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White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-21
LOST IN BUSH
ONE B. B. TEAM
SELECT AGGREGATION OF
STARS LOOK LIKE BUNCH OF
NOyICES LAST NIGHT.

The town basketball team last
night looked like the finest collec-
tion of ruins in White Pine county.
That may not be the way they
should look, yet when one surveys
score reading high school "a,
town team, 23, one is inclined to be-
lieye that the town boys need mis-
sionary to show them the way, a
Moses of some size, too, as brush
grew around them quite thick last
night
The members of the picked ag-
gregation were like the gent who
tried to run out from under an at
tack of gout-he suffered less by
standing still. The students liked
the going. They shot their speed
through the opposing lines with a
degree of swiftness that took the
crowd in attendance off their feet.
The first half of the game pos
sessed some of the semblances of re-
speetability, but during the closing
moments it was simply a romp for
the lads who are acquiring high
school education. In the last Pc
Rod the select crowd possessed no
defense and offered no resistance to
the attacks of their adyersaries. On
the defense they seemed to need the
services of a skilled lawyer. TheS
we're unable to defend themselves
] And the jury that witnessed theiI
efforts left no crimes on the calen-
dar that they did not charge them
with.
The girls basketball team at the
! high school romped off with second
honors in a mix-up with the town
quintet. The picked bunch demon
strated their advantage shortly after
the beginning of hostilities, and
maintained their advantage until
the whistle announced the end of the
struggle. The playing throughout
was exceptionally good and the girls
CT the high school team did some
very clever work, but were unable
10 make headway against their willy
antagonists. And then the town
team was not strictly such, for they
had in their number a few of the
best high school players. The score
was 26 to 12.
High School tBoys) -Ivings and
Gardner, center and forward; 70
bernick, Reid and Sullivan. guards
Benson. forward
Town Team MEM Mcdonald
Peters and Decker. guards; Ford,
center; Doughty and Wetherbee,
forwards.
High School :. fGirls) Mabel
Wheeler, center; Fay Strandman
and Cecilia Haley. guards; Cleora
Mlrdock, Lillis lyins and Hazel In
gals. forwards.
Town Team (Women) Mrs. A.
b. Witcher and Dorothy Richardson,
guards; Grace Fairchild, center;
Mrs. W. McKroskey, Gladys Lewis
and Mrs c. T.. Farley. forwards
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-21

DR.. w. 7. Gleason. who has been
seriously i'll at the Steptoe hospital
for the last three months. is slowly
regaining his health. and is expected
to be released from that institution
during the week.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-21
Witcher Adds to Holdings.

A. B. Witcher. president of the Ely
National bank. has exempl.fed his
faith In the future Of the district
by purchasing of George Piper OF
Minneapolis lots 7 and 8 block r, and
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-21
New Operator at McGilI.

II. V. Evans arrived from Canyon
City. Colo, this week to accept a
position as telegraph operator at Nc
Gill. Mr.. Evans is son-in-law of
H. b. Hildebrand.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-21

Mrs. Earl Clotfelter arrived this
week to join her husband who has
taken a position with the Nevada
Northern.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-21

the east Atty feet OF block SO. The
three parcels are situated on Altman
street. ..
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-21

The presidential tie VIII have to
be decided by special election Mon
day Afternoon.
The constitution provides for
three judges and two attorneys.
Members of congress were elected
from the respective classes. Two
senators from each class and one
representative for every six stu-
dents or fraction therof.
The Freshman class is the largest
having five representatives, while
the Senior class is the smallest, hav-
ing only two The other two classes
have three representatives each.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
VILLA SOLVES PROBLEM

