Colorado Statesman

PATRONIZE MERCHANTS WHO ADV.IN THEPEOPLE'S PAPER THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RAGE COUNTRY PARTY A DAILY NEWSPAPER VOL. XX. A DAILY NEWS The following editorial appear ed in the Richmond, Planet: The New York Age expresses the opinion that when there is an honest demand for a daily newspaper for colored people, that demand will produce an honest supply We are of the opinion that this is a self evident declaration of a truth. The colored leaders of the country should agitate the subject and produce this demand. No citizen with money, be he colored or white can be expected to invest money in a losing enterprise. This kind of hysteria, however, exists in many of the publishers of colored journals, who wear themselves and their families out in the effort to serve an unappreciative people. It may be taken as a fact that the New York Age will publish a daily edition of that journal when its present business grows and an inviting field for the investment of capital in a daily newspaper is seen in the distance through the journalistic telescope. Most theorists who advocate the establishment of a daily journal do so under the impression that it would do a great deal of good in the way of combating existing prejudices against our people. This is all true, but we must count the cost. A daily paper will not do it alone. It must be an influential, well edited, well patrouized paper and with a large subscribing and advertising constituency to support it. Where are these to be obtained? Colored people of wealth are the "stingiest" folks on the globe when it comes to the support of not only race newspaper, but race enterprises of any kind. They have a weakness for spending their money where it is not only not needed but offtimes where it is not wanted. This comes as a result of two hundred and fifty years of training in racial distrust, and some of the best of us are afflicted with this "fever." Daily newspaper "grave yards" are to be found both North and South among the colored people and the mourners who invested in them are still in the land. A race journal may be likened to an electric lamp. It is charged to last twelve months with intermittent use, and about one month with constant burning. Change the New York Age from a weekly journal to a daily and with our present guessing as to its financial backing, it would last about six months as against the ```markdown ``` --- prospect of a life time service. Leaders who wish a daily newspaper should begin missionary work among their own "tribe." The daily newspaper field is covered by our white contemporaries. They furnish news and that is what the average colored man wants when he buys a daily paper. A white publishing company sells its product at the minimum price of one cent to both white and colored people and a colored publishing company would be forced to sell its product at the minimum price to colored people, who do not want it and to white people who would read one copy as a curiosity. In Southern localities some colored folks will send "one of the children" a mile to borrow a paper that costs a penny to be delivered at the rural free delivery letter box, just as they do now in order to read a colored journal at from $1.00 to $1.50 per year. Anyone who can figure out the wisdom, then, or at least the financial advantage of publishing a metropolitan daily journal for colored folks must be as wise as Solomon and as inquisitive as the Queen of Sheba. NEW BUILDING FOR TUSKEGEE Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Nov. 28.—Dr. Booker T. Washington's work is still having its influence felt in the East. Another new building will adorn the campus. Two friends in New York City have just provided the money with which to erect and equip an up-to-date building at the Tuskegee Institute, to be used for the purpose of canning products of the institution and teaching students the latest and best methods of canning all kinds of garden and farm products. Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 25.—The Montgomery Journal, one of the leading white daily papers in this part of the country, devoted 10 columns recently to showing the progress of black people in the State of Alabama in advertising their various business enterprises. Duty Plainest at First Sight. There is nothing like the first glance we get at duty, before there has been any special pleading of our affections or inclinations. Duty is never uncertain at first. It is only after we have got involved in the mazes and sophistries of wishing that things are otherwise than they are, that it seems indistinct. Considering a duty is often explaining it away.—F. W. Robertson DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 1913. State Hist & Nat Hist Boctesg State House GIANTS WHO ADO E JOURNAL DENVER COLORADO LYNCHING SLIGHTLY DECREASING At the end of six months of the present year there had been 24 lynchings. At the end of 10 months.(November 1) there had been 45 lynchings, a reduction of four as compared with the same period for 1912. Within the past four months—July, August, September and October—since I last called attention to the subject, there have been 21 lynchings, making a total, as I have said, of 45 lynchings for 10 months. Of this number only seven individuals, or 15 per cent, were charged with rape. It is worth while, I think, to note a few typical cases for which human life was taken by a mob. July 27, a Negro, at Dunbar, Ga., supposed to be a burglar, charged with shooting the proprietor of a store. Also in July, two colored farmers were lynched near Germantown, Ky. The commercial Appeal, the leading white newspaper of Tennessee, in commenting upon the lynching said: "Two apparently inoffensive Negroes, good farm hands, real wealth producers, were assassinated." No motive was assigned for the lynching. The Commercial Appeal further said: "As far as any one knows, they were quiet, orderly people." August 18, the Sheriff at Spartanburg, S. C., in spite of the fact that dynamite was used, prevented a mob from lynching a Negro accused of assaulting a white woman. He was tried later before a white jury and found not guilty. August 23, a half-witted Negro near Birmingham, Ala., for frightening women and children. August 25, a Negro accused of murber at Greenville, Ga. A few days later another Negro was arrested and confessed. An innocent man had been lynched. August 27, a Negro at Jennings, La., for striking an Italian merchant who had swept dirt on the Negro's shoes as he was passing the store. In 10 months, as stated above, 45 persons have been put to death by mob-law. A reduction of the number of lynchings by four, though small, means something in the way of a higher civilization, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON MONEY WELL SPENT Enough money to print and distribute ten million copies of the speech of Judge Kavanaugh on the American Negro would be money well spent. Ten million white men, who think, obight to find this speech in their mail some morning. The speech was delivered before the Irish-American Society, and should be a good reason for sending the Judge to Congress.—Pythian Monitor. OKLAHOMA NECROES DUPED BY IMPOSTOR Clearview, Okla., Nov. 25.—The Negroes of this section are being fooled out of their money by an alleged African from Gold Coast, Africa, by the name of Alfred C. Sams, and who represents himself as the chief of the Guinne Tribe in Africa, on an African colonization scheme. He is going from community to community preaching immigration back to Africa and telling the ignorant that they can get transportation there and land and concessions on the payment of $25. He assures them that the $25 they pay gives them an interest in the $50,000 ship that is to be purchased to carry them to Africa. Many are too ignorant to realize that a $50,000 ship would not be seaworthy for a voyage across the ocean, or that concessions in Gold Coast are the property of foreign nations and not Chief Sam's to give. Many ignorant Negroes, some of them old and decrepit, are selling out their homes and lands at a great sacrifice in order to raise as much money for this alleged African imposter as possible. It is tragical to observe how blindly they follow this imposter. At a meeting here Wednesday, attended by the ignorant members of that race, $12,000 in one day was raised and turned over by these ignorant dupes to the managers of this emmigration scheme, and other communities are pouring their savings into it. They idolize this imposter as if he was reincarnated. Many who are opposed to the movement believe that white men are behind it, and it is but another scheme to secure profitable lands from ignorant land owners. Chief Sam is reaping a rich harvest in Southwestern Oklahoma, and this monumental fake, when he leaves Oklahoma, will have left many a poor Negro in poverty who before his coming owned a farm or a homestead. The "Back to Africa" movement is multing ignorant. Negroes of this section out of thousands of dollars. The people are selling at a sacrifice, their old homes and farms. Credit Is Due A man believes he is a hero if he amuses a baby for three minutes. But he never gives a mother credit for amusing it 24 hours a day. Business. Not Friendship. BUSINESS, Not Friendship. The friendship that keeps a lover and is always balancing accounts is not friendship at all. The fear that one may give more to his brother than he receives from him, that must have every favor returned as though it were a loan, every gift, visit, invitation, even expression of affection, paid back in kind—that may be a pleasant business proposition, but it has no claim to be called friendship.—Great Thoughts The $20,000 Colored Pythian Temple at Evansville, Ind., will be ready for occupancy in December. The first, or ground floor, will have a motion picture theatre and store rooms, the second floor will have office rooms and an auditorium, while the third floor will be fitted up with lodge rooms. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 25.—Because they were being forced to ride in the same compartments with Negroes while traveling between Huntington, W. Va., and Louisville over the C. & O. Railroad, James Malone and John McCarty were each given judgment for $2,950 damages in Judge Smith's court last week. The petitions alleged that in being compelled to ride in the same compartment with Negroes the railroad violated the separate coach law of Kentucky. Greensboro, N. C., Nov. 25.—On Friday, November 21, the Odell Hardware Company, reported to be the largest hardware firm in the South, closed and draped its doors in memory of its old and faithful colored employee, Robert Harris. When consideration is given to the importance of this firm, its extensive business and its large force and that all of this work has been suspended to pay respect to a Negro, the citizens here see in this a very rare example of overlooking color and giving recognition to merit. It is said that a bunch of Negro postmasters may grow out of the new system of appointing these officials through a competitive civil service examination, in which the best man is supposed to win the plum regardless of race, color, creed or politics. The leaders are advising educated colored men North and South to enter the exinations and take their chances with all other citizens. If the principle of the "survival of the fittest" is lived up to, there is no doubt that some Negroes will be able to "get by." Washington, D.C., Nov. 25.