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New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Pneumonia Plague
Now Threatening
All North China

BOSTON, Feb. 22.-Tne pneumonia
plague has broken out in Shansi prov
ince, China, and has assumed such pro-
portions that all North China is seri-
ously threatened. Adviccs to this eff
feet were received to-day by the Amer
lean Board Of Commissioners for For
eign Missions from members of its staff
in North China
The reports of the missionaries ex-
press the fear that was felt in this
country when the appearance of this
NEST deadly pestilence was first re-
ported in dispatches to The Associated
Press in December. Cnchecked in
North China, it would prove, in the
opinion of the board, more devastating
than famine. flood and war combined.
Today's mail advces from missionary
centres had been awaited anxiously.
A. statement issued by the board
says:
This pneumonia plague is particu-
larly virulcnt. Practically no one who
becomes a victim Of it recovers 1t is
the same disease that ravaged Mongolia
five years ago and carried off 10000 OF
10000 people before it was checked.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Justice Denies Citizenship
To Prisoner With Dav Of

NYACK. N. Y, Feb. %. Supreme
Court Justice A. S. Tompkins was hold
ing court to-day, when dark complex
loned young man, neatly dressed,
stepped up before the judge.
"If you please, sir, I'd like to be-
come a Citizen" he said.
Being asked his name by Justice
Tompkins, he said it was Carmino
Riccardi
"&nd whore dc you belong" inquired
the justice.
in Jail" replied the young man.
The explanation came quite as
promptly as the answer. Six months
before, Riccard had been sentenced to
the New City, N. Y, Jail for stealing
cloth. His sentence had fourteen days
20 run. and the jailer gave him a day
off to go to court.
The justice refused his application
and he hurried back to iail
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Captain Pereless iii, Unable
To Attend Senate Hearing

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. - Former
Captain A. f. Pereless, whose discharge
from the quartermaster generals re
serve corps followed his investigation
Of the Base Sorting plants army cloth
scrap contract, to-day advised the Sen
ate Military Committee that he was i'll
in New York and unable to testify as
to whether his discharge was caused by
his recent testimony.
The committee plans to call him
1ct
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
To Inspect Hog Island Books

WAsH1NGTON, Feb. 2s.-Expert ac
countants of the Department Of Jus
tice probably will be sent to Hog ISL
and, Penn, next week to investigate
the books and records of the American
international Corporation, whose cor
struction of government shipbuildine
yards there is the subject of spc-
cial inquiry directed by G. Carroll
Todd, assistant to the Attorney Gen
eral
These accountants now are working
on records of the Shipping Board.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
James M. Beck Is Elected
To French Society of Letters

James NJ Beck. the authority on in
ternatlonal law, was notified yesterday
that he had been elected to membership
in the Societe des Gems de Lettres, one
Of the oldest organizations of literary
men in France
The diploma has been transmitted bv
the French government to the French
Ambassador for formal presentation to
Mr. Beck,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Soldiers Moratorium Bill Ready

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-Senate
and House conferreos on soldiers and
sailors civil rights or moratorium
bill. virtually reached. an agreement
to-day, and next week the bill will be
presented to both houses OF Congress
with prospects Of nrompt final approval
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Brooklyn Shipbuiiders
Plan Homes for Workers

Brooklyn shipbuilders arc in Wash
ington to lay before the Shipping
Board plan which they have formed
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-04-12

Mule Skinners Wonders.
 Speaking of mule skinners, the American army is famous for the ex- tensive vocabulary of it's "skinners," 1" but in this respect the Arizona men
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-04-12
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION
 MEANS RAPID PROMOTION

A chart prepared by MT. James S. Dodge, one of the prominent manu- lecturers of America and former presi dent of the America Society of Me chanical Engineers shows that the laborer starts with $300 week when be is 16 years of age, and rises to S10.20 by the time he reaches the age of 21, but he rises no higher. The apprentice or shop-trafned work CT, starts with the same wages as the laborer at 16, but rises more rapidly. and is earning by the time he is "A years old $15 80. The trade-schooI graduate, starting at the same point, rises still more rapidly, and is earn ing by the time he is 25 years of age $22 % per week, reaching possi- blv $25. % week at the age or 32 :. The graduate of the technical school starts at $3. % week and is earning $4 .00 when he enters college at IS. Upon graduating from college at the age of 22 he can draw a salary of SIS. %. From this point on his his wages rise and he rapidly leaves be. hind the other three workers, and at the age of 32 is drawing $43. .OO a week.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-04-12
NATIONS JUNIOR SOLDIERS 3oa
 BEING TRAINED IN SCHOOL S

