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GENE RAJ.

Becker died an innocent man in the
opinion OF his spiritual advisers,
Fathers Curry and Cashin.
Wage increases and new time sched.
ules granting reduced hours OF labor
are reported from a number of indus.
trial points where strikes have been
pending or are threatened.
At Harbor Springs. Mich, Miss
Catherine Barker, Americas only $50,
100000 orphan, took husband and a
new name when she married Howard
II Spaulding. Jr., of Chicago.
The burning at the stake at Temple
Tex, OF Will Stanley, negro suspect
In the triple Grimes family hammer
murders, hampered police efforts to
arrest and identify other persons sus.
pected in the case.
The recent display Of an American
flag with a white border sewed around
1t by a society at Fort Dodge, Iowa
promoting world peace. caused Attor.
ney General Cosson to issue instruc.
tions to the Fort Dodge authorities to
take action II the display is repeated.
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Floods Sweep Three to Death.

Colorado Springs.-Three men In an
automobile were swept away and prob
ably all were drowned; heavily load
ed Santa Fe passenger train was flung
Off the track. with serious injuries tc
four and slight injuries to many; a
Rio Grande train was halted just on
the brink Of gap left by a washed
away bridge. and all railroad traffic
between here and Pueblo-including o
large number OF transcontinental
trains heavily loaded with passengers
: was tied up by cloudburst that
swept the Fountain district, south OF
Colorado Springs Friday night.
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Sacrificed TO Politics. Epitaph.

New York.-The funeral of Charles
Becker, executed in Sing Sing prison
for instigating the murder OF Herman
Rosenthal, was held at the Church OF
st. Nicholas of Tolentine. the Bronx.
So great was the crowd around the
church and the Becker home nearby,
that the police reserves had to be
called to handle it. Carriages to take
part in the funeral procession extend
ed several blocks from the church
One carriage was filled with floral
tributes. The largest of these was a
floral cross, bearing the inscription
Sacrificed to Politics."
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CONDENSED RECORD or THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOM @ 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

American vesse, Leelanaw Of New
York sunk by German submarine off
The Orkney islands
A total of 5000 iron crosses have
been conferred since the beginning OF
the war upon Alsatian soldiers.
The anniversary Of the outbreak OF
the war was passed without the Ger
mans occupying Warsaw, which was
understood to be part OF their pro-
gram.
American travellers arriving at Zu.
rich, Switzerland. from Berlin. report
that there were serious anti-American
\ disturbances in the German capital
last week.
The Leland liner Iberian was sunk
by a German submarine. Six mem
bers of the crew we're killed, two
died aboard rescue boat and sixty
,one were landed safely.
4 London reports eight more Lowe
stoft trawlers sunk by German sub
marine. The crews were saved. The
fishermen sent to the bottom were the
Quest. the Strive, the Achieve, the
Athena. the Coriander and the Fitz.
gerald
The German Emperor has issued a
manifesto to the German people on
the occasion OF the anniversary Of the
outbreak of the war, according to a
. Reuter- dispatch from Amsterdam. In
the manifesto the Emperor says: BE
fore God and history, my conscience
is clear; | have not willed war Full
OF gratitude. we can say today that
God is with US.
Il hereby solemnly declare that we
will not conclude peace until the last
enemy soldier has left our land"
These words of Emperor Nicholas OF
Russia, uttered at the Winter Palace
in st, Petersburg oh Aug /. 1914, are
reproduced in the press of Petrograd
on the anniversary of the war. A mes.
sage In the Bourse Gazette printed in
all the languages of Russia's allies,
says; Russia greets her allies
France, Great Britain, Belgium, Ser.
bia, Montenegro, Japan and Italy. All
hail 10 their heroic loyalty and firm
determination to stand by her to the
end; till light dispels the gloom"
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PEOPLE DYING OF FAMINE
Mexican People Reported Eating
Grass and carrion.

Washington, Aug. "A Red Cross
message from Charles ]. O'Connor,
the society's relief agent at Mexico
City, read: Prices already are pro
hibitiye There is practically no corn
in the city. Authentic cases OF death
and collapse from starvation. Some
people are eating leaves. grass, weeds
dead horses and mules"
Consul Silliman's message said Mex
leo City was occupied by the Gonzalez
forces Friday night ION urgent orders
of Gen. Carranza,' and added:
"A severe fight occurred Friday aft.
ernoon at point east Of Guadalupe.
The director Of the telegraph states
telegraph communication is expected
by Sunday afternoon at the latest"
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To Rehabilitate National Guard.

