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The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-09
HOUSE PASSED MEASURE BY 23a
TO Sc AND SENATE VOTE
WAS 43 TO %.
R. R. STRIKE CALLED OFF
RAILROADS ACCEPT LAW THEY
CLAIM WILL COST MILLIONS
ANNUALLY PAY MEN.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, Sept. 5.-An order le-
voking the call for countrywide
railroad strike set for Monday was
sent out by labor union officials Sat
urday night after Congress had passed
the Adamson eight-hour day bill and
sent it to the President for his sigma
ture.
The bill was passed by the Senate
Saturday without any change from the
form in which it passed the House.
The vote in the Senate was 43 to %.
Senators Hardwick of Georgia and
Clarke of Arkansas were the only
Democrats voting against the bill and
Senator La Toilette the only Repubii-
can voting for it. The HOUSE passed
the bill Friday by a vote of 239 to Sc.
Senator Hughes, acting president
pro TEN of the Senate, and Speaker
Clark signed the bill a few minutes
after it was passed, and it was sent to
| the White House, where it was signed
by President Wilson Sunday.
Passage of the bill followed day Of
debate which was conducted under
circumstances singularly dramatic. 1t
concluded two weeks of suspense dur
ing which the nation had been con-
fronted with strike order that, had
it become operative, would have Grip
pied the entire nation and caused a
loss of millions of dollars.
The bill incorporated only two of
the six measures suggested by Presi-
dent Wilson to Congress. 1t provides:
Q) An eight-hour day for all en-
ployes in operating trains on interstate
railroads with the same pay as now
given for ten hours work and pro rata
for overtime.
(2) A commission to be appointed
by President Wilson to investigate
and report on the effect of the eight
hour day as applied to railroads, in not
months.
The remainder of the legislative
program has been abandoned by this
session of Congress at least Efforts
to amend the bill in the Senate were
futile, the supreme effort to alter it
having been led by Senator Under
wood, who sought to provide that the
Interstate C ON m erce Commission
should have power to fix railroad
wages and hours of service in the fu-
ture. This amendment was defeated
by vote of 81 to IA.
Railroad officials declare that the
action of Congress will cost them $780,
100000 a year in increased wages to
the trainmen. Brotherhood officials
say the enactment will mean not more
than an annual increase of $4,000, 900.
In Congress and among railroad Off
cials there has existed Coubt as to the
constitutionality of the law, but what
steps, if any, may be taken to test
this, have not been indicated.
The measure embraces virtually all
of the Presidents original proposals
to the employees and the railroad
heads, although it is only part of the
legislative program he took to Con-
gress when his negotiations had failed.
Issuance of the orders of cancella-
tion followed a meeting of the four
brotherhood heads and thirteen re-
naming members of their committee
Of $40.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-09
FOREIGN

Berlin admits the claims of allied
successes in the Somme region over
eighteen-mile front.
Approximately 5000 national
guardsmen arrived bringing the to-
tai number of troops on station at Ell
Paso, Tex, to about $4,000.
King George awarded the Victoria
cross to Lieutenant Robinson, who
brought down the Zeppelin in the raid
on London, the war office announced
in London.
Veritable street battles in which
thus far three persons have been
wounded are accompanying the arrest
by Anglo-French secret police of al
legged Teutonic agents in Greece.
According to dispatch from Wen
ma, an order has been Published IN
the Austrian capital introducing the
third "meatless day" Mutton, how
ever may be eaten on this day.
Sir Ernest Shackleton, arrived at
Punta Arenas, Chile, from Elephant
Island, having rescued his twenty-five
comrades who were marooned there
and bringing them back with him
The London Overseas News agency
says: The Danish postmaster-gen.
eral states that the British, contrary
to their promise, have confiscated the
mail on, the Danish steamships Ceres
and Bonia of the Copenhagen-Icelan
line"
With the holding of local elections
throughout Mexico as the first step
in re-establishing civil government,
Juarez voted for mayor. 1t was the
first election since the overthrow of
Madero and the people in conse-
quence made holiday of it.
Listed Hawaiian sugar corporations
that paid 81 500 900 in dividends Aug.
s, distributed further dividends
amounting to $3G5,750 The dividends
paid by the sugar corporations at
Honolulu, listed and unlisted, during
August, aggregated $3,000,000.
Word was received at San Diego,
Cal, of the murder of Aubert Davies
an American, at his ranch, thirty
miles below the border, by IN un-
. known Mexican, for whom a posse
hastily assembled at Campo, Cal,
crossed the international line and
made futile search.
The news reached Berlin that a
widow at Stettin, Germany, was SEN
fenced to eighteen months in prison at
hard labor because she fell in love
with Russian prisoner of war. Her
daughter, Olga, 19, also was sentenced
to six months at hard labor for mere
ly flirting with Russian prisoner.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-09
Six Men Hold Up Arizona Train.

