Newspaper Page Text
CAPITAL $50,000 SURPLUS $25,000 TOTAL RESOURCES $520,000 ...X H ©... First National Bank ; CENTRAL CITY, COLORADO. BUSINESS FOUNDED IN 1862. ORGANIZED AS A NATIONAL BANK JANUARY 1«t, 1874. One of the oldest banks in Colorado, it has for fifty-four yeirs , striven to furnish the public with every facility consistent with conservative banking practice. Officers and Directors: J C JENKINS, President J. C. McSHANE, Vice-President H. H. LAKE, Cashier W. O.WENKINS, Assistant Cashier WILLIAM MARTIN i I agents for ;; Denver Rock Drill Company Drills;: __ ____ .... ... - - < * DuPont’s non-Freezing Powder !: Gasoline DuPont's Blasting Caps 1j AH Kinds of Mine Supplies Automobile Supplies Screen Doors and Screen Wire ; Fine Assortment of Aluminum Ware Rubber and Leather Belting Garden and Air Hose .Cement and Plaster ■; We Exclusively Handle Bartelde’a Hen Feed BL 0 A n cK Ce ti n iwK 4 The Clark Hardware Co. ■■ <» Choicest of Groceries Nuts Figs Dates Candy Oranges Grape Fruit Pop Com Pickles Olives Fancy Cakes The New Sauer-McShane Merc. Co. J, )*:• Stamp /Mill Screens »:• ; .. \ Caps, Fuse and Candles, •! I i — Atfonts tor tb© Old j \ j California Giant Powder ■;] ? ii J Quick Silver and Mill Chemicals, Gas ; | ' S Pipes, Steam Fittings, Gold Retorts, i +. Belting, Hardware, Stoves, Rope, Etc. j\ J l The Jenkins-McKay Hardware Co. II : ± !t i 5 CENTRAL CITY, - COLO. n Letter Heads , . Statements f Bill Heads Envelopes Cards Anything and everything in the way of high-grade commercial printing. Oar assortment of Job „ . type is complete, our press facili ties of the best, and our workmen true typographical artists. This tells all the story of oar facilities for doing job printing of the right C a I* d S kind at the right prices. r* l Envelopes Bill Heads Statements Letter Heads • Read the Observer, $2 MAI MENTION James R. Rule left yesterday for Merino, Colo., with a load of furni ture for Dr. Ashbaugh. Mrs. Rule accompanied him and had a short visit with her daughters at Qreeley. Revenue Officer Smith was at the Teller House Friday and Saturday of last week, instructing the wealthy in making out their income tax re turns. He was closeted with the Ob server man for some little time discussing the war. Oscar Williams returned Tuesday from Denver, whither he went to es cape the income tax man. Mrs. Burl Tolman was up from the big city this week, to relieve her father and brother of the lnconvien ees incident to batching. Her moth er, Mrs. A. H. Day, is with her in Denver and acting under the doc tor’s orders will be in bed three weeks. Mrs. Day is troubled with her heart. I Frank G. Moody finally left Satur day afternoon for Steamboat Springs to accept a position in an abstract office. W. C. Matthews will attend to the business in the county clerk’s office. i Miss Lily O’Toole went to Denver Monday afternoon, presumably to see the Fulton-McMalion fight. R. R. Demeter came up from Den ver Monday evening for a short bus iness stay. He reports R. L. Mar tin as steadily improving from his recent stroke of paralysis. Lysle Parenteau and wife, of Ft. Russell, Wyo., who had been visiting relatives in Central the past two weeks, returned home Monday. Angelo Leonardelli and mother left Tuesday morning for Denver. Charles Brandstetter left Saturday afternoon for Georgetown to visit over Sunday with his family. Mrs. Maggie Ross returned from Denver Tuesday with the latest style of Paris hats. Sheriff Wm. Mitchell and wife went to Denver Sunday to meet Mr. Mitchell’s brother from Daokta. L. J. Williams, recently appointed a member of the state utility com- mission, came up from Denver Sun day evening to spend two or three clays, closing up his business affairs. Miss Dolly Beaman left Tuesday for Denver, having received word that her sister, Mrs. Florence Mc- Guire was very 111. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Sayre left Tuesday for Denver, Mr. Sayre to spend a day or two there before leav ing for the aviation training camp at Berkeley, Cal., where he will re port on the 16th. Mrs. Sayre will return to Central this week to close the house and in a couple of weeks will go to California. Dr. Guy Ashbaugh and family left yesterday for their new location at Merino, Colo. Dr. Roy Ashbaugh will take up the rractice of medicine here, and will arrive with his wife this week from Hot Sulphur Springs, Colo. Joe Cullen, of Denver, came up Friday to take the physical examlna- j tlon before the draft board. Mrs. McKinnon, of Apex, was In the city, shopping, Monday. Shad Reid came In from Apex yes terday and boarded the train this morning for the valley. Alfred Hore, W, R. Strousser, R. I L. Carpenter and M. T. Chestnut, mining men of Denver, came up on [ Tuesday to examine mining property at the Hall ranch. C. R. Thomas, manager of the Jup- Her Belmont mine In Russell Gulch, j was up Tuesday to Inspect the prop- ’ orty. 1 Chaße Withrow and Mayor Robert Wilkinson visited Sliver Plume and 1 Idaho Springs Saturday. l.ouls Eunterelser and Ed. Gold berg went to Breckcnrldge this morn ing. O. J. Duffleld