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The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
Twelve Women Elected to city Jobs.

Twelve Women Elected to City Jobs.
Fort Collins.-At the recent city
elections thirteen women ran for Of
flee in different Colorado towns. All
but one of these were elected. The
successful ones were elected to such
positions as city commissioners, alder
men, city clerks and treasurers. In
Montrose Mrs. Mary E. Sawyers pop.
ularity caused lack Of opponents on
election day. Mrs. Sawyer was elect
ed as city treasurer without opposi.
tion and politicians assert she will
make the best city treasurer Mont
rose ever had" Mrs. Jenny Shelly
Boyd, announced several weeks ago
that she would be candidate for
commissioner at Colorado Springs.
Some laughed and thought 1t huge
joke. The tables were turned when
Mrs. Boyd ran second in field OF
twenty-five aspirants. She was among
the five highest and as result she
will come up for election on the city
commission April 15. Mrs. Boyd does
not believe in shirking. She is out
for the hardest commissionership OF
them all. She wants to have the pub
lie safety berth. which includes super.
vision over the police and fire depart
ments. Recent scandals in the police
department in Colorado Springs
caused Mrs. Boyd to declare there
shall be better, cleaner and more
up to date police force"
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
Flood Iouehes eirl,, heart,.

Greeley.-Stories of hunger. thirst
and misery touched the hearts Of the
fifteen-year-old girls Of the Crossmere
school here when Mrs. T. A. Stevens
read letter from her niece. telling
Of relief work in the Columbus, Ohio.
flood. The writer. Miss Ruth Guard.
who Is a student in Oxford college in
Columbus, pictured the work accom-.
plished by her girl schoolmates in
aiding the refugees. 1t was q story
Of clothing victims who were shiver.
ing in the rain, Of giving hot coffee
to the rescued, whose homes were
washed away. and all their worldly
possessions gone. ut was right at
Easter. too" the letter ended. The
pretty Colorado misses Immediately
took up collection. With one &C.
cord, they purchased a quantity OF
material and made more than 100 real
Easter hats. which will be forwarded
at once to Governor Cox. to be dis
tributed among the women refugees.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
WASHINGTON.

Total receipts of the Red Cross for
the relief Of flood sufferers reached
$S50,0OO.
Messages continue to come to Pres
ident Wilson from foreign rulers ex-
pressing sympathy for sufferers in the
Western floods.
w. F. Sardis Of Buenos Ayres is try
ing to urge the President to see that
meat comes into this country from
Argentina free of duty.
Representative Victor Murdock Of
Kansas WAS unanimously elected by
the Progressive party caucus as its
candidate for speaker of the House.
To provide the White House with
cut flowers daily and the grounds sur
rounding It with shrubs and blooming
plants In season the United States
pays out every year $4,000.
President Wilson has notified the
board of governors Of the Chevy
Chase Club that in declining to ac-
cept honorary membership in that or
ganization he had acted under pis-
apprehension and desired to With
draw his declinatfon.
Secretary Bryan is waiting for an
official report from the embassy IN
London on the case Of Miss Zelie EN-
erson, the American suffragist Jailed
on charge OF window smashing snd
now on hunger strike" before TAX
ing any action on the appeal to the
State Department to demand her re-
lease.
Removal OF all tariff from raw wool
has been agreed upon between Presi.
dent Wilson and members OF the
House committee on ways and means,
as the result Of conferences.
The Postoffice Department, is
threatened with temporary shortage
Of stamped envelopes on account OF
the Dayton flood. All the stamped
envelopes are turned out at the Day
ton factory Of the Mercantile Corpor-
alton of New York and this building
was one of the structures submerged
in the recent flood.
The Colorado delegation has Joined
in the recommending Of Edwin s.
Harper of Denver for deputy collec-
tor Of Internal revenue. and H. G.
Armstrong, of Colorado Springs for
commissioned of internal revenue.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
GEN ERAL.

