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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-03-14

It's like Lesson IN. said ! got to pro
coed cautiously when w0rkin in the
dark
"Or they'll get you before yOu gel
them" said Billy Getz. Like In ''rhe
Pale Avengers Here | want you to
read this book It'll teach you some
things you don't know about crooks
maybe.
THANK you. said philo Gubb. TAX
ing the dime novel and slipping it into
his pocket. Anything that can help
me in my detective career is real vel
come. TT read IT, Mr. Getz. and
| Look out!'' be shouted. and in one leap
I was over the counter and crouching
behind it Billy Getz turned toward
the door OF the pie wagon. where a
short. red faced man was standing
with a pine slab held in his hand as
club. Intense anger glittered IN his
eyes. and he darted to the counter and.
leaning over. brought the slab down on
Philo Gubb's back with resounding
whack.
Here! Here. None o that stuff in
here. joe cried Pie Wagon Pete.
grasping the intruder's arm.
IN kill him. that's what I'll dol
shouted the intruder "Snoopin' around
nv place and follerin' me up and down
all the timel told him wasn't goin'
to have him doggin' me an pesterin'
me. told him twice. an now I'm go
In to give him the worst lickin' he
ever had. Come out OF there. you hnlf
baked ostrich you,''
"Now. you stop that said Pie
Wagon Pete sternly You're goin' TO
be sorry II You beat him mp. He don't
mean no harm. He's just foolish. All
you got to do is to explain it to him
right.
Explain said Joe Henry. "I'd look
nice explainin anything. wouldn't -
Hand him over here. Peter
Now. Hstenr shouted Pie Wagon
Pete angrily. "You amt everything
I'm your psrdner. amt /? Well. you
let me fix this" lie winked at Joe
Henry. "You let me explain TO Mr.
Gubb. and IL he amt satisfled-why
all right
For moment Joe Henry studied Pie
Wagons face and then he put down
the slab.
IAN right. you explain. he said IN
graciously. and Pbilo Gubb raised his
white face above the counter
After Philo Gubbs remarkable cap
ture Of the Hard Boiled Egg-the IA
nous confidence mantle Correspond
ence School Detective was nine days
wonder in Riverbank. For two days
he enjoyed real fame. and then Billy
Getz took him In hand. With the
gawky student of the Rising Sun De
tective Bureaus Correspondence school
grasped by the coat sleeve. Billy Getz
paraded up and down Main street
stopping every one and making the
solemn faced paper hanger tell over
and over how he had learned detecting
in twelve lessons by mail how he had
captured the Hard Boiled Egg and
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
PRIVATE INDUSTRIES TO
Be DENIED COAL SUPPLY
Expected That VIII Insure Relief
From Present Shortage, Becom-
ing More Desperate Daily.
PLAN WILL BE ANNOUNCED
administration Officers Ask prcsi-
dent Wilson to Declare Monday
Holiday in Eastern States for Next
Eight or Ten Weeks.
PLAN WILL BE ANN
fey Associated Press. !


WASHINGTON. January 15.-Dcnial
oil coal supplies 10 private industries
Tor a period OF week or longer and
railroad embargo against the shin
ment or noueSScntials are included in
q plan under consideration to-day by
government officials studying means
OF relieving the coal famine in the
East.
a proposal that President Wilson be
asked to declare Monday a legal holi-
day in the Eastern States for the next
eight or ten weeks, and that only in
dustr!es supplying the public with nee
essaries be permitted to operate on that
day. came to Fuel Administrator Gar
field from meeting OF fuel adminis-
tration officials at New York.
\ general plan for dcalin. with tho
situation probably will be announced
by DR.. Garfield tomorrow after he has
conferred with p. T. Noyes. head of the
fuel administrations conservation di-
vision. who attended tho New York
conference. Already Dr. Garfield has
prepared Il preferential list for the
guidance OF fuel administration officials
in distributing coal, which directs that
fuel supplies be apportioncd in order,
transportation of war supplies and war
industries.
Consumers who do no. como within
these classes will be the ones whose
supplies will be held up if drastic
measures are attempted.
II was believed tonight that Dr.
Garfield would decide to shut down en-
tirciy the less essential industries for
a period rather than TO ask President
Wilson to declare Monday an indus
trial holiday. because il would fit in
better with the proposal that rail ship
inent he denied to the products OF Ger
tam industries. The rail embargo pro-
posal was placed before Dircctor-Gcn-
oral McAdoo to-day. II would stop the
operation of many factories, but those
which hare coal supplies on hand could
continue running until their reserves
were exhausted.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
CAPTAIN MCDONALD DEAD
Was bodEEunrd of President Wilson
and Terror to Crooks on
Southern border.
Try Associated Press. |

WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS. January
l5.-Captain "Bill" Mcdonald noted
Texas ranger and personal friend and
bodyGuard OF several Presidents, died
here tonight. Mcdonald. who was
United states marshal for Northern
Texas. was famous for his control over
the most desperate characters Of the
Mexican border and Texas.
On tho recommendation Of Colonel
House. close friend and personal rep.
rcscntativc OF President Wilson, Nc
Donald had twice been named by the
latter as marshal OF the northern dis
tric. of Texas and personal bodyguard
Of tho President.
Mcdonald was horn in kcmper Coun-
ty Miss, September IS, 1852. He was
appointed deputy United States marsha!
Tor tho northern district OF Texas in
1857. and subsequent appointments
wcrc tho result OF untiring efforts in
his duties as marshal and Texas Ran
ger.
During his career Mcdonald was
identified with many OF the most sem
sationai crime cases OF the Southern
border.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
Bill to Enforce National Food Saving
by Law, During War, Before Congress

The bill was referred 10 com mIt-
tees In both houses. II provides that
wherever the President shalt 6pd
Tint II IN essential TO limit further
unrestricted use. manufacture, sale
or distribution OF food and food
atuns. he mny. by procismation,
modify, limit or discontinue their
use TO the extent necessary to
assure an adequate supply. The
President would be authorized TO
issue rules mud regulations, which
might Nnry from time 10 time to
meet changing conditions, aud 10
carrying out the proposed law may
utilize nny department.. agency or
officer OF tho EoNcrnneut.
Any person who failed or refuses
10 modify. limit or discontinue the
sale. usc. manufacture or dIstribu-
tion OF such articles would be guilty
of n,isdcmeanor and punishable by
maximum s5,OO0 fine aud ak yenrs'
impri>onmcnt. The law would cease
10 he In encct when tho wRr bct,Sccn
the United States md Germany IL
over.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
MANY ARE HOMELESS
Hurricane Sweeps Through Roanoke
I,innd, Blowing Houses From Foun-
dations and IHjurinE Twelve.
LEY A.snclated Prc.s.l


NORFOLK. VA. January l0.-Mahy
people arc hofneless and in an almost
starving condition at Cape IIaueras
and on Roanoke Island. y. c.. as re-
suit OF severe hurricane that visited
that section to-day, blowing sixteen
houses from their foundations and
wreckins four of them completely.
This section has been suffering SO.
vcrely from food shortage since the
beginning OF the recent cold wave.
water transportation-thc only means
of ingress or egress from Roanoke
Island-havins been cut off by ice. The
hurricane has accentuatcd this condi
tion.
Immediately after the hurricane
fifty people attempted TO leave Eoa
noke Island on the steamer Il. Il. Dan
icls, but were forced to put in to
Moyoch; on account OF the ice. Most OF
the damage done h. the hurricane was
on Roanoke Island, and 1t is there that
most of the suffering from food short
age is reported.
Al one time the wind attained
velocity of seventy-four miles an hour
Twelve people are known to have been
injured, but it could not be learned
late tonight whether there were any
fatalities
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
OFFICERS BADLY TREATED
BY INDIGNANT PRISONERS

