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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-05-16

nate Sunday.
Some twenty Ogallah State Guards
went to Quinter Monday night the 9Th
inst and feel well repaid for going,
as we were so well entertained; it's
almost indescribable-
Ed Dietrich and family returned to
Colorado Springs last Friday night
after, interring their SON, Lester, in
the Ogallah cemetery. The whole
community extend their sympathy to
the bereaved family.
Ogallah was well represented at
Wa-Keeney, May End, going "Over
the Top" We have cause to feel proud
of our Ogallah State Guard, consider
ing just few times and new members
Keep coming in; we have about rs
members now and willssoon make a
fine showing.
(This weeks news)
Herman Erickson left on the jitney
Tuesday for the training camp.
c. J. Lofstead's have another girl
which was born May 1st. All doing
fine.
Don't forget Saturday is a holiday
and come to the Red Cross War Fund
Benefit sale.
Rev Stevens delivered the best
patriotic address last Sunday night it
has been our privilege to hear.
Our Epworth League gave a social
at Ross Blakely's last Friday night to
full house. All report a fine time
4
farewell party for Herman Ericsson
last Wednesday night which was q
delightful event. Miss Alberta Plat
ner, of Ellis, was the guest of honor
Don't forget that the picture show
Saturday night, May 18th, will be
given to the Red Cross fund absolute
ly and completely; so come and see
a good show and help out in this grea
cause.
Our regular meeting hour of tn,
Ogallah State Guard has been chan :.
ed from Monday night to Saturda,
afternoon at 2 o'clock sharp, to bet
ter accommodate the farmers. We hav,
rs members and still growing. Com
and be with u.s.
OoHe u OSdIaH on SATURDAY, MA.
IL, 1918, to the Red Cross War Fun,
sale and everybody bring somethin,
to sell. Sale to commence at 10 7
m. Ladies' Aid will serve dinner TO
the benefit of the Red Cross fund, 5
come and bring your families all t
dinner and be patriotic. Ogalla
Guards will be in charge of the pro
gram and will give an exhibition a
200 p. m. Come.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-05-16
OGALLAH
(Too late for last weekly

(IOO IaCe TOT last week.
Everybody busy listing corn.
Miss Anna Reid, of Colorado
Springs, has been visiting Ogallah
friends the past week.
Some of the wheat that was report
ed dead and buried has been resurect-
ed again by the summer weather.
We wish to heartily thank Company
A. Wa-Keeney State Guards for so
royalty entertaining US on May End.
Rev. Parish filled his appointment
in Ogallah last Sunday to a full house.
He will continue coming every alter
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-05-16

Eugene Brown, who is at Camp
Funston in motor truck department,
is home on a fifteen days leave.
Harry Stark, F. K. Zeman, Emmett
Barnhart and Herman Erickson left
Tuesday for Camp Funston being call
ed in the draft for that date.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-05-16


Meeting of the Board of Equalization.
To equalize the assessed valuation
OF personal and real property in said
county.
Notice is hereby given that the
board OF county commissioners of the
county of Trego, in the state of Kan
sas, constituted as a Board of Equal
ization will meet at the County Clerks
Office in the said county and state on
the
Third Monday in May Next A. D. 1918,
and proceed to fairly and impartially
equalize the valuation of the personal
and real property in said county at
which meeting, or adjourned meeting,
if any, all persons feeling themselves
aggrieved with assessments made and
returned by the Deputy Assessors,
can appear and have all errors in the
returns corrected
Dated this 9Th day of May A. D.
1918.
C. H. Benson,
County Assessor.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-05-16
First published in the Western Kansas
World. May IS. 1879
PUBLICATION NOTICE
C. H. Benson,
County Assessor.

