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Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14
OPEN THE DOOR

1t is to be hoped that the attorney
for the state educational institutions
will carry out his avowal and press
suit against the executive officers to
prevent their paying salaries to Off
GERS and institutions not created by
statute, and it is to be hoped that the
executive officers at the state house
will respond and carry the war to the
door of the other side. In this way
the taxpayer may have his eyes open
ed to what has been going on for
the past few years. Until now he has
been blinded and led from the trail
by the false calls of political pala-
yer.
State expenses have increased ap-
proximately 100000 year in the
last three fiscal years.
Positively there is no excuse for
this. Population has not increased
in anything like that ration; business
has not increased, generally speaking,
to any extent. The state house is
over run with boards, commissions
and courts and their employees. state
institutions are not practicing economy
and the watchdog of the treasury
has been asleep for four years.
And worse remains behind. The
recent legislative assembly undertook
to put the state on a "full-cash-valua
ton" basis and this unerringly will
lead to increased revenues and expen-
ditures.
A halt must be called. The state
treasury is in bad way and people
are crying aloud all over Colorado
against the tax inquisition at the
state house.
An airing IN the courts may be the
first step at real reform.-Denver
News.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14
TWO GOVERNORS WHO
WILL NOT ATTEND

MADISON, Wis, Aug. 11.-"When
the cats away the mice will play.n
is good law in Mother Goose and eyi.
IDENTIFY Gov. Lee Cruce includes Lieu.
tenant governors in the category with
mice in Oklahoma. He has notified
Secretary Miles Riley of the govern-
ors' conference, which will be held this
month in Colorado Springs, Colo, that
he desires to cancel his engagement
on the ground that if he leaves the
state his lieutenant governor may
seize the opportunity to perform
executive acts not in harmony with
the Cruce program.
Governor Cox of Ohio has also ask
ed to be excused on the ground that
he wants to use the time to hold a
heart to heart talk with his people OH
the merits of certain referendums on
recent legislation.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14
A SMALL SNUB FOR A GREAT
EXPOSITION.

What is called an apparently inspir-
ed statement with regard to the Brit
ish governments nonparticipation in
the Panama Pacific exposition in San
Francisco disclaims that sore feeling
over the Panama canal controversy
as cause, and declares that the re-
fusai has no other reasons behind
it than those of expense and the i'm
possibility of getting together wor-
thy collection at a place SO distant" /"
The reasons given are not so small
as the ones first suggested, but neither
are they very large, says an eastern
paper. The saving cannot be of criti-
cal Importance, the objection on the
score of time is hardly insuperable,
the distance should not be appalling
to an empire that stretches round the
world and that has felt able to par
ticipate in distant fairs before now.
Furthermore, Great Britain's business
connections with our Pacific coast are
of considerable magnitude already and
are well worth extending. And not
only will the event to be celebrated
be of worldwide Importance, the re-
alization, as we have said, of the
dream of centuries, but it will make a
very special appeal to business. There
is to be an epoch-making drawing to-
gether of the nations by the greatest
of engineering feats, transportation
for large part of the globe is to be
revolutionized, trade is to receive a
new impulse.
As for San Francisco, it is doing
its part nobly. 1t has pledged itself
by subscriptions much in excess of
those at Chicago and st. Louis. "
has chosen splendid site for the ex-
position, its plans are magnificent,
the work of construction has been
started, there is the promise that ev-
eIything will be in readiness at the
time of the opening.
We commend to our own people the
example of Italy rather than that OF
Great Britain. Not only has the ltal-
ian government made an appropria-
tjur, but it is reported to be for the
fair heart and soul, 1t is to be feared,
as London paper suggests, that the
decision, of Great Britain "betokens
lack Of imagination and enterprise
II is neither good sentiment nor good
business.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14
JAPAN TURNS DOWN
MEXICAN MINISTER

