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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-10-17

Until further notice all public and
parochial schools, churches, theaters,
and public places of assemblage will
be closed on account of the prevail
ing influenza.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-10-17
WHOLE NATION AT WAR;
NOT ONLY SOLDIERS
BY C. n. Martin, Major Gen. U.
S. Army, Commanding Camp
Grant, Illinois.

The Fourth Liberty Loan
should again forcibly remind
everybody that the whole nation
is in the war, and not merely
the men in uniform.
We are teammates in a
mighty game: a game which
has been developing for cen
turtles. The contending teams
are Autocracy and Democracy,
and life Is the stake for which
they are playing. We are now
at the very climax Of that age
long struggle.
Your part on the team re
Quires a devotion and disinter-
ested forgetfulness of self as
complete and unfiagging as you
expect from the men in uni
form. No one can do his duty on
any team who measures his
duty by any other standard than
his entire abilities. 1t cannot be
measured by comparisons with
the performances Of others.
Do not think that the front,
only, is the war; the front is a
part of the team. | like to think
that it is a part Of sufficient i'm
portance TO engage your en-
thusiastic interest and support.
The anxiety with which you
wait for good news from the
front is Of the same variety as
that which the front waits for
good news from the back. Any
especially good plays On any
part Of the team strengthens the
heart Of every member of the
team.
1t is YOU play now; oversub-
scribe this loan cheerfully and
with enthusiasm.
Get into the game.
- =
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-10-03

forces were spent, his muscles weight
ed as with lead. But 1t was not this
alone that made his breath come short
and rnggedly.
Sheba had flung herself down beside
her lover. She had caught him tightly
in her arms so that his disfgured face
lay against her warm bosom. In the
eyes lifted to those OF the mlne-owner
was an unconquerable defiance.
Hes mine-mine. you murderer"
she painted fiercely. "If you kill him.
you must kill me first"
The man she had once promised to
marry was looking at q different WON.
an from the girl he had known. The
soft, shy youth Of her VA gone. She
was n forest mother of the wilds ready
to fight for her young, n wife ready to
go to the stake for the husband Of her
choice. An emotion primitive and
poignant had transformed her.
His eyes burned at her the question
his parched lips and throat could
scarcely utter. $50 you love
himi"
But though II was In form a question
he knew already the answer. For he
first time In his life ne began to taste
the bitterness Of defeat. Always no
had won what he coveted by brr'f
force or his stark will. But II was be-
yond him to compel the love Of a girl
who had given her heart to another.
YES" she answered.
Her hair In two thick braids was
Nung across her shoulders, her dark
head thrown back proudly from the
rounded throat.
Macdonald smiled. but there was no
mIrth in his savage eyes. "Do you
know what / want with him-why
have come to get hlmf"
mo"
"Tve come to take him back to Ku.
slak Il be hanged because he mur
dcred Milton. the bank cashier"
The eyes of the ONT blazed nj
him. Are you mad?"
Its the truth" Macdonald's voice
was curt and harsh. Gle and Holt
were robbing the bank when Milton
came back from the dance nj the club.
The towards shot down the old man
like q dog. They'll hang for 1t II II
costs me my last penny. so help me
God"
you say It's the truth" she retort.
ed s%cornfully. "Do you think l dom,
know you now-how you twist and dis.
tort facts to suit your ends? How Iona
Is Il since your jackal had him arrest.
ed for a~ssaulting you-when Wally Sci.
fridge knew-and you knew-that he
had risked his life for you and had
saved yours by bringing you to DANES
after he had bandaged your woundsf"
THAT was different. 1t was part OF
the game Of politics we were playing"
"You admit that you and your
friends lied then. Is II like you could
persuade me that you're telling the
truth nowf"
The big Alaskan shrugged. BE
lieve II or o as you like. Anyhow,
he's going back with me to Kusiak-
and Holt. too. II he's here"
An excited cnckle cut into the con
%versation, followed by n drawing an.
nouncement from the window. "Your
old tillicum Is right here, Mac. What's
the use Of waitingi Why don't you
have your hanging. bee nowf"
ITO BE CONTINUEDN
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-10-03
Copyright, William Macleod Raine.

