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The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12
THE TRAITOR PAcIFIsT
By Edwin Arden of the vigilantes

BY Edwin Arden of the Vigilantes
In an address to members of the
Chamber of Commerce and Manufac-
turers' association of Dallas, Texas,
Major Stanley Washburn, of the U. S.
army said that: "The man who go
about the land in the guise of pacifists
urging the war be ended, are your per-
sonal enemies as much as if they had
knives in their hands and were stab
bing yours sons Over There in the
back"
If Major Washburn is right and any
thinking person knows that he is, why
are these brazenly outspoken pacifists
allowed to be at large, sowing the
seeds of sedition and stabbing our
boys in the French trenches with an.
American" knife "made in Germany"
The answer is that few of us think
straight concerning the CHASTITY pcs
sibilities of this war affecting us in
dividually. And even the thinkers
are not yet awake to the deadly ef
fects of this Prussic Acid which is.
eating into the united loyalty of the
American people.
Every word of peace advocacy at
this time is born of German propa-
ganda, whose sole purpose is TO ere
ate in the people of this country an
inert and listless attitude toward a
vigorous and mighty prosecution of
this war-until our help comes too
,ate. The poison worked in Russia,
end it's effects will be felt directly in
this country. Every Russian soldier
who lays down his gun and accepts
German peace releases ten veteran
Teuton butchers to overwhelm our
boys on the western front-where?
Possibly England. Field Marshal
French admits the possibility, and
if to England, then certainly to Am
erica.
What is the antidote for this poison?
Action! Swift, sure and crushing. The
pacifists must go; they must be eff
fectually muzzled or exterminated,
preferably the latter. AS Major Wash
burn publicly puts it: 'They should
be tried by court-martial and shot
with their backs against WALL
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12
HARDSHIP FOR
MINES WOULD
HIT FACTORIES

GLOBE, Ariz., Jan. IA slightly
higher price for copper metal would
enable the conduct not only of greater
metal output, but also of much greater
development work. In the endeavor
to open new ore areas and place great
er metal resources, in readiness for
the emergency needs of the govern
ment should the war continue over q
much longer period, the development
work being done throughout the state
on more extensive and better bal
anced scale than ever before is of
highest Importance. The better bal
ance is due to the. fact that much of
this work is being made to, pay it's
own way, or a considerable portion of
the bill, and is therefore keeping down
extravaganza and making the money
involved do double work. Reduction
in the price of copper would cut off
most of this work, while an. increase
would make from 25 per cent to so
per cent gain.
More involved and with great deal
more at stake than anybody else is
the small operator and the employed
miner, mill and smelter worker of the
larger concerns. The small operator
faces the necessity of coming to a
standstill and perhaps losing his prop
erty, particularly so If. he has lease.
The workingman confronts the reduc-
ton of operating forces, made neces-
sary by the mining of. higher grade
ores In order to- hold output of metal
somewhere. near normal figures and
earn, a, profit that will enable, provi-
sions against the needs of the future
in the, mine and its plants.
In the east there is division that
will be- about as hardlhit as the people
Of the. mining, districts. The eastern
division comprises the employers and
employees engaged in the output of
copper and brass products. Unless
the output OF metal from the west is
maintained at top. figures there. can
not be sufficient supply of metal for
all of these manufacturers in New
England and. the middle west and
eastern states. They have, had expe-
rience ofathe fact during the last quar-
ter, In which they have been able to
get only a small part of the copper
they have needed to fill private con-
tracts. and they have had to lay off
operatives in consequence. Many of
them have figured. that the shortage
of copper was entirely due to strikes
in the mining districts and that with
these. now pretty well cleared up and
the eastern refineries again receiving
normal shipments, it will be but a
short time before there is. more cop
per than they can use. The strikes,
of course ourtailedi copper output, but
rising costs have had great part,
and. will have more, and if coupled
with reduction in, the metal price, in
steadi of advance, will necessarily re-
sutli in as much and perhaps more
copoper shortage than was brought
about by the strikes. Neither the
large nor the small producers can
weather less than cost prices, no mat
ter how courageously and successfully
they may go; through strike periods
to alprofit making price period await
ing them, on the other side of the
trouble.
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12
RIGHTS OF A MINER ON
AN ABANDONED CLAIM

