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AWFUL DISASTER!
I
ONE HUNDRED AND FTTYPCO- j
PLE PERISH AT SEA.
BY STEAMSHIP COLLISION
Sorre Escape in Srra : Beats. But
Many cf Them Are Frczen to Death
Forty-eight BoC es Dr.fted Ashore
Block Island. R. I- —About ISO per
sons Sk.-nt to their death in Block
lH.nl F , ;nd Monday night as a re-
B of t
school H ■ Kx : I •
lit,. Larch: boun-1 from
Provide■nc.'? to New York
, . • ■ ns ox
board U>< mer a n «b< aail I
from ITovi.lt-nrf. Of those, only
•• h *W ar >••••' oirt.w.l the
,ji, r r - ~ri.r • • • f rh«* crew and
r.;r:«- ; -i- * r.-r* rFor* y eight bodies
A’jct •:.* '! from t! • r slumbers in
their th* unfortunate pas
,
fa - • Mr. :• is i••• •d. vk *ntd' wn
with th- ship Others, temporarily
■ . ed d
• t they t 1 relieved
of 11. • f r:. ■I e pain caused by their
f and nkm nn ;a -
fi ,-n;-< r ; .'••'! a kn!f* his throat
tew
who s l .d w< re in ;■ Mful condition
In j t even ci e their arms and
thej were
lifu-.j ~ .t of the boats in which they
r .-ardo <1 shon- During the day forty
eight bodies came ashore, either in
boa’s or thrown up by the sea. Only
s x of the forty eight bodies were
identified.
]* r> rh captains were saved, and each
declares the other ia responsible for
th** fatal collision.
The Larchrnont left her dork In
Providence last night with a heavy
cargo of freight and a passenger list
estimated from 150 to 200.
Captain George McVev was prepar
ing to retire after a turn around his
ship. V. hen he was startled by several
blast's of the steamer's whistle. Me
rushed into the pilot house, where the
pilot and uuart* rmaster pointed out a
three masted schooner sailing east
ward before a strong wind. The
schoonc r. which proved to bo the
Harrv Knowlton. coal laden from
South Amboy for Boston, had been
bowling along cm her course, when she
seemed suddenly to luff up and head
straight for the steamer. Again sev
eral blast a were sounded on the steam
er's whistle, the pilot and the quarter
master at the same time whirling their
wheel hard aport in a mad endeavor to
avert a collision.
Before* another warning could he
sounded.the schooner crashed into the
port side of the and the
impact of the* big vessel was so ter
rific that the big, clumsy how of the
sailing craft forced its way more than
half the breadth of the Larchrnont
When the force of the Impact had been
spent the schooner temporarily re
malned fast In the steamer's side, hold
ing in check for a moment the Inrush
ing waters.
The pounding sc-a soon separated
the* vessels, however, and the water
rushed into the gaping hole in the
steamer with tremendous velocity.
Captain McWy ordered nil lifeboats
and lafts cut away, and before-step
ping into liis own boat he stood on the
upper deck a moment to see that his
order was executed. Then he ordered
that his own boat, the largest on board,
he c leared away.
Before the* men had an opportunity
to loosen the tackles, the bottom of
the boat rested on top of the surging
sea which was raging over the hurri
cane deck, and for a. moment it
seemed as though the lifeboat would
be dragged down before she could be
frec-d from the doomed steamer.
Every hand in the boat was too cold
to handle a knife and cut the ropes,
which, however, slipped through the
tackles and set. the boat adrift just as
the vessel became submerged.
The passengers’ discomfort was in
creased greatly the- moment they had
launched their boats. Every wave sent
il3 dash of spray over them. Soon a
thin coating of ice enveloped everyone.
Those who were fully clothed suffered
from frozen faces and numbed feet, hut
then were many who had on only their
night clothing.
One man In the captain's boat was
driven insane by the intense suffering.
ll.' l pulled a big clasp knife from his
pocket and gashed his throat. Those
who sat near hinr were too dazed to in
terfere. The unknown man’s body fell
to the bottom of the boat, where it re
main* d unheeded.
