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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-06-26
LIGHTNING Kills Two Colts.

Carr.-Lightning that struck several
trees along Lone Tree creek also
killed two colts that were in the pas
ture OF the A. C. Shultz place, and ].
Clarr lost two horses and a straw shed
from the same cause.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-06-26
GENERAL

The Thaw sanity case was started
before jury in New York on Tues.
day,
Bishop Joseph E. SIartzel OF the M.
E. Church reports that as a result Of
this war all of Africa is under martial
law
At Newman, Ca, Governor Slaton
and Leo NJ. Frank were hanged in
effigy. Later the images were cut
dragged through the streets.
Bentley D. Ackley, a former secre,
tary for Billy" Sunday, the evange.
list, declared that the most effective
sermons of Sunday were plagiarized
from the sermons of Evangelist
Jones. Talmage and Smith, and said
that it was time someone told the
truth about Sunday.
William Jennings Bryan, addressing
labor peace meeting at Carnegie
hall in New York, attacked former
Presidents Roosevelt and Taft as
leading sponsors of organizations
which stood for the use of force in
international affairs and which. the
former Secretary of State declared
were inimical to the true interess oil
this country and to the cause OF in
| ternational peace.
Henry Siegel, former merchant
| prince and millionaire, convicted OIL
| bank wrecking in connection with the
| financial failure Of his vast enter
| prises, left for Rochester, N. Y, tt
serve his ten months sentence In the
| Monroe county penitentiary.
Governor Whitman continued t
! maintain silence regarding any plans
he may have for extending clemency
to Charles Becker, the former New
York police lieutenant now under sen
tence of death, when he arrived a
Albany from the Panama-Pacific OF
| position.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-06-26
Jurors Aequit Woman slayer

b Brighton.-"I shot Miller to defend
my home" That, in substance. was the
testimony which freed Mrs Sophia
Moroni of the charge of having slain
Simon G. Miller last March on the
Morroni ranch near Globeville.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-06-26
Bolt Sets Fire to House.

La Salle-Lightning struck a Va.
cant house in the dry-farm district
east OF here, burning it to the ground
during the heavy rain and electrical
storr~ that prevailed.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-06-26
1000 Students

1000 Students at Teaehers' School.
Greeley. = The annual summer
school of the State Teachers College
opened for a six weeks course with
1000 students enrolled.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-06-26
Pioneer Killed by Lightning.

FIoHeeF NIIIeu Uy GIUHtHIHU.
Colorado Springs. N. Snyder, q
pioneer resident of this city, was in
stantly killed by bolt Of lightning.
twenty miles southeast of Colorado
Springs.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-06-26
A Gentle Hint.

The Grocer Ito new customer)-Did
you find your last order satisfactory,
madam?
Mrs. Housekeep-Fairly so. But
next time l wish you would send US
stronger coffee and weaker butter.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-06-26

When there is family reunion the
men present enjoy it almost as much
as they do a funeral
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-06-26
WASHINGTON

Serious charges Of abuse by the
allies of the American flag have been
made by Germany to the State Depart
ment.
President Wilson was understood
to have practically decided on the an
pointment of Robert Lansing as Sec
rotary of State to succeed William
Jennings Bryan.
Secretary Redfield reported at the
cabinet meeting that the total trade
balance In favor of the United States
on June 10 was s976.000.oO0. He pre-.
dicted that the balance for the fiscal
years ending July ! would be in ex-
cess of $1,000 100000.
All religious education will be
barred within ten years from schools
in Korea giving "a general education"
by order promulgated by Gen. Terau-
chi. Japanese territorial governor of
Korea, the text of which was made
public by the japanese embassy.
Secretary Lansing cabled the Amer.
lean embassy at Rome directing that
the Italian government be asked to
release Immediately Ugo de Prata, a
youth born in Boston after his father,
a native of Italy, had become a nat.
uralized citizen of the United States
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-06-26
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
cTn0N nT TIT nlTEv
STORY 0! THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union view. service
ABOUT THE WAR