In New York state, boys between l6 and q who enroll in the Boys Working Reserve for. farm work will be released from school on any date after April 1, and win receive full school year credits ifAa their 'vear,. average has been up to 75 per cent
 In the Miami High School tf,ere mas been competition to determine who, in each of the r four ,e classes. shall be honored with the file Of rour-M1nute man of his grade. e9io e
 In California Troop Institute and many high and intermediate schools nave organized school councils of de- Tense, to assist the County Councils and to help in war work or, lines ree,,. iarly laid out. The same can he done in Arizona. -@Hss -i7o~.' efig#Df
 Military drill in the high schools is something that should be given closest study by every student. From present indications in Europe, it is probable every senior. and junior will be in the fight before it is won. The better qualified the student, in a mili- tary way, physically and in ability to apply the things he has learned in school, the better defender he will be for is nation.
 A Girls Patriotic League is heinz organized in Phoenix, it's members to take the work of the boys of 16 and over, who thus may serve in places vacated by young men who have gone to the army.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-04-12

who pilot the combat and field trains of the 18th are said to have them all skinned a mile. They sure can talk to them. fs
 Among the leading members are the following: Dobie Joe, Pima Red, Chop Suey Pete, Texas Ranger, Cali fornia Poppy, Chee-Chi, Hard Boiled, Toro Joe, Flagstaff, Marine Kid, But ter Harold, American Beauty, Baron Bean, Grimes, Laredo Lupe, Rusty Russell, Jawbone Jones, Wild Wiley, Beau Brummell and many others. Rough border characters and gun fighters you think? Oh, boy! No, merely the names of some of the off, cers, all gentlemen, and Dobie Joe is none other than the sky pilot. Lack of space prevents the publication of the enlisted personnel of the regiment but these will no doubt be mentioned frequently from time to time in dis patches from the front
 Slowed away in the jockey box of one of the combat wagons is a pair of the heaviest leather chaps procur- able and it is the avowed intention of certain members of the regiment to strafe the kaiser in the good old chap ring way so familiar and popular in Arizona, before he is put out of his misery.
 Meanwhile, the Vampires are rear in to go' and not until the march of "The Foundered Mule" resounds along Unter den Linden; until the Indians do a snake-dance around von H1ndeburg's monument; until the wild whoops of the cowboys echo through the Wilhelmstrasse; when the Mexi- can vaqueros strum La Paloma" and Yankee Doodle" on their guitars in evening serenades in Pottsdam gar dens; when the Stars and Stripes floats from the spires of Berlin; when Parson Dobie Joe says the last glad rights over the carcass of the kaiser then, and only then, will the Demon Vampires return to the fold-for then i the world will be safe for democracy,
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-04-12

Young Harold Steinfeldt felt the pressure that was brought to bear by his attempted evasion of the selective draft, and last week withdrew his ap- plication for exemption on industrial grounds, and has enlisted as a pri- vate of infantry. He could not stand the gaff. Since his application for exemption many papers throughout the state have freely expressed opin- ions unfavorable to the rich young man, and these have had the desired effect of smoking him out. The mat ter is now ended, and all will be glad to hear of Young Steinfeldt distin- gushing himself in the service of the country. This is one war where the. wealthy must shoulder his musket and mark time with the poorest. Pub lie opinion will not tolerate the rich stacker, and the treatment accorded the Tucson man is evidence that the public expects every able bodied man to respond to his country's call, and seek not to evade his duty because he happens to be wealthy.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-04-12
peserter from Camp Cody Arrested

