The Cañon City Record.VOL. XXVUI. CANON CITY, COLORADO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 1905 NO. 37

MOONLIGHT EX(???)SIONTHROUGH ROY(???)GORGE

Tomorrow Night La ince to

View One of the *£• er’s of9

the World Under . "avor-able Circumstance specialTrain Leaves the Cv|hu FridayNight at 8;30. Get in the CrowdSee the Royal Gorge by moonlight

By night it is the most wonderful 1tight in natural scenery in America jtoday.

The Rio Grande will run a special ,

moonlight train up throughjthe Gorge 1Friday, September 16, so that Canon !City people can »ee it at ita beat.

The Royal Gorge ia the moat notedpoint of interest between the coasts

and thousands of people everyCyearpaaa tbit way to get a hurried glimpse

of Ita marvelous grandeur.While it ia known the world over and

is classed with Niagara Falls and the

Grand Canon or Arisona, hundreds of jpeople in Canon City have not seen it|at its best.

The night brings out its depth and

the height of its mighty walls, and im- }presses one with its massiveness and <

magnificent proportions a hundredtime* more than the day.

To appreciate it beat one must get off

the train, and standing on the ground

measure ita diasy height by compari-

son. This special train will atop at theHaaging Bridge fifteen minutes.

Persons who wish may stay in the iGorge till the train goes on to Park-

dale and returns, giving three-quarters jof an hour in the heart of the Canon atjdead of night. It will be a unique ex- jparlance and one well worth while.

The special train will start from ;

Canon City at 6:90.The Florence band will accompany \

the train and play in the Royal Gorge, jTake your eastern friends Return

your party favors with a "box party”to the Royal (torge- Get in the crowd

and enjoy a night out with nature.

The price is so cheap that you can takethe whole family. Fare from Canon,66 cents ; children under 12, 86 cents

To save a rush for tickets at night,arrangements have been for excursion !tickets to be sold at Tub Record officeany time Friday.

WILL BE HOMELAST OF MONTH

A letter from L. W Feller was rereived last Friday from Berlin. Ger-many. In the course of which he statedthat he. with Mrs. Keller and MiasNellie, would sail from Hamburg forAmerica about the first of September

They will spend a short time in sightseeing in New York City, Boston andother places on the Atlantic coast, af-ter which they will go to lowa for ashort visit with relatives, arriving in

Canon City about the end of the cur-rant month*

Owing to the organisation of the

Cltixens State Bank and the accept-ance of the cashierahip by M. J. Evans,it waa decided by Mr. Felter to forego

his contemplated trip to India and the

Far East.

THINK WE HAVEFINE RIGS HERE

The great number of fine pleasure

vehicles to be seen on the streets ofCanon City Is a matter of frequent

comment by stranger*, and is to moatof them an evidence of the generalprosperity In few places of the aixeof Canon can so many really elegant

and comfortable rigs, public and pri-vate, be found a* here, due, probably,to the good roadways in town and the

immediate suburbs and to the length

of the season for driving, which In-cludes practically every month In theyear During the Inst week or ten

days the city has had more than ita

uaunl share of visitors from otherstates and many of them have remarkedon the splendid equipment ofour liveryatables and the handsome turnoutsthey have observed on the streets.There has been a notable increase inthe number of family carriages, bug-gies and runabouts in CanonCity with-in the last few years, most of them of

the most up-to-date pattern and they

have given an impetus to the goodroads movement, which, like Banquo’s

ghost, will never down until somethingis done in the direction of scientificallyconstructed public highways. Therear»- also many good horses here andannually there is a large accretion to

the list, which is necessitated by thegrowing class of well-to do people whofind themselves in position to own agood animal for driving purposes Theautomobile is here, but it will never beable to supercede the standard bredhorse as an agency in pleasure ridingas there is a life and exhilaration aboutthe latter that no piece of machinery,however perfect, can imitate.

