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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1919-10-16

Two bay horses. One weighing 400
pounds one weighing 1000 sorrel
horse weighing 1000
Hog weighing 200 pounds
Jersey mich COW Will be fresh The
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
MEAT TO SPOIL
Charge Made Against Packers by
Senator Mcclellan.
$4,000 Asked for Use Of Treasury
Department Secret Operatives
to Unearth Hoarders.

Washington, Aug. 13.-Hoarding.
selling at unreasonable profits. Great
ing monopolies and restricting the
supply OF food, fuel, feed or wearing
apparel would be punished by a fine
of $4,000 or five years imprisonment,
under a bill introduced by Represen-
tative Warren Gard (dem.) Ohio. Legit-
innate transactions on grain exchanges
and accumulations by farmers or gar
deners, including livestock of farmers,
would not be regarded under the meas
ure as instances of boarding.
Treasury secret service operatives
would be used in the campaign against
food hoarders and profiteers, if con-
gress heeds the request made by
Secretary Carter Glass that $175,0 900
be provided for the purpose.
Urges Quick Action.
With the approval of President viii
son, the secretary sent a letter to
Speaker F.. H. Gillett asking that the
appropriation be made quickly.
: Organized opposition of the pack.
ing interests to any comprehensive
SOiu olOid6C iCSuidllOh was PiOai>t
ed by Senator Kenneth Mcclellan
(dem.) Tenn, before the house agri.
culture committee. He urged the
framing and adoption of stringent leg
~islation which would cover the period
of shortage. and be of such character
that it could not be evaded.
Senator Mcclellan asserted "the five
--~-L x--- 49,
nopely on cold storage, adding that
they had disregarded entirely the law
of supply and demand. Because OF
the monopoly, he said, five concerns
have control over the public and can
hold or sell as they please" adding
that millions Of pounds of poultry
and meat had been allowed to spoil
because the large interests refused to
sell at existing prices"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
TO COMPROMISE
ON RATIFICATION
Agreement Expected On Peace
Treaty Which Will Include
Reservations.
HASTE IS DEMANDED
Administration Forces With Twenty
Republican Senators Deemed SUI
ficIent to Put Compounds
Program Through.

Washington, Aug. 1.-THE trend to-
ward agreement on reservations in the
peace treaty has reached the stays
where the group of Republican sena-
tors advocating reservations. received
assurances which they accepted as
guaranteeing Democratic assent to
their program.
Word reached members of the group,
it was said, that as soon as they could
pledge a score OF Republican votes for
reservations to the league along the
line recently agreed on by seven Re-
publican senators, the administration
forces In the senate would be willing
to line up en- that basis for ratifica-
ton of the treaty.
Lodge May Join Reservationists.
There was an intimation also that
the reservationists had reason to be.
lieve their ranks eventually would in.
clude Senator Lodge, Republican lead
err of the senate.
Twenty Republicans, it was declared,
would be enough with the administra'
ton Democrats to make up the two
thirds necessary for ratification.
The program on which 1t Is sought
to unite these elements contemplates
reservation to further protect the
Monroe Doctrine, to insure domestic
control over domestic questions, to am
plify the right Of withdrawal, and 70
fortify the power OF congress to de
eide questions of peace o war under
Article 10.
Hitchcock Demands Haste.
At a meeting Of the foreign rela
tons committee, Mr.. Hitchcock gave
notice that unless the committee com
pleted without undue delay its consid
GRAFTON of the treaty, some unexpected
action might be expected on the fool
of the senate.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
President and Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Agree
On Open Conference.
MORE DEFINITE STAGE
stenographers to BE Present and
Proceedings Are to Be Given to
neutrality-suspicious. Insist On
Qualifications.

