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Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
COULD NOT CORNER MIKE
MIR. fiaherty Ready with Explanation
for Failure to Keep Awake
r in Church.

One Saturday evening Mns. Flaherty
said to her husband, who Is a success
full contractor: mike, Father Burke
is to preach tomorrow ut st. Patrick's
church, and you've often told me you
wanted to hear him."
Eyes, Jane, do want to hear him.
They say he's fine speaker"
But, for PHYS sake. Mike, if you
do come with me, keep awake! You
know you're always falling asleep dur
ing the sermons"
'I'll do my best, Jane"
Next day, when Father Burke began
to preach, Mike watched him for five
minutes, and then dropped off to sleep.
When they We're back home Jane gave
Mike tongue lashing.
"Well. Jane" said Mike In self-de-
fense, tits just this way. When
engage a new hand watch him to see
If he's on the job. AS soon as find
he's efficient and hartl-working don't
bother about him any more. Now, as
soon as Father Burke began saw he
was right on to his job. and SO didn't
worry about him. And then. in spite
Of myself, let go."-Eyerybody's
Magazine. :
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
U.SsEl l ||D|R | SET
, HIcAE!BI | :! ClOaB
TRADE BALANCE SHIFTS IN .ol.
GANTic FIGURES TO AMERi-
S,s CAN SIDE.
AUGUST s51o,o00,00o
DECREASED, BEING s47s
100000 BELOW JUNE. THE
RECORD MONTH.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-Amer exports fin
ally have passed the half billion dol
by the Department Of Commerce
show that goods sent abroad in Au-
gust were valued at $4,000. 900, a
record not only for this country, but
for the world. The total is 35,000.-
900 above the previous high record,
established in May, and $45.000.000
higher than the June figure.
Imports decreased in August, the
total of $199,247,391 being $47,0O0,000
below that of June, the record month.
1t was greater. however, than the to-
tai for any previous August.
Exports for the year ended with
August aggregated $4,750. .0O0,0 900 and
the imports $780, 100000. both to-
tails being far in advance OF those for
any similar period. OF the August
imports 665% entered free of duty.
compared with 67.5% in August q
year ago. Az
The favorable trade balance for
August was s311,000.OOO compared
with $11s.Oo0,0oO in August a year
ago, and q balance. OF $I9.OO0.o00 in
August. 1914, againstlrthe United
Statess s,s;s.ft, II M
For, the twelve months ended Aug
gust 81 the export balahcg Twas 81.
.s5, 100000 ash' nsto,$ases ,ooO, 600
the preceding year andf iS374,poO, 900
two. years, ago. ,-,;t,
llI The net inward gold movement for
August was $4,000, 900 and for the
year s41o.Oo0. .OeO, Ia record-breaker.
Last year the net inward gold move.
ment was $146,OOo,0OO and two years
ago there was q net outward move
ment Of $95.OOO.0 Gold imports in
August were $41,23s.716 against $751;
641,191 in August. 1915. and $3,045,-
219 in August, 1914, .sf'.
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
ERAL.

William Singerly Mccartney,
graduate of Harvard University and
inspector of arms for the Canadian
government at munitions plant at
Utica, N. Y, was found impaled on
an iron fence.
AT Hartford, Conn, Mrs. Amy E..
Archer-G Gilligan, charged with poison
ing five inmates Of her Home for FL
derly People at Windsor, was indicted
for first-degree murder on five counts
by the grand jury.
Miss Mary Pinter. cashier for hat
company, was knocked down and
robbed of $3.50, the firms payroll, by
one of three automobile bandits in
Chicago. She was returning from a
bank The bandits escaped.
The Rev. James Morrison Darnell.
sentenced to the federal penitentiary
in Leavenworth, Kan. May 20. 1915.
for three years, following his con.
viction in Milwaukee for violating
the Mann act, may obtain his liberty.
With her fore and main topmasts
gone, the steamship Duca d'Abruzzi,
which arrived IN New York from Med
iterranean ports. looked as II she had
emerged from bombardment. But
her plight was due to cyclone which
she encountered Sept. 10.
4. Rioting was renewed Wednesday
night in connection with the New
York car strike, after efforts Of Mayor
Mitchell and others had failed to ef-
feet settlement. Several hundred
strikers who attacked four surface
cars engaged in a running fight with
police reserves, during which several
persons. including a woman, were
hurt Many. arrests were made. d
Philadelphia was definitely chosen
as the site of the 1919 triennial con-
clave of the Knights Templar.
DR.. Lauro Muller. minister Of for
eign relations of Brazil, who has been
on visit in this country for more
than two months sailed for home on
the Brazilian steamship Rio de ia
neiro.
The Mexican conference at New
London. Conn, reached q stage which
enabled the American commissioners
to predict that a satisfactory settle
ment would be arrived at within two
weeks.
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
WOLF SKIN FOR SOLDIERS CAPS
English Agents Buy Many Hides At
st. Louis Sale.

