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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
Bird, iner,ase In Nvmber,,

The beneficial effects Of the migra-
tory bird treaty act are beginning to
be felt. The United States depart
ment Of agriculture. through its bu-
reau Of biological survey, has conduct
ed investigations Of the breeding areas
of ducks In North Dakota and Nebras
ka, says q bulletin of the department.
Compared with former years, graf
flying increase Of breeding waterfowl,
particularly in North Dakota, is evil
dent. The fifth annual series Of counts
of birds of all species breeding on Sc
lected areas in various parts of the
United States contained large pro-
portion of reports showing increases
in bird population. The total number
of reports. received however. was not
large. Many of the persons who had
formerly taken part in the annual bird
counts were unable. because of extra
duties assumed during the war, to find
time for the work required by the
fifth count.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
Men Who Aknow II AII.r

Some folks are canned" because
they are too self-satisfed. It's a COM
mon thing in life to find folks too big
to take orders. They know the game
and refuse to take orders. Tint is
confession they belong to the small
class and never will be fitted to lead.
The good boss Is master of obedi-
ence. He commands because he has
learned to obey. He's never satisfied.
There are always new goals to strive
for. He rises because he sees things
from different angle. It's different
with the fellow who is self-satisfied.
He sees only what he wants TO see,
and holds his opinion above that of
everybody else. You can't do much
with hIm.-Exchange
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
Village Within Extinct Volcano.

Bottom" is the paradoxical name
Of a little village perched on the peak
Of mountain which comprises the
island Of Saba. In the Caribbean sea.
No other spot In the world is quite
like Saba; of all the islands Of the
tropical seas, it is the strangest, the
most forbidding.. Sheer conical, frown-
ing, this island rises from the waves,
its topmost pinnacle yelled in drifting
clouds 5000 feet above the sea, its
coast rock-bound and precipitous. 1t
is seldom sighted by ships. but those
who do pass it would never dream
that 1t was inhabited.
The mountain is an extinct volcano
and the town of Bottom rests in its
crater. No harbor breaks Saba's
coast; there is no safe landing place
or anchorage. and If one would visit
the town one must step ashore from a
small boat and climb steep stairway
of hundreds of stone steps or toll up
a narrow, difficult trail. Every article
brought to Saba from the outside
world must be carried up the heights.
The Inhabitants are sailors, as they
have been since the earliest times. and
though they sail the seven seas they
always return to their island home.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
OCEAN CASTS UP OLD SHIP
Identity Of Ancient vssssI Found on
RocI<away Beach unesrtaIn-May
BE Historic Pirate.

Rockaway Beach has another sensa-
tion, the Brooklyn Eagle states. Not
content with washing up hundreds Of
thousands of crabs. Holsters and CLAIMS.
the great tide recently dug an ancient
oceanic relic out of the sands and left
1t to bleach In a winters sun, like
some skeleton of departed dinosaur.
According to Capt Joseph Meade of
the Rockaway coast guard station, 1t
is an old sloop O. war.
Nobody knows its history. From all
appearances this washed out corpse in
an ocean graveyard was once saucy
war vessel, mounting nine guns, in
Guiding the old time bow chaser that
used to bark with ferocity at pursuing
vengeance.
The ship is bluff-bowed, her spikes
are handwrought, her ribs are of stout
oak and her bowsprit, broken short
at the cap. is mighty headstone on
sandy grave.
such matters say the buried hull is
an old British sloop. During the war
Of 1912 privateers manned by adven-
.turous Yankees frequently hung about
Jones' inlet, towing In their prizes for
anchorage and running to shelter
when British men-o'-war, out for re-
venge. bore down upon them.
Another tradition unearthed from
the old skIppers of clipper ships. now
come to anchor on the Rockaway
shores, has 1t that Capt. Jones, for
whom Jones' inlet was named, at one
time just prior to the Revolutionary
war, pursued a profitable trade in con-
traband in the vicinity, unknown to
the British customs. The handwrought
spikes and the general shape of the
rotting wreck plainly indicate that
she was an oldtimer. very likely Of
Revolutionary times.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
sounded Like a curse.

