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The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
Call for Pay Roll Reports.

Five thousand letters were sent out
to the Colorado employers Of labor by
the State Public Utilities Commits.
sion requesting itemized payroll re.
ports. Blanks 10 be filled specifying
the number Of workers, the nature OF
their work and the amount of their
wages, accompanied .he letters. These
blanks must be made out and returned
Immediately to the commission. All
employers of farm labor, all interstate
carriers and all who give work to less
than four persons are excluded. That
leaves approximately 5000 names
which, according to members Of the
commission, shows Colorado has a
higher percentage of employers than
most of the states of greater size. the
heads Of corporations and all other
officers receiving salaries come under
the workmen's compensation law and
their names must be included on the
payroll reports.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
Slide Hurls Two More to Death,

Silver Plume.-Arthur II. Osborn
civil engineer, and Edward Collins
miner. were carried down the side o
Kelso mountain at West Argentine
Colo, by an avalanche that swep,
them into the gulch below and piled
seventy feet of snow over theil
bodies. West Argentine is eight miles
west Of this city, in a district sur
rounded by steep mountains, bui
which is seldom visited by slides. The
avalanche that swept down Ke,sc
mountain was like the other fata
slide of this season near Silverton
which cost two lives. The slide makes
the total dead four. In each slide
some of the party escaped as theil
companions plunged to death.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
DIVISION LEFT TO PROTECT RE
TREAT OF MAIN BRITISH ARMY
is SURROUNDED.
1900 LOST IN ATTACK
GERMANS LOSE SIX AEROPlANES
ON sALoNIKI FRoNT-HoLD
THEIR TRENCHES.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
London, Jan. 12.-Left behind I,
cover the retreat Of the British main
army, force of 10000 men has beer
trapped by the Turks at Kut-ElAm
ara In Mesopotamia, and has now
been surrounded completely, accord
ing to Constantinople adyices giyer
out by the Overseas News Agency. II
is said the Turks have advanced te
the main defenses of the British.
British force which apparently va.
on the way to reinforce the British
at Kut-ElAmara on the Tigris river
lost 5000 men in an attack on Turkish
positions at Sheik Said, according te
semi-official statement received
here from Constantinople
While the Russian front has beer
quiet there has been severe fighting
In the other war theatres.
On the Montenegro front the Aus
trians have been generally successful
In Champagne the French have re
pulsed four German attacks. The Ger
mans, however, have retained a foot
hold at two places in the French ad
vanced trenches.
The Saloniki front is chiefly notable
as the scene of almost continued aero
plane skirmishes, one of which con
tinued for two hours. The Germans
have thus far lost six aeroplanes In
this region.
Fierce fighting occurred in the
streets Of Czartorysk on the several
occasions when the town has changed
hands. At present the Russians are
in possession of the place.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
FOREIGN.

The Ford party left Copenhagen or
The Hague.
Lord Burnham died at London after
an illness OF more than month.
An Athens dispatch to the London
Times says that Italy has promised
Greece that her forces shall not ad.
vance beyond the frontier OF North.
ern Epirus.
Amid scenes of wild enthusiasm,
the House of Commons passed the
first reading Of the government bill
for compulsory military service by the
decisive vote of 403 to 105.
One hundred armed men attacked
and looted the Chinese custom house
on the boundary of Kowloon. The
marauders posted proclamations des
cribing themselves as revolutionaries.
Il hope you will make the people
of the United States understand that
] am no more pro-German than your
president" said King Constantine at
Athens to the Associated Press CORE.
spondent.
The marriage of Prince Joachim,
sixth son of the Kaiser, has been set
for the end of February, 1t was an.
nounced in Berlin. II will be purely
a war ceremony with only immediate
relatives present
The Chinese minister OF agriculture
and commerce, Chow Tzu-Chi, will
leave Jan. Is for Toxic as special en-
yoy of President Yuan Shi Kai to con-
fer the highest Chinese order upon the
Japanese emperor.
An Amsterdam correspondent states
that German newspapers are demand
ing the immediate recall of Edward
Higgins, American consul at Stuttgart,
on the ground that he has shown anti.
German sentiments.
The arrival of Gen. Jacinto Trevino
at Juarez from Chihuahua City to as.
sumo military jurisdiction on the
border from Brownsville, Tex, to
Hachita, n. NJ, under the new title OF
commander of the northeastern corps
of the Mexican army, was the main
development OF the Mexican situation.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
GEN E RAJ.