After the scrap wc went inside the
cage on an investigation tour. The
whole trouble was this:
After tho Frit.ias were fed, their
officers began to reproach them for
not having fought further INSTEAD OF
surrcndcrinE. Now, Fritz had enough
Of his officers hul!dozins, and even our
dear and patient Fritz had his limi-
tations in standing everything that
his Hun superior handed TO him at
the end OF his boot. 1t was a zeal
sight. what tho indignant Tritsics had
done 10 their oyrrbcarinE SUps. But
We were not going 10 discipline tho
Fritzie3 for that That was ono Of
fenSc against good manners the F.it-
zics had committed for which We could
afford to stretch our palms and say:
"Hcrc is Il ghakc, old Fritz. do 1, again.
hut please DO not mako so much noise
while doing it next time. You know
il is against the international law to
Kill your officers"
Just before ! withdrew TO my hunt;
] Cot engaged in convcrsa ton xith one
of tho Ertzics This Fritz spoke Eng
lisn with Il Ian&cc twanS. and toil
me in good old English that 20 far as
nc was concerned, the war WAS over.
and tho Fathcrland could go Ia hcl!
Continued on Fourth I'aSc.)
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
Lsy Associated rress.1

WASHIHGTON, january To-
Stricter economy of food IL 10 bc
required OF the American people by
new laws put In the making to-dny
In Congress. Food Admlnlstrntor
Hoover has approved them, and the =
nrc expected to pnss promptly ms
supplemental to tho present food
control act.
N'hcntiess and mcutJcss days mud
other economies nre uccessary TINT
America may help sustair her co
bcliiEerents throughout tho world.
Such new laws. the food sdmiuistra-
tion holds. are nccca.ary to protect
the millions of Ioyni Americans CO.
operating iu tho food saving against
the wastefulness of n few which are
valid 10 hnndIe probably 20 per cent
of the food supply.
In the Sennte the measure was
introduced by Senator Pomcrene.
In the Ifouse - WINS introduced by
Chairman Lever. of tho Agricultural \
Committee, who made abatement
explaining its provisions.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
THREE KILLED IN CRASH
Three Coaches Plunge From bridge
into River Forty Feet
BclO6.

EELOlT, KAN. January I5.-Thrce
persons were killed and tHenty-six
injured when the Bcloit- Solomon local
of the Union Pacific plunged through
a bridge into rium Creek, four miles
cast OF here to-day
The engine ard baggage cars cleared
the bridge before 1t gave way, but three
coaches plunged into tho water forty
feet below.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
Knowing War bLost,
Despair Fills HeaHof
the Huns With Race
Hope of Quarrels in Al-
iedRanks Inspires Ger
mans to Keep Up
Fight.

"A more vivid, thrilling. humorous
witty, Gruesome. zippy and rollicliing-
IL funny story of life in the trenches
has never been written. The narrator
Of this Life in the Trenches" is q
young Scotchn1an, who at the outbreak
OF the war vas employed in the ca
pacity of a humble clerk In !; London
bank. He tells the story of his num-
bcrlcss adventures from the day of his
landing at Il certain French port TO the
time when he was tagged for Blshty."
Participator in more than twenty bat
Ties" hfty raids" and three great
pushes; wounded eight times, but
never asked to be "sent home" each
time returning to the battle line. for he
was lonesome for the trenches and
the Fritzics": cursinE at misfortune.
with always a smile on his lips; now
laughing now signing. but never Grum-
bling, this wonderful specimen OF Scot
tish grit and English sportsmanship
tells story that keeps his reader
always near him-feeling his every i'm
pulse, cursins when he curses and
laughing when he laushs.l
BY PRIVATE JOHN L. McELWEEN.
That wound of mine did not keep me
away from our dear Fritzics very long.
1t only scratched the thick part of my
right leg. and three days OF rccupcra-
ton al an improviscd hospital behind
the firing line lifted me uo again.
Really could hardly keep quiet all
night when the hospital orderly in
formed me that on the next day l
would be permitted to return 10 my
company.
By the way. that nigh.-thc night
before the morning on which | was
due I the front-batches OF Hun pris
oners we're brought in. One OF the hos
pital officials ordered about ntty of US
to go out with sandwiches and coffee
and administer the first aid" to the
Huns empty stomachs. The poor
devils! There were about thousand
in tho horde. and the whole outfit
looked starved.
We went out with the food. and what
do you thini; the Fritzies did? Well.
they made for us instantly, and wc had
our hands full in kccpin: the hungry
Fritzics in line.
AS soon as their stomachs were filled
up with good British food, tho Huns
began TO quarrel amongst themselves.
and in another instant the Huns we're
lighting the Huns.
Nov these Huns would not mind us
British privates. SO I ran to tho com
pany headquarters and informed ar
officer that the FrtGieS were scrap
ping amongst themselves. aud that the
presence OF All officer was required.
\ captain with a whip in his hand
rushed to tho cage with me. but. be-
licvc me- our officer had hardly reach
ed the grounds when the l'ritzics we're
separated like "A bunch OF tomcat5.
who were raising racket in the back
yard. that got a cold bath thrown from
a tucEct OF water from a back kitchen
Wi
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
Cir, Slain, Three Negroes Arrested.

