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New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
WILSON TURNS
MINERS DOWN
PRESIDENT TAKES DEFINITE
STAND AGAINST VACATION"
HARD COAL MINERS.
VIOLATING CONTRACTS
I'VE COULD NOT JUSTIFY OUR
ACTION If WE YIELD" SAYS
WILSON.
we.tera Newspaper Union New Service.

Weston Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. sept. IL President
Wilson defined the federal govern
ment's attitude toward the vacation
strike In the anthracite coal Industry
in Il message Ia union leaders In Which
he declared that I'VE could not look the
world in the face or Justify our ac-
ti0nS to our people and our own
conscience if we Welded one lota Ia the
men in the anthracite coal fields"
The message was addressed 10 Phil
IL Murray, vice president Of the United
Mine Workers, and other union lead
ers, and contained an unqualified re
fusal lay the President 10 acccde 10
their request that he bring about IA re-
newal of negotiations with the eHl-
ployers w wage scales.
Citing the history of the strike
trouble in the mines and the report of
the government wage board, created to
fix new scales, whose award the men
have refused % accept, the President
said the men were violating con-
tracts entered into between them
selves, the coal operators and the gov
eminent
lie expressed appreciation for the
stand of union officials against the
strike hut asserted that the miners
were mot deceiying anybody by tao
ties which had produced a strike, no
matter what name Is given H." The
sanctity of contract agreements, the
President Indicated, would he upheld
by the United States government in
domestic as well as international mat
tiers.
Hazelton, Pa.-After reading the
press reports of the action of President
Wilson I'm refusing the request of the
miners To reopen the wage scale,
Thomas Kennedy, president of District
No. : United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca, stated the decision reached by Mr..
Wilson seemed more an answer To the
.insurgent element than Il reply TO the
message sent 10 the White House by
the regular officers of the union. The
vacation policy had a furiher spfeau
here when one of the two independent
c~ollieries that had continued operations
was closed down.
Scranton, Pa.-Within q few days
every anthracite mine worker will be
on vacation" according to leaders of
the vacation movement. This action,
thry say, will be thc miners answer
To President Wilson's refusal 10 reopen
the award Of the anthracite commits
sion, which failed 10 satisfy the work
ers. Enoch Williams. leader of the in
Surgeuts in the Scranton district, said
that the refusal of the President TO
reopen the case will result In n of
the hardest fought industrial struggles
ever waged in the country. Officers
Of the union in this district would not
discuss the Presidents action.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
MONEY MAKER GETS $4,000
Machine Proves Profitable for Two
Swindlers Till Law Steps
In.

New Y>rk.-Stanley Waitkas, twen-
ty-tive, and Martin Koleja, forty, were
held in $4,000 bail each for examina-
ton on charges of grand larceny.
The afidavits allege that on May is
the men swindled Joseph Norwich OF
676 Wales avenue, out Of $3.50, by
selling him what they told him was
a money-making machine.
Since August 3, 1919, the detectives
say, the two mel are believed TO have
obtained not les than $4,000 from va
riouS victims In this city. Boston,
bridgeport. Bayonne, Philadelphia,
Newark. Arlington, Mass, and Bangor,
Me. through selling "money-making
machines TO 81 persons, mostly for
%eigners. The schemers, according to
the police, first made it their business
to find out how much money the pros
pective victim had saved up, and to
make their price for the money ma
chine approximate this amount.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
HAM OUTLINES PLANS
PLAN TO BACK REGULAR ARMY
WITH TRAINED CITIZEN BODY.
NEW POLICY ADOPTED BY WAR
STAFF FOR AMERICAN FU-
TURE FORCES.
Western Newspaper Union News Service,

