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In spite of friends despair of his
recovery from the complication of
diseases, the old plainsman refused
TO give up.
He rallied to the extent that he
could be moved to Gienwood Springs
for his health. but a relapse set in
and he was taken back to Denver
Sunday morning.
REFUSED TO BE DoWNcAsT
Two days before his death Buffalo
Bill himself knew that the end was
only a matter Of hours. He carefully
discussed his coming death with rela-
tiyes and even made plans for his
funeral. and refusing to be downcast,
yesterday insisted on playing cards.
Col Cody was conscious thruout his
long sickness until few hours be-
days after his life had been dispair-
ed OF. for altho he would have been
seYenty-two years old on February
26th. his vigorous life had given him
the physique of a young man and bis
resistance was pronounced extraordi.
nary by physicians.
Uraemic poisoning which set in last
night. was the immediate cause OF
his death today. DIR. East. the family
physician. announced.
RELATIVES AT BEDSIDE
All OF Col Cody's relatives and
several friends and old time associates
were at the bedside when he died
Col Cody will be buried in Denver.
1t was announced this afternoon.
Col. Cody was born In Scott county.
Iowa, In 1916. the son Of Isaac Cody.
The Codys moved to Kansas In the
early SOS and young Cody at the ago
OF twelve years. killed his frgr- indian
while he was with troop OF United
States soldiers on their way from
Lawrence. Kansas. To Utah.
Cody. following the trip to Utah. en-
barked on an unsuccessful mining ex-
pedition In the vicinity of Pixies Peak.
He broke his ankle on this trip and
spent twenty-nine days aiore while
bis partner. Dave Harrington. rode
126 miles on a horse to get help.
Col. Cody served in the civil war,
first aB horse buyer for the govern.
ment, then as guide to Col. Clark.
comm anding the Ninth Kansas volun.
teers. and then as an enlisted man in
the Seventh Kansas volunteers.
He gained his nickname in 1867
when he killed 1880 buffalo while un-
der contract to supply the Kansas and
Pacific railroad gang with buffalo
meat.
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in the building five Gospel teams
were organized and street meetings
were held on Saturday evenings dur
ing tie summer, which enabled the
Gospel to be presented to many peo-
pie who otherwise might not have
heard it.
Bible Study.
Never in the history of the Can
on City Association was there such
large enrolment in Bible Study as
was attained during the past year.
On October Srd was held the An
nual Rally Supper which was attend
ed by 1876 men and older boys. with
Ira E. Lutte, General Secretary. Den
yer Association, as the principal
speaker, at which time seven classes
in Bible Study were orgaized with a
total enrolment of 81.
In addition to this. classes were or
ganized IN the six grade schools of
the community with an enrolment
of over Sne hundred. forming a Bible
Study Basket Ball League. Regular
Bible study was required of all who
entered the league.
Social Work
Thepe were % socials and fellow
ship suppers given during the year.
the outstanding features of which
were :as follows:
In September, receptions were given
to all the new members joining the
Association during the last member
ship campaign, at which time Mr..
F. d. Slutz, superintendent of the pub
lie schools, of Pueblo. gave the princi-
pal talk of the evening. This ban
quet was attended by 95 men and
boys. On election night, November
7th, the Association he1d open house,
at which time a splendid program
was given for the benefit of those
present. 1t was estimated that be-
tween six and seven hundred per.
sons came into the building on that
evening.
Boys Work.
DISStSN tftuL llldl lOOh DldCC
during the year under the head OF
Boys Work was the Father and Son
Banquet. given in the gymnasium, on
March 23rd, at which time 165 faith.
ers and sons sat down to supper.
The boys have carried on a mum.
ber of contests and social functions,
which included the Shankive in Feb
ruary and the Motorcycle Race in
December. The attendance in the
boys department has been fully up to
standard.
Educational And Star Course.
This depsr srtment has been active
during the year. The entertainments
given ON the Star Course last season
| were of high type and owing TO the
splendid sale of tickets a profit ol
$4,000 was realized and turned over
10 the thlilding fund from this source
In addition 10 the Star Course ol
entertainments there wepe five free
Educational lectures given under the
auspices of the Association which in
clneed those by Dr. G. B. Yosburgh soi
| the Denver University and F. A. VIII
son-Lawrerson Business Manager Si
Association Men"
Ten men took the International ex
animation at the close of the sight
reading class in music and an receiv-
ed certificates.
|. Membership December 31st, 1916.
Sustaining ..-.at $500 each "A
business Mems :. .at $500 eacs 13
Senior ..-.... at $1,000 each 7s
Student .--. at $ 500 each %
Limited ...-.at $50 each 10
Junior ....... at $50 each 121
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TOTAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S7375.45
Balance in bank Jan. list, 1917 s401.01
Building Fund
The loan on the building was re-
duced from $4,000 to s290O.O0 dur
ing the year. This money was paid
out of the profits on last years Star
Course.
would respectfully urge that a
special effort be made to collect all
outstanding pledges in this fund early
this coming year.