Douglas, Ariz.-The Golden State
limited train of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific railway, was held up
at Apache siding, forty miles east of
Douglas, by six masked men. The
robbers uncoupled the baggage and
two mail cars and forced the crew
to run to the county road bridge,
three miles west of Apache, where
they tried for an hour to break into
the express safe, firing six charges
of nitro glycerine before they gave
up the attempt and rode for the north
on COW ponies.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-09
victim Of Crash at SPRINGS Die,

Colorado Springs.-Albert A. Nos.
trum, 60 years old, died at st. Fran.
els hospital of injuries received in the
crash of section of the grandstand
at the Welsh-White fight. F. w. Pur-
cell, district attorney, and Coroner
Boyle have called an inquest. The list
of injured has mounted to more than
200, and, according to doctors, there
are at least forty or fifty more who
were treated privately, taken to pri.
yate homes or boarding houses or re.
turned to Denver, and whose names
have not been reported.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-09
Santa Fs Not to Obey s.Hour Law

Topeka, Kan.-E. P. Ripley, pres'
dent of the Atohison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railway, declared in formal state
ment that the Santa Fe does not in
tend to comply with the Adamsol
eight-hour law, recently enacted BY
Congress to avert threatened rail
road strike, until ordered to do so by
the United States Supreme Court.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-09
WASHINGTON

! The new regulations for the en-
forcement of the migratory bird law
were approved by the President Aug
21, and became effective on and after
that date.
Sweeping and drastic demands are
revealed In the secret terms being
pressed on China by Japan. Private
dispatches reveal that Japan seeks in
IDENTITIES, an apology and political
concessions.
The Senate spent some time Labor
Day considering the controversy be-
tween the railroads and their en-
ployes growing out of the demands of
the latter for an eight-hour day and
increased pay. which were1 enacted
into law by the passage of the Adam
son bill. Senator Reed of Missouri
intoduced a resolution directing the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
investigate the cost of the eight-hour
day to the carriers and to report its
findings to Congress Dec 1.
Charles e. Sebastian. indicted joint
ly April 6, 1915, with Mrs Lillian
Pratt of Los Angeles on a charge of
contributing to the delinquency of
Edith Serkin, minor, was tried and
acquitted, has resigned as mayor of
Los Angeles.
To the proposal of the entente allies
that neutrals accept the principle that
an submarines are vessels of war the
United States has dispatched a reply
which, It is understood, holds to the
principle that the characteristics of
each individual submersible must gov
Srn the case
The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-09
Ashurst Impusns veraclty of Penrose

'S"''"' Se ''''PES''S TT "CTtJ U1 Y tTlTVbc.
Washington-Th Senate INDUCED
in one of the widest sessions of its
history during a debate on the cor
rupt practices bill. At one point dur
ing the proceedings a personal en-
counter between Senators Ashurst of
Arizona, a Democrat, and Curtis of
Kansas, a Republican, was averted
only by the interference of Senator
Smoot of Utah. At another time Sen
ator Ashurst called Senator Penrose
of Pennsylvania liar and refused for
a time to retract his statement Final
ly he made an equivocal withdrawal.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-09
SPORTING NEWS
Standing of Western League Cl