Fisher's Point, the nearest land, was
not quite five miles to the westward of
the point where the steamer went
down and every boat immediately
headed f<*r that place. But th*- boats
wen- heavy and th*- men at the oars
were weak.
The boats and rafts soon became
separated, and th*- only details of the
disaster which could I*** learned here
w»-r. given when < aptain McVey’sboat
came ashore.
Not a man on board was able to
walk. Th* ir {• * t were frozen so badl>
that ih*- life savers carried the survi
vors ‘'ill', to the life-saving station
*'apt i.n McY* y. shortly after his ar
n\a’. said he had on hoard his ship be
tween 1‘ ' and 2"'» passengers nnd a
rr wof fiftv. Eater he said there won
beiwe* n fifty and •v* nty-five pass* !;
;vrs ( ii hoard th** steamer when th*
\ ( .(sel went down.
'I he latti r figure, however, is far be
low tin • it 1 mate made hy the officials
of the Joy I .in** at Providence, who es
timare the number of passengers at
no less than 150.
Alcohol for Automobiles.
New York. In the first competitive
test for motor fuels ever held in thl
country, denatured alcohol has been
found more efficient than either gaso
line or k -ros.-n*-. hut much more ex
pensive. This is th** result of the r*-
cent test run of thre- light autoni**
biles Iron New York to Boston, earl
using a different fuel, as reported b
observers on the run appointed by th
Automobile Club of America.
THE FATHER'S WORK.
‘ Suggett.crs cf Fres dent Roosevelt to
the Mothers' Assembly. 1
S racuse, N. V. —Mrs. E. H. Merrill
. teat ot N< » V-.ru
Si ■ M •: - - m :a receipt
! f a I'r.Roosevelt,
a hI • of th* |
father and mother in the home. The
I letter was written in i • to one
! asr.ing i-ugg* a*:<m.s I r the council of '
mothers recently held at N-wburg,
an i the state convention to he held in
the fall.
The President says
"F'.r * : . ir topics b V wool i
it do to i of the
father in the home? N w and th* n
people forget that exactly as the |
mother must help the breadwinner by j
being a good hous- keeper, so th- father
in his turn, if he is worth his salt,
must in every way hack up the mother
in helping bring up the chiidr* n.
“After all. the prime duties are ele
mental and no amount of cultivation,
no amount of busin* sa force and sa
gacity, will n.ake the average man a
I good citizen unless he be a good hus
band and father, and unless he is a
successful breadwinner, is tender and
< oosiderate with his wife and bo'h lov
ing and wise (for to b« loving and weak
and foolish is utterly ruinous; in deal
;i. • with tl <. Iren.
' I think it a trim- for the woman to
shirk her primary duties to shrink
from being a good wif*- and mother. Of j
fours* , the woman should have the
same right as the man to train her
mind, to better herself; and occasion
ally a woman ran and ought to follow
some special vocation in addition to
* “ever in substitution for) her home
work.
“But Just as the highest work for
the* normal man is work for his wife
and children, so the highest work for
the normal woman is the work of the
home, where, heaven knows, the work
Is ample enough.
“But I also feel she can do the best
work in her home if she has healthy
outside Interests and occupations in
addition, and I most firmly believe
that she cannot do her full duty by
her husband If she occupies a merely
servile attitude and that she Is quite
as had a mother if weak and foolish
as if hard and unloving."
STOCKMEN DISAGREE.
Cattlemen Favor and Sheepmen Op
pose Leasing System.
Washington. The vlsting stock
men Monday morning went over the
whole question before the Public
Lands Commission meeting being pre
sided over by Land Commissioner
Richards.
The afternoon was devoted by the
Senate committee on agriculture to
hearing Individual opinions of stock
men and the reading and discussion of
the letter of President Roosevelt to
Senator Warren.
All of the cattle men attending these
meetings favored a system of leasing
and range control, while nearly all of
the sheepmen opposed it and urged
that conditions bo allowed to remain
as they are.
