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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-02
j, S. S. GARCIA
NEVER TO BE
LAUNCHED
AMERICAN NAVAL BASE IN

AMERICAN NAVAL BASE IN
FRANCE, Oct. 26. - The United
States ship Carola," a craft that
never went to sea and never will, a
vessel" with stone walls, under
ground dungeons, 20 miles OF tun-
nels and a vast bulk of masonry an
chored to mother earth, is one of
the sights at this port.
It is a massive castle standing at
the waters edge that bears this
range name. 1t is an ancient
chateau, built 600 years ago, in the
thirteenth century, and one OF
the marvels of Gothic architectural
construction. 1t is used o as
the United States naval barracks
and, being put to naval uses, it was
given a naval christening as the U.
S. S. Garcia.
The way this castle came to be
named as a United States warsh1p
was this: The United States Garcia
is in reality. a small steam yacht'
used during the Spanish wars. 1t is
rather out of date and was tied up
to the castle wall. Here it became
very useful in making out requisi-
lions and supplies needed in he
castle. To make a requisition for
a castle would seem quite irregular.
And so everything was requisitioned
for the United States Garcia, and
in that way the castle got it's equip
ment without disturbing any for
malities.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-02
ORDINANCE MAKES
MASK WEARING
COMPULSORY

The board of county commission
ers today passed an ordinance re-
curing the wearing of influenza
masks everywhere where two or
more persons are liable to congre-
gate. The ordinance became eff
fective today. Persons violating
it will be arrested and tried on a
misdemeanor charge. In general,
the ordinance means that masks
must be worn on the streets, in bus
mess houses and in homes and vio-
lations will be severely punished.
Three cases of Spanish influenza
in Tonopah have been reported to
DR.. C. j. Richards, Nye county
health officer. and steps are being
taken to combat the disease. The
Tonopah chapter of the Red Cross is
starting to make enough masks to
supply everyone in the town.
The following are some of the in
structions issued to school children
here this morning:
Avoid the person who coughs or
%sneezes, make full use of all avail
able sunshine. keep out of crowded
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-02
FISH LAKE VALLEY
RESIDENTS ARE
ENTERTAINED

Goldfield endeavored on Saturday
evening to repay the people of Fish
Lake valley for the evidences of
hospitality extended to the people
OF Goldfield on many occasions in
the past. The ranchers from the
valley were entertained at a dinner
at the Goldfield hotel at which
more than seventy people were seat
ed. From the hotel the company
proceeded to the Lyric theater and
after the entertainment there par
ticipated in a dance in Elks' hall
which continued until 4:30 in the
morning.
Among the visitors were the fam
lilies of Alex and Emanuel Molini,
David Patterson, d. H. McNett and
Bradford Dean from Fish Lake val
ley and Mr.. and Mrs. Harlan AGREE,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Parker and Mr..
and Mrs. Ben F. Harrington of Sill
yer Peak.
Refreshments prepared by the la
dies of Goldfield who had visited
fish Lake were served in the club
rooms. An unusual feature of the
dance was the compulsory wearing
If the Flu" masks, which gave
novelty to the affair, along with
some inconvenience, but everybody
treated the matter as a wise precau-
zion.
During intermission in the dance
Mrs. Theo entertained the company
with two vocal selections, including
the Marseillaise, and Jack Aylward,
always a popular favorite, contrib
uted several entertaining numbers
from his in~exhaustible repertoire.
Everybody had a good time and
every effort was made to have the
! good people from Fish Lake valley,
who have on so many occasions
opened their homes to the people
of Goldfield feel hat there is al
ways a place for them here and a
warm welcome.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-02

AMSTERDAM, Oct. &c. mo
buying from America if it can pos
sibly be avoided" must be the Ger
man watchword after the war, is
the assertion of the Rhenish West
phalian Gazette, an important Ger
man industrial organ. The rea
son given by the paper is that, be-
fore the war, the balance of trade
between the United States and Ger
many was against Germany to the
extent of nearly 1000, 1000, 900
marks a year.
Germany imported from the Unit
ed States goods to the value of l.
I'll, 900, 900 marks, while German
exports to the United States
amounted to 713,0O0,OO0 marks.
Dividends on German holdings of
American securities, in addition,
helped to pay the bill for goods
bought in America.
How could We possible meet a
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-02

