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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21
COLORADO
LEGISLATIVE
DOIN G s
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
PREVENT REFERRING MEASURES.
State Legislature Finds Way to
Thwart Initiated Bills.
o o ! N G s

Denver.-By the insertion of an
emergency clause in any bill which
1t so pleases to treat, the Legislature
may find a way to prevent the refer
ring of measures passed by it to the
people and in that regard thwart the
initiative and referendum.
First action of this kind was taken
in the House of Representatives when
the good roads commissioner bill was
passed in that body on third and final
reading including the following clause,
which is section 13:
TT is hereby declared that this act
is necessary for the immediate pres,
ervation Of public safety"
Speaker o. C. Skinner contends that
the clause will prevent referendum
on the bill that might be sought by en-
emies of the measure. The clause is
not the ordinary emergency" clause
attached to emergency bills hitherto
but is one that has been used in Ore
gon bills with special intention to pre-
vent referendums. The Oregon SUI
preme Court has hello that a bill con-
tanning the clause cannot be referred.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21
CONGRESSIONAL.

BY viva voce vote the house re-
passed the Webb bill to prohibit the
shipment of intoxicating liquors into
dry" states, as it passed the senate
The House passed "a bill removing
an unjust charge which for many
years has rested against the name OF
Lieut.. James Parsons, one OF Colora-
dos old Indian fighters. long since
dead.
President Taft vetoed the Dilling-
m-Burnett immigration bill, which
would revolutionize the immigration
policy of the United States by impos-
ing literacy test upon all foreign
ers seeking home in America.
The congestion of appropriation
bills in the House has caused Demo
cratic leaders to urge a sweeping re-
form in the appropriation system and
to seek a , way of eXtricating the
House from its present position with
out making record for expenditures.
Congress declared Woodrow Will
son elected president of the United
States and Thomas II. Marshall
elected vice-president. The electoral
vote certificates, opened in the pre-
sence of the house and senate sitting
together, showed that Mr.. Wilson and
Mr.. Marshall received ABS electoral
votes; that Theodore Roosevelt for
president and Hiram w. Johnson for
vice-president received SS votes, and
that William II. Taft for president
and Nicholas Murray Butler for vice.
president received eight votes.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service,
WESTERN.


Capital punishment will be abolished
and tipping will be finable offense in
Indiana If bills introduced are passed
by the legislature.
Fire caused by the explosion of
barrel of oil damaged the Union Pa
cific roundhouse at Kearney, Neb.. to
the extent of s35,000.
Robert Heller entered drug store
at San Francisco, asked for bottle
of "painkiller," shot the clerk in the
back as he reached Cor bottle, and
then killed himself.
Devil Rucker. negro 80 years old.
was lynched at Houston, Texas, in the
presence of a crowd estimated at 1000
persons. after he had confessed to the
murder of white woman.
The jury which will try John Beal
Sneed, accused of murder in conaee-
ton with the killing of Albert G.
Boyce, Jr., lat Amarillo, Texas, Sep
tember IA last, was completed at Yer
non. Texas.
Dan" one of team of famous fire
horses which established worlds re-
national firemen's congress at London
in 1898, is dead at Kansas City at the
age of "a.
The lower house of the Washington
legislature passed 81 to 4, a bill to
pension mothers not supported by
husbands. The measure provides SIS
month for the first child and So for
each additional child.
Striking miners made an attack on
the West Virginia state capitol. but
police stopped the riot. Every man,
woman and child of Holley Grove, on
Paint creek, was arrested by militia
and taken to Paint Creek, Junction
for trial.
Because Mrs. Sadie Kohlers, %
years old. refused to marry him. VIII
liam Jansen. % years old, slashed he
with a razor and then fired bullet
into his head, in Chicago. Mrs. Koh-
ler's husband is consumptive now at
Denver for his health.
More than s1.0OO,OOO in gold was
brought to Seattle by the steamship
Mariposa, from Cordova. Alaska,
Dtth tudu tM'
months in transit from the Iditarod
district. From Iditarod to Chitina-
more than 1000 miles-the gold was
hauled on dog sleds.
Betty Raspberry. said to have been
the leader of band of oil swindlers
which operated in Oklahoma for sew
eral years, was convicted at Tulsa OF
forging a deed to valuable oil land
in Tulsa county. and sentenced tn
seven years in prison. Three of her
alleged accomplices are in the peniten-
tiary.
The pastor of the Methodist Episco-
pal church at Pontiac, ILL.,, who has
been in charge of the Mcdowell cir
cult for many years, has resigned, lc-
claring there is no money to be made
in ministerial work. He has purchased
100 acres near Rome. Mich. to en-
gage in farming. During his ministry
his congregation has been composed
of wealthy farmers and he seeks to
profit by their example.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21
No NostaIoIa.