—William H. York of Chicago, has been appointed lieutenant in Liberian Frontier Forces by the Liberian Government at a salary of $1,200 a year. Mr. York was selected for the position upon the recommendation of Major Charles Young, military attache at Monrovia. Negotiations were carried NO 14 on through the State Department at Washington. Mr. York is in Washington looking after his transportation and other matters. The new lieutenant in Liberian Frontier Forces is 30 years old and was born in Springfield, Ill. He saw four years' service in the Philippines, a short time in Cuba, and has traveled extensively in the West. He is a graduate of the scientific department of Wilberforce University. While at the institute he was connected with the military department and was captain of Company B for two years. It was a graceful and merited tribute to the fidelity and long service of Mr. Archibald Lewis that five justices of the Supreme Court of the United States attended his funeral last Saturday. They were Chief Justice Howard Douglass White, Justices Willis Vandeventer, Joseph Lamar, William R. Day and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The exercises took place at the home of Mr. Lewis, 426 M. street Northwest, and the people who came to honor the deceased far exceeded the capacity of the place. The justices remained throughout the services, mingling freely with the host of friends who passed in and out to pay their respects and to say a word of condolence to the bereaved family. Mr. Lewis had been connected with the Supreme Court as official rober and general attendant for sixty-four years, having been appointed in 1849 during the incumbency of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. He had an enviable record for efficiency and fidelity, and all of the long line of justices were fond of him. He was one of the pillars of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal church. He was freed long before the beginning of the Civil War. "Archie Lewis was a man of great character," said Justice Vandeventer. He had a wonderful disposition and endeared himself to my associates and myself by his unfailing courtesy and kindness of heart. He was one of the best informed men I have ever met and possesses a memory of faces, incidents and historical facts that was little short of marvelous. He filled his place at the court up to a few days ago, and his death after so brief an illness was as sad as it was unexpected. Such men as Archie Lewis are a credit to the nation, as well as to his race. He was faithful to every trust. He will not soon be forgotten." AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS What's in a name? One answer Shakespeare himself gives: "But he who flies from me my "But he who filches from me- my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor, indeed." Not altogether in the sense indicated by this reply will my story deal. Surnames of negroes who were slaves were usually of their own selection, as they, like all mankind originally, were known by one appellation, a given name. When it became necessary our Jewish people selected surnames that meant something and are generally euphonious, as Rosenbaum, Silverstein, Loeb, Rothschild, and so on. When Anglo-Saxon surnames were added or adopted in the eleventh and twelfth centuries some seem to have been taken haphazard, and are of no significance. Our colored people retained, in the main, after freedom, the surname of "Old Mastah." Most of them felt proud of the family whom they served and spoke of them as "my white folks." "No croger blood in our family, and us cultured ones ain't got no use for po' white trash, neither." Perhaps it is not generally known that the term "po' white folks," so often used by the negro servant, had no special reference to financial conditions, meaning, rather, social status—"Mannahs and customs," as they sometimes expressed it. One example of family fealty is the case of Nelson Crews. This really remarkable negro was born on the plantation of Dr. Samuel Crews of Howard county, Missouri, who at that time owned over 500 negro servants. His parents were far above the average in intelligence and integrity. Joanna, the fine old mother of Nelson Crews, lives now in Kansas City. She was the weaver at the Crews home, and I believe there are woolen counterpanes yet in the possession of the family that bear evidence of her skill. With us yet is a stanch, dependable negro woman, industrious and self-supporting, though long past three score years and ten, who, though she has led to the altar—yes, led is the word—three husbands, has never changed her surname; she either made pre-nuptial arrangements with her various suitors or brought them to taw afterward, for Susan Clark she was, is and ever will be. "I was bo'n and bred on the plantation of Beverly R. Clark, the finest white folks in Kaintucky or any uwh upon the yearth, and twel I meets up with a bettah name I don't see no 'casion to change mine,' insists Aunt Susan. The numerous Collinses, Bradleys, Simpsons, Stones, Smarts heareabouts bear out my assertion that negroes after freedom selected for their own the surname of former owners. Howard, Scott and Wallace Smith, negroes, good and creditable citizens of the vicinity of Kansas City, Mo., were slaves in the family of a sister of Cassius Clay. Though they are proud of the fact that they are of the Clay clan of colored folks, they prefer Smith, the name of the member of the family to whom they were assigned! Among their proudest possessions is a portrait of a handsome, distinguished-looking what man, inscribed on the margin this testimony: "For my dear old Mammy From Green Clay Smith." The donor was, you remember, nominated presidential candidate by the Liberal Republican party. When Marguerite Williams, two years old, slipped and fell into a creek near her home at Kansas City, Edward Reed, a negro eleven years of age, pulled her out of the shallow water. The girl was unconscious. Then the negro remembered the training he received in the public schools and resuscitated the child by applying first aid to the drowning. A physician said the negro boy's efforts probably had saved her life. George Washington Buckner, the new American minister to Liberia, has been in consultation with Ambassador Page for one or two days this week, reports the London Times. He is a negro doctor of Evansville, Ind. Apparently he is approaching his task in the African republic with great zeal and ardor, in company with Lieutenant Martin, a graduate of Howard university, who will help organize the Liberian constabulary. There are 7,000 monks on the Mount of Athos, in southern Greece. Moji, Japan, is to have a new railway station to cost $100,000. In the battle which is constantly being waged by the natives of Africa and the denizens of the jungle 19.,104 snakes and 19,000 wild beasts were killed in one year, 1910. You can never tell. Genius sometimes wears clothes that fit. Some men fall in love and never get on their feet again. Many a glr1 deludes herself with the belief that she has completed her education before she marries. One of the keenest observers of the proceedings in congress is Eugene Patten, the only negro who ever served as a page in the house or senate. Sixty years have whitened his hair, but his step is sprightly and his mind alert, while from mere force of habit the trend of legislation on the hill and the personnel of the two branches which shape the laws are the center of his interest. Patten is still an employee of the government, but in the humble capacity of gathering rubbish from the parks instead of responding to the hand-clap of lawmakers in the lower house. He has a memory like a phonograph, wide in its range and astonishingly accurate. The good old days, when the giants of debate sat in congress during the Democratic regime immediately following the era of reconstruction, have become "the ocean to the river of his thoughts," and he loves to linger over the memory of them. As he recalls the incidents and cites the characteristics of eminent men, an absorbing panorama of political history unfolds before you. Patten was born in Huntsville, Ala., and when he drifted to Washington as a lad he was one of the few Democrats of his race. He was no ordinary lad, and his political views were a matter of real conviction. The promptness and intelligence with which he discharged minor errands brought him to the attention of influential members of congress, who resolved to secure him an appointment. Never before in the history of congress had any but white boys been appointed pages, but the men behind young Patten decided to break all precedents. Such celebrities as John Randolph Tucker, Eppa Hunton, Tom Ewing and Alexander H. Stephens exerted themselves in his behalf, and in due course he was appointed a page. One question was debated 50 years ago, and that was the question as to our ability to support ourselves from a physical and personal point of view. There were not a few who 50 years ago predicted that this newly freed race would become a perpetual burden upon the pocketbooks of the nation. It was freely predicted that we would neither feed, clothe nor shelter ourselves. Every year the American congress is asked to appropriate between $10,000,000 and $12,000,000 to be used largely in providing food, clothes, and shelter for about 300,000 American Indians. While this is true of the American Indian (and I have nothing but the highest respect for the Indians) ever since the days of Reconstruction the American negro has not called upon congress to appropriate a single dollar to be used in providing either clothes, shelter or food for our race. Absolutely in all these personal matters we have supported ourselves and mean to do so in all the future, and very seldom in any part of the country does one find a black hand reached from a corner of a street asking for any man's personal charity. Within 50 years; then, we have proven that we can survive from a physical point of view, and we have proven that we could not only support ourselves but contribute taxes from $700,000,000 worth of property toward the support of local, state, and national government.—Booker T. Washington. Paraguay has valuable forest resources, the most important of which is quebracho, particularly rich in tannin. The total acreage of Hungary is about 80,000,000, of which 28 per cent. is in forest. Of this, 50 per cent. is owned by individuals or corporations, 20 per cent. by municipalities, 15 per cent. by the government and 15 per cent. by the church. An aviation school has just been founded in Lima under the auspices of the National Aero league (Liga Naciona Pro Aviacion) under $27,000 subsidy by the Peruvian government for acquiring aeroplanes and other equipment necessary for such a school. Thimbles have been known for many centuries. Some specimens unearthied by archaeologists are known to be 2,500 years old. They are of bronze, and their outer surfaces show the familiar indentations for engaging the head of the needle. St. Paul's 1914 school budget calls for expenditures aggregating $1,115,210. One hundred thousand miners in Scotland have received an increase in wages of six cents a day. The re-establishment of direct communication between San Francisco and Bristol through the arrangements for the Maple Leaf line of steamers to call at Avonmouth, has rendered valuable aid to the development of the trade in canned fruits and salmon. In St. Petersburg no outdoor musical performances are permitted. Five hundred and fifty-five persons attended the evening classes in academic subjects at the University of Cincinnati last year. An Open Letter to the Telephone Using Public Denver, Colo., November 30, 1913. The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, in the consideration of its future development, recognizes that its highest interests as a public utility lie in establishing the closest and most friendly relationship with the public generally, and with its patrons in particular; therefore, it is the purpose of The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, through this announcement, to inaugurate what may be termed an advertising educational series of articles, both in the newspapers' and in the form of letters to its customers. It