They contended that leasing laws
would prevent the country from being
settled up hy homesteaders and that
the growth and development of the
West would he retarded by tielng up
large areas. They contended also that
too much power would he placed in
the bands of the secretary of agrieul
1 ture If the remaining 4.000.000 acres of
grazing lands of the West were placed
absolutely in his control, as they ar
gued the proposed amendment wounl
do. All admitted that under the ad
ministration of Secretary Wilson no
serious evils might come, hut insisted
i that if the department should fall into
tha hands of a secretary like Hitch
cock, hostile to western Interests, the
results would he disastrous.
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
Iron and Steel Exports Larger Than
Ever Before.
Washington. The exportation of
iron and steel manufactures reached
their highest record during the last
year, according to figures compiled by
tho Bureau of Statistics of the Depart
ment of Commerce an*! Labor. The
total for 190 G aggregated $172,500,000,
an increase of $3u,000,000 over the pre
, ceding year.
Practically every one of the impor
tant articles or groups of articles share
in this gain. Pig Iron shows an in
crease of $1,000,^00; bar Iron an in
crease of one and one-third millions;
steel rails $1,500,000; steel sheets and
plates $1,250,000; rtruetural iron and
st'-'el nearly $2,000,000; wire $1,750,000;
builders’ hardware nearly $2,000,000;
locomotives nearly $2,000,000; sewing
machines nearly $1,500,000; metal
work machinery more than $2,000,000;
mining machinery more than $2,000,-
000; typewriters. $500,000; printing
presses, more than $500,000,000, and
bar Iron an Increase of more than sl.-
000.000. Tin plate has passed the sl.-
000.000 mark in the value of its expor
tations.
Would Censor Thaw Reports.
Washington.—The following state
ment was given out at the White
House Monday. "Tho President has
communicated with Postmaster Gen
eral Cortelyou to know whether It is
feasible to bar from the mails the pa
pers that give the full disgusting par
ticulars of the Thaw case. He does
not know whether it is feasible, but if
if is he wishes it done." Postmaster
General Cortelyou declines to discuss
the matter or to indicate what, if any,
action will be taken by the depart
ment. Th** President’s letter will he
referred to Assistant Attorney General
Goodwin of th** Postofflce Department
for a legal opinion.
Papers Must Be Decent.
New York.—United States District
Attorney Stimsoi. of this city to-day
served a notice upon the publishers of
all the principal newsoaners in this
city that he intends to bring before the
United States gran*! jury for criminal
prosecution all violations of the federal
laws against the circulation of obscene
matter in reporting tha Thaw triaL
CHILD LABORERS
SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND FIF
TY THOUSAND EMPLOYED.
AGES OF TEN TO FIFTEEN
Most cf Them Get Little Schooling—
Fortunately the Greater Number
Work on Farms—Large Proport on
In Mills and Factories.
Washington. —The extent of which !
child labor is employed in the United j
States is set forth in a bulletin issued j
by the census bureau yesterday. The j
statistics presented are for 1900, and j
relate to the employment of children j
as breadwinners, of whom 1,750,00 in
round numbers, between the ages of ■
ten and fifteen, were so employed, j
Breadwinners are defined as those
earning money regularly by labor,
contributing to the family support, or
appreciably assisting in mechanics or
agricultural industry.
By :ar th*- most important occ ;• ra
tion f r children is that of agricult a: I
laborers, the number of children * u
lo fl;’<-en years cf age so employed k •
ing ‘i,' ' 4,41*’.. About two-thirds of v •
total number of child breadwinr. •-
I were employ* *! on the farm, and n. -’
of these chi! Iren were members of •:.**
farmers' families. Next in import:.:. •
comes d nu stlc service, or the *
pation of servants and waiter- * r
waitresses, in which 138,065 chil • n
were employed, most of them being
girls.
About one-third of the children * m
ployed in gainful occupations w• re
fifteen years of age. ai, more than
one-half were fourteen or fif’*n
years The number of fourteen was
790,62’!, or 45.2 per cent, of the wh* !*•
Of the total number of child hr* a 1
winners ten to fifteen years of lire
72.2 per cent were boys and 27.8 per
cent, girls. Almost invariably the per
centage of breadwinners is much
greater among foreign-born children
than among native children. The per
centage of breadwinners among n* -to
children is much higher than among
white children.
