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The Coconino sun., 1918-06-28
CoRNyILLE ITEMS.
The weather is very hot here.
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The weather is very hot here.
 Only one or two little showers so far this year.
 The farmers have their hay crop up in good shape and all are ready for the rainy season to begin.
 c. s. Chick, the Cornville postmas- ter, has leased what was formerly the Fain ranch for term of years from the present owner, Major Migley.
 Dr. Suit of Clarkdale was in our vicinity a few days ago in attendance on Edgar Lee, who has typhoid fever.
 Ray Stuck is expected home on July 1st to visit with Mrs. Stuck and the little Sucks a few days: Mir. Stuck is employed on the Santa Fe near Phoenix.
 The Valley people and the board of supervisors at Prescott are having some scrap over the proposed Verde bridge at Thompson's crossing. The Valley people inmagine there is a nig- ger in the wood pile and propose to find a way to get him out.
 Farm produce in the way of vege- tables is in big demand in the mining camps of the Verde country and is bringing enormous prices. It seems that the supply is far below the de- mand
 Ray Dickinson has rented his Oak Creek ranch and gone back to the saddle, rope and spurs for his uncle F. l.. Dickinson.
 J. D. Forbes of Spring Creek has sold his truck ranch and will start soon with his family for Oklahoma tc stay-he says for long time.
 During Liberty Bond days thu Clarkdale band of fourteen pieces anC about twenty automobile loads came over to Oak. Creek with number of speakers. They furnished some good music, while the speakers talked the Oak Checkers into buying betweer $1 ,000 and $1 ,50O worth of bonds Then came the Clarkdale Red Crosi and got about $100 more. Still we art not broke. We are always ready t "dig" for the comfort of our boys Il the trenches, and above all things t whip that beast, Kaiser Bill.
 David Stewart, Ed. Barney and Jo Loy, all Oak Creek ranchers, are nov driving brand new Overland trucks This looks good for the prosperity O the neighborhood.
 Our boys are constantly going t the training camp. Only a very fev are left. By another year, it seems they will all be gone. We wonde when they will return.
 Soon lower Oak Creek will have new school district, at the lower en' of the valley.
 There will be bumper peach crol in the Valley this year. The appl crop is also above the average. w also have nice lot of strawberries but couldn't halfway supply the de mand.
 The range is awfully dry, but cat tie are still in good shape. We hop it will rain soon.
 AN OAK CREEKER.
The Coconino sun., 1918-06-28
Three Little Strangers Arrive.

Sidney Gassman has every reason to be thankful to the stork which left him a dainty little girl last Friday. Both MT. and Mrs. Gassman appre- ciate the present very much and their friends hope that they continue to live here.
 The home of Gus Jakle was bright ened up very much by the arrival of a brand new little soldier boy, who was welcome visitor.
 Charles Prochnow's home found room for another little girl and there is rejoicing over her coming last Wednesday. This makes number eleven at their house, and there is not bad one in the whole lot; every one of them 100 per cent American, too.
The Coconino sun., 1918-06-28

Wheat-corn bread is more nutritious than bread baked with wheat flour alone. Thousands of American fam flies today are using this mixed noui bread, and in so doing are enabling America to provide more wheat hour for the allies. Here's tested recipe for this bread: Take one and half cups of milk, water or a mixture of the two; one-half cake compressed yeast, one and a half teaspoons salt one tablespoon sugar, one tablespoon of fat if desired, one cup cornmeal and two cups wheat flour.
 Put one and a half cups of water the cornmeal, salt, sugar and fat Qi ussd) Into a double boiler and cool twenty minutes. The water is sufn ciept only to soften the meal little Allow the meal to cool to about thu temperature of the room and add thu -four and yeast mixed with the res of the water. Knead thoroughly make into loaf. place in pan of stand ard sixe, allow to rise until neari! fills the pan and bake 4b or b0 min Iutes. It is hardly practicable to us a greater percentage of cornmeal thai Ithis even in emergencies, for bread s made differs very little from bake mush. Less cornmeal can bs use' and in sucn a case the general meth Tod Riyen above may be followed.
 It is possible to make yeast raise Icorn bread without first cooking tn corumsal. Tn this case not more thal one cupfulsof meal should be used t four cupfuls of flour. In other re spects the bread is mixed and bake e in ths above recipe.
The Coconino sun., 1918-06-28
Easy Enough.

