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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-10
Fire Fiend Attempts
to Make Big Blaze
Man Wearing Cap Is Seen to Set Fire
to Rear OF Miller Drug Store, as
Ninth and Main Streets.

Man Wearing Cap Is Seen to Set Fire
to Rear OF Miller Drug Store, at
Ninth and Main Streets.
Prompt discovery of blaze of
tncendiary origin prevented what
probably would have been a dis
astrous FIRE in the 500 block on
East Main street shortly before
10 O'Clock last night
At a quarter Of that hour a man
was seen by ChAries O. Burch- OF
the Burch private detective aGrn-
cy. 1: North Ninth street, to light
"A paper torch and pass IL between
the iron bars of q window in the
rear OF the building at S34 East
Main street, occupied by the Polk
Miller drug company.
81 would have shot the man.
and would have ftrcd to XIII. had
he not disappeared before could
procure n pistol which ! keep in
desk drawer In nry ONCE" the
head OF the detective agency told
y VfrgfnfAn reporter last night.
"Bcfore could unlock the dexk
and get the revolver, the man had
disappeared MP the alley in the
direction OF Eighth street."
Mr.. Burch telephoned an alarm to
fire headquarters. In the meantime
the tmprovised torch had communi-
Gated the blaze to inflammable mate
rial In the office OF Withers Miller,
head Of the drug concern bearing his
fathers name, and before many min
utes had elapsed smoke was seen to
issue from the building by Patrolman
Frank Bosduet, whose beat" takes in
Ninth street in the vicinity OF Main.
The policeman turned In an alarm
from a nearby box, and several engine
companies responded. In fact, enough
apparatus was on the scene a short
while afterwards to suhdue a block
OF burning buildings. First Assist.
ant Fire Chief Jack Ratio was one OF
the first on tho &cane, and directed
the work OF the fire fighters. who
however, had little to do
As the assistant chief afterwards
remarked. chemical apparatus would
have been sufficient to put out the
fire. as result of the timeliness OF It's
discovery and the almost record
breaking response OF the fire depart
ment.
The blaze was confined to its poin
OF origin. and. except for water. thou
sands Of gallons OF which were poured
into the building. the damage wa.
slight As It was. the building wal
pretty thoroughly flooded. and th'
damage from water probably will rnr
we'll into the hundreds. If not thou
sands, OF dollars
withers Miller was notified OF tn
IRE by telephone while he was At hi
homo, but not until he arrived on thu
scene did he know that II was hi
store that was on fre.
Detective Burch furnished the pc
fics with . partial description Of thu
man whom he saw light the blaze
According to the detective. the maj
wore a blue or black uniform and nil
itary cap, but whether he WAS a whit
man or negro. Mr.. Burch was unabl
to say.
with this slender clew upon whicl
to work. the police and detective de
partments started at their task Of ap
pretending flhe miscreant-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-10
American Soldiers and
Sailors in London Riot
With Canadian and Australian
Troops, Doughboys Go to
Rescue of Comrades Arrested
in Crap" Game.

London, March Gas result
of IA serious riot this afternoon In
which American soldiers and GALL
ors and Canadian and Australian
troops made common cause
against the military police, Po-
iiccman =. c. Field Is tonight In a
critical condition with a fractured
skull. four other policemen arc
suffering from scalp wounds, and
FIVE american soldiers and sailors
arc nursing club wounds at the
Lancaster Gate Red Cross hos
pitai.
Twenty american soldiers and
sailors are under arrest. ordered
by Provost Marshal Major Camp
bell.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-10
WEAIHER

Washington. March g.
Forecasts
virxinia-Fair Mondays
ooldcr In east portion.
Tuesday. increasing cioudi-
nees, probably followed ny
rain In southwest.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-10

CONTINUED on Page Two.)
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-22

onan Of
Germany. he
O
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-22
League Covenant Dangerous,
Declares Colorado Senator

Denver, Colo, March 2l.-United
States Senator Thomas of Colorado,
in an address on the league of ma
tons here today before the Denver
Civic and Commercial association,
declared:
THE covenant as now drawn is
dangerous to the United States"
Senator Thomas said he thought
the senate would amend the pro-
posed covenant.
From what I heard in Washing
ton since the close of congress /
am inclined to the belief that when
the senate has finished with the
amendments, the president will noe
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-22
VICTORY LAST
POPULAR LOAN,
AYERS GLASS
Predicts Greatest Success in
Financial History; 0mahan
Makes Address at Chi
Cago Meeting.

