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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-12-13
Tho christmas Ship.

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Just at present 1t is time to pause and
consider conditions at home. We are in
the midst of plenty and Yet there are
many amongst us who are face to face
with want. :
The cost of foodstuff has gone to such a
price that there are many hungry stom-
achs tc be found among the poor.
Be charitable. yes: give to those In want
TO Your financial limit, tut In giving. re-
member that the ones at home should be
thought of first.
We are full OF sympathy for Europe, but
this fact must be remembered that this
country is not responsible for the tragic
conditions existing. this country did not
encourage war.
We have our unfortunate at home to
look after.
Send the Christmas ship to Syria and
send relief to the starving, but at the same
time consider first that we are or the eve
Of a severe winter-a winter that Will
bring with IT death and distress. and that
the first call on the man at home Is to
look after the unfortunates who are de-
pendent upon outside assistance. Europe
%alffers. We know it. but there are count
less American men and women who suf-
fer also.
Take care of our neighbors first and then
if so inclined then so across the water and
help those In the district OF war.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-12-13
The Bad Little Chick.

once upon a time. a long time ago.
IL little chickens were Matched and
lived all together in a nice warm hen
house. One little chick was u Very
cross child and no one liked him. AS
he grew up he wouldn't have anything
10 do with the others. This made his
mother feel badly and she told him how
foolish he was to be so d~isagreeable,
but, instead OF, making him better, it
only made him worse. He went around
he yard growing as loud as he could
until one day he said he was going to
seek his fortune.
He scratched his way out under the
fence and as he walked along he came
to Il stream of water. The water said,
Good Morning. but the chick turned
it's head away and crowed loudly.
AT last he reached the city and
crowed so loud that a man saw him
and ran after him. This frightened the
chick 50 that he called out, Help,
help The wind heard him and said,
II will help you get away, but if l 90
you must do just as | say
The chick promised that he would.
for the man was close behind him and
the poor little chick had run so fast
he was all out of breath and he knew
that soon the man would catch him.
AS soon as the chick had promised to
obey. the wind blew very hard and
filled the mans yes full Of dust so he
CouluH | see tHe Cnlck, ana lie mao 10
stop running to wipe his eyes and the
chick ran out of his reach and was
saved
The wind blew the chick along UNI
til he was a and then showed him a
place whore he could live. Now the
bad little chick wasn't a bit grateful tc
the wind after he was saved, but was
disagreeable and didn't pay amy atten-
ton TO what the wind said, although
h riOmiSp1 he would
This made the vino very angry and
one day. when the chick was very baC
and wouldn't do anything the vino
told him. the wind said, You are a ba(
chick and l shall punish you. AS lone
as you live o must stay up high or
Il steeple and when / say turn. 70,
must turn"
In a second the bad chick was blown
up high on the tallest steeple, and there
he stands today. and when the wine
says. Turn to the east" he has t.
turn, and when the wind tells him t.
turn TO the west, north Or south, thu
chick must turn. Some people call il
IA ~weathercock, but 1 call it still a bat
little chick.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-12-13
BY Winthrop Parkhurst. IN the
Smart Set,
4 New Aiask a.
From The puluth Herald

FROM the )Nlltn Herald
Hidden away in the more intensely in
terestiug news dispatches telling of the
results of the election, there was on
"Wednesday = brief story from Alaska that
is strikingiy significant of what may be
expected in that country.
Briefly. the story was to the effect that
several hundred homesteaders have ar
rived and settled in the section of country
through which the United states govern
ment is building its railroad. that these
settlers are prospecting. and that indica-
ions favor a rapid increase of this class
OF newcomers.
Think of that. Homesteaders going to
Alaska, instead of gold hunters. 1t opens
an entirely new conception OF that coun-
try. II means that instead of stripping
an unwilling land of its sole wealth and
then abandoning it. men are finding that
there is a continuous wealth in the asri-
cultural possibilities of the country. and
are going there to cultivate 1t and so
make IL continuously richer and more
profitable. 1t gives a notion of a new
Alaska of vastly different type from that
Of former days.
Perhaps. too. there is another signifi-
canoe in this movement. Perhaps 1t is An
indication that men are not today as in
sanely anxious for sudden wealth as they
were in the 40 and Yukon days. but are
| better satisfied to be Industrious and
| prosperous with certainty, without talk
| ing the risks and undergoing the hard
| ships of the usually disappointed gold
hunter. Perhaps.
Alaska has yielded us many millions in
| gold: now it may begin tn yield even more
| millions in even more valuable products.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-12-13
Preserved the Eauilibrum.

