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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
WASHINGTON.

A bill authorizing the withdrawal of
sovereignty of the United States from
the Philippines has been introduced in
in Congress.
Only Congress and not the supreme
Court Of the United States may object
to the initiative and referendum meth
cd of legislation in the states, SO the
court decided.
James X. Polk. Jr., direct descend
ant of President Polk and son of
Bishop Leonidas Polk, first Episcopal
| bishop OF Louisiana, dropped dead in
Paris, Texas.
Secretary Fisher of the Interior De-
partment has supplemented his oral
| testimony given before the House pub
lie lands committee against the Borah-
Jones bill to reduce the term Of a
homestead entry to three years, by a
written report, which has reached the
committee.
Plans for a military government
for the Panama canal zone modelled
after that of Gibralter are being drawn
| by the War Department. Between s.
|
toned permanently on the zone. The
fortresses guarding the ends Of the
canal will be made the most powerful
in the world.
| Mai Gen. Fred c. Ainsworth, adju-
tant general of the army, was stripped
of his office by order of President
Taft, and will appear before a court
martial on charges said to embrace
conduct prejudicial to good order and
discipline and nsubordination.
| The Hardwick sugar trust" investi-
eating committee, after many weeks
| of open hearings in Washington and
in New York and almost continuous
work since last May, have reported
to the House that sugar trust exists.
No recommendations are made.
| The nomination OF former Gov. My.
ron T. Herrick OF Ohio as ambassador
Of the United States to France, to
succeed Robert Bacon, resigned, was
confirmed by the Senate.
The twenty-five army posts which
experts of the War Department advo
cate abolishing will not be provided
for in the army appropriation bill now
before the House. By vote OF 81 tc
13, money for their maintenance OF
repair was withdrawn. A reduction oi
$4,000 In the fund for barracks and
quarters also was made.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
FOREIGN.

Believing that all the instructions
against the government are largely a
result of the publication of sensation
al news, President Madero and his
cabinet have appealed to the perma-
nent committee in congress to sus-
pend that article of the constitution
providing for a free press and have
been given a negative reply.
Two hundred Mexican revolution
lists were killed in an attack on San
Pedro, garrisoned by 200 federal troops
and 100 rurales. Four thousand poems
surrounded the town. They attacked
a portion OF the city left unguarded
by the defendants. All OF the seventy
rebels leading the attack fell at the
first fire. More than 100 who followed
were moved down with the second
volley. The Vasquistas beat a retreat
Two assaults were made on the town
A reflex of the threatened national
coal strike will go into effect Feb, 29
in Scotland, unless meantime the own.
ers accept the principle Of minimum
wage for all men and boys employed
underground, is seen in notices given
by the blast furnace owners through
out Scotland to their workmen. The
contracts of the workinen are thus ter
minated Feb 20. The furnace owners
are Of opinion that national coal
strike il inevitable. 1t will affect
about 100000 men.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
State Must Return Santa Fe Tax.

Washington.-In a decision handed
down in the Supreme Court by Justice
Holmes, Colorado was declared to
have exerted unconstitutional priyi-
lege in collecting from the Atehison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railway tax OF
1889 under a statute of 1907, which
applies a license tax to foreign cor
porations. Under the terms of the
statute itself, the judgment will have
the effect OF requiring the state treas
urer to return the amount to the rail-
way company. Justice Holmes de-
clared the tax exacted OF the Santa Fe
is obviously unconstitutional. He cited
various cases involving telegraph com
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
THE; WEEKS NEWS EPITOMIZED

The National League baseball
schedule for 1912 has been adopted
and made public. The schedule pro-
vides for 154 games but the season
will be three days shorter than last
year, beginning one day earlier and
closing four days earlier. The season
will open on April 11th.
Jack ("Twin'O Sullivan of Boston
and Howard Morrow of Syracuse,
fought ten rounds to a draw in Cleve-
land. Morrow was a surprise, as he
got to" Sullivan frequently and eff
fectiyely He had Sullivan's eye and
nose bleeding. Morrow's best work
was in covering, avoiding many heavy
blows.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
New Law Would Aid Farmers.

