Colorado Statesman

Money Saved by Patronizing Those Who Advertise in This Paper. THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY THE WHITE PLAGUE DENVER ORGANIZES TO FIGHT TUBEBCULOSIS. EF FORTS NEEDED AMONG NEGROES. CIVIC PRIDE. CONGRESS CONVENES. ILLINOIS AGAIN IN LIMELIGHT. BUSINESS LEAGUE WORK. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. VOL. XVI. THE W DENVER ORGANIZES TO F FORTS NEEDED AMONG I CONGRESS CONVENEES LIMELIGHT. BUSINESS PUBLIC IMP FIGHTING THE WHITE PLAGUE. Perhaps very few of our people visited the rather gruesome display of tuberculosis down on Arapahoe street last week. This oversight was no doubt due to a lack of interest in the purpose sought to be served. "Fighting the white plague" is engaging the best energy and causing the expenditure of many million dollars all over this country. With over two million cases reported by the last census, the checking of the spread of this dread disease at once assumed national importance. For years the West, and especially Colorado, has been the Mecca of the afflicted. Millions of sufferers from this dreadful disease have found a refuge in this state and many have been restored to health. But conditions are changing rapidly throughout the state, and provision must be made for the care of the tubercular tourist. The Colorado Statesman makes this appeal to our people that they may be roused to a sense of their duty. Our people must do their share towards the great work of checking the spread of tuberculosis. The presence of tuberculosis among Negroes to a much greater extent than previous to emancipation has caused our people to be regarded as an extra hazardous risk by all first class insurance companies, and leaves the Negro a prey to the so-called industrial and wildcat concerns which rob them through excessive premiums. Our people in Denver and throughout the West can do much to eradicate ignorance of conditions here by taking pains to find out such conditions as will best benefit the sick person. We must organize to care for the sick and helpless. The greatest enemies of the white plague is plenty of pure air. Keep your homes well ventilated. Plenty of good warm clothing and that clean. Plenty of good, wholesome food, and the cleanliness that is next to Godliness. The interest being manifested by the medical profession as well as the laity give promise of future success. CIVIC PRIDE. Denver, just now is in the throes of a gigantic struggle for civic greatness. The advent of the reformers and their active opposition to a greater Denver marks a strange epoch in the forward history of the fastest growing city in the West. It is to be to the everlasting credit of our people that they have thus far refused to be allied with obstructionists. So far as within the power of our people they are ready and willing to contribute their share for a bigger and better city. The past few years has seen many homes bought by our people. During the year just closing over five hundred homes have been purchased by our people. Then, too, many thousands of dollars have been expended in making needed improvements. A people who are becoming home buyers are laying the foundation of civic righteousness and pride. The homes of the Negroes of Denver compare favorably with those of other classes of citizens. They are interested in a civic center, that will beautify the town, at a minimum cost. They are interested in municipal ownership of public utilities, that all citizens may receive the best service at the least cost. While this is true, they do not believe in confiscation. Their years of unrequited toil has taught them the value of justice in dealing with fellow men. Do not count the Negro as a foe to civic improvement. Give him plenty of work and he will make a good citizen. AGAIN IN LIMELIGHT. Two events, awful in their nature, have occurred recently to bring the State of Illinois prominently before the public eye. One lynching, a perversion of constituted authority, so diabolical and cruel in its exhibition of the working of savage humanity that the entire country stands in amazed horror! The other a mining explosion, a cataclysm, in which hundreds of human beings were hurled into eternity without warning. God rules in the affairs of men. The second event was the compensating hand of God in the affairs DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4 1909. State Hist & Nat Hist Society State House ronizing The ADC THE JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, of men. It is passing strange that almost all lynchings are followed by great catastrophes involving the loss of many lives among the whites. It is not the purpose of this great family paper to point out the unpleasant side of residing on this mundane sphere; but there are times when conditions are so very bad that the voice of all carries a plaint to the Throne. The recent lynching in Illinois was especially bloodthirsty. During the last few years disgraces of this kind have increased with alarming frequency. There is not a good citizen in the state, black or white, who condones the awful offense of the culprit. No Negro would ask for an evasion of the law for a guilty member of his race. But he would ask that the law be respected. We are proud of the stand taken by Governor Deneen and other state officials in their efforts to suppress such lawless outbreaks. The results will be watched by all. The ministers of Cairo unite in declaring that the present conditions are due to the corrupt political conditions existing in their town. Lynch law is bad from any viewpoint. Let the good people of Illinois join hands to suppress all kinds of lawlessness. BUSINESS LEAGUE WORK. Just now Denver business men must rise up and get in line with the hustling business men in all parts of the country. A well-defined movement is on foot all over the country to increase the number of Negro employers. Good results can only be accomplished through a combined effort on the part of our business men and the masses of our people. They must learn that their relations are reciprocal. That to increase the number of openings for our boys and girls as they come from the schools, the colored business men must have a large share of the business of OUR people. In this it is very different from Southern and Eastern cities, where many of our race are absorbed in public schools and other lines of work given over exclusively to colored people. An effort must be made here to increase the number of openings for our young people when they leave the schools. Many of our young girls now find congenial and numerative employment as stock-keepers in our stores and other places. But work for all is not assured. To the business men who employ colored help about their places of business or advertise in race papers, assurance should be given of our appreciation, by increasing their trade in every possible way. By so doing we will soon be able to show a large increase in the number of colored employes in Denver, and as this increases, the number of successful business men will grow. That's what we need. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. Along with the demand for increased employment for our young people we cannot overlook the movement on foot to beautify our city. The business men and women should get busy and secure some of the city work for our colored workmen. We need more than a single city employe. The Tramway Company, the Water Company and all public service corporations are interested in building up Denver. We must convince them that we are American citizens and entitled to a portion of the work on the streets, etc. With plenty of work we can increase the number of Negro homes in Denver. CONGRESS CONVENES. Congress convenes this week and President Taft has given to the public another "message of prosperity." The Republican party under the leadership of President Taft has given the country a new tariff bill that is destined to be regarded as the best in years. A long trip over the country has given Mr. Taft first hand information of the needs of every section. Colorado, with her deep interest in irrigation, will claim a large share of public attention this year. With the completion of the irrigation projects now under way many thousands of acres of splendid farm land will be ready for the settler. Colorado will welcome more Negro farmers. MAJOR LYNCH RETIANED Washington, D. C., Nov. 23. Major John R. Lynch, now stationed at San Francisco as paymaster in the U. S. A., has been notified that he will be continued on the active list until the time of enforced retirement, which is at the age of sixty-four years, and further, that he will not be required to take the riding or walking test in the future. This gives Major Lynch nearly two years more to serve on the active list. There was a small coterie of insignificant barkers here in Washington who would have been delighted had the President retired the Major. Now that it is known that he is to continue on the active list, and as to that there had not existed any doubts, they will feel mighty depressed, and especially will a clerk in the War Department, who has been writing a lot of rubbish about Maj. Lynch's retirement. Pollen Travels Far. The pollen from pine forests often forms a yellow coating on lakes or on the ocean, as far as 200 miles from the shore, and has been mistaken by peasants for showers of sulphur. The pollen grains of the pine are provided with yellow vesicles, which buoy them up in the air very much on the principle of a box kite. RACE NEWS In Martin, Tenn., a few days ago a lodge hall built there by Negroes was destroyed before the lodge had an opportunity to use it. The opinion is generally expressed that the burning was done by white people. It is a deplorable occurrence, and one that should be condemned. Andrew Carnegie, at Hampton Institute, after he had heard the large student body sing Annie Laurie and other Scotch songs, said with happy appreciation that Negroes will be wanted in large numbers in the celestial choir. No doubt, but here the Negro would gladly exchange places with Mr. Carnegie. appointed as a messenger in the office of the auditor for the navy department (Mr. R. W. Tyler); Rev. Luke D. Best of the same office has been advanced from the $720 per annum to $840; John T. Howe, of North Carolina, has been promoted to an $840 clerkship in the office of the treasurer of the United States. New York, Nov. 18.—Joe Jeannette and Sam McVey, the colored American heavyweights, were last night matched to meet in a contest of thirty rounds at a show to be held at the Cirque De Paris, the big fight c,ub in the France capital, on the night of Dec. 11. They will battle for a purse of Chairman M. E. Cooley, of the Railways Bureau of the United States Inter state Commerce Commission was in Philadelphia recently to consult Edward Beckham, the Negro chemist on the deterioration of steel rail. The United States never consulted the Negro only upon the hardest subjects and only when things begin to look rotten. The appeal recently issued by members of the Tenth United States cavalry for funds with which to erect a memorial tablet over the grave of the late Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Ayers in Arlington cemetery is a move in the right direction and should receive the hearty indorsement of Afro-Americans everywhere. Gov. Charles S. Deneen, at Springfield, Ill., declared the office of Sheriff of Alexander county vacant Nov. 18, because Sheriff Frank E. Davis allowed William James, a Negro murderer, and Henry Salzner, white uxorcide, to be taken from his care and lynched at Cairo, Ill., by a mob on the 11th. The governor acted in observance of a law which provides that whenever a sheriff surrenders a prisoner to a mob, his office expires immediately. Julius W. Ross, of Kentucky, has been promoted from a $1,000 clerkship in the office of the auditor for the war department to $1,200; W. E. Cobb, late of the Government Printing Office, has been given an appointment in the war department; Ocia Taylor has been transferred to a $600 clerkship in the census office; Felix G. Cheatham, of Minnesota, has been NO.12 appointed as a messenger in the office of the auditor for the navy department (Mr. R. W. Tyler); Rev. Luke D. Best of the same office has been advanced from the $720 per annum to $840; John T. Howe, of North Carolina, has been promoted to an $840 clerkship in the office of the treasurer of the United States. New York, Nov. 18.—Joe Jeannette and Sam McVey, the colored American heavyweights, were last night matched to meet in a contest of thirty rounds at a show to be held at the Cirque De Paris, the big fight club in the French capital, on the night of Dec. 11. They will battle for a purse of $5,500, of which the winner will receive $3,500 and the loser $2,000. This battle will be the second fight between these men, their previous one having been won by Jeannette who was awarded the decision after McVey had quit in the fifteenth round, saying he could not fight any longer. Both men will begin training for the fight in a few days. Pensacola, Fla., Nov. 26.