n. Atterbury Smith, who with his
open stairway plan promises to revo-
lutionize the tenement house. said in
New York:
The open stairway tenement. with
Its abundance of sunshine and fresh
air. will make a tenement apartment
actually home. The tenement dwell
er of the future needn't feel like Capt.
Salt.
1--we sailed the seas for 81 years.
Capt. Salt, a seasoned old 'shellback.'
boasted.
Don't you ever get homesick. cap
tain?' lady asked
Homesick? Me homesick?' said
Capt. Salt. 'No-sir-ee! / amt home
enough for that"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21
GENERAL.

Negroes at Charleston, Mo-. have
been frightened by placards warning
them to leave within thirty days.
New Workers gradually are becom-
ing race of vegetarians. according
to George Dressler, commission mer-
chant.
General Stewart l.. Woodford. vet
eran publicist and former United
States minister to Spain, died at his
home in New York.
George NJ. Morse, a wealthy cotton
manufacturer. and president of the
National Society for the Promotion OF
Holiness. died at Putnam, Conn.
Wyoming, broke through a fence of a
game preserve during storm and
fled into the mountains near Elkins.
w. Va.
The West Virginia senatorial brib-
cry situation took a sensational turn,
with the arrest of Colonel William
Seymour Edwards, a candidate fof
United States senator to succeed Clar-
ence w. Watson. Edwards is charged
with offering bribes. He was released
on bond.
Tom Atkinson, who, twenty-nine
years ago, escaped from the Mississ-
ippi state penitentiary while serving
a life sentence for murder. walked
into Governor Brewefe office and sur
rendered. Atkinson is more than so
years old. His friends hope to obtain
a pardon for him.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21
What They Eusted.

Having ascertained his weight on
the railway station weighing machine
the man said to the porter:
isn't 1t lack of business foresight
to put one of those machines that dis
tributes prizes to persons who guess
their own weight correctly. bang up
against other scales that they could
get weighed on before hand, and thus
guess on a sure thing? You must
have great faith in human nature,
your"
"Oh. no. SIR" said the porter. but
we have in the machine"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21
Julius Caesar.

The almost unanimous verdict OF
ancient and modern times is to the ef-
feet that Julius Caesar was what
Shakespeare calls him: "The fore
most man of all this world" Never
before or since has anyone exhibit
ed in SO high a degree all the quail
tiles of a born ruler of men. And
never had any man a grander role to
play. To preside over the most Inn
portant crisis in the history of the
most important branch of the human
race was a task that none but the
greatest of men could succeeoliy
perform. Caesar swept one
after another aside, and stood
where he meant to stand. ~ q
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SLASH IN SALARIES LIKELY.
Senate Finance Committee DeIvins
Into Inequalities.


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver-The subcommittee of the
Senate committee on finance is delv-
ing into the inequalities of salaries in
the state house, and it has found that
clerks doing identically the same
class of work are paid $65 month in
some cases and s1OO a month in 9TH
ers; that some stenographers get 800
a month and some SIS Il month, and
that some of the higher officials are
paid out of all proportion to the
amount of work they do.
The subcommittee is engaged in
classifying the salaries to get at an
equal settlement of them, and it Is
unofficially stated that there will be
some salaries raised as well as some
slashed. 1t is said that very few of
the clerks will suffer, but some of
the men and women occupying more
or less high positions will be recon-
mended for dismissal and others for
a reduction in salaries.
: Numerous cases have been found
where people were on pay rolls who
didn't come to the state house more
than once week; of others who only
worked few hours day; of others
who did not even visit the state house.
1t is said that one of the employees
is going to school in Boulder and that
one state employe is bartender.
The investigation is not alone con-
fined to the capitol building, but to
employees whose duties take them
over the state
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21
CON STIPATION

