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ELBERT TRIBUNE
Albert Neuman, Prep.
ELBERT .... COLORADO
CONGRESS IN
DEADLOCK
FARMER'S FREE LIST AND WOOL
BILLS MAY NOT BE
PASSED.
ADJOURN AUG. 16 OR 19
TIE-UP DUE TO LA FOLLETTES
UNCOMPROMISING OP
POSITION.
We»l«rn Newspaper Union Neni Service.
Washington.—Chairman Underwood
and Senator Im Follette of the House
ways and dic&uh committee, who have
undertaken to reconcile the differ
ences between the Senate and the
House on the wool and the farmers'
free list bills for the full conference
committee, are in an unquestioned
deadlock, with the possibility of re
maining so, and thus forcing an ad
journment of the session without final
action on either of these measures.
The tie-up is due to the uncompro
mising opposition of La Follette to the
House bill. He has told Underwood
that a reduction of the rates below
those fixed by the bill as It passed
the Senate is an impossibility, and in
reply the chairman of the ways and
means committee, who had great diffi
culty in getting an agreement in the
Houso to the rates fixed in his bill
has said that the House never will ac
cept the Senate figures.
I Follette'a contention is that the
Senate rates constitute a reduction of
about three-fourths of the difference
between the rales of the Payne-Ald
rich law and those of the House bill:
that It Is impossible to go lower and
bold anything like nil the progressive
Republicans and that It Is better for
Robert M. ua Follette.
Senator from Wisconsin.
Photo by Wonteni Newnuapor Union.
the Democrats to take u half a loaf
than to get nothing in the way of tar
iff bread.
Underwood did not accept the Sen
ate figures, but is quietly canvassing
the Houee to ascertain what Increase
over the House rates may be possible.
He has told some of his friends that
the House might be persuuded to
“meet the Senate half way," but the
progressive loader merely smiled in
response to suggestions of this char
acter. He told Underwood that the
difference was with his party friends,
rather than with himself, and they
sustained him in the statement.
The deadlock has given rise to all
kinds of suggestions and surmises
Accepting the tangle as inextricable
some senators and re presen tativea
have suggested a movement for final
adjournment regardless of the confer
ence and the Senate is being sound
ed on that proposition.
Jjeadors of both houses figured an
adjournment of Congress between Au
gust 16 and 19. Vice President Sher
man predicted August 1G and Demo
cratic leader Martin of the Senate
“the middle of the month.”
Sherman said he thought the con
ferees on the wool and free list bills
will reach some agreement. One
or both of the bills he be
lieved should reach the Presi
dent, be returned with veto, and be
acted on adversely by Congress,
which Immediately thereafter would
be able to wind up the extra session.
Great White Plague.
Sacramento.—The State Hoard of
Health claims the “great white
plague” causes over one-seventh of all
deaths in California.
Work of Black Hand.
Chicago.—-The crimes committed by
members of the so-called Black Hand
in this city so far during 1911, is h
total of eighteen murders scores of
s tabbings, more thau 100 bomb explo
sions, and $600,000 collected in black
mail.
MINE RESCUE
WORK EXPLAINED
FEDERAL BUREAU OF MINES HA9
REGULAR COURSE OF
TRAINING.
MINERS’ CIRCULAR N 0.4
-TO BE SUCCESSFUL A PARTY
MUST TAKE EVERY
PRECAUTION.”
(Viilrrn NVntipaprr Union NfW" Service.
Washington, D. C.—With the rapid
development of mine rescue work in
the United States in the last two
years and the increasing use of the
mine-breathing apparatus there has
come to the Federal Bureau of Mines
a demand for information concerning
this apparatus and how it should be
properly used. In response tho Bu
reau of Mines has issued Miners’ Cir
cular No. 4, on "The Use and Care of
Mine-Rescue Breathing Apparatus,” by
James W. Paul, who has general
charge of the rescue work. Mr. Paul
makes the statement that the use of
such apparatus for rescue w'erk In
mines is no longer an experiment, but
has become an important factor in les
sening lobs of life and property from
fires and explosions.
