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Minor Mention.

Joseph Mikulich was found guilty
of second degree murder for killing An.
tone Lustik, in Denver.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Stephens cele.
brated their fiftieth wedding annivers-
ary in Denver recently.
Complete returns show there were
200 deer killed In the Meeker vicinity
during the recent open season.
The fate OF Frank Harold Henwood.
slayer of Sylvester Won Phul and
George e. Copeland. now rests with
the Supreme Court.
Thursday. November 2. will be Su-
gar Day at Longmont when all the
guests OF the company.
The Grim Reaper has recently been
severe on the old settlers of the Long
mont vicinity, five having passed
away within n few days.
George Edwaldt. who attempted to
peak on toboggan sled. died OF his
injuries in Colorado Springs.
A relay race OF 100 miles from
Grand Junction to Montrose will be
held under the auspices of the Grand
Junction Y. NJ. c. A., December 2nd.
The store of David b. Cox near Bell
vuc. eight miles east OF Fort Collins.
was entered by yeggmen. the safe
blown and $500 In stamps and $500 in
cash stolen.
Owing to the resignation OF A. J.
Woodruff as president OF the Ameri.
can Apple Exposition Association. L.
l.. ScholtZ of Denver was elected to
fill the vacancy.
The State Bureau of Child and An
imal Protection has SO far in Octobc"
handled twenty-five cases OF depend
ent children. Most OF the cases were
where children were poverty.stricken.
c. " Hudson. owner OF the City
hotel at Victor and employed as
miner at the Portland. was danger
ously injured when rock fell. .driv
ing candlestick. which was in his
hat. into his skull.
citation. in Colorado Springs. went on
record in opposition to the acceptance
by Secretary OF Agriculture James
Wilson OF an honorary vice presidency
in the Brewers association.
Sixty men went on strike for high
er wages on the Durango & Silver.
ton branch Of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad. They claim they are
only receiving 81 day. while others
are paid SO and $3.50.
The Colorado Bar Association has.
with the consent and assistance of At
torney General Benjamin Griffith, be-
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03
SPORT.

Philadelphia defeated New York
13 to 2, which gave the Philadelphia
Americans the worlds baseball cham.
pionship for the second consecutive
year.
Accompanied by Marius Durand, tn.
well-known promoter of Cripple Creek,
Colo. Mike Malone, the Denver 124.
pound boxer. left for Philadelphia to
open campaign in the East.
Philadelphia Athletics are cham.
pions of the world for the second sue
cessive year. In an exhibition of bat.
ting seldom seen in a premier baseball
series. the American league team dc.
feated New York in the sixth game
Of the series by the overwhelming
score of 13 to 2. thus giving them the
four necessary games out of the six
played to carry off baseball's grent.
est honor. With the victory goes six.
ty percent of $127,91O.61. or $7G,74G.37.
of which each Athletic player will re-
ceive $3,654.59. The losers will r,.
ceive the remainder. $5l.1Gl.24, or So.
1869 for each New York player.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03
DURANGO Wants Aid.

Durango.-At n special meeting OF
the Durango Board OF Trade held re.
Gently the status OF the funds voted
the state highway commission by the
recent legislature was discussed.
The people OF Durango and La Plata
county are exceedingly anxious TO
have the matter speedily passed upon
by the courts In the mandamus pro-
ceedings instituted.
At this time the people OF the south
west section are especially anxious TO
secure state aid. The recent floods
caused much damage to road beds and
bridges along the line OF proposed
state highways and the county Is very
much In need Of the money voted by
the State Highway Commission to go
ahead with the work in 4 permanent
manner.
The effect OF the flood on the rail
road systems make good highways an
bsolute necessity and delay In start
ing work in this section Of the state
has been a very serious handicap.
There was general feeling Of dis.
satisfaction expressed.
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TO INVESTIGATE COINAGE LAW.
Gov. shafroth Appoints Colorado Rep.
resentatives.

