Colorado Statesman

VOTE FOR THE RETAIL PLAN FOR IMMEDIATE MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP, FEB. 17th THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY RACE NEWS VOL. XX. RACE GATHERED FROM The introduction of a measure in the general assembly at Columbia, S. C., recently favoring the repeal of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution simply shows the attitude of a small minority of the southern white men toward the colored citizens of the country. The great bulk of intelligent whites throughout the country would vote against such a selfish measure were it to become a national issue. Washington, D. C., Feb. 4. From a reliable source it has been learned that President Wilson is favorably considering reappointing Robert H. Terrell a Judge of the Municipal Court. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 3.—Race segregation laws here, seeking to separate the whites and blacks in definite parts of the city, stand adjudged unconstitutional on a technicality. The city has lost an appeal in the State Circuit Court seeking to overturn a lower court's verdict of unconstitutionality. New York, Feb. 10.—Jack Johnson broke in Paris? Well, not so you could notice it! Dan Morgan today received a letter from a friend in the French metropolis saying Johnson owns three automobiles, has bought $40,000 worth of diamonds for his white wife and besides receives over $1,000 for every wrestling match he stages with French or English wrestlers. Boston, Mass., Feb. 3 —In the will of the late Benjamin Leeds, filed here last week, provisions are made for $325,000 in public gifts. Among the legatees the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute which has been left a bequest of $25,000. Washington, D. C., Feb. 3. The Senate Committee on Rules has authorized the manager of the Senate restaurant to dismiss any waiter. The committee promised to support him if the dismissal is for a good reason. The purpose of this order is to do away with the practice of having Negro waiters reinstated by individual Senators. There is much said in the Dallas Express about race enterprise, for Negroes and by Negroes. As little business as we have, we have more business than we have competent colored help to operate. We have stood in need of three Negro printers, for three years. We are offer- ing them from $10 to $1250 per week according to how much sense they have. We need them now, and they are not to be had. The Negro who is willing to learn is too ignorant. The one who is intelligent enough to learn is too lazy; therefore, between ignorance and laziness, we are short of men. What is true of the Dallas Express is true of any number of enterprise shouters could very well afford to turn off and use their time, for a while, trying to produce Negroes competent to take care of the business which we already have.—Dallas Express. The trades union organized by colored men in Paris the latter part of January is said to have a membership of over 10,000. The object of the union is to resist the efforts of the white workmen, who are claimed to be attempting to prevent the colored men from getting an increase in pay. New York, Feb. 10.—More than 1,500 Negroes throughout the South and fifty Texas and Oklahoma Negroes who have just arrived in New York are anxiously awaiting word from Chief Alfred Sam, who formed 123 clubs, it is said, promising to organize members into a colony on the Gold Coast, West Africa. The Texas-Oklahoma delegation is waiting here today aboard the steamer Curityba, which chief Sam told them he had bought to transport his colonists. George Harris, editor of the New York News, devoted to the interests of Negroes, says communicated with Duke Mohammed of London, an African expert, shows the land Sam mentions is tribal land and could not be colourized. The Negroes are said to have paid Sam $25 each. New York—One of the most prominent features in the work of the African Methodist Episcopal church is its great interest in home and foreign missions. The denomination has grown in numbers and influence more rapidly on account of this fact perhaps than from any other known cause. With competent bishops, well qualified presiding elders, pastors and secretaries, the work of the various churches and departments has shown many good results since the last general conference. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 2.—Race restriction clauses in property deeds were declared illegal by Judge John W. Shenk in handing DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1914 State Hist & Nut Hist Societies State House AN FOR IMMED ADO THE JOURNAL DENVER COLORADO S down a decision against the Berlin Realty Company. Some time ago Benjamin Jones and Mrs. Fannie Guatier contracted for a choice parcel of ground through the mails. Their letters contained checks to cover the first payments on the lots. In accepting the first payments, the company sent back contracts which contained the following restriction: "The said property shall not be sold to or be occupied by any persons not of the white or Caucasian race." When the company heard that the would be purchasers were colored, their checks were returned and negotiations brought to a close. Mrs. Gautier and Jones at once instituted legal proceedings to compel the transfer the lots. The principal stockholders in the Berlin Realty Company are Jews. Hampton. Va., Feb. 3—Dr. Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of the Free Synagogue, New York City, delivered at Hampton Institute on Sunday, February 1, an address in commeration of General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, who founded the Hampton School in 1868. Dr. Wise showed clearly that General Armstrong was a "statesman-educator of a democracy," statesman-philanthropist,""statesman-visionary and idealist"—a man of radiant personality and a man who walked with God. Paterson, N. J., Feb. 4.—The segregation of Negro pupils in the Paterson schools, which was carried out by forming a special class of colored children at school No. 1, and placing in charge Miss Fannie Lowe, the only colored teacher in the Paterson school system, has been temporarily abandoned because of the resignation of Miss Lowe, which took effect December 22, 1913. Since that time the class has been conducted by substitutes, but they were white teachers and that plan was not found satisfactory. When Miss Lowe was appointed she stood highest on the list of eligibles. For several months she acted as a substitute teacher, then the special class of colored children, covering at least four grades, was formed and she was placed in charge of it. A committee from the Colored Citizen's Association visited the school and was assured by the principal that everything was all right. Miss Lowe was the only teacher in the city instructing pupils of more than two grades. For some reason the committee dropped the matter. The abandonment of the class in less than one year, following the resignation of Miss Lowe shows clearly that it was only formed to create a place for the colored teacher. There is no separate school law for Passiac county and the Negro citizens and taxpayers are intending to fight any effort on the part of the school authorities --- to create a separate class of colored pupils in case another colored teacher is appointed.. EQUAL RIGHTS ALL "Every person, without distinction of the Philippine Islands shall have the right of complete and equal accommodation, advantage, facilities and privileges in hotels, boarding houses, restaurants, cafes, ice cream parlors, beer halls, barber shops, public baths, theatres cinematographs, dancing halls skating rinks, public offices, all forms of land and maritime transportation, and other forms of entertainment or public accommodations, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by this law. Such is the gist of the provisions of a bill introduced into the Assembly yesterday. The punishment to be meted out to offenders, for each offense, is to be 30 days' imprisonment or a fine of 500 Pesos or both.—The Manita, (P. L.) Daily Cable News-American, Dec. MONEY FOR NEW PLANT WOULD NEARLY ALL GO TO OUTSIDERS. Opponents of the Retail Plan for IMMEDIATE MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP cry long and loud about building a new plant because it will give employment to labor and release a great deal of money that will circulate in Denver. It is a fact that cannot be successfully disputed that three dollars of the money spent for the construction of a new plant would go outside of the city and never return, where one dollar would remain. All of the pipe would be purchased on bid and would of necessity have to be supplied by factories located away from Denver, because there is none manufactured here. And this would be one of the largest items of expense of construction. Men familiar with the work of laying this pipe would be imported, and even common laborers would be brought in in gangs from the outside to fulfill the excavating contracts. What little machinery that would be purchased at home would be small compared with that shipped in or leased from factories outside of the city, because the attractive profits to be made from the same would bring bids from the largest manufacturing plants in the country, whose prices are lower than the smaller factories, because of the bigger business done. Viewing the matter from another point: It will take at least five years to build a new plant. In the meantime interest is being paid by the taxpayers and for something that they are not sure will be a success. On the other hand, if the plant of the Denver Union Water Company is purchased under the Retail Plan, we will acquire immediate municipal ownership at a reasonable price, and will have an income property from the very start, which will provide money for paying interest on bonds and thereby avoid the necessity of increased taxes. This increased tax can be nothing more than an assessment against the property holders to pay the running expenses of a gambling enterprise. - Adv. VIRGINIA'S CHARTER NOT LAWFULLY REVOKED SUPREME COURT ISSUES RESTRAINING ORDER. Washington, D. C., January 31. The Supreme Court, District of Columbia on Friday, January 30, 1914, refused to grant the plea of the Supreme Lodge, that the suit of the Grand Lodge, K. of P. of Virginia be dismissed with costs on the Plaintiff and decided that the action of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A. A. and A. in session at Baltimore, Maryland, August 26 30, 1913 in revoking the charter of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythia of Virginia and ordering the dissolution, was unconstitutional and unlawful. It issued a sweeping injunction restraining the Supreme Lodge, the Supreme Chancellor or their agents anywhere in the United States from interfering with the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias on account of any such alleged revocation of the charter. It forbids the issuance or circulation of any proclamation or letters by the Supreme Chancellor or his agents based upon the alleged revocation of the charter and dissolution of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Virginia. Mr. Justice Gould announced that the question of the constitutionality of the tax levy by the Supreme Lodge upon the members of the several grand jurisdictions would be finally decided by the Court. This will result in a complete review of the case by competent authority and the constitutionality of the enactment of the new Constitution at Baltimore, Maryland will also be settled. John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge, K. P. of Virginia, Thomas M. Crump, G. K. of R. and S. and R. C. Mitchell were present during the deliberations. The Grand Lodge was represented by Hon Clarence R. Wilson, Paul E. Lesch, Esq and James F. Minor, Esq, the latter making the argument, and the Supreme Lodge by Mr. James A. Cobb and Henry E. Davis, Esq the latter making the argument. NO 25 LEADING ENGINEERS SAY $8,000,000 ESTIMATE IS AWAY TOO LOW. If you were contemplating building a house, would you consult a lawyer, or a doctor, or a druggist as an expert to figure the plans and the cost for you? Certainly not. But you would employ an architect to lay out the plans and you would see to it that skilled carpenters, masons, plumbers, painters and others in the building trades were employed to carry out the plans. Why not follow the same course in settling the question of municipal ownership of a water plant for Denver. There are lawyers in Denver, newspaper publishers and ex-newspaper publishers, doctors and even preachers who tell us that a new plant can be constructed for $8,000,000. This statement is refuted by men who are in the practice of the engineering profession, and are therefore experts in judging matters of this kind. You have only to read the report of A. Lincoln Fellows, C. P. Allen and E. C. Van Diest, three of the best-known engineers in that profession, prepared for the Public Utilities Commission, to be convinced of the utter fallacy of the claim that a new plant can be constructed for $8,000,000. But for convenience, attention is called to page 224 of that report, which says: "As elsewhere estimated, without allowance for delays in legal proceedings, it should be possible to construct a new water system complete, in serviceable operation and providing service, within five years. Approximate cost: Lands and water rights..$ 750,000 Reservoirs and canals... 2,500,000 Conduits ..... 2,500,000 Hydro-electric plant ... 300,000 Filters ..... 200,000 Distributing system ... 