Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY COLORADO, WYOMING, MONTANA, IDAHO AND NEW MEXICO Refusing To Salute The Flag VOL. XX11. (By Jonathan Cover) A recent issue of the New York Independent tells the story of Hubert Eaves, an eleven year old Negro boy residing at Des Moines, Iowa, who was brought before the Juvenile Court because he refused to salute the American flag. The boy stoutly declared that he Would salute nobody but his God." The Independent in commenting upon this incident suggests that very probably Hubert had been led astray by a wrong course of reading. Probably this is so, for there are many such cases where strong situations and an overwrought heroic character have worked upon the minds and aspirations of those who are sensationally inclined to such extent as to lead them to adopt some unusual or extraordinary means for its expression. Just as there have been frequent illustrations of the pernicious effects of a certain class of blood and thunder literature, when some youngster seriously strives as best he can, to emulate the nervy performances of a Deadwood Dick, or to take a step or two along the tenuous path followed by that engaging young rascal Jack Shepherd. But aside from such abnormal incidents an independence of character and opinion seldom goes so far as to express itself in opposition to a public observance or a national custom to which the great masses of a people conform, except there be some serious determining cause. Where is it possible, without a too violent dethronement of self respect, men would much rather conform to a general observance or practice, than to invite a questionable distinction, thru a course in opposition, when defeat would seem assured. There are times and events, however when it has seemed the strong arm of destiny has held an individual steadfast, seemingly against combined powers of the world, and with this frail, entering wedge of opinion has hopelessly split some gnarled and knotted rail of ignorance, of superstition or of prejudice. The works of Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell, William Lloyd Garrison and of Wendell Phillipps abundantly illustrate this truth. For them to be consciously right was infinitely more preferable and satisfying than to be popular and wrong and float with the major crowd. The case of this Iowa youth is distinguished and notable for the reason that it is seldom we find so immature a person concerning himself in a serious way about a question of ethical right or principle It is not, of course the first time Negroes have demurred at a similar expression of racial loyalty and patriotism, for we recall that some years ago there was quite a wave of discussion in many cities having any considerable number of Negro citizens, as to the propriety of their singing "America." This discussion followed some flagrant violation or infringement of their rights, and the feeling was quite general that the indignation that had so effectively cooled their patriotic fervor was abundantly justified. In view of these facts and the serious condition as to his rights and privileges in which the Negro now finds himself, we are led to suggest a different reason for the emphatic position assumed by eleven year old Hubert Eaves. He is, we must believe a vigorous, uplooking manly boy, who has made himself acquainted with the general history and traditions of his people. He may not have experienced much, if any of the hardships of racial prejudice. He is yet of tender years and was probably born in that golden West where opportunity grasps each a hand of courage and ability and toils with them patiently, side by side until success is realized. The unkind hand of prejudice and discrimination has touched him but gently, if at all, and what he knows of the cruel efforts and effects of racial antagonism and oppression, has been gathered from the lips of elders or the lines of the printed page. Even so, being the lad we as sume him to be, his soul has writhed under the cruelties and unmerited hardships suffered by his people and in an abandon of angry indignation he has found himself unable to pay the usual homage to our national emblem; an emblem consecrated to the full protection of their liberities by the blood and travail of all classes of her people. Doubtless the o are very many Negro Americans who feel as bitterly as does Hubert Eaves, but having had wider experience and larger contact with the wrongs of which complaint is justly made, are enabled to encompass the situation with a larger faith in an ultimate and correct adjustment. Such a faith, we believe is imperative, for how else may we view the constant, forward trend DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY. APRIL 8, 1916 State Hist & Nat Hist Beds State House ADC E JOURNAL G, MONTANA DENVER COLORADO SAT that has marked the footprints of the race since Emancipation; a progress, indeed, that in spite of opposition and persecution, is the wonder of the age. It is difficult for our restless, eager youth, with minds alert and equal to the best of more favored races and with a physical equipment that renders them dangerous in any contest of sport or skill — it is difficult, I say, for these to quietly suffer the handicaps of insensate prejudice and unmerited scorn. It is for these reasons we believe that Herbert Eaves declined to salute the American flag and when he declared he "Would salute nobody or nothing but his God" he unintentionally voiced a feeling that is universal with our youth. The feeling of a just and natural indignation, that the glorious symbol of American liberty should only partially and indifferently stand for and protect the equal rights and privileges of all Americans. KOOSEVELT ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT. In the announcement of Colonel Roosevelt on Thursday last as candidate for President the delegation approaching him at Oysten Bay was made to clearly understand that his policy is "America for Americans" and "Americans for America," and if the people wanted him on this platform he would be willing to serve. Assurances were given the Colonel of the strong support to be given by the West and Middle West, which led him to make the following declarations: "If you have any doubt on the subject, do not nominate me. Get it perfectly clear in your head that if you nominate me you think it is in your interest, the interest of the Republican party and to the interest of the United States to do so. "Don't be for me unless you are prepared to say that every citizen of this country has got to be pro-United States first, last and all the time, and no pro- anything else at all, and that we stand for every good American everywhere, whatever his birthplace or creed, and wherever he now lives, and that in return we demand that he be an American, and nothing else, with no hyphen about him. Americans for America. "Every American citizen must be for America first, and for no other country even second, and he hasn't any right to be in the United States at all if he has any divided loyalty between this country and any other. "Uncle Sam must never wrong the weak, he must never insult anyone or wantonly give cause for offense to either the weak or the strong, and the surest possible way to enable him to keep the peace and keep it on terms that will enable Americans to hold their heads high and not hang them in shame is for him to be so prepared in advance, and I mean prepared in his own soul as well as with his army and navy, that when he says anything the rest of the world will know that he means it and that he can make it good." (By S. J. Channell, D. D., of New Orleans, La.) The African Methodist church is the hotbed of politics, and some of the nasty kind, that should not exist in the States. The ministry is guilty of some of the lowest tric. In politics. This is far beneath the dignity of the Christian ministry. Think of it. The most of the delegations have held primaries. The next general conference will be a pothouse political gathering rather than a coming together of a general conference of a Christitn character. No other church under the sun will go so far as this. Allen will turn over in his grave with shame at the pollution of the general conference in May. All of the discussions are based on men and graft. Not one word about the better morality of the church. Ministers are divoreing at every cross road and graft holds the highest seat in the church. Will the Bishops say something about divorce in their message to the coming general conference? Will the men take the time to elect the best type of ministers to the Bishopric? A cheap elder elect to the Bishopric makes a cheap Bishop that can be picked up anywhere for the lowest tastes in man. A Bishop who will spoil the moral status of a brother minister's home is a cheap piece of furniture with a big label mark immorality in high places. This is the end of politics of the low grade. Can the A. M. E. church survive if the heads of the church are not moral? I leave this question to be answered by time. Down here in Louisiana we are going up to the general conference with a packed delegation. The Louisiana conference has an enrollment of one hundred and fifty ministers and laymen at most if the roll is properly forged. This would allow about four or five delegates at most. The North Louisiana conference, with an enrollment of eighty-five ministers and laymen. This would give by law one delegate for every thirty preachers—one delegate. The Louisiana conference has eight delegates, and is due but five. The North Louisiana conference has five delegates when due but three. These are facts that cannot be refuted. Now tell me where is this great Negro church going to land—in hell, or where? Is this a shame for the church? But we are going to fight it out if it takes all the summer and see that such rascality meets its Waterloo. Where are the college men going to land the church? The vital things of the church are left untouched. Give the laymen equal representation and this scheming will cease. Why should the laymen, who give all the means to support the church, have less than an equal share of the church's representation? The A. M. E. Church would lift itself by its own boot straps by giving the laymen an equal break. If the general conference fails to call a halt, then we must expect judgment. Prof. John R. Hawkins is the man for financial secretary; Prof. I. T. Bryan for the Sunday School Union; Drs. Allen and Wright are O.K. But let us do something to grow a moral, Christ-religious church! RACE NEWS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES Birmingham, Ala.-The Southern Railway Company announced yesterday that at the head of the list of 146 employees presented with loyalty medals for over twenty-five years' service in Birmingham on Monday was a colored hammerman named Taylor Parkman, whose service dates to 1858. In that year he was bought as a slave by the Alabama & Tennessee River Railway Company, now a part of the Southern's Mobile division The employees receiving medals were those of the Birmingham and Mobile divisions. The presentations were made by President Fairfax Harrison. New Rochelle, N. Y.—Four colored children in New Rochelle schools won prizes offered to public school children by the Westchester Railroad for best essays on "What the Rapid Transit Lines of New York City Mean to New Rochelle." In the high school there was only one essay awarded a prize, and this was written by Ernest Brown, who received $5 in gold. No other high school essay received even honorable mention. Esther Eccles won for the 8th grade, Winyah avenue school; Anna Brown, 7th grade, same school; and Edna Slaughter, 6th grade, Columbus school. These were awarded $250 in gold. Washington, D. C.—The treaty between the United States and the republic of Haiti, ratified by the Senate may be said to constitute a sequel to the latest of a series of tragic chapters in the history of the most turbulent island in the western hemisphere. It is the hope of the element in Haiti that has been striving for years to crush out the revolutionary tendency among the people and to promote orderly and stable government, as it is the hope of the United States, that the signing of this convention will start the little country on the road to peace and prosperity. The treaty seems to have been drawn with the purpose of establishing in the island a despotism. Perhaps this is the best that could be done in the present circumstances. The conditions were extraordinary, and doubtless they had to be met in kind. But the establishment of benevolent despotism is hardly the proper function of a democracy, and it must be difficult for any well-wisher of the United States to refrain from hoping that it may proceed along this line only far enough to place the objects of its philanthropy on their feet and in a position to do for themselves. NO 34 A COLORED CANDIDATE (From Ohio State Journal, Columbus.) Perhaps it is not proper for us to speak editorially, but so far as we are individually concerned we are free to say that we propose to vote for Ralph W. Tyler for one of the so-called big four delegates to the Republican national convention. We will do this, first, because Mr. Tyler is a worthy man and will honor Ohio in the delegation; second, because he is a respected representative of a people who have always been faithful to the Republican party; third, because he was removed from an office which he was filling with great credit, because he was a Republican; fourth, because a self-constituted directory has assumed to name this delegation without consulting the people. Any one of these reasons are sufficient to prompt a man to vote for Mr. Tyler, and taking them altogether they are invincible, and we say this without any reflection upon the other gentlemen themselves who have been named on the delegation. Now is a good opportunity for the Republican party to show in a modest way its