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The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15

bers as industriously as the men,
though not as sturdily perhaps; and
after grubbing we plowed, narrowed
and burned the remaining brush. Our
sufferings were intense, as we had
scarcely any wood to burn. Three of
our horses died from starvation and
the other three were too weak to pull
an empty wagon. Now we have 20
teams, 2S cows and calves, 80 breed
ing hogs, 100 chickens, and all kinds
of farming implements and tools. We
have sos acres planted to crops and
300 acres in native hay. Conditions
point to a very favorable season and
we hope to prove our worth to the
soil and the community in which we
live by raising bumper crop, so that
our success may be an inceptive to
thousands of others of our race to
come back to the land in some part
of this great divide region"
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15
Board Gives Life Jobs to Officials.

Denver.-Warden NJ. P. Capp of the
state reformatory, State Game and
Fish Commissioner w. B. Fraser,
State Boiler Inspector G. V. Cosse-
boom and DIR. H. A. LaMoure, head
of the state insane asylum, are per-
manent employees of the state under
a ruling made by the new State Civil
Service Commission.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15
Beavers Beautiful.

Grand Junction-Beavers are be-
coming so plentiful in the Gunnison
river just south of Grand Junction,
that residents of the city are enjoy
ing walks to the beaver dams two
miles from the city to watch the pro-
tected game disporting in the river.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15

With less than half her available
farming land utilized, the United
States produces one-sixth of the
worlds wheat, four-ninths of its corn,
one-fourth of it's oats, one-eighth OF
it's cattle, one-third of its hogs. and
one-twelfth of its sheep.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15
Tax on cossrlff Estate Collected.

A tax of $4,61075 was collected by
the state on the estate of Thomas A
Cosgriff. The value of the Colorado
property was fixed by Leslie Hub
bard, state appraiser, at S2S7 ,075
Half a million dollars worth of prop
erty belonging to the estate is in
Wyoming.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15

A recent invention provides an um-
brella frame or skeleton and any suit
able number of interchangeable COW
ers therefor. whereby a new cover
may be substituted for an old, worn
or damaged one, or a cover of one
color or figure may be substituted for
another, according to the costume of a
lady carrying the same.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15
Hiah Court Repeats Protested Rule.

Complaints from attorneys that a
rule adopted Sept. IA, 1914, by the
State Supreme Court, prohibiting the
Issuance of summonses until cases
have been docketed in the court, was
working hardship in that witnesses
often got out of town before the case
could be docketed, have resulted in
the repeal of the rule.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15
coffey Suit Against mceiI Settled.

Denver-The suits of Mr.. and Mrs.
John r. Coffey for alleged assault on
Mrs. Coffey, against James c. McGill,
have been settled, for $1,000, and the
release of the baseball player.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15
Rulqer Must Hang Week May 21.

James c. Bulger, a soldier of for
tune, convicted of killing Lloyd f.
Nickodemus, must hang during the
week of May 81, according to a de-
cision of the Supreme Court
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15
Whisky Prescribed for lnebriacy.


Medical uses for whisky hitherto
scarcely suspected by the general
public are revealed in the first quar-
terly reports of intoxicating liquor
sold by pharmacists on physicians
prescriptions. The reports are being
filed with the secretary of state in
compliance with the new prohibition
law. 1t was as cure of inebriacy
that whisky was prescribed in large
number of cases. 1t was also pre-
scribed as face lotion, for "office
purposes" for colds and bad colds,
the latter requiring the prescription to
be filled several times, and as
travelling stimulant," in which case
the patient was a woman General
debility" appears frequently as the
diagnosis that required the attention
of John Barleycorn. Other cases are
specified as articular rheumatism,
diabetes, bronchitis, neuritis. tubercu-
losis, pneumonia and grip.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15

dinner table reaching around the
earth 16 times would be required il
the inhabitants of the world sat down
at a meal together.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15

ing shiploads of soil in order to pro.
duce land capable of feeding cattle.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15
Attorney General Farrar ~.