is our hope that this campaign may mark a new era in the relation of public utility corporations to the public they serve. We want this education to work both ways—that the public may learn the truth about us, and that we may learn how the public regard us, and how we may fairly and efficiently serve the public—in other words, what is just and right to us and to the people, and to convince the public that we will voluntarily remedy any wrongs we are doing, if pointed out to us. We shall show you our financial affairs, frankly and freely. It so happens that our financing has been of such a nature that it is easy for us to clearly show to you this side of our affairs. What we mean by this is, that we have absolutely no water in our stock; we have no bonds, nor any preferred stock, and no mortgage of any kind upon which to pay fixed charges. We have more invested in our plant at its present replacement value than our issue of common stock, and we have no other stock issued than the common stock. There are no wheels within wheels, nor companies within companies, to absorb profits. We finance ourselves from year to year by selling our common stock to the people, at not less than par, in the states in which we operate. When we tell you the story of our financing, we will prove to you that there never have been any fortunes, large or small, made out of the manipulation of our stock—in other words no high financing has ever been done in connection with The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, or its predecessors. The stock never has had any speculative value; it has been, and is now, simply a safe investment. There is a great misunderstanding upon the part of the public as to this side of our business. Persons with ulterior motives, striving for office, and newspapers wishing to give startling news (see note below) frequently publish stories of how rich certain officials of our company are. Right now, this is being done in connection with the new revenue tax. We suppose these stories grow out of the belief of certain of the public that the executive officials of our company own the entire plant. It is absurd, for these executive officials of our company are merely trustees of the property, for the stockholders, and none of them are rich men, nor have they a very heavy holding of the stock. It is true that certain reputed rich men have large holdings of the stock of our company—some of them being on our Board of Directors—but not one of them has made any money whatsoever out of dealing in our stock. They have The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company A brilliant ceremony attended the opening of the Italian parliament by King Victor Emmanuel. Joe Rivers, the Los Angeles Mexican, defeated Leach Cross, the New York lightweight, in twenty rounds of fighting at the Vernon arena, in San Francisco. Jimmy Clabby, the Hammond, Ind., middleweight, defeated Soldier Frank Logan in the fourteenth round of a scheduled twenty-reound fight in San Francisco. Harry White, a wealthy Chinese, said to be leader of a band of smugglers that has operated long on the Canadian border, was arrested in New York. With every business house in Juarez closed and under the protection of United States Consul Thomas B. Edwards, General Pancho Villa's troops were thwarted Thursday in a well-organized plan for loot. One cent postage promises to be one of the live issue to be fought out in the regular session of Congress. A dozen bills have been introduced and it is said about half of these provide for penny postage outright. Displaying old-time, power and smoothness, the Mines football machine smashed the University of Denver to pieces at Denver, winning the final game of the season, 49 to 7. It was just one hour and forty-five minutes after the passage of life sentence upon him, that Marion McAdams, the holdup, who pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree at Cripple Creek, began to serve his term in the penitentiary. Thomas H. A. Magill, pioneer Denver newspaper man, who succumbed to tuberculosis at the Oakes home in Denver, was buried from St. Leo's church. The funeral service was preached by the Rev. Father William O'Ryan and interment was at Mount Olivet cemetery. Jack Dillon easily defeated "Sailor" Petroskey in their twelve-round fight at Butte, Mont. The Carlisle Indian eleven defeated Brown university 13 to 0, in their annual Thanksgiving Day game at Providence, R. I. The fisheries of Alaska yield annually more than $12,000,000, while almost $35,000,000 is invested in the salmon industry, which employs 18,000 men. At Villa Coublay, France, Rolland G. Garros accomplished for the first time in a monoplane a flight head downward carrying a passenger. During the maneuver the machine made several loops. The Thanksgiving dinner of the American Society in London was noteworthy because of the pronouncement of the British government's indorsement of the Monroe doctrine by Viscout Haldane, lord high chancellor. The pope continues daily his audience of bluejackets from the American warships in European-waters. A party of twenty of the crew of the battleship Arkansas was received at the vatican. One of the unique wedding fifts received by Miss Jessie Wilson was a beautiful American emerald of about three carats weight, presented by Lovat Fraser of Washington, through his friend, Dr. W. T. Grenfell. The theft of more than $250,000 worth of Union Pacific Railroad Company and General Electric Company securities from the Farmer's Loan and Trust Company of New York, became known when James E. Foye, thirty-five years old, a former $75 a month clerk of the trust company, was arrested as he stepped from a train in Philadelphia. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail asserts 1,400 great German firms and corporations have agreed to exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition. all paid dollar for dollar, in cash, at par, into the treasury of our company, for every share they hold, and they have simply come into our company because they believed it to be a safe investment. There is, too, upon the part of the public, a belief that the company is largely engaged in politics. We imagine this feeling is caused by the fact that in the past, simply from the standpoint of self-preservation, certain corporations were almost compelled to be in politics; but in these days, when the tendency is to place all corporations and trust affairs into the hands of a central body, such as the Interstate Commerce Commission and local state commissions, etc., to deal with the conduct of businesses such as ours, being in politics, as believed by the public, would be a foolish thing and entirely unnecessary. This is, therefore, to state emphatically that we are not, either directly or indirectly, in politics, in any way, shape or manner, and shall not be. We are going to attempt to give you the entire story as to our rates. We have been told, when stating to some of the public that we proposed starting a campaign like this, that our efforts would be futile; that our subscribers would turn out to be selfish and only look toward the end of getting as cheap telephone rates as possible. We do not believe this. We believe that the great majority of the public are inclined to be fair, and that it is not so much the question of what our telephone rates are as it is that when we make a statement regarding them, and show our true financing, that we shall be honest, and that the public shall know that we are honest. That when we make a statement as to our profits and earnings, showing just where the dollar that our subscriber pays us goes, the public may know that we are not trying to deceive them or keep anything back that should be shown. When we honestly do this and our position seems to be just and right, we believe that the fairness of the public will sustain us. We are going to set forth the inherent difficulties of giving universal telephone service. These articles and letters are not to be a piece of special pleading or adroit use of words, but a clear, business-like setting forth of facts. We hope, before we get through, both ourselves and the public will understand each other better. There is at least no harm to be done in trying to accomplish this desired result. It is our aim to educate, please and satisfy the public and to be educated ourselves. It seems to us that every corporation has the right of self-defense, the same as an individual. The public has the same right. Listen to our defense and we will listen to yours. No problem has ever been harder for us than just how we were going to let the public know truly about us, but we believe that no problem was ever more important to both. If we really can make you feel that you are a partner in our business, we shall have accomplished much. A large part of the problem will be solved, if we can only bring the public, through education, to a full understanding that there is a mutual dependence between the public service corporations and the public, and that Soldiers must make oath to amount due before getting pay, is Kenehan's edict. The council has decided that Denver saloons may continue to serve free lunches. The first strawberries of the season, two carloads, left Plant City, Fla., for Chicago. The farmers netted 75c a quart. The telephone has supplanted the telegraph in the dispatching of trains on the Denver & Rio Grande between Grand Junction and Salt Lake. John Thomas, for years one of the most successful mining men of the district, died of heart disease on a couch in the office of the chief of police in Cripple Creek. John McLennan, state president of the striking coal miners, was re-elected president of the Colorado State Federation of Labor in the recent referendum vote. Postmaster General Burleson has recommended to the Interstate Commerce Commission that the maximum weight of parcel post packages be increased from 12 to 50 pounds for first and second zones. William Wilson Finley, president of the Southern railway and a leading figure in movements for the development of the South, died from apoplexy. Judge William C. Hood, Jr., of Brighton, who is presiding over the second division of the Denver County Court to help Judge Rothgerber dispose of a heavy docket, and Miss Alice Cady, clerk of the division, were married at Littleton by the Rev. George Edmundson, pastor of the Littleton Presbyterian church. A proposal to have the annual Harvard-Yale football game played on Thanksgiving Day, instead of on the Saturday preceding the holiday has been communicated unofficially to the Harvard football management. public prosperity depends largely upon the utilities that bring them in contact with each other, and that, the more nearly perfect in efficiency and sufficiency the utilities serving the public are, the more prosperity, comforts and conveniences the public will enjoy. We believe our story is an interesting one, and we hope that everyone will read it. Note.