‘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
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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
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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,
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| 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-
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working upon many interesting pro-| those who think that the railroads |the regular courts, while the members
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As all the money which is being ex-
pended in the construction of these
irrigation works is to be paid back to
the Government by the settlers taking
the land, and to go into the “reclama-
tion fund,” the work of future con-
struction will proceed as fast as the re-
payments are made from the projects
now under construction. 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.
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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,