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 12.--
The state department today admits
making progress for peace in Mexico.
Envoy Lind is keeping the president
advised by wireless and cable. The
tension is lessened and no further fear
is entertained that Lind's life is en-
dangered.
Mexican Foreign Minister Gamboa
is scheduled to receive O'Shaughnessy
probably this afternoon when the lat
ter explains Linds status, which ex-
presses Americas desire for peace.
The conference is expected to pave
the way to further negotiations.
The chief difficulty is Lind's in
structions not to recognize Huerta as
president of Mexico.
Charge d'Affaires O'Shaughnessy
and Mediator Lind this afternoon re-
ported directly to the president that
the city is quiet and the situation en-
couraging.
A Toxic dispatch received at Mex
leo City says the government has an
nounced it could not receive Diaz.
The official reason assigned is that
''the mikado is out of the city, at a
summer resort with his family" This
is regarded here and at Mexico City
as a polite way Of stating by the
Japanese government that Diaz is not
wanted. The open suggestion that
Mexico City recently commissioned
Diaz to negotiate secret offensive and
defensive treaty and his displeased
Japan. 1t is stated authoritatively
that the relations between Japan and
America were never friendlier.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14
8 CITIES IN FIGHT
FOR NEXT CONCLAvE

DENVER, Aug. 11.-Campaigns by
Los Angeles, New York and San Fran
cisco to get the 1916 Templar con-
clave started today, though the con-
clave does not open until tomorrow.
San Francisco and Los Angeles are
believed to have the best chance and
both are active.
The San Francisco commandery, 200
strong, arrived here this morning.
Fifty of it's members are mounted
on black horses, the only mounted
Templars here.
Fifty special trains arrived between
midnight and noon today and thirty
more are scheduled to arrive this aft
ernoon.
The city is like military camp
with Templars marching and drilling
everywhere.
By midnight tonight it is expected
that 100000 visitors will be in Denver
to attend the conclave. Since Sunday
morning special and regular trains,
crowded with knights and their ladies
have been arriving at the union sta
tion at the rate of one every eight
minutes.
Each arriving ocmmandery is being
escorted to headquarters by uniformed
Sir Knights headed by bands. To-
night the members of the grand en-
campment, headed by Grand Master
Melish, will be entertained at re-
ception given by Denver commandery
No. 25, and Colorado commandery No.
l, both of Denver. Band concerts will
be given at City park and at the spe-
cially erected temporary stadium this
afternoon and evening.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14
GOVERNOR SULZER
MAY BE IMPEACHED

ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 12.-This
state faces the possibility of having
two rival governors.
Last night Assemblyman Levy in
troduced in the special session of the
legislature a resolution charging Gov
ernor Sulzer with high crimes, mis-
demeanors and proposing impeach-
ment. If the motion passes the as
sembly the speaker will appoint a
board of managers to conduct the i'm
peachment trial in the senate.
Sulzer will then be temporarily out
of office and Lieutenant Governor
Glynn acts. If the senate vindicates
Sulzer he will resume office, but if
he is impeached Glynn will fill the
rest of the term.
Governor Sulzer says special ses-
aion can not impeach him legally and
If the resolution passes he will ig-
nere it and issue orders anyway.
Assemblyman Levy expects to call
up the resolution at this afternoons
session and a bitter fight is promised.
Last night the Tammanyites who
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14
DIGGS TRIAL is RESUMED.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12.--Enor-
NOUS crowds stormed Van Fleets
court before the resumption of the
nlggs' trial in anticipating the ap-
pearance of Martha Warrington, wno
is expected to reveal the details of
her relations with Diggs. Only forty
Of the curious were permitted to enter
the court room. Society women, Bar
barry coast deniZens and merchants
formed the mob.
]. B. Hillshouse, chief of police If
Reno, testified he arrested Diggs,
Caminetti and the two girls in bun
galow at Reno. He found the quar-
tette partly undressed. En- route to
the depot, Diggs said: ats up tn
yon girls whether we go to the pen.'
Miss Warrington replied: "Well stan
by you"
John McNab, ex-United States dis
trict attorney, was next called to the
stand to identify certain government
exhibits.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14
element Of the Socialist party to quit
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Shafroth has played the game of
politics so long that he knows it from
A to 2. When the sugar question was
before the senate finance committee
Honest john" with tears in his eyes,
said the removal of the duty on sugar
would cause great loss to Colorado
farmers, and during the debate Of
fered several amendments and for
two or three weeks held out against
the administration. 1t appears, how
ever, that he was simply playing his
well known tactics. Suddenly he an
nounced he had to stay with his party
caucus, barbarian proposition, in
stead of Colorado. Result: He wins
easily in way of landing fat appoint
ments. The power of patronage won
the day. Thomas, the weakling from
the first, is not in it when it comes
to playing the game. For four years
Shafroth played it in Colorado. He
played it so well that in the four
years treasury surplus of nearly
half million dollars was turned into
deficit of the same amount with a
million or more of unpaid appropria-
tions, the new boards and bureaus and
hundreds of useless employees requir-
ing the money that used to go to
educational and other beneficial insti-
tutions.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14
AGAINST THE MIDLAND TRAIL.

