Colorado Statesman

PATRONIZE MERCHANTS WHO ADV. IN THE PEOPLE'S PAPER THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY Pullman System Is Called Unfair CALIFORNIA RAILROAD COMMISSION SAYS METHODS IMPOSE ON TRAVELING PUBLIC. PORTERS LIVE ON TIPS. FULL PROBE OF AFFAIRS THREAT ENED IF CHANGE IS NOT MADE. VOL. XX. Pullman Is Calle CALIFORNIA RAILROAD CO. IMPOSE ON TRAVELING ON TIPS. FULL PROBE ENED IF CHANGE San Francisco, April 29.—Directing the Pullman company to correct within thirty days numerous conditions found to exist throughout its service in California the state railroad commission issued today its findings from an investigation into the rules, regulations and practices of the car corporation which has extended over six months and has occupied the attention of the entire commission. While there are ten separate subjects of complaint, the commission lays its greatest emphasis upon the attention of employees to patrons of the company and the inadequacy of the present wage paid to porters who are paid but $27.50 a month and who thereby are compelled to look to the traveling public for their principal income. TIP SYSTEM CONDEMNED The report severely criticises the Pullman company for forcing its employees to rely upon the "tip system," and it says that unless reform steps are taken the commission will institute an investigation into the rates of the company with a view either of increasing the rates or the corporation so as to enable the company to pay proper wages, or of determining if the company has the earnings, but not the will, to pay a fair wage. "If," says the report, "it be found that its rates are generous and that this company is not poor, but merely mean, and that the American public is dealing not only justly but generously with this institution, which in its turn deals unjustly and niggardly with its employees, then the American public certainly would be justified in at least dispensing with the generosity and limiting this company, conducting itself as it is, to the barest amount that the cold considerations of justice warrant it in securing. "The Pullman company attempted to make this commission believe that the wages it pays its employees are proper, and that it did not expect its employees to secure money from the public. It is hard for us to determine which should be criticised the more, the attitude of this company in its action in this regard, or its supposition that it could make this commission be --- lieve a thing which everyone knows is not true. "This commission would accept with better grace a frank statement from the general manager of this company to the effect that this company believes the public will tip and therefore, it does not feel that it should be required to pay its porters a proper wage. It may be all right for persons to reward particularly good service with some gratuity—upon this, of course, we do not pass—but the Pullman company forces its patrous to be generous or not get the service. "It certainly is a commentary on modern business that a company as rich and powerful as this one should feel inclined to stoop to the disreputable practice to which it feels called upon to resort. "It is our opinion that the time has passed in this state, and in this nation when institutions such as the Pullman company can be, or should be permitted by public authority an indulgence which requires its employees to resort to whatever means they have in their power to secure the necessary amount will enable them to live." VANCOUVER (B. C.) NEWS Why is the arrival of the Colorado Statesman in Vancouver like sunshine in spring? Answer.—Because all are eager to see it Let the agent take your subscription when he calls. The Colorado Statesman is the only paper to read. Rev, Wm. D. Carter of Zion church, Seattle, Wash., and Rev. Geo. Derill of Vancouver, B. C., will conduct revival meetings at Zion Baptist Mission, on Prior street. A cordial invitation is extended to all. W. E. DeClaybrook, pastor. Mrs. Ella DeClaybrook is able to be out after a few weeks' illness. She wishes to be remembered to all of her friends in Denver. Mrs. Lina Hayden, formerly of Denver, but now a resident of Vancouver, B. C., has been quite sick for two weeks with a severe cold, but is now able to be up and around. Your agent has met quite a number of Colorado people here, especially from Denver, and all wish to be remembered to their many friends. Mrs. E. R. Hancock Ward, of 407 Keefer street, Vancouver, B. C., would like to know the whereabouts of her brother, L. W. Beatty, whose last ad- DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY. MAY 2. 1914 State Hist & Nat Hist Societies State House GIANTS WHO ADC THE JOURNAL DENVER COLORADO S dress was 1465 Ivanhoe street, Denver, Colo. The announcement of the marriage of Miss Hattie B. Davis and Mr. George Anderson, both of Vancouver, B. C., will take place May 7th, 1914. The Ladies' Baptist H. M. S. met in the parsonage Wednesday evening, the 22nd. A very pleasant meeting was held. As our president, Mrs. Clark, was out of the city, Mrs. DeClaybrook acted in her place. Mrs. E. R. Ward acting secretary in the absence of the secretary, Mrs. Ethel Elegant. As our church and mission is very young, we pray to do great things for the Lord in the future. H. D. COMMERCIAL DRIFT THE NEW NEGRO. HE IS THE PRODUCER. GET INTO THE FINANCIAL SWIM THE COMING RACE Notice the influence of a strictly commercial age; it is not possible to be beyond its spirit. The Negro is coming. The class who are coming, however, receive but scant consideration. It is refreshing to notice in many of our race papers and in some of the whites' tributes to the struggling energy of the undiscovered Negroes. They are not great in the sense that they have won fame in some of our schools or colleges, or have been eloquent orators, politicians, etc., but they have taken a barren waste and made it blossom as the rose. They have produced something. They have by thrift and frugality laid by a saug sum for a rainy day, and their savings are a part of the deposits of savings banks and trust companies. They perhaps own a few shares of stock in a local bank, telephone or ditch company. They are the unknown toilers of the race, whose liberality have made possible our splendid churches, schools, colleges, and they have sent thousands of our boys and girls to school. Now that we have producers on every hand, as well as wage earners, our people must get into the commercial whirl. One who passes along our streets would hardly think that Negroes were numerous in Denver. Very few in proportion to the population are seen on the streets. But go to some of our fashionable churches on Sunday, and the congregations of well-groomed men and women runs into the thousands. All these people must be fed, clothed and shod. Someone does it. The Negroes of Denver spend thousands of dollars annually providing themselves with food and raiment. Here is a rare opportunity for a clear headed business man. We have now a few Negroes in business but there is room for more just as there is room for more farmers and truck gardeners. We need skilled mechanics of all kinds, men and women. Then we want our people --- to rally just as they rally to our churches. Things nowadays are on a commercial basis. Everything is given its value in dollars and cents. And it becomes desirable in proportion as it increases in value. The desirability of any class of citizens is measured just as electricity, gas and water, and the controlling elements of a corporation know your worth and your consideration for services rendered is meted accordingly. What is true of the individual becomes by the same parity of reasoning true of the race. We stand non-plussed at the great commercial combinations of capital projected and successfully carried out by the white man. We see whole states subdued and exploited by his genius. His great financial and commercial acuem seems marvelous. He combines great railroads and steamship lines, bringing the products of the uttermost parts of the earth to our door. We stand and watch the parade go past. It is not necessarily the fault of the Negro that he does not jump into the swim and become a part of our great financial world. He views the present day success of the white man and then looks back a thousand years to note the various elements which have contributed to his making. Years of training, couple with many wrecks and failures lie behind present greatness. Collects Nearly A Half Million Dollars Collects Nearly A Half Million Dollars Washington, D. C., April 22. At the annual session of the Financial Board of the A. M. E. Church, held in this city, John R. Hawkins, secretary and treasurer of the board, reported that for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1914, the total collections of dollar money amounted to $220,954.84, and the collection for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1913, was $207,961.80, a total of $428,916.64. This amount does not include the money raised by 7,000 churches for local purposes, nor the salaries raised for the pastors and incidentals. The money has been distributed as follows: To the financial department, 40 per cent.; to annual conferences, 36 per cent.; to church extension, 8 per cent.; to missions 8 per cent. Out of the 40 per cent in the financial secretary's office the salaries of the bishops and general officers are paid, general meeting expenses of the Bishops' Council, etc Bishop H. Blanton Parks presided at the session of the Financial Board. Those present were the Revs. M. W. Thornton, Boston. RACE NEWS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES Cambridge, Mass., April 22.—F. Arthur Robinson, sergeant of police, celebrated his thirtieth anniversary of his appointment on the police force at his home, 18 Union street, one evening last week. Sergeant Robinson is the only colored man on the Cambridge police force. The Falls City Medical Association of Louisville, Ky., an organization of the colored doctors of that city, have agreed to patronize the drug stores controlled by colored men. They urge this since they depend on colored patronage for livelihood. In a recent meeting of the association it was brought out that the colored pharmacists were accurate and careful in compounding prescriptions. This was quite a commendation for a colored druggists who have not had things their way all the time as it concerns confidence in their ability. The movement breathes a spirit of reciprocity, the thing the race needs badly enough. Albany, N. Y., April 22.—Susan M. Joyner, colored, recovered $200 damages from the proprietor of the Temple Theatre, Rochester, for discrimination against her color, and the Court of Appeals has upheld the judgment. No opinion was written. Miss Joyner bought a reserved seat in the orchestra circle and was proceeding down the aisle to occupy it when she was asked to stop at the box office. She was told she could not have Mass.; C. H. Murray, Baltimore, Md., J. M. Gilmer, Cleveland, O.; J. C. Anderson, Chicago, Ill.; J. H. Ransom, Kansas City, Kan.; R. H. Singleton, Savannah, Ga.; M. W. Mance, Charleston, S. C.; W. T. Strong, Jackson, Miss.; J. H. West Montgomery, Ala., E. J. Howard, Waco, Texas; J. E. Stark, Tallahasse, Fla.; V. M. Townsend, Little Rock, Ark.; C. E. Allen, South Bend, Ind. The board has charge of the general church fund, known as "Dollar Money," and every year it meets for the purpose of auditing the books of Secretary Hawkins, and make the proper disposal of moneys collected in the various conferences. The board passed resolutions commending the work of Prof. Hawkins, his system of bookkeeping, and the accuracy with which he had handled the funds of the general church. It was declared that he has made one of the best officials ever in office. NO 36 the seat, but that her money would be returned or a seat given to her in the gallery. No reason was given for the refusal to permit her to use the seat she bought, and she alleged it was by reason of her race. Atlantic City, N. J., April 21.—The colored people of this city are making a determined fight to secure a Negro principal for Indiana Avenue School, the one exclusively colored school of the city. On last Thursday evening a committee of fifty colored citizens met the Board of Education at its monthly meeting and resented more than thirty petitions with upwards of three thousand signatures were obtained in a single day, and it is the firm belief of the men and women who are taking the initiative in the movement that more than seven thousand signatures can be obtained to petitions for appointa colored man to this post. Chicago, Ill., April 21.—A Chicago boy, Thomas J. Francis, who left here ten years ago and went to Texas, writes a letter to the Illinois Idea under date of April 6, from San Pedro, Mexico, camp of the Constitutionalist army, in which he states that he is a colonel in the eighth general division, Constitutionalist army, commanded by General Gamargo. Colonel Francis said in the letter that he owns a ranch in Texas and has been in business in Chihauhua for five years. Last year he joined the Constitutionalist and was given the rank of lieutenant. He has been in seventeen battles and was promoted to his coloney after the siege of Torreon, in which his troops were engaged. Referring to the report that Villa is a Negro, Colonel Francis says he has the features of a Negro. In the ranks of the Mexican rebels are several hundred American Negroes, the writer asserts, naming J. W. Day, Jr., Arthur Harvey, C. N. Thompson, Jas. Blackshear, Ralph Corrouthers and Kid Jonathan as Chicago boys he has met. The American Negroes are classed as among the best and bravest fighters in the Mexican ranks. Put It Up to the Hogs Put It Up to the Hogs. A blacksmith in a small Connecticut town who occasionally goes on protracted spreees was seen flurrying on the barn door and later throwing five bushels of corn on the ear into the pen where he had six hogs, and as he turned away he was heard to say: "There, blast you, if you are prudent that will last ye." Governor Ammons Urges All Law-Abiding Citizens to Aid in Restoring Peace in Strike District EXECUTIVE DIRECTS PEACE OFFICIALS THROUGHOUT THE STATE TO ARREST AND HOLD EVERY MAN CAUGHT COLLECTING ARMS AND AMMUNITION TO BE USED AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES OF THE STATE. . . ; re - - fe iy aero 96 i : a 3 ae | ees 5a 4 i ee p : ve : "hc eee. Oe : eae ™ a q : 5 ao e = t en % Ss é ve ee Cee ce j GOVERNOR E. M. AMMONS, OF COLORADO. Gov. Ammons Declares Martial Law. Denver, Colo, April 29.