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Mohave County miner., 1917-03-10

beauty acted as a quietus on all EN-
barrassing questions, all uncomforta-
bic requests for details.
Somehow, Frau Kupfer managed to
get not inconsiderable portion of the
food which was supposed to make up
business, for she nightly gave ban
quets at which nothing was lacking.
The rest of Berlin might sigh for but
ter or stand in line for potatoes, but
she always had plenty and more.
The entertainment were never so
noisy or populous as to enrage the
neighborhood, but they were long
drawn out affairs that often lasted
until six in the morning. Yet Frau
Kupfer always was at her office by
nine fresh and ready for anything,
whether it be new investments, de-
mands for the return of old ones, or
the payment of the monthly "inter-
est" She kept no books, but slowed
away in her head all her financial
transactions, with the exception of re-
ceipts for payments. These have re-
vealed the identity of her financial
support.
The eventual arrival of the police
found her with her daughter and one
man, an investor-admirer. On the
heels of the police came creditors who
wanted their money back. With a
sang froid and a nerve worthy of a
better cause she made an appointment
with the creditors for the same after
noon at Berlin's largest bank, then
turned and walked out with the plain
clothes men whose identity the credi-
tors had not discovered.
The police investigation revealed:
That Frau Kupfer had taken in be-
tween two and a half and three mil
lion marks, most of it recently; that
her daughter, nominally the head Of
the company, probably knew little
about the whole matter; that many
creditors had drawn out all they had
ever put in and much more by way Of
interest, but at the expense of many
others who had poured thousands into
Frau Kupfer's lap; that of the money
taken in, she had spent, for her en-
tertainments and their food and wine,
for her own living expenses and those
of her daughter, including luxurious
clothes, and for Interest" on invest
ments, all but about 100000 marks of
what she had taken in.
She had purchased villa; she had,
peculiarly enough, founded genuine
business in a central German city, she
had even invested in German war
loans-and forgotten about it and fail
ed to call for the bonds. The two
and half to three millions meanwhile
represent only the net loss of her
Clients" for her gross income has
been vastly greater, and has dwindled
to three millions because of repay
ments of investments.
Her arrest has been the local SEN
sation of the month, and her former
office and home have been the scenes
of large and excited crowds. But the
indignation of Berlin is not directed at
her at all, but rather at her own
dupes.
Mohave County miner., 1917-03-10

authorities the names of patients suf-
fering from dangerous diseases, and
which provide for better training
along certain lines for all physicians.
Still another resolution which may
become law creates a public health
department for the exclusive care and
treatment of sexual diseases, and
there are in addition numerous resolu-
lions pending for the creation of in
surance burdens for the sick, of exact
statistics.
Mohave County miner., 1917-03-10
FEMALE SWINDLER,
PRODUCT OF WAR,
LANDS IN PRISON

