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The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13
1918 LOAN SHARK LAW
WILL BE ENFORCED BY STATE
BANK COMMISSIONER.
Frank r. StanisfieId Named Deputy
to Assist Rono Reed in Ex-
amining State Banks.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-Enforceme of the loan
shark law passed by the Legislature
in 1913 will be begun by the State
Bank Commissioners department.
The law has been in the courts since
it was passed until few days ago,
when the State Supreme Court up
held it in the case of E. ]. Cava-
naugh against the people.
Under the law no individual or con-
Germ can loan money at rate of more
than IL per cent year unless Ii
cense at a cost of $50 is taken out
from the state and a bond of $4,000
filed. If the license is obtained the
maximum interest which can be
charged is "a per cent a year or 2
per cent month.
Investigations made recently in
this city showed that many firms
were charging as high as 10 per cent
month on loans. Under an opinion
from Attorney General Farrar inter
est beyond the maximum prescribed
cannot be charged on loans of secur-
tiles "either tangible or intangible. "
The attorney general interpreted the
word Intangible" to apply to notes
which are backed by character, repu-
tation and general standing in the
community"
Enforcement of the law will be I'M
der j. S. Steadley, deputy bank com
missioner The enforcement will
mean additional work for the depart
ment, so Frank R. Stanisfield has been
appointed a deputy Commissioners to
assist Rono Reed in examining the
state banks.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13
MExIcANs CROSS INTO TEXAS
De Facto Consul Turns Over to Amer
lean Army Officials Raiders in
Mou ming lor VIVA.

ican Army OFFICIALS Raiders in
Mou ming ror VIVA.
Marathon, Tex, May 11.-Approxi
mately forty bandits crossed to the
American side of the Rio Grande
above Eagle Pass yesterday and rode
up and down the river for several
miles, later crossing to the Mexican
side without de-. any apparent dam.
age, according to a report here. A
detachment of the Nineteenth infan.
try was sent to the scene. Maj
Langhorne and his command are well
over the river into Mexico.
Y. M. Vasquez, Mexican consul al
Del Rio, Tev., who went to Boquillas
at the instance of his government to
investigate the raid, returned and
says that he has established beyond
doubt that the Boquillas raiders were
Villistas Vasquez said the three ban.
dts captured and turned over to
United States army officials wore
mourning bands for Villa. whom they
believe to be dead, and that the pris.
oners admitted they were formerly
part of a detachment belonging to Ca.
nuto Reyes command in the Laguna
district, near Torreon.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13
April. Liquor Shipments.


A total of 1858 shipments of
liquor was received in Colorado dur
ing March, according to w. B. Slife,
flat tax clerk of the secretary O..
states department, who has finished
compiling figures for that month. The
state received as its half of the pay
ments on the shipments S1,82612, as
compared with S1,111.07 for February
and S43S.53 in January. Shipments
for April promise to show the same
steady increase, from the few scatter
ing reports already received from the
smaller counties. The greatest mum
ber of shipments received during
March were by Denver county, total
ing 5,1S6. Pueblo county received l.,
355; El Paso, csc; Weld, GIL, and
Las Animas, 517. The total ship
ments received in the state during
February were 1887 and in January
3,506.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13
Hold Third Telephone Hearing.

The third of series of hearings in
an investigation into the reasonable,
ness of the rates and rules and the
adequacy of the service of the Noun
tain States Telephone and Telegraph
Company was held at the State house
The cost of reproduction and the
present book value of the plant were
gone into by experts for both the com
mission and the company as pre-
liminary step to public hearings on
the rates now in effect The next of
the series of hearings is scheduled for
June Il.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13