appreciation of the colored vote. DR. WASHINGTON GUEST OF ROOSEVELT IN PARIS The following note of appreciation of the late Booker T. Washington was reproduced from La Croix' of Paris, a French journal, by the Port of Spain (Trinidad) Gazette: "It was at the opening of the Atlanta International Expansion, Georgia, 1895, that the Great Negro, Booker T. Washington, received from President Cleveland a letter couched in the following terms: "I consider that the mere fact of having given you the opportunity of delivering that speech amply justified the trouble for holding such an exhibition." Later on another President, to the great scandal of those who would have more felt inclined to chuck from a tram car the Nigger who would dare become such an intruder, did not hesitate to honor the great Negro by inviting him to his table, while on a visit to Paris. Hence the incident, although worth knowing, may only be known by a few. Amongst the other invitees present at the dinner were LeMyre de Vilers, M. Porter, the then American Ambassador, Edward Rod, Jules Claretie, and the Marquis de Rochambeau. That President was the distinguished friend—visitor in our midst—Theodore Roosevelt AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Anyone hearing the word prepared: ness spoken these days immediately associates with it the training of ar- mies and the building of battleships. But to Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, who came to New York the other day from Daytona, Fla., the term stands for the preparedness of the Negro race for true citiz6nship, preparedness con- sisting of moral, spiritual, industrial, and Intellectual training. Mrs. Bethune, a Negro woman, fs the founder of the Industrial Training School for Negro Girls at Daytona. She understands the failings of her people and {s working hard to elimt nate their undesirable habits. Herself the daughter of parents who had been under the scourge of slavery, she ap- preciates that vice and slothfulness are largely due to an tgnorance of the laws of right living, and that the rem- edy lies in proper education. With this idea in mind, Mrs. Bethune get to work, Haying made a study of the moral and industrial conditions of the Negro, she went to Daytona in October, 1911, and began her work. With only $1.50 in her pocket but a “wealth of faith in my heart,” as she put it, she managed to rent a little shanty. This she furnished with benches made of old dry goods boxes and other castoffs that the people had offered her. Her pupils were five little girls, whom she was going to inspire with the “idea of the dignity of labor.” But first she had to overcome preju- dice. The white people of the district felt that the school was going to teach the Negroes that they were too good to work; the Negro population, on the other hand, thought that the school was going to force them into degrad- ing service. ~ Aside from this, the problem of money was the greatest. This Mrs. Bethune overcame by interesting James N. Gamble of the Proctor & Gamble company, in her work. She invited him and other sojourners of Daytona, which is a winter resort, to her school, had them sit on her im- provised benches, and told them her plans. When he left, Mr. Gamble had promised a sufficient amount of money to build a larger school and had ‘agreed to become a trustee. The schot, was built and soon became pop- ular among the people, who realized the value of the work. It now boasted of seventy-eight pupils, who were be- ing trained along industrial and aca- demic lines. Among the subjects taught were domestic science, sewing, Yaundry work, and dressmaking, and, ‘of course, there were academic sub- jects. That was the beginning of Mrs. Bethune's work. In going among the people she discovered that there was @ lack of home life and an absence of pride in personal and property appear- ance. She poke to the people, showed them that they themselves were the cause of their poverty and degradation, and almost immediately a change for the better was to be felt. Fences were mended, houses white- washed, and gardens weeded. “It has been a struggle and a sacrifice,” Mrs. Bethune went on. “But I remember the difficulties I myself have had. 1 was born in a log cabin in the cotton fields of South Carolina, We were seventeen children, all groping in the darkness, but there was a deep long- ing in my heart for light. When 1 grew up I longed to do something for my race, especially for the girls and women, for they are the keepers of the home. I believed that my people's ETE UR A 1 Bice oa apap oS i siseh Howard P. Drew, Alvah T. Meyer, Roy Morse and Frank Stephenson are well-known to followers of track ath- letics as four of the best sprinters ever developed in this country. All four have made remarkable records during their careers on the cinder path and board floor, and all four have held national championships. The fleet-footed Drew is perhaps the best of the four. He formerly competed for Springfield (Mass.) high school, but now represents the University of Southern California. He is the joint holder with Dan Kelley of the world’s record for 100 yards, the time being 033-5 seconds. Drew has excellent sprinting form and is considered by many experts to be the really best sprinter of all times Drew has shown many of his best performances around New York and only recently ran the century indoors in ten seconds. Meyer, for many years mainstay of the Irish- American Athletic club, has been kept out of running this winter because of pressure of business, but he plans to return to the cinder path next sum- mer. Meyer takes excellent care of himself and there is.little doubt that Hampton institute announces the election to its board of trustees of Charles Gates Dawes. president of the Central Trust company of Chicago; William Cameron Forbes of Boston. Yormer governor general of the Philip- pine islands, and Alexander B, Trow- bridge of New York, senior member of the firm of Trowbridge & Ackerman, architects. The longest will on record was made by a Gloucester engineer and con- tained 26,000 words. dustry. The work is going on nicely but it needs money. We need schol- arships for the girls who are too poor to pay. ‘Then there are improvements to Se made to the buildings. Most of them are not fireproof. I am praying for help and I feel sure that the people of the North who have so kindly be- friended me will understand what the ‘school and {ts extension work stands for and will be generous In their help toward this work.” From its very inception Hobson City, Ala. with one exception the only colored municipality in the United States, has not only demonstrated its ability to organize and govern herself, but has shown that she can do this along progressive lines. In the year of 1899 her small but spirited band of citizens secured after no little bit of effort a charter and was incorporated and organized in the month of August of that year. In- cluding immediate suburbs her popu- lation today shows an increase of 150 per cent. Her citizens are contented, law-abiding, and as a whole industri- ous; vagrants are not tolerated and are tacitly urged to move on or suit- able work is found for them to do. She has several public institutions, among which are four churches—two Methodist, one Baptist and one Sancti- fied, with a combined membership of approximately 500. She is the jealous possessor of one public school with an enrollment of some 200. The state funds appropriated for this institu- tion, by the way, are, however, claimed to be inadequate and should ‘be augmented if cogsistent with the state's public school funds. Donations from private citizens who are interest- ed in educational pursults certainly would be appreciated if put in the hands of this institution. The mu- nicipality is free from debt and has some money in its treasury; its gu bernatorial board is elected every two years, thereby making {t possible to keep this feature of its machinery in a more healthy and enthusiastic work- Ing condition. Its homes are supplied with electric light and more than half of the citizens own their own homes. Anniston, a city of some 20,000 in- habitants, {s located Just north-of Hob. son City, and is connected with it by a trolley system owned by the Ala- bama Power company, which main- tains a special car for the colored peo- ple to take them back and forth to their daily occupations consisting mainly of public works conveniently located along the car line. The city is supplied with good water from the Anniston waterworks, and while the system is incomplete, plans are being made to bring it up to the usual state of efficiency, and thereby insure the least possible insurance rate and fire loss. ‘The city has an organized sant tary system maintained by the police department. Its jail house would be a credit to a city of double its popu- lation—being of concrete construc tion, and equipped with furniture and fixtures to preserve sanitation and hygiene. It has some two or three grocery stores, owned and operated by colored citizens. It has citizens who produce almost within a stcne’s throw from $500 to $1,000 worth of cotton and cther staple products, in: cluding hundreds of bushels of peaches per year. Its governing board consists of sevon councilmen, a mayor, together with some three or four mi- nor officers, including chief of police. he will make a successful comeback. Morse, who, like Drew, is a colored lad, sprang into prominence by win- ning the 220-yard national champion- ship at California last summer. He has since demonstrated that his Frisco victory was no fluke by show- ing his heels to strong rivals on numerous occasions. Morse, a mem- ber of the Salem Crescent A. C., {s only a youngster and should be a top- notcher for many years to come. Stephenson, who competes for the Trinity A. C. of Brooklyn has done his best work indoors. He is a remark- ably fast starter, ‘The will of the late Sanford Johnson was filed for prebate at Stockton, Kan. According to this document he left 640 acres of Rooks county land, free trom incumbrance, besides perscnal proper- ty to the sum of $7,000, Rorn in bond- age, freed by the Emancipation proc- clamation, and with no educational op- portunities, Johnson succeeded in ac- cumulating property far in excéss of that of many of his white neighbors and associates. He reared six children, giving all a common schocl education. Quail in Pennsylvania are dying of a strange epidemic, which has spread 80 as to threaten the extermination of the species in. some regions, a situa: tion which reminds one commentator that afflictions among wild beasts and birds seldom attack more than one species at a time, the same being true of fish, of which, in any stream. one kind will all die without others seem: ing the least affected. Every square mile of sea is estimat ed to contain about 120,000,000 fish. VICTIM OF BANDITS IDENTIFIES RANCHMAN. Farmer Mutilated by Gang Collapses at Colorado Springs After He Sees Alleged Holdup. Western Newspaper Union News Service, Colorado Springs, Colo.—In the lo- cal county jail Otto Pruess, the Hugo rancher, who was mutilated recently by three unidentified men who had broken into the house to rob him, posi- tively identified Bert Weaver, a neighboring ranchman, as the man who sat on his shoulders and kept the rope tight about his neck while another member of the gang did the work of mutilation and then searched the house for Pruess’ money. Pruess, still In a serious condition, was so up- set by the shock of seeing one of his assailants that he had to be taken to a local hospital. George Weaver, brother of Bert Weaver, who also is in jail here as a suspect, will be confronted by Pruess ag soon as the aged German is strong enough for the orderl. While Weaver denies all charges, officers say that he is very nervous and has told conflicting stories. Cripple Creek Mine Output in March. Cripple Creek—Mines in the Cripple Creek district produced for the month of March 86,672 tons of ore of the average value of $14.17 per ton, and of the gross value of $1,227,810. The tons reported treated at the various mills and values were as follows: SRF aie ee. tee Plant. Tonnage. Value. Value. Golden ‘Cycle 35,000 $18.00 $630,000 Portland, Colo~ rado Spgs. 11,500 28.00 265,500 Portland, Vie= tor. iss... 17600 3.17 85,476 Portland's tn dopendence 14,900 2.63 30,247 Isabella... 2160 2.40 51184 Caly-Jerry Johnson. . 1,312 4.50 5,904 Smelters, Dén- ver & P*blo . 4,300 65.00 236,500 Totals . . 86.672 $14.17 $1,227,810 Denver Loses $55,000,000 Tax Suit. Denver—The Supreme Court up- holds State Board of Equalization and ‘Tax Commission in raising Denver as- sessment $55,408,952. Justices Hill and Teller dissent, Legislature's right to suspend action of referendum at its discretion sustained in civil service case. New law abolishing old civil service lists upheld. Denver loses fight to compel state insane au- thorities at Pueblo to admit insane pa- tients from this county. Col. James C. Bulger must hang week of May 21 for slaying of L. F. Nicodemus, Su- preme Court refusing to grant rehear- ing of sanity trial. Ne ia em ia Ren Grand Junetion—Word—_ reached here that Eastern capital is ready to build an electric line from Grand Junction to Paradox Valley, via Gate- way, tapping vast uranium, copper and cattle, lumber and agricultural sections. Prominent business men will leave soon for a trip over tho route surveyed four years ago. The line will cost $500,000. Power will be procured from the Grand river, West creek and Dolores river. Boy Fatally Injured by Auto. Pueblo—Hopping from the back of a grocery wagon directly into the path of an automobile, 8-year-old Joe Sachowitz, was struck down and fatally injured on the mesa, South Pueblo. He died fifteen minutes after being taken to St. Mary's hos- pital. Switchman Dies From Injuries. Pueblo,—W. 8S. Flynn, 26, a switch- man at the steel works, fell from the running board of a switch engine as he was returning to work. Both legs were crushed and he died as he was being taken into the Minnequa hos: pital. Montague Must Serve Fifteen Years. Denver—Arthur Montague, con- victed after a sensational trial, of an attack on a 17-year-old girl, was sen tenced in the West Side Court to serve from fifteen to twenty years in the penitentiary. Rich Land Open for Entry. | Pueblo,—Land valued at $150,500 will be thrown open to free entry April 29. It is land near Trinidad and formerly held by the Cafion Coal ani’ Soke Company for coal production, Dickens Trial Set for April 24. Boulder.