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Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-26
HISTORIC SCENES OF RIOTOUS
 LIFE IN EARLY HISTORY OF
 TOMBSTONE MOULDERING AWAY

TOMBSTONE, Ariz., Sept 25.-The Bird Cage opera house. the Can-Can restaurant, the Red Light saloon and the Tucson stage office remain as rel ics of Tombstone's one time glory as a mining camp. These old buildings were once the scenes of the proneer Arizona mining camp but are now oc cupied by bats and are slowly falling to decay.
 The Bird Cage opera house was the most famous in the territory. It is a rambling, two-story structure with the glass in the rought board front broken by the elements. A long bar occu- pies one end of the building while the piano players raised platform faces it at the opposite end. It was on this platform that the famous sign hung which read: Do not shoot the piano player He is doing the best he can" A gallery extends around three sides of the opera house and the stage occupies the fourth side. On this stage the most famous variety per formers from San Francisco appeared in the old days. Autographs announc- ing their coming still hang on the walls of the opera house, the ink still bright upon them. A dumb waiter connects the bar with the gallery above where drinks were served at tables placed in each of the little rooms which open onto the big danc-
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CARRIER PIGEONS ARE
 MUCH USED TO TAKE
 MESSAGES AT FRONT
BIRDS PERFORM ASTONISHING
 FEATs LODGING THROUGH BAR RACES AND HAIL OF MISSILES
 TO CARRY WORD FROM AD- VANCE LINES TO COMMANDER

BERIND THE BRITISH LINES IN FRANCE, August 10. Correspondence of the Associated Press)-For the American soldier newly arrived in the lines in France, there is always great interest attaching to the now widespread use of carrier pigeons. Little crates of the birds are found in many a front line dugout, and they be- come great pets of the men, who watch their work with close interest.
 Normally information in wartimes is transmitted by wire, but sometimes occasions arise when the wires prove insufficient or break down altogether. Every front line unit must be prepared for such an emergency. So the pi geons are always kept handy, and from time 10 time are tried out" to be sure that they are ready for their work
 The pigeons quickly become accus- toned to shell fire and they will carry important messages through a heavy artillery barrage and through gas clouds when no other method of com munication is practicable.
 Pigeons were first employed by the British in October. 1914. when an ex perimental shipment of fifty birds was brought to France. Their value was immediately recognized and the serv- ice rapidly grew to enormous propor- tions
 Under present war conditions, the pigeons are most largely employed for two purposes.-tO bring back infor- nation from the front line trenches, and during an advance to bring mes sages from the advancing tanks and infantry. Generally speaking a 100- mile flight is the outside limit for military purposes, even when mes sages are sent in duplicate. For dis tances of ten miles, single birds are relied on constantly, and there are very few failures.
 In war mobile lofts must take the place of stationary ones. These are usually small automobile trucks and contain from 6O to 70 birds An im- portant feature of the truck is a good lookout cage" on top so that the birds can easily learn the topography of the eighborhOod before being lib- erated for their work
 In the battle of the SOmme in 1916. about 4,500 operating messages were brought in by carrier pigeons over a pericd of three months.
 Carrier pigeons are very successful ly used in connection with aircraft in flight. and for distances mp Co 20 or 30 miles in fine weather can be relied upon Co reach home with their mes sage. They are released in such a manner that they will first move with
Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-26