HAAELfiuRST. MISS, January 15.-
Following the finding late to-day OF
the mutilated body OF seventeen year
old Vera Willis in the woods near her
home two miles from here, posses
were formed and bloodhounds sent to
the scene. Three negroes were arrest
cd shortly after tho finding OF the
body. a heavy piece OF wood or a pine
knot apparently was used by the MUIR
dcrcr.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
Former Empress ueported insane.

AMSTERDAM. January i5.-'rhc for
mcr Empress of Russia, according to
German papers, has become Insane, and
now is confined to SauatoriuIn at
Tobolak, Siberia. Her condition is re-
ported to DC hopeless ssSsASSu
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
Financial News

The Times : Dispatch Reports
Arc Authoritatioc
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
Won BEnNsToRE'I' CALLED IN
TO COUNSEL WITH KAISER

Won Suelow looms as the most likely
successor TO lIcrtlinE, according to Ecy.
lin advice. Among the statesmen who
hurried to Berlin and who arc, counsel.
ing the Kaiser is Count Won Bernstort,
now stationed 1T Constantinoplc, lie
has been variously described as a mili-
tarist. Those who know him best i1-
cline TO tho view that he Is the clevcfs
est 'ca,noufagc artist" In the IIaissr'a
diplomatic corps. Only tho truth oi
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-04-04
WILL NOT LET WOMEN
PAY The KAISER S PRICE
Americans viii Support Liberty Loan
to Protect Their Homes
and Country.

It has been often said that the WON
an always pays. Do you, Mr.. Farmer,
Mr.. Town Man and Mr.. City Man, want
your wife to pay the price of Prussian
barbarism and m%artyrdom?
Since the war started the Prussian
has blushed at nothing. To a type of
man capable of making a Joke Of the
most horrible crimes. such acts as q
baby crucified on a barn door, MUIR
dering mothers and outraging young
girls In a mere matter Of amusement.
The United States government is
about to launch its Third Liberty
Loan. Does this mean anything to
you? 1t Q everything to the men,
women and children of America. Your
o and all the nations sons are rely
ing on the United States Treasury to
furnish the sinews Of war. Their lives
are lost II the Treasury fails.
The American farmer will not LET
the cruel. piratical and ruthless policy
of Teutonic militerlsm reign In this
land Of the free and the home of the
brave. We will not yield up our birth.
right as Americans.
Ths Third Liberty Loan will be over.
subscribed.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-04-04
NEW HEA CONSERVATION RULES OF UNITED
IT FOOD ADMINISTRATION.

