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VOL. XXXVIII.
CITIZENSHIP
CLASSES ARE
STARTING ALL
OVER U. S.
MR. PAUL ARMSTRONG TELLS OF
SYSTEM OF NATURALIZATION
NOW IN VOGUE; UNIVERSITY
CLUB HELD FINE MEETING.
The American people as a whole do
not appreciate the vital importance ol
fhe education of the alien who reaches
our chores and mingles in our life,
according to the statement of Mr.
Paul Armstrong. United States natur
alization examiner, who was the main
speaker at the monthly banquet of the
University club at the Strathmore ho- ,
tel Tuesday night.
To back up his statement Mr. Arm
strong told many facts that were real
levelations to his auditors. The
speaker said that since 1820. when the
immigration records were started to
be kept. 32.00b.000 aliens have come
to the United States. In the past
eleven years 11.000,000 have come
here. In the year 1907 the high water
mark was reached, with 1.285,000 ar
rivals. In 1915 only 36p,000 came
over.
This large number of alien# has
naturally created a problem for the
United States government that is by
no means small in it* proportions, ac
cording to Mr. Armstrong. But the
American people until Just recently;
In fact since the war started, have
not realized the perils and Import
ance of thin dominating question. But
now they have awakened to the fact
that education is absolutely necessary
to absorb them into the warp and woof
of our citizenship and steps are being
taken in various places to establish
classes in citizenship. In the last
two years 500 classes have been or
ganized In various parts of the United
States and 400 ot the teachers of
these classes receive no pay. The
others aie paid by boards of cduca
lion, commercial organizations or pub
he spirited citizens. The naturaliza
tion division of the department or la
boi overseen these classes and helps
them in every way possible, but flnan
rial support cannot be be given for
obricus reasons
The speaker stated that some of
our greatest men were at one time
aliens, that thay accepted the oppor
tunity the land of the free and the
homo of the brave gave them and (
foiged to the front, and in doing so
were of vast benefit to the develop
ment of our nation. He said that In
lending a helping hand to the foreign
er who comes over here to live, the
opportunity is given them to make
sterling citizen* of thamseh-e*. for
the most of them posses* excellent
material upon which to work.
Mr.*Armstrong cited the naturali
zation scandals of a few* yeais ago in
Kock Springs. Wyoming, to point out j
how lightly the most of the people
took the serious and solemn pro- '
cedure of making citizens out of the
foreign born. He said that droves!
upon droves of foreigners used to be
biought down from Rock Springs and
other mining towns to Green River
and put thru the naturalization test
like wheat thru a mill. This was
usually done Just before an election
so that the men could vote. The whole
country rang with these and other
scandals in 1904 and 1905. It was
found that people living in other coun
tries who had never seen the United
States possessed naturalization paper*
They used them to evade military ser
vice in their own countries or to aid
them in getting into the United States
and for various other purposes. They
had received them from some relativ
es in the United States who had put
chased the paper from a corrupt Judge
or hireling. The matter of citizenship
was so lightly considered and the'
methods employed were so lax that
the above was easily carried out.
But such scandalous procedure
could not long continue without the I
country wreaking with it, ao in 1906
the present naturalization law was
enacted and commencing with Sept cm
her 27th the same year, all of tho
naturalization records from all the
states were kept In the Department
of Labor In Washington. |
The aliens who are candidates for
rttlßenahtp are now thoroughly Inves
tigated by government examiners be
fore they come up for examination.
Then when they do take the exami
nation they muat ahow that they know
the constitution of tho United States t
*• Is Consolidated
a) _
and that -uiey are attached to its
principle*. It is not necessary tor the
alien to read and write but it is al
ways aimed to have them thus profi
cient if it is at all possible.
The speaker said that between one
fourth und one-fifth of the aliens go
back to their native lands after mak
ing money here but that those who
became citizens very rarely went
back.
Mr. Armstrong is a pleasing talker
add knows his suojeot thoroughly.
He gave some excellent information
to the members present last night
and he made a splendid impression
upon them.
Mr. C. Allen Hogle, Mr. Enos Lauter
bach, and Dr. Pitt A. Wade made
their maiden speeches before the club
The two former made brief talks and
Dr. Wade read an entertaining and
instructive paper on “The Causes
leading up to the European War."
Mr. John Emerson gave a remarkably
well written and beautiful descriptive
story of a sunset from Fremont's
peak.
