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Gilpin observer., 1919-09-25
Outlook for Silver Better
Than it has Been for Years

MoSI OpIiIulSIlC VIEWS are enter
tanned by Senator Whitman of
Nevada, author of the Pittman
Silver Act, on the outlook for sill
yer. He says there is less uncer-
tainty in the silver situation than
in practically any other industry.
Producers, in his opinion, can
look forward to high prices for
many years to come.
Conditions brought about in
currencies of the world as re-
suit of the war, the senator said,
engendered an enormous demand
for coinage purposes which can
not be met from the worlds cur
rent production. The only reason
that the metal is not selling high
er is the measure of control Lon
don still exercises over the mar
ket. The British capital normal
ly purchases 80 per cent of the
worlds output, and over against
it are one thousand or so of COM
peting producers, who are at the
mercy of the single buyer. BY
playing them off one against the
other the London dealers have
been able to keep the price down.
Before enactment of the Pittman
act, British domination of the sill
yer market was complete, but by
fixing the minimum price of 81 at
which the metal can be purchased
in this country, the act has strip
ped London of part of her power.
The senator spoke we'll of the
movement under way among Am
erican silver producers, who rep
resent the greater part of the
worlds silver production, to or
ganize themselves under the
Webb-P Pomerene act. By unity
ing their foreign selling they will
enhance greatly their competitive
strength and wrest the silver mar
ket from British control. Senator
Pittman ventured the prediction
that within week after the ex-
port association was formed the
price of silver would advance to
$1.29 an ounce, which represents
the gold parity of the silver dol
lar. He does not believe the gov
ernment should interfere with the
natural course of the silver mar
ket, even tho the price should rise
above the gold parity. Melting
down of subsidiary silver coins
could be prevented by readjusting
them to the market quotation of
silver, as was done in the case of
the Philippine coins.
When asked when the govern
ment would commence purchasing
silver for the purpose of replacing
the $500, 100000 silver dollars
which had been melted and ship
ped to India, the senator declared
the time for such action was still
far off. Nevertheless, he contin-
ued, the obligation is specifically
imposed upon the treasury by the
Pittman act to return the silver
at some time or other, and this
represents potential demand for
the metal of such huge proper
tions that the price will be main
tanned at high levels for many
years.
Gilpin observer., 1919-09-25

Henry Peck and son, George,
went to Tolland Wednesday morn
ing, where they have a contract
to build a frame school house. The
structure will be 14x30 feet and
will occupy the same site as the
old Toll Inn, which burned down
several years ago. The school
house which has been in use is
too remote from the town. 1t was
the intention at first to move it,
but this was found too expensive,
owing to the norrowness of the
road.
Gilpin observer., 1919-09-25

Of 512 steamships requisition-
ed by the United States Shipping
Board for use in the war, 478 had
been released up to September 2.
Their aggregate tonnage was q
724,421, deadweight.
Gilpin observer., 1919-09-25

The Idaho Springs Siftings says
"Rumors are persistent that the
big Argo properties will resume
operations soon. There are some
who claim to know positively that
a plan to open the Argo on a per-
manent basis is in the process of
consummation."
Gilpin observer., 1919-09-25
Notice

There will be a meeting Of the
Central City Fire DEPARTMENT, at
City hall, Tuesday evening, Oct.
7th, for the election of officers.
Thos. Atkinson, Chief.
Jas. Gray, Secretary.
Gilpin observer., 1919-09-25
RED CROSS NOTES

With the membership of 10000
600 American school children, the
Junior Red Cross is planning ex-
tensive activities in connection
with the peace program of the
American Red Cross, to sustain
which the third Red Cross Roll
Call will be held thruout the coun-
try November to IL, it was an
nounced at National headquarters
last week.
Chief among the activities in
which the boys and girls will en-
gage will be extending relief to
less fortunate children in war
swept Europe and lending help
ing hand to suffering children in
this country. This assistance in
the home towns will take many
forms, such as providing clothes
and other necessities to children
of men disabled in the war; help
ing crippled children by provid-
ing companionship, crutches and
doctors care, or finding means of
transportation to and from school
and founding free beds in child
ren's hospitals and sending flow
ers, books and toys to the tiny pat
tents that use them.
Almost every well-dressed citi-
zen of Archangel is wearing a
suit of clothes that six months
ago lay at the bottom of the sea.
The only ship carrying clothing
which has come to North Russia
/, since the revolution was wrecked
at the mouth of the Dvina river
and sank rapidly. 1t lay there
many months before anyone was
enterprising enough to attempt to
salvage it, in spite of the fact that
most of the people of Archangel
were going around in rags. II
was finally salvaged short time
after the arrival of the American
Red Cross Mission IN North Rus
sia, and the clothing recovered.
Home service work by the Am
erican Red Cross in Italy will con
tinue until at least late autumn
largely because of the assistance
that can be rendered in the distri
button of allotments and insur
ance to Italian dependents of Am
erican soldiers. Twenty Thousand
allotment checks from Italian
American soldiers are received
every month in Italy, the great
number of which go to remote dis
tricts and very poor and unin
formed families.
Gilpin observer., 1919-09-25
st. Paul's Episcopal Church

