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Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-17
No Standing in Court

. -
Ruling that the United States
Courts could not be used by an alien
enemy, Judge H. B. Shain dismiss
ed a damage suit for $1,000 in the
Circuit Court at Sedalia last week,
when the testimony showed that
the plaintiff in the case had regis
tered as German alien in 1918
This ruling was based on the ground
that a state of war still exists be.
tween the United States and Ger
many, inasnuch as the peace treaty
b as not been signed by this country
and no proclamation issued declar.
ing the war at an end. 1t was
brought out in the testimony of the
plaintiff on cross. examination that
he was a native of Germany and
that at the beginning of the war,
under Government instructions, he
registered with others as an enemy
alien.
Judge Shain, in rendering the de.
cison, urged the lawyers of this bar
to communiate with the Missouri
Senators, requesting immediate &C.
ton on the peace treaty, to the end
that these and other matters of like
nature could be handled as they
hOuld be. in the regular routine of
law enforcement. Judge Shain
said. The court can't do much bus
mess until we have peace"
The suit was the outgrowth of an
alteration which occurred last
June between Parkhurst and Stark.
who reside four miles east of
Hughesville, on adjoining farms.
The trouble came up while Stark
was shocking wheat for Parkhurst,
in exchange for which Parkhurst
was to cut Stark's wheat. 1t devel.
oped. during the examination of
Stark that he is a German alien and
has never made further progress
toward citizenship of the United
States during his Is years residence
here than to take out his first pa
pers. The first papers were taken
out by Stark in 1904. Is years ago
He did not complete his citizenship
within the 10 years required by law.
He also testified on the stand that
be registered in 1918 as a German
alien, declaring, however, that he
was not an enemy" of the United
States. but registered because the
Government said all Germans must
register
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-17
Traffic Regulations

Road and traffic laws vary in
different localities and it is there.
fore, i'm possible to set down a &C m.
plete list of rules which may be
followed touring all parts of the
country. The following are some
of the rules which are practically
nnive rsal in all parts of the United
States.
10 meeting a vehicle going in an
opposite direction pass to the right
Always stop with the right side
of the car next to the curb If it is
necessary to turn around to do
this. it should be done.
Never turn around or turn of
onto another road without making
absolutely sure that there are no
other vehicles behind you.
Never enter upon street car
tracks without making sure that nc
car is directly behind you-no mat.
Ter how sure you feel, look and see
Do not cross the street car OF
steam railroad tracks without max.
ing sure that it is absolutely safe to
do so.
In crowded traffic do not apply
the brakes suddenly unless it is ab.
solutely necessary. 1t may be that
the vehicle following cannot stop as
quickly as you can If this is the
case. collision is sure to result.
On wet asphalt streets or slippery
roads do not apply the brakes sud-
denly unless absolutely necessary
II the brakes are applied suddenly
under these conditions a bad skid is
sure to result.
When you have reached point
when you intend turning or stop.
ping, always make your intention
known to the driver following be-
fore you reach that point
When you intend stopping. or, in
crowded traffic, slow up, always
make your intention known to the
driver in your rear by holding your
arm out from the side of the car in
a horizontal position.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-17

Among the items of property
covered by chattel mortgage filed
in Charlton County recently was
a black tom cat with four white
feet and various editorial commenta-
tors are speculatine on what value
the tom cat had. They should
study the fur auction sales in St
Louis.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-17
Buttermilk Famine

Buttermilk. the delicious drink
which came into favor after the
first of July. is now about as hard
to get as the former favorite bever-
ages that were passed over the bars
to the thirsty. Good country butter
also is not making its appearance
in as great a quantity as in former
years, and the buttermilk shortage
is traceable to the curtailment of
that product. Produce merchants
place the blame on the high price
that is being paid for cream. In
former years the GOOD housewives
went 10 a S-H1t ,icl of trouble to
MAKE their butter, but now they
can get more for their cream than
they can for this same product
made into butter and with a great
deal less trouble. The milk is put
in the separator and it is only a
matter of a few minutes and they
have the cream. The almost num-
berless tasks that 60 with home
buttermaking are thereby obviated.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-17

New York tailors are out on a
strike for $50 per and A hour
week. Other workers are striking
because the price of clothes is too
high.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-17