A big piece of WORK done at Day
tona by Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune
was the clearing up of the turpentine
districts. Such places have an evil
reputation in the South. A man will
buy large tract of pine forest for the
purpose of getting the turpentine. He
puts up few shanties and a distillery
and gathers together the riff-raff that
he can find on the streets and sets
them to work at small pay and large
promise of rum. Women are sent out
as cooks. and the place is soon un.
savoringly spoken of as "turpentine
camp"
I'VE are changing conditions down
there" Mrs Rethune declared. Once
a week two or three workers or stu.
dents of the school are sent to the
various camps to speak to the women
and children. The people are shown
the right method of living, the dignity
of the home, and the error of their
ways. The children get three months
of schooling every year. The men get
higher wages and have learned how to
spend and save judiciously. We have
established a temperance sentiment in
everything. and have driven out strong
drink. We carried the polls when Day
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13

tona had to vote on the drink question
Three hundred and fifty of our chill
dren marched through the streets sing
ing songs of prayer and faith was
waiting at the poll and as the men
passed me begged them in the names
of their families and the citizenship
with which they could do so much. to
vote dry-and they did.
Il consider the Daytona school
civilizer | do not know of a better
name to give it. The spirit of efficiency
is instilled into the minds of the peo-
pie. | want to bring about a dignity
of labor and service The work has
grown good deal since first began.
We have added truck gardening, poul.
try raising. dairying. and chair Gaming
to the curriculum. Our girls go out
and become efficient workers. among
whom are numbered dressmakers,
laundresses. teachers. and students in
higher schools. great deal of stress
is laid on moral and religious training.
| believe that that is the only founda.
tion."
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13
Allen Doesn't Want Bar Endorsement.

FUIOWlhB HeOrBe W. Mussers let
ter to the chairman of the elections
committee of the Colorado bar, refus-
ing to submit his name to the bar
election of candidates to be selected
to be presented to the conventions OF
the various political parties to fill the
two vacancies in the State Supreme
bench this fall, Judge George w. AL
len wrote letter to the chairman de
clining to submit to the bar method.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13
Contracts for Road Work Awarded.

The contract for the concrete road
work TO be done this year on the
South Golden highway from Denver
to the Denver mountain parks was
awarded by the State Highway Com
mission. Work on the paving will
be begun within few days There
will be about five miles built this
year. The cost will be approximately
$4,000 a mile
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13
Civil Service Gives Ruling.

The State Civil Service Commits
sion notified the State Public Utili-
ties Commission that its members
cannot be recognized as heads of de-
partments under the provisions of
the merit law, and that, therefore,
they are not each entitled, to
stenographer who is exempt from the
civil service examination
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13

The government is encouraging ex-
periments in France with a device to
protect against hail. essentially a large
lightning rod of pure copper. which is
said to so affect atmospheric electric.
ity that hailstones cannot form.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13
BERLIN ADMITS
SUSSEX ATTACK
NOTE TO AMBASSADOR GERARD
OFFERS INDEMNITY TO
U. 8. VICTIMS.
NO WARNING TO CyMRIC
CREW OBLIGED TO SPEND OVER
SEVEN HOURS IN OPEN
BOATS.
western Newspaper Union News Service

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, May 1l.-Germany, in
note received by the State Depart
ment by cable from Ambassador Ger
ard, admits that a German submarine
torpedoed the channel steamer Sus-
sex in violation OF assurances given
the United States; expresses regret
for the incident; announces that the
the submarine commander has been
appropriately punished" and de-
clares readiness to pay an adequate
indemnity to Americans injured on
the vessel.
1t was indicated at the State De-
partment that the German statement
that the offending commander had
been punished would be accepted and
the Sussex case considered closed, ex-
cept for arranging for the payment of
indemnity of the several citizens of
the United States who were hurt.
There probably will be no attempt
to negotiate for these indemnities or
for final settlement of the Lusitania
and other cases pending, however,
until sufficient time has elapsed to in
dicate how the last American note
was received in Berlin and whether
the new submarine policy is being
lived up to-
1t is brought out in the communi-
commander believed the Sussex was
an enemy warship.
No Americans on Cymric.
In pursuing the State Departments
investigation of the torpedoing of the
White Star liner Cymric, American
Consul Frost at Queenstown cabled
from Baytry, where the Cymric sur
vivors were landed, as follows:
mo Americans on Cymric. Five
British lives lost No warning given
by submarine. Wake of torpedo seen
after explosion. Cymric was not
armed. Weather rough. Crew in open
boats from 1:3Q to 900 p. IN. May 8,
former hour being that of the ex.
plosion. Cymric sunk 300 o'clock
this morning."
Teutons Begin Saloniki Attack.
Fighting about Verdun has lessened
in ferocity although heavy lombard,
| mentS are in progress. Paris reports
repulse of German attack near Hill
No. 2S7 and capture of part Of trench
at LIE Mort domme.
Germans repulse Russian attack
south of Garbunovka with heavy casu.
| alties.
What appears to be the first en-.
sagement in the long-expected Ger
man offensive against Saloniki Is re-
ported from Athens, the Germans cap
turing village and later being forced
to evacuate it by French counter
| attack.
Russians defeated by Turks with
heavy losses in northern Asia Minor,
according to Constantinople
Turks lombard Russian ports on
Black Sea in retaliation for attacks
on open towns along Anatolian coast
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13

