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The Prescott daily news., 1918-07-13
White Wash Sk irts

Unusual at
 OSc
 A special display has been arranged of all white wash skirts ranging in price from $1.00 to $2.50. Materials are, pique, cordu- roy and gabardine, show ing a good range of styles. Early selection insures you a cery servicable skirt at almost nothing.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01
PAY JEWELER HIS OWN MONEY
Partisan Swindiers lnveigIe Merchant
Into Signing Name to Order for
Three Hundred Pounds.

A very clever swindle was success
fully carried out in the Rue de Ia Paix,
Paris. A carriage drove up to a large
jewelers. shop, and an elderly man,
with his arm in a sling, accompanied
by a footman, who carried II rug, en-
tered the shop.
The gentleman selected and bought
some three hundred pounds worth of
jewelry, and then said, "If you do not
mind, 1 will send my man home for
the money" The jeweler bowed, and
the gentleman continued: II should
be pleased if you would write for me.
l have hurt my arm. Just write,
Please give Robert three hundred
pounds and sign it Henri"
The jeweler wrote us he was direct
ed, and in a quarter Of al hour the
footman came back with the money,
and then he, with his master, left with
the jewelry.
When the jeweler went home to
dinner his wife asked him the reason
he had sent for three hundred pounds.
Then the swindle was discovered. The
rOgues knew that the jewelers. nam
vas Henri, and they had got him to
write the note for the money, which
was taken to his wife, and then they
paid him for the jewels with his own
money.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01
KlNG.-% THE
Kf1YBEp QNI,FS
ARomanco Of Adventure z;=z
~ TALBOT N '@>s H>e%'

Let us start tonight :" urged one
man.
Nay" the Pathan objected at
once. MANY of you can hardly march.
Rest We here and let the haliim treat
your ~bellynches. Bull-with-a-beard
bado me wait here for II letter that
must 20 to Khinjan today. Good.
will take his letter. And in Khinjan l
will spread news about p~ardons. 1t Is
likely there are fifty there who will
dare follow me back, and then we
shall march down the Khyber like a
fun company of the old days.
King got busy with his lancet, but
the mullah cam back and called him
off and drove the crowd away to a dis
lance; then he drove King into the
in front of him, his mouth work
ing as If he were biting bits Of yer
geance off for future use.
Write thy letter. thou! Write thy
Here is paper. There is a pen
it! Sit! Yonder is ink-ttutt-
ttutt write, now, write"
King sat at a box and waited. as If
to take dictation, but the mullah. tug
ging at his beard. grew furious.
write thine own letter! Invent
thine W argument! Persuade her, or
in Il new way! will invent a new
way for thee"
So King began to write, in Urdu, for
Of his OWE He had spoken
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01

While he and the muIIah watched
the tents began to full and the women
labOred to roll them. The men began
firing their rifles, and within the hour
enough ammunition had been sQuan-
dered to have fought q gOod-sized Skin
mish; but the mullah did not mind,
for he had Khinjan caves in view, and
none knew better than he what vast
store of cartridges and dynamite was
piled in there. He let them waste.
Watching his opportunity, King
slipped down the ramp and into the
crowd, while the mullah was busy with
personal belongings In the cave King
left his own belongings to the fates, or
to any thief who should care to steal
them. He was safe from the mullah
in the midst of his nearly eighty men.
who half believed him q sending from
the skies.
"We see! We see" they yelled and
danced around him.
Before ever the mullah gave an or
der they got under way and started
climbing the steep valley wall. The
mullah on his brown mule. thrust for
ward, trying to get in the lead, and
King and his men hung back, to keep
at Il distance from him. Two or three
miles along the top of the e%scarpment
the mullah sent back word that he
wanted the hakim to be beside him.
But Kings men treated the messenger
to open scorn and sent him packing.
"Bid the mullah hunt himself an
other hakim! Be thou his hakim!
Stay, we will give thee a lesson In
how to use q knife !"
The man ran, lest they carry out
their threat, for men joke grimly in the
"Hills."
Ismail came and held Kings stirrup,
striding beside him with the easy hill
man gait.
"Art thou my man at last?' King
asked him, but Ismail laughed and
shook his head.
II am her man."
"Where is she?" King asked.
"Nay, who am l that l should know"
"But she sent theeT
"Aye, she sent me-"
"TO what purpose?"
ITO her purpose" the Afridi an
swered. and King could not get another
word out of him. He fell behind.
CTO BE CONTINUED.)
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01
CHAPTER Xxx,

