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Sierra County advocate., 1917-03-09
UnIeased School Sections
In Sierra County.

The following 10 list OF the un-
leased school sections in the coun-
ty mentioned, above, taken from
the records of this office Decem-
ber lst, 1916.
For blanks or other information
write to the Com missioner of Pub
lie Lands, Santa Fe, N. M.
In some instances only part of
sections are vacant but the subdi-
vision is not given in this list.
Part of section vacant will be CIV
ar unnn raOuaat
Sierra County advocate., 1917-03-09
KINGSTON

Mrs. j. D. Whitman. of Denver,
is visiting her sop, d. B. Whit
ham, OF this place.
Mrs. ID. b. Whitman and Mre,
p. L. Eesrn were Hillsboro visit
prs the early part OF the week.
Adolph Sanders, who has been
working some mines on North
Sierra County advocate., 1917-03-09
FRIDAY. MARCH 9, 1917.
LAKE VALLEY


class.
e. K. Longbottom left for Del
Rio, Texas, where be will visit for
q few days with friends.
There will be a big dance at
Lake Valley on the I7th of March
--St. Patrick's day. Ont of town
as we'll as others are invited.
Mrs. j. j. Wallace, who has
been residing in town for the past
five months 30 that her children
could attend school, has moved ont
to her Macho ranch. We are sor-
sorry to lose them.
Mrs. 8. e, Mckinney, who hss
been in San Antonio, Texas, for
the past four or five smonths,
where she went for the purpose OF
having minor operation perform
ed on her eye, will return in Q few
days.
Miss Maggie Num-, who came
home from the Silver City Nor
NAL School to attend her grand
fathers uneral, returned to Sill.
YER City to resume her studies on
Monday morning, driving to Mutt
by auto.
Morse T. Num-, one OF the old
timers and father of ID. M. (Gree-
ly) Mum, died at the home OF bis
son on the Berenda on Thursday,
the fret, Mr., Npnn was past the
age OF 80 at the TINA of his death.
He was buried Ia the cemetery at
Lake Valley. The ladies OF the
Endeavor sang at the funeral, and
Judge Keil read the Episcopal
bprlal services,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. p. Num-, Mrs.
Ed. Latham, Mrs. Pat Mum and
Miss Dora Num-, all of Deming,
came up to attend the funeral of
Grandpa Mum. They came up in
an auto and returned the same day
which was Saturday.
Mr.. Prior Num- and Emmett
Mum each bought Ford car for
their families.
All the school sirls are going to
sing OF the Endeavor meeting on
Sunday evening. Mrs. j. j. Wall
ace will be the leader.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. ii. Latham with
their daughter motored to FL Paso
10 attend the stockmen's conven-
tIon,
q, @. Todd, who was detained at
Albuquerque with his cattle last
week on account of the heavy snow
ON the Rio GraDde railroad lead
.Ds ao.s ~ s.ola Ssa;a Es, loo ssaca
cd bis destination in western Colo.
Fsdo.
Sierra County advocate., 1917-03-09
NOTICE |!

When you have nnal proof notices,
to be published, don't forget that the
SIERRA COUNTY ADVOCATE has publish
ed such notices for the past thirty years,
and will do the work as cheaply and
psreetly as any one else.
Sierra County advocate., 1917-03-09
w. o. THOMPSON, Proprietor.

The Sierra County Advocate Is entered
at the Post Office at Hillsboro, Sierra
County, New Mexico, for transmission
hrough the u S. Mails, as second class
Natter.
Sierra County advocate., 1917-03-09

Will attend all the Courts Sic
IRA County and the Third Judi
eial Distret.
Sierra County advocate., 1917-03-09

SIERRA COUNTY ADVOCATE
Impartially Devoted to the Best Inter-
ests Of Sierra County and the State
of New Mexico.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
French Rush Onward.

Paris, April 10. The Germans hurl-
led nearly quarter of million men
against the new French lines between
Scissors and Auberive last night. The
French forces not only repulsed the
attacking army but wrested hill No.
227 and the adjacent heights from the
German defenders. The village of
Monthart in the Champagne region,
was captured and north of the Aisne
the French advanced to Moronville,
capturing numbers of prisoners. The
French lines now have been extended
north of the Vailly-Oste line, accord
ing to an official statement from the
war office, and have captured two addi-
tional batteries of German artillery.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
German Loss is $50. 600.

