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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-05
TURNS
DOWN JAIL BILLS
T. J. Cleadenln VIII Force Mandamus
Action Before Paying Ont Sums
on New Structure.
WANTS 70 PROTECT B0yDsMEs
Desires Decision of Court on Tniunc.
tioH Case-Delay May Interfere
With Heating Plant.

VIII the DIRECTORS 10 the erection Of
the county Jail on the court house
square win their point, temporarily, at
least, without a court decision? That
is the question which is being daily
agitated in court house circles, since
the fling Of the injunction case by Wal
ter Russ against Frank J. CIendenin,
county treasurer, ct al.
It is understood that County Treas
urer Clendenin will refuse to pay any
more bills for work or material for the
new Jail structure. After the fling Of
the injunction case, It is said shat he
felt that e-couid not jeopardIze the
interests of himself or his bOndsmen
by paying out amy more money for the
project until the case had been decided.
Should the court issue an injunction,
b0ndsmen Of the treasurer would be
held responsible for any money paid
out illegally.
It is the general opinion that Mr..
Clendeuin will not honor any jail bills
unless maudamus proceedings are
brought against him, by either the con
tractor or others engaged in the cree
ton of tins building. The court in
passing on the mandamus, would prob
ably also review the issues in the in
junction case. which Mr.. CIendenin
would probably cite in his answer.
Whether the court refused to manda-
mus the treasurer or not, MT. Glen
denim feels he would then have proper
ny safeguarded his bondsmen and
would have authority for his actions.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30
STATE OF COLORADO, J
County of Giln'n. &C
CITY of Central

w. T. Warren. being first duly
sworn on oath, de|oses and says that
he is the city clerk of the City of
Central, that the above entitled ordi-
nance entitled:
AN ordinance levying taxes for
the year 1915" was introduced
and read in frll at regular
meeting OF tie city council of
said city. on Thur sday. December 9th
1915; that said ordinance was after.
ward published in the Gilpin Obser-
Yer on December 18th, 1915, and in
the Weekly Regis er-Call on Decem-
ber 18th, 1915, both being weekly
newspapers of general circulation
printed and published in said city;
that the ordinance was read in FULL
at the special meeting Of the city
council OF Central on Tuesday. the
2Sth day OF December, 1915 and was
then regularly arp owed and passed.
w. T. WARREN,
City Clerk.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this goth day of December, 1915.
(SeaD w. C. FULLERTON,
County Judge and Acting Clerk.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30
=. T. WARREN
AN ORDINANCE
Levyins Taxes for the Year 1915.

Levyine Taxes for the Year 1915.
Be it ordained ty the city council
of the City CT Central:
That tie taxes for the municipal
year, one thousc nd nine hundred
and fifteen, for the several purpos-
es, to wit: Fer salaries cf city off
GERS, mills en- the dollar: for
streets, alleys, contingent and ether
city expenses, s mills on the dollar;
for payment of outstanding warrants
and interest, 4 mills on the dollar
amounting in tie whole to fifteen
mills on the dollar.
Be, and the sane are hereby levied
and assessed uron the taxable real
and personal property in said city of
Central, according to the assessed
valuation thereof as shown by the
corrected and a. proved assessment
roll for the year aforesaid.
Passed and approved by the city
council of the CITY CT Central this
2S.h day of Cecemter, A. D., 1915.
ROBERT WILKINSON, Mayor.
(SeaD w. T. WARREN, City Clerk.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30
His Preearious Condition.

II overheard someone saying that
your nephew, Emmett Uckles, is lying
in a critical condition What is the
nature of his complaint?"
He isn't making any replied
Uncle Fogy. 1T is his wife who is
doing the complaining. You see, EN-
NETT went to Kansas City not long
ago to buy goods, and few days after
his return there came a dainty note
signed Your Little Sunshine It fell
into his wife's hands, and he has been
lying ever since. l should call his con-
dition middlin' critical. too. for don't
see how in tunket he is going to
falsify his way out of it."-Kansas.
City Star.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30
MADE THEM BOTH ASHAMED
FraiI NeWsboy Taught Irritable BUSH
ness Men the Folly of Giving
Way to Temper.

