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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-10
written by outside spectators, who
coDied each other

written by outside spectators, who
Except for the details, here first
revealed, the Guelph Fund story is
ancient history, but is important as
a precedent: Since German states
men thought it incumbent upon
them to sequestrate the private
fortune OF one-horse king in
order that this ex-monarch might
not use the money to. stir up
trouble against conquering Prus-
sia, it is a hundred times more i'm
portant to confiscate the ex-Kaiser's
billions to prevent his breaking tho
peace after peace has been signed
and sealed.
but William is broken old
man." say his apologists.
We are not sure of that, William
being q consummate actor, but even
admitting that, personally, he is out
of the running, he has six stalwart
sons, than whom no greater scamps,
intriguers and wasters of human life
walk Germany's soil, or any other.
All six will have millions and a
whole skin-all six enjoy health,
liberty and complete freedom from
conscience or scruples of any kind;
all six will have millions at their
beck and call if the Allies permit!
Will the Pcac Confercnce-by re-
fusing to coniiscate the HohenzOl-
Iern fortunes - furnish them the
funds for future political and milf
tary propaganda? Have American,
English and French lives been pre-
served by the armistice only to be
put in jeopardy sooner or later at
the sweet pleasure OF "burglar''
william, torturcr Eitcl Fritz,
"woman-stealer' Oscar and the
rest?
AS the Kaiser did to the con-
qucred King OF Hanover, so the
Allies should do to the conquered
William.
HohcnzolIcrn Funds as the Hohen-
zollcrnS took the Guelph Fund!
(TO he Continued-)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-10

eight millions! No one could spend
such an amount"
"Oh. yes. my brother-in-law
could" laughed tho Duke.
How William Robbed o Defeated
King
The Guelph Fund represented the
sequestrated fortune of King George
of Hanover, and his heir, the
Duke of Cumberland, and its his
tory is interesting. After annexing
Hanover in the summer of 1866,
Prussia restored their private for
tune to the deposed Guelphs by the
convention of September 20, 1867,
but there was string, or rather a
steel cable, attached to this apparent
act of restitution. Pointing out that
the poor blind man whom he had
vanquished might utilize his money
to raise an army against victorious
Prussia, Bismarck, with the con-
sent of the Diet, seized the private
property of the royal Hanoverians
second time, pleading that it's an
nual interest was needed to ward off
the Guelph party's secret intrigues.
So the Guelph Fund became the
Reptile Fund.- golden trough of
which Williams friends and the gov
ernment's leading men, fed for
20 years, there being no public ac-
counting, the Chancellor laying n
list of disbursements before the
Kaiser at the end of each year,
wwhereupon the receipts were
destroyed.
More Imperial Jockeying
Court gossip fixes upon the Kali
ser's unwillingness to give up so
large a fortune to which he might
have recourse occasionally as the
principal cause of his frequent
breaches of faith, but I have never
succeeded in tracing even a solitary
Guelph fund million on its way to
the Kaiser's pockets.
The Prince of Wales afterwards
King Edward), 1t was whispered,
had written q letter to the late King
George of Greece, telling him that
the Kaiser "gulped" down the whole
of the Guelph Fund, but Uncle
Bertie," instead of sending his let
ter to Athens direct, forwarded it
to Copenhagen for approval by his
mother-in-law, and Queen Louise,
caused the conspiracy to leak out.
But, in a burst of confidence, her
Majesty showed the letter to Princess
Valdemar, who had stirred up the
imbroglio between Bismarck and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-10
Gear Alexander not so many years

