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The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
Important to Mothers
QUESTION ALL MUST ANSWER
Time Comes When Every Man Will
Be Asked as to the Harvest He
Has Reaped.

Earth shows her harvest in pride Of
fullness or regret of bitter poverty;
what is ours-we who also have had
our year? AS the old phrase has 1t,
What fruits have we brought forth?
Man is not bound to the seasons as
titled land is and needs no barn to
gather his soul in when autumn comes;
but, with the same plainness, he
either does not yield the values by
which mankind truly lives. When fair
closes down on summers parting the
greatest and the least Of us have
either helped or hindered the perma-
nent welfare of our race. Mans own
business is to increase justice and
kindness; to make more of patience,
humility. and courage; to see to it that
evil loses and that good is strength
ened in the unending conflict of those
forces. For the souls harvest home
it Is either tares or wheat; there is no
fallow ground. The sowing is unseen
Of others, and the reaper, also, but the
care and thought that go to the grow
ing of the crop are much the same.
But mans own harvest is infinity and
eternally more important than that
which he wrests from the f1eld.-Col-
lier's.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
Montana,

Northern Montana Natural Gas
Company has been Incorporated by
Vice President Kelly and other Off
cials of the Anaconda Copper Com
pany.
A record for production of Portland
cement was established in the United
States in 1917, the Geological Survey
announced, the output of 1885,, 900
barrels, exceeding that of the banner
year, 1913, by nearly 100000 barrels.
Butte and Superior Company earned
between So and So per share last year.
The company paid out $6.25 per share
in dividends, there having been no dis
bursements during the final quarter Of
1917 owing to restraining order issued
by Montana court.
Kennecott Copper production in
Alaska in December was up to the
normal figure of over 100000
pounds month, and amounted to T.
086,O00 pounds, against 7,142,O0O in
November and 7,116,0OO in October.
The output for the year from the
Alaska properties was 80,556,0 900
pounds, against 1O8,373,OO0 in 1916.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union news service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

A new contingent of Portuguese
troops landed in France.
After pillaging the Spanish steamer
Giralda, German submarine sank the
vessel, which was of 4,4OO tons. The
crew was saved.
BY vote of 3O8 to 4 the Ukrainian
Central Rada mas decided to proclain
the complete independence CT the
Ukraine Republic.
BY the sinking of two steamers by
the enemy in the Mediterranean about
three weeks ago, 718 lives were lost,
1t was announced in London.
Serious fighting has taken place be-
tween Russians and Rumanians in the
neighborhood of Galatz, near the bor-
der, according to a report received
from Austrian headquarters at Brest-
Litovsk
British casualties reported in the
week ending JAM 21 were 1908, di-
vided as follows: Killed or died of
wounds: Officers, 76; men, 2,277.
Wounded or missing: Officers, 213;
men, 14,477.
One hundred and sixty thousand
Turkish troops-more than so per cent
of General Falkenhayn's reorganized
Turkish army-deserted during the re-
cent journey from Constaninople to
Palestine, official dispatches stated.
The Cologne Gazettes Vienna cor
respondent, according to advices
reaching London, says that Count
Czernin, Hungarian minister of
foreign affairs, informed the Austrian
delegations that the text of his speech
on the war aims had been forwarded
to President Wilson before it's deliv-
cry.
Two hundred and twenty members
of the crew of the British monitor
Raglan, one of the vessels engaged in
the recent action with the Turkish
cruisers Midullu and Sultan Selim, at
the entrance to the Dardanelles, per-
ished, according to the casualty list
as announced in London. Fourteen
men were wounded.
There was great aerial activity on
the British front in France, according
to the report from Field Marshal
Haig's headquarters. The British air
men accounted for sixteen hostile air
planes, and themselves lost only one
machine which is reported missing.
In addition the British bombing planes
dropped eight tons of explosives on
various enemy objectives. A German
raid made on the French positions
west of st. Gobain, between the Disc
and Ailette rivers failed.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
Colorado,