Detroit, Sept. 9.-Peaeetime organ
ization and training of the nations or
ment Of the new military policy adopt
ed by the general staff. Maj. Gen.
William g. IIuan, director of the wal
plans di<ision of that body, said In an
address before the convention of the
american officers of the great war,
The regular army of approximately
10000 officers and mel will continue
10 be the first line of defense, he said,
and the National Guard the second
line, 10 be called upon Immediately in
ease of national emergency, but be
hind both of these will be the re-
serves, consisting of enlisted and com
missioned personnel with former war
experience and annual trimming in as
completely organized tactical units AS
possible 10 effect.
Organization of the reserves will
follow closely the geographical divi-
sion of the United States, under the
departmental plan. With the entire
continental eNpan&e of the country
forming the AREA of the United STATES
army" an army corps will be formed
IN each of the new districts which has
supplanted the old military depart
mcnts and the corps area commander
will be in charge of all troops of the
three classes within his zone. Reserve
Officers are to be assigned for annual
training TO the posts they would occu-
by under war conditions, and thus will
be trained with the men, and under
the superiors, with whom they nomin-
ally might be expected to serve in the
field.
This system of peace assignment and
training will be followed, it was an
nounced, with officers and men of the
staff units AS well as of the line, an
officer In the ordnance reserve going
for summer training to an arsenal or
supply depot within his zone.
The functions of the three military
increments, under the announced pol
icy, are:
Regular army: To garrison oversee
possessions, coast defenses and other
posts; to provide training personnel
for National Guard and reserves.
National Guard: To provide in time
of peace an adequate and effective
force available in minor emergencies
for employment by the states, or the
United States; in time of war 10 pro-
vide IAN adequate, balanced and eff
fective component of the army of the
United States for employment within
the United States or elsewhere"
Organized Reserve: To provide an
organized and balanced force which
may be expanded into an adequate
war component of the United States
to meet an emergency requiring troops
in excess of regulars and Nat nj
Guard. 1.-THE organized reserve is dis
tinctly n war force" according To Of
ficials of the department.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
Appeal for Better Equipment.

Washington.-An urgent appeal TO
the manufacturers and business men to
join in n national movement TO make
better use Of existing railroad equip
ment as Il means of providing i'm
proved transportation service was
made by the railroad committee Of the
L. s. Chamber of Commerce. The IA
tional chambers committee points out
that the equivalent of more than ID,-
900 ears can be- added to the ear sup
ply by closer cooperation on the part
Of all interests concerned with trans
portatiOn.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
SITUATION IS SERIOUS
LIVESTOCK MARKETS ENDGN-
GCRED BY HIGH PRICED FEED
FiHANciERS CONFER ovER TIE
CRISIS THAT CONFRONTS
WESTERN STockMEk.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Chicago, Sept. l0=rackers, bank
ers and livestock producers are u!srl-
ing in the Continental and Commercial
Bank here 10 solve one of the most
perpleNing economic situations which
has confronted this nation in many
Years.
It's Il matter Of financing livestock
producers 50 that The l%ue,ono.euo poo
pie in the country may iaN" meat 10
rat.
Leading baukers ard r~rndaeers.
Spokesman for thousands Of sheep ani
cutie raisers, Will deeI'ic Just how
much financing viii he Necessary To
carry The West along, for the Nest is
said to he on The brink Of bankruptcy.
II was estimated to-day that per
haps 500, GJO,oU0 will be necessary 10
buy feeders and high-priccd feed and
work through the winter for the neNt
few years markets, Local bankers,
whose institutions carry much cattle
loan paper, think probably onchalf
this amount Will suffice.
Summed up, the situation * this
Ranchcrs spent much money in hili"r
wages fur hired hands, c~oatlier hay,
corn and cats, higher Interest rates,
only to sell their cattle an a weakened
market. %ycSpondiug Ia the puhiie tie
Inaud for lower cost of living,
In other Instances western bankers
loaned mounts ON raltic on the has.S
uf what the cattle should have brought
in Il good and average market,
rs prices slumped the bankers, see
ing margins Of safety diminishing,
called their loans. The rauchcr, forced
10 l%iquidute, threw his cattle on The
market. Another luSs.
For some time the stockyards have
received fine young cattle which
should have pastured and lsttcnrd for
another season at least. Ii is On these
that the next few years supply do
penis.
The question was asked:
why throw these ON the market
They are only feeders
The answer is that it is costing too
much, wage and feed considered, Ia
feed cattle. And il these Young ones
are to be killed nov, where will the
food come from in the next few years,
VAS the question asked in the indus
try.
\ preliminary conference has been
held but it was informal and merely
a get acquainted session.
A. L. dc Iiicqles, the Denver cattle
man, said
'~personally, ] believe II Will be DIFF
ficult ta evolve n specific plan per
haps the psychological effect Of these
large interests advising the country
that they are back Of the industry and
will do their utmost to see 1t is fl
nunccd will be the chief result Of the
gathering.
II do not favor the creation of Il
special fund for the use of The indus
try as such funds are usually not
available and fail Ia effect the pur-
poses for which they were Intended
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
LATE -
QUOTATIONS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DENVER LIVE STOCK.