The following appeared in the En-
cheering and Mining Journal of No
vember "a, and is of interest to men
engaged in the mining industry.
ITO decide a good-natured argu-
mentI will the Journal please pub
lish the answer to the following ques-
tion;. A locates claim and does work
on it as required by law. For various
reasons he abandons it. Several years
later he returns to the same ground,
and finding no intervening rights, re-
sumes: work without locating again.
He opens an ore body, whereupon 3
then covers the claim with new To-
cation and claims the ground. Whose
rights are valid?
Subscribers"
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12
Copyright by Little. Brown and Con
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I-Marthy, low-browed, un-
combed, harsh of voice and speech and
nature, with her shiftless husband Jase
journey over desert trail driving four
oxen and are the pioneers whose lurching
wagon first fords the Wolverine stream
Jase is ready to stop at the first green
spot, but Marthy insists on plodding along
another full days journey. That night,
through natural instinct, two of the oxen
the rich grasses of the Cove where they
are found by Marthy who recognizes the
little, hidden Eden as the place of her
dreams and the pioneers at once take pos
session. Later they are joined by an
other couple who are impressed with the
Wolverine and also establish a home. To
them is born daughter. christened Billy
Louise.
CHAPTER II-After a visit to Marthy
Billy Louise on her horse Blue reaches
home late, in a snow storm, having met
q stranger riding over the same trail. He
coined by Billy Louise's mother. Intro
duces himself as Ward Warren who has
a claim on Mill Creek.
CHAPTER III-Marthy is Mortified to
find that Jase has died during the night.
Digging grave in level place above
the main ditch, she wheels Jase's body
on the homemade wheelbarrow and
buries her dead. Charlie Fox, her nephew
arrives.
CHAPTER Ty-Fox rides to. Billy
Louise's ranch to inquire If she has seen
anything of four of their calves which
Disappeared; theft is discussed, and Billy
Louise starts in search.
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12

"The apparent difficulty in this case
lies in the matter of abandonment
The, courts have held consistently
that abandonment involves intention
and that the burden of proof rests
with. the party who asserts that a
claim was abandoned. A peculiar an
alogy may serve to, emphasize this
point. A mother leaves her infant in
a field with intent to abandon it, and
goes to, some other locality to work
She thinks of the child as a weak
ling, or unattractiye, or a. nuisance,
but after lapse of time she goes
back and finds the child. Others
may have seen it. but no one has TAX
en- any action to alter the status
of the child or of her relation to it.
She nurses the child and continues
as if nothing had happened, having
reconsidered her decision to aban-
don it. If the child thrives, any
stranger who had observed the in
fant in the field and had passed by
without taking any action would find
it hard task to convince a court
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12

claim beyond the pine dotted ridge that
looked purple in the distance. Billy
Louise sighed with vague disqu1et
and turned to look away to the north,
where the tumble of high hills grew
more rugged, with the valleys narrow
er. and deeper.
Here came two other dots, larger and
more clearly defined as horsemen
From mere objects that stood higher
than any animal and moved with a
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12

gin and wrote: 81 don't think you're
bit nice. Why don't you stay home
when fellow comes to see your This
she folded neatly and put in the cigar
box of tobacco over Wards pillow.
She resaddled Blue and rode away
more depressed than ever, because her
depression was now mixed with dis
appointment keener than she would
have cared to acknowledge, even to
herself
Continued Next Week.
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12

What has become of the absent
individual who always puts
five or six Jumps of sugar in his cof-
fee or tea? If he is not entirely elm
bowls are removed from public tables.
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12

A shot weighing 141a' tons was put
on and shot at the New Cornelia mine,
Ajo. This is perhaps the heaviest
shot ever fired in the mining history
of Arizona.
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12

Are YOU a member of the food ad-
ministration It is better to sign the
food pledge late than not at all.
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12

The visible supply of rye in the
United States on October 20 was
S,454,00O bushels, an increase of more
than 80 per cent over last year.
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12