RAISES ONE MILLION PESOS FOR POOR OF
MONTEREY ADDRESSES CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE IN NO UNCERTAIN WORDS.
Without taking sides in the Mexican
imbrogolio, nor standing sponsor for
Gen. Francisco Villas character or his
politics, there is yet such a refreshing
directness, in these days of palaver and
piffle, in his manner of dealing with de-
linquents and solving vexatious econ
omic question, as told by Floyd P. Glib
bons, that sample is here given:
On Saturday the IT'S members of the
Monterey chamber of commerce notified
that Gen. Villa would receive them that
morning at the governors palace. When
assembled, Villa addressed them thus:
ARRAIGNs THIEVES"
"The poor people of this town are
starving. They have no corn or beans.
There is no wood that they can buy.
They are blaming me for this. I know
that I am not to blame for it. You
know that I am not.
"You know who is to blame for it.
You are. You have placed the prices
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
POLAND STARVING

Heartrending stories are coming to
light in regard to the suffering and cry
ing need for relief in Poland.
Three times unhappy Poland has been
fought over. It had little at the begin
ming. It has nothing now. For months
Poland has been starving, not merely
going hungry.
The Polish pianist, Ignace Paderew-
ski, is now in Paris trying to establish
a committee of relief for Poland. He
is quoted as saying that 100000 Poles
are now suffering from the horrors of
war. Official statistics show, according
to Paderewski, that 12O towns and 400
villages in Poland have been destroyed
and the losses of the residents of these
places are estimated at $1,000, 900.
Ten millions of people, he says, are with
out food or shelter.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
URGE BILL AS MEMORIAL

DR.. C.. r. Henderson, a noted sociol-
ogist, passed away this week. DR.. Hen
derson was known as man who gave
unstintedly of his time and energy to
prison reforms and the welfare of the
poor generally. He was secretary to
the Industrial Insurance commission ap-
pointed by Governor Deneen, and last
winter was chairman of the commission
investigating unemployment.
A measure is now before the legisla-
ture entitled, "A Bill for an Act to Re-
lieve Unemployment and Establish a
Free State Employment Exchange" en-
bodying largely DR.. Henderson's work
along this line. The immediate passage
of the bill is being urged, as memorial
to him.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
RUINS AS MONUMENTS

The ruins of towns in Belgium are to
be left standing as monuments to the
sufferings of Belgium" if the wishes of
prominent men of that country are car
ried out.
These Belgians propose that new cit
les be rebuilt on sites adjoining the
ruins. 1t is believed that the ruins will
prove such an attraction for tourists
that they will provide much of the cap
ital necessary to rehabilitate the war
SCARED region.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
CAUGHT IN THE CURRENT

"The man who declines to discharge
his debt because his creditor is too poor
to enforce it is a blackguardw w-Lloyd-
George.
Courage, discipline and tenacity are
still the dominant elements of success" /"
General Joffre.
'T am hunting for heads with brains
in them, and will try to persuade their
owners to enter the service of the State. y
Governor Whitman of New York.
"There are great parts of the people
of the United States who feel that the
man who makes money by successful
business is robber 1t is time that
feeling was dispelled and that the view
became vagary of the past" Elihu
Root.
''Wars will never have any ending un-
til men cease to hate one another, cease
to be jealous of one another, get the
feeling of reality in the brotherhood of
mankind, which is the only bond that
can make us think justly of one another
and act righteously before God himself. y
President Wilson.
eve must waste none of the minutes
of these earnest days. Names
mann.
my children are my pension w-Mr.
Strickfaden, minister retiring after for
ty-three years of service.
''Of all waste there is none like that
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
GERMANY GETS BIG LOAN

Ten million dollars, made payable in
gold coin of the United States, is the
amount of a loan foated in this country
by the German imperial government this
week.
There will be no payment of funds in
to the German treasury. The notes will
be delivered directly in this country and
the proceeds will be used as a credit for
the German government in the purchase
of various articles.
1t is said that this $1O,OOO,0OO loan
probably will be followed by further
loans of a similar character.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03

of human possibilities, lying far out of
sight, waiting to be called into life and
service.-John D. Barry.
II am not hero. You will find them
in our trenches."- King Albert.
s'Let us squarely face the fact that
business today is suffering not so much
from the war as it is from it's enforced
readjustment to serious federal legisla-
tive changes. Merchant.
.'We are fighting Germany, Austria,
and drink, and so far as I can see the
greatest of these three deadly foes is
drink England's Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
TOO MANY LAWS

