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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20
Not Good Business


e.5ti can s.ene ,mif you ale
black in the face about utility
rates such as gas. electric. phone,
street railway, etc, but you can't
get away from the fact that wages
have gone up and are continuing
to rise, that materials used by
these companies have doubled and
trebled in cost and that taxes have
risen to a point never dreamed of
8 years ago. These are facts
which cannot be denied.
1t is no longer a question of
whether utility companies want to
raise rates, they have got to have
rates sufficient to meet these in
creased costs of operation, or go
into bankruptcy.
A wooden headed man can see
the points at issue: how much of
an increase is necessary to permit
the companies to operate, pay
present day wages, good service to
the public, make extensions as re-
quired and receive safe return
on investments.
Public ownership is no remedy
as government operation of rail
roads has clearly proved, where an
additional burden of 81 100000
600 has been loaded onto taxpay-
ers in less than two years and
service reduced.
The safe and sane remedy is to
allow our utility companies to
make sufficient revenue to operate
successfully and let the citizen
who receives the service pay for
what he gets and not load part of
it onto the general taxpayer.
This is mere common sense and
the course pursued by any success
full business, whether large or
small. Why force a public utility
to run at loss? It's not good
business, it's mere political robbery.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20

Henry P McClelland, cashier
of the First National bank. is suf-
fering with a serious stomach
trouble and has been off duty
since June 8. He expects to leave
Saturday for Rochester, Mimi. to
undergo series of operations in
the hope of gaining permanent
relief Mrs. McClelland will sac-
company him, while Geo. E. III will
remain here with his grandparents,
and the other little fellow will be
with his grandmother in Denver.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20
Mining Activities Of
Upper Clear Creek

Albert johnson and partners are
very much elated over their re
cent strike in the capital. Their
streak is large and well inlpreg>
mated with galena, which indicates
good values in this locality.
lhe new owners of the Scepter
property on Democrat mountain
are planning big things in the way
OF development on the property.
The mines are essentially what is
known as high grade silver, and
should prove profitable.
Stephens brothers have resumed
operations in the Jospehine mine
III kelso mountain. A short cross
cut is contem plated, when it is
expected the largest ore resources
yet encountered in the niue will
be found.
A recent visit to the Colorado
Central revealed considera BILE ac-
tivity at the mill and niue, where
nearly ninety men find steady en-
ploy ment. The management is as
dumb as the proverbial oyster, as
to their results. So, as an esti-
mate of their product would be
merely conjectural, none is given.
In DAYS of reconstructiop it is
usually the country with the
largest purse that comes out on
top. A country's pocketbook is its
store of precious metals-gold and
silver Consequently the mines
OF Gear Greek county should
be working overtime because
of the country's needs, and
because of the stimulus of the high
price of Silver. The great draw
back tc upper Clear Creek how
ever, is the lack of a market for
the small producer, where he
could dispose of his ores in any
sized lots varying from 100 pounds
up. Such market would stimu-
late activity, and cause produc-
ton that would surprise the most
skeptical as TO the continuity of
our ore measures. The writer
was in the ore buying business in
the late 70's, when lots as low as
20 pounds found a ready market
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20

Mrs. G. KsKimball is expected
home today from Denver, where
she has had her tonsils removed,
in hope of finding permanent re-
lief from rheumatism, with which
she has suffered nearly all winter.
Miss Margaret has been with her
mother.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20
/ voLHNTTEM HNTTMhIIe
800 Stamps Soon Here

For the first time War Savings
Stamps in denomination of 500
will soon be issued and will be
available to the public upon the
same terms as the $500 W. S. s..
now on sale at postoffices and
agencies. Decision to issue the
new style of w, S. S. was reached
to make more simple the purchase
of stamps. The ruling that no
one person can have more than
$1,000 worth of War Savings
Stamps of one issue still holds.
A Sl00 War Savings Stamp or
certificate will cost $685. if they
are put on sale during June, the
price increasing twenty cents each
succeeding month, until the end
the year. The new stamps are to
be about the size of a 500 bond
of the Fourth Liberty Loan issue.
Decision to issue them was reach
ed by officials of the Treasury De
partment as the result of sugges-
tions by investors in w. S. S.,
who stated they found it irksome
to amass a number of $500 Stamps
and attach them to certificates.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20
Popular Physician
Becomes a Benedict