—John C. Calhoun, colored, aged 115 years is dead. The death certificate, as sworn to and filed in the office of the city clerk yesterday, gives the date of the Negro's birth as 1794. Calhoun, bearing the name of the famous American statesman, lived in Pensacola for 40 years, and until less than 14 years ago made his living by daily lador in a sawmill. In reminiscent moods the old Negro, who had friends among both white people and persons of his own race, would tell of incidents in the life of his former master, Calhoun, and refer to the great statesman with as great familiarity as to his grandchildren. The Negro was born in slavery, he claimed. All his assertions, it is said, were well supported by historical facts. Want Open-Air Schools. The clubwomen of New Jersey are interesting themselves in the open air school for children that is being advocated by Dr. Alexander McAllister, a physician of Camden, N. J., as a means for curing and preventing tuberculosis. Dr. McAllister declares that it would be entirely feasible to have the studies of children conducted out of doors—in the yards of the schools, for instance, from the latter part of May to the close of the school term, and from the beginning of the school term well into October. The clubwomen have expressed their determination to see that the idea has a fair trial. The first experiment, it is said, will be made in Camden under the direction of Dr. McAllister. A. JOHNSON Dealer Coal, Wood, Phone Main 6477 The Allen Pure Drugs, Hot and Cold Drink scriptions carefully compounded by delivery to any part of the city. The Only Colored Dr G. A. ALLEY The Allen Drug Store Pure Drugs, Hot and Cold Drinks, Toilet Articles and Cigars. Prescriptions carefully compounded by a registered pharmacist. Prompt delivery to any part of the city. 2100 Arapahoe Street THE GERMAN AMERICAN TRUST COMPANY Seventeenth and Lawrence Sts. DENVER, COLORADO Capital $300,000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 General Banking Savings Department, 4% Interest Paid, open Saturday Evenings from 6 to 8. Safe Deposit Vaults, the Strongest and Best in the West. Insurance of All Kinds. Collection of Foreign Estates. Real Estate Loans. Steamship Agency. Phones, Office Main 5595. Residence, York 123. Hours, 9 to 11 a.m. 1 to 4, 7 to 8 p.m. Sundays, 10 to 11:30 a.m., 2 to 4 p.m. Dr. P. E. Spratlin, Good Block-1557 Larimer St Residence 2220 Clarkson St H. L. KORTZ, Expert Watchmake, . Jeweler and Optician . Watches and Jewelery for Sale at Lowest Prices in the City. All Work Guaranteed for Two Years. Phone Main 537i. 805 FIFTEENTH STREET, Denver, Colorado. Joseph H. Stuart LAWYER Practice in all courts. Examining Abstract of Titles and Drawing up Legal Instruments Given Careful Attention. 329 Kittredge Building Phone: Olive 2294 Res.—527 25th street. Hay, Grain 621 Eighteenth St. Drug Store Toilet Articles and Cigars. Pre- a registered pharmacist. Prompt g Store in the City Proprietor CREDIT ? YES PHONE MAIN 6316 T. H. Wearne Furniture CARPETS, STOVES AND WINDOW SHADES First Class Repairing and Upholstering 1449-55 Welton Street (Nickel refunded with all phone orders.) R. E. NORRIS Dealer in all kinds COAL & WOOD Puritan ..... $4.00 per ton Monarch Coal ..... $4.25 per ton Gas Coke delivered . $5.00 per ton 2475 Arapahoe Street Store, 1120 25th Street We sell New and Second-Hand FURNITURE for cash cheaper than any one in the city, and pay cash when you want to sell. LINDENMEIER PHONE MAIN 2391 1856 Welton St. HERBERT'S 1519 CURTIS STREET Ice Cream, Ices, Candies WILLIAMSON HAFFNER CO. ENGRAVERS-PRINTERS CUTTS STAHLER DENVER, COLO. YOUR DOLLAR YOUR DOLLAR Will come back to you if you spend it at home. It is gone forever if you send it to the Mail-Order Houses. A place through our advertising columns will give you an idea where it will buy the most. Phone—Main 3230 PHONE MAIN 6316 ```markdown ``` THE WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES. IN LATE DISPATCHES DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROG RESS OF THE AGE. WESTERN NEWS. Clarence Mackay has made an additional donation of $15,000 for the improvement of the Mackay athletic field of the University of Nevada. The board of directors of the International Livestock Exposition recently elected William E. Skinner of Denver president and Mortimer Levering of Cincinnati, secretary and treasurer. Governor Deneen has postponed the special session of the General Assembly of Illinois pending the outcome of an investigation of the Cherry mine disaster. The probable date is December 14th. The Western railroads are said to have come to the conclusion that it will be impracticable to discontinue January 1 the practice of granting stop-overs on limited tickets where these stop-overs operate to extend the time allowance. Twenty-seven Japanese were killed and fifteen injured in the recent smash-up of a work train on the Great Northern near New Westminster, B.C. Many of the Japanese were smothered to death in the mud of the Brunette river, into which the cars fell. On complaint of Postal Inspector Joseph O'Connell, J. W. Wilson was arrested at San Francisco a few days since charged with obtaining from farmers in California and other states carload consignments of produce, which were sold by him and never accounted for. Complete returns from the British Columbia elections give the Conservatives 38 seats in parliament, the Socialists 2, and the Liberals 2. The Conservative ministry appealed to the country to endorse its purpose to grant a subsidy to the Canadian Northern railroad. The forest service has just announced the following appointments on national forests in district 2. for the month of November: Walter L. Mickey was appointed forest guard on the Cheyenne national forest; Walter G. Brown, Joseph D. Orme and Samuel R. Quick on the Medicine Row, and August H. Taylor on the Routt. On the night of the 29th ult., Samuel J. Lewis, managing editor of the Denver Times, was robbed and beaten by two holdups near his residence on Capitol Hill, in Denver, soon after dark. He fought desperately, but was overpowered and robbed of $74 in money. In the attempt of the robbers to take a ring from one of his fingers his hand was badly hurt—but he saved the ring, which is valuable. Judge Cotteral of the Federal Court at Guthrie has granted temporary restraining orders in favor of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad Companies against State Auditor Trapp, to prevent the collection of the gross revenue tax of one-half of one per cent, levied on the earnings of all railroads operating in Oklahoma. After a conference between Governor Stubbs and the officers of the Missouri Pacific, the Kansas State Board of Railroad Commissioners issued an order to that road to put its lines in Kansas in standard condition before the close of the year 1910. The order is based on letters written to the board stating the intended improvements and includes re-ballasting, re-surfacing and repairing tracks and 100 miles of new steel rails on the Central branch. GENERAL NEWS. It is reported in New York that E. H. Harriman's estate at the time of his death was valued at $149,000,000. Georgia is completing more than ten miles of good roads a day. Over 4,500 convicts are at work in 105 counties out of the 149. Police were sent to guard John D. Rockefeller's home at Forest Hill, Cleveland, because of a statement made by Sawyer Smith of Minerva, O., who claimed to have heard two men at Alliance, O., discussing plans to assassinate Mr. Rockefeller. On his arrival at Queenstown on the steamer Lusitania, Sir Thomas Lipton talked about the America's cup. He says he will build two boats, with Fife the principal designer. The Shamrock IV. will be a 90-footer with about the same sail area as previous challenger modeled according to the conditions of the universal rule and the challenge to be sent in March next. Duke Karl Theodor of Bavaria died at Bayreuth on the 20th ult. He was also brother of the emperor of Austria and head of the ducal line of the Bavarian house. He had studied medicine and became a famous eye specialist, maintaining several private hospitals, where the poor were treated free. United States Senator Joseph K. Johnston of Alabama says that the defeat of the prohibition amendment "does not mean the return of the maoons nor any backward step in public morals." Burlington Ia., has adopted the commission plan of a city government by a vote of 2,638 to 1,268. Reports of the election on the 29th ult. show that the proposed prohibition constitutional amendment was defeated at the polls in Alabama by a considerable majority. The gigantic meteor that was observed shooting across the sky in the vicinity of Dubuque, Ia., split into two parts, one falling near Manchester. The latter portion weighed over a ton. Dexter Smith, thirty years ago a well known musical critic and the author of several popular songs, died at his home in Boston on the 29th ult. Smith was born in 1838. Among his songs were "Put Me in My Little Bed" and "Cross and Crown." Commenting on the action taken by the British House of Lords, T. P. O'Connor, one of the Irish Nationalist leaders in the House of Commons, and now in this country in the interest of Irish home rule, said at New York that the British peers had, by their rejection of the budget, announced their own doom. A price within $1,000 of the record was paid on the 30th ult. for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. It brought $94,000 as against the record figure of $95,000 paid for a seat several years ago. The late E. H. Harriman's seat was sold to Robert H. Loeb for $85,000 only two weeks ago. Since then another seat has sold for $25,500. Colonel Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, Edmund Heller and Leslie A. Tarlton arrived at Londiani on the 30th ult. from Guas Inghiisu plateau. All were in splendid health. The former president is greatly elated over the success of the hunt on the plateau. Among the sights witnessed a display of lion killing with spears by Mandi warriors, which was thrilling. It is reported that plans are being perfected in New York for the separation of the Rock Island-Frisco system. It practically has been arranged that H. U. Mudge, now second vice president of the Rock Island, will succeed B. L. Winchell as president. Mr. Winchell is to follow B. F. Yosakum to the Frisco and become its president, succeeding A. J. Davidson, recently resigned. The new railway running between Bergen and Christiania was inaugurated November 26th with a grand Banquet, at which King Haakon was a guest. The line completes the system of communication between Christiania and Bergen and the North Sea. It has occupied fifteen years in construction and is considered the greatest economic national work Norway has achieved. Col. John S. Mosby, Confederate guerilla chieftain and alumus of the University of Virginia, denounces football in a remarkable interview in which he compares the game with actual warfare, maintains that the large number of fatalities represent so many men murdered and declares that the past and present ideals of manhood in the great American universities represent the difference between Stonewall Jackson and John L. Sullivan. The British House of Lords on the 30th ult., for the first time in 300 years, refused its formal assent to the budget, thereby making it illegal for the king's agents to collect taxes with which to carry on the government. The vote was 350 to 75. This will render it necessary for the crown, through the ministry, to dissolve the House of Commons and order a general election, thus bringing the issue before the people. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Dr. Percy Jaffa has been appointed pension examining surgeon at Trinidad, Colo. It is announced that the second annual conference of governors will be held January 18, 1910, at Washington. The secretary of the interior has approved clear list No. 21 embracing 7,194.53 acres in the Pueblo land district, selected by the state of Colorado as indemnity for loss of school lands. The Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed the decisions of the United States Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota, restraining the enforcement of the order of the Interstate Commerce Commission reducing from $2 to $1 per car terminal charges on live stock on the railroads entering Chicago. The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia has granted the petition of Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison, of the American Federation of Labor, in the contempt case against them for a stay of execution of the mandate of the court sending them to jail. The mandate is stayed indefinitely pending appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. Following a lengthy conference at the White House, it was announced that the administration will exert all its influence toward securing a comprehensive revision of the interstate commerce law by the incoming Congress. The President had as his advisers the attorney general, Commissioner Lane of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Senators Elkins and Cummings. Olford Pancho, chief of the forest service, declares that Congress will have to decide, at its forthcoming session, whether the great coal fields of the country shall continue to remain in the hands of the people or be gobbled up by monopolies, and whether the great water-power sites shall be given away to special interests or be controlled by the people. Rear Admiral R. R. Ingersoll, a member of the general board of the navy, is about to be placed on the retired list on account of age. Always Staunch And True Always Staunch And True The Denver Republican has always avoided the fallacies and knaveries of yellow journalism, and its steadily increasing Circulation proves conclusively that its policy of telling the plain Truth without exaggeration or misrepresentation, standing fast for the Right, is heartily approved with growing force by the intelligent Public to which it appeals. To read it is a liberal Education, and the citizen who goes without it does a positive harm to himself, to his family, and to the community. In no other way can the investment of 2% cents per day for that is all The Republican costs any subscriber—bring such rich results in that Knowledge which is both Power and Pleasure. Information, instruction and entertainment fill its columns and it leaves a good taste in the mouth of the reader. It stands for Law and Order in the State—for Peace, Prosperity and Happiness in the Home. 