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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
CONG GRESSIONAL.

Senator Owen proposed an amend
ment to the Sherman antitrust law
giving states power to enforce it.
The Senate reached an agreement
to vote February 10 on Sheppard Ken
yon liquor shipment bill.
The Senate adopted a resolution ai-
fecting time of classification of as
phalt lands in Oklahoma.
Senator Nelson's bill to require the
United States courts to take all eyi-
dence in antitrust cases in public,
passed the Senate.
The first pork barrel" appropria-
ton bill of the present session of Con-
gress was reported to the House when
the House rivers and harbors COM
mittee brought in its annual appropri-
alton bill, providing 4o,sOO,00O for the
improvement of rivers and harbors
throughout the country.
Judge Robert w. Archibald of the
Commerce Court was found guilty by
the senate, sitting as a court of i'm
peachment. OF having misused his Of
flee and power as Judge for his per
sonal aim. The penalty is removal
from his office. and he was forever
barred from holding official positions
Of honor or trust.
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w ES

After living nearly a week with a
broken neck, Mrs. Ella Maynes. aged
forty seven died at Kansas City, Kan.
Bird Pickrell. a cock, fatally snot
his bride OF two months and then
made an unsuccessful attempt al SUI
eide at Seward Neb.
All records for mineral production IN
the Black Hills were broken this
year with total OF sS,035,59s, the
first time the IS 900, 900 mark has been
passed.
Five officials. of the Seaboard Oil
and Transit Company, a $4,000, 600
corporation, were indicted by federal
grand jury at Los Angeles, the charge
being use OF the mails to defraud.
Colonel Robert T. Van Horn, eighty
eight years old, for ten years a CON
gressman from Kansas. is suffering
from apopleXy and is not expected TO
live. He founded the Kansas City
Journal.
John Beal Sneed, banker and B. B.
Epting, an employe of Sneed, entered
a plea Of not guilty to charges of muir
der and of being accessory to murder,
respectively. in connection with the
killing OF A. G.. Boyce, Jr.. in Texas.
5 The first message of Governor Sam
uel V. l., Stewart to the Montana Leg
stature, was read. 1t was confined to
Il recitation of the platform pledges
Of the Democratic majority, and plea
for their enactment into laws. The gov
eruor also recommended the passage
OF u law submitting to the voters a
woman suffrage amendment.
GOV. John NJ. Haines, in his first
message to the Idaho Legislature
asked that body to give approval to
the amendment to the federal consti-
tuition providing for the direct elec-
ton of United States senators. He
also urged the Legislature to enact
laws requiring physical examination
before the issuance of marriage certif-
icates, and the sterilization of degen-
crates.
The Twenty-seyenth Oregon Legis-
latiye Assembly convened at Salem
for the regular biennial session. Both
houses are almost unanimously Repub-
lcan, so that party strife will play but
a small part in the work of the ses-
sion. This Legislature will be called
upon to confirm Barry Lane, Demo
crat, as successor to United States
Senator Jonathan Bourne, Lane hav-
ing been nominated by popular vote.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18

conference on Philippine inde-
pendence will be held between Presi-
dent-eIect Wilson and Manuel Quezon,
Philippine delegates in Congress, early
in February.
Work of removing the last remnants
of the wreck of the old battleship
Maine, and the accumulations that
gathered about it in the bottom OF Ha-
vana harbors has been completed.
Soaring prices of foodstuffs are pic
tured in new set of figures compiled
by the United States Department of
Labor from its investigation of the
cost of living in thirty-nine American
cities.
John D. Rockefeller. Jr, will give
$40 100000 to a fund for reclaming
fallen women and to fight the white
slave traffic The plan includes the
removal of girls from redlight dis
tricts and placing them in homes TO
be built for that purpose all over the
country.
After hot" session, Mrs. Steven
B. Ayres of New York, defeated Mr..
John Sherwin Crosby for president of
the Woman's National Democratic
League by vote of IS to IS Other
officers were elected, which include
AIRS. Edward T. Taylor as vice~presi-
| dent for Colorado, and Mrs. w. y.
Bryan of Nebraska as a member Of
the board of directors.
The announcement that Miss Kath-
crime Elkins, Miss Julia Goldsborough,
Miss Mary Morgan of Washington.
and Miss Lucille Cherbonier of Mary
land are to lead the troop of dazzling
| Dianas in the great suffrage parade
on the eve of Inauguration day, has
quickened societys interest in the
plans of the paraders and the cause
itself.
Secretary MacVeagh has applied -
| Congress for 100000, half of the au-
| ,horized extra appropriation for the
| Denver federal building, to enable the
completion of the plans for the finish
| OF the interior and for resumption of
| the work.
| DIR. Carl l.. Alsberg, chief of the
! Bureau of Chemistry of the Depart.
ment of Agriculture, announced the
appointment of DR.. Willard D. Bige.
low as member of the board of food
and drug inspection which passes on
all cases of alleged violation of the
pure food law
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
Minor Mention.