If there's anything tosthe old saw
a fool and his money are soon
pa rted" most of US come under that
designation nova. days.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-17

II you want some nice Jonithan
apples call on Frank Gentry.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-17

VictrOla Records, big supply now
on sale at Walkers Store.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-17

One eminent writer expresses
the opinion that people living in
small towns and on farms are better
informed than those living in large
cities. Of course they are. They
have more time to read and to be-
come interested in events going on
at a distant. while the city dwellers
or the majority of them, fall into
the habit of reading nothing but the
home news which leads them into
the error of believing that nothing
is of any great importance unless
it occurs in their own city.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-17

Complete line of Victrolas and
Victrola Records will be found at
Walkers Jewellery Store.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27

Washington, June 26.-American
casualties during the 47-day Meuse-
Argonne offensive aggregated l2O,-
900 men, or 10 per cent of the total
of 100000 engaged, according to a
statistical summary of the war with
Germany" prepared by Col. Leon
ard P. Meyers, chief statistical
branch of the general staff and pub
lished by the war department.
"Of every 100 American soldiers
and sailors who took part in the
war with Germany" the report said,
two were killed or died of disease
during the period of hostilities. In
the northern army during the civil
war the number was about 10.
Among the other great nations in
this war, between 20 and rs in each
100 called to the colors we're killed
or died"
Best information obtainable by
the general staff places the total bat
tie deaths for all belligerents at T.
450,200, divided as follows:
Russia, 100000; Germany, 1000
900; France, 1885, 800; Great Britain,
100000; Austria. 100000; Italy, $780,
900: Turkey, 250,000; Serbia and
Montenegro, 125,000; Belgium, 102,-
900; Rumania, 100000; Bulgaria,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
American Casualties in
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
Aggregate 100000 Men
Statistical Summary of the War With Germany Pre-
pared by COL Leonard P Meyers Shows That Two
Per Cent of Yanks Engaged in War Were Killed
or Died of Disease During Hostilities.

100000; United States, 4S,oO0;
Greece, 1000; Portugal, 1000.
American participation is SUM-
married in the report in the follow
ing table:
Total armed forces, including
army, navy, marine corps, 100000;
total men in the army, 100000;
men who went overseas, 2,0S6,006;
men who fought in France, $780,
600; tons of supplies shipped from
America to France, 100000; total
registered in draft. 24,234,02l; total
draft inductions, 2,810,2o6; cost of
war to April 80, 1919, $2l,850,00G.
600; battles fought by American
troops, 13; days of battle, 200; days
of duration of Meuse-Argonne bat
tie, AZ; American battle deaths in
war, $4,000; American wounded in
war, 10000; American deaths from
disease, 56,9ol; total deaths in tie
army, ll2,422.
Under the head of Sources of the
Army" the report shows that l3
per cent came from the regular
army, 10 per cent from the national
guard and II per cent from the
draft.
Attention was called to the fact
that two of every three American
soldiers who reached France took
part in battle"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
Opinion Handed Down by
U. S. Circuit Court of
Appeals Modifying In
junction Against Inter-
fering With Production
of 2.75 Per Cent Beverage.

New York, June 26.-Attorneys
for both the brewers and the fed
.eral government claimed to have
gained victory through an opinion
handed down by the United States
circuit court of appeals modifying
Judge Mayors preliminary injunc-
ton against interference with or
prosecution for the production and
sale of beer containing not more
than 2.75 per cent alcoholic content.
The original order restrained
Richard ]. McElligott, acting col
lector of internal revenue. from in
terfering with the manufacture or
sale of 2.75 per cent beer pending a
legal decision as to whethds. it was
Intoxicating" 1t also forbade
United States Attorney Francis G..
Caffey from prosecuting the brew
ers and retailers of such beer. The
appellate court decision strikes out
the injunction "pendente lite"
against the federal prosecutor. max
ing it possible for him to proceed
as he sees fit, but continues in force,
the. injunction against McElligott,
regarding whom the court makes
this observation:
THE injunction against the acting
collector of internal revenue can do
HARM"
Emory R. Buckner, of counsel for
CONTINUED on Page Two, Column Five)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
We Wi IN, Brewers Declare;
You Don't, Say Federal Men
in Beer Making Argument
Wartime Prohibition Be-
comes Effective at II P.
NJ, Next Monday, June
80; No Further Legisla-
tive Enactments Mean
while Are Necessary.

