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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
MIKE CATALAN
DIES IN RENO

Mike Catalan died Saturday
afternoon in Reno of pneumonia,
and thus passes a mar without the
mention of whose name no history
f Goldfield would be complete.
Catalan was a deputy sheriff
under Sheriff ingalls, when the
ounty seal was moved here from
hawthorne and later served as
un%dersheriff during the admins
tration of J.. F. Bradley as sheriff.
In later years he entered the sa-
loon business and finally formed
with Dell Hammond the partner
ship of mike and Dell" in the
Goldfield hotel bar, which, under
their management, quickly became
one of the most popular bars in the
town and one of the most profitable.
When the partnership was dissolv-
ed with the expiration of the lease,
Catalan went to Reno, where his
health became poor, and he died
following a long period of illness.
One of the noted incidents of
Cahalan's career as a peace Off
Ger occurred in 1910, when in ar
resting the notorious George Glib
son, the slayer Of Richard Mausell,
a young mining engineer, Gibson
pressed a AS Colt revolver against
Cahalan's stomach and pulled the
trigger, the undersheriff saving
his life by grabbing the gun, the
hammer striking on the fleshy
part of his hand between the
thumb and %forefinger.
Catalan arrested Gibson at this
time on an assault and battery
charge two years after the latter
had been released following a dis
agreement of the jury in his trial
for killing Maunsell. Gibson pull
ed the gun on Catalan while the
peace. officers back was turned
and after telling him 81 will go
with you"
Catalan was 81 years of age.
He was born in Virginia City and
lived his entire life in Nevada. He
was planning to visit his parents
here when he died.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
TO AID STRENGTH TO COTTON
Machine Devised by New Jersey Mar
Is Something for Which the World
Has Been Looking.

There is probably M service which
subjects cotton fabric to so severe a
test as that it has to endure in an au-
tomobile tire. says Scientific Amer
lean. The fabric serves as a rein
forcement for the rubber. 1t Is de-
signed to withstand an enormous ten
sile strength in all directions, i'm
posed by steady pressure of air within
the tire, and must also withstand the
sudden shocks due to the passage of
the wheel over distractions. AT the
same time it must be perfectly flexi-
BILE; for it is f1exed constantly as the
wheel runs we the ground. The fab
ric cannot have its strength increased
merely by using heavier threads, for
this would interfere with its flexibil-
ity. 1t has occurred to an inventor,
William G. Trautvetter of Paterson,
N. J., that a fabric might be designed
in which, in addition to the regular
warp and filling, diagonal reinforcing
threads might be Incorporated. And,
starting out with this idea, he has de-
signed a machine which will actually
weave such a fabric. Anyone accus-
toned to handling looms or familiar
with the operation of these machines
will realize how revolutionary must
be a mechanism which will put bias
threads into q woven fabric.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
WAR COST TO
ITALY IS
HEAVY :

ROME, Dec. 16. The Italians
lost $1,000 officers killed, the min
lister of war has announced. Thir-
ty thousand officers were wounded
seriously.
The minister said Italy had more
men under arms in proportion to
population than any other nation
and that the war cost the Italians
"a, 900, 10000 lire.
Premier Orlando told the senate
that Italy is not in a position to
demobilize a single man and that
all the war material should be
kept intact. The immediate diff
culties to be surmounted, he said,
have not diminished, but have in
creased.
He said reparation for damages
was a question outside discussion,
that President Wilson's principles
excluded indemnity in the tradi-
tional sense, but that doubtless
Italy will adopt the same policy
regarding reparation as the other
allies. A commission has been
appointed to establish Italy's dam
ages.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
cycIist in Spectacular Feat.