Meeker-Should the bill now pend
ing before Congress, providing for the
reduction from five years TO three OF
the time required by the government
in whivh to prove up on homestead I'll
ings, become a law, its benefit to this
section will be untold. All over the
Western slope are dry farmers with
large families-poor men without a
dollar except what they earn during
the six months vacation previously
granted them out of each year-Yho.
after the five years continual resi-
dence clause went into effect, we're
able TO retain their holdings only with
the greatest difficulty, and in a num-
ber Of instances. suffered want and
privation Each of these men, under
this new ruling, will be able to take
enough time from his own place to
earn money during the busy season to
carry his family through the rest Of
the year, and also help materially in
making Improvements on the home
ranch.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24

Sermons on the prevention of con
sumption will be preached in thou
sands of churches on April 2Sth, which
the National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis, ac-
cording to an announcement made re-
Gently, has set aside as tuberculosis
Day.
| Having secured only one victim IN
the first attempt to slaughter three
negroes as they were being taken
from the court house to the Jail at
Shelbyville, Tenn, a mob broke into
the sheriffs office. where two wound
ed blacks had been taken, and fired
| upon them.
More men were hanged in Chicago
February 10th than suffered death for
throwing the Haymarket bomb In the
anarchist riots of 1886. Two murders
caused five men to walk to the gal
lows and drop to their death through
the trap, while four were hanged for
the Haymarket bomb throwing.
Five men contemplate crossing the
Atlantic ocean in the air above that sea
fduring the coming summer. Two OF
these will. II they make the attempts,
fly in aeroplanes, two in immense dir
gible balloons, and one will be con-
tent with the spherical balloon. OF
the five, each is man skilled in his
own style Of flying.
Lieut.. Col George W. Goethals, in
charge of the work on the Panama
canal, has a plan OF his own to test
the canal before it is formally opened.
when the canal has been completed. =
he said at the War Department, 90,
when think things are ready to send
ship through, I'm going to pick out
some old scow that has done good
service there and have a test Of my
own. Starting at the Atlantic, I'm
going to head for the Pacific via the
canal. II get through I'll wire the
President that the first ship has sue.
oessfu;ly made the passage. If 1 don 7
get through I'll say nothing about it"
By driving nails into the spine of
his wife, Stanley Vekamas, a Pole, of
Wilkesbarre, Pa, sought to bring
about her death and hide the cause so
that he could marry another. He was
arrested and his wife taken to a hos
rital lowering between life and death
The anthracite mine workers spe
cial committee in Pennsylvania will
present to the operators demands foi
a new working contract. On the oper
ators' answer hinges the question
whether there will be strike OF $780,
900 mine workers in the hard coal re
gions
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
COLORADO STATE NEWS

ranging in depth from one inch to
seven feet.
The voters Of Ebert county want
the question of erecting $4,000 court
house at kiowa submitted to the peo-
pie.
Fred w. Springer. a prominent
Young man of Trinidad, was instantly
killed when he was struck by an auto
mobile.
In Weld county there is an entire
school district owned by one man and
the pupils in the district are all his
children.
Following his conviction for bootleg
ging at Fort Morgan, L. P. Pitney was
given $50 days in Jail and fined $500
and costs.
Rev G. w. Noble. 4 veteran of the
Civil War and for over fifteen years
a minister of the Methodist church.
died at Collbran.
The Boulder pest, G. A. R., has be-
gun plans for the entertainment OF the
Grand Army encampment there May
IA, Is and 16.
School teachers of Ell Paso, Teller.
Douglas and Ebert counties will hold
their annual institute in Colorado
Springs July %.
The government has discontinued
the handling of mail on Sunday over
several hundred miles of star routes in
northwestern Colorado.
The Colorado Midland road has or
dered two extra trains put into ser
vice daily between Denver, Grand
junction and Salt Lake.
The state auditor has refused to pay
the employees OF the penitentiary until
the warrants have the o. X. of the
Civil Service Commission.
The tenth annual convention Of the
nlent Dealers Association is being
held in Denver this week.
All races on the Western slope are
to be classified and purses arranged
so that owners of strings OF horses
may enter at every county fair.
AS the result of a practical joke,
his pipe being filled with gunpowder
John Craig, a farmer near Platteville,
may lose the sight in both of his eyes
The Reclamation Service has award
ed a contract for $4,000 barrels OF
cement for use on the Grand Valley
and Uncompahgre reclamation prof
ects.
Guy H. Ward pleaded guilty in the
District Court in Sterling to embez-
zling the sum Of $9,21S.70 and was sen
fenced to the penitentiary for term
of from four to six years.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
W EST e RN.

