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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-30

Delegates in convention. .1,O76 Necessary to choice. e............ 539 Claimed for Taft ............. 27f Claimed for Roosevelt. ..... 62 Claimed for LaFOllette. .... 10 Claimed for CumminS. ...... 2 Conceded by Taft bureau to
 Roosevelt 30 Conceded by Roosevelt bureau to
 1dt OO Contests admitted by Taft man.
 dScrS lS Contests to be made by ROOSe-
 welt managers .............. 112
 DEMOCRATS.
 Delegates in convention. ..... 1,O92 Necessary to choice ........... FPS Claimed for Clark ..... 66 Claimed for Wilson. ..... 38 Pledged for Governor Marshall. 30 Pledged for Governor Burke. 10 Claimed for Harmon. ...... 3
 x-Both Wilson and Clark man. agers claim the 20 Kansas delegates. The Wilson bureau claims eight of the 12 Maine delegates who were unin- structed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-30
AT THE METROPOLITAN ca

BARNS, 317 E. 10th St.. between 1st & 2nd Ayes, 300 horses 300. Weight from 900 to 1,400 h.; all in first class condition; among them are several matched pairs, some little pavement sore, suitable farm wor or any general business; prices from $50 upwards; every horse and mare will be sold with trial of Is days; loo these over before buying elsewhere. See Foreman, phone 1882 Murray Hill. B 26' if. Q
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-30

FOR SAIlE.-2 cottages with large lots. suitable for chicken raising. Price low. Watson & Co.,, S3 Fair field Ave. asp Low prices, Bucks, MaxwcIls, Corbin, Pope Hartford, Cadillac. Ford. A. Kregling, 627 Carroll, near Connecticut Ave.
 $ 30 d < D TO RENT.-Flat No 5 Fremont St A first class apartment in a first class quiet neighborhood. Enquire of Henry A. Lambert, No. 47 Ere mont St. s 30S If.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-30
ALL COAL MINES
 CLOSE MONDAY FOR
 AT LEAST 7 WEEKS
Almost 67O,O00 Miners Will Become Idle,
 Pending Referendum Strike Vote Compromise Between Soft Coal Operators and Miners Will Be Submitted to Ballot of Union Men - It Is Believed It Will Be Accepted = Anthracite Nego- tiations to Be Reopene d-Seven Hour Day Waived

ing 168,O00 miners which failed of an agreement in New York.
 The compromise agreement to be ap- proved Or rejected by the mass of bi- luminous miners contains the follow ing demands:
 An increase in pay of five cents a ton for screened coal, three cents 8 5.26 per cent. on day labor in the mines.
 All dead work shall be paid for
 Uniform work day and wage scale for all outside and inside day labor.
 Proper readjustment of machine diff ferentiaI at basic points in Indiana Illinois, Ohio and western Pennsyl- vania.
 Uniformfday of seven hours shall be basis for all scales. (Waived.)
 Only five hour day on Saturday with a full day. (Waived.)
 Pay shall be made weekly.
 No limit to the amount of reduction made through company's offices for miners organization
 That no discrimination be shown in the employment of mine workers in regard to creed, nationality, color or activity in the union.
 That all local difficulties be settled in the district affected.
 That this contract be in effect for two years beginning April 1, 1912.
 MINERS QUIT AT sHAMoKIN. Shamokin. Pa, March 30-Anticipat- ing the suspension order, which goes into effect at midnight. Sunday, union miners in this vicinity refused to re- port for work today Others who went underground simply did 90 to clear up coal in their workings and get their tools,
 
 COAL FIELD TO BE -e....s-.. ts4ee TTsn r T 2 e9N0ss ' ' { Hazeiton, Pa, March 3O-Cheering because it was their Hast day., the 20,0e0 miners of the Lehigh Coal Field went to work today determined to clean up only, the scattered ends of their work and bring out their tools. There is no question that the entire field will be tied up on Monday, the only point. i'll dispute being how long the plants will be kept closed.
 No attempt will be made by the Le- high Valley Coal Company to operate itss collieries next week, but the In dependent Operators have not decided on a course of action.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-30
THE PRESIDENTIAL HANDICAP.