Great ExperienceThe train will atop at the Hanging

Bridge tomorrow night and let all offwho wish. They may stay in the Can-on till the train goes to Parkdale andreturns, giving a full three quarters ofan hour in the h~art of the Canon.This experience is worth the price ofthe trip—66 cent#

BIGGEST APPLE CROPIN HISTORY OF ORCHARD

Capt. B. F. Rockafellow informedTux Record yesterday that the appiecrop on his Fruitmere orchard this sea-son would exceed that ofany year in itahistory, except 1690, and that the totalproduct would be more than K.CkObarrels.

He has already shipped upwards of6,000 boxes of apple*, many of themgoing to the Texas and New Mexicomarkets. Capt. Rockafellow has con-tracted with the railroad companiesfor oine cars, which he computes willbe necessary to carry hi# apple crop to

market.The members of the irrigation com-

mission, who were here last Tuesday,were driven through the Rockafelloworchard and were astonished at the

amount£of fruit to be seen on the trees.Several members of the party wereconnected with the department of ag-

riculture at Waahington and they ex-pressed the opinion that Ita counter-

part could hardly be found anywherein the United States

PRAISES DR. CHAFFEE,CANON’S NEW PASTOR

The Owego (N. Y.) Timea in iu iasueof the 7th inst. has the following to say\ia relation Ut Dr. A. F. Chaffee, whosucceeds to the pulpit of the First M.E church in this city :

•‘The Rev. Dr Chaffee, who has beenpastor of the First Methodist church inthis village since April. 1904, has ar-ranged to exchange pastorates with theRev J B. Cook, of Canon City, Colo-rado, and will preach his last sermonin his church in this village on Sundaynext. Doctor Chaffee is one of theablest pulpitorators in the Wyomingconference. Hit sermon* are interest-ing and are full of instruction to boththe young and the old. He is the au-thor of the history of the Wyomingconference. Doctor Chaffee, duringhis pastorate in Owego, has becomevery popular, not only with his ownchurch people, but with the membersof the other churchea. Hi* removalfrom thischarge will be regretted byour cltixens, both in and out of thechurch.”

REGRETS TO LEAVECANON CITY

Rev. and Mrs. J. R. Cook and familyleft last Monday afternoon for Owego,New York, where they will make theirhome, Mr*. Cook's health having beenunfavorably affected by the rarified at-mosphere of the Colorado climate.During their residence here of nearlytwo year* they have won the affectionof tbe*people of Canon City and theycarry with them the very best wishesof the community for their happinessand prosperity in their new environ-ment. The relations between Rev.Cook and the members of the congre-gation of the First M- E. church, overwhich he presided so acceptably aspastor, were most conliai and agreea-

ble and it is with sincere regret thatthey acquieaed in his departure for hisnew Held of labor.

Under his pastorate the church hasgrown rapidly in membership and In-fluence and isrecognised us one of themost potential religious agencies inFremont county, having more than sixhundred adherents and a Sundayschool with an enrollment of sevenhundred and fifty The First M. E.church of this city ia one of the largestand best organised in the atate, its be-nevolence* l>eing both numerous andeffective, and it is not without greatreluctance that Rev. Cook submits tothe fate which necessitates a change oflocation, for. he says, "Canon City hasthe finest climate in the world andColorado has resources and possibili-ties surpassed by no state in theUnion.”

The Florence band will aooompanythe Royal Gorge excursion tomorrownight-

WILL MAKE FAIRA BIG SUCCESS.

