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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-11-15
Forfeiture Notice
Idaho Springs, colorado,
Aug. %, 1913

Idaho Springs, colorado,
Aug. %, 1913
To John G. Maxton
You are hele eby notified that | have
expended during the year 1912 the sum
of one hundred [$100] dollars in labor
and improvements upon the G. Tyrol
lode mining claim, situate in the Cas-
cade Mining District. County of Gle ar
Creek, State Of Colorado, Of which the
origi al certifi ate of location is found
on record in Book 48 and Page 1885, 1885,
and the amended certificate Of locati on
is found of record in Book 159 and Page
IA in the Office of the recorder of said coun
ty, in order to hold said claim under the
provision of section 1894 uf the revised
statutes of the United States and the
amendment thereto, approved January
20, 1880, concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re-
quired to hold said claim for the period
ending the 31st day of December A. D.
1912. And, if within ninety days fr ON
the personal service of this notice or
within ninety days after the publication
thereof, you fail or refus to contribute
your proportion of snch expe nditure as
CO owner, your interest in the claim
will become the property of the SUBJ
scriber, YOUR co-owner, who has made
the required expenditure by the terms
of said section
Domireco Fccl
First Pub. Aug. %, 1918
LAST Pub. Nov. ~, l91
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-11-15
NorId Was Thousands of Years CD
Before Matches We're Known
Took Chemists Years to
Perfect Tip.

The world was thousands of years
old before matches were known. The
little tip of the match looks veTy
simple, yet it is made of SO many suh-
stances put together that it took chei,-
lists years to discover Just what ma
terials could be used in making it.
Savages know nothing aEout match
es so make their light in o,her ways.
Sometimes the uncivilized people rlo
two dry pieces OF wood together uEtil
one catches fire. Often they use two
stones. striking one against the othe
until a spark falls amid some dry
leaves and starts a small blaze.
The Australian bushman uses a
method of his own to procure a light.
First he selects two pieces of light
wood each about a foot long from the
cork tree or black fig tree. One
fat piece he lays on the ground
amidst pile of dry leaves. Upon this
strip of wood he kneels in order to
hold down the ends. Then he rolls
the other pointed stick between the
palms Of his hands SO that it bores a
hole into the fiat strip of wood This
makes fine wood dust, which catches
on fire. sending its spark among the
dry leaves. BY blowing upon the tiny
light the bushman soon has a fire
which he feeds with more leaves.
The Malay sailors follow much the
same plan as the bushmen. They use
a piece of split bamboo. making a
notch across its hollow side. Saving
into this notch slowly, then rapidly
with a sharp edged piece Of bamboo,
wood dust is soon made. This catches
fire and falls upon the dry leaves,
which tie wise sailor has placed to
catch the sparks. In the forests of
South America the natives often
strike two stones together until lit.
tie spark f1ies out. Instead OF using
dry leaves to receive this tiny bit of
fire they prefer to build little heaps
of fluffy bird feathers. Striking
light" is term which has come to us
from our ancestors. They struck two
flint stones together until the spark
few into a tinder box Of charred
threads of linen. This tiny light was
','own into a fame. Then a match
''pped with birthstone or sulphur was
:ghted from the little fire so that the
candles or stove fires might be light
d. These tinder boxes and the brim.
lone matches were always kept
here they we're very easy to get
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-11-15
NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENT DAY
ESTATE OF JOHN TRATHEN, De

he Undersigned, having been appointed Ad-
with the will annexed, of he estate
OF John Trathen. late ofthe County of Clear Creek
In the State of Colorado deceased. hereby gives
notice she will appear before the County Court ot
OF said Clear Creek County. at The Court House
eighth day of December. A. d. i9i3 at the hour OF
one of o clook p N. Of said day, at which time
all persons having claims against said estate are
notified anh requt sted to attend for the purpose
OF having the same adjusted. All person iuhehed
to said estate are requested to make Immediate
payment 10 the Undersigned.
Dated at Idaho Springs Colorado, this eighth
day OF November A. d, 1913
MARY A. TkATHEN,
Administrator with the will annexed of the
estate of JOHN TRATHEN, deceased.
ERWIN l.. REGENNITTER. Attorney
First pub Nov. 8. last. Dec. 6. 1913
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-11-15
Newly Discoveries p,...u,..