Dcnver.-Gorernor Shafroth eN
pressed himself so much in favor Of
an investigation into recent national
laws regarding money. and particu-
larly one restricting the coinage Of
gold, that he took cognizance OF n
resolution passed by the Direct Lesis.
lation League and issued the follow
ing executive order:
Whereas. | am in receipt OF reso-
luton passed by the Direct Legisla-
ton League requesting me to appoint
n commission to examine into the acts
of Congress relating to the coinage
OF money and the issuance of currency
of the United States, and,
"Whereas. deem the subject they
are to consider OF the utmost import.
ance to the people Of the state Of
Colorado
Now therefore. |. John Shafroth.
as governor OF the state OF Colorado.
do hereby appoint the following
named persons. to-wit:
John Brisben Walker Of Denver:
Frank E Moody. Monte Vista: Frank
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NEWS OF COLORADO POINTS

J. Cannon, Denver; Moses Hallett.
Denver: Edward p. Costigan, Denver
John II. Gabriel. Denver: John c.
Bell. Montrose, to serve as members
OF said commission.
"Given under my hand and execu.
tive seal this day. October 81, 1911.
JOHN F. SHAFROTH,
Governor"
On March I. 1911. Congress passed
a law authorizing the secretary OF
the treasury to accept foreign gold
coin and issue therefor gold cer,ifi,
Gates. 1t also authorized the secre-
tary to accept bullion and pay for it
in gold certificates but provided that
he should not accept bullion in ex-
cess OF one.third Of the gold certifi-
Gates issued. The result OF this ac-
ton Is practically to limit the coin
age OF gold and 1t Is considered by
many to be as revolutionary In its
workings as was the suspension Of
the free coinage Of silver.
Political and economic organizations
all over the country have protested
against this law and several others
passed by Congress-. and 1t has been
decided to hold meeting In Denver
and the delegates named in the execu-
tive order will represent Colorado at
this conference.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03
PASSENGER TRAIN DASHES INTO
FREIGHT AT ROCK RIVER,
WYOMING.
IS SERIOUSLY INJURED
RELIEF TRAINS HURRIED TO THE
SCENE FROM LARAMIE
AND CHEYENNE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Laramie. wyo.-Thc Atlantic Ex.
press, eastbound. on the Union Pa
cific. dashed through an open switch
and collided head on with u freight
train at Rock River. twenty miles
west OF here. Three men are known
to have been killed and sixteen seri
ously injured. some of whom may
die.
The dead are Engineer Hans Bangs
and Fireman viii Spencer of the eX.
press. and Greek laborer.
A brakeman is charged with cauS
ing the disaster by leaving switch
open. or opening 1t after the freight
train was sidetracked. He says he
merely obcyed his conductors orders.
The freight train had backed in on
the siding at Rock River to permit the
express to pass. Head Brakeman Rob
ert Z. Lee. it is said. neglected to
close the switch. or opened 1t after he
had closed 1t. and the express. run.
ming fifty miles an hour to make up
time. rushed in on the siding and
crashed into the freight with great
force
Engineer Bangs was unable to stop
his train. although he applied the mir
and reversed his engine when he dis.
covered the danger.
All but one car of the flyer left the
rails. while the two locomotives. bag
gage car and coaches and dozen
box cars were piled in broken mass
of wreckage. burying the dead and in.
jured beneath.
Relief trains were hurried to the
scene from Laramie and Cheyenne
with surgeons. nurses and the wreck.
ing crews. Traffic will be delayed
until morning.
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WEEKS NEWS in PARAGRAPHS

United States Steel common fell
SE points to $50 on the stock ex.
change. That movement was the most
striking effect upon the securities
market OF the governments dissolu-
tion suit against the United States
Steel corporation.
The extent OF the mail comniunica-
tion Of the American people with
themselves and the rest of the world
is shown by the fact that 1O,1O9,25O..
900 postage stamps were turned out
by the Bureau Of Engraving and Print.
ing at Washington during the last fis-
cal year.
DR.. B. Clark Hyde of Kansas City
is for second time on trial, charged
with numbering Colonel Thomas H.
Swope by poison. The verdict of the
first jury which on May 16. 1910,
found DR.. Hyde guilty and fixed his
punishment at life Imprisonment was
reversed and the case remanded for
retrial by the Missouri Supreme Court
April II last.
George Dyott. an Englishman, fly.
ing Duperdussin monoplane with
capt. Patrick Campbell Hamilton, an
English army officer, as a passenger,
at Hampstead. demonstrated the pos.
sibilities Of an aeroplane for night fly.
ing. when with the aid of a powerful
searchlight attached to the running
gear of his aeroplane and connect ed
by electric wires, he flew all about
the vicinity of the Nassau aerodromc
and landed without even straining a
wire
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03
Pine River on Rampage.