Special from United Press.) Washington, March 3O.-Directors of Presidential booms contributed their claims of delegates up to and including, today, as follows:
 REPUBLICANS.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-30

FOR SALE CHEAP.-Building lot 50 x15O on Alpine St, near Beardsley Park. D. R. Whitney, 1925 Main St. s 29 b*o
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-30

FOR SALE.-A good business corner on Stratford Ave. D. R. Whitney,
 1925 Main St. s 29 b+o
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-30

STORE TO RENT.-By April 1st, fine large store and one large connect ing room at 300 Fairfield Ave, across from Blue Ribbon Garage Lease will be given if wanted. II. Beutelspacher. 235 Middle St.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-30

EVERYBODY'S GOING. Where? To Park Theatre Hall every Saturday night. Dancing. $ 29 b*po
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-30

FOR SALE-A fine new two flat
 house in the East End. D. R. Whit ney, 1925 Main St. S 29 bso
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-30

FURNISHED ROOM TO RENT Suitable for two ladies, board if wanted. Call o'clock evenings. 200 Coleman St. S29 b+p
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-30

WANTED.-Bench workers screw
 machine operators, etc. Apply
 American Graphophone Co. Elm ployment office, Howard Ave. at a. m. a@ s 30 bsO
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-30

100 ENGRAVED WEDDING an- nouncements with two sets of en- velopes. Southworth's, 10 Arcade
 D 6 = If.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-30

TO RENT.-563 Fairfield Ave, '~Ti1e Schuyler" 2 furnished room with steam heat, gas, hot and cold wa ter. S27 u"po
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24
WASHINGTON.

Pestilence is the new danger threat
ening Nicaragua
President Taft signed the s16o, 600
| 600 pension appropriation bill.
1t is expected that Congress will ad-
| iourn not later than Aug. "a.
| The Senate has voted to sustain
yetoes of the President on wool and
and metal tariff revision bills.
| Federal aid was extended Luther
Burbank, the California plant wizard.
| by a bill passed by the Senate.
| Secretary of Agriculture James Viii
son was seyenty-seven years old on
August 18th He announces he will
| retire on March 5th next
| The Senate bill increasing the ap-
preparation for the federal building at
| Denver was defeated in the House in
the absence Of Congressman Taylor
and Rueker OF Colorado.
Representative Martin OF Colorado,
Democrat, failed to get through the
House a bill providing for the e.tab-
lishment OF a mining experiment sta
tion in Silverton, Colo.
| AS tipplers, blondes are outclassed
| by brunettes. Army medical officers
have arrived at this conclusion as a
result of two years observation Of en-
listed men in the Philippine service
Nine, Helena o'Ornovonz, said to be
| the wife of a Russian count and well
| known in diplomatic circles at Wash
| ington, where she resides, was severe
| ly injured in an automobile accident
at Baltimore.
| Reduction in class freight rates
from Galveston to Oklahoma City and
| Wichita, ordered by the Interstate
Commerce Commission. has been ex,
tended from September 1st until No
vember 1st.
| Lieut.. Col. Brett, commanding Vel.
| lowstone National park, has reported
| to Secretary of the Interior Fisher
that his men have seen more buffalo
| in the wild herd in the park recently
than for ten years. They counted
forty-three buffalo and, he said. all OF
them appeared in fine condition. The
| tame herd, which is kept in an en-
closure in the park, said Col. Brett,
now numbers A.
Conferees on the naval appropria-
ton bill agreed to provide for one
battieship at cost OF not greater
than sl5,OoO.o0o.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24
THE WEEKS NEWS EPITOMIZED

