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Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
SPORT.

j. Gushing Todd, at one time ma.
tional championship trap shooter, died
at .Newburyport. Mass. He was forty.
one years old
Bob McAllister of California out
pointed Battling Levinsky in ten
round bout at New York Both men
weighed 162 pounds.
A deal is reported on for the pur-
chase of the Denver Baseball Club by
Ed. w. Smith of Chicago ring referee
and sporting editor of the Chicago
American.
Lieutenant Eugene V. Armstrong,
Thirteenth cavalry, was fatally in
jured at Ell Paso, Tex, in polo game
at Washington Park between teams
from the Fifteenth and Thirteenth
cavalry.
Willie Ritchie, worlds lightweight
champion, it he gets $4,000 for box
ing Tommy Murphy in San Francisco
on Jan. 23, will have earned nearly
$4,000 since he won the title from
Ad. Wolgast year ago last Novem-
ber.
William Rowles of Farmington,
Iowa. played checkers against fifty
men at the same time at st. Louis.
Bowles several weeks ago played for
ty-nine games at once. In that con-
test he won forty games, drew eight
and lost one, thereby setting a worlds
record.
The War Department, the large
Eastern packers and local horse fan
ciers will cooperate to make the
Forthcoming Denver horse show, Jan.
1924. in connection with the National
Western Stock Show, the greatest sue
cess in the history of the event, now
nine years old.
The Chicago team of the Federal
league, and probably the st. Louis and
Kansas City teams also, will train at
Beaumont, Tex, next spring, accord
ing to Joe Tinker, manager of the Chi
cago team. Tinker said he would start
for Beaumont with a squad of about
twenty-four players March l.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08

Steamboat Springs, Colo, Jan. O.
AS result of demand of the Routt
county taxpayers made directly to the
striking miners of Oak Creek that all
agitators and organizers for the Unit
ed Mihe Workers of America leave
that camp within "a hours, two organ
izers and two agitators left Oak Creek
for Denver. 1t is understood here that
seven more men, whose names were
included in the list of "undesirables,"
will leave Oak Creek before the arrival
of the militia from Trinidad today.
Many of the strikers signified their
intention of returning to work as soon
as the state troops detrain. Sheriff
ChiviIston was in consultation all day
with his deputies. There was no dis
turbaLce Monday.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
GEN ERAL.

Jan. ~ was set at New York as the
Hans Schmidt for the murder of
Anna Aumuller.
John Weeks. aged los years, and
the oldest man in New England, died
at Norwalk, Conn. He retained all of
his faculties up to year ago, when
he became blind.
Blood was shed in the worst fight
of the Tacoma, Wash. smelter strike.
Bricks and stones flew, clubs were
welded and number of mems heads
were cracked. Three strikers were
arrested
Walter f. Sammons, former sheriff
Of Buffalo county, Nebr.. and now
claim agent of the Union Pacific
railroad, was arrested at Kearney,
charged with the robbery of the Kear-
ney postoffice Christmas night.
The New Jersey and Long Island
coasts, famed for their summer resort
vacation homes and permanent fish
Ing villages, suffered property loss
estimated at from s1,OOO,OO0 to 81. .OOO,-
Vup III tht thdl SWtDI
from the sea Saturday.
A letter signed Ralph Lopez" and
mailed in St Louis was received by a
st. Louis newspaper. The writer
claimed that he was the bandit want.
ed at Bingham, Utah, and that he had
been in st. Louis since Dec. 81. The
letter. which was written in Spanish,
was turned over to the police.
An endowment of ss5O,OOO for
new medical building at the National
Jewish Hospital for Consumptives To-
Gated ut Denver, has been made by
President Grabfelder OF the board of
of trustees of that institution. accord
ing to an announcement made at
Cleveland, Ohio.
Christian Chinese now studying In
America are the powers to propagate
Christianity in China, said William j.
Bryan. secretary of state, in an ad-
dress at Kansas City to the National
Conference OF Chinese Students in
America
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o IN G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTS, sUFFERINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