—As an instance of the kind of startling news which newspapers sometimes publish, we want to call attention to recent articles in the newspapers headed, "United States Government Calls Upon Two Girl Stenographers to Tell Where They Got Two Million Dollars to Form the Corporation Securities and Investment Company." Then the articles went on to say that this Corporation Securities and Investment Company was a scheme of the Telephone Company to further its purpose of monopolizing telephone companies, etc. The truth is that our company has been met with a strong feeling in the State of Montana—well-high universal—that something should be done to relieve the citizens of that state, of two telephone systems. Public meetings have been held, and votes taken, that the telephones of one or the other of the systems should be thrown out. Resolutions and letters have been submitted to us, and we have started out to see what we could do to relieve the citizens of that state of this burden. We explain this so the public may know that in the above Forword, where we say "there is no company within a company, or wheels within wheels," we are speaking absolutely truly, and also that this Corporation Securities and Investment Company, which was so freely advertised by the articles in the newspaper referred to, is absolutely a legitimate and proper company and organized for the specific purposes stated. Resolutions were introduced in the House to investigate the high cost of living. The battleship Emperor of India, the last of the four battleships on the British 1911-1912 naval construction program, was launched at Barron-in-Furness, England. The car barns, general offices and a number of cars of the Mesaba Electric Railway Company at Virginia, Minn., were destroyed by fire. The loss is $125,000. Thanksgiving Day was celebrated by all Americans in Rome. Thomas Nelson Page, the United States ambassador, gave a dinner to the members of the embassy staff. The state public service commission of Missouri granted permission to the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad company to issue $470,000,000 ninety-nine year mortgage bonds. Mrs. Katherine D. Osbourne was granted a divorce in the Superior Court at San Francisco from Lloyd Osbourne, stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson, on the ground of desertion. One hundred and eighty-four wounded men are in the Juarez hospitals as a result of the unsuccessful federal attack upon Juarez. Pancho Villa is also back in Juarez with 6,000 rebel troops. Death ended the romance of Elmore and Mrs. Pearl Maadonald, whose marriage at Macdonald's bedside in St. Joseph's hospital in Denver took place a few days ago. The Rev. John H. Houghton, who performed the wedding ceremony, conducted the funeral service at Macdonald's grave. Ole Stromberg, whose ranch is three miles west of NiWot, on Left-hand creek, reports that a large number of beaver are working in the creek on his place. 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VINEGAR Soup, Fish or Meat, Two Vegetables Coffee, Tea or Cocoa Desert 25 CENTS HRS AT ALL HOURS Stewart Manager. Champa 3543 Denver, Colo. NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN. Disorders resulted from the strike of teamsters and chauffeurs in Indianapolis. Deadwood was selected by the South Dakota Educational Association in convention at Sioux Falls for the 1914 convention. Michigan is sixth among the states of the Union in the value of its mineral production. It owes its prominence to its great wealth in two metals, copper and iron. An armed bandit entered a suburban station of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad at Chicago, bound and vaged F. O. Robbins, the agent, and escaped with $700. Ibrace E. Montague, traveling passenger agent for the Southern Pacific, was shot and killed by a holdup man in a Pullman car of the westbound Sunset Express, a few miles out of Los Angeles. A charge of dynamite placed under the tracks of the Mineral Range railroad near Mohawk in the Calumet, Mich., copper strike district exploded shortly before a passenger train was due to pass. A section of track was torn out. Salem, the capital of Oregon, adopted an amendment to the city charter prohibiting the council from issuing saloon licenses and the fifteen or more saloons of the city are closed, all licenses having expired at the close of November. The majority was 954. Colorado and Eastern capital are allied in a new railroad enterprise involving the construction of a standard gauge line from Albuquerque to Salt Lake, to tap the rich agricultural and mineral fields of the Montezuma valley in southwestern Colorado and parts of New Mexico and Utah. Dora Murff, eighteen years old, was found guilty of manslaughter, and her stepfather, J. S. Duval, was convicted of first degree murder without capital punishment, at Crowley, La. They were charged with the killing of J. M. Delhaye, Miss Murff's sweetheart. Allie Duvall, the girl's half-brother, was acquitted. Central Texas rivers rose suddenly as a result of heavy rains, causing more than $100,000 damage, washing out tracks, delaying trains and reaching the flood stage in the cities of Fort Worth, Waco and Austin. Five persons were drowned and property valued at many thousands of dollars was destroyed at Belton. The dead were Mrs. W. H. Polk and her four children. WASHINGTON. Raw wool went on the free list under the provisions of the new tariff act. President Wilson told callers that the Mexican factions seemed to be running things in an interesting way at present and that no development was contemplated, so far as the United States was concerned. Fred Knielson of Omaha, Neb., was appointed an assistant solicitor of the State Department with authority to act as solicitor in the absence of Sollicitor Folk. He has been in the State Department since 1904. The forty-fifth annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association got fully under way with Dr. Anna Howard Shaw presiding over an assembly of nearly 1,000 delegates from all states of the Union. The postmaster at Philadelphia is taking no chances of running short of postage stamps for Christmas business. He has ordered 90,230,000 stamps, valued at $1,696,000, the largest single order ever made by a postmaster. The international tangle over the presence in the United States of J. Santos Zelaya, former president of Nicaragua, apparently was solved by Zelaya agreeing to return to Barcelona, Spain, from whence he came to New York a month ago. Congress will have to appropriate $1,108,681,777 to operate the government of the United States during the fiscal year 1915, according to the estimates prepared by each department and sent to the House by Secretary McAdoo of the treasury. In estimates submitted to Congress by the Treasury Department is an item of $200,000 to be used toward completion of the new federal building at Denver. Milady's jewelry bill for 1913 will approximate $57,000,000, according to statistics of jewelry importations just published by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. Immediate acquirement and operation of oil wells and refineries to furnish fuel for the navy was recommended by Secretary Daniels in his first annual report FOREIGN. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and Miss Margaret Roosevelt left Lima, Peru, for Panama and the United States. Captain Gilbert V. Wildman-Lushington, commander of the British naval flying corps, was killed at the naval flying grounds at East Church, Kent, Eng. The Rev. Henry Althoff, pastor of St. Barbara church, Okawville, Ill., was created bishop of the diocese of Belleville, Ill., in succession to the late Bishop John Janssen, who died last July. Reports received from the telegraph outpost at Vila Ahumeda stated that hundreds of men, women and children were fleeing across the desert from Chihuahua to Ojinaga and other border points. Rather than endure starvation, the federal troops have evacuated Chihuahua city, which has been under siege for weeks, according to advices received by Gen. Francisco Villa, the rebel leader. The evacuation leaves the city open to possession by the rebels. W. S. Windham, formerly cashier of a bank at Pasadena, now superintendent of a ranch at Quimichis, Mexican Territory of Tepic, send a wireless message to former United States Senator Thomas R. Bard of Oxnard, Cal., saying he was being held by Constitutionalists until he paid a ransom of $5,000 gold. Northern Mexico, embracing the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahulla, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas and including the territory from the border to a line 500 miles southward, will be wholly under the authority of the rebel forces within two weeks. The forces which are fighting Huerta will then jain at Guadalajara with a view of marching on to Mexico city. SPORT. Joe Flynn of Denver and Walt Walters of Sterling went 15 fast rounds to a draw at Greeley, Colo. Joseph J. Lannin, who is negotiating for a half interest in the Boston American league baseball club, is to be president of the club if the pending transaction is completed. The vanquished Navy football team was given a loyal welcome by the brigade of midshipmen, the naval contingent and the townpeople when it returned to Annapolis, Md. Vic Hanson of Salt Lake City defeated Jeff Clark in a decisive manner at Joplin, Mo. The referee was forced to stop the bout in the ninth round to save Clark from a knockout. The Chicago clubhouse and stadium on the program of the newly organized Sportsmen's Club of America will cost $1,500,000, according to James A. Pugh, president of the organization. The hunting season which ended Dec. 1st cost 135 lives, in twenty-one states, according to a tabulation made at Chicago. In addition 140 persons were injured, several of them fatally. Practical athletes are already looking forward to the campaign for the Olympic meet in 1916 in Berlin, and every effort is being made to strengthen the forces in the spots that are admittedly weak. GENERAL Commission form of government is in effect in a majority of the cities of Pennsylvania. The transport Prairie, bearing 750 marines, arrived at Pensacola, Fla., from Philadelphia. The men disembarked immediately. Fire which destroyed the Arcadia hotel in Boston, a south end lodging house, caused many deaths and a large number of men are missing. The proposition of Governor Ammons for a settlement of the Colorado coal strike was rejected by nearly a unanimous vote of the striking miners, according to official figures received in Denver. Glencarnock Victor II. was chosen the grand champion of the fourteenth international livestock exposition at Chicago. The steer is owned by J. D. McGregor of Brandon, Manitoba, winner of the grand championship of 1912. An appeal of team owners who had signed the union contract, asking that their employés be permitted to return to work, was voted down at a general meeting of the teamsters and chauffeurs' union, which went on strike in Indianapolis. The fiftieth annual convention of the National Reform Association opened at Philadelphia and the first session, in which "Mormonism" was the subject, occasioned a lively debate, Prof. O. F. Davis of New Richmond, Va., chairman of the world commission on Mormonism introduced the resolution which was adopted, calling upon Congress to prohibit polygamy and polygamus cohabitation in all the states of America, territories and dependencies. President C. C. Moore, of the Panama Pacific exposition received a cablegram from the commission sent from San Francisco to take up exposition subjects with the South American countries, stating that the Brazilian navy would send war vessels through the Panama Canal in 1915. These warships will join other foreign men-of-war at the exposition. C. J. McHugh, defaulting cashier of the Cadillac, Mich., State bank, was sentenced to serve from seven to twenty years in Jackson prison. 