Reports are circulating at Cattinje,
Montenegro, of another massacre of
Christians by Mohammedans in AL
bania
For keeping out of Moroccan politics
N the future, ex-Sultan Mulai Hafid
IS to receive $4,000 yearly from the
French government.
A Constantinople report from the
Red Cross Society states that 5000
are dead and COCO injured by the re-
cnt earthquake in the region about the
Sea OF Marmora.
A genuine frontier days celebration
styled THE Stampede" will be held
at Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Septem-
ber to Il, inclusive, in which 0,000
in cash prizes will be awarded in ad-
dition to the saddles, chaps, bits,
boots and spurs. etc.
The German government has aligned
itself with Austria-Hungary in regard
to the project of Count Leopold Won
Berchthold, the Austro-HungarIan for
eign minister, to gain autonomy for
all the European provin ces of Turkey.
The foreign office at Berlin has in
formed Count Berchtheld of its readi-
ness to support his proposals diplo-
matically.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24
SPORT.
STANDING OF WESTERN LEAGUE,

Battling Nelson and Steve Ketchell
are matched for a fifteen-round bout
at ST. Joseph the afternoon Of Labor
Day.
Jim Flynn. matched to fight Charlie
Miller twenty rounds in DAILY City,
Calf, on Labor Day, has arrived in
San Francisco and will go into train
ing in few days.
Joe Jeanette, who expects to meet
Jack Johnson next month, met jeff
Madden of Boston in ten-round hout
in Madison Square Garden, New York,
and so outclassed his man that the
fight was stopped in the second round.
Miss Vera Neave established a new
woman's record for a mile open swim
at st. Heliers, Jersey Island, when she
swan the distance in 31:41-4-5. The
previous record was held by Miss An
nette Kellermann, the Australian
swimmer. whose time was 32:44.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24
Minor Mention.

Silverton is making preparations to
celebrate Labor day.
Weld county farmers are busy har'
yesting 1900 acres OF flax.
During friendly wrestling match at
Evans, William Hill received broken
leg.
Denver is to have a festival in Oc-
tober to rival any that has gone be-
fore.
Pea growers near Pierce are hus-
Ting to care for the large crop grown
this year.
Rev. Samuel r. Wheeler and wife
of Boulder celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary. .
Three men were hurt when engine
No. 2 Of the Moffat road jumped the
track at Willow station.
Boulder county is absolutely free
from debt according to the report OF
Auditor ". z. Dtttman.
More than 1000 cases, of 10000 cans.
Of strlngless beans are being put up
daily by Fort Lupton factories.
An exhibition bull fight was held at
La Junta to raise funds to equip the
recently erected Mexican church.
The Union Pacific railroad is pre-
pairing an exhibit of Weld county GER
eals to be sent to the Iowa State
Fair
Daniel Naffzigger, aged slxty-five, a
from
old age and complication OF dis
eases.
Jesse Calderhead, eighteen of Colo
RADIO Springs, was accidentally shot
and killed while hunting on Cheyenne
mountain.
John ]. Hitchings, ninety-two, pio-
neer printer and mining man OF the
state. died at Boulder. He came to
Colorado in 1858.
Hugh T. Walby, aged fifty-six years.
a resident of Pueblo county for thirty
five years, died at Pueblo. He crossed
the plains with an OK team.
Miss Ruth Shepherd of Eaton has
received word that she has been
awarded one OF the Henry Strong
scholarships at Colorado College.
J. S. Shannon, well known resident
of Ignacio and owner OF the largest
herd OF goats in the Southwest, died
suddenly of heart failure at Durango.
/. Judge Manford Schoonover of Gar
nett, Kans., won the silver loving cup
given by the town of Manitou at the
An-States picnic in the mountain re-
sort.
After spending most Of the day in
conferences with Denver stockhold-
ers IN the Moffat road. Newman Erb
left Denver for the East convinced
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24
western Newspaper Union -Se~s Service
COMING EVENTS IN COLORADO