Chicago, March 2l.-Secretary Of
the Treasury Carter Glass, in sew
eral appearances here before Liber-
ty loan organizations, fnanciers,
editors and publishers, today gave
assurance that the fifth, the Victory
loan. wiuld be the last popular loan.
He confidently predicted that the
American people will make it the
greatest success in the financial his
tory of the world"
"The Victory Liberty loan should
be subscribed by the people from
their savings and earnings, he said,
adding that the people in one way
or another must meet the govern
ment's obligations.
They may on the one hand lend
to their government and receive
their capital with interest,"" he con-
tinued, cor the government will
have to raise funds by direct taxa
ton which takes the funds entirely
from the people.
War Not Yet Over, Says Odell.
Among speakers at the loan or
ganization gathering were Maj.
Gen. Leonard Wood, Lafayette
Young. head of the loan publicity
in Iowa, and Frank G. Odell Of
Omaha, all of whom emphasized
that the war will not be over until
all soldiers and sailors were brought
home and military obligations paid.
Mr.. Odell. referring to the Or
ganization workers. said:
Most folks remember US chiefly
as persistent, inquisitive, meddle-
some bunch of patriots who lined
everybody up at the cali of the gov
ernment and did our best to make
every man do his full share. For
this somewhat thankless task we
need make no apology, nor need we
crown ourselves with any self-be-
slowed laurels."
Tonight Secretary Glass was
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-22

Bee Want Ads produce results
Try them and be convinced.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-22

guest of honor at banquet, with
fully $500 persons present.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-22
GA Doughboys Win Crosses
in Fighting at BeIIeau Wood

Washington, March 2l.-Six hum
dred and forty-four distinguished
service crosses have been awarded
to men of the American Second d.
vision, who stopped the Germans at
Belleau wood. A War department
statement today shows that of dec
orations awarded infantrymen Of
the division up to March II the Fifth
regiment (marines) won 2O6; the
Sixth (marines), 1877; the Ninth
(regulars), l24, and the Esd (regu-
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-22
Boys 'Over There" Brand
Another Hero Tale Untrue
Private Hugo Enholm Says "Hot Stuff" Certain
Omahan Told Bee Readers Makes it Look as if He
Alone Did All the Fighting and Won the War.

Early homecoming heroes Of
the great war should confine them
selves strictly to facts in relating
incidents of their own heroism. If
they don't, some of their own over
seas companions may give the lie
to their statements.
Omaha boys with the ordnance
detachment, Three Hundred and
Forty-first machine gun battalion,
with the Army of Occupation in
Bleialf, Germany, delegated Hugo
Enholm to write The Bee, in protest
of some of the exploits related by
returned men of this battalion, one
in particular. The paper in which
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-22

recognize the league covenant" he
declared.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-22
LEAGUE after
PEACE, LATEST
BRITISH VIEW
British Change Views and
League Of Nations May
Be Arranged After
Treaty Is Signed.
By WILLIAM ]. BUTLER.
Staff Correspondent of Universal
Service.

Especial Cable Dispatch.)
London, March 21.-Great Britain
is exceedingly anxious to meet the
wishes of America but she believes
peace should be concluded i'm
mediately and the league of nations
be handled later.
That is the logical summary of the
British attitude, judging from the
press comment and expressions OBJ
tanned in British officialdom though,
for obvious reasons, names cannot
be mentioned.
In some circles it is true there pre-
walls view summed up by the Daily
News thus:
1T would be a profound mistake
to leave the covenant out of the
terms"
On the other hand there is wild
eyed element shouting about an open
break between Lloyd George and
President Wilson and clubbing the
latter, as the Morning Post puts it.,
AN autocrat proposing to force a
league down the throat of the
American senate by coating it with
the sugar of peace"
British Attitude.
But the general British attitude is
expressed by Lord Robert Cecil in
an interview with the Daily Mails
Paris correspondent in which he de-
clares his belief that the league will
not figure in the peace preliminaries.
Lord Cecil added the British dele
gates were "most anxious to please
their American friends" but that he
felt "the practica bility OF including
the league in the peace treaty de-
ponds rather on the extent to which
it is proposed to place the league on
working basis and to elaborate the
Details"
(This is the first intimation that
Lord Robert, Cecil, chief British
champion of the league idea, doubts
the inclusion of the covenant in the
peace treaty. This conflicts with
Paris dispatch from Naboth Hedin
indicating Lord Cecil was confident
it would be included.)
Persons here in close touch with
American opinion attach special i'm
portance to the developing opposi-
ton in the United States senate to
the league idea and regard as highly
significant the prediction of the New
York World that the senate will re-
ject the league proposal in any
FORM" says the Daily Chronicle.
1T may only be intended as
warning to Mr.. Wilson to moderate
his views so as to render them &C
ceptable to his critics. On the other
hand, many believe the president has
the mass of public opinion behind
him and that he will ultimately pre-
vail"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-22