BERLIN, Feb. 2O-Germany now
has its Cassie Chadwick, its Nine
Humbert case. The latest rival to
these women of international noto-
riety is Frau Meta Kupfer, an attrac-
tive widow of Al. With a capital COD
sisting of plenty of nerve, an attrac-
tive daughter, plenty of good lookI
, herself, lavish hospitality in these
lean war times, and an unduly keen
insight into the gullibility and sell
fishness of mankind, she had harvest
ed Just under three millions of marks
up to the time of her arrest and
confession.
Her plan of procedure was the old,
old one-based on 1920 Per Cent
Miller" She has been paying II per
cent month interest on money Gin
vested with her. And each solitary
investor has put in his or her money
in the belief that it was going into a
wholesale food business, and with the
knowledge that the enormous profits
must come from illegal methods and
at the expense of an overcharged
public.
Therefore, Germany, finally awake
to the swindle, is inclined to have
more sympathy with Frau Kupfer
= now lauguishing in jail, than in her
investors" whose names have not yet
been made public, but who are said
to include wealthy, though greedy.
capitalists, men with well known
names, officers among them, all of
whom are doing their best to keep out
of the limelight.
Frau Kupfer began her operations
on a modest and apparently legiti-
mate scale when, a year and half
ago, she moved to Berlin and began to
trade in the then almost unrestricted
foodstuffs. But the money did not
come in nearly as fast as the oppor-
tunities to get money from investors
who wanted to make big profits quick
ly, regardless at whose expense they
might come.
So Frau Kupfer began to forge a
few bills of lading and the few neces-
sary official looking seals and stamps,
opened a more pretentious office,
launched the business" in her daugh-
ter's name-since she was on the
court records as a bankrupt and there
fore not entitled to conduct a business
of her own-and sat down to wait for
the money.
She represented to the would-be in
vestors that her storage warehouses
for food were in city some 100 miles
from Berlin, and so charmingly did
she recite the story, that no one
thought to verify the matter until re-
Gently an investigator revealed the
whole swindle.
AS the money poured in Frau Kup-
fer had to increase the number of her
bank accounts, until she had six banks
gladly accepting her deposits. Gradu-
ally her own ways Of life changed.
She rented a pretty, though modest,
apartment in the west end of Berlin,
where she entertained the more IA
vored of the investors. The daughter
came in handy, too, for her very great
Mohave County miner., 1917-03-10
REPOPULATION ONE
OF BIG PROBLEMS
FACING GERMANY

BERLIN, Feb. 20-How to solve the
problem of repopulating Germany aft
er the war, probably viii be one of the
big issues under discussion by the
reichstag this month.
During its final regular sessions in
1916 it appointed a large committee of
% members to look into the matter
during the recess, and a small COM
mittee of this large committee has
been industriously going over the
field, with the assistance and coopera-
ton of the ministry of the interior,
the large and powerful though unof-
fetal Association for Repopulation
Policy" and other similar organiza-
tons.
First among the concrete plans for
increasing the population comes of
course the task of decreasing the
death rate which naturally can pro-
coed effectively only when peace time
conditions prevail again.
The more complex problem lies in
increasing the birthrate. Interest in
the question has increased to such an
extent that all manner of radical pro-
posals have had to be weighed and
studied, and will all come up for de-
cision by the reichstag itself.
The more conservative of the pro-
posals include economic steps that
will make earlier marriage possible
higher wages, regulation of vice and
the limitation of disease, making mar
rage easier, protection in greater de-
gree for mothers and children.
The more radical proposals, many
of which probably will not at once be
adopted but some of which may, in
clude bachelor taxes "a reorganization
of existing vice laws which shall per-
haps bring vice more under Of
fetal control and thereby rob it of
some of the dangers arising from Sc
crecy, plural voting rights for men
with large families, money premiums
for mothers bearing many children.
Higher wages and shorter appren-
ticeships, enabling working men to
achieve independence at an earlier
age, as we'll as shorter courses of ed
ucation for professional men, so that
they may be able to marry before they
are in the late twenties or the early
thirties as at present, are means of
increasing the birthrate that
have been under discussion for long
time, and that are becoming increas-
ingly popular as the importance of the
entire problem becomes more and
more appreciated.
Particularly since the war there has
grown up a strong current in public
opinion which favor vice and disease
laws that a few years ago would have
been denounced instantly as too radi-
cal, and that even today find decided
opposition in some quarters. How far
the reichstag will be able or willing to
go is yet problematical, but it seems
certain that some steps will be taken.
Already, however, bills are pending
which release physicians from their
professional secrecy if they, in the
public interest, make known to the
Mohave County miner., 1917-03-10

]. C. Lane departed yesterday for
Prescott, where he will attend the
session of the federal court, which
meets there this week. Several cases
from this county will be heard, all of
them involving the sale of whiskey to
Indians.
Mohave County miner., 1917-03-10
LEAVE FOR HOME

DOUGLAS. Arizona, March Bat
terry G, New Jersey field artillery, en-
trained here today and left for East
Orange, N. ]. The battery has been
on duty here since October.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1917-03-24
HERE'S A WAY TO
SAVE DOCTOR BILLS.
Physicians Give Free Advice
by Which Parents May
Profit.