All Officers and CommittemenWorking hard to Make Fair!Next Week a Big Success—Everybody Who Can ShouldMake Some Exhibit.The second annual exhibition of the 1

Fremont County Fair, to be held here :next week, has aroused a degree of jpublic iutereiit that presage* success.

| no lea# so in the display# in the several jdepartment# than in the number of

jvisitor* that desire to inspect them.From every part of the county as-

’ surance# have been received that peo-pie are deeply concerned in the matter

! and will contribute to its welfare byi the*r attendance and by an exhibitionof the products of field and orchard, a#

! well as of the household arts.The secretary and the member# of 1

the various committee* are muchelated by the encouragement they

| have received during the last ten day#and are working like beaver# to makethe display# unusually thorough andcomprehensive. Not only in the agri- jcultural, horticultural and poultry di- jvision* will the fair be attractive, but

! in live stock, manufactures, householdand fine art# it will be worthy of themost careful study ; in fact, the objectof the association and ita patron# is to 1make it representative of the product#of the county and of the domestic lifeof its people.

The amusement features will be inkeeping with the displays in the exhi-bition building# and will afford the ;keenest enjoyment to visitors. Asidefrom the racing and other track events jthere will be a bucking contest everyday of the fair by JohnsocTs famoustroupe of bucking bulla, horses and 1donkeys which will fill in the intervalsbetween heats so that there will be notedious delays in the entertainmentprogram

An important thing in connection ;with the first day will be a baby showfor which a large number of premiums \are offered by the business men ofCanon Oily for the best and prettiestbaby under twenty months old.

The second dsy has been set apart as"Fruit Dsy” when several ton* of thechoicest apples, peaches, pears, grapesand other lruite grown in the Arkansasvalley will be given away. Friday will!be "High School Day -

’ when there willbe a contest in athletics between thisyear’s students in the high schools ofCanon City, South Canon. Florence,

i Victor. Cripple Creek and Salida.Each day of the fair has its special

featuies and they will be of the utmost

jinterest to visitors, whether fromCanon City and iu suburb* or the re-moter sections ut the county In thearrangement of me premium list it Iwaa the object of the committee to en-list the widest possible competition jand the amusement features weredrafted with the same end in new andhow well they succeeded it left to theunbiased reader to determine.

The progressive policy of the fair as-sociation is shown in the additionalprixes offered thi# year for farm pro-duct#, which are necessarily the back-bone of an exhibition in any county inwhich agriculture and iu associatedcallings are so vital to the public wealFor many articles produced on theranch special premium# will be givenby the merchant# about town, whichought to stimulate a generous rivalryfor the honor*.

There is hardly a family in Fremontcounty that doe* not possess somethingthat is worthy of being shown at thefair, and if they will take the troubleto bring it to town and place it on ex-hibition the show will be what it oughtto be—ar epitome of the resources andindustries of the county. By a unitedeffort the fair can be made to realisethe highest ambitions of its friends andpromoters.

Deliver your entries to the secretaryat the earliest practicable date, in or-der to facilitate the work and preventerror*. The work of making the en-tries is immense and should not beallowed to be crowded into the last dayor two before the fair. Remember thatthe time for making entries closesWednesday, September 21, at noon.

SAYS CANON CITY ISCERTAINLY ALL RIGHT

Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Stroud and littleson, and Mrs. Stroud’s mother, fromEvansville, Indians, stopped off herethe first of the week to visit Mr. andMrs. J. W. Anthony and family at 422North Fifteenth street, while en routehome from the Portland exposition andpoints of interest in California.

They aro more than delighted withCaaon City, which they pronounce oneof the most beautiful places they haveseen during their trip of nearly 6,000milee. They visited Ban Francisco,Los Angeles, San Diego, and on the

way back viewed, from the veranda*of the Bright Angel hotel, the worder#of the Grand Canon of the Colorado. i

The fruit here pleases them greatlyand they *ay they have seen more ap-ples since coming to Canon than theysaw in Washington and Oregon; in fact,in all the states they passed throughsince leaving Evansville.

Mr. Stroud will remain here severalweeksfor the purpose of going on abear hunt in the mountains with Mr.Anthony The other members of theparty left for home yesterday morning,with pleasant recollections of theirbrief visit in the Arkansas valley.

Mr. Stroud, who is the owner of muchvaluable farm land in Southern Indi-ana, aays he is coming to Colorado tolive in the course of a year or two.

