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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-26

Examinations for 81 scouts for the
second-class tests will he given this
morning. The boys are from all parts
Of tho city. and they will meet al the
Scout headquarters at $40 o'clock
and from there they will go to Clay
school, where the test will BIZ held.
Special permission has been granted
thr Scout Council to use The school by
Prof. c. e. RosSey. principal Of the
school.
The tests to-day will be in first aid.
bandaging. compass work and signal
ling with the general service code.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-26
ALL IMPROVING NICELY.
NO NEW SMALLPOX CASES

The health department was busy as
usual yesterday vaccinatlng children
and about 800 were administered the
smallpox preventative.
DR.. NJ. b. Williams city health off,
Ger, said last night no new cases have
been reported and that the situation
is fast growing better and within Il
week he hopes 10 report the city be-
ing free from smallpox.
The people have complied with the
requests Of the department in being
vaCcinatcd and nothing is now miss
ing 10 keep the smallpox al a stand
still.
Patients at the Home of the Good
Shepherd are doing nicely and no new
cases arc NrpOrIed.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-26
Railroad Officials Here

". RI. Davis. yice-prcsidrnt OF Lhr
Baltimore and Ohio lines, with head
quarters at Baltimore and &. W. Cal
lOway, manager Of the lines rasi, were
in Wheeling yesterday on their rrg,I'
lar inspection trip.
While in tho city the officials gave
the local officials some instructions in
III" freight congestion and with these
in view thcS" officials are in better
position To relieve The local runGeS-
lion
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-26
CAN APPEALS BE TAKEN
WITHOUT GIVING BOND ?

Today Judge Alan Robinson will
pass upon the right Of person ap-
pealing a case from police court 10
criminal court without filing a bond.
The issue has been raised by Attor-
neys A. J. Graham as counsel for
Samuel Langford, colored.
Langford was arrested on disor-
derly charge, convicted in police court
and sentenced to the workhOuse, from
which institution he was taken by the
state and placed in the penitentiary
on charge of violating a parole.
Langford is without funds and seeks
10 appeal from the decision in the po-
lice court as the first step toward his
liberty from the state penitenLiary.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-26

Literature for "Tag Your Shovel
Day" will be distributed this morning
by number Of Scouts. and more vii!
be- sent out next week. The posters
are 10 be- placed in stores and other
public places. The Scouts may aid in
the distribution Of the tags later.
Tag Your Shovel Day" Is Oh Wcdncs-
day. January 80.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-26
ALL BEING
YACC|NATED

Vaccination has caused many a per
son in this city 10 carry sore arm
but none is Erumbling. Even the
small boy exhibits his arm and brags
of the fact that he. has been vaccln-
ated, little knowing that he too, has
done his bit to eNtcrmiEate the small
pox in the community.
At the city building. hospitals and
doctors Offices many have been vac
cinatcd.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-26
Yesl Everybody
Takes Cascarets
Only 10 cents Harmless
cathartic for sluggish
liver and bowels

Feel bully! Cheer up! Take Cas-
carrots 10 liren up your liver and clean
the bowels and stop headaches. bilious
ness, bad breath, coated tongue, sal
lowness, sorr stomach and gases. To
night take Cascarets and enjoy the
incest, gentlest liver and bowel cleans
ing you ever experienced. Wake up
feeling grand-Everybody's doing It.
Cascarets best laxative for children.
They gladly take this pleasant candy
cathartic because it never gripes OF
sickcns like other things.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-26
COUNCIL MEETS TODAY

4 special meeting Of the city coun-
Gil has been called for ; p. III. to-day,
at which time the fire equipment fund
and contract awards will BE- taken up.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-26
Mrs. Brannen to Sing at
Unitarian Church Sunday

Mrs Herbert Branncn OF Billings,
Montana. will appear us Soloist III tho
First Unitarian church on Sunday
morning. Mrs. Rrannen is Wheel
ingitc being Miss Ida Taylor before
her marriage. Aft"r spending a few
days in Wheeling, Mrs Dranncn will
join her husband Captain Herbert
Brannen in The South.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-26

Watch for the Opening lnsta'lment
Of Gerard's Second Series OF Articles,
Exposing German Intrigue.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-26
EXTEND THANKS.

