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The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29
STATE ASSESSORS MEET
FIX VALUES ON LIVE STOCK AND
OTHER PROPERTY.
Mumper Will Endeavor 20 Have Cues
ton of Aboiishing Tax Board
Submitted to Voters in 1916.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denyer-Despite the fact that to all
appearances the most cordial relations
existed, the annual meeting of the as
SCISSORS was made the occasion for a
movement to abolish the state taxing
board.
A. l.. Mumper, assessor of Weld
county, is the prime mover in the plan.
He has made it known that before
the general election in 1916 he will
attempt to obtain the necessary sigma
lures to a petition to submit to the
voters the question of abolishing the
tax commission. Several other asses
sors agreed to cooperate in the plan
through the circulation of similar Pc
titions in their counties.
In addition to the reports of the
committees on mine taxation and
lands and improvements, the assess
ors adopted the recommendation of
the livestock committee for the fixing
of valuations on stock. The report re-
commended the following valuations:
Beef steers, fed, $50 to $50: steers
in lunches, l year old, $50, 2 years
old $40. and and years old $50 to
SOS; range cattle in punches, ages
from 6 months old upward, S35 to $40:
straight punches OF range COWS, $40
to s55; dogas at the discretion of the
assessor, but must be shown in the
abstract as dogas. from $50 to SIS;
broncho milk COWS, SA5; work horses,
first class, 1,400 pounds and upward,
$3.50; horses from 1900 to 1,400
pounds, 500; horses from 900 to 1,100
pounds. $50 to S65; punches of range
horses. s35 to $50; stations, jacks and
bulls to be left to assessors judg-
ment first-class mules, heavy, 5000;
medium size mules, $100 to $50;
light mules, $50 to $75; range sheep,
$3.50 to $3.50; sheep fed in transit,
$3.50; swine. cents per pound; pack
burros, SIS; sheep camp burros, So;
chickens, S. per dozen and other poul-
try in proportion; bees, So per stand.
The committee on automobile valu-
alton recommended that the valuations
be fixed as follows:
Machines purchased since Jan. |, 90
per cent of the cost price; machines
l year old, 20 per cent of the cost
price; machines 2 years old, from 40
to go per cent OF the cost price; ma
chimes more than years old, values
to be left to the judgment of the as
SCISSOR.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

Captain Greene of the American
vessel Nebraskan injured by an eX-
ploston off Ireland says he is Ger
tain torpedo struck his ship
British battleship Majestic sunk
by torpedo in the Dardaneiics.
British steamer MoTwenua and
Danish steamer Betty sunk by sub
marines in North Sea
British mine laying ship Princess
Irene destroyed by explosion at dock
near London with the loss of 321
sailors and dock workers.
Austrians surround Przemysl shut
ting off Russian communication with
Lemburg.
Italians continue to advance on
Trieste
Mrs. May Fabin killed in another
airship raid on Southend. England
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29
Girl May Save Bulger.

Denver.-Miss Willie Rellah, form
erly a stenographer at the Savoy hotel
in Denver, has written a letter to Gov.
ernor Carlson in which she says she
has information that may save James
C. Bulger from the gallows. She
claims in her letter to the governor
that she has been unable to reach the
attorney and friends of the convicted
slayer OF Lloyd F. Nicodemus, owner
of the Savoy. Miss Bellah now lives
in Atlanta Georgia
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

According to Negro publication,
the Crisis, members of the darker race
have gained recognition from scientific
bodies in music, in art and also in the
more commonplace walks of life.
There is a colored man who is ma
jor in the United States regular army,
Maj. Charles Young. He has passed
all his examinations with flying col
ors. is first-class soldier and fighting
man and, as a matter of fact, army
officers are rather proud of him in an
official way
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

