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ssAvEs sEAMAN'S LIFE
Amateur Surgeon Amputates Leg
With Clasp Knife.
Steward 10 Decorated for One Of Most
Brave and Remarkable Deeds
Of the War.

London.-For amputating mans
leg with claspknife but still saving
his life. Alfred William Furneux, a
chief steward In the mercantile marine,
has been decorated by the king. The
story Of his heroic conduct and skill
form one Of the most remarkable of
the many tnles told since the beginning
of the war. The following is IN ac-
count of the services for which he re-
ceived the Albert medal In gold:
In April, 1017, the steamship in
which Mr.. Furneaux was serving was
torpedoed by the enemy, and the legs
Of Lascar, who was on the spot
where certain deck plates had buckIed
and broken. were caught so firmly be-
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New Mexico.

The Lincoln Oil Company Of Oscuro
was incorporated with capitalization
of $250.00O.
The usual bullion shipment was
made from the Mogollon Mines Co.
Changes have been made In power dis
tribution and forty stamps are now
being run continuously.
Crushing machinery is beginning to
arrive at the Socorro plant. The ma
chine shop, blacksmith and carpenter
chops. store room and laboratories are
complete and the steel head frame and
ore bins are nearly finished.
The Oaks Company has let a con-
tract on connection drift between
the Central shaft and the Maud mine.
Two shifts are being worked. Ship
ments were made from Mogollon from
the Maud s., Eberle and Clifton mines.
The Toltec people, drilling their sec.
ond well north of Roswell, are down
1000 feet, and have passed through
ITS feet of oil sand which they claim
showed no quantity OF oil. They .x.
pect production about 2,40O to $500
feet.
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tween the plates that he would have
gone down with the ship. Mr.. Fur
neaux, however, went to the mans as
sistance and managed to get one leg
out, but the other was nearly severed
through above the knee. Finding II
impossible to pull the leg out. Mr.. Fur
neaux amputated 1t with nm ordinary
clasp knife and then carried the man
to n boat.
When In the boat he dressed the
wound as well as possible and give
the life belt he was wearing to the
wounded man. Mr.. Furneaux also rem
dered first MD In the boat to another
Lnscnr who was badly scnlded. Mr..
Furneaux was in imminent danger Of
losing his life in rendering the serv-
ice.
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Miss Frances Hawthorne Brady,
daughter of Thomas Grayson Brady Of
Washington. ID. c.. is the first and only
woman on the staff of the director gen.
eral of railroads, william G. McAdoo.
Miss Brady's capabilities make her
n most handy person in any organiza-
tion where directing ability and crea-
tive ideas are needed. Miss Brady
was selected because of the ability and
efficiency she has shown in Liberty
loan work in the treasury. She is the
second appointee of Mr.. McAdoo as
director general Of railroads.
Since leaving finishing school in
Washington Miss Brady has been
prominent in all the affairs of the
younger set, but when the war started
she felt the call for patriotic duty and
offered her services to the government.
Gilpin observer., 1918-03-14
Wyoming.

Wyoming Chemical Products Com.
pany OF Casper is new incorporation
capitalized at 100000.
The Springer OIL and Gas Company
OF Torrington. capitalized at 100000
has been chartered in Wyoming.
Fort Steele Petroleum Company will
start operations on 5000 acres in the
Shirley basin and Flat Top sections.
Buckeye OIL Company has been in
corporated under the laws Of Wyo-
ming with an authorized capital Of S2,.
100000.
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Five Hundred Little. Children,
Refugees From Belgium,
Tramp Into Allied Village.
LED BY polLu 1RUMPETERs
Worn by Hunger, Tired, All Sing Ma
tionai Anthem-Bio Celebration at
Evian for Them-Giad to
Escape Germans.

