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The Colorado statesman., 1916-02-05
SLIDE UkCOVERS GRE
VEIN CARRYING $1,000 PER TON
FOUND NEAR DURANGO.
Miners Discover Rich Tungsten Ore
After Snow Hurled Boulders
From Mountain.

| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Durango, Colo.-Terrific avalanches,
that have tied up traffic, imperiled
lives and forced the suspension of OPP
erations in many mines, are RESPONSE
Bile for one of the richest mining
strikes in the history of this section.
tungsten ore running $4,000 to the
ton has been uncovered and men who
lied the snowswept camps in fear of
their lives have braved the dangers
and joined in a mad rush to the tung.
stem fields.
according to District Judge w. N.
Searcy, Silverton miners, prospecting
along Cement creek, saw a boulder,
ten feet in diameter, which had been
carried down by slide and mad spit
on striking the bottom of the gulch,
exposing a six-foot black streak
The streak, says the report, proved
to be tungsten assaying S5 per cent
pure, and said to have a market value
OF $4,000 a ton at present prices
Mining men say this discovery
would mean a body of the richest
tungsten ever found.
"A euhSSleh lever ludl Is Sdlu "
overweight the fear of avalanches is
reported at Silverton. Claims hsv9
been located for twelve miles along
| Cement creek, on Boulder and Sultan
mountains, and up the side gulches.
Miners driven to Silverton by mines
closed on account of the snow have
Joined the rush. Other miners are
reported to have left the La Plata dis
trict on snowshoes, defying slides in
the forty-mile trip to Cement creek.
Occasional new damage to mining
properties is reported from slides, but
SO far no deaths have been reported.
The ore house of the Jumbo mine
was carried a distance of several thou
sand feet and buried deep under an
avalanche.
A slide in La Plata cation has Gov
cred a cabin near the mountain top in
which Eli Blunt, an aged miner, is
held prisoner So many slides are run
ming that it has been impossible to
attempt a rescue.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-02-05
To Give Teller site to colorad

Denver.-The National House OF
Representatives passed bill intro.
duced by Congressman Edward T.
Taylor releasing to the state of Colo.
RADIO Internationally the Teller Indian
Institute at Grand Junction. Passage
of the measure by the National Sen.
ate is regarded as a certainty, accord
ing to dispatch received by execu
tives at the statehouse. This means
Colorado may put the institute to any
use desired and that 1t will be pos.
Iible to occupy it as branch Of the
Itate insane asylum.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-02-05
Son Admits Fake Story of Tragedy

Pueblo.-Arthur Seabrook, who was
responsible for the story printed
broadcast that his father, his sister
and her husband had been killed in
a runaway accident while driving
from Deer Trail, their home, to Den.
yer, is in the Pueblo city Jail
charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses. He is said to have
admitted to the police that the tele-
gram he exhibited in confederation OF
the story was sent by himself for the
purpose Of arousing sympathy and to
enable him to get loans.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-02-05
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
'es'erh newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Feb. 11-12-Annual convention Colo
Denver.
Feb. Injecting Republican state
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb. 14-Meeting Colorado Progressive
state Central Committee at Denver.
Feb. 16-1S-Sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs
March 26-Aprl 2.-Coforado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
April 13-Democratic State Convention
at Pueblo.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-02-05
Cooper Named as wilkins suceesso,

Denver.-When Judge Charles A.
Wilkin of the Eleventh Judicial Dis.
tlict gave up hope of recovering from
an illness from which he was then a
sufferer, he wrote a letter to Cover.
nor Carlson recommending that Jas.
L. Cooper of Canon City be named If
1t became necessary to appoint sue
cessor to him as district judge. Judge
Wilkin died at his home in Canon
City, and his funeral was held in this
city, and the governor, complying
with what proved to be a dying re-.
quest, appointed James L. Cooper
judge of the Eleventh district. Judge
Cooper has been county judge OF Ere.
mont county for sixteen years.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-02-05
Arrest Suspect in Dickens Case.

Boulder.-.Iack Elmore Ensley, 81
years old, was arrested here on infor.
nation of the attorneys for Rienzi
Dickens, charging Ensley with the
murder of w. II. Dickens, Longmont
banker, on Nov. 80, for which crime
Rienzi Dickens, the bankers son,
was arrested soon after the murder.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-02-05
Dies of Cold Near Home.

