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STATE CAPITAL
NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DRY LAW BARS LOCKER SYSTEM.
Governor Carlson Puts That Construc
tion on Prohibition Measure.
Denver.—Governor Carlson believes
the "dry” law prohibits the mainten
ance of the locker system in social
clubs, by means of which each mem
ber could keep liquor. The executive
said clubs cannot be classed as
“members’ homes.” “A man cannot
have two homes his club and the
place where his family lives —any more
than he can have two wives,” the
governor declared.
Leading clubs of Denver have an
nounced their lntentioh to dispense en
tirely with liquor after Jan. 1 if the
Supreme Court upholds contentions of
state officials in two suits pending in
court.
Within the next three weeks a meet
ing of the District Attorney’s Associa
tion of the state will be held to dis
cuss prosecutions of violators of the
prohibition law.
A special call will be issued by Dis
trict Attorney Purcell of El Paso
county, president, according to Gover
nor Carlson.
The governor and the attorney gen
eral will meet with the prosecutors.
A special fund of $5,000 was
granted the governor by the General
Assembly to aid in the enforcement of
the law, and it is probable the gover
nor will appoint a special officer to
aid in gathering evidence.
“Bargain” sales of liquors in antici
pation of the enforcement of the-law
have already begun, and many citizens
are beginning to stock their cellars.
According to state officials the only
place an individual can keep liquor for
his own consumption, without liability
of seizure, will be his own home.
Estimates vary as to the amount of
liquor now held by Colorado dealers
which they will have to sell or ship
away. Federal revenue officers think
the total value is at least $3,500,000.
Adolph Seibold, president of the
Liquor Dealers’ Association, esti
mates it at between $2,500,000 and
$3,000,000.
State Revenues Increase Over 1914.
Almost all of the important reve
nues of the state show increases for
the last year, according to State
Treasurer Stocker, the income from
general taxes growing almost $300,000.
Nov. 30 was the last day of. the state’s
fiscal year and Dec. 1 the new finan
cial year of the state government be
gan. A table solely for the purposes
of comparison of revenues to show the
differences between 1915 and 1914 was
prepared by Treasurer Stocker. It
follows:
1914. 1915.
General taxe5.51,677,540.26 $1,967,258.54
Inheritance tax
Land commls- _
alonera 624,285.14 748,817.32
I n surance
slon 111 .. 1 ?. 1 .. 8 .? 246,851.70 251,324.20
Fees, secre
tary of state 178,724.23 179,317.79
Game and
fish commis
sion 43,273.35 49,779.01
Btock inspec
tion T. 35,331.42 28,238.90
Oil Inspection, 14.913.52 19,414.84
Boiler Inspec
tor .... 8,346.00 9,400.00
Liquor licenses 49,607.50 29,946.70
Coal mine in
spection 23.933.07 26,634.58
State engineer 8,953.80 7,101.10
Barber exami
ners 4,230.20 4,408.47
Bank commis
sioner 16,254.14 12,707.14
Because the total receipts and ex
penditures for the year can not be
compiled for several weeks until all
bills are received and paid, no effort
hsa yet been made to arrive at totals.
Hughes Heirs Pay State $2,829 Tax.
An inheritance tax of $2,829 has
been paid into the state treasury by
heirs of Edwin S. Hughes of Garfield
county. Besides real estate and
stock, Hughes left $64,000 in cash in
the First Natlona’ bank of Glenwood
Springs. His total estate was valued
at $196,808 and was bequeathed to his
widow, who received half and his son
and daughter, who received $44,595
each. Hughes died Oct. 18. For the
week ending Nov. 27, Leslie E. Hub
bard, inheritance tax appraiser, col
lected the following amounts from the
estates named: Ann Forman, El
Paso county, $1,521.93; Alice M.
Briggs, Massachusetts, $80.15; Cath
erine Birch, Denver, $782.50; Andrew
Sorenson, Denver, sl4; Nellie Pres
cott, California, $782.19; William C.
Clarke, New York, $30.47; Edwin L.
Allen. Las Animas county. $94.42;
Herbert T. Quick, Jefferson county,
$197.94; Irving S. Morse, Denver,
$2,048.58; Addle P. B. O’Connor, New
York, $20.83; Edwin S. Hughes, Gar
field county, $2,829.24; Waivers issued
amounted to $lO6. The total collected
was $8,608.26.
