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Cheyenne record., 1913-10-16

. Washington, Oct. 1.-THE momen
tary touch of key by the President
Of the United States Friday sent q
flash of electricity through continu
GUS telegraph and cable connection OF
1000 miles. setting off gigantic
blast of dynamite which exploded the
Gamboa dixie. the last Of the great
physical barriers to water communica.
ton In the Panama Canal.
It was an extraordinary feat OF
telegraphy. especially planned for the
occasion. At precisely 2 o'clock.
President Wilson simply by closing a
telegraph key at the White House
sent the current over land and under
sea. and just few seconds later
came the message informing him that
the explosion had been successful.
While celebrations on the Pacific
coast were numerous, there was no
ceremony in Washington, it being the
wish of Colonel Goethals that the gov.
eminent await the actual opening OF
the canal. Besides the wreckage of
slides to be cleared away before
boats can pass from ocean to ocean.
Roar Like Distant Thunder.
Panama, Oct. 1O.-With deep roar
and rumble resembling heavy artil-
lery firing at distance, thousands of
pounds Of dynamite in 400 charges
were exploded simultaneously in the
Gamboa dixie, allowing the waters of
Gatun lake to trickle through into Gu
Zebra cut. This practically clears the
great waterway.
The explosion was set off by an
electric spark sent by President Will
son at the White House 1000 miles
away.
After the smoke and spray of the
heavy charge had cleared away, the
steam dredges were Immediately put
to work dredging out the channel.
When this work Is completed and the
water in Gatun lake has risen to a
sufficient height to flood Culebra cut
to the forty-five foot level, the Pana-
ma Canal will be ready for navigation.
A few days ago the first water from
Gatun lake was let into Culebra cut
through several pipes, this water act
ing as a cushion for the explosion.
The charges of dynamite were dis
tributed in such manner as to
merely loosen the material composing
the dixie, allowing the water to run
through and cut its own channel.
While the waters OF Gatun lake now
flow north into the Atlantic and
south into the Pacific, much work yet
remains to be done before heavy
draught vessels can be sent from one
ocean to the other.
Dixie Last Obstruction.
The destruction of the Gamboa dixie
removes the last obstruction to the
navigation Of the greater part of the
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-16

Harvest Homo Festival Big Success.
Delta. - Each of the thousands OF
persons who visited the Delta Harvest
Home Festival declared the affair an
entire success, and the management
rates it as one of the greatest fairs
ever held in this section of Colorado.
Every form of entertainment, new and
old, was supplied. The exhibition OF
fruit and produce was exceptionally
fine.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-16
Robbers Get 5000 From Cash Drawer

Robbers Get 5000 From Cash Drawer.
Pueblo Two masked robbers held
up the clerks and several customers
In the Stricklett grocery store in Bes.
semer, at the point of drawn revolvers
and secured 5000 in money and pay
checks from the cash register. Three
shots were fired by the highwaymen.
The police have no trace of the two
men who evidently are the ones who
committed two hold-ups just previous
to the sensational robbery of the cash
register in the grocery store.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-16
Moffat Road Loses Suits.

Steamboat Springs.-A jury in the
District Court awarded damages of $S
an acre and value of $3.50 in the
right of way condemnation suits
against the Moffat Road.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-16
Full Force at Minnequa Plant.

Pueblo.-The report that the Min
nequa plant of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron Company here will put on a full
force Of men was partially confirmed.
The Pueblo officials will go no far.
ther than to say that they will hire
back large number of men who were
laid off just prior to the coal strike.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-16

Strikers Report Mine Guard Killed
misunderstanding to Adclph Ger
ner, in charge of the United Mine
Workers at Walsenburg, C. Valdez, a
guard at the Cameron mine, was killed
by Hungarian strikebreaker
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-16
Exhibit for Tulsa Farm conares..

Pueblo.-One of the finest collec-
tions of dry farming products ever
gathered in this section was sent to
Tulsa, Okla, where it will be displayed
at the International Dry Farming
Congress-, October 20 to November l.
The exhibit will be in charge of w. P.
Fisher and is the only one to be sent
from Colorado to the international 'ex-
position.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-16
Attack on Deputies Confirmed.

Walsenburg.-The attack on H. E.
Porter and A. w. Brown was verified
by citizens Of Aguilar, but Sheriff
Farr is emphatic in stating that no
one was killed, as report stated, at
Cameron.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-16
Sues Saloon Man for Attack.

