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The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06

The Census Bureau classifies as il
literate any person ten years of age or
over who is unable 10 write, regardless
of ability to read.
OF the total population of Colorado,
475,136. or 59.5 per cent, are native
whites of native parentage; 1S1.42S, or
22.7 per cent, are native whites OF
foreign or mixed parentage; 1885,
S51. or 15.9 per cent, are foreign
born whites; and 11,453, or IA per
cent. are negroes. The corresponding
percentages in 1900 were ST.. 23.6.
1G.S, and 16, respectively, the COM
parison indicating very slight changes
in the color, nativity, and parentage
composition of the population Among
the individual counties the proportion
OF whites of foreign birth ranges from
less than per cent. in counties to
4S.S per cent. in San Juan, and the
pareutage from Z per cent. in Costilla
proportion of native whites of foreign
or mixed parentage from Z per cent
in Costilla county to 43.6 per cent in
Gilpin.
OF the urban population, 569 per
cent. are native whites of native pa
rentage; of the rural population, 62.1
per cent. The corresponding proper
tons for native whites of foreign or
mixed parentage are 24.7 and 20.7 per
cent, respectively. The percentage OF
foreign-born whites is 1871 In the ur-
Ian population and 16 in the rural;
the percentage of negroes is 2.3 IN the
Urban and O.5 in the rural.
In the total population of the state
there are 430,697 males and 3GS,327 fe-
males, or 11C.9 males to 100 females.
In 1900 the ratio was 1908 to 100.
Among native whites the ratio is
1897; among foreign-born whites 1901
In the urban population there are lO4.4
males to 100 females, and in the rural,
1915.
OF the native population-that is,
population born in the United States
$40 per cent. were born in, Colorado
and 651 per cent. outside the state;
of the native white population, 64.9
per cent. were born outside the state,
and of the native negro, 81 per cent.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
'TURKO-BULCAR
WAR is TO END
PEACE ARMISTlcE TO BE SIGNED
BY MosLEM AND BULGAR
DELEGATES.
LASTS DURING COUNCIL
sELLleERENTs TO REMAIN AT
POSTS WHILE PEACE DocU-
MENT is IN EFFECT.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, Dec. 2.-Signing of the
armistice between Turkey and the
Balkan allies will probably take place
Tuesday. according to advices from
Constantinople. which indicate that
postponement is due to the Greek del
egate, who must obtain official au-
thority from Athens before he can act.
The Daily Telegraph's Constants
nople correspondent sends an account
Of an interview with the foreign min
lister, Gabriel Effendi Noradoughian.
The latter said: "It is for me great
happiness to tell you that i think
peace appears acknowledgement peace,
be. l cannot tell you.
when the newspapers stated that
the protocol of the nrmistice contained
a statement of the general conditions
of peace, they said that which was en-
tirely unfounded. On that matter no
negotiations have yet taken place.
1.-The procotol simply stipulates in
view of the negotiations for peace.
which are to commence after its sig
nature, for a general cessation of hos
tilities on the basis OF the mainte-
nance of what / will call the military
status quo, with permission to send to
the besieged places daily one days sup
ply of provisions. That is all.
THE newspapers also speak of a
conference or congress. This is prema-
ture and without any foundation.
thn w
things in view are the signature of the
protocol OF the armistice and the i'm
mediate commencement of direct COM
munlcations with the delegates of the
Balkan coalition as to conditions of
peace"
The Daily Nails correspondent tele
graphs:
1.-THE allies will demand from Tur-
key in the peace negotiations, subse-
quent to the armistice. war indem-
nifty of s4S.OOO.0OO (s240,OOo. 10000.
The Greek delegate required forty
eight hours in which to receive the
necessary authority from his govern
ment.
1t is said the duration of the armis-
tice has been fixed at eight days. but
that 1t will be prolonged another seven
days II necessary.
Although the terms of the armistice
will not be known until after the sig
natures are affixed. it is understood
they have been considerably reduced
as compared with the original de-
mands of the league. They provide
practically for the maintenance of the
positions which the belligerents at
present occupy and for revictualing
the beleagued towns.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
FOREIGN.