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THE COLORADO STATESMAN The event on the calendar that is eagerly looked forward to is the smoker to be kiven at Eureka hall by the Keystone Club Monday, December 15th, when, besides other amusements, two boxing bouts will be pulled off. DEATHS. Mrs. Eva Jackson's funeral held Sunday from parlors. Rev. Washington officiated. Philip May Wells' remains shipped from Oklahoma to Denve Henning's one-price shoe store at 820-822 15th St. is the place to save money on footwear. Only one price—$2.50—for good shoes. Don't miss the opportunity of saving a dollar on shoes. The Ozark Social Club, Thomas Clingman, manager, has moved from 2743 Welton street to 2801 Welton. Mr. Clingman solicits the patronage of all his patrons. Courteous treatment will be extended to all. The entertainment that was to have been given by the Church of the Redeemer at Fern hall last Thursday night has been postponed until December 11th. All tickets that have been sold will be honored for that date, Dec. 11th. The Welton Street Furniture Co., of 2621 Welton street, is offering special prices this week on the following articles: Big roll of toilet paper 5c, two boxes of matches 5c, 40c brooms, Saturday only, 15c. Take advantage of this big offer. Mrs. Martha Hall of Boulder spent a few days in the city last week visiting relatives. She was entertained last Sunday by Mrs. Charles Burton and Mrs. Grant Jones. The Colored Men's Department of the Y. M. C. A. will inaugurate the "FOLLOW UP CAMPAIGN" Sunday, December 14th, with a public mass meeting at the Campaign Headquarters, 2723 Welton street. Rev. A. M. Ward, the chairman of the Campaign Committee, will preside. Rev. Over and Rev. Pope will be the principal speakers of the afternoon, and short addresses will be made by others. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Partee of 3158 Champa street entertained Messrs. W. C. Robinson, Geo. Demar and Silas Wilson of Chicago, Ill.; Mr. Jesse Robinson of St. Joseph, Mo.; Mr. Harry Wormley of St. Louis, Mo.; Miss Eva R. Cammel and Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Cammel of Denver, at a seven-course dinner Thanksgiving. Word was received in the city this week of the marriage of Miss Nellie Evans of Leavenworth, Kans., niece of Mrs. Alice Eads of this city, and Mr. Hunt, at their home in Leavenworth, Kans. Miss Evans was a guest of her aunt last summer and make many friends while in our city. The smoker to be given at Eureka hall by the Keystone Club Monday evening, December 15th, will be one of the most interesting events of the season. The boxing contest between "Bob" Watkins and Jesse Scott will be a feature well worth your while. Scotty Williams will also go five rounds with an unknown. Don't forget the time and place. Frank Burnley, the popular manager of the Railway Men and Waiters' Club, is wearing a broad smile this week; in fact, he is the happiest man in town, and he has been making his friends feel the same way by treating them to the health of his boy, born Tuesday, December 2nd, at 2234 Clarkson street. Al Froman, the young man's grandpa, is no less jubilant than Mr. Burnley, for he took a day off from his duties at Hose Company No. 3, D. F. D., to celebrate his new title—grandpa. Get ready for the grand assembly of the Afro-American Protective Association, to be held at Campbell A.M. E. church, Thursday evening, Dec. 18, at 8 o'clock sharp, for the purpose of uniting all Negroes of Denver for the advancement and protection of our race. Watch the next issue for the program. The Afro-American Protective Association. REV. T. E. HENDERSON, General Commander MRS. ANNIE E. HAMILTON, ANNOUNCEMENT. I beg to announce that I have just received a fine line of hair samples of all descriptions from the W. A. Johnson Mfg. Co. of Boston. A special invitation is given to all to call and make their selection. I can match and will be pleased to sell and take orders. Mrs. Wm. G. Campbell, Agent, 2835 Stout Street, Phone Olive 1304. DEATHS. Mrs. Eva Jackson's funeral was held Sunday from parlors. Rev. Jas. Washington officiated. Philip May Wells' remains were shipped from Oklahoma to Denver for burial. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Wells. James White died at the county hospital Saturday. Funeral was held Friday, 2 p. m., from parlors. Rev. A. L. Thomas officiated. Charles Hyman died last Saturday, Novemebr 29th, at his late residence, 3213 Lawrence street, after a lingering illness, of tuberculosis. The funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon from the Douglass Undertaking parlors, under the auspices of Damon Lodge No. 5, K. of P., and the Spanish American War Veterans. Rev. Pope, assisted by Rev. James Washington, officiated. Deceased leaves a wife and a large circle of friends to mourn his sad demise. The Colorado Statesman extends sympathy to the bereaved wife. The above funerals in charge of the Douglass Undertaking Co. The Elite Drug Co. located at 2100 Arapahoe St., has a large stock of Xmas Cards, Booklets and Greetings. The manager has left nothing undone to make this store one of the finest in the City. The Prescription Department is will stocked by the purest drugs, and prescriptions compounded by graduate Pharmacists only. Free delivery to any part of City. Phone Main 2701. TO THOSE WHO WISH SOME THING GOOD. The Keystone Social Club will give their first annual smoker and boxing contest at Eureka hall Monday evening, Dec. 15th. The main event of the evening will be a ten-round bout between Bob Watkins, the world's most famous trainer and boxer, who trained the world's champion, Johnson, at Reno for his fight with James Jeffries; also at Las Vegas, N. M., for his last fight with Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman. Jessie Scott, who will be Watkins' opponent, is the heavyweight champion of Missouri. The well known Scotty Williams, the best all-round thlete in the state of Colorado all round athlete in the state of Colo- known. Now this is a screamer, should you feel like laughing. A battle royal between these well known boxes, Son Edwards, Knockout Brown, Posie, One-round Hogan, and Indian Jimmie. We specially invite the ladies to attend, as we have used our best discretion in arranging this affair to suit their fancy. Also there will be dancing and refreshments to delight every one after the show, which will start promptly at 8 p. m. The popular Mr. John Carrie Jr. will officiate as referee for all contests of the evening. Mr. Tommy White, the silver tongue announcer, will be master of ceremonies. Webster's full orchestra will play sweet strains of popular airs to trip the light fantastic toe. Admission, 50c and $1.00. SLYVESTER STEWART, Promoter. THE ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, 24th Ave. and Ogden. David E. Over, Pastor. Tomorrow morning the pastor will preach from the subject, "The Ark of the Covenant." Mrs. Lillian Jones will sing "Master, the Tempest is Raging." Beginning with tomorrow evening, a series of sermons will be preached from the subject, "What Baptists Believe." The first topic for discussion is "Redemption." The ladies' Japanese bazaar, given Thanksgiving week by the women of the church, was a most gratifying success. No committee of women ever worked more faithfully. The net financial return to the church is about $110.00. The Thanksgiving committees sent out baskets to 28 needy families. These baskets were laden with the best the markets could afford and brought joy to the hearts of both the givers as well as the receivers. Zion is preparing the most elaborate Christmas service to be held in the city. The hour is 5 o'clock a.m. An appropriate musical program will be rendered by the choir. Sermon delivered by the pastor. Subject, "A Christmas Carol." Sunday School day will be observed Sunday, the 14th. Every citizen is invited to participate in this service. The Women's Bible class at the church at 2:30 every Thursday. All the women in the community are invited to take part in these studies. The Men's Bible class Tuesday evenings at 8. This is a man's meeting for men. Come. THE DE LUXE Furnished apartments. Two and three rooms, with hot and cold water in each kitchen. Also front room, single, electric lights and gas. Modern throughout. Rates very reasonable, 2352-2358 Odgen street, corner Twenty-fourth avenue. Phone York 6707. Mrs. R. M. Blakey. DEARFIELD SETTLEMENT. Dearfield Settlement is the largest colored farming settlement in Colorado. It is to have a townsite platted and surveyed by the State Land Board. The plat will be ready within a few days to sell town lots and tenacre tracts to merchants, mechanics, residents, dairymen or dairy women. Dearfield is located in one of the most fertile and prosperous communities in Colorado, and surpasses any section for work for reliable colored men and women. It was the banner section of the state for raising sugar beets this season. For ten years I have tried to interest the State Land Board in a settlement for colored people on state lands, and finally there has been a State Land Board, appointed by Governor Ammons, who believed in equal rights and justice to all classes of citizens. The members of the board are Attorney General J. Fred Farrar, President, John E. Field, Surveyor, and Volney T. Hoggart, Register. Mr. U. G. Harris, Land Appraiser, made an investigation of the location of Dearfield and reported favorably on the appraisement. The Board decided by its actions that our people should be encouraged to make good up there and that the state and all others interested in settling and building up the state should extend their influence to Dearfield Settlement. The State Engineer, Mr. John B. Field, will plat and survey 480 acres of school lands adjoining the settlement and $1\frac{1}{2}$ miles from Masters Station. This land will be plated into a townsite of lots that will sell from $10.00 per lot and up, giving a liberal per cent. off for those who will make improvement within 90 days from date of purchase. There will be platted $\frac{1}{4}$ section into 5 acre tracts and $\frac{1}{4}$ section into 10 acre tracts that will sell from $20.00 per acre and up. These tracts surround the townsite and are laid out to conform with the town in case of an addition to the town. Purchasers of tracts will be given a liberal percentage off if they begin their residence and improvements within 90 days from purchase. These tracts of land are well adapted to poultry raising, dairy products and sugar beets. This proposition will be held open to the colored people for a limited time for them to take advantage of a splendid opportunity to build up a creditable colored settlement and town officered by colored people. Judge Volney T. Hoggard, Register of the State Land Board, is a true southern gentleman and is a friend of the colored people. He desires to do something of credit for the race while he is in office, as he has many colored friends in Colorado and in the south. The establishment of the town of Dearfield on a basis that any one can buy a town lot or a small tract of land on reasonable terms is his proof of interest in our race. Two lots will be given free to the widow woman who will build a boarding house at once, and run it for the accomodation of the locaters. Two lots will be given free to a colored man or company to establish a cement block and brick factory. Two lots will be given free to a blacksmith and wood worker. Anyone desiring to become interested as a purchaser or agent, address O. T. Jackson, General Agent. 