At the opening OF an aviation meet
in Oakland, Cal, one man was Killed
and six others seriously injured In an
accident.
Flames that destroyed farmhouse
rear Sapulpa, Okla, cremated two
children and probably fatally burned
three others.
Death by shooting was selected by
Harley McWhinney when the court at
Salt Lake, before passing sentence
asked him his preference.
Aviator Horace F.. kearney, after a
mile a minute flight across the bay
from Oakland, successfully threaded
maze OF electric wires and landed in
one of San Francisco's streets.
Senator Guggenheim introduced a
bill providing that but forty acres OF
on enlarged homestead shall be culti'
waited instead Of eighty acres, as Is
provided for by the present law.
Poisoned by her mother, who gave
her strychnine, believing 1t to be
quininc, Miss Agnes Johnson, nine
teen, the beautiful daughter of a
wealthy contractor of Pasadena, Cal.
died
Headquarters for the National Irri
CATION Congress have been opened
here by Arthur Hooker, secretary OF
the congress The time of the meet
ing in Salt Lake next fall will be des
lgnated soon by the board Of control.
The Seminole National bank, Semi
mole, Gaines county, Tex, was robbed
of $500 by two mounted men, who
rode Up in front OF the bank during
the absence of the cashier and with
drawn revolvers compelled the assist
ant cashier, to hand over all the
money in sight. The robbers escaped
To develop more thoroughly the fer
tilizer and potash resources OF the
United States, Secretary Wilson has
ordered the establishment at Reno
New, OF government laboratory
where natural materials supposed tc
contain potash will be examined with
out cost. Those sending samples mus
prepay transportation charges.
Four persons were killed and nine
injured at Bingham, Utah. minins
camp near Salt Lake, when an engine
hauling three cars loaded with ore wa.
derailed on a steep grade of the Cop
per Belt railroad and rolled $50 fee
down the mountain side. crashing
through the roofs Of two of the prin
cipal buildings OF the town.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
Plans for tuberculosis Day.

Plans for Tuberculosis Day.
Sermons on the prevention of CON
sumption will be preached in thou
sands of churches on April %. which
the National Association for the Study
and Prevention OF tuberculosis has
setaside as tuberculosis day. Last year
out of 100000 churches in the United
States, over $4,000 observed Tubercu-
losis day, and millions of churchgoers
were told about this disease from the
pulpit This year will be the third
observation Of tuberculosis day Plans
are being made to have the gospel OF
health preached more widely than
ever before. The movement will be
pushed through the 600 anti-tubercu-
losis associations allied with the nar
tional association and through the
boards OF health, women's clubs and
other organizations in hundreds Of
cities and towns throughout the .coun-
try. Through these various bodies
the churches will be reached and In
terested In the tuberculosis campaign
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
GEN ERAI.

Sheriff Nancy A Williams OF La
clede county is the first and only wom-
s.n sheriff in Missouri. She recently
took several prisoners to the peniten-
tiary.
Goo6s manufactured In Germany.
France. Switzerland and other coun-
tries are labeled made in Great
Britain" and shipped from England to
Canada in order to enjoy the prefer
entail duty of 33h per cent accorded
all articles of British manufacture.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
PRESIDENT SUBMITS IMPORTANT
MEASURE TO CONGRESS
WITH APPROVAL.
HITS COURTS DELAY
SAYS JUDICIAL AFFAIRS SHOULD
BE ADMINISTERED WITH
GREATER DISPATCH.
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