St. Louis, Mo.-British fur buyers
bought nearly the entire supply OF
wolf skins which were placed on sale
as part of the 100000 fur auction.
They will be used to make caps for
the British soldiers this winter.
The lot totaled 9,400 wolf skins and
the price paid for all of them was
$4,000. The skins were of wolves
killed in the United States and Can
ada. t.t
Chinese dog skins are said to be in
good demand. They will be used
mostly for making fur rugs, buyers
say. r..E
Bidding was brisk on a lot OF s,400
wolf skins which brought an average
Of $3.50 each. This is considered a
good price. .a....j5,
Kolinsky furs sold at from so cents
to 81 each and wallabys brought $f.50
skin. 80, yie.x i.s5sJI..
The Kolinsky skins came from Rus
sia and Siberia and were shipped here
for sale.
The wallaby skins were shipped
from Australia. The wallaby ia a rela.
tive of the kangaroo.
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
WESTERN.

Butte, Mont, was selected as the
1918 meeting place for the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Carpenters.
Two mysterious dynamite explos-
ions, both attributed to labor affairs,
partially wrecked two buildings in
Chicago.
To the memory OF soldiers of Min
tween the states, monument was
dedicated at the national cemetery at
Memphis, Tenn.
Between 500 and 700 fishermen of
Grays Harbor, Wash, representing
$50 boats, were on strike, as a result
of the refusal Of packers to meet their
demands for higher prices for salmon.
The State Supreme Court of Ten
nessee held to be unconstitutional
the so-called locker law which pro-
hibits the maintenance Of lockers for
bars or buffets in clubs in Tennessee.
Prospectors, spectators and, in one
instance. Denver oil company, have
been turned back recently from the
Lost Soldier and Mahoney Dome oil
lands in Wyoming by the withdrawal
of the land from entry.
Military funeral services for Col
John H. Beacon, Sixth United States
infantry. who died recently while
commanding this regiment at Colonia
Dublan, Mex, were held at El Paso.
Tex. The body was sent to Wells.
vile, Ohio, his former home, for
hur{al
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
SPORT.

Harvard opened her football sea-
son in the stadium at Cambridge,
Mass, with a lean victory over Colby
by the score of 10 to O. ..
Indian yells mingled with the calls
Of cowboys and the pounding of
horses hoofs as they raced across the
grounds were features at the open
ing here of the Seventh Annual Pen
dleton. Ore, Roundup.
Loveland High school again will
make bid for the Northern Colorado
interscholastic football championship
this fall, and squad of twenty-one
men are now going through rigor-
GUS course Of training. .....
Star Hawk, the English bred 3-year-
old colt owned by A. X. Macomber,
the California millionaire, and trained
by w. B. Jennings. carrying 120
pounds. won the fourth renewal of the
Louisville cup at Louisville, KY.
While leading the field in an auto
mobile race at the county fair at
Sturgis, 8. D., Bernard J. Webster,
merchant of Rapid City received in
juries from which he died. The car
turned turtle on curve and Web
ster's chest was crushed.
Miss Molla Bjurstedt, national title
holder, won the women's tennis cham.
pionship of New Jersey at Montclair,
defeating Miss Ina Kissel. GA. 81.
Miss Bjurstedt and Harold Throck-
morton won the mixed doubles titles.
defeating Miss Florence Balm and G.
| l.. Wyeth, 60, 1913.
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
FATE OF coMsLEs SEALED.
Allies Deal Fierce Blow at Teutons or
EIfteen-Mile Somme Sector.