A Californian has patented a docu-
ment envelope with an inner lining of
asbestos covered with carbon paper to
receive and retain copies of inscrip.
tions written on an outer paper cover
ing should the latter be destroyed by
fire.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13
Old Strike Cases An Dismissed.

Canon City.-Ninety cases against
as many defendants, arrested on
charges growing out of rioting during
rhe coal mine strike in Fremont
county, were dismissed in the District
Court here
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13
Train Robber Carlisle Found Guilt

Train Robber Carlisle Found Guilty
Cheyenne, Wyo.-William L. Car
isle, the "White Masked" Union Pa
cific train robber, was found guilty il
the United States Federal Court here
The jury was out less than five hours
and fixed Carlisle's punishment a
life Imprisonment.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13

new method of using coal in com
petition with oil fuel has been tried
at Vancouver, British Columbia. Those
conducting the experiments say that
crushed coal can be supplied to steam
producing furnaces by the same meth
cd in use for oil. It is proposed to use
the now process for smelling in the
big mining plants
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13
sheep Camp Feud Killing Justified

Kemmerer. - That Jack Kitchin
killed Albert Pfeifer in selfdefense
is the finding behind the verdict of
not guilty returned by the jury which
heard Kitchin tried in the Lincoln
County District Court here.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13

The United States public health
service maintains a loan library OF
stereopticon slides.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13

Japan is planning to adopt an alpha
bet of Al letters. including most of the
Roman characters. some Russian and
the rest original symbols.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13
Governors Conference June 27.

The ninth annual governors con-
ference will be held at Salt Lake
June 81, according to word receive
by Governor Carlson. 1t is expected
many OF the governors will partici
pate in camping trip through Vel
lowstone park.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13
To Add 100000 Acres to Forest Area.

The Federal Departments of Agri.
culture and the interior have united
in favor of u bill introduced by Con.
gressman Timberlake adding 100000
acres to the Colorado National Forest
area, according to dispatches from
Washington. The land will be taken
from Boulder, Larimer and We'll.
counties and will include the water.
shed of the city of Boulder. Con.
gresham Timberlake first intro.
duced bill to add 100000 acres to
the forestry area but the Interior De.
paPlI1ent protested.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-03-24
TAGGART IS NAMED SENATOR
Governor Ralston in Making Appoint
ment Pays Tribute to Prominent
Indiana Man.

Indianapolis. March 22.-Thomas
Taggart, Democratic national commit
teeman, was appointed United States
senator to fill the vacancy by the
death of Senator Benjamin F. Shively
by Governor Ralston on Monday. Mr..
Taggart expects to leave for Washing
ton Immediately.
The new senator has been promi-
nent in politics in Indiana for t. cuty-
five years and has maintained he
leadership of the Democratic party in
the state practically all of that time.
The only offices Mr.. Taggart has ever
held were auditor of this (Marion)
county for two terms and three times
mayor of Indianapolis
After Governor Ralston signed Tag
CARTS commission he wrote him let
ter saying it afforded him genuine
pleasure to appoint him United States
senator.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-03-24
CARDINAL GoTTI IS DEAD
Succumbs at Rome After Long illness
Was Considered as Successor to
the Late Pope Plus K.

Rome, March 21-Cardinal Gotti
died here after long illness. Cardinal
Girolamo Gotti's decline began on Sep
TENDER 25, 1915, when in a faint he fell
violently to the floor of his office, suf-
fering a slight concussion Of the brain.
Since then his condition became daily
worse and on March Is he became so
gravely i'll that the last rites of the
church were administered. After the
death of Pope Plus X, Cardinal Gotti
was highly considered as the deceased
pope's successor. Only his age-he
was seventy-eight then-stood against
him. Cardinal Gotti was born in Genoa
on March 20, 1884. He was ordained
December 4, 1856, and entered the
Carmelite order in 1858. Later he was
made project of the propaganda. which
place he held until his death.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-03-24
SENATE BACKS WILSON
PASSES RESOLUTION APPROVING
COURSE IN MEXICO.
President Sends Thanks to Senator La
Toilette, Who Introduced Meas
ure in Upper House.