Newly Discovered Pleasure.
The honeymoon had gone the way
of all honeymoons. and their first
;;iarrel was Oh.
OF course" he sneered. you'll
oack up and 60 home to your mother
low"
What, and lose all the excitement
ot quarreling with you?" she retorted
Well. l guess noti"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-11-15
center Of rauahnea..

lnqufring Tourist--Would you call
hts a tough town?
Stray Native-Tough. Say. stranger,
when We have Old Home week here
electives all over the country come
md pick out Just who they want!-
Puck.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-13
NEW COMPANY STORES

Company stores" have often had
and deserved bad name. They have
in some cases been maintained by OPP
pressive corporations for their own
profit at the expense Of the employees.
The men have been practically conf
peeled to purchase their supplies at
them, OF poorer quality and at higher
prices than at other establishments.
The system amounted to an extortion-
ate abuse
Quite different are the concerns
which the New York Railways Com
pany is opening in this city. These, we
are assured, are to he run for the sole
profit of the employees. who are not
compelled but are privileged to pat
ronize them. All goods are to be of
standard quality. and to be sold at
cost: IN some cases at less than cost.
Indeed, the company expects to bear n
deficit of $4,000 year on the enter
prise. But it also expects to find COM
pensation i'm the more satisfied spirit
of the men and in increased security
against strikes.
II is obvious that such n scheme. ex-
ecuted in good faith, should be Of great
economical advantage to the men. The
chief criticism of il, indeed. which is
by no means without force. is that il is
too advantageous. That is 10 say, In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-13
DO YOU BELIEVE IN MISSIONS I

To tn. Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: see by the papers that over $780,
,oOo In money was spent last year in
missionary work. This IL a great sum OF
money TO spend In trying to convert the
foreign heather when We have SO many
heather at home. especially In the large
cities OF the United States.
Here is an incident that happened some
time ago: After tho war between Russia
and Japan sn American officer remarked
to japanese official: Now, the best
thing that Japan can do IN TO adopt the
Christian religion" And he went on TO
tell him OF divine Providence guiding and
directing things.
The Japanese official listened very earn
estly to him-so much so that he thought
he was going to agree with him. Then
the follower OF Buddha looked at him and
said: $50 YOU Americans want us to
adopt the Christian religion. do you?'
Yes" Also you say that the Christian
God will help and guide us. Now. how
does II happen that we are just after
licking a great big nation that believe in
this Christian God. also the Son and
Mother OF God?"
JOHN HENRY SMITH
New York. March 10. 1913
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-13
BACK NUMBER NAVY YARDS.

Secretary Daniels Is being put in an
embarrassing position by pressure from
Southern friends TO keep open or 10
reopen certain Southern navy yards and
naval stations. In many parts OF the
South Secretary Meyers policy Of dca J.
ing with those establishments was BIT
terry criticised. He wanted 10 create
few adequate naval bases at stra-
tegic points and 10 abandon practically
useless minor yards and stations. As
the Gulf Of Mexico tx 10 he defended in
the future from the base ut Guants-
namO, Cuba. this policy bore hard on
places Ike New Orleans, Pensacola.
Kew West and even Charleston. and the
cry was raised that the Navy Depart
ment was discriminating against South
ern ports.
Navy wards were formerly planted II
a long the coast. and each geOgra phical
district thought Itself entitled 10 rec
IGNITION. Originally the scattered yards
helped the feet: now they only retard
its efficiency. Mr. Daniels would nat
urally like 10 see the grievances Of the
Southern ports soothed. When II was
known that he was 10 become Secretary
OF the Navy the Raleigh correspondent
OF The Charlotte Observer tele-
graphed his newspaper that there was
now a prospect of the Charlotte Navy
Yard being reopened. That was prob
ably iocose or semi joc0se, but it repre-
scented a mistaken local sentiment with
which every Secretary of the Navy has
had TO reckon.
There should be no question Of sec
tionalism in the development Of naval
bases The yards should serve the feet
primarily. and only secondarlly the
communities or sections in which they
happen TO be situated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-13
PENALIZING MOTHERHOOD.

