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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-07-13
WANTS WAGES
PAID IN Cash

The Ministers federation is be-
hind the Painters union in its ef-
forts to have employers pay wages
in cash instead of by check. A res
oldtion has been passed and for
waried to the Manufacturers asso-
citation.
A. B. Mccoy, Spanish-Amertcan
war veteran, Joins Greek navy.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-07-13

House passes aviation service
bill.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
LATEST NEWS
EPITOMIzED
FROM TELEGRAPHIc REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WEEKS
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST IMP RTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Chicago was chosen as the scene or
the 1915 convention of the Railway
Development Association, which closed
its annual meeting in st. Louis.
The Department of Agriculture says
that the winter wheat crop will be at
least one fifth larger than that of last
year, and is estimated at 6S0,000,OOO
bushels.
The Sailors Union of the Pacific.
with headquarters in San Francisco.
sent 500 to the United Mine Work
ers of America in Denver to be used
in the coal strike.
William Marshall Keith of Chicago
was found not guilty Of numbering Wal
ter Paul, his butcher. whom he shot to
death after learning of Mrs. Keith's
fondress for Paul.
Great Northern passenger train No.
/. the Oriental Limited. was held up.
by two masked men. near Rexford.
Mont. The combination mail and bag
and run four miles west, to Rondo,
where the car was rifled.
Iowa medical women in convention
at Sioux City demanded the enactment
of drastic health legislation that will
cSt down the tremendous infant NOR
tality, stop the waste Of money spent
in trying to get well and bring into
the world the eugenic child.
1t is only twelve years since Uncle
Sam went into the irrigation business.
He has invested $S3 100000 in reclaim
ing arid and semi-arid regions. He
has loaned the money to the 10000
persons he has placed on the land and
these produce upward of s16,0OO,OOO in
new wealth annually.
The newspaper profession is as
sacred a calling as the ministry. in the
opinion of DR.. Washington GLADDEN. of
Columbus, Ohio. expressed in an ad-
dress made by the preacher and former
editor before hundreds of newspaper
men at Lawrence. Kan. at the national
newspaper conference conducted by
the University of Kansas.
Guadalupe and Joshef Hinejosa,
eighteen months old and Joined to-
gether somewhat after the manner of
the Siamese Twins. were taken
through St. Louis from their home in
Mexico, Missouri, on the way to
Paris, France. where surgeons will
attempt to separate them. The
The girls are joined together by
three inches of tissue at the breast
so that they always face each other.
They apparently are healthy.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
WASHINGTON.

Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo has
written to Senator MARITIME thanking
him and his colleagues for the brace
let given her by the Senate on her
wedding day.
Members of the Cabinet, after pro
longed conference with President VIII
son on the Mexican situation, declared
the President maintains confidence
that mediation would succeed.
Senator Thomas of Colorado an
nounced to the Senate that he felt him
self bound by the platform to support
exemption of American coastwise yes
sells from Panama canal tolls.
The Senate appropriations commit
tee recommended legislation allowing
$4,000 extra to the Denver mint for the
purchase of two machines that will
facilitate counting and weighing.
The dove of peace in the office of
Secretary of State Bryan was rudely
disturbed when Jacob E. Connor, for
merly consul ct st. Petersburg, and
Frank N Bauskett. Secretary Bryan's
confidential clerk, engaged in a fist
fight.
MY order abolishing liquor drinking
in the navy will go into effect on July
1 as originally scheduled" The fore
going was the reply of Secretary of the
Navy Daniels to reports that President
Wilson had directed him not to make
the famous order operative.
Representatives Seldomridge of Col
orado and Norris of Nebraska intro
duced bills for the relief OF settlers
along the Union Pacific railway. The
company claims it was entitled to a
right-of-way 400 feet wide along part
of its route, while the settlers and
property owners say the road is en-
titled to only 200 feet. The Norris
Seldomridge bill puts into effect the
contention of the settlers.
Associate Justice James Rucker La
mar of the United States Supreme
Court and Frederick w. Lehman of
st. Louis, former solicitor general,
were selected by the President to pre-
sent his views before the South Ameri-
can mediators in the Mexican media
ton proceedings at Niagara Falls,
which open on the Goth instead of the
18th as originally planned.
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia
championed repeal of the clause in the
Panama canal act granting exemption
of tolls to American vessels in the
coastwise trade.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
FIRST DEGREE MURDER
CHARGED AGAINST w. T. HICKEY
BY GRAND JURY.
Several Other Colorado Labor Off
ciaIs Named in Indictments Re-
turned at Boulder.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Boulder, Colo.-Indictments charg,
ing first degree murder were returned
by the grand jury here against William
T. Hickey, secretary of the Colorado
State Federation of Labor; John
O'Connor, president of the Louisville
local union of the United Mine Work
ers of America, Jerry Carter and Joe
Potestio, union leaders.
Indictments charging conspiracy to
murder were also returned against Ed
ward L. Doyle, treasurer of District
Is, United Mine Workers of America; !;
John r. Lawson, international board
member of the American Federation
of Labor, and against the four men
named in the indictments charging
first degree murder.
The action Of the grand jury fol-
lowed the return of fourteen true bills
against strikers and sympathizers al
legged to have been active in the attack
of April %. on the Hecla mine near
Louisville, in which one man, Louis
Steinhoff, was killed and several 9TH
ers injured.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
GEN ERAI.

