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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
STATECAPITAL'
NEWS
Western Newsuaper Union News Service.
OCT. 9 FIRE PREVENTION" DAY
Governor Ammons 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 a 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 a
loss which can be curtailed by proper
precaution. The large payments by in
surance companies, as we'll 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.
1T 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 We're s1,062,SS Inasmuch
| as the cause of fire is frequently care
q tn
precaution. | call upon the citizens of
| Colorado 10 set aside Oct. 8, 1914, as
| day on which to give special atten-
| ton to the removal from their prem
| fses 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 ignitable material
deposited in places where it 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.
| "In witness whereof l have hereun
to set my hand and caused the great
seal OF the state to be affixed at Den
yer, the state capital, this twenty ninth
day OF September, A. D., 1914.
E. NJ. AMMONS, Governor
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
SPORT.
in glish

Scalpers are devising various unique
schemes to corner a big supply of
tickets for the worlds series.
futurity for three-year-old trotters at
Lexington. Best time was 2:03k.
The Colorado School of Mines and
University of Wyoming fast ball teams
will meet at Pioneer Park, Cheyenne.
October 18th.
Soccer football will become one Of
the minor sports at the University OF
Colorado at Boulder, according to the
plans of James N. Ashmore, the new
physical director.
Denver baseball and Red Cross fans
turned out to see the benefit game be-
tween McGill's two fast teams, Denver
and Indianapolis, with the Rev. VIM
A. Sunday as umpire.
James c. Smith. third baseman OF
the Boston National League Club,
broke his leg above the ankle in slid.
ing to second base in the ninth inning
of the first game of the double header
with Brooklyn Tuesday.
The Colorado State School of Mines
of Golden, and the University of Wyo
ming of Laramie, will clash on the
gridiron of Pioneer park in Cheyenne
on Saturday afternoon, Oct. IL.
When Joe Jackson decided he did
not like the Athletics when he Joined
them as raw recruit in 1908 and
skipped back to his South Carolina
home, he beat himself out of SS,963.74
Each Philadelphia player got $2,O62.79
for beating the Cubs in 1910. In 1911
each of Macks men was handed a
check for s3,654.59. and last year the
individual share was $3,24G.36, a total
of $S,963.74.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
Civil Service Examinations.

Denver-The first of the United
States civil service examinations will
be held Oct. Is at the Denver postol-
flee. The examinations will be for an
assistant in the warehouse investlga-
ton, with a salary from $1,SO0 20 81
400. Oct 27 three examinations Will
be given at the postoffice, including
one for a specialist in home economics,
to fill vacancy in this position in the
bureau of education at Washington,
assistant in rural education to fill va
cancies in the bureau Of education and
an ornamental iron worker for the
bureau of engraving and printing. An
open examination will be given Nov.
8 for a specialist in agricultural edu-
cation at $4,000 a year and junior
physical chemist at $500. Nov. an
examination will be given for a
teacher of vocal music to fill vacan-
cies in the Indian service at salaries
ranging from $500 to $720 year,
Only women are eligible.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
Mint to Make Holiday Money.

Denver.-The Denver mint Is soon
to start the coinage of S25,oO0,O00 i'll
gold and silver for the use of Eastern
banks during the holiday season. 1t
is the first time since the local mint
was established that the Philadelphia
mint has not furnished the East with
it's holiday supply of gold.
The mint is to make twenty, ten and
five-dollar gold pieces and a special
order of the two and one-half dollar
gold coins. At least 100000 OF the
latter are to be coined. In the event
that the Philadelphia mint is not able
to supply the silver coins needed for
the holidays the Denver plant is to
make 100000 dimes, 100000 quar-
ters and 100000 halves.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
FOREIGN.

