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STATECAPITAL
NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
OCT. 9 FIRE PREVENTION" DAY
Governor Ammone Asks Aid Of Every
Citizen In Reducing Annual Loss
Due to Negligence. ;

Denver. - Governor Ammons has
designated Oct. 8 as fire prevention"
day and, in proclamation, called up
on all citizens to try to reduce losses
In Colorado by fire through removal of
materials which might cause fire and
by q careful examination OF their
premises. His proclamation follows:
Proclamation.
"The losses by fire in this country,
of insured and uninsured property. to-
tai every year more than 100000, 900,
and are largely In excess of that OF
any other civilized nation. This Is q
loss which can be curtailed by proper
precaution. The large payments by In
surance companies, as well as the
enormous personal loss Of property
which is uninsured, is an expense
which should be decreased. The re-
duction of the fire loss would natural
ly tend to reduce the cost OF insurance
and would thus be benefit to the
public.
ut Is our duty as good citizens to
do all within our power to prevent
this waste and needless loss OF prop
erty, and it Is, therefore, the part Of
wisdom to join with the people of
other states in setting aside day in
which we bring to public attention
this important duty.
1.-The losses in Colorado by fire dur
ing the last year on which insurance
was paid were $1.O62.SS3. Inasmuch
as the cause OF fire is frequently care
lessness, or failure to exercise due
precaution, l call upon the citizens OF
Colorado to set aside Oct. 9, 1914, as
a day on which to give special atten-
ton to the removal from their prem
ises OF all material which might cause
fire, for examination as to the safe
condition of heating appliances. which
are frequently the cause OF fire losses,
to look carefully into premises where
articles, which might produce spon-
taneous combustion. are kept. and for
the destruction of Equitable material
deposited in places where 1t might en-
danger property by fire.
81 further recommend that on that
day instruction be given to the pupils
In public and private schools concern
ing the exercise of care in the use OF
matches and all combustible materials,
and that laborers in factories and other
places of industry be duly cautioned
on this subject.
I'm witness whereof have hereun-
to set my hand and caused the great
seal OF the. state to be affixed at Dem
yer. the state capital. this twenty-ninth
day of September. A. D.. 1914.
E. NJ. AMMONS. Governor.
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state to Defend water Rights.

Denver-The state of Colorado will
be permitted to intervene as defend
ant in the case of the government
against the Telluride Power Company,
according to decision by Federal
Judge Lewis. The case involves the
right of private company to use
water which crosse5 q national forest
reserve. Fred Farrar, state attorney
general, petitioned the court to allow
Colorado to Intervene, on the ground
that the matter was one Of grave pub
lie interest, in which a final decision
was desirable on the right of the gov.
ernment to enforce regulations incon.
sistent with the laws of the state.
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erltl.h nox seout, Buoy.

London, Oct. 1.-THE Boy Scouts of
Great Britain are distinguishing them
selves in almost every way suggested
by juvenile fiction. From the north
of Scotland down the eastern coast to
the Isle of Wight on the south, Sea
Scouts are patrolling the shore, watch
ing for the dreaded Zeppelin or for
some armed raider that might have
escaped the British North Sea fleet.
with view to sinking the army trans
ports in the channel. Railway bridges
and reservoirs are watched by camps
OF scouts, relieving the soldiers who
are needed at the front. !.
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Rich Gold Strike.

Idaho Springs, Colo. Oct 4.-One of
the richest gold strikes in the history
of the Clear Creek mining district.
kept secret until verification assays
could be completed. was announced to-
day by promoters of the Golden Edge
lode OF the Newhouse tunnel. A score
of samples from portions of loose
streak show the ore to be worth $751;
500 ton, and it is claimed by the
lessees that considerable body of 1t
will be found with development.
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German Wing in Northwest
France Ready to Retreat
Into BeIgium--Severe
Artillery DueIIing.
RUSSIANS G0.SL0WER
They Are Blocked by Strong Teutonie
Army Near 6order-kalser's Troops
Advance Fifty Miles In Poland
and Hold Their Lines.
Summary Of E0eAts.)