A nationwide strike in sympathy
with the Colorado and Michigan min
ers is talked among labor leaders.
trial a fourth time at Kansas City
charged with the murder of Colonel
Thomas H. Swope.
Thirty-nine Mexican soldiers. con-
fined in the guard house at Fort
Brown, Tex, escaped and are believed
tC be trying to reach Nuevo Laredo.
George w. Nellis. for ten years dis
trIbuting and disbursing agent at the
Pawnee Indian agency, fatally shot
himself while hunting near Pawnee,
Okla.
The Hamilton-Brown Shoe Com
pany locked out of it's factories in ST.
Louis fifteen hundred former en-
ployes who are members of the Unit
ed Shoe Workers Union.
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer of
Zion City, has notified his women fol-
lowers that he will Danish them from
the church if they are caught wearing
slit skirts or low-neck gowns.
-hcIt lldu fuU eullOIS Ill SOiOIduO,
Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico and Mon
tana have accepted the Denver Press
Clubs invitation to attend the Brand
Iron" dinner to be held Jan. 10 at
Denver.
Eliot Calender, aged seventy-one,
commander of the United States
steamship Marmora during the latter
~ of tail lota n
banker and one of the most prominent
citizens of Peoria, ILL.,, died at Los
Angeles.
The years expenses of the three
Marshall Field heirs in England
amounted to $4S,S2S, according TO the
account of their mother, Mrs. Maldwin
Drummond, as guardian. which was
filed and approved in the Probate
Court in Chicago.
The latest reports from CopperSield
Ore, are that the court order enjoin-
ing the militia from selling liquor and
fixtures of saloons there has been dis
obeyed. All the stocks of the saloon,
men have been prepared for ship
ment to Baker.
Chicago police are making an inves.
tigation of the death of William ].
Sweeney of Denver. who either
jumped or was hurled from fourth
story window of a Chicago hotel. Sew
eral persons narrowly escaped injury
when the mans body crashed to the
sidewalk.
Denver's campaign to obtain one of
the eight regional banks to be estab-
lished throughout the United States
by the federal government under pro-
visions of the new currency reform
law was strongly commended by First
Assistant Secretary of State John E.
Osborn of Washington, d. c., who
stopped in Denver en- route to Chey-
enne.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
FOREIGN.

Mark Melford, veteran actor and
playwright died in London.
Sir Lionel Garden, British minister
to- Mexico, is shortly to be transferred
to Rio de Janeiro as minister to Bra
zil. He was appointed to Mexico July
Is, 1913, to succeed Francis William
Strange.
King Victor Emmanuel at Rome
showed the deepest interest in the
project of the Panama-Pacific Expo
sition at San Francisco when it was
explained to him by Ira Nelson Nor
ris of Chicago.
Friends at Christiania, Norway,
have offered their good offices to
bring about settlement of the do
mestic troubles of Ferdinand Pinney
Earle, the American painter, and his
first wife, Marie Emile Fischbacher,
the mother of the boy, Harold, whom
Earle is accused of abducting from
school.
That General Huerta intends to re.
sign the presidency of Mexico in the
near future is again being persistent
'SPoi' 'So III tHe capital. IL is sdlu ne
will take the field in person against
the rebels, after yielding the presiden.
tial office. Enrique Gerostieta, min.
lister of justice, will be selected as his
successor, according to the under.
standing.
a northwest mounted police patrol
left Dawson for Fort Macpherson and
Herschell Island. Sergeant Demster
is in charge of the expedition, accom-.
panied by Constable Hooking, and with
them are several Indians as dog driv.
ers and helpers. They carry mail and
dispatches to the posts in the far
north, including number for vilhpal.
mar Stefansson. the Arctic explorer
and his party.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
STRIKERS WILL RESIST
ORDER OF RoUTT
COUNTY TAXPAYERS.
Newly Organized League Orders De
portation Of Eighteen Men Charged
With Being "Troublemakers."

