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GILPIN OBSERVER W. J. STULL, Editor and Prop. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Odd Year in Advance $2.00 Six Months in Advance $1.00 ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. OFFICIAL PAPER GILPIN COUNTY Official Paper City of Central Phone, Central 10S THURSDAY, MARCH 2nd, 1911. Ham COLORADO EDITORIAL ASSOMION \ On sale at Hyndman’s and Po3t Off ice Book Store, Central City; Post Off ice, Book Store. Black Hawk; Kend rick’s Book Store, 16th and Stout Sts., Oenvcr. Single Copies Five Cents. SETTLE THE SENATORIAL QUESTION IN CAUCUS. Twenty-seven ballots have . been taken by the Eighteenth Assembly in an endeavor to elect a successor to Senator Chari:s J. Hughes. Prac tically no change is recorded in the vote as it is taken from day to day and the Democrats are no nearer to a majority choice than they were the first day the balloting commenced. Nor will the situation change so long as there is a refusal to caucus. In calling the Democratic editors together in Denver this week we had so honed that they would go on rec ord as favoring a caucus for we can not see how the senatorial deadlock can be broken or any platform legis lation enact:d unless the Democratic members of the Senate and House agree to get together in the tirno honcred custom of a party caucus. The failure to agree upon anything after twenty-seven days of balloting in open session has demonstrated to any reasonable thinking person that the do-r.othing policy of the Demo crats will continue until they agree to go into caucus. It was indeed provoking to us at the editorial meeting in Denver to see newspaper men who had boon clamoring for a. caucus through their papers, take the opposite position in their voting. We knew the cause for this change of front. They had been seen by the various candidates who are afraid of their chances in caucus and begged not to endorse the cau cus arrangement. With all the sen atorial candidates, excepting Mayor Speer, personal ambition is held above the party’s welfare. They each would rather see the deadlock con tinued indefinitely and no attempt made at a redemption of the Demo cratic pledges, than to take a chance with a caucus. There is no certainty of the choice of the caucus. It is by no means a foregone conclusion that Mayor Speer would be the choice. And it is not the belief that he will receive a ma jority of the votes in caucus which makes Mayor Speer so strong an ad vocate of the caucus. As soon au the election of a successor to Senator Hughes was first talked of and be fore a vote was ever taken on a senatorial candidate; before Mayor Speer had any method cf determin ing if he had the lead in the race, lie urged upon the Democratic mem bers of both branches of the legis lature the necessity of a caucus to speedily settle the senatorial ques tion. Had his advice been heeded a senator would have been elected in a very short time and much would have been accomplished ere this in keeping faith with the people in on acting the platform pledges into law. In tlie position wo assume wo are not pleading the cause of Mayor Speer any more than that of any good Democrat who is seeking oleva tion to this high office. Whoever should receive the majority vote of the caucus, wo say in all fairness, he Bhould wear the toga—to it Mayor Speer, Alva Adams. T. J. O’Donnell, C. B. Word, or any other of the sev eral aspirants. What we want, what the people want and what wo all have a right to demand of the Dem ocrats of the Eighteenth Assembly is that they come to a speedy agree ment on a senatorial candidate. The delay in settlement of this matter is blocking legislat'on and will con tinue to block legislation, and if a caucr.3 is the only means whereby some definite action can bo reachod in the senatorial question, it is the duty of every Democrat to go into caucus. Orpin county is making strong ob jections to the proposition to con solidate that county with Clear Creek which has been proposed beenu; o they are two cf the smallest coun ties in the state. Idaho Springs is working hard to bring the union, an that city would to the center of tie consolidated county and would nat-' ttrally bo made the eeat of govern ment. —Craig Empire. Read the a year. MINE LEGISLATION BEFORE EIGHTEENTH. Following is a sjmopsis cf bills in troduced in the Eighteenth assembly intended to benefit the mining Indus try of the state: Senate Bill No. 19, introduced by Senator Garman of Denver. This bill provides that in tl:e event of dam ages being recovered Cor injuries sus tained, interest must be paid by the defendant for the time that has elapsed between the date the injuries \vere received and the date of enter ing judgment. The present limitation of damages that may be recovered is $5,000. This bill, therefore, will have the eff ect "of increasing tli e limit of damages that a plaintiff may recover. Senate Bill No. 81, by Senator Car inger of Jefferson county. This bill ask3 for an appropriation of $10,000 to complete the testing plant at the State School of Mines and an addi tional $50,000 for the extension and equipment of the Hall of Physics. The legislature at a previous session appropriated $75,000 for the testing plant. Senate Eill No. 86, by Senator Bellesfield of Pueblo. Thin bill de clares that all men employed in mines, smelters, stamp mills, chlorin ation works, cyanide mills, etc., ar: engaged in an occupation dangerous to life and limb and that the period of employment in all such plants shall not exceed eight hours. Senate Bill No. 104, introduced by Senator Joyce of San Juan county, provides that in any action brought to recover damages for injuries the employee shall not be held to have assumed the risk of any employment. The