The Servians have occupied ochri.
da. in Albania, without resistance.
A formal armistice for fortnight is
now within sight, according to an Of
ficial announcement made at Constan-
tinople.
Mrs. Justin Mason, who weighed
$50 pounds and is said to have been
the largest woman in the world. died
at Montreal, Canada.
Woodrow Wilson has written let
ter to William Jennings Bryan, invtt-
ing him to conference after Wilson
returns from Bermuda.
A daring and mysterious robbery 10
being investigated by the London.
continental, and Egyptian police. The
amount involved is about $4,000.
The Western Greek squadron occu.
pied the Turkish island of Sasseno. in
the Adriatic sea. off the coast near
Avlona. according to a dispatch from
Athens.
Despite the close watch inaugurated
by the London police, suffragettes
again destroyed the contents of vari-
GUS mail boxes by pouring chemicals
into them.
Owing to the prcstration of the tele.
graph wires no definite estimate il
possible of the number of fatalities or
of the property loss caused by the
typhoon that crossed the islands Of
Samar. Leyete and North Panay sew
eral days ago.
A Vienna dispatch says the Aus
trian demand on Servia is an ire
ducible minimum. 1t is reported Aus
trial will not allow Servia to possess
Durazzo under any circumstances and
that Servia will be obliged to evac-
uate Durazzo, together with the rest
of Albania.
In his speech at Aberdeen, Scotland
the chancellor said that a great
change "in the present inquitous land
laws" was imperatively necessary
1.-The Highlands had thousands OF
acres which could be used TO produce
the finest soldiers in the world but
had been transformed into deer pre-.
serves"
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06

| Maurice NJ. Lustig, convicted thirty
months ago of poisoning his wife. and
long an occupant of death house"
cell at Sing Sing. walked forth from
court in New York free man.
A 17-year-old boy has been sem
tenceG to attend Sunday school until
he reaches the voting age. by the
terms of decision of County Judge
Fawcett in the County Court, Brook
lyn, N. Y.
The Rev Charles Emeslius, form
erly pastor OF the Lutheran church OF
New Sweden, Maine, and two other
lersons were indicted for the murder
Of C. Augustus Jacobson of that town,
in June, 1911.
| Governor Goldsborough has an
nounced the appointment of William
p. Jackson Republican national COM
mitteeman for Maryland to succeed
the late United States senator Isador
kayner.
| Tan shoes, flashy neckties, chewing
sengers and the wearing of buttonhole
bouquets have been tabooed by the
Boston & Maine railroad among the
men employees.
R. G. Duns weekly review of trade
says: November has been in many
respects the best month this country
has ever experienced and every pros
pect is pleasing for holiday season
OF extra activity"
Mrs. Lucien Phillip Smith of Hunt
ington, w. Va, the daughter of Con
Eressman James A. Hughes of West
| Virginia, who became a widow on her
honeymoon trip when her young hus-
band was lost on the Titantic, became
the mother of a nine-pound boy.
BY the TRANSMISSION of pint of blood
| from the arteries of his son, Hiram G.
| McGill. one of the best known tele
graphers in the United States, was
saved from death at Milwaukee. The
heroic son William McGilL though
weakened, is not in danger,
A tiny fragment of bone, splinter
from fractured leg, killed fifteen
year-old George Hayes, when it
touched his heart, according to ply
sicians at the Childrens Homeopathic
hospital at Philadelphia.
The police of New York and neigh
loring cities are searching for fifteen.
year-old Marien Ege, niece of Jacob
Dcll. millionaire manufacturer. The
uncle believes she has been kidnapped
and declares that he will spend an un-
limited amount of money to find the
girl. 70
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06