Paris, April 19.-General Nivelle's
army is now only five miles from
Laon, the city which is one Of the main
supports of the Hindenburg line. The
town is being subjected to a terrific
bombardment and no difficulty in car
rying it is anticipated when the infan-
try is brought up. The heaviest of
fighting ragged all of last night on
both sides of the Aisne river, with
counter strokes by the Germans being
repulsed at many points.
The French are making fresh lunges
all along the lines and are slowly
and surely causing the retreat of the
entire German forces which have been
concentrated along this front. The
pressure on the Germans has been
especially severe around Ostel, Cour-
tecon, veilly and Brayeenlaon. The
war office estimates that the German
army has lost 10000 men in killed,
wounded and prisoners during the past
three days fighting.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
ESPIONAGE BILL
IS TALK FEST
IN CONGRESS

Washington, April .19.-The debate
today in the senate on the espionage
bill was marked by the offering of
amendments by several senators de-
signed to make less drastic the re-
strictions upon individuals and the
press.
Senators Johnson, Borah and others
vigorously attacked the bill, saying it
strikes dangerously at the right of
free press and speech. Other senators
declared private rights must yield to
the necessities of the national defense.
The senate finally adopted a COM
mittee amendment offered by Senator
Lodge granting unlimited privilege to
discuss, criticise and comment upon
the acts of the government or its rep
Iresentatives.
The fate of the section imposing
press censorship and other restrictions
upon publication of military affairs is
still in doubt. This section provides a
ito year imprisonment or a $4,000 fine
for persons who collect, publish or
elicit information regarding matters
of national defense which might be of
use to the enemy, in violation of reg
Iulations by the president. Opponents
of the section We're confident it would
either be defeated or materially modi-
fled.
Senator Borah of Idaho made long
attack upon the press censorship fea-
Iture. Congress, he contended, is utter
Ily devoid of power to interfere with
liberty of the press. .The censorship
proposal" he declared, "is nebulous,
drastic and omnipotent, the conse-
quence of which sno man can foresee."
whatever may be the construction
placed upon the constitution in these
days of somewhat latitudinous con-
Istruction," said Senator Borah, "there
! is no doubt that their trainers thor
oughlS understood and were agreed
that the national government should
be absolutely excluded from all power
over the press. There was no differ
ence Of opinion on that"
The first constitutional amendment
Senator Borah said, was added to
make certain that, interference with
liberty Of the press by the federal
government was expressly denied
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
Supreme Court Again
Gives Solar Plexus Blow
To Court House Movers

was applicable to Pinellas county be-
fore the amendment of 1913 to section
10 of the act, that amendment ex-
cludes Pinellas county from the ope7-
alton of the act, since, as shown by
the pleadings, the court house in this
county, though built of wood, was con-
structed within the past twenty years,
and the county site is located onNa line
of railroad transportation.
This meant that Clearwater was, Sle-
gally, the county seat, and that an
election to decide the matter could not
be held.
The St: Petersburg litigants entered
motion for new hearing of the case,
and today the supreme court overruled
the motion.
Just what the next movement of ST.
Petersburg will be in its attempt to
have the county seat removed to that
city is not known. The hope is that
the people of that city will now let the
matter rest, and that the county COM
missioners may proceed with the cree
ton Of new county buildings Clear
water Sun.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20

