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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-10-09

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
A frebrand applied to inflammable
finder is no more destructive than are
the smuts which annually ravage and
pillage the grain crops Of the United
States Last year 25,5OO.O00 bushels Of
wheat. 100000 bushels of oats, and
100000 bushels of barley were the
tribute paid to smut.
There are two smuts which attack
wheat. the loose and covered smut.
Loose smut is most serious In the
southern winter wheat section, which
includes southern Illinois. southern In
diana. southern Ohio. southern Penn
sylvania, southern Missouri, Maryland.
Virginia. Kentucky and Tennessee,
where II causes yearly losses ranging
from to 20 per cent Of the entire
crop. Loose smut shows. conspicuously
when the wheat comes into head. At
this time 1t reduces the grain to dusty
black refuse, consisting largely Of
spores of the fungus which are spread
broadcast by the wind and rain. The
dissemination Of the disease Is fur
thered by the fact that the blooming
period Of the healthy plants and the
shedding Of the spores in the diseased
plants are simultaneous Some Of
these spores reach the flowers and in
feet the developing seed. The seed
shows no external evidence Of the pres
ence of the smut fungus. but when
planted gives rise to the black heads
in the next crop.
Loose Smut Difficult to Control.
Loose smut is hard to control be
cnuse the fungus exists inside the seed
and hence cannot be reached by ortii-
nary chemicals without killing the
wheat embryo. Fortunately. the dis
ease can be controlled by the hot-wa-
ter treatment. which consists of soak
ing the seed in cold water from to
6 hours and then dipping 1t in hot wa
ter at a temperature of 1872 degrees
Fahrenheit for ten minutes. Subse-
Quently the seed should be spread out
to dry. Great care must be exercised
not to have the water too hot nor to
allow the seed to remain in the water
too long. An advisable system is to
treat four or Ave bushels of seed and
to sow 1t in a special plot. isolated
from the wheat fields proper. In or
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against Invasion by loose smut.
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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-10-09

METAL MARKETS.
Colorado Settlement fR1ees.
DAr silver. 31.30k.
Copper. pound. ECO 2%c.
Lead. ts.16.
Tungsten. per unit. s7.soo1a.eS.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-10-09

(WholaoAis Prices by u. 8. Bureau OF
MArkets.)
WHEAT flour Tin quarters.
halves and sS-lb. sacks).
per eWt. ........... $3.50 q b.sb
Der s~t. . 80. .,4aeoA.o
sugar. GRADUATED. per cwt.. 1895
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-10-09

Why Girls Stick Around.
"Why will none Of you girls mar
ry?"
There's quarrel as to who gets
the piano."
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-10-09

Airpiapes that collide when $50 feet
in the air also are too high.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-10-09
DEwS OF EVE
No More Gentle Than
"Cascarets" for the
Liver. Bowels

1t is just MS needless as 1t Is danger
GUS to take violent or nasty cathartics.
Nature provides no shock absorbers for
your liver and bowels against calOmel.
harsh pills, sickening oil and salts.
Cascarets give quick relief without In
jury from Constipation. Biliousness, In
digestion, Gases and Sick Headache.
Cascarets work while you sleep. remov-
ing the toxins, poisons and sour, in
digestible waste without gripping or in
convenience. Cascarets regulate by
strengthening the bowel muscles. They
cost SO little too.-Adv.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-10-09
Used to Postponsments.

Used to Postponements.
Then you like working for a
judge?"
''YOu bet"
Doesn't he kick when you put
things Off?"
Nav. he puts off half his own
work every day."-Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-10-09
IcNEs.

Esgs. strictly fresh. case
oUunt ................. $l3.I5 q l%.ze
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-10-09

Creameries. eX. LIST grade. Id. -
Creameries. I'd grade. ev
Process butter
Packing stock So 0Af n
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
STATE HIGHWAY MEN
 |NDORSE ROAD BILL
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