Women teachers in this city may he
wives but not mothers. That is what
the vote of the progressive" Board OF
Education. refusing TO Mrs. EdGell a
high school teacher a leave of absence
for the purpose Of giving birth 10 ana
caring for child in its earliest In
fancy. means.
This vote does nothing for the
schools, even II 1t he conceded that
a woman who has children of her own
Ia anv less fitted TO teach the children
OF others. Married women teachers
will continue 10 do their duty by their
husbands and by society In spite of Inc
singular attitude Of the Board OF Eau
cation. They will simply be less
honest about the reason for their ao-
.sences than Mrs. Edgell has been
The Board of Education has merely
put premium upon deception ana
encouraged the partial neglect OF the
babies of teachers. who conceallng tue
cause Of their absence. will have 10
return 10 their work in the schools
after bearing children sooner than they
would if the school authorities had
adopted more humane policy
The attitude Of the Board Of Educa-
ton is without excuse. If women WHO
are mothers become inefficient as
teachers they should he dismissed be-
cause they are inefficient and not De-
cause they are mothers. There must
be no penalty for motherhood.
The law has denied 10 the Board or
Education the right 10 dismiss women
teachers for marrying. II Is time the
law denied 10 it the right to dismiss
them after marriage for having chl'-
dren. Here is an opportunity for the
Legislature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-13
BETWEEN TWO STOOLS.

What is the matter with Georgia
The senior Senator from that state was
turned down the other day as a candl-
date for President pro tempore OF inc
Senate and now the junior Senator mas
failed 10 convince his colleagues of his
eminent availab ility for the post OF
chairman Of the new Committee on
Banking and Currency.
Mr.. Bacon suffered from suspen-
sion of the old fashioned seniority rule.
He has been I'm the Senate since 1899
and fell a victim Ia the young blood
programme. Mr.. Smith has been in
the Senate only little over year.
Yet the get-to-the top-quick theory re-
fused TO work out for his benett. In
the one case seniority was abased. ana
I'm the other iuniority couldn't get ex
allied.
Mr.. Smith evidently wasn't either
senior enough or junior enough. PROB
ably he is still engaged In figuring ont
whether IL would have been better for
him If he had come 10 the Senate hvc
months earler-at the time he was
elected nv the Legislature or had IN
gered still longer in Atlanta dlS-
charging the duties of Governor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-13
AT NEWPORT.
IRy TeIegraph . The Tr.bun.

lRy Telegraph 20 The rribun.
Newport. March l2.-Miss c. ogden
Jones gave luncheon this afternoon in
honor OF her niece. Miss Caroline Jones.
OF Washington. and this evening she
gave a reception for Miss Jones. which
was attended by more than one hundred
guests.
Mr. and Mrs Edward Mclean. Of
Washington. who spent some time last
season with Amba ssador and Nine
Bakhmeteff AT the Russian Embassy
may. IL is reported. take a cottage here
for the summer
MIR and Mrs. !. Townsend Burden, OF
New York. after n seasons absence. az.
TO occupy their cottage here this sum-
mer.
Mr. and Mrs Ernest Howe left FOR
Washington to-day 10 visit Mr.. and Mrs
Arnold Hague
Miss Mary Appleton and Miss Bottom
have returned from New York visit.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Leroy IL having her
home In Red Cross avenue prepared for
occupancy. She and Mrs. Amos Tuck
French. her daughter. are expected from
New York in short time.
Mr.. and Mrs George Kemp. 81 New
York. and Mr. and Mrs. L. = Bayard, or
short Hills, y. J.. are guests at the New
Cliffs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-13

being run at a loss it assumes some
thing of the aspect of charity anu
that is something which the employees
do not want. There is reason 10 ne
lieye that the stores could be operated
without loss. and even with enough
profit to pay legal interest Oh the Ill
vestment. and yet sell supplies to the
employees AT lower prices than those
which prevail in the open market.
The average self-reSpecting working
man hates pauperization as much as
oppression. He does not want 10 be
whecdled into accepting insufficient
wages by being made the recipient oil
charity. He would much rather pay
fair prices for supplies. and have his
wages increased So as to enable nm 10
do So. We are not intimating that the
present scheme Is properly subject 10
anv odium on this ground. though the
statement that it is to sell some goods
below cost and is to be. as whole, run
at a loss suggests the fear that Il well
intended and potentially beneficent
plan may thus incur some unfavorabie
criticism.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-13
ANTI-TAMM ANY.