Apparently it had been a bad day
for the big, pompous business man.
and he must have dealt heavily in
wheat just before the 000-bushel
contract was Cancelled. for he slammed
his Office door shut with a bang and
mumbled something profane concern
ing the breaks in the market as he
shambled out into the street.
He might have known that one Of
us would have to turn out, but he ex-
pected me to do it, and l wasn't in
pleasant frame of mind myself, what
with a trying headache all afternoon
and fuss with the boss So l didn't
propose to get out of somebody's way
when I was on the right side and he
was wrong.
Well, we couldn't walk through each
other, so we just naturally came to-
gether, while the big business man
finished cursing the market, and 1
tried to make him understand that he
couldn't walk over me, regardless Of
markets.
Then Benny came hobbling along;
Benny Paul, who was whistling to
beat the band His small. frail body
vas bent on crutches and he was lug
ging a big bundle of papers that
seemed almost too much for him, but
he was whistling just the same. Not
worry nor a care. making the best
of today and hoping for the best from
an uncertain tomorrow. He stopped
and smiled. Paper, mister?" he called
cheerily.
1 exchanged a sheepish glance with
the big business man, and he dug
down in his trousers pocket and said:
I'll take the whole bundle" Then he
paid Benny for them and gave them
back. and I bought them and did the
same thing, and we all whistled!-St.
Paul Pioneer Press.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30
THOUGHT SHE KNEW COFFEE
Young Lady, Testing Beverage Maze
Of Refuse, Declared It Unmistak-
ably the Right Thing.

A great many people who flatter
themselves that they are judges OF
coffee or other beverages may learn
a lesson of caution from the expert
ments carried on by Sir Hiram Maxim
when he was trying to find a paa-
table preparation of wheat and coffee.
1t occurred to me, says Sir Hiram in
my Life that very few people knew
much about coffee. One Sunday I
brought out from the Maxim Lamp
works about thirty young men and
women. My stenographer was also
present. she was one of those young
ladies that know all-from whose de-
cisions there is no appeal.
I had cleared off a long bench and
arranged on it large number of cups,
milk, sugar, cream, much coffee, and
plenty of apparatus for making coffee.
| got from the army and navy stores
various kinds of coffee that were sup
posed to be the very best in the world,
such as Mocha, Java, and so forth, and
also got from dealer in coffee some
of the sweepings and siftings of his
shop-small, imperfect and broken
kernels. These freed from dust and
dirt, roasted and ground, and mixed
with three times their weight of chic
ory. | was ready for the test.
Ny shorthand writer came in, tasted
the Mocha, the Java, the Costa Rica,
and pronounced them all very bad
She then tried some of my wheat cof-
fee, which she said, was also bad,
but not SO bad as the others. But when
she reached the mixture of siftings
and chicory she was delighted. THAI
is Coffee" she said, with an air of
finality. That's it! That's the right
stuff
In ali probability the young lady had
never tasted cup of genuine coffee
in her life until that Sunday morning.
Youths Companion.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30
NEvADAV|LLE AUTfS
Matt Kramer left for Denver Thurs,
day to spend Christmas with his fam

Matt Kramer left for Denver Thurs
day to spend Christmas with his fam
lily.
John Trezise came UP from Dem
yer Thursday to spend Christmas
with his mother.
]. j. Kramer came over from Ned
erland Friday to spend Christmas
with his family.
R. w. Pierce, who las been on
the sick list for the past week, is
very much improved after partaking
of an old fashioned Cornish plum
pudding, Calristm as.
John Reilly cane over from Neder-
land to eat his Christmas. dinner
with his family.
Patsy OBrein and John, Reilly let
last Friday for Nederland.
Theodore Stevers returned to Den
yer this morning, after spending
Christmas in Nevada.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30
WASHINGTON NEWS
By Edward Heating.
\ ~ : :