Announcement that Col. Theodore
Roosevelt will start on Feb. Is on a
trip to the West Indies. from which
he will not return until April /, was
made in New York.
Caught in snowslide which swept
az clean swath down the side of Bull
Run mountain, twenty miles from
Baker Ore, Albert Weis, So years old
a miner living in his cabin on the
mountainside, was crushed to death.
Petitions requesting that the names
of President Wilson and Vice Presi.
dent Marshall be placed on the ballot
to be vote on for denomination in the
primary March were filed with the
secretary OF state at Indianapolis.
Illinois formally returned to the city
OF New Orleans the flag carried by
General Andrew Jacksons troops at
the battle of New Orleans, and which
was captured by an Illinois regiment
from Confederates during the Civil
war.
Common Pleas Judge Barnum OF
Youngstown, Ohio. communicated with
United States District Attorney Z.
Lowrey Humes of Pittsburg with
view Of instituting deportation pro
ceedings against the foreigners who
participated in the rioting. East
Youngstown has a population of $4,000
persons, but Of this number only 400
are voters.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
SPORT.

Chas p Taft has sold the Chicago
Cubs to Chas. Weeghman for 100000
President Chiving.on of the Ameri
can Association issued a call for thu
associations annual meeting to be
held at Chicago Jan. IL.
The Omaha Western league club an.
nounced the purchase of Second Base,
man Harold Ireland from the Phila
delphia National league club.
The Boston Braves have been sold
to Percy ID. Haughton, famous Har.
ward football coach, and Arthur C.
Wise, member of a Boston banking
firm.
Frank Moran OF Pittsburg knocked
out Jim Coffey. the Dublin giant, In
the ninth round of their tenround
match at Madison Square Garden In
New York.
President Frank C. Zehrung of the
Western league will visit Denver soon.
The visit will be made In the course
OF a trip around the circuit which the
new president will take in order to
familiarize himself with conditions.
Unable to properly train their
horses owing to the numbe. OF
jockeys who have joined the army
chiefly in the army veterinary corps
some English race horse owners are
crying aloud for the stewards of the
Jockey Club to permit them to EN-,
ploy women riders.
A. tSeottyl Allan Of Nome, Alaska.
owner and driver of Alaska racing
dogs which twice won the classic All
Alaska sweepstake 412-mile dog team
race, returned to Seattle from France
where he sold to the government for
army use in the Alps 440 dogs. 1903 OF
them from Alaska.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
UNIVERSAL MILITARY SERVICE.
General Scott Tells Congress Of Plan
toTrain All Men Between 18 and 21.