Engaged in the longest and big
gest battle in history, the Allies
are slowly gaining an advantage
over the Germans in the struggle
between Il million on a side
which has proceeded in northwest
France since September u. This
statement is based on official re-
ports from London, Paris and
Berlin, which agree that the army
Of General Won kluck is being
forced back. The French and
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British reports say this action is
decisive in its indications but Ber-
lin maintains that this advance of
the Allied left wing is not of i'm
portance.
The opposing battle lines now
extend from a point southeast oil
Nancy, France, northwestward to
Verdun, westward to Rheims and
to Noyon, thence practically
northward to Cambria, which is
not far from the Belgian border
in northwest France. The Ger
mans in eastern France have more
than held their own. They have
silenced some of the forts around
Verdun and have made some ad-
vances between Verdun and
Nancy.
Watch Northwest Battle.
Severe artillery duelling has been
almost constant in the general neigh
borhood north of Rheims, where the
Germans have entrenched infantry
along the Aisne river and have EN-
bat.led siege guns and other heavy ar
tillery in the foothills of the Ardennes
mountains. During the last week
however. the opponents have rested
somewhat in both the eastern AID cen
trail positions along the line. All eyes
and energies have been turned upor
the massive operations in the North
west
Dispatches from newspaper CORES
pondents who have reached Rotter
dam, Holland, from the south stat,
that preparations for the retreat o
the German right wing are well un
der way. German troops are advanc
ing from the north OF France to Tour
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Antwerp forte. Effective.

London. Oct 5.-A dispatch to the
Central News from Antwerp. dated
Sunday night, says: The Germans
have been repulsed. They asked for
two-hour armistice to bury their
dead, but the Belgians refused to COM
ply, and continued their deadly as
sault on the lines of the enemy. The
Belgians have destroyed all the
bridges over the river Nethe. The
Germans unsuccessfully attempted to
rebuild the bridges."
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PresIdent PoIneaire At the Front.

Bordeaux. Oct. i.-President Poin-
care. accompanied by Premier Viviani.
and Minister of War Alexandra Miller
and. left at noon today to visit the
battle front. The party travelled in an
automobile and will be absent from
the temporary capital for three or
four days.
The President goes to the battle
line. not to take part In the strategy
as is the case of Emperor William and
possibly Emperor Nicholas, but that
he may congratulate personally the
troops upon the bravery they have dis
played in the long and stubborn fight
ing.
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Amerjcans Red cross Fund,

Geneva. Oct. 4.-Pleasant A. Stovall,
American minister to Switzerland,
turned over to the Swiss. Red Cross
Society, at Berne yesterday, the first
donation of $1,000 sent by Americans
through Washington.
There are still scores Of Americans
with families in Switzerland.
Fearing the risk to be encountered
in crossing the Atlantic many of these
people have combined to demand a
boat flying the Stars and Stripes to
take them home.
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Ireland supplie. q. .ooo,

Dublin. Oct. 4.-The number of new
recruits for the British army obtained
in Ireland amounts to about 10000.
Dublin district, 1000 from Cork dis
trict and the remainder from Belfast.
Not all the Belfast recruits are
Unionists nor are all the Southern re-
cruits Nationalists. The Belfast Ma
tionalists claim to have furnished 5000
OF the Belfast recruits.
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Mr.. Cantrell who. with his wife, has
Just reached London, gives a graphic
picture of the state of Belgium since
the German invasion. He says the
stencil from the shallow burial
trenches is terrible and that the bodies
In these graves are often cut up by
the heavy wheels OF passing artillery.
The railroads generally are marked
by overturned locomotives. The forts
of Liege, Mr.. Cantrell said, look as If
they had been shattered by terrible
earthquake. He passed German sol.
diers feeding refugee peasants on
bread and soup. Near Brussels he
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AMERICAN REFUGEE HAS
THRILLING EXPERIENCE

London.-While driving from Brus-
sells to Grammont, where they pur-
posed taking train for Ostend, Ed
gar Allen Cantren of Newport, KY,
and his invalid wife went through a
hail of bullets, one of which killed
their driver The two Americans were
left with their car overturned in a
ditch and at the mercy OF German
uhlans. who let them pass, however,
upon seeing their credentials.
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London, Oct. 4.THaving repulsed
the German attacks, presumably in the
vicinity Of Roye. the French. according
to the official communication issued
Sunday afternoon at Paris. have re.
sumed the offensive at several points,
while other positions on their left
have been appreciably maintained.
The great effort of the allies to en-
velope the German right may there.
fore be said to be again in operation,
and 1t is believed that the whole
French column from Roye northward
to Arras is moving eastward against
the Germdn position.
II is the same operation that has
been tried repeatedly for the last three
weeks in an attempt to reach the Ger.
man lines of communication and en-.
circle the German army forming the
right wing or force 1t to fall back to
Belgium and Luxemburg.
The Germans have had a long time
in which to make their position Sc
cure. SO there Is a lot Of hard fighting
ahead for both the attacking forces
and the defenders. The defensive role
is now apparently being assumed by
the invaders.
In the center, from the Disc to the
Argonne, the two well-entrenched ar
mics are still watching each other,
ready at moments notice to meet
attacks or on the advice of aerial OBJ
servers. to move to some point where
the line Is threatened.
While there have been many official
movements. there is little, according
to the French report. to record. In
other words, the situation remains vir-
tually as 1t was.
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saw trainload Of prisoners. The Ger
mans allowed the people to give food
and tobacco to the French prisoners
but not to the Englishmen. The Eng
lish filled fifteen cars.
Mr.. Cantrell talked with wounded
German officer who said the English
infantrymen were SO fond of cover thai
they were not feared. But he de
scribed the English cavalry as devils
He said they charged standing up in
shortened stirrups and that the swing
of their sabers beheaded their enc
mics. They handled their horses like
ponies en- polo field.
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Executed for Madsro,, Death