General.
One of the big events of the year in
the way of special stunts was the
Acmy Carnival. held Jure 9Th and
ION on the Washington school ground
which was big success both from a
social as well as financial stand
point. The net profits from this car
nival were s17331 and one of the
pleasing features was the cooperation
shown by the citizens of the commun-
ity who were asked to help
a Boy Scout patrol was organized
during the year under the direction
of Mr.. Maxwell.
The General Secretary attended
Estes Park Summer School and three
OF the employed officers attended
the Employed Officers Conference at
Manitou in September.
The debate between Rev. Floyd
Van Keuren and Mayor J. ]. Ashen-
hurst of East Canon on the subject
OF Preparedness" which was held on
April 25th aroused considerable in
terest. The Association was able to
be of service to members of Company
&C. of Colorado National Guard. just
prior to their departure for the train
ing camp. in the way of extending
privileges of the Association to them.
There were fourteen members OF the
Association who went away with the
Company.
desire to thank the Board of Di-
rectors and the members of this As
sociation. for the loyal support given
the employed officers during the past
year, and to respectfully urge that
during the coming year every mem
ber should do his best to exemplify
the real spirit of the Association, so
that it may stand for all that is clean
and wholesome and be a great infiu-
ence for good in the lives of the men
and boys OF this community.
Also that the spirit of giving shall
be developed more and more among
the members not so much in finan-
cial way but from the standpoint OF
service. No Association can long sur
vive whose members simply buy
privileges at so much each and forget
the fundamental principle upon which
the Association was built the keynote
of which was
Service To Others.
This beautiful building. the gift of
the people at big sacrifice. is not
the Association but the men and boys
who make up the membership and
who plan the work. The building is
but pieces of wood. stone. brick and
mortar put in an attractive form to
furnish covering for our beads. The
employed officers may be here today
and gone tomorrow. but in its member
ship lies the power of the Associa-
ton to count for much or little as
factor of influence for good.
The opportunity is at our feet. Let
us reach down this coming year. and
grasp it and make 1t the biggest and
best in the history of this Association.
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The campaign for sustaining mem
bess was conducted February 16-17-lS
with the following results:
Five pledges wee secured at 800
each; eight at $50; 54 at $25; one at
$50; six at SIS; ore at $3.50; thirty
at SO; and twenty-three at So.
This makes 67 sustaining members
paying s25.0O or more for the upkeep
of the Association.
This campaign was one of the best
ever conducted by the Association
from the standpoint of education, Co
operation. good fellowship, and ulti-
mate results obtained, and proved that
the business men of the community
we, willing to back the work of the
organization in a good, substantial
way.
The disbursements for the year
were as follows:
Building Maintenance ....... 1713.S1
Administration ........... 1964.91
Taxes. Int. and Ins. ...... 1861
TOTAL ................ s7S75.45
Balance in bank Jan. list. 1917 $4O1.o1
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1OIAL ......-......>-.. 3l3
Dormitory
There were 275 men registered for
rooms in the dormitories during the
year.
The receipts from this source were
as follows:
Regular .-........-->.- Sl452.6o
transient ..........-><-- Z3S.Oo
Physical.
Total enrolment during year .896
Average enrolment per month 100
Number of gym classes at present
time (which includes ladies' class
under direction of Miss Thomas.
There were four athletic exhibitions
in the gymnasium.
There are 1913 members OF the
Grade School Bible Study Basket Ball
League playing regular games on Sat
urday nights. This is not confined to
members of the Association but comes
under the head of Community We'll
fare Work. About eighty boys were
taught to swim during the summer.
The base ball team representing the
Association in the Commercial League
won nine out of the eleven games that
were played.
Financial.
The amount of cash on hand at the
beginning of the year was s365.44.
The amount received during the year
was S7411.02 which came from the fol-
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Duncan-Schell Furniture Company
the Cheapest S to $

Talk is over in the house. excepting
on the amendments.
Chief among those who were to talk
in the senate today was Senator La
Toilette who is for selective conscrip-
ton, but who has several important
amendments to urge. At one o'clock
senate debate was limited to ten min
ute speeches. The war department is
ready the moment the bill is written
in the statutes to begin the great work
of mobilizing the country's military
man-power.
The bill before the house known as
the Dent bill and favored by major
ity Of the military committee. provides
raising the regular army and national
guard to war strength, first by volun-
teers-as at present-and then if ne
cessary by draft and authorizes the
president to call for separate volun-
teer army of five hundred thousand
The army census preparatory for
selective draft system is to begin at
once.