Next morning the Orakzai Pathan
mouth. emitting worldly wisdom I'M
ndulterated with divinity. As King
went toward him to see to whom he
spoke he grinned and pointed with his
thumb, and King looked down on some
sick and wounded men who sat In q
crowd together on the ramp, ten feet
or so below the cave.
They seemed stout soldierly fellows.
Men of another type were being kept
at a distance by dint of argument and
threats. Away In the distance was Mu-
hammad Amin with his broad back
turned to the cave, in alteration with
n dozen other mullahs. For the time
he was out Of the reckoning.
Some of these are wounded" the
Pathan explained. "Some have sores.
Some have the bellyache. Then again.
some are sick Of words, hot and cold by
day and night. All have served in the
army. All have medals. All are de-
serters, some for one reason, some for
another and some for no reason at all.
Bull-with-a-beard looks the other way.
Speak thou to them about the pardon
that is offered"
So King went down among them,
taking some Of the tools of his SUD-
posed trade with him and trying to
crowd down the triumph that would
well up The seed he had sOwn had
multiplied by fifty in a night. He want
cd to shout, as men once did before
the walls Of Jericho. Possibility of par
don and reinstatement. though only
heard of at second hand, bad brought
unity into being. And unity brought
eaGerness.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01

there came a strange mar down the
midst-nOt strange to the Hills"
where such sights are common, but
strange to that camp and hour. Some
body rose and struck him, and he knelt
like the rest; but when prayer was
owe and cooking had begun and the
camp became a place of savOry smell,
he came on again-a blind man. He
was clean shaver. and he looked as
II he had not been blind long, for his
physical health was good.
"Oh, the hakim-the good hakim I"
he walled. "Where Is the famous ha-
kim? Show me the way to him! Oh.
the famous, great. good hakim who can
heal mems eyes!"
81 am he" said King. and he stepped
down toward him. The blind mans
face looked strangely familiar, though
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01
kaiser's War Library.

It is reported that the kaiser Is de.
voting considerable time to the crea.
ton of his w war library, and al.
ready this remarkable collection num-
bers 10000 volumes.
The war lord is well known as q
vain man and his collection Of photo
graphs runs into thousands. While the
books come from every country, only
German photographs are included, and
those Of the kaiser himself are numer-
Gus.
The war collection of the Royal Ii.
brary of Berlin now numbers $4,000
volumes, and they are bound in special
of gray, stamped with the Prus.
sian eagle.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01

in hay. And when he did fall asleep
at last 1t was so to dream and mutter
that the mullah came and shook him
and preached him a half-hour sermon
against the mortal sins that rob men
Of peaceful slumber by giving them a
foretaste of the punishment to come.
All that seemed kinder and more re-
freshing than Kings own thoughts had
been. for when the mullah had done
at last and had gone striding back to
the cave mouth. he really did fall
sound asleep. and 1t was after dawn
when he awoke. The mullah's voice,
not untuneful, was rousing all the val
ley echoes In the call to prayer.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01
Grant Got Him n Job.

Col. John S. Mosby, the well-known
Confederate cavalry leader, had a high
opinion of General Grants magnanim.
ity. He wrote IA letter, quoted in his
just published Memoirs" to General
Grant in 1885 asking the former presi.
dent to aid him in securing employ.
ment from some corporation. Grant
was then, unknown to Mosby, on his
death bed. But he dictated a note to
Governor Stanford Of the Union Pa.
cifc, says Mosby, asking him. as a
personal favor, to take care of me. l
was made an attorney In the company
and held that position for sixteen
years. In Grants death I felt that /
had lost my best friend"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01
China's Great Man Power.

. OF the 100000, 900 persons In China,
1t is estimated that at least 40, 900
are men capable of carrying arms or
doing some sort of labor directly con.
nected with the war. OF this number,
100000 are living within reasonable
distance Of transportation facilities
and could be modified were 1t neces.
sary. China has such an abundance of
men that millions could be spared to
the advantage Of those remaining at
home.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01
Mus Find Trouble.