London, May 2S.-The American
steamer Nebraskan which was dis
abled by an explosion off the coast of
Ireland arrived in Liverpool Thursday
Captain Greene of the Nebraskan said:
Il saw no submarine; but am GER
tain it was torpedo which hit us.
Moreover. submarine could not have
failed to see our name and nationality
which was outlined in huge letters on
our sides"
The forward part of the ship is
completely wrecked.
Ambassador Page cabled the State
Department at Washington that Cap
tain Greene of the Nebraskan had Civ
en- the naval attache of the embassy a
sworn statement at Liverpool con-
corning the explosion on his ship off
the Irish coast and that the attache
was returning to London. Lieutenant
Powers, the attache, was accompanied
to Liverpool by Naval Constructor Nc
Bride, who is expected to make an ex-
animation, with the hope of ascertain
ing definitely whether the Nebraskan
was damaged by mine, or torpedo.
The British battleship Majestic. an
other of the ships supporting the al
lied army on the Gallipoli peninsula,
was torpedoed and sunk by German
submarine. Nearly all the officers
and crew were saved.
At about the same time the steamer
Princess Irene, which was built last
year for the Canadian Pacific British
Columbia coast service, and which
was taken over by the admiralty at
The commencement of the war as
mine-layer, was accidentally destroyed
by an explosion while at anchor at
5heerness where she was undergoing
repairs. All her crew, numbering $50.
except one seaman, and, besides, Is
iockyard workmen who were aboard
1t the time, lost their lives.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

The colored American citizen is not
an alien. Reaching this country I'M
Willingly about the same time as the
white man, he has demonstrated his
loyalty in every war in his country's
defense. He is self-supporting. in
dustrious, thrifty and useful citizen,
and has as much right to equal treat
ment as those who have come later
and rendered less service.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

1t has been a practice in the recent
past among our people to stand off and
criticize the hayward young Negro
and make no effort to help him. Many
of us charged him with being respon-
sible for his lost and ruined condition
and fused at him for not turning vol
unfairly to the paths of rectitude and
for not healing his own ills. Others
of us blamed our schools and educa-
tional institutions for these lamentable
conditions, always seeming to excuse
parents for their responsibility i'll the
matter.
All of which was wide of the mark
1t is beginning to dawn now upon
the majority of us that there is no
effective substitute for good home
training. Neither schools, colleges nor
reformatories can do a work for the
young as effectively as the home. The
schools and colleges do all within their
power for the morals of the young;
the most of their time must of neces-
sity be spent in technical or book in
struction. which of itself may or may
not better the morals. But conditions
which compel fathers and mothers in
Negro homes to become breadwinners
to the neglect of the shildren, force
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

lowering of 25 per thousand for the
whites.
A comparison for twenty-four south
ern cities showed a rate of 296 for
Negroes, a decrease of A per thou
sand, and 1863 for whites, a decrease
of 90 from 1900. Malaria, tubercu-
losis, pneumonia and whooping cough
seem to be more deadly among Ne
groes than among whites, while Ne
groes are better able to withstand
measles, scarlet fever, diphSheria can
GER, appendicitis, diarrhea and vio-
lence. Also fewer Negroes commit
suicide.
DR.. w. F. Drummer, health officer
of Savannah, Ga. shows clearly in
the current survey, how much of
menace this high death rate is to
both Negroes and whites in the South.
In 1913 there were about $4,000
whites and $4,000 Negroes in Savan-
nah. Deaths from natural causes to-
tailed 1.O3S among the Negroes and
only 442 among the whites. The in
famous housing upon city dwelling
Negroes, North and South, account
for this great disparity OF course
however, the city which permits a
high death rate among Negroes pays
the penalty among all its people.
Bacteria are color blind.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

The will of Lemuel Googins, col
ored barber of Baltimore, who died
recently, was filed for probate. Goo
gins estate is said to be worth $780,
600. Letters testamentary were is
sued to the Colonial Trust company
executor and trustee. The will be-
queaths $4,000 to the Colored Masonic
home to furnish two rooms in mem
DRY of Florence Googins, a deceased
daughter. The residue of the estate
is placed in trust with the Colonial
Trust company as trustee, the in
come to be paid to Henrietta Googins,
widow of the decedant, as long as she
lives. At her death the estate goes
to Granville Googins and Lemuel Goo
gins, Jr., sons.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29
Plan Laws to Develop West.