—Governor Ammons yesterday issued the follow- ing proclamation: TO THE PEOPLE OF COLORADO: In the present crisis In the life of our commonwealth all law-abiding and peace-loving citizens are most earnestly urged to give their moral and outward support to the effort to restore peace in the strike districts. With a state of rebellion in existence and life and property in sreat danger our first duty is to restore law and order, ‘We are not able to determine satis- factorily the controversy between the operators and the strikers, but the slate has undoubted right to require that both parties to this conflict shall act within the law. Until this condi- tion can be attained there can be no Just settlement. ‘Phe authorities of the state have but one desire—to maintain order, Not a Step WIM! be taken except to gain that end, but every force within the power Of the state will be brought to bear to accomplish this result, ‘The troops are in the field to restore law and order, and for no other purpose. | ‘They are hot interested in the outcome of the strike. They did not go as on an excursion cf pleasure, but in response to a call to dangerous duty. ‘They come from all parts of the state; some were clerks and young professionai And. business men “and represent the best families in the state. It must be remembered that for nearly six months these men were in’ the field. Up to the time that I left for Washington not a single per- son was killed by them because of the strike, and only two altogether—one by accident, and one a fugitive from Justice who! was resisting arrest. ‘There need be no further bloodshed if the strikers will quit their warfare and return to their homes. If they refuse to. do, this, every available power, of the state will be brought to ear to compel them to do #0, and further’ appeals, if necessary, wilt be made until sufficient strength, local And national, shall be secured to bring about these results, Tt is a state of insurrection and until that is settled there can be no machinery to secure Justice in the courts. Pence officers throughout the state are ordered to arrest and hold for con- spiracy every man caught. collecting akma and ammunition to ship to other parts of the state, ‘calling for volun ern or organizing companies of mon to be used against the authorities of the state. ELIAS M, AMMONS, ‘Governor. MUSSER HEADS INVESTIGATORS. Ammons Appoints Committee to Fix Blame Yor Deaths in Strike Field. Denver, April—A committee to §nvestigate and report upon the vio- lences in the southern coal strike dis- trict last week, particularly the fight- ing at the Ludlow tent colony and the burning of the tents, where many were killed, was appointed by Goy- ernor Ammons. Chief Justice George W. Musser of the State Supreme Court 4s chairman, Chief Justice Musser was largely re- sponsible for the truce in the strike district which was reached Friday aft- ernoon. The members are: Chief Justice Musser of the Supreme Court; A. F. King, presiding judge of the State Court of Appeals; the Rev. Allan A, ‘Tanner, pastor of the First Congresa- tional church; Norton Montgomery, deputy attorney general, and M. P. Capp, warden of the stete reformatory. Later the governor appointed Mrs. Alma Lafferty a member of the com- mittee at the request of the women’s mass meeting. Chinese Pirates Kill and Wound 200. Hongkong, April 29.—Two hundred native passengers were killed or wounded during a desperate fight with Chinese pirates who attacked and burned the British steamer sta- tion near Macao. Chief Officer Evans fs missing. Other foreign officers and 150 passengers escaped. The pirates greatly outnumbered the of- ficers at the station and swooped down with the greatest fury. It was only after desperate fighting that the officers and passengers succeeded in getting away. Calls Special Legislative Session. Denver, April 29.—Governor B. M Ammons issued a proclamation Mon. day calling the members of the Legis- iature to meet in special session at the capitol, May 4, The purposes for which the Legislature is to assemble are: “First—To provide for paying, either by the issuance of bonds, special tax levy or otherwise, the expenses which have been or shail be incurred In re- storing and. preserving peace and good order and in suppressing insurrection with the aid of the National Guard of Colorado during the coal ainers’ striiee of 1918-1914, ‘and to pay all. expenses Of the state, Incident thereto, “Second—To enact a law submitting to the people of the ‘state an amend- ment to the constitution to empower the Legislature to enact laws for arbi- tration inal labor disputes and to pro- vide for the enforcement of the deci- sions of the arbitration board. “third —Po enact a law establishing a state constabulary or state peace of Eicers ‘and defining their powers and lutles. “Fourth—To enact a law or laws au- thorizing the governor and other offl- cers in. time ‘of internal disorder. to close saloons and otherwise to regulate or prohibit the sale, ‘gift, purchase and use'of intoxicating liquors in any spe- cified district, where, in his Judgment, it Is necessary for the public goed 80 todo. “Fifth—To enact a law or laws au- thorizing the governor in. times of Internal ‘disorder.’ to regulate or pro- hibit the sale, gift and purchase of fire- arms and aminunition and the carrying thereof except by authorized persons “Sixth— To ‘appropriate. the sums. necessary to defray the expenses of the extra seasion hereby called. “Whereas, in the judgment of the governor of the state of Colorado, the Dresent is one of the extraordinary o¢- fasions required in the constitution of the state for the callin of special ses- signs of the General Assembly. “Now, therefore, 1, Bilas M. Am- mons, governor of the state of Colo- Fado, do by this (proclamation convene the Nineteenth’ General Assembly of sald state and hereby summon the members thereof to meet in special ses- sion at the capital in the city of Den- Ver" and ‘the state” of. Colorado, on Monday, the 4th day of May, 1914, ‘at ah Iannis oo $60,000 Block Destroyed by Fire. Rigby, Ida—An entire block was wiped out by fire here, the loss amounting to $60,000. M, CAILLAUX RE-ELECTED. Resigned Finance Portfolio After the Calmette Shooting. Paris.—The Socialists and Royalists appear to haye made decided gains in the elections for members of the Chamber of Deputies. The Caillaux Radicals failed to muster their ex- pected strength, but M. Caillaux, who resigned the finance portfolio after the Calmette shooting, was re-elected. Among the successful candidates were M. Briand, Barthou,» Deschanel and Viviani, Although 350 deputies were defi- nitely chosen, the country will have to await the result of the 251 second ballots on May 10 before it can tell whether the present government will obtain a majority. To Get Members for Metal Miners, ‘Three men have been appointed on a committee to wage a campaign to obtain at least 1,500 members for the Denver County Metal Mining Associa- tion: S. D. Nicholson, B, P. Morris, George Stahl, E. A. Colburn and Pres- Ident Haldane of the State School of a To Care for Legislature's Needs. Denyer.—There will be no more warrants of the third class issued by the state of Colorado until it becomes definitely known just what action the Legislature will take on strike mat- ters and what extraordinary expendt- tures it will order, he positive pro- cedure was announced by State Audi- tor Kenehan, who explained ‘that the legislative branch comes within the first class appropriations. Its ex- penses must be paid before other in- stitutions are cared for. ‘The special session will cost «bout $1,500 a day. PRESIDENT ISSUES PROCLAMA. TION DIRECTING ALL SIDES IN STRIKE WAR TO DISARM AND RETIRE BY APRIL 30, FORCES ARRIVE FROM FT. LEAV- ENWORTH AND FT. RUSSELL FOR CANON CITY, LUD. LOW AND TRINIDAD. Western Newspaper Union News Service, Washington, April 29.—President. Wilson Tuesday ordered United States troops to tuke charge of the strike- torn scenes of the industrial war in Colorado. In proclamation to the peo- ple of the United States he command- ed that all violence and disorder cease by April 30. The proclamation reads: “By, the President of the United States ‘of America— “A PROCLAMATION. “Whereas, It is provided by’ the Con- stitution of’ the United States that the United States shall protect every State in this Union. on application of the Legislature, or of the executive Cwhen the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence, ard. “Whereas, The Governor-of the State of Coloride has represented that do- mestic violence exists in said state which the authorities of said state are Unable to suppress; and has presented that it is Impossible to convene the Legislature of the state in time to meet the present emergency, and “Whereas, The laws of the United States require that in all cages of in- surrection In any state, or of obstruc- tion to the laws thereof, whenever in the judgment of the President :t be- comes necessary to use the military forces to supnress such insurrection or obstruction to the laws, he shall forth with by proclamation command such Insurgents to. desperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes Within @ Mmited time; “Now, ‘Therefore, 1, Woodrow Wilson, President of the’ United States, do hereby admonish all good citizens of the United States and all persons with- in the territory and jurisdiction of the United States against aiding, counten- ancing, abetting or taking part in such unlawful proceedings; and I do hereby warn all persons engaged in or con- nected with said domestic violence and Obstruction of the laws to desperse and retire peaceably. to” thelr respective abodes 'on or before the thirtieth day of April, instant. “In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and caused the seai of the United States to be affixed. “Done ‘at the City of Washington, this twenty-eight day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ‘ourteen and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-eignth, “WOODROW WILSON. “By the President: “WILLIAM J. BRYAN, (Seal) “Secretary of State.” ‘The President, in a telegram to Gov ernor Ammons, requests that the state Legisiqture, which is to be convened May 4, consider the whole situation, so that means may be provided for the state to reassert its authority and to limit the operation of the federal troops. ‘The President asks also that the militia be withdrawn temporarily while the federal troops restore order. The orders prepared by Secretary Garrison ¢alled for the detail of troops from Fort Leavenworth, Kan., to Trin- fdad and Ludlow City in the strike district and from Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., to Canon City. At Fort Leaven- worth the second squadron of the Fifth cavalry is stationed and at Fort Russell troops E and H of the Fifth cayalry are awaiting orders. EXPLOSION KILLS 200 MINERS. Eccles, W. Va, April 29—H. ©. Bayles, general manager of the New River Collieries Company, announced that 190 miners entombed in mine No. 5, wrecked by an explosion, are dead. Bayles said the disaster was due to a dust explosicn. STRIKERS FIGHT STATE MILITIA, Two Reported Killed and Three In- hited at Walssnburs: Walsenburg, Colo., April 29.—Strik- ers and militia were fighting outside of Walsenburg last night. Militiamen went into action from Water Tank hill, and the roar of their field pieces was heard for miles. Hundreds of strikers were intrenched on the hog- back, three-quarters of a mile west of ‘Walsenburg, and are replying steadily to the troops’ fire. The battle in which the militia joined continued thirty-six hours with- out let-up between mine guards from the McNally, Walsen and Robinson mines and the strikers. ‘Two men are known to have been killed, eight Dodies are reported lying on the field between the position of the strikers and the troops and three have been wounded. ‘The known dead are: George Bock, striker, 40 years old, shot through head; Henry Floyd, cit- izen, shot through head. The known wounded are: Mike Lenzini, shot through the body: likely to die. Will Peet, striker, shot through leg; Margaret Gregory, shot in arm. Rasiatailor Malas Statement, New York, April 29.—John D. Rocke- feller, Jr., issued a statement defining the position he, as director of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, had taken in regard to the mine strike now in progress in that state, which has cost the lives of meny men, women and children and caused large prop- erty loss. In the statement he de- clares that the unionization of mines cannot be arbitrated, and agrees to all the other conditions asked. He also gave out figures showing profits. The OLD RELIABLE BAST END DINING ROOM AND RESTAURANT n. MEALS: peter ee BREAKFAST from - 6 t, 8:30 ee juss ’ DINNER from : 12 to 2:30 | SUPPER from - =< 5:30 to 7:30 DAVID LONG, Proprietor 2345 LARIMER STREET, DENVER, COLORADO COLORADOANS MUST SOLVE THE STRIKE PROBLEM President Tells Governor the Federal Troops Will Rule Supreme to Preserve Order, but Only Concern Is With Strife. Washington, April 29.—President Wilson sent the following telegram to Governor Ammons on Tuesday: “In response to your telegram de- scribing situation of domestic. vio- lence Jn “your state, which’ you \In- formed me has passed beyond the abil- ity "of the state to control, and con- yeying your request to me to dispatch federal ‘troops pursuant to Section. 4, Article 1V;, of the Constitution of the United States, I beg leave to advise you-as follows: “phat ection of the Constitution pro- vides that the United States shall pro- lect cach state on application of the Legislature, or of the executive (when the Legislature’ cannot be convened) against domestic violence, and is put inte "effect by certain statutes, princi. pally Sections 5, 2, 9, 7 and 5, 300 Re- vised Statutes, ' ‘The’ former makes it lawful for the President in the circum- stances described in. the section of the Constitution referred to, to use the land forces or the naval forces of the United States as he deems necessary, and. the latter provides that whenever in his Judgment it becomes necessary so to Use these forces, he “shall forthwith by proclamation command. the. insurgents to disperse and. retire. peaceably to their, Fespective abodes in a specified Ume. “Gpon the Information before me, my judgment is that it necessary for me to Use the military forces of the. United States for the purposes defined by: law, and 1 shall forthwith issue the proc: lumation ‘provided. by the statute and In pursuance thereof shall order the Wogps when they reach the ‘scenes. of disturbance: to" eause. all those. who have been indulging. in domestle vio- Ienee, or who threaten” to. do. 80. OF Whose ‘ucts are likely to give rise to disorder, to disperse and retire pence ably to their respective abodes if they have ‘not, already done so within. the time limited by. iny proclamation, and [ shall order that'no person or persons, hatural or artiticiad, shall be permitted todo that which may give rise to dis- order of the character, heretofore ‘oc- casioned, to the end that good. order may be ‘established and. maintained, “YT shall not, by. the use of the troops, or by any eee at jurisdiction, inject the pawery of ‘the ‘federal government into "the. Gontroversy” which has pro- duced the present situation. ‘The xette= ment of that controversy falls. strictly within the fleld of state power, My duty’ a Tow acer it ie to con: fine myself to maintaining a status of food order until the state can reassert Kecauthority and resume the enforce ment thereof, “Tam Informed your Legislature cannot be convened ‘in’ time to deal with this emergeney, but Nas been sum Toned to convene on May 4, 1914." 