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The Keota news., 1912-11-22
pr. CASTOR Drops Dead.

Cripple Creek-Dr. James B. Gas
ton, aged sixty-one, one OF the best
known physicians of the Cripple Creek
district, died suddenly Of apoplexy. He
was seated in his office chair talking
with .risrGs when the end came
The Keota news., 1912-11-22
Boulder Schools VII. Close.

Boulder.-All the public schools in
this county. including the State Pre-
paratory School, will close during
Thanksgiving week to allow the sev-
eral hundred teachers to attend the
state Teachers Association meetings
in Denver.
The Keota news., 1912-11-22


ern stock show--Denvef.
Bertweu Tregureha, known in both
Greeley aud Denver. Was killed as
ong Beach, Calf. when struck by .
street car. while riding a bicycle
Miss Margaret Baylor Of Cincinnati.
aEd- RAJ" dancing crusader. il In Den
yer prepared to launch a movement
against Erotesque ballroom dances
Mrs. Riddle was elected n q mem
Der Of the Legislature by majority
of nearly 1000, instead OF J. n. Coun-
ter, as was announced in the early re-
ports.
The 800 employees Of the City Of
Denver highway department have or
sanized u mutual benefit insurance
company for protection against sick
ress or injury.
Seized with an attack Of heart fail
IRE, D. C. Hermes, proprietor OF the
cigar stand in the Railway Exchange
building. dropped dead on Welton
street In Denver.
Albert Hennessy. = tenant on .
farm a mile and a half west OF Gree
ley, SHIT himself in the right temple
almost instantly.
John HAnway. thirty. laborer. report
ed to the Denver police that he was
held up at Tenth and Market streets
by two highwaymen and robbed Of IS
and q gold watch.
Miss Octavia Mcnamara, . former
st. Louis girl. died at st. Joseph's hos
pitAl In Denver after an illness lasting
six days. valyular heart trouble was
the cause of her death
The United States government has
filed suit in the Federal District Court
against the Telluride Power Company
asking $3.575.75 damages for loss of
timber on government land in Idaho.
Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford. state su.
perintendent of public instruction.
elect. has appointed as her deputy
Mrs. Alice B. Clark OF Garfield county.
Mrs. Clark has had eighteen years ex-
perience In the schoolroom.
In addition to its projects to reduce
Grades on Soldier Summit and Mar
shall Pass at cost of $500 900, the
Denver & Rio Grande will proceed at
orce to electrify the Salt Lake division
1t = cost of about $3,000.0O0.
The official returns given out by the
elections commission on United
| States senator for the long term show
that John F. Shafroth. candidate on
the Democratic ticket. leads all can
Cjdates in Denver by large plurality.
Woodrow Wilson is given a plurality
CT 42,29S votes over Theodore Roose-
welt. by complete returns from fifty.
six counties in the state and incom-
rlete returns from the other six.
Roosevelt led Taft BY 1920 by the
same returns.
Judge X. l. Perky Of Boise, Idaho.
appointed United States senator to I'LL
! the unexpired term of the late Senator
Hepburn, is a former Denver boy. He
attended school in Denver and became
a fireman on the old Circle railroad in
the latter part of the sos.
Determined to prevent tainting OF
the atmosphere of his office with any
form of "cussin'" in the future, Ad.
jutant General Chase of Denver post.
ed an announcement that fine Of S
cents for each cussword uttered would
be assessed against its user.
One Of the most elaborate banquets
given in Denver in many months was
The Keota news., 1912-11-22
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Pts of the State

western N.rspAp~r Union Sexs servios-
DATES FOR COMING EVENT.
January ,o-:5-Eighth Annual West
ern stock Show--Denyef.
The Keota news., 1912-11-22
INVESTING FOR PROFIT FREE

rH1 MSsths. Msvorth ol0 9 eopy e any nDaa
invested honey unpeoh.bT 81 Who csa ssvsSS ofmoSs
psf oenta but Who hasn't aFnsd the At Of inveffnS
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~ 0A0eo roveAb eno eD0Tm0oo profits oankoGS
5000 eoSshev g naks kstAeeesaepsoetsI sIts s4pleins
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Ne now. IN send Il slx nSoosSs sSSsiaSS.y TREE
l. lRA1R1. 1.PsS..R.lDe.1 Nv. Clinge1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04

