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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-06-10
Complaints Many.

That complaints of over assessment
VIII be numerous was indicated early
in the day shortly after the tax books
We're opened 10 tho public and prop
erty owners began searching for their
own assessments, One man stated that
he had recently purchased some prop.
crty In the county at $500 per acre on
part cash payment basis and that the
assessment OF the county assessor
placed valuation Of $500 per acre ON
this property The tract was purchased
within the past go days, he declared
In certain sections of the county IL is
understood that there are many in
equalities in the assessment and Il
number of cases have been cited where
adjoining tracts of land show wide
difference in valuation that property
owners declare are unreasonable.
Politicians and those interested in
county politics are not in the least back
ward in stating that certain men who
own property in the county and who
are thought to have some political in
fluenCe have been favored In the prop
erty assessment The truth Of these
statements, however, are questioned by
Mr.. Condor, who declares that the pres
ent assessment Is emincntly fair
1t is noted however. that on city
property MIR, Condon's figures are placed
at Sl9S, 500 as compared with the
cty's assessment of $l39, SOB ,93S, a diff
ference OF $50 O56 562 1t must be re-
mcmbered, too, that the city equalizers
raised the assessment Of Y. G. Scar.
borough, city tax assessor, 20 per cent
on all DTODertN
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-06-10

lay I.l3 pm rises tomor-
Moon rises l. 50 a m No
The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-08-18

also that except on imported c. mmodites which had
to run the blockade prices were not so high as in
these later day complaints of tie high cost of living
For instance qunine is qouted at $5G ounce; while
wool socks are but 50 per pair-say forty cents in
COIN Quinine was imported; socks made in North
Carolina; and every woman knew how to knit them,
which they did
To cast the eve down over the list and note 9th
er items conveys to the mind many suggestions.
For instance: "Whslv rood at $40 per gallon"
CALCULATING depreciation of paper money that did
not exceed 50 per gallon Think of that We topers,
paving booeggers SIS per quart for synthetic stuff
made from chemicals more Fit to go into tannery
vat than into a human stomach. Then there is
'brandy apple or neach smooth and good, $40 per
gallon" Think of that with your 'innards' rasped
ond raging with ''teonila" at 10 cents coin for
thimblefu1l Surely those were "good old days" in
the old tahee state even with collapse of the Con-
federacy pending.
Axes at SIP 50 with helves. and SIP without mark
ed the difference between imported commodity and
one that could be made at home The axe handle was
local product and fifty cents for one was but ten
cents in coin We pay more than that for one now.
The axe itself was imported and had run the
blockade Even at S12 the coin equivalent is no more
than is paid for one in Nogales right now-S2.5O.
Bacon per pound at $275 was about what it is cost
;ng now in :Oin That product OF the North
and the border states, although some was put up in
the South and advance of the federal army had cut
off goodly of supply leaving the nome pro
duct insufficient to meet the demand so the price was
higher Pork, whether fresh or sated, at Slo2 and
S243 reduced to coin, correspondent with present
prices. Beef at 80 cents was far cheaper than now
at 40 cents per pound.
One of the criosities of the list is tea at 81 per
pound That was imported, as now and the price
quoted was about 20 cents per pound in coin Now
anywhere from 80 cents to 81 Is per pound is paid
But the wide difference in prices and ability OF
worker to meet them is the marked feature of the
foregoing list The last paragraph displays the IN
ademacv of wages to meet the high cost of living at
that time: 1873 per day for laborer, or $1.5O and
found; $40 for a man, wagon and two horses" Prl-
walton and suffering among the poor must have been
severe
There is one feature about the present II. g. !.
Individual earnings usually sufficient to meet IT,
The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-08-18
INNATE OF HOSPITAL,
THINKING ROOM MATE is
GERMAN SPY, STAYS HIM

Topeka, Kans., Aug. II. - Carl
Smith. 80 an inmate of the state hos
rita, for the insane, was found by
guards today beaten and strangled to
death in a locked room which he
shared with Josiah Bachelor, for
mer soldier Bachelor, suffering I'M
der Gelusion that Smith was Ger
man spy, killed his room mate, ac-
cordrng to DR.. H. L. Clark, acting
coroner
The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-08-18
EDITORIALS.
H.C.L. IN THE CONFEDERACY


