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BIG SNOWSLIDE
AT LEADVILLE
MINE BUILDINGS WRECKED AND
TREEB SNAPPED LIKE STRAWS
IN DISASTER.
TWO DIE,BUT 20 ESCAPE
TOTTERING DAM IMPERILS MANY
LIVEB ANO MILLIONS IN PROP
ERTY IN CALIFORNIA.
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Loadvllle. Colo. — death and
ruin in its white course, a tremen
dous snowslide swept with terrific
impact down the steep passes of
Mount Elbert, in I/ako county one
mile above Twin i-akes, Wednesday
afternoon shortly after 1 o’clock,
buried alive two mining men, one a
former resident of Denver. Twenty
oilier mine employes narrowly es
caped death aa the frozen snow and
earth thundered down the mountain
side. The dead are J. W. Remine, .13
years old, brother of Mrs. John Wink
ler. 1114 Acoma street, Denver, and
J’aul Stlfflor, 40 years old, of Twin
lakes. Rernine was the son of W. P.
•Rtwiine, the mention of whose uame
recalls to the pioneer prospectors one
of the most successful of tho early
doy gold diggers.
Both men were In tho employ of the
Gordon group of gold mines. With a
score of other men they were endeav
oring to reach a shuft opening by
cutting their way through deep
UIIOW.
Then came the moving, crashing,
thundering slide, snapping trees at
the roots as if they wore struws,
sweeping them down, down the hot
toralOßS depths of the sheer mountain
side.
In the path of the slide were the
mine buildings, which wore wrecked
by the oncoming run and carried
along in its maddening speed.
Witli a great roar, the slide finally
was broken up when it struck a high
harrier of cliffs near where the town
of Twin Lakes is situated.
Twelve Hundred Marooned.
l/os Angeles. Jan. 20.—Whether the
great levees which hold the Colora
do river back from the Imperial val
ley will hold was a question on which
hinged the possible fate of human
lives and millions of dollars’ worth
of property. Heavy rains moving
eastward left most of southern Cali
fornia recovering from floods, trou-1
blesorae but receding, which claimed |
four lives and caused damage esti- j
mated at $2,000,000.
A wall of water eleven feet high i
was sweeping over the spillways of
tho Roosevolt dam on the Salt river.
The rise, however, had ceased, though
another one was predicted by recla
mation officials.
Flood conditions assumed alarm
ing proportions at Yuma, Ariz., last
night. Reports from all points along
the Gila river above here as far us
Phoenix were to the effect that the
river was rising rapidly. The Colo
rado river roso one and one-half feet
in twenty-four hours and began to
rise more rapidly late Wednesday
night.
In addition to the flood of water
rushing toward Phoenix down these
two rivers, between 12,000 aud 15,000
feet of wuter a second was pouring
over the Laguna dam.
British Ship Sunk by U-Boat.
London. —The British steamer Ma
rere was sunk by a submarine. Her
crew was rescued. ,
CZAR’S MEN ROUT TURKS.
Russians Capture Bixty-Six Miles oi
Trenches in Hand-to-Hand Fight
in Lake Tortem Region.
London, Jan. 20. —Tearing through
the Turkish lines in the Caucasus, the
Russians captured sixty-six miles ol
trenches, routed tho Moslems from
strong positions in the region ol
Lake Torteiu, and occupied a line ex
tending to tho Charlanson river north
of Melazghort. The Ottoman forces
fled after a desperate hand-to-hand
battle in which soldiers fought with
fists, stonos, clubbed rifles and bro
ken bayonets. The Sultan’s troopi
finally established themselves on the
strongly fortified plain of Ezerum, but
in order to cover their retreat sacrl
ficed a large portion of their army.
Entente allied airmen have dropped
bombs on Metz and Arnaville, doing
some material damage.
With the announcement that Monte
negro had broken off negotiations
for peace with Austro-Hungary comes
the official statement in a Paris
newspaper that King Nicholas and his
family and suite aro already on their
way to Italy.
Gen. Villa’s Life Forfeit on Sight.
El Paso. —General Carranza tele
graphed the Mexican embassy ut
Washington that he had formally
proclaimed Frunclsco Villa an outlaw
and authorized his execution by any
citizen of the republic who might en
counter him.