very far through the despicable meth
DDS of lying and deception. People,
regardless of how they may feel with
reference to the liquor traffic, con-
denim with one accord that which
savors of the unfair and are quick to
repudiate it.
OF the great honor that was paid
Justice Cooke yesterday it is perhaps
needless to say more than that he de-
serves the remarkable evidence of
public respect, public confidence and
public appreciation. He is worthy Of
the highest testimonial, not only to
his personal qualifications, but TO his
professional accomplishments and his
established fitness and worth as a
jurist. His return to the highest
tribunal in the state of Illinois means
1bat he will be the next chief justice
OF that distinguished body, a rare
compliment TO one of its youngest
members, and, in all the state of ILL
nois there will be no greater rejoicing
than among his associate justices,
whose respect and friendship he has
won in his brief term of service on
the bench.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04

IGNORANCE BREEDS ALL LIARS.
Madame Karine Michaelis, Danish
writer, recently declared that all wo-
men are liars, adding statements to the
effect that women outclass men as
liars any old time.
Possibly Madame Michaelis believes
that her statement is correct. We do
not like to accuse her OF insincerity or
Of wish simply to be sensational. And
far be it from US TO nominate her for
membership in the now famous Anan-
las club.
But if the truth is to be told, 1t has
to be admitted that though some wo-
men lie some OF the time. all women do
not lie all of the time.
ANY normal human being will lie at
times-sometimes from force of mag
nation, perhaps from expediency, pos
sibly just in the joy Of exaggeration,
and occasionally through ignorance or
mistaken judgment. Such frailty is
not common to femininity at all.
Remember, the wise ones made An,
anias masculine.
Some men make the mistake Of pre-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04

Indispensable instrument in electoral
action.
Many officials, therefore, are elect
ed without adequate public scrutiny,
and owe their selection not TO the
people, but to the makers of the party
ticket, who thus acquire an influence
that is capable of great abuse.
The short ballot principle is
First-That only those offices should
be elective which are important
enough to attract land deserve) public
examination.
Second-That very few offices should
be filled by election at one time, so
as 10 permit adequate and unconfused
public examination of the candidates.
Obedience to these fundamental
principles, the short ballot advocates
claim. explains the comparative sue
cess of democratic government in the
cities of Great Britain and other for
eign democraCies. as well as in Gal
weston, Dies Moines and other Ameri-
can cities that are governed by com
missions"
/ The application of these principles
should be extended TO all cities, coun-
I ties and states.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


varicating too long. too often and too
deliberately. When such a man has
quite decided that woman is believ-
ing implicitly every word that he ut
ters, he would be surprised to see the
intelligence in the soul Of that woman.
There are more men believing that
they are being believed than there are
wives and mothers and sweethearts
who are not wise" But where it is
policy for a woman to let man think
she believes his whoppers, she recog-
Eizes the sterling value Of apparent
credulence.
1t isn't the wisest wife, by any
means, who continually shows up her
lords shortcomings in the matter of
truth. 1t is only in the really important
affairs that she suddenly displays a
clarity of vision that is disquieting, to
say the least. Many man would be
surprised if he could see the plates de-
veloped in the dark room of his wife's
intelligence.
1t Is not always necessary to tell the
truth one knows, nor to say everything
one thinks or comment on everything
one sees or hears about. There are
times when silence, or a smile, or a
remark leading to some other subject,
will be the best course to pursue. Most
of us are too anxious to tell what We
| think is the truth, when it is disagree
able. We forget that there are agreea-
BILE truths as we'll as the other kind.
Often the telling of truth will do
untold harm to those whom it con-
Germs. When a misfortune mas hap
pened and a reference to it will harm
the person concerned while 1t will help
nobody else, it is the utmost kindness
: to tell the truth" about it, Because
a thing is true is not sufficient excuse
for spreading it abroad. as some Of the
| righteous contend. Many truths are
better hidden.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04
The Argus Daily Story
A Kansas Cyclone-By Evan Rathbone.
Copyrighted. 1911. by Associated Literary Bureau

