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Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27
Hygiene In the Army.

The Japanese in their war with
Russia made 1t rule that soldiers
should take special care in keeping
clean their uniforms and that they
should bathe as often as convenient
and especially when there was time
before an engagement. Surgeons
have often praised the excellent re-
suits obtained by the Japanese sur
geons in keepir 8 down the death rate
due to infectious diseases. The long
waits in trenches and the unusual CON.
ditions Of the present war, however,
made It very dificult to keep the men
in the ranks up to standard Of clean
liness sufhcient to keep their uniforms
Zee from infective material.
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES

Wednesday, evening, Jan. 10, DR..
Scott, the superintendent Of Colora-
Go Springs district, gave very in
teresting lecture on consciences. He
spoke OF the peculiar business con.
science that would gloat over the
failure of competitor In business,
and Illustrated aloth e perve: ted con-
science with the case OF Gend who
brutally murdered family with an
axe and before leaving the h use he
set out plenty CT food for the family
cat.
After speaking of the gift Of con-
sc'eEce as the voice Of God, and
pointing how it may be strangely
distorted in many ways, he conclud-
ed with the very strange teachings
of Christ, concerning turning the 9th
er check fer the second hero, Civ
ing the cloak as well as the coat to
ing two miles for him who would
compel us to go one, and the forgiv-
ing seventy times seven.
The business of tie second quarter
Was then reported by the various &C.
partments OF church. work. DR.. Scott
congratulated the quarterly confer
ence on being in better condition
than most of tie forty charges in
Ids district.
The Aid society are holding an all
day session at the church this week,
on Thursday the 27th.
The Sunday school election result
ed in most of the old officers being
reelected. The new office of choris
ter was created and it appears, that
an orchestra for the school may be
the result.
Tie prayer meeting will be resum
ed on Thursday evening again this
week. All are invited.
Sunday, January 30th:
Glars meeting 10 a. M, VIM. Auger
leader; public worsh;p II a. m,
theme, Living Witnesses" Sunday
school 2: 45 p. m, lesson, 1.-THE Lame
Man Leaping;" Epworth League 6: 15
p. M; evening sermon p. M, sub
ject, "Reprocf and Comfort"
LAURENCE W. COLEMAN.
Pastor.
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27
MADE POLICE WORK
Philadelphia BIuecoats Had Job
Rounding Up Goats.
Youthful "shepherd" Had Neglected
His Duty, and the Guardians Of the
Peace Were Called on to Re-
lieve Distress.

Must policeman in the faithful per
formance of duty chase stray billy
goats? Must he round up lost man
MES" and carry them to the station
house, so they won't eat rubber plants
on Blue hill? The question has the
goat" of all the policemen in Ger
mantown and Chestnut Hill-and
there's a reason.
Likewise the goats that Craze on
the greensward of an Italian colony in
Cosgrove street, off Haines street
have the goat" of many residents OF
Germantown and Chestnut Hill.
Recently the police have been irri-
tated by telephone calls from irate
householders telling how goats wero
chewing up the landscape.
Matters came to climax when Mrs.
Helen Carr of 45O Cosgrove street
telephoned to the Germantown police
station that her daughter could not go
to school because she was afraid to
venture where the goats would shove
her off the sidewalk and chew up her
dress. The police decided to suppress
the goats then and there. A patrol
wagon loaded to the gunwales started
for the goats.
The policemen knew where the
goats belonged. They knew that Fe.
liX Puscano, SIC Haines street, kept
the goats for the milk they gave fol
the poor people of the Italian colony
And the policemen heaped maledic.
tions upon the head of Joe Puscano
the seven-year-old shepherd of the
herd. whose duty it was to keep the
goats off the lawns
After half an hours exercise the DO.
licemen got the eight goats into the
police wagon and took them to the
station house on East Haines street.
They were locked up in horse stalls.
like any other prisoners. Came an
hour later Felix and his shepherd son.
begging for the goats. 1t was supper
time and the colony wanted it's daily
rations of goats milk.
After much parley the "billies" were
released-under bail to keep the peace
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

Astronomers at tie Lowell Mass,
observatory have Teen observing
the planet Mars, and prcgnosticate
an early srring in that far away
country. They find that the five
canaliform riffs, located on the north
Polar cap, usually covered with deep
snow at this time of TIE year, are
rapidly disappearing, and flowers are
now blooming above the snow. Also
that the apple trees are beginning
to burst their bloom buds, and the
several species Of cherries are talk
ing on their accustomed hue. We
are glad to get such reports ais it
will be desirable place to emmi-
crate when the Kaiser conquers this
small spot in natures armament, and
we can begin life anew under differ
ent auspices.
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

