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Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND THE
REFERENDUM.

Some of these initiative and refer
endum Chickens" are coming home to
roost. When the law was passed four
years ago, about rs per cent of the
people of this state seemed to be
crazy over the initiative and referen-
dunn.
They seemed to think if they could
only get this law passed that then
we would have in Colorado Utopia
They likewise appeared to believe that
the initiative and referendum would
only be used for the purpose of pro-
noting very useful and valuable and
necessary legislation demanded by the
people. 1t never seemed to enter the
minds of the people that the corpora
tions could use the initiative and ref
erendum as well as other people.
After much tribulation and long de-
bate the legislature last winter passed
public utilities bill providing in
sweeping terms for the control of all
public utilities through commission
appointed by the governor. This law
while elastic, was apparently the best
way out of the situation for the con-
troll of railways and other public util-
tiles. 1t was largely the work of
Judge Tnlly Scott before he went on
the bench.
But nc sooner had 1t passed than it
raised storm of protest. Curious
enough, this protest does not come so
much from the railways or some of
the other large utilities as il does
from small companies The state wide
companies concluded that they would
rather be regulated by one commits
sion in Denver than be obliged to
deal with commission in every town
in the state.
Yesterday, however, a petition of
10000 names was filed with the sec
retary of state demanding that this
utilities bfll be referred to the people.
The effect of this will be To hold up
the public utilities bill until after the
next general election. The names sign
ed to the petition were almost wholly
from northern Colorado and were the
result of the activity of irrigation com
panies who do not believe they should
come under the public utilities law;
and of small light and power plants
who believe that the commission un-
der the utilities law would have power
to compel them to cease business. At
least it would not permit new COM
panies to enter the field and COM
pete.
Thus the public utilities law is held
up and from a source which il was
not believed it would come. One thing
is left. Governor Ammons may call
special session of the legislature to
pass law which under the supreme
courts decision cannot be referred TO
the peoDle. That will be an emergency
law. The special session will cost
from $4,000 to $4,000 The lepisla-
tors. will ret their mileage, but mas
much as they are paid by the year
tney get no extra compensation. But
clerk hire and printing and all the
rest Of the expense will go on.
But this serves as a good illustra-
tion bf how the initiative and referen-
dim works both wavs The very peo-
pie who wanted that law also wanted
the public utilities law. But they do
not want the public utilities law re-
ferred to the people, for It would take
time and they feared the result.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21
FREE ENTERTAINMENT
OF ILLUSTRATED SIIDES

A free evening entertainment con-
slstlng of illustrated school anu iA,nl
talks by the principal of the fosSr
Lewis school of agriculture and v,neiA
will be given in the school house ..
other suitable room that you an ,oaf
neighbors may select. In ado.t.uA 10
the illustrated talks above meht.uned
we have colored views of the urand
Canyon of the Colorado river, e.luy
stone park, Switzerland, Japan aid
seventy-hve views taken in Il trip
around the world.
Remember that a good stereopticon
is used and that the entertainment
is free except that the community
is asked to furnish a room m whien
to hold the meeting and board Tor
one or two persons and possibly
team for day or less.
If you wish one of these meetings
write to the principal of the Folt
Lewis School of Agriculture, .Iesper-
us, Colo, at once.
Views of the Fort Lewis buildings
and stock together with views of road
building, dairying, school consolida-
ton, beet growing, ETC., are shown
each night.
The Fort Lewis School of Agricul-
ture is the place for your boy.
Ask for one of the above mentioned
meetings and then come and hear
about the school and see the pictures.
Write for one of the new catalogues
that will be ready soon.
The following arrangement can be
made where number of farmers de-
sire it;
First evening-Illustrate talks, The
dairy herd and the dairy, The sio,
Good roads, School consolidation, The
Fort Lewis School of Agriculture.
Following day-Farmers' picnic,
Readings, recitations and short talks.
Second evening-Illustrate talks,
Around the World in Eighty Minutes,
The Grand canyon of the Colorado
river, Yellowstone park, Colorado
scenery. The slides are beautifully
colored.
If you wish the above program write
to the principal of the Fort Lewis
School of Agriculture, Hesperus,
Colo, at once.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21
CONFIDENT THAT
MRS. STRATTON is IMpOSTOR