Mankind's remembrance of this war
will be studded with anniversaries of
significant or spectacular events-the
ultimatum to Belgium, the fall of
Liege, of Namur, of Maubege, of
Longwy; the conquest of Servia, the
defense of Verdun, hundred sanguin-
airy battles ON land and sea, a score
of stupendous campaigns, says the
Philadelphia North American. But
none of them, unless it be the final
combat that will be the prelude to
peace, will occupy more lustrous
page in history than that which the
French, with characteristically clear
perception, commemorated recently as
the sure signal of victory. This was
the series of engagements known as
the battle of the Marine, fought Sep
TENDER 6-12, 1914.
AT that time the sudden and dramat-
lie change in the tidal currents of the
war sent a thrill throughout the world,
it even aroused extravagant hopes
that the menace to Europe was to col
lapse as swiftly as it had arisen and
that the invaders were about to be
flung back on their own soil Yet in
time it passed out of common recollec-
ton, except as a convenient phrase.
The unending fury of trench warfare,
the terrific offensives of the defeated
Germans, the vast operations in Rus
STA, the Balkans and Asia, caused the
startling reversal to recede in interest,
until to most inexpert students of the
conflict it became only a striking in
cident with no more than local and
temporary significance.
Yet the recent national celebration
by France was just and logical. It
forecasts the Judgment Of posterity,
which will be that the great European
war was won and lost two years ago
last SUPPLEMENTARY six weeks aft
Ter it began-and that the supplying
slaughter which ensued, and which
must continue no one knows how long,
is but the Hethodical registering by
fate of a decision then irrevocably rem
dered. The star of German victory
which had led the hosts of the empire
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
TELLS
GERMAN PLANS
AMERICA NEXT
When Englarf Had Been Subdued by
Hunger Germany Intended to
Collect Cost of War Here

Boston, Apfl 19-To show "the deep
hatred" which he asserted Germany
has held for the uaited States, former
Ambassador James w. Gerard tonight
disclosed facts which he said had been
kept from the American people during
the past two and | half years. He was
the principal speaker at national de-
tense dinner givei by the Pilgrim Pub
licity association
Mr.. Gerard sud that Admiral Won
Tirpitz in thinlyveiled statements and
the German rei,hstag and Prussian
parliament in pen discussions, pro-
posed the institution of unrestricted
warfare agains' England with the in
tention when England should have
been subdued BY hunger to come over
to the United States and collect the
price of the war from u.s."
The former ambassador expressed
his belief that citizens of German de-
scent would prove loyal, but he added.
IF they do not stand with us, / think
we know where to festoon them"
Mr. .Gerard's statement that the war
would be a hard one was echoed by
Major General Wood, who said:
eve have got to send lot of men
across the sea, and we must bring back
a lot of men who die on the other side.
It will not be a paper war. It will be
war of living men and important as
food, money and munitions may be,
men will be the big, factor"
Major General Wood said that those
who are opposing President Wilson's
policy of universal obligatory military
service will be responsible for thous-
ands Of lives if their arguments pre-
vail.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
FOOD PROBLEM
BEFORE CONGRESS
IN SESSION TO-DAY

Washing gons Apiii To- gtslatiU.i
designed to give the government Il
firm grasp of the food problem will be
introduced in congress today. The
governments plans are believed to in
clude the supervision of production;
to deal with distribution, insuring a
fair supply of food for every part of
the country and possibly to fix prices.
Officials say the food problem is one
of the most serious the United States
will have to face during the war.
The senate committee on commerce
has approved a bill giving the presi-
dent authority to place an embargo
on exports.
Representative Ayers, of Kansas,
introduced bill in the house provid-
ing a fine and Imprisonment for ar
tifcial manipulation of food prices.
No matter what policy is adopted
to regulate the control of export food
supplies during the war, the United
States will not interfere with the
shipment of food supplies to Euro
pean and other neutral nations ex-
cept where Germany or her allies
might benefit. The announcement was
formally made for the purpose of al
laying the anxiety of several Euro
pean nations.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
The World War Won
At Battle of the Marine

