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The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-13
CONVICT HELD
WARDEN lyman TO PROBE LIFE
LED BY ]. j. MOORE.
Sends Man to Kansas City and If tho
Charges Are Substantiated Parole
Will Be Held as Violated.

western Newspaper Union New. Service.
Colorado Springs.-On evidence in
dicating that j. j. Moore, alias j. A.
Boyle, author of the Boston Blackie
stories, has violated his parole, Ward
en- Thomas ]. lyman of the state peni-
tentiary will send a man to Kansas
City. Warden lyman has had Moore
watched since the convict-author was
given permission to leave the state to
accept employment and report of his
marriage followed. Moore had never
mentioned a desire to marry while un-
der parole to the warden.
Moore was arrested by the chief of
police in Kansas City with woman
after Clement Anthony Martin and
Bertha McAndries Martin, married in
an elopement to this city, had been
taken into custody by federal author
tiles. The Moores and the Martins had
been together most of the time since
leaving Denver
lyman wired the Kansas City police
for facts in regard to Moore's deten-
tion and when no reply came he wired
the police there to hold Moore.
Il am going to send man to Kan
sas City, said Warden lyman. II
think we have established the fact
that he has broken his parole through
information obtained from United
States Attorney Tedrow. | am salts
fled that Moore has not been in good
company and if the points on which |
am having him held are sustained he
will be brought back for violating his
parole"
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-13
FOREIGN.

A British soldier was killed by a
lion, according to the latest casualty
list from German East Africa.
Warning to Americans to leave Mex
leo has been reiterated by the State
Department through the Brazilian min
lister at Mexico City
A proposal to esta blish a censorship
over the American mails was opposed
in the House of Commons by the
home secretary, Reginald McKenna.
General Villa, in statement to the
press, repeated his invitation for the
foreign diplomats at Mexico City to
make their headquarters at Chihuahua
City.
Mrs. Emma Dalquist, proprietor OF a
road house at Safety, twenty-five miles
east of Nome, Alaska, was lost in a
blizzard and no trace of her can be
found.
There has been prepared by the gov
ernment a new decree which extends
the moratorium in France for another
period of three months, from April
to June 80.
Italy and Rumania probably will
enter the war together on the side OF
the allies, according to newspapers at
Rome, which oppose the present policy
of neutrality.
Greece apparently is at the parting
of the ways with her King exerting his
| influence to maintain the neutrality of
his country in opposition to the retir-
ing premier, NJ. Venizelos, the man to
whom Greece owes her revival.
A dispatch from Amsterdam to the
Exchange Telegraph Company says
that, according to Vienna kilograms,
Count Stephan Tisza, the Hungarian
premier, will soon be appointed Aus
tro-Hungarian foreign secretary.
A bulletin issued at Bordeaux.
France, by Dr. Denuce, who is in at
tendance upon Nine. Sarah Bernhard,
whose right leg was amputated recent
ly, says that the condition of Nine.
Bernhard continues to be very salts
factory.
A Carranza harassing expedition
held up Villa supply train between
Juarez and Chihuahua City, securing
various munitions but no arms or am
munition. A report from Laredo
stated that Monterey fell into the
hands of the Gonzales forces. This
was denied in Villa advices.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-13
WASHING GTON.

President Wilson has selected Mon
day, May TO- as the date for the Pan
American financial conference.
President Wilson will not attend the
California Exposition this month but
will be represented by Vice President
Marshall.
The comptroller of the currency is
sued call for the condition of all
national banks at the close of business
Thursday, March 4.
President Wilson is taking active
steps to work out budget system OF
government expenditures, for submis-
sion to the next Congress.
rhe Justice Department announced
there would be no prosecution in con-
nection with election irregularities in
Uncle joe Cannon's election district
Gen. w. /. Marshall, consulting en-
gineer of the reclamation service, was
selected by Secretary of the Interior
Lane to take charge of operations look
ing toward stemming as much as pos.
sible the expected overflow of the
Colorado river
The state Department received
word from Ambassador Gerard at Ber.
lin that the German war office had
told him all waters surrounding the
Shetland and Orkney Islands are in
the war zone but that shipping on both
sides of the Farce Islands is safe.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-13
Special Train to Save Boys Life.

Grand ,Junction.-The Uintah Rail
way Company ran special train &c
take a small boy from Atchee, Colo.
to hospital in Fruita, after he had
fallen and bitten his tongue nearly Off
The boy was the son of Roy Muto o.
Atchee. The train made record speed
down a twenty-eight-mile grade anG
delivered the boy at Mack, from where
he was taken to Fruita. ten miles, in
an auto in fifteen minutes. The boy
will live, although he suffered greatly
from loss of blood
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-13
Blown to Bits by Dynamite.

