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The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
INDEPENDENCE
IS SUSTAINED
ATTORNEY GENERAL DECLARES
BANKING SYSTEM DISTINCT .
GOVERNMENT BODY.
NATIONAL CHANGES COMPLETED
Old Fee System Has Been Abolished
and All Examiners Will
Now Be Placed
on Salary

Washington.-Ihe federal reserve
board is an Independent government
body not under any department, ac-
cording to an opinion by Attorney
General Gregory received by Secre-
tary McAdoo.
This opinion settles the question
much discussed in official circles of
whether the board in anyway is sub
ordinate to the treasury department.
The board win have such a status as
the interstate commerce commission
and will be regarded as a coordinate
part of the government.
The status of the board was raised
bers are appointed by the president
and confirmed by the senate their
compensation is paid by the federal
reserve bank.
Mr.. Gregory decided that the as
sessments made upon the banks for
the board become federal money
when paid and shall be audited by
the government.
Comptroller of the Currency Will
liams announced that changes have
been completed in the system of ma
tional bank systems authorized in the
federal reserve act. The old fee sys-
TEN, under which examiners in a few
districts were very highly paid was
abolished and all examiners put on
salary. The country had been divid-
ed into twelve districts corresponding
to the twelve federal reserve districts.
There will be chief examiner in each
district with headquarters in the city
where the federal bank is located. ex-
cept in the Richmond district, where
the examiners will be directly under
the comptroller with headquarters in
Washington.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
Army Aviator Killed.

Ocean Side, Cal. - Lieut.. f. @.
Gerstner, aviator in one of the U.
s. army scouts that started on a
flight from San Diego to Los Angeles,
was drowned in the sea, ten miles
north OF this place. Capt. r. L. Null
Ter, pilot of the wrecked machine. was
rescued by Capt. l.. w. Patterson,
another army aviator, whose aero
plane had been wrecked ashore near
where Lieutenant Gerstner met his
death.
Captain Patterson saw the wreckage
OF Muller's machine in the water and
summoned aid. Muller was rescued,
badly bruised by the fall and exhaust
ed with his efforts to keep ahoat.
Gerstner's body was recovered.
Lieut.. Frederick Gerstner was the
eighteenth aviator to give his life in
the interest of government aviation.
Fourteen army officers, two naval Off
GERS and two civilian instructors.
make up the roll.
Lieut.. Garstner was only 23 years
old. He was born in Michigan and
was appointed to the military acade-
my In 1909. On graduating in 1913
he was assigned to the Tenth cavals
-ry, but recently he was assigned to
the aviation school at San Diego, Cal.
Four of the six machines that en-
tered the fight were brought to earth
near here. The other machine
reached Los Angeles in safety.
Stormy weather and bad air condi-
tions were held responsible for the
accidents. The aeroplanes were to
have made the flight back from Los
Angeles to report the number and dis
position Of troops maneuvering in the
vicinity Of San Diego. The contest
was for a trophy.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
Huqe Levy On BeIulum

A Reuter- dispatch from Amsterdam
says:
Under pressure from the German
authorities, nine Belgian provinces
sent representatives to Brussels who
held a so-called land tag session. 1t
is asserted that this diet deliberated
concerning war levy of S96,000,000
which must be paid to the German
government in twelve monthly install
ments.
"The representatives agreed to Is
sue treasury bonds guaranteed by the
nine provinces and a group of bank
ers, headed by the Belgian Societe
Generate, undertook to advance the
money. The German governor gen.
eral promised that all requisitioned
goods would be paid for in cash II the
installments were regularly received"
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
Allen Bill Offered

Washington.-A bill drawn by for
mer President Taft designed to enable
the federal government to enforce
treaty provisions for protection Of
aliens in the states has been intro
duced by Representative Bartholdt
and referred to the house judiciary
committee. Lawyers in the house
who saw the measure did not under
stand that It could apply to such sit
uations as have arisen in California
and Arizona, but would cover such
cases as have arisen in other states,
where aliens have been injured end
the machinery of the state govern
ment gave no relief. The bill would
make such crimes punishable in the
federal courts as we'll as in the state
courts,
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
Germans Admit Retreat.