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-Five hundred armed men
were prepared Saturday night to leave
Steamboat Springs and order points in
Routt county at an hours notice for
the coal camp at Oak Creek to enforce
the ultimatum of the Routt County
Taxpayers League and eighteen men,
including members of the United Mine
Workers of America and others, leave
the county ,'on pain of DEATH"
TWO hundred strikers, armed, and
under orders from e. L. Doyle. secre-
tary-treasurer Of their organization, to
shoot to KILL awaited their coming.
Word of the ultimatum, framed at
the meeting of the league was con-
veyed to the strikers by their Steam
boat Springs attorney, who narrowly
escaped mobbing during the excite
ment Friday night
The ultimatum. printed on placards,
reads as follows:
"our Demands.
"The Routt County Taxpayers
League, representing 1000 taxpayers.
business men and ranchmen, in oil
parts of the county, hereby demand: /:
"One-That Frank GARNER, John
Ferguson, Alex Ferguson, Rusty Fergu-
son, Thomas Bryant, John Howard. Pc
ter Ciscnero. ]. E. Thompson, Martin
Stinehart, Jim Sullivan. John Creek,
w. M. Doyle, Tom Piercen, Dave
Reedy, James Ray. X. Clemens, Chas.
Stark and Mike Pitcher leave Routt
county within twenty-four hours. All
agitators and troublemakers who fol-
low them will be given equally brief
notice.
"Two-That within a reasonably
short time, all ablebodied men in Oak
Creek camp shall be at work or leave
the camp.
"Three-Any person interfering
be given twenty-four hours in which
to leave the county.
"The Routt county taxpayers, 500
strong say they mean business, and
will see that the demand is obeyed."
The men who have been given tw en-
tyfour hours to leave the county in
clude United Mine Workers orgariz-
ers and officials. strikers who have
repeatedly attacked non-union work
men. and in addition four saloon and
dive keepers at Oak Creek, on whom
is placed great deal Of the respon-
sibility for lawlessness.
Doyle said that Hawkins advice,
which he had communicated to the
Oak Creek men, had been to resist de-
pOrtation to the point of death.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
MUST SERVE PRISON TERMS.
Appeals Court Affirms Decision o,
Lower Court in Dynamite Cases,

Chicago.-The judgment of the Fed
eral District Court at indianapolis sem
fencing to prison thirty members of
the International Association of Struc-
tural Iron Workers was affirmed by
the United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals here in twenty-four cases. Six
cases were reversed.
The cases reversed were remanded
to the lower court for re-trial. The
defendants in these cases are Olaf A..
Tveitmoe. San Francisco: William Nc.
Cain, Kansas City, Mo-. James E. Ray,
Peoria, ILL.,: Richard H. Houlihan. Chi
cago: Fred Sherman, Indianapolis.
Ind; William Bernhard, Cincinnati,
Ohio
The sentence of seven years penal
servitude against Frank E. Ryan of
Chicago, president of the association.
was affirmed. There were thirty-two
convictions on charges Of conspiracy
to transport dynamite Illegally. Two
of the convicted men did not appeal
All but six of the thirty who appealed
are at liberty under bond.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
sevENTv-FIve tAsoReRs DROWN
Men Dashed to Death While Being
Ferried Across Fraser River.

Ferried Across Fraser River.
Winnipeg, Man.-Dashed to death on
the rocks in the treacherous Fraser
river, British Columbia, or swept to
their doom by the swift current, was
the fate of seventy-five laborers en-
ployed by the Grand Trunk Pacific
railroad, according to Angelo Pugliese,
one of the twenty-five who managed
to escape when the frail flatboat in
which they were being transported
across the river was wrecked on a
rock.
Pugliese said the twenty-five who
escaped were all more or less injured.
The tragedy occurred In British Co
lumbia, west OF Fort George.
A change in the location Of the
work necessitated the crossing Of the
Fraser and 100 laborers put away
from shore In frail craft, which be-
came unmanageable. It was dashed
TO pieces on rock in the middle OF
the torrent and its human cargo
thrown into the water.
Swimming in the raging waters was
next to impossible and only twenty.
five Of the one hundred reached shore
battered and bruised.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
sunday,s Immense rabernaeIe.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Second only to the
interest In Rev. Billy Sundays whirl-
wind addresses during his recent evan
gelistic campaign here was that
aroused by the immense wooden taber.
nacle which was erected under the di.
rection of his expert builder to house
the throngs which attended the meet.
ings. There was ample seating ca
pacity for 10000 persons in the great
structures and the choir seated sever.
al hundred singers.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
FIowers That YIeId soap.

English countryfolk. on occasion.
still nnd substitutes for soap among
the wild flowers Of the hedgerow.
The best Of these 10 the soapwort,
which contains a mucilaginous Juice
which lathers freely. but almost equal
ly good for washing purposes are the
corn cookie. the wild lychnis. tho
scarlet pimpernel. and the familiar
Glove. The fruit Of the horse chest
nut. also. has saponins qualities. and
IL largely used In place Of soap In
rural districts on the continent
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
Colorado Pioneer Dies.