Denyer.-Moyed by the timeliness
OF national appeal for the strength
ening of state defenses. the support of
practically every business house and
manufacturing organization in Denver
was pledged to the campaign of Gov.
ernor Carlson to perfect the organiza.
tion of the Colorado National guard.
To the unanimous cooperation Of.
fered by these concerns was added the
Endorsement of scores of influential
citizens and the promise OF immediate
action in numerous sections of the
state.
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Bull Hurls Marshal Through Fence

La Salle.-Able to cope with all
kinds OF desperate criminals and
hold his own. Marshal +. v. Henry of
Ia Sale met his Waterloo when he
attempted to drive bull from his back
yard. and as result. is now in bed
with serious cuts and bruises suffered
when he was thrown through a barbed
wire fence. The bull. which is the
same one that killed j B. Dunn few
weeks ago, got out of the pasture and
vas In Henry's yard.
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Taxicabs Must File Rate Schedule

Denver.-An order issued by the
State Public Utilities Commission di.
rects all persons and interpretations
operating automobiles and other We.
hicles for the conveyance OF passen.
gers or freight to report to the com
mission The order is based on the
"jitney bus amendment to- the pub
lie utilities law, which went into eff.
feet July II. II requires all such per.
sons and corporations to give their
rates and complete description of
the service rendered, and make re.
ports to the commission.
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WASHINGTON.

Definite steps toward restoration OF
peace In Mexico will be taken immedi,
ately upon President Wilson's return
to Washington.
One hundred and fifty foreign. built
vessels of 52S.40S gross tons have been
admitted to American registry under
the act of Congress of Aug. Is. 1914
up to July "a, according to state.
ment by the Department OF Commerce
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TWO DROWN At KELKER
ANOTHER MAN Is MISSING AFTER
cLouDeuRsT.
Thirty-five Persons Injured When
Santa Re Train 10 Derailed by
Washout in Severe Storm.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Colorado Springs by q
terrific wall Of water that hurled it.
self down Sand creek, Harry Robinson,
business manager of the Colorado
Midland. and Albert w. Colburn.
chauffeur, were caught in an automo.
bile ten miles east of Colorado
Springs Friday night, swept away and
drowned. V. H. Lucas, a wealthy
ranchman, is missing and is thought
to have perished with them. The
storm, which resulted in the tying up
of three railroads and the automobile
roads, and wrecked Santa Fe train No.
., swept the men down the stream
from eight to ten miles. The drown
ng was not discovered until Saturday
morning. when Colburn's body was
'ound in the sand, eight miles from
he spot where the auto attempted to
cross the creek.
Colburn was the brother of Walter
oolburn, manager of the Colorado
springs ZOO. Searching parties were
Immediately organized and 1t re-
NAMED for George Maxwell to discov.
ar the body Of Robinson, who was his
half.brother. Lucas body has not
been discovered.
Colburn and Robinson were partial.
y undressed. indicating an attempt on
their part to take their clothes off in
order to be able to better swim the
stream. Robinson's body was found
one and half miles above Colburn's s
lodge on sandbar. Coroner Boyle
took charge of the bodies.
Robinson was 4s years old and
prominent In musical circles here. He
was bookkeeper in the First Nation
al bank and is survived by his moth.
er, Mrs. NJ. R. Maxwell. his half
brother, Harry Maxwell. also a local
musician. and Miss Ruth Maxwell, a
half-sister.
Colburn was 22Fyears old and lived
with his parents. at 8 South Weber
street.
Lucas came here several years ago
from Cleveland for his wife's health
and purchased the Bar X ranch near
Falcon. Mrs. Lucas is seriously Ill in
BETHEL hospital Lucas was coming
into the city to see her when he was
swept away.
Santa Fe train No. 6, southbound,
was derailed near the scene of the
drowning as the result of a culvert
giving way. Late reports indicate
that thirty-five passengers were in
iured, none fatally.
The engine passed over the culvert
In safety, but the baggage and chair
car turned over and six Pullman cars
left the track. Most of the injured
were In the chair car.
The storm that caused the damage
began in the outskirts of Colorado
Springs as shower, increasing in in
tensity southwark, accompanied by
sharp electric disturbances and the
fall of hail Sand creek. where the
wreck occurred. ordinarily is a dry
arroyo. Down this waterway the de-
luge ran, undermining the bridge sup.
ports and finally emptying into the
Fountain river The wall of water
was carried off by the Fountain river
without any appreciable damage be-
low.
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Employers Favor State Insurance.