If, when the census is completed, the
five hundred thousand men have not
been obtained by volunteers, th<1 the
president may institute the draft. The
committee minority headed by Repre-
sentative Kahn, favors the selective
draft recommended by the war depart
ment and the president in the original
staff bill
Representative Kahn proposes an
amendment to the bill as it now stands
in the house, eliminating the authori-
cation for call for volunteers and
providing for immediate institution of
the draft system.
If the Dent bill is passed unamended,
it will be defeat for the president
and victory for the anti-conscrip-
tionists. or volunteer advocates.
If the Kahn amendment is adopted
or the Dent bill without amendment
is defeated and the senate or some
other bill is substituted, 1t will be a
victory for the administration and con-
scription forces and a defeat for the
volunteer system advocates.
The senate bill is virtually the same
as submitted by the army war college.
The house bill as amended, the
amendment being acceptable to the
war department, makes men from q
to 40 eligible to service
The senate bill ages are from 10 to
25.
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corps, about million and a half fight
ing men, would be swung into the
balance against the British and
French fronts.
you can readily see how this
would menace the remaining Europ
can allies. Then there could be only
one answer for the United States.
That answer would be millions and
millions and millions of men.
Upon America would depend tho
success or failure of the war on
Prussianism.
you would have to feed, equip,
munition and otherwise maintain your
gigantic army in Europe.
Nor would that detract one jot or
little from your present problem of
feeding and equipping Europe under
its present fighting conditions
While s100,O0O,00O loan to Italy
and a 100000, 900 loan to France was
being arranged for between President
Wilson and Secretary McAdoo and the
French and Italian representatives
and probably will be consummated
within a few days; and while such
international questions as the pre-
vention of the threatened world fam
ine and the details of Americas act
i've part in the war deeply engrosSed
the war conferees in the war capital
of the world today, the Russian situa-
ton overshadowed them all.
Plans were set under way at the
conference today to have the allies
join hands under the leadership of
Elihu Root and the American Rus
sian mission Gin a democratic effort
to keep the spark of freedom alight
in Russia"
The plan, it is known, meets the
approval of all the allies.
Root has conferred with the Amer
lean administration, with Vice Pre-
mier Viviani and with Secretary Bal
four as to the details Of the mission
A high official Of the French COM
mission said today the plan is vital
to the principle of world freedom
"a Russian separate peace with
Germany would mean anarchy in
Russia. 1t would dim the light of
civilization to mere flicker
throughout the world for years to
come"
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TALLY what I said to you in this city
year ago, when spoke for Ameri-
canism and preparedness. The only
difference is that some of what then
said as prophecy can now be repeated
as history. know no politics, no
division of creed, national origin or
section, when the nation is at war
with foreign foe.
AS yet our people are not walked
up to the vital significance of this
war This is because at the moment
we are safe behind the British fleet.
do not believe that Gerany will be
able to make her submarine warfare a
success. But this Is always posi-
bility; and If she did succeed, it
would mean that we would be help
less victim to Germany, for the mat
ter of that, to any other great mill
tary power. We cannot afford to owe
an ignoble safety to the British fleet.
81 appeal primarily for the instant
meeting by this nation of the three
great military needs of the situa-
ton.
DIVE should Immediately in
stitute, not only for this war, but as
permanent national policy, the sys-
tenn of universal, obligatory military
training and service for all our young
men.
"(2)-We should at the earliest
moment, strike hard and aggressively
at Germany and this can be done only
by sending abroad at the earliest mo-
ment an expeditionary force. At least
a division should be put in France
within the next few weeks and then
put on the firing line as quick as the
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UNIVERSAL
DEMOCRACY
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revolution under way Make a separ-
ate peace with US. We are all brothers
together and together we will throw
off the autocratic yoke. Why should
we fight each other? We have no
quarrel
The autocratic German governme nt
is hiding behind these suggestions
1t will be for the Root commission to
impress this on the Russian people
Nobody knows what the provisional
committee will do said one foreign
official today. "And," he added,
heaven only knows when the war will
end if they manipulate a separate
peace
Germany's success in Russia, It is
pointed out, would mean the necessity
for hurting of millions of American
troops onto the western front.
DO not for a moment minimize"
said another European official today,
what a separate peace between Ger
many and Russia would mean to the
United States.
ut would mean that Germany
would be fed, supplied and equipped
for endless war and that the allied
blockade to starve Germany" out
would have gone for naught.
at would mean that eleven army
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allied generals say it is ready and its
numbers kept filled and as rapidly as
other divisions can be gotten ready,
they should be sent over beside 1t;
until without an hours unnecessary
delay we accumulate at the front a
formidable fighting army.
