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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-14

Mother Nhy's pies md doughnutr nj
your grocer or f0s Hudson tAdvJ
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-14
One Naval Recruit.

lanes II TaticrShall 81 ~ East
rlnh street was admitted into the navy
here yesterday. Seven men we're re
lc,icl
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-14

+ a. Mole. arrested last night On n
charge ~ ill'Fnily having liuuor M hiH
pofsession Wns fined so and costs In
mum iptl court this mOrnlng
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-14

A false alarm ~ IRE VAS TUNED IN
hst uight from nu alarm huN ut Sec.
nnd street and lifOndWHl.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-14

Spring Plants Arrive.
SttNwhcrry plants asparagus roots,
New-York tribune., 1919-05-07

WHILE you have been making sacrifices
w to protect the homes of loved
Allies across the seas, your Government has
been making sacrifices to protect the homes
of your loved ones here. 1t has furnished
you life insurance on the monthly-income-
payment plan at very low cost, because it
has believed you would understand your
duty to be just as obvious to your home as
the duty Of your civilian friends to theirs
The Government now tells you, and we em-
phasize it, that this duty is Just as much
yours now as when you were In the service
If you drop this Government life insurance,
you deprive those who have wept and prayed
for you of need as great today as when you
donned the khaki Don't do it. Hold Fast
to Your Government Life Insurance.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
WILSON COMING West
PRECEDENT WILL PUT APPROVAL
UP TO PEOPLE.
10000 MILE TRIP WILL BE LONG
EST UNDERTAKEN BY
EXECUTIVE.

Washington.-Presid Wilson has
left Washington for countrywide
speaking trip. to tell the American peo-
pie first and of his part In the peace
negotiations and to make a personal
appeal that the peace treaty be rati-
fled without amendment. The first leg
Of the trip OF nearly 10000 miles was
completed in Columbus, Ohio, where
he made the first Of his thirty sched-
uled addresses.
Accompanying the President, in ad-
dition to Mrs. Wilson. Is Joseph p. Tu-
multy. his secretary, and Rear Admiral
Gary T. Grayson, his physician. Near
ly thirty newspaper correspondents
also were aboard the train In addition
to the force of official photographers
and secret service men.
The trip, perhaps the most arduous
ever undertaken BY a President, will
carry Mr.. Wilson and his party as far
west AZ the Pacific coast, almost to
the Canadian border on the north and
almost to Mexico on the south. He
will speak in every state west of the
Mississippi except four, and will make
up for the omission Of these speeches
in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky aad Ten
nessee.
Although the detailed schedule was
held in confidence In the interest of
safety to the presidential train, 1t Is
understood that most OF the stops will
he only for three or four hours. In
Dies Moines, Seattle, Los Angeles and
Louisville, however, where Sunday
stops are made, the President will have
opportunity for brief respite.
The speech-making schedule is Wig
orous one from the start. After his ad-
dress at Columbus Mr.. Wilson went to
Indianapolis in time for an evening
mass meeting.
The following week will take him far
into the West by the northern route,
with speeches at Omaha, Sioux Falls,
st. Paul. Minneapolis, Bismarck, Bill
ings, Helena, Occur d'Alene, Spokane,
Tacoma and Seattle After that will
come Portland, San Francisco, San
Diego, Los Angeles, Reno, Salt Lake
City, Cheyenne, Denver, Pueblo, Wich-
ita, Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Mem
phis and Louisville.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
v. 8. to Sell Meat.