The small Italian merchant steamer
Maria Grecia was sunk by an Austrian
torpedo boat in the Adriatic.
A Reuter- dispatch from Athens says
1t is reported there that the Serbians
have occupied Durazzo, Albania
Lieut. Reginald A J. Warneford,
who gained fame recently by blowing
to pieces Zeppelin over Belgium,
was killed by the fall OF an aeroplane
at Bue, France.
The town OF Tarnogrod just inside
Russian territory to the north OF Sien-
lava and the heights of krezow to
the northeast Of Tarnogrod, are occu-
pied By the troops of the Teutonic al
lies.
The strongly-fortified Galician town
OF Grodek, where it was predicted
the Russians would make a stubborn
stand, has fallen before the Austro-
German assault, according to an Aus
trian official statement
Governor Jose Maytorena authorized
the statement that the entire forces
under his command would be used II
necessary to resist the landing of
American marines on the west coast
to protect foreign settlers of the Yaqui
valley from Indians now at war.
Many unconfirmed reports reached
London Tuesday that Lemberg had
already fallen to the Austro- Germans,
and dispatches from Petrograd indi-
cate that the evacuation of the Ga
lician capital by the Russians NAV he
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-06-26
SPORTING NEWS

The well matched horses entered
for the racing events at Overland
park In Denver are attracting large
crowds
Freddie Welsh will retire from the
ring within the year, purchase the
Selby Brown estate near Lockport, n.
Y, and establish there a health re-
sort.
Walter T. Hayes and Ralph Burdick
won the tennis doubles city champion
ship at Chicago, defeating Harold Gift
ford and M. G. Ketchum, 6-3, ga,
&c, GA.
The Sawyer racing bill reached the
Arkansas Supreme Court when attor-
neys argued and submitted the case
of the Arkansas Fair Association
versus Secretary of State Hodges to
compel the secretary to proclaim the
bill law.
plucky. answering effort, coup
led with skillful riding, carried
Washoe Belle, George Wingfield
colt. under the wire winner in the
Juvenile stakes classic at Overland
Park in Denver, within four-fifths OF
a second of the track record
Running races, legislated out Of
California several years ago, when
betting was stopped, are to be revived
In San Francisco with a thirty-day
meet at the PanamaPacific exposi-
ton, beginning Aug. 20. according to
D. o. Lively, head of the exposition s
livestock department.
At San Francisco w. G. Durfees
bay mare White Sox, sired by Del
Coronado. won the 2:06 pace and the
major share of the 100000 purse hung
up for the event, which concluded the
two weeks summer meet at the Pan
anna Pacific Exposition. Hal Boy was
second Que, third. and The Beaver
fourth.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-06-26
WESTERN

South Omaha and Dundee have been
annexed to Omaha.
w. f. (Red) Dryer, rs, fired a bull
let into his brain at Sheridan, Wyo.
A Calexico, Cal, dispatch reports
an earthquake extending from there
to Yuma, Ariz., in which twenty-seven
persons were killed
The Anaconda Copper Mining Com
pany declared dividend OF 80 cents
share. an increase of 25 cents over
the rate paid since last September.
A dispatch from Superior, Nebr.,
tells OF terrific hailstorm near there
Saturday, chunks OF ice falling of such
size as to kill cattle and other stock.
Former Congressman William S.
Cowherd of Missouri. died at Pasa-
dsna, Cal, of anaemia after an illness
of six months.
A telephone message to St. Louis
from Hillsboro, NO, said that the
most disastrous hail and wind storm
in fifty years swept Jefferson coun-
ty and caused about 100000 damage.
Oidonycosis, disease somewhat
like tuberculosis. but more fatal, was
described at San Francisco at the Pan
American Medical Congress by DR.. K.
c. Dickson of the Leland Stanford, Jr..
medical school.
Harvey o. Dysinger, a wealthy Har-
din county. Ohio, farmer, shot and
probably fatally injured his wife, killed
his daughter, Esther, Is years old,
wounded his son Herbert. l6. and com
mitted suicide at his home near Forst.
Enree special trains of newspaper
men, members of the National News
paper Association, will arrive in Den
yer June % from the East en- route
to the thirtieth annual convention in
Los Angeles, which will be held from
June 90 to July 2.
Thomas Taggart, Democratic ma
tional committeeman for Indiana;
Mayor Joseph Bell, Chief of Police
Samuel Perrott and 125 other Indiana
politicians were indicted by the
Marion county grand jury charged
with eonspiring to commit forty-eight
felonies in connection with the recent
county primary, registration and
election.
WASHINGTON
Serious charges Of abuse by the
allies of the American flag have been
made by Germany to the State Depart.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-06-26
COLORADO
S TATE NEW S