Washington, Aug. 16.-Negotiations
between Democratic and Republican
senators looking to ratification of the
peace treaty with reservations reached
a more definite stage. while President
Wilson and the foreign relations COM
mittee were getting together on I'M
precedented measures to give the pub
lie all the details of their discussion
of the treaty at the White House.
Democratic leaders, feeling out SEN
timent on the Republican side, were
told that the treaty never could be
ratified without qualifications, but that
more than 20 Republicans wanted to
see it accepted in the near future with
reservations along the line Of those
agreed on by seven senators of that
party.
This information came from mem
bers of the group of seven reservation
Republicans after completion of a poll
on receipt of the first Democratic over.
lures. The 20 needed by the Demo
Gratis to make the necessary ratiica.
ton majority of GA had not accepted
the proposed reservation program in
exact form, it was asserted, but had
given their assent to its general provi'
sions.
Conference Plans Complete.
Plans for the White House confer.
ence were virtually completed during
the day, with an agreement that both
White House and committee stenog-
raphers should be present and that a
transcript of the discussions should be
issued to the press. Chairman Lodge
also gave his assent to the presence
of newspaper correspondents at the
meeting, but said that a a question
for the President to decide.
A new draft of reservation was
shown to several Republicans by Sen.
ator Lodge. the Republican leader. 1t
Is understood to cover the -four points
embraced in the program agreed upon
by the seven senators and to include
also a provision that appointment of
the American representatives on the
league council must have senate ap-
prevail. The other four provisions re-
late to the Monroe doctrine, with
drawal from membership. jurisdiction
over purely domestic questions and
the right of congress to declare war
under Article 10 of the league cove
nant.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
ALL UNDER ONE HEAD
Mould CentraIize Air Activities
of Country.
j. S. Aviation Department Urged by
croweIl Mission as Delevop-
ment Plan.

Washington, Aug. 13.-Concentra.
ion of the air activities of the United
States. civilian, naval and military
within the direction Of a single gov.
srnmental agency with an official
holding a place in the Presidents cabi-
net at the head, is recommended by
the special American mission, headed
by Assistant Secretary of War Crowell,
which has been studying aircraft de-
velopments in Europe.
Secretary Baker disapproved of the
recommendation for a department OF
aviation, holding that the mission
has, In my judgment, gone too far in
suggesting a single centralized air
service"
The proposed department of avia-
ton, the mission asserted In it's report,
should be charged with full responsi.
oility for placing and maintaining our
country in the front rank among ma.
tons in the development and utiliza-
ton of aircraft for the national SO.
curity and in the advancement of civil
aerial transportation and communica.
ton arts"
Baker Gives Dissenting View.
In disagreeing with this feature OF
the report, Mr.. Baker said:
Army and navy aviators r spe'
cialists in the art; both the airplanes
and the pilots needed, are Of a differ
emit type from those needed In civilian
undertakings. A separation of the air
service from the army or the navy
would require coordination Of their
activities In time of war, whereas eff
f~ectiveness In military operation rests
upon the concentration and singleness
Of authority. command and purpose"
The report of the mission. which ID
divided into three parts, dealing with
general organization. commercial de-
and technical development.
Ii based on studies made In England,
France and Italy.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
THREE SHOT IN STRIKE RIOT
Illinois Troops Called to oueII Dis
turbance At Peoria.

Peoria. ILL.,, Aug. 14.-Three persons
we're shot and seriously wounded and
a score OF other persons received Sc
rious cuts and bruises when several
hundred strikers and sympathizers
charged upon the keystone Wire and
steel company's plant In South Bar.
tonyille. q suburb ave miles from this
city.
A handful or deputy sherifs, who
have been guarding the plant where
q strike OF 400 workers has been In
progress for several weeks. fought on
the rioters.
The flrst outbreak came when :
truck load OF strike breakers were
carried to the pfant under protection
OF deputy sheriffs. The rioters
charged and It was only after . sharp
clash that they we're driven OF.
Governor Lcwden has ordered the
Tenth Illinois infantry here for riot
duty.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
SENATE DEcoRum is UPSET
Unusual Demonstration N Connection
With League Debats.

Unusual Demonstration IN Connection
With League Debate.
Washington, Aug. 13.-The tradi-
ti0nai decorum of senate procedure
raj upset by an unusual demonstra-
ton Of approval from the galleries
following an address by Senator
Lodge Of Massachusetts,. chairman of
the foreign relations committee, as
sailing provisions of the league of ma
tons covenant.
For more than minute the gallery
spectators ~applsuded and cheered in
violation Of senate rules. and then
whom order had been restored. they
interrupted with howls and Kisses q
speech by Senator Williams. Demo
crat, Mississippi. In reply to Mr..
Lodge.
In spite Of admonition from the
chair. there were more Kisses min
gled with applause, when Senator
Hitchcock. Democrat. Nebraska. sec
onded Senator Williams speech
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
TREATY A SECRET
Lansing Says Pact Not Men
toned by lshi.
6alfour and Reading Also Silent on
Agreement Between London
and Toxic.

