STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
COLORADO
PEOPLE
W#»lern Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Comlnir Event*.
Oct. 27.—1.0.0. P. Annual Encampment
at Grand Junction.
Oct. 27-28.—Good Itoads Meeting at Pu
eblo.
Oct. 30-Nov. I.—Colorado Kennel Club
Show at Donver.
Nov. 6-B.—Thirteenth Annual Conven
tion of Rocky Mountain Hotel Men's
Association at Denver.
Nov. 24-26—State Teachers' Association
meeting at Pueblo.
Jan. 12-15.—Colorado Poultry Fanciers*
Association Show at Denver.
Jan. 19-24. —National Western Stock
Show at Denver.
Jan.—Meeting Colorado Good Roads
Association at Colorado Springs.
1916.—Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Clenn-up day was a great success in
Grand Junction.
Henry Decker, a convict, escaped
from the penitentiary at Caflon City.
Jacob Benner was fined S2O in Jus
tice Court at Loveland for the killing
of pheasants.
Colorado ranks third this year *ns
a producer of potatoes according to
the acreage tilled.
Mrs. Annie Hamilton Pitzer, sister
in-law of Speaker Champ Clark, is a
candidate for postmistress of Colorado
Springs.
In a fight in the kitchen of the Yale
restaurant in Denver R. J. Lytle, a
cook, was probably fatally stabbed by
Arthur England, a waiter.
While hunting, J. M. Jacobson of Pu
eblo accidentally discharged his shot
gun and was badly injured, his left
hand being almost shot away.
Diphtheria threatens to exterminate
the entire family of Edward Chura, a
homesteader on Deop '.reek, fourteen
miles from Steamboat Springs.
At- a special meeting the Pueblo
Trades Assembly voted in favu of a
federal investigation ot the pr*\s» s$
coal strike in the southern field*
William Maughan, fifty-nine, for*
man of the Chamberlain sampling
works of Black Hawk for the past
nineteen years, died of tuberculosis.
Thomas J. Thompson, sheriff ot
Boulder county in 1898 and for many
years one of the leading citizens of the
community, died suddenly near Gold
field, Nev.
The coming ot the State Teachers’
Association in Pueblo on November
24-20, is to have the best meeting ac
commodations of any session in re
cent years.
George Hargh, said to be a French
man, escaped from the prison grounds
at Cation City and was apprehended
at Portland, following an exciting tus
sle with six guards.
Members of the canine aristocracy
from every state in the Union are ar
riving in Denver for the annual show
of the Colorado Kennel Club to be held
In the Colburn building.
Hayden, one of the oldest towns iu
Routt county and the county seat at
the time of the Meeker massacre, will
celebrate in Western fashion the com
ing of the Denver & Salt Lake rail
road.
Owing to the coal miner’s strike at
Oak Creek, traffic over the Moffat
road has been greatly reduced and
there is some talk of cutting the pas
senger and mail service to three trips
a week.
One dead and three wounded, two
perhaps fatally, is tile toll of a battle
between strikers and deputy sheriffs
at Forbes, a camp of the Rocky Moun
tain Fuel Company, ton miles north of
Trinidad.
The operations of a well-organized
hand of sheep and cattle thieves was
called to the attention of the grand
Jury at Grand Junction. The com
plaint was made by Charles Mead, a
sheepman, and Charles F. Bowman.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Ross, sixty
three and fifty-eight years old respec
tively, living on a ranch near Redvale,
a small farming town in the western
part of Montrose county, were burned
to death in a fire at their home.
Advices received in Denver from
New York indicated a plan to increase
the capitalization of the new Denver
Union Terminal Railway Cotnpnny
from $30,000 to $30,000,000 is being
considered In financial circles of the
metropolis.
John W. Finch, Denver mining en
gineer, is one of ten metallurgists who
have been honored by President Wil
son by appointment to represent the
federal government at the meeting ot
the American Mining Congress in Phil
adelphia.