Washington.-Five million pounds
Of frozen meats, now In cold storage In
New York and Chicago, has been Of
fered by the War Department to mu-
inequalities for resale. The offer will
remain in effect until Sept. %. The
meats in storage include 1,25O,OOO
pounds of frozen poultry at New York
and more than 1,OOOOOO pounds in the
Chicago zone. This will be sold at 81
cents per pound. Large quantities of
frozen mutton and pork shoulders and
loins also will be transported In re-
frigerator cars.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
PRESIDENT CHALLENGES sENA-
TORS TO PRODUCE BETTER
PEACE PACT.
ASkSNAT|0N'S SUPPORT
ASSURES MOTHERS THAT THEIR
SONS WILL NEVER cRoss
SEAS AGAIN.
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 5.-Urging
the nation to stand back Of him In his
fight to save the League of Nations,
and assuring cheering thousands that
the Senate would be forced to sign the
treaty, President Wilson scored his
opponents and reiterated his belier
that the rights of small nations would
be protected. The President challenged
senatorial opposition to produce a bet
ter covenant than he had brought to
America or Immediately ratify.
Mr.. Wilson said he could face the
mothers of the nation with confidence,
because "he had given them an assur-
ance In the League of Nations that
their sons would never again face the
necessity of crossing the seas"
In referring to the war, the Presi-
dent said: 1.-The League of Nations 10
the only thing that can prevent the
recurrence of this dreadful catastro-
phe and redeem our promises" The
crowds repeatedly cheered him when
he asserted that he was an American
first, and would always bear in mind
the aims and aspirations of his own
people.
He assured the nation that the
treaty In no way encrOached upon the
rights or domestic policy Of the coun-
try. Its central idea, he said, was
that nations do not consist of their
government, but of their peoples. The
President said he was astonished by
many Of the statements made concern
ing the treaty, and declared that many
of his opponents displayed absolute
ignorance" in their discussion Of 1t.
But my opponents in the Senate
must and will pass the treaty. i am
cause is weak"
The League Of Nations, he declared,
was formed in fulfillment OF the prom
Use that the United States was fighting
this war to lend business of that sort"
forever. Not to establish the League,
he said, would have been unfaithful to
those who had died.
Besides, the President said, the
treaty tears away" the chains Of OPP
preston and gives small nationalities
the right to live their own lives.
That" he said, twas the American
position, and was glad to fight for
it."
The President praised the treaty
provision providing for an interna-
tional labor organization, which will
hold its first meeting in Washington
next month. He declared the meeting
would be held whether the treaty had
been ratified by the Senate by that
time or not.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
Bomb Hurled at Jap Governor.

TokiO.-Advices received here from
Seoul, capital Of Korea, state that n
bomb was thrown at Governor General
Sa!to and that twenty persons were
wounded, including an American wom-
an named Harrison, who is believed
to be related to Carter Harrison, for
mer mayor of Chicago. Governor Cen
eral Saito was not wounded. NJ. SaitO,
who formerly held the portfolio of
minister Of the navy, was selected to
succeed Governor General Hasegawa
Of Korea.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
Flaw. Plumb Plan.

Washington.-The Plumb railroad re-
organization plan was denounced as
the "best plan ever devised to drive
the brains out of the railroad business"
by Earl H. Morton, president of the Or
der of Railroad Station Agents, before
the House interstate commerce COM
mittee. "The plan is so preposterous,"
Morton added, that 1t would not mer-
1t serious discussion but for the fact
that the so-called Plumb plan league
seems to be securing the support of
large numbers of railroad employees
who have not really informed them
selves as to what the plan is and as to
the way in which 1t would actually
work"
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
Secretary RedfIeId Resigns.

misunderstanding c. Redfield,
secretary Of commerce, has rendered
his resignation to President Wilson
and II has been accepted, effective
Nov. l. This was announced officially
Secretary Redfield, in announcing his.
resignation, said he found it necessary.
to give immediate attention to per-
sOnal business affairs, adding that he
was anxious to return to private life
after spending more than eight years
in Washington as secretary Of esm-
merce.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
0reets Ex-kaiser.

