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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26

CHAPTER xlII--contInued.


Coming back along the same road we
halted to let another convoy of mules
go past. and an officer of the Royal
naval division came up and began
talking TO our officers. He was telling
them how he and his men had landed
ut TX" beach, and how they had to
wade ashore through barbed wire.
"And. O know" he said in q sur
prised way, as IL he himself could
hardly believe Ii. "the beggars were
actually firing on u.s." That Is just
like the Limeys, though. Their idea
lis not to appear excited about any
thing at any time, but to act as though
they were playing Understanding
around on a lawn with paddles In their
hands, half asleep. The Limeys are
certainly cool under fire. though, and
I think that because the Anzacs did
30 well at Gallipoli people have not
given enough credit to the British
regulars and II. N. DIS. who were
there too. and did their share of the
work, and did II as well as any men
could.
After O while this officer started on
his way agnin. and as he cut across
tbs F5ad G French officer Came up.
The Llmey wore q monocle, which
caused the French officer to stare at
him a minute before he saluted. After
the EngIIshman had passed him the
Frenchman took a large French penny
out Of his pocket. screwed 1t into his
eye and turned toward us SO that we
could see 1t. but the Limey could not.
That was not the eight thing to do,
especially before enlisted men, s. our
officers did not laugh, but the men did,
and so loud that Limey turned around
and caught sight of the Frenchman.
He started back toward him and !
thought sure there would be a fight.
or that, more likely, the Limey would
report him. Our officers should have
placed the Frenchman under arrest,
at that.
The Frenchman expected trouble,
too. for he pulled up very straight and
stir. but he left the penny In his eye,
The Limey came up to him. halted a
few PAGES of and. without saying
a word. took the monocle out Of his
eye, twibbled It three or fou- feet In
the mir and caught 1t In his other eye
when 1t came down.
"Do that. you blighter." he said and
faced about and was on his way down
the road. They had 1t on the French.
man after that.
This Philippe Pierre. Of whom
have spoken, told me a Aory about
two Limey officers that / hardly be-
EIeved. yet Philippe swore 1t was the
truth. He had been In America before
the war. and he said he had seen one
of the officers that the story Is about
many times In New York.
He said there were two Llmey ON
Gers going along the road arguing
nbout the German shells which the
Turks were using. cne Of the officers
said they were no good because they
did not burst. Just about that time
a shell came along and they picked
themselves up quite a distance from
where they had been standing. An
other shell whixzed by and landed nat
on tine side Of the road. The officer
~Svrassszsd over, dug It out OF the ground.
and took away the detonator and fuse
ito prove that they did not explode !
The only thing that would make
me believe that story Is that Philippe
piorro anid fhov were Timpv officers.
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21
WESTERN.

The Nebraska council of defense
lifted the embargo on shipments of
seed corn out of the state.
William j. Bryan will fire the open
ing gun of the Wisconsin campaign
for ratification of the national dry
amendment March &c, at Madison.
John Grant, sheepherder, was
found dead in his cabin fourteen miles
northeast of Bozeman, Mont
The body of George McNeel, one of
two negroes arrested suspected of i'm
plication in the assault of young
white woman, was found hanging to a
tree in the courthouse yard at Mon
roe, La.
J. C. Anderson, said to be Russell
ite preacher, was held at Carlsbad,
N. NJ, to await action of the federal
grand jury on the charge that he vio-
lated the espionage act by alleged dis
tribution of the finished mystery"
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21
SPORT.

The Central League of Baseball
Clubs will suspend operations for this
year. President Harry Stahlhefer an
nounced at Terre Haute, Ind.
Wladek Zbyszko, the Polish wres-
ling champion, won from Pat Comley.
the Irish champion, at Sioux City, Ia,
in two straight falls Zbyszko used
the head scissors and toe holds.
Ralph Greenleaf Of Monmouth, ILL.,.
established a new worlds pocket bill
lizards record for continuous run in
competition on regulation table
when he won 15O-point game from
James flanagan at Camden, N. j., with
an unfinished run of 1877. The former
record OF 1876 also was held by Green.
leaf.
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21
WAsHiNGToN.