In the Los Angeles Times Of Sunday there ap-
peared story with regard to H. G. L. in the Con-
federate States of America IT. the winter of 1864,
when the Confederacy riding to its fall that is
so interesting that it is given space in this editorial
for sake of contrast with prices at this time:
B. A. Rogers 1886 Fourth street, Redlands at
tempts to bring ray Of sunshine into the H. c. of L.
with copy of the Daily Carolina Waterman print
ed in Salisbury, N. c. dated November 1, 1864,
found in an old trunk. Prominently displayed is
the following:
The Commissioners of Arpraisement for the
State of North Carolina again present their schedule
of prices to govern the purchasing officers of the
government for the next sixty days, unless in the
interval facts and conditions should arise to induce
alteration:
Dried apples, peeled, bushel of % pounds, S.;
unpeeled, So.
Axes with handles $3.50 without handles, $12
Bacon, ner pound, hog round, $2.75.
- Beans, white or cernfield bushel of 60 pounds,
Beef, fresh, net. >0 cents pound; gross, 40
cents; sailed, $15O
j Brandy, apple or peach, smooth and good, $40
gallon.
Brownstuff per bushe of % pounds, 81. .,
Candles. per pound, So.
Chains trace, per pound $11.
Cloth, wooden, for soldiers Clothes 10 ounces
to yard S.
Cotton raw. per pound, ST.,
Coffee Rio pound, $3.50.
Corn, $3.50 for bu>hel Of 20 pounds.
Cornmeal, sack of so pounds, $500.
Hats, wool. S..
Hay, $3.50 hundred baed
Horses $1,000 and $500.
Iron pig, $3.50 a ton; bloom. $710 ton
Jeans, $40 yard,
Lumber. $50 tho''sand.
Leather, 81 pound.
Molasses SIS gallon.
Nails, 500 key.
Oats, SIS hundred
Onions, So bushcl.
Dried peaches, Is cents pound.
Pork fresh, S1.82: salted $243.
Potatoes 81 a bushel
Qunine, $50
Rice 80 cents pound.
Shoes, army SIS pair.
} Salt, $40 for 50-pound sack.
Socks WOOL 81 pair.
Sugar, brown, common, - pound.
Tea, 81 pound.
Tobacco. So pound
Whisky, good SIG gallon
At the time printed a wage scale
This was So for laborer or $3.50 and found; $40
for man, wagon and two horses.
Of course it is understood that the foregoing
prices in Confederate money, which had suf-
fered considerable depreciation In fact the federal
paper money, issued by the government at Washing
ton had suffered depreciation Also in contrast with
gold and silver coins. In August, 1864, in the open
market in New York, gold dollars sold at $2.85 in
"greenbacks" the paper issues of the federal
treasury called Confederate money probably
was deprecated in greater degree in the South. In
the present day there is such depreciation in pa
per money. All issues. whether gold, silver pa
per, circulate on parity So when Confederate
prices quoted above cited there should be TAX
into consideration the fact that if had gold
to pay for commodities, one dollar would purchase
as much as five dollars in paper, It will be observed
Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-Sfck and wounded soldiers are not receiving the treatment guaranteed" them by law Representative Johnson. republican South Dakota, who served in the A. E F., declared today in telling the house of his recent visit to government hos pitfalls.
 Because of neglect, or because of wilful disregard of the laws by Carter Glass, secretary of the treasury, or Rupert Blue, surgeon general of the United States" said Representative Johnson, "sick and wounded American soldiers are receiving treatment that cannot be justified by anyone who has any regard for the well being of the men who fought to maintain the country
 Replying to Representative Garner. democrat, Texas, who inquired the basis of the charge against the officials, Representative Johnson asserted that sudns to provide hospital facilities had been unused because of the opposition 3f the officials to taking over the Chi ago Speedway hospital. and because of this attitude funds for other hos oitals were not being spent.
 Drive Sick Men From Hospital
 @In Chicago. January 15," Repre- sentative Johnson said, American sol- diers who had been seriously wounded md who had been and ought to be re- -eiving treatment for their wounds, were requested to leave the hospital and discontinue treatment in order that other men, in more serious condf- ton might take their beds in the hos pita,.''
 ''In these same hospitals" the South
Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
US. Neglecting Soldier Sick
 and Wounded Says Johnson

