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BURNED AS OIL IS FOUND
WELL FLOWING 500 BARRELS
DAILY CATCHES FIRE.
Experts Declare Debeque Product
High Grade and New Field Ex.
pected to Be One Of Best.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Debeque. Colo.-The town of De-
beque, Colo, is filled with excitement
over the striking Of oil in a well a
mile west of town, which has flow
Of 500 barrels day. Oil experts say
the grade is high and the Debeque
field is expected to become one Of the
most important in the country.
The oil shot sixty feet into the air
when 1t was first struck, and on COM
Ing in contact with red-hot drilling
bit at the surface Of the we'll ex-
ploded, causing fire which destroyed
the derrick and tool houses of the op-
Grating company. Vern Harris, drill
ing foreman, and other workmen were
burned about the face and eyes when
the explosion occurred. The well will
be capped.
The well belongs to the Grand River
Valley Gas and Oil Company, a cor
poration composed Of Denver men. 1t
Is 2,01O feet deep, 500 feet deeper
than any other well that has been
driven. 1t is situated in the heart Of
an anticline twenty miles long, which
biologists believe suppresses great
bodies of the finest oil.
Tests of the new oil show a paraf-
fine base 1t is green in color and can
be burned in a kerosene lamp without
refining.
A refinery will be built at Debeque.
for which machinery from the fields
near Florence has been secured. All
the efforts to develop the Debeque
field have been discouraged in the
past, say local men, by the big oil in
terests.
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Body Of Girl Found in River.

Florence half.nude body OF
Marie Stancher. nine. who disappeared
from her home at Rainbow Park, one
mile east of Florence, Friday evening,
June 26. was taken from the Arkansas
river about half mile from the place
where her footprints and those of a
man disappeared at the rivers edge.
An autopsy performed upon the body
by Coroner Davis and DR.. Hutton,
mayor of Florence. disclosed, accord
ing to the authorities. that the child
had been assaulted and murdered be-
fore her body was cast into the
stream. In connection with the child's
disappearance, NJ. Dihollo, a Sicilian,
is now held in jail at Canon City on a
murder charge.
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Denver.-Harold r. Henwood, who
shot and killed Sylvester l.. Won Phul
and George E. Copeland May "a, 1911,
In the barroom Of the Brown hotel,
must be hanged in the week beginning
Oct. rs next, according to a decision
OF the Supreme Court.
The decision affirmed the judgment
Of death entered against Henwood at
his second trial, year ago. and fixed
new date for execution of the judg-
ment, which had been stayed by the
appeal.
The decision was written by Justice
Gabbert, and the other justices con-
CURED, except Justice White, who dis
sented, and Justice Hill, who did not
participate.
The appeal was the second taken
"by Aenwood to the Supreme Court.
He won on his first appeal after he
had been convicted of murder In the
second degree and sentenced to i'm.
prisonment for life. That judgment
was reversed, and on his second trial
he was convicted OF murder in the
first degree, the jury fixing the pen
atty at death.
Permanent Injunction Against Bonds.
Characterizing the Moffat tunnel
contract as a deliberate effort to
evade the constitution, and denying
the right Of municipalities to enact
legislation which is contrary to organ
ic law, the State Supreme Court de-
clared the s3,000,000 bonds voted by
the taxpaying electors of the City of
Denver on Feb. IL last to be invalid
and void.
Justice Scott wrote the opinion
which was concurred in by all the
other justices except Justice Gabbert,
who wrote dissenting opinion in
which he took the stand that the peo-
pie OF Denver had as much right to
enter into an agreement for the con-
struction of railroad tunnel as they
had to build an auditorium.
Isaac N Stevens, city attorney. an
nounced, after conference with the
Moffat Tunnel Commission, that the
decision would be referred to the peo-
pie of the City OF Denver under the
provisions of the recall Of judicial de-
cisions amendment to the state CON
stitution.
II this plan is carried out it will be
the first time that the recall OF decis-
ions has ever been invoked in Colo
rado.
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FOREIGN.