a commercial club has been organ
| ized at Meeker
! Five Western states, besides Colora
do, have sent entries to the baby show
| in Denver.
| This is expected to be record week
| for changes in the state government
/ in Colorado.
! The House of Representatives has
passed the short appropriation bill oi
/ s4G8. 1881
Geo Creel OF Denver addressed tbs
/ Y. VI. {. A. at Boulder on a Fight
ior Clean City
a. II. Bales. former resident oi
Loyeland. was killed 6y an auto al
his home in Maxwell, y. NJ.
( \ $4,000 mangle ironing machine
vas completely wrecked in steam ex
pl9sion occurring in the Bouldry laun
dry plant.
The annual budget OF the Mountain
States Telephone & Telegraph Compa
ny provides for the expenditure of IS.
/ 10000 in 1913.
In an attempt TO end his life, Harry
Nash. a bartender swallowed solution
/ Of half dozen bichloride of mercury
tablets in his room III Denver.
he frozen body OF William Conllin
magistrate of Lakeside. and champion
gkater at the White City. was found
in his cottage. just outside the gates oi
/ the park.
Peter Wilson, an old Civil War vet
cram and pioneer contractor Of Colo
RADIO, died while working on mining
property near Globe, Ariz. He was
seventy years old.
Governor John F. Shafroth delivered
his farewell message to the Nineteenth
General Assembly on Monday and Gov
ernor E. NJ. Ammons delivered bis
inaugural address on Tuesday.
Governor Ammons was the guest n;
banquet in his honor at the Albany
hotel in Denver, given by the Demo
cratic Club and by the members of the
Democratic state and county central
committees.
Brooding ever domestic troubles DR.
John V. Downs. a physician and sur
geon of Greenville, y. NJ, 100 miles
south of Trinidad, committed suicide
by drinking the contents of small
bottle OF laudanum.
Meeker's elder "children"-the mar
ried ones, who have grown up and
are now rearing children themselves
are in the throes of whooping cough
epidemic. while the small boys and
girls seem to be escaping.
The Mountain States Telephone
| Company has acquired the Mutual
telephone lines operating out Of Steam
| boat Springs, comprising over SOC
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
SPORT.

Zbyszko, the Pole, defeated Charley
Cutler, the Chicago heavyweight wres.
tier at Chicago in straight falls.
Charlie White of Chicago had a
shade over Tommy Bresnahan of
South Omaha, in a ten-round match at
Omaha.
Jess Willard, the heavyweight box
er from Kansas, who desires to meet
Luther McCarty again for premier
honors. may not be permitted to box
in New York state.
Young Mike Donovan, the son OF the
former middleweight champion OF
America, boxed to a well won victory
over Tommy Maloney, the hitting
middleweight from the lower west
side in New oYrk in ten furiously con-
tested rounds.
With the grandest collection of high
class polo ponies ever got together,
and the strongest team the country
has known, England hopes to regain
in America next June, the Information
al Polo cup which she won as far back
as 1886 and lost in 1902.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
THROWING BEET INDUSTRY AS
BONE TO HUNGRY DOGS"
GARY TELLS HOUSE.
NEED TARIFF ON wine
CALIFORNIA GROWERS DECLARE
BUSINESS IN OEPLoRAeLE
CONDITION ON COAST.
western Newspaper Union Negs Service.

Western NrHrpapaT Union News Service.
Washington.-"Th Throwing beet sugar
like bone 10 hungry dogs" is wnat
Francis X. Cary. vice president of the
National Sugar Company OF Colorado,
called the Democratic policy OF sugar
tariff reduction beforr the ways and
means committee OF the House.
Several Colorado mon argued against
the proposed reduction on the ground
that it would ruin one of the great IN
dustries OF tho state.
Among those before the committee
We're: W. J. Powell from the Chamber
of Commerce at Sterling. ID. c. Dono-
van OF Longmout. Charles Bocttcher
of Denver. Aaron Cove OF Denver Earl
OF I>oveland. McCue OF Fort Collins,
Couch of Fort Morgan and Tew OF
Greeley
Mineral water importers and others
descended in force upon the commit
tee, against tariff reduction.
The California wine trade was pic,
tured as in a deplorable condition
when the committee took up Schedule
If. wines, spirits and other beverages.
Former Commissioner of Internal
Revenue John W, Yerkes contended
that whiskey was a necessity, but that
imported wines were a luxury and
therefore should bear the burden OF
tariff taxation.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
COLORADO STATE NEWS