1 shall ‘expect you to draw ‘the ‘attention of that body to. the Imperative neces- Sity of Immediate consideration of the whole situation and as prompt action na'ia possible in the, premises, In order that the use of the federal power may he limited within its contemplated con- Fines, and inorder that the state may take up its duty as soon as itis pos- sible for ttto do 80. "Tne manitest disadvantages of hav- Ing two military forees under separate sources of control operating within the Same localities lead me to request. you fo withdraw your militia ag soon as the troops of the United. “States have reached the Scene and are ready to take over the necessary control. (Signed) "WOODROW WILSON.” White House officials stated that the President had acted because all parties, including the senators and congressmen from Colorado, and the governor, the mine operators and the miners as well had asked for the Whteral acidlara: J. R. DRESSOR WALLACE CLOW A. hl. CLOW The Paint Company WALL PAPER, PAINTS OILS AND GLASS Interior and Exterior Decurators. We Do House Painting. Coach Colors, Paints and Varnis?.cs. Agents John W. Masury & Sons. Phone Main 871 728 W. Colfax, foot Welton St. Denver YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED To Inspect Our Display of Patten and Tailored Hats In All the Latest Novelties TORREY’S MILLINERY 2647 WELTON STREET, DENVER, COLO. *Phone Champa 1156 Furnished Rooms in Connectio STEVE TODOROFF and RAY BRONSON, Proprictors Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars 1038 NINETEENTH STREET Corner Nineteenth and Arapahoe Streets, DENVER, COLORADC May Call Nation-Wide Strike. Denver.—That a general strike of all coal miners in the United States may be ordered as the result of the strike conditions in Colorado was sus- gested as a possibility in a telegram by E, L. Doyle, secretary and treasur- er of the United Mine Workers in Denver, to Frank J. Hayes, vice-presi- dent of the United Mine Workers of America, in Indianapolis. Doyle had received a message from Hayes in which he declared that 500,000 miners have heard the cries of the strikers and their families in Colorfio and stood ready to give their last cent and lives if necessary to protect and safe- guard the rights of the strikers here. Vienna.—A military aviator named Wally was killed in a fall at the Aero- Fa Be a bee ie Big: Sp Me marta ue TR Seeman gates na § Jones’ Restaurant a : I Am Headed That Way, Where I Get the } Cleanest, Best and Most Wholesome Fuca, Which : Gives You that Round, Cor:fortable, Coutente¢ Fecling a : Don’t Forget the Place : 2236 LARIMER STREET, DENVER, COLO. Bee al gc aa ee WOULD BUY JOHN D’S MINES. Introduces Bill. Washington, April 29.—Government ownership and operation of the Colo- rado mining property owned by the Rockefellers was proposed in a Dill introduced by Representative Bryan of Washington. It directs the President, as comman- der-in-chief of the army, to use troops “to restore order and respect for the law,” and then authorizes the attor- ney general to institute condemnation proceedings to obtain the stock held by John D. Rockefeller and his son, with such other stock necessary to obtain full control. The bonds are to be taken over in the same manner. The President is authorized to operate the mines at cost, paying 3 per cent on outstanding stock. . A minimum wage, eight-hour day, ‘workmen's compensation and sanitary working conditions are also specified in the bill. The Denver Paste AND Wall Paper Company J. W. BEACH Phone Main 5277 1855 .Arayat.oe Strect DENVER, COLORADO SPECIAL BRUSHES 6ii'° Healguarersfoc 7 AUlaKinids’ of Brushes and Janitor Supplies : SAM FRANCIS, Mgr. DENVER BRUSH FACTORY Branch 1408 Curtis St. Champa 770 418 Fifteenth St Six Men Wounded Near Hecla Mine. _ Louisville, Colo., April 29.—A ten- hour battle between striking miners and mine guards at the Hecla mine of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, in which it is estimated that at least 20,- 006 shots were exchanged, terminated with a temporary truce after six men had been wounded, two of them so seriously that they cannot live. ‘The militia since has taken possession of the hills surrounding Louisville. Scores of houses here were riddled with bullets during the fight. NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN. Two hundred men were entombed by an explosion in the mine of the New River Collieries Company at Eccles, W. Va. Smallpox was discovered on the collier Cyclops after about half of the 360 American refugees brought to Galveston, Tex., had been landed. In a fire which swept a thickly settled residence block on the west side of the river at Portland, Ore., it is reported six sleepers lost their lives. Elimination of the Monroe doctrine from the United States foreign policy, or its revision, was urged by William J. Calhoun, former minister to China, at a peace meeting at Chicago. Douglas, Ariz., is overcrowded with refugees from Mexico, and 100 Mormons, who arrived from Colonia Morelos, were permitted to camp in the open near the city water plant. First toll of life was taken by the spring flood, general throughout Texas as the result of three days heavy rain, when Thomas McIntyre, twelve years old, of Dallas, was drowned. Refugee Americans who arrived at Nogales, Ariz., from the interior and west coast of Mexico reported that although no violence was shown them they had been harassed all the way to the border by petty rebel chiefs. A reduction of 5 cents a barrel in the price of crude oil was announced by the officials of the pipe lines in the Oklahoma-Kansas oil fields at Oklahoma City. This is the fifth reduction in April, bringing the price to 80 cents. Mrs. Elizabeth Van Winkle Anderson, mother of Capt. Thomas M. Anderson, Jr., now at Vera Cruz, and wife of Brig. Gen. Thomas McArthur Anderson, U. S. A., retired, died at Portland, Ore. She was married in 1869 at Richmond, Va. John Ade of Kentland, Ind., father of George Ade, the playwright, fell dead at Valparaiso, Ind., in the ball where the Republican Tenth district convention was held. Heart disease is believed to have caused his death. He was seventy-five years old. President Wilson was praised for his stand for "honorable peace" in the Mexican trouble at a mass meeting of Chicagoans at the Central Y. M. C. A. Resolutions were adopted declaring that the mass of the American people are with Wilson in his position. An anti-American demonstration in which the 'Stars and Stripes were dragged through the streets and impressions hurled at all "gringos," was described at Brownsville, Tex., by refugees arriving in the first train from Monterey, captured several days ago by the Constitutionalists. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of the Rev. Louis Patmount, formerly of Milwaukee, Wis., from Westville, Ill., on March 31, was partially solved, after a nation-wide search, by the identification of the body of a slain man at Cleveland, Ohio, as that of the missing prohibition worker. The identification was made by a brother. WASHINGTON Dr. J. W. Duvol, in charge of Agricultural Department grain investigations, told agriculture committee that the grain trade and department approved Lever grading bill. Continental United States now has a population of more than 98,000,000 people, while the country, with its possessions, is peopled by more than 109,000,000 persons, the census bureau announced. The government received telegrams from principal manufacturers of arms and ammunition in this country, voluntarily promising not to accept orders for shipments of munitions of war outside the United States. Finding no constitutional objection to law making saloonkeepers liable for damages resulting from their sale of liquor, the Supreme Court, dismissed the appeal of Louis W. Prenica, a saloonist of Nebraska City. Neb., from a judgment of the Nebraska courts, holding him liable in the sum of $5,000 to Mrs. May Bulger for her husband becoming an habitual drunkard. The President would be authorized to give preference in making appointments to the volunteer army to the army officers who have been awarded medals of honor under a bill introduced by Representative McKellar of Tennessee. Majority Leader Kern of the Senate said he did not think the Mexican situation should interfere with the legislative program. He said he expected a report soon from the Senate interoceanic canals committee on the tolls repeal bill, and believed it would be passed with about two weeks' debate FOREIGN. Marie Gans was jeered into silence when she tried to speak against war near the Franklin statute in Park Row in New York. Philander J, Knox, Jr., son of former Secretary of State Knox of Philadelphia, and his wife, who formerly was Miss May Boler, a shopgirl, have become reconciled. King Victor Emmanuel intends to nominate William Marconi a senator at an early date. Marconi has now reached the age of forty, which makes him eligible for that position. The British government has had under consideration the possible necessity of strengthening the British fleet in Mexican waters in order to insure the protection of British subject and property. President Sigmund Schwartz of the Citizens' Peddlers Association of the East side in New York, said that the peddlers, willing to join an invasion of Mexico, want ex-President Roosevelt to head their regiment. Federal Judge Landis at Chicago permanently enjoined the Elgin board of trade, commonly known as the butter board, from meeting to fix prices and otherwise governing conditions under which butter is sold. At Opelousas, La., "guilty, without capital punishment," was the verdict returned by the jury in the trial of W. C. Walters, charged with kidnapping five-year-old Robert Dunbar. The verdict is equivalent to life imprisonment. Chaplain James L. Griffiths of the Seventh infantry preached a stirring sermon aboard the transport on its way to Mexico, defending intervention. His final exhortation was: "Obey your officers and shoot straight, for the Lord shoots to kill." Supreme Court Justice Mills of White Plains, N. Y., handed down a decision declaring Mrs. Ida von Claussen not insane and directing that she be released from Matteawan asylum and sent back to the Tombs in New York to await trial on an indictment charging her with sending threatening letters to Charles H. Strauss, a lawyer. Toots Gard of Denver, star catcher for the Boise baseball team, broke his leg sliding to second base in the third inning of a game at Weiser, Idaho. He wil be out of the game for weeks. The Chicago Federal leaguers have outdrawn the Cubs of the National league decisively in the games played in Chicago, and followers of the new organization are jubilant at the comparative showing. Clay McClure, eighty years old, noted bachelor horseman, died at his home near Fulton, Mo. He had lived all his life on the farm on which he died, with a maiden sister, Miss Sallie McClure, eighty-four years old. They had saved all newspapers read by them and these fill a room from floor to ceiling. Some of the best horses of the country were bred on his farm and raised by him. GENERAL. A bulletin issued at Vienna on the condition of Emperor Francis Joseph reported that it was "practically unchanged." American civil government, under martial law, was set up at Vera Cruz with Robert J. Kerr, lawyer of Chicago and Mexico City, as civil governor. Fifteen cars of cotton were destroyed by fire supposed to have been of incendiary origin at Juarez, Mex. The cotton was part of the amount seized at Torreon by General Villa and was valued at $600,000. Mrs. Clara Stone Hay, widow of John Hay, the late secretary of state, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Payne Whitney, in New York. She arrived from Washington a few days ago on a visit and became suddenly ill. Ernesto Nathan, former mayor of Rome, who has been appointed honorary minister plenipotentiary to represent Italy at the Panama-Pacific exposition, will sail May 13 for New York. He will go to Washington to visit President Wilson and then proceed to San Francisco. Paul Revoil, who in 1906 was the chief plenipotentiary of France to the Algeciras conference in Morocco, died at Mouries, France. Massachusetts militia commanders have been instructed by Brig. Gen. Leroy Swetzer to give preference to bachelors in making up their companies. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, during his journey through the unexplored regions of Brazil, discovered a tribe of savages hitherto unknown. The tribesmen, who were named Pauhates, were unclothed. Western Newspaper Union News Service. DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. May 12-14—State Council of Junior Order of American Mechanics, at Colored Park. May 14-16—Race Meet, Durango. May 27—Log-Rolling Contest, W.O.W. June 13-July 4—Race Meet, Denver. July 7-11—Race Meet, Pueblo. July 9—Cherry Pie Day, Manzanola. July 13—Lodge Session, B.P. O, Elks at Denver. July 22-23.—Cattlemen's Day, Gunnigon. Aug. 18-21—Prowers Co. Fair, Lamar. Aug. 25-28—Bent Co. Fair, Las Animas. Aug. 27—Santa Fé Trail Day, Las Animas. Aug. 29—Farmers' Fair at Fowler. Sept. 1-4—Arkansas Valley Fair, Rocky Ford. Sept. 5-8—Farmers' aard. Day, Rocky Ford. Sept. 2-5—Farmers' aard. Day, Stockmen's Fair, Burlington. Sept. 1-4. Morgan Co. Fair, Fort Morgan. gan. Sept. 1-4—Larimer Co. Fair. Loveland. Sept. 8-11—Crowley Co. Fair. Sugar City. Sept. 9-11.—Cheyenne County Fair at Cheyenne Wells. Sept. 14-19.—Colo. State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. 15-18.—Lincoln County Fair at Hugo. Sept. 21-26.—Race Meet. Denver. Sept. 21-23.—Western County Fair and Race Meet at Limon. Sept. 22-25.—Western Slope Fair, Montrose. Sept. 22-25.—Montezuma County Fair at Cortez. Sept. 22-25—Trinidad Fair, Trinidad. Sept. 23-26—El Paso Co. Fair, Calhan. Oct. 6-9—Colorado-New Mexico Fair at Durango. 