Amerongen, HOlland.-Much excite
ment was occasioned In Amerongen
when an aviator, passing above the
Won Betinck castle, suddenly Topped
the loop and dived low directly over
the garden where the former German
emperor was engaged in his daily task
of saving wood. Many of the villag-
ers believed that the one-time emperor
was In danger, but the aviator merely
descended to about fifty feet above the
garden, leaned over the side of his
plane and waved greeting to William
Hohenzollern.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
OIL BILL IS PASSED
SECRETARY OF INTERIOR GIVEN
CONTROL OVER LAND
GRANTS.
Senator laFoIietts. Made Strong Fight
to XIII the Measure.

Washington.-Witho record
vote, the senate after a twelve-hOur
session, passed the bill to make pos
sible the leasing of public lands having
deposits of oil, coal, gas, phosphate
and sodium. In passing the measure
the senate approved amendments Of
fered by Senator Harris, Democrat,
Georgia, which would provide that un-
der the Clayton antitrust act oil COM
panies may not charge different prices
in various parts Of the country.
Another amendment, which its au-
thor, Senator Harris, said would
cause the constituent companies of the
Standard OIL Company soon to become
independent In ownership in fact as
well as In name, was adopted. This
amendment would prohibit stOckhOld-
ers of corporations producing petrO-
leum and its by-products, from acquir-
ing stock In another corporation sim
ilarly engaged II both corporations
have been created In conformance with
court avoiding prosecution under
antitrust acts.
Consideration Of the bill was mark
ed by bitter debate during which Sena-
tor LaFollette, Republican, Wisconsin,
who In the last six days has spoken
more than twenty hours, and other
senators charged that the bill was for
the benefit OF the Standard OIL Com
pany. During the debate the Wiscon-
sin senator charged that the Standard
Oil Company and its associates, were
attempting to influence the Senate's
action upon the German treaty and the
league OF nations.
Leasing of land under the bill is
placed under the secretary of the in
terror and in the case of coal lands
the bill provides for royalty of. not
less than cents or more than 20
cents ton shall be paid.
Alaskan coal lands are excluded
from the bill and provision author
izing the sale of lands as proposed in
mated. Royalties upon oil lands
would be not less than 12h per cent
or more than % per cent upon prOduc-
ton, while for phosphate. the royal
ty would be per cent of the gross
value of production and one-eighth of
production for sodium.
The bill prohibits aliens. by stock
ownership or otherwise. from owning
any interest in leases obtained under
the bill except where discretionary
power is given the President, II in his
opinion he deems 1t necessary to take
over and operate the leases or to ac-
quire the products of the land in
volved
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
Discharged vank Threaten. Wilson.

st. Louis, Mo.-ROzier Wickard has
been arrested by Deputy United
States Marshal John p. CiOOney on a
federal warrant charging him with
threatening the life Of President Will
son. The warrant charges that Wick
ard, who received his discharge from
the United States army with the rank
Of captain, made the following declara-
ton: To-day some man could go
down In history II he had the nerve
10 kill him. I wish l could have the
opportunity"
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
EouaIl.e Commodity Rates.

Neutrality-suspicious. and commodity
rates upon export traffic from
the middle west to South Atlantic and
Gulf ports has been decided upon by
Director General Hines. They will be
substantially the same as rates to
New York on domestic freight and will
eQualize charges so that southern gate
ways to South and Central America
can compete on equal terms with the
east.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
U. S. Seized DRUGS

New York.-Eight men were arrest
ed and habit-forming drugs valued at
more than 100000 were seized here
by internal revenue agents in what
they declared to be the most important
raid of its kind that has ever taken
place in this district The prisoners
had $25, 1000 in cash on their persons,
and are said to be members of gang
whose operations extended throughout
the country.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
Mentenssre Rises Against Serbs.

LondOn.-Fighting has broken out
everywhere in Montenegro and the
whole country Is In state of revolu-
ton, according to news received here.
The Serbians are using strong meas
ures in an attempt to suppress the up
rising 1--WE seem to be in for re-
crudescence of the Balkan trouble"
was q statement made from an au-
thoritative source. The Montenegrins
have cut the railway between Virpazar
and Antivari, on the coast.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
PoIes CAPTURE Town.