According to an overseas dispatch
bacon is an almost unknown quantity
in London shops. 1t sells for 60 cents
pound when obtainable.
Persons who chop wood this winter
to save coal will be making the chips
fly for freedom.
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12

Food in the mouths of the allies is
the brand of ammunition most needed
now. Are you helping to put it there?
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-01-12

The sugar that annually goes to
waste in the bottom of American cof-
fee cups would sweeten life in many
French home.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-11-24

James Brown Scott, mentioned
for tho post OF secretary to tho
commission that will represent
America at tho peace conference.
He is known as an authority on in
ternatiOnal law.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-13

Aver, Mass, Aug. 12-How army
discipline was satisfied in trying the
case of l6-year-old soldier who de-
serted to support his mother and two
small brothers, came to light at Camp
Devens today.
Two days after Russell R. Vaughn
enlisted in Company |, of the AID
infantry, at Council Bluffs, la, last
August, he received word from his
mother that his father was incapaci-
tated for work and that he and the
children were dependent on charity.
Without the formality OF applying for
the leave, the boy went home and for
six months supported the family. The
day his father was able to resume
work Russell gave himself UP to the
military authorities at Fort Omaha.
The case was so plainly against
the boy when he was court-martialed
for desertion that the court was
obliged to sentence him to three years
at hard labor, forfeiture of pay and
allowances and dishonorable dis
CHARGE
Major Barratt O'Hara. former lieu
tenant governor OF Illinois, now judge
advocate at Camp Devens, where the
regiment had been transferred in the
meantime, recommended clemency.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-13
Ak = Sar Ben Show
Goes Big When Guests
From Afar Visit Den

Even the Oldest inhabitants Of Ben
nington, Irvington and Washington
must have turned out to the Ak-Sar-
Ben den, to judge from the crowds
that braved the heat to throng to the
show Monday night. More auto
mobiles were parked outside the hall
than ever before this season.
A large crowd from Cedar Bluffs,
Neb., and delegation from Kennard
also were present, as we'll as the del
egates to the convention of the Mid
west Advertising association, now
meeting in the city.
The show went big" as the vaude-
vile artists say, and the crowd took
to heart Miss Bee Alderman's song,
"Say, pal, ! wanta ask y'u all about
Nebraska" and repeated encores were
demanded.
E. C. Page. filled the place OF
Charles Black as master of ceremo-
nies, during the latter's absence. Rev.
D. K. Miller of Cedar Bluffs and B.
P. Bartlett of the Topeka Capital,
who is in the, city attending the ad-
vertising convention, were the two
sneakers, .
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-13
Young Mother Weeps as Her.
Child is Given to New Parent

Torn between love of her mother
and love for her child, homesick and
heartsick, the girl mother, whose
baby has been given away through
the efforts of The Bee, surrendered
the little one Monday afternoon in the
office of the Board of Public Welfare.
according to arrangements.
my baby! How can l give you
up?' she wept. holding the little one
to her breast.
do you you want to keep it?
There is still time to change your
mind" said Mrs. Ohaus. =
But no. Her mother would not
take her back unless size surrendered
the child. and she was homesick and
lonesome. Only a child herself. she
felt the need Of the protecting walls OF
home. She left the sleeping baby and
the little bundle containing its pitt
fully few BELONGINGS. saving a fearful
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-13
SERIOUS MENACE IN
SOMME RIVER POCKET
CONFRON1'S HUNS
Germany Clamoring
To Know Wherefore
OF "This Reverse