Jack Tar, on leave, visited circus in his native town. During the per- formance a very comedy young woman lion-tamer entered the lions cage, beckoned a savage monster to her, and made it take piece of sugar from her lips. :, ibly.
 The fair lion-tamer overheard. "Could you?" she said. :,
 "Rather-rr!" said Jack jauntily. "Ouite as well as the lion."
The Coconino sun., 1918-06-28
EvAps aloIp FOOD CONTROL.
Food ls Bought In Germany surreptl- tIousIy In Violation of Auto
 cratic Rullnpa.

Even the autocratic food control or Germany has been powerless to pre- vent surreptitious sales, according to semi-official reports reaching the Unit ed States food administration. Illegal sales of butter are being made in Ger many at prices ranging from SLID to $2.25 pound. Eggs sold contrary to the German food regulations are bringing 10 to IS cents apiece, accord ing to these reports. And bacon or ham Is bringing from s2.25 to $Ss26 q pound.
The Coconino sun., 1918-06-28
Five Mountain Lions Killed Bring
 c1 OS0

Five mountain lions have been killed
 recently along the Santa Maria river which brought over S1,250 to Joe Shutters and Jesse Moore, two expert hunters and trappers who follow this line of business.
 Payment was made under a pool agreement by Mullen & Shultz, the D' G. Cattle Co.,, the Arizona Cattle Co, the o. X. Cattle Co.,, and a group of four individuals, each contributing
The Coconino sun., 1918-06-28
The InsniratiOn.

Bank Cashier-What is your name? Indignant Customer-Dont you see my signature? Cashier-Yes, that's what aroused my curiosity.
The Coconino sun., 1918-06-28

Secretary Baker says S00,000 of our boys have gone to the front. Help bring them back quickly by saving to the utmost of your ability and buying War Savings Stamps.
The Coconino sun., 1918-06-28
Why Shortage ExIsts.

The three great sugar producing cen ters of the world are Germany, the West and East Indies. German sugar is, of course, used at home. The East Indian sugar is unavailable because Of the ship shortage.
 While U boats made big inroads oz the worlds shipping, France and Italy ceased to be self sustaining in sugar manufacture England in the mean. time was cut of from German sugar 1.4OO, GOO tons year-becsuss of the war. The result has been mat the al- lied nations have been forced to turn to America and the West Indies for their sugar.
The Coconino sun., 1918-06-28

Pro-Germans probably think the War Savings campaign foolish one.
The Coconino sun., 1918-06-28

If the men in our army and navy can do without luxuries we at home certainly can.
The Coconino sun., 1918-06-28
Effect on Military Situation.

American sugar stocks could be fill- ed to normal very soon If ships could be sent to Java, where 250,O0O tons of sugar IS waiting for shipment. But the shipping situation is so acute that the nation cannot spare the eleven ships needed to transport this sugar. It would take the boats one year to haul 250.00O tons. In the same time they could be used for transporting POO, 900 soldiers to France.
 The food administration believes that the American public will diminish its sugar consumption by 10 or 15 per cent. when 1t is made clear that such sugar saving is patriotic act and when 1t is understood that there are plenty of sweeteners available te take the place of sugar, such as honey or corn syrup.
The Coconino sun., 1918-06-28
SUGAR CONTROL
 SAVED MILLIONS
American Consumer Profited by S180,OO0, ,0O0-French Situ-
 ation Helped.
HOME PRICE HELD AT g CENTS.
This Nations Sugar Supply Reduced
 to Seventy Per Cent. of Normal. Java Stocks Unavailable.