been confined to his home by an at
tack of neutritis.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15
BANK RESOURCES GAIN
OVER MILLION AND HALF ADDED
SINCE JANUARY I.
Resources of 1862 State, Savings ane
Private Banks and Trust Com
panies March totaIed $63,431 ,24e.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Denver.-The banks of Colorado
under control of the state banking
commissioner have gained 1854
S0701 In total resources since the
first Of the year, according to the alb
stract compiled by ]. A. Steadley,
chief clerk CT the bank commission
er's department.
The abstract, showing the condition
of the banks at the close of business
on March Z, reports $63, ,431, ,24S.14 as
the total resources of 162 state and
savings banks, thirty private banks
and nineteen trust companies on the
date. Dec. 81, 1915, the total re-
sources of the banks in the state were
$61,S96,441.13. =
Since the first of the year three ad-
ditional state banks have been
opened. One private bank shut its
doors. The total deposits of the banks,
according to the abstract, were $685.
0,169.99 on March Z, while the av-
erage reserve was 90.2 per cent as
compared with BIG per cent shown on
the previous call
Telephone Property Worth SIS, 5,22o. .633
The difference between the cost OF
construction of telephone service IN
a mountainous country and in flat
country was brought out by Roderick
Reid, general auditor of the Noun
tain States Telephone and Telegraph
Company, in testifying before the
State Public Utilities Commission. IN
its hearing the commission began a
detailed consideration of the physical
valuation of the company's property
in Colorado, which is computed By
the company at $15,220,633.G6. Mr.
Reid showed that the corporation had
computed the cost of each unit of
its property, and went in detail into
the hundreds of units comprised in
the whole, showing that even the
pounds of wire were figured out on O.
close basis. He contended that one
set of unit costs for the whole state
would not do, and showed that be-
cause of the great amount of rock
digging and the high cost of labor
and transportation in the mountain
GUS regions the unit cost of construc-
tion there was higher than on the
plains. Mr.. Reid testified that many
thousands of blanks were used in
computing the physical valuation,
one form alone comprising 3S,400
sheets.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15
Tax Paid, But Man May Be Alive.


Although Valentine H. Lucas will
be considered legally alive for the
next six years, unless someone can
swear they know of his death at first
hand, the state took a chance" and
collected S329.4S Inheritance tax ,on
his S3S,317 estate. Mr.. Lucas, with
party Of automobilists, was caught in
cloudburst on Sand Creek last sum
mer. The bodies of the other two
men, together with the wrecked auto
mobile, were found half buried in the
sand far down stream the next day.
Search of several weeks failed to I'M
cover any trace of the missing man.
1t is presumed his body is covered
over with deep layer of sand in the
creek bed. By law, however, he can
not be considered dead until seven
years from the time of his disappear
ance
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15

The New Orleans public school
board has arranged for summer nor
NAL school for Negro teachers to be
held at Straight university, June IL
to July 81. Superintendent Gwinn has
appointed Prof A. Lawless director
with the following advisory commit
tee: Mrs. Sylvina Williams, Prof ].
w. Hoffman. Prof. A. Priestly, Mrs.
Hattie V. Feger, Florence Lewis and
hev. H. H. Dunn, registrar.
An unusually strong faculty will be
secured. Many applications are com
ing in from rural teachers and from
all Indications the attendance will be
much larger this year than last. Now
Orleans enjoyed the distinction of
having the largest summer normal in
the state in 1915. New Orleans of
fers many superior facilities and ad-
vantages in it's public and private
libraries and the splendid lectures
given by some of the finest educators
in the country, who are instructors in
the Tulane summer normal.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15

A cutter which can be kept strung
on q bail OF twine. ready for use, has
been patented by a Maryland inventor.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15

Louis Merriman. a Negro, who was
born when George Washington was
president of the United States. died
at his home in Kansas City, Kan,
short time ago. Merriman was the
oldest man ON the United States pen
sion rolls. and claimed to have sub
stantiated the fact that he was born
121 years ago on the Sopher planta-
ton, in Virginia, in 1895.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15