''Hcw the mighty have fallen. Two
years ago the Denver Pest was daily
heaping enccmiums Of praise on GOV.
ernor Georges head. but when
George refused to prune the sprouts
growing about the Posts cherry tree.
they proceeded 10 cut him off from
another election and turn him out
to feed on the prickly cactus and
buffalo grass ttat grows luxuriantly
on the banks Ct tie Cache la Pou-
DIRE. But can Tcm and Bon undo
what they have already done?
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

II the Democratic party of the
state want to prt winner against
Garrison, why don't they pick man
like Sam Wheeler of Mesa county,
WHO has the interest of the state
at heart. instead of lot of tricky
politicians ttat have long been rele-
gated to tie rear? The great sue
cess of the American troops under
Taylor in the Mexican war in 1S4S
WAS the war cry, Remember the AL
amo," and so we say unto the Demo
cratic party when they seek to pick
fer us tricky poll ic,an, remember
the disastrous defeat of 1914. The
voter of Colorado will no longer
stand for few politicians in Den
yer and Denver newspapers picking
his candidates.
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

While Califor MIA. Arizona, New
Mexico. Oklahcna Texas. and many
other states are beirg devastated by
FLOODS, the cast ard north shivering
with Arctic weather. surely we may
Aruthfully say thst Colorado Is an
ideal spct to live. Where tie burn
Ing srn Of the tropics does not make
man effemina'e, nor the rigid win
ters wpfted from the Polar sea. per.
Aye his energies.
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27
SHELTER ROBBERY

The Livingston mine in Boulder
county has produo ed hundreds, of
thousands of ounces of pure gold for
which tie American Sme'der & Re-
filming Co., has paid from $40 to
$3.50 per ounce. This god they sold
TO the mint for $20.67 per ounce
thereby making direct profit of
from $1.17 to $1.67 per ounce. The
Chamberlain sampler at Black Hawk
pays SIS per ounce for small let's and
$19 for big lots, thus making net
illegal profit of from $1.67 to $2.67
per ounce.
When the producer dispoSes of his
ore, either to tie sampler or the
smelter, all charg,s for freight,
sampling. smelling, ETC., are taken
out and paid for by the producer and
his gold 1000 fine is WORTH $2067 az
the mint, and this excess over SIS
and $40 per ounce Is taken bare-face6
from the producer, simply because
we have no competition.
Prior to 1900, be ore the GuggeD
helms got control Of the smelling in
dtistry, there were comparative bid
ders in the fed and gold always
commanded $4,000 per ounce 1000
fine, also silver. lead and copper set
tied for at New Yo.k quotat' ors.
By-p-oducts then represented q
large per cent CT your check, now
you are penalized for zinc and silica,
and the per cent taken off from New
York quctsticns IS such that tie
samplers and sme!te.s get over one
half on lew g-aGe ores, while the
miner has to pay FIR mining, haul
dng, freight and sne' ting, the whole
lot out of his remaining ha'f, thus
leav'rg him with check denot-
ing 0.
How much lorger is a sane gov
ernment or sare reople, to allow
this giant octopus to blight the main
industry of all tie mountain states,
to make multimillior aires of the few
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

When Benny and Ford's little
peace party started out to make
peace for the world, Christ:ana and
Copenhagen We're at peace with the
warning nations. Eut VIXEN Benny
had delivered a couple of his hypo-
critical speeches in each place they
We're prepared for war, and now
Sweden, Norway snd Denmark are
going to join in the fray.
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27
TOO MUCH FOR THE WORM
Combination of Silver and Copper
Makes Its Imprisonment Most
Effective One.