September Sugar Beet Day In
Denver. Delegates from all susai oes
districts In Colorado Will be In atteho
ance and participate In a special pro-
gram.
September Io-13-Delta County Fair
Delta
September li3-Fremont SHuh'S St,n
Fair and Driving CIub-Cahon SIss.
September 1924 - Colorado o'"'e
Fair-Pucblo.
September 1920 = western slope
Falr-Montrose
sept 1s 20.-San Luis Valley Far. Ala
mosa.
Sept. 2i-2s.-Colorado State Medicai
Association Pueblo.
sept 26.-Opening Weld County fAh'
Greeley.
September 24-25-Apple Pie Day
RIne
September 24-27-Las Animss County
Fair-Trinidad.
September 24-27-Crowiey County
Fair. Sugar City. l.,,,,
September 24-27-Las Animas County
Fair-Trinidad. r.,
September 24-27-Mesa county IN
tustrIal and Fruit Falr-Grana juno
September 24-27-Colorado and New
Mexico Fair and Indian CarnlFai-f'u-
range.
IotChk!ss.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24
w WESTERN.

Fire starting in the Santa Fe rail
road shops at Cleburne. Texas. caused
On estimated loss of s25o,000.
Thomas H. Stevens of Lexington,
Ky, known to horsemen throughout
the country, died at Butte, Mont, very
suddenly Of pneumonia.
The Pacific Mail liner Newport was
sunk at Balboa, Panama, by the col
lapse of the wharf 10 which she was
moored All on board were saved.
Clarence S. Darrow, the attorney
who has been on trial at Los Angeles
the past three months, was acquitted
on a charge af alleged jury bribing
DR.. c. Annette Bucket, famous ma
tionallv as the little major OF the
Union army. because of her services
during the Ciyil War, died at her
home in Piedmont. Cal.
The heaviest rain in many years oe-
CURED in Glendive. Mont. Nearly two
miles of track OF the Northern Pacl1lc
railway was washed away. Besides
the damage to the railroad heavy loss
10 other property is reported.
I.eaping from an automobile. which
escaped by hairs breadth flying
passenger train, William Groesbeck,
salt Lake City, and F. NJ. Bradshaw,
Los Angeles, were hit by the locomo-
tive and killed in Salt Lake City.
Confessing that he had poisoned his
mother, father and neighbor boy III
teen years old. Adam Clark of WIND
sor. Calf, broke down in his cell in
the county Jail and amid sobs told
WHY and how he administered the poi
son.
Two Of eighteen girls who ran away
from the Girls Industrial school OF
Mitcheuville, Iowa, because they were
refused permission to wear fancy hair
ribbons, were captured at Omaha aft
er they had ungerdoEe week CT
thrilling adventures.
Four deaths in a preachers family
In Rocky Ford. Colorado. within less
than twenty-four hoHrs-all due to
poison that caused terrible agony
puts the question OF murder or pto-
maine squarsly up to the authorities,
who decline TO declare themselves un-
til further investigation. Those dead
are Rev. G.. a. Latzke, wife and two
children.
Give us an up-to-date flag" was
the appeal voiced to the House by
Minority Leader Mann. He criticised
the failure of the House to provide
new flags on July /, containing forty
eight stars. including the emblems for
the new states of Arizona and New
Mexico.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24
COLORADO STATE NEWS