The pastor and members OF the
Macedonia Baptist church Of Wheel
ing wish "a thank the pastor and
members Of the W'ayman A. NJ. f. and
the Simpson NJ. E. churches for the
sympathy and kindness extended to
them in the loss by fire of their house
Of worship.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-26
BOY SCOUT NOTES

Plans for observing the eighth ami.
vcrSary Of the national organization Of
Roy Scouts. which will b. held in ali
cities Of tho country February -, are
now being made by officials Of the To-
cal council. 4 rally meeting will like
ly b. held. and other scout maneu
verS are being discussed
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-26

Meetings Of a number Of troops
were held last evening at the various
troop headquarters. Reports for the
campaign OF Boost America" were
read and all showed the Scouts have
done much work.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08

There ism t much going on now
adays but what Uncle Sam knows
all about.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08
LIMITED RULE OF KINGS
In Ancient Days Certain Peoples
Pracicec Form of Legal
lied Realelde.

"At certain stage of social eyc-
lution," says Sir James Frazer in
Folklore, mot few races appear to
have been in the habit Of putting
their kings to death, either at the
end of fixed term or on the fail
ure of the kings health aud
strength, or simply whenever a
great public calamity. such as
drought or famine, had befallen the
country"
Among the tribes which have prac-
ticed this remarkable form of lin
tied monarchy must now be included
the Khazars, or Khozars. For some
nine hundred years this now almost
forgotten tribe, from their home in
the spurs of the Caucasus and along
the western shore of the Caspian
called after them the Sea of KIM
zars--played a great part in his
tory on the European-Asian border
land.
1t is certainly remarkable that a
people which had reached such q
high level of civilization and cul-
ture should have practiced legali1ed
regicide. But the evidence collected
by Sir James Frazer from a very
wide survey of medieval literature
leaves no doubt on the matter. This
survey of an almost unknown tribe
is contribution to anthropology Of
permanent value.-Nature.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08

B. S. Wise was circulating a
paper last week which was quite
generally signed, petitioning the
honorable board of county com
missioners to complete the snort
stretch of road known as the Dan
ner road. This would be great
convenience TO the travelling pub
lie as well as to the numerous res.
idents, who are compelled TO make
a detour OF half a mile in order
10 reach a point directly south on
the main road only one-fourtb Of
mile away 1t certainly was a
mistake to expend money on a
crossroad before completing the
work already under way on a
main road.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08
FICTION WRITERS FAR BEHIND
Amazing Intrigue and Suspicion That
Surrounds the Letter OF tho
Austrian Emperor.

The atmosphere of intrigue and
suspicion which has grown up
around the Austrian emperor's ia
nous letter since publication would
do credit to the most ingenious
weaver of fantastic fiction, says Will
liam lie Queux, the novelist. / have
just heard in diplomatic circles
some very queer stories on the sub
ject, but it will probably be years be-
fore we learn the real truth. From
the dramatic point of view, perhaps,
the reported alteration of the letter,
in a sense favorable to France, by
the French priest who was the father
confessor of the Empress Zita is the
most attractive-and the least prob
able. Priests have figured in good
many mysteries, alike in fiction and
history, the latest being the Black
Monk, Rasputin, but he would be a
singularly daring man who would
run the risk of altering letter
which was obviously state docu-
ment of first Importance. Still there
is nothing impossible about the
story, especially if we accept the Vi
ennese description of the priest as
"a fanatieal Frenchman." Fanatics
play some queer tricks at times--as
"Grichka" did at Tsarskoe-Selo.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08

1t is doubtful if Germany can
recover from the staggering blows
recently dealt by the allies.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08