The late DR.. Booker T. Washington
graduated from Hampton, and his
work was the direct result of Hamp-
tons influence. Maj. Robert II. Mo
ton, successor to Doctor Washington
Carnegie hall, Pittsburgh, on the oc-
casion of the Hampton singers visit
March 81, is another product of Hamp-
ton.
ne hearty Endorsement of we'll
known public men and educators has
been given to the work done there.
PRESIDENT Woodrow Wilson, William
H. Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Edward
Everett Hale, Charles w. Eliot and
many others have enthusiastically in
dorsed the work.
The Hampton quartet known from
coast to coast as the best Afro-Ameri-
can quartet in America, famous for
singing of the plantation melodies or
spirituals of the South. are the picked
musicians from the big choral of 800
voices at Hampton institute. Virginia
music of this country, except that of
the Indians, which can claim to be
folk music. These singers make
tours to all parts of the country in
the interest of the school. and during
the past summer won the gold medal
at the Panama-Pacific exposition in
San Francisco.
Hampton is neither state nor a
government school, and must depend
largely upon voluntary contributions
for its support. 1t was founded by
Gen. Samuel Chapman Armstrong in
1868, and was designed to instruct
Afro-American youth in morality, in
dustry and thrift. as well as in earnest
and practical Christianity. Ten years
later Indians were admitted to the
Hampton school, which from humble
beginning, with two teachers and Is
students, has gradually developed into
an Industrial village, with over 1,30U
students, 200 teachers and other work
ers, more than 140 buildings, and an
instruction farm of 600 acres.
Hampton has sent forth over eight
thousand young men and women.
equipped to earn honorable livings as
teachers, farmers and skilled trades
a desire to be of service, and by their
own homes, their work and their daily
life, to act as examples and teachers
to the less fortunate among whom
they live. Many of it's graduates have
been tremendous forces in the strug-
oil fpr oIu
Evening star., 1916-07-02

size Of the tenants-sums paid and the arrearges
due. you know necessary.
Mrs. W. and Nelly Custis unite in best wishes
with Yonr AHc friend. and Uncle
Mr. Rob't Lewis. G.. WASHINGTON.
The owner of this letter, which has
descended to him directly through his
ancestors. declined an offer of $4,000
for it.
The quaint silhouette likenesses re-
veal the utter lack of artistic sense in
grouping OF that day. incidentally the
position which the woman held in re-
lation to the head of the house.
Another valuable memento OF early
days in the possession of Mrs. Smoot Is
the diary of her grandfather. Rev. Ed
ward MCGUIRE, who MARI led Judith. the
daughter of Robert Lewis. He was for
forty years rector of st. Georges Epis-
copal Church, Fredericksburg. Va, and
he kept a careful chronicle of the hap
penings of the time.
Perhaps the most interesting record
in the diary is the following. recorded
on August IA, 1924. when Lafayette
made his memorable return tour OF the
United States:
Bishop Moore preached for Us today. The
Marquis Lafayette having reached town last
night, attended divine service this morning He
spent . half hour at my house after church,
having when last In town promised to visit u
on his return to this place. As the active friend
and benefactor Of our nation, be deserves our
Evening star., 1916-07-02