and up II TO the distant creeks. The
other led cross the divide. struck the
Yukon. and pointed n way to the coast.
White drifts had long since blotted out
the trnck Of the sled that Ind pre-
coded him. Had the fugitives gone up
the river to the creeks with intent to
hole themselves up for the wintcr1 Or
WINS II their purpose TO cross the divide
n go out over the ice to the constr
The pursuer knew that Gid Holt was
wise rs a weasel. lie could follow
bllndfolded the paths that led to every
creek In the gold-felds. II might be
taken rs u certainty that he had not
plunged into such n desperate venture
without having n plan well worked out
beforehand. Elliot had a high grade
OF intelligence. Would they try to
reach the coast and make their get.
away to Seattle? Or would they dig
themselves In till the heavy SHOWS
were past and come back &c civilian.
ton with the story Of n lucky strike to
account for the gold they brought with
themf Neither gold dust nor nuggets
could be Identified. There would be
no way Of proving the story false. The
only evidence against them would be
that they had left at Kusiak and this
was merely OF a corroborative kind.
There would be no chance of convict.
Ing them upon II.
To strike for Seattle was to throw
AWAY all pretense Of innocence. Fugl-
tives from Justice, they would have to
disappear from sight In order to es.
cape. The hunt for them would con-
tlnue until ut last they were unearthed,
One fork OF the rond led to compare
tive safety the other went by devious
windings to the penltcntinry and per-
hpps the gallows. The Scotsman put
himself In the place OF the men he was
trailing. Given the same conditions,
he knew which path he would follow.
Macdonald took the trail that led
down to the river. to the distant gold
creeks which offered n refuge from
man.hunters In many n deserted cabin
mnrooned by the deep snows.
Even the iron frame and steel
muscles Of the Scotch-C Canadian pro.
tested against the task he had set them
that day. II was a time to sit snugly
inside by a stove and listen to thu
bowling Of the wind as It hurled Itself
down from the divide. But from day
light till dark Colby Macdonald fought
with drifts and breasted the storm. ii,
got into the harness with the dogs. III
broke trail for them, cheered them
soothed. comforted. punished. Lorl
after night had fallen he staggered into
the hut Of two ~prospectors, his parks
SO stir with frozen snow that II hnt
to be beaten with n hammer before the
coat could be removed.
"How long since a dog team passed
seven huskies and two men1" wa,
his first question.
mo dog team has passed for foul
days. n of the men answered.
"You mean you haven't seen one
Macdonald corrected.
II meal one has passed-unless 4
went by IN the Night while we slept
And v then Dur dogs would hav,
warned u.s."
Macdonald flung his ~ice.coated glove!
10 n table and stopped to take or hi'
mukluks. His face was blue with thu
cold, but the bleak look In the eye!
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-10-03
CHAPTER XXI.
A Message From the Dead.


Macdonald drove his team into the
teeth Of the storm. The wind came In
gusts. Sometimes the gale was SO stifl
that the dogs could scarcely crawl for.
ward against II; again there were mo-
ments Of comparative stiffness. fol.
lowed by squalls that slapped the
driver In the face like the whipping OF
a loose sail on n catboat.
High drifts made the trail dlficult,
Not once but fifty times Macdonald
left the gee-pole to break a way
through snow-waves for the sled. The
hest he could get out Of his dogs was
three miles IN hour. and he knew that
there was not another team or driver
In the North could have done 30 well.
II wns close to hoo when ne reached
a division of tho road known rs the
Fork. One trail ran down to the river
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-10-03
SNOW, Pete. Go to him !" urged Holt

snow. Pete. Go to him !" urged Holt
wildly.
But before saltwater could move.
before the great hst Of Macdonald
could smash down upon the bleeding
face u%pturned to his. sharp blow
struck the flesh Of the raised forearm
and for the moment stunned the mus
Giles. The Scotch-C Canadian lifted
c%ountenance drunk with rage, passion
tossed.
Slowly the light Of reason came back
into his eyes. Sheba was standing be-
fore him, his rife In her hand She
had struck him with the butt Of II.
Don't touch himl Don't you dare
touch him !" she challenged.
He looked at her long, then let his
eyes fall to the battered face Of his
enemy. Drunkenly he got to his feet
and leaned against n willow. His
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-10-03
When the Lion Divides.