1915 Last Grand Council of North American Indians at Denver. Oil activity east of Denver is more marked than ever. Prince Tambon is dead. The wonderful little baby elephant died in Denver of intestinal trouble. The Denver Ministerial Alliance resolved to appoint a committee to investigate the Colorado coal strike situation. The body of Father Frederick Bender, Denver priest, reached Cincinnati where the funeral was held with full rites of the Catholic church. Federal troops for the suppression of strike disorders are now in Colorado. With their arrival peace over the entire state is confidently expected. Charles H. Green, president of the Green Canning Company of Pueblo, Brighton and Platteville, died at his home in Denver following an operation. James A. Harris, fifty-two years old, formerly one of the leading politicians of Tennessee, and a prominent attorney of Denver, died at St. Luke's hospital, following an illness of four weeks. After lingering between life and death from Saturday until Tuesday after being run over by a switch engine at Sixth and Lawrence streets, John Coffey, forty-five years old, died at the county hospital in Denver. Grim-faced riflemen of the armies of Aguilar and Ludlow stacked their arms and burled Louis Tikas, known as Louis the Greek, who died in the strike war at Ludlow with three bullets in his back and a gaping wound in his head. Dr. W. M. Wilkinson, secretary of the Denver County Medical Society, received word from the National Red Cross Society, first aid department, requesting a list of medical men of Denver who were competent and who could be relied upon to go to Mexico in case of trouble on the border. A committee of women to be headed by State Senator Helen Ring Robinson and Mrs. Alma Lafferty, president of the Women's Peace Association, is being organized to go to Trinidad to investigate the Ludlow massacre and to search the field for bodies of victims claimed to be unaccounted for. The railroad commission took evidence in the case of the White Raven Mining Company of Ward against the Denver, Boulder and Western in which the petitioners seek to secure an order compelling the railroad company to keep its line to Ward open and trains in operation through the winter months. The Twin Lakes irrigation project, one of the largest in Colorado, has officially passed into the hands of the farmers of the Arkansas valley. After twenty years operation under the domination of Eastern stockholders, the Twin Lakes system is being operated by the farmers under its ditches. Mrs. Sullivan of East Tenth street, Pueblo, her one and one-half-year-old baby and her mother were seriously if not fatally injured and Mr. Sullivan was badly hurt when a southbound Santa Fe passenger train, which passed through Colorado Springs, struck their automobile on a dangerous crossing one mile north of Fountain. Telephone users in Morgan county are requested to withhold acceptance of the new rates of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company. Committees from Fort Morgan, Brush, Hillrose and Weldon are now at work gathering facts and figures relative to the construction of a new and independent system in Morgan county. Plans have been accepted and contracts signed for one of the largest and handsomest business blocks in the Arkansas valley to be erected in Rocky Ford on the site of the recent fire on North Maine street, in the heart of the business district. Harry Eugene Kelly, United States district attorney, was called to Washington and left Denver for the East. It was stated at headquarters that the matter of his being called at this time had nothing to do with the present strike situation in the southern coal fields. FORTY - TWO INDICTED EIGHTY-FIVE COUNTS IN BILL AGAINST ORSON ADAMS. Militiamen Are Acused of Thefts and Strikers Held Because of Postoffice Fire. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Pueblo, Colo. — Forty-two indictments were returned by the federal grand jury. Orson Adams, president of the defunct Mesa County National bank, was indicted for misapplying funds and embezzlement. There are eighty-five counts against Adams. Considering the minimum penalty under each count is five years in prison, it would be possible to sentence the banker, if convicted, to 425 years. A true bill was returned in the case of the American Express Company, Denver, and Agent C. L. Chase for sending letters in express matter. L. B. Hungerford, accused of writing letters to induce persons to advertise in a magazine and of sending them by express, was also indicted. Two militiamen were indicted, accused of thefts in the strike zone, and eight strikers accused of breaking into and burning the postoffice at Higgins, near Aguilar. Forty-five persons are named in the indictments. The strikers are Ed Hillas, Jack Harthsan, M. Martinez, D. J. Jeffreys, Charles Costa, G. Gemelli and D. Fugas. Militiamen, Fred Lee, charged with breaking into the postoffice at Forbes, and S. K. Friedman, charged with stealing equipment from a United States regular soldier. Others and the charges against them are: J. J. Sullivan, using liquor bottles second time without destroying labels; Jesse Clements, Leadville, selling liquor without government license; M. Morse, J. R. Van Bushkirk and A. H. Flood, selling oleo without license; Harry Lebau, forging international money order through Denver office; A. L. Alexander, accepting letter from mail carrier in Denver to which he was not entitled; W. W. Hoag, alias W. H. Russick, Denver, violations of Mann white slave law; T. J. Van Arsdale, impersonating a government officer; Frank Sera, Salida, making false representations; Earl Turner, Frank Turner and Charles Supelber, selling liquor to the Indians on the Ute and Navajo reservations; J. M. Baker, W. L. Tipton and J. J. McEachron, counterfeiting. Hickey Charged With Smuggling. Hickey Charged With Smuggling. Denver.—William T. Hickey, secretary of the Colorado State Federation of Labor, and John Carter, a miner of Louisville, were placed under arrest at Westminster hill by twenty-one operators of the Baldwin-Felts Detective agency. Twenty rifles and 10,000 rounds of ammunition were confiscated by A. C. Felts, who was in charge of the detectives. Hickey and Carter were held prisoners while they were taken to the adjunct general's office, where they were released on their own recognizance. The guns and ammunition were placed in charge of General Chase's office. Hickey and Carter were rushing the firearms and ammunition to the northern coal field for the miners when they were overtaken by the detectives. Before going to the statehouse Hickey and Carter were taken to police headquarters and questioned by Chief of Police O'Neill. Felts, when asked on what authority he placed the men under arrest, replied that he was working under the orders of Col. George M. Lee. County District Attorney Arrested. Buena Vista. -District Attorney Gilbert A. Walker of the eleventh judicial district, Chaffee county, was arrested at Buena Vista on three informations charging him with malfaise in office, larceny as ballee and of taking illegal fees. The informations were filed by Attorney C. A. Irwin of Denver, who recently was appointed special prosecuting attorney by Judge Joseph Newitt, after an investigation of Walker's conduct of his office had been made by the board of county commissioners of Chaffee county. Church Gets $3,000 Organ. Loveland. Andrew Carnegie will be instrumental in placing a $3,000 pipe organ in the United Presbyterian church of this city. A promise last year of $1,000 provided the committee in charge raise the rest, resulted in the amount being subscribed in less than a month, and now the organ will be installed during the summer. La Junta Invites G. A. R. La Junta.—At the meeting of the city council a number of the local members of the G. A. R. were present and asked that an invitation be extended to the Colorado and Wyoming encampment to hold their meeting in 1915 at La Junta. The invitation will be extended and a strong effort made to get the meeting for this city. 4.000-Ounce Silver Ore Found. Montezuma.—Ever since last summer it has been known that the St. John Mines Company, at Montezuma, had in its No. 5 vein a producer of high-grade silver ore. Nevertheless, the news that the north drift on vein No. 5 had recently exposed several streaks of extra high-grade silver ore in new ground, some of it running as high as 4,000 ounces to the ton, came as a pleasant surprise to the friends of the company and of the camp. OPEN FOR 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. SHORT ORDERS AT ALL HOURS HENRY BECK Beck WHAT Wines Western Agents for Minne 1644-40 Phone Main 1053 ALL KINDS The Welton 2619 New and Second We Pay th Syl. 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The Welton Street Furniture Co. New and Second Hand Furniture Bought, Sold and Exchanged We Pay the Highest Cash Price for Furniture When The Heads, F or Chiterlings except Eas When You Want When You Want The Heads, Feet, Tails Snouts, Neckbones or Chiterlings or any other part of the hog except the squeal go to 2300-6 Larimer Street. THE ZO SAM 1004 Ninete 1004 Nineteenth Street, Corner of Curtis FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS, COORS' CELEBRATED BEER ON TAP R CO ERRIS, Pres. J. M. JOHNS, Treas. SEIB M. LROAD PORTERS' C CHAS. HARRIS, Pres RAILROA LUNCH Billiards RAILROAD PORTERS' CLUB LUNCH ROOM IN CONNECTION 17281 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Wazee St. Only one block from Union Depot Phone Main 8416. Denver, Colorado FULL DINNER 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. PHONE MAIN 8247. DENVER Soup, Fish or Meat, Two Vegetables Coffee, Tea or Cocoa Desert 25 CENTS Manager. 543 Denver, Colo. Strom MISS IN Mrs and and Carnegie Porter, Pripps Ol. Ever Street Denver, Colorado MEATLY DONE. SILLY. Furniture Co. hop. 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Further particulars on application. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps taken. 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. STATE-WIDE PROHIBITION "Here's health, Mr. Reformation. May you succeed, like your fore-runners!" says one. "Ah!" says another, "do you take this for better or worse?" "Better and worse!" blared out a third, "as the intention is good but generally turns out bad!" This subject is enjoying the thoughts and minds of some of the wealthiest and most influential people of the state, and the Anti-Saloon League is redoubling its efforts to place Colorado in the order of the general dry but special wet states of the union. In this state especially we have a desire of clamoring for reforms, and as soon as we elect our officials to carry them out, then, unfortunately for us, we seem to discover they are the wrong men in the wrong places—and we want the recall. Within the last two or three years we have had so many changes and interchanges by numerous elections that some of the people are astonished when they go to transact business at the various city offices and find a complete transformation of things. We changed our civic government from Democratic to Citizens'—which resulted in a perfect wrangle from first to last, and the same was accredited a gigantic failure; then comes our Commission form, which will soon begin to do something—as soon as "the mists have rolled away!" We do not advocate the policy of debauchery, drunkenness or vice of any kind, but we do say that reforms of the liquor traffic, etc., cannot be successfully carried out by visionary and impractical methods or drastic legislation, as, while they serve the purpose of apparently subscribing to law and order, they from our personal experience in dry territories or states do not practically improve moral conditions. If we take the court records of the dry states we can find a number of convictions which prove that the traffic is still maintained somewhere, somehow. It is asserted as a fact that more "drunks" and incapables, comparatively, can be seen in such places where Prohibition waves her banner, than in others where there is regular license. One of the burning questions in this Reform movement is its pressure on the man farther down, as he is unable to import in large quantities as the well-to-do, and so he resorts to any illegal way of procuring the beverage, and then he fills up, his motto being, "A bird in the hand," etc. The State-Wide Prohibition movement for Colorado is said to be a part of the great nation-wide movement which will soon be up for election, and if our industries from which we derive large financial benefits to cater to the exchequer of our state must be abolished, without any substitutes, then it is sure that we will march in the ranks of the retrogressive from a financial standpoint. Our sugar industry is ruined by non-durable action; our wool the same; and if our agencies of sterling worth must be so shattered, then the Columbine State will have to face a problem not easily solved. Manufacturers, business men and others who have large and valuable interests at stake, and who so materially contribute to our state funds, had better wake up and start now with the "Worthy Reformers," as nothing is impossible in this line, and in their zeal to purify our state and your neglect to combat with the issues, they may reap their "better" to terminate in the state's "worse." A TIMELY ADVICE. If there ever was a time when the colored people of the City of Denver and State of Colorado—yea! the United States of America—need to be advised, it is NOW, when the nation is confronted with such grave and monstrous actions which she is endeavoring to combat, and we feel it incumbent on us to offer some suggestions that will be productive of good and steer us clear of the danger-zone of further hatred and contempt of some of the white citizens of this country. While it is generally conceded that the freedom of the press is well established, and more latitude is given for expression of opinion in this than any other country, yet it is wisdom to keep it within the lines of propriety and to adopt such sane and reasonable methods as not to influence a people especially when national questions arise. With this view we attempt to caution and advise our people to refrain from any controversy in connection with the sympathizers or non-sympathizers of the deplorable events among the striking miners of different parts of the state, as, although we shared some of the results by paying the increased prices for coal, yet it is customary that whenever there is strife in the ranks of the white man (self-styled the superior race) he generally resorts to the dark-skinned man (termed the inferior race) either for consolation over his trouble or for participation in the lills that befall him. We have in our possession a copy of a newspaper (white, edited in Denver, Colorado), crediting us for not consenting to go to the strike quarters to assist in quelling the disturbance, and commending their COLORED BROTHERS (as they called us) for the action. Naturally this would come from the side that is expressing their grievance and agitating for betterment of conditions, but is this the rule, or the exception? Why, we are all aware how trying a time it is for our Negro professionals to get work in whatever sphere they are capable of filling; and in some cases where they are permitted to join or become members of building associations, even with their compliance with rules, etc., governing such organizations, there are certain conditions which prevail that cannot place them on equal footing with the other men. "Be wise therefore as serpents," etc., a Scriptural expression that should be adopted by us, and while we denounce every phase of lawlessness in our country, let us not shoulder the burden of the other fellow, to the detriment of ourselves, for our load is greater to bear, as we are actually ill-treated and brutalized for a black appearance—the responsibility of which rests on a power above us. Be cautious, then, in this particular, your vea being vea, and your nay be nay being When it comes on our trouble with Mexico we can hear some of our dissatisfied citizens clamoring for war, and so*unpatriotic as to be wishing not only defeat of our country but an annihilation of her army. From the absurdity of such sentiments, those who thus express themselves should be passed unnoticed; but for the benefit of our colored people we must emphasize that there can be no greater crime than disloyalty, and, although we may be the victims of certain harsh treatments, yet if with the constant application of the passive resistance we can compel recognition from the government as a whole, soon will individuals follow and the desired end attained. It is a fact undeniable that we have received some advantages, though few and far between, and we cannot forget we are AMERICANS. Harping on our ancestry, or joining the body of white fanatics who say our repatriation is at hand, will not catch Uncle Sam's sympathetic feelings to the extent of reimbursing upwards of ten millions of people for their holdings, etc., and make provisions for them in a foreign land which may not entertain them; so that it necessitates our loyalty to our country, our nation, our chief magistrate, irrespective of political faith and the foreign element of the population who (like the Bedouin Arab) is always migrating, many a time remaining long enough to extract the wealth possessed here, may move on, leaving us in our habitation which we were made to possess by the forced invitations extended to our fore-parents. Be warned, be advised, and do not be carried away with ill sentiments or the erratic sayings against our country in time of war, which are being promulgated and propagated by some people who would not go to the front if they were even to be placed in an iron cage miles away from the actual engagement, as nothing could atone for disloyalty, and the punishment mentally is greater than any other form in the end. And the proof will be given to this government of the peaceful, law-abiding, loyal, deserving citizens we are, and all these happenings may be the final test to win permanent recognition the length and breadth of this country from high and low, rich and poor alike. Take heed, consider this way and be wise. "The times are changed, and we with them." 