nephew, Robert Lewis. who was acting
at the time in the capacity of agent for
his distinguished uncle: and a silhou-
ette portrait group OF Robert Lewis and
his wife, with their daughter and her
husband.
The letter is headed Mount Vernon,
2eth Jan, 1885," and after referring to
some personal matters. which the fam
lily are not willing should pc made pub
lie, Gen. Washington goes on to i'm
press his nephew with the necessity
for collecting certain revenue in the
following words:
To accomplish this. all my resources are need
ed and / beg you to exert yourself in the col
lection Of my Rents. and that you would let
me know. upon the best date you can form an
opinion. what dependence I may place on you:-
Not only ms to the amount Of the sum. but also
as to the period of Its payment, that may regu-
late matters accordingly.
As q notwithstanding to former instructions
should be annually exhibited. In order to show.
not only what has been received, but the arrear-
that by 4 reference thereto can always the
state and condition of each tenant. I must now
add as further Instruction. that all casualties.
such as the exchanging Of tenants-Increase. or
decrease of Rents. ETC.. ETC., may be specifically
noted at the foot Of the Rental:-Which 10 COLI
sidered always a. q kind OF Record Of the col
lsctors proceedings. Columns IN which. for the
Evening star., 1916-07-02

may lull itself into the belief that our
responsibilities rest with protecting our
own people along the border. If that
view prevails the Mexican military Or
ganization, even the transportation of
the machine guns on the Mexican rail-
ways, becomes of only passing moment
The experience of the enlightened and
progressive Mexican landowner also
may be taken as giving a different
viewpoint. 1t is not conclusive any
more than are the consurs cynical opin-
ions about the depth and permanency
of the anti-foreign feeling, but it
raises the question whether Mexico can
help herself to the degree which the
opponents of American military occu-
patton think possible.
The best friends of Mexico. including
those who have been most tolerant of
anarchy, If they know anything about
the actual conditions. have to admit
that notwithstanding the agrarian
basis of the internal warfare. nothing
has been done to carry out the high
sounding promises of the leaders to
remedy conditions. Land has been con-
fiscated, sometimes in the name of the
state and sometimes in the name of the
particular general who was in control
of a district, but the poems do not seem
to have gotten any of it. The wonder
is that instead Of attacking foreigners
they have not killed some of their own
tribal chiefs who have cheated them
out of their inheritance.
AS far back as two years ago-and
that is quite a while back as events in
Mexico move-it was claimed that dis
tribution of the land 'in accordance
with the principles of the revolution"
was in progress. In the state of Tampau-
fpas, Gen. Lucio Blanco was said to
Evening star., 1916-07-02

highest respect and consideration Would to
God that he the friend of the Redeemer,
and prepared for mansion in Heaven That he
may yet be, II he is not now, is my prayer to
the God of mercy and love.
But to bring events down to the
time of my memory" said Mrs. Smoot,
my grandmother Mcclure. who was
the grandniece of Washington, has told
me that as a small child she was fire.
Quently lifted up to the knee of the
general, who loved children and fire.
quently fondled them. This grand
mother also possessed a coat which l
have often seen and Which she de-
clared belonged to Gen. Washington,
but | have lost all trace of it,
With the talk running upon revolu-
tionary people and events. the conver-
sation turned upon women in reyolu-
tionary times and the part they took
in the attainment of American inde-
pendence. Mrs. Smoot takes pleasure
in the study of history. especially
Evening star., 1916-07-02
AND

can independence. Their number is
legion and would read only as long
list.
serves first mention for the splendid
principles she impaired to her son, and
it should not be forgotten that it was
her wisdom and firmness which kept
him from service on a British warship
and so saved him as the chief instru-
ment of freedom for his own country.
X X ..
although an aging woman at the
time of the revolutionary war, Mary
Washington labored incessantly with
her servants in making clothing for the
soldiers, herself knitting many pairs
Of stockings for their use. And upon
his returns homo from the field her
Evening star., 1916-07-02

Livingston, Governor of New Jersey at
the time of the revolution, is credited
with two strategic moves against the
enemy which might have done credit
to the cleverest daughter trained in
camp life today.
There was Mary Draper of Massa-
chusetts. who surely did her bit for
American independence when she sent
husband and son to the front with all
dispatch; and when the daughter beg
ged that the boy might be left at home
she said He is needed. and must go.
You and 1 have also service to do. Food
must be prepared for the hungry, for
before tomorrow night hundreds will
be on their way to join the colonial
forces, and we must feed as many as
we can
Mary Draper's bread and cheese and
Evening star., 1916-07-02