The following Denver special to the
Denver News indicates that for the
good of the state Grand Junction must
be cut out so far as being on the di-
rect coast-to-coast highway:
81 am not opposed to the Mid
land trail or rather to the Indiana |
Automobile road going through Grand
Junction." said Highway Commission
er Ehrhardt this morning. What l
have said it that the desert road west
of Mack is thought to be impractic-
able by the people who crossed it in
the Indiana Automobile tour. / under
stand there is an effort being made
to run the road north from Fruita
and catch the Vernal route. If this
is done l think it would be good
route for the automobile tourists. The
trouble is the Indiana automobilists|
are not in favor of the Midland trail
over the desert. They would rather
go down some populated valley, and
unless we can arrange to change the
route so as to miss that undesirable
portion around Mack we may lose
the route either to New Mexico or to
Wyoming. Colorado has four good
routes across the state. Either of
them would furnish an immense am
cunt of scenery and dandy good
trail. Three of these routes end at
Grand junction and go west from
there. All three of them are subject
to the bad roads in Utah and to the
desert country unless the road can be
| turned north at Fruita or some other
point and strike the Vernal route.
As / understand it, Utah is in pretty
much the same condition that Colo
RADIO is in. She has three of four
| routes and there is jealousy between
her people over which route shall be
used The Indiana association is in
sisting that a decision be made at
once as they want to begin work I'M
mediately. This is the reason for all
the worry and trouble over the mat
ter"
The facts are Colorado stands a
| good chance of losing the road en-
tirely unless an agreement is soon
reached. The entire trouble comes
from the fact that there is desert
stretch of country around Mack, Utah,
of nearly a hundred miles which the
managers of the Indiana automobile
tour have refused to traverse. The
Colorado people are trying to avert
this and it can only be done by going
west from point several miles to
the north of Grand Junction. There
are two solutions to this, either to
cross the state on what is known as
the Vernal route through Steamboat
Springs or to go north from point
west of Grand Junction and connect
with this route.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

It cannot be said that the inter-
state commerce commission has been
rash or impulsive in ordering reduc-
tions in express rates. The report
just issued is based on prolonged in
vestigation and study. 1t affirms the
findings of former commissioner OF
known ability and moderation. 1t is,
no doubt, indirectly based on elabo-
rate reports of chambers of com
merce and other leading trade bodies
which submitted evidence to the COM
mission to support charges of exces-
sive rates, of chaotic classifications,
of double charges, of discrimination,
and SO on. Moreover, the order is lin
tied to a period of two years. The
reduced rates are in sense expert
mental. An actual test may lead to
revision upward or downward.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

Let the cause be what it may, the
statistics are conclusive of the truth
that the socialist party has lost nearly
$4,000 dues-paying members in the
past year. On top of this is the sus-
pension of several Socialist news
papers and the merging of many of
those that have survived so as to
preserve some channels of publication
for the doctrines of the party. The
Chicago Daily Socialist, the Coming
Nation and the Cleveland Socialist
have passed into the graveyard of
buried hopes, while the Washington
National Socialist and the Appeal to
Reason have consolidated with the
thought of saving something from the
mutual wreck. Between dead and
dying party organs and fast de-
creasing membership, socialism, as in
terpeted by the national organization,
seems to be running down hill at a
rapid gait, says the Denver News.
The Herald will add that the reason
is very easily guessed. Too many
Haywoods and l. W. WIS preaching
anarchy is causing the respectable
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14
WANTS FANS TO WITHHOLD
JUDGMENT ON CHAPPELL