Retreat of the German forces which
attempted to strike at Warsaw from
the north was acknowledged in an Of
fetal communication given out at the
German army headquarters.
The Austrians have succeeded In
again crossing the Carpathians, and,
according to their account, are driving
the Russian left back toward the River
San. This army, assisted by German
reinforcements, has undertaken the
rather difficult task OF forcing the Rus
SLAMS to withdraw from in front of Cra-
COW and also of relieving Pryzemysl.
The Austrians apparently have met
with at least partial success.
Austrians Capture $1,000.
An official communication issued at
Vienna says the Austrian offensive in
Western Galacia has compelled the
enemy to retreat and his front in
South Poland to waver. Austrian
troops. advancing from the south,
reached Jaslo and Rajbrot. In this
advance and the last battle they took
thirty-one thousand Russian prisoners.
Driving Germans Back.
The Russian forces which checked
the German advance in Northern Po-
land are now in full pursuit of the
army OF General Francois, which con-
tinues to retreat toward the East
Prussian frontier. An official state
ment issued at Petrograd asserts the
Germans are being driven back in the
direction OF Mlawa, which is only eight
miles from the German frontier.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
Trainmen's Strike Averted

st. Louis.-Agreements to abide by
the decision of the federal board OF
mediation have been signed here by
officials of the st. Louis, Southwest
ern, Cotton Bel) railroad, and rep.
resentatives of the conductors and
enginemen's unions, who recently
voted to strike. Several months ago
strike OF the Cotton Belt trainmen
was prevented by court injunction
granted upon the request of a group
of union men, who said all the facts
in the case had not been presented
before the vote for a strike was taken.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
NEW RECORD
ESTA bL|SHED.
GINNINGs TO DEG. 13 INDICATE
MORE THAN SIXTEEN MIL
LION BALES FOR 1914.
OKLAHOMA OUTDOES HERSELF
Total Figures Based on Previous Re-
ports Showing Approximately 90
Per Cent OF Entire Production
Ginned Prior to That Date.

Washington.-Cotton ginning up to
the period ending December IL made
new record exceeding that estab-
lished In 1911, the year of previous
record cotton production, by more
than 100000 bales.
This was indicated in the census
bureaus report showing 13,977.1Sg
bales had been ginned prior to De-
cember 13. In the last two years, ap-
proximately 92 per cent of the entire
crop had been ginned prior to Decem-
ber 1S. Calculating this years crop
on that basis, II would exceed 1920
600 bales. The department of agri-
culture, in its preliminary estimate
OF the crop, placed 1t at 1896, 900
bales. Last year the departments
preliminary estimate was 1857, 900
bales, while the final production was
14,156,O00 500-pound bales.
Oklahoma, to December I3, had GIN
ned 1,06S,S9S bales, or more than pro-
duced there in any years heretofore.
In Albania, Florida, Georgia and Texas
ginnings to December 13 were greater
than last years entire production
there.
Ginning during the period amounted
to 9OO,9S2 bales-more than ginned in
the same period in any year except
1911.
Included in the ginnings were A.
1876 round bales, compared with 91,-
6s6 last year, 75,772 in 1912, and 92,-
100 in 1911.
Sea Island cotton included num-
bered 71,4SS bales, compared with co.
$50 bales last year, 60,445 bales in
1912, and 9S,035 bales in 1911.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
Driving Germans Back.
A New Triple Alliance.

BY invitation of King Gustav OF
Sweden, King Haakon of Norway and
King Frederick of Denmark will visit
him at Malmo, Southern Sweden. Th o
three kings will be accompanied by
their ministers of foreign affairs and
secretaries and will discuss affairs OF
common interest which have arisen as
result OF the war and especially
measures for helping the economical
situation In Scandinavia.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
Greece Buys Tents.

Toledo, Ohio.-Contracts for $780,
900 worth of poles and the same
amount in tents were let to local COM
panies by c. Vassadarkis OF New
York, Greek consul general to the
United States in behalf of a Greek
company. "These supplies are not to
be used for war;" said Vassadarkis.
1--WE are simply buying in this coun-
try supplies that we would have diff
Guilty in securing in Europe"
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
Dead Convict Pardoned

Jackson, Miss.-Gov. Earl Brewer of
Mississippi recently pardoned a con-
vict who has been dead eighteen
years, it has been learned here. The
governor, in compliance with a
lengthy petition that Jim Jackson, a
negro, sentenced twenty-five years ago
to long term Of Imprisonment, he
pardoned, granted the request In an
endeavor to serve the papers for John
sons release, It was discovered that
the negro died in 1896.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
ALLIES Push Offensive.