Allies Deal Fierce Blow at Teutons on
Fifteen-Mile somme Sector.
London, Sept. 27.-Attacking stimuli
taneously on an arc of fifteen miles.
running from Martinpuich to the
Somme, the British and French forces
have delivered another smashing blow
on the German lines and pushed for.
ward their positions for notable gains
From Martinpuich to Combles. dis
tance OF six miles, the British have
driven in their wedge to depth Of
more than mile and captured in the
attack the important stretegic towns
of Les Beoufs and Morva1, the latter a
scant mile north of Combles. To the
French fell the town of Rancourt, two
miles east, and the outskirts of Fregi-
court, one mile northeast Of Combles
In addition trenches near Fregicourt
in the vicinity OF Bouchavesnes and to
the south from the vicinity of the ca
nal Du Nord to the Somme were
taken.
The capture Of Morval by the Brit
fish and of part Of Fregicourt by the
French, apparently seals the fate Of
Combles, which the Germans have de-
terminedly held for weeks despite the
violent attacks thrown against 1t.
Berlin reports repulse of Russians
in Volhynia, Galicia and the Carpa.
thians. Russians launch new often.
sive. t-,,ll. -.
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
FoaeloM.

-.
Canada has subscribed $1S0. LOOK, 80
for the 500. 600. 900 war loan.
A son was born at Peking to the
wife OF DR.. Paul Samuel Reinsch,
United States minister to China.
On his trip to the Italian front the
American ambassador, Thomas Nell
son Page, had two narrow escapes
from Austrian shell fire. ~.
Virtually all the prominent Chinese
connected with the gigantic opium
smuggling plot discovered in Shang-
hal two weeks ago have been exon
Grated.
That typhus fever again is hecom-
ing serious menace throughout Mex
leo was the statement of passen-
ger arriving from San Luis Potosi 1t
Laredo, Tex.
The iceland Steamship Company
has issued statement that the
steamer Prinz Hendrix carried ninety
eight passengers and that fixty-four
of them were detained by the Ger
mans.
Counsel General Skinner succeeded
in effecting the release from the
prize court OF 1900 packages of mail
from the United States to belligerent
countries seized on the steamship
Heligolav on her arrival in British
on March %.
That Gen. Jacinto Trevino bungled
his attempted defense Of Chihuahua
City on Hidalgo day from the Villa
attack. and as result may be re-
moved from command of the army in
northern Mexico and. succeeded by
Gen. e. P. Nafarrate, now command
er Of the Carranza forces in Tamau-
lipas. was reported in Matamoros.
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28

20 get better and am now well. am
stout and able to do my own housswork.
] can recommend the Vegetable Com
pound to any woman who is sick and
run down ~ . wonderful strength and
health restorer.S My husband says I
would have been in my grave Gro this
II It had not been for your Vegetable
Compound. Mrs. BLANCHE JErFER-
soN, 7O3 Lyon St, Des Moines, Iowa.
Before submitting to . surgical opera.
ton It Il wise to try to build up the
female system and cure its derange-,
ments with Lydia E. Pinkham's vege-
table Compound It has saved many
women from surgical operations.
Write to tho Lydia e. Pinkham
Medicine Co, Lynn, MASS, for
adviCo-it win bo c0n1ldential
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
WASHINGTON.