The circular describes the various
types of apparatus used by the bureau
and gives careful instruction as to the
care of this apparatus.
Mr. Paul says: "Mine men twenty
two to forty-five years old. In good
physical condition who are temperate
in their habits and naturally calm and
deliberate are best suited for mine
rescue work. Before a man under
goes training in the use of breathing
apparatus he should be examined by a
physician to ascertain his physical
condition, especially the action of his
heart and lungs anti any defects of
the nose or throat. Unless a man has
a physician’s certificate stating that
his physicial condition is good, he
should not be permitted to take res
cue training nor to attempt rescue
work In a mine.
"A rescue party should have not.
less than five, and better not less
than six members. Only such persons
should be allowed to Join the party as j
have already been trained in the use
of the apparatus and are equipped
with rescue apparatus in good order
and have agreed to follow the direc
tions of the leader.
"To he efficient and successful u
party must take every precaution for
its own safety. If one person in a
party faints or receive an injury he
becomes a burden instead of a help.
"A relief station or base of opera
Lions should be established at the end
of the god air and a relief Crew with
Knapsacks should he stationed there
ready to put on their apparatus and
3tart at a moment's notice.
“At each large mine there should
be at least four crews, two outside and
two inside crews, each of six men. In
cluding a captain and a lieutenant,
and these crews should have practice
once a week.
“While working in dense smoke th •
members of a crew should hold a rope
which leads to fresh air.
"In case of total failure of an appa
ratus to supply breathable air, the
wearer of the apparatus can throw
away all parts but the oxygen cylin
der, and breathe from the cylinder
through his mouth while endeavoring
to reach fresh a .- with the rest of the
crew.
"Apparatus for giving oxygen to one
who has hen overcome with gases is
an essential part of the equipment of
a rescue party.
"A telephone helmet is a conven
ience for shaft work, and its presence
lends much confidence to a rescue par
ty. Electric lamps, safety lamps, gas
analysis apparatus, thermometers, a
pocket compass, and a map of the
mine are necessary.
"At each training station a record
should be kept showing the work done
by the men and the difficulties en
countered. If an apparatus fails to
give proper service It should be sub
jected to the regular tests.
“The United States Bureau of Mines
has established a regular course of
training in the use of mine-rescue
breathing apparatus. This training Is
designed to give miners or other per
sons connected with mining a knowl
edge of breathing apparatus in gener
al, and a confident familiarity with
those types of apparatus that are most
apt to be used in this country.
“The purpose of the Bureau of Mines
In establishing this system of train
ing is to facilitate investigative work
within mines in which disasters have
occurred, and to make mine owners
and miners acquainted with the value
of breathing apparatus for rescue op
erations after mine disasters. It is
hoped that, as a result of this work by
the federal government In the near
future, men familiar with such appa
ratus will be scattered throughout the
coal-mining centers of the country.
After a disaster, valuable time is oft
en lost in training men at the mine.
Furthermore, a man can not work ef
ficiently unlesß he has thorough con
fidence In the apparatus. To give a
man this confidence, the course of
training has been planned in such a
way that he must do work in poison
ous or unbreathable gases for periods
of one and two hours at a time.”
American Consul Henry S. Culver
wrote from Cork n year ago that $70,-
000,000 is invested in the linen In
dustry in Ireland, where there are
935,000 spindles and 36,000 power
looms. England has only 60,000 spin
dles and Scotland 160.000.
From an average of 8,364,000 kilos
In the years 1876-1880, the world’s silk
crop has been steadily expanding, un
til It reached 24,510.000 in 1900. In
the same period the contribution by
the far East nas risen from 5.740.00 j
kilos to 16,950,000 lust year
Week’s News from All Over Colorado
I Western N'ewapapet- Union New* Service. »
COMING EVENTS.
Oct. 14-21.—Second Annual Show.
Colorado Electric Club. Denver.
August 21-26—Powers County Fair.
Lamar.
Aug. 29.—K. of P. Grand Lodge En
campment, Cafion City.
, August 30-Sept«*mber 2—Fair and
Races, Olenwood Springs.
September 4-9 Arkansas Valley
Fair, Rocky Ford.
