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The Lamar register., 1917-03-07
CHAPTER XIII.
A Wedding Postponed.


Vandervyn's face dnrkened with sus-
picion.
IF you're not playing me. then he
has lied to you, In order to get away
from Us"
Murle's lips curved In n half-smile.
He gave me his word Of honor. Do
you doubt lit"
The young mans jaw dropped slack.
lie could not even pretend to doubt
her statement or Hnrdy's word. He
looked down, his brows knotted and
eyes contracted with intense thought
Dupont took the news In Tar dif-
ferrnt manner.
"By GAR" he exulted. He's going
TO give you the miner You're dead
sure Of itl By Gar! | call that
mighty square of Cap. It's white I
And me a-thinking he done 1t all to
rit back at us. 1t sure is white Of
Cap. Why. it's nearly the same Ike
he had give It to mer
HE named only one condition" re-
marked Marie.
Vnndervyn started, and looked up at
CONTINUED on page g.
The Lamar register., 1917-03-07

A good treatment for a cold settled
in the lungs is a HERRICK'S RED
PEPPER POROUS PLASTER applied
to the chest to draw out Inflammation,
and BILLIARDS. HOREHOUND sly
RUP to relax tightness. You get the
two remedies for the price of one by
buying the dollar size Horchound Sy-
rup; there is a porous plaster free
with each bottle. Sold by all drug
gists.
The Lamar register., 1917-03-07
NOTICE OF sHERIFF's SALE

Notice il hereby given that on the
5th day Of January. A. d. 1917. the
District OF Colorado. entered a
nnal decree in Cause No. 1910 in said
Court wherein ]. 3. Nichols was plain
tIff and Claud W Langford and Lizzie
IanEford. were defendants. by which
decree the Sheriff of Prowers County
Colorado. was commanded and directed
to sell al Public auction that certain
real estate, property and premises in
Prowers County. Colorado. described az
Lots Thirty three (ss) and thirty
four $50, thirty-hvs (Ss. and thirty
The Lamar register., 1917-03-07

Take HERBINE for indigestion. It
relieves the pain in a few minutes and
forces the fermentad matter which
causes the misery into the bowels
where it is expelled. Price soc. Sold
by all druggists.
The Lamar register., 1917-03-07

After a pause she quietly remarked:
HE gives me the mine. He is going
away, do not know where. Instead
OF you, / am to be the owner OF the
mine Do you wish to marry mer
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-03-10
TELEPHONE GIRLS WIN.

Toledo, Ohio.-Telephon girls en-
ployed by the Home Telephone company
have forced this concern to acknowledge
their right to join union after four
months strike. When the girls organ
lied, four of their number were dis
charged and the others struck. They
were joined by the outside electrical
workers.
The company agrees to reinstate all
strikers without discrimination, ac-
knowledges their right to organize and
to present grievances which shall be ad-
justed by representatives of both parties.
After work is resumed the employees
shall present demands for wage increas-
eS.
The strike was dramatic one and the
Toledo organized workers wheeled be-
contributed to a strike-beneiit fund and
many of the unions carried weekly as
sessments on every member to pay the
girls All amount equal to their former
wage. The strike proved most disas-
trous to the company, which lost thou
sands of patrons. Federal Judge Kilits
issued an injunction against violence
at the request of prominent citizens who
are active in the Citizens Alliance. This
court was asked to act because the com
pany is a subsidiary of an interstate cor
poration. The unonists denounced
Judge killits for his usrrpation of d,l-
ties that belong to officials charged with
the enforcement of criminal law and
showed that his honor was more inter
ested in breaking the strike as he in
sisted that Service to the public must
not be interrupted"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-03-10
ONE REASON FOR II. C. l..

San Francisco.-The financial and
market departments of daily newspa-
pers are seldom read by workers and
the following item, published in the San
Francisco Bulletins financial section,
will be given scant attention by those
most affected by the high cost of living
"ReportS of Gamers and wholesale
men would indicate that California
farmers are exercising an unusual
amount of caution in contracting for
their 1917 crops. Remembering the op-
unities lost last year, growers are
much slower to sign up this year and a
large number are refusing contracts,
choosing to wait and see what conditions
will be later on.
"The fact that jobbers are now clean
ing up profit of from 200 to 300 per
cent on some varieties of farm pro-
duce, on account of soaring prices, is
one reason for growers to hold on for
a longer period than usual and try their
own luck.
"All of the onions that are now being
sold out by local jobbers at $3.50 per
GENITAL (hundred weighD were bought
from the growers at an average price
of 50 per GENITAL"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-03-10
EVADES CONTRACTS; MUST PAY.