western Newspaper L Mon News service.
Washington.-Presid Taft has
submitted TO Congress the report of
the employers liability commission
and the commissions proposed liabil-
ity and workmcns compensation bill,
accompanied by a message urging the
enactment of the measure. which is
the most advanced piece of liability
legislation yet presented.
The President sets forth that the
proposed law not only would insure to
employees OF railroads engaged in inter
state commerce quick adjustment of
their claims for damages, but also
would relieve the courts of a vast
amount of work and enable them to
administer judicial affairs with great
er dispatch.
"In the first place." says the Presi-
dent, the question arises. whether
under the provisions of the commerce
clause, the bill could be considered
to be a regulation of interstate and
foreign commerce. That seems to be
already settled by the decision of the
Supreme Court in the employers Ii
ability case.
The second question is whether
the making of these remedies exclu-
siye and the compelling of the railroad
companies to meet obligations ars-
ing from injuries, for which the rail
road would not be liable under the
common law is a denial of the due pro-
cess of law which is enjoined upon
Congress by the fifth amendment to
the constitution in dealing with the
property rights.
This question, the report takes up
and its exhaustive review of the au-
thorities makes clear, as it seems to
me, the validity of the act. 1t is suf-
ficient to say that the argument OF
the commission is most convincing to
show that the police power of the gov
ernment exercised in the regulation of
interstate commerce is quite sufficient
to justify the imposition upon the in
terstate railroad companies of the
liability for the injuries to its en-
ployes on an insurance basis.
The third objection is that the
right of trial by jury, guaranteed by
the seventh amendment, is denied. AS
a matter of fact, the right is pre-
served in this act by permitting a jury
to pass on the issue when duly de-
manded, in accordance with the limi-
tations of the act"
President Taft then alludes to the
alleged iniquities attending personal
injury litigation. He declares that
periured testimony, emotional juries
and badly constructed laws limiting
liability, have tended to hamper the
administration of exact justice while
the heavy expense of litigation has
rendered it almost impossible for the
poor man to command his rights. In
referring to the conditions because
OF this form OF litigation, the Presi-
dent says
THE administration of justice today
is clogged in every court by the great
number of suits for damages for per
sonal injury. The settlement of such
cases by this system will serve to re-
duce the burden of our courts one
half by taking the cases out of court
and dsposing of them by this short
cut
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
Estes Goes to Penitentiary.

Greeley-E. J. Estes was sentenced
to from seven to nine years in the
state penitentiary, following a plea OF
guilty OF forgery. He boarded train
for Canon City shortly afterward in
custody of Sheriff s. ]. McAfee. Estes
went to the station without being
handcuffed. In spite of the blizzard
more than 100 of his friends were
there to bid him farewell.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
Denver-CrippIe Creek Road.

Cripple Creek.-Work will be start
ed soon on the proposed road to run
from Sedalia, twenty-five miles south
Of Denver, to West Greek, on the
boundary line of Teller county. A
road already connects Cripple Greek
with West Creek and completion of
the proposed road will shorten the dis
tance between Denver and Cripple
Creek by about forty miles.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
Four Trainmen Are Killed.

North Adams, Mass.-Four train
men are dead and Hoosac tunnel is
so effectively blocked that it may be
days before the tracks are cleared, as
the result of a rear-end collision be-
tween a freight train and a Boston
bound express on the Boston & Maine
railroad
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24

A heavy snow slide occurred on
Ruby mountain, near West Argentine,
and considerable damage was done.
Rev. D. X. Roberts, for the past
eight years pastor OF the Welsh Pres
byterian church in Denver. has re-
signed.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24

panies and the Pullman company,
wherein those concerns were absolved
from all but the original license fee to
do business in various states on
ground that the greater part OF their
business was outside any single state.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
Two Canneries for Grand Junction

Grand Junction.-Grand Junction
will have two canneries during the
summer. Arthur Currie announced
that lie will start work at once upon
one OF them The Zeigler Canning
Company of Muscatine, Iowa, Will
start work next week upon large
canneIy here.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24

COMING EVENTS IN COLORADO.

March s-s.-western slope W. c. T. U.
Convention. Delta.
March ll-l6-Denver Automobile Show.
Denver.
Colorado Springs.
May 6-lI-State Y N. C. A. Convention.
Pueblo.
June ls-2o-state Sunday School Con-
yention, Colorado Springs.
June l1-July l9.-Summer Term, state
Teachers College, Greeley.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
Believes There 10 smeIter Trust.

Washington.-Infor as to the
esistence of a smelter trust is asked
of the attorney general in resolu-
tion introduced by Representative
Martin OF Colorado.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
Aviator Falls on Ice Of Lake.