The offensive movement OF the
French and British has become gen.
eral and is being pushed with strong
forces, particularly in Flanders, the
Argonne, the Woevre and Alsace.
While the French claim TO have been
successful at all points except at
Steinbach, in Alsace. the German OFF,
cial report says the Allies attacks
have been unsuccessful at several
places.
On the whole, however, II would ap-
pear that the Allies, who now have
superiority in numbers as we'll as in
artillery, have succeeded In making
some progress and have withstood Wig
orous counter attacks delivered by the
Germans.
Germans VIII Resist.
The fact that the Allies are in pos
session OF Hollebecke. in Flanders,
and that heavy fighting was going on
again shows that they have made an
appreciable advance in the last two
days, as last week they were being at
tackled by the invaders two miles to
the west OF st. Eloy, which is on the
Ypres-Armentieres Road.
II is evident that while the Germans
are prepared to offer stubborn resist
ance to attempted advances In the re-
gions mentioned In the official COM
munications they expect the main at
tack OF the Allies to be made In an
other direction or are themselves pre-
pairing for an offensive, for they have
gathered considerable forces at Cour-
trai, from which point they could be
quickly transferred either t. planders
or southwark across the French from
tier.
Allies on Offensive.
Both the German and French Off
cial reports continue evidence that
the Allies offensive movement is be-
ginning to gather impetus and Is
meeting with stubborn resistance from
the herman troops. who have been
left to hold the Western line while
their comrades are battling with the
Russians in the East. The French
have been particularly active In the
Woeyre region, where they have been
irving TO cut pff the German force
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
OIvmpIa 70 Frisco,

Charleston, S. C.-Orders were re-
ceived here for the United States
cruiser Olympia, the flagship at the
battle Of Manila, to be ready to sail
February Is for the Panama-Pacific
exposition by way of the Panama
canal. The Olympia has been here
since 1912.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
Escapes Battles; Killed.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-After emerging un'
scathed from number of battles
while serving under Russian colors,
Joseph Kamunsh deserted and came
to America as stowaway only to
meet death after his arrival. Kamun-
ski was employed at coal chute and
was killed when he fell and was
buried under tons of coal.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
Cruiser Squadron in Daring
Raid, Kills Many and
Spreads Terror.
ESCAPE FROM BRITISH FLEET
Following Bombardment, the Attack
Ing Warships Got Away-Move
Now Considered Forerunner
to Big Naval Battle.
(SAmma,y Of Eoents.)

For the first time in more than
a century England has been
struck by foreign foe. A squad
ron of swift German cruisers
crept through the fog to the east
ern coast and turned their guns
against the Britons.
When day broke, the raiders
began the bombardment of three
important towns-Hartlepool, at
the mouth of the Tees, Whitby,
thirty-five miles southwark, and
Scarborough, noted as a pleasure
resort, fifteen miles beyond.
Hartlepool suffered most. There
two battle cruisers and an armor-
ed cruiser were engaged and at
this place the greatest loss of life
occurred.
More Than 100 Killed.
The British war office fixes the num-
Der Of dead at Hartlepool as eight sol
diers and ninety-seven civilians, and
the wounded at fourteen soldiers and
116 civilians. At Scarborough, where
a battle cruiser and an armored cruis-
er shelled the town, thirteen casual
ties are reported. while at Whitby two
were killed and two wounded.
Men. women and children OF the
civilian population were left dead or
wounded-struck without warning
while at breakfast or at work. In all,
according to official estimates, the
casualty list totals 26i, OF whom 1874
are known to be dead
Three churches were damaged; the
gas works and lumber yards at Hartle-
pool were set afire. and the Abbey OF
Whitby was struck. The Balmoral
hotel at Scarborough received the full
effects OF a shell A number of houses
and shops were shattered and partly
burned in each of the towns.
Fog Aids Attacking Fleet.
The hostile squadron escaped In the
mist after an encounter with coast
guard vessels patrolllng the neighbor-
hood. which were reinforced as soon
as the presence Of the Germans was
signaled.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
which projects like an arrow head 10
st. Mlhael on the Meuse.
servians Retake Belgrade.