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The things in which you are most interested. The births, weddings, deaths of the people you know. The social affairs of our own and surrounding towns. These are the kind of facts this paper gives you in every issue. They are certainly worth the subscription price. WESTERN STOCK SHOW AT DENVER. January 8 to 15, 1910. During the week of the Stock Show the 13th Annual Convention of the American National Live Stock Association will be held, January 11 to 13; also the initial annual meeting of the Beef Producers' Association of America. The Colorado & Southern will make a rate of one fare for the round trip from all points in Colorado. Tickets will be on sale January 9 to 14 inclusive. Final limit, January 17, 1910. INTERESTED IN WEST. Meat Supply of the Future Must Come Eastern Intermountain Country The great interest being taken by the cattle interests of the country in the coming National Western Stock Show to be held in Denver during the week of January 8-15, is largely due to the fact that the country is just commencing to realize that the future beef supply of the country must come from the West. The West has the only available pasture lands left. In the corn states of the Middle West, where heretofore the bulk of the beef has been produced, the growing demand for wheat and corn has resulted in the breaking up of thousands of acres of pasture lands and cropping them to grain. On top of this the great influx of settlers to the West has almost driven the range cattleman out of the business and as a result the country is confronted by a shortage of cattle. The West must be encouraged to grow cattle and the National Stock Show at Denver provides the method of starting the work. The National Record Associations of the four principal beef breeds, the Shorthorn, Hereford, Aberdeen-Angus and Galloway, have arranged to have a number of their best and most representative herds on exhibition at the show and each of the associations will put up fifty head of bulls and heifers selected by a committee from the leading herds. These will be sold at public sale for whatever they will bring to western breeders in order to introduce the pure blood into the western country. The new farmers coming into the West have not been taking hold of the live stock business for two reasons. First, few of them are financially able to buy a foundation herd and many of them have no knowledge of the business. It is expected that plans will be made to finance some of the new farmers who desire to start in cattle growing, and educational work will be conducted through the big show. At both the show and conventions in Denver, the cattle supply will be the principal subject discussed. A special train load of feeder buyers from the East are coming to the show for the purpose of purchasing the car loads of fine stock cattle that will be on exhibition and incidentally to show the profit there is in the business. COLORADO NATIONAL APPLE EXPOSITION. Denver Auditorium, January 3 to 8. A rate of one fare for the round trip will be made by the Colorado & Southern railway, from all points in Colorado. Tickets will be on sale January 2 and 3. Final limit, January 10, 1910. DENVER DIRECTORY BON I. LOOK Dealer in all kinds of MER log mated free. Cor. 16th and Blake. Denver. Highest prices paid and satisfaction returns. LOTZ HIRE WOOL Denver, Colo. Crawford, Neb. Rockford, S. D. TYPEWRITERS Hoefler Bros. The Columbia Express. Exchange Co., 1827-29 Champa Street. All makes sold, repaired and rented. Supplies and parts. Agency Standard Folding and Royal Visible. Address Department H. 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LING SILVER-WARE WART & McREYNOLDS AGENCY SHINING PARLOR FOR LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF FINE FURS IN THE CITY. THE BETTER FURS FOR LESS MONEY. 616 SIXTEENTH STREET, DENVER, COLORADO. MAIL ORDERS A SPECIALTY. Rich Jewelry BOHM-AUGEN JEWELRY CO. WATCHES STERLING SILVER-WARE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN 1119 SEVENTEENTH STREET Is Called for, Shined and Delivered—10 Cents Shoe Laces and Polish for Sale 2703 ARE YOU WITH UST DENVER'S LEADING BRAND OF BOTTLED BEER Is guaranteed absolutely pure Tr Sample Case and you will use no other TELEPHONE 1285 Peony I use brains, tact and deliberation in the executing of wedding, party, dinner and reception decorations and in floral design and floral arrangements for funerals having had 18 years of experience in florist business. Why don't you favor me with a trial order or a call. THURSTON H. U. SMITH. Specialties—Artistic Floral Designs for Lodges and Funerals; Cut Flowers for a token of your esteem to a sick friend; Palm Plants. LARIMER CAR ONLY TO THIRTIETH ST. FOR U.S. PREPARES TO PUNISH ZELAYA U.S. PREPARES TO PUNISH ZELAYA SECRETARY KNOX BRANDS NICA- RAGUAN PRESIDENT AS A BAD MAN GENERALLY. WAR SEEMS IMMINENT INSURGENTS VIRTUALLY RECOGNIZED, BUT ALL PARTIES HELD RESPONSIBLE. Washington.—Secretary of State Knox late Wednesday returned the passports of Felipe Rodriguez, charge d'affaires of the Nicaraguan legation, with a letter scathingly denouncing the Zelayan administration of the government of Nicaragua. The letter is definitely declared to represent the views of President Taft, and is about as plain spoken as anything emanating from the State Department in many years. The extraordinary feature of the letter is that it seems to evidence an intention on the part of the United States to hold President Zelaya personally responsible for the alleged torture and execution of the Americans, Cannon and Grace, and exhibits the unique situation of one government holding the chief executive of another practically as a common malefactor. Zelaya is branded as a violator of solemn international conventions, a disturber of the national and international peace, a tyrant whose administration has been a blot upon the name of good government. Secretary Knox virtually announces the recognition of the Nicaraguan revolutionists, declares it to be the conviction of the United States that the revolution represents the sentiments of a majority of the Nicaraguan people, and that there is evidently no responsible government with which the United States can deal. He therefore announces that all parties will be held accountable for their actions as affecting the interests of Americans and the peace of Central America. He further informs Senor Rodriguez that while he has lost his diplomatic quality, he may still serve as an "unofficial" channel of communication with the faction which he is regarded as representing. This brings the crisis as near to the status of war as it could be brought by executive action without a definite declaration by Congress, which will convene next Monday. Knox's letter, in all but so many words, makes it plain that the action represents the wish and attitude of all the Central American states with the single exception of Honduras, which is regarded here as entirely dominated by Zelaya. Mexico has all along shown its sympathy with the United States in this matter. Strike Paralyzes Railroads. St. Paul, Minn.—Every line of industry in the Northwest depending on the movement of supplies is seriously affected by the strike of the railroad switchmen, which began at 6 o'clock Tuesday evening. It is estimated that upward of 12,000 men are idle on account of the strike order; thousands of freight handlers and teamsters are losing time, because of the freight blockade, and a continuance of the strike for several days will throw additional thousands out of work. The railroad yards in all terminal cities are filled with stalled freight trains and an attempt to move a few by the aid of the office men drafted as switchmen is making no impression. The railroad managers' committee announced Wednesday that they were bringing to St. Paul new switchmen to take the places of the strikers. To this, President Hawley of the Switchmen's Union of North America said: "All right; let them come; we will not object." Denver Postoffice Prospects. Denver.—That completed drawings for the Denver postoffice were ready to be presented by the New York architects to the Postoffice Department and that bids would be asked by January 1st and that the contract in all likelihood would be let March 1st was the news imparted to the members of the Denver Real Estate Exchange at its weekly luncheon at the Albany hotel Wednesday. This information came in a letter from Tracy, Litchfield & Swartwout, the architects, to the public improvement committee of the exchange. To Fight Telephone Monopoly. New York.—Independent telephone interests are said to have an available fighting fund of $100,000 subscribed to do battle against the Bell telephone interests whenever the latter attempts to wipe out competition. Washington—Delegate William H. Andrews of New Mexico, who reached here Wednesday, says the opinion prevails in the territory that Congress will at the coming session admit the territory to statehood. "Both political parties in their last national platforms were pledged to the admission of the territory and there is no good reason why Congress should not carry these pledges into effect during the coming session," said the delegate. Senator Borah of Idaho has promised to champion statehood legislation in the Senate. Denver building permits for the month of November amounted to $989,000. It is now estimated that building permits in Denver for the year 1909 will reach $12,000,000. Franklin E. Brooks, former congressman-at-large from Colorado, has returned to Colorado Springs from an extended trip abroad. The breaking of a plank in the Independence mine at Victor caused the death of William H. Record, a well known miner. His skull was fractured by a fall of thirty feet. In the District Court at Lamar November 26th Henry Starr was sentenced by Judge Hunter to seven to twenty-five years in the penitentiary for robbing the Amity State Bank July 8, 1908. The directors of the State Fair Association met at Pueblo, and decided to hold the fair during the week beginning September 19, 1910, immediately preceding the sessions of the National Irrigation Congress. James C. McGill of Denver has purchased the one-half interest of Richard R. Burke in the Denver Western League Baseball club and will succeed Mr. Burke as its president. Mr. Gunthrope retains his interest and the positions of secretar and treasurer. County examinations for teachers' certificates will be held Dec. 16, 17 and 18, in all the counties of the state. For the most part the examinations will be given by the county superintendent at each county seat but other arrangements will be made where this is not convenient. It is now stated that the proposed Cheyenne Mountain Scenic railway at Colorado Springs will be built next year. The plan is to construct an electric railway from Stratton Park to the top of Cheyenne mountain, the steep incline to be overcome by a device patented by Col. Lew Ginger, president of the company. Over 4,000 boxes of apples from Colorado and New Mexico have already been entered, with fees paid, for the Colorado National Apple show, which will be held at the Denver Auditorium during the week of January 10. It is known that entries are coming from Canada, Washington, Utah, Georgia and other states. Acting Gov. S. R. Fitzgarrall appointed the following delegates to attend the sixth annual convention of the National River and Harbors congress in Washington, D. C., Dec. 8, 9 and 10: Charles J. Hughes, Jr., Simon Guggenheim, A. D. Rucker, E. T. Taylor and J. A. Martin, all of whom will be in Washington, and Brooks Irone of Colorado Springs. The Masonic Temple Asociation at Trinidad has decided to erect a new building. It will cost $27,000, will be of two stories and the second floor will be devoted to one of the finest lodge rooms in southern Colorado. The demolition