Dakota representative added, men who have been gassed are quartered in dark railways where no ray of sunlight has been, or ever will be. permitted to enter, and this, in spite of the fact that since March 3. 1919. S9,500,000 has been available and could, and should have been used.
 If this condition is permitted to exist for few months more. there will be thousands of wounded and sick American soldiers who need treat ment aid will be unable to secure it. In my opinion, thousands of them will die and the persons responsible for those deaths will be the men I have mentioned, or some of them, because congress has performed it's duty in ap- rropriating the necessary funds while they have not performed theirs in ex- pending them"
 Soldier Sick Unfed
 Johnson said that on last December :. he saw 60 men at the Fort Sheri- aud mary others who could not secure sufficient food" He added that his complaint of this to Secretary Baker resulted in an investigation which admitted the truth Of the complaint" and an attempt to remedy the situation.
 Johnson exhibited a photograph of a bathroom, 10 feet square in the Chi cago Marine hospital. which he said was used for vocational training work room.
 Tn that bathroom he said, holding up the picture before the house, ':ten men are supposed to work and it would be crowded if three men were there at one time
Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
Give Conflicting Figures On Wage
 Of Coal Miners
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 WASHfNGTON Jan. 27.--Coal min CTS and coal mine operators resented conflicting conclusions on the subject of wages in the industry at the re- sumption of hearings today by the coal strike settlement commission.
 Don Rose of Pittsburg, spokesman for operators in the Freeport field, asserted that the 14 per cent increase already granted gave the miners a po- tential earning power greater than that of any other class of American labor.
 Presenting statistics, Van H. Batt- ner. statistician for the United Mine Workers of America, told the commits sion that in present purchasing power, the pay of miners was B to 40 Der cent lower than pre-war standards and insufficient to maintain the standard Of living.
 During the discussion, MT. Rose sug- gested that the 30-hour week was ..un- American" thereby arousing the ire of John l.. Lewis. acting president of the United Mine Workers
 1 do not intend to remain quiet while this challenge of our American ism is repeated by operators coun- sel," Mir. Lewis declared, addressing the commission. "The mine workers yield to no one in their allegiance to American institutions, government and flag. These attacks are foreign to the matter under consideration and we do not propose to be tried on the charge before this tribunal at the whim of any individual"
Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
LONE SURVIVING LABOR MINISTER
 QUITS CAb|NET I
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 LONDON, Jan. 27.-George Nicoll Barnes, minister without portfolio, has resigned from the cabinet. The sig nificance of his resignation lies in the fact that it is the final withdrawal of labor from the coalition government.
 When the labor party, after the armistice, called upon the labor minis ters to quit the government, Mir. Barnes elected to remain on the ground that it was his duty to replain until peace was ratified.
 The food ministry will come to an end within a few months and it is ex- pected that George H. Roberts, the only important laborite now in the govern ment, will follow MT. Barnes. There are rumors tonight that there will be a reconstruction of the cabinet. But this is unlikely, at least until after the Paisley election in which former Pre- mier Asquith is a candidate, the result of which will be unknown until toward the end of February
 In connection with the reports that Premier Lloyd George is prepa..2g a new constructive program for-the com ing parliamentary session, calculated to attract voters who are drifting from the coalition to labor. it is interesting to note that in the election address issued tonight by MT. McKeed. unionist can didate for Paisley. he declares against naturalization of industries and against intervention in Russia but is in favor of equal pay for mensand wornsn for ecua1 work.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
FLETCHER QUITS POST IN MEXICO CITY,; D|SGUSTED
c-a Gn Members cf Diplo- n1atic Seryice Ienvirced Further Attempts 10 Elf feet Harmony With Car ranza Would Be Futile Has Served 18 Years
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.-Henry P. Fletcher has resigned as United States amba ssador to Mexico to take effect in the course of the next few weeks. Those who know. the reason for Mir. FIetcher's decision say that he was convinced that continuation of the efforts he has made during the four years in which he had held this inn portant post to bring the Carranza government into accord with the United States government on the many irritating issues which have arisen in- volving the protection of America n lives and property rights, would be fu- tile. He terminates Is years of ser vice in the diplomatic branch of the government with great regret and without any particular plans for his own future. but feels certain he can not longer be helpful in cultivating proper relations with Mexico as long as Presi- dent Carranza remains in control there.
