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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11
MEXICO GIVES
JAPANESE LAND
Lower California Property's Sale
Is Confirmed by Gen.
eraI Aguirre.
BOUGHT FROM AMERICANS.
Restrictions as to Coast and .Proxim.
ity of Boundary Line Observed.
Official Does Not Believe Mon
roe Doctrine Is FIouted.

~ Mexico City.-That concessions have
oeeg granted to japanese corporations
10 exploit agricultural lands in Lower
California was the statement made by
Gen. Amado AguiEre, Under Secretary
Of Development and Agriculture.
There was nothing in the conces-
sions, it was asserted by the under
secretary, that might possibly lead to
difficulties as far as the Monroe Doc.
trine was concerned.
In the interview Gen. Aguirre is
quoted as follows:
ut is absurd to give credit to or take
seriously the news published today
that there is imminent and interna-
:ional conflict because of the fact that
Japanese subjects or companies are
arranging to acquire lands In Lower
California, said to belong to the Cal
fornia and Mexican Land Company
Of Los Angeles.
"In the first place, the lands, which
we're given by concession in 1854 to
he Mexican Land Company, were de-
clared the property Of the pre-consti-
tutional government on April Z, 1917,
which action rendered void the cohces-
sion granted to the Mexican Land
Company. Since then the government
has appointed a commission to divide
these lands and sell item to MeXicans
in small lots.
Moreover even though japanese
companies do propose to acquire, as is
alleged, huge tracts Of land in Lower
California they cannot be aided by our
government, since the Mexican consti-
tuition in article NXXVII, expressly
states that no foreigner can acquire
land in a zone 100 kilometers approx
imately thirty-three miles) wide from
a foreign frontier nor in a belt fifty
kilometers Seventeen miles) wide
along the shores Of the Pacific Ocean
or the Gulf Of Mexico.
"Even though he japanese subjects
secure Mexican citizenship they could
not acquire 100000 acres of land, as it
is declared they seek to buy. This
equals nearly 100000 hectares "a hec-
tare is 24?1 acres), which is far above
the legal limit placed on the purchase
of lands, which rstricts all persons
and. companies to maximum OF 2,SOO
hectares (7,000 acrCsJ."
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11
WASHINGTON

The Court of Appeals Of the District
IF Columbia exonerated Frank j. God
sol and declared France lacked
grounds for asking his eXtradition on
charges of fraud in connection with
French army contracts.
Eugene V. Debs loses appeal for re
hearing and he threatens to call strike
Of followers unless his plea is latel
! granted.
Eighty million dollar corn producti
company dissolved by United State!
court as a monopoly in restraint o.
trade. Under compromise company
must sell all but three plants-one il
New Jersey-to competitors by 1921.
Universal compulsory military train
ing in camp is provided in the new
army reorganization plan drawn up fol
Secretary Baker by the War College.
Officials in Washington hold thai
The friendliness between this country
and Japan will not be severed by any
controversy that may arise at the
peace conference.
Telegraph charges have been ad.
vanced twenty per cent. according tt
an order issued by Postmaster Genera;
Burleson. This rate will apply to
commercial and government messages
Secretary Baker administers a re
buke to Colonel Ansell, recently acting
Judge advocate general, by returnin,
letter in which Colonel Ansell eX
planned his position in the controvers!
over the administration Of American
military law.
A.. Mitchell Palmer, attorney gener
al, will ask Congress for authority te
deport more than 500 vicious enemy
aliens as soon as the peace treaty
ratified.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11
SPORTING

Jimmy Wilde outpointed Joe Lynch
in fifteen round bout in London.
George Terhune, the little left
handler in the squad Of recruit pitch
ers at Gainesville, is a protege of
Heinie Zimmerman, while Frank
Polan, the young backstop, was dis
covered by Benny Kauff at Camp
Sherman last summer.
Heinie Zimmerman has lost all
thought of becoming an outtielder and
Is playing a fine brand Of ball around
The far corner in the daily practice
games. '' ''~'
Sir. Thomas Johnstone Upton ar
rives here on his first trip to America
IN five years. Says he will send new
yacht over this autumn, but there will
pc no thought Of racing until next year.
The Eighty-ninth Division won the
American Expeditionary Force foot
oall championship, when 1t defeated
the Thirty-sixth Division at Paris by
q score of IA to Z.
The midshipmen won on their first
try at socker football, defeating Bal
timore City College by 2 to l in a near
hurricane. -.-
Walter Kinsella, the champion, won
the final match Of the professional
squash handicap tournament by de-
feating James T. Reid, Crescent A. g.,
in three straight games
Miller Huggins says he has better
team of Yankees than last year.
Connie Mack seems to be ready to
spring big surprise on the baseball
public of Philadelphia. Smart men are
picking the Athletics to finish higher
in the American League race than al
any time since they won the pennant
in 1914.
Platt Adams, formerly of the New
York A. C. and Olympic champion anc
record holder, has been appointed
coach of the A. E. {. for the inter
allied athletic championship, which
will be held near Paris in June.
Mrs. Peel's great old horse Poethlyn,
the favorite, won the Grand National
Steeplechase at Liverpool, beating q
horses over the four and half mile
course. .--.-.. ~
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11
10000 Volunteers
FOR Service IN FRANCE
Discharged Soldiers Who Were
Held in America Are Expected
to Respond Eagerly.