of the old building will begin at once. There are four Masonic bodies in Trinidad, two blue lodges, the Royal Arch Masons and the Commandery. Indictments have been issued by the federal grand jury at Denver against J. E. Weaver and E. D. Bond, two wealthy cattlemen, who reside in El Paso county, on the charges of securing 5,000 acres of grazing land from the government by the use of dummy entrymen. Their scheme is alleged to have been the use of negroes whom they engaged to live in small sheet-iron shanties on each quarter-section of land after paying all the necessary fees. At a mass meeting held in Greeley for organization of an "Associated Charities and Relief" association, twenty-four persons were appointed to serve as a board in divisions of eight for one, two and three-year terms respectively. This organization will handle all charity work of the city and the adjoining country under the auspices of the Greeley Commercial Club, the Ministerial Alliance and other civic organizations. J. H. Brinkerhoff, general superintendent of the Grand Junction railroad, operated jointly by the Denver & tito Grande and Colorado Midland railroads between New' Castle and Grand Junction, has resigned to supervise the building of an electric railroad designed to connect several cities of the Grand Valley. This line will extend through the fruit belt, east and west of Grand Junction, with the newly-built road in that city as a nucleus. It is stated that F. P. Ernest of Denver, owner of the Mansions hotel, Manitou, who is improving the property and drilling to pipe soda water into the house, is so encouraged over the outlook of his prospective bathhouse that he will drill two wells to 2,200 feet in the hope of striking a flow of hot sulphur water. This is a greater depth than ever attained in Manitou and the exploitation of the hidden strata is awaited with great interest. The State Commercial Association is planning the publication of a small illustrated booklet descriptive of Colorado irrigation enterprises and the crops that can be grown by irrigation in the state, for distribution at the National Corn Exposition, to be held in Omaha, beginning December 6. A detailed report of the output of sugar beets in the Sunflower valley the season of 1908, prepared by J. E. Gauger, chief agriculturalist of the Holly Sugar Company, shows that the 700,000 tons of beets shipped to that factory averaged 18 per cent in sugar. Piano Sale And Six Month's Free Music Lessons with Each Piano Purchased this Week ONE UPRIGHT PIANO FOR.....$ 50.00 ANOTHER ONE FOR.....$ 85.00 A STEINWAY FOR.....$ 150.00 A $600 DECKER BROS. FOR.....$ 195.00 A $300 SPAULDING, LESS THAN 10 MONTHS OLD, FOR.....$ 198.00 A $350 PIANO, PRACTICALLY AS GOOD AS NEW, FOR.....$ 215.00 A $400 PIANO, SLIGHTLY USED, FOR.....$ 235.00 A $450 PIANO, LESS THAN 1 YEAR OLD, FOR.....$ 265.00 A $500 PIANO, USED SOME (EXTRA GOOD DEAL) FOR.....$ 335.00 AND MANY OTHER BARGAINS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION IN STEGER, CHICKERING, BUSH & GERTS, KRELL, JACOB DOLL, STODART, LESTER AND STEINHAUSER PIANOS. So that everyone may have an opportunity to buy a Piano at this Sale, we will sell you a Piano for $2.50 down and $1 per week payments, with— Six Month's Free Music Lessons We Guarantee to Sell Pianos at this Sale Cheaper than Any Other Dealer in the City Come in at once and avail yourself of a choice of these Bargains and easy terms with the FREE MUSIC LESSONS. DICK FRAZIER AND TOM LEWIS PROPRIETORS A First-Class Resort For Gentlemen D YOU EVER TRY If Bros.' Beer? made right, and tastes right. better made anywhere and a Strictly Colorado Production It's made right, and tastes right. None better made anywhere and This is a Strictly Colorado Production hy Send East 1008 15th St., Denver, Colo. Cutlery, Toilet Preparations, Manicure Articles, Perfumes, Etc. Grinding of every description. Wholesale and Retail. GENERAL HOUSE FURNISHINGS 2559 Welton Street. ```markdown ``` Phone Main 7413 1845 Arapahoe St. DID YOU NEEF IT'S MADE NONE BETTER THIS IS A S Why for Po When you THE DENVER 10 Cutlery, Toilet Prep Gr Five Po NEW AND SECOND HAND FURNITURE, GENERAL LIBERAL C Superior Laundry ALL HAND WORK. J. W. CASEY, Proprietor. Telephone 2132. 1735 Lawrence St. Wines, Liquors and Cigars BE SURE AN TRY IT. . THE COLORADO STATESMAN JOS. D. D. RIVERS ..... Proprietor 1824 Curtis Street, Room 25. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... .60 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the city of Denver, Colorado. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. It occasionally happens that papers sent to subscribers are lost or stolen. In case you do not receive a reply, you can post a card and send it formally forward a duplicate of the missing number. Communications to receive attention must be news, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper; must reach us Tuesdays, if possible, on Friday; must be written in the future of the author. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. Display advertising 50 cents per square. A square contains ten agate lines. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. EMANCIPATION'S SEMI-CENTENNIAL In line with a portion of his recent address in Denver, and under the authority of the National Negro Business League, Booker T. Washington has appointed a committee to consider and make preparations for a National Negro Exposition, to be held in 1913 in some Southern city, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of freedom, its location, scope and financing. The present membership of the committee, of which Mr. Washington will be chairman and which will be increased later, includes E. L. Blackshear, Principal Prairie View State Normal School, Prairie View, Texas; Dr. C. T. Walker, president Walker Baptist College, Augusta, Ga., and Major R. R. Moton, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. Mr. Washington recently conferred with President Taft on the subject. AMERICAN newspapers, a year or so ago, were full of accounts of the revolution in Hayti, of tales discrediting the ability of the Haytian people to govern themselves and even of suggestions that the United States government intervene in Haytian affairs and take steps looking to annexation. In the light of these opinions and of the graft scandals now looming up in this country, a recent speech of President Simon of Hayti to the populace is interesting. After an official parade, he called the chief of police before him and publicly dismissed him for dereliction of duty. He said: "The police is an institution for the protection of society and the individual citizen. A body organized on the one hand as a terror to the evil doer, and on the other as a safeguard and protection to the good citizen. Punish with justice the culprit, but the law-abiding man must be accorded your protection." Extending his address, he said: "I intend that the press shall be free. A free press is a light and a safeguard to the government." On another subject, speaking from the balcony of the Palace, he said: "On the day I leave this house, I shall not carry away with me even the most trifling article that does not belong to me. I have entered the Palace as an honest man and I shall leave it as one. So, my friends, if I do not take for myself, I cannot authorize others to take what does not belong to them. That is logical. How can I protect the peculators when I have never shared their spoils? I repeat, messieurs, I shall not take, I am not come to take, and I shall not condone the guilt of those who do take." The speech was pronounced with such sincerity of conviction that the people broke into a united cry of "Long live President Simon!" WHY WE SHOULD ORGANIZE. WHAT is the interest of the colored citizen in Denver's pending water question? It is exactly the same as that of any other citizen or taxpayer. Every individual is a water consumer, and in some way he pays for the privilege he enjoys of sharing the benefit of this necessity of life provided by the system so adequately laid out by the servant of the city, the water company. When we take a drink of water we don't know the cost or of the trouble and pains that have been taken to make this simple boon a handy and thoughtless privilege, yet the almost incomputable recompense is charged up to us, and we pay the sum of it in taxes or in house rent or even in room rent, if we are simply roomers, for it is just as substantial and calculable an item as light or heat. A meager understanding of the time and labor required to provide a gigantic water system for a great city, of such capacity and efficiency that the casual user never thinks of the cost of water, requires only a second thought to bring the conviction that a long-drawn-out war upon existing conditions, coupled with any experimental attempt to duplicate an already perfected system, would necessarily carry with it a material increase of public expense through a period lasting nearly an ordinary lifetime, and that such increase, through some portion of that period, would make our water charges double the normal rate to which we have become used. Granting that even this would be worth while if it were going to benefit our posterity, there would always be confronting us the question whether this expected benefit would ever be realized. The proposition is too gigantic for any wild or impulsive hazard, and we should be in a position to vote our intelligent convictions on the subject when the time comes to do so. If we are not, our neglect may be responsible for a burden from which we will never be able to escape. Our interest is manifest and plain, and to determine our duty there is no better plan than to form a voluntary organization of colored citizens to hear occasional discussions of the various phases of the water question. Every citizen is eligible to membership in such an organization, and the instruction thereby made possible would be well worth the time spent. Such an exhibition of interest in a vital municipal question would also be a credit to us, as a proof of our understanding and appreciation of the responsibilities of property ownership and civic privilege. A fair, unbiased and open organization, from which frenzied, partisan politics will be excluded, can be easily perfected and maintained. Wisely and fairly conducted, it would be of great value. Let our property owners take the lead and put the movement on a solid footing. CAUTIOUS traveler, who had counted down her expenses to the minimum, and could neither beg, borrow nor steal a steamer rug, bethought her of a pair of time-worn blankets, which were no longer shaggy. These she had dyed an inconspicuous brown, after which she bound them with grosgrain ribbon to match, and she protests that they were not only a perfect success, as far as her comfort was concerned, but were much admired. The traveler who most enjoys her journeys has learned to disregard appearances, to some extent, and to consider comfort beyond all else. Now, "cheap red felt feet" do not sound alluring, but they are not intended for exhibition and if your feet are the kind that turn into blocks of ice on ordinary dry land you will value these simple foot warmers for the sea voyage. Cut two large, flat shoe-shaped pieces of scarlet felt, lace them together with narrow red ribbons run through a very coarse needle. You may best accomplish this with an overseam stitch. Now cut a row of perpendicular slits around the ankles and run through them ties of inch-wide red ribbon. When the boat rolls and the breezes blow your feet, clad in their scarlet warmers, may prove your most cheerful companions. The last suggestion of this most resourceful person was the pongee bag of huge proportions to hang from a hook in the stateroom. It was designed to hold all her small possessions, beginning with the rolling collar button and continuing through the list of small things she needed while dressing. The particular point of this bag was that it was of circular cut, a yard in diameter, and made to draw up on two long ribbons, and to open out into a flat surface, showing its contents in most convenient fashion. The man who fills the role of solitary traveler could have no more useful present than this commodious stateroom bag. M. Gold Supply Tends to Increase Prices By JOHN CANDLER COBB supply and demand controls its value. The depreciation in the value of gold will continue as long as the present large production continues, will cease when a balance occurs between supply and demand, and if the recently developed gold deposits begin to give out and no new deposits are discovered, we shall enter upon a period of increase in the value of gold and the resultant decrease in prices. Assuming that gold has depreciated 30 per cent, during the last 15 years, which is probably near the truth, gives the result that $1 to-day is required to purchase the same amount that could be bought for 70 cents 15 years ago. If all things immediately adjusted themselves to this change as it progressed, and every decrease in the value of gold was immediately met by an equal increase in the value of everything purchased, it would make no difference to any