4,500,000 Engineering, contingencies and interest dur- Total ..... $12,750,000 These cold figures, based on hard work and months of accounting, are enough to knock in the head that silly twaddle about an $8,000,000 plant for Denver, because some cities of that same population paid that much." On the strength of such declarations, every voter should favor the Retail Plan, and Tuesday east his ballot for that plan, which offers immediate municipal ownership at a reasonable cost. Fever Statistics. People are most liable to fever between the ages of fifteen and twenty; 209 out of every 1,000 cases occur at that age. There are only 10 per 1,000 under five and 2 per 1,000 over fifty-five. CONDENSATION OF FRESH NEWS THE LATEST IMPORTANT DISP PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT, CRISP PARAGRAPHS. SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND FOREIGN LANDS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN. The trial of Mrs. Augusta Dietz at Chicago for the murder of her husband, a crippled tailor, was continued until March 9. Dan Sweeney of Cudahy, Wis., died of wounds inflicted by Miss Catherine Hermes with a hatpin while defending her honor on New Year eve. The trial of the government's case against the Chicago butter and egg board was continued before Federal Judge Landis here until Feb. 25. The Rev. B. F. Landis, a Lutheran minister of Prices Vau, Vau, went on trial at Floyd, Va., charged with violating the Mann "white slave" law. The state of Minnesota will receive an inheritance tax of $83,638 from the estate of the late Charles G. Gates, better known as Spend-a-Million Gates, who died October 31. Fire starting from an overheated motor caused a loss of $150,000 at the Brokaw mills of the Wausau, Wis., Paper Mills Company. The fire destroyed four buildings. Women will be allowed as election judges in Joliet, Ill. When the city council deadlocked on the question Mayor Harvey Wood cast the deciding vote in favor of women officials. Intense suffering among poor, and charitable organizations swamped with appeals for aid came as the result of the lowest temperature of the year at Cleveland, Ohio. Causes that led up to existing conditions in the Michigan copper country will be the first subject presented to the congressional investigating committee by the striking miners. Information received at Emporia, Kan., by the Rev. Bernard Kelly indicates that his son, Theron Kelly, was among the American passengers on the train destroyed in Cumbre tunnel. Travelers arriving from interior points in the state of Sonora at Douglas, Ariz, brought reports of increasing activities of the Yaqui Indians and a general Yaqui uprising was predicted. Maury I. Diggs, former state architect, and who, with F. Drew Caminetti, son of Anthony Caminetti, United States inspector of immigration, was convicted of violating the Mann white slave act, was held in police court at Saig Francisco on a charge of criminal assault preferred by Ida Pearring, who swears she is but seventeen years old. WASHINGTON. The Shackleford $25,000,000 good roads bill was passed by the House, 282 to 42. The President signed the Kenyon bill abolishing Washington's segregated district. The personnel of the federal reserve board to control the new currency system probably will be made known by March 1. Impersonation of Congressmen or other officers of the United States would be made a crime by a Senate bill just passed. Senator Nelson's bill for federal incorporation of all concerns in Interstate Commerce was re-introduced. It was unacted on in the Sixty-first Congress. President Wilson favors an exhibit by the United States government at the exposition to be held by the republic of Panama this year celebrating the opening of the canal. A threatened loss of $200,000,000 in hogs during the present year from hog cholera led the Senate to agree unanimously to a bill appropriating $500,000 for the Department of Agriculture to fight the disease. Repeal of the provision of the Panama canal act exempting American coastwise ships from tolls, favored by President Wilson is to be made a subject of consideration and action by a Democratic caucus of the Senate. A proposal by Senator Jones of Washington to amend the agricultural extension bill to distribute a portion of the proposed appropriation for farm demonstration work to negro agricultural colleges in the South was defeated in the Senate, 32 to 23. The commissioner of Indian affairs announced that appraisal of 450,000 acres of oil lands belonging to the Choctaw and Chicasaw tribes in Oklahoma had been completed and the lands would be listed for sale as soon as due notice had been given. Withdrawal from Port Au Prince of the American, British, German and French forces, which formed an international guard during the latest disturbances there, was reported to the Navy Department by Capt. Robert L. Russell, commanding the American squadron. FOREIGN. The Canadian parcel post system went into operation on the 9th. The Right Hon. Richard Robert Cherry, lord justice of appeal, has been appointed lord chief justice of Ireland. Unqualified and unanimous indorsement of the policy of maintaining a "supreme navy" was voiced by a great mass meeting of representative business men of London. At Cumbre, Chihuahua, Mexico, the charred bones of Mrs. Lee Carruth and her five children were found in the Cumbre tunnel and the bodies of eight other Americans and sixty Mexicans still are in the ruins. Charles A. Comiskey, president of the Chicago club of the American league, was taken seriously ill on the train on which the members of the Chicago and New York baseball teams were traveling from Naples to Rome. A statement issued by Christabel Pankhurst, the militant suffragette leader, and made public in London, says the secession from the Women's Social and Political union of her sister, Sylvia, will bring about no change in the policy of the union. Negligence in navigation caused the Titanic disaster almost two years ago, according to the British Court of Appeals, which affirmed the damage verdict obtained in a test case in a lower court by relatives of four steerage passengers who died in the tragedy of the icefields. Sir Lionel Carden, the British ambassador, is preparing to leave for London immediately upon the arrival about Feb. 15 of Thomas B. Hohler, secretary and charge, who will undertake the business of the legation pending the arrival of a new minister to succeed Sir Lionel upon his approaching transfer to Rio Janeiro. Menaced by rebels without and conspirators within, General Huerta faced perhaps the crucial week of his career as Mexican dictator. With Gen. Francisco Villa menacing Torreon with several thousand Constitutionalists and General Aguilar massing his rebel forces for a renewed attack on Tampico, the capital was directly threatened on both the north and east. The fall of either Torreon or Tampico would give the revolutionists easy approach to Mexico City. Complete reorganization of the subsistence and commissary departments in the canal zone, with Capt. Frank O. Whitlock, United States cavalry, in charge, was begun after Col. George W. Goethals, chairman of the Panama commission, had suspended John Burke, manager of the commissionary department, and W. F. Shipley, chief clerk of the subsistence department, and had relieved from duty Lieut. Col. Eugene T. Wilson, chief of the subsistence department, at his own request. SPORT. The latest Military Zeppelin airship attained an average speed of sixty-five miles an hour on her eight hours trial trip from Friedrichshaven. A new American long-distance record was one of the aims of Silas Christofferson, aviator, in a flight from San Francisco to San Diego. The distance is 498 miles. A midair collision between a biplane and a monoplane over the aerodrome at Johanisthal, Germany, caused the death of one German aviator and dangerous injuries to two others. The Federal Baseball club has definitely secured a ball park in Chicago. Charles Weeghman, president of the Federal league, and William M. Walker have leased from Edmund J. Archambault of Milwaukee the block of land on the east side of North Clark street and Seminary avenue, between Addison street and Waveland avenue, for ninety-nine years from January 1, at an annual rental for the first ten years of $16,000, for the second term of ten years $18,000 and for the remainder of the term $20,000. GENERAL At South Bethlehem, Pa., Mrs. Bridget Dougherty Curran celebrated her 107th birthday at the home of her daughter. At Sterling, Ill., Charles Applegreen voluntarily freed his wife so that she might marry another man, forgave the rival who had won her from him and started for San Francisco to forget the past while cruising with the navy. In return for releasing her lower rights in the estate of the late Henry M. Flagler, the Florida multi-millionaire, Ida A. Flagler, an incompetent, whom Flagler divorced after she became insane, will receive $65,233 in cash. Severe earthquake shocks startled residents in a score of cities in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and along the whole Laurentian formation to the north of the St. Lawrence river from Toronto to Montreal, Canada. One death was reported from Binghamton, N. Y., where a workman was caught in a cavein. Louis Bundy, eighteen years of age, was sentenced to death at Los Angeles in the Superior Court for the murder of Harold Zlesche, a messenger boy, whom he beat to death Dec. 19, to obtain $20 with which to buy a girl a Christmas present. What is said to be a national crusade started by the Department of Agriculture against heroin and cocaine developed in New York when Oscar W. Smith, New York manager for Parke, Davis & Co., was arrested and held in $1,500 ball before Commissioner Shields. Western Newspaper Union News Service. DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. Feb. 19—State Mining Convention at Denver. Denver, Denver, Denver Feb. 22—Washington Day banquet at Grand Junction. Grand Junction. Missouri. Eleventh annual conference, Colorado Daughters of American Revolution at Colorado Springs. July 13-14.—Grand Lodge Session, B. J. Elks at Denver. Sept. 1.—Colorado State Fair at Pueblo. 1915.—Last Grand Council of North American Indians at Denver. A cutting affray west of La Junta took place at a Mexican camp and resulted in the death of Gabino Ribera. The Knights of Pythias of Denver will hold their golden jubilee celebration at El Jebel temple Thursday, Feb. 19. The first train from Leadville for eight days reached Breckenridge on Tuesday. The road is now clear to Denver. Hans Hjort, twenty-nine, dairyhand, hanged himself in a barn in Arapahoe county, according to report received by Denver police authorities. Charles Rhodes, fifty years old, was ground to bits in Denver in the sight of fellow workmen at the plant of the Western Chemical Company, where he was foreman. Nine fat women, of average weight 247 pounds, are ready and willing to again appear in court to disprove the reducing qualities of the Hamilton-Cunningham "simplex" method at Denver. Mrs. Mary S. L. Short, seventy-five, was found dead in the kitchen of her home, in Denver, by Mrs. M. P. Johnson, a neighbor. Fear caused by the bursting of a water pipe is believed to have caused her death. Neuman Erb, president of the Denver & Salt Lake R. R., paid the city $17,500 for his share of the proposed $3,000,000 bond issue election, at which he hopes the city will vote $3,000,000 to help him dig the Moffat tunnel. That the illness of "Mother" Jones, which was reported recently at Trinidad, was framed up in order to create sympathy on the eve of the congressional investigation, is declared by the military authorities in charge of the strike district. A conference of Western governors to devise new financial plans for stimulating the growth of new irrigation projects and effecting solidity of existing irrigation securities in the West is proposed by Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane in a letter received by Governor Ammons. The congressional subcommittee began its investigation of the Colorado coal strike and indicated that it would go into both political and social conditions in the coal fields to determine whether conditions are such that the provisions of the constitution and the law can be and are observed. The first suit to be tried in Colorado under the new Interstate Commerce law governing the stealing from freight cars containing articles destined for interstate commerce resulted in the conviction of Edward Murphy, thirty-five, in the United States District Court at Denver. The gross earnings of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company for the year ending Dec. 31, 1913, were $7,530,210.90, an increase of $685,624.65 over the preceding year, according to the report of the company submitted to the stockholders at their annual meeting. John Roy Dew, the ladies' man, heart breaker and impersonator of Adolphus Busch III. of St. Louis, is a married man and has been for two years. This came out in the West Side Criminal Court in Denver, where he was sentenced by Judge Charles C. Butler to serve one to two years in the penitentiary. Marrying her stepson within a few days after divorcing his father, Mrs. Lenora Otto now lives in Denver as the wife of John S. Otto, whom she, eight years ago, established a mother's protection over by marrying Christian Otto, wealthy sheepman of New Mexico and widower of a cousin of the second wife. Declaring that he had seen an Italian strike-breaker shot and killed in the Victor-American mine at Delagua in December, and that the body was carried out by four soldiers, Sam Valenti, a Sicilian, told his story to the House coal strike investigating committee. Valenti said he did not know who shot the Italian. He was, for three years, a soldier in the Philippines. The Longmont Farmers' Protective Association has adopted a resolution rejecting the offer of the Great Western Sugar Company of $4.75 a ton for beets for the coming year. The members of the association are willing to accept $4.75 a ton for beets containing twelve per cent sugar content as a basis, but demand a sliding scale increase for all beets containing more than twelve per cent sugar content. The Rev. Mrs. Hattie Handiside, pastor of the Free Methodist Episcopal church and well known in Denver, was seriously injured at Loveland when she slipped on an icy sidewalk. Her arm was fractured in three places and she suffered a dislocated wrist. A triangle of forces, representing many human and industrial interests, each pressing in an opposite direction—and out of the flinty contact of these determinations the truth as to the coal strike expected to come—met in the Senate chamber of the state capitol. BEET CROP $1,200,000 NEARLY 250,000 TONS SLICED AT LONGMONT. Growers Realize Great Profit at Close of Campaign Lasting For 122 Days. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Longmont, Colo.—The longest sugar-making campaign in the history of the Longmont factory has ended, after a run of 122 days. During the campaign 248,985 tons of beets were sliced, from which 625,000 bags of sugar were made. In the operation 40,000 tons of coal were used and 17,500 tons of lime rock. During the 122 days 500 men were given employment, with a pay-roll of $200,000 and an additional $10,000 as a bonus to those who remained throughout the campaign. The beet acreage for 1913 was the largest ever raised in this section, being nearly 17,000 acres. From their crop the growers received $1,200,000, and added to the payroll, bonus and labor at the dumps, brings the total amount paid out by the sugar company in this section to approximately $1,500,000. The season was most successful and the prosperity this section is enjoying is due in a large measure to the beet sugar industry. The growers all realized a good profit, and the large payroll, every two weeks, kept plenty of money in circulation and acted as an impetus to all lines of business. The cattle feeding industry has assumed large proportions as a result of the big supply of beet pulp,22,500 head being conditioned for market on the farms around Longmont. Much uneasiness is felt over the prospects of the coming year. The announcement of a reduction in the price of beets by the sugar company is being discussed on all sides, and while a number of farmers have declared that they will not raise beets at the lower price, others have decided to sign the new contracts and take advantage of the recommendation of the sugar company that the price paid for tending the crop be reduced. It is believed that sufficient acreage will be signed to operate the factory next season. Copper Profits $2,257,590. Colorado Springs.