COLORADO SPRINGS, July IT,
The trustees of the Stratton estate
and the attorneys for them assert that
they have no fear of the outcome of
the suit filed by Mrs. S. G. Kennedy
of Leadville, who claims she was
Stratton's only legitimate wife.
The trustees assert they can prove
by any number of pioneers of the
Pixies Peak region that Stratton carnc
to Colorado Springs two years before
Mrs. Kennedy claims to have become
his wife in Texas, in 1874 to tho San
Luis valley in company with +. L.
Rouse, former county commissioner
and well known automobile dealer of
this citcy.
we can bring scores of Colorado
Springs men into court who win swear
that Stratton was in Colorado Springs
at the very time Mrs. Kennedy saws
she married him in Texas" said one
Of the Stratton estate attorneys To-
day.
William Jenkins, a pioneer mining
man of this city, some time ago m.de
statement to the attorneys Of the
estate, to the effect that he was room
ing with Stratton and that they were
sleeping in the same room at the
time Mrs. Kennedy claims the we'd
ding was performed in Texas.
One bit Of evidence collected by tAs
estate is the certified copy of . con-
tract between Mrs. Kennedy and r. Z.
Parker OF Texas who, Mrs. Kennedy
says, Will swear that he issued the u
cense to Stratton to marry hsr, in
which she promises Parker one-fpirth
o. Whatever she gets Il he will hslR
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21
WILL ASK GRAND JURY
INVESTIGATE DIVORCE DECREE

CHICAGO. July 17.-State's Attor-
ney Hoyne today announced he will
ask the July grand jury investigate
the fraud and collusion charged in
the procurement of William Guggen-
heim's divorce here in 1901. The
statutes OF limitations prevent prose-
cution of the Chicago lawyers involv-
ed, but doesn't save the New York
LAWYERS,
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

A good many states are consider
ing the initiative and referendum. For
their own sakes we trust they will
look at the example which we have
had in Colorado OF the workings of
this law before they adopt it, 1t is
now being tried on the dog and it Is
causing much confusion and great ex-
pense. We can wish for no other state
the painful. laborious and expensive
process of working out her political
salvation which Colorado is now un-
dergoing.-Coiorado Springs Tele-
graph.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21
DESPONDENT DENVER
MAN SHOOTS SELF

DENVER, July Nv. L. SHELTON,
aged 45, went to his chicken house
last night and shot himself, after writ
ing the following note to his wife:
you drove me to it. I'm crazy. Go
to Elliott's office and get $50 to put
me away or feed me to your chickens.
My body will be in the chicken house.
You are having a good time while l
do the deed. You went away to the
park without saying anything"
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21
MEXICAN SITUATION
-. is GROWING TENSE

MEXICO CITY, July 17.-Ambas-
sador Wilson departed from here last
night and is in Vera Cruz today. He
reaches Washington July 23. There
is considerable suppressed excitement
in this city.
The American embassy today issued
q statement declaring that the am
bassador's trip is solely to place be-
fole the administration the exact in
formation regarding the Mexican sit
uation. The statement said the min
lister expects to return within two
weeks.
Despite Berlin denials, it is believed
that Germany has formally demanded
that America protect foreign prop
erty in Mexico and this caused the
ambassadors trip to Washington. 1t
is generally believed here that Will
son will not return.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

~ q
Senator McCumber of North Dakota
opened the Republican assault on the
Democratic tariff revision bill in the
senate, defending the farmers of the
copRtry against the free listing or
great reduction in tariff rates on
agricultural products, and charging
the Democratic party with deliberate
ly kicking the American farmer into
the gutter. In this year 1913," said
Senator McCumber, addressing the
Democrats, "you are about to commit
a greater crime against the farmer
than has ever been perpetrated by
any political party against any class
Of people during any period of re-
corded history" The tariff bill, SEN
ator McCumber declared, seemed to
have been conceived in animosity
against every American industry that
needed protection" with the American
farmer as "the special object of his
choler and hate" ~
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

ut seems to me-" said Speaker
Clark in his statement to the senate
lobby committee, that when Mr.. Led
yard found out that Senator Stones
name and mine were being banded
about by Lamar, the pseudo Palmer
and Lauterbach, he ought to have let
me know" A great many people
must feel by this time that the lobby
investigation is developing a lot Of
queer things. If the melodramatie in
formers and go-betweens had as much
influence as they pretend with the
Napoleons of finance and trade we
should back rube against Napoleon
every day in the week, remarks the
Record Herald. And some of the let
ters and testimony published are GER
tainly evidence Of childlike conf
dence in all too obvious stage villains.
At this rate the genius for organiza-
tion would soon need guardian.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

