Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY Mr. Barton's Big Scenic Excursion to Colorado Springs, August 4. Round-Trip $2.00 "THE SEVEN COMPETITORS" VOL. XX11. "THE S COMPET The Chicago Sunday Examiner of July 23rd devotes a full page editorial to the subject "The Seven Competitors," which this country has to contend with. They are: The Mohammedan and Spanish-Portuguese, The Russian and Hindu. The Black and Yellow and the White. It comments logically on each separately. Speaking of the Yellow and Black races it says: "The Yellow Peril. "Here is something to think of. Something that demands the attention and the determination of the people of this country. "Power once travelled on the land, now it travels on the seas. "The great concentrated power of Asia is Japan. Japan hates us and will continue to hate us. We have given her reason to hate us and shall continue to give her reason—we keep her out. "This nation, in civilization's war against Asia that may come, will be the buffer nation as Belgium is the buffer nation in this war. "Asia will no longer go on foot to attack Western civilization as in the days of Attila, or Genghis Khan. The Pacific Ocean will be the path; California will be the landing place if there ever is a landing place. "It is the business of the United States to concentrate its mind on the combined COMPETITION AND DANGER of the yellow race. "There are 600,000,000 yellow people on the earth. One-third of this planet's entire population. "Hard workers, fearless fighters, and they all hate white faces. Four hundred millions of Chinese breed at the rate of fifty to sixty per thousand—and as against twenty-nine in the United States. "Remember that. "Just at present the fathers drown many of their girl babies, and yet they number four hundred millions. How many will they number when they take care of human life, when, led perhaps by intelligent Japanese, they save those girl babies that they have been drowning for centuries and use them to breed soldiers? 4 "The average Japanese farm contains less than three acres of land—and it must support nine human beings. Do you wonder that they turn toward the great, beautiful farms along the Pacific? Do you doubt that they are determined to get land and room there—if they can. "England with her cunning statesmanship makes a treaty with Japan and then shuts them out. They are shut out from New Zealand, Austra- lia, Canada, and they have an alliance with England—a very nice combination—FOR ENGLAND. "Japan and China must find and possess new fertile fields outside or choke with over-population. "But even the yellow competition and danger need not worry us if we will realize that both exist. If we expose our workers to the competition of men glad to earn ten cents a day, or expose our territory to the invasion of a yellow race with whom white people cannot live—we shall know what competition and danger mean. "But if we will make ourselves masters of the road between Japan and California, build for the nation ships for fighting and for commerce in proportion to our wealth, we can forget that danger. But if we forget it WITHOUT preparation it will not forget us. "The Black Race." "No competition or danger here. "There are 200,000,000 black people on the earth—about one in eight. Theirs has been the hard lot among the earth's children. They have fought the tropical sun, the jungle and the wild beasts, and have been unable to rise as others have risen. The beginnings of religion and of scientific knowledge, the features of the Sphinx and other things are said to tell of the day when African civilization was the highest. The day of the black people, kind hearted, good natured, submissive, may come. It is not here now. Because the Mohammedans are converting all Africa so rapidly, Herbert Quick looks ahead to the day when the millions of blacks "may become a weapon in the hands of Islam." But the hand of Islam is the hand of an ignorant force, and the people of Africa are not easily united, kept together or mobilized. America need think of no problem of the blacks, except the problem of dealing wisely, justly and CONSISTENTLY with the millions here in this country, brought from Africa against their will, having now every possible claim for justice and for kindness upon this nation and its people. White Competition and Danger. There you have THE problem for the United States, its people and its statesmen. The great white danger is here at home, the danger of NATIONAL CONCEIT and foolish indifference. The next danger is in competition abroad—the marvelous efficiency of Germany, the consistency and diplomatic astuteness of England, the art, thrift, intelligence and intense patrio- DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1916 State Hist & Nat Hist Books State House RADC THE JOURNAL ursion to Color DENVER COLORADO tism of France. Consider the average crossroads store in the United States—shiftless, wasteful, inefficient, small boys in the cracker barrel, flies in the butter, everything dear, old, poor management—then look at a well-managed French or German shop. There you have the contrast between American methods and European methods in the world of international competition. To exist at all against the outside world this nation must have protection, PLENTY OF IT, and for many years to come. Even with protection we cannot have our share of the world's business unless we learn to criticise ourselves and conquer the great white peril—AMERICAN ENCEIT AND SELF-COMPLACENCY. We write to the Turks protesting against destruction of the Armenians—and the favorite reading of our small boys deals with the energetic completeness that marked the extermination of the Indian tribes by white men. We protest against barbarism in Europe's war, knowing that an army is a mob. At the same time our own mobs catch men and burn them alive. We call ourselves a REPUBLIC, and anybody can name a dozen rich men who have ten times the power of all the officials of the United States put together, because the dozen have the power of ORGANIZED MONEY. Our real peril is the white peril and its names are: American extravagance. American conceit. American inefficiency, waste in industry. AMERICAN INCAPACITY TO REALIZE THE POWER OF FOREIGN COMPETITION AND THE DANGER OF FOREIGN ATTACK. SMITH-JONES WEDDING Honolulu, T. H., July 8, 1916. In the beautiful city of Honolulu at 10 o'clock on the morning of July 4, Miss Eva Beatrice Jones, became the bride of Mr. Nolle Reginald Smith, the ceremony being performed by Chaplain Geo. W. Prioleau of the 25th Infantry U. S. Army, who has been a long friend of both of the contracting parties. Mrs. Smith is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jones of Denver, Colo., but for the past four years has been residing with her mother and sister in Oakland, Calif. She is a beautiful and accomplished young lady, being graduated from several musical colleges, one of which is "The California Institute of Musical Arts." Mr. Smith is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Smith, old residents of Cheyenne, Wyoming, but now residing in Denver, Colo. He is a fine and intellectual young man, a graduate of Cheyenne High School. From --- where he went to the University of Nebraska, where he became a Civil Engineer. He has had charge of several large irrigation construction contracts and is now Civil Engineer for the Honolulu Construction Company, the largest contracting concern in the Hawaiian Islands. The marriage was the culmination of a romance, which has extended over several years. Miss Jones arrived in Honolulu on the Wilhelmina at 7:15 a.m. the morning of the wedding, and found waiting to receive her Mrs. Suplee and her daughter, Merian Suplee of Berkeley, Cal., and Chaplain and Mrs. Prioleau, as well as the prospective groom. The ceremony was simply but beautifully solemnized in a setting of tropical plants and flowers, by Chaplain G. W. Prioleau, 25th Infantry, with Miss Merian Suplee as maid of honor and Mr. Francis Fitzgerald as groomsman. The bridal party were taken for an automobile drive about the island by Chaplain and Mrs. Prioleau. A. dinner was served at one of the leading grills of the city, and the happy couple were finally left in their own beautiful tropical cottage, with the best wishes of their friends. Mr. and Mrs. Smith will be at home to their friends at 2024 Kapiolani St. Honolulu, until a few weeks later when Mr. Smith's work will take him to the "Big Island" where they will remain until the completion of the contract which the company has on the island. AT CARRIZAL ("Captain Morey says his Negro troops faced death singing.") By day the sky of Mexico Stares, brazen, overhead; By night the light of alien stars Keeps watch above the dead. How did they die in that far land, How did they face the grave— Those men whose fathers bore the brand That marked the southland slave? Did they, like recreant cowards, weap Or vainly seek to fly? Ah, no, upon that bloody field They showed how men should die! Betrayed, outnumbered, still they fought To their heroic end, And smiled at death, and bravely sang, As welcoming a friend. The strange, wild music of their race With mellow, low refrain, From cabin homes, from rice-land swamps, In memory swells, again. But never such a song rang out As when they faced the foe, And, singing, charged, from trench to trench, And gave him blow for blow! And in the annals of our land, Long as our flag shall wave, That song will show that men are men Though children of the slaves. CHARLES T. DAZEY, Author of "In Old Kentucky," in the New York Times. --- RACE NEWS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES Washington, D. C.—After being examined at Dublan, Mexico, by a board consisting of Brig. Gen. Pershing, Col. Berry and other army officers of high rank, Maj. Charles Young was advanced to the rank of lieutenant colonel under date of July 1. He is stationed "somewhere in Mexico," in command of the 2nd battalion of the 10th Cavalry. He is a graduate of West Point and is the first Negro in the history of the army to attain the rank of lieutenant colonel from field duty. coast of Africa as it is around the world. Every eighth person of the world's population lives in the Dark Continent. The blacks double their number every forty years and the whites every eighty years. If the population of Africa were to be represented, by the letters contained in the Bible it would require forty Bibles to set forth the number of this vast multitude. San Antonio, Tex.—Four noncommissioned officers from the Negro regiments of the regular army have been commissioned as first lieutenants and assigned to the 8th regiment infantry, Illinois National Guard, Col Franklin A. Dennison, commanding, now on duty at this point. Two of them are from the 10th Cavalry and two are from the 24th Infantry. The selection and promotion of these men is the result of action taken a year ago by Colonel Dennison, who sought to secure trained men from the regular army to aid in developing the 8th Illinois. The men selected are: Sergt.-Maj. Eugene P. Frierson, 10th Cavalry, now with his regiment in Mexico; Sergt. Richard Bradley, machine gun company, 10th Cavalry, Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; Sergt. William B. Crawford, Co. L. 24th Infantry, with his regiment in Mexico; 1st Segt. James H. Green, Co. K. 24th Infantry, with his regiment in Mexico. POLICEMAN SUPRESS VICE Chicago, Ill., July 18.