an-les-Bains.-Five hundred lit
tie children, trifle tired-looking, per-
haps little hysterlcal because worn
by the strain of three days on the train,
tramped joyOusly up the street. their
wooden sabots pattering triumphant
tattoo on the hard pavement, skipping,
some of them, to the blare of the
trumpeters who led the way, and cry
Ing "Vive la France" ut every welcom-
Ing tri-color. They rushed up by doz-
ems to shake hands with anyone who
was on the street to see them at five
o'clock In the morning.
Each of them was dressed in his or
her Sunday best. and toting a home
made pnck. All the time the six old
ex-Poilus footed away on their trum-
pets as they led the bobbetty process
sion. 1t reminded one of the Pied Pr
per who piped strange tunes in Hame-
lin and led away all the village chill
dren when their elders refused to pay
him for ridding the town of its rats.
These trumpeters were leading Bel
gian children to warm meal at
Evian. Five hundred children, who
had left their mothers and fathers in
the land where food Is scarce, were
on their way to n big refuge in the old
Chartreuse monastery at LIE Chandler.
There the Belgian government and the
American Red Cross have fitted up a
home for a thousand refugees.
Not Enough to Eat.
They were not Orphans-just chill
dren who were not getting enough to
eat. Back In Belgium Belgian com.
mittee had picked them out as under
nourished and asked their mothers to
let them go to France. where wheat
and sugar are not too plenty, but
where the rations are more liberal.
The commission for relief In Belgium
brought something to them in Bel
gium, but. especially since the Ameri-
cans left, 1t had to be stretched long
way.
Aren't you hungry7" some one
asked one Of the Belgian children.
"Why, no." the ten-year-old replied.
'I ate yesterday"
The trumpeters pilOted them 10 the
Casino, where the women Of Evian
had laid out breakfast. Six or seven
children, too weak to stand the miles
walk, were carried in the big Ameri-
can Red Cross ambulances that trnns-
port the old men and women week
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days, when the trains bring in the
French repatriates.
There was big celebration in the
Casino. The mayor of Evian made a
speech, but most of the children were
obviously much too tired to try to
puzzle out his big words. They were
much more interested in the band.
The band played "The Savoyard," the
anthem of EVANS mountain province.
and then 1t played the "Brabanconne,"
the national hymn of Belgium.
Those children stood up on the tables
to applaud and wave their handker-
chiefs! They knew 1t, every one Of
them, although they had not been al
lowed to sing 1t out loud for three
years. Some of them were so small
that they must have learned 1t behind
closed shutters. or In a corner half a
dozen little girls Joined hands ard
danced.
Too Tired for Candy.
But they were tired out; there were
one or two who were too tired to eat
the candy placed beside them-and
that is very tired. And in the middle
of the second verse of the "Braban-
cOnne," one small son Of Belgium laid
his head on his arms and went to
sleep. And before the "Marseillaise"
was sung there were sleepy little
groups. Oblivious to the noise about
them, at every table.
1t was dark when they entered the
CasinO-much too dark for the pic
lures >that ought TO have been taken
of them-and 1t was still very gray
twilight when they came out.
One of the American Red Cross
nurses who was helping care for
them saw two little girls arguing
sleepily about something or other.
'N'est-ce pasi" the tnier of the two
said as she came up. ''C'est le matin:
c'est pas lie soirf"-''It is morning.
isn't it? It's not EVENING""
Later. when the children were pass-
Ing the American Red Cross doctor.
who examined them for contagious
diseases, the nurse learned more. Lu.
cienne and Louise. sisters. came from
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PROCESSION RIVAL,
j. OF PIED PIPER'S
MAKES SWEATERS FROM
RAISING SHEEP ON UP

Seattle, Wash.-Six heavy
sweaters which recently were
given to the Sedro-W -Woolley
branch Of the Red Cross were
made at home in the old-fash-
ioned way. Mrs. s. d. Benson
raised the sheep from which the
wool was taken on her farm at
Siskiyou.
While experimenting with bark
preparations Mrs. Benson dis
covered a way to dye the yarn
In the regulation shades Of gray
and khaki, and finally knit the
sweaters herself.
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win Have RabbIts Eeet.

Hutchinson. Kan.-Kansns negroes
who go against the Boches will all have
the famous darky charm, the left hind
foot Of rabbit, to keep him safe from
Teuton bullets. X. G. (Kroon) Beck,
rabbit king" Of Kansas. has agreed
to furnish every negro drafted man
In the state q rabbit foot.
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Robs Peter to Paw Paul.

Wntertown, N. Y.-An eleven.incb
piece Of bone taken from his leg hns
been grated into the spine of George
II. Wallace. The insertion OF the leg
bone. running from the middle to the
back Of the neck. has completely cured
Wallace of tuberculosis OF the spine,
from which he had suffered for long
time.
Gilpin observer., 1918-03-14

entire passage with his hands tied be-
hind his back. When the steamer
reached Pncific port and quarantine
officers went aboard. the stowawny
was found and ordered Immediately
released. He had lost control of his
hands and arms otter twenty-one DAYS
In the tolls, and was sent to hos.
pital for medical treatment.
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condue.orettes c.p.bIe.