An army mO~torcyclist at one of the
training camps recently averted the
death of a young lieutenant by a most
extraordinary feat of herOism, says
Popular Mechanics Magazine. Racing
at high speed across rough ground, he
drove his machine into Il runaway
parachute that was dragging the Off
Ger to his death. The latter had made
a practice parachute jump of 1000
feet from an observation balloon. A
high wind had carried him a consider
able distance, and in landing he be-
came hOpelessly entangled in the cord
age. The parachute was caught by a
strong air current and blown at terrific
speed across the field, pulling its help
less prisoner with it. At the same in
slant the cyclist, passing along a near
by motor road, saw the officers plight.
He swerved his machine into the field
and raced at top speed squarely into
the middle of the bellied parachute.
The ropes fouled the machine and the
weight of the latter anchored the dere-
lict against further movement.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 10
Completion of the great merchant
marine construction program as it
now stands modified to meet the
coming of peace and still further
extension of shipbuilding is rec
commended by the United States
shipping board in its second annual
report to congress, made public to-
day. The question of a permanent
merchant marine program is left
for future determination, the boar
Indicating that it will have sug-
gestions regarding both develop
ment and operation at the conclu-
sion of Investigations o in prog
ness.
Describing the tremendous fleet
now operated by the government,
the report shows how enemy ton
mage was secured not only by TAX
ing over vessels interned in Unit
ed States harbors, but by %purchas-
ing and chartering from other ne
tions which likewise had seized
German and Austrian ships. Cuba,
China, Siam, Brazil, Uruguay and
Peru all aided the United States
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21

and the allies in this regard. The
cost of repairing the German and
Austrian vessels amounted to APP
proximately s11,194,S62.70.
The emergency fleet corporation
of the board owned on Nov. 81,
according to the report, a total of
ASS new ships, of 2,64S,S92 dead
weight tons; SO former German
vessels of S43,2O6 lightweight
tons; six former Austrian vessels
aggregating $500 lightweight
tons, and So other ships of 49,
24S tons.
Of the 81 Dutch vessels taken
over under presidential proclama-
ton, So, of 236,S40 lightweight
tons, were managed by the ship
ping board and the others by the
navy. There were 32S foreign
ships of 1,366,361 lightweight tons
under charter to the board on this
date and $50 American ships of
2,910,766 lightweight tons under
requisition, making a total fleet
of 1886 vessels aggregating u
49S,O75 lightweight tons owned,
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21

BRUGES, Dec. 10. = An ancient
form of punishment in favor of
the middle age has been adopted
in Belgium for Belgian women
who were too friendly toward the
German invaders or who listened to
their love making. They have
been shorn of their hair. In Bru-
ges several women have suffered
this form of %retribution and either
must remain indoors or ~patroni2e
the wig makers. 1t is known
that this method has been applied
in at least one other place. The
scene attending the application OF
this punishment have been rather
boisterous.
Corporal punishment is visited
upon the pro-Germans among the
Belgian men, but few of these
awaited the wrath of the Belgian
avengers. They decamped before
the Belgian troops reoccupied the
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21

CHICAGO, Dec. Is. Fifty
per cent of the 100000 boys
and girls of school age have physi-
cal defects that impede normal de-
'velopment, willard s. Small,
school hygiene specialist of the
federal bureau of education, said
in an address today before the
American Public Health associa-
tion.
After ~decvlaring that the ma
tons need of physical education"
is imperative, the speaker pointed
out that 100000 men in the first
draft were disqualified for active
military service because of physi-
cal defects, and added:
Being unfit for military service
they we're therefore unfit to rem
der full service in any capacity.
They were unable to get full re-
turns from life in work and hap
piness."
The physical education needed
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
u. S. SHIPPING BOARD ISSUES ANNUAL REPORT

