The Raymer Enterprise * VOLUME 5 NEW RAYMER. WELD COUNTY COLORADO, NOVEMBER 26,1914. NUMBER 28. LATEST NEWS EPITOMIZED MOM TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS THAT COVER THE WEEK'S EVENTS. OF MOST INTEREST KEEPING THE READER POBTED ON MOBT IMPORTANT CURRENT TOPICS. W««tern Newppap«r Union Newt Service WESTERN. Nine business establishments were wiped out in Phoenix. Ariz., by a fire, entailing a loss estimated at $300,000. Seattle was selected by the execu- tive committee as the place for the 1915 convention of the Woman's Chris- tian Temperance Union. Mrs. Marie Petro and her daughters, Amie and Elizabeth, were burned to death when their home In Homestead, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Forect fires which are reported burning in many counties In Arkansas and particularly north and northeast of IJttle Rock, are said to be increas- ing In headway. Twelve deaths were attributed to football in the United States during the season, according to a record kept by a statistician at Chicago. Only two were college men. Physicians at Columbus, Ohio, inves- tigated the case of Paul F. Tressler, Montpelier, Ohio, a State University* student thought afflicted with foot end mouth disease. Former President Taft left Chicago leaving behind a string of anecdotes, praise for the peace policy of the Wil- son administration and a plea for a larger army and navy. J. C. Wilson, a stockbroker who sus- pended business Aug 8, and his part- ner, B. A. Wllbrandt, were arrested at San Francisco on warrants Issued, charged with embezzlement of $40,000. I-assen peak waß belching forth such volumes of smoke Saturday that the mountain was hidden from view. The eruption, beginning before dawn, was the first of any magnitude since Oct. 27. Thousands of Californians poured Into San Francisco to participate In the dedication of the California build- ing at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The ceremonies were in charge of the Women’s Auxiliary. Using a crowd of passing school- children as a screen against bullets from rifles of sentries, Guy H. Crane and Nelson H. Hazeltine, federal pris- oners for desertion, escaped from the Sail Francisco Presidio. Arizona's initiative measure pro- viding that SO per cent of the employes shall be American citizens in any business employing more than five persons, was carried at the recent election by a 3-to-l vote. I.ost for 48 hours without food or water in the Paternal mountains in New Mexico. Edward Crlpe, a chauf- feur, of Denver, died from effects of exposure at Enclno, New Mex., a few hours after be and a party of other Denver men reached that town. WASHINGTON. Great Eritain has declined to modi- fy, in favor of American manufac- turers. the embargo on exportation of wool from Australia and other British dominions. Actual difference in longitude be- tween the official meridians of Paris and Washington is 5 hours, 17 minutes and * 36.658 seconds, according to observatory officials. ¦ty '*¦[•initiation of the successful can- (fiui.T for the presidency of the Do- minican republic must await the out- come of the meeting of the electoral college, the State Department was in- formed. Ambassador Page cabled from Lon- don in response to State Department inquiries that Herbert Corey, an American correspondent, reported un- der arrest, never had been detained in any way by the English police. Argentina, one of the world's prin- cipal sources of grain supply, will have a bountiful crop to export this coming year, according to official gov- ernment estimates cabled to the Ar- gentine ambassador at Washington * from Buenos Aire*. Europe's cry for food is being an- swered by the United States. Exports of breadstuffs in October of this year amounted to $38,247,570, according to statistics made public by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, an increase of nearly $25,000,000 over figures for October, 1913. Exports of fresh beef also more than doubled during the month, figures this year be- ing $83,940, as against $36,863 in Oc- tober, 1913. FOREIGN. President Poincare issued a decree striking from the roll of the legion of honor the names of all Germans there- on. I-ady