1t was in the state OF Kansas that
the great bank robbery occurred in
1S9-, and three men. Tom Gallagher,
Mike Farragh and a man commonly
known as Colorado Jim, were con-
victed
The day after the crime was CON-
mitted Donald Redfield was walking
on a street in Topeka when he was
taken in hand by a sheriff on a charge
of being one of the bank robbers. At
first he smiled at the mistake that
was being made, but It was not hong
before he became thoroughly fright
ened
Several persons who from windows
opposite the bank had got good view
of the robbers swore that he was
the leader OF the gang, and later he
was identified as Tom Gallagher. des-
perado who had for some time strick-
en- terror into the people Of Kansas.
Redfeld had but recently moved to
the state with his wife and two little
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04
STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAP
PENED

Lightning strikes in unexpected
places. The law which applies to the
acts of the elements is also true of
politics. In his hour Of triumph 1t
is scarcely believable that the mere
suggestion OF the suspician OF a
thought has been breathed to Justice
Cooke that there is even a POSSIBLE
ity Of greater things in store for him
at least in the immediate future.
And vet stranger things have hap
pened. Grover Cleveland was not
Known outside of New York a year
before he became a presidential nom
inee. All present indications point TO
the nomination of Champ Clark for
president by the Baltimore democratic
national convention, and yet II the
dark horse should get to cavorting,
who knows but that it might gallop
right over into Illinois and into a stall
in Mercer county. No one is known
10 be grooming George Cooke for
such an emergency, and 1t is not
known that he would embrace the
opportunity to yield a nine-year Job
ar 1000 per annum to engage once
more in the turmoil Of politics for
any higher honor. He likes the work
of the bench and is undoubtedly very
well satisfied with the manner in
vhich he has been continued in the
office.
But his election in a district that
was cut out for safely republican SUI
preme court division by $1,000 is
bound to make him a national charac.
[ ter-if he cares 10 he one
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04
CAPITAL COMMENT

without the tariff, the steel trust
would have to sell its profits for 10
per cent less than it now sells them,
and 10 per cent of three thousand mil
lion is three hundred thousand. Every
man, woman and child of the 80 100000
in this country. then, pays an annual
tribute of $3.50 each to this trust,
over and above what they would have
to pay if the tariff were taken from
steel
What is the effect of this extortion?
One effect has been to create a horde
Of mushroom millionaires. Another
effect has been a gradual centraliza-
ton of the nations wealth into a few
hands, with a consequent intensifying
the masses. Still another effect is
seen in the vast number of strikes
Within the last 25 years 36,756 strikes
have been declared in this country,
most of them for higher wages. These
strikes have involved a total of 6,00O-
600 workers, who, with their families,
we're driven TO hunger and suffering.
4 COMPLETE MONOPOLY.
While the steel trust enjoys a COM
| plete monopoly, due to the tariff, it
| finds times to compete with other ma
tons for steel trade outside of the
United States. Last year the steel
/ makers of this country sold $1,000
/ O0O worth of steel abroad, in direct
! competition with the steel makers of
Europe, thus proving cOnclusively that
tariff on steel is not needed to pro
I tect American workmen," since Amer.
lean workmen do not get any more
than their fellows abroad. The tariff
is simply barrier put up to enable
the steel trust to gouge millions out
OF the home consumer.
And in the meantime, the democrat
ic bill to lower the tariff on steel
having passed the house, lies in the
republican senate, still Enacted upon
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04

privileged wealth in this country would
reveal that the protected industries eX-
act from the people approximately a
thousand millions a year, over and
above a fair profit. The fact that these
industries have a monopoly enables
them TO do this
Senator Hitchcock's speech fairly
bristled with figures, taken from the
most reliable and authentic sources,
to back up each of his facts.
STEEL TRUST PROFIT.
The steel trust alone gets 100000
900 annually in excess of a fair profit.
This monopoly does an annual bust
ness of three thousand millions of
dollars a year, and it is estimated that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04
Glue Ionic

Chinese medicine developed a special
fondness for fossilized dragon bones"
derived from extinct herbivora They
are also fond Of dragon teeth" as fos-
silized shells are called In Shantung
glue is made from asses skins. In
certain town Of that province is a well,
the water Of which when drunk by
asses makes their skins especially good
for making glue. This glue brings a
fancy prize, as II is a famous tonic
throughout China.-Chicago Tribune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

