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The daily banner., 1918-02-09
Plan to Cut Out Car Stops.

Washington, Feb. 9.-Elimination of
one-third of the present electric rail-
way stops on both urban and inter
urban lines is under consideration by
the fuel administration as a means Of
saving fuel supplies. Experts esti-
mate that enforcement of the plan
would conserve more than 100000
tons of coal year. In cities stops
would be limited to eight to the mile
and in suburban districts to six. On
interurban lines the stops would num-
Der not more than four to the mile.
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Rush to Join Forestry Regiment

st. Paul, Mimi, Feb. "a high rec
ord day for enlistments in the Twen-
tieth engineers, the forestry regiment,
four companies of which were on the
Tuscania, was reported by State For
ester W. T. Coxton. Sixteen men
have been enrolled since news of the
ships sinking was received. per
haps a spirit of vengeance is prompt
1ns men to join" Mr.. Cox said
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HeIo Farmers to Sell Grain.

Harrisburg, Pa, Feb. 9.-Announce-
ment was made at the state depart
ment of agriculture arrangements had
been made whereby farmers anxious
to sell their wheat and unable todis-
pose of it in their own home districts
because millers have bought their
limit and commission houses cannot
handle it, may be put into touch with
federal authorities.
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PULL TOOTH; BLEEDS; DEATH
Three Persons Submit to TRANSMISSION
In Effort 20 Save Man


Johnstown, Pa, Feb. 9.-AlthOugh
three persons submitted to transfu
sion of blood and the bsst surgeons
of the city employed every known ap
pliance, bleeding from an extracted
tooth. which lasted for eight days, re-
suited in the death of Saul Callet,
twenty-seven years old, of this city.
Mr.. Callet was being poisoned by an
infected tooth He also realized that
if the tooth were pulled he would
bleed to death as he was known as
a "bleeder."
When he notified the dentist of his
condition, the dentist would not pull
the tooth without the advice of the
mans physician. The tooth was pull
ed and CaIlet bled to death in eight
days
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ess Illness Amonu Soldiers.

Washington, Feb. 9.-Health condi
tions at all camps and cantonments
in the United States showed contin-
ued improvement during the past
week. There was decrease in deaths
and hospital admission rates. The
measles epidemic is generally dec'sa-
ing. Pneumonia, while still widely
preva .ent, shows a decreasing ratio
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to be happy and cheerful and sing
and chirp for it's the springtime-the
beautiful springtime."
But as the bird flew OFF again, for he
didn't care to be near such wild ami
mails, Mr.. Rhinoceros said:
what a queer little creature that
bird was to talk of singing and chirp-
ing"
"Ah," said the tiger, poor little
thing. He doesn't know the joy Of be-
ing wild" But the little bird was
happy, for he got so much more fun
out Of life from singing than if he
roared and growled.
The daily banner., 1918-02-09

Sacramento. Feb. Am Indictment
charging fifty five persons with con
spiring with Wi'fam \. Haywool
secretary of the industrial Workers #
the Word, and Others. to hinder the
execution Of laws OF tie United States
in the prosecution Of the war. was
The daily banner., 1918-02-09
Live Stock Quotations.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Buk,
s16.S0T T17.O5; light, s16.25G 1905; !;
mixed, s16.SO617.5O; heavy. s16.506
Ills: rough, $16.50@16.70; ri9s
S13.75615.75.
sS.6O61410: stockers and fe re,
$500 1880; COWS and heifors. S6 81
ali so: calves. S95O615.50.
SHEEP. - Wethess. S106-3 40;
lambs. S14756177n-
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State Buys Seed Corn For Farmers.

Harrisburg. Pa, Feb 9.-More than
5000 bushels of seed corn have been
bought up through the state bureau
of markets and sold at cost to farm
ers in sections of northern Pennsyl
vania, where the corn crop was ruin
ed by early frosts and shortage OF
seed corn developed. Efforts are be
ing r7ade to obtain as much more to
supply farmers if needed.
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Burns to Death in r. r. Station.

