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Evening star., 1917-09-24
YOUR SOLDIER

Mothers, Sisters and Sweethearts.
your Soldiers Comfort should be
foremost in your mind.
Tired, Swollen. Blistering, Burning
and Aching feet, which are brought
on by marching and drilling, can be
prevented by rubbing "Fastep Foot
Powder" we'll into the feet.
''Fastep" heals cuts and broken
blisters- It's cooling. soothing and
antiseptic.
As an effective Deodorant for all
parts OF the body ."Fastep" will
when time is pressing and facilities
are lacking.
Send your soldier a can today.
All druggists. 25c., or e. Fougera
& Co, Inc. 1922 Beekman St, N. T.
Advertisements.
Evening star., 1917-09-24
Learning to Talk american"

Little by little the smaller people Of
France are learning American. Not =
boy or girl one passes on the street
who has not a word or two. They call
good night" after one-not in the OBJ
jectionadly sarcastic tone which the
greeting would carry in the states
or say America or hello or any
other one of the words of the newly
gained vocabulary. II the war lasts
long enough the smaller people of this
part of France viii be fluent in United
States talk.
This scene of honely domestic;ty can
be duplicated in almost any village in
which the Americans are billeted. They
get along beautifully with their hosts.
In their turn they are picking up
French, SO that when the boys come
home again there VIII he a violent out
burst of foreign languages in every
restaurant that has a French dish on
the menu. The folks at home are here
by warned. They had hest go TO study
ing French themselves to be on even
terms with their educated brothers
when the boys come back. The soldiers
are not studying French very hard, it is
true. One is not fit for great INTEL
lectual activity after SIX hours on the
drill ground and fourteen miles on the
road. But one by one the new words
sink in
Evening star., 1917-09-24
Revoked by New Order.

The same privilege was continued
temporarily on this expedition until it
was revoked by the new order.
Accredited correspondents taking pho
tographs are hardest hit by this new
order. officers, soldiers and civilians
also are forbidden the use of cameras.
However. though they never had the
privilege, they snapped without inter
ruption. Since the expedition arrived
in France the prices of cameras and
Photographic supplies have almost
doubled in consequence of increased de-
mand. French coming in on their own
passes have also photographed freely
in the American zone. The photog-
rapher of the Red Cross is operating
under Army sanction.
Evening star., 1917-09-24
No Heat for French

In the French army the soldiers are
forbidden to heat their billets. Nor is
that emphasis laid upon cleanl.ress int
there is with us. It is safe to say that in
the larger rooms, where th1 T1eH can
spend their spare time, there viii he oil
stoves or some other means of heating
furnished. Barracks viii be built, too.
in which the men can mess. At present
they eat their meals on tie street in fine
weather and in the bilIet3 wheA il rains.
This is not desira bic. The y. N. 9. \.
huts VIII furnish them q common meeting
and loafng place, when they are built.
The American officers were a little
doubtful of the biiletins plan. The mea
are not as directly under control as they
have been IN barracks, but experience
has shown that it works perfectly. The
French officers fairly hold uD their hands
when they see the shiniiy clean biilets
and the camp beds and the thick blank
cts of real wool and the warm oYercoats
and the care taken of the men. As the
visiting major said today after his tour
of inspection:
Your men live like kings
Nothing TOO good for en- said our
major.
Evening star., 1917-09-24
Soldiers Clean Up.

Often the billet is q stable or a haymow
or wagon shed. but it must be borne in
mind that these terms indicate some
thing quite different than the stables or
haymows we have at home. The fond
mother who pictures the snow blowing
through the cracks between the clap
boards upon her Willie may be reassUred.
The stable or the hazTnow is :, part of
the home over here. Sometimes it is al
most the best part. All it needs is a
thorough cleaning and it is fit for its new
purpose
And it gets it-that cleaning. 1t isn't
scoured-it is polished The stones of
the floor are scrubbed and rescrubbed
and the beams of the ceiling are swept
Then all that is done over again The
billets are inspected at regular intervals
by the sergeants and tie company Off
GERS. and the battalion major gets around
at least once day 10 see that the in
spection has been thorough. Woe 70
every one from the captain 70 the rear
rank man If burned match or a cga-
rette butt is found the Aoor at inspec-
tion time. More woe if the beds are rot
in order and if equipment is scattered
about. The quarter deck of 4 yacht is q
fussy and untidy place Compared TO Il
soldiers billet, the relative opportuni-
ties for untidiness being considered.
Evening star., 1917-09-24
j. S. TROOPS MAKE
INT WITH FRENCH
Soldiers BlIleted in Peasant
Villages Get Along With
Natives FamousIy.
MARVEL AT CLEANLINESS
BY HERBERT COREY.

AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUAR-
TIERS, August 29.-On the way home
last night the car nipped through ons
of the little villages in which our
troops are quartered. A very little viii
lage. this one. The old stone houses
shouldered up to the very edse Of the
road. presenting on either side wall
unbroken by an opening There was
a bench of sorts in front OF almost
every door. 1t was just at dusk, when
soldier and peasant alike had finished
the days work and eaten dinner and
was disposed to talk and cigarettes
and meditation.
So that every beuch held its soldier
in front of the house in which he
was biIIeted. Sometimes tLc bench
was shared ny the proprietor, peas
ant too ola to fEht. even zoo old TO he
a territorial and &u1sd hria-e Be
fore the war the cii Uau E.a retired
from active HE. iss-.uE tu atS su''
the work Of carrTiu- on EIc tarE1- No"
he is back in the s4uot-- Sometimes
one of the women of the house sat
with the soldier. often n youu-ster
was there. staring at him with Won
dering eyes. puckerinE his lips 10 lMi-
tate the unfamiliar language.
Evening star., 1917-09-24
AMERICAN AQtATORS WIN
BRILLIANT AERIAL FIGHTS
Members Of tho q rench Flying
Squadron at the Front Bring
Down German a irplanes.
By TIN, Associated Press.

By TIN, Associated Press
SONLEWHERE ON THE FRENCH
FRONT. Saturday. Septem Der 22-Lieut.
RaouI Lufbery of Wallingft nd. Conn.,. one
of the most prominent meml rers of the La
fayette Flying Corps. CONT. aued his bril-
liant aerial exploits today, when he de-
stroyed one German machin Q and forced
another TO land near the fro,lt lines.
Sergt. Kenneth Mari of Sslu Francisco
was attached by four German machines
and forced to land when the wires con-
trolling the elevatins planes of his air
plane were olt by bullets. The members
of the Lafaye tie squadr on witnessed
fight over their own fiehl this morning.
when French flyer of another squadron
forced down a German machine, which
crashed to earth about a mile away.
Cablegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.
PARIS, France, September 21 (delayed).
Aviation Corp Leland l.. Rounds OF New
York, who recently Joined a French fight
ing squadron at the front. shot down the
first German airplane which ihe encoun-
tered in the air.
cially destroyed an enemy machine.
The fight was short. / firin.; only
few shots. Balloon observers saw my
adversary crash to the ground some
0UV NstEuS back OF the SrSSG man III t-iiht
trenches. The whole thing was rather
unusual. it was the first German
ever had anything to do wi tn. My
record now stands: One combat, one
it would be worth while. OF course, it
was 90 per cent luck, but victory gives
one any amount of confidence"
Corporal Rounds has been given a
has been decorated with the war cross
with palm.
Corporal Frank B. Wells of Los An
geles, Cal, who was recently wounded
during a night bombardmentr is a gain
flying. Cabel Coatsw orth. jr., Of Buff
falo. N Y, who was recently won nded
in the knee and wrist while attacking
a German observation balloon .i:s GO
ing to America on leave. as is Walter
Rheno of Marthas Vineyard, Mass
American Prisoner Is Cited.
I have received copies of the cita-
tions in the French army orders re-
Gently awarded to Sergt. Walter Lowell
and Sergt. Harold Willis. Boston flyers
with the Lafayette squadron Willis
is a prisoner in Germany. Translations
of the citations follow:
Walter Lowell. sergeant pilot with
Squadron 124, American citizen in the
service of France. an excellent fighting
pilot remarkab BILE for courage and sang
Iroid. while protecting n bombarnment
q expedition August 1s. 1917. shot down
an enemy aeroplane, which fell in
flames.
Harold Buckley Willis. sergeant pilot
with Squadron 124, American who vol
unteered for France, a real model for
his comrades because of his courage
and high conception of duty, furnished
by his reconnaissance much useful in
formation. was shot down August IS,
1917, after a hard combat against two
enemy aeroplanes which attempted to
attack a French raiding machine he
was escorting.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
BANDITS KILL COWBOYS
in Raid on Border Ranch Found
Shot and Cut by Mssicans.