Munyon's Paw-Paw
Pills are unlike all 9TH
er laxatives or cathar-
tics They coax the
liver into activity by
gentle methods, they
do not scour: they do
not gripe: they do not
weaken; but they do
start all the secretions
of the liver and stom-
ach in a way that soon
puts these organs in a
healthy condition and
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21
KNOX TO SEND MADERO OUT.
LINE OF POLICY OF THE
UNITED STATES.
AGAINST INTERVENTION
CABINET HOPES MExIcANS WILL
SOLVE THEIR OWN
TROUBLES.
Situation in Mexican Strife.
western Newspaper Union News service.

Armistice at Mexico City broken ar
ter few hours; hostilitie3 resumeoi
federals advance again toward arsenal
and forces of General Felix DiaZ drive
them back.
Upon receipt of advices from Ambas-
sa3or Wilson President Taft calls Cab
met meeting which remai-s In session
until l o'clock in the morning; Mexl-
can situation discussed.
by President to send to President Ma
dero of Mexico the reply of the United
States to Madero's request that this
country keep its hands off.
Cabinet members retterate that they
see no necessity for immediate inter-
vention in Mexico and think such
step would be incorrect.
Ambassador Wilson reports that the
American women and children are be-
ing hurried from Mexico city to places
of safety, principally in Vera Cruz,
Mexican government establishes
strict censorship and keeps news OF
real situation from becoming known TO
outside world.
United States will demand tnat tele-
graph lines and cable be kept open Tor
transmission of diplomatic messages.
Anti-foreign feeling growing through
out Mexico.
Rebels throughout Mexico openly in
favor of General Felix Diaz.
British minister to Mexico has mar
row escape from being shot by Ma
dero's soldiers while going to United
States embassy for conference.
Madero declares he can command sit
uation and that he Will not resign the
Presidency even at request of Mexican
Senate.
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Gomez Declares himself President.

Gomez DICTATES MImseH President.
Ell Paso, Tex.-Emilio Vasquez Go
mez, Mexican presidential aspirant. re-
Gently released on bond at San Anto-
nio, Tex, has crossed the border at
Columbus, New Mexico, and pro
claimed himself president of Mexico
at Palomas, chihuahua.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21

corrects constipation. Munyon's Paw-Paw
Pills are tonic to the stomach, liver and
nerves. They invigorate instead of weaken:
they enrich the blood instead of impover-
ishing it: they enable the stomach to get all
the nourishment from food that is put into
It Price IS cents. All Druggists
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21
cuban warship in Mexican Waters.

washington.-Th cruiser Cuba, the
flagship of the Cuban navy, reached
Vera Cruz, according to a dispatch re-
ceived at the Cuban legation.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21
It's easy to be economical when you
have neither money nor credit.

Mrs. winsIow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces infamma-
tion, ,allays pain, cures wind collie 25c q bottle.A
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21
Taft at Sherman Memorial Services.

hington.-President Taft, his
Cabinet, the entire House of Repre-
sentatives, the Senate, the Supreme
Court and the diplomatic corps assem-
bled in the Senate chamber at memor-
ial services for the late Vice President
James S. Sherman.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21

Ex-senator Hale Near Deaths Door.
Neutrality-suspicious. Senator Eu-
gene Hale of Maine, is reported to be
in critical condition from paralysis.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21

If it were not for the fools. the way
of the wise man would be all uphill.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-21

Mexico City. Feb. 17.-HostilitieS
were resumed with renewed fierce
ness in the Mexican capital Sunday
after a truce which lasted only a few
hours.
The armistice signed at o'clock
Sunday morning by the representa-
tives of both sides, agreeing to sus-
pend operations for twenty-four hours,
was broken before noon.
Soon the sound OF ncavy cannonad-
ing and the whirr of lrachine guns an
nounced the return OF the federal
troops to their posts in front of the
arsenal.
1t appeared as if the words of Ma
dero and Diaz might prove prophetic
and that this time the battle would
be to a finish.
President Madero reiterated his re
fusal to comply with the suggestion o.
the senators that he resign. He de
clared that he still YVES able to don't
nate the situation and that if given
time he would crush the rebel forces.
General Diaz had not shown himself
to be greatly in favor of the armistice
but consented to it out of respect for
the efforts of the american ambassa-
dor and the ministers OF the powers, -
tring about a cessation of hostilities
until foreigners and other non-combat-
ants still within the zone of fighting
could be removed to position of com
parative safety.
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Taft and Cabinet in Night Session.