Denver.-The Federal government is
beginning to realize that many of it's
policies have been a bar to Western
development, and the critical time has
come for the entire West to join in
presenting to the United States speci
fic legislative remedies to counterfeit
and remove the sJagnation of the last
seven or eight years, according to the
unanimous opinion of Western execu
tives, reported in Denver by Governor
Carlson, who returned from the Seat
the prospective reforms.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

That the mortality rate among the
colored population is vastly higher
than among the whites has long been
known. But efforts to learn the cause
and to remedy che trouble have not
yet gone very far. The New York de-
partment of health, however, is going
into that task with an energy that
promises good results.
1t is taking up the task with the CO.
operation of vSrious colored civic or
CARNATIONS, all under an impulse Civ
en- by Booker Washington and the
National Negro Business league. 1t is
generally understood that this heavy
death rate is the result of ignorance as
to the most sanitary methods of life
and the care of ailments in their in
ception. For example, two types of
disease are notable for abnormally
large death rates among the colored
people. These are infant mortality
and tuberculosis. But in both of them
it has been shown that right methods
of living and care in the treatment
of the disease can produce notable
saving of life.
The work of training the Negroes
to the style of life that will lower NOR
tally is eminently notable in itself
But it is even more so with regard to
its effect on the whites. Living as
they do, close to us, even when segre-
gated. they cannot convert their quar-
ters into breeding places for disease
without enlarging the danger OF in
lection for the white population. 1t is
to be hoped that the New York effort
to improve that evil will be success
full and widely copied.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29
AFRO-AMER|CAN CU[[|NCS

The name Manassas centuries up in
the minds of most people in this coun-
try the great struggle between the
North and the South on the battlefield
of Bull Run fifty years ago, in that
brother-againstb brother strife for the
freedom for the Negro. 1t seems,
therefore, peculiarly fitting that on
this battlefield which witnessed such
havoc and bloodshed for the enamel
patton of these people, there should
spring up school where they might
learn the value and usefulness of the
liberty won for them at so great a
cost Such a school-a school of ev-
eryday common-sense training with in
dustrial work supplemented by practi-
cal academic studies-came into exist
ence there twenty years ago, under
the guiding hand of colored woman,
Jennie Dean.
The founding of the Manassas In
dustrial School for Colored Youth is
really the life-story of Jennie Dean.
Her parents were slaves, but of the
most intelligent class of Negroes, her
father having been taught to read and
write early in life. He was ambitious
after the war, to own his farm, but
died before he had finished paying for
It, Jennie Dean, then a young girl,
left home and went into service in
Washington, her wages going to pay
the balance on the farm, as well as
to pay her younger sisters tuition at
college.
Jennie Deans life in Washington
brought to her full realization of the
danger her people run in migrating
to the cities, and she made up her
mind to try to do something to keep
them at home. Her first work toward
this was the starting of a Sunday
school one summer while on a visit
home, which later developed, through
her efforts, into the founding of a
church in Manassas. During the time
that she was conducting these Sun
day school classes and working for the
church, Jennie Dean was also hold
ing Saturday afternoon classes in
cooking and sewing, and through this
work she realized the possibilities
which might develop out of training of
this sort for young colored people.
ono SpCLb years Ill lHiS HIS
sion work before she determined to
devote herself to the industrial edu-
cation of the Negroes of northern Vir-
sinia and to found school for that
purpose. She knew the danger that
lurked in the cities for these young
people, but she also realized the dis
couraging situation which confronted
them if they remained at home. She
was mindful of the skilled labor of
slavery days, and bemoaned the fact
that nothing had come to replace that
industrial side. By this time, Jennie
Deans influence had become very
strong in the community, so that they
were all ready to help her when she
called the people together and said:
Keep your children at home. Don't
send them to the cities. You must
buy your land; become taxpayers.
Make all you can and save all you
can. Meanwhile, l will go out and
raise the money to build a school
where your children may be educated
to trades. You do your part here,
and l will do mine in the world"
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29
Vanderbilt Memorial Services Held.