DenVer.-Employers whose payrolls
Will cover approximately $4,000. 900 a
year already have signified their in.
tenuon OF taking out their workmen 8
compensation insurance with the state
workmens compensation insurance
fund rather than with private com.
panies, according to an announcement
made by w. W. Greene, manager OF
the state fund and actuary for the
State Industrial Commission. Appll.
cations for insurance covering a large
part Of this amount have already been
received.
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Mrs. Van Bergen Saved,

Boulder. colo.-Mrs. Nellie Van
Bergen OF 2042 Spruce street. was
saved from death by fire in an eyplo.
sion of gasoline at the automobile
filling station of garage by the
speedy action Of Thomas Hussie and
Edward Smith. who halted her as she
rushed in panic down the street and
put out the flames with a fire ex.
tinguisher.
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Oelaaua Man Slain in Quarrel.

Trinidad -Antone Carne of Delagua
was shot through the breast and in
stantly killed in a handto-hand con-
flict with two men. Carne was killed
at a place between the Agular tent
colony and the station at Lynn.
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Cotton Crop Show. Big Decrease.

Washington-This years cotton crop
will be approximately ll,970,037 equiv
alent 500lb. bales. compared with 16,-
1890 bales last year
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COLORADO
S TATE NEW S
Western Newspaper Union News Service,
COMING EyENrx.
Aug. 12-14.-Froutier DAYS and vii,