Northumberland, Pa. Feb. o
John A. McVey, forty-six years old,
of Bloomburg,, burned to death while
seated in the Pennsylvania station
waiting for a train. Alone in an
apartment Of the station his clothing
caught fire from some matches in his
pocket and he was fatally burned BE-
fo~o tho ctot'cr attaches could extin
guish tie 1nl.-. IL g
The daily banner., 1918-02-09
MARYLAND FOR DRY NATION
Action cf House Insures Legislative
Ratification.

Annapolis, Md, Feb. e.-The Mary
land legislature practically has raSf-
ned the federal prohibition const tu-
tional amendment.
The house of delegates passed a
resolution ratifying the amendment
BY vote of 6S to SO. The resolution
has reached the third readt stage
In the senate and its final passage by
that body is virtually assured.
An amendment providing for a ref
erendum was defeated in both houses.
The Anti-Saloon league has bill
making the state bone dry. and it is
understood the passage of this meas
ure will be urged at an early date.
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Fireman Fatally Hurt on Train

Johnstown, Pa, Feb 9.-Seated in
the cab of his locomotive, C. w. Nc
Curry, OF East Liberty, a passenger
fireman. was struck by something
projecting from a passing train and
so badly injured that he died a few
hours later at the Cambria hospital.
The daily banner., 1918-02-09
As,asiea torcaeh zssrblsns.

New York, Feb. s.-Serbian young
men and women, now scattered over
Switzerland, France and England, may
be brought to the United States to
obtain an education. Plans for such
a move were announced by DR.. Milea
ko Vesnitch ard other members OF
the Serbian mission.
The daily banner., 1918-02-09
McAdao Rushes Grain to Trains.

Washington. Feb. 9.-To facilitate
the movement of grain for the allies
and homa consumption. William G.
McAdoo. director general of railroads,
ordered preference given to grain
shipments throughout all the principal
granger states.
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Chamherlain's Tablets

These Tablets are intended espe-
cialIy for disorders of the stomach,
liver and bowels. If you are trou-
bled with heartburn, Indigestion or
constipation, they will do you good.
ADV.
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you to be in my
class"
And from the
top of the rhi-
noceroS' cage in
the zoo came the
sound of chirp-
ing. chirping.
"Who are your"
asked the rhi-
noceroS.
I'm Mr.. Chip
ping Sparrow. I've
come to tell you
two creatures that
YOU shouldn't
boast about being
wild and cruel
it's so foolish. Try
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We were Immediately surrounded

men in the icy water wearing life
belts,'' she said 1--WE had only two
men in our boat who could manage
the oars. They did their best. and
as we came across a swimming or
floating man we gathered him into
the boat Soon the boat WIS very
full. We witnessed many dist"e sing
scenes. Eventually. we got on board
destroyer. | don't remember hard
er bit of work"
A soldier who heard Mrs. Collins,
stewardess, tell the story, said:
eyes, and you did as much as the
best man in the world could have
done done. I was in your boat and
saw it,
A young officer, answering a ques-
ton as to what the soldiers did while
waiting for the destroyers after the
first excitement was over, said:
"Oh, we soon steadied down, loung-
ed about and smoked. but we didn't
venture below 10 gather up our be-
! longings for fear the ship would sud
denly capsiZe. We talked about the
misfortune of crossing the Atlantic
only to be caught in the last lap. We
cheered the first destroyer which
came alongside, and its men cheered
US. Their work was magnificent, and
only when they saw they could save
no more life did they leave the scene.
It was thought we'll to make for diff
ferent ports, and here l am among
people who have overwhelmed us
with Kindness
A young trooper, when asked what
he thought of the experience, said he
| would not have missed it for any
thing.
"I was on deck talking to my
chum," he said. when we heard a
bang. and up went a whole heap Of
| wreckage and water over OR heads.
was drenched to the skin. Nobody
screamed, but you can imagine how 1t
felt to stand shivering in the dark
ness. not knowing when we would get
another shot that would send the boat
| to the bottom"
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The We ather.