Czar Alexander not so many years
before.
Those Royal Gossips
That Marie d'Orleans-B Bourbon.
on her part, was unable to constrain
her triumph ut the hope of seeing
Germany's Kaiser Inundated, is,
perhaps, not to be wwondered at, for
Her Royal Highness detested Will
liam as heartily as she adored
France. So, with true feminine acu-
men, she sat down and telegraphed
the sweet morsel broadcast to all
royal Wilhelm haters, or Princes
that she considered sympathizers,
and all wished the undertaking God
speed-all except Cousin Ferdinand
of Bulgaria. This queer individual,
eager to oblige the Kaiser, betrayed
the confidence reposed to him, hop
ing thereby to gain Williams graft
tude.
Ferdinand had q rude awakening
out of that pipe-dream, for only a
few weeks later William called him
names that figured largely in the
correspondence Of the late Mar
quis of Queensbury with certain
English poet-dramatist. And to
Car Nicky's face. too!
And you should have heard the
Kaiser s estimate of Ferdi's true
character week or SO before Bull
garia's caving in. Dirty traitor"
"Jew-bully, Murderer" and
crowned Shylock" were some of
the milder epithets flying about.
And the Kaiserin and her daughter
Louise fully agreed that his Balkan
Czarship was a Swine"
The Ways of the Gossips
At best, the Berlin court was a
veritable hotbed of ill-natured gos-
sip. In the morning one of the
Kaiser's adjutants might have a
good story to relate that, without
involving a breach of faith, keyed
perpleXing situation, while let.
ters from other courts, the tattle of
princely visitors, correspondence of
high aristocrats or statesmen, q min
isterial crisis, a sudden lapse in the
routine of royal employment as q
visit postponed or a headache to
order" completed the chain of evil
dence that linked together of its
own accord, as it were, and in the
end revealed hidden springs of ac-
ton and private views and motives
of individuals affording better
analysis of the minds of historic
perSonageS than a whole library of
ordinary contcmporaneous accounts,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-10
HUMBERT CASE
in FRENCH COURT
French Senator Is Accused of
Treating With the
Enemy

Paris, April 10. - The situation
created at the trial of Senator
Charles Humbert, by the reading of
President Poincare's testimony; ac-
cusations by NJ. Moro Giafferi, Hum
bert's lawyer, that the French pres
ident made voluntary errors" and
subsequent threats by Captain Nor
net, the public prosecutor, to have
Moro -Giafferi disbarred from prac-
tice, is one without precedent in
Frances spectacular law courts.
Senator Humbert is on trial on the
charge of having had commerce with
the enemy.
President Poincare. in view of the
bitter attacks to which he was sub
jected by Humbert's lawyer, asked
yesterday to be heard anew, and
Colonel Masselin, after reading the
Presidents letter, acquiesced, as the
President wished to explain further
regarding his relations and inter-
views with Senator Humbert.
President Poincare's testimony re-
lated to the conversations he and
Humbert had had regarding Pierre
Lenoir, a defendant, and Bolo Pasha.
He said he had advised Humbert to
make q charge before the military
tribunals. which Humbert had re-
Trained from doing, asserting that he
had informed the first magistrate
of the republic and that the latter
had promised him that action would
be taken.
Perhaps one politician found ii
to his advantage to have another
prominent politician disappear from
the public eye," shouted Moro
Giafferi. Thereupon Captain Nor
net asked the counsel to withdraw
his remark, threatening him with
disbarment.
1T will be to the glory of my ca
reer to be disbarred under such cir
cumstances," shouted Moro-Giafferi
In summing up the long discus
sion, the whole trend of Moro-Gi
ferris argument was to show thai
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-10
New Loan For Belgium
and the Czecho-Slovaks

Washington, April 1O.-Credits of
$6,330,000 to the Czecho -Slovaks re-
public and of 100000 to Belgium
were established by the Treasury.
The Belgian credit raised the total
loans to the. allies to $9,016, 900
and the total to Belgium to $341,-
435,000.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-24
whitehurst and Ola whitehurs,. rwn