Washington, Aug. H. viscount
Ishii, former Japanese ambassador to
the United States, kept from Secre-
tary Of State Lansing the fact that
Japan had secret treaties with the
Allies for division of Chinese territory
captured from Germany, Mr.. Lansing
said In his testimony on the treaty.
Arthur Balfour and Lord Reading
also kept silent about Britain's secret
treaty with Japan when they we're in
this country, he said, and he never
knew of the secret agreements until
February, 1919. after the peace nego-
tiations began in Paris.
Senator Pomerene, Democrat, Ohio,
asked II China had any knowledge of
the negotiations leading up to the Lam
slng-fshii agreement.
mot until 1t was negotiated" Mr..
Lansing replied.
Senator Pomerene asked when
China noted exceptions to the agree
ment and Mr.. Lansing said he never
understood China had taken excep-
tions, but later had made a declara-
tion."
Mr.. Lansing added that he did not
regard the Lansing-Ishii agreement as
absolutely binding upon the United
States, but rather as an agreement
similar to the Root-Takanira and
other understandings"
Didn't Know Of Recommendation.
Replying to Senator New. Republic
can, Indiana, Mr.. Lansing said he had
no knowledge of any recommends
lions made by the navy general board
regarding agreements between the
powers for disposition Of German ter
ritory In the Pacific. but he thought
there was some In connection with
Pacific cables.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
MEXICO MAKES REPLY
Claims That Americans Take Chances
for Gain in Isolated Districts and
Promises Increased Protection
Life Is Held Safe.
Washington, Aug. 16s-The Car
rama government will not be per-
mitted to import further arms and
munitions from the United States
for the present at least.

Washington, Aug. 15.-Warning that
there would be a radical change in the
policy OF the American government re
garding Mexico IL the Carranza gov.
eminent continued to fail to protect
Americans In that country was con
tanned In a note sent to the Mexican
foreign office.
The Mexican reply. dated July rs
signed by Salvador Diego-F Fernandez
IN charge of the department of for
eign relations. and dated July %, says
among other things:
mr.. Charge d'Affaires. The note
which your honor was pleased to sent
me on the twenty-second instant. ad
vised me OF the instructions which you
had received 10 notify this department
that II the lives of the citizens Of the
United States In Mexico continued In
q state Of insecurity, and II murders
should continue because of the unwill
ingness or inability OF the Mexican
government to give adequate protec
ton, the government of the United
States would be compelled to adopt Q
radical change in its policy with re
gard to Mexico"
The reply says Americans take
chances In going into isolated dis
tgiets IN Mexico. and concludes:
Surprised BY Menace"
II believe | have made clear the
true situation and the possibility OF
the Mexican government giving daily
increasing means of protection to life
and property ~ 1t evidently has done
and Its undeniable desire to secure
every class of guarantees within the
national territory. In view of these
facts, the menace embraced in your
note has surprised the Mexican gov
eminent, all the more SO since 1t seems
strange that 1t should be axacted tina,
even in depopulated resSons human
life should be protected In O more per
feet manne than In the most popu
lous cities OF the most cultured coun
tries. where bloody crimes often occur
without the respective governments
thereby becoming the object of severe
observation"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
U. S. SALES CAUSE PRICE CUT

Washington, Aug. 12.-Retail food
merchants are beginning to feel the
effects of the distribution of surplus
foodstuffs by the War department, 1t
was indicated, when the department
announced officially that certain foods
were being readjusted ITO make them
accord with reductions which have oc-
CURED (since August 81 in the retail
market on similar commodities of like
grade.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
GRAIN AND LIVE STOCK.
MinneanoIIa Grain.

WtttEtCQPSto eiGns
Minneapolis, Aug. 15.-Oats, Sept
Oct, $1.51h; Dec, $1.53%. Barley.
Sept, $1.31H; Dec, S1.28K.
Closing Cash Prices.
Minneapolis, Aug. 15.-Corn, No. !
white, $1.9601.98; No. 3 yellow, $1.Ss
@1.90; No. 8 mixed. $1.93@1.94. Oats.
No. 2 white, 72@75c; No. 3 white.
TIN @74hc. Barley, choice to fancy.
$1.3o@1.37. Rye. No. Q, $3.50. Flax.
No. i, s6.04 06.O6.
South st. Paul Live Stock.
South st. Paul, Aug. 15.-Estimated
receipts at the Union Stock Yards:
Cattle, 1000; calves, 700; hogs, 1000;
sheep, 200: cars, LAT.
Steers, $6.75@14; cows, 5000;
calves. $7@19; hogs, $1S020.50; sheep
and lambs, $7Q15.50.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago, Aug. 15.-Hogs, receipts,
$1,000; lower; heavy weight, 1880
21.10; medium weight, S19.50@21. rs;
light weight, $19.50@21.25.
Cattle. receipts. 5000; lower; best
steers, medium and heavy weight,
choice and prime. s16.50018.75; me-
dunn and good. $1S016.50; common,
$10.25013; Hight weight, good and
choice. $14.50018.25; common and me-
dium, $9.75014.50.
Minneapolis Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Minneapolis, Aug. 15.-Butter, extra,
SIC; extra firsts. 49c; firsts, 48c; Sec
onds. 47c; dairies. 43c; packing stock,
h., Ale.
Eggs-Fresh prime firsts, new cases,
free from rots, small. dirties and
checks out. per doz., 42c: current re-
ceipts. rots out, $11.70; checks and
seconds. doz-, csc; dirties. candled,
doz, 28c. Quotations ON eggs include
cases
Live Poultry-Turkeys. fat. 10 lbs.
q over. SOC; thin, small, cripples and
culls, unstable; stays and cocks, Ice:
ducks, zoe; geese, h., 12c; hens, 4 lbs.
and over. 25c: under 1 lbs, 22c;
guineas, doz., 50; broilers, all sizes.
29c; chfckens. h., &c.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
ANDREW CARNEGIE IS DEAD
Final illness Was Matter Of But q
Few Days.