Native-There are the oldboy twins.
They are 9S years old.
Stranger-To what do they credit their
long lives?
! and one cause he never used it. :
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-12-13
Sir Ernest Shackleton ttop) and
Capt +. A. Worsley. photographed
on arrival in u, S.

Sir Ernest S~hackleton and Capt.
F. A. Worsley are aow m this coun-
try, busily preparing for \ fourth
rescue trip to save ten members Of
the Inflated Shackleton expedition Of
last yenr who are supposed to be
marooned on an island in the Kos.
sea. %Shack!eton says the men hav.
ample provisions to last them s year.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-29
BRANDEIS IS
Continued from Page One)

Il have nothing whatever to say:
have not said anything and will not.
Was Mr. Bandeis' only comment to-
night as he went to dine with Presi-
dent Wilson at Secretary McAdoo' S
house. Justices Hughes and PitneS
also attended the dinner.
Monday the senate judiciary com
mittee, to which the nomination was
referred will appoint a sub committee,
which, according to precedent will
consider the nomination and make q
report. If todays talk of opposition
amounts to anything, it will develop
in the committee. There has been no
contest of any note over a supreme
court appointment since the days of
President Cleveland
1t was learned tonight that among
the endorsements sent to The presi-
dent urging Mr.. Brandeis appoint
ment to the United States supreme
court bench was one from Clifford
Pinchot, former chief forester. whose
celebrated controversy with Secre-
tary Ballinger, brought Mr.. Brandeis
into the public eye six years ago. He
appeared as chief counsel for the
forces opposing the former secretary
of the interior in the noted Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy which sent its
Arizona republican., 1916-01-29
MEXICAN BANDIT IS
KILLED At FL PASO
Francisco Perez Dies at Hands Of Gus
toms Officer While Resisting Ar
rest near Yseta

Ell PASO, Tex, Jan. 2S.-F'rancisco
Perez an alleged cattle thief and an
associate of the Duran brothers who
We're executed at Juarez last Sunday
for tho murder Of the American, Bert
Akers, was shot and killed at Ysleta,
Texas. twelve miles east of here, by j.
d. White, a mounted United States
customs inspector. Perez resisting ar
rest. fired one shot at White. who later
was placed under the nominal bond of
$500 for trial
White and other officers were
awaiting for the arrival on this side of
the border of Perez, Edel Romero and
Augustin Chavez, two other alleged as
sociates of the Duran gang of cattle
rustlers. Mexican authorities, accord
ing to Sheriff Edwards, had warned
American officers that the three al
legged outlaws, who were said to have
been present at San Lorenzo, Chihua
hua, when Akers was killed last Fri
day, intended to cross the border about
noon.
Mexican secret service men said the
men, fleeing from Mexico probably
would cross at San Jose. a station just
west of Ysleta. Chavez and Romero
were not seen, however, and White
with another officer, came upon Perez
near the Ysleta Jail.
White arrested the man but when an
attempt to search him was made Pc
rez drew his revolver and fired. White
an old frontiersman, was surer of aim
and the Mexican fell dead with a bull
let IN his neck and another in the head
4 heavy revolver and felt filled with
cartridges were later found upon the
body of Perez. Search was continued
for tho other Mexicans tonight.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-29
MINE WORKERS
ASK INCREASE
Convention Asks Bitumin-
Gus Operators for Adj
vance and Ratifies De-
mands of Workers In
Anthracite Fields
Republican A. p. Leased Wlre1

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 2S.-The
United Mine Workers of America in
convention decided by a virtually
minous coal operators throughout the
country for a ten per cent increase
in wages, for basin wark. a ten per
cent advance for all dead work and
yardage and a twenty per cent in
crease for all men paid by the day.
In addition, the convention ratified
the demands formulated by the an.
thracite mine workers of Pennsylvania
at convention held in Wilkes Barre,
Pa, last September asking for a
twenty per cent advance in wages.
complete recognition of the union and
Among the other demands in the
soft Goa, fields is an eight hour day
from bank to bank" this is, the
time of the miner is to begin at the
minute he enters the mine until he
energies after his days work. The
working places in the mines of some
men are as far as from one to two
miles from the entrance.
Weekly pay days are also demand
ed by the bituminous wollers and
further demand is made that every
other Saturday be an idle day instead
of working half day each Saturday
a two-year agreement is asked in
both the anthracite and bituminous
districts.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-29
MUIR s CIT I
FROM JOHN D.
Witness Says Striker Had
Company Gun; Store
keeper Describes Looting
of Supplies; Strikers De
manded Cartridges