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. IL
Manager Callahan of the Chicago
White Sox today asked the fans Of
the country to suspend judgment on
Larry Chappell his $4,000 beauty"
until the recruit outfielder has had an
opportunity to display his worth.
at is unfair for the baseball crit
les to condemn Chappell so early in
the game" said Callahan. mo wise
baseball man will do it. He has made
good to date and will improve, but
receiving the publicity he did is not
going to help him. We will have to
wear off what you might have to call
a stigma and may not look like a
wonder at any time this season."
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

The following from the Record-Her-
aid comedies with what The Herald
has been saying: Ambassador Will
son, whose resignation has been ac-
cepted, goes out of office with char
acter furnished some time since by
former President Taft. That his job
was not an easy one is clear enough,
and Mr.. Taft should be better inform
ed than most of his countrymen as
to the way in which he acquitted
himself. But his .bubbling over as he
did on the road to Washington con-
ferences suggested to the common
mind that his diplomacy needed riv-
eting up bit, and, Of course, it would
be both incongruous and dangerous
for him to attempt to act thenceforth
officially for an administration whose
policies are opposed to his own"
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

Instead of paying farmers one thou
sand dollars per month as at present
it will not be long until the manage
ment will be issuing checks for two
and three times as much. In the long
run we expect to be able to print
something like the following: 1.-The
San Juan creamery paid out ten thou
sand dollars for the month of June
to the farmers of La Plata, Monte
yuma and San Juan county, New Mex
ico." Why not. With Intensified
farming there will be ten cows sup
plying the creamery where there is
one at present.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14
HEAT OvERCOMES
TEMPLARS IN DENvEvR

DENVER, Aug. 1.-THE day dawn
ed clear and cool, an ideal parade
day. Anticipating the altitude would
overcome some of the Templars, doc
tors and nurses were stationed at
downtown hotels.
The triennial committee announce
that every hotel is packed. Four thou
sand visitors are compelled to live in
Pullman cars, quartered in the yards.
Three persons were overcome by
heat and one victim by accident during
the parade, but none are serious.
Cleveland, Cincinnati and Detroit
Communicates made the biggest hit of
the parade which started at 1880 and
did not finish until afternoon.
Twenty-Five thousand viewed the
procession from the grandstand, most
of them women.
This afternoon fifty-fve massed
bands paraded, playing Onward
Christian Soldiers"
Seventeen drill teams representing
all parts of the United States today
began the greatest competitive mill
tary exhibition ever held at con-
clave of the Knights Templar. The
spectacle was the most brilliant pre-
sented since the thirty second trien-
nial of the conclave began. The larg-
est lumber of teams entered in any
previous conclave was eight. 1t will
require two days of drilling to dispose
of all the maneuvers and evolutions
on the program.
To the best drilled team will go the
coveted solid silver twelve gallon
punch bowl with thirty cups and ladle.
1t is worth $4,000 and is one of the
largest made. 1t is beautifully en-
graved and etched with scenes of Colo
rado. The second prize, silver low
ing cup four feet high, cost $2,5OO.
There are a dozen other magnificent
prizes. The competing drill teams are
from every point in the United States.
The official banquet of the grand
encampment will be held tonight at
Ell Jebel temple. 1t will be given
by the local conclave committee.
Plates for several hundred at $3.50
per plate have been arranged for.
This evening the famous battalion
drill corps Of Detroit commandery No.
l will give an exhibition at the sta
dium. The Detroit organization is the
best known drilling association in the
country. Fifty-one of the knights
are more than six feet tall. They
cannot compete for prizes, state law
prohibiting it. One Of tonight's fea-
lures will be a concert by a cowboy
band Of 100 pieces from Fort Dodge,
Kas., the same that led the parade in
the Templar conclave held in Denver
twenty-ons years ago.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

Huerta is proving to be just what
we have always held, a murderous
william. The United States only wants
peace but if the murderer gets too
gay drastic measures will have to be
employed, but it is shame to think
of the possible bloodshed such man
can bring about. AS we have pre-
viously stated. one American life is
worth thousand of the Huerta fol-
lowing
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14
CONGRESSMAN TO SEND
ANSWERS BY CABLE