{ that he will assume control of the
road within two months
| The pea canning season has closed
at Loveland The growers received an
average OF $35 per acre for their crop.
The factory is now canning beans and
I tomatoes.
Mrs. Emma Barry Of Fort Collins
| received a telegram Informing her
that the body OF her son, Robert, who
was drowned in San Acacio lake. near
Durango, has been found.
| Following his twenty-round bout
with Rudy Unholz at Victor Labor
Day, Mike Malone will meet Young
Erlenborn in a ten-round bout before
the Elks of Idaho Springs.
The Fish Association is in receipt
of $4,000 young fish with which to
help stock the Poudre river. The
State Fish Hatchery sent in 10000
rainbow and as many native frys.
Dependency caused by the fear
that he would become insane, led
Louis p. Miller, one of the most pop
ular and highly respected citizens of
Steamboat Springs, to take his life.
An angry bull maddened by the
sight of red shirt, two vicious
horses, a Union Pacific flyer and a
hay-stacker, caused accidents to six
persons in Weld county in twenty
four hours.
Met by burglar, when she returned
to her home in Pueblo from church,
Mrs. Bruce Kergan, engaged in
scuffle with the highwayman and after
being overpowered was locked in a
clothes closet while the marauder ran
sacked the house.
Dressed in deepest mourning and
bearing visible signs of suffering and
worry, Mrs. George c. Ballew, sixteen
year-old widow OF the South Platte
desperate, arrived in South Platte to
look after his estate. She was accom-
panied by her mother and younger
sister.
Stepping into an open hole in the
roof of the Bethge building, where a
skylight is to be placed, S. w. Bunce,
aged seventy, veteran of the Civil
War and for many years a resident OF
Weld county. fell thirty feet to the
Asor of the kitchen OF the restaurant
and was instantly killed. His neck
was broken.
Yields that break all records In
wheat in the vicinity OF Johnstown
were recorded on the Robert Tay-
lor ranch when 2,016 bushels OF
fall wheat were threshed from TWEEN
ty-eight acres, an average of seventy
two bushels an acre and 1904 BUSH
els from twenty-five acres. an aver
age of sixty-four bushels to the acre.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24
HUTTON OUT OF DARRoW CASE.
Assigns Hearing on tho. eain Indict-
ment to Judge Willis.

Los Ang Before any OF oppos
ing counsel could offer word of ar
gument. Judge George II. Hutton
sunmarily relieved himself of partici
patton in any further prosecution of
Clarence s. Darrow by assigning to
Presiding Judge Willis OF the superior
Court in case in which Darrow is ac-
cused OF having bribed Juror Robert
F. Balm. 1t was assigned to Judge
Willis merely for setting of the trial.
Judge Hutton announced that be
cause of the fixed opinion he had
formed from hearing the evidence in
the recent Darrow trial, in which he
was acquitted, he had no desire to pre-
side at the trial on the Balm indict'
ment.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24

Washlugtou-Th Panama joint
resolution asked for by President Taft
IN q special message to Congress to
make clear the rights of foreign ship
owners to carry into American courts
the question OF free tolls in the Pana-
ma canal was turned down by the
Senate committee on interoceanic
canals
By vote OF S to the committee
decided not TO report the resolution
asked for by President Taft. This is
taken by leaders OF the Senate 10
mean that there will be no resolution
adopted supplementary TO the Panama
canal bill which now awaits the Prcsi-
dents signature. The resolution has
not been formally introduced in either
House, but the Senate committee took
a direct vote on the proposal
The request OF the President vas for
a special law that would permit the
United States courts 10 determine
whether the Panama canal bill. in Civ
ing free tolls to American coastwise
vessels, violated those sections OF the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty which guaran-
tees equal treatment TO the ships OF
all nations.
The Democrats OF the Senate voted
against the proposed resolution with
the exception OF Senator Thornton
of Louisiana
President Taft's second veto Of the
legislative. executive and judicial ap-
preparation bill will find the House
prepared to pass the bill again over
his veto, according to House leaders.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24

Henry De Waters, ten years old, OF
Norfolk, Virginia, is held for killing
two persons and wounding a third,
whom, it was charged, he shot down
when they attacked his father, Ru-
doluph De Waters. -..
Fleeing from Mexico, after being
forced to evacuate on a few minutes
notice by the Mexicans, fifty Mormons
were in Pueblo en- route to Utah. The
refugees are being transported to
Utah by the government
Bernard c. Murray, son of a former
fire commissioner of Hartford, Conn,
confessed at Greenfield, Mass, to hay
ing set fire to thirty hotels and public
buildings in Connecticut and western
Massachusetts during the last four
months.
Robert Thayer, a miner, cattleman
and Baptist preacher, whose home is
near Salt Lake City, for the first time
in his life saw his sister at Norton,
Kan. She is the wife of William Nor
ris, who lives near Norton Thayer is
fifty years old and his sister is sixty,
Nineteen negro miners were killed
by an explosion in the Abernant Coal
Companys mine at Abernant, Ala
sroes escaped from the workings after
the blast Seventeen bodies have been
recovered
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24
GEN RAJ.