Forty-nine names appear on Sun
days casualty list issued by the War
Department
Senator Thomas Of Colorado intro
duced in the Senate a resolution to
tear down the statue Of Frederick the
Great in front OF the war college
An additional credit of $11.2OO, 900
was extended by the United States to
Belgium making a total loan to that
country of $1O4.6O0.000. The total
amount of loans now extended to the
allies is $4,s6O,6OO,OO0.
All coal jobbers, brokers. selling and
purchasing agents, and wholesale deal
ers, were put under license by Presi-
dent Wilson on recommendation of
Fuel Administrator Garfield. who is
sued regulations carefully circum.
scribing the charges to be made for
their services.
While the food administration was
making plans to meet the critical
wheat shortage by further reduction
in consumption the Senate again took
I'M and debated legislation to increase
production By raising the price Of the
1918 crop.
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21
eELe,ANs RoUT HUN RAIDERS
Allies to Launch Offensive Against
Teutons In West.

Paris, March 19.-Attacks by Ger.
man storm troops in the regions Of
Nieuport, Dixmude and Merckem
gained footing at some points. but
all were expelled by counter attacks,
says the Belgian official statement
AS the allied world has day after
day read the official reports from the
allied and Teuton war offices in the
hope that some inkling of the real sit
uation would present itself, the realiz-
alton has come home that the Ameri-
cans, French, British, Belgian and Por.
tuguese troops are maintaining their
control over the front running from
the North sea to Switzerland.
Artillery fire, at some point growing
in intensity. Is reported but the allies
have held their own and their raiding
parties are everywhere busy in the en-
emy's trenches.
The long expected and confidently
awaited German drive has not mater
ialized and the allies threaten to start
an offensive Of their own at various
points against the Teutonic legions.
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21
OLD MAN FORGETS CHIvALRY
Good Old Brother Waek Most Ungal.
IantIy Puts Women In the Same
Glass ~ the Mule.

mo. sahw replied Brother Wack to
the expostulation Of good old Parsoa
Bagster. ''It's plumb impossible to
modulate a mule widout cussin' him.
It KANT be did. Longs I cusses dis
varmint reg'lar and satrates him wid
a club 'casionally he dess lops his ears
for'ards and trudges right along wid
de plow. But de minute draps de
club and 'dresses him in confectionery
language he turns his head and sneers
at me. Oar amt no gratitude In him.
He thinks he's got me bluffed.
"Amule, sab, am right smahthy like
q CONAN. Honey round her and buy
her fine clothes and moufiie o gold
teef, and sh'n walk all over yo', uh-
hollerin' for mo-. But slap her fiat
when she needs it and talk to her loud
and coa'se, and she's as soople as an
angle. Keep a mule and 'ooman
thankful for what yo' don't do to 'em.
and 20 got 'em gwine. every time
Kansas City Star.
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21
GEN ERAL.

Seed corn is bringing from SIS to $25
bushel in the market, but John A
Stephens, Will county, ILL.,, farmer
| is selling it to neighbors at 81. He
refused an offer from a seed house OF
$40 a bushel for the 1000 bushels in
his crib.
OF the 5000 women arrested in
Philadelphia last year, more than A.
900 were charged with drunkenness.
Negro women are going to Little
Rock, Ark. from all parts of the South
and North, donning bloomers and go
ing to work in the lumber mills. The
women receive $1.50 and 81 a day for
nine hours work.
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of
the President, announced at the Wis.
sahickon barracks, naval reserve
force at Cape May. N. j., that she is
going to France. She has been visit,
ing all the cantonments.
One hundred and sixty-six saloons
were closed in St. Louis county, Mimi,
at IL o'clock Thursday night. Bar
tenders worked frantically until the
stroke of 12 and disposed of all stocks,
Duluth has been dry since July. 1917.
Richard H. Norton of Troy, Mo-, a
member of the Fifty-first and Fifty
second Congresses, died at a hospital
in ST. Louis of complication of dis
eases. He was 50 years olu. Norton
won his first nomination to Congress
by the flip of coin which broke a
deadlock in district convention. In
1890 he defeated Champ Clark for the
nomination.
Taking part In the most magnificent
military spectacle that has ever oc-
CURED on the Pacific coast. more than
5000 soldiers from Colorado marched
in review before Mai. Gen. Frederick
s. Strong. commander of the Fortieth
| division in training at Camp Kearny,
Cal.
| Joseph Bashaw, 102 years old, died
at Leominster. Mass, after an illness
OF ten days. Relatives said 1t was the
first time he had ever been ILL., Mr.
Bashaw was born in st. Hyacinthe,
Canada. and had lived on a farm for
| many years.
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21
THE LATEST IMPORTANT Dis
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