1021 21st Street, Denver, Colorado. Office will be in charge of Miss ,and the office hours will be from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. See this paper for final announcement of plat for reservations. Denver, Colo., Nov. 29, 1913. The Bankers International Life Assur. Co., Gas & Electric Bldg., Denver, Colo. Gentlemen: I want to sincerely thank you for check for two hundred dollars and sixty cents ($200,60), which I have just received from the company in full settlement of my claim as benefi- cary under the policies held in your company by my daughter, Mrs. Eva Jackson. This is a prompt and satisfactory settlement and means a great deal to me in meeting expenses incurred during the sickness and death of my daughter. It always pays to insure with a reliable and strong company and a home institution. Those of our delinquent subscribers who live in the city are asked to please call and renew their subscriptions, as under the postal law it is very necessary that this be done. Phone 7417 Main if you cannot find time to call, and we will do the rest. For rent a five room frame house at 322 24th street. Apply at 1824 Curtis street, room 25. Three nicely furnished rooms for light housekeeping at 2929 Glenarm Place. Call at 2815 Arapahoe St. For Rent -Nicely modern furnished rooms at 2210 Clarkson street, also plain and fancy sewing done at the above address. NEED SHOES? Don't forget to go to The Fashion Shoe Co., 933 16th, upstairs over The Douglas shoe store. They give your $3.50 shoes for $2.50, you save $1 "Try them once." DISPENSATION NOW ON. Why not join the oldest and strongest exclusive Negro fraternal organization in the world? Western Star Lodge of United Brother of Friendship is initiating new members at the nominal fee of $3. Protect your family by our endowment. For further information: Daniel Jones, W. M., 229 W. 11th Ave.; R. M. Grigsby, W. Secretary, 445 St. Paul St.; Geo. D. Hall, D. M., 1707 Arapahoe St.; E. C. Cannel, G. M., 3158 Champa St. A. H. CHARLES A. NAST The above likeness of Mr. Charles A. Nast, the Eminent Photographer of Denver. Everybody knows Mr. Nast for his genial kindly ways which reflect themselves in his work. The only trouble about this matter is that his work is so fine he cannot give it away in competition with the cheap stuff at starvation prices. If any one can afford it, it pays to have something good made by Nast. His place is on the corner of 16th and Curtis Street, (THE OLD CORNER), over Scholtz's Main Drug Store. Three story building, sixteen rooms and store, strictly modern, newly remodeled and decorated, known as the Palmer hotel, rent cheap, owner 419 W. 14th avenue. AGENTS WANTED To Sell MAGIC SHAVING POWDER. A new discovery for shaving the face and head without using razor or shears. Will send half pound can by mail, postage paid, for 35 cents in stamps. Writ THE SHAVING POWDER CO. Savannah, Georgia. J. H. BIGGINS Furniture Repairing and Upholstering. All work Cash. PHONE YORK 7602 1417 East 24th Ave Denver The WARD AUCTION COMPANY Sales Daily at 2 p.m. Office Furniture a Specialty. 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Bought, Sold CASH OR ALL KINDS OF FURN 2559 WELTON STREET al Coke We ay and Gra FROM TOM TURNER FULL WEIGHT GUARANTEED Main 3762 2601 ARAPAH te's Funitu House second Hand Furniture, Carpets, Stov Etc. Bought, Sold and Exchangee CASH OR CREDIT ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE REPAIRING TON STREET DENVER, Coal Coke Wood Hay and Grain Pete's Funiture House Everybody who reads magazines buys newspapers, but everybody who reads newspapers doesn't buy magazines. Catch the Drift? Here's the medium to reach the people of this community. 1512 Curtis Street HENRY BECK PHONE MAIN 8247. We are the largest Importers and Manufacturers of Colored People's Hair, being the oldest and most reliable firm in this market. Our guaranty保证 de satisfaction or may refunded. We positively guarantee our hair to be superior to any on the market, and our prices are lower than those quoted anywhere else. This hair will stand combing and cutting as same as ours. We sell hair by the cut, hair nets and all styles of hair, also an exceptionally fine line of toilet articles and straightening combs at wholesale prices. Send 2-cent stamp for Free Book. Agents Wanted. HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY Dept. 102. No. 22 Duane Street. NEW YORK CITY. Engstrom DEALERS IN alcoors and ears Belt Beer and Carnegie Porter, Pripps and Bock Ol. Larimer Street Denver, Colorado WORK NEATLY DONE. SPECIALTY. et Furniture Co. MIER, Prop. Furniture Bought, Sold changed High Price for Furniture Your-$$$ Warehouse Oahoe St. eap grades of furniture and el range, $6; buffet dressers, leves, iron beds, complete, argains. Ke Wood d Grain OM URNER GUARANTEED 2601 ARAPAHOE STREET furniture use fire, Carpets, Stoves, Ranges, and Exchanged CREDIT FURNITURE REPAIRING DENVER, COLORADO THE BEST ICE CREAM AND CANDIES AT O.P. BAUR & CO. CATERERS AND CONFECTIONERS Phone: 168. 1512 Curtis Street, Denver, Colo. JOHN ENGSTROM DENVER, COLO 425,000 TO PAY TAX ON INCOME SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY MAKES FIRST REPORT TO CONGRESS. GIVE $105,000,000 McADOO ESTIMATES THAT $65,000, 000 OF THIS SUM WILL BE PAID BY INDIVIDUALS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington. — Secretary McAdoo's first report to Congress is largely confined to a review of the achievements of the treasury department in matters that have been of nation-wide interest; to recommendations for increased appropriations for bureaus under his authority and for legislation which he declares necessary to the better conduct of the government and the protection of the people. The secretary discusses at some length the subject of currency legislation, reviewing the activities in his department related to it. He speaks of an unrest in business circles following the beginning of the special session of Congress in April, refers to a "propaganda of pessimism which, designedly or not, produces a condition of extreme nervousness and tension," and points to his announcement in June that the treasury was ready to issue $500,000,000 of emergency currency under the Aldrich-Vreeland act to prevent the restriction of credit and to ease any situation. Mr. McAdoo details the treasury's offer to loan to banks of the country money to move the fall crops. The sum of $46,500,000 out of $50,000,000 estimated to be needed was apportioned among the states. The income tax is not dwelt upon at length, but the report estimates that 425,000 individuals are subject to it and that corporations not heretofore subject to tax will number about 150,000. The report refers to the requirement that banks which hold government deposits made April 30, 1913, pay interest at two per cent., declaring that it means an annual revenue of $2,000,000 to the government and showing that if such a regulation had been made in 1897 the government would now have received in interest more than $30,000,000. Secretary McAdoo estimates that the revenues for the fiscal year, exclusive of postoffice receipts, will be $728,000,000, only $2,000,000 less than the estimates for the fiscal year 1914. To make that total he expects the customs to bring in $249,000,000, ordinary internal revenue $315,000,000 and the income tax $105,000,000, of which $40,000,000 is to come from corporations, the remainder from individuals. From sales of public lands he expects to put into the treasury $3,000,000 and from miscellaneous sources $56,000,000. He expresses the belief that ordinary receipts for 1915 will exceed the disbursements sufficiently to pay out about $26,000,000 from the treasury's general fund for the Panama canal. Summer Prices for Coal Prevail. Denver.—A cut in coal prices places the cost to the consumer on a par with that asked last summer, before the strike started, and amounts to a reduction of $1.75 a ton, delivered. Germany Equips Cruiser for Mexico. Berlin.—The German cruiser Dresden is being fitted out at Kiel to sail for Mexican waters at the end of December. DE LA BARA SENT TO JAPAN. Girls Are Drafted to Save Neck of Dictator Huerta. Paris.—Francisco de la Bara, former Provisional President of Mexico, who has been Mexican minister to France for several months, left suddenly for Japan on the receipt of orders from General Huerta. He will travel by way of Germany, Russia and Siberia. Mexico City.—The seaport city of Tampico was officially declared the temporary capital of the state of Tamaulipas. The War Department published an order transferring General Porfirio Diaz from the retired list to the active list. The order bears the date of Sept. 20. Extraordinary methods are being employed here to gain recruits for the Federal army. Servant girls display marked caution when they appear in the streets, as they are aware that scores of their fellow servants have been drafted into the army as female soldiers. El Paso, Tex.—General Villa, commander of the rebel forces, has begun his campaign against Mexico City. Volunteers Search for Entombed Men. Cripple Creek.—The work of driving a tunnel through the second slide in the Golden Cycle mine is being carried on by twenty volunteer miners, working in short shifts. It is hoped that the bodies of Frank M. Woods, Jr., Samuel Sorenson and Patrick Kevany, caught by a cavein, will be recovered. ENTIRE AGRICULTURAL LIST INCREASES OVER 1912. Hay Is Leader With $8,500,000 and $112,000,000 Colorado Crop Shows $27,000,000 Increase. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Sweet's 1913 Colorado Crop Figures. Hay ..... $ 25,000,000 Dietatoes ..... $ 9,500,000 Grains ..... 15,500,000 Sugar beets ..... 13,500,000 Vegetables ..... 10,000,000 Dairy products ..... 25,000,000 Fruits ..... 10,000,000 Honey ..... 1,000,000 Wool ..... 1,500,000 Value 1913 crop ..... $112,000,000 Value 1912 crop ..... $ 85,000,000 Gain ..... $ 27,000,000 Gain in live stock in dustry ..... $ 12,896,000 Stock and crop gain ..... $ 39,896,000 Denver.—For the first time reports of Colorado's farm crop for 1913 are in a sufficiently complete form to make a tabulated statement of the returns by crops and to reach a total, largely based on statistics. This has ben done by Lou D. Sweet, the agricultural expert. The result shows a magnificent advance over last year, a total crop value this year of $112,000,000, an increase over 1912 of $27,000,000. Mr. Sweet thinks that the final returns will carry the total to an even higher figure, and prepared this table to be on the safe side. Adding the increase in livestock to the crop increase there is a total gain in these two items of $39,500,000, a phenomenal advance in what is literally soil production, new money that will be distributed in Colorado this year. Every agricultural crop makes an advance in value over last year. Hay scores a gain of $8,500,000; grain of $1,500,000; sugar beets, $4,000,000; vegetables, $2,000,000; dairy products, $2,000,000; fruits, $1,000,000; potatoes, $1,500,000. November was another record breaking month at the Denver Union stock yards. A total business of $30,000,000 was done. The receipts of cattle for November were 65,459 head, an increase of 1,396 over November of last year. The number of cattle handled this year to date is 473,403, a gain to date of 81,948 over the same period last year. Mineral Display at Frisco Exposition. Mineraf Display at Frisco Exposition. Denver.—A mineral display, showing metal to be found in this state and also the possibilities of further mining development will be a feature of the Colorado exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco if the Denver Chamber of Commerce succeeds in its plan to finance the enterprise. At a meeting of State Commissioner of Mines Henehan with the mining committee of the chamber it was decided that $30,000 will be necessary to pay the expense of collecting and assembling the mining display. An effort will be made to raise $10,000 of this sum in Denver and the remaining $20,000 in the mineral counties of the state. Commission Government Sustained. Denver.—Commission form of government for Denver was firmly established when the Supreme Court denied the application of Henry J. Arnold and other for a rehearing in their ouster suit against Mayor J. M. Perkins and the other city commissioners. This is conceded to be the final step in the litigation resulting from the election of last February, when the charter was amended to provide for the commission form of government. Up to Miners to End Coal Strike. Denver.—After a conference with Governor Ammons Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson sent a letter to the miners and operators withdrawing the joint proposition for arbitration of the strike situation, pending a referendum vote by the miners on the proposition of the governor. It is understood that the referendum vote will be taken by the striking miners as soon as details can be arranged. Heirs Need Not Pay Interest. Denver.