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The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-19
COLOR RADIO
LEGISLATIVE
D o NJ G s
Western NewspaperUnion News Service.
RECORD OF NINETEENTH
ASSEMBLY.
Measures Signed by Gov. Ammons.
D o I N G S

Measures Signed by Gov. Ammons.
Public utilities.
tuberculosis registration
Highway commission.
Antitrust.
Coal mine inspection.
Locomotive headlight.
Restricted sale of drugs
teachers.
Banking code.
Public defense.
Police pension fund.
Employers liability.
Alamosa county.
Simplified court procedure.
Refunding of irrigation bonds.
increase OF judges for seventh Judi
cial district.
Eight-hour law for miners.
Brand inspection.
Sanitary factory inspection.
protection for neglected children.
Organization of domestic water
CONFIRMATION of land title of union
printers home.
Anti-loan shark
12-mill limit levy.
i, Periodical reports of state institu-
Limiting publication of session laws.
IProteetion of range stock.
Transfer internal Improvement fund
to highway commission.
Jury commission.
Permanent election registration.
Fixing new seasons on game.
Increasing width of mining lode
claims.
Prohibiting circulation of initiative
and referendum petitions by state en-
ployes.
Permitting children living in one
district to attend school in another.
Bonding of commission merchants.
Providing annual meeting of assess
ors with state tax commission.
Wedding out of defunct corpora
tions.
Percentage payment of warrants
out of depleted state funds.
Incorporation of Central City.
Prohibited Importation of diseased
Employment of county agricultural
instructors.
Reversion to state of property of
persons dying intestate.
Fixing salaries of county judges.
Authorizing manufacture of colored
oleomargarine.
Authorizing acquisition of noun
Creating office of county admins
traitors
Defining duties of district attorneys
Providing for turning over of daily
receipts of state offices to state treas
urer.
Describing procedure in criminal
cases.
Making annotated statutes prima
facie evidence in court proceedings.
Giving county recorders right to is
sue certificates of notary.
Providing for settlement of taxes
and affairs incident to division of
Routt and creation of Moffat coun-
ties.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-19
FOREIGN.

The two American sailors killed by
police at Guaymas were members of
the provost guard.
The strikers at Verviers, Belgium,
sent 400 of their children to Socialist
families in Brussels, where they will
be taken care of temporarily.
A three-days' armistice was ar
ranged between Turkey and the Bal
kan allies, according to a semi-official
dispatch from Constantinople.
Carl Haggenbeck, animal collector
and senior partner of the Handels me-
nagerie and Tierpark, at Stellingen,
near Hamburg, is dead. He was born
in 1874.
Maciovio Herrera, with 400 follol-
ers, is terrorizing the country near
Chihuahua by levying ransoms from
foreign residents. He declares that he
is opposed especially to Americans.
within sixty days the constitu.
tionalists will take Mexico City," was
the declaration of Gen. Alvaro Obre-
gon, commander in chief of Sonora
insurgent state troops, which took
Naco, Sonora.
Militant suffragettes cut all the
telegraph and telephone wires at the
entrance to the Box tunnel on the
Great Western railway near Bath,
Eng. Great inconvenience was caused
to train service.
The vast political strike, planned
by the Belgian Socialist trade unions
is on. The first workmen to take
part in the movement were the night
shifts of the mines and mills through.
out the country.
Seven persons are dead and fifteen
injured as the result of the derail.
ment of an excursion train on the
Montreal-Chambly branch of the Cen.
tral Vermont railway, about four and
a half miles out of st. Lambert.
The report sent by James Bryce,
British ambassador to the United
States, on the results of recent con.
versation with President Wilson fore
shadows, it is understood, favorable
termination of the controversy be-
tween the two countries over the ques.
tion of the Panama canal tolls.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-19
GENERAL.

