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Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26
Do You Want Business or Politics
in the County Clerks Office!

Bayfield, Blade, a of a Democratic
president
office The article
publication which This is the
campaign of the politicians.
axpayng public
office political machine for the
benefit much of this
it's refreshing business administration
Of political Republican loyal to her
realizing public
politics railing taking the oath of office
the result place it has enabled
Mrs. devote her time the office instead of to poll
her first
With looked the
the
TWELVE HUNDRED AND SEVEN earnings for
odng filed about
clerks by thus the the above
toned additional help the 1914 registration began
While January the
dcaions that she will be able the
equal to that of her first
any point
exactly
Office will call investigation Now them the majority Of
another and without regard to
politics. them they the clerks office made
political machine We will be honest and that the
signature Also
The Herald has word the esmabe Democratic
Mrs. Orme the from personal
efficiency treatment counts then
county this
then that in the future clerks will be foolish do
themselves rather making the office political machine through
help Shafro had created
fill with
personal followers undisputed fact
saying in worth the BUSH
the the reelection of Mrs Ome The
people know just what they depend
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26
ITALY's POSITION.

Italy has been able to maintain her
place among the great powers only
by following policy of intense sell
fishness toward allies as well as op-
ponents. To keep her present posi-
tion, even in times of peace, strains
the resources Of the peninsula well
nigh to the breaking point. Italy is
practically without coal, and its 9TH
er mineral resources are extremely
scanty. A large part of the land is
unfit for tillage, and the provinces
south Of Naples demand great deal
Of financial and scientific assistance
before they can emerge from semi
barbarous methods Of cultivation.
If ever a nation were justified in
making sacrifices for peace, Italy can
claim such justification; and in spite
Of the traditional tendency Of the
house Of Savoy TO undertake desper-
sts adventures without counting the
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26

Making q total for the state Of
z, $40 miles of road (nearly one-half
of the total mileage Of state high
ways), graded, at an average cost Of
about $4,000 per mile. This work
means the crowning and ditching and
bringing the road to a moderate grade
including heavy cuts in many places,
and a great deal Of rock work in
the mountain sections. The ruling
grade is per cent. There have been
1861 miles Of state road surfaced
with gravel, or sand-clay, most of it
with gravel, at an average cost of
$500 per mile, not including the grad
ing, bridges or culverts. There have
been 221 bridges built, of all sizes,
from feet to one $40 feet in length
across the Arkansas river, at an av-
erage cost of $1,000 per bridge.
There have been 1,49s culverts, of all
sizes, from 8-inch pipe to 6-foot
culvert, placed, at an average cost Of
$50 per culvert.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26
VOTE DOWN NO. 4.

The proposed law relating to spe-
cial elections, which will be No. on
the ballot, is one which should be vot-
ed down. 1t provides that upon Pc
tition of 25 per cent of the qualified
electors of the state the governor
shall call a special election. The only
proviso is that it shall not be within
four months of the regular biennial
election.
The fact of the matter is--as every
taxpayer knows--there is no d-mand
for more elections that we now have.
A law of this sort, if in effect, would
be used by some of our bogus re-
formers or by people with mission
to create lot of needless expense
to the people of this state. An cleo
tion costs thousands of dollars, in
printing of ballots, in publishing Of
proposed laws, in registering voters
and in paying judges and clerks and
in hiring polling places. All the ma
chinery of regular election would
have to be used in a special election.
With elections every two years as
we now have them, there is abundant
opportunity for the people to register
their sentiments on candidates and on
laws. Therefore, this proposed law,
which is No. 4 on the ballot, should
be voted down, says the Colorado
Springs Telegraph, which voices our
sentimenta.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26
UNCLE SAM AS COTTON BUYER