An open winter finds plenty of de-
telopment work proceeding success
fully in the Cripple Creek district.
Returns from a car of crude ore re-
Gently shipped from the New Domin-
ion mines at Ophir gave values Of
around $500.
The Matte B. Mining Company, in
corporated at Salida with a capital Of
100000, will develop the Bob Cat min
ing claim.
Ell Paso Oil Company of Colorado
Springs has material on the ground
for it's well near Rush and drilling
operations will be started.
The Annex mine in Lake Gulch, Gil
pin county, an old discovery that has
lain idle for years, is being reopened
by W. H. George and w. F. Tripp o.
Great Falls, Mont.
G. H. Hays of Parkersburg, acting
for the Ell Paso Extension Company,
has taken five-year bond and lease
on the Index mine, and expects to
start development shortly.
The report of President A. e. Carl
ton Of the Cresson Consolidated Gold
Mining and Milling Company, mailed
stockholders with the December divi-
dend checks, gives details of dis
covery of ore running as high as thir-
ty-three ounces gold, or $3.50 ton, in
grab samples, in a raise between the
fifteenth and fourteenth levels.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
GEN G RAJ.

A flood reported in the upper Rhine
valley has inundated the city of Co.
logne, destroying quantities of pro-
visions.
All New York newspapers were put
on a 2-cent an issue basis. Increase
of materials and labor was given as
the reason.
The National News of London says
it understands British labor delega-
tion soon will leave England for the
United States.
From so to rs per cent more gas
was used in New York city during the
first twenty days of 1918 than in the
same period in 1917, because of the
coal shortage and intense cold.
More than a million dollars worth
of property was destroyed in fire
believed to be the work of German
spies, which burned up oil barges, a
pier, warehouse and freight cars on
Newark bay at Newark, N. J.
The United States ratio in dollar
coinage is 1898, which brings the
gold coinage value of an ounce of fine
silver to $1.2929. Coinage of dollars
has been discontinued since 1904 The
weight of our subsidiary coinage, that
is, half dollars, quarters and dimes, is
about 6.46 per cent less in proportion
to the silver dollar.
Judge Walter H. Sanborn of the
United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals swore in Edward l.. Brown,
president of the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad Company, and Alexander r.
Baldwin, San Francisco attorney and
vice president of the Western Pacific
Railroad Company, as joint receivers
for the Denver & Rio Grande.
The town of Mackay, in Queens
land, has been overwhelmed by a cy-
clone which produced a tidal wave
and flood conditions. Heavy loss of
life is feared. Fourteen bodies have
already been recovered. There is
call for assistance. Property damage
was heavy, especially to the stocks of
sugar, of which more than 100000
worth was stored in the town.
Greater saving of food was asked of
the American people by President
Wilson in a proclamation announcing
the Food Administrations 1918 con-
servation program.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
FOREIGN

Petrograd suffered damage estimat-
ed at $50O,0O0 when fire wiped out
one-half of the business section.
The proposal to close the port of
London to merchant shipping has Gre
ated strong opposition from London
commercial interests.
The Belgian government was ad-
vised that the American Red Cross
has placed at it's disposal 100000
francs for the relief of Belgian ref
ugees.
Winston Churchill, munition minis
ter, announced in the British House
of Commons that increases in wages
granted to 100000 men engaged vim
munition factories and shipyards in
volved an ultimate cost Of G14,000,000.
Committees in fifty-three of the sew
enty-six municipalities of Porto Rico
have been appointed by Federal Food
Administrator Albert E. Lee to take
charge in their districts of the pledge
campaign for the conservation of
food.
There has been an increase of
100000 women in British industry
since the war began and an increase
of between G15O,OO0,O00 and $780,
100000 in womens earnings, according
to Lord D'Aberon, controller of liquor
traffic.
Reports of disturbances in Germany
again are current in Holland, and Sc
we're outbreaks are said to have oc-
Cured in the Rheinish industrial dis
tricts. Troops with machine guns
have been summoned to Muelheim, on
the Rhine opposite Cologne.
'~ The latest reports received in Lon
don from British correspondents in
Petrograd say that conditions there
are steadily becoming worse. Oppo-
sition to the Bolshevik government is
growing, principally because of the
recent murder of two former members
of the Kerensky cabinet.
"Austria-Hungary and the United
States practically agree not only on
great principles of new arrangement
of the world after the war, but our
views approach on several concrete
peace questions declared Count
Czernin, Austro-H Hungarian foreign
minister, in a speech reported in vi
emma dispatches.
Chancellor Won Hertling's speech
was characterized in London by Lord
Robert Cecil, minister of blockade, as
'very warlike, certainly not a peace
speech" He added that the speech
had been dictated by Hindenburg and
Ludendorff, and contained no declar-
alton of policy regarding Belgium,
which he had always looked to as a
test of the reality of any proposals
from the other side.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
Wyoming.