It's matter of general interest
just now how ones physical con-
dltiOn can be got into shape to
best receive the benefits of the
summer season. Especially is
this true of the children. They
have become run down by win
ter OF unnatural manner of living
because of llI-considered food aud
much time spent indoors. Spring
comes with les sunshine, it's fres h
vegetables and all else invigorat.
ing, but the children are in no
condition to receive natures RENE
dies.
Many parents call 10 the family
physician. Many other parents
take advantage of what the physi
clan told them when he was first
called IN consultation. All good
family physicians cay: "Give the
children CastOria. Healthy par
ents know this remedy of old, for
they took it themselves as chll
dren. 1t was more than thirty years
ago that CastOria made a place for
itself in the household 1t bore
the signature of Charles Fl.
Fletcher then, as it does to day.
The signature is it's guarantee,
which is accepted in thousands of
homes where there are children.
Much is printed nowadays
about big families. DR.. William
j. McCrann, of Omaha, Neb il
the father of one of the much.
read about families. Here is what
he says:
GAS the father of thirteen Chi.
dren | certainly know something
about your great medicine, and
aside from my own family expert
ence | have, in my years of prac-
tice, found Castoria a popular and
efficient remedy in almost every
hOme.'
Charles Ii. Fletcher has received
hundreds of letters from promi
nent citizens who have the same
esteem for CastOria that DIR. Nc
Cram has. Not only do these
say they use Oastoria
IN their own families, but they
prescribe it for their patients.
First of all it is vegetable pre-
paration which assimilates the
food and regulates the stomach
and bowels. After eating comes
sleeping, and Castoria looks out
for that too. 1t allays feverish
ness and prevents loss of sleep,
and this absolutely without the
use Of opium, morphine or other
narcotic.
Medical journals are reluctant
to discuss proprietary medicines.
Halls Journal of Health, however,
says: "Our duty is to expose dan
ger and record the means for ad-
vanciDg health. The day of pol
sOniDg innocent children through
greed or ignorance ought to end.
To our knowledge Castoria is a
which produces composure
and health by regulating the sys
tenn, not by stupefying 1t, and our
readers are entitled to the infOrma.
tiOn."
advertisement
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1917-03-24

A young English girl who had
no love for the Stars and Stripes
attended fair at which the Amer
lean flsg was very much in evi-
dence.
"What q silly thing the Ameri.
can flag is," she said. "It re.
minds me of nothing so much as q
lot OF red and white checker berry
candy"
"Yes," answered bystander,
sthe kind Of candy which has
made everybody sick that ever
tried to lick it,"
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1917-03-24

The Flora Bella Musical Come.
dy Co. was seen at the Elks Thea.
tre on Monday evening. Notwith
standing the Lenten Season they
had a very good audience and
with catchy songs, graceful danc-
ing, sparkling bits of wit and
puns, they proved highly enter
tanning to those who patronized
the show.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1917-03-24
U. S. Navy LEAGUE.
An Opportunity for Our
Young Men is Presented
through the League.