Washington. Universal military
service in some form in the United
States possibly the requirement that
all men between Is and q be given
at least six months training as a sub
stitute for the volunteer system, was
discussed before the House military
committee by Mai. Gen. Scott, chief
Of staff of the army.
Gen. Scott told the committee the
United States would need an army of
100000 men In the event of war.
1t developed during the hearing
that there are more than 100000
men In the country between the ages
Of Is and Il and that 100000 more
reach the age of IS annually.
Short OF universal military re-
quirement Gen. Scott thought the ad.
ministration's continental army plan
offered the most workable solution u
the national military problems.
If the plan failed, he said there was
no escape from compulsory service.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
LATEST NEWS
EP|T0M|zED
FROM TELEcRApHIc RgpoRTs
THAT COVER THE WEEk's
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST IMPORTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
Western Newspaper Union views sefSics.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Allies seize Greek island OF Melos
British submarine accidentally sunk
off Dutch coast; crew saved
Aeroplanes OF central powers again
lombard enyirons OF Saloniki.
Italian steamer sunk by mine and
200 Montenegrin recruits drowned
The allies have released consuls Of
central powers arrested at Saloniki
French troops withdraw from sum
nit of Hirzstein in the Vosges noun
tains. ....
Teutons twice repulsed In attempts
to retake town of Czartorysk on Rus,
i. sian front.
Austro-H -Hungarians driven from the
eastern bank of middle Stripa river In
east Galicia.
Last Of British and French troops
eyacuate remaining positions on CALI.
poll peninsula.
Russian losses $4,000 in New Year
fighting on Bessarablan frontier, ac.
cording to Austrian estimate
Austrians lose heavily in effort to
check Russian advance in Galicia and
Bukowina. Russians make gains.
Germans drop fifteen-ineh shells on
city Of Nancy behind French lines,
killing six civilians and wounding ten.
Residents fleeing.
Germany agrees to pay indemnity
for American lives lost In Lusitania
disaster and gives new assurances as
to submarine methods.
Austria's official representative has
informed Secretary Lansing his gov.
ernment is ready to offer reparation
II an Austrian boat sank the Persia.
A new revolt has broken out In
Mexico threatening repetition of the
long war between Carranza and villa
and the postponement indefinitely OF
peace for the troubled southern re.
public.
AT London, the compulsory service
bill passed its first reading in the
House of Commons. and three labor
members Of the British Cabinet re.
signed. Ireland is exempt under the
provisions OF the bill.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
lndorses "Educational Preparedness. )"

Mrs. Mary c. c. Bradford, state su.
perintendent of public instruction, has
indorsed nationwide campaign for
educational preparedness" being ad.
yocated by Dudley r. Cowles of At.
lanta, Ga. One Of the chief objects
of the campaign is to obtain national
Endorsement OF the recommendation
of Secretary of the Interior Lane that
Congress give the United States
Bureau of Education an appropriation
of 100000.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
Sullivan Inheritance Tax 10 $s3,o4s.

An Inheritance tax Of $93,04S on the
estate of Dennis Sullivan. Denver
banker and millionaire who died last
October, was paid to the state. The
tax is one of the largest ever col.
lected on an estate in Colorado. Les.
lie E. Hubbard, state inheritance tax
appraiser. placed the valuation OF
Sulliyan's estate, at the time of his
death. at $1,423,072. OF this amount
s1,3O3.097 was in personal property
and $119.975 in real estate.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
Buleer Sane; to Hang Feb. 27.

Denver-Col James Bulger, sol
der of fortune, must hang. the week
of Feb. 27, for the Staying Of Lloyd
F. Nicodemus the afternoon of May 6,
1914. The jury in the West Side
Court returned a verdict declaring
him sane.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
Three State Employees Lose Jobs.

With the going into effect OF the
state prohibition law on Jan. /, three
employees Of the state treasurers Of.
flee automatically lost their positions.
The employees were: Charles Burk.
hardt and Thomas Baird, state liquor
license inspectors. and Mrs. Dorothy
Gum, license clerk.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
Former Judge r. w. Overs Dead.

Leadyille-A telegram from San
Diego. Cal, announces the death oil
Frank w. Overs. former Judge of the
Fifth district. Colorado. Judge Overs
was GA years old, and had been III
for several years. He is survived by
a widow and two children.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
Road Broken to Gateway Camp,

Grand Junction Communication
with Gateway, mining camp fort,
miles southwest OF here. was restored
when wagons from the town reached
here over a newly broken trail.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
Call Annual Meeting Of Tax Board.

The Colorado Tax Commission has
called the annual meeting of assessors
Of the state to consider taxation ques-
tions of common interest. The meet.
ing will be held Jan. 20, q and %.
Because of the time of the meeting
the assessors will be able to take ad.
vantage OF the special railroad rates
to the Western National Livestock
show In Denver.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
colorado's Militia Has Good Showing

OF the 100000 in federal property
shortages found in the 1915 inspec-
tions of the National Guard organiza.
tions of the different states, less than
one per cent is charged to the Colo.
RADIO National Guard, according to
figures in the annual report of Bri-
gadier General A. L. Mills. chief of
the division of militia affairs of the
War Department.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
Man Kills Self Following Quarrel.