Aug. 12-14.-Frontier Days and Wild
West Features at Grand Junction.
Aug. 31-Sept 2-Grand Lodge. h. of p.
at Colorado Springs
Aug. 2S-2s-FaI Festival at Flagle-
Sept. 27-Oct s-Meetins International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13
Extinct Ground SIoth,

The remains of an extinct ground
sloth found in Patagonia and brought
to this country by Mr.. Roosevelt is
now in the American Museum of Natu-
raj History in New York. These re-
mains possess extraordinary interest,
because the surroundings in which
they were found seem to prove that
the animal was living only few cen
turtles ago. and was not only contem.
porary with primitive man, but was
to some extent domesticated by him.
Previous to this discovery it had been
believed that all the great ground
sloths of South America, of which
many fossil remains have been found,
became extinct thousands of years
ago. The remains recently found were
discovered in a dry cave, in company
with tools or weapons or stone and
bone. together with bundles Of grass
spread as though intended for fodder.
There were other indications that the
animals had been stabbed or impris-
oned in the cave and fed by their cap
tors
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13
Desert Lighthouse.

Prairie schooners, as the long can
vas-covered wagons which cross the
deserts Of Arizona are called, arr guild
ed by the only desert lighthouse in the
world. The lighthouse marks the po-
sition of well. the only place where
water can be found for 33 miles to the
eastward. and 80 miles in any other
direction.
Many wayfarer in this vast, water
less region has died of thirst prac-
tically within sight of the we'll, the
whereabouts Of which he was ignorant.
1t was a tragedy of this sort which
led to the erection Of the beacon. A
boy, perishing of thirst. had fallen in
the last stages of exhaustion. When
night came, he noticed the light from
the well keepers cabin burning dimly
in the distance. With a last heroic
effort, the boy reached the cabin This
gave the well keeper an idea, and now
every night a light flashes out rom
the only desert lighthouse in the
world.-American Boy.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13
The Wav II Goes.

The girls demand that the men they
wed shall be tall and distinguished
looking, with curling locks and gold
galore, and have perfect dispositions
and soulful eyes. dance divinely. be
masterful, yet tender. and otherwise
more or less resemble Greek gods and
he-angels. And then they marry US
poor, skinny, blunder ng, shambling.
misshapen. awkward runts, with our
sins and foolishness heavy upon us. and
look as fondly triumphant. bless EN-.
as II they had each won a capital Prize,
Kansas City Star.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13
Potomac Was Threatening to Cut
Away the Whole Bluff-Good En-
gineering Work.

The high Dluff on which stands
Mount Vernon, the home OF our first
president, has for years been in dan
ger Of gradually sliding into the fo-
tOmac.
This danger became acute few
wears ago when it was discovered that
a new landslide was beginning that
threatened to destroy the broad lawn
in front of the mansion. il not the
foundations Of tie mansion itself, and
engineering work, recently completed.
was begun at that time to save the
historic site from further damage.
The ground slopes from the mansion
to the edge of the bluff, and from this
point drops steeply for a hundred
feet or more to the edge of the Poto-
mac. The river at this point is a wide
tidal estuary and the action OF the
waves has caused a steady erosion
at the foot Of the blum.
Underlying the bluff are strata Of
sand. clay and soft sandstone. which.
on investigation, were found to be
saturated with water. and this. COM
bined with the erosion of the waves.
has resulted In landslides that have
doubtless been going on intermittent
ly for ages.
To cure the trouble small drainage
tunnel was first driven in the bottom
of the sandstone stratum and carried
back from the river front distance
OF about zoe feet.
From this tunnel heavy flow OF
water Immediately started. and this
How continued for several months.
At the end OF that time the flow d.
minished to a moderate amount. and
has remained practically constant ever
since.
To prevent further erosion at the
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13

