‘age reservoir built there, not 1: the benefit of oly or Wyoming, but for Ne- braska as well. The Secretary has set aside 2,250,000 for the Shoshone River, W yoming, project and $3,330,000 for the Pathfinder project on North Platte River, to be partially expended for the benefit of Nebraska. Thus about 15 per cent. of the entire re. clamation fund will be laid out in Wy- | | oming, although only about 4 Scenes along the Platte and the Sho- shone canyon are among the wildest and most picturesque in America. Second to Wyoming comes the terri- she has contributed | | per cent. of the fund. | JUDGE GROSSCUP'S SOLUTION, NOTED JURIST WOULD ESTABLISH COURT OF TRANSPORTATION T0 REGULATE RAILROADS. Numerous Rate Bills Before Congress at Present. Senator Morgan Opens Discussion.—General Public Desires More Enlightenment. Whether or not there is to be the specific railroad rate legislation in Congress after the lines of the vigor- tory of Arizona, with the great Salt | us demands of the President, it is a River project at an estimated cost of | fact that many laws have been started about four million dollars, requiring | rejoicing on their initial courses at upwards of 9 per cent. of the entire | reclamation fund, although Arizona has contributed less than 1 per cent. It is stated by the engineers that the | Opportunities for water storage in Ari- | Zona are, next to Wyoming, the best in the arid West, while the soil of that territory is not only extremely fertile | and lying at a moderate altitude but | the climate is semi-tropical and under careful cultivation, ten or even five | acres will support a family. Southern | California to-day, with a similar soil and climate, has thousands of pros- | berous little .five and ten acre farms. The third State in order of irrigation | benefits in Montana, which, although lying far north, has a splendid water supply and likewise rich land. Actual construction has en begun by the Government on the owstone, where, owing ig’ the plentiful &"0f the embarrassing com- cations of vested water rights ex- ‘ist, which have prevented work thus far on the upper Missouri River and on the Milk River. The funds allotted to Montana for the Huntley, Lower Yellowstone and Milk River projects amount to over three million dollars, or nearly nine per cent. of the fund, which is in excess of the amount con- tributed by Montana, The fourth State in order of benefits is Nevada, contributing the least money to the fund but probably most needing the benefits. It was, in fact, through the dire wants of this State that the law received its inception, be- ing first known as the Newlands bill, this unique plan of automatic appro- priation being originated and intro- duced by Senator Newlands, then a Representative, in the spring of 1901. Following Nevada come Idaho, ‘Washington, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Oregon, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah, Kansas, New Mexico. and lastly | pag, and that no legislation could be | both ends of the Capitol. They are of all sorts and conditions. Some will die in the borning, some will be the bases for thunderous tirades of denunciation lin the House, which after some discus. sion was passed by that body. No ac- tion was taken, however, by the Sen ate, but after adjournment the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce held extended hearings, and during the present Congress there has been a flood of railroad rates bills in both houses, ranging all the way from the Interstate Commerce Commission bill, which is generally considered as the and radically different in their pro- visions. Bills have been introduced by Senator Dolliver of Iowa, by Senator Foraker of Ohio, by Senator Elkins of Virginia, the Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, by Senator Morean of Alabama, by Sena- tor Culberson of Texas, by Representa- tive Hepburn of Iowa, the chairman of the “railroad rate committee” of the House, by Representative Hogg of against the railroads, with no inten- tion by the authors of accomplishing | {anything but getting their “remarks” | others. before their constituencies at home, | in the borning, some will be the basis | the committees, and pigeon-holed, or possibly merged into the one or two bills which will be taken up for serious consideration by the House and Senate themselves. . There is a vast difference of opinion on the railroad rate question. There are some who tell us that the term “railroad” signifies everything that is Teil TeasiTn n Vn Ce wadarn i JUDGE PETER GROSSCUP, {first argument in the Senate on the rate question, in support of his bill, Colorado; also the Interstate Com: merce Commission bill and various Senator Morgan recently made the which provides for the regulation of railroad rates through the regular courts of the country. Senator Elkins’ bill also proposes that the Federal courts shall determine whether rates are excessive, and provides for an in- junction against any road which is found to be charging an excessive rate. The bill which has been introduced by Representative Hogg, States District Court of Chicago who rendered the decision against the Beef Trust, provides for a special railroad court to decide all such matters. Judge Grosscup’s bill establishes seven Courts of Transportation, situated in different sections of the country, to try the particular cases arising within their territory. During a stated period of each year the judges of the seven courts are to meet together and hold court en banc in Washington or else- where, just as the Supreme Court of the United States sits together for a stated term, after having held individ: ual court in the different Federal dis- tricts of the United States. There is right of appeal from this Court of Transportation to the Supreme Court of the United States. It is argued in favor of this bill that