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The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
TO PROBE WIRE RATES
HEARING ON RATES AND SERVICE
get FOR JAN. 3, 1916.
Cites Mountain States Telephone
and Telegraph Company.

Denver.-The State Public Utilities
Commission ordered sweeping in
vestigation of telephone rates and
service throughout Colorado. In ac-
cordance with its action a complaint
was filed with the commission on it's
own initiation calling upon the Noun
tain States Telephone & Telegraph
Company to appear before the COM
mission to answer any and all charges
that might be made. The date for the
hearing was set as Jan. 3, 1916.
In accord with the intention of the
commission to make the probe of tele-
phone conditions as complete and
beneficial as possible the engineer for
the board, Daniel Hooker, formerly
construction engineer for the Colora-
do & Southern railroad, will start at
once to make an appraisement of the
holdings of the telephone company.
At the same time the expert cleo
trical engineer for the state body,
Fred Rankin, also will begin an invest
igation. The statistician, Fred w.
Herbert, rate expert e. NJ. Neal and
the various inspectors of the commits
sion will help in the examination of
the books and properties of the tele-
phone corporation.
The hearing date is set several
months ahead so the telephone com
pany will have ample time to present
their side of the case and so that
each community in the state which
has a grievance may come forward
with proper data.
1t also is the desire of the commits
sion to handle the matter in such a
way that when the final adjustment
is made the state of Colorado will have
model telephone service and
| charges equitable to all
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
Inheritance Tax $685., 600 for Year.

Denver.-A total OF $3S5,OOO in In
heritance taxes probably will be col
lected by the state government this
year, according to estimates made by
Leslie E. Hubbard, state inheritance
tax appraiser This will excel the
record of any past years collections.
In 1914 $326OOO was collected. So far
this year Appraiser Hubbard and his
force have collected $1O1, 2G0 1t is
estimated that in the next six months
they will collect s2S5,OOO from other
estates upon which action still re-
mains to be taken.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
PRESIDENT NAMES LANSING.
Counselor Selected as Secretary of
State ad Interim.

Washington.-Robe Lansing, coun-
selor for the State Department, re-
ceived his formal appointment as sec
rotary of state ad interim. Following
is the text of the Presidents designa-
ton of Counselor Lansing as acting
secretary:
The White II gu e, Washington,
June 8, 1915.-The Hon. William Jen-
nings Bryan having resigned the Of
flee of secretary of state |, Woodrow
Wilson, President of the United States
of America, do hereby, in conformity
with the provisions of Sections III
and 179 of the Revised Statutes and
of the Act of Congress approved Feb.
8, 1891, authorize and direct the Hon.
Robert Lansing, counselor for the De
partment of State, to perform the du-
ties OF the office of secretary of state
for period not to exceed thirty days,
until a secretary shall have been APP
pointed and have qualified.
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON,"
Assistant Solicitor Chandler Ander-
son will act temporarily as coun-
selor.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
Scenery to Save s25o,ooo,ooo a Year

Denver County commissioners,
city officials, representatives of com
mercial organizations and state Off
Gals heard Mark Daniels, general
superintendent of national parks, out
line his ideas for making the scenic
beauties of Colorado available to tour
lists at luncheon in Denver. After
outlining his plan, he said, among
other things: Heretofore develop
ment of scenic attractions in this
country has been in response to de-
mands of the idealist and nature lover.
Now it is an economic problem to re-
tain at home $250,0O0,OO0 that goes
abroad annually. The proposed Pixies
peak to Longs peak park area is be-
yond the national park category. 1t
is big enough to be an international
park" Only thorough spirit of COM
munity effort and cooperation can ac-
complish the completion of this great
project. We cannot offer the tourist
any compensation for the mountain
scenery of Switzerland. We have a
better article to offer but lack facili-
ties for the accommodation of the
tourist. Our opportunity is at hand,
for, If all reports are true, the scenery
oil Europe has been shot all to pieces
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
'he Read the Verdict in His Eyes.