Lcnox. Mass, Aug. l2.-In his great
mansion overlooking a lake In the
beautiful Berkshire, where he sought
seclusion when bodily infirmity over
took him and his mind was saddened
by the entrance Of his country into
the war. Andrew Carnegie. millionaire
philanthropist, died. Although he had
been In feeble health for moro than
two years. his final illness was brief
a matter of days. A severe cold de-
veloped quickly into bronchial pneu'
monia, the aged patient lapsed into
unconsciousness and the end came AZ
though It was but the beginning Of .
deeper sleep.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
US. TO FEED 10000 CHILDREN

Paris, Aug. 13.-The American re-
lief administration has begun the task
Of feeding 10000 children in Buda-
pest, as part of its plan to give food
to the children of central Europe, II
Is announced here. 1t was said this
did not involve a general relaxation Of
the food blockade against Hungary.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
DAYLIGHT SAVING TO STAND
President vetoes Bill Providing for
It's Repeal.

Washington, Aug. 16.- President
Wilson has vetoed the bill repeating
the daylight saving law.
The President said he returned the
bill without his approval with "the
utmost reluctance" because he realized
the very considerable and In some
respects very serious Inconvenience
to which the daylight savings law SUBJ
iects the farmers Of the country"
Declaring the pressing need Of the
country was for production by indus
try, the President said he has been
obliged to balance one set of disad-
vantages against another" and decide
which was the most serious for the
country.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
PUTS PUNCH IN FOOD WAR
Seizure Of Hoarded Stocks Reported
n From Several Cities.

Washington. Aug. 15.-Indications
Of the real punch behind the govern
ment's campaign to reduce the high
cost OF living were given In unmis-
taxable fashion In many cities.
While Attorney General Palmer was
telling the senate agriculture commit
tee that he intended to prosecute
avery dealer guilty OF selling at higher
prices than those listed by the fair
price committees Of each county.
word came from Chicago. st. Louis
and Birmingham, Ala, Of seizures of
great quantities OF foodstuffs by ted
eral officials who recently were In
structed TO proceed under the food con
troll act to stop boarding.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21

Washingtoa. Aug. 13.-F1nal casual
u reports from the central records Of
Dec Of the American Expeditjonary
Foroes III France made public BY the
War department, gave the total battle
deaths 81 ~, 493. total wounded 206, go
and prisoners ALSO. Recent corroo-
fxons ~ the list of missznG have ~
ducod The number 10 only IN namee.
- compared with 1el,0o0 for France
ana z11.ooe Tor ENGLAND July !
ne lrnay had reported 1le.133 casos
II dinahlod 6oldfmn "a tho War Rial
~Jssurance bureau.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
ASKS REFERENCE TO LEAGUE
China Wants shantuns Question De
cided There.

ctoeo mere.
Washington. Aug. Alt Is report
ed from Picking that the diplomatic
mission Of the Picking government has
decided to give instructions to Lu
Chung-Hsiang, the Chinese head dele
gate at Paris to make the following
declaration at the peace conference:
THE Shantung problem should not
be negotiated separately with Japan,
China or Germany; it ought to be re-.
ferred to a conference Of the league
of nations, which alone should an.
nounce a final settlement.
Before the decision of the league Of
nations Ia given, Japan shall not be
entitled to enter uton any rights she
may have inherited from Germany by
virtue of the peace treaty"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21