Washington, June 26.-Wartime
prohibition will become effective
next Monday at midnight without
enactment meanwhile by congress
of additional legislation for its err
forcement.
Out of a maze of confusing de-
velopments, this fact stood out
clearly with the decision of the
house judiciary committee, charged
with the duty of preparing and sub
mitting enforcement machinery, to
report three bills in one, each stand
ing on its own legs, and capable Of
holding its own in the event that
the others were made invalid fy
congress or the courts.
Chairman Volstead of the coir-
mittee declared there was no posi-
bility of the passage of the joint
measure before July /, but that
there existed ample means of en-
forcement and ample penalties for
violation of the wartime act. The
full and explicit definition of intoxi-
eating liquors any beverage or
product containing more than one
half of one per cent alcohol-set by
the bureau of internal revenue lef.
no doubt, he, said, as to how tie
courts would construe the law or
deal with offenders.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
Third German Envoy
to Sign Peace Treaty
Is Not Yet Named
Mueller and Bell Chosen and
Have Accepted; Time Of
Signing Still Doubtful.
(By the Associated Press.) J

While no official information Is
yet at hand with regard to the ap-
pointment by the German govera-
ment OF plenipotentiaries to proceed
to Versailles to sign the peace
treaty, the latest unofficial advices
arriving in Paris from Germany ale
that DR.. Hermann Mueller, foreign
minister in the cabinet of Herr Bay
er, and DR.. Bell, the minister oil
colonies, have been chosen for the
duty.
The time for the signing Of tie
treaty also still is in doubt. The
German delegation, says the report.
will reach Versailles Saturday morn
ing. having been due to depart frorr
Berlin Thursday night. There has
been due some talk of the possibil-s
ity of setting Sunday as the date fcr
the function, and Monday also has
been spoken of.
Another vote of confidence has
been given the new German gov
ernment by the Prussian national
assembly, following discussion os
the peace situation.
The allied and associated powers
have informed the German govern
ment that reparation would be -
quired for the sinking of the Ger
man fleet in Scapa Flow and also
that the individuals guilty of this
violation of the armistice will he
tried by military court Likewise
reparation is to be required for the
burning by the Germans of old
French battle flags.
Another warning has been sent
to the Germans. 1t is to the effect
that the German government viii
be held to account for failure to
withdraw troops from the new Pol
ish territory and for any aid rer-
dered the insurgents against the
Poles in those regions.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
Frisco Physician
Found Guilty Of
Numbering Nurse
Second Degree Verdict Re-
turned by Jury in DR..
Northcott's Case.

Redwood City, Cal, June ga
verdict of guilty of murder in the
second degree was found by jury
here in the case of DR.. Ephraim
Northcott, San Francisco physician,
accused of the murder of Miss Inez
E. Reed, army nurse.
The jury, composed of seven
women and five men, was out two
hours and eleven minutes.
The body of Miss Inez Reed was
found in a ravine near San Mateo,
in this county, March 8. Death had
been caused by an illegal operation.
Miss Reed was a graduate of an
Oakland, CAL, hospital. During the
war she was a nurse at the Letter
man general hospital at the Preside,
San Francisco and at Fort Riley,
Kan. She came from Fort Riley to
San Francisco in March.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
Hang Negro on Tree
Underneath Which He
Assaulted White Girl
Posses, Including Colored Men
Trail Assailant Ten Days
Till Captured.