She Read the Verdict in His Eyes.
their awnings, gasping in the heat.
Here and there was a knot of white
crepe upon the handle of door.
Vane fancied that the eyes of the
townspeople followed him little ma
liciously.
He was within block of his house
when a woman rushed out at him from
an open door on whose handle the IA
miliar knot of crepe hung.
Doctor Vane-you will save my
Freddy" she cried, clutching at his
arm One gone-I asked you this
morning, you remember. l have only
one more, and he has the disease.
You won't leave me childless, doctor?"
Il can do nothing for you, madam, y
replied the doctor sternly.
The woman cried and clawed con-
vulsively at his sleeve.
You don't understand. Listen, doc
tor My second little boy is dying. l
know you say it isn't etiquette to give
out the serum, but won't you forget
about the etiquette and save my sons
life?"
Cyrus Vane was not hard-hearted
man. He stood up rather stiffiy and
nerved himself with difficulty for his
answer.
Il can't help you, madam" he said.
MY work is for the good of humanity
and selfish personal reasons must be
forgotten. / am only at liberty to
think of the race. If l stopped to con-
slider persons l should never have the
strength to go through with my work.
The woman was looking desperately
into his face. Il don't know what you
mean, doctor, but will you let my sec
ond baby die?" she asked.
Il am trying to explain" said Doctor
Vane. that these things have to be
done in an orderly manner. 1t is use
less to ask me to make exceptions in
single cases. i"
The woman shrieked. my God, doc
tor, are you going to let my second
die?" she cried.
Vane detached himself. He had long
ago hardened his mind against such
scenes, such emotions. In the strug-
gle TO. the race thousands fell. He
turned and walked onward. He heard
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
An Ethical
Surrender
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Copyright. 1915, by w. G. Chapman.)
Cyrus Vane stood in the laboratory
of the hospital, watching his test
tubes. The little colonies that were
spreading upon the gelatine meant
that the new bacillus could be devel-
oped in an ordinary medium. With
this he planned to do what science had
hitherto failed in doing. He hoped to
cure infantile paralysis, and convert
what was a scourge into a mild i'll
ness merely.
For six weeks he had devoted his
time to this alone. Meanwhile the
scourge had fastened itself upon the
town. Children were dying. 1t had
never been checked. What a boon the
new antitoxin, prepared from the ba-
cillus, would be!
Vane was sure of it. He had in
jected il into apes and watched them
recover from artiicially induced pes
thence. He had tested the serum in
every possible way. Why, then, could
he not give it to the world?
That question is often asked by
those who are impatient for new rem
edies. The answer is that, before the
conservative physician will make pub
lie his achievements it is necessary
for the proof to have been piled up in
at least a thousand experimental cases.
In short, all over the country physi-
clans were trying out Vane's discov-
cry, on monkeys, on apes, and per-
haps here and there on children who
were in the grip of the disease and
could not have been harmed by the
serum, even if it failed to benefit
them.
But until the results of the thou
sand cases were known, the serum
could not be made public property.
Vane had said as much to the
wretched women who, having heard
rumors of his discovery; grow
elled before him that morning, implor-
ing the serum for their children. He
had almost forced them away.
He walked thoughtfully homeward.
The wide street was almost empty,
only a few storekeepers sat under
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
Governor Names New Pardon Board

Denver.-Governor Carlson appoint
ed three new members of the State
Board of Pardons. C. J. Morley of Den
yer, to serve until 1919; Floyd E.
Dendell of Fort Morgan, to serve until
1917, and Allen Wright of Denver, to
serve until 1919. He also made DR.. u.
P. Roberts of Rocky Ford member
of the state board of dental examiners
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
Daniels Resignation story Denied.

Washington. - Reports that Score
.ary Daniels had resigned, or would
do so, were current, but were fatty
denied on all sides. The report, it is
was said grew out of the well-known
friendship of Mr.. Bryan and Mr. Dan
iels.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
Denver-Boulder Line to Use TraiIers.

Denver.-As a result of the State
Public Utilities Commissions recent
investigation of the Denver & Inter
urban Railroad Company, orders were
issued from the office of the commits
sion calling for the use of trailers be-
tween Denver and Boulder when war
ranted by the travel.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
Ask Carlson to Stump for Suffrage.

been asked to stump New York for
votes for women" He received
letter from the Empire State cam
paign committee asking him to make
a weeks campaign for the suffragists.
The letter suggests that he might give
his services when he goes East to at
tend the national conference of gov
ernors in Boston the last of August.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
Fruit Rate Hearing Set for June "a.