Washington, d. C.,-Prosperity is
with u.s.! We have the word OF all
the recognized authorities to sup
pert this statement.
Another Republican prophecy has
been knocked into a cooked hat. The
years of Democratic rule are not
necessarily lean years for the nation.
The full dinner-pail is not dependent
on high-protect:ve tariff.
During the last session of congress
every Republican orator who took the
floor emitted a calamity howl which
could be heard from ocean to ocean.
We were assured that the country
was going to the demnition bow-wows
and that its only hope of escape lay
in the election of Republican con-
gress. The peop'e ignored the ad-
vice and continued the Democrats in
control of the government with the
result that in world OF woe the
United States is the sole oasis
where peace, happiness and prosper
ity prevail
The Washington Post, an organ of
the standpatters, sums up the situa-
tion, editorially, as follows:
Viewing the business situation
from u financial, a commercial, an
agricultural or an Industrial stand
point. the present is very bright and
the future looks most brilliant
Viewing 1t from an impartial pol
itical position. no party ever In pow
er In this country has produced such
prosperity as now exists, and handi-
capped as Is the Republican party
by its undeniable failure to maintain
good times after 1906 and its years
Of business confusion and depression
from 1906 to 1918 1t will have to
show cause for the ousting of the
Democrats in 1916 and make new
pledges to the American people IL 1t
would win.
1T is not now entitled to win on
its old record.
That old record was neither ac.
ceptable to big business, to little
business nor to the masses Of the
people"
Leader Kitchens Debut.
Congressman Claude Kitchen Of
North Carolina last Thursday made
his initial appearance as the leader
Of the Democratic majority in the
House, and he more than sustained
the hopes Of his friends.
For an hour and half. before pack
cd galleries and crowded house,
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30

he defended tie record CT his party.
The Republicans hurled their chosen
companions against him but he over
threw item with smiling ease
which aroused tie widest enthusiasm
on the Democratic side.
With a presidential campaign only
few months away, both sides are
in "scrappy mood. kitchen from
tie beginning indicated that he had
no desire to fight on the defensive,
but, on the contrary, would endeavor
TO carry tie war into the enemy's
camp.
tariff bill was a success from every
standpoint; that it had produced
more revenue than the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill, and that on August l, 1914
the day the European war broke
out-the United States treasury con-
tanned larger surplus than had
been available on the same day 'in
any year of Tafts administration
The effect on business, he said,
was best evidenced by the fact that
the railroads of tie east confessed
they could not handle the business
offered them by American mills and
mines and quarries.
How The Tariff "Protects."
To illustrate how little some busi-
ness men know concerning the effect
of the tariff on their business, Kitch-
en- tells a. good story on one of the
largest manufacturers of shoes in
this country.
This gentleman, who is exceeding
ly pompous. appea ed before the Ways
and Means Committee to protest aS-
ainst placing shoes on the free list.
He testified under oath and read
carefully prepared tsatement.
"At one time" he swore, "the
American shoe manufacturers lad a
practical monopoly Of the trade in
the finer grade Of shoes"
But of recent years. he testified.
English manufao turers have come to
this count y, pi: i:chf sed Or ma hire y
and hired our experts to teach their
workmen how to make our stylish
shoes. Now tie markets of this
country are being flooded with r:illi-
ons Of dollars worth OF fine English
shoes. The tariff should be increas-
ed instead Of being removed"
Are you now referring to- shoes
which are valued at more than two
dollars a pair?" asked Kitchen.
Exactly" replied the manufactur-
err. 1--WE do not care about competi.
tion in the cheaper grades"
"And how many pairs OF these fin
er grades OF shoes were imported
last year," asked Kitchen.
II don't know the exact number"
was the reply, "but they were val
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30

ued at millions OF dollars"
Il don't believe l would put that
statement in the record, if l were
you cautioned Kitchen. "You are
under oath, you krow.'
Il don't care if | am under oath, ="
shouted tie manufacturer, Il know
my business and l know what | am
talking about"
Il know you think so,' was the
soothing reply OF the congressman,
but here is the official report of the
treasury department and it shows
that during all ,ast year just two
pairs of shoes valued at mere than
two dollars a par were imported in
to this country. And they came from
Cuba, not England"
Dupec of Protection.
That's only one of many instances
OF the same kind of astounding ig-
norance which l might cite" said
Kitchen. THE fact is, the Republi-
cans have pulled the wool over the
eyes of many miners. farmers and
business men. These gentlemen hon
estly believe tfat in some mysteri-
Gus way the tariff protects" them,
when, as a matter of fact. it hasn't
the slightest effect on their business
and a little INTEL gent study would
reveal the truth. These honest, but
deluded. men are being used as cats
paws to pull the trusts chestnuts
out of the tariff fire"
And that brings up another ques-
tion: IL we cannot compete with
foreigners in our home markets, how
can we hope to compete with them
in the markets OF the world. where
we cannot possibly have a tariff to
protect" us?
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30
STATE OF COLORADO, !
County of Gilpin, S