Washington.-An immediate call for
$4,000 volunteers for service in Eu-
rope has been prepared by the war de
partment AS an incentive to enlist
ment early duty in France as relief
for men in the expeditionary forces
who wish to return home will be Of
fered to the volunteers.
Enlistment in this special force will
be for three years. The men will be
concentrated at Camp Meade, Nd, and
probably will be sent overseas in con:
tingents of 1000 strong.
War department officials expressed
confidence that no trouble would be
experienced in raising the $4,000 men
or an even greater number if it should
be found that additional increment:
were necessary. The bulk of the men
are expected to come from recently
discharged troops, who after Il short
vacation" as civilians desire to re.
turn to army life.
Another incentive expected to have
a decided effect on the recruiting CAM
paign is looked for among the men,
who, after having been drafted and
trained, were prevented from going
overseas by the PRONUNCIATION of the
armistice Opportunity to see service
in Germany, it is thought, will lead
many Of these to enlist.
A number of officers, probably~teD
or twelve, will be sent overseas with
each unit Of 1000 men.
These will be used at the concentra.
ton camp to give the preliminary
training necessary to whip the men
into casual organizations and to make
the required examinations. On arriv.
al in Europe they will take the places
Of officers who are eligible for dis
charge. ....
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11
HIGHLAND COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Comfy and District Officers:

County and District Officers:
Henry w. Holt, Judge of Circuit
Court, Staunton, Va.
Terms of Court-4th Tuesday IN
April, I'd Tuesday July, I'd Tuesday
October.
Edwin B. Jones, Commonwealth At
torney, Monterey, Va.
w. H. Matheny, Clerk, Monterey, Va.
Hubert Smith, Sheriff, Hightown, Va.
Willis Gibson, Treasurer, Vanderpool
Va.
J.H. Pruitt, Commissioner OF
Revenue, Monterey, Va.
IL. Beverage, Co. Surveyor, Monte
rey, Va.
Walter Mullenax, Supt. of Poor, Grab
bottom, Va.
R. E. Mauzy, Supt. Of Schools, High
town, Va.
Blue Grass District
]. W. Hevener, Supervisor (Chrm.) }
Hightown, Va.
J. C. Herold, Overseer of Poor, High
town, Va.
J.F. Colav, Constable, Crabbottom.
Va.
D. O. Bird, Justice, Valley Center, Va.
E. D. Swecker, Justice, Monterey, Rtl
G.. D. Dudley, Justice, Hightown, va.
Monterey District.
4. J. Terry, Supervisor, Trimble, Va.
D. &. Samples, Constable, Monterey
Arthur Hevener, Overseer of Poor,
Monterey, Va.
J. H. Samples, Justice, Monterey, We.
I. D. Gutshall, Justice, Vanderpool,
Va.
J.H. Burns, Justice, Bolar, Va.
Stcnewall District.
J.H. Armstrong, Supervisor, McDow-
ell, Va.
]. w. Simmons, Constable, Headwa-
ters, Va.
Chap. Pitsenberger, ,Overseer of Poor
Doe Hill, Va.
L. NJ. Pope, Justice, Doe Hill, Va.
G. A. Propst, Justice, Mcdowell.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11
HOW CAN YOU TELL. YOUR
FAVORITE TOBACCO?
As Plain as the Nose On Your
FaCe-jusf Smell II