was up from Denver several days this week on mining business. George McCalllster and wife have moved back from Nederland. Horatio Hazard and C. A. McNeil boarded the truln for Denver this morning. John Nichols, of Denver, an old time Gllplnlte, was in the city this' week, renewing acquaintances. ! Miss Mildred Hopkins came up from Greeley Saturday evening- to take In tho dance at Black Hawk * and see friends. j John C. McShane came up from! ' his ranch at Arvada today to aay j . howdy to Me old-time friends. ' Coroner Geo. L. HamlUk was a pas, . sengor on (ho Denver hound train, * Sunday. ® William 8. Hart will be featured i in “The Desert Man” at the opera house Saturday, Feb. 16th. and Bes sie- Love In “The Sawdust Ring," Sunday, Feb. 17th. Chas. Light was slightly Injured about the eyes Saturday by a corn round air pipe bursting at the Oil pin-Eureka mine. I tw* *n.pi* ossnram TAKE LADS OF 20 AS SHIP OFFICERS Many Being Accepted for Train* ing by the United States Shipping Board. 60ES BACK TO THE OLD DAYS Tradition* of the Service Juitlfy the Choice of Lads for Responsible Positions—Career of Cap tain Silebee. Washington.—Lads less than twen ty, already experienced sailors, are ap plying these days to the United States shipping board for training as officers In the new merchant marine. Many of them are accepted, and not a few al ready are serving as juniors on the bridges of some of the largest liners passing through the vfnr zone waters of Europe. Lads of twenty were sturdy seafar ing men, ruling tlielr quarterdecks and taming the rough company of their forecastles by their own pluck and resourcefulness. In the days when our forefathers were creating a mer chant marine whose achievements form one of the finest pages of Amer ican history. Nathaniel Silsbee of Salem, who af terwards became United States sena tor from Massachusetts in company with Daniel Webster, took command of the new ship Benjamin of 161 tons burden, laden with a costly cargo of merchandise and bound out from Mas sachusetts bay to the Cape of Good Hope and India, in 1792, when not nineteen years old. The first Americnn flag had entered the harbors of Bombay and Calcutta only four years before, on the ship At lantic. “Beginning In 1817, with a capital consisting of a Testament, a ‘Bow ditch,’ quadrant, chest of sea clothes and a mother’s blessing, Nathaniel Silsbee, then only fourteen years old, left the paternal mansion In Salem full of hope and good resolution to em bark on his first voyage, which was to Baltimore as captain’s clerk; at twen tw-elght he had made his fortune and retired from the sea; at thirty-six was the head of the largest Amerlcaß house in China. The resourcefulness of Nathaniel Silsbee was never better Illustrated than by his first voyage in enmmand of his first ship, the Benjamin. Sold at Big Profit. On the passage from the Cape of Good Hope to the Isle of France (Mau ritius), Captain Silsbee fell In with a French frlgnte that gave him news of the beginning of the war between France and England. On this news reaching the Isle of France, prices rose by leaps and bounds. The cargo of the Benjamin was quickly sold at a profit that dazzled her commander. As fast ns he could, he turned the pnper currency he received Into Span ish dollars. Then for six months an embargo was laid on all foreign ves sels In port. During this time the Spanish dollnrs Increased to three times the value of paper money, and yet, for lack of an outlet, the products of the Island did not advance In price. Nathnnlel Silsbee abandoned his plan of keeping on to Calcultta. He sold his Spanish dollars, loaded coffee and spices, and started for home. Proceeding no farther thnn the Cape of Good Hope, he scented another chance to fatten his owner's pocket book. “The Cope of Good Hope was held by the Dutch," he snld In later years, “and It so happened that I was the only master of a foreign vessel then In port of whom a bond had not been required to proceed to a French port. Two other Salem ships were In port; I put on honrd them such portion of my enrgo ns I knew would considera bly more than pay the whole cost of my ship and cargo, sold the residue, nnd Invested the proceeds In a full eurgo of wine and other articles which I knew to he In great demand In those Islands* Cnptnln Sllsbee sold his cargo for three times Its cost at the Isle of France, and again lnnded for home. Warned by Governor. He was nearly ready to sail when he got word that another embargo was likely. Hastily putting to sea, he was obliged to nnehor next day at the Isle of Bourbon for provisions. A mysti fying experience thut he met hers he related thus: “Jus* as I was about stepping from the wharf Into my boat, the French governor of the island ordered me to his presence. I obeyed with strong ap prehensions that some restraint was j to be put upon me. On meeting the governor, he asked me: ‘How long do ! you contemplate staying In BourbonY ! My answer was, ‘Not more than a day or two.’ *Can't you leave here to- I night?’ he asked. I replied, ’lf yon wish it.’ Then he ndded. 'As you had the politeness to cnll on me this morn ing, nnd as I should be sorry to see you Injured, hearken to my advice and leave here tonight If possible.' “He cautioned me to secrecy, and I was on honrd as soon as possible after leaving him. "There was a war-brig at anchor In the harbor, a little to windward of my own vessel; toward midnight I had the anchor hove up without noise, and let the ship adrift without making nny sail until wc had lost sight of the war lines of snow-topped Mount Nero, that outpost of the Italian advance. As we stood surveying this neens there was the steady rumble of guns, ,wlth the crack of quick-firers and then the long “whls" of ever-passing sheila Bnt there was one “whls” which In stantly engaged every attention. We could bear It coming, and It was not going over, nor under, nor at either side. Every one Instinctively recoiled, and then— Crash 1 No Mors Observation Post. Five of us went down in a heap, ■tunned as with a hammer blow. There was a great, enveloping noise, with the smash and crack of walls, the flying of fragments, and then the heave of tons of earth, mortar and masonry, plowed np by the huge missile. It had struck that observation post, Just 15 feet away, which we were about to enter. There was no more observa tion post; It was swept clean. ' But fortunately the shell had gone straight through, battering down massive walls and digging a deep trench Into the earth whore it had exploded under ground, throwing up great geysers. Bnt while the earth and stone flew like hall, the underground explosion had held the shell fragments.. Stunned as we were, the first Impulse was of self preservation. A hasty glance showed no one was seriously Injured, though the trickle of blood on the right tem ple of one of the party told that a fly ing stdne had found a mark. “They have this range," said the es cort as we struggled to our feet, "and one shot meaDS that another will fol low.” There was a hasty scramble from the battlement, over the tons of debris thrown up, which now completely blocked the three-foot path skirting the wall. The shell had suddenly brought to a close our observation of the battle front with all Its tragedy and majestic beauty. But worst of all, it put an end to all trips to Gorltz, for the officer said no further chances of this kind could be taken. It was Just as well, for now the great offensive of the enemy burst unexpectedly, and with It came the retreat from the Gorltz line. Fortunately or unfortunately, I had seen It at the last moment when the tide was turning. Situation Explained. At the cafe where we went for Inneh the officer from headquarters laid out the big military map on the table and explained the military situation. It was this: The enemy was bringing great masses of men to the north of the Blunslzza plateau. His design was evident. The Italians by their last ad vance had swung a ring which wns threatening Trieste. To save Trieste the enemy must force the Italians back to the Isonzo river, as another Itnllnn offensive would clear the Carso range, and give the Italians the mastery of Trieste. To the enemy the time had come when he must act before the Ital ians played their final card and held the Jewel of the Adriatic. As we pored over the map the in creasing roar of the artillery told that the enemy was losing no time In his pnrt of the military game. The pro prietor of the cafe was an Intelligent old man, and I asked him if the fire we heard was the same as usual. He shook his head and said: “No, It la very much heavier and It seems as though something was going to hap pen." This was the Instinctive feel ing of the people on the spot who had gone through this day after day for | months. They felt the blow coming. On the corner there were two women i of the working class talking together ! under an umbrella, for it was raining hard. Their Indifference to the shell ing seemed strange, and I stopped to ask them if the bombardment did not frighten them and keep them awake at night. They were puzzled for a moment, as though not comprehending such an In quiry, und then they shrugged their shoulderk. “We are used to It,” they said. “It used to frighten us at first, and the children still cry at night. But what can we do 7" These were typical townswomen who had become habituated to the dan ger and destruction nil around them and were now stopping on the street corner In the rqln to exchange the latest gossip. One of the women hnd the features of an Austrian, and she smiled as she heard the nimble of the Austrian guns and looked off toward the enemy lines so near. Within three hours when we got back to headquarters the full force of the blow hnd been struck and the great Austro-Germon offensive against Italy was In full operation. Big Profit In One Hog, Ltndale. On.