City of Central,
w. T. Warren being first duly
sworn on cath, depcses and says
that he is the city clerk of the City
OF Central, that the above entitled
ordinance entitled
IAN Ordinance Confirming tie AS
sessment roll" was introduced and
read in full ait a regular meeting
OF the city ccunoil of said city, on
Thursday, Decent er 9Th, 1915; that
said ordinance was afterward pub
ished in the Gilpin Observer on De
cember 18th, 1915, and in the Week
ly Register-Call on December 18th,
1915, both being weekly newspapers
CT general circulation printed and
published in said city; that the ordi-
nance was read in full at the special
meeting of the city council of Cen
tral on Tuesday, the 2Sth day of De-
cember, 1915, and was then regularly
approved and passed.
w. T. WARREN,
City Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 29th day of December, A. D.,
1915
(SeaD w. C. FULLERTON,
County Judge ard Acting Clerk.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30
AN ORlDlNANCE
Confirming the Assessment Roll.


Be it ordained by the City Coun-
Gil Of the City of Central
That the assessment roll of the
taxable real and PERSONAL property
in said City fer the year 1915, hav-
ing been revised and corrected by
the CITY Council. after due notice to
all persons aggrieSed, and full hear
irg of all object ons thereto taving
been had, the said roll and THE sew
eral assessments therein as revised
and corrected by the City Council,
be and the same are hereby confirm
ed. and that warrant be issued for
the collection of the taxes which may
be levied and ass ssed thereon.
Passed and app. owed by the city
council of the City of Central this
2Sth day of December, A. D., 1915.
ROBERT WILKINSON, Mayer.
(seaD w. T. WARREN, City Clerk.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30
Notice Of Application for us. Patent
Mining Application No. 022310
Mineral Survey No. 1861

Mining Application No. O2231O
Mineral Survey No. 1861
U. S. Land Office at Denver, Colo,
Nov. 10, 1915.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that
in pursuance Of the Act of Congress,
approved May 10, 1872, The Pennsyl-
vania Mining Power and Reduction
Co., by L. Sternberger attorney in
fact whose postoffice is Denver, Col
orado, has made application for a
patent for 1900 linear feet ON the
Cherub lode bearing gold and silver,
the same being SIC fit. n. 1886 W.,
and 9S4 it. S. 80 56'E. from discovery
shaft thereon, with surface ground
300 f.. in width, situate in Eureka
Mining District, Gilpin County, State
Of Colorado, and described in the
plat and field notes ON file in this
office, as follows, viz: Beginning
at Cor. No. /, whence the S. w. Cor.
Sec. SO T. S. R. 73 w. 9th P. NJ
bears N. 1850" w. 5531.61 it.,
thence S. 32'56'E. 1900 it,, to Cor.
No. 2, thence S. 57'4'W. 800 ft. to
Cor. No. 9, thence n. 2'56'W. 1900
1T. to Cor No. 4, thence N. 57'4 E.
300 #. to Cor. No l, the place of
beginning, containing 9.417 acres, ex-
pressly excepting and excluding all
conflict with Surveys Mes. $50 Swamp
Angel No 2 lode and forming por-
tion of the unsubdivided, TWP. S.,
Range 73 w. Of the 9Th principal
meridian. Said location being record
ed in vol. 165 page 529 of the Rec
ords of Gilpin County, State of Colo
redo. Adjoining claimants owners o.
Surs. Nos. $50 and 1891.
/ MARY WOLFE DARGIN.
Register
1st. pub, Nov. IS, 1915; last Jan.
7 20, 1916.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30
AGE Of Elephant. and Parrots.

Eardley-Wilmot. in his Life of an
Elephant" says that these animals
live one hundred years under favor
able circumstances. r. Lydekker in
his Great and Small Game o. India
says Of the Indian elephant that its,
age depends upon its teeth.
Definite information as to the age
OF parrots is hard to find. In a work
on Parrots in Captivity" one black.
Madagascar specimen in the London.
zoo is mentioned, which was present
ed to the society full grown in 1891,
and was still alive and well in 1884.
Several others about twenty years old
are mentioned.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30

Miss Bernice Rumble came up from
Denver on Friday evenings train to
eat Christmas dinner with her uncle
and aunt. ]. G. Williams and wife. and
to take in the dance. Returning to
Denver Sunday afternoon.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30
Cane Cod Canal.