Demonstrating in the freight rate
and refrigeration case OF the Grand
Valley Freight Rate Association
against the Denver & Rio Grande. the
Colorado & Southern and other rail
roads, has been set by the state public
utilities commission for June IA, at
the capitol
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
Frisco Train Goes Into Ditch.

Tulsa, Okla-Six persons were in
jured, none fatally, when a St. Louis
& San Francisco passenger train went
into a ditch near Enid. Okla.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
Industrial Board Names Secretary.

Denver.-Adolphus Warren, former
" a Boulder contractor, has been APP
pointed acting secretary of the State
Industrial Commission. An actuary
will be named at $4,000 per year.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
Russian Ambassador Dead.

London.-The Russian embassy an
nounced the death of Count Peter
Benckendorff, Russian ambassador at
London.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12

Chicago.-John C. Siegfried of San
Francisco, one of the largest tea i'm
porters in the country died at hotel
here.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
OTTOMAN GUNBOAT is SUNK AND
TRANSPORT CAPTURED IN
PERSIAN GULF.
RUSSIAN ARMY CUT OFF
GERMAN ADV A N CE ACROSS
DNlESTER SHUTS OUT SLAV
FORCES.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, June 10.-Premier Asquith
announced in the House of Commons
that the total of British casualties
from the beginning of the war to May
81 was 25S,O69 men in killed, wounded
and missing.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12

Petrograd. - Russian submarines
sank the German steamer Hindenburg
and attacked a fleet of ten German
ships in the Baltic, it was semi-offi-
cially announced here.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12

London.-The town of Stanislau
has been captured by the Austrians,
according to the official statement is
sued by the German army headquar-
ters. Stanislau is seventy-five miles
southeast of Lemberg, the Galician
capital
Official announcement was made by
Secretary of the Admiralty Balfour
that German submarine had been
twenty-one members of her crew had
been captured. The British steamer
Lady Salisbury was torpedoed by a
German submarine and sent to the
bottom.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12

Constantinople.-An army transport
was shelled and sunk and another
transport forced to leave its anchorage
by Turkish forts at the Dardanelles.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12

Berlin-The Russians are preparing
to evacuate Lemberg, according to of
ficial dispatches received here. Forty
boxes containing valuable possessions
of Lemberg museums and other insti
tutions have been sent across the Rus
sian border.
Gen. Won Linsingen's advance across
the Dniester has pierced the Russian
line, cutting off the Russian forces
operating north of Bukowina from the
armies around Lemberg. Dispatches
from the battle front say Won Linsin
gems advance continues over a broad
front.
London.-British East Indian troops
have completely routed a Turkish
force in a campaign along the Tigris
river in Asiatic Turkey, according to
an official statement.
The British troops sunk a Turkish
gunboat and captured Turkish trans
port. The governor of Amara surren
dered the garrison to the invaders
The enemy is completely disorgan
ized," the official statement reads.
London-The Turkish gunboat Mar.
maris has been sunk and the Turkish
transport Mosul has been captured,
according to an official statement
given out by the British government
The action took place in the Persian
gulf region.
Constantinople.-An army transport
was shelled and sunk and another
transport forced to leave its anchorage
by Turkish forts at the DardanelleS
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-04-09
Destructive starfish.

Clearing Narragansett bay of that
voracious enemy of the oyster, clam
and scallop. the starfish, is one of the
principal recommendations of the
commissioners of shell fisheries in the
annual report just presented to the
general assembly. Many acres Of free
ground-17. 900 acres are exempt by
law-are described as only breeding
places for the starfish. which during
the past year destroyed million BUSH
els of oysters besides ravaging the
beds of CLAIMS and scallops. So seri-
Gus a menace to the shellfish indus
try is the starfish that the revenue of
the state from leased oyster grounds
Is being affected. The starfish set
during June and July. Immense num-
bers are found upon seaweed. It is
estimated that the starfish in one cart
load of seaweed are capable of de-
stroying over six million clans in one
week. Raking the seaweed ashore is
one way OF killing the stars by the
million.-Providence Bulletin.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-04-09
Teeth for Special Occasions.
Those Billions simnIv roll