Durango.-A rapid rise in the Pine
river filled that stream almost to over
flowing. with the result that 1t so
weakened the temporary span OF the
Denver 4 Rio Grande railroad bridge
At La Boca that trains are unable to
cross it and passenger traffic is again
ut u standstill for day or two. When
the repairs to the bridge were made
Immediately after the recent big flood.
piling and timbers were used for the
new span and the former were driven
into Quicksand. AS the rushing wa
ters continued to dash against the
piling 1t became weak and the bridge
settled and was forced out OF plumb
All attempt to cross the bridge were
abandoned and the train with its pas.
sengers returned to Durango.
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The forty.third annual meeting Of
the Woman's Board OF Missions Of the
Interior was held in the Plymouth
Congregational Church in Denver.
Fully 200 delegates from Colorado.
diana. Iowa. Kansas. Michigan. Mime
sofa. Missouri. Nebraska. Montana.
Ohio, Oklahoma. Wisconsin and Wyo.
ming were present.
Contending that the federal govern
ment is guilty of negligence in pro.
ifornia grant lands and that the out
standing bond.holders must be pro-
tected to the extent OF at least $50,
100000 as their lien upon these lands.
the Union Trust Company of New
York has filed long answer in the
Federal Court in Portland to the gov
ernment's suit.
The Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe, mis-
sionary bishop Of Alaska, has been
elected bishop of the Episcopal mis-
sionary district OF South Dakota.
Other missionary bishops chosen by
the Episcopal house of bishops were:
The Rev. D. Trumbull Huntington,
bishop at WI HUI, China. and the Rev.
Henry St. George Tucker. president OF
St. Pauls college Japan. bishop at
Kioto, Japan.
Rowing out alone into the deep wa
tersh OF Utah lake to a spot where her
craft was obscured from the shore
line, and with no one near to witness
her tragic death, Marjorie R. Paine,
prominent in literary circles in Utah,
and for many years dramatic critic
and special writer for the papers of
Salt Lake, leaped from her boat and
was drowned. Before making the fatal
plunge the woman had bound about
her waist strong cords, to which was
attached heavy piece of railroad
iron.
The domestic science classes at .he
Utah Agricultural college no longer
are sacred to women. Harley Greavas
and John Short, two students proni-
nent in college affairs. have enrolled
themselves in the cooking classes.
A bequest of $4,000 for the care of
an aged horse, with further directions
that 1t never be sold or worked, is con-
tanned in the will Of Mrs. Ellen Null
veil, filed in Chicago.
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I gun a quo warranto proceeding in the
Supreme Court in Denver to test the
validity of the new Court Of Appeals.
While w. II. McEwen. aged SO, Of
Steamboat Springs. was taking a
wagon load of coal down a steep hill.
the wagon. team and driver were
plunged to the bottom OF the hill, the
man and team being instantly killed.
District Judge Greeley W. Whitford
followed the precedents laid down by
District Judges Hubert l.. Shattuck
and Carlton NJ. Bliss and sustained the
ruling made by the school board over
two years ago prohibiting any pupil
in the public high schools OF Denver
from being affiliated in any way with
fraternities or sororities.
Negotiations are being carried on
by Manager Herman Weinberger OF
the associated students ut the Uni.
versity OF Colorado to fix the date OF
the annual triangular debate for the
championship of the Middle West be-
tween Colorado institutions and the
state universities OF Oklahoma and
NaASaS. Soioiauo "CH tue tltlc lost
year.
Allen Fowler, eXCnerated by cor
oner's jury at Trinidad on u charge of
having stabbed to death J. W. Bundy,
when he encountered Bundy and
Charles Samuels in company with his
two young daughters near the rear OF
a local roming house. has been ar
rested on the charge Of murder on a
complaint sworn out in the office OF
the district attorney.
David Snider OF Platteville and Den
yer filed suit in the District Court at
Greeley against Horace Haskins. ask
ing a total OF $4,000 for mental ani
physical injuries and to cover the loss
of $500 diamond ring all Of which
occurred when Snider and Haskins be-
came involved in an alteration that
led to. blows. Snider is one Of the
wealthiest men in northern Colorado.
The boards of home and foreign
missions of the NJ. f. church will meet
in Denver November 10th to 23rd.
The meeting of these two missionary
boards IS the great annual event OF
the Methodist Episcopal church Of the
United States. There will be In at
tendance at this meeting all of the
bishops OF the church and home and
foreign missionary experts of the
twentieth century Christianity.
What is believed to be the highest
percentage of sugar in be.ts on rec.
ord is that reported from the ranch
OF ]. B. Dunn, a mile east OF La Sale.
The test showed that the beets ranged
from 2G.2 per cent down to II. This
means an average prive Of $40 per ton
for that product.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03
Yellow Fever In Honolulu.