Some Of the Republican senator's in
congress yesterday turned tables on
their southern colleagues when Over
man and others were attempting to
use the credit of the United States
to buy up the cotton crop. Overman
and some of his southern colleagues
are determined that the United States
shall sell government bonds to the
amount of $500, 900, and buy up
and hold the cotton crop of the coun-
try until such time as Europe and
some other nation wants to take it
off our hands. 1t is an indefensible
proposition from financial and eco
nomical standpoint, and Secretary
McAdoo pointed out the other day
that it was unsound in every particu-
lar.
It is not to be supposed that such
a rank piece of legislation and mis-
use Of the peoples money could pos
sibly get through congress. But, Re-
publican senator's, in order to show
the absurdity Of it, Immediately Of
fered amendments. McCumber of
Dakota urged that $1,000, 900 be ap-
propriated to buy up the wheat and
oat crops of the country, which are
also suffering from European war
And Senator Smoot of Utah, in behalf
of the west, proposed that $50,000,-
900 be appropriated to buy up the
copper output, because of the dullness
in that business.
1t would be great thing for pro-
ducers to have the government of the
United States sell bonds to support
the markets in this way; but, our
financial ability and integrity as a
nation would not last very long if we
entered upon that path. Neverthe-
less, the southerners who control con-
gress seem TO think that the govern
ment was created for their special
benefit and are going to make Uncle
Sam pay the freight if it is possible
to do so.-Colorado Springs Tele-
graph.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26
NAME A MIsNoMER.

This country is now confronted with
the probability of the enactment of
a so-called war tax measure, al
though the country is now in con-
dition of profound peace, and voters
are seeking the cause for such legis-
lation. In connection with the
search, four facts that stand out
prominently, go to prove that the
term "war tax" is essentially mis-
nomer. These facts are:
l. The falling off in revenues is
not due to the reason given by the
Democrats for levying the tax--the
war in Europe-but to the failure of
the Underwood tariff law to produce
income.
2. The extravaganza of the Demo
cratic congress has plunged the coun-
try into an expense that cannot be
paid unless special measures are TAX
en-.
8. President Wilson has never
suggested to congress the necessity OF
economy in the expenditure of the
peoples money.
4. There has been no systematic
attempt on the part of either con
gress or the administration to OBJ
serve an economy which would have
made the deficit tax unnecessary.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26
WHO WAS 1T WHO COMMANDED

a handful of Democratic state sena-
tors to bolt Democratic caucus and
refuse to vote for Senator William Fl.
Adams of Alamosa for president of
the state senate? Thomas M. Pat
terson was the recognized head of
that act of supreme and ridiculous
folly which deadlocked the legislature
for thirty days and cost the state
nearly 100000. Patterson declared
that Senator Adams was crook and
we have the spectacle of his brother,
Ex-Governor Alva Adams, introduc-
ing Thomas M. Patterson to a Pueblo
audience. Alva Adams knows that
there is not a more honest man in all
Colorado than his brother "Billy,"
whom the ex-senator has for years
pictured-except during the session
when Billy voted for Patterson for u.
S. senator-as all that is rotten in
politics. Forgotten was the memoir
able and brainy service rendered him
in that fight for the toga. He had
not shed it before he opened the sewer
of villification and abuse of the man
who had served him but whom he
could not control. The deadlock is
not so fresh in the memories of our
leaders as the extra session Of the
Legislature necessitated by the need
for providing pay for the national
guard and the expenses of the insur-
rection of the clients of Mr.. Patter-
sons friend and former law partner,
Mr.. Hawkins. And there stood like
mules in their obstinacy those same
senators who declared they would not
vote Adams an empty honor-oppos-
ing the just claims of the troops and
the request of the Patterson sena-
tors, every one of them his pets, ap-
proved by the News as the only hon.
est and decent senators when they
voted against Adams. A year hence
they were standing for anarchy and
paralyzing the credit of the state.
Their conduct forced the statement
by the president of the United States
that Colorado had lost its sovereignty.
Had Patterson lost control of his
bunch of seven senators or are we
justified in concluding that his was
the cunning brain that guided them
to malevolent opposition to the gov
ernor who was the only legal barrier
against a reign of anarchy? There
stood Senator Billy Adams again
fighting the battles Of the state and
not word from Senator Patterson
recognizing his worth as a citizen
and senator. We couldn't do what
our friend Alva Adams is doing. It
is not natural. Loyalty to Wilson
does not demand It. Every interest
Of the state does demand that this
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26
SIMPLE SYSTEM OF STRATEGY

