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Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08
Herding Together the Refu- gees Are Outcasts of All Mankind; Forced to Live Apart in Misery

If there ever was an outcast, in all
 the odium that the word implies. he is
 the young American who has sought
 refuge in Mexico to evade military
 duty. This is the report brought to
 Texas by arrivals from various parts of that country. It is said the draft
 evaders who flocked into Mex'co, by fair means and foul, following the en-
 actment of the Conscription Act, are being treated as the scum of creation, and that they are forced as a mltteI
 of self-protection and common sym
 pathy to herd together.
 ! The American stacker in Mexico has
 no place to lay his head; he is osJra- cized by the other Americans in that
 country; he is despised by the Mexi.
 cans of pro-Ally sentiments, and even
 the pro-Germans and the German agents themselves have little to do
 with these men without country, eX- | cept to make such use of them as the l exigencies Of the occasion may de-
 mand from time to time.
 1 It is almost worth a mans life to show up as a stacker in the thriving 1 oil port of Tampico and adjacent ter ! ritOry, where there are more than two [ thousand Americans above draft age employed in various phases of the oil { industry It has happened more than once in the last several weeks that a
 new arrival in Tampico who did not
 take the trouble perhaps to show his 1 registration papers had to establish his
 naHwfnffa nnd FnffhFrrf [ American citizen by one or more fist [ fights with other Americans who ques- toned the cause of his absence from the United States at this time.
 Real Men Returned
 While it is true that many of the men who were employed in the oil in- dustry around TampicO were in the
 draft call. it is said to their credit that practically all of them either entered the service voluntarily or responded rcmptly when their names were reached. On every outgoing steamer and train leaving Tampico for the Un- tied States there have been many young Americans returning to this country to enter the army.
 In the City of Mexico there is quite a colony of American slaCkers. They eke dut a miserable existence, accord ing ts reports received from the capi- tai. n some cases these draft evaders are well supplied with money; in fact it is rctable that for the most part the yCunl Americans who fled Co Mexico to escape army service belong to veal thy families. These refugees. while they are able to supply their physical
 wants 4n the matter of food and cloth ing. find little pleasure in the life that they arc leading. They slink along the streets Ike criminals. they are de- barred from the association of all Oth- CT Americans and of most other self respecting people of the capital They are subjects 10 constant insults for their cowardicc and lack of patriotism.
 The American stacker occupies such a low scale in the estimation of the business nan. native and foreign, Of Mexico, that it is almost impossible
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08
FRENCH OFFICIAL

BULLETIN, Paris, Aug 7.-Ameri- can and French troops have crossed tho vesle river east of Braisne and held their positions, notwithstanding furious counter attacks by the Ger mans. says the French official com munication issued tonight.
 North of Rheims the French have pushed back the German line more than 400 yards.
 The text of the communication fol- follows:
 Between the Disc and the Aisne, after @ violent hOmbardment the en- emy attempted two surprise attacks near Bailly and Traey-Le-Val. He was repulsed.
 ITO the east of Braisne Con the Yes le) a few of our elements. acting in conjunction with American troops, crossed the Vesle and established themselves in spite of two violent Ger man counter attacks.
 Army of the East, Aug. 6.-To the west of the Vadar the enemy artillery has bomboTded vigorously OUT position on Srka Di Legen.
 Tn Albania, Bulgarian attachments which attempted to penetrate our lines in the region of Gramsi were re- pulsed and left prisoners in our hands
 French aYiators have bombarded enemy deports to the south of Topol- cani and British airmen have bonn barded depots in the region of Seres. :"
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08
AMERICANS AND FRENCH CROSS
 VESLE RIVER

