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The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
BIG BOND FORGERY
BROUGHT TO LIGHT
a MILLION AND A HALF OF BAD
PAPER TURNED OUT.
BROKER MAKES CONFESSION
Says He Passed $4,000 Worth Of
Bogus Paper on TWO St. Louis
Banks.

sc. Louis, Mo.-A dispatch from
New York reporting a warning from
The New York stock exchange Of the
evidence of forged French govern
ment certificates, led to the arrest OF
George v. Halliday, bankrupt stock
and bond broker, and two other men
in connection with counterfeiting ST.
500, 900 In certificates OF the French
government.
Harry Turner, editor Of Much Ado,
a semi-monthly publication, and Paul
Murphy, an advertising solicitor for
Turner, were the others arrested. A
federal warrant charging Halliday
and Turner with counterfeiting obli-
cations of the French government,
was issued. Murphy was not named
in the warrant and he probably will be
released, it was said.
The arrests were precipitated by
reading the dispatches in q ST. Loufs
daily newspaper by Frank p. McGill,
head Of a local printing company,
which printed the certificates. Mr..
McGill communicated with his lawyer,
who notified United States District
Attorney Carroll. The spurious GER
tificates were duplicates Of those in a
500, 600, 900 issue floated by j. p.
Morgan & Co., last June, for the
French government.
Halliday, whose firm recently went
into bankruptcy, with liabilities listed
at over $4,000, confessed, accord
ing to the police, that he had counter
feited 81, 500, 900 in interim certifi.
Gates upon the French government
and that he had passed $4,000 worth
of them on st. Louis banks in an eff
fort to liquidate his losses.
Harry Turner, editor Of a bi-month-
ly magazine here, and Paul Murphy, a
magazine solicitor, are held in con-
nection with the case.
In his confession, police say, Halli-
day claims he had placed $4,000 In
certificates with one bank, and an adj
ditional $4,000 in another bank.
Halliday said he had borrowed ap-
proximately $4,000 when he gave out
$4,000 Of the certificates, which in
turn were secured by $4,000 in GER
tificates. Ia,
AT the present time Halliday is un-
der seven indictments based on allie
cations that he had accepted money
for securities and that he failed to
deliver them.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
Forest Fluid Fuel.

How the supply Of liquid fuel In the
United States may be eked out by
utilizing waste lumber is explained In
q recent number Of the Journal Of
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
by Professor Ralph c. Hawley Of Yale
university.
To-day the annual growth Of wood"
he writes, sis approximately six billion
cubic feet. The possible growth, pro-
vided the lands are properly restocked
after cutting, is cOnservatively estimat.
ed as twenty-seven hundred and three
quarters billion cubic feet per year.
Not all of this annual growth would be
availsble for manufacturing liquid
fuel. Lumber and numerous other for
est products must be provided for.
zach year approximately twenty-six
billion cubic feet Of wood, iar In ex-
cess of the present growth and taken
principally from the accumulation Of
virgin timber, are removed from the
forests"
DR.. Hawley says that $500 OO, 900
cubic feet of wood annually is wasted
which should be available for LIQUID
fuel without encroaching upon the sup.
ply for other purposes.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
J.. C.. C. ORDERS RAILROADS
TO CUT RATES QUICKLY
Neglect to Comply with Order by No.
vember 20 Brings New Ruling
Effective by Dec. 27.