submarine journey in the North Pa
citic ocean of more than 5000 miles
from it's base on the Pribiloff islands
in Boring ca, and then returns.
An animal which can not only make
such an extended journey. but can
steer it's course over an uncharted
waste from point to POINT, month by
month, with positive regularity and IN
perfect time, must beFa fine type or
swimming nachine-it is.
There is to be observed close re-
semblance between the cigar-shaped
submarine boa. and the body form CT
the fur SEAL AS we view them lat
orally, this resemblance is complete;
they are both driven ahead by feather
ing screws, and they are both kept on
the level of their submerged course at
a given distance below the surface by
rudders.
Then we observe that the periscOpo,
to which the submarine craft owes all
it's efficiency, is duplicated exactly by
the seals nose and eyes, and which
are all that it ever lifts above the sur
face when startled, and in flight or
passage.
Again we note that the fur seal as
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13

a submarine has a great advantage
over the human boat-it has eyes that
can look ahead and around under wa.
ter-how far, we do not know, but 1t
eyes can see as far under water as
the eye of camera can, and which
we have the evidence of in good rec
Ords.
Then, too, it also has an acute
sense of hearing under sea, for we
know that the whirring of a propeller's
screw will drive all the seals away for
miles around a steamer. We know
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13

nils its lungs with air literally COM
pressed), turns It's head down, and,
with it's powerful flippers, drives it be-
low the surface to the depth of five or
ten feet. then ahead on that level; thus
submerged, the body of the seal
glides through the water as swift
ly as swallow in the ART is van
ishing streak to our eyes.
How long 1t remains thus submerged
when travelling. no one has any def
mite knowledge, but the best consensus
OF opinion gives it rise intervals Of
every three or four minutes to breathe
that is, pause of less than two or
three seconds with barely more than
its nose and eyes above the surface,
for exhalatiOn and renewed inhalation
when down goes the trim body to
speed ahead again.
When our submarines were first
brought out a trip of more than 300
miles from base was the utmost limit
Of their cruising. Today, they have
been so perfected by the Germans that
we know they can cruise safely more
than 5000 miles from that base. There
fore, in this connection it is interest
ing to know that the fur seal makes a
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13
DID NOT PLEASE THE JUDGE
Expression Used by Girl on Trial for
Vagrancy May Have Had Some
Influence on His Honor.

Sure, Mike" Clara Johnson, on
trial for vagrancy in police court,
said to Judge Alice when he asked her
if she had not been arrested on the
same charges a short time ago
MY name isn't Mike objected the
court. However. you are charged
with being vag.'
Il didn't do it," the prisoner replied,
Sinking arrOgantly.
You're not right in the head COM
mented the court
I'm all right she said.
What do you do?'
Work at John Smiths"
What do you do there?"
Everything"
Everything"
Sure, Mike"
Ten days" sighed the magistrate.
The spectators laughed, and Clara.
turning to them, shouted angrily: Il
wish you'se had tc go to that dirty
place!'-St. Joseph Press.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13

