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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-07-11

REGARDLESS OF the high cost Of iivinj
cur prices are the same
HERMAN TRANSFER co.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
Yankee Slang Has
 British Babbling
 In an Utter Daze
CBy Associated Press>

LONDON, Dec. 1.-The defect oi incomprehensibility is the main flaw found in American novels by M. A. B." (Mainly About Books), a month ly periodical, ln pointing out reasons for "the comparatively small impor- tation" into England of the American literary efforts.
 After quoting extensively from a tobacco advertisement "culled from the pages of a noted American month ly magazine" in which references are made to "jamming a joyous jimmy pipe chock full and blazing away" which, it is promised, will put the quiz into your thinktank as to how much pipe or igarette-rolling fun you've gone shy on" the English magazine says:
 Effective as the above doubtless is for the purpose of transatlantic advertising, it is possible that vernac- ular largely corresponding to this, distributed over some hundreds of pages in works of American fiction accounts for the comparatively small importation of American novels. Of- ten, we do not doubt, they are in trinsically admirable Only, for us, they have the defect of incompre- hensibility."
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
MYSTERY HIDES MOTIVE HILL
 SUICIDE

Mystery deepened around the sui eide at Dewey Sunday of George w. Hill, rancher, who made away with himself by means of revolver bullet. Inquiries yesterday among members of the immediate family failed abso- lutely to reveal a possible reason for the act.
 Hill, who was 59 years old, and had come here ten years ago from Indi- ana, had been out to a newly bought ranch of his, and arrived home at } o'clock Sunday. His wife had pre- pared dinner for him and set it out on the kitchen table, according to stories related by some of the children. Hill entered the kitchen and took down a revolver, Mrs. Hill leaving the room and going outside. Then, the tragedy took place.
 Two of the sons served in the army -one, Forrest Hill being on his way here from Jefferson Barracks, Mo, where he is stationed. Two girls and five boys survive beside the mother. They include Mrs. Georgia Hager of Chino Valley and Omar Hill, also of that place, Herschell T. Hill, who reached here from Bisbee yesterday, Dewey, Josephine and Clifford, who were living at home Funeral ar engagements will not be announced until Forrest Hill arrives.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
[nterchurch Moue
 Starts at Confab
 In Phoenix Today

PHOENIX, Dec. 2. Representa-. tive Protestant clergymen and lay men of this city and from every county in Arizona will meet here to- morrow to attend a three-day state training conference of the Inter- church World Movement of North America. The sessions will be held in the First Baptist church. The dele gates, several hundred in number, and members of the leading evangelical denominations, will be given an in- tensive training in the purpose and program of the Interchurch World Movement to fit them for leading similar training schools in their home counties. They also will discuss what the relation of the churches should be to the religious, social and eco- homie problems of the day.
 At the sessions, special interest will center in a discussion of the industrial situation and the racial, Americaniza- ton and other live issues. The con- ference leaders will be team of six nationally known clergymen and lay men, who prepared for their work at a normal school" conducted by the Interchurch World Movement at Atlantic City. Reports on the prog ress of the Interchurch Movements world survey of religious, social and industrial conditions also will be a feature of the conference
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
Minus the Kick In Britain, Too, Chorus
 Ladies Are Scarce

LONDON, Dec. 1-England is ex- periencing a shortage of chorus girls, according to some theatrical agents, and stage managers. Plenty of young women are still anxious to get into the limelight but experienced girls are said to be far less plentiful than they were. One theatrical agent has explained the situation thus:
 During the war large number of chorus girls, show girls, and small part ladies' left the stage for other work. Some are remaining in it per manently; others have not yet come back to the theatre.
 Many girls, too, were married to officers during the war, and have now no need or inclination to go back to the stage. The lack of frst-class show girls for the provincial panto- mines is becoming particularly acute. It is almost impossible to get them to go out of London. Even salaries of four pounds are not tempting them" Y"
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
TEN THOUSAND GALLONS BOOZE
 AT GLOBE
CBy Associated Press)