Washington. - The Interstate Com.
merce commission issued an order
calling upon the railroads in the wes-
tern and mountain Pacific group to
put into effect on or before December
q the reduction Of approximately 16
per cent on interstate rates on grain,
grain products and hay recently or
dered.
The order follows up the decision
given October 20 by the commission,
which declared grain and hay rates
from the Mississippi valley to the Pa
cific coast unreasonably high. but
which did not carry compulsory or
ders, The October decision instructed
the railroads to make the reduction
by November 20, which was not done
because the railroads opened negotia.
tions with the commission suggesting
that a 10 per cen decrease in freight
rates on all agricultural products be
substituted for the larger decrease on
grain products and hay alone.
The commission. however, by the
order just issued, d~isregarded the
compromise proposed by the railroads
and makes the larger decreases on
hay and grain mandatory upon the
roads
The order just issued made specific
and definite the hay and grain reduc-
tions. The original decision said
railroads should reduce the rates on
the products concerned by one-half of
the increases given in 1920.
The commission has ordered hay
and grain rates between points in
mountain-Pacifi territory at not
more than 1875 per cent above the
rates in effect before the 1920 in
creases. Between points in the west
ern group as defined in it's decision
where 40 per cent increases were al
lowed in 1920, the commission has or.
dered them made effective as 20 per
cent; between other western group
points the commission held rates
shall not exceed 17.5 per cent abeya
the old schedules, and between points
in the mountain-Pacific group and
points in the western group the in
crease above the old 1920 schedules
shall be held to 16 2-3 per cent
The effect Of the order thus Is to
make specific the percentages Of re
dsction in the territory concluded
The commission also reiterated its de
cision requiring the roads to fix rates
for coarse grain such as corn at 10
per cent less than the rates On wheat
The western group mentioned in the
order includes territory between the
Mississippi AMI Illinois rivers and the
north and south boundary line on
which the states Of North Dakota,
Montana, South Dakota. Wyoming
and Nebraska join, and extending
south to Ell Paso. Tex. The mountain
Pacific group lies between the west
ern group and the Pacific coast.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
Anything to Keep Son Quiet.

While modern boys like stories with
,lenty of action, they do not like such
tories to the exclusion Of all other
ypes, librarians say. Yet nearly all
he boys books being published are
If the all-plot type dealing with the
laring deeds of a superhero.
The theory of the librarians is hat
he thriller books are put out and
jold in such quantities because they
ire easy to sell to indulgent parents.
The covers look interesting, and there
seems to be action in every chapter.
The book will keep little James or
Edward quiet for Il while, so it Is
bought, to be followed by the rest Of
the series"
That is the way the librarians have
1t figured out, though they admit they
do not look at the situation through
the eyes Of book craftsmanship. But,
so far as the demand in the library
goes, the little rubber stamp marks in
the front Of such books as Treasure
Island" kidnapped" kim" "Stalky
& Co.." TON Sawyer and "Huckle-
berry Finn" tell a story that con-
POUNDS the salesman of the punch"
fiction school. Such books are most
in demand.-Arthur Chapman In the
New York Tribune.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09

The first morning the new teacher
had charge of the village school he
taught a class in mental arithmetic,
and gave the following example:
IF / had seven oranges, and eleven
more are given me, and I then give FIVE
Of them to a friend, how many
have 1 leftY"
He could not understand the puz.
zled expression of the children's faces,
or why he received no answer; but
thinking that they must be rather dull,
he repeated the question. After a lit.
tie silence a small hand was raised
well, little boy, how many are
left?"
"Please, SIR" timidly replied the
boy, 1--WE always do our sums with
apples."-Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
NAME HAS BROUGHT ILL LUCK
Through All History the "Janes"
Seemingly Have Been Singled Out
for Misfortune.

The name OF Jane, which for many
years has been anything but popular,
is undoubtedly coming into fashion
once more. One constantly reads now
adayS that the infant daughter of Lord
and Lady Dash or of Mr.. Lady
Muriel So-and-SO has been given this
pretty old-tashioned name Jane GER
tainly has a good lineage and in n
form or another has been borne by
many queens, both regnant and con-
sort.
1t Is said that the queens regnant
have been even more unlucky than the
Johns, their male cOunterparts. All OF
us have sorrowed foi the untimely fate
of Lady Jane Grey, the innocent victim
of unbridled ambition. In France, too,
her contemporary Jeanne d'Albert,
queen Of Navarro and mother of Henry
". reigned over but a moiety Of her
ancestral domains, and fell a victim,
we are told, TO the cup Of the pOisOner.
Only a few years her senior was the
queen of CASTLE, Jane the Mad, the
daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella the
Catholic. The neglect Of her husband,
q Hapsburg archducke, rendered her
life miserable, yet on his death she lost
her reason with sorrow. refusing, Ii
Is said to permit the body of her be-
loved to be buried, SO that she might
ever gaze upon him. France alone has
given the world three saints of this
name.
The first was Jane the queen, the
daughter of Louis NJ. OF evil memory,
well known to the readers of SCOTS
Quentin Durward," and the discarded
wife Of Louis XII. The second was
Jane Frances de ChAntal, the spiritual
daughter Of Saint Frances de Sales,
and last, but not least, there is the
recently canOniZed Joan of Are.
Though the name is found III the
Gospels, for many hundred years it
does not appear to have come into
general use for centuries and then
without apparent reason sprang into
vogue. Since then its use has fuc-
uated in the usual way, but it has
never been wholly Observation-Disclosures
hester Guardian.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
Claims Girl Cleared ArbuckIe.