—During the last three months of 1913 the Utah Copper Company, a MacNeill corporation, made net profits of $2,257,590.29, of which $1,187,760 was paid out in dividends and $1,369,830.29 placed to the surplus account. The gross production of copper for the year was 119,939,809 pounds, as against 96,175,990 pounds for 1912. The report for the last quarter of 1913 issued to stockholders from the New York offices of the company, shows that a higher grade of copper is being mined than for the same period of 1912. Walsenburg Strike Cases Postponed. Walsenburg.—All cases growing out of the coal strike situation, which were to have come up at this term of District Court were postponed until the June term, upon request of the defendants. The matter of bail will be taken up privately with the court before Judge Watson McHendrie. The cases are those of nine men held on two counts each for complicity in the La Veta murders; two men for three counts each in connection with the Seventh street riot here, and three cases of assault and battery. Ammons Boosts For Y. M. C. A. Fund. Pueblo.—Governor Ammons was the principal speaker at a banquet attended by 400 Pueblo citizens, many of whom began the task of raising $60,000 to equip the Pueblo Y. M. C. A. building. W. E. Sweet also was a speaker. The banquet was held in the Y. M. C. A. building. The Y. M. C. A. building was completed a year ago. The committee ran out of funds and was unable to furnish it. Arrested as Slayer. "Pueblo.—Gastero Pecori was arrested at a grading camp seven miles south of the city and lodged in jail here on a charge of killing a fellow Italian named Soperorita in Trinidad Jan. 23. Charles Bender, who confessed to the killing of Harry F. Nickell, Omaha bank teller, in the robbery of a resort there, was taken back to Omaha by Chief of Police Dunne of Omaha. Two Millions for Reclamation Grand Junction.—Word was received of an allotment of $1,873,184 for work on the Grand Valley project of the reclamation service in 1914. An appropriation of $750,860 also has been made for the Uncompahgre project near Montrose. Both funds are a part of what is called the bond loan fund, made available for the reclamation service a few years ago. Head Cut Off in D. & R. G. Accidents. Colorado Springs. — Clarence F. Spencer, forty-two, was instantly killed by a Denver & Rio Grande pass- enger train, in Monument Valley park, near the Rio Grande depot. Spencer was walking along the track on his way to the public library, when the train hit him, completely severing his head and one of his arms. Spencer was a nephew of B. Crane Wilson, a wealthy Chicago shirt manufacturer, who committed suicide east of Colora do Springs seven years ago. Spencer is survived by a widow. FREE FREE KEYSTON OPEN FOR New D to Key BUSINESS like it Strictly home cooking. Low food. Eastern corn-fed meats KEYSTONE CA EN FOR BINESS New Dining Room in Conto Keystone Social Club. like it ever attempted in home cooking. Lowest prices for best q Eastern corn-fed meats. Your patronage s OPEN FOR BUSINESS New Dining Room in Connection to Keystone Social Club. Nothing like it ever attempted in Denver. Strictly home cooking. Lowest prices for best quality of food. Eastern corn-fed meats. Your patronage solicited. FULL DINNER 11:30 a. m. to 8:30 p. m. Soup, Fish or Meat, Two Vegetables Coffee, Tea or Cocoa Desert 25 CENTS FULL DINNER 11:30 a. m. to 8:30 p. m. SHORT ORDERS Syl. St 1857 Champa St. Phone C SHORT ORDERS AT ALL HOURS Syl. Stewart Manag Champa St. Phone Champa 3543 Denver BECK JOHN Beck & Engstrom WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Vines, Liquors and Cigars Items for Minneapolis Grain Belt Beer and Carnegie Imported Beer and Bock Ol. 1644-46-48-50 Larimer Street in 1053 Denver ALL KINDS OF REPAIR WORK NEATLY DONE REFINISHING A SPECIALTY. Welton Street Furniture F. R. LINDENMIER, Prop. 2619 WELTON STREET And Second Hand Furniture Boug and Exchanged 1857 Champa St. Phone Champa 3543 Denver, Colo. Beck & E WHOLESALE Wines, Lic Cig Western Agents for Minneapolis Grain Imported Beer 1644-46-48-50 Phone Main 1053 ALL KINDS OF REPAIR REFINISHING A The Welton Street F. R. LINDEN 2619 WELTO New and Second Hand and Exc Beck @ Engstrom WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Wines, Liquors and Cigars Western Agents for Minneapolis Grain Belt Beer and Carnegie Porter, Pripps Imported Beer and Bock Ol. 1644-46-48-50 Larimer Street Phone Main 1053 Denver, Colorado ALL KINDS OF REPAIR WORK NEATLY DONE. REFINISHING A SPECIALTY. New and Second Hand Furniture Bought, Sold and Exchanged We Pay the Highest Cash Price for Furniture PHONE MAIN 8247. DENVER, COLO. Bison MARKET DEPARTMENT We are handling nothing but the poultry. At present we are getting caught fish, salmon, trout, cat fish. FRESH VEGETABLES CHAS. HARRIS, Pres. J. M. JOHN RAILROAD PO LUNCH ROOM DEPARTMENT are handling nothing but the highest quality meats. At present we are getting by express shipment stri sh, salmon, trout, cat fish, halibut and oysters. FRESH VEGETABLES EVERY MORNING ARRIS, Pres. J. M. JOHNS, Treas. SEIB MILLE ILROAD PORTERS' CL LUNCH ROOM IN CONNECTION We are handling nothing but the highest quality meats, fish and poultry. At present we are getting by express shipment strictly fresh caught fish, salmon, trout, cat fish, halibut and oysters. FRESH VEGETABLES EVERY MORNING CHAS. HARRIS, Pres. J. M. JOHNS, Treas. SEIB MILLER. See. LUNCH ROOM IN CONNECTION 1728% Wazee St. Only one block from Union Depot Phone Main 8416. Denver, Colorado HENRY BECK PHONE MAIN 8247 We are the largest Importers and Manufacturers of Colored People's Hair, being the oldest and most respected. We guarantee perfect satisfaction or money refunded. We positively guarantee our hair to be superior to any on the market, and our prices are lower than those quoted anywhere else. We wash and wash and washing the same as your own. We sell hair by the pound, hair nets and all styles of hair, also an exceptionally fine line of toilet articles and straightening combs at wholesale prices. We offer 2-cent stamp for Free Book. Send 2-cent stamp for Free Book. Agents Wanted. HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY Dept. 102. No. 23 Duane Street. NEW YORK CITY. NE CAFE Dining Room in Connection Stone Social Club, Nothing ever attempted in Denver. Best prices for best quality of Your patronage solicited. Soup, Fish or Meat, Two Vegetables Coffee, Tea or Cocoa Desert 25 CENTS AT ALL HOURS ewart Manager. ampa 3543 Denver, Colo. Engstrom DEALERS IN alcoors and cars Belt Beer and Carnegie Porter, Pripps and Bock Ol. Larimer Street Denver, Colorado WORK NEATLY DONE. SPECIALTY. et Furniture Co. MIER, Prop. IN STREET Furniture Bought, Sold changed ED. POLAND Five Points Grocery 2700 WELTON STREET PHONE 8488 MAIN The Only Up-to-Date Grocery and Market at Five Points MEATS It will pay you, if you are not buying your food supply from us, to make a change. the highest quality meats, fish and by express shipment strictly fresh alibut and oysters. EVERY MORNING S, Treas. SEIB MILLER, Sec. RTERS' CLUB IN CONNECTION JOHN ENGSTROM DENVER, COLO. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Recently in New York there met the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People. The associa- tion, according to committee reports, is growing. That is well. There can be no doubt of the need of organized effort to protect the interests and even the most elementary rights of the negro. ‘This ts an unpleasant thought, but true. The appearance of Jim Crowism in the national offices at Washington, now thrown into higher reltef by the president's strange reluctance to at- tack it, is only dne expression of the tendency to isolate and hold the negro down. Recently Mr. Hyde has de- scribed the harsh and demoralizing conditions with which the most worthy class of negroes has to copfe In Chica- go. There is now appearing in the south a new segregation proposal, namely, that when more than a half of the acreage of a section is owned by one race, the voters of the section may exclude ownership by members of another race. In other words, says Doctor Du Bois, here is the policy of race segregation which has resulted in the degradation and destruction of the Indians. ‘The reminder is sharp-edged. Our mistreatment of the Indians has been admitted to be a blot on the nation’s ‘scutcheon. Are we to drift into an evil even greater? As Doctor Du Bois Says, & quarter century ago the solu- tion of the negro problem was formu. lated thus: “Take the negro out of pol- ities. Train him for work, especially for farm work.” ‘The negro has been taken ‘out of politics by various de- vices of disfranchisement which. in effect annul the thirteenth amend- ment. This process of constitutional repeal has been accepted complaisant- ly by a generation preoccupied with its own material achievements and politi- cal and social problems. ‘The results of this twofold policy, according to Doctor Du Bois and other observers are “that the negro schools have been neglected; that a large proportion of the negro children are jnot in school, and that there has been quiet but de- termined opposition to the success of the higher schools for negroes, while in the industrial and agricultural fleld the negro has had to contend against tremendous odds.” It should be said in supplement to this, that in the south white schools also have been neglected; that the south has been very poor and economi- cally retarded, and that in many dis- triets the poor whites are worse off than the negroes. Yet, after all factors are brought within view, the human paradox ap- pears that wherever the negro, in spite of the staggering handicaps under which he moves, has forced himself upward he thereby places himself in competition with white men and im- mediately becomes the object of their opposition. What is really wanted of him is humble, useful labor. Freedom in name he is to enjoy, but not the freedom a free soul demands, the free- dom to move forward, to enjoy “the blessings of liberty,” freedom in the “pursuit of happiness.” We shall not solve the negro prob- jem on any such basis. The wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, who sald “this gov- ernment cannot endure permanently half slave and half free” is wisdom to- day. Our policy toward the negro most certainly and most profoundly will react upon ourselves. That is a consideration which gives to the move- ment for the advancement of colored people the force of enlightened self- interest.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Fifty-seven years of continuous serv- ice as a weaver is the remarkable rec- ord of a woman employed in a cotton mill in Saco, Me. The National Association for the Ad- vancement of the Colored People, of which Oswald Garrison Villard, presi- dent of the New York Evening Post company, is one of the prime movers, was characterized as dangerous and misleading, and one of its Washington agents charged with fraud in a meet- ing of colored people in the Metropoli- tan church in M street, Washington. ‘A resolution was adopted inquiring the number of school teachers and government employes who are giving their aid to the association, the man- ner of expenditure of money publicly collected for “the advancement of the colored people,” the necessity for the existence of such an organization in the district, and whether the organiza- tion is incorporated according to the laws of the district. ‘The largest electrical egg hatching plant in the world is in England, hay- ing an average output of 8,000 chick- ens a week. Mme. Alice Deschamps, a well- known French sportswoman, celebra- ted her eighty-fourth birthday by ta- king part in a lawn tennis, a golf and a croquet match at Le Touquet. To encourage the use of paper twine instead of jute for baling wool the gov- ernment of Uruguay has lowered the duty on the former. Montana produced a record amount of zinc last year and increased its sil- ‘yer output 4 per cent. over the figures tor 1912. An earnest plea for the betterment of the rural colored schools of the south was made by James H. Dillard, president and director, at the annual meeting of the board of the Negro Ru- ral school fund of the AnnaT. Jeanes foundation, which was held at New York a few days ago. “The city, town and village school- houses for the colored children are often fairly good,” says Mr. Dillard, “but in the open country, where we Profess to wish the people to remain, and where we profess to wish to train these country children to better coun- try living, anything better than a dis- ‘graceful shack is rarely found for the schoolhouse.” The Jeanes foundation, established five years ago, and with the active and financial co-operation of the various counties of the southern states, and ‘that of the Phelps-Stokes fund, is car- crying on an educational campaign among the rural negro population of the south. ‘The scope of the work is so large that though more than $38,000 has been spent for teachers’ salaries alone, the officers and executive com- mittee find themselves badly handi- capped for funds with which to prop- erly extend the work of the founda- tion, Only $1,195 was available for re- pairs and equipment of schoolhouses. So great has been the increase in the number of schools, that it has been found advisable to orgunize a corps of supervising teachers and state supervisors. The problem of meeting the traveling expenses of these workers is by no means an easy one. In many cases they are depend- ent upon private contributions from patrons of the schools, where the coun- ties have made no appropriations for the purpose. Mr. Dillard is optimistic regarding the future of the work, and feels that in spite of many handicaps, a constant- ly increasing appreciation and spirit of co-operation is being manifested by school officials, both state and county. More than 300 members of the con- gregation of St. Francis Xavier's Catholic church at Baltimore, Md., sat at a banquet in the lecture hall of the chureh, the occasion being the contin- uation of the golden jubilee celebra- tion of the church, which was opened by Cardinal Gibbons on Sunday. The congregation of St. Francis Xavier's church {is a colored one and around the table were many of the most prom- inent people of the colored community. Councilman Harry S, Cummings said in part: “We are all citizens of a great gov- ernment to which we owe all the loy- alty and patriotism which we can command. We owe respect and obe- dience to the law of the land and de- yotion to everything