 Sugar control has saved the Amer ican public SlS0,OO0,O0 Herbert Hoov- CT, United States food administrator, declared the other day.
 He pointed out that sugar was sell ing for Il cents pound last August and that it would have advanced to 2o cents a pound, with the world snort age as a stimulus, had not the food administration secured the co-opera- ton of the refiners and wholesalers and fixed sugar price that today en- ables housewives to buy sugar at from 8h to 9 cents a pound.
 "Every l cent raise In sugar from September l to January means SlS,- 100000 to the American consumer, Mir. Hoover said. Numbers of gen tlemen will tell you that 20 cent sugar would have prevailed and the public robbed of S1SO, 100000 this year if we had not taken these actions" Later Mir. Hoover called attention to the fact that uncontrolled sugar advanced to B5 cents pound during the Civil War.
 France Got Our Sugar.
 Today the American public has been allotted 70 per cent. of It's normal sup. ply. Before the war the average an nual household consumption here was 55 pounds a person. In England the annual consumption during the war Is 24 pounds, and in France each person is allotted a little over one pound a month.
 "In August the French government found itself unable to maintain even this ration," MT. Hoover declared. "An appeal was made to America. France needed 100000 tons. We agreed to fill this demand and up to December had shipped S5,426 tons. In the meantime an appeal was made to the American public to reduce its sug- ar consumption, and requests were made to distributors to supply the confectionery and sweet drinks trade with 50 per cent. of normal supply. This has been generally followed, al- though such regulations were volun- tary, as the food administration had no authority to impose them." ! Domestic Price is sH to 9 Gents. Retail grocers throughout the coun- l try are supposed to take profit of no more than 50 cents hundred---half a | cent a pound--on sugar. By reason of 1 food administration regulations. bind ing refners and wholesalers, the re- taller Is able today to buy sugar at from to 8h cents pound. This enables him to sell to the housewife al Sh to 9 cents pound.
 1 There have been some violations of the sugar rulings. Mir. Hoover said l recently: "Sales of sugar from 16 tC 20 cents per pound have been reported and followed up vigorously and stop ped and Is evidence itself of the price; at which consumers would have beer mulct had we not intervened. We have forfeited wholesalers licenses in az gravated cases, and we have issued warnings to first offenders In grea many instances through our local ad mlnistrators."
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Says y. S. Should Have
Sent Troops to Russia

IF the United States had sent troops
to Russia at the time we entered the
war, instead of allowing the Socialists
of New York to go there and poison
the minds OF the Russian people
against us chaos would not be existing
IN Russia to-day, and Russia would be
lighting with the Allies"
This statement was made last night
by the Rev K. Rudd, former United
States army chaplain, who recently re-.
turned from Russia after stay Of a
year on diplomatic mission for this
government. Captain Rudd was the
principal speaker at the Washington
Birthday patriotic services held at the
Church of St. Anne's on~the- Heights,
in Brooklyn. In the audience were the
British Consul, Give c. Bayley. the
members of his staff, officers Of the
Twenty third Regiment, N. G. N. Y, and
representatives of the Sons and Daugh-
ters of st. George.
CAPTAIN Rudd said that Germany
would get no war aid from Russia, her
self Impoverished and lacking in con-
per, nickel and other material for
munitions manufactures. He added
however, that if Germany were allowed
to retain the portions of Russia ceded
by the provisional government in the
recent peace pact the nations of the
world would be at Germany's feet
within ten years. He declared the
Allies were determined to prevent this
possibility, even if it required a war
after this war.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25

ate desire to defend Socialist Petro-
grad by all means and to ward off at
s-tacks made against it. The appeal of
the Council of Commissioners, begin
ming The Socialist Fatherland is in
danger, has caused an outburst Of en-
. thusiasm among the masses.
enrolment of large numbers of
volunteers has begun. In few days
there will be under arms not less than
diers. Special regiments are being
. formed, consisting of Socialist ma
tionals from Esthorian, Lettish and
: Mussulman regiments in Petrograd.
These Socialist regiments will be called
Regiments of Defence of the Socialist
Fatherland. Many women are express
ing their desire to be armed and lend
their aid to fighters marching against
: the Germans and supporters of Gen
eraf Kaledine.
ut is the same in the towns of Kiev,
Moscow and Pskof."
Petrograd Under Martial Law
Petrograd was placed under martial
law to-day. The following proclama-
ton was issued by the general staff Of
the Fetrograd military district
81 The city of Petrograd is declared
to be under martial law.
go. All persons caught in the act of
stealing, pillaging. attempting expro-
prlation, or otherwise committing rep
rehensible deeds will4be shot without
pity by detaehments o1 the revolution
"3 Every individual organization or
institution not having special permis
sion must hand over to the Council of
Soldiers and Workmens Delegates of
the district all bombs, grenades, pro-
Jectiles and other explosives, which the
Soldiers and Workmen's Delegates will
send to army depots Every person
WHO does not conform within forty
eight hours with this paragraph will
be declared an outlaw.
"A All journals and other organs of
the press are obliged strictly to verify
all news given regarding the activities
Of the government, as we'll as informa-
ton coming from the theatre of war
The extraordinary general staff gives
rotlce that refusal to submit in all re-
spects to this order Will involve sup
preston of the offending journal and
the arrest of the editor and his COL
laborators.
To Suppress War Profiteering
g. Documents dealing with produce
arriving or which has arrived or is re-
tsined in Petrograd or its environs must
be presented to the extraordinary gen
eral staff. All produce will be paid for
at rates fixed by the food controller
Any person who refuses to submit to
this order or is convicted Of concealing
provisions will be shot as a specuator
"6. Counter revolutionary agitators,
German spies and other persons who
rise against the government of revolu-
tlonary Russia will be shot
-. All orders issued by the extraor-
dlnary general staff enter into force
On the day of publication in the press
organ OF the government.
S, All newspapers are compelled to
publish the orders of the extraordinary
general staff in heavy type on the first
page"
In consequence Of the declaration of
state of siege six of the most i'm
portant Petrograd newspapers, which
opposed the authority of the Soldiers
and Workmen's Delegates, have been
suppressed. If attempts are made to
reissue them the entire stats will be
arrested. The proprietors are ordered
to pay full wages to the workmen dur
ing the period of suppression.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Papers,
Abusing Germany,
Arouse Pruss;Qns