AS horrible as the war news is, it
would be worse but for the simple
system Of strategy. When the allies
were hotfooting from Mons to the
Marne, it must have consoled the
French and British people to know
that this was bit of military
strategy. And when reinforcements
enabled the allies to turn the tables
and chase the Germans out Aisne
way, there was the same consolation
for the forces of the Fatherland;
strategy demanded that the fall of
Paris be delayed that it might fall
harder. Besides, Won Kluck got
ahead of his schedule and nothing is
more important than that a great
war machine should work together.
The Russians, forced back before
Cracow, are merely coaxing Austro-
German forces into the open, and
nothing could be more strategical
than that. The Austrian army bruised
Belgrade with bombs, but finally re-
tired without taking the Servian capi-
tai, for it would be sorry strategy
to take the mere shell of a capital
when the government had flown. In
time, no doubt, we shall learn that
strategy led the Belgian army to
abandon Antwerp after it became too
hot for comfort, since the Belgians
are not used to hot climate.
All of which tends to show how
important is strategy in the course
of warfare. Most of it, as recorded
in the dispatches, reminds one of a
scrap described by Bill Nye in which
he got the other fellow down on top
of him, with his nose thrust aggres-
sively between his opponents teeth,
after landing several severe blows
with the point of his jaw on his ad-
versary's fists. And yet it serves as
an explanation to a people busy hunt
ing for bright spots and silver Innings
where they are rare. Explanations
are needed when there are no decisive
victories to report, and strategy COW
ers multitude of evils and warns
a lot of cold feet.-Atchison Globe.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26

Few individuals are positively neu-
tral, although many newspapers try
to stick to the presidents policy.
Some, however, do not, and none
others are SO inflammatory, so radi-
cally one-sided and unfair as the
Fatherland and Staats-Zeitung, really
German publications, although they
happen to be printed in New York.
1t is only fair, however, and we strive
for fairness, to add that there are
many more papers which champion
the other side, although less radical
in their statements. These latter in
clude many of the great metropolitan
papers and most of the notable maga-
zines.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26
The people of the state are . unit

The people Of the state are = unit
on that.
1t is certain that the new governor
will be confronted by some grave
labor problems when he takes office
and Colorado at this time needs q
man who will be fair and impartial.
II. M. Patterson, the Democratic
candidate for governor, cannot meet
these requirements because his judg-
ment has been SO badly warped on
the labor and other questions with
which you are all familiar that he
can no longer be an impartial judge
in any dispute.
For years and years he has been
receiving. large sums Of money from
the Western Federation of Miners
and other labor unions to act as their
attorney.
While he was inv the newspaper
business these large sums of money
which. he received so distorted his
vision that he could not be fair anc
as result of this he was forced to
retire from the newspaper business
after he had wrecked the papers
which he controlled.
Now he asks the people to elect
him to judge these same industrial
problems. If he is elected there will
surely be two years of the worst tur-
moil that this state has ever seen
and Colorado cannot stand that just
now.
George Carlson, the Republican
candidate for governor, is of an en-
tirely different type. By education
training and business he has develop
ed into man who stands for Law
enforcement regardless whether he
approves of the law or not. AS gov.
ernor he will see to it that everybody
respects and obeys the laws Of this
state and every problem with which
we are confronted at this time can be
settled by strong man in the ex.
ecutive chair working on that theory
One thing the Post stands ready
to guarantee is that IF THE PEO.
PIE OF THIS STATE VOTE DOWN
THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT
THE RIGHTS AND PROPERTY OF
EVERY MAN INTERESTED IN
THE LIQUOR BUSINESS IN THIS
STATE WILL BE THOROUGHLY
PROTECTED BY GEORGE CARL
SON.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26