The British casualties reported the
British aviators have dropped ton
of bombs on the town of Coblenz. cap
ital Of the Rhine province OF Prussia.
Reports reaching Geneva from Ger
many say that panics have been
brought about by the British aerial
attacks on German towns.
The Paris war office reports series
of strong German attacks in the direc-
ton Of Samogneux, north of Bois des
Caurieres and in the DezonvauX re-
gion.
Latest information shows that Sat
the enemy trenches at Malancourt on
q front Of 400 meters to depth Of
800 meters.
The Germans have occupied Niko-
lRyev, in addition to Odessa, according
to a Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd.
Both Odessa and Nikolayev were
taken without fighting.
Berlin reports: Great losses were
caused among the population of Menin
and Halluin (southeast of Ypres) sit
uated behind our front, by the enemy's
fire and dropping of bombs"
The Verdun offensive of the Ger
mans, in which they failed utterly to
break the French line, has been esti-
mated in conservative quarters as hav-
ing cost them something like 100000
men.
An Amsterdam dispatch on Satur.
day said 1t had been learned on excel,
lent authority that the Dutch govern
msnt had accepted the demand of the
entente allies relating to the use of
Dutch ships in the danger zone.
A Berlin dispatch says that in Feb
ruary entente aviators made twenty
three attacks on German towns.
Treves was raided three times and
Saarbrucker, Mannheim and Pirmas-
ems once each.
Attacking over an eleven-mile front
on the coastal sector in Palestine,
East Anglican, South Anglian and In
dian troops have advanced to an aver
age depth of three miles. according to
an official statement issued by the
London War OfflCe.
The American troops in the sector
east of Luneville, in conjunction with
the French. are still holding the for
mer enemy trenches northeast Of
Badonvilliers, although the Germans
have made another attempt to drive
them out with artillery.
In the east the Germans now hold
Odessa, the great Russian seaport on
the Black sea, which probably will be
used either as the base for an in
vasion Of India by way Of Persia or
as the terminal Of grain shipments
from Russia to the Central empires.
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21

pound ever since and give you ny psr-
mission to publish this letter" Hiss
FLO KELLY, l76 So 18th St, Newark,
N. ]. =
The reason this famous root and hesb
remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham'. Vegetable
Kelly's case was because Il went to The
root Of her trouble, restored her to .
normal healthy condition and q esssult
her nervousness disappeared
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21
Enroll $50, 900 Boy Farm Workers

Neutrality-suspicious. Of boys which
each state is to furnish in the cam
paign to enlist boys working reserve
Of $50. 900 for the farms, which opened
March 1s, was announced by the De-
partment of Labor. Colorado will be
called on for 100000; New Mexico. L.
800; Arizona. 1900; Utah, 5000: Ne
vada, 1000; Idaho. 1000; Washington,
$4,000; Oregon. $500; California, ST.
900; South Dakota, 1000: Nebraska,
1900; Kansas. 1900: Texas. $500;
Wyoming, 100.
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21
FOREIGN.

Severe rioting occurred in the IA
tional quarter of Belfast between a
mob of Sinn Feiners and the police.
Most of the houses in Innisfail, Aus
tralia. have been demolished by a cy-
clone. There were many casualties.
The British and Egyptian govern.
ments have decided Jointly to acquire
the entire Egyptian cotton crop begin
ming next August,
A Reuter- dispatch from London.
quoted reports to the effect that Maxi.
malists had murdered $50 Japanese at
Blagovetchensk.
The first official all-India wheat
forecast shows that the area sown ID
the largest on record, being 34,000.000
acres, 100000 more than last year.
Twenty-six persons are missing in
consequence of collision between a
naval vessel and the British steam
ship Baltimore. Survivors have been
landed at Kingstown, Ireland, by de-
stroyers.
Twenty thousand casualties have re-
suited from the civil war which has
broken out in Turkestan between the
soviets and the natives. according to
dispatches received at Petrograd
Fierce battles are being fought.
There have been dozens of trench
raids and minor actions everywhere
along the western front during the
past fortnight, but the French, Ameri
r;f oh 10 tod
just as many of them as have the Ger
mans.
AS result of the German landing
at Hangoe, the southernmost tip OF
Finland, American Consul Haines and
| twenty Americans have fled from Hell
clamoring for United States Minister
Morris to send ship for rescue.
The all-Russia Congress of Soviets
meeting at MOSCOW, by vote of 45;
to 80, decided to ratify the peace trea
ty with the central powers. M. Rya
zenov, prominent Bolshevik theorist
and representatives of all the profes
sional unions, resigned from the Bol
shevik party after the vote.
Moscow has again become the Off
cial capital of Russia. Peter the Grea
moved the seat of government from
Moscow to Petrograd, which he found
ed, and after 200 years the government
has been transferred by it's presen
head, Nikolai Lenine, back to the his
toric capital in the heart of Russia.
| The limit e1 n,Imher of American
buyers now in Paris seeking models
for the spring and summer season re
port that the leading creators of Paril
styles have made their models con
form strictly to the requirements o
the Washington economy board. 81
that patriotic American women cal
serve their country regarding WOO
conservation and at the same time dis
play the best Partisan styles.
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21