New York.-Tributes to the men,
ory of Alfred G. Vanderbilt. who per-
ished on the Lusitania. were paid in
memorial services held at the home of
his mother, Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt. Relatives and friends only at
tended the service. Mr.. yanderbilt's
body was not recovered
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29
collec. $1,000 in inheritance Tax.

Nearly $1,000 in inherit
snce taxes have been collected dur
ing the last month by Leslie E. Hub
bard. inheritance tax appraiser. The
following is his report of the amount
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

she is the sort of girl" said Eph
Wiley yesterday in discussing Gene
We've Willoughby, who will turn
around to see If she has attracted your
attention and then frown at you for
looking at her"
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

upon the schools the impossible task
of trying to counterfeit the evils plant
ed by lack of adequate hearthside in
struction.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

While Negroes have progressed, pow
erty still shows its handicap The
death rate of Negroes in thirty-three
northern cities, each having Negro
population of at least $500 in 1910
was 251 per thousand. This was a
decrease of per thousand in a de-
cade, but 1t was still very high in
comparison with the white death rate
of 1871 per thousand, incidentally a
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29
collected

Estate. Co. or state. Tax.
VIM Teal Marshall. Denver ......S ia
Marion Elizabeth Bagg, CAL. 73
George +. Holmes. Massachusetts 356
Bernd Henry Lahmann. Larimer. 45
Louis DejonSe New York ....... 14I
Dan H. Pike. Denver ......... 3O5
George Gillespie. Denver. ........ 2,022
Annie Bnlman. Custer. 33
Proctor b Mason. Weld. ........ 1l3
William w. Tayntar, Ohio .... So
Frances l.. Bellan. Denver. ...... 1,TT5
Jacob schmidt, Denver. ....... 9S
julius II. Warren, Massachusetts IS
Henry IL. Drake, Denver. II
Mary Reese. Denver .-............ 81
John ID. Kendall. Utah. ......... 1.O20
Louis Schmidt. Denver. ......... II
william g. Douglass. Denver. 10n
Frances G. Norton, Denver. 1917
c. c. Ten Brock. New York;. %
Total. S6S6i
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

The highest temperature ever
known in human being was recorded
in the case of an Italian recently. A
victim of lung disease, his tempera-
ture was 1873.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

A man can't do justice to himself as
an entertainer when his wife is
around.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

Some men who think they are dear
are easily bought.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

No woman is safer than the length
of her hatpin.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

The gold industry of the Rand is es-
timated to be worth 100000 day to
South Africa.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29
TURKSSINK SIXTH
HUGE WAR CRAFT
CAPTAIN OF U. S. VESSEL NE
BRAskAN DECLARES THAT
TORPEDO STRUCK 1T.
ITALIANS NEAR TRIESTE
MINE LAYING STEAMER BLOWN
UP AT DOCK NEAR LONDON
AND a27 MEN PERISH.
EVENTS IN EUROPEAN WAR.

western Newspaper Onion News service.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29

There are 10000 Indian farmers in
the United States.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-16
Our Submarines.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you kindly answer the following
questions through your columns: How many
submarines has this country under construc-
tion at the present time and who are build
ing them? Also state the number OF sub
marines in active service to-day and OF what
type and by whom built.
am a reader of your paper and VIII APP
preciate your answering me in this matter
New York, Sept 10, 1915. H. H.
Prior to the passage Of the naval APP
propriation law for 19l4-15 there were fifty
submarines on the naval list. The law for
1914-15 authorized the construction of eight
and the law for 1876 authorized the con-
struction of eighteen. One submarine was
lost in 1915. For list of builders apply to
the chief of the Bureau of Construction and
Repairs. Navy Department-Edl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-16
MIR. Ford's Plight.