ARRESTED AS ASSASSIN
LONGMONT BANKER’S 80N AC
CUSED OF HI8 MURDER.
Purchase of__ Hlflh-Power Rifle Ad
mitted—Parte of Gun Hidden After
Merchant Was Slain.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
"OFFICERS HADE MB SAY
THIN US.”—U1CKE.VS.
Renzie C. Dickens, while seated
in the office of the chief of police
at Longmont, said:
“As sure as I am sitting here I
am as innocent as anyone in this
town. I did not kill my father.
When the officers had me last
night I said a lot of things I should
not have said. They scared them
plumb out of me. Some of the an
swers they made me give made- it
look bad for me, I know. I would
not have said them if I had had a
friend or a lawyer with me to
help me."
Renzie Dickens all through his
life has been a man of most, exem
plary habits. He does not smoke,
no acquaintance knows of his hav
ing ever take? a drink, and, even
in his young aays he was not in
clined to run around.
He is a compactly built man,
about 6 feet 11 inches in height, 35
years old, smooth-faced, quiet and
unassuming.
Longmont, r Colo., Dec. e.—Develop
ment of a clew unearthed hy a police
man culminated Friday in the arrest
of Renzle C. Dickens, a son of William
H. Dickens, the wealthy Longmont
banker and merchant assassinated
last Tuesday night, on a charge of be
ing his father’s slayer. Dickens was
taken into custody at the close of his
father’s funeral, as a result of evi
dence gathered by the authorities and
which District Attorney Fleming an
nounced would be the basis of formal
charges, of murder against Dickens.
Dickens maintains he Is innocent
but refuses to discuss the charges
against him. The purchase of a
high-powered gun In Denver hy the ac
cused man furnished a basis for the
collection of evidence against Dickens
which the police characterize as “in
criminating ” The gun was purchased
a month ago from a Denver hardware
company. Payment was made with
part cash and a check on a Longmont
bank. The purchaser later obtained
a “silencer’’ and this information fol
lowing the slaying of the Longmont
banker was given by a clerk of the
store to Patrolman E. L. McKinnon.
McKinnon in turn informed the police
department and search for the gun
and silencer was made about Renzle
Dickens’ home.
Various parts were located In his
garage, together with a box of cart
ridges, five shells of which were found
missing. When first questioned, the
son of the murdered man, according
to the police, denied having ever
possessed a high-powered gun. When
confronted with the parts picked up
by the police he admitted he had pur
chased the gun, the authorities say.
The stock of the gun was found with
the box of cartridges behind a trunk
In the rear of Renzie’s home, the
silencer on the top of a rafter In his
garage. The barrel of the gun was
found in a barn a block away.
Asked if he had fired the weapon,
the police say he replied "Five times.”
• Renzie’s debts, according to rumors,
range between $35,000 and $40,000 and
a motive for the shooting of the elder
Dickens Is claimed by the police In
the hopes of Inheriting his wealth at
an early date.
That it was the intention of the
slayer to kill the elder Dickens and
his wife with one shot, is the belief
of the police.
The bullet was fired, It was found,
from a point where the aged banker
and his wife were in a straight line.
Evidence to support the theory is
further strengthened, say the police
by the fact that Mrs. Dickens, who
was seated across the table at which
her husband was shot through the
back, was grazed by the bullet.
Charged With "Joyride” Crime.
Denver. —Miss Louise Mansfield, 25
years old, daughter of a prominent
eastern family, died at the county hos
pital as a result of a beat'ng received
at the Auto Inn, a Petersburg road
bouse. Denver and Arapahoe county
authorities have ordered the arrest of
three prominent Fort Collins cattle
men, who are charged with the as
sault on Miss Mansfield. Eddie Lewis,
a chauffeur employed by an Engle
wood automobile company, is being
held in the city jail for investigation.
James W. Daley, proprietor of the
Auto Inn, and his wife probably will
be placed under arrest in connection
with the case.
The girl was taken from the Mop
ton hotel in Denver In a dying condi
tion. Every inch of her body was cov
ered with black and blue marks and
sbe had developed double pneumonia,
due to exposure. If the men accused
of the assault are apprehended,
charges of murder will be placed
against them by District Attorney
Samuel Johnson of Arapahoe county.