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PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, GLASS PAINTING, GRAINING, GLAZING, PAPER HANGING, DECORATING AND MARD WOOD FINISHING WALL PAPER 1517-23 ARAPAHoe ST. DENVER ARTISTS MATERIALS Phones Main C. E. Smith, Manager 169, 181, 189, 190 Res. Phone South 1608 The Market Company Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oysters. Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn Fed Meats, Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game. Denver, Colorado 1633-59 Krapanoe Street Denver, Colorado Phone Main 4473 Express No. 360 Phone Main 4473 Express No. 360 M. W. Buck & Co. Successors to LOWE & LOWE Dealers in NEW AND SECOND-HAND FURNITURE TIN AND GRANITE WARE 2204 Welton Street Denver, Colorado Rocky Mountain Athletic Ass'n. THE BARRINGTON SCHOOL A high class Pool and Billiard room. A superb Gymnasium and infact everytning that goes To make up a FISRT CLASS RESORT. RICHARD FRAZIER, Manager 2014 Champa Street. Denver, Colorado R. H. Boyer of Coalville, Pa., was in the city this week. L. E. Jones of Kansas City, Mo., was in the city this week. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carr of 1450 Lafayette street, who have been quite ill for some little time, are improving. the Allen Christian Endeavor League was held Sunday evening with the following result; President, R. C. Brown, Vice President, Cetwayo Von Dicke sohn; Miss Anna Mae Hall; Secretary; Mrs. Reble I Brown, Assistant Secretary; Miss Verona Mason, Coresponding Secretary; Miss Eliza Miller, Treasurer; Mrs. Beatri Childs, Organist; Miss Madie G. Nelson, Assistant, and Mrs. J. A. Walron, Chorister. The annual repo Mrs. George D. Hall, who has been sick several months, is slowly recovering. Oh the rain, the beautiful rain, has brought drink to all vegetation. The grass certainly looks green and luxuriant. Mrs. Charles White who spent several months in California, returned to the city Sunday, looking very much improved. Mrs. David Douglass and daughter, after spending several weeks with friends and relatives in the East, have returned to the city. Mrs. W. E. Spates left the city Saturday to join her husband in the Dearfield district. They are having a large barn built on their claim. The remains of Charles Edward Jackson, who died February 23rd, were shipped Thursday to Winchester, Ky., for burial, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Medora Jackson. Mrs. Josephine Mason and children also Mr. Albert Hawkins and daughter, who came to attend the funeral of Mr. Pearl Mason, returned to Galesbury, Ill. Tuesday. The funeral of Mrs. Stella Washington was held at the parlor of The Douglass Undertaking Company Monday, 27th. The Rev. Mrs. Mary Perry, officiated. Mrs. Sarah Stills of 2854 Cleveland, sister of Mrs. Mark Brooks, died April 30th. Remains at Douglass Undertaking Company. Funeral from franily residence Sunday at 2 p. m. Miss Viola Anderson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Anderson, who died Sunday, April 26th, was buried Thursday from Shorter A. M. E. church, Rev. Pope officiating. Interment at Riverside. Yeager Undertaking Company was in charge of the funeral. The Douglass Undertaking Company deserve much praise for the way they handled the large crowd of friends and sympathizers who gathered at Zion Baptist church last Sunday in spite of the pouring rain, to pay their last respects to the remains of Pearl W. Mason, who was laid to rest at Riverside. The opening of the Hotel Marian Thursday was quite a success. Tom Lewis, the genial proprietor, was there with the glad hand and welcome smile to extend a welcome to all. Flowers and entrancing music were added features. The only Colored hotel in the city. Annex Caté and buffet. When looking for accommodations don't forget the Hotel Marian No. 1835-1839 Arapahoe street. Mrs. Phillips, the wife of Dr. I. H. Phillips, died very suddenly at her home in Keokuk, Iowa, Friday week, after a short illness and was buried last Tuesday. Mrs. Phillips was quite popular and is mourned by a large circle of friends. Of surviving relatives there are Mrs. Sandy Davis, Mrs. Hattie Rothwell and Miss Sarah Graves of this city, Mrs. M. Johnson of Missouri, and Paul Groves of Lovejoy, Ill. SHORTER CHAPEL NOTES. To-morrow will be Quarterly meeting day at Shorter and the usual large attendance on such occasions is anticipated. Presiding Elder A. M. Ward will preach at the morning and evening hours and the Rev. D. Smith, the newly appointed pastor of Scott's M. E. church, will preach the quarterly communion sermon at 3 o'clock p. m. Rev. Washington, the choir, officers and members of Campbell, and the choir, officers and members from Scott's will unite with us in this service. We welcome our friends from all churches. Our third quarterly conference will be held Tuesday evening, May 5th, at 8 p. m. Every officer is urged to be present and it is hoped that every auxiliary will be represented by a written report. The annual election of officers of --- the Allen Christian Endeavor League was held Sunday evening with the following result; President, R. C. Brown; Vice President, Cetwayo Von Dickersohn; Miss Anna Mae Hall; Secretary; Mrs. Reble I Brown, Assistant Secretary; Miss Verona Mason, Corresponding Secretary; Miss Eliza Miller, Treasurer; Mrs. Beatrice Childs, Organist; Miss Madie G. Nelson, Assistant, and Mrs. J. A. Waldron, Chorister. The annual report rendered showed that for the past year the average attendance had been 101 and 3-10 and that this organization of young people has raised for local purposes $54.78 Our Missionary Society observed Founder's Day Sunday evening last with an unusually strong program. The work of our local society was handled cleverly by Mrs. R. N. Nelson, our duty to the man that is down was treated interestingly by Mr. R. C. Brown; Y. M. C. A. Secretary McKenny presented a happy and informing discussion of Christianity and the changing order of society. His production easily measured up to what would be expected from a representative of Oberlin University. Though the inclement weather prevented a large attendance, the program did not descend to the size of the audience, but lifted the congregation up the elevation of the program. Sister Viola Anderson, who crossed the Jordan Sunday morning last, was buried from Shorter Chapel Thursday afternoon with the pastor officiating, Miss Anderson being just seventeen years old at the time of her death, the presence of our junior choir was appreciated the more. Our heart goes out in sympathy to the bereaved parents and relatives. Sisters Mary Still, 2854 Tremant, Mae Stell, 2238 Clarkson and America Findley, 2816 High, and Brother Thos. R. Herron, 922 Santa Fé Drive, are on the sick list. Let the church pray for their speedy recovery. The anniversary exercises of the Widows' Club held at Shorter Thursday evening of last week demonstrated the fact that Denver has a bunch of popular widows. This is why the club has to struggle so hard to keep up a big membership. THE ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. 24th Ave. and Ogden. David E. Over, Minister. The pastor was called out of the city last Thursday by the sudden death of his brother-in-law, W. T. McKnight, for many years a prominent citizen of Topeka. He hopes to return sometime next week. Because of the absence of the pastor the reception to the new members of the church is postponed till next Friday, May 8th. The all-day prayer and Bible conference is also postponed to Thursday, May 15th. It is hoped that the ladies will be present that morning at ten o'clock. The Men's Bible Class luncheon will be given on Tuesday, May 12th. Every man in the congregation is urged to spend a social hour at lunch which is to be followed by the regular study. The Sunday School teachers and students of the Training class will meet at the usual hour the coming week. The Communion service has been postponed till the second Sunday, at which time it is hoped that every person who can be present will partake of the service. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our sincere thanks to our friends and neighbors for their kindness during the illness and death of our dear husband, son and brother, Pearl W. Mason, also for the beautiful floral offerings. MRS. PEAREL W. MASON. MRS. JOSEPHINE MASON, and children. Honor McKinley's Memory. William McKinley, our twenty-fifth president, was born January 29, 1843. His favorite flower was the carnation, and it is now very generally worn on this day, more perhaps by men than women. Has No Advantage That Berlin physician who boasts that he can detect truth from falsehood by the breath has no advantage over the wives of men who try to hide it by eating cloves—New York Herald. Tompkins and Tennyson. Kindly Hostess (to nervous recipe who has broken down in "The Charge of the Light Brigade")—"Never mind, Mr. Tompkins, just tell us it in your own words."—Punch. Not Too Many. There are about 200 brands of religion. But that isn't so many when you remember that there are about 78,962,354 brands of cussedness.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Worth Knowing. Every person when he takes up his cards at a game of whist holds one out of 635,013,559,600 possible hands. As for the total number of variations possible among all players, it is so enormous as almost to exceed belief. Mr. Babbage calculated that if 1,000,000 men were to be engaged dealing cards at the rate of one deal every minute, day and night, for 100,000,000 years, they would not have exhausted all the possible variations of the cards, but only one one hundred thousandth part of them. A large modern front room for rent. Two gentlemen preferred. Apply Mrs. R. K. DePriest, 2516 Lafayette street. For Rent, Cheap—Two ranches with good houses at Deerfield, Colorado. Apply 1009 16th St., Room 15. Nicely furnished rooms in modern house, suitable for man and wife, or ladies who work out. Call at 2933 Welton street, Mrs. D. C. Strosier. Keep off the date, Tuesday, April 28—Celebration of Elks' Anniversary—Fern Hall. For Rent—Two nicely modern furnished rooms. For information apply at this office, 1824 Curtis St., room 25. Three nicely furnished rooms for light housekeeping at 2929 Glenarm Place. Call at 2815 Arapahoe St. Brickler's New Barber Shop is located at 2208 Larimer street. Shave, 10. Hair cut, 25c; children, 15c. They Wear Armor. I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry comfort about with them.—George Elliot. 'Way Up. Howell—"He's usually on his high horse." Powell—"Yes, he is a sort of equestrian statue of himself." Teach your children to create. Don't always give them finished products to enjoy. Popular Song Suggestions. "The weeping willow had been only eating onions, after all." 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. Moder throughout. Rates very reason- able. 2352-2358 Odgen street, corner Twenty-fourth avenue. Phone York 6707. Mrs. R. M. Blakey. 13 CENTS A DAY BUYS A PIANO. WITH MUSIC LESSONS FREE. PIANOS FROM $88 UP. COLUMBINE MUSIC CO., 920-924 15th STREET. CHARLES BUILDING. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' Dave Gook, April 1914. To the Stockholders of the Western Loan and Investment Association: You are hereby notified that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the western Loan and Investment Association, 19.1914, at the hour of 8 o'clock p. m. of said day, at room 25. Western News, Driver, busining, 182 Cusick, Driver, coloring, the election of officers and directors of said association and for the transaction of any and all other business which may properly come before and association, L. C. CONNELLE. J. R. CONTEE, Secretary GOLDEN CHEST MINING, MILLING AND TUNNEL COMPANY. Capital Stock, $250,000. Incorporated in Colorado. To the Stockholders of the Golden Chest Mining, Milling and Tunnel Company. Denver, Colo., April 4, 1914. You are hereby notified that a special meeting of the special members of the Golden Chest Mining, Milling and Tunnel Company is hereby called to meet in Denver, Colorado, May 5, 1914, at room 32, Good block, at 2 p. m., to con- piration, increasing the capital stock from $250,000 to $1,000,000. (Signed) J. R. LEWIS, President. P. E. SPRATLIN, Secretary. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1913 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE HISTORY THE BANKERS' INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY of Denver, Colorado Assurance $98,000.00 Liabilities—$44,686.65 Capital—$100,000.00 Surplus—$75,333.75 STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 28TH, 1915 Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that THE BANKERS' INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Colorado, whose principal office is located at Denver, has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to additional taxation, and that the law is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation, within the State of Colorado, to the benefit and requirements of the law, until the last day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen. Testimony whereof, I. S. Epsteen, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the city of Denver, this first day of March, A. D. 1914. (Seal) S. EPSTEEN, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1913 AND CASE STATEMENT OF AUTHORITY THE UNION HEALTH AND ACCI- nition COMPANY of Denver, Colorado. Assets—$154,027.89. Liabilities—$9,889.02. Capital—$100,000.00. Surplus—$44,138.87. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRIARY 25TH 1915 Office of Composition of Insurance. It is hereby certified that THE UNION HEALTH AND ACCIDENT COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Colorado whose principal office is located at Incorporated fields associated with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company, and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as insurance company. In accordance with its Charity or Activities of Incorporation, within the State of Colorado, subject to the provisions and requirements of the law, until the last day of February, in the year of our old one thousand nine hundred and fifteen. In testimony whereof, I. S. Epstein, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this first day of March, A. D. 1914. S. EPSTEEN, Commissioner of Insurance 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 J. H. BIGGINS Furniture Repairing and Up- 1417 East 24th Ave 1417 East 24th Ave Denver The Weatherhead Hat Co. Practical Hatters Practical Hatters Poineer Hatters of the West Established 1876 RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS DYERS AND FINISHERS of Gents' and Ladies' Hats of Every Description. 1624 Champa St. Denver, Colo. Telephone Main 8698. Seth Hoffman Coal Co. Dealers in Coal, Wood, Coke, Hay Grain Coal from Sack to Carload Delivered Anywhere in the City. Office: 2807 Welton Street DENVER - COLORADO The WARD AUCTION COMPANY Sales Daily at 2 p.m. Office Furniture a Specialty. PRIVATE SALES AT ALL TIMES HAVE MOVED TO— 1723-39 GLENARM ST. PHONE MAIN 1675. Bolden Bros.' Barber Shop 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 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 DRINK Tivoli Finest Beer Ever Brewed. Made In Colorado; Sold In Colorado; Drank in Colorado ORDER A CASE PHONE MAIN 1350. --- THE DENVER DRY GOODS CO. Garden and Lawn Tools No Higher Grade Sewing Machine Can Be Bought at Any Price and THE DENVER Our "Princess" CLUB PLAN OR CASH We offer a special attraction in our excellent Princess Machine, with a complete set of attachments, for $13.95. The Princess is a drophead machine, and is sold with The Denver's Ten-Year Guarantee. Demonstrated every day in our Basement Housefurnishing Department. We want to show you this machine. The Littl The Little Savoy A. C. LiNDSEY, Proprietor SHORT ORDERS ICE CREAM and CONFECTIONERIES Phone CHAMPA 2570 2721 Welton S PHONE MAIN 3028 2721 Welton Street, Denver JOHN K. RETTIG Meats, Fancy and 1864 CURTIS Corner Nineteenth. ERNEST H Carpenter. Job and Meats, Fancy and Staple Groceries 1864 CURTIS STREET Corner Nineteenth. Denver, Colo. ERNEST HOWARD. Carpenter, Job and Repair Work. Paints, Oils and Glass. Glazing Done Five Points Creamery Five Points Creamery Mrs. F. A. NEWMAN, Proprietor ICE CREAM A SPECIALTY Phone MAIN 4395 817-819 TWENTY-SIXTH AVE., DENVER, COLO. Fruit Basket No Agents, No Collectors And when you consider that in the average sale the agent gets about half you pay for the machine, you can readily see how our lower price is possible. Old line prices $35.00 to $60.00 The Denver prices $20 to $35 Save This Difference---You lose nothing in quality. Our Guarantee protects you from all sewing machine trouble for Ten Years. See The Denver Machines Demonstrated in Fifteenth Street Store Basement. SINGER SEWING TABLE Phone Champa 752 T. W. BEAN, Prop. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The Negro Fellowship league of Chicago is in its fourth year of existence. It offers the only place in the black belt besides the poolrooms, saloons, and five-cent theaters for recreation for whoever wishes to obtain it. Every day for the last four years until nine o'clock in the evening the reading room has been kept open. The league not only welcomes all who come but it goes out and invites young men and boys who frequent the street corners and other places. Not only are books, magazines, and daily papers free to all who may care to use them but we have weekly papers from all over the city and the United States. We have an average attendance every day of 75. To this reading room are sent the homeless, unemployed, and the stranger within our gates; no one is turned away. Those who have no home and no money are provided with clean, decent lodgings. During the last year more than 100 men and boys have been given a bed free until they could find work. Those who have no work are found employment. While they are waiting for employment they play checkers or read. Five hundred negro men and women have been furnished employment by the Fellowship Employment bureau since July 1. Besides all this the reading room is a refuge for the small negro boy who would otherwise be a walt on the streets or an inmate of the poolroom and other questionable surroundings. LEARN HOUSEHOLD DUTIES THE WASHINGTON STATION In the laundry the Hampton girls learn the best methods of washing, ironing and mending. They handle 40,000 pieces of work each week. No outside work is done in the Hampton institute laundry—only that of students and teachers and that for the dairy, kitchens, dining rooms, dormitories, and the boarding department. The largest tree in the United States is said to be the Mother of the Forest, a giant redwood in the Calaveras big tree grove in California. It is supposed to contain 140,619 board feet of lumber. There are, however, many claimants for the honor of being the "largest tree" and the "oldest tree," and these claims, according to foresters, cannot always be verified. A communication to the Baltimore American denies that the rural schools of the black population are a failure. The correspondent says: "I think it is impossible to be otherwise under the circumstances, for they don't seem to be included in the state school law. Anyhow, the colored people don't get enough money to run their schools. It is impossible to run the schools on the pittance they get. According to the taxes that the colored people pay in the state, it would appear that if they had the benefit of the taxes they could get better schools. They have no way to get any benefit from the taxes only through the schools. "It used to be published how much they did pay and, judging by that, they must pay double and triple the amount now. As high as the cost of living is you can't get proper school teachers, as a whole, to teach for the salary offered. No person can live on such a pittance. If the colored schools are not included under the law it is not reasonable that the several school boards should be interested in them. The colored people get nothing themselves for looking after them, and that is why they are in this condition." Mrs. Louise Waterman Carpenter, a direct descendant of Roger Williams and the oldest living member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, celebrated her one hundred and seventh birthday recently in Worcester, Mass. She received many gifts and messages. The British government's old age pension scheme in producing some refnarkable figures, for the statistics of 1912 show that 603,380 women were in receipt of old age pensions, as compared with only 362,628 men. It is significant that today the real leaders of the negro churches are seeking to emphasize the fact that religion has to deal with the whole life of the man. His intellectual as well as his emotional, his volitional and his social life are to be related according to the ethical principles of Jesus. They are still waiting, as we have often done, for the hand of a skilful artist who will paint for them in terms of their own life the personal life of Jesus in such a way that he will attract their whole being. One man said, "The great moral needs of common life have convinced me that exhortation has done its work; interpretation must follow." The relation of the church to the betterment of these conditions is a subject by itself. There is a hostility to most inferences for evil as far as the leaders are concerned, but when one studies the ranks of the church leaders who are positively in favor of better things, he looks in vain for many of the real professional leaders and business heads of the race. When asked for an explanation, two widely different answers were given by trained leaders; perhaps the real answer lies between. One said that the professional men and business men are temperamentally hostile to the church. They are of no value because of their too liberal views and their personal pride. The other said that these men might now be in the ranks of the church if it were not for the fact that the church leaders wanted to decide everything and that these men had no chance to utilize their qualities of independent and trained leadership which has secured them their places in the world. It seems self-evident that there is a great place for such men in the church and that in all probability as the church opens up larger fields of opportunity for social and community services, these men who have been especially trained and who have shown special qualifications in such leadership, will be the co-workers with the pastor to make the church an ever-increasing force in the community life. The Memorial hospital at Tuskegee, where we next find ourselves, is an up-to-date building with modern equipment, where outside patients as well as students are received, writes a recent visitor to the institution. We have just time after making a tour of the hospital to visit a few class rooms before dinner. A chemistry class has been analyzing clays from the Tuskegee farm. A geometry class is doing original work founded on some of the complexities of the carriage making shop. A class in arithmetic is working problems in discount. There is a cashier and teller, and real money, or so-called money, is used to make the process a reality to the students. In the classes in English, each student is required to write one theme each mouth on a subject assigned by his industrial teacher. This is not only to show his technical knowledge of the subject, but also his ability to express it clearly and concisely. Tuskegee has solved the problem of the industrial school, and teaches the dignity of labor by associating the academic and industrial departments. Among all the schools of the United States, Tuskegee stands fifth in the number of persons who are studying the English Bible. Since the Indians of the grass lands of Argentine were subdued in 1878 the systematic reclamation of the land has been stupendous. Some of the large ranches carry as many as 50,000 head of cattle and provide hunting grounds for many Englishmen. The gaucho is one of the most picturesque as well as useful figures on these ranches and forms the counterpart of his brother, the cowboy of North America. Life on a ranch is far from unpleasant, and on some of the big ranches under British control evening dress for dinner is the custom. According to Dr. Jacques Bertillon, the French statistician, suicide is commonest among liquor sellers, chimney sweeps, musicians, butcher and fruiters. It is frequent among "camelots," shop assistants, cutters, hairdressers, servants, lawyers, costers, doctors and druggists. It is rare among the clergy, government officials and men leading an active, open-air life. There are 160 dramas and 21 melodramas based on the life of Joan of Arc. Last year 1,237 seamen and 839 passengers on British vessels lost their lives at sea. This total, the largest since 1894, includes 673 seamen and 825 passengers who perished in the Titanic. A man is seldom as good as a girl thinks he is before she marries him, or as bad as she thinks he is afterward. The wages of the chauffeurs of the United States total more than those of school teachers. U. S. IS SEEKING MEN MANY POSITIONS OPEN IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE. May Will Be Busy Month for Civil Service Examiners in Denver and Throughout Country. Denver.—May will be a busy month for civil service examiners in Denver and other principal cities of the country. An open competitive examination for aides in grain standardization (men only) will be held on May 6 to fill vacancies in this position in New Orleans at salaries from $1,000 to $1,400 a year. On the same date open competitive examinations will also be held for engineer and carpenter (men only) at the Tohatchi boarding school, Navajo agency, Arizona, at $840 a year; for scientific assistant (men only), bureau of fisheries, on steamer Albatross at $1,200 a year; and for superintendent of gas works (men only) at West Point Military Academy at $1,500 a year. May 6 and 7 open competitive examinations will be held for assistant farm architect and barn architect (men) at salaries from $1,680 to $2,500 a year in the Department of Agriculture. Examinations for mining engineers for field service in the bureau of mines will be held May 11. These positions pay from $2,400 to $4,000 a year. On the same date will be examinations for assistant engineer of mine tests in the bureau of mines, Pittsburg, Pa., at salaries from $1,800 to $2,400, and for mine statistician in the bureau of mines at Washington at the same salaries. On May 20 examinations will be held for assistant in poisonous plant investigations in the bureau of plant industry at Washington at salaries from $1,200 to $1,400 a year. U. D. C. Forms State Division. Denver:A state division of the Daughters of the Confederacy for Colorado has been organized in Denver by four state chapters. The convention was called by the Margaret Davis Hayes chapter of Denver, the mother chapter in this state. Mrs. J. M. DeWeese, president of the mother chapter, was elected president of the state division. Other officers chosen were Mrs. Lelia Wade Lewis of Denver, first vice president; Mrs. Seth Martin of Denver, second vice president; Mrs. J. C. Walker of Grand Junction, third vice president; Mrs. J. H. Puckett of Denver, recording secretary; Mrs. W. G. Raynor of Pueblo, corresponding secretary; Miss Lillian Clayton of Denver, treasurer; Mrs. B. A. C. Emerson of Denver, historian; Mrs. W. O. Temple of Denver, recorder of crosses; Mrs. Jesse Read of Pueblo, custodian of flags, and Mrs. Loula Lovell of Denver, parliamentarian. The delegates were entertained at lunch by the mother chapter. The four organizations in the state are the Robert E. Lee chapter of Grand Junction, the Robert E. Lee chapter of Denver, the Nathan B. Forrest chapter of Pueblo, and the Margaret Davis Hayes chapter of Denver. Apportions $800,000 School Fund. Denver.