New York's fund for the relief Of
flood sufferers totals more than $780,
900.
Two white men and two negroes,
all convicted Of murder, were hanged
in the jail at Montgomery, Ala.
Nearly 5000 Mexicans and Ameri-
cans were thrown out Of employment
at Naco. Aris., by the closing down
OF the Cananea Consolidated Copper
Company plant.
President Woodrow Wilson has chos-
en- the home Of Winston Churchhill.
tho novelist, to be his summer capital,
according to telegram received at
Cornish. N. H.. from Mr.. Churchill,
who now is In Santa Barbara, Cal.
Pennsylvania Joined the ranks of
the states that have ratified the pro-
posed amendment to the federal con-
stitution providing for the direct cleo
tion of United States senators. max
ing the thirty-fifth to fall In line.
Funeral services in this country
over the body of J. P. Morgan will be
held in New York at st. Georges
Protestant Episcopal church. Inter
ment will be at Cedar Hill cemetery.
Hartford. Conn, Mr.. Morgan's birth.
place.
The big event Of the week In New
York society was the wedding of Miss
Ethel Roosevelt to DR.. Richard A.
Derby.
Governor Sulzer of New York made
a demand upon State Senator Stephen
J. Stillwell Of New York city that he
resign.
Duncan Fitzgerald. a school boy
who saved japanese from drowning
year ago, was decorted at Redwood
City. Cal, with "Kojuhosko.' medal
conferred by the Japanese emperor
tor bravery.
The Tennessee Senate concurred In
a House resolution ratifying the fed.
eral constitution amendment, provid.
ing for the election Of United States
senators by popular vote.
Bernice Golden Heinze and F. Au.
gustus Heinze, the copper magnate.
were reunited on the verge OF deaths
chasm. The former actress In the
arms of her husband In New York
State Detective John H. Scott, chic,
Investigator In the Eaton mystery,
said at Boston that he believed rough
on rats was the form OF arsenic which
killed Read Admiral Joseph G. Eaton,
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
FOREIGN.

The Turkish government declared
that 1t unreservedly accepted the
terms Of peace proposed by the Euro
pean powers.
Such an imposing ceremonial al
marked the burial Of King George Of
Greece was never before witnessed In
modern Athens.
The body of the late J. Pierpont
Morgan arrived at Havre. France,
from Rome and was transferred to
the liner France for transportation to
New York.
What are believed by many to be
the celebrated burning mirrors invent.
eed by Archimides for destroying an
enemy's ship by focusing the suns
rays on them have been discovered In
the harbor Of Syracuse. says a Rome
dispatch.
Read Admiral Robert E. Peary.
speaking at Rome before the Interna-
tional Geographical Congress. urged
that three Antarctic expeditions be
undertaken-oned directly to the South
pole, a seconod around the pole and
a third to cross 1t.
From waitress in a hotel dining
room to countess of the, court Of Den
mark was the transition Of Miss Lena
Roy, who was married to Count Hugo
Won Holstein Rathbone. eldest son
and heir of Lord Frederick Emile Won
Holstein Rathbone OF Denmark.
To satisfy all factions In the Mexi-
con melee. General Huerta has agreed
to the naming OF Pedro Lascurain as
provisional president, according to ad-
vices received at Ell Paso. Tex. direct
ly from the national capital. Lascu-
rain will serve out the uncompleted
term OF the late President Madero.
A dispatch to the Matin from Bel
grade says that some of the newspa-
pers there have received advice from
Cattinje and Alessio. announcing that
Scutari has fallen and that the Monte
negrin and Servian troops have en-
tered the city. King Nicholas Of Mon
tenegro is determined to capture and
hold Scutari.
DR.. Wilhelm Bode. general director
Of the royal museums Of Prussia, in
an article published In Berlin says
that the late J. Pierpont Morgan ex-
pected his death and urged him (Dr.
Bode) in 1912 to pay a visit to New
York in 1914 for the opening Of the
new wing Of the Metropolitan muse
um, saying that he would not live to
be present.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
WILSON BREAKS RULE.
ehattsrs Prsesdsnts Of Century b,
diving Message In Personal

Washington. April 7-setting aside
precedents Of more than a century.
President Wilson will appear In the
halls Of Congress Tuesday to deliver
his first legislative message in person.
He announced to Democratic Com
Yressional leaders last night that he
would 60 on the floor Of the House
when it convened Tuesday, and there
give that body his views on the tar
If. It was declared that the Sen1te
would go over to the House while the
President reads his message.
President Wilson stands firmly for
. rate Of one cent a pound on sugar
and the removal of all duty after
three years. This is his final deter
mination-and he is confident that q
single tariff measure. with such pro-
vision, can pass.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
THE SENATE,

