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Helping Our Neighbors.
That which stands out bright and
ining above all the tragedy of the
iian earthquake is the world-wide
d instant response to the need of the
flering survivors. The calamity it-
It was neither new nor strange, un
-88, perhaps, in its magnitude. Sicily
1d Calabria have been often visited
v disastrous earthquakes, both in an.
ent times and recently. Since the
eginning of the present century, still
288 than ten years old, the great cities
t San Francisco and Valparaigo, in
he western hemisphere, have been de
troyed by seismic upheavals, to say
10thing of the wiping out of St. Plerre,
~ith all its population, by the eruption
)f Mont Pelee, in the island of Marti
nique. At the time of each of these
great cataclysms the rest of the world
contributed to the relief of the suffer
ers, and once again the draft on hu
man sympathy has been honored, says
the Youth's Companion. Not only did
Italian warships and the Italian king
and queen start for the scene of the
earthquake as soon as news of f{t
reached Rome, but British, French and
Russian squadrons in the Mediter
ranean headed at full speed for the
help of the stricken country. This was
government aid. The people, the men
and women, in Europe, Asia, Africa
and both Americas, were equally
prompt in offering their money for the
purchase of food, clothing and shelter,
that the widowed and the orphaned
might not go uncomforted. The hu
man heart is wondrous kind, and there
is no surer way to make it beat with
helpful sympathy than to disclose to it
the existence of suffering. It has an
swered the old question of the lawyer,
“And who is my neighbor?” by includ
ing within that intimate and friendly
fellowship all those in need the world
over.
A parish priest in Ireland recently
informed the department of agricul
ture at Washington that 12 farmers in
his neighborhood having contributed a
dollar apiece, he bought 12 good books
on agriculture and horticulture, and
thus established a small loan library
which has done excellent service.
Secretary Wilson now plans to develop
& similar idea. He invites both coun
try clergymen and physicians to take
the initiative, and volunteers to advise
what books shall be purchased, and to
supply such libraries with department
publications. Under these conditions,
a small amount of money will go a long
way; and the farmers who invest it
may feel sure that they, too, are pro
gressing.
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T Investors in gold-mining securities
will be interested to learn that an
American lady computed not long ago
that in the United States alone half a
ton of pure gold, equivalent to $500,-
000, is annually put as filling into the
teeth of the living. Inasmuch as none
of this precious metal i 8 ever ex
tracted after death, the shrewd calcu
lator further reckoned that at the rate
stated a quantity of gold equal to all
that is now in circulation will, in the
course of three centuries, be lying in
the ground again. It is strange to
think that one digger—the sexton, to
wit—is constantly returning to mother
earth nearly as much gold as the oth
er digger is constantly extracting from
her bosom.
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— steamer loaded with petroleum
from the Standard Oil Company took
fire in the harbor of Singapore, and
when all attempts to extinguish the fire
failed, the harbor agents appealed to
the commander of the fortifications to
sink the vessel. It was two miles
away, but a few well-directed shots
from the six-inch guns sent the ship to
the bottom. Thus do warlike weapons
have their victories no less profound
than the implements of peace.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gil
man ought to rise to protest against
the government's expected argument
that when Mrs, Chan I. Ying, the pret
ty Chinese woman now being held by
the authorities on the charge of being
unlawfully in this country, left her
husband she became a “laborer.” Mrs.
Gilman's contention recently has been
precisely opposite.
It makes a lot of difference where
you're born. A theatrical manager was
looking for a Cinderella’ with a foot
tiny enough to fit the slipper. A Mary
land girl, of course, was the only one
found who could fill the bill, remarks
the Baltimore American. Had she
been born in Chicago—-
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING .
EVENTS IN THIS AND
OTHER COUNTRIES.
DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS
THAT MARK THE PROG
RESS OF THE AGE.
WESTEHXN NEWS.
The American Mining Congress will
meet next year at Goldfield, Nevada.