London-The Poles have captured
the fortified town Of Bobruisk, eighty
five miles southeast of Minsk, accord
ing to an announcement by the Polish
authorities today. The Poles took 500
prisoners.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
Actors Win Strike.

New York. - The actors strike,
which started nearly four weeks ago
in New York and resulted in the clos
ing Of nearly 200 theaters in this and
other cities has been called off under
an agreement which was declared to
be virtually complete victory for the
Actors Equity Association.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
May Police Eiume.

Paris.-It is understood that the
commission Of allied generals sent to
FIume to investigate disturbances
there In which French soldiers were
killed has made recommendations to
the peace conference which include
maintenance of public order in Fiume
by an American and British police
force, marines forming the American
contingent.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
Not FIyino over Mexico.

Washington.-The American army
airplane fired upon by Mexicans Tues
day was "at no time over Mexican ter
ritory," the War Department was in
formed by Major General Dickman,
commanding the Southern department
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11


their entering school when 1t opens
Sept. %.
Bank deposits in Colorado at the be-
ginning Of 1919 amounted to $248.72
per capita. Two counties, Dolores and
Hinsdale, have no banks and hence
show no bank deposits, while the high
est per capita deposits, $455.44, are in
Denver county.
William Reynolds, 40, a clay miner,
was crushed to death by clay fall
while at work In the clay mine near
Golden, belonging to the Denver Sewer
Pipe and Clay Company, operated I'M
der lease by Grant Parfet.
Colorado has 291 public schools CIV
ing high school work. OF these 1876
give full high school course, sixteen
give three years, seventy-five two
years and thirty-five one year of high
school work.
One of the richest silver discover
les in the world during recent years
has been made in the old Oakland
mine, located on the south si:le of
Queens gulch, four miles south Of Ar
pen. Assays made from tie strike run
as high as 1000 ounces of silver or
more than $4,000 ton.
A two and a half inch rainfall, fol-
lowed by Il cloudburst and overflow of
two reservoirs caused the Evans and
Greeley districts to be swept with the
worst flood which has occurred there
since 1900. The total damage Is es-
timated from 10000 to $4,000.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-04-25
Will Tax the Dogs

ST. Louis anG Kansas City were
left out of the new dog law" which
has as its purpose the protection of
sheep. when it was explsined on the
floor of the House that no sheep
craze in those towns Members
fseetiensly inquired waeefser some
law should not be passed for the
protection of the other animals in
those cities, particularly the goats
and rabbits one has read so much
about in Kansas City and Lame
ducks" and Chickens" who fire.
quently are prominently mentioned
in news stories in St Louis. This
witty repartee drew a nice round Of
applause from the legislators-noth
ing mOre-and the new dog tax law
was eDgrossed. 1t provides for a
State tax of ST on all male and So
on all female dogs. The money will
90 into fund from which farmers
whose sheep are killed by dogs. will
be reimbursed. The dog law has
been up for consideration before the
Legislature for the past Is years
but it has always been laughed on,
of the session.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-04-25
The Progressive Town

No town is to be considered pro-
gressive unless it is equipped with
some live organization of business
men. But il is not enough to get
together and have a jolly dinner
and appoint committees that never
do anything
Yet the mere getting together is
"a beginning of progressiveness.
When business men get better &C.
quainted, begin to realize that their
competitors are good fellows. that
all have their larger interests in
common and should work together,
the first step in a towns advance
movement has been taken.
For a business organization to
accomplish large results. there must
be group of men who will give
considerable time to public promo
tion work. They will not be losers
by this public spirit. They share
the gains that come to everyone in
the community. And they gain
their own personal compensation.
They make valuable acquaintances
and friends, they have useful ex-
perience in promotion work. they
demonstrate their oreanizatine
ability. They are in every way bet
ter fitted for greater success.
Notwithstanding. it is hard in
these busy days to find men that
will devote time to projects of town
upbuilding, Most people are in
clined to settle back, and let few
m en- do all this work. These few
get tired of being regarded as cart
horses for pulling the whole town.
The leaders in such movement
should have their time free for the
big constructive side of the work
for planp ING eS ii ate..pd per.
suasion, They should not be expect
ed to be erraDd boys or do routine
work that any clerk could perform
They should have such good back.
ing of financial and volunteer aid,
that the work of community pro-
eress movement will be shared by a
large number. 1t need not be q
heavy burden on any one man OF
any few men.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-04-25
A Contrast