William C. Redfield, secretary of the
Department of Commerce, first incum
bent of the office since its creation
last March, will arrive in Denver Oc
tober 30, and will pass several days a9
the guest of the Denver Chamber of
Commerce.
Efforts to locate Frank L. Finch,
former editor and owner of the Arap
ahoe Herald of Littleton, who disap
peared several weeks ago, have failed
and his wife accompanied the body of
their eleven-year-old daughter, Fran
ces, to Oliver. Kansas, for burial.
FEASTON BAKED TUBERS
FIVE THOUSAND AT CARBONDALE
POTATO FESTIVAL.
Yields of Westerp Slope Fields This
Year Give Farmers Renewed
Hope of Prosperity.
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Western Newspaper Union Nows Service.
Glenwood Springs, Colo. —With four
teen quarters of beef, 6,000 baked po
tatoes, scores of loaves of bread and
gallons of coffee and other good
things to tempt the appetite. Carbon
dale celebrated her fourth annual po
tato festival and was hostess to hun
dreds of Western Slope people who
entered the festivities with a gusto
which comes as a result of the bumper
crops harvested throughout this sec
tion of the slope.
Never In the history of Carbondale
have such crops of potatoes been gath
ered In the Roaring Fork valley. An
Idea of the yield is found in the fol
lowing:
Charles hjow haryested 3G2 sacks of
115 pounds each from a measured acre.
He got 360 sacks an acre from fifteen
acres.
George Slevers loaded eight carloads
of potatoes from seven acres of his
ranch.
Max Grubb, son of Gene Grubb, the
potato expert, will harvest 100 cars
of fine tubers. Lou and Frank Sweet
will do equally as well from their
fields.
Indications now are that the entlro
4,500 acres of potatoes In the Carbon
dale district will average better than
300 bushels to the acre this year.
The country surrounding Carbondale
Is a beehive of activity and potato
diggers and pickers are being pushed
to the limit to get the big crop in
cellars. Twelve pickers on the Grubb
ranch In one day picked sacks
each. This Is the rocord for the dis
trict, and Is believed to beat any rec
ord In the state. The men are receiv
ing 4 cents a sack and board for their
work. Fourteen pickers on the Sweet
ranch pick 1,500 sacks a day.
The potato raisers are putting their
tubers in cellars which hold from
thirty to fifty carloads. They have
shipped several hundred carloads from
the district, but are now holding for
a higher price than Is offered.
But their potato crop Is not the only
source of profit, for forty-five cars of
cattle were loaded at Redstone, south
of Carbondale, and ground has already
been secured for the location of a
marble-finishing mill which will em
ploy from 150 to 200 men throughout
the year. And Carbondale folks made
merry with feasting, dancing and
street sports, while Rifle and Marble
bands enlivened the affair with con
certs.
Missing Girl in Chinese Opium Den.
Pueblo. —In the belief that thoy
have unearthed what will prove to be
a widespread trafficking in women
covering several states, officers of
this city and Florence are working on
the case of Miss Lucy Macori, twenty
two years old and quite good looking,
who was rescued from a Chinese
opium den in Florence only after the
door had been battered down by the
police and two hostile Chinamen sub
dued. Miss Macori was found uncon
sclous from the drug, which she after
ward claimed was administered with
out her knowledge or consent. She
was taken back to Pueblo and turned
over to her parents.
Will Seek ’Phone Reduction.
Boulder.—Representatives from all
the towns and villages in northern
Colorado, some thirty iu all, will meet
here Friday, November 24, to consider
ways and means of securing a thirty
per cent reduction in telephone rato3,
as well as two per cent of the net rev
enues of the telephone company from
the exchanges they have in these
cities.
New Fish Hatchery at Georgetown.
Georgetown.—A new fish hatchery
to be operated under the direction of
the state game and fish warden is to
be built in Georgetown. J. A. Shinnj
state game and fish commissioner,
left here after agreeing with the citi
zens of Georgetown regarding the
construction of the hatchery.
Heavy Wheat Yield Reported.