the interview was printed was read
by the boys in Germany.
From the amount of 'hot-stuff
he told, your readers will imagine
this fellow did all our fighting while
the rest of the battalion gracefully
grouped themselves and gazed with
wonder on such Trojan feats Such
is not the case, and records will
show that the company Of which he
was a member, saw the least action
Of any in the battalion, 50 that il
would be impossible for all these
events to occur" wrote Private En-
holm.
Il voice the sentiments Of the
balance of the Omaha boys who are
not so well equipped with press
agents."
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-22
From a Future History.

The end of the war had come. The
kaiser had been consigned to, his ST.
Helena and finally after few years he
died. The reichstag. convened in special
session, received a message sent by the
guard in charge of the island.
wilhelm dead" said the message;
shall we have him embalmed Gre
mated or buried?"
The reichstag spent three days in con-
sidering the matter behind closed doors
and then sent this reply:
do all three; take no chances"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-22

Alice Costello, 16-year-old girl, al
legged to have been seduced by ]. l.
Hofues, salesman for the Murphy
Did-It auto truck factory, it is un.
derstood, will bare her relations
with Hofues when the case is heard
soon in district court.
In police court Thursday Hofues
was held for the district court after
preliminary hearing of the case
before Judge Fitzgerald.
Hofues' friends say the girl
"vamped" him. The girl and her
relatives say she was seduced.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-22

The Advertiser who uses the Bee
Want Ad columns increases his
business thereby and the persons
who read them profit by the oppor-
tunities offered.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-01

truck and thus win my fortune" an
swered the Laughing Man.
That you will do, Laughing Man.
and / will help you all ] can," de-
clared the lame boy, using exactly the
same charm like words that Johnny
Bull and the little old woman had
spoken before him.
Peggy and Billy looked at each other
and wondered what the charm like
words meant. Was there some strange
power in them that would really help
the Laughing Man? If there was, he
certainly seemed to need them, for be-
cause of his stopping Cranky Jimkins
was far, far down the road
'Ha, ha, ha! See how fast he goes i'
laughed the lame boy, pointing crutch
at Cranky Jimkins. That remark SEEM
ed very odd to Peggy and Billy, for they
didn't think-it bit funny that Cranky
Jimkins should get such big lead.
"Ho, no, no! He doesn't let anys
thing stop him." said Laughing Man,
ruefully.
"But the broken bridge mile ahead
will stop him." chuckled the lame boy.
And now Peggy and Billy knew why the
lame boy thought the speeding of Cranky
Jimkins was so funny. Cranky was
rushing into trouble just as fast as he
could go. Turn at the next corner
and you will find a safe and secure
road to the home of Farmer Field,"l
added the lame boy.
''Ha, ha, ha! What joke on Cranky
Jimkins ~ roared the Laughing Man.
'Ha, ha, ha What joke !" echoed
all the others; but still they all felt
rather anxious. for they knew the race
for the fortune was far from ended,
I'm the nert chapter Cranky Jim
kins finds himself in much porss
trouble.)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-01

please. dear customers, give us chance
TO deliver in the regular way
With the letter was clipping from
the local paper giving an account of the
burglary. The whole tiing was so
cleverly seized upon for advertising pur.
poses and the evident good spirit with
which the concern took the misfortune
that customers were impressed as never
before with the liveness of the concern.
An immediate influx of orders, re =
peats from old customers, sample orders
from new ones followed. During the
week, the salesman, the president and
two other men made a whirlwind cam
paign over the whole territory covered.
The following Friday the treasurer
again visited the bank president and
secured funds with little trouble, for he
showed bona fide orders enough to keep
the plant busy day and night for two
months.
I'm very much interested in true
stories of misfortune being used as the
key to the door to success. If readers
will send me any true incidents, giving
full facts-not for publication-I'll be
glad to retell them for the benefit of
my readers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-01
THE SPIRIT LAKE MASSACRE