which makes for the prosperity of our common country. And as our president, whoever he may be in person, is the head of the gov- ernment, we owe respect and loyalty to him as citizens. We, in return for this loyalty and patriotism, are en- titled to receive and enjoy to its fullest extent every right granted to us under the law. And as theré should be no ‘difference in degree in our patriotism, ‘80 also should there be no difference or @iscrimination in according to all [citizens their rights. Let us hope that our president, with all the power at his command, may see to it that all citizens may be accorded the full measure of their rights, so that each and ¢very one of us may vie with each other in his love and devotion for our flag and our country.” A cork sunk 200 feet deep in the ocean will not rise again to the sur face, owing to the great pressure of the water. At any less distance, how- ever, it will gradually work its way back to light. Booker T. Washington finds that “Virginia is setting a great example for the rest of the south in the matter of slowing how the white and colored people may co-operate for general im- provement. I find,” Doctor Washington adds, “that not only have the efforts of the Negro Organization society re- ceived the hearty support of the white people of the state, but that other special lines of endeavor have like- wise received their most cordial sup- port. “This is particularly true in the mat- ter of education. Virginia was the first state to have a state supervisor of rurai colored schools, and by #0 do- ing set an example for the rest of the south. The work of Jackson Davis in improving the negro schools of Virgi- nia is an indication of how the best white people of the south are ready to give their time and talent for the bet- terment of conditions among negroes.” Among improvements to be carried out soon on the harbor of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is the building 0} an electric power plant to supply new coal loading machinery. The London (England) county council has decided to issue an order for the closing of barber shops throughout London at the same time. Canada cuts about 2,000,000 cords of pulp wood annually, about half of which is exported for manufacture in the United States. DURING PAST YEAR REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN $222,441. Salaries of Teachers at Greeley Total $65,100; Average Cost Per Pupil $73, States Annual Report. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—The board of trustees of the State Normal College at Greeley and its branch at Gunnison held their quarterly meeting in the offices of the state superintendent of public in- struction, A financial report cover- ing the fiscal year ending July 31, 1913, occupied the entire morning ses: sion and general affairs of the two schools were taken up in the after- noon. ‘The report shows that the cost of operating the Greeley normal for the year was $157,841.97. During that time there was an enrollment of 2,127 students, making an average cost per pupil of $73. The salaries ‘Of President Sydner and teachers amounted to $65,100. ‘The report of'the Gunnison branch shows an enrollment of 433 and cost of operating the institution $27,722.98. or an average of $64 per student, $9 under the average at Greeley. Both institutions are seeking money to continue their operations in 1914. It was stated by State Auditor Kene- han that a complete audit of the two reports and an apportionment of the incoming revenue held up by the re- cent tax squabble must be made be- fore it is forthcoming. Among the trustees present were George Houston of Greeley, Harry V. Kepner, Henry P. Steele and Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford of Denver, Wil- liam Price Dunlavy of Trinidad and Judge George Hetherington of Gunni- son. Mrs. R, C, Pulford of Durango, ‘another member, was absent. Promoters Must Prove Land Grant. Denyer—The promoters of every Carey act project in the state will be called before the State Land Board during March and asked to show wnat they are doing toward placing water on the land which they segregated from entry, according to a board or- der, ‘The law requires that water shall be put on the lands within a certain period. All promoters who cannot prove the ability and inclination to ful- ‘fil this requirement within the period ‘will be compelled to give up the iand ‘so that it may be opened to settlers, All sharks who already have overrun the Allotted time will be made to re- linguish at once. ‘The land board is- sued this ultimatum following investi- gations by Register Volney T. Hoggatt, who discovered that thousands. of acres of the best land in the state are and have been for years held by big corporations for speculation. Many of these have not fulfilled their contracts and are making no effort to do so. Colorado Wins in Radium Bill. Denver.—A copy of the new bill in- troduced in Congress concerning ra- dium-bearing lands has been received by T. R. Henahen, state mining com- missioner, and shows a striking dit- ference in comparison with the first one introduced, It is entitled: “A bill to provide for and encourage the prospecting, mining, and treatment of radium-bearing ores in lands belong- ing to the United States, for the pur pose of securing an adequate supply of radium for government and ther hospitals in the United States, and for other purposes.” ‘The bill is in effect a compromise measure introduced as the result of the efforts of the Colo: rado delegation in Congress and Com: missioner Henahen to prevent the withdrawal of lands and the injury of the radium industry. Reports $223,399 Spent for Poor. Denver.—Secretary of State Pearce has reported to Governor Amsnons that the counties of the state spent $233,399 for care of the poor during the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1913. Five counties had not made their reports to the secretary of state as required by law and their expenses were not in- cluded in the total. The counties fail- ing to report are Denver, El Paso, Delta, Lariner and Saguache. Farrar Sues to Release School Fund. Denver.—Mandamus proceedings to compel State Treasurer M. A. Leddy to apportion the $1,200,000 uninvested permanent school fund to the various counties of the state, in accordance with law, in order that it may be loaned through the State Land Board to the farmers of Colorado, was filed in the District Court by Attorney Gen- eral Fred Farrar. Hail of Bullets Riddle Car. Denver.—A train carrying forty-one strikebreakers from Pueblo to the Victor & American Company's mine at Radiant, was fired upon by a crowd of strikers at Williamsburg, according to advices received at the governor's and the company’s offices, Boy Begs Governor to Free Father. Denver, — Twelve-year-old Jimmie Fitzpatrick pleaded in person with Governor Ammons, while the governor was at Grand Junction, for a pardon for his father, J. W. Fitzpatrick, who is serving a six-months’ sentence in the county jail for bootlegging. The boy waited three hours at the door of the banquet room where Ammons was @ guest and buttonholed the governor when th latter came out, He pre- sented a petition which the governor promised to consider. WOMAN'S SUIT ‘LET DOWN BARS, | AM READY FOR THEM,” SAYS BLIND U, 8, SENATOR. WOMAN ASKS $50,000 FOR AN AL- LEGED ASSAULT AND DE- FAMATION OF CHARACTER. fares? Newspaper Union News Service. Oklahoma City, Okla, Feb. 12— Seven farmers, two salesmen, a bank- Ea @ broker and @ groceryman were accepted as members of a jury to de- termine the $50,000 damage suit in- stated by Mrs, Minnie B, Bond against United States Senator T. P. Gore, who charges that the Oklahoma senator attacked her while she was a guest at a Washington hotel. Mrs. Bond is suing Senator Gore for $50,000 for alleged attempted assault in Washington in March, 1913, and for defamation of character, Senator Gore’s counsel includes A. C, Cruce, brother of Governor Cruce of Okla- homa. “Let down the bars,” said the blind senator, just before the trial be- gan. “I'm ready for them: They say they can prove damaging things against my character, but before they get through I will have proved this suit a frame-up to ruin my future po- litical career.” ‘The blind senator was bitter in his denunciation of the suit. Three Oklahomans are scheduled to testify for the complainant that they witnessed the attempted assault. A score or more of depositions have been taken by both sides detrimental to the reputations of both the princi- pals. The morning session was taken up by the opening statements of the opposing attorneys. Mrs. Bond, neatly dressed in a tight-fitting tailored suit, came to court with her husband, Julian R. Bond, who is a bookkeeper, Both lett before Senator Gore arrived. ‘The blind senator was led in by D. L, Frawley, income tax collector for Texas and Oklahoma, and was fol- lowed by Mrs, Gore in a stylish black “honey” coat and black hat with bird of paradise, Mrs, Gore's brother, C. M. Kay of Palestine, Texas, a noted criminal lawyer, joined the Gore coun: sell when the case was called. " COMMISSION UPHOLDS UNION. Blame for Labor War in Michigar Bliced on. Onarntota, lene eee bs ee ee Wasbington,—The Federal Commis sion on Industrial Relations gave a clean bill of health to the Western Federation of Miners. Investigator: for that department, following a gen eral inquiry into the upper Michigan strike and the operations of the fed eration generally, haye reported that the organization operates lawfully. By Mference the reports place the blame for the entire Michigan trou bles at the door of the operators whe refused to recognize the federation ot treat with its officials. In the report made public by Chairman P. Walsh. the federation is declared to be work: ing harmoniously with employers in Colorado, Nevada and Montana. “The Western Federation of Min: ers,” says the report, “does not ap: pear to differ materially in its aims, ‘objects or policies from other national labor organizations. Local unions un: der its jurisdiction have worked un der several contracts with employers for years. “There are approximately 9,000 men employed in the mines of Butte, Mont. alone, of whom 8,000 are federation men.” Troops Stop Huertaiter at Border. El ‘Paso, Tex.—An attempt to rush Mexicans, recruited in this city by Huerta’s recruiting agents, across the river brought out four troops of the Fifteenth cavalry to prevent the viola. tion of neutrality. Gen. Hugh L Scott, in command at Fort Bliss, has been on the alert for some days to rumors of a plot to place a flanking force on the rebel left at Juarez, by making a rush from this side, and his men were in the saddle almost th instant the news came that the Mex icans were rushing down thé river bank on the Amerfean side in auto mobiles. Two Sheepherders Frozen to Death. ‘Trinidad.—Caught in the severe blizzard that swept over southern Colorado on Dec, 4 and 5 of last year, unable to reach their camp, Bene- ditto Garcia and his brother, Anacita, sheepherders, perished in the snow drifts near Troy, in the extreme south: western portion of Las Animas coun- ty, fifty miles from Trinidad. The bodies of the men were found by a sheephetder in the employ of the Mesa de Meya ranch, Makin tAttacic. Monteray, Mexico City—On the anniversary of the assassination of President Fran- cisco I. Madero and Vice President Suarez, with General Huerta fnain- taining his vigilant guard against an uprising within the capital, the gov- ernment was confronted with a new worry—a rebel attack on Monterey. Schmidt Sentenced to Die March 23. New York-—Hans Schmidt was sentenced to die in the electric chair within the week beginning March 23, for the murder of Anna Aumuller. ° 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 Phone: eae $08 1538 Court Pl. PROMPT ATTENTION TO OUT OF TOWN ORDERS <a, i Te Curtis 2 ee Park 2 QO QA? se Floral ane Company gyi Gs ee fy tc My FLORAL DESIGNS SSO" SM GHOIGE PLANTS AND GUT FLOWERS S°SSESES “QQ i GREENHOUSES: Thirty-Fourth and Curtis Streets Y ASK: (Ok ee CARLSON’S Peerless Ice Cream ———————— Phones: Main 112 and Main 5787 ~ DID YOU EVER TRY 7B Neef Bros.’ Beer? It’s made right, and tastes right. 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Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper; must reach us Tuesdays, if possible, anyway, not later than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the author. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. It occasionally happens that papers sent to subscribers are lost or stolen. In case you do not receive any number when due, inform us by postal card and we will cheerfully forward a duplicate of the missing number. Plunging in debt, as an individual, to such an extent that it takes all your energy and its resultant reward in cash to pay the interest on what you owe, with small hopes of paying the principal, is the height of foolishness in private business. The same principle holds good in big business. It is inexcusable on the part of a city government to assume an indebtedness that taxes us to our limit to pay the interest. Voters and taxpayers should think of this when they go to the polls next Tuesday. Anent the water question, the Board of Engineers have declared that it would be little less than criminal to tear up the paved streets of Denver to put in a new water system and that is the way it looks to every sensible person who views the matter with an unbiased eye. It will be a great day for Denver when her people can approach these public questions from the point of view of sanity and justice and eliminate politics and bitter personal feeling from every situation which comes up for settlement. Don't be deceived by the agitation and calamity howlers who are appealing to your prejudices to vote against buying the water plant, by telling you that the Retail Dealers' plan is a scheme to steal the people's money; and that you are to pay $14,400,000 for the new plant. They know that that is only the appraised value by the water company and that is the highest price which a board of arbitration can fix, but that the board which is yet to be selected can and may fix the price at any sum less than $14,400,000; they will have the right under the Retailers' plan to fix the price as low as $2,000,000, $3,000,000, $5,000,000 or $11,000,000, up to $14,400,000, and the company will be bound to take whatever price the board fixes as the value of the water plant, and that will settle it and the people will own the plant. THE ISSUE. Every question of public policy cannot be reduced to one of special application to a particular element of the people. The water question is one of those broad questions of universal application, primarily affecting every citizen in the very same manner, and in degrees differing only according to their respective property holdings or their living conditions. The price of meat is of greater interest to every colored man than is the question