in their exultant rushing advance, was
extinguished in the redeemed waters
of the Marine.
This fact, we say, has been obscured
by the glamour of succeeding events.
Yet whites there were many who, like
ourselves, grasped by a vague intui-
ton the meaning of the encounter,
there were those of deeper knowledge
and better trained vision who pro-
claimed the truth and expounded il
convincingly even in those doubtful
days. Early in 1915, when the militia
Try superiority Of Germany over her
enemies was being constantly demon
strated, a book on the strategic devel-
opments Of the first phase" of the
war was written by Count Charles de
Souza, noted French commentator.
The title was Germany in Defeat,
and the theme--or rather the conclus-
ion which the facts as stated uner-
ringly supported was thus sumnlar-
lied by British expert in his intro
duction:
Germany was defeated at the
Marine. She has been defeated ma
ton ever since. France not
only bore the onrpsh of Germany's le-
gions with consummate strategic abil-
ity, but she came within an ace Of
crushing the German armies on Bel
gian soil; and within few weeks had
not only stalled off the German attack,
but had defeated the German arms in
a series of battles that decided the
destinies Of European Civilizations
Even now, after the earlier events
of the war have fallen into something
like their true perspective, this is q
staggering conception, for it implies
that all those colossal struggles that
have since taken place in France, in
Poland, in SerVia, in Asia Minor and
beyond, have been inconsequential, SO
far as concerns the ultimate result
that the issue was decided within forty
days Of the beginning. It is interest
ling to piece together again the kaleid-
Eoscopic happenings Of those tumultous
days and examine the fateful design
which the experts see in them.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
STRIKE
HAS SPREAD TO
WAR FACTIONS

London, April ia dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company from
The Hague says:
According to frontier reports, Ger
man munition factories at Iserlohn,
Krefeld and Barmen are idle, owing to
strikes. About $4,000 workers of both
sexes ceased work as protest against
the lack of food, There have been no
serious disorders except at Barmen,
where the strikers attempted to burn
factory. The police interfered and
three men were wounded. Many per-
sons were arrested"
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
Germans Leaving Roumania.

Petrograd, April 19.-The Germans
have burned two important Rumanian
towns now in their possession, Braila
and Fokshani These places were rail-
road centers and their destruction is
believed by the Russian war office to
be the first sign of a general retreat
ing movement in Rumania.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
Strikers Demand More Food.

Berne, Swift, (via Paris), April 10.
Swiss socialists with close German
relations learn ON what they regard
as indisputable authority that the rep
resentatives of about half of the strik-
ers in Berlin yesterday formulated de-
mands under which the German gov
eminent was called upon to confscate
all foodstuffs, redistribute them equal
" and revoke the order reducing the
bread supply.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
MEAT SHORTAGE
AND ALSO GRAIN
FEARED BY GOV

81
The serious meat shortage in the
United States and the urgent necessi-
tx for removing every handicap to In
creased pfo{ uetion, including eradica-
Ltsala e fever ticks il tbe
|uuarantined area, has beer amp
ed by government authorities recently.
The inventory of foodstuff stocks in
the country show that the meat re-
sources are as deficient as the grain
resources. The latter can be remedied
within a year by planting increased
acreage of grain crops and by culti-
waiting city lot gardens, but the meat
problem requires longer time to de-
velop much increase in production.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Hon. Carl Vrooman, in his address at
the Southeastern food crop conference
in Atlanta, on April 5, stressed in the
| following statement the necessity for
hurrying the work of Graduating the
cattle fever ticks.
"The cattle tick eradication cam
lpaign now being waged in the tick
fever quarantined area of the south
ern states is one of the most wonder
| full campaigns for good ever carried
on in America.
IF actual warfare comes to this ma
ton, do not let that campaign stop I'M
/ til the cattle fever ticks are complete
lily eradicated, for we must establish a
solid foundation for preparedness for
feeding not only our own people, but
helping to feed our allies.
..'Do not let any one get up in your
several legislatures and suggest that
economy be introduced by cutting of
one dollar of the amount of appropria-
ton necessary to complete this work
at the earliest possible moment, for !.
profitable live stock industry is the
basis of a large agricultural develop
ment."
The counties, through their officials,
also must make appropriations TO pur-
chase material for dipping vats and to
lpay salaries Of inspectors to help the
state and federal representatives. The
government is willing and anxious to
do all it can toward Graduating the
ticks, but it will not attempt to carry
on the work in any county without
hearty cooperation of county officials,
The Office will cheerfully assign
skilled leaders to help the county off
Gals or representative cattle owners
conduct a preliminary organization
campaign and when the county off
cials are ready to build watts and carry
on systematic dipping Of cattle gov
ernment Inspector will be detailed to
take supervisory charge of the work
lin that county.
I Every person can demonstrate his
patriotism by energetically pushing
the tick eradication work, and thu:
help the government solve the meat
shortage problem.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
To Plan Finances.