Longmont.-Blown to bits with a
stick of dynamite, the body of Charles
Sail, 40, blacksmith at the Lyons guar.
ry, was found on the road near the
Lyons cemetery by Nat Ulvila, quar-
ryman going to work. Coroner Howe
of Boulder found evidence to convince
him that it was case OF suicide. The
dirt beneath the body was undis.
turbed, the body receiving the full
force of the charge. Sails watch and
a section of his vest were found 100
feet away.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-13
Belgian Officials Wife in Springs.

Colorado Springs.-Madame Depage
wife of the surgeon general of Bel
gium, is coming to Colorado Springs in
connection with the campaign she is
heading in this country for the relief
of the Belgian sufferers. She is sched
uled to be here some time after March
IA. Mrs. LYDIA NJ. Touzalin and Mrs. Les
lie j. SHELTON, together with other prom
inent women, are arranging a reception
for her and making plans for another
campaign in this city.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-13
Printer Friend of Greeley Dead.

Colorado Springs.-John Scott, SO
years old died at the Union Printers
Home, where he had been resident fol-
twenty-five years. He was one of the
oldest printers in the United States,
was "A person al friend of Horace Gree.
ley and a charter member of New
York Typographical Union No. 6 oil
which Greeley was president
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-13
Register and Receiver Named

Pueblo.-James B. Orman of Pueblo
former governor of Colorado, was no
titled of his appointment as receiver
of the United States land office at
Pueblo. Major G. Nj. Dameron of La
Junta, has been appointed register
They will succeed G. G. Withers of Pu.
eblo and j. w. Hawley Of Trinidad.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
DENOUNCED BY LAWYER
SONG PUBLISHER GRINS
Case of John T. Hall, Accused
Of Fraud. Goes to the Jury
This Morning.

A jury before Judge Rufus +. Foster
q the United States District Court will
De called upo to-day to decide whether
or not John T. Hall. otherwise known
as John r. Newcomer, used the mails
fraudulently when he encouraged song
poets TO have their ballads set to music
and advertised by the John T. Hall
Music Publishing Company in return for
a fee Of from s35 to s45. Hall, IL IL
charged. held out false hopes OF fame
and wealth TO many poets who seldom
received any royalties on their songs.
Assistant United States Attorney
Hartridge in summing up denounced Hall
AZ a contemplate swindler. Following
the direction of the prosecutors accus-
Ing index finger the Jurors turned 10
md Hall leaning back In his chair and
grinning broadly. The prosecutor read
from a letter written 10y Miss Georgia
kixson. 60 years old, of Dayton. Ohio,
who wrote You Cannot Buy "A Woman's
Heart With Gold" and hoped 10 keep
herself through the winter on the money
thai was to pour in from the sale Of
the song. She got 80 cents in royalties
and wrote Hall To push the sale of the
song 80 she might get money to buy
food and coal She paid Hall $35. One
part of her letter read
Now, Mr.. Hall, will YOU push my sons
when the music season opens again or
will 1t have TO die? I'm sure IL you
would only try You could make IA sue
cess OF II, for when you say go a piece
OF music does go, beg of you TO make
mine bring me enough to buy my win
ter's coal at least, for situated as ! am
] cant event go to II poor house, for I
have a good house. hut ] can't eat II.
wear it., burn it or sell IT. So there |
am stranded"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
HERCULES COMPANY
BUYS UNION POWDER
Du POnt OffshOot Gets Control
of S55O.O0O Concern That
Has War Orders.

The Hercules Powder Company. one
OF the offshoots Of the r. I. du Pont de
Company, after the Govern
ment suit against that concern, has pur-
chased the Union Powder Company.
which has several plants at Sayreyi,ic,
n. J. II. II. Eastman. secretary OF the
Hercules company. yesterday refused
to tell what the price paid for the Union
Powder Company was, although willing
to admit that the transaction had been
completed.
The Union Powder Company IL a COM
paratively new concern, having been
formed early this year. The company
has wal orders. all OF its output being
OF the sort. which finds q ready market
with the belligerents. It is capitalized
ut s550,o00. T. J. Gillespie is president
OF the Union Powder Company and
Henry W. johnson is secretary and
treasurer. Mr.. Eastman said yesterday
that he did not believe that the Hercules
Powder Company planned to AXE over
n more powder concerns Mt present.
The Hercules Powder Company was
Incorporated in 1912 in Delaware for the
manufacture and sale Of explosives and
blasting supplies. II purchased a por-
ton Of the assets Of the Z. I. du Pont de
Nemours Powder. Company under a
decree of the United States Court in the
suit OF the United States against that
company. The properties consisted of
eight black blasting powder. three dyna-
mite n two black powder plants. The
company has dynamite plants In New
Jersey. Michigan. Utah and California.
blasting powder plants In Pennsylvania.
Ohio, Wisconsin. Kansas. New York and
California, with plants for the manu-
facture of black sporting powder in New
York and Connecticut. II has an au-
thorized capital stock Of 5000 0o 900. of
which one-half Is preferred and one
half common. There is outstanding
s7.150.OO0 common II s5.350.ooo pre-
ferred.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
Also Fails TO Verify bid,

