Denver labor bulletin., 1917-01-20


honored this week by a visit
from Judge f. Richard Shipp OF
4 Casper, Wyoming, who is rapid
ly gaining national fame as poet.
Judge Shipp is a member of the Caspe,
Typographical Union and takes very
active part in the labor movement of his
state. There is general feeling in
Wyoming that Shipp should be a mem
ber of the state supreme court, and IN
response to many requests, coming from
associates in the organized labor move
ment and from many business friends,
he will probably become a candidate at
the next state election. While in The
Bulletin office Judge Shipp wrote some
lines which he captioned My Epitaph."
Their reproduction here will perhaps
give readers of this column a better
understanding of the judges character
than anything the o. P. might write, ana
they are printed as follows:
I surely know
That some gray day
God will call my soul away;
And ! must 60
When leaving here
For over there
That silent, mystic somewhere,
Mine eyes will clear.
I'll have no fear
In the darkness
That comes before the brightness; +;
And shed no tear.
I only pray
The lines above
My tomb, craven deep by love,
To all will say:
Money was less
To his great soul.
Than human right, and his goal
Was happiness.
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Judge Shipp is much interested in the
educational movement inaugurated lasc
July by the Wyoming State Federation
of Labor and District 22, United Mine
Workers of America. A committee was
created from the leaders of the two
organizations and outlined a program
having in view the affording of better
facilities for higher education of the
children of the wage earners, in order
to put them in better position to figh,
labor's battles. This committee consists
OF Judge f. Richard Ship, chairman; !;
L. G. Erickson, John Morton. A. A. Rob
inson and Joe McTighe. A fund for the
purpose of assisting worthy boys and
girls has been created and now amounts
to over 81 ,OOO-S3, 900 of which was
given by the miners unions of Rock
Springs. Werner r. Reed, Denver cap
italist, largely interested in Wyoming
properties, made a Christmas gift of
$500 to this fund. The trustees of this
fund consists of the president of the
State Federation of Labor, president,
secretary treasurer and international
board member OF the United Mine Work
ers and one from the State Federation
committee on education. A number OF
children of working men are now enjoy
ing the benefits # this movement.
Senator Samuel w. DeBusk of Las
Animas county is perhaps the most in
teresting character in the present state
Besides having gained dis
tinction by defeating Casimiro Barela,
the perpetual senator, Senator DeBusk
had the honor, while a clergyman, quite
a time back, OF officiating at the we'd
ding of Governor julius C.. Gunter and
Miss Betty Brown of Trinidad. Twenty
years ago Senator DeBusk was a candi-
date against Barela, but was defeated.
Ever since that time DeBusk has had
an ambition to come to the state senate.
In the election Ia It November he defeat
ed Barela by majority of 40l votes.
DeBusk retired from the Methodist min
istry in 1882 and became merchant,
opening a general store at Hoehne,
eighteen miles from Trinidad. In addi-
tion he is farmer and fruit grower
Senator DeBusk is sixty-eight years old
and sprouts the most variegated assort-
ment of whiskers ever seen in the state
Some of that beard is gray,
some red and some brown, but altogeth-
er harmonizes with the bristly hair of
the head. He is a born optimist and
from behind the hirsute covering the
new Democratic senator from Las AMI
mas smiles placidly and kindly.
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The Reverend Doctor Allan A. Tannei
preached his final sermon at the First
Congregational church last Sunday even