Pittston, Pa.-Chares p. Neil, UNI
pire for the anthracite Cancellation
board, has ruled in favor of miners in
an eighthour dispute and that this de-
cision is retroactive, to date when the
grievance was raised
The company objected to paying the
extra money on the ground that no re-
cord had been kept of the miners earn
ings, as they had been employed on con-
tract work and that there was no way
to ascertain the exact amount of earn
ings the men were entitled to.
This position is not agreed to by Um-
pire Neill, who tells the company it
should have kept record as it must
have known, or should have known, that
if the grievance were sustained, the
question of the hours that men actually
worked in the interim would be essen
tial for the application of the decision
of the board, or of an umpire, in ac-
cordance with the retroactive rule of the
board
"To deny the retroactive feature of
this decision" the umpire says, would
obviously be to penalize men who had
patiently and peacefully waited during
a long period for orderly processes Of
settlement, and would be almost an in
vitation to repudiate such processes"
The umpire directs that the men be
paid upon the basis of eight hours work
ed each day from the time the griev-
anCp WAS raised
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-03-10
RIGHTS OF PICKETs UPHELD.

Oklahoma City, Okla-The criminal
court of appeals has discharged wom-
an who had been arrested for picketing
a struck theater in this city. The court
ruled that the law STAYS the hand of
both criminal and civil processes from
interfering with picketing or other
peaceable endeavors of labor to further
its interests in trade disputes
"'rhe trend of legal thought of mod
ern times is, that since capital, consist
ing of money and property, is organized
to further its interests labor, consist
ing of brain and muscle, may organize
and use peaceful and legitimate means to
obtain fair share in the distribution of
the earnings which are the joint pro-
duct of capital and labor"
A strike of theater employees has been
on for several months and the city COM
missioners passed an ordinance prohib
iting picketing Mrs. Evan Sweitzer,
one of the pickets, was arrested and the
unionists carried the case to the State
criminal court of appeals on habeas
corpus proceedings. In the decision,
written by Justice Brett, it is stated that !:
"ln law we cannot do indirectly that
which may be done directly, and since
the city commissioners cannot directly
prohibit picketing in the furtherance of
trade disputes, they cannot accomplish
that end indirectly or incidentally"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-03-10
GAINS BY METAL POLISHERS.

cinnati-General Secretary Ather-
ton of the Metal Polishers' international
union reports the following recent gains
New locals formed in Brooklyn, New
York city and Bedford, Mass; three
large firms in Chicago increased wages
and reduced hours; indianapolis Stove
company raises piece work rates per
cent and agrees to Saturday half holiday
from December 1 to July 81; Duffy
Trowbridge Stove Manufacturing COM
pany, Hannibal, Mo, raises wages for
piece workers per cent; eight-hour and
wage gains in Pittsburgh, Pa, and St
Louis, Mo-; Excelsior Motor Manufac-
turing and Supply company and the
Arnold Schwinn company, Chicago, both
signed union shop agreements with 5
per cent increases and ninehour day;
Engman & Matthews Range company,
South Bend, Ind, signed agreement for
wage increases, division of work in slack
times and 51-hour week; Pangborn Plat
ing Works, Los Angeles, Cal, settled
strike of metal poishers by discharging
all 5trikebreakers, union to select new
foreman, eight-hour day, shop commit
tee recognized and a wage of $3.50 a
day to be paid; Quincy, ILL.,, stove man
ufacturers raise wages 10 per cent;
Northern Ohio Plating company. CleVe-
land, recognizes union for first time and
signs agreement.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-03-10
STATE CARPENTERS MEET.

Worcester, Mass-A successful con-
vention of the state branch, Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners, was held in
this city, John Morgan of Boston was
elected president and A. J. Bromley of
Springfield, secretary The latter city
was selected as the next meeting place.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-03-10
FARM JOURNAL UNIONIZED.

Des Moines, Iowa-The Homestead
Company, publishers of the Iowa Home
stead farm journal, has signed an agree
ment to unionizc its composing room
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-03-10
TO RAISE AWARD ON DEATH.

Columbus Ohio.-The state senate
has passed the Cunningham bill which
increases the maximum death award
from the state workmen's compensation
fund from $3.50 to $1,000.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-03-10
CITY FIREMEN ORGANIZE.