A quintet of infants was born re-
Gently to Mrs. Charles Smith of Dan
by, few miles south of Ithaca, N. Y.
Ernest Moschner, thirty-five killed
his four children, and then killed him
self by shooting, at his home in Fitch
burg, Mass.
Standard Oil officials attach no i'm
portance to the suit being brought by
the attorney general of Texas for
penalties aggregating almost $780,
100000.
One year ago on April Is word was
flashed around the world that the R.
M. S. Titanic, of the White Star line,
had struck an iceberg and was sink
ing with S15 passengers and 6SS mem
bers of her crew.
Mrs. Ann Simons of Hickory, near
Sharon, Pa, is mourning the loss of
diamond ring worth s100 which her
big Central American parrot swal-
lowed. The big bird, however, denies
the theft when questioned.
After viewing the Mississippi river
swollen by the present flood at Mem
phis, Brig. Gen. w. H. Bixby assert
ed that should the federal appropria-
tion be increased $16,000,00O, levees
could be built from Cairo to New Or
leans such as would withstand flood
of present proportions.
Socialists at Atlanta, Ca, extolled
]. Pierpont Morgan at a memorial
service held at the labor temple. Trib-
utes to the financier were paid by va
rious speakers.
The largest wax candle ever nodded
will be burned on feast days in the
vatican at Rome to the memory of ].
Pierpont Morgan, IL the hopes of
rishioners of Our Lady of Mount Mar
cela's Roman Catholic church in Jer-
sey City are realized.
Four hundred laborers of the Fed
eral Sugar Refinery at Yonkers, N. Y,
went on strike. Superintendent
Spreckles said he was going on a va
cation, and did not know when he
would return or when the refinery
would be reopened. The refinery is
one of the largest in the world, en-
ploying about 1,200.
AT New York, April Is, the anniver-
sary of the sinking of the Titanic,
men prominent in church, business
and shipping circles gathered at the
Seamen's Church institute on the low
er waterfront to dedicate the Titanic
memorial lighthouse tower, erected to
the memory of the men and women
who went down with the ship.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-19
The Senate.

Passed on final reading following
House bills:
Transferring dairy commission to
State Agricultural College. Riddle.
Making scattering of glass and
sharp Instruments on highways a mis-
demeanor. Kennedy.
Providing sale of session laws at re-
duced prices. Wright.
-, Prohibiting fraternities and sorori-
Authorizing tax commission to
equalize assessments on public utili-
ties. skinner.
Providing for free assays by School
Making authors of "black hand"
COMMUNICATIONS subject to imprison-
Providing assessment of taxes on
gross and net output of mines. Skin
Authorizing land board to exercise
power of eminent domain over federal
lands. Weaver.
county commissioners to pay judg-
ments rendered against municipal cor
Providing employment of CHECK"
chemists in sugar factories Philip.
Declaring refusal Of witnesses to
designations to be misdemeanor. Ar
dourel and Gates.
lutte supervision over construction of
bridges, etc. Hasty:
Compelling annual calling of grand
juries in second-class counties, semi
annually in Denver and at discretion
of courts in other counties Daley.
Providing inheritance tax. Wright.
Prohibiting publication of details of
statutory crimes.
Providing for acquisition of unat-
tached strip of land by Ouray county.
Authorizing incorporation of trades
associations. Hicks
Regulating assessments and requir-
ing bonds of assessors Wright
Providing probation of criminals.
Passed on final reading:
Philip Insurance code bill.
Joyce $4,000,000 bond issue resolu-
tion.
Rowan bill prohibiting storage of
explosives within corporation limits of
towns and cities.
Skinner constitutional amendment
for pamphlet form of publication of
initiated and referred bills.
House long appropriation bill, with
senate figures CT senate finance COM
mittee
The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-19
Appropriation Bill Finally Approved.

Denver.-Long appropriation bill ror
biennial period of 1913 and 1914, as
approved by the joint conference COM
mittee from the Senate and House
and approved by both bodies:
The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-19
Institutions Appropriations s1,42s, 1859.

State institutions appropriations
agreed upon by Joint conference
committees:
University of Colorado $4,000
School for Deaf and Blind -. 21,650
Soldiers and Sailors Home -. $4,000
Industrial School for Girls .... $4,000
Colorado Insane Asylum .. 100000
Agricultural College - Sl,s09
Home for Dependent Children 113,500
Greeley Normal School . 10000
School for Blind ............. 10000
Gunnison Normal School ..... $4,000
Home for Mental Detectives =. 1875. 900
FIT. Lewis Agricultural School 41,500
State Reformatory ........ 115,500
State Penitentiary .......... 214,000
Boys Industrial School, Golden 162.5O0
QUIT County Fish Hatchery. 500
The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-19
Congressional Reapportionment Bill.