A strange and amusing experiement
is described by G. Hugo in the Elec-
trical Experimenter, as follows:
Place copper coin on silver coin;
the former should be at least three
sixteenths of an inch smaller all
around than the latter. A cent and
half-dollar will do; an English half.
penny and silver dollar will do bet
ter, because they are larger. On the
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

How can England expect her peo-
pie to be patriotic when her would
be wise diplomats keep them in the
dark regarding tie true state of af-
fairs? If the English cabinet does
not quit playing Politics and get down
to business that country may yet be
a German depends
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

w. b. Slaughter, whom the Pueblo
ans accuse of Strengthening the Mer-
chantile National bank, at that place
is about to be slaughtered on the
altar Of equity, in their temple of
justice.
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

copper coin place an ordinary earth
worm and watch it try to crawl of.
1t cannot do it, for the instant its
damp body, which is in contact with
the copper, touches the silver it starts
a current of electricity that gives it
a shock. The shock makes the worm
recoil. 1t tries again. but each time
its head touches the silver it gets the
shock and soon finds 1t is more com.
Portable to stay on the copper coin.
OF course the current thus produced
Is very slight. but it is quite enough
for the worm.
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

History records that when a man
is gaining strength in both state
and nation, he is g-atuitously being
advertised by the opposition press.
This is why Wil-on end Heating will
continue to gain in strength until
their next election.
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

A bill Is now before congress to
exclude japanese, Chinese and Hin
du laborers from ertering the. Unit
ed States. This bill becomes nee
essary to protect California and 9th
er western states from being popu--
lated with this class of immigrants.
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

Snow slides are more common this
year than for many years In the
past, and so far nearly all have pro-
duced fatalities.
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

Since Leap year was born there
has been an exodvs Of many CT our
young men to the p-ospectors' camp.
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

Miss Rose M. Krauss, pretty six
teen-year-old girl, by quick wit and
heroism. saved the lives of Clarence
and John Carpenter, twelve and ten
years old respectively. at Van Cort-
landt park, New York. The boys had
broken through the ice of one of the
smaller lakes Of the park and were
struggling va!nly when Miss Krauss.
hanging by her hands from The rail Of
a low rustic bridge. extended foot to
each and drew them to safety.
Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

Observer-the family paper-s2.oo.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-28
NEWARKER TRAPS MAN
ON BLACKMA|L CHARGE
C. V. Dougherty Helps Land
Old Offender Who Want
ed $50.

Through the refusal of Clarence Y.
Dougherty, Of 15S Washington street,
to pay $50 to a man who msrepre-
sented himself as being a New York
detective. members OF the New York
police department yesterday SUI
ceeded i'm capturing Harry, Stern, also
known as Harry Jacobs and kid"
Williams. an old offender.
Mr.. Dougherty, who is the twenty
four -year-old son of DR.. Arthur g.
Dougherty, was accosted by the sup
posed detective after leaving a sub
way train in Borough Hall, Brooklyn,
last Friday afternoon at o'clock.
The detective" informed Dougherty
that he was under arrest for a variety
of charges. but that he could escape
by paying $50.
Mr.. Dougherty refused to pay that
but gave the man 81 and told
him to meet him at the Grand Hotel,
and Thirty-first street, New
York, at noon yesterday, when the
balance would be handed over The
man agreed. In the meantime Mr..
Dougherty communicated with his
LAWYER, Neil p. Cullon. of 165 Broad
way, and with the detective bureau.
1t was arranged that Doueherty
should pay $25 in marked bills and
that Cullom and detectives should be
near at the thine. The scheme worked
perfectly.
Stern was held by Magistrate Muir
ply under $500 bail for a further
hearing. Stern has been convicted
twice. once for blackmail and once
for highway robbery. An indetermi-
nate sentence on another charge is
still hanging over him.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-28
PRECEDED
NAMING OF RECEIVER

An investigation will be made into
a shipment of merchandise valued
at $4,000 from the store OF Haines &
Haines. 791 Broad street, a few days
before the appointment of a receiver
in bankruptcy. according to an an
nouncernent made today III Referee
Charles NJ. Mason's section OF the
Bankruptcy Court.
This announcement was made by
David B1Ider. attorney for tie re-
ceivcr. after Raymond d. Haines, of
40 Stanley avenue, testified that the
goods had been taken from the es-
tablishment by the consignee, Benz
amin Feekter, of New York.
According 10 Haines the merchan-
disc was consined him after a fire.
occurring on November q last, for
fire sale purposes. An involuntary
petition was filed against the con-
Germ on January p, and three days
previous to this action Haines made
a private assignment of his business
to William C. Paul, with offices in
the Essex building for the benefit Of
his creditors.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-28
COUNTY COM. TO
|NDORSE MURPHY
" AND COLGATE
Will Give Candidates Support
Tonight-Some Edge Sen
timent Here.