EXPERTS LOOKING UPIRRIGATION MATTERS

A distinguished party of gentlemenfrom Washington. D. C. and Denvervisited Canon City last Tuesday for the

purpose of inspecting the irrigation

methods in vogue here. There was

eleven in the party and the trip wasmade in Judge D. C. Beaman’s privatecar.

They examined very carefully themanner of irrigating the soil in CanonCity ami suburbs and expressed sur-prise at the splendid orchards andgardeaa they saw on every hand. Inthe party were several experts of thedepartment of agriculture, amongthem being Mr. Miller, chief attorneyundersecretary Wilson.

Theirear was taken up into the Roy-al Gorge that they might see the won-derful mountain scenery in the vicini-ty of the Hanging Bridge.

Their triphere was made at the in-stance ef the government and was forthe purpose of collecting data bearingon the Kanaas-Colorado water suit.

HIS FIRST TRIPWAS BY OX TEAM

W. H. Thompson, of 108 Walnut ave-nue, South Canon, waa among the vis-itors Ut-Denveron the occasion of theG. A. B- encampment last week.

It Mr. Thompson’s first trip to ;

Denver in many years; in fact, he hadnot been there since the days of freight-ing by a* mams from Leavenworth andBt. Joe anff lie wa# greatly surprised atthe wonderful transformation that hastaken place there during the last gen-ertion.

When all the traffic between the Mis-souri river and the Rocky mountainswas carried on by means of "prairieschooners,” Denver was about the sixeof Canon City, out with the advent ofthe railroads it began to grow rapidly,and the famous Platte route was aban-doned by emigrants for the more com-fortable and expeditious manner oftravel.

The changes wrought since the rail-roads came acroas the plains have beenalmost magicai and suggest the storyof Aladdin’s Lamp. Mr. Thompson’sastonishment at the growth of Denverduring the last thirty-five years wasonly natural.

THIS MISSOURIANWAS SURELY SHOWN

Thomas W. Walker, a prominent cit-ixen of Plattaburg, Missouri, was intown last Friday en route to the West-ern Slope and desiring to see the or-chards about Canon City, of which hehad heard so much, hired a carriageand drove through the fruit growingdistricts which surround the town.

The trip was a revelation to him andhe told Tna Record reporter after-wan! s that he did not believe that ap-ples grew in such abundance and to

such perfection anywhere as they doabout Canon City, and that he wascoming back here to buy a fruit ranch.

ANTONE WOODE HASCHANCE TO MAKE GOODWill Cleghorn left last Tuesday for

East Aurora. New York, in charge ofAntone Woode, who was recently pa-

roled from the penitentiary with theunderstanding that he was to becomean employe of the Roycrofter* at EastAurora. One of the condition# of An-tone Woode’s parole was that he wasto be delivered to Elbert Hubbard bythe warden or hia representative,hence Mr. Cleghorn’* trip to the Em-pire *tate. Before returning to CanonCity Mr. Cleghorn will visit Bing Singprison and New York City.

Martin Gets Promotion.W. G. Martin, for four years assayer

at the U. 8. Smelter, went to Leadvillelast Wednesday. Mr. Martin’s workat the amaltar attracted the attentionof the Leadville millmen and he waaasked to go there at a large increase insalary. Mrs. Martin will remain inCanon until the first of October,when ike will join her husband.

JOSEPH JOHNSONHANGED LAST NIGHT

Las Animas County MurdererPaid The Supreme Penalty ofThe Law Last Night For TheMurder of John H. Fox, ofTrinidad.

Joseph Johnson was hanged in theexecution house of the penitentiary inthis city at twenty-one minutes after8 o’clock last night for the murder ofJohn H. Fox of Trinidad on the eighthday of last May.