GLOBE, Dec. 2.-The recent raid which operators of the federal de- partment of justice in this district against alleged yiolators of the war time prohibition statute, netted the officers nearly ten thousand gallons of homemade liquor, the beverage, according to current bootleg" prices, being worth something like $l00,000.
 The raid was considered one of the biggest scoops" ever made by the de- partment of justice in any part of the United States, more than ll5 federal warrants being served against the al legged law breakers, and 57 search and seizure" warrants being used. Fifty-one persons were arrested, many of them being foreign-born residents of the district who are em- ployed in the copper mines here. Bonds in each case was fixed in the sum of $500
 In one building raided, 13 barrels of illicit brew were discovered, and at another stop made by the officers, nine barrels of claret wine were un- covered The chemist who made a subsequent analysis of the wine stat ed that some of it was superior to the finest imported article. United States Deputy Marshal Frank Hayes, who had charge of the Taid, had consider able difficulty in finding a warehouse large enough to hold all of the con traband 1i0uOr
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
PRISONERS LIKE GERMAN
 PRISON LIFE
By Associated Press]

PHOENIX, Dec. IA great many Russians who fought i'll the armies of former Car Nicholas prefer life in a German military prison camp to an uncertain existence in their own land, according to Captain G. V. Oill, who recently returned to the United States from Berlin where he was en- gagged in special work for the Inter Allied commission. For six months Captain Oil worked among Russian prisoners of war i'll Germany, exam ming them for symptoms of tubercu- losis and seeing that those affected were given proper care.
 Six hundred thousand Russians were held as prisoners of war in Ger many when I went there last March" '" Captain Oill said. "When I left, about 2000 had been repatriated by the Inter-Allied commission. In the interval, conditions in German prison camps had been improved greatly. Good food was being served the pris- oners when I left in September and the general rules of sanitation were being observed"
 Captain Oill said many Russians who were repatriated by the Inter Allied commission returned to the strict discipline of the German prison camps in preference to affiliating themselves with free society" under soviet government in their own country.
 On his return to this country, Cap tain Oil was assigned to Whipple Barracks, Prescott, Arizona.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
ONE AMERICAN MINER

TOPEKA, Nov. 29-Declaring that he recently returned from Wyoming and found his wife and children at their home in Topeka suffering from the cold, without coal and unable to get any, coal miner tore up his union card in the office of State High way Engineer NJ. w. Watson today and registered to join the volunteer coal diggers. The card showed him to be member of the steam shovel mems union" said Watson. "He said as he tore the card into bits, I can't mine coal as member oi the union but l can do it as an American citi- zen. When does the train start?'"
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
THIS PRINTER IS NOT DEAD BY
 LONG SHOT