No bid was received from the Bradley
Contracting Company. but william Brad
ley entered "A bid Individually. Yet. in
spite of his years of experience In bid
ding for subway work. Mr.. Bradley also
failed 20 verify his bids and omitted
any reference TO the proposed sureties on
the bonds.
This discouraging outlook frightened
somewhat under the information that
the 7. A Gillespie Company and Terry *
Tench Company. Inc. had submitted a
heir bids contain no irregularities what
ever. Now. despite the perfection Of
form attained by these two companies
in making their bids for the work. the
PETERBOROUGH can't go ahead and let the
contracts without the COMMISSIONS con-
sent. Mr.. S;ionts asks that the matter
be brought before the commission imme-
diately SO that action ma be obtained
~; the earliest possible date.
The construction work In question Is
for the connection with the West Farms
subway. the Webster avenu line and the
connection AT Eighth avenue and l62d
street. The total Of the bids OF each
of the contractors for the three sections
was an follows Hyde. McFariin 4
Burke. ST. 0 3,23l.35 Frederick l.. Cram
ford. Inc. sl.5s4,ol5.50: the Terry a
Tench Company, Inc, and the T. A. GIL
lespie Company, sl.55s, 063.20 the Snare
& Triest Company. sI.606, SIG, and Will
lam Bradley. $l,529,ls4.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
HUPP MOTOR CAR CO.
TO ISSUE NEW STOCK
Bankers to Put Out S1.5OO.O 600
Preferred to Increase It's
Production.

j. Walter Drake. president ot TIE
Hupp Motor Car Company. announced
yesterday that his company has con.
pleted arrangements for the issue "
si.500.O 900 in preferred stock. This trans.
action has been pending for several
weeks. and has just been closed with
Ladenburg. Thalmann & Co. and a. q.
Becker q Co. Of Chicago.
THE refinancing of the Hump Motor
Car Company was consummated to ti'.
care OF the tremendous growth In cpr
business during the past few months.
and to provide adequate facilities or
meeting the Hupmobilc demand q, tas
future" said Mr.. Drake.
with less than five months OF our
present season past, II has become ev'-
dent that our estin ated production ~
$4,000 cars Is insufficient. This issa.
of $500. 900 preferred stock will. there
fore, be devoted TO Increasing our FRO.
duction facilities and providing n reserve
Of working capital We have just a..
quired large tracts adjoining the present
Hupmobile factory and have already b..
gun the erection OF now buildings. Ncro.
t!ations are pending for the acquisition
by the Hupmobile company of one OF tho
largest and most efficient parts rrodur.
ing plants in the industry. II liz IN.
DOSSibit ~ If'NlN az AflS ai'llt inc
exact volume OF our production for tho
next twelve months.
"ln handling this preferred stock issue
through Landenburg. Thainann & e u.
and A.. q. Becker a co. We have
brought into the automobile Industry tw,
of the most important banking houses In
the United States. Their Investigation
of the autorobile business as a who..
and Of our business in particular con-
WINGED these firms Of the great pOss,.
bilitics of the motor car industry. an
through the lIupp Motor Car CompanF
they make their entrance into q fed
they had rot previously considered.
81 feel 1t Is the highest possible tribute
TO my company that such concerns ~
L~adenhurg. Thalmann * 90. and \. t..
Becker q Go. should recognize In the
Hupp Motor Car Company tho biggest
opportunity the automobile industry has
to offer. With the completion OF th.s
financing the Hupp Motor Car Complain
becomes one of the few ranking concerns
in the industry. our faith In the future
is unlimited"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
NATIONAL GUARD CHANGES.
Resig mn From First Field Ar
tiIlery-sOme Promotions.