Otter, wife of Gen. Sir Wil- liam D. Otter, was found dead in her bed at Toronto. Heart disease caused her death. She was sixty-eight years old. Recruiting throughout the north of England Ib proceeding alowly. and the newspapers of Manchester and Liver- pool are outspoken in their discussion of the subject. Canada will increase Immediately to 91,000 the number of men under arms. Premier Borden announced that 60,- 000 are to be mobilized and sent for- ward, as requisitioned by the war of- fice. Freezing weather has set in through the length of the battle zone in France and Belgium, the temperature varying between 26° and 28° above zero. Snow fell in northern France and in the Vosges mountains and also at Marseilles. Shooting of an English woman as a spy in the barracks at Coutrai was re- ported in a message received at Am- sterdam. The woman, it was said, *was dressed in the garments of a priest when captured by the Germane. Paris papers comment at length upon the death of Ix>rd Roberts. All review the splendid career of the sol- dier of Lucknow, Lahore, Afghanistan and the Transvaal, and pay eloquent tributes to bis sterling qualities as a man as well as a fighter. Pope Benedict has written to sev- eral archbishops and bishops in bellig- erent countries, exhorting them to urge on their people the bestowal of charity on wounded prisoners, irre- spective of nationality or religion, "making once more shiue the light of Christendom.” SPORT. The Yale and Harvard chess teams played to a draw with five boards won by each, in their annual chess match at New Haven, Conn. At New Haven, Conn., in the pres- ence of the greatest throng that ever paid to see a sporting event in the United States, Harvard beat Yale Sat- urday, 36 to 0. Minnesota won the “big nine" con- ference cross country run at Lafay- ette, Ind., from a field of ten contest- ants. Ames took second place. Wat- son of Minnesota was the individual winner, crossing the tape in 26 min- utes and 25 seconds. Harvard won the intercollegiate shoot at the traps of the Yale Club at New Haven, with a team score of 381. Princeton was second with 372; Yale, third, with 337, and Dartmouth fourth, with 332. Johnson of Prince- ton was high gun with 83. By defeating the University of Wis- consin. the University of Illinois be- came the undisputed football champi- ons of the "big nine" conference, hav- ing won every game on their sched- ule. Hllnolß won easily, 24 to 9, scor- ing three touchdowns and a field goal to one touchdown and a safety for Wisconsin. James E. (Ted) Meredth, wearing the colors of the Meadowbrook Ath- letic Association of Philadelphia, won the 500-yard invitation run and inci- dentally shattered the indoor record at the athletic carnival held at the First Regiment armory in Newark, N. J. He stepped the distance in one minute flat, lowering by a second the old mark which was set by Melvin .Sheppard. GENERAL. Miss Bertha Rheinhart, a school teacher who was caught by a prairie fire near Horse Creek, Wyo., died from her burns. Five persons were killed and one in- jured when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Min- neapolis and St. Louis northbound passenger train at Moorland, twelve miles from Fort Dodge, lowa. Tlie Carnegie foundation has since its establishment paid allowances amounting to $2,551,000 to 482 profes- sors and 114 widows of professors, representing seventy-two seats of learning throughout the country. Radical reform in the elementary education of children was advocated by Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superlnten- ent of the Chicago public schools, In an address at the convention in De- troit, Mich., of the National league of Compulsory Education officials. She declared that unless new methods are adopted, children can not be held In school. Aladdin Vincent, candidate for Con- gress in the Seventh district, and J. W. Perrin, candidate for Congress In the Eighth district, both Democrats, and both defeated In the Democratic primary two months ago, have been In- dicted by the United States grand Jury at Shreveport, Ia., for failing to file sworn statements of their campaign receipts and disbursements with the clerk of the House of Representatives, as required by law. COLORADO LEGISLATURE REPUBLICANS HAVE MAJORITY OP NINE IN HOUSE. Senate Will Have Equal Number ot Democrats and Republicans—and One Progressive. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—There will be fifty-four Republicans, forty-five Democrats and one Progressive in the next Legisla- ture, according to a compilation made from the recent returns. In the Sen- ate there will be seventeen Republi- cans and seventeen Democrats, with the balance of power held by W. C. Robinson, Progressive, from El Paso county. Excepting possible changes by two probable contests, the person- nel of the next General Assembly will be: l*era«aael of Seaatr, •Holdovers. First Senatorial District — Denver—- •Robinson, ’Morris. ‘Berry. Hamilton Dem.; Baton. Knauss, Dodge. Hep. Second District — Pueblo County—- •Burris, Dem.; Peterson, Rep. Third—El Paso—‘Robinson, Prog.: Elliott, Rep. Fourth—Las Animas —‘Barela. Rep. Fifth —Boulder—‘Affolter, Dem. Sixth —Chaffee and Lake —Candllsh, Rep. Seventh—Weld—Windburn, Rep. Eighth—Jefferson—‘Carver. Dem. Ninth—Fremont—‘Lines. Rep. Tenth —Larimer —Wilkin. Rep. Eleventh — Gunnison and Delta — •Pearson. Dem. Twelfth —Logan. Sedgwick. Phillips, Washington and Yuma —Mitten, Rep. Thirteenth —Jackson, Routt. Moffat and Rio Blanco—‘lies, Dem. Fourteenth—Costilla, Huerfano and Custer —Hayden, Rep. Fifteenth —Rio Grande, Saguache and Mineral —Means. Rep. Sixteenth —Mesa —Kluge, Dem. Seventeenth—Dolores. Montrose and San Miguel—Schermerhorn. Dem. Eighteenth — Hinsdale. Ouray. San Juan and Archuleta—Curran, Rep. Nineteenth—La Plata and Monte- suma—‘West, Dem. Twentieth —Teller and Park—Lewis, Dem. Twenty-first — Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin —‘Napier. Dem. Twenty-second — Adams. Arapahoe And Morgan—‘Tierney. Dem. Twenty-third—Crowley und Otero—- •Welland. Hep. Twenlv-fnurth —Conejos and Ala- mosa—‘Adams. Dem. Twenty-fifth—Baca, Bent, Kiowa and Prowers —Hasty, Rep. Twenty-sixth—Clear Creek. Orand, Gilpin and Summit —‘Williams. Rep. Twenty-seventh- Kit Carson, Chey- enne, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln— Riley, Dem. House of Representatives. Denver County—C. M Bills. Georgs B. Drake. It. M. Hagerman, Robert Harris, w. W. Howland. K. M. Sabin F. D. Thompson. Thomas Tonge, H. E. Garwood. Rep.; John Dietrich. E. V. Dunklee, Evangeline Hearts, Dem. Pueblo County—A. S. Andrew, Dr. F E. Wallace, F. M. Stokes. Rep.: F. L Higgins. Derm El Paso—Phil. B. Stew-art, Geo. M, Taylor, L. A. Puffer, Rep. Weld —W. K. Gllcrest. C. R, Graves Rep. Larimer —P. 1>. Nelson. Rep. Boulder—Montgomery, Rep.; Ardou- rel, Dem. Mesa—W. M. Porter. Dem. Las Animas—Mayer ami Schmidt.Rep Teller ami Park —-Clinton K. Roberts Emory R. Young. Deni. Fremont—George E. Colgate. Rep. Crowley and Otero—O. W. West Dem.; Reuben C. Inge. Rep. Je f ferson—Wesley Staley, Dem. Arapahoe and Elbert- -,!. J. Kruse Rep. Garfield and Rio Blanco —John L Noonan. Rep. Delta—George W. Bruce, Dem. Montros«- Horton, Dem Comjos—Celestlno Garcia. Rep. Alamosa—R. M. Born. Dem. Adams—-Counter. Dem. Bitkin —Charles Dailev, Dem. La Plata —McDevltt. ,/r.. Rep. Lake —F. J. McNair. I )ern. Rio Grande —August Weiss, Rep, Chaffee—A. K. Wright. Dem. Morgan and Washington—Mark B Gill. Rep. Clear (’reek- Herman E. Crist. Rep Gilpin—H, C. Bolsinger, Dem. Ouray—IJ. 11. Du Draw. Dem. San Juan -Fox. Dem. Logan and Sedgwick- John C. Scott Rep. Phillips and Yuma—Charles E. Dame- wood. Rep. Gunnison—W. Scott Hu mason. Rep. Saguache and Custer Carl L. Mar- old. Dem. Douglas—Hugh Taylor. Rep. Lincoln. Kit Carson and Cheyenne— F. H. Spencer. Rep. Kiowa and Bent —Best. Deni. Prowers ami Baca—-Ray McGrath. Rep. San Miguel—W. H. Doyle. Dem. Hinsdale. Archuleta and Mineral— O’Rourke, Deni. Routt and Moffat Norvell, Dem. Summit, Grand and Jackson—Finch- er. Dem. Eagle—E. C. Kennedy. Dem. Huerfano and Costilla—J. P. Galle- gos. Rep. Montezuma and Dolores—W. I. My- ler, Dem. Wife Slayer John Freeze Convicted. Denver.