Washington, Feb. 17.-Secretary of
State Knox was directed by President
Taft to reply to the request of Presi-
dent Francisco l. Madero of Mexico
for definite statement of the policy
OF the United States toward Mexico.
The Cabinet, which was in session
for more than two hours, adjourning
at 1910 o'clock, spent the time dis
cussing the terms OF the reply.
Though no official statement was
given out it was declared that Secre-
tary Knox would state that the atti-
tude of this government would re-
main just as it had been for the last
two years.
1t was stated that the note would
be dispatched to Madero at once.
Upon leaving the White House Sec
retary. Knox reiterated that interven-
tion was not now contemplated nor
would there be any change in the
naval or military plans relating to
Mexico.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-08
SPENT $500 IN
VAIN, THEN RESINOL
CURED HIS ECZEMA

New York; II became AFFLICTED with
eczema twenty-five years ago. did
everything for It. but the itching and
burning was 20 intense and continual
that In 1899 put myself In the care
Of specialist. The result was Of lit
tie or not any hensnt.
Specialist Said 60 Uss Rssinoi.
about 1898 I called on the doctor
to ask him il he yet knew Of anything
to cure me. He said. Get box Of
Resinol Ointment got 1t. The itchs
ing stopped as il by magic. BY the
time the jar Of Resinol was all used
tho cure was perfected. expended
perhaps thousand dollars. and en-
dured real suffering for many years
and at last was relieved and cured in
q month for the sumo Of fifty cents. the
price Of ono jar Of Resinol." (Signed)
Franklin Burt. late Capt. ". g. Army.
Il Fulton street.
Better proof. even than such letter,
il to try Resinol yourself and see how
quickly the itching stops and stubborn
skin or scalp eruptions disappear Ev-
cry druggist sells Resinol Ointment
and Resirol Soap. For free trial, write
to Dept. 1S-R. Resinol, Baltimore Md.
ADV. ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-08
IONA TOWNS IN 1919

Among the variety of men and
classes and things which have come
into their own within the past few
years the small town has held it's own
in advancement 1t is worth while to
look over Iowa and take note of the
smaller towns and the things they have
done and are doing.
The small town is miniature city.
1t used to be a village, an adjunct to a
farming community. The town of 1913
IL corporation, community of itself
It does business. 1t prides Itself.
The Iowa towns OF minor size that
have laid paving would make up an
astonishing list. They laid paving on
the main street and paid for il, dozens
OF them and paving in the smaller cit
ieS viii be as common as Itching posts
and wooden sidewalks used to be. And
when the churches and schoolhouses
have been built paving is the next sure
evidence Of progress in town. Next
year viii see miles of paving laid in
~; oo-called little town."
q Ne streets which ran between old
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-08
AN IOWA EDUCATOR.

Sept. 90 the Hon Henry Sabin took
the morning train from Des Moines to
make his permanent home with his son,
Edwin l.. Sabin, at San Diego. Cal To
the writer there was pathos in the go
ing of Mr.. Sabin. He has spent the
best years of his life in the service Of
the state and has brought educational
honor to all Iowa. He is perhaps the
most distinguished living educator in
the United States. and 1t seems that
the remainder of his life should have
been spent in the state Of his adoption.
However, the extreme cold of Iowa
winters was the chief factor in his de-
Gliding to remove to a milder climate.
The people Of Iowa will always have
affectionate interest in Mr.. Sabin and
will wish for him peaceful and pleas
ant home in the west.
Mr.. Sabin's work in Iowa is so well
known that all, except possibly the
youngest teachers, are already familiar
with 1t. He was city superintendent
at Clinton, Iowa, from 1871 to 1885.
when he was elected state superintend-
emit. He was president of the State
Teachers Association in 1878 and pres
dent of the department Of instruction.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-08