cost, the fact that the country has ev
erything TO lose by entering a conflic,r
lays the hands of public opinion beav.
iiy upon the nrm of those who womb
rlsk IN war the hardly won and hard
~ kept goods of the people.
FOR public opinion is a stronp.rs
force in Italy than in either GERMANY
or Austria, and public opinion b..
always regarded the triple alliance
as a hard necessity. Scratch an/kee
ian and you will find a deep-ooir
and unique hatred of Austria Th;s
is matched by keen dislike for tha
Germans below the Alps, whether tbev
be Germans from Germany or fron,
Austria. 1t is doubtful, indeed II in
the past two decades the German
press toward an understanding ~
Italy and its people. This ancient Teuf
tonic incapacity was never more mani
fest than at the time of the Alyeciras
conference and during the Italian.
Turkish war. There is something Of
western optimism, that fills the entifS
nation, from cabinet minister to vet
turino, with strong surging faith
in ltaly's future and a determination
that she shall take and hold her place
in the concert of great powers. There
is no denying that thus far this on
timism has been justified by events
and that Italy has emerged stronger
from every international crisis of re-
cent years.-Robert H. Fife, Jr., in
the October number of the North Am
erican Review.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26
FOR SALE STOCK.

CATTLE RAISED IN COLORADO,
GOOD BLOOD, IN GOOD SHAPE.
ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED 'ANb
FIFTY HEAD IN ALL; FROM 135
TO $50 HEAD OF CALVES, 25 TO
40 HEAD YEARLING HEIFERS, 40
TO 80 HEAD OF TWO YEAR OLR
HEIFERS, THE BALANCE COWS.
WRITE OR SEE N. H. IRWIN,
FARMINGTON, N. M. BOX So.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26
sHERIFFs SALE.

BY VIRTUE of an execution is
sued out of the Clerks Office of the
District Court of La Plata County and
State of Colorado, and to me directed,
whereby l am commanded to make
the sum of One Hundred Eighty.six
and 5S-10O Dollars ($1s6.5s) besides
interest and costs of suit, the amount
of a certain judgment recently OBJ
tanned against w. H. Howe and B.
F. Howe in favor -of The Denver
Laundry Machinery Cd Amy. out of
the lands, tenements, goods and chat
tells of the said W. H. Howe, ! have
levied on the following property, to-
wit:
Lots lat and 149, Main Street, Ami
mas City, in the County Of La Plata
and State of Colorado.
THEREFORE, according to said
command, l shall expose for sale, at
Public Auction, all the right, title
and interest of the above named w.
H. Howe in and to the above describ-
ed property, on Saturday, the 14th
day of November, 1914, at 10 o'clock
a. M, at the west front door of the
Court House in Durango, Colo.
Dated at Durango, Colo, this 10Th
day of October, 1914.
ARTHUR C. FASSBINDER,
Sheriff of La Plata County.
By CHAs. E. MEUsER,
Under Sheriff.
First Publication Oct. %, 1914.
Last Publication Nov. 12, 1914,
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26

scandal monger and venerable ira
Queer Of character be permitted to re-
tire to private life and ponder over
the wreckage he has made. Alva Ad
ans you owe it to your brother Billy
to make his traducer publicly apollo
gize to Billy Adams for trying tc
murder his reputation. Anyway, say
something for Billy yourself if Ton
is ue-tied-Boulder Camera.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
AND DETERMINATION OF
HEIRSHIP.
In the Matter of the Estate of Mamie
r. Shields, Deceased.