COMING EVENT..
Aug l2-li.-Frontier Days and Wild
west Features at Grand Junction.
Aug. l3.-Pickls Day at Platteyills.
Aug. 1S-20.-Old Settlers meeting at
Cope.
aug. 81 I-Sept. 2-Grand Lodge, K, of p.
at Colorado Springs.
aug. 2S.-Fail Festival at Fiagter.
Dry Farming Congress at Dsntsr
oeh, ls-Fair and Race Meeting 1T
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"Ahem the sick man, the sick man; is your maJes'
ty speaking the doctor In the case OF as INC
heir" With that the other powers turned against
Russian pretensons and all subsequent oc-
Aasions in various combinations, both in 1852 and
in 1877, backed the sick man" against any ooc-
toring by which Russia would be the residuary
legatee. And SO events moved on for oo years,
till the day Of reckoning came. and Austria hred
the Serbian powder barrel and Armageddon
was on!
While 1t is an exaggeration, at any rate IN
these modern times. to ascribe the mastery OF
world to the possession of Constantinople. 1t can
not be denied that the city occupies from po
litical from a strategic and from an economic
point Of view, one of the most valuable and I'm
portant sites in the world 1t is natural fortress
of great strength. protected as 1t is in the rear
by mountain and swamp, which make it dificult
to attack by land, by those wonderful straits,
the Dardanelles and the Bosporps. which furnish
matchless a defense against any onslaught
from the sea.
1t lies at the very point where Europe and
Asia meet and which connects the Black sea
with the Mediterranean, and even with the Indian
ocean, by way of the Suez canal and the Red sea.
When the railroad now in course of construc-
ton from Ismid to the head of the Persian gulf.
via Konia and Bagdad is completed, which will
constitute far and away the shortest and quick.
est route from Europe to India, Constantinople
will become perhaps the most important station
along the line both regards freight and pas.
senger traffic
Even the existing trade route to India via the
Suez canal would be endangered by Russia's pos
session of Constantinople and it is for this rea-
son that Earl Grey in admitting in parliament
that England had abandoned its traditional policy
of centuries and would not oppose its free access
to the Mediterranean from the Black sea through
the Bosporus and Dardanelles. very careful
not to say Russia should be given Constantinople
at once!
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of the London Times, VIII for a period was en-
ployed by the Turkish Tobacco Reggie. Mr. Bell
some years ago described the great piles of ma
terial covered with the accumulated dust Of four
and half centuries, which tantalized him with
their possibilities. He could not get at what they
really since the glooLi made 1t impossible
to distinguish any Of the objects. and the Turks
would not permit close examination.
Fascinating possibilities exist in the thought
of what the dust that has been accumulating
since the year of the conquest by Mohammed II
may conceal. 1t is doubtful IL many treasures
in gold and silver and gems will be found. though
even this is possible. But the chances that pre-
cious manuscripts of the classics may be dis
covered are greater. Splendid Libraries, contain
ing probably practically all the lost classics,
undoubtedly hidden in ruins.
There are known to be 5000 manuscripts in
the sultan's library which have been seen. and
that only hastily by few foreigners. But the
chief hope of scholars lies in their trust in one
of the least Objectionable traits Of the Moslem.
his dislike of destroying anything with writing
on II. Even IL he does sacrifice pictures and
sculpture, he usually leaves books alone. in case
the name Of God should be written them.
Had it not been for this superstition the world
would be very much poorer in the old learning
than 1t is today.
AS for its strategic and political value it must
be remembered that Constantinople is to the
Russian church and to its adherents what Rome
is to the Roman Catholics and for the last 200
years in particular it has constituted the prin-
cpal object of all Muscovite religious and po-
litical aspirations. Without attaching any
credence whatsoever to the purely mythical tes-
lament of Peter the Great about Constantinpple
a document which never heard of until the
beginning of the nineteenth century, nearly a
hundred years after his death, and which is a
forgery concocted by the Pole Sokolniki and the
Frenchman Lesueur at the instance of the first
Emperor Napoleon, there is doubt that Car
Peter had set his heart upon the acquisition of
Constantinople and had impressed this idea upon
his people as a national ideal
However. whether the will be authentic or
genuine or not the fact is it does embody ma.
tional aspirations. and has had a great effect on
Russian imagination.
Catherine the Great was equally bent upo,
transferring the capital of her empire from
Petrograd, and from Moscow. to Stamboul. and
when Napoleon l and Alexander ! planned to-
gether their sharing the dominion of the world
the Muscovite ruler insisted upon the possession
Of Constantinople on political and religious
grounds. declaring 1t to be "the key to the door
of Russia" Napoleon would not and could not
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the use mace by the Moslem conuuerors of the
seven hills. more or less dominated by splendid
seraehos ana mosques. including the metamor-
phosed Santa Sophia ITSELF gives Constantinople
today its peculiar character above all other cities
and makes the near or distant view under vary
ing aspects OF sun and season one Of unrivaled
magnifcence. that 1t is today the chief picture
city Of the world.
The mosques seem to be part of as well rs-
ing out of a sort Of curious mushroom growth
developing out Of rooted refuse Of stone and stuc-
that spreads all over the two sides Of the
Golden Horn. that famous arm of the bay
which the city Is situated with Stamboul. the old
city on the west and Galata and Pera, where
the foreigners live on the east. stretching along
the shores of the Bosporus toward tn Black
sea- And the mosques are wonderful. Here
they rise. huge masses Of clustered rectangular
structures with all sorts of subsidiary buildings,
as It were, tied up to and plastered against them.
And then out Of this squat mass appear the
soaring. slender minarets cutting the blue sky
in lovely tapering outline, broken only by the
balconies, from four to six in number. the latter
grouping only allowed in one case. however.
while above the central section fortlike in char
acter. the domes and semidomes are uplifted. all
to be crowned by the great dome which balances
the entire mass in a manner that seems pure
chance but makes an indescrible effect Of beauty
and proportion, as is in evidence in the great
mosque JeniJani near the Galata bridge.
Dolce FAR niente days VIII soon De over ii IL
again yields to the new invaders. and a new era
of enlightenment sets in. Then the street and
public life will take a new aspect and the
city will be once more a place Of pilgrimage.
Moreover when the capital is once more in
Christian hands. what chance for the antiquar
ians and archeologsts and classical scholars and
specialists, Every ruin should yield treasures.
and of all the promising places the most prom
Using are the mysterious vaults under the great
Agia Sophia mosque. formerly the Church OF St
Sophia, origir ally built by Constantine In 326 OPP
posite his palace and dedicated to the Divine
Wisdom (Sophia). The church as 1t exists to-
day. one Of the greatest buildings in the world
was erected in 532-537 by the Emperor Justinian
Anthemios of Tralleis and lsidoros OF Miletos
were the architects. Fossati an Italian archi-
tect. undertook a thorough restoration OF the
exterior of the building in 1S47 when it was
painted yellow with red stripes.
II is in what may lie under st. Sophia that
! the interest Of archeoogists will center. These
vaults have always been jealously guarded oy
the Turks and few indeed have been the out
siders allowed a peep at them. One OF those who
saw the most was the late Moberly Bell. manager
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eSCEWE OW IXE COL DEWH H0CN

