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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24
SHERIFFS KILL MAN IN
M00NSHINE STILL RAID

HOT SPRINGS. Ark, Jan. 24.-The
sheriffs of Garland and Hot Springs
counties and their deputies, accompa-
made raid on moonshine still on
Copper creek near here early this
morning As the outcome of the raid,
Charlie Burrows is dead and two men
mortally wounded, and another placed
in jail.
The officers returned with 26 gallons
Of LIQUOR and also the still The moon &.
sinners were the only sufferers in the
shooting that took place.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24
GREENVIlLE HAS FIRE
lN>BUSINESS SECTION

GREENVILLE, S. c., Jan. 24.-Fire
of unknown origin in a second story
furniture storage room today wiped out
d three story building In the business
section, entailing Il loss estimated at
100000, with about $25,000 insurance
The Craig Rush Furniture company and
the Hobbs Henderson Dry Goods COM
pany lost goods stored in the building
The Superior garage on the ground
floor sustained a heavy loss
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24
LlTHUANIANS INFLICT
DEFEAT ON B0LSHEVIKl

PARIS, Jan. 24,--Lithuanan troops
have inflicted defeat upon the Bolshe-
Wiki near Koszedary, about midway be
tween Kovno and wilma, according to
reports from kOvno received today. The
casualties of the Bolsheviki We're heavy
and they are reported to have lost
$500 men in prisoners The Lithuanians
are said to be advancing toward Vlta.
The losses of the Lithuanians are
declared to have been slight.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24
B0LSHEVIKI EVACUATING
RUSSIAN CAPITAL CITY

+ COPENHAGEN, Jan. 24-The Boil
shevik forces are evacuating Petrograd
and removing all stores, according to a
dispatch TO the Berlnske Tidende, from
ielsingfors, The dispatch adds that
Leon Trotzky BolsheVik minister OF
war Is transferring his headquarters
to NiZni- -Novgorod and that the anti
BOlshevik movement IS growing dallN
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24
SWEDEN SENDS ULT|MATUM
ORDERING BOlSHEv|KI OUT

The Swiss and Bolshevik government
have been in controversy for some time
over the action OF the Swiss in arrest
land and the Bosheviki in preventing
the departure Of the Swiss legation and
staff from Russia. A Geneva dispatch
Jan. l4,said the Bolshevik government
had informed the Swiss government
|. 80 Swiss citizens in Petrograd would
be shot without trial On Jan, the
Swiss authorities had informed the Boil
shevk government that they would hold
them responsible for the lives Of Swiss
cItizenA
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24
BIGGEST PART OF LISBON
GARRISON GOES OVER

VIGO, Spain, Jan 24--Thc greater
part Of the Lisbon garrison mas gone
over to the Monarchists according to
reports on the progress Of the rortu-
gucse revolution received here from
Coimhra, IN Northern Portugal, and
other localities The wireless station
near Lisbon is said to be in royaist
hands
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24
SKIP STOP CONFERENCE.

II. J. Livingston city attorney, and
the city commissioners will confer Fri
day afternoon and decide on what ac-
ton the city shall take in the matter
Of forcing the Memphis Street Railway
company to abolish the skip-stop sysA
TEN on its lines
Mr. Livingston has just returned to
duty, following two weeks illness Of
Influenza
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24
ROSA LUXEMBURG'S
BODY Is RECOVERED

AMSTERDAM, Jan. H-The body Of
Rosa Luxembourg, the Spartacan lead
cr killed nv a mob recently, was found
yesterday In the Iandwehr canal, terri
bly, mutilated. according to report from
Berlin The news, 1t is said, is being
kept secret
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24

STOCKHOLM. Jan. "a. (Havas.)-
The Swedish government has sent an
utimatum to the Bolshevik lega tion
here demanding its departure from
Sweden by Jan, % at the latest, ac-
cording to the Politiken.
The Russian Bolshevlk government
threatens to keep in Jail Swiss citizens
In Russia until the Swiss government
ratified the appointment of an official
representative of the Russian soviet in
Switzerland,
Early in December. Sweden recalled
hen diplomatic and consular representa- :
tives In Russia virtually breaking off
relations with the soviet
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24
.DAYTON'S TAX HALF
Of WHAT YOU PAY