or chartered by the ship
ping board.
With regard to the requisition-
ing of American tonnage, the re-
port says:
Perhaps no phase of the ship
ping boards work has been more
difficult to adjust fairly and salts
.factorily than that involved in the
requisitioning of ships for use.
Nevertheless, most have CO.
operated with excellent spirit"
Contracts and commitments of
the emergency fleet corporation
for the construction of ships made
during the year, provided for l.
296 steel cargo ships of S,S77,605
lightweight tons; 80 steel tankers
of $4,000 lightweight tons; "a
steel troop ships of $4,000 dead
weight tons; two steel hospital
ships of 10000 lightweight tons;
four steel refrigerator ships of
$500 lightweight tons; 104
ocean-going steel tugs and eight
steel harbor tugs and 16 barges of
$4,000 lightweight tons.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
of School CHILDREN
CLAIMED TIL BE Defective

must assume physical activity as
the basic thing, the speaker added.
There must be wholesome physical
environment, physical examination
and record, and medical supervis-
ion of schools.
cit should provide for all per-
between six and IS years OF
age. 1t should extend its benefits
to youth above the compulsory
school age. 1t should provide fed
eral aid to permit states to carry
on extensive systems of physical
education. This federal aid should
be limited to preparation of teach
ers for skilled service and pay
ment for skilled service.
1.-THE program proposed VIII
raise the positive coefficient OF
the physical life of the nation. II
will build morality upon the solid
foundation of physical soundness
and vitality. 1t will be a power
full influence in Americanization.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
PRO-GERMAN BELGIANS ARE
PUNISHED BY COUNTRYMEN

cities and towns which had been
held under German domination.
Such cases as these have been
remarkably few. The wonder is
that there have not been more
The proportion of renegades is so
small as to reflect greater glory
on poor little Belgium.
AS a whole, the civil population
of Belgium has remained wonder
fully loyal. By their system Of
administration they
were enabled to govern themselves
while the German was deluding
himself that he was ruling. In en-
abled them to endure physical pri-
vations, suffer death and resist the
l~insidious propaganda of the Ger
man governors, o Kissing and
his successor, Won Falkenhausen;
who attempted to separate the
Walloons from the Flemish and to
poison the wells of Belgium's pa
triotism.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
WORLD LOOKS TO
CHICAGO FOR
PROVISIONS

CHICAGO, Dec. 16. - Chicago,
representative of the middle west,
to which the world has looked for
it's provisions, has had a great
share in %victualing peoples and
during the four years OF
the wal and in hat period an
enormous amount Of provisions
has passed through the Chicago
gateway.
With the 1918 shipments there
has been shipped from Chicago
more than 10000, 900 . tons of
cereals.
In the same period the meat
shipments, according to the Drov-
er's Trade Journal, including cured,
canned and fresh meats, amounted
to more than 5000, 600 tons.
Fats, including lard, butter and
cheese, totaled more than 1,S00,-
900 tons.
In addition to grains, meats
and fats 2~O,415,OOO bushels of po-
tatoes were handled out of Chica-
go, and 5,973,891 live hogs, s.
.5S7,415 head of cattle and AGO.
$40 sheep were shipped.
Prior to the spring of 1917 the
usual agencies of trade conducted
the distribution of the vast guam
ties of foodstuffs sent out of Chi
cago and contracts for provisions
were made by foreign governments
direct with the dealers in Chicago.
With the entrance of America into
the war the food administration,
through it's various branches, took
over the handling of provisions
in quantity and the distribution was
conducted under governmental SUI
pervision.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
FORMER GOLDFIELD MAN
is WOUNDED IN ACTION

Jay Strausen, brother of Mrs. l..
L. Dellinger and a young man for
merly widely known here, is in a
hospital in France after having
been wounded in action, according
to a letter from him dated Nov. Z.
A shell fragment entered his hip.
An operation was performed, ac-
cording to his letter, and he was
confident of his early recovery.
The letter written by Strausen was
received before the arrival of a
war department telegram saying
that he had been seriously wound
ed in action.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
SECRE1ARyOF WAR
PRAISES STATE
GOVERNMENTS