from 5 to IA years, inclusive, 1873 per
cent from Is to "a, 33.1 per cent. from
25 to A. and 1872 per cent AS years of
age and over. The foreign born white
population comprises comparatively
few children, only Sc per cent. of this
class being under Is years of age.
while more than four-fiths (S1.1 per
cent? are 25 years of age and over.
OF the native whites of foreign or
mixed parentage. only Ais per cent.
are 25 and over, and of the native
whites of native parentage, ass per
cent.
The total number of persons of
school age-that is, from to 20 years.
inclusive-is 215.94O, of whom 147,626.
or 6S.4 per cent, attended school. In
addition to these. 2,4s3 persons under
and 3,303 of 81 and over attended
school. For boys from 6 to 20 years,
inclusive, the percentage attending
school was GA; for girls, G9.3. For
children from 6 to IA years, inclusive,
the percentage attending school was
SGT The percentage for children Of
this age among native whites of for
elSH OF LulAeu pdIeElhBe Was OOH,
among native whites of native parent
age, S6.4; among negroes, S5.4; and
among foreign-born whites, SIT. In
urban communities the percentage Of
children of that age attending school
was 1913, in rural communities, SAG.
For the main elements of the popu-
lation the percentages Of married per-
sons among those is years of age and
over are as follows: Foreign-born
whites. 57.6 for males and 70 for fe-
males: native whites of native parent
age. 54.1 and 62.5 respectively; native
whites of foreign or mixed parentage,
46.1 and 56.5, respectively; negroes,
54.S for males and 57.2 for females.
The total number of dwellings in
Colorado is 1S3,S74, and the total num-
ber of families, 1874. 4.467, indicating that
in very few cases does more than one
family occupy a dwelling. The aver
age number of persons per dwelling is
4.3. and the average number per fam
lily. Al.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
COLORADO POPULATION
Composition and Characteristic. Set
EortFNin Bulletin Prepared by
VIM. Hunt of Federal
census Bureau.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
The first population bulletin for
Colorado gave the number of inhabi-
tants by counties and minor civil di-
visions. the decennial increase apd the
density Of population, and the proper
ton. urban and rural. The present bull
letin deals with the composition and
characteristics of the population. The
two bulletins cover all the principal
topics OF the population census except
occupations and ownership of homes.
A series OF summary tables mum
bered. 1 to 15) reproduces from the
general tables the more important
state and city totals, and presents also
certain additional data relative to
state of birth, age, and marital condi-
ton.
The census inquiry as to school at
tendance was merely as to whether
the person enumerated had attended
any kind of school at any time from
September 1. 1909. to the date OF emu
meration, April Is, 1910.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Teachers, Association Elects, officers

Teachers Association Elects- OrrIceVs'
Denver.-Men won in the dissension
over officers for the Colorado State
Teachers Association. At the election
only one woman was chosen. She was
Miss Mary Morris of Denver, elected
treasurer.
Other officers chosen are: Harry NJ.
Barrett, president; A. j. Flynn, direc'
tor; w. w. Remington, secretary, and
r. B. Kestcr, auditor. Ira NJ. De Long.
j. P. Treat, Carlos NJ. Cole, Charles A.
Lory and J. V. Reitweiser were elected
representatives at large to the educa,
tional council. Miss Inez Lewis OF
Colorado Springs was the women's
choice.
Before adjournment, the association
adopted a resolution censuring the
State University. the State Teachers
College, the State School Of Mines and
the State Agricultural College for haf.
boring spirit of suspicion and antag-
onism" toward one another.
DR.. ClaXton, United States commits
sioner of education, had told the
churches they should attend to relig-
ious training and let the schools de-
termine their own curriculum.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
SPORT.

Pennsy defeated Cornell. to 2, in
the annual football renewal at Frank
lin field on Thanksgiving day.
Leach Cross barely shaded Battling
Nelson, ex-champion of the world. In
, fast ten-round battle at New York
Joe Rivers came back against Joe
Mandot, winning clean-cut decision
in a twenty-round mill at Los An
ge'es.
John B. (Larry'O Mclean. the Gin
cinnati National League ball player,
was arrested charged with obtaining
money under false pretenses. He was
released on $500 bond.
Willie Ritchie wrested the light
weight championship of the world
from Ad Wolgast, when the Cadillac
Wildcat struck foul blow in the six
teenth round of twenty-round battle
at DAILY City.
The Hurlingham Club of London
sent challenge to the American Polo
Association for a series of games for
the American cup. The challenge stip-
uidteu tHal lHe HiatCu sAouiu oc P1oJ VA
in the United States in 1913.
The fact that the state authorities
made no representations to the War
Department in an attempt to stop the
fights held on the Fort Russell mill
tary reservation of Cheyenne, Wyo., is
accepted as indicating that there will
be no effort to have the state anti
fight law applied to the reservation
which is exempted under special stat
ute. and boxing carnivals will be held
throughout the winter monthly inter
walls.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Falls on Woman; Escapes Death.