and warmer followed by rain today
and tomorrow; easterly winds.
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z&SA-azk kAvs dE-
DADUSEWNIN(,
[AIRl TALL X1
~ MTTw IDHUNA pNAsITD
TIGER AND RHINOcEROS.
~ MARY GRAHAM BO4NER

I'm the widest animal in the
Worid.' said the tiger. For years
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kfAN lANt I ~ I'A .
9 The tiger is
the most danger
Gus Of animals.
You can't trust a
tiger. They're all
wild, wild. wild =
And at the third
cry of wild
the tiger roared
for all he was
u~npth
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British Report 1920 U. S. SOL
diaTS Sdv.d.
MORE SURVIVORS REACH LAND
Troopers at irish Port Tell of Their
Thrilling Experiences and Woman
is Praised.

London. F,b. 9.-The b -itj-h admir-
atty said the latest figures available
on the Tuscanju disaster 5 owed that
2235 persons had been saved. ana that
about lGG were missing.
+ The saved. il was @dIed, inc.u3e ed
1873 American officers anI 1917 Amer
lean men.
Sixteen officers and lS2 men Of the
crew and six passenge.s were also
saved.
The bodies Of 126 Ame lean troops
have been recovered.
OF the 14S survivors -andod on the
Scottish co@at, 1G4 bel ng d to the
United States army, including seven
officers. OF these. one officer and
twenty five men ar rema ming Were
they landed to attend to the funeral
ARRANGEMENTS 70 the Am rican dead.
As the list of Americans on board
the Tuscania was lost when the YES
sci went down, il will be impossible
to ascertain t"e names of those lost
until the n'wcs o. the survivors have
been c%bled 10 the United States.
Reports received at the American
embassy indiraed the loss of 101
lives. while the British adm;ralty's
estimate was 210. This discrepancy
now appears to have been due 70 thn
fact that the figures su0plio' 'N tn
embassy evt3ent'y did not nc ude tie
missing.
1t was announced that arrange
ments were being made by British and
American o@nials Jointly for great
military funerals for the Tusc@nia's
dead.
Another party Of survivors f"Cm
the Tuscania, iuclufing Captain Nc
Lean and some American members of
the crew. arrived from Scottish mort.
Many relatives awaited the arrival Of
the men and touching scenes were
witnessed when some learned tha'
those they were expecting had not
arrived
The survivors were garbel in mis-
cellaneous assortment of clothe'
which they had picked up when land
ed from the vessel.
Captain N-I.ean looked well, de
spite the great ordeal. but he emphati-
cally refused to make a statement
The engine room storekeepeT said
THAT when he found the Tuscana was
likely to float for some time he went
ssown into his locker, rescued some
cash and other tCinkets and got away
lon raft.
| The only two women on board,
account saws Mrs
Collins and Mrs. Parsons, went down
rope into a lifebcat. Mrs. Collins
said that when their boat left the
U,fsfoauia many of the troops had
en- thrown out in lowering the next
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
OVERTIME TILTs THIS YEAR
Daylight Saving Law Mainly Response
BILE for Two 1s-lnnino Games
Played So Far.

Perhaps before the present season
ends all records ia the major league
for lengthy games will be broken. Al
ready there have been two 19-inning
draws.
The law which saves an hour of day
light is mainly responsible, for it per-
mits game to go along until d.cided.
The Phils and Cardinals started their
19-inning game at $3.50 o'clock and
played until eight o'clock.
This would have been totally impos-
sible in previous years. Chief Umpire
Quigley called the game on account
of darkness Mt the end of the nine
teenth inning. 1t is rather question
able whether he was justified in call
ing the game off. The teams could
have battled one or two innings longer
and decision might have been
reached, making 1t unnecessary to re-
play the game. AS 1t is the four hours
and thirty minutes of desperate play
went for naught.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
KEYSTONE POSITION
ON GIANTS H0OD00ED
Tough Luck Has Stood in Path Of
Four Second Basemen.
Herzos Couldn't Get Along With Nc
Graw-DoyIe Was Taken Ill
Nlehoff Breaks Leg-Joe Rod
riouex Does Not Fit In.