Dayton, O., with about the same pop
ulation as Memphis, and with her prop
erty assessed at.about the same proper
tion Of its real value as is the case in
Memphis. gets by on total state,
county, city, school and special flood
tax OF $3.50 per 800 OF assessed value
which Is just the same that Memphians
pay for city purposes only, In addition
to Sis for the county and so cents for
the state, making total Of S34S, or
nearly twice the tax Rate Of the Ohio
city
THAT is the information contained in
a Letter to II. R. Ellis from u. + Gar
land director Of the department Of pub
lie welfare Of that city.
Mr. Garland states that the city
manager form Of government in Day
ton inherited debt of $l25OO0, Of
which II has paid $50, 900 In the year
1917 1t ran behind $S1 600 and for 1918
that there was deficit of s3s, 900.
However, the percentage Of increase in
the city tax necessary to cover the 1918
deficit would be too small to calculate.
According to Mr. Garland. the Dayton
taxpayer has to pay on the 500 Of
value assessed against him the follow
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24
All Must Co. Operate.

The state farm extension agents Of
Arkansas and Mississippi G. W Wat
son, OF Arkansas, and K s. Wilson, OF
Mississippi, In discussing their program
for farm development toT the current
year, agreed that the acreage of cotton
must be reduced, but declared that this
was not a problem which any one state
should attempt to solve alone, but that
1t was Il problem for all the cotton
states,
Mr.. Watson said that ne was not
going to ask the Arkansas farmers to
reduce cotton production unless Tens
nessee aud Mississippi and Texas and
| other cotton states were willing to cur-
| tail cotton production, The farmers Of
| AfSannas were promising, he said, that
| they would plaza the matter Of grow
| ing sufficient food crops ahead OF the
growing OF cotton, but that he knew
very we'll they did not mean II and
that they would all go right ahead and
produce an acreage Of cotton that would
be surprising
Mr Wilson said that the cotton situ-
alton was one that could not be an
swered easily, that he feels that II Will
he perfectly safe to go ahead and urge
the growing Of food crops to the limit
IN Mississippi for after all the Missls-
sIppan IL so constituted that he Is GER
tain to raise enough cotton.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24
Situation Dangerous

Dr. Hathorn, Of the farm bureau, who
is a practical farmer, read a paper on
the cotton situation in which he stated
in his 0onClusion that world condi-
tons do not warrant the hope that more
than a 10000, 900 bale crop In 1919 can
bring prices that will be satisfactory
to the cotton grower, And this means
that either a radical reduction OF acre
age must be had or we are again en-
tirely dependent on the unlikely con-
tingcncy OF short per acre yield.
DR.. IIathorn stated further that the
question OF the cotton acreage for l9lS
calls for very serious consideration
by all the business interests and tho
various organizations Of the South.
There is already great uncertainty as
to the final disposition Of the surplus
cotton on hand Thore Is growing fear
that the deplorahle conditions prevalent
in so large a part OF the world will not
be adjusted soon enough to absorb asy
considerable amount Of this surplus.
Furthermore, 1t Is likely that only u
limited portion Of the crop of 1919 as
compared with their actual needs, can
be utilized by these countries where
financial and political conditions are In
such an unsettled state.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24

IVIttI ''''''' ~. % V''Fo
Some years ago Dayton had most
disastrous flood She still pays tax on
that. The flood tax Is 28 cents, leav-
ing only Ga cents for all other city pur-
poses.
II Is hard for Memphians TO realize
how an Ohio state, county. city, school
and special tax can be only what their
city tax is.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24

The dispatch adds that rumors persist
that former King Manuel Is about to
land In Portugal
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-24
Weather Forecast

Partly cloudy, and
JUGrnler Wedther by
Friday night.
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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14

CHAPTER I-At Nassau Charlie Web
err friend Of both Saunders and the
ritter, joins the party and they arrange
Ii expedItion to Dead Mems Shoes
ebster's object is solely the capture OF
obias, whom he is hunting down as
aitOr.
|CHAPTER 1.-THE author visits n char
ter known as the King" r2puttd to
,ssess second sight" and gets infor-
alton he thinks Of value.
CHAPTER III on the point of sailin.
icy are boarded by young fellow who
YES an obviously fictitious name. Jack
arkaway." but they allow him TO sail
It'll them,
CHAPTER IV.--Tha party reaches It's
estimation and after some days of happy
)mpanionship jack Hathaway van
hes. Webster couvinces the writer that
le youngster was girl.
CHAPTER Webster captures Tobias
nd sails with him for Nassau.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14