—The work of apportioning the $800,000 of school funds which are to be loaned out to the farmers of the state was begun by the attorney general's office. Applications for loans will be made by the farmers to the board of county commissioners and through them the loans will be referred to the State Land Board and passed upon. The State Land Board has passed a rule that this year the loans made to the farmers at 6 per cent interest will not exceed $300, according to Volney T. Hoggatt, register of the land board. This is in order to insure the loaning of funds to the little man who is badly in need of money to get started. "There are just four ways in which the state school funds can be apportioned on the first of January," explains Hoggatt. "The first is investment in bonds, the second in warrants, the third in one-tenth of the issue of bonds of approved irrigation districts, and the fourth a loan to the state militia for the building of an armory, this last way having been authorized by a law passed in 1911. Mrs. Tabor Sues Moffat Estate. Denver.—Mrs. Elizabeth B. Tabor, widow of the late Senator H. A. W. Tabor, millionaire mine owner of Leadville, and executor of his estate, has filed a claim in the County Court against the estate of the late David H. Moffat, incorporating a petition for an accounting of the profits arising out of the Maid of Erin mine at Leadville. The claim involves 71,250 shares of Maid of Erin stock, representing a ninth interest in the famous producer which has paid almost $1,000,000 in dividends. Spanish War Veterans for Monument: Denver.—Resolutions indorsing the project of the Colorado Society of Sons of the Revolution for a permanent monument on the capitol grounds in memory of the Colorado soldiers killed in the Spanish-American war have been adopted by the John S. Stewart post No. 1, Army of the Philippines, Cuba and Porto Rico. The resolutions were presented to the society at its regular dinner celebrating the anniversary of the battle of Lexington FOURTEEN DEAD AT COAL CAMPS MINE GUARDS SHOT AS THE U. S. TROOPS ARE SENT INTO COLORADO. MAJ. P. P. LESTER SLAIN WAS ATTENDING TO DUTIES AS A RED CROSS OFFICER AND WORE A BADGE. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver, April 30.—Early this morning fourteen were known to have been killed in the fighting yesterday between militia, mine guards and strikers in the southern Colorado coal fields. Five may be added to this list when the battlefields at Walsenburg and Forbes are searched. Two of the six men wounded at Louisville in the northern field Monday night and Tuesday morning are not expected to live. Three state soldiers were wounded last night at Walsenburg. Six men were wounded in the morning attack at Forbes. The death list at Forbes is nine, and two more are reported killed. At Walsenburg five are known dead, with an unconfirmed report of eight dead. The fighting yesterday at Forbes (between Ludlow and Trinidad) commenced early in the morning and lasted until about 10:30 o'clock. After the tents were fired and the buildings were destroyed the strikers then retreated toward Trinidad. No state militia were engaged. Major P. P. Lester of the Hospital Corps was killed at Walsenburg yesterday afternoon while giving aid to a wounded soldier. About 200 militiamen engaged in the day's battle about the hogback west of Walsenburg with strikers. A truce was arranged at 8:30 last night after 56 hours of continuous fighting, in which the militiamen used machine guns they themselves constructed of heavy pipes. Fear was expressed in Trinidad that early morning attacks by strikers would be made on Sopris and Piedmont, Segundo, Morley and Gray Creek. Berwind and Tobasco are believed safe. State troops will not be moved from Ludlow until federal soldiers from Leavenworth arrive. United States troops will take control of the southern coal strike field of the state this morning. Their arrival, it is believed, will end the fighting between the state militia, mine guards and strikers, which cost fourteen lives yesterday and resulted in nine persons being wounded. Federal Troops Sent to Colorado. From Fort Leavenworth, Kan., for Trinidad: Four companies or Second squadron, Fifth cavalry, under command of Maj. W. A. Holbrook. Company E—Capt. George B. Rodney. Company F—Lieut. Eugene J. Ely. Company G—Capt. Cornelius C. Smith. Company H—Capt. Lewis Forester. From Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., for Canon City. Two companies of Twelfth cavalry, under command of Maj. N. F. McClure. Company E—Capt. Francis Le J. Parker. Company H—Capt. Lawrence S. Carson. Commission to Investigate Strike. Bloomington, Ill.—John B. Lennon, labor representative of the National Industrial Relations Commission, left for Colorado to investigate the mine strike, in company with other members of that body. Rescuers Get Within Sixty Feet of Bottom of Pit, But Find No Signs of Life. Eccles, W. Va., April 30.—All hope for the 178 miners entombed in shaft No. 5 of the New Rivers Collieries Company, wrecked by an explosion Tuesday, was abandoned by rescuers last night after they had penetrated to within sixty feet of the bottom of the pit without finding any sign of life. Hampered by the intense heat and gases, the work of clearing away the debris from the mouth of the shaft proceeded slowly under the direction of government and state officials. It is expected that the first bodies will be removed today. Thousands of persons visited the scene of the tragedy throughout the day. The eight bodies of the men removed from mine No. 6 were prepared for burial. One of them, F. J. Lingerman, was shipped to Trinidad, Colo., his former home. The sixty-seven men injured in mine No. 6 are all expected to recover. Orders Strikers to Lay Down Arms. Denver.—Orders were issued by John R. Lawson, national board member of the United Mine Workers and leader of the Colorado strike, for all strikers in the field to respect the authority of the government troops and lay down their arms as soon as the United States troops arrive in the strike district. "There will be no resistance to the federal troops on the part of the miners," declared Lawson. He said that the miners would at once proceed to re-establish their tent colonies. The Monarch Liquor Co. GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY PURE Delivered Daily to All Parts of the City The Ph. Zang Brewing Co. The Champa Pharmacy Twentieth and Champa, Is the place to get your DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES WE SERVE DRINKS. Prescriptions Our Specialty. Phone us and we will deliver the goods to all parts of the city. JAMES E. THRALL, PROPR. PHONE MAIN 2425. The Central Bottling & Distributing Co. 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Washington, April 5.—With reports pouring in of anti-American demonstrations all over Mexico, including one stating several Americans were killed in Mexico City, President Wilson and Secretary Bryan Saturday accepted a proffer of "good offices" by the representatives of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, the Latin-America "A. B. C. alliance," to bring about peace in Mexico. Conferences were held by the representatives of these countries and other South and Central American nations to draft a plan of mediation. While it is not known just what form their proposals will take, it is understood the elimination of Huerta and ultimate restoration of normal conditions in Mexico will be demanded by Washington. Text of Mediation Notes. The text of the offer made by the Brazilian ambassador and the ministers from Argentina and Chile, and the reply of the American government, was transmitted by Secretary Bryan in person to the three diplomats, is as follows: "The government of the United States is deeply sensible of the friendliness, the good feeling and the genuine concern for the peace and welfare of America manifested in the joint note just received from your excellency tendering the good offices of your government to effect if possible a settlement of the present difficulty between the government of the United States and those who now claim to represent our sister republic of Mexico. "Conscious of the purpose with which the proffer is made, this government does not feel at liberty to decline it. Its own chief interest is in the peace of America, the cordial intercourse of her republic, and their people, and the happiness and prosperity which can spring only out of frank, mutual understandings and the friendship which is created by common purpose. The generous offer of your government is therefore accepted. "This government hopes most earnestly that you may find those who speak for the several elements of the Mexican people willing and ready to discuss terms of satisfactory, and, therefore, permanent settlement. If you should find them willing, this government will be glad to take up with you for discussion in the frankest and most conciliatory spirit any proposals that may be authoritatively formulated, and will hope that they may prove feasible and prophetic of a new day of mutual cooperation and confidence in America. "This government feels bound in candor to say that its diplomatic relations with Mexico being for the present severed, it is not possible for it to make sure of an uninterrupted opportunity to carry out the plan of intermediation which you propose. It is, of course, possible that some act of aggression on the part of those who control the military forces of Mexico might oblige the United States to act to the upsetting of the hopes of immediate peace, but this does not justify us in hesitating to accept your generous suggestion. "We shall hope for the best results within a brief time, enough to relieve our anxiety lest most ill-considered hostile demonstrations should interrupt negotiations and disappoint our hopes of peace." The text of the offer made by the three countries was: "Mr. Secretary of State: "With the purpose of subserving the interest of peace and civilization in all our continent and with the earnest desire to prevent any further bloodshed to the prejudice of the cordiality and union which have always surrounded the relations of the governments and the people of America, we the plenipotentaries of Brazil, Argentina and Consul Held Prisoner; Flags Burned. Washington, April 27.—President Wilson and Secretary Bryan were greatly incensed upon receiving a dispatch from Consul General Philip C Hanna at Monterey, Mex., announcing that he had been subjected to insults and indignities by Mexican federal officers there and kept prisoner in the government palace from April 22 until the Constitutionalist forces captured the town two days later. The consul reported that mobs led by Federal officials tore down all the American flags in the city, trampled upon them and burned them up in the streets. Chile, duly authorized hereto, have the honor to tender your excellency's government our good offices for the peaceful and friendly settlement of the conflict between the United States and Mexico. "This offer puts in due form the suggestions which we have had occasion to refer heretofore on this subject to the secretary to whom we renew the assurances of our highest and most distinguished consideration. "D. DA GANA. "R. S. NAON. "EDUARDO SUAREZ MUJJCA." As soon as the American acceptance was received, notice was served on the Spanish ambassador, acting charge d'affaires for Mexico, for various Latin-American governors and General Carranza, the rebel leader in Mexico. The three South American envoyes who proposed the intermediation to the United States laid before their conferees the notes that had passed between them and the American government. The Costa Rico envoy, Joaquín Calvo, ranking minister of the diplomatic corps, and Dr. Alberto Membrano, minister from Honduras, joined the three South American plenipotentiaries while they were conferring on their plans for mediation. Ignacio Calderon, minister of Bolivia; Federico Alfónso Pezet, minister of Peru; Euzbio Morales, minister from Panama, and Manuel de la Vega Calderon, charge d'affaires of Cuba, joined the conferees later. The Navy Department received word that the American consulate at Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, had been stoned by a mob. Other anti-American demonstrations occurred there. Reports from other points, including Tampico, indicate similar demonstrations. Americans Put Off Train. Consul Canada at Vera Cruz sent reports of anti-American demonstrations and general unrest in Mexico City. He heard that 125 Americans were put off a train at Pachucan by the train crew but that another train had gone out from Mexico City to assist them in continuing their journey to Vera Cruz. Secretary Garrison announced he had issued no orders for any further troop movements and that army officers were to use their own disperation in protecting international bridges on the border. The Navy Department dispatched vessels up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Mexico to take away American consuls and refugees generally. Between 3,000 and 3,500 refuges already have been protected or are en route to the United States. The strongest possible representations will be made to Huerta that any violation of the rules of civilized warfare through which American men, women and children suffer, not only will provoke just reprohibition of the world, but provoke retaliatory measures of the sternest description from the United States. Definite instructions from Rear Admiral Badger, commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet, to all American non-combatants to leave Vera Cruz by the steamer Mexico were posed at the consulate and other conspicuous places. War Plans Continue. Senators and representatives declined to be quoted about the new phase of the situation, but those who discussed it believed it was right for the United States to accept good offices, though not agreeing in ad vance to any cessation of its preparations for emergencies. Some officials expressed the view also that even though armed intervention on an extensive scale became necessary, the United States would have completed its records for a settlement of the Mexican difficulty through peaceful means. Colquitt Asks for Help. Governor Colquitt of Texas telegraphed Representative Garner that if the War Department would stand the expense of defense of the Mexican border by the Texas National Guard he would be glad to put the entire guard on duty there. Washington, April 27.—Spanish Ambassador Riano announced late Sunday night that he had received private advices from Mexico City stating that General Huerta had accepted the offer of Argentina, Brazil and Chile to use their good offices to bring about an amicable settlement of the difficulty between the United Stares and Mexico. Cut Vera Cruz-Mexico City Cable. Washington, April 27.