Harry G. Hontz, former patient at
 Whipple Barracks, is not dead, de-
 spite the presence of large crop of newspaper stories, supplemented by one official report, relating that on at least two separate occasions he de- parted to that bourn from which no traveller returneth.
 HOntz, printer, was seized in 1918 with an overwhelming desire to en- list in the army. So strong was the urge that he responded without talk ing time to notify his friends of his intention to go to Cheyenne and join the army or to make provisions for the care of his pet dog. In his haste to board the train, Hontz lost his hat His dog, unable to follow him into the train, pursued the hat which was blown into a stream. The appear ance of the bedraggled animal with the hat in its mouth, coupled with the unexplained disappearance of the owner of the dog and hat, was accept ed as evidence of the fact that Hontz had been drowned, and the river was dragged in an effort to locate the body Eventually Hontz' obituary notice was published
 Meanwhile Hontz had enlisted at Cheyenne and in due time reached France. When he was in Brest, the news that he had been drowned caught up with him, but before he could communicate with his friends i'll America, he was rushed off to the battle front In the Argonne forest he received a machine gun bullet through his lungs and lay for two days before he was found by the stretcher-bearers. In the war depart ment's casualty list he was listed as
 killed in action" a fact of which he became aware weeks later while in the hospital. The casualty report eventually reached his aged mother m Pennsylvania-who had not heard the earlier report that he had been drowned in Laramie-and it is said her grief was so profound that she died a short time later.
 Hontz' lungs were so affected by the bullet that he passed from one recuperation hospital to another, and was finally sent to the Fort Whipple army hospital at Prescott, Arizona, where he recovered sufficient to al- low him to secure his discharge. He then went back to Laramie, Wyom- ing.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
CONTRAST DRAWN IN WAY MEXICOGAYE
 UP AN ENGLISHMAN
CBy Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON. Dec. 2. - With much impatience the state department today awaited word from Mexico City of tine release of Consular Agent Jenkins in response to this govern ment's second sharp note to Carranza.
 State department officials expected prompt action by the Carranza ad- ministration in acceding to the Ire quest" Of the United States.
 4 new side-lght on the general Mexican kidnapping situation was given today in a report of the capture of Norman Rowe, a British subject, by rebels in Zacatecas, who held him for ransom, but who quickly released him at the instance of the Carranza administration without payment of ransom.
 The British vice-consul at Zacatecas notified the Mexican authorities and reported the kidnapping to the British consulate general at Mexico City. Representations were quickly made to the Mexican government and with in a few hours the machinery includ- ing the military was seeking rescue of Rowe.
 Luis Cabrera, secretary of the treasury under Carranza, known to be bitterly anti-American, has taken an active part in the governments prosecution of the case against Jen- llins, according to advices received today. In statement prepared for the press of Mexico City Cabrera said that Jenkins might be liberated on bond but that the American govern ment now prefers to set him free by means of threats"
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
Carlisle Shot
 And Captured; Letters Fakes It is Shown
CBy Associated Prgss)

DOUGLAS, Wyo., Dec. 2.-Will- fam L. Carlisle, train bandit, again is a prisoner tonight under guard in the Douglas hospital where he is suffer ing from a bullet hole in his right lung.
 He was shot down by Sheriff A. s. Roach of Wheatland this afternoon after he had been surrounded in the cabin of Frank Williams, IS miles southwest of here. In the Los Ang- eles limited train robbery, Carlisle was wounded i'll the right hand.
 Carlisle's trail through a heavy snow~in the Laramie Peak country was followed from early Sunday morning by two posses of 20 men. The train bandit escaped from the posse early today by jumping from window of the Widow Bray's ranch house as the posse members entered. He was captured at 3:30 this after noon.
 Carlisle seized pistol as Sheriff Roach entered the Williams home but before the bandit could fire, the sheriff had sent a bullet through the bandits right lung.
 First aid treatment was given the outlaw and he was carried down the mountain strapped to a pack horse and brought to Douglas in an auto mobile. Carlisle has been in the Laramie Peak country since his es- cape after robbing the Los Angeles limited train near Medicine Bow on November IS. Letters and telegrams purporting to have been from the bandit in Denver and other parts of the country were frauds.
 He made no attempt to conceal his identify.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
AT OLD TRICKS
(From Sundays Daily)

Harry ]. Eckert reached the city yesterday from the Midnight Test mining camp, in the upper section oi Groom creek, coming after supplies and reports the snow as four feet in depth He again demonstrated his adaptability as an artist with the ski sliding down the range in less than fifteen minutes of the four miles to reach the state highway. He came into town in team and returns by that method today. Two years ago Eckert made the trip on skis from Senator summit to Prescott, l6 miles in less than one hour, and he is await ing an opportunity to repeat the stunt to retain his title as "Snowshoe Harry"
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
Troops May Stop "InUasion'' Yaquis
 To Buy Munitions
CBy Associated Fr,ss)

PHOENIX, Dec. 2.-Actinr gov ernor Nit Simms was tonight await ing a report either from Colonel Car nahan, commander of United States troops at Nogales, Arizona, or from Sheriff Miles of Pima county, con- corning a band of Yaqui Indians re- ported by Governor de la Huerta of Sonora to be riding north toward the international boundary intending to go to Tucson, Arizona, to buy arms and ammunition for further warfare against the Mexican federal govern ment.
 Acting Governor Simms said he had wired Colonel Carnahan and Sheriff Miles yesterday and believed the Yaquis would be intercepted.
 He received a message from Gov ernor de la Huerta today thanking him for the steps taken.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
Oil Burners Must Save Jerome Work
 J. 5. Douglas Says
CRy Associated PressS

