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The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
ARRIVES UNHERALDED; STARTS
INSPECTION OF C. r. G. |. co.
PROPERTIES.
INTERVIEWS MINERS
TALKS TO BOSSES AND SUPERIN.
TENDENTS TO LEARN WHAT
CONDITIONS ARE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Trinidad, Colo.-There is nothing
suggestive of the casual or perfume
tory in the examination that John D.
Rockefeller Jr. is making of condi-
t1ons OF the coal companies operated
by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany in southern Colorado.
Nothing escapes the keen, alert
young man of millions who is here to
learn for himself the exact situation
as to the surroundings and working
conditions of men employed in the
southern coal fields, especially in con-
nection with the company of which he
is director.
Mr.. Rockefeller, who had travelled
all the way from New York without
his destination becoming known,
stepped from an ordinary sleeping car
on a Santa Fe train arriving from
Chicago Monday morning. He was ac-
companied only by his secretary
Charles o. Heydt. Mr.. Rockefeller
was welcomed at the station by Jesse
F. Welborn, president of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, and others.
1t is not in any sense personally
conducted tour of inspection in that
Mr.. Rockefeller is led by officials who
show what they want him to see, but
the young magnate leads for himself
He seeks the truth concerning the liv-
ing conditions of the miners and man
ifests the greatest interest in the wa
ter they drink, the conditions at the
trading places, the roads and high
ways, the comfort of the homes and
the facilities provided for the enter
tainment of the residents of the coal
camps.
He doesn't seek figures as to out
put or concern himself with means for
increasing production, but talks to the
miners as one with an interest in
their welfare.
ing the character of the work, and
seeks suggestions from miner, fire
boss, the clerk behind the store coun-
ers, the housewife and the camp doc
tors.
He ate lunch with the camp super
intendent fresh from the mines, at
tired in overalls.
He talked to the school children,
and throughout showed the interest
that he undoubtedly feels in the gen.
eral welfare and social betterment of
the workers in the mines.
At Berwind Mr.. Rockefeller entered
a number of the houses inhabited by
the miners, made inquiries concerning
the heating, lighting and home condi-
tions generally, visited the camp hos
pital and made numerous inquiries
concerning the health and comfort of
the camp and commended the work
on the roads and grounds accom-
plished by means of the money con-
tributed by the Rockefeller founda-
ton.
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
FOREIGN.

The Colombian Cabinet resigned as
the result of disagreement with the
Congress.
Food prices have increased about 35
per cent in England since the declara-
ton of war.
Ankerwycke, the historic mansion
in Wraysbury, England, in whose
grounds King Henry VIII. wooed Anne
Boleyn, was destroyed by fire
According to Stockholm dispatches,
the Socialist deputy Tcheidse and sew
enteen of the members of the Rus
sian Duma have been arrested
The first order the British govern
ment placed with the Canadian manu-
facturers for field artillery guns and
howitzers amounted to $65,OO0,O00
The 115th anniversary of the dec
laration of Chilian independence was
celebrated throughout the republic
with greater enthusiasm than usual.
Count Won Bernstorff has been Civ
en- power to settle with the United
States, and agreements may soon be
signed in Washington ending disputes
with Germany over submarines
The Turin, Italy, Gazetta del Pc
polo says it has received a dispatch
from Petrograd stating that Emperor
Nicholas has granted amnesty to al
political prisoners. The number af
fected is said to be more than 100000
Five members of the Smithsonian
Institution expedition which left Sc
attic under command OF Johann Ko-
rem, the Norwegian naturalist, in
June, 1914, to collect specimens in the
Arctic, returned to Nome aboard the
power schooner Eagle from the Sibe-
rian coast
The power schooner Ruby arrived
at Nome, Alaska, from Herschel Is
land, on the Arctic coast west of the
mouth of the Mackenzie river, with
news that Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the
Canadian explorer, who, with two
companions, Storker, Storkerson and
Ole Anderson, set out from Martin
Point, Alaska, March %, 1914, over
the frozen Polar ocean to search fol
supposed new lands in the Beaufort
sea, is not only alive and we'll, but has
accomplished every purpose for which
the hazardous journey was under
taken.
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
GEN E RAJ.