Vienna hospitals are all filled and
others will be provided.
The first encyclical OF Pope Bene-
dict XIV, will appear November 1st.
The condition of Cardinal Ferrata.
papal secretary OF state, has assumed
a grave turn.
Official announcement has been
made that the stock is expected at the
Italian royal palace in January
Gen. Carranza has offered his resig-
nation as provisional President OF
Mexico, provided a majority OF the
military chiefs desired it,
Holland has given assurances that
stuffs from Holland to Germany or to
other countries now at war.
A Havas dispatch from Durazze to
Paris says that the Senate has named
Essad Pasha president of the provi-
sional government of Albania.
The war is costing France $1,000.
600 day Minister of Finance Alex
andre Ribot announced that the out
lay for the first sixty days of the con
flict had been s42o0oC 900.
After experiments with a new wire
less telephone device on the roof OF
the ministry of marine building
GuSiielmo Marconi. the inventor, said
the human voice had been heard dis
tinctly nine miles away.
The Slowo Polski, a newspaper pub
lished in Lemberg, Galicia, says that
before Lemberg was taken by the
Russians. the directors of the Local
banks left the town, carrying with
them the deposits of their patrons.
DIR. John George Adami of Montreal
one Of the worlds foremost authori
ties on tuberculosis, has enlisted as a
private in the battalion which is being
| raised at McGill university for service
in Europe. DR.. Adami presided oyel
the 1908 International Tuberculosis
congress in Washington and has beer
showered with honors because Of hi:
reserch work.
Frank Deedmeyer, formerly Amer
| can consul at Chemnitz, Germany, ha.
| arrived in London with his wife from
! that city. In an interview published
! in the London Times he described in
suits that were offered him by Chem
nitz mobs. which were irritated by this
! fact that he and his wife converset
in English.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
Wyoming.

The first semi-annual report of the
Midwest Refining Company shows
that it had total net earnings of 81.
026,26666 during the six months end
ing Sept ! and total expenses of ST.
363,35S37. leaving net operating earn
ings for the six months of $662, ,90S.29.
The report says that development in
the Grass Creek field has resulted in
an output from that district of 1000
barrels day with prospects that It
will reach $500 barrels. 1t also has
acquired leases in the Buffalo basin in
Park county, Wyoming.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
"a CONDENSED FOR BUSY
u PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Francisco PARA was sentenced by
Judge Neblett at Santa Fe to from 80
to 100 Years in the pententiary for
murder.
Senator La Toilette has declined the
request of the Wisconsin Progressives
to run as an independent candidate
for governor
The women's committee of the Den
ver Red Cross have realized s29,007
and wil execute various plans for
adding to It.
been appointed director of the federal
reserve bank at San Francisco, and
Felix Martinez of Ell Paso to simi-
lar position at Dallas.
The estate of the late Kirk G. Phil
lips has been sued BY the State Of
South Dakota for $4,000 claimed to
be due the state from the time Phil
lips was state treasurer.
An increase from 1854 to 1922
Members in the last four years was
reported at the quadriennial general
conference of the United Evangelical
church, in session at Chicago.
Battling Mexicans at Naco, Sonora,
riddled the town of Naco, Arizona,
across the line. Monday. Protest was
sent to President Wilson that the fight
ers might turn their rifles the other
way
r. c. Works, an aged mining man
frcm Texas and Mexico, caused the
arrest at Los Angeles of Miss Frances
Lukas, nurse, on the charge of hav-
ing stolen trunk containing $4,000
in securities and gold bullion.
The war will have no effect upon
the size of the exhibits of German
manufacturers at the Panama Pacific
exposition, says w w. Schultz. expo
sition commissioner who has been for
several months in Berlin and returned
to San Francisco.
Within 100 yards of the Utah state
prison, masked man held up George
A. Golf, cashier of the Sugarhouse
bank, and Clifford Goff bookkeeper,
locked the two men in the bank vault,
took $1,525 and escaped unnoticed
forty minutes before the two men
were able to get out of the vault and
give the alarm.
Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. Innes of Eu-
gene, Ore, charged respectively with
murder and accessory before the fact,
in connection with the disappearance
from San Antonio, Tex, last June of
Mrs Elois Nelms Dennis and Miss
Beatrice Nelms of Atlanta, waived
preliminary examination and were re-
manded to Jail without bond.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
Splendid Blankets at Durango Fair.