Ernest Lindley has employment
for the winter at Parker
c. E. Van olinda came over
from Seattle On Monday.
Arthur and Walter Butt Of Lis
abeula are attending school IN Ia
coma.
Raymond Gibbs spent Sunday
in Pnyallup with his aunt, Mrs.
Stewart.
Miss Ethel Baker of Centralia
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Beaver,
at Burton.
AY. Nj. c. A. was organized IL
the college last week with Miss
Tease as president
Mrs. Il. S. Atkinson of Aqua-
nm is visiting her sister, Mrs. Y.
Gorsuch ZIP al The huh
Miss Emma i. Miller aclured
on home missions at the Baptist
church Monday evening
The first ear WAS run over tie
Burton Short Linz last week. A
passenger coach iii Tie future.
NJ. i. Hoke has shown inierest
in the pualic welfare by laying Il
neat Sidewalk il front Of his
property al Bunten.
G. II. Coyey spent several days
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08

last week in Tacoma and other
large cities along the coast drum
ming UP greenhouse trade.
Mr.. and Mrs. Papst Of Maury
have returned from an extended
sojonfn in The sylvan solitudes OF
Hoods canal.
Three hundred pounds of buck
leberTies is not bad for a young
lad Of 10 to have picked within
the past few weeks.
7. q. Stark has moved to the
Byers place, Mr.. Kimnel having
left il for his residence in the
suburbs of Vermontyilie.
The Columbians gave fine en-
tertainment and social at the col
lege on Saturday evening. The.
playing Of Prof. Leathers was ex-
ceptionally good. Miss Ada Me
kenzie recited 'Brier Rose" and
Hurry Brockman also gave a rec
itation
Steve Stei1enson received
scow load Of humber from Port
BIaiSeleN last Saturday. The ma
terial is cut and ready to put to-
gether and next Thursday and
Friday there will be M old-fash
loned dee 10 put il up for him.
4 cordial invitation is extended
all abletodiedecitizens 10 be pres
ent.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08
JUST TOLD THEM POLITELY
but Neighhors Could Not Have Had
Much Doubt as to What Eliza
Meant to Express.

ELIZA" said the mis- J, ''please
go next door and ask them if they
will kindly stop playing for awhile.
Mr.. Humphrey has a bad head
ache. But be polite about it--be
sure to be polite"
A minute later Eliza was admit
ted next door.
misses compliments" she said,
@and she'd be obliged if the person
tryin' to play on an out-o'-tune
pianna would darn stockings or
something"
'FBut this is our house." returned
the mistress of it, "and we are not
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08

A sweet pill, vet a bitter one
liquor licks 64,000,000 pounds OF
sugar from Uncle Sans platter
every year. That's why you
count the humps now.
Germany will never come into
the society of free nations until it
has something to celebrate, like
the fall of the Bastile or the De
claration of Independence. Chi
eago News.
1t is reported that some mer-
chants have been charging ter
cents per pound for sugar. The
price IS fixed by the food admin
istration at 9l2 cents--don t pay
more than that.
4 The practice Of placing the
large fruit on top Of the boxes is
being discouraged by the state
horticultural department, and also
the elevation Of the bottoms of
berry boxes with the intent to de-
ceive the purchaser.
Brother Hugo Kelley. editor of
the King County Courier, Renion.
is candidate for county assess
or. subject to the Republican pri-
maries. Kelley is a live wire and
is deserving recognition. He SAYS
1t don't make any difference to
you what | look like -it' Is the
things / stand for that count.
And that S true.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08

G. A. Collins for representative
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08

The little busy bee improves
each shining hour, just like a Red
Cross worker these days, and he 5
singing the Kaiser quite consid-
erably. About 250,C00,000 pounds
of honey are produced annually
in the United States, the Depart
ment of Agriculture announces
This is an important contribution
to the nations food supply, par
ticularly in these days of sugar
shortage. The department urges
an increase in honey production
to at least ten to twenty times
the amount now produced. The
available supply of honey nectar
at present is only touched by the
busy bees.-W ashington Times.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08

The administration has granted
permission for second ailotments
Of % pounds of sugar to families
who certify to fom. or more mem
bers, providing the fruit to be
canned has been grown on their
own premises. But the sugar
must not be used for making
jams, iellies or preserves.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08

When the Kaiser makes his
next award of Iron Crosses to his
faithful warriors, says the Yoaths
Companion, he must not forge
the noble band of aiimen who
raided an ambulance park and
hospital behind the Belgian lines
and killed fifty-four girls who
were making bandages or repair
ing linen for the wounded. II may
be that so gallant a deed will be
thought worthy of the higher dis
tinction of the cross Pour lie Mer.
lite. Certainly men who are o.
dered to commit such infamy
ought to be well paid by the ma
whose contemplate work they do.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08
July Weather Report