There are some people in this world
who would not be just sure they were
living If they couldn't scrape together
a collection Of small troubles, either
their own or other peoples, about
which they might feel irritated.-St.
Paul Pioneer Press.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01

Only when q man II getting the best
of 1t will be admit that he IL getuns
the worst Of It
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01
CHAPTER XXI.

And while King knelt behind the
mullah and the whole camp faced Nee
q In Observation-Disclosures abasemeut
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01
Superiority.

"WOmen are queer"
"Yesf"
"Mrs. Twobble has Just returned
from a trip to New York and merely
because she stayed at a hotel with
more dining rooms than the hotel usu-
ally patrOnized by Mrs. Jibway on her
eastern trips can boast Of she's In
clined to look down on Mrs. Jibway."
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01
Ameriea's Great Heritage.

The man was really and organi-
cally sick; he had a withered hand
which all could see-no moral error
about it at all, and he was really heal
ed. The Lords Day is Americas great
heritage. Are we going to throw II
away2 It is of economic value as well
as q spiritual heritage. The Observ-
ance of q day Of rest has actually in
creased the amount of output In the
munition factories of England. In this
land of hustle and hustle the brain
needs the rest, the soul the feeding,
and the body the relaxation which Sun
day observance alone can furnish. The
child life demands the religious In
~struction Of that day, and the adult nc
less than the child. Let US have all
Of the church in the Sunday school;
all of the Sunday school In the church,
and everybody In both"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-03
TO HONOR MEMORY
OF JEFFERSON DAVIS

In honor of Jefferson Davis, presi.
dent of the Confederacy, the Rich
mond chapter. United Daughters OF
the Confederacy. will conduct appro-
pirate exercises at the Davis monu-
ment on Monument avenue this after
noon at $50 o'clock. 1t In the ami
versary of the birthday of President
Davis
The exercises are In charge OF Mira.
Norman v. Randolph, president OF
the chapter. and she has asked that all
children who can do 30 bring flowers
to decorate the monument. Veterans
OF the ConfedAracy and all Confeder-
ate organizations, a. well ~ all inter-
ested citizens. have been invited by
the chapter to take part in the cele-
hration.
The following program has been ar
ranged: Short address. by Judge D.
c. Richardson prayer, by DR. James
Power Smith. Of Stonewall Jackson's
command. poem written by Mrs. Kate
LanTley Bosher. read by the Rev. w.
r. Thompson: song, Bonnie Blue
Flag" by the grandchildren Of the
Confederacy, led by Mrs. j. X. Bow
man. each child carrying the nag OF
one OF the Confederate states.
In case OF Indictment weather the
exercises W. eAld in Randolph
Soldiers home.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-03
Fire Department
Loses Many Men
i.card VIII NJ Meeting Next Monday
Wight Try To Ffn Twenty
Ave Vacancies.

The twenty-five vacancies now ex-
tstsng In the fire department viii be
augmented this week, IL was said las,
night. by the retirement of three more
men, The salary paid the men. they
claim. is not Of sufficient allurement,
when compared with the hazardous
job, and almost any offer elsewhere is
accepted. provided 1t carries reason
able eu1olument
Most OF the men who have left the
department have accepted positions
elsewhere that pay more, while a
number OF the men have been drafted
A similar condition confronts the po-
Ice department, There are now
seven vacancies, and IL is understood
that two men Will resign this week
Both departments are handicapped
by the low salaries attached to the
places. There are no mon on the list
of applicants who appear to be elig Bile.
and 1t is said that in connection with
the police department the age limit
may be changed so that men may be
taken on who may be acceptable in
every respect. although above the age
limit of the department.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-03
Electric Storm
Damages Wires
Plate Glass window Blown Out Con-
solfdated Ticket onice--City Cur
rent Is Interfered With.