New York.-Three hundred women
conductors on New York street cars
are making good. President Theodore
p. Shonts Of the Interborough Rail.
road company. has announced that the
conductorettes are rs efficient as men,
equally honest and more polite.
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POOR LUCK AS sToWAwAY
Japanese Laborer Tries to Steal Pas.
sage and Makes Trip With
Hands Tied.

San Francisco.-Because he tried to
steal passage on japanese liner from
the Orient to America, a Japanese la
borer was forced to make almost the
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He Sidestepped.
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER

has been household remedy all over
the civilized world for more than half
century for constipation. intestinal
troubles, torpid liver and the generally
depressed feeling that accompanies
such disorders. 1t is a most valuable
remedy for indigestion or nervous dys-
pepsia and liver trouble, bringing on
headache, coming up of food, palpita-
ton Of heart and many other symp-
toms. A few doses Of August Flower
will Immediately relieve you. 1t is q
gentle laxative. Ask your druggist.
Sold in all civilized countries.-Adv.
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Arizona.

The famed early-day Peck silver
mines near Prescott are to be revived.
The Idaho mine in the vicinity of
Montana camp at Ruby is being
worked and lead and silver ore taken
out.
Adams and Townsend are shipping
rich tungsten concentrates from the
Williams mines, in the Aquarius
mountains.
Arizona produced $4,O92,sO0 in 1916
and yielded $5,533,S0O in gold in 1917.
and was the only state which had an
increased output.
In the Copper creek section. the Rio
Vista Mines Company has started
work on a group of claims formerly
owned by Horace Porter.
Shattuck-Arizona's February produc-
ton totaled S54,042 pounds copper, co.
765 pounds Of lead, $500 ounces silver
and 1903 ounces gold. January output
was copper S49,44O pounds. lead $4,000
pounds, silver 1859 ounces and gold
1,0bS ounces.
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Win the War by Preparing the Land
Sowing the Seed and Producing Bigger Crops
Work In Joint Effort Soil of the United States and Canada
C0OPERAIIvE IN NECESSARY
LLDERTY
The Food Controllers of the United asking
food production Scarcely 100 bushels Of avail
be the allies before the harvest Upon the
efforts OF the United States and Canada the burden supply
Every Available Iable Acre Must Contribute, Every Available
Farmer and Farm Nand Must Assist
Western Canada seeded
Short and appeal the United
Ing operation
canada Wheat Production Last Year 226 Bushss Tho
Demand From Canada Alone for 1919 s Bushels
To this she have She has
h The Government of the United every
effectively help do farm work this the land
States developed rst OF but help Canada When
find Cand fields after supplied
want to direct him there.
Apply Employment Service. you where you can
the combined interests
Western Canadas help will be required Wages
competent help $50 90 month and board and lodging
hose who this will
good board and hnd comfortable homes They
mile from Canadian boundary point. destination
For particulars and places
apply U. S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
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WESTERN
MINING AND OIL
NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.
Prices for Metals.
-

Prices for Metals.
New York.-Lead-$745@7.62.
Bar Silver-S5hc..
Copper-s23.12M.
st. .Louis.-Spelter-$756.
Boulder.-Tungsten concentrates. 60
per cent, s2o.Oo@22.5O per unit; crude
ores. 60 per cent, $22.OO025.00; 25 per
cent. $12.o0@12.50; 10 per cent. s9.4o
012.20 per unit.
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Lots of women quarrel with their
husbands because they deem 1t an i'm
portant part of their domestic duties.
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Men are made to make money that
women may spend 1t.
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Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

by LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
enced by constitutional conditions. HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE will cure catarrh.
It Is taken internally and acts through
the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the
System. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
Is composed of some of the best tonics
known. combined with some of the best
OF the ingredients In HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE is what produces such won
derful results in catarrhal conditions.
Druggists 75c. Testimonials free.
F. J. Cheney & Co.. Props. Toledo. o.
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Montana.

Anaconda Copper Company will
start work Immediately on the con-
struction of plant at Boston and
Montana works at Great Falls for the
electrolytic production of ferro-man-
ganese, SO essential now in the pro-
duction of steel
Butte Copper and Zinc Company.
although February was short month,
had production that was by far the
largest to date, averaging nearly 300
tons daily of manganese and zinc ores
combined. The shipments of man
ganese were 1900 tons and OF zinc
about $500 tons.
Anaconda Copper Company pro-
duced in February 24,100,O00 pounds
Of "copper" compared with 24,9S4 900 in
January. Inspiration production in
February was 100000 against 5,000,-
900 in January. Butte and Superior In
February outputted 12,500,00O pounds
Of zinc and 250.00O ounces of silver.
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Colorado.