Several days previous the sher1n' s office received information that a soldier had been seen down on the Gila river, near the home of Muss. Cosper. Monday last this gentleman phoned Sheriff Slaughter that the man was again in that community, and Deputy John Young was sent out to bring him in. MT. Young had very little trouble in locating the man, who gave his name as Roy Davis, though his uniform bore the mark of Riley Davis, Supply Co. 61, 134th Infantry. When arrested Davis admitted that he was absent without leave," and stat ed that be had left camp while intoxi- cated, and would have returned, but did not have railroad fare, and that he was willing to return to his com mand. The man said he had enlist ed ct Lincoln, Neb., and his appear ance was that he was too old to be a drafted man. MT. Slaughter at once notified the military authorities at Camp Cody, but Davis is still here, awaiting an officers arrival to con- vey him back to his command.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-04-12

Those Arizona and California sol diers should have been more thought full than to have seduced Governor Hunt and party on their recent visit to San Diego. It was a shame to in veigle the innocent state officials into participating in such drunken orgy. In an interview in the Fl Paso Times, Gov. Hunt is quoted as saying that the soldiers provided the refresh ments for the entertainment of the officials, who were the innocents led from the path of rectitude by the bad boys of the camp.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-04-12
GROWTH AND TRANSITION.
(El Paso Herald.)

In the fall of 1915, a, meager bat tallion of national guardsmen stood guard at Clifton, Arizona, guarding against violence in the strike then in progress at-the copper mines and smelters. Three companies of earn est but ,boyish, white zArizonans they were and a company of no less earnest young Indians. They didn't know much about ,, soldering, but they practiced what they knew. They were from the ranch and the store and few from offices, and the rest from the government Indian school.
 Soldering was to them just a little outing. usually just the weekly drill and the annual encampment at Pres colt or Fort Huachuca --''- '-- =
 They didn't know what fey years Lad in store for them; that from the strike zone they would be transfer red with the rest of the regiment to the Mexican border for more than a years service and after that to Camp Keaney for training for real war and
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-04-12
after that to somewhere else.

after that to somewhere else.
 This is witten because the 18th in fantry (First Arizona) soon will be in a new sphere of action in the midst of the greatest, most string events the world has ever seen. They will be makers zcf history. helping shaping our old .searth's destiny. Great prog ress for boys who once guarded a min and looked no farther into the future than to be sent back home to their sunny ranches and their shops. r. TT.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-04-12
WAR TIME TROUBLES.

Poor hubby says-''This is the life!'' My wife is knitting socks I can't find 'kerchiefs in the drawer Or collars in the box My Buttons have vanished, Like the flowers of yesteryear In vain by hands go searching, For the shirts that not here I would a soldier
 That I, too might have hose, That would cover all my tootsies- Leaving out peepng toes. When nighttime comes I hie To my sweet repose, alone, And leave my wife admitting In hive she d be drone sleep and wake, and wake and sleep, And still no sound hear; Then he me to the stairway. And call down loud and clear: 70 wife, you coming now? The midnight hour draws near;'' But wife answers, with sigh, 'Dear John 1 can stop here. ''I've knit and pured, and travelled and knit, And quite now, 1 feel As count the stitches back and forth, Joy! I'll turn the heel' And have it with my breakfast, And dine with it at night The knitting bug has got my wife, And holds her with it's might But, with cheerful smiling face, I'll help her ''do her bt'' For Uncle Sammy s Solder-boys, And trust the socks will ft
 A O. w., Morenci A:z, March, 1918.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-08-24