Those Billions simply roll In
wealth"
Don't they-and say, did you ever
see Mrs. Billions set Of state teeth?"
State teeth?"
"Yes-the ones she wears at recep-
lions and dinners. They're made of
diamonds, rubies, pearls, sapphires and
emeralds in succession. Why, one Of
her smiles is worth O."-New
York World
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-04-09
HONESTY IN SMALL THINGS
Petty Graft, Considered of Small Mat
ter, Is Something the consci-
entious VIII Avoid.

An order forbidding the girls to
make personal calls on the Office
phones was recently issued by large
corporation, and the girls we're very
indignant, says the Pittsburgh Dis
patch.
But these are stringent times, and if
those girls had looked over the books
Of the company and seen how large an
Item of expense the telephone was,
they might not have felt so ill-used.
Just ask yourself frankly how much
graft you expect to get from your
place Of business.
Many girls make practice of taking
paper and pens and pencils, blotters,
rubbers, even stamps. They do all
their telephoning over the companys
wires. They use the company's time
for their personal correspondence.
And these are only the most obvious
and common of the forms graft takes
in Offices.
Look over your ideas on this subject
and see how much of it you have
fallen for. And then ask yourself why
you should graft on the company any
more than on any special member of
it. You would hardly take stamps out
of the boss pocketbook, in case he
dropped 1t within reach. Yet what's
the difference, except in appearance?
Better cut it out, girls. Most offices
are pretty free and easy about grating
of that sort, and 1t is a matter for your
own choice. But the habit is bad
one; it lacks dignity, and it isn't fair.
It's on a par with cheating the car
companies by stealing ride when the
opportunity offers instead of paying
your nickel for value received. Being
honest when an eye is on you, in fact,
instead of just honest And 1t doesn't
pay
1t takes the fine edge of your feel
ings and perceptions.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-04-09
ADDITIONS TO THE LANGUAGE
vlrile Terms Mostly Created in the
Workshop and the Market Place,
Says Writer.

Language can be made in the IL
brary, no doubt, and in the laboratory
also, but it is most often and most eff
fectively created in the workshop and
in the market place, where the i'm
aginative energy of our race expresses
itself spontaneously in swiftly Great
ing the lacking term in response to the
unexpected demand, says Brander
Mathews in Harper's Magazine. Moth.
ing could be better, each in its own
way, than picturesque vocables like
scarehead and loan shark, windjam.
mer and henminded, all of them Amer
lean contributions to the English Ian
guage and all of them examples of the
purest English. Henminded is an ad-
jective devised by Mr.. Howells to de-
scribe those women who are so COM
mon in all walks of life and who are
made up of only one aim at time,
and of manifold anxieties at all times.
Scarehead and loan shark are the
products of the newspaper office, while
windjammer was put together by some
down East sailor man, inheritor of the
word-forming gift of his island ances-
tors who helped to harry the Armada.
"Windjammer," remarked Professor
Gildersleeve, trained by his intimate
knowledge of Greek to appreciate
verbal vigor as well as verbal deli
cacy, 'WindjammeI is a fine word,
grant, and SO is every Anglo-Saxon
compound that grows and is not
made"
But all new words are not of neces-
sity good words. Ben Jonson, who was
himself a frequent maker of new
words. displayed his shrewdness when
he declared that Custom is the most
certain mistress of language as the
publicke stampe makes the current
money. adding as caution. But wee
must not be too frequent with the
mint, every day coyning"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-04-09

slept in bitches, behind hedges and in
old tumbledown barns The weather
was extremely bad and his sufferings
were great, but the courageous Bel
gian kept on and with the aid of sign
posts along the roads found his way
through Bonn, Coblentz, Mayence
Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Strassburg and
Erstein. finally crossing the Swiss-Ger-
man frontier and reaching Basel.
While in German territory he was
often stopped and questioned by po-
lice and military patrols, but be al
ways signaled that he could neither
hear nor speak, and when paper and
a pen were offered him he would
write: Itch bin Schweiz" q am
Swiss). This was his passport.
Not content with reaching Switzer.
land, Liaudat continued his tramp by
Thun and Briga over the Simplon pass
to Domodossola. He succeeded in
reaching Genoa on January 81. Since
his escape from Aix-la- ChapelIe he had
been walking for 81 days and had GOV.
cred a distance of roughly $50 miles.
Liaudat is going back to the front
to fight the Germans again.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-04-09
RATHER ROUGH ON FATHER
Daughters Remark Might Have Been
Construed unkIndIy by the
Casual Listener.