Endorsements of former Governor
Franklin Murphy for United States
Senator and Senator Austen Colgate
for governor will be given by the Re
publican County Committee at a
meeting tonight. Ward clubs through
out the county have been pledeing
their support for some time to Messrs.
Murphy and Colgate. the Thirteenth
Ward Republican club being the
latest ones TO register its approval Of
the Essex entries. The Thirteenth
warders met last night at heaGquar-
ers, 564 South Orange avenue.
Mr.. Murphy returned yesterday
from Chicago. where he attended a
meeting of the committee perfecting
details for the Republican convention
on June I. Another meeting will be
held in Chicago on March 10.
Mr.. Murphy insisted that the con-
ference had not endeavored to so be-
yond the perfecting of the usual
routine ARRANGEMENTS. No movement
i'll behalf of any candidate was
started. he said, and no effffori was
made to turn sentiment in any par
ticular direction.
Murphy Sentiment Country wide.
With Endorsements of his candidacy
for United States senator coming i'm
from all over the State, Mr. Murphy
will soon begin active attention TO his
campaign for the nomination. While
at Chicago Mr.. Murphy received
wishes for his success from some of
the most influential Republicans in
the country.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-28
WILSON SPEECH
STRIKES CHORD
FOR TOUR WEST
Leaves Tonight to Reiterate
Appeal to Country to Strength
en- Defenses.
mo MAN CAN FORETELL
WHAT MORROW BRINGS"
Must Be Ready to Fight for
Ourselves and the Hemi-
sphere, He Declares.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2S.-President
Wilson returned from New York at
1;15 a. m. today, lie went imme-
diately to the White House.
The president planned a busy day
finishing mp pressing public business
prior to departing tonight for Pitts
bureh and the Middle West 10 deliver
a series of speeches on national de-
fense. He is anxious that the speed
mg-up'' process in Congress be we'll
under way before his return, F'ebru-
airy L.
II was indicated today that in the
Middle West the president will devote
his addresses to emphasizing the
points made by him in his New York
speech. although he will also discuss
practically all important questions
pending in Congress. including the
shipping bill.
The president. 1t was said. will not
mince words in discussing the need
FOR national defense, and will talk
very plainly about opponents Of pre-
paredness and meu who want very
large standing army
Cabinet Meeting Is on.
The president saw several senators
and representatives ON legislative
matters, but the usual Friday ca binet
meeting was called off, He expected to
see Secretary Lansing, however. to
discuss foreign questions. During the
presidents trip Mr. Lansing will keep
him Informed constantly of all I'M
portant developments in the inter
national situation. Before departure
tonight the president and Mrs Wilson
will attend n dinner given in their
honor by Secretary and Mrs. Nc cAdoo.
The president will deliver the first
address on his Western trip in Pitts
burgh tomorrow. He will speak in
Cleveland tomorrow night. in MilWau-
kee Monday. in CHICAGO Monday
night, in Des Moines Tuesday. III
Topeka Wednesday,, in Kansas City
Wednesday night, in st. Louis Thurs
day morning, and will return home
Friday afternoon He will also speal
from the platform of his car in mann
towns through which he will pass.
on the trip West he will be accom-
panied by Mrs. Wilson, Secretary
Tumulty DR.. c. T. Grayson. In,
White House physician two stenog
raphers, a telegrapher and an un-
usually large corps Of secret service
men. lie will attend no banquets OF
social affairs. but viii devote prac-
tically the entire trip 10 speaking and
travelling. DR.. Grayson said today the
president is in good physical con
dtion for the tour
Plans were made today for the
president to deliver brief speeches
Continued ON Page 4. Column -
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-28
STAR AND EAGLE
PURCHASED BY A
NEW SYNDICATE
Ohio and New York Newspaper
Men Take Over Property
from w. w. Chaplin.

