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Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1917-12-06

s$e>>s~ssS oAeA @AeeAsA@ S<A0 - ~AA@ASASAs@S
some Of the comparatively minor
items, stated in simple millions are:
For the extension of the military
academy, $4,00O,0O0; horses for cav
airy, ETC., $4,000. 900; barracks and
quarters, $26. .Q00, 900; construction and
repair of hospitals, $25,0OO,O 900; manu-
facture of arms, $5O,00O.O0O small
arms target practice, SIS. 900. 900; ci-
william military training camps, &c.
OOO, 900; rifle ranges for the instruc-
ton of civilians. 31,7OO,O0O; equip
ment Of home guard organizations,
$4,000, 900; supplies for reserve Off
GERS training camps and ordnance
stores for the same, $4,000, 900; ord
nance equipment for military ,hools
and colleges, s1,13s,OO0. =.
For gathering information the gen.
eral staff asks $4,000 600.
n.vv,. e..,r....
Tho navv,s total of little more
,hon e. oo0 nm ooo !. distr;hrted nrin.
oina,,v IN this way.
Do, =, orf,oar. o,d mo, sAos ooo !.
ooo. ,,,.t,., coz non non. ,,,,,n,,,,s .
ana aor,nn;ne rouv vards fcr con.
str,,ot;on ~ chino sAooo ooo. nav
,ro,,,s,on. snd oIoth,ng for tha marine
norns ee1 oon mn. recrnitinv +rans.
nortat;on and ortt,t+in. r.nr,,its SIX
poo @ onn. .rm;ne and eon;nnins nsva,
militia a 800 600. orsanizinr naval re-
serve force s2oO. 900. schools and
camns of instruction for nava, reserve
recruits 80 600 o00. ordnance strictly
In the Rureau oe Ordnance sos 5O(,.-
600. new batteries of guns for ships,
s3S. 600 OOO. ammunition for ships
alone. s32 900 600. torpedoes and tor
nedo anpliances. Il 900 600. extension
of the naval gun factory at Washing.
TON $4,000 600. reserve supplies of
ordnance s33 (O() OOo. for a new naval
nrovinp grounds. 81 600 900. for ex.
periments. s3s5OOO: maintenance of
wards and docks and contingent ex-
nenses s12 Oo() OoC. for medicine and
suroerv s6 zoo OO0. care of hospital
patients alone $4,000. 900: provisions
for hlueia ackets SEA 000. 900. trans.
nortation charees on the same. s4.-
ooo ooo. for maintenance in the Bu-
rean NJ sunnlies and accounts includ.
ing fuel for the nayy and transporta-
ton of the same, $60,O00,000; con-
struction and repair of ships, $6O,000,-
900: engineering, which includes the
motive power, $4,000, 900.
Food Administration. IS. 600 900.
For the food administration 81. .O0O..
nm ia estimated. for the fuel admins.
tration $4,000 600
The estimates for all other depart.
ments besides showing increases for
their exnansion due to activities con.
seouent to the war reflect generally
the Increased costs of everything gen.
eral tbrouebout the country Some
increases Of salaries for government
emnloyes are submitted but there is
no blanket proposal and most of the
amounts for nav are due rather to IN.
creases in numbers of EMPLOYEES than
to a rising scale of wages
Tho state Denartment revives its
nronosal for an under secretary of
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1917-12-06
Wants Addresses Of Reslstrants.