Milliken.-James Merrihew, ninety.
two, and head of five living genera
tions. who died at the home of his
daughter. Mrs. Aaron Benthel, has
been buried in the Greeley cemetery.
Merrihew leaves one living daughter,
four grandchildren, fourteen great
grandchildren and two great-great.
grandchildren. He was a veteran of
the Civil War and hale and hearty
within short time of his death.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
Institute Dates Fixed.

tute of the county of Boulder will be
held in this city February 10 to 81, ac-
cording to plans drafted here at a
meeting of the executive committee
of the Farm and Plain Association.
The program has not been completed,
but will include addresses by DR..
Livingston Farrand, president of the
University OF Colorado. and others.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
kersex Tax Levy Cut.

Kersey.-This is the only town In
Weld county that has cut the tax levy.
Some time ago the board set 1t at 10
mills, but later found 1t could get
along on less money, and In place Of
keeping the levy and creating a sur
plus, 1t called special meeting and
reduced the levy to mills.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
Something the Public Misses.

They were picked up in the open
sea-" says the Times. "just after their
vessel. the schooner Marjorie Brown.
which had sprung a leak, was about to
sink" That's the trouble with an un-
illustrated paper. The public II de-
prived Of seeing a picture Of vessel
just after It is about to sink.-Nsw
York Mail.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
Boy Killed by Train at LoveIand.

Loveland james Scilley, the 10.
year-old son of II. Scilley. local man
ager of the Great Western Sugar Fac.
tory. was crushed to death beneath
the wheels Of n train In the Great
Western Yards.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
AMMoNs ANXIOUS FOR coMMIs.
SION TO GIVE AID IN BRING
ING PEACE TO STATE.
INQUIRY NATION WIDE
WILL INVESTIGATE INDUSTRIAL
CONDITIONS IN MICHIGAN
AND COLORADO FIRST.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Every assistance the state can give
will be offered to the agents Of the
national industrial commission who
will Investigate the Colorado coal
| strike. We hope the commission may
be able to do something which will
assist in ending the labor contro-
| versy. y.'-Governor Ammons.
Washington, Jan. 7.-Nation-wide in
vestigation of labor disturbances Is to
be undertaken Immediately by the fed
eral commission on Industrial rela-
tions, it was announced here. Decision
to do so was reached following five
days executive session. The first step
in the proposed inquiry will be the
dispatch of investigators to Calumet.
Mich, where there is strike of cop
per miners, and to Colorado, where
there is strike of coal miners.
The past disturbances at Paterson,
N. j.. Lawrence, Mass, and Los An
geles, Calf, are, also to be investi-
gated. The special agents will report
the results of their investigation to the
commission Feb. 2, and the commits
sion probably later will conduct hear
ings.
Because of the apparent misunder-
standing as to its powers and duties.
the commission adopted a resolution
stating that 1t has no power to act as
board of conciliation or mediation in
labor disputes; or to interfere. in any
manner, with the attempted settlement
of such controversies"
Trinidad. Colo.-Investigation and
action by Congress in the Colorado
coal strike situation Is urged in a
message sent to each of the senators
and representatives from Colorado by
the members of the committee of the
Colorado Federation of Labor now con-
Quoting an investigation in the strike
zone
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
Back at Her.

A dear little girl visiting at my
aunt's home kept every one amused
by her ori. inal remarks. One day
she was telling how she and her sis
ter played together. "Oh. yes"
she said, I'VE quarrel sometimes.
Once sister told me l made her sick
and then / told her she didn't give
me much Of al appetite."-Chinage
Tribune.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
Miner Crushed a. Bucket Falls.

Cripple Creek.-Samuel Crump, go, a
miner employed on the Oliver lease at
the Pine mine, on Battle mountain,
was instantly killed and Emmett Ste
wart. fellow workman, was seriously
injured, while working the property.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
Remarkable Record,

Three generations Of . family
named Welland have contributed 173
) service at a farm near Godal-
SUI ey. England. William Wei.
IL I'd. age sixty-nine. has worked for
81 years. His father did 90 Year,
service, and his two sons have done
30 and "a years.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
Ten Held In La veta Killings.