inasmuch as railroad rate matters, even where they are decided upon by the Inter- state Commerce Commission, must fi- nally go to court, the matter can be simplified by having them considered in the beginning by this Court of Transportation, Also that this Court administration measure, to bills widely | YA formulated by |A\% gJudge Peter Grosscup of the United sistant Postmaster General DeGraw that rural carriers be allowed to use automobiles in serving their eral Cortelyou. ments and their commanders in the Union army and the general location of all the Confederate forces and their movements are to him an open book, ONLY ONE LIFE TO LIVE and the hours spent with him leave but little to be desired by even those who are seldom satisfied. Gettysburg wiil always be considered by the North and acknowledged by the South as the high water mark of the ON GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD. great civil contest, and when the sun went down on that bloodiest of fields where the dead and dying had fallen by thousands, as it looked upon the defeat of Pickett’s immortal charge, it also saw the beginning of the end of the greatest of modern conflicts. And because there was no shame in that defeat and because deeds of en- durance and heroism belong to each army in equal measure, the battlefield will remain forever the Mecca of all brave Americans and of every military student of the entire world, renee se eee Autos For Rural Delivery, homemaking. EVERYBODY should get the most out of life that they can. 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Won cern That’s the Reason Why The place to get it is in the Home, and How to Entertain In It How to Enjoy Life In It Hints to Homemaiers Little Folks in the Home Home Cheer Entertaining in the Home AND REMEMBER t under- 1 how The recommendation of Fourth As. routes has been approved by Postmaster Gen- The Postmaster Gen- ~~ He Has Thrown Away His Bottles and Scales and uses the N. P. C. C. Photographic a eral, however, expressly reserves the right to require the rural carriers to discontinue the use of such vehicles and resume the service of their routes in the ordinary vehicles prescribed by the regulations, if proof is made of un- satisfactory service arising from the use of automobiles. In addition to this, the rural carriers are required also to maintain a fixed schedule so that the boxes for their patrons may be served at or about the same time each day. | too severe to mete out as a proper pun-| of Transportation having no other Throughout these States Govern- ishment for these monsters of extor- | business to attend to, can try the rail- ment surveyors and engineers are) tion. On the ‘other hand, there are road cases much more quickly than] working upon many interesting pro-| those who think that the railroads |the regular courts, while the members jects where strong rivers rush down have been of a very material benefit will be 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. spring floods, but which will be im-|should be regulated and shorn of their |The Grosscup bill also continues the bounded behind great masonry dams |undoubted powers to injure the ship- | work of the Interstate Commerce | to form storage lakes whence the water | pers and the communities which de- Commission with some modification in | will later be diverted into the irri-| pend upon them, they should still be | organization, authorizing that body to | gation canals and used for cropson the| accorded a hearing and reasonable [arbitrate railroad matters wherever | desert soils. Thousands of prosperous | treatment. possible and to act as counsel or at- homes will be the result when these| The President’s attitude on the ruil. | foraey for the shipper or complainant, works are completed, and the great road question is specific. He favors | at the Government’s expense, wherever el 1s today in SSRN uta the enlargement of the powers of the any case of controversy arises between y settled community, w e-| Interstate Commerce Commission SO | the shipper and the railroads. avi re- come more rounded out and better bal-| as to enable that body to fix railroad | This ed is favored as a measure ne ar Jag Gsstenien Zu ” anced against the more populous East: | rates, where they are deemed by the |whose provisions overcome the danger | > : ern half of the country. which it is stated would arise from Preparations only. <t We do the weighing and you add the water METOL-HYDRO DEVELOPER The old standby. 25 cents for six tubes, making up the same amount of developer. N. P. C. 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Possibly also, when the first few completed irrigation projects shall have thoroughly demon- strated themselves to be the successful experiments which they are proving, Congress will not be averse to making a direct appropriation as a loan to the “reclamation fund.” A direct Congressional appropriation for such a loan is not believed to be at all beyond the bounds of accom- plishment some time in the future after, as stated, the systems now under construction shall have demonstrated themselves to be the successes predict- ed. The present figure above noted of $37,000,000 for irrigation would have been looked upon as the dream of an impractical enthusiast at the time that the irrigation bill was being discussed in Congress, less than four years ago. The year before the passage of the act the securing of a hundred million dole lar appropriation would have been believed to be as likely a figure a3 five milion, to say nothing of irty-seven milion. i the t it is of course his desire that nothing should be dome to injure railroad properties or drive the companies out of business. The railroads themselves are not pleased with this plan of regulation. ‘While many of them may not have done, in past times, the best possible by the public, they fear