Continued from Page one)
 sector, which represents the junction ! point of the armies of the German crown prince and of Crown Prince i Rupprecht of Bavaria.
 l It remained for the British to deliver the hardest blow against the Germans | Wednesday. Following up previous | advance in the Lys sector northwest ! of La Bassee, they pushed their line ! over a front of nearly five miles to a depth of thousand yards between the | Lave and Clarence rivers. The details | of this advance are not yet in hanc. | but the maneuver doubtless will go a far way toward lessening the point of | the nasty salient that has stood as a menace for months to the British line north and south of it.
 | Next in importance is the further gaining of footings by the French and | Americans across the Vesle where the | pressure against the Germans toward ! the Aisne can be resumed when furtn- CT troops ford the stream. but the gain of ground by the French in the rail way triangle north of Rheims also must be looked upon as a move of great strategic value.
 From their positions the French now are able to dominate with their guns the railway line over which the Ger mans have been bringing stores from the northeast through the town of Rethel and that line running north westward across the Aisne toward Laon, which undoubtedly has use since the retreat began for the removal Of guns and supplies out of the threaten ed zone.
 David Lloyd George the British prime minister addressing the house or commons. spoke enthusiastically of the status of the war; from the allied stand point He characterized the present offensive on the Aisne-Marne front as the most brilliant in the annals of the war and praised the part taken in it by the American troops. More than 150 submarines had been destroyed since the var began, and the subma- rine menace had failed. he added.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08
LO, THE POOR INDIAN

The native American, the first Amer ican, the Indian, to be exact, is winning bright laurels in the great war for his coun- try In the language of the old Kansas Populist, he IS in class by itself in the war game when 1t comes to per capita comparisons and proportions with his white masters and lords of his native soil.
 The total Indian population of the United States IS only 335,998 Of these just about half are citizens, 50,000 still wear skins and blankets, while only 30 per cent read and write English There are less than 33,000 male Indians of military age. Yet there are more than 6000 Indians in the United States army, 85 per cent of them volunteers, and several hundred more in the navy, every one full citizen.
 Fourteen tribes are represented in the service and when young enough the chiefs themselves have enlisted. In rank our In- dian soldiers scale down from major to private and almost every branch has lured
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08
SIackers Pay tue TOL--MexicO 0 Land Of
 ThOTns for Those WhO Would EU0de Draft

a member of the general executive board of the L w. W. and a defendan, in the trial before Judge Landis. testi- fled in his own behalf today
 He denied that members of the or ganizatiOn had ever committed acts O. sabotage in California but denounced the millionaire owners of hop fields in that state where he declared the men were underpaid and the camps where they lived were unsanitary The wit ness also denied knowledge of any con spiracy to interfere with the govern ment in the conduct of war On cross examination Lambert admitted he was so interested in obtaining the release from prison in California of Ford and Suhr. l. W. W. leaders. that he would have blown up the penitentiary if necessary.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08

some Indians. One Indian helps run flock of balloons and there are many in the avia- ton corps Some have become proficient in wireless telegraphy and there are others scattered through various technical divi- sions of the army. A large percentage of the civilized Indians have received military training at the government schools and so enter the army with certain advantage over raw recruits.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08
BRITISH OFFICIAL

LONDON, Aug 7.-British troops over a front of nearly five miles have pushed their line forward to a depth of a thousand yards between the Lave and Clarence rivers, according to the British communication issued tonight. Counter attacks by the Germans along the Braye-Corbie road have been re- pulsed.
 The text of the communication fol- lows:
 Further enemy attacks on our posi- tion astride the Braye-Corbie road have been repulsed
 Between the Lave and Clarence rivers our line has been advanced to a depth of a thousand yards on a front of nearly five miles,
 The text of the communication fol- lows:
 This morning and again this after noon the enemy made further local attacks upon our positions astride the Braye-Corbie road -and was repulsed after sharp fighting.
 Raids attempted by the enemy dur ing the day south of Hamel and south west of La Bassee were driven off by our ire.
 The progress of our patrols in the sector east of RObecq has been con tinued. rand our line between Lave and Clarence rivers has now been pushed forward to a depth of abolt a thousand yards on a front of nearly five miles,
 Further north our patrols entered the enemy's trenches today east of the Nieppe forest and captured over thirty prisoners and a few machine guns. A few prisoners have been secured also on other parts of the front
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08