September 6-9—Yuma County Fair,
W ray.
September 11-IC—Delta County Fair,
Delta.
September 11-16—Fremont County
Fn<r. Cafion City.
Sept. 18-21—Annual meeting Masonic
Bodies of Colorado—Denver.
Sept. 21-22—Annual meeting order of
Eastern Star—Glonwood Spring*.
Bumper Crop for Delta.
Delta.—Delta county will this year
have the largest crop In its history,
and as it has the record of shipping
more fruit than any other county in
the United States during the season
of 1909, that is a broad assertion.
Union Pacific Asks Injunction.
Denver. —In a complaint filed in the
United States Circuit Court, the Union
Pacific Railroad Company asks an in
Junction restraining the Board of
County Commissioners of Weld coun
ty, W. R. Patterson, county treasurer,
and S. J. McAfee, sheriff, from mak
ing the railroad pay $58,085.30 taxes.
The company contends it should pay
$23,231.12 less than that amount.
Crop of Flax Thriving.
Greeley.—One hundred and seven '
acres of gren sod land, covered with a
fine crop of flax which now averages ;
two feet in height. Is the unusual and
remarkable accomplishment of a wom
an dry farmer near Osgood, thirty-five j
miles east of Greeley. The woman is '
Mrs. L. Lawson and she has IGO acres
of land altogether. She broke 107
acres this spring and Immediately )
sowed the flax. The result has been j
even better than was hoped for, and |
a sample brought in to the Commer |
cial Club by W. S. Sevier shows that
it is of especially fine quality, well 1
ripened and In good condition.
State Obtains Water Rights.
Grand Junction.—Tho following
telegram was received by the attorney
general from Senator Guggenheim:
"Am pleased to Inform you that Sec
retary of Interior holds Grand Junc
tion water stock passed to state with
lands under grant.”
This telegram marks the end of the
fight begun by officers of the federal
land department to prevent Colorado
from obtaining the water rights to the
grant of land made by the govern
ment 1u connection with the transfer
News Summary of the Past Week
WESTERN.
Fire started by lightning at Welch.
Okla., destroyed five business build- i
ings und caused damage estimated at
$50,000.
Secretary of State of Montana,
Abram N. Yoder, died suddenly of
heart failure. He was appointed by
Governor Norris.
The murder of Mrs. Tom Heslip two
years ago, will be avenged on the an
niversary of the crime, Aug. 16, by the
execution of Patrick Columbus Casey
at Carson City, Nev.
William F. Lally is dead and John
O’Connor is seriously Injured and in
the hospital. Goldfield, Nev., as the
result of an accident in a mine at
Jamestown, a coming raining camp or-*
ganized by Colorado boomers three
years ago, and which had god pros
pects.
In the Prairie Dog valley, In Kan
sas, 4»ear Almena, a ueluge has fallen,
causing great property damage, the in
terruption of railroad traffic, and the
transformation of small streams into
raging torrents. Long Island, twelve
miles east of Almena, is reported al
most under water.
They have swatted the fly and
muzzled the dog and vaccinated thou
sands of school children, now Kansas
is planning to shave the cats. The
State Board of Health said that In all
probability the cat with its long hair
carried more germs around than any
other kind of animal.
A tale of almost Incredible cruelty
was related in the court room of Jus
! tlce of the Peace Courtney at Liberty,
Mo., as the result of which Lafayette
Choat, a farmer, was held to appear
before the Clay county grand Jury In
November on the charge of beating
his wife, with whom he tied a team of
mules, with which he was harrowing
a large field.
*lt was announced in Sacramento
that Louis Glavls, formerly of the
United States forestry service and
. whose clash with former Secretary of
the Interior Ballinger precipitated
the controversy over the Cunningham
, coal lands in Alaska, has been select
ed as joint secretary of the Califor
nia conservation commission and the
California conservation board of con
trol In charge of water power
5 In order to guard against the pass
: age of the 1a Follette-Underwood
wool bill over the expected veto of the
1 President, the Republican managers
are urging all absentee Republican
1 senators to return to the capital im
mediately.
of the Indian school at Grand Junc
tion. According to Attorney General
Griffith it marks a change in the
policy pursued by the Land Depart
ment in dealing with such controver
sies and he is of the opinion that Sec
retary Fisher is to be commended on
the question raised by the land agents.