Ellisvi1le, Mo-, June 26.-Trailed
for 10 days through southern Mis-
sissippi by posses which included
several hundred members of his own
race, John fairfield, negro, con-
fessed assaiiant of an Ellisville
young woman, was captured, des-
perately wounded, in a canebrake
rushed by automobile to the scene
of his crime, hanged to a gum tree
and burned to ashes. His victim
identified him and witnessed his ex-
esution.
Governor Bilbo, petitioned during
the day to intervene, in a statement
issued at Jackson shortly before the
lynching, declared himself utterly
powerless" and said that interfer-
ence would only lead to the deaths
of hundreds of persons and that mo
body can keep the inevitable from
happening"
Lynching Conducted Orderly.
The lynching was conducted in a
manner which the authorities char.
acterized as "orderly." Guarded by
committee of citizens of Ellisville
fairfield was taken first to the of.
flee of DR.. A. J. Carter, who after
examination of gunshot wounds re.
ceived when the fugitive made his
fight against capture, declared the
negro could not live more than "a
hours. In the meantime a group Of
silent men were piling cross ties and
brush in a depression in the ground
near the railroad trestle. There was
no shouting. Arrangements appar.
emily had been made days ago.
After fairfield had been ident;-
fed upon being brought here, there
were quiet conferences. Members
of the committee circulated in the
crowd. Reports that there would
be burning" at S o'clock gave
way to statements that there would
be hanging at the big gum tree
Had Plenty of Nerve.
From the doctors office, Hart
field was taken to the station and
faced the crowd.
"You have the right man." he
said. Then a moose found its way
around his neck and the trip to the
big gum tree was started, the crowd
still ominously silent.
Under the big gum tree fairfield
forcibly detained his victim all OF
the night of Sunday. June Is. Il
was under a limb of the same CUR,
tree that fairfield was hanged as
soon as the rope could be pulled up
by hundreds of hands. Then oc-
Cured the first demonstration,
While the body was in its death
struggles, pistols were produced hy
men and fred point blank at TIE
swinging form. Before the rope
had been cut by bullets. burning fas
gots were thrown under the body
and an hour later there was only q
pile Of ashes.
No arrests were made after the
lynching and the little town is aga,n
quiet. Most of the visitors from
the surrounding country have LETT
for their homes.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
Retail Grocers Urge
COOPERATIVE Buying;
Oppose the Luxury Tax

Salt Lake, June 26.-Co-operative
buying by retail grocers in order to
compete with preferred buyers of
the socalled chain stores system was
indorsed in a resolution adopted by
the National Association of Retail
Grocers. The convention went on
record in favor of esta blishing uni
form weights and measures law with
l00-pound unit base.
Atlanta, Ga, was unanimously Sc
lected as the city for the 1920 con-
vention.
Officers elected are: ]. A: Ulmer,
Toledo, O., president; H. H. Spin
ner, Boston, vice-president; John H.
Speas, Kansas City, treasurer. Philip
De Puyt, Rochester, N. Y. was
elected trustee for a three-year term
and Francis E. Hamper, Atlanta,
trustee for one year.
Final resolutions endorsed the
movement for the repeal of the lux
ury tax and advocated l-cent letter
rate.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
Special Session of
Legislature Likely to
Be Convened July "A
Governor Not Prepared to Say
What Matters Would
Come Up.

Lincoln, June 26.-It is probable
that the special session of the legis-
lature will be called for Monday
July II, according to information
given out by Governor McKelvie
Thursday.
Besides ratification of the
national constitutional amendment
on woman suffrage. the governor
was not prepared to say what
would be incorporated in the call
though there are one or two other
matters of Importance which may
be mentioned One of these is the
appointment of committee to in
vestigate profiteering in Nebraska
Just how far the legislature could
go in this matter and the methods
to be used are yet under considera-
ton.
There will be no incorporation in
the call of any matter relative to
the building of a fireproof state
supreme court and library building
The building committee considers
that the last legislature went into
the matter fully and decided to take
no action.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
Chicago, for First Time,
Becomes Port of Export

Chicago, June 26.-Chicago- be-
came port of export when :he
Lake Cranky, built here by the fec,
eral shipping board, carrying cat.
60 of packing house products for
Liverpool steamed from. the Chicago
river on its maiden voyage by way
of the Great Lakes and the Allan
tic. The ship is of all-steel cor-
struction, of 1000 tons capacity. TIE
shipping board has arranged to load
l3 new ocean-going ships at Chi
cago during July and August.
Ocean traffic direct from Chicago
without transfer or reloading At
New York is provided by the ship
ping board at rates much below the
charges of the big steamship lines
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
"OUTSIDE, OLD TOP"
AND OUT HE WENT.