DENVER LIVE STOCK
The quality of most of the offerings
are exceptionally good The scarcity
of supply has caused a eonsiderabis
Jump in prices on the hog market.
Trading is active in the sheep division.
A carload of choice steers. ayeraglnS
1.324 pounds. from the Coke Roberd's
ranch at Hayden, Colo, were sold tn
Company at sI3. topping the market
This is the best price received Tor
steers in several months -Four car
loads of choice steers from the James
MILESTONE ranch. at Hayden, Coias
brought SIPS, sl1, 5000 and $1,000,
Three loads of these cattle were pur-
chased by the packers. Two carloads
at 1915 and $3.50. \ carload of cows
sold at $3.50 and "A small string at *.
Hogs.
There is a scarcity of hogs on this
market and prices are fully 20 cent?
higher. Five carloads of hogs sold at
SIG to packers and small killers. Tw@
carloads brought si5.75. The bulk sold
at s15.75 to SIG. A carload OF choice
and fancy hoSs IRON the Farmer
Union cooperative Elevator and SUP
ply Company. Nray, Colo. topped the
market at $500. going to the Coffin
Packing and Provision Company RMS
Of hogs on the Denver market since
the Stock show last winter
sheep.
Prices are finn. A total OF 40
sheep. averaging II pounds. sold al
quality and price brought $13.25 flat,
These were shipped from Steamboat
Springs, Colo. A total of 1,750 ewes,
averaging Ill pounds, from the sam
place. brought sC.25, freight paid.
lives are in GOOD demand at Sc to
$3.50 for the choice kinds and $3.50 to
So for the fair varieties. Choice lambs
are quoted up 10 $3.50, freight paid,
with palmer grades at $l2.50 to slS.
Feeding lambs are quoted at Sl2 70
$3.50, with fair grades at sll to Sll75
Yearlings would hring up to sf.50 and
wethers 81 to $3.50.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
EASTERN LIVE STOCk.
At Chicago.

Chicago.-Cattle-All desirable beef
cattle strong to 25c higher; Others
steady to strong, many sales at $500
bulk good and choice. $1,000 @17.85; fat
grassy kinds strong, s13.Ss9l5.5Oi
others steady. S9.O0012.0O; calves
s6.5OW12.75; steady to 25c higher; can
ners strong. Si0014.75; bulls firm 10
shade higher; b%olognas largely 5000
SIS; choice veal calves steady, $l7.0G
Ql7.75; stockers and feeders. 25c high
er; western cattle scarce; market
steady to strong.
Hogs-Mostly 25@35c higher, clos.
ing strong, top. 1880; bulk light and
butchers. s15.50a16.4o; bulk sows,
sl4. 20 l4.60: pigs. 25@4oc higher;
most desirable kinds. 314.50G15.50.
Sheep-Steady to Csc lower; killing
grades closing mostly Csc down: NJ
choice lambs; top westerns. $1,000: TOP
natives. s13 90: good and choice fai
ewes largely $650@6S5; feeders clos
ing strong: bulk feeding lambs. $500
9l3.50; top. $l3.65.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
Took Poison by Mistake,

Paris-Olive Thomas, motion pic
ture actress. is lying in a critical con-
dition in the American hospital In
Neuilly. where she was taken several
days ago suffering from mercurial poi
soning. An official statement issued
by DIR. Joseph Choate, an American
physician, says: The situation is Sc
rious, but recovery is hopeful" 1t is
learned, however, from a reliable
source that the condition of Miss
Thomas is extremely critical and that
her recovery is doubtful.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
Iowa Coal Miners Get $3.50.

Des Moines, Iowa.-Iowa coal min
ers and operators reached a settle
ment of the difficulties which have
been holding up their agreemen by
deciding that the price per keg of
pwoder TO the men will be 500. in
stead of $40 as hitherto; and that
the wage advances recently awarded
the miners by the operators will be
retroactive to August 16, and payable
September 25. The new wage is $50
q day.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
Few Mines Affected by Strike,

birmingham. Ala.-The coal miners
strike, called by the Alabama division
Of the United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea, failed to attain noteworthy dimen-
sions on its first day. none Of the
larger steam coal producers being ma
teriaIly affected and some not at all.
Union officials claim that between
10000 and 1900 men have answered
the strike call. Operators estimated
the number Of men now out, including
those who were idle previously, at
$500.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
NAV Keep Seats ~ Reelected.