In the District Court of Trego County.
Kansas
Lucy NJ. Bertran. Plaintiff.
William w Bertran, Defendant
To said defendant. william W. Bertran-
You are hereby notified that you have
been sued in the District Court OF Trego
County Kansas. in an action wherein Lucy
M. Bertran is plaintiff and you are defend
ant. said action being NO 1854 and that I'M
less you answer or demur TO the petitIon OF
the plaintiff fled in said action on or before
the 27th day of Jnue. 1913 said petition viii
be taken true. ana Judgment and decree
will be rendered in said action diSSOIving.
setting aside. and holding for naught the
bonds of matrimony heretofore existing be-
ing said plaintiff from you: giving said
plaintiff the care custody and control OF her
minor child Bertha Helen Bertran. together
with the costs of said action. and Such other
and further relief as may appear equitable
and just
Plaintiff
2 s. NJ HUTZEL.
Attorney for Plaintiff
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-05-16

L. G. johnson made business trip
to Kansas City and Wichita the last
of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. r. Hille and child
rem and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hickman
and children autoed to Collyer last
Sunday.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-05-16
CARD OF THANKS

To the many kind friends who so
kindly assisted and comforted US IN
burial of our beloved son and brother,
we wish to extend our heart felt
thanks and for the beautiful flowers
E. F. Dietrich and family.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-05-16
DANCE

There viii be dance at Big Creek
Hall, Saturday evening, May IS, 1918.
Good music and q good time. Adv 1t.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
INTRODUCES TEL E G. R A M
FROM TOMATO
MAN
Wool Grower Charges
Combine With Packers
Meatless Day Policy of Hoover
Assailed-Gronna Takes Poke
at the Government Railroad
Management.

WASHINGTON March 11-Senator
Reed of Missouri today received from
J w. Kellogg, of San Francisco, a
telegram charging that the prices fix
ed by the food administration for to-
Inatoes have placed the growers at
the mercy of the California packers
association. Mr.. Kellogg declared in
his telegram that the packers were
represented on the food administra-
tion by Charles H. Bentley, an as
sistant to Herbert G. Hoover
The tomato prices are now under
investigation by the senate agricul-
ture committee Complaints have
come from growers in many states
besides California. Action on Mr..
Kellogg's telegram probably will be
postponed until the agriculture com
mittee makes it's report within the
next few days.
The food administration has played
into the hands of the large packers,
according to testimony offered before
the senate agricultural committee to-
day w. Mcclure secretary of the
National Wool Growers association
told the committee that the packers
are paying low prices on meat pro-
ducts because the food administra-
tion has ordered that high prices
shall not be paid. He declared that
this move by the food administration
was what the packers wanted.
At this point in the testimony Sen
ator Kenyon of Iowa broke in with
evident disgust, saying: 1--WE might
as we'll admit the packers are as
big as the government"
Senator Kenyon again advised gov
erhment operation of the packing in
dustry, but Senator Norris said
What is the use? We have then
under government licenses and dom
seem to be able to do anything will
them and the same people would have
charge if the government operated
them"
Mcclure continuing his testimony
attacked the "meatless' day policy o.
the food administration. He declar
ed that there is more beef and NUT
ton in this country than can be pos
sibly consumed during the presen
year land our exports are insignifi
can't" he added Sheep raisers have
lost millions of dollars because o
the "meatless days." Mcclure said
and the result mas been the surplus
of lambs on the market and conse
quent low prices which are driving
the growers out of business The ca
situation is also seriously hamperinI
the meat producer, Mcclure testified
Senator Gronna of North Dakota, in
terrupted here to observe that "Thi
H. only another evidence that tn
people who are handling the railroad
problem are not railroad men,.
Senator Gore announced that tn
investigation would be continued to
morrow and that special attention
will be paid to investigating the in
fluences (which have helped" in tn
price fixing.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
SUSPECTS SURROUNDED AND
ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED
AT ONCE
American Girl Is Said to
Be Leader
Turkish Woman Also Prominent
William Kerthaus, Member of
the German Army Is Taken Into
Custody by the Officials.