Passed on. second reading. Cunning
ham House bill providing constitution-
p.roa of psn for o
cal town and city improvements.
iiisst IL tru.tees s'. since &c division s'e of Roust
P.sssa on SECOND reading, Hes bill
prea.nt prem G1 Meffet s1sosS County. ''''sa " '"s
killed Benesfieia bill: extending
ssy's term i in ISIS. ~ '"'
Passed on final reading. Joyce bill,
providing for temporary. abolition of
lack Of funds prevent their effective
operation.
Passed on final reading Macdonald
bill. establishing maximum interest
on household chAttels.
Passed on final reading. Joyce Sem
ate Joint memorial. urging passage Of
raHer sclsn s a
government land to the state.
Passed on final resding, bin by Sen;
t;ss legal suardlanship Of shiiaren
Passed on final reading, schaeffer
workshop for the Blind at two years.
s ns e.
Passed on final reading. Daley
mSSss psony q aaasd eisc.o1s dS1n ns
sence from residence. by registering
VIII seS1sy oS fns rssSras.s asss,ns Bill by SEN
codification Of school laws by state
Passed on final reading, Wright
House bill. providing for newspaper
inson Bill. repsaiins Mof1st tunnel act.
Passed on final reading. .Tobin bill.
providing against importation of dis
eased horses and mules.
Passed on final reading. Hayden
bill. permitting di.connection Of out
lying districts from Incorporated
biii, prohibiting instaiiation Of teie-
graph or pipe lines along public high
commissioners.
Adopted Joint conference reports on
House amendments to Burris.Van TIL
amendment to Gilbert coal mine In
spection bill.
Passed on final reading, Wright
esss @ of eorporased and oHnaaa incor
1oPa:ssa Pss:sa e' ss flns, reading, lie. biz.
sfssirs Syl1" Incident 1s to division q Roatt
county and tho creation of Moffat.
Passed on final reading. Hecker bill.
s dss.s n ries OF
Passed on final reading. TAFT House
bill providing that property of per-
the state II not claimed or awarded
heirs within twenty-one years
Passed on second reading. Andrew
Ing exhibitions under sanction Of a
commission.
Andrew House bill permitting ten
round boxing contests:
Skinner House bill providing for
Initiated measures.
Philip House bill providing for or
eanixation of county echool boards.
Finance committee bill. consolidat-
ing departments OF the state bank and
insurance commissioners.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
NEWR0AD BOARD MEETS
TO APPoRTIoN FUNDS AVAIL
ABLE FOR ROAD WORK.
More Than $685., 1000 Now Ready for
Use Of Commissioner Ehrhardt
and His Advisers.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-Thomas Ehrhardt. state
highway commissioner. issued call
last week for a meeting of the new
advisory board, appointed by Cover
norAmmons to meet in Denver Mon
day to consider the apportionment OF
funds available for repair Of roads
over the state.
There is $450.000 cash available at
this time in the amount transferred
from the internal revenue improve
ment to the fund for the new highway
commission to use on state roads,,
said Commissioner. Ehrhardt. "sev-
euty.five per cent Of this. according
to law. will be apportioned to the five
districts Of the state for, road repairs.
The balance Of twenty-five per cent
must remain in the fund" y
Governor Ammons received many
kilograms and numerous telephone
and personal congratulations for. bas-
Ing his appointments to the advisory
board of highway commission on rhef.
1t and not political affiliations.
These are the selections: First dis
trict. Denver. John M. Kuykendall,
for the term ending April l. 1918;
second district, Leonard e. Curtis OF
Colorado Springs. for the term ending
April 1, 1917; third district. Charles
r. McLain Of Canon City, for the
term ending April /. 1916; fourth dis
trict, Charles E. Herr of Durango. for
the term ending April 1, 1915; fifth
district, L. Boyd Walbridge Of Meek
er, for the term ending April /, 1914.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11

