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The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
FULL CASH VALUE LAW
RAISES QUESTION OF AUTHORITY
FOR CHARGING ASSESSMENTS.
Supreme Justices viii Not Solve
TangIe BY Answering Questions
ProPounded BY State Tax
Commission.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denyer.-Members of the State Tax
Commission will be compelled to in
terpret the laws under which they are
working, occording to an informal
announcement made by Chief Justice
Musser Of the Supreme Court to Gov
ernor Ammons.
Undecided as to what they could do
in the matter of raising and lowering
county assessments, the State Tax
Commission appealed to the Supreme
Court for decision. If any of the as
SCISSORS object to their assessments, it
is probable that the matter will be
taken to the states highest tribunal
for adjudication.
Under the full cash value law a
question arose as to whether the tax
commission could lower assessments
of some counties when it felt that
other counties were not assessed on a
full cash value basis.
The members of the commission are
preparing to go over the books of FL
nance Commissioner Clair ]. Pitcher,
in which the assessed valuation of
property in the downtown district of
Denver is listed. The assessor has
given his consent to the inspection OF
the schedules.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
Big Land Tracts Back to State.

Denver.-In response to Land Com
missioner Hoggatts order that all pro-
moters of Carey act projects should
appear, before the land board and
make proof of work done on their pro-
jects or should forfeit their rights to
segregated land, the Tyrone Canal
Company of Las Animas county sur
rendered to the state the $4,000 acres
segregated for it's project.
This company was capitalized for
s1,OOOOO0, but owing 20 litigation over
the Seven Lakes reservoir site had
been unable to start work on it's pro-
ject. No money had been collected on
it's contracts.
The Blue Mountain Canal Company,
which has a pending application for
177,0OO acres of land in Rio Blanco
and Routt counties, sent notice that it
will abandon its project and dissolve
as a corporation.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
CHECK HAD NO STRINGS.
Schiff Declares He Gave $2,5oo With.
out Any Restrictions.

out Any Restrictions.
Albany, N. Y-Sulzer was free to
use the $500 check given him by ia.
cob H. Schiff, New York banker, in
any way he chose. The banker so de.
clared on the witness stand at the
impeachment trial of the governor.
The designation of the check across
it's back as a contribution to the gov.
ernor's campaign fund, did not restrict
its use to that purpose, Mr.. schiff
said.
Henry Morgenthau, ambassador to
Turkey, formerly chairman of finance
on the national Democratic commit
tee, testified that when he gave the
governor a check for $1,000 "a per
sonal contribution-he placed no limi-
tation on its use. He said, however,
that he had made the gift to help the
governor in his campaign and had
been ''foolishly generous"
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
Eleven Years Since stratton Died.

Denver.-It is eleven years since
the death of Winfield Scott Stratton.
During all these years, according to a
statement made by o. n. Hilton, at
torney for the alleged widow of Strat,
toa, who now lives at Leadville, there
has not been a satisfactory accounting
of nearly s6OOO,OO0 of the estate by
the trustees, in compliance with the
provisions of the will.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
Utilities Bill May Not Be Referred.

Denver.-Wlth the arrest of julius
Goldberg, charged with forging 700
names to the petition to refer the Ala
mosa county pill, and the detention of
Jacob Zeering, the first blow has been
struck at the alleged wholesale forg-
ing of fraudulent names TO petitions
to initiate ana refer bills One of the
immediate results of this action, state
house officials say, will be that the
public utilities bill will not be referred
to the people of Colorado.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
AIlese Foreeries on Petitions.

Denver-Frauds including the forg-
cry of Governor Ammons name and
the placing of illiterate Mexicans' sig
natures on the petitions to refer the
public utilities bill and the measure
creating Alamosa county will be eX-
posed in the investigation started by
the public officials. according to the
opponents of the referendum meas
ures. ....r
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
Three State Examinations Oct. 1s.

Denver.-Notices of three examina-
tions for state positions have been
sent out by the State Civil Service
Commission. The examinations, TO be
held October Is, are for the positions
of bookkeeper, guard at the state peni-
tentiary and teacher of printing. The
examinations may be taken at twenty
five different places throughout the
state.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
Mining Company Incorporates.