I Killed In Powder Plant Explosion.
Hopeville. Va. —One man was killed
and a dozen severely injured by an
explosion In the nitrate house of the
Pu Pont powder plant here.
A. SANTOS DUMONT
A. Santos Dumont, the noted aero
naut, attended the second Pan-Amerl
car. Scientific congress as the dele
gate of the Aero Club of America. He
brought before the congress a plan for
the co-ordination of all the aeronauts
of the United States and of Latin-
American countries looking to the ad
vancemcnt of the science of the air.
FOUR KILLED, TEN HURT
IN SUBMARINE E-2 EXPLOSION IN
NEW YORK NAVY YARD.
Plunger Boat Was Being Repaired ‘n
Dry-Dock—Deadly Hydrogen
Hampered Rescue.
(CMtarn NrWiDaDcr Union New* Service.
New York. -Four men were kill id
and ten others Injured, live danger
ously. In an explosion on the subma
rine E-2 whil-3 the craft was under
going repairs in dry-dock at the New 1
York navy yard. One of the men
killed was an enlisted electrician and !
the other three civilian workers. At
least three of the ton in hospitals are j
not expected to live.
Although the detonation was terri '
fic, the submarine Itself from the out
side shows none of tho effects of the j
explosion, the second fatal accident of
its kind in the history of the United
States navy. Tho interior apparatus
was badly shattered. A ladder was
blown up thiough the conning tower
and fell 150 feet away.
The injured men and one body were
removed soon after the accident, but
three bodies far down in the craft
could not be reached until tho gas nad
been blown out by compressed air.
Keating’s Munition Plant Bill.
Washington.—A bill appropriating
$8,000,000 to build a government plant j
for manufacture of war munitions In ;
or near Pueblo was introduced bv i
Congressman Keating of Colorado i
The bill provides that contiguous to j
the munitions plant there shall be es
tablished a government supply depot
The secretary of war is instructed to
uppolnt a committee of three officers
to select the exact location for the
two plants and construction work
must begin within six iqonths after
tho site is acquired. Keating also in
troduced a bill appropriating sso,Out)
for a site for a fish culture station at
Rye, Colo.
Chinese Rebels Win Fight.
San Francisco. Sixty thousand
revolutionary troops have defeated
the forces of Yuan Shi Kai, head of
the Chinese government, in an action
fought in the province of Szo Chuen,
according to a cablegram received
here from Shanghai by Tong King
Chong, president of the Chinese Re
public Association. The losses in
killed and wounded were about 1,000.
Report 1,500 Armenians Massacred.
London. —Armenian refugees arriv
ing at Erlvan, Russian Transcaucasia,
state that 1,000 Sasun Armenians who
were forced by cold and famine to!
surrender to the Turks under govern
ment amnesty, were killed by order
of the governor of Mush, The men
were butchered, and the women and
children drowned in the Euphrates
river.
Money to Finish Public Buildings.
Washington. — Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo has sent a com
munication to Congress, requesting
urgency appropriations for construc
tion work on Colorado public build
ings as follows: Durango, $40,000;
Fort Morgan, $500; La Junta, $20,-
000. For Wyoming ho recommends:
Cody, $500 and Basin, $500.
Wilson May Speak in Denver.
Washington.—President Wilson Is
planning to assume personal leader
ship in the fight for a stronger army
ar d navy. So many reports have
reached him of confusion over the Is
sue and of the uncertainty of tho out
come that he has determined not only
to go before tho country in public ad
dresses, but to confer with leaders of
the Senate and House. Among the
cities In which the President is said
to have decided to make addresses
ore Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburg, Kan
sas City and Donver.
klbkxt oommr tribuxz.
FLOODS SWEEP
CITIES ON COAST
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LOSB 18
REPORTED AND MANY ARE
INJURED.
MANY TOWNS IN WATER
TWO DROWNED, HUNDREDS ARE
HOMELESS, AS RESULT OF
CALIFORNIA STORM.