First Lieut.. Arthur W. Copp. hatta-
lion uuaItermas1er and cnmmlssary Of
the First Field Artillery, and First Lieut..
John Z. SINNERS OF Battery u. First
Field Artillery. hay resigned and have
been honorlb bly, discharged. Other Off
GERS who have resigned have just
been honorably discharged are the fol-
lowing: Capt. Harry J.. Loop, NJ deal
Department capt. Charles r.. Colin.
Twenty-third Infantry. and First Lieut..
Joseph C. Hardmeyer. Coa Artillery
Corps.
The following officers, recently pro-
NOTED in the grades given. have passed
the examining board n have received
their commissions
Capt. Joseph q Ten Eyck, Thirteenth
Coast Artillery Capt, stanley :, Turn
bridge. First cavalry capt. Robert w.
Kinds. Sixty-tfth Infantry First Lieut..
George W. |. Dwineil. Thirteenth Coast
Artillery Second Lieut.. John H. Tice.
Thirteenth Coast Artillery Second Lieut..
Rowland Tompkirs, Seventh Infantry
First Lieut.. Lowd W. Ballcntyne. Third
Infantry Second Lieut.. clyde +. Marion.
Seventy-frst Infantry. and FRS, Lieut.
Charles c. Xacharie. Medical Corps, az
to the Tenth Infantry,
Capt. Lynn W. Thompson. Seventy-hrs'
Infantry, has been placed on the re-
serve list at his own request and vii
he succeeded as ordnance officer OF the
regiment, II is understood. by Capt. j.
W. Lyon OF Company b..
Color Sergeant william p. stevens,
Second Infantry. has been prevented
second lieutenant for faithful service o.
twenty-five years and has been placed
on the retired list.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
BULK OF STOCK PREFERRED,
Western Electric TO Have SIS.
10000 and a7SO,OOO Common,

Further details of the organization of
the Western Electric Company, Inc,
we're perfected at "A meeting I'm New
York yesterday. OF the s15,75O,0 900
capital $4,000. 900 will he 8 per cent.
preferred stock and will be
preferred as to assets also. There will,
he SaJ0.o00 Common stock divided into
10000 shares with n par value of s.
each. a statement issued after the meet
ing reads
"The stockholders Of the Western f;lec-
trio Company came to the conclusion Ina,
IL was desirable that The should
have W classes of stock, common ana
~non-voting preferred. AZ the statute "a
OF Illinois do not provide for such ciassi.
hcation IL was decided that the company
should change its legal domlcile. No
change In the policies. operations or
management In involved"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
DEADLY TRAP DOOR Is
FIRE INQUIRY EXHIBIT
Cost Twelve Lives Because
BOltcd, Fire Captain Con-
nelly Tells CrOpsey.


Charred. battered ana broken, ,ne .rap
uooT wnlch Played such a ucau'g pa.
~ tne diamond candy factory nrc i'
North sixth street, OH
November o. i'lustra'eu .ne .es.n.Vns
eiNen yesterday AT the inVest,s'.'o" "e-
iore coroner wagner OF brooN's"'
was TINS door locked ABOVE OF pe,
low! District AVtorhey oropse! "Sneu
.apt. EDWARD D. Cohhe"y " r"s'"e
lsE
IT wa iocheu unoe,ne%'n, III.
hei'y repieo. but LOT .ne 'oche" w.
All nisht nave ESCAPED. certainty '"e'|e
"ouiu nov nave u,eo;
capt .ohhehy to,o no" tne ,r'i, u"ui
sea'eu tne one staircase III ne ouiu
ing thai couio nave oceh USE" WIZ
saiet!' me Iact mat tiose OH .ne nov.
Deiow neu without Ieieas'hs 'he uoI'
grove many 10 inc nre escape "'ere
e'knt met uea,h'
iiyhah bs'iiS toIu Oh an uIlsui.s nero,
So'oinon n,icker, VINO Hnu'hs '"c 'iap
uoo, ,ocheu s"'asneo OUT one =" 'nv
weaker pianks, mus Hakihs q snnai'
apeIture n'Vus wh'cn ~ passeu seN-
erai VI 'he siei'uerer s',is. my opcnlns
wac 700 sHlaii LOT br'cker anu ~ was
u"ap.c % eh.arke IT, ~ los, ns Ie'
Aorana'n ilpNih repuaia,eu III 'm
1aNn !" winch ne saiu 'nat o'n,u'
Darh.n' ms empower hau "a'h,V'su W
mn .na' ne 'na,Nlh' hau ioehea IN,
80. =. .isn I'LL =. "le ~ Ia
80 ss.a' -" ~ .n ~,
nnn, ua I'll II
.t.asa ap"' po.nta
- r. '"' '"' """ ''' ~
y,.,r,o. x,.r c ..,a, chile
u.itness m u,Snrn s,o VA re- .a,Ling
ahou, tho a. Sto ,an,t.i IN, .h.
h,d ,.iLad nil, A. pa,,in Nv, yhe
went IN his ho,,. i,s, Ir,dav fnr nor
wages In the next breath however.
she denied .ha, tho tan conr had bee,,
discussed. several witnesses testified
hal, ,her,. has bcen M a,c drills IN tho
building. one r.coIlected that a driu
had been held within three months.
The Investigation will bs resumed
Monday morning
The Civic Federation's committee on
accident prevention will meet in the
thirty-third floor of the Metropolitan
Tower next Tuesday afternoon at 4
o'clock to consider means whereby prea;
fire risks may be minimized. The pres
cnt laws, Inadequate APPROXIMATION for
State inspections and the desirability
OF increasing the number of factory in
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
ALLIES SPENDING
Big LOAN RAPIDLY
Call for Second 1%nstalment
Requires S145, 900, 600
by November 20.
STERLING UP