Funny, isn't It? We all want the
it doesn't get around TO US.
Recent events seem to point to the
reflection that size and luxury may be
In no way related to safety.
The trouble with some of our friends
seems to be that they are built like a
life raft and prove to be inconveniently
collapsible.
What nobody knows everybody is
generally franticalIy endeavoring to
tell
The fellow who puts a lot of punch
into his work is likely to make a hole
big enough to let himself climb through.
Any true man would rather freeze TO
death at a ball game than at the oner.
Gus job of beating rug for his wife
One reason why men hate to hear
women talk is found in the feeling that
the laity have for the profession.
Isn't II queer what some of our
brethren find 70 take pride in:
Scene. a town IN the north on Tery
misty day.
Sandy Mckay coming out Of pub
lie house and meeting his minister face
TO facel-Losh, sir, it's an awful de
ceivin' thing, this mist Dye ken Gm'
pressiveIyl. ! wandered In there the
moo. thinkin' it was the grocer's l-LOn
dod Telegraph
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04
MEANING OF THE TERM .sHoRT
BALLOT"


The term short ballot is a catch
phrase which has come into use with
in the past three years voicing pro-
test against the present unwieldy and
steadily increasing length of the ballot
used in American elections. The short
ballot plan proposes to simplify the
ballot through the elimination of cleo
tive Offices which are purely admins
trative in character and which do
not sufficiently interest the voter to
insure his careful scrutiny Of the can
didates. Such offices should, accord
ing to the short ballot" plan, be made
appointive.
By lessening the number of names
appearing on the ballot, it is claimed,
greater intelligence in voting is in
sured. II is not possible for the av-
erage voter TO express an independent
judgment upon each of the many can
didates for whom he is now called up
on 10 vote With the election Of only
the most important offices it is posi-
bic for the voter TO know fully the
qualifications of the candidates, and
30 10 vote with disCernment.
BY removing administrative Offices
from popular election and making
them appOintive. unity and response
bility Of administration are secured.
When the principal administrative Of
fees in state are elective, respon-
sibility is diffused. but when appoint
ment is vested in the governor, which
is now the prevailing tendency when
ever constitutional changes are eff
fected, accountability is definitely
fixed. The governor may be made
responsible 70 the people either
through a short elective term or
through the application Of the recall"
In making administrative Offices ap-
pointiye rather than elective there is
greater assurance Of securing officials
who are especially fitted for the given
Office. When they are elected party
allegiance, rather than technical abil-
ity, too often insures nomination and
election. When the governor is made
responsible for the appointment of ad-
miuisrative officials it is for his own
most efficient be appointed. The ad-
ministratiye efficiency OF the govern
ments of Great Britain and Germany
is due TO the fact Of the universal APP
pointment of administrative officials.
In municipal and state governments
in the United States experience has
abundantly proven that when technical
/ service of any kind is demanded sp-
pointment rather than popular cleo.
ton secures the best results.
The dangerously great power Of pol.
iticians in the country is not due to
any peculiar civic Indifference of the
people, but il rests on the fact that
We are living under a form of demo.
crazy that IS so unavoidable as to con.
stitute in practice a pseudodemocracy
II is unavoidable because:
First-It submits 10 popular cleo
ton Offices which are too unimport
ant to attract (or deserve) public al
tention, and
Second-It submits 10 popular cleo
ton so many Offices at one time that
many of them are inevitably crowd
ed out from proper public attention
!. and
= Third-It submits TO popular cleo
ton so many Offices st one time that
: the business of making up the elab
: crate tickets necessary at every cleo
ton makes the political machine Al
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04
JUSTICE COOKIES REELECTION.

