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The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-03-02
the WORLD on FIRE


President Wilson has aptly stated
the case. The world is on fire. and
the confiagration increases rather
than diminishes. \
with this fact staring us plainly
in the face, one is forced to give seri-
GUS consideration to the subject of
national defense. To do otherwise
would be like leaying ones wife and
babies at the mercy of blood thirsty
mob.
The American people do not want
war. but there may come time when
it will be impossible for us to prevent
war.
II such a time comes we should be
prepared to meet it. and to meet It in
u. manner that will effectively expel
the invader from our shores and in
sure us against all future invasions.
The president has hinted that there
is danger OF our Icing drawn into the
present war.
We hope not. but if 1t is true that
such danger really exists it is the
duty OF congress to take immediate
steps to place the country in reason
able state OF defense and To do It
without a lot OF political wire pulling
and flibustering.
II this country is in danGer OF in
vasion this is not the time for sena-
tors and congressman TO play poli-
tics or build political fences. Action
is what we need aud quick action and
to a definite purpose.
Congress has been fairly warned
OF the dangers ahead and the man who
trines with the welfare of his country
now will have fearful bill to pay
when the day OF reckoning comes.
Give Us more action and fewer
words.
F. w. BARBER.
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High SCHOOL TO GIVE
A PICTURE EXHIBIT

beginning April 9Th and continuing
for three days the Canon City high
school win give a picture and art
exhibit at the high school building.
The exhibit will be under the super
vision OF the Eison Picture company
and 400 caNsasses Will be shown.
Two hundred OF the pictures will be
large ones. something like three and
a half by four feet in size. and Will
include a great number OF subjects.
The remainder of the pictures VIII
be smaller. but no less meritorious.
During the exhibit the high school
students will give an entertainment
pertaining to art.
A small Zee VIII he charged to wit
ness the exhibit and the proceeds viii
be devoted to the purchase OF pic.>
lures for the high school.
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BULGER FILES PLEA
IN SUPREME COURT

On the grounds that human prin
ciple is involved attorneys for Col.
Jas. c. gulger. who is under sen.
tence TO be hung at the penitentiary
here some time next week, on Wed.
uasday appealed to the supreme court
TO grant the petition for a writ of
certiorari. which they presented. and
to review the proceedings in the
criminal court in which Bulger was
declared to be sane at the present
time.
Attention of the court was directed
to the fact that six OF the jurors in
the trial signined an affidavit that
they were undecided In the case un-
I'll they we're directed by Judge
Wright that the element Of reason
able doubt should not enter into
their verdict. The court. therefore.
was urged to review the case. In or.
der that man OF whose sanity there
is considerable doubt should not be-
hanged.
The state resisted the petition for
a writ OF certiorari on the grounds
that the supreme court has no right
to review in such cases. The case
was taken under adyisement.
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HAS PLEASANT MEMORIES
OF DAYS SPENT IN CANON