Those who are inclined to complain here in Bisbee because they cannot get new telephones installed upon demand may be somewhat modified when it Is learned that even rich and progressive metropolis like Kansas City it has been decided, both by the Bell and Home companies there, under government control, not to install any more residence telephones, or even make changes or improvements in the service until after the war. The main difficulty in the way of the telephone man in the matter of new service right now Is the scarcity of copper wire No more Is available because of the demands of the war for copper. In fact, the government has communicated all the No. Y copper wire, which Is the size used exclusively for telephone installations. After noting this fact about copper wire it is not hard to understand why the work men and operators are speeding up cop per production day and night and holidays to the highest point possible,
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08

It seems that the crown prince has elected to defend the Vesle, at least until his army has time to prepare the line along the Aisne or the Chemin des Danes. It IS safe guess that the Vesle line will soon be passed by the allies and they may well pass the Aisne But the Chemin des Dames line offers formidable obstacles, even without German preparation. The military critics expect Foch to strike from Soissons, either to the right against the northern edge of the crown princes beaten army, or to the left against the southern end of the Amiens salient held by Prince Rupprecht. With the British army fresh since last April and re- inforced heavily by fresh levies and hence well ready to strike down on the Amiens salient from, the north the allied world is hoping and watching for Foch to strike with might and main to the left. If he does the German defeat of the Marne may we'll be turned to the disaster of the Amiens sector.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08

NN~NO- Courier, when in particularly gloomy mood, deposed as follows:
 Norman McMilan, representing It. c. Dunn & Co., called this week to lcok into the standing of the Courier. He found its democracy standing straight and undented it's tribute tc the Red Cross paid up to date it's meal ticket paid for with only half the numbers punched out, a good supply of gas masks to protect against the poison thrown out by the seTpents cf the snake dens of the reptile press six bits in real money and quite a stack of l. o. Us. He pulled out his pad with lock that sad, and writ our rating without inflating.
 Indeed, and it Is true the way of the newspaper man is hard these war days when the government controls everything and asks for page upon page of pure read ing matter and advertises not, and the Pres colt brother has plenty of company in news paper circles, but his pessimistic view of his brother editors is surely without foun- dation His haste to brand all newspaper offices of his own state as snake dens and their editors as serpents becomes him Ill. The Prescott Courier is well printed, good looking and lively sheet, and the fact that its editor differs from this column in sociol- ogical matters does not prevent this column from overlooking the serpents tooth in the Prescott brothers lament and saying so.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08

It is said that Admiral Sims. ranking American naval officer in European waters, has refused knighthood at the hands of King George of England. Well, he has a precedent or two of note for his declination. There is the great George of England, Lloyd-George, who has declined all titles whatever, and Gladstone, who made lords and knights by the score, refused title
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08

American troops resting in village laid low by German shell fire and group of American and British off, 6cers mapping out course of action against Huns.
 During the recent fighting on the American sector our troops oc- cupied a destroyed village and pitched camp there. The upper photo shows the U. S. lads in dug outs and shellproof shelters among some of the buildings destroyed by the heavy guns of the Ger mans. The soldiers used parts of the wrecked buildings to make comfortable shelters and then rest ed. The lower photo shows a group of American and British of fcers on the western front consult ing and marking off strategic posi- tions at which they expect the enemy to strike.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08