Since Fred had become a sopho
more, and was therefore a college
man." he had given himself patron
izing airs toward Sister May. who
had been his guide, philosopher and
friend during boyhood. Vexed by his
haughtiness. she was numerically
quizzing him the other evening at
dinner.
Has our man made up his mind,
she inquired, "as to what profession
he will honor after a while?"
why, yes, little one" Fred re-
sponded. with his most aggravating
smile II have made up my mind to
be a doctor, like grandfather and ia.
Their"
you doctor!" May smiled scorn-
fully.
I'D like to know why Motif get
my diplomat" asked Fred, still annoy
ingly calm.
well. you'll never be great sur
geon, like father" May insisted
Again, why not?" Fred smiled,
condescendingly.
"You a surgeon like fatheri" May
cried. vehemently. why, you big
softly. you couldn't even kill fiy!"
Nobody but father caught the sig
nifcance of the remark. and somehow
he didn't mention it.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-04-09
700 PENNIES EARN SITS
Sunday School Pupils Give Practical
Demonstration of "ParabIe
of the Talents"

Frankfort, Ind-How 700 Lincoln
pennies grew into SITS in a year was
related at the Methodist Sunday
school here. The school wishes a
new chapel, and the superintendent
decided to test the practicability of
the Parable of the Talents" He dis
tributed 700 pennies among the 700
pupils, who were told to increase the
amount as much as possible during
the year.
As the classes, and pupils were
called on to make their report, the
Z. w. B. G. class, composed of 81
young women, reported having made
$S1.37 from the 81 pennies. The Ok
ford class was next, turning in $2e. 50.
The home department class was a
close third with $25.
Reports from some of the little chill
dren were interesting. George Dor
ner bought an egg with her penny,
Matched a chicken, raised the chicken
and sold it for 81. Russell Eubanks
bought penny's worth of white corn:
his mother made 1t into hominy.
which he sold, realizing 40 cents. Es-
Their Stewart bought popcorn with her
penny and realized 81 from the sale
of the popped corn.
The plan worked so well that it will
be tried another year.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-04-09
sorrow,s Idea of English.

George Borrow. who received his in.
struction in the pronunciation of
Welsh from a groom, was of the
opinion that the difficulties of the
language had been vastly exaggerat-
ed. THE double 4 of the Welsh he
wrote, "is by no means the terrible
cultural which English people gener-
ally suppose it to be. being in reality
a pretty liquid, exactly resembling
In sound the Spanish H. the sound of
which l had mastered before CON-
mencing Welsh. and which is equiya-
lent to the English III; so being able
to pronounce llano had. of course,
no difficulty in pronouncing Llud.
which. by the bye, was the name of the
groom"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-04-09
HAS NO NEED OF HUSBAND
Woman Makes Big Success Manae.
Ing Store and Also at
Farming

Penokee, Kan.-one of the best
rustlers in the short grass country is
a woman. Miss Sophronia Summer
son, manager of the Farmers Supply
Company store in Penokee, in Graham
county, has succeeded without aid Of
a husband. For the last two years
she has held this job, and made
money for the company. Her people
live near Hoxie, Sheridan county,
where she owns a section and a half
of land and farms it out on shares.
In 1914 Miss Summerson raised
1000 bushels of wheat, 1000 bushels
of oats, 1000 bushels of corn and
$500 bushels of barley. For more
than dozen years she was the agent
of the Union Pacific at Menlo. Palco
and Morland
The Summersons were among the
pioneer settlers of Sheridan county.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-04-09

The best way to get along with some
people is to get along without them.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-04-09

If you have lost your job don't be
discouraged. Adam also lost his, and
see how celebrated he is today as the
result.