Until further notice, the Rev.
Mr.. Harrison will be with us for
evening service, which will be at
1880 o'clock. No morning service.
Gilpin observer., 1919-09-25

D. w. Griffith in "Great Love" !"
in five reels and a Ford will be
the picture program at the opera
house Saturday, Sept. 9th.
Gilpin observer., 1919-09-25
PERSONAL MENTION

ITdlu lTOHl IIldI pOluC W AAoI ouA
phur Springs.
L. H. Guthrie who is looking af-
ter the building of the new mill
at Black Hawk, came up from
Denver Monday, and returned
Wednesday morning.
DR.. and Mrs. G. N. Towers and
Mr.. and Mrs. C. L. Gage motored
to Denver Wednesday afternoon
to see the president.
Neil Mckay, R. l. Hughes, Mrs.
A. H. Day and Mrs. Richard Ep-
lett left yesterday in the Hamllik
car for Denver.
C. l. Parsons left Wednesday
morning for Denver to visit his
family.
Miss Flora Peck returned on
Sunday evening from her vaca-
tion spent in Denver.
Sol Bacharach left Wednesday
morning for Denver to be on hand
at the arrival of President Wilson.
Mr.. Bacharach is strong admir-
er of the president.
Mrs. Anna Trenoweth, who had
been visiting two weeks in Idaho
Springs with the Thompson fam
lily, returned home Sunday even
ing.
Mrs. Minnie Eplett Cody left
Monday morning for Denver to
see her sister.
Mrs. John Goldberg and daugh-
ter came up from Golden Satur-
day to remain a day or two.
VIM. Anger left Tuesday morn
ing for Boulder county to exam
inc mining property.
Richard and John Eddy and
Will Wearne left Tuesday for
Georgetown to work in the mines.
H. H. Lake and daughter went
to Denver Monday afternoon to
attend the wedding of Ralph L..
Burgess and Miss Florence R.
Broderick.
Joe Kimball, Jr., left Sunday for
Cheyenne to work.
Mrs. Fred Rogers and mother
came up from Denver Sunday ev-
ening to spend portion of the
early part of the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Leidinger
and Peter Leidinger returned on
Monday evening from a three
weeks vacation in Denver.
S. A. Rank came over from
Boulder Tuesday.
Fred Tiller and wife, of Arvada,
visited Saturday and Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Floyd.
Miss Gertie Keller was up from
Denver Saturday for the dance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Bennetts,
of Denver, came up Saturday to
spend a week with the Spear fam
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Hawley re-
turned from a visit in Denver on
Sunday evening.
Miss Hazel Kimball, who had
been spending a week here with
her parents, returned Sunday to
Denver, where she is nursing.
Mrs. Kate Cowling, of Littleton.
and sister, Mrs. Annie Spear and
daughter, of Idaho Springs, are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Floyd.
Mrs. Geo. Rule, of Woodman.
Colo, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Os-
car Williams.
Mrs. w. o. Jenkins returned
Tuesday evening from Denver, de-
lighted to get back to the noun
tains.
r. A. Bass and Frank Charming
went to Denver Wednesday, where
Mr.. Bass purchased Harroun
car.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. S. Hambly are
up from Denver to ship their fur
niture to that city.
Mrs. o. J. Duffield was a pas
senger to Denver Thursday after
noon.
Miss Luella Richards leaves
Friday for Greeley. Miss Mar
garet Anger and Miss Julia Brohl
will leave for there Saturday or
Sunday.
S. w. Terry was an arrival on
Tuesday from Nebraska. His FAM
lily has been taking their vacation
in Central during the summer and
left for their home this morning.
They like the climate here and are
planning to return next summer.
Gilpin observer., 1919-09-25