Colorado Springs.-Stephen A. Spill
lane, %. has sued Jacob Schmidt, a
wealthy saloon owner of Manitou for
$4,000 damages, alleging injuries by
being beaten with a blackjack,
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-16
Wife Alleges Non-support.

Longmont.-Mrs. Matte G. Wilson
of Longmont has sued for divorce in
the County Court at Boulder. Mrs.
Wilson alleges non-support and
cruelty.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-16
COMPARATIvE FIGURES, sUEz
AND PANAMA.

Date Of opening-suez. 1869; Pana-
Length. miles-suez. 81; Panama.
sos.
Depth, feet-suez, 81: Panama, II.
Width at top, feet-Suez. 420; Pan
width on bottom. feet-suez. 262;
Panama, 800.
Height above sea level. feet-Suez,
none; Panama. So.
Number Of locks-Suez. none; Pan
ANA, 6.
Ing through-Suez. Is. .407, ,527; Pan
Excavation, cubic yards-suex. s0.-
100000: Panama. 225. 100000.
Cost-Suez, $100.0 100000; Panama,
$375,O00,000.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-16
Same Thing.
THE movement you speak of is .
weak one-it is acephalous."
"'Tisn't; all 1t needs is head"

Ars. .Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething. softens the gums. reduces inhamma-
tion, ,allays pain cures wind collie, sc bottleA9
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-16
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ELECTRIC SPARK SENT 1000
MILES,

mlleS.
Washington to Galveston, Tex
as ........ 1856
Galveston to Coatxacoalcos,
mexico ,....... 1873
Pacific Coast ....:.. 1873
Salina Cruz to San Juan del
Sur, Nicaragua ............. 766
San Juan del Sur to Panama. 718
Panama to Gamboa dixie ...... rs
And it travelled this distance in
less than four seconds.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21
South Increases It's Lead Over East
in Cotton Manufacturing

Figures year 1912 show that the South gradually
increasing heavy the East the matter Of cotton
manufacturing
OF the spnde accounted for last 80
mills and of the looms 60 per
And these figures made from enterprises entirely
the increases mills already established
thry-seven mills in this country last
year twenty them erected the cotton states Be
that mills the averaged much
manufacturing capacity.
seems generally agreed among mill authorities that the ques
labor the isolated operating against the mme
date manufacturing business the
Southern
When that question solved Dixie will be the and only
section Of this nation where cotton manufacturing be
Just today only section in which the growing
may be
There decided inclination believe that the question
child laborso long vexing element in the framing of cotton
mill pans be adjusted in the South with approximate salts
parties and that with greater
justice tocd parent society and mill owner than
it has been heretofore
Short the manufacturing of is being made
profitable the South than elsewhere and possible OF accomplish
happier and favorable circumstances from the stand
point of the mill worker 10 less than the mill
Southern cotton mill supremacy devout to be wished
will reach its complete fmen i'll the opening Of the great Pan
canal!
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21
To Teach the Hungry How to
Say Their Prayers

60 chokcd by twisted threads Of
y toil.
That twirl and Irvine her in their
coil,
She scarce can breathe, The very air
Seems filled with sewing every
where,
And, stitch by stitch, a silen thread
Shapes spirit shroud to hold-the
dead
All, me, so tired of life's tares!
For no one cares, no one cares.
So slow the work, so low the pay
No time to rest or read, or play;
The body thirsts and hunGers so,
It's spirit has no chance to grow
All warped and withered by the sun
OF toll, the toll that's never done.
With blunted morals-bought and
She's hopeless, homeless, growing old.
. ye who own the mill and shop
Where woman's blood drips drop by
drop.
You grind your sliyt from bodied
WILL!
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21

a Georgia woman accuses a car
rier Of eating part of cake she
forwarded by parcel post. The car
rier declares he only ate enough
to bring the package within the
eleven-pounds limit, and for no
other reason. This likely will
make the lady madden than ever.
p r.
The stay-at-homeS may console
themselves with the sure-thing bet
that there will be an awful and
rampantly uncomfortable jam in
D Washington on March 4, all right.
The presidentelect doubtless
looks upon the Mexican crisis and
the tariff question as small po-
tatoes and few in the hill, compar-
ed with the patronage problem he
soon is to go up against.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21