The capitalist would have you be-
lleve that civilization rests on the &C
emulation Of pounds, shillings and
pence-pounds for the capitalist. shill.
ings for the middlemen. and pence for
the workers. - Sydney Australian
Worker.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-10-03


came from within. He said nothing
more until he WIS free OF his wet
clothes. Then he sat down heavily and
passed q hand over his frozen eye
brows.
"Get me something TO eat and take
are of my dogs. There is food for
them on the Sled" he said.
While he ate he told them Of the
bank robbery and the murder. Their
resentment against the men who had
done II was quite genuine. There
could be no doubt they told the truth
when they said no sled had preceded
his. They were honest, reliable pros.
pectors. He knew them both well.
The weary a slept like q log. He
opened his eyes next morning to 0nd
one Of his hosts shaking him.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-10-03
Always Look happy

Why do photographs of woman air
plane pilots always show them COM
peting for the record In the standing
broad grinf - Pittsburgh 0azstts
T1msA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28

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New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
News Digest
New York

Galena Signal Oil Stock Offering
The Galena-Signal Oil Company is
offering $4,00O,00O new per cent pre-
ferred stock at par to all shareholders
of record on June % in the proportion
of one share for every five shares held.
The present capitalization amounts to
S20,000,O00, consisting of $2,000,000 pre-
ferred per cent stock and 100000
common. '
New Securities Listed.-New sccuri-
ties admitted to trading on the Stock
Exchange yesterday included $4,000
common stock of the Owens Bottle
Machine Company; s9,oo1, 900 first lien
per cent twenty-year sinking fund
bonds of the Union Oil Company, of
California; sS,5es5oo additional first
and and rssfu1dng sfaad e mortgage no, twenty.hv
Power Company; S5,5O0OOO additional
common stock of the Montana Power
Company; $5,2So,oOO additional gen
eral unified mortgage Az per cent
bonds of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
road; $6.485,S00 capital stock of the
Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company; So
322, 900 Bankers Trust Company
stamped certificates of deposit, repre-
senting first and refunding mortgage
5 per cent bonds of the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad; $17,835,500 collateral
trust per cent fifteen-year convertible
bonds Of the Chile Copper Company.
Additional Payment to Aetna Ex-
plosives Creditors Authorized.-Judge
Julius M. Mayer in the Federal Dis.
trict Court yesterday authorized re-
ceivers Odell and Holt, of the Aetna
Explosives Company, Inc, to pay an
additional dividend to creditors whose
claims have been approved. Judge
Mayer said that in view of the fact
that receivers have on hand a large
amount of Liberty bonds, the financial
condition of the company is such that
they can pay all undisputed claims in
full to such creditors as will ACCEPT
Second Liberty Bond Is at par. The
creditors who feel that they can not
at this time accept the bonds, Judge
Mayer said, are to receive a dividend
OF 20 per cent in cash and the re-
naming % per cent will be paid later
The first dividend paid to the creditors.
which was so per cent one, amounted
to $827,196
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
Russian Chaos
Stops Debt Payment
CASTOR, Williams & Wigmore,
Inc, Write OFF
$1,751.3O9