Hachita, n. NJ. Feb. 16.-The fate
of the three Mormon cowboys, Andrew
p. Peterson, Hugh Accord and Burton
Jensen, captured by Mexican raiders
on the Corner ranch on the border be-
low Hachita Feb. u, was disclosed
late Thursday when their mutilated
bodies were found by searchers on
Mexican territory. about three miles
west of the ranch. The bodies, stripped
of their clothing. lay about fifty feet
apart on the Mexican side of the boun-
Diary, where the captives had been
taken to be killed. Each had been
shot by rifles and pistols many times
in the head In addition TO mutila-
ton by bullet wounds and powder
burns, the head of Accord had been
hacked beyond recognition with a
machete. Acting under instructions
from Col F. C. Sickel, commanding
the Columbus camp, Lieut.. Col. J. c.
Waterman, in charge here, ordered
all available troops from here into the
Corner ranch section.
The discovery was made by Lem
Spillsbury, the Mormon scout who
served with Gen. Pershing in Mexico,
and was the only white prisoner taken
in the Carrizal affair.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Cowboys Cross Border After Bandits

Ell Paso, Feb. 20.-A band of Amer
lean owboys, .variously said to number
from 60 to $50, led by Lem Spillshury,
is reported to have left the Corner
ranch, forty-five miles southwest of
Hachita, n. NJ, and to have entered
Mexico for the purpose of avenging
the murder of A. p. Petersen, Burton
Jensen and Hugh Accord. American
cowboys, by Mexican bandits of Gen.
Ynez Saiazar's command who raided
the Corner ranch last week.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
To Seize Roads. Drafting Crews.

Washington-Fresident Wilson is
to commander the rail
roads in time of national emergency
and to draft train crews and officials
for the operation, in bill reported to
the Senate by the Interstate Com
merce Committee. The recent threat
of a nationwide strike, when troops
were being mobilized on the Mexican
border, was cited by the committee as
emphasizing the necessity of de-
cisive action by the government in
controlling the railroads in war time"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
National Guard Ordered Home.

San Antonio. Tex.-Foiiowing the re-
ceipt of orders for release of all the
state troops remaining in the Mexican
border service. Gen. Funston and
members of his staff began prepara-
tions for sending home the $4,000
guardsmen. Movements will not be
commenced until organizations desig-
mated to go home under previous or
ders have left their border stations.
Virtually all of the troops included in
the earlier lot will be out of the way
Feb. 90.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Ask U. S. Intervention In Cuba.

Washington. = Apprehension over
the Cuban situation was increased by
receipt of dispatches from Santiago
stating that the situation in that sec
ton of Cuba is very critical and
threatening. Business throughout that
region has been paralyzed: there are
no mails. and trains are not operating
The insurrectionists in control of San
tiago have seized two Cuban merchant
vessels. the Frank Penny and the
Julia, which have been heavily armed
and stationed at the mouth of the har
hor.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Permi, Americans to Leave Turkey

n.-Lermission for the
departure of the American refugees
from Turkey has been given by the
Ottoman government. Ambassador
Ellxus at Constantinopie advised the
State Department today that Turk
ish authority had expressed the hope
that the Americans would be given
passage soon and their departure
would in no way be interfered with.
American missionaries in Syria, Pales-
tine and Turkey are awaiting trans
,ortation at Beirut.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Two Steamships Sunk.

New York-Two steamships out OF
New York. under charter to the Kerr
Steamship Company, one Norwegian
and the other Spanish, have been
sunk in the submarine zone, accord
Ing to adrices received by the COM
pany. They were the Dalmata, Nor
wegian, Jan. "a, for Havre. and the
Mar Adriatico, Spanish, Jan. 16, for
Bordeaux. The Dalmata was sunk
Feb. 8. and the Mar Adriatico Feb.
IL. The latter arrived at Lisbon on
Feb. 2, and was probably proceeding
for Bordeaux when sunk. Officials OF
the Kerr steamship Company said
they did not believe either vessel had
Americans aboard.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22