The collier Storstad is held to blame
for the Empress Of Ireland disaster. In
the findings of the wreck commission
at Quebec.
The rebels in the north of Haiti
made an unsuccessful attack on the
forts Of Cape Haitien. which are held
by the government troops.
Two hundred and thirty persons
were reported executed In Mexico City
by Huerta, according to news from the
south received at Saltillo by Constitu.
tionalists.
A Peking dispatch to the London
Daily Telegraph says that China is
about to apply to the bankers Of the
five power group for another loan OF
$100,000.O00. ...'
Gen. Pedro Muniz. Peruvian pre-
mier and minister of war, and Hide.
brando Fuentes, minister of the inte
rior, resigned from the cabinet at
Lima. Peru.
The Vienna City Council voted an
appropriation Of $4,000 to cover the
cost of Vienna's separate participation
in the Panama.Pacific exposition at
San Francisco.
A violent attack was made on Au.
gustine Birrell, chief secretary for Ire.
land, by male militant suffragist,
who rushed at the statesman immedi-
ately on his descent from the train at
Bristol, Eng.
To save his country from the hor.
rors of civil war and his capital from
capture, and perhaps sack by victo-
rious army, General Huerta intends to
resign the provisional presidency and
leave Mexico.
IF 1t be not peace with honor, It
must be war with honor" said Sir Ed.
ward Carson, the Ulster Unionist
leader, in addressing the Central An
trim volunteers at Larne, Ireland.
There Is no alternative"
Querido Moheno, former Mexican
minister of commerce and labor, be.
fore departing from Vera Cruz on
board the Espagne for Cuba and the
United States virulently criticized the
policy Of the United States toward
Mexico. AS he sat in the forward sa-
loon of the French liner, Senior Mo-
heno looked through a portfolio to-
ward the American flag flying In Vera
Cruz and shook his fist in rage.
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Washington.-The Brazilian minis
ter to Mexico, who is caring for the
interests OF the United States in that
country, Monday telegraphed the
state department that the resignation
of General Huerta in favor of Francis
co Carbajal, the newly-appointed min
lister of foreign affairs. was expected
Tuesday or Wednesday.
While the Washington government
VIII not recognize Carbajal, Minister
Suarez learned that the American gov
ernment was not disinclined TO treat
informally with the new administra-
tion until transfer of power TO the
consttutionalists could be effected.
General Carranza himself notified
the United States, through John II.
Silliman, formerly American consul at
Saltillo and now personal representa-.
tive Of President Wilson there, that
under no circumstances would he sane
tion conferences with representatives
of General Huerta to draft terms OF
peace.
Carranza assured the American rep
resentatiye that the eonstitutionalist
forces soon would enter Mexico City
and maintain order there.
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May "a, 1s1l-Harold +. Henwood
shot three men in the barroom of
the Brown Palace hotel sylvester
Won Phul and George E. Copeland
died Of their wounds and John w.
Atkinson was crippled for life.
June 20. 1sll-At the conclusion
OF two weeks trial Henwood was
found guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree
July rs. 191l-Sentenced for life
sto the penitentiary.
Feb. 3, 1s13-Supreme Court or
dered new trial.
May rs. l9l3-Second trial be-
gan.
June is, 1913-Henwood found
guilty of murder in first degree.
June 2s. 1sl3-New trial asked.
July 10. 1913-Third trial denied.
July 26. 19l3-Henwood sentenced
10 hang during week of Nov. |.
Sept. 10. 19l3-Supreme Court
granted a supersedeas,
Dec. 23. 1913-Case appealed
second time TO Supreme Court.
April 10. 19l4-Appeal heard in
Supreme Court and the Court was
asked to reverse the sentence to
hang.
July 5, 1sl4-Supreme Court con-
firms decision OF lower court and
orders that Henwood be hanged on
Oct IS. 1914.
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ELks GRAND LODGE OPENS.
Four Thousand Delegates Present at
Opening Session in Auditorium.