You rob it's flesh of food until
The soul grows sick. and "eaN ''
small,
And soon there is no sou. nj al'.
You sap the seed of life God sa'',
And kill what Christ babe you save
Increase the wages! That's the "''
To teach the hungry how to pray
To shape the shell that covers So"'
To help it, heal It, make 1t "Lo'''
If workers value full received
For charity there'd be no heeo'
And millions would not center 80
If Capital let Labor grow
O YOU who books and Bible. give
While starving bodies Shrek to '''
While women. gaunt and under'e''
Sew out their lives for daily o.,'.
When you for judgment stand ''0 ~,
Before the Forcc--the 'iea'
known! ...,
As ye have measured, Sc sNAI
Then Justice shall lr,s o.
plctc--
And Kin what christ h."
save
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21
The Future of the Rockefeller Name

No accomplish a big thing, selfish his
lives in the accomplishment without benefing humanity
John d. Rockefeller had little thought of ausm in the days
when he building his stupendous fortune by the
uey relentless processes the world known but
what he way happiness the world is
bound to get back again.
The Rockefeller Institute and the Rockefeller Founda
ton in the future recon the Rockefeller millions into human
values The money made by thottlng competition in the
seventies the lives thousand children forty wears later
The mind and education that to him through his
pendous father devoted by John Rockefeller h to one
OF the nobes missions the wordthe saving of the
depths This young boldly attacks problem that ages
have called insolvabe he eliminate vice. has set
about finding way to mitigate it.
More and the junior Rockefeller understood and ap
paudednot because he Is the of the worlds man.
but because he himself of the world useful men
Whenever social hygiene newfoundland that on every
occasion where the subject OF dcussonhe younger
Rockefeller named He actually brought dread subject into
the domain of serious remedial study.
will not be surprising if hundred years from now the
name OF Rockefeller will bring mind the glory of
great riches but the finer fame great humanity
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21

Atlanta nowadays is gaily and
persuasively bedecked and bespan-
gled with book beer-beg pardon,
near-beer, of course'-signs. Some
few people find that it gets their
goats, too!
There is one thing upon which
all Mexico is united. anyway
wholesome and healthy respect for
that StarSpangled thing.
D. D.
Reformers in Nevada have sue
ceeded in effecting a wholesome
change in the divorce laws by eX-
tending the necessary limit of resi-
dence from six to twelve months.
They figure, perhaps, that only the
most desperate would be willing
TO remain in Nevada twelve
months, for any purpose whatever.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21
Easter Is Governed by the Moon
Bv GARRETT p. SERNISS

or after March q, which is the
regular date of the equinox.
Last year the first full moon fol-
lowing the equinox happened on
April 1, which was a Monday. The
next following Sunday, April :, was
then. according to the rule. Easter
day. This wear the full moon of the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21

BY vilifying the pronunciation
more or less, one might venture to
say that Madero's ambitions were
wet-Blanqueted in Mexico recently.
" "
Mr.. Bryan seems to have resolv-
ed himself into a conspiracy of ST
lence. Stealing T. RS act
Those Mexican generals do not
so in for comic opera names in
true Central American style. Not
an Uribe.Uribe or a Wos-y.Gi in
the entire outfit.
The Washington Post is author.
ity To- the statement that "Har-
ward has a professor who hasn't
slept toI twenty years Yale Il,
iu have one soon who has silent
tnt better part IT -four
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21

400 years before Christ by the
Greek astronomer Melton. He
found that 235 lunar months are
almost exactly equal in total length
to 10 years of 365 ia days each.
There is a difference of only about
two hours in the course of the 10
years. This period is called the
Metonic cycle. and it's division into
years gives rise TO the Golden
Numbers" which indicate the place
of any year in the cycle. AT the
beginning of the cycle, which, as
used in the ecclesiastical calendar,
is reckoned from January !, of the
year l B. c., a new moon happened
TO fall on January /. Every 10
years since then there has been a
new moon at the beginning of jan
uary but during the intermediate
years of the cycle. the first new
moon of the year occurs at different
dates in January, which are always
the same for years occupying the
same place in the cycle. This place
is called the Golden Number, and
by its aid, through a somewhat
complicated system of computation,
the date of the paschal moon can
be calculated any number of years
in advance
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21