Whitehurst and Ola Whitehurst. rwn'
ers, $ll3.b5.
Block 800, Lot A. Ardmore Invest
ment Co.. owner. s6ll,79,
Block $3.50, Lot 8, Augusta Hoffman,
owner, S22G,S2.
Block $50, part of Lot 2; beginning
at the northeast corner of lot =; thence
southerly 14O feet; thence westerly 60
feet: thence northerly along the medlai
line running north and south throush
block 800 to its intersection with the
north line of lot .; thence 6S feet east
erly to the beginning; John Hoffman,
owner. S59.02.
O. n. NJ. 4 Il. Rightofway. owner,
slGS0.5S.
Ardmore Traction on Sth Avenue,
owner, ss5Oi.
Section .. That the assessments here
by levied against the lots, tracts, and
parcels of land therein described shall
bear interest from and after fifteen DAYS
from this date at the rate OF Seven
Go,D per cent per annum and shall be
payable in ten u0) equal installments,
together with all the interest due on
the entire amount VI lSo'0SHiNhN' "''
paid on the LIST day of September oil
each and every year; the first Install
ment being due on the 1st day OF Sep
tember from and after this date; aad
provided however, that the owners oil
any lot, tract or parcel of land herein
assessed may within Thirty (3O) days
from this date pay his or her assess
ment in cash and no lien shall be re
tained against said property so PAID
off and no interest charged thereon.
Section 3. For the immediate preser'
vation of the public peace, health, vel
fare and safety an emergency il dec'a''
ed to exist by reason thereof. and TINS
ordinance shall be in force and take
effect Immediately from and after It's
passage. approval and publication.
Passed by the Board of Commissioners
and approved by the Mayor on this !he
18th day of June, 1919.
w. f.. FREEMAN.
Attest: May VI
r. T.. BROWN, City Clerk.
published June 23rd, 1919
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-24
NOTICE FOR BIDS

Office of Clerk, Carter County, Ok
lahoma,
Bids will be received for the con-
struction of 6miles of hard surface
gravel road. Section TX" miles l TO
: inclusive.
There will be a recessed meeting Of
the Board of County Commissioners OF
Garter County, Oklahoma, on the Goth
day of June, 1919, for the purpose Of
letting contract for the construction
of the above mentioned road.
Plans of said road are now on file
In this office. Sealed bids will be re-
ceived until 12 o'clock a. m: June 80,
1919. All bids must be accompanied
by certified check or other security in
the amount of ten per cent Of the
bid which shall be forfeited to the coun-
" on failure to execute bond as herein
after provided. The party to whom said
contract is awarded shall execute TO
the county u bond in the sum Of the
amount of the contract to become
void upon performance of the condi.
tons set forth in said contract. Is
per cent of the contract price shall be
retained by the county until the con-
tract is completed and the work ac-
eepted. The Commissioners reserve
the right to reject any and all bids.
JOE T. TAYLOR, Chairman.
JEFF O'BRIEN,
GEO. l.. EVANS,
County Commissioners.
CLARENCE HARRIS, Clerk.
(SeaD 1s.1ot
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-24
PLEDGES SALE

The First National Bank of Ard
more will sell at public auction to the
highest bidder at 1000 "a. IN. Wednes-
day the 25th day of June, 1919, at the
front door of the court house in Ard
more, 20 shares of preferred stock and
l4O shares of common stock in the
Clhckasaw Refining Company pledged
to it to secure a balance of s790.50 and
10 per cent attorneys fees. 22-2
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-24
ORDINANCE NO. 800

An Ordinance to Assess the Cost oi
Street improvements to the LOIS and
Tracts Of Land Subject TO Assess
ment ON all that Portion Of "E'
Street Northwest from North line oil
West Main Street 10 the North line oi
Twelfth Avenue Northwest, including
Alley Crossings and Street inierscc
ti0ns Thereon, Constituting street
Improvement District 30. Declaring
Said Assessments a Lien Against Such
Lots and Tracts of Land. Fixing the
Rate of Interest and Methods Of Pay
ment, and Declaring an Emergency.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-09
PACKERS WILL GET
FIRST ATTENTION
Man That Indicted Standard
Oil and |. w. WIS to be
Put on Trial.
Rr Tnited Press

By United Press
CHICAGO. Aug. s.-The packers
will be given first attention by fed
eral prosecutors here in the war on
high prices according TO Dist. Atty.
Charles r. Clyne. who just returned
from washington after conferences
with Atty. Gen. Palmer and admins
tration leaders
Clyne indicated the trials may not
be held in Chicago. pointing out the
packers have plants in a dozen or
more cities. Wherever the evidence
appears strongest. Clyne declared,
there action will be started
Oliver +. Pagin, government in
dictment expert, who prepared in
dictments against the Standard oil
company. the I01 l. W. W.'s and
Vitcor Berger. socialist congressman
will work on evidence against the
packers. Clyne announced q. L.
Morrison will Iead the prosecution.
Vacations OF all employees in the
district attorneys Offices have been
cancelled 10 center all efforts on the
attack on high prices.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-09
GUARDS GONE BUT
MEN STILL STRIKE
Union Leaders Declare 40,.
900 Men Out at Chicago
StOckyardS.
By United Press