LONDON, Oct. &c. - Enlisted
men of the American army grinned
alphabetically as they watched the
American secretary of war, Newton
d. Baker, trudging back and forth
carrying the heavy pack Of the
American soldier on his back when
he visited a camp of American SOL
diers in the Winchester district
while in England. The men were
adjusting their cumbersome kits
when the secretary arrived at the
camp.
"I would like to try n OF
them,' said the secretary to the
sergeant.
The lord mayor of Winchester,
the camp commandant and a group
of soldiers all gathered about as
Mr.. Baker lifted the pack and adj
justed it to his shoulders. Then
he trudged back and forth two or
three times carrying the 70-pound
load while a pair of heavy hob
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-02
u. 5. SECRETARY OF WAR FINDS
PACKS OF SOLDIERS are HEAVY

nailed trench boots. swinging from
the bottom of the kit, banged
against his legs.
Its heavy, alright" he COM
mented as he unburdened himself,
''but not as heavy as the French
mans pack. / tried one of them
on a few days ago and it gave me
an additional respect for the
F%renchman as a soldier"
The secretary made himself at
home and was friendly with the
soldiers. Everywhere he carried
his pipe and several times filled it
from some soldiers pouch as he
engaged in a casual chat with the
men. THE whole country is be-
hind you with everything it pos
~sesses," was one of his frequent
messages to the fighting men. In
the Red Cross hospitals the secre-
tary went through the wards and
had a few CHEEKY words for each of
the patients.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-02
GERMAN PAPER Wants NO BUYING
FROM UNITED STATES after War

still further increased debit bal
ance?" asks the paper in despair.
I'VE had to realize our American
securities to pay for raw materials
while the United States vas still
neutral to meet demurrage on our
ships held in American ports"
The conclusions seem inevitable
to the Gazette that Germany must
so curtail her cotton and copper i'm
ports from the United States that
they do not exceed, or only slightly
exceed, her own exports of fertiliz-
ers, dyes, chemicals, etc. The rest
of Germany's erstwhile imports
from America, it says, can and
must be stricken off the list.
'Our imports of American agri-
cultural machinery must cease"
says the writer. The openings Of
fered in Russia, Rumania and the
Balkans are so great that we must
push our own machinery there with
all our might"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-02
LAS VEGAS BOY HONORED

EAST LAS VEGAS, N M, Oct.
"a. - An unusual recognition has
been awarded a soldier from East
Las Vegas, Lieutenant Leonard Hos
kins, who died on the battle front
in france. A battery of 12-inch
guns at Fort Crockett, Texas, has
been named Battery Leonard Hos
kins in honor of the lieutenant.
The battery was c%hristened by the
secretary of a Lieutenant Hos
kins was a member of the coast ar
tillery corps. He is buried some
where in Lorraine. General Perish
ing awarded him posthumous honor
in a citation.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-02

places, eat good. clean food; if ill,
no matter how slightly, be attend
ed by a physician.
The epidemic is subsiding in
many parts of the country and has
subsidized t such an extent in army
camps that military plans will not
be delayed further. 1t is felt here
that the wearing of masks before
cases of influenza have appeared
may keep it from the town entirely,
or greatly lessen the number of
cases.
Fire Chief Murphy said this
morning: "A few years ago We had
the laugh on the dogs and now
the dogs have the laugh on US"
Even some of the dogs have been
provided with masks by their small
boy owners and at the dance Satur-
day evening even the elks's head
in the hall was provided with a
mask. The masks have proved the
most popular thing for the enter
tainment of the small boys and they
delight in them, as it recalls. at
least to this extent, the days of
Jesse James and DeadwoOd Dick.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-02
IS.
USED AGAINST.
RUSS LEADERS
Favoritc Weapon of Russian Rebels
Is Better Understood
Than Rifle
EMPLOYEES IN GOVERNMENT
OFFICES PRETEND TO WORK
Emperor Nicholas and kerensky
Government Succumbed to
Weapon Used Now