HENRY GRUENE IDENTIFIES
BODY AT DENVER AS CARL
BODY AT RESIDENT AS CARL
CANON CITY IN 1913-14
Henry* Gruene. secretary of Canon
City Ixalge No. 293. Independent Or
der of Moose, was called to Denver
one day last week to try and identify
a dead mau in one of the undertaking
establishments there, who was believ
ed to have been at one time a resi
dent of this city and a member of the
above named lodge. The man was
found dead in a Denver rooming
house on November 16th. from asphy
xiation. but whether from accident or
suicide was not known- He had been
n Ivnver only a short time and no
body could be found there who knew
dm. As some papers were discover
'd among his effects that seemed to
indicate that he had once been a
member of the Moose lodge here the
undertaker held the body until an in
vestigation could be made.
Mr. Gruene went to Denver on Wed
nesday and on going to the undertak
en the following morning had no dif
Acuity In identifying the body as that
of Carl Hueltberg. who formerly re
aided In Canon City, die was a mem
ter of the Moose lodg* here and lived
in thia city in 1912 and 1913. Huelt
berg was a native of Sweden and was
forty-five years of age. He was em
ployed during his residence in Canon
City as a section man on tho I>enver
A Rio Grande railroad. He was bur
ed in Denver at the expense of the
Moose lodge here.
WASHINGTON CAPTURES
TWO BASKETBALL GAMES
The Washington school teams won
both game* from the Alcott school
on the Y. M C.A. gym floor last Sat
urday evening in the grade school
basket hall league. The Washington
teams were composed of W. Fredrick
son. J. Patton. O. Holliday. F. Clark.
V. Halstead. R. Stealey, R. Yard. C.
Dozier, J. Ball. L Robison and W.
Nel*on v The Alcott teams were
made up of the following players, T.
Tantrum. C. Spurgeon. E. Fuller. K.
Tucker. T. Christison. J. Davis. D.
Asher, C. Menzel. C. Chapman and G.
I v.Weese.
The games for next Saturday even
ing are; Lincoln Park Senior vs. Lin
coln. and Alcott Juniors vs. Lincoln.
STANDING OF TEAMS:
Seniors Won Lost
Lincoln ..3 0
Washington 2 1
Alcott 3 JL
Jefferson 0 2
Lincoln Park 0 2
Juniors Won Lost
Jefferson 2 0
Washington 2 0
Lincoln 2 0
Alcott 0 3
Lincoln Park 0 3
PLEASANT BIRTHDAY SURPRISE
PARTY.
Tuesday evening Miss Elsie Bower
was pleasantly surprised by the mem
bers of the Y. N. Q. club In honor of
her birthday anniversary. The early
part of the evening was spent In mak
ing candy, and. later, all were busily
engaged in making Christmas gifts.
Miss Bower was presented with the
club spoon in celebration of the oc
casion. All present report a delight
ful social evening. Those present
were the Misses Marie Prescott,
iVrnrl Bogardus. Alexa Campbell Vera
Merris, Wilma Newcomb. Etta Wal
ton, Mae and Klale Bower.
THE CANON CITY CANNON
It will not he long now until the
holiday shopping will be in full swing
and before it opens we wish to have
a few words with our fellow citizens
on the question of how and where
this holiday money i 6 to be spent.
Are you going to patronize the mail
order houses this year as perhaps
many of you did last year? Or are
you going to. If necessary, even make
a slight sacrifice and stick to home
people?
Whence came the money that you
are intending to send to that mail or
der concern? Did it come from the
city in which that concern is located?
Not by a long shot. If you are a
farmer it is the product of the soil.
What soil? Why, the soil of YOUR
COM Ml NITY. Now you. as a prac
tical farmer, know full well the re
sults of the ruinous practice of taking
everyth ins: from your land and re
turning nothing to it. You know that
this practice must sooner or laier im
poveiish your soil and destroy your
source of income.
Can't you realize that in sending
your money away from home you are
doing to the community just what you
wouldn’t think of doing to >*our farm
—robbing it of its productive power?
You certainly ate. Every dollar sent
away Yrom your community robs it of
just that much of its power for good.
But perhaps you are not a farm
er. but a mechanic, or trader, or a
clerk or a doctor, or a merchant.