NEW YORK. March 12.-For the
first time since the United States en-
tered the war federal authorities to-
day are on the trail of a band of wom-
en- spies, suspected of having been in
strumental in communicating valuable
military secrets to Berlin.
IN American woman, said to be one
of the leaders of the band is today be-
ing guarded in an uptown hotel Her
arrest is declared to be imminent An
other woman, who. it is expected, will
be taken into custody shortly, is a
subject of Turkey She is reported
to be of a titled family.
Disclosures that the arrests were
imminent followed the visit here of
John Lord Bryan, chief aid TO United
States attorney Gregory, in direct
charge of alien enemy Investigations.
Bryan conferred with Chief Charles
De Woody, of the department of JUS
tice, and later with United States Dis
trict Attorney John Knox. 1t is under
stood the conference had to do with
when the arrests would be made
A fashionable uptown hotel has been
the meeting place of the band 1t is
believed they had men confederates
although no evidence to prove this has
yet been uncovered.
The authorities have steadfastly re-
fused to make known the identity OF
the American girl under suspicion
She is reported to be a member of a
well known family
William Kerthaus, who is declared
to be absent from the German army
by special permission, is being held in
the Tombs to await action by the new
ly created alien enemy bureau Ker.
thaus is said to have been in constant
communication with German agents in
Portugal, India, Spain and Brazil
Kerthaus has been held for two
weeks, although federal agents have
just allowed it to become known. He
has been rooming in an apartment
house on the west side, where he coulC
overlook shipping in the Hudson riv
er. He had several cameras in hi.
possession, in violation of the presi
dents order to alien enemies.
A German woman in Boston is de
clared to have been an aid of Ker
thaus in getting communications ou
of this country.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
DRAFT DATE NON-EXISTANT IS
DECLARATION OF GENERAL CROWDER
All Alleged Announcements Wrong Increment
VIII be Assimilated in Small Portions as Need
ed-Awaits Action of Congress-Labor Situa-
ton Is Difficult agriculture Will be Protected

riculture a new regulation has been
promulgated authorizing agricultural
students in their senior year in land
grant colleges to enlist in the enlist
ed reserve corps OF the quartermas-
ter's department privedes their class
standing is found to be in the
upper third OF their class. By this
means it will be possible to defer the
draft call of such young men in or
der to enable them to perfect them
selves as agriculturists and thereaf-
ter to protect them in such services
as it may seem that they should per-
form in the best interests of the ma
ton
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
Finney Quits Job
to Go on a Farm

l. Is. Finney, long deputy county
auditor, threw up his job Monday to
go on one of his farms to raise prov
ender to help win the war Mr.. Finney
has a farm near Buhl, one near Ber-
ger and one across the high line canal
on which last he expects to devote
most of his energies. He has been in
the auditors office for several years
and was universally regarded as an
efficient official. One the same day
Miss Jennie Walker retired as in
dex clerk to accept a position in the
First National Bank Miss Emily
Wal for some time in the service
of the Studebaker company, will take
Miss Walkers place in the auditors
office. The "crowd" at the auditors
office held a farewell party for Mr..
Finney Saturday evening at which
they presented him with an irrigating
shovel as a token of esteem.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
Salmon Settlers Meet
and Elect Officers
Discuss Whiffin Report at Meeting
Saturday-Assistant Counsel Select
ed for Caldwell Case

R. A. Carter, w. F. Mieksell and Ray
NJ Beauchamp were elected president,
vice president and secretary-treasur-
er respectively, at meeting of the Sal
mon Settler association in the office
of Judge C. r. Boutwell,, Saturday.
L. H. Benton, L. E. Joslin d. B.
Adams and A Z. Caldwell discussed
the question of the Whiffin report
and the probability that they would
go to Boise Tuesday to the land board
meeting. The meeting voted to select
Sullivan & Sullivan, of Boise, as as
sistant counsel to Judge Boutwell, in
the Caldwell case.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
BRECKENRIDGE GOES TO FRANCE

Anxious for an opportunity for some
personal service in the great national
struggle, Mr.. L. l.. Breckenridge OF
this city, only few days ago answer
ed an urgent call for help from the
National Red Cross headquarters at
Washington by a proffer to accept a
call if actual necessity existed. Just
yesterdy, or almost as soon as the
wires could be put in use, the call
came. 1t is known that Mr.. Breck-
enridge's duty will be executive work
for the Red Cross in France; but nc
definite plans as yet made as to the
time of departure.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
ESSAYS ON TAXATION
OF THE RICH PUBLISHED