lies dark and dim, snatching a brief rest from its tumultous night.
 ''The observer waves his hand, and the roar of the engines dies away into the silence, as the machine dives toward its target. He unstraps his bomb handle and leans far over the front, looking down to the shining water of the dock, absorbed in fol lowing the course of the little metal bar of the sight. It touches the docks and crosses them. With a quick gesture, he guides the pilot to the left, and the bar sweeps around and crosses the section of the quay he wishes to attack.
 He checks the pilot, and holds his bomblever in readiness. Hundreds of Germans stand waiting at their guns, machine guns, searchlights, and green ball machines, but he thinks of noth- ing save the passage of the metal bar across the black mass between the two shining strips of water.
 Suddenly his sight registers the range He pushes the lever forward slowly, pulls it back again, and again pushes it forward, and again and again. From behind there comes a click and chatter of fourteen drop ping bombs.
 He shouts to the pilot to turn. and one huge wing climbs toward the stars as the machine sweeps around and away from the welter of shells and that the explosion of the bombs will bring.
 Gazing downward, the observer sees at the edge of the quay a red spurt of flame which slowly dies away. Two others follow, in the water where lie destroyers and submarines, and then more and more burst on the sheds in the middle. A white sheet of flame bursts from one shed, and fading slowly leaves a red glare. An store has been blown up. The other bombs burst across the wharves and crowded basins, leaving huge clouds of white smoke where they have wrought destruction.
 Simultaneously with the bursting of the first bomb. hundreds of green balls come streaming in swaying curves from the ground, and pour up wards past the wings on both sides. Like 9 handful of ribbons the search lights have been thrown up, and fill the sky with wands of light which weave a strange pattern all aroun1 the machine Gunfire flashes around the town, and close to .he machine now bursts the clamorous barrage.
 It is an awe-inspiring din, bul through it, the observer has heard the thud of the bursting bombs be- low He scrambles back b tha pilot and laughs. Searchlights sweep to and fro, fantastic strings Of green balls bubble upwards, and the flash of the shells seems to fill the whole sky.
 "The machine roars on homewards a maelstrom of flame and
Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-26
DRINKING INCREASES BUT DRUNKENNESS IN
 ENGLAND DECREASES
EIGHT HUNDRED MILLIONS PER YEAR WAS RECORD BEFORE WAR, BUT NOW MORE THAN BILLION DOLLARS GOES FOR LIQUORS EACH YEAR

LONDON, Aug. 12, Correspondence of the Associated Press.)-Before the war the people of this country spent $500, 100000 a year for drinks Now they spend S1.2OO,000. 900. Neverthe- less there is not half the drunkenness in these wartimes that there was in 1913. Heavy taxation to provide war funds accounts for the public's in creased drink bill. not further indulg- ence. In fact, excessive drinking has declined more than so per cent. and there has been an enormous gain in national efficiency.
 All this has come about Lord D'Abernon, chairman of the liquor control board told the Associated Press, as a result of the war regula- tiOns introduced by the government.
 There is great ground for hope" he said, that the progress made to-
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LONDON, Sept. Correspondence of the Associated Press) .-Perils risk ed by British airmen in night bomb ing of Burges, a most important Ger man submarine base in Belgium, are graphically described by Capt. Paul Bewsher, D. s. C., of the British Royal Air Force. Bruges has been subject ed to air attacks so often that it is now considered one of the best de- tended cities on the western front.
 The pilot and observer of a Rrit- ish light bombing machine proceeding to Bruges have usually no difficulty in finding their way, as a haze of ights from the searchlights can be cen twenty or thirty miles off, the optain writes. As they draw nearer tley see a maze of fifteen or sixteen serchlights moving restlessly over tn town, looking for some machines wlose engine has been heard. Sud de,ly. they see the red flash of a busting bomb and then another and andher At once chains of brilliant emeald-colored balls of fire pour up- warts in ceaseless lines, filling the sky with green bubbles of light. The machine is not picked up, however, and esnerally, the lights and sell-fire die away.
 Nov they are drawing nearer and the observer crawls through a little door into the nose of the machine. examines his bomb-handle, and ad- justs the bomb dropping sight As he knees, heavily muffled figure, in his little wooden cockpit, ten thou sand feet over nothing, he is so ab- sOrbed in watching the ground that his surroundings seem to him perfect ly normal; he is entirely at his ease.
 Below, he sees the black line of the Canal which he is using as a guide. He turns the pilot to the left with wave Of his hand, and then again to the right, and stops him with an uplifted arm.
 Ahead he can see the dark mass of the town, and to the left the long basins of the docks. Far to the left lies the darlt line of thb Belgian coast, and over Ostend and Zeebrugge move the sentinel searchlights. Bruges
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ing floor Many killings have occurred in the Bird Cage and it has been the scene of a number of western stories of frontier life.
 At the Can-Can restaurant steaks once sold for S5 each and men waited in line to be served, at the height of the Tombstone gold boom. The Red Light saloon was a gambling house and the discarded roulette and faro layouts may be seen stacked in the rear of the big buHding with its broken bar and mahogany fixtures
 The stage office is an adobe build ing with a corral flanking it and it was there that the stage from Tucson pulled in each day and the early set tiers received their mail from the out side world. Another relic of old TomO- stone is the monument erected to Ed Schefflein the founder of Tombstone and the man who gave it his name The monument is built of bouldeFs from Shefflein's first mine.
 A cowboy in the Panhandle told Schefflein that he would not find gold but a tombstone in his quest of a gold mine in the Huachuca noun tains Schefflein foung gold and named the town Tombstone, remem- bering his friends prediction. When he died his body was returned here and the tombstone erected at the spot where he made the gold strike that caused a great rush to this camp.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-26