The severe electrical and wind
storm last night. besides bringing a
refreshing breeze and giving a good
wash to the cutters and culverts,
caused some damage.
The city electric and the Virginia
Railway and Power company wires
we're struck at various points by The
lightning. which cut out the lights at
4 number OF. points. This was part
cutariy severe on the city wires. The
connections in South Richmond were
7~ore seriously damaged. and for a
long time the electric lights at the
Third police station were out Of COM
mission,
The telephone service was not inter-
fered with to any extent. nor were the
telegraph wires damaged In this city.
The wind blew In the big plate glass
window In the front or the conscli-
nated ticket OFFICE at $40 East Main
latrset, which nearly fell on police
man. who hapoehed to be Johnnie
81 the spot" He had to remain on
me spot for some TINA until tenn
porary barricade could be placed over
The window
An electric pole careened over at
Gilman ana Denny streets. Fulton. and
y nuMbNv " trees were blown over
r. ~ suburbs and outskirts.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-03
CROWN PRINCE, USING MARINE TO SHIELD
LEFT FLANK, PUSHING HARD FOR PARIS,
LINKS UP RIGHT WITH P|CARDY SALIENT
Two Strong Efforts to Pierce French
Lines Between Torcy And Bouresches
Are Defeated--Rheims Situation Is Udt
changed--Berlin Claims Booty From
'Franco-American Depot"

The seventh day of the princes monster drive
brought the center of his attacking front - Noyon
Chateau Thiery forty mileswthn less than four miles Of
Vilers- Cotterets, the SCISSORS Paris railway.
This important rail head hes forty miles northeast Of the
French capital towards which the kaiser heir driving with
the exerton of of energy but at hourly d
ishing speed.
To the southeast of Vers Coerets the Germans captur
ed lost and then managed recapture the village of Fa
veroes Its loss is admitted by the Paris Office Sunday
night This represents the westernmost advance of the Ger
the whole line between Noyon and the Marine
Chateau Thiery the northern part of which, the right bank
of the Marine, is in German hands is pushing westward
The offensive has lost its momentum 1t is mileby
mile forward shoulderng against increasing columns q
fresh French veteran troops who content with stemmnQ
the tide determined to roll it back The day marked ~
heroic attempt by the polus to do this and SERIES
of marked successes crowned their valor sS%s.
Both in its day and night reports the Paris Office
able to the recapture of important places The
result of the day that while the invaders had gained
ground in the center and both TANKS notably the right
southeast Of Noyon they had been thrown back decsvey
points, forced to relinqush villages woods and
heights taken in the first onrush and had paid fearful price
for what they did gain.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-03
The Mare Island Navy Yard
Launches Destroyer II
Days After Keel Laid.
COMPLETE IN ONE MONTH
Much of Structural Work Pre-
pared in Advance and Put
Into Place as Progress
Is Made.

Washington, June 1.-THE United
States destroyer Ward was success
fully launched yesterday at the Mare
Island navy yard, California, seven
teen and half days after her keel
was laid. The nearest approach to
this record was the launching of a
33o-foot cargo vessel by the New York
Ship Building company. OF Camden.
n. j.. in twenty-seven days.
The record was accom- plished as the
result of new system of co-crdinated
effort, 400 men being engaged night
and day in bringing the vessel to a
state of 81 per cent com pletion- II
is hoped that the vessel will be com
pleted within month OF the date
when the keel was laid.
Twenty years ago the first sixteen
destroyers were authorized for the
navy. They were less than half the
size of the warship now in use yet
their average time from the laying
OF the keel to launching was two
years, During the past year the aver
age time has been Ave months.
In making the record OF the Ward,
much of the structural work was pre-
pared in advance. Bulkheads. keel
sections, Lighthouses. bridge structure
and a section Of the stem were rivet-
ed up ready for assem- bling on nearby
docks They were then quickly
swung into position and riveted home
a. tho vessel reached Its successive
stages OF completion.
When launched the shell of the
Ward was riveted up, with all out
board valves. bilge keel tenders and
propeller guard in place. water tight
bulkheads and structure stanton.
complete. boiler and engine founda-
tions. Lighthouses and fittings. mast
and top-mast installed and the deck
all riveted except where left bolted
for installing boilers.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-03
Lower Branch May Act Favor
ably on Proposition at the
Meeting Tonight.
SELL SURPLUS CURRENT
Administrative Boards Plan
May Be Adopted-To APP
prove Resolution for
Short Term Bonds.