—The trial of Rienzi C. Dickens, charged with the murder of, his father, William H. Dickens, an aged Longmont banker, was set for April 24 in the District Court. Woman Burned in Explosion. Ault—Mrs. J. W. MeMurry was so badly burned in an explosion of coal oil with which she was starting a fire that she died. Gunnison Has $6,000 Fire. Gunnison—Fire, believed to have been of incendiary origin, destroyed the Gunnison fire house, the city hall and a aotion store, causing a loss of $6,000, with less than $1,000 insur- ance. All the buildings destroyed were frame and located on Main street. Cracksmen Blow Safe; Steal $520. Denver—The steel safe in the F, WW. Woolworth store was blown open with nitro-glycerin and robbed of $520 COLORADO STATE NEWS May 1.—First Congressional District Republican Cyuvension at Colorado Springs. April 26—Annual Convention Western Colorado 1.0. 0, Fat Grand Junc- April 29-May 6—Food show at Colo- rado Sprinis, Muy 2.—Kepuulican State and Third and “Fourth Congressional District Convention at Pueblo. May 18—Democratic State Convention at Colorado Springs, May 20—Progreasive State Convention in Denver, Aug. $—Democratle State Assembly at Denver. Cecil Conner was elected president of the Denver Ad Club, A food show will be held at Colo- rado Springs, April. 29-May 6. The old Spaulding hotel at Colora- do Springs hus been sold for $50,000. Floyd, the 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John McGinnis, committed suleide at Cripple Creek. Fifty U. 8, witnesses are reported ready to testify in the case of Banker W. B. Slaughter at Pueblo. Mrs. John Wilson, 35 years old, wife of a laborer, died at Estes Park from wood alcohol poisoning. Ben B. Lindsey of the Juvenile Court was threatened with death in a letter he received in his courtroom in Denver, Governor Carlson has appointed F. J. Radford of Trinidad a member of the advisory board of the State High- way Commission, The value of the physical property of the Mountain. States Telephone Company in Colorado has been fixed at $15,220,633,66, Two prisoners attempted to saw their way out of the Denver jail in order to take part in an elopement previously planned, Because of the high price of lead, the American Smelting and Refin- ing Company has increased the pay of all its employés, Motor car service has been installed on the Great Western Railway Com Pany's lines between Longmont and Loveland and Eaton. Donald McGregor, shot to death by Villa in Minaca, Mex., is believed to be Don P. McGregor, formerly em- ployed on a Denver newspaper. Sydney W. Strutt, known among friends and associates in Denver for fifteen years as S$, W. Clayton dropped dead in his rooms in the Den ver Athletic Club, The State Supreme Court uphel the act of the State Board of Equall zation in ordering an increase of $55, 403,952 made in the total assesse: valuation of Denver, Twenty-five steers marketed by J A. Streed of Wheatland, Wyo., sold at $9.15, the highest price paid in Denver this season and the recor¢ price for a number of years, Receipts from the sale of stamps and money orders at the Denyer postoffice for March were $128,497.27, an increase of $6,264.08 over those for the corresponding month of 1915, Pending an examination of the brain of William B. Denton, whose body was pulled out of the bed of the Arkansas river fifteen miles below Pueblo, the coroner’s jury will with- hold jts verdict until a report has been made by Dr. C. W, Maynard. A search to find John West and Frank Goodrich, convicted confidence men, probably will result from the re- fusal of the State Supreme Court to grant them a new trial on the charge of attempting to defraud U. G. Davis, a Weld county farmer and deputy sheriff out of $10,000 on a fake “wire: tapping” scheme. Weddings and bad checks were fen- tures in the experience of two men who have been landed in jail in Gree- ley and Idaho Springs as a result of the activities of the Colorado Bank- ers’ Association in trying to run to earth men who have been charged with @ series of forgeries in various sections of Colorado, Miss Dorothy Merriweather was overcome with emotion and forced to leave the courtroom at the West Side Court in Denver while waiting to testify for the state in the case of Dr. Robert J. Mason, charged with conspiracy in performing the opera: ‘tion that caused the death of her sis- ter, Miss Ruth Merriweather, in De cember, 1914, Last year Colorado farmers har- vested 1,820,000 tons of sugar beets at a gross selling figure of $10,417,000. 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Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps taken. SPRING Even though we are having an occasional snow at present, yet the time is fast approaching when we will revel in the idea that Spring has come again. In the enjoyment of an average temperature above 50 degrees, brilliant sunshine and pureness of atmosphere, it necessarily follows than an awakening of thought, spirit and action should be possessed by us, and acting in concert with the beautiful strains that proceed from the birds as they fly from branch to branch heralding the incoming of the season, there is every reason for hope and encouragement for some progress and betterment of the present state of business. As we go along the business section of the city we notice stores being renovated, new stock in the various lines being installed, wagon after wagon awaiting its turn to be unloaded of its valuable freight, and the people in their usual manner peering in at the windows to catch the first glimpse of Spring garments. While it is conceded that we had a very trying time during the winter, yet when we contrast the happenings for the past six weeks in the New England cities and some of the Southern towns with ours, it can be said that we had a comparatively modified form of bad weather. The complaint of hard times is prevalent throughout the country but we have every reason to hope that we will be amply rewarded in this and the next season for the test that we have undergone, and it needs only our energy and backbone to take time by the forelock, accomplishing the task set before us, and obtain what seems to be in store for us. The blessings of Spring are too innumerable to mention herein, but we can with all our hearts give praise and thanks to Him who provides the seasons for the comfort and enjoyment of all creation, and with this fact alone we will rejoice in the season that brings us good cheer—Spring! THE CONSUMER AND THE PRODUCER. One would argue that this topic should be reversed, "Producer and Consumer," but we use it this way for the purpose of a little emphasis. Have our people as a whole ever thought how we would progress and prosper, if in our great consumption we would think of production? In perusing the papers and journals of our press in the Southland, The Colorado Statesman notes with pleasure the statistical accounts of the producer, and our hearts go out with pride over the success that is being achieved by our people, and for this reason we feel it our bounden duty to offer a few suggestive ideas in this issue. The industrial situation has been handled again and again, and is still being advocated. This paper indorses industrial actions to their fullness, and would be more than pleased to see a larger proportion of our people engaged therein; but unfortunately for us, the tendency of "getting by" is establishing itself in an extraordinary form at present. In Colorado, inducements are offered us to acquire lands for farming, etc., within easy reach of the City of Denver, and if we would lay hold of the opportunity that now presents itself in Arvada, Harman, Barnum and surrounding places, in a comparatively short time we would join the ranks of the producers. Note carefully our consumption of foodstuffs, and it must be conceded that if some of us would resolve to produce as well as consume, the burden of living that now hangs over us would be very much alleviated. It is not too late to start, and all people who are amenable to reason will be guided by suggestions that tend to their uplift. The Right Kind of Reading Matter The home news; the doings of the people in this town; the gossip of our own community, that's the first kind of reading matter you want. It is more important, more interesting to you than that given by the paper or magazine from the outside world. It is the first reading matter you should buy. Each issue of this paper gives to you just what you will consider The Right Kind of Reading Matter Treat Tuberculosis in Early Manifestations By D. S. HAGER, M. D., Chicago Treat Tuberculosis in Early Manifestations By D. S. HAGER, M. D., Chicago The comments of eminent men on the sterilization of defectives show which way the wind blows. Any attempt to try to carry out ideals that are in advance of the progress of the times must fail. Sterilization of defectives may seem ideal, but much advancement must be made before this could be done, even if public opinion should consent to such procedure. Why should sterilization be practiced and the cause of defectives be left untouched? Would this not be on a par with the idea of pouring water in a bucket to fill it while the bucket was full of holes? It has been shown often that environment has much to do with civilization, and until environment improves ideal conditions toward race betterment cannot obtain. It has been shown that anything like alcohol, tobacco and various forms of disease tend to cause degenerate traits, and if degeneracy were standardized by the "stigma of degeneration" and especially by those stigmas which are shown by degenerate ears, I judge the task of elimination would be herculean. The same is true of trying to eliminate tuberculosis. If it is true, as the best authority claims it is, that we all have been infected with tuberculosis from drinking tubercular cows' milk and that the germs are lying latent in most of us, so that it requires but a slight lowering of our vitality to cause the germs to begin to grow, just as a smoldering fire will grow when stirred up by a gust of wind, then the modern treatment of tuberculosis fails because the recognition of the early and curable stages of tuberculosis is not an easy matter, even by the most eminent authorities on the subject. Would it not be better for the state to help train medical men who do family practice to detect any slight tubercular conditions and in this manner to treat it in its very early manifestations rather than wait until the condition has advanced far enough to cause the patient to seek medical advice? Is not an ounce of prevention here as in the sterilization of defectives worth pounds of cure? Surely something is lacking in modern social life that could be and should be taken into consideration by society if ideal conditions with defectives is to become a measure for state supervision. Fear Expressed for Raw Lumber Supply By H. A. Jeffries, Builder, Chicago Fear Expressed for Raw Lumber Supply By H. A. Jeffries, Builder, Chicago Some substitute for raw lumber will have to be found if we are to continue the present rate of building construction. It is not imagination that our raw lumber supply is rapidly becoming exhausted, but an actual problem, conceded by all who have to deal with it. The forests of Pennsylvania are practically gone, and those of the middle North are rapidly disappearing. The yellow pine of the South and the fir trees of the Northwest must now supply not only the demand of their own sections but those of other sections where the trees have disappeared. Re-enforced concrete is the best substitute that has yet been found. This was discovered in the early sixties by a French gardener, Monier by name, who found himself in difficulties because of a lack of tubes for his plants. He contrived a temporary tube made of wire mesh plastered with mortar, and this proved so good a substitute that he made all of his tubes in that manner. Concrete is composed of broken materials of various kinds and sizes known as the "aggregate," which is thoroughly mixed with concrete. When subjected to tension stress this material is very weak, and to overcome this defect rods of iron or steel are placed in the concrete and the material is then known as re-enforced concrete. It was first introduced in building construction with the idea of making fireproof buildings, and in this was successful, but lumber was still required, and until some form of construction that will eliminate entirely the use of lumber in the building of houses is discovered we shall always be confronted with the problem of a lumber famine. Many Consumers of Nervous Stimulants By H. A. Hare, M. D., in the Therapeutic Gazette Many Consumers of Nervous Stimulants By H. A. Hare, M. D., in the Therapeutic Gazette The medical profession and the laity have been accustomed for so many years to the abuse of alcohol as a nervous stimulant that some persons have become hardened to the miseries which it induces, while others have been stimulated to its excessive condemnation. As a result of this and the general desire for stimulating foods and drugs, a very large number of persons have been led to place before the public other powerful nervous stimulants, of which both the medical profession and the laity know less than they know of alcohol, until, at the present time, there are almost as many consumers of nervous stimulants other than alcohol as there are of those who use alcohol