Mr.. Henry Ford may retort to the
queries of the American Defence Society
that consistency is the concern of little
minds, or he may reply with the more
cynical formula business is business" In
any case, Mr.. Ford is himself a fragrant
example Of unpreparedness, of the man
who lays himself open to attack, invites,
as it were, the aggression of the world in
the hope that his defencelessness will be
his best shield, climates himself, and i'm
mediately becomes the victim of the ruth
less hostility Of his well equipped enemy.
The American Defence Society has asked
him in an open letter what he meant by
his offer of $10,OOO,0O0 as a fund for
peace" purposes. In making that offer
Mr.. Ford no doubt considered that he was
well within his rights, since it involved the
expenditure of his own money and the
legitimate support of his cherished be-
Hefs; but in doing so he ran directly
counter 10 the interests of the Defence
Society, just, we might say, as Uncle Sam
has run counter TO the interests of Ger
many in supplying the latter's enemies
with the sinews of war. And the Defence
Society has very naturally torpedoed Mr..
Ford with the reminder that Mr.. p. l.. d.
Perry, his London representative, has
been quoted as boasting that he had sup
piled the British government with 1880
automobiles of various kinds and had
5000 untitled orders. The British govern
ment, as even Mr.. Ford must be aware,
is buying automobiles for belligerent pur-
poses.
But not content with sinking the liner
of his benevolent motives under him, the
Defence Society has opened fire on the
excellent Mr.. Ford laundering in an in
hospitable sea. 1t continues:
Underneath the whole submarine ques-
ton now so acute between Germany and
the United States lies, as you are well
aware, the resentment Of Germany against
the expectation of arms TO the Allies. If
this situation grows more acute, if war
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-16
Convoke Congress, Mr.. President.

To the Editor the The Tribune.
Sir: The trouble with all of President
Wilson's notes TO Germany is that they are
regarded in Berlin as blank cartridges, and
hence harmless. They make noise enough,
but there is no bullet on top OF the powder
VIXEN they are fred.
If Mr.. Wilson had back of him a substan-
tial army Of drilled soldiers and an adequate
navy, the Kaiser would sit up and take notice.
He knows that our diplomatic ammunition has
no force behind il, and Germany has no re-
spect for anything but military power. Will
Mr. Wilson never wake up TO the needs Of
this country? He should have called an extra
session of Congress last summer for the eX-
press purpose of enacting legislation for the
defence OF the country. He should call such
an extra session now. In leaving this great
nation in its present helpless condition for
the last year he has assumed and Is assum-
ing n terrible responsibility. ~ I. X.
New York, Sept. IL, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-16
A Reorganized Elections Bureau.

Addressing the Honest Ballot Associa-
ton, Frederick L. Marshall State Super
of Elections, predicts that in
November the "foaters' vote" here will be
"a theory rather than a condition. He
declares that he has thoroughly reorgan-
lied the Office force, has "fne-combed the
Bureau Of Vital Statistics" so tombstones
can't be voted, and is certain the election
will be honest. lie promises to cooperate
earnestly and completely with the associa-
ton and the police and District Attorney
in work to prevent election frauds.
This is a most gratifying prediction and
heartening promise. 1t is not 50 many
months ago that the Superintendent Of
were three of them then
were at swords points with the Honest
Ballot Association or anybody else who
undertook to question the adequacy
of their work against election crooks.
Charges of improper political activity
were hanging over the incumbents, and
the atmosphere of the Office was almost
one of excuse for, rather than condemna-
tion of, election trickery.
The change is not due to the charges
preferred-Governor Glynn never acted on
them-but to a Republican administration
at Albany. If the coming election does
show the foater vote greatly minimized
no small credit will be due to the party
which took out of the hands of Tammany
the Elections Bureau, made by Murphy S
boys" into one of the hughest pieces of
spoils in the entire state.