—A verdict of murder in the first degree with the penalty fixed at life Imprisonment returned against John Freese in the West Side Court only brought laughter to the pris- oner's lips. To him it meant that he had gained a victory. Before his trial he had offered to plead guilty to mur- dering his wife, Rarhel Freeze, the night of June 19 last, on condition that he should not hang. District Attor- ney Rush refused his offer and, in his closing argument to the Jury, urged the death penalty. Although Freese Btyot himself three times after killing the woman, he decided that after that failure to end his life, he wanted to live. Throughout the four days of his trial he cobix-ratod with his attorney to caßt mitigating circumstances about the crime which be freely confessed. I-ife Imprisonment, he said, was the best he could hope for. When the verdict came in he chuckled audibly. Mrs. Seitz Assailant Gets Five Years. Pueblo. —Andrew Hogg, who twice shot and wounded Mrs. Augusta Seitz, with whom be was infatuated, was sentenced to serve from three to five years In prison. G.N.G. READY FOR DUTY STATE HEADS EMPHASIZE NEEDS OF UNITED CITIZENSHIP. Governors Ammons and Carlson Are Pledged Loyalty by Members of Colorado Militia We.lri-11 New., piper In lon New, Service. Denver. Governor Amnions and Governor-elect Carlson emphasized the need of a united citizenship behind the constituted authority of the state at a banquet given for the benefit of the officers of the Colorado National Guard, who gathered in Denver for in- structions. I royalty and support were pledged to both the Incoming and out- going executives of the state by Ad- jutant General John Chase and other officers. The banquet was held at the Denver Athletic Club. The speakers generally expressed the hope that there would be no necessity to return to the coal strike fields, but declare that, If the necessity should arise, they would he ready to do their duty and do it well. At a gathering in the Senate cham- ber of the Capitol building General Chase told the officers to be ready for duty by Dec. 1, saying that biß advice did not mean that the guard was to return to the strike field, but that It should be ready to do so. "There Is only one man In the Unit- ed States who knows whether or not the federal troops are to be with- drawn,” he said, "and the militia a placed in their stead, and he has not yet told us. That man is President Wilson." The meeting of the officers was a regular one for tactical instruction. At the rifle range near Golden a tac- tical problem prepared for them by Captain Walter T. Bates and Captain James K. Shelley, Infantry and cav- alry Instructors from the U. S. army, was worked out by the militia leaders. GEORGE A. CARLSON George A. Carlson, elected governor of Colorado by the Republicans, is the youngest chief executive ever chosen for that office, being only thirty-eight years old. A native of lowa, he went to Colorado in his youth and worked his way through the Colorado Agricul- tural college, the state normal school and the state university. He hai been district attorney of the Eighth judicial district for six years and attracted at- tention by his handling of strike mat- ters In the northern field. Urge Civil Service Pensions. Denver. —Pensions for aged civil service employes by the government was urged by speakers at a meeting of Branch No. 89 of the National As- sociation of Civil Service Employes. Passage of the ilatnmll bill now in Congress was advocated. The speak- ers were A. D. Taliaferro, A. L. Frl- rn; g, the Rev. O. W. Auman, the Hon. Tully M. Scott, Congr* ssman Benja- min C. HllliaTd, Charles li. Timber- lake, Senator John Shafroth, Alexan- der Nlsbet, Frank C. Goudy, the Rev. William O’Ryan, Governor Ainmons, Mrs, Helen Ring Robinson, Llutenant Governor S. R. Pitzgurrald, Dr. Wil- liam 11. Smiley and A. I’. Ardours). Keller on Accounting Board. Denver.