Durango-An exhibit of beautifully
woven Navajo blankets, the pick of
the Two Gray Hills section, valued at
the fifteenth annual Colorado New
Mexico fair here. In the exhibit,
which was in part shown at the re-
cent Shiprock Indian fair on the reser-
vation, we're blankets valued at $400
each. Others as low in price as IS
we're shown. The best of the entire
collection was brought here.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
State Gets sse.s4o From Forests.

Denver-The sum of $56,940.42 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 scnool
purposes and road improvement. The
amount received this year is about 81.
500 more than last year.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
WASHINGTON.

Congress will probably adjourn Oc-
tober 18th.
Secretary and Mrs. Bryan have
been married thirty years.
Cotton condition 1875 per cent Of
normal Condition in Texas, 20; Ar
kansas, CO; Oklahoma, so; California,
&C.
The bank tax of 81 thousand cap
ital has been retained by the Senate
finance committee in the war revenue
bill.
All American diplomatic agents in
the danger zones have been instructed
to take no chances, but to temporarily
change their posts.
Items voted into the war revenue
measure are proprietary medicines,
cosmetics, perfumes and chewing gum.
All plans for holding the third inter
national peace conference at The
Hague next year have been abandoned
it was announced at the state depart
ment
Strict orders for the exercise of
post mail matter by postal employees
were issued by Postmaster General
Burleson.
INQUIRIES are being sent out by the
NAVY Department to builders of air.
ships as to their preparedness to con-
struct dirigible balloons if the navy
should decide to adopt that kind of
ffsssit. g'a'...nt,t,ve Lew Of New York.
/. owner of Monticello announced that
in view of Secretary Bryan's appeal to
him to sell Thomas Jefferson's home
to the government. he was considering
doing az Heretofore he has refused
all such proposals,
There were 1861 national banks in
oneration in the United States at the
close of business Oct. l, according to
The September report of the comptrol-
Ter of the currency. Their authorized
capital was $1,075,6S4,175, with out
standing circulation secured by bonds
amounting to $735965673 and secured
nv other than bonds, 1926 ,21o.
Fifty-four ships, aggregating nearly
100000 tons and worth approximately
s15.00O,OO have been added to the
American merchant marine since the
new ship registry law went into ef-
"act.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
Arizona.

The Rainbow mine, at Chloride, re-
ports the opening of a fine body of
high grade gold ore in the adit drift at
a distance of $50 feet from the portal.
The mill of the Golden Gem at Ger
bat is being put in shape for test
run and will soon be in commission.
Water has been pumped from the mine
After number of years in the op-
Grafton of the Cyclopic mine, S. c.
Bagg states that he has found the true
fissure from which he believes the big
surface deposit of ore came.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
Bishop Spaulding Buried in Denver.

Denver.-Bishop Franklin S. Spaid-
ing of the Episcopal church in Utah,
who was killed in an automobile accl-
dent at Salt Lake City, was buried IN
Denver beside his father and brother
at Riverside cemetery.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
Sept. Gold Production Over Million.

Sept. Gold Production over Million.
Cripple Creek-Returns of produc-
ton of gold by the mines of the Grip
pie Creek district for the month OF
September, reported by representa-
tiyes of the smelters and mills, show
that there was Il total of S3,3SS tons
treated, the total gross value of which
was Sl,o91,9T1. The results are salts
factory on the whole, especially in the
important feature that they show tnat
average production OF gold in the en-
tire district is being maintained at the
usual normal level of considerably
more than Sl,0O0,00o per month. Sep
tember being Il thirty-day statistical
period, its total output was naturally
somewhat less than for the preceding
month. Following are the September
figures in detail.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
EmbaImino Examiner Appointed.