A spinster of about forty years or a
bit more recently had a house to rent.
Now her last tenant had three healthy
American sons and they had done a
great deal of damage to the house,
so she had firmly declared that she
would tolerate no. children this time.
So when a man responded to her ad-
vertisement. she asked him whether
he had any children. Seven" he re-
turned and then went on to tell how
good they were.
But the spinster Informed him that
she would not rent her house to a
family in which there were so many
children. Angrily the man turned
away, but retorted over bis shoulder {:
81 only hope some day you'll have sew
en- children, lady. and can't find a
house, er."-Indianapolis News.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
Thrift in Chile.

The Scots and the French had better
look to their laurels as saving peo-
Piles. Chile bids fair, to rival them.
During the last ten years savings in
Aitutions have risen considerably in
number. In 1910 there existed in the
entire country but dozen independ-
ent institutions carrying the accounts
of some 100000 persons; their COM
plete savings amounted to only $4,-
100000 in American money. In 1917
deposits rose to 110.O00O00 Chilean
pesos. which would equal about one
fourth as many American dollars. To
this, In the year 1918, were added co.
100000 more Chilean pesos. The ma
tlon has encouraged savings, through
stamps and other substantial induce
ments. incidentally 1t is worth while
noting that lotteries are not permitted
in Chile; down there they believe in
getting rich slowly and surely.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
NEXT MENACE TO LABOR

Efforts lift the ban of Chinese cooe labor pro-
ceeding rapid pace. Not much is said of the
in the general prevent the development of
ganized opposition. But under the leadership of
great trust officials civic and commercial associations all
the country being record for it and clever
methods being used influence farmer organizations
in tho direction.
The assigned is shortage of common labor, but
the is the desire of the great interests to
make greater profits than be made by paying
workmen do the work these coolies would
From their point of view there arguments against
the move but from the point of view of the people
whole there is argument for it.
No nation in the world has yet been able to better
itself by acquiring servant class Think for instance.
of the evil the importation of alien
from Africa has Financially may have ben
Gifted many 100000 plantation owners of the old
South but imagination is unable to picture its harmful
effect 100000 white people there whose poverty
PEELED them to compete for work with slave labor
If the country belongs to and is for the few. i'm
portaton of coolies Mexicans Hindus in order If
the country belongs and is for all of should
leave these other peoples where they The nation
that acquires alien servants saughters its honest
workers. destroys morality and makes work dsgracefu
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
rRIckINe THE POLITICIANS

The world should know of the sad disappontments
handed of Montanas most prominent politicians
in the recent presidential primary No less than
teen of these lustrous citizens consented the
Republican convention in Chicago, preferrng be
structed that they could their patriotic judgment
in selecting candidate suitable for the highest Office in
the gift of the Republican machine Only eight
be chosen but each of the seventeen thought his hopes
bright and had his grip ready for the long journey
Then came the dastardy plot in the last minute be-
fore the ballots to be printed almost
foaming at the mouth in his haste rushes into the office
of the secretary of state to file list of eight
each pledged to Hiram johnson. We should
note here that the Montana ballot provides space for
pledge and that distinguished from the unknown eight
the usrious seventeen had left this space blank Worse
yet the fact that the unknown eight had which
put them first the ballot because the law there pro-
wdes alphabetical order-fve As, two BIS and d.
Johnsons delegates. therefore, stood first the
ballot with Johnsons after each thus
eight times and nasmuch the probably wanted
for instead of for blank eight JOY
rides they gave johnson a majority of to l.
No knows just who turned this trick against the
satche carrying politicians of Montana rife
Johnsons not given the credit for much
ceverness. Some mention the brother of exCongress
woman Jeanette Rankin; others look suspiciousy at
the farmer labor leaders The beaten politicians
that least of the delegates revolution
ary Socialists they probably ascribe their defeat to
the clever devitry of Lenne and Trotzy the Russian
Bosheviks.
But inasmuch do not have to pull out hair
and rend garments in sympathy with the henchmer
of the copper trust look the whole thing the
most humorous incident of the present campaign
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
sTARTLEs POLITICIANS

Tom Watsons capture of votes for presidential
nominee in Georgia than either Palmer the administration
candidate, Hoke Smith, the state machine candidate
the greatest surprise of last weeks primary voting
and likely have important effect the strategy
of the politicians Palmers poor showing casts doubt
the strength of the Wilson administration policies what
have hope that the Democrats will
Palmer. Watson presidential nominee of the Popu-
lists and editor of the eersonian which suppressed
by Bureson during the war, received 3512
than Palmer
In his campaign speeches Watson ambasted the Ver-
saes treaty treason to America and made much of
suppression of free speech the press during the
He far declare that Wilson ought to
be prison for his against the Constitution And
the voters of Georgia preferred him the Wilson
by the vote noted above.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
SUNDAY Mlenr MUSINGS
By C. T. Rawalt.