Then tb-e responsibility rests even
more heavily upon you to keep your
money in the home channels of trade,
because all of it came from the hard
TRACKWALKER
MISSING; MAY
BE DROWNED
Jules Dulan. better known among his?
associates as “Frenchy.” night track-1
walker between Canon City and Park
dale, is thought to have boen drown
ed in the Arkansas river about thre*-
weeks ago. * Du fan has been missing
since about the 26th of November ami
no trace of him has since been found ,
altho persistent efforts have been •
made to locate him. The men engag 1
ed in the rebuilding of the Western
Union Telegraph company’s lines in!
the Royal Gorge discovered a place j
on the river bank, near the Hanging !
bridge, where Dufan had made a flr»
to boil some coffee the night of hi*
disappearance, but no solution to the
mystery of his going away has yet j
been found.
There was snow on the ground at
the time and Dufan’s tracks were .
everywhere to be seen at the place,
where he had made coffee, but there
were no indications that he ever made
il* way back to the railroad grade '
from the river bank. He is supposed I
to have fallen Into the water and
rendered insensible by being dasheo
against the rocks. It is doubtful if
ids body is found before next spring j
Duran had been a trackwalker for j
the Rio Grande at intervals for ten j
or twelve years and had been steadily
on the Job for six or seven months.
He had forty-five dollars In his pock
ets at the time of his disappearance
and a deposit check from one of th«
Denver banks for three hundred and
forty dollars.
DELINQUENT TAX
SALE HELD TUESDAY
The annual delinquent tax sale i*
being held al the office of the county
treasurer today. There are perhaps
a dozen bidders, all residents of Fre
mont county. Morton Jones of Colors
do Springs, representing J. A. Barton
of El Pas*) county, and Mr. Trogler
of Denver, representing the Glenn In
vestment company. Chas. R. McLain
of Denver is also represented at the
sale.
The delinquent tax list is much
smaller this year than usual and the
sales of property for unpaid taxes
correspondingly less. In all 351 par
cels of land, town lots, etc., were list
ed fee sale today, of which 316 were
offered to the highest bidder for the
1915 taxes; IS for the 1914 taxes:
2 for the 1913 taxes, and one for the
1911 taxes. Of the above named par
cels of property 46 were lota on which
there were delinquent sidewalk and
CANON CITY, COLORADO. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1916
AN APPEAL TO COMMUNITY
LOYALTY
earnings of your neighbors and
friends, and you have no right to de
prive the community of the good it
can do if circulated therein.
Yes. we say no right. No man has
any right to be disloyal to bis com
munity. Deprive any man entirely
of community support and he be
comes a pariah—worse than a Robin
son Crusoe, for he is among his kind
but not of them. What loneliness
could be more terrible?
If. then, you are thus dependent
on your neighbors and friends, do
you not owe them an equal allegi
! ance? Are they to consult your in
terests while you ignore theirs? Thlt>
were ingratitude of the basest sort.
Just suppose, you patron of the
! mail order house, that for a period
of twelve months every citizen of
your county followed your example
and did all of his trading away from
borne? What condition would vour
county be in? Would there be a sol
vent merchant in it? Not one. What
of your schools, your churches, and
all the civilizing institutions of our
land? They might still survive if
you bare all the expense—not other
wise.
Think seriously of these things,
you patron of the mail order house.
Resize that if you have the right to
deprive your community of your
money, all your neighbors have equal
right -then imagine the consequenc
es.
If you have a dollar to spend,
spend it at home. Thus it stays and
works in the only spot on God's earth
in which you are interested. Send
t away and it is gone forever.
sewer taxes, 29 of which were in
Canon City and 14 in Florence. Two
Canon City lota were sold for unpaid
sewer taxes-
I delinquent tax lands are sold at
public auction the same as in ordinary
I vendue, the purchaser bidding off the
interesL The purchaser of such lands
is allowed by law 2 per cent a month
on his investment for the first six
! months per cent a month for the
following six months and 1 per cent
a month until the property is redeem
I ed, if it ever is. At the end of three
*I j oars the purchaser is given a tax
■ ' title to the property he acquired it
: j such delinquent sale. If the competi-
I (tion is keen for the possession of the
: property the bidders sometimes take
1 j it for less than the fixed rate of in
'! terest. In fact, the bidding for some
1 ; of the property offered for sale today
1 was spirited and the interest was in
; several instances below the legal rate.
Formerly delinquent tax land's were
<old for a fractional part of the prop
erty instead of the system that now
prevails. For distance, a bid might be
uade for one half of its area, one-
Quarter. one-tenth, one-hundredth or
»ny other divisional part of it. If the
j rivalry for it was strong a bidder
f | might shout “vigie.** an abbreviation
•f vigeiillianth. meaning in the par
lance of the bidders the very smallest
iivision possible. Sometimes a bid
would be made for as little as a square
1 , foot of the property offered for sale.