John w. Thompson of Sratford, |
1878 here, wrote to Postmaster Clark
Cooper a few days ago for the pur-
pose of making some inquiries in re-
lation to the changes that had taken
place in Canon City during the last
thirty-eight years. Mr.. Thompson is
now ~ years of age and is engaged
in the insurance business in his home
town. In the coures of his letter MIR.
/ Thompson says:
"Of all the places in which / ever
at the time l was there the most de-
| lightful in my experience and | often
dream l was there again to enjoy it,
but in my visions do not see any
thing there that is like what it was
in my younger days. During the
| greater part of my stay in Canon
City l was foreman of two gangs of
men that were employed in building
a railroad through the Royal Gorge
The recollection of your blue Colora-
| w shACo, Dii6ht' eCuidi WCdlHcI anu
exhilerating atmosphere will lineer
with me as long as | live
While we were camped in the
Royal Gorge one of my men kept us
supplied with trout caught from the
Arkansas river that flows through the
canon. The splendid appetite | had
then and the delicious flavor of those
fish are one of the most pleasing
heritages of my memory
i Il went to Colorado on account
of an asthmatic trouble and was not
long in obtaining relief from its dis
tresses. ! obtained work as a cook
on Barnum's ranch in Huerfano
county, thirty-five miles southwest of
Pueblo. and remained there for six
weeks. 1t was cold and windy there
and l did not like the surroundings.
although l gained in health and
strength all the time. One day a
shoemaker came to the ranch and
told me about the fine climate at
Canon City and decided to go there
with as little delay as possible. I
resigned my job as cook and started
out to ascertain for myself il the new
place measured up to the recommn.
dations OF my friend of the awl and
last. The trip was made by way of
Pueblo. then 3 town of considerable
size. and on my arrival at Canon CITY
l found the climate all that 1 had ex.
pected and more. too. The people
were generous and hospitable and
men who desired work had no diff
Guilty In finding employment, although
the pay was as a rule small. The
warden OF the penitentiary offered me
JOB as guard. but did not take IL.
preferring other work II 1t could be
had. Venison when ! was in Canon
City sold for 2Iz cents a pound. beef
Tor cents pound, sugar, tea and
coffee were very expensive and -four
was So a sack.
Il am surprised to learn that Canon
City has within more recent years be-
come the center Of large and pro.
ductive fruit growing region. At the
time | was there apples and other
fruits were very scarve and expen-
sive. all of them being shipped from
the east | am interested in Canon
City and anything that you can tell
me about its growth and development
during the nearly forty years since
left there will be keenly apprecia-
ated"
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W. A. LONG DIED At
COUNTY FARM THURSDAY

w A. ong died at the county farm
shortly after 2 O'Clock this morning
from heart disease, following an i'll.
ness of several weeks duration. De.
ceased was about sixty-five years of
age and had been at the county farm
for two or three years. He was a
member of the First PRESBYTERIAN
church here. with which communion
he had been connected five or six
months.
Among his surviving relatives are
two daughters and two sistersin.Iaw
none o whom are residents of Colo.
rado. One daughter. Mrs. Roy Walk.
er. lives in San Diego. California. but
the address Of the other, Miss FIeeta
Long. is not known. or the sisters
in-law. Mrs. Matte Hellars. lives at
Adrian. Missouri. and the other. Mrs.
Olivia Robards, is also believed to be
a resident of that state.
Before coming to Canon City the
deceased made his home in Pueblo.
The funeral will take place from VIII
sons undertaking chapel at 2 O'Clock
Friday afternoon. The service Will
be conducted by Rev. Armentranth OF
New Albany. Indiana. who is tempo
rarily supplying the pulpit of the
First Presbyterian church. Interment
Will be at Lakeside cemetery.
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San LUIS VALLEY HAS
A LIGHTLESS RAILROAD

Official recognition has been given
the San Luis Central Railroad com.
pany as the one railroad in Colorado
which may have headlightless locomo-
tives and switches without lights.
Recognition Of this right was given
in an order issued Monday by the
state public utilities commissicc.
In asking that it be not compelled
to maintain lights on its switches at
night the railroad company explained
that It has no use for switch lights
for the reason that it operates its
trains only between sun up and sun
down. II it complied with the switch
light law its train crew out bound
from Monte Vista to Center in the
morning would have to stop the train
at every switch to extinguish the
lights, while on their way back to
Monte Vista they would have to light
the switch lamps for no purpose at
ALL because there could be no acct
dents at night when there are no
trains moving.
The road doesn't have to have head
lights for two reasons. 1t doesn't
need them in the daytime and. fur
thermore, the headlight law applies
to railroads sixteen miles or more in
length and the mileage of the San
Luis Central railroad is only fifteen
miles.-Salida Record.
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Or. HOLMES PURCHASES
BIG x-RAY MACHINE

DR.. r. E. Holmes has just INSTALL
ed as a part of the surgical equip
ment OF his operating room at 423
Macon avenue a Crown Interrupter-
less X-Ray machine; one of the most
powerful and up-to-date mechanisms
of its kind en- the market 1t is a
product of the Scheidel-Western COM
pany of Chicago and is highly use
full and attractive apparatus. Any por-
ton of the body can be photograph
ed by means OF the machine and as
good pictures of broken or fractured
bones, diseased organisms, etc, taken
by it as can be secured at any OF
the hospitals of Pueblo, Colorado
Springs or Denver. The installation
OF this Machine, the only one OF its
kind in Fremont county, will be OF
great advantage to DR.. Holmes in his
surgical. practice and is OF interest
to the community at large.
Photographic negatives OF OPAQUE
objects can be taken by the machine
in three-titths of a second and no ex,
posure of more than three seconds
duration is made. The operation OF
the machine requires strong electric
currant and the power company has
just erected at the rear of Dr. Holmes
office a two hundred and fifty dollar
transformer to supply the needed
Juice"
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-03-02
Children Cry
FOR FlETcHER'S
CASTOR IA
FlRgmAh,s BALL A SUCCESS.