Former Senator Elihu Root is to pre-
side over the New York constitutional
convention soon to convene. The need
for improving the system of law making
is urgent, declares Mr.. Root. He cites
that more than $4,000 laws have been
passed by congress and state legislatures
in this country in the last five years, and
more than $4,000 decisions reported by
courts of last resort.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
WINNEBAGO CLOSED AREA

The following changes in the federal
foot and mouth quarantine were made
effective March 29, by the Department
of Agriculture:
Winnebago County, Illinois, entire,
made closed area. Dodge county, Wis
consin, made modified area, and Wash
ington, Brown, Jefferson, Langlade,
Lincoln, Racine, and Waukesha restric-
ted area.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
WOMEN FLOCK

Springfield is deluged this week with
women interested in various bills now
before the legislature. There is a lull
in the equal suffrage agitation. The de-
legation representing most of the wo-
mems organizations of Chicago are turn
ing their attention to the Child Labor
bill, the Eight Hour labor bill in the in
terest of women, and the minimum wage
bill.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
BARON ROTHSCHILD DIES

Nathan Mayer Rothschild, (Baron
Rothschild), head of the English branch
of the Rothschild family, we'll known as
international bankers, died in London
last Wednesday, as the result of an oper-
alton for removal of the prostate gland.
Baron Rothschild was the first member
of the Jewish faith ever elected to the
British parliament.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
NOTHING TO DEFEND

The idea of Public Defender" orr
ginated in California city, but is being
put in operation in Chicago. Paroling
a youth, under the new system, Judge
Oolan said:
1.-THE public is as much interested in
defense as in prosecution, yet the state
spends $1,OOO,OOO year to prosecute
and nothing to defend"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
WANTS MORE CHAPLAINS

Secretary Of the Navy Daniels wants
thirty more chaplains in the navy. He
says, eve have spent millions for dread
noughts, submarines and aeroplanes and
we have doubled and quadrupled the
number of splendid officers of all grades
in he service, but we have not added
more than one chaplain to the navy in
fifty years"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03

for food high up and out of the reach
of the poor.
"You are thieves. You are taking ad-
vantage of the poor people. They are
starving on your account. There is no
reason for the prices you are demand
ing for foodstuffs. I have investigated.
| know that you have stores of food in
your cellars and that you are holding
those stores only for those who can paw
the exorbitant prices that you thieves
are demanding.
Thieves, listen. Don't think you
will go home when you leave here. You
will be escorted to the depot and will
send you on private train to Chihua-
hua, where we will show what should
be done to thieves who rob the poor"
A SIMPLE SOLUTION
Then, changing his mind about send
ing them away, he assessed fine of
100000 pesos, to be given in food to
the poor, which he insisted must be paid
before they left the room.
He then gave the august party an
other shot, thus:
HUNGRY MEN KILL
'You people who have plenty to eat
and plenty to wear and have wood to
burn, you people don't realize what it is
to be hungry. You don't know what
the poor of your city are suffering. You
don't know what hunger will make men
do.
eff you want to know will call them
in and tell them how you have been rob-
bing them and starving them, and then
you will see what they will do to you.
Men fight and kill when they are hun
cry"
GET OUT"
''I know that you people will not like
me for talking as am, but I don't care
for your likes on this matter. I don't
care what you think of me.
''This applies only to the chamber of
commerce. We will handle the other
merchants separately and punish them
twice as much, because all merchants
should belong to the chamber Of COM
merce to help build up their city. That
is all-get out"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
u. S. SUPPLIES MUNITIONS

Many factories in the East are work.
ing night and day, and plants are being
enlarged to meet the demands for muni-
tions of war from the nations of Europe
now at strife. Yet this is not ALL One
factory has an order for five million
rifles for China, and another for one
million rifles from nation not at peace
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
PHYSICIANS LEAD