The Montana Senate passed a bill
prohibiting the intermarriage of whites
and blacks with only one dissenting
vote.
The National Letter Carriers’ Asso
ciation has completed the purchase of
160 acres of land at Colorado Springs
for the founding of a home for dis
abled members.
A Dbill requiring that applicants for
marriage licenses be provided with a
certificate of good health from a li
censed physician unanimously passed
the Oregon Senate.
A slight earthquake was felt at Ow
ensville, Ind., on the 2nd inst. Two
miles east of lown the shock was more
severe and of longer duration. No
damage was done.
It is stated that the long expected
consolidation of practically all Illinois
coal mines.in a radius of fifty miles of
St. Louis is on the verge of consumma
tion. The deal will involve $50,000,000.
The House in Texas by a vote of 85
to 44 defeated the resolution to sub
mit state wide prohibition to a popular
vote. The prohibitionists lacked only
two votes of a necessary two-thirds
majority. |
Rumors have redached Arizona from
Washington that Senator Foraker may
seek a residence in Arizona in the
event of its admission to the Union,
with a view to representing the new
state in the United States Senate.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has
decided that baseball may be played
on Sunday in that state. Ernest Pra
ther was convicted of playing baseball
on Sunday. He appealed and Justice
Porter ordered Prather’s release on the
ground that baseball is a national sport
and has no immoral tendencies.
The Modern Woodmen of America
have begun an active campaign in ll
linois against the proposed uniform
fraternal bill agreed upon by the other
fraternal organizations and tha state
insurance commissioners. They hold
that the order is competent to manage
its own affairs and decide when its
rates need to increase. i
Five hundred cattle were drowned
by the flood waters on the Stanford
ranch near Tehama, Calif., on the
night of the 3d inst., and 1580 sheepi
perished near Colusa. It is estimated
that the damage in Colusa county will
be about $1,000,000. The loss in Butte |
county is estimated at $60.060 and i |
Glenn, Tehama, Sutter and Yuba coun- |
ties at $250,000. !
The Western Pacific railroad will be |
completed from Salt Lake to San‘
Francisco by September Ist and will, |
in connection with the Denver & Rio !
Grande raflroad, establish a through |
service from Denver to San Francisco.
The Western Pacific is a “Gould” road 1
and will be operated in connection
with the Rio Grande, Missouri Pacific,
Wabash and Western Maryland in
forming a new through line from Bal
timore to San Francisco.
GENERAL NEWS.
Sixteen Russian soldiers, charged
with attempting to organize a revolt in
St. Petersburg garrison in 1907, have
veen sentenced to penal servitude from
three to eight years.
In its report to the House of Repre
sentatives, the Interstate Commerce
Commission says that railroad rates
have been steadlly advanced since the
passing of the Hepburn bill.
What is said to be the largest order
for vanadium steel ever placed in this
country was recently given by a De
troit motor company to the United
Steel Company, Canton, Ohio. This
order calls for 2,100 tons in all.
Willlam C. Brown, who began his
railroad career forty years ago as a
section hand on the St. Paul railroad
at $1 a day, has just become president
of the great system of railroads of
which the New York Central,is the
chief line.
The Tribuna of Rome states that it
has been decided to show the gratitude
of Italy for America's generosity in
the earthquake relief work by accept
ing the suggestion of its New York
correspondent, to give President
Roosevelt the honor of the *Citizen.
ship of Rome.” It is also intended to
give a street in Rome the name of an
American city, for instance, New York
or Washington.
Armand Zipfel, the French aviator,
made four flights at Berlin Tuesday.
Each time he covered a distance of
nearly a mile at a height of from twen
ty to forty fect. He did not, however,
succeed in making turns on his course.
‘ The Haskell home, at Battle Creek,
Mich.,, a Seventh Day Adventist or
‘ phanage, valued at $50,000, was burned
on the morning of the 4th inst. There
were thirty-seven children in the build
ing and of these three are missing.
Seven girls jumped from a third story
window and one was injured.