.,hones in Routt and Moffat counties.
thus eliminating the Mutual compet:-
ton.
A lunacy charge has been filed in the
County Court at Colorado Springs
against John J. Cohan, who has been
in the county Jail since November 2l,
charged with having threatened the
life of Preside intellect Woodrow Wilson
and other notables.
Announcement was made at Boulder
by District Manager W. E. ketterman
of the Mountain States Telephone e.
Telegraph Company that an appropri-
alton OF $40, 900 had been made for i'm
provements in the telephone system in
Boulder during the year 1913.
The Colorado and the Denver Bar
Associations presented a joint memo
Iial in the State Court of Appeals
eulogistic of the life and character of
The late Judge Stuart d. Walling, for
mer member of the Court of Appeals,
VINO died in Denver last August.
Owing to the efficiency and long
service of Samuel Howe, veteran de-
tective. pioneer Civil War veteran and
Indian fighter, who closed a period Of
forty years service with the Denver
police department. the fire and police
board made a special grant in his be
half and gave him the privilege Of
working another year instead of TAX
ing compulsory retirement.
Paul H. Jones. Joseph Cobb and Ed.
ha
men who attempted to escape from
the reformatory on Christmas and who
have been in solitary confinement
since confessed to Warden A. T Stew
art that they were wanted at Fort D..
A. Russell. Wyo.. where they had en-
listed under the names OF Searfess,
alias Paul J. Jones; Miller alias 10
seph Cobb, and Salyer. alias Ed.
Brown.
The issuance of $3.50 900 cf receiv-
er's certificates to pay off the indcbt-
edness of the Denver, Laramie &
Northwestern railroad and extend it
from Greeley to Severance was ap-
proved by Judge Riddle in the District
Court. Judge Riddle also approved the
report Of the Continental Trust Com
pany and Marshall B. Smith, receiy-
ers, accepted the resignation of Re-
ceiver Smith and appointed II. L. Wal
lace. vice president of the Northern
Colorado Power Company. in his place.
If six-year-old girl Of Pueblo is
able to prove that she is Ethel Cum
Minis, she will get an estate held in
Otherwise the child, who never was
born officially according to the records 3
at Pueblo, will be shut off completely
and another heir with a clear claim
will be the fortunate one.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
FOOD PRICES HIGHER
RETAIL VALUES IN 1912 ABOVE
PREVIOUS YEAR.
Only Four Articles Cheaper, Accord
ing to Figures Compiled by Depart
ment Of Commerce and Labor.

western Newspaper Union News service
Deuver-Retail prices of food in
Denver in 1912 were considerable high
er than in 1911, according TO figures
compiled by the Department OF Com
merce aud Labor at Washington.
The price of sirIoin steak on Aug.
Is. 1912, was IA per cent hlgher
than on Aug. Is, 1911. Rib roast was
80 per cent. higher; pork chops, Il per
cent Smoked bacon was Go per cent.
lower Smoked ham was per cent.
higher; pure lard, 1I,G per cent. high
err hens, 1C per cent. higher; strictly
fresh eggs, 13.1 per cent. higher. and
creamery butter. 81 per cent. L:Sher.
With the exception Of smoked bacon
the only decreases were found in pc
tatoes. sugar and milk The decrease
in the price OF potatoes was 46.s per
cent In granulated sugar 1t was los
per cent. and in fresh milk 1t was
2.2 per cent.
A slight decrease in the weight Of
food contents in bread in Denver was
shown.
"On account of a slight change in
mixture the loaf retains its moisture
better and We can get the weight by
scaling one-half ounce less. was the re
port from Denver bakers,
Here is comparison Of prices On
several articles OF food In Denver:
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18

DR.. j. Z. Stuart, head of a Houston,
Tex, infirmary, and Miss Ruby Lar
sen, a nurse, were killed when the a,i-
tomobile in which they were riding
collided with wagon on a bridge
near Houston.
After dwelling for years in seeming
destitution and depriving herself OF
the necessaries of life, Mrs. E. ]. No
BILE. eighty-four years old, OF East ST.
Louis, Ill. has given to Samuel L. Is.
bel, st. Louis lawyer, the $24 900 for.
,une, whose existence she concealed
from her friends.
The Ohio river passed the sixty-foot
stage at Cincinnati and continued to
rise at the rate of two inches an hour.
In the lower parts of the city and in
Dayton, Newport and Covington. sub
urbs across the river in Kentucky. .
500 persons have been made temper
arily homeless by the invading wa
ters.
Captain Raold Amundsen, the Nor
wegian explorer, was formally recog-
nized for the first time in the United
States as the discoverer of the south
pole and honored for his achievement
with a special gold medal by the Ma.
tional Geographical Society at its an
nual banquet, where he was the guest
of honor.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
No Money, No Marriage.