Policewomen may be appointed in
the cities and towns of Massachusetts
under the provisions of bill signed
by Governor Walsh.
Thomas E. Watson, Georgia editor,
historian and politician. was indicted
by the federal grand jury on a charge
of sending obscene matter through the
mails.
Arthur Gillespie, who wrote "Ab-
sence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder"
and other songs almost as popular,
forty-six.
John ]. C. Smith. an inventor whose
metal mixing process is used in the
United States mints, died at his home
in Passaic, N. ]. He was seventy-nine
years old.
Ten men. most of them chemists,
were killed by an explosion of acids
and chemicals in the mixing room of
the Mexican Crude Rubber Company
at Detroit.
Following its ban on the common
drinking cup for human beings the
board of health at Philadelphia for
bade the use of common drinking
troughs for animals. The State Live
Stock Sanitary Board declared that
glanders and other diseases were be-
ing spread by the common troughs.
As a result of an emergency mes
sage frow Governor Glynn the Assem-
bly, of New York passed bill de-
signed to authorize the governor to
direct the state comptroller to borrow
800, 900, to place the National Guard
on a war footing in case of necessity.
After climbing 12,OOO-foot volcano
in Costa Rica, feat that has been ac'
complished by few American women,
Mrs. Robert NJ. LaFollette, wife of the
United States senator, and Mrs. Eliza
beth Glendow Evans, Boston club
woman, returned from Central Amer
lea.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Ministers Made Ambassadors.

washington.-The American diplo-
matte missions to Argentina and
Chile were elevated in rank from lega-
tions to embassies, when President
Wilson, in the presence of the Argen-
tine and Chilean ministers to the
United States-Romulo s Naon and
Eduardo Suarez, respectively, and a
party of prominent officials, signed the
two bills passed by Congress for that
purpose. President Wilson gave to
the ministers the two pens with which
he signed the bills
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
FOREIGN.

Mrs. Isabella F'yyie Mayo. II, Scotch
novelist, dies in London.
The steam collier Turrethill sank.
owing to the shifting of her cargo. OIL
South Void. in the North Sea, with
loss of twelve men.
Mary Ansell. the militant suffrag
ette who in London slashed the Royal
Academy portrait of the Duke of Wei
lington by Hubert Won Hcrkomer, was
sentenced to six months imprison
ment.
The Cansnea Consolidated Copper
Company announced that arrange
ments have been made to reopen the
mines and smelters at Cananea closed
when the foreigners were warned to
leave Sonora.
A telegram frfom Vienna says Aus
tria will be officially represented at
the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San
Francisco, but as the government has
granted only $4,000 no special Aus
trian pavilion is to be erected.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt replied
to Sir Clement Markhams cablegram
of his discovery of an unknown river
in Brazil by saying that the British
geographer had unccnsciously paid
the greatest possible tribute to what
he had done.
Word has reached Vera Cruz fore
shadowing the approach of critical
moment in the capital. British sub
jects, it is stated, have been gathered
in the concentration district of the for
eign residential quarters of Mexico
City. where it was determined long
ago they would protect themselves
against whatever arose.
Tampico. Huerta's strongest post on
the Gulf coast. next to Vera Cruz, fell
into the hands of the rebels after one
of the hardest and most spectacular
battles in the history of the revolution.
A continuous all-day bombardment
with heavy French guns, captured
from Huerta's men. at Monterey. ST.
fenced the federal batteries. drove the
federal gunboats out of the harbor and
sent the battle-worn defenders fleeing
frcm the city.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
WANTED THE STAGE FILLED
Theatrical Magnate Evidently Cared
More for Effect Than for Accuracy
of Production.