State Food Commissioner Brown, OF
Tennessee, after analyzing the replies
given by $50 drug addicts as to how they
started, gives the following:
Prescriptions of physicians. .48.8
Through dissipation ........ .3O.4
Through advice of users. !. 1873
Chronic and incurable diseases. 2
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
TO HONOR LINCOLN

A proclamation calling for the observ-
ance of the semi-centennial of the death
of Abraham Lincoln on April Is has
been issued by Governor Dunno. The
Governor directs that flags be placed at
half-staff on all public buildings, and
urges that the day be fttingly observed
in the schools.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
VOLCANO ACTIVE

Lassen Peak, in California, is again
sending out smoke This volcano has
been more or less eruptive for a year
past. The eruptions have been of small
consequence in themselves, but are i'm
portant as showing an active volcanic
condition under the surface, which may
at any time become violent.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
WHO HAD NOT WHERE TO LAY
HIS HEAD

The Fourth Presbyterian church of
Chicago is negotiating for the purchase
of the famous picture ''The Return from
Calvary" The price at which the can
vas is held is $4,000.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
REVIVES TUNNEL SCHEMES

The presence in the Irish channel Of
German submarines has led to revival
in parliament at Westminster of the
schemes for connecting the Emerald Isle
with Britain by means of tunnel.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
GOVERNOR STOPS EXECUTION

Governor Dunno has stayed the execu-
tion of two men, until June 18th, hoping
that by that time the legislature will
have followed his recommendation to
abolish capital punishment.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
OF A KIND

One of the cartoons of the week de-
picts "wide open town." Among the
saloons, dance halls and other evil things
that go to make up such town, accord
ing to the artists conception, are con-
spicous drug store and doctors sign.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
CALIFORNIA

The Young nonpartisan bill, which
would eliminate party lines in state
elections has been passed by the Califor-
MIA assembly after sixteen and one-half
hours of continuous debate.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
PROFANITY FORBIDDEN

Under penalty Of losing their licenses,
radio operators in the United States are
forbidden to use profane or vulgar lang
mage by the Department of Commerce.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TEMPERANCE GROWING

TEMPERANCE GROWING
DRINK EVIL is STEADILY DECREASING IN
EUROPE MEXICO MAY FALL INTO LINE
NINE STATES SOON TO BE DRY.
Temperance and prohibition mean in
creased efficiency.
On this ground alone the warning ma
tions of Europe are bringing about a
most surprising and tremendous reform
in the drink habits of the people of these
countries And it is thorough; an Off
GER is just as much obligated to obey the
prohibitive orders as the common SOL
dier. The rich civilian is curtailed in
his liquor, along with the poor man who
seeks his Liquid fire and distilled damn
alton" at the common groggery.
The British cabinet this week has
sounded another note of warning, and,
although not yet made public, it is be-
ieved to have taken steps toward stamp
ing out the great drink evil, more dras-
tic and universal than any Great Brit
ain has yet promulgated.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
UNITED STATES SLOW

In this country, while progress is be-
ing made, yet as compared with Europe,
this nation is laggard in the reform.
Even so, the situation is reaching a
point where the federal government may
soon have to devise a new system of
taxation because of the diminishing re-
turns from liquor sources. 1t is given
out authoritively that this fiscal year
the government has lost $2,000,O00 in
income from the taxes on alcoholic bev-
erages, due to the spread of the temper
ance movement.
Nine states from which the govern
ment derives a revenue of $5,000,OOO in
spirits and liquors will be dry next year.
These states are:
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho,
Oregon, Virginia, Washington, Iowa
and Arizona.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
NEBRASKA

After reaching third reading the eu-
genics bill, patterned after the Wiscon-
sin law in some respects, was defeated
in the Nebraska house by vote of 81
to IS.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
TENNESSEE