1t is long, long trail for many of us
back to school readers, rubber boots and
tales of Indian wars. We feel about
Indian wars as the young woman did
who when visiting the aquarium re-
Gently was as surprised and thrilled at
seeing the little seahorse as though she
had suddenly come upon Aladdin S
lamp. Just because there were pic
lures of seahorses in her book of fairy
tales she had relegated them in her
mind to the realm of the unreal
One of the latest and best known
Indian massacres was that of Spirit
Lake, in northwestern Iowa, and there
still lives in that region little woman
who has been known for two genera :
tions as "the only survivor of the
Spirit Lake Massacre" She is Mrs.
Abby Gardiner Sharp. And many an
unwilling memory has been dragged
from her mind.
That night she was compelled to
watch an Indian war dance in celebra
tion of the extinction of her family. By
the next night they had killed thirty
eight people, the entire settlement with
the exception of Abby Gardiner and
three other young women who were
made captiyes to serve the whims of the
Indians and act as pack horses when
not otherwise occupied.
"Too Much Cooper"
Mrs. Sharp is woman weighing less
than 100 pounds.
'You know" she explained, EAST
erners all look upon the Indian as the
noble red man.. My mother had that
idea. 1t came from reading so much
of james Fenimore Cooper When the
Indians came to our house that morn :
ing father realized that they intended
to kill us. His impulse was to defend
us and kill few of them before they
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-01

give me a ride, for / am lame and
tired" ,...... .....
"Get out of the way !" roared Cranky
Jimkins. II haven't any time to waste
giving you ride" And away sped
Cranky Jimkins down the road.
But the Laughing Man noticed how
pale and weak the boy on crutches
was. He put on his brakes and stopped
the truck, even though Cranky Jimkins
was getting farther ahead every mo
ment. Down off his machine leaped
the Laughing Man. He picked the lame
boy up in his arms and set him on
the seat of the truck beside the little
old woman.
"I'll give you a ride" shouted the
Laughing Man. "You seem to be 60
ing my way" He jumped aboard the
truck again and started heller skelter
after Cranky Jimkins.
"And what may yonr way be, sir?"
politely asked the lame boy.
"I'm racing to sell Farmer Field a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-01

killed us. But mother interfered, She
begged him to let the Indians in and
treat them kindly, hoping that then
they would spare our lives.
eff we had fought them there might
have been no Spirit Lake massacre.
We might have defended ourselves, and
as ours was the first house they visited
that morning, if we had resisted they
might have been discouraged at the out
set. At least the rest of the settlement
might have been warned. Father asked
two young men who were at our house
to go and warn the settlement, but they
sided with mother, who thought the
Indians were only in pet and that
thev would get over it.
when we did understand there was
not even time to shut the door," point
ing to an open square of light framed
In morning glory vines.
How / stood it is as much of
conundrum to me as to you'll, who
had been protected from hardship all
my life, and who did not know thers
was such thing as evil in the world
when l write down the things that
were in that pack carried I could not
believe it, If l did not know it was true.
1t was heavier than those the squaws
carried. The Indians took all the settle y
ment livestock with them, but only one
little pony and / survived to reach
Iankton, where 1 was rescued. The
weather was SO bad that spring that
several from the rescuing parties that
trled TO reach us were frozen to DEATH"
Cost State $4,000
The rescue of Abby Gardiner was ac.
complished in the guise of a purchase
which was carried out by a clever
Christianized Indian, Horton Ho-
Washta, with two others, who was sent
by the state of Minnesota. The ex
pedition cost the state the, at that
time, considerable sum of SIC, 600. And
the little girl was well on her way to
st. Paul before she found out that she
was not the property of another tribe.
There were thirty eight Indians
hanged by the government for the mas
sacre of 1862" Mrs. Sharp recalled,
which was patterned by Inkpaduta
upon, his very successful Spirit Lake
killing. Lincoln pardoned all but thirty
SiShI VI lhOot COHHICLtu. Inc edBternera
couldn't understand what a massacre
was like and they interceded for the
Indians.
"But do you know she repeated,
ii my mother had not read SO much Of
James Fenimore Cooper down there in
New York don't believe there would
have been Spirit Lake massacre.
Mrs. Sharp bought her fathers old
log cabin many years after the massacre
and built her own cottage near it.
Father built it," she said ''It was
all there was left to speak of him in the
world.
But" she whispered, people coma
here and they say to me: Weren't you.
awful scaredG My! Myl Myl' say
to these people: Fear ceases to make
you afraid. Whena you arc in battle
your fear has departed The soldier
who has been in battle can understand
where i was. New York Evening
Sun.
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"Cashing in" on Misfortune