Colorado Springs-Mrs. Gwendolyn
McMurtrie, aged twenty-five, tourist
from Sedalia, Mo-, saved Robert Nc
Claim, twenty, from probable death.
when he plunged head-foremost from a
window ledge on the second story of
a building. McClain was washing win
DAVIS, when he fell backward toward
the stone pavement thirty feet below,
when his head struck the shoulder of
Mrs. McMurtrie. With the impact of
the descent thus broken, McClain
landed on his right side, fracturing a
bone in one foot and breaking an arm
at the elbow. The young woman arose
and limped away. declaring she was
not hurt and refusing medical assist
ance.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06

Persons born outside the state consti-
tute somewhat larger proportion of
the native pop<a16tton in urban than IN
rural communie.; q
OF the foreign-by Hbite popula-
ton. persons born in GciPany repre-
sent 1875 per cent; Italy,F 11.S: Rus
sia. 1O.7; Austria. 1913; England, 10.2;
Sweden, 9.s; Canada, rs; Ireland. Go;
Scotland, "a: Denmark. 2.2: Mexico
2: all other countries, 12.4 per cent.
OF the total white stock of foreign ori
gin, which includes persons ,born
abroad and also natives having one or
both parents born abroad. Germany.
contributed 1871 per cent: England,
11.9; Ireland. 1O.7; Sweden, So; Can
ada. rs; Italy. 7.s: Russia. 7.3; Aus
trla. GO; Scotland. 3.s; Denmark. 1.9
per cent.
The total number of males 21 years
of age and over is 271.84s. represent
ing "a per cent. of the population. OF
such males. 54.2 per cent. are native
whites Of native parentage. 1872 per
cent native whites Of foreign or mixed
rarentage, &c per cent. foreign-born
whites, and 1.6 per cent. negroes. Of
the 70,514 foreign-born white males OF
voting age. 35.245. or so per cent. are
naturalized. Males of militia age-1s
to 44-numbcr 2O3,9s2.
OF the total population, 1913 per cent.
are, under years of age, 1872 per cent.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
DELAY WILSON INAUGURAL
Because Of Usual Bad Weather on
March q, 1t VIII Be April "a.

Hamilton. -President-elect
Wilson announced that though he
would agree to being sworn in as
President on March 4th as provided
by the constitution as the legal be-
ginning of a presidential term, the
main inaugural ceremonies would be
postponed until Thursday, April cath,
because of the notoriously bad weather
that prevails in Washington during the
early part of March. AS his reason for
making the proposed change, Governor
Wilson gave the health of those par
ticipating in the inaugural ceremonies.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
GOO EDITORS COMING
ANNUAL MEETING AT COLORADO
SPRINGS JUNE 25-27.
Executive Committee Of American
Press Association Named the
Colorado City at Chicago.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-Six hundred editors ana
business managers of newspapers Will
visit Colorado next summer and be
shown the resources of the state.
Word has been received by Alva A.
Swain, secretary of the Colorado Edi-
that the executive
committee of the American Press AS
sociation In session in Chicago. mas
chosen Volorado Springs as the next
national convention city.
George Hosmer, state printing COM
missioner, a member Of the executive
committee OF the association and of
the executive committee of the associ-
alton and of the executive committee
of the state editorial body. telegraphed
that an Invitation extended by the
Colorado Editorial Association had
been accepted. The gathering Will
mean that about 1000 Visitors will be-
brought to Colorado for convention
purposes alone, as the American Ty-
pothetae will hold its convention at
the same place and time. The1elorado
Editorial Association and the ColQado
Typothetae will meet on the same
dates-June 25th. 26th and 27th.
AS now planned two sessions OF the.
body will be held in Colorado Springs
and one in Denver. The state editors
have already outlined and partly ar
ranged for a trip for the visitors
which will take them practically over
the entire state and will last for ten
days The plans include special train
to Greeley and around the Horn"
special through the Arkansas valley,
special over the Moffat road to Steam
boat Springs, where the visitors Will
be taken by stage to Rifle and thence
by rail to Glenwood Springs.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Ask Library Commission.

Denver-The Colorado Library As
sociation concluded its semi-annual
meeting in the public library building
Manly D. Orens, librarian of the Co
burn library of Colorado college, was
elected president; Misc Elizabeth Nc,
Neill, librarian at the University OF
Denver, vice president; Miss Faith
Foster, assistant librarian at the Uni.
versity of Colorado, secretary and
treasurer. The association will ask
Governor-elect Ammons to appoint \
Colorado library commission.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Last Session slxty.seeond Congress.

Washington.-The expiring Sixty
second Congress assembled Monday at
noon for its final work of legislation.
In the brief period remaining before
constitutional limitations bring it TO
an end, fifteen appropriation bills, car
rying over 1.O0O.O0O,000 for the sup
port of the government must be
passed. the impeachment of Judge
Archbold of the Commerce Court,
must. be tried in the Senate; many
Investigating committees must make
their reports and scores of Legislative
matters be disposed of.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Reads Own Obituary.