SALT LAKE CITY. Jan. 3.-Pro- posed amendments to the Bankhead federal aid road bill now before con- gress, under which the various states of the union would participate in fed eral appropriations for highway inn provements on q basis of density of population per square mile. and ex- tending the time limit within which a state may avail itself of it's appor- tionment for any particular year, were unanimously approved at a meeting here today of highway commissioners representing western states.
 Resolutions containing the proposed amendments were adopted by the con ference and copies are to be sent to their respective congressional delega- ! tions by those attending today's con- ference, with the urgest request that every effort be made to have them in- l corporated in the amended act
 One proposed amendment is designed to change the present law requiring
 each state to contribute an amount
 equal to that appropriated by the gov ernment for road work, by placing the states participation upon population | basis of 100 per square mile. The | amendment provides thar those states | having a population density of 100 or | more per square mile shall participate on the dollar for dollar basis, while in
 states of less density of population the participation shall be one e-fourth per
 cent less than the dollar for dollar
 basis for each person less than 15i per square mile.
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
BRING PEACE IN 9,NOT 2OO0," :" SAYS SEN. LODGE
Republican A. P. Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Discussion of President Wilson's peace terms was continued in the senate today to the exclusion of virtually all other matters.
 Senator Lewis of Illinois, the demo- cratic whip. and Senator Thomas of Colorado, democratic member of the foreign relations committee, defended the president and his proposals, while Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the republican leader urged haste in con- cluding peace, declaring that the sit nation is perilOus to the highest de- gree"
 The Massachusetts senator denied charges that he and other republican lead6-si were attempting to embarrass the president abroad by recommending that consideration of a league of na tions and other proposals be deferred until after the peace conference.
 T feel that our first duty is to act in the living present to bring peace to the world in the year 1919, before We are to undertake to make a peaceful world in the year 2,000," declared Senator Lodge.
 President Wilson's position in not appointing any members of the senate as peace delegates was defended by SnalOr InonaS, who SaId he nad every confidence in the integrity of his aims and the measure of his ability at this crisis in our diplomatic history" Senator Lewis, in concluding an ad- dress he began yesterday, expressed a similar view and said Senator Lodge was following Colonel Roosevelt in his opinions on a league of nations The i Illinois senator declared that when the president returns from Europe ana | goes to the people with this, as he
 does with every important question i senators who have been opposing him will be found yielding to his views. | The senate adjourned until Monday 1 when Senator McCumber, republican ! of North Dakota, expects to speak in support of a league of nations He vii
 be the first republican senator to open | ly declare hiT approval of such g
 league
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
CANADA $ WAR LOSS,
 MORE THAN 100000

OTTAWA, Ont, Jan 3.-A total of 220,1S2 casualties, with 60.3S3 dead. were suffered by Canadian forces dur ing the war, aceording to a revised cas- ualty list issued here tonight Of the total casualties 9,9S9 were officers. The corrected list follows:
 Killed in action 55,s6s; died of wounds 12,420; died of disease 5,405; wounded 155,799: prisoners of war B. 575; presumed dead 4,671: missing 425; deaths in Canada 2.221; totals 20, 1882.
 Total deaths 60,3S3.
 More English Prisoners Found
 LONDON, Jan. S.-(By the Associ- ated Press)-There are 15.000 more British prisoners in Germany than the British records show, so that number of men previously given up as dead O, missing will return to their homes. it was stated here today. The British ba4 contemplated getting the last 20,00u prisoners out of Germany within !, fortnight but the German records show that there remain in German hands 5000 men of whom 15.000 through the failure of the Germans to report thelr capture and the mems failure to com municate with friends had been listed as dead
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
Hoover Tells Situation

PARIS. Jan. 3-Herbert C. Hoover United States food administrator, to- day gave out @ statement on the food situation in Europe in which he said:
 Since my arrival in Europe I have been cooperating with the officials of the allied governments in an inves- tigation of the food situation. more particularly in the liberated regions. We have made some investigation of conditions in Germany, but are not yet prepared to come to any definite con- clusions.
 "The population of Germany certain ly has enough stocks of food to carry on for a while. with the exception of fat supplies, which are undoubtedly very short and are developing condi- tions of disease and a great deal of so- cial discontent.
 "The determination of conditions and measures necessary to relieve the liberated territories, however, must be out first concern. These territories comprise populations aggregating probably 125,000,000 persons.
 Under enemy occupation their na- tive production has greatly diminished and the stock of food that they have managed to retain from last harvest will soon be exhausted.
 III OIutI lHdl lUtTt SllOuiu pc n( delay In providing food during the pc , riod of investigation we have dis. patched to date approximately 150,0Ot tons of food to various ports in Europe and in addition the steady stream O. I5D600 tons per month is being main . tained in Belgium and northern France
 We have, in cooperation with tht allies, sent committees into these vari ous countries to study transportation and to cndeaNor to set up financia arrangements. The transportation problem is one of extreme difficult, because of the general demoralizatioi of railways and rolling stock all owe tho area. Rumania, for instance, ha under one hundred locomotives an, Poland has probably not over 250 loco motives. So that even after landin, foodstufts at seaports we are in furthe difficulties as to inland distribution In numerous places we have had t
 (Continued on page Two)
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
BODIES IDENTIFIED
 IN MYSTERY MURDER