A quiet but impressive affair
was the wedding Wednesday,
June eighteenth, at Capitol
Heights Presbyterian church,
Denver, of DIR. Alan Davidson
Fraser and Miss Wilhelmina Cor
nelia Coughlin, Reverend Leon
C. Hills officiating. The pretty
ring ceremony was used and the
brides mother Mrs. Elizabeth
Coughlin gave her away. Mrs.
Jasper Loomis of Fort Collins, a
sister of the bride, and Miss Faye
Jones, niece. were attendants.
Following the ceremony a lunch
con was served at the home of
Mrs. L. p. Saunders, a sister of
the bride, and Mrs. Marie Brown
of Ely, Nevada, another sister, and
her soldier son, whom she came to
Denver to meet on his return from
France, were honor guests. The
bridal party were dinner guests at
the Brown Palace hotel.
Mrs. Coughlin is the youngest
daughter of Mrs Elizabeth
Coughlin, and well known here,
though born in Silver Plume, and
graduated from the Georgetown
High School and the Greeley
Teachers College. She is a young
lady of handsome appearance, has
been a most successful teacher in
this Fort Collins schools, and will
be a welcomed addition to Idaho
Springs soeiety,
Dr. Fraser, having practiced
here for eighteen years. is known
to nearly everyone in the county,
and is receiving congratulations
from his many friends.
DR. and Mrs. Fraser are at
home in their pretty bungalow on
Colorado street, and have postpon-
ed their wedding trip for the pre-
sent, but may later go to Florida.
The happy bride and groom re-
ceived many beautiful and costly
presents, showing the high esteem
in which they are held by their
many friends.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert McClelland
were Denver visitors this week.
Mr.. McClelland returned Thurs
day morning, and Mrs. McClelland
and Julia Mary later.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20
Guy Hardy Believes In
Saving Nations Money


country 100000, but just that
thing happened the other day.
The votes that saved that tidy sum
were cast by myself and friend
from Kansas. We had been out
of the hall attending to some bust
ness when the vote on an amend
ment adding 100000 was FIRST
taken aud we got back just in
slime to be counted in the division
that was called for. The amend
ment was defeated by Just two
votes.
The freedom with which Con
gress appropriates money in large
sums makes even an old Member
gasp some times.
Requests come from all sections
and sources and preemptory de-
mands from many.
Every department Of the Gov
ernment wants to enlarge its fane-
tions, increase its working force
and get its official fingers on more
money.
The railroads want Billion
Dollars. The Farmers got a Bill
lion Dollars IN the last Congress.
The Wires want money. The
Shipping Board wants meney.
Soldiers aud sailors in present and
past wars want large appropria-
tions for harbors, waterways. pub
ss1 tni'dirgs. ssrnin4 IA ! il :-sigs
ton enterprises and for b hundred
other propositions.
These appropriation bills as
rule do not originate in the minds
of Congressman but come from
department heads or from the
folks back home.
The folks back home seem to
want the Congressman 10 bring
back the bacon And some
Members apparently measure
their usefulness to the country by
the amount of bacon brought back.
| will say frankly that lam not
going to try to make record as a
treasury plunderer.
OF course a great many of the
appropriations are absolutely es-
sential to the running Of the Gov
ernment.
Many of the suggested appro>
priations are for worthy works and
causes.
Every appropriation bill has
merit from the standpoint of those
directly interested.
1t is up to Congress to sift out
the necessary items and those of
the greatest benefit to the greatest
number. This is done first thru
the Appropriations Committee
and the other committees handling
appropriations. And then again
on the floor of the House. And
then again in the Senate.
As a rule the reports of the
committees are fair and liberal.
AS rule amendments asking for
larger sums and addi tional items
should be voted down.
This year the appropriations,
owing to pile of unpaid war bills
coming in and an under estimate
of revenues made by the last Con-
gress, will exceed the revenues by
from One Billion to Two Billion
Dollars.
1t will be necessary to scrutinize
pretty closely every appropriation
item. And many worthy causes
may per force be neglected.
Running the finances of the
country is a little like handling
the pay checks in your home. If
mother and daughter, and son and
sonnie were permitted to buy
everything they might wish for
and really have use for, father
would soon be bankrupt in about
thirty days. If Uncle Sam grant
ed all the demands made upon
him for money by his department
heads and the fond constituents
of his 435 Congressman and 96
Senators-well if he did = God
pity the credit of the country.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20