O! shape IA mooulit marble @!
holiness of this night of moon aud
},turs and sea!
Yes was in love. Yet hope, and
' hink that the reader will not resent
his unexpected incurSon into the
'eulms of sentiment when he consid-
ars that my sudden attack was not,
Ike most such sudden attacks, an In.
.erruption IN the rohuSter course Of
events, but, instead. curiouSly in the
iirect line Of my purpose. Because
I he eyes Of an unknown girl had thus
suddenly enthraled me; | WIS not,
therefore, to lose sight Of that purpose.
On the contrary, they had suddenly
shone out on the pathway along which
had been hlindly cropping. But for
| the accident of being in the dirty little
store at so psychological a moment
hearing that strangely familiar voice
and catching sight Of that mysterious
doubloon rs we'll rs those mysterious
eyes, | should have set sail that very
night and given up John l.. TobiaS'
second treasure in final disgust. As 1t
was, | was now warmly on the track
of some whether his or not
with two bright eyes further to point
the way. Never surely did Il mans
love and his purpose make so practical
a combination.
When | reached my lodging at last
in the early morning following that
night of wonders my eyes and heart
were not so du2cd with that vision in
the cave that | did not wildly recall
one important detail of the strange
picture--thosc streams of gold that
had suddenly poured out Of the mouth
and hands of the lovely apparition.
Without doubling the evidence of
my senses, | was forced to believe
that, by the oldest piece Of luck, | had
stumbled upon the hiding place of that
hoard of doublmnS, on which my fair
unknown drew from time to time as
she would out of Il bank.
But who was she?--nnd where was
her home? There had seemed no sign
Of habitation near tie wild place
where had come upon her, though, of
course, a solitary house might easily
have escaped my notice hidden among
all that foliage, particularly at night.
fall.
TO be sure, l had but to inquire Of
the storekeeper to learn all ! wanted !:
but ] was averse from bctraying my
interest to him or to anyone in the
settlement--for, after all, 1t was my
own affair, and hers. So ! determined
to pursue my policy OF watching and
waiting, letting day or two elapse
before l. again went out wandering
with my gun
left the craggy bluff faclnG the
sea and plunged into the woods.
had no idea how dark It wcs going 70.
but, coming out of the sun, ! WIS at
once bewildered by the deep and com
plicated gloom Of massed branches
overhead. aud the denser darkness or
shrubs and vines so intricately inter-
woven as almost to make solid wall
about one. Then the atmosphere was
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14
Advertising Rates
Gin Effect August !, 1919

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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14
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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14

unusually tail and lean figure who was
approaching me through the palm
trunks; $50 You have discovered my
hidden paradSe-my AIcnmuS garden,
SO to say and he quoted two we'll
known lines Of Homer in the original
Greek, adding "or if you prefer it in
PopcS translation, which | think
don't you?-~rcmains the best:
Close to the gates Il spacious garden les
From storms defended and Indictment
skies.
land so on. Alas! for an old mans
memory Ii grows shorter ana shorter
like his life, ch? Never mind, YOU
are welcome, sir stranger, mysterious
~ tossed UP here like Ulysses, on our
island coast"
| gaZcd with natural wmdolmcnt
at this strange individual who thus
in The heart of the wilderness had
sautcd me with Il mrticuoualy pure
English accent, and welcomed mc in
quotation from Homer in the original
Greek. Who, in the dcVil'S name, was
this odd character who, | saw, as I
looked closer 1T him, was, as he had
hlntcd quite an Old man, though his
unusual eroCtnCsS and SprightlinnSS of
manner, lent him IN Elusive air Of
youth? Who Oh earth was he--und
how did he happen ia the middle of
this haunted wood?
GRO BE CONTINUEn)
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14
CLASSIFIED RATES will be foun
IN classified column.

Notice: After expiration date OF
subscription no papers viii he mail.
ed or delivered to the subs, rber I'M
less subscription has been renewed In
advance. This is ruling laid down
by the War Industries Board OF the
u. s. Government.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14
WANTED

WANTED-D!ning room ana pantry
girl. permanent position. sulphur
Lick Springs. Telephone 90l3-4.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14
WEST BOUND.