fact that the employee may be guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury as in their opinion is in proportion to the amount of contributory negligence Also no employer shall make a con tract that purposes to exempt him for liability. Senate Bill No. 120, by Senator Van Tilborg of Teller county. This bill provides that no employer shall demand of any employee as a con dition of securing any employment or retaining employment that such em ployee shall sever his connection with any lawful organization or so ciety. The object of this bill is to pre vent mine owners from demanding that their men shall not be members cf the Western Feedration of Miners. House Bill No. 306. This is a new revenue law and among other provi sions provides for an entirely new method of assessing mine3. The fol lowing are abstracts of the sections that particularly affect mining: Sec. 72. “Producing 44 mines are those whose “net mill value" of ore extracted during fiscal year exceeds $1,000 per acre. All other mines class ed as non-*producers. See. 73. “Net mill value" is grass value of ore, less cost of transporta tion and treatment. Sec. 74. Producing mines required to Bhow in their statement to as sessor only the number of tons.gross value and cost of transportation and treatment. See. 75. Producing mines to be assessed on the “net mill value" of year's extraction. Sec. 81. Non-producers cannot be assessed at a higher rate than the lowest producer in the same county. Visitors to Mike Keleher in Den ver say he is sinking and the chances of his recovery are very slim. For a short time after the last opera tion he underwent, he showed some Imprdvement, but this change for the better didn’t continue long. M E VT* $85 ° TA,L0R MADE iTlEIl. TROUSERS FOR 90£ FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY. In ord er to introduce our high grade, | made to measure tailoring direct from mak.r to wearer, we are offering every man in the United Stat es a j pair of our high grade regular priced j $8.50 tailor made trousers cut to your! measure for 90 cents. Every man can 1 appreciate tho convenience of having an extra pair of those stylish tailor made trousers as it is a sourco of I much pleasure whether for holiday, outing or every day wear. Wo don’t limit you to any certain pattern,but you can have your choice from a select stock of tho most fashionable and desirable materials now being I shown by tho higher priced custom 1 tailors in tho oast. We are making this remarkable offer merely to in troduce our now Premier System of high grade tailoring cut to your in- 1 idvidual nioapure, direct from maker to wearer saving you from % t o V6 the cost of what you have boon pay ing for your clothes In the past. Ro mombor this offer Is for a limited time only. Wo uro a rolinb’o concern and mean Just what we say. Send stamp for sauples and measurement blanks. Ask for our special suit of f r and sample catalogue. Don’t c*o lay. Send in at on:o and go', the full benefit of this liberal offer. Wri.e ua. THE PREMIER TAILORS. 185 E. Madison St. Chicsso, III. GREAT BARON STEUBEN MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY ERECTED IN WASHINGTON. Heroic Bronze Btatue of the Famous Prussian Who Was Drillmaster of the Americans During the Revolution. The monument of Maj. Gen. Fred erick William Augustus von Steuben, for the construc tion of which con gress appropriated $50,000, is now in place in Lafayette square, Washing ton. The accom pany in g illus tration shows the heroic bronze statue of Steuben, modeled by Albert Jaeger, which sur mounts the elaborate granite base. On either side of the central pedestal are ideal groups in bronze, the size of life. The dedicatory ceremonies were at tended by Maj. Gen. Baron von Steu ben of the German army, great-grand nephew of the Revolutionary hero. The Steuben statue completes the quar tette of famous foreigners who aided the American colonists in their fight for freedom, and whose statues adorn the four corners of Lafayette square. The other three statues are those of Count de Rochambcau, Thaddeus Kos ciusko and Marquis de Lafayette. Gen. Von. Steuben was drill master of the American army during the Revolution. Prior to that he was a lieutenant general in the Prussian army during the Seven Years’ waar. He came to America on his own re sponsibility and spent his fortune la making soldiers out of the . colonists of New York, who had left the citf for New Jersey after the victories of Lord Cornwallis had given possession of the metropolis to the British. His man ual of instruction for the army was adopted by congress in 1779. He in troduced the strictest discipline, a change greatly needed by the army, and which contributed to Its ultimate success. He served throughout the war, and his conduct was marked by the utmost valor. He frequently shared his last dollar with the suf fering soldiers, as he often did his clothing and camp equipments also. At the close of the war the state of New Jersey gave him a farm. New York state gave him 16,000 acres of wild land in Oneida county, and the government granted him an annuity of $2,500. He distributed his lands among his aids, his servants and ten ants. A replica of the Steuben monument will be presented to the emperor of Germany In exchange for the mon ument of Frederick 11., which is in Washington. GAINS WASHINGTON PICTURE Museum Gets Portrait Believed to Have Been One of Two Paint ed by Btewart. j A lifealze painting of George Wash | Ington, which haa adorned the recep • tlon room of the Secretary of the In terior In Waehlngton, has been turned over to the national museum. The picture Is supposed to be-one of two painted by Stewart. I A former historian of the Daughtera of the American Revolution, now dead, ldentlfled the picture