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. II. - Secre-
tary. of War Baker told SO state
governors and governors-elect in
n conference here today that the
war has proven the indispensability
Of strong state governments in
peace as we'll as war as the princi-
Pal agencies for mObilizing and
demobilizing armies, finding work
for returning soldiers and develop
irg better methods for the rhys.-
cal training of young men.
At the same time he pleaded
that state authorities give cities
more freedom to work out their
individual problems.
Early disbanding of draft boards
and the state branches of the coun-
Gil of national defense as federal
agencies were advocated by the
secretary, who urged, however, that
both remain in existence informal
ly to aid the local authorities in
solving of problems during the re-
adjustment period.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
LUTHERAN PASTORS
PR leach FOR HUNS

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Dec. IA
Captain Lester told the propagan-
da investigation committee today
that German Lutheran pastors
were instructed to preach pro-Ger-
man. sermons in the United States.
Some pastors who continued
preaching propaganda after they
had Joined the army are now in
the Atlanta p~enitentiary, Lester
continued, but he said other Luth-
ministers were wholly loyal.
Representatives of German
Lutheran synods have informed the
intelligence service that some min
listers were disloyal and that steps
are being taken to remove them.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21

this total of prunes wouldn't reach
from the American trenches to Berlin,
but each prune, no doubt, is doing its
best to help the Yankee fighters cover
the distance.
There would be a sort of poetical
Justice in the circumstance if the
cheerful idiot and the other boarders
whose table wit fingered longest about
the patient prune could meet it over
there in Flanders and in Picardy and
find it honored and extOlled as the
food of fighting men.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
HUGE SUM IS
OWED BY HUN
AS WAR BILL
Banker Says TeutOns Owe So $780,
100000, Not Including Cost
of War
ENEMY WILL BE ABLE
TO MEET BIG DEMAND
Germany May Have to Suspend
Payments on Own War
Loans

LONDON, Dec. 49, One Lon
don banker estimates that Ger
many will have to pay to the al
lies for reparation and restitution
about $7,500,O00,00 Calculated
on a five per cent basis, with a
one per cent sinking fund, this
would mean an annual charge on
the German ven of $450,00O,-
900. He says there can be no
question of Germany's ability to
meet this demand.
1t is impossible, he says, discuss
ing the subject in a newspaper ar
ticle, to arrive at any approximate
figure as to damages and rObberies
in the invaded territory. For
Belgium" the article continues, Il
would put the amount of indemni-
ty at $1,4OO, O0O,O 600, of which
sum levies on Belgian towns ac-
count for something like $5O0,000,-
900. l know of another estimate
for Belgium which is as high as
$4,000, 100000 and a Belgian of
some authority estimates the
amount at $500, 900, 900"
With regard to France he says
he cannot reckon the loss suffer-
ed, but considering that the war
has been waged for the most part
on French territory, and in the
center of her industrial area, we
may put the figure at $4,000, 0OO,-
OOO."
Italy's damage is computed at
$50, 100000. The same amount
is set as Rumania's bill, including
the loss of quantities of foodstuffs
and damage to oil wells and 9TH
er property. He thinks that $780,
OOO,O would cover Serbia's loss,
and a like sum probably would re-
imburse England for damages
caused by air raids and lombard
ments.
Shipping losses are then discuss
ed. II estimate" he says, 1.-The
loss of ships in figures of tonnage
at nine million, and, taking the
average value of $4,000 a ton, this
would figure out at $1,000, OOO,-
900. Adding the total value of
cargoes at, say, $4,000 900, we
have the total of So, 70O,OO0,0 200
for Great Britain alone. The ship
ping losses of the allies / estimate
at $500, OOO,O 0O.
II have heard an estimate which
places the total of the bill against
Germany at $1O,0OO,O OO, 900 which,
like my own calculation, is of
hypothetical. But l would put
the figure myself at $7,500,0O0,-
900, which does not, of course, in
clude any part of the cost of the
war"
Regarding Germany's finances,
he calls attention to the last pre-
war budget presented to the reichs-
tag, which showed a revenue of
$S75,000,0 O0. The estimate for
the army was $252,5 900, and
for the navy $1O7, SOC, 100000, or
a total of $500, 900, 0O0.
eliminating this expenditure
for ornaments" the article goes
on, this would allow Germany to
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21