DOUGLAS, Dec. 2.-James S. Douglas, president of the United Verde Extension Mining company at Jerome, Arizona, left here to- night for Jerome to try to ar range for sufficient coal to carry the company smelter over until an oil burning system can be in- stalled under the boilers. Unless he can arrange for a coal supply, the smelter and later the mine must close down affecting large numbers of employees, he said.
 The United Verde Extension company obtained it's coal supply from mines at Gallup, New Mex ico, which are not now produc- ing. There is only sufficient coal on hand to last until the end of the week, Mir. Douglas said.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
PEOPLE WILL FORCE COAL MEN BACK;
 J. 5. WAITS
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-Govern- ment agencies are awaiting develop ments in the soft coal strike situation, through action in the various com munities to make the order rationing coal operative.
 Operators and others were told to- day that the government will stand pat for the rest of the week and that no othr steps aside from the rationing of coal will be taken. The govern ment will wait to see if public de- mand might not induce the striking coal miners to return to work.
 Director General Hines today au- thorized regional directors of rail ways after review of the coal situa- ton, to eliminate all passenger trains that can be spared without incon- the public.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
.STEELMAGNATE HENRY PRICK SUMMONED
 BY DEATH
CBy Associated Press)

NEW YORK, Dec. 2,-Henry Clay Prick, pioneer iron master and one of the foremost art collectors in the United States, died suddenly at his Fifth avenue home today in his 7Cth year
 For three weeks he had been suffer ing from ptomaine poisoning but his physician, Dr. Lewis Connor, assert ed that "Mr. Prick for the past month had shown symptoms of all organic affection of the heart which presum- ably was the late result of the severe attacks of inhammatory rheumatism to which he was subject in earlier life"
 Once the associate of Andrew Car negie and then his implacable busi- ness enemy, Prick, from a farm hand had risen to become possessor of a fortune estimated at $200,000,000 It is probable that large part of the fortune he amassed by building up the greatest coke business i'll the world and becoming one of the steel kings" will be left to the public.
 Following announcements tonight by Ebert H. Gary, directing head of the United States Steel corporation that MT. Tricks costly art collection with his home in this city would be left to the public, other friends de- clared he had frequently told them that his children never would be the richest in the world Funeral ar engagements provide for a private service at the Prick home Thursday morning.
 The body will be taken to Pitts buzz for burial
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
HEALTH SHATTERED
(From Sundays Daily)

Lieutenant Mike Quirk, several years ago a student of Prescott High school of which he is a graduate, was in the city again yesterday for brief visit, and is en route to Rouse for the winter for his health. He is from overseas and comes from Reading, Pennsylvania serving with regiment from the above state. He has many friends who will be pleased to know that he is not in a serious condition from being gassed and will recover. Later he comes to Prescott to remain for some months.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
QUEENS HOSPITAL

LONDON, Dec. 2.-Oueen Mary has signihed her intention of devot- ing the funds sent to her as silver wedding gift to the establishment of an institution to be called Queen Mary's Maternity Home, which will be situated adjoining Hampstead Heath. There will be accommoda- ton for from l6 to 20 mothers and the home is to be used for the benefit ot the wives and children of men who are or have been serving with his majesty's forces. Lord Leverhulrne, the soap magnate, has placed at the queens disposal the site for the home
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
Such is Life In
 Wild Woody Erin
CBy Associated Press)

DUBLIN, Dec. L. Nigel Barring master of the fox hunt, having made some observations which were re- scented regarding the country's mourning for political prisoners, the stoppage of the local hunt was threat ened. MT. Barring wrote to the Lim- erick papers:
 q unreservedly withdraw any ob- servations offensive to Irish national sentiment, and to the committee oi the Knocklong and Herbertstown Hunt Club, and I apologize for such observations"
 The Limerick executive of Sim Fein accepted the apology, and hunt ing was allowed to proceed.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
Kansas Gets Its Grip On
 Coal Producing Business.