Denver.-5The second Incorporation
within two weeks of large mining
company which will operate in Clear
Creek county was registered when
Secretary of State Pearce granted in
corporation papers to the United Free
land Development and Tunnel Compa-
ny, capitalized at $2.O0O,OOO.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
SEGUNDo OFFICER SHOT FROM
HORSE BY THREE STRlk-
ING MINERS.
LARGE REWARD OFFERED
MEN, DlSGUsTED AT VIOLENCE,
IGNORE UNION APPEALS
AND RETURN TO JOBS.
Coal Strike on "Wednesday.

Town marshal of Segundo killed by
three men, who escaped.
Principal operators say their output
was so per cent of normal.
Railroads operating in the southern
field say so per cent. OF the miners are
Miners say detectives hired by the
coal companies are intimidating union
Operators in northern Colorado ap-
peal to officers to prevent "picketing
Operators announce absolute and
uncompromising" conclusion never" to
strikers moving into union tent
camps.
Union announces it will pay strike
benefits as soon as due.
Trinidad, Colo, Sept 25-Robert
Lee, Marshal OF Segundo, was shot
and killed by a group of striking min
ers as they were destroying a camp
foot bridge He swayed from his sad
die, his rifle still in its scabbard, his
jugular vein severed and neck
pierced by load of buckshot fired by
one OF the strikers, said by witnesses
to be Thomas Larrus, a Greek.
In retreating the Greeks fired
twice at John Thompson as be leaned
over the body OF Lee, both shots pass
ing over his head.
Lees slayer and two companions,
all Greeks, armed with a shotgun and
rifles, fled to the nearby hills. All
afternoon and last night an armed
posse, bitter at the first bloodshed of
the coal strike, searched the noun
tains for the murderer. Sentiment
against The strikers has grown intense
,trrl,N h.
A second clash occurred at o'clock
last night. Eight shots were ex-
changed between C. F. G l. Guard L.
E. Fish and an unknown man at Sc
gundo. Fish, in making the rounds of
the town, which has been under extra
police protection since the shooting of
Marshal Robert Lee found the man
prowling about in the rear of black
smith shop. Fish ordered the man to
halt, and without word, the prowler
opened fire. Fish drew his own re-
volver and from behind a corner of
the blacksmith shop fired three times.
The other man fired five times and,
turning, disappeared in the darkness.
Neither of the two was struck by bull
lets.
Posses We're sent from Trinidad, Sc
gundo, Primero and Berwind. Blood
hounds rave been put on the trail and
from late reports the hunted men are
being traced by footprints in the
snow Governor Ammons wored Shep
iff Grisham to spare neither expense
no effort in catching the three men.
Segundo is a camp of 500 miners,
1t is twelve miles west of Trinidad.
Lee was a brother of Jarnet Lee, a
wealthy cattleman of Amarillo, Tex.
He was a direct descendant, it is
claimed, of Robert E. Lee. Lee had
lived in Segundo for the last ten
years. Before that he was employed
on the Maxwell land grant case in
New Mexico.
A reward of $1,000 was offered for
the arrest or for information that
would lead to the arrest of the guilty.
Edwin V. Brake, state labor commits
sioner, went from here as special
envoy of the governor to Segundo to
investigate the trouble.
There were few changes in the as
pect of the strike situation.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
State to Get $4,000 Inheritance Tax.

Denver.-In the event of no protest,
the state will be richer by $16,1iS
as a result of the collection of inheri-
tance tax on the estate left by the late
Moses Hallett, who died April %, ac-
cording to the report in the office of
Leslie Hubbard, state inheritance tax
appraiser.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
To Take Denver Tax War to Courts.

Denver-The members of the State
Tax Commission and Finance Commits
sioner Clair j. Pitcher, ex-officio as
SCISSOR of Denver county, agreed in
conference at the capitol that a law
suit is the only solution of the diff
culties between the Denver assessor
and the state.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

Mrs. C. ]. Walker of indianapolis,
Ind, delivered an address on "The
Negro Woman in Business" at Wash
ington recently. She delivered a simi-
lar address before the Lott Cary Bap-
tist association of the capital city.
Her addresses are given with a view
of encouraging women of her race to
rise above the laundry and kitchen
and to aspire to a place in the world
of commerce and trade. She tells
her own life story as an object lesson,
having started business with $1.50,
and now being worth thousands of
dollars.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
Illinois Mlners Aid Wlth s1oo.oon.