The cotton mills furnish employ
ment to children to a greater ex’ tit
than any other manufacturing or me
chanical Industry. In 1900 the num
ber of cotton mill operatives ten to
fifteen years of age was 44,427. Of
the 71.622 messengers and errand and
office boys in the United States, sixty
two per cent, were district telegraph
messengers and errand boys, 22.2 per
cent, were office boys and 14.7 per
cent, were bundle and cash boys or
girls. Nine-tenths of the children em
ployed In such service are boys.
The occupation of the textile
worker or the needle trades furnished
employment to 35,070 children be
tween ten and fifteen years of age. of
whom 5,136 were boys and 29.934
were girls. The total number of chil
dren ten to fifteen years of age en
gaged in the tobacco and cigar fac
tories was 11.462. Of the 49,998 glass
workers reported In 1900, 5.365, or 10.7
per cent., were from ten to fifteen
years of age.
Of the 23,657 children for whom «ta*
tlstlcs were specially compiled. 17,956,
or 75.9 per cent., were living in homes
with their parents; 3,380, representing
14.3 per cent., or approximately one
seventh of the total number, wre liv
ing with widowed mothers, and 578,
or two and four-tenths per cent., with
mothers who were living apart from
their husbands, and whoso economic
position was therefore likely to b«
analagous to that of a widow. The
number of children that were either
fatherless, or were not living with
fathers, was 4.943, representing about
one-fifth of the total number.
The percentage of school children
In the total population, five to nine
years of age, enumerated in the
United States was 53.3, which i 9 only
a littlo higher than the percentage
(50.6) shown for selected fam
ilies included in this study. Ol
the number of children ten to fourteen
years of age in these families, only
31.9 per cent, were at school, w hile tne
corresponding percentage for the total
number of children of that age In the
United States was 79,8. But ifter
these children reach the age at which
the opportunity for employment as
wage earners begins, their school at
tendance suffers.
In the families with child bread
winners, schooling rarely extends be
yond the age of thirteen. Of the chil
dren fourteen years of age, 97.4 per
cent, were employed, and only 1.6 per
cent, were at school.
Of the total number of children ten
to fourteen years of age In the United
States, seven and one-tenth per cent,
were Illiterate, as compared with 18.8
per cent, for the child breadwinners
of the same age included In this tab
ulation. For the messengers and er
rand and office boys the per cent, of
illiteracy is comparatively small.
By far the greatest degree of Illit
eracy is that shown for the children In
cotton mills. In the South almost one
half of tho cotton mill operatives ten
to fourten years of ago are illiterate,
and about one fourth of those fifteen to
twenty years of age. The smaller per
centage In the older group of opera
tives would indicate that a good many
of these children learn to read and
write after tmy aro ten years of age.
But the percentage of illiteracy In the
older group is still very high, render
ing It probable that large numbers of
these children are destined to remain
illiterate for the rest of their lives.
Salton Sea Going Dry.
Imperial. Cal.—The last water com
ins through the break In the Colorado
river was shut off Monday morning
after a long and hard struggle by the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
The levees have been put in good con
dition several miles below the break
and r.re being extended rapidly with
the aid of hundreds of men and teams.
The New nnd the Alamo rivers, carry
ing water from the Colorado to the
Salton sea, are rapidly going dry lu the
valley. It is expected that Salton sea
will now fall steadily and will fully
disappear through evaporation in
about ten years. The floods have
caused but little actual damage to tho
cultivated lands of the valley.
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS
The contract ha.-‘ been let for ’he
const ruction of a s€s.oou cp*.-ra house
at Trinidad.
Colorado Springs Masons have ap
pointed a committee to r* cure a si •
and tpeciflea*ions for a Masonic build
ing to be constructed soon.
Expert oil well drillers from Flo.*
* nee will drill a number of wells n* a-
Montrose for a company in which Fn
trout county men are int* r* sted.