"A fortune teller told me that you
are going to marry me-" said the
young man with the prominent
socks.
Did she also tell you that you are
going to inherit very large fortune?"
inquired the girl with the matted hair.
She didn't say anything about .
fortune"
Then she is not much OF a for
Ntune-teller. and you had better not
place any reliance in anything she
says. ys."-Washington Herald.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
ALLIES STAND TOGETHER.
Turkish Vizier Makes peace plea !:
Balkans Have Not Weakened.

London.-The Balkan nations wish
the world to know that they have not
weakened in their determination to
resume hostilities unless Turkey ac-
cepts their terms quickly, but in def
erence to the powers they may with
hold the execution of their resolve d
few days longer.
A sequel to this stand, which gives
some hope for ultimate peace, is the
report from Constantinople that Grand
Vizer Kiamil Pasha says that the con-
clusion of peace is an absolute neces-
sity for the Turkish Empire. Unless
peace is concluded, he declares, the
future of the nation will be gravely en-
dangered.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
MONEY TRUST NATIONAL PERIL
So Declares George w. Perkins Before
Money Trust Committee

Washington. - In hypothetical
question put TO George w. Perkins,
Samuel Untermeycr, counsel for the
money trust committee, outlined from
the records of the committee con
centration Of money and credit" and
asked whether Mr.. Perkins considered
it "a menace and peril to the prosper
ity of the country" The question gen
orally was accepted as Mr.. Untermey-
er's conception of the money trust, of
which the committee is in search.
Mr.. Perkins admitted that concen.
tration, if carried far enough, would
become a national peril.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
DREADED TO EAT,
A Quaker Couples Experiences.

How many persons dread to eat
their meals. although actually hungry
nearly all the time!
Nature never intended this should
be SO. for we are given a thing called
appetite that should guide US as to
what the system needs at any time
and can digest
But we get in a hurry, swallow our
food very much as we shovel coal into
the furnace, and our sense Of appetite
becomes unnatural and perverted.
Then we eat the wrong kind OF food
or eat too much, and there you are
Indigestion and Its accompanying mis-
cries.
A Phila. lady said:
MY husband and l have been sick
and nervous for Is or 20 years from
drinking coffee-feverish, indigestion,
totally unfit, a good part Of the time,
for work or pleasure. We actually
dreaded to eat our meals. (Tea is
just as injurious, because it contains
caffeine. the same drug found in cot.
fee.)
I'VE tried doctors and patent medi.
SAACo SudI COuuteO up luJO QUAQfeO0
OF dollars, with little ii any benefit
Accidentally, small package Of
Postum came into my hands. made
some according to directions, with
surprising results. We both liked it
and haye not used any coffee since.
The dull feeling after meals has
left US and we feel better every way.
We are SO well satisfied with Postum
that we recommend it to our friends
who have been made sick and nervous
and miserable by coffee" Name Civ.
en- upon request Read the little book,
"The Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
Postum now comes in concentrated.
! powder form, called Instant Postum.
It 10 prepared by stirring a level tea
spoonful in a cup of hot water, adding
sugar to taste, and enough cream to
bring the color to golden brown.
Instant Postum is convenient:
there's no waste; and the flavor II
always uniform. Sold by grocersE
b0-cup tin 80 cts. 100-cup tin so cts.
A Soup trial tin mailed for grocer's
name and 2-cent stamp for postage.
Postum Cereal Co.. Ltd.. Battle Creek,
4iCh- Adv.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
GENERAL.

Five members of fire company
were injured. two probably fatally,
when a street car crashed into the
speeding apparatus at Evansville, Ind,
cutting it in halves.
Enoch A. Whipple. sixty-one years
old, one of the best known hotel men
in Chicago, died in Chicago. His
mother, Helen N. Whipple, is said to
have been the first white child born
in Chicago
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
Drops Dead Driving Carriage.

Colorado SpTings.-James F. Burns,
millionaire mining man and theater
owner. his young son. James, Jr., and
the small son Of ]. r. Cralle. had Il
narrow escape from runaway acci-
dent " hen the driver of their carriage
Stephen Kelly, siXty-three, dropped
Gead from his seat from heart failure
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
Sister in Moving Picture.