By United Press:
CHICAGO, Aug. 9--Despite the
withdrawal of national guardsmen
and other soldiers from the vicinity
of the stock yards. union officials
today asserted the walkOut Of butch
ers. scrapers and other workers at
the big packing plants will continue
until all police and extra guards
have been removed
While union leaders claimed 40
900 men had quit work as n protest
against return OF negro help and
placing of 200 extra policemen and
200 deputy sheriffs throughout the
yards, officials OF the packing houses
declared not more than 10000 men
had struck
II the unions press their claims
and rhe police guard IS not with
drawn. it was predicted 10000 men
will be thrown out OF work and the
meat industry completely tied up.
The strike would affect the whole
country, since shipments OF livestock
TO the Chicago yards would have
10 be curtailed or entirely stopped.
Chief of Police 'Garrity said the
police would not be removed until
"A formal request had been made by
the packers and until race feeling
had cleared up sufficiently TO pre-
clude possibility OF further outbreak
OF race rioting.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-09
WILSON HAS
APPROVAL ON
FOOD PLANS
Sen. Lodge Thinks President
Has Made Some "PraCti-
cal Suggestion.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON. Aug. 9.-ConFress
will begin at once consideration Of
legislation 10 carry out in part az
least Pres't Wilson's recommonda-
tions for reducing the high cost OF
living house and senate leaders
promised today
Rep Mondel majority leader ot
the house said that any request for
money 10 make effective the cam
paign against prohteers would speed
ily be complied with.
Congress viii grant all the money
that is needed" said Mondell. In
addition, 1 have no opposition TO exS
tending The Lever food control act,
If that is believed essential.
Sen. Lodge. majority leader OF thg
senate said:
Il think the president made some
good and practical suggestions in
regard TO the artificial and extor
tionate prices for the necessaries Of
life and I am sure that congress viii
deal with them ar once"
A number of the presidents sug-
gestions have been covered in bills
now pending Committee action ina
these will be urged next week They
include measures for regulation or
storage plants and for stamping Of
prices on food products
Comment from men OF both parties
today showed that some Of the presi-
dents suggestions regarding IegisIa-
tion met with general approval and
that his stand against labor strikes
as a means of enforcing demands
was endorsed. His appeal for ratl-
fcation of the peace treaty apparent
ly caused some resentment
The president is taking an un-
fair advantage by using the high
cost Of living issue as club 20 force
ratification Of the League OF Ma
tions" said sen. Brandegee He
can have peace in two DAYS II ne VIII
agree 10 a reservation excluding the
United states from the League Of
Nations
MondelIs Willingness 20 re-enact
the Lever food control law as
peace time measure is not shared bv
all members of the house 4 num-
ber Of senators also expressed OPP
position 20 this proposal
Il cm against further extension
OF autocracy." said Sen Gronna
North Dakota. chairman OF the sen-
ate agriculture committee. before
which the bill 10 re-enact the Lever
measure would 20. The president
has aII the authority be needs. and
7 think he has all he'll ger, so far
as the agriculture committee is cos-
cerned."
accommodations for federal
licensing of alI corporations in lg-
terstate business did not appear 20
Do generally approved. There is
pending in The senate. however.
bin which would create such
licensing system
Sen. Capper. Kansas. was ore Z
those who supported this features OF
the presidents message
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-09
MOVE TRAFFIC ON
L AND SUBWAY
B. R. 7. Service Near Normal,
CIaimed-COnfer With
Strikers Today.
BY United Press .

BY United Press:
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Concerting
its efforts on elevated and subway
traffic. the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company. maintained traffic on those
lines throughout the night for the
first time since union employees went
on strike Wednesday. Surface cars
again ceased operations last night
but partial service was resumed this
morning. under heavy police guard.
The company continued TO center
its activities on elevated and sub
way traffic with the result, accord
ing 10 traction officials, that service
was nearer normal today than at any
time during the strike. They pre-
dicted that traffic on those lines
would soon be fully restored
Lindley NJ. Garrison. receiver. was
expected 20 meet a committee of
strikers during the day. He pointed
out last night that he had been will
ing from the beginning Of the strike
TO meet any committee so long as
the members were company en-
ployes. The members Of the strike
are not employees.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-09