Galveston, Texas. - Galveston's fire
fighters have organized and affiliated to
the American Federation of Labor. This
organization, it is stated, is the hrst OF
its kind in the south.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-03-10
ASK 10 PER CENT INCREASE,

Richmond, Va-Painters and Paper
Hangers union has asked employers to
increase wages 10 per cent, or to So
a day for painters and $3.50 for paper
hangers
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-03-10

Dubuque, Iowa.-Municipal firemen
have or ganized and are chartered by
the American Federation of Labor as
CITY Firemen's union No. 15,43l.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-03-15
Sporting News

The Fort Morgan five defeated the
Akron basketball quintet in the final
game OF the season at Fort Morgan
Colo, by score of 90 TO !.
Rupert Mills. the big first sackcr
obtained by the Grizzlies from DE
troi', sent in his signed contract for
1917 to Secretary Eppstein OF tho
Denver Baseball club.
George II. Howell, formerly Iowa
tennis doubles champion, died nj
Sioux City after n long illness. How,
ellis death is attributed TO an injury
received while playing tennis twelve
years ago
The American Grcotcrs bowling
team Of Denver rolled in the singles
and doubles In the A Il, {. at Grand
Rapids Mich Il smith was hIEh In
the squad with 577 Lester Palmer
was next with 563. The balance OF
the scores In the sInElcs were In the
money.
Frank A. Marshall. the American
chess champion, created what IL be-
licycd to be new record for stimuli,
tanoous play ut Buffalo. y, Y. Mar
shall played against IA local players,
Including one woman and five chill
drcn. Tho best previous record known
was 1879 Marshall lost one game and
drew twelve
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-03-15
PERSIA IS RICH IN OIL FIELDS
That's Why Three Of the Big BeI!ig.
erent Nations Are After IT.
Fields Only Scratched.

A three-cornered rush for Persia has
been on since the beginning of the
great war. The Germans, by hurry
Ing their Bagdad line, sought to reach
the haplcss Asian Kingdom. Russia,
which once had maintained a virtual
protcctoratc over Persia, made hard
drive against the Turks in an effort to
keep Persia from being ovcrrun. The
British got in the rush and launched
their Mcsopotamian expedition. Per.
STA had suddenly become exceedingly
valuable. Why?
The report Of the Anglo-Persian OIL
company Utd.) in London few days
ago seems to contain the explanation.
c. Grccnway, chairman and mana ging
director of the company, stated that
the company's accrued dividends
amounted TO considerably more than
100000. Tcn-Inch pipe lines had been
completed that permitted the ship
mcnt of 3G0,OOO,0O0 gallons OF oil
year, and additional pumping stations
arc planned that will raise this TO
100000 tons. But the really signih.
cant statement was that the fields had
merely been scratched and that they
gave promise Of furnishing enough oil
to fill large portion, If not the
whole, of Great Brtain's enormous de-
mand for petroleum products.
Mr.. Grccnwny stated that it had be-
come II matter of the highest impo-
rial importance" to safeguard the de
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Minor Mention.

A class in citizenship for allies has
been formed at Colorado Springs
Ben Hurmore, 20, formerly Of Butte.
Mont. killed himself in a Denver
rooming house.
President Wilson is reported con.
sidering E. p. Costigan of Denver for
a place on the Tariff Board.
A rifle shoot, to rouse interest in
better preparedness along these lines
will be held at Littleton on Memorial
Day.
Pueblo police were asked TO assist
In the search for an escaped convict
registered at the institution under the
name of Bridges
Forty have applied for the place a.
superintendent of the Pueblo public
schools made vacant by the resigna,
ton of F. ID. SLUT.
Thomas Hale Potter, one Of the
early settlers OF Central City and for
merly prominent banker and mining
man, died in Detroit.
'co'i'S idiuS III .NOlln denver To
suited in twelve persons being taken
to jail and large quantity of whisky
and beer confiscated.
Word of the death OF Thomas Hale
Potter. 10, pioneer mining man and
banker of Colorado, at Detroit, Mich,
was received in Denver.
Miss Mabel Kee, nurse at the
Longmont hospital. was possibly fata!,
ly injured in an auto accident nine
miles west of Longmont.
f. X. Harper, who recently resigned
as state insurance commissioner, left
for New York, from which place he
Will sail for Dutch Guiana.
The Wayside Inn, roadhouse west
OF Englewood. will soon close perma,
nently, according to District Attorney
Samuel w. Johnson OF Littleton.
Pueblo police have been asked to
locate man who wrote check on
defunct bank and then had the
nerve to pass 1t In a business trans
action.
A resolution TO hereafter disregard
absolutely the State Industrial Com.
mission was unanimously adopted at
meeting of Denver Typographical
! Union No. 40.
Changes are pending in the railway
mail service in and out OF Denver In
pursuance of the plan OF the Post.
! office Department to reorganize the
service throughout the country.
Hogs, Liz carloads of them. and
valued at not less than sl.G50,OOO,
were shipped out of the San Luis val
ley during the past year, according to
report made TO the State Immigra.
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About the War