Grand While attending 4
moving picture show here, Mrs. Mary
Babcock OF Colorado Springs was sur
prised to recognize as one of the char
acters of the scene thrown on the
screen sister whom she had not seen
or heard from for eight years. She
will try to discover, through the film
company, where her sister can be
found.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
Miners Body Found in Well.

Trinidad.-Lying in five feet of wa
ter in the bottom OF a twenty-foot
well at the rear OF the house CT Alton
20 Galoosi, AT Siarkyille, a mining cam p
five miles west OF this city, the mutt
lated body of Domnick i.aikono, an
italian coal miner. aged thirty-fou.'
was found. The dead mans throat had
been cut and the body thrown into the
well
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
Three Women on Board.

Denyer-By the appointment OF
Mrs. James D. Whitmcre and Mrs.
Helen Grenfell to the directorate OF
the State Bureau OF Child and Animal
Protection, three women are now
members of the board. Mrs Mary C.
c. Bradford is the third, being ex-
officio member by reason of her office
as superintendent of public instruc-
ricn.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
Both Feet and Legs Frozen. .

Colorado Springs Eugene Benoist,
son OF a prominent and wealthy st.
Louis family. is confined to a little log
cabin half way up the slope of Pixies
Peak, with both feet and legs frozen
nearly to the knees.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18

Denycr-Co Colorado's six presidential!
electors met at the statehouse and
cast the vote OF this state for Wood
row Wilson for Prs sident. Finley Dye
was elected chairman Those present
were Dye, r. c. Bode, o, T. Clark,
Henry p. Corbin, Mrs. Gertrude Lee
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
FOR EiGN.

The British government is to nav
the National Telephone Company of
the United Kingdom $62 SIC. .32O for its
property, according to decision
reached by the railway and canal COM
mission sitting as court of arbitrs.
ton.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
Fl. Collins Beets Bring slice, 900.

Fort Collins.-The best record since
the sugar factory was established here
was made during the campaign just
closed during which over 100000 tons
of beets were sliced. For these the
farmers received s1,IS0.0 900
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
WASHINGTON.

Republicans declined democratic
proposition for appointment of CON-
mittee from both sides to consider
nominations to be confirmed at once.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
Warren Summoned Back to Wyoming

Cheyenne-S Senator Warren was
summoned by telegraph from Washing
ton by his. friends and supporters in
both houses of the Legislature. where
his reelection is cont sted by an align
ment Of Democratic and Progressive
forces
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18

and Lemuel Cannon. Bode was chos-
en- as messenger 10 bear the vote to
Washington. His name was drawn by
lot
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
Nixon Would Be Lieutenant Governor

Denver.-John c. Nixon, Progress
sive, has taken the oath of office as
lieutenant governor of the state of
Colorado, to succeed S. R. Fitzsarrald
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
EolIoWinQ Orders.

Doctor (to MI j.. whose husband is
very ilD-Has he had any lucid inter
walls?
Mrs. J.-'E's 'ad nothink except
what you ordered, doctor.-Lippin-
colts.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18

Or. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-ooassd,
easy TO take as candy. regulate and tnvtgur-
ate stomach, liver and bowels and curo con
s,ipati0n- Adv.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18

ASK FOR ALIENS FOOT-EASE.
the Antiseptic powder to shake into your
shoes Relieves Corns. Bunions. Inero~ins
Nails. Swollen and Sweating feet. BilStsrs
and CAllous spots Sold everywhere. 25c
Don't accept any substitute Sample FREE
address Allen S. Olmsted. LeRoy. N. 7. Adv
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
Short Of Breath.

Patience-What sort OF dog IL
that?
Patricia knickerbocker poodle.
Patience-A knickerbocker poodle,
Patrice-Yes; don't you notice his
short pants?
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
Spoiled Her Secret

Spoiled Her Secret
My first husband and l kept our
marriage a secret for nearly a year"
Didn't you find 1t rather dificult ="
"Oh, no. not at all. We could have
gone on for a much longer time II the
horrible reporters had been snoop-
ing around when ! app.--i for my d.
yorce"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18

No matter what happens. the sus-
penders a man wears are never 90
tirely free from responsibilities.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18

Once in a great while man comes
home as early as his wife thinks he
ought to, or the postman brings her
letter that she expects.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
A bird In the hand fails to catch tAs
early worm.

Red Cross Bag Blue makes the laundrea
happy makes clothes winter than noU
Ali edbd Erocers. Adv.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18

DO you belong to a brass band.
Mrs. Blow?"
NO dear. What put that idea into
your head?"
well. mamma said you were al
ways blowing your own horn. SO I
thought you must belong to a brass
band"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-01-18
Bode Takes Vote TO Washington.

in july.