Congressional Reapportionment Bill.
Denver-The Finch reapportion-
ment of congressional districts which
passed third reading in the House and
Senate follows:
First district: City and county of
Denver.
Second district: The counties Of
Moffat, Routt, Jackson, Grande, Boul-
der, Jefferson, Gilpin, Clear Creek,
Sumit, Park, Rio Blanco, Garfield.
Eagle, Mesa, Delta, Montrose, Pitkin.
Gunnison, Chaffee, Lake, San Miguel.
Ouray, Dolores, San Juan, Hinsdale,
Montezuma, La Plata and Archuleta.
Third district: The counties Of
Larimer, Weld, Morgan, Logan, Sedg-
wick, Phillips, Adams, Washington,
Yuma, Arapahoe, Douglas, Ebert,
Lincoln, Teller, Ell Paso, Kit Carson
and Cheyenne.
Fourth district: The counties of
Saguache, Mineral, Rio Grande, Cone
jos, Costilla, Fremont, Custer, Huer-
fano, Las Animas, Alamosa, Pueblo,
Crowley, Otero, Kiowa, Bent, Prowers
and Baca.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-19

Napier President Pro Tenn of Senate.
Denver.-Senator Barnette T. Ma
pier of Glenwood Springs was elected
president pro TEN ad interim of the
Senate just before adjournment.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-19
Memorials to Congress Passed.

Protesting against federal conserva-
tion policy.
Ratifying direct election of United
States senators.
Favoring establishing of Estes Ma
tional PARK. 4.l.r
Requesting establishing OF mineral
testing plant at Silverton.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-01

Lawrence, Mass, June 3o.-A narrow wooden walk leading over fifteen feet of water to the municipal bathhouse in the Merrimac river today gave way under the stamping reet of crowd of impatient boys, and at least twelve of the little fellows were drowned. There may he more bodies in the stream.
 Waited for House to Open.
 The boys, ranging in years from 9 to I5. had come down an incline to a level stretch of planl<ing that led to the hathhouse There they waited for Will liam E. Blythe, the hathhouse keeper. 10 open the door. No one knew tonight that clamored for Blythe to "open up" but it IS thought that forty is con- eervative estimate.
 Walk Extension Drops.
 There was ball game in the city this afternoon. and many of the eager youngsters figured on seeing that after having their afternoon dip. Eight min utes before the appointed time for opening the boys were letting loose their exuberance by jumping. up and down and tumbling over each other Suddenly the supports at the foot of the incline sank. A second later the walk extension dropped like a trap door and the boys rolled into the river
 Boys capaht in Swift Current
 There is a swift current at this point drawn by the falls a quarter of a mile below, and the lads were caught in this. Many of them could not swim. Witnesses on the river bank say that all disappeared in g. flash, but a mo- ment later there was a struggling mass on the surface The stronger ones, who could swm. struck out brayely for the boathouse and a score saved them selves. Their cries brought aid and several others were pulled ashore. Five unconscious forms were brought from
Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-01
GRAND JURY IMPLiCATES
 THE EMPLOYER OF GIRL
Decide That She Game to Her Death
 by Illegal Operation.

Salisbury, Md, June 30.-That Flor ence Wainwright came to her death on Friday, June 20, "at about 6.30 p. m.. by a, criminal operation performed in or about the Home Gas company s office. in which opinion Harold M. Smith was implicated as an accessory thereto both before and after the fact was the verdict of the coroner's jury this afternoon. Smith is general man. ager of the Home Gas company, is for ty years old and married. He was ar rested shortly after the verdict was rendered and an hour later was re- leased on bail
 Miss Wainwright was A years old and was the bookkeeper of the Gas company. Her body was found in the office of the gas company a short time after her death is supposed to have occurred. A medical examination show ed that death had been caused by a criminal operation.
 After the first ballot, eleven jurors signed a paper that did not place the blame on anyone. William s. Powell refused to sign it, and when eight more ballots were taken without any change, he declared he was ready to leave the room if the name of Harold Smith was not placed in the verdict. The tenth ballot resulted in an unani- nous vote duplicating Smith
Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-01
MUIHALL DISCHARGED
 BY THE MANUFACTURERS.
Because He Was Promoting Matters of
 His Own, Says Colonel Pope.