Washington, Feb. 16.-News of the
release of the seventy-two American
seamen taken to Germany by the
prize ship Yarrowdale came Thursday
night, after President Wilson and
other administration officials had re-
tired. Their liberation disposes OF
one of the most pressing and irritat-
ing phases of the German American
situation.
With President Wilson's approval
note permeptorily demanding OF
Germany that the Americans be re-
leased had been prepared at the State
Department.
Representatives of the American
Commission for relief in Belgium Will
not withdraw from the occupied por-
tions of Belgium and northern France
as previously had been arranged, but
will remain for the present. it is now
stated in dispatches from London.
The dispatch stated that at meet
ing held in Brussels the German au-
thorities announced that all repre-
sentatives of the commission might
remain in Belgium and northern
France on the same footing as here
tofore. Present at the meeting were
Baron Won der Lancken, civil govern
or of Brussels, the American and
Spanish ministers, representatives OF
the Belgian Relief Commission and OF
the Belgian National Committee.
The British steamer Yarrowdale
was one of the vessels captured by a
German raider in the South Atlantic
and taken into German harbor Dec.
81. She had 469 prisoners on board
including seventy two Americans,
who, the German foreign secretary
stated, were to be interned.
Many responsible officials have con-
cluded that unless there is a prompt
and decided change in the general at
titude of Germany toward the inter
ests of the United States the appear
ance of President Wilson before Con-
gress to ask authority to afford pro-
lection to American lives and prop
erty is only a matter of days.
Any doubt as to the ruthless char
acter of the new submarine campaign
and its violation of neutral rights
long since has disappeared, and the
situation is made more and more
grave daily by aggravating incidents.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Bank Head Locked in Vault.

Lincoln, Neb.-A stranger strolled
leisurely into the First National Bank
at University Place. Lincoln suburb.
Friday at noon. There was no one
in the bank but the president. The
robber, young man about 20 years
old. flashed a gun in the officers face
and ordered him to retreat to the
vault After locking him in the vault
the robber picked up $1,000 in cur
rency. scorning a large amount of sill
yer and gold, and made his escape.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Three Negroes Hanged in Montana.

White Sulphur Springs. Mont
Three negroes, Leslie Fahley. Harri-
son Gibson and Henry Hall, were
hanged in the yard of the county Jail
here. There was only one scaffold
and the men were taken out one at a
time. The men were convicted of
killing and robbing Michael Freeman,
a white farm hand, on a freight train
near Judith Gap, on Oct 6, last.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Villa on His Way to Japan.

FL Paso, Tex. - Francisco Villa,
whose movements have been a mys-
terry to his enemies as well as to the
mass of his followers. has made his
way to the west coast and embarked
for Japan, according to W. l.. Craw-
ford, a well-kuown cattleman of Dal-
las. His source of information is one
of Villas trusted agents.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
U. S. viii Continue Old Conventions

Washington. - While the United
States considers that Germany has
given grounds on which it might prop
erly and justly denounce the Prussian-
American treaties of 1899 and 1928.
it was declared at the State Depart
ment that the government will con-
tinue to live up to the spirit of the
old conventions. 1t was indicated that
there will be no re-affirmations nor
extensions as asked by Germany.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Chicago Grain and Provision Prices.

Chicago.-Wheat-N red, s1-740
LIAM; No. 3 hard, S1.70&
Corn-No. yellow, s101; No. 4
yellow, 9SAcqs1.O0; No. 4 white. 9SA
Q99Ac.
oats-No. white. 5795S%c; stand
ard. 571a 959c.
Rye-No. 2, $147.
Barley-s1.00Qf.30.
Timothy-S3.50Q5
Clover-sl2.OO41S.O
Pork-s30.00.
Lard-$1657.
Ribs-$15.37015.87.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
shafroth on Lands Committee.

washington.-A committee appoint
ment of benefit to Colorado has been
made in the transfer of Senator Shat
roth of Colorado to the Senate com
mittee on public lands. The change
was brought about by trade in com
mittee places made with Senator
Thompson of Kansas. The Senate
has passed a resolution ratifying the
change
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
German Sailors Freed.

Washington.-All German sailors in
this country who We're temporarily
placed in custody when information
was secured showing attempt to sink
German vessels and block American
harbors, have been released, except
in those cases where actual violation
of the criminal statutes has been re-
ported.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
sz.ioo.ooo for U. S. shells.

Washington. - The Navy Depart
ment awarded contracts to three com
panies for the manufacture of 14,2ol
14-inch shells for the navy at tota
price of S7.100,o00.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Woman Missionary Dies.

Osaka, Japan.-Miss A. NJ. Colby,
one of the oldest and best-known
American missionaries in Japan, is
dead here after a service extending
through thirty-eight years.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
100. 900 AIIen Spies in United states

Wasnington.-Discu the es
pionage bills in the Senate, urging
their quick passage, Senator Overmar
of North Carolina said he had beer
told there were 100000 spies in the
United States.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Butter, Eqqs and Poultry.