The second base job on the New
York Giants must be hoodooed.
Tough luck in one form or another
has stood in the path Of four players
who have held down the keystone po-
sition for McGraw during the past
two years. II the job isn't hOodooed.
what is It?
Buck Herzos has tried holding down
the position for McGraw several times.
And Buck and that said Job did not
get along. Early last season, after
he had been brought back to the
Giants for the third time, Buck slipped
on the hoor of the Pennsylvania sta
tion while en- route to Philadelphia
with the team and received severe In
juries. His condition has never been
the same since that accident, and yet
1t wasn't that alone which caused Nc
Grnw to dispose Of him. for. in addi-
tion. he failed to get along with the
Giant leader,
Next in line came Larry Doyle.
brought back to the New York club
via Chicago and Boston. Larry went
great guns for several weeks after the
season opened. he led the league in
batting and he was going like . ma
chine in the field. Suddenly he was
taken i'll and had to undergo an oper-
alton.
With Doyle out Of 1t. McGraw pur-
chased Bert Niehoff from the st. Louis
Cardinals. and just as the team was
getting ready to leave Philadelphia to
return to the Polo grounds after q
long and disheartening trip in. the
western half Of the circuit Niehon
broke his leg.
Joe Rodrfguez, the Cuban infielder.
has played the keystone sack on and
OF for the Giants all season. but Joe
doesn't have the best Of luck in tho
job. for though he works harder to
make good than any other man who
ever held the sack down he can't make
himself At into the combination.
The members of the Giants them
selves are beginning to think that the
second basing Job is jlnxed to q fare
yOu-well and no one can blame them.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
New Mexico.

A rich ore strike has been made in
the Big Three mine near Magdalena.
In the Pecos valley of New Mexico
the work OF prospecting for oil is
going on with increasing activity.
The copper properties a few miles
south of Elephant Butte in the Sierra
Caballo in Sierro county have been
reopened.
The Lincoln oil well at Lake Arthur
has been sunk to a depth of 1000 feet,
and drilling work is being pushed
night and day.
Plans are under way at Carrizozo
for the construction of smelter to
handle the ore in the mines of Teco-
lote, forty miles north. and of the
mines in Oscuro mountains, west.
The Golden Ajax mine on Willow
Creek near Elizabethtown, is active.
4 force Of men being at work on the
mill and machinery. Production of
gold is expected to begin in two
months. The Baldy tunnel of the
Gold and Copper Development Co..
has been pushed beyond the 4oOO-foot
mark and prospects are declared to
be good for reaching a pay vein soon.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
UNIQUE PRANK OF BASEBALL
Gam Jones Of Cleveland. Indians Has
Distinction Of Striking Out Mighty
Trls Speake-

Sam Jones. who figured in the trade
by which iris Speaker became menu
Der of the Cleveland team, has the dis
tinction of being the first right-handed
pitcher to strike out the heavy-hitting
outfielder this year, and the second
Boston pitcher to turn the trick since
Speaker became a member Of the In
dians. 1t was the fourth time Speaker
has struck out this season and the sec
ond time Umpire Owens has called the
third strike on him.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
Arizona.

Arizona.
In the first half of the current year
Old Dominion produced 1884 900
pounds, June contributing 3,368,OOO
pounds.
Small stringers of the best ore ever
found at the Verde Combination have
been cWt in sinking the shaft. They
show prominently at 1880 feet.
The Standard Minerals company
opened a rich vein of ore in the cross
cut from the 300 level toward the
west. samples of which are on dis
play in Kingman.
1t is reported that . rich silver
strike has been made in the lower
level of the Commerce shaft at Ash
Peak. operated by the Goldfield Con
solidated Exploration Company.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
Montana.