Washington, April 19.-With party
lines obliterated the house ways and
means committee today began the con-
sideration of methods of raising the
revenue to meet Americas share of
the war expense. The first problem
will be the raising of approximately
$2,000,000,000, estimated as one-half
the cost of the war for one year. The
committee will also probably discuss
the ways and means of collecting the
funds to be derived from direct taxa
ton.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
War Measures Only.

Washington, April 19.-The house
democratic caucus after a vigorous
fight agreed that the present session
be devoted exclusively to war emer-
gency legislation as proposed by Pres
ident Wilson.
The caucus adopted resolution not
to consider a bill permitting the
president to prohibit the manufacture
or sale of liquors during the war.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
British Capture Guns.

London, April 19.-More than one
third of all the German guns along
the Arras front are now in the hands
of the British, according to the cor
respondent of the Times at the front.
The Germans are said to have entered
the battle with 600 guns, 225 of which
have been captured by Haig's men.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
Victory or End of German Monarchy
Declares Count Won ReyentIow

Copenhagen (via London) !, April 10.
Count Won Reventlow, writing in the
Tages Zeitung, says that victory in the
war is necessary if the German mon
archy is to exist. He says:
"We have long expressed the view
that German victory and the German
monarchy are mutually dependent.
Without German victory the German
monarchy will soon cease to exist"
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20

How about a patriotic demonstration
in Tarpon Springs ? Every town and
hamlet in Pinellas county has spilled
their patriotism by yelling as loud as
they can; what's the matter with do
ing a little star spangled banner stuff
N arpon, Springs TEls bows are gips
Some spread-eagle oratory:
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
Wants Children to Help.

Washington, April 19.-Dr. P. P.
Claxton, United States commissioner
Of education, today appealed to the
school boards throughout the country
to increase the enthusiasm of chill
dren of about Is years of age in gar
dening, thereby helping to meet the
food emergency.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20

4 q y
Information was received here this
afternoon to the effect that the SUI
preme court at Tallahassee had over
ruled the motion which was before it
to force county seat removal election
in Pinellas county.
The details in connection with this
litigation are familiar to the readers
of The Sun. 1t reached q point in coz
nection with the refusal Of the coz y
commissioners to consider a rssition
for county seat election, from which
it was appealed to the supreme court
and month ago the supreme court
rendered decision which said, sub
stantially, that although chapter 623g
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20

The Russian leaders favor repub.
lican form of government, but, says
the Chicago Tribune, they have never
seen congress in session.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20
WAR CLAIMS VICTIM
IN FORT MEADE MAN

Fort Meade, April, 49, Especially
Mrs. Munro Berwick of this city re-
ceived cable from the Canadian gov
eminent informing her officially that
her. oldest son, Griffith Dudley, aged
twenty, died of his wounds in the hos
pital at Mimeraux, France, on Thurs
day, April IL. Though no details are
given it is probable that young Dudley
was wounded during the great attack
by the Canadians on the Vimy ridge.
Much anxiety is felt concerning the
fate of the second son, Eugene Dudley,
who is with the same regiment.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-20

Below will be found extracts from
the st. Petersburg Independent and
the Clearwater Sun in connection with
the latest developments Of the county
court house litigation which has been
kept up until every decent citizen in
the county is disguised with it. You
pay your money and take your choice:
Clearwater is the county seat of
Pinellas county beyond all question.
The supreme court today refused to
grant rehearing in the case of Miller
ct al against the county commissions
ers. This makes the decision final. The
court previously decided Clearwater
was the county seat for 20 years.
j. S. Davis, attorney for the county
commissioners, will at once move to
have dissolved the injunction, granted
by Judge Reaves, and the motion will
be granted as matter of course The
commission will then proceed to con-
slder plans for the construction OF a
new court house and Jail at Clearwa-
ter. 1t is expected that this matter
will come up at the next meeting Of
the commissioners. 1t is likely that
bids will be asked for. The money to
erect a new court house and jail is
ready, lying in the American Bank
and Trust company's vaults and is
available at any time.
Whether there will be any further
legal battles over the court house re
mains to be seen. There has been talk
of an injunction suit to restrain the
commissioners from letting a contract
for a new court house, but that such a
suit will be filed is doubtful.-Inde-
pendent.