ward temperance under war coindi- tions won't be lost, that it will be con tinued by postwar action along lines similar to the restrictions now in force"
 Such action must come, if taken. from parliament. The life of the pres ent regulations will terminate one year after peace has been declared According to Lord D'Abernon, 1t is certain that the country never will go back to pre-war conditions.
 The boards regulations limiting the hours for the sale of lifu0r cutting down the alcoholic content of both spirits and beer, and abolishing treat ing were taken to rather kindly. on the whole, in Lodi A'AbernOn's opin- ion.
 There has been very little fric- tion," he said. We have had some complaints to the effect that it costs an enormous amount of money to get drunk now but that is exactly what should be the case. The question Of the price of alcoholic drinks compared to that of food is very important. If liquor Is too cheap that fact leads 10 overindulgence. The duty of beer is now seven times what it was ten years ago, and the duty on spirits also has been greatly increased.
 "It is clear that public opinion will not tolerate return to the bad cOndi- tiOns which undoubtedly existed be- fore the war. It is recognized that the present system affords a basis for permanent settlement of the drink question acceptable to all"
 More than twice as much money is spent in England for drink as for bread, and the outlay just about equals the expenditures for meat.
 After the war the governments yearly revenues from duties on drink are expected to amount to from S500,- OOO,OO to S75O,OOO,O ,OOO, a sum almost
Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-26

equal to the total tax revenue before the war. .ra1 rgOT WgT
 England has been noted for it's heavy stout, bitters and ale, and the brewers thought that dilution would greatly injure their business But they have done far better than they thought was possible. .-.--.t
 The quantity of alcohol in beer has been reduced by two-thirds. Great in provement has been made in the manufacture of light beers. which are said to be growing steadily in favor. The strength of spirits before the war averaged about twenty-rso degrees under proof They have been weak ened, under the regulations, to an ay- craze Of between thirty-eight and for ty under proof. ,..-....- --,-.--
 In discussing the sharp decrease in heavy drinking. Lord D'Abernon said it might be thought that. the ah-- sence from the country of millions of soldiers was responsible in large mea- sure for the improvement. This idea. he pointed out, was refuted by statis- tics which showed the decrease in drinking by women was just as great as that by men. t..-.. -,,-.
 No grain is now being used in Eng land for making spirits. The manu- facture of whiskey was stopped years ago. Concerning beer. Lord D-Aher, non said: The net total of cereals used annually for brewing is approxIs mately 3S2.000 tons. Compared with the total amount of cereals grown here and imported 15.5OO,OQ0 tons. this shOwns that the net percentage used for brewing purposes is approxi- mately 25 In 1913 approximately 6 per cent was used for making beer and ? 1-2 per cent for distilling spirits. Thus there has been a reduction from s l-2 per cent to 1-2 per cent.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-26
DENMARK IS PLEASED.
Bv Review l.eased Wire)

ABN fNtNleW 1edSeu WlAtl
 COPENHAGEN, Sept. 25.-The an- nOunce ment that a commercial agree ment with America has been signed is greeted with utmost satisfaction by the press and people of all political faiths. It is especially noteworthy that the Social Demokratten, which has repeatedly criticised the conduct of the negotiations, has only words of unqualified praise for the >esult at tained.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-26

fire. The attack has been pressed home. and on the docks of Bruges the ammunition sheds are shattered and in flames. and water is pouring into the battered sides of the sub marines. The airmen fly home, well content with their consciousness of duty well done, and leave far behind the searchlights still vainly securing every quarter of the heavens-too latel"
Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-26
BRITISH AIRMEN IN
 ATTACKS ON BURGES
 FACED GREAT PERIL

RAP PHIc EscRIPTIoN NOT FLIGHT OVER MOST IMPORT ANT GERMAN SUBMARINE BASE IN BELGIUM GIVEN IN INTER VIEW WITH cPT. BREWSTER
Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-26
Vessel flag adopted for ships under t. S.