Fruita.- One of the heaviest yields
of wheat In the Fruita section was
harvested this year by John Kloster,
a rancher west of town. He gathered
650 bushels of heavy wheat from nine
acres, or sixty bushels per acre.
Mayor of Rocky Ford Resigns.
Rocky Ford—Mayor George M. Coff
man lias sent hi 3 resignation to the
city council on account of illness. Ho
served one term as mayor and last
spring was re-elected.
Woman Picks Her Sixth Mate.
Grand Junction. —Mrs. Grace Field-
Caineron - Prewitt - Howard - Staley-
Marquam was married to her sixth
husband at Montrose. He Is Charles
Leu, an Ouray miner.
THE CHEYENNE RECORD.
STATE CAPITAL
NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
BOARD WANTS MORE SETTLERS.
Leases for Big Tracta of Land to Be
Offered Home Beekera.
Denver. —An active campaign to
bring settlers to' Colorado has been
started by the State Land Board, and
tlgures are being compiled showing all
unleased agricultural and grazing land
In the state.
Twenty-five thousand (me hundred
and forty acres of good grazing land
Is lying unleased in Park county, ac
cording to data compiled by the board.
The data show that but 3,720 acres
are leased in the county.
The most notable discovery made
by the board Is that while much of
the land Is held without lease or with
leases expired, a large part of the 25,-
000 acres has been made untenable
because of the shutting in of water
holes by persons who lease only 3,000
aores.
The board Is also preparing to lease
a tract of 20,000 acres of the best graz
ing land of the state located in El
Paso, Fremont and Teller counties.
The land lies half way between Cafion
City and Colorado Springs and was
formerly known as the Gumar pasture.
The new state highway to the south
runs to the west of the pasture, while
Red creek passes directly through the
center.
The lease was cancelled a year and
a half ago and the fences were confis
cated. It will be necessary for the
state to fence the acreage along the
new highway. The board announces
that this land Is open for immediate
use.
Fifty-five thousand acres of land in
Kiowa, Bent and Prowers county will
be offered to lessees ns soon as an
investigation is completed by the
board. The land is near the reservoir
of the Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet
and Irrigated Land Company and
some of it reaches into the reservoir
and is capable of irrigation. There
is also a spring on the land.
A large port of this land was never
leased but has been used by the sheep
men of that section.
Near this land are 105 sections con
taining G 7.200 acres, which is also to
be offered to lessees as soon as an
Investigation of the present leases is
completed.
Risk Companies Must Register.
Denver. —One hundred and seventy
one insurance companies which have
been doing business in Colorado for
years without establishing their iden
tity as corporations have been noti
fied that they must file their, articles
of incorporation with the secretary of
state before December 1 or face prose
cution. Companies which fail to com
ply with the secretary’s request be
fore December 1 will be cited into
court and Pearce will endeavor to en
join them from doing business in Col
orado.
Increase in Timber Sales.
Denver.—A $12,000 increase over
last year is shown in the receipts
from the sale of national forest tim
ber in Colorado, Wyoming and South
Dakota for the past quarter, accord
ing to figures compiled by the Denver
office of the forest service. Of these
receipts, twenty-five per cent is
turned over to counties through the
states for schools and roads, and ten
per cent is expended by the depart
ment on roads.
Vast Coal Land Acreage Leased.
Denver. —The state now leases 5,154
acres of producing coal land to thir
teen companies. The total acreage of
producing land as apportioned to coun
ties is as follows: Routt, 2,880; Mof
fat, 680; Fremont, 960; Park, 640;
Jackson, 640; La Plata, 1,920; Monte
zuma, 640; Weld, 1,280; Las Animas,
7,280, and Huerfano, 4,720, a total of
21,640 acres. The total area in the
state is 473,732.
Working to Replenish Hatcheries.
Denver.—Ten million fish eggs are
being sought by the state to replen
ish the streams with "fry” next spring.
A force under the direction of James
A. Shinn, state game and fish commis
sioner, is at work securing eggs from
the brook trout, which at this season
of the year go into the lakes to lay
thoir eggs.