No official reports as to the loss OF
life at Harrison, Mount Vernon. Valley
Junction. Van Vert, Venice, New
Trenton. Brookville, Wooster. Cleves.
North Bend, New Bethlehem. Mans
Held. Globe Center and .Loudenville.
have been received by Red Cross Off
ciAls. t
All Of these villagen previously re-
ported flood deaths. but officials be-
lisve the reports to hnvo been exag-
geratsd through excitement
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
AssEMbLYIskssEs UTILITY BILL
Governor signs EIsht.Hour Law
6areia Retains His Seat.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-Senator Casimiro Barela.
Republican of Las Animas county.
was retained In his seat when the
state Senate. by a vote of 20 to IA.
dismissed the contest Of DR.. N. M.
Wycoff. Democratic-Bull Moose can
didate. against the seating of the SEN
ator.
Both houses concur in conference
amendments to the Burrts-Van TIL
borg public utilities commission bill.
1t now goes to Governor Ammons.
Governor signs Bellesfield's bill for
an eight-hour law for miners. 1t be-
comes Immediately effective.
Conference amendments decreasing
salaries provided for In House coal
mine inspection bill concurred in by
both houses and the measure goes 10
the governor.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
ssveral coed Land Iob,.

Denver-Governor Ammons has
announced the following appoint
ments: Luke MacLean, Pueblo;
Frank F. Rogers, Denver, and Charles
B. Dyde, Greeley, to tile state board of
medical examiners; Mrs. Margaret
Patterson Campbell and Mrs. A. e.
Reynolds to the. board OF control Of
the state home for dependent and neg
lected children; Mrs. Jane e. Petit
pier. Golden, and Charles Schrader
Limon. to the board of trustees of the
state school for the deaf and blind.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
DEATH LIST
PLACED AT 454
DY RED CROSS OFFICIALS NOW IN
CHARGE OF OHIO RELIEF
WORK.
H,133 IN NEED OF AID.
bY PEOPLE OF OHIO TOWNS vie.
TIED BY RECENT STORMS
AND FLOODS.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Columbus. Ohio. April 7.-Basing
their figures upon reports from their
field agents throughout the Ohio flood
district, officials of ths Red Cross So
cisty who have been placed in charge
Of the relief work in tEin state, have
issued q statement estimating that 464
persons lost their lives during the re-
cent flood.
ohioans numbering 77.13s need aid
Tor rehabilitation. nc cording to the
statement.
The city of Findlay. where at least
two lives were lost and many made
homeless. IL not included in the esti-
mate which follows:
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
WAR cLovDs OVER EUROPE.
AlIIss stand by Montenegro In oppos-
Ina Austria.

Vienna, April 7.-Unless the great
powers abandon Austria and Austria
abandons its attempt to coerce Monte
negro, the long-threatened European
war II about to be precipitated. The
Balkan allies have sent an ultimatum
to the European concert. 1t is short,
sharp, decisive. The mighty nations
Of Europe are told. in plain words. to
keep their hands out Of the quarrel
between one Balkan nation and Its big
European neiEhbor or take the conse-
uuences on the field Of battle.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
r EloN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE, PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
wsstss. Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

The National Good Roads Fedora
tion will meet in Birmingham, Ala.
on April "a and 25.
Great damage is being done b,
floods along the Cannon Ball river II
southwestern North Dakota.
Mrs. John FontanaN was murdered
with an AZ at her home in Chisholm
MINI. Her husband has disappeared
In attempting to save his son from
two robbers, w. B. Quick. an aget
grocer. was fatally shot at Fresno
Cal,
Grant Leslie, his wife and theiI
nine-year-old son perished in a prairie
fire that swept part Of Major county
Oklahoma.
Michael Raglan, thirteen, stabbed
Anna jackson, seven years old al
Joliet, ILL.,, because she would moi
marry him. The girl will recover.
Democrats swept the city in Chica
go's municipal election returning
twenty-five aldermen and the Supe
rior Court Judge. city clerk and city
treasurer.
John e. Paul, founder OF Colorado
Springs, Colo, and also Of Pipestone
Springs. Mont, died at a Butte
Mont, hospital following an illness oi
only few days.
Governor Morehead OF Nebraska
signed a bill appropriating 100000
for the aid Of tornado sufferers and
for the expenses Of the Nebraska Ma
tional guard on duty in the devastat.
ed district in Omaha.
George Kelly, twenty-five years old,
a baggageman employed by the I'LL.
nois Central railroad, was severely
burned at Chicago. when trunk. ap-
parently filled with explosives, e1-
ploded in the baggage room.
!. with opiveripg and uncertain voice,
Mrs. Lillian Olson, wife OF Prof. Os-
car Olson, took the witness stand at
St. Paul and admitted having had H.
licit relations with Clyde N. Darling.
for whose murder Olson Is on trial.
At the second annual luncheon Of
the woman's party Of Cook county at
Chicago sympathy was expressed for
the plight Of Mrs. Emmeline Pank-
hurst, the English suffragist SEN
fenced to three years imprisonment.
but the tactics of the militant women
abroad were not condoned.
A cement tabernacle in which the
Zion crusaders may pray and inveigh
against users of tobacco and profane
swearers alleged to form majority
Of the operatives OF an outside" fac
tory here will be built at once oppo-
site the offending electrical works. 1t
was announced by Zion partisans.
Baltimore & Ohio passenger train
No. crashed through an open switch
at Hoytsville. Ohio. demolishing the
railroad station and turning turtle
Fireman Jackson was killed and
Grant Mason. who was in the station
was mortally injured. A score Of pas
scngers we're seriously injured. and
five may die.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
Lane to Make Visit,