Carrie Nation has had trouble with
the London police. She pushed her
‘ umbrella through the window of a car
cn the underground railway, on which
‘ was pasted a cigarette advertisement,
and was fined $7.50. When the magis
trate named the amount Mrs. Nation
said: “Thank you; I expected it would
cost me more.”
It is officially announced at Rome
that the American National Red Cross
through Ambassador Griscom, has put
$250,000 at the disposal of the commit
tee organized by Queen Helena, which
'has undertaken the establishment of
an orphanage to be devoted to the care
of children left homeless and without
care of parents after the earthquake
disaster. The home will be called the
American Red Cross orphanage and it
is intended to bring up the children
as agriculturists. |
The grand master of Ohio Masons,
Charles S. Hoskinson of Zanesvnle,‘
has tendered to Willlam Howard
Taft the rare and high honor of being’
made a Mason at sjght. Judge Taft
has accepted and wiil return to Cin
cinnati February 18th, when the grand
master will convene .a distinguished
company of Masons in the Scottish
Rite cathedral and exercise the high
prerogative which belongs only to a
grand master of Masons and which’
has ‘been exercised in Ohio only once
in one hundred years.
In accordance with instructions is
sued by Judge Taylor of the Federall
Court to the receivers of the emlre’
street railway system of Cleveland,
Ohio, the rate of fare was increased
February Ist on all lines except upon
those where the franchise specifically
provides a rate of not more than 3
cents, Approximately two-thirds of the
street car patrons are now paying a
straight 5-cent fare or 11 tickets for
50 cents. Patrons of the 3-cent fare
lines are compelied to pay 2 cents for
a transfer, while passengers paying
the regular 5-cent fare obtain free
transfers to any line in the city.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
The House has passed a bill creat
ing a new land district in South Da-~
Kota, to be known as the Belle Fourche
district.
Senator Guggenheim has offered an
amendment to the postoffice appropri
ation bill to increase the wages of la
borers in the Postoffice Department.
_The appeal of the government in the
Mason-Vanderweide murder case in
western Colorado has been set for
hearing in the United States Supreme
Court March Ist.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that an admitted
trust, organized contrary to the Sher- |
man anti-trust law, cannot use the
courts to collect debts.
Despite opposition led by Mondell of
Wyoming and Cook of Colorado, the
appropriation of $4,646,000 for the for-|
est service, for the coming fiscal year
was voted in the House.
Congressional leaders have informed
President Roosevelt that owing to op
pesition in the Senate there is little
chance of statehood for Arizona and |
New Mexico this session.
Representative Mondell has entered
a protest with the secretary of the in
terior against the high price which the
geological survey has placed upon pub
lic coal lands. He asserts that the
price being fixed so high retards de
velopment,
Senator Teller has presented in the
Senate a memorial -of the Colorado
Legislature favoring legislation to cre-
Ate a Civil War officers’ annuity roll
and pay surviving officers of the volun
teer army half the pay of the highest
rank held by them during the Civil
War.
Friends of William Loeb, Jr., secre
tary of the President, state that he is
to become collector of the port of New
York at the beginning of the next ad
ministration. Mr. Loeb, it also Is
stated, is to become the confidential
political adviser of the next President
on New York matters.
African hunts and magazine writing
will not be necessary as the occupation
of ex-Presidents of the United States
if a bill introduced by Representative
Volstead of Minnesota be enacted.
This measure provides a pension of
$12,000 annually for every President
after he leaves the White House.
Two striking amendments to the
Senate rules have been introduced,
both prepared by Vice President Fair
banks. Their effect is to prevent a
senator from referring offensively to
either the President of the United
States, the courts or to the House, and
{o put an end to the reading of docu
wments for the purpose of filibustering.