PITTSBURG. Jan. 3.-A step toward solving the mystery surrounding the discovery today of the bodies ofs a woman, clad in silk pajamas, and a man in a downtown roCming house, was made tonight when morgue of ffcials announced that the man was Deioneisios Giakounelis, 26, former restaurant proprietor of Salt Lake City, Utah. The woman is supposed to have been Mrs. Irene Hayford, 25, of Colorado, the town as yet un- detertnined
 The identification was made by D. K. TsOrvas. owner of a local restaurant in which the couple are said to have dined frequently. Tsorvas said that Giakounelis told him last Sunday that he had sold his restaurant in the west, and had joined the woman in Ingle- wood. N F., where she f> supposed to have bid her soldier husband good bye before he sailed for France.
 The couple came to Pittsburg ten days ago, TsorVas told the authorities and when the woman disappeared New Years day Giakounelis said he would kill himself if she did not return Tsorvas heard nothing of the couple until he read of the finding of the bodies today.
 When detectives brike into the room in which the bodies were found they discovered that the woman had beer shot in the abdomen and the mar through the head. A revolver was ly- ing nearby.
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
S|NN FE|NERs ID
 HOLD PARLIAMENT

DUBLIN. Jan. 3.-CBy the Associ- ated Press. 1.-The Sim Feiners will assemble here. probably next week, for what they describe as the first parliament of the Irish republic" They will declare, it is asserted, that the re- cent elections show Ireland's self-de- termination as an independent repub- lie and will demand that Ireland's case be heard at the peace conferenea- 1t had been supposed that the pro ceedings would be limited to this form, of demonstration, but this week s principal Sim Feiner organ says:
 "The national assembly can issue it's edicts and the people must obey them. The belief is expressed here that, although the holding of the assembly is, considered illegal, the government
 will not prohibit it, and that not until it's activities lead to attempts to com
 pei the people to obey it's decrees will government action be demanded. Ii has been stated in the London press that Sim Feiners had ordered certain | breweries and other business firms tc | discontinue paying excise taxes tc England.
 i It is said that the Sim Feiners will | provoke and welcome conflicts witt
 the government and endeavor to make | the governments administration diff l cflt
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
LAWYERS IF NATION TO TAKE UP UNJUST
 ARMY REGULATIONS
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-Administration of military justice in the United States army will be one of the subjects con- sidered at the annual meeting of the American bar association.
 In making the announcement, Pres ident George T. Page of Peoria, Ills, gave out a statement tonight in which he declared that the war has demon strated that our military laws and our system of administering military jus tice are unworthy of the name of law or justice" The United States, he said, still is following rules copied from England in 1774, but which were aban- doned long ago by Great Britain and which were better suited ito the armie, of feudal times than to the citizen ar mics of modern republic
 Punishments are not only grossly harsh, as compared with the penalties imposed for like offenses by our crimi- nal courts, he said, but they also differ so widely that we find the same offense punished in one court martial by 25 years in the penitentiary and in an other by six months imprisonment in disciplinary barracks.
 "A boy overstaying his leave or yield ing to a natural impulse to go home fol Christmas is charged not with absence
  obedience of orders is seen by 9 jealous officer as mutiny. In neither IS there present the intent to desert or to mutiny against the authority of the ar my, but boys have been convicted of the graver crimes and sentenced to as much as 25 years imprisonment "The accused soldier has no real le- gal protection. He may, it is true ob- tain pardon, but this leaves his record plotted by a serious crime, of which he never ought to have been accused. The negro soldiers convicted of 1 shooting up a Texas town were exc cuted within a few hours after they were convicted and before there was a nopportunity fora review Of the rec ord of the trial.
 "A group of non commissioned of l ficers after being ordered under arrest | by young officer were accused of mu- 1 tiny because they refused in a body to | do drill duty while under arrest. Their position was in accordance with army regulations Nevertheless. they were courtmartialled for mutiny and sen tences ranging from ) to 2J years were inflictd
 These cases were extreme instances but they are typical of thousands ,r
 which the will of the commanding of- ficer has been substituted for law and justice in the punishment of military offenses. The maintenance of military discipline does not require this harsi and arbitrary procedure. The French army is a model of discipline but ar accused soldier has the protection of tn
 law thrown around him at every stage
 of his trial.
 That soldier in our army should have less legal protection challenge:
 the attention of the lawyers of tht
 country. The American people neve
 will stand for Prussian methods ever
 in disciplining the army"
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
Mexican Rebel
 Chief To Face
 Charges Here

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2.-Gen- eral Francisco G. Reyna, said to have been the chief of a band of Mexican revolutionists that was active below the border in 1915 and 1916, was arrested here today on a federal indictment charging him with having smuggled arms and ammunition to military fac tions in Mexico from the United States.
 The indictment was returned at Phoenix in 1916 and removal pro- ceedings were in progress before the United States commissioner here late today.
 Reyna, who wore the silver braid and insignia of a Mexican general when arrested, is said to have been a Madero supporter and to have undertaken independent operations after the death of his leader. Federal officers have been looking for him since the indict- ment was returned, but had never before been able to find him on American soil.
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
APARTMENT DENIES TROOPS ARE BEING
 DISCHARGED UNPAID

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Despite serious difficulties due to lost records and insufficient data, payments are being made to troops as they arrive from overseas and no casual or other enlisted man from overseas who has a legitimate claim for pay need go with out funds" said a statement today by the finance division of the quarter masters corps. It has been charged in congress and elsewhere that sol diers are being returned to this cOun- try and discharged without having been given their pay.
 Finance officers gre available, ' said the statement, "at every port of debarkation, at every cantonment, camp and headquarters, and at every hospital, and Instructions are explicit that if a soldier has no papers he is to be given partial payment on his own statement, and final payment on his affidavit. In all cases, so far as the record shows, all discharged men are given their travelling allowances. which, with reduction in railroad fares secured by the war department, insure d comfortable journey to their homes while in most cases discharged men receive every penny which they claim 
 The division announced that to date a total of s1,694, 114,660 had been paiC to officers, soldiers and soldiers de- pendents since the declaration of war
 The quartermaster' corps has ex. perienced difficulty in paying the nier in France. the statement said, because the troops in most cases were rushed to training camps near the front while their baggage containing enlistment ! records followed when transportation was available. To meet this condition pay cards were issued in July and pay l books in November, but it has beeI found, the statement said, that fep i of the casuals. wounded or sick arriv ing from overseas have either cards O books.
 Orders were issued overseas. tn statement said, that no wounded O sick soldier should be permitted to g aboard for transportation home unles provided with all his papers, so h might be paid upon arrival home am upon discharge As the men wer anxious to get home. and as militar I policy dictated that they should be re
 turned as soon as possible, the orde
 was revoked.
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
FORM COMMITTEE TO
 SUPPLANT HEARST'S

NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-A general citizens committee to welcome soldiers returning to the United States through the port of New York was organized here today under the chairmanship of Charles Stuart Davison. It is designed to supplant the welcoming committee appointed by Mayor Hylan, with Will liam R. Hearst as chairman.
 More than dozen prominent New Workers have refused to serve on the mayors committee because of the pub fishers connection with it. They have asserted that because of the attitude of MT. Hearst's newspapers with reference to the war, they did not consider him a suitable person to head committee to welcome home coming soldiers.
 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will probably be the committees honorary chairman.
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
BIG LEAGUE SCHEDULE DELAYED

FRENCH LICK SPRINGS, Ind, Jan. S.-The major league committee here to draft the 1919 schedule failed to get down to work tonight, because Presl- dent Barney Dreyfuss of the Pittsburg Club was delayed, reaching here late tonight. The committee expects to complete it's work tomorrow. it was said tonight. The schedules when fin ished will be presented to the joint meeting of the major leagues in New York on January 16.
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
War Over Too
 Soon For Him
 MGn Ends Llfe

SANTA FEE, N. M., Jan. B. Worry over the signing of the ar mistice, ending his ambition to go to war, is believed to have been the cause of Ernest Digneo, prom inent young business man of this city, taking his own life this af- ternoon by shooting himself through the heart with revolver. Digneo had attended the military institute at Roswell at his own expense, passed the examination and was ready to be commissioned when the war ended.
 Friends say he had been worry ing ever since.
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
Colorado Leaks In Opening 1920
 Roosevelt Boom

DENVER. Jan. 3.-The Colorado Roosevelt Republican club was in- corporated here today by 29 of the most prominent members ot the party in the state, including former governor Herbert S. HadIey of Miss ouri, now a professor at the state university at Boulder, and former governor George Carlson of Colo rado. The incorporators declare their intention to support Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for the presi- dency in 1920.
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
DENVER STREET JAR
 SERVICE IMPROVED

DENVER, Jan. 3.-Street car ser vice, which was interrupted for several hours last night by demonstrations against the collection of a seven cent fare by the Denver Tramway company was maintained tonight without ser ious difficulty.
 Policemen were stationed at the ter minals in the stock yards and other industrial districts and prevented any outburst
 The only threat of disturbance oc- cured at Forty second and Williams streets, where workmen refusing to pay more than a five cent fare, boarded several cars which the train men refused to move because the full fares had not been paid. After the cars had stood idle several minutes, Chief of Police Hamilton Armstrong, who was in personal charge of the police detail at this point, informed the tramway officials that the idle cars were blocking traffic and must be moved immediately. The order was compiled with and the workmen who had boarded the cars were brought in- to town without further effort being l made to collect the additional charge
Arizona republican., 1919-01-04
A1rmam To Fly
 @4vaa'7 7m q, lc,H"nS To
 Coast TO Day

FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. B. Major T. c. McCauley, copmander of TaIiaferro field, will attempt to fly from Fort Worth to San Diego Cal, in one day. He made the round trip recently, a distance of 1,500 miles in four and a half days. He is engaged in mapping routes for aerial mail.