Benny Kaufman of Philadelphia de-
feated Johnny Ertle of st. Paul in a
disappointing six-round bout at Phil
adelphia.
Stanley Yoakum of Denver. won
from Matty Smith of Racine, Wis, at
Ramona A. C. at Colorado Springs by
technical knockout.
At Cedar Point, Ohio, Johnny Kill
bane retained his title of feather
weight champion by knocking out
CLANCY in the third round.
The franchise of the Wichita team
in the Western league will be turned
over to the league officers, it was an
nounced by the owners at Wichita
The transfer is occasioned by recent
financial losses, it was given out.
The accident at the Welsh-White
fight at Colorado Springs Labor day,
when section of the outdoor arena
collapsed, injuring 200 men and wcm-
en-, resulted in the cancellation of
plans to purchase the Wichita base
ball franchise in the Western league.
Freddie Welsh retained his title of
champion lightweight pugilist of the
world at Colorado Springs after going
the full scheduled twenty rounds with
Charlie White of Chicago. Referee
Billy Roche of New York awarded
Welsh the decision on points
GENERAL
A blanket test case of the Adamson
al ub hour Iam 10 nIappa1
Two men were put to death in the
electric chair in Sing Sing prisoner at
} Ossining, N. Y.
Mrs. Henry White. 81. wife of the
former ambassador to France and
Italy died at Lenox, Mass.
Seventeen-year-old Irene Coleman
was fatally stabbed. as she lay in bed
at her home in New York. The girls
father is held on charge of murder.
Erotic insanity in it's strangest
form, it is believed, drove ]. Maurice
Petit to end his honeymoon by the
murder of his bride, Katherine
Keiser-Pettit, in her mothers home at
Chicago.
hioo 6aic CT wv ddu6hlcT VI
the President, reported in New York
the loss of handbag containing
money and jewels from an automobile
in which she journeyed to Shadow
Lawn, Long Branch, N. j.. for the no
tification ceremonies. She offered a
reward for the bags return.
The heads of the trainmen's broth
erhoods revoked the railroad strike
order after Congress passed the Ad-
amson eight-hour bill with ten hours
pay.
Samuel w. Peniypacker, former
governor of Pennsylvania, died of
uraemic poisoning at his home at
Schwencksville, Pa He was 73 years
old.
At Hodgenville, KY, President VIII
son paid tribute to the memory of
Abraham Lincoln before the humble
log cabin in Larue county where the
Civil War President was born.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-09
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
ABOUT THE WAR

Western Newspaper rn,on views ssrvic.
The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1916-12-28

Even YOU" and he turned luminous
glance on the withered and shaking
bag, must recall those early years
when you were child at your moth
er's breast. If you have had children
of your own, you must have felt the
divine instincts of n mother. You were
ready to risk life itself 10 bring a child
into the world. You must have been
prepared to sacrifice that same life
over and over again for the sake of
your offspring while it was still wee
mite looking ut you, and you only, for
help and sustenance. / beseech you
then, woman and men, when you go
away from this house. to search into
your own hearts and inquire whether
the sefishness which now inspires you
is really worth while. If my example
can assist you in finding the better
way | shall regard death as real
blessing. You will deprive me of
few troubled years, but | shall count
that loss as gain if my spirit. wan
dering in the unseen, encounters even
one soul which | may have lifted out
bI llD put. AIN IiOl ulpululIlS Nuih
things. A man who has little more
than minute to live can, ut least, af-
ford To be candid with himself and
others. l repeat that | shall not pur-
chase my freedom. DO with me as you
will, hut, with my last breath, l i'm
plore you TO pay heed to what have
said"
Two-Gun Jake strobe forward. and
stood in front of the prisoners.
| Though one arm was out of action, the
other WAS as efficient as ever, and his
right hand twisted in n businesslike
way towards a hip pocket.
Boys he snapped, Il needn't tell
any of you that I'm mighty quick on
| the draw. an, TO that extent. what l
have To say must go. | cant talk like
Mr.. Burton. but l can make my mean
in clear. We're quits with this guy
here an now. Is any of you-all par
ticlar anxious to argy the point?"
No one will ever know just what
might have happened but for the inter-
ruption which came from a totally I'M
expected quarter. Mrs. Evans could
be restrained no longer. She rushed
in, scattering the startled Hell-cats
right and left, and threw her arms
around her son.
That's spoken like my own boy"
she sobhed. II don't care what you've
done. John. It's nothin' to me how
wicked you have been. I'm your moth
er, and I'd believe in you if they was
The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1916-12-28
Wherein John Burton Solves the Prob
lem