 New York. June 30-In 9 statement issued tonight Col. George Pope, presi- dent of the National Association of Manufacturers, replied to the charges made by Martin Nj. Mulhan in refer ence to the political activities of the association The charges deserve at tention. the statement said. and we shall endeaVor to see to 1t that not 0Tz4ly the subject matter of these charges but the whole field of matters relating to yo-called labor legislation al Washington shall receive the fullest investigation and publicity, for the subject is one of the most vital and important now before the American public
 Concerning an answer or explanation regarding particular items in the charges made by MT. Mulhan. the statement says:
 We shall await the action of the senate committee before which MT Mulhall has been Subpoenaed, 10 the end that under oath and before an official body the particulars of the in dictment may be made authentic and specific We trust the action of that committee will be speedy and thorough and. if desired. will cooperate with IL in every way possible tO ascertain the full truth"
 In connection with Mir. Mulhalfs employment with the association, Col onel Pope declared that MT. MulhalPs connection with this association was severed by dismissal Oct. 25. 1911, and he has had no right to represent It Tn any capacity since that time, althougn we have received information from various sources that he has done so Some of his most serious charges re- late tu events su'SSeQuent to that tune
 During his connection with the as sociation Mr. Mulhall was continually promoting. as has since been learned. many private and personal matters or his own. especially in the poltlcal field Tn these private matters he has used the name of the association ana assumed to represent 1t without au l.. tbority and it was the discovery of activities of this kind on his part, coupled with other serious betrayals of trust. that was responsible for his dismissal by the association
 Continuing. the statement declares that the National Association of Man ufactlrers has never in any way by -Hc uxe of money influence or sugges- ton opposed any child labor laws, compulsory education law or other laws ta better the condition of working women as set forth in the Mulhall statement On the contrary. the state rr7ent says. the association has been a recognized leader in the movement for the prevention and compensation Of work acidents. vocational training, in apsfrrai betterment, the development GH an American merchant marine ana fhe extension and upbuilding of foreign
 Tn conclusion" the statement says, "fhe associa ton can only ask and be- lieve that every fairininded man will await the facts brought out by official inquiry that in reading the so-cailed disclosures of Mir. Mulhall he will re- member that political activity can be for legitimate and proper purposes as well as for corrupt and improper ones"
Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-01
Narrow Walk Leading to Municipal Bath House Gives Way Under Weight of Waiting Lads
ABOUT 40 PLUNGED INTO 15 FEET OF WATER
Stronger Ones Saved Themselves by Swimming Shore But Current Too Strong For the Weaker Ones-Twelve Bodies Recovered With Possibility of More Bodies in River-Boys Were Pooling When Accident Happened.

the water and two of these were finally resuseiated Effots to restore the oth- CTS were futile.
 Lad Missed His Chum.
 It was thought at first that only three were drowned, and it was not until two hours later that the probable loss of life was realized. John Moon ey, years old, awOie the police to the true situation In the crowd Of dis tracted friends on shore he missed his chum and set of a cry:
 T don't see Rollie. He must be drowned
 Twelve Bodies Recovered.
 Then boats and grappling irons were brought, and the river bed was drag ged. When the work ceased late to- night twelve bodies had been recoY cred.
 Most of the youths were from the mill district, and when word of the ac- cident reached their homes thousands crowded the river bank. In the confu- sion fathers and mothers lost track of their children, and fear that they had been in the swimming party caused the parents to besiege the police with in u11iries This led to conflicting reports of the number drowned
 Names of Victims Recovered. The bodies recovered were identified as follows:
 William BalSter.
 Joseph Hennessy.
 Michael Woiten8-
 Joseph McCann.
 Joseph Cote.
 Michael Higgins.
 Alfred Doucette.
 William Thornton.
 Flower Durban.
 Roland Jones.
 Joseph Boulanger.
 Serund Allgbro.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-01
NoRWALks coNsoLlDATED
 INTO CITY OF NORMAL X
Action of Voters Gives New City
 Eighth Place in the State.

Norwal1. Conn., June 30.-By a ma iority of 6S1 tbe consolidationists won out today in the special election on the question of merging Norwalk, South Norwalk and other component parts of the town of Norwalk into the city of Norwalk. The change will be effective the first week in October, the present officers remaining in office un- til that time when the new city off, cials will be chosen at the regular election.
 The consolidation act as passed by the last general assembly provided that the boundaries of the new city shall be coincident with those of the town. and that the act should be eff fective upon approval by the electors. In accordance with this referendum clause todays special election was held. Keen interest was manifested in the outcome.
 Norwalk was the strongest advo- cate of the merger, the vote in favor NorWalk a heavy negative vote of 1,06S was cast. while the consolidationists could muster only ASA, while in East Norwalk the antis were also in the ma jority the vote, being 224 in favor and 339 against Incidental to the outcome it was reported in south Nor walk that there was already talk of taking the matter up to the next legiS- lature and asking for q re-division
 By the consolidation the twin cities Of South NorWa ak and Norwalk rank Ing sixteenth and eighteenth respec- lively among the cities of the state, will as the new city of Norwall1, jump at once to eighth place
Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-01
MAN RUN DOWN BY
 AN EXPRESS TRAIN.
George EVeritt of South Norwalk Dy-
 ing at Danbury Hospital.