Johnson was guilty of the murder ofJohn H. Fox, ex-county treasurer ofLa* Animas county, who was hisfriend and benefactor. Walking intothe poet office at Trinidad where Mr.Fox was reading a newspaper Johnsrncrept up behind his victim and placingthe muxxle of a 44 calibre revolveragainst the back of his head and pulledthe trigger in consequence of whichMr. Fox fell to the floor dead.

Several years ago he killed a man inTrinidad, butas there appeared to besome extenuating circumstances heescaped punishment, largely throughthe effort# of John Fox, whom Johnsonsubsequently killed without provoca-tion of any kind.

Johnson was about fifty-five years ofage and leaves a wife and three child-ren in Lae Animas county. He was ahalf-breed, his father being an Ameri-can and his mother a Mexican and hadlived in Trinidad nearly all his life.

Sooth Canon andLincoln Park School NotesH. E. Smith, superintendent and

teacher of mathematics in high school.High school. Mias Laura E Hum-

phrey. principal, and teacher of Latin.Mies Anna Garwood, English and his-{torj. Arthur F. Smith, science andGerman.

Prospectstreet school. Miss EldonBritt, 7 and 8 grades; Miss Pearl Hall,6 grade; Mrs. MinnieMerriam, 5 grade ;C. G. Lacey, 4 grade : Mias Mary Kies,3 grade: Miss Estelle Garwood, 2grade : Miss Verna Ashton. 1 grade.

Lincoln Park School. G E. Colgate.1 principal. 7 and 6 grade* ; Misa C. Mor-] rison, 5 and 6 grade*; Miss McClelland,j Sand 4 grade*; Misa Haynes, 1 and 2 j‘grades.

The attendance in the high school isthe largest in the history of the school, :and teachers and pupils are doingtheir beet to make the years profitableone. Mias Humprey. as principal, iscertainly the right one for the posi-tion and has everything runningsmoothly.

South Canon is justly proud of thelarge number of her young people whoare attending college this year. Leonand Cora Woodhouse are in DenverUniversity. Roy. Carl and ArchieHeaton. Tom and Blake Warner. LolaHobson. Jennie Robinson and ClaraBancroft are at the State Universityat Boulder, while Edna and PearlBerkley are at the Normal school inGreeley. All of these young peopleare graduates of the South Canon high

, school.The new piano, secured by the

teachers and pupils of the high school,is giving splendid satisfaction

Parent# and friends of the pupils arenot only cordially invited, but are

’ urged to visit the school, and becomeacquainted with the*work being done.

Fortunate indeed was the board ofeducation in securing Miss Garwood asteacher of Englishin the high school.She brings to the work, not only asplendid education, but years of suc-cessful experience as a teacher ofEnglish in eastern schools.

> iMiss May Terry, another graduate

of our high school, has a splendid posi-tion as bookkeeper for the Morey Mer-cantile Co. of Denver.

News NotesGet in the crowd and go to the Royal

Gorge tomorrow night.

Mrs. E. C. Hiatt returned home lastweek from a pleasant visit with friendsin Denver.

Hear what Christian Science is nowdoing in the world. Free lecture atthe Tabernacle Friday evening.

Mr. Edward Kimball. O. 3. D., ofChicago,will lecture at the Tabernaclenext Friday evening. Seats free.

See the Royal Gorge at night. Mostwonderful sight in America. Special

train tomorrow night Fare only66 eenta.

George W. Allison of McPherson,Kansas, was the guest of his sister,Mrs. A. J. Gray, 406 Harrison avenuelast week.

In the fall the farmer* and fruitgrowers sometimes need additionalmoney to handle their eropa. Theyshould see th* Fremont County Bank.

Mr. and Mrs. Dali DeWeeseand fam-ily. and their guests, I»r. and Mrs.Clark, of Troy. Ohio, and A F. Brun-hull.of the same returned toCanon Tuesday night after a threeweeks’ camping outing on the Western

| Slope The first ten days of their staywas at the DeWeese ranch near Glen-wood Springs. Sub-equently they

i visited Rio Blanco ai d Koutt counties,packing into the White River country,a distance of fifty miles from the near-est railroad or stage station. Dr. Clarkand Mr. Brunhall will remain in Colo-rado for a couple or three weeks long-er for the purpose of going on a bearbunt with Mr. DeWeese.