New Court of Appeals Judges.
Denver. —Governor Shafroth has
filed with the secretary of state his
appointments to the new Court of Ap
peals authorized by the last session
of the Legislature.
There were more than 100 candi
dates for the five judicial positions,
each being a prominent lawyer in Col
orado. The governor has had all these
candidates under consideration for j
three months, and his announcement of
the five men is the result of long
study.
The five men the governor has ap
pointed to the Court of Appeals are
among the best known lawyers In Col
orado. Each of them is a resident of
the state for many years and of va
ried experience in law.
Tully Scott of Cripple Creek has
been named as presiding judge of the
new court.
The other judges appointed by the
1 governor are: Alfred R. King, Esq.,
|of Delta, Delta county, Colo.; Stua.-t
| D. Walling, Esq., of the city and coun
ty of Denver, Colo.; Edwin W. Hurl
but. Esq., of the city and county of
i Denver, Colo., and Ixrais W. Cunning
i ham, Esq., of Colorado Springs, El
i Paso county, Colo.
! The Court of Appeals will, on Octo
ber 1, when Its members assume ot
! flee, begin on the back calendar of
I the Supreme Court. It will not for
! the present, In all probability, assume
I any of the new business of the Su
; preme Court, but will clear up the
docket and then it takes up its duty,
handling a part of the work that now
j comes to the Supreme Court.
The Court, of Appeals has been a
; Deocratlc platform measuro and It
has been the almost constant demand
of lawyers throughout the state who
recognized the futility of the efforts
of the Supreme Court to clear its
docket.
An invitation to visit Denver imme
diately after his trip to Cheyenue has
been sent to Postmaster General Frank
1 H. Hitchcock by the Denver Chamber of
Commerce. The invitation calls atten
tion to the fact that the officers of the
chamber will be In Cheyenne on Colo
rado day, Aug. 2G, and will form an
escort of honor to the postmaster gen
eral if he accepts Denver’s Invitation.
GENERAL.
Shot by his seventeen-year-old son
after he had abused the boy’s mother.
William Sutton, forty-five years old.
is dead in Philadelphia.
Joseph Clary, who had been en
tombed in a mine seventy-two feet be
low the surface for three days, at Jop
lin, Mo., has been rescued.
A three-hour rain in the Wichita
section of Kansas gave u rainfall of
3.18 inches. Slight damage was done
by high water and lightning.
Through a newspaper ad John Aber
crombie, a confectioner of RemidJl,
Minn., has Just learned that he is heir
to an estate of more than a million.
Five of seven persons in John
Holmes’ launch drowned when it cap
sized at the mouth of the Fence river
at Crystal Falls, Mich. John Holmes
and one woman reached shore.
Benjamin C. Fox : a bachelor and a
candidate for the Republican nomina
tion for mayor of Chester, Pa., prom
ises his constituents that if elected he
will immediately set about getting
married.
Senator Smoot of Utah, in a speech
in the Senate opposing any change in
the sugar schedule for the present tar
iff law, contended that the beet sugar
industry of the country would cease
if the duty on imported sugar was re
moved.
Suit was filed by the government in
the Federal Court at Columbus, 0.,
against six railroad companies and
three coal mining concerns, charging
a combination in restrain of trade,
and asking that the combination be
enjoined from continuing business.
Application will be made to the
General Board of Pardons which meets
September 12th in Leavenworth, Kan ,
for the release of John R. Walsh,
former president of the Chicago Na
tional bank, convicted of misapplica
tion of the institution’s funds.
As the result of the street railway
strike and attendant riots In New
York four persons are in the hospital,
one probably mortally hurt; forty are
suffering from effects of stones and
brickbats, and twenty-five strikers and
their sympathizers are under lock and
key.
New York is going to try to reform
the hobo. A bill for a state farm and
industrial colony, which is now before
the governor, is expected to make pos
sible a project that will be of tremen
dous benefit to the state and even
tually to the country.