Announcement was made today OF
the purchase of the Newark Evening
Star and the Newark Eagle by Ma
thaniel G. Wright, Harry s Thalhei-
mer and II. G. IIalsted The purchase
was made from William Wallace
Chaplin. who bought the properties as
assets of the Newark Daily Adver-
tiser Publishing Company at trustees
sale last week.
1t was announced by the new own
ers of the Evening Star and the New
ark Eagle that they will be conducted
as Independent in politics and in poll
cies. Mr.. Wright and Mr.. Thalheilner
are publishers Of the Toledo (OO
Blade. Mr.. Halsted is picepresident
Of Paul Block. Inc. Of New York
Mr. Wright and MI. Thalheimer will
continue their nagement Of the To-
ledo Blade as usual. The negotiations
for the purchase of the two neWspa-
pers from Mr.. Chaplin were made
through {. III. Palmer. of New York.
Mr.. Chaplin purchased the news
papers from the Fidelity Trust Com
pany, trustee Of the estate of former
United States Senator James Smith
jr., for $23J 900. Ten per cent. was
paid down by Mr.. Chaplin, and the
balance was paid today. Mrs. Chaplin
was present at todays proceedings,
which were conducted in the Office of
Louis Hood. counsel of the Fidelity.
Mr. Chaplin was also accompanied
by his counsel. Eldridge Adams, of
New York. w. W. Nollman was pres
ent as counsel for the new owners.
The price paid by the syndicate to
Mr.. Chaplin was not made public.
Both papers nominally passed imme-
diately into the hands of the new
owners. They will actually assume
control within a few days. possibly on
Monday.
Mr.. Wright will be in charge of the
editorial department and Mr. Thai
heimer of the business end. Mr. Hal
sted viii not be actively identified
with the conduct of the papers.
\ new corporation will he organized
to succeed the Advertiser Publishing
Company. which publishes the Star
and Eagle, Details i'm regard to 1he
new corporation have not been deter
mined. il was announced. except that
the capital may be $500, 900 The
probable name of the corporation is
also uncertain.
Mr.. Wright and Mr.. Thalhemer
have been publishers OF several news
papers in the Middle West. Immedi-
ately before acquiring the Toledo
Blade several years ago, they pub
lshed the Cleveland Leader. Their
experience as publishers also extended
to Chicago, Indianapolis, and other
large cities.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-28
HEAT RECORD
FOR JANUARY

Yesterday was the warmest Janu-
ary day Newark has known since
the weather records commenced to
be kept here in 1892. The thermome-
ter on the roof of the Central High
School registered 6S at 4 o'clock yes
terday afternoon. At o'clock this
forenoon 50 was registered and at
noon So. but tonight a drop is due
and close to zero may be recorded by
Sunday.
A cold wave is on its way east but
the forecaster is not quite certain
whether it will reach here. The coolest
of the winter was registered in Mon
tana yesterday forty-five below, and
today Chicago is the low center. To-
morrow probably will be cloudy here
with moderate west winds.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-28
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS CHOSEN
FOR i. S. SUPREME COURT
Wilson's Selection of First Jew
for Highest Tribunal Comes
as Surprise.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-President
Wilson today selected Louis d. Bran
deis. of Boston. to be associate JUS
tice Of the supreme Court to succeed
the late Justice Lamar.
Mr.. Brandeis' nomination went to
The senate today. 1t was a surprise
everywhere in official circles.
Mr.. Brandeis has never been men,
toned for the vacancy.
Mr.. Brandeis is Ia lawyer Who has
been much in public life during the
last three years, not only in legal
work. but in various movements for
social betterment. He is Kentuckian
by birth, of Jewish parentage and is
sixty years old. He was born and
educated in Louisville and later at
Harvard University, and in 1878 began
practicing law in Boston.
Figure in BalIingcr Fight
lie came most notably before the
public as a national figure six Years
ago through his participation in the
celebrated Ballinger- Pinchot investi-
cation in Congress, in which he was
counsel for the forces which were op-
posed to Secretary Ballineer and
sought his removal from office Later
he was counsel for the shippers who
opposed the general increases in
freight rates before the Interstate
Commerce Commission and during
the same period he was at the fore
front of those who were demanding
an investigation of the financial af-
fairs of the New Haven railroad.
Among his participations in other
public affairs We're his appearance
as counsel for those who fought for
the validity of the worlIingmen' S
hours of labor law in Oregon, Illinois
and Ohio, as counsel for those who
contended for the preservation of the
Boston municipal subway system and
in establishing the sliding scale gas
system and the creation of savings
bank insurance in Massachusetts. He
was in 1910 chairman of the board of
arbitration which settled the New
York Garment Makers strike.
Author of Financial Works
Mr. Brandeis has written largely
and is regarded as an authority ON
public franchises, life insurance, wage
earners' insurance, scientific manage
ment, labor problems and the trust
question. lie also has been at the
forefront of the Zionist movement in
the United States and will be the first
Jew to sit on the bench of the SUI
preme Court.