The Servlans, after a fierce battle,
have reoccupied Belgrade. according
to Nisb dispatch The Austrians
occupied Belgrade December 2, after
having besieged 1t since July 20, bonn
harding from batteries near Simlin
and from monitors on the Danube. A
large portion OF the city was said to
have been destroyed by the fire of the
Austrians. When war was declared
the Servian government moved from
Belgrade to Graguyevats and later
went farther south to Nish, where 1t
remains
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-12-26
Admits Loss Of Belgrade.

The abandonment of Belgrade by
the Austrians is acknowledged in an
official statement given out at the
Austrian army headquarters. The
statement says that the retirement
of the right wing involved a change
in the military situation which made
II advisable to abandon Belgrade,
which was evacuated without fight
ing.
The most striking feature of the
official news is the candid admission
by the Austrian government OF the de-
feat of the Austrian army in Servia
and apparently of the abandonment
of its third attempt to invade the ter
ritory of its small Slav neighbor.
While attributing the failure of the
enemy's superior force, as all govern
ment bulletins explain failures. the
Austrian war office announces plainly
an extended retirement and heavy
losses.
Gunnison news-champion., 1914-09-11
New Land Developed
On Lower C.uaaisoa

Across the RIVER from ]. j. Csrpen-
ter's Sportsman Hotel at Ceipol.s is a
fRe tract of mesa land on which ranch
work i. starting this summer. Mr.
Carpenter aud sons Pslss and Ear have
put w twenty five acres of Oats under
the new ditch and there Is every indica-
ton of splendid crop. The irriesbls
land here amounts to 250 acres. and in
stead Of bringing the water from the
Cebolia ss originally intended, VI mas
been taken ost of Red creek and piped
across the river on Carpenter bridge.
The ditch from Red creek is less than
three miles long. just above the hotel
the water Is confined in twelve inch
riveted steel pipe of sixteen gauge and
carried by the inverted siphon over the
bridge to the FIRST bench on the south
side of the Gunnison. Here it 10 de
hvered into fiume and earned to the
second bench. Total length of pipe is
1850 feet and Of the flame 572 feet.
By another year it is the intention to
have fifty acres IN crops. This mesa is
extraordinary soil, deep and rich and
will become heavy producer in grain
and potatoes.
Gunnison news-champion., 1914-09-11
Xlu IN 96 e
KEl0 uu uIO nuTE
In Comnuaseshaa 10 Ne~sIChaa
pioa, Wr,scs Says Md fiol-
Ssory Wa Tunely.
Editor NewsC Champion I:

Editor NewsChampion:
If the News-C Hampton succeeds
through ths article IN iast issue, in OBJ
tanning sign boards to guide auto drivers
it will not only earn the gratitude Of
that class Of tourists, but the natives
who happen to hive at any of the forks
Of the road on the RAINBOW Route,
ought to remember the editor IN the
good old fashioned way with a plump
chicken, prize vegetables or fresh eggs.
in consideration of extra steps saved.
The writer, living where the Rainbow
Route turns ups gulch and Is not SO
much travelled as the road going south,
early in the season saw the need of .
guide board and tried TO get one from
the county but without success, and all
summer has answered questions and
listened 10 complaints, until the News
Champions suggestion is q boon.
Autoists from Missouri, Oklahoma,
California and Texas, also the Colo
radoans. have inquired why there were
no signs through here where signs are
so greatly needed, and nearly everyone
adds: ''sorry to trouble You but it is
very misleading" We answer ques-
tons and explain that probably signs
viii be put up at ''the proper time. E"
Your article on the mud hole on the
Blue mesa was timely also. as one auto
ist told US of more than one hundred
cars changing from the Rainbow Route
to other routes after hearing of it.
We want the auto travel to come
here, so keep hammering away to make
the Rainbow up-to-date for the credit
of this section, and if the state road
funds or the county cannot furnish
guide boards, get the women's clubs,
auto owners, merchants and garages
Interested and not depend on the ranch
men on the route to point the way.
SAGEBRUSH.
Gunnison news-champion., 1914-09-11
Miaias MA Make
faas For Meeting