(3)-To proceed at once to do
everything to upbuild our navy. CAPT
tai ships, submarines, auxiliaries, car
go ships, everything.
Remember that these needs should
'rbe met at once. On the whole, the
worst folly that we can commit is to
refuse immediately<to introduce a
system of universal, obligatory, mill
tary training and service. I believe
In universal service so emphatically
that 1 wish to include myself and the
men who are anxious to come in the
division I desire to help raise. If we
are denied this chance, most of us will
be denied the chance of all service,
under the proposed obligatory system.
Give the allies ships and food and
money, by all means, but send our
men to the front il we value our own
self-respect. Nothing in the world
now counts with France except the
men who go out to face death in the
field.
""Tis mans perdition to be safe.
When for the truth he ought to die"
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tured today in desperately hot fl,

| tured today in desperately hot fight
ing.
! Arleux, trifle further to the north
also fell to the tremendous British as
sault
Information from other sections OF
the British front reaching the spot
from which this dispatch is written,
detailed fighting on q tremendous
scale OF intensity.
Around Oppy and Arleux 1t was still
progressing after a night OF never
ceasing clash. The armies on both
sides swayed back and forth in the
struggle. but the latest report today
showed the British still in possession
of half Of Oppy and all of Arleux-and
beating back desperate German coun-
ter attacks.
Around Gavrelle, Haig's offensive
was still gaining ground. A steady
stream of prisoners from this bloody
angle were being shifted back Of the
lines.
To the south as part of his gigantic
push Haig's troops were thrown to-
ward Greenland hill. They struck hard
and fast at massed German forces
and swarmed over into German
trench running south of the Scarpe.
mendous blows launched by the Ger
mans. Not even literal melting away
of the German attackers in the face
of murderous machine gun fire and the
steel curtain of British artillery, stop
ped the desperate enemy counter
thrusts.
The German losses are staggering
in these attacks.
At the present moment the most
bitter fighting. however, was appar-
emily in progress in the woods to the
west of Rouex-just above the Scarpe.
There the forest was literally being
moved down by artillery fire and the
moss stained red with rivulets OF
blood as the Germans madly attack;
were locked in bitter conflict then
thrown back-only to reform and at
tack again. Meanwhile the British
inched further and further forward.
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STIRRING UP
PATRIOTISM
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worthy of the name will join in the
struggle" y,
When asked his opinion Of the
Stacker bridegrooms, more ), than
five thousand of whom rushed the
license clerks Office here in the early
days of the war declaration, the col
onel smiled.
"Well-,' he said, I'm for any man
war, but those who hide behind the
skirts to avoid military obligations,
should be expelled from the country"
Fully fifteen hundred persons
crowded the banquet chamber at the
Hotel LaSalle at noon to hear Roose-
welt make his first speech.
Governor Lowden extended the
city's welcome and short addresses
were made by Major General Thomas
Parry. DR.. Harry Pratt Judson, presi-
dent Of the University Of Chicago, and
Edmund j. James Of the state uni
versity
Il believe with all my heart in the
men and women of the west" Roose-
welt stated:
1.-THE world is facing a shortage of
food. Soon we in this country shall
face shortage of food. Therefore let
us use all the grain we have for food
and not for intoxicants. Let the gov
eminent help the farmer by mobiliz-
ing labor if necessary and tell our
young men that it is a case of farm
and arm.
During the last two years and a
half of peace we have been foolish
enough not to prepare for war; now
that we are at war, let US avoid the
further folly of failure to prepare for
the great tasks of peace, the tasks
with which we will have to deal now
while we are at war and which will
be of overwhelming Importance as
soon as the war is over. We need
thorough-going military preparedness
1t must accompany and represent and
be based on thorough going economic
preparedness.
Il come to Chicago to say. substan-
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BIG GUMS ROAR
LOUDER THAN EVER
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troops have taken 20,780 prisoners and
175 guns-including many of the heav-
lest calibers-412 machine guns and
119 trench mortars, today's official
statement declared.
OF today's fighting the war office re-
ported French raids in several sections
and numerous German counter attacks
all along the fighting front
I'VE raided German trenches in the
region of Hill 304," the statement said.
West OF the Mouse, during the night.
we brought back prisoners.
German troops attacked east of
Auberive, but were repulsed.
Artillery was very active between
st. Quentin and the Disc and in the
Champagne"
Today was the second day of the
German effort to relieve pressure of
the French troops encircling ST. Quen.
tin, by tremendous artillery fire and
vain attacks.
Forward by Inches.
by William Philip Simms, United
Press Staff Correspondent.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES
AFIELD, April 2S-British troops
have turned the German 'wotan line"
Half of the village of Oppy-beliey-
ed to be the northernmost town of
this German defense front-was CAP