T z. MORGAN is killed at least
once every year by Wall
Street. He got off lightly the
other day-he was only danger
ously ill.," with staff of doctors
and nurses in attendance, and was
being hurried from Egypt to Italy.
The sober, untrimmed truth was
that Mr.. Morgan had a dose of in
digestion and was fully recovered
long before the world was told that
he was at deaths door
No human being has been dead
so often as j. P. Morgan. Every
time he leaves the end Of a tele-
graph or telephone wire his death
is announced. His son, Jack
Morgan, once facetiously replied,
la Mark Twain, that report of his
fathers death was considerably
exaggerated"
Mondays short-lived canard was
sufficient to upset the stock market.
United States Steel shares tumbled
to a new low level for the present
movement, and the whole list be-
came sickly.
j. P. Morgan is the only fnan-
cier in the world whose death would
cause any serious disturbance i'll
our security markets.
No man quite like Morgan has
ever appeared in the worlds finan-
cial history He has raised him
self to a class entirely by himself.
He has no compeers, either at home
or abroad-even the head of the
Rothschild family cuts much less
conspicuous figure. Morgan's pow
er is not due solely to his wealth.
he is far from being the richest
man in America. He is not New
Yorks most active banker-George
f. Baker is at the head of the city's
active bankers, with James Still
man, though less active, next in
line.
Mr. Morgan rules through sheer
force Of personality rather than
through money. He is the one man
in the country whom other finan-
ciers will obey without question
as was strillingly demonstrated at
the height of the 1907 panic.
No man-no six men-could fill
Morgan's shoes. His word is final
on every important matter that
comes before the Corner House
and, indeed, on nearly every vital
financial transaction that the coun-
try witnesses. He is the supreme
court. From his decisions there is
no appeal His NO" means no,
and his Yes means yes, And his
verdicts seldom run into two sem
fences. He is abrupt to the point
of brusqueness. His cabled YER
diets are quite as long-or as short
AS the ones he delivers when at
home. He has absolute contempt
for cable tolls
In financial circles the question is
often asked; What win happen
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21
How to Find Golden Number.

The Golden Number of amy year
can be found by adding ] to the
number representing the year in
ordinary notation, and then divid-
ing the sum by 10, the remainder
being the Golden Number for that
year. For instance. add to 1918,
divide by 10, and the quotient is
100, with IA remainder, and this
remainder is the Golden Number OF
the year 1913, 1t shows that 1918
is the fourteenth year in a Metonic
cycle, and that five years later
there will be a new moon on jan
uary /. The date of the first fun
moon of the year being known, ii is
easy to calculate the dates of all
the other new and full moons that
follow. The first new moon OF this
year occurred on January !.
II 1t were not for the almanacs
everybody would have to make an
these calculations, and many others
that We have not mentioned, for
himself in order to find out tho
date of Easter, and ii is safe 10 say
Thar. in thal case, IA would Doe still
more movable" than il actually Is
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21

In the new Japanese cabinet are
such citizens as Yamamoto. Taxa.
hist, Gijin Okuda, Sakunoshin and
kikoshi-not that anybody out.
side the proofreaders will object.
of course
The Illinois legislature should be
mindful of the fact that jim Ham
is equally at home viewing with
alarm or pointing with pride.
Whenever J, Pierpont Morgan
has a touch of indigestion. Wall
Street promptly suffers an attack
of Cramp collie
Mr. TAFT has found one thing he
can set away with. m,wa, that
little Netu business
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21
Follows First Full Moon.

The primary reason. for the varI-
able date of Easter is the fact that
ii is the only great festival in
Christian countries that depends
directly upon the monthly motion
OF the moon. At the same time it
i affected by the yearly motion Of
the sun. since its date is governed
by the Nernal equinox. which is the
point in the year when the sun
crosses the equator from the south
ern into the northern hemisphere.
But the year and the month are
not commensurate lengths of time
that is to say. there is not an
even number of lunar months in
year. A lunar month IS not the
same as calendar month. but It
represents the time from one full
moon 10 the next, which is, on the
average. about 30 days. 10 hours. A
minutes A year. which is meas
urod by the apparent motion of the
sun is on the average S65 Ia days.
Now, this can not be divided by the
period OF a lunar month without a
remainder In consequence a full
moon may occur at any time in the
course of an ordinary month
But the rule Tor finding tho date
of Eastoe rs chat s, must fal. upon
tla SUNDAY, Immediately touoWu-
tae first .ui moou, which occurs on
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21
B. c. FORBES
Writes on
Morgan and Markets
Report of Great Financier's Recent
Slight Illness Basis for interesting
Comment Concerning His Relation
to the World of Money.
By B. c. FORBES