of how many colored men are employed by the beef trust. The cost of water comes under the same line of reasoning. But, of course, if the matter of meat supply were to be submitted to a vote of the people to decide whether it should be a private or a public utility, the matter of employment might creep in as a very obscure side issue with the question of cheapest and best supply always uppermost. So with the water question. The saving to the entire population is too big a matter to be obscured by a side issue involving only the possible salaries of a few individuals. Yet the latter phase will be injected into the discussion of the water question by persons who are slow to realize the scope of the larger and greater interests involved, but even that phase of the question will not be avoided by those who believe that present conditions are better than they would be under an attempt of the city to acquire ownership of the water plant. If our present ratio of employment in all of the departments of the city government is a fair and reasonable basis for comparison, we could not expect more than a half dozen additional colored employés if the city owned the water plant, and their aggregate salaries would be no more than a drop in the bucket compared with the sum which would be added to our present taxes and expenses to pay for the experiment. But the Denver Union Water Company employs large numbers of colored men, the non-political and ordinarily private nature of whose employment attracts no attention and is given no consideration as a public benefaction and obligation upon the people of their class. Their employment carries no obligation such as political employment carries, and is far more permanent and certain. Political employment of every nature is always uncertain and insecure, especially in the cases of colored employés. It calls for constant obligation, attention and repayment in votes, on the part of the whole element of people represented, and it is an unavoidable source of struggle and strife, engendering animosities and disappointments which are poorly repaid by the individual benefits derived. In the fundamental range of government this political strife is necessary, but the argument that a great private source of service would benefit any particular class more if made public and political when, in either case, the taxpayers have to foot all the bills of expense, is an argument which carries the followers a long way from the main question and from the truth. A MOON falls she dressed listener you wa small o you an those w ested i make y A MOST TOUCHING APPEAL falls short of its desired effect if addressed to a small crowd of interested listeners. Mr. Business Man, are you wasting your ammunition on the small crowd, that would trade with you anyway, or do you want to reach those who are not particularly interested in your business? If you do, make your appeal for trade to the largest and most intelligent audience in your community, the readers cl this paper. They have countless wants. Your ads will be read by them, and they will become your customers. Try it and see. Definite Ideas on Care of Young Children By CLARA PARKS PRESTON, Chicago Any mother understanding English who wishes to be told in simple language what every mother ought to know in preparation for the birth of her child can have the information by simply writing and mailing a letter to the chief of the children's bureau, Washington, D. C., and asking for the monograph on "Parental Care," "Care of Children," series No. 1, bureau of publication No. 4, giving name and address. No return postage is needed, as Uncle Sam pays the return postage himself. This pamphlet, prepared by Mrs. Max West, under the direction of Miss Julia C. Lathrop, chief of the bureau, alone is enough to justify the law passed a little over a year ago establishing in the federal government a children's bureau. If it is circulated and read as it ought to be an uncountable number of children who would otherwise die will live and an uncountable number of children who would otherwise be unhappy and unfitted for life because of weakness or disease will be healthy, happy, and vigorous. In this pamphlet the government has made a beginning of doing for children what it has done superbly for the country's crops and herds. Through the department of agriculture the government has acted as a volunteer expert farm counselor or consulting farmer. Through the children's bureau the government is now undertaking to act as a sort of expert home counselor or consulting mother. Whatever one may think of paternalism in government, no one can examine this pamphlet without welcoming heartily this form of governmental maternalism. The pamphlet might well be called "When a Child Is Born." It does not, of course, take the place of physician or nurse, but, on the contrary, enables the mother to co-operate intelligently with both. The wide circulation of this pamphlet can also serve a useful purpose in giving the American people a definite idea, at least in part, of what the children's bureau really is, and how intimately this new arm of the government touches the lives of the people. The bureau has to do with all the children of America. Send for the monograph and see for yourself. It is a handy reference book, having glossary and index. Perfect Cleanliness in Handling of Wounds By A. R. REYNOLDS, M. D., Chicago Ever since John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, coined the phrase, "Cleanliness is next to godliness," it has been doing good service. Another divine has amplified the expression by saving that while cleanliness was next to godliness, it was on the hither side of godliness. It may be added that cleanliness is on the hither side of sanitation. Modern surgery, that has become so safe and is so strikingly successful in relieving pain and prolonging life, differs in its methods from the old-fashioned kind chiefly in the application of perfect cleanliness in the handling of wounds. In this way all infectious germ life is washed from the skin of the patient, from the hands of the operator, the instruments and dressings to be applied. Frequent washing of the hands is necessary because we so often put our fingers in or about the mouth. Soiled fingers may convey the germs of disease and under each nail may be carried germs enough to infect a whole family. All matter should be thoroughly removed from under the nails every time the hands are washed. No hard and fast rule can be laid down as to how often one should take a full bath or whether it should be hot or cold, as people differ so much in their need. Many a man doing hard labor has gone years without a full bath and without injury to his health. It is only in recent years that baths were to be had by the masses. The man who works hard perspires much and his skin is cleansed in the process. It is well enough to reflect that the skin may be kept immaculate and the body be reeking with waste matter within because of faulty elimination of food and tissue waste. In this case the working man with the odor of dried sweat about him may have a more wholesome and clean body than the dainty lady with her daily tub and all the elegant accesories of perfumed soaps, powders and lotions. Too much bathing may be injurious to some extent. Nature provides a certain amount of oiliness in the skin that keeps it soft and helps to protect against excesses of either heat or cold. Daily soaping and hard rubbing afterward of the body remove too much and is a faulty habit of life. Some Noble Waiters Take Lowly Tips By MANAGER DOYLE of Stafford Hotel, Baltimore, Md. There are very few foreign waiters who claim to have been noblemen in their own country and descendants from old and noble families who will not accept a tip. I was at one time connected with the Waldorf-Astoria in New York and other large hotels in this country. I have seen a great many foreign waiters who claim to be members of old and noble families, but never have I seen one of these fellows refuse a quarter as a tip. They will tell you about their distinguished ancestors and the old and historic castles that their families are occupying in Europe, but if you don't tip when you have finished your meal the chances are you will go hungry if they ever get a chance to wait upon you again. There are any number of good foreign waiters that claim to be noblemen. You can generally size them up by the amount of dignity they put on. Nothing less than a 25-cent tip will go with these fellows. If they think you are easy they will tell you enough about their noble family to make your head swim, but look out if you neglect to tip them, for they will have you on their blacklist. They will even go further and tell the other noblemen who are waiting in the hotel about you. Help Boys and Girls Select a Vocation By ROBERT T. WEBB, Boston, Mass. A number of cities in the west may establish municipal bureaus of vocational guidance. The idea is to offer guidance to boys and girls in helping them to select a vocation. What chance has a boy or girl, after looking over the field of commerce and professions. When a boy is about to enter commercial work he should learn the kind of factories there are in the town where he lives, what kinds of industries there are, the number of business and factory operatives, the chances of promotion, and the qualifications necessary to be successful in any particular business. Business generally is done behind locked doors. The employes in these businesses are recruited from men who know nothing about the actual work, and who find it entirely different from what they imagine. The municipal bureaus of vocational guidance should be established in all cities in this country. Definite Ideas on Care of Young Children By CLARA PARKS PRESTON, Chicago Perfect Cleanliness in Handling of Wounds By A. R. REYNOLDS, M. D., Chicago Some Noble Waiters Take Lowly Tips By MANAGER DOYLE ef Stafford Hotel, Baltimore, Md. Help Boys and Girls Select a Vocation By ROBERT T. WEBB, Boston, Mass. FREE! FREE! FREE! ```markdown ``` We are the largest dealers in Creole Hair Goods, Raw Hair by the pound, Electric Combs, etc., in this country. We show a larger variety of styles and sell more Fine Creole Wigs than any other manufacturer in the United States. Write for Catalogue. IT IS FREE P. O. BOX 298 ERNEST HOWARD. Carpenter, Job and Repair Work. Paints, Oils and Glass. Glazing Done Coal, Wood and Express. 021 21st Street. Phone Champa 752. REO CLUB 2710=12 Welton St Phone Main 2759 Denver, Colo. Stop! 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 N. FERRY Phone Main 7411 1905 Curtis Street $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, Work- manship and the BEST FOR THE MONEY. How do I Turn Out Such Fine suits for the Money? Why? On account of THE LOW RENT Nicely furnished rooms for rent at 2441-43 Lawrence street. Phone Cham- pa 2783. AGENTS WANTED To Sell MAGIC SHAVING POWDER MAGIC SHAVING POWDER. A new discovery for shaving the face and head without using razor or shears. Will send half pound can by mall, postage paid, for cents in stamps. Write THE SHAVING POWDER CO. Savannah, Georgia. 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. Telephone Main 8698. Brickler's New Barber Shop is located at 2208 Larimer street. Shave, 10. Hair cut, 25c; children, 15c. 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. Coal from Sack to Carload Delivered Anywhere in the City. Office: 2807 Welton Street DENVER - COLORADO THE TIVOLI UNION BREWING CO. Tivoli DENVER, COLOR. H. C. Radcliff has opened a nice, neat barber shop at his old stand, 1226 18th street. The shop has been remodeled in the latest style, and the only colored shop in the city giving artesian baths. Mr. Radcliff is well known and liked by the citizens of Denver. He solicits the trade of all his friends. 13 CENTS A DAY BUYS A PIANO. WITH MUSIC LESSONS FREE. PIANOS FROM $88 UP. COLUMBINE MUSIC CO., 920-924 15th STREET, CHARLES BUILDING. Mrs. Isabella Stewart is quite ill at her residence. Don't forget to vote on the water question Tuesday, 17th. Polls open as usual from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. George Ingram is now employed at the Denham building as soda dispenser. Remember the election day is next Tuesday, February 17th, go to the polls and do your duty. Mrs. J. R. Contee, who has been quite ill, is improving slowly. A. L. Boone of Omaha spent several days in the city this week on business. How does it appeal to you, taxpayer when you are trying to pay for a home to have to pay special tax, general tax, civic center tax and then be laured with the awful tax of a new water plant, and the tax for buying water rights? A few men, better known as grafters, are trying to clean up a few million dollars, and get rich quick by your expense by having you refuse a vote to buy the water plant. Disa point the grafters, vote for the purchase of the present water plant, vote or ALL amendments to the charter then watch Denver grow. SHORTER CHAPEL'S NOTES The revival at Shorter Chapel is full blast and large congregations are being drawn to every service. Already a number of unsaved men of low standing have been won for Christ at Mr. Joe Jackson died at the County hospital February 12. Funeral notice later. Douglas Undertaking Co., in charge. Mrs. Chas. Cassey is quite ill, but Dr. Westbrook is hopeful of her recovery. Joseph Brown died at the city hospital Thursday, February 12. Funeral notice later. Douglass Undertaking Co. in charge. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Graves of Boulder were in the city Tuesday on business and made the Colorado Statesman a pleasant call. Rev. Frank L. Scott, traveling evangelist, well known in Colorado, fell dead the 19th of last month at Evansville, Ind., his wife, Mrs. M. E. Scott, at 2252 Clarkson, heard of the sad news last week. Next Tuesday is the time to vote on the vexed water question, if you have not, as yet, made up you mind which way you will vote, take our advice and vote to buy the water plant—yes vote for all the amendments. Voters and taxpayers continue to be busy and vote the Retailers plan for the purchase of the water plant, as it will save you money in the payment of principal and interest. A largely attended and enthusiastic meeting was held Tuesday night at the residence of Mrs. Josephine Cassell, 1836 Ogden street, in the interest of the Moffat tunnel and the Retailers plan for the purchase of the water plant. Mrs. L. Brumage has broken up housekeeping and left last Tuesday for Omaha, where she will visit her sister, Mrs. R. Lott, who has been quite ill. It is rumored in social circles that two of the prominent members of the Widows club will be married in the spring. Guess who. Mr. Andrew Cloughton, who has been visiting his mother, Mrs. Barber, left Tuesday for his home in Minneapolis, Minn. Be the guest of the COLORED VOTERS and Taxpayers association, at Fern hall, Monday, Feb. 16th, at 8 p.m. Hear the Retail Merchants' Plan explained. Come and have a good time. Everything free. Mrs. A. T. Leachman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Crawford, arrived in the city Sunday from Helena, Mont., being called home on account of the serious illness of her mother at present writing Mrs. Crawford is much improved. You have seen the streets of Denver blockaded with snow, and you have seen snow piled ten to fifteen feet high, what do you think of the worse spectacle of seeing mud and dirt piled up on either side of the streets and water pipes and other debris lying around, hindering travel and becoming eye scores for five years, the time it will take to install a new water plant? ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The people of Colorado and the nation at large, paid homage Thursday, February 12th, to the memory of the beloved martyred, President Abraham Lincoln, who will always be revered by the Negro race as the Great Emmanuelator. In outward form, Denver discharged its obligation of respect and gratitude with many public functions and by the closing of banks and private buildings. Prominent Republicans gave a large banquet at El Jebel temple, at which Senator A. B. Cummins delivered the principal address on Lincoln. The Rocky Mountain Athletic Association cordially extends an invitation to their hosts of friends to attend the second weekly reception given to the ladies and gentlemen of Denver, beginning at 8 p. m., by the new management, Saturday, February 14, 1914. FRAZIER & WALTON, Managers. No. 2014 Champa St. How does it appeal to you, taxpayer, when you are trying to pay for a home, to have to pay special tax, general tax, civic center tax and then be laden with the awful tax of a new water plant, and the tax for buying water rights? A few men, better known as grafters, are trying to clean up a few million dollars, and get rich quick at your expense by having you refuse to vote to buy the water plant. Disappoint the grafters, vote for the purchase of the present water plant, vote or ALL amendments to the charter, then watch Denver grow. SHORTER CHAPEL'S NOTES The revival at Shorter Chapel is in full blast and large congregations are being drawn to every service. Already a number of unsaved men of long standing have been won for Christ and a great spiritual awakening is sweeping over the membership. Rev. J. P. Howard, the black Sam Jones, is delivering a series of sermons which are almost irresistable. He will preach on the following subjects tomorrow: 11 a. m., "The Concealment of Christ Impossible," and at 7:30 p. m. "A Disease, A Physician, A Remedy, A Cure and a Reason." A comfortable seat is assured to those only who come early. Our Allen Christian Endeavor League put the public under another debt of gratitude last Sunday evening through the redition of the Allen Endeavor Day program. The entire exercises were charming and an inspiring audience was out to witness it. Our sympathy goes out to our friends upon whom the hand of affliction rests and hope for them a speedy recovery. Our sick list follows: Mesdames M. A. Turner, 2658 Williams St.; Della Given, 2515 Curtis St.; Nola Casey, 1409 E. 24th Ave.; Misses Ruth Fife, 1409 E. 24th Ave., and Myra Glemi, 2737 Welton St. The extra taxes that would be laid on every property owner to build a new plant, and to buy water rights, and make new water connections with your property would be more than you can pay. It seems that such an unreasonable proposition should not, for a moment, be entertained by any property owner, for its not only expensive but dangerous to traffic and dangerous to public health. BETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Hutchinson, Kansas, Pastored by Rev H. Franklin Bray, D. D., leading The Sabbath school enrollment has grown from 48 to 137, with an average attendance of 101. Presiding Elder J. S. Payne said at the close of the conference session that this is the largest school in the district and that the Sabbath school and every department of the church had more money in the treasury than any church in the district. The financial system, instituted by Dr. Bray, has completely revolutionized things financially so that a good sum is kept in the bank at all times, from which every obligation is met. The revival just closed cost the church $55.75 and was raised without a single public collection. This is a result of our improved financial system. Dr. H. Franklin Bray is regarded as being one of the best pastors in the connection. The smoker given by the Keystone Social Club Thursday night at Eureka hall, was as is usually the case, a grand success. Syl Stewart, the manager of the Keystone Social Club, knows how to pull off a stunt of that kind. The contestants in the boxing ring were in fine condition and furnished much sport. Kid Bell knocked out Brown in the second round. Colored voters and property owners, don't listen to the sophistry that to build a new water plant will put many thousands of men to work. That don't mean that idle colored men, who pay taxes to have the work done, will get to do any of the public work, it means that your taxes will go to put union men to work and you will continue to be idle, because you are colored men and because the unions will not allow you to work. Prof J. A. Henry, principal of the Howard High school of Chattanooga, Tenn., and one of the most widely known educators and fraternal men in the South, was stricken with apoplexy last Monday in the school room and died in a few minutes before he could receive medical attention. Prof. Henry had been connected with the Chattanooga public school for thirty-one years. He has been grand master of Masons of Tennessee since 1900 and his knowledge of Masonry and men was unexcelled. Fraternal, religious and social circles will miss Prof Henry. The Colorado Statesman extends sympathy to the bereaved relatives. ...The Water company is not asking for a new franchise, they only ask the city to buy the water plant, to vote for the amendment to allow them to do business until such a time when the city is ready to take the plant off their hands, is not that fair? Suppose the people vote down the plan to buy the water plant and tell the Water company, in a spirit of revenge, to get out of the streets, what will you do for water? If you vote to build a new plant where will you get the water and what kind? These are things to be considered when you go to vote on Tuesday. Tuesday, February 17th, is election day and it behooves every citizen of our race, who has a vote, to go to the polls, for this election means the settlement of one of the most perplexing questions that is causing agitation and strife in our beautiful city. See Saturdays issue of the Colorado Statesman for full instructions in regard to voting. Even a pain business proposition, such as the purchase of a water plant, is made the discussion of unlimited amount of red ink, a campaign of bitterness and hate. How long is the economic interests of Denver to be the cesspool, in which cheap and aspiring political demogogues may continue to wash their dirty political linen? Shall Denver's taxpayers be forever ridden by a handful of agitators and self seeking politicians? Vote them down and out of the saddle Tuesday. DEATHS. Miss Dora-Jones died at the County hospital February 5th. The funeral was held Sunday from the Douglass Undertaking parloes at 2 p. m. Rev. A. E. Reynolds officiated. Interment at Riverside. Mr. John Finley, who died at his home, 2421 Court Place, funeral was held from Campbell church February 7, and his remains were shipped to Kansas City under the auspices of K. of P. Lodge of Kansas City. Rev. Jas. Washington officiated. Immense Demand for Pianos. More than 400,000 pianos are built in this country annually. They are valued at nearly $70,000,000. Be Peaceful With the Peaceful. With him who knocks at the door of peace seek not hostility.—Saadi. the Gullistan. Linden Tree is 1,200 Years Old. The German village of Remborn has a linden tree which is said to be more than 1,200 years old. Needn't Watch Bargain Sales. When a native of Ecuador wants a blanket he cuts one from a demajagua tree. Bad as the Canada Thistle. Licorice root is a pest in some parts of Turkey and Russia, interfering with the cultivation of the land. Change Always Going On. Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant.—Disraeli. Burnt Aluminum Pans. If your aluminum pans or kettles get scorched and black do not scrape or scour them. Half fill with water, add a heaping teaspoonful of soda and boil for ten minutes; they will be as bright as new.—Good Housekeeping Magazine. Business of Painting The primary business of painting is to create a beautiful surface, beautifully divided into interesting shapes, enlivened with noble lines, varied with lovely and harmonious colors. Its secondary business is to remind the spectator of things he has seen and admired in nature, and to create the illusion of truth.—Kenyon Cox in "The Classic Point of View." Its Fixtures Unusually Ornate "This bar," said the proud dispenser, "has a solid mahogany top." "Yes," remarked Noyes E. Brewmer, sizing up the negro porter and the man behind the bar, "and you also have some solid ebony and solid ivory fixtures." Good for All. "Safety first" would be as good a motto for automobile drivers as for railroad employees.—Fort Wayne Record. World's Wasted Wealth. Experts have estimated that if the forests of the world were scientifically operated they would yield the equivalent of from thirty to one hundred and twenty times the present consumption of wood annually. VOTE FOR THE MOFFAT TUNNEL The Moffat Tunnel is the KEY to the settlement of the largest undeveloped empire in the West. It will open up to settlement more than 5,000 new farms, with abundance of water for irrigation. An opportunity for those of our citizens who want land. It will increase the population of our State over 250,000 people in the next few years, which will mean work for the unemployed and prosperity for the city of Denver. We want every ma building of the Mo The Denver & Sal cash before any bo antee to pay all o Denver and to set when due. IT WILL NO OF DEN The Moffat Tu We want every man and woman to building of the Moffat Tunnel mean The Denver & Salt Lake Railroad cash before any bonds are issued by antee to pay all of the interest on Denver and to set aside a Sinking when due. T WILL NOT COS OF DENVER A The Moffat Tunnel Committ We want every man and woman taxpayer to make a study of what the building of the Moffat Tunnel means to Denver and Colorado. The Denver & Salt Lake Railroad Company will put up $1,500,000 in cash before any bonds are issued by the City of Denver. They also guarantee to pay all of the interest on the bonds to be issued by the City of Denver and to set aside a Sinking Fund each year to redeem the bonds when due. The Moffat Tunnel Committee, Headquarters Albany Hotel 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 Fur- niture a Specialty. PRIVATE SALES AT ALL TIMES HAVE MOVED TO— 1723-39 GLENARM ST. PHONE MAIN 1675. Bolden Bros.' Barber Shop PHONE YORK 7602 East 24th Ave Denver The WARD AUCTION COMPANY es Daily at 2 p.m. Office Fur- niture a Specialty. PRIVATE SALES AT ALL TIMES VE MOVED TO— 1723-39 GLENARM ST. PHONE MAIN 1675. Den Bros.' Barber Shop FERN Hear the COM Phone Champa Pap STEVE T Fine V Rufus Bolden, Mgr. W. D. Smith, G. C. Craig Artists BATHS AND ELECTRICAL MASSAGE QUICK SERVICE PHONE MAIN 4052 926 19th Street Denver. Near Curtis Before You Buy Property, Let Lawyer W. B. TOWNSEND EXAMINE THE TITLE AND MAKE YOUR CONTRACT. LAWYER TOWN- SEND MAKES A SPECIALTY OF COLLECTING FROM INSURANCE COMPANIES, ALSO ENDOWMENT MONIES. OFFICE 313 KITTREDGE BUILDING Miss M. Cowden Hair Dressing Parlor Shampoo, cutting and curling. Scalp treatment, hair tonics, hair straightening, manicuring. Stage wigs for rent; theatrical use and masquerades. Goods delivered out of the city. All shades of hair matched by sending sample of hair; also combings made up. Cheapest Switches 50 Cents 1219 21st St. Denver, Colo. WAL VOTE FOR OFFAT WILL PUT DENVER SCONTINENTAL and woman taxpayer to me that Tunnel means to Denver Lake Railroad Company w bonds are issued by the City of the interest on the bonds to side a Sinking Fund each y IT COST THE VER A SINGLE Channel Committee, Headq Be the Guest of Be the Guest of the Colored Voters and FERNHALL Hear the Retail M COME And FERNHALL,MONDAY16,8pm Hear the Retail Merchant's Plain Explained Phone Champa 1156 Paper STEVE TODOROFF Fine Wines, 1038 NINI Paper Dollar Bar STEVE TODOROFF and RAY BRONSON, Proprietors Corner Nineteenth and Arapahoe Streets, DENVER, COLORADO SHOE REPAIRING WALTER CAMBERS 1023 Eighteenth St ADVERTISEMENT The citizens of Denver will own the Moffat Tunnel the same as they own the city hall, courthouse, parks, streets or other city property, without it costing them one dollar. The building of the Moffat Tunnel will bring to Denver $4,500,000.00 to build the Tunnel and $15,000,000.00 to complete the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad to Salt Lake City. This will be new capital to be distributed among our workingmen, factories and merchants. taxpayer to make a study of what the us to Denver and Colorado. Company will put up $1,500,000 in the City of Denver. They also guar- the bonds to be issued by the City of Fund each year to redeem the bonds ST THE TAXPAYER SINGLE DOLLAR ee, Headquarters Albany Hotel Guest of the Colored Voters Taxpayers Association HALL,MONDAY 16,8 Retail Merchant's Plain Expla E And Have A Good Time Everything Free per Dollar Ba FODOROFF and RAY BRONSON, Proprietor Vines Liquors and Ciga A man sewing a garment on a machine. study of what the Colorado. up $1,500,000 in They also guar- ed by the City of redeem the bonds TAXPAYERS DOLLAR Albany Hotel Colored Voters and ONDAY 16,8pm ant's Plain Explained A Good Time g Free Furnished Rooms in Connection Dollar Bar BY BRONSON, Proprietors uors and Cigars WASHINGTON LETTER HELD AS PRIZED HEIRLOOM Signature of George Washington Makes It Invaluable to Its Owner. A LETTER signed by George Washington is an heirloom in the family of William H. Paret, a real estate man of Kansas City. Mr. Paret received the letter from his father, the late William Halé Paret, Episcopal Fac Simile of Signature of George Washington. Fac Simile of Signature of George Washington. bishop of Maryland, who in turn had it from his father, a resident of New York City. The letter follows: "Headquarters, 3d December, 1782.