A large assemblage of people filledthe Tabernacle Sunday at the morningand evening hours of service to hearRev. J. B. Cook’s last sermons beforeleaving this charge for New York. Al-ways practical and eloquent Rev. Cookwas at hi* best on these occasions Attheclose of the evening service, whilesinging "Blest Be the Tie that Binds,”and "We’re Marching to Zion,” theentire congregation shook hands withthe pastor and wished him God speed,with warm words of appreciation of hiswork here.

Rev. A. F. Chaffee and wife of Owe-go, New York, are expected to arrivehere tomorrow or next day and theformer will preach his initial sermonas pastor of the congregation of theFirst M. E. church at the tabernacleon Sunday morning. Rev. Chaffeecomes here highly recommended byhis associates of the New York confer-ence, and, doubtless, will find his workhere of a most agreeable character andCanon City a pleasant place of resi-dence.

Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Wood, of Carth-age Illinoia, are visiting Mr. and Mrs.

i Merritt Hubbeli on Grand avenue, Lin-coln Park. They* are charmed withColorado and it is not improbable that

! they will buy a ranch and settle here.Mr. Wood, in company with Mr. Hub-bell, inspected several properties inthe Wet Mountain valley the first ofthe week with a view of purchasing.

Geo. N. Lawrence, receiver and man-ager of the Canon City Gas company,left last Friday afternoon for his oldhome at Augusta, Maine, where hewill spend six weeks or two months re-newing old associations. Mr. Law-rence was at one time engaged in the

j ice business at Augusta with the late! James G. Blaine.

The Record recently bought a lot ofatlases for premiums. We have a fewleft over. They sell at retail, ordina-rily, for $2.50 apiece. We will closeout the few we have left at 85c each.They cost more than that by the car-load. Examine them at Thk Recordoffice. You will find they are worththe money.

Mias Della Penney returned Sundayfrom a four weeks visit in Elkton,Colorado, with her sister. Mrs. BlancheWalcher. During her stay Mr. andB. W. Walcher and daughter, Helen,and Miss Penney visited friends andrelatives in Denver and attended theG. A. R. encampment.

The East Canon division of the La-dies Aid Society of the First M. E.church will give a social at the resi-dence of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McGowan.404 Orchard avenue, this evening. Allare invited and those desiring to gowill find free conveyance at the taber-nacle at 7:15.

Mrs. T. M. Harding entertained anumber of ladies at a 0 o’clock dinnerlast Friday evening in honor of Mrs.Frank Campbell, daughter, Alice, andMrs. Nettie Zellers of Canton. Ohio,who are guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. A.Raynolds and family.

Senator A. G. Forney, purchasingagent for the Great Western Coalcompany, brought hit wife and family' here last week from Belle Plain. Kan-sas. and they will make their home inthis city.

We always want little items o! localinterest. Persons who have guests orknow of Canon people visiting else-where are invited to send the item in.

'Call up ‘phone Canon 111.The Fremont County Bank always

has money with which to take care ofits friends. Farmers and fruit growerswho need money to handle the fallbusiness should see them.

There is a grand chance to become! informed regarding Christian Scienceby one of their finest lecturers, nextFriday evening at S o’clock at theTabernacle.

Col. Duncan Holaday and daughter.

Miss Blanche, of St. Joseph, Missouri,are visiting Mrs. T. J. Schall, on theirway home from the Denver encamp-

: ment.The Record s Want column is worth

reading. You may see something ad-j vertised that you have lost, or want to

; buy. ...

Office RoomsTo rent. One or two very desirable

office rooms up stairs in the RacoanBlock. Apply Racoan office.