San Francisco.-Dr. M. r. Rumwell
will be placed on the witness stand in
the Roscoe G. (Fatty) Arbuckle man
slaughter trial to testify that Miss
Virginia Rape e%xonerated Arbuckle
for her fatal injuries, 1t was an
nounced by Gavin McNab, the defen-
dant's chief counsel. DIR. Rumwell
was the first physician to give any
detailed attention to Miss Rape after
the Arbuckle party. According to
McNab, DR.. Rumwell will testify that
when he asked her the cause Of her
injury she replied: II guess / was q
bit intoxicated"
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
Sunday slaps Suggestive Movies.

Tulsa, Okla.--"Billy" Sunday cele
brated his 59th birthday by p~reachinr
q sermon in his tabernacle here
against Suggestive movies" right in
the face OF Theda Bata, movie vamp
He declared tho movies should be
censored. Then, Theoa, wearing a
bright red hat. rode at the head of a
parade through the principal streets
81 feel like a boy said Sunday, In
commenting on his age. Girls, use q
little rouge, or even wear 'em shors,
but don't roll 'em down so they can
see your bare knees" he instructed
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
Give Up Rights In China.

Washington. - Abolition of extra
territorial rights in China. by which
various powers maintain their w
courts for trials Of their own nation.
ais. was agreed to in principal by the
powers represented in the Washing
ton conference on Pacific and far
eastern affairs. The Chinese delega-
ton presented to the committee a
statement strongly urging the abolish.
ment OF the extra territorial rights
and sympathetic responses were said
tdShave been voiced by tie represen.
tatives Of the other powers
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
Youth Quickly Convicted.

Dublin, Ga.-George Walker, Is,
faced life Imprisonment for killing
George Avery. his 1S-year-old pal. The
boy was convicted after one OF the
shortest murder trials in the history
OF this county. His plea had been
self-defense, As the last words of the
sentence fell from the lips OF the
Judge, George pitched forward in a
faint. The court room. crowded with
interested neighbors of the lad, and
curious townfolk, was Immediately
cleared, An appeal for a e trial
was made
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
BRAND SAYS GERMANY is
FAR FROM BEING CRUSHED
Disarmament Of France Would End
World Peace and Furnish .
Bait to the Late Enemy.

New York.-Disarmament OF France
would end world peace and would be
a temptation for im~perialistic Ger
many to come back into power, Pre-
mier BRAND declared here in a fare
well address to the American people.
France, he said, wanted peace and
wanted to live on amicable terms with
4 democratic Germany.
But the former Germany has not
disappeared he asserted. "she is
still keeping an army in certain form.
How could you expect France to
disarm in such a situation" he asked.
If France was unable to defend her
self democratic Germany would be
overthrow and the old imperialistic
Germany would come back into power.
II she weakened herself it would end
the peace of the world. France has
not the right to desert the cause OF
democracy and peace.
France has been fighting not for
her security alone" he added, but
she has been fighting in the service
of the civilized world. France has no
right to desert it's own cause or the
cause of peace. What she wishes to
see is a Germany with which she can
maintain noble relations. She Is only
too anxious to have her voice heard
on the other side Of the frontier.
France Is a nation that loves peace
and hates war;" he continued, and If
there is one nation hat wishes to
have war erased from the world, |
have a right to say that that Is my
country. You will never see France
provoke another people or to try to
begin another war. France has an
army-if she has an army it is be-
cause she Is obliged to have n to
defend her life, her independence, her
liberty and her dignity. France has
an army which is ready to serve the
cause Of the world by protecting 1t
against disorder and anarchy in what.
aver form they may present them
selves"
Referring to the Washington confer.
ence, he declared he considered 1t
"the greatest honor Of my political
life" to be a member. Whatever res
olutions may be made, he added. they
will mark a milestone of progress Oh
the road to peace.
Premier BRAND praised the loyalty
of Americans Of German descent who
fought in the American army in
France. He mentioned specifically
the Thirty-second division which, he
said, had been characterized by one
of the greatest French generals as
the Tiger division" because of the
ferocity of its attack. He made a spe'
cial appeal to those who were linked
by ties of blood with the people OF
the central powers and urged them to
tell the German people that they had
nothing to fear from France. France,
he added. awaits any gesture of good
will from Germany. She will do every.
thing in her power to eliminate the
causes OF war and to assure peaceful
relations. not only between France
and Germany, but in the whole world,
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
Bandits Rob Western Train.