The comptroller of the currene;. ha~
approved the conversion of th*- Bat L
of Buena Vista into th Fir?: National
bank of Buena Vista, with s_'■'. ■" capl
An Elks' temple is to be « rected a*
Grand Junction to cost $t or up
wards, it will Ik* 50x125 feet in
and three stories high. Work will b
gin on it soon.
A large number of Colorado Shrin
* rs are preparing to go to the conven
tlon of the order at Angeles in
May. They are promised an extraor
dinary amount of entertainment.
1 u i llowtng : redo j stn
have been appointed: Englewrood.
Arapahoe county. Jesse G. Baird, vie-
O. j Baird, dead; Waverley, Larimer
county, Walter H. Hainey, vice H. <
Gruble, resigned.
The Alamosa National Bank of Ala
mosa has been authorized to begin
business with a capital of $25,000.
Wallrich Is president, Fred Croenlng
ana Wesley Staley, vice presidents,
and W. H. Mallett, cashier.
Mrs. Mary Neff of D* uver com mitt*-!
suicide at Victor on the Bth Inst. b»
shooting herself through the bead. She
was despondent because of th*- death
of her daughter, Mrs. Forr* st Babcock,
that morning from blood poisoning.
The Mesa County Fruit Industrial
Association met at Grand Junction on
tne 9th inst. and voted to Increase its
capital stock from $25,000 to $35,000.
'Hie grounds will be improved in prep
aration for a greater fair next fall.
General Traffic Manager Wakely of
the Burlington has ordered through
trains Nos. 13 and 14 to stop at th**
new station of Keene because of the
heavy travel through that section of
Weld county. Keene will soon have a
postofflce.
Benjamin and Earl Tucker of Colo
rado Springs and Austin Tucker of
Denver, sons of J. T. Tucker, the res
taurant man of Colorado Springs and
Denver, are preparing an expedition to
the far North to hunt for the rare ani
mals inhabit the Arctic circle.
The Pueblo Business Men’s Associa
tion has prepared a catchy postcarl
made in the form of a folder, and this
will be sent throughout the United
States and Europe. It contains much
Information concerning the financial
industrial and agricultural resources
of Pueblo.
The City Council of Black Hawk has
extended the franchise of the Gilpin
County Light, Heat and Power Com
pany for ten years. This is the corn
par j which was reported to have sold
out to the Colorado Central Power
Company for over $500,000, local stock
holders denying the report.
The proposed erection of several
new dumps by the Holly-Swink factory
for handling the crop of 1907 is ex
pected to give considerable impetus
to the beet growing industry in th*
I’ucbio district. Based on contracts al
ready closed, the district will furnish
about 4,000 acres for growing beeta
this year.
A Farmers’ institute will be held at
Greeley Friday and Saturday, Febru
ary 22d and 23d. Professors Carlylo,
Paddock, Bennett, Olin and Cottrell
will be in charge. The subjects that
will be the use of water for Irrigation,
selection of seed grains and alfalfa,
stock feed and breeding and diseases
of potatoes.
L. B. Morrison, superintendent ot
th* Clipper mine, on London mountain,
near Alma, was caught and killed in a
snowslide on Thursday, the 7th inst.
Morrison was on his way down from
the mine with samples of ore from a
new strike when the slide started. He
struggled hard, but was covered by the
elide and suffocated.
Conductor J. Brown of the Florence
&. Cripple Creek railroad reports run
ning into and scattering a band of nine
mountain sheep which were quietly
browzlng along the track at a point
below Adelaide. In making their es
cape a big ram became entangled by the
horns in the guy wires of the telephone
poles. The sheep, a fine specimen,
was released unhurt by the train crew.
The Fort Collins Chamber of Com
merce has agreed upon an energetic
campaign for the benefit of Fort Col
lins and the Cache La Poudre valley.
Four teams of solicitors, each having
six members, captained by an officer
appointed by the chamber, have been
designated to canvass the city and sur
rounding country for the purpose of
raising a fund of $2,000 to be used iu
advertising.