Green CanansA Copper Company
declared its usual quarterly dividend
Of - . share. payable August rs. to
stock Of record August 3.
Production of G32.O12 pounds of cop.
per in June brings the total output Of
the Davis DAILY Mining Company for
the six months ended June 80 up to
4.739.261 pounds
At the copper conference to be held
in Washington August Z some pro-
ducers will ask the war industries
board to fix the copper price at 27h
cents a pound. Whatever figure is
named will become effective August
Is. The present price of 26 cents a
pound went into operation July 2.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01

"Jeff'' Tesreau, who came to the
New York National league baseball
club as pitcher from the Texas leaghe
in 1910, left the club the other day to
Join the Bethlehem club of the Steel
league.
John B. Foster, secretary of the New
York club. said that Tesreau recently
told Manager McGraw he was disgust
ed with baseball and wanted to get in
to some other business" Tesreau, ac-
cording to Foster. is in class 4 of the
draft. so that his change was not actu-
nted by desire to escape military serv
ice
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
STEVE BRoDIE is IN FRANCE
Veteran Ball Player 10 Coaching SOL
diers inePershino's Army In Fine
Points Of Game.

Walter (Stevel Brodie, veteran ball
player has been heard from in France.
where, Under the auspices of the Y. NJ.
C. A., he is coaching the soldiers Of
Pershing's army in the fine points Of
baseball. Brodie was member of the
famOns old Orioles Of the nineties.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
Colorado.

The Emerald Oil Company recently
struck An oil well In the Rangely field.
in northwestern Colorado, good. it il
reported, for 100 barrels y day Of Q
fine grade petroleum with = pAraffins
base.
The July sun sees the snow going
fast along the Red mountain, Mt. Alb
rams. Mt. Hayden and Ineffels ranges
and it is now possible to resume worh
at the mines situated 1t extremely
high attitudes.
When the three custom mills CON
trolled by the Crawford interests are
in active operation and working at
full capacity custom-milling in Ouray
disArict will be provided for to the
extent Of between 400 and 500 tons in
the twenty-four hours.
BY an agreement made between the
Stratton's Cripple Creek Mining and
Development Company (the Stratton
estats) and the Ftndley Mines Com
pany. Basket L Luce. discoverers Of
the Basket and Luce vein in the Amer.
ican Eagles mine on Bull hill, have
resumed work.
For the first half of 1918 the gold
output Of the Cripple Creek district
shows 4 decline of per cent, or $685..
317. compared with the corresponding
period Of 1917 Considering the vart
Gus handicaps imposed by the wal
upon mining for gold the decline stat
ed is not surprising.
De Beque. on the Denver Z Rio
Grande railroad. shares honors with
Grand valley-its close neighbor-as
the center of oil shale activity, as ia
evidenced by the great number OF oil
operators and others interested in this
coming industry; also by the number
of people daily arriving and immedi.
ately proceeding to the shale fields
throughout that section.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
INDIANS LOSE TWO

The Indianapolis team, al
ready crippled by the jumping
Of several players who have
gone into some war work, lost
two more when First Baseman
Clarence Covington and Pitcher
Jean Dale were called for imme-
diate army service. To replace
Dale the club has secured a
young pitcher named Stewart
from the st. Louis Browns.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
4 a 4
MAYER FOR JACOBS

Discussing the swap Of Mayer
for Jacobs, one Philadelphia
sport scribe says: Mayors re-
fusal to abide by Moran's and
the catcher's signs was his big
gest handicap. In pinches he
was prone to pitch carelessly.
1t is expected that he will do
better in Pittsburgh. Mayer is
twenty-eight years old and
Joined the Phils in 1912. His
best season was In 1915, when
he won q games and lost Is. In
1915 he won and lost z, and
last year he won IL and lost g."
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01