Petrograd is a deserted city, all gov
ernment offices having been evacu.
ated and the ministries moved to
Moscow. Those remaining in the city
will not be permitted to leave, and
all passenger train service has been
suspended. The new Council Of Com.
missaries, under the name of "ths
Commune of Petrograd," has author
ized the reissuance of the bourgeoise
newspapers. which were suspended at
the beginning of the German drive.
Leon Trotzky remains in control OF
the situation in Petrograd, while Niko-
lai Lenine is managing at Moscow.
Austro-German forces are moving
upon Woroshba, aiming to occupy
Kharkov (420 miles southwest Of Mos.
cow, 1t was reported here. The Rus
SLAMS have evacuated both places.
Tales Of atrocities rivaling those Of
Belgium have reached here concern
ing the German occupation of Mohilev
and Gomel Gin the province of Mo
hilev. on the Dnieper river).
1--WE are facing dissolution, not
from Germany, but from Japan" de-
clared Martoff.
A dispatch from Petrograd tells Of
tortures that are being inflicted by
the Bolsheviki on persons in various
localities. In Voronezh the death pen.
atty has been revived for burglars
and in Kazan four peasants. who had
been adjudged guilty of crime, were
condemned to be burned to death.
It is reported that German leaders
are organizing two army corps among
the German war prisoners near Irh
utsk, Siberia, number of cavalry
companies being included. All Boil
sheviki leaders at Blagovestchensk
500 miles east Of Harbin, have been
imprisoned by Cossacks under Gen.
Semenoff, who defeated combined
force of Bolsheviki and German war
prisoners in a bloody hand-to-hand
bayonet battle. The captured troops
were disarmed and order restored.
Having occupied Odessa and Niko
layev, important naval and grain
ports, the Germans in southern Rus.
sia continue their advance northward
from the Black sea toward Kherson,
an important commercial center anu
capital of the province Of the same
name.
Dispatches from Vasa, Finland. state
that the German army has started a
general offensive in that province.
Three Russian torpedo boats and
three mine sweepers were captured
at Abo by an invading force of Ger.
mans. who came from the Aland is.
lands in transports, preceded by an
icebreaker The Germans bombarded
the town for an hour
Bakhmatch and Konotop Tin the
province of Tchernigov. $50 miles
southwest of Moscow have been
taken by German forces. An attack
on Briansk Gin the province Of Orel,
200 miles southwest of Moscow was
repulsed, the Germans retreating in Q
disorderly r0ut.
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21
Kill Dandruff|
and Itching
with CutiCura
Lost Opportunity.
\ Ssap Se. O.aneaf fSe ( So

"What's the matter, Henpsok. you
look as II you had not slept last
nightT
''Oh. I slept soundly, but I awok>
too soon. had a splendid dream,
and I had my fist drawn back to biff
Marie on the nose-and then I awoks.
I shall never get another such oppor-
tunity."
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21

oOWn o0o Oe -
weak I could hardly
stand, and hadhead.
aches every day. ]
tried everything !
could think Of and
was under . ply.
oician's care for two
ysera Agtrl frisu1
had used Lydia n
Pinkham's Vsge.
table Compoundan4
she told mo about
II From the first
day I took I'll began
to feel better and
now ] am wen and
able TO do most any
kind Of work. !
have bssn recon.
~Amf7lnD TIA NNvn.
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21

Red Gross Bag Blue, much better. goss
farther than liquid blue. Get from any.
grocer. Adv.
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21
pETRoaRAp Is DESERTED CITY,
GOVERNMENT OFFICES MOVED
TO MOSCOW.
JAP INVASION FEARED
REPUBLIC OF SIBERIA PLANNED
-aERMAN ADVANCE CON-
TINUEs.