MOSCOW, Oct. 90. - Sabotage
is the favorite weapon of the Rus
sian. He uses it more effectively
than the rifle end understands it
better.
1t was sabotage which overthrow
Emperor Nicholas. The Kerensky
provisional government succumbed
to sabotage. In neither case was
there an extensive military charac-
ter to the movement which gave
Russia a new government.
And now the weapon which the
Bolsheviki and their supporters of
the extreme left used on previous
governments has been turned
against them. In the food situa-
ton, on the railways, in various
government bureaus, in public serv-
ice organizations of all sorts, among
bankers, business and professional
men, and ever among peasants the
government encounters ~hindrances
and obstruction of a type which can
not be punished and stamped out.
Commissioner Tsurupa, who is in
charge of the national food supply,
recently stated in a speech that
1900 persons in his department
alone had retained positions for
months and pretended to work,
when they were in reality doing all
they could to hinder the food ad-
ministration.
Trotzky, Lenine and other Boil
shevik speakers and a~gitators have
made the most of the sabotage di-
rected against them by loudly pro-
claiming in all sections of Russia
that the disorder they inherited
from the Kerensky regime and the
opposition directed against them by
enemies within the government, as
we'll as outside, has prevented the
soviet republic from lettering the
food situation and getting COM
merce and industry back into nor
NAL channels.
This view was accepted by the la
boring masses very generally for
some time, but after eight months
of the Bolshevik republic it is ap-
parent that the laboring men are no
longer willing to accept abuse of
various nti-Bolshevik factions as a
complete excuse for the deplorable
lack of food.
The loss of the Ukraine grain
supply and the cutting off of the
Siberian wheat stores by the Czecho-
Slovaks stand forth so plainly that
the dullest workman reads the
handwriting on the wall.
Without grain fields he under
stands there cannot be grain. And
! the promise of bread through grain
crusades made by armed forces do
not impress him when he realizes
that the portion of Russia remain
ing within the jurisdiction of the
soviet republic does not contain
enough grain to feed the republics
population, even if every bushel
were under government control and
carefully distributed.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-02
NO FLU" IN GOLDFIELD

A report gained circulation last
evening hat there were four cases
of influenza at the Grimshaw hotel,
but nobody has been able to trace
the rumor to it's source An in
quiry developed the fact that there
is nobody ill at the Grimshaw.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-02

LOCATION NOTICES.,
PROOF OF LABOR,
And all mining blanks for sale ~
The Tribune Stationery store
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-12-24
First Time in Twenty-nine
Months Train Has Made
Trip to Chester.
ON IRREGULAR SCHEDULE
First Train Left Lancaster
Yesterday Morning at Nine
O'CLOCK and Returned at
Three p. Nj.

For the first time in twenty-nine
months or since the fifteenth day of
july, 1916, when the steel bridge
spanning the Catawba between Lam
caster and Chester was taken away
In the great flood which swept por-
tions or North and South Carolina.
the Lancaster and Chester Railway
company ran through passenger
and freight train yesterday morn
ing. The train left the l.. & C. depot
at nine o'clock and arrived Chester
at eleven. There were several cars
of freight and one passenger coach
making up the train. and several
passengers made the initial trip.
there was no demonstration at the
station. though the opening Of the
l'ne. after being bottled up so long.
means so much to the business in
terests OF Lancaster that a crowd o.
people should have been on hand to
welcome the Inauguration of a regu-
lar service.
The train pulled out unceremor-
l.
GLADDEN. merely yelling "B-o-a-r-d. :
and with the ringing OF the bell En-
eineer ]. A. Stewman pulled the
throttle, the wheels began to turn
and the train was soon around tho
curve and out OF sight General
Manager A. p. McI.ure was one of
the passengers, he going over to the
new bridge. just completed, to see
that all details OF the work were
carried out.
The schedule in effect this week
embodies but one train each way a
day. Leaving Lancaster at 9 a. m,
the train reaches Chester at II a..
m.; returning, leave Chester 1 p. M,
arrive Lancaster p. m. Effective
Wednesday, January l, the train will
leave Lancaster at z a. m, arrive
Chester a. M; returning, leave
Chester IL a. m, arrive Lancaster
p. m. This will afford connections
with important trains at Chester for
Columbia and Atlanta No an
nouncement has been made as to a
double daily service, such as was in
effect before the food. but 1t is as
sumed that this will be inaugurated
as soon as conditions will permit
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-12-24
MAY RESCUE. CHARLOTTE '
FROM IT'S CAMP TROUBLES
War Department Seems Inclined to
Relieve Business Men OF Obliga-
tiOns OF Leases