for enc of them to obtain a position of any kind. Several weeks ago a crowd of a dozen or more of these contempti- ! ble refugees entered the mining town of GuanajuatO and applied tc different mining companies for work. They were turned down in each instance, al though employment would have gladly 1 been given them had they nc, been | slackers.
 Driven Out of Town
 The Americans at Guanajuato no. only saw to it that the draft evaders were denied work. but a committee of the former waited upon the visitors and gave them so many hours to leave town They left and when last heard from they were headed towards Quad alajara, where there is said to await them a welcome similar Co that which they received at Guanaiuato.
 The treatment which the slackers receive in the cities and towns O. Mexico is so unbearable that most of these undesirable young Americans have gone into the mountains and ru- ral districts, where they are living a hand-tO-mCuth existence in camps. So far as known here the largest of these camps is situated in the Santa Rosa mountains. state of COahuila, a few miles from Musquiz. It may be said to be a sort of stacker headquarters. At last accounts there were more than five hundred men in camp. They came from every part of the United States and from all phases of life. The mem bership of the colony is changing dai- ly None of them do any wOrS. and but for the doubtful benefacti0ns of some of the wealthy refugees the mon eyless would quickly starve; even as it is. the dependent ones are permitted to remain only a short time in camp From this camp the slackers have scat tered among the Mexican ranches. Many of them are forced to take the lowest kind of labor in remote villages where they do not come into contao. cause for being in that country.
 Living in Rags
 Information has been received that the Pacific Coast towns of Mazanillo Mazatlan and Acapulco contain @ con siderable number of American draft evaders and that some of these men dlG III d G0ENA eALN AhAAAAAAN4a --Ng are in rags. live upon the refuse Of the town and sleep without any roo. over their heads. In Guaymas the Am ericans and other foreigners belonging to the Allied nationalities organized a mOpping up system for draft refugees in that port recently, with the result that the undesirables quickly "drifted" to more cOngenial localities.
 It is not only the American stacker in Mexico who is made Co feel uncOuf' fortable. The same sort of treatment is meted out to the Canadian, English man, Frenchman and Italian whO hap pens tO be in that country and is un- able Go give a satisfactory explanation of why he is not in active army service.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08

SUPERIOR-Preparations for dia- mend drilling are being made at The Magma CEief Copper company. The tunnel Is now in 2020 feet and work on the direct drive will be held uu for a while.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08

A Kansas editor utters the following wise and true maxim; Whenever l get letter with the prefix Hon. before my name, know whom it is from; it is from a candidate
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08

From the New York Mail: The French said at Verdun: They shall not pass. The Americans said on the Marne: They shall not stay.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08

lished the editorial of Solidarity July 2S. 1917. in which the editor Ralph F. Chaplin. defined the attitude of the organization as hostile Go the war and Co enlistments.
 Charles L. Lambert of Minneapolis,
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08

Revised motto as conceived by Ding, the cartoonist: "FIew to the Rhine, let the Fritz fall where they may!'
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08
FIVE MILLION AMERICANS UNDER
 ARMS BY SPRING

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Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08
WOBBLIES ENTER
 GENERAL. DENIAL
 TO THE CHARGES

OContmued irom rage onel
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08
A PESSIMISTIC BROTHER OF THE
 PRESS

E. A. Rodgers, editor of the Prescott Courier, when in a particularly gloomy mood deposed as follows:
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08

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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-09-28
LOSSES DOWN TO MINIMUM
Warfare Mortality Statistics Should
Give Comfort to Those With
Loved ones at the Front.

Great as the danger and large rs
the losses In the aggregate, the indl-
vldual soldier has plenty of chances
of coming out of the war unscathed'
or at least not badly injured.
Based on the mortality statistics OF
the allied armies, d soldiers chances
are us follows:
Twenty-Five chances of coming
home to one chance of being killed.
Forty-nlne chances of recovering
from wounds to one chance of dying
from them.
One chance In 500 of losing limb
win live five years longer because
of physical training, Is freer from dis
ease In the army than in civil life
and has better medical care at the
front than at home.
In other wars from 10 to rs mer
died from disease to one from bullets
in this war one man dies from dis
ease to every ten from bullets.
For those Of our fighting men wh'
do not escape scathless, the govern
ment under the soldier and sailor In
surance law gives protection to tn
wounded and their dependents and Il
the families and dependents of thos'
who make the supreme sacrifice 70
their country.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-09-28
OFFICER WINS HIGH PRAISE
Second Lieut.. John |. Conroy OF the
Marines Highly Commended by
Commanding Officer.