Honolulu. - Much excitement pre-
walls here as result of the discov-
cry in Honolulu of case of yellow
fever. The victim is Hawaiian and
he is believed to have been infested
through the Japanese liner Hong
Kong Maru which recently arrived
here from Central America. Prompt
action has been taken by the federal
and territorial health officials to $50
late the case and prevent spread Of
the fever.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03
WESTERN.

The seventh annual convention OF
the National Commercial Gas Associa'
tion was held in Denver and was at
tended by delegates from all over the
nation.
The Woodrow Wilson Democratic
Club OF Colorado sprang into being at
a meeting held in the convention hall
of the Albany, in Denver. Some hun
dred men and women were present.
While hunting big game in party
OF five on the Hoodoo range ten
miles from Newport, WASH. George
Davidson was accidentally shot
the hands OF his son. He died in Il
short time.
Actual mobilization Of the Pacific
fleet began at San Diego. Calf. when
the cruiser California, flagship of the
commander-in-chief, Rear Admiral
Chauncey Thomas, entered the harbor
and cast anchor within a stones
throw OF the docks.
A petition. filed in the probate de-
partment of the Superior Court Of
California for the reopeuing of the es-
tate OF Charles ]. Janson disclosed that
collection of old papers. which had
been at the bottom of an old trunk for
thirty-two years, constituted a fortune
Of 100000.
Superior Court Judge John F. Main
was waylaid and horse-whlpped at the
court house in Seattle by Mrs. Chris
ton NJ. Olson. who had lost case
involving title to some property in
Judge Mains court. Mrs. Olson sue
ceeded in striking the amazed judge
on the head twice.
The Union Pacific will increase it's
shop force in Denver 500 men. The
shops are to be enlarged to more than
twice their present capacity. Practi-
cally all of the repair work in the
Western district will be done in Den
yer and there will also be a rebuild.
ing OF cars in the Denver shops.
Mrs. Mary J. Kendall Of Rapid
City winner of No. l in the Rosebud.
S. D., land drawing, has husband
who is paralyzed and for six years
she has been employed at day labor
to support them. She has woven car
pets by day. herded and MIXED cows
and cared for her husband at night.
Reports from Indianapolis that a
federal grand jury would investigate
the so-called Mcnamara dynamiting
cases, in Los Angeles. supplied a
theme for consideration by counsel .or
the defense of John J. and James B.
Mcnamara and attracted attention il.
the offices of District Attorney FREQ,
ericks as well.
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100000 ELIGIBLE TO VOTE.
Right Of Equal Suffrage May Be I'm
portant Factor.

Observation-Disclosures 100000 wo-
men will be eligible to vote for Pres
ident Of the uuited States in 1912.
Those women are to be found in the
six Western states which have al
ready granted equal suffrage.
The number OF women in each state
who ore eligible to vote is about as
follows: California, 100000: Colora-
do. 100000: Idaho. $4,000; Utah. 65.
900; Washington. 10000. and Wy
oming. $4,000. or a total OF 92S.O00.
There are in the United States to-
day just nineteen states that have no
form OF woman suffrage, although
some cities in them have. Kentucky
was the first state in this country to
give women the right to vote.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03
JOSEPH PULITZER DEAD.
Proprietor Of New York World and st.
Louis Post-Dispatch.

Charleston. S. C.-Joseph Pulitzer
proprietor OF the New York World and
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. died
aboard his yacht. the Liberty, in
Charleston harbor.
The immediate cause OF Mr.. Pulit
zer's death was heart failure. He had
been in i'll health for several days, but
until few hours before the end. none
OF those around him suspected the
gravity of his condition.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03
Italian LOSSES Heavy.