New York-Scenting in the special
elections to fiji vacancies caused by
the expulsion of the five Socialist as
scmblymen that the governor is going
to try to derive political advantage,
the Republican leaders are understood
TO have adopted a program whereby
the governor will not be able to use
the possible reelection Of any of the
five for political capital. UnleHs
charges of sedition can be lodged
against the Socialists. it is not likely
that any Of them will be expelled.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
Olive Thomas Dead.

Paris-Oliye Thomas, formerly wide
Is known on the American musical
comedy stage and for several years
past a motion picture star, died at the
American hospital at Neuilly. She was
taken to that institution suffering from
slow poisoning, having swallowed a
poisonous solution by mistake, accord
ing to DIR. Joseph Choate. Recently
Miss Thomas. who came To Europe
with her husband, Jack Pickford, had
suffered from nervous depression, il
was said.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
100 Per Cent on SUGAR.

Chicago.-Warrants for the arrest Of
q. V. Curinnian and Joseph Martin,
president and treasurer. respectively,
of the Curinian Candy Company, charg-
ing them with profiteering in sugar,
were issued here by United States
Commissioner Lewis Mason. The men
were alleged to have made a profit Of
s19,454 on two shipments of sugar sold
to retail stores In Kalamazoo, Mich,
buying the sugar for III cents a
pound and selling il for 2eA cents Q
pound.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
Claim Polish Attack Reversed.

London.-An official Russian report
ton of newly fortified positions ON
the Bug river and the almost total de.
struetion of the forces of General
Wrangel, the anti-Bolshevlst leader,
says Il wireless dispatch from Berlin.
The dispatch adds that the Poles have
rctreated near Brest-Litoysk before II
new Russian offensive.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
United States Needs Mexico Oil.

washington.-A peaceful and or
DERBY Mexico would produce more oil
than is now produced in the entire
world. according TO ii review of the
Mexican petroleum industry issued by
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce. With the off supply of the
United States doomed to exhaustion
and Great Britain annexing overseas
fields capable of producing for 200
years, new emphasis is given the i'm
p~ortance to America of peace in Mex
leo and full development of the Mexi-
can oil properties.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
s2.225.ooo Unaeeounted For.

Chicago.-Internal depart
ment officials began an investigation
10 account for the presence Of S2.225,-
600 in the federal building vaults with
nothing on the books to show from
whence 1t came. The presence of the
surplus money was discovered when Of
ficials of a corporation, called to ex-
plain why they failed to pay $4,000
taxes, produced receipts showing they
had paid. The money was found In
the vault. but the governments dupli-
cate receipt had been lost and no rec
ord made on the books.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
Negro Shot by Mob.

Meridian, Mlss.-Will Echols, negro,
recently convicted of the murder of
Henry w. Davis, an aged night watch
man at Il lumber plant, was taken
from Jail at Quitman by a small party
of men, carried two miles into the
country and shot to death. EcEois was
sentenced to be hanged, but his eX-
ecution was stayed by IN appeal to the
Mississippi Supreme Court.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
BerqdoII Guard Acquitted.

New York.-Court-martial of Sergt.
John O'Hara, one of the guards from
whom Grover c. Bergdoll, wealthy
PHILADELPHIA draft evader, escaped,
ended on Governors island when the
court failed to order O'Hara taken in
to custody. Unofficial reports were
that be had been acquitted. Sergt.
York, the other Bergdoll guard.
also was believed to have been acquit-
ted. O'Hara was the only witness to
testify at his comrades trial.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
Will Junk Bio Liner.

Neutrality-suspicious. Board Off
Gals had admitted that the great
transatlantic liner Leviathan, formerly
the Hamburg-American liner Water
land, the sale Of which was blocked
by the Hearst newspapers, may never
again be seen on the high teas. This
is due to the fact that the greet liner,
now aground in the mud of her Hobo
ken dock, lras d~eteriorated to so great
an extent that it will require an out
lay Of no less than 100000 to put
her again into condition for sea serv-
ice
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
To Vote on Liquor Question.

Victoria, Il. October 20 has been
officially fixed as the date for the pro-
visional referendum on the question
of the best method of dealing with the
liquor question in British Columbia.
Voters will be called upon TO decide
whether the present prohibition act
shall be continued in force, or a pro
vision made for government control
and sale in sealed packages of spiritu-
Gus or malt liquors.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
French Loan Oversubscribed.