Labor troubles in Connecticut are
on the increase, in spite of many ad-
justments which have been made
either after strike or to avoid one.
The wreck of a Mexican military
train, resulting in the death of ninety
persons, occurring one mile out of Salt
lilo, according to advices received in
Laredo
Elmer Hughes, 22, was married at
Prescott, Mich, to Mrs. Emma Mar
win, 54 years old. The bride is moth
er of five children and grandmother
of four.
The proposed mammoth credit loan
to Great Britain and France, accord
ing to reports, is to be underwritten
by large syndicate of American
financiers and bankers.
The first cargo of German-made toys
to arrive at Philadelphia this year
was unloaded from the Holland-Amer-
ican line steamer Zaandyk. There
were 1900 cases in the cargo
DR.. Susan La Flesch Picotte, 40, for
many years. prominent as physician
and missionary worker among the In
dians of Nebraska and adjoining
states, died at her home at Waithill,
Neb. 2A.t
Mayor Mitchell of New York said
that the budget for 1916 may be $212,.
100000, the increased figure being due
to the direct state tax of $19,0O0,O00,
of which the city will have to pay
$13,5OO,OOO.
Plans for a national medical eXami-
nation day, childrens health cru
sade and a tuberculosis Sunday, to be
held during tuberculosis week. Dec g.
12, were announced in New York by
the National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis.
At New York, Colorado Fuel and
Iron, which had shown steady
strength during the early days of the
week. became very active in the final
hour, when it dominated the entire
list. With little interruption it ad'
vanced IA to 81, closing at 525s.
The wages of women IS years old
and over who have been employed for
at least one year in department stores
in Massachusetts, must be not less
than $3.50 a weeK, beginning Jan. l.
1916, according to a decree announced
by the minimum wage commission al
Massac achusetts.
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
Colorado.


Mining, metallurgical and geological
exhibits will be prominent at the In
ternational Farm Congress and Soil
Products exposition to be held in Dem
ver's auditorium Sept. 26 to Oct. 4.
The Cleveland lease on the 10
Dandy mine at Cripple Creek is re-
ported as making a fine showing
with occasional shipments of better
than the average grade ore being
made.
near Breckenridge, Arch Slingerland
and Charles Ross of Golden are pre-
pairing to install their recently pat
ented contrivance for saving fine and
flake" gold.
New York's Engineering and Min
ing Journal reports tungsten at $2S
per unit Of twenty pounds, where the
concentrate carries 55 per cent and
not 60 per cent, the former standard
in Boulder county.
At Leadville the Western Zinc Ok
ide Company is steadily pushing ac-
tivities at the plant west of the city.
The plant is being operated at full
capacity, and regular shipments of
high-grade zinc concentrates are be-
ing made.
The deal between the officers of
the Yak Mining, Milling and Tunnel
Company and the owners of the Alad-
din property located near the head of
Big Evans gulch, Leadville, whereby
the Yak people obtained an extension
of their lease on the ground for an
additional ten years and gave a bond
of 100000 to come due within that
time, will result in the advancing of
the main tunnel into the acquired ter.
ritory
The District Court at Denver en-
tered a judgment for $4,000 against
the Radium Copper Mining Company
and it's officers in favor of Louis
Dunn. The judgment is based on
seventeen unpaid promissory notes is
sued by the company in June, 1910.
The Mary Murphy Gold Mining
Company, with mines at st. Elmo,
Chaffee county, is in the market for
more territory, and it's examinations
will not be confined to the vicinity
of the present producer, which recent
ly paid $4,000 dividend on the
1921 900 of outstanding bonds
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
Arizona.

Mining activity in the Patagonia
district is bringing in investors, and
a number of properties have changed
hands and are being developed.
The announcement has been made
in Prescott by Frank M. Murphy, that
he has sold the tailings of his Crown
King property to M. P Randolph and
David B. Gemmell, practical mining
men.
At the new mill of the Inspiration
Consolidated Copper Company at
Globe two more sections of crushing
machinery have gone into commits
sion and thereby raised the tonnage
of ore treated daily.
There is considerable increase in
mining activity on the northeast slope
of the Chiricahua mountains where
several properties are now being
worked, the principal one being the
Willie Rose, thirteen miles from San
Simon.
Miami Copper Co. will earn about
81 per share during 1914, according
to official estimate. Production is ex-
pected to total close to 42,000,000
pounds, of which 1S,4OO,O0O pounds
has already come from the first half
years operations.
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
Wyoming.

