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Lost Trousers Playing Poker. g.

William Verne appeared in a Detroit
police coudt attired in a dress coat
and some underwear-he had bet the
trousers in a poker game the evening
before and lost. His cash, his watch
and his diamonds preceded the trou-
sers into the bank" The trousers
were Of good quality, 30 William bet
several blue chips on them. But his
luck didn't turn and when he vas
cleaned out again he broke up the
game by quitting. He begged the loan
OF the trousers to go home In. but
the bank took no risks and declined.
So William started in dress coat and
underwear and was arrested.
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Woman Rolled by Train.

Greeley.-Struck by Union Pacific
freight train. Mrs. Ralph Young OF
Kersey was rolled along the rails by
the pilot OF the engine for hundred
yards. The train was brought to a stop
and she was rescued from her danger
GUS position. Mrs. Young was badly
cut about the face and neck.
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Meeker Flour Output Doubled.

Meeker-The output Of the Meeker
flour mills this year will be 100000
pounds of the fluffy stuff-just twice
as much rs the usual output. or this
amount OF 100000 pounds. The mill
is now running double shifts and the
operations are expected to extend into
late spring. Only the wheat grown
here is being ground. 1t makes high
grade OF flour. -
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Husband In Jail; Wife Overcome.

0UBo1Hu III JdIIi VITO OV0FCom0s
Pueblo.-Overcome by the sight OF
her husband In jail and the disgrace
following his arrest on charges Of big.
amy. Mrs. Guy Chamberlain. a pretty
nineteen-year-old girl, tainted as she
was about to step into his cell. She
was rushed to st. Mary's hospital,
where 1t was reported a visit OF the
stork Is expected.
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IrrIaators Ssek $4,000.

Rocky Ford.-It is proposed to put
the Timpas creek irrigation project
into an irrigation district. 1t will cost
about $4,000 to complete the work.
which will include an intake Of suf
ficient size to handle the water on
which sae company has priorities. ~,
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Revive Plans For pspot.

Colorado Springs.-The project OF
a union depot in Colorado Springs is
again revived following letter re-
ceived from Chief Engineer ]. G..
Gwin Of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, asking the depot commission
to arrange q conference with the
proper officiak representing the roads
involved.
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Editor Gets $4,000 Verdict.

Greeley.-A final decree was en-
tered in the Wilcox Painter suit here
by Judge Graham. l.. NJ. Wilcox. edi.
tor Of Field and Farm, was awarded i
judgment OF $4,000 against J. E.
Painter. his former partner in the
Slime ranch near Masters.
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lndianians Hold Banquet In Chicago.
Chicago.-some five hundred Indi.
anians who now live in Chicago gath.
cred at the Indiana Society's eighth
annual banquet to praise the virtues
Of the Hoosier domain and to do honor
to its former vice president and presi-
dent.elect, both Of whom were present.
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of land in this section which can be
homesteaded. A large part OF this is
fit for pasture. but the arabic land
that is included is especially good and
IL easily accessible.
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Dawson Tells What Campaign Cos,

bawson Tells What Campaign Cost.
Washington.-Clyde c. Dawson Of
Colorado filed his statement OF cam
paign expenditures with the secre-
tary Of the Senate. showing that he
received q contribution Of SEQ from q.
c. Coulter, and expended in the pri'
mary and general elections $2.337.42.
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$4,000 starts Fund for shpw Of 1915

$4,000 starts Fund for shpw Of 1915.
Denver.-The success Of Denver's
1918 indian Exposition is >assured.
The Denvor Cos 4 Electric Light
Company heads the big honor roll
with a contribution of $40. 1000 towards
defrayins the expenses of the show.
The contribution Of the gas company
came as a welcome surprise to the
provisional committee.
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CONGRESSIONAL.

Presidents message on general az.
fairs was read.
Senator Bristow introduced resolu.
tions for the initiative and recall OF
judicial 'er' i""c
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Want Ambassador Reid at Peace Meet.