Amsterdam, Aug lz.--Clamoring
for an inquiry into this reverse"
the Weiser Zeitung of Bremen says
the story that the German army
was surprised is an insufficient ex-
planation, inasmuch as it has been
officially stated that the attack was
expected and the German lines to
the west of Montdidier were ac-
cordingly withdrawn.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung ad-
vises the people to keep their spirits
up. indicating that yesterday was q
day of depression.
an Cologne it was the day of tho
defeatists." the newspaper says.
with anxiety depicted on their
faces they stood together exchang-
ing their fears and discussing the
dark prospects"
d How the general situation on the
western front strikes Holland may
be indicated by a cartoon in Satur-
days Amsterdam Telegraaf, show
ing the American eagle with Presi-
dent Wilson's face in a deadly COM
bat with the Prussian eagle, with
Emperor Williams face, the latter
bird being in a sadly disheveled
state.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-13

goodbye to the unconscious daughter,
who did not know of the momentous
change taking place in her young life.
Soon the new mother came. Smiles
of joy and thankfulness illuminated
her face. She carried her treasure to
the waiting automobile and left inn
mediately for the new home, where
the baby will grow up as the daugher
OF prosperous farmer with the free
dom Of his broad acres and the love
OF young couple respected by the
community to shield her from the sad
fate of her little mother.
One of the welfare workers accom-
panied the child and her new mother
on their journey to see that papers
were properly taken out.
In the meantime, The Bee Office
still. is deluged with kilograms and
letters from people who want the
baby. Pa
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-13
SUBMARINES SHOOT
FUMES OVER WATER;
SINK SMALL VESSELS
Somme Region Deluged
By Bombs Thrown From
Britain's Air Graf t

London, Aug. 12.--An official
communication dealing with avia-
ton issued tonight says:
Fifty tons of bombs were
dropped by our airmen on August
I'll and the following night. The
two chief objectives, both by day
and by night, were the Somme
crossings and certain railway juno
tons of military importance.
"Courtrai station and its sidings
were heavily bombed by some of
our squadrons in broad daylight,
from low height, without loss to
US. Many direct hits were observed.
AT night the stations Of Peronne
and Cambria were severely attacked
attacked with good effect. All our
night bombing machines safely re-
turned.
Enemy aircraft flying in large
formations, were active on the bat
tie front. Twenty-nine hostile ma
chimes were destroyed in air fight
ing during the day and "a others
were driven down out of control.
Four hostile balloons were shot
down in flames. Five of our ma
chimes are missing"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-13
BEST RUSS
ELEMENT TO
ESTABLISH
EAST FRONT
Washington Hears Of New Pos.
sibiIity;; "PeopIe's Represen-
tatives Opposed to Germans,
Proclamation Declares.
By Associated Press.

Amsterdam, Aug. ia
dispatch to the Wolff bureau,
the official German news
agency, says that M. Joffe, the
Russian ambassador to Ger.
many, has left for Moscow to
report on economic conditions
arising from the Brest-Litovsk
treaty.
Washington, Aug. 1.-THE posi-.
bility of the establishment of ar
eastern front that will be a serious
menace, at least to the Germans, is
being considered by officials here, II
became known today in connection
with the making public OF the full text
of the proclamation of the supreme
government of the northern territory
The signers of the proclamation are
with two exceptions members of the
constituent assembly representing the
provinces of Novgorod, Archangel,
Vologda, Viatka, Kanan and Samara
"a chain of provinces extending from
the Arctic to the region of the Don
Cossacks in, the south.
This chain rs in the form of a cres-
cent making a complete front of peo-
pies strongly pro-ally in sentiment
and representing the best elements OF
the Russian population.
Against Germans.
The signers of the proclamation
announce that "the peoples repre-
sentatives," elected by universal suf-
frage. are now forced to take into
their hands the government of the
northern region because as yet there
is no legal all-Russian government
They pronounce themselves lnquali.
fedly opposed to the Germans and
declare that the new government rs
convinced that Russia's and the al.
lies interests in the struggle against
foreign enemy are one and the
same"
Officials of the State department ad-
NIT that there is reasonable ground
for hope that the eastern front will
be re-established by this new govern
ment, extending as it does from the
Arctic to the Caucasus and embracing
millions of Russians who see the inn
minent danger to their newly &C
qired freedom, sought for genera
tions, in the domination of their
country by the German government.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-13