—A legal contest made by Mrs. Virginia Stratton Cobb, sister of the late Cripple Creek multimillionaire, Winfield Scott Stratton, to force the administrators of the Stratton estate to pay her interest on the money left her by her brother, was ended in a decision of the State Supreme Court. Mrs. Cobb has no right to interest, the court held. Denver.—State Treasurer M. A. Leddy refused to register or pay two salary warrants issued to State Meat Inspector E. Lorje by State Auditor Roady Kenehan on order of Judge Perry of the District Court. Lorje war dismissed from the state service May 20 last by Governor Ammons under authority of a statute enacted by the last General Assembly. Denver.—Eight million brook trout spawn have been gathered and placed in state fish hatcheries by the force of men which has been in the field for several weeks under the direction of James A. Shinn, state game and fish commissioner. The amount is the largest ever obtained of brook trout spawn in the state. Next spring the fry from the spawn will be placed in the various streams of the state to stock them. The Monarch Liquor Co. The Only Strictly Family Liquor House in Denver WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF Imported and Domestic Wine, Liquors and Beer DELIVERIES FROM 7 A. M. TO MIDNIGHT Tampa 1231 and Tampa 508 1516 Cou ATTENTION TO OUT OF TOWN S l oany DESIGNS PUT UP WHILE YOU WAIT FITTS AND CUT FLOWERS CONSTANTLY ON HAND USES: Thirty-Fourth and Curtis Streets MAIN 1511 DENVER, COLO FOR KARLSON Waterless Ice Cream Phones: Main 112 and M DID YOU EVER TR ef Bros.' Be made right, and tastes ri one better made anywhere is a Strictly Colorado Pro Phone: Champa 1231 and Champa 508 1516 Court Pl. PROMPT ATTENTION TO OUT OF TOWN ORDERS The Curtis Park Floral Company FLORAL DESIGNS PUT UP WHILE YOU WAIT CHOICE PLANTS AND CUT FLOWERS CONSTANTLY ON HAND GREENHOUSES: Thirty-Fourth and Curtis Streets TELEPHONE, MAIN 1511 DENVER, COLO CARLSON'S Peerless Ice Cream Phones: Main 112 and Main 5787 DID YOU EVER TRY Neef Bros.' Beer? It's made right, and tastes right. None better made anywhere and This is a Strictly Colorado Production LIN 3028 RES. PHONE C JOHN K. RETTIG Fancy and Staple Gr 1864 CURTIS STREET WE DELIVER THE GOODS Quality, Accuracy, Good Service and Low Prices THE WHITE SWAN DRUG CO. 27th and Welton—17th Ave. and Downing—31st Ave. and Columbine C. H. SHIRLEY, Pres. J. C. HAMPSON, Vice Pres. PAUL J. SHIRLEY, Sec. and Treas. THE ATLAS DRUG CO. Courteous Treatment Right Prices LEADER IN PRESCRIPTIONS Phone: Champa 12 Champa 50 PROMPT ATTENTION The Curtis Park Floral Company FLORAL DESIGNS CHOICE PLANTS AND GREENHOUSES: ASK FOR = CA Peer DID Neef It's ma None l This is a PHONE MAIN 80 JOI Meats, Fa Corner Nineteenth. WE DEE Qual Serv THE WH 27th and Welton—1 C. H. SHIRLEY, P PAU THE Courteo LE Store No.1. 2701 WELTON ST Main 895-875 BE SURE AN TRY IT. Denver, Colo. OF INTEREST TO ALL COLORADO PEOPLE JAH 15-18—Meeting Colorado Good Seeds Assn at Colorado Springs. June Colorado State Fair at Pueblo July 13—Grand Lodge Session, B. P. O. E. at Denver. Jan. 15.—Annual Meeting Colorado Farmers' Congress at Agricultural College, Fort. Collins. 1315.—Last Grand Council of North S. N. Nye retired from the management of the Colorado Springs opera house after thirty years in the position. The fourth annual convention of the Colorado Good Roads Association will be held at Colorado Springs, Jan. 15 and 16. IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF Word was received at Greeley from Long Beach, Cal., of the death there of William M. Boomer, a pioneer of Weld county. Dru Decker, ten-year-old son of Town Marshal Hardy Decker of Oak Creek, was shot mysteriously and fatally injured. Frank Hillen, self-confessed bandit, charged with the killing of Thomas Chase, must go to trial in the West Side Court in Denver. Sidney Logan, forty-eight years old, a sergeant on the non-commissioned officers' staff of the United States army, died at Fort Logan. Denver had 222 hours of sunshine out of a possible 299 hours during November, according to the monthly report of the weather bureau. General Edward C. Campbell, aged eighty-one, nationally prominent in G. A. R. affairs, was found dead on the floor of his home at Trinidad. Pueblo experienced a freak in the weather line. It had sunshine, rain, a hail storm, snow and some thunder and lightning, all within three hours. A party of forty non-union miners, with their families, were conducted by a military guard to the Gray creek mine near Trinidad to begin work as strikebreakers. Ball and Concert Programs, Bill and Letter Heads, Calling Cards, Wedding Cards, Envelopes and Everything in the Printing Line Turned Out in the Neatest and Best Style Promptly on Short Notice. Robert McCullen, a former mine guard employed at the Victor-American Fuel Company camp at Delagua, was shot and killed by Charles Wilcox, a mine guard, in a quarrel. The big landslide on the Short Line, nineteen miles west of Colorado Springs, has finally been cleared away. The slide was in a cut and was 100 feet long and 100 feet high. Harry B. Kerr, formerly active in Denver politics, was stabbed and probably fatally wounded by a negro porter in a hotel at Dennison, Tex., according to word received in Denver. One of the largest food packing concerns in the country, at a meeting of its board of directors within the next few days, will consider the establishment of a branch factory in Denver. We Have Supplied Our Office with New Job Press & Type of Up-to-Date Style and Our Work Will Be on a Par with the Very Best. By unanimous vote the Trinidad local union of the United Mine Workers of America rejected the proposition of Governor Ammons and Secretary of Labor Wilson for a settlement of the coal strike. Special collections in many Denver churches swelled the fund of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association, which garnered between $5,000 and $5,500 from the sale of tags on the streets. A record was made by the Denver parcel post staff two day before Thanksgiving, when 6,700 pieces were handled. Two hundred and fifty turkeys were received and 300 were shipped in one day. Charles A. Sullivan, twenty years old, shot and killed himself in the railway station at Crews a few miles south of Colorado Springs on the Santa Fé railroad in the presence of Miss Ruth Hollinger, who had refused to marry him. The United States government has selected Denver as the site for its proposed plant for the experimental treatment of radium bearing ores from the Paradox valley in co-operation with the National Radium Institute recently organized with Dr. James A. Douglas of New York at its head. The Park of the Red Rocks, located near Morrison, eleven miles from the Denver Union depot, will be chosen as the site of the Pageant of the North American Indian in 1915, providing the owner, J. Brisben Walker, will make some changes in his proffer to the directors of the Colorado Publicity League. Prices as Reasonable as Those of Any Job Office in Denver Former comrades and members of Colorado Pioneers' Society and postoffice and police department employés were the honorary pallbearers, and Sons of Colorado active pallbearers, at the funeral of Major Oliver P. Wiggins, frontiersman scout, soldier and resident of Denver and Colorado for seventy-five years. E. H. Rundle, a machinist at the Longmont sugar factory, has invented and patented an automatic weighing and measuring machine which is declared by expert mechanics to be one of the most practical machines ever invented for this purpose. Dora Penny has achieved the distinction of being the first woman the Pueblo jail wasn't strong enough to confine in durance vile. She was arrested on a charge of disturbance and when she was placed in the women's quarters she grasped a heavy chair and smashed her way out. TWENTY-FIVE TRUE BILLS IN COAL STRIKE PROBE. Heads of Minere Accused of Violating Sherman Anti-trust Law in Colorado Coal Strike. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Pueblo. — Twenty-five indictments against national and state officers of the United Mine Workers of America were returned by the Federal Grand Jury here. The names of fifteen of the indicted were withheld. Those whose names were made public and charges preferred against them follow: For maintaining a monopoly of labor—John P. White, international president; Frank J. Hayes, international vice president and general organizer, and William Green, international treasurer. For conspiracy in restraint of trade —John R. Lawson, national organizer and international board member from District 15; Adolph Germer, in charge of the mine workers' office at Walsenburg; Robert Uhlich, president of the Trinidad local union; A. B. McGary, national organizer from Illinois; James Morgan, secretary of the mine workers from the state of Wyoming with headquarters at Cheyenne; Charles Batley, national organizer with headquarters at Florence, and Edgar Wallace, editor of the United Mine Worker's journal and former editor of a labor paper at Trinidad. According to United States Attorney Harry Eugene Kelley, who directed the jury in its investigation, ample time will be given all those named in the indictments to appear before a United States commissioner and give bond. Until the time he elapsed, he said, no warrant would be issued unless it appeared that someone was attempting to place himself outside the reach of the federal authorities. In the report of its proceedings returned with the indictments, the jury directs strong criticism at the United Mine Workers of America and the methods it says it employs to force its recognition. The methods, the report declares, are "an insult to conservative and law-abiding labor." "They have brought experienced strike agitators into the state," the report says, "and have armed hundreds of irresponsible aliens, who have become a menace to the peace and prosperity and even the lives of our citizens. "They created open insurrection in southern Colorado and have resorted to measures which all fair-minded labor organizations repudiate. The officers in charge of may of the tent colonies confess their inability to control the men whom they have armed and aroused. "Evidently no qualification is necessary for membership in the United Mine Workers of America other than a promise to pay dues, which are evidently used to support insurrection and lawlessness, when necessary to force their demands by intimidation and fear whenever strikes are called with the result of injuring other trades and the entailment of hardships and privations on the people of the entire commonwealth. "The lawlessness of many of the striking miners is caused by radical agitators, imported from other states who inflame them with incendiary speeches and exhortations to violence." Telephone Users Demand Lower Rate. Loveland.—A movement to bring simultaneous suits to oust the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company in every city where its license has expired if the company does not agree to certain conditions was advocated in resolutions passed at a meeting of the Northern Colorado Telephone Users' Association held here. The resolutions demand that all new franchises given the company be granted only on a specified rate reduction plan, amounting to a decrease of about $33\frac{1}{2}$ per cent, on the establishment of a zone toll line limit agreeable to each city, and on agreement by the company to pay the city granting the franchise 2 per cent of its gross receipts annually. The company is given two weeks to respond. In the meantime the city attorneys are asked to prepare papers for the ouster suits. If the company is ousted the association plans to have the cities invite new companies into the field. Slide Entombs Five; Two Rescued. Cripple Creek.—Five miners were entombed by a cave-in, which extended from the fourth level to the thirteenth level of the Golden Cycle mine here, and spread to the Christmas mine, adjoining. Two of the men escaped uninjured, but fears are expressed for the safety of the remaining three. Beets Well Taken Care Of. La Junta.