Western Newspaper Union New* Service.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Two men were
reported drowned and hundreds of per
sons were homeless Monday night as ;
a result of the heavy rainstorm which
has caused almost every river and j
stream in southern California to over-,
flow its banks and inundate the low- J
lends adjacent. Several towns In the j
San Bernardino valley are partly in-j
undated by flood waters, bridges have!
been damaged and power plants of the j
electric corporations were forced to i
shut down by the worst storm in this
section in several years.
Fred Smith and A. Itivere, ranch
ers, were reported to have lost their!
lives while trying to ford swollen j
streams. A tributary of tho Santa Ana
river overflowed its banks near Red
lands and flooded twenty houses in the
lowlands. More than Hixty persons
were rescued from the flooded district
and taken to a refugee camp estab-;
lished at a sanitarium nearby. Twelve
houses in East Highlands, Sun Ber
nardino county, were surrounded by
the flood waters of the Santa Ana
river. The occupants were taken out
by rescue paities The homeless fam
ilies were cared for at an orange pack
ing house. Street car and railroad
traffic throughout southern California
was demoralized and numerous acci-j
dents reported. Property damage os- j
tlmated at $250,000 was caused In the j
Midway oil district when a southwest;
gale that assumed the proportions of!
a tornado swept the section, leveling |
400 derricks and wrecking engine I
houses, bunk houses and dwellings.!
Tho greatest damage was done In what j
is known as the north Miuway and Mc-
Klttrick fields. No lives were lost and !
no one was seriously hurt.
The storm extended far into Ari- 1
zona, where washouts and flood con-,
ditions generally were reported. Res->
idents of the Gila river, a few miles I
southwest of l’hoenix, were warned
to prepare to flee to higher ground
Railroad service Was discontinued bo
| tween Phoenix and Ray, Ariz.
The Associated Oil Company lost
j sixty-four out of eighty-four derricks
in one field of Its operations.
1 One hundred carloads of material
| for rebuilding have already been or
dered to the devastated fields.
Flood waters of the Tijuana river
threatened Monday night the racing
track of the Lower California Jockey
Club at Tijuana, on the Mexican bor
j der near here. Hundreds of men wero
; put to work to rave a portion of the
j track which lies close to tho river
: bank.
Three days of steady rain has trans
formed both the Tijuana and San Di
ego rivers into torrents, the rapidly
rising waters having compelled hun
dreds of persons in the lowlands to
übandon their dwellings.
The bitterness engendered here by
the massacre of eighteen Americano
at Santa Ysabel has not visibly abut
ted. Thousands attended the funer
als of C. R. Watson and It. P. Mc-
Hatton, two of the victims.
SHOW VILLA’S BUTCHER’S BODY.
De Facto Government of Mexico to
Kill Bandit Gang on Sight.
El Paso. Tex. —The corpse of Gen.
Jose Rodriguez. Villa’s cavalry lead
er. was placed on public exhibition
I Monday in the yard of the Juarez
; custom house. The grueson show
was meant to prove .that the Carron
za government was determined to
punish the murderers of Americans
. and other foreigners. A placardl on
the executed bandit lender’s body an
i nouncod that all enemies of the de
,' facto government would meet a like
. fate. • Tho death order was also car
• ried out when Gen. Manual Baca
i Valles and Enrique Cisneros, with
I eight followers, were shot by a Car
s ranza fighting squad p.t Casas
Grandeß. Valles was known as Vil
la’s official executioner, successor of
the late General Fierro, the “butch
er.” Generals Rivas and Alameda of
the Villa army were executed, by the
same firing squad that ended Rodii
. guez's life at Madero.
Franklin’s 210th Anniversary Observed
Philadelphia.—The 210th annivers
ary of the birth of Benjamin Frank
lin was celebrated here.
Dodge Estate Over $2,000,000.
Council Bluffs, lowa. —The will of
Gen. Grenville M. Dodge was admit
ted to probate here. N. P. Dodge, Jr.,
of Omnha, and F. S. Puzey of New
York, were confirmed as executors of
the will and trustees of the estate.
It Is believed the estate will aggre
gate more than $2,000,000, most of it
being Invested in Union Pacific and
other rnilroad bonds. Tho trustees
have one year in which to make the
bequests of $150,000 named by Gen.
Dodge.
MISS CATHERINE HARLOW
Miss Harlow is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Harlow of Wash
ington. She is one of the latest addi
tions to the society of the capital.