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.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
WE TIE r NJ
MINING NEWS
IN RRiE
IN g RI e =
tern Newspaper Union News Service

Trend of Metal Values.
I.ondor-Rar Silver. 2Id per OF.
New YorI-Bar silver. J23. e.
st Louis.-Lead. $3.50 a $50. Spelter,
s.. 90
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.
Oct 60 NOV Tenth annual Dog Show
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-14
j. s. AIR FLEET
AWAITS BLOW
At MEXICO
Eleven Planes Stationed at Pen
sacoIa To Be Ready for Quick
Action in Emergency.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.--With the
arrival of the battleship Mississippi
at Pensacola, Fla, to-day the first
move Of world power toward the
establishment of an aerial base for
offensive operations in time of war
was completed.
The United States will have eleven
air craft within striking distance of
Mexico all winter and does not in
tend to be caught unawares in the
event of a war with that country, ac-
cording to naval officials, Secretary
Daniels gave orders for the estab-
lishment OF the aerial experimental
station at Pensacola, where it will be
a comparatively easy matter for the
aeroplanes to proceed into Mexican
territory for offensive or scout work.
The battleship Mississippi will be
held at Pensacola ready for instant
action, and, in the event of war, VIII
he at once ordered to Mexican wa
ters carrying with her all of the fleet
of aeroplanes now at Pensacola. The
Mississippi is better equipped for
aeroplane work than any other ship
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-14
SHORTER HOURS
VOTED CLERKS
Of ATLANTA
Grocers and Butchers Love Feast
Results in Important Move,
1000 Attend Meeting,

After an hour of feasting on Al
lanta made products and two hours
of listening to Atlanta made elo-
quence and Atlanta made music, an
audience which overlooked Taft
Hall at the Auditorium Tuesday
night cheered itself hoarse when a
resolution was adopted by the Retail
Grocers and Butchers Association
making twelve hours a working day
for the grocery and meat clerks of
the city. 1t was said Wednesday the
new working hours would begin at
once.
And it would be safe to wager that
the clerks themselves, who heretofore
have been laboring fourteen and fif-
teen hours day, were the hoarest
of the hoarse.
The meeting was unique in many
ways 1t was a mass meeting and
smoker and a luncheon and a get
together gathering and sort If
catch as-catch-can love feast be-
tween the clerks and their employers
all in one.
1000 Were Present.
H. L. Schlesinger was POSTMASTER
for the occasion, and he and his
audience had no end of fun with the
speakers.
Mayor Woodward, who was intro
duced as Uncle Jimmy" joined in
the laugh when Mr.. Schlesinger told
the crowd that sometime ago when
he and the Mayor were on a trip in
the North, the head of the city gov
eminent Informed him that when one
was away from home. 1t was all right
TO open up" but when one returned
it was wisest and best to shut up.
o. T. Camp, president of the Retail
Grocers and Butchers Association,
was the first speaker. He deliveSed
an eloquent and earnest welcome to
the throng. estimated at more than
a thousand.
Mayor Advocates 'hanee.
Mayor Woodward, the second
speaker, said he always has been an
advocate of reasonable working
hours" and advised his hearers lot
to deal with grocers or butchers who
refuse to join in the twelve hour
move. His theme was Better Citi-
zenship Through Shorter Hours.
Other speakers were A. w. Far
linger.. H. L. Singer, H. H. White,
Francis +. Hamper, Robert Maddox,
j.. A. Massey and F. o. Stone.
Music was furnished by the Gro
GERS Quartet and Wurm's Orchestra.
ira
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-14
Trotter, Picturesque
Evangelist, to Attend
Bible Conference

Mel Troter, a picturesque evangelist
and mission worker of Detroit and
Grand Rapids Mich, will be one of the
notable religious workers at the annual
Bible Conference in Atlanta in March.
Trotter was in the down and out
class for many years. He reformed and
took up the task of saving those who
had been his associates.
Announcement was made by John J.
Eagan Wednesday that the conference
this year would begin March | and con-
tinue ten days. Among the prominent
ministers who will attend are DR.
Campbell Morgan and DR.. Souper, of
London. DR.. Len c. Broughton. who
founded the Bible Conference in Atlanta
probably will be unable to attend. The
sessions will be held in the Baptist Tab
ernacle
Subsidiary conferences will be held
this year in Birmingham, Rome and
Chattanooga.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-14
Hearing Reveals
Original Plot of
Negro Pair to Rob