—Dear Sir: Your favors of the 21st September and 24th and 26th October came regularly to hand, as they contained only intelligence of the movements of the enemy's fleet, and required no particular answer, I did not think it worth while to give the Chain of Expresses the trouble of riding the whole way back to you. "You must have seen the resolve of congress by which Captain Asgill was released. All things considered, I question whether the determination of congress upon the proceedings of Lippincott's court martial would have been different from what it has been, had not the courts of France interceded warmly in Captain Asgill's favor, but after a request made by the prime minister in which he expresses the wishes of their majesties that Captain Asgill's life might be saved there was scarcely no possibility of refusing, more especially as Sir Guy Carleton promised to prosecute still further the persons who might be found guilty of Captain Huddy's murder. I have lately written to him and begged him to inform me what steps had been taken. "The report that General Carleton had pledged his word that during his command no small parties should come within the American lines or to any part of our shores is not literally true. But I have reason to believe that he has taken measures to discountenance and discourage all acts of violence on the part of the refugees. Indeed we had an instance of it a few days past. Two of Sheldon's Dragoons were taken off their post by a party of refugees from Monisania, and carried off to Kings Bridges. They were immediately returned with their horses, arms and accoutrements to Colonel Sheldon, intimating that as they had been captured without proper authority it was not thought justifiable to detain them. Upon the whole, sir, I cannot help hoping that the savage kind of desultory war which we have long experienced is at an end. "There will be no occasion for you any longer keeping a lookout upon the coast, or a communication with Morris Town. But should there in future be any uncommon arrival at New York either of ships of war or transports with troops, or should an embarkation of any consequence take place you will very much oblige me by sending a particular express. You will now be pleased to furnish me with an account of all the expenses which have been incurred by you in this last business and it shall be repaid with thanks by, dear sir, your much obliged and obedient servant, "G. WASHINGTON. "GENERAL FORMAN." OFFICER OF THREE CHURCHES Edifice Still Standing Proud of Washington's Connection With Their History. Three churches in Virginia hold proud claim to close connection with George Washington, in each of which he held the position of vestryman. One of these is Christ church, in Alexandria; another, Falls church, in the town of the same name (about six miles southwest of Washington, in Fairfax county); the third is old Pohick church in Mount Vernon parish so called for Pohick creek, a small stream flowing close by. The last named was the "home" church of Washington, and that to which he was most closely allied, having served as warden and vestryman in it for over twenty years, and contributing generously to its support. Of Christ church he was a frequent attendant, as business often called him to Alexandria (which place was his 2 Christ Church, Alexandria post office, voting and market place; for considerable periods; and especial ly was this true after the Revolution when Pohick church (which suffered severely from the misfortunes of war) was frequently closed. With Fall church he had a somewhat slighter connection and for a shorter period MARKET PROBLEMS Complex Difficulties of Getting Food to Consumer. Questions That Must Be Solved to Avoid Waste of Money and Loss in Getting Produce From the Farm to the City. Washington.—The many difficult and complex problems that must be solved before present waste and loss in getting food from the producer to the consumer can be avoided were discussed in detail recently by representatives of the department of agriculture. David F. Houston, secretary of agriculture, opened the discussion by pointing out that it is difficult to decide whether the problems of production or of distribution are the more difficult, although in his opinion those of distribution are at the present time the most urgent. In many communities, further production, he stated, is discouraged by reason of the fact that the products can not easily be marketed or because they are marketed at a loss. Farmers send commodities by consignment to certain central markets and instead of securing a profit on the shipment find they are compelled to send checks to cover the expense. In many cases, Secretary Houston stated, products are sent out rather blindly to great distributing centers and then not infrequently are sent back over the same route to markets which need them. One of the great problems, he stated, was to assist groups of producers to find the best near-by local markets. This among other things would greatly relieve transportation agencies which undoubtedly are now unnecessarily taxed by haphazard and chaotic methods of marketing. Continuing, Secretary Houston said: "There is so much interest—so much excitement—that it will be very easy to do things hastily and to go in a wrong direction. Wrong steps will be fatal. They will create lack of confidence and hamper us in attempting to solve our problems. "Unquestionably, we are confronted with great difficulties, but we must overcome them. The farmers must be induced in particular communities to develop staple products, to standardize them, to prepare them properly for market, to study what market to reach at a given time, and the best and most David F. Houston. economical method of shipping the product. Nothing less than concerted action will suffice. The individual farmer can not solve the problem. He can not sufficiently control the problem of production or of machinery for marketing or the transportation facilities. "Of course, I am not speaking of concerted action which shall have for its object the establishment of a closed market or the fixing of prices. I imagine we shall not accept such a principle in agriculture any more than we would in manufacturing. It is as unnecessary as it would be undesirable. I am simply suggesting the introduction of business principles into farming for pure economic efficiency. The results of this will be beneficial to the producer as well as to the consumer. "We shall act as speedily as possible. We shall zealously, undertake to discover all the essential facts. At the earliest possible moment we shall disseminate what information we have, and when the proper time comes shall undertake to make an educational demonstration. In this work, as in other directions, we hope to co-operate with every useful public agency. We are now preparing to undertake cooperation in an experimental way with the postoffice department. We shall work in as close harmony with the state colleges as possible and to avail ourselves of all assistance from college departments of marketing and from state marketing bureaus." ALASKA'S MINERAL RESOURCES. The geology and mineral resources of a part of the Yukon-Tanana region, Alaska, including the gold placers of Rampart and Hot Springs, are described in a report just issued by the United States Geological Survey as Bulletin 535, by Henry M. Eakin. Placer gold was discovered in the Rampart district probably as early as 1893, and since 1896 systematic mining has been carried on, the first claim worked being on Little Minook creek. Later, as the area being prospected increased, placers were located and mines developed on the tributa- rles of Baker creek, and still later on Sullivan creek and neighboring streams tributary to Patterson creek. Prospecting on the tributaries of the Yukon and Tanana west of the productive areas has revealed the presence of gold in a number of localities. Although much ground is held on some of these streams, especially in the Gold Hill district, the presence of gold in commercial quantities has not been demonstrated. In the Gold Hill district this may be due in great part to the facts that very little besides annual assessment work is being done and that what is done is largely futile. The scene of greatest activity in mining the Rampart and Hot Springs districts has shifted to the south as successive discoveries have been made. The Rampart district yielded its greatest output in 1906 and 1907. The placers along the north margin of Baker Flats reached their maximum production about the same time, but have not fallen off so rapidly as the Rampart district. The Patterson creek locality has steadily increased its production since the operations were begun, the season of 1911 recording the largest output in its history. The stream gravels have furnished the greater part of the gold output of the Rampart and Hot Springs districts. TROPICAL DISEASES. For some years the war department has maintained in the Philippines a board composed of medical officers of the army for the study of tropical diseases, and that board has been of almost inestimable value in developing information concerning disease and sanitary methods applicable to tropical conditions. In view of this fact it has been decided to establish a similar board in the Panama Canal zone. The Canal Zone board will have at its head Major Percy M. Ashburn of the army medical corps, who formerly was a member of the Philippine board. Lately he has been in China for the purpose of investigating matters pertaining to disease and sanitation in the vicinity of the stations occupied by American troops at Tientsin. Because of his experience in such matters Major Ashburn is considered admirably fitted for the duty for which he has been selected in the Canal Zone. The Philippine island tropical disease board recently has been investigating the subject of prevention of scurvy, for the purpose of finding a prophylactic. Experiments were conducted with guinea pigs fed on exclusive diet, including certain canned goods now issued and sold by the quartermaster corps. Another subject under consideration is leprosy, on which a report has been made by Capt. Ferdinand Schmitter of the medical corps, who has been observing some 25 cases, clinically and microscopically. CORN GRADES PROMULGATED. The acting secretary of agriculture, under date of January 3, 1914, fixed and promulgated grades for commercial corn to take effect on July 1, 1914. The corn grades as promulgated are practically the same as the tentative grades formulated August 22, 1913. The principal exception is that in damaged corn, grade 4 is allowed to include one-half per cent, grade 5 one per cent., and grade 6 three per cent. of heat-damaged or mahogany corn. This allowance for heat-damaged or mahogany corn is in response to the resolution adopted by the Grain Dealers' National association and the National Council of Farmers' Co-operative associations, asking for allowances in this particular. The associations, however, asked for an allowance of one per cent, for grade 4 and two per cent for grade 5, and the new grades permit only one-half of this amount in those two grades. The full allowance requested by these associations of three per cent. of heat-damaged or mahogany corn in grade 6 is allowed. The request of the Grain Dealers' association that the grades be not put into effect until July 1, 1914, was granted. ALASKA MINERALS. The value of the mineral output of Alaska in 1913 is estimated at $18,900,000 by Alfred H. Brooks of the United States geological survey, as compared with $22,537,831 for 1912. The value of the gold output is estimated at $15,450,000; that of 1912 was $17,145,951. There was also very marked decrease in copper production, that of 1913 being estimated to have been 19,700,000 pounds, valued at about $3,014,000, while that of 1912 was 29,230,491 pounds, valued at $4,823,031. As the Alaska silver output is largely a byproduct of gold and copper mining, this also showed a decrease in value from $316,839 in 1912 to about $220,000 in 1913. Other minerals, including marble, gypsum, tin, etc., are estimated to have been produced to the value of about $220,000 in 1913, or about the same as the value of the production of 1912. The territory has produced mineral wealth to the value of $248,300,000. Of this $228,200,000 is gold, $16,580,000 copper, $2,060,000 silver, $360,000 coal, and the balance tin, lead, marble, gypsum, petroleum, etc. Copper mining began in Alaska in 1901, and the total production is about 110,000,000 pounds Approaching a Holiday. "I suppose you are going to have a quiet, restful holiday?" "No," replied the man who tries to permit himself no illusions. "What I appreciate a holiday is the way it makes me appreciate the quiet, restful time I ordinarily have working at the office." When You Want The Heads, Feet, Tails Snouts, Neckbones or Chiterlings or any other part of the hog except the squeal go to East's Market 2300.6 Larimer Street. THE ZO SAM 1004 Ninetee 1004 Nineteenth Street, Corner of Curtis FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS COORS' CELEBRATED BEER ON TAP Champa Pharms Twentieth and Champa, Is the place to get your CHEMICALS AND PATENT M WE SERVE DRINKS. 