Grand Junction.-That Secretary
Franklin X. Lane Of the Interior De-
partment will come to Grand Junction
soon to inspect the Grand Valley prof.
ect constructed by the reclamation
service. is the word received here by
officials Of the Grand Valley Water
Users Association.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
Boxing Bill Passed.

Denver.-Ten-round limit boxing
contests. under sanction Of state
boxing commission, will be. permitted
In Colorado. II the Andrew House bill.
passed by both branches Of the Gen
eral Assembly. is signed by Governor
Ammons. The measure was adopted
on final reading in the Senate by y
vote Of 20 to II.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
Coal Mine Inspection Bill Passed.

Denver.-Both houses Of the Gen.
ference committees amendments to
the coal inspection bill by which the
salaries of the chief inspector and
deputy inspectors are lowered from
their original figures In accordance
with Governor Ammons' requests. The
bill now goes to the governor for ap-
proval. The chief inspector is to re.
ceive $4,000 year and his fiye dep
uty inspectors $2,100 year.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
Rstrsnehmsnt Measure.

Denver.-A retrenchment measure,
introduced by Representative Wright.
passed in the House and adopted oE
final reading by the Senate. provides
that the publication of notices Of re-
ceivership of defunct corporations
shall be reduced from three insertions.
under existing laws. to one.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
House shuts or speeches,

Denver.-Since the House and the
Senate have agreed to adjourn April
Is. both bodies are busy. In the House
no long-winded speeches are tolerated.
the limit being three minutes. with an
additional two minutes allotted to the
author of bill to reply to his critics.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
Useless sursass May Be Dropped.

Denver.-The Senate at one session
passed sixteen bills on third reading.
Among them was the bill giving the
governor the power to suspend boards
and bureaus at his discretion. This
bill is one Of the retrenchment meas
ures recommended by the finance
committee. There was considerable
opposition to the measure on the part
of some who held that II given this
power Governor Ammons will make
wholesale use Of It in suspending use
less boards and bureaus in the inter-
est Of economy. ".s.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
Aid for Flood sufferers.

Denver.-Sympathy for the thou
sands of sufferers In the Ohio and
Indiana flood disaster brought an In
stantaneous response to Governor
Cox's appeal for aid from the General
Assembly, personal donations aggre-
eating $1,000 and the introduction lat
er of . resolution appropriating 31o-
900 for their relief.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
Mine Insps ction BIII 10 signed.

Denver.-The House coal mine In
spection bill passed by the General
Assembly. which establishes new
coal mining code for the state. was
signed by Governor Ammons and be-
comes Immediately effective. The
measure is one Of the most detailed
that the present Legislature has ap-
proved.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
Newspaper elII Passes Senate.

Denver.-The Senate bill to prohib-
It newspapers from publishing "in.
decent or disgusting details whether
true or not) Of any crime. vice, scan
dal or other matter which shall have
tendency to corrupt private morals
or to offend common decency," was
passed by the Senate upon second
reading, following strong condemna-
tion by Senator Tierney and others. .
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
Colorado Y. N. c. a. Elects.

Colorado springs.-Colorado Col.
lege Y. M. G. A. has elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, G. A. Bor-
der; vice president. E. s. Wade; sec
retary. W. D. Thomas; treasurer, L..
B. Clark.
The Springfield herald., 1913-04-11
Women sIashera IaIled.

Colorado springs.-Maggie Green
and Cora Hudson were sentenced by
justice Of the peace to ninety days
in the county jail because they tried
to stab Arthur Jones with a fork.