Erie, Pa.-Earl Sandt, a youthful
aviator. the first bird-man to fly over
the Great Lakes from the United
States to Canada, came to grief when
his machine turned turtle and he fell
1000 feet to the ice.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
N;oht Riders Alarm Farmers.

Colorado Springs.-Night riders
have taken the field near the little
town of Yoder, fifty miles east of Col
orado Springs, and have terrorized
Charles Berndt. farmer. and his nine
children until they fea- for their
Hves.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
More Brook Trout for Colorado.

Steamboat Springs, Colo.-The state
fish hatchery at Steamboat Springs
has just Matched out 100000 brook
trout These will be distributed over
the state.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
1heater Panic: 2o Hurt,

Wheeling. w. Vain an explosion
and panic in a moving picture show
at Albrightsville, twenty-nine persons
were injured.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
SPORT.

In ten fierce rounds. Pierce Mat
thews of Denver won over Dennis Ma
girl Of Denver at Springfield, Mo.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24
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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-02-24

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area tax. nll the yisk. Sold by druggfso
tor Is cents . .1al. For free package AooreeS
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Evening star., 1912-07-18
Sane Summer Clothes.
rom the New York Tribune

efOm tine NeW YORK Tribune.
Some of the hottest days Of summer
slay as many as or more than an insane
Fourth Of July did a few years back.
But there is no public authority to decree
that men shall wear sane clothes in the
heated term, and the slaughter goes on.
A glance at a crowd in the street when
the official thermometer is registering
more than 80 degrees shows how little
progress is made toward more sensible
summer clothing, at least among men. A
quarter Of century ago men perhaps
dressed more inappropriately.. when
starched shirts prevailed and when
wAistcoats were more generally held to
be indispensable. But in recent years
about the only progress toward more
suitable hot weather attire is the use Of
less starch. Having first disappeared
from the bosoms of shirts, it Is now van
ishing more or less commonly from their
cuffs and collars. But the coat remains
as conservatively oppressive as ever.
Perhaps one man in hundred wears
clothes of some light washable fabric,
but the number does not increase from
year to year. Such clothing is cheaper
than wooden clothing and might be worn
with advantage on a good many summer
days besides those which have their rec
ord of deaths printed in the next morn
ing's papers. But the public clings to its
ancient habit of dressing unreasonably
and uncomfortably. governed by some
prejudice or some notion OF dignity.
Evening star., 1912-07-18
The Season of the Rainy Saint.

The st. Swithin superstition. is remark
ably persistent quite as much so as the
ground hog tradition. Rain having fallen
here Monday, the 18th. and Tuesday, the
18th, and again slightly Wednesday the
18th, a great many people expect rain today
and tomorrow. and so on Until forty days
have passed. in supposed appeasement OF
the spirit of the old bishop whose post
mortem protest against the removal of
his bones took the form of a continuous
drenching Of the earth until they had
been restored to their first resting place.
Inasmuch as Swithin's loses were finally
taken back ~hence they had been shifted.
and his spirit was thus comforted, there
seems little reason in modern logic why
base ball patrons and picnic parties and
excursionists and people engaged In build
ing operations and other folks who object
10 overmuch daily dampness should be
annoyed and disappointed by this inheri-
tance of Indignation.
Evening star., 1912-07-18
Party Tickets and November,

On election day in November men who
profess and call themselves republicans
will have a presidential ticket to vote for.
Taft and Sherman have been regularly
nominated, and in every state are en-
titled to the designation of republican
candidates.
Equally so will men who profess and
call themselves democrats. have q presi-
Dental ticket to vote for. Wilson and
Marshall are democrats. and represent
regular party action In this campaiSn.
And men who profess and call them.
selves Rooseveltians will have q ticket
to vote for. Mr.. Roosevelt himself will
head it. and some man Of the Rooseveltian
faith-it matters nothing where he Hives. or
what his name may be-wili complete it
for forms sake.
There will be republicans voting for
Wilson. on the score of what they call
progrsesiveness. They consider Mr.. Taft
q reactionary. AS to the future, these
men may or may not return to the re-
publican party. II Mr.. Wilson is elected
and In ofice meets their expectations a.
TO progress they are likely - stays with
him and support him for . second term.
II he - defeated. and Mr. 'Tstt's second