Show spirit of the press cheyenne state tribune there ia is no longer any division ot of opi ninion the and belt aa as to what disposition should bo be made of the arid and and timber lands by the government the conviction ia is general that all lands now a part of the public domain except excepting ipg mineral lands should be ceded in in trust to the states and territories aa as provided in the resolution which was unanimously adopted by the irrigation congress denver republican the manufacture of cotton at the overland cotton mill has been begun and in a few weeks there will be a supply of denver cotton on hand w with th which to supply the trade of this city and the tributary country all denver people hope thattie that the manufacture of cotton here will be a profitable industry and that year by year it will grow in volume there is every reason to believe that this hope will be realized there will be a large market for the product of the overland mill in th the e rocky mountains this market is now chiefly supplied with eastern and southern goods upon which there is a heavy expense for transportation nearly the whole of this expense will be saved to tha the consumers of denver cotton and the overland mill ought therefore to be able to compete successfully with eastern and southern mills chicago tribune and that re in minds ands us that the sugar though C coming mi ng in free of duty is not a g gift fa to the consumer but hag has to be pi paid d for this country imports sugar to an amount which costs per annum which is the best way to pay for it in gold or surplus products product a the republic republicans c ans say in the surplus products of our farms and factories and keep the gold at home for currency purposes and the plan of doing loing it is by blaines reciprocity method the democrats say buy your sugar as cheap as possible and doat dont bother sugar countries p paying ayi g for it is in manufactures fac tures and an fn food 0 d stuff stuffs but remit gold money and when that is gone send silver as ion long g as it lasts and when it is i gone pay in in bonds fir reciprocity is is a humbug meanwhile the fiat scrip will answer for currency anything will do for that in this country this is the difference between the policies of the two great parties choose between them cheyenne leader two bright energetic young men of this city have met death while in the ilia disc charge of their duty as railway mail clerks such are not rare and scarcely a passenger wreck is heard of but what one or more mail clerks are among the victims there is possibly no remedy for this as the calling is of necessity a hazardous one and so long as we have railroads accidents in spite of the greatest precautions against them will happen but there ii is much that could be done do to make ake the lives of those left behind easier after the son or husband has gone down to his death in some awful wreck the government could pension the dependent families of postal clerks bill providing for this however have been rejected at each session of congress for years past t and vit without hout public sentiment F forces aces action in the matter nothing is liable to bo be accomplished very soon when the sad truth of the need of such a law is brought eo so forcibly home as by the death of clerks and lyon and I 1 when it ia is considered that scarcely r i 11 fal all a month mouth passes without similar accidents in the service it is bard hard to understand why so beneficial a law cannot be passed salt lake times at durango colorado a woman was recently murdered by her son the lad has bee been arr arrested ea ted and has made a co confession nn fes sion from hia his statement it appears that the deed is another of the long list for which whisky b has a been parti partially all responsible TI the he boy had bad a flay flask hidden in the straw stack he went out and to took ok a drink and the liquor set the demon loose in his brain A man who will commit crime while under the influence of liquor must of course be bad at heart to the inton intoxicant icart becomes an all active agent in stirring and unbridling his pas the boy wicked though he no doubt was would never have destroyed bis his mothers life if the liquor had not first destroyed what li little tt e of self control he possessed the bottle in the st straw r aw stack was tho the implacable devil of the tragedy the boy was a harmless villain until he be took the waiting devil to bis his bosom but when be he had embraced it it became his master the circumstance furnishes food for thought for those who believe that the whisky flask is harm harmless less to those who do not patronize it to excess and that the community has no concern in connection with its relations to society denver sun A play called abraham lincoln has just been produced in m the east and gives every indication of being a pronounced failure this is as it should be for the character of the incidents used in its construction naturally makes it obnoxious and repulsive to all patriotic americans the central character of the PI play ay is that of abraham lincoln the martyred marty red president whose assassination shocked horrified and grieved the entire nation that awful crime is still fresh in the public mind many of the friends and associates of the martyred marty red president are still living the awful tragedy enacted in fords theater is ia represented in all its horrible deti details in this play such a thing ia is simply outrage outrageous oue it shocks and wounds the isen sensibilities of a people who loved and honored the living lincoln and who hold hia his memory in in i reverence aside from this horrifying spec bacle the play could find no favor with loyal americans for at best it makes a travesty through representation of people and events that contributed so much to the grandeur and glory of the nation abraham lincoln was one of the grandest and noblest men this country ever produced there seemed to have been a providential training of his mind and guidance of hh his hand to meet the crisis of events that mark tho the most tin important and vital epoch in our history any attempt to depre represent his lofty ideas and noble purposes through the medium ot of stage mimicry naturally degenerates into a brutal farce at which our sensibilities are wounded and our pat patriotism rebels for the sake of the count rys name for the preservation reservation of that revere reverential rAial spirit pir ip in in which the name of lincoln is is held the american people should place their condemnation upon this p play lay by refusing to patronize the th theater cater where it is represented |