Colorado Springs.-C. E. LeiboId,
abstract clerk in the county clerks Of
flee, has had the pleasure of reading
his own obituary and says he had no
idea he was so important and popular.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Gets NInety-Day Respite.

Fort Collins.-Lauro Garcia, con-
victed of killing Charles A. Brockman,
night officer. over a year ago, got
further reprieve of ninety days when
the Supreme Court granted an extern
sion of time for the hearing on his ap.
peal.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Jchn l-ier Hibben Talks.

Colo. Springs.-Dr. John Grier Hib-
ben, who succeeded Woodrow Wilson
as president of Princeton University,
addressed the Writer Night Club on
"a Business Mans Philosophy"
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Smallpox Puts cridls.s In Quarantine

Meeker-Because two of the Craig
football players are now in bed with
smallpox and the remainder of the
team had been exposed to the disease
and were under quarantine, the de-
Gliding game of the northwestern Colo
RADIO championship, which was to have
been played between Meeker and
Craig on the Meeker gridiron was
called off. This gives Meeker tie pen
nant. The smallpox victims are IL ,
Hamilton boys.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
wife Of Affinity sues for s5o.ooo.

Pittsburg.-Miss Lulu CHASER, for
merly the wife of Ralph Herr, was
made defendant here in an action for
$4,000 damages by Mrs Bertha Rich
ards, wife of Thomas Richards. who
appears with the actress in her vaude-
vile sketch. The two played last week
at the Grand.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Score Injured in Burlington Wreck.

Willard, Colo.-Defcctive trucks on
an oil car on the Burlington road
which vas derailed. caused it to roll
over a twelve-foot embankment here,
dragging a passenger coach and mai
car with it and injuring nearly a score
of passengers.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Gives 10 Woman,s college.

Jacksonville. Iu-Julius G. Strawn
of Jacksonville made gift of $4,000
to the Illinois Woman's College, pro-
v;ding $4,000 is raised in the ten-day
campaign for funds that has just be-
gun. Altogether $4,000 has been
l0ledged
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Murderer is Hanged.

Waxahatchie, Tex.-Burrell oates,
negro convicted of numbering Sol AT
onoff Of Dallas. was hanged here.
Wilson 8, Roosevelt TO- in California.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Annette keIIerman weds MANAGER.

Danbury. Conn.-Miss Annette Kel-
ierman, the swimmer, We married to
her manager, James r an, by a
Justice of the peace hl
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Hodges Governor of Kansas.

Topeka, Kan,-The Kansas Board of
Canvasser have issued to George H.
Hodges, Dem, a certificate of election
as governor.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Ell Paso County Pioneer Dies.

Colorado Springs.-Joseph Straw,
age eighty-two, and resident of this
county fifty years, died after a long
Illness.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Denver Gets Press Convention.

Denver.-The convention of the
National Press Association. the ma
tional organization of country editors,
will be held in Denver July 25th, Goth
and eth
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Gets License for Mother; weds Child.

Pocatello. Ida.-With license call
Ing for bride fifty-six years old and
named Gestina. r. M. Trainer of this
city is said to have been married to
q girl of sixteen named Adeline.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Boulder Woman Burned.

Boulder-Mrs. Florence M Lang
try was SO seriously burned in a fire
of unknown origin at her home that
she is not expected to live.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
Actress Marries Police Commissioners

Actress Marries Police Commissioner.
New York. - Miss Blanche Lyon
Bates, one of the most beautiful and
talented actresses of the American
stage, and George Creel of Denver, po-
lice commissioner and editorial writer,
were married at Miss Bates country
home near Ossining, New York.
The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
GENERAL.

Maurice NJ. Lustg, convicted thirty
months ago of poisoning his wife. and
long an occupant of death house"
cell at Sing Sing. walked forth from
court in New York a free man.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-09-04

men and women, known as the
Chicago Vice Commission, made
a report on truly frightfuI condi-
tons in Chicago. The report was
printed and given very small cir
culation. But that was about all.
We haven't heard much of it
since.
It has been read by few peo-
pie in various cities in the coun-
try, and even abroad; but the
people of Chicago didn't read it,
and nothing worth while has
been done to cure the evils point
ed out.
Virginia Brooks made her own
Investigations in West Ham
mond; and she. aroused the peo-
pie and got results. That's all
Chi c a go needs Ia Virginia
Brooks. The men are plenty, but
are not much good when it
comes to reforming with an axe.
Wed like to see Virginia
Brooks. cut loose in Chicago.m