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. Jan. %. -
The thirtv-fourth witness for the
prosecution testified today in the trial
of four former strikers charged with
the murder of Major p. p. Lester
during the battle of the hog back
near Walsenburg during the strike in
1914.
Kirk Westfall testified he was an
electrician for the Colorado Fuel and
Iron company at Pictou: that during
the afternoon of the battle, on April
30. he saw, among others, at a store
nearby Enoch Muir, one of the defen-
dants. Muir. he said, told him.
Were going to kill all the scabs
can find and burn all the mines. "
1t was brought out that Westfall
wore a white handkerchief around his
wrist-the insignia of protection FOR
striking miners.
On cross examination, Westfall said
Muir told him he had been given a
rifle the day before by Frank Camp
bell. superintendent of the Pictou
mine: that it was a &C. F. & |. gun
and that he (MuiD considered 1t a
gift from John d. Rockefeller, Jr.
]. f. Murray foreman of the Toltre
mine. testified he daily rode along
the hogback; that he saw no strikers
there until the day of the battle. He
admitted he had seen deputy sherlffs
from Walsenburg in the vicinity be-
| fore the fight
w. C. Reader manager of a supply
store at Pictou. testified that num-
her of men. among whom was Muir
demanded ammunition. When he re-
| turned to his store after weeks alb
sence, the place had been robbed OF
| 81 500 worth of goods.
| Peter Pierson, liveryman at Pictou
and c. n. Bell timekeeper at the Tie
ga mine testified regarding condi-
| lions leading up to the battle WIFI
militiamen in which Lester fell.
| With Muir, Charles Quinn. Free
Garcia and Mickie Salvage are de-
| PENDANTS
Arizona republican., 1916-01-29
WHAT MRS. MOHR
WANTED IN RETURN
FOR MOHR'S LIBERTY
Newport Villa and Small Fortune Her
Price; Letters Cause Change of
Front.

PROVIDENCE, r. J., Jan. 2S.-Af-
ter having repeatedly asserted that
she never intended to divorce her
husband, DR.. c. Franklin Mohr, that
there was no sincere decision on his
part to divorce her. Mrs. Elizabeth
F. Mohr, charged with instigating two
negroes, Cecil Brown and Henry
Spellman, to murder him. admitted in
cross examination today that she had
discussed with her attorneys last
summer the question of allowing DIR.
Mohr to have an absolute divorce. on
the basis of his turning over to her
his Newport villa, known as the
Montpelier and $4,000 in cash
Letters written by Mrs. Mohr to
George w. Rocks. brother-in-law of
Emily Burger, who was wounded in
the fight when DR.. Mohr was killed
aroused much interest.
One introduced showed that Mrs
Mohr, at the time she wrote it, was
angry with the girl whom she accused
of breaking up her home.
IF I'd got ahold of her Saturday
this letter said, I'd have about killed
her.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-29
BURNETT BILL HARD
/. ON ALL 'CELEST|ALS"
immigration Measure Perfected i,
Committee-Ready for Report
Today
Republican A. P. Leased WireI

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2S.-Contain-
ing modified literacy test clause and
drastic restrictions against the immi-
grafton of Chinese, Japanese, Hindus
and other Asiatics, the Burnett imm-
grafton bill was perfected in commit
tee today and will be reported to the
house tomorrow for passage.
The exclusion section, calculated to
extend to japanese and Hindu laborers
the prohibition now in effect against
the Chinese, bars from the country all
"Hi1dus and persons who are inelg-
ible to citizenship under the naturali-
cation laws of the United States unless
they are provided for by agreement as
to passports or existing treaties Or
conventions or agreements treaties or
conditions hereafter entered into"
Chinese laborers are excluded under
an existing law and the Japanese gov
eminent, by agreement entered into
several years ago, has promised to re-
frain from issuing passports to Japan
csc coming to the United States except
under certain provisions as to excepted
classes Of Japanese. The wording of
the exclusion section was agreed to
after a conference between committee
men ard state department officials.
The literacy test would not apply to
persons coming to the United States
to escape religious persecution. An
immigrant not claiming such exemp-
ton would be required to read from
thirty to fifty words of his native
language. Three previous bills have
been vetoed because they carried a lit
eracy act.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-29
W0RKMEN HURT IN
FOUR POWDER FIRES
Nearly 100000 Pounds of Smokeless
Powder Burns in Ou Pont Plant
in New Jersey
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1