one. The mechanic whose $3 per day in 1895 was increased to $4 per day in 1909 could afford to pay 75 cents Hours of Labor for Women Workers By ALFRED E. MANNING Those engaged in industrial pursuits will welcome the recently published editorials relating to safety devices upon machinery and its approval of the law limiting the daily employment of women to 10 hours in mechanical establishments, factories and laundries. Our legislature is beginning to recognize that the state of Illinois is concerned in the safety, the health and the welfare of its workers, and it is to be hoped that the courts will perceive that the benefits of such laws to the community will exceed an occasional case of hardship that may arise under their operation. The right to labor and to secure as large a wage as he can earn is valuable to every citizen, yet it is one that should be subject to regulation and control the same as any other property right, where its unrestricted use is detrimental to the general welfare. It would require no argument to prove to any one familiar with working conditions in the average factory or laundry that a limit of 10 hours' daily employment is not an unreasonable restriction upon females or even upon men, had the legislature seen fit to go that far. Teachers of classes in natural history in the public schools should be careful in their instructions to the pupils to explain the appearance of poisonous flowers and plants. The pupils should be so instructed that they would recognize such plants at sight. The necessity for this warning is demonstrated by the poisoning from weeds and plants of members of the botany class at the Salisbury high school, in England. That there is real danger in such infection is shown by the blindness of one of the affected pupils. Personal instruction is generally the best and it would be wise for the local school teachers to accompany their pupils when trips are made into the woods to secure flowers and plants as specimens for study. The danger of poisoning can only be avoided by knowledge of the dangerous growths. A Cautious Woman Keeps Down Expenses By P. EVAN JONES Although other causes have operated to some extent, there is no reasonable doubt that the principal cause of the general advance in prices during the last decade is the large increase in the production of gold, which has resulted and is resulting in a continuous depreciation of our standard of value. Gold is a commodity and subject to variations in value governed by natural forces in the same manner as copper or wheat, and while its use as the standard of value prevents the sudden or speculative variations characteristic of many other commodities, the same fundamental law of ur. and without Those engaged in industrial pursuits will welcome the recently published editorials relating to safety devices upon machinery and its approval of the law limiting the daily employment of women to 10 hours in mechanical establishments, factories and laundries. Our legislature is beginning to recognize that the state of Illinois is concerned in the safety, the health and the welfare of its workers, and it is to be hoped that the courts will perceive that the benefits of such laws to the community will exceed an occasional case of hardship that may arise under their Teachers of classes in natural history in the public schools should be careful in their instructions to the pupils to explain the appearance of poisonous flowers and plants. The pupils should be so instructed that they would recognize such plants at sight. The necessity for this warning is demonstrated by the poisoning from weeds and plants of members of the botany class at the Salisbury high school, in England. That there is real danger in such infection is shown by the blindness of one of the affected pupils. THE BROADHURST CARTER SHOE CO. 823 Sixteenth Street We Are Sole Denver Agents for the NETTLETON Syracuse Make Shoe for Men All Leathers, All Shapes and prices range $6.00 to $9.00 Pair S&N GARMENT STORE 925-16TH ST. - OPP. JOSLINS A Great December Clearance Sale OF Ladies' Coats and Suits Too many garments on hand; prices cut for a quick reduction of stock, believing it best to take a small loss of profit now, when you want the garments. A saving of 25 TO 35 PER CENT to you on coat and suit prices is our offer. About 120 of them, in black and popular fall and winter colors, made of plain and fancy woven cloths, coats 40 and 45 inches long, perfectly tailored, are on sale in 4 Bargain Lots $ 9.50 for Suits that were $15.00 and $17.50 $14.50 for Suits that were $20.00 and $22.50 $18.50 for Suits that were $25.00 and $27.50 $22.50 for Suits that were $30.00 and $32.50 Ladies' Coats Children's Coats Long cloth coats for girls aged 10, 12 and 14 years, about 50 of them that are worth $5.00 to $8.75, will be closed out in 2 Special Bargain Lots at $3.95 and $4.95 $9.00 For choice of 33 Ladies' and Misses' colored all-wool broadeloth Coats, many of them lined throughout with good satin, others half lined, that formerly sold for $15.00, $20.00 and $25.00. SILVERSMITH & HILLER, 925 Sixteenth St. A. J. GRAHAM --DEALER IN-- --DEALER IN-- All Kinds of Coal and Wood $3.50 Per Ton and Up Phone Champa 1166 Cor. 19th and Stout, DENVER. COLORADO BOE & JOES RESTAURANT 2212 Larimer Street THE COLORADO STATESMAN Watch the columns of this paper for holiday bargains. Samuel Grissom, of Stanley Lake, was in the city this week. About a hundred and fifty of Denver young society people were present, danced until the wee hours. The soda dispensers' ball at Buy your Xmas presents at the sale of the Church of the Redeemer at Shorter Chapel. The Masons' forty-second entertainment will be given at East Turner hall Monday, Dec. 27, 1909. Dr. E. L. Faulkner is now located at 1020 Nineteenth street, between Curtis and Arapahoe streets. G. A. Allen purchased the Cottrell pharmacy December 1st. He desires the patronage of the public. Mrs. G. A. Smith, who has been visiting her husband's parents in Brookville, Kansas, has returned home. Mrs. Jas. G. Adams presented her husband with a fine son last Monday, both mother and child are doing nicely. Mrs. B. Smith of Brookville, Kansas, is visiting her son, G. A. Smith, of 2516 Curtis street, a clerk in the post-office. L. S. McWilliams has returned from his ranch, which is located in Morgan county. He made several improvements. Dr. Justina L. Ford is visiting her husband, Rev. John E. Ford, in Jacksonville, Florida. She will be gone several weeks. Mrs. Eugene Reeves is recovering from a slight accident which befall her last week by her overestimating her strength. Mrs. Ella Thrower of Ft. Russell, Wyo., was in the city this week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Thrower of 2542 Lafayette street. Miss Delia Brown, of Atlantic City, N. J., a former resident of Denver, is again in the city and is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Allison. The wife of Jas. A. Anderson of Chattanooga, Tenn., died Thursday. Remains at the Douglass Undertaking Co., awaiting arrangements. William Euper left the city Sundav night for Kansas City, Little Rock and several other cities in the South. He will be gone several months. Robert Motley and Della Clark of the Springs are visiting in the city. The latter is visiting her parents and the former is among friends. A. L. Ford of Ft. Collins, Colo., was in the city this week on business. Mr. Ford is one of our prosperous business men and owns some valuable property in this city. Rev. A. M. Ward was placed on the nominating committee last Tuesday night at the monster temperance meeting, which met at Trinity Methodist church. The public and strangers are most kindly welcome to attend the literary every Friday night at Bethlehem church, 2716 Larimer street. Refreshments are served. Mrs. J. D. D. Rivers and daughter, Vivian, returned home last Sunday from a very delightful visit with Chapain and Mrs. George Prioleau of Ft. Russell, Wyo. The Y. M. C. B. Glee Club gave an unique County Fair at Shorter's A. M. E. church Wednesday evening. There were several interesting and laughable features of the affair, which was quite a success. The funeral of J. W. Turley, who died Tuesday of last week from pneumonia, occurred last Sunday afternoon from Shorter chapel and was conducted by the Odd Fellows. Douglass Undertaking Company was in charge of the funeral. The dance given at Dania hall Thanksgiving night by the Utopian Club, composed principally of government employees, was a grand success. --- About a hundred and fifty of Denver's young society people were present and danced until the wee hours. The soda dispensers' ball at East Turner hall Thursday night was a brilliant affair in every particular. The elite of Denver's society people were out in gala attire. Nothing was left undone by the committee to add to the pleasures of their guests. Light refreshments were served and a pleasant evening spent. The Two Jim's Social Club has been disbanded and dissolved and the Rocky Mountain Athletic Club has been organized and will occupy the same quarters until more suitable quarters can be erected. This will be strickly a membership club and conducted according to law. The Fire and Police board has given its approval to the organization. Buy tickets now for the entertainment to be given by the Central Baptist Sunday school, Dec. 7th. Refreshments. Program by the best talent attainable. A good time for all, that's the guarantee that goes with each ticket sold. Among the participants Capt. Thomas Campbell, Mrs. Lillian Jones, Miss Hattie Jones, a famous male quartet and other like attractions. W. G. Walker, one of Denver's prominent young men, has gone to Kansas City to remain. During his six or seven years' residence in Denver Mr. Walker has been very active in the social and business life of the city. In exclusive social circles he was a shining star and he has only recently invested extensively in Denver real estate. While his many friends wish him well in his new home town, they trust and many believe that he will find it more pleasant, more convenient and more profitable to live in the Queen City of the Plains. SCOTT'S CHAPEL NOTES The revival services continue with interest at Scott's during the past week. There have been four additions so far to both of the churches. The two churches have been greatly revived. The Ladies' Aid Thanksgiving dinner was a great success. They wish to thank the many friends who contributed to the success of the enterprise. The Junior League, under the management of Mrs. W. A. Bobo, is preparing a Christmas program. Every Junior will give something to the poor children of the city whose parents are not able to make Christmas cheerful for them. The Rev. J. J. Cabbell, district superintendent of the Topeka district, left Friday for Colorado Springs, after having spent Thanksgiving with the members of the Ladies' Aid. He reports that he was most sumptuously entertained during his stay in the city. That's the way the good people of Denver do things for strangers. The Choral Club is practicing very thoroughly for the grand Musicale to be given at Trinity Methodist church December 16th. Everyone who loves high class music will be there. Seats on sale by the Knight Campbell Music Company and Attorney G. G. Ross, Kittredge building. The pastor will preach Sunday morning and the evangelist Sunday afternoon. At this time the Lord's Supper will be held. You are cordially invited to attend these services. The People's Presbyterian church will unite with Scott's on this occasion. The $300.00 December rally has been postponed until December 19th on account of the revival that is now in progress. We are expecting that every club and member to do his utmost to raise his assessment of thirty dollars. Pray and work. Class No. 2 leads the collections again. The class meetings had to be changed to Sundays until the revival closes. Next Sunday will be general class. Mr. C. J. Collier will be the leader. Scott's chapel will be represented in the Federation of Denver Churches for the suppression of the saloon and other kindred vices. Mr. Cornellus Rice was elected as president, G. W. Anderson vice president, Miss Cathrine Colbert second vice president, Mr. C. J. Collier secretary, and Mrs. Mary G. Clinkscale treasurer. The officers were elected as the executive committee, to meet at Trinity for the purpose of organizing a central organization. NOTES OF THE PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Sermon topics: Sunday, 11 a. m., "Progress through the valley and shadow of death," by the pastor. Sunday, 7:30 p. m., "Rough-house in the Temple," by the pastor. Monday, 8 p. m., "The Minister," by Evangelist Dr. Powers. Tuesday, 8 p. m., "The Missionary Outlook," Dr. Powers. Wednesday, 8 p. m., "Alpha and Omega," Dr. Powers. Thursday, 8 p. m., "The Shortening of Human Life," Dr. Powers. Friday, 8 p. m., "The race, the racers, and the reward," Dr. Powers. in interest. There have been eight accessions and conversions to the present. We would specially request everybody to attend these meetings. Unless Providentially hindered, the services will be continued at the People's church by the evangelist to