\t one time a good many years ago
he Brown Palace hotel in Denver and
he ground on which it stands was
-old under a vigie bid for $28,000.
1 This purchase of a fraction of the
property was afterwards redeemed by
the hotel management after consider
ible trouble and expense.
This system of buying delinquent
tax property has long been abandoned
and the county treasurer now reads
the description of the land he wishes
o dispose of. offers it for sale and
awards it to the highest bidder.
LIQUOR SHIPMENTS TO
COUNTY IN NOVEMBER
County Cerk C. A. Linkins has just
compiled his report of the liquor ship
ments brought into Fremont county
during the month of November by the
railroad und express companies. It
•shows that the total number of ship
ments brought in by these means was
658. of which 223 were consigned to
Canon City; 185 to Florence; 170
to Rockvale; 41 to Portland; 14 to
Concrete: io to Cotopaxi; 10 to Tex
as Creek: 7 to Penrose; 6 to Howard
and 1 to Beaver.
During the month of October. 626
«hipmenta of liquor were brought Into
Fremont county by the railroad and
express companies, which Canon City
received 200; Florence 167; Rockvale
167; Howard 13; Concrete 13; Port
land 38; Cotopaxi 16; Texaa Creek
5; Penroae 7; and Parkdale 1.
WEEKLY EDITION
MORE CANDIDATES HAVE
FILED EXPENSE ACCOUNTS
Today is the last day allowed can
didates for public office at the recent
general election by the statute to file
their campaign expense accounts with
the county clerk. Thirty days from
the election is permitted by law in
which to file these campaign state
ments, after which a penalty attaches
or such neglect in case complaint is
made for dereliction in that respect.
A few of the Fremont county candi
dates have thus far failed to compl>
with the law.
Candidates for state and district of
fires are net required to file state
ments of their campaign expenses
with the county clerk, but must do so
with the secretary of state in Den
ver. For this reason no filings have
been made here by the candidates for
district judge and the district attor
neyship.
The following campaign expense ac
counts have been filed in the office
of the county clerk Ivire since the last
report in the columns of The Daily
Record:
G. Vern Hodgin. Republican candi
date for county commissioner from
the first commissioner’s district, con
tributed $120.00 for party organiza
tion; $54.50 for cigars and candy;
$36.10 for transportation; $16.00 for
hotel bills and incidentals and $55.35
for newspaper advertising, cards, etc.
Total $281.95.
W. H. Pigg. Democratic candidate
for county commissioner from the
fl-*t commissioner's district, contrib
uted $150.00 for party organization;
$21.50 for newspaper advertising,
cards, etc.; SB.OO for cigars; $4.00 for
transportation and $25.00 for the em
ployment of canvassers. Total $216.50.
Chas. C. Jackson, Republican candi
date for county commissioner from
‘he third commissioner’s district, con
tributed $120.00 for party organization
$41.00 for newspaper advertising,
cards, etc.; cigars and candy $15.00;
railroad transportation $3.50; hotel
bills and entertainment $10.00; dona
tion* sl-50- Total $191.00
Orion W. Locke. Democratic candi
date for representative from Fremont
county in the legislature, contributed
$75.00 for party organization; $15*20
for cigars: $17.50 for newspaper ad
vertising. cards, etc., and $3.30 for
railroad transportation. Total $110.50.
John R. Kennedy for the office of
Justice of the peace spent $1.50 for
newspaper advertising. He made no
»ther outlay of money for campaign
purposes.
Miss Anna S. Garwood. Democratic
candidate for county superintendent
of schools, contributed $l5O-00 for
party organization; $39.00 for news
paper advertising, cards, etc.; the re
mainder was paid out for incidental
expenses, such as postal cards, stamps
.tnd automobile hire.
There was paid into the hands of
TV. E. Spencer, chairman of the eoun
v Democratic central committee from
all sources, including candidates and
party workers, for campaign expenses
» total of $2,115.85. The expenditure
if the central committee was of a
like amount.
COLORADO ADVERTISING
REFUSED BY CANADIANS
A patriotic censorship which ha*
been voluntarily established by sever
al Canadian newspapers has prevent
ed the Colorado board of immigration
from securing the publication of its
advertisement in Canada, according
to J. H. Jenkins, commissioner of im
migration. because the dominio.i pub
lications refuse to accept advertising
which is intended to attract Canadi
ans away from their country. In
numerous instances the immigration
board's checks were returned and
the copy was barred from the
columns of the papers on the pub
lishers* own volition.