Oak Creek.-Frozen to death with.
in stones throw of his own home
was the fate of Percy Stonehouse, a
young rancher of the Twenty-Mile
park district near Oak Creek.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-02-05
Rock Slide Kills Two Victor Men,

Victor.-Peter wager. So, and James
w. James. 40, were killed in the
Golden Cycle mine by being smoth-
cred in a mass of broken rock that
slid down a stope.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-02-05
Mrs. Stoddard Dies in Boulder.

Boulder.-Mrs. Mary Sterling Stod.
dard, aged 50, widow of the late Will.
lam Stoddard, died here.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-02-05
Mrs. eilbertson Victim of ApopIexy

Fort Morgan-Mrs. Florence E
Gilbertson. wife of John A. Gilbert
son, died of apoplexy at the home OF
Charles H. Gilbertson.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07
OFFERS OSE[[
 FRISCO sT. BY,

SAN FRANCISCO, April 5.-Declar- ing that street railway transportation 10 'pe success must be q monopoly. Jesse W. Lilienthal, president of the uhited Railways told the San Fran CISCO board of supervisors today that ms company was prepared to consid- CT an offer from the city for it's entire system
 san, Francisco now operates several mes or it's own in competition with the united Railways. Over certain routes the United railroads and the municipal lines use tracks in com mon and this has resulted in more or less friction and not little liti gatiOn.
 It was to settle some of these com pncat0ns that Lilienthal appeared before the board and his offer came as a big surprise to the supervisors. who, however, declared their inten- ton or preparing a plan of purchase which they will submit to Lilienthal next Wednesday,
 The present conditions of the local transportation problem said Liien- thai are economically unsound and could be remedied only by sale or his company's property to the city
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07

off from the central allies No doubt, veil obscures many other German discoveries and inventions which themselves to the spur of the and which will astonish the world when the veil is lifted.
 Nature is lavish provider but sometimes she is awkward and wasteful one and leads along what easy. but which really tortuOus and pensive paths. Competition and conditions have sometimes caused make improvements upon the which had provided and We have there by saved money and obtained greater degree of comfort and luxury.
 Only few years ago, for instance, obtained dyes entirely from natural and simple In the earliest times species of shellfish, long since extinct furnished the famous Tyrian purple. Other natural dyestuffs indigo haywood, Persian ber ries annatto catechu These have been almost entirely displaced by artificial dyes analne and other coal tar dyes which not only superior but much cheaper That is. they much cheaper before the war but they are obtainable the depended upon Germany
 Cochneal is still used O some extent for cotton seded by a synthetic" indigo indoin The has taught many things about and it will doubtless turn that it will have been fruitful of improve in the of peace.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07
Preventable Fires

Fire ma rshals various agree so per cent of the fires due to preventabe causes. Re gently in the south three confagrations in two days caused losses aggregating $l5.0O0,000 This loss strlingy calls attention the fire hazard in the prevention work. Fire losses the United States Canada January and February of this year $46l94lZ0 compared with loss of s331 4lS50 for the months last year Including the heavy losses in southern cities the other day, the fire loss quarter up to April has probably shown increase the quarter last year of more than $50 900 000
 The way get lower insurance to have fewer fires In order fires may be fewer there be vigilance and d of personal responsibility in the mind of every citizen young and old It is necessary provide fire protection through governmental agencies also necessary the citizen O be imbued with idea making things safe and against risk of confagration.
 $ enough n every up and take notice to be told that the of fires each year this country is equal to onehaf the cost of all the new buildings erected in the It is disturbing to he told that careessness in 1915 $lS495910 % due to fires in the United States and Canada. The yearly per capita fire the United States is $2.5 in ucationa work there construction-construc ton with eye safety less carelessness and in creased, intelligent responsibility in the ctzenship It is only necessary add the tragic touch round out the indictment American carelessness. Five thousand die and 5O are hurt fires every year in the United States.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07
MARCY MA[CO[M;;
 LAVEDk LESTER
Those Were Winners In Bows and Girls Classes in Jefferson OratOlical Con test; Development of. Young Orators