Smokers do not have to put tobacco
Il their pipes to find out if they like it.
they can just rub the tobacco between
the palms of their hands and smell it.
The nose is an infallible guide to smok-
ing enjoyment.
All smoking tobaccos employ some
favoring ''to improve the favour and
burning qualities of the leaves, to
quote the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Naturally, there is considerable differ
ence in the kind of favorings used, and
the nose quickly detects this difference.
TUXEDO Tobacco uses the purestt,
most wholesome, and delicious of all
favorings-chocolate. And the almost
universal liking for chocolate in great
measure explains the widespread popu-
larity of TUXEDO Tobacco.
Carefully aged, old Burley tobacco,
plus dash of pure chocolate, gives
TUXEDO Tobacco a pure fragrance
your nose can quickly distinguish from
any other tobacco. Try it and see.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11
MONTERREY HIGHLAND COUNTY VA FRIDAY APRIL H. 1919
The state department has ordered

The state department has ordered
the embassy in Mexico City to make a
full report on the circumstances IN
which Mexico has leased land in Low
er California to Japanese, and on this
report, it is said, will depend test OF
the Monroe doctrine. The action OF
Mexico, it is believed, will provide i'm
petus to the fight on the League of Ma
tions.
Between ID and 40 persons were
drowned when scaffolding collapsed
during the launching of the freighter
Waukan near Bristol, Pa.
Senator Gore resurrects constitu-
tfOnal amendment pending for l1O
years which would forbid the accep-
tance by any American Of gifts or
titles from foreign rulers or powers.
Rockefeller fund votes $5OO,OOO to
aid research work in physics and
chemistry by creating research fellow
ships for particularly brilliant stu
dents.
Annual report of the United States
Steel Corporation shows it did a gross
business last year of $1,744,312,163, an
Increase of $100,0OO,000 over the pre-
vious year.
Navy fliers, making tests at Rock
away, are sure transatlantic flight
ir. navy Curtiss type airboat can be
accomplished without alighting at
mother boats along the route,e q,
Women at st. Louis convention sob
with JOY as news. that the Missouri
legislature has granted suffrage Is re-
ceived and join in singing doxology
In moving demonstration.
Hundreds of men in the Twenty-seV-
enth Division made citizens at Camp
Upton. Many races were represented
among the soldiers. More than thou
sand to be naturalized before final
discharge.
Senator Calder wants congress call
ed to insure success Of new loan and
guard bondholder; asks Secretary
Glass to cable President,
The Anti-Saloon League withdraWs
from court action on beer injunction.
Brewers agree to allow dry petition
TO be filed.
]. P. Morgan & Co. donate 100000
to keep Federal Employment Bureau
in operation until congress supplies
necessary appropriation.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11
GERMAN TRICK FAILS IN CHILE.

Berlin Attempts 10 Lease lrterned
Ships Awarded to United States.
b Santiago, Chile.-Germany has sur
prised the Chilean government by pre-
tending to consider valid negotiations
which Chile entered into for the leas-
ing of the German ships in Chile
which are soon to be handed over TO
the United States in keeping with an
agreement reached at the Peace Con-
ference. The Chilean government an
nounces that it does not recognize the
contract as it was never completed.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11
New American Commander to Start
for Archanqei Soon.

London.-Brigadier General Wilds
P. Richardson, U. S. A, who has re
ceived command of the American eH'
pedition In northern Russia, will leave
London in a few days with a fair
sized detachment. Of engineers, sant.
tary workers and replacement officers
for Archangel. The engineers predom'
mate in the detachment. They will
be used to repair and improve the
roads from the American front back
to the sea.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11
Property Once 4 Ranch.

Los Angeles.-Ranch properties OF
the California and Mexican Land Com.
pany are owned by group of Los
Angeles capitalists and bankers. They
include, it is said, one ranch of 10000
acres situated in the Imperial Valley
and several ranches totalling about
100000 acres in Lower California.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11
pEBs RADICALS STORM HALL.