London.-The stage Is being set for
the congress Of London In the hope Of
ondins the Balkan war and averting =
conflict of European powers. WIN
United States Ambassador Reid partic-
ipate? That itself is q question which
Is agitating the powers. There Is q
strong desire to have Reds sage ad.
vice. his sincerity, his broad grasp Of
big questions and his absolute impair
tiality rs the representative Of the
most disir. rested Of all the great
powers. the United States.
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Mads-to-order Kind.

my wife is always bringing homo
so much toothpowder." complained =
man the other day to q friend. ITS
a waste Of money. As for me I just
take the bathtub cleanser and scrub
my teeth"
The pair were walking down Chest
nut street and his companion stopped
In amazement. What! Doesn't It
hurt your teeth and gums. too?" he
exclaimed almost in horror.
NO." came back the surprising re-
ply. You see they're the kind you
buy at the dentist's.'
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Very Much 80.
when Mrs. Jibbetts was asked why
she neglected her friends so. she gave
q bald excuse"
What was it?'
THE baby"
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Mssker , Mecca for Aomeseskers.

W0eNe1 "ea '9'
Meeker. - Twenty-Five thousand
acres of government land homestead.
ed in one year Is the phenomenal rec.
ord made by Rio Blanco county this
year. The greater part Of this terri.
tory has already been plowed and
seeded to crops. 1t is scattered
throughout the county. According to
Land Commissioner Hay Of Meeker
-thses-ye4 ,remains about 10000 acres
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Perspicuous.

Perspicuous.
Percy Dust introduced)-Ah! So
you're the chap who makes mud
heads?
Sculptor-Not all Of them.
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Postmaster Dies Of Tuberculosis.