—Your correspondent is glad to tell you that police-women are a great aid in suppressing vice. This was fully demonstrated when Mayor Thompson ordered closed 'Walkin' The Dog" sailoons, and two South Side cabarets. Two of the "blacks and tan" cafes of the South Side that helped make "Walkin' The Dog" notorious were closed Tuesday by the police after Mayor Thompson revoked their licenses. The most widely known was the Panama cafe, 3501 South State street, conducted by a white man, Isadore Levin, but frequented by blacks and whites of both sexes. It has been in trouble several times before, having been closed for ten days last March and reopened after the mayor restored the license. Its fall this time was due almost entirely to the investigations of Policewomen Crot and Wightman, but to their report Captain Stephen K. Healey added some important facts. STRIKING FACTS ABOUT AFRICA Africa comprises nearly one-fourth of the earth's land surface. Africa is four time the size of the United States, and ten thousand times as large as the state of Rhode Island. It is as great a distance around the NO 50 coast of Africa as it is around the world. Every eighth person of the world's population lives in the Dark Continent. The blacks double their number every forty years and the whites every eighty years. If the population of Africa were to be represented, by the letters contained in the Bible it would require forty Bibles to set forth the number of this vast multitude. There are 843 languages and dialects in use among the blacks in Africa. Comparatively few of these languages have been reduced to writing. The coal fields of Africa aggregate 800,000 square miles; its copper fields equal those of North America and Europe combined, and its undeveloped iron ore amounts to five times that of North America. Its forests would build a board walk, six inches thick and eight miles wide around the globe. It would be made ebony, teak, rosewood, mahogany and almost every known kind of timber. Africa has forty thousand miles of river and lake navigation and water power aggregating ninety times those of Niagara Falls. In the interior of Africa the black man is the freight train. Each man carries about sixty pounds. If Africa had the same proportion of railroad mileage as the United States according to its size, it would have a million miles of track instead of the 25,000 miles now in operation. The Africans are eager for education, for this means wage-earning power. It is a common sight in the railroad yard during the lunch hour to see a group of natives conning over a spelling book. One area in Africa unoccupied by missionaries is three times the size of New England, a second would make four states like New York, a third would cover eight Iowas, and a fourth is eighteen times the size of Ohio. Throughout Africa there is only one missionary for every 133,000 souls. It is probable that as many people are killed in Africa every year as a result of witchcraft as were killed in all the armies of Europe during the first year of the present war. Almost the entire continent is under European flags. France has a colony in Africa, twenty times the size of France itself. The British flag flies over a territory as large as the United States, and extends almost without interruption from the Cape of Cairo, a distance of six thousand miles.—Missionary Review of the World. CONDENSATION OF FRESH NEWS THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT, CRISP PARAGRAPH8. STORY OF THE WEEK SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND FOREIGN LANDS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. ABOUT THE WAR French make small gains south of Estrees. The Italians have captured Monte Climont from the Austrians. British and Germans continue furious fighting north of Somme. A French sub-leutenant has brought down his tenth German war plane. Russian Caucasian army now threatens Turk stronghold of Erzengan in Armenia. Turkish troops to be sent to reinforce Teutonic allies against Russians in Galicia. Australians, holding major portion of Pozieres, repulse enemy attempt to recapture village. Russian army in Armenia captured Gumuskhaneh and now is forty miles northwest of Baiburt. Germans withdraw troops from Verdun front to strengthen resistance to allies in northern France. Berlin declares British attack on Thiepval-Guillemont line was minor success, won at great cost of men. German troops moved from Verdun to fight along Somme. Berlin and Petrograd silent about fighting near Riga. A new advance of Turkish forces on the Sinai peninsula to within about thirty miles of the Suez canal has been reported to the British authorities. The Russians have driven the Teutonic forces facing them south of the river Lipa, in Volhyna near the Galacian border beyond the town of Berestechk to the west. Berlin reports that the enemy lost seven aeroplanes, four of them south of Bapaume, one east of Arras, one west of Combles and one near Roye. Lieutenant Wintgens disabled his tenth and Lieutenant Hoehendorff his eleventh aeroplane. The emperor bestowed the Pour le Merite on First Lieutenant von Althaus, who conquered a biplane near Roye. WESTERN James Whicomb Riley, the Hoosier poet, died at his home in Indianapolis. Reno, Nev., wants the thirteenth head camp session of the Woodmen of the World. The mysterious death of 17-year-old Elizabeth Ratcliffe, while riding with Roy Hinterlier has become the sensation of Richland county, Ill. It was estimated Tuesday that the present heat wave in the plains and Pacific coast states has levied, directly or indirectly, a toll of 200 lives. The death list in the preparedness parade bomb explosion at San Francisco, grew to seven with the death of Capt. Reuben J. Vaughn of Berkley, Cal. Charles E. Hughes telegraphed Senator Fall of New Mexico asking if it would be convenient to meet him in New York to confer on the Mexican situation. Six persons were killed and forty-three injured by the explosion at San Francisco of a timed bomb in the midst of a throng viewing a preparedness parade. Jose Valenzuela, charged with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. William Parker, has been located on the Ranch Del dos Adolos, fifty miles northwest of Casas Grandes, Mexico, according to Columbus, N. M., advises. WASHINGTON The body of Lieutenant Colonel Butler was buried in Arlington cemetery. Chicago has been selected for the campaign headquarters of the Woman's party. The Senate unanimously confirmed the nomination of John H. Clarke of Cleveland, Ohio, as associate justice of the Supreme Court to succeed former Justice Hughes. Official announcement was made at the White House that negotiations have practically been completed for the purchase of the Danish West Indies by the United States from Denmark for $25,000,000. After being held up since January on objection of Senator Hitchcock, the nomination of Thomas S. Allen as United States attorney for Nebraska was confirmed by the Senate. Allen is a brother-in-law of William Jennings Bryan. Information that the Chandler Company of Philadelphia has arranged a $30,000,000 loan to the government of Chile for railroad development was received at the Department of Commerce from Commercial Attaché Havens at Santiago. The loan was arranged on the basis of 6 per cent. FOREIGN Twenty persons were drowned when two ferry boats collided with each other on the Spree near Berlin. Nearly 2,000 cases of alcohol, containing twenty gallons in a case, were destroyed by a warehouse fire in Juarez. A fine of 5,000,000 marks has been imposed upon the city of Brussels for celebrating the Belgian national festival, according to the Amsterdam Echo Belge. Emperor William, it was officially announced at Berlin, has moved from the western to the eastern theater of the war, accompanied by the chief of the general staff of the army in the field. Walter Hines Page, the American ambassador, expressed himself to the Associated Press as fully alive to the possibility of trouble arising from the publication of the statutory blacklist of American firms. British authorities refused permission to Thomas Kelly and his wife and Joseph Smith, all Americans, to land from the American liner Philadelphia at Liverpool, and ordered them back to America. At Chihuahua City, Mex., Gen. Jacinto Trevino, commanding the Mexican Army Corps of the Northeast, announced that he had received orders from Gen. Carranza to make every possible effort to pacify and rehabilitate northern Mexico. Premier Asquith told John Redmond, the leader of the Irish Nationals in the House of Commons, that the British government did not propose to introduce an Irish bill in regard to which there did not appear to be the prospect of a substantial agreement by any political parties. The prospect for this year's sugar beet crop in Germany, according to a report to the Hanover Courier, justifies the expectation of a surplus if the use of beets as 'fodder for cattle is prohibited immediately. The estimated production of sugar beets for 1916 is 38,000,000 hundredweight as compared with 29,000,000 hundredweight in 1915. Premier Asquith in commons moved for a vote of credit of £450,000,000—the largest sum which the government has asked for in a single bill since the beginning of the war. The measure, characterized as "a supplementary estimate," will bring the total asked this year up to £1,050,000,000 and the total since the beginning of the war to £2,832,000,000, or about $14,160,000,000. SPORTING NEWS Standing of Western League Clubs. Clubs— Won. Lost. Pct. Omaha 56 29 659 Lincoln 50 36 581 Des Moines 44 42 549 Sloux City 44 45 484 Denver 42 46 477 Wichita 38 48 442 Topeka 38 48 442 St. Joseph 34 51 400 Roy Moore of California and Benny Chavez of Trinidad fought fifteen fast rounds to a draw at the National Athletic Club in Denver. Heath Byford, Chicago, and Clifford J. Lockhorn, Kansas City, won the doubles title of the Great Plains tennis tournament for men at Kansas City, by defeating Jerry and James Weber of Chicago, 6-4, 6-8, 6-3, 7-5. With weather conditions ideal and the track in good shape the grand circuit meeting began at the Michigan State fairgrounds at Detroit. Gilbert Patch, son of Dan Patch, won the second division of the 2:17 pace in three straight heats. Zombro Clay an outsider, paying $182.80 in the $2 mutuels in the first heat, won the 2:18 trot. GENERAL The funeral of James Whitcomb Riley, the Indiana poet, was held at his home on Lockerbie street, in Indianapolis. The simple services were attended by relatives and intimate friends. Communion services were held at Baltimore aboard the interned North German Lloyd steamer Neckar, lying alongside the submarine Deutschland, for the captain and crew of the submarine. Thousands of men, women and children, admirers of the works of James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet, passed before the casket in which his body lay in state in the capitol at Indianapolis. Both deaths and new cases increased July 25 in the epidemic of infantile paralysis. During the twenty-four hour period ending at 10 a.m. thirty-eight children were killed by the disease and 150 stricken. The United States Steel Corporation declared a 1 per cent extra dividend on common stock. The regular quarterly dividend of $1\frac{1}{4}$ per cent was also declared on common, making the full dividend $2\frac{1}{4}$ per cent. The partly burned body of the Rev. William Perry Eveland, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church in the Philippine Islands and southern Asia, was found along the banks of a creek near his summer home at Mount Holly Springs, Pa. Sixty thousand garment workers of New York locked out or on strike for more than three months, will return to work. Imprisoned in a new waterworks tunnel under Lake Erie, at Cleveland, Ohio, as a result of a terrific explosion of gas in the tube, sixteen