 Stayed Under Protest
 MT Fletcher's resignation was not hastily determined upon and in fact last summer he sought to terminate his relations with the state department. But, owing to the state of public busi- ness and the illness of some of the higher officials of the department. he was induced to remain in Washington to act as adviser to the secretary in matters relating not only to Mexico but to all Latin America for which work he was peculiarly fitted bY reason ot his long experience in that part of the world.
 State department officials tonight did not offer any confirmation of the reported resignation and MT. Fletcher. himself> is absent from Washington.
 MT Fletcher was appointed ambas- sador to Mexico in February, 1916, bur did not go to Mexico until the Feb ruary of the following year, having come to the United States from Chile, where he was the American ambas- sador for a long series of conferences.
 Had Many Serious Problems
 The relations between the United States and Mexico were quite critical at the time Mir. Fletcher reached Mex ico City, owing to the border raids and to German intrigue in the southern re- public. As result the ambassador was from the first confronted by a more than two months after his arrival of deputies when he attended the open ing session.
 Ambassador Fletcher returned from embassy there since that time have been conducted by George T. Summer lin. as charge d affaires.
 Prior to his appointment as ambas- sador to Chile, Mir. Fletcher was minis- ter to Chile and served as secretary of the American legations at Havana. Picking and Lisbon, and later charge daiffaires at Peking on two occasions.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
7 MORE CHANGES MADE BY WILSON; THIRD EXPECTED
Houston Named to Succeed Glass as Secretary of Treasury, and Meredith Succeeds Houston-Lane to Quit Post as Secretary of Interior
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.-Two more changes in President Wilson's cabinet was made today and a third is ex- pected in the near future.
 David F. Houston of St. Louis, who has been secretary of agriculture since the beginning of the Wilson adminis- tration, was given the secretary port folio and Edwin L. Meredith of Des Moines, Iowa, was named to succeed him as head nf the department of agriculture.
 The third cabinet change soon is the appointment of successor to Franklin K. Lane, who desires to re- tire to private life. Mir. Lanes suc- cessor has not yet been selected.
 Houston Appointment Surprise
 In selecting Mir. Houston to succeed Mir. Glass as secretary of the treasury the president ran counter to all guesses of administration officials. most of whom had expected Assistant Secretary Leffingwell to be given the office.
 In choosing Mir. Meredith to succeed MT. Houston. the president selected a practical farmer as well a business man. Mfr Meredith is the editor of Successful Farming, and before estab- fishing that paper was publisher of the Farmers Tribune. He is president of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. director of the Chicago Federal Reserve bank and was one of fhe excess profits. advisers of the treasury department, appointed in 1917.
 To Solve Marketing Problems
 In a statement today at Miami, Fla, Mir. Meredith said one of his first un- dertakings as head of the agricultural department would be to work out some method of getting crops to market without too much Host motion" He is expected in Washington within a day or two to take up his duties.
 Meantime Mir. Houston will succeed the senate 10 fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Martin of Virginia, after serving as secretary of the tras- ury for a little more than a year.
 Numerous Cabinet Changes
 When Secretary Lane passes out of the cabinet only four of the presidents original official family will remain Besides MT. Houston. they are Sec- retary Daniels of the navy depart ment: Secretary Wilson of the labor department. and Postmaster General Burleson.
 Mir. Wilson has had two secretaries of state-William J. Bryan and Robert. Lansing; two secretaries of war Lindley M. Garrison and Newton D. Baker; three attorneys general James c. McReynolds, now an asso- ciate justice of the supreme court: Thomas Watt Gregory. and A. Mitchell Palmer; two secretaries of commerce William c. Redfield and Joshua W. Alexander, and three secretaries of the treasury-Wi11iam G. McAdoo, Carter Glass and David F. Houston.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
Criticize U. s. For Unl0dddmg
 Surplus Foods
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 CLEVELAND, Jan. 27. = The government was severely criticised for unloading its surplus stocks of canned goods on the market "at critical period" by dsles ates of the tomato and baked beans industry attending the joint convention of three canners' associations here today.
 "The tomato product has been selling at figures far below the cost of production for the past six months" Q. Fl. Stevenson of Bal timore declared, "and the one don- inant factor has been the govern ment's inexcusabie method of dis posing of its surplus stocks of canned matoes, although the can ming industry came nobiy to the front during the war in assisting the government to supply food to the army and navy"
 The government sold below cost, Mir. Stevenson said.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
puEILlNc sTiLL POPULAR