It is announced that work is to be
continued at the Miuntqua works, Pu
« bio, on the construction of the new
merchant mill. This mill will be a
quarter of a mile long and 280
wide, being the largest building under
me roof, with one or two exceptions,
n the United States. The manufac
ture of all kinds of structural steel
for buildings and viaducts will be cn:
of the chief industries carried on in
the new plant.
To the State Normal School museum
at Greeley has be* n added a rare col
lection of eggs of the American ami
African ostrich and of the* cassowary,
a bird native to Australia. The eggs
are the largest specimens among th
many thousands in the museum. With
this collection are casts of the largest
* gg known, that of the moa, a bird ex
tinct for over COO years, hut several of
whose eggs are now on exhibition in
the British Museum.
The people of Estes park have been
apprehensive over the purchase of the
Dunraven property in Estes park by
B D. Sanborn of Greeley. They
feared he would build a laige storage
reservoir in the park and destroy it as
a resort. Mr. Sanborn says he has no
idea of undertaking such a gigantic
sc.ie-me, which would cost millions of
dollars. He believes that a large lake
on which launches and rowboats might
be placed would prove a valuable fea
ture for the park.
LEGISLATIVE NEWS AND GOSSIP
The attorney rm.-ral wants an addi-l
tion of |i to -he annua! - ■ ;' r >
lcaanee. Of thi- 12 *• 1 :s or
employment of a second assistant.
‘ ’ '‘ r>
ride the state a nv 1 ■ * 81 °?
■ • meets a the < •
tol grounds. killed in the House.
B • t*i •of St O’C4 BO r » *
Den • •rl is tlte ’ax depar
whose salarv is to be sl,2“'' lh . ;
asks an increase in the salary of the
index clerk to $1,500.
Secretary Hagar of the State Board
of Charities and Correction wa^., s t((M ‘ S
salary increas* i from s’. • .
wants an assistant secretary at $L
and a stenographer at $1,200.
Martha A Shute. secretary of the
State Board of Horticulture, who rt- |
Clives a salary of 11. 1 wants to con
tinue in her present position at $-.' |
per annum She also wants an allow
ance of 11.200 for a stemlaraph.-r.
Curator Ferrill of tho State Historl- |
cal an-1 Natural History Society »an »j
an increas** in the salary of hi? mu- J
s*-um assistant <»f $-0". that indtwdua. j
now receiving s*“"'. He also asks an |
allowance of sl,Boo tor two s J '■ |
clerks.
Governor Buchtel wants an increase,
in the salary of his private secretary
from $1.50') to $2.10"; an allowance or
$2,400 for the salaries of two st*-n- ,
two stenographer-clerks is made, the |
present position of stenographer-clerk .
at $1,500 will be abolished.
Mr. Drake’s Senate bill to regulate j
the practice of barbering was brought j
up in the Senate on third reading and j
final passage, having been received (
from the printer in amended form. A !
number of minor amendments were j
made by unanimous consent and the :
bill passed by a vote of 24 to 6.
President Harper of the Senate has
appointed Senators Campbell, De La
Yergne and Lewis to servo on the joint j
committee of seven, which w *^.j n ' eß ' 1
tigate the estate of the late Winfield:
S Stratton. This committee will be-;
gin Its inquiry at the earliest P ossi J ), ®
date, as it has but thirty days In which
to work.
Senator Parks' amendment to arti
cle 5 of the constitution, increasing
the salary of the governor to $0,000; |
the pay of the private secretary to
$2,500, that of the Supreme Court jus- ;
tires to SIO,OOO each, and that of dis
trict judges in the Second district to
$6,000 each, and in the other districts
to $5,000, was killed in the Senate by
striking out the enacting clause.
Mr. Cannon s bill to give power of
arrest to agents of the Humane
ety came up Wednesday to involve the
House in a debate that promised to be
endless. Mr. Lawrence led the attack
on the bill, which was due to com
plaints made of the actions of agents
of the society. Most of the represen
tatives from the southern counties
supported Mr. Lawrence, so that the
bill was killed by striking out its en
acting clause.