George Lewis of Trinchera,
Colorado, has returned to his
home after about a week with
friends here.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20

Since the freeze of May 81 and
June l the weather has been quite
warm and the afternoon showers
this week have been refreshing
and a benefit to vegetation.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20

The summer tourists are now
coming to Idaho Springs in good
numbers.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20

Beauty Operator at the Hot
Springs hotel. Hair dressing,
facial and scalp treatment and
manicuring. Residential work
solicited. Call hotel for appoint
ment. Mrs. G. E. Dunlap.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20

Simon Lnndberg, whose wife
died while he was in service, re-
turned Wednesday evening. He
was in France all winter, most of
the time in Paris driving cars for
officers In the American army.
He will remain in Idaho Springs
for the present.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20

Bread 2 for 15c. Roberts Bros.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-20

ilt Will leulhlu III IudlO springs
for the present.
Richard Lager returned last
week with the 341st Field Ar
tillery. He was eleven months on
the other slde-six in France and
five in Germany. He is looking
extra fine and expects to remain in
Idaho Springs but will probably
not return to the mines.
Charles Coleman is another one
of the boys who has returned from
service over seas. He was'one of
the early ones to go over and had
the valued experience of eighteen
months on the other side. doc"
has resumed his former position
with H. A. Elliott and is going
along the same as if he had not
been away.
DIR. and Mrs. A. Ashbaugh
have bought home at 35 Grant
street, Denver, and expect to re-
move there about the third of the
month. The doctor will be grie-
vously missed among his patients,
whom he has served for the past
six years. Mrs. Ashbaugh has
been active in Presbyterian church
work, and will be missed in these
circles, as we'll as by a host of
friends, who wish her and the doc
tor a pleasant residence in the
city. DIR. Atcheson is contemplate
ing removing his office to th9
rooms to be vacated by DR.. Ash
baugh.
Rraad 3 for Inc Roberts Pros
Morris tribune., 1919-12-19

coerce labor or the city man. ALI the
his proper turn at dealing the cards.
Our nation as a whole never faced
a more serious crisis than it does to-
day." declared Mr.. Strivings. 1.-THE
cities and especially elements among
organized labor are taking a dan
gerous attitude toward the crisis and
toward the very Government itself.
The yellow journals are catering to
the rabble and encouraging it to
bring pressure on the Government
that is dangerous. To combat this
the organized farmers must act con-
servatively. They must do it, not
only for the good of the farmers but
for the good of the country itself
Let me tell you that if ever we
have failure in corps, the nation
would face hunger, gaunt hunger.
Food production is not understood
away from the country.
Nov I am not against labor. But l
believe we have come to a new econ
omic basis. The idea that labor can
get what it wants at the sacrifice of
others-usually farmers-has gone.
We must have partnership, a rea-
soning together, a square deal for
both town and country. There must
be just division of profits. If labor
wants dividends it must come across
and do it's share instead of always
hedging, putting all the profits in
it's own pockets and telling all the
Morris tribune., 1919-12-19

deed, about the necessity of labor
producing more and capital taking
less proft-which is the essence of
the whole matter. They want to be
reelected next year.
1t is true as gospel that if the
country produces less clothing and
steel and coal and shoes and lumber
there is going to be less for each
family, and higher prices to pay.
We can shut our eyes and howl all
night long at the moon we cannot
see and cuss the farmer out all day
for being profiteer. But the way
to decrease costs is not to take it out
OF the hide of the farmer. 1t is by
making the well-fed laboring man
and the city capitalist and the mid
dleman and the smooth retailer do
their just share of the decreasing
No one should expect any one class to
do 1t all. Yet that is what many
propose to do. They propose to make
the farmer foot the entire bill.
Following Mr.. Howard on the pro-
gram at the Des Moines meeting was
S. l.. Strivings, New York Farmer
and president of the New York Farm
Bureau Federation, the oldest feder-
alton, with a membership of $4,000.
Strivings emphasized that the city
newspapers take a prejudiced attitude
against the farmers as a rule and
that city folks do not understand or
appreciate at all farm problems and
conditions. He also made plain-as
did Mr.. Howard-that the farmer
and the farm bureau do not mean to
Morris tribune., 1919-12-19
PAGE z