In looking back through the history
would seem as though idle chance
played the most important part in hu-
man affairs. Ii is not so. of course.
The apparently aimlcss currents of
mighty and irresistible stream of prog
reSs.
Who. for instance. could possibly
have imagined any active connection
between the arrival that day of n
Worn. frayed. elderly woman at the
city's central depot with the deadly
menace threatening John Burton and
his faithful friend. Bill Relly2 Sure
~ not the poor creature herself on
leaving the train, she stepped into a
crowded street and the bewildered,
half-frightened, half-despairing express
sion betokened by dropping lips and
lack-luster eyes showed that she, nj
least. was irresolute of mind and sad
~ aware of her own unlmportant place
In the general scheme of things.
Amid the noisy chaos of the passing
multitude she picked out a policeman,
and approached him timidly. Fumbling
In n reticule which she carried, togeth-
er with dilapidatcd suitcase, she pro-
duced photograph.
Pardon me. mister" she said in n
quavering. apologize voice, hut do
The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1916-12-28

to take you to the chair this minute.
though I've sought for you an wept
for you through ten long years. You're
good at heart. john You couldn't be
my son and your fathers, an be a real
bad man. oh, my boy, my boy, I'm
pore ole woman, but I'm ready to die
now with a smile on my lipsl'
And thus, in the most effective way
conceivable. did John Burton, tenth
marquis of Castleton, find the answer
to his question. He would scoff today
at the conceit that Humanity Is In the
Grip of Evil. Conviction came through
love. Had he searched the wide world
he could have found no more beautiful
and gracious partner than the girl
whom he met amidst surroundings
which might well have added one more
to the many Establishments Of an
eventful career.
Grace would not be a woman IL she
did not also appreciate the fact that
she had become the countess Of Cas-
Teton. But this new dignity only add
ed to the sweetness of her disposition.
1t enlarged her sphere of usefulness.
The elegancies of a new life rendered
her even more noteworthy, while her
knowledge of real difficulties Of the
poor guided her philanthropic efforts
into the one true and abiding channel.
namely, that of education and self.
help.
At this very day her most trusted as.
sistants are Mr.. and Mrs. William Rell-
ly, while In the once-dreaded Hell-cats
she has band of willing and enthusi-
astic helpers, chief among them being
u somewhat truculent-looking and en-
ergetic person who wins instant n0tO-
riety on the platform when introduced
to expectant audiences as the famous
terror, "Two-Gun Jake"
Why, even Mother Flanagan earns
respectable living in laundry!
And this Is the end. The aliegory ID
plain for all men to read. Even In
these days of horrible war, with Its
outrageous crimes and sanguinary hol.
ocausts, 1t is true now as ever that
God Is In heaven,
And ais well with the world.
THE END.
The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1916-12-28
FOURTEENTH EPISODE
Humanity Triumphant.
The Appeal.

The fuse was n slow one. Evidently
1t had been selected In order To pro-
long the agony. Blll Reilly's nerves.
less under control than Burton's. yield
ed TO the strain and he seemed To find
relief in uphruiding the wretches with
whom he once had fraternized but who
now hated him with II deadlier malice
than the man they regarded rs chiefly
responsible for the gangs threatened
disruption,
But. like all criminals. they were
towards NJ heart. and fled the danger
zone long before the kissing serpent
between the chairs could release its
true venom.
Burton felt quite resigned to this
last stroke OF an outrageous fortune.
Was he ready To die? Did he really
resent being thus reft from life In the
plentitude of his physical aud intel
lectual powers? He did not know.
Bill Reilly felt some regret that he
had not succeeded in accomplishing
what he set ont Ia do-reScue John
Burton from the hands of the He'll
rats. He wished TO free Burton. not
for himself alone. although he had
great admiration for the titled million
aire who treated all men as his equal.
but he did desire in Il measure To pay.
In the one way he could. Grace Coe
for the kindness she had shown him.
He regretted he had ventured alone
into the hands of the Hell-cats and
wasted few precious seconds think
Ing how he might have let Blanche
Griffin be more of help 10 him in
the work he had cut out for himself.
lie wondered whether Grace Coe,
when she heard of his rcjoinlng the
gang. would believe Blanche's story,
that he had done it to aid Burton or
would think that he had suffered Il
change OF heart.
No sooner WIS the room emptied of
the cut-throat gang. not one of whom
dared even the slight risk of watching
the actual explosion of the bomb
through an open window or doorway.
than he made determined effort TO
free himself. He succeeded almost at
once. and with whoop of triumph
wriggled out of the chair.
by this time nearly three-quarters of
the fuse was consumed. so this daring
fellow. without the slightest hesitation.
picked up the bomb and hurled II
through the porch far out into dis
heveled garden. Banging the door. so
rs TO obviate any risk of injury by fly
fng metal. he raced back TO Buttons
side and began untying him.
The uell-cats had gone about their
business more leisurely with the mil
lionaire, and the knots deted Reilly's
nimble fingers at first. He had only
partially extricated the man whose life
he had risked everything To save, when
the Internal machine exploded with
a deafenlng defamation.
But Reilly never ceased his efforts.
Ere IL was possible 10 distinguish the
light of day again John Burton stood
at liberty by his side. The respite
thus gained did not endure long. The
Heli-eats understood how they had
been foiled. and swarmed back like
angry bees returning 10 disturbed
hive. The almost defenseless pair car
ried no effective weapons. but seized
the chairs which had formed their sac
rifielal altar. and defended themselves
yaiiantly against all corners.
Such human riff-raff as composed
this gang of gunner, however, were
The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1916-12-28