ATHENS, July 1S.-The secretary
of the French legation from here is
en- route to the section where the
Greeks charge the retreating Bulgar-
ians with devastating the country and
committing horrible atrocities.
The war office here, basing its state
ment on personal reports from King
Constantine, charges that the Bulgars
outraged wives and daughters before
husbands and fathers and then ere
mated them. They massacred thou
sands. The statement asserts that at
Doiran thirty thousand Musselmen
were butchered, their bodies mutilated,
their ears and noses cut off. Burned
homes and corpses mark the path of
the retreating Bulgars.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

EAGLE PASS, Tex, July 17.-Of-
fetal records of the American consul
late at Piedras Niegras, Mexico, We're
removed to the American side of the
border last night.
1t is reported that plot to dyna-
mite the consulate and assassinate
Consul Luther Ellsworth was discov-
cred. Ellsworth spent last night at
the army post here.
The consul refused to discuss the
report he telegraphed Washington, de-
failing the plot.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

In view of the fact that congress
proposed to rush the tariff measure
through, it has taken quite awhile.
The congressional idea of rush, we
may add, is getting down to work at
IN o,c1ocE
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Every now and then strike of rail-
way trainmen or engine men seems
eminent, but, like the great Euro
pean war, it doesn't happen. With a
controversy now nearing a climax on
eastern lines, we take the precaution
Of knocking wood.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Should the employees of the various
railroads unite in general strike
people in general would experience the
worst suffering in history. To shut
off the food supplies of any of the
large cities for even forty-eight hours
means a shortage in most Of the ne
cessities. In fact, should strike of
the proposed dimensions take place
In the east, the government would
be compelled to take an immediate
hand.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Denver walters threaten strike II
not paid more wages According to
figures published in Mondays Repub-
lican the new scale is not half enough,
the hotel and restaurant proprietors
leaving the public TO make up the
deficiency There is no reason why
walters should not be paid decent
wages and the tipping farce cut out.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Senator Borah is looming up as the
next Republican nominee for presi-
dent He is the real ideal for the po-
sition. The Herald would rather sup
port him than any man in the country
at this time.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21
BALKAN OUTRAGES
WORST IN HISTORY

LONDON, July 18.-Greece. Rou-
mania and Servia have agreed upon
concerted operations to crush Bulgaria.
they are determined to refuse armis-
tees and enter Sofia. Greeks and
Roumanians are enraged at the latest
Bulgarian atrocities.
The. Roumanian troops are but thir-
ty miles from Sofia, and may enter
the city tomorrow.
NJ. Radestavoff, the liberal leader,
has been appointed premier of Bul,
garia and Immediately formed cabi-
net.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

W. D. Hoover of Denver is wasting
valuable energy on Thomas and Shat
roth. They are welded to the loaves
and fishes. The time to intervene is
at the next election. Then place the
kibosh on Thomas and follow it up
when Shafroth bobs up later.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Ben Lindsey has been an ardent adj
vocate of the recall. Should it be in
voked in his case it would not be quite
go funny But recall election means
expense with no results as the "boy's
judge" will win out hands down.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21
! KILLED AND ONE
INJURED IN BRAWL

PUEBLO, July 17.-One man was
killed and one seriously injured in a
gun fight between Mexicans this morn
ing following drunken brawl. Peter
Pacheco. aged 3S, and Christ Sapolo
were found injured after the fight, the
former dying two hours later in local
hospital. Sapolo's condition is re-
garded critical.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Bryan's money earning craze is not
satiated with public office and he
has commenced lecturing for filthy
lucre again. Bryan is reported to
be worth in the neighborhood of half
a million of dollars.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21
NINE ARE DEAD FROM
HEAT IN OMAHA

OMAHA, July 17.--Nine deaths
from heat resulted yesterday when a
maximum of 104 1-5 was reached here.
Showers west of the Mississippi broke
the hot spell. The highest tempera-
ture officially recorded yesterday was
at Clay Center, Kas., 112.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

The interstate commerce commits
sion has reported that the New York.
New Haven and Hartford railroad
ought to have paid a dividend of 8
per cent to its stockholders instead of
showing deficit. This is one way of
cutting Mellen.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

America, an Industrious statistician
informs us, has the largest floating
population Of any nation in the world.
This probably is due to the American
tendency to keep on going in search
of something better ~
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

"One should" highbrow health
ograms this department, "wear a
smile in hot weather." And one might
il he could let it go at that, but the
conventionalities demand a more ex-
tensive raiment.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

While the British suffs starve them
selves out of prison with considerable
regularity, the problem of feeding
them is no strain on the exchequer.
No great loss without some gain.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