men are believed to be dead. Requisitions for winter clothing and equipment were prepared by the quartermaster's departments of the Massachusetts and New Mexico National Guard on station at Columbus, N. M. COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. Aug. 1—Celebration Colorado's Forti- elth Anniversary of Statehood, at Denver. Aug. 2—National Convention of Rep- resentatives of Negro Race at Den- ver. Aug. 8—Democratic State Assembly at Denver. Aug. 9—Meeting Colorado Editorial Association at Denver. Aug. 10—Republican State Assembly at Denver. Aug. 11—Progressive State Convention at Denver. Aug. 10-12 "Woman's Party Conference in Colorado Springs. Aug. 14-Colorado Fashion Races. Aug. 14-Colorado Federation of Labor meeting at Colorado Springs. Aug. 14-Pickle Day and Fair at Platteville Aug. 21-Celebration of the opening of the new State Highway between Delaware and Pagosa Springs, at Durango. Aug. 22-25—Annual Convention, Grand F. at G. at Greely. Aug. 11-37—I. Apple Pie Days at Rifle. Sept. 18—Boulder County Fair at Longmont. Englmont Sept. 11 - Frontier Days' celebration at Fort Mongol Sept. 11—Meeting Midland Trail Ass'n in Denver. Sept. 15-16—Harvest Festival at Nunn. Sept. 27-29—State Convention B.P.O.E. at Trinidad. The state collected a tax of $29,569.06 on the estate of Delos A. Chappell of Denver. Simplicity characterized the funeral services of United States Senator Thomas M. Patterson of Denver. Gordon Jones of Denver has refused appointment as one of the four members of the federal farm loan board. Denver's building permits issued in July amounted to more than $300,000—the largest for the same month since 1912. Denver bank clearings for the week ending July 20 were $10,658,000, an increase of 6.9 per cent over the same week last year. Work rebuilding the five towers of the Kittimac tram, at Silverton, recently destroyed by the big forest fire, is progressing satisfactorily. Silver ore running $955 to the ton has been struck in the Princess mine at Jamestown by Bert Eastman and H. K. Henderson, leasers of the property. Genuine enthusiasm is indicated throughout the state in the first annual convention of the grain men of Colorado to be held in Denver Aug. 1 and 2. Seven cars of an extra eastbound Denver & Rio Grande freight train were derailed west of Riverside, between Salida and Leadville. No one was injured. Harry A. Brilliant of Denver was killed and four daughters were seriously injured, two perhaps fatally, in an automobile accident near Nunn, twenty miles north of Greeley. The Western Light & Power Company will spend $200,000 within the next few months on improvements in its properties in Colorado, according to H. U. Wallace of Boulder, vice president of the company. The War Department has notified state commanders that all college students mustered in with militia units will be mustered out of service in time for them to enter their classes at the opening of the college terms in the fall. Colorado convicts working on the highway to Nederland have struck it rich in tungsten. About twenty men are in on the bonanza, found while building the roads and at the present time about $2,000 is in the community ore store, sacked and ready for shipment. The Colorado Pioneer Printers' Association of Denver, paid tribute to Orville L. Smith, a former president of the organization, in a resolution declaring him to have been an "eminent and patriotic citizen" and "an earnest worker for the Pioneer Printers' Association." Eight persons are believed to have lost their lives in a wreck of Denver & Rio Grande freight train No. 84, eastbound, six miles west of Pueblo. Two persons are known to be dead, but it is believed that at least six others perished in the flames which consumed the wreckage. Mrs. Richard Crawford Campbell, his only daughter, is the sole heir to the estate of the late Thomas M. Patterson. It became known that Senator Patterson left no will. Instead the statutory laws of descent will prevail, the entire estate going to the daughter, the only direct heir. Attacked by two automobilelists, Gus and K. O. Peterson, brothers, along the highway near Morrison, and left by the roadside with a fractured skull, Samuel C. Pollard of Denver, former deputy sheriff and recently appointed special policeman to patrol the foothill parks, is dying in the County hospital at Denver. Judge Henry S. Class, sitting in the District Court at Golden, annulled the marriage of George H. Mills, "dream millionaire" of Newton, Ia., and Miss Jean Lange, manicure of Denver, who attempted suicide when she learned her husband's wealth stories were untrue. Thomas Lyman, Denver & Rio Grande freight conductor who immediately assumed full responsibility for a wreck on the road at Petersburg before any other employe could come under suspicion, has been reinstated by orders of President H. U. Mudge GENERAL PROSPERITY IN DENVER AND COLORADO TO STAY, SAY BANKERS. Reports to Denver Convention tell of Increased Farm Crops and Activity in Mining and Other Industries. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—Expanding prosperity was the keynote of the first session of the fifteenth annual convention of the Colorado State Bankers' Association in this city. Bankers from every section of the state and from outside of the state talked of the development of agriculture here, the general revival in mining, the increased output from coal fields and the rapid increase in population throughout the state. The feature of the opening session was the address of Mayor Speer, who urged the bankers to put more human interest in their transactions and learn to intermingle "hand money" and "heart money." Encouraging reports were made by the five group chairmen, including W. E. Hickman, Windsor; O. T. Christensen, Castle Rock; D. T. Stone, Grand Junction; K. A. Gagg, Durango, and Benjamin L. Lusk of La Jara. All told of good crop conditions, of increased population and of expanding business. The reports of Paul Hardey of Denver, secretary, and of A. M. Rex of Kiowa, treasurer, showed the organization to be in a prosperous condition. The building of a uniform system of state roads, co-operation in the use of the land farm loan law and the securing of a loan bank in Denver and a review of the prosperous conditions throughout the state were dominating features in a series of resolutions adopted by bankers representing every section of Colorado at the closing session of the fifteenth convention of the Colorado State Bankers' Association. The following officers were chosen: J. M. B. Petriken, Greeley, president; D. T. Stone, Grand Junction, vice president; Paul Hardey, Denver, secretary, and W. F. Boyd, Saguache, treasurer. Garcia Again Convicted. Fort Collins.-Lauro Garcia was convicted in the District Court here of the murder of Charles E. Brockman, a city policeman, Dec. 20, 1911. The jury found a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, recommending imprisonment for life. Garcia was convicted on his first trial five years ago, and was then sentenced to be hanged. He obtained his second trial through a reprieve granted by Governor Ammons, when the governor learned that a number of other convicted men had gained new trials, while Garcia did not have money enough to pay for a transcript of testimony for a Supreme Court hearing. Guilty of Violating Utility Rule. Grand Junction.—Steve Muret, William Collins, Joseph Jerr, John Madrick, William Brandin and William McDermott, all from Denver, were sentenced to fifteen days in the county jail, having pleaded guilty to the charge of violating the recent order of the State Utilities Commission in relation to free transportation. The men accepted passes from the Rio Grande railway to work for that road near here. When they arrived in Grand Junction they refused to carry out their agreement to work and sought employment elsewhere. Omaha Capital Buys Gold Mine Boulder.—A group of Omaha capitalists headed by F. M. Godfrey, mining engineer, purchased the Smuggle mine, known as the best gold producer in the Rollinsville district. The price paid is given out as $142,000. The Smuggle is situated in Moon gulch, about two miles southwest of Rollinsville. Since it was opened up nine years ago, the Smuggle has produced about $500,000 in the yellow metal. The mill of the property will be increased from 30 stamps to 50. Numerous other improvements are planned. Dies After Month of Strange Dies After Month of Strange Stupur. Denver—Mrs. Fay Harvey, youngful wife of an employé of the Union Pacific shops, is dead; dead after lying since the 18th of June in a strange stupur, diagnosis of which baffled the best medical skill in Denver—a stupur wherein the young woman lay for weeks, apparently in a deep sleep, insensible to the efforts of physicians to awaken her and unable to accept nourishment of any kind. Two Killed at Grade Crossing. Denver.—A couple identified by papers found on them as Mr. and Mrs. W. Y. Waugh of Coldwater, Kans., were killed when a Denver & Interurban car and their automobile collided on the Barzol crossing nine miles northwest of Denver. Two Killed in Train Wreck. Pueblo.—Two men were killed and one injured and property loss of $30,000 sustained in the wrecking of a Denver & Rio Grande freight train seven miles west of here. The dead are Gus Anderson, 45 years old, of San Francisco, who died in the hospital, and an unidentified Swede whose body lies under the wreckage of an ore car. William Muir of Liver pool, England, is in the hospital with a sprained wrist and minor injuries. Henning's Shoes Have the pleasant effect of throwing the spotlight on your feet, and there are reasons: Customers appreciate beauty—Henning's styles, lasts and colors are what girls call "adorable." Women, most of them at least, have to count dollars, and Henning's shoes, with their moderate prices, comes within the purse reach of them all. 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Phone South 1608 Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oysters. Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn Fed Meats Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game. Telephones Main 4302, 4303, 4304, 4305 622-636 15th Street Denver, Colorado Established 1876 PIONEER HATTERS OF THE WE MAKE OLD HATS BY PRACTICAL HAT RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS DYERS Of Gents' and Ladies' Hats of Eve 1624 Champa St., Denver Established 1876 R HATTERS OF THE MAKE OLD HATS IN TICAL HAT LEACHERS DYERS Ladies' Hats of Eve Champa St., Denver RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS DYERS AND FINISHERS Of Gents' and Ladies' Hats of Every Description 1624 Champa St.. Denver, Colo. Store No. 1. 