DAILY RECORD OF EVENTS
TRANSPIRING AT STATE CAPITAL
‘ Bill to Control Smelting.
| Deeming unnecessary the adoption
|of a constitutional amendment pro-|
iposed in a bill by Senator O'Conneil lo}
give the Legislature authority to regu
% late the smelting business in Colorado,
Senator Casaday introduced a bill to
regulate and control all smelters, mil]si
and similar plants for the treatment
of ores as is exercised by the Inter
tstate Commerce Commission over the
railways of the country.
Senator O’'Connell and his advisers
deem it necessary to have embodied in
the constitution a declaration that ‘all
’planls devoted to the treatment of
ores shall be considered as affected
’wlth a public interest and devoted to a
[ public use, but Senator Casaday be
lieves that a declaration to this effect
by the legislature is sufficient, and his
bill so declares, further adding that
every person or corporation engaged
in the treatment of ores shall be
|deemed a public servant.
It is provided that no contract for
the purchase or treatment of ore shall
become effective until a net purchase
price of such ore shall have been
agreed upon between seller and buyer.
'lf no agreement can be reached, then
the smelting company must return to
the seller, the ore offered, and for fail
ure to do so, the.company shall forfeit
.twice the value.of the ore. z
Mixing of ores to destroy the iden
tity of any ore is punishable by a fine
or from SIOO to $5,000, or to imprison
ment for one year, or both.
The bill provides for the creation of
the office of a state assayer, the ap
pointee to be one of three men recom
mended to the governor by the faculty
of the School of Mines. >
The state assayer shall make all as
says requested of him, at reasonable
charges fixed in the bill, nd keep com
plete records of the business transact
ed by his office. His salary is fixed at
$3,600.
The state assayer shall be-a member
of a board of three to be known as the
Colorado Ores Commission.
The commission is to have general
supervision and control over all ore
treating plants in the state. The com
mission shall require the posting in
public places at every plant of sched
ules of prices for the treatment of ores,
and no charge shall be made in such
schedules until at least ten days’ no
tice thereof shall have been given.
The commission is to have power to
compare changes in rates.,
Special | =wisions are made against
rebating and for the refunding of ille
gal or discriminatory charges.
Every concern coming within the
provisions of the lay must be filed with
the ores commission at stated perfods,
full reports of all its transactions.
Bill to Curb Spendthrifts.
Senator De Long has introduced a.
bill to prevent married men from dissi
pating thelr fortunes. Senator De
Long’s idea In to allow the state to ap
point a conservator of a man’s estate if
he begins to spend his money foolishly,
just as the county does in the case of
an insane man. For a fool is aninsane
man, in Senator De Long's notion.
Those who inherit a few thousand dol
lars and become overbalanced with a
desire to spend it, or those who start
to get away with small fortunes are
the ones at whom the bill is aimed.
It is intended to protect the state from
the expense of supporting the wives
and children'of men who are afflicted |
with high finance fever. .
Forest Reserves Committee, ;.
Speaker Lubers of the House has
made up his committees on forest re
- serves and forestry, the new commit
tee constituted by the report of the
committée on rules. He gave first
place to Mr. Blakey of Lake and sec
ond place to Mr. Doyle of El' Paso and
Teller. The other members are
Messrs. Ashby, Wallbridge, . Rubin,
Wheeler, Ohler, Campbell and Trindle.
The selections were guided by an
agreement that those chosen should
represent counties in which are forest |
reserves of the federal government.
Several bills were referred to the com- |
mittee during the last days for the in
troduction of bills, and before the
membership had been agreed upon.
Election Bills.
Senator Campbell introduced a bill
giving every candidate for office the
right to become a watcher at the polls
in any precinct without first applying
to a court for authority so to act; and
another bill by the same senator pro
vides that, in odd numbered districts
two judges of election shall be Demo
crats and one a Republican, and vice
versa in even numbered bills districts.
&enator Campbell also has a bill au
thorizing the governor to remove any
county commissioner who shall fail or
refuse to appoint election judges
In accordance with the provisions of
the statutes.
Three New Banking Bills.
