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Pick Up Schooner in Distress.

NORFOLK, Va. February S.-The four
masted schooner Gilbert Brothers, bound
to New York with cargo Of railroad
ties, which was picked up off Cape Look
out in distress. was towed into Hamp-
ton roads today. She win repair and pro-
coed.
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Fire Destroys Wool Felt Mill.
.AMSTERDA

AMSTERDAM, n. Y, February 3.-The
plant Of the Consolidated wool felt mills
in this city was destroyed by fire of un-
known origin this morning. The loss was
$4,000 covered by insurance
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ALEXANDRA TO BE ABSENT.
Dowager Queen Won't See Her Son
George ", Crowned.

LONDON, February 3.-lt Is stated that
it has been definitely decided that the
Dowaser Queen Alexandra will not at
tend the coronation.
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A story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
THE Contest" offered in our ten-thou-
sand-dollar competition, will appear Sun
daA February IL
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Contributions Acknowledged.

Recent gifts of money to the Associated
Charities, 923 H street northwest, are
acknowledged by John Joy Edison, treas
urer. as follows: H. j. Hunt s.: Admiral
William X. Van Reypen, $40; Miss He
loise Brainerd, s.: Joseph F. Birch & Co.,
$40: DIR. r. E. L. Wiltberger, s.; Mrs.
Levi n. Foutz, $50
Acknowledgements for the following
amounts have been made by Milton E.
Allies, treasurer Of the Citizens Relief
Association. Mrs. William Is. Van Rey-
pen, 50; James X. Jones, So; Mrs. Levi n.
Fouts, $50; j. f. ROSenthal, IS; Evan h.
Tucker, 81: Mrs. George NJ Smith, 81.
Following are contributions to the joint
finance committee of the Associated
Charities and Citizens Relief Associa-
ton, Howard S. Reside treasurer: Mrs.
Fred E. Wright, 81: Eugene +. Stevens.
$40; Mr.. and Mrs. Truman III. Newberry,
$50; f. II. Snyder & Co, SO; +. McClei-
land, $40; Charles 8. King, 80; Lewis L.
Clephane So; Mrs. Fanny NJ. Hamlin, 81:
George E. Roberts, $40; Lieut.. Gen. S. NJ.
3. Young, $40; George w. Lake. $40;
Lieut. Frank p. I.ahm. 50; Mrs. Margaret
l.. Spindle, $40, cash. 81; Col George
Truesdell, SIS: Mrs. Frederic l.. Moore,
81; Miss Helen w. Myer, So; Mr.. and Mrs.
George Otis Smith, $40: cash. 81; Surgeon
General Walter Wyman, So; Mrs. c. v.
Riley 50: William Henry Dennis, 81; Miss
H. Evelyn Crippen, $5; j. G. STACK, 81;
anonymous, So; Mrs. Earl Cranston,
81; Mrs. Leon Ellinger. So; Frederick ii.
Brooke, $40; Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, $40;
| James Fl. Dony. S..
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CHARITY AS A TOPIC DR.. kERR'S FUNERAL
Sermons to Be Preached on
the Subject February rs.
MORE FUNDS ARE NEEDED
It Is Desired to Create Greater Gen
eral Interest in Work of the
Associations.

Associated Charities Sunday" which
was SO generally observed last year by
the churches of Washington. is to be
repeated this year. The day selected
Is the last Sunday in February, the
26th. This matter has already been
presented to the ministers of Wash
ington by Rev. Roland Cotton Smith,
rector of ST. Johns Episcopal Church.
and chairman of the Associated Chart
ties committee on church co-opera-
ton.
Such was the report presented a Il
meeting of the joint finance commit
tee of the Associated Charities and
Citizens Relief Association, held at the
American Security and Trust building
Yesterday afternoon. Members of the
committee were asked to secure the
cooperation Of their own pastors and
to hold themselves in readiness to pre-
sent the work of these local philan-
thropies il so requested in their own
churches.
In pursuance OF it's plans for cam
paign of publicity the committee has
requested the cooperation of the
Board Of Trade and the Chamber or
Commerce. Corcoran Thorn. chairman
of the finance committee. with other
members, have been invited to be pres
ent when the directors OF the Board or
Trade next meet. The board of directors
of the Chamber of Commerce have
taken similar action upon the request
of the committee. and will afford an
opportunity for the committee to pre-
sent it's work.
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Parlor Meeting Conference.