—The cable between Vera Cruz and Mexico City has been cut about seven miles beyond the American lines. One of Admiral Fletcher's men sent to repair it was prevented by Mexican soldiers. This information came to the Navy Department from Rear Admiral Fletcher. Admiral Fletcher's dispatch also stated that alarming reports as to conditions in Mexico City and resentment against Americans there was brought by refugees who arrived in Vera Cruz. ORIGINAL IN POOR CONDITION DENVER MAN AMONG PRISONERS AT AGUAS CALIENTES. Villa Holds General Carranza to "Watchful Waiting," Preventing Him From Harassing President Wilson. Western Newspaper Union News Service. THE MEXICAN SITUATION. April 23—General Carranza, supreme chief of the rebels in Mexico, addresses a letter to President Wilhelm II of Germany, warning of Vera Cruz, demanding recognition of his government, and threatening to unite the entire population in war against the United States. Second battle at Vera Cruz between reinforced american marines and Mexican marines in the killing of eight more Americans and seriously wounding thirty. The losses are placed nearly 300 dead, many are placed April 24.—Mexicans in City of Mexico trample American flag, smash windows at American Club and insult guests. The Army and 3,500 troops of reinforced Fifth Brigade sailed from Galveston for Vera Cruz. General Villa of Constitutionalists evinces friendship for U.S. and government hopes friction will be avoided. Refugee train with O'Shaughnessy and other Americans, Britons, Germans and Spaniards, reaches Vera Cruz, while the flight of others was halted from Mexican capi- Senate passes volunteer army bill, which makes militia a part of the regular army in time of war. Measure signed by President. April 25.—U. S. accepts "peace officer" designation. Brazil, Chile and Argentina, Republic. It is announced in Berlin that Germany, England and France have advised Provisional President Huza, through the necessary ministers in Mexico, to take the demands of the United States. Secretary Bryan announced that all arrangements had been completed in Mexico City to leave there. Seven hundred American men and women are to go, comprising the last remnants of the American colony. Washington, D.C., and American Indians in Mexico now out of danger. Villa credited with saying he would prevent war with United States, and will arrest General Carranza if latter makes move to upset these plans. Five thousand Mexican refugees at Fort Bliss ordered moved from Bliss, Tex., to Fort Wingate, N.M. Fifth Brigade transports reach Vera Cruz. General Funston in supreme command of land of 10,000 soldiers and marines. April 28.—General Huza officially says he "unconditionally accepts the principle of mediation" as proposed by Argentina, Brazil and Scores of Americans including women and children are prisoners and feds, not inmates, seldom fed, no sanitation often cursed and threatened with massacre. Admiral Fletcher seizes Terminal property at Vera Cruz—British-owned concern — because owners tried to hold him up for excessive rentals. Admiral Maas, Mexican Federal, who deserted Vera Cruz, is making his way toward the interior with his troops. Admiral at Tampico seek combination with Rebels to fight U. S. Rebels continue to fight them there. Washington, April 29.—An official report from Consul Canada at Vera Cruz gave full details of the detention of a large number of Americans by Mexican Federals at Aguas Calientes. In the number arrested, he said, were Miss Kay, matron of the Aguas Calientes hotel; A. B. Culver and wife, F. H. Payton and wife, with three children; D. D. Reihlman and four children, Mr. and Mrs. Shoup and son, C. L. Baker, general manager of the American Smelter Company; E. E. Leanin, H. D. Wilde, D. H. Harround, wife and daughter; F. W. McCauley, Mr. Partridge, Charles F. Lucas, James F. Henderson, Mrs. A. E. Emory, Walter Eikel, A. W. Koch of Denver, A. W. Hendrickson, H. F. Lee and wife, H. H. Hendrickson and wife, T. W. Jones, Mr. Sorrell and a number of others. Canada said these persons attempted to leave on a relief train and got as far as Encarnacion, when it was stopped and headed back to Aguas Callentes. There the Americans were confined in the smelter plant under guard. General Villa, war chief of the Mexican rebels, has forced General Carranza into a position of "watchful waiting" and abandonment of any plan for harassing President Wilson in his campaign to humble Huerta. This was unofficially announced following receipt of a dispatch from Chihuahua stating that the Carranza-Villa conference resulted in an agreement between the two leaders that the rebels would remain mere spectators of the situation so long as there is no American invasion of rebel territory. Washington, April 29.—Consul Canada at Vera Cruz reported that the railroad between Vera Cruz and Mexico City is being rapidly destroyed between Tejoria and the capital. The ties were being burned and the rails loaded on cars and carried away. Cyclone Kills Boy; Injures 26. Fort Smith, Ark.—One boy was killed, six white persons injured, twenty negroes hurt and property damaged to the extent of $25,000 when a cyclone struck west of Murfreesboro, in Pike county. Sixteen houses were demolished. 100 Rebels and 300 Federals Killed. Brownsville, Texas, April 29.—One hundred Constitutionalists were killed and 200 wounded in the recent attack on Monterey, which ended in the complete rout of the Federals, according to an American photographer, who arrived here. Federal casualties are stated to have been 300. These estimates were made by General Pablo Gonzales, rebel commander at Monterey. More than 300 refugees, including sixty Americans, are expected here. Do You Know That一 MANZANILLO SHELLED AND SA LINA CRUZ INVADED, ACCORD ING TO FEDERAL DISPATCH. PEACE PLAN BROADENED The COLORADO STATESMAN CARRANZA INCLUDED IN MEDIA TION AND SUSPENSION OF HOST TILITIES EXPECTED. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington, April 30.—Victoriano Huerta's minister of war, General Blanquet, announced at Mexico City last night he had received a telegram from one of the Huerta generals, Jose Maria Mier, stating an American warship had bombarded the port of Manzanillo, on the west coast of Mexico IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF This was closely followed by another announcement by Blanquet that American marines had landed at Salina Cruz after the American commander had threatened to fire on the port in case the Mexican officials offered resistance. Neither report has been confirmed, although the Navy Department got into communication with the Pacific coast fleet immediately upon receipt of the information from Mexico City. The scope of mediation plans for the settlement of the Mexican crisis was suddenly broadened so as to include the entire range of Mexican affairs—not alone the critical issue between the United States and the Huerta regime, but also the conflict between the elements of northern and southern Mexico which have rent the republic. Commercial, Fraternal, Church, Book and Stationery Jobs A SPECIALTY This signal enlargement of the mediation program followed the receipt, late in the day, of a formal acceptance by General Carranza, chief of the Constitutional forces, of the principle of mediation as proposed by the ambassador from Brazil and the ministers from Argentina and Chile. Earlier in the day the mediators made another decisive move in asking the United States and General Huerta to agree to an armistice by which all aggressive military movements would be suspended pending the outcome of the negotiations. The mediators confidently expect both sides to accept the armistice proposal. 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. A separate proposal for an armistice as between Huerta and Carranza will also be made, and with its acceptance all of the warring elements throughout Mexico, as well as the American forces, would maintain a military status quo. The American government, in its formal reply to the armistice proposal, will expressly stipulate that any untoward act against Americans will be regarded as an infraction of the armistice. Americans Killed in Fierce Battle. 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. Vera Cruz, April 30.—It is persistently rumored that Americans concentrated in the town of Tierra Blanca had a fierce fight with mobs in the center of town. A number are reported killed. Four Americans who have arrived at Tlacoltalpan from a sugar plantation at Playa Vicente, tell of being driven into the jungle to avoid mobs. They say that after their guns had been taken from them by rebels they wandered, starving, unable to kill game. Iowa Wage Conference Held. Des Moines.—The joint wage conference of the Iowa and northern Missouri miners and the operators was resumed here. An increase in wages in Sub-District No. 1 of District No. 13 was considered. Senate Committee Orders House Bill Reported Favorably. Washington. — Administration leaders won the second round of the fight to repeal the tolls exemption provision of the Panama canal act, when the Senate canals committee, by a vote of eight to six, ordered the House bill, carrying the repeal, reported to the Senate. Coupled with the bill will be reported an amendment proposed by Senator Simmons and approved by the committee which reads as follows: Prices as Reasonable as Those of Any Job Office in Denver "Provided that neither the passage of this act, nor anything therein contained, shall be construed or held as waiving, impairing or affecting any treaty or other right possessed by the United States." This amendment has been seen by President Wilson and is said to have his approval. Administration leaders are confident that with it attached, the repeal bill will be passed by the Senate, and some senators opposed to repeal agreed with this view. Douglas, Ariz.—According to members of the local Masonic lodge, B. S. Pelser, an American banker and broker, who was arrested several weeks ago at Cananea, Sonora, on a charge of circulating counterfeit money, and later was supposed to have been released and allowed to go to El Paso, is still a prisoner at Cananea. Mrs. Pelser, who was in Bisbee, was said to have told the members of the Bisbee Masonic lodge that her husband was still a captive. BHAN’S Pool Hall and Barber Shop CIGARS SHOES SHINED BY EXPERTS 2051 Champa Street Denver, Colorado WAKE UP CHARMINGLY 3LACK AND WHITE COMBINA- TIONS MOST EFFECTIVE, Diaphanous Fabrics Chiefly Used for Such Gowns—White Lace Some- times Posed on Black Chif- fon—New Fabric. One sees an astonishing number of ul-black and black-and-white gowns, ind marvelously effective and distin- guished they are, made in the most aphanous fabrics—lace, mousseline je sole, tulle. A lovely little ee: ot black Spanish lace flquncing posed on white mousseline de soie was very Mmply made, the skirt of walking ength, narrow and undraped, with a jeep tunic of the lace reaching to che knee and only slightly full, A blouse of the lace and mousseline showed rather full fronts, the neck pen in a slight V shape, Over this wzs worn a loose sleeve- oolero, with wide-shaped corselet and leep-plaited basque of black char- neuse. The toque was of the new slittering spun-glass straw, black, with an upstanding frill of plisse slack tulle, and a rather high, flufty white ostrich mount flecked with jet. The only touch of color was a gor gegus rose of vivid crimson panne worn at the waist. White lace of heavy design in in the same way posed on black chiffon, and all-black gowns of lace or tulle are ‘ined only with mousseline de soie or chiffon, the under part being merely 4 close-fitting princess slip of char- meuse or thin silk. The upper part of the Corsage and the sleeves are not lined at all, and often the only opaque portion of the whole gown is the in. evitable wide draped corselet of char- meuse or velours, brocade or metal Ussue, _ Among the new woolen materials is velour de laine, a fabric very like duvetyne, but softer and lighter. Gab- ardine is another very soft and supple weaving, and there are many quite thin fancy woolens in the check and Scotch tartan patterns that are so much In vogue at the moment, but will goon become demode. Crepe de chine in a rather heavy weaving is much used for girls’ evening and ball frocks, and silk and wool crepe of similar texture, It is equally charming in the vivid rose and cerise tints that are in favor. Royal blue and tagerine are much used to provide color relief to white and black toilets, as corselet, tunic or even merely as one of the gigantic velvet butterfly bows posed at the waist. 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Among the materials for wash skirt are piques, cotton corduroys, novelts crepes and linens, cotton velvets an¢ all weaves of ratines. ‘The bustle dress shows its effect ir the separate skirt, There is consider able drapery at the back of some new skirts. Pegtop outlines are just as popular as the draped models that have the fulness disposed around the waist line. Moire and taffeta are made into sep arate skirts. These models have wide girdles of the material to match, anc in this way suggest a costume rather than a skirt. ©. H. SHIRLEY, Pres. J. 0, HAMPSON, Vice Pres PAUL J. SHIRLEY, See. and ‘Treas. Courteous Treatmet. Right Prices een) Leaders in Prescription Store No. 1. Store No. 2. 2701 WELTON ST. 26TH AND WELTON Main 895 875 Main 4955.4956 ae te ey a oy at, Ge A : aS es OY: Curtis ge Ree Ls Pa dS Ae, ae Park EIGER) tery, Floral © ear aree RRS es (NNY | Ne Company ¢ nek v = SCRA ENE DOOR SO ee SY FLORAL DESIGNS £2F oP te “ay, CHOICE PLANTS AND GUT FLOWERS SoxHSRx NE GREENHOUSES: Thirty-Fourth and Curtis Streets \ TELEPHONE, MAIN 1511 DENVER, COLG ‘The Favored Skirt. ‘The ekirt which 1s finding a good deal of favor has a plaited front and a draped back, with loosely falling sides which balloon a little, Rows of buttons hold the plaits in place near the waist in front, but otherwise they are untrimmed. gh Oi Se tango slipper of satin with lacing of black velvet and buckles of rhine. stones. The dainty evening slipper at the bottom o9f the group was of satin with buckles of rhinestones. For Baby. The clothing of infants must be light, warm and non-irritating to the skin. Flannel or soft woolen material worn loose enough to allow free mo tion of the hands and feet, and sc placed as not to constrict the ches! or abdomen, will be found most satis factory. Stockinette is an excellent absorbent and will be found superior to the more fopular linen diapers Special care must be given that the infant’s feet are kept warm. As 2 band for the abdomen, plain flannel is to be preferred. The clothing worn at night should resemble that worn dur ing the day, but should be quite loose and made of the lightest flannel, A large, airy room with a southern aspect furnishes the best nursery. Sunshine is an essential. The win dows should be kept slightly open day and night, but all drafts avoided. - BUY YOUR COAL COKE WooD HAY AND GRAIN Sa TURNER Evening Wraps. ‘The daintiest warm-weather evening coats are made of shadow lace, {1 filmy design and fabric, They are cu on the lines of a mantle, with bods and sleeves made in one. One that i: especially charming is made of lace with a big spreading pattern mount ed on white tulle. It is really a long wide scarf, pointed where it falls ove: the shoulders, and caught together under the arms, the lace is edge with a band of tiny chiffon and sill roses in pale blue and pink.