Denver. = Provost Marshal John
Evans received word from Provost
Marshal General Crowder that all reg
istrants for the draft who have
changed their addresses since being
registered are requested to send their
new addresses to their boards.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1917-12-06
Greeley Street Car Barn Burn,

Greeley.-Fire of mysterious origin
destroyed the Greeley street car
barn, machine shop and transformer
station. The loss is estimated at
$4,000. Three cars, which were in
the barn, were consumed.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1917-12-06
.$13,O1S,725,595

Total $13,O1S, ,725 ,595
Greatest Sums for Army and Navy.
The greatest sums, of course, are
estimated for the army and navy Es-
Inmates previously submitted in terms
of thousands and occasionally millions
are now stated in terms of millions
and billions.
For the signal service, which in
cludes the great army for the air, ST.
13S,24O,315 is estimated. This sum in
cludes the SG4O.OOO,OOO previously ap-
propriated for the great air fleet.
10000 900 for Big Shells.
A billion dollars is asked for pay
and miscellaneous expenses of the
army; more than two billion dollars
for the quartermaster corps; S157,000,-
900 for hospital and medicines; 1885,
O0O, 900 for the equipment of engineer
troops and 100000 for the ex-
penses of their operations in the field.
Ammunition for the great guns to
blast way through the German fronts
is estimated to cost $500, 100000. For
machine guns, the deadliest weapons
of the war. more than $237 100000 is
asked. For armored motor cars more
than $75,OOO,0OO is estimated
No estimate appears for the COM
mittee on public information, the eX-
penses of which are being paid out of
the Presidents $1OO,000.O00 war
emergency fund.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1917-12-06
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

COMING EvENTs-

AAo S0A Aovy AOE 01huV VONAv =
14h mills.
Pueblo bank deposits show ro lark-
able increase.
Shippers warned to heed reports Of
weather bureaus.
Colorado.s pinto bean crop this year
totals 9O.OO0,OO0 pounds.
There were thirty veddinRs on
Tbankspiving in Denver
n ~, ,r w.. :. n.
celehr.ted their ,ift,a,h weddin1 ami.
versarv
.,s
-. 49, s,Sh .ohooI
nun,i. hain. anro,,aa
,,-,, ,. -. .u
~ DteSAenuse unu' - .o %a
.o.my AnoWh 90 sue oiu o'
-,
.'ss 80 nH.1n M. -.
oea "a. tou.u ~ ueDio
o'Aoen'iS nao oee"
Inc Contributions on tag day 20 tne
Sa.uuay anu euuuay nosp.,ai t,ss'' ~
''a'ion IL Aen'ef 'o'aieu $"'o''oo'
Lieut.. Harrison p. Wilson. Civif war
veteran OF westminster. was buried IN
tse q. A. II. Flat at Crown Hill ceme-
eefy IN DenVer'
The total output OF mines In the
Cripple Creek district In November
was 95.36S tons, with total bullion
value OF $1,O44,697.
promoted for bravery Is the dis
tnctlon accorded Lieut.. Ralph Martin
Davenport, Denver lad serving ON the
fighting front in France.
Miss Edna e. Bergstrom Of Denver
Is the second woman in the United
States to be given license by the
government as q radio operator.
The Chamber of Commerce ut
Sterling held prosperity meeting,
Dutch lunch being substituted for the
proposed banquet because of the war.
Recruiting is at its height in Den
yer. The army recruiting office re-
ports seventy-three men in three days,
40 per cent Of whom are under the
draft age.
Word has been received in Denver
of the safe arrival in America OF John
Jordan, a Denver boy who has been
serving for six months in France as
an ambulance driver,
Mrs. James H. Baker was elected
president of the city and county of
Denver Council of Defense to take the
place of Mrs. Henry Van Kleeck, who
recently resigned. \
ond bishop of Lincoln was enthroned
in the Cathedral of the Immaculate
Conception as the third bishop of the
Catholic diocese of Denver.
A complaint has been filed in Unit
ed States District Court against Or
lando B. Hit a prominent and
wealthy Mead farmer charging him
with violation Of the espionaee act
A++,r,.n c.,.ro, ,,,,hhora ro.,,u.a
notice that District Judge McHendrie
of Las Animas county sustained the
raise in valuation of $50. .29O made by
the State Tax Commission against the
Du Pont Powder COMPANY.
With scars of bu,,at and sbranne,
wound. recoived T., the hott1a =, vn-o.
IN bic ohas+ a,d thi.,, Chri.tonhar
Jensen, one of the soldiers entertained
by the Denver Rotary Club, is going
back again to fight the Kaiser.
rro,, W.T.. ., D.,u
,,nno.s .ha aani,ot,o, - ~ o..
tra1 ronso1;doted T,,nna1 M,nin. "a
M;1,,ne Counonv conito1;,aa at soEn
nnn =. ooo ooo sh.ra. "a ,-,ia
hond ana Lass ~ ~. pur,s.Moe-.
rr,,nna1 M,n;na 90 M,,,,na ron,nanu
hoIdinas
n, SOW. n,.. mo,., ,,.+,. ,.,,.
fron, noss,,,a starnot;on and - nra
sant ~ Co,onos" e.nn,an. =. a. -.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
WRIGHT MAY ORGANIZE
AERIAL ARMY FOR U. S.
Favors Small, High Climbing Plane
With but Single Gun.