Walsenburg-At the preliminary
hearing ten men we're held for alleged
participation In the La Veta murder
cases.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08

Warrants Charge Dry Law Violations.
La Junta. - Twenty-Five warrants
charging bootlegging were issued by
Justice of the Peace wilkins.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-07-03
WRONG KIND OF GARDENING
Form That Patient Had Been lnduIo-
Ing In Was Not What Doctor
Would Have Recommended.

Now comes the season when the
wife goes to the country and the hus-
band, In the words Of the immortal
song. shouts Hoorayl Hoorayl"
Thus Jerome S. McWade. In an
after-dinner speech at Duluth began
his response to q toast on The La
dies"
When the ladies are with us, we
are SAFE" he resumed, but when they
go of to country or shore, leaving US
In town alone, then our troubles be-
gin.
"A man one summer day called on
a doctor.
Doc he said, I'm all run down.
You look it. too, said the doctor
alphabetically. I'm not going to
prescribe drugs for a man in your
condition. No, sir, what I'm going to
prescribe for you is gardening
The patient started and his I'M
healthy pallor turned to a dull brick
red.
But, doc he said, gardening is
the cause of all my trouble
Humph, what kind of gardeningT
Roof the man replied"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-07-03

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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-07-03
BROKE OUT ALL OVER BODY

So Elm St., st. Adams, Why
baby girl was only two weeks old
when she began to break out all over
her body first with pimples, then they
would spread into rash which would
take the skin all off. used home
treatment but she steadily grew
worse. By that time her body was
completely covered with sores, even
to her feet, and it was beginning to
break out on her face. She became
nothing but a raw sore all over her
little body and suffered terribly.
80 in despair l wrote for SAM
pie Of Cuticura Soap and Ointment
and from the first it began to get bet
ter rapidly. l then bought but one
cake Of Cuticura Soap and one box
Of Cuticura Ointment. In few days
l noted great change for the better
and in a months time she was COM
pletely cured" (Signed) Mrs. W. B.
Owen, Nov. s, 1912
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample Of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-07-03

vice the subject of
her marriage, or she would have been saved
much misery and modification. It Is said that
when Nelly Gusts announced her engagement the
general said: Question yourself Is he a man
Of sense? For be assured sensible woman can
never be happy with fool" James Monroe
fool but the end of this romantic courtship
is another story.
1t is more than probable that a steady supply
of food and clothing reached the camp from many
of the nearby places for it is certain that Carlisle
had a number of women, headed by Mrs. John
Armstrong, who employed every leisure moment
knitting stockings scraping lint for the sol
ders. This lady born in Ireland and had
married an Irishman, but devoted to her
adopted country and countrymen. There were
other Pennsylvania women who sacrificed time
and comfort for the brave defenders. Mrs John
Bull was approached by Lord Howe, who tried TO
bride her to induce her husband to join the Eng
lish army and desert his command as colonel of
the First Pennsylvania, but she proudly refused.
Her descendants doubtless would be proud to
read the unpublished history preserved by the
writer.
Mrs. MifHn (Sarah Morris) sent stockings of
her own making to be distributed among the sol
diers, writing: "In this way do I throw in my
mite to the public good I know ths-that as
free I die but once, but a slave l shall
not be worthy of life and l have the pleasure to
assure you that these are the sentiments of
my sister Americans" Those women who could
do visited the camp, and Mrs. Andrew Porter
elizabeth Parker) rode there horseback to
see her husband, who had boosted proudly that
he never wore garment not made by his wife.
story is told of him that at dinner at Valley
Forge General Knox said to him: Porter, how
does it happen that you look so genteel while
the rest of US are in rags, although you receive
no better pay than WEI" To this Captain Porter
replied: "My wife took this coat apart and
turned it inside out, so you it good
as new" and then went on to relate how she
had visited him but had lost her way when she
met a gentleman out of uniform, of whom she
asked directions. The officer frightened the grths
of her saddle and admired her horse, which, Mrs.
Porter proudly declared, was home bred. Then
walking beside the rider, the person conducted
the lady to her husbands quarters, raised his hat
and strolled away
After a warm welcome Captain Porter sad
well, my lady, you came into camp highly es-
corted by the commander-inchief.
Lady Kitty had a love affair of her
hand during the dark days at Valley Forge, which
eliminated in 1899 by her marriage to Col. Will
liam Duer when General Washington gave the
bride away, for he felt that no honor was too
great to be lavished on the heroine Of Valley
Forge.