T DON'T know who invented Blue jay
L but I'll bet he had a corn. Millions
of people have had corns, but the mum :
Der Of folks who cashed in on the mis-
fortune is insignificant.
And isn't it so all along the line?
All the time we are getting battcd
all over the lot with one kind of set
back or another. Yet how seldom do
we say, "Now, how can l make that
pay me dividend?"
am reminded of this thought by a
letter which came to Inc some years
ago. Not that there's much in the let
ter itself; but it happened to hit the
trade right and started a stream oi
orders to a factory that desperately
needed it.
This concern made-never mind what,
mustn't say. Anyhow, they made it
right, but business was hard to get,
for they were bucking an established
competitor. Things were looking rather
blue when the treasurer went to get the
payroll check cashed one Friday morn :
ing. He had to see the bank president
before he got the funds that insured
running for another week-that's how
tight things were.
Well, he returned with the cash, and
after filling the pay envelopes deposited
il in the safe until morning. Why
didn't he wait until Saturday? Usually
he did: but Saturday is busy time
with a bank president and he couldn' Z
take a chance with a harassed bank
official. Besides, if the bank had re-
fused the funds he would have had to
try elsewhere.
Saturday morning came and business
started as usual. When the Office was
opened it was found burglars had en-
tered. Heartsick, the treasurer hasten.
ed to the safe and, to his surprise anC
relief, he found the money safe in tho
little brown paper parcel into which
he had tied it.
They had suffered a loss, however
4 severe one-for a whole lot of mer.
chandise, small but valuable, had beer
taken. Around the Office were cigar
butts, and the Office cigars were miss
| ing.
By the time the extent of the robbery
was known the police were there anC
the president of the company had ar.
rived.
At once the president saw a chance
to make capital of the disaster. He
had the safe photographed there and
then and took care that the money
was in plain sight inside the safe.
Then he had the photo printed ant
sent it with a letter to every customer
and prospect. ! have not the letter
itself, but the point he made was this:
Burglars entered our place last
night. They burst open our burglar.
proof safe and played hob around tn,
place generally.
"They did not steal our money, how
ever. That's something they can gel
anywhere. They stole our best cigars
those we keep for extra special Gus
toners like you.
"Worse still, they stole all our com
plete stock of -. They must have
been professionals, for they knew that
our - are more valuable than money
The dickens of it is that customers who
have once used our - know this also
and as our complete stock of finished
goods is stolen it will. mean holding
up our friends for a few days until 9
new supply is ready. -.
Perhaps it was some customer who
! just could not wait for delivery. If SO
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The Limpy Boy

o e<'"hPJ sSOy
Doggy and Billy were glad that the
Laughing Man stopped to PICK up
the little old woman, for she seemed
very tired and wern. Still, they were
sorry that he had lost so much time
and given Cranky Jimkins such lead
in the race for fortune Only the
little old woman's promise to guide him
by a short cut gave them hopes that
the Laughing Man would win.
After time they turned off the main
highway upon narrow road that
twisted about SO much that it would
be hard indeed for any stranger to fol-
low it without a guide. The little old
woman knew every twist, however, and
the Laughing Man sent his truck along
at full speed. Thus it was that when
the short road Joined the long road
that Cranky Jimkins had taken the
two trucks reached there at the same
time, much to the surprise of Cranky
Jimkins, who thought he'w was well
ahead.
Indeed, so close together were the
trucks at the cross roads that there
might have been a bad crash If the
Laughing Man had not thought of the
safety of his passengers and slowed up,
giving Cranky Jimkins a chance to
dash first past the cross roads.
Standing at the cross roads was n
frail boy on crutches. He waved one
crutch at Cranky Jimkins and called
out in a shrill voice: Hey, sir, please