WILMINGTON, DEL Jan. 2S.-Seven
Workmen were burned, three seri-
ously in four fires that occurred at
the Carney's Point, n. j., plant of
the Du Pont Powder company at 6
o'clock tonight. The injury has not
been determined.
one hundred and eighty thousand
pounds of smokeess rifle powder
were consumed causing a loss esti-
mated at 100000 The buildings
were destroyed but they were not
valuable. The fires followed in quick
succession and lighted the skies for
thirty miles around.
There was no explosion, the acct
dent being confined to flames.
Two hours after the four flares, y
a service house in plant No. ig
nited and was destroyed, together
with 1900 pounds of smokeless pow
der. This was Independent of the
previous fires. 1t was a develop
ment of the burning of a "sweetie'
house nearly ten days ago. Since
| that time the ruins had been smol-
dering, and as precaution guard
had been maintained around it. No
| one was hurt.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-29

ramifications into many phases of ma
tional politics at the. outset of Pres
ident Tafts administration.
Although celebrated as a lawyer.
Mr. Brandeis has been devoting prac-
tically all his time of late to the
Zionist movement in this country,
which has for it's object the repatri-
alton of the Jews to the nation of
their own in Palestine. If confirmed
he would be the first Jew to sit on
the supreme court bench.
Some of the senators disposed to
express opposition to Mr.. Brandeis
today were democrats who sought to
put their objections on political
grounds. Senator James of Kentucky.
the native state of Mr.. Brandeis, I'M
reservedly told them the nominee was
a democrat. Justice Lamar. whom he
would succeed. also was a democrat.
Six of the eight justices now on tho
bench are republicans.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-29
FOREIGN TRADE
AND RAILROADS
Trade Convention Scores L.
S. Shipping Laws, Tariff
and Corporation Laws as
Uneconomic and Opposed
to Progress
Republican A. p. Leased Wire]

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2S.-Criticism
of laws relating to railroads and big
business" and of the proposal for
government owned merchant fleet was
voiced here today at the third national
foreign trade convention.
Speakers included Fairfax Harrison,
president of the Southern railway;
Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the
National City Bank of New York and
Joseph E. Davies. chairman of the fed
eral trade commission.
| Mr. Nanderlip declared the United
States did not need government aid to
succeed in world trade so much as re-
lief from governmental handcaps. He
said
I'VE shall have handicaps in the eX-
| tension of foreign trade of a govern
| ment so devoted to peace that justice
to its citizens in the foreign countries
weighs but scantily in the balance
against the advantages of peace for
| its people at home
Mr., Vanderlip characterized some of
the laws governing shipping and COM
mercial combinations as foolish legis-
| lation, uneconomic and unnecessarily
restrictive"
| A plea for modification of regula-
lions affecting railroads to permit
| them to make lower rates on export
, than on domestic traffic was made by
! Mr.. Harrison.
Whether the relation of the Ameri-
can railroads to foreign trade after the
war is to be substantially different
/ from what it was before and during
| the war, depends upon substantial
progress in developing American policy
with respect to export trade generally
| Harrison said.
| IF the regulating authority shall
take broad view of the relation of the
| American railroads to foreign trade
! which has been demonstrated success
| fully in other lands, | venture to say
| the railroads will do their utmost tC
cooperate to take full advantage OF
our immediate national opportunities
Mr.. Vanderlip classes as handicaps
in foreign trade laws framed to pro-
hibit cooperation and lack of ships
IF this nation is to be placed in most
| efficient form to meet international
competition" he said, "let us sensibll
remove a lot of existing foolish legis-
| latiOn that is uneconomc in it's re.
suits, unnecessarily restrictive in it:
operation and has been helpful only t.
politicians of all parties as basis fo
| demagogic appeals for votes
| There is an effort underway nov
to give government aid in the attemp
to enact a $50,00O,OOO shipping bill
Several times fifty millions of privat
capital could be commanded if it coulC
have permanent assurance it could Ell
ter the worlds financial shipping no
handicapped by governmental regula
tions for which the capital of othe
countries is free
| AT group sessions, speakers Opposed
a government owned merchant marine
The seamen's act was condemned a
unjust to American ship owners an,
many delegates declared that American
| shipping was so surrounded with un
reasonable legislative restrictions tina
those engaged in it were forced to tn
hopeless task of trying to compel
with ship owners of other countrie
, operating under more favorable con
ditions."
Arizona republican., 1916-01-29
To ESTABLISH
A WAR POLICY
United States Sends Notes
to Powers Asking Them to
Agree on Code for Use i'll
Connection With Mer-
chant Ships
Republican A. p. Leased Wire]