It is announced that another oil rig
will shortly be erected on the Rock
Canon escarpment west Of Pueblo.
Mount Logan mining district. COM
plying with public land laws. has been
organized at Debeque by six shale oil
companies.
Prof. H. A. Huston, an authority in
the chemical world, notes a remark
able increase In the technical and pop
ular interest In the subject of produc-
ing potash in America.
In presenting to the public the oil
shale proposition Of western Colorado
the most difficult elemtn in the task
Is to clearly convey an idea of its
enormous proportions.
BY midsummer the production Of
molybdenum in Colorado will approx
mate $1,000,0O0 month. the entire
output of the mines being contracted
for by the government for war pur-
poses. This estimate is given in the
March issue of the Federal Reserve
Bulletin, which reviews generally the
condition Of business. agriculture,
livestock and mining in the states
comprising the Tenth district Of the
reserve bank.
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A Hair Store Blonde

A Hair Store Blonde.
"Isn't Maude's hair light?"
"Yes, she can lift 1t on and of cas-
ily."-Boston Transcript
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.D J! Y! SHORE PARTY
Gunnef's Mate ,Willeke's Mother
Had Just Prepared Christ
mas Box.

+ Gunner's Mate Frank A. Wil1eke,
son of Mrs. Elizabeth willeke Rupp.
1907 9Th street, was drowned. when
small boat. in which he. an officer and
five other enlisted men were return
ing from shore leave in Tangier har-
Dor. yesterday, capsized. The report
was received today at the Navy De-
partment from Vice Admiral Sims.
Willeke, who was twenty-seven
years old, was a graduate of Gonzaga
College in 1911. He enlisted in the
Navy when the war broke out, and.
after serving at the Seaman Gunners'
School here, he was given a rating OF
gunner's mate. He spent much of his
period of enlistment on the U. S. S.
kearsarge. but was transferred to the
U. S. S. Lansda1e, a new destroyer.
which was launched at Fail River in
July.
His ship departed for European wa
ters only a few months ago, and his
mother had prepared Christmas box
for him the day before he was lost.
When she heard the news she was
Frustrated. His sister, answering the
telephone, tainted.
Besides his mother and sister. he is
survived by a half brother, Mathew
Rupp, now in camp in Georgia. His
stepfather, Henry F. Rupp, Is an en-
ploye Of the auditors office of the
Navy Department.
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Logan Waller Page, director of the
United States office of public roads
and rural engineering and cousin
Of Walter Hines Page. former am
bassador to Great Britain: from the
United States, died suddenly of heart
disease ina Chicago hotel last night.
Mr. Page, WHO lived at 1928 Massa-
cllusetts avenue northwest. was at
tending session of the american
Association of State Highway Off
Gals. He became i'll shortly after
dinner. and retired to his room,
where he expired soon. afterward.
Mr.. Page was a pioneer in highway
work, his first activities beginning in
Massachusetts. He was the inventor
of a number of machines used in
highway Improvement work. Fu-s
neral arrangements have. not yet been
completed. The body will probably
be brought here for .ipterment.
Mr.. Page was one OF the FOUNDERS
of the public roads office and was one
of the most active workers in the
country for good roads. having had
much to do with the inauguration. OF
the motor parcel post service
Mr.. Page gave much assistance TO
members OF Congress III lHC pi Cpai q
ton of the federal aid road act. the
passage of which, in 1916, is judged to
have been the greatest single force
for better highways in the history of
the United States. Since the passage
Of the act, which provides for federal
and state co-operation in highway
building, Mr.. Page worked with the
state Highway departments in plan
ming and executing work, and also ad-
yised state legislatures in the prepara-
ton of measures to enable federal CO..
operation. :.
The United States Highways Coun-'
Gil. which was. formed during. the war
to. coordinate the activities, of the
various federal agencies dealing with
road matters was headed by Mr..
1age as chairman. He was a presi-
dent of the American Highway As
ISOLATION a director of the Ar:eri-
can Road Builders Association. a
member. representing. the. United
States government. of the Interna-
tional Road Congress and a member
of the American Society of Civil En-
gineerS. -
Mr. Page became connected with
the Department Of Agriculture in 1890.
He served in various capacities suntil
July 1, 1905, when he became director
of the Office of public roads, which, in
,1915, became the Office of public roads
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SPECIAL N|GH[.SET
FOR SERv|cE..MEN
Parade viii Be a Feature of
Monster Christmas Tree
Celebration Here.
PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN

A special night for the entertain
ment Of soldiers, sailors and marines
on duty in Washington or temporarily
here will be one of the features Of the
monster Christmas tree celebration to
be held. probably on the Capitol
grounds. under the auspices Of the
War Camp Community Service. the
week of December 1881.
Around the brilliantly lighted
Christmas tree. to be furnished and
erected by The Evening Star. special
entertainment features and games for
the men in uniform will be held. A
march Of sailors and marines will be
one of the features of the evening.
with special entertainment for men in
the olive drab of the Army.
1t is planned to hold a street parade
December "a with the tree, lighted and
decked from top to bottom with
Christmas emb1ems, on an automobile
from the Treasury Department east
on F street to the Capitol, where it
will be erected
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FOCH MAY VISIT us.
His Purpose Indicated in Response
to New York Invitation, -.

NEW YORK. December 10-That
Marshal Foch may visit the United
States when his duties permit is in
dicated by a cablegram received here
by Mayor Hylan from the marshal in
response to a recent message in which
the mayor invited him to visit New
York and offered him "the freedom of
the city" Marshal Foch's reply fol-
lows:
81 am profoundly touched by the
sentiment which has inspired your
message, and I thank you for your
invitation. I appreciate highly the
honor of, the freedom of the city
which the people of the city ofNew
York offer, me. Please transmit to.
them, with my acceptance. expression
of my warmest gratitude"
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POSING AMERICAN LED.
IN Berlin DISTURBANCE
William J. Martins Former Action
Aroused Anger of James W.
p, Gerard, When Ambassador.

BERLIN. Sunday, December S (By
the Associated Press).-The leaders in
the attempt to arrest the executive
committee of the soldiers and work.
mems council, according to an an
nouncement issued today, were Will
liam J. Martin and two German Off
GERS. named Won Rheitbaher and Ma
tuschka. i
Martin, who is known locally as an
American, has been living in Berlin
since the outbreak of the war and is
the founder of the League of Truth -
Posing as an American. Martin on
July 4. 1915, placed a wreath with
which was an American flag bordered
in black on the statue of Frederick
the Great. James w. Gerard. the
American ambassador at that time.
compelled the authorities to remove
the wreath by threatening to remove
it himself if his request was not COM
piled with. :,
Later Martin was compelled to adj
NIT that he was a German subject.
He allied himself with the German
annexationists and proved constant
source of embarrassment to the Ger
IudHf .1OToISu OluCS, 'WHlCu, tIlco "
suppress him, but was blocked by his
pan-German military protectors.
Won Rheitbaher is. a COUSIN of
Baron Rheinbaben, who was connect
ed with the Christiania bomb plot.
Matuschka is a young officer who
held a post in Lithuania until the
revolution. Both were unsalaried
volunteer workers for the govern
ment. The German foreign office de-
clares that Won Rheitbaher and
Matuschka were responsible for the
attempt. against the. executive COM
mittee No one else was in their
confidence and their action was most
unwelcome and embarrassing to the
government. Both have disappeared.
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BUYS So; 100000 PROPERTY.
Federal Reserve Bank Plans to
Erect Building in Chicago.

CHICAGO, December 10.-The Fed
eral Reserve Bank of Chicago has
purchased from John G. Shedd the
property on the west side of La Sale
street extending from Jackson beule-
ward. to Quincy street. It is said the
bank will erect a building with suit
able accommodations for carrying on
the business of the seventh federal
district. The consideration for. the
property, $50 by 165 feet, is said to
have been in the neighborhood of
ss,0oo,oo0. the largest. reaf estate
transaction, with one exception, in the
history of Chicago.
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Special Children's Night.

A special children's night, with the
singing of Christmas carols and chill
dren's games, probably will be held in
cooperation with the public play
grounds department and the public
schools. On this evening a real
Santa Claus will tell Christmas
stories and distribute small gifts to
the children. Children's games will
follow the storytelling.
During the entire week, in which
the tree will be lighted every even
ing, old English games and Morris
dances will be held around the tree.
In case of rain the entertainment will
be held the following night.
New Year eve will be soldiers and
sailors Homecoming night" with every
returning soldier, sailor or marine
specially invited to take part in the
festivities abount the tree, said to be
one of the largest ever seen in Wash
ington.> On an evening for which the
date has not yet been set athletic
games for the men in uniform will be
held, in which every man will be
asked to participate