In the face of the decisions of Judges that the
Lever Act unconstitutional strange that any
further action should be necessary to release the miners
held under its application by Federal Judge Anderson
but instead of observing the decision the where
proteers concerned, the law still applies and being
freshly invoked against the striking switchmen They
being daily will be doubt
of them jailed under this selfsame law What
lovely hypocracy! What beautiful consistency! How
spendidy works produce for the law! The
statute is null and void if it strikes real crook
with money 1t is potent to the point of ailng when
invoked against laborer. And then members of the
kept press for asking laborers and producers
the ballot box and displace these judges and
makers who create such conditions "You
ing class against class wall these disciples of greed
You bet your sweet life We want the class that
has been to get in the saddle and put
such crmp in their enemies that future generations
will point it the Social Revolution" when those
who toll into their
-: -:
We see by the old files of the Graphic that at
time other there were people living here by the
of Ewel That's the of Mrs Bud the editors
wife and its inconceivable that there could be any
of the brand left Jesse Ewe the original of the
tribe and he over from either Ireland Germany
don't whch-Monte Vista Graphic Reporter.
Don't get sweed up your wife Bud We will
admit that she the Graphic Reporter well
better than but at that she is not the only fe
male newspaper pebble the editorial beach We have
got wife of who do everything around the
shop from washing rollers to editing the paper
jerk eight galleys of Linograph in between
times sort of trimmings. 1t to be a of
common failing of fellows who lucky enough
to get real instead of rag, bone and hank
of hair to think got the only that left from
the hatchng but the fact is that there really good
many though badly scattered and rarely observed Pos
sbly that accounts for their charm.
K: -:
If Brother Walker of the Grand junction Sentinel
right in his assertion that uterances prove
Nonpartisan League is the moving force behind Hiram
Johnsons candidacy it is admission that the League
is factor to be considered in the campaign We
really believe that he is bit perturbed the League
At present they taking charge of affairs in Mesa
ty to extent but there huge forces behind John
son that never heard of the Nonpartisan League The
League prefers johnson to any other republican can
date and doubt not in time will decide between dem
ocratc candidates That is the beauty of the Nonparsan
PLAN They do not act party but force within
any or all parties to unity the producing and aboring
vote men who sympathize with their United
Labor and the Nonpartisan League be taken
consideration from now on and you might well get
used to the idea
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
Humor in a Bank.

The first day I worked in the bank
in which l am employed l was given
IA sealed package marked $4,000 in
gold" which was in the form of
brick. I presented it to the down
town bank for payment and was sent
from one teller to the other, each one
keeping his discovery to himself, un-
til got sore because of the fact that
they had me going around in a circle
and discovered i was the goat
might add that 1t was not gold
brick-it was red one. Q. B.
P. S.-Don't You think a d-n fool
like me earned dollar?-Exchange
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
WHY THE NoN.pARr,sAN LEAGUE,

We append below clipping from the Denver Times
dispatch from Philadelphia where of the govern
ent Investigators instead of whtewashng the proteers
thought he expected to tell the truth his
coveries, which he did This should have happened
every CITY, where the peoples money has been spent for
Investigations, but the others better INSTRUCTED
The honest reported follows: Nna.
Philadelphia, March 19-After investigation into
profits made by retail stores selling wearing apparel
ten cities of Pennsylvania, Frank N Mccain fair price
commissioner told members of the Chamber Of Commerce
today he could fairly say train robbng is fully
spectacle. but remunerative'' ft
Mr.. McClain read list of prices at which wearing
apparel being sold in this state showing mems
coats selling 81 per cent 1876 per cent
higher than to the retail dealer with ready
clothing 80 LOT per cent, womens hosiery 100 $50
and high grade shoes 100 to ia per higher
He also told the business that the chief obstacles to
the fair price commissions work being put there by
business men
Is it any wonder when farmers band themselves
together protect their pocket books from light fingered
gentry, that Big Business 6efames all such movements?
The fasehoods told about the workings of the state gov
ernment of North Dakota would fill crib So
cessful the farmers there that the is
spreading until several states organized for pro-
lection. and Colorado is excepion-Montezuma Jour
nal
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
Great IN SERVICE
Tyne Of IdeaIist Worthy Of the
Highest Praise.
American In the Philippines Was For.
warding the Cause Of Civilization,
With kraG In Place Of shep-
herds Crook.