as a gen uine Stewart by the "peculiar grade of canvas on which It waa painted." How the picture came to the Inte ; rlor Department the officials are un able to aay. It was found In the model room of the patent office some years ago In a dilapidated condition, but after much bruehlng and cleaning waa made presentable. Some of the officiate believe the pic ture came with other relics taken from the Lee mansion at Arlington when the government took charge during the Civil war. Written In pencil on the back of the frame la the following: “General Oeorge Washington, nrat President of the United States—lßo3. For Lorenzo Lewis. Job for Girl in Philippine,. Uncle Sam wants an anesthetist, a female, between 18 and 40 years of age, to nil a permanent life position at the Philippine General hospital, at a ealary of 11,800 a year. Applicants must have had at leaat one year’s ex perience In the administration of cen tral anesthetics In Institutions for the care of the sick. JUST TEN KINDS OF MONEY Uncle Sam Officially Has This Num ber, but Not All of These Are Legal Tender. There are just 10 kinds of money In circulation in the United States, that is officially. These are: Gold coins, standard silver dollars, subsidiary sil ver, gold certificates, silver certificates, treasury notes (1890), United States notes (greenbacks), national bank notes, nickel coins and bronze coins. Some of the most imposing of this paper currency is“not a legal tender at all, while as to the minor coins they are legal tender in such small amounts as to startle the average layman. It may be well to recall to this layman that the term “legal tender” owes its significance to the fact that in pay ment of debt or obligation of any kind it can be forced upon the creditor “in full of all demands.” Looking upon this formidable classification of United States money as made by the treasury department, it becomes more formid able when it is considered from the highly technical point of view as a legal tender. % Gold certificates, silver certificates and national bank notes, of which such enormous numbers circulate everywhere, are not legal tender. If you have plenty of money, and if you have forced Jones to sue you in order to get judgment, Jones can turn down every one of these bills tendered in payment and force you to dig up something better. Should Jones do such a thing, you might conceive the idea of fixing him by unloading a whole lot of silver coins upon him. But you want to know what you’re doing there, too, for he’ll take only $lO worth of halves, quarters and dimes, while as to nickels and copper cents, only 25 cents value is legal tender. But as to the standard silver dollar, there’s no limit upon your shoveling them out to Jones. This old “dollar of our dads” still is the real thing in all business transactions unless &omo clause in a contract has provided otherwise. Jones may refuse the sil ver certificate, but when you dig up the metal dollar, they go unquestioned at their face value. And 1,000 of them weigh 58.92 pounds. HARD TO GET ARMY HORSES Quartermasters Engaged In Pruchaee Report Scarcity in All Parts of the Country. Quartermasters engaged in the pur chase of horses for the United States 4 army again report to the war depart- 4 ment a scarcity in all parts of the country of horses suitable for the mounted service. This condition is li believed to be the result of the dis- * continuance of the breeding of well bred horses of the type required for * military purposes. This important question was taken up some time ago 4 by the war department and the depart- . ment of agriculture, and what Is now believed to be an excellent and teas- «i lble plan has been devised for the 4 breeding of suitable horses. Officers . of the army are confident that satis factory results will be secured from it, «i and that in the course of a few years 4 the scarcity of proper animals for the cavalry, artillery, etc., will have been ♦ met successfully. This is a subject 4 which has occupied the attention of the ministries of war of France, Eng- * l&ng, Germany, Italy, Russia and ♦ Japan for some years past. Great 4 Britain appears to be setting the pace 1 for foreign nations in this Important " particular, for Bhe has now in sue- • cessful working order several excel lent horse breeding establishments un der competent military veterinarians. ADOPT POST INTEREST PLAN Will Be Payable Once a Year, Say Trustees Who Meet at tha Capital. At a meeting In Washington of the board of trustees of tbe postal sav ings system the plan for the computation of Interest on deposits, which has been under consideration, was adopted. Under the Interpreta tion of tho act agreed on by the board Interest on deposits will be payable only once a year. No Interest on an original deposit will bo payable until the first twelve months have elapsed. It was evidently the purpose of the net. It Is thus construed, to encourage depositors to leave tbelr money on de posit for a considerable period, thus Inducing the saving habit. In order to simplify the accounting In computing Interest, the board ■ adopted a resolution providing that In- 'i terest shall be allowed only from the . first day of the month following date . of deposit. For tbe convenience of . depositors there will be on each cer- . tlflcato of deposit an Interest table , that will show the amount of Interest . to which the holder la entitled at any . given period. . President's Brand of Cigars. President Taft, who never smoke*, has two specially manufactured brands of cigars for use at White House functions. They are both made of the finest Cuban tobacco. The large size la called “Tho Administra tion." and the smaller "The Cablnet.- Senator Burton’s Odd Habit. 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