Denver.-A blare of bands. mingling
with the shrilling OF fire sirens,
formed the prelude to the opening
ceremonies OF the grand lodge OF Elks
at the Auditorium. The Rev. John
Dysart, chaplain of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, stepped
to the center of the Auditorium plat
form. With upraised hands he
brought silence With blessing and
a prayer for the success of the lodge
and the things the order stands for,
prayer that asked for the best things
In life for the city of Denver and its
people, the Golden Jubilee OF the or.
ganization was officially begun.
Four thousand filled the theater por-
tion of the Auditorium. All stood in
reverence.
Governor Ammons welcomed the
delegates, and praised the philan-
thropic and charitable work of the OF.
der.
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WASHINGTON.

President Wilson will continue the
conferences with business men.
Major General Wood bade official
farewell to President Wilson before
leaving for Governors Island to take
command of the Department OF the
East
The names of the four new super
drsadsoughts now building or author
lied III be the Arizona, California,
Idah1 ,and Mississippi, Secretary OF
the Navy Daniels announced.
Joseph E. Willard, American ambas-
sador to Spain. has obtained permis.
sion to return to the United States on
short leave to attend to personal af,
fairs.
Representative Good, Republican of
Iowa, made an attack in the House on
the use Of government revenue cutters
as pleasure craft" by Secretary Nc.
Adoo.
Twenty-one states are now organ
lied against woman suffrage, accord.
ing to statement issued by the ma.
tional association opposed to suf-
frage.
United States Treasurer Burke has
completed his investigation into the
charge that advance information was
given to certain New York bankers
about the shipment of gold bars from
the Denver mint to the New York
sub-treasury by which the bankers are
said to have made large profits. Burke
reported to Secretary Of the Treasury
McAdoo that the advance information
was given out at the sub b-treasury in
New York to inquiring bankers In the
regular course Of buhiness, and not at
Denver.
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CONDENSED RECORD or the
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
eAYlNos,. D o IN G 3, ACHIEVE
MENTs. sUFFERlNes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
WESTERN.

Melville E. ingalls,, financier and
railroad man, died at Hot Springs,
Va, OF heart failure.
Maintaining the militia in the copper
country during the strike last winter
cost the state of Michigan $405,000.
For the enaction of laws to reduce
the state tax levy. a special session Of
the Ohio Legislature was ordered by
Governor Cox.
The first woman commissioner from
state to the Panama. Pacific exposi.
tion, Mrs. Fred E. Sutton of Oklaho-
ma, is at San Francisco.
John MeGavick, for twenty-six years
an employee of the Union Pacific, was
cut In two at Cheyenne, Wyo., when
he fell between cars of a moving train
The jury in the case of Anthony Pc
tras. accused of the murder of Theresa
Hollander last winter, disagreed and
was discharged by Judge Irwin a,
Geneva, Ill.
The body of William Kenehan OF
Denver who fell or jumped from the
steamer Helen Blair week ago, was
recovered near Huron Island, accord.
ing to a Burlington, Ia, dispatch
One man was shot and his assailant
was put in jail; for protection at To-
nopah. New, In riot between mem.
bers of the Western Federation OF
Miners and their sympathizers and
red-flag followers.
Foreclosure of a mortgage of $685.
6Ge,000 on the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco railroad was asked in the United
States District Court at st. Louis by
the Guaranty Trust Company Of New
York. The Frisco is now in the hands
OF receivers.
The defense of Charles X. Field, ed
itor Of Sunset Magazine, and of the
three others accused with him of hav
Ing disclosed military secrets OF the
United States by the publication of an
Illustrated article revealing Panama
canal Notifications, will be that the
pictures were taken and the aeroplane
flight across the isthmus was made
the permission of Col George W.
Goethals. in command of the Panama
zone.
An earnest plea in behalf Of the
woman educator by President Swain,
recommendations for radical changes
in the present public school system,
discussion Of a plan for the establish.
ment of libraries to cost slO0,0O0,0OO
in the country districts to which An
drew Carnegie may be the chief con-
tritutor, and activities of convention
politicians marked the session of the
National educational Association at st.
Paul.
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new HAVENLOSS
OF $6o,000,000
DIRECTORS ARE HELD CRIMINAL.
lY TO BLAME BY LAX
METHODS.
SENATE GETS FINDINGS
WORST MANAGED LINE IN HIS.
TORY OF RAiLROADlNG SAYS
COMMERCE BOARD.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. Of the most
glaring instances of administration
revealed in all the history OF Ameri-
can railroading,n is the Interstate Com
merce Commissions Characterization
OF its findings In the investigation OF
New Haven railroad financial affairs,
reported to the Senate.
"A reasonable estimate of the loss
to the New Haven by reason of waste
and mismanagement." says the re-
port. will amount to between $780,
100000 and $90,00O,000. Directors
should be made individually liable to
civil and criminal laws for the man.
ner in which they discharge their
trust"
In report of 10000 words, prob
ably the most drastic in terms OF any
ever made by the commission, the
New Haven's directors are pronounced
"criminally negligent"
Evidence pointing to violation Of
law has been transmitted to district
attorneys in Massachusetts. Rhode
Island and New York, and the federal
department of justice.
All the commissions structures were
on the management of the New Haven
system under former President Mel
len.
In justice to the present manage
ment, the commission says, 1t is but
fair to say that Chairman Howard
Elliott and Walker D. Hines, special
counsel. "have cooperated with the
commission and rendered 1t substan-
tial assistance throughout this inves-
tigation."
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-07-16
Father Shoots Daughters Suitor.