A st. Louis man who had lost his
savings specializing in grain tried to
kill himself as warning to others.
The Kuhn brothers of Pittsburg are
not adopting any such methods for
the purpose of warning reckless bank
ers
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21
II. II. STRIKE SITUATION
FAR FROM PLEASANT

NEW YORK, July 1.-THE eastern
railroad strike situation is grave to-
day. The railroads insist their de-
mands Of employees be arbitrated the
same as the employer demands.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Fresh air, exercise, simple food, r
tranquil mind and friend or two viii
keep one young" saws John D. Rookie
feller. The only difficulty is in hav-
ing tranquil mind while the cost OF
living continues to increase.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

The person who calls himself David
Lamar insists that his object was to
abolish the evils of Wall street. An
other case in which the cure was worse
than the disease.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

A Massachusetts, motorist killed
himself because his car ran down and
killed plain plug pedestrian. But
only few of the new 1913 models
are equipped with consciences like
fhof
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Mulhall played no favorites. Re-
publicans, Democrats, labor leaders.
All looked alike to him SO they came
through with the coin.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

The move to make Denver an "open'
city is meeting with general resent
ment from very large number o.
citizens.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Directors of the Metropolitan Opera
company are engaged in trying to kick
Oscar Hammerstein's legendary high
hat out of the ring. 1t will take some
steam.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

President Wilson and his followers
are taking all kinds of falls out of
the farmers but we do not hear of
any falls being taken out of the
fruafs
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Yes, the poor farmer should be rel
elgated to the rear. He has no right
to live any way. Let the binding twine
trust take all the profits.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

McReynolds is not a drawing card
on the Pacific coast. Neither is Bry-
an, Wilson nor any of the admins
tration crowd
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

ington should soon be shipping early
peaches, at least to supply the Du-
ranRo market.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Turkey is reported to be in con-
ference with the Greeks and Servians,
working in unison against the Bull
Rarians.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Many members of the trainmen's
committee favor ending negotiations
and striking Immediately. sa
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Of Quay and Penrose, up to the ears
in protection aIl along the tariff line
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Sunday was sure enough death
day on railroads throughout tn
country. tts so Etf.ft
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Instead Of the Terrible Turk" it i
now the terrible Bulgars."
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Before aiming kick at Hon. L:n-
terbach Senator Stone of Missouri
carefully removed his rubbers.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

William Randolph Hearst is hot on
the trail of President Wilson and his
secretary of state, William J. Bryan.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

"The whole Wall street jurisdiction
Is made up Of falsehood," says Mr..
Lamar, who felt perfectly at home in
his environment.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Since Jane Adams has declined to
become d candidate for mayor Of Chi
cago Carter Harrison can see no rea.
son why he should worry. Ns.as.p+l
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

The way in which '1ie" is being
hurled at Mulhall his ears must have
continual tingle.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

The Balkan soldiers have added
chewing gum to the chocolate Bernard
Shaw equipped them with. w
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

The Pittsburg gambling den the en-
trance TO which was a sewer can
scarcely escape the charge Of using
underground methods. nc
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Grand Junction made It's hrst ship
ment Of peaches the other dAy. Farm
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

Colorado will get a-plenty Of "Hon-
est john" He is proving a weak
sister.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

One thing about Mulhall, he was no
respecter Of persons or Of labor and
capital in his dealings as lobbyist.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

The Japs and Mexicans are At a,
sociates. They should be cooped t.
'gether. IS it9
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21
BULGARIA ATTACKED
BY THREE NATIONS

LONDON, July 17.-Greeks, Serv-
ians and Roumanians are closing in
on Bulgaria. Belgrade reports that
Servian troops have stormed Julika-
mix, routing the Bulgarian right wing,
with enormous casualties. The Rou-
manians sank two torpedo boats and
steamers on the Danube. Sofia tele-
graphs that Thracian Christians are
fleeing, the Turkish troops advancing
on them in three columns. One di-
vision is reported already twenty
miles beyond the Turkish boundary
the London treaty established. 1t
is rumored that the Ottomans plan
to recapture Adrianople.
As result of conference of the
Greek, Servian and Roumanian Off
GERS at Salonika, it is reported the
combined armies plan to march to
Sofia and crush Bulgaria.
SOFIA, July liking Ferdinand
TO-DAY telegraphed the king of Rou-
mania that he is ready to negotiate
for peace. NJ. Malinoff, the new pre-
mier, is unable to form a new cabi-
net under present conditions.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

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Semi-weekly herald., 1913-07-21

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