Black Bear Company has a total
production of 1000 barrels month in
the Salt Creek field.
The Ohio Company's rig is up in the
north Moorcroft field and a winter
camp has been established.
w. S. Tarbell and others recently
organized the I. x. l.. Oil and Refining
Company, having holdings in Colora-
do, Kansas, Wyoming and Oklahoma,
with total acreage of $500 in the
four states.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
Arizona.


The Southwest Oil Company has
been formed at Oatman to drill for
oil in the Chino valley.
United Verde Extension Mining
Company, it is understood, showed be-
tween $6,000,OO0 and $7,00O,O0O earned
in 1917.
The drift from the 200 level of the
Frisco Gold mines at Kingman has
been driven on the vein a distance of
about 140 feet and is now in mill ore.
Word was received in Kingman to
get everything in readiness at the
Wrigley Sulphide mines to begin the
sinking of the big shaft from the 300
to the 500 level
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
WESTERN
MINING AND OIL
NEWS


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Prices for Metals.
New York.-Lead-Spo $712h
Bar silver-873sc.
Copper-$2317h.
st. t.Louis.-Spelter-$7.75@800.
Boulder.-Tungsten concentrates, 60
per cent, $25OO@27.5O per unit; crude
ores, 60 per cent, $22.O0@25.O0; 25 per
cent, $12.OO@12.5O; 10 per cent, $9.40
@12.2O per unit.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.

To half pint of water add or. Bay
Rum, small box of Barbo Compound,
and Il OF. of glycerine. Any druggist can
put this up or you can mix it at home at
very little cost. Full directions for maxi
ing and use come in each box of Barbo
Compound. 1t will gradually darken
streaked, faded gray hair, and make it soft
and glossy. 1t will not color the scalp, is not
sticky or greasy, and does not rub off. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
Hard on Henry.

"Tm afraid Henry is going to be dis
appointed with army life," remarked
Mr.. Cobbles.
"Why SOP"
"Henry was always dead set against
manual labor, an I understand all
them trenches in Europe was dug by
soldiers"
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
Economizinu Time.

"What will you have for dinnerY
asked the affable waiter.
"Go ahead and bring what you are
serving today" replied the hungry
man. "Don't make me guess"
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02

Certainly" says the average man,
'if all the fools were dead our ideas
would soon become universal"
The Benson signal., 1918-02-02
JustifiabIe Ignorance.

The Newcomer-Did you ever shoot
a man?
The ld-Timer-Aye.
"What did it feel lke?"
"I dinna ken. He never spoke after
wards. Judge.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-12

Lcjpzig Paper Declares DR.. Sell WIN
Soon Succeed Him.

Amsterdam, Sept. 12.-;cports OF
tho jmmicnccy Of Count von hcrE-
linr's resignation, first exclusively
cablod 20 Universal Service on Aug
ust 81. arc becoming daily more IN
sistent.
Yesterday the Liepzigcr TagebIatt
Gatly says the Imperial chanccilor's
departure from Office j. to J" c%pc"t-
Cd as a certainty. The pagef adds
that DR.. Self. the colonial secretary
is slated to succeed Iiertlng, which +
J rcpctition Of previous reports.
new bit Of light is thrown upon
the impending political upheavai'
however, by the Tagchlatt's predic-
lion that Or. Matthias Erzhcrger inc
Ccnrrist leader, and Philip Schci1e-
mann, .ea!.;sf9ta:si e .!as -7IajnritS Sc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-12