BARCELONA, Jan. 27.-The fnspec- tor general of police has sent to Senor Pujal. editor of A. B. C.. challenge for duel. The inspector general alleged that the editor made insulting com ments on his administration.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-28

We should go there, if onfy on humane basis" declared the captain Intervention should be taken as the one course to protect ourselves and the rest of the world, as we'll as to save Russia We are overlooking the one sore spot of Europe. If this dis
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S0ys Druggasts
 Prot5teeraasg Ia
 Sale of Whaskey
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 CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-Major A. V. DaIrympie, head of prohibition en- forcement in the central division, today warned drugoists aeainst profitssrino in whisky sold for me- dicinaI purposes.
 have received numerous com plaints that druggists are charging from $6 to $10 pint for whisky in filling prescriptions" he said. "These reports are being investi- gated, and # find that the charges are true steps may be taken to establish dispensaries for distributiou of Iiquor at rsasonabIs prices under government supervi- sion."
Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
'3WE MUST WHIP BOLSHEVISM IN RUSSIA---COD HELP US IF WE WAIT TO FIGHT IT HERE

First Hand Story of What the Red Terror Has Done m
 Russia and of What It Threatens the World Is Told
 by Captain Alkire Who Spent Much Time in That
 Country the Heels of the Army of Terror-Half of
 the Truth of Horrors of Boshevsm Has Never Been
 Told He Declares.
 We must make up our minds that must whip bo sevsm either in Russla in the United Statesand God help up if we wait to whip it here
 Telling gruesome story of what bolshevism has done in Russia and what it will do to every other country It touches that is the conclusion of Captain Jay F. Al kire of Phoenix head of the American Red Cross mission in south Russia one of Americans in this country who have fully the phases of bolshevsm in interior Russia Captain Akire arrived home Monday night, after leaving Russia December B. One other officer o the ms sion returned to this country with him.
 "Bolshevism means terror murder, anarchy destruc- on for personal gain. It maintains it's power by mass terrorism"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-11

Ws are making Christmas photo
graphs every day. Are you going TO
give yours for Christmas? Apgar
Studio.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-11

Watch our window every day, II
you don't you will mi:ss some good
bargains. Moehrps Book Store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-11

l have a large selection. and better
values in, Christmas cards this year
at all prices. F. NJ. Pinkerton.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-11

Special prices on ali monographs
FOR Christmas. Select yours now for
future delivery. G. e. Fickard.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-11

Mixed nuts. while they last, only
80 cents per pound. Phone 81. We
deliver. Summit Cash Grocery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-11

English walnuts, only 30 cents 6
pound. Just received at ell NORTH
Thirteenth street. Summit Casf
Grocery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-11

The dark, cloudy days make no diff
ference at Apgar's. We are busy
just the same taking Christmas pho
tographs. Apgar Studio, over Alb
bott'S.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-11

Father would appreciate set of
Radd spark plugs for Christmas.
They are the best on the, market. Ben
and Lew.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-11

Get your storm sash and doors
made by us now. Ideal Manufacture
Ing and Truck Body Company. Mar
shalltown. Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-11

We have the latest Bubble Books
just in. We also have the small
photograph for children. These make
a fine combination for Christmas. C.
L. Pickard,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-11

Mutual Life Insurance Company
OF New York. H. w. Shove agency,
district managers Masonic Temple.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-11

Dance tonight at American hall.
American Dance Club Committee