The production of great dramas was
his business. His great talent was
success, and his weakness was that
he always liked to "show off" when he
was rehearsing a play. He was
in the habit of sitting far back in
the darkened theater, and whenever
stranger came in to see the re.
hearsal work he put himslf in the
foreground by jumping to his feet
and bawling out the actors and ac.
tresses When he was putting on
big production of "The Holy City"
three friends of his entered the the.
ater one afternoon to see the dress
rhearsal. AS soon as they had sat
down the producer began to fidget
in his seat He was consumed by the
old fever for prominence. He want
ed the visitors to see that he was the
boss of everything. There were IL
men on the stage, which was unusual
ly large. "Who are those men on
the stage?" he called out to his stage
manager in thunderous voice.
That's one OF the big scenes Of the
play" the manager said humbly.
Those men are the 12 disciples"
"Oh. WE'LL" shouted the impresario
imperiously. "go out and get ~ more.
That's a big stage. and we want to
fill 1t up"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Admits She Is Fat.

Stella Mayhem is fat-just plain
fat. This is the term she herself ap-
plies to her avoirdupois. without try.
ing to disguise 1t as plump" or
stout" And she doesn't mind Joking
with herself about 1t.
On a certain occasion she was let
ting her audience into a few of her
secrets.
81 have tried everything recon-
mended to reduce" she admitted. but
1 keep on getting fatter. Why. there
isn't thing read about, guaranteed
to take off flesh, that don't try
At this pause a woman seated in
the second row. who had made herself
conspicuous by several remarks dur
ing Miss Mayhew's talk. inquired:
did you ever try poison?"-St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
LIVING ADVERTISEMENT
Glow Of Health Speaks for Postum.

1t requires no scientific training to
discover whether coffee disagrees or
not.
Simply stop 1t for a time and use
Postum in place of 1t, then note the
beneficial effects. The truth will ap-
pear
"Six years ago was in a very bad
condition." writes a Tenn. lady. Il
suffered from indigestion. nervous
ness and insomnia.
81 was then an inveterate coffee
drinker, but 1t was long before 1 could
be persuaded that it was coffee that
hurt me. Finally decided to leave 1t
of a few days and find out the truth.
The first morning l left OF coffee
I had a raging headache, so I decided
I must have something to take the
place of coffee" (The headache was
caused by the reaction of the coffee
drug-caffeine.)
Having heard of Postum through
friend who used 1t, bought a package
and tried it. did not like 1t at first
but after I learned how to make 1t
right, according to directions on pkg,
l would not change back to coffee for
anything.
when I began to use Postum
weighed only III lbs. Now weigh
ITO and as 1 have not taken any tonic
in that time / can only attribute my
present good health to the use of Pos
tum in place of coffee.
"My husband says am living ad-
vertisement for Postum"
Name given by the Postum Co. Bat
tie Creek, Mich.
Postum now comes in two forms:
Regular Postum must be well
boiled. 15c and Csc packages.
Instant Postum-is a soluble pow
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
In cup Of hot water and, with cream
and sugar. makes a delicious bever-
age instantly 30c and SOC tins.
The cost per cup of both kinds is
about the same.
There's a Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers-
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
RAILWAY STRUCTURE BETWEEN
VERA CRUZ AND MEXICO CITY
DESTROYED. FOLLOWING
WILSON'S ULTIMATUM.
PARKS SHOT TO DEATH
REBELS SEIZE TEPIc, VICTORY
GIVING coNsTiTuTIoNALIsTs
AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE
CITY OF GUADALAJARA.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Observation-Disclosures Funston ca
bled the War Department that the
Mexicans had blown up the inter-
oceanic railroad bridge at San Fran
cisco, 2S miles from Vera Cruz. This
bridge, 1853 feet in length, spanning
the Antigua river, is the mcst import
ant link in the line between Vera Cruz
and Mexico City, and 1t is believed In
official circles that 1t was ordered de-
stroyed as a result of the strong note
sent to President Huerta few days
ago demanding an explanation OF the
death of Private Parks and the deten-
tion of United States Consul Silliman
at Saltillo.
Secretary Garrison refused to COM
ment on the destruction of the bridge
but he Immediately notified President
Wilson and Secretary of the Navy
Daniels.
1t is probable orders will be sent to
General Funston to extend his lines
out to San Francisco and to attempt
to rebuild the bridge. steel struc-
ture.
General Funston reported rumors
that General Navarette, the federal
commander, was in the vicinity OF
Vera Cruz with a force Of 5000 men.
John r. Silliman. the American con-
sui at Saltillo, who has been in the
custody of the federal authorities for
some weeks past. has not yet been
transferred from that city. 1t was In
tended to take him to Mexico City
but railway communication north of
San Luis Potosi has been cut.
Vera Cruz.-Additional confirmation
of the execution of Private Samuel
Parks has been received. There was
brought into the American lines one
of Huerta's conscripts who had de-
serted. He said he was an eyewitness
of the execution of Parks, and agreed
to relate the facts SO far as he knew
them, to the American general in COM
mand, If in return he would be gwen
work here or otherwise cared Tor.
Parks was orderly for Lieutenant
Colonel Taggart of the Twenty-eighth
U. 8. Infantry.
Juarez, Mexico.-General Carranza
telegraphed from Durango the news
Blanco and Rafael Buelna had taken
the city of Tepic. capital of the state
of that name. after severe engage
ment lasting more than "a hours. The
message also stated that the Constr
tutionalists had taken the town OF
Santiago Excuintlan, and San Bias,
Topics port of entry. The capture OF
Tepic and San Bias is regarded as OF
extreme strategic importance. as 1t
will allow the advance of General Al
varo Obregon into the state OF Jalisco'
San Bias, which is about midway be-
tween Manzanillo and Mazatlan, Is In
close touch with Guadalajara, one or
the most important cities of Mexico.
and, with these towns in his posses
sion, General Obregon will be able to
close in on the city from both the
north and west.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Rich Streak Of Pay Ore Found.