2701 WELTON ST. Main 885 875 PHONE MAIN 3028 t to impress upon you another of Henning's shoes, we are sticklers etail, and this is immediately ap- $2.50 Shoes the newest creations for spring. Henning's $2.50 Shoe Store 820-822 FIFTEENTH STREET. You Save A Dollar. J. C. HAMPSON, Vice Pres Y, Sec. and Treas. S DRUG CO. net. Right Prices Prescription NS, Treas. J. B. MINTER, See. ORTERS' CLUB CONNECTION the block from Union Depot. ER. Barber. DENVER, COLORADO. RES. PHONE GALLUP 942 RETTIG Staple Groceries STREET Denver, Colo. A woman in a dress. ```markdown ``` Store No. 2 26TH AND WELTON Main 4955-4956 FREE CHECK ROOM AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The Negro is coming to be one of the great assets of Southern industrial life, according to a report brought from Kentucky to the convention of the National Association of Manufacturers held recently at the Waldorf-Astoria. It was brought by Frank D. Rash of the Kentucky Manufacturers' association, who, although a manufacturer, gave the convention a treat in old-time oratory as good as if he did nothing else for a living. "No longer," said Mr. Rash, "does the gallant, bewhiskered southern colonel surround himself with cupbearers and lounge on the broad veranda of his colonial mansion, all the while sipping the seductive mint julep from the frosted cup of silver. And though the Kentucky colonel still lives, you will now see him donning cap and overalls and leading the forces of industry in bringing Kentucky's marvelous mineral wealth to the use of mankind, or yet, perhaps, as the executive directing his staff in any one of the many manufacturing enterprises springing up within the borders of the commonwealth. "Much has been written and said concerning a so-called Negro problem—a great part of this at long distance; and it may be that the first-hand experiences and observations of a southerner may be of some interest to you. As respects the completeness of the information of many writers on this subject, the average southerner cannot avoid regarding some statements as did the two old Irish ladies. The archbishop had preached a fine sermon on married life and its beauties. The two old ladies, both with figures and families of ample proportions, were heard coming out of church commenting on the address. "'Tis a fine sermon his riverence would be after givin' us,' said one to the other. 'It is, indade,' was the reply; 'and I wish I knew as little about the matter as he does.' "In expressing the belief that Negro labor is one of the greatest assets of southern industry it is devoutly to be hoped that such expression will not be considered in the light of an attempt to point out any commercial advantage of one section of the country, but rather a desire to present the idea of the thoughtful southerner of today and to pay just tribute to the worthy southern Negro. "That remarkable man, Booker T. Washington, pointed out to the people of his race that their only hope lay in work, hard work and efficient work in the fields, the forests, the factories, and the mines, in the industrial school, and in the college and in the professions, and to that end never ceased his call to service. You will recall his wonderful address at the opening of the cotton states exposition in Atlanta in 1895, which did more than any public utterance of any man to temper suspicion and race hatred and to bring about a better understanding in the South, and while the Utopian state in this understanding has not been reached and may never be, yet, nevertheless, we are day by day and year by year approaching Booker T. Washington's dream for the South. "Having had opportunity to observe the application of the industrial principles Booker T. Washington laid down for the southern Negro, or, as to that, for all peoples, it is gratifying to bear testimony to the correctness of those ideas, if such testimony were needed, and in which the best thought of the South will join." An impressive illustration of affection felt for the faithful "war-time" Negro by the whites of this part of the South occurred near Demopolis, in the heart of the "Black belt" of Alabama, recently, says the Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald, when the body of Ben Coleman, an old Negro bodyguard of members of the Coleman family, was tenderly borne to the grave by six prominent white citizens, all sons of Confederate veterans, and laid to rest in the Coleman family cemetery in a grave piled high with choicest floral tributes. More than 100 prominent men and women attended the burial. Many of them wept over the old Negro's casket, and the highest tributes of affection were paid the memory of the ex-slave. Ben lied on the Coleman place before the war between the states. When the conflict opened he entered the Confederate service as bodyguard to Capt. Cruse Coleman. For four years he was faithful to his master, and several times served in the ranks. When Captain Coleman was desperately wounded the Negro slave carried General Judenitch, who has commanded the Russian army against Turkey from the beginning, and to whom may be given the credit for the fall of Erzerum and Bitlis, belongs to the younger school of Russian commanders, though he had experience in the Japanese war, where he took part in the abortive attempt at relieving Port-Arthur. He was a pupil of the military lyceum at Petrograd and entered the corps de pages, from which he joined his regiment, the Imperial guard, one of the corps de l'elite. How does a colored man handle his own people? To answer this question, so far as Captain Washington is concerned, is to say that here is a man who is ready to explain to the boys why it is necessary for them to obey certain rules; here is a friend and adviser, who, with all his kindness, cannot easily be hoodwinked; here is an administrative officer who is willing to explain with calmness what is what and is then prepared to insist that boys must do their part to maintain high standards. Captain Washington is, indeed, a "big brother" to the 500 Negro and Indian boys who are being trained at Hampton for school teaching, farming, and mechanical industries. He is friendly but emphatic in his administration of discipline. He is willing to put the facts squarely to boys and expects them to do their best. Even when he has to send away an occasional boy, he gives the best kind of advice and has in this way started many boys on a higher path. Allen Washington's career is typical of thousands of Negroes, who, during 50 years of freedom, have emerged from a very simple life to take their places in a complex civilization. As an officer of the Hampton school, Captain Washington has taken part in many educational and financial meetings which have been held to create new interests in Negro education. He has traveled far and wide, speaking on behalf of Hampton and the ideas of education for which Hampton stands. He knows the South and conditions which his people face. He was one of Doctor Washington's close friends and associates. He has taken an active part in the constructive work of several Negro organizations which aim to promote race relations. Captain Washington is treasurer of the Negro Organization Society of Virginia, which is carrying to more than 300,000 Negroes the message of "better health, better schools, better farms and better homes," and financial secretary of the Hampton Institute Alumni association. He is also president of the Sumner Literary society, which is composed of colored men and women who make a serious study of the best literature. Captain Washington has received instruction from some of the best United States army officers who have been stationed at Fort Monroe. He is a thorough drillmaster and tactician. He believes in his own race, as well as in white people. He preaches the doctrine of success through struggle to the boys under his charge. Whether as a farmer, an oysterman, a harnessmaker, a disciplinarian or a trusted officer in some Negro organization, Allen Washington has always retained his native simplicity of speech, sincerity and spirit of racial good will. It is to men of the type of Booker T. Washington, Robert R. Moton and Allen Washington that more and more people are looking today for helpful suggestions relating to the race problem.—New York Times. A recently invented substitute for rubber tires which can be attached to any automobile wheel consists of two concentric metal rings between which are clusters of springs. A window that a Frenchman has patented consists of a number of pivoted sections which may be moved to any desired angle by pulling a chain. him on his back from the battlefield to a place of safety and nursed him back to life. When the war was over Ben returned to the old plantation and declared he didn't want any freedom. He was given land to work and was provided for when there was a crop failure. To Ben was given the honor in the stirring days following the war that no other Negro in the South enjoyed. It was a knowledge of the workings of the Ku-Klux Klan. It first came about through accidental knowledge the Negro had acquired, and afterward from the necessity to trust some Negro with certain information. A novel French heater for rooms consists of a carpet in which are woven wires to take current from a light socket and distribute the electric heat evenly. A new machine for sharpening safety razor blades does the work with revolving cylinders so that the blades are concaved without the edges being worn down. Using mirrors that are invisible to the audience, a German motion picture apparatus reflects the entire contour of the players in a picture, giving a lifelike appearance. A German musician has invented an electrically operated machine which records on a roll of paper every note of a musical composition as he plays it upon a piano. Three-fifths of the people of Portugal are engaged in agriculture. CLEARANCE FOR THE DEUTSCHLAND READY AT PIER TO MAKE DASH SEAWARD WITHOUT ANY FURTHER NOTICE. TO RETURN TO BREMEN U. S. WAR SHIPS SENT OUT TO PREVENT ATTACK IN AMERICAN WATERS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Baltimore, Md., July 27.—The German submarine liner Deutschland was cleared by her commander, Capt. Paul Koenig, for "Bremen or any other port in Germany." Any hour, now, the vessel may start down Chesapeake Bay prepared to make a dash for the open sea through the Virginia capes and the guard of allied warships off the threemile limit. Secrecy surrounds the plans of Capt. Koenig. After obtaining his clearance papers at the custom house he said, in reply to questions asked for the benefit of the Maryland Pilots' Association, that the exact time of his departure was indefinite. Last night he had made no arrangements for a pilot but he can procure one almost immediately at any time he desires. Agents for the subsea freighter announced that it was ready for the return voyage to Germany, and that clearance papers would be secured later in the day. This information was conveyed to the custom house, and the office of the clearance clerk was kept open for Capt. Koenig, who arrived shortly before 4 o'clock with Capt. Hinsch of the North German Lloyd liner Neckar. Collector of Port Ryan communicated with the Treasury Department at Washington, and it informed Capt. Koenig that his request would be granted; consequently the cargo was described, officially, as being composed of general merchandise. Washington, July 27.—The battleship North Carolina and three torpedo boat destroyers were ordered out to "exercise on the southern drill grounds," and departed immediately. Announcement of this was made by the Navy Department a few hours after the fighting craft had reached their destination. Admission was also made that the ships "will temporarily also be engaged in neutrality duty." It happens that the "southern drill grounds" are in the immediate vicinity of the sea buoy off Cape Henry, at the exact spot where the Deutschland must take to sea when it is decided to run the gauntlet of the British and French warships. It happens also that it was here that an unidentified British cruiser passed within the three-mile limit and thus created another episode which threatens to call for diplomatic adjustment between the United States and Great Britain. The North Carolina has aboard three seaplanes and constitutes a considerable addition to the American naval force assembled to see that there is no fighting in American waters. New President for Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo.—Federico Henriquez Carvajal was proclaimed provisional President of Santo Domingo by Congress. President Carvajal succeeded Juan Isidoro Jiminez. He was elected by the chamber of deputies on May 17. ALLIES WIN ON TWO FRONTS. Germans Repulse Strong Russian Attack Along Dingister. London, July 27.—The allies are able to congratulate themselves on another good day's record with the capture of the important positions of Pozieres on the west front and Erzinger in Armenia, while the Russian general, Sakharoff, in the fighting on the Slonevka river, captured another 4,000 prisoners and five guns. The night of July 24 Italian troops repulsed two violent counter attacks against the summit of Monte Cimone, which had been captured from the Austrians, says the Italian official announcement, issued at Rome. South of the Dneister river and west of Obertyn, a Russian attack broke down under German fire, says a statement issued by the Austro-Hungarian headquarters. Russian reconnoitering attacks southwest of Labaczovka were repulsed. All attacks on the Italian front were repulsed by the Austrians, the statement adds. World's Roping Record Broken. Cheyenne,—Twice within five minutes the world's steer-roping record was broken at Frontier park, first by Bert Weir of Monument, N. M., who reduced it from 30 seconds to 27 seconds; then by Fred Lowery of Oklahoma, who cut it to 24 seconds. Only one serious accident marred the thrilling sports on the program. An outlaw broncho reared and fell back on Fred de Mills, dangerously injuring him in the head and chest. COLORADO DAY, AUG. GOVERNOR GEO. A. CARLSON ISSUES PROCLAMATION. Executive Declares Fortieth Anniversary of Centennial State's Admission to Union a Legal Holiday. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—On July 22 Governor George A. Carlson issued the following proclamation: On Tuesday, Aug. 1, this state will celebrate her fortieth birthday. "Colorado Day" is an occasion dear to the hearts of our citizens, particularly to the pioneer, for it carries memory back through the sweep of years to the frontier days of romance, adventure and peril and brings the true perspective of our marvelous advancement since our admission into the Union as a sovereign state. On this day while we mark our progress, we also renew our faith in ideals yet to be attained. There has never been better reason for a joyous, happy, ungrudging celebration than on this coming Colorado day. The last year has been epocaly for its prosperity and the social and moral advance of our people. The coming harvest promises to be unusually bountiful, our mineral resources are yielding record-breaking wealth; business has entered into a new day of substantial, daily-increasing prosperity; our people are united and threatened danger from abroad has caused a re-birth of the virile patriotism of the pioneer fathers. Therefore, and in accordance with law, I, George A. Carlson, governor of Colorado, do hereby declare Tuesday, August 1, 1916, a legal holiday. It is especially urged that our state and national flags be prominently displayed; that wherever possible suitable exercises be held and that Colorado products be used exclusively in the celebration of the day. Coloradoans Paid $3,679,000 insurance The life insurance companies paid to beneficiaries in policies on residents of this state in 1915 the aggregate sum of $3,679,000, exclusive of payments made in sixty-seven cities and towns of the state where the aggregate amounts were less than $10,000. Denver led the list with a total of $2,040,000 in policies which were for $10,000 or more. Pueblo and Colorado Springs were close together, the first receiving $243,250 and the other $224,000. The largest policy paid in the state was for $51,500 and went to the beneficiaries of David S. Lehman of Denver, who died last year. Robert H. McMann carried the second largest amount in this city, $47,895 The beneficiaries of John J. McGinnity received $40,930. State Has $70,000 for Investment. As a result of the ability of the state to pay its obligations and appropriations, Colorado 3 per cent and 4 per cent bonds are in such demand by investors that the state itself cannot find that class of its own securities in which to invest its money, as it desires to do. Over $70,000 belonging to the compensation insurance fund is lying in the banks seeking an investment. State Treasurer Stocker has asked the opinion of the attorney general whether the fund can be invested in school district bonds or other kinds of state securities. Denver Mint Makes 39,188,000 Coins. The biggest period in the history of the Denver mint closed with the fiscal year ending June 30. Half dollars coined during the year totaled 792,000, and their money value is $396,000. The mintage of quarters reached 3,002,000 pieces, having a value of $750,500. Nickels valued at $179,400 and totaling 3,588,000 pieces, were stamped by the presses. The largest coinage in pieces was pennies, the mint turning out 31,806,000 of them. Their money value is $318,060. The total coinage of all denominations was 39,188,000. Nurses in Post Graduate Course. Five women, members of the Army First Aid corps, an auxiliary to Company A, first separate battalion, C. N. G., went to the state rifle range at Golden, and in the field hospital there began a course of instruction in nursing to add to the experience they already have acquired. The corps numbers seventeen women, as many as possible of whom will go to the mobilization camp daily. Charles W. Beach Appointed. Governor Carlson appointed Charles W. Beach of Pueblo state division engineer for division No. 2. The appointment was the result of recent competitive civil service examinations. His headquarters will be at Pueblo and his salary will be $2,500 a year. Educators Honor Colorado Women. Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, state superintendent of public instruction, was elected first vice president of the National Educational Association at the annual meeting held recently in New York city. Miss Anna Laura Force, principal of the Columbian school of Denver, was elected a member of the board of directors. The next meeting of the association, which is comprised of educators from all the states of the Union, will be held at Atlantic City The Curtis Park Floral Company FLORAL DESIGNS PUT UP WHILE YOU WAIT CHOICE PLANTS AND CUT FLOWERS CONSTANTLY ON HAND GREENHOUSES: Thirty-Fourth and Curtis Streets TELEPHONE, MAIN 1511 DENVER, COLO The Champa Pharmacy Twentieth and Champa, Is the place to get your DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES WE SERVE DRINKS: Prescriptions Our Specialty. Phone us and we will deliver the goods to all parts of the city. JAMES E. THRALL, PROPR. PHONE MAIN 2425. When You Want The Heads, Feet, Tails, Snouts, Neckbones or Chiterlings, or any other part of the hog except the squeal, go to JOSEPH CARTER Express, Moving, and Storage COAL AND WOOD PROMPT DELIVERY. Phone Main 6544. 2415 WASHINGTON STREET. TELEPHONE YORK 6668. GENERAL FURNITURE REPAIRING AND UPHOLSTERING. WORK GUARANTEED. 1417 East 24th Avenue, Denver, Colo. 2300-6 Larimer Street Phone Main 1461 ORIENTAL RESTAURANT Chop Suey, Noodles and Short Orders Phone Main 4896 1848 Arapahoe 乐缉轩 Miss M. Cowden Hair Dressing Parlor Shampoo, cutting and curling. Scalp treatment, hair tonics, hair straightening, manicuring. Stage wigs for rent; theatrical use and masquerades. Goods delivered out of the city. All shades of hair matched by sending sample of hair; also combings made up. Cheapest Switches 50 Cents 1219 21st St. Denver, Colo DO IT NOW Subscribe for THIS PAPER THE COLORADO STATESMAN CABUN SHARE OF FIRE JUICE COUNTRY PARTY One Year ..... $ 2.03 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... 60 Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. Display advertising 50 cents per inch. RECOGNIZED BY THE RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF THE DENVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM OF THE FIRST CLASS. NO COMPETITION OR DANGER FROM BLACK RACE. In our front page article, "THE SEVEN COMPETITORS," it is shown that America need not worry herself over the BLACK RACE, as the people of Africa and their posterity are not easily UNITED, KEPT TOGETHER OR MOBILIZED. But the writer also speaks of a day when African civilization was the highest and the knowledge of science and religion given to the world then was accepted and appreciated. Have we a past or a history, as any other race, and, if we have (of which there cannot be the least doubt with the existing evidences before us today) is there anything to lose heart over, when out of our hospitality and humanitarian spirit, superior to any other race, as has been proven by the loss of our most valuable assets and treasures, now possessed by the people to whom we gave SHELTER, FOOD AND RAIMENT, we now become servants to our modern "lords and masters"? The 200,000,000 of black people are acquiring immense riches, as also the most invaluable and priceless treasures, from contact, and now that they are aware of the fact that the friends whom they succured have turned out to be their inveterate enemies and greatest opposers, by contributing to their disunion and disloyalty and hate among themselves, the mockery of justice and kindness will no longer keep them blind, but further contact and an amalgamation as is evidenced by the terrible European struggle, will remove the scales from their eyes and result in a retaliation that, while it may not be in the form of DANGER and COMPETITION, may stir the races of the world to a superlative action shaking the very foundations of Mother Earth! THE COLORED CITIZENS' LEAGUE. This organization, having entertained the idea of PREPAREDNESS from its inception, is realizing its effectiveness when it notes the various other associations, clubs, etc., that have sprung from it, and in their endeavour to shoulder some responsibility are coming forward and giving expression to their feelings over the political situation in Colorado, which is shaping itself to an importance of extraordinary degree. In preparing our country against the assault and invasion of outsiders, it is necessary to settle to the satisfaction of the American people the internal affairs of the country, so that, when service of such a nature is required, our Republic, instead of resorting to compulsory methods and imperative actions can feel perfectly certain of an unanimous result from the people, who will unhesitatingly rally to her cause for the securing of her safety and the support of anything touching the welfare of her citizens. Entertaining this idea, THE COLORED CITIZENS' LEAGUE started out nearly two years ago with a membership of over 200 persons, to advise and instruct the people in Denver, in fact the State of Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region in general, to get together; and so as to afford ample opportunity to interchange their ideas whereby they would understand clearly the intellectual, social and political condition of the Negro in these parts of America, spacious rooms are provided at 2566 Washington street, second floor, for their accommodation, and these rooms, filling such an advantage, have been the means of creating a better relationship among our citizens, giving the proof that we are as much a thinking people as any other race occupying this earth. While the League is not responsible for every club and other organization formed in the city or state, yet it ought to be given credit for having injected the idea of opening up an avenue where we can fearlessly discuss matters pertaining to ourselves and the nation, and encourage one another with the hope of advancement, which must sooner or later be ours. In wishing success to every other organization that has