pay approximately the interest and
sinking fund on the $500, 900, 900
compensation, leaving the balance
of revenue, whatever it might be,
to meet the cost of conducting
the empire and paying the inter-
est on her loans, which amounted
early in the pres snt year to s27.-
600, 600, 1000, a sum which has, of
course. been substantially increas-
ed since"
IN order to meet the allies bill
of damages, the writer says, sit
may be that Germany would have
to suspend payment of interest on
her own war loans; I do not say
she would repudiate this obliga-
ton"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
GOVERNORS DISCUSS LABOR

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. II. - Cover
Boyle of Nevada and other speak
ers at the conference of governors
here discussed labor problems.
Governor-Elect Campbell of Arizo-
ma urged the enactment of drastic
laws against sabotage by Industrial
Workers of the World and other
advocates of direct action"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-29
BRIST0W is HERE
Candidate for g. s. Senator
Makes 2 Speeches Tonight
Since April 1, Energetic SaliHan
Has Made 147 Talks.

Joseph L. Bristow, former United
States senator and candidate on the
Republican ticket for a return to
Washington, full of spirit and enthu-
siasm and optimistic over his chances
for the nomination in the primaries, is
in Topeka today.
He will make two speeches here.
The first one at Ripley park at 8
o'clock and the second at Chesney
park at $50 O'Clock. Marshall's band
will play at Chesney park all evening
until the speaker arrives.
Speaking of his campaign, Senator
Bristow said this morning:
Il began my speaking campaign the
first of April. Since then l have made
147 speeches not including the short
talks. 1 have visited seventy-nine
counties and driven in my little auto
mobile over 5000 miles. 1 have had
some poor meetings and many good
ones. The attendance at my meetings
this year has averaged the largest of
any campaign I have ever made.
make political speeches, and while
some people say there is no interest in
politics this year, 1 haven't felt any
lack of interest in the things that /
have 10 say.
Il find the editorials which I print
ed a year ago for which 1 was so Sc
verely denounced at the time make IN
excellent campaign document now, be-
ed that 1 told the truth then. and the
time to attack the CRATER is when he
begins to work his graft instead of
after he has gotten away with the
money which the people have been
contributing to support their govern
ment.
While the campaign has been Sc
we're, the weather at times exceedingly
oppressive, yet 1 have enjoyed it.
have something to say, and 1 find the
people in a receptive mood, for a
frank and free discussion of political
conditions. Some good people have
suggested that we ought to postpone
the discussion of malfeasance in Of
flee, and malauministration until the
war is over; but my opinion is that il
has been postponed too long already
"A government to be strong mus
not only be honest, but efficient, and
criticism of mistakes or dishonesty is
the only safeguard to our big institu-
tions, provided. of course, that criti-
ciSm is Just and constructive
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-29
Urges Mooney in California Be
Released by Violence.
Proposes Wilson Send Troops
To Force Gov. and Courts.
SPEAKS TO 20, 900 UNION men
Brands Testimony Against
Mooney as Lies of Criminals.
Declares Conviction of Mooney
Result German Propaganda.

Chicago. July 29.-Sending of
United States troops into California
to insure the pardon of Thomas Moon
ey, sentenced to death as the San
Francisco preparedness parade oonb-
1er, was proposed here by Frank-P
Walsh, labor chairman of the war la
bor board.
Walsh, speaking before 10000 union
men here yesterday, stated some uch
move would be necessary to preserve
the morale OF American workers. A
resolution, presented by Walsh, brand
ed the testimony against Mooney as
the Lying testimony of a practical
crew of criminals, drug addicts i'm
moral women and professional per-
jurers."
I'm the light of recent even s.
Walsh said. lit is only to believe the
bomb outrage was part of German
prOpa ganda"