Dec. 14th. After that time Dr. R. R. Powers will return to Guthrie, Okla. Our Thanksgiving offering amounted to over $50.00. MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS AND SUBSCRIBERS TO THE NEGRO TOWNSITE AND LAND CO., DEC. 8TH, AT SHORTER'S CHAPEL. The site for a farming district and a townsite is an ideal one, and our option will not hold longer than Dec. 10, 1909. If this site is approved by the stockholders and subscribers, forty acres will be set aside by the company for the establishing of a Sanitarium and a home for girls, where the girls will receive training for professional nurses. The sanitarium will be under the control of one of the leading physicians of Denver, who will be supported by the best physicians and the fraternal organizations of the United States. The Negro Townsite and Land Company means business, but we can do nothing without the assistance of the stockholders and subscribers. We know that you mean business or you would not have shown your interest by subscribing. We are receiving mail from all parts of the United States inquiring of the location and of prices of farming land and town lets. Come out to the meeting and let us settle on the location. The directors have spent considerable time and their own money, looking up a suitable location, and have visited several, and the one six miles north of Byers seems to them to be the one. The site is level, the soil is rich and deep, the water possibilities are excellent. The vegetation in and around the site is above the average of dry farming because of sub-irrigation, and being located in the rain belt. Such a desirable location will be hard to beat, and there are two Eastern colonization companies after this location. The owners are not now urging the sale, as a party from the East will visit this site on the 8th of December. It has been quoted to them at a much higher price on account of the farming interest which has been created in the East by Colorado exhibits and agents. Lands adapted to colonization are in great demand and prices are soaring higher. Now let us get busy lest we come short, or get shut out on account of price. Don't forget the important meeting December 8th at Shorter's Chapel. THE NEGRO TOWNSITE & LAND COMPANY. O. T. Jackson, Pres. Harry Jones, Assistant Secretary FAULTS OF OUR WOMEN. Denver, Colo., Nov. 30, 1909. To The Colorado Statesman: It is indeed a pleasure to note the many colored women boarding the various cars en route to work. But on the other hand, it is a disgrace to note the way they go. We are all women and should look as well as we can. I have occasion to be out from three to four mornings in a week, and I am really ashamed to see how untidy some of the women go—some with aprons on, some with their hair not combed, some with torn and tattered dresses, some with old veils, hoods and newbys on their heads, which seem so disgraceful. In the morning, when the cars are so loaded with passengers, and in the evening when the same passengers return, I can see all classes of work women. I have never seen one that looks so untidy as some of our colored women. In time there will be a kick made against riding with colored people, for everybody knows that the black race is blamed for what a few fail to do. It wouldn't hurt for us to even get up a little earlier in the mornings in order to comb our hair or to even do a little extra "primping," so that we wouldn't become obnoxious to the fellow passengers on the cars. Now we must not think because we are going out to do a day's work, that we can look any "old way." Look nice, neat and clean always—for cleanliness is next to Godliness. I hope that each one of us will make a vast improve- ment by another fortnight, and I also trust that our ministers will take up this subject and speak on it from their various pulpits; tell each and every woman that it is just as essential for her to look nice, neat, clean and have her hair combed and discard that gingham apron, on Monday as well as on Sunday. Respectfully, CARRIE P. DOUGLASS, 2208 Downing Avenue. CARD OF THANKS. Denver, Colo., Dec. 2, 1909. Mrs. J. W. Turley and neice wish to thank the many friends for their sympathy and kindness through the illness and death of our husband and uncle and also for the many beautiful floral offerings. Mrs. J. W. Turley and Neice. BE SURE AND READ THIS. The annual Xmas sale by the ladies of the church of the Redeemer will be held at Shorter church, Twenty-third and Washington avenue, Tuesday and Wednesday, December 14th and 15th. An endless variety of articles, both useful and ornamental, have been prepared by the ladies. They invite a careful inspection of what they offer. Prizes will be given away with admission tickets. Admission 10c. PROF. WILL TAYLOR, SPECIALIST ON Prof. Will Taylor.. Specialist on Hard corns. Soft Corns. Festered corns. Nervo-vasculor corns. Vascular Corns. Laminated corns. Fibrous corns. Calla sites spots. Bunions. Chilblain feet. Ingrowing nails. Call to see me in regard to your feet 911 18th street. Phone Main 7402. LOCAL NOTICES Hair cut, 15c, 1847 Blake street. S. A. 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It has been the ambition of women in all ages. The use of Ford's Hair Pomade makes stubborn hair, particularly hair softener, more pliable and glossy, easier to comb, and arrange in any style desired consistent with its length, as long as the Pomade remains in the hair. This result may be obtained by one thorough application according to directions. Two to four applications a month will keep the hair in satisfactory condition and two to four bottles, regular size, are usually sufficient for a year. Directions with every bottle. Ford's Hair Pomade removes and prevents dandruff, invigorates the scalp and keeps it from getting harsh and dry, stops itching and prevents itching, gives it new life and vigor. Absolutely harmless. Used with splendid results even on children and infants. Dellicately perfumed, its use is a constant pleasure. A most satisfactory preparation for ladies, gentlemen and children. Don't buy anything else allured to be "just Ford's Hair Pomade. 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AT THE LOOP ```markdown ``` Time Moves Swiftly The season is at hand when all the world goes a-shopping, for we still hold reverent the old custom of presenting gifts to loved ones and friends at the Yule time. We have anticipated your wants along this line and our store is now literally filled with goods suitable for the Holiday season—we quote a few items below— A Match ..... $1.25 Playing Cards in Leather Cases. Smoking Jackets ..... $5.00 Up Bath Robes ..... $3.50 Up Lounging Robes ..... $5.00 Up Sweater Coats ..... $2.00 Up Neckwear ..... 50c to $2.50 Shirts ..... $1.00 to $3.50 Cuff Links and Pins ..... 50c Up “Silk Spun” Scarfs for the $1.50 to $4.00 Johnson-Noel Johnson-Noel Co 1005 SIXTEENTH STREET. $5.00 Hat Bargains Are worth watching every week. We have special sales at the week ends that are proving popular with Denver women. This week it's our pattern Hats. Just the thing for your party hat. Only $5.00. Thursday, Friday and Saturday of each week we make these special prices, while they last. Are worth watching every week. We have special sales at the week ends that are proving popular with Denver women. This week it's our pattern Hats. Just the thing for your party hat. Only $5.00. Thursday, Friday and Saturday of each week we make these special prices, while they last. We have some beautiful hats at $2.55. THE DOWN TOWN MILLINERY CO. O. W. Lyman, President 1120-1124 16th St. Formerly Howland's THE DOWN TOWN MILLINERY CO. (1) NORTHERN FUEL CO. Welton St. Phones M. 742 743 WOOD, CHARCOAL Tools, Best Prices, Best ent. Try Us and See AD IN TAILORING! Style and Exceptional Workman- our Measure $16 @ $18 AMERICAN TAILORS, 10 FIFTEENTH STREET Between Champa and Stout Established 1879. CHRIS HARRISON MERCHANT TAILOR 327 Sixteenth Street Opp. Court House. DENVER, COLO. 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Dealers in NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS He Doesn't Like to Be Written Up Pages in the Senate Mimic Big Men Pages in the Senate Mimic Big Men Hobo in the President's Private Car This Kind of Servant at a Premium TWELVE years ago, when Senators elect William O'Connell Bradley of Kentucky, was governor of that state, a youth who at 15 was carrying the editorial burden of a weekly newspaper in a country town in Illinois drifted into Frankfort on a bicycle trip. There wasn't much to see in Frankfort except the state capitol, so he went up there. It was the young editor's first inspection of a state capitol, and his eyes were open for everything. Naturally the sign "Governor's Office" interested him, and he quickly decided to call on the governor. He sent in his card and presently the doorkeeper returned and said: "The governor will see you." Then did the visitor really wish that h's curiosity about the governor's office hadn't got the better of him. It would be manifestly improper to intrude on the governor's time without some motive, and still the young editor couldn't think of any motive. On the way to the inner office he decided to take the governor into his confidence and confess that there wasn't any cause for the visit, except a small matter of editorial courtesy. Prompted, no doubt, by that spirit that has made him the head of his party in the state and that enabled IT IS the custom for the senate pages to hold two or three mock senate sessions every winter. These sessions are held on afternoons when the senate is not sitting, and are conducted with all the solemnity and poise of a regular meeting. One day the youngsters were conducting a mock trial of the Swayne impeachment case. "Billy" Annin was presiding. Another youngster was posing as Anthony Higgins, counsel for Judge Swayne, and was interrogating a witness. Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, came into the senate chamber unexpectedly, and, seeing what was going on, took a seat near the entrance to the cloakroom. Presently an intricate parliamentary question arose, and half a dozen pages were on their feet-asking for recognition. Mr. Spooner thought he might TAFT SPECIAL A TRAMP got into President Taft's private car recently, and a very surprised tramp he must have been. for he was pounced upon by two of the most muscular Pullman porters he had ever seen and then arrested by Secret Service Officer Sloan. It was on the Federal express, running from Boston to Washington, on the rear end of which the president's private car Mayflower was coupled at New Haven. The tramp got on somewhere along the line. There were two day coaches ahead of the presidential car, and they WASHINGTON housekeepers are inclined to think that T.B. Witherspoon of St. Louis was romancing recently when he told of a negro servant who has been in his employ for 15 years. It appears that the negro was given ten days' leave and money to spend for a trip down to New Orleans, but in three days turned up again, and here is the way Mr. Witherspoon explains the negro's return, quoting the servant: "You see, suh, it done get mighty miserably cold night after I lef' you, and I knows dat Miss Kate (my wife) ain't got no business tryin' to work dat furnace, and I know you ain't gwine to bother with it. Nary one of you got enny business with a dirty old furnace, least of all Miss Kate, who ain't got no right to soil her little han's. I couldn't sleep good thinkin' about it, an' dat's why I gits back quicker'n I 'spected.' him to win his fight for the senate against apparently overwhelming odds, Gov. Bradley talked to the boy journalist for an hour, speaking most interestingly on subjects that could not fail to interest even a youth that didn't have a news instinct. The governor described his early experiences as a Republican in a Democratic hotbed, when to go to the polls and vote the Republican ticket was only one form of committing suicide. He told how at one period of his political activity it became necessary for all the Republicans of the town in which he lived to fortify themselves in a house and defend themselves against Democratic raiders who were thirsting for blood. There were so many of these stories that the hour had passed before either the governor or his visitor knew it, and when the boy editor finally excused himself he carried away a picture bearing the governor's autograph. When Gov. Bradley won his successful fight before the Kentucky legislature a few weeks ago the editor, who had been reduced by lapse of time to just plain reporter, remembered these stories of the early days, and wrote the senator-elect asking the privilege of telling them to the whole country. Gov. Bradley's reply stamps him as a man who is going to make himself disliked in Washington if he doesn't change his mind: "There is nothing that is more distasteful to me than to talk about myself, and you must excuse me from entering into an account of my past experience as a politician. I have never written it up, and never expect to." be able to clarify the question. Accordingly he approached his seat and called out: "Mr. President!" The irrepressible "Billy" was not taken back. "The chair will recognize the senator from Wisconsin," he said, as he brought down the gavel and nodded to Mr. Spooner. The ease and poise of the youngster startled Senator Spooner, and it was nearly a minute before he could control his twinkling eyes. "Is it not out of order," he asked, "to permit so many senators to address the chair at the same time?" "It is decidedly out of order," said the piping voice in the vice-president's chair. "The point made by the senator from Wisconsin is well taken. The senate will come to order." In the house of representatives there are 23 pages, and in the senate 16. According to the regulations, no page can be under 12 years or over 16 years of age. The position of senate page pays a salary of $75 a month when congress is in session, and, like all other employees of congress, these youngsters receive an extra month's salary every year. were so crowded that they couldn't have looked healthy to the most optimistic of tramps. But there was a Pullman, and it looked nice and dark, and so the wanderer strolled in and hid himself. It was Letcher, one of the porters, who found the visitor crouched in a dark corner of the tiny kitchen. He made a dive for the man and got him in a clinch. Then he called his fellow porter, Anderson. The two of them had the tramp so scared that he could hardly see by the time the secret service men came in and put him under arrest. At Bridgeport the tramp was turned over to the police. He tried to say that he was a brakeman on the New York, New Haven & Hartford road, but the trainmen knew better. Mr. Taft slept right through it, and never knew a thing about it until the next morning. "There is a specimen act of an oldtime, true-hearted darky, whose first thought is of the comfort of his employer." If Witherspoon could find about a thousand like that servant, the St. Louis man could make a good commission by shipping them to Washington. The Barriers Down. John Ford, who, as the English husband of Miss Cavendish-Bentinck, is related to the Ogden Millses, the Maturin Livingstons and many other noted New York families, talked, at a quiet dinner at The Plaza, about English society. "New York society," said Mr. Ford, "is really more exclusive now than that of London. In London last season an episode was narrated that illustrated well the breaking down of the old barriers. "Society is going to the bowwows," grumbled a young marquis at a Piccadilly club. "What's the matter now?" a friend inquired. "Moneylender's wife at a reception in Belgrave square this afternoon," said the marquis, 'wearing all my wife's emeralds.'" A. J. STARK & CO. 709 & 711 16th St. The only exclusive wholesale and retail Crockery House in Denver THE CARSON CROCKERY CO always right. Remem- place, eenth and Stout You Know Dr. Dameron has reduced his prices for all Dental Work? Of Teeth for $5.00; $10.00 Sets for $7.00; $15.00 Sets Crowns Only. $5.00 Gold Teeth, $4.00; Silver Fillings, and Plating, $1.00 up. Painless Extracting. ALBANY DENTAL PARLORS. opposite the Postoffice. DR. DAMERON, Proprietor. Prices always right. Remember the place, Fifteenth and Stout Do You Know Dr. Dameron has reduced his prices for all Dental Work? $7.00 Sets of Teeth for $5.00; $10.00 Sets for $7.00; $15.00 Sets for $10.00; Gold Crowns Only. $5.00 Gold Teeth, $4.00; Silver Fillings, 50c up. Gold and Platina, $1.00 up. Painless Extracting. ALBANY DENTAL PARLORS. Apapahoe Street opposite the Postoffice. DR. DAMERON, Proprietor. East Turner Hall 2132-2148 ARAPAHOE ST. Phone 2449. DENVE or for the Burlington Route and Colo. & Southern Ry. E. M. Wood Watchmaker and Jeweler ME RIGHT? 913 SEVENTEENTH ST. Orple 1628. DENVER, COLO. Watch Inspector for the Burling A. M. Watchmaker IS YOUR TIME RIGHT? Phone Purple 1628. Watch Inspector for the Burlington Route and Colo. & Southern Ry. A. M. Wood Watchmaker and Jeweler IS YOUR TIME RIGHT? 913 SEVENTEENTH ST. Phone Purple 1628. DENVER, COLO. PHARMACYSTORES 2101 CHAMPA ST Main 1663 DENVER'S LEA PRESCRIPTIONS We Sell Good G BERLAND BROS. CHAMPA STREET 2704 WEST COLFAX Main 1663 Main 5354 R'S LEADING DRUGGISTS DESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY We Sell Good Goods at Low Prices. BROS. Proprietors THE INVOLUNION BREWING CO. MADE IN DENVER Frappi DENVER COLD ```markdown ``` ES' RESTAURANT JONES' RESTAURANT 2236 Larimer St. Denver, Colorado CHATEAU DE VILLE WM. EHMKE MANAGER ILLUSTRATORS DESIGNERS HALF TONE, ZINC WOOD & COPPER PLATE ENGRAVERS CROWD WORK THE DENVER ENGRAVING CO. DENVER PHONE 782 1814 CURTIS STREET GOOD WORK ON TIME of the California Fig Syrup Co. and the scientific attainments of its chemists have rendered possible the production of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, in all of its excellence, by obtaining the pure medicinal principles of plants known to act most beneficially and combining them most skillfully, in the right proportions, with its wholesome and refreshing Syrup of California Figs. As there is only one genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna and as the genuine is manufactured by an original mettiod known to the California Fig Syrup Co. only, it is always necessary to buy the genuine to get its beneficial effects. A knowledge of the above facts enables one to decline imitations or to return them if, upon viewing the package, the full name of the California Fig Syrup Co. is not found printed on the front thereof. BUT SHE HAD ENOUGH. ALL CHILDREN HALF PRICE Johnny—Mother, let's go in here and buy a baby; they're cheap to-day. TORE HIS SKIN OFF In Shreds—Itching Was Intense—Sleep Was Often Impossible. Cured by Cuticura in Three Weeks. "At first an eruption of small pustules commenced on my hands. These spread later to other parts of my body, and the itching at times was intense, so much so that I literally tore the skin off in shreds in seeking relief. The awful itching interfered with my work considerably, and also kept me awake nights. I tried several doctors and used a number of different ointments and lotions but received practically no benefit. Finally I settled down to the use of Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Pills, with the result that in a few days all itching had ceased and in about three weeks' time all traces of my eruption had disappeared. I have had no trouble of this kind since. H. A. Krutskoff, 5714 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill., November 18 and 28, 1907." Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props., Boston. Pathetic Pride. Willie had had a tumble when he was a baby and his hip was so hurt that ever afterward he was obliged to use a crutch. On one occasion, when his mother had bought him a new crutch of the latest and most approved style, Willie expressed his enthusiasm and delight in the roundest terms. "And oh, mother!" he exclaimed, in conclusion, referring to a little friend of his who having the use of both legs had no need of crutches, "won't Johnny Knowles be jealous!" Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles Hutchin. In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Avoiding Popularity. Avoiding Popularity. "How shall we avoid popularity?" John Wesley once asked his preachers, and straightway gave them the answer in a set of rules. Here is rule 4: "Warn the people among whom you are most of esteeming or loving you too much." And here is rule 5: "Converse sparingly with those who are particularly fond of you." WHEN YOU ARE AS HOARSE as a crow. When you to conceive and gasp. When you are an old fashioned deep-seated cold, take Allen's Lung Balm. Sold by all druggists, 25c, 50c and 1.00 bottles. Lest One Should Fail. It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.—Publius Syrus. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. The season is here when many a family man would like to swap his big automobile for a small coal yard. Dr. Pierre's Pleasant Pellets first put up 40 years ago. They regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated tiny granules. The worm may turn, but the grindstone has to be turned. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES. BACKACHE MADE IN 375 "Guaranteed" PATENTS Watson E. Coleman, Wash- ington, D.C. Booth free. High- careerous. Best results. --- CRIPPLE CREEK GOLD OUTPUT NOVEMBER SHOWING IS GOOD, BUT HARDLY EQUAL TO OCTOBER. TOTAL IS $1,284,487 TOTAL IS $1,284,487 INCREASE SHOWN IN AVERAGE VALUE OF ALL GRADES Cripple Creek.—The output of the mines of the Cripple Creek district for November totalled 59,215 tons, with a gross bullion value of $1,284,487. Local mills treated a better grade of ore, and the average value of the smelting ore was $1 per ton higher than for the preceding month and the general average of all grades treated was $21.67, as compared with $20.30 for October. As compared with the tonnage of October, there is a decrease approximating 4,500 tons and about $7,100 in valuation. It will be noticed that the treatment at the Argall plant at Stratton's Independence is omitted from the table following. The office force declined to make public the tonnage treated, or the value of the ore. The concentrating plant is running, and inasmuch as the concentrates are shipped to the valley for final treatment, it may be possible that the bullion recovered is already accounted for in the values reported from the larger plants or smelters. The figures, as obtained from the accredited representatives of the mills and smelters, follow: Plants— Tonnage Average Gross Treated. Value. Value. Smelters . . . 4,125 $66.00 $ 272,250.00 Gold, Cyc. mill. 25,380 20.40 252,000.00 Gold, M.Co. mill. 1,600 19.00 286,250.00 Port'd G.M.Co. 9,100 19.00 171,000.00 Gold Issue mill 1,800 5.00 9,000.00 Isabella (est.) 1,750 4.50 7,875.00 Trilby M. Co. 1,650 6.00 9,900.00 W. Horse mill 1,500 5.00 7,500.00 Gaylord mill 1,000 3.00 3,000.00 Receipts of State Offices. Denver.—November 30th wound up the fiscal year of the state administration and in many offices there was a most satisfactory increase of the year's receipts as compared with the twelve months preceding. The most striking fact brought out by the figure in the office of the secretary of state was that the incorporating of new irrigation enterprises brought in a larger revenue than the incorporating of mining companies, a forceful illustration of the importance which agriculture has assumed in Colorado. The receipts of the secretary of state's office from December 1, 1908, until November 30, 1909, were $287,822.58. During the previous administration the receipts from December 1, 1907, to November 30, 1908, were $165,935.79. The increase in this year's receipts over those of last year was $121,886.79. The receipts for November of this year in the same office were $16,911.67, an increase of $7,698.67 over those of the same month a year ago. The insurance commissioner's office reported receipts of $209,799.22 for the fiscal year just completed, a gain of $5,545.90 over those of the year preceding. Women Take Up Desert Claims. Greeley.—After managing a fruit farm for 29 years near Denver most successfully, Mrs. N. E. Halley has decided to try her fortune in farming in the Crow creek country, near Fosston, and has taken up a desert claim there. She has just completed building three miles of fence, nailing every staple in place, driving the team to string the wire and helping to dig the post holes. Two other Denver women own the adjoining half section, Mrs. Emma Hoff, another Denver woman, showed good judgment when four years ago she drove over 100 miles in the Crow creek country, picked out and purchased 800 acres of land near Willow creek, which has made her wealthy. If an applicant fails to make a grade of 70 per cent, or better in his examination before the Colorado State board of medical examiners, he will not be allowed in future to take another examination on the same application. He may take one more examination within a year from the time he took the first one, provided he pays another $25 fee. W. F. R. Mills, secretary of the Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade, has resigned that position in order to devote his entire time to the work of the Convention League, of which he is secretary. With his family he will make a protracted trip to California and other states of the Pacific coast, preliminary to taking up his exclusive duties with the league. Charles F. Hill, a graduate of the Trinidad High school, class of 1899, has been appointed army paymaster in Porto Rico. Soon after his graduation at Trinidad his parents moved to the island and he entered the military service. He spoke Spanish fluently, which greatly aided him in his climb up the ladder. A belated reward of $250 has been offered by the Trinidad City Council for the arrest and conviction of the murderer of Mrs. Anna Goldman, wife of David Goldman, who was strangled to death August 20th while in the store alone. FREED AT LAST From the Awful Tortures of Kidney Disease. Mrs. Rachel Ivie, Henrietta, Texas, says: "I would be ungrateful if I did not tell what Donan's Kidney Pills have done for me. Fifteen years kidney trouble clung to me, my existence was one of misery and for two whole years I was unable to go out of the not tell what Doan's Kidney Pills have done for me. Fifteen years kidney trouble clung to me, my existence was one of misery and for two whole years I was unable to go out of the house. My back ached all the time and I was utterly weak, unable at times to walk without assistance. The kidney secretions were very irregular. Doan's Kidney Pills restored me to good health, and I am able to do as much work as the average woman, though nearly eighty years old." Remember the name—Doan's. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Purchasing Power. A young gentleman of our acquaintance, who had just reached the age of six, was recently waiting with his mother for a train at a railway station, when he noticed a penny-in-the-slot weighing machine. He asked his mother a great many questions about it, and at last received permission to drop in his penny and be weighed. Having obtained that important information, he said: "How much would I have weighed, mamma, if I had dropped in a dollar?" Catarrh Cannot Be Cured WITHLOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease, Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly upon the blood and mucous membranes. It is used to treat the cough. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with other medicines to treat mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing catarrh. Need for testimonials, free samples, EYE EXP, COPS, Toilec, Sold by Drugs prest, price 75c. The Cost of Politics. In his reminiscences of Grover Cleveland, George F. Parker tells a story concerning prodigal expenditures in politics. A rich man who had been nibbling at the Democratic nomination for governor of New York asked William C. Whitney's advice. This is the advice: "Of course, you ought to run! Make your preliminary canvass, and when you have put in $200,000 you will have become so much interested in it that you will feel like going ahead and spending some money." "Julius Caesar" Sent to Bed. At the British Authors' club banquet in his honor, Lieut. Shackleton told an amusing story of a man who went home one night after dinner and took with him four or five others. "Come in, boys," he said, "and have a last drink." "But your wife might not like it," one of the party replied. "My wife!" was the answer; "I am Julius Caesar in my house." On entering they were received by the lady of the house with the words: "Oh, walk in, gentlemen; there is plenty of drink in the dining room. As for Julius Caesar, he is going to bed." Country Neglecting the Children. If the percentage of tuberculous children recently ascertained by an investigation in Stockholm, Sweden (1.61 per cent.) were applied to the schools of the United States there would be 273,700 children between the ages of eight and fifteen who are positively affected with tuberculosis, according to a statement of the National Association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis. As contrasted with this figure, there are only 11 open-air tuberculosis schools in operation in the entire country, and nine more under consideration. At the lowest estimate, even with all the schools now in operation and those proposed, accommodations will not be provided for four-tenths of one per cent. of the children who need this special treatment. Coffee is such a secret worker that it is not suspected as the cause of sickness or disease, but there is a very sure way to find out the truth. A lady in Memphis gives an interesting experience her husband had with coffee. It seems that he had been using it for some time and was an invalid. The physician in charge shrewdly suspected that coffee was the "Worm at the root of the tree," and ordered it discontinued with instructions to use Postum regularly in its place. The wife says: "We found that was the true remedy for his stomach and heart trouble and we would have gladly paid a hundred times the amount of the doctor's charge when we found how wise his judgment was. "The use of Postum instead of coffee was begun about a year ago, and it has made my husband a strong, well man. He has gained thirty-five pounds in that time and his stomach and heart troubles have all disappeared. "The first time I prepared it I did not boll it long enough and he said there was something wrong with it. Sure enough it did taste very flat, but the next morning I followed directions carefully, boiling it for fifteen minutes, and he remarked 'this is better than any of the old coffee.' "We use Postum regularly and never tire of telling our friends of the benefit we have received from leaving off coffee." Look for the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter! A new one appears from time to time. They are sincere, true, and full of human interest. Color more good brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You can dye garment without thinning apart. Write for free booklet - How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. MONREDRUG CO., Quincy, Illinois. Some people look on a doctor's prescription in the same light as a cookery recipe and pass it on to their friends for general use. They forget that some symptoms may come from totally different causes and that to take a medicine prescribed for a friend is a very risky thing to do and may do a great deal of harm. Dr. S. F. Spohn, President of the Spohn Medical Co., proprietors of Spohn's Distemper Cure, was recently elected mayor of Goshen, Ind., by a good majority. Mr. Spohn was for a number of years County Supt. of Schools, making such a record that his neighbours and friends, regardless of political lines, insisted on his accepting the nomination for mayor. In the opinion of the beauty doctor many a homely woman has a fine face for business. The next time you have a cold on the lungs try rubbing Wizard Oil on your chest and see how quickly it will draw out the inflammation and break up the cold. The less a man knows about women the more he thinks he knows. 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Getting ready for the sale now. Watch future announcements, or come without delay. Philanthropy. It is announced by authority that Gen McFudge has made another princely donation to McFudge university. Gold floors will be laid in all the buildings of the institution; an equatorial telescope, with an aperture of 40 feet, will be mounted; the museums will be enlarged until they cover eighty acres and 100,000,000 volumes will be added to the library. The determination is to make McFudge the equal of any school in the United States. No professor is paid less than $1,000 a week at McFudge, and this broad policy is attracting the best scholarship of the age. With an especial endowment of a billion dollars, the income of which is devoted in perpetuity to bribing students to attend, it is felt that the future of the university is assured. The alumni of the school have jusdo donated a magnificent atar piece for the chapel. It represents Gen. McFudge being crowned by the Muses. Life. CONTRARINESS OF LIFE. Man's life is full of crosses and temptations. He comes into this world without his consent and goes out against his will, and his trip is exceedingly rocky. The rule of contrariness is one of the unfortunate features of this trip. When he is little the grown girls kiss him, and when he is grown the little girls kiss him. If he raises a large family he is called a mustard, but if he raises small check he is called a fraud and shunned like a Chinaman with the seven-year itch. If he is poor he is a bad manager, but if he is rich he is dishonest. If he is in politics it is for pie; if he is out of politics you don't know where to put him, and he is no good for his country. If he does an act of charity it's for policy; if he won't give to charity he is a stingy old cluss and lives only for himself. If he dies young there was a great future before him; if he lives to an old age he has missed his calling. Lighting the Fire. A fire broke out one night in one of the smaller towns of Massachusetts, whereupon its newly-equipped fire department, composed of volunteers, was called on to show what it could do. Only one lantern could be found the smoke was pouring out of the building, and the night was dark. Finally a small tongue of fire appeared and a cheer went up as the firemen turned the hose in that direction. At this moment the captain cried out: "Look out what you're doin' there! Keep that water off that! It's the only light we've got to put out the fire by."—Lippincott's. Jealous Man. There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.—Fielding. Be of Good Cheer. Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come—owell. CHRISTMAS GLOVES THERE is a certain satisfaction in knowing that you are giving good gloves when making Christmas gifts of gloves. 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HOSIERY Do not fail to see the Perini Special, the best silk stockings in the world for, the pair $1.50 AT $1.00 for three pair we are offering lisle thread and cotton stocking that are equal to most 50c grades. SWEATER COATS Ask to see our $2.50 knitted jackets for women and girls—we have them in white, grey, navy and red. HANDKERCHIEFS Our Christmas line of handkerchiefs is better than ever. At 25c we are showing the daintiest patterns that are made. HAND BAGS--OUR $5.00 Bags are world beaters—large size, real seal, leather covered or metal frame. JEWELRY NOVELTIES Don't miss our display of collar pins, belt buckles, combs and barrets in jet and shell; fancy hair pins, bandeaus, hat pins, etc., all at reasonable prices. UMBRELLAS Our stock of umbrellas is the most complete in the West. We have everything that is made for men and women. It is well to select your Christmas Umbrellas early, as all engraving can be executed with greater care. If in doubt secure a Perini Glove Order; they are always pleasing gifts for both men and women. The Rocky Mountain Athletic Club 1859 Champa Street BOARD OF DIRECTORS; VICTOR WALKER, DR. J. H. P. WESTBRO A. HARPER, R. B. BOLDEN, HENRY J. M. BRO VICTOR WALKER, DR. J. H. P. WESTBROOK, DR. J. A. HARPER, R. B. BOLDEN, HENRY J. M. BROWN. Get your old plumes and boas made into willow plumes. Mrs. Z. Benjamin 1958 Broadway First-Class Milliner Hats Trimmed and Made to Order. FINEST ASSORTMENT of FALL HATS in the City. She solicits the patronage of her OLD CUSTOMERS. Queen Takes Fencing Lessons. Her majesty Queen Alexandra has hastily conceived a great liking for fencing, and is now taking lessons from one of the best-known fencing masters in the country, says Tit-Bits. The master in question was formerly instructor to one of the regiments of household cavalry, and boasts of having trained more first-class swordsmen than any other man in Europe. He describes her majesty as being a "bornencer," and as o'er who, had she taken up the art of life, would have achieved great dominance in it Mountain Club npa Street J. H. P. WESTBROOK, DR. J. HENRY J. M. BROWN. M. O'KEEFE & CO. Manufacturing Jewelers and Opticians FINE Watch Repairing RAILROAD WATCHES A SPECIALTY 827 Fifteenth Street, DENVER, COLORADO The Real Glory of Life. To be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need, to be a cup of strength to a human soul in a crisis of weakness, is to know the glory of life.—Hugh Black. OPPOSITE Postoffice THE MASON'S 42nd ENTERTAINMENT BIGGER THAN EVER Monday, December 27,' East Turner Ha Sunday, December 27 st Turner H Monday, December 27,'09 BEST OF MUSIC Go to Monarch 1763 Larimer Street, Co FOR HOLIDAY We Carry the Finest Lowest Prices. Free Del City. Formerly of 1369 Go to the March Liquor 13 Larimer Street, Corner Eighteenth Street FOR YOUR HOLIDAY GOODS Carry the Finest Stock in the City Services. Free Delivery to any Pa- rmerly of 1369 Broadway KOPPER PHONE KOPPER'S HOTEL EUROPEAN PLAN 1215-1219 TWENTIETH STREET Between Larimer and Lawrence. Furnished Rooms Day, Week or Month. DENVER, 1763 Larimer Street, Corner Eighteenth Street FOR YOUR HOLIDAY GOODS We Carry the Finest Stock in the City at the Lowest Prices. Free Delivery to any Part of the City. Formerly of 1369 Broadway KOPPER' EUROPE 1215-1219 TWEN Between Larime First-Class Furnished Rooms By the Day, Week or More [Image of a classroom with students seated in rows, facing a teacher at the front. The walls are plain and the windows are closed.] ```markdown ``` LOCATED at 873 Zuni street, Denver, Colo.; take Lawrence street car west and get off at West Eighth avenue, go due west through the Barnum shops eight blocks. This institution provides a home for homeless colored children and aged women and men of the race. We also care for children whose parents are in service and can't keep them, at a very small pitance. Any information can be had by writing a letter or postal to 873 Zuni street, or telephoning Main 7326. ALBERT KOPPER Proprietor. ember 27, '09 ner Hall to the Liquor Co. mer Eighteenth Street YOUR Y GOODS Stock in the City at the very to any Part of the Broadway S HOTEL IN PLAN TIETH STREET and Lawrence. h. DENVER, COLORADO J. R. CONTEE, PRESIDENT. R. E. HANDY, LICENSED EMBALMER. THE Douglass Undertaking Company Incorporated—Bonded to the City. Phone—Main 6123. 1023 19th Street I PHONE 1149 MAIN