Basil L. Blackett and Octave HON.
berg. the two members Of the Anglo
French nance and credit commission
remained In this country to arrange
the lnal matters OF the $500. 600. 900
A~hglo-French loan. have issued n call
upon the banks which are acting as
the local depositaries for the funds real
ICED from the sale Of the bonds to send
IA second instalment of the proceeds OF
the loan to New York. This call liz
for 30 per cent. OF the o Of the
loan and will bring approximately $40
600. 900 to this city. AS the payment
must he made TO the National City
Bank. the central depositary. on No
vember 80. The previous call was for
Is per cent. and In round numbers called
for about s72. zoo, 900.
Payments for the first call took place
on November Is ard the fact that twice
the first amoun was called Tor on No
vember 90. Just two weeks after s72,-
900. 900 had been sent here. was inter-
preted in Wall Street M only another
evidence of the tremendous rate at
which the Allies are spending money
in this country for the purchase OF
munitions. II is known that Mr.. HON.
berg II Mr.. Blackett began drawing
against the first loan funds deposited
In the City Bank almost as soon az the
money began to arrive.
The committee of American bankers
which Is arranging for the supplement
AIRY credits TO Great Britain. which will
have an initial minimum Of $50. 900 900
and may ultimately reach AS high as
$300. 900, 600 or more. will hold a meeting
at the National city Bank at 10 o'clock
to-day. Frank a. Eanderlip. president
OF the City Bank. Is the chairman. and IL
is believed In the financial district that
some announcement regarding the credit
negotiations may be forthcoming.
Sterling exchange continued its adj
vance yesterday, demand sterling closing
just "A fraction below 470. the highest
price At which 1t has sole for many
weeks. Foreign exchange experts said
that London was responsible for the adj
vance In price and hat rates were being
put up over night by ondon bankers
Sterling closed AT i.6gig for demand and
t.70i+ for cables. This compares with
+.61a for the former and i.6sia for the
latter on Wednesday, an advance Of
nearly two cents in the pound in a day.
Francs were unchanged at 5.92 for
checks and 5.9l for cables. italian lire
dropped from 6.47 TO 6.47is, while rubles
were unchanged at 32a..
Marks were f~ractionally higher. sight
drafts being quoted AT sos. and cables
at 50 1915. They closed on Wsdnes-
day at s0N and s0s.. Austrian kronen
were unchanged at l+45.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-19
RAIL PRISONERS HELD.
Inspector DAILY slams Lid IIRr,
In New T~endcrlOin.

Inspector DAILY slammed the lid down
hard early yesterday ia the new Tender.
lo!n when members of his STAFF riidcd
many cabaret and tango parlors AMI
took fifteen prisoners.
At the new Victoria Hotel, for.
merry the King Edward. IN Yves; Forty.
seventh street, the MANAGER. Charles
Holl!ngsworth "A clerk and two bell.
boys were arrested. They were held N
$500 bail for examination SATURDAY ny
Magistrate Cobb In the West Side court.
At Nat Osborne's "Frolic." also n
West Forty-seventh street, the proprls-
tor. Osborne. and three prisoners were
taken. Two arrests were made a. The
cafe of Louis Zelazo in West Forty.
NTH street, and two Mt GallagharS
Cafe. Eighth avenue and Forty-tnirl
street.
A charge OF violating the excise law
WAS made against James McGroevcy.
VINO was arrested at Gilhouley's Gaze.
Nlj Sixth avenue. and Mrs. Ague, NJ.
Gown was charged with keeping and
maintaining ii disorderiy hous. AT II,
Fact E.ighty-second street.