4 parlor meeting, to be addressed by
members of the board of managers and
workers of the Associated Charities, will
be held at the residence OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Hennen jennings next Monday afternoon
at 3. o'clock. This meeting will be In the
nature of conference to consider plans
for the extension of the work.
Reports received at the meeting of the
finance committee showed that the re-
turns were considerably behind last year
at this time.
The following facts were brought to the
attention of the committee:
Thus far H. 1856 appeals, including an
nual report. special letters and circulars
have been sent out which have resulted
in responses from 759 different persons
1t was the sense of the committee that
there must be much more general sup
port given the work If actual SUFFERING
and distress are to be met and relieved
i'm a manner worthy of modern charitable
methods. The amount asked for by the
committee is less than 10 cents for each
resident of the District By the expendl-
ture Of this money homes are kept to-
gether that would otherwise have to be
broken up and the members placed I'M
der institutional care which the District
stands ready to provide for its INDECENT
poor. For such institutional care and Tor
the conduct of it's public charities the
District of Columbia spends an average
Of So for every inhabitant, as compared
with the 10 cents per capita which these
two general non-sectarian charities, the
Associated Charities and Citizens Relief
Association, are asking for.
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Help Extended to 5000.

Families in which there were 5000 in
dividuals were dealt with last year, while
less than $500 individuals contributed to
the work.
Contributions large and small will be
received by the joint finance committee
at 923 H street northwest.
Those present at the meeting yesterday
afternoon were: Corcoran Thorn, chair
man; Scott C. Bone, Walter c. Clephane.
John Joy Edison, Walter StilsOn Hutchins,
DR.. George NJ Kober, Frederick L. Moore,
DR.. William c. Rives, G. w. F. Swartzell
and J. Lewis Willige.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-11-25
Sequndo Teacher in Jail.

Trinidad.-Held upon charges Of 4
serious nature contained in stories OF
schoClboys. and suspected Of being a
woman masqHerading in male attire.
"A. ]. Baker" nattily attired young
school teacher Of Segundo, twelve
miles west OF here, is occupying a
cell in the women's quarters Of the
county jail. The prisoner refused TO
affirm or deny the allegations of the
boys that she is a woman, and protest.
ed vigorously when the county iailers
suggested that the county physician be
called. At a hearing in the Justice
Count the bail was fixed at $4,000. and
has not been obtained by the prisoner.
The preliminary hearing has been set
for November 81
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-11-25
GEN ERAl.

Walter Wyman, surgeon general Of
the United States public health and
marine hospital service. is dead.
Secretary Of the Navy Meyer, in his
annual report, will advocate increased
pay for the government clerks, and
age retirement.
The nations bank clearings continue
to expand. Last weeks disclosed a
gain of $255.000,O00 over the CORE
spending period of 1910
Three murderers were put to death
by electricity in Sing Sing prison at
dawn, November 20. The executions
began at 5:2S O'Clock and lasted only
twenty-three minutes.
Mrs. Alexander B. White of Paris,
Tenn. was elected president of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
on the second ballot at Richmond, Va
Mrs. Livingston r. Schuyler of New
York, who had the support Of the Geor-
gia delegation of PIP, was defeated by
1856 votes, the vote standing 1.077 for
Mrs. White and 742 for Mrs. Schuyler.
The other general offices were unani-
mously reelected.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-11-25
WEST ERN.

Adams Express COmpany's office at
Grand Rapids, Mich, was robbed OF ey-
erything in the safe, the bandit then
escaping.
Great Northern fast mail train col
lided head ON with freight train at
Rugby, d. killing the engineer and
fireman and injuring five others.
Several armed men dynamited the
safe of the bank OF Clarita, fourteen
miles west of Colgate, Okla, and got
about 81 800 in currency, and es-
capped
Because of the activity OF alleged
reyolutionists along the Texas -Mexi-
can border. especially in the vicinity
of Laredo, Troop /, Third United
States cavalry, has been ordered to
that point for patrol duty.
Col. Clifford Ham of Dubuque has
been appointed collector general OF
customs for the republic of Nicaragua.
Col Ham, for the last eight years has
been connected with the customs ser
vice of the Philippines. For TWO years
Manila.
Mrs Letha Iamara, the fifteen-year-
old wife of Louis Lamara, a Greek,
committed suicide in the county jail
at Everett. Wash, by choking herself
with a piece Of rope. Lamara and his
wife were arrested Nov. and were
being held pending an investigation OF
their conduct
A sweeping reduction of freight
rates from the Atlantic seaboard to
Colorado common points by way of the
Galveston gateway is demanded by the
Denver Consumers and Shippers Asso-
citation, in petition of intervention
in the suit brought before the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
A heavy downpour of rain in the
lowlands, and melting of the six feet
of snow flooded the rivers of western
Washington, broke the dam of the mu-
nicipal electric plant. at Seattle, cut
off Seattles water supply, demoralized
railroad service, washed out bridges
and flooded many farms and valley
towns.
The general committee of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church has accepted
from the estate OF the last Bishop j.
P. Newman, the pastor who received
General U. S. Grant into the Metho-
dist church, and also preached the
funeral sermon over the great warrior.
plot of ground and buildings in the
ed to school.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-11-25
THE WEEKS NEWS EPITOMIZED