Boulder.-Matt Herchen. an old
time Boulder county miner has uncov-
cred a rich streak OF pay ore at Spring
dale. Miners have been prospecting all
about the place for thirty years. Her
chen himself prospected the same ter
ritory fifteen years ago. but overlooked
the vein because, like all the miners
of those days, he was looking for the
narrow high-grade veins. The pay
streak varies in width from a foot to
a yard. 1t is said to run more than
$50 to the ton. Herchen has called his
mine the Castle.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
THAw TO GO CAMPING.
Prisoner Will Spend Rest of Summer
in White Mountains.

Concord, N. H.-Within a week
Harry X. Thaw will leave the hotel
apartments in this city where he has
lived for eight months. Accompanied
by Sheriff Holman A. Drew of Coos
county, his custodian, and Policeman
Clark d. Stevens of this city, his room
mate and constant companion. he Will
spend some time at Stevens camp on
Lake Massasseoum, near Bradford.
After a visit to the Lake Sunapee
home of w. A. Halsey of Newark, N.
J., Thaw, Drew and Stevens will locate
for the summer at a hotel in Gorham,
one of the gateways to the White
Mountains.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
SPORT.

The Swedish aviator. Thulin, flew
from Malmoe to Stockholm. 267 miles,
descending in four hours and twenty
minutes.
Harry Stone. the American pugilist,
defeated Eddie Beattie of Castle Cary
on points in a twenty-round match at
Liverpool.
The third annual water carnival and
sped boat races, which were to have
been held in Chicago the first week in
August, were postponed until Sept. 10.
Two more British army aviators
were killed near North Allerton, Eng
land, during combined flight by
squadron of military aeroplanes from
Scotland to Salisbury Plain.
Capt. Edward barley Miller. forhmer-
ly of the Seventeenth Lancers, Lon.
don, was appointed manager of the in.
ternational polo tournament to be
played during the Panama-Pacific Ex-
position at San Francisco in 1915.
Johnny Kilbane, the worlds feather
weight champion, who meets Benny
Chavez at the Stockyards stadium in
Denver May 20, is one of the busie
boxers at present before the public
eye, as well as being one of the great
est drawing cards in the ring. Accord
ing to his manager. Jimmy Dunno. who
will accompany him on his trip to Den
yer, Kilbane has cleaned up more than
$4,000 since he annexed the feather
weight title at Los Angeles from Abe
Attell two years ago.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Fin. Crops Assured Kit Carson.