That the Allies may be supplied with the necessary proportion
OF wheat to maintain their war bread from now until the next harvest
and this is a military necessity-the people of this country must
cut down their use Of wheat by one-half. To effect this saving, the
the American people and asks that the following rules be put into
effect at once:
First: Househoders should not exceed a total of one and one
half pounds q week Of wheat products a person. This means not
more than one and threefourths pounds of Victory bread containing
the required percentage of substitutes, and about onehalf pound Of
cooking -four. macaroni. crackers, pastry, pies. cakes, wheat break
fast cereals all combined.
Second: Public eating places and clubs should observe two
wheauess days a week, Monday and Wednesday, as at present. In
addition, they should not serve in the aggregate a total of more
fast cereals containing a total Of more than two ounces of wheat -four
to any one guest at any one meal. No wheat products are to be served
unless specially ordered. Public eating places ire not to buy more
than six pounds OF wheat products a month for each guest, thus con-
forming to the limitations required of the household.
Third: Retailers shall sell not more than oneeighth of a barrel
OF wheat flour to any town consumer at any one time and not more
than onequarter of a barrel to any country consumer at any one time,
and in no case to sell wheat products without the sale of an equal
weight of other cereals.
Fourth: Bakers and grocers ire asked to reduce the volume of
Victory bread sold by delivering the threequarter pound loaf where
the pound loaf was sold before, and corresponding proportion in
their wheat flour purchases beyond a seventy per cent of the average
monthly amount purchased in the four months prior to March /.
Fifth: Manufacturers using wheat products for nonfood pr-
poses should cease such use entirely.
Sixth: There Is no limit upon the use of other cereals, -four and
meals, corn, barley, buckwheat, potato flour, etc. Many thousand
families throughout the land are now using no wheat products what
ever except a very small amount for cooking purposes and are doing SO
in perfect health and satisfaction. There is no reason why all the
American people who aea able to cook in their own households cannot
subist perfectly well with the use of less wheat products than one and
are especially asked to follow this additional program in order that
the necessary marginal supplies for those parts of the community less
able to adapt themselves to o large a proportion of substitutes may
be provided.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-04-04
VlRIlE MESSAGE FROM
BISHOP D. S. FUTILE
Celebrated EpiscopaIian Makes Strong
Plea for His Country.

A message by Bishop Daniel Syl
vester futile Of Missouri always com.
mandl national attention. He 10 pre-
siding bishop of the Episcopal Church.
He has been a bishop for more than II
years and q clergyman for nearly 10
years. He comes Of Revolutionary
stock and Is president of the Missouri
Sons Of the Revolution.
Though in his eighty.second year.
the venerable bishop is 10 vigorous
and as alert a. he ever was. . veri.
table Waterman On the tower Of his
country. When he learned Of the great
Liberty Loan drive to begin april 8,
Bishop Tuttle wrote in an autograph
letter the following virile message:
"FeIlow Americans: Al that We are
In good will and strong nerve and oil
that we have Of spare means should
be at the service Of our country, now
that she 10 In Q determined struggle
for her wi safety and for Interna.
tIonaI rights and for freedom and jus.
tice and fair play for all the world
"Its a time when, under the e~olors,
and through Liberty Loans, and on the
firing line, We should cry aloud with
shakespeare's Wolsey:
"'Let all the ends thou aIm'st At bs
thy country's, thy Code and trvth's.'"
The picturesque ecclesiastic will In
every way possible lend bis voice and
hand to see the Liberty Loan through.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-04-04
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-04-04
Of AMERICA IS
MOST POTENT MD
All Newspapers Prove Loyal and Aid
Government.

1t has been said that the biggest
agency. outside the men who 60 to
the front. In rendering the government
aid Is the loyal press Of the United
States.
Not only has the metropolitan daily
given of its news and editorial space
to help In the great struggle being
waged on the Western front. but the
hometown" paper has gone direct to
the hearts Of its readers in telling the
story Of the war.
Every country paper throughout the
Eighth Federal Reserve District has
pledged Itself to assist the Third Lib
erty Loan. which will be started In
April. 1t Ia good for the country that
we have q united and loyal press. And
1t has been thus from the beginning.
Even when public opinion was waver-
Ing and doubtful. at the time Of the
declaration Of war. the American press
stood by the government with a fine.
fearless and splendid loyalty.
Popular opinion Is made up largely
Va "Aot tuo pcopAo IcdU-Iuo idCtb
they read. This loyal and fearless
publicity has made plain to all the
atrocious conduct OF Germany in bring
Ing this frightful calamity upon the
world and the terrible denominations
she has committed In the course of
OF progress toward victory. The
press IL n of the most potent forces
to hold our people steadfast to the
winning Of the war.
But II the Third Liberty Loan and
the other war measures of the United
States government are defeated, then
the press will be forced to tell . diff
ferent story.
1t will then be forced to tell about
the murder Of American women and
children by the Germans; the murders
that the enemy will commit in order
that We might be enslaved. II the
treasury falls or finds itself unable to
respond to every call made upon II
the war lie lost. Your son and all Of the
nations sons are relying on the United
States Treasury to furnish things with
which they may fight.