when Mr.. Morgan goes?" Can 1t,
firm be held together? Can if 70
tain its unparalleled powero wan
there be divided counse}s and :.
ternal factions? Will J. P, MN,
gan, Jr., be the actual as VOL =.
the titular head of the housao r.
will Henry P. Dawson, now Mr.
Morgan's right hand man, be tb.
supreme power? Young Mr.. 1Tor.
gan studiously remains out of N,
limelight. 1t is understood tina, bo
has a very delicate sense Of what
is owing his father, that he scrr.
pulously avoids doing ANYTHING
that would SAVIOR Of taking tbo
reins from his father, for Whom HE
affection and admiration are IN.
bounded. But it is limited that
when the time comes Jack" will
astonish the public by his know.
edge of finance, by his skill and w
his energies. He is far from being
a figurehead, his intimates declare
Young Mr.. Morgan, however. Ike
young John D. Rockefeller, has no
consuming passion for business or
for million making. He enioys
romping with his children at his
country home more than playing
the financial chess in Wall Street
He does not worship money.
1t is hoped by bankers that the
United States will have a sound
currency system before the elder
Morgan is removed. They know
that, in times of crisis. the financial
community can turn to him. His
leadership is undisputed. His word
is law-even to the biggest Of his
fellow financiers. During the last
upheaVal he issued orders to other
prominent Bankers (including some
classed as rivals) after the manner
of headmaster giving instructions
to school boys. Nor was ausht said
in opposition to his DEGREES. No
field marshal was ever obeyed with
more alacrity.
= Il
Conditions will probably forbid
the rise of a second financial Ma
poleon of Morgan's power. He did
his greatest work before The gov
eminent asserted it's right to inter
fere in corporate doings. Regua-
ton was not an actually III the
days when the billion dollar stee.
trust or the water logged ship trust
was formed. There was none to
say him nay. Today the Sherman
act has become a nightmare 10
capitalists of monopolistic tendeh'
cies. And the Jail sentences for the
National Cash Register otile'as
add to it a new specter. The tran
sition from autocracy to democracy
in finance is not conducive to tos
creation of Morgans.
=
Let us hope, however, that IoNs
before Mr.. Morgan relinquishes H's
hold on Americas financial reIH'
such laws will be passed and WorN
ing smoothly, that the aIlayihs "
panic will not depend upon Inv
commands Of one man.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-21
System Made 400 Years B. G.

Inasmuch as Christmas day.
which is celebrated as the anniver-
sary of the birth of Christ, comes
Al fixed date every year. Deem
Der 20, it would appear much sim
pier to keep Easter also as near
fixed GATE as possible. 1t could not
be absolutely fixed, because of the
settled custom of celebrating it on
Sunday, but, as the astronomer
Clavius pointed out centuries ago.
a reasonable degree of regularity
could be introduced by making
Easter the first Sunday after the
equinox without regard to the
phase of the moon. If that rule
We're adopted, the date OF Easter
would still be a movable one, but
MS waudcfiugs would be kept with
in % veeG OF a uN,d date.
The Nis;,us sysiyu of J,j,Hmln-
iu- t1e date of Easter is based
upon discovery made more than
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-05
TTMEsREPUBLICAN. MARsHALLTOwN, IOWA, JUNE 1913
the unexpected appearance in the court

the unexpected appearance in the court
room OF Johnson and his lawyer.
1T has been hard to determine what
punishment should be melted out in this
case" said Judge Carpenter in passing
sentence. 1--WE have had many cases
where violations OF the Mann act have
been punished with fine only. We
nave had other cases where defendants
have been sentenced to one or two
years in the penitentiary,
THE circumstances In this case have
been aggravating The life of the de-
PENDANT, by his own admissions. has
not been moral one. The defendan,
Is one OF the best known men of his
race and his example has been far
reaching
THE sentence shall be that the de-
PENDANT shall be confined year and a
day in the Joliet penitentiary and that
he shall be fined $1,000"
The court denied a request OF counsel
for Johnson that the negro be allowed
to serve the term In the city Bridewell
instead Of the states prison.
Johnson was convicted May 10 OF
having paid for the transportation OF
Belle Schrieber from Pittsburgh to Chi
cago.