Dayton, O.-Orville Wright, inventor
of the aeroplane, announced that in
case of war with Germany he would
a bandon his private affairs and offer
his services to the government to help
organize an aerial army.
while I could not duplicate Henry
Ford's offer to manufacture war ma
chimes because have disposed of my
interests in the manufacturing end of
the business" Wright asserted. Il GER
tainly will do everything I can for the
country.
"We have a pitifully small number of
military and licensed civilian pilots to
meet an emergency, but that need not
trouble us great deal if we meet the
situation promptly. ...
1T takes but about two weeks to de-
velop and train good military aerial
observer. 1t takes two weeks more to
make him competent fighting man.
GAS for the type of aerial defense, l
would favor the small, high climbing
plane, light and unarmored except for
single gun. 1t can Jump in and do
a lot of damage and get away while
heavier planes are getting started. ii
II would be absolutely against the
manufacture of Zeppelins or dirigibles
except for observation purposes. AS an
offensive weapon in war the Zeppelin
has been fiat failure
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
OFFERS A CONVICT REGIMENT.
Commissioners Lewis Would Recruit
1900 From City Prisons.

COMMISSIONS. Lewis Would Recruit
1900 From City Prisons.
New York.--New York gangsters may
yet rival the exploits of the apaches Of
Paris on the firing line, and the Amer
lean gun man and the French blue devil
may yet be fighting side by side. Bur-
dette G. Lewis, commissioner of correc-
tion, announced that be had been in
consultation with Major General Leon
ard Wood regarding the ACCESSIBILITY
OF recruiting regiment of workhouse
and penitentiary inmates III the event
Of war between the United States and
Germany. Commissioner Lewis also
consulted with Major General Organ,
commanding the national guard.
Commissioner Lewis spoke of the ex-
ploits of the apaches Of Paris. the out
laws of the boulevards,' who are COM
parable to the gun men and gangsters
Of New York. In the fall OF 1914, when
the German army was almost at the
gates of Paris. force of apaches 50
distinguished itself for desperate f ght-
ing that it won the sobriquet of the
blue devils. The commissioner of cor
rection believes that the same reckless
individuality and excess of physical ex-
uberance which enter into the person
atty Of gang leaders and gang men
would tend to make New York's work
house and penitentiary population
valuable fighting force if Differed by
strict disciplinarians.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
MOUNTAIN TRAIL BELLS
TO HELP OUT TRAVELLERS
Located Thousands of Feet Above Sea
Level In Rockies.