| Support of the Catholic church for
the arbitration treaties, for which Pres
| ident Taft is working, was assured
when an intervie wgiven by Cardinal
| Gibbons was made public in Washing
| ton.
While his five children, the eldest
| aged II years, lay asleep in an ad-
| joining room, o. c. Allison, a wealthy
| farmer of Nevada, Mo-, shot and killed
his wife, then shot himself to death
in his home.
Charges that Chicago gamblers kept
fund on hand of $4,000 for use in
| leasing up public officials" were mads
| by Harry Brolaski, former gambler,
before the Civil Service Commission
in its investigation OF public gambling
and vice.
The Army Ordnance Bureau has
| been obliged to go abroad to place a
contract for 100 armor piercing shells
| for the big fnurteen-inch guns now be.
| ing turned out. The contract has gone
to the Hadfieid Steel Foundry Compa-
ny Of England.
Rough plans for two huge battle
| ships will be laid before Congress this
winter. The projected ships are to be
OF 10000 tons displacement, armed
with ten fourteen-inch rifles, each
nearly seventy feet long, with broad
belts Of the highest type of hardened
| armor. and with steaming capacity
enough to carry them back and forth
| across the Atlantic.
Two victims were claimed on the
Savannah. Ga, automobile race
course, over which the grand prize
| and Vanderbilt cup races will be run.
The first accident was general pile
up. Joe Dawson was badly hurt. ].
D. McNay was killed In the second
accident. His car turned over and he
| was pinned underneath. Maxwell.
McNay's mechanician. was seriously
hurt.
Beet sugar manufactures who have
been meeting in Chicago for the last
| few days, closed their session after
formulating plans to combat the propa-
ganda in the interest of free sugar, al
legged to be carried on by the cane
sugar refiners and the New York i'm.
porting interests. The beet sugar men
declare that they produce annually
100000 tons of sugar, draw material
| from sixteen states, extending from
Ohio to California, and pay the Amer.
! lean farmer 30.000,000 annually there.
for. They contend that by putting raw
sugar on the fre list the domestic in.
dustry would be destroyed, all compe.
tition eliminated. and that thereafter
the importers and refiners would have
complete monopoly.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-11-25
Settlers on School Land ousted.

Neeker.-Through the states assert
ing prior right. settlers in this section
are be ginning TO receive notices from
the land headquarters in Washington
TO the effect that their homestead
filings have been cancelled and that
their land holdings revert back TO the
government, then to become the prop
who have thus summarily been dis
possessed had received any previous
warming. The notices in each case are
peremptory. declaring in substance
that the filings have been declared nun
and void, and giving the granger
stipulated time In which to vacate the
premises. on his failure to do SO, he
becomes a trespasser and subject TO
the usual action in case OF that kind.
No recourse is allowed him. All i'm
provements which he has made on the
land and all money spent become 4
dead loss.
The land affected By this action Of
the department comprises many thou
sands Of acres all through the White
River valley. Without exception 1t is
all valuable farming and grazing LAM,
and has practically all been filed on
BY act of Congress March Is. 1910,
the state OF Colorado was given school
indemnity land. June %, 1910. the
State Land Board applied for lands
in question.
March II, 1911. the secretary of the
interior withdrew the lands-a portion
Of the area being on Little Beaver
but no one there knew 1t. Settlers
have entered that section; they have
filed upon these same lands. they
have improved their holdings. some OF
them spending from $500 to $1,000 on
their claims. Now claimants are being
notified that the General Land Office
is cancelling their filings. No filing
will hold good that was not made
previously to June %, 1910.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-11-25
COLORADO STATE NEWS