Berlin says sixteen hostile aircraft
brought down in France.
Bagdad capture includes two.thirds
of Turkish army's artillery,
London reports bringing down nine
German airplanes in France.
French drive back Germans on
l,5O0mctcr front, taking prisoners
Pctrograd reports routing OF Turks
in Persia, driving them to HadJiabad.
The rcpulse OF an Austrian attack
northeast OF Lenzumo In the Tren'
tino, is announced by the Rome war
office.
The First New Mexico infantry will
be mustered out at Columbus abou;
March 20, and the First Arizona in,
fantry at Douglas the same date.
Mosopotamia Is now encIrclcd by
three great forces of entente forces,
whose lines are tightening and driy.
ing the Turks farther toward the tip
OF Asia embraced in Anatolia.
The Berlin official report for March
- nNhl'H lAhl fsfNNV N'lla VI NhHil'hN
were sunk. Together with the re-.
ports OF March and s, this gives II
total OF more than $4,000 tons.
The entente military forces on the
various fronts lost ninety one air.
planes during February AS compared
with twcntysfour lost by the Germans,
army headquarters announced AZ Der.
lin.
An armed guard" for the protoc
ton OF vessels and lives OF persons
aboard will be placed on all Amcrl
can merchant ships sailing through
Germany's barred area, the state DE.
partmont notified all foreign diplo
mats In Washington
Keeping up their strong offensive
against the Turks along the Tigris
river, the British forces under Gen
Maudc have captured the important
city OF BHgdad, thereby bringing to a
successful climax an operation begun
early In 1915.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-03-15

James w Gerard former American
ambassador TO Germany, reached Key
West. Fla. Monday from Havana, and
after brief rest left for Washington
Foreign
The fall of Bagdad caused the great
est surprise in Berlin and Vienna.
Ten million killed, wounded and
captured is the toll OF the European
war
Gen. Carranza issued decree re.
establishing the capital OF the repub
lie in Mexico City.
Count Won Bernstorif. former Ger.
man ambassador at Washington, ar.
rived at Christiania.
Carlos Jaeger, Brazilian consul gen.
cral IN Vienna, committed suicide fol
lowing an abortive attempt at selfde
s'ruction by his wife, according to an
Amsterdam dispatch.
a Pekin dispatch to Reuters says
that the House OF Representatives at
secret session. approved the govern,
mont's diplomatic policy, including Il
rupture with Germany
official Information was received at
London 10 the effect that the Norwo.
gian steamer Storstad, n Belgian re,
lief ship, which had one American
citizen on board, had been sunk by u
submarine.
a statement by the japanese for
ci.n minister expressing the nations
regret ut the death OF George W
Guthrie. American ambassador to
Toxic, was cablcd TO the state Depart
mcnt by the American embassy.
Laden with presents showcred upon
them by the Swiss. nty nine OF the
NArrowdalc prisoners arrived In ~
rich. Switzerland. Although omaciat
cd from their imprisonment and lack
OF food since their arrival IN Germany
on Dec. 81, they are In fair condition
After announcing the fail OF Bagdad
IN the House OF Commons, Andrew
Bonar Law. chancellor OF the ex
chcqucr, said there waF every reason
TO believe that twothirds OF tn,
Turks artillery had fallen into tho
hands OF the British or had been
thrown into the Tlgfis
In u Paris boarding house kept by
nuns now lives the peasant girl who
has stirred the Imagination Of the
French by her declaration that. like
Joan OF Arc. she has seen Visions AMI
heard voices commanding her TO rls,
NJ and guide the soldiers OF France Ia
victory and the dcliycraucc OF hoi
country She IL magomosoIlc Per
chHud. 90 Year, Of age, daughter Of
farmer OF the department OF L.
Ncndcs
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-03-15
GRAIN STOCKS SLUMP
STOCKS ON FARMS MARCH
SHOW BIG DECREASE.
Wheat Drops Million Bushels Below
1861. S. Report Shows That
Prices Are Higher.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-A summary OF the March
crop report for Colorado as compiled
by the Bureau of Crop Estimates
United States Department OF Agricul.
ture, is as follows:
Wheat-Estimated stocks on farms
March /, 100000 bushels, compared
with 3.lG7.O00 a year ago, and 2.03G..
900 two years ago. Price March / to
producers, Sl.50 per bushel. compared
with 81 cents year ago, and 3l.20
two years ago.
Corn-Estimated stocks March l,
100000 bushels, compared with T.,
$4,000 year ago, and i,O3S,000 two
years ago. Price March ! to produc,
ers, 81 cents per bushel, compared
with IS cents year ago and GS cents
two years ago.
The percentage OF the 1916 corn
crop which was of merchantable quail
ity is estimated at so per cent, com
pared with GO per cent OF the 1915
crop, and 81 per cent of the 1914 crop
Oats Estimated stocks March !
1900 900 bushels, compared with g.
$4,000 a year ago. and 100000 two
years ago. Price March ! to produc
ers. Go cents per bushel, compared
with As cents a year ago, and As cents
two years ago.
Barley-Estimate stocks March /.
100000 bushels. compared with
100000 a year ago. and ,03l 600 two
years ago Price March ! to produc
ers. So cents per bushel. compared
with 80 cents "A year ago. and 60 cents
two years ago.
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COLORADO STATE NEWS