The judiciary committee of the
House has reported without recom
mendation the bill to make June 24th
Pioneer Day. Also the bill to pro
vide for a codification of the revenue
laws of the state. It has given a favor
able recommendation to the measure
to provide that municipal corporations
contiguous to each other may consoli
date. Th? latter is to enable the join
ing into one city of Colorado Springs
and Colorado City.
Senator Scott’s Anti-Pass Bill has
been favorably considered by the ju
diciary committee of the Senate. The
bill prohibits the acceptance or use
of free railroad passes, telegraph or
telephone franks by public officers and
Is couched In the most drastic terms.
It provides that no railroad company
on or after May 1. 1907, shall issue
any free transportation, directly or in
directly, the penalty for violation be
ing a fine of not less than SSOO nor
more than SI,OOO. Similar provisions
apply to telegraph and telephone com
panies.
Senate Bill No. 284, by Senator
BardwelY. to regulate wage brokers,
or loan sharks, as they are sometimes
called, has been favorably reported by
the senate judiciary committee. This
bill provides that no person or asso
ciation shall establish or conduct the
business of wage broker in the state
without first procuring a license from
proper authorities, consisting of the
board of county commissioners in any
particular county. A provision of the
bill is to the effect that no wage earner
can assign any part of his or her
wages which may not be earned within
a period of thirty days; that is to say,
that no oue working for wages can as
sign more than a month's salary at a
time. The interest to be exacted by
the broker shall not exceed two
per cent, per month, which Is to
include ail commissions and other
charges. No assignment of wages by
a married man, who is the head of a
family residing in the state, will be
valid without the consent of his wife,
who shall sign the papers with him.
No minor shall make any assignment
at all. There are other provisions
which practically revolutionize the
present laws governing such loans.
Every person who attended the Re
publican legislative caucus Tuesday
declared himself for a railroad com
mission law, says the Denver Republi
can. So far. so good. But there was
a remarkable diversity of opinion re
garding what the measure should and
should not contain. The northern
counties demanded reciprocal demur
rage so that they could get their per
ishables shipped in time; so, too, with
the western slope. Pueblo demanded
the McCarthy Wisconsin bill or noth
ing; Harry Eugene Kelly of Denver
permitting no pent-up Utica to confine
him, wanted his bill, the Kelly bill,
which went a little bit further than
the McCarthy bill: and, remarkable to
relate, Senator Fred W. Palrks, also of
Denver, seemed to agree with him.
Other parts of the state and other
members wanted something else. So,
after Governor Buchtel had made an
elucidating and pacific talk, the cau
cus decided to have a “steering com
mittee” from the two branches to have
all the railroad Mils and substitutes
printed and have the committee go
over them in the meantime and report
to a full caucus on Monday afternoon.
This caucus will deal with railroad
legislation and other party measures.
This Is what the Denver Republican (
has to sav ul"> it the proposed local op
rinn law: This Republican party
measure will first of all continue ex
empt from saloons the territories now
exempt under special provisions in
I heir charters. Next in order will bo
provisions set down for the guidance
of countv commissioners in granting
saloon licenses The “road house” has
g».r io go. The strictest provisions
w ill be made in dealing with saloon li
c< ns*-s on the outside Contiguous
pi op-Tty will be given something to
say ’ .?nd the applicant must show good
character and proper conduct in the
past. Municipal option Is to be
granted for the present.
Senator Wood’s bill In relation to
coal mine inspectors was favorably
considered by the Senate and reeom
' mended for final passage. It is a bill
i repealing section 17 of the existing
I laws concerning coal mine inspectors
and substituting another section in
lieu thereof. Senator Wood explained
[that the proposed change increases
the number of coal mine inspectors to
[three* instead of one. an 1 increases
j their salaries and expense allowances.
! lb- said that the output of coal mines
j had increased from 2.000.000 tons per
' year tc about 12,000,000 tons, and that
I th** present office force of the stato
! coal mine inspector is entirely inade
quate to visit the important mines of
1 the state. The salaries of inspectors
j were fixed at $2,000 each per year,
' with necessary traveling expenses.