Toledo Socialists, Barred by Mayor,
Try to Override Police.
Toledo, O.-When refused admission
to Memorial Hall, a city building,
where Eugene V. Debs was advertised
to speak, 5000 persons stormed the
place, broke windows and doors and
then paraded the street, crying "TO
hell with the mayor" The police ar
rested rs of the disturhers.
And all the time Debs was in bed
In a local hotel, too i'll to appear in
public. ;
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11
First American Railroad Troops Reach
Murrnan Coast

Archangel-The first detachment OF
American railroad troops, destined for
work on the Murman railway, has ar.
rived on the Murman coast. Other de.
tachments are expected to follow soon.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11
CROSS SEA PLANE CARRIES SO.
Canadian Filler Plans Trip in Twenty

Canadian Filler Plans Trip in Twenty
Hours.
Halifax n. S,-Col. Ray Collishaw,
Canadian aviator, sailed on the
steamship Olympic for England to
bring back an airplane with which to
enter the transatlantic contest. Col.
Collishaw expects to accomplish the
fight in twenty hours. His machine
will be equipped with five motors oe.
400 h1rse power each, capable. of ~
ing fifty people ard reES
air for thirty, ,h0lsl1d
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11
GERMANS HAVE NEW PROTEST.
They Demand Full Removal of Trade
Restrictions.

Restrictions.
Berlin.-Marshal Foch telegraphed
TO Gen. Nudant, his chief represen.
tation at Spa, saying that Germany
was authorized to trade with firms in
neutral countriess even if the firms
are on the blacklist, provided that the
Supreme Council and the blockade
authorities approve. The Wolff Bu-
reau, the semi-official news agency,
protests against this condition and de-
mands that trade be entirely free.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11

MENTS and EEAUSIUNIo 3
In view of the continued rise in
prices and the probable embargo,
The Clifton Forge Marble .&Granite
Works bought several car loads OF
finished work early last fall. The
prices are little higher, but we can
still offer you bargains.
Call and see me when in town,
phone or write me. It will not
obligate you in any way.
Thanking you for past favors.
HARRY F. SLAVEN, Agent
Clifton Forge Marble Works
Monterey, Va.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11

$2.35 will pay for the Highland
Recorder and the Thrlce-A-WeeA
World for whole year.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-11

Anything to Buy or
Sell? Try our classified
ad column, five cents per
line, six words to the line
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-10-31
THE NEW CREAMERY

G. H. Jenkins, local creamery man,
who has been in business in Two Har-
bors since the spring of 1914, has
disposed of the retail end of his bust
ness to Jesse Morrill,, proprietor of
the Morrill, news stand and confec-
tionery store, who has occupied a por-
ton of the building since early last
spring. Mr.. Jenkins will remove to
Ely, where he will increase the size
of his manufacturing plant, as he
sees better facilities in that section.
Mr.. Morrill, will continue to cater to
the wants of patrons in the dairy line
selling milk, butter, buttermilk and
dairy products. Mr.. Morrill, has pur-
chased all fixtures with the exception
of the buttermaking machinery and
will take particular pains to supply
the trade with the best that the mar
ket affords. We bespeak success for
Mr.. Morrill, in his new venture, and
all old-time friends of Mr.. Jenkins
will wish him the best in his new
location.-Two Harbors Journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-10-31
AMERICAN LEGION
FIRST MEETING OF POST 24s-
CONSTITUTION AND
BYLAWS.

By looking at the ad in another
place it will be seen that the first ac-
tual meeting of Ely Post No. 24S,
American Legion, will be held at the
Community Center next Monday
evening, November 8, at 8 o'clock.
At this meeting important matters
will be brought up for action includ-
ing the adoption Of a constitution
and bylaws. A prominent member
of the Duluth Post will be present
and address the boys and all honora-
bly, discharged, 100 per cent Ameri-
can" service men are eligible to at
tend the meeting and welcome to do
SO.
The organization Of this Post in
Ely has all the earmarks of being Of
vast benefit, not only to the service
men, but also to the city in general.
Only 100 per cent Americans viii be
eligible to become members and the
membership investigating committee
will see to it that only men who meas
ure up to these requirements get in
to the order.
With a membership embracing
service men who fought for princi-
pies which at present the unsavory /.
wv. W. and their sympathisers are
seeking to overthrow, the. American
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-10-31
HOW TO GET THE NEWS.

Day before yesterday a perfectly
nice lady called up and with tears in
her voice reproved US for not men,
tioning the fact that she had friend
visiting her last week We had told
her that she had not told us that she
had visitor. Then she said, "Well,
you should know. l thought you
were running newspaper" Wouldn't
that rattle your stats? Some people
think an editor should be cross be-
tween Angus and Anna Eva Fay.
They seem to think that our five
senses are augmented by sixth that
let's US know everything that happens
even if we see, hear, feel, taste or
smell not. Dear lady, editors are
only human or at least almost human.
If you have friend visiting you, if
you are going away or have returned
from a visit out of town, if Johnnie
falls and breaks his arm, if your
husband chops his toe instead of
stick of wood, if anything happens to
make you glad, or sad, happy or mad,
tell us about it. That's the way to
get it into the paper.-Milroy Echo.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-10-31
+ RED CROSS DRIVE -
President Wilson Appeals to People to
Aid Red Cross Drive---ThIrd Roll
Call Begins Sunday.