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 24.-The German
papers comment on the relations be-
tween Germany and Austria, which APP
parently are becoming quite strained
The "Tages Zeiting" contrasts the
abuse of Germany in Austria in con-
nection with the Ukrainian treaty
with the praise bestowed on Count
Czernin, the Austro Hungarian For
eign Minister. The paper tries to dis
cover the motives of the Vienna Off
clal news agency in publishing the
Polish manifesto rejecting upon Ger
many, which has given great offence,
and comes to the conclusion that the
Austrian censorship by its attitude all
along has failed to show appreciation
of Germany's interests. The paper
adds:
at is time that We point out most
emphatcaly how such incidents are
cndangering the friendly relations be-
tween the two countries"
The Hamburger Nachrichten" saws:
"Ihe present attitude of certain Aus
trian newspapers is decidedly not cal
Culated to make the feeling in Ger
many toward Austria any more
friendlV"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Russian Collapse
Due to Allies, Says
Embassy Attache
Lieut.. Com. Piotrowsky
Bitterly Complains Of
Lack of Cooperation

Russia is in state of collapse to-
day because of lack of understanding
and cooperation on the part of her al
lies"
This statement was made in bitter
ness yesterday afternoon by Lieutenant
Gregory V. Piotrowsky, assistant naval
attache to the Russian Embassy in this
country. He spoke in st. Marks Epis-
copal Church, Tenth Street and Second
Avenue
"You Anglo Saxons have never taken
US Slavs seriously" Lieutenant Pio-
trowsky declared. "When we entered
this war you paid no attention to us,
apparently because you thought we
were entirely lacking in democratic
spirit.
During the early days of the war
Russians participated on the Eastern
front in some of the most tremendous
battles the world has ever known. Yet
In your papers and in those of England
and France those battles were barely
mentioned. You were interested only
in France and in Belgium
"Not only have you misunderstood
Russia, you did not understand the
Poles and Bohemians any better. When
they roted in the streets to delay mob
lllzatlon of the Teutonic armies, and
when they SURRENDERED IN entire regi-
ments and went over to the side of the
Russians, did you praise them for their
spirit? You did not. You only criti-
cised their lack Of organization.
And even after America, upon
whose support and understanding we
relied most, had officially become our
ally, there was still lack of coopera-
tion," Lieutenant Piotrowsky declared.
For lack OF that cooperation on the
part Of her allies, Russia has col
lapsed."
In the first years of the war, Lieu
tenant Piotrcwsky was in the Russian
aviation service. He participated in
the capture of Trebizond in 1916, and
several times was honorably mentioned
for daring and gallantry in the air.
"We Russian soldiers went out to
fight the Germans, hating them not
only as outside foes, but also as in
ternal enemies" he declared yesterday
"For centuries our country has been
ruled. not by Russians, but by Ger
mans and by mobiles Of German descent.
They were imported by the weak
monarchs who followed Peter the
Great. During the seventeenth century
they became so autocratic that they
refused to allow the educated Russian
mobiles to travel; would not let them
speak in public, and sometimes had
them executed for wearing English or
French clothes, or for even carrying
articles from those two countries.
THAT is the reason why the war
was popular in Russia back in 1914.
Russians. like all Slavs. are bv nature
democratic. They hate to be ruled and
do not care to rule anybody else. Their
government has been autocratic be-
cause the Germans made it so. For
centuries they have regarded it as for
eign rule"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Gompers Tells of
German Oyerture.
Hun Socialist, Pro-War, Tried
to lnveigie United States
Labor Into Deal