and carelessly built storebuildings are
bordered by brick blocks and plate
glass windows in the Iowa towns OF
this period. There is a city snap to
the display Of goods. a metropolitan air
to the business center. The homes are
new and modern houses. The lawns
are marvels of green and we'll kept
turf The garages multiply. The Iowa
town of 1913 is better place to live
than most of the cities of twenty years
ago.
At the boundaries Of the small town
of 1918 in Iowa begins farming coun-
try new and strange to one who knew
it even fifteen years ago. 1t is less
than twenty years since Iowa farmers
bushel. Since mortgages were spread
like autumn leaves over the northern
part of the state and the highways ran
thru impossible sloughs in the wet
seasons. And now the dragged roads
invite speed, the mail boxes of the
rural delivery CLEAN white before every
farm and splendid residences house a
contented and prosperous people.
Iowa has changed to nonrecognition
by the returning exile within fifteen
years. Nowhere is the change more
marked than in the little town. For
the small town has taken from the
great city all of it's best and denied its
worst. An Iowa town of $500 is a CEN
ter of thrift, prosperity, happiness and
progress.
1t forces the imagination to forecast
what Iowa and Iowa towns will be in
1926: but we know that Iowa can not
go back. Behind her are irresistible
forces which make for progress.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-08

today the cities talk grandly Of smoke
prohibition or adjustment and even
Plttsburg proclaims that she 10 by no
means a. black a. she has been paint
ed. and that In very truth she 10 fair
to look upon and not even OF . dark
shade.
1t was the same thing AZ regards
noises. The average citizen re1oiced
in all manner Of terrible racket as q
proof positive that this town was q
busy one and would not listen to the
contention that town might be much
buster on much less noise. Now. the
same people are muffling the cutout
and all other noises and insist upon
pavement that shall be practically
noiseless. Whether we are progressing
or not, surely we are changing.
We can all remember when towns
pointed with pride to the poles and
wires, which numbered their streets,
and which they believed were signs Of
prosperity and activity. And today
the towns that have not already done
so, are ordering the wires under
ground and the others are pointing
with pride to what they have done IN
this regard.
1t is a grand old world a delightful
place to live in today. But as we keep
changing and improving. can YOU pic
ture to yourself what the land Will be
like in few centuries? Occasionally
one is almost tempted to have some
regrets over the fact that his coming
to earth was not postponed until
somewhere about 200.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-08
SOUTH DAKOTA TAX REFORM.

lolOuN lily lIiDuue.J
In the opinion of Governor Byrne, OF
South Dakota. the personal property
tax system has broken down and failed.
In reciting the good results of the
work Of the tax commission he de-
clares that an effective and equitable
system can not be worked out without
an amendment to the constitution.
Amendments which he advocated
while a member Of the Legislature
would permit the substitution of ar
income tax for the personal property
tax and applying different rules to diff
fcrcat classes Of property. This would
make possible the exemption OF i'm
provements on real estate, or at leas,
reducing the rate of taxation on i'm
proved property.
This principle is being advocated in
many states and there are few to deny
that the principles Of increasing the
levying of taxes on city lot or farm
because Of its high class OF improve
ments is penalizing industry.
The man who does nothing to help
build up his community but permits his
lots or land to lie unimproved and ac-
cumulate value from the enterprise Of
his neighbors, shirks his just share OF
taxes and public duty.
While looking forward to reforms
like this Governor Byrne determined tc
do what he could to improve the meth
cd Of applying the old system. and tt
that end the present tax commission
! was created. 1t has done good work
The acreage state tax on a quarter
section of land has been reduced from
$4.95 to $4.09. The valuation OF lanc
has been increased three and one-thirt
but the state levy has been reduced
one-fourth Of what 1t was last year
Railway property has been raised more
than land, and moneys and credits have
been raised from s1,500,000 to over 3d..
| 100000.
! These are few Of the change.
which Justify the work OF the commits
sion. added to which IL the harmonizfnl
OF the method Of valuation with thu
plain requirements Of the constitution
Of the state.