London.-Reports to the Turkish
Embassy here are to the effect that
the Italians suffered tremendous
losses in dead and wounded in the
fighting at Benghazi and around
Tripoli. Dispatches say the Turks
and Arab allies in the hinterland are
being reinforced hourly and the
Jehidi is on in earnest.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03

Pueblo will get reduced freight
rates November lst to terminal points
IN California. The reduction means
much to manufacturers and jobbers
who have been unable to compete with
Eastern manufacturers. owing to gates
prevailing heretofore.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03
Miss La Toilette Weds.

Washington.-Miss Fola La Toilette,
daughter OF Senator La Toilette Of
Wisconsin, was married at her home
to George Middleton OF New York.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03
Wreck on Fl. Worth & Denver.

Fort Worth, TeNas.-Fort Worth &
Denver City passenger train No. s,
northbound. was wrecked one mile
west of Bellevue. Engineer Cunning
ham is dead and his fireman. w. C.
Gates, of Fort Worth. and n score Of
passengers reported injured. Spread.
ing rails caused the wreck.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03
Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS.

Nov. 2 to 4-Rocky Mountain Hotel
Mems Associat ion-Dcnver.
Nov. l4-l6.-Amrrican Apple Con-
gress. Denver.
Nov. l3-l9-American Apple Congress
and American Apple Exposition. Dem
yer.
November 27-29-Colorado Teachers
Association
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FOR EIGN.

The town OF Milpa Alta, Mexico,
within three miles of the capital, was
almost destroyed by Zapatietas, who
were defeated by the federal troops in
n battle which lasted for more than
five hours near the ruined town.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03
To Paw for Y, M. C. A.

Grand Junction.-To raise 100000
to pay off the Indebtedness on the Y.
NJ. c. A. building. a subscription cam
paign to run ten days will commence
November Goth.
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All the world may be stage. but
unfortunately we can't always hear
the prompter.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03

In this world one must be a little
too kind to be kind enough.-Mari-
vaux.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-03

Teacher Of Dramatic Art-The very
hrst thing is to give the scholar
graceful bearing-to teach him how
to walk.
Student-Well. er-er-I don't ex-
pect to Join that kind OF company.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-03-30
Burned to Death ON
Altar of Capitalism
THE Sweat Shop
Innocent Women and Children Lock
ed in Death Trap---Burn Like Goals
in Furnace.

in a single file along an eight inch
ledge of stone about the wall. Over
hundred feet aboye the earth they
crspt along their perilous path and
seized I swinging wire which broke
like rotten rope to send them crash
ing down to death.
y little girl chung to Il window
sill for several minutes by her finger
tips, one hundred and fifteen feet
above the street. The fiendish flames
unlocked her grasp and hurled her
TO the street Another threw her
pocketbook. her hat and furs from
the tenth story and sent her body
whirling alter them TO death. y
man and woman embraced and
kissed each other, and plunging 20
the sidewalk both were killed. Five
girls smashed window glass. de-
seconded in struggling group and
crushed into shapeless mass. An
other leaping for Il fireman's ladder.
missed to strike a net and broke
two women with their arms about
one another threw themselves to the
earth.
With their lungs scared by inhal-
ing flames. some workers died in
their chairs. Others were crowded
into elevator shafts after cars had
made their last return. while others
persisted on Il pretended interior fire
escape. The majority of the hun
drcd were roasted to 4 crisp. TIL"
heads of some young girls were
burned off. The flesh of many
hung in burned and blackcncd
shreds. Wagon loads of crippled,
crushed and bruised We're hauled to
hospitals.-a mutiIatcd mass %
agony and tears. of misery and woe
with shattered broken bones. witt.
MANNED and bleeding remnants .oI
their lives.
All this ghastly Grucsomc misery
and death WAS suffered and endured
by these innocent. helpless. hard
owners and operators had no fire cs-
capCs and locked these poor indus
triouS children of toll in this dismal
den nf human hell If the pcopl>.
owned and operated all these fac
tories ana mills as they shonld. and
as they must. before the rich vii,
cease to rob and massacre the poor.
all such murder. grief and pain
would never be endured. How long
will the great majority of men allow
the hcartlcsS few to rob and cruelty
the sacred rights and holy lives OF
children. women and men. All this
robbery and murder will forever
ceas" when Socialism rules and regu-
latcS the lives of men.