Copenhagen, Aug. 16.-An advance
on Petrograd by anti-Bolshevik forces
which 1t is hoped will be decisive is
announced In messages received here
from Helsingfors. The attacking
forces are commanded by General
Judenitch, whose Russian volunteer
troops win be supported by Esthon-
lans.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-08-21
CHARLES SAYS AsTILL KING
Names Archduke Regent Of Hungary
In his Absence.

ssa'sSs NfSssuuNe oSHo"t 7VuH9aFy
In His Absence.
Berlin. Aug. ia courier has ar
rived in Budapest, according to re-
ports received here. with q letter from
former Emperor Charles to Archduke
Joseph In which Charles declares he
Is Still the crowned king Of Hungary
and commissions Joseph to take over
the sovereign power until his return.
The reports add that the letter thanks
the archduke for the services rendered
the dynasty.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-30
CHURCH-GOERS ROUTED
BY HIVE OF ANGRY BEES

Atlanta, Ga, July 30.-A DeKalb
county church congregation was rout.
ed yesterday by a hive of bees, which
previously had put to flight drove
of blooded cattle that had ventured
too close to the hives, located in a
pasture to the the rear of the church.
The believing of the cows attracted
the attention of the church gOers, who
went to their rescue with nots, tor
ches, etc, but the Infatuated bees at
tackled them with equal vigor to that
displayed in their offensive against
their four-legged enmies and FINALLY
drove the righteous from the field.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-30

lamentations with which she is now
entertaining nightly the crowds OF
doughbOys who flock to see her.
The Princess Tsianina is another
Indian princess who won fame as
a singer in the opera companies of
Charles Wakefield Cadman on the
Pacific Coast. She was adopted in
childhood by a wealthy white fami-
ly in Denver and given good edu-
cation. The dying request Of her
Indian mother that she should al
ways wear the native Indian dress,
has been observed and, regardless
of the stares of the crowds, the
princess has walked unconcerned
through the cities Of the old world
as sha used to walk through those
Of the nav, in her beaded leather
robes. She reached Germany and
fer mCrths entertained the soldiers
there with native songs and dances,
appearing alone and in concerts
with Mr.. Cadman. Princess Tsia-
nina IS 2 composer Of ability. She
has uia6o il close study of Indian
customs and folklore and heI pro
grams were always well received
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-30

Entertained right royalty are
The men Of the A. E. F. The roy
ally OF two continents is sending
Sta princes3es to amuse them. Only
recently tho Princess Marie of Rou-
nar!a visited he leave area at AK
les. pains with her mother, the
Q3eAD. eva danced in a tag dance
with An arnan privates.
And :Ae Y. NJ. c. A. has sent
three naive American princesses
to Europe u dance and sing, prin-
cessas tina. belong to the ancient
rova,:y hat held sway over vast
areas q Ibis continent before Co.
Iumbus Sc. foot on American soil.
a'he Princess Bluefeather traces
her descent, on the distaff side
tc Monte2rmG, emperor OF the
A2,e2s. HNr mother was of purest
Aztec D1o0d, she insists, and her
Father was O Frenchman by the
asme OF Das Champs. The priE-
cess spent ~ childhood with a
S-iEa o: ;uiians in Oregon and
iea;7lcd Irom them man. INDIAN
auXAA Legends. tribal dances and
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-30
: TIMER I,
~ g@
She went abroad

by the soldiers. She went abroad
last September. > ,.!s.a> 81 "a,
The third of the royal trio is the
Princess Galilohi, who also IS
known under the. English nsmo Ct
Anna Ross. Her father. was Bob.
ert Ross, hereditary king of the
Gherokees of Oklahoma, and ssse
comes from Talequah, the fol n,ga
capital of the Cherokee nation Ia
the Ozark foothills. t
For two years before eo!,y
abroad she appeared with EtnsAS
Thompson-Seton, the naturalist
giving recitals of folklore ARD
songs and dances of the YartoH
Indian tribes. She was the mc9@
for the Zolnay statue Of SeciiI1h.
one of her own ancestors and Tse
inventor of the Cherokee alakaaxE
which stands in the Ei-.l q: -Hya.
at Washington, and she c'::S:4;ed Il:
the unwilling Of the aia:Ae set
year. Her Indian nan.a sitn,Sae
"One-who.does-th inIj- Scii." And Ssf
success in serving -. Dejs .s.-@'rtaN
has satiefe.1 'l".n .17t lie CANA .
one she we'll Lierjts, @"s
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-30

Its French inventor plans to have
a nav photograph cvlosely initiate
the human voice by passing compre
sed air through photographically
produced holes in rapidly moving
film.