—Charles Guyton, a fnrmer, bought a hog last September for $26. He slaughtered the animal the other day and sold It for 80 cents a pound. The hog weighed 000 pounds, dressed, and brought $270, a net profit of $246. *********** ftfff *»■»s» WAR CREDITS GRANTED BY U. S. TO THE ALLIES The treasury department au thorizes the following statement of the totuls of credits extend ed to foreign governments by the treasury since the Halted States entered the war; Great Britain.... $2,045,000,000 France 1,286.000,000 Italy 600,000,000 Russia 826,000,000 Belgium 77,400,000 Berb!a 4,000,000 Totals $4,236,400,000 WTT V WOMEN “MAKE UP" DURING WAR TIMES NOT A MATTER OF WONDER.—It la said that wom en make np more than aver; It Is probably true of all who have passed their first youth, and ec pedally those who ar* working hard, suffering much, and still dislike looking as old as they feel. Creams, rouge and pow der are need, therefore, rather more than usual. The time haa gone by when It conld be said that women’s health Is benefited by the restric tions of war. No woman with any heart or brain can avoid suffering, and many hold on to their hard work by force of will rather than physical strength. If as a business fashion pays, as a distraction for many does not. cloy, dress to some women Is an undeniable moral force. That well-dressed women hav* a better chance In life la as true today as It was formerly; and whether a woman wears a uni form or the latest satin, unless she carry it well she must risk losing the post she covets most. For a woman to look her best Is a point of discipline as much as that the British soldier shall shave, even under fire. HOOKWORM MUST BE FOUGHT How the Dread Disease Is Spreading in British New Guinea Is Re lated by Scientist. Hookworm disease will spread era long all over Papua (British New Guinea) unless vigorous steps are taken at once to check It, In the opin ion of Dr. J. H. Waite of the Rocke feller Foundation, who has Just Inves tigated the malady In the huge island north of Australia. “The International health board,” said Doctor Waite, “found that 65 per cent of the natives working on plan tations were infected with the hook iworm and 8 per cent of the natives in villages.” Doctor Waite pointed out that under present conditions the disease could be eradicated at relatively small cost; whereas If allowed to spread a most formidable task would be presented. “The international health board,” h® explained, “has made an offer to th® governments of Queensland and New South Wales to conduct an antihook worm campaign in Infected districts provided these states will defray a third of the total cost.” PROVED POOR BUSINESS MAN Why "Reformed Crook" Found Him self Unable to Keep in Straight and Narrow Path. O. Henry could have written this; James Doyle broke Into the home of Frederick C. Buckout, March 17, 1915, poked his gun into the face of Buck out and started to garner valuables. Then Mrs. Buckout talked to him, got his promise to reform, gave him a recommendation and her husband the next day got him a Job. Eighteen months later a masked bandit pulled off two first-class “jobs” In New York. About the same time Doyle got money which he Invested In a legitimate business. The business did not go. A few weeks ago police grabbed Doyle, found a burglar’s kit and got his confession. He had gone straight for months, but then got hard up, robbed a house and turned over a new leaf, using the proceeds of th* robbery. Still he couldn’t stick “straight.” “Five years," said th* judge. How Birds Dress Own Wounds. Many birds, particularly those that are prey for sportsmen, possess the faculty of skillfully dressing wounds. Some will even set bones, taking their own feathers to form the proper band ages. A French naturalist writes that on a number of occasions he has killed woodcocks that were, when shot, re covering from wounds previously re ceived. In every instance he found the old Injury neatly dressed with down plucked from the stein feather and skilfully arranged over the wound, evidently by the benk of the bird. In some Instances a solid plaster was thus formed, and In others bandages had been applied to wounds or broken limbs. One day he killed a bird that evi dently had been severely wounded at some recent period. The wound was ) covered and protected by a sort of network of feathers, which hnd h<v n plucked by the bird from Its own body and so arranged as to form a plaster, completely covering and also protect ing the wounded surface. Why Body Is Susceptible to Germs. Unless the blood Is supplied with what nature hns provided for her nor mal function, the digestive system will fall and the body will be wanting In nourishment When this condition takes place man becomes susceptible * to the disease germs that are ever present In the atmosphere. The great est safety Is to be found In keeping up the resistance. It Is much easlsr, says the New York Times, to battle against the germ organisms before they get ee- > tabllshed In the system. Once they establish themselves In the tissues they generate poisons which Interfere with the normal working of the body and enable them to nourish themselves and Increase, often at an alarming rate. In fact some of them reproduce themselves to the extent of thousand!, yes, hundreds of thousands. In a min ute of time.