Denver. = Travellers accustomed to
the sound Of fog bells on the Allan
tic or. Pacific coast will be amazed, per-
chance. to hear the warning ring next
summer from 10000 to $4,000 feet
above the sea level in the Rocky noun
tains.
The tragic end of the Rev. Thornton
4. Sampson Of Texas. who disappeared
in the Rocky Mountain National park
while on walking tour. has resulted
IN plans to safeguard the precipitous
and dangerous trails of the park.
] L. G. Way, supervisor of the Colo
RADIO playground, has devised the plan
OF having fog bells scattered along the
trails at intervals from quarter to a
half mile apart on Flat Top. Longs
peak, Hallets glacier and Hallets peak.
The bells will be Of deep tone and will
be operated by system similar to
weather vanes.
The bells will be placed on posts
about seven feet high. Suspended over
the bell will be a small, light wooden
paddle. The slightest breeze will tilt
the paddle and ring the bell. There
probably would not de one day in the
year when the breeze would be insult
fcient to ring the bell
While the mountains are not too dan
gerous for travel, even the most expe-
rlenced traveller sometimes will lose
the trails in the mountains About
1000 feet above sea level and above
timber line heavy clouds sometimes
totally obscure the sight of the trav-
eler. Walking in the face of the wind
with his head lowered. he is apt to
lose his bearings
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
UNCLE SAM SWAMPED =
WTH.SPY APPLICANTS
Several Linguists Say They Could
Make Themselves Agreeable
to Foreign Diplomats.

Washington.-Uncle Sam will never
run short of spies. He has been fairly
swamped with applications for appoint
ments in the secret service since the
diplomatic break with Germany.
Judging by the number of applica-
lions coming in, every family must
have at least one husky young movie
fan who yearns for the exciting life of
a daring, dashing, omnipresent, we'll
dressed, swagger and handsome secret
service agent, spending the winter in
Florida watching foreign diplomats
and spies, with nothing much to do ex-
cept keep his flannel trousers we'll
creased all the time so that he may be
ready on moments notice to rush out
from ambuscade. hop in an automobile
to follow some fair foreign enchant.
ress to secret rendezvous. there to
make the grim. stern, heartbreaking
choice between enchantress and cold,
gloomy duty. nobly rising to the occa-
sion, grabbing her travelling bag and
returning with the plans and specifca-
lions of an explosive doughnut to the
waiting chief Of the secret service in
Washington.
Of course all the present war fever
applicants for jobs in the secret service
have special qualifications. Several of
them know foreign languages. Many
of them are expert dancers and could
make themselves agreeable to foreign
diplomats and their families, particu-
larly the diplomatic daughters, who
are bound to leak" lot of state Sc
crets to first class fox trotter maybe.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03

1t has certainly proved Of vast value
to the coast artillery, which as a Sec
Ond and third line Of defense will be
Entrusted with the defense of New
York. The first line is the navy, the
fourth is the mobile army.
Newport, r. L., the seat of torpedo
factory, a mine base. fuel station, mu-
milton magazines, the naval war COL
lege and other departments of high
naval Importance. was formally trans
ferred from the control of Collector of
Customs Fitzsimmons to Rear Admiral
Austin NJ. Knight. The latter immedi-
ately set about protecting the harbor
and the entire Narragansett bay naval
district against any emergency.
Mines were collected at Forts Greble
and Adams ready for distribution in
the waters of the harbor approaches.
Every strategic center was placed I'M
der double guard, the public was re-
fused admission and troops refused
leave of absence except in special in
stances. Officers received what is
known as the mobilization slate,'' in
dicating the posts which they will be
called upon to fill in the event of an
actual mobilization order.
The naval torpedo factory was espe-
cially busy. Extra time by workers
and operation in shifts have been Or
dered, while efforts were made to re-
cruit 400 additional machinists. Three
torpedo boat destroyers, with full
quota Of torpedoes, are protecting the
factory and ready at the same time to
perform such other duties as the COM
mandant may order
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
LARGEST WIRELESS
PLANT AT SAN DIEGO
New 100000 Station Is Made
Ready For Work After Sat-
isfactory Tests. /.