Washington, March Ex-senator La
Toilette, Republican, introduced and
the senate adopted without opposition
on Friday resolution approving Pres
ident Wilson's course in sending a
punitive expedition to Mexico and as
surfing the Mexican people further that
the object of the expedition was mere
ly punitive. The text of the resolu-
tion follows:
Resolved, by the senate (the house
of representatives concurring), That
the use of armed forces of the United
States for the sole purpose of appre-
hending and furnishing the lawless
band of armed men who entered the
United States from Mexico on the 9Th
day of March, 1916, committed out
RACES on American soil and fled into
Mexico, is hereby approved; and
"That the congress also extends its
assurance to the de facto government
of Mexico and to the Mexican people
that the pursuit of said lawless band
of armed men across the international
boundary line into Mexico is for the
single purpose of arresting and punish
ing the fugitive band Of outlaws;
'That the congress, in approving the
use of the armed forces of the United
States for the purposes announced,
joins with the president in declaring
that such military expedition shall not
be permitted to encroach in any de-
gree upon the sovereignty of Mexico
or to interfere in any manner with the
domestic affairs of the Mexican peo-
pie"
Word of the senate's action was sent
Immediately to the White House and
President Wilson directed that his ap-
probation be conveyed to Senator La
Toilette.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-03-24
DATE SET FOR TRIAL
NURSES ARE GRANTED ADJOURN
MENT UNTIL APRIL THIRD.
Case of Three Women Held for Kid
mapping Boys From Sanitarium
Fixed for Early Hearing.

Lake Geneva - Mrs. Marie Souther
and the Misses Ellen Elamm and Hell
ga Fredin, charged with kidnapping Je-
rome and Walter Kalver from the
Oakleigh sanitarium because they
claimed that they had salary coming
from the institution, were granted an
adjournment to April 3, when the case
came before Justice w. f. Best. They
are out on bond of $500.
Mrs. Souther is at her home in Elk
horn and the others have obtained en-
ployment in Chicago.
Should the nurses be found guilty
they will face maximum penalty of
life Imprisonment. but it is reported
there is possibility of settling the
case outside of court.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-03-24
BLAST KILLS "a MExICANS
Many Perish When Grenades Explode
at Monterey, Mex.-Loss
Is Heavy.

Laredo, Tex, March 20.-The post
office and public baths at Monterey,
Mexico, were destroyed by fire, ac-
cording to private advices reaching
here. The loss, it was said, will run
far into the hundreds of thousands.
All the mail in the post office was de-
stroyed. The origin of the fire is I'M
known, but it is believed to be acct
dental.
Fourteen CarranZa soldiers and ten
civilians were killed in an explosion
of a carload of grenades and artil-
lery ammunition in the yards of the
National railroad lines at Monterey,
Mexico, last Tuesday, according to
passengers reaching here from Mon
terey. The news was suppressed by
the Carranza authorities because of
tho tension existing between the
United States and. Mexico.
All the dead and injured were Mex
leans. Immediately after the explo-
sion a mountainous cloud Of smoke
spread over the city and the cry:
"The Americans have arrived" rang
throughout the poorer section.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-03-24
10000 RUSS FALL IN BATTLE
Vienna Admits That Austrians Were
Compelled to Give Up Ground
on Eastern Front.

London, March 22-An official state
ment from the German war office adj
mitted the Austrians were compelled
to give ground near the Vocieczko
bridgehead The Slavs attacked vio-
lently with grenades, following an ar
tillery bombardment.
"Our defense line was withdrawn
somewhat, admitted the Austrian
war office, but all attacks at other
points were repulsed.'
Berlin dispatches asserted that the
Russians lost 10000 in killed and
wounded and prisoners in sudden Of
fensive against Won Hindenburg's
Ines on a sixty-five-mile front in the
Wilma region.
Petrograd dispatches are silent on
the new Russian offensive. 1t was be-
lieved here that the Russian strokes
were delivered to prevent the shifting
of more German troops to the west
ern front
Petrograd dispatches are silent on
the new Russian offensive.
Air battles constituted the greatest
activity on the western front through
out Saturday night and Sunday. In
one raid directed by French flyers
against German towns in upper Al
SAGE, two sky fleets clashed in one of
the most spectacular air battles Of
the war. Four French aeroplanes and
three Germans were brought down.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-03-24
MILWAUKEE NOT INCLUDED
Can't Be Assessed Under Teachers
Retirement Fun Law, Says At
torney General Owen.