PobtmASter O1ee o. Iuperculot1s.
Montrose.-Georgc Harrington. thir-
ty.five years old. for many years post
master Of Montrose, died Of tubcrcu-
losis Of the intestines.
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building for the future. What the neigh
bors see is the gradual unfolding Of q
beautiful home, with fountains, court for
flowers, a duck pond and other settings
that landscape artist turns from dreams
into realities.
Frank Lloyd Wright says there is some.
thing else building-character, artistic
ideals, unfettered selfhood, spiritual COM
munion, sweetness, fidelity to the higher
code and broader service to humanity.
The plain country folk around Hillside
and Spring Green say they don't know
what TO make of vt all Many of them
are the kin of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Others have known him since he was
little boy. All of them cling to the old
fashioned notion of the social conventions.
They have seen Frank Wright evolve
from rural obscurity into an architect and
artist known on both sides Of the Allan
tic and famed for original ideas in archi-
lecture.
Mrs. Cheney is a beautiful woman, stirl
in her prime. She is a graduate Of the
University Of Michigan. She has read
much. travelled far and associated with
men and women of culture. Clever in
speech and fluent with pen in expressing
herself, she is a woman fitted intellectual
" and otherwise to hold her own any
where.
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ception Of duty" Many like phrases
formed themselves in her mind.
Mr.. Wright came back from Europe
alone. He settled himself in the Oak PARK
home, and for time harmony seemed to
dwell therein. Then the neighbors learned
of the building Of dividing wall straight
through the Wright residence. On one side
Mr.. Wright lived and lost himself in his
work and in thoughts of Mamah Borth-
wick. On the other side Mrs. Wright
lived with her children, to whom she was
the most devoted Of mothers.
I'VE are perfectly happy" said Mrs.
Wright one evening after this arrange
ment had been made.
In August, 1910. Mr.. Cheney. not fall
ing in with the spiritual hegira" notion,
was given an absolute divorce by Judge
Brentano. Mrs Cheney did not contest
the case. A short time thereafter she was
dropped from the rolls of membership of
the Oak Park Congregational Church.
After Mrs. Cheney got permission to use
her maiden name and to discard that of
her husband Oak Park began to look upon
the whole affair as q closed incident.
Then came the word from Hillside, Wis,
that Mr.. Wright and Mamah Borthwick
were together in the $4,000 bungalow
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and sort o. challenging message to the
newspapers from Mr.. Wright, reading
Let there be no misunderstanding. A
Mrs. E. II. Cheney never existed for me
and now is no more in fact But Mamah
Borthwiek is here and i intend to take
care of her"
1t is said that the bungalow and
grounds, when completed, will have cost
nearly $4,000. Mrs. Cheney, or Mamah.
l Borthwick, appears in the nearby VII
lagos very infrequently. "
81 was born and reared in this COM
munity," said Wright. Most Of my rel
atives and my real friends live near by. I
am sure that a majority if not all Of them
respect my sincerity, and although I do
not agree with them nor they with me in
many things, yet I think 1 have their
sympathy and respect only ask to be
left alone and will take care of myself
and protect Msmah Borthwick. Every.
thing will come out right in the end
Wright says he was married at twenty
one and his wife at eighteen. In the light
Of twenty years experience, be says, he
has found that the marriage was a mis-
take and that it is up to him to correct
what the law viii not correct.
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and soul, Is still common, but it will die.
Marriage ought to be put on an economic
basis. / have no reason to expect Mrs.
Wright viii sue for divorce"
Mamah Borthwick has not been 50
frank TO say what was going on in her
mind during the year or two before the
breakup in the Wright and Cheney famt
lies came, but the subsequent events sug-
gest she was in full sympathy with the
Wright notions as to the limitations of
ones duty to wife, to children and to So
ciety. Then came the disclosure that
stirred Oak Park society for weeks. News
was brought from Europe that Mr..
Wright and the then Mrs. Cheney were
touring the Continent together. That
was late in 1909
The two did not go to Europe together
The architect led the way. Mrs. Cheney
at that time was in Colorado with her
children. One day she wrote to Mr..
Cheney asking him to come and get the
children. When Mr.. Cheney reached his
destination his wife had already gone.
In January. 1910, Frank Lloyd Wright,
Jr., went to Europe to join his father for
short stay. His wrath had been aroused
by things he had heard. That there was
no serious explosion between father and
son is indicated in the fact that young
Wright made second trip abroad.
In August. 1910, after Mrs. Wright had
learned that her husband and Mrs. Cheney
had been together in various cities, she
said -
81 still love my husband and cherish no
hard feeling against him on account of
anything that has happened. i feel no
resentment toward Mrs. Cheney, but be-
lieve she has queer ideas"
During his European tour Mr.. Wright
was much feted by architects and artists.
His reception in Germany was particu-
larry cordial. 1t was believed there that
be had something really new and worth
while in his profession to offer the world.
He had cut himself loose from the Greek,
Roman and Gothic influences
Mrs. Cheney spent part Of her time tax
ing a course Of study in Leipzig. She in
terested herself in the old and new philoso-
plies of living, and found what was to her
justification for the spiritual hegira"
which the Wright-Cheney. fight came to
be called. She began to talk Of the mat
ing Of souls" the realization of SELF" the
attainment Of the IDEAL" the higher per-
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View Of Frank Lloyd Wright Bungalow
in Wisconsin