that to give an absolute rate-making power to a politi cal commission, such as the Interstate Commerce Commission, appointed by a Chief Executive, would be not only an unconstitutional method of regulation but would place in that body a power, which if not wisely administered might practically put them, the rail- roads, out of business. The provision that they would have recourse to the courts after a rate had been fixed hy the Commission and put into effect would help them but little since their entire schedule would be changed and the damage done, before the courts could be brought to reach a decision. The other point of view is that with the knowledge that their rates will be carefully scrutinized and contested. they will be extremely careful about the making or enforcing of any ex- cessive rates, while with the enact ment of a comprehensive law the rem- edy will always lie with the Govern ment to Inspect and supervise any ex- isting rates, without, however, disturb: ing or overturning the business of the railroad or interfering with the busi. ness of communities, At the last session of Congress the greatgst interest in railroad matters { party and require an absolute uprising the creation of a Commission at Wash: ington which would held the vast rail- road interests of the United States in the hollow of its hand. There is an apparently growing sentiment among many people that to constitute any body of men a political commission with such vast power as the ability te 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 diffu sion 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~-‘"la the indefinite continuance in power of that political 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 crystalization 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- tive mood and seeking for information and education on the question. eles 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 few if any of the actual participants of that three days’ terrible fight have a tithe of his knowledge of the details. He has been a resident of the town since 1855, and was conductor of the Gettysburg & Hanover Railroad until it was burned by the Confederates June 26, 1863. Upen the memorable first day of July, wiih many other citizens, he went out to the right of the Union army, where the battle had already commenced. A member of the Twelfth Illinois cavalry fired the first shot, and a squadron of that regiment continued skirmishing until relieved by the infantry of the First corps, commanded by Maj.-Clen. Reynolds. Later in the day Gen. Rey- nolds was killed, and the Union troops under Doubleday fell back through the town and fortified the heights beyond, Every house, public and private, had become a hospital, and Sheads found his little home filled with dead and dying of both armies. Upon the second and third day of the battle he was car- ing for the wounded and shortly after commenced again running his train, For the past nine years he has em: ployed his entire time as a battlefield guide, and no one has witnessed more of the 450 monument unveilings, over 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 are 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 : $100,000.00 CASH will 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 charges prove true we lose, if not we take the money as partial liquidation for the infamous insult to our business. the 35,000 acres where the battles were fought, Generals and privates, Weder- als and Confederates by the hughareds have been piloted by him ove every spot where they had been statiofned and have listened to his truthful {story of their movements, while frofy them he has steadily added to increased his store of knowledgg AA The name and logation of all the 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, “for a reason” and the plain unvarnished truth told every day and all the time, These factories are visited by thousands of people every month, They are shown Cex id the Bsch-Towsend’ bill ) / corps, divisions, brijades and egl- into every crannyand examine every ingredient and The Coffee Importers and Roasters are Attacking POSTUM FOOD COFFEE All Along the Line. “THERE'S A REASON.” Each visitor sees Postum made of diftrent parts of the wheat berry treated by different mehan- process. ical methods and cone part blended with a smal part of pure New Orleans molasses. So he knows Pgtum contains not one thing in the world but Whea and New Orleans molasses. It took more than a yer of experimenting to perfect the processes and lear how to develop the diastase and properly treat the ther elements in the wheat to produce the coffee-like :avor that makes suspicious people “wonder.” But here never has been one grain of old-fashioned or frug coffee in Postum and never will be. Wg Another thing, we have on file in our general cfices the original of every testimonial letter we haveever published. We submit that our attitude regading coffee is now and always has been absolutely fai. If one wants a stimulant and can digest coffee md i does not set up any sort of physical ailment, drifk it. But, if coffee overtaxes and weakens the heart (and it does with some). | biwels Or if it sets up disease of the stomach and (and it does with some). Or if it causes weak eyes (and it does with sane). Or if it causes mervous prostration (and it does with many), Then good plain old-fashioned common sense night (without asking permission of coffee merchants) sug~ gest to quit putting caffeine (the drug of coffee) into a highly organized human body, for health is rally wealth and the happiest sort of wealth. Then if one’s own best interest urges him to study into the reason and “There's a reason,” he will m= fearth great big facts that all of the sophistrics of the coffee importers and roasters cannot refute,
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