In the Matter of the Estate of Manic
R. Shields, Deceased.
| NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
That on Monday, the 23rd day of No
vember, A. d. 1914, at the hour of
10 a. m. of said day, the same being
one of the regular days of the Sep,
tember Term of the County Court of
La Plata County, in the State of Colo
rado, /, May S. Kaylor, AdministrA-
trix of said estate. will appear before
the Judge of said Court, present fny
final settlement as such Administra-
trix, pray the approval of the same,
and will then ask to be discharged as
such Administrtrix. At which time
and place any person in interest may
appear and present objections to The
same, if any there be.
AND FURTHER NOTICE rs
HEREBY GIVEN, That at said time
and place the Court will receive and
hear proofs concerning the heirs Of
said deceased, pursuant to the veri-
fled petition of May s. Kaylor, claim
ant as heir at law of said deceased,
heretofore filed herein, asking for
judicial ascertainment and determinA-
tion of the heirship of said tstAts,
and from which it appears that May
S. Kaylor, Jessie ]. Wigglesworth,
Effie J. Smith, Gertrude Bagty and
Walter R. Shields are heirs OF Saia
deceased;
NOW, THEREFORE, Any ma MI
persons who are or who clanh 10
be heirs at law of said Mamie r.
Shields. deceased, are hereby required
to be and appear thereat, or abide
the determination of the Court there
on.
Dated at Durango, Colorado, this
18th day of October, A. D. 1914.
MAY s. KAYLOR,
Administrative of the Estate OF Nh.
mie R. Shilds, Deceased.
Russell & Reese, Attorneys.
First Publication Oct. 20, 1914.
Last Publication Nov. IL, 1915.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26

France is in the market for a
thousand motor trucks for war pur-
poses and the only country that can
supply them is that ruled over by
your peaceful and prosperous Uncle
Samuel. But to offset this good news,
it is announced that there is to be a
cigarette paper famine. The bulk of
cigarette papers comes from Austria
and France.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-26
ALLOTMENT OF STATE
HIGHWAY FUNDS

The state highway commission, in
reply to requests from all parts of
the state, has adopted the following
resolution setting forth the policy to
be pursued should the half mill levy
bill be passed:
Whereas, a bill has been initiated
and will be submitted to a vote of
the people of the state of Colorado
at the approaching election, provid-
ing for levy of one-half mill on
all the taxable property of the state,
the proceeds of which are to be paid
into the state road fund and,
Whereas, it is estimated that if the
said bill is passed, the annual income
of the state road fund, after the levy
provided for becomes available, will
be as follows:
About six hundred thousand dollars
($6O0,000) from one-half mill levy,
of which about two hundred thou
sand dollars ($2OO,OOO) will be con-
tributed by the city and county Of
Denver, in which no part of the state
road fund can be expended under the
existing legislation, and about one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars
($180,000) from other sources, in
Guiding internal improvement fund,
and the state license tax on automo-
biles; and
Whereas, it is considered by the
state highway commissioner and the
advisory board desirable and proper
that the~people of the state shoud be
advised in regard to the policy which
will be followed in the expenditure
of the state road fund, if the bill pro-
viding for the one-half mill levy is
passed.:
Now, therefore, the following reso-
luton has been adopted by the unani-
nous vote of the state highway COM
missioner and five members of the
advisory board:
Re olved, that if the bill providing
for a one-half mill levy is approved
by the people of the state at the COM
ing election, it will be the policy of
this commission to expend upon the
state roads in each county of the
state, excepting the city and county
of Denver, the amount collected from
the half-mill levy in each county; to
expend the amount collected from
such levy from the city and county
of Denver upon the principal state
highways leading to Denver, and in
which the city of Denver is most di-
rectly interested, and to expend the
balance of the said fund, consisting
of contributions from the internal i'm
provement fund, the state tax on au-
tomobiles, and otherwise, in improv-
ing the state highways in counties
which are not financially able to bear
the necessary expenses of improving
the same.
Adopted by the state highway COM
mission, September 26, 1914.
In advisory board district No. 1,
$40 miles of road was graded, 65
miles of road surfaced, 81 bridges Of
all sizes constructed, and 1863 culverts
of all sizes.
In advisory board district No. 2 656
miles of road graded s3h miles sur
faced 81 bridges built 321 culverts
placed.
In advisory district No. $50 miles
of road graded, AN miles surfaced,
80 bridges built, 265 culverts placed.
In advisory board district No. I,
$50 miles of road graded, 51-6 miles
surfaced, 40 bridges built, and 544
culverts placed.
In advisory board district No. 8,
426h miles Of road graded, IN miles
surfaced, So bridges built, and 200
culvsrts placed.