A mothers pension bill is ready for
the governors approval. 1t gives $40
a month to widows with one child, or
to the wives of disabled husbands, and
SIS for each additional child.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
FOR PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

In presenting bill at Springfield, DR..
Lucy Waite, daughter of the late Justice
Waite of the United States Supreme
Court, made the statement that it is es-
timated by those in position to know, that
from 5000 to 5000 illegitimate children
are born in Illinois each year. The bill
DR.. Waite hopes to see become law is
to create the status of marriage be-
tween unmarried parents"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
PROHIBITS LORDS PRAYER

The Louisiana supreme court has
ruled that the Lords prayer be prohib-
tied from being read or repeated in the
public schools of that state.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
IOWA

For the first time during the present
session 'dry" bill was defeated in the
Iowa legislature this week.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
LABOR WARS ON LIQUOR

Labor leaders have joined the ranks
of employers asking the cabinet to for
bid the sale of liquor during the rest of
the war. Nor are employers behind in
the wave of reform sweeping over the
country. They have given assurances
that their own wine cellars be sealed,
and intoxicants shall be prohibited at
their clubs. King George has also sig
nifed his willingness to abstain from Ii
quors and prohibit the royal household
from using the same.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
LEGISLATIVE MEASURES

MANY BILLS PENDING IN STATE ASSEM-
BLIES-SOME MAY BECOME LAWS
OTHERS GO TO SCRAP HEAP.
The joint resolution for submission
to the people of the proposition to call
constitutional convention has been de-
feated in the house. Organized saloon
interests get credit for the defeat
Formidable opposition to Governor
Dunne's proposal for the abolishment of
capital punishment was shown in the
upper branch of the legislature when
the senate judiciary committee voted to
report out with an unfavorable recon-
mendation the Curtis bill dealing with
the subject. Only two members of the
senate committee voted for the Curtis
bill. - Two hundred business men of
the state are in Springfield comforting
with the law makers. They declare
laws like the eight hour day for women
bill, minimum wage bill, and rigid fac
tory requirements would drive them out
of business because they could not meet
the competition of other states that are
not hobbled by stringent legislation.
WISCONSIN
The legislative fight on the subject of
woman's suffrage has been delayed in
the lower house of the Wisconsin legis-
lature by the introduction of q substi-
tute bill, which relieve women OF their
dover rights as soon as suffrage is ex-
| tended.
MICHIGAN
Another of the big legislative issues
which failed of passage two years ago
was killed for the current session when
the Oakley eugenics bill was referred to
the house ways and means committee.
It is promised by this committee that
the bill never again will appear on the
floor and there is apparently no demand
for it's appearance by the majority of
| the house.
NEW YORK
The senate has passed the Widowed
Mothers Pension bill and it's adoption
by the assembly is looked for. It is now
coming to be very generally recognized
that this is a wise and economical sub
stitute for certain class of public insti-
tutions devoted to the care of half or
phans.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
Roof AND BRANCH

Chancellor Lloyd-George sums up the
general feeling in England thus:
"I have a growing conviction, based
on accommodating evidence, that nothing
but root and branch methods would be
of the slightest avail in dealing with the
evil.
'sI believe it is the general feeling that
if we are to settle German militarism we
must first of all settle with the drink" }"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
MEXICO, TOO

Pancho Villa, erstwhile leader of Mex
lean affairs, is reported to be teeto-
taller, neither drinking nor smoking. 1t
is in these strong words he prophesies
for Mexico:
"Mexico will be without liquor when
peace comes, if it is in my power.
"MeXico is suffering from it now. 1t
is not only the effect of the stuff upon
those who drink it but the effect upon
those who are to come. Most of the
epilepsy is caused by drunkenness. The
children are the sufferers and, as usual,
the poor suffer the most from it.
''The president of people might not
be a drinker himself, but so long as he
permits his people to play with poison
he is showing himself weakling. |
will not permit it among my officers. 1t
makes them less efficient"