News that Germany is preparing to
angle for another international con.
ference of workers" to discuss peace
came yesterday from Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor. Karl Legien, head of the
Federated Trades Union of Germany, a
Social Democrat leader in the Reichs.
tag and pro-war Socialist, is sending
the invitations. Mr.. Gompers would
have nothing to do with the scheme.
1t was very recently" Mr. Gompers
said, that the invitation had reached
him, having been forwarded by NJ.
Oudergast, OF Amsterdam, a labor
leader of the Netherlands. After it had
been referred to the executive council
Of the American Federation of Labor
Mr.. Gompers, at the direction of the
council, replied that if any such con.
representatives of American labor
which now was occupied with the task
Of beating the Kaiser.
Similar invitations. it is understood,
were sent to labor leaders Of France
and Great Britain. Mr. Gompers de.
ciined to say whether he knew what re.
sponse had been made
1t was to this invitation, Mr.. Comp.
ers said, that he had reference in his
speech at the Washington's Birthday
labor meeting when he said:
And let me say to you that, talking
of international conferences with rep
resentatives OF the enemy countries, we
are not going to permit ourselves to be
lulled into false sense of security
and, under the guise of radicalism, go
back hundred years. Why, he
halser's minions would not give a pass.
port to any one unless he would carry
out the policy Of the autocracy of Ger
many.
Then shall we meet in council with
these men, gaining from us our cor
hdence, swerving US from the path of
duty. trying to influence us that the
government of these democracies are,
after all. only capitalistic? | have said,
and say IN the name of the Ameri- {
can labor movement: You can't talk
peace with Us now. You can't talk in
ternatlonal conferences with US now.
t.lther you smash your autocracy or,
by the gods, We will smash it for you.
Before you talk peace terms get back
from France, get back from Belgium.
INTO Germany, and then we will talk
DeaceN
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Fighting Near Brenta
Grows More Intense

LONDON, Feb. 24.-Activity in the
Italian theatre of war operations was
concentrated to-day on the region east
of the upper B B1enta River. Berlin re-
ported that the Italians attacked Col
Caprile yesterday evening, but were re-
pulsed by the Austro German fire.
The Rome official statement did not
refer to this attack but it said both the
Allied and the enemy artillery in the
sector concentrated their fire at GER
tam points. 1t was also stated that the
bombardment grew more intense and
harassing in the Giudicaria region. on
the Aslago Plateau, and in the vicinity
Oh the Val Dobbiadepe and of Montello.
scouting parties fought minor en-
gagements along the middle Pjave
Italians on patrol at Capo Sile. at the
upper end of the Piave delta, brought
back a few prisoners.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
German Aims will F all,
Says Cardinal Gibbons
Schemes Conceived in Passion and Fomented by lawess
Ambition Are Doomed to Leave Ruin and Desc
laton after Them, He Declares

BALTIMORE, Feb. 24.-Germanys
empire vanish as completely as the
aspirations of the Roman Expire, said
Cardinal Gibbons in his sermon at the
Cathedral here to-day. The present
war, he told the vast congregation
which filled the edfice, is striking
illustration of the fact that schemes
conceived in passion and fomented by
lawless ambition are doomed"
Reviewing the growth of Christian
ity, which, he declared, will "overcome
the forces of evil to-day as it had in
the past" Cardinal Gibbons said:
"Let US transport ourselves in spirit
to the dawn of the Christian era and
stand on one of pagan Rome's seven
hills. We see that immense city teem-
ing with a population, according to the
estimate Of Gibbons, Of about 3,0O0,-
600 inhabitants. And as an evidence
that the highest intellectual attain
ments do not protect a man from the
most degrading superstition and gross
est vices, those people are given up to
every species of idolatry. They wor-
The seas and rivers, the mountains
and groves have their tutelary dvin-
tiles.
Rome the Focus of Idolatry
"Rome was the focus of the idolatry
practiced throughout the empire. What
might say of Rome | might affirm of
the Roman Empire and what / affirm
of the Roman Empire l could assert of
the civilized WORLD for Rome was mis-
tress Of the world"
The quick growth OF Christianity