SAY U.S. AT FOE’S MERCY
LABOR LEADER GOMPERS ASKS
PREPAREDNESS.
i Stirring Pleas Made by Prominent
Speakers at National Civic
Federation Meeting.
Western Newaonper Union New* Service.
Washington.—Stirring pleas for na-
I tional preparedness and vigorous at
i tacks on ‘ pcace-at-any-price” advo
| cates were made by speakers of na-
I tional prominence at the closing ses-'
sion of the annual meeting of the
I National Civic Federation
| The speakers Included Samuel Gom-j
i pers, president of the American Fed- 1
I eration of Labor; John Hays Ham
mond, Senators Wadsworth and Phe
! lan, former Governor O’Neil of Ala
| bama, Arthur H. Dadmun, secretary
lof the Navy League of the United
| States, and Tolcott Williams of New;
j York, dean of the Pulitzer School of j
Journalism.
While lie insisted that military or
ganizations must be democratic and
the nation must be safeguarded
against the evils of militarism, Mr.
Gompers declared that America’s own
freedom had been achieved by resist
ance to tyranny, and that pacifists
failed to understand that quality or
the human race which made men will
ing to risk their all for an Ideal.
Gompers declared that organized m-;
bor thruout the United States favored
adequate national preparedness under
certain conditions which he summar
ized as including: Recognition of
and cooperation with the organized
labor movement In all fields of
a tivity, Industrial, commercial, polit
ical, social and moral. Establishment
and extension of the citizen soldiery,!
Democratically organized, officered
administered and controlled. Prohi
bition of the use of the militia for
strike duty.
So inadequately is the country's
iflilitary efficiency, declared Senator
Wadsworth, that If Congress were to
order intervention in Mexico today, it
would be “three, four or five months
before we could get the troops to
intervene.”
Senator Phelan declared that a
“single enemy with a stick of dyna
mite could put the Panama Canal out
of business,” and that “we nave in
the Japanese in California an enemy
within our midst agninsr whose ex
. pansion we must prepare.”
House Passes Land Leasing Bill.
Washington.—The mineral lan-l
leasing bill affecting all of the 700,-
000,000 acres of public land In conti
nental United States and Alaska
. passed the House. Protection for Wy
. oming and California oil promoters
whose claims were affected by the
withdrawal of public lands under the
Taft administration is one of its fea
tures. It now goes to the Senate.
Big Stock and Horse Show Opens.
Denver. —Pedigreed stock from ev
f ery section of the country, estimated
! in the aggregate to be worth $13,000.-
000, of which $1,000,000 represents the
value of the blue-blooded horses that ;
have won prizes at the greatest shows
i in the country, were at the Denve.*
- Union stockyards when the tenth an
nual National Livestock and Horse
Show opened Monday.
Wyoming Physician Dies in Chicago.
f Chicago—Dr. Frank J. Jaegers, a j
physician, on his way from his home
in Evanston, Wyo., to his New York
residence, died here of pneumonia as
j his train entered the station. He was
, seventy years old.
Arizona Homes in Flood's Path.
[j Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 19.- Flood con
s ditions in this part of the state have
e Increased and great volumes of water
L are pouring down the Salt and Verde,
I rivers \
KING OF GREECE
MAY BE OUSTED
ALLIES ORDER CONSTANTINE TO
SEND AWAY ENVOYS OF
TEUTONIC POWERS.
FORD BOARD BREAKS UP
THREE KILLED AND FOUR HURT
WHEN LINER 18 HIT BY
SUBMARINE.
Western Newspaper Union New* Service.
London, Jan. 19.—That the allies
are determined to force the King of
Greece to aid in the campaign
1 against the Teutons or drive him
from the throne, is the belief here.
A note, the contents of which have
not been made public, hr.s been sent
to King Constantine by the entente
powers. It is known that one of the
demands made is that the King hand
to the ministers of the Teutonic pow
ers their pasr.ports within forty
eight hours. liis failure to do this
will result in “necessary measures”
by the allies, the note indicated. In
the meantime, there aro anti-royai!st
demonstrations in Athens and in va
rious towns of Greece.