San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 4.-Jose
Bonales Sandoval. court martialed and
executed at Jiminez, Mexico, several
days ago. was put to death because of
his alleged implications in the killing
OF Gustavo Madero in Mexico City.
This was announced here today.
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state Gets .5s, $40 From Forests.

Denver-The sum of s56,34O.42 will
be received by the state. government
from the federal treasury as the
states share of the income from the
national forest reserves in Colorado
according to notification to Governor
Ammons. The money is to be distrib.
uted to the various counties in which
the forest reserves are located and is
to be used by those counties for school
purposes and road improvement. The
amount received this year is about 81.
800 more than last year.
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Pope Benedict for Peace.

Rome. via Paris. Oct. 4.-Pope Bene-
dict has addressed an autograph let
ter to Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria. this being the rulers name day.
again urging the emperor to use all
his influence to shorten the war as
much as possible.
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Denver Prays for Peace.

Denver, Oct. 5.-Fifty thousand peo-
ple-English, French, German and Jew
- persons of all creeds and all beliefs.
knelt in Denver churches yesterday
morning and evening and united in a
common prayer for divine interven.
tio to restore peace to Europe and to
preserve the peace of the universe. In
every city in all the states of the
Union similar services were held.
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viii Build More HospitaIs.

Venice, Oct. 4.-The Vienna hos
pitfalls and eleven temporary asylums
for sick and wounded soldiers are fear
fully crowded. The city council has
decided to build additional wooden
hospitals which will be furnished with
10000 beds.
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To Repair Their Fenc..-

Washington.-Unless there are un.
expected developments in the war sit.
uation to involve American affairs,
the legislators can be speeding to their
campaign activities by Oct. II.
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el,hop spauIdInq Buried In Denver.

bTeHop SPaU1u'Hg 6urFsu III OeHVeT'
Denver.-Bishop Franklin S. Spald.
ing of the Episcopal church in Utah.
who was killed in an automobile acci.
dent at Salt Lake City, was buried in
Denver beside his father and brother
at Riverside cemetery. @
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GERMANS RETAIN
GOOD POSITIONS
OFFENSIVE AGAIN APPARENTLY
BEING ASSUMED BY THE
TEuToNs.
EAST PRUSSIA BATTLE.
REPORTED GERMANS OCCUPY
LAENkEN AFTER A SHORT
RESISTANCE.
New.paper -rnIen New. servIce.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, Oct. 5.-Reuter's Amster-
dam correspondent in dispatch says:
THE German troops today displayed
greater activity around the Dutch from
tier. They occupied Laenken after a
short bombardment"
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Fashion Note.

'one blessing, at least, will come
to US from this dreadful war. We
shan't be inundated with shocking
French fashions"
The speaker was leading club
woman. She resumed:
AT a club dinner the other evening
a man fashion writer-man fashion
writer's are the best-said to me:
"A truce to these foreign modes!
They are caricatures.'
"Caricatures p said 1. Caricaturesi
Yes, perhaps. But wouldn't it be more
accurate to call them take-offs?'"
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Some men never make much noise
in the world until after they Join the
door slammers' union,
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EmbaImlna Examiner Appointed.

EmbaInIho ExdmIher EppoIhteo.
Denver.-Henry NJ. Mccarthy of Pu.
eblo has been appointed to the State
Board of Embalming Examiners by
Governor Ammons. McCarthy's term
will expire Sept. %. 1918.
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Accounting forlt.