Westbound cars leave Ottawa sta
ton for Utica, La Sale, Peru, Spring
Valley, Ladd, DePue, Bureau, Prince
ton in a. m, RI 10. $3.50, $3.50, to:Zo'
$3.50, dl0.5O, fl1:50, in p. m, 81 5O,
desc, 1900, d4:55, IS so, d7:OO, f7:5O,
1850, mll;3a.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14
SOUTHBOUNO.

Southbound cars leave ottawa sta.
ton for Grand Ridge, Mckinley Park
and Streator III a, m, $50, 100, 9;bo,
ll:50; in p. m, 1850, $50, $50, 500.
100.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14
SYNOPSIS.
--..--ss4----.---
BOOK /.

HAPPIER 1.-The author. who tells the
", Ii on visit to his friend. John
| nders, British Official in the town OF
,sau Bahama islands. Conversation
as on buried treasure.
HAPPIER fI-Saunders produces a
| ument supposedly written by Henry +.
lias, once pirate. telling of two
ces where gold had been secreted IN
. islands. Their conversation apparently
overheard, and the document diSap-
Is.
NAPrER IIT.-The writer charters a
ooner. the Maggie Darling. and sets
| on "A search for the treasure. AS they
| they take aboard passenger. whom
author instinctively distrusts.
HAPPIER IV-The hero strikes up Il
ticular friendship with "uld Tom a
gro member OF the crew. The boat Is
q from Nassau.
HAPPIER V-On the second morning
| they find that the supply 0f gasoline
) been allowed to run out. onr writer
| mes the engineer and IN Il fit Of temper
ocks him down The passenger, calling
nself Henry T. Tobias, Jr, protests,
Ia IL comes out that h" IL active IN IA
lspiracy to have the blacks rise against
Il, british government In the Bahamas.
| attempts the life OF the hero and
tn two others Is put ashore.
CHAPTER VI The Maggie Darling ar
es at her destination and the party
DIS the Susan l. has reached there ana
ided men. A hSht ensues and the cap
II OF the Maggie Darling is Killed, but
gang Is driven off. several being left
hind dead.
CHAPTER VIf.--The author and "Old
IN" start IA search Tor the treasure.
CHAPTER NIIT--In II cave they find
o skeletons. evidently Of pirates. and an
lpty chest They give UP the quest and
II back to Nassau.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14

DISPLAY ADV RATES will be given
upon application.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14
GIRLS WANTED

GIRLS WANTED
Girls work at the Gar
ter factory for the follow
ing reasons: They earn
highest wages in Otta-
wa; they have every Sat.
afternoon off; conditions
are best it is possible to
make; cash bonus paid;
good starting wages;
they receive courteous
treatment. Why are you
not with us? Garter FAC
tory, cor. Jackson and
Fulton SITS.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14
FOR RENT
597

FOR RENT Three houses on west
side two at SO each, one at SO.
W. b. Pussy, 121-l23 Main ST,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14

WANTEU=Tw dishWashers at o.
taWa Restaurant.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14
a-Daily except Sunday to Mar

a-Daily except Sunday to Mar.
seilles.
b-Joliet limited.
Morris local.
d-Ladd local. NJ u
f-~Prnceton local .AES
g-Princeton limited. III
k-Local to all stations. 49,
MA Sale local.
r-daily except Sunday; Ladd local.
Express handled on all cars at low
rates.
ALWAYS BUY TICKETS AND SAVE
MONEY,
TICKET OFFICE OPEN FROM $40
A NJ. TO 1l:35 p. M.
TICKET FARE 2ia CENTS A MILE
Train Fare or Cash Fare Paid on
Trains Is Three Cents per Mile.
Communication Books containing IS 90
worth of transportation for $3.50.
Good for purchaser only,
interchangeable book good for bear
er or bearer and party, containing
$1,000 worth Of sportation for
$3.50.
TICKET FARES TO
CHICAGO
Via Joliet, IT,, and Chicago & Joliet
Electric Railway;
$3.50 F Fss"' S ~.s Sl.55
(Return trip limited to ten days.
FAST FREIGHT SERVICE.
Phone Agents for Full informatiaNs
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14

NAPrER III.-The writer charters n
ooner. the Maggie Darling, and sets
on "A search for the treasure. AS they
. they take aboard passenger. whom
author instinctively distrusts
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-A good team of good
work horses; also double seated
surrey. Telephone 9li3-30 or call at
Commonwealth Silica Sand Co.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-14
EASTBOUND.