cider kept many a weary soldier from
exhaustion as he passed on his way to
the war Nor did she stop with this
service. Her stock of pewter vessels
went into the melting pot, and with a
mold for casting bullets. she trans
formed her domestic utensils into balls
for the continental army.
Then there was humble Mollie Pitch
err, whose heroism on the field of battle
at Monmouth has been recounted upon
the pages of American history: and her
firing the gun when her gunner hus-
band was stricken dead by the enemy
humble wife of a barber had the heart
of heroine, although her mission was
but to carry water to those who needed
1t, and she was to win her reward when
the commander-in-chief himself COM
missioned her a sergeant.
Here in Alexandria" said Mrs. Smoot,
Evening star., 1916-07-02

I'VE had heroine of the revolution less
we'll known than those whose praises
have often before been sung. This was
Ann McCarty Ramsay, who was the
daughter of Mai Dennis McCarty, and
his wife Sarah Ball. who was a cousin
of the mother of George Washington.
Ann McCarty was born in 1871, and
early in life met and married William
Ramsay, a native of Scotland, who set
tied as a trader and merchant in Alex
andria4/in 1744, and early and fully
identified himself with the colony of
Virginia. His extensive commercial
and shipping connections enabled him
10 supply much of the outfit to the mill
tary exeditions of Virginia from 1854
to 1853, and he served for a time as
captain of a militia company under
Washington. Records show that his
family was or terms of intimacy with
the family at Mount Vernon.
k*
About this time the revolutionary
spirit was running high. and Ann Ram
say became fully imbued with patriotic
fervor. Her zeal took the form of col
lecting money for the equipment and
use of the army. and so great was the
confidence placed in her ability in this
regard that she was made treasurer of
all moneys collected for the purpose in
the township of Alexandria.
so successful were her efforts that
she turned over a sum exceeding
$4,000 to the cause. Thomas Jefferson
in his writings accredited her with
being one of the most patriotic women
in Virginia. and George Washington Of
fered to assist in the education of one
of her sons.
fight for the cause of American inde-
pendence. One served a surgeon in
the continental army; the other as a
colonel in the Virginia line.
when this brave woman died, on
April l, 17S5. Washington attended her
funeral. for his diary contains this en-
try: Went to Alexandria to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Ramsay on Friday
last
ITO come down to present day women,
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton have surely done their part for
American independence" said Mrs.
Smoot. They have accomplished an
immense amount of memorial work,
and there is hardly a city or town on
the Atlantic seaboard in or near which
battles of the revolution were fought
where there is not some evidence of
their work in recording the revolution
airy deeds of their ancestors, their aim
being to perpetuate the memory of the
heroes who wrought independence for
our country.
THE second object of this society is
to perpetuate independence itself. and
there is nothing in the world so inde-
pendent the real American spirit.
The work of this and many kindred
womens organizations throughout the
United States is among the immigrants,
and 1t is one of the finest things they
are doing. The women are teaching
these aliens to become good citizens.
endeavoring to imbue them with the
spirit of true Americanism.
American independence was mani
Tested and sustained by the women at
the time of the revolution" declared
Mrs. Smoot. 'as ii was in later years,
and as it is being manifested and sus-
tained today in every section Of our
land"
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distinguished son never failed in show
ing reverence for his mother by visit
ing the little cottage in Fredericks
burg, where she still gave him words
of counsel and encouragement, which
doubtless fulfilled their part in the
great cause.
And who can say that Martha Wash
ington did not do her part for Ameri-
can independence when she shared the
awful winters in camp with the COM
mander-in- chief The officers and the
men welcomed her coming. for her
presence brought them cheer and in
many cases comfort, and relief from
suffering. She was wont to say in her
later life that she heard the first can
non at the opening and the last at the
closing of all the campaigns of the
revolutionary war. She walked by the
side of her lord through every step of
his career, ascending the difficult path
that opened before him, and at length
stood with him on the summit, de-