If the present plans of the State N
I Board of Capitol Managers are carried
! out, the State Horticultural Board, the
' mining bureau, the war relics museum
! and the State Historical Society will
1 have to move from the capitol. The
i officials in charge of these offices are
Mrs Martha Shute, Commissioner E.
j Lvmrn White, Custodian W. W. Fer
' guson an-1 Curator Will C. Ferril.
1 They are now preparing to fight the
I expected order of eviction. The capi-
I tol board has no objection to these
I officials In particular but it takes the
i position that the files of papers be
j longing to the State Horticultural So
! ciety, which are stored in the basement
; and sub-basement, are a menace to the
l whole building on account of the pos
sibilities they offer for fire. Further-
S more, they argue that the business of
the state is increasing to such an ex
tent that the space occupied by the
j exhibits of the departments named is
1 actually needed for executive purposes.
, The board proposed at an outlay of
SII,OOO to buy the two vacant lots
across from the capitol building, at
Sherman and East Fourteenth aven
ues. and upon these lots to erect a
suitable fireproof building in which
the valuable exhibits owned by the
four departments might be established.
The House spent all of Thursday in
trying to transact business, two bills
encountered proving stumbling blocks
to progress. The close was in another
of the agitations over adjournment
that have been frequent occurrences
during the session. After the commit
tee on appropriations had been ex
cused from the session for Friday, In
order that its members might visit
the Normal school at Greeley, mem-|
hers suggested that the adjournment
be to Monday. Mr. Redd raised tho
objection that It would be over tho
three days allowed by the Constitu
tion and would, therefore, threaten
the life of every bill passed after the
adjournment. The speaker ruled that
the adjournment could be considered
as of only three days. When the mo
tion vi as put to adjourn to Monday
morning, thirty-two voted in favor and
only twenty-five agai-jst. But some of
those who had voted yes dis
covered that the speaker had voted
no. and they hastened to get in lino
with him. The motion was therefore
lost. Had it passed, there is no doubt
the Supreme Court would have been
afforded an opportunity to pass upon
I the constitutional question involved,
which would have set a precedent for
following assemblies. But the Six
j teenth has so far declined to furnish
the occasion for appeal to that court.
Giving of bonds by surety companies
for public officers and the segregating
of the Denver juvenile court from the
County Court were the two matters
that took up the greater part of the
time in the House of Representatives
Monday. The first developed some
wide differences of opinion, while the
latter gave an opportunity to discuss
the good work done b* he juvenile
court as it has been maintained. A
third question that developed much ar
gument was the bill proposing to in
crease the salary of the speaker of the
House. As only the first of these
measures, survived the ordeal through
which they were compelled to pass,
the bill-killers appeared to have th4ft
best of the day. In taking up the bilr
to make the juvenile court a separate
judicial department in Denver, Mr.
Redd explained that the docket of the
County Court was kept in such a con
gested condition that a judge had no
time for any other matters. The pres
ent judge had made the juvenile
branch of his court his own special
pet, and had undoubtedly done much
good. “I do not agree with the poll
i tics of Judge Lindsey,” he said, “and
i I do r.ot approve of his actions last
! fall, but that does not blind me to the
j good lie may be doing. If his court is
accomplishing anything, and we have
; much authority for saying that it is, l
' believe it should be so placed that it
will keep on doing good. But there is
so much to be considered in the
County Court itself, which handles so
. many and such important matters,
that a separate court is needed.” Mr.
Ebbert stated that he was in a meet
ing of the judiciary committee a few
days ago when the statement was
• made that the Denver county judge
| was cut of the state a greater part of
: the time. “If the affairs of his court
took up so much time how did the gen
tleman manage to find so much time
to be a wav?" he asked. Mr. Redd re
sponded that in those actions the
judge was open to criticism, and it
was not his providence to defend him.
But during most of the time judges
from other counties hid to be called
in to assist in clearing up the busi
ness. There could be no question that
the extra court was require 1. But he
wished it distinctly understood that
Judge Lindsey was not in the bill,
whicn was drawn to meet a positive
requirement. Under this showing thfe
House passed the bill on second
ing.