WASHINGTON, Jan. ga suGges
ton that all the belligerent countries
subscribe to a declaration of princi-
pies governing attacks on merchant
vessels and forbidding the arming of
such. vessels has been made by the
United States in an effort to establish
in international law a general policy
disposing of many of the veXatious
problems arising from the development
of submarine warfare.
Identical notes have gone forward
asking the various countries at war to
say specifically whether they are will
ing to join in such an agreement. The
declaration of principles would pro-
vide:
That non combatantS may expect
protection under the rules of interna-
tlonal law and the principles of hui
mainly when travelling on merchant
ships; that warning must be given be-
fore merchantmen is attacked; that
belligerent- owned merchant ships
must obey warnings to stop; that
merchantmen shall not be fired on
u |,
that no merchantmen shall be sunk
| except where it is impossible to supply
a prize crew or until passengers and
crew are placed in safety; that mer-
| chantmen shall not be permitted to
mount arms"
| Favorable responses from the bel
| liSerents were looked upon as clinching
the principles of submarine warfare
for which the United States has CON
| tended through its extended negotia
| tons with Germany and Austria, anC
at the same time disposing of a trouble
some question recently accentuated by
! the arrival at New York of three
armed Italian merchant vessels. Ger
| many and Austria already have agreed
IN effect to the proposals regarding at
| lacks on commercial ships, and Great
| Britain and her allies always hav,
been understood to be in accord witt
the American viewpoint on that sub.
ject.
Officials pointed out tonight tina
should any of the belligerents fail t,
agree with the proposals, the United
States would have no difficulty in en-
forcing the principle so far as it con.
Germs vessels entering American ports
The note it has been said verified
warning that this government is con
lslderinS adoption of a policy unde
which all armed merchantmen that en-
ter ports of the United States in futur
shall be considered war vessels subiec
to the established regulations govern
ing internment.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-29
QUICK CAP TURE
Of 5 ROBBERS
Thirty-siX Hours After Chi
cage Bank is Looted Gang
is Rounded Up and $15,-
600 Recovered; Politics
Charged
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

CHICAGO, Jan. 2S-Just thirty-six
hours after the $4,000 robbery of the
Washington Park National Bank YES
terday morning, the five alleged robbers
had been arrested and all of the money
recovered.
The confession of one of the bandits
is alleged by the police
Information that criminals had been
imported at the instance of certain
politicians and policemen" to perpe-
trate series of crimes for the pur-
pose of discrediting the city admins
tration, putting Nicholas Hunt, new
chief of the detective bureau. under a
cloud, and thus getting revenge on
Maclay Hoyne, states attorney, for
his unsuccessful prosecution of police
graft cases, was given the police in an
alleged confession by Eddie Mack.
Mack, who is said to have come here
from New York and to have been the
ieader OF the gang, implicated four
others: Harry Brandt, alias Gold
berg; Charles Kramer, alias Burns
alias Byrnes, alias Big Polly, owner OF
west side saloon Harry Kramer
alias Harry Ferris, and Alexander Bro
ole. They were not baby bandits" as
at first suspected, but range in age
from 25 to 80 years
ferrls' arrest was due to a peculia,
walk that led to his Identification
Fart OF the lost money was recovered
from garbage can and the remain
der was found in the piano of West
side saloon.
Eddie Mack and the others were
Identified by J. Garland Uake) StahI
former boseball player, now vice pres
ident of the bank.