Flagler.-Kit Carson county was vis-
tied by the best rain that has fallen
In several years. This moisture. fol-
lowing that already fallen, has wet the
ground for more than two feet down.
insuring good crops. heavy acreage
of small grain, already planted. Will
be supplemented by large fields OF
corn, assuring plenty of feed for stock.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Chase Gives Facts of Ludlow Troops.

Denver-In the report submitted to
the Senate by General Chase. through
Governor Ammons. giving the desired
Information as to the men who were
engaged in the Ludlow fight, the fol-
lowing facts were brought out: The
company was composed Of thirty-seven
officers and men, twenty from Compa-
nies A and L Of the First infantry and
the remainder from Company A OF
the Second infantry. All but three OF
these men were born in the United
Staes and twelve have passed their en-
tire life in the state Of Colorado. The
average residence of the remaining
twenty-five is more than six years.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Court HaI,s Cut In Water Rate.

Denver.-In the United States Dis
trict Court, Judge John A. Riner OF
Wyoming. acting for Judge r. E.
Lewis, issued temporary restraining
order preventing the city of Denver
from enforcing the ordinance passed
by the city council in February grant
ing a reduction of 20 per cent in rates
now charged by the Denver Union
Water Company.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Cold-Day Decision.

Father-Tommie, would you rather
go to the show and split your sides.
or go to the wood pile and split some
wood?
Tommie-If it's just the same to
you. father, I'd rather split the differ
ence and sit here by the fire.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Entry Stopped on Oil Land.

Basin.-word was received here from
the Lander Land office that the gov
ernment has orderd the withdrawal OF
several thousands of acres of oil land
In the Grass Creek country. fifty miles
south of here and in the Little Buffa-
10 Basin, about twenty miles further
south.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Missionary sister of coIorsdoan.

Glenwood Springs.-Miss Ida Hays,
a Baptist missionary teacher who is
holding her school amid great dangers
at the MADEIRA institute in western Sal
tillo, is a sister of Frank Hayes.
deputy game warden of this city.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Victor Streets Paved With Gold.

Victor.-Business streets of Victor
are now literally paved with gold.
They have been surfaced with more
than seven hundred loads of ore,
crushed to a suitable size, which runs as
high as $40 ton in gold. The ore was
used because it was really cheaper
than 1t would have been to haul nom
mineral rock from a greater distance.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
kIckers.

'It is said that an acre of good fish
ing ground will produce more food in
a week than an acre of land will pro
duce in IL months" said the New
Yorker. ~
"And yet" replied the Long Island
land operator, men will kick when
they find the lots they've bought Gov
cred with water"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Greeley Pioneer Dies of Cancer.

Greeley.-Erick Peterson. SO, Tor
twelve years a resident of Greel aN,
died, a victim of cancer. Eight chill
dren survive.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
New Modern Dancing

The leading Expert and Instructor in New Yorh
City, writes: "Dear Sir:-I have used ALIENS
FooT.HAsE the antiseptIc powder to be shaken into
the Shoes for the past ten Is blessing to
all who arc compelled to be on their feet. dance
eight or ten hours daily, and md that ALIENS
FOor.HAsE keeps my feet cool, takes tho friction
from the shoe, corns and Sore Aching feet
I md 1t to all my pupils"
(Signed) k. FLETCHER HALLAMORH.
Sample FREE. Address Allen 8. .Omsted. lie Roy. ny
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Robinson Resolution Defeated, 2e to 4

Denver.-The resolution by Senator
w. C. Robinson, condemning Governor
Ammons for his conduct of the coal
strike, and calling on him to retire.
was defeated by the Senate by a vote
of 26 to 4.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Boulder crashe. into Train Coach.

BasaIt.-Four persons were injured
when a boulder rolled down the noun
tainside and crashed into coach on
the Colorado Midland, five miles east
of here.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Their Share,

81 see where fashionables had a
horse back tea in Washington. won
der II the horses got any of it?"
"Oh. guess each horse there had
bit"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
strav current Kills reIephone Girl.

Gunnison.-Miss Edith Miller, 2s, a
telephone operator at the exchange
here, was instantly killed by stray
current which entered the switch
board.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Road Convict EIees Camp.

Cripple Creek-Charles w. Morgan
escaped from convict road camp
near Canon City.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
Fire Ruins Seven Buildings.

Fort De France, Martinque.-Firei in
the vicinity of the military hospitai oe-
stroyed seven buildings.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-29
After Thought.

Sonny-Pa, what is rear guard?
PA patch on the seat of boys
trousers.