Trinidad .-Resenting the attentions
paid by Pedro Valdez. young Mexi
can, to his daughter, Roserio, Yincenz
Montourano, an aegd gardener, at Gar.
ella Plaza, shot and perhaps fatally
wounded Valdez, whom he encoun.
'ered coming up the garden path with
the intention Of calling upon his
daughter
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Denver Aviator Falls 400 Feet.

Denver.-Losing control of his ma
chine as he scared 400 feet above the
ground over the Aurora district, Chris
Petersen, aviator, plunged to the earth.
He jumped clear when the plane was
Just about to strike the ground and
landed free of the wreekage. He was
severely stunned, his face and hands
were cut and his body bruised In
many places.
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Total .........s57.los.7oo 100 sis.14s. 900

Increase of 30 per cent, or $12.8S1,-
700, In the 1914 value of the principal
crops OF Colorado--not including sugar
beets or fruits-oyer the 1918 value Ia
predicted by the bureau of crop esti'
mates Of the United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture. In Its July crop
forecast, made public this morning
through the Denver weather bureau.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-07-16
Short Line Strike Closes Mines.

Cripple Creek Closing Of the mines
because of a lack of coal on account OF
the strike on the Cripple Creek Short
Line is threatened, and there are indi-
cations of other serious developments,
although no violence is expected.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-07-16
Boy, II, browns In Pueblo Ditch.

Pueblo.-Plunging into water deeper
than he thought. Carl Floyd. eleven
years old, was drowned In the Besse
mer ditch, near Roselawn cemetery.
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GEN. HuERTA TO QUIT
Feeling of United States Toward Car
abajal, Slated as Successor,
Question of Mediators.

Vera Cruz, July 14.-Strong but
unconfirmed rumors were in circua-
tion here that Huerta was assassinat-
ed in Mexico City by army officers
yesterday afternoon. United States
authorities here say they know nothing
of ii.
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EIks Invade Denver for Golden Jubilee

Denver.-Thousands OF Elks from
every part of the country were In the
city Monday for the first day Of the
Golden Jubilee convention.
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CROP ACREAGE INCREASES.
State Gains $12,200,0o0 Over Last
Years Crops on Government Esti-
mate.

Denver.-Value OF certain Colorado
crops for 1918, as given by the United
States Department OF Agriculture and
the indicated value Of the same crops
for 1914, estimated by the same de-
partment:
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TUNNEL BONDS ILLEGAL.
JUDGES DENY cITYS RIGHT TO
AID PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.
Supreme Court Reaffirms Lower Tri-
bunal in Henwood Case, and Orders
That He Be Hanged Oct. rs. 4
Chronology Of Henwood Case.