Orders have been issued that tele
graph messages from Athens to Ger
many, Austria, Bulgaria or Turkey
must be written in plain language.
J Another dispatch to the Cologne
| Gazette from Sofia tells of anti-royal
-Ist demonstrations at Athens,
j "King Constantine retains the sym
pathy of only the high military offi
cers,” the message says, " and the at
titude of the army is in doubt.”
A dispatch from Amsterdam to the
Exchange Telegraph Company says
that French and British troops have
been landing at Corinth. Greece, for
ty-eight miles west of Athens.
The Germans are declared to have
suffered considerably from the effects
of the explosion and the shells of the
British guns.
One French and two British aero
plans have been brought down by the
j Germans in the western theater.
The Hague, Jan. 19. —While prepar
ing for tho proposed departure to
Stockholm, where it is intended to be
gin sessions in an attempt to bring
about the termination of the war, the
Ford permanent peace board was
threatened with disruption l»y the .'e
'fusal of all the members to proceed
jon the trip to Stockholm. Of the five
- American members of the board, only
I Dr. Chas. F. Aked has announced his
I willingness to go to Stockholm. Mrs.
. Joseph Fels of Philadelphia says she
i is going to England on business.
William J. Bryan, Henry Ford and
i Miss Jane Addams, who are the oth
tjer American members, are still in
-1 America.
London.—The trans-Atlantic liner
I Ryndham passed Southend, down by
r! the bows with a list to starboard. All
her passengers are safe. Three stok
[ers were killed and four Injured, it
1 was reported, but no information was
f given out as to the nature of the ac
- cident, beyond the statement that an
t explosion had occurred.
London. —On the heels of an Aus
i- 1 trian report to the effect that Monte
r negro has unconditionally sued for
peace, comes a statement from Zu
-8 rich, Switzerland, that King Nioblas
r has refused to consider peace terms
o from the Teutonic powers,
t The Saloniki correspondent of the
s Giornale d'Palia, says a dispatch to
0 the Temps from Milan, declares that
j Information reaching headquarters of
a I the entente allies at Saloniki is that
i- hostile forces numbering about 320,-
t 000 are distributed between Monastir
n and the extreme right wing of the
y entente armies, that 250,000 appear to
c . be massed for attack against the en
ente's left wing and center and that
on the right are 18,000 Turks, 30,000
Bulgarians and 12,000 Germans.
The Austrian statement says*
“Fighting in the Toporontz district
and east of Rarepozle is more bittei
than ever. Russian columns of a*
many as twelve to fourteen lines deep
attacked our positions at some placet
four times and at others six times
but the desperate contests always re
suited in their repulse, frequently witb
the bayonet in hand-to-liand fighting
“Russian losses have been appalling
More than 1,000 dead Russians were
counted before the positions of one
Austro-Hungarian brigade.”
Norway City Burns; Loss, $30,000,000.
Bergen, Norway.—The fire that
raged in Bergen for several days has
been practically extinguished after
causing a loss estimated at $30,000,-
000. Three thousand persons wore
made homeless.
Commanders Deny Sinking of Persia.
j Washington.—Secretary Lansing an
nounced that the Berlin foreign of
fice had informed Ambassador Gerard
' that all German submarines In the
Mediterranean have reported, and
I that none was concerned in the de
struction of the British liner Persia.
House Leaves London for Continent.
• uunuun tot comment.
London. —Col. E. M. House, Presi
dent Wilson's personal represenla
, tive, left London for the continent
| according to the London Times
LATE
MARKET
QUOTATIONS
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DENVER MARKETS.
Cattle.
Beef steers, cornfed, good
to choice $7.00@7.50 . tf
Beef steers, cornfed, fair
to good 6.50@7.00
Beef steers, grassers, good
to choice 6.75@7.35
Beef steers, grassers, fair 7
to good 6.0006.75
Heifers, prime, cornfed ... 7.50@8.00
Cows and heifers, cornfed,
good to choice 6.00@6.50
Cows and heifers, cornfed,
fair to good 5.5006.00
Cows and heifers, grassers,
good to choice 5.7506.30
Cows and heifers, grassers,
fair to goo«l 5.000 5.75
Breeding cows 5.75 06.25
Cows, feeders 4.75@5.50
Breeding heifers 6.00(97.25
Veal caives 7.5009.00
Bulls 4.00@5.25
Feeders and stackers, good
to choice 6.500 7.40
Feeders and stockers, fair
to good 6.0006.50
Feeders and stockers, com
mon to fair 5.5006.00
Hogs.