The annual Washington's birthday
ball of the Canon City volunteer fire
department at Annex hall Tuesday
night was a highly successful AFFAIR
and netted it's promoters about fifty
dollars. There were about eighty
couples on the floor. Music for the
occasion was furnished by an orches-
ira composed of B. c. Hummei, Mrs.
Morey and Harley J. Turner. Tho an
nual ball Of the volunteer firc depart
ment has been celebrated on Feb. ~
for thirty or forty years without an
omission and was In the earllsr his
tory Of tho community the big social
svsBt Of the season.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-03-02
NAVY PEOPLE pon.r KNOW

sluggish liver can cause person
an awful lot Of misery. Spells OF dizzi-
ness. headaches. constipation and bill
icusness are sure signs that your liver
needs help. Take Dr. Kings New
Life Pills and see how they help tone
up the whole system. Fine for the
stomach too. Aids digestion. Puri-
fies the blood and clears the complex
ion. Only 25c. at druggists adv.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-03-02
CANON HIGH SCHOOL
HAS BIG CHORUS

At the regular chapel exercises of
the Canon City high school Monday
morning the recently organized cho-
rus. under the direction of Prof. Tom
Taylor will have charge of the pro-
gram, which will be as follows:
"A Skipper of ST. lves''-Chorus.
Vocla selections by Mrs. c. w. Grif-
fn-(a) when Love Abides); (b)
Memories
Selections by the high school glee
club-(a) THE Legend of Varsovie; I"
(b) cello solo by Prof Taylor.
The Pilgrims chorus.
The chorus work of the students is
entirely voluntary, although credit is
given them in their reports for it.
The fact that more than hundred
voices have been enlisted in it sug.
gests the enthusiasm with which the
work has been taken up and gives
promise of the most gratifying re.
suits.
The efforts of Prof. Taylor as musi
cal director in the public schools OF
Canon City have been eminently sue
cessful and have left an impress for
good on the community. The import
ance of teaching music in the public
schools is emphasized by the fact that
more value is attached to it every
year by the leaders of our educational
system. Most of the larger colleges
and universities of the country re
quire as one of the requisites to ad
mission to their classes an under
standing of the rudiments of music.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-03-02
HOW TO CURE COLDS.

Avoid exposure and drafts. Eat
right. Take Or. Kings New Discov-
cry. 1t Is prepared from Pine Tar.
healing balsams and mild laxatives. DR.
King's New Discovery kills and ex.
pels the cold germs. soothes the irri-
tated throat and aliayn Inflammation.
Search a. you will. you cannot mud
. bstter cough and cold remedy. lts
use over IS ysafs h nusFanios ef
ati1iaction. .--adv,.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-03-02
stat. of Ohio. CITY Of Toledo. ! SIS.

Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is
senior partner Of the frin Of y. J. Cheney
a Co. doing business In the City OF To-
ledo. County and State aforesaid. and
that said frm viii paw the sum Of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR each and ev-
cry case Of caiarrh that cannot be cured
by the use OF HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn TO before me and subscribed in
my .presence. this 9Th day of December.
tSeaD A. w GLEASON.
Notary Public.
HaiFs Catarrh Cure IL taken Internally
and acts directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces os the syatem. Sead for
testimonials free.
r. J. cHEnEY 4 co, Toledo. o.
Sold by all Druggists. TIC.
Take Hairs Family pills for constipation.
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WENT 70 puEeLo.

Mr. and Mrs. A. n. Mitchell were
Dsssengors to Pueblo on Thursday.
and Mr.. and Mrs Lloyd Egbers are
spending tho day there today.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-01
BANKERS WILL HOLD MEET
son for TWO Days During
Week of June 20.