Unsettled conditions in Russia made
i. necessary for CASTOR, Williams g.
Wigmore, Inc, to write off $1,751 1903
on Russian accounts which could not
be collected, according to the annual
statement Of the company issued yes
terday for the twelve months ended
April 80 last.
Net income of the company for the
year amounted to $3,188,727, compared
with $3,278, ,72o in 1917. After deducting
st,275,oo0 in dividends paid, $1,75l ,S09
for doubtful Russian accounts, and
Si36,930 for the amortization Of dis
count on serial gold notes, the surplus
from the twelve months operations was
S23.4S7, against 81, ,404 ,S06 the preceding
yesr. Earnings on the 100000 shares
of stock outstanding we're at the rate
cf $3.50 share, compared with ss.6S
the year before.
The total volume of EXPORT and i'm
port sales of the company last year
amounted To $57,537 ,991, and untitled
orders at the close of the fiscal year
tctalled $16,727, ,942. II is stated that
Of the $4,000,00o outstanding notes
81 ,000, GOO maturcd on April /, 1918, and
werc paid Off on that date, leaving
S3.o00,0 900 still outstanding
The balance sheet shows cash on
hand Of $i,432.SS8. against s1,l53 ,430
at tho close Of the preceding fiscal
leriod. Investment In ships is carried
at $2,l24.78s.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
American Bankers
Organize for
Business ir, China
Asia Banking Corporation
to Have Several Branches
i'm the Far East

Entrance of American banking inter
csts into the Chinese and Far Eastern
field is indicated in the announcement
made yesterday of the organization
under the laws Of New York State Of
the Asia Banking Corporation with a
capital Of $2.000,000 and a surplus OF
s5c0,000. Among the stockholders in
the new company are the Guaranty
Trust Company of New York. the Mer-
Anglo & London-Pari National Bank
Of San Francisco, the National Bank Of
Portland, Ore, and the National Bank
of Commerce, Seattle, Wash.
According to q statement issued by
the Guaranty Trust Company the com
pany proposes to engage in interna-
tonal and foreign banking in China, in
the dependencies and insular posses
sions Of the United States, and, ulti
matcly, in Siberia. Its principal busi
ness will be confined to the Far East
New York. 1t is expected that an
agency will be opened in San Fran
cisco and central branch in Shanghai
whcrc it is proposed to locate the gen
eral manager of the Far Eastern bust
ness. Present plans also contemplate
the future establishment of other
branches in Hankow, Peking, Tientsin,
Harbin and Vladlvostok. AS soon as
the Russian situation clears the new
bank will be ready to establish itself
in Russia and Siberia or to affiliate
itself with old or new Russian banks.
In financial circles the establishment
of an American bank in China with
branches elsewhere in the Far East is
looked upon as an important step tow
ard the development of American for
eign trade in that part of the world
Heretofore English and continental
hanks principally have financed trans
actions between this country and the
Far East. Those responsible for the
organization of the new company de-
clare that the increase in trade be-
tween this country and the Far East
makes greater banking facilities neces-
sary and justifies the establishment of
American banks and investment COM
panies for this purpose
The capital issues committee of the
War Finance Corporation has approved
the issue of the capital stock of the
new corporation, the position being
taken that the investment Of capital in
this enterprise does not mean a diver
sion of capital for new purposes, since
a large amount of the business pro-
posed to be. transacted is now being
conducted by American banks with
their own resources through their cor
respondent banks. There will be no
puohc offering of the stock
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
Corporate Returns

new England Company Power Sys-
'e"--Ihe company reports gross rev.
enue Tor April of $242,565, an increase
oi S4o,Io4 over the corresponding pc
iioo OF the preceding year. Net after
taxes amounted to slS6,Sse. against
sil1'so2 for the same month of 1917.
surplus after charges totalled ss6,2si,
compared with s6S,4s2 for April of
iast year. Gross earnings for the first
Tour months of the current year were
Sl.o13,443, against $Si4.603 for the cor
responding months of the year before.
Net earnings were s414,517, decrease
OF SS,232 from the same period of the
previous year. Surplus was S2i2,414.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13