Secretary Of War Baker announced
that a special board will be appointed
by the War Department soon to study
the machine gun situation.
The Department of Agriculture Is
sued a warning to dealers against in
terstate shipments Of oysters which
are polluted or soaked to increase
their bulk.
A record-breaking gain in postal
savings during August was reported
by the Postoffice Department. De-
posits increased almost $5.00J,O0O, or
more than 100000 a week.
Two Wyoming National guard in
fantry battalions. Troop A of the Kan
sas cavalry and Troop B of the Wis
consin cavalry were ordered to the
Mexican border by the War Depart
ment.
A proposal by western railroads to
charge 81 and 81 respectively for bed.
ding single and double-deck livestock
cars in traffic from the Southwest
was suspended by the Interstate Com
nerce Commission until Jan. 20.
Nearly a million people have been
made homeless by one of the greatest
floods on record in that section of
China where the American Red Cross
already has spent 100000 for flood
protection and where the $4,000, 900
loan for reclamation work which was
postponed by the war was to have
been spent
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o DIN q 9, ACHIEVE
: MENTs, .sUFFERlNos, HOPES
y. AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
;wss.srn Newspaper Union rsws service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Fighting in Dobjudja between Russ
Rumanians and Teutons-Bulgars
slackening.
British and Serbians report gains
In the Macedonian zone against the
Bulgars and Teutonic allies.
British cross the river Struma at
three places and take Jenmita, driv-
ing the Bulgars before them.
French troops repulse strong at
tack by German divisions on the farm
Of Liable wood, north of the Somme.
Allied transport laden with troops
sunk by a submarine in the Mediter-
ranean, says Berlin admiralty report.
British capture half-mile trench
strongly fortified, from Teutons
north of Somme and further menace
Bapaume. ..#
-. German Zeppelins in night air raid
on London kill thirty persons and in
1ure 116, eleven women and children
being among the slain.
Two Zeppelins are destroyed by
British anti-aircraft gun fire; the
crew of one is captured, the other
/. perishes in the flames of the ship.
German pilots shoot down twenty
, four entente aeroplanes and allied
aviators bring down tYenty-six Teu-
ton planes in the aerial encounters on
various war fronts.
~ Two British subjects and thirty-six
out of thirty-eight Carranza soldiers
were killed when Villistas raided an
Oil camp near Tuxpam Sept. 16, ac-
cording to officers of the tank steam
or Topila, which arrived at Calves
ton, Tex.
Important Teutonic successes re.
ported from Sofia, which declares Ser.
bian troops have been routed. Allied
war statements forwarded to Paris
and London via Saloniki dispute the
official reports issued by war offices
, Of the central powers.
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
Two Killed as Trains Collide.

Pueblo.-Two firemen were killed,
two engineers and trainman injured
when two Missouri Pacific railroad
freight trains met in head.on collision
near Towner, Colo. not far from the
Kansas line. The dead: Roy Scott,
aged 80; Ernest Holley, aged 80. Both
we're instantly killed. They were res
ddents Of this city. John E. Westphall
and Will Isbester. engineers, of Pu-
eblo were badly injured. ]. w. Glenn
ems, a trainman. also was hurt.
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
Denver Clearing. Reach s14, STA 900.

Denver.-The bank clearings In
Denver for the week ending Sept. 1S
totaled $14.614.000. being the largest
of any single. week for the present
year and. according to bankers, the
largest single week in the history of
the Denver clearing house. The near
est approach to this figure thus far
this year was for the week ending
Aug. II, when the clearings were $13..
1850. There have been several
weeks when the amount exceeded .$12.-
100000. and four or five weeks when
they went above $13.00O,OO0.
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
MAsoNleDQeIEs' I ELECT 1
,HiNkEE is cpMAi iAHpER OF THE
:. kNiahTs, ,IEMPLAR.
Mrs. eliza 8. Cohen Elected Grand
seeretary Of Eastern Star for
Twenty.flfth Year.