first met him in the brush, thou
sand yards north Of Dagupin. in Pam
panga, lying on his belly and watching
me through the sights Of his Krag. 1t
is indeed startling to discover the ST.
lent menace of rifle muzzle protrud-
ing through the tropical underground.
especially at 20 yards rage.
Friend u called across to him.
Sure, come on over" he laughed
back, and his rife muzzle slipped
across a point or. two. covering the
trail had followed over the skyline.
Though 1t was but chance meeting,
he trusted me as one of his kind. and
there was no 'glad-to-meet-you" talk
or the reticence of Manila.
His name is no matter; 1t was Har-
vard- -Boston-Irish Of four American
generations. But II is vital that his
eyes were blue and that he was one
of those sunburned American idealists
whose success is not gauged in dollars.
to sanitation, to health and to decency.
Why, then, was he civilizing with a
Kragf / thought of the head-hunters
of the northern mountains, not far
away, and of native insurrection, now
a thing Of the past.
whats the trouble?" asked when
/ reached his nest in the underground.
Nothing, just precaution," he an
swered. Then henrd In the valley be-
hind him the rhythmical pounding Of
boring machinery and saw the top Of a
timber scaffold for well digging.
He explained, as l crouched beside
him, that certain ex-alcalde. in q fit
of petulance. had thrown q dog into the
village well, thereby communicating the
supply. This had happened three vii
lages up the road and sickness had
spread throughout the valley. To dig
another well in the near neighborhood
seemed inexcusable TO the natives. Not
that trouble was really expected, but
machinery cost cash and guards had
been posted at the hill trails. His vii
lage needed water, and water they
would have, pure and cold from the
20O-foot level, whether the natives op-
posed the work temporarily or not.
These things he told me, and more.
while we sat and brushed away the
flies.
This man was no engineer and no
sanitary Inspector. He was no N. G. o.
of the Philippine constabulary. He
thumbed the bolt Of his rifle and ad-
mitted he was a teacher! l had heard
often his type. Indeed, had come
to the Philippines for the sole purpose
of making his acquaintance. and to
meet him In the equality Of the brush
was indeed good fortune. for men of
his kind the world over are prone to
be as uncommunicative as the English
man at the frontiers of empire. Here
he was at work at one of the strong
contacts Of civilization and Of educa-
ton in the Philipplnes-the deyolop-
ment Of water supply.-Paul Monroe
in Asia Magazine.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
war Service, Recoqnlzed.

Miss Maud Cleveland of Berkeley,
CAL, graduate and member of the
faculty of the University Of California.
recently received the d. S. NJ. at the
American woman's club In Paris for
Conspicuous service" while serving as
head of the Red Cross home communi-
cations department of the A. e. F.
Miss Cleveland had charge at Brest Of
the war brides who married American
soldiers.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
SOUNDS LIKE 1918

A firm employed renovate courthouse records in
Clarlxsburg, w. Va, recently found indictment
turned by Harrison county grand jury in july 1855,
against Horace Greeley publisher of the New York Trb
He committed felony it states by circulating in
the country copies of the Tribune containing articles tend
ing to incite negro slaves to nsurrecton-Ptts
Dispatch
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06