Common council AT It's June meeting
tonight wall have an interesting docket
20 dispose OF,
Besides the ordinance authorizinG
the administrative board to buy and
sell electric current. the body Will
have before it the proposition of CIV
ing the Virginia Railway and Power
company the right to skip-stop its en-
tire system.
The resolution providing for short
term bond issue of $500. 900 for cur
rent emergencies. to be met annually
for Ave years at one-fifth the amount
every year, will also be considered.
These three propositions, ii Is said
will evoke much discussion, as 1t Is
generally understood they do not meet
the unanimous approval OF the mem
bership of council. Opposition to tht
bond issue. 1t Is believed. will moi
amount to much. The main discussion
probably will bc on the ordinance pro
viding for the skip-ston plan. This
plan would have received little atten'
ton had IL not been advocated by tbs
fuel administration. which body de.
clares many hundred tons Of coal may
be saved annually IL the plan is adopt
err is.required when cars are permitted
to run at greater distance withou'
stopping.
The sale of electric current II il
shown, will also tend to save coal. Il
having been figured out by experts
that between 400 and 5000 tons may
be saved annually
Tee city may derive a revenue Of
$40. 900 year from the sale of It's
surplus current. II but one cent per
kilowatt hour Is paid. The admits
trative board has been urging this
measure for many months.
Councilman e. B. English announc-
ed that he will introduce an ordi-
nance tonight amending the present
trafiic ordinances so that automobiles
when parked at curbings must be fac
Ing the street, rather than the pave
ment
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-03
AMERICAN NAVY
EXPECTS BATTIUI

New York, June ST am wSthf9s
the limitations OF orders when i -
that the United States has 1aK90
number OF first class battleshipo ntIp
preparing side by side with the -
ships of the British navy for N -
gagement on the high 5000, wtltcA ~
expected to occur at any tiyno 54k
the German fleet. We have y sV1
four times greater than Il 49, ~
before we entered this war; Ss u #
Rcar-Admjral GleAvcs nAa1l8 n Y
above statement before the fX9
the Church Of the 4Ascensions Y
and Fifth avenue last night. IsI e. II
miral Is tho head OF the Arr
transport and cruiser operatiuu1.
Il considered practically . caui "a
ton OF run,ors which have BE- lI
the rounds for some time THIS ~ "
raEement with the German NG64 ~
the high seas might cosae at any
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-03
POLICE RUMORS NOW
UP TO GRAND JURY
Afidavits in Waller Price :
Jacobs Controversy Will Be
Taken Up Today.
A FULL INVESTIGATION
A FULL INVESTIGATION
Chief Sherry Promises Aid OF
Entire Police Force in Run
ming Down Rumors Re
garding Members.

When the grand Jury meets in hust-
ings court this morning the Waller
Price Iaeo bss matter will be placed be-
fore II by Commemorative Attorney
Wise Waller left Richmond last
week for an extended trip. and it is
not known when he will return, The
jury will II is understood. proceed
with the inquiry, regardless of the
absence of Waller
There have been many rumors con-
corning the activities of members of
the police force with ALLEGED bootleg
gers. These rumors will be run down
by the grand jury, and several Of the
policemen mentioned by Waller in his
AFFIDAVIT fled with Mayor Ainslie have
S'gnifed their desire to help the fury
in every way possible
Detective Gordon Smith whose
name was linked with that OF Waller.
"a upon the commemorative at
torney immediately. and asked that
The matter ne investigated Officers
Allen, Frayser, Smith. former Police
man sweet, and Special Ofsieer Angle
have all expressed a desire TO help in
an investigation.
Chief Sherry has stated that the en-
tire department has been directed to
aid In any way possible. so that the
*e~a jury will not he hannpered by
el1e lack OF facfi1fes for running down
the many rumors.
The jury was drawn by Judge Rich
rtSon SATURDAY and will be ready to
"~oceed with business when sworn In
his morning
MI the affidavits filed with Mayor
AI1slie in the Waller case. which re-
tied in the demotion of the chief Of
police. have been turned over to the
Ca,n rrlonweaiths attorney NV tho
mayor. He will in turn present them
70 the grand Jury
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-03
PERSHING REPORTS
CASUALTY LI

Washington, June 3.-G u 1ga
Pershing reported 4 casuity l ~
eighty-five men to the war -
ment today. Sixteen were kttIS
action, eleven died Of wounds
died of accident. four died 81
four were missing In action ana a.
seven were wounded.
Private Edward ~. Rob1Ft "
missing in action. II now rept Y
prisoner. and Private Frank r. !
raro. OF Middletown. Conn. pfN ~
~ reported wounded. h repoF&at 4 !
ed IN action. Ths HIT foll0 II NJ
Killed IN actions eSG1nI14
C. MSkibbin. Ma6iaon, "a M