Western Newspaper Union News service. -.
Denyer-Mrs. Eliza s. Cohan OF Colo
rado Springs was elected grand sec
retary of the Eastern Star at . meet.
ing held at Ell Jebel Temple. This is
her twenty-fifth consecutive year in
this office. At Colorado Springs mex
September the silver anniversary OF
the order and the thirty-fifth ami
yersary Of it's establishment In Colo
redo will be celebrated.
The Grand Commandery, knights
Templar of Colorado, completed It's
balloting with the following officers
elected: John E. Rinker. Cripple
Creek. grand commander; viii D.
Grisard, Pueblo, deputy grand COM
mander; Clarence M. Kellogg. Den,
yer, grand generalissimo; George A.
Reese, Trinidad, grand captain gen
eral; Stanley C. Warner. Denver.
grand senior warden; James r.
Barnes. Colorado Springs. grand jun
ior warden; Frank L. Bishop. Dem
yer, grand treasurer; Charles H.
Jacobson, Denver, grand recorder;
Fred w. Whitman, grand chaplain; H.
w. Woodward, Leadville, grand stand.
ard bearer; Marshall H. Van Fleet,
Alamosa, grand sword bearer; Charles
E. Keepers, Denver. grand warden;
Sheridan 8. Kendall, Denver, grand
captain Of guard.
Those elected to office. in the Or.
der of the Eastern Star were: Mrs.
Katie J. Davis. worthy grand matron,
Willard w. Adams, Boulder, worthy
grand patronj Mrs. Carrie MacCarthy,
Fort Collins, associate grand matron;
Wilkins o. Petersos, Pueblo, associ.
ate grand patron; Mrs. Eliza s. Co
hen, Colorado Springs. grand secre
tary; Miss Kuehle, Leadyiile, grand
treasurer; Mrs. Mollie 8. Richmond,
Colorado Springs, grand conductress.
Mrs. Mary B. Rhoades, Denver, ASSOC
ciate grand ,conductress. 9 .'sr u
Grand Lodge Ancient Free and Ac-
cepted Masons-Guy v. !Sternberg,
Grand Junction, grand master; l.. D.
Grain, Fort Collins, deputy grand mas.
ter; Clarence M. Kellogg. Denver,
senior grand warden: Frank L..
Bishop, Denver, junior grand warden;
H. w. Woodward. Leadville, grand
treasurer; Charles H. Jacobson, Den
YER. grand secretary; Haslett p.
Burke, Sterling. grand orator; Fred
w. William. Denver, grand chaplain;
William w. Cooper. Denver, grand
lecturer; Marshall H. Van Fleet, Ala
mosa, grand marshal; Edward P. Huf-
ferd, Colorado Springs, senior grand
deacon; John H. Gabriel, Denver,
junior grand deacon: Ernest E. Ford
ham, Glenwood Springs, senior grand
steward; L. Writ Markham, Lamar,
junior grand steward, and Allen ].
Read, Denver. grand tiler.
Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons
James R. Killian, grand high priest;
William S. Pickerill. Durango, deputy
grand high priest; Herbert s. Sands,
Denver, grand king; Marshall H. Van
Fleet Alamosa, grand scribe; Robert
M. Simons, Denver, grand treas.
arer; Charles H. Jacobson, Denver
grand secretary; Mark B. Gill, Fort
Morgan, grand captain of host; Sam.
uel j. Sweet. Denver, grand principal
sojourner; Will D. Grisard, Pueblo
grand Royal Arch captain; Reuben w
Hershey, Denver, grand master. third
veil; Harry v. Williamson, Delta
grand master, second veil. and Aller
J. Read. Denver, grand sentinel.
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28

.hpeut The doctors
stated that / would
never getwen with
ont an operation
and that without II
'Iwould pot live ono
year. Ny husband
objected 10 any
operation and got
me someo Of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound. / took
II and couumenced
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
Thicteen More pamaoe suits,

Colorado Springs.-Thirteen more
damage suits, aggregating $54,500,
were filed in the District Court
against the Colorado Springs Athletic
Club by persons who allege they were
injured in the collapse Of portion OF
the Huerfano street fight stadium on
Labor Day.
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28

Boy Shot by His Brother, Dies.
soCafion City-Marshall Gould. the g.
year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. 8. E.
Gould Of Park Center. who was acci-
dentally shot by his brother. Eberly.
died at the hospital here.
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28

Finiay shepard's Mother Dies.
New Haven, Conn.-Mrs. Peter L.
Shepard. mother Of Finlay Shepard,
who married Helen Miller Gould,
died here in her .eighty-sixth year.
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28

Crushed Under Tons Of Rock.
Boulder-Martin' Kink. as. was in
stantly killed when three tons of rock
fell on him In the Gorham mine at
Marshall.
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
csmpe+stion ef sra,ns In susIn....