Springfield, Ill. - The executive
board of the Illinois Mine Workers,
in session here, voted to lend 100000
out of their $1,OOO,OOO treasury for the
benefit of the striking miners in Colo
rado.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

Mexico City, MeX.-Federico Gam
boa, minister of foreign affairs, was
nominated for the presidency by the
Catholic party convention. General
Eugene Rascon was nominated for
the vice presidency.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
Henwood to Remain in Denver.

Denver.-Harold f. Henwood will
not be taken to Canon City, to be
kept in solitary confinement until Oc.
tober 27, the date set for his hanging
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

A pistol combined with the tiny
searchlight makes shooting in the
dark sure and simple. The light
projects a pencil-like ray and the bull
let will strike the object on which
the light shines.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

A ten-year-old negro girl will pay
the largest income tax in Oklahoma.
Sarah Rector, who lives just west of
Muskogee, is the girl. Her income
now is more than $4,000 a year.
1t is the old story of a lucky allottee
and the oil well. Sarah is the de-
scendant of a Creek freedman. She
had nothing to do with the selection
of her allotment and probably has
never seen it and does not know
where it is. But it is 160 acres of
land and upon it has been drilled the
biggest producing oil well in the mid
continent field near the town of Cush-
ing. The well is producing over
$4,000 a day and Sarah gets one
eighth of this as her share.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

Breeding cattle and horses from
South Africa have ben sent to Cuba
by an English ranch owner there.
who will experiment with crossing
them with American stock.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

In the opinion of an English scien-
tist the wear of macadam roads is not
due to the suction of automobile tires,
but almost entirely to the crushing eff
feet of horseshoes and iron tired
wheels.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

Wigs of great literary men are cher
ished by some hero worshipers, and
it is on record that the wig which
Sterns wore while writing Tristan
Shandy" was sold soon after his death
for 81 900.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

For frightening burglars there has
been invented a fiashlight that resem-
bles a magazine pistol. but which
shoots ray of light when the trig-
ger is pulled.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

Last year Algeria sent to the Unit
ed States brierwood valued at about
S6S,000, goatskins at $4,000, rags
$21 900 and wine worth $4,000.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

According to official statistics Gov
ering the whole of the German en-
pire. the employers organizations
now number 132,45S members, cover
ing 4,37S,275 workers of both sexes.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

In Russia the majority of strikes
in 1912 Q,216, with 511,300 partici'
pants) were due to politics. The 9th.
er 7O2, with 172,052 participants, had
economic motives affecting them.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

Equality of strength in both arms
occurs almost twice as frequently
with women as with men, more men
than women being stronger in the
right arm than in the left.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

Miss Viola Miller, policewoman in
Ottawa, ILL.,, has the distinction of re
forming that town in one month.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

School lunches are served at
nominal cost to elementary school
children in Al American cities, in 200
English. $50 German and 1.20O French
communities.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

More than 100000 grass hats
were exported to the United States
from the Dutch West Indies during
the third quarter of 1912.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

The stamps of Persia show the lion
and the sun-the lion as a symbol of
power and the sun as an emblem of
the ancient fire worship of the Per-
slams.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

ST. Etienne, France excludes women
with visible hatpins from all public
conveyances and places of entertain.
ment.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

Recent corrections in maps o.
Greenland have added about 150,0 900
square miles to its area.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

A suspension bridge with a main
span 2,700 feet long is proposed for
the Mersey river at Liverpool.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

School teachers in Cincinanti will
soon receive an increase of 10 per
cent in their salaries.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

According to a prominent financial
journal of Paris the consumption of
coffee in the different countries of
the world varies in inverse ratio to
the import duty.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

The Mississippi river is 3,160 miles
long and the Missouri, which empties
into it, is 800 miles long.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

What is known as the polar regions
cover 4,970,265 square miles, and
have 100000 inhabitants.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