ton Commission by Charles Erdman
secretary OF the San Luis Valley Hog
Growers Association.
Mrs. Sarah Edwards Quinn, mother
of Mrs NJ V. Gallaher, one OF the
pioneer settlers OF the Nineland dis
trict, died at the home OF her daugh
ter, Mrs. Edward S. Warner, Rock
vale, Mont.
Raymond NJ. Lowe, born in Greeley
in 1882, is being held in Java, unable
to get back to the United States be
cause the authorities will not issue
him a passport until his American
citizenship is established.
Four times around the world and
half way around on the fifth trip is
the achievement of Bernard Swacken
berg, the oldest mail carrier of the
Pueblo force, who celebrated his sew
enty-scconG birthday anniversary.
Mrs. James B. Grant Of Denver has
decided to be a candidate at the com
ing election by the national society OF
the Daughters of the American Revo
luton for the vice presidency of the
order The election will be held In
Washington in April.
Protests against war and against
the high cost of living were voiced at
meeting of the Denver branch OF
Association. otherwise known as the
Migratory and Casual Workers, al
the Club building in Denver.
The general appropriation bills
have been completed by the appro.
priatlons committee and presented to
the House. They carry general ap
propriations of s3,O00,O00 and allow
the governor $4,000 for enforcing the
prohibition laws as against $4,000 al.
lowed two years ago.
BY hitting the bullseye with unerr.
ing SIKH from the standing, kneeling
or sitting position, Robert NJ. Lind
say OF Denver has qualified as 4
sharpshooter in the United States Ma.
rine corps, winning the medal of a
sharpshooter and an increase of pay,
according to an official bulletin from
Washington.
The Mountain States Lumber Deal
eTs' Association has contributed 81, O61
to date to the fund organized by Her.
bert Hoover Tor the feeding of the
homeless and disposscssed children in
Belgium. according to Il. d. Mundell
secretary CT the organization.
That the French government is plan
ming to buy 10000 tons of Colorado
coal month for an indefinite period
was disclosed in Denver by stve
agents of the French government who
are in Chicago to buy Illinois coal
which will be shipped with that from
Colorado.
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Washington

Mobilization Of the complete fight
inr strength Of the navy has been
recommended by naval officials
Every amateur wireless station In
the United states viii be dismanticd
by order OF the President. u war
Gomez
Navy recruiting continues to show
O great increase For the first ,lght
days In March tho net gain was 5lG
men
Formulation Tor clearance uf tho
French liner Roehambcau from ~
York. the first bclligrrrnt merchant.
man 10 arrive IN an American hatbor
with guns mounted fore. rs well AZ
aft, WAS granted by the state Depart.
mcnt
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Find Woman Guilty Of Perjury.

Buena Nista.-Mary Lena Vaughn,
a pretty 20-year.old woman, who was
tried in the District Court here on q
charge OF perjury. was found guilty by
jury after being out only two hours
Mrs. Vaughn. according to the evi.
dence, committed perjury at the July
term of the District Court. held here,
when she was battling for alimony,
during the suit OF her husband for
divorce.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-03-15
Progressive Strikes May Begin 17tt

New York, March li.-lnformation
received by the national conference
committee, composed OF managers OF
the great railway systems indicates
that the four employees brothcrhoods
have completed arrangements for a
progressive series of strikes to begin
at 9 O'Clock, Eastern time. on Satur.
day night, II the conference on the
eight.hour question here Thursday
fails to reach a satisfactory agree.
mont