Sterling While his wife was on her
way to Sterling to swear out a war.
rant against him, Wilhelm Yahn, 80,
committed suicide by blowing the tor
OF his head off with a shotgun. Yahn
lived three miles west OF Crook.
The Raymer enterprise., 1916-01-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FoR COMING EVENTS

HES FUN NOMING EVENTS.
jan. 17-ls.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Grocers and Butchers Association
at Pueblo.
Jan. l9.-Sixth Annual Convention Of
Colo. Good Roads Assn at Denver.
Jan. l9-Fifth annual convention Colo
rado Division Pixies Peak ocean to-
ocean Highway Association, at Dem
yer.
Jan. 16-22-Western Live Stock Show
at Denver.
Feb. 11-12-Annual convention Colo
Denver
FEB. 12-Meeting Republican State
Central Committee In Denver.
FEB. l6-1S-Sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs
March 20-April 2.-Coiorad Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-23
Ripping Rhymes
Back to Work
~ WALT MASON

When I return from having fun, In
rustic glades. with rod and gun, all tam
ned and At and gay, I do not think It
kind to pirate, OF fun / had, TO some poor
skate who couldn't get away. While I
roamed mountains picturesque. Jim
Wax was toiling at his. desk. to keep
the wolf aloof: all summer long he
strained his brow to lift the mortgage
from his COW. and also from his roof.
SO 1t would r. coarse work to come to
poor old Jim. and say. by sun, I had
a splendid time! You should have been
out there with me, where n can snopp
around and see oil kinds Of thinES sub
lime!" Instead. l say. II enyy you. who
always have sane work to do, neysr
need to skip. to keep from being doub-
Ely bored, to blow In, wealth you can't
afford, on some weird, bughouse tripk
Vacations are 2 .alse alarm It's only
distance gives them chafm; for when
you try them out, and sleep IN tents
and eat canned beans, you sigh for old
familiar Genes and hatA yourself. old
SCOUT" Then Jim, whose face. was sad
and stern, and who had woe and stiSf
to burn; because he could not roam.
looks up and says. his face SLIGHT II
guess that's true! II think you're right!
I'm glad / stayed at home!"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-23

reported in its place. The Shields bill
| gives away the public water powers
| forever and for nothing. Both Roose-
| Welt and Taft vetoed bills drawn on
the samep rinciple. Yet, by another
| reversal, the Wilson administration got
| behind it, and when a widely circu-
| lated public appeal was made to the
| president for his help to defeat 1t, he
refused.
Both as to water powers on naviga-
BILE streams and III public lands. the
last reversals leave the administration
standing with the special interests
against the people.
The Phelan oil land measure. would
hand over to private individuals who
have no legal rights the valuable OIL
lands set aside as reserves FOR tnr
navy. The navy department has made
public announcement that the mere
threat of the Phelan bills passage has
caused it ito seriously consider the ad-
visibility of abandoning the policy OF
constructing oil burning ships. Only
Gil burning ships can develop n
maintain the high speeds required in
modern war. and without them no
navy can be even second class. n
secretary of the interior actively sup
ported this surrender of pational safe
ty to private greed. The secretary OF
the navy and the attorney genera OPP
posed it. Wilson remained neutral and
did nothing.
These bills are still before congress-
and will pass or fail at the coming
session. The public water powera n
the efficiency of the navy are at stake
There can be no compromise between
resources for private profit. and those
who would conserve them for the use
of all the people. Either the interests
will get them or the people will keep
them. There is no middle ground.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-23
HOW CAN he MAKE II"1