Eastbound cars leave ottawa sts'
ton for Marseilles, Seneca MOTIFS
Minooka. Rockdale and Joliet, ILL, IN
a. m.-5:45, a6:l0. 7:50,b9 SO, ll:5o;
in p. m, bl:20, 900, o:4o' ca'oo'
b5 so, 500, HOO.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-04-18
Cruel TRICK
OF ICEPACK
IN ARCTIC

SEATTLE, April II (by Associated
Press) Arctic ice packs, in their
driftings up around the top of the
world, follow no sea schedule and no
particular route, according to Martin
Kilian, a Seattle boy who was men,
ber of Storker Storkersons explora-
tion expedition which landed on the
northern ice off Alaska last spring in
the hope that it would be carried west
toward Siberia.
Northern drifts played a cruel trick
on the Storkerson party. Instead of
carrying their ice pack west they
moved the ice north, then east, and
finally south, eventually landing the
explorers but comparatively short
distance from Barter island near
their starting place.
Kilian's sister, Miss Gudrin Kilian,
of Seattle, recently received letter
from her brother. The letter was writ
ten from Bartert island December II
and was brought out by a Royal
Northwest Mounted Police patrol sent
north to the Arctic ocean from
Dawson, Y. r..
While on the ice, the members of
the Storkerson expedition lived in
tent and depended altogether on their
rifles for food. Plenty of polar bear
and seals were found" Kilian said.
At times the heat bothered them.
Probably it sounds strange but it got
SO warm on that ice up beyond the
Arctic circle that it was uncomfort-
able in the tent" the letter said.
Vilhjamur Stefansson, returned
Canadian Arctic explorer, planned
the Storkerson ice drift. Stefansson
hoped the ice would drift west to
Siberia along route that Stefans-
sons boat, the Karluk, was carried by
the ice pack in 1914. Stefansson hoped
to make the float himself but he be-
came i'll and turned the leadership
over to Storkerson, his lieutenant.
The Storkerson party landed on the
ice pack in February 1918. All sum
mer long they drifted about under the
midnight sun and finally landed No
yember Z, defeated but alive. Authori-
ties describe the trip one of the most
spectacular and perilous ventures in
tragic history of Arctic exploration.
Storkerson had four men with him.
They we're Kilian, Gus Mask and two
men named Knight and Gumaer.
Mask recently arrived at Fairbanks,
Alaska on. his way to the outside
world. Storkerson is believed to be
on his way to Ottawa to report to the
Canadian government, which financed
the expedition.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-04-18
NEW ENGLAND HAS
SERIOUS WIRE STRIKE

BOSTON, April 1S (by Associated
Press Twelve thousand male and
eight thousand girl telegraph and
telephone employees in New England
are on strike for higher wages and
the privilege of collective bargaining.
Only emergency messages and a few
local calls are being handled.
Wants State to Operate Lines
BOSTON, April 1S (by Associated
Press).-Governor Coolidge has asked
Postmaster General Burleson If there
would be objection on the part of the
federal government to the states TAX
ing over the operation Of the New Eng
land telephones during the disability
OF the government to furnish service.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-04-18
WICKERSHAM
WILL CONTEST
.DELECATESHIP

JUNEAU, April 1S Especial to the
Daily Times) s)-Governor Riggs will
call special election Immediately fol
lowing the adjournment of the legis-
lature, to choose a successor to the
late Charles A. Sulzer as delegate to
congress.
Attorneys for James Wickersham,
who was defeated by Sulzer by 33
votes, according to the report of the
canvassing board, state that contest
will be filed at the special session of
congress. 1t is the belief here that
he will be successful
The situation is peculiar, there be-
ing absolutely no precedent. 1t is
generally agreed that in the event
that Wickersham fails to win his con-
test he will be eliminated from terri
torial politics.
Representative Collins of the
Fourth division probably will be the
choice OF the Republicans for dele
gate at the special election, but it is
felt that much depends on the con-
tested election case Opinion in cer-
tain quarters here is that it is unnec-
essary to call special election until
the contest is decided