Lyric Theater. Baltimore, Md.-A
new spirit for American business
spirit not of exclusion but of excel.
ling-a competition not of selfishness,
but brains-was urged by President
Wilson in an address before the Ma
tional Grain Dealers Association;
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
Looks So.

Patience see sixty thousand won-
en- in London were thrown out Of work
by the war. ~ ~ "
,Patrice-O oh. did the war stop bridge
whist2 81
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
HUSBAND OBJECTS
10 9PERATI0N
Wife csnsd by Lydia E
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound

Dea Moinss, Iowa. -Four years ago
! war veEy sick and my Hfs WAS nAariy
Cheyenne record., 1916-09-28
COLORADO Q
STATE NEWS
DATES Fon COMING EVENTS.

DAHsS rOaN SOMAN0 EvENISs
Dot. 6-Frontier Day Celebration at
Castle Rock.
at Fort Collins.
Jan. 2o-27-Annual Western Stock
Show at Denver.
Putnam patriot., 1916-12-08
Fire Protection Committee Organized
Will Prepare Statement Of Reasons
Why another Fire Truck is Needed

The Committee appointed by Presi-
Of Commerce to consider the whole
question .of protection from fire met
Thursday night to organize, choosing
Isaac Chnmpeau Chairman. The
other members are Cortland d. Ar
mold, James b. Tstem, Jr., Ellsworth
l.. Kelley and John b. Byrne, with G..
5. Andem and Rev. G. J Hartman,
ex ofiicio The committee was raised
by action of the directors, alta meeting
recently when il was voted TO petition
the council 10 call city meeting TO
see If the city will appropriate So 800
for motor driven firetruck, TO be
located in the north end Of the town.
The committee decided to draw up
a statement OF the reasons for asking
this appropriation, To be issued as soon
as possible. They also took steps to
learn what other progressive cities
are doing for fire protection; and to
show what effect the expenditure pro-
posed would have upon the tax rate
and the rate of insurance. Later they
plan 10 make comprehensive recon-
mendations to the dire etors for an ad-
equate policy for the future.
The chamber was represented at the
meeting of the council Wednesday
evening, when the petition was read
Putnam patriot., 1916-12-08
General

The Standard Doll Company increas
ed the pay of al! It's employees at the
Canton refneriss at Baltimore.
John Tjarks OF Baltimore, treasurer
OF the war relief fund, reported to the
executive committee Of the German.
American National Alliance In SESSION
at Pittsburgh that 100000 has been
contributed for the relief Of war SUI.
fensrs.
The Alabama Coal Operators 1850
cioSion granted . wage increase 10
zoo. 900 employees.
William White, sentenced TO eKecu-
tlon at Lsavenworth on Dec. Is, was
granted q respite by President Wilson.
What IS believed to be the germ O..
Rochester Mimi laboratories Of the
famous Mayo brothers.
Two hundred and fifty suspected
gunner are In jail In Chicago as .
result OF a countrywide roundup by
policemen following the 18th Black
Hand murder Of the year.
r. w Burt. former president Of the
Massachusetts Retail Shoe Merchants
and Manufacturers Association, has
sent a telegram TO every United States
Senator and Representative. demand
ing an investigator OF the rise In leath-
er prices
Foodstnffs amounting to 1900 900
tons and valued at 1927 10000 have
been sent into Belgium and northern
France since the outbreak of the war
by the Commission for Relief in Bel
GUM.
The Dennison Manufacturing Co., at
birmingham Mass. announced that
beginning Jan. the plant would be
operated on 4shour weekly schedule
without reduction In wages.
The three-masted schooner Jennie
S. Hall, which sailed from Gllfport,
Miss, Aug IA for Fort de France.
Martinique. with lumber and crew of
six, was given up as lost.