A large and interested audience was present in the high school auditorium yesterday afternoon when the junior orators delivered their orations for the medals and cash prizes offered ny the Jefferson Society
 Marcy Malcom won first place ana at the same time winning ten dollars in cash, with d beautiful gold medal La Veda Leister won second place and iS awarded ten dollars and q gold medal. Mr Malcom and Miss LeiSter will be honored guests at the big banquet giv en on April 18th, at which they will be asked to give their Orations for the ben eft of the other guests present
 Donald Willard won third place in this great contest ana will also be re- warGed five dollars in cash.
 The following indicates the way in which the contestants finished:
 l, Marcy Malcolm: ?, Laveda Leis- ter. ,. Donald Willard; i. Raymond SeIle. ]. Wells Abbott, (, Joseph Man lle. :, Bernicc Harler.
 Bernice Harller won ten dollars for beine the second girl to finish and one dollar for winning seventh place. The judges were Hon. John R. Hampton,
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07
The Spur Of Necessity

By some process which has not been explained it is said that Russia is converting the great vodka whose sale and consumption forbidden more than year ago by imperial ukase into a sub sttue for rubber that better than rubber itself. The Germans found it necessary invent and manu- fracture synthetic rubber of whose characteristics little nothing is known, but it is said the purposes of rubber.
 Germany was also driven to the extraction of n- troeen from the air and il is probable that other lions whom the worlds great still accessible will adopt the Germany of obtaining nitrogen. Our Senator Ashurst in late speech in the advocated the construction by the government of such a fixation plant.
 Necessity also drove the Germans to the substi- tuition of wood pulp for cotton for many purposes pecially in the manufacture of Guncotton and it is said that for that it is equal cotton. German scientists have been the devising sub stues for certain kinds of food that the has
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07
S|[VAS ASKS
 BIZ DAMAGES
Plaintiff Alleges He Was Employed by Arizona Cop per Company on Slag Train; Defendant Calls Him ''Trespasscr

If you hop d train. even at the invitation of brakie, who would turn his attention elsewhere, leaving you in charge, are you an employe of the rairoad2
 The question will probably be threshed out from a legal viewpoint in federal court today. when the damage suit of Richard Silvas will be continued 4 jury was secured yesterday. and before it Silvas dis played some of the injuries he al leges he received while off -handedly working for the Arizona Copper com pany at Clifton.
 Silvas, IS years old. is suing the company for S43,00O to repay hurts caused by an accident he sustained while riding on q slag train on Janu- ary 10. 1911. Ramon Sihas. his guardian. is prosecuting the suit
 Silvas says he was invited bY a brakeman, then working on the slag train. to officiate temporarily. He complied and was hurt while doing his work His right leg was cut off and his left foot injured besides many other injuries that have pre- vented him from making living by the labor to which he was accus- toned.
 The defendant contends that Sil- vas was trespassing on the company right of way-that he was hopping the trains, in company with other youths, when the accident occurred.
 l.. Kearney. F F. Hall and W. NJ. Seabury appear for the plaintiff and F. W. Lewis for the defendant com many
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07
GREAT ITS TRUTH

The preacher had told the pupils the story of Washington and his little hatchet and had then shown them engraving which depicted small boys standing in repentant attitude, explaining things to mother
 The title of the picture The Truth Telers' and the children asked to write composition thereon
 This little JOhnnie's effort:
 One day mother left in the house all alone. Pretty Tommy Jones came along and said let's swimming My mother wont let An, So I went When mother came back she said what makes your hair wet. l said mother cannot tell lie went swimming. And she said Johnnie I'm glad you took a bath"--I4ife.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07

from 9 practical point of view il is o5, iou* that such intervention would no ma,erial lcnefi. to Serbia.
 Greece on several occasions offered to place herself at the disposal of the entente allies and these offers were sacrificed to a chimerica Ge- sire to bcfrienG other powers. Every unbiased onlooker recognizes that the Hellenic general staff acted purely on military grounds when in February l9l5 they forfeited tine failure of the first Dardanelles expedition and when months later they showed that the 'only way to reach Constantinople and enlist Buleariar help "as tp march throngh TLracc with a large armE.. :.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07
$ Edna Swingle and Hon. T. T