Minor Mention.
Eight referendum petitions have
been filed with the secretary of state.
The United States smelter in Canon
City will open up again in sixty days.
The first term of District Court
for the new county of Moffat, opened
at Craig.
Olathe will erect a w’ater works sys
tem to cost not over $65,000, immedi
ately.
Sothrina West, age seventy-five
long a resident of Denver, died at
Briggsdale.
Thieves looted the Park cafe at
Trinidad and secured S4OO and a large
quantity of liquor.
The state board is considering the
j proposition of Investing the school
funds in irrigation projects.
Rocky Ford cantaloupes are
ning to arrive in Denver and are sell
ing at $4 to $4.50 a crate.
The trial of the negro, Bob Harris,
who killed the two marshals of Rocky
Ford has opened In La Junta.
Oil in paying quantities has been
found in at least fifty wells in Range
ley district, in Routt county.
Railway passenger and freight '/e
--ceipts at Gunnison are $25,000 more
this year than in the previous year.
S. S. Kingsbury, the new head mas
ter of the State Preparatory School,
at Boulder, has arrived from Wichita,
Kun.
State Engineer Comstock Is of the
opinion that his office will he almost
self supporting under the new fee sys
tem.
Mrs. Annie Eliza Landrum of Love
land has been declared insane and
committed to tho Work Sanitarium In
Pueblo.
Not for eighteen months has work
on irrigation enterprises in Colorado
been pushed with so much activity aa
at present.
J. V. Blake owns a garden spot near
CaDon City, and from one acre of
ground he marketed 14,000 pounds of
early beans.
Mrs. C. M. Conrow is dead from the
effects of a shock received when
lightning struck near Trinidad about
two weeks ago.
On the way from Denver to Fort
Worth, Texas, J. S. Camplain died on
Colorado & Southern passenger train
No. 2 at Aguilar.
The Estes Park hotel was burned to
the ground. Within an hour after the
fire was discovered the entire building
burned. Loss $50,000.
The Fir-a State bank of Milliken has
The first division of the revolution
ary army has entered the capital and
immediately proclaimed General Cin
cinnatus Leconte chief executive of
Hayti. General Leconte’s election to
the presidency appears assured. The
city remains calm.
SPORT.
Western League Standing.
P. W. L. Pet.
Denver 103 66 37 .641
Lincoln 102 59 43 .578
Pueblo 103 55 48 .634
St. Joseph 102 54 48 .523
Omaha 101 61 50 .505
Sioux City 101 49 52 .483
Topeka 103 45 58 .437
Des Moines 101 30 71 .297
Frankie White of Chicago and Ed
Winters of Raton, N. M., fought a fif
teen-round draw at Alamosa.
Joe Jeannette of Boston and Tony
Ross of Pittsburg fought ten fast
rounds to a draw in New York.
Patsy Brannigan of Pittsburg was
given the decision over Jimmy Ken
rick of England after twenty rounds
of fast fighting at Springfield, Ohio.
Fifty-three days of horse racing on
the three Kentucky tracks probably
will open September 16th at Lexing
ton, where a ten days’ meet will be
held.
“One Round” Hogan of San Fran
cisco, has gone to New York to begin
training for his ten-round bout with
“Knockout” Brown, scheduled for
Labor Day.
All that is left of the fortune made
in the prize ring by the late Stanley
Ketchel, middleweight champion,
came to $103.17 when his estate was
wound up in San Francisco in the Pro
bate Court.
The Junction City, Kans., state
league pennant winners defeated the
Cheyenne Indians in a fast game in
Cheyenne, which proved to be a
pitchers’ battle between Zabel and
Haight.
WASHINGTON.
A woman, Miss Margaret Kelley, is
now in actual charge of the mints of
the United States.
The condition of the growing cot
ton crop of the United States July
25th was 89.1 of a normal.
The Senate, by a vote of 48 to *3O,
passed the Farmers’ Free List bill,
after the measure had been slightly
changed from the form in which it
passed the House.
reorganized and will be known as the
Weld County National bank. Its cap
ital has been increased to $25,000.