Accounting for II.
How stih those new people are!"
Don't you know why? They made
all their money in starch"
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w..lern New.paper unlon Sew. seryIe..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-19
$4,000 INVOKE PEACE
ON THE FIELD DAY OF
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
Impressive Scene on Belmont
Plateau Mark Annual
Drill of Pennsylvania Di-
vision No. |.

More than $4,000 heads were barred or
bowed today on the Belmont Plateau
when prayers. some audible and some
breathed out in silence, We're offered
pleading for the restoration of peace in
Europe.
The supplicants were Knights Templar
and their visitors.
The Templars of the Pennsylvania Divi-
sion No. I decided upon the petition for
Divine Interference in the war when
President Wilson by a proclamation asked
the people of the United States to pray
for peace. The Templar's opened their
fourteenth Field Day with the prayer.
In brilliant uniforms with hands clasped
across the hits Of their swords and heads
barred the knights made striking pic
tur" i'm the strong sunlight on tho Ma
teau. Beneath the trees and from high
vantage spots thousands Of persons gazed
on reverently.
Mayor Blankenburg. himself Knight
Templar; Governor Tener, 4. f, Sir a.
Howard Thomas, Grand Commander of
Pennsylvania, and his staff, in addition to
many other guests and prominent
Knights Trmp,ar from New York, Balti-
moro, Pittsburgh and other cities, attend
ed the ceremony
The eleven commentaries Of Phladel-
phia and vicinity which participated
In the military review and prayer as
semhled at the Masonic Temple at
o'clock and from there We're taken 70
Fairmount Park in special trains from
Broad street station. Alter reaching the
Belmont Plateau the Communicates lined
UP In military formation and the cere-
monies We're opened by the firing Of
salute to the national colors The knights
then were drawn up for inspection and
a dress parade preparatory to the main
feature the Offering OF the prayer. The
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-19

neely, Robert L. Buchler, McCluney Rad
Cliffe, Robert G. Smith August p, Kun
zig, Wesley r. Roe William D. Clouds.
George X. Riehl, Samuel W. Mitchell.
Wesley r. Morgan, Vincent Saul. Ernest
T, Apeldorn, Burd p Evans. Louis L.
Strassburger, Leslie ]. Py.e and Charles
r. Palmer
The knights were under the command
Of Sir Knight James Robinson, of Co
rinthian Commandery, as field adlutant,
assisted by Sir Knight William VI. Matos.
NJ Mary Commandery. No SO. assistant
field adJutant Eminent Sir Hayes II
Duncan, OF ST Johns Commandery. No.
f. as field officer OF the day, had com
pete charge Of the grounds
Corinthian "Chausseur'' Comma ndAr,.
the only mounted commandery or knights
Templir in Pennsvlvania. had sew
eral hundred mounted men in the review.
This comm ndery acted as escort Ia
Grand Commander Thomas and HRS staff
One of the features Of the parade and
maneuvers was the first appearance
Gf a strictly Knights Temp.ar band Of
about s1 men, equipped in full Templar
uniform, who rendered tho musical
program. This band will give a specia.
concert tonight when the events Will
be- closed by a fireworks display.
The following communicates particle
pated in the events:
philadelphia. No p +. Sir William g..
81 i'J, JohHs, fi,,''' 80 J. f. Sir Thomas j. S.
Nicely, comma anier.
Kadosh 10. 80, F, Sir william n. Murphy.
commander
Mary. 30 as E. Sir James f NJ Keller.
commander.
-. Aban No. A., E. Sir Joseph II. Noble.
commander.
;, ,corlnthian "chasssur," No. 5a. z. Sir Louis
" GrOh. commander
Pennsylvania. No. 10, j., Sir Alexander
AdaiTe. Comman nder.
Germantown, No. So E. Sir J. EIstn Ross.
commander.
chester 40 Sc Of Chester. Pa E. Sir
Henri l. Con commander.
Brandywine, No So. ~ West Chester F. Sir
Nathan r. JardIns. commauder
kensington, No. "a, Sir Ell VI. era wley,
commander.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-19
0RANG-0UTANGS PASS
CENSORSHIP AT zoo
Villa and Sylvia Declared Free of
Tubercular Ailment.