The sentence thereupon was miti-
gated to six months at hard labor by
Col. George L. Byroade, ommandant.
With all the requirements of strict
army discipline fulfilled, Colonel
Byroade, in the next breath, sus-
pended the mitigated sentence and
restored the boy to his old place in
his company with a bit of soldierly
Russell R. Vaughn is the eldest son
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. Vaughn, 1907
Avenue G. Council Bluffs, la. In May
or June, 1917, he enlisted in Company
|. AID infantry. Shortly after his en-
listment, receiving word that his
father was incapacitated for work, he
deserted from the army and came
straight home to Council Bluffs and
got a job as engine hostler in the
Chicago & Northwestern round.
house. For six months he supported
the family of five on his small earn
ings as hostier. Later, he was
promoted to firing a switch engine
and finally went on the road. getting
steady run between Council Bluff
and Boone. The moment his father
was we'll enough to go to work, young
Vaughn quit his job and surrendered
to the officers at Fort Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-13
HUNS DESPERATE
IN EFF 0RTS TO
CHECK oNRUsH
Despite Reinforcements, In.
able to Stop French, Who
Have Strong Hold on
ThieScourt Plateau.
BY Associated Press.

With the French Army in France,
Aug. l2.-Although the Germans have
been reinforced and are resisting more
strongly between the Avre and the
Disc, their fresh divisions have been
unable entirely to stop the advancing
French, who now have a firm hold on
Thiescourt plateau. South of Roye
and northwest of Noyon the French
hold positions that command the only
roads leading from Roye and Ribe-
court, toward Noyon, over which the
enemy can withdraw his artillery.
The increasing difficulties attend
ing their retreat are driving the Ger
mans to desperate sacrifices in their
efforts to check the allies advance
around the positions the Germans
hold on Thiescourt plateau. Their
losses are extremely heavy and their
dead lie all over the field. They are
found in shell holes and rocks where
they vainly sought protection from
the French FIRE. Among them are
some survivors, who are found in
every possible hiding place.
Using Horseflesh.
Privations were endured by the
Germans in the front line recently.
This was picturesquely evidenced by
letter found since the offensive be-
gan. 1t was from an officer, who IN
formed his relatives in Germany that
the French artillery. had been fur
nishing the only meat available by
killing horses. Another officer wrote
with pride and satisfaction that he
was able to send along with his mes
sage of love and hope sack of wheat
he had just CLEANED from an adjoin-
inc field
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-13
new MENACE
BY RAIDERS
HITS SHORES
Poisonous Attack Launched
Against Naval Station Off
Smith Island; Six Men
Are Overcome.
By Associated Press.

Washington, Aug. 12.-Gas
from oil discharged on the
water by German submarine
operating off the middle At
lantic coast, overcame six men
in the coast guard station and
lighthouse on Smiths Island,
North Carolina, Saturday even-
ing, the Navy department was
advised today by the COM
mandant of the sixth naval dis
rict. ! E j
1t is said if the gas attack was de-
liberate as most officials believed, it
constitutes new and ingenious form
of "frightfulness" and so far as has
been reported, was the first direct
attempt made by German" raiders to
harm persons or property on Amerl-
~ean shores.
The gas was said by the command
, ant OF the coast guard station to have
much the same effect as the mustard
gas used by the Germans on the
western front. The men were laid
out for more than half an hour, but
apparently suffered no serious after
effects.
Think Attack Planned.
The dispatch relating the gas at
tack was one of series concerning
German submarine warfare off the
Atlantic coast received during the day
by the Navy department.
While the reports from the COM
mandants of the Smiths Island coast
guard station and sixth naval dis
trict clearly indicated their firm be-
lief that the gas attack on the Island
was deliberate, some officers tonight
thought there was a possibility that
the submarine had discharged the oil
and gas after being wrecked on a reef.
Attention was called to the fact
that the action of salt water on
electric batteries used in submarines
generates chlorine gas, which is SINH
lar to mustard gas in its effect and
is deadly if encountered in a closed
space. If the submarine were wrecked,
it was said, this gas would be gen.
Grated and would come to the sur
face with the oil which would be
freed. :
No such possibility, however, was
mentioned in the Navy departments
announcement, which said:
To Endanger Ships.
Assuming the attack was de1iber-
ate, the only explanation offered here
was that the submarine commander
sought to put the lighthouse out of
commission with the attendant dan
ger to passing ships. If that were
the purpose, officials could not under
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