Governor Ammons Gets Big Pears.
Denver.—Three of the largest pears
ever seen in the state were sent to the
state house by B. W. Clucas of Cortez
and presented to Governor Ammons.
The largest one weighs two and one
half pounds. It measures 17 inches by
15 inches in circumference.
Board Wants Drug Laws Enforced.
Denver. —Resolutions asking district
attorneys of the state to enforce rig
idly the laws regulating the sale ol
narcotics were passed by the State
Board of Charities and Corrections
COLORADO TAX
IS $1,698,447.08
Board of equalization ur
HOLDS INCREASES OF TAX
COMMISSION.
FIX 1913 LEVY AT 1.30
STATE VALUATION INCREASED
$186,551,658; DENVER RAISED
$101,902,088.
Wwtern Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.—Colorado’s property valu
ation was raised $186,551,668 by the
State Board of Equalization and Den
ver 1b to bear the brunt o( state ex
penses by paying $524,038.08 on a to
tal state revenue ot $1,698,447.
The value of state property was de
clared to be $1,306,498,162, and the
state levy was fixed at 1.30 mills.
The Board of Equalization adopted
the Tax Commission’s report and
raised Pitcher’s assessment of Denver
$254,755,200 by $101,902,088. This,
added to the corporate assessments,
makes Denver’s valuation $403,106,218.
Other assessors of the state were
notified that their assessments had
been raised according to the report of
the Tax Commission.
The thirteen counties, with over 30
per cent, increase ordered, are:
Costilla, 135% t 2,617,120
Bio Grande, 117% 4,841.160
Cheyenne, 107% 2,828,230
Saguache, 105% 4,248.085
Kiowa, 76% 1,722,645
Conejos. 74% 3.904,700
Weld. 62% 23,447,470
Rio Blanco, 58% 1.742,920
Grand. 61% 1,175,224
Llnooln, 47% 2.310,637
Kit Carson, 44% 2,374.354
Denver, 40% 101,902,088
Eagle, 33% 969,680
While the State Board of Equaliza
tion expressed confidence in their le
gal right to increase the valuation on
Colorado property by the sum of $186,-
561,658, they had no hesitation in say
ing that they did not believe that Den
ver, Weld and other counties, whose
assessments were arbitrarily raised,
would extend the increases on their
books, unless the state board brought
mandamus suits to compel them to
do so.
PRESIDENT ADMITS PANKHURST.
Says Landing Is Matter of Public Pol
icy and ’ Not Law.
Washington.—Mrs. Emmeline Pank
hurst, the militant British suffragist,
is free to enter the United States. The
Ellis Island board’s order of deporta
tion was reversed Monday after Pres
ident Wilson had conferred on the
case with Secretary Wilson and a
hearing had been concluded before
Immigration Commissioner Caminetti.
Secretary Wilson announced at the
conclusion of his conference with the
President that Mrs. Pankhurst would
be admitted on her own recognizance,
with the understanding that she would
depart at the end of her lecture en
gagements. No bond was exacted.
Mrs. Pankhurst left Ellis Island and
went to New York. A motor car of
Mrs. O. H. Belmont, suffragette leader,
met her at the pier and she was driven
to Mrs. Belmont's home.
Crested Butte Men Walk Out.
Gunnison.—Two hundred and fifty
men employed at the Buckley and
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company mines
at Crested Butte, walked out Monday.
The Pueblo mine of the Colorado Fuel
& Iron Company, employing fifty men,
signed up with the union and the men
have returned to work. The Floresta
mine, of the latter company, did not
shut down. The miners have no griev
ances, merely demanding recognition
of the union.
PICK SULZER FOR ASSEMBLY.
Impeached New York Governor to Run
In Home District,'
New York.—William Sulzcr, im
peached as governor of the slate, was
nominated for the assembly by the
Progressives of the Sixth Assembly
District, Sulzer in 1889 began his pub
lis career as a member of this branch
of the State Legislature.