to excess. Further than this, the number of these substitutes is daily increasing and in many instances unprincipled vendors are fortifying comparatively innocent and mild nervous stimulants, dispensed for common use, with so large a quantity of alcohol added that the patient really becomes addicted to the alcohol habit while thinking he is simply using an innocuous drug; he thinks he is taking coca, kola or some similar stimulant, when in reality most of the temporary changes for the better which he notices after a dose of his favorite tipple are due to the alcohol which it contains. Disinterestedness Is Empty Church Cause By REV B. E. CHAPMAN, Rector of St Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church, Chicago There are as many excuses why men do not go to church as there are men; such as the church being imperfect, and unbusiness-like, there are too many homoites and many others. Disinterestedness Is Empty Church Cause By REV B. E. CHAPMAN, Rector of St Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church, Chicago There are as many excuses why men do not go to church as there are men; such as the church being imperfect, and unbusiness-like, there are too many hypocrites, and many others. The church is a divine institution formed of imperfect human beings assisting those imperfect creatures in their struggle for perfection. It is a spiritual hospital. It is not a business institution, and that it lives without business methods such as would please the Morgan of finances is evidence of its divine origin and spiritual protection. There are and always will be hypocrites, but to pick out some gnarled and dwarfed Christian and point to him for an example is unfair. The real and only reason why men are not at the services of the church is that they are not interested. They do not feel its needs. They do not think deeply enough to know that all the good there is in them came from their ancestors who were devout churchmen. Everything good in you or your civilization comes directly or indirectly from the church of Christ. Become interested in that which gives you your freedom and goodness. 1 OPENS SATURDAY AT 8 A.M. TWO weeks from Sunday will be Easter, when all mankind garb themselves in right new apparel in deference to Spring. We offer hundreds of suits in this sale, which are aglow with the bloom of the new season. Every fabric is guaranteed to be absolutely "Fast color," for we placed our Contracts before the shortage in dye-stuffs. Blue Serges are included. Come early for the best selections. For $18--$22.50 Spring Suits For $25 and $28 Spring Suits A Cream Soap for Toilet, Bath and Shampoo. Cleans Everything it Touches. Keeps the Skin Soft and Smooth. C. J. TOLLIVER, Agent. SPRING SALE GLASSWARE Glass Butter Boxes, to hold 1 pound; special, each.....15c Crystal Glass Baskets, 9½ inches high; special, each.....25c Sweet Pea Vases, 6½ inches high; special, each.....25c High-grade Plain Water Glasses, thin kind; special, each.....4c 15-inch Punch Bowl and 12 Sherbets; special, set.....$2.90 7-piece Water Set, like cut; special, set.....89c A large assortment of Manufacturer's Glass Samples; no two alike; at the very low price of 15c each. New Orleans, La., March 24, 1916.—S. W. Green, Supreme Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of the World, was refused his claim against the Louisville and Nashville railroad by a jury in the Federal court. His case was handled by Hon S. A. T. Watkins, supreme attorney for the Knights of Pythias, Chicago, Ill. May 13 Mr. Green was on a train at Milton Fla., traveling in a drawing room. Some Southern crackers came through the car, took him off and were about to lych him. He was rescued and then fined $25 and costs He had to be taken to Pensacola. Fla. to avoid being lychched. The case will be taken to the United States Supreme Court. COLORED PEOPLE'S PROGRESS A NEW RACE HISTORY, soon to be placed on the market at $1.50, the publishers, Austin-Jenkins Co., Washington, D. C., Warder Building, are now placing agents. Anyone wanting to secure the agency may get a fine prospectus FREE for 15 cents in postage. THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE ADVENTURE OF THE YEAR GO UP SHAKE FREE CALL COUNTRY PARTY THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE PEOPLE'S BUREAU OF INFORMATION 1824 CURTIS STREET Room 25. DENVER, COLORADC Phone: Main 7417. Mrs. Myrtle Waldon has been on the sick list for several days. Her mother, Mrs. Hill of Pueblo, is at her bedside. Fred L. Burton of the Burlington, was in the city Monday. He is now railroading between Billings and Casper. John White, one of the old stand-bys of the Burlington dining car service spent Monday in the city en route for Seattle. A telegram announcing the demise of the Rev. Frank Ward of the Methodist Episcopal church, Caldwell, Kansas, was received by his brothers, Presiding Elder A. M. Ward and Howard r. Ward of this city. Elder A. M. Ward left for Caldwell Thursday afternoon, to be in attendance at the funeral. NOTICE THE ADVERTISEMENT OF A. T. LEWIS & SON on the fifth page of this paper. The latest styles of the world of fashion for spring and Easter. The usual courtesy and civility of the staff of clerks extended to patrons, and when it comes to bargains, this firm cannot be beaten. REGISTER! REGISTER!! Precinct registration Thursday, April 13 and April 20 from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. for election May 9. Persons who did not register for election held May 18, 1915, must register at their precincts on these days and nowhere else. Those who registered and have changed residences must register at the elections commission office, in the basement of the Court House, 16th and Tremont Streets, between now and ten days before election day if they are desirous of exercising the franchise. We are glad to announce the recovery of Dr. J. H. P. Westbrook, one of our popular physicians who underwent an operation for appendicitis at the County Hospital about a month ago. We earnestly hope the doctor's practice has not suffered greatly and his patrons will rally to his support. The doctor's present residence is 822 Thirty-second street. Gymnastic and Folk Dance given by Pride of Denver Tabernacle, 521 at Fern Hajl, 8 o'clock, May 11, 1916. Mrs. S. Threet, Manager. Admission 15c. Public invited. COLORED CITIZENS' LEAGUE ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the above league for the election of officers was marked by a large and appreciative audience of members and spectators who witnessed the election of officers for the ensuing year. Reports from the various departments were approved and the organization showed signs of much improvement for its year's work. The following officers were elected: Joseph D. D. Rivers, president; Geo. W. Davis, first vice president; Mrs. Sarah E. Williams, second vice president; R. L. Lewis, third vice president; R. J. Von Dickerson, secretary; F. T. Bruce, treasurer. The retiring officers were highly complimented for their interest and special service to the League, and given the assurance that their plans laid out for the further success of the organization would be put into effect by the new administration and supported to the best possible ends. Special references were made of Attorney A. W. Lewis and Mrs. Isabella Stewart who filled the positions of president and secretary during the past year and whose indefatigable efforts strengthened and maintained the League. The members of the Executive Board will be elected at next meeting to be held Tuesday, April 11 at 8 p. m. at the League Rooms, 2566 Washington street. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. As the time for the membership campaign to begin a spirit of earnestness and enthusiasm is noticeable among the men. The line-up of the most of the teams has been formed, and the members are already getting ready to invade the home and haunts of the men of Denver in their search for new members. The name of nearly every man in Denver has been secured and is being listed; and it is the aim of the committee to visit as far as possible, every one of these men before the campaign is over. The campaign will open next Monday, and will continue for ten days. Membership for men will be $3.00; for boys, $1.00. The meeting last Sunday afternoon was in the interest of the campaign, and many earnest prayers were offered for its success The boys' meeting last Sunday was one of the best and most inspiring for some weeks. Mr. Calkins, of the social work department of the Central Association, was the speaker. He gave the boys a message which they shall not very soon forget. A very interesting session of the "Life Problems" class was conducted by Mr. J. S. Temple, the instructor. The subject was "The Choice of a Life Work." Two new members joined the class. The subject next Saturday evening will be "Legitimate Rewards of a Life Work." The men's meeting will be held as usual next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The meeting for boys will be held at 2:30. LISTEN! Don't forget the grand entertainment given by the Masons at East Turner Hall, Monday night, April 24, featuring the McDaniels Sisters & Co., in their latest craze "Spirella Johnson of Memphis, Tennessee." MRS. CLARA ALLEN DIES SUD- DENLY. Mrs. Clara Allen of Chicago, sister of the late Lawrence George and Louis George, died suddenly of acute pneumonia Wednesday morning at 7:40 o'clock at her residence, 2819 Glenarm Place. This family having had an extraordinary visitation from the hand of death, this deceased being the third member in the space of one month. The Colorado Statesman expresses its deepest sympathy with the surviving relatives of Mrs. Allen and commend them to the Divine Power who soothes the troubled minds. The deceased came here from Chicago a few weeks ago to attend the bedside of her two brothers Lawrence and Louis, who preceded her three and two weeks respectively. The body is in charge of the Cammel Undertaking Company. Mountain Lodge of Elks, No. 39, J. B. P. O. E. of W., will hold their memorial services at the People's Presbyterian Church, Sunday, April 9th, at 2:30 p. m. The line of march will be as follows: From Twenty-first and Champa to Twenty-fifth street, Twenty-fifth to Washington and Twenty-third streets. Return from Washington to Welton, Welton to Twentieth, Twentieth to Champa. DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING COM PANY FUNERAL NOTICES. Charles Martin died April 1, at his home, 1309 Fox street. He was the beloved husband of Mary M. Martin and brother of James Martin, Mrs. J. E. Bruce and Mrs. Mary Powell of this city. Funeral was held in the Chapel by Rev. R. L. Pope, Tuesday, April 4 and the remains shipped to Sedalia, Mo., for burial. He leaves a number of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. LISTEN! Don't forget the grand entertainment given by the Masons at East Turner Hall, Monday night, April 24, featuring the McDaniels Sisters & Co., in their latest craze "Spirella Johnson of Memphis, Tennessee." FOR RENT—Furnished rooms at 919 Twenty-Second street, strictly modern and within easy reach of Stout and Curtis street car lines. Apply Mrs. Carrie E. Butler. FOR RENT—Five-room modern, nicely furnished house at 1746 Humboldt street. WATCH THE COLUMNS OF THIS PAPER in next issue for display advertisements of the stores that will exhibit their new line of Spring and Easter goods never seen here before. Bargains stunning to patrons will meet with ready acceptance by the public. SHORTER CHAPEL'S NOTES. Rev. Robert L. Pope, B. D., Pastor. Our rally has come within $40.50 of the $1,200 mark—the goal for which we set out. If a few of the members who asked for more time to make their contribution, will report tomorrow the entire amount will be raised and one of the most successful rallies in our recollection will pass into history. Our third quarterly meeting will be held next Sunday, the 16th; let us make it the greatest in our history. "Every member in attendance and every member contributing" will make it such. What class will make its leader head the list in reporting? The Better-Baby's Contest Thursday evening, April 20th, will be the latest word in our social activities. Put your baby in the contest and have it at the lecture room of Shorter tomorrow at 4 p. m. for examination. Our pastor will leave for Philadelphia, Pa., Friday. April 28th, for a month's visit attending the Centennial General Conference of the A. M. E. Church. During his absence, Dr. R. A. Randolph will be in charge of the church. He will be ably assisted by Rev. Thos. J. Bell of the Colored Department of the Y. M. C. A. PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN. East Twenty-third and Washington street. Pastor—J. A. Thos. Hazell, S. T. B. Sermon "Topics—Sunday, April 9, 11 a. m., "The Sent One." 2:30 p. m., "The Gospel of Benevolence." Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock the pastor will address the Elks in their annual Thanksgiving service. The public is invited to these exercises. Executive Commission of the Presbytery of Denver meets at the Auditorium Hotel, Monday, April 17. The Presbytery in its annual session convenes with the First Avenue Presbyterian Church, First Avenue and Acoma, Tuesday, April 18 at 10 o'clock a.m. The Rev. J. A. Thos. Hazell, S. T. B., Moderator, will preach the opening sermon. The same will be published in pamphlet form for sale. The Rev. L. B. West with Elder J. Matlock, will represent the Union Church at Dearfield Rev. Thos. Hazell with Elder W. S. Evans will speak for the People's Church. Easter services as follows: 6 a.m. Easter Carrols and Communion. 9:30 a.m. Sabbath School. 