Three new banking bills were imrfr
duced on Thursday night's session in
both Houses. The guaranty law drafted
by Attorney L. Ward Bannister along
l}.uA lines of the Massachusetts law to
meet the wishes of the bankers, was
introduced in the Senate jointly by
Burris, Cary and Casaday, and in the
House by Howell. The three senators
also introduced bills amending the
present banking laws to increase the
power of the bank commissioner, to
provide for cash reserves in the state
banks and to bar any officer or direc
tor of a bank, or a corporation in which
he is interested, from borrowing from
the bank without the consent of a ma
jority of the directors and prohibiting
private bankers from borrowing at all;
also a bill to provide for the appoint
ment of a commission to codify and
suggest changes and improvements in
the banking laws and report to the next
Legislature, The same measures were
introduced in the House by Messrs.
Strickland and Walker.
To Test Forestry Rights.
| The bill prepared by Attorney Jonn
'T. Barnett authorizing hini to test the
}lcgalit_\' of the forestry service rules,
‘and the so-called encroachment of the
federal government upon.state's rights
in this respect, is sweeping in its char
acter. Not only does it permit an in
vestigation and test of the forestry
service rules and laws, but also of the
federal agricultural and _.jinterior.de
partments. AL
Perhaps the most drastic feature of |
it is that it authorizes- the attorney
general to commence and prosecute
government officials under the civil
and criminal statutes, wherever it is
found that they have encroached upon
state rights or usurped them. It also
authorizes him to intervene on behalf
of the state of Colorado in any case
brought by an individual or association
against the government, or in any case
brought by the government against in
dividuals or associations. For the pur.
pose of prosecution $20,000 is appro
priated by the bill to allow him to carry
on the work. The attorney general
did not believe that he possessed the
power to prosecute under the present
statutes, so in order to carry out the
recommendations in Governor Shaf
roth's inaugural address, he drew the
special bill. 1
| Factory Inspection Law. i
The House committee on labor re
ported amendments to H. B. 139, re
lating to a factory inspector, and rec
ommended that the bill pass. It is a
stringent one, providing for safety ap
pliances on all buildings used for fac
tories, and the inspector is given wide
authority. The original draft included
mines, but this 'part has been elided
by the committee on labor, leaving the
inspector’'s authority over factories,
mills, workshops, bakeries, laundries,
stores, hotels, department houses,
boarding or bunk houses, or any kind
of an establishment wherein laborers
are employed or machinery used.
Capitol Superintendent. !
That the Board of Capitol Commis
sioners has served the purpose for
which it was instituted and should be
dismissed from the state’s service, is
the reason given by‘'Mr. Hicks for a
bill he has presented in the House. It
is to provide for the dissolution of the
board and the selection by the gov
ernor of a superintendent for the
building. “The Capitol is now com
pleted,” said Mr. Hicks, in speaking of
the bill, ‘so the work of the commis
ston is ended.” The superintendent is
to have a salary of $2,000 a year and
to be entitled to a clerk at $1,200 a
year. -
Proposed State Printing Plant.
‘ Senator Scott has introduced a bill
creating a state printing bureau. The
bill carries an appropriation:of $50,000
for the construction of a building and
purchase of a printing press whereon
all state printing shall be done. ' Sena
tor Scott has a letter from the govern
or of Kansas which says that the press
installed there at a cost of SIOO,OOO four
years ago has already paid for itself.
Felony to Steal Tools.
An important measure to all laboring
men who work with tools, has been in
troduced by Senator Irby. It makes the
stealing of working tools grand lar
ceny, although almoit every tool comes
under the petit larceny valuation. The
reason for this bill is that when .a
working man has his tools stolen he
loses several days in trying to locate
them again.
Affecting Local Option.
Senator Clay ~introduced a Dbill
drafted by representatives of the
liquor interests, to amend the local op
tion low so that the vote of a precinct
on local option will govern that pre
cinct, as against the vote of the ward,
if the precinct and ward should vote
differently,