n The citizens committee which is
inst being organized will have cause to
envy Murphy. He does not have 10
fuse He never faces the danger OF
division. He never has 10 consult
varied interests. He requires no clti-
zens' committee. No difficult negotia-
lions are necessary and no chickering's
and iealouSies are 10 he reconciled. lie
goes straight ahead and dominates his
"anti-Tammany" candidate, secure Ill
the knowledge that the latter Will De
universally accepted by all his kind OF
ELECTROMAGNETIC and often. we are
sorry to say, by others.
Examples of Murphy's efficiency. or
rather. of that of his system. were his
approIriating the leading anti-Iam-
many candidate in popular estimation
four years ago and making him his
candidate for Mayor and of his lifting
at An earlier date two anti-Tsmmany
candidates off the fusion ticket under
the noses of the fusiOnlsts themselves.
We are rather glad for the sake OF the
reputation Of citizens movements that
he got away with Judge Gaynor we
mention 1t Just to remind the public
that. bad as his prospects look now,
Murphy has TO be reckoned with. de
will have his candidate ready when
the time comes. properly certified AZ
simon-pure "avowedly anttTammsny
man whose election Will accomplish
the destruction OF the boss.
Nevertheless, II the opponents OF
murphy, who are just beginning TO Or
xanize for next falls campaign, can
avoid division they Will win. They
have the best antiIl'ammany candidates
in sight, and fortunately their possible
candidates this year are not the kind
that the boss can steal for window
dressing for his ticket.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-13
OlNEY FOR AMBASSADOR.

From The Springfield Republican.
Richard Olney. OF Boston, Secretary Of state
under President Cleveland, has been rendered
the ENTHUSIASTICALLY to the Court OF 81. James :
and has taken the matter under consideration.
That he accept the offer is OF high public I'M
portance. II gives the right man large op-
portunity to help. Mr. Olney has been a life
long Democrat. not only as 10 party. but also
in broad principle. Modern movements OF
democracy in the wide sense have not shocked
and repealed him. but have commanded his
sympathetic understanding and help. Now
that the hopes OF The party have eliminated
In a supreme opportunity for service. President
Wilson has a right to insist that men Of the
Oney type shall do teamwork with him Tor
the good OF the counry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-13
LATIN-AMERICAN POLICY.

President Wilson for the third time
within week exhibits q prudent con-
lservatism In maintaining substantially
unchanged foreign policies which have
been tried and found good. The first
occasion was that of his effective re-
newal of the protest against 1ail-deliv'
cry madness in Cuba. The second was
I'm the intimation which he seems to
have permitted To get abroad that moth
ing rash or radical will be attempted in
The Philippines. The third is in the
circumstantial declaration OF policy
toward Latin America, which, Invested
of few academic phrases, is to the
effect that the approved features OF his
predecessors policy are to be main
tanned. There can be-" he says, no
freedom without order based upon
Law and upon the public conscience
"and approval" Stability of govern
ment," said Mr.. Taft TO the Panamans
nearly nine years ago, lis impossible
'unless there is implanted in the breasts
'of all your people profound respect
"for the laws and constitution which
"you yourselves have founded" The
Two sentences might be parts Of the
same utterance.
The logical sequel is. Of course, that
our intercourse with Delghboring coun-
tries is 10 be directed so far as possible
toward the recognition and encoura ge-
ment Of those principles. and that we
are TO be chary Of sympathy toward
persons and movements which disre.
gard them. The President is quite
right in saying plumply that this coun-
try can have no sympathy with those
who seek to seize governmental power
for selfish purposes. and that it must
prefer those who protect private rights
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-13

PARTY REORGANIZATION.