Miss Edna SwinGle and Hon. T. T. Powers.
 This contest proved 1o be q great success in stirring up interest anons the students of r. II. $. which has de Veloped many new orators. II is (hc hope of the entire student body that the Jefferson Society will offer lle same opportunity to the students again next year.
 James T. Lavin presented the medals and A. l.. Jones introduced the orators.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07

tCoNtlNued -IbfH i"Se 'Jiic' painful, impression that ful justice las rot been done them and the Greeks resent accusations constantly made against Greece of not having kept the Greece Serbian treaty and oi fostering hostile intentions toward the entente allies especially the allied army in Macedonia. Happily. how eyer it appears that the public has begun to appreciate matters more justly
 The ahsurdity of secret hostile de signs seems to be becoming self eti- dent. A study of the case has made it clear that neither the spirit nor Ihe letter of the Greece Serbian treaty obliged Greece to intervene. while
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07

Democratic newspapers making much of the circumstance that Colonel Roosevelt and Mir. Root lately took lunch together. The fact that they ate to- eeher should be disturbing: it is what they might have talked about that should worry democratic friends But there a thousand things talk about beside politics that perhaps, that thousandth sub ec mentioned.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07
BROWN THINKS VILLA HAS FLED
 FROM GUERRERO
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have been used for the transmission of military reports. The report wa~ sent on to General Funston from Fl Paso
 Colonel Brown said that after the fight April l he had chased the Villa force through San Antonio towards the south. The presence of q detachment of lhe Tenth cavalry at CushuiracIir on April served to support the as sumption today of officers at head quarters that the advanced forces al ready had arrived at Satevo, south Of Chihuahua.
 The air line distance between Cusi- huir2chie and Satevo is fifty miles.
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 Hile little salesman al The Re
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07
'dN y $ program.
 Morninq

3:@0-Call :o order. ';4"-Repor, on Home Missions
 Rer. W. NJ. Riddle. ':i'-" Home Missions and The Five
 Year Program" Key. C. A.
 Woody. D. D, LL D. '" l"--Heneral discussion led by Rev.
 A. W. Rider D. D. 'p:fo-Repo:t on nominations. and the
 election of officers. ll:o Power and Popularity" Rev.
 J. Wnitcomb Brougher. D. D
 Afternoon 2:o0-Call to order. 2:l"-Report on foreign missions.
 Rev. C. M Northrup. Foreign Missions and the Five
 Year Program" Rev. A. w.
 Rider D. D. 2:49-General discussion led by C
 Wooddy. D. D. 5:l'--Sone service and prayer. @;"o-"The Speckled Bird" Rev. |
 Whitcomb Brougher. D. D. Evenire-Women's Missionary Meet l.
 ing 30-Devotional- w. H. Cox. some of the Needs of the Home Field Miss II. Mary Sunden. Music
 Work Among the Navajos." Mrs T.. l. Thayer
 Work Among the Chinese and Mex lcanS, Miss Marie Norgaard. Music
 Present Needs of the Foreign rleio, Mrs. c. R. Varney. Reading
 Offering NioSihS prayer, Mrs. C. M Mort h - rup.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07

The English yet much absorbed in the indulge in ;he luxury of labor strikes. Per haps they will put their whole hearts into the fighting the German invasion of England begins
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07
THE COMING OF CHRIST PRoPHEslED

The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee of thy brethren like me; him ye shall hearlen.-D Deuteronomy xviii. l5.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07
ZISKA WAS A GREAT FIGHTER