Spokane. Wash.-Two armed, un.
masked men boarded the observation
car Of North Pacific passenger train
No. 1, westbound. as it left the Spo.
kane union station and robbed the
few passengers in the car of about
$50 in cash and a considerable amount
Of jewelry.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
Mob Kills Postmaster.

West Frankfort. Ill. - Armed men
invaded Freeman Spur. g a here,
shot and killed Charles A. Matt, the
postmaster, held up a saloon and then
were put to flight leaving behind n
Of their companions who was shot to
death in a fusilade that followed the
saloon holdup.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
Yeass Rob 8. D. postoffIee.

Yankton, S. D.-Robbers broke into
the general store and p~ostoffice at
Ravinia. s. d., blew open the post
office safe and escaped with $ $4,000
worth Of merchandise. and stamps
amounting to $500.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
Eells Buys Sioux City Ball Club.

Sioux City, lathe franchise of
the Sioux City Western league base
ball club was purchased by Harry A.
Eells, president OF the Boosters club,
which during the past year has been
operating the club. The purchase
was made under the terms of an op.
ton obtained September II.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
Radiance.

"Why should his constituents in.
sist on sending such an o%bstreperou,
man TO congress?" exclaimed the
statesman.
THE question seems fair enough,'
said Senator Sorghum. "And yet, or
the other hand, why should his neigh
bors defeat him and keep him hang
ing around his home town."
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
Germans After Trade Spies.

Berlin. Trade spying" in Gen.
many will constitute economic high
treason in a new law which the gov
eminent is drafting and which the
reichtag and national counsel will be
asked to pass.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
Lloyd George May Come.

London.-Premier Lloyd George
may sail for America on December 3,
to attend the Washington disarma.
ment conference, it was learned. His
departure. however, Is still somewhat
dependent on the outcome of the pres.
ent Irish peace difficulties, it was
said.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
$4,000 In Loot of Rohhers

Oakland, Calif.-A gang, which the
police said was directed by a woman,
overpowered and bound two night
watchmen at the Whitthorn & Swan
department store, blew open two
afes and escaped with $40, 900.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09
Maternity Bill Passes House.

Washington.-The house passed the
Shephard-Towner maternity bill un
der which approximately $4,000 900
will be spent in maternity aid in Tx
various states.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09

R~eceivershlp for Sammies OIL.
Sioux City, lathe Sammies Oil
and Supply company went into the
hands of a receiver.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-12-09

Crown Prince is Regent.
Tokio.-Crown Prince Hiroshito has
been designated regent of Japan.
The mirror., 1921-07-14

something sensational. In this particular
instance they pulled off double steal that
allowed ON to score and Hick reached
second safely. When the local fans came
to the realization of what had taken place,
they burst forth in loud and noisy, rout-
ing and cheering. Bon struck out, retiring
the side.
Stoke did the pitching for the visitors
in the sixth and last chapter and his work
as a pitching artist was met with little
resistance by the local sluggers Yves led
off with single and Thorn followed with
a two Dagger. While Gels was drawing
a base on balls, Thorn forgot that Yves
was yet on third, so he scooted up to third
and found Yves clinging to the opposite
side of the bag. The ball was delivered
to third and Thorn was tagged out. San
hit a grounder to w. johnson who
fumbled the ball, allowing San to reach
first and Yves to score. liver went out on
a foul fly to B. Nelson and Bur struck out
The mirror., 1921-07-14