Boston has a woman that has won
first prize in 40 vegetable shows dur
ing the past season.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

Hongkong last year imported 1S7,-
900 pounds of ginseng, nearly all from
the United States.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

The graphite deposits of Madagas-
car are to be exploited by a French
company.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

Iron ore mined in 1912 in the
United States amounted to 55,150.1
long tons.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

More than eight per cent. of the
total wealth of the negro race is in
vested in church property. Fifty
years ago, emancipation time, the ne
groes had scarcely any means of re-
ligious development The entire south
contained but 100 negro Sunday
schools, and there were but three in
stitutions of higher learning where a
negro could be trained for the minis
try. There are now 26 theological
schools for negroes. Four large pub
fishing houses devote their entire out
put to the needs of negro churches.
Education of negroes in the south has
shown similar gains. There were less
than 100 schools for negro children
at the close of the war. Now nearly
100000 colored children are enroll
ed in public schools in the south, in
care of $4,000 colored teachers. High
er education has increased CORE
spondingly. In view of these facts
economic advances is to be expected.
The average negro just before the
war was salable at about $500. Now
there are 5000 negroes in the profes-
sions and 10000 engaged in business,
including Ga negro banks. They own
wealth estimated at $700,000,000. 1t is
estimated that a free negro is now
worth $1,000 to his community, five
times his value to his former owner.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

The colored cooks who were a
marked type of southern farm life be-
fore the war are rapidly passing
away. On thousands of plantations
these cooks were born on the place
and remained in service even after
freedom came to them until they
were taken to the little family bury
ing ground for final rest. Occasion
ally one of these old colored cooks
can be found still doing good service.
The average pay for colored cooks
on southern farms is from S. to $s
per month. An exceptionally fine
cook and one who has been in serv-
ice many years sometimes gets as
much as $40, but such wages are
rare. The younger generation of col
ored cooks demand much higher
wages and southern housewives find
themselves compelled to pay from SIS
to s24 per month in order to keep
first-class ervants.-Exchange.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27

The seventy-third annual Indiana
conference of the A. NJ. E. church
was held at Marion, Ind, recently
Bishop Benjamin Franklin Lee Of
Xenia. o., had charge of the confer
ence. The first annual conference in
Indiana was held in little log school
house on Blue river, in Rush county,
in 1910, Bishop Morris Brown OF
Washington presiding. The interven-
ing years have seen the conference
grow from a few churches, scattered
over the state. to nearly 500 churches,
of which Bethel A. M. E. church of
Indianapolis stands at the head. The
state is divided into three conference
districts, namely, the Evansville, Rich
mond and indianapolis, with presiding
elders living in the latter city in
charge of each. The reports made
were encouraging.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

At the Twelfth Regiment armory,
New York, commencing October %
and continuing for ten days, an ex-
position is TO be held to show the ad-
Vancement made by the negro race
in the United States during the last
fifty years. The exposition is also
intended to celebrate the fiftieth an
niversary of the emancipation procla-
nation. 1t is claimed that the eXposi-
tion will represent more than 10000
600 persons in the United States.
The states approval of the exposition
was given in May last when the legis-
lature passed an act appointing the
emancipation proclamation commits
sion, consisting of nine members, all
negroes, and appropriating 900 for
the purposes of the exposition. While
the sum of S25, 900 Is not sufficient to
meet the expenses of the exposition,
contributions made by wealthy ne
groes in variaus parts of the country
guarantee that there can be no fail
ure of the enterprise through lack of
funds. One negro in the south who
owns thirteen plantations and is said
TO be worth not far from S750,000 has
contributed heavily. while large con-
tributions have been made by wealthy
negroes in New York and other cities.
Invitations to attend the exposition
have been sent to every negro of prom
inence in the United States, to a num-
ber of white persons of Importance
and to General Philippe Auguste, the
negro president of Hayti, who, if he
cannot attend in person, will send a
delegation to represent the black re-
public. whose first president was a
negro slave, Touissant IOuverture. A
delegation from Santo Domingo is
also expected and representative
from the government of Liberia
The Delta independent., 1913-12-26
Former Delta
Resident Dies
in Missouri