San Diego, CaL-The new 100000
wireless telegraph station was recent
ly completed and officially put in COM
mission after suitable tests. 1t is the
largest and most powerful radio sta
ton in the western hemisphere and is
capable of carrying for 12,OOO miles
Messages from the British fleet cruis-
ing in the North sea, from the high
powered German plant at Berlin and
from American ships and from Aus
tralia have been intercepted
: Three units in; the globe encircling
radio service of the United States navy
are no W completed. These are the sta
tons at San Diego, Arlington and
Darien panama canal zone,. A fourth
is under construction at Manila.
The three 600 foot aerial towers form
triangle. They contain 100000
pounds Of fabricated steel and are the
largest radio towers in the world.
They are $50 feet in width at, the base
and eight feet at the apex. They are
placed LOO feet apart. Huge porce-
lain insulators embedded in concrete
form the base Of each leg Of the tow
ers.
The receiving room is absolutely
sound proof. the walls and floors being
padded with asbestos. There are four
distinct and complete controlling sets
installed lin the receiving room. en-
aiding any one Of the four operators or
all fO11r simultaneously tn cnnd on6 ro
ceive messages.
The aerials or antennae weigh six
teen tons and have a sag between tow
ers of 100 feet. They are twice as large
as those strung from the Eiffel tower
in Paris. The helix is fourteen feet in
diameter and eleven feet in height. or
nine feet higher than the helix used in
ordinary naval and commercial sta
tons.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
SHORT SKIRTS MAKE'EM EAT"
Lecturer Would Cut Living Cost by
Changing Fashions.

Lecturer Would Cut Living Cost by
Changing Fashions.
Philadelphia Short skirts and silk
stockings made girl eat so much she
becomes bad tempered.
An inch from the skirt means
pound Of beefsteak inside.
Highly colored dresses are very dan
gerous and make girl irritable.
A calico dress is better than imita-
tiOn silk.
A woman's first duty is to make her
self as beautiful as she can.
These are q few excerpts from the
law Of clothes laid down by Miss Jane
sNewcomb. a State college extension
lecturer, in talk to group of women
at the Friends Central school.
Miss Newcomb first gave warning
that the less a girl wears the more she
must eat to keep warm. In the day of
short skirts and high living costs Miss
NeWcomb has in her Investigation into
the folly Of fashions come to the con-
clusion that to lengthen the skirt is to
shorten the grocer's bill.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
WILDCAT JUMPED AT AUTO.
Wisconsin Judge Brings Home Proof Of
Encounter on Tour

wisconsin Judge Brings Home Proof of
Encounter on Tour.
Milwaukee, Wis.-Municipal Judge A.
c. Backus, his wife and four children
narrowly escaped with their lives when
a wildcat jumped at the automobile in
which they were touring through the
state near Athens. Wis. The animal
struck the front left tire so hard that
its skull was fractured, and it fell
backward dead on the road. .
Il was driving toward Athens when
noticed dark object on the left side
OF the road" said Judge Backus. AT
first l thought it was a large dog.
When saw that it was a cat and too
large for tame cat put on speed.
The cat jumped straight for the car,
and turned the wheel so that the cat
struck it. Its skull must have been
fractured. At the time had no means
of defense. 1t was lucky thing that
the cat was in front of the car instead
OF at the side or it could have jumped
into the machine"
Judge Backus took the dead animal
from Athens to Marshfield, where he is
having it mounted. 1t weighed between
forty and fifty pounds and is of a gray
ish brown color. ....
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
SHE BRAVES U BOATS.

Undaunted by Submarine Menace, Miss
FIoretty Sails to Meet Lover.
y Philadelphia. = Believing that wo-
mans place is in the home, after all,
Miss Nellie Floretty of Liverpool has
given up her job in an English NUM-
tons factory to marry Clifton Heights
shoemaker.
Hereafter Miss Floretty's pretty
hands will make bread instead Of bull
let's. She became the bride of Samuel
kooyoomjian. an Armenian shoemaker.
employed in shop at Clifton Heights.
thus ending-or perhaps beginning-a
romance that had its origin five years
ago when Kooyoomjian deserted the
Turkish army and made his way to
Liverpool.
Undaunted by the kaiser's submarine
warfare. Miss Floretty. twenty three
years old. pretty and blond, left Liver
pool. landing in New York on the
steamer KrOonland.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
WOMAN is A MAIL CARRIER.
She Braves Winter and Bad Roads In
Marvland

She Braves Winter and Bad Roads In
Maryland. ~
Baltimore. : Drawing snow. sleet,
drifts, biting winds in the winter and
blistering and scorching heat in the
summer. Miss Julia M. Shafer of Knox.
vile, Nd. for twelve years has served
the United States as rural mail car
rier :.
She is now covering the same route
her father Travelled fourteen years ago,
when the route first was established.
Miss Shafer in those days was a SUBJ
stitute for her father; now the father
is substituting for her.
In the twelve years that Miss Shafer
has carried mail it is estimated that
she has travelled $4,000. miles. She
makes twenty-five miles six days of
the week. With the exception of the
regular fifteen day annual vacation,
Miss Shafer has been Off duty only
thirty days in twelve years.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
P0STOFFICE AIDS AIR RACE.
Designates TranscontinentaI Course as
an Official Mail Route.

OesIgnates IranScontinentaI Course as
an Official Mail Route.
Washington. - Delivery of United
States mail by aeroplane will be a
feature Of the cross continental race
planned for next June, as the route of
the contest will be designated as an
aerial mail route by the postof1ice de-
partment.
In accepting the Aero clubs offer of
cooperation the second assistant post
master general, Otto Praeger, says in a
letter read at the aeronautics exposi-
ton in the Grand Central palace, New
York. by Alan r. Hawley. president
of the club:
'The field superintendent of the rail
way mail service have presented to the
department thirty seven practicable
aeroplane mail routes. The postoffice
department will appreciate it if you
willdesignate a committee to cooperate
with this bureau in making an investi-
cation as to the designation of such
cities in various states as aerial mail
stations, where satisfactory landing
places can be provided"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03

world. Mrs. Low is prominent socially
in England and Scotland as we'll as in
this country.
The Girl Scouts of America is the
same as the Girl Guides of England
and the continent and is adapted to fill
the same need in girl life that the boy
scout movement fills for lads. Mrs.
Low became interested in this work
for girls through her observation of
the boy scout movement in England
by Sir Robert Baden-Powell and the
almost simultaneously similar move
ment for girls started by his sister.
Miss Agnes Baden-Powell. Sir Robert
and his sister visited Mrs. Low upon
her estates in Scotland and assisted
her in starting the work among the
Scottish lassies. They have recently
come into the advisory board of the
American organization.
Mrs. Low is now working energeti-
cally to get the organizations in the va.
rious cities to take up the training in
stituted for women by the Navy league.
She has arranged for classes Of girl
scouts to take these courses and has
offered prizes in that connection.
Mrs. Low saw the necessity for this
work after watching the assistance
rendered their country by the girls of
England during the progress of the
European war. She says there are in
Vulnerable things that girls can do in
wartime to help their country if they
are properly trained.
Mrs. Low will hold meetings in the
cities she visits under the auspices of
the women's clubs. All women who
are interested in the movement looking
to the uplift Of American girlhood are
invited to attend these meetings. Girls
from educational institutions are espe-
cially invited, as are also college soro.
rites and associations of college wo-
men. Mrs. Low. a brilliant speaker, is
in demand both in the west and the
east to explain the work.
Mrs. Low has great hopes that her
visit to America at this time will be
the means of arousing considerable in
terest in the movement among the wo.
men Of the land. 1t is the purpose of
Mrs. Low to explain the great good to
be accomplished among the girls of the
land through an organization of this
kind and to tell something of the
things that have already been accom-
plished in England and other European
countries.