started, or intends to start, let us hope that the principles guiding them may be so exemplary that THE COLORED CITIZENS' LEAGUE may never have to regret the kind aid given to those who are beneficiaries of its influence. A CLEAN ELECTION AND AN HONEST BALLOT FOR EVERY VOTER. This is the slogan of the political reformer. It is the crying need today in all large cities of this country, Denver being no exception. New primary and election laws are in force to give legality to elections and make it possible to convict illegal voters, but what is needed more than any thing else is new life and clean motives within the inner circles of political precincts. Not a class of men who contrive as to how far they can go and evade the letter of the law, but how much they may assist in making the laws doubly effective and secure. Elections will never occupy a plane higher than the level of public sentiment in regard to election methods. That political parties have a mission is self evident. That their mission to serve some principle of vital importance to the happiness or well being of every citizen is also a truism. But is this true in regard to the political parties and the colored voters of Colorado? Heretofore the colored voters have had no voice in the councils of the political parties; no part in their caucuses and absolutely no hand in directing their policies, but they have been compelled to remain wholly on the outside and take whatever consideration that is offered them. A people that have no part in the councils of a party, be the party what it may, cannot long retain interest in the party. It is self-evident that the political parties of Colorado are approaching a crisis in their career and they will need all of the support possible in the coming campaign. The contest will be between the Republicans and Democrats. Where are the colored voters of this city and state to stand in this contest? Does the Republican party expect the Negro to line up with it $r_1$ this election? If so, on what ground? There should be a colored man on the state central committee and one on the county central committee in order to give this party a right conception of the NEEDS and FEELING of thousands of colored voters, otherwise the party may expect deflection from the ranks. But the real reform in this matter ought to begin with the colored voters themselves. They should recognize their position and relation to the powers that be and make such demands as their strength warrants. Let them once become aroused to the sense of their duty and this matter will receive attention, as the party needs our support as bad as we need the party. THE COLORADO STATESMAN --- The Mouth-Piece of the People of Colorado and the Entire West --- A RELIABLE chronicle of their doings and progress; a faithful mirror of their wants, their hopes, their best aspirations. THE COLORADO STATESMAN Unequaled as an advertising medium for the business of professional men and women. An excellent family journal speaking to and for many thousand colored citizens. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR THE GREAT ORGAN OF THE LABORING MASSES Colorado Springs, Manitou and Pikes Peak Friday, Aug. 4th THE MOUNTAIN BIG DANCE That Night at ROBBIN'S HALL MORRISON'S FULL ORCHESTRA THE GRAND RAG CONTEST 10 P. M. On the train both going and coming we have two baggage cars for you to dance in. Mr. Barton's Big Scenic Excursion. Train leaves Union Station 6:59 A. M. REFRESHMENTS OF ALL KINDS. W. F. PLAMBECK EXPERT WATCH MAKER 1715 CHAMPA STREET A full line of Watches, Clocks, Diamonds and Jewelry at lowest prices. Courteous treatment to all CARSONS We are making a special display of China and Glassware suitable for wedding gifts. See Us Before Buying. The Carson Crockery Co. 732-36 FIFTEENTH STREET (AT STOUT). If men from their youth were wearied of that sauntering humor, wherein some, out of custom, let a good part of their life run listlessly away, they would find time enough to acquire skill and dexterity in hundreds of things—Locke. Should be in the home of every Negro. It contains the achievements, the industries and activities of the life of the Negro is discussed. It is a race. Every phase of the economic 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. One Cause of Forest Fires. It is believed that forests sometimes take fire through the branches of trees being rubbed together by the violence of the wind, thus producing the friction necessary to ignite them. THE COLORADO STATESMAN LABOR SHARE DE FREE FEDERAL COUNTRY PARTY THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE PEOPLE'S BUREAU OF INFORMATION 1824 CURTIS STREET Room 25. DENVER, COLORADO Phone: Main 7417. Mrs. Robert T. Roy, who has been visiting in Wyoming has returned to the city. Mrs. Edward Hamilton arrived in the city a few days ago to attend the funeral of her brother. Mrs. T. O. Mason returned last week from Los Angeles, Calif., where she has been for several months visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. C. C. Carey of Evanston, Ill., arrived in the city Tuesday to visit her sister, Mrs. N. J. Skilleron of 1904 East Twenty-fourth avenue. John H. Newman of Grand Junction, Colo., passed through the city Wednesday enroute to Colorado Springs to attend the K. of P. Grand Lodge. The Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias convened at Colorado Springs Wednesday for a three days' session. Thursday was the big day and quite a number went on the excursion. Particulars of the proceedings will be given in our next issue. Take advantage of the low rate of $1.25 round trip to Colorado Springs on the big Barton Scenic excursion Aug. 4th. Tickets at this price will be on sale for only one hour Tuesday, Aug. 1st, from 4 to 5 p. m. The regular round trip tickets for this occasion will be $2.00, so take advantage of the bargain sale. Y. W. C. A. NOTES. The Vesper Service of last Sunday was very well attended, there being thirty-six present, a very excellent program was rendered by the young people. Mrs. H. Johnson was hostess. The hostess for this Sunday will be Mrs. A. Fallings. Mrs. King', the chairman of the Entertainment Committee is planning a Joint Moonlight affair with the Y. M. C. A. for the near future. The Executive Board met at the Central Association Wednesday and gave permission to the Recreation Committee to hold an entertainment in the near future. The proceeds from this will be used to establish a Tennis Court. The Recreation Committee has secured the grounds for the association's Tennis Court on Washington Street between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets. Mrs. M. Frances Cross, the National Field Secretary was present at the executive meeting Wednesday. COLORED WOMAN'S REPUBLI- CAN CLUB ORGANIZED. The Colored Woman's Republican Club of the City and County of Denver, was organized Wednesday evening, July 19th, at the home of Mrs. Isabel Stewart, 2351 Lafayette street. The purpose of the club is to assist in any way toward the success of Hon. S. D. Nicholson as a nominee at the state assembly on August 19th. The officers are: President, Mrs. Isabel Stewart, first vice president, Mrs. Lizzie Richardson; second vice president, Mrs. Pathenia George; secretary, Mrs. Thetha Miller; assistant secretary, Mrs. Jennie Dishman; treasurer, Mrs. Lucy Anderson. Executive Board—Mrs. Effie Waldon, Chairman; Mesdames Emma Thrower, Ida Hickman, Senora Langston, Parthenia George, Alice Travers, Martha Townsend, Sadie Von Dickersohn and Miss Ada Gibson. FOR RENT—3 houses at 2360 Tremont Place; 320 and 322 24th street. Call at the Colorado Statesmen-office. 1824-Curtis street. Room 25. BRINGING REPUBLICANISM BACK INTO LINE. The Negro is true blue Republican. About this there is no question, but he is getting his eyes opened and analyzing the situation. To do this is no crime, but the mark of awakening intelligence ought to be commended by party leaders. When the colored man discovers names on the party ticket inimical to his interest or fails to receive his just share of the spoils. It is a crime for him to withdraw his allegiance for the time being and then return to the party when it is prepared to treat him fairly. We fail to see where the crime is committed. We see absolutely no reason why the colored brother should not be welcomed back and given a place in the party fold the same as white men who bolt the ticket when it endangers their interests. Neither is a colored editor to be blacklisted when he seeks to give his readers advice on party ethics or voters understanding as to their duty in the case. The colored news paper has a duty in the matter. Its mission is to the race first and to the party next. Therefore the colored press should not be counted disloyal when it serves its mission. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. A good number, of men attended the meeting last Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock to listen to the address of Rev. W. A. Webster, pastor of the West Side Christian Church, who spoke on the subject, "Christian Freedom." The boys' band which meets every Friday evening, is doing splendid work. Mr. Boykin, the organizer and manager, and Mr. Beal of the Denver Post, the director, are greatly pleased with the progress the boys are making. There are about twenty members belonging to it, and others ready to come in next week. It was encouraging to hear them play "America" last Friday evening after only two practices. At the men's meeting next Sunday afternoon Rev. Dr. W. W. McArthur, pastor of the Berkeley Congregational Church, will be the speaker. The meeting will begin at 4 o'clock, and all men will be welcome. A REMINDER A preacher at the close of one of his sermons said: "Let all in the house who are paying their debts stand up." Instantly every man, woman and child with, one exception rose to their feet. The preacher seated them and said: "Now every man not paying his debts stand up." The exception noted, a careworn, hungry-looking individual, clothed in his last summer's suit, slowly assumed a perpendicular position. "How is it my friend," asked the minister, "that you are the only man not to meet his obligations?" "I run a newspaper," he meekly answered, "and the brethren here who stood up are my subscribers, and—" "Let us pray," exclaimed the minister.