Milwaukee.-The annual convention
of the Wisconsin Bankers association
will be held in Madison for two days
during the week of June 20. This was
decided at a meeting of the executive
council of the association held in Mil
waukee. The convention was invited
to the capital city by the bankers Of
that place and the Madison board of
commerce. The offer was accepted
with a provision that arrangements be
made to care for 500 Wisconsin bank
ers expected to attend the session.
At the meeting of the council plans
were also perfected for bankerfarm-
ers' excursion to Madison during the
month of March.
Arrangement will be made with the
agricultural department Of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin to give a two day
course of lectures on farm topics at
that time. If the plans of the bankers
are carried out 500 Wisconsin agricul
turists will be taken to Madison.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-01

With 1000 pages of testimony and
$50 exhibits before him, Insurance
Commissioner M. j. Cleary awaits
submission of written briefs and final
arguments in Neal Browns action to
Gust several big liability insurance
companies from Wisconsin. Formal
proceedings before Mr. Cleary and the
industrial commission closed after 13
full days of sittings. The companies
occupied eight days putting in their
defense against charges of violating
the anti-discrimination law. The hear
ing on the complaint of Assemblyman
Frank ]. Weber of Milwaukee against
the Wisconsin Employers exchange
will be held here February Z. Weber
is challenging the financial standing
of the exchange.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-01
STATE REPUBLICANS MEET
Philip Named Delegate at Large -
Fail to Endorse Candidate for
Senatorship.

Madison.-Two thousand persons,
including about 1,7o0 delegates, at
tended the republican state convention
in the university gymnasium, one of
the most impressive, patriotic and
thoroughly representative conventions
ever held in Wisconsin
No candidate for United States sena-
tor was Endorsed. There will be an
Endorsement later IT a meeting in
Madison to be made up Of ten dele
gates from each of the eleven national
congressional districts.
The convention adopted a platform;
Endorsed the administration of Gov.
E. L. Philip; received congressional
district recommendations of candidates
for delegates to the national conven-
ton, two from each district, and nam
ed four candidates for delegates at
large, and Gov. Philip voiced the note
of harmony when he suggested that
the matter of indorsing a senatorial
candidate be taken up at later meet
ing.
The four delegates at large named
were Gov. E. L. Phillip, Milwaukee;
Judge Emil Baensch, Manitowoc; AS
sembIyman C. K. Ellingson, Hawkins;
former Congressman S. A. Cook,
Neenah.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-01
WILL ENFORCE SIGN LAW
VIII Be Forced to an Issue in Every
Town in Wisconsin by
Association

Milwaukee.-The campaign in favor
of compliance with the state law COM
polling town boards to adequately and
intelligently guide sign the main trav-
eled roads Of every township in the
state, which was started short time
ago by the Wisconsin Guide Sign as
sociation, will be forced to an issue in
every town in Wisconsin during the
next three months. The law is man
datory, and it is the duty of every dis
trict attorney to see that it is obeyed.
Milwaukee county has already taken
steps to comply with the law, the
county beard and County Highway
Commissioner Kuelling having placed
an order for $1,000 worth of signs to
be erected on steel posts set in con-
crete. These signs will include the
name of the roads and distances to
Milwaukee and other points. The
county's signs indicate the speed limit
and notice that the law will be en-
forced. Large signs will also be erect
ed at sharp curves, at railroad cross
ings, and slow down signs will be
placed in the vicinity of schools.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-01
STATE MAY RECOVER
SWAMP LAND CLAIM
Conservation Officials to Take
Up Matter at Once.
AMOUNT TOTALS 100000
Forty-Seven Thousand Acres of Land
Granted by the Government Were
Later Included In the Indian
Reservations.