Vegetables at Hawley's.
The Washington times., 1919-01-23
THREE ON AND TWO OUT,
LAY NIGHTINGALE
OF DIXIE" FOREST

They laid her away today-that
grand old daughter of the Confeder-
acy, and with her went the sweetest
flower of those stirring days when
North fought South and South defied
North to the last. penny and the last
blood. -'
To hurrying, ,unthinking genera
tion of today She was simply Mrs.
Ella NeWsome Trader, eighty-one
years old, and an employe of the Pat
ent Ofrice. But to the last remnants
of two generations of yesterdays she
was Dixie's own Florence Nightingale
the white angel" to whom thou
sands of Johnny Rebs and many a
Yank as we'll owed his life and his
recovery fTln baIie wounds.
It's a far cry from the trigly uni
formed heroinesNof today, with their
shining puttees and their smart sa-
lutes, to this crinoline and hoop
skirted angel of mercy of another
day-another war-but in all the
thousands of women who served this
country and France in the battla
areas overseas it will be hard to find
any one woman with her record OF
service or her history. of. seIf-sacrl-
flee.
Fortune For Hospitals.
In those stirring sixties she. de-
voted her fortune TO hospitals and
care for the sick and wounded. She
worked twenty years in the Pension
orFice on a mere pittance-twenty
years when the civil war had become
a thing of memory and of regret
twenty years in which she might have
lived in comfort and ease on an in
come. Those twenty years. perhaps,
were years of greater heroism than
the four years. of actual warfare. Pc
The Washington times., 1919-01-23
PRESIDENTS RUSS PLAN
WINS FAVOR IN CONGRESS

Congress today accepted with fav-
or the allied plan for dealing with
Russia as suggested by President
Wilson. The general telling was IL al
a start has now been made toward
a solution of the Russian problem
One criticism that should be voiced
OF the plan, Senator Hiram Johnson
said, was that il does not tell the
American people how long American
soldiers are to remain in Siberia
President Wilson's plan il was
learned today follows very closely the
ideas presented to him almost a yenr
ago by a number of congressman and
Senators deeply interested in sceing
Russia saved. Among them was the
late Senator Stone of Missouri, then
chairman Of the Foreign Relations
Committee.
The Washington times., 1919-01-23

tically nothing has been done stncs
the war started
Revival OF the chemical industry fn
America Is looked upon az a hopefui
sign by Uruguay residents who want
to see the country's resources De-
veloped-
Lack OF transportation facilities has
been the greatest difficulty 60 be sur
mounted in bringing the widely scat
tered manganese deposits into pro-
duction- This handicap has Kept un-
productive two large hillS almost
solid manganese ore throughout, situ-
ated in tIie-department OF Rivera II
Is estimated that so.oo0, 900 tons Of the
valuable metal could be removed
from these deposits by open cuts, with
steam shovels.
English capital ~ largely Interested
IN the company holding concessions
covering these manganese hills. The
company has been inactive, though
holding the rights for several years,
because IL has been unable 90 over
come the handicaps imposed by lack
OF railroads 20 the deposits, scarcity
Of fuel and scarcity OF timber.
The Washington times., 1919-01-23
RICHES IN URUGUAY
AWAIT INVESTORS

MoNTEvIDEo. Uruguay, Jan. %
Interest in Uruguayan manganese is be
ing reawakened among capitalists OF
Great Britain and the United States,
and there is q growing belief that
reconstruction activities in the West
ern Hemisphere will require develop
ment of the vast deposition this valu-
able metal existing in this country.
Manganese is largely used In manu-
facture of glass and chemicals Ge--
man and British capital has done about
all that has been done in the man.
ganese exploitation that has been car
ried on in this country, and prac-
The Washington times., 1919-01-23
VANCE MCCORMICK MAY
MEET RUSS DELEGATES

PARIS. Jan. 23.-Vance Mccormick,
former chairman of the Democratic
National Committee. appeared today
to be the most likely choice for
American civil representative on the
committee to pc sent by the associ-
ated powers to confer with Russian
delegates at the Princes Islands.
AS the wireless advising the varl-
Gus Russian factions of the supreme
war councils decision was dispatched
only last night, 10 word has been
received yet IL all will agree. II any
faction should refuse to cease fight
ing, the situation would be compIi-
Gated, but it was believed certain all
would act in good faith.
The Washington times., 1919-01-23
Silly! Damon Runyon
Tries to Run" Schwab
With a Four-FIush