Madison - That the 10-cent assess
ment out Of the 7-19 mill tax for the
support of the teachers retirement
fund does not apply to Milwaukee is
the opinion of Attorney General
Owen to r. E. Loveland, secretary to
the fund. The original law specif1cal-
ly exempted Milwaukee An amend
ment was incorporated by the last leg
islature, which left the matter in
doubt. The attorney general holds
that the general tendency of the law.
is to exempt Milwaukee, which has a
system of it's own.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-03-24
DUTCH STEAMER SUNK
LINER TUBANTIA VICTIM OF MINE
OR ToRPEDoED.
Vessel Carried 81 Passengers and
Crew of 500, All Reported
Saved.

London, March 18.-The 13,000-tOn
Royal Dutch Lloyd liner Turbantia,
outward bound from Amsterdam for
the River Platte, with 81 passengers,
three of whom were Americans, and a
crew of 800 was sunk Thursday Of
Noordhinder ightship, on the Dutch
coast. A Central News dispatch from
Amsterdam quotes the captain, H. K.
H. Wytsma, as saying his ship was tor
pedoed Semiofficial reports from Ber-
lin claim that she struck mine Ad-
vices indicate that all on board were
saved.
The Turbantia was struck at about
three O'Clock in the morning, a great
hole being torn in her stern. She re-
manned afioat, however, until about
$3.50. She sank about two miles east
of Noordhinder light.
The explosion put the steering gear
of the vessel out of commission, but
no one on board was injured. Water
running through the gap in the YES
sells stern penetrated the corridors
and engine room. 1t was alone owing
to the fact that the modern cOnstruc-
ton of the ship-she was in service
only a enabled her to float for
several hours after receiving her death
blow, that the loss of life was not
heavy.
The Turbantia, which carried gen.
eral cargo and mails, was making for
Falmouth, where she was to take
aboard passengers for South America,
when the explosion occurred. Her
proximity to the coast enabled rescue
for assistance were answered by a
life-saving vessel from the Hook of
Holland, the Dutch steamship Kraka-
tau and two other ships, one Dutch
and one Swedish.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-03-24
NINE PERSONS ARE KILLED BY
BOMBS DROPPED BY GER
MANS.
BRIToNs WIN AIR BATTLE
kaiser's AeropIane Pursued 80 Miles to
Sea and Brought Down by English
Aviator-Three Towns Bombarded
During Attack on Kentish Coast.

London, March 21.-Nine persons
were killed and 81 injured in another
German aeroplane raid on the Kentish
coast. The raiders, four in number,
dropped 48 bombs. Dover and it's
harbor were shelled, the towns of Deal
and Margate were bombarded.
The war office issued the following
statement:
-Four German seaplanes bombarded
the east coast of Kent today.
The first pair appeared over Dover,
flying at height of from 5000 to 5000
feet. One dropped six bombs in the
harbor and then proceeded northwest,
dropping bombs on the town. The
other, after passing over Dover, ap-
peared over Deal, and dropped several
bombs.
The second pair bombarded Rams
gate, after which one went west and
The other north, pursued by British
aeroplane. One bomb was dropped on
Margate The second machine ap-
peared over Westgate, where our aero
planes engaged in his pursuit and no
bombs were dropped.
The casualties SO far reported are
nine killed and thirty-one injured. AS
far as can be ascertained 48 bombs
were dropped.
"One bomb fell on the Canadian hos
pital at Ramsgate. causing some dam
age to the building, but no casualties.
Material damage was inflicted on sew
eral houses.
Flight Commander Bone in a single
seated aeroplane pursued one raider
30 miles to sea, where, after an action
lasting a quarter of an hour, the raider
was forced to descend and the observ-
er was killed"