An idea of the value OF the Cape
Cod canal to shipping is given in the
fact that more than two Thousand
five hundred vessels have passed
through this waterway since 1t was
opened IN the summer OF 1914. each
Of these vessels saving something like
seventy miles Of travel and avoiding
the dangerous route around Cape Cod.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30

o. J. Duffield returned Monday
from a few weeks business trip to
Illinois and Iowa.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30
NOTICE

The moving picture. THE Wishing
Ring" featuring Vivian Martin. will
be shown at opera house january 9Th
next.
Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30

Eead the war news in the Obser.
yer. Il Is authentic.
The Yale expositor., 1915-06-03
RESPITE GRANTED
five MExICANS
HANGING GEE DID NOT TAKE
PLACE AT FLORENCE, ARI-
IONA, PENITENTIARY.
BRYAN'S PLEA LISTENED TO
State Board of Pardons Acts After
Legislature and Courts Had Re-
fused to Grant Stay of
Execution.

Florence, Ariz.-Secretary of State
Bryan, acting at the request of Cen
eral Francisco Villa and anti-capital
punishment forces, won out Friday in
the fight to prevent or postpone the
execution OF five Mexicans, all con.
victed murderers, on the gallows al
Florence penitentiary
At the last moment, the state board
OF pardons and paroles granted a re-
spite to the condemned MeXicans. The
respite is not to exceed nine weeks
and the recommendation is made that
the men be hanged separately on
dates to be fixed by Governor Hunt.
Meantime the Mexicans will continue
their fight for a new trial or commu-
tation to life Imprisonment
Renewed pressure from Washing
ton is believed to have been brought
to bear upon the pardon board. Gov
ernor Hunt also threw his strength
into the fight on the side of the state
department and further influence was
exerted by opponents of capital pun
ishment.
In the election last fall the state re-
jected an amendment to the constitu-
ton prohibiting capital punishment.
The decision of the pardon board
came after Judge w H. Sawtelle, of
the United States district court, at
Tucson, not only refused to grant
writs of habeas corpus asked for the
condemned men by the Anti-Capital
Punishment society, but denied a mo-
ton for leave to appeal to the United
States supreme court from his deci.
sion. Leave to appeal would have
acted automatically as a stay of exc
cution.
The Yale expositor., 1915-06-03
TO HELP FARMERS ON LINE
G. r. G. /. Railroad Will Build UP Five
Demonstration Farms.

Grand Rapids-The Grand Rapids &
Indiana railroad has arrived at a def
mite conclusion relative to its plans to
build up and maintain five demonstra-
ton farms along it's road north of
this city. w. p. Hartman, of New
York, the new agricultural and indus
trial agent of the road. announces that
the road has completed deals for the
land for all farms and that the work
will start at once.
The plans of the company, it is
thought, will be a help to the farm
interests along the road and especially
in the neighborhood of the towns
where the farms are to be located.
The road has in mind personal help to
any farmer in the territory touched
who will give it chance to be of SER
vice.
The Yale expositor., 1915-06-03
TELEGRAPHlC FLASHES

London-The British battleship Ma
jestic, another of the ships support
ing the allied army on the Gallipoli
peninsula, was torpedoed and sunk by
a German submarine Thursday morn
ing. Nearly all the officers and crew
were saved.
Chicago-Out of an estate valued at
more than 100000, the former Prin-
cess De Chimay, who was Clara Ward,
of Detroit, is bequeathed only $1,000,
1t was learned by the will of her
mother, Mrs. Catherine l.. Ward-Mor-
row, of London.
Washington-The federal industrial
relations commission has concluded
hearings which have been in progress
more than a year, touching every
phase OF the country's Industrial life.
taking the investigators from coast to
coast.
London-Admirsl Sir Henry Brad
wardine Jackson mas been appointed
first sea lond OF the admiralty to take
the place of Admiral Lord Fisher, who
resigned recently owing, IL is said, to
differences with Winston Spencer
Churchill. then first lord OF the ad.
mirality.
The Yale expositor., 1915-06-03
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS

Fred L. Keller, superintendent OF
public. instruction, has sent notice to
all school boards to clean and repair
schoolhouses during the summer vaca-
ton
Promoters OF the proposed Pontiac
Owosso electric line have asked the
Pontiac city commission to grant a
franchise permitting the line to enter
Pontiac on either Oakland avenue,
Baldwin or West Huron streets.
Talcott c. Carpenter, the oldest
member of the st. Joseph county Bar
association. and formerly business
partner OF Gen. William Stoughten, OF
civil war fame, Is dead at Sturgls az.
ter short illness, 80 years old. He
formerly held the Office Of prosecut-
ing attorney and many Uther civil
positions.