The bulldog tenacity and nerves or
steel which characterized the opera
lions of the United States marines In
their classic capture of Chateau Ihier-
nv and Belleau wood In the second bat
tie of the Marine earned unusual com
mendation for Second Lieut.. John !.
Conroy Of the marines. The com
manding officer of his regiment wrote
to the brigade commander that Lieu
tenant Conroy was Conspicuous IN
his services to the battalions in Hne'
carried on his duties at storm CEN
ter of bombardment by enemy high
explosive, shrapnel and gas shells.
Throughout this period he supplied
the troops in line with ammunition, RI
tons, water and engineer stores with
tireless energy, marked executive abil'
ity, foresight and absolute fearless
ness at all hours of the day and night
He never failed in crisis and only
bulldog tenacity and nerves of steel
made 1t possible for him to discharge
his multifarious duties. When enemy
fire exploded an ammunition dump un
| der his charge his energy and cool
ness confined the damage to a mini
| num-"
Lieutenant Conroy's mother, Mrs
John Conroy, lives at so Livingston
street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-09-28

Tor centuries GOLD MEDAL HARLEM
Oil has been standard household remedy
for kidney, liver, bladder and stomach
trouble, and all diseases connected with
the urinary organs. The kidneys and blad-
der are the most important organs of the
body. They are the filters, the purifiers of
your blood If the poisons which enter
your system through the blood and stom-
ach are not entirely thrown out by the
kidneys and bladder, you ere doomed.
WEAKNESS, sleeplessness, nervousness,
dependency, backache, stomach trouble,
headache, pain in loins and lower abdo-
men, gall stones, gravel, difficulty when
urinating, cloudy and bloody urine, rheu-
matism, scatica and lumbago, all. warn you
to look after your kidneys and bladder.
All these indicate some weakness OF the
kidneys or other organs or that the enemy
microbes which are always present in your
system have attacked your weak spots
GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules are
what you need
They are not "patent medicine" mol
"new discovery" For 200 years they
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-09-28
SAFE, GENTLE REMEDY
CLEANSES YOUR KIDNEYS

have been standard household remedy.
They are the pure, original imported Haar.
lem Oil your great-grandmother used, and
are perfectly harmless The healing, sooth-
ing oil soaks into the cells and lining Of
the kidneys and through the bladder, driv-
ing out the poisonous germs. New life,
fresh strength and health will come as you
continue the treatment. When complete
ly restored to your usual yigor, continue
taking a capsule or two each day; they will
keep you in condition and prevent re
turn Of the disease.
Do not delay minute. Delays are es-
pecially dangerous in kidney and bladder
trouble All druggists sell GOLD MEDAL.
HARLEM Oil Capsules. They will refund
the money il not as represented. GOLD
MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules are i'm
ported direct from the laboratories in Hol-
land. They are prepared in correct guam
tity and convenient form, are easy to take
and are positively guaranteed to give
prompt relief In three sizes, sealed pack.
ages. Ask for the original imported
GOLD MEDAL. Accept no substitutes
| Adv,
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-09-28
LEMON JUICE
TAKES OFF TAN
Girls! Make bleaching lotion
if skin is sunsurned,
tanned or freckled

Squeeze the Juice of two lemons into
bottle containing three ounces of
Orchard White, shake well, and you
have a quarter pint of the best freekle,
sunburn and tan lotion, and complexion
beautifier, at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter viii supply
three ounces of Orchard White for a
few cents. Massage this sweetly fra.
grant lotion into the face, neck, arms
and hands each day and see how freck-
les, sunburn, windburn and tan disap'
pear and how clear, soft aud white the
skin becomes. Yes 1t is harmless
Adv.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-09-28
Speaking of Strange Words.

And, speaking of strange words one
has been appearing lately which al
ways gives us pause because 1t looks
so queer. We have to stop and pro-
nounce 1t aloud ere we can proceed
with the news of the day.
The word Is ''prewar."
Does one say 'proo-erf' Or howf
or course 1t means ''pre-war," or
"befo' de wah," but It's mean look
ing foreign word, when printed with
out the yphen.-Cleveand Plain
Dealer.