New York.-The new $l00,000,0O0
twenty-flve-year 8 per cent French
government loan was oversubscribed.
and subscription books were closed in
an hour, j. Z. Morgan & Co, syndicate
anage announced here. The books
were formally opened at 10 o'clock and
closed at IL.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
Sleeping Sickness Cause Found.

Saratoga Springs, y. Y.-Discoyery
was reported by Dr. !. $. Wechler Of
Columbia University 10 the state CON
ference Of health officers and public
health nurses, in session here. The
origin. he said, was found 10 be a fill
terahle virus, which. ia experiments,
has transmitted the disease from man
monkeys.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
Wool Cloth Price Cut.

New York.-An approximate cut Of
20 per cent ia wool cloth prices by the
American WOODEN Company was noted
at the company's opening Of It's fall
exhibit here, according to the Textile
World Journal. The cut said to be
than anticipated by the trade, was
attributed To little demand for wooden
Goods.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17

Phoenix. Aria man believed by
the sheriff's office here TO have been
Joseph Broderick, brother of Hugh
Broderick, Townsend, Mont, was
drowned in the Colorado river at Ehr-
enburg when he drove an automobile
from the shore out upon the ferryboat,
crossed the BOAT and plunged with the
car to the river bottom.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
Auto Falls, Killing Seven.

Tarrytown, n. Y.-Seven persons
were killed and one seriously injured
when an automobile in which they
were riding crashed through a railing
during "A thunderstorm and fell TWEEN
ty feet to the railroad tracks at Dobbs
Ferry.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
m.,bodists saw Tia Juana Rotten.

MISUNDERSTANDING Tia Juana,
Lower California. ia Sodom and Go
morrah, the board of temperance. pro-
hibition and public morals Of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church issued a heated
rejoinder to the refusal Of Secretary of
State Colby to withhold passports and
border permits from Americans cross
ing the Mexican border to visit this
lIlIocg tosrn
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
Pinned Fifteen Hours BY Horse.

Concrete, n. D.-Al Olson. a ranch
or. spent IL hours under a horse which
fell with him into a gulley near here,
and was caught under some brush.
The horse was unable to rise and o.
sons legs were caught under the ami
NAL in such a manner that he could
not extricate himself. The horse
struggled TO his feet. and during the
effort bruised Olson considerably.
The man dug n hole in the earth with
a pocket knife in which to bury his
head when the horse attempted 70 get
up.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
Fiume Declared independent.

Fiume-Gabriele d'Annunzio has
proclaimed Fiume an independent
state. D'Annunzi1 declared he had re
ceived private news from Paris which
forced him to declare Fiume TO be in
dependent and that he could not wait
until sept. l. as he had intended. The
Fiume national council has resigned.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
MURDERER LEAVES
PRISON RICH MAN
Made Rich by Oil Lands While
Serving Term in Texas
Penitentiary.

Eastland. Tex.-"Uncle Bill" Ed
wards, who a sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary about ten years & for the
murder Of a %neighbor. q. A. Rogers,
entered upon his term of SO years of
Imprisonment a poor farmer. He was
released a few days ago, upon pardon
self a millionaire, all due to the dis
covery of oil upon his 320-acre hillside
farm.
Edwards was pardoned on his sew
eItieth birthday. the pardon coming
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17

Chicago.-wheat.No red; ssss9
northern spring. s252h.
Corn-No. 2 mixed, $1.AG1.44k: No.
2 yellow, s1.45G 1.45h
2 white. 65A G67c.
Rye-No. 2. s1.95@1.97.
Barley-s1.03@1.12.
Timothy Seed-s4.0 90 G7.5o.
Clover Seed-s22.0 90 q 27.00 Q.
Pork-Nominal.
Lard-s19.20.
Ribs-sI5.756 16.r5.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
No Whisky in Medicine.

Observation-Disclosures of medici-
nal preparations in which whisky is
used as an ingredient have been order
ed to stop the manufacture of such
medicines, according TO a ruling from
Washington received by Il. W. Stone,
Illinois prohibition director.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-17
Dies Where He Killed Man.

Kansas City. Mo.-Michael Melon
aid dropped dead Of heart disease on
a street corner here within n few feet
of the spot where. seven years ago,
in ~seif-defcnse, he shot and killed
Michael Cigich.