Writing from New York City a
~housekeeper stating prices of food
stuffs says that every one expects to
pay a dollar a dozen for eggs soon,
that grocers are predicting as much
and that consumers agreeing that the
outlook for exorbitant prices for food
Stuffs are at hand. Washington re-
port forecasts the dollar a dozen egg in
that city. Other commodities are soar-
ing in proportion.
What's the reason? Has the hen
failed of her duty and begun a cam
palgn of egg control? Is it expectation
of to~odstuffs or speculation that is re-
sponsible for a burden of prices that
might obtain in a time of war. but
which seem absurd in a time of peace
and full production?
The cost Of living is a pressing and
lnslstentp roblem in all homes sup
ported by small incomes. It is a much
more insistent issue to the householder
than any political dispute on tariff or
foreign relations. 1t comes right u
into the kitchen and sits in the parlor
and walks like his shadow with the
worker to and from his employment.
What is he going to do about it?
A conference over this problem
would attract more attention than the
conference in progress over the Mex
lean difficulty.
What are we to do about the high
cost of living? How is the man who
earns $50 to $50 a month to live and
send his children to school? With po-
tatoes at 81 a bushel, flour at ; cents
a pound, beans-the common navy
that used to sell at SO a bushel-de-
handing an aristocratic IS cents a
pound at retail, with rises in coal and
clothing, and rent and rates of an
kinds, how is the ordinary laborer's
income to meet the demands upon it,
even with the most stringent economy?
Are we to blame the hens and stop
there?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-23

their country there would be nj MUIR
muir for the dangers and hardships
they might undergo in the defense OF
Old Glory, but for the government to
keep them on the Mexican border month
after month for nc apparent purpose
when they are needed at home Is not
calculated to make them or other young
men fall in love with such q life.
To an onlooker 1t appears to be a
scheme to kill the national guard as an
organization, to make it unpopular. and
to prepare the country for the estab-
lishment of a large standing army.
There Is no question but what the
citizen soldiery Of our country, even
with the slight training Of the national
guard troops would fight with valor II
a foreign foe should attack us, but only
professional soldiers Of a standing army,
with no other occupations, will tamely
submit to months of useless dawdling
in a desert country with no enemies In
sight but r~attlesnakes, centipedes and
toads. az
The sooner the boys are returned to
their homes the more of them will con-
sent to retain their membership in the
company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-23
Topics Of the Times

The Sioux City Journal is in a PEE
culiar position. quoting Methodists in
favor of Theophilus and sneering at
Methodists who oppose Harding. %,
what a tangled web we weave when
we start out to put something over.
Same thing about Odle. What bed
fellows, gee, what bedfellows.
The Algona Republican speaks of
the few ministers who are opposing
Harding" II they are 50 few how Is
it that no preacher except one without
a pulpit al be found to say a word
for the Sioux City candidate. Few,
nothing, the ministry is practically
solid against Harding. The resolutions
are unanimous. The record of the
ministers is as definite against him as
his own is for liquor in the legisla-
ture,
Come. let's be honest says the Ce-
dar Rapids Republican. Best part of
the joke is that the Republican didn't
intend to be funny.
A Charles City newspaper suggests
that the Christian ministry of Iowa
seem to lack Christian charity" The
trouble isn't with the ministers. 1t is
with persons who can't differentiate
tan duty.
With food prices as they are in New
York City a strike that shall involve
500, 900 laborers bids fair to be hard on
the women and children. But strikes
are always hardest on women and chill
dren.
In a northern Iowa county the teach
ers are to hold an "Inspartional Insti-
tutc;' but if real inspiration is sought
and needed an announcement that
teachers age had been raised S. a
month n that the country school
ma'am need nc longer do her own jan
itor work and beg for a place to board
would deliver the real inspiration.
Character assassination does not be-
come a preacher or an editor any bet
ter than 1t does a thug or a cheap
blackmailer. Differences of opinion do
not warrant falsehood and misrepre-
sentation.-KnoXville Journal.
Which seems to call for immediate
answer to DR.. Hillman from the knox
Vile Journal in relation to the state
ment hat Barber was in the Journal
office when he wasn't in Knoxville.
How about that? Was Barber there
and did he say what the Journal says
he said?