Chicago Butter - Creamery, 500
42c.
Eggs-Firsts, AZ @42c; ordinary
firsts, 3s1a a39c; at mark, cases in
cluded. 39940iac.
Steady. Wisconsin white,
s2.3OQ2.4O; Michigan white, s2,S5@
2.40; Idaho, Colorado and Washington.
s2.40@2.50.
Poultry-Fowls, 21c; springs, 201ac.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Snow Delays Freight.

Buffalo, n. Y.-Another heavy snow
Friday added to the already frost-in
crusted railroad yards, and greatly re
tarded efforts to relieve the freight
congestion here.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Vegetables. s.
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Metal Market Quotations.

Bar silver 7S9sc; lead, New York.
$3.50; copper. sS0.1212; spelter, St
Louis, s9.42.
Boulder.-Tungsten concentrates, GO
per cent, s17.00 per unit. Crude ores.
60 per cent, $500; % per cent, s9.40
Q12.O0; 10 per cent, sS.70q 1000 per
unit
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
PENNSYLVANIA Traveller Killed.

Tucson, Ariz.. body of man
decapitated at rsenson. near here. was
identified as that of Thomas H. Jar
Wis of Edinburg, Pa. Considerable
mystery envelopes his appearance in
Benson. He was high degree Mason
and Odd Fellow.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22

London.-The negotiations between
Frederic c. Penfield, the American
ambassador at Vienna, and the Aus
tro-Hungarian government have been
broken off, according to the Berliner
Tageblatt, as quoted in an Exchange
Telegraph Company dispatch from
Copenhagen.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Senate Passes Anti-Liauor Bill.

Washington.-Cont a drastic
provision against the Importation of
liquors in prohibition states and appro-
priating SS3O,OO0.0O0, the postoffice
bill passed the Senate.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Hogs.
Sheep.
HAY AND GRAIN MARKET.
Il q r. Denver. Carload Price.

Hay.
Buying Prices.
Colorado. upland. per ton, $15.o0Q 20 l6.oo
Nebraska upland, per ton. l2.Oog l3.oo
Second bottom, Colorado
and Nebraska, per ton. 12.O0g l3'oo
Timothy. per ton. 17.00Q1S.00
Alfalfa, per ton. ......... l2.ooVio.oo
South Park, choice, per
ton liVoV io'oo
San Luis Valley, per ton. 14.Oog lo.oo
Gunnison Valley. per ton. l6.O0g lI.o0
Straw, per ton ......-... 4.uOV o.oo
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Two Men Frozen to Death.

Grand Forks, N. D.-Two men were
frozen to death in q storm which
swept this section of the state.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22

Berlin = Brand Whitlock, United
States minister to Belgium, will con-
tinue to remain in Brussels in his dip
lomatic capacity. Belgian relief work
will still go on under the auspices of
the men now in charge of its admin
istrafion
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
London.-Reuter's Copenhagen cor.

London.-Reuter' Copenhagen cor
respondent reports that Norway.
Sweden and Denmark have handed to
the German ministers identical notes
protesting against the naval measures
taken by Germany and Austria-Hun-
gary and making all reservation re-
garding the loss of life and the ma
terial damage resulting.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Cotton Prices.

New York-Cotton- s15.92;
May, $1,000; July. s16.OS; October,
1855; December, $3.50.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
II AMERICANS FREED
cAPTIvES ON YARRoWDALE LIB
GRATED BY KAISER.
"order to Leave" Against the Ameri-
can Commission for Relief in
Belgium Is Revoked.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Berlin.-The American seamen who
were brought prisoners to Germany
on the British steamer Yarrowdale
have been liberated.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Live Poultry.
Eggs.

Eggs. graded No. l net, f. o. B.
DenNtT oot to'
Eggs, graded No. 2 net. +. o. B
Denver oV
EGGS, case count. misc. cases.
less commission ...... .10.UJ4 1850
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
NEGOTIATIONS BY AMBASSADOR
PENFlELD AT VIENNA RE-
PORTED BROKEN OFF.
new BREAK PROBABLE
OFFICIALS, HOPING FOR PEACE,
ADMIT FINAL REPTURE MAY
SOON BE REPORTED.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Paris, Feb. 17.-Americans in Aus
tria have been warned from Washing
ton to leave that country.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
North Sea Danger Line Named.

Washington.-Notic of a dangerous
area in. the North sea because of op-
erations against Germany has been
given by the British admiralty.