The subject of income taxation is
discussed in this issue in two articles
signed by Otto Kahn, the noted expert
The TIMES has on several occasions
discussed editorially the same subject,
which is now being handled by the
four-minute men at all the theatres
throughout the country. The purpose
is to call attention Of the people to the
fact that the charge set forth by pro-
German agitators that this is ga rich
mans war and poor mans fight" is
false. The articles are well written.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
PERSHING FIRST TO
GREET SECRETARY BAKER

PARIS, March H. General
John j. Pershing, commander in
chief of the American forces in
France. rs one OF the first per-
sons TO greet Secretry of War
Newton ID. Baker when he ar
rived here today from Washing
ton.
Secretary Baker and his party
arrived mt the French port on an
American W'arship n and travelled
to Paris over night in special
ear. Before lie departs for the
American front Secretary Baker
will have an audience with Presi-
dent POiDcare, Premier Clemen-
ceau and other nOtables.
Secretary Baker refused to
make any statement.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
"OyER THE TOPv LATEST
IN FANCY HAIR TONIC

PEPPERELL, Mass, March 11-An
"Over the Top" is the most popular
thing in this town just now 1t is a
new hair tonic. A local barber, who
invented a concoction guaranteed to
put furze on billiard balls, advertis-
ed among the men at Camp Devens, a
few miles from here. an offer OF
twenty shaves and fifteen hair cuts
for the soldiers who would give him
the best name for his new hair tonic
"Over the Top" won.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
HUNS DESTROY
HUrS OF y. VI. &. A.

CHICAGO, March 1l-All front
Y. NJ. &. A. huts in Russia have
been destroyed by the Germans
and the secretaries compelled to
retire before the advancing
hOrdes Of Huns, according to
cable dispatches received here
today by the national war work
council.
All secretaries and workers are
reported safe, however.
jerome Davis, national secre-
tary for the Y. VI. G. A., in Rus
sia, cables that the majority Of
the secretaries have gone to ST.
beria while several representa-
tiyes are being kept at Moscow.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
LOST WILL HELD GOOD

(By International News Service)
PITTSBURGH. Pa, March 11.-A
will that was lost when an overcoat
was stolen several years ago, pre-
served by the thief and returned by
him was declared genuine by Judge
J. ]. Trimble in Probate Court
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
CHICAGO MILLTNERY HIGHER

CHICAGO, March 11.-Father Dear
born's daughters are going to pay
more for their spring millinery this
year. Nine hundred Chicago milliners,
women and men, have organized un-
ions. They have been getting thirty
five cents an hour and now expect to
get sixty.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
PAN-RUSSIAN
CONGRESS In
MOSCOW TODAY
SEVERAL ELEMENTS WILL
GATHER TO DISCUSS THE
SITUATION
Hopes That Muscovites
Will Fight
Stiffening of Forces Are Antici-
pated-Germans Advance on
Odessa, the Principal Port of
Russia on the Black Sea.

COPENHAGEN, March r. - The
fourth pan-Russian congress of work.
mems and soldiers councils is sched-
uled to meet today in Moscow and the
fate of the Bolshevih regime at Petro-
grad may depend upon its decisions.
There are several factions among
the representatives of the various
councils or soviets. Lenine, the Boil
sheviki premier, is understood to ia
vor ratification of the peace that was
effected between the Bolshevih and
the central powers, and in this he is
supported by the Petrograd and Mos
COW councils. Another faction desires
formal reputation of the treaty and
the formation of a red army. A third
faction suggests that the treaty is ig-
nored and that Holy war" or guer-
lila war be instituted against the Aus
tro-Germans and "all other enemies
of the revolution"
Just as the delegates were gathering
at Moscow for the convention, word
came from Irkutsk that the movement
for a separate government in Siberia
under Prince Lvoff and other influ-
entail Russians of the anti-Bolsheviki
type is gathering headway. There also
were reports of fighting between the
BolsheviH and anti-BolsheviH forces
in eastern Russia
Just what part Leon Trotzky, form
er Bolshevih foreign minister, will
play at Moscow, is uncertain.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12
COMMITTEE WILL REPORT 1T
IN A DAY OR so AS PRESI-
DENT WISHES
Bitter Fight Is Now
Anticipated
Senator Chamberlain to Lead in
the Aitack-Legislative Right
of Way to be Granted for It's
Prompt Disposition by Solons.