—Governor Ammons ap- pointed Albert Keller a member of (lie state board of accountancy to fill tin vacancy caused by the expiration of Die term of Clem Crowley. Keller will serve until Oct. 20, 1917. Plans fer Saguache Hall Approved. Denver. The State Board nr Chari ties and Corrections approved the plans for a town hail and jail at 'Saguache. It will be a two-story brick building and cost $3,5d0. OLD "WHITEWAY" BURNS FIRE LOSS IN FAMOUS LEADVILLE DISTRICT $20,000.00. Camp Was Once Famous for the lm- mense Stakes Won and Loit in Gambling Dena. Western Newspaper Union News Service. I.eadvllle, Colo. — Ancient frame buildings which have seen hundreds of thousands of dollars change hands across the hoard in the early days of the Leadville camp were wiped out by fire when a rapidly-spreading blaze destroyed the greater part of the famous tenderloin district. Nearly an entire block along State street be- tween Harrison and Pine was gutted. Previous to 1885, State street was the city's show place aud its buildings since then had constituted* a profusion of landmarks. The district fell into disrepute about 1885, but before that every distinguished visitor was piloted through it. DeWitt Talmage was shown the sights there in 1882. He saw the stacks of money at the faro, poker, roulette and monte tables, the saloons and the dance-halls. President Grant was “shown" State street in the early '80s, and James G. Blaine, “the Plumed Knight of Maine," toured It. r The recent fire started about 4 o’clock in the morning, in a resort. The overturning of a coal-oil lamp is believed to have been the cause. The flames raged unchecked for hours. The fire extended from the Pioneer saloon at 142 State street, which was not burned, to Kurgan's saloon. Twen- ty-two buildings were destroyed. The flames leaped across the street and set fire to the American and Worth rooming houses, occupied by working- men. The flameH there were con- trolled before firemen turned their at- tention to the main fire. An unidentified man leaped from a second-story window early in the fire and his leg was broken. The loss is estimated at $20,000. Insurance car- ried on only two houses, is $1,500. Until 188.) only the lowest corner of the district was disorderly. The rest of State street, was a "great white way"—a kerosene-lighted one—as fa- mous throughout the world as Broad- way, New York, Is today, or as the Bowery was a few years ago. Stakes at the gaming tables of from $1,000 to $5,000 on the high card were common place. On several occasions amounts ranging from $150,000 to $250,000 changed hands in a single night. Among the owners of gambling houses or other amusement places on the street or men well known in the district, were Joe Hall, who started the gas works here; George L’Abbe, now president of a large trust company in Seattle; Joe Gavin, the original Soapy Smith; Chapman and Houston. Tex- ans; MacDonald, who came down from Cheyenne to operate the Comique The- atre, and "Texas Jack" Omahudreon. once an associate of "Buffalo Hill" In the early days on the plains. Omahu- dreon, who died of pneumonia In 188(1, married Madame Molachi, "the Rus- sian Premiere Danseuse." Woman Leaps to Death. Pueblo, Colo. —After a thrilling fight at the railing of the bridge, in which two little girls, clad only in night- gowns. fought desperately against their mother, who was going to "take them to heaven,” Mrs. Ella Barker, thirty-five, leaped oft' the West Fourth street bridge into the Arkansas river bottom at 2 o’clock In the morning She was Instantly killed. Grange Elects Officers. Boulder. —Boulder County Pomona Grange, one of the largest grange or ganlsations In the* state, elected the following officers It. J. Altig of Val mont, faster; Philip R Haas, of Ni wot, lecturer: Mrs. Tobey, Altorui, sec reiarv; NnthanLeggett, Boulder valley treasurer. Tin* next meeting of til* grange will be held at Niwot in Feb ruary. Mrs. Ballard Loses Suit. Colorado Springs, A verdict for Ih* street company was returned in ih* damage claim of Helen N. Ballard foi $7,000 She claimed to have sustained Injuries by falling from a car. Rocky Ford Creamery Ready. Rocky Ford.—The new SIO,OOO cream ery is practically completed and I hi' machinery will be in operation within a few days. Confessed Husband Slayer Insane. Lumar. —A jury lu the District Couri here found Mrs. Mllllo Pingreo, tried for the killing of Iter husband, to b< insane. Factory Will Be Built. Rocky Ford.—A wood working fac tory is soon to be erected on Walnut street by Peterson & Beck. COLORADO STATE NEWS Wflstern NVwspapvr Union N-wh Ssrvice. Sixty-eight Shrtner candidates were initiated into the shrine at El Jebel Temple in Deaver. John freeze was convicted of slay- ing his wife by a Jury In the West Side Court In Denver. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Buchanan celebrated their 50th wedding anni- versary at their home In Denver. The Northern deanery of the Epis- copal churches of Colorado held a two- day meeting at St. Peter's church in Denver. ' Marcia Ann Gavitt, eight-year-old stepdaughter of Mrs. Marie Turner Cooke Gavitt, of Denver is heir to $11,000,000 Search was made in Rocky Ford for two Mexicans who escaped from the city Jail. They dug a hole through a 12-inch brick wall. The Denver police have been asked to find William Alexander laiyman, who disappeared seven years ago from his home in Oxnard. Calif. Regular daily passenger service on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad be- tween Salida and Alamosa will be re- sumed on Thanksgiving Day. Adeline Zimmerman, the 6-year-old daughter of G. P. Zimmerman of Lu fayette, was instantly killed near her home when she fell under the wheels of an automobile driven by R. L. Fink of Boulder. Two men convicted of murder in the first degree, were sentenced in the West Side Court in Denver—the first, John Freeze, to life Imprison- ment; the second, Oscar Cook, to death. An army of pretty girls invaded Denver streets Saturday flyiug the colors of stricken Belgium and when they laid down arms at 6 o'clock in the evening $2,951.73 had been added to the Belgian flour fund. It is reported that E. H. MeClenan- han of Greeley will he appointed hv Governor-elect Carlson to the State Public Utilities Commission, the most sought for office at the disposal of the newly elected executive. That Christmas this year may ho one of the most memorable In the history of Denver, a movement to com- bine all commercial and charitable or ganizatlons of the city, was begun at a meeting called by the Advertising Club of Denver. Beet growers of northern Colorado received $1,016,000 for their crops. The amounts are divided to the differ ent towns in the district Fort Collins, $650,000; Loveland, $660,000; Greeley. $395,000; Windsor, $112,000; Eaton. $160,000; Fort Morgan, $530,000, anil $909,000 at Longmont. Voting at the primaries to be con- ducted by the Denver Bar Association during which candidates will lie hi lected from among the 650 lawyers in Denver for recommendation to suc- ceed Judge James H. Teller of the District Court, recently elected to the Supreme Court bench, was com iuenced Tuesday. After he had been knocked dow n, he says, beaten and then ejected from the Trades and Labor Benefit Association in the Quincy building in Denver, W. J. O’Leary, 38, a bookbinder, fired a shot through the door, which struck Joseph Death, a member of the hoard of directors of the organization, and severed an artery in his left arm. Turkeys, cranberries, sweet pota- toes and all the other Thanksgiving “trimminV were more plentiful and cheaper this year than ever before, and about everything needed on an aje peti/.ing menu may come from Colo- rado. The Colorado farmers have raised the best and biggest crops of turkeys this year in their history. The $50,000 appropriation made by the Legislature in 19<>9 to pay part ot tin cost of the W est Colfax viaduct in Denver may be turned back into th< state general fund and cease to b* available for its original purpose un less the city meets certain require ments before Nov. 30, according tc State Auditor Kenehan and State Treasurer Leddy. With the* arrest in Denver of Iie- vene Battle and Leon Loser, two mem hers of the oJd May bray gang, the members of which collected more than $1,000,000 throughout the West ten ycarB ago by means of fake foot races, horse races and prize fights, an at tempt to swindle Robert R. Blair, a wealthy retired Nebraska farmer, ot 539 South Grant street, out of $5,000, w as nipped. Although Longmont is proud of ita £reat agricultural productions, said Milo O. Rice, in a visit to tin- State Board of Health, it is prouder still ol its babies, in the month of Octoboi there were thirty-three births reporter at Longmont and only seven deatha The records so far for November indi cate that during the present month Longmont will equal last m #nth in thf Dumber of new babies.