UNDER FIRE
IN BRITAIN
Labor Leaders of Parliament
Advocate Iron Hand in
Fighting Price GOugerS.
By United Press

By United Press
LONDON. Aug. e.-British labor
leaders tbday we're demanding di-
rect action against prodteers. i'm
mediate relief from the high prices
and guarantees that no advances
would be permitted I'm the future.
I'd string mp all persons who
would take advantage Of the sacri-
fces IN blood made 10y the country. ''
J. H. Thomas. Laboritc, VI. T.. de-
clared.
Jack Jones. another member of
parliament. urged establishment Of
municipal markets as a remedy and
hanging as a penalty for offenders.
Limit profits 10 pre-war basis. %
suggested j. =. Clynes. former food
controller. while Benjamin Speer. a
member OF parliament favored ma
tionalization of essential industries
send the prohteers and specula-
tors to prison and tax excess profits
100 percent" advised Neil Mac
Lean. VI. T..
Fines are OF no avail. according
TO Sir Alfred Yea. NJ. ?. who urged
prison terms for hoarders.
Opposition 10 the proposed local
tribunals was developing TODAY
small traders would be the
largest OF petty spites. while the big
offenders would get away un-
slathed." said DR.. Marion Phillips,
members OF the consumers council
OF the food ministry The only
cure for profteering is national or
preferably international purchasing
tribution
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-09
WILSON TURNS To
PLANS FOR TOUR
viii Emphasize Need For
Peace As Factor in Cut
ting Prices.
BY United Press

BY United Press
WASHINGTON. Aug 9.-Prest
Wilson. having handed the high cost
OF living problem over TO congress.
at least for the time being. turned
his attention today 10 plans for his
tour Of the United States II was
believed. however. that he would
touch on the high cost OF iving in
his speeches
In his address 10 congress yester-
day. the president said there can he
no real peace prices until there is
peace. He Is expected TO use this ar
gument IN his campaign.
Before Wilson goes on tour he
may hold a series OF white house
conferences with representative OF
both capital and labor. 10 discuss
present economic conditions and the
remedy for certain evils In his
speech he said many things should
be corrected in the relations between
capital and labor and that ne was
ready 90 confer on the matters. with
men who know what they're talk
ing about
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-09
RAIL SHOPMEM
FLOCK|NG BACK
To THEIR PLACES
Wilson's UItimatum Breaks
Strike: Wage Demands to
be Considered.
By United Press

By United Press:
WASHINGTON. Aug. 9.-Railroad
shopmen who struck without au-
thorization are hocking back to
work in response to Prest Wilson's
declaration that he would not con
slider their wage demands until they
were all back at their jobs
The railway department Of the
American Federation of Labor to-
day received kilograms indicating
that all the men would be at work
by Monday
Labor leaders said they expected
TO begin negotiations with Rail Di-
rector Hines by next Tuesday The
shOpmen want a % per cent. wage
increase Wage demands of other
railroad employees may be submitted
with theirs. 1t is expected that Hines
will appoint a board 10 sit with him
and to consider whether increases
are justified on the basis Of the high
cost of living and how railroad pay
compares with that of other big in
dustries.
Pres't Wilson's fiat stand against
strikes enunciated first in his open
letter TO Hines and reiterated yester-
day in his address to congress, was
expected TO clarity the situation with
regard to the demands of the rail
road brotherhoods
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-09

CHICAGO, Aug 9.-Ranks OF
striking railway shopmen were con
siderably thinned today as a result
of Pres't Wilson's request that the
men go back 10 work until their
wage question could be taken up.
More than %, 900 in the Chicago dis
trict today had voted 70 return 20
work pending settlement Of their
claims. reports from union headQuar-
ters show.
The passenger train situation here
and throughout the central west
continued acute, however. In many
shops and yards. officials. foremen
and yardmasters conducted repairs
and manned switch engines. Twenty
trains on the Chicago and North
Western. Chicago and Alton and
Chesapeake and Ohio railroads were
suspended. 1t was believed subur-
ban service would be kept intact.
Freight shipments were refused
in several directions early today and
last night out Of Chicago The Wa
bash railway accepted only mer-
chandise destined for points on its
own lines. All roads marked tags
subject TO indefinite delay"