WASHINGTON, March 12.-With
President Wilson rejecting all com
promises, a "show down" on the Over
man bill, granting the administration
board powers to reorganize the war
management, was close at hand today.
Following a conference last night
with the president, Senator Overman
declared today that the bill would be
favorably reported by the senate ju-
dietary committee by a small margin
of votes. The president is reported to
have expressed disapproval of the
Hoke Smith amendment, confining the
proposed reorganization to the wal
and navy departments and specifically
excluding the federal reserve board
WASHINGTON, March 12.-Witf
President Wilson rejecting all com
promises a "show down on the Over
man bill, granting the administration
! broad powers to reorganize the wal
management, was close at hand to-
day
Following a conference last night
with the president, Senator Overman
declared today that the bill would
be favorably reported by the senate
judiciary committee by small margin
of votes The president is reported
to have expressed disapproval of the
Hoke Smith amendment, cOnfining the
proposed reorganization to the wal
and navy Departments and specifically
excluding the federal reserve board
and the interstate commerce com
mission.
This means that bitter and pro.
longed fight is inevitable. Unless
something unexpected changes the
situation, the whole controversy ovei
the conduct of the war will be re.
opened in the senate when the bill i:
brought up for consideration JUS
what the outcome will be, no one
could safely predict today. The senate
is almost evenly divided on the ques
ton.
Senator Chamberlain, chairman o
the military affairs committee, al
most entirely recovered from an at
tack of appendicitis, will be in tn
thick of the fray He will offer hi
war cabinet and munitions dictate
bills as amendments to the reorgani
zation bill He and his faction tax
the position that no reorganizatio
can bring the results necessary unles
strong central directing force /
created to determine the priority Q
war actions.
The judiciary committee expects t
have a decisive vote on the Overma
bill tomorrow. The legislative righ
of way will he practically clear 70
Drompt consideration of the measur
in thp senate
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-12

w AOI1lNG lONt MdICu Il. - "A
prompt stiffening of Russian resist
ance to the German hordes that are
overrunning that stricken nation is
hoped for today as the consequence
of President Wilson's letter of cheer
and encouragement to the Russian
congress of soviets. The message,
timed to reach these representatives
of the Russian people at the moment
they begin deliberation on the ques-
tion of accepting or rejecting the Ger
man terms of peace, is expected to
have a very weighty influence. Ad-
ministration officials do not conceal
their confidence that it may be the
consideration that will swing the Rus
slams against accepting the shameful
terms dictated by Berlin.
While the message, remarkable in
many ways, among the president S
wide variety of state papers, has for
its primary object the rehabilitation
of the Russians morale, it has also
collateral meanings. 1t is notice to
the world that the president means
| to adhere to his determination that
the war shall not end until the pres
ent German government is wiped out
1t is notice to the world that when
President Wilson said before congress
on January Sth that the terms OF
peace must include the evacuation OF
all Russian territory and chance
for Russias national development, he
meant exactly that. 1t means that
Hertling's stand that the Russian
problem concerns only Russia and the
central powers and Czernin's insist
ence that it should be solved by pie
biscite under the control of Teuton
army of occupation, have strengthened
the conviction that peace cannot be
obtained while Prussianism is in the
saddle. 1t means that the United
States stands irrevocably committed
to the doctrine enunciated by the pres
ident in congress February IL, when
he declared that every territorial set
tlement involved in this war must be
made in the interest and for the bene-
fit of the populations concerned The
German terms to Russia contemplate
no such thing, it was pointed out to-
day, and the president has made il
clear to the Russians in his own
frank, direct manner, the kinship and
support real democracy in Russia may
expect from the United States.
1t was a matter of great satisfac-
ton to administration officials today
that the president adopted the means
Continued on Page 81
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II it's too good to throw
away ard not good enough
to sell, trade it through
q State Historical Soc
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Phone OF mail your wants
to the TINES. Ii is THE
advertising medium OF
Twin Falls County.