Colorado's expenditures for charity
approximates one million dollars an
nually, according 10 the report made
by. William Thomas, secretary of the
State Board OF Charities and Correc-
tions.
Joe MikQlich. recently convicted OF
second degree murder, as the result OF
a Globeyille stabbing af.ray, was sen
I fenced in the Denver Criminal Court
I to from ten 10 fifteen years IN the pen
itentiary at Cancn City.
| Although every available policeman
/ and deputy sheriff in Pueblo has been
7 conducting systematic search, no
{ trace Of Thomas Kvitko. the alleged
( slayer OF Tony Abamerich, a saloon
( keeper, has been found
Z julie Plowhead of kersey made the
when he received 81 $40 for twenty fat
steers on the Denver market. They
averaged 1,a35 pounds each and
brought $40 hundred.
Looking forward to growing a larg-
er acreage than ever in Weld county
.
! prepare their fields and it is estimated
that 2S0,0oe acres of land will be grow
/ ing crops in the irrigated region of
that county next summer.
The services accompanying the un-
yelling of the memorial tablet COM
memorating the tragic death Of Father
Z Leo Hendricks, who was shot down in
D l.
in Denver by an assassin February
| %, 1908, held at the church in that
city, were interesting and impressive.
| Colorado mining men want one or
more metallurgical experiment sta
tions located in the state by the gov
eminent, and to adopt resolutions for
| these stations and to outline a cam
I paign to appeal to Congress for such
stations there will be a meeting at the
| Traffic Club in Denver. Tuesday even
/ ing, November IS.
The good roads conference at Pu-
eblo. in January, will be asked to rec
ommend the construction of at least
I four highways across Colorado, as
I part of the great continental highway
now partially constructed. and which
will be in first-class condition before
1 the opening of the Panama Pacific ex-
! position in San Francisco in 1915.
Through either the State Game De-
/ partments wanton neglect or a dis
I interestedness in the welfare of the
! big game in that section, Rio Blanco
| county is uardaus and
I has been since the early part of last
| summer. AS result, slaughter of
deer and elk is going on which, if con
/ tinued, will completely deplete the
| hills OF these animals.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-11-25

A. A. Hayes, general freight audi
tor of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe railway, died at Topeka of blood
poisoning.
Jerry Micke. aged eleven, is in dy
ing condition at his home in Fort
Worth. Texas, OF lockjaw. A week age,
it is said, he was chewing gum in
school To punish him his teacher COM
PEELED him TO stand before the class
and chew wads of paper He was
forced to continue this operation for
half an hour. Physicians are puzzled
by the case and express the opinion
that he cannot recover.
Anti-saloon territory created by vote
under the local option, is not thrown
open to the retail sale of liquors by
the issuance of state licenses TO phar-
macists. declares Judge George w.
Allen, who at Denver ruled that
Charles j. Clayton, must pay state
license. He fined the druggist 500
for selling two ounces of whisky on a
prescription, although the druggist had
state license.
Chicago believes that it has cinched
the Republican national convention for
1912.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-11-25
Minor Mention.


The total annual tax levy for Pail
SADIE is 40 mills.
Roads in the vicinity of Ramah are
being improved.
Gunnison is soon to have a new
Methodist church
The new high school building at La
mar has been dedicated.
In the Gunnison schools there is a
total OF 2I3 pupils enrolled
joe Sargent. aged sixty-nine, was
found dead in bed at North Lon gr1ont.
Arrangements have been made Tor
the manufacture OF nickels al the Den
yer mint.
Along the Crested Butte branch OF
the D. & R. G. railroad there is ten
feet of snow.
Mrs. Gertrude Patterson has been
placed on trial in Denver for the kill
ing OF her husband.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Rice Of Long
uont recently celebrated the sixty-fIrst
anniversary of their marriage.
4. ]. Schamp. plasterer, fell from
the dome OF the new Methodist
church in Trinidad and was fatally in
iured.
Abraham Allaart, seventeen years
old. OF kuner. the twelfth child in
the family TO succumb 10 tuberculosis.
died recently.
The 3-year-old daughter OF ]. l.. Mul-
Inns OF Montrose was probably mortal
. ItF hs,r ed ,t-bf r,1a %
kitchen stove.
Mrs. Mary E. flaming, aged seventy
one, and Solomon Patterson. aged
eighty-one. of Fort Collins, were re-
Gently married.
Nick Paulos, a Greek employed at
the Evans coal mine at Frederick,
was shot dead when he answered a
knock at the door OF his cabin.
The trustees of the National jew
ish Hospital for Consumptiyes, al
Denver, report that the shortage, ap-
proximating $4,000, has been made
up.
Word from the East is to the effect
that Manager Dick Cooley of Salt
Lake City has repurchased Players
Schimpff, Pendleton and Morgan from
the Denver club.
Chris Jensen, the Battling Dane,
has issued a challenge to fight Kid
Rose of Fort Collins before any Fort
Collins club at 135 pounds for not less
than five rounds nor more than ten.
One of the most extensive campaigns
OF education ever undertaken is being
conducted by the Dupont Powder Com
pany, in showing ranchmen and farm
ers the use of dynamite in doing their
| work.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-11-25
Soon TO Finish Highway Cutoff.