The situation with regard to pub
lie utility financing is fast reaching
a critical stage. Bankers say that
they cannot safely undertake to
guarantee the securities of corpora
tions which are struggling with
rapidly increasing costs and have no
assurance of greater revenues as an
offset; the Wan Finance Board says
it expects to deal only with COM
panies that arc able to provide a
bankers guarantee save in cXcep-
tional cases; ard the regulatory au-
thorities who have control of rates
are, in general saying nothing at ALL
Thus stated the outlook for the prop
critics which have been squeezed be-
tween fixed prices for the services
they render and unlimited imitation
Of operating costs antil their earn
ings have shrunk to the point of dis
appearance, and which must either
find funds to meet their obligations
or face receivership, seems extreme
ly gloomy. And it is, indeed, none
too favorable. Yet it is incredible
that these corporations will be forced
into bankruptcy on a wholesale scale.
It is probable that either the bankers
will provide the necessary funds at
the last moment Or that the War
Finance Board will yield to the
pressure of circumstances, classify
the more urgent cases as "exception-
al" and make direct advances. But
in either event only a temporary So
luton will have been found. There
are limits both to the amount the
banks can risk guaranteeing under
existing conditions and to the
amount the finance corporation can
advance directly. 1t has been sug-
gested that new legislation be asked
which would permit the corporation
to make direct advances in all cases
Ai WiiiSu OdIih 3 Sudl dICScS cannot DC
obtained, but that is an absurd pro-
posal. The government should not
embark in the business of buying the
securities of corporations in ques-
tionable financial condition on an un-
limited scale. Relief must be sought
IN another irection-namely from
the bodies which control rates. Rail-
road tariffs have recently been in
creased 25 per cent to meet increases
in expenses caused by higher wages
and prices. The expenses of public
utilities have probably increased
quite as much proportionately as
those of the railways. They should
be granted similar measure of re-
lief whenever they can show the need
OF it. There is little doubt that they
would have been allowed to revise
rates upward had the decision rested
with the Federal authorities. The
trouble is that the public utilities
have forty-eight masters, whereas
the railroads how have but one.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-13
Foreign Exchange
Instructions Prepared

benjamin Strong, governor of the
Federal Reserve Bank Of New York, is
sued yesterday, at the direction of the
Federal Reserve Board, a set of de-
tailed instructions to dealers in for
elgn exchange. The regulations were
prepared by the Division for Foreign
Exchange of the Federal Reserve
Board, under the executive order of
the president, dated January 2s, 1918,
OF funds for enemy account.
There are now 1900 dealers in for
eign exchange registered in the United
States under the requirements of the
executive order. The statement issued
by Governor Strong says in part:
Dealers. having the accounts Of
foreign correspondents on their books
are prohibited from accepting credits
to such accounts which are not accon-s
panied by the name of the party mal.-
ing the original request that the de-
post be made, and by the name of the
party to whom the foreign institution
receiving the credit is to pay the
funds, and for whose account such pay
ment is made, and the purpose of the
deposit must also be stated. II is i'm
portant that this order be noted by all
bankers, institutions, individuals or
others in the United States, without
regard to whether they are dealers or
not. This information will be required
IN addition to the regular customers
statement.
''If. for instance, a firm in Peoria.
ILL.,, is requested by an individual to
pay bank in New York 1000 for &C.
count of a bank in Sweden. the firm
must obtain from such individual the
required information, which it must
denver to its banker in Peoria through
"hom 1t wishes to make the transfer.
and such banker, if he carries out the
operation through his Chicago or New
York correspondent, must forward the
information with the instructions.
winch must follow the deposit to the
New York bank which is to credit the
account OF the Swedish bank. All such
Information must be on a separate
sneet OF paper, which must be initiated
goes: and that must be del;vs,ad ~
the Division of Foreign Excbsnes ~
Tn me Federal Reserve Board IA VII
greet, ;, New York, by the banker cred.
ton. '"e io1elgn lnstlsu-
There has been som. dorh+ =, ~.
part OF dealers as to lust when ~.
Ti uouiu require customers Statements,
tvs tm.s mas been particularly true as be.
othen deaiers' trading with each
are aren, mers1u J1ustomsrs' statements, which
interaet aetely declarations of non-enemy
tnersens, tnss y; wnleh have to be made BY
exchange operations with sdsa,ers, .vd
must must be taken by every sdealsr' from
every person who is not = saaais-,
mnen h any foreign exchange service l.
!Deing extended. In other words ths
sn aealer having contact with the .nsr. sa
nJ,l nL VINO is not dealer is thu marty
,. mao must take the customers state
ment; me T.. Such statements do not follow
.dea,ars de- LENS. but must be filed by the
ca11 u1aiet os r, receiving them, subject to the
ai ;ts I'm .. tne Federal Reserve Board at