| as we have any proof Of
That it can remain that long has
been well known to us by the evidence
curiously given to us by the seals
themselves. They have a habit OF
turning themselves head down in the
sea, with their hind flippers lifted up
entirely out of the water, completely
reversing their normal attitude when
rising to breathe and survey. This
habit is to enable them better to
scratch their sides and loins with the
fore flippers than they can when not
thus inverted, because the hair and fur
open better in this queer position un.
der water when rubbed by their flip
pers. A great many stop-watch rec
Ords have been made of the time un.
der water which a seal would keep it's
head when thus scratching, and the
limit of four to five minutes was fire.
quently m:.de- never longer.
With reference to the powers of de-
struction, of course our fur seal boat
has no torpedo tubes, but it can and
does shoot it's mouth off, at fish with
a deadly certainty.
In this connection 1t is interesting
to note that seals do not catch fish by
pursuit of them-not at all; they shoot
down, from above. upon The backs. or
up from below, to strike at the bel
lies of their finny prey.
How fast these rhocine submarines
can speed up under The stimulus of ex-
element or fear no one knows. But
it is we'll known when a vessel is COM
ing down before a gale of wind from
the islands, logging "A to Is knots,
that bevy of fur seals will often fol-
low the ship for hours, md repeatedly
swim by it, swim around it. and then re-
new the chase and circling of it.
Henry w. Elliott in New York Times.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13
Less Than Human.

Tom, the country six-year-old, pre-
senting himself one day in even more
order. was asked by his mother If he
would not like to be little city boy.
and always be nice and clean in white
suits and shoes and stockings Tom
answered scornfully; They're not
children; they're pets."-Harper's
Monthly.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13

CldL because SOIllc VI
the early pelagic
sealing vessels were
fitted with small
auxiliary screws, and
these, when put into
use. had to be re-
moved.
Then, on the other
hand, we find that
our submarine boat
has one great advan-
tage over it's sealing
prototype-it can re-
main for many
hours. yes, days
under sea. The seal
cannot stay there
more than four or
five minutes as far
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13

lor IL travels there
only when wholly sub
merged.
Unlike, however, the
"Unterseebot," the
fur seal is not fitted
for swimming on the
surface; it only rises
there to survey. to
breathe, and to sleep;
It never attempts to
swim with head above
water on any course,
no matter how short.
1t rises, when undis-
turbed or not alarmed,
looks about with head
and eek well
stretched up above
the surface of the sea,
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13
No Trouble at All.

Il saved three today said the first
lifeguard.
pretty good" said the second life
guard. Il saved only two, but they
were fat. Yours were thin"
Huh, | had the dickens of time
keeping mine above water. but you
lust tOWed those fat women to shore.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13
HAVE SAVED MOUNT VERNON

foot of the bluff through the action
OF the waves a heavy masonry wall
was then built along the edge of the
river. 1t is hoped that danger Of
future slides has been eliminated
Popular Mechanics
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13
Tired Of Waiting.

Tired of Waiting.
"Of course the war can't last for
ever" said the optimist.
"Of course not" asserted the pes
simist, but, confound it, neither can
WEI"
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13

Appropriate Affection.
"How did the doctors diagnose the
trouble of that grass widow
"They said she had the h: fever
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13

A woman doesn't want the last
word; she would rather keep right on
talking.
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has been suggested to us by any form
o. natural animal life is not so patent.
doubtless it has often been in the
minds of fishermen and whalers when
tempest tossed and severely driven.
Certainly it you'd be happy ship for
them that could be so constructed
which would safely dive with all on
board to the quiet depths below, there
to rest content and easy until the
clouds rolled by above.
We have come to regard the soaring
albatross or the condor as the proto
type OF the aeroplane. When we look
for natural model for the submarine
we lind it well made in the body OF
the fur seal and fully suggested by
its method of progression in the sea.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13

Hanford's Balsam. Economy in
large sizes. Adv.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13

People who pay compliments -.
wait for the bill collector IN o.n a
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13
LADIES'!

LADIES'!
Take CAPUDlNE-
For Aches, Pains and Nervousness.
1T is NOT A NARCOTIC OR DOPE
Gives quick relief-Try tt.-Adv.
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The German patent Office
about two-thirds of the 4 ma 'eec
applications it receives AMMAN p'''
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13
SEALS ACT MUCH
LIKE SUBMARINE

HAT airships, gliding
planes, and aeroplanes
have been suggested to
man by the flight of
birds is we'll understood
by US. That the dead
ly submarine of our
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-11-13
TO Drive Out Malaria
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