New York, June 2o.-knighthood
was in eclipse at the St. Regis hotel
when Sir Charles Allen, after having
expressed his disapproval of the col
lection of fund by the Friends Of
Irish Freedom, went sailing out OF
the front entrance, propelled by the
toes of several boots and landed on
the pavement with a dull thud.
1t appears that the Englishman,
who is a member of firm of deco
rators in this city, walked up to the
table in the hotel lobby at which
flaxen-haired Sheila O'Reilly and
Mabel Clayton were seated and
asked the two girls:
Whats this? Are you collecting
a fund for the Irish rebellion?"
mo, we are collecting for the
Irish republic" said Miss O'Reilley
"Well, I'm an Irishman," shouted
Sir Charles, white with rage, land
/ say you don't know what you're
talking about. You are misled BY
the priests"
That ended the dialogue.
Joseph Ham, brother of the pro-
prietor of the hotel, came forward
and Informed Sir Charles the girls
were there for worthy purpose and
by his invitation. A squad of por.
tiers did the rest.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
Party of Mexicans Fire
on u. S. Border Patrol

Nogales, June ga party of
about six Mexicans fired upon a
cavalry patrol about four miles west
of here. The Americans returned
the fire. No Americans were in
jured.
The cavalrymen were without
orders to cross the border line and
sought cover when fired upon
a dozen rounds were fired at the
Mexicans, who were concealed in
brush.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
Lee Newspaper Syndicate
Acquires Wisconsin Paper

Madison, Wis, June 26-The Lee
Newspaper Syndicate has acquired
the Wisconsin State Journal and
will take possession July /. E. P.
Adler, president of the Lee News
paper Syndicate and publisher of
the Davenport (Towa) Daily Times,
will be president of the Wisconsin
State Journal company. and A. M,
Brayton, publisher and editor of the
La Crosse Tribune and Leader
Press, will be publisher and editor.
dividing his time between the two
cities. -
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
To Ask Wilson Report in
Thomas Moonev Case

Washington, June 26.-By unani-
nous vote the house labor commit
tee recommended adoption by the
house of the resolution by Repre-
sentative Blanton. democrat of
Texas, requesting Secretary Wilson
for a report on activities of labor
department officials and employees in
the case of Thomas J. Mooney, con-
victed in California in connection
with bomb explosions,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
Murder-AccuSed Doctors
Case in Hands of Jury

+ Mineola, N. Y, June 26-The case
of DR.. Walker Keen Wilkins. ac-
cused of the murder of his wife.
Julia, at their home February u,
was given to the jury late Thursday
afternoon. The aged physicians de-
Tense was that his wife was killed
by burglars.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27
Signing Of Pact May Mean
Little More Than Did
BoIshevik Fiasco at
BreSt-Lit0vSk,
DEFIANT GERMAN NOTE
UNFAVORABLY RECEIVED
No Provision Made as to When
Teutons Must Ratify Agree
ment With Allies.

Berlin, June 26.-By the Asso-
ciated Press.-Former Emperor
William is planning to speedily
return to Germany before the en-
tente can demand his surrender
from Holland. according to
Stuttgart dispatch to the Neue
Berliner Zeitung. The dispatch
states that the Dutch govern
ment thoroughly approves of his
return,as the former emporer is
an unwelcome guest and his pres
ence in Holland is increasing the
problem before that country"
Paris, June 26.-(By the Associ.
ated Press. ss.)-Disappointment over
what is termed the apparent weak
ness of the present German govern
ment is not concealed in peace con-
ference circles, and the feeling has
been expressed the signing of this
peace treaty may mean little more
than the signing by the bolsheviki
at Brest-Litovsk did.
The defiant tone of the German
note, which grudingly agreed to sign
the treaty without reservations, ere
ated an lunfavorable impression on
members of the various delegations
and this seemingly has been intensi-
lied by the delay of the Germans in
arranging for the carrying out oi
their promises.
The peace>treaty contains no pro,
vision as to when they must ratify
Consequently delay in ratification
may cause the peace conference ad
ditional annoyance.
The fate of the peace treaty still
hangs in the balance and has causet
disquietude in Paris and there j.
considerable speculation regarding
the next development in the situa.
tiop