11 a. m., Sabbath School Program 5 p. m., Easter Extravaganza. In connection with the rendition of Easter program the members are hereby reminded of the special Easter Offertory at 6 a.m. The Sabbath School members are putting forth every effort to make an every member 25 cents contribution thru the envelopes specially distributed. LISTEN! Don't forget the grand entertainment given by the Masons at East Turner Hall, Monday night, April 24, featuring the McDaniels Sisters & Co., in their latest craze "Spirella Johnson of Memphis, Tennessee." NEGRO YEAR BOOK. Should be in the home of every Negro. It contains the achievements, the industries and activities of the race. Every phase of the economic life of the Negro is discussed. It is a compendium of useful knowledge, a ready reference book of 450 pages. Order one today. Copies for sale at the Statesman office, 1824 Curtis street, Room 25. J. H. DONIPHAN, General Agent. 1721 Marion St. 1721 Marion St. For Rent—Furnished rooms at the Reo Club, 2710 Welton street, E. R. Page, proprietor. Permanent or transient. Save money by buying wallpapers, paints and glass at S. R. Weigand & Co., 728 W. Colfax Ave., foot of Welton street. Phone Champa 3356. Old Colony Hall, 28th and Downing street is now under new management and is for rent for dances and social functions. Phone York 320 or York 3402-J. Popular Japanese Pickle. An article of food universally popular in Japan is the Japanese pickle made principally of garden vegetables especially the large Japanese radish Cucumbers, eggplant, small turnips and greens of various sorts go to make up this apparently vital accessory of Japanese meals. It is made by pickling the various articles in salt with a paste of powdered rice, bran and some vinegar, and to most foreigners the taste and smell are alike objectionable. Deceitful Billy Mother (sternly to young married daughter—"Really, my dear, I am astonished at your allowing Billy to attend that farewell supper to Mr. Soakem. I understand it was a most disgraceful affair." Daughter (indignantly)—"Why, mother, how can you? I am quite sure it must have been very sad. Billy distinctly told me the men filled right up, and even the main speaker of the evening was too full for utterance!" 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WASHINGTON MEMORIAL FUND, when an interesting program will be rendered and every admirer of Dr. Washington and his famous school will be asked to make an offering. The memorial fund is to be $2,000,000 of which the white people of the states have pledged $1,750,000 and the Colored people are asked to contribute $250,000. Similar meetings are being held throughout the country. This will be Denver's turn. Let us make a creditable showing. Our appeal is not only to every man, but also to every organization of the city. Let us all pull, and pull all together. The following persons have been invited to appear on the program: Addresses—Dr. Frank T. Bayly and Rev. Thos. J. Bell. Solos—Misses Jennie Mae Hicks and Beatrice Thrashley; Messrs. Morgan T. Jackson and Y. S. Reid, and invocation, Dr. R. A. Randolph. A. Y. GARDNER, President, A. V. GARDNER, President, WM. E. MILLER, Secretary, Tuskegee's Local Alumni Association. FOR RENT—3 houses at 2360 Tremont Place; 320 and 322 24th street. 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WASHINGTON GOSSIP Plan Aerial Mail Service for Isolated Points WASHINGTON.—Aerial mail service to isolated points in Alaska and Massachusetts is contemplated by the post office department. Bids were asked for service on eight routes, seven of them in Alaka. October 1 is follow the other routes where transportation is slow and inadequate. The Massachusetts route is from New Bedford to Nantucket, 56 miles and return, partly by land and partly by water. Trips would be made 13 times a week during the summer months and six times in the winter. An aeroplane would have to be able to carry a weight limit of 3,000 pounds. The present cost of the service is $23,000 a year. The Alaska route forms a connecting link from Seward to Nome, thence to Fairbanks and back to Valdez. Most of them call for a service twice a week throughout the year. On some of the routes the cost is as high as $100,000 a year, and in winter six weeks is required to make the trip. The aeroplane contracts allow two days for most of the trips. The longest route, Valdez to Fairbanks, is 358 miles. The extreme time limit of six weeks on some of the routes is required because mail sometimes has to be routed via Seattle. Postmaster General Burleson has been assured, it was said, that capital already is considering bids and that estimates are being made. Is Washington a City of Snobs and Snubs? THIS is essentially the city of the social practitioner, of the climber, of snobs and of snubs. Everybody is trying, by hook or crook, to better his social position, which is as praiseworthy as an effort to better himself financially or physically. And yet the climber is always a doe. A newly rich woman in town with a whole fleet of motor cars and no need of a nerve tonic breaks into many of the smartest homes by a system entirely her own. She finds out when a motorless friend, of assured social position, however, is invited to a swagger reception or ball, to which she herself has received no card. She coos softly over the telephone: "My dear Mrs. Jenkins, if you are going to the British embassy tonight won't you give me the pleasure of going with me in my car? I'll call for you at ten." The motorless matron generally falls into the trap, all unsuspicious that she is making herself socially responsible for an arch schemer who has no entree. Excuses and Honeyed Words Fall on Deaf Ears HEREAFTER it will be a case of "Show Me" when society folk return from the fashion centers of Europe with trunks packed with all sorts of the latest creations and jewels and laces and other things, and when they face tions. Every means will be used to put a stop for all time to practices particularly indulged in by wealthy society people to smuggle, or at least to bring in articles on a much lower than their true valuation. The treasury department officials here and in New York have arrived at this decision as a result of the case of Mrs. Whitney Warren of New York, the wife of one of America's most noted architects, who is charged by customs officials with bringing in dutiable articles under "gross undervaluations," and whose case is being investigated by the New York federal grand jury. Whether an indictment against Mrs. Warren will be found or not, Federal Attorney H. Snowden Marshal of New York has been requested by the Washington authorities to institute civil suit against Mrs. Warren for the forfeiture of the alleged undervalued goods and for the collection from her of all penalties demanded by law. The department of justice and the treasury department are pushing the case vigorously and it is expected that the investigation will be completed in a short time. Catch Question Baffles the License Dispenser THE office of Col. William A. Kroll, marriage license clerk, is a favorite hunting ground for "copy" and, for this reason, there generally is a newshound nosing around. This was the case the other day when a couple Hey, colonel, you've made a mistake," he said. "Here are two licenses, calling for two marriage ceremonies, for the same couple. In each case you have the license issued to the same persons." "What's the matter with that?" It was explained that, no matter which ceremony was performed first, when the second ceremony was to be performed, the persons married would have been married once already, and that, therefore, the record of the license issued for the second ceremony was incorrect, in that it stated that both of the contracting parties had never been married before and that they were Miss — and Mr. —, where as the record should have read Mr. and Mrs. The colonel is still wondering whether or not he made a mistake. Others at the city hall have taken up the question, and as they are hopelessly divided over the facts in the case it is possible Chief Justice Covington may be asked, in one of his few spare moments, to settle the argument. THE MAIL MAM (ALASKA) follow the other routes where transp The Massachusetts route is from and return, partly by land and partly times a week during the summer more aeroplane would have to be able to can present cost of the service is $23,000 a The Alaska route forms a connect to Fairbanks and back to Valdez. Mr week throughout the year. On some $100,000 a year, and in winter six week aeroplane contracts allow two days for Valdez to Fairbanks, is 358 miles. The some of the routes is required because Seattle. Postmaster General Burleson has already is considering bids and that e Is Washington a City THIS is essentially the city of the snobs and of snubs. Everybody is social position, which is as praiseworthy or physically. And yet the climber is always a joke. A woman whose husband has a subcabinet job in the present administration and who takes herself very seriously in consequence, called up an old resident the other day with a "Good morning, Mrs. Jones. How can I get people like the Danvers to come to my parties?" The resident lady grinned a huge grin into the telephone. "Why, I'm sure I don't know. If you aren't acquainted with Mrs. Danve to you. I don't believe it would be possi The near cabinet woman uttered I know what's the good of the positio can't work it to get in with the kind o A newly rich woman in town wit need of a nerve tonic breaks into ma entirely her own. She finds out when a motorless frie is invited to a swagger reception or ball card. She coos softly over the telephon going to the British embassy tonight going with me in my car? I'll call fe The motorless matron generally f she is making herself socially respon entree. Excuses and Honeyed W HEREAFTER it will be a case of "S the fashion centers of Europe wi latest creations and jewels and laces HONEST -IHAVE NOTHING OF VALUE LET'S SEE tions. Every means will be used to picularly indulged in by wealthy socc bring in articles on a much lower than The treasury department officials this decision as a result of the case of the wife of one of America's most not noms officials with bringing in duti tions," and whose case is being investi jury. Whether an indictment against Mr Attorney H. Snowden Marshal of New ington authorities to institute civil s feiture of the alleged undervalued go al penalties demanded by law. The ury department are pushing the case investigation will be completed in a Catch Question Baffles THE office of Col. William A. Kroll hunting ground for "copy" and, for hound nosing around. This was th approached the counter and asked for two licenses, naming a different minister in each license to perform the ceremony. With the departure of the bride and bridegroom-to-be, the reporter walked over to take a look at the book. It is a common occurrence for persons desiring to be married to have two ceremonies performed, but the newspaper man determined to have some fun with the colonel. "What's the matter with that?" It was explained that, no matter when the second ceremony was to be have been married once already, and t issued for the second ceremony was i the contracting parties had never be Miss — and Mr. —, where as t Mrs. —. The colonel is still wondering when at the city hall have taken up the divided over the facts in the case it it be asked, in one of his few spare mom The routes will be established, the department announced, as much to stimulate development of aviation because of its relation to military preparedness as to improve the mail service. The department believes that efforts already begun to finance an aerial patrol of the Atlantic coast indicate ready capital will be found for the mail service undertakings. If the service is successful, it is announced, a gradual expansion will ortation is slow and inadequate. New Bedford to Nantucket, 56 miles by water. Trips would be made 13 months and six times in the winter. An army a weight limit of 3,000 pounds. The year. Using link from Seward to Nome, thence most of them call for a service twice a of the routes the cost is as high asasks is required to make the trip. The most of the trips. The longest route, the extreme time limit of six weeks on the mail sometimes has to be routed via been assured, it was said, that capital estimates are being made. of Snobs and Snubs? social practitioner, of the climber, of trying, by hook or crook, to better his hy as an effort to better himself finan I'M GOIN' TO THAT RECEPTION EVEN IF I DIDN'T GET AN INVITE BY GUM! ars and she doesn't make any overtures able to get her to come to your parties." an exclamation of disgust. "I'd like to then we've acquired in Washington if I if people I want." with a whole fleet of motor cars and no way of the smartest homes by a system end, of assured social position, however, to which she herself has received no use: "My dear Mrs. Jenkins, if you are it won't give me the pleasure of or you at ten." falls into the trap, all unsuspicious thatsible for an arch schemer who has no Words Fall on Deaf Ears show Me" when society folk return from each trunks packed with all sorts of the and other things, and when they face the customs house officers in New York and other ports. Excuses, honeyed words and other means of allaying the customs appraisers' doubts as to true valuations of articles subject to import duties, will fall on deaf ears after this. It is the intention of the treasury department authorities to scrutinize closely every trunk and parcel, no matter how high in the social scale their owners may be, in order to prevent smuggling and undervalua. about a stop for all time to practices parity people to smuggle, or at least to them their true valuation. There and in New York have arrived at of Mrs. Whitney Warren of New York, noted architects, who is charged by cusable articles under "gross undervalu- ligated by the New York federal grand Mrs. Warren will be found or not, Federal New York has been requested by the Wash- uault against Mrs. Warren for the fords and for the collection from her of department of justice and the treas- vigorously and it is expected that the short time. the License Dispenser marriage license clerk, is a favorite this reason, there generally is a newse case the other day when a couple MARRIAGE LICENSES Col WA Kroll... iss, calling for two marriage ceremonies, you have the license issued to the same in which ceremony was performed first, performed, the persons married would that, therefore, the record of the license incorrect, in that it stated that both of you married before and that they were the record should have read Mr. and either or not he made a mistake. Others question, and as they are hopelessly as possible Chief Justice Covington mayents, to settle the argument. ENGLISH STORM TURK TRENCHES GERMAN ATTEMPTS TO PIERCE RUSSIAN LINES AT MANY POINTS REPULSED. NEW EUROPE TO ARISE NEW EUROPE TO ARISE ALLEGED TEUTON DESIGNS ON WESTERN WORLD DENIED BY GERMAN CHANCELLOR. Western Newspaper Union News Service. London, April 6.