Villa, of Borneo, and his mate Sylvia,
the orang-outangs purchased by the Zoo
logical Garden a little less than two
months ago, have now passed the health
censor at the Zoo and are regular men,
bers of society there. Although members
of the higher ape families are difficult to
raise in this climate, authorities at the
Zoo now believe that this pair will live
at least FIVE years.
The animals were purchased from
Louis Rhue, a New York animal dealer,
who got them from the engineer and
boatswain of a tramp steamship. They
came to the local Zoo June %, and were
Immediately isolated for observation.
Such animals are specially susceptible to
tubercular infection, but DR.. Herbert Fox,
the Zoo pathologist, Is now assured that
Villa and Sylvia are sound of lung.
The orang-outangs will be placed on
exhibition with the chimpanzee about Oc-
tober l. Villa, the male is equipped with
a coat of coarse red. brown and black
coloring, but finer.
Superintendent Carson, of the Zoo, is
surrounding the pair with every safe
guard to prevent repetition OF what
happened at the Bronx Zoo, in New
York, where the entire collection was
wiped out by tuberculosis. In addition
to being perfectly matched as to size. the
orangs are we'll mated and so far their
domestic affairs have not been marred by
a single scrap" The exact sum paid
for the pair has not been divulged, but
is said to be high. Each animal is two
years old. The formation of their hands
and finger-nals compares we'll with the
human hand.
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HIS ISOCCUPATTON GONE,
PRINCE OSKAR'S CHEF
BEGINS LAND VOYAGE
Adorned With Trophies
From Fatherland, Joseph
Westermeir Starts on Long
Deferred Visit to Brother
in Ohio.

Joseph westermeier. the chef-in-chief
aboard the steamship Prinz Oskar, quit
the ship today
He is going to visit brother in Hoyts-
Vile Ohio. He has not seen the brother
for years because the chief was too busy
to make calls in the States so far from
the seaboard
The Prinz Oskar has her mud anchors
out near the League Island navy yard
Being a German liner with a decidedly
Teutonic name, the Prinz Oskar is TAX
ing no chances by going to sea.
The officers and crew of the ship were
hopeful of making a home port under
the protection of a German Eunboat.
DODGES BRITISH WARSHIPS.
Then came the news that the Essex
and other cruisers of the British navy
were picking up German ships
The Prinz Oskar sailed down the river
then and cast her mud hooks under the
friendly guns of the navy yard.
There were no passengers on the Prinz
Oskar, no guests, and even the captain
went on a vacation. What could first
class chef like Joseph Westermeer dop
He made beef stews for the crew, hut
the scullery boy could do that. No one
would complain or offer congratulations.
1t was then that the chef of the Prinz
Oskar had a thought. He remembered
that he had brother. He searched his
head and learned that the brother had
farm at Hoytsville.
He started to Hoytsville today with a
pocket filled with American dollars and
a few Bavarian coins TO give as keep
sakes.
CHEF IN FULL UNIFORM
Chef Westerme!er wore his ships uni
form with a few decorations. His belt
was trimmed with prongs from the
antlers of deer. The buckle bore the
Bavaria 1t was surrounded with edel-
weiss that Westermeier had p.ucked
from the crags Of tho mountains Of his
country.
The hat of the late chef of the Prinz
Osker is A work OF art. II is decorated
with shooting medals Rising in the
rear il the tai. Of a deer. Westermeier
shot the deer at the distance Of almost
a mile.
westermeter does not smoke cigar
cites For solace and mora. support he
carries pipe weighing half pound
II is adorned with the claws Of eagles
Westermeler shot in the mountains Of
Bavaria,
When the Prinz Oskar anchored for a
rest during the war season. Chef
Westermeier became disgrunt.ed He
.onged 70 hear the pounding ~ the en-
gines and he longed 10 get back 10 his
ovens and frying pans.
There was no one aboard ship who
ou.d appreciate his art. He took of
his waite cap and apron and turned the
kitchen and soup kettles over 10 the
scu..ery boy
He then put on his edelweiss and deer
horn scenery and started vest 10 yemake
the acquaintance and impress his brother
with his Importance.
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"JoKER" SENDS FALSE ALARMS
Six Companies Summoned to Fake
Fire Early This Morning.

Practical iokers. who have been turn
ing in false alarms at various fire boxes
in the Kensington section, will receive
no mercy If caught by the police The
practice has been going on for the last
few weeks, and the police and fire COM
panies of that district have become des-
perate declaring that a false alarm rung
in at the Baeder Adamson Company's box
on Allegheny avenue, east of Richmond
street, this morning is the last straw.
The call was registered at 4:57 this
morning, and six engine companies re-
sponded-two trucks, two battalion chiefs,
one truck and one chemical engine-but
found that there was neither trace of
fire nor Of the perpetrator of the So
called joke.