Toxic, March 19.-The Workmen's
and Soldiers Association has been
making efforts to form separate ST.
berian republic, according to a spe-
cial dispatch from Irkutsk.
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21
Hot Water.

''Mr. Brown is always getting into
iot water" Eyes. He II 10 cold-blood-
I'd, suppose 1t Is a kind Of relief"
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21
Naxer EalIa

Never falIo.
1.-THE hostess said the affair was to
,e strictly informal" '.That makes the
yirls dress up all right"
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21
A NERVOUS
BREAKDOWN
hliss Kelly Tells How LydiA
e. Pinkham's Vegetable !
Compound Restored Il
Her Health.

Newark. N. J.-"For about three
years suffered from nervous break.
Cheyenne record., 1918-03-21

100 men by July 1.
At the recent conference of Home
Economic Directors which was held at
the U. 8. Food Administration in
Washington, Colorado was represented
by Miss Inga Allison. Miss Allison
was asked how the people of Colorado
were kept on the job-as they evi-
IDENTIFY are. Judging from results OBJ
tanned. She replied that the people
of her state for the most part were so
eager to do all they could for the
cause Of food conservation that they
had to be checked and guided rather
than urged on.
Washington accounts place Colora-
dos quota for the first increment OF
the second draft at 323.
Concerning potash, Of which consid-
erable exists in Colorado an eastern
authority declares that the fertilixer
industry II ON the verge Of . great
development In this country and that
the various companies engaged In tho
production OF fertilisers have before
them their years oe greatest prosper
ity.
The mother Of Mrs. LAmond d.
Williams and her 13-year-old daughter
vsro brought to Trinidad for interro-
ntioa- They are suspected Of having
knoWledSs ~ to who killed Williams
q III EaAcA near Dalero0o.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-07-17
WILSON ADVISES
FEDERAL CONTROL
ASKS CONGRESS FOR AUTHORITY
AND TELEPHONE SYSTEMS.
Action Result Of Impending Strike on
the Western Union. - Measure
Introduced by Southerner Would
Grant President Power.

Washington.-Legi to author
lie government control and operation
Of telegraph and telephone systems
during the war was approved July by
President Wilson,, and leaders at the
capitol prepared for its immediate con-
sideratiOn, with a view to action If pos
sible before congress recesses.
Secretaries Baker and Daniels and
Postmaster General BurlesOn, all of
whom have Endorsed the pending bill
by Representative Aswell of Louisiana
proposing this authority, were invited
to appear before the house interstate
commerce commission.
The presidents statement was in q
note to Chairman Sims Of the commit.
tee, approving letter from Postmaster
Gneral Burleson. There was no di-
rect reference in any Of the CORE
spondence to the call sent out by the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union of
America for strike of Western Union
operators on July 8.
The resolution introduced by Repre-
sentative Aswell of Louisiana reads
| THAT the president, if, in his dis
erection it Is deemed desirable in order
to insure their continuous operation or
to guard the secrecy of military and
governmental communications, or to
prevent communication by spies or
other public enemies thereon, or for
other military or public reasons, shall
have power to take possession and con-
troll of any telegraph. telephone
marine cable or radio systems, and
operate the same subject to those con.
ditiOns of law, SO far as applicable
which are in force as to steam rail
roads while under federal control"
Postmaster General BurlesOn, in @
letter which the president approved
as stating the reasons "truly," advised
Chairman Sims that the power and dis
erection to act, as proposed in the resO
luton, seems imperative to safe
guard public interests" The post
master general added:
"At this moment the paralysis of 6
large part of the system of electrical
communication is threatened with pos
sible consequences prejudicial to oul
military preparations and other pub
lie activities that might prove seriou:
or disastrous. We are reminded tha
there Is not nation engaged in thu
war that entrusts its military or Othel
communications to unofficial agencies
deem it, therefore, my duty no
merely to approve, but to urge, the
passage of the resolution, in order tina
the president may act, if necessary tt
safeguard the interests of the country
during the prosecution of the war;"