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. IL
Congressman Bartholdt wrote the
house lobby committee from Germany
offering to answer by cable any ques-
ton asked regarding the manufac-
turers' association. He denied that
the manufacturers association ever in
fluenced him, said he never regarded
Mulhall seriously "but as messenger
boy for leaders of the association.
The congressman added that he had
never dignified him with any dis
cussion of pending bills"
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

are opposing Sulser mustered only
sixty-four votes of the seventy-three
required to impeach. A hurry call
was sent to all absentees today. At
o'clock this afternoon the session
had not started.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

II Coloradoans had voted for men
to protect their interests at Wash
inRton the story would be different.
Two Colorado protection senator's
would BE- worth many million dollars
to this state and save the people from
being Disseminated against in favor
~ the east, especially New Jersey
y provided for in the Underwood
nsasurs.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

We see by the Saturday Evening
Post that San Franciscans are still
busy denying they had an earthquake
out there. But they won't let that
Interfere with collecting the cur
rency from tourists who visit their
exposition.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

Ambassadors are not diplomatic
when they talk too much. 1t requires
clean-cut close mouthed individual
to be good foreign representative.
In fact, this applies to most every
kind of business.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

The New Mexico law giving the
county seats of the different coun-
ties $500 annually from the county
treasury for fair purposes, has been
declared unconstitutional. Thus the
Aztec-Farmington fight over the mat
ter is settled.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

Prince Albert of Monaco, head of
the great gambling establishment at
Monte Carlo, expects to spend sew
eral weeks in New York next fall.
We have every reason. therefore, to
believe that most of the money will
be circulated in this country again.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

After careful consideration of pro-
posed regulations of bathing costu-
mes, and comparing them with the
atrical costumes, old Harvey Parsons
of the Topeka State Journal, has de-
cided it is indecent to expose the fe-
male form in public place without
charging admission.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

Every time you send out to some
eastern department store ask the out
fit to send donation for good roads,
adding that with SO many sending out
that local merchants are unable to
keep up the streets and county roads
in the manner they should be.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

1t is hoped the Chinese rebellion
won't last as long as the Mexican
variety, but it is faint hope. They
have an awful lot of raw material
in China.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

If the Industrial workers were run
out of the country labor interests
would be far better off. The fact
that any strike is led by the l. w. WIS
at once loses the sympathy of nine
tenths of the people.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

John Lind, the newly appointed am
bassador to Mexico, will if he is a
prudent man take shirt of mail or
something of the kind with him when
he steps into his new office.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

Johns Hopkins hospital specialists
announce that appendicitis is caused
by gloomy spirits. Now, we had sup
posed it was just the other way about,
but when it comes to juggling with
cause and effect, the public never
can hope to find the pea under the
right shell.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

We are pleased that State Auditor
Kennehan favors placing all state
institutions under one head The
Herald has claimed right along that
the different boards have been expen-
sive for Colorado.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14
The Best Pain KiIl.r.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve when

buckien's Arnica Salve when applied
to cut, bruise, sprain, burn or scald
or other injury of the skin will imme.
diately remove all pain. E. E. Cham.
berlain of Clinton, Me-, says: 1T robs
cuts and other injuries of their ter.
rors. AS healing remedy it's equal
don't exist" Will do good for YOU.
Only Csc at all druggists.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

The government gives an average
yield of wheat per acre this year of
16 bushels. In the San Juan basin the
yield will average at least 25 bushels
to the acre.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

There appears to be reason to fear
that the fusion in New York is inn
perfect, owing to the fact that the
leaders, in spite of the plain warning
carried by the name, failed to strike
while the iron was hot.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14
When the country merchant is D

When the country merchant is put
out of business by the city depart
ment stores the farmer will feel the
effect to such an extent that he will
pray for a return to the good old
days when the country store keeper
took his surplus supplies.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

Another thing which we find hard
to understand is how Anthony Com
stock manages to reside in New York
while the present issue of disphanous
drapery for the female form is in
general circulation. His life must be
one continuous round of shocks.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-08-14

The slit "nightie" is the newest fad.
We had supposed that women who
care for style in such garments had
long since discarded the "nightie" for
paismas.