ing the grim circle of Hell-cats with
n comprehensive glance, carry out
your terms fairly and squarely."
Dye mean that you're willin' to
pay?' broke in an eager voice.
THAT is to be settled AT the expira-
swer.
'.IIe thinks he's playin' with us"
sneered Mother Flanagan. but I'll
teach him See If | dontl"
Meanwhile some stirring events had
happened in the city. 1t will be re-
membered that Burton had employed n
japanese valet during the absence on
vacation of the smooth-spoken English
servant who usually filled that office
He had come to like the little brown
man. and retained him in his service
so that the two Wallets alternately per-
formed the same duties.
When the gunner made their at
tack on Burton's house. choosing the
hours of broad daylight as the safest
for their purpose. and depending for
success wholly on rapidity Of move
ment. the japanese happened to be
in n dressing room adjoining the IL
brary where his master was ut the
moment attending to some belated cor
respundencc.
Hearing n sudden hubbub of rushing
feet and muttered oaths. the little man
ran in. only To he black lacked forth
with. He fell like Il pole-aXed. OK and
the Hell-cats did not care whether or
not he was actually dead. The fate of
a valet was of no account. What they
wanted was bound and gagged mil
car. and this achievement they carried
out with daring and efficiency worthy
of better cause.
SO the Jap recovered his senses, and
was able to give the police fairly lu-
cid account of the attack.
Grace Coe was sitting down to a be-
lated luncheon when her brother ran
in with an evening newspaper in his
hand.
news, Grace, but feel that you ought
to know the worst. Burton has been
captured by the Hell-cats! They actu-
ally took him bodily out of his house,
and have rushed him in car to some
place which the police have not been
able to locate. / think you can help.
Those people at the Settlement"
The words died away on his lips.
for his very heart was chilled by the
sight of the wan misery in the girls
face. But she rose steadily enough.
and her voice was extraordinarily I'M
der control.
II half expected this" she said
Eyes, l must do what l can. Don't
come with me, George. | shall 60
alone. You do not know the ways of
they will be dumb, but to me they will
tell the truth
On reaching the Settlement she
found Blanche Griffin there. Her OWL
despair was equaled by that of the girl
whom she had dragged out of the gut
ter, for the newspaper reports made
1t clear that Bill Reilly. the ex-convict
who had found redemption, was miss
ing as we'll as the millionaire. Poor
Blanche was already harboring n
dream of her own wherein quiet cot,
tage home, children, and the happiness
which comes alone from love and hon.
est work. might one day be hers. That
vision was rudely shattered. 1t was
replaced by a grim and tragic reality.
The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1916-12-28

John Burton. "A worker In steel mill.
sudde MY iuherits an English title and Sl0,
oo0.oo. He decides he will spend his life.
II ncce ssary. In an attempt to solve the
question is Humanity In the Grip OF
Evil Each episode 81 this series forms
. distinct story In itself depicting his eX-
pcrtenes IN his search FOR the truth.