consent to this. giving utterance to his celebrated
and historic phrase, NO. the possession OF Con-
stantinople by Russia would mean the mastery
Of the world"
1t was this question about Constantinople that
caused the break Of the friendship of the emper
ors and an enmity which resulted in NapOleon's
disastrous invasion of Russia. with his grande
armee in the destruction of Moscow b. fire. in
the coalition of Russia with Great Britain. Prus
sia, Sweden and Austria against France. In the
invasion of the latter country by the allies in
the disastrous defeat of Napoleon at Leipsic
and at Waterloo, in the loss of his throne and In
his exile, first to Elba, and then to st. Helena.
The will" is probably less authentic than that
famous mot of the Car Nicholas. who just be-
fore the Crmean in 1853 said to the British
ambassador. apropos of Turkey. that I'VE have
on hands a sick mana very sick man. 1t
will be- tell you frankly. a great misfortune II
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one of these days
he should slip away
from us; especially
before all the neces-
sary arrangements
have been made"
The English ambas-
sador was strictly
noncommittal e v e n
after the czar had
pointed out the hor-
rors of a general
Europe an W ar
which might ensue
If the great powers
were not careful. 80
the Russian auto
crat repeated his re-
mark about the
sick man" to Prince
Metternich, the eel
ebrated wit, who
was the Austrian
ambassador, and 1t
was Metternich who
cynically turned the
tide against any Eu-
ropean cooperation
with Russia in han
ding the Turkish
situation, by re-
m arkiRg curtly.
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cent and the green flag Of
Islam desecrated the holy
places as the conquerOr
rode into the city through
the gate of st. Romanus.
And, as he entered the
palace the new ruler was
heard to recite. so tradi-
ton has it, some lines of
Persian poetry running as
follows:
THE spider has spun her
web in the palace
of the Caesars,
THE owl has sung her
watch song on the
towers of Afrasiab."
Supersaturate with his
tory as Is the city. its
present-day aspect, as the
long revenge of time
hastens to its final salts
faction, and the crosses
that will replace the cres-
cent are already in the
making. is one that IL
more redolent and reflec-
tive of the immediate
down-at-the-heels Orient
than of the earlier cen.
turies. It Is a medley of
mosques and minarets, of
magnificence and squalor.
Of kiosks and cafes. Pal.
aces jostle miserable huts.
and enchanting kiosks, in
Saracenic style, gay in
color OF stone. stucco or
tile, and with superb
metal work. are seen side
by side with the cheapest
Of frame houses and mean
cafes. Broad open squares,
like unkempt back lots
where tin cans and goats
mort do congregate. how.
oper. are contrasted also
with the narrowest of III.
smelling alleys doing duty
as streets. and yet above
all this meanness. all this
huddlement of cheap and
unpretentious buildings,
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CLOSE QUARTERS.

YES for the last two months I've been posi-.
lively living within my income"
Don't you feel rather cramped?'
"Cramped! Say, lend me $10 will you!
want to stretch myself"
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days of Alexander the Great of Xerxes of Darius,
the jump Of centuries to that most celebrated of all
milestones the Inauguration of the city the capi
tai of the eastern empire by Constantine the
eleventh of May. $50. not uneventful, though
nothing like the story told by the eleven hundred
and twenty-three years of imperial splendor before
II fell into the hands Of Mohammed II. on May 20.
1853 that fateful of all days when the cross,
under Constantine XI went down before the
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HARD TIM ES.

Whats become of the old-fashioned Joker
who used to answer, when asked If he was mar.
ried: No. I'm in business for myself!'"
The last time heard Of him he was still at
It, but his salary had been reduced"
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the place over there,
as this modern perversion of the Greek
phrase ''in the city" is often translated,
has been sung by poets and painted by
artists and been the theme of almost
incorporate eulogy since its early days
when. as the picturesque little Greek
city of Byzantium. it stood for the east
ernmost settlement of Greek culture in
Europe. tower Of light shining over
the barbaric Orient that lay within its
sight across the way From these early