Good hogs 6.7007.00
Sheep.
Lambs $9.25010.25
Ewes G.oo@ 6.75
Wethers 6.750 7.25
Yearlings 8.000 9.04
HAY AND GRAIN MARKET. I
F. O. B. Denver, Carload Price.
Hay.
Buying Prices
Colorado upland, per t0n.512.00013.00
Nebraska upland, per ton. 10.00@11.00
Second bottom Colorado
and Nebraska, per ton.. 9.00@10.00
Timothy, per ton 14.50@15.50
Alfalfa, per ton 10.50011.50
South Park, choice, per
ton 15.00® 15.50
San Luis Valley, per ton. 12.00013.00
Gunnison Valley, per ton. 12.00013.00
Straw, per ton 4.000 4.50
Grain.
Wheat, ch. mill., 100 lbs., buy
ing $1.67
Rye, Colo., bulk, 1,00 lbs., buy
ing 1.35
Idaho oats, bulk, buying 1.30
Colorado oatß, hulk, selling 1.16 <
Corn chop, sack, selling 1.43
Corn in sack, selling 1.42
Bran, Colorado, per 100 lbs., sell
ing 1.00
Flour.
Selling Prices.
Standard Colorado, net $2.85
Dressed Poultry.
Less 10 Per Cent Commission.
Turkeys, fancy, D. P 21 @23
Turkeys, old toms 15 @l6
Turkeys, choice 10 @l2
Hens, fancy 14 @ls
Springs, lb 17 @2O
Ducks, young 14 @ls
Geese * 15 @l6
Roosters 7 @ 8
Live Poultry.
The following prices on live poultry
are net F. O. B. Denver:
Springs, lb 15 @l7
Stags, lb 10 @l2
Hens, fancy 13 @l4
Roosters 7
Turkeys, 10 lbs, or over ... 18
Ducks, young 12
Geese 12 @l3
Eggs.
Eggs, graded No. 1 net, F.
O. B. Denver 31
Eggs, graded No. 2 net, F.
O. B. Denver 18
Eggs, case count, misc,
cases less commission ..8.00@9.00 #
Eggs, April storage, net F.
O. B. Denver 6.00@6.60
Butter.
Creameries, ex. Colo., lb. .. 31
Creameries, ex. East., lb. .. 31 «
Creameries, 2d grade, lb .. 25
Process 26
Packing stock 19 @2O
Fruit.
Apples, Colo., fancy box 1.25@2.00
Apples, Colo., choice box .. .6001.25
Vegetables.
Carrots, cwt 7501.00
Cauliflower, lb 080 .10
Pascal cdlery 400 .80
Cabbage, cwt 400 .65
Onions, cwt 2.0002.40
Onions, table, doz 150 .17%
Potatoes 1.7002.15
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Metal Market Values.
Spelter, St. Louis, $16.00.
Copper, casting, s22.G2}£.
Lead, New York. $5.90.
Bar silver, 5G%c.
Cotton Market.
New York.—Cotton—January 12.3 G;
March, 12.52; May, 12.75: July, 12.87.
October. 12.78. Middling uplands,
12.50.
Elgin Butter.
Elgin. 111.—Butter—75 tubs sold at
81c.
Chicago Grain and Provision Prices.
Chicago Wheat No. 2 red. 4
*1.28%; No. 3 red, sl.2G@ 1.2GV4; No 2 /
hard. $1.23V4@1.24tt; No. 3 hard,
*1.16^01.22.
Corn—No. 2 yellow, nominal; No. 4
yellow, 7214®73c; No. 4 white, 7214
@73%e.
Oats—No. 3 white, 47©48c; stand,
ard. 4814@49Vfcc.
Barley—6s® 79c.
Timothy—ss.so® 7.75.
Clover—slo.ooolß.7s.
Pork—slß[e-mail].
Lard—510.75010.95. T
Ribs—slo.4oolo.Bo.