President Wilson in a letter writ
ten before his illness and made pub
lie Sunday appealed to the people of
the country appealing for support of
the third Red Cross roll call, which is
to be held from November 2 to IL.
"AslPresident of the United States
and as President of the American
Red Cross I recommend and urge
generous response to the third
Red Cross appeal which begins Nov.
2 with the observance of Red Gross
Sunday and approximately closes on
Nov. IL, the first anniversary of the
signing of the armistice.
Twenty million adults joined the
Red Cross during the war, prompted
by patriotic desire to render serv-
ice to their country and to the cause
for which the United States was en-
gagged in the war. Our patriotism
should stand the test of peace as well
as the test of war, and it is an intel
hgently patriotic program which the
Red Cross proposes, a continuance of
service to soldiers and sailors who
look to it for many things, and a
transference to the problems of
peace at home of the experience and
methods which it acquired during the
war.
"It is on membership more than
money contributions that the stress
of the present campaign is laid, for
the Red Cross seeks to associate the
people in welfare work throughout
the land, especially in those commu-
mites where neither official nor un-
official provision has been made for
adequate public health and social
service.
at is in the spirit of democracy
that the people should undertake
their own welfare activities, and the
Northern Red Cross wisely intends to
exert upon community action a slim.
ulating and co-ordinating influence
and to place the energies of the or
ganization behind all sound public
health and welfare agencies.
"The American Red Cross does
not purpose indefinite prolongation
of its relief work abroad, a policy
which would lay an unjust burden
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-10-31
OUT ON PROBATION
BIRCH LAKE MOOSE KILLERS
SENTENCED BY JUDGE ED.
WARD FREEMAN.

Albert and Edward Nyquist and
Herman Heikkonen the Biwabik trio
arrested in the Birch Lake district
three weeks ago for shooting moose
by Game Wardens Heikkila and
Wood, were sentenced by Judge Ed
ward Freeman in district court Tues
day to six months probation.
One of the Nyquist brothers ad-
mitted being members of the I. w.
w. but both pleaded that they Joined
the outfit not knowing what they
were doing. Judge Freeman in SEN
fencing the men drew attention to
the spirit of lawlessness on the part
of the prisoners and said: "It is q
serious thing if a spirit of lawless-
ness is allowed to grow in this coun-
try. The principles of the I. w. w.
are antagonistic to the principles on
which the government of the United
States is founded"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-10-31
COMMITS SUICIDE
SICK AND DESPONDENT VIM. E
CUMMING SHOOTS
HIMSELF.

Deputy Coroner o. w. Parker and
Undertaken Laing were called to the
north end of Bear Island Lake Sun
day to take charge of the remains of
a man who had met his death by
shooting. The trip was made to
Eagle Nest lake by auto and from
there to the farm of Sumner Pur-
Wis on Bear Island lake through the
woods.
They found the body of William
E. Cumming of West Duluth with a
shot gun wound in his left side and
indications all pointed to suicide 1t
seems that Cumming had sat on a
log and placed the muzzle>of shot
gun to his left breast and pushed the
trigger with stick. Death was in
Simultaneous, post norton conduct
ed at the Laing Undertaking rooms
Monday morning disclosing the fact
that the inside of the man had been
literally shattered. The charge of
shot had entered between the fifth
and sixth rib on the left side and had
lodged under the skin in the back.
He was 81 years of age and the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph w. Cum
ming of West Duluth where the
young man was well and favorably
known. He has been sick since early
last spring when he returned from
service in one of the training camps
at st. Louis, Missouri. He had only
been at the Purvis camp few days
having been sent there in the hopes
that the change would prove bene-
fetal. 1t is supposed that he brood
ed over his illness and becoming NOR
bid committed the deed that ended
in his death.
The body was brought to this city
Sunday evening and prepared for
shipment. His father and friend
arrived from Duluth Monday noon
and accompanied the remains of the
unfortunate young man to Duluth for
burial. Prior to his enlistment he
was employed in the engraving de-
partment of the Duluth Herald but
since returning from the army has
had charge of a pool hall in West
Duluth. He was member of Trim
ity Lodge A. F. & A. M. of Duluth.