Washington, Dec. 23.-It seems
that Charlotte is about to get rid OF
the last OF It's troubles with Camp
Greene. The war department now
seems inclined to take up a number
OF land leases held by the chamber
OF commerce which OF course will re-
lieve the business men OF the city
OF about Apo 900 in obligations for
the year 1919.
President p. C. Whitlock. OF the
chamber OF commerce, advised Sem
ator Overman that Charlotte busi-
ness men held the leases on land
upon which Camp Greene is situated
and the leases are so drawn that the
chamber would be obligated for the
entire year II the camp were used
even a week during 1919. He sug-
gested the war department should
assume the leases since Charlotte
had been giving the land rent free to
the government and the present
status OF the camp would make It
possible to collect $4,000 in rents
from Charlotte citizens.
Senator Overman was advised
that special board had investigat-
ed the matter and recommended to
the general staff that the leases he
assumed by the government for such
time as II intends to use Camp
Greene. II the STAFF approves the
suggestion, and 1t probably will, de-
tails will be worked out between
Generals Goethals and Jervey. and
the Charlotte chamber OF COM
merce.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-12-24

the girl failed to return home, vii
cox when asked by the distraugh
father of Miss Cropsey if ne knew
where she was and where he las
saw her, declared he left her at
certain place. then turned over and
went to sleep"
On the first trial in Pasquotank
Wilcox was convicted OF murder u
the first degree and sentenced to he
hanged. The mob spirit was so all
pervasive that it broke out in cheer
and Wilcox got a new trial. Trie,
in an adjoining county he was found
guilty OF murder in the second de
gree and given the limit Judge G.
w. Ward prosecuted him and Judg J
w. VI. Bond and y. A. Aydlett DE-
,ended.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-12-24
after the Cropsey Wilcox quarrel and
1923 CASUALTIES IN
THE BOTH DIVISION

Washington, Dec. 19.-Gener-
al Pershing has cabIed the war
department that practically COM
"'ete reports of deaths in action
among the expeditionary forces
should reach the department by
December 20 and OF severely
wounded by December 27.
General Pershing said that the
number OF unreported casualties
~ process of verifcation at the
central records office OF the ex-
peditionary forces on Oeccm, O 3
IA was 40.44O. They we're divide
as follows: Killed In action
800; died OF wounds, 275; died
OF disease, $50; accidentally kill
ed 81; severely wounded IN a.
ton. 39,371. These include az
suspense cases under investiga-
ton" the general said.
Total casualties to November
% in the goth Wildcat divis-
ion. North Carolina, South Caro-
Ina and Tennessee national
guard, were given as 1923 The
casualties were classified as fol
lows: Killed in action, 1853;
died OF wounds. 2s3; died of dis
ease Is; died of other causes. 5 :.
severely wounded. 1881; wound
ed. degree undetermined. sos.
slightly wounded. 1903; missing
or captured, 1913.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-12-24
Nearly -Four Thousand Die i'm
South Carolina During Past
Ten Months.
GREATEST AT AGE 20 TO 30
Startling Figures Shown i'm
Report on Vital Statistics
Made BY the State Health
Officer.

Columbia, S. c., Dec. ga brief
study of the vital statistics compiled
by DR.. James A. Hayne. State
health officer, for the ten months
ending October 81, 1918, brings tn
light some startling figures as to the
number of deaths in South Carolina
among people ranging in age from
20 to 30 years.
In these ten months, 1,141 white
males and 1897 negro males be-
tween the ages of 20 and 80 passed
away. In the same time and within
the same age limits, 4S6 white fe-
males and 1909 negro females died,
making total Of 1893. When il is
realized that it is between the ago
of 20 and 80 that the health of the
individual is at its best perhaps, the
significance of the figures is grasped.
DR. Hayne, in speaking of tho
death rate for October alone. said OF
the total deaths, which amounted to
about 1900, a little more than 28
per cent OF the total number occur
of 20 and 80 years.
The influenza, which in many
cases developed into pneumonia,
TGapS3 a fearful harvest among PEG
pie in the full tide OF their vigor. DR..
Hayne has not yet available the sta
tistics for November, 1918, but it is
feared that the death rate for that
month among the young and vigor-
Gus will be almost as heavy if not
heavier than the rate for October,
as many cases OF pneumonia oc-
CURED.
Following is the number OF deaths
occurring in South Carolina during
the ten months ending October 81.
1918:
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-12-24
The Casualty Lists.