Canon City.-A party of good roads
enthusiasts from Denver, Colorado
Springs, Cripple Creek and Canon City
visited the good roads construction
camp OF Capt. c. II. Baldwin near the
FL Paso county line, twenty-five miles
northeast OF Canon City. Fifty con
victs and eleven teams are engaged in
Canon City-Colorado Springs state
highway, and when 1t is completed it
will be one Of the finest roads in the
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-11-25
HIGHEST PRICE IN HISTORY OF
CHICAGO MARKET PAID FOR
MONTANA STOCK.
$3.50 PER HUNDRED
RECEIPTS, 1000 HEAD A DAY,
LESS THAN THIS TIME
LAST YEAR.

Western Nsvs srapsr J-a.oA syeas Service.
Chlcago.-An unprecedented high
price paid here for range cattle called
attention to a condition which stock
men say has been growing more dis
turbiug for some time and which
they assert threatens to make a low
price Of meat an impOssibiiiy for the
future, unless It is met by activity
among corn-belt stock producers
F NJ. Heinrich OF Lodge Grass. Mon
tana, was paid $3.50 a hundred
pounds for twenty head OF cattle that
never had eaten other than the grass
OF the open range, price never be,
fore attained on the Chicago cattle
market for range stock.
The previous highest price was
$50. paid in October, 1903, to an
other Montana stock raiser,
These high-priced cattle were four
year-olds. averaging I.525 pounds. and
were destined for the Boston market.
The daily receipts being nearly
1000 head a day less than at this
time last year, according to statistI-
clans for the Union stock Yards and
Transit Company, are following the
trend OF the last few years, indicat-
ing that range cattle practically are
on the down grade in point of mum.
bers. -
The corn belt states, the statisti-
clans add, now have before them the
task OF maintaining the production,
and that the increasing interest in
the corn states has not kept pace
with the demand. the figures show.
Exceptional profits for corn belt
farmers in raising beef cattle are pre-
dicted by the stockmen. especially in
the next few years. until the dry
farmers have met with sufficient
success to warrant stock raising
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-11-25
FOREIGN.

An official dispatch announces that
has been bombarded by the Italians.
Many buildings were destroyed.
1t is announced that the German
government will spend $500. 900 for
military aeroplanes in 1912. Germany
vii be divided into districts. each OF
which will have flying squadron
The claim Of China for damages be-
cause of the killing Of 800 Chinese in
Mexico during the recent revolution,
has been practically settled by the
agreement OF the government to pay
81 ,550, 900. The agreement must be
ratified by Congress.
Chinese officials confirm the report
that massacre of foreigners as we'll as
Manchus has occurred at Sian Flu The
legations believe that the report will
prove true. There are forty foreigners
in Sian Flu and missionaries in the
smaller Shen ST towns.
The suffragettes are preparing to re-
new their attacks on Parliament, in
London, with battle which will sur
pass all previous campaigns. A few
days ago a delegation of suffragettes
interviewed Premier Asquith to obtain
pledge that the government would
undertake to pass a bill giving equal
suffrage to both sexes. Premier AS
quith declined to make such pledge,
but told the women that he had always
been opposed to woman suffrage.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-11-25
Pueblo Has omnission Form.

Pueblo.-Puebio Is under a commits
sicn form OF government. The opening
session OF the commissioners was not
as harmonious as expected. but after
little furry OF excitement the mem
bers OF the board settled down to busi-
ness and announced the following ap-
polntments: City attorney. Alya B.
Adams; city clerk, John VI. Jackson;
comptroller, Joseph II. LOor; munich
pal Judge, r. A. Cr0ssman: clerk of
the Board OF Commissioners Mrs.
Carrie Truman; deputy city clerk,
Miss Ella Young; deputy city comp
troIler, James W Carpenter.