General McAdoO of the U railroads has selected this all of the he United States railroad administration There are also we}ye agencies which will also ay this flag when restored the control of The "U R. A. United States Railroad Adnnstraou blue white field with red border
Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-26

TTVO THE PATRIOTIC CITIZEN his purchase
 \ offer SAVING of P cents This but remember the and nothing the trials of nhbors who the front
 Our asks We dispense witt delivery sereConge uxuesa charge luxury.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-11

are planning to make it an suspicious
occasion.
Captain George H. Deter, adjutant
Of the 11Sth field artillery, and well
known Savannah officer, left Friday
morning for Savannah to spend sew
eral days. He received orders recent
ly to report at Fort Sill, Okla, for
special training.
Battery F, 11Sth field artillery, OF
Savannah, has just celebrated its
10th anniversary. The battery was
organized in Savannah on May l.
1903, under the name of the "Repub-
lican Blues" Since that time the
name of the organization has been
changed half a dozen times. The or
ganization served through the Span
tsh-American war with credit. officers
Of the division are DESTROYS Of max
ing it known that the Republican par
Ity of the day the unit was organized
is the Democratic party of today.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-11

London, May 1O.-According to a
Young Mems Christian Association
bulletin an American officer attached
to the War Departments headquar-
tiers here was hurrying down White
hall in a heavy shower the other day
when young man in civilian clothes
asked him, Wont you share my UNI
brellt with me?"
They walked together for several
blocks, the young civilian showing a
wide knowledge of military affairs by
his brief questions and answers.
Moreover, everyone they passed
seemed to know the young man and
bowed to him.
1t suddenly occurred to the Amer
lean that he had told the stranger
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-11

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TENTH
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR POLK
COUNTY, FLORIDA,-IN CHANCERY,-
Isaac Ottinger VS. The Atlantic Trust Com
pany and The Metropolitan Trust Company
Corporations
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given to The Atlantic Trust
Company, a corporation organized under the
laws Of the State Of New York. and the Met
ropolitan Trust Company, corporation or
ganized under the laws Of the State Of New
York, as trustees, that a bill Of complaint in
chancery has been filed on the 3rd day Of
May, A. D. 1918, praying for the removal from
the records against the title to the south half
Of the north half (Sh Of N.Y. Of the north
east quarter Of the northeast quarter mex
Of NEN) and the north half Of the south
half (N1s Of Sh) Of the northeast quarter
Of the northeast quarter (NEk Of NEh) Of
section l, township 28 south, range 20 east
in Polk county, Florida, Of deed Of trust
made to the Atlantic Trust Company on the
End day Of January, A. D. 1890, as being
loud upon the title to the said property and
he said bill Of complaint on the Srd day d
une, A. D. 1918.
It is ordered that this order be published IL
the Lakeland Evening Telegram, newspaper
of general circulation published in Lakeland
Polk county, Florida, for four consecutiv,
weeks
Witness my hand and seal this 3rd day o
May, A. D. 1918.
(sEAL) J. A. JOHNSON,
Clerk Of Circuit Court
lD. 0. ROGERS,
Solicitor for Complainant
7427J-Sat-D !
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-11
Wonderful Aid
Given BelgianS
By The u. S.