The board realizes, however, that
there is at present a considerable
movement of farmers from Canada
to the United States due to condi
tions that have arisen in Canada
■dnee the war began." said Mr- Jenk
ins in a letter to the Gazette. “It has
persisted, therefore. In its efforts to
place the advantages of Colorado be
fore the people of western Canada,
and has succeeded in getting classi
fied advertisements published in a
few Canadian weeklies and in dailies
>f the northern states that have con
dderable circulation in western Can
ada. As a result the board has re
vived within the past month In the
neighborhood of 250 inquiries from
Canadians who are thinking of com
ng to the United States, and has got
a large number of them interested In
Colorado.*’—Colorado Springs Gazette
NO. 50.
ZINC PLANT
LABORATORY
DESTROYED
BY FIRE
BLAZE EARLY MONDAY MORNING
CONSUMED PROPERTY VALU
ED AT S7,SOO—FULLY COVER.
ED BY INSURANCE.
Tlie laboratory of the Empire Zinc
company at its plant a mile and a half
southwest of town was burned to the
around between two and three o'clock
tfiis morning entailing an estimated
loss of $7,500. The building and its
contents were fully covered by insur
ance and their destruction will not
seriously interfere with the business
of the company as arrangements
have already been made to re-open
the laboratory elsewhere pending the
erection of a new structure for its
occupancy.
The origin of the fire this morning
is something of a mystery, but is sup
posed to have started in some way
from the heating plant. The fire burn
ed rapidly and employes of the com
pany who were there at the time
were unable to do much towards the
suppression of the flames, owing to
’he lack of water pressure for that
purpose. They made use of all of the
facilities at hand to fight the fire, but
it was ineffectual so far as saving
the building was concerned. Call was
made on the Canon City Fire depart
ment for help and Captain Ray
ohnson and an assistant hastened to
the scene by automobile with the
chemical apparatus for fire extinguish
xnent. but could not do anything more
than prevent the flames f , *om com
municating to other parts of the
dant. Requisition had been made
upon chemicals to check the progress
of the fire before the arrival of Mr.
'ohnson and his helper, but without
esult. Several of the officers of the
ompany, as well as its employes, has
tened to the plant when informed of
e fire and worked hard to minimise
he loss accruing from it.
There is a blanket insurance on the
olant of the Empire Zinc company
he*e of $249,500, for which Henry
Hutton, acting as broker for the local
agents, has listed in his office, $214.-
500.
I»enver agents carry $70,000 of the
insurance. The amount listed with
Mr. Hutton is underwritten in varyi
ng sums by fifty-one different com
panies. The laboratory contained, be
sides a lot of apparatus, a consider
able quantity of valuable chemicals
'iecessary for carrying on its work:
some of which will, probably, be dif
icult to replace.
Arrangements were made this mor
ling by the company to establish a
einporary laboratory in one of the
•uildings of the old smelter plant of
’he I'nited States Reduction & Refin
ing company on Smelter hill. South
'anon, and it will be taken possession
>f at once for that purpose. Heat,
electric lighting, telephone, etc-, will
be installed in the temporary struc
»ure on Tuesday and in the course
»f a few days the resurrected labora
tory will be doing its customary
work. The full amount of the loss
will be made by the insurance com
panies as soon as the necessary pre
liminaries can be complied with.
STAR ROUTE SERVICE
TO CRIPPLE CREEK
Reginning next Monday morning,
'ecember 18th.. a tri-weekly Star
toute Mail service will be establish
ed between Canon City and Cripple
Creek that will provide postal facili
ties for about thirty-five families
along the line of travel. The contract
for carrying the mail between the
two places has been awarded to
Bunten & Spangler at a compensa
on of $550 a year. In addition to
way mail, a pouch will be carried
from Canon City to Cripple Creek
«nd vice versa. Mail will be taken
m Monday. Wednesday and Friday
>f each week and will leave Canon
'ity at 7:30 a. m. It will be
lue to arrive her© from the district
at 5:30 p. m.
BAZAAR
Home cooked food in Hutton-Vaw
ter room. Saturday, Dec. 16th, by the
ladies of the Christian church. Public
invited, ad v. 2*«t4d—ltw.