cialists, are both to become minis
tiers.
Fulfllment of that prediction would
indeed mean an experimenting change,
not only in the complexion Of the
Berlin government. but in the whole
German policy, observers here believe.
It would mean the temperance n
the offing Of the Reichstag major
ity, of which Erzberger is the ack-
nowledged leader.
This Reichstag majority, it is true,
has been virtually non-cxistcnt since
March p, when the German super
offensive was launched.
For six months the ''bloc," which in
July of last year surprised the world
by an unheard-of assertion of will,
eliminating in the famous "peace
rcsol0tion," practically forced upon
the Junkerist government, has been
obediently silent and silently obcdi-
ent.
There was much talk early last
spring about contract between the
"bloc" AM. the Ludendorffists, by
which the latte were to be allowed
an absolutely free hand during the
campaigning season. The militarlsts.
it was understood, had finally mana
ged to convince the Reichstag major
ity that the war could be won. Abso-
lutte internal unity was stipulated az
the condition sine qua non, and the
bloc went into the silcnccs TO let the
shining sword conquer peace
But since the Marine debaclc things
have been stirring in the camp of the
liberals. Discipline is too much flesh
and blood even with the most ardent
opponents of Junkerism to permit of
a breach of contract. The campaign
ing season will run it's course and
things will continue tame until the
armies go into winter quarters.
But with typical generalization
Wilhelmstrasse, itself convinced at
last that the Shining sword" must
once more he sheathcd without hav-
ing shattered the enemy, is preparing
for the great "come-down," for such
will be the creation of government
in which men life Self, Erzberger and
Scheidemann have seats.
There is every indication that the
plan to kill two flies with one swat:
to put up reform front" before the
whole world, inviting friend and foe
to behold the remarkable liberal and
progressive complexion of the new
government and at the same time con-
ciiatc these parties at whose fury
over a year Of terrible slaughter
which they asserted last year could
be avolcd-is approaching the burst
inS point.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-12
GERMAN WOMEN IN RANKS
Fight Beside Old Men And Young
BOYS.

How Il woman fighting side by side
with old men and young boys in the
German army was killed by our men
is told by Private Maurice Schultz in
a letter to his mother, Mrs. Lydia j.
Schultz, us Luray Place, northwest,
Washington. Private SchultZ's name
appeared among the wounded in Tues
days casualty list.
Writing from hospital where he
was taken after being wounded, July
Is, ii in the first big drive on Chateau
Thicrry, Private Schultz said:
"Mamma, the Kaiser must be crazy.
the way he throws those troops of his
against men he knows will get him ut
his own game. q Just the other day
our men killed German woman. We
would not have done it had we known
she was a woman. We would have
taken her prisoner. But her head was
shaved and she was dressed in the I'M
form of a soldier, fighting side by side
with old men and boys II and j.
years old.
"I'he other day we took about 4
thousand young boys prisoners. Half
of them were crying and were glad to
he taken over by us. They told rs
that the internal conditions Of their
country are fearful; that the people
are half starving.
"Wcll, mamma, it is nothing to 90
over the top, as lohg as you keep
YOUR head. The first time over is gen
orally your hardest, because you arc
wondering if you arc going to get kill
ed or not That's the way with most
Of the boys.
"Whcn ! was wounded I went over
the ton with the rest of the boys and
WAS hit in the back Of the head with
a piece Of shrapn"i. lay in the hole
made by the shell for two hours, as
the boys rushed on and drove the
Fritzies back. Finally two men saw
me and took me to field hospital.
"Whcn | woke UP after the opera
ticn to take the shrapncl from m!
head found the piece Of metal wrap
ped Op in a rag in my nightshir
pocket"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-12
ACQUIRING a HABIT.

Bv Gertrude Athcrton Of the Wig.
!lantcs.
Probably nothing could hun.iliata
US more than to be forced to admit
any suncrior quality in Il race for
which we have a profound loathiG"
md contempt. AMI yet it is a fac.
ttat the national habit of thrift in
Germany is one secret Of its prolonged
resistance to the combined might Ct
The civilized world. It is quite true
that before the war the Germans were
cross eaters, but they wasted nothing,
The moment the civilians were ordered
TO eat less and save the scraps they
drew IN their belts and did as they
vera told. It might be difficult to
control the cravings Of their distcndci
stomachs but to scrimp and save ia
volvcd no long apprenticeship, cos,
them practically no effort whatever.
The same may be said Of France.
While England-as wastcful a nation
e our own-was issuing repeated and
almost frantic warnings to her people.
,icvisirr constant new aethods 10 con-
troll their natural extravaganza and d!
one tine threatened with Starvation
:he French simply went or economic
irw and never were in danger for .
moment.
| never shall forget my first visit to
Paris. Il was to friends who lived in
great style, nut if / happened 10 fec!
hungry during the day or when went
to bed late, I either had to 60 aungc:-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-12
POISONED 81 STRING BEANS
Child Picked Them From Her Parcnts'
War Garden.

York, Sept. l2.-MaTy NJ. Wcancll,
> years old, died from eating raw
string beans, which she had picked
from her parents war garden. TIC
beans poisoned the child's system and
she di=! oae sYseE. after eating than.
The Dolores star., 1918-02-22
Women Quick to Aid.