—A victory for the British over the Turks on the Tigris below Kut-el-Amara has been reported by Gen. Lake in command of the British forces there. The Turkish entrenched position at Umm-el-Henna was attacked and carried by the Tigris corps, Gen. Lake telegraphed, and the operations are proceeding satisfactorily. Germans repulsed in attempts to pierce Russian lines at many points. Metal believed to be part of German torpedo, found in steamer Sussex, forwarded to Washington. Berlin.—When the Imperial Chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, arose to deliver his pronouncement of attitude of Germany with respect to the war, the Reichstag presented the aspect of former great days. All the members were present and the galleries were crowded. Among the foreign diplomats were the American ambassador, James W. W. Gerard; the Argentine minister, Dr. Luis Molina; the Dutch minister, Baron Gevers, and the Greek minister, N. G. Theotoky. A hush of expectancy was upon the house when the chancellor began, but after his introductory words he was interrupted by an outburst of applause. The chancellor reviewed the military situation and showed that throut all the fighting Germany's progress had been steady and certain. He declared that Germany was at war only to preserve her existence and to hold back her enemies from the German frontiers. Germany had been threatened, he said, with annihilation; with partition of her realm; with destruction of her essential, political and economic forces—and the answer to any suggestions of peace on the basis of destruction of Prussian military power was the German sword. Germany had no aggressive aims against the American continent, and she was not fighting for new territory. The new Europe which would arise out of the war, he said, cannot resemble the past. Whatever it might be, it must be for the nations that inhabit it—a land of peaceful labor. "The peace which shall end, this war shall be a lasting peace," the chancellor said. "It must not bear the germ of new wars, but must provide for all peaceful arrangement of European questions." Post $6,500 for Capture of Bandit. Cheyenne.—The Union Pacific railway Wednesday posted a reward of $5,000 for the bandit who held up passengers on the Overland limited as it was leaving Cheyenne. It had previously offered $1,000 and the state $500. Railroad detectives, sheriff's men and police unite in the assertion that the bandit is the same one who held up the Oregon-Washington limited out of Rock Springs Feb. 9, and for whom a reward of $1,500 is already up. This makes an offer of $6,500 for the capture of the robber. GAVIRA INSISTS VILLA SHOT. Bandit in Hiding, Nursing Wound, Declares Carranza Chief. El Paso, Tex., April 6.—The story that Pancho Villa is wounded and that his capture is imminent was asserted again by Gen. Gavira, the Carranza commander at Juarez. Gen. Gavira made public a telegram which he said he had received from Gen. Bertani at Madera, stating positively that the bandit had been shot and was in hiding somewhere between BachinDa and Satevo. The message is confirmatory of reports from American headquarters that Villa was definitely located heading toward Satevo. While the story that he is wounded is still accepted here with considerable reserve, it is pointed out that several days have elapsed since the fugitive was reported in the neighborhood of Satevo, on his way to Parral. Texas Honors Memory of Gen. Lyon, Sherman, Tex.—Adherents of many political parties gathered here to at- tend the funeral of Gen. Cecil A. Lyon. Washington.—A graphic account of the wreck of the British channel steamer Sussex with the assertion that the vessel was deliberately torpedoed and without warning by an enemy submarine is contained in a report by Rear Admiral Grasset to the French General Staff, made public by the French Embassy. President Wilson discussed with Secretary Lausing the situation growing out of the accumulation of evidence indicating that German submarines were responsible for recent marine disasters. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1915 AND DOCUMENT CATE OF AUTHORITY. BANKERS ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY OF Des Moines, Iowa. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRU- ARY 28TH, 1917. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified, that the BANKERS ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Iowa, whose principal office is located at Des Moines, Iowa. has compiled with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company and the company is hereby authorized to transact business in accordance with its Charter or Articles 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 foundation, thousand nine hundred and seventeen. In testimony whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have here- tened to seize and affixed my seal of office, at the city attorney. this first day of March, A. D. 1915. [Seal] E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance De- partment SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1915 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. AMERICAN OLD LINE INSURANCE Acorn, Nebraska. Assets—$799,477.48 STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 28TH, 1917. Office of the Chief of Insurance. It is hereby certified, that the AMERICAN OLD LINE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Nebraska, whose office of insurance is located at Lincoln, has compiled with the members the laws of this State applicable to said company, and the company is hereby authorized to transact business in accordance with its Charter 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 the Lord on thousand nine hundred and seventeen. In testimony whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, has hereunto set my hand, affixed seal of office, at the City of Denver, this first day of March, A. D. 1916. [Seal] E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1915 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. FARMERS & BANKERS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, of Wichita Kansas. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CERBU- ARY, 125TH ST., N.Y. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified, that the FARMERS & BANKERS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Kangaroo whose office is located at Wichita, Kansas. has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company, and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accord with its Charter or Articles 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 Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. In testimony whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my name of the time, and the answer, this first day of March, A. D. 1916. [Seal] E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1915 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. CENTRAL LIFE ASSU. SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN MODELS, Iowa, Assets—$4,052,284.34 STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRU- RUARY 2015 CENTRAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE U. S., a corporation owned by the laws of Iowa, whose principal office is located at Des Moines, Iowa. has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company, and the company is hereby authorized to transact business at an insurance company. Articles of Incorporation, within the State of Colorado, subject to the provisions and requirements of the law, until the last of February, in the year of our Lord on thousand nine hundred and seventeen. In testimony whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of Colorado, have endeptueto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this first day of March, A. D. 1916. [Seal] E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1915 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE ON A YEAR. BENEFICIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY of Salt Lake City, Utah. Assets—$1,465,440.45. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE ARY, 28TH, 1917. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified, that the BENEFICIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Utah, whose principal office is located at Salt Lake City, has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company, and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accord with the laws of Articles 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 Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. Similarly whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hercunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this first day of March, A. D. 1916. [Seal] E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. BANKERS RESERVE LIFE COMPANY OF Omaha, Nebraska. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance De- partment. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE NEAR BENDING FEBRU- ARY 28, 1917 Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified, that the BANKERS RESERVE LIFE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Omaha, is located at Omaha, has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company and the company is hereby authorized to transact business in the State of Omaha on behalf of the company with its Charter or Articles 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 incorporation, thousand nine hundred and seventeen. In testimony whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have herewith issued a hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this first day of March, A. D. 1916. [Seal] E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1915 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE MERCHANTS L I F E INSURANCE COMPANY of Burlington, Iowa. Assets—$1,170,288.36. Liabilities—$1,181,422.42. Capital—$100,000.00. Surplus—$88,865.94. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE MARSHAL BERU- ARY 28TH, 1917. Office of Commissioner of Insurance Lawyer for MARSHAL BERU- MERCHANTS. LLEE. INSURANCE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, an corporation organized under the laws of Iowa, whose principal office is located at Burlington. has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accordance with its Charter Articles 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 Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. I. R. HARPER, 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. 1916. [Seal] E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1915 AND THE INDICATE NATIONAL AUTHORITY THE EUROPEAN ACCIDENT INSUR- ANCE COMPANY OF London, Engl- and. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 1917. Office of Commission, Insurance. It is hereby certified, that the THE EUROPEAN ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY, Ltd., a corporation organized under the laws of Great Britain, the municipal office is located at, London England. England. has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation, within the State and requirements of the law, until the last day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. testimony whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, 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. 1916. [Seal] E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1915 AND CONSTITUTIVE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY WESTERN LIFE AND ACCIDENT COMPANY OF Denver, Colorado. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR LENDING FEBRU- RU WESTERN LIFE AND ACCIDENT Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Colorado, whose headquarters is located at Denver, Colorado. has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company and the company is hereby authorized and waived business in accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation, within the State of Colorado, subject to the provisions and requirements of the law, until he last day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. In testimony whereof, I. E. R. H. REPUBLIC COMMISSION OF Insurance of the State of Colorado, have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this first day of March, 1916. [Seal] JOE HARPER. Commissuré of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1915 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. INTER-STATE BUSINESS MEN'S ACCIDENT ASSOCIATION OF DES MOINES Town. Agreement $2,026. Liabilities—$67,112,56. Capital—Assessment. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENGINEING FEBRUARY, 1917. Office of Commissioning, Insurance. It is hereby certified, that the INTER-STATE BUSINESS MEN'S ACCIDENT ASSOCIATION, a corporation organized under the laws of Iowa, criminal office is located at Des Moines, Iowa. cated at Des Moines, Iowa, has compiled with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accordance with its Charter or Articles 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 Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. I. HAMILTON whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have heretounto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this first day of March, A. D. 1916. [Seal] E. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1915 AND COPY OF CENTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. SOUTHERN SURETY COMPANY OF Muskogee, Oklahomn. Assets—$3,791,834.34. Liabilities—$1,991,834.34. Capital—$600,000.00. Surplus—$200,000.00. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 1917 Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is herby certified, that the SOUTHERN SURETY COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Oklahoma, whose principal office is located at Muskogee, Oklahoma. has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accordance with Clause of Article 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 home thousand nine hundred and seventeen. In testimony whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office of the County of this first day of March, A. D. 1916. [Seal] E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1915 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. BANKERS INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY of Denver Colorado. Assets—$125,070.88. Liabilities—$44,463.34. Capital—$100,000.00. Surplus—$50,607.54. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE FEAR ENDING FEBRU- RARY 1994 Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified, that the Located at Denver, Colorado, the complex within the requirements of the State of Colorado is capable to said company and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accord with the State of Business 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 death, by the thousand nine hundred and seventeen. In testimony whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, 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 May, D. 16. [Seal] E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1915 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF A VARIOUS HORIZON UNION HEALTH AND ACCIDENT COMPANY of Denver, Colorado. Assets—$160,634.08. Liabilities—$333,637.78. Capital—$100,000.00. Surplus—$47,270.30. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FERU- CARY 28TH, 1917. Office of Colorado 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 Denver. Colorado has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accord- ance with the Antiques 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 Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen. In testimony whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have here- unto set my hand and affixed my seat of office, at the City of Denver, this first day of MAY A. D. 16. Seall E. R. HARPER NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' ANNUAL MEETING To the Stockholders of the Western Loan and Investment Association You are hereby notified that the annual meeting of the Western Loan and Investment Association will be held on Tuesday, May 9, 1916, at the hour of 8 o'clock p.m. or said day at room 25. Western New York, Denver, Colorado, for the election of officers and directors of said association and for the transaction of any and all business which may properly come before us. L. C. CONNELL, President. J. R. CONTEE, Secretary. People Read This Newspaper That's why it would be profitable for you to advertise in it If you want a job If you want to hire somebody If you want to sell something If you want to buy something If you want to rent your house If you want to sell your house If you want to sell your farm If you want to buy property If there is anything that you want the quickest and best way to supply that want is by placing an advertisement in this paper The results will surprise and please you STUDY EFFECT OF FIRE ON CAR More than 200 pounds of oil-soaked rags, wood, and shavings were recently ignited in a steel passenger car by the testing department of one of the eastern railroads in order to determine what effect flames would have upon the metal framework. The material burned with great heat, but without causing distortion or serious injury to the car proper. Some of the upholstering, paint, and window panes were GREAT FEAT OF ENGINEERING ON ALASKAN RAILROAD. Difficulties That at First Sight Seemed Insurmountable Overcome by the Courage and Skill With Which They Were Met. The building of the Miles Glacier bridge, on the route of the Copper River railway, may be taken as a typical example of the many and fearful obstacles that confront the railway builder in arctic Alaska, and is only one of many similar feats that could be cited. This 1,500-foot structure of steel, consisting of four spans carried on massive concrete piers, had to be erected across the river where it makes a double turn between the great living glaciers Miles and Childs. Both present 300-foot clifflike faces to the water for three miles and every spring precipitate into the swift current an endless flotilla of icebergs, many of them as big as a mansion. Here, indeed, was a problem—the building of bridge piers strong enough to withstand these masses of ice being hurled against them by a twelve-mile current. Everybody declared the feat impossible, but it was carried through after two years' strenuous fighting against fearful odds. Great concrete piers, begun through the winter's ice, were driven 40 to 50 feet through the river bottom to bedrock, and there anchored. They were built of solid concrete, heavily re-enforced with steel. A row of eighty-pound rails were set a foot apart all around and the whole structure bound together within the concrete in an amazingly massive manner. Then above the piers ice-breakers of the same construction were raised. The piers being finished, it was now necessary to connect them with a roadway of steel, and this had to be done in the winter, since no falsework would stand against the moving ice. It was a fearful and trying task. Work was hurried forward and the last span was almost in place when it was seen that the falsework that carried it had moved a distance of 15 inches. The falsework that carried this span consisted of a thousand or two of piles driven deep into the bottom the river 40 feet below the surface. The ice was a solid sheet seven feet thick, and it was borne on a twelve-knot current. Into it the forest of piles was solidly frozen. But the spring break-up had begun on the river, and the icecap, lifted 20 feet above its winter bed by the flood, was moving. The falsework, carrying a mass of unfinished steel, was 15 inches cut of line and had to be put back if communication was to be established with the other side that winter. Any moment, for all the engineers knew, the falsework and span would be carried away. They knew it would be a terrible tussle against seemingly overwhelming odds, but they determined to see it through. Steam from every available engine was driven into small feed pipes and every man in camp was put to work to steam melt or chop the seven feet of ice clear of the piles. And it was done. The holes were kept open throughout the day and night and in the bitter arctic cold hundreds of cross-pieces were unholtled and shifted while the river rose 21 feet. Then began the movement up stream. At first it was but an inch a day; then three or four inches. The melting and chopping went on almost unceasingly. Anchorage were hastily built into the ice above the bridge, and while a gang thawed and chopped at the ice around the piles the whole 450 feet of towering bridgework was pulled, dragged and coaxed inch by inch back into its place. The engineers worked with feverish activity. It was midnight, after an eighteen-hour day of one shift, that the last bolt was driven home and the span settled down or its concrete bed. At one o'clock the whole 450 feet of falsework was a chaotic wreck. The river had lost its fight by less than a single hour. damaged, of course, but this was expected, naturally. The result of the experiment showed that the car was capable of withstanding fire and therefore up to the standard demanded by the company in that particular. The incident furnishes an interesting example of the thorough manner in which some railway companies test equipment and supplies before accepting them.-Popular Mechanics Magazine. HAVE CUT DOWN FATALITIES Good Work of Railroads Has Been Actively Aided by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The railroads have a good record in the matter of safety, and they must divide the credit with state legislators and the interstate commission. More than a million carr were personally inspected last year. More steel cars are being used, the roadbeds are kept up better than formerly and the electric block signals are getting a wider use. In 1915 the number of passengers killed was reduced 16 per cent over 1914 and the number of employees killed decreased 36 per cent in the same year. Out of over a billion passengers carried only 222 were killed less than in any year since 1898, when only half a billion people traveled, and an average of one in every 450,000. The public health service is another branch of the treasury department. In preventive work it is one of the biggest safety movements in the country, even though not one of the most spectacular. The quarantine stations which ring us round with a sanitary wall against infection from abroad are part of the service, and the children's bureau is another and newer offshoot from the same stem, though it comes under the department of labor instead of the treasury. The motto of the children's bureau might well be "Safety at the very first." Its work in baby conservation during the last five years has appreciably cut down the infant mortality in the country. It is a sort of scientific grandmother to all American women. The American Red Cross has reduced the number of fatal accidents by preventing a number of accidents from ending fatally. In co-operation with various industrial organizations, fire and police departments, and such bodies as the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A.s, it has given a number of courses in first aid to the injured. The latest move along this line was a course for lumbermen. The department is under the direction of the army medical corps, and its instructors are competent physicians. SAFETY FOR ENGINE FIREMEN New Device Is Designed to Prevent Death Plunge, Which Is All Too Frequent. A common form of railroad accident is that which often takes place when, by some accident to the coupling between them, the tender and the locomotive become separated. In such cases the air brakes are automatically applied and the runaway train brought to a stop. But if the fireman is at his post on the tender, the sudden application of the brakes is sufficient to throw him off his feet and he is hurled headlong under the wheels of his own train, which has not yet been brought to a complete standstill. Matthew J. Slattery and Charles A. Diehm, two railroad men of Philadelphia, have been recently awarded a patent on a device which is designed to save the fireman's life in this emergency, says the Scientific American. The apparatus consists of a metal net carried beneath the floor of the tender, which in case of a parting between the locomotive and tender will be released and drawn forward to provide a safety net to catch anyone who may be standing on the tender at the time of the accident. Railroads to Spend Much Money. A gross outlay of nearly $5,500,000 will be made by the Southern Pacific lines of Texas and Louisiana in improvements during the present year. Announcement of the plans was made by President W. B. Scott. Of this amount $2,038,000 will be used in the purchase of new rolling stock, including 20 locomotives; $2,066,000 will go for buying rails and fastenings for the laying of 281 miles of new track, and $1,218,000 will be expended for various other advancement projects. Spend Millions for Fruit Cars. The Northern Pacific railroad has ordered 2,000 cars especially for handling fruit. Cost $3,500,000. H.P.GAMBLECOMMANDS GEN. JOHN CHASE RETIRES AS ADJUTANT GENERAL. Chief Justice Gabbert Administers Oath of Office to New Leader of Colorado National Guard. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver,—Harry P. Gamble of Boulder formally took over the office of adjutant general of the Colorado national guard from Dr. John Chase April 1. Escorted by Governor Carlson, he went before Chief Justice W. H. Gabbert of the State Supreme Court and took the oath of office. This oath is similar to the enlistment oath of the national guard recruit. At the same time the new officer filed a $5,000 bond with the secretary of state. A federal bond for a similar amount will be filed by him covering his duties as distributing agent for government funds and supplies. Adjutant General Gamble met Dr. Chase at the military headquarters in the capitol. Dr. Chase turned over to him the books of the national guard and put in his hands the work to be done in the future. Dr. Chase retires after more than twenty years' active service with the state troops. He enlisted Nov. 16, 1895, helping to form at that time the Citizens' company. He was appointed adjutant general by Governor Shaffroth seven years ago. Gen. Gamble said he could not explain his future plans for the guard until he had familiarized himself thoroughly with its condition. He will continue to make Boulder his residence. School Head Asks Less Teaching. Too much attention is given by the schools to teaching from books and not enough to teaching from the practical things of life, according to Superintendent J. F. Keating of Pueblo county in an address before the joint meeting of the Educational Council of Colorado, in the senate chamber at the state capitol. Superintendent Keating cited instances from his own experience to illustrate how school children, because of the too strict adherence to book teaching, will endeavor to gain knowledge only from books of things about which they may find much more in a practical, useful way merely through observing the ordinary things of daily life. Nearly 100 county superintendents, instructors in higher institutions of learning of the state and others interested in the general advancement of education were present. Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, state superintendent of public instruction, presided. To Discuss Phone Valuation. Reports upon the actual valuation of the Colorado property of the Mountain States Telephone Company was taken up by the State Utilities Commission in the second hearing of the investigation into the rates, practices and service of the company. At the first hearing in January a complete inventory of the company's property was placed before the commission. Since that time the engineers and statisticians of the commission have been at work estimating what would be the cost of reproducing the entire plant. On the result of their work and on any further evidence the company may care to present, the rate question will be determined. Commission's Schedule Confiscatory. Application for a writ of review of the decision and order of the State Public Utilities Commission reducing rates and changing rules, regulations and practices of the Colorado Springs Light, Heat & Power Company was filed in the State Supreme Court. The company alleges that the commission exceeded its authority and arbitrarily fixing values of the company's property, and that the rates fixed in the schedule ordered in by the commission are confiscatory and in violation of the state and federal constitution Curtis Named for Deputy Warden. Fred F. Curtis was appointed deputy warden of the State Reformatory at Buena Vista. The appointment, which is only provisional, was approved by the State Civil Service Commission, Commissioners McLaughlin and Clarke voting for and Commissioner Morrison against approving the selection made by Warden M. P. Capp, whom the governor recently ordered discharged. Civil Service Tests April 19th Civil service examinations will be held on April 19 for assistant in dry land arboriculture (male), at a salary of from $900 to $1,500 a year; for junior mechanical engineer (male) at a salary of from $1,200 to $1,680 a year for grade 1 and from $720 to $1,080 a year for grade 2. State Milk Inspector Gets New Trial Clyde Taylor, state milk inspector against whom Jesse Lassen was given a judgment for $750 for dam ages because he caused his discharge from a milk farm, obtained permission of the District Court to reopen the case. Mr. Taylor showed that he had not attended court on the day that the judgment was rendered against him because he had misunderstood the date. The inspector asserts that he caused Lassen to be discharged from the dairy because he had tuberculosis. He who resolves to do one thing hon- orably and thoroughly, and sets about it at once, will attain usefulness and eminence. Business is like ore, dig for it. A delicious sandwich to serve with tea is this: Mix a fourth of a cupful of finely chopped Canton ginger with a third of a cupful of pecan meats. Add two table-spoonfuls of finely cut candied orange peel, one table-spoonful of the of finely chopped Canton ginger with a third of a cupful of pecan meats. Add two tablespoonfuls of finely cut candied or orange peel, one tablespoonful of the ginger sirup, one tablespoonful of vinegar and a few grains of salt. Spread between thin, unsweetened crackers Arrange on a plate covered with a lace paper doily. Orange Cakes.—Roll out pie paste a fourth of an inch thick and cut with any fancy cooky cutter. Arrange on a buttered sheet and bake in a hot oven until brown, split and fill them with orange marmalade, spread with orange frosting and sprinkle with chopped candied orange peel around the edges. To make the orange frosting add orange juice and orange rind for the flavor Add confectioners' sugar until the mixture is of the right consistency. Cherry Frittero.—Mix a fourth of a cupful of cornstarch, one fourth of a cupful of flour, one-half cupful of sugar and a fourth of a teaspoonful of salt. Add one-fourth of a cupful of cold milk and the yolks of three eggs, slightly beaten. Add the mixture gradually to two cupfuls of scalded milk, and cook in a double broiler fifteen minutes, stirring constantly until the mixture is well cooked. Add one-half cupful of cherries cut in halves and pour into a shallow pan to cool. Turn out on a board, cut in squares, dip in flour, egg crumbs and fry in deep fat. Maraschino Sauce.—Mix thoroughly one cupful of sugar and two tablespoonfuls of cornstarch, add gradually while stirring constantly two-thirds of a cupful of boiling water. Bring to the boiling point and let simmer five minutes; then add one-fourth of a cupful of the cherry sirup and a tablespoonful of butter bit by bit. A word of appreciation in the home often works wonders. Nothing is more ungrateful than passing over without remark and apparently without attention the many little efforts and attentions which are intended to sweeten domestic life WAYS WITH VEGETABLE8. The need of vegetables in our diet is one which is well recognized by all who study the needs of the body. The elements we get from vegetables which they take from the soil keep the blood in good condition and help in the resistance of disease. Cabbage should always be cooked uncovered to who study the needs of the body. The elements we get from vegetables which they take from the soil keep the blood in good condition and help in the resistance of disease. Cabbage should always be cooked uncovered to allow the resistance of the gases which cause intestinal trouble, and it also, when unconfined by cover, leaves a less objectionable odor in the house. Drop the sliced cabbage into rapidly boiling water and let it cook well until tender, then drain and serve with butter and vinegar, salt and pepper. Parsnips.—Cook parsnips until tender in boiling salted water, then drain and cool. When it is time for the meal, cut in halves and fry in butter on both sides until brown. Sprinkle a very little sugar over them to insure a nice brown surface. Boiled parsnips, mashed and mixed with fritter batter, then fried in deep fat is an other much liked dish. Onions With Apples.—Fried onions are so rich and indigestible, but with al so tasty, that one dislikes to eliminate them from the diet. When cooked with tart apples, using one part onion to two parts apples the dish is fully as delicious and more digestible. Put a small amount of drippings in the frying pan, add the sliced onion and brown a little, then add the apple and a small amount of boiling water, a sprinkling of sugar, salt and pepper and cook until all are well done. This dish may be baked in the oven and requires less care. Pctatoes a la Maitre d'Hotel.—Usually new potatoes are served in this manner, but freshly cooked diced potatoes are also good. Cook the potatoes until tender, drain them then toss them in melted butter, well mixed with minced parsley, adding lemot juice to taste, season with salt and cavenne and serve hot. A pot of parsley may be grown all the year around so that one may have the touch of flavor for various dishes as well as for garnishing. Nellie Macmill Famous Runner Going to Front. Tom Longboat, famous Indian runner, was enlisted in the Canadian forces and will no doubt make a fine soldier although his peculiar quali- fications are not those especially sought in soldier men. Element That Wins To have a definite goal, to keep that goal constantly in mind, not to be diverted by every breath of wind that blows, that is a basic element in the most successful selling campaigns.—John Irving Romer. 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PHONE CHAMPA 2077 STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, OF COLORADO STATESMAN. Pub- lished Weekly at Denver, for April 1, 1916. STATE OF COLORADO,{ County of Denver. }ss. Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and County of aforesaid, a aforesaid, D. D. Rivers, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the owner of the Colorado Stats- man; and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and bullet, a true statement of D. D. Rivers, (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above canton, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in Section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations printed on the reverse of this form, pwlt. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders WALLACE CLOW South 4750. DAY OR NIGHT 1023 Twenty-first St. Denver, Colo. Fruit Bowl 5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown is..... (This information is required from daily publications only.) JOSEPH D. D. RIVERS, (Signature of Editor, Publisher, Business Manager, or Owner.) S sworn to and subscribed before me, this 1st day of April, 1916. LULU O. TROUTE. Notary Public. (My Commission expires July 22, 1916.) Ready for the Birthday Party The little beauty of the family, having attained the responsibilities that begin with her fifth or sixth year, finds plenty of opportunity for wearing finery. What with Easter and June weddings that require her services as flower girl, and birthday and other parties that are always happening among her friends, her social training is well begun. A frock that will grace any occasion that requires fine dress is made of sheer batiste and fine val lace. The addition of a little very fine hand embroidery will enrich it to the highest degree of elegance in the dress of the small girl. Several silk skirts to be worn under it make a variety of colors possible, for the diaphanous batiste and the val lace veil all colors beautifully. Other sheer cotton fabrics may be used for dresses of this kind, and the various flouncecings, with narrow and taintly embroidered edgings, are very effective in little dresses with full skirts joined to short-waisted bodies. These bodies are finished at the high waist line with one or two narrow trills, made of the embroidered edge from the flouncing, and the short sleeves are merely undertrills of it Latest Fashionable Coiffure I I Two views of a very fashionable coifte are given in the picture shown above. This is one of several variations of the same style in which the hair is drawn back from the forehead and brought forward over the ears. Those who are young enough, or look young enough, and have the face for it, may attempt it as it is pictured. The style is not generally becoming but nevertheless has many devotees. It makes up in neatness and "finish" what it lacks in softness, and it imparts the charm that lies in looking well-groomed to those who wear it To dress it, the hair may be waved or marcelied and parted at a point on the forehead above each temple. The hair at the top of the forehead is then combed straight back and even when waved lies flat to the head with no hint of fluffiness about it. At the sides it is brought forward and curved over the ears and the ends concealed under coils across the back of the head. One or two small ringlets are allowed over the temple, and a recent version of this style has three short curls at the nape of the neck. The same arrangement of the front hair appears with the back hair brought to the top of the head and coiled into a long puff extending to the middle of the crown at the back. In another variation of the style all the hair is combed back from the face and brought to the top of the crown where it forms a loop of hair tied to --- Little overbodies of taffeta or other light silk are worn with them. They are cut without sleeves, having bands over the shoulders, and just to reach the top of the frills on the underbody. Their edges are pinked or finished with hemstitching. They may be made of wide ribbon, and several overbodies in various colors made to be worn with one frock. Slips of silk or mull to match them will bring the frock into harmony with any color scheme, but they are prettiest when worn over white with color confined to the overbodice and hair ribbons. Very handsome and showy party dresses for the small girl are made by joining fine val or other lingerie lace insertion to embroidered organdie insertion in alternating rows, by means of hemstitching. Although the lace, embroidery and hemstitching are all machine made the effect of these in combination is fine. The insertions must be basted together at home and the hemstitching done by someone who has the proper machine for it. There is a fad for having a hat or little bonnet made to match the lingerie party frock, and a pretty example is shown in the picture given here. I place with narrow ribbon. This is a coiffure for evening dress. A pretty style recently introduced shows the hair with an almost imperceptible wave parted at the left side and combed across the head to the right side. It is brought a little way down in a curve at the middle of the forehead and arranged in four soft coils across the back of the head against the nape of the neck. A Jew eled comb is thrust in the hair above the coils and at the right of the crown. The most becoming of recent styles has a small pompadour across the forehead and stands out at the sides, suggesting the bobbed hair of children in this style the back hair is coiled low across the head. In the latest coifures short curls are appearing sometimes at each side of the face and sometimes in the coils at the back of the head, and there is reason to believe that the popularity of the uncovered forehead is waning. Julia Bottomley Made With Ruffles. There are plain silk petticoats to wear with walking frocks that are plain petticoats, no more, no less. They are made with ruffles to give the required fullness at the bottom, and some of them are stiffened with crinoline or a reed. PHONE MAIN 6123-Day or Night THE DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING COMPANY FRANK S. REED, License Embalmer & Director Lady Assistant Polite Service to All Parlors, 2745 Welton Street BOLDEN B and LUNC 924 19th Street, DEN BROS. 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