Sulzer has agreed to accept the nomi
nation, it was announced at the meet
ing, where he was chosen as the can
didate. Max Steindler, Progressive
leader in the Sixth Assembly District,
who placed the former governor’s
name in nomination, said Sulzer had
declared he would gladly accept the
nomination.
Predicts Passage of Currency Bill.
Washington. President Wilson
wrote Representative Underwood, ma
jority leader of the House, expressing
the opinion that the currency bill
would be reported' to the Senate not
later than the first week in November,
and passed after two or three weeks’
debate.
TORTURING TWINGES
Much so-called rheumatism is caused
by weakened kidneys. When the kid
neys fail to clear the blood of uric acid,
the acid forms into crystals like bits
of broken glass in the muscles, joints
and on the nerve casings. Torturing
pains dart through the affected part
whenever it is moved. By curing the
kidneys, Doan's Kidney Pills have
eased thousands of rheumatic cases,
lumbago, sciatica, gravel, neuralgia
and urinary disorders.
A COLORADO CASE
_ . _ „ PietMrs
John T. Scantling. /Zmk Telia a BtorM”
140 Johnson St., Trln- rvm*.
Idad, Colo., says: "I C&MZM
was helpless In bed
for three months with
rheumatism. When I Vi
did set up, I had to
use crutchea Besides
backache and rheu
matlo pains, I had
trouble with my kid
neys. After doctoring -jn~
unsuccessfully, I be- I I}V
gan using Doan's Kid- I [f M
ney Pills. They cured I f
the terrible pains and 1 I |M\ \
I have been able to IJm\ I
work every day since.
I feel like a different
man." .
Gaft Doan's aft Any Stare. 50c ■ Box
D OAN’S V«*J*V
FOSTERJULBURN CO, BUFFALO, N.Y.
CURRENCY NO ONE DESIRES
Two-Dollar Bill More of a Nuleance
Than Its Value Can Be Made
to Justify.
Countless persons who have some
time or other accepted change for one
dollar for a two-dpllar bill will be In
terested In the story of "Ole Prince"
Robinson, the colored barber in the
House barbershop at Washington.
When the sergeant-at-arms offered him
five $2 bills the other day as part of
his pay, Robinson waved them widely
away, declaring that every $2 bill car
ries with it the “Egyptian curse,” that
he would rather break a looking-glass
walk under a ladder or turn back with
out making a cross-mark than take
a $2 bill, because it was a sure sign
of 111 luck.
Whether there is an "Egyptian
curse” on the $2 not or not, there-has
certainly been many an American
curse put on it. It is the easiest thing -
in the world, victims will tell you, to
pass out a two for a one and not dis
cover the loss until you begin search,
for that other dollar you had, but
haven’t any more. A currency reform
that would eliminate the $2 bill and
the hoodoo at the same time would
be a reform that would save money
for generations to come.
Invalid’s Sweet Patience.
Who does the most complaining in
this world? Not the invalids. For
hours on hours they lie there, secretly
resolving, “Let me make myself less
a sorrow to others than I was yester
day.” And these are the victories,
grander far than those of war. When
these moral conquests are extended
over months, perhaps years, the heroic
sufferer's room often becomes a cham
ber of comfort to all who are unhappy.
What a triumph when to the chair of
some grand martyr come the friends
of a wide circle that her gentle hand
may wipe away their tears. These are
the uncrowned queens of our race. In
almost every home there is. a name
above every name—that of the sweet
and patient Invalid.
There are now more than 1,800
aeroplanes in regular and active serv
ice in France.
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Breakfast
Sunshine
Post
Toasties
and Cream
There’s a delicious smack
in these crisp, appetizing bits
of toasted com that brings
brightness and good cheer to
many and many a breakfast
table.
Toasties are untouched by
hand in making; and come in
tightly sealed packages—clean
ancl sweet —ready to eat with
cream and sugar.
Wholesome ~
Nourishing
Easy to Serve
Sold by grocers everywhere.