A few months since the young
American soldiers were going; now
they are coming back, not all of
them, for some of them do not re-
turn, for shot and shell and disease
has taken its dead toll.
There is contrast between the
coming and the going, whether they
crossed the ocean or whether it was
their lot to spend months in prepara
ton for going over. A soldier goes
where he is told to 60, stays where
he is told to stay.
A contrast in the coming and 60
ing. Those coming are greeted
with cheers. Those going were bade
farewell with tears. They cheered
and were cheered. too, but there
were tears mingled with the cheers
of those who were left behind
We shall not soon forget the pa
thetic smile on the face of a patrio-
tic little mother as she was bidding
farewell to her tall and even then
soldierly looking son on a depot
platform, when a Monroe county
contingent was embarking for Camp
Funston.
There were unshed tears 10 the
smile, tears bravely held back, and
the son was evidently thinking OF
nothing else upon the earth except
the parting with that brave little
mother.
We trust he came back or will
come back. There will doubtless
be tears then, but they will be tears
of thankfulness.
There is a contrast between com.
ing and going.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-04-25
Is it Superstition?

1t has been a superstition that a
black cat, ddrtine in front of We
hicle or speeding automobile, is an
i'll omen, but many have scorned to
b beheve it. Friends of the late j. S.
Price of Fairview are inclined to
place some credence in the super
stitiOn as the result of an accident
that resulted in the death of Price
a nd in the black cat incident play
ed an important part. Price died
in hospital at Joplin from injuries
received when his motor car struck
a telephone pole. Price, his broth.
er and a friend were returning to
F airview from Joplin when a black
cat crossed the road in front OF
them. Prices friend, declaring the
Cat to be an omen of bad luck, ure-
ed Price to turn and 60 back. Price
rldiculed his companion for being
su perstitious. The superstitious
one, however, insisted that if Price
would not 60 different route that
he be let out of the car, Price stop.
ped the car and his friend returned
to Joplin. Price and his brother
had gone but a short distance when
a wheel of the car broke. causing
the automobile to dash against a
tel ephone pole and turn over on it's
side.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-04-25
Halfbaked Christians

Rev. E. E. Sparks, pastor of the
Moberly Methodist Church. created
a sensation when he baked and
served pancakes to his congregation
He began by saying that some had
doubted his word when he said
there would be pancakes for all
who wished them. but he added
that he always carried out what he
advertised-if possible-and he
would show bis congregation that
he W ould keep his word. Removing
the cover from a table, which stood
on the platform. he revealed an elec
trio stove. a pancake sriddle, dish
of batter and q bacon rind. Switch.
ing on the current, he soon began
baking pancakes. remarking that he
alw avs used a bacon rind to grease
the griddle. While he was busy
ba king cakes, boys were SERVING
tn EN- to the congregation. Present.
ly it began to dawn on the minister
that something was wrong, and
when he demanded, somewhat in.
dienantly. why the people did moi
at his cakes. a boy on the front
seat called out: 1T amt done-it's
only baked on one side"
Oh" said the preacher, that's
my text. and you'll find it in Hoses
Wits. and read: 'Ephraim is a cak,
n OF turnedl" Then in realistic
m amer he preached a sermon or
b alfbaked Christians