Newspaper Union New. Service.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-03-06
RAILROADS READY TO "srRIkE."
BaIk at Carrying Mail Without More
Pay From Government

Washington, Feb. 21-Second AS
sistant Postmaster General Stewart
has compiled statistics to refute the
contention of the railroads that the
government is underpaying them $751;
100000 year for carrying the mails,
and to show that the government is
paying all the service is worth.
Newman Erb, president of the To-
ledo, St. Louis and western, who notl-
fled the postoffice department that his
road would decline to carry mail unless
the pay was increased. has. been noti-
fled that his road is being paid the
maximum allowance By congress, aud
that congress has been asked to pay
additionally for the parcel post.
Postmaster General Burleson is pre-
pairing weighing tests for further rec
concentrations to congress.
No railroad other than those having
land grants can now be compelled to
carry mail, but Mr.. Burleson has asked
congress to make carriage of mails
compulsory.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-03-06
THREE KILLED BY
BANDITS BULLETS
AS TRIO STARTS TO HOLD UP
TRAIN THREE MEN eRAPPLE
WITH ONE.
BULLETS FLY THICK AND FAST
Shoot Victims After They FalI-Wo-
men, Terrorized, Hold Out Purses
to Fleeing Man-Grabs Them
and All Three Escape.

Bellingham, Wash, Feb. 21-When
three passengers on Great Northern
passenger train bound for Vancouver,
B. c., undertook to resist one of trio
of holdups who entered the day coach
when the train was running along the
edge of the bay, nine miles south OF
here tonight at 1880 the robber drew
an automatic pistol and shot the men
dead in their tracks.
Thomas B. Wadsworth, a Canadian
Pacific conductor of Vancouver, B. c.;
R. l.. Lee, of Bremerton, Wash, and
NJ. B. McElhoss, travelling salesman
of Vancouver, B. c., are the dead men,
1t is believed the three bandits
boarded the train at Burlington, few
miles south Of the place of the hold
up. They were seen to leave the
smoking car and enter the vestlbule
between It and the day coach where
they tied white handkerchiefs about
their faces. One of the men then en-
tered the day coach and walked to the
rear door, a second one stepped just
inside the coach, while the third re-
manned in the vestibule.
AS the man reached the rear door
and started to lock it, the three men
who we're killed leaped from their seats
and grappled with him. At that mo-
ment the robber who was at the for
ward end of the coach began shooting
into the ceiling of the car and put out
the lights. The robber graphing with
the three men began shooting. He
fired probably ten shots. Lee was the
first man to fall. The next two shots
killed Wadsforth and McElhoss. Lee
was trying to crawl behind the rear
seat when the bafdit turned the gun
on him and fired five or six shots into
his back. None of the shots fired by
the other bandit took effect, but he
terroriEed the passengers, as half a
dozen women tainted.
The robber who killed the men ran
back to the front of the coach. AS he
passed along several women passen-
gers held their purses in the aisle He
gathered up a handful of them and
ran.
The three bandits left the train to-
gether as it came to stop from a
signal given by the conductor, who had
heard the shooting from another coach
and pulled the bell cord.
Posses we're formed here and spe-
cial train was rushed to the scene but
on account of the wilderness of the
surrounding country and the opportu-
nifty to get away in boat to the San
Juan islands, little hope is held out
for the speedy capture of the robbers.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-03-06
SEAT LITTLE GOOD TO HIM
Smart Youth Had It But He Did Not
Proceed Far Toward His Des-
tlnatlon.

An important-looking and haughtily
acting young man was wandering up
and down on the platform of the rail-
road station of small western city
He was intent on finding an empty
seat In the express, which was almost
due to start. Vainly did he search
each car. Suddenly he assumed an
official air and, walking up to the
last car, he cried out:
"All change here. This car will be
left here"
The occupants OF the crowded car
uttered EXPLANATIONS which proved
their dissatisfaction, but hurried out
and packed themselves in other
coaches. The face OF the young man
assumed bland and childlike express
sion as he settled himself very com
fortably in an empty seat.
Shortly after, the station agent put
his head in at the door and said:
Il suppose you're the smart boob
who told the folks this car wasn't 60
ing, aren't your"
Yes" replied the bright youth,
with grin.
Well" responded the station agent.
you were right. 1t isn't. The brake
man heard you calling out about it,
and so he uncoupled 1t. He thought
you we're an official. s
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