London, May 10.-Two principal
recommendation which the Civilian
Commission now in Palestine will
make as a beginning for the recon
struction of that country will be a
scheme for beginning afforestation,
and proposal for the conservation
of water supply by storage and by
opening up old springs.
A preliminary statement from a
member of the committee says:
"The greatest Of all Palestine's needs
is afforesatation. For Centuries the
land has been denuded of it's trees,
with most disastrous consequences.
For the heavy rains at certain sea-
sons, instead of benefitting the soil,
over more than four-ifths of the area
carry away in rushing torrents much
of the little soil that remains on the
high lands and valley slopes.
Palestine has not always been
treeless. The Roman Emperors had
valuable forests in the country, and
Absalom, riding, was caught by the
hair among the trees, but today one
might gallop from Dan to Beersheba
without having to duck ones head to
avoid a branch.
"Trees of rapid growth will be
planted, and for the more cultivable
districts fruit-bearing trees will be
utilized.
"The storage of water in lakes and
reservoirs is comparatively simple ir
Palestine. BY erecting small dams
across certain ways, series Of
small reservoirs can be constructed
at little expense, creating supply
that will last throughout the dry sea
SON. In Southern Palestine hundred!
of natural springs can be opened vi
which under centuries of misrult
have been allowed to choke up ant
fall into disuse.
Palestine today possesses an ad
vantage it never had before in /;
frst-class railway connection will
Egypt. All the surplus crops will
find ready market in the growing
Egyptian cities"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-11

cry child begins life inspired by the
most beautiful example of altruism
and selfsacrifce.
The mothers kindness forms moral
character.
The mothers confidence and en-
couragement stimulate ambition and
inspire courage.
The mothers patient watchfulness
gives good health, and fights disease
when it coumes.
The mothers watchful protection
shields the child from the stern and
dwarting severity of fathers.
Truly, a man may and should be
judged by his feeling toward his own
mother, and toward the mothers of
other men-of all men.
In the character of Christ, whose
last earthly thought on Golgotha was
for His Mother, as in the character OF
the Woodworking, ignorant man
whose earnings go to make his moth
er comfortable, the most beautiful
trait is devotion to the mother who
suffers and works for her children
from the hours that they spend on
earth together.
Honor thy father and thy mother
And honor the mothers of othei
men. Make their task easier through
fair payment of the men who support
the children, through good public
schools for their children, through re
spectful treatment of all women.
The mother is happy. For she
knows Sthe deep joy of loving some
one else more than myself"
You honor yourself, and prov,
yourself worthy of good mother ant
of final success, when you do some
thing for the mothers of the world
Washington Times.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-11

Camp Wheeler, Ga, May 9.-With-
in the next thirty days, the Dixie
Division will be increased to maxi
mum war strength.
Official notice from war depart
ment headquarters has come to Camp
Wheeler stating that 10000 drafted
men from Georgia, Florida and Ala
bama would be sent here to fill every
organization. These men will be
drafted on May 25, and sent direct to
the camp. For the first time since
the division was created, it will be in
creased to maximum war strength.
$1,000 men. Division officers say II
will require about three months to
make first class soldiers out of the
"green" men. A detention camp is
now being arranged for where these
men will be stationed for the first ten
days. After that time, they will be
organized into rookie companies and
will be drilled for about month be-
fore being regularly assigned.
The infantry regiments will receive
most of these men. At present, some
of the infantry companies have only
fifty per cent of the required number
of men They have been drawn on
heavily during the past three months
when men were selected for foreign
service The artillery units and the
machine gun organizations have va
cancies but not as many men are
reeded in the infantry companies
Officers at division headquarters
were delighted with the report that
more new men are coming The re-
port banished long entertained idea
that the Dixie Division would be moth
ing more than a depot division 1t
is the opinion of division officers
since the new men are coming, that
the division will get orders to move
on to France before the end of the
summer.
Captain Robert S. Henry, division
personnel officer; Lieut.. John r.
Haverty, assistant to Major G. r
Layton, division adjutant, and othe,
Camp Wheeler officers. who conducted
the last detachment of soldiers to ar
eastern port to sail for France, have
returned. They report very success
full trip.
BayOnet Instructors
For the purpose of giving additiona
instruction in bayonet practice, Orig
Sen. Francis H. French, divisio.
commander, has appointed uumbe
of instructors in the various organi
cations. These men are mostly grad
yates of the bayonet school at Fo
Sill, Oklahoma.
The instructors in the 121st infa
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-11
NEW SOUTHERN HOTEL

have moved from the Orange Ho-
Ell to the Lakeland Hotel, 30l North
kentucky avenue, now THE New
Southern" l have thoroughly reno
ated the building and invite the
public's patronage, making this hotel
the travellers home.
7i69 T. r. TINDAL, Prop.