Wyoming.
Placer gold has been discovered on
Bluegrass creek in Platte county.
Wyoming mines are adding thou
sands of dollars to the nations wealth.
The Midwest Refining Co. will build
a refinery at Chatham in the Big
Horn Basin
With a capital stock of 100000, the
New Bradford Oil Company of Cas-
per filed articles of Incorporation
with Secretary of State Houx
w. H. Dufur has bought Philip
Minors right to thousand acres OF
oil lands, known as the Torchlight
holdings, near Basin, and will begin
drilling well at once.
The greatest oil gusher ever
brought in in the Greybull district is
forming spreading lake of oil in the
heart of Greybull and the entire pop
ulation is in the grip of the "oil
fever"
Two suits filed by United States
Attorney General T. w. Gregory in
the Federal District Court at Chey-
enne against the Midwest Henshaw
Ohio, Mexico-Wyoming and Grass
Creek Oil Company and several in
dividual defendants, affect claims on
about 400 of the $500 acres in the
Wyoming oil fields.
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
REPORT BIG CEREAL CROPS.
Forecasts Indicate Unusually Large
Production in All Grain Districts.

Forecasts Indicate Unusually Large
Production in All Grain Districts.
Washington.-Big cereal crops this
year in nearly all of the worlds chief
agricultural countries are forecasted
in cable reports received at the De.
partment of Agriculture from the In
ternational Institute of Agriculture at
Rome
The total 1915 production of cereals
in countries included in previous re-
ports, plus Canada and Asiatic Russia,
are estimated at:
Wheat, 3,134,000,000; rye, 1,O93,000,.
600; barley, 1,0S9,00O,000, and oats, g.
449,000,0OO bushels. The 1915 produc,
ton of corn in Italy, Rumania, Asiatic
and European Russia, Switzerland.
United States and Japan is placed at
3,292,00O,000 bushels.
Expressed as percentages, taking
1914 production as 100 per cent, these
1915 crops promise to be, for wheat.
1929; rye, 1863; barley, 1875; oats.
1875, and corn, 11O.8 per cent
For ten governments of Asiatic Rus
sia the 1915 forecast is, for wheat.
144,0OO,O0O; rye, 28,OOO,OOO; barley, 49,,
100000, and oats, 141, 100000 bushels.
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
WASHINGTON.

New traffic records were set in the
operation of the Panama canal during
July. ITO ocean-going vessels making
the passage of the waterway.
Director of the Mint WOlley an
nounced the purchase for the Phila-
delphia mint of 250,O00 fine ounces of
silver at $O49375, 250,000 ounces at
SO.495, and 100000 ounces at $0.4945.
When the Grand Army of the Re-
public passes in review in Washing
ton on Sept. 29, two of the most fam
GUS Indian fighters of the United
States will be marshals of the parade.
One will be Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A.
Miles, acting as chief marshal, and
Gen. Frank D. Baldwin of Denver, cap
tain marshal.
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
WESTERN.

Colorado is to have auto mail deliv-
cry.
The eighteenth annual meeting of
the American Mining Congress was
held in San Francisco.
Charles E. Lynch of Denver is dead
as the result of an automobile acci-
dent near Idaho Falls, Ida
The Rt. Rev. Thos. A. Conaty,
bishop of the Catholic diocese of Los
Angeles and Monterey was found dead
in bed in cottage at Coronado
Beach, Calf.
The. fifteenth anniversary of the in
dependence of Guatemala was cele-
brated as Guatemala day at the Pan
ama-Pacific Exposition at San Fran
cisco.
A large party representing the elite
of society of half dozen cities, jour-
neyed by special train from New York
to Easthampton, l.. l., to attend the
wedding of Miss Olga Wiborg and Sid
ney Webster Fish,
Final surveys, preparatory to con-
struction work, have been made dur
ing the past few days on the extern
sion of the Union Pacific system from
Wyoming into the Colorado field
tapped by the Moffat road.
Newman Erb, wealthy railroad or
ganizer, was reported to be in COM
Portable and satisfactory condition
Monday, no change having taken
place since he recovered from the
lets he swallowed by mistake.
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
New Mexico.

Oil was struck at a depth of 180
feet on the Rayado ranch near Cimar-
ron by an oil drilling party, after sew
eral weeks of steady work.
One of the largest and most import.
ant transactions in the history of
mining in the Carrizozo section is
deal just effected whereby Richard
Wightman, an eastern capitalist and
mining expert, has taken over prac-
tically all of the mining activities in
the town of White Oaks and vicinity.
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
Subject of Dumba's Note Unknown.

New York.-James F. ]. Archibald
the American correspondent who car
ried a message from DR.. Constantin
T. Dumba, Austro-Hungarian amL<5
sador at Washington, addressed tC
Baron Won Burian, Austrian foreign
minister, which led to request from
the United States for the ambassa
doris recall, issued a statement in
which he denied that he had connived
in any way to break the neutrality
laws of the United States or was an
official dispatch bearer
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
Bio Credit Loan Seems Assured.