"Breaths there man with sou
so dead
That never to himself has said,
This, my own, my chosen landl'
We know very well the poet said,
"my native land" but the place
of our birth is, to certain ex
tent, an accident, as far as we are
concerned. But when individuals
choose to leave the land in whic b
they are born, and because of the
high ideals they hold of land
far over the deep blue sea, where
the government is by the people,
and for the people, have journey
ed afar and settled In, and daily
learned to love with stronger en-
thusiasm the beautiful "chOsen
land, of the free, and home of the
brave" surely they owe to that
land, all the zeal of courageous
souls who love the right, aud are
willing to make sacrifices to
prove it.
That the native Americans are
full Of genuine patriotism in every
heart thrOb, no one can doubt. SO
Robert M Thompson president of
the Navy League of the o. s A.
communicated with Mrs. Panl B.
Leeds, asking her to interest other
localities in the splendid organiza
tion which is devoting it's efforts
to the upbullding of the Navy.
The branch of the service, which
will bear the brunt of the lighting
should we be forced into the pres
ent war.
Those who are unable to offer
their personal services to their
country in this crisis have an Op
to do much for the Navy,
by joining the League. which in
cludes women and children. We
feel sure that every true hearted
American will gladly do his duty.
The League will give it's members
an opportunity to do something
for their country. The assistance
and cooperation Of every red
blOoded American land those also
who have deliberately chosen to
love this country better than their
native land) are needed, for those
who guard us on the seas. Now
is the time to teach children what |
1t means to love ones country bet
ter than self indulgence.
The annual dues are SO 90, which
includes a fine monthly magazine,
''The Sea Power" Our beautiful
Teche land Is very near the coast
1t would be fitting and credible
could we send a large membership
from our Parish. Many of our
young men may later on risk to
lake advantage of the splendid all.
'0und education to be acquired in
)ur Naval Academies, and being a
member of the league now would
% good introduction, and reading
he magazine, Sea Power, is won
lerfully instructive along those
ines. 4
"The navy has never failed the
country, and we must not fail the
Navy"
These sailor lads have given up
heir homes to guard ours. We
I'VE them all the help we can pos
'ibly give M. L. p.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1917-03-24

The 1duma has arrived here
from Port Arthur, Tex, having
made the trip by way of the Inter.
coastal canal. Her cargo consist.
ed of $4,000 orange and fig trees,
consigned to the Erath Nursery
Company. Fig trees which are
being planted under contract with
the canning factories at Eratb,
Abbeville aud Kaplan. The crew
reported mosquitoes 30 bad at
Port Arthur that wOrkmen on the
dock are compelled to wear mos
quito netting wells on their hats,
-Abbeville Progress.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1917-03-24
Very Llttery

"Oolonel Brown seems to be
very literary" remarked a
visitor at the Brown household to
the maid, glancing at pile of
magazines lying on the floor.
"Yas, ma'am,' replied the girl.
"Yss, ma'am, be sholy am littery.
He just nat'ally littahs things all
ovah dis here house,
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1917-03-24

The American citizen of Ger.
man ancestry Is in a position
somewhat resembling that Of a
man who finds that the wife of his
choice does not get on well with
his mother. The sacrifice of tilial
affection is painful, but the course
of duty in such situation is
clear.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1917-03-24

Members of Congress who once
questioned the propriety of the
Presidents appearance in person
before congress are now clamoriDg
for him.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1917-03-24

Wormy children are unhappy,
puny and sickly. They can't be
otherwise while, worms eat away
their strength and vitality. A few
doses of WHITES CREAM VERMI-
FUGE performs a marvellous trans
formation. Cheerfulness, strength
and the rosy bloom OF health
speedily return. Price Csc per bot
tie.
Sold BY ESTORGE DRUG co.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1917-03-24
NOTICE.

! am now the lQe1l agent for the
New Orleans Item/aQd il any of my
subscribers are dot sstting their pa
per will appreciate it>yery much to
have them Eeport it to ma personally,
or phone 366.
W. A. NICHOLSON,
Agent N. o. Item.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1917-03-24
A Fine Proposition

