wrecked a house with dynamite in Ohio the other day. Strange to sav, even that heroic measure did not cause the lady to love him. An Oh!o man has run away from home to escape from people who want to thrust a puMic oilier on him. Major Pond'll get hi. a if he doesnt watch out a labor-savin- In Germany they are now making sugar from licet ami gasoline from potatoes. They have not as yet been able, however, to get blood out of a turnip. Since of was invented ping-pon- 8,000,-00- 0 the featherweight zylonite balls have been turned cut in London. And tim-then has not been Talent of Emprr of Japan. The Empress of Japan takes a great interest in ail that concerns the nation, from the rice crops upwards. Her Majesty Is said to have a special talent for literature, and writes beautiful poetry. A poem of hers, set to music, is sung in the schools all over the land. She is an adept performer on the koto, a kind of large zither. It is an instrument which is much played and very popular in Japan. their life an idle one. linguist, and an exceedingly charming and entertaining conversationalist Yale's new launch, the Elihu Yale, has been tried and found to be all right. Perhaps a branch race between the Elihu Yale and the John Harvard would he int Hctii::;. Wood for Cavalry Saddle. Tan Square from On. The war department will make a saddle of trees, flexible test practical the Invention of a Frenchman who lives in Baltimore. This tree is said to be much easier than the present affair, which is made of wood and braced with iron. The experimental tree Is a composition of rubthe into ber and canvas molded reto is said virtue Its form. proper These diagrams show clearly how to side In its extreme flexibility and it promises to be of advantage to and divide one square into ten equal contribute to the comfort of cavalrysquares. Cut on dotted lines, as men. About a dozen of these trees shown in picture at the left Then add A and It to C ns shown at the have been order'd for experimental right and divide into ten square. purposes In Kansas t ' ey are killing prairie dogs by lun.in". .u t.j of steam Into their holes. In I;. days of electricity ms extremely cumberthis method some and o'. '.st.ir.neil, ! P. MarU p i. whod has Just finished ya play eai' d ".'r.iuccs.'ii da Rimini. the only playClyde Fitch i who 1ms not as yet wright we km :r: da Rimini. written a ! al-.i-- state. ng The Grand Valley peaches have long been known In the eastern markets for their superior flavor, and of count Rocky Fort melons and cantaloups art known the world over. But these art not the only fruits raised. Last fall fifty carloads of apples were shipped direct from Canon City to New York. wide-awak- e, - nkaurea Prince . county- men thatwe ate not a nation of mere The prince found us pretty good dollar spenders as well. fruit-produci- raw-hid- e, A Pool In a Caaoa. and E. J. Matthews of Paoma sold nine thousand boxes of apples at one dol- lar a box. These things are beginning to attract the attention of homeseekers. Many are already coming in, but the indications are there will soon be a stampede in this direction. Lands are yet reasonable in price, but are bound soon to double and quadruple In value. Black Dan Webstar. Daniel Webster did not possese one of the attributes of a popular leader. The very greatness of bis abilities raised him far above the mass of men and put him out of touch with them. He inspired awe, but not affection. No mortal man ever thought of coupling his name with any thought of popular endearment. Jackson wes Old Old Roman; Harriso ory. Old Tip," 'Clay was Harry AjT0f a Vest." Th Mill Boy Of thef (LsW and Taylor Old Rough andReady; but the senator from Massachusetts was the Honorable Daniel Webster" to his dying day. Even the cartoonists could find no other name for him , than Black Dan. It was to Rough and Ready, therefore, and not to Daniel Webster, that .the Whig manses turned in 1848, when they were done with Henry Clay. Century. Admiral Evan a a Diplomat. A relative of Rear Admiral Evans tells the following characteristic story of the boyhood of the popular sailor: As a boy he had been talked to by the clergyman of the church which his family attended regarding the keeping of Lent, the clergyman trying to impress upon the youngster the idea that the right way of observing Lent was to deny himself that which he most enjoyed. When three weeks of this solemn season had passed without young Evans appearing in church, the clergyman called to see what was the trouble. Why, said Evans, I am keeping Lent strictly. Just as you told me to, by denying myself my greatest pleasure that of hearing you preach. New York Times. Experiment Mot a Sure. They were in the grocers. Said the grocer, seeing a blind man about to Are you aware how delicate enter: the touch of a blind man Is? When Nature deprives us of one senBe she makes amends by bringing the other senses to wonderful acutenesss. Let us illustrate by this man. I'll take a spoonful of sugar and let him feel it, and you will see how quickly he'll tell what it is. The blind man, having entered, he was put to the test. He put his thumb anil finger into the scoop, and without hesitation said, That is sand. Everybody laughed but the grocer. Monutala Caacada, juBt now In these irrigating enter- prises. There are already four large beet sugar factories In active operation, three more are building, and will be ready for this season's crop, and at least twenty others are under contemplation. Farmers claim beets to bn the most profitable crop they ever raised. Over $300,000 was paid out last fall to the farmers living near the town ot Loveland. Farm lands double In value when a factory Is located near them. Many readers will be surprised to know that Colorado is forging rapidly Thought la Springtime. Bright days in April cause crowds to draw around the of the sporting Shops. They stand rapt before show-windo- reels, files, rods, puttees, rackets and guns, decoys, hardware. have smelt They yacht e at twilight, slept with starlight on their fares, and now their hearts are troubled with the old spring fret. It is not merely the red gods The fret making medicine again. comes over men who hare no desire to go out and kill something. hip-boot- golf-stick- s, wood-smok- s, |