For years the Wrights and Cheneyi
were neighbors and intimate friends In
Oak Park. Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Cheney
were both members of the Oak Parl
Womap's Club. They moved in the same
social circles. The two fathers were
friends, each rejoicing when the other
demonstrated some new evidence of sue
cess and progress. The onlooker might
have opined that here was the quintes'
sence of neighborliness and loyalty.
Insidiously the divergence began. The
principals say they did not suspect il
themselves at first. Temperament" was
the leaven at work, il the architect is
right in his analysis. More and more
Mrs. Wright devoted herself to her home
and Der growing children. More and
more Mr.. Wright closeted himself with
his work and gave himself up to his archi-
tectural dreams.
Then he discovered that Mrs. Cheney
was more nearly on his plane Of thought,
that she sympathized with him, shared his
ideals. appreciated his efforts and gave
him the inspiration for work which, he
he could not draw from the
at his own freside
Mrs. Wright had her life in her chill.
dren," said the architect, "and in my
work, and so We grew apart. She did not
my going away and she does
not understand it now. went because I
found my life confused and my situation
hope always to be able TO
provide for Mrs. Wright and my chill
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paper the delicate work of touching up"
began.
Here the really fine work of the coun'
terfeiter came in, as evidenced by the
deceptive reproduction of the fine silk
threads. The touching up process, with
all the experiences at the makers com
mand, had doubtless continued until the
certificate satisfied him that it would pas:
for genuine. The readiness with which
It had been accepted justified this pre-
sumption, just as its final discovery fore
told the fate of this and all counterfeits
which have yet made their appearance.
The bill was handed to the receiving
teller of a Syracuse bank by a young
woman stenographer in q lawyers Office.
Along with it were several other fves, a
ten dollar bill, a twenty and a check for
thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. The
teller separated the fyes and counted them
over. One of the bills felt to him thicker
than the others, and the idea occurred to
him that maybe he was counting two Of
the fves together. He went over them
again. His count was correct, but there
was something about that one FIVE that
seemed different from the touch of the
others. He gave it little Of that expert
which belongs to the business
of those who handle money in banks. His
suspicious once aroused, it was not long
before be detected it as counterfeit.
But the chief protection against coun-
terfeit bills does not lie in confirming
suspicious about a bad BILL Every coun-
terfeiter knows that he will not stand half
a chance if his work is to be subjected to
close examina ton. He relies on the hope
that there will be no suspicious to con-
firm. This Syracuse five dollar note was
good example Of the general theory Of
modern counterfeiters. 1t was near enough
like the genuine to fool ninety-niue out of
a hundred, provided it was received in the
routine. course of money exchange. 1t
had pro6ted in its makeup of all the mod
ern scientific progress which makes photo
graphic reproduction of-anything from a
nature scene to a public document well
nigh perfect
Indeed, the progress of the last few years
in photo-mechanical methods, the intro
duction of color photography and the sim
pIi6cation of modern processes in lithog-
raphy bid fair to revolutionise counter
feiting and make it necessary for the
agents of the United States Secret Service
to be more than ever on the alert.
Until quite recently the unmistakable
impress of each expert counterfeitersI
craftsmanship was on every effort of
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next was to get an insight into conditions
at some Of the largest engraving estsb-
lishments, at some. Of the establishments
where il would be possible for a man to
learn "a. do very high class work
Philadeiphia was always good centre
TO begin on, as it had the most expert
'iengraTers of any city in the United States.
Consequently the Secret Service agents
began their delicate work there
They +roped' with the men. in the
trade, talked shop to them and posed as
men anxious to go in that line of business
themselves. They made particular effort
to learn if any of the first class men had
left routine work recently, for it was dol
lars to doughnuts that a man embarking
on counterfeiting enterprise would find
neither sufficient time nor excitement to
have steady employment.
1t generally was not long before the
Secret Service discovered that certain
pair of engravers had recently resigned
to so in business for themselves, or that
one Of the tip top men at such and such
place had been discharged. but seemed to
be getting along well enough financially.
Naturally the thread of investigation
branched out to cover all such cases. 1t
would be discovered, for instance, that
the two engravers in business for them
selves made no effort to obtain trade;
that their establishment was in a sus-
picious sort Of place and that they did not
welcome any prying into their business.
Each and every suspicious sign led to a
Tightening Of the cords about them, and
it generally happened that after a few
months work the new master" would be
forced out from his modest obscurity