Casualty lists during the past few
days have carried the following
names:
Wounded severely
Sgt. Fred B. Horton, Kershaw.
PIT. Samuel b. Allen, Matthews
n. G.
Pt. George w. Bowers Kershaw.
PIT r O. Simpson. Lancaster.
PIT John Heath, Waxhaw, n. c.
Wounded slightly
Mechanic NJ NJ. Funderburk
Pageland.
John f.. Haywood, Monroe, n. G.
Wounded degree undermined
Clyde Il. Kimbrell, Fort Mill.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-12-24
Births i'm State.
Meeting in January.

Rev. b. F. Carson asks The News
to announce that another attempt
will be made to hold the associations
al meeting sometime between the
18th and 25th of January. Pro-
gram will be announced in this pa
per when arranged and the date de-
cided upon.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-12-24

Total 1926 15.2OS
The number of deaths among the
whites during the year 1917 was
1886, while the total deaths for the
same period among the negroes was
2,15O. making a total OF 19.406 for
whites and negroes, not including
the deaths among Indians.
Births i'm State.
The total number Of births among
the whites for nine months, ending
September 30. 1918. was 14,793. the
males slightly outnumbering the
females. The total number of births
among the negroes for the same pc
riod was 1887. the males totaling
9.l26 and the females numbering s.
4O2. There We're 16 births among
the Indians during the same period
OF time.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-12-24

post and that of the 18th comprfs-
ing 3.S37,O00 letters, and $4,000
pieces of parcel post"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-12-24
AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS
JIM WILCOX PARDONED
Alleged Slayer of Nellie Cropsey
Given Freedom-He Now
Denies Crime.

Raleigh. Dec. 23.-Governor
Beckett Friday pardoned Jim Will
cox, serving 80 years for the mur-
der Of Nell Cropsey. OF Elizabeth
City, and the former electrician at
the state prison is free after a ca
reer OF more interest than any pris.
oner who has served. and he ends II
with the finest record ever made. In
10 years he has not won a black
mark.
Governor Beckett has not an
nounced his reasons beyond these,
but he evidently is moved by the tel
der appeal of Wilcox for mercy. He
had previously declined the prison
er's request, as had Governor Craig.
This week Wilcox writes letter de-
claring his entire innocence and liz
norance of the Cropsev murder and
confessing the strength OF circum-
stances against him, begs for mercy
as his health and spirit have failed
Incidentally. Wilcox makes his
first statement. He never had de-
MED or confessed IT, That alone hag
stood In the way OF his pardon
Governor Craig had gathered the
opinion that he was cruelty indiffer
ent. the testimony had shown that
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-12-24
Checking TD.

Misses Eliza and Louise Wylie are
assisting II. p. Ludington at the Red
Cross Roll Call headquarters in
checking of the returns from the va
rious school districts of the county.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-12-24
Box Supper at Dixie.

There will be box supper at
Dixie school house Thursday night,
December 26, the proceeds to go for
the benefit OF the school.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-26
For Fritz S Sake
By Mamma Cowles

II is perfectly outrageous for YOU
% go on talking German" Mrs van
Bergen told her daughter Freda. as
they approached the hotel where the
Van Bcrsens had their winter apart
ments. Freda raised two Teu:onic
eyes TO her mother appeaHnely.
But Fritz cannot understand Eng
lish. she said Can YOU FRITZ
dear AT which q very long short
legged dachshund. whose silky coat
showed Freda's devoted care. wae-
ged his tail and tapped his ears.
lie had AT least understood Freda's
tone OF voice. though not lie gist Of
the conversation
Well. Of course YOU Will do as
you choOse-yOu aWays do" said
Mrs. Van Bergen. 'Fut / think YOU
are taking risks You are a perfect
Gretchen type can't imagine
where YOU get that faxen hair.
There hasn't been "a bOnde I'M our
family for generations and none Of
your fathers people looked Teu-
tonic. And that awful German dog
and your incessant German. Il was
sour fathers idea 10 have a German
eoverness. not mine You talk like
a native and added % that. the
name OF Van Bergen. why YOU
would be taken for an alien any
time. The secret service people are
getting very careful"
But Van BERGEN isn't German
it's Holland Dutch" insisted Freda.
And anyway, I'm sure ] don't look
like a spy
You can never tell" reiterated
the mother. Sometimes simple
looking people are shrewd enough,