New York.-Munitions of war will
not be allowed to block the proposed
big credit loan to Great Britain and
France; nor will the $600,000,O00 or
$500, 100000 to be obtained be locked
up at once in a New York treasure
chest, according to consensus Of opin
ion of those in close touch with nego
tiations for raising the money.
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
OF Course.

Mamma was taking daughter to
task.
Il don't like the way you and Jack
hang over the front gate every eve-
Ming" she; demonstrated.
We'll, as to that, there's a great
deal to be said on both Sides" replied
daughter.
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25

When young man is sure he can't
live without a certain girl he ought
to marry her and discover his mis-
take.
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25

If you wish beautiful, clear white
clothes, use Red Cross Bag Blue. At all
good grocers. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
ESTE ERIN
MINING NEWS
IN BRIEF

Western Newspaper Union News Service.N
Prices Quoted for Metals.
Spelter, st. Louis, $13.65. S..
Copper, casting, SIT
Lead, New York, $3.50.
Bar silver, 1880.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-19

~ visible without the aid of field
glasses.
If the jnfantrymen on the Italian
side has an occasional peep at his
enemy and sees him in the flesh, and
vice versa, the artilleryman posted
among the rocky crags of the Tren-
tino, be he Italian or Austrian, can
make no such boast. From careful
ly concealed position behind some
high hill he shoots at an unseen enc
nv often 10 to IL miles away, whose
guns are half buried behind some
other hill. There is no smoke, no
flash to indicate the whereabouts OF
the battery engaged in this high-an-
gle fire.
Observation Posts Well Concealed.
Il realized all this and much more
as | crept on all tours into a rock
hewn. rock-roofed dugout which serV-
ed as the chief observation post of the
officer commanding the artillery in
this zone of operations.
81 might have stumbled on the post
half dozen times without suspecting
it's existence, so we'll is it concealed.
BY glueing ones eye to a narrow
peep-hole one looked across to the
valley to the Austrian position on
the Col di Lana.
Half a dozen telephone wires led
into a second dugout. Here sat the
second in command, debating his
chiefs orders to the battery COM
mander many miles away. On the
surface above the dugout and its an
mex not a single living being was to
be seen. There was an awe-inspir-
ing, mysterious silence over it all. II
was hard to believe that this was wal
and that soon the air would be rent
with the crack and roar of deep
.throated monsters, whose voice would
carry death TO the Austrian soldiers
in the trenches of the Col di Lana. .
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-19
STRANGE and UNCANNY
WARFARE IN THE ALPS
AUSTRIAN AND ITALIAN BATTER
les FIRE AT FOES THAT
ARE RARELY SEEN.
REVIVAL OF HAND GRENADFS

shoot From High Hills at Unseen
Enemy Ten or Twelve Miles Away.
No Smoke or Flash Indicates the
Whereabouts.
There is something unreal, I'M
canny about modern warfare as it is
conducted today among the Trentlno
Alps" writes the correspondent OF
the London Chronicle. The men in
the trenches high upon the shell-torn
sides of the Col di Lana see each 9TH
err occasionally, when they emerge
from their burrows and come to grips
in the open.
Then it is rarely rife; it is chief
ly bayonet, but frequently cold steel
is replaced by the deadly hand gren-
ade.
when the Italians won their way
ND this stubbornly contested hill, cap
turing trench line after trench line,
the Austrians invariably showered
hand-grenades upon the stormers.
And They Went on Talking.
Our hill was a pigmy eontrasted
with the giants of the mountain fam
lily that shut us in on the right and
the left. In our front rolling val
ley, with a verdure as green as the
artistic brush of nature ever painted,
swept away northward ending at the
foot of the towering Col di Lana
the center of the Austrian position at
this point.
The Col di Lana runs up to a
point, a round, blunted point, cover
ed with a sparse vegetation. Senti-
nel-like, beside the Col, stands a
colossus of gray dolomite granite
with rough-hewn sides and serrated
crest.
THE Col di Lana, which is over
1000 feet high, slopes away gently
toward the west and loses itself in
the Valley of Liyinallongo.
''The Austrian trenches were clear
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-19