Policeman James O'Brien of Chicago
may lose his left hand as the result
of mosquito bite.
George Eastman, kodak millionaire,
who is in Europe, has given $500, 600
to the University of Rochester, y Y.
Strangled by means of towel
knotted about her neck, Mrs. Allen
Saher, twenty-eight, a bride, was
found dead at Astoria, L. l.
In gratitude for having restored his
appetite, Diamond Jim Brady of New
York has given 100000 to the Johns
Hopkins hospital at Baltimore.
in-chief of the Salvation Army, is at
deaths door, according to cablegrams
received at army headquarters in New
York from London.
The Rev. DR.. George Washington
Simpson, preacher-physician and for a
number Of years a chaplain in the
United States army at Western posts,
is dead at his home at Baltimore, aged
seyenty-one.
Violent lightning, which centered
about Mercer university at Macon,
Ga. caused the death of two persons,
the injury OF two others, damage to
many buildings and panic in Pres
bvterian church directly across the
street from where a bolt set fire to
the building.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24
WARREN RENAMED SENATOR.
Vote in Cheyenne Nearly Double That
Cast Two Years Ago.

Cheyenne. Wyo.-Because OF the
use of the headless ballot requiring
the placing OF cross opposite the
name of each person for whom vote
is cast and of confusion resulting from
the prevalence of scratched ballots. it
was impossible. election night, to pre-
sent definite figures on the result OF
the first direct primary election held
in Wyoming.
1t is certain that Senator Warren
and Congressman Mondell have been
nominated for reelection, and that
Senator John b. kendrick viii make
the senatorial race on the Democratic
ticket
r p. Fahey of Cheyenne will be
the Democratic nominee for Con
srcss.
c. l.. Ilinkle has probably defeated
Henry Sweet for the Republican noun
inatiou for mayor OF Cheyenne.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24
Labor Federation Elect. Officers.

Cripple Creek. = The seventeenth
annual convention OF the Colorado
State Federation of Labor adjourned
after an election of officers for the
ensuing year as follows: John Nc
Lennon of Denver, president: ". T.
Hickey, Denver. secretary-treasure
Edward Anderson, Pueblo, 1st vice
president; and ". X. Ladley. Colorado
Springs; Frank Haviland. Grand
Junction; Lula Simmons, Denver; r
p. MacAdams, Denver; John Tierney,
Victor. Eli Crosse, Denver; Joseph
Howell, Alamosa: and John Ulich,
Trinidad. vice presidents.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24
Leaves Y. W. c. A. $1,000.

Colorado Springs.-Mrs. Ella Ce-
leste Adams, well known newspaper
woman who succumbed TO an attack
of heart trouble recently, lett a VIII
in which she bequeathed 81 900 to the
Young Women's Christian Association
OF Colorado Springs.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24
Cowgiris to Participate in Relay Race.

Pueblo --Cowgirls of Colorado and
adjoining states will contest for the
championship Of the world at the state
fair to be held in Pueblo. September
10th to 21st SO many requests have
been received by President J. l.. Bea-
man from the girl riders in all sec
tions of Colorado that they be given a
chance to show their prowess At the
State fair this fall that President Bea-
man finally prevailed upon the direc-
tors to put on big relay race for
girls. Prizes aggregatlng 5000 will be
offered. The winner will receive 500,
the rider coming in second will re-
ceive s6a and the rider winning third
place will receive $40.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-08-24
Sheldon Again Elected Treasurer.

Washington.-Georg r. Sheldon,
treasurer of the Republican National
Committee in 1908, has been selected
as treasurer of the committee for the
present campaign. Charles D. Hilles,
chairman of the Republican National
Committee, made the announcement.