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
OF OCCUPATION. Jan. 2.-Several
American correspondents with slim
bank rolls invited Mr. Schwab to
join in a poker game at the Rasp-
berry Country Club. Those who
started with loan accounts, and who
were awaiting overdue expense re-
mittances. had visions Of replenish-
ing their bank accounts.
Damon Runyon, who had just re-
covered from a threatened attack Of
pneumonia, confronted Schwab with
a bobtail flush. The steel king call
ed, and gloated as he scooped in the
pot with a small pair.
He left the club a tidy winner.
The Washington times., 1919-01-23
SUGAR PROFITS TO
! COVER FOOD BILLS
- -

Although the expenditures. includ-
ing all Indebtedness. of the Food Ad-
mlnistration and its various branches
from its beginning to January 1. 1sD
were today unoniciaIly estimated al
Ss.217.5s5.94, officials OF the, depart
ment predicted that the profits of the
sugar EQUALIZATION Board and of the
United States Grain Corporation will
exceed that sum.
The Washington times., 1919-01-23
PHONE RATES HELD UP.

BATON ROUGE, La, Jan. 23.-A
temporary restraining order was is
sued against the Cumberland TeIe-
phone and Telegraph Company here
by Federal Judge II. F.. Brunot. pre-
venting that company from putting
into, effect the new scale OF long dis
tance toll rates. Attorneys for the
telephone company announced an ap-
peal will be made.
The Washington times., 1919-01-23
ADVERTISEMENT.
Colds Cause Grip and Influenza

LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE
Tablets remove the cause. There
IS only one "Bromo Quinine.:"
E. w. GROVES signature on
box. Soc. -----
Deming graphic., 1919-07-15
THOSE ARMORY LUNCHEONs

Not half the number of business men
attend the armory luncheons that
should. The luncheons are fine insti.
tuition and will mean much for Dem.
ing, IL they are taken seriously. Here
we have a ready forum where anyone
learning anything for the good OF the
community can be sympathetically
heard by the representative business
interests OF the city. Not a great deal
OF business is transacted at the lur
cons, but already several good things
have been secured for the city that had
their inception In the informal talks at
the luncheon. In the interchange OF
ideas we are assured that nothing good
can get by all Of u.s. But to be really
effective, more business men and rep
resentatives Of other interests must be
present.
Deming graphic., 1919-07-15
ALAS. ALACK!

I'm wondering where politicians that
represent the liquor trade get their
dope about the overseas army being
solidly against prohibition. Do they
really represent or misrepresent the
attitude OF the veterans? l have had
command OF four different companies
and battalion In the past three years
and have come in close contact with
the men. In my opinion, the liquor
politicians. are stating for facts that
which they wish were true. 1 think
they are talking through the top OF
their high silk hats, which Is ludicrous,
and bit tragic when INDUCED In by
statesmen.
Any man who has served In the
army, even In times of peace, knows
that two-thirds Of the courtmarshals
are due TO drunkenness directly and n
much larger per centage indirectly. AL
most every officer that is cashiered
started ON his downward path by TAX
ing a good stiff drink of the best whis-
key he could find. This Is not guess
work. | was summary court officer
for my battalion for many months and
sat ON special and general courts The
sequence is almost invariably; whis-
key. women, neglect Of duty, disgrace.
They all seem to gang together. With
liquor removed from the troops the
work Of discipline by company and bat
talon comanders Is made dead easy
Most men want to do the right thing.
but when they are drunk they seldom
do the right thing.
Then there is the case for light wines
aud beer. Ye gods, what slop. / tried
.1r several months In France to quencn
rlv tairst with the best wines OF the
world and my tongre was always
hanging out. French water Is as bad
as French wines are good. but ! H.
nally took to II. bugs and all. The first
thing I did on taking over new bIllets
was to get the lyster bag up and get
the sanitary squad to dump their bug
poison into Il. so that the men could
drink and get away with II. With the
chemicals added to the ill-flavored
French water. II was wet and that's
about all. but 1t did quench the thirst
without making the men i'll.
Overseas men know that the wine
drinking French are seldom drunk. so
say the liquor advocates. but overseas
men know that they are seldom exactly
sober aud that many Of the nervuos
habits Of the French are due to small
Deming graphic., 1919-07-15
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