Mr. MunseyS latest article on anal
gamation will probably do little TO
hasten the formation Of the political
holding company which he thinks ought
10 be organized. Since he made his
first suggestion New Jersey has modi-
fed the facilities which 1t formerly ex
tended 10 persons wishing 10 create cor
poratiOnS of the higher up variety
Besides. the stockholders in the two
existing organizations have shown no
desire whatever for a merger. Mr..
Munsey recently sold The Boston Jour
nal" TO a fellow Progressive. and the
first thing the new owner did was 10
say that the fusion scheme was absurd.
! That is the attitude of the great major
| ity of Republicans and ProgressiveS.
The time is not ripe for planning a
reunion of the two chief elements into
which the opposition 10 the Wilson ad-
ministration Is now divided. The adj
ministration must show its hand before
any practical basis can he found for
coalition against II. The success or
failure of the Democratic party in deal
ing with the tariff. currency reform,
economy in expenditures and the other
issues on which 1t has undertaken to
make good" will largely determine the
form which combination Of the Re-
publican and Progressive parties must
take. If effected ri all. The questions
if.h ha
last year may he more or less obscured
by the time the election Of 1914 ap-
breaches. ANA gamation now would be
merely 2 blind pool and though that
sort of venture may appeal 10 minds
limpregnated with Wall Street methods
Of doing things II does not attract the
average voter. who has never pene-
trated the inner sphere OF high finance
end who will have to he shown before
he turns over his proxy 10 holding
company directorate.
Mr. MunSey is candid in suggesting
that the Republican party has an adj
vantage over the Progressive party in
possessing a stabler organization. II
also has an established trademark ana
the good will Of hundreds Of thousands
of voters who were cstranged from II
last year by inert leadership. So far
as the Republican party i concerned.
its present task is 10 recapture lost sup
port by popularizing lis methods of
government If it can reinyigorste
itself by reforming the system of rep
reSentation I'm national conventions It
will be in a position 10 offer It's SER
vices to the country as the natural OPP
position party. II can also await with
confidence the alignment which is bound
10 come after the Democracy has shown
what il can do and what II cannot do
il control Of the government.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-13

coal. I should like to see the a'e'"es :,
mother take ON that burden; she wouio
know what it meant. Still the old man
family grew up and were all eoiiiio' To- :,
married, boys and girls. The writer a,''
his brothers and sisters nave Known '"o
bitterness of poverty: when we were on
young children We were lett orp""".
When We reached eight years oil age e"."
one was drafted out to earn MS 'i''o
to bring grist to the hungry mouths. ~
was a hard furrow We hoed. MT. Eui'o'
bur am not sure we are not all the pe.
ter for IT, / myself never went to schoo''
and certainly never took to thieving'
| remember when delicate youth, WORK
ing i'm a quarry twelve hours day anu
walking eight miles TO and from my
work Would the young American 10 ~
to-day? No. sir. Things may not De ali
they might be in America, put "hep
look back on my youth and thihk OF 'ne
hardships | went through and compare II
with existing conditions in this country
| know which | should prefer | nave
not lived twelve months i'm your wonder
ful city without noticing the extravaganza
or the WORKING cldSsts, lHe i"NN " ~
rental control: the absence OF tender So
licitude which every parent should reel
i'm his family to shield them from the
temptations Of great modern city.
do not by any means advocate low
wages. The conditions OF life nave seen
in some countries are positively cruel ana
disgra ceful to modern civilization. But
let me state here. the conditions OF lie
in America for the working classes are
better than any country In the world
have visited. except perhaps, Austraha
and New Zealand. These countries are
not hampered by the fiotsam and Jetsam
OF humanity. Let us put the blame OH
the right shoulders. Mr.. Editor.
Let every father and mother remember
these lines from Dickens:
Nv heart grows as weak az womans
And the fountains Of feeling will flow
When think of the paths steep and stony
Where the feet OF the dear ones must go;
OF the mountains Of sin hanging Ger them
OF the tempest OF fate blowing wild.
oh. there's nothing on earth half so holy
As the innocent heart OF a child.
A VISITOR.
New York. March II. 1918
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-13

and respect constitutional restraints.
The extent 10 which we are ourselves
10 be Judges Of the character of rulers
md of revolutions or are TO accept the
Judgment of the countries concerned,
lis. however. an important and not al
ways easily answered question.
In the present case of Mexico the
policy which President Wilson an
n0nnceS is neither hostile nor partial
To- General iluerta. but is calculated to
encourage the assertion Of constitutions
aliSm and peace in Mexico. whether
under him or another. If is a policy
which. if maintained with both tact
and resolution, should have an iniiu-
ence for good upon the nearby Latin
American states and should confirm
this country in their confidence and af-
fpptiOU