arms But we were determined TO
leave as the arm Of a friendly, bro
Their nation, with an army which in
spite Of all bad experiences, wished
| Russia the strengthening of real de-
mocracy. Although we could not
! sympathiZe with the B0lshevik gov
eminent, we as guests RETAINED from
all action against IL, and remained
absolutely loyal to it.
Turn In Arms.
ITO prove indisputably our loyalty,
we turned over to the BolsheYiks
exception Of a few rifles which we
kept for our, so 10 say, personal safe
" 10 rifles for each 100 mem. The
equipment we turned over TO the Boil
sheviks, including arms. horses, auto
mobiles, airplanes, etc. was worth
more than 100000, 600 rubles and IL
was legally in our possession, for We
took IL away from the Germans, 10
whom il had been abandoned by the
fleeing BolsheViks- This transfer OF
the equipment was, Of course, pre-
cedec by engagement made betWee
US and the Moscow government. by
which we were guaranteed unmO-
Tested passage through Siberia, TO
which the government pledged TO
give its unconditional support
Germans Try to Stop Them.
Already there were signs that the
Germans were beginning TO be IN
easy about our movement. Today we
have documentary evidence Of the
fact that in March the Germans con-
sidered our progress as naive adTen-
ture, which soon would end in fall
ure. When they saw, however. that
the 'impOssibility" as they called IL.
was becoming a reality. they began
to 90 their best to Illustrate our ef-
forts, and organized an army against
US.
More dangerous was the work Of
German agents, who, under the mask
Of internationalism found their way
into the SoYiets. In every Soviet
there was a German who exercised
great influence over all its mem
bers.
Soon there came the news that the
German and Magyar prisoners OF war
were organizing in Siberia and were
the pretense thar they were going 20
fight against world imperialism"
We have proved how that the Ger
mans were planning to provoke our
conflict with the Bolshevilxs and 70
destroy us piecemeal with the aid Of
the armed prisoners Of war
so Trains Move East.
Under such circumstances we be-
gan our pilgrimage east. I was in
the first train (there were so trains
Of usl. which was TO prepare the way.
We were determined TO leave Russia
without a conflict Notwithstanding
the fact that we kept our word, that
we surrendered all arms with the ex-
ception Of the few necessary, our
progress was hindered and unending
negotiations had 10 be repeated in
every seat Of a local Soviet. We were
threatened by machine guns by
cannon. but we patiently stood il all.
the Bolshevik Red Guard
could have been disbanded by a few
Of our volunteers After 81 days OF
such tiresome travel our first train
arrived in VladivostOk where we
were enthusiastically received by the
allied units stationed there.
When the Germans saw that we,
notwithstanding all their intrigue.
were nearing Vladivostok, they exer-
cised a direct pressure on Lenine and
Trotzky; for the things that were Ia
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-08-24

voy with the promise that II we
/ would disarm We would be amnested
and our lands would receive auton-
omy. We answered that we would
] not negotiate with the Austrian en-
: peror.
AS we could not hold a front. we
/ began a retreat 10 the east Already
then IN agreement with the allies
[ (Our army had been proclaimed a part
Of the Czecho-Slovak army on the
western front, and thus allied with
the French army, IL was decided to
transport our army over Siberia and
America TO France We began the
difficult retreat from kleV. The Ger
mans in an overwhelming force were
trying to prevent our escape About
a hundred miles behind US they
seized the important railroad juno
ton at Bachnac, which we were OBJ
liged TO pass in our trains on our re-
treat to the east.
-Four Days Battle.
when we arrived at Bachmac the
Germans were already waiting for
us. There began a battle lasting
four days, in which they we're badly
defeated, and which enabled US to
get our trains through The com
mander OF the German detachment
offered Us a IS hours truce, which we
accepted, for our duty was to leave
Ukrainia; but the truce was cancelled
by the German chief commander,
LluS4AEans QuL 100 4aLes our trains
had already got away. We lost alto
gether about 600 men in dead, wound
ed and unaccouutable, while we bur-
led 1000 Germans in only one day.
in this manner we escaped from
Ukrainia. Our relations with the
Bolsheviks were still good We re-
Trained from meddling with Russian
internal affairs and we tried to come
70 an agreement with the Bolshevik
government with respect to our de-
parture, or passage through Russia,
but already signs were visible that
the BOlsheviks-either under Ger
man influence or because we then
represented the only real power in
Russia-Would try TO put obstacles IN
our way. 1t would have sufficed 10
order one Of our regiments Jour zrmy
was then, in March. near Moscow to
take Moscow, and in half a day there
would have been no BOlsheVik gov
eminent; for then we were well
armed. having taken from the front
everything we could carry. to pre-
vent It from falling into the hands
OF the Germans.
Each Of our regiments had 200 TO
800 machine guns and nobody in Rus
STA, TO say nothing OF MOSCOW, could
have at all contemplated an attempt
at opposition Moscow. moreover, I
would have received US with open
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-08-24

ILTAsHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 24.-Capt
w Vladimir S. Hurban, an officer in
the Czecho-Slovak army. which ia
pan and the United States have de-
cided TO aid in Siberia, has come TO
Washington from Vladivostok TO
make a report TO Prof 1Iasaryk,
commander-in-chief Of the CzechO-
slovak army and president Of the
national council Capt. Hurban has
given to the Associated Press his
story Of the experiences Of the
Czecho-Slovaks from the time the
army Of escaped prisoners fought
their way eastward from Ukrainia.
The history Of the origin Of our
army. Of its operations on the Rus
sian front, and its march around the
world 10 the French front viii some
day read like a fantastic romance,
before which the Imagination fades
into the prosaic." he said
Organized From Prisoners.
our army in Russia was organized
from CzechO and SloFak prisoners Of
war under almost insurmountable
with the Russian army. and since the
summer Of 1917 were practically the
only army on the Russian front ca
pable Of any military action in the
AtA4ENA aEAcH OF the MLA4s IL july
1917, during the first revolutionary
offensive under Kerensky. il was only
our army that really attacked and
advanced.
When the Boishevik soviet gov
eminent signed the peace treaty at
the beginning Of March, our army. OF
about $4,000 men, was in Ukrainia.
near Kiev- The former Ukrainian
government. TO escape the Bolsheviks.
threw themselves into the arms OF
the Germans and called for German
help. When the German and Aus
trian armies began their advance into
Ukrainia, the position Of our army
was almost desperate. We were in a
state which had concluded peace.
into which. however, the Germans
were advancing and occupying large
territories without resistance. The
Red Guards OF the Soviests did not
any real military power.
The Germans advanced against Us
in overwhelming numbers and there
was danger that we would be sur
rounded. our rear was not covered /
and the Germans were liable 10 at
tack US there. We had no lines Of
communication behind US. no stores
OF materials and no reserves.
Spurn Austrla's Offer.
Under these circumstances en- /
peror Charles sent US a special en-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-08-24

ter committed by the Sovlets, cannot
any further be explained away by ig-
norance. The trains were stopped al
different stations so that they finally
were separated by a distance OF over
so miles from one another. ProYok-
ing incidents OF all kinds were the
order Of the day. The arming Of the
German and Magyar prisoners was
begun on a large scale One OF the
orders Of Tchitcherin, the Bolshevik
foreign minister. reads: Dispatch all
German and Magyar prisoners out OF
Siberia, stop the CZecho-SlO Vaks.
Three members Of our national coun-
ell who were sent 20 Moscow for an
explanation OF the stopping Of our
trains, were arrested At the same
time our trains were attacked in dir
ferent stations by the Soviet troops,
formed mostly OF German and Magyar
prisoners.
Capture Enemy Guns.
Il viii recall the Irkutsk incident.
Our train-about 400 men. armed
was surrounded by a few thousand
Red Guards armed with machine
guns ana cannon Their commander
gave our men ten minutes 10 surren-
der their arms or be shot. According
70 their habit. our men began negO-
the German command, 'Schiessenr
and the Red Guards began firing at
the train Our men jumped off the
train. and in five minutes all the mas
chine guns were in their possession.
the Russian Bolsheviks disarmed and
all the Germans and Aagyars done
away with.
The Siberian government which
resides in Irkutsk and which. as II
appeared later. ordered this attack.
can thank only the Intervention OF
the American and French consuls
that Il was not destroyed by our
rightly embittered volunteers
Again Surrender Arms.
TO what extremes our loyalty was
carried, is shown by the fact that al
though perfidiously attacked. and al
though we disarmed the Red Guard
in Irkutsk. we still began new nego-
tiations, with the result that we sur
rendered all our arms on the condi-
ton that all German and Magyar
prisoners would be disarmed and
and that we would be al
lowed to proceed unmolested. The ST.
berian government guaranteed us I'M
molested passage, and, taught by Bit
ter experience that It was dangerous
TO attack even unarmed Czecho-SlO-
vaks, let US proceed TO Vladivostok.
True, this concerned only the trains
IN the vicinity OF Irkutsk: the trains
west Of Irkutsk Were-under the or
1ers Of MoscoW-attacked in the
same manner, but always with the
same result; everywhere the Bolshe-
Tiks were dlsarmed.
The arrest Of the members OF our