His expert execution would furnish the
cIew to his undoing.
But the progress Of modern Science has
eliminated this method of procedure now
almost entirely. Work done by hand has
given way TO work done by the camera.
which makes no mistakes. One man
handles a camera about Ike the next.
The degree of perfection in a counter
felt note depends in these dayS.more upon
the scientific knowledge of the counter.
feiter than his physical ability, more on
his braiu than on his hand.
, To meet this new condition the Secret
Service has changed its methods of de-
lection by. paying less attention to the
and more attention to the
worker.
The Weakest Link.
'.The weakest link in the counterfeiting
chain is the eounterfeiter himself is fast
becoming the belief of the governments
agents, who find that the human element
figures more in the detection of these
,rihes recently than everything else com
oiped- The time honored adage of
murder will out" holds good to-day in
'pite OF scientific methods Of deception.
The man who yembarks on a criminal en-
crprise such as counterfeiting proves In
Tsriably to. be his own most dreaded
,nemy, according to records Of the Sssu,s
Service.
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dren, and mean to be something helpful
and suggestive of better things to them,
even if l am only in the shadow behind
them. When they get a little older l
hope they will see me in different light.
The time is coming when people will
understand what it means to say a wife
is not the property of her husband and
that husband is not the property of his
wife. l am not any woman's property.
! never happened to belong TO any woman
wick ever belonged to any man in that
way. The family in which the old
patriarchal idea that the head of the
house owns his wife and children, body
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Chief W. H. Moran to
give an involuntary start.
Most remarkable. ~ be exclaimed aloud
as he subjected the note to rigid scrutiny
Even the seal is perfect"
Were Mr.. Moran a gambler be would
have been tempted to offer odds that moi
one man in fifty could detect the difference
between the note he held in his hand and
a genuine FIVE dollar bill.
The seal particularly attracted Mr.
Moran's attention because the color
seemed to have been reproduced by sort
Of color photography process, a new wrin'
kie in the counterfeiting line. EACH side Of
the bill bore striking resemblance to the
genuine article, the paper had the heavy
worn appearance of five dollar certificate
that had seen some wear, and the tiny
threads which have been the downfall
of many a counterfeiter were inconspicu-
ously in evidence. Not letter or figure
was misplaced or a word misspeIled any
where.
1t was by a close examination of the re-
production of the hnd steel engraving
that Mr.. Moran noticed something that
did not look quite right. The acid used in
biting out the photograph lines had bitten
just a shade too deeply. The lines were
too pronounced and gave an appearance
which to an expert had significance
With this first clew of the falsity of
the note the examination proceeded fur
Their. A little moisture was applied to the
seal followed by diligent rubbing. The
color blurred and ran. At the same time
some of the tiny silk threads" disap-
peared- They were finely p pied lines
and not threads at all. The note after a
little rough handling began to present a
unique appearance. In its process of de-
terioration it showed how the work of
the counterfeiter had been carried out
in making it
He had purchased paper such as is used
for legal documents and cut it in sections
the exact size of a bill. These sections
were then immersed in fluid that gave
the paper a worn look and color re-
resembling the paper used for United
States certificates.
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philosophy of life Of Frank Lloyd Wright,
of Chicago. In perfect accord with his
views, he says, is Mamah Bouton Berth
wick, formerly Mrs. Edwin H. Cheney.
Living up to his philosophy. Wright has
quit his wife and six children.
Mrs. Cheney was divorced from her
husband last August. Later she won a
courts permission TO drop the name
Cheney and revert to that of her maiden
hood-Mamah Borthwick. She has left
her three children TO the care of the man
who used TO call her his wife. Frank
Lloyd Wright and M4nah Borthwick are
living a new life in a bungalow near Hill
side, Wis
Mrs. Wright says she will not sue for
a divorce. Mr.. Wright says he will pro-
vide for her and for the six children in
future as he has done in the past
Everybody directly concerned in this
drama of real life seems to be content
with things as they are.
In the bungalow near Hillside there is
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HERE was received at the
headquarters of the Sc
cret Service recently a
five dollar note from a
bank in Syracuse, n. Y.
which caused Assistant
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along the line Of Mr.. Jones he would
get no effects at all.
The twenty dollar certificate shows evil
dence Of this method. Close examination
demonstrates that there Is a certain char
'acteristic aversion to detail in each of
the counterfeits.
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'er. But this is precisely what the maker
of the twenty dollar counterfeit has done.
He has not only made the same mistakes
but he has made them in the same way.
The Secret Service was soon ready to or
der a still hunt for Mr.. Smith