Already women volunteers of
Denver who registered for national
service are giving aid to the state
and nation.
Although the registration for
service has not been completed,
women who have volunteered to
give clerical service have been
called to help the government and
are helping it. They are assisting
In the complicated task of index
ing the draft questionnaires made
out under the new classifications
In the selective service. When
the needs of the draft officials were
made known the leaders of the
women's county council immed-
lately turned to their files for
women who had volunteered to do
clerical. work and quickly obtained
a volunteer force to help in the
indexing.
Mrs. Bertha E. Teller, who has
been in charge of the Denver regis
tration of women, reported last
week that 81 900 registration cards
had been issued to women of the
city and that more than one half
had been returned to headquarters
filed out for indexing and filing.
1nclement weather in January
hindered the registration and it is
still being continued.
In addition to the 81 900 regis
tration cards the registration work.
ers have distributed $4,000 Red
Cross circulars, $4,000 fuel cards
and $4,000 thrift stamp circulars
with accompanying blue postcards.
Splendid results have followed.
The number of Red Cross workers
was doubled early in the registra-
tion and now it has tripled.
A force of 2,ooo workers, syste-
matically organized to canvass
every block in the city, has been
carrying the registration on.
The Dolores star., 1918-02-22
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

In the matter OF the 0otate OF william II.
Burch, deceased.
BY virtue Of an order and decree OF the county
court Of Montexuma county, made on the peti-
tion Of the undersigned, administrator Of the
estate Of William b. Burch, deceased. on the
i.s 18th day ef Eebrpary, 4; D 1918 shall on th:
y O'Clock a; m, sell at public sale 20 tho
highest and beat bidder, at the front door Of
the county court house in the Town Of Cortes
in said county, tho following described rsai
estate of said deceased, to-wtt:
South east quarter Of north west quarter and
eouth west quarter OF north east quarter Of
section q. in township y north Of range Il
west of tho Nov Mexico principal meridian, in
the County Of Nontezuma and State Of Colo
RADIO; excepting right Of way o. Ths. Rio Grende
Southern Railroad Company. a. described 10
Book 3, at page 20 Of Che reeords IN the Re
Of way for public highway; upon the following
terms, viz for cash, and at not les than the
appraised value thereof.
AZ the conclusion Of such sale the purchaser
will b entitled 10 certiacate Of purchase
and upon the approval of sueh sale b she
Court the purchaser will b entitled TO q dsUd
Of said real property.
CnARLEs 3. sAIfn, Adninissrator
Of the estate Of william Il. Burch, deceased
Dated ut Cortes, Colorado, this 18Th day q
February, A. d. 1913.
Puhlished fob. - and mar. I, 1o1H.
The Dolores star., 1918-02-22
.sThs Averaes cjeinss.'.


sThs Avesags cDelzsn."
The following editorial appeared
In the Auskogee Times Descent
Of Japuary IL. 1918:
II am the average citizen. In
the early morning I walk . mile
OF % to my o6ce and swear be-
cause the street cars are not run.
ming and I am inconvenienced.
During the day the gas. is weak
and the Office temperature 10 low.
I rave at the gas company. Al
home at night I let out . roar be-
cause the grocer has NOT delivered
my order and the coal man has
failed to appear. Ny wife says
the house il cold and forsooth
beat it to the back yard and rustic
enough kindling and slack coal to
make ere in the CRATE. Then l
get my evening paper and settle
down to read with the feeling that
I have had q very strenuous day,
yes, that the world is going badly.
I have had repeated inconveniences
and annoyances.
But what do not think about,
and what you do not remember,
my friend, is that it is Is cold or
colder in France as il il in Musko-
gee. That when You and I were
only walking q mile or sp to our
Offices hundreds Of thousands of
men, men as good as you or I.
were taking their places in the
trenches. We complained that our
Offices were cold. But what would
we have said If we had had to
spend yesterday in q trench with a
zero wind whipping us from one
side and the Boches potting US
from the other? While you and I
worried about keeping our houses
warm and the pipes from freezing
last night, hundred of thousands
of brave men were ont there on the
raw edge of mo Mans Land"
with their toes digging in and their
teeth barred at the Boches, as it
were. And they stuck to their
trenches too. They stuck for you
and for me and for all mankind.
They'll keep on sticking. I have
no doubt, though freezing in their
boots when the blizzard swoops
down upon them. Pretty cold in
Muskogee last night. but no colder
than in q Flanders trench. Think
1t over"