The first electrically operated fu
nicular railroad ever built west of the
Mississippi river is being constructed
up the face of Lookout mountain, just
west of Golden.
A rich bed of coal, valued by Col.
J. A. Owenby at $1,500,000, has been
located on the property of the Woot
ton Land and Fuel Company fifteen
miics south of Trinidad.
James English, who has been In a
| Trinidad hospital since May 26, suffer
ing from paralysis caused by a bullet
wound received in a saloon brawl at
Hastings, May 14, is dead.
The Masonic temple, at Montrose,
just completed by the order at a cost
of $25,000 has been occupied for the
first time by the lodge. It has three
stories and is fifty by 125 feet.
The largest real estate transaction
at Montrose for two months was
closed when Mrs. Lillie T. York sold
her ranch of 105 acres to Peter Krogh
of Cedar Rapids, lowa, for $60,500.
At the first annual flower exhibit giv
en by Loveland school children 121
handsome boquets made up from
flowers grown by the children this
year, were entered for a variety o£
prizes.
The Victor Labor Day committee
has arranged to hold a broncho-bust
ing contest in connection with the cel
ebration, for the world’s champion
ship belt. The belt has been secured
from Bud McDonald.
While two boys named Carr ami
Trine were playing with a revolver
which they did not know was loaded,
at Gunnison, it was discharged, the
bullet striking the Carr boy in the
! mouth, inflicting a painful wound.
For failure to answer truthfully
questions mailed to prospective Jurors
by Jury Commissioner Alexander Nes
bit, of Denver, or for failure to obey
a jury summons, a fine of SSO will be
imposed for each and every offense.
To test the commercial value of the
clay beds recently found in Sunshine
canon, Boulder county, Secretary Eck
el of the Commercial Association will
send 400 pounds of the clay to the
potteries of Zanesville, 0., where it
will be made into pottery.
Hon. J. Ed. Caron, minister of ag
riculture for the province of Quebec,
has written Secretary Burns of the In
ternational Dry Farming Congress that
he would attend the meeting of that or
ganization in Colorado Springs this
fall.
The millionth patent Issued by the .
United States has been announced by
Commissioner of Patents Moore.
A pension of $4 a week for every
man and woman more than 60 years of
age is provided for in a bill by Reore
sentative Victor L. Berger. He is the
Socialist member from Wisconsin.
Mr. Taft Is expected to send the ar
bitration treaty between the United
States and Great Britain, and probably
the treaty with France, to the Senate
before the special session adjourned.
Final arrangements have been made
for signing the treaty.
Bearing an initiative and referen
dum feature to safeguard against ger
rymandering in a number of states the
Congressional reapportionment bill
passed the Senate. It,fixes the future
House membership at 433 —with two
more when Arizona and New Mexico
attain statehood —instead of the pres
ent 391.
Members of Congress from the
West, insurgents as well as regulars,
who are opposed to a revision of the
wool tariff at this time, are becoming
convinced that Senator La Follette
does not intend that the President
shall have an opportunity to carry in
to effect his intention to veto a wool
bill framed in advance of the tariff
board report.
The secretary of the interior has
submitted to the Public Lands com
mittee of the House a favorable re
port and recommendation for the pass
age of the House bill granting home
stead entrymeu under the Uncompah
gre reclamation project in Colorado
leave of absence from their entries un
til water is furnished from the govern
ment canals for the irrigation of the
lands embraced in these entries.
To his story of how he claims he
was bribed to vote for Lorimer,
Charles A. White, former member of
the Illinois Legislature, added for the
benefit of the Senate Lorimer com
mittee that he believed every one of
the fifty-three Democrats who voted
for Lorimer did so for a money con
sideration. He added that he thought
some of the Republicans who voted
for Lorimer got money for so doing.
The Warren bill, granting leave of
absence to homesteaders has been
amended by adding to the districts
previously authorized the Hugo, La
mar and Glenwood Springs districts in
Colorado, and the Clayton, Fort Sum
ner, Las Cruces, Tucumcari, Roswell
i and Santa Fe In New Mexico.