other, which includes the farmers, to
go to hell"
Here Mr.. Strivings told of his be-
ing invited to a fashionable New
York City church one Sunday not
long ago to explain to the city peo-
pie what a farmbureau federation
was. Before he began talking a wo-
man in the audience sent up a note
and asked if she could have ten
minutes of his time to make some re-
marks herself. He asked someone
with him on the platform who the
woman was and being told that she
was the president of a city woman's
organization, he wrote Certainly" on
the note and passed it back to her.
''You farmers are getting rich at
the expense of us city people," she
said when she came to the pulpit.
you must make food cheaper" was
the gist of her remarks.
Mr.. Strivings waited until she had
finished. Then he asked a question.
will you kindly explain to this
audience specifically how you know
that we are getting rich and explain
just how food can be made, cheaper?
I, for one, would be mighty glad to
get the exact facts in the case. I
have been farming for only about
! thirty years and I have never yet
found out for myself"
81 know what I know" she replied
Indignantly. 81 know that you
farmers are getting entirely too
much. If you don't put down the
CONTINUED to Page 1O)
Morris tribune., 1919-12-19
DANGEROUS CITY NEWSPAPERS

I should like to insert here some
arguments of my own to shore up
Mr.. Towards statements things
which some of you who read this may
have missed. A prominent labor
union official in Chicago recently re-
marked that no attempt was being
made to spread the union idea or the
eight-hour day to the farm, because
of the need of sustaining food pro-
duction."
Merciful heavens! So the 1aboring
man in town is to keep the farmer
from an eight-hour day in order that
the city man may have cheap food
while he strikes. Maybe it has been
that way in the past. 1t is not going
to be that way in the future.
Though Mr.. Howard and the farm
ers know the real remedy for the
high cost of living, it isn't mentioned
to any extent in Congress, nor in the
labor-union meetings, nor in many of
the big city papers. It is too simple
and too lacking in popularity. No
body-at least in TOWNSHIPS been
getting up to give three cheers for
the man who suggests that the way
for the nation to produce more goods
is to produce them by more hard
work. Yet, after all, that is just
about what President Wilson told
the railroad men.
Congressman have been growing
wildly excited about prof1teering and
who is responsible for it. But they
have been singing low, quite low in
Morris tribune., 1919-12-19

No work or art of merit re-
suited from chance. Beautiful things
of value require painstaking care in
their creation, despite the excellence
of jewelry store silverware it costs
no higher than the ordinary silver
ware, then to every article sold over
the jewelers. counter, carries the
double guarantee of the manufacture
er and the jeweler. Everything in
Community Plate, in Patrician and
Adams design or in Sterling in sew
eral patterns. Gifts in chests or
separate pieces from $4,000 to
$3.50.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-10
All Around Town
Mrs. William Galloway. vtfe OF :,

Mrs. William Galloway, wife Of for
mer Circuit Judge Galloway, is critic
ally i'll at her home in this city. Her
son, State Tax Commissioner Charles
v. Galloway, was called from his Of
fiee this morning to go to her bedside.
Ever since the beginning Of the world
there has been but one "best' way to
bury the dead, that way is in tombs.
Mount Crest Abbey provides that
best" way, the cost is no more. See
Caretaker at Mausoleum, Or your un-
dertaker. 81
The cold weather is making quite q
visit Hauser Bros. have some real bar.
gains In cold weather goods. Better
drop in and look them over. 20 pei
cent discount. Ill
The flag over the post office build
ing win hang at half mast for 80 days
out of respect for former president
Roosevelt. Today Postmaster Hucke
stein received the following telegram:
q Under presidents proclamation the
flag Of your building in your custody
is to be half masted for period of 90
days, respect ex-president Roosevelt" "
Facing ejectment PROCEEDINGS by the
State Board of Control, the executive
board Of the Salem hospital at meet
ing held last evening discussed the ad-
visibility of erecting temporary quar-
ters on the land adjoining the present
Salem hospital location. The emergen-
ey hospital now owned by the city and
county located ON the hospital grounds
cost about $500 and with using this
building and additional quarters, it
was thought that the hospital might be
maintained. At present there are only
12 patients in the hospital. To look in
to the matter a building committee was
appointed consisting of Russell Catlin,
chairman; Theodore Roth, Irwin Grif-
fifth and August Huckestein. This com
mittee has been asked to report within
a few days. 4h,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-10
chemise to the number of 4so is the