—The farmers of the Holbrock valley report that the beets are about all delivered. A large acreage of fall wheat has been sown and it is looking fine. Uhlich Confesses Arming Strikers. Trinidad.—Robert Uhlich, indicted president of the local union of United Mine Workers of America, confessed before the Military Commission that he, personally, carried arms to the 400 miners at Ludlow the night before the last battle there, in which a mine guard was shot to death. Judge Scott to Speak. Grand Junction.—Judge Tully Scott of the Court of Appeals has been chosen to deliver the memorial address to the Elks' Lodge here Dec. 7. The Heads, Feet, Tails Snouts, Neckbones or Chiterlings or any other part of the hog except the squeal go to 2300.6 Larimer Street. THE ZO SAME 1004 Ninetee FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS COORS' CELEBRATED BEER ON TAP The Cha Twer Is DRUGS, CHEMICAL WE S Prescript Phone us and we will JAMES Twentieth and Champa, Is the place to get your DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES WE SERVE DRINKS. Prescriptions Our Specialty. Phone us and we will deliver the goods to all parts of the city. JAMES E. THRALL, PROPR. PHONE MAIN 2425. Boost Colorado Products Patronize Home Industry ZANG'S NOW O GUARANTEE Delivered Da The Ph. Z Tele GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY PURE Delivered Daily to All Parts of the City We Boost for Colorado PATRONIZI PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY! SATISFACTION GU We have been making established. Every Trunk Best Made. WE CARRY A COMPLET TELESCOPES, ETC. EVI Second-hand Trun We Repair Trunks, Suit C If you have any Rep call and give you The Welt SATISFACTION GUARANTEED or MONEYREFUNDED We have been making Trunks for fifteen years, and our quality is well established. Every Trunk we sell is strictly Hand-Made, Denver-Made, the Best Made. WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF SUIT CASES, BAGS, COAT CASES, TELESCOPES, ETC. EVERYTHING GUARANTEED AS REPRESENTED. Second-hand Trunks Taken In Trade Used Trunks for Sale Cheap. We Repair Trunks, Suit Cases, Ladies' Pocketbooks, Etc., on Short Notice If you have any Repairing, telephone us and we will be glad to call and give you an estimate on the work. Keyes Fitted. The Central Bottling & Distributing Co. Agents for the famous CAPITOL BEER---IT'S CAPITAL Try a case, 2 doz. pints for $1.10, delivered promptly; empties called for. Family Liquors, Wines, and Corcials Genuine Goods at Popular Prices A glass of good wine will improve your Sunday dinner, and aid digestion. 2727 Welton Street. Phone Main 6363. Supply Your Home with the Celebrated Tivoli Beer BOTTLED BY THE EMPIRE BOTTLING CO. Phone Gallup 245 DENVER ```markdown ``` THERS' OOM ner of Curtis Pharmacy mpa, UR ENT MEDICINES DRINKS. Specialty. all parts of the city. L, PROPR. Patronize Home Industry BEERS MARKET UTELY PURE ents of the City Brewing Co. 1395 You Should Boost for Us INDUSTRY! COLORADO! Made Trunk from Buy a Denver Made Trunk from the Factory and You Will Be Money Ahead. Phone Main 1461. COLORADO THE BROADWAY ALL MILLINERY Horset Covers and Brassieres Mercerized Messaline Petticoats Fleeced Union Suits Face Boudoir Caps Extra Sized Fleeced Vests Klk Petticoats MILLINERY AT HALF PRICE s and Brassieres . . . . . . . Messaline Petticoats . . . . . . . on Suits . . . . . . . . . . . . r Caps . . . . . . . . . . . . Fleeced Vests . . . . . . . . . . . . ats . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. BRADSHAW 1443-47 STOUT STREET (Just Around the Corner from' the Old Stand) THE HOME OF GOOD BARGAINS St. James Touring and Taxicab Co Stand St. James Hotel, 1530 Curtis S James Touring and Taxicab Co d St. James Hotel, 1530 Curtis S St. James Touring Car and Taxicab Co. St. James Touring Car and Taxicab Co. Stand St. James Hotel, 1530 Curtis Street Telephone Champa 5 Finest Seven-Passenger Touring Cars, Lim Taxicabs in the City. Stevens-Duryear, Chalmers-Olds, Pierce J. M. HURWITZ, Manager, ven-Passenger Touring Cars, Limousine Taxicabs in the City. us-Duryear, Chalmers-Olds, Pierce HURWITZ, Manager, Finest Seven-Passenger Touring Cars, Limousines and Taxicabs in the City. Stevens-Duryear, Chalmers-Olds, Pierce Arrow J. M. HURWITZ, Manager, Denver H. LORIE IS ENLARGING HIS LIQUOR STO Taking in the corner on Thirtieth and Welton adding Delicatessen to his mammoth Liquor S QUOR STO the corner on Thirtieth and Welton elicatessen to his mammoth Liquor S LIQUOR STORE Taking in the corner on Thirtieth and Welton Streets and adding Delicatessen to his mammoth Liquor Stock. See him for your Holiday Supply. PHONE CHAMPA 2121 Stop! Stop! consider Did you ever stop to think that you are help- op! St consider Did you ever stop to think that you are helping to pay the big up town rents when you buy without considering this. Patronize Home Industry THE WESTERN JEFFERSON JEFFERSON FOR TOWNSITION THE WESTERN JEFFERSON JEFFERSON FOR TOWNSITION $20.00 AND $25.00 SUIT IN THE CITY Best Goods, Best Workmanship, Best for the money in the City of Denver. Give me a trial and you will be convinced I give all my customers perfect Satisfaction, Fit, Style, Workmanship and the BEST FOR THE MONEY. How do I Turn Out Such Fine suits for the Money? Why? On account of THE LOW RENT. CLOSING OUT SALE OF MILLINERY An opportunity for all to save money. We are only able to offer these extreme low prices because we have no rent to pay. A glance at these prices is sufficient. AT HALF PRICE 25c and up $1.00 50c 25c and 50c 25c $1.50 Touring Car icab Co. , 1530 Curtis Street ing Cars, Limousines and the City. rs-Olds, Pierce Arrow Manager, Denver STORE tieth and Welton Streets and mmoth Liquor Stock. Stop! i d e r think that you are help- g up town rents without consider- e Home Industry Phone Main 7411 1905 Curtis Street 3 FITCH fur, and especially light Fitch, is so much liked that it is getting very scarce. It is used as a trimming in collars and cuffs; as a border on velvet or plush muffs and in small neckpieces, more frequently than in regular sets. It is very soft and its coloring is especially effective with coats made of velvet or satin and velvet brocade. Those who can indulge themselves in expensive novelties in fur sets may consider the very handsome scarf and muff of Fitch shown in the picture. The scarf is a new design, terminating where it fastens at the neck in three skins which provide a splendid protection for the throat. A single skin encircles the neck and another falls over the shoulder and down the back. A big, soft bow of Lyons velvet provides a new and extremely smart touch where the scarf is fastened over the shoulder. The broad expanse of light yellow at the front of the scarf needs this touch of black in addition to the stripe and scattered touches of black in the fur itself. The longer hairs in Fitch are sparse and black-tipped and they veil the GIRDLE AND SASH TO BE ARRANGED IN INDIVIDUAL TASTE JUST why the innocent girdle and sash made of wide velvet ribbon should be called "the tango" remains to be discovered. But the name will not hurt it any. Its uses are about as varied as the steps of the popular dance, which steps, it seems, may be invented by any dancer who introduces a new glide or dip or contortion or other inanity of motion to suit him? self. The velvet ribbon girdle—also made of soft silk or silk ribbon—is finished ```markdown ``` at the back with two short standing loops and a long single hanging end. A flat folded band is placed at the base of the loops. Without any decoration it is an all-round useful girdle, ready to add a finishing touch to almost any gown. When more elaboration is needed, it is decorated with small roses and foliage made of rib- The muff is gathered in at the ends, with the skins running lengthwise. The opening for the hands is small and finished with a plaiting of cream-colored net under a ruffle of black chiffon. This finish is especially clever, repeating the velled effect of the fur. This set could hardly be improved upon in design. First of all it looks and is luxuriously comfortable. The coloring is exquisite and the arrangement of the skins is novel. A pretty turban of broadtail is worn with the set. Its trimming carries out the idea of veiling a light background with diaphanous black. The tall standing ostrich plums, like the light Fitch in color, is mounted with a spray of black paradise feathers in front of it. Broadtail in the turban shows how effectively two entirely dissimilar furs may be worn together in the same costume. The tailored costume with which three handsome accessories were worn, is of black broadcloth finished with plain bands of velvet. bon or fabric, and tacked to the base of the loops and near the bottom of the hanging end. By allowing extra length to the girdle, the waist line may be managed in several ways. The middle front may be brought up to the bust, or the girdle may disappear under the drapery of the waist at one side and reappear at the back. In fact, the girdle is simply to be managed as a length of ribbon to be used in decorating the bodice without regard to its encircling the waist. By keeping this in mind one may achieve a fashionable effect and vary the mounting of the sash any number of times. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. A new sort of handbag is shown for use with street suits. It is made of silk and beads, and at first sight seems too fragile for street wear. But it proves to be useful and durable, as well as very attractive. These bags are made in several shapes, but all are small and the colors are generally in neutral tones. One bag of gray is six-sided, each panel or side ending in a point. The six points are joined to form the tip of the bag. Another bag of soft, dull yellow is four-sided, and the four sides are cut diagonally at the bottom and mitered together. Still other bags have three or two sides. All of them have chain handles of gold or silver beads, and are decorated with a two-inch band of the beads applied about half way from the top to the bottom. Below this band hangs a two or three inch fringe of beads, gold and silver used together. Pretty Lamps. Among the many electric lamps this season there are none prettier and more effective than those made of wood, whether in extremely simple designs or hand-carved with artistic patterns. For the room furnished in old mahogany there comes a lamp, on colonial lines in perfect keeping with the other furnishings. These lamps are fitted with a globe quite like those on the candle lamps of long ago. Other standards are of wood stained in the rich greens and browns, and others are painted white and enameled so that they resemble ivory or porcelain. With a shade of just the correct size and style to bring out the lines of the standard, one has a lamp that is thoroughly practical and sat isfyting to the esthetic sense. PHONE MAIN 61 23—Day or Night RESIDENCE PH ONE YORK 7992. PARLORS, 1830 ARAPAHOE ST. THE DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING COMPANY J. R. CONTEE Pres. and Mgr. Licensed Embalmer Frank Rogers Assistant Funeral Director. CURTIS M. HARRIS Asst. Manager and Funeral Director. Lady Assistant POLITE SERVICE TO ALL. Ambulance and Carriages Furnished for All Occasions CARSONS A RELIABLE PLACE TO BUY YOUR Dinnerware, Cut Glass, Silverware Common Glassware, Etc. The Carson Crockery Co. Denver's Only Exclusive Chinaware Store 732-36 Fifteenth St. (Near Stout) A man sewing a garment on a machine. PIERCE ARR LIVERY C CRONIN & BRIDGEFORD The Only Seven Passenger Pierce Arrow Car In Service in the City A first-class Mortuary establishment. First aid to the bereaved in the time of death of loved ones. Prices below competitors. Polite service Telephone Champa 2525 Special Attention Given to Theatre & Private Parties STAND: St. James Hotel Denver, Colo.