Franklin Van Deventer, 76 years of
age, and father of E. H. Van Deventer
of this city, died very suddenly at his
home in Hospital No. 8, Nevada, Mis-
souri,, on Tuesday. December 16 last.
Funeral services were held on Decem-
ber Is and burial was in Mount Hope
cemetery at Webb City. Missouri,
where the only other child besides the
one here, Mrs. W. R. Robertson, re-
sides
The deceased was born in Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, where he was
enlisted in the Pennsylvania volun-
teers during the civil war and was at
tached to the Army of the Potomac.
Mrs. Van Deventer died on November
9th of this year.
Franklin Van Deventer and his fam,
lily came to Delta in 1890 and were
we'll known and highly respected resi-
dents for twenty years. He was COM
mander of the local G. A. r. post for
a time.
The Delta independent., 1913-12-26
Falls From q
Load of Hay;
Out All Night

George Mcknight, well known
sheep and stock man of this county,
was thrown from an overturning load
OF hay at point just a short distance
off the main road to Grand Junction
eight miles west of this city last Mon
day evening. and received injuries
which rendered him unconscious Tor
several hours. He lay there in the
snow all that night and until 10 o'clock
the next forenoon, when he was picked
up by travellers on the main highway
and taken to the home OF persons liv-
ing In that vicinity.
Physicians of this city were sum
moned to the scene, and after thor
ough examinations discovered that no
bones had been broken. but that severe
contusions about the body had result
ed. Meningitis toes were badly froz-
en-. and he would doubtless have per-
ished but for an ample supply of warm
clothing worn. He is now getting
along nicely and hopes to be about In
his usual good form inside the next
week or ten days, barring unexpected
Developments
The Delta independent., 1913-12-26
Santa Was In Evidence.

From all parts of Delta county
come reports of gifts given. of feasting
and other appropriate celebration OF
Christmas.
Merchants report large holiday
trade, while the mails we're burdened
with outgoing and incoming packages
Our country having been blessed
with aboundant crops and good mar
kets for the year just closing. old San
tn Claus was even more generous than
usual.
While the more prosperous reveled
in luxurious gifts, attention was also
paid to the poor, who received many
articles Of clothing and food. And this
was the most sacred Of all the days
giving.
The Delta independent., 1913-12-26
Have An Onion.

With a good crop and a good market
an acre of onions will yield almost as
much as an acre OF bearing orchard.
There have been cases in this vicin-
ity where the onion crop off of five
acres brought $4,000, or an average of
$500 per acre. The price obtained was
$50 to $500 per hundred.
From this it must not be concluded
that like results are certain. The year
previous onions were a drug at 80 to
40 cents per hundred, and many that
had been raised and kept through the
winter were spread over the land for
fertilizer.
But the same thing occurs with some
other crops. The same experience has
been bad with potatoes, vegetables,
melons, etc. One season gold mine
another season a loss.
1t remains for the grower to use his
Judgment and take whatever chance
he may wish. Diversified crop farm,
ing however. should not be lost sight
of by any means.
The Delta independent., 1913-12-26

There was quite little excitement
last Saturday evening at about the sup
per hour when several shots were
fired in rapid succession at man
running at full speed down the alley
way between Second and Third streets
from the public bastile by Sheriff
Sampson. and in a very few moments
thereafter a number of people were at
the scene to learn II possible what had
caused the unusual commotion and dis
play OF pistols.
Inquiry revealed the fact that the
officer had just arrested Mexican
forger named Pete Mestos, and when
he released his hold on the prisoner
for single moment in order to turn
on the electric lights the son OF Huerta
chose to make his getaway. He quick
" began a race against time, with bull
lets flying over his heels and over his
head. and was successful in lodging
into some dark corner, where he yet
reposes, perhaps. The officers think
that he is aided by a band OF dark
skinned brothers in his efforts to
dodge the law and its prescriptions for
crime.
A week ago last Saturday Mestos
presented check for ten dollars at
one OF the Delta bakeries, which was
cashed without question. This money
coming so easily. he decided upon fur
ther and greater check doings. He
drew one for s4oT5 on the Delta Ma