lation must take the language OF the
native born citizens, it must possess
American citizenship and ideas. 1t
must stand firm by its oath OF al
legiance in word and deed and must
show that in every act it has re-
nounced allegiance to every prince,
potentate or foreign government. 1t
must be maintained on an American
standard of living so as to prevent
labor disturbances, in important
plants and at critical times. None OF
these objects can be secured as long
as we have immigrant colonies, ghet-
tos and immigrant sections, ana
above all they cannot be assured SO
long as we consider the immigrant
only as an industrial asset
"Hyphenated Americans"
Col. Roosevelt said that just as
democratic America required that
church and state should be separate
that there should be no distinction OF
religious creeds in public office, so
there should be no distinction OF ma
tionality. There is no room in TINS
country for hyphenated Americans,
he said. ''When l refer to hyphenated
Americans | do not refer to natural
lied Americans. Some of the very
best Americans that l have ever
known were naturalized Americans
Americans born abroad. But a NY
phenated American is not an Amerl-
can at all. This is just as true OF the
man who puts German, Irish, Engllsh
or French before the hyphen. Amerl-
canism is a matter of the spirit and
of the soul. Our allegiance must De
Durelv to the United States.
The one absolutely certain way OF
bringing this nation to ruin, to pre-
venting all possibility of its contlnu-
ing to be a nation at all would be to
hermit it to become tangie OF
souabbling nationalities, an intricate
knot of German-Americans English
Americans, Irish-Americans, French
Americans, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
or ItaIian-Americans, each preserving
its separate nationality, each at heart
feeling more sympathy with Euro
peans of that nationality than with
the other citizens of the American
republic.
Traitor to America.
For an American citizen to vote
as a German-American, an Irish
American or an English-American IS
to be a traitor to American institu-
lions: and those hyphenated Ameri-
cans who terrorize American politi-
clans by threats of the foreign vote
are engaged in treason to the Ameri-
can republic.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-19
NO ROOM IN U. S. FOR
HYPHENATED CITIZENS
ASSERTED COL. ROOSEVELT IN A
SPEECH TO THE NEW YORK.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS.
SAYS THREATS ARE TREASON
Must Be no Distinction of Nationality.
NaturaIized American Can Have
But Single Allegiance. Alignment
of Races Spells Ruin.

NaturaIized American Can Have
But Single Allegiance. Alignment
of Races Spells Ruin.
NEW YORK.-"The foreign-born
population of this country must be
an Americanized population-no 9TH
err kind can fight the battles OF Amer
lea either in war or in peace"
Col. Theodore Roosevelt so assert
ed in a speech on "Americanism be-
fore the knights of Columbus at Car
negie Hall tonight Col. Roosevelt
said that at the outset it was the
duty of immigrants to learn Eng
Iish and it was the duty of America
TO provide them means to learn Eng
fish.
"If an immigrant is not fit to be-
come a citizen he should not be al
lowed to come here said Col. Roose-
welt. 'If he is fit he should be given
all the rights to earn his own liveli-
hood and to better himself that any
man can have. Take such matter
as the illteracy test I entirely agree
with those who feel that many very
excellent possible citizens would be
barred improperly by an illiteracy
test.
Admit Them Under Bond.
'But why do you not admit aliens
under bond to read and write at any
certain time? 1t then would be a
duty to see that they were given am
pie opportunity to learn to read and
write and that they were deported II
they failed to take advantage OF the
opportunity. o,.,uo, -
mo man can be a good citizen II
he is not at least in process OF learn
ing TO speak the language of MS EEL
low citizens. The foreign-0orn popu-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-19
WILSON APPROVES
BIG ARMY PLAN
1t Contemplates the Expenditure of
Four Hundred Million Dollars
For National Defense.

WASHINGTON.-The national de-
Tense plans of the administration,
calling for an expenditure in the next
fiscal year of more than S400,00O,-
900 for army, navy and Notifications,
was completed today.
Secretary Garrison has forwarded
these estimates, already approved by
President Wilson, to the secretary of
the treasury, and Secretary Daniels
submitted his estimates this after
noon after going over the final details
with President Wilson.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-19
Asks Governor Harris to OFFER a
Reward for Arrest Of His Brother

covered three weeks ago, was re-
counted again in Atlanta last night
by Henry Watkins, a brother of Char
lie. Henry Watkins came to Atlanta
to ask the governor to offer a reward
for Charlie Watkins, who is wanted
for murder.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-19
2oo ARE KILLED IN
SALVADOR QUAKE
I7,aoueut Shocks Felt in the Central
American Republic During the
last Seven Weeks.

NEW ORLEANS.-More than Zoo
nersons in Salvador lost their liVes
during the last seven weeks as a re-
suit of frequent earthquake SHOCKS
throughout the Central American re-
nublic, according to mail adV1ces re- re-
ceived here today from Gua aaantad
City, Property damage was reported
heavy y A report from Santa anna Anna
Under date of Sept. %. declared 1sa
shocks had been felt at that place
every second day for more than d
month.