P1TTSBURG, Kan, Dec 2-Kan- sas got toe-hold on the coal mining bushes stoday.
 Toward Southwestern Kansas where the mercury is lowering a few degrees above zero, is speeding to- night the first car of coal mined by volunteer workers in the Pittsburg field.
 It was billed to the mayor of Cold water, Kansas, and was expected to be followed tonight by other cars destined for sections where the coal famine is most acute.
 The first contingent of volunteers which arrived yesterday was aug mented today by the arrivaDof 600 additional men.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
Wood Picked By Convention  For President
By Associated Pressl

PIERRE, S. D., Dec. 2.-The republican convention late today by a majority vote indorsed Major General Leonard Wood as party candidate for president over Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois.
 There were only two nomina- tions.
 Governor Coolidge of Massa- chusetts was indorsed for vice president by the representatives.
 The democratic convention un- animously indorsed President Wilson for a third termy if he is a candidate but did not indorse a candidate for vice-president.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
BREEDERS TO MEET

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2. - To further the breeding of fine horses and to devise means for promoting racing in California representatives of the California Breeders associa- ton from Southern California and members of the Golden Gate Breed CTS association will meet here De cember 4. Horsemen from elsewhere on the Pacific coast are expected to attend the conference.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
WANTS QUICK HANGING

NEW YORK, Dec. "A plea to expedite his execution, which he calls his Suicide" was sent to District Attorney Lewis today by Gordon Fawcett Hambly, noted bank robber and train bandit, convicted in June of murdering the paying teller of a Brooklyn savings bank. At his trial, Hambly asked to be executed as quickly as possibly.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-03
RULE BY PEOPLE IS ADVOCATED BY THE
 WILSON MESSAGE
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON. Dec. 2-A diver sifed program to restore a peace time business status, revise the tax system, curb unrest, reduce the cost of living and rectiiy labor and farm ing conditions was recommended by President Wilson today in his mes sage 10 ihe new session of congress.
 | hr president asked for new tariff laws ba. ed ol the nations changed relation 10 the rest of the world, sug- gested that the income and excess profits tax schedules be simplitied, advocated steps to improve rural con- ditions and promote production and declared for a genuine democratiza- ton of industry" to protect both la bor and capital
 The railroad problem, he reserved for a future message and he made no statement of his intentions regarding the peace treaty or Mexico.
 Many of his resolutions were the same as those submitted to the spec ial session last spring and several of them are embraced in legislation al ready being formulated in the two houses.
 To meet the cost of living, the president asks extension of the war time food control bill, federal regu- lation of cold storage, readjustment of food transportation and establish ment of a system of federal licensing for all corporations engaged in inter state commerce.
 He declared the causes of unrest to be superficial and temporary and made his only reference to the senate failure to ratify the peace treaty in saying that restlessness was due largely to the nations hesitation in determining its peace policy. The federal government, he declared, should be armed with full authority to deal in the criminal courts with those who promote violence. In an extended discussion of labor condi- tions, he declared the workers had just cause for complaint in many mat terS and that there should be full | recognition of the rights of those who work in whatever rank to par ticipate in some organic way in every decision that directly affects their welfare" !
 He asserted that the rights of in dividuals to strike must be held in . violate but added that there must be . a firm stand against the attempt of . any class to usurp a power that only . the government itself has a right to . exercise as a protection to all"
 Finally, he suggested the establish rnent of a tribunal for peaceful de- cisions of industrial disputes He re- newed his recommendation for a budget system of national finances, i asked fer special protection to pro- mote dyestuffs and chemical indus tries and declared the administration bill providing farms for soldiers should be passed without delay.
 The message, about 500 words long, was transmitted to the capital by messenger, the president express ing regret that his health would not permit his delivery of it in person.
 It was read separately in senate and house where it drew mixed ex- pressions Sapprobation and disap- pointment. The democrats generally praised 1t as setting forth decisively practical program of reform while on the republican side there were many complains that it lacked dehn- iteness and omitted mention of inn portant problems.