A novel method OF obtaining entrance
to a homo 10 rob was disclosed We'd
nesday In hearing on a petition for
writ Of habeas corpus before Judge Ell
lis
II was hown that 3. G. Hargrove. a
negro had been convicted on the charge
Of advertising in the papers that he was
about TO leave town and that h wanted
position for his negro servant girl
who had served faithfully. DR.. A. Pep
pin. of Highland avenue, answered the
advertisement
The servant girl" 1t turned out, was
Hargrove's wife, and she made way
with about $500 worth of loot, for which
she was ent to the chaingang.
Hargrove also was given a changing
sentence. J. Graham, the negro's at
torney, claimed that his client had not
been given fair trial and that a ha-
beas corpus writ should be granted.
Judge Ellis dismissed the petition.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-14
GOING TO BED

With these glasses on, not because
they need them to go to sleep. but
simply because they At so comfortably
they forgot to take them off Bring
your oculist prescription to us and
we will prove the above. Jno. L.
Moore & Sons, AZ North Broad St
Advt.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-14

pany Wednesday. Only two streams
would reach the fourth floor. The
pressure, or rather the lack of it, was
pitiful."
81 saw the firemen throwing bricks
through second story windows to
make an entrance for the streams
said another employee OF the Cotton
States. The water wouldn't break
the glass, it seems"
julius Feibelman, manager of the
b. +. Avery Company. said there was
practically no water pressure" at
l;l5 O'Clock. THE streams were so
weak the firemen were practically
helpless he said. Later, it seemed
to get better. after all chance of saw
ing any part of the building or its
contents was gone"
Second Assistant Fire Chief Court
ney said that the sudden slump in
pressure was due to the bursting of
2O-inch main on Highland avenue,
when the effort was made to increase
the water supply suddenly.
Two other mains, 6-inch pipes.
also burst in this neighborhood" he
said, That, of course, cut down the
pressure TO next to nothing. After
a while, the pumping station was able
to get the pressure up again, in spite
of the difficulties
Mr. Whitman said that the three
vaults of the Cotton States Com
pany were believed to 1e Uninjured,
so that the papers, books and records
of the concern were safe.
The Avery Company moved into
the building in 1911, and In August,
1912, the Cotton States Company took
up its quarters next door
W. Il. Smith, general manager OF
the city waterwarks, said Wednes-
day that the water pressure was all
right up to o'clock Wednesday
morning, when a siX-inch main on
Colquitt avenue, Inman Park. burst
and reduced the pressure almost half.
Pressure Drops IS Pounds.
A good part of the street was wash
ed away when the main burst. The
! pressure. up to rs pounds on account
Of the fire. dropped to 40 pounds.
The records show that the press
| ure was down for only about so miu-
utes," said Mr.. Smith. After that
time it wSs forced back up to 90
! pounds, and remained there the rest
OF the night.
THE normal water pressure IS
about 45 pounds, and 40 pounds
pressure should have given a pretty
! good flow of water"
Inc IRE caught us between SEA :
sons, as it were" said Mr.. Whitman
80 the Cotton States Company is not
| so badly off as it might be as a re-
suit"
! III was the worst possible time fot
! us" Mr.. Feibelman, of Avery & Sons
stated. our most serious loss will
be the interruption of business in oll
| busiest season OF the year"
| Mystery in Origin.
The origin of the fire is unknown
and is the more mysterious in that the
| blaze gained great Roadway in thu
Cotton States plant, in a modern
structure. supposed to be fireproof
and equipped with fire prevention de.
| vices from top to bottom.
The blaze was an unusually fierce
| one, and before the fire companie.
reached the scene the flames wer,
towering from the skylight of tn,
Cotton States plant.
feature of the blaze was tn,
bucket brigades" formed by men an,
women. boys and girls, TO overcom,
the peril of small fires which started
within a radius OF several blocks.