Chemise to the number Of 480 is the
allotment just received by Willamette
Chapter, American Red Cross, to be
forwarded to the refugees in France
and Belgium. This is really just the
first allotment of chemise for the Red
Cross workers here as the northwest
eriS division alone has received an or
der for $4,000. The allotment for Salem
will soon be assigned to the various
auxiliaries.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-10

Christmas. While Mr.. West was under
going siege, his two daughters also
were having time with the flu. Mr..
West reports all doing fine this morn
ing, although the assessor is not quite
as strong as he was before Christmas.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-10
Residents Of Marion county are ell

Residents of Marion county are ell
gible for appointment as rural mail
carriers from Aurora. A competitive ex-
animation will be held Jan. 25 at Ore
gon City and from three making the
best per centage on examination, the
appointment will be made. On a rural
route "a miles long, the compensation
is $l440 per year, but the mail carrier
is obliged to furnish means of trans
portation. Aurora being in fine farm
ing country is served by five rural
rOntea
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-10

am ready to receive piano pupils at my
Aome, 1472 Mill, or will go to homes
Of pupils. Special attention given to
technic and expression. Mrs. Lena Wa
ters. Phone 1lS4M. tf
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-10

Ben F. West, county tax assessor, is
once again at his office this morning
after wrestling with the flu since
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-10

keep warm with one Of those heavy
wood shirts. 20 per cent discount on
these shirts at Hauser Bros. Ill
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-10

Patients at the emergency hospital
Of the Red Cross are served with fresh
Holsum bread every day, given by the
Cherry City bakery. They are also sups
piled with LOU, given by the Pheasant
Fruit Juice Co.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-10
Red Cross Nurses

available fer visiting q II
hour duty. For information, call
1900, after 6 O'Clock 1918. Ill
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-10

Insurance. Commissioner Harvey
Wells was back in his office today, af-
ter siege of the flu in Los Angeles.
He is several pounds lighter than when
he went south before the holidays. For
some time he was under quarantine in
hotel in Los Angeles.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-10

There Is going to be big shakeup In
dogtown, out at the state penitentiary,
the first Of the month, as Warden
Stevens has given notice that all dogs,
not including the prison bloodhounds,
If course, must vacate at that time.
He has found Approximately 40 dogs
ct the prison, being fed and cared for
~ various inmates. The prisoners have
picked them up at various times and
Fave been feeding them at statv ex-
.Rense.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-10

Relax and rest In the dental chair.
DR.. Hartley fills and extracts teeth
without pain and corrects diseased
gums. Moore bldg. Phone la. If
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-10
AT q conference between Judge Per


lcy hely, mayor =. L. Aioin anu inc
city health authorities held this morn
court until Monday, January 20. The
jury was dismissed with instructions
to report at that date. Judge Kelly felt
disposed to consult the wishes OF the
city health authorities in regard to
holding court and as there has been
placed ban on all gatherings, Mayor
Albin and the health committee favor
ed the adjourning of court for a week
or more.
-
There is beginning to be feeling
that possibly there are not so many in
fluenza cases in the city as supposed.
Cases are often reported to the health
office by telephone and then later the
written official notice given and it Of
ten happens that case is reported two
times. Yesterday but 13 new cases were
reported and about as many quarantine
cards taken down. Just at present few
cards are being removed on account
of the new ruling that patients must
remain at home ten days after temper
atllfo and the cards must remain on Lue