Madison. = Conservation Commits
sioner f. B. Moody and Secretary r..
S. Scheibel of that body have returned
from Washington, D. c., where they
attended the meeting Of the Ameri-
can Foresters' association and a con-
q ference Of the United States Forestry
II collaborators Beth of these organi-
cations are operating in the interest
Of forestry promotion, the latter, how
ever, being representative Of those
states which cooperate with the fed
eral government for fire prevention
under the Weeks law. Under this law
the federal government pays to the
states, under certain conditions, one
half the cost Of prevention. Wiscon-
sin under this law received last year
to the amount of $500.
While in Washington Messrs. Moody
and Scheibel took up with the depart
ment of the interior the matter of Wis
consin claims against the federal gov
eminent arising out of the old swamp
land claims, pending long in the ar
chives, but never closed. With Sena.
LOE T1uSLiUS anu congressman EScn
they made a preliminary survey of
the case and started the wheels of
investigation that will bring the case
before the federal authorities for adj
tustment.
These claims have been running
more than sixty years and amount, it
is said, to more than 100000, the
value Of $4,000 acres of land granted
by the government to the state and
afterward included in Indian reserya-
tions.
The Legislature Of 1915 provided for
the appointment OF a committee, to
consist Of the governor, the attorney
general and one other competent per
son, giving it authority to settle these
claims. The sum of $4,000 was ap-
propriated for use OF the committee.
1t is the preliminary work which this
law contemplates that Messrs. Moody
and Scheibel attended to at the ma
tional capital.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-01
leading in the number of silos:
North central and northern counties

North Central and northern counties
are showing gains in silo building.
Barron has 765, against 613 a year
ago; Marathon 626, against SAT year
ago, and Marinette $50, against 2S1
one year ago.
Even thinly settled counties are
showing gains. Florence has twenty
seven, against twenty-five one year
ago; Villas, fourteen, against five a
year ago; Forest, twelve, against five
year ago; and Iron, eleven, against
nine one year ago.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-01

ETC., are taken by motion picture COM
panies which exhibit the pictures until
they are no longer commercially profit
able when they are turned over to the
curator Of the historical department OF
the state who preserves them for edu-
cational uses Street scenes in I'M
portant cities, public buildings, the
operation of industrial plants, the Keo-
kuk dam and other aspects of the So
cial and industrial activities Of the
state are shown in the collection,
which includes about $4,000 feet Of
film. The plan Of collecting and pre-
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-01
Railroad lakes Reduced

The total railroad tax for 1915 is
S4.754, 1886, according to the final
statement of the tax commission Just
issued here. This amount is S27. 10
less than last year. The assessment
is increased by s2,27S, but the rate
is lower. According to the statement,
the Chicago & North Western road will
pay S1,639,969.79 and the Chicago.
Milwaukee & st. Paul 1888, 123. 80.
The only other road to at all approach
this sum is the Minneapolis, st. Paul
& Sault Ste. Marie, which will pay
$513,73174.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-01
Conscience Bothers Him.

Fear that he viii have to answer
on the Judgment day for breaking the
game laws of Wisconsin caused a
former citizen of this state, who now
resides at Dallas, Ore, to ask the
state conservation commission to for
give him and allow him to make resti-
tuition. He wrote that he had killed
game in Clarke county, southeast of
Neillsville, about three years ago. The
commission told him to make such
payment as he deemed proper and the
commission would forgive him.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-01
SiloS in Wisconsin,

According to figures compiled by A.
W. Kalbus, statistician of the Wiscon-
sin department of agriculture, there
were 55,992 silos in Wisconsin on Jan
uary l, 1916, against 47,165 on January
l, 1915, an increase of 10 per cent.
The contents of the silos, figuring
the average size fourteen by twenty
eight, was 4,647,336 tons.
Using the average value as SO per
ton, the total value of the contents of
the 55,992 silos was $13,942,00S.
Sheboygan county takes first place
in the number of silos with 2,772,
against 1925 in 1915. Manitowoc coun-
ty is close second with ZIP, against
2,643 in 1915, and Waukesha county is
third with 1852, and $3.50 in 1915.
The following table shows counties
leading in the number of silos:
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-01
axes Are Higher.

Out of the eighteen leading cities in
Wisconsin, thirteen pay total in
crease in taxes of approximately
100000 as compared to 1914 Only
FIVE cities. Fond du Lac, GAINESVILLE,
Milwaukee, Superior and Wausau
pay less this year than they did in
1914.
The city of Milwaukee, approx
mately 100000 lower this year than
last, lowers the average tax for these
cities appreciabIy.
The following table, prepared by
II. V. Cowles, gives a comparison of
1915 and 1914 taxes: