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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-12
City Does Honor to the
Great PhilanthrOpiSt

At the suggestion of City Attor-
ney J. W. B. Smith, the city coun-
Gil adopted the following beautiful
resolutions in honor of the late
Andrew Carnegie, the great bene-
factor of man. 1t is doubtful if
many other localities have shown
similar honor to the memory of
the great Scotch steel magnate.
WHEREAS, Mr.. Andrew Carnegie
world philanthropist and benefactor OF
mankind, died at Lenox, Massachus-
etts, August 18th, 1919, and,
WHEREAS The City of Idaho
Springs Colorado, enjoys substan-
tial Public Library Building erected
with funds contributed by Mr. Car
negie, and,
WHEREAS, Because of his univer-
sal services and the fine example of
his life and character, it is deemed
fit and proper that solemn note be
made of the death of Mr. Carnegie,
NOW, THEREFORE,, BE IT RE-
SOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF IDAHO SPRINGS:
That this community regrets the
passing of this splendid personality
from world affairs, and hereby ex-
presses public appreciation of the
many and varied services rendered by
Mr. Carnegie to his fellow-men.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-12
Death Removes Widely
Known Business Man

Waldemar Hallberg, the well-known
Springs, Wednesday morning, Sep
tember 10 at 10 o'clock. Bright's dis
ease was the cause of his death.
Mr.. Hallberg had been in failing
health for several years and several
weeks ago disposed of his grocery
business to Anderson and Gunstrum,
realizing he had but short time to
live.
A successful business man for
twenty years, Mr.. Hallberg was known
by nearly everyone in the county. He
was for some years director in the
Merchants and Miners National bank
Waldemar Hallberg was born in Swe-
den. December 13, 1862, and came to
Idaho Springs twenty-five years ago
He first followed mining. He had made
two trips to Sweden to visit his par
ents who still survive. He also leaves
widow, son, Walter Hallberg and q
daughter, Mrs Ida Wilson of Denxer
Recently Mr.. Hallberg was taken tc
Denver for a change but soon asked tc
be brought back home where the sun
shine is brighter for he said he wished
to enjoy it for the short time he had
yet to live.
Deceased was member of the Mac
cabees pS
The funeral was held from Olinger's
mortuary in Denver Friday afternoon
at 2:30. Services were in charge of
Rev. Oscar Bolander, former pastor
here who lived with Mr.. Hallberg. In
terment was made in Crown Hill ceme-
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-12

Alex Cooper, who has been out
on bail awaiting trial for shooting
Joe Bridge at Dumont last May,
has returned and is now stopping
in Idaho Springs. Mr.. Bridge
had narrow escape but has quite
fully recovered from the injury
inflicted by Coopers 3S.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Coe expect
to remove to Seattle-the big gro
wing city of the northwest. They
dislike to leave their beautiful
home here but the inducements of
Seattle prove attractive to them.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-12

The Fusser is out Moving 'em Down
with his Luminous Eyes, assisted by
that Horseblanket Suit and that Hunk
of Tiffany Ice. Like Clarence Marsh
mallow of the Movies, whom he Re-
sembles, the Fusser is reglar Social
Gangster with the Ladies and has an
Ambish to Go with every Girl in Town.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-12
No Arrangements Made
for Steam Heat Service
VOLUME is
NUMBER IT

1t is very probable the general
steam heating system will not be
operated this season and private
plants are being arranged for. If
all the heating plants are installed
that are now talked about there
will be considerable work to do
and some hustling required to get
the work done before the advent
OF severe weather.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-12

The Episcopal Guild plans to
put on a home-talent play entitled
"The Blue Envelope" about the
middle of October. There will be
meeting at the home of Mrs. w.
B. Kelso ON Wednesday, Septem-
Der "a, at which time plans for the
play will be further discussed.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-12
EVERGREEN COUPLE
w MARRIED HERE

Mr. William Stinnett and Miss Doro-
thy, Foley, both of Evergreen. Jeffer-
son county, were married by Judge
John A. Wilkins at his home Friday,
September 5, at $50 p m. They came
in an auto and had Denver marriage
license. After the judge tied the nup-
tial knot in his usual dignified man
ner, with Mrs. Wilkins as witness the
happy young folks went their way
rejoicing"
County Commissioner John w. Green
was down this week from the Plume
to rest up a bit and take few dips
in the Hot Springs pool in hope OF
knocking out the lumbago
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-12
Three Have Narrow
Escape from Cave-In

While at work for Friedman and
company on their Edgar lease in
the Big Five, a cave-in caused
the imprisonment of Emmit Tuck,
Bob Williams, and Arthur Fall
green, Thursday of this week.
The cave-in occurred about 400
to 500 feet from the breast of the
drift in which the men were work
ing. and the fall of about twenty
feet of rock and dirt happened at
the place where the men delivered
their loaded cars and received
their empties, but fortunately no
one was there when the crash came.
The men were back of the lin
and tapped on the air pipe to give
signal outside to what had hap
pened. The air pipe was broken
by the fail, but fortunately it broke
some distance back of the pile of
debris.
The accident happened at>about
l O'Clock in the afternoon and by
5 o'clock the men were out. They
assisted in extricating themselves
by digging from their side of the
cave-in.
While some ore is being taken
out of the Edgar lease the work is
largely development, and the prop
erty gives promise of being pro-
fitable producer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Jones of Gill
son gulch enjoyeda visit last week
from Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Cruise
of Loveland where Mr.. Cruise is in
the furniture business with the
Foster and Cruise Co. Mrs. Cruse
g. NJ Zones sister Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones And mother
Mrs. Helen Jones accompanied
the Cruises to Denver via Bear
creek in their auto. The return
trip home was made via 9. & S.
A most delightful trip was en-
joyed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
What Man Is

a WRITER in ''The Electrical Elk
L u perimenter" asks the question
(surely an old and battling one) and
submits a Scientific" answer, as
follows:
"a man weighing $50 pounds will
contain approximately $500 cubic feet
Of gas--oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen
in his constitution, which at so cents
a thousand cubic feet would be worth
$3.50 for Illuminating purposes. He
also contains all the necessary fats to
make fifteen-pound candle, and thus,
together with his $500 cubic feet of
gases, he possesses considerable il
Illuminating possibilities. His system
contains % pounds and 10 ounces of
carbon, or enough to make 78O dozen,
or 1850, lead pencils, There are about
so grains of iron In his blood, and the
rest of the body would supply enough
of this metal to make one spike large
enough to hold his weight. A healthy
man contains "a ounces of phosphorus.
This deadly poison would make 500 900
matches, or enough poison to kin 500
persons. This, with 2 ounces of lime,
makes the stiff bones and brains. No
difference how sour a man looks, he
contains about 60 Jumps of sugar of
the ordinary cubical dimensions, and
to make the seasoning complete there
are 20 spoonfuls of salt. If man
were distilled into water he would
make about 38 quarts, or more than
half his entire weight. He also CON
tains great deal of starch, chloride
of potash, magnesium, sulphur and
hydrochloric acid in his wonderful hu-
man system.
Break the shells of 1000 eggs into
a huge pan or basin, and you have the
contents to make man from his toe
nails to the most delicate tissues of
his brain. And this is the scientific
answer to the question. What is
MANI"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

does It become. It can be safely dated
as far back as the sixteenth century
and it is strongly probable that the
famous and fatal English sweating
sickness Of the fourteenth century
was form of Influenza There was
famous and historic outbreak of
it in the first decade of the nineteenth
century, during the Peninsular cam
paign, when Napoleon and his con-
queror Wellington faced each other
for the first time on the rugged plateaus
of Spain. 1t put both armies ont of
business at once and drove them into
winter quarters In the middle of the
summer, and 30 furious was its onset
and SO swift It's spread that the
ignorant Spanish peasants said that it
must be due to an inhuensia dial
Estrellas,' AN influence from the stars
and Influenza it was called and has
remained until the present day, be-
cause we didn't know any better, and
according to some of our highbrow
bacteriologists of the Brahmin caste
done yet.
$50 that it was quite a curious in
stance of history repeating itself that
the disease in this appearance should
again have been called the Spanish
flu though Spain was really no more
to blame for it then than now. If
the influenza happens to travel fastest
overland, with the caravans, 1t reaches
Europe by way Of Russia first and is
called the Russian Influenza If it
moves more swiftly along the water
routes, up the Red Sea and the Suez
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
Homemade DYES

q LAST, according to a writer
IN Popular Mechanics" Amer
va is independent of Europe's
we industry, and is preparing to
Nsp'ace the full list Of essential col
wing materials formerly imported
s'om Europe. This interesting fact
: Beng demonstrated to the public
travelling exhibit Of dyestuffs
- processes arranged by a com
-'aaslon Of producers of aniline de-
''ssiVea. 1t seems that
comparisons Of German and
.'''ean-dyed fabrics Of cotton, wool.
=. s''H' subjected to rigorous tests
''amaneney, establish the excel
.s u the domestic product. Indigo.
~~''ns' earbanthrene blue, alizarine
s,''fs. and alphazurins ar. becom~
a.. 'e'iaois In commercially adequate
Ass. A total Of ia aniline
x;,t shasf various ciassifcations
a''lons that will be made from
ss. TINE, ASSURES the textile in
'h&s the old dependence on the
oyea'uas has vanished"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
Saving, Paper

w THE process of manufacturing
Il paraffined paper and various
products, such as cartons, cups and
wrappers, large quantities Of i'm
pregnated paper stock are now
wasted, says "The Scientific Ameri-
can" And further:
"In the making of paraffined paper
alone, 1t is estimated, the daily waste
amounts to eight or ten tons.
"An opportunity for the recovery Of
large part of such waste paper and
impregnating material is offered in the
application OF q method recently de-
veloped ut the Forest Products Labo-
ratory, providing mill trinls are as sue
cessful as the semi-commercial laho-
ratory work indicates.
"The recovery method consists in
treating the finely shredded waste with
petroleum oil solvent in a series of ex-
fractions, which removes practically
all the parafFin. The parafiln Is after
ward separated from tho solvent,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
Saving Coal

THE opinion arrived at during recent
l. years by electrical men that a much
needed saving of fuel would result
from the elcctridcation of railroads
appears to be confirmed by a report
recently presented before the Western
Railway Club, according to 1.-THE Elec-
trical Review" in which it was proved
that 1o0,000,0o0 of the 140 100000 tons
Of coal now burned annually by our
railroads could be saved by general
electrification. 'In view" SAYS "The
Electrical Review" "of the continued,
if not Increasing, need for conserving
the fuel resources of the country for
future generations, the urgency of
attacking the problem and at least
checking this gigantic waste should be
given prompt and careful attention"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
Radiurn Bargains

TT OW can some people afford
l. 4 radium dabbed watches, clocks
and house numbers, although the
market price of radium is $4,000
a gram, and gram is less than one
five-hundredth part of a pound?
A writer in Popular Science Month
ly" answers "illuminatingly" that
because radium IS marvellously self
luminous, and a few micrograms zone
of which is millionth part of a gram)
mixed with zinc sulphide crystals wiz
paint your house number and keep it
luminous for years. That is because
zinc sulphide, being itself spheres
cent, is sensitive to radium rays.
Strange as it may seem, the more
radium used the shorter the luminous
life Of the compound
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

suburbs Of Boston and was piling up
among the young Jackies in the Boston
naval training district On September
8 an explosion of several hundred
cases occurred at Camp Devens, which
epidemic Of pestilence which this new
world has ever seen, prostrating four
teen thousand five hundred of our
soldier boys, causing seven thousand
cases of pneumonia and over eight
hundred deaths, in q population of
about forty thousand, all inside of
about two weeks. The flu kitten had
grown at a single bound into the pneu-
monia tiger, and proceeded swiftly to
devastate and lay waste in every direc-
ton, that the soldier boys in the can
tonments, then the youth and manhood
of the entire nation, until nearly half
million of our strongest and finest
had been slaughtered
Something happened in Camp Dew
ems to hatch or infame Spanish in
fuenza from little more than cold in
the head into q raging pestilence.
What, or perhaps who, was it? There
are several explanations, no one Of
them wholly convincing, probably all
of them played part in the
catastrophe, and all alike scarcely
creditable to the intelligence Of the
higher military command.
"The first and most plausible theory
is that of the one age and one sex
community. The population of the army
camps or cantonments consists almost
entirely Of boys and young men be-
tween the ages of twenty and thirty.
Now the spread of the influenza germ
through an ordinary civilian commu-
nifty is of an uneven and broken
character. The first case, say, is in q
young man, and the germ adjusts it.
self to the chemical composition, the
temperature and the resisting powers
of his tissue. He passes it on to,
perhaps, his mother, and here the germ
must make change of habit and ad-
just itself to a new type of soil and
host. The mother transmits it to the
father and again the germ has to ad-
just itself to new environment. The
father infects his little daughter and
the little daughter in turn transfers
the germ to the chilly and withered
tissues of her grandmother or grand
father. Every successive host of the
germ is q new and different country
with a climate to which it musb adjust
itself 1t can make no Roadway, gather
no momentum.
But let the germ once enter one
corner Of community made up entire
ly Of young men of the same age and
under like physical conditions OF food
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

in London, you will
be able to call any
New York telephone number, get it
inside of fifteen minutes, and then
talk for three minutes for So"
This is how Marconi expressed
himself, according to 1.-THE Scien-
tific American" in discussing the
recent successful elimination of
many preliminary experiments
which had been made in long dis
lance telephony and which had re-
suited in conversation on March
10 between Clifden. Ireland, and
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
Says ''The Scientific American:
when the Marconi engineer from
his. wireless hut in Ireland called
Glace Bay, instantly came the
answer, 'Glace Bay talking" From
that moment Clifden communicated
continuously with Nova Scotia, the
voices carrying strong and clear all
day. To quote General Manager
Bradfeld, of the English Marconi
company: Transmission was alb
solutely instantaneous. and the
voices were as clear as over the
telephone. After the first mes
sages were exchanged, conditions
were so perfect that our engineers
continued their conversation all day.
saving the delay of writing their
comments and recommendation re-
garding improvements.
Though detailed information re-
garding wireless telephoning between
Ireland and Canada is withheld for the
present by the Marconi Company, the
transatlantic wireless telephone prom
ises to be an astonishing success, as
the first efforts to talk through the air
were much more successful than the
first attempts at wireless telegraphing.
"The establishment of regular sys-
tenn of commercial wireless telephony
from New York to London is believeds
now to be merely question of time, and
before long Sydney, Australia, and the
furthest parts OF the earth will be
placed on the aerial exchange"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

port, Louisiana, IN the south, had
been infected" In most instances
there were from 5000 to 5000
cases and from 700 to LOO deaths,
according to size.
The germ enters the nose and
mouth and lodges in the cavities of
the nostrils and back of the throat
and larynx. There it matches or
incubates from two to five days,
until it has grown sufficiently strong
and numerous to pour its toxins
into and overwhelm the system"
Then
"the prostration comes on with head
ache, backache, and a high fever,
running to 104 or los degrees,
rapid pulse, hurried respiration and
severe pains and chills. This goes on
for from two to four days by which
time in -sixths Of the cases the
cells Of the body get the upper hand
Of the invader, neutralize his poisons,
or toxins, and fguratively speaking
fire him OUT or engulf him within
the bodies of the white blood corpus
cles. Then the high fever breaks,
headache grows better and the patient
begins to sit up and take notice.
-Four ifths of the danger is now
over and all the patient has to. do is
{ L.
ton is not 80 safe and sane as it looks
for though the germs have disappeared
from the nose and throat. they have
gone down into the lungs, or wind
pipe and bronchial tubes. Here the
fluids of the body usually overwhelm
them and they are coughed up and
got rid Of, perhaps to lodge in some
one else's throat and attack g fresh
victim. But in about one-sixth of the
cases the germs get the upper hand of
the situation and begin an invasion
of the walls of the bronchial tubes,
causing congestion, inflammation, and
hemorrhage which are due to their
destructive effects upon the blood YES
sells. This results in tiny ulcers in
the walls of the bronchial tubes and
these may eat their way in until in
some cases they reach and open into q
blood vessel, when the patient has q
hemorrhage from the lungs and fresh
red clots are coughed up into the
sputum cup which may even reach q
pint or a pint and half. In many
cases the germs are swallowed and at
tack the coats of the stomach and
intestines, producing hemorrhage from
the bowels.
"Then the savage attack which the
germs and their toxins make upor
smaller blood vessels damages theil
walls so badly that the blood cannot
longer circulate through the lungs, ant
we get literal water-logging or dropsy
technically known as edema, of various
parts or in bad cases the whole of E
Lung and the luckless patient literally
browns in his own fluids. One Of the
bitterest things in the whole tragedy
is that the doctor has to simply stanC
and watch his patient drown, which
takes from one to three days, as power
less to do anything to help him as il
he had had his hands tied behind him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

Hunting Is on the increase and the
deer herd is very much on the de-
crease. Figures gathered by the New
York State Conservation Commission
seem to indicate that il is only cues
ton OF time before the number OF men
who hunt deer every season may even
exceed the deer. Annihilation of the
deer herd is only question of time
unless measures are taken to p.avent
it. The deer herd will be unable to
survive the drain if the breeding
females are killed. soutimg.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

and lodging and occupation, all 1t has
to do is to adjust itself to the condi-
lions prevailing in the tissues of it's
first victim. And the rest is easy"
60 SWIFT was the work of
~ spreading the disease through
army movement that "exactly
thirty days from the date Of the
first explosion on September s at
Camp Devens the environments on
the Pacific Coast had been reached
and everything from American
Lake, in Washington, in the north,
to Camp Bowie, in Texas, and Gulf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
Speed Downward

81. -" worlds record In shaft sink
q as obtained in December. 1919.
kn.s er"wn Mines, johannesburg,
~ =, Aar'sa, rays "rhe Engineering
~. "'h'ng Journal" The shaft AT
~ '"' record was made In circular
. diameter ~ 20 feet inside
~ .-s s' and during December was
y - assss or from depth 81 sgs
s. 1ssss the average speed being
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

and fermented by natural process;
used by the field hands in North
Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Ar
kansas and some of the Western
States.
POTATO WHISKEY - Made from
the Feelings of potatoes, pruncs and
yeast, fermented; popular among log
gers and farmers in Maine, North
Dakota, Oregon and Washington.
MOONSHTNE WHISKEY tvariouslv
styled BLOCKADE" Dynamite" and
white Mule").-Made by Illicit stills
and widely sold in North Carolina
Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia.
Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma and
Texas.
NEAR BEERS-Mild substitute for
beer. made from hops and bearing
only remote resemblance to 1t; used
generally throughout all dry states.
PERSIMMON BEER - Made from
ripe persimmons, fcrmented by nat
ural process and capable of develop
ing mild exhilaration if properly
aged; used generally throughout Ala
bama, Tennessee, Mississippi and
Georgia.
C1DER--Made from apples, pears
ind similar fruit. aged and rein
forced with limited quantity of
brandy or evnn spirituous alcohol:
used generally throughout oil dry
states.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

BANANA RUM--Made from over
ripe bananas, "blackstrap" molasses
and yeast, fermented and then dis
titled very effectively; used generally
in Southern Georgia, Florida, Missis-
sippi, Alabama and Texas.
MONKEY RUM-Made from "black-
strap" molasses, tomatoes, yeast and
coloring matter, farmented and dis
titled; used generally in Southern
Virginia, Eastern North Carolina and
South Carolina.
THE SETTING HEN-Made from
corn, rye or oatmeal, yeast, black mo
lasses, fermented and then distilled;
popular in the rural districts of Vir-
ginia, West Virginia, Northern and
Western North Carolina.
CANE RUM-Made from the scrap
ings OF watts after the extraction of
sugar; widely used by negro hands
employed on sugar plantations in
Florida, Mississippi, Texas and Ala
bama.
RICE POKE-Made from rice and
"blackstrap" molasses, somewhat af-
ter the formula of the rice wine
popular in Japan: used as a substi-
tute for whiskey by field workers in
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia.
S1LO JUICE--Mnde from the fluid
left in silos by dacaying vegetation