Justice George A. Cooke was re-
elected 20 the supreme court of Hi
nois from the Fourth district yester-
day by a vote that was at once sub
stantial vindication Of the principles
which his candidacy represented
non-partisanship in judicial elections
and Acknowledged fitness-and re-
buke Of the methods employed TO &C
complish his defeat. The result was
therefore, not so much democratic
victory, az an affirmation OF the the
DRY that politics has no place in Ju-
diciaI election and that a judge who
has made good should be returned.
The people Of the Fourth district not
only upheld by a tremendous plural
fly the main issues involved in JUS
tice Cookies candidacy. but they placed
the seal Of their condemnation
upon the disreputable tactics employ
ed against him. The insults and per-
sonaI abuse hurled at him by the
newspapers supporting Judge Grler,
and emanating from Safeguarding
press bureau in Judge Griers own
city OF Monmouth the iudignities TO
which Justice Cookies high office was
subjected, all these elements that en-
tered into the election received a tell
ing Jolt.
Perhaps the most repTehensihle
phase OF the entire campaign was the
injection in the closing days, the clos
ing hours IL may be said, OF issues
absolutely irrelevant. and which have
no place in American politics, much
less in a judicial election. Originating
in Chicago, and by the use OF the mails,
these movements were reserved until
the very last in the hopes of accom-
pllshing mischief by sly trickery, too
late for refutation or argument. The
most abominable OF these schemes
was that which aimed for the crea-
ton Of religious prejudice. a thing
which has in the past been repeatedly
frowned upon in American politics
Perhaps one OF the strongest papers
that former President Theodore
Roosevelt has ever written was the
enc which he gave out to the press
shortly after the close of the last
presidential campaign in which he
condemned in bitter terms the at
tempt which had been made TO intro
duCe this influence in a presidential
campaign. Yet as a last desperate re
sort IL cropped out here in a supreme
court election, only 10 prove, however
a boomerang.
The other piece OF mean politics
came out the very last day, likewise
from Chicago-from the Anti-SalooI
league under whose agency the sup
posed dry counties OF the district
were flooded with literature designed
TO arouse opposition 10 Justice Cooke
II was expected. OF course, that Jus
tioe Cooke would not apprehend thi:
bit Of underhand work. but the alert
friends OF the 1urist caught the per
petrators OF the outrage red handed
and the result was that It. too. re
s-ted, as it properly should. No ef
fort moral o, Otherwise. ever 80
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04
Hunor and
Philosophy
~ DUNCAN ~. SMITH
WANTED.

Oh, who will be the white mans hope
~ And with the massive monster cope
Who holds the title now?
Who will go up to Jack and say,
Excuse me IL seem too gay,
But how about a row."
Who will step boldly in the ring
And 10 all corners gayly sing:
Come on. or black or whiteI
Come. there will be no turning backi
Come one and all and you, too Jacki
Come. try me in fightr
The man who can with gloves perform
Upon the others sable form
And make him quit the game
VIII then the little hero be,
To managers can name his fee
And live upon his fame.
II he should write a book or play
Or with poem get away
Or TO high art plane hop
He wouldn't be so grand and great
AS though hewon in three rounds straight
And put his race on top.
We need a scrapper who can scrap
And put the white race on the map
And change the line OF dope.
Cannot a single one come back
To take the belt away from Jack
And be the white mans hope?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04
.'I.' ~

! am IT.
! am the people!
] am just like Lincoln.
am greater than my party!
! am the nations only hope,
can knock EN- all through the
ropes!
am so great am above any
criticism.
can have as many terms in the
White house as / want,
can abuse others with impunity,
but others must not criticise ME!
Any one who does is a LIAR!
7. r
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04

Not Necessary.
$50 you and Bert are going to be
married, Maudie?''
Eyes. Isn't it perfectly lovely?"
81 think it is perfectly foolish"
Foolish. Why. Bert is the incest
boy ever saw"
Maybe, but he doesn't earn enough
to keep a chicken alive"
well, you goose, we don't expect to
keep chickens.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04
BANDS Way.

bIand's way.
81 don't see why Bland never pays
his debts"
That's because you don't understand
his philosophy"
PHILOSOPHY? Didn't know he had
anything but money and debts"
''Oh. yes, he has philosophy"
"What is it?'
THAT only a fool pays his debts.
The wise man saves his money TO get
more credit 10 make more debts"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04

GU lllA u oil lCD W III .
from the Ameri-
can people annual
ly, over and above
a fair profit on cap
ital actually in
vested. And some
Of it is taken from
the working people
of Rock Island,
who contribute
their share in the
form of increased
cost of living.
Il believe it is
within reason to
say" said Senator
Hitchcock, at the
conclusion of q
speech he made on
the subject, that
d careful eXamina-
ton of the profits
from all ella asses of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-04

Theodore Roosevelt has certainly not
established a reputation as being man
Of fair inclinations or peaceable meth
eds. The consensus OF opinion is that
ne and his friends will resort to any
practice 10 stampede the Chicago con-
ventiOn for Colonel Roosevelt II is
peculiar this fear should be in the air
unless Colonel Roosevelt has estab-
lished a reputation for such methods.