Danbury, Conn, June 30.-George Everitt of South Norwalk is in a dy- ing condition at the Danbury hospital as the result of being run down this evening by an express train on the New Haven road near the North Branchville station. He was walking to the station along the tracks from Georgetown to get a train for home.
 Everitt was formerly employed as a section foreman on the New Haven road and gained some notice by testi- flying at the coroners inquest into the Westport wreck that he had been able to pull the spikes from ties with his fingers on the road along the section where the wreck occurred
 He is between 50 and so years old. At late hour tonight he was reported as unconscious.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-01
WOMAN STARS MAN
 WITH HER HATPIN
Admits Charge but Claims He Made
 An Insulting Remark.

Danbury, Conn, June 30.-Mrs. liar " Bulger, wife of a comedian, playing at local theater, was arrested, to- night. charged with assault on Charles Nallauzo. She is alleged to have stab bed him with a hatpin She admits the charge but claims the man made an insulting remark as she passed This Vallauzo denies. The wound is not serious. Mrs. Bulger will appear in court tomorrow.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-01
NEW TARIFF TO BE
 OPERATIVE MARCH i,
Date of Operation of Income Tax Now
 Fixed at March i, 1918.

Washington, June 9.-Postponement of the date on which the new tariff shall go into effect until March 1, 1914. and a change of date when the income tax shall be operative from January 1, 1913, to March 1, 1913. were agreed up- on by majority members of the sen ate finance committee today.
 In advancing the date when the pro posed rate of cent pound on sugar shall be applied, the committee did not amend the schedule to acect the pro vision ahat sugar shall go on the free list May 1. 1916. That provision re- mains as it was originally in the bill which passed the house and which the senate democratic caucus approved last week. The committee hlso adopted an amendment which would put a stamp tax on all cotton sold for future deliv- cry; declined to reconsider it's action in repeating the act of 1890, which re- leased sweet wine manufactures from payment of the full internal revenue duty on brandies used in fortifyjng wine and adjusted several rates on ar ticles referred back by teh democratic caucus.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-01
Steamers Reported by Wireless.

New York, June 3O.-Steamer Cana dia. Marseilles for New York, 200 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon 18th. Dock about 8 a. m Tuesday.
 Siasconset Mass, June 20.-Steamer San Giorgio Naples for New York, 250 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon Dock about a. m. Tuesday
 Sable Island, June 30-Steamer Olymnic. Southampton for New York signa~ed TEA miles east of Sandy Hook at 1.30 p. m. Dock 8. a. m, Wednes- daV
Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-01
Steamship Arrivals,

At Hamburg: June 28, Amerika, from New York. June 29, Pennsylvania from New York
 At London: June 30, Minnehaha, from New York.
 At Liverpool: June 30, Devonian, from Boston.
 At Fayal: June 2S, Kaiser Franz Jo- seph l.. from New York.
 At Naples: June 2S, Ruthenia, from Montreal.
 At Glasgow: June 29, Columbia, from New York; Hesperian, from Montreal.
 At London: June 30, Pomeranian, from Montreal
 At Plymouth: June 30, Kaiser Will helm IT., from New York.
 At Quebec: June 30, Lake Manitoba, from Liverpool.
 At New York: June So Minnetonka, from London.
 Cherbourg, June 30. = Arrived Steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II. New York via Plymouth for Bremen.
 Dover, June 30-Arrived: Steamer Finland New York for Antwerp.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-01
EXECUTION OF 2s MEN
 REPORTED AT JUAREz
Victims Arrested Following Discovery
 of Dynamite and Arms.

Fl Paso, Texas June 30-Twenty- eight men were executed in Juarez to- day. according to credited reports, but which were denied by the federal mil itary authorities. The victims are said to be men who were arrested during Saturday and Sunday night in connec- ton with the discovery of dynamite beneath the Juarez federal building and the finding of smuggled arms and ammunition in several residences.
 Federal authorities in Juarez began erecting barricades in the streets to- day to meet the threatened attack of Pancho Villas insurgents.