John Ziska great general, ordered a drum made of his skin that his enemies might be terrified by the roll the drummer played upon it. Ziska Hussite.
 The Hussites were followers of John Huss. jealous reformer of the Fifteenth Century. With emperors safe conduct in his hand he was called be- fore the council of Constance which was Investigating heretics. He appeared was thrown into prison and after some months confinement was condemned be buried alive Jerome of Prague, an intimate friend who came to support and second him, also was burned although under a safe conduct
 Many followers of HuSs took up under John Zska and built the city of Tabor The treacherous emperor led army against the city. but de- feated. A short followed. Again broke out. and Ziska accidentally blinded, i;ut the general good fighter without his sight with it. He defeated the emperor every time he tried to sub due the Hussites. A plague finally killed him. Just before his death he gave his order for the drum.
 The EIussites fought with varying successes, but finally defeated decisvey when peror the throne. They also known the Bohemian Brethren"
 ALUMINIUM AS EXPLOSIVE
 The of aluminium in aeroplanes is widely known, but it's when filed d powder is less derstood Yet in this condition it forms part of of the most destructive agents used by the Central European Powers.
 The first is the high explosive used charge the Austrian shells. This is known 'ammonal,' mixture of five eight parts of ammonium nitrate with one part of finely powdered aluminium The exact proportions and the means for keeping the mixture dry of course, secrets which the Aus trans keep to themselves, but made in Eng fish laboratories it's explosive violence tremendous
 It is one of the few explosives that has never been used propellant No gun known to warfare could resist it's audiences. The explosion cham bers would be smashed to pieces before the pro- jectile had begun to So it is put inside the projectile itself and allowed explode enemy few miles away from the gun So far we know it is only the Austrian howitzer shell that contains this horrible mixture-London Stancard
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07
bAPT|STS IN
 ANNUAL MEET
Convention Hears Encourag- ing Reports of Much Pro- gress; Hopeful Tone Per vades; Dr.. Brougher's Fine Addresses
Special to The Republican,

GLENDALE, April 6.-The twenty fourth annual session of the Arizona BaptiSts convention was called to ord CT today by President R. l. Sproles of Tucson The first order of the morning Was the reading of letters of churches. A hopeful tone pervaded the letters. Much evangelistic work has been done
 Considerable money has been spent on church edifices. New meeting houses have been built in Glendale and Mesa: new home has been l buiit for missionaries on the second Mesa among the Hopi Indians. Bap- lists have now in Arizona forty four churches and about 2,500 members.
 Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher of Lo., Angeles delivered his third address. "n the theme of The Church with a Hobble Skirt The church is hob blcd by narrOVneSs of vision. by mar roWness of money by lack of prayer, by lack of trained and consecrated workers, by lack of harmony. large congregation listened to the practi- cal address with breathless interest.
 The afternoon session, beginning at tive o'clock was devoted to Arizona missions. Dr. L. II. Thayer of Phoe- riX read the financial statement. To- tai receipts were shown to be S13.- 755.34. Total disbursements were Sl4,h2G.74. The deficit was shown to he $265.40. Secretary T. F. McCourt- ne'' presented the report of the boqrd of managers
 Though there have been great dif- faculties during the past year. there Has he remarkable progress In some tieldS Thirty missionaries have been employed They work among Ameri- cans. Mexicans. Indians and Chinese. ] City missionary work :s being done in some cities
 Hereafter. the state convention will he held ln January and the convention will close it's financial year Decem her 31.
 Dr. Broushor delivered his fourth address on The Mission and the Methods of the Church"
 To find out tlie mission of the church, we must sec what Christ did . He said. '. egativelN. Christ did not come to condemn tie world. to 'all the righteous, to be min!stereG mt" Chris came to preach the gos- pei "i salvation to the poor. the af- filcted the sorrowine; to seek and to say" tie lost, to destroy the works oi the devil"
 Thls was notable discourse. It Srlpped the large andience
 Last evening, Rev. C. A. Woody. p D. of Portland. delivered an ad- cf'"ss on some clements of convention efficiency.
 TFe annual sermon was preached by Rev F. l.. Sproles of Tucson on
 oirr Missionary Opportunity" The large attendance continues. The en- tertainrent by the local church is of the best sort.
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Arizona republican., 1916-04-07

Hiie little salesman al The Re publican office.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-07
URGES BETTER TREATMENT FOR
 GREEK NATION

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-29
BABY ELEPHANT BORN
N.SELLS-FLOTO TOP

Born, to Princess Alice and Giant
Snyder, at $50 a NJ, Saturday, April
Is, 1916, at Sells-Floto circus winter
quarters, daughter. Weight, 162
pounds Mother and child both doing
we'll, thank you.
Baby Miracle, because, as the trainer
said who named her, she came into
the world a week or month before
she was expected came in the early
morn with no attendants or trainers
near, and with the other animals snor-
ing peacefully in their cages.
Wonder, because she is but the third
baby elephant to be born on the west
ern hemisphere; to be born in captiy-
ity, the third elephant child of the
same mother, Princess Alice Of the
Sells-Floto herd.
The parents Of Little Miracle have
seen the death and the burial, by tax