The navy need fear Elmer Oliphant
no longer. The army's big gridiron
"tank tractor" who has been the Mem
as.s Of the Annapolis tars FOR scvera!
years, was graduated from the military
academy.
The army. however, still has such
men as Scene" Vidal and "Bulr' Van
degraff left to hurl into the breach IL
fate ever DEGREES another meeting on
the gridlroD with the navy lads.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
WESTERN
MINING AND OIL
NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Prices for Metals.
New York.-Lead-$8.OO08.05.
Copper-$25.82h.
Bar silyer-9S%c.
st. -Spelter-$8.41k.
Boulder.-rungsten concentrates, 6.
per cent. $2O0O@22.50 per unit; rs
per cent. $12.00@12.50: 10 per cent
S9.40Q12.20.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01

SiOP;ES
Walter Plpp may be drawn in the
Swede Risberg is showing marked
Improvement at the plate.
Catcher Harry Glenn of the st. Paul
Saints has been called BY the draft
Harry Weaver has reported to Mana
ger Mitchell that he has Joined the
navy.
Harry Heitman continues to pitch
winning ball for Arthur Twins
Rochester club.
Rube Parnham seems to find the In
ternational league easier than the
American association.
1t is estimated that $50 professional
baseball players Of organized clubs
have Joined the colors.
william Finn of Boston has been
chosen to head the Fordham college
baseball team next season.
Most of the heavy hltters In both the
National and American leagues are
members of Eastern clubs.
Pitcher Kester I. June Of the Univer-
sity of West Virginia has reported to
the Cleveland American league club.
Des Moines announces that 1t has
secured Adrian Lynch from the Wash
ington club to fill out Its pitching stan.
Ed Pfeffer Of the Robbins is pitching
Sunday games In the Chicago City
league. He Is at the Great Lakes ma
val training station.
Pittsburgh picked up three players
from the Southern association. Out
fielder Southworth and Pitchers Com
stock and SlaMicka.
With Byrd Lynn gone into war work
the White Sox are using Otto Jacobs.
minor Lacquer of several years. expert
ence. as a warm-up catcher.
Guy Morton is on fair way to es-
tablish real comeback after all the
trouble he has had with his arm. The
member is showing no effects Of the
old injury.
In the Mobile-C Chattanooga game Of
June 20 Johnny Bates, leading of for
Mobile, walked five times, every time
up, which probably is record or at
least q tie.
There will be no hunting, trips for
major leaguers next fall. The hunt
ing season is open In Europe, though.
and they can get all the action they
want "over there"
Grover Lowdermilk, who had been
depended on for so much by the St.
Louis club this year, had no sooner be-
gun to get his arm In shape than he
was taken down with stomach trouble.
Dutch Leonard of the Boston Red
Sox, who, married after the passage Of
the draft law, has been notified by his
draft board at Fresno, CAL. that he
has been moved from class 2 to class !.
Ernie Koob. former pitcher Of the
St. Louis Browns, and Harry Glenn,
catcher of the st. Pauls, comprise the
of the Overland Aviation
They expect to sail for France
before snow flies.
Baseball teams representing various
plants. East and West, fol-
lowing out the idea of encouraging
sports as a recreation,
may meet in tina championship series
between the two leading mines of the
two leagues at the end of the season.
Many former major and minor league
players are members of the teams.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
Wyoming.

Reliance Oil Company. drilling six
miles east of Douglas, on the Yellow
stone highway. has found pay sand at
1,40O feet.
In the Salt Creek field the Boston
Wyoming has completed a well on Sec
zion "a, in the second Wall Creek, at
$3.50 feet, and has a producer.
On the Buck Creek dome north Of
Manville and Lusk, the well OF the
Western Consolidated Petroleum Com
pany is reported making 200 barrels
Of heavy oil.