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Ah, Valentine, on this your day Release those hearts you've laid away. Who owned them all, did this one wait in indecision till too late? Was this one withered by a word From some old gossip overheard? This one is old, yet came to you To待在它里, what it was new, And one mayhap is waiting yet Who loved it and can't forget. And so, St. Valentine, we pray Give back the hearts you've laid away I'm sure that they will find the way Back to the love of yesterday; Give back the idea of mine, Give them a chance St. Valentine, And there is one within your store That I have long been seeking for. And since her heart, the best of them, Is there among the rest of them, Make this Emancipation day; get free the hearts you've laid away. —Reynale Smith Pickering, in Puck. SAINT VALENTINE AND THE IMP SAINT VALENTINE AND THE IMP Happy Ending of Lovers' Quarrel That Had the Usual Foolish Beginning in Jealousy. By LYDIA F. PFEASTER. A LOVER'S quarrel is a very serious matter; a lover's quarrel on the 13th of the month is worse; but the climax of calamities, is a lover's quarrel on the 13th of February. But, it was on this night that Frank Miller and his sweetheart. A LOVER'S quarrel is a very serious matter; a lover's quarrel on the 13th of the month is worse; but the ellmax of calamities, is a lover's quarrel on the 13th of February. But, it was on this night that Frank Miller and his sweetheart, Billy Mayfair, were doomed to disagree. They were both invited to a St. Valentine party and Billie sat, dressed and expectant, waiting for her lover to take her to the party. The hour set for Frank's arrival came and passed, but no young man in his new buggy put in an appearance. When a girl is engaged to a doctor, she becomes accustomed to an occasional wait, and Billie was not much disturbed. Frank was one of the two doctors in Hiwassa. Another half hour crawled by, then a message was delivered to the now indignant Billie. "Detained by matter of importance. Will explain when I come. May be late but be sure and wait for me. Frank," ran the message. Disappointed, yet patient, Billie seated herself by the sitting-room window. Suddenly her small brother, Eustace, otherwise known as the Imp, gave a shout from his perch on the front gate. "Sis, come here! Come here this minute." Billie was glad of a diversion and obeyed at once. "Looka!" He pointed wildly down the road. "Ain't that Frank kitin' along the cross road? Gee Whiz! It is, and that's Marge Roper he's got. They're goin' to the party." Yes; it was Frank, and it was plain to be seen that he had taken the crossroad to avoid passing her house. Billie did not stop to think, much less to reason. She stopped for nothing. The Imp, usually compelled to retire with the chickens, was allowed to act as his sister's escort to the party, much to his delight. Arrived there, Billie, to the dismay of other less attractive girls and the joy of the favored swains, flirted outrageously with Lewton, the storekeeper, Harvey the lawyer and — most basely of all—with Dr. Louis Davis, the rival doctor. When Frank, two hours after his note, reached the Mayfair house, he found that Billie had gone to the party. Hurt and disappointed, he drove on alone. The first sight that met his tired eyes was Billie—not wearing the willow—but going through a dance with Louis Davis with every indication of enjoyment. She almost ignored his greeting and was turning her shoulder on him when Frank caught her hand right under the exasperating scrutiny of Davis. "How dare you!" she exclaimed. "Billie, what is the matter?" he demanded in turn. "Nothing. Are you alone?" she asked with an air of surprise. "Please let me go. This is my dance with Mr. Harvey." Frank could not believe his eyes or ears. But he was not so easily rebuffed. He waited till her dance with Harvey was over. When he confronted her once more, her rage and hurt pride found voice in the low-spoken, bitter words: "Why don't you leave me? Can't you see I am done with you? Don't speak to me again." Almost stunned, he made his way out of the curious, whispering crowd, into the mild February night, climbed into his buggy and set out for home. His world was in ruins about him. This night that he had meant to be one of the happiest and most momentous of his existence, had marked the end of things. Why had Fate sent him that unlucky call to see old Widow Candis, who lived alone and had selected this evening of all others to fall down the cellar stairs and break her arm? He had to set the bone; then, as ill luck would have it, no one could be found to go for her granddaughter, Marge Roper. The old woman could not be left alone. The young doctor was forced to offer his services. This had taken time, still if Billie had cared the least bit for him, she would have waited. There was no question about it. As for Billie, no sooner had Frank gone than she called her brother from a game of marbles and, refusing the escort of Dr. Davis, went home. The remainder of that night she passed in tears, and it was with a heavy heart that she rose on Valentine's day. The day itself was beautiful and mild—with a south wind blowing. The Imp had swallowed his breakfast and was begging his sister to make a kite. It was while she was cutting and pasting on this toy that he, in chattering about the neighborhood at large, told her the reason for Frank's delay the evening before. He had heard it at the party. "Yes," he finished as his sister, with a shaking hand, passed him his completed kite, "he had to fetch Marge Roper, himself. That was when we saw him, wasn't it, Sis?" It would have been difficult to classify Billie's sensations. She felt mean and unworthy, yet there was a streak of pure glory running through all. Frank was noble and self-sacrificing and—best of all—he was faithful. Clearly, she must apologize. It was hard to do, but it was the only way out. She wasted the morning in wretched indecision then, at last, a thought struck her. Why not get out of it gracefully by writing a valentine. She could be much bolder—on a valentine. The valentine was written. It must be delivered that day by a messenger, and, since the Imp had helped to cause the trouble, he must act the part of St. Valentine's envoy and make peace. She put on her pretty brown dress and her brown and scarlet toque and went forth in search of the small boy. When she found him he was having much enjoyment with the kite. As Billie tramped across the new ground towards him, she saw a tall, broad-shouldered man in a long overcoat backed up against the fence watching the Imp's maneuvers with the kite. She decided to pretend she had not seen him, though a wonderful scheme darted into her brain as soon as she caught sight of him. She soon reached the Imp, and after a few earnest words with her he drew in the kite. They worked over it a minute then, while she held it aloft, he took the cord and scampered away. An obliging puff of wind came along and shot the kite upward. The Imp sped on. The kite, true to its nature, swayed from side to side and, as the boy paid out the twine, soared upward, made an erratic side-swipe, zigzagged around for a hundred yards or more, then, with a triumphant spurt of speed, sailed into a leafless cherry tree near the fence. The Imp came to a halt and looked mournfully at the kite nodding its three-cornered head over a limb. Then, apparently for the first time, the small boy discovered Dr. Frank Miller standing near him. "Please, Frank," whined the Imp, "get me the kite. You can stand on the fance and reach it with your cane." And, since the Imp had a sweet, unkind sister, poor Frank climbed the fence and, after a trial or two, dislodged the kite which came swaying downward with a waggish, grotesque movement into his hand. Pinned across its knowing face was a sheet of note paper on which, in Billie's writing, was scribbled the following: "Frank, you dear, cross old Valentine! Don't be horrid any more, but give your heart-broken Billie forgiveness." The Imp, grinning in sympathy, was left suddenly with his mouth ajar in amazement at a long-legged madman tearing across the field, headed for a brown and red apparition and, to the Imp's disgust, carrying the kite with him. "Ain't big folks silly?" remarked the Imp. (Copyright, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) C Proud beauty since my sharpest dart Made no impression on your heart, I'll put away this bow of mine And reach it with a valentine. Proud beauty since my sharpest dart Made no impression on your heart, I'll put away this bow of mine And reach it with a valentine. VALENTINE VERSE. Oh, Emeline, With Eyes that shine— My Valentine. Your most benign He can't resign His Valentine. 'Twould be condign Should you decline His Valentine. Say you'll incline To soon be mine— My Valentine. For thee I pine Whilst I recline, My Valentine. THE WORLD'S MOST FOLKLORED WORDS Dost thou repine Of my design, Oh, Valentine? At thy dear shrine I drink and dine— Oh, Valentine. Some day we'll jine 'Twill be so fine, My Valentine. To verses nine My name I sign— Oh, Valentine. MIGHT PUZZLE THE SAINT Good Old Bishop Seen Wondering at the Observances Accompanying His Natal Day. In the general exchange of greetings, that vary from the penny card to the expensive floral offerings to friends, sweetheart's and wives, it may be interesting to look to the why and wherefore of this day's celebration. In the first place, there doesn't seem to be any reason why little Eros, the god of love, has been so hopelessly tangled up with the austere bishop who gave his name to the day. Tradition gives us no reason for attributing love songs or lilting messages to the good old saint. Indeed, he was far from the thoughts of the human emotions. His tranquil steadfastness to the Christian faith brought down the wrath of the Claudian persecution, and he was thrown into prison. The blind daughter of the keeper of the prison pitied the unfortunate captive and tried to comfort him. She was rewarded by the return of her eyesight, due to St. Valentine, legend tells us. Because of this he was dragged through the streets and finally beheaded. Perhaps the pity of the blind girl was akin to love, and there may be this faint claim to the invasion of this factor. At any rate, ladies have sighed and lovers have burst forth into avowals of their affections, on paper. In the days of the quill pen, the valentines were considered a luxury, and hours were spent guilding and painting and decorating with verse, home-made and otherwise. Hearts, doves and cupids were brought into play, and if one halted for a declaration of passion that was glowing and ardent, he had but to turn to the "Valentine Writer, or the Lover's Instructor," a guide to the passionate expression of the heart's love. In 1800 the first made-to-order valentine appeared for sale. Since that time factories of many lands have been busily making millions of these little and great effusions. Poor St. Valentine would be astonished at the impetus that he has given to business and the malls. He would probably rub his eyes and gasp at the way his name has been taken as a clever excuse for the exchange of affectionate courtesies. ```markdown ``` A good man who loved his fellowmen and was kind to the poor and charitable to all became a saint in the calendar of his church and of the world. Pretty messages of love and gentleness and good will were given his name—Valentine. COLORADO OIL SHALES COLORADO OIL SHALES SECRETARY LANE DECIDES NOT TO WITHDRAW LANDS. Geological Survey Makes Investigation and Tests Showing Shales Contain Great Reserve of Crude Oil. Western Newspaper Union News Services. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington—Before the discovery of the great subterranean petroleum pools in various portions of the United States about the time of the Civil War, the extraction of oil from bituminous shale was a considerable and growing industry. In 1860 there were more than twenty shale-treating plants in operation, but by 1865 the cost of producing petroleum was so much less than that of producing the artificial oil that the owners of shale plants were either forced out of business or compelled to ally themselves with the petroleum industry, some of them becoming refiners of crude petroleum. Interest is now revived in the matter by a preliminary report of the United States Geological Survey on the oil-bearing qualities of the extensive deposits of bituminous shale in northwestern, Colorado and northwestern Utah, and the fact that Secretary Lane has had under consideration the advisability of withdrawing from entry large areas of public lands containing these shale beds, which are of undoubted ultimate economic value. Notwithstanding the facts that the world's production of petroleum was never so great as at present and that last year's production in the United States was a record breaker by an increase of 10,000,000 barrels, yet the improved methods of handling oil-bearing shale by which not only oil but ammonia salts and other valuable by-products are extracted, have rendered the deposits of bituminous shale in Colorado and Utah well worthy of consideration. Field and laboratory tests of these shales by the Geological Survey indicates an oil content of ten to sixty-one gallons a ton, with a probable average for the better grades of shale of a barrel to a ton, though this average may not hold for extensive deposits of the rock. No tonnage estimate of the bituminous shales is attempted in a forthcoming report of the Survey, but observations have been made of their occurrence in various localities in Colorado and Utah as well as in Wyoming and Nevada during the last seven or eight years of geologic field work in these states, and it is known that their acreage is very great, and in many places beds of generous thickness have been found. Great Latent Oil Resources. With only incomplete data at hand the Geological Survey considers the present cost of producing crude oil from these bituminous shales as probably above the current price of petroleum, even taking into consideration the valuable nature of the by-products. The great latent possibility of these resources, however, is fully realized. In fact, in any European country other than Russia or Roumania, which are rich in petroleum lands, these large areas of bituminous shale would possess immediate utility. Furthermore they would be regarded as of large importance as a war resource for naval use. The American deposits are situated inland, where operations would not require guarding in time of attack, and they constitute a resource which can be estimated both as to quantity and quality as accurately as a coal bed, whereas their competitor, natural petroleum, is variable in both these respects and its production is uncertain. Secretary Lane has, however, after careful consideration, decided not to recommend to the President at this time the withdrawal of these lands, because of his belief that such action might possibly result in retarding or prejudicing the development of a new mining industry in these portions of Colorado and Utah, especially at this stage, when yrivate initiative needs every inducement to test out the real value of the resources. Although the oil shales are undoubtedly a valuable reserve resource, being capable of furnishing a large and reliable supply both of fuel and of fertilizing material in the form of ammonia salts, there would seem to be no urgent public need for withdrawing the land from prospecting and acquisition under the existing laws, which are believed to be fairly adequate to meet the present needs of this prospective industry. In dealing with a resource whose present value is somewhat conjectural, both as to market and as to cost of production, it seems wise to avoid placing any possible hindrance whatever in the way of private enterprise at the initial stage of development, and to favor utilization by offering to real producers every premium that the present law affords. Further Study of Oil Shales to Be Made. It is probable, however, that the Geological Survey will make a more detailed examination of the Colorado and Utah shales and possibly the Bureau of Mines may take up technologic studies related to their utilization. Although, as stated, the oil-shale industry long since ceased in the United States, it has persisted and apparently flourished in Great Britain and France. In 1904 the production of oil shale in Scotland amounted to 2,709,840 tons with a content of 63,000,000 gallons of crude oil, yielding marketable products of 2,517,296 gallons of naphtha, 16,991,748 gallons of burning oil, 37,997 tons of gas oil, 39,487 tons of lubricating oil, 22,476 tons of paraffin wax, and 49,600 tons of ammonia salts. Do You Know That- The COLORADO STATESMAN IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING Commercial, Fraternal, Church, Book and Stationery Jobs A SPECIALTY 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. 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. 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