FOR SALE :-704 and 48 100 Acres,
alluvial soil. st. Landry Parish, La.
Fronts Atchafalaya River just below
mouth Of Bayou Courtableau. in Secs
IA, %. "a. and 25 T7SR E. About
miles South to Southern Paci-
fic Railway Baton Rouge Lafayette
Branch), about miles North to Fris.
CO Railway main Line) about %
miles West to Carencro gas escape
ment, about Is miles Southwest to
Anse la Butte oil field, about 10 miles
Southeast to newly brought in Iber-
vile Parish oil well-(nearby which
is building the Crescent refinery
about 30 miles East to Baton Rouge
and Standard Oil Refinery, about 27
miles South to New Iberia. Taxes for
1915 paid. Property full paid for. no
mortgages to assume. Timber has
been sold to Chicago, ILL.,, party for
$4,000 who has sold to Louisiana party
for $4,000. These timber rights expire
this coming December 1917. To.date
the property is free of oil and gas
lease. No exclusive right will be
granted to buy direct or sell on COM
mission, though commission will be
paid in case of sale. Price subject to
change or property subject to with
drawal from sale to lease II for oil and
gas. without further notice. Price
cheap. Address Orient Co. Ltd. own
ers, 423 Carondelet St. New Orleans,
Louisiana.
3-3l
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The evening world., 1917-10-12
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n ne Mutual Aid nocis,y ~ tho Boston
iry Do-s Company IN Prospect Hail. No
3si Prospect Avsnu@ Brookiyn. Mfs
Caihsrins Quinn, forty Isars oIq. d No.
~ Huntington street. fell daad On the
floor shortly befOss midnight
Mrs Quinn attended the dance with
her daughter. Mias Anna Quinn, seven =
teen years old patfOlmAn MofhayfV
sumngned an ambUlanoe from the Meth
odist EpisS0pai Hospital. and Or jolly
said q heart seizure. brOuGh, on bY the
oTertion and oSoitsrnsnt. had caused
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The evening world., 1917-10-12
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The evening world., 1917-10-12

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The evening world., 1917-10-12
Children, S
Cloves

For youngsters of 4 to IA
Lord & Taylor feature Gloves,
smart and serviceable and at
prices unusually moderate.
Lined Cloves - that will
keep small hands snug and
warm all Winter, Tan Cape
and velvety gray or brown
Mocha, a pair. $3.50 & $1.85
Uniined GIoUes - quite
English in their style; made of
Tan Cape or gray Mocha, a
PAIR '.................,S1.5O
Wool GlOUes-so comfort
able for school or for sports
wear......... SOC, CSC, S5c
Wool Gduntiets. .$1.0O
boy Scout" GduntIets-
Of brown wool with military
cuffs of leather. ....... Csc
Infants Mittens, in white,
35c to 55c
Ground Floor
The evening world., 1917-10-12
Special for Saturday
Juniors Goats
$16.75

Smart belted models with deep collars on new
est lines; plush trimmed effectively. Mix
lures and plain color coatings in brown, green and
navy. Sizes IS to II years.
Other models in Chevios Velours, Broadcoths, Burca
Pom Pom and Vevets Many models fur colared Sizes
IS and " years.
Priced up 5000
Juniors and Girls Suits
Jauny models in Chevio Velours, Boadcoth, Velyets
with lined and nterined Goats, many fur trimmed Sizes
-, Il, and 10; IS and II years
$500 to $69.5O
Juniors Street and Afternoon Dresses
- In Serges and Silk, Georgette Crepe and Velvet
Sizes IS and H.
Sl6.95 A2.50
Girls and intermediate Coats
H. Zibcnc, Cheviots, Velours, plain and checked Pom
Pom Burca Broadclobs, Bedford Cord and Ncvcs mod
els strictly tailored fur trimmed with Raccoon, Beaver
Moutilon or Kit Concy Sizes TO 10.
$O.95 to S69.5O
Girls and intermediate Dresses
For school, afternoon and party Smart Serges Vel
vets, Silks and Dainty Chtfons Sizes TO I6.
$3.50 10 $29.50
Third
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-17

HOGAN DIES
SUDDENLY
Continued from rsge ore)

veteran remarked 20 his wife We'll.
when ! go. I'd like 10 drop of the
same way suddenly"
Hogan was coaling his furnace
when he toppled over and died with
out uttering word,
Because his condition had not i'm,
proved during the last few days. Or
Eugene Smith. Jr. police physician.
was asked Tuesday 10 call AZ the
Hogan home As he drove up We'd
nesday IN his automobile he me-
Mrs. Hogan coming down the steps
OF her home, crying that her hus-
band had collapsed The physician
rushed downstairs, bat the inspector
was dead when he reached his side.
Heart failure was the cause.
Hogan became a member OF the
police department June 80. 1875. He
was made sergeant in 1887 and
six years later was promoted 10 the
rank OF lieutenant In 1910 he be
came captain and on Jan. l. 1915.
he was promoted 20 an Inspector
ship. Tie is survived by widow
and three daughters