The committee appointed to arrange
for the sepsemt,er meeting of the lOcsl
branch If the Meta Mining Association
met Wednesday, and made preliminary
plans. This meeting viii be held the
latter part of this month, according to
tine present plans. The Gsnnison Cosn-
" Stock Growers Association and the
Chamber Of Commerce of Gannison are
to be invited to meet with the mining
men.
An effort " to be made to secure the
state commissioners Of mines a. one Of
the speakers, and each Of the three as
socsstions viii be represented by a
speaker.
The date and other definite plans have
not been arranged as yet, bat will be
announced not later than next week.
The committee appointed by Presi-
dent Pearson to arrange for this meet
ing is composed of Carroll NJ Carter,
chairman; John r. sapp. Donald Dryen-
forth, S. c. Robinson and John n.
Larson.
Gunnison news-champion., 1914-09-11
CENSUS BUREAU GIVES
INTERESTING STATISTICS
ON COUNTY HOMES

Statistics relative to the ownership Oi
Gunnison county homes have recently
been published by the Census Depart,
ment at Washington. These figures
are not complete as the census enumer.
ators were unable to secure data per,
tanning to the ownership of small per.
centage of both the rural and urban
homes in the county. The figures
nevertheless throw much light on the
subject.
According to these figures there are
1888 homes in the county and of this
number 25s are farm homes. One hun.
dred and eleven of these are owned by
their occupants and are free of mort
gage incumbrance. The mortgaged
farm homes number 1ls. Renters oc-
cupy twenty-four farm homes in the
county.
Out of the total of 1888 homes in the
county, 1915 are town homes. There
are SAG town home owners in the county.
and of this number forty are mortgaged.
Three hundred and ninty three of the
town homes are free Of incumbrance
There are 5s5 rented urban homes in
the county.
Gunnison news-champion., 1914-09-11
INSPECT COUNTY ML,
FIRM NJ hospital
William Thomas. Secretary d
State Board, Praises Condition
Of the Jail Under SherA
Hanlon.

William Thomas, secretary of the
state board Of charities and corrections,
and also secretary of the state board of
pardons, was in Gunniaoa let Saturday
inspecting the county institutions Of =
fsssl and charitable nature He in
spected the county jail and hospital and
made trip to the county farm.
Mr.. Thomas. in talking to reporter
of the News-Champion said that he was
exceedingly well pleased with the condi-
tions of the jail. He remarked that,
while the Jail was not constructed in
accord with the modern idea of such an
institution, nevertheless it was kept by
the present sheriff and undersheriff in
the best sanitary condition possible. Re-
Gently new bath tub has been installed
and other equipment added with the
sanitary idea in mind. d. ]. Lehan,
the capable undersheriff of our county
in charge of the Jail equipment, has
been getting together for several years
library of books and magazines for
the prison house, and this has done
much for the benefit of those who must
spend days confined within the four
walls.
Mr. Thomas has remarked on previous
visits to the Jail here that Sheriff Han
Ion and deputy Lehan had resorted to the
best methods of handling the prisoners
and that better discipline was in evil
dence here among prisoners than in al
most any similar institution of Colorado
The inspector pointed out that an
other window should be placed in the
jail as at present it is too dark in the
prison room. He also believes that the
cages should be placed in separate
rooms, were it possible to have such
Under the direction of the new super
intendent of the county farm, Alfred
Warburton, many needed improvements
have been made, but there is still room
for many changes which should be made
for the benefit Of the inmates of such
an institution. Mr.. Thomas believes
that under the direction Of the present
titoS N1eshSto WIN bt
made. Nevertheless, the present farm
buildings are rather unsatisfactory for
the care of the people who are kept
there.
The county hospital is in splendid
condition under Mrs. Marion Bates, was
the report of Mr.. Thomas. 1t is kept
as clean and sanitary as possible, and
everything is properly handled there.
There is need however, of the installa-
tion of new bath room and fixtures at
the hospital. The present bath tub in
use is old and apt to be unsanitary.
Mr.. Thomas remarked that different
kind of bedding should be used in all of
the county Institutions which he inspec-
ted here. He says that there are regu-
lar institutional blankets which are
made especially for such places, and
that they should be placed in all jai's,
county hospitals and poor houses.
In the afternoon Mr.. Thomas had a
meeting with the county board Of visi-
tors which is the county board that