The Mexican Property Owners Nonintervention league
charges that 5000 adventurers who formerly the
foreign legion France have been brought Tampico
oil workers and that ammunition gas tanks and
other material have been smugged into that port
Small nations should pray be delivered the pos
session of great resources
We note, but say without SURPRISE that part
the Americanzation of trust leaders is the
Importation of Chinese coolies The step should be
to amend the Constitution that the coolies
These leaders would then be able buy pure American
votes cheap and thus offset the unAmerican ballots of
our farmers and working people.
The papers tell of five being arrested here
there, and twenty-five in another place thrown into
Jail for having part in the strike of railway employees
but they don't inform of profiteer here,
there other place being arrested because
of his criminal operations To the contrary depart
ment of the legally enjoins another depart
ment to the prosecution Does that have the ring
of Americanism in it? Does it make good joint with
the doctrine that every equal before
the law? Could w. WIS Boshevists, Anarchists per-
form arroganty and not be mobbed? High
land Chief.
Stratford S d.. is probably the first town to secure
the advantage of the fight which the World War Veterans
promised make for free speech The mayor of this
fortunate evidently afraid that Lester p Bar
low would say things that printed in the
Wall Street Journal the St Paul Pioneer Press and he
the power contrary the constitutions and laws
Of the United States of South Dakota tell the
World War Veteran leader he could speak there The
World War Veterans then chartered special train of
four Aberdeen and packed then, with and
who believe in free Speech including the Aberdeen
Boiermakers band On arriving in Stratford the free
speech army, headed by the band marched Main street
without opposition All of Straford including the mayor,
turned to the meeting which had to be in the open
air because there was building large enough to accom-
modate the crowd
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
EYES ON MAIN CHANCE

Henry Lane Wilson, bitterly attacked President Will
sons Mexican policy and advocates Intervention
south the 22d parallel 1t naively
story that this would the Tampco Oil Fields
d-d thieves and outlaws becoming under the
stress of selfshness and avarice.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
Farther Away.

Mrs. Howles-I've decided that
Edith shall have her voice trained in
Europe.
Enthusiastically; but isn't there
some place in Asia f-Boston Tran
script
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06
On the Linka.

Foozle-I don't like my caddy; he
laughs every time play badlyl
NIblicks-I noticed he had a per-
petual grin.-London Answers.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-05-06

1t has been suggested that If Mr. Hoover should be
nominated for the presidency the campaign slogan might
be, "He kept out of sugar"-Reconstruction.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-22
new FJGURESPUT
MAIL CAR LOOT At
over S5,OOO,OOO
Half-Mil1lon Has Not Been In
cluded in Former Estimates
Given Out.

OMAHA, Nov. 22.--Three big ship
msnts Of treasure totaling more than
seen 900 are now known TO have been
part OF the loot taken from the treas
are car OF the tIanscontlnentRl fast
mall In the robbery Of a week ago
A half million dollars OF this amount
has not previously figured in the
story OF the robbery. in which the
total loss may amount to 100000.
These shipments were sent from
San Francisco and Portland. Ore,
banks TO Chicago banks. The $500, 900
were In Liberty bonds and were In
one OF the pouches which has not
been recovered. AS announced here,
TIE shipments we're as follows:
Fifty packages OF $1,000 each, all
$40 bills, shipped by the Anglo Lon
DON Paris National Bank of San
Francisco TO the Continental and
Commercial National Bank OF Chi
cago. totaliSy $4,000.
Fifty $4,000 temporary Fourth
Liberty Loan bonds consigned by
khe same Western bank 10 Che same
cago, totaling $4,000.
A consignment OF S61, 900 in bank
notes sent by the Ladd and Tillon
Bank, Portland, to the First National
Bank, Chicago.
The $4,000 cash shipment is be-
neved to DO the $4,000 which the
robbers divided among themselves
and 5000 of which was found In a
chicken house.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-22
DIR. WISE PLEADS
FOR JEWS REVIVAL
Deplores Neglect of Old Teachings
by Race-SooreS Lack of Chill
drenIs Training.

There are $4,000 Jewish families be-
tween 6Oth Street and 12Oth Street. and
I dare say not 10 per cent OF them are
supporters Of synagOgues," said DR..
stephen A. wise laHt night at the annual
dinner Of the Temple Israel. at the Hotel
Astor.
Dr. Wise added that thousands OF
Jews IN New York were neglectinE the
education Of their children In the faith
Of their faAhera
ITEMS Of thousandl OF khem." he said.
~arO not even Jews In name, They are
for the most part a liability to the
Jews"
certain Presbyterians to convert Jews
TO the Christian faith. I'VE are not to
be disturbed" he said. ''if some Presby-
terians attempt to convert the Jews
am oonoefned, however, with 'un-JeW-
aahnoas' in New York"
He added that the refutAkion OF anti
Semitic charges In the Dearborn Inde-
pendent, Ford's paper, was OF less Inn
portance than revival by the Jews OF
their own faith.