To read President wilson's address,
In laying before the senate Thursday
the peace treaty and covenant Of n
league Of nations, enc feels transported
TO Eutopia or the New Jerusalem.
What perfect idalism; what beautiful
rhetoric; what charming diction: 1t
fills ones soul with the light of new
day, a new era In which the principles
brotherly love, justice, fraternity and
equality are TO rule. In the Halcyon
days that are here, the lion will be
compelled TO lay down with the lamb
swords will be beaten into plowshares
and every man shall dwell In peace UNI
der his own vine and fig tree forever
and forever. God how the souls OF
good men and women have aspired
through all centuries for the happiness
and cantonment that seems just with
in grasp. win not humanity, burdened
with woe, misery and want, look to the
doctrines of this new Messiah, who
promises relief for all those that have
faithy For through faith alone, judg-
ing from the presidents words, is this
great good to befall. Can't we have out
u little faith?
Yes, we have measure Of faith, but
II Is not founded ON the theory OF in
ternationalism. We believe that our
fathers gained the freedom we enjoy
by fighting the world to gain 1t; we
believe that II is preserved because our
soldiers are willing to shed their blood
In fighting Others who would destroy
IL; we believe that our children will
continue TO enjoy II, IL they will but
follow the hallowed precepts Of our
patriot forebearers and stand prepared
to sacrifice for the common veal
1 am afraid that the returning sol
diers do not feel themselves to be cru
saders. IL anything they are a little
more selfish in their view point than
before, a bit more conscious OF their
nationality, somewhat less inclined to
hazard the precious institutions under
which they live and are happy, a trifle
less impressed by paciflcist doctrines
of universal peace. They do not be-
lieve that we have fought the last war.
They are concerned about the condi-
tions under which the next war is to
be fought, and whether or not we can
with honor keep out of 1t. This is
practical question, ana far removed
from the academic postulations OF our
honored president.
Deming graphic., 1919-07-15
LOCAL BRIEFS

Miss Stone and Miss Reynolds Of the
War ommunity Service will depart
shortly for a vacation at Palomas Hot
Springs. They expect to make several
side trips through the beautiful can.
yons of that region.
f. c. Bassett Of the War Community
Service Is again ON the street after be.
ing i'll with touch OF ptomain poison.
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. q. Bush are back
after a visit to the coast
Mr.. and Mrs Sam Watkins OF III
Paso are at Cloudcroft enjoying the
mountain air.
ii. L. Kerr was In from his ranch
near Myndus Wednesday.
Fred Sherman mOtored to Columbus
Wednesday.
John LOTUS, the merchant OF Myn.
dus, was in the city the after part OF
last week trmsactlng business.
Deming graphic., 1919-07-15

planes undoubtedly will be used how
ever, as scouts; but flying men here
said a transatlantic invasion by a
fleet of airships protected by big air
Planes was not at all inconceivable or
improbable the next time hostilities oc-
CURED i'm the world.
prevention is just as important as
means of protection. The nations which
90 together In league for war must
make n league to keep the peace terms
to not separate nations but draw them
together"
OF course, such an invasion is both
probable and conceivable, but most
Americans win prefer to meet such an
invasion i'm their own way and not de
pend ON Others, either to prevent It or
TO come to our assistance. Who will
make the next attack and who will our
allies be? This is problematical. To
prepare to meet all comers Is the better
way.
'Tis a strange conclusion these gen.
tlemen draw from the signs OF the
times Ii occurs to me that they would
rather secure a political advantage
than prepare for the war In the future
that they seem so sure Is coming, but
which they would avoid by some hocus-
pocus. The treaty, so far as II con-
Germs our interests, should be enforced
by our armed forces In cooperation
with our present allies IL necessary,
but that we have to guarantee n patch
work treaty for the next thousand
years is a little too large conception
for me. l pass II on to my readers.
without doubt, the treaty will be ac-
cepted, but Its teeth are already
drawn and further changes, especially
In Article 10 will be made. That Presi-
dent Wilson does not depend on II, is
shown by the fact that he has brought
home an old fashioned triple alliance
to maintain the old fashioned and
much maligned balance Of power. Both
instruments bind us to enter the next
great European war. In other words,
we must now fight to prevent others
from making war, even when we are
not directly attacked. II matters little
what men fight about: they viii fight,
and the United States ought to keep
out Of the European squabbles and pre-
pare to meet its own enemies ON some
thing like equal terms.