Clear days, 9.
Cloudy days. 3.
Part cloudy. 10.
Rainfall, 100 inches.
Average rainfall, so.
Above normal, so.
Highest rainfall in Is years. in
1892, l.53 inches.
There has been some rainfall
every year in July, except in
the years 1893 and 1894.
Highest temperature on the
18th, 81 deg,
Lowest temperature on the 3rd,
43 deg.
Byron S. Wise,
y. S. Weather Observer.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08

The Federal Reserve Bulletin
says that one Of the most encour-
aging and gratifying features OF
the Third Liberty Loan is thai
apparently there has been little
use Of bank accommodations for
the purchase of the bonds. 1t es-
Inmates that probably more than
so per cent of the bonds are al
ready fully paid for. The finau-
eial statements of the various Fed
eral reserve banks indicate that
not much borrowing from the
banks was done by the subscrib-
ers to the third laon. They either
paid cash or bought on the install
ment plan. This eases great
deal the burden Of the banks, up
on whose shoulders rests the f.
nancing Of the business and indus
try of the country.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08
debarred from choosing our own

debarred from choosing our own
amusements"
"Its pity you amt" came from
the top step. when anyone amt
satisfied with two hours picSin'
out Keep the Home Fires Burnin''
with two fingers on pianna that
amt reliable, it's high time some
body interfered, an told you them
fires had got to be dampened down
q bit. And you are lucky that ] was
told to do it polite. st. Louis
Star.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08

Mrs, Lake Price and daughter,
Miss Faye, who have been visit
ing relatives in Vashon, returned
home on Saturday Kent Adver-
tiser.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-08

According to reports, Austria s
mode of warfare is as brutal as
that of Germany.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-01
CONTRACTS
FIGURING IN CASE
'ny Associated Pres.J

CHICAGO. ILL.,, March 1.-Govern-
ment contracts for millions of
pounds of meats, labor troubles and
employers methods to oppose them,
the difficulties of retail meat dealers
in Chicago and obstacles placed in
the way of butter makers in rural
Indiana were some of the subjects
on today in the federal trade com
missions investigation in the pack
ing house industry.
Under the questioning of Francis
Heney, counsel for the commission,
witnesses told of the difficulty in
making a reasonable profit in the
retail meat business in Chicago in
direct conflict with statements that
retail butchers were responsible In
some degree for high meat prices.
Mr. Heney brought out that the
question of changing government
specifications so as to permit cheap
er meats being included in army
contracts had been considered by tle
five big packing houses and the
quartermaster's department.
AT the same time there came from
Washington announcement that con
gress had been asked by the federal
trade commission, at the instance of
Mr.. Heney, to enact speedy legisla-
ton to open the private and conf
Dental files of the packers to dis.
close what government Investigators
believe will show plans to take con-
troll of the meat industry
The appeal to congress was based
on the present conflict between the
trade commission and Mr.. Henry
veeder Of Chicago. counsel for Swift
& Co. over possession of files and
papers in the Veeder private vaults
which Mr. Heney charges tend to
prove the intent to commit a felony
through eollusive bidding by the
packers on government meat con
tracts. Pending an appeal by the
packers from the United States dis
trict court. Mr.. Veeder has control
of the papers.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-01
MANY SAMM|ES OVERCOME By THE
POISON GAS SHELLS OF THE FOE
Our Patrols Comb NO-Man's-Land
Without Any Trace of Enemy


WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Feb 2s(rhursday)
American artillery, by obterated
cauan
ss bombs hits high explosions
followed probably enemy das
mans certainty suffered the batteries
Six gas Eighty
are condition Artillery fighting
Is lively
erss artillery
biggest guns
Apne photographs yesterday disclosed the location
the eunners
their fire shell fell called
killed wounded four Another
blocked operators,
though considerably
they telephone for help the
American artillery continuing harasng fire
enemy points patrols night
but
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-01
MOMENTOUS DECISION IS AWAITED

dor to the United State, but, 1t is
now said. recent developments, in
cluding increasing pressure from
entente sources, very likely win
cause a more speedy determination
of the question.
It is learned that this is not
regarded as a problem for the con-
sideration, at the present stage at
least, of the supreme war council in
France, which, If 1t treats the sub
ject at all, will deal with 1t only as
military matter after the question
of policy has been decided by the
governments of the entente allies
and America
1t is freely admitted in official
circles that this Is a very great
question indeed A radical departure
from established rules of lnterna-
tional law would be involved In the
forcible entry into neutral eoun-
lig anu IuHoiucidtluH must bt given
to the possible effect upon the Rus
sian people of such course in their
relations to the present war.
Already there has been some ap-
prehension that great numbers OF
Russian soldiers rather than return
to their farms and shops would vol
unfairly join the central armies,
and some evidence of foundation
for this fear is found in Berlin dis
patches announcing the entry into
the German army of several regi-
ments of Ethonians.
Expectation that the president is
planning to address congress soon in
reply to Won HertIing's speech was
dissipated by evidence that he is
studying the question of American
participation with the Japanese in
Siberia to the exclusion of all other
subjects -
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-01
ENGLAND AND HER ALLIES TRUST
TO THE WISDOM OF UNCLE SAM
Nippon MenaCed BY the Advance of
Teuton Army in Russian North
ny Associated Press.l


regarding Siberia The
IMPLICITLY given
hand n
The Times allies
doubt we'll informed that position Of United
will by logic which
always to Of
The Morning action the
m just the
the policy of intervention the West The
danger entirely stes Japans protect
for action
ohasizne
They is equal If than that to Japan
alliance
undertakes safeguard tranquility In the Far East
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-01

SACRAMENTO, Cal, March L.
The governor is in Oakland today.
1t is stated that his office is not
likely to comment on the Mooney
case at this time 1t is indicated
he will fully investigate the case.
regardless of whether a direct ap-
peal for executive clemency is made
or not The governors secretary
has not received instructions to make
public letter the president wrote
the governor regarding the case,
after the mediation commission rec
commended new trial.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-01

has been granted short period for
consideration. Recent unofficial dis
patches stated that Rumania would
be asked to cede parts of BobrudJa
to Bulgaria and to give Germany and
Austria preferential treatment in
commercial and economic relations
II is officially denied by the Ru-
manian press bureau in Paris that
King Ferdinand will relinquish his
throne at the behest of the anti
war party in his country
Another Spanish cabinet has failed
In some quarters it is reported to
have resulted because of the insist
ence of the government in adhering
to its policy of strict neutrality to-
ward the beligerents in the war
Public opinion in Spain has become
inflamed by the sinking recently of
five Spanish vessels by German or
Austrian submarines.
Russia is facing a new attack.
this time in the Far East. Japan is
known to have sounded the entente
allies. especially the United States,
as<to the advisability of taking steps
to prevent tremendous stores Of
munitions held at vladlvostok and
Continued on page four
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-01
AMERICAN GJNF|RE DESTROYS GERMAN BAT TER|ES
JAPAN READY TO ENTER ACTIVE COMBAT
TODAY'S WAR NEWS At A GLANCE
NY Associated Prsss.D

tBy Associated PFesa.l
Germany's invasion OF Russia has
slowed down During the last "a
hours there have been no reports
showing that tbs Teutons were
sweeping ahead toward Petrograd
One explanation of this fact may
be found In an unofficial but au-
thenticated dispatch from Petrograd.
which states that the German troops
have received orders from Berlin
to advance no farther. This would
indicate that the formal peace terms
have been accepted and treaty
has been signed by the Teutonic and
Bolshevik delegates.
In spite of the German report
that Operations on the eastern front
are taking their normal course and
that another Esthoniau regiment had
placed itself under the command of
the German staff, it Is asserted in
Petrograd that the Russian troops
have recovered their fighting spirit
and that Cossacks, as well as mixed
detachments of soldiers. are .heir
way to the front,
Adyices from Sncharcst are to the
effect that the central powers have
their peace terms to
King Ferdinand OF Rumania, who