—Christian Index. DOUGLAS UNDERTAKING COMPANY DEATH NOTICE. Thomas Woods, late of Kansas City, Mo., son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Woods, 2236 Lawrence street, departed this life July 26th, 5:45 a. m. Funeral notice later. PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN. East Twenty-third and Washington street. Pastor: J. A. Thos, Hazell, S. T. B. Sermon Topics: Sunday, July 30th, 11 a. m., "A Study of Preference;" 5:30 p. m., "Program by the Missionary Society." It is hoped that all the members will respond to the solicitation of the officers that the amount of money desired to be raised tomorrow will be realized. The members who have not contributed to the special fund for the Board of Church Erection two weeks ago are hereby reminded that the remittance will be made Monday the 31st inst. The defaulters are not too late to make good. Kindly do so tomorrow. A sacred concert will be given in lieu of the regular evening services the first Sabbath afternoon in August. The public will do well to bear this date in mind. (Rev. Robert L. Pope, B. D., Pastor.) Bishop H. B. Parks, D. D., of Chicago, is in the city, the guest of Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Pope, 220 Twenty-third street and will preach at Shorter tomorrow at the morning hour. The bishop is noted for his matchless eloquence and is justly popular as a preacher. His quadrenial sermon delivered at the Centenial General Conference at Philadelphia, in May, exhibited such breadth of vision, beautiful diction, burning logic and holy junction as one seldom witnesses on such occasions. The announcement of his coming is sufficient to warrant a great overflow congregation. A comfortable seat is promised to those only who come early. Our Sunday school picnic will be held Thursday, Aug. 3d, at Dome Rock. A Pennant Hunt will be one of the unique features, with Mr. W. T. Parks, director. The excursion is scheduled to leave Union Station at 8 a. m. Among the long list of visitors in attendance at our morning service last Sunday were Mesdams G. A. Thomas of St. Louis; Georgia McClane and son, Los Angeles; Hugh Lewis, Kansas City, and Miss Flora B. Harris, Xenia, O. ZION CHURCH NOTES. Last Sunday was a glorious day in Zion. Attendances at both services was at high-water mark. Many visiting friends from other cities were present to worship with us. Dr. Enos Larkin Scruggs, Jacksonville, Ills., spoke at the morning service, The many friends of Dr. Scruggs heard the sermon to their great profit and delight. It has now been some ten years since this distinguished educator and preacher has visited the west. For fourteen years Dr. Scruggs was president of Western College at Macon, Missouri. He is now pastor of the leading church in Jacksonville, and with his family is enjoying a well earned rest in Colorado. The picnic last week was fully up to the most sanguine expectations of its promoters. Seven coach-loads of pleasure seekers left at 8:50 a. m. on the morning of the 20th for Dome Rock. The day was ideal and every feature of the outing conspired to make it the most enjoyable in the history of the Sunday school. The superintendent and staff of teachers has the commendation of the entire congregation. Sunday evening was the beginning of the series of stereopticon lecture-sermons which are to be delivered by the pastor, "From Creation to Calvary." For the next ensuing six Sunday nights these pictures will be run. The first of the series were indeed magnificent, and carried the Bible story from the beginning to the Exodus. The lecture by the pastor made the evening full of inspiration, pleasure and profit. The program begins at 8 o'clock sharp. COME! COUNTY REPUBLICANS FIX DATES FOR PRIMARIES AND ASSEMBLIES The Denver County Republican Central Committee met at the Brown Palace Hotel last Saturday night and fixed dates for the county primaries, county assembly and the first congressional assembly. The county primaries will be held Aug. 5; the county assembly on Aug. 7; the congressional assembly on Aug. 12. The State Assembly is Aug. 10. The call for the county assembly provides for the designation of candidates for district judge, county judge, three state senators, and twelve representatives. The congressional assembly will designate candidates for the first congressional district. At the county assembly a committeeman and committeewoman for the 193 precincts in Denver will be nominated. All candidates named for county offices will go upon the ticket for the September primaries. In addition to the above the assembly will designate 152 delegates to the state assembly. There will be 756 delegates at the county assembly. These will be selected at the county primary. There are 770 delegates to the state as assembly and of these Denver county has 152. EVERYBODY SHOULD take advantage of the MID-SUMMER SALE now going on at THE MAY CO. HAIR ROOT GROWER After using others give Hair Root Grower a trial and let us prove to you what it will do. Will grow hair from 1 to 2 inches a month, if used according to directions. For treatments, massage and manicuring, call York 957M, 2333 Ogden St., for appointment. Mrs. Gora Robinson and Mrs. Elza Rose. GENTLEMEN, IMPROVE YOUR HAIR. If you have good hair we can make it better; if you have bad hair we can make it good; no need to wear your hair shaved or cut close, wear it long. See Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Rose; let them keep it straight and looking nice. Phone York 957M or 2333 Ogden for appointments. CHOICE OF THE HOUSE $15 For $25=$28=$30 Fancy Summer Suits THE MEN IN THE HAT ```markdown ``` THE 16 Excess of fat affects the heart by putting an extra burden upon it; it augments the labor of the muscles of breathing, the diaphragm in particular; it interferes with the vital functions of the liver and other internal organs, and by filling the intermuscular spaces it compresses the muscle fibers, causing atrophy and degeneration. This results in constant weakness, slow activity, lassitude, early exhaustion. Nature's Workings. How plants absorb nitrogen from the soil is utterly unknown. No animal must get the large quantities of nitrogen that are necessary to it by using plants for food. When the animal or the plant dies the constituents of its body are returned to the earth, where the bacteria of putrefaction break up the elaborate organic chemical compounds upon which the plants again can feed. of critical men, our great semi-annual "Choice of the House" sale opens Saturday morning at 8 o'clock. Despite advances on piece goods, dyestuffs and cost of manufacture, we are going to hold this sale this season because our patrons expect it, and because we must conform to our inviolate policy of clearing our stocks each season. EAGERLY awaited by hundreds of critical men, our nual "Choice of the B Saturday morning at pite advances on piece and cost of manufactu to hold this sale this our patrons expect it, must conform to our of clearing our stocks MAY TH & CHAMPA STS Value of Collective Opinion. Whenever we stand in need of intricate knowledge, balanced judgment or delicate analysis, it is our comfort able habit to question our neighbor. They may be no wiser and no better informed than we are; but a collective opinion has its value, or at least its satisfying qualities. For one thing there is so much of it. For another it seldom lacks variety.—Agnes Replier, in the Atlantic. Material Was There. Katie was starting out to spend the afternoon with her cousin, Nellie. Though the two little girls were fond of one another a few hours play would frequently end in a vigorous dispute. "Now, Katie," said her mother, as she said good-by to her little daughter, "remember it takes two to make a quarrel." "Well," said Katie "there's me and her." Always Wishing. To be always wishing for something we cannot get is the worst possible way to spend time. All of us have blessings which are enough to make us happy if only we are so wise as to enjoy them instead of fretting for something more. Take the pleasures of today with a grateful heart, and never waste time in hoping you will have something better tomorrow. Fizzle. "What is it a sign of when one's lips itch?" asked the dear girl in the parlor scene as she lowered the blinds and seated her person on the end of a sofa built for two. "I don't know, I'm sure," replied the dense young man, as he folded his arms and tried to look wise, "but I presume it indicates some sort of a cutaneous trouble."—Indianapolis Star. The HOME BEAUTIFUL Flowers and Shrubbery Their Care and Cultivation 6 Light Pink Roses. Fall planting of roses may be done in the latter part of October or early in November, or even as late as the middle of December, with excellent results. Roses planted in the fall, however, should be set deep and banked well with earth just before the ground freezes. It is also well to cover the soil about the plants with manure, which should not be removed until the middle of April, or until all danger from a severe frost is over, whereupon this dressing may be forked under. When the rose plants are received from the nurseryman they should be unpacked as soon as they come to hand. Thereupon the tops and roots should be well sprinkled with water, after which they should be covered with bagging and placed in a shaded spot until ready to plant. If the ground is not prepared when the plants arrive, it is advisable to put them in a shallow trench and cover the roots with loose soil until the ground can be put into a proper condition. The enrichment of the soil, however, should not only be made at the time of the preparation of the bed before planting, but in the spring of every year, for with such attention a bountiful supply of flowers may be expected every season. When planting, spread the roots out carefully and do not cross them or crowd them. They should be placed well below the surface of the soil and arranged, as far as possible, in their natural position. When the roots are covered the earth should be firmly pressed down upon them, particularly around the stem. If manure is put in the bottom of the hole it should not be allowed to come in contact with the roots. After planting, the roses should be well cut back to a few buds, freely watered and protected for a few days if the sun is strong. After that they will have become thoroughly established. If the ground is wet when the plants A The New Freesia—It Is Cream White and Is Shown Here With Maidenhair Fern in an Etched Glass Vase. By PRISCILI A PAKE. are received it is better to postpone the planting, as the soil is liable to become baked and the safety of the plants may be thus endangered. During a dry season the rose requires plenty of water, and frequently soaking the bed with liquid manure will be beneficial. The moisture may also be conserved by abundant cultivation. In the winter the roses should be protected with a good mulch, which is best done by covering the roots in December with coarse litter, or leaves, to about six inches in depth, or they may be covered with evergreen boughs or similar material. But if the exposure is very great it is advisable to lay the plants down and cover them with earth, putting them to sleep, as it were, on the bosom of Mother Nature. CLEMATIS A GOOD VINE Clematis, panniculata, is one of our most popular vines. It seems entirely free from disease and is unusually hardy. Its foliage is attractive and its small white blossoms which completely cover the vine make a glorious spectacle over porches and pergolas. One of its chief attractions is that it does not come into bloom until after all the other vines are faded and yellow. It is a rapid grower. Clematis must be planted in a soil of good loam, well drained. Give if protection of leaves in the winter. To me the wild grape vine produces the sweetest odor of any plant in existence. The wild grape is a hardy vine, growing with scarcely any attention. It can be made to cover a side fence as a dense hedge, or trained over trellis or up shade trees. Young plants may be secured in almost any wood or along bushy fence rows. They are transplanted in late fall or winter.