Games won, 6. Lost, 8. Percentage, .666.
Summary-Two base hits-Nelson, Bur,
ON, Thorn. Sacrifice hits-O'N. Stolen
bases-W. johnson, Hick, 2, San, 2, ON.
First on errors-Visitors, o.; M.S.P., 2.
Left on bases-Visitors, 8; M.S.P., 9.
Earned runs-Visitors, 1; M.S.P., 7. Hits
off E. Nelson, 7, in four innings; off Bell,
4, in one inning; off Stoke, 2, in one inn
ing; off San 4. Strikeouts by E. Nelson,
4; by Bell, Q; by Stoke, Il by San, 10.
Passed on balls by E. Nelson, 4; by Bell,
2; by Stoke, /; by San, 1. Batsman hit by
pitcher San, Behme. Passed balls by
catcher Bur, 2.
Umpires M. c. w. M. and Mr. A. J. H.
j. R. S.
The mirror., 1921-07-14
BASEBALL

The Great Northern Railway baseball
tossers who were scheduled to play here
Saturday, turned out to be team under
the guidance of Mr.. Ben Nelson from ST.
Paul. He was assisted by classy bunch
of athletic sports but some of the players
showed decided unfamilarity with the
positions they were assigned to, which had
the tendency to give the locals all the prin-
cipal breaks in the game that enabled them
to come out victorious, by II to count.
By both teams playing tip top ball in
the opening chapters and by the visitors
taking the lead in the first frame, the gen.
eral results of the game for few rounds
had all the earmarks of another defeat.
But after all the local batsmen had taken
a few squints at E. Nelson's slants, they
began to land on his deliveries for hits
galore and put the game on ice in the
fourth frame when they pounded E. Mel
son from the box. The visitors were COM
PEELED to use two other hurlers before the
game was completed but they seemed to
have little or no effect at all on the local
batsmen.
The mysterious "injury jinx" referred to
in our last issue, seems to be with us
yet. We have now had three very SER
ious accidents, one occurring in each of
the last three games played. Everybody,
including the prison bull dog, have been
strictly on the job to avoid his reappear-
ance but elluded all watchful eyes in
Saturdays game and sent two local
players to the hospital for medical treat
ment, one with broken bone in his hand,
the other with bad bruise over the left
eye. If the adage proves to be true, he
will now leave our midst of his own
accord for he has struck three telling
blows in succession, seriously raising
havoc with our team. Out of four of
our best, all around players, to be put on
the casualty list, chances are that only one
of them will be able to return to the game
this season. Saturdays accident is one
that often occurs in baseball but it is the
first to happen here in recent years. The
cause of it can, perhaps, be traced directly
to the extreme heat. During the last half
of the fifth frame Bur complained of the
heat, was excused from the game and re-
tired to the cellhall to get temporary
relief. This caused Gels to be called in
from right field to do the backstop work
and VOL was sent out in the right
garden. After two men had been retired
in the opening of the sixth stanza, Lerwold
lifted high fly out between center and
right field. Both Mye and VOL made a
long hard run to catch the ball and they
came together in headon collision just
as the ball hit into Mye's nit, with the
results stated above. However, Mye hung
onto the ball and was given credit for the
out but in doing so he no doubt had the
impression of million balls floating be-
fore his minds vision. Both felders were
duly Informed of the approaching danger
but for some reason unbeknown, neither
needed the warning, perhaps they did not
hear it or maybe it was misinterpreted.
No matter how it can be figured, it was
an accident we do not care to witness, no
matter who the players may be.
The mirror., 1921-07-14

A searchlight, sixty inches in diameter,
will be installed on Mount Tamalpais,
near San Francisco, to illuminate an
amusement park on the mountain. The
rays of the searchlight will pick up a
battleship twelve miles at sea and is five
hundred times stronger than locomotive
headlight.
The mirror., 1921-07-14

AS result of many years of study,
machine has been developed in Lyon,
France, to make raised embroidery in gold
and silver. The stitch is a copy of an
ancient form of embroidery and gives an
impression of handwork. The machine
uses the metallic thread.