Colorado has a million population.
THfe CHKYENKE RECORD.
BUDGET BREAKS
ALLU.S. RECORDS
AMOUNT OF APPROPRIATIONS
ASKED FROM NEW CONGRESS
IS $969,492,929.
WAR CAUSES INCREASE
CHAMP CLARK RE-ELECTED AND
SWORN IN AS SPEAKER
OF THE HOUSE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.—Congress . assembled
and organized Monday for the session,
which is expected to be greatest
within the memory of the present gen
eration. Four hours’ work in the
house saw Speaker Clark returned to
the chair; Representative Mann re
turned to the leadership of the Repub
lican minority; the introduction of
2,000 bills and resolutions, many of
them proposing measures of national
defense and many more in opposition;
the reappearance of constitutional
amendments to enfranchise women,
and a miniature rules fight that flick
ered out with the adoption of last
year’s rules with a few changes.
In the Senate practically nothing
was done except the election of Sena
tor Clark of Arkansas as president
pro tempore. Vice President Marshall
was absent because of the illness of
his wife.
Estimates for the most elaborate
program of expenditures ever asked
of an American Congress in times cl
peace were submitted to Congress on
opening day, proposing a total outlay
of $1,285,857,808, or $170,853,614 more
than was appropriated lust year.
The great increase is almost wholly
due to the administration plans for
military preparedness. More than
$116,000,000 of tho total is for direct
expenditures on the army and navy,
with millions more to be used in
coast defense and other fortification
work. By establishments the amounts
asked are:
Legislative $
Executive 30,807,500
Judicial .......•••••••••••• 1.368.500
Agriculture 24, }of'cnn
Foreign Intercourse 5,4*6.699
Military 162,354,259
Naval 211.518.074
Indian affairs 10,176,036
Pensions 160.b65.00U
Panama canal 27,535,469
Public works 104 644.689
Postal service 316.364,879
Miscellaneous 98.290,663
Permanent appropriations.. 135.074,673
The postal service estimate 1b do
ductable from the total because Its re
ceipts are turned back to tho treas
ury. That leaves $969,492,929 as the
actual total of appropriations Con
gress is asked to make, or $167,853,-
401 more than last year.
Not a single establishment of thr
government asked for less than was
given last year. Many lequests were
made for increases because of devel
opments of the war in Kurope.
The administration's estimate of
military and naval expenditures, in
cluding the first year’s cost of the
new national defense program, asks
for $152,354,259 for the army and
$211,618,074 for the navy.
For the two branches the increase
asked over the appropriations last
year is about $124,000,000. exclusive of
the amounts for fortifications and
other items which may bo included in
a general scheme of mili f ary defense.
The entire plan calls tor something
over $150,000,000 in excess of the last
appropriations.
Submarine Sinks Bix Turk Ships.
London.—A British submarine sank
a Turkish destroyer and five supply
ships in the Sea of Marmora.
Kaiser May Recall All Diplomats.
Washington.—Count von Bernstorff,
Germany’s ambassador to the United
States, may quit the country as the
result of the United States’ request
for the removal of Captains Boy-Ed
and Von Papen, naval and military
attaches respectively of the kaiser's
embassy in Washington. Ambassador
von Bernstorff, according to Wash
ington officials, takes the stand that
the acts of his aides were the acts of
himself, and that sentiment against
them includes him. He is backed in
this view by the Berlin govemmenL
As nearly as can be learned, if Count
von Bernstorff leaves the United
States he will take his entire suite
with him. This will leave Germany
without a diplomatic representative in
Washington.
Irrigation Law Held Constitutional.
Washington.—The Utah irrigation
law authorizing any person desiring
water for irrigation purposes to en
large existing canals after compen
sating the owners, was upheld as con
stitutional by the Supreme Court
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dig, angrily, "that my word is lust as
good as my bond.”
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is the matter with your bond.”
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets are best for liver,
bowels and Btomach. One little Pellet for
a laxative —three for a cathartic.—Adv.
After a man has worked five years
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Makes the laundress happy—that’s Red
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A man who talks to himself hears a
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Liquor doesn’t drown troubles; it
floats them.
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Doyle was breaking stones on the
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The Metamorphosis.
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