—E. V. B. THE WILD GRAPE VINE AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS "There are those who would cite the lazy, shiftless and indolent as typical of the Negro race, but if the same yardstick were applied other branches of the human family might have reason to complain bitterly," wrote a prominent Negro educator recently. "Experience has shown that when given the opportunity for gainful employment under just and fair conditions, the Negro not only proves in every way his value as a workman, often most skilled, but, above all, there is cultivated in his mind and heart that now too rare feeling of deep interest and loyalty to his employer. When the southern Negro works for a corporation, he calls it 'my company,' and never has a bomb been found in his hand nor has he been branded as an anarchist. Under fair treatment his loyalty becomes deep and unchanging, and the sower of the seeds of discord finds little response to his beguiling or impassioned stories of greener fields to be had for the asking or taking. "A few years ago in his summer home in the East there passed away an eminent captain of industry who had spent forty years in the South building up a great commercial organization and community. Of master mind, yet with heart of a child, he had met and conquered many problems, all the while dealing with employees, both white and colored, so justly as to win their unfailing loyalty and even love. "When the news of his death was flashed back to that southern community deep sorrow prevailed, but it remained for one old colored man, who had grown gray in the service of that organization, to take a part of his savings, board a train, and make the thousand-mile journey to be present when his friend was returned to earth. As the cortege was preparing to move this old Negro mounted the funeral car, completed the journey, and remained with the family to the end to drop a last tear. This is but typical of the response of the southern Negro to the 'helping hand.' "In advance of the Negro's industrial progress has gone very naturally his moral and educational development, and the eagerness with which many are seizing every advantage offered by their institutions plainly foreshadows a still more wonderful development in all those attributes which go to make up citizens of whom we will have no reason to feel ashamed. "In the light of these conditions is there not good reason, then, to consider this southern Negro as one of the South's greatest industrial assets, and does it not behoove southern industry to deal with him so fairly, honestly, so uprightly as to maintain unimpaired that loyalty and strong feeling of common interest found in the heart of this plain, straightforward workingman?" While the present army law is by far the best congress ever gave the country in time of peace, it has glaring defects, one of which is found in the fact no provision was made for increasing the number of colored regiments in either the regular or militia forces. There is not a single rational excuse for the omission. There are a score of excellent reasons why such a provision should have been added. Southern statesmen, so-called, in congress, shook their heads and said The communication of Charles N. Swift in the Times has attracted my attention, and just a word, if I may, to indorse his every word concerning the admission of a colored regiment into the New York National Guard. After their record in the Civil war, especially with 99,337 colored soldiers therein, why can there be any doubt about them? As an officer of both white and colored regiments, wounded twice in different engagements in the last-mentioned service, and having had some part in the organization of the Corps d'Afrique in Louisiana under General Banks in 1864, I have wondered why there were none in the state service. The Eighty-first U. S. C. T. in Louisiana, commanded by Col. Charles B. Gaskill, now of Ningara Falls, challenged any regiment, white or black, in the Gulf department to make as good a showing in regimental or company drill, but none accepted the challenge of the Eighty-first.—George B. Loud, in a communication to the New York Times. A girl likes to be squeezed in a crowd from force of habit. Cotton is becoming so scarce in Europe that cellulose from wood fiber is being used as a substitute in surgical dressings. The world's highest powered motorship has been built in Italy for the Brazilian navy, its oil motors developing 6,400 horse power. It is said that in the far North of the Russian empire there is a race of people who do not know that there is a war. At that they have nothing on some of our American congressmen. it would not do—the Southern people would not stand for an increase of "Nigger" soldiers, and there were enough of the old style of congressmen from the North—the "doughface" species—to prevent the addition of a clause to the bill for a considerable number of colored regiments and batteries. It was a mistake which the next congress should rectify without delay. Colored volunteers in the Civil war were exceptionally brave soldiers. They were often severely tested. The South began to recruit for colored regiments in 1865, and General Lee declared that one of the Confederacy's most serious mistakes was made by not enlisting negroes for their army early in the war. Several regiments of colored men were on duty in the Confederate army the last few months of the war. For nearly fifty years there have been four colored regiments in the United States army—two of cavalry, the Ninth and Tenth, and two of infantry, the Twenty-fourth and the Twenty-fifth. No troops in the army were in more battles, or acquitted themselves more creditably in the Spanish-American and Philippine wars than the four colored regiments. The colored man likes the service. He takes pride in it. He quickly conforms to the rules and regulations. He is as neat in person, uniform, equipment, as the white man. He almost never deserts. There often is much difficulty in keeping white regiments recruited up to the proper number. There never is a lack of recruits for the colored commands. There are no more obedient or better disciplined soldiers. White officers of the South like to be assigned to the colored regiments. They and their soldiers understand each other perfectly and get along harmoniously. There should be ten regiments of colored men in the regular army instead of four, and many regiments of them in the militia instead of the three or four.—Chicago Herald. Dr. Eben S. Johnson of Sioux City, Ia., was elected a missionary bishop at the Methodist convention held at Saratoga Springs, and will be assigned to Africa. Dr Alexander P. Camphor, a Negro of Birmingham, Ala., was also elected a missionary bishop and will be assigned to Liberia, the African republic. A resolution indorsing woman suffrage was adopted with only half a dozen in opposition, following an earnest plea last night by William J. Bryan for votes for women. His assertion that the movement would greatly aid the temperance cause had an effect on the action of the conference. Government officials have estimated that 1,350,000 horse power in the form of gas alone is wasted every day by the old-fashioned coke ovens of the United States. An auxiliary control for automobiles invented by a New Yorker enables a person in the back seat of a car, by pressing a button, to stop it in an emergency. A Louisiana inventor's automatic fire alarm calls the nearest firemen, rings alarms both outside and inside a building where a fire starts and lights a red light on the outside. Partly mechanical and partly electrical is a Chicago inventor's alarm that fires five blank cartridges in succession if a burglar enters or tries to wander around a building. Along the Cornwall coast many miners earn a living by washing tin out of the sands, the sea shattering the metal-bearing rocks. An automobile coal wagon has been invented with four separate compartments, so well balanced that they can be dumped by hand. Iowa is the first state to officially establish a library of motion picture films of current events for the use of future historians. A new muffler to lessen the noise of a motor-boat exhaust permits the waste gases to expand considerably and cool before reaching the air. Chinese custom of burning small pieces of gold leaf on various anniversaries sacrifices several million dollars' worth of the metal annually. To assert in Oklahoma that an incurable disease can be cured makes a physician liable to the revocation of his license. Producers of aniline dyes in Japan have formed a trust to control the market. Rust is a compound of oxygen and iron that forms only in the presence of water. Paris has a plan to dam the River Rhone and obtain 300,000 horse power. Do You Know That- The COLORADO STATESMAN IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING Commercial, Fraternal, Church, Book and Stationery Jobs A SPECIALTY Ball and Concert Programs, Bill and Letter Heads, Calling Cards, Wedding Cards, Envelopes and Everything in the Printing Line Turned Out in the Neatest and Best Style Promptly on Short Notice. We Have Supplied Our Office with New Job Press & Type of Up-to-Date Style and Our Work Will Be on a Par with the Very Best. Give Us a Trial and We Will Give You Satisfaction Prices as Reasonable as Those of Any Job Office in Denver Phone Main 7417 Shorter Chapel's Annual Outing THE BRIDGE Round Trip $1.00 Children Under Twelve 50c Through picturesque Platte Cañon, Colorado's famous ground for trout fishing, to the retreat of pleasure-seekers—Dome Rock. A variety of sports and games with rewards for the winners will be an interesting feature. Remember, the grown-ups as well as the youths enjoy Shorter's picnics; it will be an outing for the whole family. Through picturesque Platte Cañon, Colorado's famous ground for trout fishing, to the retreat of pleasure-seekers—Dome Rock. A variety of sports and games with rewards for the winners will be an interesting feature. Remember, the grown-ups as well as the youths enjoy Shorter's picnics; it will be an outing for the whole family. Train will leave Union Station at 8:00 A.M. GEORGE C. KING, Superintendent. ROBERT L. POPE, Pastor. THE STAR HAIR GROWER THE STAR HAIR GROWER A BUY GOODS MADE IN COLORADO SURE SKIN SOAP THE NATIONAL WASH. A Cream Soap for Toilet, Bath and Shampoo. Cleans Everything it Touches. Keeps the Skin Soft and Smooth. C. J. TOLLIVER, Agent. PHONE CHAMPA 2077 DAY OR NIGHT A Cream Soap for Toilet, Bath and Shampoo. Cleans Everything it Touches. Keeps the Skin Soft and Smooth. C. J. TOLLIVER, Agent. DAY OR NIGHT A. H. 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LAKESIDE "EVERYBODY'S JOYLAND" TWICE MORE—TWICE MORE—TWICE The Eruption of Mount Pelee AT MAMMOTH SPECTACLE WHICH HAS ALREADY CALLED THOUSANDS—SEE IT THIS TIME SURVEY Saturday and Sunday July 30 and 31 AT 9:45 P. M. CHILDREN'S DAY THURSDAY NING OF THE QUEEN AND CORONATION DAY Van Dyke Photo Studio IN THE NASSAU BUILDING. 29 SIXTEENTH STREET The finest, largest and best photo studio in Denver. Ocation room is 40 feet by 50 feet alone. Our styles are sive. Picturesque posings and exquisite lightings. The Eruption of Mount Pelee THAT MAMMOTH SPECTACLE WHICH HAS ALREADY THRILLED THOUSANDS—SEE IT THIS TIME SURE. AT 9:45 P.M. CHILDREN'S DAY THURSDAY CROWNING OF THE QUEEN AND CORONATION DANCE. The finest, largest and best photo studio in Denver. Our reception room is 40 feet by 50 feet alone. Our styles are exclusive. Picturesque posings and exquisite lightings. Will H. Nast, Operator. Y. M.C. A. Must Have 10 IN CASH and SUBSCRIBE ON by AUGUST 19, 1911 Subscribe To The Fund Now RANTZ, Chairman. S. A. BONDURANT, the Main 5639 2800 Glenarm Pl $1000 IN CASH and SUBSCRIP TION by AUGUST 19, 1916 Subscribe To The Fund Now C. D.DeFRANTZ, Chairman. S. A. BONDURANT, Treas. Phone Main 5639 2800 Glenarm Place Phone Champa 2211 The Chesapeake Fish & Oyster Co. Denver's Only Exclusive Fish and Oyster House Fish, Oysters, Salt, Smoked, Dried and Canned Fish Poultry and Game of All Kinds Fifteenth Street Denver, Col Denver's Only Exclusive Fish and Oyster House Fresh Fish, Oysters, Salt, Smoked, Dried and Canned Fish Poultry and Game of All Kinds 828 Fifteenth Street Denver, Colo. C. F. HALL THE COAL MAN Coal, Wood and Express COAL $4.25 per ton and up PROMPT DELIVERY TO ANY PART OF THE CITY Phone Main 8559 TY-EIGHTH STREET., Between Glenarm and Welton, DE A. B. INCORPORATED AND BONDED NOTARY PUBLIC RESIDENCE PHONE YORK 79922 FRANK S. 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